1. Brings out of a folded state; spreads or opens out. 2. Discloses or lays open to the view; displays. Also fig.
1. Excessive pride in one"s appearance, qualities, abilities, achievements, etc.; character or quality of being vain; conceit; an instance or display of this quality or feeling. 2. Lack of usefulness, worth, or effect; worthlessness.
1. That unfolds, discloses, or develops. 2. Spreading out or laying open to view; revealing; displaying. unfoldings. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as a n.)
1. To open or spread out from a rolled-up state; to uncoil. 2. To lay open; display; reveal. 3. To become open or spread out. Also fig. unrolls, unrolled.
aard-wolf ::: n. --> A carnivorous quadruped (Proteles Lalandii), of South Africa, resembling the fox and hyena. See Proteles. html{color:
able ::: superl. --> Fit; adapted; suitable.
Having sufficient power, strength, force, skill, means, or resources of any kind to accomplish the object; possessed of qualifications rendering competent for some end; competent; qualified; capable; as, an able workman, soldier, seaman, a man able to work; a mind able to reason; a person able to be generous; able to endure pain; able to play on a piano.
Specially: Having intellectual qualifications, or strong
accidental ::: a. --> Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.
Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play. ::: n.
accordionist ::: n. --> A player on the accordion.
accordion ::: n. --> A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.
achillean ::: a. --> Resembling Achilles, the hero of the Iliad; invincible. html{color:
actor ::: n. --> One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.
A theatrical performer; a stageplayer.
An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.
One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant.
actress ::: n. --> A female actor or doer.
A female stageplayer; a woman who acts a part.
adagio ::: a. & adv. --> Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow. ::: n. --> A piece of music in adagio time; a slow movement; as, an adagio of Haydn. html{color:
addendum ::: n. --> A thing to be added; an appendix or addition. html{color:
adder ::: n. --> One who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers.
A serpent.
A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera (/ Pelias) berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of Clotho.
In America, the term is commonly applied to several harmless snakes, as the milk adder, puffing adder, etc. html{color:
adding ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Add html{color:
admit ::: v. t. --> To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.
To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into a playhouse.
To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an
adoration ::: n. --> The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god.
Homage paid to one in high esteem; profound veneration; intense regard and love; fervent devotion.
A method of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave.
aerognosy ::: n. --> The science which treats of the properties of the air, and of the part it plays in nature.
affectation ::: n. --> An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.
A striving after.
Fondness; affection.
afterpiece ::: n. --> A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
The heel of a rudder.
a game in which a blindfolded player tries to catch and identify one of the other players. The game has been around for at least 2000 years and probably longer. It is known to have been played in Greece about the time of the Roman Conquest.
agitato ::: a. --> Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner.
aiblins ::: adv. --> Alt. of Ablins html{color:
aimless ::: a. --> Without aim or purpose; as, an aimless life. html{color:
alcoholate ::: n. --> A crystallizable compound of a salt with alcohol, in which the latter plays a part analogous to that of water of crystallization.
alectoromancy ::: n. --> See Alectryomancy. html{color:
alength ::: adv. --> At full length; lengthwise. html{color:
“All aspects of the omnipresent Reality have their fundamental truth in the Supreme Existence. Thus even the aspect or power of Inconscience, which seems to be an opposite, a negation of the eternal Reality, yet corresponds to a Truth held in itself by the self-aware and all-conscious Infinite. It is, when we look closely at it, the Infinite’s power of plunging the consciousness into a trance of self-involution, a self-oblivion of the Spirit veiled in its own abysses where nothing is manifest but all inconceivably is and can emerge from that ineffable latency. In the heights of Spirit this state of cosmic or infinite trance-sleep appears to our cognition as a luminous uttermost Superconscience: at the other end of being it offers itself to cognition as the Spirit’s potency of presenting to itself the opposites of its own truths of being,—an abyss of non-existence, a profound Night of inconscience, a fathomless swoon of insensibility from which yet all forms of being, consciousness and delight of existence can manifest themselves,—but they appear in limited terms, in slowly emerging and increasing self-formulations, even in contrary terms of themselves; it is the play of a secret all-being, all-delight, all-knowledge, but it observes the rules of its own self-oblivion, self-opposition, self-limitation until it is ready to surpass it. This is the Inconscience and Ignorance that we see at work in the material universe. It is not a denial, it is one term, one formula of the infinite and eternal Existence.” The Life Divine
alleyway ::: n. --> An alley. html{color:
"All life, spiritual, mental or material, is the play of the soul with the possibilities of its nature; . . . .” The Synthesis of Yoga
“All life, spiritual, mental or material, is the play of the soul with the possibilities of its nature; …” The Synthesis of Yoga
all-possessed ::: a. --> Controlled by an evil spirit or by evil passions; wild. html{color:
all saints ::: --> Alt. of All Saints&
Amal: “I believe that capitalization indicates that these are not only states but also powers which can display even personality.
amzel ::: n. --> The European ring ousel (Turdus torquatus). html{color:
anatomize ::: v. t. --> To dissect; to cut in pieces, as an animal vegetable body, for the purpose of displaying or examining the structure and use of the several parts.
To discriminate minutely or carefully; to analyze.
And do you want to know why he is always represented as a child? It is because he is in constant progression. To the extent that the world is perfected, his play is also perfected — what was the play of yesterday will no longer be the play of tomorrow; his play will become more and more harmonious, benign and joyful to the extent that the world becomes capable of responding to it and enjoying it with the Divine.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15.
And do you want to know why he is always represented as a child? It is because he is in constant progression. To the extent that the world is perfected, his play is also perfected—what was the play of yesterday will no longer be the play of tomorrow; his play will become more and more harmonious, benign and joyful to the extent that the world becomes capable of responding to it and enjoying it with the Divine.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15.
ante ::: n. --> Each player&
anthomania ::: n. --> A extravagant fondness for flowers. html{color:
antic ::: a. --> Old; antique.
Odd; fantastic; fanciful; grotesque; ludicrous. ::: n. --> A buffoon or merry-andrew; one that practices odd gesticulations; the Fool of the old play.
antitrochanter ::: n. --> An articular surface on the ilium of birds against which the great trochanter of the femur plays.
.any integral yoga, if we do not go back from the outer self and become aware of all this inner being and inner nature. For then alone can we break the limitations of the ignorant external self which receives consciously only the outer touches and knows things indirectly through the outer mind and senses, and become directly aware of the universal consciousness and the universal forces that play through us and around us. And then only too
a record player; a phonograph.
aristotelic ::: a. --> Pertaining to Aristotle or to his philosophy. html{color:
arpeggio ::: n. --> The production of the tones of a chord in rapid succession, as in playing the harp, and not simultaneously; a strain thus played.
array ::: an orderly, often imposing arrangement or series of things displayed; an imposing series.
arrogant ::: 1. Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance. 2. Marked by or arising from a feeling or assumption of one"s superiority toward others.
::: "As for prophecy, I have never met or known of a prophet, however reputed, who was infallible. Some of their predictions come true to the letter, others do not, — they half-fulfil or misfire entirely. It does not follow that the power of prophecy is unreal or the accurate predictions can be all explained by probability, chance, coincidence. The nature and number of those that cannot is too great. The variability of fulfilment may be explained either by an imperfect power in the prophet sometimes active, sometimes failing or by the fact that things are predictable in part only, they are determined in part only or else by different factors or lines of power, different series of potentials and actuals. So long as one is in touch with one line, one predicts accurately, otherwise not — or if the lines of power change, one"s prophecy also goes off the rails. All the same, one may say, there must be, if things are predictable at all, some power or plane through which or on which all is foreseeable; if there is a divine Omniscience and Omnipotence, it must be so. Even then what is foreseen has to be worked out, actually is worked out by a play of forces, — spiritual, mental, vital and physical forces — and in that plane of forces there is no absolute rigidity discoverable. Personal will or endeavour is one of those forces.” Letters on Yoga
“As for prophecy, I have never met or known of a prophet, however reputed, who was infallible. Some of their predictions come true to the letter, others do not,—they half-fulfil or misfire entirely. It does not follow that the power of prophecy is unreal or the accurate predictions can be all explained by probability, chance, coincidence. The nature and number of those that cannot is too great. The variability of fulfilment may be explained either by an imperfect power in the prophet sometimes active, sometimes failing or by the fact that things are predictable in part only, they are determined in part only or else by different factors or lines of power, different series of potentials and actuals. So long as one is in touch with one line, one predicts accurately, otherwise not—or if the lines of power change, one’s prophecy also goes off the rails. All the same, one may say, there must be, if things are predictable at all, some power or plane through which or on which all is foreseeable; if there is a divine Omniscience and Omnipotence, it must be so. Even then what is foreseen has to be worked out, actually is worked out by a play of forces,—spiritual, mental, vital and physical forces—and in that plane of forces there is no absolute rigidity discoverable. Personal will or endeavour is one of those forces.” Letters on Yoga
"As for the spectator and the coils of the dragon, it is the Chino-Japanese image for the world-force extending itself in the course of the universe and this expresses the attitude of the witness seeing it all and observing in its unfolding the unrolling of the play of the Divine Lila.” Letters on Yoga
“As for the spectator and the coils of the dragon, it is the Chino-Japanese image for the world-force extending itself in the course of the universe and this expresses the attitude of the witness seeing it all and observing in its unfolding the unrolling of the play of the Divine Lila.” Letters on Yoga
asquint ::: adv. --> With the eye directed to one side; not in the straight line of vision; obliquely; awry, so as to see distortedly; as, to look asquint. html{color:
atellan ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to Atella, in ancient Italy; as, Atellan plays; farcical; ribald. ::: n. --> A farcical drama performed at Atella.
AUSTERITY. ::: A premature and excessive physical austerity, tapasyā, may endanger the process of the sadhana by establishing a disturbance and abnormality of the forces in the different parts of the system. A great energy may pour into the mental and vital parts, but the nerves and the body may be overstrained and lose the strength to support the play of these higher energies.
author ::: 1. An originator or creator, one who originates or gives existence to anything. 2. He who gives rise to or causes an action, event, circumstance, state, or condition of things. 3. The composer or writer of a treatise, play, poem, book, etc. authors.
baccarat ::: n. --> A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters.
bacharach ::: n. --> Alt. of Backarack html{color:
backgammon ::: n. --> A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a "board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points". Each player has fifteen pieces, or "men", the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables. ::: v. i. --> In the game of backgammon, to beat by ending the
badinage ::: n. --> Playful raillery; banter.
badminton ::: n. --> A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks.
A preparation of claret, spiced and sweetened.
bagatelle ::: n. --> A trifle; a thing of no importance.
A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the hand of the player.
bagpiper ::: n. --> One who plays on a bagpipe; a piper.
ballista ::: n. --> An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles. html{color:
ball ::: n. --> Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.
A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc.
A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football.
Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a cannon ball; a
bandy ::: n. --> A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.
A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.
The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball. ::: v. t.
banister ::: n. --> A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands.
bannerol ::: n. --> A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.
banter ::: v. t. --> To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity.
To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit, characteristic, and the like.
To delude or trick, -- esp. by way of jest.
To challenge or defy to a match.
barkentine ::: n. --> A threemasted vessel, having the foremast square-rigged, and the others schooner-rigged. [Spelled also barquentine, barkantine, etc.] See Illust. in Append. html{color:
barleybreak ::: n. --> An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of barley, or other grain, in which some of the party attempt to catch others who run from a goal.
baseball ::: n. --> A game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds ( four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striking the ball.
The ball used in this game.
based ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Base ::: a. --> Having a base, or having as a base; supported; as, broad-based. ::: n. html{color:
bass viol ::: --> A stringed instrument of the viol family, used for playing bass. See 3d Bass, n., and Violoncello.
basylous ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or having the nature of, a basyle; electro-positive; basic; -- opposed to chlorous. html{color:
bat ::: n. --> A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.
Shale or bituminous shale.
A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
A part of a brick with one whole end.
One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which
batting ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Bat ::: n. --> The act of one who bats; the management of a bat in playing games of ball.
Cotton in sheets, prepared for use in making quilts, etc.; as, cotton batting.
battledoor ::: n. --> An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock.
A child&
bauble ::: n. --> A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything.
The fool&
bayonet ::: n. --> A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense.
A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery. ::: v. t.
bean trefoil ::: --> A leguminous shrub of southern Europe, with trifoliate leaves (Anagyris foetida). html{color:
beggable ::: a. --> Capable of being begged. html{color:
::: ". . . behind visible events in the world there is always a mass of invisible forces at work unknown to the outward minds of men, and by yoga, (by going inward and establishing a conscious connection with the Cosmic Self and Force and forces,) one can become conscious of these forces, intervene consciously in the play, and to some extent at least determine things in the result of the play.” Letters on Yoga
“… behind visible events in the world there is always a mass of invisible forces at work unknown to the outward minds of men, and by yoga, (by going inward and establishing a conscious connection with the Cosmic Self and Force and forces,) one can become conscious of these forces, intervene consciously in the play, and to some extent at least determine things in the result of the play.” Letters on Yoga
being in us for a definite end ; thirdly, liberation, that is to say, the release of our being from the narrow and painful knots of the individualised energy in a false . and limited play, which at present are the law of our nature. The enjoyment of our libera- ted being which brings us into um'ty or union with the Supreme, is the consummation ; it is ihat for which Yoga is done.
“Beyond mind on spiritual and supramental levels dwells the Presence, the Truth, the Power, the Bliss that can alone deliver us from these illusions, display the Light of which our ideals are tarnished disguises and impose the harmony that shall at once transfigure and reconcile all the parts of our nature.” Essays Divine and Human
billiards ::: n. --> A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.
birching ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Birch html{color:
BIRTHDAY. ::: There is a rhythm (among many) In the play of the world-forces which is connected with the sun and the planets. That makes the birthday a day of possible renewal when the being is likely to be mote plastic.
bish ::: n. --> Same as Bikh. html{color:
bisque ::: n. --> Unglazed white porcelain.
A point taken by the receiver of odds in the game of tennis; also, an extra innings allowed to a weaker player in croquet.
A white soup made of crayfish.
blaze ::: n. 1. A brilliant burst of fire, a bright glowing flame. 2. A brilliant, striking display; a brilliant light; resplendent with bright colour. 3. A steady, clear light. 4. Fig. An intense outburst of passion, etc. ::: sun-blaze. v. 5. blazed.
blaze ::: n. --> A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame.
Intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as, to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun.
A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display.
A white spot on the forehead of a horse.
A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark,
blazoned ::: proclaimed loudly or displayed ostentatiously or conspicuously.
blazon ::: n. --> A shield.
An heraldic shield; a coat of arms, or a bearing on a coat of arms; armorial bearings.
The art or act of describing or depicting heraldic bearings in the proper language or manner.
Ostentatious display, either by words or other means; publication; show; description; record.
blazonry ::: n. --> Same as Blazon, 3.
A coat of arms; an armorial bearing or bearings.
Artistic representation or display.
blindly ::: adv. --> Without sight, discernment, or understanding; without thought, investigation, knowledge, or purpose of one&
block ::: v. t. --> A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children&
bluster ::: v. i. --> To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.
To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to play the bully; to storm; to rage. ::: v. t.
board ::: a sheet of wood, cardboard, paper, or other material on which some games are played.
boasting ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Boast ::: n. --> The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display.
bob-cherry ::: n. --> A play among children, in which a cherry, hung so as to bob against the mouth, is to be caught with the teeth.
bob ::: n. --> Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite&
boggle ::: n. --> To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision.
To do anything awkwardly or unskillfully.
To play fast and loose; to dissemble. ::: v. t.
bogie ::: n. --> A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track.
boilingly ::: adv. --> With boiling or ebullition. html{color:
bonce ::: n. --> A boy&
bopeep ::: n. --> The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen, so as to startle some one (as by children in play), or of looking out and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened.
boston ::: n. --> A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war.
bower bird ::: --> An Australian bird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus / holosericeus), allied to the starling, which constructs singular bowers or playhouses of twigs and decorates them with bright-colored objects; the satin bird.
bowing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Bow
of Bow ::: n. --> The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments.
In hatmaking, the act or process of separating and
bowler ::: n. --> One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.
bowling ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Bowl ::: n. --> The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins.
bowl ::: n. --> A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.
Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking.
The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.
The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.
A ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the
boyism ::: n. --> Boyhood.
The nature of a boy; childishness. html{color:
brandish ::: n. --> To move or wave, as a weapon; to raise and move in various directions; to shake or flourish.
To play with; to flourish; as, to brandish syllogisms.
A flourish, as with a weapon, whip, etc.
brave ::: superl. --> Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; -- opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act.
Having any sort of superiority or excellence; -- especially such as in conspicuous.
Making a fine show or display. ::: n.
brigge ::: n. --> A bridge. html{color:
buchu ::: n. --> A South African shrub (Barosma) with small leaves that are dotted with oil glands; also, the leaves themselves, which are used in medicine for diseases of the urinary organs, etc. Several species furnish the leaves. html{color:
buffet ::: n. --> A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard.
A counter for refreshments; a restaurant at a railroad station, or place of public gathering. ::: v. i. --> A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff.
bugger ::: n. --> One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite.
A wretch; -- sometimes used humorously or in playful disparagement.
bugler ::: n. --> One who plays on a bugle.
bulky ::: a. --> Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes. html{color:
bull-necked ::: a. --> Having a short and thick neck like that of a bull. html{color:
bunodonts ::: n. pl. --> A division of the herbivorous mammals including the hogs and hippopotami; -- so called because the teeth are tuberculated. html{color:
buss ::: n. --> A kiss; a rude or playful kiss; a smack.
A small strong vessel with two masts and two cabins; -- used in the herring fishery. ::: v. t. --> To kiss; esp. to kiss with a smack, or rudely.
but ::: adv. & conj. --> Except with; unless with; without.
Except; besides; save.
Excepting or excluding the fact that; save that; were it not that; unless; -- elliptical, for but that.
Otherwise than that; that not; -- commonly, after a negative, with that.
Only; solely; merely.
On the contrary; on the other hand; only; yet; html{color:
But all this must not be taken in too rigid and mechanical a sense. It is an immense plastic movement full of the play of possibilities and must be seized by a flexible and subtle tact or sense in the seeing conscioosness. It cannot be reduced to a too rigorous logical or mathematical formula. Two or three points must be pressed in order that this plasticity may not be lost to our view.
But a time will come when you will feel more and more that you are the instrument and not the worker. For first by the force of your devotion your contact with the Divine Mother will become so intimate that at all times you will have only to con- centrate and to put everything into her hands to have her present guidance, her direct command or impulse, the sure indi- cation of the thing to be done and the way to do it and the result. And afterwards you wfil realise that the divine Shakti not only inspires and guides, but initiates and carries out your works ; all your movements are originated by her, all your powers are hers, mind, life and body are conscious and joyful instruments of her action, means for her play, moulds for her manifestation in the physical universe. There can be
But this exclusive consummation t$ not the sole or inevitable result of the Path of Knowledge. For, followed more largely and with a less individual aim, the method of Knowledge may lead to an active conquest of the cosmic existence for the Divine no less than to a transcendence. The point of this departure is the realisation of the supreme Self not only in one’s own being but in all beings, and, finally, the realisation of even the pheno- menal aspects of the world as a play of the divine consciousness and not something entirely alien to its true nature. And on the basis of this realisation a yet further enlargement is possible, the conversion of all forms of knowledge, however mundane, into activities of the divine consciousness utilisable for the perception of the one and unique Object of knowledge both in itself and through the pTay of its fonns and symbols. Such a method might well lead to the elevation of the whole range of human intellect and perception to the dirine level, to its spiritualisation
bye ::: n. --> A thing not directly aimed at; something which is a secondary object of regard; an object by the way, etc.; as in on or upon the bye, i. e., in passing; indirectly; by implication.
A run made upon a missed ball; as, to steal a bye.
A dwelling.
In certain games, a station or place of an individual player.
byplay ::: n. --> Action carried on aside, and commonly in dumb show, while the main action proceeds.
calamist ::: n. --> One who plays upon a reed or pipe.
calliope ::: n. --> The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
One of the asteroids. See Solar.
A musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles, toned to the notes of the scale, and played by keys arranged like those of an organ. It is sometimes attached to steamboat boilers.
A beautiful species of humming bird (Stellula Calliope) of California and adjacent regions.
camwood ::: n. --> See Barwood. html{color:
caperclaw ::: v. t. --> To treat with cruel playfulness, as a cat treats a mouse; to abuse.
capot ::: n. --> A winning of all the tricks at the game of piquet. It counts for forty points. ::: v. t. --> To win all the tricks from, in playing at piquet.
carbide ::: n. --> A binary compound of carbon with some other element or radical, in which the carbon plays the part of a negative; -- formerly termed carburet.
card ::: n. --> A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards.
A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the newspapers. Also, a printed programme, and (fig.), an attraction or inducement; as, this will be a good card for the last day of the fair.
A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the
carillon ::: n. --> A chime of bells diatonically tuned, played by clockwork or by finger keys.
A tune adapted to be played by musical bells.
carom ::: n. --> A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player&
cassino ::: n. --> A game at cards, played by two or more persons, usually for twenty-one points.
casuist ::: n. --> One who is skilled in, or given to, casuistry. ::: v. i. --> To play the casuist.
casus ::: n. --> An event; an occurrence; an occasion; a combination of circumstances; a case; an act of God. See the Note under Accident. html{color:
catcall ::: n. --> A sound like the cry of a cat, such as is made in playhouses to express dissatisfaction with a play; also, a small shrill instrument for making such a noise.
catcher ::: n. --> One who, or that which, catches.
The player who stands behind the batsman to catch the ball.
catnip ::: n. --> Alt. of Catmint html{color:
charger ::: n. --> One who, or that which charges.
An instrument for measuring or inserting a charge.
A large dish.
A horse for battle or parade. html{color:
charge ::: v. t. --> To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or exhort with authority; to enjoin; to urge earnestly; as, to charge a jury; to charge the clergy of a diocese; to charge an agent.
To lay on, impose, or make subject to or liable for.
To fix or demand as a price; as, he charges two dollars html{color:
charlatanry ::: n. --> Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism. html{color:
charts ::: visual displays of information, as maps, graphs, tables, or sheets of information in the form of a diagram delineating a particular subject.
chatoyment ::: n. --> Changeableness of color, as in a mineral; play of colors.
checkerboard ::: n. --> A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.
checkers ::: v. --> A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.
check ::: n. --> A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player&
chef ::: n. --> A chief of head person.
The head cook of large establishment, as a club, a family, etc.
Same as Chief. html{color:
chequerboard ::: a board on which chess and checkers are played, divided into 64 squares of two alternating colours.
chess ::: n. --> A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns.
A species of brome grass (Bromus secalinus) which is a troublesome weed in wheat fields, and is often erroneously regarded as degenerate or changed wheat; it bears a very slight resemblance to oats, and if reaped and ground up with wheat, so as to be used for
chess-play ::: the game of chess; a board game for two players, each beginning with 16 pieces of six kinds that are moved according to individual rules, with the objective of checkmating the opposing king. chess-player.
chiroplast ::: n. --> An instrument to guid the hands and fingers of pupils in playing on the piano, etc.
chorus ::: n. --> A band of singers and dancers.
A company of persons supposed to behold what passed in the acts of a tragedy, and to sing the sentiments which the events suggested in couplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus.
An interpreter in a dumb show or play.
A company of singers singing in concert.
A composition of two or more parts, each of which is
chrisom ::: n. --> A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened.
A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it. html{color:
chuckling ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Chuckle html{color:
circumferentor ::: n. --> A surveying instrument, for taking horizontal angles and bearings; a surveyor&
circus ::: n. --> A level oblong space surrounded on three sides by seats of wood, earth, or stone, rising in tiers one above another, and divided lengthwise through the middle by a barrier around which the track or course was laid out. It was used for chariot races, games, and public shows.
A circular inclosure for the exhibition of feats of horsemanship, acrobatic displays, etc. Also, the company of performers, with their equipage.
cittern ::: n. --> An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum.
clown ::: n. --> A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an ill-bred person; a boor.
One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl.
The fool or buffoon in a play, circus, etc. ::: v. i. --> To act as a clown; -- with it.
clumps ::: n. --> A game in which questions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by two persons who answer the questions; -- so called because the players take sides in two "clumps" or groups, the "clump" which guesses the word winning the game.
cobnut ::: n. --> A large roundish variety of the cultivated hazelnut.
A game played by children with nuts.
cockal ::: n. --> A game played with sheep&
cockshy ::: n. --> A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in "shying" or throwing cudgels at live cocks.
An object at which stones are flung.
collie ::: n. --> The Scotch shepherd dog. There are two breeds, the rough-haired and smooth-haired. It is remarkable for its intelligence, displayed especially in caring for flocks.
collude ::: v. i. --> To have secretly a joint part or share in an action; to play into each other&
collusion ::: n. --> A secret agreement and cooperation for a fraudulent or deceitful purpose; a playing into each other&
colstaff ::: n. --> A staff by means of which a burden is borne by two persons on their shoulders. html{color:
comedian ::: n. --> An actor or player in comedy.
A writer of comedy.
comedienne ::: n. --> A women who plays in comedy.
comedy ::: n. --> A dramatic composition, or representation of a bright and amusing character, based upon the foibles of individuals, the manners of society, or the ludicrous events or accidents of life; a play in which mirth predominates and the termination of the plot is happy; -- opposed to tragedy.
concerto ::: n. --> A composition (usually in symphonic form with three movements) in which one instrument (or two or three) stands out in bold relief against the orchestra, or accompaniment, so as to display its qualities or the performer&
ConsciousTorcc which forms and moves the worlds. This outer side appears here to be mechanical, a play of the forces, giinas, etc. Behind it b the living Consciousness and Force of the
consequence ::: “ Karma is nothing but the will of the Spirit in action, consequence nothing but the creation of will. What is in the will of being, expresses itself in karma and consequence. When the will is limited in mind, karma appears as a bondage and a limitation, consequence as a reaction or an imposition. But when the will of the being is infinite in the spirit, karma and consequence become instead the joy of the creative spirit, the construction of the eternal mechanist, the word and drama of the eternal poet, the harmony of the eternal musician, the play of the eternal child.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
contour ::: n. --> The outline of a figure or body, or the line or lines representing such an outline; the line that bounds; periphery.
The outline of a horizontal section of the ground, or of works of fortification. html{color:
copyright ::: n. --> The right of an author or his assignee, under statute, to print and publish his literary or artistic work, exclusively of all other persons. This right may be had in maps, charts, engravings, plays, and musical compositions, as well as in books. ::: v. t. --> To secure a copyright on.
coquet ::: v. t. --> To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint. ::: v. i. --> To trifle in love; to stimulate affection or interest; to play the coquette; to deal playfully instead of seriously; to play
coral ::: n. --> The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa.
The ovaries of a cooked lobster; -- so called from their color.
A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.
cornicular ::: n. --> A secretary or clerk. html{color:
coruscation ::: n. --> A sudden flash or play of light.
A flash of intellectual brilliancy.
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cosmos ::: “But if the individual is a persistent reality, an eternal portion or power of the Eternal, if his growth of consciousness is the means by which the Spirit in things discloses its being, the cosmos reveals itself as a conditioned manifestation of the play of the eternal One in the being of Sachchidananda with the eternal Many.” The Life Divine
cosmos ::: n. --> The universe or universality of created things; -- so called from the order and harmony displayed in it.
The theory or description of the universe, as a system displaying order and harmony.
costume ::: n. --> Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.
Such an arrangement of accessories, as in a picture, statue, poem, or play, as is appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described.
