765:[an Integral conception of the Divine :::
But on that which as yet we know not how shall we concentrate? And yet we cannot know the Divine unless we have achieved this concentration of our being upon him. A concentration which culminates in a living realisation and the constant sense of the presence of the One in ourselves and in all of which we are aware, is what we mean in Yoga by knowledge and the effort after knowledge. It is not enough to devote ourselves by the reading of Scriptures or by the stress of philosophical reasoning to an intellectual understanding of the Divine; for at the end of our long mental labour we might know all that has been said of the Eternal, possess all that can be thought about the Infinite and yet we might not know him at all. This intellectual preparation can indeed be the first stage in a powerful Yoga, but it is not indispensable : it is not a step which all need or can be called upon to take. Yoga would be impossible, except for a very few, if the intellectual figure of knowledge arrived at by the speculative or meditative Reason were its indispensable condition or a binding preliminary. All that the Light from above asks of us that it may begin its work is a call from the soul and a sufficient point of support in the mind. This support can be reached through an insistent idea of the Divine in the thought, a corresponding will in the dynamic parts, an aspiration, a faith, a need in the heart. Any one of these may lead or predominate, if all cannot move in unison or in an equal rhythm. The idea may be and must in the beginning be inadequate; the aspiration may be narrow and imperfect, the faith poorly illumined or even, as not surely founded on the rock of knowledge, fluctuating, uncertain, easily diminished; often even it may be extinguished and need to be lit again with difficulty like a torch in a windy pass. But if once there is a resolute self-consecration from deep within, if there is an awakening to the soul's call, these inadequate things can be a sufficient instrument for the divine purpose. Therefore the wise have always been unwilling to limit man's avenues towards God; they would not shut against his entry even the narrowest portal, the lowest and darkest postern, the humblest wicket-gate. Any name, any form, any symbol, any offering has been held to be sufficient if there is the consecration along with it; for the Divine knows himself in the heart of the seeker and accepts the sacrifice.
But still the greater and wider the moving idea-force behind the consecration, the better for the seeker; his attainment is likely to be fuller and more ample. If we are to attempt an integral Yoga, it will be as well to start with an idea of the Divine that is itself integral. There should be an aspiration in the heart wide enough for a realisation without any narrow limits. Not only should we avoid a sectarian religious outlook, but also all onesided philosophical conceptions which try to shut up the Ineffable in a restricting mental formula. The dynamic conception or impelling sense with which our Yoga can best set out would be naturally the idea, the sense of a conscious all-embracing but all-exceeding Infinite. Our uplook must be to a free, all-powerful, perfect and blissful One and Oneness in which all beings move and live and through which all can meet and become one. This Eternal will be at once personal and impersonal in his self-revelation and touch upon the soul. He is personal because he is the conscious Divine, the infinite Person who casts some broken reflection of himself in the myriad divine and undivine personalities of the universe. He is impersonal because he appears to us as an infinite Existence, Consciousness and Ananda and because he is the fount, base and constituent of all existences and all energies, -the very material of our being and mind and life and body, our spirit and our matter. The thought, concentrating on him, must not merely understand in an intellectual form that he exists, or conceive of him as an abstraction, a logical necessity; it must become a seeing thought able to meet him here as the Inhabitant in all, realise him in ourselves, watch and take hold on the movement of his forces. He is the one Existence: he is the original and universal Delight that constitutes all things and exceeds them: he is the one infinite Consciousness that composes all consciousnesses and informs all their movements; he is the one illimitable Being who sustains all action and experience; his will guides the evolution of things towards their yet unrealised but inevitable aim and plenitude. To him the heart can consecrate itself, approach him as the supreme Beloved, beat and move in him as in a universal sweetness of Love and a living sea of Delight. For his is the secret Joy that supports the soul in all its experiences and maintains even the errant ego in its ordeals and struggles till all sorrow and suffering shall cease. His is the Love and the Bliss of the infinite divine Lover who is drawing all things by their own path towards his happy oneness. On him the Will can unalterably fix as the invisible Power that guides and fulfils it and as the source of its strength. In the impersonality this actuating Power is a self-illumined Force that contains all results and calmly works until it accomplishes, in the personality an all wise and omnipotent Master of the Yoga whom nothing can prevent from leading it to its goal. This is the faith with which the seeker has to begin his seeking and endeavour; for in all his effort here, but most of all in his effort towards the Unseen, mental man must perforce proceed by faith. When the realisation comes, the faith divinely fulfilled and completed will be transformed into an eternal flame of knowledge.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Consecration, 82-83 [T1],#KEYS |
766:The Two Paths Of Yoga :::
14 April 1929 - What are the dangers of Yoga? Is it especially dangerous to the people of the West? Someone has said that Yoga may be suitable for the East, but it has the effect of unbalancing the Western mind.
Yoga is not more dangerous to the people of the West than to those of the East. Everything depends upon the spirit with which you approach it. Yoga does become dangerous if you want it for your own sake, to serve a personal end. It is not dangerous, on the contrary, it is safety and security itself, if you go to it with a sense of its sacredness, always remembering that the aim is to find the Divine.
Dangers and difficulties come in when people take up Yoga not for the sake of the Divine, but because they want to acquire power and under the guise of Yoga seek to satisfy some ambition. if you cannot get rid of ambition, do not touch the thing. It is fire that burns.
There are two paths of Yoga, one of tapasya (discipline), and the other of surrender. The path of tapasya is arduous. Here you rely solely upon yourself, you proceed by your own strength. You ascend and achieve according to the measure of your force. There is always the danger of falling down. And once you fall, you lie broken in the abyss and there is hardly a remedy. The other path, the path of surrender, is safe and sure. It is here, however, that the Western people find their difficulty. They have been taught to fear and avoid all that threatens their personal independence. They have imbibed with their mothers' milk the sense of individuality. And surrender means giving up all that. In other words, you may follow, as Ramakrishna says, either the path of the baby monkey or that of the baby cat. The baby monkey holds to its mother in order to be carried about and it must hold firm, otherwise if it loses its grip, it falls. On the other hand, the baby cat does not hold to its mother, but is held by the mother and has no fear nor responsibility; it has nothing to do but to let the mother hold it and cry ma ma.
If you take up this path of surrender fully and sincerely, there is no more danger or serious difficulty. The question is to be sincere. If you are not sincere, do not begin Yoga. If you were dealing in human affairs, then you could resort to deception; but in dealing with the Divine there is no possibility of deception anywhere. You can go on the Path safely when you are candid and open to the core and when your only end is to realise and attain the Divine and to be moved by the Divine. There is another danger; it is in connection with the sex impulses. Yoga in its process of purification will lay bare and throw up all hidden impulses and desires in you. And you must learn not to hide things nor leave them aside, you have to face them and conquer and remould them. The first effect of Yoga, however, is to take away the mental control, and the hungers that lie dormant are suddenly set free, they rush up and invade the being. So long as this mental control has not been replaced by the Divine control, there is a period of transition when your sincerity and surrender will be put to the test. The strength of such impulses as those of sex lies usually in the fact that people take too much notice of them; they protest too vehemently and endeavour to control them by coercion, hold them within and sit upon them. But the more you think of a thing and say, "I don't want it, I don't want it", the more you are bound to it. What you should do is to keep the thing away from you, to dissociate from it, take as little notice of it as possible and, even if you happen to think of it, remain indifferent and unconcerned. The impulses and desires that come up by the pressure of Yoga should be faced in a spirit of detachment and serenity, as something foreign to yourself or belonging to the outside world. They should be offered to the Divine, so that the Divine may take them up and transmute them. If you have once opened yourself to the Divine, if the power of the Divine has once come down into you and yet you try to keep to the old forces, you prepare troubles and difficulties and dangers for yourself. You must be vigilant and see that you do not use the Divine as a cloak for the satisfaction of your desires. There are many self-appointed Masters, who do nothing but that. And then when you are off the straight path and when you have a little knowledge and not much power, it happens that you are seized by beings or entities of a certain type, you become blind instruments in their hands and are devoured by them in the end. Wherever there is pretence, there is danger; you cannot deceive God. Do you come to God saying, "I want union with you" and in your heart meaning "I want powers and enjoyments"? Beware! You are heading straight towards the brink of the precipice. And yet it is so easy to avoid all catastrophe. Become like a child, give yourself up to the Mother, let her carry you, and there is no more danger for you.
This does not mean that you have not to face other kinds of difficulties or that you have not to fight and conquer any obstacles at all. Surrender does not ensure a smooth and unruffled and continuous progression. The reason is that your being is not yet one, nor your surrender absolute and complete. Only a part of you surrenders; and today it is one part and the next day it is another. The whole purpose of the Yoga is to gather all the divergent parts together and forge them into an undivided unity. Till then you cannot hope to be without difficulties - difficulties, for example, like doubt or depression or hesitation. The whole world is full of the poison. You take it in with every breath. If you exchange a few words with an undesirable man or even if such a man merely passes by you, you may catch the contagion from him. It is sufficient for you to come near a place where there is plague in order to be infected with its poison; you need not know at all that it is there. You can lose in a few minutes what it has taken you months to gain. So long as you belong to humanity and so long as you lead the ordinary life, it does not matter much if you mix with the people of the world; but if you want the divine life, you will have to be exceedingly careful about your company and your environment.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931, #KEYS |
767:Depression, unless one has a strong will, suggests, "This is not worth while, one may have to wait a lifetime." As for enthusiasm, it expects to see the vital transformed overnight: "I am not going to have any difficulty henceforth, I am going to advance rapidly on the path of yoga, I am going to gain the divine consciousness without any difficulty." There are some other difficulties.... One needs a little time, much perseverance. So the vital, after a few hours - perhaps a few days, perhaps a few months - says to itself: "We haven't gone very far with our enthusiasm, has anything been really done? Doesn't this movement leave us just where we were, perhaps worse than we were, a little troubled, a little disturbed? Things are no longer what they were, they are not yet what they ought to be. It is very tiresome, what I am doing." And then, if one pushes a little more, here's this gentleman saying, "Ah, no! I have had enough of it, leave me alone. I don't want to move, I shall stay in my corner, I won't trouble you, but don't bother me!" And so one has not gone very much farther than before.
This is one of the big obstacles which must be carefully avoided. As soon as there is the least sign of discontentment, of annoyance, the vital must be spoken to in this way, "My friend, you are going to keep calm, you are going to do what you are asked to do, otherwise you will have to deal with me." And to the other, the enthusiast who says, "Everything must be done now, immediately", your reply is, "Calm yourself a little, your energy is excellent, but it must not be spent in five minutes. We shall need it for a long time, keep it carefully and, as it is wanted, I shall call upon your goodwill. You will show that you are full of goodwill, you will obey, you won't grumble, you will not protest, you will not revolt, you will say 'yes, yes', you will make a little sacrifice when asked, you will say 'yes' wholeheartedly."
So we get started on the path. But the road is very long. Many things happen on the way. Suddenly one thinks one has overcome an obstacle; I say "thinks", because though one has overcome it, it is not totally overcome. I am going to take a very obvious instance, of a very simple observation. Someone has found that his vital is uncontrollable and uncontrolled, that it gets furious for nothing and about nothing. He starts working to teach it not to get carried away, not to flare up, to remain calm and bear the shocks of life without reacting violently. If one does this cheerfully, it goes quite quickly. (Note this well, it is very important: when you have to deal with your vital take care to remain cheerful, otherwise you will get into trouble.) One remains cheerful, that is, when one sees the fury rise, one begins to laugh. Instead of being depressed and saying, "Ah! In spite of all my effort it is beginning all over again", one begins to laugh and says, "Well, well! One hasn't yet seen the end of it. Look now, aren't you ridiculous, you know quite well that you are being ridiculous! Is it worthwhile getting angry?" One gives it this lesson cheerfully. And really, after a while it doesn't get angry again, it is quiet - and one relaxes one's attention. One thinks the difficulty has been overcome, one thinks a result has at last been reached: "My vital does not trouble me any longer, it does not get angry now, everything is going fine." And the next day, one loses one's temper. It is then one must be careful, it is then one must not say, "Here we are, it's no use, I shall never achieve anything, all my efforts are futile; all this is an illusion, it is impossible." On the contrary, one must say, "I wasn't vigilant enough." One must wait long, very long, before one can say, "Ah! It is done and finished." Sometimes one must wait for years, many years....
I am not saying this to discourage you, but to give you patience and perseverance - for there is a moment when you do arrive. And note that the vital is a small part of your being - a very important part, we have said that it is the dynamism, the realising energy, it is very important; but it is only a small part. And the mind!... which goes wandering, which must be pulled back by all the strings to be kept quiet! You think this can be done overnight? And your body?... You have a weakness, a difficulty, sometimes a small chronic illness, nothing much, but still it is a nuisance, isn't it? You want to get rid of it. You make efforts, you concentrate; you work upon it, establish harmony, and you think it is finished, and then.... Take, for instance, people who have the habit of coughing; they can't control themselves or almost can't. It is not serious but it is bothersome, and there seems to be no reason why it should ever stop. Well, one tells oneself, "I am going to control this." One makes an effort - a yogic effort, not a material one - one brings down consciousness, force, and stops the cough. And one thinks, "The body has forgotten how to cough." And it is a great thing when the body has forgotten, truly one can say, "I am cured." But unfortunately it is not always true, for this goes down into the subconscient and, one day, when the balance of forces is not so well established, when the strength is not the same, it begins again. And one laments, "I believed that it was over! I had succeeded and told myself, 'It is true that spiritual power has an action upon the body, it is true that something can be done', and there! it is not true. And yet it was a small thing, and I who want to conquer immortality! How will I succeed?... For years I have been free from this small thing and here it is beginning anew!" It is then that you must be careful. You must arm yourself with an endless patience and endurance. You do a thing once, ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times if necessary, but you do it till it gets done. And not done only here and there, but everywhere and everywhere at the same time. This is the great problem one sets oneself. That is why, to those who come to tell me very light-heartedly, "I want to do yoga", I reply, "Think it over, one may do the yoga for a number of years without noticing the least result. But if you want to do it, you must persist and persist with such a will that you should be ready to do it for ten lifetimes, a hundred lifetimes if necessary, in order to succeed." I do not say it will be like that, but the attitude must be like that. Nothing must discourage you; for there are all the difficulties of ignorance of the different states of being, to which are added the endless malice and the unbounded cunning of the hostile forces in the world.... They are there, do you know why? They have been.... ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1950-1951,#KEYS |
768:Attention on Hypnagogic Imagery The most common strategy for inducing WILDs is to fall asleep while focusing on the hypnagogic imagery that accompanies sleep onset. Initially, you are likely to see relatively simple images, flashes of light, geometric patterns, and the like.
Gradually more complicated forms appear: faces, people, and finally entire scenes. 6
The following account of what the Russian philosopher P. D. Ouspensky called "half-dream states" provides a vivid example of what hypnagogic imagery can be like:
I am falling asleep. Golden dots, sparks and tiny stars appear and disappear before my eyes. These sparks and stars gradually merge into a golden net with diagonal meshes which moves slowly and regularly in rhythm with the beating of my heart, which I feel quite distinctly. The next moment the golden net is transformed into rows of brass helmets belonging to Roman soldiers marching along the street below. I hear their measured tread and watch them from the window of a high house in Galata, in Constantinople, in a narrow lane, one end of which leads to the old wharf and the Golden Horn with its ships and steamers and the minarets of Stamboul behind them. I hear their heavy measured tread, and see the sun shining on their helmets. Then suddenly I detach myself from the window sill on which I am lying, and in the same reclining position fly slowly over the lane, over the houses, and then over the Golden Horn in the direction of Stamboul. I smell the sea, feel the wind, the warm sun. This flying gives me a wonderfully pleasant sensation, and I cannot help opening my eyes. 7
Ouspensky's half-dream states developed out of a habit of observing the contents of his mind while falling asleep or in half-sleep after awakening from a dream. He notes that they were much easier to observe in the morning after awakening than before sleep at the beginning of the night and did not occur at all "without definite efforts." 8
Dr. Nathan Rapport, an American psychiatrist, cultivated an approach to lucid dreaming very similar to Ouspensky's: "While in bed awaiting sleep, the experimenter interrupts his thoughts every few minutes with an effort to recall the mental item vanishing before each intrusion that inquisitive attention." 9 This habit is continued sleep itself, with results like the following:
Brilliant lights flashed, and a myriad of sparkles twinkled from a magnificent cut glass chandelier. Interesting as any stage extravaganza were the many quaintly detailed figurines upon a mantel against the distant, paneled wall adorned in rococo.
At the right a merry group of beauties and gallants in the most elegant attire of Victorian England idled away a pleasant occasion. This scene continued for [a] period of I was not aware, before I discovered that it was not reality, but a mental picture and that I was viewing it. Instantly it became an incommunicably beautiful vision. It was with the greatest stealth that my vaguely awakened mind began to peep: for I knew that these glorious shows end abruptly because of such intrusions.
I thought, "Have I here one of those mind pictures that are without motion?" As if in reply, one of the young ladies gracefully waltzed about the room. She returned to the group and immobility, with a smile lighting her pretty face, which was turned over her shoulder toward me. The entire color scheme was unobtrusive despite the kaleidoscopic sparkles of the chandelier, the exquisite blues and creamy pinks of the rich settings and costumes. I felt that only my interest in dreams brought my notice to the tints - delicate, yet all alive as if with inner illumination. 10
Hypnagogic Imagery Technique
1. Relax completely
While lying in bed, gently close your eyes and relax your head, neck, back, arms, and legs. Completely let go of all muscular and mental tension, and breathe slowly and restfully. Enjoy the feeling of relaxation and let go of your thoughts, worries, and concerns. If you have just awakened from sleep, you are probably sufficiently relaxed.
Otherwise, you may use either the progressive relaxation exercise (page 33) or the 61-point relaxation exercise (page 34) to relax more deeply. Let everything wind down,
slower and slower, more and more relaxed, until your mind becomes as serene as the calmest sea.
2. Observe the visual images
Gently focus your attention on the visual images that will gradually appear before your mind's eye. Watch how the images begin and end. Try to observe the images as delicately as possible, allowing them to be passively reflected in your mind as they unfold. Do not attempt to hold onto the images, but instead just watch without attachment or desire for action. While doing this, try to take the perspective of a detached observer as much as possible. At first you will see a sequence of disconnected, fleeting patterns and images. The images will gradually develop into scenes that become more and more complex, finally joining into extended sequences.
3. Enter the dream
When the imagery becomes a moving, vivid scenario, you should allow yourself to be passively drawn into the dream world. Do not try to actively enter the dream scene,
but instead continue to take a detached interest in the imagery. Let your involvement with what is happening draw you into the dream. But be careful of too much involvement and too little attention. Don't forget that you are dreaming now!
Commentary
Probably the most difficult part of this technique to master is entering the dream at Step 3. The challenge is to develop a delicate vigilance, an unobtrusive observer perspective, from which you let yourself be drawn into the dream. As Paul Tholey has emphasized, "It is not desirable to want actively to enter into the scenery,
since such an intention as a rule causes the scenery to disappear." 11 A passive volition similar to that described in the section on autosuggestion in the previous chapter is required: in Tholey's words, "Instead of actively wanting to enter into the scenery, the subject should attempt to let himself be carried into it passively." 12 A Tibetan teacher advises a similar frame of mind: "While delicately observing the mind, lead it gently into the dream state, as though you were leading a child by the hand." 13
Another risk is that, once you have entered into the dream, the world can seem so realistic that it is easy to lose lucidity, as happened in the beginning of Rapport's WILD described above. As insurance in case this happens, Tholey recommends that you resolve to carry out a particular action in the dream, so that if you momentarily lose lucidity, you may remember your intention to carry out the action and thereby regain lucidity.
~ Stephen LaBerge, Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming,#KEYS |
769:This, in short, is the demand made on us, that we should turn our whole life into a conscious sacrifice. Every moment and every movement of our being is to be resolved into a continuous and a devoted self-giving to the Eternal. All our actions, not less the smallest and most ordinary and trifling than the greatest and most uncommon and noble, must be performed as consecrated acts. Our individualised nature must live in the single consciousness of an inner and outer movement dedicated to Something that is beyond us and greater than our ego. No matter what the gift or to whom it is presented by us, there must be a consciousness in the act that we are presenting it to the one divine Being in all beings. Our commonest or most grossly material actions must assume this sublimated character; when we eat, we should be conscious that we are giving our food to that Presence in us; it must be a sacred offering in a temple and the sense of a mere physical need or self-gratification must pass away from us. In any great labour, in any high discipline, in any difficult or noble enterprise, whether undertaken for ourselves, for others or for the race, it will no longer be possible to stop short at the idea of the race, of ourselves or of others. The thing we are doing must be consciously offered as a sacrifice of works, not to these, but either through them or directly to the One Godhead; the Divine Inhabitant who was hidden by these figures must be no longer hidden but ever present to our soul, our mind, our sense. The workings and results of our acts must be put in the hands of that One in the feeling that that Presence is the Infinite and Most High by whom alone our labour and our aspiration are possible. For in his being all takes place; for him all labour and aspiration are taken from us by Nature and offered on his altar. Even in those things in which Nature is herself very plainly the worker and we only the witnesses of her working and its containers and supporters, there should be the same constant memory and insistent consciousness of a work and of its divine Master. Our very inspiration and respiration, our very heart-beats can and must be made conscious in us as the living rhythm of the universal sacrifice.
It is clear that a conception of this kind and its effective practice must carry in them three results that are of a central importance for our spiritual ideal. It is evident, to begin with, that, even if such a discipline is begun without devotion, it leads straight and inevitably towards the highest devotion possible; for it must deepen naturally into the completest adoration imaginable, the most profound God-love. There is bound up with it a growing sense of the Divine in all things, a deepening communion with the Divine in all our thought, will and action and at every moment of our lives, a more and more moved consecration to the Divine of the totality of our being. Now these implications of the Yoga of works are also of the very essence of an integral and absolute Bhakti. The seeker who puts them into living practice makes in himself continually a constant, active and effective representation of the very spirit of self-devotion, and it is inevitable that out of it there should emerge the most engrossing worship of the Highest to whom is given this service. An absorbing love for the Divine Presence to whom he feels an always more intimate closeness, grows upon the consecrated worker. And with it is born or in it is contained a universal love too for all these beings, living forms and creatures that are habitations of the Divine - not the brief restless grasping emotions of division, but the settled selfless love that is the deeper vibration of oneness. In all the seeker begins to meet the one Object of his adoration and service. The way of works turns by this road of sacrifice to meet the path of Devotion; it can be itself a devotion as complete, as absorbing, as integral as any the desire of the heart can ask for or the passion of the mind can imagine.
Next, the practice of this Yoga demands a constant inward remembrance of the one central liberating knowledge, and a constant active externalising of it in works comes in too to intensify the remembrance. In all is the one Self, the one Divine is all; all are in the Divine, all are the Divine and there is nothing else in the universe, - this thought or this faith is the whole background until it becomes the whole substance of the consciousness of the worker. A memory, a self-dynamising meditation of this kind, must and does in its end turn into a profound and uninterrupted vision and a vivid and all-embracing consciousness of that which we so powerfully remember or on which we so constantly meditate. For it compels a constant reference at each moment to the Origin of all being and will and action and there is at once an embracing and exceeding of all particular forms and appearances in That which is their cause and upholder. This way cannot go to its end without a seeing vivid and vital, as concrete in its way as physical sight, of the works of the universal Spirit everywhere. On its summits it rises into a constant living and thinking and willing and acting in the presence of the Supramental, the Transcendent. Whatever we see and hear, whatever we touch and sense, all of which we are conscious, has to be known and felt by us as That which we worship and serve; all has to be turned into an image of the Divinity, perceived as a dwelling-place of his Godhead, enveloped with the eternal Omnipresence. In its close, if not long before it, this way of works turns by communion with the Divine Presence, Will and Force into a way of Knowledge more complete and integral than any the mere creature intelligence can construct or the search of the intellect can discover.
Lastly, the practice of this Yoga of sacrifice compels us to renounce all the inner supports of egoism, casting them out of our mind and will and actions, and to eliminate its seed, its presence, its influence out of our nature. All must be done for the Divine; all must be directed towards the Divine. Nothing must be attempted for ourselves as a separate existence; nothing done for others, whether neighbours, friends, family, country or mankind or other creatures merely because they are connected with our personal life and thought and sentiment or because the ego takes a preferential interest in their welfare. In this way of doing and seeing all works and all life become only a daily dynamic worship and service of the Divine in the unbounded temple of his own vast cosmic existence. Life becomes more and more the sacrifice of the eternal in the individual constantly self-offered to the eternal Transcendence. It is offered in the wide sacrificial ground of the field of the eternal cosmic Spirit; and the Force too that offers it is the eternal Force, the omnipresent Mother. Therefore is this way a way of union and communion by acts and by the spirit and knowledge in the act as complete and integral as any our Godward will can hope for or our soul's strength execute.
It has all the power of a way of works integral and absolute, but because of its law of sacrifice and self-giving to the Divine Self and Master, it is accompanied on its one side by the whole power of the path of Love and on the other by the whole power of the path of Knowledge. At its end all these three divine Powers work together, fused, united, completed, perfected by each other.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, The Sacrifice, the Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice [111-114],#KEYS |
770:The Supermind [Supramental consciousness] is in its very essence a truth-consciousness, a consciousness always free from the Ignorance which is the foundation of our present natural or evolutionary existence and from which nature in us is trying to arrive at self-knowledge and world-knowledge and a right consciousness and the right use of our existence in the universe. The Supermind, because it is a truth-consciousness, has this knowledge inherent in it and this power of true existence; its course is straight and can go direct to its aim, its field is wide and can even be made illimitable. This is because its very nature is knowledge: it has not to acquire knowledge but possesses it in its own right; its steps are not from nescience or ignorance into some imperfect light, but from truth to greater truth, from right perception to deeper perception, from intuition to intuition, from illumination to utter and boundless luminousness, from growing widenesses to the utter vasts and to very infinitude. On its summits it possesses the divine omniscience and omnipotence, but even in an evolutionary movement of its own graded self-manifestation by which it would eventually reveal its own highest heights, it must be in its very nature essentially free from ignorance and error: it starts from truth and light and moves always in truth and light. As its knowledge is always true, so too its will is always true; it does not fumble in its handling of things or stumble in its paces. In the Supermind feeling and emotion do not depart from their truth, make no slips or mistakes, do not swerve from the right and the real, cannot misuse beauty and delight or twist away from a divine rectitude. In the Supermind sense cannot mislead or deviate into the grossnesses which are here its natural imperfections and the cause of reproach, distrust and misuse by our ignorance. Even an incomplete statement made by the Supermind is a truth leading to a further truth, its incomplete action a step towards completeness. All the life and action and leading of the Supermind is guarded in its very nature from the falsehoods and uncertainties that are our lot; it moves in safety towards its perfection. Once the truth-consciousness was established here on its own sure foundation, the evolution of divine life would be a progress in felicity, a march through light to Ananda. Supermind is an eternal reality of the divine Being and the divine Nature. In its own plane it already and always exists and possesses its own essential law of being; it has not to be created or to emerge or evolve into existence out of involution in Matter or out of non-existence, as it might seem to the view of mind which itself seems to its own view to have so emerged from life and Matter or to have evolved out of an involution in life and Matter. The nature of Supermind is always the same, a being of knowledge, proceeding from truth to truth, creating or rather manifesting what has to be manifested by the power of a pre-existent knowledge, not by hazard but by a self-existent destiny in the being itself, a necessity of the thing in itself and therefore inevitable. Its -manifestation of the divine life will also be inevitable; its own life on its own plane is divine and, if Supermind descends upon the earth, it will bring necessarily the divine life with it and establish it here. Supermind is the grade of existence beyond mind, life and Matter and, as mind, life and Matter have manifested on the earth, so too must Supermind in the inevitable course of things manifest in this world of Matter. In fact, a supermind is already here but it is involved, concealed behind this manifest mind, life and Matter and not yet acting overtly or in its own power: if it acts, it is through these inferior powers and modified by their characters and so not yet recognisable. It is only by the approach and arrival of the descending Supermind that it can be liberated upon earth and reveal itself in the action of our material, vital and mental parts so that these lower powers can become portions of a total divinised activity of our whole being: it is that that will bring to us a completely realised divinity or the divine life. It is indeed so that life and mind involved in Matter have realised themselves here; for only what is involved can evolve, otherwise there could be no emergence. The manifestation of a supramental truth-consciousness is therefore the capital reality that will make the divine life possible. It is when all the movements of thought, impulse and action are governed and directed by a self-existent and luminously automatic truth-consciousness and our whole nature comes to be constituted by it and made of its stuff that the life divine will be complete and absolute. Even as it is, in reality though not in the appearance of things, it is a secret self-existent knowledge and truth that is working to manifest itself in the creation here. The Divine is already there immanent within us, ourselves are that in our inmost reality and it is this reality that we have to manifest; it is that which constitutes the urge towards the divine living and makes necessary the creation of the life divine even in this material existence. A manifestation of the Supermind and its truth-consciousness is then inevitable; it must happen in this world sooner or lateR But it has two aspects, a descent from above, an ascent from below, a self-revelation of the Spirit, an evolution in Nature. The ascent is necessarily an effort, a working of Nature, an urge or nisus on her side to raise her lower parts by an evolutionary or revolutionary change, conversion or transformation into the divine reality and it may happen by a process and progress or by a rapid miracle. The descent or self-revelation of the Spirit is an act of the supreme Reality from above which makes the realisation possible and it can appear either as the divine aid which brings about the fulfilment of the progress and process or as the sanction of the miracle. Evolution, as we see it in this world, is a slow and difficult process and, indeed, needs usually ages to reach abiding results; but this is because it is in its nature an emergence from inconscient beginnings, a start from nescience and a working in the ignorance of natural beings by what seems to be an unconscious force. There can be, on the contrary, an evolution in the light and no longer in the darkness, in which the evolving being is a conscious participant and cooperator, and this is precisely what must take place here. Even in the effort and progress from the Ignorance to Knowledge this must be in part if not wholly the endeavour to be made on the heights of the nature, and it must be wholly that in the final movement towards the spiritual change, realisation, transformation. It must be still more so when there is a transition across the dividing line between the Ignorance and the Knowledge and the evolution is from knowledge to greater knowledge, from consciousness to greater consciousness, from being to greater being. There is then no longer any necessity for the slow pace of the ordinary evolution; there can be rapid conversion, quick transformation after transformation, what would seem to our normal present mind a succession of miracles. An evolution on the supramental levels could well be of that nature; it could be equally, if the being so chose, a more leisurely passage of one supramental state or condition of things to something beyond but still supramental, from level to divine level, a building up of divine gradations, a free growth to the supreme Supermind or beyond it to yet undreamed levels of being, consciousness and Ananda.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, 558,#KEYS |
771:How to Meditate
Deep meditation is a mental procedure that utilizes the nature of the mind to systematically bring the mind to rest. If the mind is given the opportunity, it will go to rest with no effort. That is how the mind works.