A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.
counters ::: anything used in keeping account, as a disk of metal or wood, used in some games, as checkers, for marking a player"s position or for keeping score.
counterturn ::: n. --> The critical moment in a play, when, contrary to expectation, the action is embroiled in new difficulties.
court-cupboard ::: n. --> A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions.
courter ::: n. --> One who courts; one who plays the lover, or who solicits in marriage; one who flatters and cajoles.
covinous ::: a. --> Deceitful; collusive; fraudulent; dishonest. html{color:
cowpea ::: n. --> The seed of one or more leguminous plants of the genus Dolichos; also, the plant itself. Many varieties are cultivated in the southern part of the United States. html{color:
coxcomb ::: n. --> A strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock, which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps.
The cap itself.
The top of the head, or the head itself
A vain, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a fop.
A name given to several plants of different genera, but
cran ::: n. --> Alt. of Crane html{color:
crazy ::: a. --> Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.
Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged.
Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager. html{color:
credence ::: n. --> Reliance of the mind on evidence of facts derived from other sources than personal knowledge; belief; credit; confidence.
That which gives a claim to credit, belief, or confidence; as, a letter of credence.
The small table by the side of the altar or communion table, on which the bread and wine are placed before being consecrated.
A cupboard, sideboard, or cabinet, particularly one intended for the display of rich vessels or plate, and consisting
cribbage ::: v. t. --> A game of cards, played by two or four persons, in which there is a crib. (See Crib, 11.) It is characterized by a great variety of chances.
cricketer ::: n. --> One who plays at cricket.
cricket ::: n. --> An orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllus, and allied genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the front wings.
A low stool.
A game much played in England, and sometimes in America, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides.
A small false roof, or the raising of a portion of a roof,
crisscross ::: n. --> A mark or cross, as the signature of a person who is unable to write.
A child&
croquet ::: n. --> An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern.
The act of croqueting. ::: v. t. --> In the game of croquet, to drive away an opponent&
crossruff ::: n. --> The play in whist where partners trump each a different suit, and lead to each other for that purpose; -- called also seesaw.
crouton ::: n. --> Bread cut in various forms, and fried lightly in butter or oil, to garnish hashes, etc. html{color:
crowder ::: n. --> One who plays on a crowd; a fiddler.
One who crowds or pushes.
cucking stool ::: --> A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; -- called also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool. html{color:
cudgel ::: n. --> A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon. ::: v. t. --> To beat with a cudgel.
cue ::: 1. A hint or suggestion. 2. The part a person is to play; a prescribed or necessary course of action.
cue ::: n. --> The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.
The last words of a play actor&
curler ::: n. --> One who, or that which, curls.
A player at the game called curling.
dabble ::: v. t. --> To wet by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to sprinkle; to moisten; to wet. ::: v. i. --> To play in water, as with the hands; to paddle or splash in mud or water.
To work in slight or superficial manner; to do in a
daft ::: a. --> Stupid; foolish; idiotic; also, delirious; insane; as, he has gone daft.
Gay; playful; frolicsome.
dalliance ::: n. --> The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play.
Delay or procrastination.
Entertaining discourse.
dandle ::: v. t. --> To move up and down on one&
dazzle ::: v. t. --> To overpower with light; to confuse the sight of by brilliance of light.
To bewilder or surprise with brilliancy or display of any kind. ::: v. i. --> To be overpoweringly or intensely bright; to excite
dealer ::: n. --> One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in stocks; a retail dealer.
One who distributes cards to the players.
dealing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Deal ::: n. --> The act of one who deals; distribution of anything, as of cards to the players; method of business; traffic; intercourse; transaction; as, to have dealings with a person.
deal ::: n. --> A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.
The process of dealing cards to the players; also, the portion disturbed.
Distribution; apportionment.
An arrangement to attain a desired result by a combination of interested parties; -- applied to stock speculations and political
deas ::: n. --> See Dais. html{color:
declaim ::: v. i. --> To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking; as, the students declaim twice a week.
To speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant.
declamation ::: n. --> The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students.
A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.
Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation.
declamatory ::: a. --> Pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme.
Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as, a declamatory way or style.
deep-waisted ::: a. --> Having a deep waist, as when, in a ship, the poop and forecastle are much elevated above the deck. html{color:
demonstrative ::: a. --> Having the nature of demonstration; tending to demonstrate; making evident; exhibiting clearly or conclusively.
Expressing, or apt to express, much; displaying feeling or sentiment; as, her nature was demonstrative.
Consisting of eulogy or of invective. ::: n.
dendritic ::: a. --> Alt. of Dendritical html{color:
deploy ::: v. t. & i. --> To open out; to unfold; to spread out (a body of troops) in such a way that they shall display a wider front and less depth; -- the reverse of ploy; as, to deploy a column of troops into line of battle. ::: n. --> Alt. of Deployment
destruction ::: “Destruction in itself is neither good nor evil. It is a fact of Nature, a necessity in the play of forces, as things are in this world. The Light destroys the Darkness and the Powers of Darkness, and that is not a movement of Ignorance!” Letters on Yoga
devi ::: n. --> ; fem. of Deva. A goddess. html{color:
diamond ::: n. --> A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme hardness.
A geometrical figure, consisting of four equal straight lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a rhombus; a lozenge.
One of a suit of playing cards, stamped with the figure of a diamond.
di- ::: --> A prefix, signifying twofold, double, twice
denoting two atoms, radicals, groups, or equivalents, as the case may be. See Bi-, 2.
A prefix denoting through; also, between, apart, asunder, across. Before a vowel dia-becomes di-; as, diactinic; dielectric, etc. html{color:
dib ::: v. i. --> To dip. ::: n. --> One of the small bones in the knee joints of sheep uniting the bones above and below the joints.
A child&
dice ::: n. --> Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See Die, n. ::: v. i. --> To play games with dice.
To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.
dicer ::: n. --> A player at dice; a dice player; a gamester.
diplanar ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to two planes. html{color:
dipped ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Dip html{color:
dispersive ::: a. --> Tending to disperse. html{color:
displayed ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Display ::: a. --> Unfolded; expanded; exhibited conspicuously or ostentatiously.
With wings expanded; -- said of a bird of pray, esp. an eagle.
displayer ::: n. --> One who, or that which, displays.
displaying ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Display
display ::: to show or make visible; make manifest; reveal. displayed.
display ::: v. t. --> To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.
To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.
To spread before the view; to show; to exhibit to the sight, or to the mind; to make manifest.
To make an exhibition of; to set in view conspicuously or ostentatiously; to exhibit for the sake of publicity; to parade.
disportment ::: n. --> Act of disporting; diversion; play.
disport ::: v. i. --> Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness.
To play; to wanton; to move in gayety; to move lightly and without restraint; to amuse one&
distriction ::: n. --> Sudden display; flash; glitter.
diversion ::: n. --> The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business.
That which diverts; that which turns or draws the mind from care or study, and thus relaxes and amuses; sport; play; pastime; as, the diversions of youth.
The act of drawing the attention and force of an enemy from the point where the principal attack is to be made; the attack,
divertissement ::: n. --> A short ballet, or other entertainment, between the acts of a play.
divine Comedy ::: a stage-play of a light and amusing character, with a happy conclusion to its plot. Its mediaeval use for a narrative poem with an agreeable ending. (Probably taken from Italian; cf. the Divine Comedy, the great tripartite poem of Dante, called by its author La Commedia, because in the conclusion, it is prosperous, pleasant, and desirable.)
djerrid ::: n. --> A blunt javelin used in military games in Moslem countries.
A game played with it.
doddart ::: n. --> A game much like hockey, played in an open field; also, the, bent stick for playing the game.
dodger ::: n. --> One who dodges or evades; one who plays fast and loose, or uses tricky devices.
A small handbill.
See Corndodger.
dodge ::: v. i. --> To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.
To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble. ::: v. t. --> To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by
doffing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Doff html{color:
domineer ::: v. t. --> To rule with insolence or arbitrary sway; to play the master; to be overbearing; to tyrannize; to bluster; to swell with conscious superiority or haughtiness; -- often with over; as, to domineer over dependents.
double-tonguing ::: n. --> A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing.
douter ::: n. --> An extinguisher for candles. html{color:
dout ::: v. t. --> To put out. html{color:
dove plant ::: --> A Central American orchid (Peristeria elata), having a flower stem five or six feet high, with numerous globose white fragrant flowers. The column in the center of the flower resembles a dove; -- called also Holy Spirit plant. html{color:
dragomans ::: pl. --> of Dragoman html{color:
drama ::: 1. A composition in prose or verse presenting in dialogue or pantomime a story involving conflict or contrast of character, esp. one intended to be acted on the stage; a play. 2. Any situation or series of events having vivid, emotional or conflicting interest or results. drama"s, dramas.
dramatis personae ::: --> The actors in a drama or play.
dramatist ::: n. --> The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays.
drank ::: imp. --> of Drink.
of Drink ::: n. --> Wild oats, or darnel grass. See Drake a plant. html{color:
draughtboard ::: n. --> A checkered board on which draughts are played. See Checkerboard.
drawgloves ::: n. pl. --> An old game, played by holding up the fingers.
DREAMS. ::: Sometimes they are the formations of your own mind or vital ; sometimes they are the formations of other minds wth an exact or modified transcription in yours ; sometimes for- mations come that are made by the non-human forces or beings of these other planes. These things are not true and need not become true in the physical world, but they may still have effects on the physical if they are framed wlh that purpose or that tendency and, if they are allowed, they may realise their events or their meaning — for they are most often symbolic or sche- ‘ matic — in the inner or the outer life.
There are other dreams that have not the same character but are a representation or transcription of things that actually hap- pen on other planes, in other worlds under other conditions than ours. There are, again, some dreams that are purely symbolic and some that indicate existing movements and propensities in us.
Symbolic dreams may symbolize anything, forces at play, the underlying structure and tissue of things done or experienced, actual or potential happenings, real or suggested movements or changes in the inner or outer nature. The exact meaning varies with the mind and the condition of the one who sees them.
duchess ::: n. --> The wife or widow of a duke; also, a lady who has the sovereignty of a duchy in her own right. html{color:
duchy ::: n. --> The territory or dominions of a duke; a dukedom. html{color:
dump ::: n. --> A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.
A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
That which is dumped.
A pile of ore or rock. ::: v. t.
dynamic realisation. In order to get the dynamic realisation it is not enough to rescue the Purusha from subjection to Prakriti ; one must transfer the allegiance of the Purusha from the lower Prakriti with its play of ignorant Forces to the Supreme
dziggetai ::: n. --> The kiang, a wild horse or wild ass of Thibet (Asinus hemionus). E () The fifth letter of the English alphabet. html{color:
ebullition ::: n. --> A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor.
Effervescence occasioned by fermentation or by any other process which causes the liberation of a gas or an aeriform fluid, as in the mixture of an acid with a carbonated alkali.
A sudden burst or violent display; an outburst; as, an ebullition of anger or ill temper.
ecarte ::: n. --> A game at cards, played usually by two persons, in which the players may discard any or all of the cards dealt and receive others from the pack.
eleven ::: a. --> Ten and one added; as, eleven men. ::: n. --> The sum of ten and one; eleven units or objects.
A symbol representing eleven units, as 11 or xi.
The eleven men selected to play on one side in a match, as the representatives of a club or a locality; as, the all-England
elmen ::: a. --> Belonging to elms. html{color:
EMANATION. ::: An emanation of the Mother is something of her consciousness and power put forth from her which, so long as it is in play, is held in close connection with her and, when its play is no longer required, is withdrawn back into its source, but can always be put out and brought into play once more. But also the detaining thread of connection can be severed and loosened and that came iorth as am tTnanation can
emblazoner ::: n. --> One who emblazons; also, one who publishes and displays anything with pomp.
emblazon ::: v. t. --> To depict or represent; -- said of heraldic bearings. See Blazon.
To deck in glaring colors; to set off conspicuously; to display pompously; to decorate.
embouchure ::: n. --> The mouth of a river; also, the mouth of a cannon.
The mouthpiece of a wind instrument.
The shaping of the lips to the mouthpiece; as, a flute player has a good embouchure.
embrasure ::: n. --> An embrace.
A splay of a door or window.
An aperture with slant sides in a wall or parapet, through which cannon are pointed and discharged; a crenelle. See Illust. of Casemate.
enact ::: v. t. --> To decree; to establish by legal and authoritative act; to make into a law; especially, to perform the legislative act with reference to (a bill) which gives it the validity of law.
To act; to perform; to do; to effect.
To act the part of; to represent; to play. ::: n.
encore ::: adv. / interj. --> Once more; again; -- used by the auditors and spectators of plays, concerts, and other entertainments, to call for a repetition of a particular part. ::: n. --> A call or demand (as, by continued applause) for a repetition; as, the encores were numerous.
ensign ::: n. --> A flag; a banner; a standard; esp., the national flag, or a banner indicating nationality, carried by a ship or a body of soldiers; -- as distinguished from flags indicating divisions of the army, rank of naval officers, or private signals, and the like.
A signal displayed like a standard, to give notice.
Sign; badge of office, rank, or power; symbol.
Formerly, a commissioned officer of the army who carried the ensign or flag of a company or regiment.
entozoon ::: n. --> One of the Entozoa. html{color:
epilogue ::: n. --> A speech or short poem addressed to the spectators and recited by one of the actors, after the conclusion of the play.
The closing part of a discourse, in which the principal matters are recapitulated; a conclusion.
epitasis ::: n. --> That part which embraces the main action of a play, poem, and the like, and leads on to the catastrophe; -- opposed to protasis.
The period of violence in a fever or disease; paroxysm.
escutcheon ::: n. --> The surface, usually a shield, upon which bearings are marshaled and displayed. The surface of the escutcheon is called the field, the upper part is called the chief, and the lower part the base (see Chiff, and Field.). That side of the escutcheon which is on the right hand of the knight who bears the shield on his arm is called dexter, and the other side sinister.
A marking upon the back of a cow&
estranged ::: kept at a distance; withdrawn; withheld; displaying or evincing a feeling of alienation.
euchre ::: n. --> A game at cards, that may be played by two, three, or four persons, the highest card (except when an extra card called the Joker is used) being the knave of the same suit as the trump, and called right bower, the lowest card used being the seven, or frequently, in two-handed euchre, the nine spot. See Bower. ::: v. t.
exciteful ::: n. --> Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players.
exhibition ::: n. --> The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display.
That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art, or of feats of skill, or of oratorical or dramatic ability; as, an exhibition of animals; an exhibition of pictures, statues, etc.; an industrial exhibition.
Sustenance; maintenance; allowance, esp. for meat and drink; pension. Specifically: (Eng. Univ.) Private benefaction for the
exhibit ::: v. t. --> To hold forth or present to view; to produce publicly, for inspection; to show, especially in order to attract notice to what is interesting; to display; as, to exhibit commodities in a warehouse, a picture in a gallery.
To submit, as a document, to a court or officer, in course of proceedings; also, to present or offer officially or in legal form; to bring, as a charge.
To administer as a remedy; as, to exhibit calomel.
exit ::: --> He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth. ::: n. --> The departure of a player from the stage, when he has performed his part.
Any departure; the act of quitting the stage of action or of life; death; as, to make one&
expose ::: v. t. --> To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.
To lay bare; to lay open to attack, danger, or anything objectionable; to render accessible to anything which may affect, especially detrimentally; to make liable; as, to expose one&
exposition ::: n. --> The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.
The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or the like, by an interpreter; hence, a work containing explanations or interpretations; a commentary.
Situation or position with reference to direction of view or accessibility to influence of sun, wind, etc.; exposure; as, an
exude ::: to project or display conspicuously or abundantly; radiate.
eyght ::: n. --> An island. See Eyot. html{color:
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faro ::: n. --> A gambling game at cardds, in whiich all the other players play against the dealer or banker, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack.
feathered ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Feather ::: a. --> Clothed, covered, or fitted with (or as with) feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow.
Furnished with anything featherlike; ornamented; fringed; as, land feathered with trees. html{color:
feather ::: n. --> One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.
Kind; nature; species; -- from the proverbial phrase, "Birds of a feather," that is, of the same species.
The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.
A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.
One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow. html{color:
feat ::: n. --> An act; a deed; an exploit.
A striking act of strength, skill, or cunning; a trick; as, feats of horsemanship, or of dexterity.
Dexterous in movements or service; skillful; neat; nice; pretty. ::: v. t. html{color:
fecundity ::: n. --> The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great numbers.
The power of germinating; as in seeds.
The power of bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention; as, the fecundity of God&
fescue ::: n. --> A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.
The style of a dial.
A grass of the genus Festuca. ::: v. i. & t.
fiddle ::: n. --> A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.
A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; -- called also fiddle dock.
A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather. ::: v. i.
fiddler ::: n. --> One who plays on a fiddle or violin.
A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle, hence the name; -- called also calling crab, soldier crab, and fighting crab.
The common European sandpiper (Tringoides hypoleucus); -- so called because it continually oscillates its body.
fiddlestick ::: n. --> The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow.
field ::: 1. A wide unbroken expanse, as of ice. 2. An area or sphere of activity. 3. A broad, level, open expanse of land; a stretch of open land, esp. one used for pasture or tillage; a plain. 4. The surface on which something is portrayed or enacted. An area of human activity or interest. 5. A piece of ground devoted to sports or contests; playing field. 6. A region of space characterized by a physical property, such as gravitational or electromagnetic force or fluid pressure. fields, field-paths, star-field, time-field, play-fields, race-fields.
fielding ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Field ::: n. --> The act of playing as a fielder.
fife ::: n. --> A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music. ::: v. i. --> To play on a fife.
fifer ::: n. --> One who plays on a fife.
finesse ::: a. --> Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem.
The act of finessing. See Finesse, v. i., 2. ::: v. i. --> To use artifice or stratagem.
To attempt, when second or third player, to make a
fingering ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Finger ::: n. --> The act or process of handling or touching with the fingers.
The manner of using the fingers in playing or striking the keys of an instrument of music; movement or management of the
fioriture ::: n. pl. --> Little flowers of ornament introduced into a melody by a singer or player.
firework ::: n. --> A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. The skyrocket is a common form of firework. The name is also
fives ::: n. pl. --> A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; -- so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to the game. ::: n. --> A disease of the glands under the ear in horses; the vives.
flapdragon ::: n. --> A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing.
The thing thus caught and eaten. ::: v. t. --> To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour.
flat foot ::: --> A foot in which the arch of the instep is flattened so that the entire sole of the foot rests upon the ground; also, the deformity, usually congential, exhibited by such a foot; splayfoot.
flaunt ::: v. i. --> To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show. ::: v. t. --> To display ostentatiously; to make an impudent show of. ::: n.
flautist ::: n. --> A player on the flute; a flutist.
flirtation ::: n. --> Playing at courtship; coquetry.
flirt ::: v. t. --> To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other&
flute a bec ::: --> A beak flute, an older form of the flute, played with a mouthpiece resembling a beak, and held like a flageolet.
flute ::: n. 1. A high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown. flutes. *v. 2. To play a flute. *fluted, fluting.
fluter ::: n. --> One who plays on the flute; a flutist or flautist.
One who makes grooves or flutings.
flute ::: v. i. --> A musical wind instrument, consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers or by keys which are opened by the fingers. The modern flute is closed at the upper end, and blown with the mouth at a lateral hole.
A channel of curved section; -- usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels used to decorate columns and pilasters in classical architecture. See Illust. under Base, n.
To play on, or as on, a flute; to make a flutelike sound.
fluting ::: n. Playing on or as if on a flute. flutings. ::: high-fluting. Producing high-pitched, flute-like sounds.
fnese ::: v. i. --> To breathe heavily; to snort. html{color:
foinery ::: n. --> Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point, as distinguished from broadsword play.
foisty ::: a. --> Fusty; musty. html{color:
fo ::: n. --> The Chinese name of Buddha. html{color:
football ::: n. --> An inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather.
The game of kicking the football by opposing parties of players between goals.
foppish ::: a. --> Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.
FORCES. ::: Behind visible events in the world there is always a mass of invisible forces at work unkno^vn to the outward minds of men, and by yoga (by going inward and establishing a cons- cious connection with the Cosmic Self and Force and forces), one can become conscious of these forces, intervene consciously in the play, and to some extent at least determine things in the result of the play.
fourhanded ::: a. --> Having four hands; quadrumanous.
Requiring four "hands" or players; as, a fourhanded game at cards.
fourneau ::: n. --> The chamber of a mine in which the powder is placed. html{color:
gambols ::: n. 1. Playful skipping or frolicking about. v. 2. Skipping about as in dancing or playing; frolicking. gambolled, gambolling.
genius ::: “Genius is one attempt of the universal Energy to so quicken and intensify our intellectual powers that they shall be prepared for those more puissant, direct and rapid faculties which constitute the play of the supra-intellectual or divine mind. It is not, then, a freak, an inexplicable phenomenon, but a perfectly natural next step in the right line of her [Nature’s] evolution.” The Synthesis of Yoga
GENIUS. ::: Genius is one attempt of the universal Energy to so quicken and intensify our intellectual powers that they shall be prepared for those more puissant, direct and rapid faculties which constitute the play of the supra-intellectual or divine mind.
gods ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Gods are Brahman representing Itself in cosmic Personalities expressive of the one Godhead who, in their impersonal action, appear as the various play of the principles of Nature.” *The Upanishads
Gods ::: “The Gods are Brahman representing Itself in cosmic Personalities expressive of the one Godhead who, in their impersonal action, appear as the various play of the principles of Nature.” The Upanishads
GOSSIP. ::: When you Indulge in too much talk, loose chat and gossip, social sclf-dispersion, you throw yourself out into a very small and ignorant consciousness in which your vital defects get free play and this is likely to bring you out of what you have developed in your inner consciousness.
grudging ::: displaying or reflecting unwillingness, reluctance; resentfulness, envy.
hatred ::: “Hatred is the sign of a secret attraction that is eager to flee from itself and furious to deny its own existence. That too is God’s play in His creature.” Essays Divine and Human
heroic ::: having, displaying, or characteristic of the qualities appropriate to a hero, such as bravery and courageousness.
hide-and-seek ::: a children"s game in which one player tries to find and catch others who are hiding.
If we regard the Powers of the Reality as so many Godheads, we can say that the Overmind releases a million Godheads into action, each empowered to create its own world, each world capable of relation, communication and interplay with the others. There are in the Veda different formulations of the nature of the Gods: it is said they are all one Existence to which the sages give different names; yet each God is worshipped as if he by himself is that Existence, one who is all the other Gods together or contains them in his being; and yet again each is a separate Deity acting sometimes in unison with companion deities, sometimes separately, sometimes even in apparent opposition to other Godheads of the same Existence. In the Supermind all this would be held together as a harmonised play of the one Existence; in the Overmind each of these three conditions could be a separate action or basis of action and have its own principle of development and consequences and yet each keep the power to combine with the others in a more composite harmony. As with the One Existence, so with its Consciousness and Force. The One Consciousness is separated into many independent forms of consciousness and knowledge; each follows out its own line of truth which it has to realise. The one total and many-sided Real-Idea is split up into its many sides; each becomes an independent Idea-Force with the power to realise itself. The one Consciousness-Force is liberated into its million forces, and each of these forces has the right to fulfil itself or to assume, if needed, a hegemony and take up for its own utility the other forces. So too the Delight of Existence is loosed out into all manner of delights and each can carry in itself its independent fullness or sovereign extreme. Overmind thus gives to the One Existence-Consciousness-Bliss the character of a teeming of infinite possibilities which can be developed into a multitude of worlds or thrown together into one world in which the endlessly variable…
If we would understand the difference of this global Overmind Consciousness from our separative and only imperfectly synthetic mental consciousness, we may come near to it if we compare the strictly mental with what would be an overmental view of activities in our material universe. To the Overmind, for example, all religions would be true as developments of the one eternal religion, all philosophies would be valid each in its own field as a statement of its own universe-view from its own angle, all political theories with their practice would be the legitimate working out of an Idea Force with its right to application and practical development in the play of the energies of Nature. In our separative consciousness, imperfectly visited by glimpses of catholicity and universality, these things exist as opposites; each claims to be the truth and taxes the others with error and falsehood, each feels impelled to refute or destroy the others in order that itself alone may be the Truth and live: at best, each must claim to be superior, admit all others only as inferior truth-expressions. An overmental Intelligence would refuse to entertain this conception or this drift to exclusiveness for a moment; it would allow all to live as necessary to the whole or put each in its place in the whole or assign to each its field of realisation or of endeavour. This is because in us consciousness has come down completely into the divisions of the Ignorance; Truth is no longer either an Infinite or a cosmic whole with many possible formulations, but a rigid affirmation holding any other affirmation to be false because different from itself and entrenched in other limits. Our mental consciousness can indeed arrive in its cognition at a considerable approach towards a total comprehensiveness and catholicity, but to organise that in action and life seems to be beyond its power. Evolutionary Mind, manifest in individuals or collectivities, throws up a multiplicity of divergent viewpoints, divergent lines of action and lets them work themselves out side by side or in collision or in a certain intermixture; it can make selective harmonies, but it cannot arrive at the harmonic control of a true totality. Cosmic Mind must have even in the evolutionary Ignorance, like all totalities, such a harmony, if only of arranged accords and discords; there is too in it an underlying dynamism of oneness: but it carries the completeness of these things in its depths, perhaps in a supermind-overmind substratum, but does not impart it to individual Mind in the evolution, does not bring it or has not yet brought it from the depths to the surface. An Overmind world would be a world of harmony; the world of Ignorance in which we live is a world of disharmony and struggle. …
illumined mind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "This greater Force is that of the Illumined Mind, a Mind no longer of higher Thought, but of spiritual light. Here the clarity of the spiritual intelligence, its tranquil daylight, gives place or subordinates itself to an intense lustre, a splendour and illumination of the Spirit: a play of lightnings of spiritual truth and power breaks from above into the consciousness and adds to the calm and wide enlightenment and the vast descent of peace which characterise or accompany the action of the larger conceptual-spiritual principle, a fiery ardour of realisation and a rapturous ecstasy of knowledge.” *The Life Divine
"The Illumined Mind does not work primarily by thought, but by vision; . . . .” The Life Divine
"As the Higher Mind brings a greater consciousness into the being through the spiritual idea and its power of truth, so the Illumined Mind brings in a still greater consciousness through a Truth-sight and Truth-light and its seeing and seizing power.” The Life Divine*
inconscience ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Inconscience is an inverse reproduction of the supreme superconscience: it has the same absoluteness of being and automatic action, but in a vast involved trance; it is being lost in itself, plunged in its own abyss of infinity.” *The Life Divine
"All aspects of the omnipresent Reality have their fundamental truth in the Supreme Existence. Thus even the aspect or power of Inconscience, which seems to be an opposite, a negation of the eternal Reality, yet corresponds to a Truth held in itself by the self-aware and all-conscious Infinite. It is, when we look closely at it, the Infinite"s power of plunging the consciousness into a trance of self-involution, a self-oblivion of the Spirit veiled in its own abysses where nothing is manifest but all inconceivably is and can emerge from that ineffable latency. In the heights of Spirit this state of cosmic or infinite trance-sleep appears to our cognition as a luminous uttermost Superconscience: at the other end of being it offers itself to cognition as the Spirit"s potency of presenting to itself the opposites of its own truths of being, — an abyss of non-existence, a profound Night of inconscience, a fathomless swoon of insensibility from which yet all forms of being, consciousness and delight of existence can manifest themselves, — but they appear in limited terms, in slowly emerging and increasing self-formulations, even in contrary terms of themselves; it is the play of a secret all-being, all-delight, all-knowledge, but it observes the rules of its own self-oblivion, self-opposition, self-limitation until it is ready to surpass it. This is the Inconscience and Ignorance that we see at work in the material universe. It is not a denial, it is one term, one formula of the infinite and eternal Existence.” *The Life Divine
"Once consciousnesses separated from the one consciousness, they fell inevitably into Ignorance and the last result of Ignorance was Inconscience.” Letters on Yoga
*inconscience.
In mental vision the images arc invented by the mind and are partly true, partly a play of possibilities. Or a mental vision like the vital may be only a suggestion, — that is, a formation of some possibility on the menial or vital plane which presents itself to the sadhaka in the hope of being accepted and helped to rcalbe itself.
INNER SIGHT. ::: When one tries to meditate, the first obstacle in the beginning is sleep. When you get over this obstacle, there comes a condition in which, with the eyes closed, you begin to see things, people, scenes of all kinds. It is a good sign and means that you are making progress in yoga. There is, besides the outer physical sight which sees external objects, an inner .sight in us which can see things yet unseen and unknown, things at a distance, things belonging to another place or time or to other worlds.
Inner vision is vivid like actual sight, always precise and contains a truth in it. In mental vision the images are invented by the mind and are partly true, partly a play of possibilities. Or a mental vision like the vital may be only a suggestion,- that is a formation of some possibility on the mental or vital plane which presents itself to the sādhaka in the hope of being accepted and helped to realise itself.
INSTRUMENT. ::: To be able to receive the Divine Power and let it act through you in the things of the outward life, there are three necessary conditions ::: (I) Quietude, equality — not to be disturbed by anything that happens, to keep the mind still and firm, seeing the play of forces, but itself tranquil. (2) Absolute faith — faith that what is for the best will happen, but also that if one can make oneself a true instrument, the fruit will be that which one's will guided by the Divine Light sees as the thing to be done. (3) Receptivity — the power to receive the Divine Force and to feel its presence and the presence of the Mother in it and allow it to work, guiding one’s sight and will and action.
If this power and presence can be felt and this plasticity made the habit of the consciousness in action, — but plasticity to the Divine Force alone without bringing in any foreign clement, — the eventual result is sure.
Conditions to become an instrument of the Divine ::: A receptive silence of the mind, an effacemenl of the mental ego and the reduction of the mental being to the position of a witness, a close find themselves in the Divine. It cannot be done in a spirit of levity or laxity ; the work is too high and difficult, the adverse powers in the lower Nature too ready to take advantage of the least sanction or the smallest opening, the aspiration and tapasya needed too constant and intense.
INTEGRAL YOGA ::: This yoga accepts the value of cosmic existence and holds it to be a reality; its object is to enter into a higher Truth-Consciousness or Divine Supramental Consciousness in which action and creation are the expression not of ignorance and imperfection, but of the Truth, the Light, the Divine Ānanda. But for that, the surrender of the mortal mind, life and body to the Higher Consciousnessis indispensable, since it is too difficult for the mortal human being to pass by its own effort beyond mind to a Supramental Consciousness in which the dynamism is no longer mental but of quite another power. Only those who can accept the call to such a change should enter into this yoga.
Aim of the Integral Yoga ::: It is not merely to rise out of the ordinary ignorant world-consciousness into the divine consciousness, but to bring the supramental power of that divine consciousness down into the ignorance of mind, life and body, to transform them, to manifest the Divine here and create a divine life in Matter.
Conditions of the Integral Yoga ::: This yoga can only be done to the end by those who are in total earnest about it and ready to abolish their little human ego and its demands in order to find themselves in the Divine. It cannot be done in a spirit of levity or laxity; the work is too high and difficult, the adverse powers in the lower Nature too ready to take advantage of the least sanction or the smallest opening, the aspiration and tapasyā needed too constant and intense.
Method in the Integral Yoga ::: To concentrate, preferably in the heart and call the presence and power of the Mother to take up the being and by the workings of her force transform the consciousness. One can concentrate also in the head or between the eye-brows, but for many this is a too difficult opening. When the mind falls quiet and the concentration becomes strong and the aspiration intense, then there is the beginning of experience. The more the faith, the more rapid the result is likely to be. For the rest one must not depend on one’s own efforts only, but succeed in establishing a contact with the Divine and a receptivity to the Mother’s Power and Presence.
Integral method ::: The method we have to pursue is to put our whole conscious being into relation and contact with the Divine and to call Him in to transform Our entire being into His, so that in a sense God Himself, the real Person in us, becomes the sādhaka of the sādhana* as well as the Master of the Yoga by whom the lower personality is used as the centre of a divine transfiguration and the instrument of its own perfection. In effect, the pressure of the Tapas, the force of consciousness in us dwelling in the Idea of the divine Nature upon that which we are in our entirety, produces its own realisation. The divine and all-knowing and all-effecting descends upon the limited and obscure, progressively illumines and energises the whole lower nature and substitutes its own action for all the terms of the inferior human light and mortal activity.
In psychological fact this method translates itself into the progressive surrender of the ego with its whole field and all its apparatus to the Beyond-ego with its vast and incalculable but always inevitable workings. Certainly, this is no short cut or easy sādhana. It requires a colossal faith, an absolute courage and above all an unflinching patience. For it implies three stages of which only the last can be wholly blissful or rapid, - the attempt of the ego to enter into contact with the Divine, the wide, full and therefore laborious preparation of the whole lower Nature by the divine working to receive and become the higher Nature, and the eventual transformation. In fact, however, the divine strength, often unobserved and behind the veil, substitutes itself for the weakness and supports us through all our failings of faith, courage and patience. It” makes the blind to see and the lame to stride over the hills.” The intellect becomes aware of a Law that beneficently insists and a Succour that upholds; the heart speaks of a Master of all things and Friend of man or a universal Mother who upholds through all stumblings. Therefore this path is at once the most difficult imaginable and yet in comparison with the magnitude of its effort and object, the most easy and sure of all.
There are three outstanding features of this action of the higher when it works integrally on the lower nature. In the first place, it does not act according to a fixed system and succession as in the specialised methods of Yoga, but with a sort of free, scattered and yet gradually intensive and purposeful working determined by the temperament of the individual in whom it operates, the helpful materials which his nature offers and the obstacles which it presents to purification and perfection. In a sense, therefore, each man in this path has his own method of Yoga. Yet are there certain broad lines of working common to all which enable us to construct not indeed a routine system, but yet some kind of Shastra or scientific method of the synthetic Yoga.
Secondly, the process, being integral, accepts our nature such as it stands organised by our past evolution and without rejecting anything essential compels all to undergo a divine change. Everything in us is seized by the hands of a mighty Artificer and transformed into a clear image of that which it now seeks confusedly to present. In that ever-progressive experience we begin to perceive how this lower manifestation is constituted and that everything in it, however seemingly deformed or petty or vile, is the more or less distorted or imperfect figure of some elements or action in the harmony of the divine Nature. We begin to understand what the Vedic Rishis meant when they spoke of the human forefathers fashioning the gods as a smith forges the crude material in his smithy.
Thirdly, the divine Power in us uses all life as the means of this integral Yoga. Every experience and outer contact with our world-environment, however trifling or however disastrous, is used for the work, and every inner experience, even to the most repellent suffering or the most humiliating fall, becomes a step on the path to perfection. And we recognise in ourselves with opened eyes the method of God in the world, His purpose of light in the obscure, of might in the weak and fallen, of delight in what is grievous and miserable. We see the divine method to be the same in the lower and in the higher working; only in the one it is pursued tardily and obscurely through the subconscious in Nature, in the other it becomes swift and selfconscious and the instrument confesses the hand of the Master. All life is a Yoga of Nature seeking to manifest God within itself. Yoga marks the stage at which this effort becomes capable of self-awareness and therefore of right completion in the individual. It is a gathering up and concentration of the movements dispersed and loosely combined in the lower evolution.
Key-methods ::: The way to devotion and surrender. It is the psychic movement that brings the constant and pure devotion and the removal of the ego that makes it possible to surrender.
The way to knowledge. Meditation in the head by which there comes the opening above, the quietude or silence of the mind and the descent of peace etc. of the higher consciousness generally till it envelops the being and fills the body and begins to take up all the movements.
Yoga by works ::: Separation of the Purusha from the Prakriti, the inner silent being from the outer active one, so that one has two consciousnesses or a double consciousness, one behind watching and observing and finally controlling and changing the other which is active in front. The other way of beginning the yoga of works is by doing them for the Divine, for the Mother, and not for oneself, consecrating and dedicating them till one concretely feels the Divine Force taking up the activities and doing them for one.
Object of the Integral Yoga is to enter into and be possessed by the Divine Presence and Consciousness, to love the Divine for the Divine’s sake alone, to be tuned in our nature into the nature of the Divine, and in our will and works and life to be the instrument of the Divine.
Principle of the Integral Yoga ::: The whole principle of Integral Yoga is to give oneself entirely to the Divine alone and to nobody else, and to bring down into ourselves by union with the Divine Mother all the transcendent light, power, wideness, peace, purity, truth-consciousness and Ānanda of the Supramental Divine.
Central purpose of the Integral Yoga ::: Transformation of our superficial, narrow and fragmentary human way of thinking, seeing, feeling and being into a deep and wide spiritual consciousness and an integrated inner and outer existence and of our ordinary human living into the divine way of life.
Fundamental realisations of the Integral Yoga ::: The psychic change so that a complete devotion can be the main motive of the heart and the ruler of thought, life and action in constant union with the Mother and in her Presence. The descent of the Peace, Power, Light etc. of the Higher Consciousness through the head and heart into the whole being, occupying the very cells of the body. The perception of the One and Divine infinitely everywhere, the Mother everywhere and living in that infinite consciousness.
Results ::: First, an integral realisation of Divine Being; not only a realisation of the One in its indistinguishable unity, but also in its multitude of aspects which are also necessary to the complete knowledge of it by the relative consciousness; not only realisation of unity in the Self, but of unity in the infinite diversity of activities, worlds and creatures.
Therefore, also, an integral liberation. Not only the freedom born of unbroken contact of the individual being in all its parts with the Divine, sāyujya mukti, by which it becomes free even in its separation, even in the duality; not only the sālokya mukti by which the whole conscious existence dwells in the same status of being as the Divine, in the state of Sachchidananda ; but also the acquisition of the divine nature by the transformation of this lower being into the human image of the divine, sādharmya mukti, and the complete and final release of all, the liberation of the consciousness from the transitory mould of the ego and its unification with the One Being, universal both in the world and the individual and transcendentally one both in the world and beyond all universe.
By this integral realisation and liberation, the perfect harmony of the results of Knowledge, Love and Works. For there is attained the complete release from ego and identification in being with the One in all and beyond all. But since the attaining consciousness is not limited by its attainment, we win also the unity in Beatitude and the harmonised diversity in Love, so that all relations of the play remain possible to us even while we retain on the heights of our being the eternal oneness with the Beloved. And by a similar wideness, being capable of a freedom in spirit that embraces life and does not depend upon withdrawal from life, we are able to become without egoism, bondage or reaction the channel in our mind and body for a divine action poured out freely upon the world.
The divine existence is of the nature not only of freedom, but of purity, beatitude and perfection. In integral purity which shall enable on the one hand the perfect reflection of the divine Being in ourselves and on the other the perfect outpouring of its Truth and Law in us in the terms of life and through the right functioning of the complex instrument we are in our outer parts, is the condition of an integral liberty. Its result is an integral beatitude, in which there becomes possible at once the Ānanda of all that is in the world seen as symbols of the Divine and the Ānanda of that which is not-world. And it prepares the integral perfection of our humanity as a type of the Divine in the conditions of the human manifestation, a perfection founded on a certain free universality of being, of love and joy, of play of knowledge and of play of will in power and will in unegoistic action. This integrality also can be attained by the integral Yoga.
Sādhanā of the Integral Yoga does not proceed through any set mental teaching or prescribed forms of meditation, mantras or others, but by aspiration, by a self-concentration inwards or upwards, by a self-opening to an Influence, to the Divine Power above us and its workings, to the Divine Presence in the heart and by the rejection of all that is foreign to these things. It is only by faith, aspiration and surrender that this self-opening can come.
The yoga does not proceed by upadeśa but by inner influence.
Integral Yoga and Gita ::: The Gita’s Yoga consists in the offering of one’s work as a sacrifice to the Divine, the conquest of desire, egoless and desireless action, bhakti for the Divine, an entering into the cosmic consciousness, the sense of unity with all creatures, oneness with the Divine. This yoga adds the bringing down of the supramental Light and Force (its ultimate aim) and the transformation of the nature.
Our yoga is not identical with the yoga of the Gita although it contains all that is essential in the Gita’s yoga. In our yoga we begin with the idea, the will, the aspiration of the complete surrender; but at the same time we have to reject the lower nature, deliver our consciousness from it, deliver the self involved in the lower nature by the self rising to freedom in the higher nature. If we do not do this double movement, we are in danger of making a tamasic and therefore unreal surrender, making no effort, no tapas and therefore no progress ; or else we make a rajasic surrender not to the Divine but to some self-made false idea or image of the Divine which masks our rajasic ego or something still worse.
Integral Yoga, Gita and Tantra ::: The Gita follows the Vedantic tradition which leans entirely on the Ishvara aspect of the Divine and speaks little of the Divine Mother because its object is to draw back from world-nature and arrive at the supreme realisation beyond it.
The Tantric tradition leans on the Shakti or Ishvari aspect and makes all depend on the Divine Mother because its object is to possess and dominate the world-nature and arrive at the supreme realisation through it.
This yoga insists on both the aspects; the surrender to the Divine Mother is essential, for without it there is no fulfilment of the object of the yoga.
Integral Yoga and Hatha-Raja Yogas ::: For an integral yoga the special methods of Rajayoga and Hathayoga may be useful at times in certain stages of the progress, but are not indispensable. Their principal aims must be included in the integrality of the yoga; but they can be brought about by other means. For the methods of the integral yoga must be mainly spiritual, and dependence on physical methods or fixed psychic or psychophysical processes on a large scale would be the substitution of a lower for a higher action. Integral Yoga and Kundalini Yoga: There is a feeling of waves surging up, mounting to the head, which brings an outer unconsciousness and an inner waking. It is the ascending of the lower consciousness in the ādhāra to meet the greater consciousness above. It is a movement analogous to that on which so much stress is laid in the Tantric process, the awakening of the Kundalini, the Energy coiled up and latent in the body and its mounting through the spinal cord and the centres (cakras) and the Brahmarandhra to meet the Divine above. In our yoga it is not a specialised process, but a spontaneous upnish of the whole lower consciousness sometimes in currents or waves, sometimes in a less concrete motion, and on the other side a descent of the Divine Consciousness and its Force into the body.
Integral Yoga and other Yogas ::: The old yogas reach Sachchidananda through the spiritualised mind and depart into the eternally static oneness of Sachchidananda or rather pure Sat (Existence), absolute and eternal or else a pure Non-exist- ence, absolute and eternal. Ours having realised Sachchidananda in the spiritualised mind plane proceeds to realise it in the Supramcntal plane.
The suprcfhe supra-cosmic Sachchidananda is above all. Supermind may be described as its power of self-awareness and W’orld- awareness, the world being known as within itself and not out- side. So to live consciously in the supreme Sachchidananda one must pass through the Supermind.
Distinction ::: The realisation of Self and of the Cosmic being (without which the realisation of the Self is incomplete) are essential steps in our yoga ; it is the end of other yogas, but it is, as it were, the beginning of outs, that is to say, the point where its own characteristic realisation can commence.
It is new as compared with the old yogas (1) Because it aims not at a departure out of world and life into Heaven and Nir- vana, but at a change of life and existence, not as something subordinate or incidental, but as a distinct and central object.
If there is a descent in other yogas, yet it is only an incident on the way or resulting from the ascent — the ascent is the real thing. Here the ascent is the first step, but it is a means for the descent. It is the descent of the new coosdousness attain- ed by the ascent that is the stamp and seal of the sadhana. Even the Tantra and Vaishnavism end in the release from life ; here the object is the divine fulfilment of life.
(2) Because the object sought after is not an individual achievement of divine realisation for the sake of the individual, but something to be gained for the earth-consciousness here, a cosmic, not solely a supra-cosmic acbievement. The thing to be gained also is the bringing of a Power of consciousness (the Supramental) not yet organised or active directly in earth-nature, even in the spiritual life, but yet to be organised and made directly active.
(3) Because a method has been preconized for achieving this purpose which is as total and integral as the aim set before it, viz., the total and integral change of the consciousness and nature, taking up old methods, but only as a part action and present aid to others that are distinctive.
Integral Yoga and Patanjali Yoga ::: Cilia is the stuff of mixed mental-vital-physical consciousness out of which arise the movements of thought, emotion, sensation, impulse etc.
It is these that in the Patanjali system have to be stilled altogether so that the consciousness may be immobile and go into Samadhi.
Our yoga has a different function. The movements of the ordinary consciousness have to be quieted and into the quietude there has to be brought down a higher consciousness and its powers which will transform the nature.
intuition ::: direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process. intuition"s, intuitions, half-intuition.
Sri Aurobindo: "Intuition is a power of consciousness nearer and more intimate to the original knowledge by identity; for it is always something that leaps out direct from a concealed identity. It is when the consciousness of the subject meets with the consciousness in the object, penetrates it and sees, feels or vibrates with the truth of what it contacts, that the intuition leaps out like a spark or lightning-flash from the shock of the meeting; or when the consciousness, even without any such meeting, looks into itself and feels directly and intimately the truth or the truths that are there or so contacts the hidden forces behind appearances, then also there is the outbreak of an intuitive light; or, again, when the consciousness meets the Supreme Reality or the spiritual reality of things and beings and has a contactual union with it, then the spark, the flash or the blaze of intimate truth-perception is lit in its depths. This close perception is more than sight, more than conception: it is the result of a penetrating and revealing touch which carries in it sight and conception as part of itself or as its natural consequence. A concealed or slumbering identity, not yet recovering itself, still remembers or conveys by the intuition its own contents and the intimacy of its self-feeling and self-vision of things, its light of truth, its overwhelming and automatic certitude.” *The Life Divine
"Intuition is always an edge or ray or outleap of a superior light; it is in us a projecting blade, edge or point of a far-off supermind light entering into and modified by some intermediate truth-mind substance above us and, so modified, again entering into and very much blinded by our ordinary or ignorant mind-substance; but on that higher level to which it is native its light is unmixed and therefore entirely and purely veridical, and its rays are not separated but connected or massed together in a play of waves of what might almost be called in the Sanskrit poetic figure a sea or mass of ``stable lightnings"". When this original or native Intuition begins to descend into us in answer to an ascension of our consciousness to its level or as a result of our finding of a clear way of communication with it, it may continue to come as a play of lightning-flashes, isolated or in constant action; but at this stage the judgment of reason becomes quite inapplicable, it can only act as an observer or registrar understanding or recording the more luminous intimations, judgments and discriminations of the higher power. To complete or verify an isolated intuition or discriminate its nature, its application, its limitations, the receiving consciousness must rely on another completing intuition or be able to call down a massed intuition capable of putting all in place. For once the process of the change has begun, a complete transmutation of the stuff and activities of the mind into the substance, form and power of Intuition is imperative; until then, so long as the process of consciousness depends upon the lower intelligence serving or helping out or using the intuition, the result can only be a survival of the mixed Knowledge-Ignorance uplifted or relieved by a higher light and force acting in its parts of Knowledge.” *The Life Divine
"I use the word ‘intuition" for want of a better. In truth, it is a makeshift and inadequate to the connotation demanded of it. The same has to be said of the word ‘consciousness" and many others which our poverty compels us to extend illegitimately in their significance.” *The Life Divine - Sri Aurobindo"s footnote.
"For intuition is an edge of light thrust out by the secret Supermind. . . .” The Life Divine
". . . intuition is born of a direct awareness while intellect is an indirect action of a knowledge which constructs itself with difficulty out of the unknown from signs and indications and gathered data.” The Life Divine
"Intuition is above illumined Mind which is simply higher Mind raised to a great luminosity and more open to modified forms of intuition and inspiration.” Letters on Yoga
"Intuition sees the truth of things by a direct inner contact, not like the ordinary mental intelligence by seeking and reaching out for indirect contacts through the senses etc. But the limitation of the Intuition as compared with the supermind is that it sees things by flashes, point by point, not as a whole. Also in coming into the mind it gets mixed with the mental movement and forms a kind of intuitive mind activity which is not the pure truth, but something in between the higher Truth and the mental seeking. It can lead the consciousness through a sort of transitional stage and that is practically its function.” Letters on Yoga
“Intuition is always an edge or ray or outleap of a superior light; it is in us a projecting blade, edge or point of a far-off supermind light entering into and modified by some intermediate truth-mind substance above us and, so modified, again entering into and very much blinded by our ordinary or ignorant mind-substance; but on that higher level to which it is native its light is unmixed and therefore entirely and purely veridical, and its rays are not separated but connected or massed together in a play of waves of what might almost be called in the Sanskrit poetic figure a sea or mass of ``stable lightnings’’. When this original or native Intuition begins to descend into us in answer to an ascension of our consciousness to its level or as a result of our finding of a clear way of communication with it, it may continue to come as a play of lightning-flashes, isolated or in constant action; but at this stage the judgment of reason becomes quite inapplicable, it can only act as an observer or registrar understanding or recording the more luminous intimations, judgments and discriminations of the higher power. To complete or verify an isolated intuition or discriminate its nature, its application, its limitations, the receiving consciousness must rely on another completing intuition or be able to call down a massed intuition capable of putting all in place. For once the process of the change has begun, a complete transmutation of the stuff and activities of the mind into the substance, form and power of Intuition is imperative; until then, so long as the process of consciousness depends upon the lower intelligence serving or helping out or using the intuition, the result can only be a survival of the mixed Knowledge-Ignorance uplifted or relieved by a higher light and force acting in its parts of Knowledge.” The Life Divine
Intuition sees In flashes and combined through a constant play of light — through revelations, inspirations, intuitions, swift dis- criminations.
iridescent ::: displaying a play of lustrous colors like those of the rainbow.
Jhumur: “I have often wondered if this has anything to do with the passion-play. I feel that. In the root meaning of the word in Latin is there a sense of the word as suffering? In the French you have patir, patir is to suffer. To me it always brings in the holocaust and the coming down of the avatar into the human condition. [Ed. note: ML passiõn—(s. of passiõ) Christ’s sufferings on the cross, any of the Biblical accounts of these. ( late OE passiõn-), special use of LL passiõ suffering, submission, deriv. of L passus , ptp, of patî to suffer, submit.]
Jhumur: “Law is capital, it has to be! It is a very powerful dominating force, a force of resistance, a force of refusal, whatever in us denies the acceptance of light. If this law were not there then there would be an immediate rising into the light and there would be perhaps no play of the manifestation. For a long time there was a kind of a backward pull for each forward attempt so that you would have to work your way up from below and these lower levels have their very strong demands or pulls to resist. Slowly you have to take up all these movements and rise, otherwise the spirit would have risen really without any restriction and that would not have been what the divine intention was, to manifest here in the inconscient, the Divine.”
Jhumur: “Sleeping Vishnu who is at the core of creation, Brahman who is seated on the lotus which comes out of the navel of Vishnu. The Architect has the whole play, the whole perception. He knows what He is building. He is the supreme consciousness in the deepest involution, the sleeping Lord at the core of things.”
Jhumur: “The spirit that has taken birth sometimes does not reach the goal. There is a kind of a witness consciousness that puts a cross against it and you go back to the beginning all over again. It’s like the game snakes and ladders that we used to play as children. You have to go back to the first square and start all over again. You almost reach the goal and then you fall back and have to start all over again.”
Krishna ::: “Krishna is the Eternal’s Personality of Ananda; because [of] him all creation is possible, because of his play, because of his delight, because of his sweetness.” Essays Divine and Human
KRISHNA. ::: The Eternal's Personality of Ananda ; because of him all creation is possible, because of his play, because of hjs delight, because of his sweetness.
"Life [is] not only a play of forces or a mental experience, but a field for the evolution of the concealed spirit.” Letters on Yoga
“Life [is] not only a play of forces or a mental experience, but a field for the evolution of the concealed spirit.” Letters on Yoga
"Life is universal Force working so as to create, energise, maintain and modify, even to the extent of dissolving and reconstructing, substantial forms with mutual play and interchange of an overtly or secretly conscious energy as its fundamental character.” The Life Divine
“Life is universal Force working so as to create, energise, maintain and modify, even to the extent of dissolving and reconstructing, substantial forms with mutual play and interchange of an overtly or secretly conscious energy as its fundamental character.” The Life Divine
"Life then is the dynamic play of a universal Force, a Force in which mental consciousness and nervous vitality are in some form or at least in their principle always inherent and therefore they appear and organise themselves in our world in the forms of Matter.” The Life Divine
“Life then is the dynamic play of a universal Force, a Force in which mental consciousness and nervous vitality are in some form or at least in their principle always inherent and therefore they appear and organise themselves in our world in the forms of Matter.” The Life Divine
lotus (as chakra) ::: Sri Aurobindo: "This arrangement of the psychic body is reproduced in the physical with the spinal column as a rod and the ganglionic centres as the chakras which rise up from the bottom of the column, where the lowest is attached, to the brain and find their summit in the brahmarandhra at the top of the skull. These chakras or lotuses, however, are in physical man closed or only partly open, with the consequence that only such powers and only so much of them are active in him as are sufficient for his ordinary physical life, and so much mind and soul only is at play as will accord with its need. This is the real reason, looked at from the mechanical point of view, why the embodied soul seems so dependent on the bodily and nervous life, — though the dependence is neither so complete nor so real as it seems. The whole energy of the soul is not at play in the physical body and life, the secret powers of mind are not awake in it, the bodily and nervous energies predominate. But all the while the supreme energy is there, asleep; it is said to be coiled up and slumbering like a snake, — therefore it is called the kundalinî sakti, — in the lowest of the chakras, in the mûlâdhâra.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
lyrist ::: 1. Music. One who plays a lyre. 2. A lyric poet.
Madhav: “Mark the words—‘actor Will’. We think our will is our own, but actually our will is only playing out something which has been determined for it by someone or somebody else. This is true not only of our individual will but also of the Cosmic Will. This will now becomes ineffective and comes to a halt.” The Book of the Divine Mother
Madhav: “The whole world is a play and God is the cosmic Player.” The Book of the Divine Mother
manifest ::: v. 1. To show or demonstrate plainly; reveal, display. manifested. adj. 2. Readily noticed or perceived; evident; obvious; apparent; plain; visible. manifesting.
mind, illumined ::: Sri Aurobindo: "This greater Force is that of the Illumined Mind, a Mind no longer of higher Thought, but of spiritual light. Here the clarity of the spiritual intelligence, its tranquil daylight, gives place or subordinates itself to an intense lustre, a splendour and illumination of the Spirit: a play of lightnings of spiritual truth and power breaks from above into the consciousness and adds to the calm and wide enlightenment and the vast descent of peace which characterise or accompany the action of the larger conceptual-spiritual principle, a fiery ardour of realisation and a rapturous ecstasy of knowledge.” *The Life Divine
mind, spiritual ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The spiritual mind is a mind which, in its fullness, is aware of the Self, reflecting the Divine, seeing and understanding the nature of the Self and its relations with the manifestation, living in that or in contact with it, calm, wide and awake to higher knowledge, not perturbed by the play of the forces. When it gets its full liberated movement, its central station is very usually felt above the head, though its influence can extend downward through all the being and outward through space.” Letters on Yoga
"Moreover we see that this cosmic action or any cosmic action is impossible without the play of an infinite Force of Existence which produces and regulates all these forms and movements; and that Force equally presupposes or is the action of an infinite Consciousness, because it is in its nature a cosmic Will determining all relations and apprehending them by its own mode of awareness, and it could not so determine and apprehend them if there were no comprehensive Consciousness behind that mode of cosmic awareness to originate as well as to hold, fix and reflect through it the relations of Being in the developing formation or becoming of itself which we call a universe.” The Life Divine
“Moreover we see that this cosmic action or any cosmic action is impossible without the play of an infinite Force of Existence which produces and regulates all these forms and movements; and that Force equally presupposes or is the action of an infinite Consciousness, because it is in its nature a cosmic Will determining all relations and apprehending them by its own mode of awareness, and it could not so determine and apprehend them if there were no comprehensive Consciousness behind that mode of cosmic awareness to originate as well as to hold, fix and reflect through it the relations of Being in the developing formation or becoming of itself which we call a universe.” The Life Divine
Mother, four of her leading Powers and Personalities have stood in front in her guidance of this Universe and in her dealings with the terrestrial play. One is her personality of calm wideness and comprehending wisdom and tranquil benignity and inexhaustible compassion and sovereign and surpassing majesty and all-ruling greatness. Another embo&es her power of splendid strength and irresistible passion, her warrior mood, her overwhelming will, her impetuous swiftness and world-shaking force. A third is vivid and sweet and wonderful with her deep secret of beauty and harmony and fine rhythm, her intricate and subtle opulence, her compelling attraction and captivating grace. The fourth is equipped with her close and profound capacity of intimate knowledge and careful flawless work and quiet and exact per- fection in all things. Wisdom, Strength, Harmony, Perfection are their several attributes and it Is these powers that they bring with them into the world. To the four we give the four great names, Maheshvari, Mahakali, Mabalakshmi, Mahasarasvati.