Indeed, effort is opposed to the natural process of deep meditation. The mind always seeks the path of least resistance to express itself. Most of the time this is by making more and more thoughts. But it is also possible to create a situation in the mind that turns the path of least resistance into one leading to fewer and fewer thoughts. And, very soon, no thoughts at all. This is done by using a particular thought in a particular way. The thought is called a mantra.
For our practice of deep meditation, we will use the thought - I AM. This will be our mantra.
It is for the sound that we will use I AM, not for the meaning of it.
The meaning has an obvious significance in English, and I AM has a religious meaning in the English Bible as well. But we will not use I AM for the meaning - only for the sound. We can also spell it AYAM. No meaning there, is there? Only the sound. That is what we want. If your first language is not English, you may spell the sound phonetically in your own language if you wish. No matter how we spell it, it will be the same sound. The power of the sound ...I AM... is great when thought inside. But only if we use a particular procedure. Knowing this procedure is the key to successful meditation. It is very simple. So simple that we will devote many pages here to discussing how to keep it simple, because we all have a tendency to make things more complicated. Maintaining simplicity is the key to right meditation.
Here is the procedure of deep meditation: While sitting comfortably with eyes closed, we'll just relax. We will notice thoughts, streams of thoughts. That is fine. We just let them go by without minding them. After about a minute, we gently introduce the mantra, ...I AM...
We think the mantra in a repetition very easily inside. The speed of repetition may vary, and we do not mind it. We do not intone the mantra out loud. We do not deliberately locate the mantra in any particular part of the body. Whenever we realize we are not thinking the mantra inside anymore, we come back to it easily. This may happen many times in a sitting, or only once or twice. It doesn't matter. We follow this procedure of easily coming back to the mantra when we realize we are off it for the predetermined time of our meditation session. That's it.
Very simple.
Typically, the way we will find ourselves off the mantra will be in a stream of other thoughts. This is normal. The mind is a thought machine, remember? Making thoughts is what it does. But, if we are meditating, as soon as we realize we are off into a stream of thoughts, no matter how mundane or profound, we just easily go back to the mantra.
Like that. We don't make a struggle of it. The idea is not that we have to be on the mantra all the time. That is not the objective. The objective is to easily go back to it when we realize we are off it. We just favor the mantra with our attention when we notice we are not thinking it. If we are back into a stream of other thoughts five seconds later, we don't try and force the thoughts out. Thoughts are a normal part of the deep meditation process. We just ease back to the mantra again. We favor it.
Deep meditation is a going toward, not a pushing away from. We do that every single time with the mantra when we realize we are off it - just easily favoring it. It is a gentle persuasion. No struggle. No fuss. No iron willpower or mental heroics are necessary for this practice. All such efforts are away from the simplicity of deep meditation and will reduce its effectiveness.
As we do this simple process of deep meditation, we will at some point notice a change in the character of our inner experience. The mantra may become very refined and fuzzy. This is normal. It is perfectly all right to think the mantra in a very refined and fuzzy way if this is the easiest. It should always be easy - never a struggle. Other times, we may lose track of where we are for a while, having no mantra, or stream of thoughts either. This is fine too. When we realize we have been off somewhere, we just ease back to the mantra again. If we have been very settled with the mantra being barely recognizable, we can go back to that fuzzy level of it, if it is the easiest. As the mantra refines, we are riding it inward with our attention to progressively deeper levels of inner silence in the mind. So it is normal for the mantra to become very faint and fuzzy. We cannot force this to happen. It will happen naturally as our nervous system goes through its many cycles ofinner purification stimulated by deep meditation. When the mantra refines, we just go with it. And when the mantra does not refine, we just be with it at whatever level is easy. No struggle. There is no objective to attain, except to continue the simple procedure we are describing here.
When and Where to Meditate
How long and how often do we meditate? For most people, twenty minutes is the best duration for a meditation session. It is done twice per day, once before the morning meal and day's activity, and then again before the evening meal and evening's activity.
Try to avoid meditating right after eating or right before bed.
Before meal and activity is the ideal time. It will be most effective and refreshing then. Deep meditation is a preparation for activity, and our results over time will be best if we are active between our meditation sessions. Also, meditation is not a substitute for sleep. The ideal situation is a good balance between meditation, daily activity and normal sleep at night. If we do this, our inner experience will grow naturally over time, and our outer life will become enriched by our growing inner silence.
A word on how to sit in meditation: The first priority is comfort. It is not desirable to sit in a way that distracts us from the easy procedure of meditation. So sitting in a comfortable chair with back support is a good way to meditate. Later on, or if we are already familiar, there can be an advantage to sitting with legs crossed, also with back support. But always with comfort and least distraction being the priority. If, for whatever reason, crossed legs are not feasible for us, we will do just fine meditating in our comfortable chair. There will be no loss of the benefits.
Due to commitments we may have, the ideal routine of meditation sessions will not always be possible. That is okay. Do the best you can and do not stress over it. Due to circumstances beyond our control, sometimes the only time we will have to meditate will be right after a meal, or even later in the evening near bedtime. If meditating at these times causes a little disruption in our system, we will know it soon enough and make the necessary adjustments. The main thing is that we do our best to do two meditations every day, even if it is only a short session between our commitments. Later on, we will look at the options we have to make adjustments to address varying outer circumstances, as well as inner experiences that can come up.
Before we go on, you should try a meditation. Find a comfortable place to sit where you are not likely to be interrupted and do a short meditation, say ten minutes, and see how it goes. It is a toe in the water.
Make sure to take a couple of minutes at the end sitting easily without doing the procedure of meditation. Then open your eyes slowly. Then read on here.
As you will see, the simple procedure of deep meditation and it's resulting experiences will raise some questions. We will cover many of them here.
So, now we will move into the practical aspects of deep meditation - your own experiences and initial symptoms of the growth of your own inner silence. ~ Yogani, Deep Meditation,#KEYS |
772:Intuition And The Value Of Concentration :::
Mother, how can the faculty of intuition be developed?
... There are different kinds of intuition, and we carry these capacities within us. They are always active to some extent but we don't notice them because we don't pay enough attention to what is going on in us. Behind the emotions, deep within the being, in a consciousness seated somewhere near the level of the solar plexus, there is a sort of prescience, a kind of capacity for foresight, but not in the form of ideas: rather in the form of feelings, almost a perception of sensations. For instance, when one is going to decide to do something, there is sometimes a kind of uneasiness or inner refusal, and usually, if one listens to this deeper indication, one realises that it was justified. In other cases there is something that urges, indicates, insists - I am not speaking of impulses, you understand, of all the movements which come from the vital and much lower still - indications which are behind the feelings, which come from the affective part of the being; there too one can receive a fairly sure indication of the thing to be done. These are forms of intuition or of a higher instinct which can be cultivated by observation and also by studying the results. Naturally, it must be done very sincerely, objectively, without prejudice. If one wants to see things in a particular way and at the same time practise this observation, it is all useless. One must do it as if one were looking at what is happening from outside oneself, in someone else. It is one form of intuition and perhaps the first one that usually manifests. There is also another form but that one is much more difficult to observe because for those who are accustomed to think, to act by reason - not by impulse but by reason - to reflect before doing anything, there is an extremely swift process from cause to effect in the half-conscious thought which prevents you from seeing the line, the whole line of reasoning and so you don't think that it is a chain of reasoning, and that is quite deceptive. You have the impression of an intuition but it is not an intuition, it is an extremely rapid subconscious reasoning, which takes up a problem and goes straight to the conclusions. This must not be mistaken for intuition. In the ordinary functioning of the brain, intuition is something which suddenly falls like a drop of light. If one has the faculty, the beginning of a faculty of mental vision, it gives the impression of something coming from outside or above, like a little impact of a drop of light in the brain, absolutely independent of all reasoning. This is perceived more easily when one is able to silence one's mind, hold it still and attentive, arresting its usual functioning, as if the mind were changed into a kind of mirror turned towards a higher faculty in a sustained and silent attention. That too one can learn to do. One must learn to do it, it is a necessary discipline.
When you have a question to solve, whatever it may be, usually you concentrate your attention here (pointing between the eyebrows), at the centre just above the eyes, the centre of the conscious will. But then if you do that, you cannot be in contact with intuition. You can be in contact with the source of the will, of effort, even of a certain kind of knowledge, but in the outer, almost material field; whereas, if you want to contact the intuition, you must keep this (Mother indicates the forehead) completely immobile. Active thought must be stopped as far as possible and the entire mental faculty must form - at the top of the head and a little further above if possible - a kind of mirror, very quiet, very still, turned upwards, in silent, very concentrated attention. If you succeed, you can - perhaps not immediately - but you can have the perception of the drops of light falling upon the mirror from a still unknown region and expressing themselves as a conscious thought which has no connection with all the rest of your thought since you have been able to keep it silent. That is the real beginning of the intellectual intuition.
It is a discipline to be followed. For a long time one may try and not succeed, but as soon as one succeeds in making a mirror, still and attentive, one always obtains a result, not necessarily with a precise form of thought but always with the sensations of a light coming from above. And then, if one can receive this light coming from above without entering immediately into a whirl of activity, receive it in calm and silence and let it penetrate deep into the being, then after a while it expresses itself either as a luminous thought or as a very precise indication here (Mother indicates the heart), in this other centre.
Naturally, first these two faculties must be developed; then, as soon as there is any result, one must observe the result, as I said, and see the connection with what is happening, the consequences: see, observe very attentively what has come in, what may have caused a distortion, what one has added by way of more or less conscious reasoning or the intervention of a lower will, also more or less conscious; and it is by a very deep study - indeed, almost of every moment, in any case daily and very frequent - that one succeeds in developing one's intuition. It takes a long time. It takes a long time and there are ambushes: one can deceive oneself, take for intuitions subconscious wills which try to manifest, indications given by impulses one has refused to receive openly, indeed all sorts of difficulties. One must be prepared for that. But if one persists, one is sure to succeed.
And there comes a time when one feels a kind of inner guidance, something which is leading one very perceptibly in all that one does. But then, for the guidance to have its maximum power, one must naturally add to it a conscious surrender: one must be sincerely determined to follow the indication given by the higher force. If one does that, then... one saves years of study, one can seize the result extremely rapidly. If one also does that, the result comes very rapidly. But for that, it must be done with sincerity and... a kind of inner spontaneity. If one wants to try without this surrender, one may succeed - as one can also succeed in developing one's personal will and making it into a very considerable power - but that takes a very long time and one meets many obstacles and the result is very precarious; one must be very persistent, obstinate, persevering, and one is sure to succeed, but only after a great labour.
Make your surrender with a sincere, complete self-giving, and you will go ahead at full speed, you will go much faster - but you must not do this calculatingly, for that spoils everything! (Silence) Moreover, whatever you may want to do in life, one thing is absolutely indispensable and at the basis of everything, the capacity of concentrating the attention. If you are able to gather together the rays of attention and consciousness on one point and can maintain this concentration with a persistent will, nothing can resist it - whatever it may be, from the most material physical development to the highest spiritual one. But this discipline must be followed in a constant and, it may be said, imperturbable way; not that you should always be concentrated on the same thing - that's not what I mean, I mean learning to concentrate.
And materially, for studies, sports, all physical or mental development, it is absolutely indispensable. And the value of an individual is proportionate to the value of his attention.
And from the spiritual point of view it is still more important.
There is no spiritual obstacle which can resist a penetrating power of concentration. For instance, the discovery of the psychic being, union with the inner Divine, opening to the higher spheres, all can be obtained by an intense and obstinate power of concentration - but one must learn how to do it. There is nothing in the human or even in the superhuman field, to which the power of concentration is not the key. You can be the best athlete, you can be the best student, you can be an artistic, literary or scientific genius, you can be the greatest saint with that faculty. And everyone has in himself a tiny little beginning of it - it is given to everybody, but people do not cultivate it.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1957-1958,#KEYS |
773:
Can a Yogi attain to a state of consciousness in which he can know all things, answer all questions, relating even to abstruse scientific problems, such as, for example, the theory of relativity?
Theoretically and in principle it is not impossible for a Yogi to know everything; all depends upon the Yogi.
But there is knowledge and knowledge. The Yogi does not know in the way of the mind. He does not know everything in the sense that he has access to all possible information or because he contains all the facts of the universe in his mind or because his consciousness is a sort of miraculous encyclopaedia. He knows by his capacity for a containing or dynamic identity with things and persons and forces. Or he knows because he lives in a plane of consciousness or is in contact with a consciousness in which there is the truth and the knowledge.
If you are in the true consciousness, the knowledge you have will also be of the truth. Then, too, you can know directly, by being one with what you know. If a problem is put before you, if you are asked what is to be done in a particular matter, you can then, by looking with enough attention and concentration, receive spontaneously the required knowledge and the true answer. It is not by any careful application of theory that you reach the knowledge or by working it out through a mental process. The scientific mind needs these methods to come to its conclusions. But the Yogi's knowledge is direct and immediate; it is not deductive. If an engineer has to find out the exact position for the building of an arch, the line of its curve and the size of its opening, he does it by calculation, collating and deducing from his information and data. But a Yogi needs none of these things; he looks, has the vision of the thing, sees that it is to be done in this way and not in another, and this seeing is his knowledge.
Although it may be true in a general way and in a certain sense that a Yogi can know all things and can answer all questions from his own field of vision and consciousness, yet it does not follow that there are no questions whatever of any kind to which he would not or could not answer. A Yogi who has the direct knowledge, the knowledge of the true truth of things, would not care or perhaps would find it difficult to answer questions that belong entirely to the domain of human mental constructions. It may be, he could not or would not wish to solve problems and difficulties you might put to him which touch only the illusion of things and their appearances. The working of his knowledge is not in the mind. If you put him some silly mental query of that character, he probably would not answer. The very common conception that you can put any ignorant question to him as to some super-schoolmaster or demand from him any kind of information past, present or future and that he is bound to answer, is a foolish idea. It is as inept as the expectation from the spiritual man of feats and miracles that would satisfy the vulgar external mind and leave it gaping with wonder.
Moreover, the term "Yogi" is very vague and wide. There are many types of Yogis, many lines or ranges of spiritual or occult endeavour and different heights of achievement, there are some whose powers do not extend beyond the mental level; there are others who have gone beyond it. Everything depends on the field or nature of their effort, the height to which they have arrived, the consciousness with which they have contact or into which they enter.
Do not scientists go sometimes beyond the mental plane? It is said that Einstein found his theory of relativity not through any process of reasoning, but through some kind of sudden inspiration. Has that inspiration anything to do with the Supermind?
The scientist who gets an inspiration revealing to him a new truth, receives it from the intuitive mind. The knowledge comes as a direct perception in the higher mental plane illumined by some other light still farther above. But all that has nothing to do with the action of Supermind and this higher mental level is far removed from the supramental plane. Men are too easily inclined to believe that they have climbed into regions quite divine when they have only gone above the average level. There are many stages between the ordinary human mind and the Supermind, many grades and many intervening planes. If an ordinary man were to get into direct contact even with one of these intermediate planes, he would be dazzled and blinded, would be crushed under the weight of the sense of immensity or would lose his balance; and yet it is not the Supermind.
Behind the common idea that a Yogi can know all things and answer all questions is the actual fact that there is a plane in the mind where the memory of everything is stored and remains always in existence. All mental movements that belong to the life of the earth are memorised and registered in this plane. Those who are capable of going there and care to take the trouble, can read in it and learn anything they choose. But this region must not be mistaken for the supramental levels. And yet to reach even there you must be able to silence the movements of the material or physical mind; you must be able to leave aside all your sensations and put a stop to your ordinary mental movements, whatever they are; you must get out of the vital; you must become free from the slavery of the body. Then only you can enter into that region and see. But if you are sufficiently interested to make this effort, you can arrive there and read what is written in the earth's memory.
Thus, if you go deep into silence, you can reach a level of consciousness on which it is not impossible for you to receive answers to all your questions. And if there is one who is consciously open to the plenary truth of the supermind, in constant contact with it, he can certainly answer any question that is worth an answer from the supramental Light. The queries put must come from some sense of the truth and reality behind things. There are many questions and much debated problems that are cobwebs woven of mere mental abstractions or move on the illusory surface of things. These do not pertain to real knowledge; they are a deformation of knowledge, their very substance is of the ignorance. Certainly the supramental knowledge may give an answer, its own answer, to the problems set by the mind's ignorance; but it is likely that it would not be at all satisfactory or perhaps even intelligible to those who ask from the mental level. You must not expect the supramental to work in the way of the mind or demand that the knowledge in truth should be capable of being pieced together with the half-knowledge in ignorance. The scheme of the mind is one thing, but Supermind is quite another and it would no longer be supramental if it adapted itself to the exigencies of the mental scheme. The two are incommensurable and cannot be put together.
When the consciousness has attained to supramental joys, does it no longer take interest in the things of the mind?
The supramental does not take interest in mental things in the same way as the mind. It takes its own interest in all the movements of the universe, but it is from a different point of view and with a different vision. The world presents to it an entirely different appearance; there is a reversal of outlook and everything is seen from there as other than what it seems to the mind and often even the opposite. Things have another meaning; their aspect, their motion and process, everything about them, are watched with other eyes. Everything here is followed by the supermind; the mind movements and not less the vital, the material movements, all the play of the universe have for it a very deep interest, but of another kind. It is about the same difference as that between the interest taken in a puppet-play by one who holds the strings and knows what the puppets are to do and the will that moves them and that they can do only what it moves them to do, and the interest taken by another who observes the play but sees only what is happening from moment to moment and knows nothing else. The one who follows the play and is outside its secret has a stronger, an eager and passionate interest in what will happen and he gives an excited attention to its unforeseen or dramatic events; the other, who holds the strings and moves the show, is unmoved and tranquil. There is a certain intensity of interest which comes from ignorance and is bound up with illusion, and that must disappear when you are out of the ignorance. The interest that human beings take in things founds itself on the illusion; if that were removed, they would have no interest at all in the play; they would find it dry and dull. That is why all this ignorance, all this illusion has lasted so long; it is because men like it, because they cling to it and its peculiar kind of appeal that it endures.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931, 93?
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774:[The Gods and Their Worlds]
[...] According to traditions and occult schools, all these zones of realities, these planes of realities have got different names; they have been classified in a different way, but there is an essential analogy, and if you go back far enough into the traditions, you see only the words changing according to the country and the language. Even now, the experiences of Western occultists and those of Eastern occultists offer great similarities. All who set out on the discovery of these invisible worlds and make a report of what they saw, give a very similar description, whether they be from here or there; they use different words, but the experience is very similar and the handling of forces is the same.
This knowledge of the occult worlds is based on the existence of subtle bodies and of subtle worlds corresponding to those bodies. They are what the psychological method calls "states of consciousness", but these states of consciousness really correspond to worlds. The occult procedure consists then in being aware of these various inner states of being or subtle bodies and in becoming sufficiently a master of them so as to be able to go out of them successively, one after another. There is indeed a whole scale of subtleties, increasing or decreasing according to the direction in which you go, and the occult procedure consists in going out of a denser body into a subtler body and so on again, up to the most ethereal regions. You go, by successive exteriorisations, into bodies or worlds more and more subtle. It is somewhat as if every time you passed into another dimension. The fourth dimension of the physicists is nothing but the scientific transcription of an occult knowledge. To give another image, one can say that the physical body is at the centre - it is the most material, the densest and also the smallest - and the inner bodies, more subtle, overflow more and more the central physical body; they pass through it, extending themselves farther and farther, like water evaporating from a porous vase and forming a kind of steam all around. And the greater the subtlety, the more the extension tends to unite with that of the universe: one ends by universalising oneself. And it is altogether a concrete process which gives an objective experience of invisible worlds and even enables one to act in these worlds.
There are, then, only a very small number of people in the West who know that these gods are not merely subjective and imaginary - more or less wildly imaginary - but that they correspond to a universal truth.
All these regions, all these domains are filled with beings who exist, each in its own domain, and if you are awake and conscious on a particular plane - for instance, if on going out of a more material body you awake on some higher plane, you have the same relation with the things and people of that plane as you had with the things and people of the material world. That is to say, there exists an entirely objective relation that has nothing to do with the idea you may have of these things. Naturally, the resemblance is greater and greater as you approach the physical world, the material world, and there even comes a time when the one region has a direct action upon the other. In any case, in what Sri Aurobindo calls the overmental worlds, you will find a concrete reality absolutely independent of your personal experience; you go back there and again find the same things, with the differences that have occurred during your absence. And you have relations with those beings that are identical with the relations you have with physical beings, with this difference that the relation is more plastic, supple and direct - for example, there is the capacity to change the external form, the visible form, according to the inner state you are in. But you can make an appointment with someone and be at the appointed place and find the same being again, with certain differences that have come about during your absence; it is entirely concrete with results entirely concrete.
One must have at least a little of this experience in order to understand these things. Otherwise, those who are convinced that all this is mere human imagination and mental formation, who believe that these gods have such and such a form because men have thought them to be like that, and that they have certain defects and certain qualities because men have thought them to be like that - all those who say that God is made in the image of man and that he exists only in human thought, all these will not understand; to them this will appear absolutely ridiculous, madness. One must have lived a little, touched the subject a little, to know how very concrete the thing is.
Naturally, children know a good deal if they have not been spoilt. There are so many children who return every night to the same place and continue to live the life they have begun there. When these faculties are not spoilt with age, you can keep them with you. At a time when I was especially interested in dreams, I could return exactly to a place and continue a work that I had begun: supervise something, for example, set something in order, a work of organisation or of discovery, of exploration. You go until you reach a certain spot, as you would go in life, then you take a rest, then you return and begin again - you begin the work at the place where you left off and you continue it. And you perceive that there are things which are quite independent of you, in the sense that changes of which you are not at all the author, have taken place automatically during your absence.
But for this, you must live these experiences yourself, you must see them yourself, live them with sufficient sincerity and spontaneity in order to see that they are independent of any mental formation. For you can do the opposite also, and deepen the study of the action of mental formation upon events. This is very interesting, but it is another domain. And this study makes you very careful, very prudent, because you become aware of how far you can delude yourself. So you must study both, the dream and the occult reality, in order to see what is the essential difference between the two. The one depends upon us; the other exists in itself; entirely independent of the thought that we have of it.
When you have worked in that domain, you recognise in fact that once a subject has been studied and something has been learnt mentally, it gives a special colour to the experience; the experience may be quite spontaneous and sincere, but the simple fact that the subject was known and studied lends a particular quality. Whereas if you had learnt nothing about the question, if you knew nothing at all, the transcription would be completely spontaneous and sincere when the experience came; it would be more or less adequate, but it would not be the outcome of a previous mental formation.
Naturally, this occult knowledge or this experience is not very frequent in the world, because in those who do not have a developed inner life, there are veritable gaps between the external consciousness and the inmost consciousness; the linking states of being are missing and they have to be constructed. So when people enter there for the first time, they are bewildered, they have the impression they have fallen into the night, into nothingness, into non-being!
I had a Danish friend, a painter, who was like that. He wanted me to teach him how to go out of the body; he used to have interesting dreams and thought that it would be worth the trouble to go there consciously. So I made him "go out" - but it was a frightful thing! When he was dreaming, a part of his mind still remained conscious, active, and a kind of link existed between this active part and his external being; then he remembered some of his dreams, but it was a very partial phenomenon. And to go out of one's body means to pass gradually through all the states of being, if one does the thing systematically. Well, already in the subtle physical, one is almost de-individualised, and when one goes farther, there remains nothing, for nothing is formed or individualised.
Thus, when people are asked to meditate or told to go within, to enter into themselves, they are in agony - naturally! They have the impression that they are vanishing. And with reason: there is nothing, no consciousness!
These things that appear to us quite natural and evident, are, for people who know nothing, wild imagination. If, for example, you transplant these experiences or this knowledge to the West, well, unless you have been frequenting the circles of occultists, they stare at you with open eyes. And when you have turned your back, they hasten to say, "These people are cranks!" Now to come back to the gods and conclude. It must be said that all those beings who have never had an earthly existence - gods or demons, invisible beings and powers - do not possess what the Divine has put into man: the psychic being. And this psychic being gives to man true love, charity, compassion, a deep kindness, which compensate for all his external defects.
In the gods there is no fault because they live according to their own nature, spontaneously and without constraint: as gods, it is their manner of being. But if you take a higher point of view, if you have a higher vision, a vision of the whole, you see that they lack certain qualities that are exclusively human. By his capacity of love and self-giving, man can have as much power as the gods and even more, when he is not egoistic, when he has surmounted his egoism.
If he fulfils the required condition, man is nearer to the Supreme than the gods are. He can be nearer. He is not so automatically, but he has the power to be so, the potentiality.
If human love manifested itself without mixture, it would be all-powerful. Unfortunately, in human love there is as much love of oneself as of the one loved; it is not a love that makes you forget yourself. - 4 November 1958
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III, 355
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775:The Science of Living
To know oneself and to control oneself
AN AIMLESS life is always a miserable life.
Every one of you should have an aim. But do not forget that on the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life.
Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others.
But whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realised unless you have realised perfection in yourself.
To work for your perfection, the first step is to become conscious of yourself, of the different parts of your being and their respective activities. You must learn to distinguish these different parts one from another, so that you may become clearly aware of the origin of the movements that occur in you, the many impulses, reactions and conflicting wills that drive you to action. It is an assiduous study which demands much perseverance and sincerity. For man's nature, especially his mental nature, has a spontaneous tendency to give a favourable explanation for everything he thinks, feels, says and does. It is only by observing these movements with great care, by bringing them, as it were, before the tribunal of our highest ideal, with a sincere will to submit to its judgment, that we can hope to form in ourselves a discernment that never errs. For if we truly want to progress and acquire the capacity of knowing the truth of our being, that is to say, what we are truly created for, what we can call our mission upon earth, then we must, in a very regular and constant manner, reject from us or eliminate in us whatever contradicts the truth of our existence, whatever is opposed to it. In this way, little by little, all the parts, all the elements of our being can be organised into a homogeneous whole around our psychic centre. This work of unification requires much time to be brought to some degree of perfection. Therefore, in order to accomplish it, we must arm ourselves with patience and endurance, with a determination to prolong our life as long as necessary for the success of our endeavour.
As you pursue this labour of purification and unification, you must at the same time take great care to perfect the external and instrumental part of your being. When the higher truth manifests, it must find in you a mind that is supple and rich enough to be able to give the idea that seeks to express itself a form of thought which preserves its force and clarity. This thought, again, when it seeks to clothe itself in words, must find in you a sufficient power of expression so that the words reveal the thought and do not deform it. And the formula in which you embody the truth should be manifested in all your feelings, all your acts of will, all your actions, in all the movements of your being. Finally, these movements themselves should, by constant effort, attain their highest perfection.
All this can be realised by means of a fourfold discipline, the general outline of which is given here. The four aspects of the discipline do not exclude each other, and can be followed at the same time; indeed, this is preferable. The starting-point is what can be called the psychic discipline. We give the name "psychic" to the psychological centre of our being, the seat within us of the highest truth of our existence, that which can know this truth and set it in movement. It is therefore of capital importance to become conscious of its presence in us, to concentrate on this presence until it becomes a living fact for us and we can identify ourselves with it.
In various times and places many methods have been prescribed for attaining this perception and ultimately achieving this identification. Some methods are psychological, some religious, some even mechanical. In reality, everyone has to find the one which suits him best, and if one has an ardent and steadfast aspiration, a persistent and dynamic will, one is sure to meet, in one way or another - outwardly through reading and study, inwardly through concentration, meditation, revelation and experience - the help one needs to reach the goal. Only one thing is absolutely indispensable: the will to discover and to realise. This discovery and realisation should be the primary preoccupation of our being, the pearl of great price which we must acquire at any cost. Whatever you do, whatever your occupations and activities, the will to find the truth of your being and to unite with it must be always living and present behind all that you do, all that you feel, all that you think.
To complement this movement of inner discovery, it would be good not to neglect the development of the mind. For the mental instrument can equally be a great help or a great hindrance. In its natural state the human mind is always limited in its vision, narrow in its understanding, rigid in its conceptions, and a constant effort is therefore needed to widen it, to make it more supple and profound. So it is very necessary to consider everything from as many points of view as possible. Towards this end, there is an exercise which gives great suppleness and elevation to the thought. It is as follows: a clearly formulated thesis is set; against it is opposed its antithesis, formulated with the same precision. Then by careful reflection the problem must be widened or transcended until a synthesis is found which unites the two contraries in a larger, higher and more comprehensive idea.
Many other exercises of the same kind can be undertaken; some have a beneficial effect on the character and so possess a double advantage: that of educating the mind and that of establishing control over the feelings and their consequences. For example, you must never allow your mind to judge things and people, for the mind is not an instrument of knowledge; it is incapable of finding knowledge, but it must be moved by knowledge. Knowledge belongs to a much higher domain than that of the human mind, far above the region of pure ideas. The mind has to be silent and attentive to receive knowledge from above and manifest it. For it is an instrument of formation, of organisation and action, and it is in these functions that it attains its full value and real usefulness.
There is another practice which can be very helpful to the progress of the consciousness. Whenever there is a disagreement on any matter, such as a decision to be taken, or an action to be carried out, one must never remain closed up in one's own conception or point of view. On the contrary, one must make an effort to understand the other's point of view, to put oneself in his place and, instead of quarrelling or even fighting, find the solution which can reasonably satisfy both parties; there always is one for men of goodwill.
Here we must mention the discipline of the vital. The vital being in us is the seat of impulses and desires, of enthusiasm and violence, of dynamic energy and desperate depressions, of passions and revolts. It can set everything in motion, build and realise; but it can also destroy and mar everything. Thus it may be the most difficult part to discipline in the human being. It is a long and exacting labour requiring great patience and perfect sincerity, for without sincerity you will deceive yourself from the very outset, and all endeavour for progress will be in vain. With the collaboration of the vital no realisation seems impossible, no transformation impracticable. But the difficulty lies in securing this constant collaboration. The vital is a good worker, but most often it seeks its own satisfaction. If that is refused, totally or even partially, the vital gets vexed, sulks and goes on strike. Its energy disappears more or less completely and in its place leaves disgust for people and things, discouragement or revolt, depression and dissatisfaction. At such moments it is good to remain quiet and refuse to act; for these are the times when one does stupid things and in a few moments one can destroy or spoil the progress that has been made during months of regular effort. These crises are shorter and less dangerous for those who have established a contact with their psychic being which is sufficient to keep alive in them the flame of aspiration and the consciousness of the ideal to be realised. They can, with the help of this consciousness, deal with their vital as one deals with a rebellious child, with patience and perseverance, showing it the truth and light, endeavouring to convince it and awaken in it the goodwill which has been veiled for a time. By means of such patient intervention each crisis can be turned into a new progress, into one more step towards the goal. Progress may be slow, relapses may be frequent, but if a courageous will is maintained, one is sure to triumph one day and see all difficulties melt and vanish before the radiance of the truth-consciousness.
Lastly, by means of a rational and discerning physical education, we must make our body strong and supple enough to become a fit instrument in the material world for the truth-force which wants to manifest through us.
In fact, the body must not rule, it must obey. By its very nature it is a docile and faithful servant. Unfortunately, it rarely has the capacity of discernment it ought to have with regard to its masters, the mind and the vital. It obeys them blindly, at the cost of its own well-being. The mind with its dogmas, its rigid and arbitrary principles, the vital with its passions, its excesses and dissipations soon destroy the natural balance of the body and create in it fatigue, exhaustion and disease. It must be freed from this tyranny and this can be done only through a constant union with the psychic centre of the being. The body has a wonderful capacity of adaptation and endurance. It is able to do so many more things than one usually imagines. If, instead of the ignorant and despotic masters that now govern it, it is ruled by the central truth of the being, you will be amazed at what it is capable of doing. Calm and quiet, strong and poised, at every minute it will be able to put forth the effort that is demanded of it, for it will have learnt to find rest in action and to recuperate, through contact with the universal forces, the energies it expends consciously and usefully. In this sound and balanced life a new harmony will manifest in the body, reflecting the harmony of the higher regions, which will give it perfect proportions and ideal beauty of form. And this harmony will be progressive, for the truth of the being is never static; it is a perpetual unfolding of a growing perfection that is more and more total and comprehensive. As soon as the body has learnt to follow this movement of progressive harmony, it will be possible for it to escape, through a continuous process of transformation, from the necessity of disintegration and destruction. Thus the irrevocable law of death will no longer have any reason to exist.
When we reach this degree of perfection which is our goal, we shall perceive that the truth we seek is made up of four major aspects: Love, Knowledge, Power and Beauty. These four attributes of the Truth will express themselves spontaneously in our being. The psychic will be the vehicle of true and pure love, the mind will be the vehicle of infallible knowledge, the vital will manifest an invincible power and strength and the body will be the expression of a perfect beauty and harmony.
Bulletin, November 1950
~ The Mother, On Education, #KEYS |
776:Mental Education
OF ALL lines of education, mental education is the most widely known and practised, yet except in a few rare cases there are gaps which make it something very incomplete and in the end quite insufficient.
Generally speaking, schooling is considered to be all the mental education that is necessary. And when a child has been made to undergo, for a number of years, a methodical training which is more like cramming than true schooling, it is considered that whatever is necessary for his mental development has been done. Nothing of the kind. Even conceding that the training is given with due measure and discrimination and does not permanently damage the brain, it cannot impart to the human mind the faculties it needs to become a good and useful instrument. The schooling that is usually given can, at the most, serve as a system of gymnastics to increase the suppleness of the brain. From this standpoint, each branch of human learning represents a special kind of mental gymnastics, and the verbal formulations given to these various branches each constitute a special and well-defined language.
A true mental education, which will prepare man for a higher life, has five principal phases. Normally these phases follow one after another, but in exceptional individuals they may alternate or even proceed simultaneously. These five phases, in brief, are:
(1) Development of the power of concentration, the capacity of attention.
(2) Development of the capacities of expansion, widening, complexity and richness.
(3) Organisation of one's ideas around a central idea, a higher ideal or a supremely luminous idea that will serve as a guide in life.
(4) Thought-control, rejection of undesirable thoughts, to become able to think only what one wants and when one wants.
(5) Development of mental silence, perfect calm and a more and more total receptivity to inspirations coming from the higher regions of the being.
It is not possible to give here all the details concerning the methods to be employed in the application of these five phases of education to different individuals. Still, a few explanations on points of detail can be given.
Undeniably, what most impedes mental progress in children is the constant dispersion of their thoughts. Their thoughts flutter hither and thither like butterflies and they have to make a great effort to fix them. Yet this capacity is latent in them, for when you succeed in arousing their interest, they are capable of a good deal of attention. By his ingenuity, therefore, the educator will gradually help the child to become capable of a sustained effort of attention and a faculty of more and more complete absorption in the work in hand. All methods that can develop this faculty of attention from games to rewards are good and can all be utilised according to the need and the circumstances. But it is the psychological action that is most important and the sovereign method is to arouse in the child an interest in what you want to teach him, a liking for work, a will to progress. To love to learn is the most precious gift that one can give to a child: to love to learn always and everywhere, so that all circumstances, all happenings in life may be constantly renewed opportunities for learning more and always more.
For that, to attention and concentration should be added observation, precise recording and faithfulness of memory. This faculty of observation can be developed by varied and spontaneous exercises, making use of every opportunity that presents itself to keep the child's thought wakeful, alert and prompt. The growth of the understanding should be stressed much more than that of memory. One knows well only what one has understood. Things learnt by heart, mechanically, fade away little by little and finally disappear; what is understood is never forgotten. Moreover, you must never refuse to explain to a child the how and the why of things. If you cannot do it yourself, you must direct the child to those who are qualified to answer or point out to him some books that deal with the question. In this way you will progressively awaken in the child the taste for true study and the habit of making a persistent effort to know.
This will bring us quite naturally to the second phase of development in which the mind should be widened and enriched.
You will gradually show the child that everything can become an interesting subject for study if it is approached in the right way. The life of every day, of every moment, is the best school of all, varied, complex, full of unexpected experiences, problems to be solved, clear and striking examples and obvious consequences. It is so easy to arouse healthy curiosity in children, if you answer with intelligence and clarity the numerous questions they ask. An interesting reply to one readily brings others in its train and so the attentive child learns without effort much more than he usually does in the classroom. By a choice made with care and insight, you should also teach him to enjoy good reading-matter which is both instructive and attractive. Do not be afraid of anything that awakens and pleases his imagination; imagination develops the creative mental faculty and through it study becomes living and the mind develops in joy.
In order to increase the suppleness and comprehensiveness of his mind, one should see not only that he studies many varied topics, but above all that a single subject is approached in various ways, so that the child understands in a practical manner that there are many ways of facing the same intellectual problem, of considering it and solving it. This will remove all rigidity from his brain and at the same time it will make his thinking richer and more supple and prepare it for a more complex and comprehensive synthesis. In this way also the child will be imbued with the sense of the extreme relativity of mental learning and, little by little, an aspiration for a truer source of knowledge will awaken in him.
Indeed, as the child grows older and progresses in his studies, his mind too ripens and becomes more and more capable of forming general ideas, and with them almost always comes a need for certitude, for a knowledge that is stable enough to form the basis of a mental construction which will permit all the diverse and scattered and often contradictory ideas accumulated in his brain to be organised and put in order. This ordering is indeed very necessary if one is to avoid chaos in one's thoughts. All contradictions can be transformed into complements, but for that one must discover the higher idea that will have the power to bring them harmoniously together. It is always good to consider every problem from all possible standpoints so as to avoid partiality and exclusiveness; but if the thought is to be active and creative, it must, in every case, be the natural and logical synthesis of all the points of view adopted. And if you want to make the totality of your thoughts into a dynamic and constructive force, you must also take great care as to the choice of the central idea of your mental synthesis; for upon that will depend the value of this synthesis. The higher and larger the central idea and the more universal it is, rising above time and space, the more numerous and the more complex will be the ideas, notions and thoughts which it will be able to organise and harmonise.
It goes without saying that this work of organisation cannot be done once and for all. The mind, if it is to keep its vigour and youth, must progress constantly, revise its notions in the light of new knowledge, enlarge its frame-work to include fresh notions and constantly reclassify and reorganise its thoughts, so that each of them may find its true place in relation to the others and the whole remain harmonious and orderly.
All that has just been said concerns the speculative mind, the mind that learns. But learning is only one aspect of mental activity; the other, which is at least equally important, is the constructive faculty, the capacity to form and thus prepare action. This very important part of mental activity has rarely been the subject of any special study or discipline. Only those who want, for some reason, to exercise a strict control over their mental activities think of observing and disciplining this faculty of formation; and as soon as they try it, they have to face difficulties so great that they appear almost insurmountable.
And yet control over this formative activity of the mind is one of the most important aspects of self-education; one can say that without it no mental mastery is possible. As far as study is concerned, all ideas are acceptable and should be included in the synthesis, whose very function is to become more and more rich and complex; but where action is concerned, it is just the opposite. The ideas that are accepted for translation into action should be strictly controlled and only those that agree with the general trend of the central idea forming the basis of the mental synthesis should be permitted to express themselves in action. This means that every thought entering the mental consciousness should be set before the central idea; if it finds a logical place among the thoughts already grouped, it will be admitted into the synthesis; if not, it will be rejected so that it can have no influence on the action. This work of mental purification should be done very regularly in order to secure a complete control over one's actions.
For this purpose, it is good to set apart some time every day when one can quietly go over one's thoughts and put one's synthesis in order. Once the habit is acquired, you can maintain control over your thoughts even during work and action, allowing only those which are useful for what you are doing to come to the surface. Particularly, if you have continued to cultivate the power of concentration and attention, only the thoughts that are needed will be allowed to enter the active external consciousness and they then become all the more dynamic and effective. And if, in the intensity of concentration, it becomes necessary not to think at all, all mental vibration can be stilled and an almost total silence secured. In this silence one can gradually open to the higher regions of the mind and learn to record the inspirations that come from there.
But even before reaching this point, silence in itself is supremely useful, because in most people who have a somewhat developed and active mind, the mind is never at rest. During the day, its activity is kept under a certain control, but at night, during the sleep of the body, the control of the waking state is almost completely removed and the mind indulges in activities which are sometimes excessive and often incoherent. This creates a great stress which leads to fatigue and the diminution of the intellectual faculties.
The fact is that like all the other parts of the human being, the mind too needs rest and it will not have this rest unless we know how to provide it. The art of resting one's mind is something to be acquired. Changing one's mental activity is certainly one way of resting; but the greatest possible rest is silence. And as far as the mental faculties are concerned a few minutes passed in the calm of silence are a more effective rest than hours of sleep.
When one has learned to silence the mind at will and to concentrate it in receptive silence, then there will be no problem that cannot be solved, no mental difficulty whose solution cannot be found. When it is agitated, thought becomes confused and impotent; in an attentive tranquillity, the light can manifest itself and open up new horizons to man's capacity. Bulletin, November 1951
~ The Mother, On Education,#KEYS |
777:The Supreme Discovery
IF WE want to progress integrally, we must build within our conscious being a strong and pure mental synthesis which can serve us as a protection against temptations from outside, as a landmark to prevent us from going astray, as a beacon to light our way across the moving ocean of life.
Each individual should build up this mental synthesis according to his own tendencies and affinities and aspirations. But if we want it to be truly living and luminous, it must be centred on the idea that is the intellectual representation symbolising That which is at the centre of our being, That which is our life and our light.
This idea, expressed in sublime words, has been taught in various forms by all the great Instructors in all lands and all ages.
The Self of each one and the great universal Self are one. Since all that is exists from all eternity in its essence and principle, why make a distinction between the being and its origin, between ourselves and what we place at the beginning?
The ancient traditions rightly said:
"Our origin and ourselves, our God and ourselves are one."
And this oneness should not be understood merely as a more or less close and intimate relationship of union, but as a true identity.
Thus, when a man who seeks the Divine attempts to reascend by degrees towards the inaccessible, he forgets that all his knowledge and all his intuition cannot take him one step forward in this infinite; neither does he know that what he wants to attain, what he believes to be so far from him, is within him.
For how could he know anything of the origin until he becomes conscious of this origin in himself?
It is by understanding himself, by learning to know himself, that he can make the supreme discovery and cry out in wonder like the patriarch in the Bible, "The house of God is here and I knew it not."
That is why we must express that sublime thought, creatrix of the material worlds, and make known to all the word that fills the heavens and the earth, "I am in all things and all beings."When all shall know this, the promised day of great transfigurations will be at hand. When in each atom of Matter men shall recognise the indwelling thought of God, when in each living creature they shall perceive some hint of a gesture of God, when each man can see God in his brother, then dawn will break, dispelling the darkness, the falsehood, the ignorance, the error and suffering that weigh upon all Nature. For, "all Nature suffers and laments as she awaits the revelation of the Sons of God."
This indeed is the central thought epitomising all others, the thought which should be ever present to our remembrance as the sun that illumines all life.
That is why I remind you of it today. For if we follow our path bearing this thought in our hearts like the rarest jewel, the most precious treasure, if we allow it to do its work of illumination and transfiguration within us, we shall know that it lives in the centre of all beings and all things, and in it we shall feel the marvellous oneness of the universe.
Then we shall understand the vanity and childishness of our meagre satisfactions, our foolish quarrels, our petty passions, our blind indignations. We shall see the dissolution of our little faults, the crumbling of the last entrenchments of our limited personality and our obtuse egoism. We shall feel ourselves being swept along by this sublime current of true spirituality which will deliver us from our narrow limits and bounds.
The individual Self and the universal Self are one; in every world, in every being, in every thing, in every atom is the Divine Presence, and man's mission is to manifest it.
In order to do that, he must become conscious of this Divine Presence within him. Some individuals must undergo a real apprenticeship in order to achieve this: their egoistic being is too all-absorbing, too rigid, too conservative, and their struggles against it are long and painful. Others, on the contrary, who are more impersonal, more plastic, more spiritualised, come easily into contact with the inexhaustible divine source of their being.But let us not forget that they too should devote themselves daily, constantly, to a methodical effort of adaptation and transformation, so that nothing within them may ever again obscure the radiance of that pure light.
But how greatly the standpoint changes once we attain this deeper consciousness! How understanding widens, how compassion grows!
On this a sage has said:
"I would like each one of us to come to the point where he perceives the inner God who dwells even in the vilest of human beings; instead of condemning him we would say, 'Arise, O resplendent Being, thou who art ever pure, who knowest neither birth nor death; arise, Almighty One, and manifest thy nature.'"
Let us live by this beautiful utterance and we shall see everything around us transformed as if by miracle.
This is the attitude of true, conscious and discerning love, the love which knows how to see behind appearances, understand in spite of words, and which, amid all obstacles, is in constant communion with the depths.
What value have our impulses and our desires, our anguish and our violence, our sufferings and our struggles, all these inner vicissitudes unduly dramatised by our unruly imagination - what value do they have before this great, this sublime and divine love bending over us from the innermost depths of our being, bearing with our weaknesses, rectifying our errors, healing our wounds, bathing our whole being with its regenerating streams?
For the inner Godhead never imposes herself, she neither demands nor threatens; she offers and gives herself, conceals and forgets herself in the heart of all beings and things; she never accuses, she neither judges nor curses nor condemns, but works unceasingly to perfect without constraint, to mend without reproach, to encourage without impatience, to enrich each one with all the wealth he can receive; she is the mother whose love bears fruit and nourishes, guards and protects, counsels and consoles; because she understands everything, she can endure everything, excuse and pardon everything, hope and prepare for everything; bearing everything within herself, she owns nothing that does not belong to all, and because she reigns over all, she is the servant of all; that is why all, great and small, who want to be kings with her and gods in her, become, like her, not despots but servitors among their brethren.
How beautiful is this humble role of servant, the role of all who have been revealers and heralds of the God who is within all, of the Divine Love that animates all things....
And until we can follow their example and become true servants even as they, let us allow ourselves to be penetrated and transformed by this Divine Love; let us offer Him, without reserve, this marvellous instrument, our physical organism. He shall make it yield its utmost on every plane of activity.
To achieve this total self-consecration, all means are good, all methods have their value. The one thing needful is to persevere in our will to attain this goal. For then everything we study, every action we perform, every human being we meet, all come to bring us an indication, a help, a light to guide us on the path.
Before I close, I shall add a few pages for those who have already made apparently fruitless efforts, for those who have encountered the pitfalls on the way and seen the measure of their weakness, for those who are in danger of losing their self-confidence and courage. These pages, intended to rekindle hope in the hearts of those who suffer, were written by a spiritual worker at a time when ordeals of every kind were sweeping down on him like purifying flames.
You who are weary, downcast and bruised, you who fall, who think perhaps that you are defeated, hear the voice of a friend. He knows your sorrows, he has shared them, he has suffered like you from the ills of the earth; like you he has crossed many deserts under the burden of the day, he has known thirst and hunger, solitude and abandonment, and the cruellest of all wants, the destitution of the heart. Alas! he has known too the hours of doubt, the errors, the faults, the failings, every weakness.
But he tells you: Courage! Hearken to the lesson that the rising sun brings to the earth with its first rays each morning. It is a lesson of hope, a message of solace.
You who weep, who suffer and tremble, who dare not expect an end to your ills, an issue to your pangs, behold: there is no night without dawn and the day is about to break when darkness is thickest; there is no mist that the sun does not dispel, no cloud that it does not gild, no tear that it will not dry one day, no storm that is not followed by its shining triumphant bow; there is no snow that it does not melt, nor winter that it does not change into radiant spring.
And for you too, there is no affliction which does not bring its measure of glory, no distress which cannot be transformed into joy, nor defeat into victory, nor downfall into higher ascension, nor solitude into radiating centre of life, nor discord into harmony - sometimes it is a misunderstanding between two minds that compels two hearts to open to mutual communion; lastly, there is no infinite weakness that cannot be changed into strength. And it is even in supreme weakness that almightiness chooses to reveal itself!
Listen, my little child, you who today feel so broken, so fallen perhaps, who have nothing left, nothing to cover your misery and foster your pride: never before have you been so great! How close to the summits is he who awakens in the depths, for the deeper the abyss, the more the heights reveal themselves!
Do you not know this, that the most sublime forces of the vasts seek to array themselves in the most opaque veils of Matter? Oh, the sublime nuptials of sovereign love with the obscurest plasticities, of the shadow's yearning with the most royal light!
If ordeal or fault has cast you down, if you have sunk into the nether depths of suffering, do not grieve - for there indeed the divine love and the supreme blessing can reach you! Because you have passed through the crucible of purifying sorrows, the glorious ascents are yours.
You are in the wilderness: then listen to the voices of the silence. The clamour of flattering words and outer applause has gladdened your ears, but the voices of the silence will gladden your soul and awaken within you the echo of the depths, the chant of divine harmonies!
You are walking in the depths of night: then gather the priceless treasures of the night. In bright sunshine, the ways of intelligence are lit, but in the white luminosities of the night lie the hidden paths of perfection, the secret of spiritual riches.
You are being stripped of everything: that is the way towards plenitude. When you have nothing left, everything will be given to you. Because for those who are sincere and true, from the worst always comes the best.
Every grain that is sown in the earth produces a thousand. Every wing-beat of sorrow can be a soaring towards glory.
And when the adversary pursues man relentlessly, everything he does to destroy him only makes him greater.
Hear the story of the worlds, look: the great enemy seems to triumph. He casts the beings of light into the night, and the night is filled with stars. He rages against the cosmic working, he assails the integrity of the empire of the sphere, shatters its harmony, divides and subdivides it, scatters its dust to the four winds of infinity, and lo! the dust is changed into a golden seed, fertilising the infinite and peopling it with worlds which now gravitate around their eternal centre in the larger orbit of space - so that even division creates a richer and deeper unity, and by multiplying the surfaces of the material universe, enlarges the empire that it set out to destroy.
Beautiful indeed was the song of the primordial sphere cradled in the bosom of immensity, but how much more beautiful and triumphant is the symphony of the constellations, the music of the spheres, the immense choir that fills the heavens with an eternal hymn of victory!
Hear again: no state was ever more precarious than that of man when he was separated on earth from his divine origin. Above him stretched the hostile borders of the usurper, and at his horizon's gates watched jailers armed with flaming swords. Then, since he could climb no more to the source of life, the source arose within him; since he could no more receive the light from above, the light shone forth at the very centre of his being; since he could commune no more with the transcendent love, that love offered itself in a holocaust and chose each terrestrial being, each human self as its dwelling-place and sanctuary.
That is how, in this despised and desolate but fruitful and blessed Matter, each atom contains a divine thought, each being carries within him the Divine Inhabitant. And if no being in all the universe is as frail as man, neither is any as divine as he!
In truth, in truth, in humiliation lies the cradle of glory! 28 April 1912 ~ The Mother, Words Of Long Ago, The Supreme Discovery,#KEYS |
778:It does not matter if you do not understand it - Savitri, read it always. You will see that every time you read it, something new will be revealed to you. Each time you will get a new glimpse, each time a new experience; things which were not there, things you did not understand arise and suddenly become clear. Always an unexpected vision comes up through the words and lines. Every time you try to read and understand, you will see that something is added, something which was hidden behind is revealed clearly and vividly. I tell you the very verses you have read once before, will appear to you in a different light each time you re-read them. This is what happens invariably. Always your experience is enriched, it is a revelation at each step.
But you must not read it as you read other books or newspapers. You must read with an empty head, a blank and vacant mind, without there being any other thought; you must concentrate much, remain empty, calm and open; then the words, rhythms, vibrations will penetrate directly to this white page, will put their stamp upon the brain, will explain themselves without your making any effort.
Savitri alone is sufficient to make you climb to the highest peaks. If truly one knows how to meditate on Savitri, one will receive all the help one needs. For him who wishes to follow this path, it is a concrete help as though the Lord himself were taking you by the hand and leading you to the destined goal. And then, every question, however personal it may be, has its answer here, every difficulty finds its solution herein; indeed there is everything that is necessary for doing the Yoga.
*He has crammed the whole universe in a single book.* It is a marvellous work, magnificent and of an incomparable perfection.
You know, before writing Savitri Sri Aurobindo said to me, *I am impelled to launch on a new adventure; I was hesitant in the beginning, but now I am decided. Still, I do not know how far I shall succeed. I pray for help.* And you know what it was? It was - before beginning, I warn you in advance - it was His way of speaking, so full of divine humility and modesty. He never... *asserted Himself*. And the day He actually began it, He told me: *I have launched myself in a rudderless boat upon the vastness of the Infinite.* And once having started, He wrote page after page without intermission, as though it were a thing already complete up there and He had only to transcribe it in ink down here on these pages.
In truth, the entire form of Savitri has descended "en masse" from the highest region and Sri Aurobindo with His genius only arranged the lines - in a superb and magnificent style. Sometimes entire lines were revealed and He has left them intact; He worked hard, untiringly, so that the inspiration could come from the highest possible summit. And what a work He has created! Yes, it is a true creation in itself. It is an unequalled work. Everything is there, and it is put in such a simple, such a clear form; verses perfectly harmonious, limpid and eternally true. My child, I have read so many things, but I have never come across anything which could be compared with Savitri. I have studied the best works in Greek, Latin, English and of course French literature, also in German and all the great creations of the West and the East, including the great epics; but I repeat it, I have not found anywhere anything comparable with Savitri. All these literary works seems to me empty, flat, hollow, without any deep reality - apart from a few rare exceptions, and these too represent only a small fraction of what Savitri is. What grandeur, what amplitude, what reality: it is something immortal and eternal He has created. I tell you once again there is nothing like in it the whole world. Even if one puts aside the vision of the reality, that is, the essential substance which is the heart of the inspiration, and considers only the lines in themselves, one will find them unique, of the highest classical kind. What He has created is something man cannot imagine. For, everything is there, everything.
It may then be said that Savitri is a revelation, it is a meditation, it is a quest of the Infinite, the Eternal. If it is read with this aspiration for Immortality, the reading itself will serve as a guide to Immortality. To read Savitri is indeed to practice Yoga, spiritual concentration; one can find there all that is needed to realise the Divine. Each step of Yoga is noted here, including the secret of all other Yogas. Surely, if one sincerely follows what is revealed here in each line one will reach finally the transformation of the Supramental Yoga. It is truly the infallible guide who never abandons you; its support is always there for him who wants to follow the path. Each verse of Savitri is like a revealed Mantra which surpasses all that man possessed by way of knowledge, and I repeat this, the words are expressed and arranged in such a way that the sonority of the rhythm leads you to the origin of sound, which is OM.
My child, yes, everything is there: mysticism, occultism, philosophy, the history of evolution, the history of man, of the gods, of creation, of Nature. How the universe was created, why, for what purpose, what destiny - all is there. You can find all the answers to all your questions there. Everything is explained, even the future of man and of the evolution, all that nobody yet knows. He has described it all in beautiful and clear words so that spiritual adventurers who wish to solve the mysteries of the world may understand it more easily. But this mystery is well hidden behind the words and lines and one must rise to the required level of true consciousness to discover it. All prophesies, all that is going to come is presented with the precise and wonderful clarity. Sri Aurobindo gives you here the key to find the Truth, to discover the Consciousness, to solve the problem of what the universe is. He has also indicated how to open the door of the Inconscience so that the light may penetrate there and transform it. He has shown the path, the way to liberate oneself from the ignorance and climb up to the superconscience; each stage, each plane of consciousness, how they can be scaled, how one can cross even the barrier of death and attain immortality. You will find the whole journey in detail, and as you go forward you can discover things altogether unknown to man. That is Savitri and much more yet. It is a real experience - reading Savitri. All the secrets that man possessed, He has revealed, - as well as all that awaits him in the future; all this is found in the depth of Savitri. But one must have the knowledge to discover it all, the experience of the planes of consciousness, the experience of the Supermind, even the experience of the conquest of Death. He has noted all the stages, marked each step in order to advance integrally in the integral Yoga.
All this is His own experience, and what is most surprising is that it is my own experience also. It is my sadhana which He has worked out. Each object, each event, each realisation, all the descriptions, even the colours are exactly what I saw and the words, phrases are also exactly what I heard. And all this before having read the book. I read Savitri many times afterwards, but earlier, when He was writing He used to read it to me. Every morning I used to hear Him read Savitri. During the night He would write and in the morning read it to me. And I observed something curious, that day after day the experiences He read out to me in the morning were those I had had the previous night, word by word. Yes, all the descriptions, the colours, the pictures I had seen, the words I had heard, all, all, I heard it all, put by Him into poetry, into miraculous poetry. Yes, they were exactly my experiences of the previous night which He read out to me the following morning. And it was not just one day by chance, but for days and days together. And every time I used to compare what He said with my previous experiences and they were always the same. I repeat, it was not that I had told Him my experiences and that He had noted them down afterwards, no, He knew already what I had seen. It is my experiences He has presented at length and they were His experiences also. It is, moreover, the picture of Our joint adventure into the unknown or rather into the Supermind.
These are experiences lived by Him, realities, supracosmic truths. He experienced all these as one experiences joy or sorrow, physically. He walked in the darkness of inconscience, even in the neighborhood of death, endured the sufferings of perdition, and emerged from the mud, the world-misery to breathe the sovereign plenitude and enter the supreme Ananda. He crossed all these realms, went through the consequences, suffered and endured physically what one cannot imagine. Nobody till today has suffered like Him. He accepted suffering to transform suffering into the joy of union with the Supreme. It is something unique and incomparable in the history of the world. It is something that has never happened before, He is the first to have traced the path in the Unknown, so that we may be able to walk with certitude towards the Supermind. He has made the work easy for us. Savitri is His whole Yoga of transformation, and this Yoga appears now for the first time in the earth-consciousness.
And I think that man is not yet ready to receive it. It is too high and too vast for him. He cannot understand it, grasp it, for it is not by the mind that one can understand Savitri. One needs spiritual experiences in order to understand and assimilate it. The farther one advances on the path of Yoga, the more does one assimilate and the better. No, it is something which will be appreciated only in the future, it is the poetry of tomorrow of which He has spoken in The Future Poetry. It is too subtle, too refined, - it is not in the mind or through the mind, it is in meditation that Savitri is revealed.