Mysteries ::: “It is ‘Mysteries’ with capital M and means ‘mystic symbolic rites’ as in the Orphic and Eleusinian ‘Mysteries’. When written with capital M it does not mean secret mysterious things, but has this sense, e.g. a ‘Mystery play’.” Letters on Savitri
mysteries ::: Sri Aurobindo: "It is ‘Mysteries" with capital M and means ‘mystic symbolic rites" as in the Orphic and Eleusinian ‘Mysteries". When written with capital M it does not mean secret mysterious things, but has this sense, e.g. a ‘Mystery play".” Letters on Savitri **Mystery, Mystery"s.**
Narad ::: “A well-known Rishi and VaishnavaBhakta who moves about in the various worlds playing on a lute and having a special role in bringing about events according to the Divine Will.” Glossary and Index of Proper Names In Sri Aurobindo’s Works
narad ::: "A well-known Rishi and Vaishnava Bhakta who moves about in the various worlds playing on a lute and having a special role in bringing about events according to the Divine Will.” *Glossary and Index of Proper Names In Sri Aurobindo"s Works
No doubt, the Supermind has also acted in the history of the world but always through the Overmind. It is the direct descent of the Supramental Consciousness and Power that alone can utterly re-create life in terms of the Spirit. For, in the Overmind there is already the play of possibilities which marks the beginning of this lower triple world of Mind, Life and Matter in which we have our existence. And whenever there is this play and not the spontaneous and infallible working of the innate Truth of the Spirit, there is the seed of distortion and ignorance. Not that the Overmind is a field of ignorance; but it is the border-line between the Higher and the Lower, for, the play of possibilities, of separate even if not yet divided choice, is likely to lead to deviation from the Truth of things.
Nolini: Chance is like a child at play. That is to say, it laughs and goes about, there is no rule about anything it does; laughter at play. There is no wisdom in its movements. The wisdom is behind and comes out of the irregular movements of Chance. It is not meaningless, there is some knowledge behind.
Nolini: “Usually the first spiritual experience comes as wonder. The birds symbolise the forces at play in this level of Wonder, beings in that consciousness of Wonder.”
on the satisfaction of cgo-dcsire or on the eating up of the fuel it embraces. It is a while flame, not a red one ; but white heat is not inferior to the red variety in its ardour. It is true that the psychic love does not usually get its full play in human rela- tions and human nature ; it finds the fullness of -its fire and ecstasy more easily when it is lifted towards the Divine. In the human relation the psychic love gets mixed up with other ele- ments which seek at once to use it and overshadow it. It gels an outlet for its o^vn full intensities only at rare moments. Other- wise it comes in only as an element, but even so it contributes all the higher things in a love fundamentally vital-— all the finer sweetness, tenderness, fidelity, self-giving, self-sacrifice, rcachings of soul to soul, idealising sublimations that lift up human love beyond itself, come from the psychic. If it could dominate and govern and transmute the other elements, mental, vital, phj-sieal, of human love, then love could be on the earth some reflection or preparation of the real thing, an integral union of the soul and its instruments in a dual life.
orchestra ::: a group of performers on various musical instruments, playing music as symphonies, operas, or other musical compositions. orchestral.
Or else the lower vital mind can try to disturb ; that brings up the ego and passions and their play.
pageantries ::: grand displays; pomp.
parading ::: displaying ostentatiously; showing off; making a parade of.
passion ::: n. 1. Suffering. 2. A powerful emotion, such as love, joy, hatred, or anger. 3. An abandoned display of emotion, especially of anger. 4. Strong sexual desire; lust. 5. Violent anger. 6. The sufferings of Jesus in the period following the Last Supper and including the Crucifixion, as related in the New Testament. passion"s, passions, world-passion. adj. **passioning. v. 7. To be affected by intense emotions such as love, joy, hatred, anger, etc. passions, passioned, passioning, passion-tranced. ::: **
passion-play ::: a dramatic performance, of medieval origin, that represents the events associated with the Passion of Jesus; also transf. See also passion, definition 7.
patience to develop. For instance, the neutral quiet so dissatis- fying to five vital eagerness of the sadhaka is the first step towards the peace that passeth all understanding, the small current or thrill of inner delight the first trickling of the ocean of Ananda, the play of tights or colours the key of the doors of the inner vision and experience, the descent that stifTens the body into a concentrated stillness that first touch of something at the end of which is the presence of the Divine.
piece ::: n. 1. A drama, a play. v. 2. Fig. To join or unite the pieces of. pieced.
playfellows ::: companions at play; playmates.
plaything ::: 1. A toy. 2. One who is used capriciously and selfishly by another. playthings.
pomp ::: 1. Dignified or magnificent display; splendour. Also fig. 2. A procession or pageant. 3. Vain or ostentatious display. pomps.
positive ::: n. 1. An affirmative element or characteristic; reality. adj. 2. Characterized by or displaying certainty, acceptance, or affirmation. 3. Independent of circumstances; absolute or unqualified.
presence ::: 1. The state or fact of being present; current existence or occurrence. 2. A divine, spiritual, or supernatural spirit or influence felt or conceived as present. 3. The immediate proximity of someone or something.
Sri Aurobindo: "It is intended by the word Presence to indicate the sense and perception of the Divine as a Being, felt as present in one"s existence and consciousness or in relation with it, without the necessity of any further qualification or description. Thus, of the ‘ineffable Presence" it can only be said that it is there and nothing more can or need be said about it, although at the same time one knows that all is there, personality and impersonality, Power and Light and Ananda and everything else, and that all these flow from that indescribable Presence. The word may be used sometimes in a less absolute sense, but that is always the fundamental significance, — the essential perception of the essential Presence supporting everything else.” *Letters on Yoga
"Beyond mind on spiritual and supramental levels dwells the Presence, the Truth, the Power, the Bliss that can alone deliver us from these illusions, display the Light of which our ideals are tarnished disguises and impose the harmony that shall at once transfigure and reconcile all the parts of our nature.” Essays Divine and Human
"But if we learn to live within, we infallibly awaken to this presence within us which is our more real self, a presence profound, calm, joyous and puissant of which the world is not the master — a presence which, if it is not the Lord Himself, is the radiation of the Lord within.” *The Life Divine
"The true soul secret in us, — subliminal, we have said, but the word is misleading, for this presence is not situated below the threshold of waking mind, but rather burns in the temple of the inmost heart behind the thick screen of an ignorant mind, life and body, not subliminal but behind the veil, — this veiled psychic entity is the flame of the Godhead always alight within us, inextinguishable even by that dense unconsciousness of any spiritual self within which obscures our outward nature. It is a flame born out of the Divine and, luminous inhabitant of the Ignorance, grows in it till it is able to turn it towards the Knowledge. It is the concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic. It is that which endures and is imperishable in us from birth to birth, untouched by death, decay or corruption, an indestructible spark of the Divine.” *The Life Divine
"If we need any personal and inner witness to this indivisible All-Consciousness behind the ignorance, — all Nature is its external proof, — we can get it with any completeness only in our deeper inner being or larger and higher spiritual state when we draw back behind the veil of our own surface ignorance and come into contact with the divine Idea and Will behind it. Then we see clearly enough that what we have done by ourselves in our ignorance was yet overseen and guided in its result by the invisible Omniscience; we discover a greater working behind our ignorant working and begin to glimpse its purpose in us: then only can we see and know what now we worship in faith, recognise wholly the pure and universal Presence, meet the Lord of all being and all Nature.” *The Life Divine
"The presence of the Spirit is there in every living being, on every level, in all things, and because it is there, the experience of Sachchidananda, of the pure spiritual existence and consciousness, of the delight of a divine presence, closeness, contact can be acquired through the mind or the heart or the life-sense or even through the physical consciousness; if the inner doors are flung sufficiently open, the light from the sanctuary can suffuse the nearest and the farthest chambers of the outer being.” *The Life Divine
"There is a secret divine Will, eternal and infinite, omniscient and omnipotent, that expresses itself in the universality and in each particular of all these apparently temporal and finite inconscient or half-conscient things. This is the Power or Presence meant by the Gita when it speaks of the Lord within the heart of all existences who turns all creatures as if mounted on a machine by the illusion of Nature.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"For what Yoga searches after is not truth of thought alone or truth of mind alone, but the dynamic truth of a living and revealing spiritual experience. There must awake in us a constant indwelling and enveloping nearness, a vivid perception, a close feeling and communion, a concrete sense and contact of a true and infinite Presence always and everywhere. That Presence must remain with us as the living, pervading Reality in which we and all things exist and move and act, and we must feel it always and everywhere, concrete, visible, inhabiting all things; it must be patent to us as their true Self, tangible as their imperishable Essence, met by us closely as their inmost Spirit. To see, to feel, to sense, to contact in every way and not merely to conceive this Self and Spirit here in all existences and to feel with the same vividness all existences in this Self and Spirit, is the fundamental experience which must englobe all other knowledge.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"One must have faith in the Master of our life and works, even if for a long time He conceals Himself, and then in His own right time He will reveal His Presence.” *Letters on Yoga
"They [the psychic being and the Divine Presence in the heart] are quite different things. The psychic being is one"s own individual soul-being. It is not the Divine, though it has come from the Divine and develops towards the Divine.” *Letters on Yoga
"For it is quietness and inwardness that enable one to feel the Presence.” *Letters on Yoga
"Beyond mind on spiritual and supramental levels dwells the Presence, the Truth, the Power, the Bliss that can alone deliver us from these illusions, display the Light of which our ideals are tarnished disguises and impose the harmony that shall at once transfigure and reconcile all the parts of our nature.” *Essays Divine and Human
The Mother: "For, in human beings, here is a presence, the most marvellous Presence on earth, and except in a few very rare cases which I need not mention here, this presence lies asleep in the heart — not in the physical heart but the psychic centre — of all beings. And when this Splendour is manifested with enough purity, it will awaken in all beings the echo of his Presence.” Words of the Mother, MCW, Vol. 15.
pride ::: 1. An excessively high opinion of oneself; conceit. 2. A sense of one"s own proper dignity or value; self-respect. 3. Display, pomp, or splendour. 4. A feeling of pleasure or satisfaction taken in an achievement, possession, or association. 5. Mettle or spirit in horses.
proceed on its way as an independent divine being with its own play in the world. All the Gods can put forth such emanations from their being, identified with them in essence of conscious- ness and power though not commensurate.
promenade ::: a stroll or walk, esp. in a public place, as for pleasure or display.
PURVSA. ::: An essential bdng supporting the play of Prafcriti conscious Soul.
red ::: Jhumur: “In general it is the play of the vital forces. Mother always uses red as a symbol of the physical, the colour of blood, the early stage of the developing
rent regard for the other members of the great series. Thus, if we regard the vital or the subtle physical plane, we see great ranges of it, (most of it), existing in themselves, without any relation with the material world and with no movement to affect or influence it, still less to precipitate a corresponding manifes- tation in the physical formula. At most we can say that the existence of anything in the vital, subtle physical or any other plane creates a possibility for a corresponding movement of manifestation in the physical world. But something more is needed to turn that static or latent possibility into a dynamic potentiality or an actual urge towards a material creation. That something may be a call from the material plane, e.g., some force or some one on the physical existence entering into touch with a supraphysical power or world or part of it and moved to bring it down into the earth-life. Or it may be an impulse in the vital or other plane itself, e.g., a vital being moved to extend his action towards the earth and establish there a kingdom for himself or the play of the forces for which he stands in his own domain.
role ::: 1. The part played by a person in a particular life. 2. Proper or customary function. roles.
scene ::: 1. The place where an action or event occurs. 2. A view or picture presented to the eye (or to the mind) of a place, concourse, incident, series of actions or events, assemblage of objects, etc. 3. The place in which the action of a play, movie, or other narrative occurs; a setting. 4. A subdivision of an act of a play marked by the entrance or departure of one or more actors. 5. An action, episode, complication of events, or situation, in real life. 6. Fig. A view or prospect of something to come. scenes, scene-shifters, earth-scene, earth-scene"s, life-scene, soul-scene, world-scene.
script ::: 1. A kind of writing, a system of alphabetical or other written characters. 2. Handwriting, esp. cursive writing, the characters used in hand-writing (as distinguished from print). 3. A manuscript or document. 4. A manuscript or written text of a play, motion picture, etc. scripts.
Self, reflecting the Divine, seeing and understanding the nature of the Self and its relations with the manifestation, living in that or in contact with it, calm, wide and awake to higher knowledge, noi'perturbcd by the play of the forces. When it gcu its full
self-revealing ::: displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one"s inner feelings, thoughts, etc.; esp. the inner nature, qualities aspects, etc. of the self.
SHAKING OF THE HEAD. ::: -When the pressure ol the Force works upon the consciousness, then in the plane on which it happens to be working, a great activity of different forces is set in play, e.g. if it is the mind, various mental forces, if it is the vital, various vital forces. It is not safe to take all these for true things, to be accepted without question. If the head shook for a long time, it is a sign that the mind or at best the mental physical was not able yet to receive all the force and assimilate it.
sign ::: n. 1. An act or gesture used to convey an idea, a desire, information, or a command. 2. Any object, action, event, pattern, etc., that conveys a meaning. 3. A mark used to mean something; a symbol that sets something apart from others of its kind. 4. Something that indicates or acts as a token of a fact, condition, etc., that is not immediately or outwardly observable. 5. A signal. 6. A conventional figure or device that stands for a word, phrase, or operation; a symbol, as in mathematics or in musical notation. 7. A displayed structure such as a banner bearing lettering or symbols. 8. An act or significant event that is experienced as indication of divine intervention. 9. A portent of things to come. Sign, sign"s, signs, signless, sign-burdened, flame-signs. v. 10. To affix one"s signature to. 11. To indicate by or as if by a sign; betoken. signs, signed, signing.
skilful ::: possessing or displaying accomplishment or skill; adroit, adept.
softness ::: 1. Mildness and gentleness. 2. A display of gentleness, mildness and even-temperedness.
sparkle ::: a glittering appearance, lustre or play of light.
spectacle ::: a public display or performance, esp. a showy or ceremonial one.
splendour ::: 1. Great light or lustre; brilliance. 2. Of a quality that outshines the usual; grand, imposing. 3. Magnificent appearance or display. Splendour, splendour"s, splendours, splendour-peaks, splendour-stream, splendour-trance.
sport ::: n. 1. An active pastime; recreation. 2. Something that is tossed about by the wind. Also fig. **sports. v. 3. To play, frolic or gambol. 4. To amuse oneself with some pleasant pastime or recreation. sports, sported, sporting.**
Sri Aurobindo: "But if the individual is a persistent reality, an eternal portion or power of the Eternal, if his growth of consciousness is the means by which the Spirit in things discloses its being, the cosmos reveals itself as a conditioned manifestation of the play of the eternal One in the being of Sachchidananda with the eternal Many.” *The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "Destruction in itself is neither good nor evil. It is a fact of Nature, a necessity in the play of forces, as things are in this world. The Light destroys the Darkness and the Powers of Darkness, and that is not a movement of Ignorance!” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Genius is one attempt of the universal Energy to so quicken and intensify our intellectual powers that they shall be prepared for those more puissant, direct and rapid faculties which constitute the play of the supra-intellectual or divine mind. It is not, then, a freak, an inexplicable phenomenon, but a perfectly natural next step in the right line of her [Nature"s] evolution.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Hatred is the sign of a secret attraction that is eager to flee from itself and furious to deny its own existence. That too is God"s play in His creature.” *Essays Divine and Human
Sri Aurobindo: " Karma is nothing but the will of the Spirit in action, consequence nothing but the creation of will. What is in the will of being, expresses itself in karma and consequence. When the will is limited in mind, karma appears as a bondage and a limitation, consequence as a reaction or an imposition. But when the will of the being is infinite in the spirit, karma and consequence become instead the joy of the creative spirit, the construction of the eternal mechanist, the word and drama of the eternal poet, the harmony of the eternal musician, the play of the eternal child.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Krishna is the Eternal"s Personality of Ananda; because [of] him all creation is possible, because of his play, because of his delight, because of his sweetness.” *Essays Divine and Human
Sri Aurobindo: “Krishna is the Eternal’s Personality of Ananda; because [of] him all creation is possible, because of his play, because of his delight, because of his sweetness.” Essays Divine and Human
Sri Aurobindo: "The cosmic consciousness is that of the universe, of the cosmic spirit and cosmic Nature with all the beings and forces within it. All that is as much conscious as a whole as the individual separately is, though in a different way. The consciousness of the individual is part of this, but a part feeling itself as a separate being. Yet all the time most of what he is comes into him from the cosmic consciousness. But there is a wall of separative ignorance between. Once it breaks down he becomes aware of the cosmic Self, of the consciousness of the cosmic Nature, of the forces playing in it, etc. He feels all that as he now feels physical things and impacts. He finds it all to be one with his larger or universal self.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Vitality means life-force — wherever there is life, in plant or animal or man, there is life-force — without the vital there can be no life in matter and no living action. The vital is a necessary force and nothing can be done or created in the bodily existence, if the vital is not there as an instrument.” *Letters on Yoga
"The vital proper is the life-force acting in its own nature, impulses, emotions, feelings, desires, ambitions, etc., having as their highest centre what we may call the outer heart of emotion, while there is an inner heart where are the higher or psychic feelings and sensibilities, the emotions or intuitive yearnings and impulses of the soul. The vital part of us is, of course, necessary to our completeness, but it is a true instrument only when its feelings and tendencies have been purified by the psychic touch and taken up and governed by the spiritual light and power.” *Letters on Yoga
". . . the vital is the Life-nature made up of desires, sensations, feelings, passions, energies of action, will of desire, reactions of the desire-soul in man and of all that play of possessive and other related instincts, anger, fear, greed, lust, etc., that belong to this field of the nature. Letters on Yoga
The Mother: "The vital is the dynamism of action. It is the seat of the will, of impulses, desires, revolts, etc.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15*.
Sri Aurobindo: "Weakness puts the same test and question to the strengths and energies and greatnesses in which we glory. Power is the play of life, shows its degree, finds the value of its expression; weakness is the play of death pursuing life in its movement and stressing the limit of its acquired energy.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
start ::: n. 1. A beginning of an action, journey, series of events, etc. 2. An initial but often transient display of energy at the onset of an activity. 3. A sudden involuntary jerking movement of the body. starts. v. 4. To begin or set out, as on a journey or activity. 5. To appear or come suddenly into action, life, view, etc.; rise or issue suddenly forth. starts, started, starting.
state ::: 1. The condition of a person or thing, as with respect to circumstances or attributes. 2. One of the more or less internally autonomous territorial and political units composing a federation under a sovereign government. 3. A costly display of ceremony and pomp. states, State, States, God-state, buffer state.
struck ::: pt. and Pp. of Strike. 1. Produced (music, a sound, note) by touching a string or playing upon an instrument; sounded (a particular note). 2. Proceeded or advanced, esp. in a new direction. 3. Produced or sent down roots (of a plant). struck out.** Produced or elicited as by a blow or stroke.
" Suffering is not inflicted as a punishment for sin or for hostility — that is a wrong idea. Suffering comes like pleasure and good fortune as an inevitable part of life in the ignorance. The dualities of pleasure and pain, joy and grief, good fortune and ill-fortune are the inevitable results of the ignorance which separates us from our true consciousness and from the Divine. Only by coming back to it can we get rid of suffering. Karma from the past lives exists, much of what happens is due to it, but not all. For we can mend our karma by our own consciousness and efforts. But the suffering is simply a natural consequence of past errors, not a punishment, just as a burn is the natural consequence of playing with fire. It is part of the experience by which the soul through its instruments learns and grows until it is ready to turn to the Divine.” Letters on Yoga
“ Suffering is not inflicted as a punishment for sin or for hostility—that is a wrong idea. Suffering comes like pleasure and good fortune as an inevitable part of life in the ignorance. The dualities of pleasure and pain, joy and grief, good fortune and ill-fortune are the inevitable results of the ignorance which separates us from our true consciousness and from the Divine. Only by coming back to it can we get rid of suffering. Karma from the past lives exists, much of what happens is due to it, but not all. For we can mend our karma by our own consciousness and efforts. But the suffering is simply a natural consequence of past errors, not a punishment, just as a burn is the natural consequence of playing with fire. It is part of the experience by which the soul through its instruments learns and grows until it is ready to turn to the Divine.” Letters on Yoga
supernumerary ::: a person who appears in a play or film without speaking lines or as part of a crowd; a walk-on; an extra.
supine ::: 1. Lying on the back or having the face upward. 2. Displaying no interest or animation; lethargic.
Tehmi: “The Latin word persona means a mask; therefore the dramatis persona at the beginning of plays were the masks which the actors would wear.
::: "The ancient Vedanta presents us with . . . the conception and experience of Brahman as the one universal and essential fact and of the nature of Brahman as Sachchidananda [Existence, Consciousness, Bliss]. In this view the essence of all life is the movement of a universal and immortal existence, the essence of all sensation and emotion is the play of a universal and self-existent delight in being, the essence of all thought and perception is the radiation of a universal and all-pervading truth, the essence of all activity is the progression of a universal and self-effecting good.” The Life Divine
“The ancient Vedanta presents us with . . . the conception and experience of Brahman as the one universal and essential fact and of the nature of Brahman as Sachchidananda [Existence, Consciousness, Bliss]. In this view the essence of all life is the movement of a universal and immortal existence, the essence of all sensation and emotion is the play of a universal and self-existent delight in being, the essence of all thought and perception is the radiation of a universal and all-pervading truth, the essence of all activity is the progression of a universal and self-effecting good.” The Life Divine
"The Atheist is God playing at hide & seek with Himself; . . . .” Essays Divine and Human*
“The Atheist is God playing at hide & seek with Himself; …” Essays Divine and Human
“the basic syllable OM, which is the foundation of all the perfect creative sounds of the revealed word; OM is the one universal formulation of the energy of sound and speech, that which contains and sums up, synthesises and releases, all the spiritual power and all the potentiality of Vak (speech, the goddess Speech) and Shabda (sound, vibration, word). The mantra of the divine consciousness brings its light of revelation, the Mantra of the divine Power, its will of effectuation, the Mantra of the divine Ananda is equal fulfilment of the spiritual delight of existence. All word and thought are an outflowing of he great OM,—OM, the Word, the Eternal Manifest in the forms of sensible objects; manifest in that conscious play of creative self-conception of which forms and objects are the figures, manifest behind in the self-gathered superconscient power of the Infinite, OM is the sovereign source, seed, womb of thing and idea, form and name—it is itself, integrally, the supreme Intangible, the original Unity, the timeless Mystery self—existent above all manifestation in supernal being.” SABCL Volume 13—Page 315
"the basic syllable OM, which is the foundation of all the perfect creative sounds of the revealed word; OM is the one universal formulation of the energy of sound and speech, that which contains and sums up, synthesises and releases, all the spiritual power and all the potentiality of Vak (speech, the goddess Speech) and Shabda (sound, vibration, word). The mantra of the divine consciousness brings its light of revelation, the Mantra of the divine Power, its will of effectuation, the Mantra of the divine Ananda is equal fulfilment of the spiritual delight of existence. All word and thought are an outflowing of he great OM, - OM, the Word, the Eternal Manifest in the forms of sensible objects; manifest in that conscious play of creative self-conception of which forms and objects are the figures, manifest behind in the self-gathered superconscient power of the Infinite, OM is the sovereign source, seed, womb of thing and idea, form and name – it is itself, integrally, the supreme Intangible, the original Unity, the timeless Mystery self- existent above all manifestation in supernal being.” SABCL Volume 13 – Page 315*
“The Chhandogya,… is to be a work in the right and perfect way of devoting oneself to the Brahman; its subject is the Brahman, but the Brahman as symbolised in the OM, the sacred syllable of the Veda, not therefore, the pure state of existence only, but that existence in all its parts… OM is the symbol and the thing symbolised.”the basic syllable OM, which is the foundation of all the perfect creative sounds of the revealed word; OM is the one universal formulation of the energy of sound and speech, that which contains and sums up, synthesises and releases, all the spiritual power and all the potentiality of Vak (speech, the goddess Speech) and Shabda (sound, vibration, word). The mantra of the divine consciousness brings its light of revelation, the Mantra of the divine Power, its will of effectuation, the Mantra of the divine Ananda is equal fulfilment of the spiritual delight of existence. All word and thought are an outflowing of he great OM,—OM, the Word, the Eternal Manifest in the forms of sensible objects; manifest in that conscious play of creative self-conception of which forms and objects are the figures, manifest behind in the self-gathered superconscient power of the Infinite, OM is the sovereign source, seed, womb of thing and idea, form and name—it is itself, integrally, the supreme Intangible, the original Unity, the timeless Mystery self—existent above all manifestation in supernal being.” SABCL Volume 13—Page 315
"The cosmic consciousness is that in which the limits of ego, personal mind and body disappear and one becomes aware of a cosmic vastness which is or filled by a cosmic spirit and aware also of the direct play of cosmic forces, universal mind forces, universal life forces, universal energies of Matter, universal overmind forces. But one does not become aware of all these together; the opening of the cosmic consciousness is usually progressive. It is not that the ego, the body, the personal mind disappear, but one feels them as only a small part of oneself. One begins to feel others too as part of oneself or varied repetitions of oneself, the same self modified by Nature in other bodies. Or, at the least, as living in the larger universal self which is henceforth one"s own greater reality. All things in fact begin to change their nature and appearance; one"s whole experience of the world is radically different from that of those who are shut up in their personal selves. One begins to know things by a different kind of experience, more direct, not depending on the external mind and the senses. It is not that the possibility of error disappears, for that cannot be so long as mind of any kind is one"s instrument for transcribing knowledge, but there is a new, vast and deep way of experiencing, seeing, knowing, contacting things; and the confines of knowledge can be rolled back to an almost unmeasurable degree. The thing one has to be on guard against in the cosmic consciousness is the play of a magnified ego, the vaster attacks of the hostile forces — for they too are part of the cosmic consciousness — and the attempt of the cosmic Illusion (Ignorance, Avidya) to prevent the growth of the soul into the cosmic Truth. These are things that one has to learn from experience; mental teaching or explanation is quite insufficient. To enter safely into the cosmic consciousness and to pass safely through it, it is necessary to have a strong central unegoistic sincerity and to have the psychic being, with its divination of truth and unfaltering orientation towards the Divine, already in front in ::: —the nature.” Letters on Yoga*
“The cosmic consciousness is that in which the limits of ego, personal mind and body disappear and one becomes aware of a cosmic vastness which is or filled by a cosmic spirit and aware also of the direct play of cosmic forces, universal mind forces, universal life forces, universal energies of Matter, universal overmind forces. But one does not become aware of all these together; the opening of the cosmic consciousness is usually progressive. It is not that the ego, the body, the personal mind disappear, but one feels them as only a small part of oneself. One begins to feel others too as part of oneself or varied repetitions of oneself, the same self modified by Nature in other bodies. Or, at the least, as living in the larger universal self which is henceforth one’s own greater reality. All things in fact begin to change their nature and appearance; one’s whole experience of the world is radically different from that of those who are shut up in their personal selves. One begins to know things by a different kind of experience, more direct, not depending on the external mind and the senses. It is not that the possibility of error disappears, for that cannot be so long as mind of any kind is one’s instrument for transcribing knowledge, but there is a new, vast and deep way of experiencing, seeing, knowing, contacting things; and the confines of knowledge can be rolled back to an almost unmeasurable degree. The thing one has to be on guard against in the cosmic consciousness is the play of a magnified ego, the vaster attacks of the hostile forces—for they too are part of the cosmic consciousness—and the attempt of the cosmic Illusion (Ignorance, Avidya) to prevent the growth of the soul into the cosmic Truth. These are things that one has to learn from experience; mental teaching or explanation is quite insufficient. To enter safely into the cosmic consciousness and to pass safely through it, it is necessary to have a strong central unegoistic sincerity and to have the psychic being, with its divination of truth and unfaltering orientation towards the Divine, already in front in—the nature.” Letters on Yoga
“The cosmic consciousness is that of the universe, of the cosmic spirit and cosmic Nature with all the beings and forces within it. All that is as much conscious as a whole as the individual separately is, though in a different way. The consciousness of the individual is part of this, but a part feeling itself as a separate being. Yet all the time most of what he is comes into him from the cosmic consciousness. But there is a wall of separative ignorance between. Once it breaks down he becomes aware of the cosmic Self, of the consciousness of the cosmic Nature, of the forces playing in it, etc. He feels all that as he now feels physical things and impacts. He finds it all to be one with his larger or universal self.” Letters on Yoga
"The Cosmic Will is not, to our ordinary consciousness, something that acts as an independent power doing whatever it chooses; it works through all these beings, through the forces at play in the world and the law of these forces and their results — it is only when we open ourselves and get out of the ordinary consciousness that we can feel it intervening as an independent power and overriding the ordinary play of the forces." Letters on Yoga
“The Cosmic Will is not, to our ordinary consciousness, something that acts as an independent power doing whatever it chooses; it works through all these beings, through the forces at play in the world and the law of these forces and their results—it is only when we open ourselves and get out of the ordinary consciousness that we can feel it intervening as an independent power and overriding the ordinary play of the forces.” Letters on Yoga
"The elementary state of material Force is, in the view of the old Indian physicists, a condition of pure material extension in Space of which the peculiar property is vibration typified to us by the phenomenon of sound. But vibration in this state of ether is not sufficient to create forms. There must first be some obstruction in the flow of the Force ocean, some contraction and expansion, some interplay of vibrations, some impinging of force upon force so as to create a beginning of fixed relations and mutual effects. Material Force modifying its first ethereal status assumes a second, called in the old language the aerial, of which the special property is contact between force and force, contact that is the basis of all material relations. Still we have not as yet real forms but only varying forces. A sustaining principle is needed. This is provided by a third self-modification of the primitive Force of which the principle of light, electricity, fire and heat is for us the characteristic manifestation. Even then, we can have forms of force preserving their own character and peculiar action, but not stable forms of Matter. A fourth state characterised by diffusion and a first medium of permanent attractions and repulsions, termed picturesquely water or the liquid state, and a fifth of cohesion, termed earth or the solid state, complete the necessary elements.” The Life Divine*
“The elementary state of material Force is, in the view of the old Indian physicists, a condition of pure material extension in Space of which the peculiar property is vibration typified to us by the phenomenon of sound. But vibration in this state of ether is not sufficient to create forms. There must first be some obstruction in the flow of the Force ocean, some contraction and expansion, some interplay of vibrations, some impinging of force upon force so as to create a beginning of fixed relations and mutual effects. Material Force modifying its first ethereal status assumes a second, called in the old language the aerial, of which the special property is contact between force and force, contact that is the basis of all material relations. Still we have not as yet real forms but only varying forces. A sustaining principle is needed. This is provided by a third self-modification of the primitive Force of which the principle of light, electricity, fire and heat is for us the characteristic manifestation. Even then, we can have forms of force preserving their own character and peculiar action, but not stable forms of Matter. A fourth state characterised by diffusion and a first medium of permanent attractions and repulsions, termed picturesquely water or the liquid state, and a fifth of cohesion, termed earth or the solid state, complete the necessary elements.” The Life Divine
The ideal sadhaka in this kind is one who if required to live poorly can so live and no sense of want will affect him or inter- fere with the full inner play of the divine consciousaess, and If he is required to live richly, can so live and never for a moment fall into desire or attachment to his wealth or to the tbmss that he uses or servitude to self-indulgence or a weak bondage to the habits that the possession of ricBes creates.