And men have the audacity to compare it with the work of Virgil or Homer and to find it inferior. They do not understand, they cannot understand. What do they know? Nothing at all. And it is useless to try to make them understand. Men will know what it is, but in a distant future. It is only the new race with a new consciousness which will be able to understand. I assure you there is nothing under the blue sky to compare with Savitri. It is the mystery of mysteries. It is a *super-epic,* it is super-literature, super-poetry, super-vision, it is a super-work even if one considers the number of lines He has written. No, these human words are not adequate to describe Savitri. Yes, one needs superlatives, hyperboles to describe it. It is a hyper-epic. No, words express nothing of what Savitri is, at least I do not find them. It is of immense value - spiritual value and all other values; it is eternal in its subject, and infinite in its appeal, miraculous in its mode and power of execution; it is a unique thing, the more you come into contact with it, the higher will you be uplifted. Ah, truly it is something! It is the most beautiful thing He has left for man, the highest possible. What is it? When will man know it? When is he going to lead a life of truth? When is he going to accept this in his life? This yet remains to be seen.
My child, every day you are going to read Savitri; read properly, with the right attitude, concentrating a little before opening the pages and trying to keep the mind as empty as possible, absolutely without a thought. The direct road is through the heart. I tell you, if you try to really concentrate with this aspiration you can light the flame, the psychic flame, the flame of purification in a very short time, perhaps in a few days. What you cannot do normally, you can do with the help of Savitri. Try and you will see how very different it is, how new, if you read with this attitude, with this something at the back of your consciousness; as though it were an offering to Sri Aurobindo. You know it is charged, fully charged with consciousness; as if Savitri were a being, a real guide. I tell you, whoever, wanting to practice Yoga, tries sincerely and feels the necessity for it, will be able to climb with the help of Savitri to the highest rung of the ladder of Yoga, will be able to find the secret that Savitri represents. And this without the help of a Guru. And he will be able to practice it anywhere. For him Savitri alone will be the guide, for all that he needs he will find Savitri. If he remains very quiet when before a difficulty, or when he does not know where to turn to go forward and how to overcome obstacles, for all these hesitations and incertitudes which overwhelm us at every moment, he will have the necessary indications, and the necessary concrete help. If he remains very calm, open, if he aspires sincerely, always he will be as if lead by the hand. If he has faith, the will to give himself and essential sincerity he will reach the final goal.
Indeed, Savitri is something concrete, living, it is all replete, packed with consciousness, it is the supreme knowledge above all human philosophies and religions. It is the spiritual path, it is Yoga, Tapasya, Sadhana, in its single body. Savitri has an extraordinary power, it gives out vibrations for him who can receive them, the true vibrations of each stage of consciousness. It is incomparable, it is truth in its plenitude, the Truth Sri Aurobindo brought down on the earth. My child, one must try to find the secret that Savitri represents, the prophetic message Sri Aurobindo reveals there for us. This is the work before you, it is hard but it is worth the trouble. - 5 November 1967
~ The Mother, Sweet Mother, The Mother to Mona Sarkar, [T0],#KEYS |
779:One little picture in this book, the Magic Locket, was drawn by 'Miss Alice Havers.' I did not state this on the title-page, since it seemed only due, to the artist of all these (to my mind) wonderful pictures, that his name should stand there alone.
The descriptions, of Sunday as spent by children of the last generation, are quoted verbatim from a speech made to me by a child-friend and a letter written to me by a lady-friend.
The Chapters, headed 'Fairy Sylvie' and 'Bruno's Revenge,' are a reprint, with a few alterations, of a little fairy-tale which I wrote in the year 1867, at the request of the late Mrs. Gatty, for 'Aunt Judy's Magazine,' which she was then editing.
It was in 1874, I believe, that the idea first occurred to me of making it the nucleus of a longer story.
As the years went on, I jotted down, at odd moments, all sorts of odd ideas, and fragments of dialogue, that occurred to me--who knows how?--with a transitory suddenness that left me no choice but either to record them then and there, or to abandon them to oblivion. Sometimes one could trace to their source these random flashes of thought--as being suggested by the book one was reading, or struck out from the 'flint' of one's own mind by the 'steel' of a friend's chance remark but they had also a way of their own, of occurring, a propos of nothing --specimens of that hopelessly illogical phenomenon, 'an effect without a cause.' Such, for example, was the last line of 'The Hunting of the Snark,' which came into my head (as I have already related in 'The Theatre' for April, 1887) quite suddenly, during a solitary walk: and such, again, have been passages which occurred in dreams, and which I cannot trace to any antecedent cause whatever. There are at least two instances of such dream-suggestions in this book--one, my Lady's remark, 'it often runs in families, just as a love for pastry does', the other, Eric Lindon's badinage about having been in domestic service.
And thus it came to pass that I found myself at last in possession of a huge unwieldy mass of litterature--if the reader will kindly excuse the spelling --which only needed stringing together, upon the thread of a consecutive story, to constitute the book I hoped to write. Only! The task, at first, seemed absolutely hopeless, and gave me a far clearer idea, than I ever had before, of the meaning of the word 'chaos': and I think it must have been ten years, or more, before I had succeeded in classifying these odds-and-ends sufficiently to see what sort of a story they indicated: for the story had to grow out of the incidents, not the incidents out of the story I am telling all this, in no spirit of egoism, but because I really believe that some of my readers will be interested in these details of the 'genesis' of a book, which looks so simple and straight-forward a matter, when completed, that they might suppose it to have been written straight off, page by page, as one would write a letter, beginning at the beginning; and ending at the end.
It is, no doubt, possible to write a story in that way: and, if it be not vanity to say so, I believe that I could, myself,--if I were in the unfortunate position (for I do hold it to be a real misfortune) of being obliged to produce a given amount of fiction in a given time,--that I could 'fulfil my task,' and produce my 'tale of bricks,' as other slaves have done. One thing, at any rate, I could guarantee as to the story so produced--that it should be utterly commonplace, should contain no new ideas whatever, and should be very very weary reading!
This species of literature has received the very appropriate name of 'padding' which might fitly be defined as 'that which all can write and none can read.' That the present volume contains no such writing I dare not avow: sometimes, in order to bring a picture into its proper place, it has been necessary to eke out a page with two or three extra lines : but I can honestly say I have put in no more than I was absolutely compelled to do.
My readers may perhaps like to amuse themselves by trying to detect, in a given passage, the one piece of 'padding' it contains. While arranging the 'slips' into pages, I found that the passage was 3 lines too short. I supplied the deficiency, not by interpolating a word here and a word there, but by writing in 3 consecutive lines. Now can my readers guess which they are?
A harder puzzle if a harder be desired would be to determine, as to the Gardener's Song, in which cases (if any) the stanza was adapted to the surrounding text, and in which (if any) the text was adapted to the stanza.
Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature--at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it: I have to take it as it come's is to write anything original. And perhaps the easiest is, when once an original line has been struck out, to follow it up, and to write any amount more to the same tune. I do not know if 'Alice in Wonderland' was an original story--I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it--but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen storybooks have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'--is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.
Hence it is that, in 'Sylvie and Bruno,' I have striven with I know not what success to strike out yet another new path: be it bad or good, it is the best I can do. It is written, not for money, and not for fame, but in the hope of supplying, for the children whom I love, some thoughts that may suit those hours of innocent merriment which are the very life of Childhood; and also in the hope of suggesting, to them and to others, some thoughts that may prove, I would fain hope, not wholly out of harmony with the graver cadences of Life.
If I have not already exhausted the patience of my readers, I would like to seize this opportunity perhaps the last I shall have of addressing so many friends at once of putting on record some ideas that have occurred to me, as to books desirable to be written--which I should much like to attempt, but may not ever have the time or power to carry through--in the hope that, if I should fail (and the years are gliding away very fast) to finish the task I have set myself, other hands may take it up.
First, a Child's Bible. The only real essentials of this would be, carefully selected passages, suitable for a child's reading, and pictures. One principle of selection, which I would adopt, would be that Religion should be put before a child as a revelation of love--no need to pain and puzzle the young mind with the history of crime and punishment. (On such a principle I should, for example, omit the history of the Flood.) The supplying of the pictures would involve no great difficulty: no new ones would be needed : hundreds of excellent pictures already exist, the copyright of which has long ago expired, and which simply need photo-zincography, or some similar process, for their successful reproduction. The book should be handy in size with a pretty attractive looking cover--in a clear legible type--and, above all, with abundance of pictures, pictures, pictures!
Secondly, a book of pieces selected from the Bible--not single texts, but passages of from 10 to 20 verses each--to be committed to memory. Such passages would be found useful, to repeat to one's self and to ponder over, on many occasions when reading is difficult, if not impossible: for instance, when lying awake at night--on a railway-journey --when taking a solitary walk-in old age, when eyesight is failing or wholly lost--and, best of all, when illness, while incapacitating us for reading or any other occupation, condemns us to lie awake through many weary silent hours: at such a time how keenly one may realise the truth of David's rapturous cry "O how sweet are thy words unto my throat: yea, sweeter than honey unto my mouth!"
I have said 'passages,' rather than single texts, because we have no means of recalling single texts: memory needs links, and here are none: one may have a hundred texts stored in the memory, and not be able to recall, at will, more than half-a-dozen--and those by mere chance: whereas, once get hold of any portion of a chapter that has been committed to memory, and the whole can be recovered: all hangs together.
Thirdly, a collection of passages, both prose and verse, from books other than the Bible. There is not perhaps much, in what is called 'un-inspired' literature (a misnomer, I hold: if Shakespeare was not inspired, one may well doubt if any man ever was), that will bear the process of being pondered over, a hundred times: still there are such passages--enough, I think, to make a goodly store for the memory.
These two books of sacred, and secular, passages for memory--will serve other good purposes besides merely occupying vacant hours: they will help to keep at bay many anxious thoughts, worrying thoughts, uncharitable thoughts, unholy thoughts. Let me say this, in better words than my own, by copying a passage from that most interesting book, Robertson's Lectures on the Epistles to the Corinthians, Lecture XLIX. "If a man finds himself haunted by evil desires and unholy images, which will generally be at periodical hours, let him commit to memory passages of Scripture, or passages from the best writers in verse or prose. Let him store his mind with these, as safeguards to repeat when he lies awake in some restless night, or when despairing imaginations, or gloomy, suicidal thoughts, beset him. Let these be to him the sword, turning everywhere to keep the way of the Garden of Life from the intrusion of profaner footsteps."
Fourthly, a "Shakespeare" for girls: that is, an edition in which everything, not suitable for the perusal of girls of (say) from 10 to 17, should be omitted. Few children under 10 would be likely to understand or enjoy the greatest of poets: and those, who have passed out of girlhood, may safely be left to read Shakespeare, in any edition, 'expurgated' or not, that they may prefer: but it seems a pity that so many children, in the intermediate stage, should be debarred from a great pleasure for want of an edition suitable to them. Neither Bowdler's, Chambers's, Brandram's, nor Cundell's 'Boudoir' Shakespeare, seems to me to meet the want: they are not sufficiently 'expurgated.' Bowdler's is the most extraordinary of all: looking through it, I am filled with a deep sense of wonder, considering what he has left in, that he should have cut anything out! Besides relentlessly erasing all that is unsuitable on the score of reverence or decency, I should be inclined to omit also all that seems too difficult, or not likely to interest young readers. The resulting book might be slightly fragmentary: but it would be a real treasure to all British maidens who have any taste for poetry.
If it be needful to apologize to any one for the new departure I have taken in this story--by introducing, along with what will, I hope, prove to be acceptable nonsense for children, some of the graver thoughts of human life--it must be to one who has learned the Art of keeping such thoughts wholly at a distance in hours of mirth and careless ease. To him such a mixture will seem, no doubt, ill-judged and repulsive. And that such an Art exists I do not dispute: with youth, good health, and sufficient money, it seems quite possible to lead, for years together, a life of unmixed gaiety--with the exception of one solemn fact, with which we are liable to be confronted at any moment, even in the midst of the most brilliant company or the most sparkling entertainment. A man may fix his own times for admitting serious thought, for attending public worship, for prayer, for reading the Bible: all such matters he can defer to that 'convenient season', which is so apt never to occur at all: but he cannot defer, for one single moment, the necessity of attending to a message, which may come before he has finished reading this page,' this night shalt thy soul be required of thee.'
The ever-present sense of this grim possibility has been, in all ages, 1 an incubus that men have striven to shake off. Few more interesting subjects of enquiry could be found, by a student of history, than the various weapons that have been used against this shadowy foe. Saddest of all must have been the thoughts of those who saw indeed an existence beyond the grave, but an existence far more terrible than annihilation--an existence as filmy, impalpable, all but invisible spectres, drifting about, through endless ages, in a world of shadows, with nothing to do, nothing to hope for, nothing to love! In the midst of the gay verses of that genial 'bon vivant' Horace, there stands one dreary word whose utter sadness goes to one's heart. It is the word 'exilium' in the well-known passage
Omnes eodem cogimur, omnium
Versatur urna serius ocius
Sors exitura et nos in aeternum
Exilium impositura cymbae.
Yes, to him this present life--spite of all its weariness and all its sorrow--was the only life worth having: all else was 'exile'! Does it not seem almost incredible that one, holding such a creed, should ever have smiled?
And many in this day, I fear, even though believing in an existence beyond the grave far more real than Horace ever dreamed of, yet regard it as a sort of 'exile' from all the joys of life, and so adopt Horace's theory, and say 'let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.'
We go to entertainments, such as the theatre--I say 'we', for I also go to the play, whenever I get a chance of seeing a really good one and keep at arm's length, if possible, the thought that we may not return alive. Yet how do you know--dear friend, whose patience has carried you through this garrulous preface that it may not be your lot, when mirth is fastest and most furious, to feel the sharp pang, or the deadly faintness, which heralds the final crisis--to see, with vague wonder, anxious friends bending over you to hear their troubled whispers perhaps yourself to shape the question, with trembling lips, "Is it serious?", and to be told "Yes: the end is near" (and oh, how different all Life will look when those words are said!)--how do you know, I say, that all this may not happen to you, this night?
And dare you, knowing this, say to yourself "Well, perhaps it is an immoral play: perhaps the situations are a little too 'risky', the dialogue a little too strong, the 'business' a little too suggestive.
I don't say that conscience is quite easy: but the piece is so clever, I must see it this once! I'll begin a stricter life to-morrow." To-morrow, and to-morrow, and tomorrow!
"Who sins in hope, who, sinning, says,
'Sorrow for sin God's judgement stays!'
Against God's Spirit he lies; quite stops Mercy with insult; dares, and drops,
Like a scorch'd fly, that spins in vain
Upon the axis of its pain,
Then takes its doom, to limp and crawl,
Blind and forgot, from fall to fall."
Let me pause for a moment to say that I believe this thought, of the possibility of death--if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong. If the thought of sudden death acquires, for you, a special horror when imagined as happening in a theatre, then be very sure the theatre is harmful for you, however harmless it may be for others; and that you are incurring a deadly peril in going. Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.
But, once realise what the true object is in life--that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds'--but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man--and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!
One other matter may perhaps seem to call for apology--that I should have treated with such entire want of sympathy the British passion for 'Sport', which no doubt has been in by-gone days, and is still, in some forms of it, an excellent school for hardihood and for coolness in moments of danger.
But I am not entirely without sympathy for genuine 'Sport': I can heartily admire the courage of the man who, with severe bodily toil, and at the risk of his life, hunts down some 'man-eating' tiger: and I can heartily sympathize with him when he exults in the glorious excitement of the chase and the hand-to-hand struggle with the monster brought to bay. But I can but look with deep wonder and sorrow on the hunter who, at his ease and in safety, can find pleasure in what involves, for some defenceless creature, wild terror and a death of agony: deeper, if the hunter be one who has pledged himself to preach to men the Religion of universal Love: deepest of all, if it be one of those 'tender and delicate' beings, whose very name serves as a symbol of Love--'thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women'--whose mission here is surely to help and comfort all that are in pain or sorrow!
'Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.' ~ Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno,#KEYS |
*** WISDOM TROVE *** |
| 1:She is loveliness itself. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove |
| 2:A false tale often betrays itself. ~ aesop, @wisdomtrove |
| 3:Gratitude is heaven itself. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 4:Art needs no spur beyond itself. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove |
| 5:Immune system will heal itself. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove |
| 6:Often does hatred hurt itself. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove |
| 7:Life itself is a quotation. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove |
| 8:Pleasure itself is not a vice. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove |
| 9:Gratitude, in itself, is heaven. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 10:Is Life itself a dream, I wonder? ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove |
| 11:Nature is accustomed to hide itself. ~ heraclitus, @wisdomtrove |
| 12:Grief brims itself and flows away in tears. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove |
| 13:Crime generally punishes itself. ~ oliver-goldsmith, @wisdomtrove |
| 14:Human nature is not of itself vicious. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove |
| 15:Life itself is nothing but relationship. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove |
| 16:Truth reveals itself in beauty. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove |
| 17:We are the universe experiencing itself. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove |
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| 19:An organism at war with itself is doomed. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove |
| 20:Art never expresses anything but itself. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove |
| 21:Everything changes but change itself. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove |
| 22:You are the universe experiencing itself. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove |
| 23:A song is anything that can walk by itself. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove |
| 24:Hope is itself a species of happiness. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove |
| 25:Memory itself is an internal rumour. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove |
| 26:Nothing is terrible except fear itself. ~ francis-bacon, @wisdomtrove |
| 27:Passion can’t sustain itself forever. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove |
| 28:That which is creative must create itself. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove |
| 29:I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove |
| 30:Inspiration is God making contact with itself. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove |
| 31:We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove |
| 32:We are a way of the universe knowing itself. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove |
| 33:Science has itself become a kind of religion. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove |
| 34:Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself. ~ oliver-goldsmith, @wisdomtrove |
| 35:Only longing can fill with more of itself. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove |
| 36:Universe will re-arrange itself accordingly. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove |
| 37:All known existence points beyond itself. ~ reinhold-niebuhr, @wisdomtrove |
| 38:Can you use the rational mind to transcend itself? ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove |
| 39:No age seemed the age of romance to itself. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove |
| 40:Life itself is simple... it's just not easy. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove |
| 41:A house divided against itself cannot stand. ~ abraham-lincoln, @wisdomtrove |
| 42:Love brings up everything unlike itself. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove |
| 43:My life carries its own meaning in itself. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove |
| 44:The aim of living is life itself. ~ johann-wolfgang-von-goethe, @wisdomtrove |
| 45:The same remains in the same and rests in itself. ~ parmenides, @wisdomtrove |
| 46:The universe is holding congress with itself. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove |
| 47:Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself. ~ plato, @wisdomtrove |
| 48:To make living itself an art, that is the goal. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove |
| 49:Until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove |
| 50:Consider that nirvana is itself no other than our life. ~ dogen, @wisdomtrove |
| 51:My body is very wise; it knows how to heal itself. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove |
| 52:The love of country is more powerful than reason itself. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove |
| 53:Love has no age as it is always renewing itself. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove |
| 54:What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove |
| 55:Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness. ~ anais-nin, @wisdomtrove |
| 56:For nothing is more fulfilling than love itself ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove |
| 57:Love gives itself; it is not bought. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove |
| 58:The giving of love is an education in itself. ~ eleanor-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove |
| 59:Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty. ~ henri-matisse, @wisdomtrove |
| 60:I've never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove |
| 61:The divine essence itself is love and wisdom. ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove |
| 62:Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove |
| 63:A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove |
| 64:A person's true nature will reveal itself despite disguise. ~ aesop, @wisdomtrove |
| 65:It is unpleasant to see character throw itself away. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove |
| 66:Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove |
| 67:The human hand allows the mind to reveal itself. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove |
| 68:Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove |
| 69:An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. ~ albert-camus, @wisdomtrove |
| 70:The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove |
| 71:Youth to itself rebels, though none else near. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove |
| 72:Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is. ~ jean-paul-sartre, @wisdomtrove |
| 73:Genius always finds itself a century too early. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove |
| 74:The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship. ~ epicurus, @wisdomtrove |
| 75:Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove |
| 76:Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove |
| 77:Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove |
| 78:No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove |
| 79:The one life-dreamer is meeting itself in different forms. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove |
| 80:Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove |
| 81:Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 82:The absolute is awareness unaware of itself. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 83:The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself. ~ heraclitus, @wisdomtrove |
| 84:Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove |
| 85:You cannot be alive for you are life itself. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 86:All experiences come and go. What witnesses experiencing itself? ~ mooji, @wisdomtrove |
| 87:Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. ~ francis-bacon, @wisdomtrove |
| 88:Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove |
| 89:Samadhi doesn’t just come of itself; it takes practice. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove |
| 90:The fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove |
| 91:The soul that has no established aim loses itself. ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove |
| 92:Life reveals itself to us only in so far as well live it. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove |
| 93:Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove |
| 94:Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort. ~ henri-matisse, @wisdomtrove |
| 95:The deepest feelings always show itself in silence. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove |
| 96:Where little else than life itself survives. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove |
| 97:Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove |
| 98:Age is opportunity no less than youth itself. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove |
| 99:Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove |
| 100:I felt in my bones that this universe does not explain itself. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 101:Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove |
| 102:Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove |
| 103:Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove |
| 104:Human life is the only thing that takes care of itself. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove |
| 105:Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove |
| 106:You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself. ~ buddha, @wisdomtrove |
| 107:Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove |
| 108:The consequences of every act are included in the act itself. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove |
| 109:The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 110:The plan itself is opportunism. There is no plan before that. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove |
| 111:We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove |
| 112:You don't need to know how the Universe will rearrange itself. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove |
| 113:The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove |
| 114:There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove |
| 115:Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove |
| 116:Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove |
| 117:Happiness reveals itself when we are at peace with ourselves. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove |
| 118:It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove |
| 119:Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove |
| 120:That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove |
| 121:The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove |
| 122:You are love itself - when you are not afraid. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 123:A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove |
| 124:Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy. ~ diogenes, @wisdomtrove |
| 125:In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove |
| 126:..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove |
| 127:The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove |
| 128:The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove |
| 129:Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove |
| 130:Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. ~ oprah-winfrey, @wisdomtrove |
| 131:The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 132:The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove |
| 133:The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove |
| 134:There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove |
| 135:True devotion is for itself: not to desire heaven nor to fear hell. ~ rabia-basri, @wisdomtrove |
| 136:Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove |
| 137:Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove |
| 138:Love seeketh not itself to please, but for another gives its ease. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 139:Nothing is impossible, the word itself says & |
| 140:Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove |
| 141:It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove |
| 142:Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove |
| 143:Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove |
| 144:When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove |
| 145:Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove |
| 146:He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove |
| 147:Planning is useless... but the process itself is indispensable. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove |
| 148:The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. ~ anais-nin, @wisdomtrove |
| 149:To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 150:If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 151:Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove |
| 152:One Reality, all-comprehensive, contains within itself all realities. ~ aldous-huxley, @wisdomtrove |
| 153:Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove |
| 154:The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom. ~ viktor-frankl, @wisdomtrove |
| 155:To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove |
| 156:When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove |
| 157:You are the Universe expressing itself as a human for a little while. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove |
| 158:All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove |
| 159:Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove |
| 160:Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove |
| 161:Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself. ~ mae-west, @wisdomtrove |
| 162:A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up. ~ booker-t-washington, @wisdomtrove |
| 163:A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove |
| 164:Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove |
| 165:Gratitude is heaven itself; there could be no heaven without gratitude. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 166:If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove |
| 167:To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove |
| 168:A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove |
| 169:All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help ~ epicurus, @wisdomtrove |
| 170:and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 171:As the river surrenders itself to the ocean, what is inside me moves inside you. ~ kabir, @wisdomtrove |
| 172:Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove |
| 173:Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove |
| 174:Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove |
| 175:Relax, you're on a journey of discovery. Let life reveal itself to you. ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove |
| 176:The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove |
| 177:Thought itself is harmless, an empty concept until we fill it with meaning. ~ wayne-dyer, @wisdomtrove |
| 178:Zen insight is not our awareness, but Being's awareness of itself in us. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove |
| 179:Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove |
| 180:Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. ~ andrew-carnegie, @wisdomtrove |
| 181:Life could not change the sun or water the desert, so it changed itself. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove |
| 182:Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove |
| 183:Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision? ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove |
| 184:You are truth itself. Only you mistake the false for the true. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 185:Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove |
| 186:I am the oneness of awareness ‘dreaming’ itself to be a particular individual. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove |
| 187:In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove |
| 188:It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith as mysterious as faith itself. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove |
| 189:Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself. ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove |
| 190:Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove |
| 191:The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural. ~ jean-paul-sartre, @wisdomtrove |
| 192:The only saving faith is that which casts itself on God for life or death. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove |
| 193:When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself. ~ edgar-cayce, @wisdomtrove |
| 194:A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove |
| 195:Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove |
| 196:Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove |
| 197:Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove |
| 198:I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove |
| 199:Religion is not an end in itself. One's union with God is the ultimate goal. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove |
| 200:Take care of your relationships and the sales/money will take care of itself. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove |
| 201:The courageous struggle for a noble cause should be considered success itself. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove |
| 202:When you got to where your fear lives, your freedom starts to display itself. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove |
| 203:Even a shadow is related to reality, but by itself it is not real. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 204:Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove |
| 205:Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove |
| 206:What, then, must be the condition of that being, who beholds the beautiful itself? ~ plotinus, @wisdomtrove |
| 207:Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove |
| 208:Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself. ~ abraham-maslow, @wisdomtrove |
| 209:Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove |
| 210:Set goals not for the outcome itself, but for who you get to become in the process. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove |
| 211:Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 212:Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth. ~ abraham-maslow, @wisdomtrove |
| 213:In the seeing of who you are not, the reality of who you are emerges by itself. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove |
| 214:Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove |
| 215:You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove |
| 216:Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove |
| 217:Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove |
| 218:Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove |
| 219:Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove |
| 220:Monkey, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees. ~ ambrose-bierce, @wisdomtrove |
| 221:Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, and look on death itself. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove |
| 222:Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself. ~ nelson-mandela, @wisdomtrove |
| 223:The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove |
| 224:The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove |
| 225:The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove |
| 226:The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove |
| 227:When the energy of compassion and love touches us, healing establishes itself. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove |
| 228:Any successful entrepreneur knows that time is more valuable than money itself. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove |
| 229:Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove |
| 230:Humility means that you have the courage to accept that you are eternity itself. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove |
| 231:In the seeing of who you are not, the reality of who you are emerges by itself. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove |
| 232:Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... / Passion and expression are beauty itself. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove |
| 233:An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove |
| 234:Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove |
| 235:Remove stress from the body and the body regenerates itself. You can heal yourself. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove |
| 236:The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove |
| 237:The path of love is its own reward. Your love itself, that is what completes you. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove |
| 238:The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. ~ abraham-lincoln, @wisdomtrove |
| 239:Government itself at length must fall To nature's state, where all have right to all. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove |
| 240:I'm into carpooling, because sometimes my car gets hot and needs to refresh itself. ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove |
| 241:I prefer to stroll which has a buddy at nighttime, than by itself inside the light. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove |
| 242:Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove |
| 243:Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove |
| 244:No cowardice, no sin, no crime, no weakness - the rest will come of itself. . . ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 245:Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things. ~ aeschylus, @wisdomtrove |
| 246:Therefore, in the Beginning, which is Truth, all things are Eternal Truth itself ~ nicholas-of-cusa, @wisdomtrove |
| 247:Through the grace of the Almighty Power, it is sure to manifest itself in time. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 248:Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove |
| 249:Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove |
| 250:So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove |
| 251:Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination... ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove |
| 252:You are space itself…. realizing itself and this human form is a part of that realization. ~ gangaji, @wisdomtrove |
| 253:Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself. ~ plotinus, @wisdomtrove |
| 254:Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove |
| 255:Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove |
| 256:I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove |
| 257:No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove |
| 258:The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove |
| 259:The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove |
| 260:To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove |
| 261:It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once. ~ johann-wolfgang-von-goethe, @wisdomtrove |
| 262:Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove |
| 263:Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove |
| 264:To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove |
| 265:Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove |
| 266:Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory? ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove |
| 267:I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove |
| 268:maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us& |
| 269:To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove |
| 270:To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove |
| 271:Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove |
| 272:Audrey Hepburn quote: Nothing is impossible, the word itself says & |
| 273:For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts. ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove |
| 274:Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove |
| 275:life itself is not the miracle. that pain should be so constant, that's the miracle - ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove |
| 276:Market-driven design builds the success of the product's marketing into the product itself. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove |
| 277:Market-driven design builds the success of the product’s marketing into the product itself. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove |
| 278:The word design is everything and nothing. The design and the product itself are inseparable. ~ jony-ive, @wisdomtrove |
| 279:Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain? ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove |
| 280:To know itself the self must be faced with its opposite - the not-self. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 281:Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove |
| 282:Desiring itself can be an unpleasant experience; even mild longing is subtly uncomfortable. ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove |
| 283:Doing the best you are capable of doing is victory in itself, and less than that is defeat. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove |
| 284:It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 285:The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses. ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove |
| 286:The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove |
| 287:To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove |
| 288:And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast. ~ oliver-goldsmith, @wisdomtrove |
| 289:As soon as you truly commit to making something happen, the & |
| 290:Gender or skin color does not of itself determine the nature of a person's thinking. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove |
| 291:Reverence is simply the experience of accepting that all Life is, in and of itself, of value. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove |
| 292:The score will take care of itself when you take care of the effort that precedes the score. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove |
| 293:When you are trusted because you care, it's quite likely the revenue will take care of itself ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove |
| 294:You and I are the singularity looking at itself… thinking about itself… confused about itself. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove |
| 295:Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 296:Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove |
| 297:I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself? ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove |
| 298:I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove |
| 299:It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed. ~ francis-bacon, @wisdomtrove |
| 300:It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 301:Life does not need pleasure to be added to it as an appendage, but contains pleasure in itself. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove |
| 302:Nothing is complete in itself but requires something outside itself in order to exist. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove |
| 303:Suffering is primarily a call for attention, which itself is a movement of love. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 304:The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove |
| 305:The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove |
| 306:The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove |
| 307:I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove |
| 308:Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove |
| 309:Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea. ~ walt-whitman, @wisdomtrove |
| 310:Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove |
| 311:The integrity of the desire for the Supreme is by itself a call from the Supreme. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 312:The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove |
| 313:The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove |
| 314:When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove |
| 315:Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove |
| 316:A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove |
| 317:By itself life is immensely creative. A seed, in course of time, becomes a forest. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 318:Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove |
| 319:Not Heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove |
| 320:Studying cancer could provide huge insights for astrobiologists into the nature of life itself. ~ paul-davies, @wisdomtrove |
| 321:Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness. ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove |
| 322:The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove |
| 323:Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove |
| 324:In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 325:Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove |
| 326:Safe Despair it is that raves- Agony is frugal. Puts itself severe away For its own perusal. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove |
| 327:We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove |
| 328:Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove |
| 329:Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove |
| 330:A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove |
| 331:Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove |
| 332:Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove |
| 333:Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 334:Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 335:One of my core beliefs is that belief itself is a choice that can be made of our own free will. ~ steve-pavlina, @wisdomtrove |
| 336:The inherent nature of life is constant change. To fear change is to fear life itself. ~ jonathan-lockwood-huie, @wisdomtrove |
| 337:All you have to do is hold your goal before you and everything else will take care of itself. ~ earl-nightingale, @wisdomtrove |
| 338:A secret needs two faces to bounce between; a secret needs to see itself in another pair of eyes. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove |
| 339:God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove |
| 340:If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove |
| 341:I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove |
| 342:Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove |
| 343:Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove |
| 344:Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove |
| 345:Unto a broken heart No other one may go Without the high prerogative Itself hath suffered too. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove |
| 346:Wherever there is a suitable environment for the fulfilment of Life, it will fulfil itself. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove |
| 347:Work, especially good work, becomes easy only when desire has learnt to discipline itself. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove |
| 348:A good rule in life is to tell yourself simply, & |
| 349:All knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself. ~ francis-bacon, @wisdomtrove |
| 350:In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove |
| 351:It is the hour of pearl‚îthe interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove |
| 352:It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove |
| 353:Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 354:My assistants and I often would spend more time planning a practice than the actual practice itself ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove |
| 355:Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove |
| 356:The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove |
| 357:There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove |
| 358:The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, - Or the most agonizing Spy - An Enemy - could send ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove |
| 359:This absence of otherness, objectness, selfness is love itself. It is what we are and all we know. ~ rupert-spira, @wisdomtrove |
| 360:Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove |
| 361:When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove |
| 362:You need not even listen, just wait... the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove |
| 363:Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself. ~ d-t-suzuki, @wisdomtrove |
| 364:But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents. ~ immanuel-kant, @wisdomtrove |
| 365:Faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove |
| 366:In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove |
| 367:Life repeats itself mindlessly - unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove |
| 368:The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 369:Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove |
| 370:Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present? ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove |
| 371:Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote - evolved from within consciousness itself. ~ susan-sontag, @wisdomtrove |
| 372:Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove |
| 373:Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 374:If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove |
| 375:If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment. ~ aldous-huxley, @wisdomtrove |
| 376:The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself. ~ sri-ramakrishna, @wisdomtrove |
| 377:The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove |
| 378:The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality. ~ henri-cartier-bresson, @wisdomtrove |
| 379:There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove |
| 380:Thinking cannot itself go to the heart of experience; it can only go to an imaginary past or future. ~ rupert-spira, @wisdomtrove |
| 381:When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove |
| 382:Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance. ~ jean-paul-sartre, @wisdomtrove |
| 383:for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove |
| 384:Nothing that can be known has existence in itself. It depends on a knower. The knower is consciousness. ~ jean-klein, @wisdomtrove |
| 385:Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove |
| 386:As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove |
| 387:Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove |
| 388:Everyones childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove |
| 389:Faith is more important to me than life itself because without it there would be no fullness of life. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove |
| 390:Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself and dies of all others. ~ albert-camus, @wisdomtrove |
| 391:Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove |
| 392:How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove |
| 393:In your judgment virtue requires no reward, and is to be sought for itself, unaccompanied by external benefits. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove |
| 394:Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses, except the intellect itself. ~ gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz, @wisdomtrove |
| 395:One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove |
| 396:Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove |
| 397:The mind, which sometimes presumes to believe there is no such thing as a miracle, is itself a miracle. ~ m-scott-peck, @wisdomtrove |
| 398:They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove |
| 399:When defending itself against another country, a nation never lacks men, but too often, soldiers. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove |
| 400:Awareness is dreaming itself to be Tim so that it can see itself . . . experience itself . . . know itself. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove |
| 401:Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove |
| 402:Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove |
| 403:Peace holds within itself trust in the Lord, the trust that He governs all things and provides all ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove |
| 404:The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove |
| 405:Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove |
| 406:Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove |
| 407:In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove |
| 408:Knowledge is potential power. It transforms itself into actual power the moment you decisively act on it. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove |
| 409:M: God is not running the world. Q: Then who is doing it? M: Nobody. All happens by itself. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 410:Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove |
| 411:The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself. ~ moliere, @wisdomtrove |
| 412:We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove |
| 413:With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove |
| 414:America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove |
| 415:A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove |
| 416:Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove |
| 417:Physics has in the main contented itself with studying the abridged edition of the book of nature. ~ sir-arthur-eddington, @wisdomtrove |
| 418:The primal ground is unconscious awareness that becomes conscious through the forms it ‘dreams’ itself to be. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove |
| 419:To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove |
| 420:Desire by itself is not wrong. It is life itself, the urge to grow in knowledge and experience. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 421:Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove |
| 422:Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove |
| 423:Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove |
| 424:The necessity of the idea creates its own style. The material itself dictates how it should be written. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove |
| 425:What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove |
| 426:One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove |
| 427:Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove |
| 428:Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 429:When the mind sees itself in the mirror of relationship, from that perception there is self-knowledge. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove |
| 430:All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove |
| 431:It's a paradise that we are going to go into, because to be in the presence of God itself will be a paradise. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove |
| 432:Love cannot remain by itself - it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove |
| 433:A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove |
| 434:A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove |
| 435:At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient... only the universe rearranging itself. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove |
| 436:Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 437:Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove |
| 438:Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove |
| 439:To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 440:You ask, & |
| 441:For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove |
| 442:I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove |
| 443:I will perform the function of a whetstone, which is about to restore sharpness to iron, though itself unable to cut. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove |
| 444:Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean, ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove |
| 445:Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions. ~ dogen, @wisdomtrove |
| 446:Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly. ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove |
| 447:Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself. ~ immanuel-kant, @wisdomtrove |
| 448:Spirit slumbers in nature, awakens in mind, and finally recognizes itself as Spirit in the transpersonal domains. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove |
| 449:The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist. ~ jean-paul-sartre, @wisdomtrove |
| 450:The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove |
| 451:Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove |
| 452:Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove |
| 453:Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove |
| 454:Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove |
| 455:Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything. ~ johann-wolfgang-von-goethe, @wisdomtrove |
| 456:Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove |
| 457:One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 458:That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove |
| 459:The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 460:The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms. ~ lao-tzu, @wisdomtrove |
| 461:Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove |
| 462:When one is genuinely ready, Truth finds a way to introduce itself inside the heart and ends the feeling of separation. ~ mooji, @wisdomtrove |
| 463:Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies. ~ d-t-suzuki, @wisdomtrove |
| 464:A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove |
| 465:Everyone therefore must become divine, and of godlike beauty, before he can gaze upon a god and the beautiful itself. ~ plotinus, @wisdomtrove |
| 466:Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove |
| 467:Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove |
| 468:Next to meditation itself, I really can't think of anything more important than the development of your career. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove |
| 469:Somewhere along the way one discovers that what one has to tell is not nearly so important as the telling itself. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove |
| 470:The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 471:The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove |
| 472:The finger pointing at the moon remains a finger and under no circumstances can it be changed into the moon itself. ~ d-t-suzuki, @wisdomtrove |
| 473:There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove |
| 474:Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove |
| 475:God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing towards Godhood. God is the goal of evolution. ~ m-scott-peck, @wisdomtrove |
| 476:Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove |
| 477:People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the song. ~ hafez, @wisdomtrove |
| 478:Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove |
| 479:The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it. ~ giordano-bruno, @wisdomtrove |
| 480:The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove |
| 481:To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove |
| 482:Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove |
| 483:All exists in awareness and awareness neither dies nor is re-born. It is the changeless reality itself. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 484:America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove |
| 485:for ten years, that I may overwhelm / Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed / That my own soul has to itself decreed. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove |
| 486:In the words of Heisenberg, What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. ~ fritjof-capra, @wisdomtrove |
| 487:Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove |
| 488:No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove |
| 489:of the world and drudgery of business , seeks a pretense of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove |
| 490:There is no best teacher. Life itself is the teacher. There is no best method. All that matters is that it works. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove |
| 491:We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove |
| 492:A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove |
| 493:If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then? ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove |
| 494:Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove |
| 495:This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove |
| 496:A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove |
| 497:Becoming principle-centred is a lifetime quest, but there is intense peace and satisfaction in the journey itself. ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove |
| 498:Being funny should be an incidental byproduct of trying to get to something truthful, not a destination in itself. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove |
| 499:Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove |
| 500:In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove |
*** NEWFULLDB 2.4M *** |
| 1:Fury itself supplies arms. ~ Virgil, #NFDB |
| 2:She was silence itself. ~ Jean Rhys, #NFDB |
| 3:A cat only has itself. ~ V S Naipaul, #NFDB |
| 4:dug itself into the ~ Peter Lerangis, #NFDB |
| 5:Only Love can explain itself. ~ Rumi, #NFDB |
| 6:Time itself is neutral. ~ Anna Carey, #NFDB |
| 7:Desire itself is movement ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB |
| 8:Education is life itself. ~ John Dewey, #NFDB |
| 9:History repeats itself. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB |
| 10:Love is most nearly itself ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB |
| 11:Love speaks for itself. ~ Ren e Ahdieh, #NFDB |
| 12:Resistance changes itself. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB |
| 13:The day is conscious of itself. ~ Rumi, #NFDB |
| 14:The sky itself reels with Love. ~ Rumi, #NFDB |
| 15:The Soul unto itself ~ Emily Dickinson, #NFDB |
| 16:Evil turns upon itself. ~ Margaret Weis, #NFDB |
| 17:Language is insight itself. ~ Confucius, #NFDB |
| 18:Let your Teacher be Love itself. ~ Rumi, #NFDB |
| 19:She is loveliness itself. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB |
| 20:A cat is only itself. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB |
| 21:A fox is subtlety itself. ~ Aristophanes, #NFDB |
| 22:Faith itself is a miracle, ~ John Irving, #NFDB |
| 23:Let the story tell itself. ~ Tim O Brien, #NFDB |
| 24:Nature itself cannot err ~ Thomas Hobbes, #NFDB |
| 25:It saved itself up to happen. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 26:Knowledge itself is power ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB |
| 27:The blues is life itself. ~ Billy Gibbons, #NFDB |
| 28:The law itself follows gold. ~ Propertius, #NFDB |
| 29:Unity is a beast in itself. ~ Suzy Kassem, #NFDB |
| 30:A false tale often betrays itself. ~ Aesop, #NFDB |
| 31:Art doesn’t explain itself. ~ Greil Marcus, #NFDB |
| 32:The book ‘wrote itself. ~ David J Schwartz, #NFDB |
| 33:The music speaks for itself! ~ Miles Davis, #NFDB |
| 34:turnpike itself. Garraty ~ Richard Bachman, #NFDB |
| 35:Writing, like life itself, ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB |
| 36:Gratitude is heaven itself. ~ William Blake, #NFDB |
| 37:Incompetency fed on itself. ~ David Gerrold, #NFDB |
| 38:Strength is itself victory. ~ Daisaku Ikeda, #NFDB |
| 39:taboret itself was small and ~ Ellery Queen, #NFDB |
| 40:The unfed mind devours itself. ~ Gore Vidal, #NFDB |
| 41:Time itself comes in drops. ~ William James, #NFDB |
| 42:about itself: “There are times ~ Ori Brafman, #NFDB |
| 43:Fashion speaks for itself. ~ Tracie Peterson, #NFDB |
| 44:Free speech is life itself. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB |
| 45:Grief is itself a medicine. ~ William Cowper, #NFDB |
| 46:Life is itself religion. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB |
| 47:Life lends itself to fear. ~ Denzel Whitaker, #NFDB |
| 48:No reality transforms itself. ~ Paulo Freire, #NFDB |
| 49:Pain by itself is merely pain, ~ Gary Zukav, #NFDB |
| 50:Rhyming in itself is magic. ~ Gloria Steinem, #NFDB |
| 51:Speech is civilization itself. ~ Thomas Mann, #NFDB |
| 52:The journey itself is my home. ~ Matsuo Bash, #NFDB |
| 53:Writing has to support itself. ~ V S Naipaul, #NFDB |
| 54:Action creates/a taste/for itself. ~ Kay Ryan, #NFDB |
| 55:Boldness in itself is genius. ~ L Ron Hubbard, #NFDB |
| 56:Coffee is a language in itself. ~ Jackie Chan, #NFDB |
| 57:Custom adapts itself to expediency. ~ Tacitus, #NFDB |
| 58:Every child has to raise itself. ~ Otto Frank, #NFDB |
| 59:Greatness knows itself. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 60:honesty dies in selling itself. ~ George Sand, #NFDB |
| 61:Let the work speak for itself. ~ Anthony Caro, #NFDB |
| 62:Life itself is your proper meal. ~ Marc David, #NFDB |
| 63:Teach Your Garden to Weed Itself. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 64:Temper is itself an obstacle. ~ Ursula Vernon, #NFDB |
| 65:The journey itself is my home. ~ Matsuo Basho, #NFDB |
| 66:The journey itself is my home. ~ Matsuo Bashō, #NFDB |
| 67:The weak fear happiness itself. ~ Osamu Dazai, #NFDB |
| 68:Writing is the beast unto itself. ~ Omar Epps, #NFDB |
| 69:A broken thing can't fix itself. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB |
| 70:Art needs no spur beyond itself. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB |
| 71:Business is in itself a power. ~ Garet Garrett, #NFDB |
| 72:Immune system will heal itself. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB |
| 73:Life itself is the proper binge. ~ Julia Child, #NFDB |
| 74:Memory narrativises itself. ~ Aleksandar Hemon, #NFDB |
| 75:Often does hatred hurt itself. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB |
| 76:Pleasure itself is not a vice ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB |
| 77:Steel itself oft lures a man to fight. ~ Homer, #NFDB |
| 78:Truth, of itself, does not kill. ~ Janny Wurts, #NFDB |
| 79:Deadwood did not kill itself! ~ Andy Hargreaves, #NFDB |
| 80:Evil on itself shall back recoil. ~ John Milton, #NFDB |
| 81:Life itself is a quotation. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, #NFDB |
| 82:No self is of itself alone. ~ Erwin Schrodinger, #NFDB |
| 83:Thinking is the soul talking to itself. ~ Plato, #NFDB |
| 84:Widow. The word consumes itself. ~ Sylvia Plath, #NFDB |
| 85:A hand cannot write on itself. ~ Peter Greenaway, #NFDB |
| 86:Freedom itself demands discomfort. ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB |
| 87:Gratitude, in itself, is heaven. ~ William Blake, #NFDB |
| 88:Hell itself must yield to industry. ~ Ben Jonson, #NFDB |
| 89:History always repeats itself ~ Gerald J Kubicki, #NFDB |
| 90:Let work itself be the ambition. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB |
| 91:Night was running ahead of itself. ~ Jorge Amado, #NFDB |
| 92:Nothing to fear but fear itself. ~ Michael Grant, #NFDB |
| 93:Patience is a power unto itself. ~ Robyn Wideman, #NFDB |
| 94:Society is at odds with itself. ~ Clint Eastwood, #NFDB |
| 95:The look of a king is itself a deed. ~ Jean Paul, #NFDB |
| 96:(the plate kept refilling itself), ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB |
| 97:The world was healing itself. ~ Anthony Horowitz, #NFDB |
| 98:A kiss itself is but a modified bite, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 99:A name means a lot just by itself. ~ Jenny Holzer, #NFDB |
| 100:Good swiping is an art in itself. ~ Jules Feiffer, #NFDB |
| 101:Is Life itself a dream, I wonder? ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB |
| 102:Living itself is the source of sin. ~ Osamu Dazai, #NFDB |
| 103:Love is that which gives of itself. ~ Vivian Amis, #NFDB |
| 104:Money tends to reproduce itself. ~ Thomas Piketty, #NFDB |
| 105:Music conveys to us itself! ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB |
| 106:Nature is accustomed to hide itself. ~ Heraclitus, #NFDB |
| 107:Order doesn't come by itself. ~ Benoit Mandelbrot, #NFDB |
| 108:Seeing is in itself a movement. ~ Robert Delaunay, #NFDB |
| 109:Sufism is known by means of itself. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB |
| 110:The Titanic will protect itself. ~ Robert Ballard, #NFDB |
| 111:Every animal loves itself. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB |
| 112:Everything is nothing by itself. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB |
| 113:Falsehood always punishes itself. ~ Frank Auerbach, #NFDB |
| 114:Grief brims itself and flows away in tears. ~ Ovid, #NFDB |
| 115:I love my fans more than life itself ~ Miley Cyrus, #NFDB |
| 116:Kindness is virtue itself. ~ Alphonse de Lamartine, #NFDB |
117:Life itself is a quotation.
~ Jorge Luis Borges,#NFDB |
| 118:Life itself: Its origin and nature. ~ Jeremy Narby, #NFDB |
| 119:Light is time thinking about itself. ~ Octavio Paz, #NFDB |
| 120:Nature itself is the best physician. ~ Hippocrates, #NFDB |
| 121:Our epoch does not love itself. ~ Bernard Stiegler, #NFDB |
| 122:Reality itself is too twisted. ~ Hunter S Thompson, #NFDB |
| 123:Self-esteem is not based on itself. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB |
| 124:The desert never forgot itself. ~ Paolo Bacigalupi, #NFDB |
| 125:The ego knows itself by comparison. ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB |
| 126:The mind cannot kill itself. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB |
| 127:There is no God other than life itself. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB |
| 128:Time itself made all things rare. ~ Lionel Shriver, #NFDB |
| 129:Acting should be an end in itself. ~ Chris Sarandon, #NFDB |
| 130:Adventure is worthwhile in itself. ~ Amelia Earhart, #NFDB |
| 131:Alaska itself is an unusual state. ~ Fareed Zakaria, #NFDB |
| 132:Crime generally punishes itself. ~ Oliver Goldsmith, #NFDB |
| 133:Happiness thinks only of itself. ~ Raymond Radiguet, #NFDB |
| 134:His mind grinned inward at itself. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB |
| 135:Inconsistency itself breeds vitality. ~ Kenzo Tange, #NFDB |
| 136:Life itself is a rickety building ~ William Golding, #NFDB |
| 137:No man is an island, entire of itself. ~ John Donne, #NFDB |
| 138:Revolution is not a goal in itself. ~ Ernest Mandel, #NFDB |
| 139:Some things defy language itself. ~ Sylvain Reynard, #NFDB |
| 140:The body itself is a thought. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB |
| 141:The future would take care of itself. ~ Mary Balogh, #NFDB |
| 142:The noble soul reveres itself ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB |
| 143:The rest will take care of itself. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB |
| 144:Time itself is one more name for death. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB |
| 145:Time itself makes all things rare. ~ Lionel Shriver, #NFDB |
| 146:Together we can save America itself. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB |
| 147:Would a human egg let itself be seen? ~ Jesmyn Ward, #NFDB |
| 148:And power will always consume itself. ~ Paul Jenkins, #NFDB |
| 149:Being points beyond itself. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel, #NFDB |
| 150:But reality soon asserted itself. ~ Vladimir Nabokov, #NFDB |
| 151:Every day you live is a lesson in itself. ~ T A Uner, #NFDB |
| 152:Every true passion thinks only of itself. ~ Stendhal, #NFDB |
| 153:Fear itself is the vanguard of wisdom ~ Pema Chodron, #NFDB |
| 154:For knowledge, too, is itself power. ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB |
| 155:it had nothing to fear but fear itself. ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB |
| 156:I think the future takes care of itself. ~ Pam Bondi, #NFDB |
| 157:Literacy in itself is no education. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB |
| 158:Magick is the Art of Life itself. ~ Aleister Crowley, #NFDB |
| 159:Obeying an unjust law is itself unjust. ~ Ryan North, #NFDB |
| 160:Only love itself can explain love and lovers. ~ Rumi, #NFDB |
| 161:Science is but a perversion of itself ~ Nikola Tesla, #NFDB |
| 162:The Tao principle is what happens of itself. ~ Laozi, #NFDB |
| 163:Well, the world can go fuck itself. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB |
| 164:Wilderness. The word itself is music. ~ Edward Abbey, #NFDB |
| 165:A dream itself is but a shadow. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 166:any compulsion tries to justify itself. ~ Joan Didion, #NFDB |
| 167:Because the joy is in the climb itself. ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB |
| 168:calmness wasn’t an end in itself ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB |
| 169:Experience by itself is not science. ~ Edmund Husserl, #NFDB |
170:...for iron of itself draws a man
thereto. ~ Homer,#NFDB |
| 171:For some players, luck itself is an art ~ Paul Newman, #NFDB |
| 172:Human nature is not of itself vicious. ~ Thomas Paine, #NFDB |
| 173:I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself. ~ Beth Orton, #NFDB |
| 174:Life itself is nothing but relationship. ~ Adyashanti, #NFDB |
| 175:Love must express itself as service ~ Sathya Sai Baba, #NFDB |
| 176:Reality has a way of asserting itself. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB |
| 177:The art of illusion is grace itself. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB |
| 178:The soul should concentrate itself by itself. ~ Plato, #NFDB |
| 179:The talent should speak for itself. ~ Jennifer Hudson, #NFDB |
| 180:Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself ~ Plato, #NFDB |
| 181:To resist a challenge is to resist life itself. ~ Avi, #NFDB |
| 182:Truth reveals itself in beauty. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, #NFDB |
| 183:We are the universe experiencing itself. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB |
| 184:We have nothing to fear but fear itself ~ Mark Walden, #NFDB |
| 185:What is fear of need but need itself? ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB |
| 186:A brave man's hand can speak for itself; ~ Bram Stoker, #NFDB |
| 187:An organism at war with itself is doomed. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB |
| 188:Art never expresses anything but itself. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB |
| 189:A system can not understand itself. ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB |
| 190:Being cryptic is an art unto itself. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB |
| 191:Everything changes but change itself. ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB |
| 192:History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB |
| 193:Learning itself is a present, you know. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB |
| 194:Learning itself, received into a mind ~ William Cowper, #NFDB |
| 195:life unfolds itself in mysteries ways. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB |
| 196:Love will find a way against time itself. ~ Sylvia Day, #NFDB |
| 197:No decision is, in itself, a decision. ~ William James, #NFDB |
| 198:Perfection itself is imperfection. ~ Vladimir Horowitz, #NFDB |
| 199:Poetry is itself a thing of God; ~ Philip James Bailey, #NFDB |
| 200:Quality sells itself. No hype needed. ~ Brandi L Bates, #NFDB |
| 201:Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB |
| 202:The blade itself incites to deeds of violence. ~ Homer, #NFDB |
| 203:Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. ~ Plato, #NFDB |
| 204:This isn't going to un-fuck itself. ~ Colson Whitehead, #NFDB |
| 205:Virtue debases itself in justifying itself. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB |
| 206:You are the universe experiencing itself. ~ Alan Watts, #NFDB |
| 207:You are the universe experiencing itself. ~ Ziad Masri, #NFDB |
| 208:A song is anything that can walk by itself. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB |
| 209:Each soul on earth is complete unto itself. ~ Mark Nepo, #NFDB |
| 210:Either sex alone is half itself. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB |
| 211:God is a fountain flowing into itself. ~ Pope Dionysius, #NFDB |
| 212:God is not only true, but Truth itself. ~ Pope Leo XIII, #NFDB |
| 213:Hope is itself a species of happiness. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB |
| 214:Inflation itself is a form of taxation. ~ Henry Hazlitt, #NFDB |
| 215:itself, had emerged from that shadow. ~ Alice McDermott, #NFDB |
| 216:Make sickness itself a prayer. ~ Saint Francis de Sales, #NFDB |
| 217:Memory itself is an internal rumour. ~ George Santayana, #NFDB |
| 218:My life and happiness speaks for itself. ~ Tyler Oakley, #NFDB |
| 219:My pain's not ashamed to repeat itself ~ Marilyn Manson, #NFDB |
| 220:Nothing is terrible except fear itself. ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB |
| 221:Passion can’t sustain itself forever. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB |
| 222:Sincerity guarantees nothing but itself. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB |
| 223:Sometimes the world reveals itself to you ~ Nicola Yoon, #NFDB |
| 224:Sometime the world reveals itself to you. ~ Nicola Yoon, #NFDB |
| 225:That which is creative must create itself. ~ John Keats, #NFDB |
| 226:The normal economic system works itself. ~ James Salter, #NFDB |
| 227:The well of true wit is truth itself. ~ George Meredith, #NFDB |
| 228:Time itself is an element. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB |
| 229:We are a way for the cosmos to know itself ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB |
| 230:We begin to realize we are energy itself ~ Ted Andrews, #NFDB |
| 231:We expect Evil to announce itself. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB |
| 232:A day of silence can be a pilgrimage in itself. ~ Hafez, #NFDB |
| 233:A house divided against itself cannot stand. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 234:And death is a sort of safety in itself. Zoey ~ Joe Hart, #NFDB |
| 235:A people never hears censure of itself. ~ Walter Bagehot, #NFDB |
| 236:Art doesn't sell itself, it has to be sold. ~ Jack White, #NFDB |
| 237:a story will tell itself, when it’s ready ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB |
| 238:Being a good company is an end in itself. ~ Ben Horowitz, #NFDB |
| 239:Business can talk itself into a blue funk. ~ Helen Clark, #NFDB |
| 240:Experience by itself teaches nothing. ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB |
| 241:History never repeats itself; man always does ~ Voltaire, #NFDB |
| 242:History works itself out in the living. ~ Louise Erdrich, #NFDB |
| 243:I love language as I love life itself! ~ Jacques Derrida, #NFDB |
| 244:I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB |
| 245:Misery makes sport to mock itself. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 246:Real misery cuts off all paths to itself. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB |
| 247:Regret is a form of punishment itself. ~ Nouman Ali Khan, #NFDB |
| 248:Some remedies are worse than the disease itself. ~ Aesop, #NFDB |
| 249:That which is like unto itself, is drawn. ~ Esther Hicks, #NFDB |
| 250:The heart lies to itself because it must. ~ Jack Gilbert, #NFDB |
| 251:The human condition itself inspires me. ~ Nathan Parsons, #NFDB |
| 252:The idol in paganism is Nature itself, ~ Nancy R Pearcey, #NFDB |
| 253:The soul paints itself in our machines. ~ Joseph Joubert, #NFDB |
| 254:Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself. ~ Plato, #NFDB |
| 255:Time itself is an element. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB |
| 256:Virtue must shape itself in deed. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB |
| 257:War itself is the enemy of the human race. ~ Howard Zinn, #NFDB |
| 258:We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB |
| 259:absolute freedom, by itself, means nothing. ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB |
| 260:A house divided against itself cannot stand, ~ J S Bailey, #NFDB |
| 261:AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB |
| 262:A lot of the world seems to repeat itself ~ Emma Donoghue, #NFDB |
| 263:a story will tell itself, when it’s ready. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB |
| 264:Awareness in itself is healing. ~ Frederick Salomon Perls, #NFDB |
| 265:GUILT SPILLS ITSELF IN FEAR OF BEING SPILT, ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB |
| 266:History never repeats itself. Man always does. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB |
| 267:History, we know, is apt to repeat itself. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB |
| 268:I'd rather let the music speak for itself. ~ Serj Tankian, #NFDB |
| 269:I love being a star more than life itself. ~ Janis Joplin, #NFDB |
| 270:I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB |
| 271:Inspiration is God making contact with itself. ~ Ram Dass, #NFDB |
| 272:It was war itself that was evil, not men. ~ Kate Atkinson, #NFDB |
| 273:Life has a strange way of working itself out ~ David Cook, #NFDB |
| 274:Life's greatest reward is life itself ~ Margaret Thatcher, #NFDB |
| 275:Love buries itself in me, up to the hilt. ~ James Merrill, #NFDB |
| 276:Money has no religion except itself. ~ Louis de Berni res, #NFDB |
| 277:only thing we have to fear is fear itself, ~ Kate Messner, #NFDB |
| 278:Peace of mind itself is liberation. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB |
| 279:Rejection itself means the finite. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, #NFDB |
| 280:relationship itself is a form of therapy. ~ John Bradshaw, #NFDB |
| 281:Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary. ~ Anne Carson, #NFDB |
| 282:The parasite believes itself to be the host, ~ John Green, #NFDB |
| 283:The parasite believes itself to be the host. ~ John Green, #NFDB |
| 284:This isn't higher education studying itself. ~ James Hunt, #NFDB |
| 285:Truth is what most contradicts itself. ~ Lawrence Durrell, #NFDB |
| 286:Truth itself wanders through the forests. ~ Werner Herzog, #NFDB |
| 287:We are a way of the universe knowing itself. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB |
| 288:When the path reveals itself, follow it. ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB |
| 289:A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself. ~ James Madison, #NFDB |
| 290:A revolution in itself is not a blessing. ~ John C Calhoun, #NFDB |
| 291:A well-lived day is medicine unto itself. ~ Acharya Shunya, #NFDB |
| 292:Beauty brings copies of itself into being. ~ Elaine Scarry, #NFDB |
| 293:Being a child is in itself a profession. ~ Clifton Fadiman, #NFDB |
| 294:Chaos is the domain of ignorance itself. ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB |
| 295:Democracy must learn to defend itself. ~ Mikhail Gorbachev, #NFDB |
| 296:Error itself may be happy chance. ~ Alfred North Whitehead, #NFDB |
| 297:EVERY OBJECT of the mind is itself mind. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB |
| 298:Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself. ~ Erich Fromm, #NFDB |
| 299:Existence is the experiment itself. ~ Kim Stanley Robinson, #NFDB |
| 300:Fear of death is worse than death itself... ~ Gosho Aoyama, #NFDB |
| 301:Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB |
| 302:I never saw a wild thing / sorry for itself, ~ Joan Didion, #NFDB |
| 303:Life learned early on to recognize itself. ~ Lynn Margulis, #NFDB |
| 304:Love can show itself in many strange ways, ~ David Eddings, #NFDB |
| 305:Mortality itself was my philosophical robe. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB |
| 306:Nature, left to itself, defeats nature. ~ Georgia Harkness, #NFDB |
| 307:Poetry is language playing with itself. ~ Harryette Mullen, #NFDB |
| 308:The aphorism is already a shadow of itself. ~ Don Paterson, #NFDB |
| 309:The principal cause of war is war itself. ~ C Wright Mills, #NFDB |
| 310:The quest for the truth, in and of itself, ~ Carolyn Porco, #NFDB |
| 311:The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. ~ Georges Bernanos, #NFDB |
| 312:When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself. ~ Plato, #NFDB |
| 313:Yearning wants mostly to perpetuate itself. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB |
| 314:Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself. ~ Oliver Goldsmith, #NFDB |
| 315:Each day, in itself, brings with an eternity ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
| 316:Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty. ~ Tacitus, #NFDB |
| 317:Goodness that preaches undoes itself. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 318:In summer, the song sings itself. ~ William Carlos Williams, #NFDB |
| 319:I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB |
| 320:I think that NATO is itself a war criminal. ~ Harold Pinter, #NFDB |
| 321:Liberty means more to me than life itself. ~ Jack Kevorkian, #NFDB |
| 322:Never trust anything that can think for itself, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 323:No enterprise can exist for itself alone. ~ Calvin Coolidge, #NFDB |
| 324:Nothing endures, except nothing itself. ~ Alastair Reynolds, #NFDB |
| 325:Only longing can fill with more of itself. ~ Virginia Woolf, #NFDB |
| 326:Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death. ~ Alison Bechdel, #NFDB |
| 327:Silence ensures that history repeats itself. ~ Erin Gruwell, #NFDB |
| 328:The fabric of existence weaves itself whole. ~ Charles Ives, #NFDB |
| 329:the passage of time itself a kind of marvel ~ Justin Cronin, #NFDB |
| 330:The record industry is a world within itself. ~ Edwin Starr, #NFDB |
| 331:The reflection of a fact is in itself a fact. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB |
| 332:There is nothing to fear but fear itself. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB |
| 333:The wise man reads both books and life itself. ~ Lin Yutang, #NFDB |
| 334:The world itself is a filthy monster. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB |
| 335:Thinking is itself, however, an adventure. ~ James V Schall, #NFDB |
| 336:Universe will re-arrange itself accordingly. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB |
| 337:When love itself comes to kiss you, don't hold back! ~ Rumi, #NFDB |
| 338:A field tends of itself to multiply. ~ Maurice Merleau Ponty, #NFDB |
| 339:A girl’s apprenticeship was girlhood itself. A ~ Jill Lepore, #NFDB |
| 340:Alas, how love can trifle with itself! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 341:All known existence points beyond itself. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr, #NFDB |
| 342:A meal can be an erotic experience in itself. ~ Alex Comfort, #NFDB |
| 343:A paradox is a storm that rains on itself. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB |
| 344:Being an only child is a disease in itself. ~ G Stanley Hall, #NFDB |
| 345:Chaos is the domain of ignorance itself. ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB |
| 346:Command any idea to clothe itself in form. ~ Neville Goddard, #NFDB |
| 347:Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself. ~ Laird Barron, #NFDB |
| 348:Each man is an island unto itself" - Strangman ~ J G Ballard, #NFDB |
| 349:Future comes by itself, progress does not. ~ Poul Henningsen, #NFDB |
| 350:God's will can go fuck itself. And so can you. ~ Jason Aaron, #NFDB |
| 351:History repeats itself and that's just how it goes. ~ J Cole, #NFDB |
| 352:Horror itself in that fair scene looks gay, ~ Torquato Tasso, #NFDB |
| 353:I don't ridicule religion, it ridicules itself. ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB |
354:I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself. ~ D H Lawrence,#NFDB |
| 355:Life is more hellish than hell itself. ~ Ry nosuke Akutagawa, #NFDB |
| 356:Life itself is simple...it's just not easy. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB |
| 357:Love gone wrong can disguise itself as hate. ~ Penelope Ward, #NFDB |
| 358:No age seemed the age of romance to itself. ~ Thomas Carlyle, #NFDB |
| 359:No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB |
| 360:orator Isocrates: “Democracy destroys itself ~ Michael Lewis, #NFDB |
| 361:Pride eradicates all vices but itself. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 362:Religion should be dearer than life itself. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB |
| 363:Remembering itself is becoming old-fashioned. ~ Tommy Orange, #NFDB |
| 364:Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner. ~ John Ford, #NFDB |
| 365:[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB |
| 366:The earth itself is a great big magnet. ~ Edward Leedskalnin, #NFDB |
| 367:The Ego’s job is to kill everything but itself ~ Byron Katie, #NFDB |
| 368:The great soul surrenders itself to fate. ~ Seneca the Elder, #NFDB |
| 369:The guitar is an orchestra in itself. ~ Ludwig van Beethoven, #NFDB |
| 370:The longing for paradise is paradise itself. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB |
| 371:The love of money grows as the money itself grows. ~ Juvenal, #NFDB |
| 372:The mind enters itself, and God the mind, ~ Theodore Roethke, #NFDB |
| 373:The most powerful soporific is sleep itself. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB |
| 374:The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB |
| 375:The reward of choosing joy is joy itself. ~ Henri J M Nouwen, #NFDB |
| 376:The thing that is incredible is life itself. ~ Edwin Markham, #NFDB |
| 377:Thinking is the soul speaking to itself. ~ Rebecca Goldstein, #NFDB |
| 378:Truth does not surround itself with lies. ~ John Christopher, #NFDB |
| 379:Truth is told when it tells itself. ~ Jill Alexander Essbaum, #NFDB |
| 380:You can't be more horrific than life itself. ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB |
| 381:Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB |
| 382:An excess of reason is itself a form of madness ~ Kim Stanley, #NFDB |
| 383:A soul protects itself from what it cannot bear. ~ Kim Echlin, #NFDB |
| 384:Because love is a riddle, as is life itself. ~ Corban Addison, #NFDB |
| 385:Being a comfort is itself pretty comforting. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB |
| 386:Can you use the rational mind to transcend itself? ~ Ram Dass, #NFDB |
| 387:Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself. ~ Jerome K Jerome, #NFDB |
| 388:Despair itself can be hopeful if it is honest. ~ Peter Kreeft, #NFDB |
| 389:England is safe, if true within itself. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 390:Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. ~ Joseph Wood Krutch, #NFDB |
| 391:I am not a model the camera just went off by itself ~ Godfrey, #NFDB |
| 392:ideology itself the perpetual enemy of realism. ~ Clive James, #NFDB |
| 393:I know everything about love but Love itself. ~ Norman Mailer, #NFDB |
| 394:“In summer, the song sings itself.” ~ William Carlos Williams, #NFDB |
| 395:Leave the thought-free state to itself. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB |
| 396:Life has a way of working itself out. You’ll see. ~ Lang Leav, #NFDB |
| 397:Life's objective is life itself. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB |
| 398:Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB |
| 399:Love loving not itself, none other can. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 400:Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB |
| 401:Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself. ~ Greg Iles, #NFDB |
| 402:Never anger made good guard for itself. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 403:Odd that a thing is most itself when likened ~ Richard Wilbur, #NFDB |
| 404:That there is a secret itself is a secret. ~ Dorothy L Sayers, #NFDB |
| 405:The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself. ~ Gore Vidal, #NFDB |
| 406:The breath that sharpens life is life itself. ~ Philip Larkin, #NFDB |
| 407:The past cannot be allowed to repeat itself. ~ Horst Seehofer, #NFDB |
| 408:The truth is an anti-war statement in itself. ~ Henry Rollins, #NFDB |
| 409:This story has no point but stillness itself... ~ Larry Levis, #NFDB |
| 410:We have nothing to fear but fear itself ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB |
| 411:Why would the world configure itself so harshly? ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB |
| 412:A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself. ~ Hans Kung, #NFDB |
| 413:A house divided against itself cannot stand. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB |
| 414:And he's direct, clear, firm, like truth itself. ~ Maxim Gorky, #NFDB |
| 415:Discouragement itself is a form of pride. ~ Saint Therese of Lisieux, #NFDB |
| 416:Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. ~ Jennifer Niven, #NFDB |
| 417:He who destroys a good book kills reason itself. ~ John Milton, #NFDB |
| 418:History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB |
| 419:Intelligence without power cannibalizes itself. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB |
| 420:I think the media argues all the time with itself. ~ Ray Dalio, #NFDB |
| 421:life will defend itself no matter how smallit is ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB |
| 422:Loneliness is a mirror and it recognizes itself ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB |
| 423:Love brings up everything unlike itself. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB |
| 424:Mastery itself was the prize of the venture.”1 ~ Daniel Yergin, #NFDB |
| 425:My life carries its own meaning in itself. ~ Albert Schweitzer, #NFDB |
| 426:Once you have the statement, it will design itself. ~ Bob Gill, #NFDB |
| 427:Photography is just light remembering itself. ~ Jerry Uelsmann, #NFDB |
| 428:Politics is how you think about life itself. ~ Gene Weingarten, #NFDB |
| 429:Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools. ~ Juvenal, #NFDB |
| 430:Sex doesn't sell anything other than itself ~ Martin Lindstrom, #NFDB |
| 431:Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB |
| 432:The aim of living is life itself. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB |
| 433:The American dream itself is declining. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB |
| 434:The fear of war is worse than war itself. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB |
| 435:The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, ~ Michael Grant, #NFDB |
| 436:The universe is holding congress with itself. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB |
| 437:To make living itself an art, that is the goal. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB |
| 438:Until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB |
| 439:We have nothing to fear but fear itself. ~ Winston S Churchill, #NFDB |
| 440:What the heart desires is medicine to itself. ~ Rebecca Walker, #NFDB |
| 441:Yes, evening will find itself in me, without me. ~ James Joyce, #NFDB |
| 442:All prejudice presents itself as piety, propriety. ~ Hal Duncan, #NFDB |
| 443:A lot of that worked itself out in the recording. ~ David Byrne, #NFDB |
| 444:A masterful retreat is itself a victory. ~ Norman Vincent Peale, #NFDB |
| 445:An unjust law in itself is an act of violence. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB |
| 446:Ballet will speak for itself. About itself. ~ George Balanchine, #NFDB |
| 447:Bible reading is an education in itself. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB |
| 448:Bottom line, wasn’t life itself a special occasion? ~ Jan Karon, #NFDB |
| 449:By itself, faith can’t deliver God, but it does ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB |
| 450:Consider that nirvana is itself no other than our life. ~ Dogen, #NFDB |
| 451:Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
| 452:Every weakness contains within itself a strength. ~ Sh saku End, #NFDB |
| 453:He would gladly fuck her until time itself ended ~ Addison Cain, #NFDB |
| 454:History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes. ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB |
| 455:Honesty needs no pains to set itself off. ~ George Edward Moore, #NFDB |
| 456:I probably misunderstand misunderstanding itself ~ Kenneth Koch, #NFDB |
| 457:Learning . . . is - also an end in itself. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB |
| 458:Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair. ~ Dorothy Day, #NFDB |
| 459:Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB |
| 460:Masterly retreat is in itself a victory. ~ Norman Vincent Peale, #NFDB |
| 461:Might verse not best confuse itself with fate? ~ Marianne Moore, #NFDB |
| 462:My body is very wise; it knows how to heal itself. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB |
| 463:Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB |
| 464:Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. ~ Michael Lewis, #NFDB |
| 465:She's like a wind-up monkey that winds itself. ~ Tammara Webber, #NFDB |
| 466:The blade itself incites to deeds of violence ~ Joe Abercrombie, #NFDB |
| 467:The crude real will not by itself yield truth. ~ Robert Bresson, #NFDB |
| 468:the human intellect is free to destroy itself. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB |
| 469:The idea that recording itself is an instrument. ~ Michael Snow, #NFDB |
| 470:The love of country is more powerful than reason itself. ~ Ovid, #NFDB |
| 471:The only fear is fear itself, so get rid of it. ~ Avril Lavigne, #NFDB |
| 472:The pumpkin itself is a symbol for mortality. ~ Seth Adam Smith, #NFDB |
| 473:There is nothing to fear except fear itself ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB |
| 474:The vow that binds too quickly snaps itself. ~ Alfred the Great, #NFDB |
| 475:The white press itself created civil right leaders. ~ Malcolm X, #NFDB |
| 476:The world globes itself in a drop of dew. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 477:This Forest eats itself and lives forever. ~ Barbara Kingsolver, #NFDB |
| 478:Travel itself is part of some longer continuity. ~ Eudora Welty, #NFDB |
| 479:True faith manifests itself through our actions. ~ Francis Chan, #NFDB |
| 480:We have nothing to fear but fear itself. ~ Franklin D Roosevelt, #NFDB |
| 481:Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself? ~ Patti Smith, #NFDB |
| 482:A turtle doesn’t get up on a bookshelf by itself, ~ Barry Eisler, #NFDB |
| 483:A whole nation cannot rise above itself. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville, #NFDB |
| 484:Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB |
| 485:Beauty within itself should not be wasted. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 486:Character demonstrates itself in trifles. ~ Louise Imogen Guiney, #NFDB |
| 487:Every weakness contains within itself a strength. ~ Shusaku Endo, #NFDB |
| 488:Faith embraces itself and the doubt about itself. ~ Paul Tillich, #NFDB |
| 489:Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB |
| 490:Fear of difference is fear of life itself. ~ Mary Parker Follett, #NFDB |
| 491:Fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
| 492:For where thou art, there is the world itself. ~ Deanna Raybourn, #NFDB |
| 493:Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. ~ Erasmus, #NFDB |
| 494:Happiness--like love--is itself an attitude. ~ Stephanie Dowrick, #NFDB |
| 495:Hate hides itself until it has something to prove. ~ A M Johnson, #NFDB |
| 496:How did her life live itself without her. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB |
| 497:How easily the routine of sin establishes itself. ~ Gunter Grass, #NFDB |
| 498:How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB |
| 499:I must keep silent. Silent. And let Love describe itself. ~ Rumi, #NFDB |
| 500:is a body grown in upon itself, a Gothic folly. ~ William Gibson, #NFDB |
| 501:Knowledge about a thing is not the thing itself. ~ William James, #NFDB |
| 502:Let us be natural, just like nature itself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB |
| 503:Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 504:Life will defend itself no matter how small it is. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB |
| 505:Love has no age as it is always renewing itself. ~ Blaise Pascal, #NFDB |
| 506:Music: what life, what living itself sounds like. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB |
| 507:No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB |
| 508:No technology will win. Technology itself will win. ~ David Agus, #NFDB |
| 509:said the Gryphon, half to itself, half to Alice. ~ Lewis Carroll, #NFDB |
| 510:Sometimes the name is funnier than the game itself. ~ Andy Cohen, #NFDB |
| 511:Stupid how the mind will try to distract itself. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB |
| 512:The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. ~ Havelock Ellis, #NFDB |
| 513:The bond (of marriage) became the bondage itself ~ Nilesh Rathod, #NFDB |
| 514:Time itself is the solution to all problems. ~ P V Narasimha Rao, #NFDB |
| 515:Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB |
| 516:Water is a means to an end, not an end in itself. ~ Peter Gleick, #NFDB |
| 517:What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB |
| 518:With each passing moment, a Soul sets off to find Itself. ~ Rumi, #NFDB |
| 519:Without love, the world itself would not survive. ~ Lope de Vega, #NFDB |
| 520:Anyway, what is the soul but a dream of itself? ~ Alicia Ostriker, #NFDB |
| 521:below shows itself very clearly for a moment, and ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB |
| 522:Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB |
| 523:Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness. ~ Anais Nin, #NFDB |
| 524:Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB |
| 525:"Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home." ~ Basho, #NFDB |
| 526:Every noble activity makes room for itself. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 527:Fear is a greater evil than evil itself. ~ Saint Francis de Sales, #NFDB |
| 528:For nothing is more fulfilling than love itself ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB |
| 529:Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder. ~ Carl Sandburg, #NFDB |
| 530:Interesting how life goes on in spite of itself. ~ Maria V Snyder, #NFDB |
| 531:It's an immense amount of pressure, celebrity itself. ~ Megan Fox, #NFDB |
| 532:Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself. ~ Sallust, #NFDB |
| 533:Life exists so the Universe can experience itself. ~ Steve Martin, #NFDB |
| 534:Love gives itself; it is not bought. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB |
| 535:Love never forces itself on another’s will. So ~ Norman L Geisler, #NFDB |
| 536:Once you start on an idea it proliferates in itself. ~ Lore Segal, #NFDB |
| 537:Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides, #NFDB |
| 538:Silence in the face of evil is evil itself. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, #NFDB |
| 539:Someday change will be accepted as life itself ~ Shirley MacLaine, #NFDB |
| 540:Successful action tends to become an end in itself. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB |
| 541:Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. ~ John Sullivan Dwight, #NFDB |
| 542:Symmetry, by surrounding us, makes itself invisible. ~ Hugh Howey, #NFDB |
| 543:That's the biggest problem, is the tax code itself. ~ Herman Cain, #NFDB |
| 544:The dance is the highest symbol of life itself. ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB |
| 545:The function of posterity is to look after itself. ~ Dylan Thomas, #NFDB |
| 546:The giving of love is an education in itself. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, #NFDB |
| 547:The impassive soul disturbs neither itself nor others. ~ Epicurus, #NFDB |
| 548:The only antidote to chaos is peace itself. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB |
| 549:There’s no story that’s the start of itself. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB |
| 550:The rest of me was gorging itself on pity party pie. ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB |
| 551:The reward for a good habit is the habit itself. ~ Gretchen Rubin, #NFDB |
| 552:To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill. ~ Wilfred Bion, #NFDB |
| 553:To not try at all is a form of murder itself. ~ Lisa Tawn Bergren, #NFDB |
| 554:To refuse to respond is in itself a response. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB |
| 555:What if - what if Life itself were the sweetheart? ~ Willa Cather, #NFDB |
| 556:What is important is faith expressing itself in love. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 557:When self-doubt awakens, it feeds on itself. . . . ~ Charles Todd, #NFDB |
| 558:Who cares about my cock? It'll fend for itself. ~ Nicholson Baker, #NFDB |
| 559:At some point your heart will tell itself what to do. ~ Ajahn Chah, #NFDB |
| 560:Be happy today. Tomorrow will take care of itself. ~ Tracy Madison, #NFDB |
| 561:but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself ~ John Milton, #NFDB |
| 562:Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty. ~ Henri Matisse, #NFDB |
| 563:Every talent must unfold itself in fighting. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB |
| 564:Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint. ~ John Marin, #NFDB |
| 565:I built a system simple enough to sustain itself. ~ Pierre Omidyar, #NFDB |
| 566:If history repeats itself, I am so getting a dinosaur! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 567:Isn't the fear of pain next brother to pain itself? ~ Enid Bagnold, #NFDB |
| 568:It is in silence that the soul best expresses itself. ~ The Mother, #NFDB |
| 569:I've never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB |
| 570:Just as anxiety can feed on itself, so can courage. ~ John J Ratey, #NFDB |
| 571:Love is like a flame; it burns itself out eventually, ~ Ay e Kulin, #NFDB |
| 572:Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more. ~ Alice Hoffman, #NFDB |
| 573:Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise. ~ Leigh Hunt, #NFDB |
| 574:Nobody should lead mankind. It should lead itself. ~ Philip K Dick, #NFDB |
| 575:Pshaw, my dear boy! it was simplicity itself. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB |
| 576:Someday change will be accepted as life itself. ~ Shirley MacLaine, #NFDB |
| 577:Some things are more important that life itself ~ Edwin Louis Cole, #NFDB |
| 578:Speak truth, and right will take care of itself. ~ Jerome K Jerome, #NFDB |
| 579:The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself. ~ Aaron Allston, #NFDB |
| 580:The black shadow cares for itself, not for you. ~ Julius Streicher, #NFDB |
| 581:The divine essence itself is love and wisdom. ~ Emanuel Swedenborg, #NFDB |
| 582:The full employment situation reinforces itself. ~ Jared Bernstein, #NFDB |
| 583:the heart speaks the truth even when blood itself lies. ~ J D Horn, #NFDB |
| 584:The journey prints itself indelibly on the seeker. ~ Wendy S Russo, #NFDB |
| 585:The market is in the process of correcting itself. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB |
| 586:The souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB |
| 587:The study of evolution is an evolution in itself. ~ Hendrik Poinar, #NFDB |
| 588:Time itself is created through deeds of true kindness. ~ Dara Horn, #NFDB |
| 589:Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 590:What if –– what if Life itself were the sweetheart? ~ Willa Cather, #NFDB |
| 591:What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? ~ Djuna Barnes, #NFDB |
| 592:Who can know the heart of youth except youth itself. ~ Patti Smith, #NFDB |
| 593:Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions. ~ Albert Ellis, #NFDB |
| 594:Your genuine action will explain itself, and ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 595:Accept the gift. And then the gift manifests itself. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
| 596:Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, #NFDB |
| 597:A house divided against itself cannot stand, ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin, #NFDB |
| 598:A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB |
| 599:All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB |
| 600:Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself. ~ Rebecca Miller, #NFDB |
| 601:A mind that trusts itself is light on its feet. ~ Nathaniel Branden, #NFDB |
| 602:A person's true nature will reveal itself despite disguise. ~ Aesop, #NFDB |
| 603:A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB |
| 604:Beauty takes courage. Courage itself takes courage. ~ Carol Shields, #NFDB |
| 605:Colour itself is a degree of darkness. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB |
| 606:Depression manifests itself in a lack of will. ~ Richard Brookhiser, #NFDB |
| 607:Don't push the river, it flows by itself. ~ Frederick Salomon Perls, #NFDB |
| 608:...fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
| 609:From hopelessness within the mind rises hope itself ~ Nilesh Rathod, #NFDB |
| 610:I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face. ~ Arthur Smith, #NFDB |
| 611:I believe that dignified work is a value in itself. ~ Martin Schulz, #NFDB |
| 612:It is unpleasant to see character throw itself away. ~ Thomas Paine, #NFDB |
| 613:Love itself compensates for any diminishment. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB |
| 614:Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB |
| 615:Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli, #NFDB |
| 616:Part of what software has to do is explain itself. So ~ Paul Graham, #NFDB |
| 617:Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her. ~ Patricia Highsmith, #NFDB |
| 618:Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB |
| 619:Terrorism itself is not the greatest danger we face. ~ Robert Reich, #NFDB |
| 620:The celebrity thing is such a thing in itself now. ~ Chrissie Hynde, #NFDB |
| 621:The Cha-Cha is no more ridiculous than life itself. ~ Whit Stillman, #NFDB |
| 622:The human hand allows the mind to reveal itself. ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB |
| 623:The inability to remember is itself perhaps a memory. ~ John Berger, #NFDB |
| 624:The inside “expresses” itself by way of the symbol. ~ Erich Neumann, #NFDB |
| 625:The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper. ~ Billy Collins, #NFDB |
| 626:The question of sex will take care of itself. ~ Helen Frankenthaler, #NFDB |
| 627:The term itself—my life—is a desperate overstatement. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB |
| 628:The value of life itself cannot be estimated. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB |
| 629:Was the anticipation worse than the event itself? At ~ Brandon Mull, #NFDB |
| 630:When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. ~ Henry J Kaiser, #NFDB |
| 631:A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. ~ Edith Wharton, #NFDB |
| 632:An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB |
| 633:An intellectual is someone who's mind watches itself. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB |
| 634:A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself. ~ Niels Bohr, #NFDB |
| 635:Civilization itself is housed in the human being. ~ Nayantara Sahgal, #NFDB |
| 636:Colour itself is a degree of darkness. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB |
| 637:Discouragement itself is a form of pride. ~ Saint Therese of Lisieux, #NFDB |
| 638:Diversity in and of itself is a strong positive. ~ Christine Lagarde, #NFDB |
| 639:Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up. ~ Ronald Wright, #NFDB |
| 640:Economy is in itself a great source of revenue. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB |
| 641:Existence itself is disconcerting and disorienting. ~ Natasha Lyonne, #NFDB |
| 642:Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
| 643:Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself. ~ Laozi, #NFDB |
| 644:He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. ~ M C Escher, #NFDB |
| 645:History was gathering itself to deliver another blow ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB |
| 646:Hope itself wasn’t necessarily kind. Or a good thing. ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB |
| 647:I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself. ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB |
| 648:In a familiar place, your mind focuses solely on itself. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB |
| 649:In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew. ~ Pliny the Elder, #NFDB |
| 650:Is nothing faithful in the world. Air itself betray. ~ Sandra Newman, #NFDB |
| 651:It seems that age folds the heart in on itself. ~ Louis de Berni res, #NFDB |
| 652:It's in the struggle itself that you define yourself. ~ Pat Buchanan, #NFDB |
| 653:I've seen this city taking itself to heaven in pieces. ~ Ryan Gattis, #NFDB |
| 654:Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. ~ Karen Horney, #NFDB |
| 655:Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself. ~ Marilyn vos Savant, #NFDB |
| 656:My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 657:New York loves itself in an unkind and fanatical way. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB |
| 658:No good can come from a species at war with itself. ~ Becky Chambers, #NFDB |
| 659:reality itself become something random, inexplicable. ~ Joseph Kanon, #NFDB |
| 660:Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB |
| 661:The absence of a flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. ~ H Havelock Ellis, #NFDB |