“The Ishwari Shakti, divine Conscious-Force and World-Mother, becomes a mediatrix between the eternal One and the manifested Many. On one side, by the play of the energies which she brings from the One, she manifests the multiple Divine in the universe, involving and evolving its endless appearances out of her revealing substance; on the other, by the reascending current of the same energies she leads back all towards That from which they have issued so that the soul in its evolutionary manifestation may more and more return towards the Divinity there or here put on its divine character.” The Synthesis of Yoga
The last stage of this perfection will come when you are com* pletely identified with the Divine Mother and feel yourself to be no longer another and separate being, hstwmeM, sen'ani or worker but truly a child and eternal portion of her conscious- ness and force. Always she will be in you and you in her ; it will be your constant, simple and natural experience that all your thought and seeing and action, your very breathing or moving come from her and are here. You will know and see and feel that you are a person and power formed by her out of herself, put out from her for the play and yet always safe in her, being of her being, consciousness of her consciousness, force of her force, ananda of her Ananda. When this condition is entire and her supramental energies can freely move you then you will be perfect in divine works; knowledge, will, action will become sure, simple, luminous, spontaneous, flawless, an outflow from the Supreme, a divine movement of the Eternal.
The more intense the experiences that come, the higher the forces that descend, the greater become the possibilities of deviation and error. For the very intensity and the very height of the force excites and aggrandises the movements of the lower nature and raises up in it all opposing elements in their full force, but often in the dbguisc of truth, wearing a mask of plausible justification. There is needed a great patience, calm, sobriety, balance, an impersonal dciachmcnx and sincerity free from all taint of ego or personal human desire. There must be no attachment to any idea of one’s owm, to any experience, to any kind of imagination, mental building or vital demand ::: the light of discrimination must alx^i'ays play to detect those
The more intimate Yo^a of Bhakti resolves itself simply into these four movements, tlic desire of the Soul when it turns towards God and the straining of its emotion towards him, the pain of love and the divine return of love, the delight of love possessed and the play of that delight, and the eternal enjoy- ment of the divine Lover which is the heart of celestial bliss.
The Mother: “Krishna represents both the universal Godhead and the immanent Godhead, he whom one can meet within one’s being and in all that constitutes the manifested world. And do you want to know why he is always represented as a child? It is because he is in constant progression. To the extent that the world is perfected, his play is also perfected—what was the play of yesterday will no longer be the play of tomorrow; his play will become more and more harmonious, benign and joyful to the extent that the world becomes capable of responding to it and enjoying it with the Divine.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15.
::: "Then too we can see that even in the play of the forces and in spite of their distortions the Cosmic Will is working towards the eventual realisation of the Will of the Transcendent Divine.” *Letters on Yoga
“Then too we can see that even in the play of the forces and in spite of their distortions the Cosmic Will is working towards the eventual realisation of the Will of the Transcendent Divine.” Letters on Yoga
". . . the proper function of the thought-mind is to observe, understand, judge with a dispassionate delight in knowledge and open itself to messages and illuminations playing upon all that it observes and upon all that is yet hidden from it but must progressively be revealed, messages and illuminations that secretly flash down to us from the divine Oracle concealed in light above our mentality whether they seem to descend through the intuitive mind or arise from the seeing heart.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
“… the proper function of the thought-mind is to observe, understand, judge with a dispassionate delight in knowledge and open itself to messages and illuminations playing upon all that it observes and upon all that is yet hidden from it but must progressively be revealed, messages and illuminations that secretly flash down to us from the divine Oracle concealed in light above our mentality whether they seem to descend through the intuitive mind or arise from the seeing heart.” The Synthesis of Yoga
There are special forces of the Light and there is a play of them according to needs. It can pour into the body, make every cell luminous, fix itself and surround on all sides in one luminous mass of Light.
There are two classes of thmgs that happen in yoga, realisa- tions and experiences. Realisations are the reception in the cons- ciousness and the establishment there of the fundamental truths of the Divine, of the Higher or Divine Nature, of the world- consciousness and the play of its forces, of one’s own self and real nature and the inner nature of things, the power of these things growing in one till they arc part of one’s inner life and existence, — as for instance, the realisation of the Divine Pre- sence, the Descent and settling of the higher Peace, Light, Force,
There is an intuWon of Time which is not of the mind and when it plays is always accurate to the very minute and if need be to the very second.
“The spiritual mind is a mind which, in its fullness, is aware of the Self, reflecting the Divine, seeing and understanding the nature of the Self and its relations with the manifestation, living in that or in contact with it, calm, wide and awake to higher knowledge, not perturbed by the play of the forces. When it gets its full liberated movement, its central station is very usually felt above the head, though its influence can extend downward through all the being and outward through space.” Letters on Yoga
"The universe is not merely a mathematical formula for working out the relation of certain mental abstractions called numbers and principles to arrive in the end at a zero or a void unit, neither is it merely a physical operation embodying a certain equation of forces. It is the delight of a Self-lover, the play of a Child, the endless self-multiplication of a Poet intoxicated with the rapture of His own power of endless creation.” The Supramental Manifestation
“The universe is not merely a mathematical formula for working out the relation of certain mental abstractions called numbers and principles to arrive in the end at a zero or a void unit, neither is it merely a physical operation embodying a certain equation of forces. It is the delight of a Self-lover, the play of a Child, the endless self-multiplication of a Poet intoxicated with the rapture of His own power of endless creation.” The Supramental Manifestation
“… the vital is the Life-nature made up of desires, sensations, feelings, passions, energies of action, will of desire, reactions of the desire-soul in man and of all that play of possessive and other related instincts, anger, fear, greed, lust, etc., that belong to this field of the nature. Letters on Yoga
"The whole energy of the soul is not at play in the physical body and life, the secret powers of mind are not awake in it, the bodily and nervous energies predominate. But all the while the supreme energy is there, asleep; it is said to be coiled up and slumbering like a snake, — therefore it is called the kundalinî sakti, — in the lowest of the chakras, in the mûlâdhâra. When by Pranayama the division between the upper and lower prana currents in the body is dissolved, this Kundalini is struck and awakened, it uncoils itself and begins to rise upward like a fiery serpent breaking open each lotus as it ascends until the Shakti meets the Purusha in the brahmarandhra in a deep samadhi of union.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“The whole energy of the soul is not at play in the physical body and life, the secret powers of mind are not awake in it, the bodily and nervous energies predominate. But all the while the supreme energy is there, asleep; it is said to be coiled up and slumbering like a snake,—therefore it is called the kundalinî sakti,—in the lowest of the chakras, in the mûlâdhâra. When by Pranayama the division between the upper and lower prana currents in the body is dissolved, this Kundalini is struck and awakened, it uncoils itself and begins to rise upward like a fiery serpent breaking open each lotus as it ascends until the Shakti meets the Purusha in the brahmarandhra in a deep samadhi of union.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“This arrangement of the psychic body is reproduced in the physical with the spinal column as a rod and the ganglionic centres as the chakras which rise up from the bottom of the column, where the lowest is attached, to the brain and find their summit in the brahmarandhra at the top of the skull. These chakras or lotuses, however, are in physical man closed or only partly open, with the consequence that only such powers and only so much of them are active in him as are sufficient for his ordinary physical life, and so much mind and soul only is at play as will accord with its need. This is the real reason, looked at from the mechanical point of view, why the embodied soul seems so dependent on the bodily and nervous life,—though the dependence is neither so complete nor so real as it seems. The whole energy of the soul is not at play in the physical body and life, the secret powers of mind are not awake in it, the bodily and nervous energies predominate. But all the while the supreme energy is there, asleep; it is said to be coiled up and slumbering like a snake,—therefore it is called the kundalinî sakti,—in the lowest of the chakras, in the mûlâdhâra.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“This greater Force is that of the Illumined Mind, a Mind no longer of higher Thought, but of spiritual light. Here the clarity of the spiritual intelligence, its tranquil daylight, gives place or subordinates itself to an intense lustre, a splendour and illumination of the Spirit: a play of lightnings of spiritual truth and power breaks from above into the consciousness and adds to the calm and wide enlightenment and the vast descent of peace which characterise or accompany the action of the larger conceptual-spiritual principle, a fiery ardour of realisation and a rapturous ecstasy of knowledge.” The Life Divine
triune Infinite ::: Sri Aurobindo: "We do not seek to excise from our being all consciousness of the universe, but to realise God, Truth and Self in the universe as well as transcendent of it. We shall seek therefore not only the Ineffable, but also His manifestation as infinite being, consciousness and bliss embracing the universe and at play in it. For that triune infinity is His supreme manifestation and that we shall aspire to know, to share in and to become; and since we seek to realise this Trinity not only in itself but in its cosmic play, we shall aspire also to knowledge of and participation in the universal divine Truth, Knowledge, Will, Love which are His secondary manifestation, His divine becoming. With this too we shall aspire to identify ourselves, towards this too we shall strive to rise and, when the period of effort is passed, allow it by our renunciation of all egoism to draw us up into itself in our being and to descend into us and embrace us in all our becoming.” The Synthesis of Yoga
Two things render that culmination more facile than it would otherwise be. Overmind in the descent towards material creation has originated modifications of itself,—Intuition especially with its penetrative lightning flashes of truth lighting up local points and stretches of country in our consciousness,—which can bring the concealed truth of things nearer to our comprehension, and, by opening ourselves more widely first in the inner being and then as a result in the outer surface self also to the messages of these higher ranges of consciousness, by growing into them, we can become ourselves also intuitive and overmental beings, not limited by the intellect and sense, but capable of a more universal comprehension and a direct touch of truth in its very self and body. In fact flashes of enlightenment from these higher ranges already come to us, but this intervention is mostly fragmentary, casual or partial; we have still to begin to enlarge ourselves into their likeness and organise in us the greater Truth activities of which we are potentially capable. But, secondly, Overmind, Intuition, even Supermind not only must be, as we have seen, principles inherent and involved in the Inconscience from which we arise in the evolution and inevitably destined to evolve, but are secretly present, occult actively with flashes of intuitive emergence in the cosmic activity of Mind, Life and Matter. It is true that their action is concealed and, even when they emerge, it is modified by the medium, material, vital, mental in which they work and not easily recognisable. Supermind cannot manifest itself as the Creator Power in the universe from the beginning, for if it did, the Ignorance and Inconscience would be impossible or else the slow evolution necessary would change into a rapid transformation scene. Yet at every step of the material energy we can see the stamp of inevitability given by a supramental creator, in all the development of life and mind the play of the lines of possibility and their combination which is the stamp of Overmind intervention. As Life and Mind have been released in Matter, so too must in their time these greater powers of the concealed Godhead emerge from the involution and their supreme Light descend into us from above. …
\vbich merely expresses the vital stuff without subjecting it to any play of intelligence. It is through this mental vital that the vital passions, impulses, desires rise up and get into the Buddhi and either cloud or distort it.
weakness ::: “Weakness puts the same test and question to the strengths and energies and greatnesses in which we glory. Power is the play of life, shows its degree, finds the value of its expression; weakness is the play of death pursuing life in its movement and stressing the limit of its acquired energy.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
wear ::: 1. To carry or have on the person as covering, adornment, or protection. Also fig. 2. To bear, display or have in one"s aspect or appearance. 3. To carry or have habitually on the person, especially as an aid. 4. To cause to weaken, diminish, or disappear gradually. 5. To bear in one"s heart or mind as a thought, a feeling, an attribute etc. wears, wearing.
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“We do not seek to excise from our being all consciousness of the universe, but to realise God, Truth and Self in the universe as well as transcendent of it. We shall seek therefore not only the Ineffable, but also His manifestation as infinite being, consciousness and bliss embracing the universe and at play in it. For that triune infinity is His supreme manifestation and that we shall aspire to know, to share in and to become; and since we seek to realise this Trinity not only in itself but in its cosmic play, we shall aspire also to knowledge of and participation in the universal divine Truth, Knowledge, Will, Love which are His secondary manifestation, His divine becoming. With this too we shall aspire to identify ourselves, towards this too we shall strive to rise and, when the period of effort is passed, allow it by our renunciation of all egoism to draw us up into itself in our being and to descend into us and embrace us in all our becoming.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga*
“What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"What we call Chance is a play of the possibilities of the Infinite; . . . .” Essays Divine and Human*
“What we call Chance is a play of the possibilities of the Infinite; …” Essays Divine and Human
"When we study this Life as it manifests itself upon earth with Matter as its basis, we observe that essentially it is a form of the one cosmic Energy, a dynamic movement or current of it positive and negative, a constant act or play of the Force which builds up forms, energises them by a continual stream of stimulation and maintains them by an unceasing process of disintegration and renewal of their substance. This would tend to show that the natural opposition we make between death and life is an error of our mentality, one of those false oppositions — false to inner truth though valid in surface practical experience — which, deceived by appearances, it is constantly bringing into the universal unity.” The Life Divine ::: *life"s, life-born, life-curve, life-delight"s, life-drift, life-foam, life-giving, life-impulse, life-impulse"s, life-motives, life-nature"s, life-pain, life-plan, life-power, life-room, life-scene, life-self, life-thought, life-wants, all-life, sense-life.
“When we study this Life as it manifests itself upon earth with Matter as its basis, we observe that essentially it is a form of the one cosmic Energy, a dynamic movement or current of it positive and negative, a constant act or play of the Force which builds up forms, energises them by a continual stream of stimulation and maintains them by an unceasing process of disintegration and renewal of their substance. This would tend to show that the natural opposition we make between death and life is an error of our mentality, one of those false oppositions—false to inner truth though valid in surface practical experience—which, deceived by appearances, it is constantly bringing into the universal unity.” The Life Divine
Working of the Force ::: When the pressure of the Force works upon the consciousness, then in the plane on which it happens to be working, a great activity of different forces is set in play, e.g. if it is the mind, various mental forces, if it is the vital, various vital forces. It Is not safe to take all these for true things, to be accepted without question.
world-Mother ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Ishwari Shakti, divine Conscious-Force and World-Mother, becomes a mediatrix between the eternal One and the manifested Many. On one side, by the play of the energies which she brings from the One, she manifests the multiple Divine in the universe, involving and evolving its endless appearances out of her revealing substance; on the other, by the reascending current of the same energies she leads back all towards That from which they have issued so that the soul in its evolutionary manifestation may more and more return towards the Divinity there or here put on its divine character.” The Synthesis of Yoga
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1:Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir. ~ Kabir, #KEYS
2:~ Swami Saradananda, Sri Ramakrishna and His Divine Play #KEYS
3:Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.
~ Bruno Bettelheim,#KEYS
4:Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords. ~ Erik Erikson, #KEYS
5:aware of life
passing like dew
they play in the sun ~ Ogawa,#KEYS
6:Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games - they should play go[3] ~ Confucius, #KEYS
7:It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine. ~ Bram Stoker, #KEYS
8:The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket. ~ Richard P Feynman, #KEYS
9:Ah, well yes if you want to play yourself you can, everyone is a character in the tales of time
~ Sine.wav,#KEYS
10:Depression is your avatar telling you it's tired of being the character you're trying to play.
~ Jim Carrey,#KEYS
11:We need play to live a human life ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 2-2.168.2ad3)., #KEYS
12:Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca, #KEYS
13:Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
~ Heraclitus,#KEYS
14:The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play. ~ Erik Erikson, #KEYS
15:Never apologize for trusting your intuition. Your brain can play trick, your heart can be blind, but your gut is usually right." ~ Unknown, #KEYS
16:A divine incarnation is hard to comprehend -- It is the play of the infinite on the finite. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
17:Realize your pure Be-ing. Thoughts will play as usual, but you will not be affected. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
18:At play with him as with her child or slave, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge, #KEYS
19:All Nature is a display and a play of God, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga, Involution and Evolution, #KEYS
20:All work must be play, but a divine play, played for the Divine, with the Divine.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
21:Our chains are either a play or an illusion or both play & illusion. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad, The Isha Upanishad, #KEYS
22:Most people do not really choose—they undergo the play of the forces. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I, Occult Knowledge, #KEYS
23:come
play with me
little orphan sparrow
~ Kobayashi Issa, @BashoSociety#KEYS
24:All is their play:
This whole wide world is only he and she. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
25:God's valet moves away these living dolls
To quite another room and better play. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories, Act II,#KEYS
26:There is a meaning in each play of Chance, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind, #KEYS
27:Do not regret the tamas; but when satva comes into play, hold on to it fast and make the best of it. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talks, 52, #KEYS
28:All the play in this world is based on a certain relative free will in the individual being. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II, Surrender, #KEYS
29:Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
~ Voltaire,#KEYS
30:She has her secret calls
And works divinely behind play and sleep,
Shaping her infant powers. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories, Act I,#KEYS
31:To play the part of a Guru is like a courtesan's life, selling oneself for such paltry things as gold, status and bodily enjoyments. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
32:Can an actor on stage throw off his mask? Let worldly people play out their part, in time they will throw off their false appearances. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
33:Nothing happens in the cosmic play
But at its time and in its foreseen place. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Destined Meeting-place,#KEYS
34:The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves"
~ Carl Jung,#KEYS
35:A deep spiritual calm no touch can sway
Upholds the mystery of this Passion-play. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Life-Unity,#KEYS
36:All life is the play of universal forces. The individual gives a personal form to these universal forces. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I, Occult Knowledge, #KEYS
37:It is the physical that fears and abhors suffering, but the vital takes it as part of the play of life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Sorrow and Suffering, #KEYS
38:There work was play and play the only work,
The tasks of heaven a game of godlike might: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and Fall of Life,#KEYS
39:Scientists have discovered that it takes approximately 400 repetitions to create a new synopsis in the brain, unless its done in play, in which case it only takes 10-20 repetitions. ~ Karyn Purvis, #KEYS
40:So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination. ~ Michio Kaku, #KEYS
41:The aim of the Universal Mother is to embrace the Divine in her own play and creations and there to realise It. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Systems of Yoga, #KEYS
42:The truth is always the One at work on itself, at play with itself, infinite in unity, infinite in multiplicity. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Release from the Ego, #KEYS
43:The secret of our apparent bondage is the Spirit's play by which It consents to forget God-consciousness in the absorption of Nature's movement.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad,#KEYS
44:He whose whole play of life is with the Self and in the Self has his joy and so does actions, is the best of the knowers of the Eternal. ~ Mundaka Upanishad, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
45:The ego-sense is not indispensable to the world-play in which it is so active and so falsifies the truth of things. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Release from the Ego, #KEYS
46:All ignorance and all perversity only the distortion of the truth and right of things and not the play of an absolute falsehood. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Mind and Supermind, #KEYS
47:After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. ~ Sophia Loren, #KEYS
48:Destruction in itself is neither good nor evil. It is a fact of Nature, a necessity in the play of forces as things are in this world. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I, Morality and Yoga, #KEYS
49:To see divine possibility and overcome its play of obstacles constitutes the whole mystery and greatness of human existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Delight of the Divine, #KEYS
50:Existence is one only in its essence and totality, in its play it is necessarily multiform. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, Nature's Law in Our Progress - Unity in Diversity, Law and Liberty, #KEYS
51:The higher Truth is all the time working in us but through the lower power - Aparashakti. It is when we become conscious of the play of this higher Power then only yoga begins. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #KEYS
52:The noun lila means anything from sport, dalliance, play to any languid or amorous gesture in a woman. ~ V.S. Apte (1965), quoted in in Sri Aurobindo's Lila - The Nature of Divine Play According to Integral Advaita, p. 68 #KEYS
53:The slow self-manifesting birth of God in Matter is the purpose of the terrestrial Lila. ~ Sri Aurobindo, "Sri Aurobindo's Lila - The Nature of Divine Play According to Integral Advaita", p. 68 #KEYS
54:It is good for you to spend some time with children. They will teach you to believe, to love and to play. Children will help you smile from your heart and to have that look of wonderment in your eyes. ~ MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI, #KEYS
55:The further one goes on the spiritual path the more will one have to learn to play a part." ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan, (1882 - 1927) founder of the Sufi Order in the West in 1914, (London) and teacher of Universal Sufism, Wikipedia., #KEYS
56:We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude." ~ Charles R. Swindoll, #KEYS
57:To surrender to the Divine is to renounce your narrow limits and let yourself be invaded by It and made a centre for Its play.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Surrender to the Divine Will, Surrender,#KEYS
58:Just as you practice much in order to sing, dance, and play on instruments, so one should practice the art of fixing the mind on God. One should practice regularly such disciplines as worship, japa, and meditation. ~ Sri Ramakrishnan, #KEYS
59:We must not only have the possession of a pure self-existence independent of the world-play, but possess all existence as our ow. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Difficulties of the Mental Being, #KEYS
60:A oneness finding itself out in the variations of its own duality is the whole play of the soul with Nature in its cosmic birth and becoming. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Soul and Its Liberation, #KEYS
61:The Way Of The Holy Fool ::: At the crossroads this year, after
begging all day
I lingered at the village temple.
Children gather round me and
whisper,
"The crazy monk has come back
to play."
~ Taigu Ryokan,#KEYS
62:All ideas of union or separation, of friend or foe, of high and low, of 'I and mine', are non-existent in the play of yours with the Divine Mother. There is only-inexhaustible Bliss, boundless Love, and infinite Peace. ~ SWAMI VIRAJANANDA, #KEYS
63:For in and out, above, below, Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow show, Play'd in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go." ~ Omar Khayyam, (1048 - 1131) Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet, Wikipedia., #KEYS
64:Think of the life you have lived until now as over and, as a dead man, see what's left as a bonus and live it according to Nature. Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own, for what could be more fitting?" ~ Marcus Aurelius, #KEYS
65:All ideas of union or separation, of friend or foe, of high and low, of 'I and mine', are non-existent in that play of yours with the Divine Mother. There is only - inexhaustible Bliss, boundless Love, and infinite Peace. ~ SWAMI VIRAJANANDA, #KEYS
66:The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images. ~ Albert Einstein, #KEYS
67:In his revelation, God performs a symphony, and it is impossible to say which is richer: the seamless genius of his composition or the polyphonous orchestra of Creation that he has prepared to play it. ~ Hans Urs von Balthasar, Truth is Symphonic, #KEYS
68:The cosmos is no accident in Time;
There is a meaning in each play of Chance,
There is a freedom in each face of Fate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
69:Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
70:You are Life. You are Reality. You are the ever present 'One' and you 'are me'…. You are the author of your great illusion - believing not in what you have made, yet enjoying the play of creation all the same." ~ Keith Loy, "Finding Reality," 2008., #KEYS
71:You can control a mad elephant; You can shut the mouth of a bear or a tiger; You can ride a lion; You can play with the cobra; You can be ever youthful; You can walk on water and live in fire; But control of the mind is more difficult. ~ Thayumanavar, #KEYS
72:There are Two who are One and play in many worlds;
In Knowledge and Ignorance they have spoken and met
And light and darkness are their eyes' interchange. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
73:And if it is a play of the All-Existence, then we may well consent to play out our part in it with grace and courage, well take delight in the game along with our divine Playmate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Renunciation, #KEYS
74:One should know a little of everything. If a man starts a grocery-shop, he keeps all kinds of articles there, including a little lentil and tamarind. An expert musician knows how to play a little on all instruments. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
75:Who enjoys the show? The actor or the spectator? Learn to be witness. Stand aside and watch the play. Don't get involved. Don't talk much. Speech is silver, silence is golden. Look and listen attentively. Many want to talk. Few care to listen. ~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
76:The intuitive mind is not yet the wide sunlight of truth, but a constant play of flashes of it keeping lighted up a basic state of ignorance or of half-knowledge and indirect knowledge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Intuitive Mind, #KEYS
77:There is a truth to know, a work to do;
Her play is real; a Mystery he fulfils:
There is a plan in the Mother's deep world-whim,
A purpose in her vast and random game. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
78:Whatever you do, see, or hear, think that to be God. It is all play, a game with Him. Know life to be a game, in which Mother Herself is the Player and you are Her playmate. The world will be quite different when you know that Mother is playing with you. ~ SWAMI VIRAJANANDA, #KEYS
79:Call on the Master devotedly; you will attain everything. I say, you are blessed; for you have been born in such an age. This is the time when you can see His divine sport. One can easily understand this divine play if he looks upon it with faith and devotion ~ Sri Sarada Devi, #KEYS
80:In the narrow nether centre's petty parts
Its childish game of daily dwarf desires
Was changed into a sweet and boisterous play,
A romp of little gods with life in Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
81:When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play. ~ Gary Gygax, #KEYS
82:There are two beings in my single self.