| 662:The brilliant insight is not by itself achievement ~ Peter F Drucker, #NFDB |
| 663:The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence. ~ Marianne Moore, #NFDB |
| 664:The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB |
| 665:...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB |
| 666:the mind is never right but when it is at peace with itself ~ Seneca, #NFDB |
| 667:There is nothing more evil than "Love" itself. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 668:The soul that can live alone with itself meets God . ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB |
| 669:The truth isn't going to bend itself to suit you. ~ Malorie Blackman, #NFDB |
| 670:The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB |
| 671:The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB |
| 672:The world itself is too small for the covetous. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB |
| 673:To accept a little death is worse than death itself, ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB |
| 674:To accept a little death is worse than death itself. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB |
| 675:To ask the power to reform itself, what a dullness! ~ Giordano Bruno, #NFDB |
| 676:Whatever happens - ultimately, life corrects itself. ~ Jaggi Vasudev, #NFDB |
| 677:Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB |
| 678:Youth to itself rebels, though none else near. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 679:All is connected ... no one thing can change by itself. ~ Paul Hawken, #NFDB |
| 680:And the city itself was just a glow on the dark earth... ~ Monica Ali, #NFDB |
| 681:And the truth shall bear witness of itself. ~ Edmond Bordeaux Szekely, #NFDB |
| 682:A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself. ~ Niels Bohr, #NFDB |
| 683:Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is. ~ Jean Paul Sartre, #NFDB |
| 684:Daniel's mind is a scorpion stinging itself to death. ~ Scott Spencer, #NFDB |
| 685:Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB |
| 686:Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. ~ Matsuo Bash, #NFDB |
| 687:Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up. ~ James Maxwell, #NFDB |
| 688:Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB |
| 689:Genius always finds itself a century too early. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 690:Genius has as many components as the mind itself. ~ Stephen Jay Gould, #NFDB |
| 691:History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce ~ Karl Marx, #NFDB |
| 692:In order to survive, the human race must defend itself. ~ Erica Brown, #NFDB |
| 693:I say love, and the world populates itself with doves. ~ Pablo Neruda, #NFDB |
| 694:Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny. ~ Muhammad Iqbal, #NFDB |
| 695:Just . . . love me, and let tomorrow look after itself. ~ Ann Aguirre, #NFDB |
| 696:Last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself ~ Betty Smith, #NFDB |
| 697:Life itself is the best (and the only) timekeeper. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru, #NFDB |
| 698:love is an emotion that recognizes itself in others. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB |
| 699:Nature is not tailored to man. It exists for itself. ~ John E Smelcer, #NFDB |
| 700:No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. ~ William Hazlitt, #NFDB |
| 701:One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself. ~ David Mitchell, #NFDB |
| 702:Pain is the body's way of ridding itself of weakness. ~ Dean Karnazes, #NFDB |
| 703:Paul was blandness itself, just tinged with pink. ~ Alan Hollinghurst, #NFDB |
| 704:Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude. ~ Jim Leach, #NFDB |
| 705:Put service first, and money takes care of itself. ~ David J Schwartz, #NFDB |
| 706:Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it. ~ Benjamin Rush, #NFDB |
| 707:She's dearer than life itself, that's all I know. ~ Daphne du Maurier, #NFDB |
| 708:So what is forgiveness and how does it show itself? ~ Claudia Rankine, #NFDB |
| 709:The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself. ~ Ludwig van Beethoven, #NFDB |
| 710:The leader of a cause is never the cause itself. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB |
| 711:The mystery is solved when you have become the mystery itself. ~ Osho, #NFDB |
| 712:The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship. ~ Epicurus, #NFDB |
| 713:The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. ~ Franklin D Roosevelt, #NFDB |
| 714:These arrows are food, safety, and life itself now. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB |
| 715:The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB |
| 716:The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot. ~ Werner Herzog, #NFDB |
| 717:The worst potential bio-terrorist is nature itself. ~ Anthony S Fauci, #NFDB |
| 718:Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself. ~ Pope John Paul II, #NFDB |
| 719:Why commit to art? For self-realization, or for itself? ~ Patti Smith, #NFDB |
| 720:youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed. ~ Willa Cather, #NFDB |
| 721:An excess of reason is itself a form of madness ~ Kim Stanley Robinson, #NFDB |
| 722:A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself. ~ B F Skinner, #NFDB |
| 723:A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254) ~ E O Wilson, #NFDB |
| 724:Bounty, being free itself, thinks all others so. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 725:Consider that nirvana is itself no other than our life. ~ Dogen Zenji, #NFDB |
| 726:educational technology, in itself, is not ‘evil’. As ~ Scott Thornbury, #NFDB |
| 727:Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart. ~ Emile M Cioran, #NFDB |
| 728:Even death itself is made wretched by terror and fear. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB |
| 729:Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB |
| 730:Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. ~ Matsuo Basho, #NFDB |
| 731:Everything that is conscious, aware of itself, has a soul. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB |
| 732:Failure to make a decision was in itself a decision—he ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB |
| 733:False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil. ~ Socrates, #NFDB |
| 734:Fear of a thing can be worse than the thing itself. ~ David Staniforth, #NFDB |
| 735:Fog is not mysterious, fog is the mystery itself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB |
| 736:Her love for him was almost like a pain in itself. ~ Catherine Cookson, #NFDB |
| 737:How doth all that seeks to rise burn itself to nothing. ~ M T Anderson, #NFDB |
| 738:I am against the notion of style in itself ~ Guillermo Cabrera Infante, #NFDB |
| 739:If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself. ~ Michael Frayn, #NFDB |
| 740:I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself. ~ Penn Jillette, #NFDB |
| 741:Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB |
| 742:Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight. ~ B K S Iyengar, #NFDB |
| 743:Losing you're co-remember meant losing the memory itself. ~ John Green, #NFDB |
| 744:Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself. ~ Soren Kierkegaard, #NFDB |
| 745:Never again will NAACP find itself near financial ruin. ~ Kweisi Mfume, #NFDB |
| 746:No book was ever written down by any but itself. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 747:No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB |
| 748:Only art explains, and that cannot itself be explained. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB |
| 749:Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. ~ Simone de Beauvoir, #NFDB |
| 750:Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself. ~ Anne Fadiman, #NFDB |
| 751:Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end. ~ Adolf Hitler, #NFDB |
| 752:Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB |
| 753:See what is before you, the thing itself. Analyze later. ~ Eric Weiner, #NFDB |
| 754:The answer to our existence lies in existence itself. ~ Santosh Kalwar, #NFDB |
| 755:The blade itself incites to deeds of violence’ Homer ~ Joe Abercrombie, #NFDB |
| 756:The grave itself is but a covered bridge, ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB |
| 757:The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB |
| 758:The Singularity itself will occur some time around 2045. ~ Martin Ford, #NFDB |
| 759:The sun was extinguishing itself on the watery horizon. ~ P W Catanese, #NFDB |
| 760:The world itself makes us sick of the world. ~ Jacques Benigne Bossuet, #NFDB |
| 761:True religion is not repressive, as life itself is not. ~ Jane Roberts, #NFDB |
| 762:was now smoked out, dazed and black from beating itself ~ John le Carr, #NFDB |
| 763:What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB |
| 764:A species divided against itself will eventually fall. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB |
| 765:A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB |
| 766:Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination. ~ Richard Sennett, #NFDB |
| 767:Beauty can never really understand itself. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB |
| 768:Creativity itself is divine. Creativity itself is godliness. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB |
| 769:Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat... ~ Andrew Davidson, #NFDB |
| 770:Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB |
| 771:Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself. ~ William Blake, #NFDB |
| 772:Fate succombs many a species. One alone jeopardizes itself. ~ W H Auden, #NFDB |
| 773:Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself. ~ W H Auden, #NFDB |
| 774:Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks, #NFDB |
| 775:He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonderful. ~ M C Escher, #NFDB |
| 776:history itself arises out of the adjacent possible. ~ Stuart A Kauffman, #NFDB |
| 777:History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB |
| 778:History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. ~ Philip Guedalla, #NFDB |
| 779:Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear. ~ Philip Sidney, #NFDB |
| 780:I don't have to talk. My record speaks for itself. ~ Maurice Jones Drew, #NFDB |
| 781:Indeed, timing a meal correctly was an art in itself. ~ Jennifer Ashley, #NFDB |
| 782:in short, the ultimate source of Evil is compasion itself ~ Slavoj i ek, #NFDB |
| 783:It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray. ~ Yagyu Munenori, #NFDB |
| 784:It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful. ~ Colum McCann, #NFDB |
| 785:Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. ~ Hans Christian Andersen, #NFDB |
| 786:Love itself starts with the desire for something good. ~ Fulton J Sheen, #NFDB |
| 787:Manage the downside; the upside will take care of itself ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB |
| 788:Nature is exceedingly simple and harmonious with itself. ~ Isaac Newton, #NFDB |
| 789:Nothing is impossible. the word itself says "i'm possible". ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 790:The essence of that which is like unto itself, is drawn. ~ Esther Hicks, #NFDB |
| 791:The fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
| 792:the grandeur of God reveals itself through simple things ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
| 793:The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself. ~ Heraclitus, #NFDB |
| 794:The quality of life is more important than life itself. ~ Alexis Carrel, #NFDB |
| 795:there is no path to peace, but peace itself is the path. ~ Richard Rohr, #NFDB |
796:There is something about Death
Like love itself! ~ Edgar Lee Masters,#NFDB |
| 797:The soul that has no established aim loses itself ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB |
| 798:The truth does not reveal itself to idle spectators. ~ Matthew Crawford, #NFDB |
| 799:Those who are late will be punished by life itself. ~ Mikhail Gorbachev, #NFDB |
| 800:Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself. ~ Emily Dickinson, #NFDB |
| 801:Time itself now held long breaths with keen suspense. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB |
| 802:Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free. ~ Garet Garrett, #NFDB |
| 803:What you're missing is that the path itself changes you. ~ Julian Smith, #NFDB |
| 804:What you're missing is that the path itself changes you. ~ Julien Smith, #NFDB |
| 805:A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself. ~ Shawn Johnson, #NFDB |
| 806:A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB |
| 807:a good stare communicates itself by means other than sight. ~ Mike Carey, #NFDB |
| 808:All experiences come and go. What witnesses experiencing itself? ~ Mooji, #NFDB |
| 809:Beauty can never really understand itself. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB |
| 810:Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB |
| 811:Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB |
| 812:Creativity - like human life itself - begins in the dark ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB |
| 813:Everything that lives, lives not alone, not for itself. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB |
| 814:Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB |
| 815:Faith always shows itself in the whole personality. ~ Martyn Lloyd Jones, #NFDB |
| 816:Faith is the soul going out of itself for all its wants. ~ Thomas Boston, #NFDB |
| 817:Genius doesn’t specialize; genius is reason in itself. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB |
| 818:Genius doesn't specialize; genius is reason it itself. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB |
| 819:Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself. ~ Rumi, #NFDB |
| 820:Hinduism is sensibility renewing itself again and again. ~ Vamsee Juluri, #NFDB |
| 821:History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce. ~ Karl Marx, #NFDB |
| 822:I don't think love for technology itself breeds change. ~ Evgeny Morozov, #NFDB |
| 823:I know that love is no cure, but rather the disease itself. ~ Erica Jong, #NFDB |
| 824:I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days. ~ Billy Connolly, #NFDB |
| 825:In the updraft, the particulate glitz is beside itself. ~ Rae Armantrout, #NFDB |
| 826:Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.) ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB |
| 827:It is the system itself that, once set up, gives orders. ~ Lewis Mumford, #NFDB |
| 828:Knowledge itself is the highest reward of knowledge. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB |
| 829:Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui. ~ Emile M Cioran, #NFDB |
| 830:Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure. ~ Simone Weil, #NFDB |
| 831:Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself. ~ George Santayana, #NFDB |
| 832:Life makes itself with little heed for the appropriate. ~ Eimear McBride, #NFDB |
| 833:Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy. ~ Martin Heidegger, #NFDB |
| 834:No one is holy in this life, only life itself is that. ~ Christian Bobin, #NFDB |
| 835:One must always try to be as radical as reality itself. ~ Vladimir Lenin, #NFDB |
| 836:Pain, which is ultimately only like itself. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, #NFDB |
| 837:Russia sees itself as a country that is self-sufficient. ~ Sergei Ivanov, #NFDB |
| 838:Samadhi doesn’t just come of itself; it takes practice. ~ Jack Kornfield, #NFDB |
| 839:The city burning is Los Angeles's deepest image of itself. ~ Joan Didion, #NFDB |
| 840:The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself ~ Marguerite Yourcenar, #NFDB |
| 841:The theater of operation built itself in Tool’s mind. ~ Paolo Bacigalupi, #NFDB |
| 842:The transmission of knowledge is in itself an erotic act. ~ Alan Bennett, #NFDB |
| 843:Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart. ~ Michael Ende, #NFDB |
| 844:To set sail somewhere is more important than life itself. ~ Isak Dinesen, #NFDB |
| 845:To the extent America abandons Israel, it abandons itself. ~ Yaron Brook, #NFDB |
| 846:up by itself, like that old Plymouth in the horror movie, ~ Stephen King, #NFDB |
| 847:Wherever the mind dwells apart is itself a distant place. ~ David Hinton, #NFDB |
| 848:Writers were as parasitic, she supposed, as the spore itself. ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB |
| 849:You cant get beyond the body unless you free the body itself. ~ Ida Rolf, #NFDB |
| 850:Action by itself is blind, reflection impotent. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, #NFDB |
| 851:A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB |
| 852:A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself. ~ Francis Picabia, #NFDB |
| 853:All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself. ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset, #NFDB |
| 854:An over examination of life can deter you from life itself ~ Ilyas Kassam, #NFDB |
| 855:[..] because happiness itself is often sublte and incomplete ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB |
| 856:Buddhism doesn't come from anybody. It exists by itself. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB |
| 857:By remembering it too often I have blurred the memory itself. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB |
| 858:Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB |
| 859:Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness. ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB |
| 860:Destiny reveals itself only when there is truth and action. ~ Suzy Kassem, #NFDB |
| 861:Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself. ~ George Sarton, #NFDB |
| 862:Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB |
863:Give evil nothing to oppose
and it will disappear by itself. ~ Lao Tzu,#NFDB |
| 864:Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB |
| 865:Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself. ~ Sam Levenson, #NFDB |
| 866:Happiness reveals itself when we are at peace with ourselves. ~ Nhat Hanh, #NFDB |
| 867:History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. —Mark Twain ~ Peter Mallouk, #NFDB |
| 868:If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself ~ A S Neill, #NFDB |
| 869:It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB |
| 870:Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back. ~ Colin Wilson, #NFDB |
| 871:Life reveals itself to us only in so far as well live it. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB |
| 872:Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 873:Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB |
| 874:Love still owned him, steered him, drew him to itself. ~ Elizabeth Goudge, #NFDB |
| 875:motion, propelling itself back and forth across the small ~ Melinda Leigh, #NFDB |
| 876:Necessity gives the law and does not itself receive it. ~ Publilius Syrus, #NFDB |
| 877:never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. ~ D. H. Lawrence #quote #animals, #NFDB |
| 878:No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually. ~ Dorothea Lange, #NFDB |
| 879:Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her. ~ John Milton, #NFDB |
| 880:pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 881:Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort. ~ Henri Matisse, #NFDB |
| 882:Stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move. ~ Dave Eggers, #NFDB |
| 883:The death of hope and love is far worse than death itself. ~ C J Anderson, #NFDB |
| 884:The deepest feelings always show itself in silence. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB |
| 885:…the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
| 886:The fear of suffering is worst than the suffering itself". ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
| 887:The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale. ~ Grace Kelly, #NFDB |
| 888:The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself. ~ Franklin D Roosevelt, #NFDB |
| 889:The only thing that went wrong was the human race itself. ~ Frederik Pohl, #NFDB |
| 890:the process of consciousness itself relies on images. ~ Ant nio R Dam sio, #NFDB |
| 891:There's no animal that sleep-deprives itself like the human. ~ Henri Cole, #NFDB |
| 892:The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure. ~ Muriel Spark, #NFDB |
| 893:The very greatest mystery is in unsheathed reality itself. ~ Eudora Welty, #NFDB |
| 894:The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived. ~ Petronius, #NFDB |
| 895:Though a child of man knows time, life itself is eternal. ~ Miyuki Miyabe, #NFDB |
| 896:We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band. ~ Ed O Brien, #NFDB |
| 897:Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB |
| 898:Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB |
| 899:Age is opportunity no less than youth itself. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB |
| 900:An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. ~ Maurice Maeterlinck, #NFDB |
| 901:Arrogance needs advertising, confidence speaks for itself. ~ Vitor Belfort, #NFDB |
| 902:Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it. ~ Marcel Duchamp, #NFDB |
| 903:But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness. ~ Bill McKibben, #NFDB |
| 904:Civilization gets too large, it finds a way to destroy itself. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 905:Courage in the path is what makes the path manifest itself. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
906:Disillusion can become itself an illusion
If we rest in it. ~ T S Eliot,#NFDB |
| 907:Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself. ~ Thomas Paine, #NFDB |
| 908:Every snowflake in an avalanche thinks itself guiltless. ~ Nick Stephenson, #NFDB |
| 909:History has repeated itself many times througout the ages. ~ Billy Sheehan, #NFDB |
| 910:History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic. ~ Terry Eagleton, #NFDB |
| 911:I felt in my bones that this universe does not explain itself. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB |
| 912:If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself. ~ George S Patton, #NFDB |
| 913:If kindness were a dagger, my heart would bleed itself dry. ~ Megan Bannen, #NFDB |
| 914:Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself. ~ Rod Serling, #NFDB |
| 915:I'm just going to let my record in Congress speak for itself. ~ Grace Meng, #NFDB |
| 916:In general confusion youth recognizes itself and rejoices. ~ Italo Calvino, #NFDB |
| 917:In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically. ~ Henri Bergson, #NFDB |
| 918:Irrational fear feeds on itself and grows. You must deny it. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB |
| 919:I will live for love and the rest will take care of itself ~ Marina Keegan, #NFDB |
| 920:Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes. ~ Publilius Syrus, #NFDB |
| 921:Life should be an aim unto itself, a purpose unto itself. ~ Sarah Bakewell, #NFDB |
| 922:Loneliness is accretive, extending and perpetuating itself. ~ Olivia Laing, #NFDB |
| 923:Love itself describes its own perfection. Be speechless and listen. ~ Rumi, #NFDB |
| 924:Never, ever say the dildo accidentally turned itself on. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB |
925:Not being able to see any problem is itself a problem.
~ Shigeru Mizuno,#NFDB |
| 926:Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself. ~ John Donne, #NFDB |
| 927:Sometimes fear of a thing is worse than the thing itself. ~ Susan Meissner, #NFDB |
| 928:The answer is that the question itself is strictly inapposite. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 929:The Father’s love does not force itself on the beloved. ~ Henri J M Nouwen, #NFDB |
| 930:The Maker offers us creation itself as proof of his greatness. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB |
| 931:The periphery is where the future reveals itself. J.G. Ballard ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 932:The purest love always reveals itself during acceptance. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB |
| 933:There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself. ~ Erich Fromm, #NFDB |
| 934:The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB |
| 935:Today he would believe. Tomorrow would answer for itself. ~ Jerry S Eicher, #NFDB |
| 936:To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 937:True suffering does not know itself and never calculates. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB |
| 938:When you have something truthful to say, it will design itself. ~ Bob Gill, #NFDB |
| 939:While history never repeats itself, political patterns do. ~ Eric Alterman, #NFDB |
| 940:Whoever works for God, his work will be done by itself. ~ Neem Karoli Baba, #NFDB |
| 941:"With each passing momenta soul sets offto find itself." ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #NFDB |
| 942:You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. ~ E B White, #NFDB |
| 943:A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. ~ Arthur Miller, #NFDB |
| 944:Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself. ~ Basil Bunting, #NFDB |
| 945:An Affront to the Rule of Law and to the Constitution Itself ~ John Boehner, #NFDB |
| 946:A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254) ~ Edward O Wilson, #NFDB |
| 947:As time passes, memory, inevitably, reconstitutes itself. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB |
| 948:Attention is primordial intelligence, consciousness itself. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB |
| 949:Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself. ~ Baruch Spinoza, #NFDB |
| 950:Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul. ~ Ivan Doig, #NFDB |
| 951:Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB |
| 952:Evil does not question itself. Only Hope questions itself. ~ Craig Ferguson, #NFDB |
| 953:Evolution is nothing but matter become conscious of itself. ~ Julian Huxley, #NFDB |
| 954:Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB |
| 955:felt the world reorienting itself around this new knowledge. ~ Blake Crouch, #NFDB |
| 956:Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity. ~ Otto Weininger, #NFDB |
| 957:Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. ~ Desiderius Erasmus, #NFDB |
| 958:history is the story of liberty becoming conscious of itself. ~ Clive James, #NFDB |
| 959:If the world could write itself, it would write like Tolstoy. ~ Isaac Babel, #NFDB |
| 960:If you remember the why, the how will work itself out. ~ Richard Paul Evans, #NFDB |
| 961:I thought cars were essential ingredients of life itself. ~ Edward Herrmann, #NFDB |
| 962:Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself. ~ Nicholas Negroponte, #NFDB |
| 963:Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself. ~ Julius Charles Hare, #NFDB |
| 964:Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB |
| 965:Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words. ~ Ignatius of Loyola, #NFDB |
| 966:My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. ~ Huey Newton, #NFDB |
| 967:My heart trips over itself in a race to get closer to her. ~ Lauren Blakely, #NFDB |
| 968:No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself. ~ Elinor Florence, #NFDB |
| 969:Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste. ~ Diego Rivera, #NFDB |
| 970:Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself. ~ Alice Walker, #NFDB |
| 971:science itself is demanding a new, non-fragmentary world view, ~ David Bohm, #NFDB |
| 972:Stability itself is nothing but a more languid motion. ~ Stephen Greenblatt, #NFDB |
| 973:Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself. ~ Horace, #NFDB |
| 974:The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas. ~ Edward de Bono, #NFDB |
| 975:The camera itself, the photograph itself, calls up death. ~ Nobuyoshi Araki, #NFDB |
| 976:the family is a group that needs to escape from itself... ~ Charles Fourier, #NFDB |
| 977:...the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
| 978:The f inge r which point s a t the moon i sn' t the moon itself ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 979:The learned man's life itself shines as the message for mankind. ~ Sai Baba, #NFDB |
| 980:the music speaks for itself, there’s no need to say anything ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
| 981:The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself. ~ Wallace Stevens, #NFDB |
| 982:The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself. ~ Cynthia Ozick, #NFDB |
| 983:The void in the heart does not accommodate itself to a proxy. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB |
| 984:[This day would bend back and shine itself into everything.] ~ Lauren Groff, #NFDB |
| 985:To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. ~ Francis Marion Crawford, #NFDB |
| 986:Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself. ~ Livy, #NFDB |
| 987:Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. ~ Edmund Burke, #NFDB |
| 988:Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself. ~ Al Franken, #NFDB |
| 989:Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself. ~ Laozi, #NFDB |
| 990:Again, put service first, and money takes care of itself. ~ David J Schwartz, #NFDB |
| 991:A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself. ~ William Hazlitt, #NFDB |
| 992:A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB |
| 993:All renews itself, nothing perishes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Life, #NFDB |
| 994:a mind at rest frees the body to work at healing itself. ~ Carrie Anne Noble, #NFDB |
| 995:Anamorphic doesn't really lend itself to the big shots. ~ Jaume Collet Serra, #NFDB |
| 996:An empty religion will betray itself in relationships. ~ Amy Layne Litzelman, #NFDB |
| 997:A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One. ~ Georg Cantor, #NFDB |
| 998:Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself. ~ Baruch Spinoza, #NFDB |
| 999:Complacency has a way of restoring itself of its own accord ~ Lionel Shriver, #NFDB |
| 1000:Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end. ~ Robert Fripp, #NFDB |
| 1001:Everything makes itself known on its way out, once and for all. ~ Paul Selig, #NFDB |
| 1002:Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB |
| 1003:Hate is love looking for itself everyplace but where love is. ~ Jane Roberts, #NFDB |
| 1004:History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time. ~ Erik Qualman, #NFDB |
| 1005:How many lies can I brain tells itself until becomes truth? ~ Kiersten White, #NFDB |
| 1006:Human life is the only thing that takes care of itself. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, #NFDB |
| 1007:I have to be motivated, and I'm sure time will avail itself. ~ Bobby Sherman, #NFDB |
| 1008:I'll just let my work speak for itself, as every artist should. ~ Ryan Braun, #NFDB |
| 1009:India has a responsibility to itself to fight Climate Change ~ Jairam Ramesh, #NFDB |
| 1010:It’s amazing what the gene pool will do to perpetuate itself. ~ Mohsin Hamid, #NFDB |
| 1011:It's not the thing you fling, it's the fling itself. ~ J Christopher Stevens, #NFDB |
| 1012:Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB |
| 1013:Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 1014:Look after the customer and the business will take care of itself ~ Ray Kroc, #NFDB |
1015:Love is most nearly itself
When here and now cease to matter. ~ T S Eliot,#NFDB |
| 1016:Maintain yourself and everything maintains itself around you. ~ Paul Kantner, #NFDB |
| 1017:No dream can be more beautiful than the reality itself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB |
| 1018:Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'! ~ Audrey Hepburn, #NFDB |
| 1019:Put service first, and money takes care of itself—always. ~ David J Schwartz, #NFDB |
| 1020:Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself. ~ Paul Celan, #NFDB |
| 1021:She can be fierce, but for all of that she's actually kindness itself. ~ Avi, #NFDB |
| 1022:The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself. ~ Publilius Syrus, #NFDB |
| 1023:The future is going to take care of itself, like it always has. ~ Andy Grove, #NFDB |
| 1024:The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness. ~ Paul Cezanne, #NFDB |
| 1025:The recognition of confusion is itself a form of clarity. ~ T K V Desikachar, #NFDB |
| 1026:The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB |
| 1027:The World itself is a wonderland, young man, as you well know. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB |
| 1028:We live by a perceptual "map" which is never reality itself. ~ Carl R Rogers, #NFDB |
| 1029:When the bandwagon presents itself, you have to jump onto it. ~ Manuel Rivas, #NFDB |
| 1030:Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. ~ Boethius, #NFDB |
| 1031:Writing it is itself one of the experiments with truth. One ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB |
| 1032:An artist is merely a tool with which art molds itself. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB |
| 1033:Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. ~ Stephen Sondheim, #NFDB |
| 1034:...cassoulet, like life itself, is not so simple as it seems. ~ Paula Wolfert, #NFDB |
| 1035:Character develops itself in the stream of life. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB |
| 1036:Clouds of flavors and savors float around the thing-in-itself. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB |
| 1037:Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact. ~ Thomas Troward, #NFDB |
| 1038:Does mankind truly hate itself? How can one surmount such irreverence? ~ Brom, #NFDB |
| 1039:Dreams, after all, are insubstantial things, like mist itself. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB |
| 1040:Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge. ~ Alberto Manguel, #NFDB |
| 1041:Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~ John Dewey, #NFDB |
| 1042:Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB |
| 1043:human memory is short, and history always repeats itself. ~ Devdutt Pattanaik, #NFDB |
| 1044:Isn’t it fun to read a sentence that races ahead of itself? ~ Durga Chew Bose, #NFDB |
| 1045:Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB |
| 1046:Life is that which must overcome itself again and again ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB |
| 1047:Life takes time. Death, however, reveals itself in an instant. ~ Brad Meltzer, #NFDB |
| 1048:Many a choice is made this way: By pretending it makes itself. ~ Laini Taylor, #NFDB |
| 1049:Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB |
| 1050:Money always has been something that has attracted itself to me. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB |
| 1051:My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. ~ Huey P Newton, #NFDB |
| 1052:Non-co-operation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB |
| 1053:No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself. ~ Vladimir Lenin, #NFDB |
| 1054:Science itself is steadily nailing the lid on atheism's coffin. ~ Lee Strobel, #NFDB |
| 1055:Silence has stuffed itself into every corner of this building. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB |
| 1056:Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy. ~ Euripides, #NFDB |
| 1057:That mind which understands itself is the mind of a free man. ~ L Ron Hubbard, #NFDB |
| 1058:The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. ~ William S Burroughs, #NFDB |
| 1059:The consequences of every act are included in the act itself. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB |
| 1060:The Death Star was gone. Had the Empire itself fallen with it? ~ Claudia Gray, #NFDB |
| 1061:The government is best which makes itself unnecessary. ~ Wilhelm von Humboldt, #NFDB |
| 1062:The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days. ~ Viggo Mortensen, #NFDB |
| 1063:The mind plays tricks on itself in order to stay in one piece. ~ Meg Wolitzer, #NFDB |
| 1064:The mirror never sees itself. The reflection never is itself. ~ Gregory Keyes, #NFDB |
| 1065:The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB |
| 1066:the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself. ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB |
| 1067:The threat is generally more terrifying than the thing itself. ~ Saul Alinsky, #NFDB |
| 1068:The Universe began when Nothing saw itself in the mirror. ~ Tor Norretranders, #NFDB |
| 1069:The way religion makes thousands believe is itself a miracle. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB |
| 1070:To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, #NFDB |
| 1071:To have found God is not an end but in itself a beginning. ~ Franz Rosenzweig, #NFDB |
| 1072:To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB |
| 1073:Truth contains a vital principle and will manifest itself. ~ Charles F Haanel, #NFDB |
| 1074:Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed. ~ Peter Ackroyd, #NFDB |
| 1075:We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself. ~ Virginia Woolf, #NFDB |
| 1076:What happened to “we have nothing to fear but fear itself”? ~ Parker J Palmer, #NFDB |
| 1077:What's lost in translation is the complexity of loss itself. ~ Alison Bechdel, #NFDB |
| 1078:When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB |
| 1079:When one is very close to Truth itself, truthfulness vanishes. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB |
| 1080:You don't need to know how the Universe will rearrange itself. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB |
| 1081:Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple. ~ Aberjhani, #NFDB |
| 1082:Abstraction is the way to the heart - it is not the heart itself. ~ John Piper, #NFDB |
| 1083:All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil. ~ Jeremy Bentham, #NFDB |
| 1084:All you need within you is waiting to unfold and reveal itself. ~ Eileen Caddy, #NFDB |
| 1085:An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war. ~ Baron de Montesquieu, #NFDB |
| 1086:Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. ~ Stephen Sondheim, #NFDB |
| 1087:A vacancy in the heart does not accomodate itself to a stop-gap. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB |
| 1088:Biology is stupid and cruel and should feel bad about itself. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB |
| 1089:But for now, happiness throws stones. It guards itself. I wait. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB |
| 1090:but now the news of the world aged him more than time itself. ~ Paulette Jiles, #NFDB |
| 1091:Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself.” — ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB |
| 1092:Fury spends itself pretty quickly when there's no fury facing it. ~ John Lewis, #NFDB |
| 1093:I always believed that the picture itself should tell the story. ~ Brian Froud, #NFDB |
| 1094:I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself. ~ Rudy Rucker, #NFDB |
| 1095:I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB |
| 1096:If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy. ~ Isaac Babel, #NFDB |
1097:I must keep silent. Silent. And let Love describe itself.