A Godhead watches Nature from behind
At play in front with a brilliant surface elf,
A time-born creature with a human mind. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, The Dual Being,#KEYS
83:There's a rhythm
Will shatter hardest stone; each thing in nature
Has its own point where it has done with patience
And starts in pieces; below that point play on it,
Nor overpitch the music. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories, Act III,#KEYS
84:The Friend of Man helps him with life and death
Until he knows. Then, freed from mortal breath,
Grief, pain, resentment, terror pass away.
He feels the joy of the immortal play; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Epiphany,#KEYS
85:The purpose and law of the birth-series is for the soul in the body to rise from plane to plane and substitute always the rule of the higher for the rule of the lower play even down to the material field. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Gnosis and Ananda, #KEYS
86:An inconclusive play is Reason's toil.
Each strong idea can use her as its tool;
Accepting every brief she pleads her case.
Open to every thought, she cannot know. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Mind,#KEYS
87:Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play on the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? ~ John Milton in Areopagitica, #KEYS
88:In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the melodies we play on vibrating strings; the universe is a symphony of strings, and the 'Mind of God' is cosmic music resonating in 11-dimensional hyperspace. ~ Michio Kaku, #KEYS
89:Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods, and defend himself against his enemies, and win in the contest." ~ Plato, (428/427 or 424/423 - 348/347) Greek philosopher, Wikipedia., #KEYS
90:Mortals, your end is beatitude, rapture eternal his meaning:
Joy, which he most now denies, is his purpose: the hedges, the screening
Were but the rules of his play; his denials came to lure farther. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Ahana,#KEYS
91:You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink. ~ G K Chesterton, #KEYS
92:There are Two who are One and play in many worlds;
In Knowledge and Ignorance they have spoken and met
And light and darkness are their eyes' interchange;
Our pleasure and pain are their wrestle and embrace, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Secret Knowledge,#KEYS
93:Nothing changes yet all changes, all her workings and creations would in this play collapse into disintegration and chaos; there would be nothing to hold her disparate movements and creations together. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Brahman, Purusha, Ishwara - Maya, Prakriti, Shakti, #KEYS
94:It is (sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly) by the power of the Overmind releasing the mind from its close partitions that the cosmic consciousness opens in the seeker and he becomes aware of the cosmic spirit and the play of the cosmic forces.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - I, 152,#KEYS
95:I too play with symbols... but I play in such a way that I do not forget that I am playing. For nothing is proved by symbols... unless by sure reasons it can be demonstrated that they are not merely symbolic but are descriptions of the ways in which the two things are connected and of the causes of this connection. ~ Johannes Kepler, #KEYS
96:This was the play of the bright gods of Thought.
Attracting into time the timeless Light,
Imprisoning eternity in the hours,
This they have planned, to snare the feet of Truth
In an aureate net of concept and of phrase ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Mind,#KEYS
97:All exists here, no doubt, for the delight of existence, all is a game or Lila; but a game too carries within itself an object to be accomplished and without the fulfillment of that object would have no completeness of significance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, "Sri Aurobindo's Lila - The Nature of Divine Play According to Integral Advaita" #KEYS
98:When I see the chaste women of respectable families, I see in them the Divine clothed in the robe of a chaste woman; and again, when I see the public women of the city seated on their verandahs in their rajment of immorality and shame, I see also in them the Divine at play after another fashion. ~ Ramakrishna, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
99:Kama (Desire)
Delight and laughter walking hand in hand
Go with Me, and I play with grief and pain. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Kama
Kama (Desire)
All energies put into activity—thought, speech, feeling, act—go to constitute Karma. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I, Karma and Heredity,#KEYS
100:The senses and the mind seek to convince thee, sova in are they, that they are the end of all things. The senses and the mind are only instruments and play things. Behind the feelings and the thoughts, my brother; there dwells a more puissant master, an unknown sage; it is called the Self. ~ Nietzsche Zarathustra, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
101:... what we call the Ignorance does not create a new thing and absolute falsehood but only misrepresents the Truth. The Ignorance is the Mind separated in knowledge from its source of knowledge and giving a false rigidity and a mistaken appearance of opposition and conflict to the harmonious play of the supreme Truth in its universal manifestation.~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, #KEYS
102:When speaking to parents, I encourage them to take their child(ren) to a children's museum and watch carefully what the child does, how she/she does it, what he/she returns to, where there is definite growth. Teachers could do the same or could set up 'play areas' which provide 'nutrition' for different intelligences... and watch carefully what happens and what does not happen with each child. ~ Howard Gardner, #KEYS
103:The boy with the flute is Sri Krishna, the Lord descended into the world-play from the divine Ananda; his flute is the music of the call which seeks to transform the lower ignorant play of mortal life and bring into it and establish in its place the lila of his divine Ananda. It was the psychic being in you that heard the call and followed after it.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - III,#KEYS
104:Above them is the miracle of eternal beauty, an unseizable secret of divine harmonies, the compelling magic of an irresistible universal charm and attraction that draws and holds things and forces and beings together and obliges them to meet and unite that a hidden Ananda may play from behind the veil and make of them its rhythms and its figures.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother,#KEYS
105:Activities are endless, like ripples on a stream. They end only when you drop them.
Human moods are like the changing highlights and shadows on a sunlit mountain range.
All activities are like the games children play, like castles being made of sand.
View them with delight and equanimity, like grandparents overseeing their grandchildren, or a shepherd resting on a hill watching over his grazing flock. ~ Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche,#KEYS
106:Your character grows as the game continues. Each monster defeated, each adventure completed, and each treasure recovered not only adds to your continuing story, but also earns your character new abilities. This increase in power is reflected by your character's level; as you continue to play, your character gains more experience, rising in level and mastering new and more powerful abilities.
~ Dungeons and Dragons Players Handbook.,#KEYS
107:Krishna is the immanent Divine, the Divine Presence in everyone and in all things. Thus to see Krishna means to find the inner Godhead, to play with Krishna means to be identified with the inner Godhead and to share in his consciousness. When you achieve this state, you enter immediately into the bliss of the divine play; and the more complete the identification, the more perfect the state. 6 April 1960 ~ The Mother, #KEYS
108:Lila (pronounced Leela) is the play of creation. To awakened consciousness, the entire universe. With all its joys and sorrows, pleasures and pains, appears as a divine game, sport, or drama. It is a play in which the one Consciousness performs all the roles. Alluding to this lila of the Divine Mother the physical universe is a "mansion of mirth." ~ Sri Ramakrishna, in Selections from The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (2005), p. 130 #KEYS
109:We in the richest societies have too many calories even as we starve for beautiful, fresh food; we have overlarge houses but lack spaces that truly embody our individuality and connectedness; media surround us everywhere while we starve for authentic communication. We are offered entertainment every second of the day but lack the chance to play. In the ubiquitous realm of money, we hunger for all that is intimate, personal, and unique.
~ Charles Eisenstein,#KEYS
110:God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time. ~ Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, #KEYS
111:BUT NOW the destined spot and hour were close;
Unknowing she had neared her nameless goal.
For though a dress of blind and devious chance
Is laid upon the work of all-wise Fate,
Our acts interpret an omniscient Force
That dwells in the compelling stuff of things,
And nothing happens in the cosmic play
But at its time and in its foreseen place.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Destined Meeting-Place,#KEYS
112:'Brahman is in all things, all things are in Brahman, all things are Brahman' is the triple formula of the comprehensive Supermind, a single truth of self-manifestation in three aspects which it holds together and inseparably in its self-view as the fundamental knowledge from which it proceeds to the play of the cosmos.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Book 01: Omnipresent Reality and the Universe, The Supreme Truth-Consciousness [149] [T1],#KEYS
113:The new D&D is too rule intensive. It's relegated the Dungeon Master to being an entertainer rather than master of the game. It's done away with the archetypes, focused on nothing but combat and character power, lost the group cooperative aspect, bastardized the class-based system, and resembles a comic-book superheroes game more than a fantasy RPG where a player can play any alignment desired, not just lawful good. ~ Gary Gygax, GameSpy interview, Pt. 2 (16 August 2004), #KEYS
114:There, where millions of Krishnas stand with hands folded, Where millions of Vishnus bow their heads, Where millions of Brahmâs are reading the Vedas, Where millions of Shivas are lost in contemplation, Where millions of Indras dwell in the sky, Where the demi-gods and the munis are unnumbered, Where millions of Saraswatis, Goddess of Music, play on the vina— There is my Lord self-revealed: and the scent of sandal and flowers dwells in those deeps. ~ Kabir, #KEYS
115:In the stillness of the night, the Goddess whispers. In the brightness of the day, dear God roars. Life pulses, mind imagines, emotions wave, thoughts wander. What are all these but the endless movements of One Taste, forever at play with its own gestures, whispering quietly to all who would listen: is this not yourself? When the thunder roars, do you not hear your Self? When the lightning cracks, do you not see your Self? When clouds float quietly across the sky, is this not your own limitless Being, waving back at you? ~ Ken Wilber, One Taste, page 279, #KEYS
116:I think a good way to conceive of sacred space is as a playground. If what you're doing seems like play, you are in it. But you can't play with my toys, you have to have your own. Your life should have yielded some. Older people play with life experiences and realizations or with thoughts they like to entertain. In my case, I have books I like to read that don't lead anywhere. One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment ~ Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living, #KEYS
117:It's easy to imagine that, in the future, telepathy and telekinesis will be the norm; we will interact with machines by sheer thought. Our mind will be able to turn on the lights, activate the internet, dictate letters, play video games, communicate with friends, call for a car, purchase merchandise, conjure any movie-all just by thinking. Astronauts of the future may use the power of their minds to pilot their spaceships or explore distant planets. Cities may rise from the desert of Mars, all due to master builders who mentally control the work of robots. ~ Michio Kaku, #KEYS
118:The library smells like old books - a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel a presence in the empty chair beside me. The librarian watches me suspiciously. But the library is a sacred place, and I sit with the patron saint of readers. Pulsing goddess light moves through me for one moment like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone. I smell mold, I hear the clock ticking, I see an empty chair. Ask me now and I'll say this is just a place where you can't play music or eat. She's gone. The library sucks.
~ Laura Whitcomb,#KEYS
119:To live, to love are signs of infinite things,
Love is a glory from eternity's spheres.
Abased, disfigured, mocked by baser mights
That steal his name and shape and ecstasy,
He is still the Godhead by which all can change.
A mystery wakes in our inconscient stuff,
A bliss is born that can remake our life.
Love dwells in us like an unopened flower
Awaiting a rapid moment of the soul,
Or he roams in his charmed sleep mid thoughts and things;
The child-god is at play, he seeks himself
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Satyavan,#KEYS
120:Arguably, the best advice for a serious student is to read a few hundred carefully selected books. An orgy of reading 30 or 40 first-rate books in a month ranks at the top of the usual list of human pleasures. If you wish, as an undergraduate, you could do it. You have time and energy, and with luck, you have the curiosity and courage to risk a month or two. Read Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Pascal, Voltaire, Berkeley, Hegel, Marx, and Kanetz. Or you could just play Frisbee on the Plaza of the Americas. Life is choice and there is much to learn. Not making a choice is a choice. ~ Dr Robert A Hatch, How to Study, #KEYS
121:And in a recent unique example, in the life of Ramakrishna Paramhansa, we see a colossal spiritual capacity first driving straight to the divine realisation, taking, as it were, the kingdom of heaven by violence, and then seizing upon one Yogic method after another and extracting the substance out of it with an incredible rapidity, always to return to the heart of the whole matter, the realisation and possession of God by the power of love, by the extension of inborn spirituality into various experience and by the spontaneous play of an intuitive knowledge.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
122:Krishna represents both the universal Godhead and the immanent Godhead, he whom one can meet within one's being and in all that constitutes the manifested world.
And do you want to know why he is always represented as a child? It is because he is in constant progression. To the extent that the world is perfected, his play is also perfected - what was the play of yesterday will no longer be the play of tomorrow; his play will become more and more harmonious, benign and joyful to the extent that the world becomes capable of responding to it and enjoying it with the Divine.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III, 33,#KEYS
123:Cheerfulness
ONE AFTERNOON, in a large town in a rainy country, I saw seven or eight vehicles full of children. That morning, they had been taken into the country to play in the fields, but the bad weather had made them return home early in the rain.
And yet they were singing, laughing and waving merrily to the passers-by.
They had kept their cheerfulness in this gloomy weather. If one of them had felt sad, the songs of the others would have cheered him. And for the people hurrying by, who heard the children's laughter, it seemed that the sky had brightened for a moment.
~ The Mother, mcw, 2:189,#KEYS
124:What Brahman is cannot be described in words. Somebody once said that everything in the world has been made impure, like food that has touched the tongue, and that Brahman alone remains undefiled. The meaning is this: All scriptures and holy books — the Vedas, the Puranas, the Tantras, and so forth — may be said to have been defiled because their contents have been uttered by the tongues of men; but what Brahman is no tongue has yet been able to describe. Therefore Brahman is still undefiled. One cannot describe in words the joy of play and communion with Satchidananda. He alone knows, who has realized it. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
125:Freud's convictions about the importance of infantile developments also colored his view of creative activity. Freud was impressed by the parallels between the child at play, the adult daydreamer, and the creative artist. As he once phrased it:
Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him?....The creative writer does the same as the child at play. He creates a world of phantasy which he takes very seriously-that is, which he invests with large amounts of emotion-while separating it sharply from reality. ~ Howard Gardner,#KEYS
126:It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall, all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him. Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us different ways. Then tears come, and like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too great, and we break. But King Laugh he come like the sunshine, and he ease off the strain again, and we bear to go on with our labor, what it may be.
~ Bram Stoker,#KEYS
127:There is always some tendency to looseness, forgetfulness and inattention in the physical consciousness. One has to be very vigilant and careful to prevent this tendency having its way. There are many [defects of the physical consciousness] - but mainly obscurity, inertia, tamas, a passive acceptance of the play of wrong forces, inability to change, attachment to habits, lack of plasticity, forgetfulness, loss of experiences or realisations gained, unwillingness to accept the Light or to follow it, incapacity (through tamas or through attachment or through passive reaction to accustomed forces) to do what it admits to be the Right and the Best.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - IV,#KEYS
128:Where spring, the lord of seasons reigneth, there the unstruck music sounds of itself,
There the streams of light flow in all directions, few are the men who can cross to that shore!
There, where millions of Krishnas stand with hands folded,
Where millions of Vishnus bow their heads, where millions of Brahmas are reading the Vedas,
Where millions of Shivas are lost in contemplation, where millions of Indras dwell in the sky,
Where the demi-gods and the munis are unnumbered, where millions of Saraswatis, goddess of music play the vina,
There is my Lord self-revealed, and the scent of sandal and flowers dwells in those deeps. ~ Kabir, II.57, Translated by Rabindranath Tagore[26],#KEYS
129:A union of the Real with the unique,
A gaze of the Alone from every face,
The Presence of the Eternal in the hours
Widening the mortal mind’s half-look on things,
Bridging the gap between man’s force and Fate
Made whole the fragment-being we are here. (7.15)
A firm spiritual poise,
A constant lodging in the Eternal's realm,
A safety in the Silence and the Ray,
A settlement in the Immutable. (7.16)
His heights of being lived in the still Self;
His mind could rest on a supernal ground
And look down on the magic and the play
Where the God-child lies on the lap of Night and Dawn
And the Everlasting puts on Time’s disguise. (7.17)
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 1:3, || 7.15 - 7.17 ||,#KEYS
130:203. God and Nature are like a boy and girl at play and in love. They hide and run from each other when glimpsed so that they may be sought after and chased and captured.
Man is God hiding himself from Nature so that he may possess her by struggle, insistence, violence and surprise. God is universal and transcendent Man hiding himself from his own individuality in the human being.
The animal is Man disguised in a hairy skin and upon four legs; the worm is Man writhing and crawling towards the evolution of his Manhood. Even crude forms of Matter are Man in his inchoate body. All things are Man, the Purusha.
For what do we mean by Man? An uncreated and indestructible soul that has housed itself in a mind and body made of its own elements. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Thoughts And Aphorisms,#KEYS
131:The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their downfall: in the labyrinth, in hardness towards oneself and others, in experiment; their delight lies in self-mastery: asceticism is with them nature, need, instinct. The difficult task they consider a privilege; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation... Knowledge - a form of asceticism. - They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not exclude their being the cheerfullest, the kindliest. They rule not because they want to but because they are; they are not free to be second. - The second type: they are the guardians of the law, the keepers of order and security; they are the noble warriors, with the king above all as the highest formula of warrior, judge, and upholder of the law. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, #KEYS
132: The purpose of creation, is lila. The concept of lila escapes all the traditional difficulties in assigning purpose to the creator. Lila is a purpose-less purpose, a natural outflow, a spontaneous self-manifestation of the Divine. The concept of lila, again, emphasizes the role of delight in creation. The concept of Prakriti and Maya fail to explain the bliss aspect of Divine. If the world is manifestation of the Force of Satcitananda, the deployment of its existence and consciousness, its purpose can be nothing but delight. This is the meaning of delight. Lila, the play, the child's joy, the poet's joy, the actor's joy, the mechanician's joy of the soul of things eternally young, perpetually inexhaustible, creating and recreating Himself in Himself for the sheer bliss of that self-creation, of that self-representation, Himself the play, Himself the player, Himself the playground ~ Sri Aurobindo, Philosophy of Social Development, pp-39-40 #KEYS
133:To be able to receive the Divine Power and let act through you in the things of the outward life, there are three necessary conditions:
(i) Quietude, equality - not to be disturbed by anything that happens, to keep the mind still and firm, seeing the play of forces, but itself tranquil.
(ii) Absolute faith - faith that what is for the best will happen, but also that if one can make oneself a true instrument, the fruit will be that which one's will guided by the Divine Light sees as the thing to be done - kartavyam karma.
(iii) Receptivity - the power to receive the Divine Force and to feel its presence and the presence of the Mother in it and allow it to work, guiding one's sight and will and action. If this power and presence can be felt and this plasticity made the habit of the consciousness in action, - but plasticity to the Divine force alone without bringing in any foreign element, - the eventual result is sure. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II,#KEYS
134:For the contact of the human and individual consciousness with the divine is the very essence of Yoga. Yoga is the union of that which has become separated in the play of the universe with its own true self, origin and universality. The contact may take place at any point of the complex and intricately organised consciousness which we call our personality. It may be effected in the physical through the body; in the vital through the action of those functionings which determine the state and the experiences of our nervous being; through the mentality, whether by means of the emotional heart, the active will or the understanding mind, or more largely by a general conversion of the mental consciousness in all its activities. It may equally be accomplished through a direct awakening to the universal or transcendent Truth and Bliss by the conversion of the central ego in the mind. And according to the point of contact that we choose will be the type of the Yoga that we practise. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, #KEYS
135:But a time will come when you will feel more and more that you are the instrument and not the worker. For first by the force of your devotion your contact with the Divine Mother will become so intimate that at all times you will have only to concentrate and to put everything into her hands to have her present guidance, her direct command or impulse, the sure indication of the thing to be done and the way to do it and the result. And afterwards you will realise that the divine Shakti not only inspires and guides, but initiates and carries out your works; all your movements are originated by her, all your powers are hers, mind, life and body are conscious and joyful instruments of her action, means for her play, moulds for her manifestation in the physical universe. There can be no more happy condition than this union and dependence; for this step carries you back beyond the border-line from the life of stress and suffering in the ignorance into the truth of your spiritual being, into its deep peace and its intense Ananda. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother, 12, #KEYS
136:You are living today in countries where the Dharma has only just begun to take root, like a fragile new shoot in the ground. Only your sustained diligence will bring it to fruition. Depending on the effort you put into study, reflection and meditation, and to integrating what you have understood into your spiritual practice, accomplishment may be days, months, or years away. It is essential to remember that all your endeavors on the path are for the sake of others. Remain humble, and aware that your efforts are like child's play compared to the ocean-like activity of the great bodhisattvas. Be like a parent providing for much-loved children, never thinking that you have done too much for others - or even that you have done enough. If you finally managed, through your own efforts alone, to establish all beings in buddhahood, you would simply think that all your wishes had been fulfilled. Never have even a trace of hope for something in return. ~ Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, The Heart of Compassion, Instructions on Ngulchu Thogme's Thirty-Sevenfold Practice of a Bodhisattva – p 147, Padmakara Translation Group - Shechen Publications #KEYS
137:If we regard the Powers of the Reality as so many Godheads, we can say that the Overmind releases a million Godheads into action, each empowered to create its own world, each world capable of relation, communication and interplay with the others.
There are in the Veda different formulations of the nature of the Gods: it is said they are all one Existence to which the sages give different names; yet each God is worshipped as if he by himself is that Existence, one who is all the other Gods together or contains them in his being; and yet again each is a separate Deity acting sometimes in unison with companion deities, sometimes separately, sometimes even in apparent opposition to other Godheads of the same Existence. In the Supermind all this would be held together as a harmonised play of the one Existence; in the Overmind each of these three conditions could be a separate action or basis of action and have its own principle of development and consequences and yet each keep the power to combine with the others in a more composite harmony. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Supermind Mind and the Overmind Maya,#KEYS
138:Only by our coming into constant touch with the divine Consciousness and its absolute Truth can some form of the conscious Divine, the dynamic Absolute, take up our earth-existence and transform its strife, stumbling, sufferings and falsities into an image of the supreme Light, Power and Ananda.
The culmination of the soul's constant touch with the Supreme is that self-giving which we call surrender to the divine Will and immergence of the separated ego in the One who is all. A vast universality of soul and an intense unity with all is the base and fixed condition of the supramental consciousness and spiritual life. In that universality and unity alone can we find the supreme law of the divine manifestation in the life of the embodied spirit; in that alone can we discover the supreme motion and right play of our individual nature. In that alone can all these lower discords resolve themselves into a victorious harmony of the true relations between manifested beings who are portions of the one Godhead and children of one universal Mother. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Standards of Conduct and Spiritual Freedom, 205,#KEYS
139:witness and non-dual states ::: The Witness and Non-Dual states are everpresent capacities which hold the special relationship to the other states. The Witness state, or Witnessing, is the capacity to observe, see or witness phenomenon arising in the other states. Meaning for example, its the capacity to hold unbroken attention in the gross states, and the capacity to witness the entire relative world of form arise as object viewed by the pure witness, the pure subject that is never itself a seen object but always the pure seer or pure Self, that is actually no-self. Next we have Non-Dual which refers to both the suchness and is-ness of reality right now. It is the not-two-ness or everpresent unity of subject and object, form and emptiness, heaven and earth, relative and absolute. When the Witness dissolves and pure seer and all that is seen become not seperate or not two, the Non-Duality of absolute emptiness and relative form or the luminous identity of unqualifiable spirit and all of its manifestations appear as play of radiant natural and spontaneous and present love. Absolute and relative are already always not-two but nor are they one, nor both nor neither. ~ Essential Integral, L5-18, #KEYS
140:And now what methods may be employed to safeguard the worker in the field of the world? What can be done to ensure his safety in the present strife, and in the greater strife of the coming centuries? 1. A realisation that purity of all the vehicles is the prime essential. If a Dark Brother gains control over any man, it but shows that that man has in his life some weak spot.... 2. The elimination of all fear. The forces of evolution vibrate more rapidly than those of involution, and in this fact lies a recognisable security. Fear causes weakness; weakness causes a disintegration; the weak spot breaks and a gap appears, and through that gap evil force may enter.... 3. A standing firm and unmoved, no matter what occurs. Your feet may be bathed in the mud of earth, but your head may be bathed in the sunshine of the higher regions... 4. A recognition of the use of common-sense, and the application of this common-sense to the matter in hand. Sleep much, and in sleeping, learn to render the body positive; keep busy on the emotional plane, and achieve the inner calm. Do naught to overtire the body physical, and play whenever possible. In hours of relaxation comes the adjustment that obviates later tension. ~ Alice A. Bailey, Letters on Occult Meditation p. 137/8, (1922) #KEYS
141:If we are religious-minded, perhaps we will see the gods who inhabit this world. Beings, forces, sounds, lights, and rhythms are just so many true forms of the same indefinable, but not unknowable, Essence we call God; we have spoken of God, and made temples, laws or poems to try to capture the one little pulsation filling us with sunshine, but it is free as the wind on foam-flecked shores. We may also enter the world of music, which in fact is not different from the others but a special extension of this same, great inexpressible Vibration. If once, only once, even for a few moments in a lifetime, we can hear that Music, that Joy singing above, we will know what Beethoven and Bach heard; we will know what God is because we will have heard God. We will probably not say anything grandiose; we will just know that That exists, whereupon all the suffering in the world will seem redeemed.
At the extreme summit of the overmind, there only remain great waves of multi-hued light, says the Mother, the play of spiritual forces, which later translate - sometimes much later - into new ideas, social changes, or earthly events, after crossing one by one all the layers of consciousness and suffering a considerable distortion and loss of light...
~ Satprem, Sri Aurobindo Or The Adventure Of Consciousness,#KEYS
142:About the only law that I think relates to the genre is that you should not try to explain, to find neat explanations for what happens, and that the object of the thing is to produce a sense of the uncanny. Freud in his essay on the uncanny wrote that the sense of the uncanny is the only emotion which is more powerfully expressed in art than in life, which I found very illuminating; it didn't help writing the screen-play, but I think it's an interesting insight into the genre. And I read an essay by the great master H.P. Lovecraft where he said that you should never attempt to explain what happens, as long as what happens stimulates people's imagination, their sense of the uncanny, their sense of anxiety and fear. And as long as it doesn't, within itself, have any obvious inner contradictions, it is just a matter of, as it were, building on the imagination (imaginary ideas, surprises, etc.), working in this area of feeling. I think also that the ingeniousness of a story like this is something which the audience ultimately enjoys; they obviously wonder as the story goes on what's going to happen, and there's a great satisfaction when it's all over not having been able to have anticipated the major development of the story, and yet at the end not to feel that you have been fooled or swindled. ~ Stanley Kubrick, #KEYS
143:Bhakti Yoga, the Path of Devotion; :::
The path of Devotion aims at the enjoyment of the supreme Love and Bliss and utilses normally the conception of the supreme Lord in His personality as the divine Lover and enjoyer of the universe. The world is then realised as a a play of the Lord, with our human life as its final stages, pursued through the different phases of self-concealment and self-revealation. The principle of Bhakti Yoga is to utilise all the normal relations of human life into which emotion enters and apply them no longer to transient worldly relations, but to the joy of the All-Loving, the All-Beautiful and the All-Blissful. Worship and meditation are used only for the preparation and increase the intensity of the divine relationship. And this Yoga is catholic in its use of all emotional relations, so that even enmity and opposition to God, considered as an intense, impatient and perverse form of Love, is conceived as a possible means of realisation and salvation. ... We can see how this larger application of the Yoga of Devotion may be used as to lead to the elevation of the whole range of human emotion, sensation and aesthetic perception to the divine level, its spiritualisation and the justification of the cosmic labour towards love and joy in humanity.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Introduction - The Conditions of the Synthesis, The Systems of Yoga,#KEYS
144:Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.
An you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.
And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really oveR But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.~ Haruki Murakami,#KEYS
145:John Ruskin did not go to school. Nor did Queen Victoria, nor John Stuart Mill, George Eliot or Harriet Martineau. It would be absurd to suggest that Disraeli, Dickens, Newman or Darwin, to name four very different figures, who attended various schools for short spells in their boyhood, owed very much to their schooling. Had they been born in a later generation, school would have loomed much larger in their psychological stories, if only because they would have spent so much longer there, and found themselves preparing for public examinations. It is hard not to feel that a strong 'syllabus', or a school ethos, might have cramped the style of all four and that in their different ways - Disraeli, comparatively rich, anarchically foppish, indiscriminately bookish; Darwin, considered a dunce, but clearly - as he excitedly learned to shoot, to fish and to bird-watch - beginning his revolutionary relationship with the natural world; Newman, imagining himself an angel; Dickens, escaping the ignominy of his circumstances through theatrical and comedic internalized role-play - they were lucky to have been born before the Age of Control. For the well-meaning educational reforms of the 1860s were the ultimate extension of those Benthamite exercises in control which had begun in the 1820s and 1830s. Having exercised their sway over the poor, the criminals, the agricultural and industrial classes, the civil service and - this was next - the military, the controllers had turned to the last free spirits left, the last potential anarchists: the children. ~ A N Wilson, #KEYS
146:need for the soul's spiritualization :::
And yet even the leading of the inmost psychic being is not found sufficient until it has succeeded in raising itself out of this mass of inferior Nature to the highest spiritual levels and the divine spark and flame descended here have rejoined themselves to their original fiery Ether. For there is there no longer a spiritual consciousness still imperfect and half lost to itself in the thick sheaths of human mind, life and body, but the full spiritual consciousness in its purity, freedom and intense wideness. There, as it is the eternal Knower that becomes the Knower in us and mover and user of all knowledge, so it is the eternal All-Blissful who is the Adored attracting to himself the eternal divine portion of his being and joy that has gone out into the play of the universe, the infinite Lover pouring himself out in the multiplicity of his own manifested selves in a happy Oneness. All Beauty in the world is there the beauty of the Beloved, and all forms of beauty have to stand under the light of that eternal Beauty and submit themselves to the sublimating and transfiguring power of the unveiled Divine Perfection. All Bliss and Joy are there of the All-Blissful, and all inferior forms of enjoyment, happiness or pleasure are subjected to the shock of the intensity of its floods or currents and either they are broken to pieces as inadequate things under its convicting stress or compelled to transmute themselves into the forms of the Divine Ananda. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 168,#KEYS
147:the vital
the life-nature made up of desires, sensations, feelings, passions, energies of action, will of desire, reactions of the desire-soul of man and of all that play of possessive and other related instincts, anger, greed, lust, etc., that belong to this field of nature. The vital part of man is a true instrument only when its feelings and tendencies have been purified by the psychic touch and governed by the spiritual light and power. The vital has three main parts:
higher vital
the mental vital and emotional vital taken together. The mental vital gives a mental expression by thought, speech or otherwise to the emotions, desires, passions, sensations or other movements of the vital being; the emotional vital is the seat of various feelings, such as love, joy, sorrow, hatred and the rest.
central vital or vital proper
dynamic, sensational and passionate, it is the seat of the stronger vital longings and reactions, such as ambition, pride, fear, love of fame, attractions and repulsions, desires and passion of various kinds and the field of many vital energies.
lower vital
made up of the smaller movements of human life-desire and life-reactions, it is occupied with small desires and feelings, such as food desire, sexual desire, small likings, dislikings, vanity, quarrels, love of praise, anger at blame, little wishes of all kinds, etc. The material vital is that part of the lower vital turned entirely upon physical things, full of desires and greeds and seekings for pleasure on the physical plane. ~ Integral Yoga; Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice,#KEYS
148:Yet this was only a foretaste of the intense experiences to come. The first glimpse of the Divine Mother made him the more eager for Her uninterrupted vision. He wanted to see Her both in meditation and with eyes open. But the Mother began to play a teasing game of hide-and-seek with him, intensifying both his joy and his suffering. Weeping bitterly during the moments of separation from Her, he would pass into a trance and then find Her standing before him, smiling, talking, consoling, bidding him be of good cheer, and instructing him. During this period of spiritual practice he had many uncommon experiences. When he sat to meditate, he would hear strange clicking sounds in the joints of his legs, as if someone were locking them up, one after the other, to keep him motionless; and at the conclusion of his meditation he would again hear the same sounds, this time unlocking them and leaving him free to move about. He would see flashes like a swarm of fire-flies floating before his eyes, or a sea of deep mist around him, with luminous waves of molten silver. Again, from a sea of translucent mist he would behold the Mother rising, first Her feet, then Her waist, body, face, and head, finally Her whole person; he would feel Her breath and hear Her voice. Worshipping in the temple, sometimes he would become exalted, sometimes he would remain motionless as stone, sometimes he would almost collapse from excessive emotion. Many of his actions, contrary to all tradition, seemed sacrilegious to the people. He would take a flower and touch it to his own head, body, and feet, and then offer it to the Goddess. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, Gospel, #KEYS
149:scope and aim of the works of sacrifice :::
Into the third and last category of the works of sacrifice can be gathered all that is directly proper to the Yoga of works; for here is its field of effectuation and major province. It covers the entire range of lifes more visible activities; under it fall the multiform energies of the Will-to-Life throwing itself outward to make the most of material existence. It is here that an ascetic or other-worldly spirituality feels an insurmountable denial of the Truth which it seeks after and is compelled to turn away from terrestrial existence, rejecting it as for ever the dark playground of an incurable Ignorance. Yet it is precisely these activities that are claimed for a spiritual conquest and divine transformation by the integral Yoga. Abandoned altogether by the more ascetic disciplines, accepted by others only as a field of temporary ordeal or a momentary, superficial and ambiguous play of the concealed spirit, this existence is fully embraced and welcomed by the integral seeker as a field of fulfilment, a field for divine works, a field of the total self-discovery of the concealed and indwelling Spirit. A discovery of the Divinity in oneself is his first object, but a total discovery too of the Divinity in the world behind the apparent denial offered by its scheme and figures and, last, a total discovery of the dynamism of some transcendent Eternal; for by its descent this world and self-will be empowered to break their disguising envelopes and become divine in revealing form and manifesting process as they now are secretly in their hidden essence.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 169,#KEYS
150:...that personality, like consciousness, life, soul is not a brief-lived stranger in an impersonal Eternity, but contains the very meaning of existence. This fine flower of the cosmic Energy carries in it a forecast of the aim and a hint of the very motive of the universal labour. As an occult vision opens in him, he becomes aware of worlds behind in which consciousness and personality hold an enormous place and assume a premier value; even here in the material world to this occult vision the inconscience of Matter fills with a secret pervading consciousness, its inanimation harbours a vibrant life, its mechanism is the device of an indwelling Intelligence, God and soul are everywhere. Above all stands an infinite conscious Being who is variously self-expressed in all these worlds; impersonality is only a first means of that expression. It is a field of principles and forces, an equal basis of manifestation; but these forces express themselves through beings, have conscious spirits at their head and are the emanation of a One Conscious Being who is their sorce. A multiple innumberable personality expressing that One is the very sense and central aim of the manifestation and if now personality seems to be narrow, fragmentary, restrictive, it is only because it has not opened to its source or flowered into its own divine truth and fullness packing itself with the universal and the infinite. Thus the world-creation is no more an illusion, a fortuitous mechanism, a play that need not have happened, a flux without consequence; it is an intimate dynamism of the conscious and living Eternal.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, The Sacrifice and the Lord of the Sacrifice, 127,#KEYS
151:Here lies the whole importance of the part of the Yoga of Knowledge which we are now considering, the knowledges of those essential principles of Being, those essential modes of self-existence on which the absolute Divine has based its self-manifestation. If the truth of our being is an infinite unity in which alone there is perfect wideness, light, knowledge, power, bliss, and if all our subjection to darkness, ignorance, weakness, sorrow, limitation comes of our viewing existence as a clash of infinitely multiple separate existences, then obviously it is the most practical and concrete and utilitarian as well as the most lofty and philosophical wisdom to find a means by which we can get away from the error and learn to live in the truth. So also, if that One is in its nature a freedom from bondage to this play of qualities which constitute our psychology and if from subjection to that play are born the struggle and discord in which we live, floundering eternally between the two poles of good and evil, virtue and sin, satisfaction and failure, joy and grief, pleasure and pain, then to get beyond the qualities and take our foundation in the settled peace of that which is always beyond them is the only practical wisdom. If attachment to mutable personality is the cause of our self-ignorance, of our discord and quarrel with ourself and with life and with others, and if there is an impersonal One in which no such discord and ignorance and vain and noisy effort exist because it is in eternal identity and harmony with itself, then to arrive in our souls at that impersonality and untroubled oneness of being is the one line and object of human effort to which our reason can consent to give the name of practicality.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
152:There is the one door in us that sometimes swings open upon the splendour of a truth beyond and, before it shuts again, allows a ray to touch us, - a luminous intimation which, if we have the strength and firmness, we may hold to in our faith and make a starting-point for another play of consciousness than that of the sense-mind, for the play of Intuition. For if we examine carefully, we shall find that Intuition is our first teacher. Intuition always stands veiled behind our mental operations. Intuition brings to man those brilliant messages from the Unknown which are the beginning of his higher knowledge. Reason only comes in afterwards to see what profit it can have of the shining harvest. Intuition gives us that idea of something behind and beyond all that we know and seem to be which pursues man always in contradiction of his lower reason and all his normal experience and impels him to formulate that formless perception in the more positive ideas of God, Immortality, Heaven and the rest by which we strive to express it to the mind. For Intuition is as strong as Nature herself from whose very soul it has sprung and cares nothing for the contradictions of reason or the denials of experience. It knows what is because it is, because itself it is of that and has come from that, and will not yield it to the judgment of what merely becomes and appears. What the Intuition tells us of, is not so much Existence as the Existent, for it proceeds from that one point of light in us which gives it its advantage, that sometimes opened door in our own self-awareness. Ancient Vedanta seized this message of the Intuition and formulated it in the three great declarations of the Upanishads, I am He, Thou art That, O Swetaketu, All this is the Brahman; this Self is the Brahman.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Methods of Vedantic Knowledge,#KEYS
153:See how, like lightest waves at play, the airy dancers fleet;
And scarcely feels the floor the wings of those harmonious feet.
Ob, are they flying shadows from their native forms set free?
Or phantoms in the fairy ring that summer moonbeams see?
As, by the gentle zephyr blown, some light mist flees in air,
As skiffs that skim adown the tide, when silver waves are fair,
So sports the docile footstep to the heave of that sweet measure,
As music wafts the form aloft at its melodious pleasure,
Now breaking through the woven chain of the entangled dance,
From where the ranks the thickest press, a bolder pair advance,
The path they leave behind them lost--wide open the path beyond,
The way unfolds or closes up as by a magic wand.
See now, they vanish from the gaze in wild confusion blended;
All, in sweet chaos whirled again, that gentle world is ended!
No!--disentangled glides the knot, the gay disorder ranges--
The only system ruling here, a grace that ever changes.
For ay destroyed--for ay renewed, whirls on that fair creation;
And yet one peaceful law can still pervade in each mutation.
And what can to the reeling maze breathe harmony and vigor,
And give an order and repose to every gliding figure?
That each a ruler to himself doth but himself obey,
Yet through the hurrying course still keeps his own appointed way.
What, would'st thou know? It is in truth the mighty power of tune,
A power that every step obeys, as tides obey the moon;
That threadeth with a golden clue the intricate employment,
Curbs bounding strength to tranquil grace, and tames the wild enjoyment.
And comes the world's wide harmony in vain upon thine ears?
The stream of music borne aloft from yonder choral spheres?
And feel'st thou not the measure which eternal Nature keeps?
The whirling dance forever held in yonder azure deeps?
The suns that wheel in varying maze?--That music thou discernest?
No! Thou canst honor that in sport which thou forgettest in earnest.
~ Friedrich Schiller,#KEYS
154:Disciple : What part does breathing exercise - Pranayama - play in bringing about the higher consciousness?
Sri Aurobindo : It sets the Pranic - vital - currents free and removes dullness of the brain so that the higher consciousness can come down. Pranayama does not bring dullness in the brain. My own experience, on the contrary, is that brain becomes illumined. When I was practising Pranayama at Baroda, I used to do it for about five hours in the day, - three hours in the morning and two in the evening. I found that the mind began to work with great illumination and power. I used to write poetry in those days. Before the Pranayama practice, usually I wrote five to eight lines per day; and about two hundred lines in a month. After the practice I could write 200 lines within half an hour. That was not the only result. Formerly my memory was dull. But after this practice I found that when the inspiration came I could remember all the lines in their order and write them down correctly at any time. Along with these enhanced functionings I could see an electrical activity all round the brain, and I could feel that it was made up of a subtle substance. I could feel everything as the working of that substance. That was far from your carbon-dioxide!
Disciple : How is it that Pranayama develops mental capacities? What part does it play in bringing about the higher consciousness?
Sri Aurobindo : It is the Pranic - vital - currents which sustain mental activity. When these currents are changed by Pranayama, they bring about a change in the brain. The cause of dullness of the brain is some obstruction in it which does not allow the higher thought to be communicated to it. When this obstruction is removed the higher mental being is able to communicate its action easily to the brain. When the higher consciousness is attained the brain does not become dull. My experience is that it becomes illumined.
~ Sri Aurobindo, A B Purani, Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, 19-9-1926,#KEYS
155:Nati is the submission of the soul to the will of God; its acceptance of all touches as His touches, of all experience as His play with the soul of man. Nati may be with titiksha, feeling the sorrow but accepting it as God's will, or with udasinata, rising superior to it and regarding joy and sorrow equally as God's working in these lower instruments, or with ananda, receiving everything as the play of Krishna and therefore in itself delightful. The last is the state of the complete Yogin, for by this continual joyous or anandamaya namaskara to God constantly practised we arrive eventually at the entire elimination of grief, pain etc, the entire freedom from the dwandwas, and find the Brahmananda in every smallest, most trivial, most apparently discordant detail of life & experience in this human body. We get rid entirely of fear and suffering; Anandam Brahmano vidvan na bibheti kutaschana. We may have to begin with titiksha and udasinata but it is in this ananda that we must consummate the siddhi of samata. The Yogin receives victory and defeat, success and ill-success, pleasure and pain, honour and disgrace with an equal, a sama ananda, first by buddhi-yoga, separating himself from his habitual mental & nervous reactions & insisting by vichara on the true nature of the experience itself and of his own soul which is secretly anandamaya, full of the sama ananda in all things. He comes to change all the ordinary values of experience; amangala reveals itself to him as mangala, defeat & ill-success as the fulfilment of God's immediate purpose and a step towards ultimate victory, grief and pain as concealed and perverse forms of pleasure. A stage arrives even, when physical pain itself, the hardest thing for material man to bear, changes its nature in experience and becomes physical ananda; but this is only at the end when this human being, imprisoned in matter, subjected to mind, emerges from his subjection, conquers his mind and delivers himself utterly in his body, realising his true anandamaya self in every part of the adhara.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Record Of Yoga,#KEYS
156:Jnana Yoga, the Path of Knowledge; :::
The Path of Knowledge aims at the realisation of the unique and supreme Self. It proceeds by the method of intellectual reflection, vicara ¯, to right discrimination, viveka. It observes and distinguishes the different elements of our apparent or phenomenal being and rejecting identification with each of them arrives at their exclusion and separation in one common term as constituents of Prakriti, of phenomenal Nature, creations of Maya, the phenomenal consciousness. So it is able to arrive at its right identification with the pure and unique Self which is not mutable or perishable, not determinable by any phenomenon or combination of phenomena. From this point the path, as ordinarily followed, leads to the rejection of the phenomenal worlds from the consciousness as an illusion and the final immergence without return of the individual soul in the Supreme. But this exclusive consummation is not the sole or inevitable result of the Path of Knowledge. For, followed more largely and with a less individual aim, the method of Knowledge may lead to an active conquest of the cosmic existence for the Divine no less than to a transcendence. The point of this departure is the realisation of the supreme Self not only in one's own being but in all beings and, finally, the realisation of even the phenomenal aspects of the world as a play of the divine consciousness and not something entirely alien to its true nature. And on the basis of this realisation a yet further enlargement is possible, the conversion of all forms of knowledge, however mundane, into activities of the divine consciousness utilisable for the perception of the one and unique Object of knowledge both in itself and through the play of its forms and symbols. Such a method might well lead to the elevation of the whole range of human intellect and perception to the divine level, to its spiritualisation and to the justification of the cosmic travail of knowledge in humanity.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Conditions of the Synthesis, The Systems Of Yoga, 38,#KEYS
157:separating from the heart and mind and the benefits of doing so :::
Therefore the mental Purusha has to separate himself from association and self-identification with this desire-mind. He has to say I am not this thing that struggles and suffers, grieves and rejoices, loves and hates, hopes and is baffled, is angry and afraid and cheerful and depressed, a thing of vital moods and emotional passions. All these are merely workings and habits of Prakriti in the sensational and emotional mind. The mind then draws back from its emotions and becomes with these, as with the bodily movements and experiences, the observer or witness. There is again an inner cleavage. There is this emotional mind in which these moods and passions continue to occur according to the habit of the modes of Nature and there is the observing mind which sees them, studies and understands but is detached from them. It observes them as if in a sort of action and play on a mental stage of personages other than itself, at first with interest and a habit of relapse into identification, then with entire calm and detachment, and, finally, attaining not only to calm but to the pure delight of its own silent existence, with a smile at thier unreality as at the imaginary joys and sorrows of a child who is playing and loses himself in the play. Secondly, it becomes aware of itself as master of the sanction who by his withdrawl of sanction can make this play to cease. When the sanction is withdrawn, another significant phenomenon takes place; the emotional mind becomes normally calm and pure and free from these reactions, and even when they come, they no longer rise from within but seem to fall on it as impression from outside to which its fibers are still able to respond; but this habit of reponse dies away and the emotional mind is in time entirely liberated from the passions which it has renounced. Hope and fear, joy and grief, liking and disliking, attraction and repulsion, content and discontent, gladness and depression, horror and wrath and fear and disgust and shame and the passions of love and hatred fall away from the liberated psychic being.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Release from the Heart and the Mind, 352,#KEYS
158:the three stages of the ascent :::
There are three stages of the ascent, -at the bottom the bodily life enslaved to the pressure of necessity and desire, in the middle the mental, the higher emotional and psychic rule that feels after greater interests, aspirations, experiences, ideas, and at the summits first a deeper psychic and spiritual state and then a supramental eternal consciousness in which all our aspirations and seekings discover their own intimate significance.In the bodily life first desire and need and then the practical good of the individual and the society are the governing consideration, the dominant force. In the mental life ideas and ideals rule, ideas that are half-lights wearing the garb of Truth, ideals formed by the mind as a result of a growing but still imperfect intuition and experience. Whenever the mental life prevails and the bodily diminishes its brute insistence, man the mental being feels pushed by the urge of mental Nature to mould in the sense of the idea or the ideal the life of the individual, and in the end even the vaguer more complex life of the society is forced to undergo this subtle process.In the spiritual life, or when a higher power than Mind has manifested and taken possession of the nature, these limited motive-forces recede, dwindle, tend to disappear. The spiritual or supramental Self, the Divine Being, the supreme and immanent Reality, must be alone the Lord within us and shape freely our final development according to the highest, widest, most integral expression possible of the law of our nature. In the end that nature acts in the perfect Truth and its spontaneous freedom; for it obeys only the luminous power of the Eternal. The individual has nothing further to gain, no desire to fulfil; he has become a portion of the impersonality or the universal personality of the Eternal. No other object than the manifestation and play of the Divine Spirit in life and the maintenance and conduct of the world in its march towards the divine goal can move him to action. Mental ideas, opinions, constructions are his no more; for his mind has fallen into silence, it is only a channel for the Light and Truth of the divine knowledge. Ideals are too narrow for the vastness of his spirit; it is the ocean of the Infinite that flows through him and moves him for ever.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supreme Will,#KEYS
159:reading :::
Self-Help Reading List:
James Allen As a Man Thinketh (1904)
Marcus Aurelius Meditations (2nd Century)
The Bhagavad-Gita
The Bible
Robert Bly Iron John (1990)
Boethius The Consolation of Philosophy (6thC)
Alain de Botton How Proust Can Change Your Life (1997)
William Bridges Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes (1980)
David Brooks The Road to Character (2015)
Brené Brown Daring Greatly (2012)
David D Burns The New Mood Therapy (1980)
Joseph Campbell (with Bill Moyers) The Power of Myth (1988)
Richard Carlson Don't Sweat The Small Stuff (1997)
Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936)
Deepak Chopra The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success (1994)
Clayton Christensen How Will You Measure Your Life? (2012)
Paulo Coelho The Alchemist (1988)
Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989)
Mihaly Cziksentmihalyi Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (1991)
The Dalai Lama & Howard Cutler The Art of Happiness (1999)
The Dhammapada (Buddha's teachings)
Charles Duhigg The Power of Habit (2011)
Wayne Dyer Real Magic (1992)
Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-Reliance (1841)
Clarissa Pinkola Estes Women Who Run With The Wolves (1996)
Viktor Frankl Man's Search For Meaning (1959)
Benjamin Franklin Autobiography (1790)
Shakti Gawain Creative Visualization (1982)
Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence (1995)
John Gray Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus (1992)
Louise Hay You Can Heal Your Life (1984)
James Hillman The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling (1996)
Susan Jeffers Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway (1987)
Richard Koch The 80/20 Principle (1998)
Marie Kondo The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (2014)
Ellen Langer Mindfulness: Choice and Control in Everyday Life (1989)
Lao-Tzu Tao-te Ching (The Way of Power)
Maxwell Maltz Psycho-Cybernetics (1960)
Abraham Maslow Motivation and Personality (1954)
Thomas Moore Care of the Soul (1992)
Joseph Murphy The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (1963)
Norman Vincent Peale The Power of Positive Thinking (1952)
M Scott Peck The Road Less Traveled (1990)
Anthony Robbins Awaken The Giant Within (1991)
Florence Scovell-Shinn The Game of Life and How To Play It (1923)
Martin Seligman Learned Optimism (1991)
Samuel Smiles Self-Help (1859)
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The Phenomenon of Man (1955)
Henry David Thoreau Walden (1854)
Marianne Williamson A Return To Love (1993)
~ Tom Butler-Bowdon, 50 Self-Help,#KEYS
160:the ways of the Bhakta and man of Knowledge :::
In the ordinary paths of Yoga the method used for dealing with these conflicting materials is direct and simple. One or another of the principal psychological forces in us is selected as our single means for attaining to the Divine; the rest is quieted into inertia or left to starve in its smallness. The Bhakta, seizing on the emotional forces of the being, the intense activities of the heart, abides concentrated in the love of God, gathered up as into a single one-pointed tongue of fire; he is indifferent to the activities of thought, throws behind him the importunities of the reason, cares nothing for the mind's thirst for knowledge. All the knowledge he needs is his faith and the inspirations that well up from a heart in communion with the Divine. He has no use for any will to works that is not turned to the direct worship of the Beloved or the service of the temple. The man of Knowledge, self-confined by a deliberate choice to the force and activities of discriminative thought, finds release in the mind's inward-drawn endeavour. He concentrates on the idea of the self, succeeds by a subtle inner discernment in distinguishing its silent presence amid the veiling activities of Nature, and through the perceptive idea arrives at the concrete spiritual experience. He is indifferent to the play of the emotions, deaf to the hunger-call of passion, closed to the activities of Life, -- the more blessed he, the sooner they fall away from him and leave him free, still and mute, the eternal non-doer. The body is his stumbling-block, the vital functions are his enemies; if their demands can be reduced to a minimum, that is his great good fortune. The endless difficulties that arise from the environing world are dismissed by erecting firmly against them a defence of outer physical and inner spiritual solitude; safe behind a wall of inner silence, he remains impassive and untouched by the world and by others. To be alone with oneself or alone with the Divine, to walk apart with God and his devotees, to entrench oneself in the single self-ward endeavour of the mind or Godward passion of the heart is the trend of these Yogas. The problem is solved by the excision of all but the one central difficulty which pursues the only chosen motive-force; into the midst of the dividing calls of our nature the principle of an exclusive concentration comes sovereignly to our rescue.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Consecration. 76-77,#KEYS
161:The Godhead, the spirit manifested in Nature appears in a sea of infinite quality, Ananta-guna. But the executive or mechanical prakriti is of the threefold Guna, Sattwa, Rajas, Tamas, and the Ananta-guna, the spiritual play of infinite quality, modifies itself in this mechanical nature into the type of these three gunas. And in the soul-force in man this Godhead in Nature represents itself as a fourfold effective Power, caturvyuha , a Power for knowledge, a Power for strength, a Power for mutuality and active and productive relation and interchange, a Power for works and labour and service, and its presence casts all human life into a nexus and inner and outer operation of these four things. The ancient thought of India conscious of this fourfold type of active human personality and nature, built out of it the four types of the Brahmana, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Sudra, each with its spiritual turn, ethical ideal, suitable upbringing, fixed function in society and place in the evolutionary scale of the spirit. As always tends to be the case when we too much externalise and mechanise the more subtle truths of our nature, this became a hard and fast system inconsistent with the freedom and variability and complexity of the finer developing spirit in man. Nevertheless the truth behind it exists and is one of some considerable importance in the perfection of our power of nature; but we have to take it in its inner aspects, first, personality, character, temperament, soul-type, then the soul-force which lies behind them and wears these forms, and lastly the play of the free spiritual shakti in which they find their culmination and unity beyond all modes. For the crude external idea that a man is born as a Brahmana, Kshatriya, Vaishya or Sudra and that alone, is not a psychological truth of our being. The psychological fact is that there are these four active powers and tendencies of the Spirit and its executive shakti within us and the predominance of one or the other in the more well-formed part of our personality gives us our main tendencies, dominant qualities and capacities, effective turn in action and life. But they are more or less present in an men, here manifest, there latent, here developed, there subdued and depressed or subordinate, and in the perfect man will be raised up to a fullness and harmony which in the spiritual freedom will burst out into the free play of the infinite quality of the spirit in the inner and outer life and in the self-enjoying creative play of the Purusha with his and the world's Nature-Power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, 4:15 - Soul-Force and the Fourfold Personality, #KEYS
162:Disciple: What are the conditions of success in this yoga?
Sri Aurobindo: I have often told of them. Those go through who have the central sincerity. It does not mean that the sincerity is there in all the parts of the being. In that sense no one is entirely ready. But if the central sincerity is there it is possible to establish it in all the parts of the being.
The second thing necessary is a certain receptivity in the being, what we call, the "opening" up of all the planes to the Higher Power.
The third thing required is the power of holding the higher Force, a certain ghanatwa - mass - that can hold the Power when it comes down.
And about the thing that pushes there are two things that generally push: One is the Central Being. The other is destiny. If the Central Being wants to do something it pushes the man. Even when the man goes off the line he is pushed back again to the path. Of course, the Central Being may push through the mind or any other part of the being. Also, if the man is destined he is pushed to the path either to go through or to get broken,
Disciple: There are some people who think they are destined or chosen and we see that they are not "chosen".
Sri Aurobindo: Of course, plenty of people think that they are specially "chosen" and that they are the first and the "elect" and so on. All that is nothing.
Disciple: Then, can you. say who is fit out of all those that have come?
Sri Aurobindo: It is very difficult to say. But this can be said that everyone of those who have come in has some chance to go through if he can hold on to it.
Disciple: There is also a chance of failure.
Sri Aurobindo: Of course, and besides, the whole universe is a play of forces and one can't always wait till all the conditions of success have been fulfilled. One has to take risks and take his chance.
Disciple: What is meant by "chance"? Does it mean that it is only one possibility out of many others, or does it mean that one would be able to succeed in yoga?
Sri Aurobindo: It means only that he can succeed if he takes his chance properly. For instance, X had his chance.
Disciple: Those who fall on the path or slip, do they go down in their evolution?
Sri Aurobindo: That depends. Ultimately, the Yoga may be lost to him.
Disciple: The Gita says: Na hi kalyānkṛt - nothing that is beneficial - comes to a bad end.
Sri Aurobindo: That is from another standpoint. You must note the word is kalyān kṛt - it is an important addition.
~ Sri Aurobindo, EVENING TALKS WITH SRI AUROBINDO, RECORDED BY A B PURANI (20-09-1926),#KEYS
163:Workshops, churches, and palaces were full of these fatal works of art; he had even helped with a few himself. They were deeply disappointing be cause they aroused the desire for the highest and did not fulfill it. They lacked the most essential thing-mystery. That was what dreams and truly great works of art had in common : mystery. Goldmund continued his thought: It is mystery I love and pursue. Several times I have seen it beginning to take shape; as an artist, I would like to capture and express it. Some day, perhaps, I'll be able to. The figure of the universal mother, the great birthgiver, for example. Unlike other fi gures, her mystery does not consist of this or that detail, of a particular voluptuousness or sparseness, coarseness or delicacy, power or gracefulness. It consists of a fusion of the greatest contrasts of the world, those that cannot otherwise be combined, that have made peace only in this figure. They live in it together: birth and death, tenderness and cruelty, life and destruction. If I only imagined this fi gure, and were she merely the play of my thoughts, it would not matter about her, I could dismiss her as a mistake and forget about her. But the universal mother is not an idea of mine; I did not think her up, I saw her! She lives inside me. I've met her again and again. She appeared to me one winter night in a village when I was asked to hold a light over the bed of a peasant woman giving birth: that's when the image came to life within me. I often lose it; for long periods it re mains remote; but suddenly it Hashes clear again, as it did today. The image of my own mother, whom I loved most of all, has transformed itself into this new image, and lies encased within the new one like the pit in the cherry.
As his present situation became clear to him, Goldmund was afraid to make a decision. It was as difficult as when he had said farewell to Narcissus and to the cloister. Once more he was on an impor tant road : the road to his mother. Would this mother-image one day take shape, a work of his hands, and become visible to all? Perhaps that was his goal, the hidden meaning of his life. Perhaps; he didn't know. But one thing he did know : it was good to travel toward his mother, to be drawn and called by her. He felt alive. Perhaps he'd never be able to shape her image, perhaps she'd always remain a dream, an intuition, a golden shimmer, a sacred mystery. At any rate, he had to follow her and submit his fate to her. She was his star.
And now the decision was at his fingertips; everything had become clear. Art was a beautiful thing, but it was no goddess, no goal-not for him. He was not to follow art, but only the call of his mother.
~ Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund,#KEYS
164:The Mahashakti, the universal Mother, works out whatever is transmitted by her transcendent consciousness from the Supreme and enters into the worlds that she has made; her presence fills and supports them with the divine spirit and the divine all-sustaining force and delight without which they could not exist. That which we call Nature or Prakriti is only her most outward executive aspect; she marshals and arranges the harmony of her forces and processes, impels the operations of Nature and moves among them secret or manifest in all that can be seen or experienced or put into motion of life. Each of the worlds is nothing but one play of the Mahashakti of that system of worlds or universe, who is there as the cosmic Soul and Personality of the transcendent Mother. Each is something that she has seen in her vision, gathered into her heart of beauty and power and created in her Ananda.
But there are many planes of her creation, many steps of the Divine Shakti. At the summit of this manifestation of which we are a part there are worlds of infinite existence, consciousness, force and bliss over which the Mother stands as the unveiled eternal Power. All beings there live and move in an ineffable completeness and unalterable oneness, because she carries them safe in her arms for ever. Nearer to us are the worlds of a perfect supramental creation in which the Mother is the supramental Mahashakti, a Power of divine omniscient Will and omnipotent Knowledge always apparent in its unfailing works and spontaneously perfect in every process. There all movements are the steps of the Truth; there all beings are souls and powers and bodies of the divine Light; there all experiences are seas and floods and waves of an intense and absolute Ananda. But here where we dwell are the worlds of the Ignorance, worlds of mind and life and body separated in consciousness from their source, of which this earth is a significant centre and its evolution a crucial process. This too with all its obscurity and struggle and imperfection is upheld by the Universal Mother; this too is impelled and guided to its secret aim by the Mahashakti.
The Mother as the Mahashakti of this triple world of the Ignorance stands in an intermediate plane between the supramental Light, the Truth life, the Truth creation which has to be brought down here and this mounting and descending hierarchy of planes of consciousness that like a double ladder lapse into the nescience of Matter and climb back again through the flowering of life and soul and mind into the infinity of the Spirit. Determining all that shall be in this universe and in the terrestrial evolution by what she sees and feels and pours from her, she stands there... ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother,#KEYS
165:It is then by a transformation of life in its very principle, not by an external manipulation of its phenomena, that the integral Yoga proposes to change it from a troubled and ignorant into a luminous and harmonious movement of Nature. There are three conditions which are indispensable for the achievement of this central inner revolution and new formation; none of them is altogether sufficient in itself, but by their united threefold power the uplifting can be done, the conversion made and completely made. For, first, life as it is is a movement of desire and it has built in us as its centre a desire-soul which refers to itself all the motions of life and puts in them its own troubled hue and pain of an ignorant, half-lit, baffled endeavour: for a divine living, desire must be abolished and replaced by a purer and firmer motive-power, the tormented soul of desire dissolved and in its stead there must emerge the calm, strength, happiness of a true vital being now concealed within us. Next, life as it is is driven or led partly by the impulse of the life-force, partly by a mind which is mostly a servant and abettor of the ignorant life-impulse, but in part also its uneasy and not too luminous or competent guide and mentor; for a divine life the mind and the life-impulse must cease to be anything but instruments and the inmost psychic being must take their place as the leader on the path and the indicator of a divine guidance. Last, life as it is is turned towards the satisfaction of the separative ego; ego must disappear and be replaced by the true spiritual person, the central being, and life itself must be turned towards the fulfilment of the Divine in terrestrial existence; it must feel a Divine Force awaking within it and become an obedient instrumentation of its purpose.
There is nothing that is not ancient and familiar in the first of these three transforming inner movements; for it has always been one of the principal objects of spiritual discipline. It has been best formulated in the already expressed doctrine of the Gita by which a complete renouncement of desire for the fruits as the motive of action, a complete annulment of desire itself, the complete achievement of a perfect equality are put forward as the normal status of a spiritual being. A perfect spiritual equality is the one true and infallible sign of the cessation of desire, - to be equal-souled to all things, unmoved by joy and sorrow, the pleasant and the unpleasant, success or failure, to look with an equal eye on high and low, friend and enemy, the virtuous and the sinner, to see in all beings the manifold manifestation of the One and in all things the multitudinous play or the slow masked evolution of the embodied Spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 176,#KEYS
166:O Death, thou lookst on an unfinished world
Assailed by thee and of its road unsure,
Peopled by imperfect minds and ignorant lives,
And sayest God is not and all is vain.
How shall the child already be the man?
Because he is infant, shall he never grow?
Because he is ignorant, shall he never learn?
In a small fragile seed a great tree lurks,
In a tiny gene a thinking being is shut;
A little element in a little sperm,
It grows and is a conqueror and a sage.
Then wilt thou spew out, Death, God's mystic truth,
Deny the occult spiritual miracle?
Still wilt thou say there is no spirit, no God?
A mute material Nature wakes and sees;
She has invented speech, unveiled a will.
Something there waits beyond towards which she strives,
Something surrounds her into which she grows:
To uncover the spirit, to change back into God,
To exceed herself is her transcendent task.
In God concealed the world began to be,
Tardily it travels towards manifest God:
Our imperfection towards perfection toils,
The body is the chrysalis of a soul:
The infinite holds the finite in its arms,
Time travels towards revealed eternity.
A miracle structure of the eternal Mage,
Matter its mystery hides from its own eyes,
A scripture written out in cryptic signs,
An occult document of the All-Wonderful's art.
All here bears witness to his secret might,
In all we feel his presence and his power.
A blaze of his sovereign glory is the sun,
A glory is the gold and glimmering moon,
A glory is his dream of purple sky.
A march of his greatness are the wheeling stars.
His laughter of beauty breaks out in green trees,
His moments of beauty triumph in a flower;
The blue sea's chant, the rivulet's wandering voice
Are murmurs falling from the Eternal's harp.
This world is God fulfilled in outwardness.
His ways challenge our reason and our sense;
By blind brute movements of an ignorant Force,
By means we slight as small, obscure or base,
A greatness founded upon little things,
He has built a world in the unknowing Void.
His forms he has massed from infinitesimal dust;
His marvels are built from insignificant things.
If mind is crippled, life untaught and crude,
If brutal masks are there and evil acts,
They are incidents of his vast and varied plot,
His great and dangerous drama's needed steps;
He makes with these and all his passion-play,
A play and yet no play but the deep scheme
Of a transcendent Wisdom finding ways
To meet her Lord in the shadow and the Night:
Above her is the vigil of the stars;
Watched by a solitary Infinitude
She embodies in dumb Matter the Divine,
In symbol minds and lives the Absolute.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
167:- for every well-made and significant poem, picture, statue or building is an act of creative knowledge, a living discovery of the consciousness, a figure of Truth, a dynamic form of mental and vital self-expression or world-expression, - all that seeks, all that finds, all that voices or figures is a realisation of something of the play of the Infinite and to that extent can be made a means of God-realisation or of divine formation. But the Yogin has to see that it is no longer done as part of an ignorant mental life; it can be accepted by him only if by the feeling, the remembrance, the dedication within it, it is turned into a movement of the spiritual consciousness and becomes a part of its vast grasp of comprehensive illuminating knowledge.
For all must be done as a sacrifice, all activities must have the One Divine for their object and the heart of their meaning. The Yogin's aim in the sciences that make for knowledge should be to discover and understand the workings of the Divine Consciousness-Puissance in man and creatures and things and forces, her creative significances, her execution of the mysteries, the symbols in which she arranges the manifestation. The Yogin's aim in the practical sciences, whether mental and physical or occult and psychic, should be to enter into the ways of the Divine and his processes, to know the materials and means for the work given to us so that we may use that knowledge for a conscious and faultless expression of the spirit's mastery, joy and self-fulfilment. The Yogin's aim in the Arts should not be a mere aesthetic, mental or vital gratification, but, seeing the Divine everywhere, worshipping it with a revelation of the meaning of its own works, to express that One Divine in ideal forms, the One Divine in principles and forces, the One Divine in gods and men and creatures and objects. The theory that sees an intimate connection between religious aspiration and the truest and greatest Art is in essence right; but we must substitute for the mixed and doubtful religious motive a spiritual aspiration, vision, interpreting experience. For the wider and more comprehensive the seeing, the more it contains in itself the sense of the hidden Divine in humanity and in all things and rises beyond a superficial religiosity into the spiritual life, the more luminous, flexible, deep and powerful will the Art be that springs from that high motive. The Yogin's distinction from other men is this that he lives in a higher and vaster spiritual consciousness; all his work of knowledge or creation must then spring from there: it must not be made in the mind, - for it is a greater truth and vision than mental man's that he has to express or rather that presses to express itself through him and mould his works, not for his personal satisfaction, but for a divine purpose. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 1, 142 [T4],#KEYS
168:The modern distinction is that the poet appeals to the imagination and not to the intellect. But there are many kinds of imagination; the objective imagination which visualises strongly the outward aspects of life and things; the subjective imagination which visualises strongly the mental and emotional impressions they have the power to start in the mind; the imagination which deals in the play of mental fictions and to which we give the name of poetic fancy; the aesthetic imagination which delights in the beauty of words and images for their own sake and sees no farther. All these have their place in poetry, but they only give the poet his materials, they are only the first instruments in the creation of poetic style. The essential poetic imagination does not stop short with even the most subtle reproductions of things external or internal, with the richest or delicatest play of fancy or with the most beautiful colouring of word or image. It is creative, not of either the actual or the fictitious, but of the more and the most real; it sees the spiritual truth of things, - of this truth too there are many gradations, - which may take either the actual or the ideal for its starting-point. The aim of poetry, as of all true art, is neither a photographic or otherwise realistic imitation of Nature, nor a romantic furbishing and painting or idealistic improvement of her image, but an interpretation by the images she herself affords us, not on one but on many planes of her creation, of that which she conceals from us, but is ready, when rightly approached, to reveal.
This is the true, because the highest and essential aim of poetry; but the human mind arrives at it only by a succession of steps, the first of which seems far enough from its object. It begins by stringing its most obvious and external ideas, feelings and sensations of things on a thread of verse in a sufficient language of no very high quality. But even when it gets to a greater adequacy and effectiveness, it is often no more than a vital, an emotional or an intellectual adequacy and effectiveness. There is a strong vital poetry which powerfully appeals to our sensations and our sense of life, like much of Byron or the less inspired mass of the Elizabethan drama; a strong emotional poetry which stirs our feelings and gives us the sense and active image of the passions; a strong intellectual poetry which satisfies our curiosity about life and its mechanism, or deals with its psychological and other "problems", or shapes for us our thoughts in an effective, striking and often quite resistlessly quotable fashion. All this has its pleasures for the mind and the surface soul in us, and it is certainly quite legitimate to enjoy them and to enjoy them strongly and vividly on our way upward; but if we rest content with these only, we shall never get very high up the hill of the Muses.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry,#KEYS
169:reading :::
50 Psychology Classics: List of Books Covered:
Alfred Adler - Understanding Human Nature (1927)
Gordon Allport - The Nature of Prejudice (1954)
Albert Bandura - Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control (1997)
Gavin Becker - The Gift of Fear (1997)
Eric Berne - Games People Play (1964)
Isabel Briggs Myers - Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type (1980)
Louann Brizendine - The Female Brain (2006)
David D Burns - Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy (1980)
Susan Cain - Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (2012)
Robert Cialdini - Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (1984)
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Creativity (1997)
Carol Dweck - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (2006)
Albert Ellis & Robert Harper - (1961) A Guide To Rational Living(1961)
Milton Erickson - My Voice Will Go With You (1982) by Sidney Rosen
Eric Erikson - Young Man Luther (1958)
Hans Eysenck - Dimensions of Personality (1947)
Viktor Frankl - The Will to Meaning (1969)
Anna Freud - The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense (1936)
Sigmund Freud - The Interpretation of Dreams (1901)
Howard Gardner - Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences (1983)
Daniel Gilbert - Stumbling on Happiness (2006)
Malcolm Gladwell - Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005)
Daniel Goleman - Emotional Intelligence at Work (1998)
John M Gottman - The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work (1999)
Temple Grandin - The Autistic Brain: Helping Different Kinds of Minds Succeed (2013)
Harry Harlow - The Nature of Love (1958)
Thomas A Harris - I'm OK - You're OK (1967)
Eric Hoffer - The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (1951)
Karen Horney - Our Inner Conflicts (1945)
William James - Principles of Psychology (1890)
Carl Jung - The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (1953)
Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)
Alfred Kinsey - Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953)
RD Laing - The Divided Self (1959)
Abraham Maslow - The Farther Reaches of Human Nature (1970)
Stanley Milgram - Obedience To Authority (1974)
Walter Mischel - The Marshmallow Test (2014)
Leonard Mlodinow - Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior (2012)
IP Pavlov - Conditioned Reflexes (1927)
Fritz Perls - Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality (1951)
Jean Piaget - The Language and Thought of the Child (1966)
Steven Pinker - The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (2002)
VS Ramachandran - Phantoms in the Brain (1998)
Carl Rogers - On Becoming a Person (1961)
Oliver Sacks - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1970)
Barry Schwartz - The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less (2004)
Martin Seligman - Authentic Happiness (2002)
BF Skinner - Beyond Freedom & Dignity (1953)
Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton & Sheila Heen - Difficult Conversations (2000)
William Styron - Darkness Visible (1990)
~ Tom Butler-Bowdon, 50 Psychology Classics,#KEYS
170:Sweet Mother, here it is written: "It is part of the foundation of Yoga to become conscious of the great complexity of our nature, see the different forces that move it and get over it a control of directing knowledge." Are these forces different for each person?
Yes. The composition is completely different, otherwise everybody would be the same. There are not two beings with an identical combination; between the different parts of the being and the composition of these parts the proportion is different in each individual. There are people, primitive men, people like the yet undeveloped races or the degenerated ones whose combinations are fairly simple; they are still complicated, but comparatively simple. And there are people absolutely at the top of the human ladder, the e ́lite of humanity; their combinations become so complicated that a very special discernment is needed to find the relations between all these things.
There are beings who carry in themselves thousands of different personalities, and then each one has its own rhythm and alternation, and there is a kind of combination; sometimes there are inner conflicts, and there is a play of activities which are rhythmic and with alternations of certain parts which come to the front and then go back and again come to the front. But when one takes all that, it makes such complicated combinations that some people truly find it difficult to understand what is going on in themselves; and yet these are the ones most capable of a complete, coordinated, conscious, organised action; but their organisation is infinitely more complicated than that of primitive or undeveloped men who have two or three impulses and four or five ideas, and who can arrange all this very easily in themselves and seem to be very co-ordinated and logical because there is not very much to organise. But there are people truly like a multitude, and so that gives them a plasticity, a fluidity of action and an extraordinary complexity of perception, and these people are capable of understanding a considerable number of things, as though they had at their disposal a veritable army which they move according to circumstance and need; and all this is inside them. So when these people, with the help of yoga, the discipline of yoga, succeed in centralising all these beings around the central light of the divine Presence, they become powerful entities, precisely because of their complexity. So long as this is not organised they often give the impression of an incoherence, they are almost incomprehensible, one can't manage to understand why they are like that, they are so complex. But when they have organised all these beings, that is, put each one in its place around the divine centre, then truly they are terrific, for they have the capacity of understanding almost everything and doing almost everything because of the multitude of entities they contain, of which they are constituted. And the nearer one is to the top of the ladder, the more it is like that, and consequently the more difficult it is to organise one's being; because when you have about a dozen elements, you can quickly compass and organise them, but when you have thousands of them, it is difficult. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1955, 215-216,#KEYS
171:Can it be said in justification of one's past that whatever has happened in one's life had to happen?
The Mother: Obviously, what has happened had to happen; it would not have been, if it had not been intended. Even the mistakes that we have committed and the adversities that fell upon us had to be, because there was some necessity in them, some utility for our lives. But in truth these things cannot be explained mentally and should not be. For all that happened was necessary, not for any mental reason, but to lead us to something beyond what the mind imagines. But is there any need to explain after all? The whole universe explains everything at every moment and a particular thing happens because the whole universe is what it is. But this does not mean that we are bound over to a blind acquiescence in Nature's inexorable law. You can accept the past as a settled fact and perceive the necessity in it, and still you can use the experience it gave you to build up the power consciously to guide and shape your present and your future.
Is the time also of an occurrence arranged in the Divine Plan of things?
The Mother: All depends upon the plane from which one sees and speaks. There is a plane of divine consciousness in which all is known absolutely, and the whole plan of things foreseen and predetermined. That way of seeing lives in the highest reaches of the Supramental; it is the Supreme's own vision. But when we do not possess that consciousness, it is useless to speak in terms that hold good only in that region and are not our present effective way of seeing things. For at a lower level of consciousness nothing is realised or fixed beforehand; all is in the process of making. Here there are no settled facts, there is only the play of possibilities; out of the clash of possibilities is realised the thing that has to happen. On this plane we can choose and select; we can refuse one possibility and accept another; we can follow one path, turn away from another. And that we can do, even though what is actually happening may have been foreseen and predetermined in a higher plane.
The Supreme Consciousness knows everything beforehand, because everything is realised there in her eternity. But for the sake of her play and in order to carry out actually on the physical plane what is foreordained in her own supreme self, she moves here upon earth as if she did not know the whole story; she works as if it was a new and untried thread that she was weaving. It is this apparent forgetfulness of her own foreknowledge in the higher consciousness that gives to the individual in the active life of the world his sense of freedom and independence and initiative. These things in him are her pragmatic tools or devices, and it is through this machinery that the movements and issues planned and foreseen elsewhere are realised here.
It may help you to understand if you take the example of an actor. An actor knows the whole part he has to play; he has in his mind the exact sequence of what is to happen on the stage. But when he is on the stage, he has to appear as if he did not know anything; he has to feel and act as if he were experiencing all these things for the first time, as if it was an entirely new world with all its chance events and surprises that was unrolling before his eyes. 28th April ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931,#KEYS
172:If this is the truth of works, the first thing the sadhaka has to do is to recoil from the egoistic forms of activity and get rid of the sense of an "I" that acts. He has to see and feel that everything happens in him by the plastic conscious or subconscious or sometimes superconscious automatism of his mental and bodily instruments moved by the forces of spiritual, mental, vital and physical Nature. There is a personality on his surface that chooses and wills, submits and struggles, tries to make good in Nature or prevail over Nature, but this personality is itself a construction of Nature and so dominated, driven, determined by her that it cannot be free. It is a formation or expression of the Self in her, - it is a self of Nature rather than a self of Self, his natural and processive, not his spiritual and permanent being, a temporary constructed personality, not the true immortal Person. It is that Person that he must become. He must succeed in being inwardly quiescent, detach himself as the observer from the outer active personality and learn the play of the cosmic forces in him by standing back from all blinding absorption in its turns and movements. Thus calm, detached, a student of himself and a witness of his nature, he realises that he is the individual soul who observes the works of Nature, accepts tranquilly her results and sanctions or withholds his sanction from the impulse to her acts. At present this soul or Purusha is little more than an acquiescent spectator, influencing perhaps the action and development of the being by the pressure of its veiled consciousness, but for the most part delegating its powers or a fragment of them to the outer personality, - in fact to Nature, for this outer self is not lord but subject to her, anı̄sa; but, once unveiled, it can make its sanction or refusal effective, become the master of the action, dictate sovereignly a change of Nature. Even if for a long time, as the result of fixed association and past storage of energy, the habitual movement takes place independent of the Purusha's assent and even if the sanctioned movement is persistently refused by Nature for want of past habit, still he will discover that in the end his assent or refusal prevails, - slowly with much resistance or quickly with a rapid accommodation of her means and tendencies she modifies herself and her workings in the direction indicated by his inner sight or volition. Thus he learns in place of mental control or egoistic will an inner spiritual control which makes him master of the Nature-forces that work in him and not their unconscious instrument or mechanic slave. Above and around him is the Shakti, the universal Mother and from her he can get all his inmost soul needs and wills if only he has a true knowledge of her ways and a true surrender to the divine Will in her. Finally, he becomes aware of that highest dynamic Self within him and within Nature which is the source of all his seeing and knowing, the source of the sanction, the source of the acceptance, the source of the rejection. This is the Lord, the Supreme, the One-in-all, Ishwara-Shakti, of whom his soul is a portion, a being of that Being and a power of that Power. The rest of our progress depends on our knowledge of the ways in which the Lord of works manifests his Will in the world and in us and executes them through the transcendent and universal Shakti. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supreme Will, 216, #KEYS
173:It is thus by an integralisation of our divided being that the Divine Shakti in the Yoga will proceed to its object; for liberation, perfection, mastery are dependent on this integralisation, since the little wave on the surface cannot control its own movement, much less have any true control over the vast life around it. The Shakti, the power of the Infinite and the Eternal descends within us, works, breaks up our present psychological formations, shatters every wall, widens, liberates, presents us with always newer and greater powers of vision, ideation, perception and newer and greater life-motives, enlarges and newmodels increasingly the soul and its instruments, confronts us with every imperfection in order to convict and destroy it, opens to a greater perfection, does in a brief period the work of many lives or ages so that new births and new vistas open constantly within us. Expansive in her action, she frees the consciousness from confinement in the body; it can go out in trance or sleep or even waking and enter into worlds or other regions of this world and act there or carry back its experience. It spreads out, feeling the body only as a small part of itself, and begins to contain what before contained it; it achieves the cosmic consciousness and extends itself to be commensurate with the universe. It begins to know inwardly and directly and not merely by external observation and contact the forces at play in the world, feels their movement, distinguishes their functioning and can operate immediately upon them as the scientist operates upon physical forces, accept their action and results in our mind, life, body or reject them or modify, change, reshape, create immense new powers and movements in place of the old small functionings of the nature. We begin to perceive the working of the forces of universal Mind and to know how our thoughts are created by that working, separate from within the truth and falsehood of our perceptions, enlarge their field, extend and illumine their significance, become master of our own minds and active to shape the movements of Mind in the world around us. We begin to perceive the flow and surge of the universal life-forces, detect the origin and law of our feelings, emotions, sensations, passions, are free to accept, reject, new-create, open to wider, rise to higher planes of Life-Power. We begin to perceive too the key to the enigma of Matter, follow the interplay of Mind and Life and Consciousness upon it, discover more and more its instrumental and resultant function and detect ultimately the last secret of Matter as a form not merely of Energy but of involved and arrested or unstably fixed and restricted consciousness and begin to see too the possibility of its liberation and plasticity of response to higher Powers, its possibilities for the conscious and no longer the more than half-inconscient incarnation and self-expression of the Spirit. All this and more becomes more and more possible as the working of the Divine Shakti increases in us and, against much resistance or labour to respond of our obscure consciousness, through much struggle and movement of progress and regression and renewed progress necessitated by the work of intensive transformation of a half-inconscient into a conscious substance, moves to a greater purity, truth, height, range. All depends on the psychic awakening in us, the completeness of our response to her and our growing surrender. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 183, #KEYS
174:Sometimes one cannot distinguish adverse forces from other forces.
That happens when one is quite unconscious. There are only two cases when this is possible: you are either very unconscious of the movements of your being - you have not studied, you have not observed, you do not know what is happening within you - or you are absolutely insincere, that is, you play the ostrich in order not to see the reality of things: you hide your head, you hide your observation, your knowledge and you say, "It is not there." But indeed the latter I hope is not in question here. Hence it is simply because one has not the habit of observing oneself that one is so unconscious of what is happening within.
Have you ever practised distinguishing what comes from your mind, what comes from your vital, what comes from your physical?... For it is mixed up; it is mixed up in the outward appearance. If you do not take care to distinguish, it makes a kind of soup, all that together. So it is indistinct and difficult to discoveR But if you observe yourself, after some time you see certain things, you feel them to be there, like that, as though they were in your skin; for some other things you feel you would have to go within yourself to find out from where they come; for other things, you have to go still further inside, or otherwise you have to rise up a little: it comes from unconsciousness. And there are others; then you must go very deep, very deep to find out from where they come. This is just a beginning.
Simply observe. You are in a certain condition, a certain undefinable condition. Then look: "What! how is it I am like that?" You try to see first if you have fever or some other illness; but it is all right, everything is all right, there's neither headache nor fever, the stomach is not protesting, the heart is functioning as it should, indeed, all's well, you are normal. "Why then am I feeling so uneasy?"... So you go a little further within. It depends on cases. Sometimes you find out immediately: yes, there was a little incident which wasn't pleasant, someone said a word that was not happy or one had failed in his task or perhaps did not know one's lesson very well, the teacher had made a remark. At the time, one did not pay attention properly, but later on, it begins to work, leaves a painful impression. That is the second stage. Afterwards, if nothing happened: "All's well, everything is normal, everything usual, I have nothing to note down, nothing has happened: why then do I feel like that?" Now it begins to be interesting, because one must enter much more deeply within oneself. And then it can be all sorts of things: it may be precisely the expression of an attack that is preparing; it may be a little inner