~ Jalaluddin Rumi,#NFDB |
| 1098:Instead of asking for something, we can just be the thing itself. ~ Joe Vitale, #NFDB |
| 1099:I think social media is a revolutionary phenomenon all in itself. ~ Tony Blair, #NFDB |
| 1100:I went to the front, but I never participated in the war itself. ~ Akbar Ganji, #NFDB |
| 1101:Leave any problem alone for long enough and it will solve itself. ~ Nell Dixon, #NFDB |
| 1102:Let misery hide itself in silence, otherwise it becomes treason. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB |
| 1103:Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned. ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB |
| 1104:Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB |
| 1105:Love is like a flame; it burns itself out eventually,” Sabiha had ~ Ay e Kulin, #NFDB |
| 1106:Nothing in this world is guaranteed, as life itself is a gamble. ~ Hans Lindor, #NFDB |
| 1107:Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. ~ Walter Pater, #NFDB |
| 1108:Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself. ~ Plato, #NFDB |
| 1109:Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed ~ Isaac Asimov, #NFDB |
| 1110:Perhaps there is something more frightening than love itself. ~ Margaret Stohl, #NFDB |
| 1111:Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman. ~ Leon Kass, #NFDB |
| 1112:Silence wove itself into the spaces of everything around us. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB |
| 1113:Sometimes the memory of horror is worse than the horror itself. ~ Claudia Gray, #NFDB |
| 1114:Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies. ~ Sherry Turkle, #NFDB |
| 1115:The abuse of something good does not diminish the good itself. ~ Matthew Kelly, #NFDB |
| 1116:The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB |
| 1117:The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. ~ Karl Barth, #NFDB |
| 1118:The future has never worried itself about a human being. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB |
| 1119:The image of God throws a shadow that is just as great as itself. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB |
| 1120:The plan itself is opportunism. There is no plan before that. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB |
| 1121:The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB |
| 1122:The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 1123:The reality we can put into words is never reality itself. ~ Werner Heisenberg, #NFDB |
| 1124:There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. ~ Hannah Arendt, #NFDB |
| 1125:The world can’t save itself. That’s the message of Christmas. ~ Timothy Keller, #NFDB |
| 1126:Thinking is just the soul talking with itself, or so Plato says. ~ Lauren Rowe, #NFDB |
| 1127:To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB |
| 1128:Under civilization poverty is born of superabundance itself. ~ Charles Fourier, #NFDB |
| 1129:Unrivalled not only in its class, but in a class by itself. ~ Gordon R Dickson, #NFDB |
| 1130:War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive. ~ Ian Rankin, #NFDB |
| 1131:we value improvement of our daily work more than daily work itself. ~ Gene Kim, #NFDB |
| 1132:Why destroy the World when you can watch the World destroy itself? ~ J A White, #NFDB |
| 1133:A department is a little factory unto itself with input and output ~ Henry Ford, #NFDB |
| 1134:All you ever were was a piece of the universe thinking to itself ~ Iain M Banks, #NFDB |
| 1135:At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument. ~ Richard Ford, #NFDB |
| 1136:A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars. ~ Barbara Kingsolver, #NFDB |
| 1137:But what creature in the world doesn't want to be loved for itself? ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB |
| 1138:Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB |
| 1139:Does anyone seriously contend that any nation can fend for itself? ~ Kofi Annan, #NFDB |
| 1140:Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself. ~ Phil Crosby, #NFDB |
| 1141:Even a brilliant mind sometimes needs a dull stone to sharpen itself. ~ Ken Liu, #NFDB |
| 1142:Every motion contains within itself a thought and feeling. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan, #NFDB |
| 1143:Evil comes in all forms, Elena. Even portrays itself as light. ~ Adrienne Woods, #NFDB |
| 1144:Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB |
| 1145:For some brave people, travelling itself is the best port! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB |
| 1146:For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse. ~ Leonardo DiCaprio, #NFDB |
| 1147:Get the inside right, and the outside will take care of itself. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB |
| 1148:Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself. ~ Stephen Mitchell, #NFDB |
| 1149:Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB |
| 1150:How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism? ~ Howard Zinn, #NFDB |
| 1151:I find if I just sit down and think, a solution presents itself. ~ Sean Connery, #NFDB |
| 1152:I’m just a brother who loved his sister more than life itself. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB |
| 1153:In America, the system itself of democracy is being threatened. ~ Barbara Boxer, #NFDB |
| 1154:I think the 16 years that I spent in Green Bay speaks for itself. ~ Brett Favre, #NFDB |
| 1155:it is only courage on the path itself that makes the path appear ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
| 1156:It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself. ~ Ezra Pound, #NFDB |
| 1157:It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning. ~ Virginia Woolf, #NFDB |
| 1158:It was almost as if she were breaking away from life itself. Macit ~ Ay e Kulin, #NFDB |
| 1159:Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning. ~ Osho, #NFDB |
| 1160:Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete. ~ Carlos Castaneda, #NFDB |
| 1161:Life should be an aim unto itself, a purpose unto itself. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB |
| 1162:like the rainbow after the rain joy will reveal itself after sorrow ~ Rupi Kaur, #NFDB |
| 1163:Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality. ~ Mortimer Adler, #NFDB |
| 1164:Make government what it ought to be, and it will support itself. ~ Thomas Paine, #NFDB |
| 1165:Mandelion spread itself like a butterfly of brick and slate. ~ Frances Hardinge, #NFDB |
| 1166:Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself. ~ Kami Garcia, #NFDB |
| 1167:Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed. ~ Isaac Asimov, #NFDB |
| 1168:Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB |
| 1169:Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB |
| 1170:Silence is the communing of a conscious soul with itself. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB |
| 1171:Silence itself could be used as deftly and cruelly as a kire ~ Frances Hardinge, #NFDB |
| 1172:Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power ~ Alexander Berkman, #NFDB |
| 1173:that concerns itself overmuch with the turning of the world? ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB |
| 1174:That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB |
| 1175:The building itself almost appeared to be holding its breath. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB |
| 1176:The experience of giving birth itself made me feel more womanly. ~ Vera Farmiga, #NFDB |
| 1177:The high courage of a single man is an army all by itself! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB |
| 1178:The lawyer's world is entire unto itself, the human pared away. ~ Hilary Mantel, #NFDB |
| 1179:The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself. ~ James Russell Lowell, #NFDB |
| 1180:The purpose of an army must surely be to put itself out of business. ~ A A Gill, #NFDB |
| 1181:There is nothing after death, and death itself is nothing. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB |
| 1182:There is no 'why' in a world that would be perfect in itself. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB |
| 1183:There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself. ~ Robert De Niro, #NFDB |
| 1184:The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB |
| 1185:The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself. ~ Marianne Moore, #NFDB |
| 1186:the writer is [...] the work's way of getting itself written ~ Donald Barthelme, #NFDB |
| 1187:This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't. ~ Douglas Hofstadter, #NFDB |
| 1188:To use the past, he had to save it from aspects of itself. ~ Richard Brookhiser, #NFDB |
| 1189:Water uses itself to go beyond whatever it needs to go beyond. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB |
| 1190:We're conduits for the universe's desire to think about itself. ~ Dominic Smith, #NFDB |
| 1191:What comes of itself, let it come. What goes of itself, let it go. ~ Alan Cohen, #NFDB |
| 1192:who are you? Consciousness that has become conscious of itself. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB |
| 1193:Writing is a way of organizing experience and life itself. ~ Patricia Highsmith, #NFDB |
| 1194:All the basic information should be in the object itself. ~ Michael Craig Martin, #NFDB |
| 1195:Analysis is more likely to adjust evidence than to adjust itself. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB |
| 1196:An Organisation That Does Not Invest In Itself, Has No Future. ~ Strive Masiyiwa, #NFDB |
| 1197:A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself. ~ Rumi, #NFDB |
| 1198:A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself. ~ Gertrude Stein, #NFDB |
| 1199:A reputation for money is almost as negotiable as money itself. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB |
| 1200:Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it. ~ Saul Williams, #NFDB |
| 1201:At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of melancholy. ~ Arthur Golden, #NFDB |
| 1202:Beauty is gloriously useless; it has no purpose but itself. ~ David Bentley Hart, #NFDB |
| 1203:Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically. ~ Plato, #NFDB |
| 1204:Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile. ~ J B Priestley, #NFDB |
| 1205:equal flaps, one draping itself over the front of the face, the ~ Robert Masello, #NFDB |
| 1206:Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy. ~ Diogenes, #NFDB |
| 1207:Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB |
| 1208:First. Love ought to manifest itself more by deeds than by words. ~ Chris Lowney, #NFDB |
| 1209:Forget yesterday, live for today. Tomorrow will take care of itself. ~ Rick Ross, #NFDB |
| 1210:For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise. ~ Barbara Kingsolver, #NFDB |
| 1211:For missing the idea of something more than the thing itself. ~ Brianna Labuskes, #NFDB |
| 1212:How can you have a war on terrorism while war itself is terrorism! ~ Howard Zinn, #NFDB |
| 1213:How do you design the product in a way so that it sells itself?. ~ Regis McKenna, #NFDB |
| 1214:I came out of a family background that involved itself with people. ~ Ella Baker, #NFDB |
| 1215:If you give evil nothing to oppose, then virtue will return by itself. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB |
| 1216:I like a show to unfold and keep presenting itself, surprising you. ~ Tommy Tune, #NFDB |
| 1217:In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself. ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB |
| 1218:innocence based in ignorance was unfit to protect itself. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold, #NFDB |
| 1219:In the expression of grief lies recovery from grief itself. ~ Christopher Priest, #NFDB |
| 1220:In the new era, thought itself will be transmitted by radio. ~ Guglielmo Marconi, #NFDB |
| 1221:Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust. ~ Golda Meir, #NFDB |
| 1222:it can't afford to be hard. it won't allow itself psychologically. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB |
| 1223:I think of dance as a constant transformation of life itself. ~ Merce Cunningham, #NFDB |
| 1224:It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem. ~ Wallace Stevens, #NFDB |
| 1225:Life itself is dispare, so we must make darkness our ally ~ David Clement Davies, #NFDB |
| 1226:Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty. ~ Anne Carson, #NFDB |
| 1227:Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world ~ Willa Cather, #NFDB |
| 1228:missing and underlying the interpretation of language itself. ~ Daniel L Everett, #NFDB |
| 1229:Myth is a past with a future, exercising itself in the present. ~ Carlos Fuentes, #NFDB |
| 1230:No society can understand itself without looking at its shadow side. ~ Gabor Mat, #NFDB |
| 1231:One name by itself can't fully represent God's majesty & power. ~ Tony Evans, #NFDB |
| 1232:Opinion all too often leaves no room for anything but itself. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB |
| 1233:Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB |
| 1234:Pixar has outdone itself in visual magic and vivid storytelling. ~ Peter Travers, #NFDB |
| 1235:Reading is itself a state of artificially enhanced loneliness. ~ Nicholson Baker, #NFDB |
| 1236:Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB |
| 1237:sweeter than joy itself, for the heart of the laugh was love. ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB |
| 1238:..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB |
| 1239:The best of my nature reveals itself in play, and play is sacred. ~ Isak Dinesen, #NFDB |
| 1240:The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state ~ Karl Marx, #NFDB |
| 1241:The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB |
| 1242:The midfield picks itself - Beckham, Scholes, Gerrard and A N Other. ~ Phil Neal, #NFDB |
| 1243:The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.k ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 1244:The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of ~ Gardner Murphy, #NFDB |
| 1245:The word human itself comes from the same root as humus, earth. ~ Eben Alexander, #NFDB |
| 1246:The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me. ~ Alice McDermott, #NFDB |
| 1247:To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude. ~ Simone de Beauvoir, #NFDB |
| 1248:Truth has already ceased to be itself if polemically said. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 1249:Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself. ~ Phylicia Rashad, #NFDB |
| 1250:Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. Henry Miller ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB |
| 1251:You are mine, and Heaven itself cannot rescue you from my power. ~ Matthew Lewis, #NFDB |
| 1252:You do what you do out of your private love of the thing itself. ~ Annie Dillard, #NFDB |
| 1253:You have been my friend... And that in itself is a tremendous thing. ~ E B White, #NFDB |
| 1254:You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself. ~ Bertolt Brecht, #NFDB |
| 1255:America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death. ~ John Piper, #NFDB |
| 1256:A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself. That's how I hold your voice. ~ Rumi, #NFDB |
1257:An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
~ Baron de Montesquieu,#NFDB |
| 1258:Courage frees us from the fears that would rob us of life itself. ~ Erwin McManus, #NFDB |
| 1259:Different development itself runs the threat of making life shapeless. ~ Todd May, #NFDB |
| 1260:Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB |
| 1261:Don't tell readers what to think. Let the action speak for itself. ~ Paula McLain, #NFDB |
| 1262:Don’t worry about tomorrow — tomorrow would worry about itself. ~ Karen Kingsbury, #NFDB |
| 1263:Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan? ~ Erica Jong, #NFDB |
| 1264:Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state. ~ Thomas de Quincey, #NFDB |
| 1265:Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel, #NFDB |
| 1266:Fight for life itself and everlasting freedom of the human spirit. ~ Janet Morris, #NFDB |
| 1267:Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. ~ George Washington, #NFDB |
| 1268:Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB |
| 1269:Giving up on love is the same thing as giving up on life itself. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB |
| 1270:He had forgotten that his paradise was surrounded by hell itself. ~ F lix J Palma, #NFDB |
| 1271:He wasn’t writing to win a prize. The writing itself was his reward. ~ Jamie Beck, #NFDB |
| 1272:History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another. ~ Max Beerbohm, #NFDB |
| 1273:History fancies itself linear - but yields to a cyclical temptation. ~ Criss Jami, #NFDB |
| 1274:History itself is only ever a story, told by the ones who survive it. ~ C J Tudor, #NFDB |
| 1275:How much better it is that you defeat anger than that it defeats itself! ~ Seneca, #NFDB |
| 1276:Human beings may be inconsistent, but human nature is true to itself ~ John Jakes, #NFDB |
| 1277:Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB |
| 1278:Humor itself is a great disinfectant. It enables people to listen. ~ Robert Reich, #NFDB |
| 1279:I couldn’t live in a body while my soul tore itself into pieces. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB |
| 1280:If you play well on the field, everything will take care of itself. ~ Derek Jeter, #NFDB |
| 1281:I think just getting a movie done is an accomplishment in itself. ~ John C Reilly, #NFDB |
| 1282:Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself. ~ Benjamin Carson, #NFDB |
| 1283:Learning itself is a present, the best one anyone can give or get. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB |
| 1284:Let my soul calm itself, O Christ, in Thee. This is true. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe, #NFDB |
| 1285:Like genius itself, creativity is a process, not a providence. The ~ Sean Patrick, #NFDB |
| 1286:Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly. ~ Martin Freeman, #NFDB |
| 1287:Love is a trap and only reveals itself to us by making us suffer. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB |
| 1288:Love longs to declare itself, and sooner or later it does. ~ Panayotis Cacoyannis, #NFDB |
| 1289:Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words. ~ Saint Ignatius of Loyola, #NFDB |
| 1290:Memory itself is an internal rumour. ~ George Santayana, Reason in Science, 1906., #NFDB |
| 1291:Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. ~ Lyman Beecher, #NFDB |
| 1292:One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself. ~ Robert Mapplethorpe, #NFDB |
| 1293:Real love uses freedom to attach itself unchangeably to another. ~ Fulton J Sheen, #NFDB |
| 1294:Remember this phrase,” Dana tell us: “‘The heart feeds itself first. ~ Bill Hayes, #NFDB |
| 1295:Science is the Noah’s Ark very itself! Seek no other vessel! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB |
| 1296:such a ‘nature’ would contradict itself, and so couldn’t be a nature. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 1297:Sweetness itself becomes powerful when at the service of the Divine. ~ The Mother, #NFDB |
| 1298:The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself. ~ Gregory Bateson, #NFDB |
| 1299:The drop grows happy by losing itself in the river. ~ Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, #NFDB |
| 1300:The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end. ~ John Dewey, #NFDB |
| 1301:The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself. ~ William Blake, #NFDB |
| 1302:The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion. ~ Blaise Pascal, #NFDB |
| 1303:The nation which forgets it defenders will be itself forgotten. ~ Calvin Coolidge, #NFDB |
| 1304:The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious. ~ Sigmund Freud, #NFDB |
| 1305:There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB |
| 1306:The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB |
| 1307:The soul is the human being considered as having a value in itself. ~ Simone Weil, #NFDB |
| 1308:The sum of the particular intentions of God is the universe itself. ~ Simone Weil, #NFDB |
| 1309:The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul. ~ Chrysippus, #NFDB |
| 1310:The West is boring itself to death! And talking itself to death! ~ Diana Vreeland, #NFDB |
| 1311:The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself. ~ Byron Katie, #NFDB |
1312:This accidental
Meeting of possibilities
Calls itself I. ~ Dag Hammarskj ld,#NFDB |
| 1313:To love and be loved is life itself without which we are nought ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB |
| 1314:True devotion is for itself: not to desire heaven nor to fear hell. ~ Rabia Basri, #NFDB |
| 1315:Virtue shows itself in the lowest as well as in the sublimest things. ~ Confucius, #NFDB |
| 1316:Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth. ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB |
| 1317:War is like a fire - if you do not put it out, it will burn itself out. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB |
| 1318:Watches and clocks measure our perception of time, not time itself. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB |
| 1319:What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself? ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB |
| 1320:When the sun sets, candle starts seeing itself like the sun! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB |
| 1321:Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB |
| 1322:You have to manage a system. The system doesn't manage itself. ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB |
| 1323:All you need is deep within you waiting to unfold and reveal itself. ~ Eileen Cady, #NFDB |
| 1324:Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure. ~ David Hume, #NFDB |
| 1325:Being at home is a job in itself and raising a family for sure. ~ Laura Carmichael, #NFDB |
| 1326:Birdsong itself may have awakened the latent musical gifts of man. ~ Lewis Mumford, #NFDB |
| 1327:Bring a mirror and let a dirty face recognize itself. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, #NFDB |
| 1328:By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB |
| 1329:By so giving up, of course, it renews itself- that is the secret ~ Gregory Maguire, #NFDB |
| 1330:Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB |
| 1331:Character deaths in and of itself should never be done for shock. ~ Scott M Gimple, #NFDB |
| 1332:Consciousness, fully awake to itself, is the Light of God. ~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, #NFDB |
| 1333:Creation is not a hurdle on the road to God, it is the road itself. ~ Martin Buber, #NFDB |
| 1334:Door of passage to the other side, the soul frees itself in stride. ~ Jim Morrison, #NFDB |
| 1335:Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. ~ Richard Rhodes, #NFDB |
| 1336:Every people, like every person, . . . has a right to be itself. ~ Mikhail Bakunin, #NFDB |
| 1337:Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself. ~ Woodrow Wilson, #NFDB |
| 1338:First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB |
| 1339:happiness needs nothing but itself, it doesn’t have to be validated. ~ Herman Koch, #NFDB |
| 1340:happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesn’t have to be validated. ~ Herman Koch, #NFDB |
| 1341:History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up. ~ Will Durant, #NFDB |
| 1342:I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act. ~ John Ashbery, #NFDB |
| 1343:If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB |
| 1344:If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself. ~ Eric Gill, #NFDB |
| 1345:Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself. ~ Ralph Ellison, #NFDB |
| 1346:It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself ~ John Green, #NFDB |
| 1347:It [Reality] underlies limitations, being itself limitless. ~ Sri Ramana Maharishi, #NFDB |
| 1348:Knowledge all by itself, without deep wisdom, ends up becoming despair. ~ Ram Dass, #NFDB |
| 1349:Let us worry about beauty first, and truth will take care of itself. ~ Anthony Zee, #NFDB |
| 1350:Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB |
| 1351:Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be. ~ Ray Stevenson, #NFDB |
| 1352:Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents. ~ Joyce Carol Oates, #NFDB |
| 1353:Love itself is the healing power and the remedy for all pain. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan, #NFDB |
| 1354:Love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB |
| 1355:Mankind must destroy anti-humanity before it becomes extinct itself. ~ John Hersey, #NFDB |
| 1356:May we understand that fear of failure is worse than failure itself ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
| 1357:Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body. ~ Robert Bresson, #NFDB |
| 1358:Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand. ~ Stevie Wonder, #NFDB |
| 1359:No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures ~ Epicurus, #NFDB |
| 1360:Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself. ~ Margaret Stohl, #NFDB |
| 1361:Our response to an event is more important than the event itself. ~ Angeles Arrien, #NFDB |
| 1362:Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself. ~ Margaret Atwood, #NFDB |
| 1363:Science itself is learning how to better exploit negative results. ~ John Brockman, #NFDB |
| 1364:She was night itself reborn on earth, a queen swathed in shadows. ~ Claire Legrand, #NFDB |
| 1365:Sometimes, Reynie, trouble itself is the key. - Mr. Benedict ~ Trenton Lee Stewart, #NFDB |
| 1366:Suffering doesn’t concern itself with the scale of other sufferings. ~ Martin Amis, #NFDB |
| 1367:The artist's life nourishes itself on the particular, the concrete. ~ Sylvia Plath, #NFDB |
| 1368:The body itself is to reveal the light that's blazing inside your Presence. ~ Rumi, #NFDB |
| 1369:The bottom line, it’s impossible to protect society from itself. ~ Andrew Peterson, #NFDB |
| 1370:The earth itself is their church; the vast, open sky its ceiling. ~ Wayne Teasdale, #NFDB |
| 1371:The eternal Tao has no name; when the Tao divided Itself, then It had a name. ~ id, #NFDB |
| 1372:The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past. ~ Dwight D Eisenhower, #NFDB |
| 1373:The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself. ~ William Blake, #NFDB |
| 1374:The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten. ~ Calvin Coolidge, #NFDB |
| 1375:The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten. ~ Calvin Coolidge, #NFDB |
| 1376:The necessity of technology lends itself to becoming an addiction. ~ Asa Don Brown, #NFDB |
| 1377:To be able to thank Allah for a blessing is a blessing within itself. ~ Al Shafi i, #NFDB |
| 1378:We are the dust of the Universe, trying to understand itself. ~ Charles Pellegrino, #NFDB |
| 1379:We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB |
| 1380:When the mind itself is absent, there will be perfect peace. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB |
| 1381:Yet the fact had no consciousness of itself except through me. ~ Joyce Carol Oates, #NFDB |
| 1382:You can not travel the path until you have become the path itself ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB |
| 1383:Adaptability to change is itself a hallmark of successful education. ~ Peter Hilton, #NFDB |
| 1384:All beliefs will crash somewhere. Only reality will sustain itself. ~ Jaggi Vasudev, #NFDB |
| 1385:America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford. ~ Richard Lamm, #NFDB |
1386:and so by
your love the very sun
itself is revived ~ William Carlos Williams,#NFDB |
| 1387:Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger. ~ David O McKay, #NFDB |
| 1388:Be patient, Katie. Everything doesn’t have to work itself out today. ~ Lisa Wingate, #NFDB |
| 1389:Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru, #NFDB |
| 1390:"Do not mistake the finger pointing at the moon for the moon itself." ~ Zen proverb, #NFDB |
| 1391:Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness. ~ Chogyam Trungpa, #NFDB |
| 1392:Fear best lends itself to the creation of Nature-defying illusions. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB |
| 1393:Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself. ~ Coco Chanel, #NFDB |
| 1394:History never repeats itself—but historical situations recur.” As ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB |
| 1395:History repeats itself is another way of saying the past harmonizes. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB |
| 1396:I feel like the spirit of the butterfly transferred itself to me. ~ Vanessa Hudgens, #NFDB |
| 1397:I said how you react to life is a choice, not life itself. Rocco, ~ Sharon Hamilton, #NFDB |
| 1398:It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, ~ John Green, #NFDB |
| 1399:I think being so passionate about something is a talent in itself. ~ Hiromu Arakawa, #NFDB |
| 1400:It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. ~ Gertrude Stein, #NFDB |
| 1401:It's just a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself. ~ Byron Katie, #NFDB |
| 1402:Just keep on shining that light. The rest will take care of itself. ~ Ellen Hopkins, #NFDB |
| 1403:Life figures itself to me as a festal or funereal procession. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne, #NFDB |
| 1404:Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet. ~ Benjamin Hoff, #NFDB |
| 1405:Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself. ~ W Somerset Maugham, #NFDB |
| 1406:Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor. ~ Thaddeus of Vitovnica, #NFDB |
1407:love needs too much help, he said.
hate takes care of itself. ~ Charles Bukowski,#NFDB |
| 1408:Man is born by labor, [40] and birth itself means risking death. ~ Giacomo Leopardi, #NFDB |
| 1409:More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowing. ~ Daniel J Boorstin, #NFDB |
| 1410:Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. ~ Plautus, #NFDB |
| 1411:Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself. ~ Albert Schweitzer, #NFDB |
| 1412:Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself. ~ John Vianney, #NFDB |
| 1413:Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason. ~ William Hazlitt, #NFDB |
| 1414:Sometimes, the anticipation of pain is worse than the pain itself. ~ Karpov Kinrade, #NFDB |
| 1415:The bestower of bliss must be Bliss itself and also Infinite. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB |
| 1416:The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself. ~ Asghar Farhadi, #NFDB |
| 1417:The ego needs recognition. The spirit does not need to thank itself. ~ Stuart Wilde, #NFDB |
| 1418:The engineer’s grail is a product great enough that “it sells itself. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB |
| 1419:The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, #NFDB |
| 1420:"The Imagination is not a State: it is the Human Existence itself." ~ William Blake, #NFDB |
| 1421:The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. ~ Gore Vidal, #NFDB |
| 1422:The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB |
| 1423:The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself. ~ Zadie Smith, #NFDB |
| 1424:The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form. ~ Gustav Mahler, #NFDB |
1425:the thing I came for:
[...]
the thing itself and not the myth ~ Adrienne Rich,#NFDB |
| 1426:The universe will start to rearrange itself to make it happen for you. ~ Joe Vitale, #NFDB |
| 1427:Truth is like a wild animal; let it loose and it will defend itself! ~ Andy Andrews, #NFDB |
| 1428:Unasked, Unsought, Love gives itself but is not bought ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB |
| 1429:Valuating is itself the value and jewel of all valued things. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB |
| 1430:We are a part of nature. Our nature is an extract of nature itself. This ~ Om Swami, #NFDB |
| 1431:We are loved by Love itself. There is nothing good that we can't do. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB |
| 1432:We don't really have to make fun of religion - it makes fun of itself. ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB |
| 1433:Whatever arises from a just situation by just steps is itself just. ~ Robert Nozick, #NFDB |
| 1434:What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB |
| 1435:When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB |
| 1436:Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one. ~ Enid Blyton, #NFDB |
| 1437:And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself. ~ Jennifer Lopez, #NFDB |
| 1438:As far as humanity is concerned the origin of stupidity is itself. ~ William C Brown, #NFDB |
1439:But for now, happiness throws stones.
It guards itself.
I wait. ~ Markus Zusak,#NFDB |
| 1440:Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself. ~ Dick Cavett, #NFDB |
| 1441:Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself. ~ Patti Smith, #NFDB |
| 1442:Do I hope that if feeling disguises itself as thought I shall feel less? ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB |
| 1443:Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself. ~ Sybil Marshall, #NFDB |
| 1444:Every enlightened path can turn on itself and become a new tyranny, ~ Karl Schroeder, #NFDB |
| 1445:Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies. ~ Paulo Freire, #NFDB |
| 1446:Fear builds its phantoms which are more fearsome than fear itself ~ Jawaharlal Nehru, #NFDB |
| 1447:Forgetting the extermination is part of the extermination itself. ~ Jean Baudrillard, #NFDB |
| 1448:He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself. ~ Edmund Burke, #NFDB |
1449:Ipsa scientia potestas est.
Knowledge itself is power. ~ Francis Bacon,#NFDB |
| 1450:In the expression of grief lies recovery from grief itself. Nor ~ Christopher Priest, #NFDB |
| 1451:Lechery is secretive, but must finally reveal itself to at least one. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB |
| 1452:Life itself is bound to be dreary if you carry a lot of baggage about. ~ Osamu Dazai, #NFDB |
| 1453:Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin, #NFDB |
| 1454:Living is cold and technical without you, a death mask of itself. ~ Zelda Fitzgerald, #NFDB |
| 1455:Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love. ~ Charles Peguy, #NFDB |
| 1456:Might nature ultimately fathom itself? ~ Erich Jantsch, The Self-Organizing Universe, #NFDB |
| 1457:My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy. ~ Cat Cora, #NFDB |
| 1458:No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable. ~ David Foster Wallace, #NFDB |
| 1459:Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. ~ Plautus, #NFDB |
| 1460:Pieces. I hold them like they are life itself. They nearly are. ~ Mary E Pearson, #NFDB |
| 1461:Price, taken by itself, is nothing but the monetary expression of value. ~ Karl Marx, #NFDB |
| 1462:Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself. ~ Charles Handy, #NFDB |
| 1463:Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself ~ Guy Finley, #NFDB |
| 1464:Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly. ~ Glen Duncan, #NFDB |
| 1465:The anti-war movement should turn itself into a pro-democracy movement ~ Naomi Klein, #NFDB |
| 1466:The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment. ~ Jules Verne, #NFDB |
| 1467:…the consequences of sex are often more memorable than the act itself. ~ John Irving, #NFDB |
| 1468:The Empire’s weapon may be destroyed, but the Empire itself lives on. ~ Chuck Wendig, #NFDB |
| 1469:The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies. ~ Charles Tupper, #NFDB |
| 1470:The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness ~ Voltaire, #NFDB |
| 1471:the nature of a voluntary act, whose principle needs to be in itself; ~ Peter Kreeft, #NFDB |
| 1472:Theology must work itself out in the most practical relationships. ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB |
| 1473:The only way to see the path in the wind is to become the wind itself. ~ Leza Lowitz, #NFDB |
| 1474:The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. ~ Anais Nin, #NFDB |
| 1475:The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB |
| 1476:The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself. ~ Orrin Woodward, #NFDB |
| 1477:The Self being always self evident will shine forth of itself. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB |
| 1478:The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself. ~ Augustus, #NFDB |
| 1479:the worst kind of devil is the kind that believes itself to be holy ~ Joshua Gaylord, #NFDB |
| 1480:To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. ~ William Blake, #NFDB |
| 1481:We have nothing to fear but fear itself...and of course the boogieman. ~ Pat Paulsen, #NFDB |
| 1482:What the heart desires is medicine to itself. Does that make sense? ~ Rebecca Walker, #NFDB |
| 1483:When given the opportunity, Society will happily cannibalize itself. ~ Sarah MacLean, #NFDB |
| 1484:When it comes to our minds, awareness is very often the solution itself. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB |
| 1485:When wealth and honours lead to arrogancy, this brings its evil on itself. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB |
| 1486:Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance. ~ Brooks Atkinson, #NFDB |
| 1487:You are this universe experiencing itself, very briefly, as a human. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB |
| 1488:You can acquire chic and elegance, but style itself is a rare thing. ~ Irene Sharaff, #NFDB |
1489:You have been my friend.
That in itself has been a tremendous thing. ~ E B White,#NFDB |
| 1490:An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB |
| 1491:A nation regenerates itself only upon heaps of corpses. ~ Louis Antoine de Saint Just, #NFDB |
| 1492:...and it works because happiness itself is often subtle and incomplete. ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB |
| 1493:Anger is often what pain looks like when it shows itself in public. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB |
| 1494:As a scar commemorates what happened, so is memory but itself a scar. ~ Carl Phillips, #NFDB |
| 1495:Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB |
| 1496:Beauty reveals itself in the course of an experience with an object. ~ Howard Gardner, #NFDB |
| 1497:Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not MY pain. ~ Karen Armstrong, #NFDB |
| 1498:Change the language in the tribe, and you have changed the tribe itself. ~ Dave Logan, #NFDB |
| 1499:Dawn itself is the most neglected masterpiece of the modern world. ~ R Murray Schafer, #NFDB |
| 1500:Don't confuse the evil of avoiding pregnancy by itself, with abortion. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB |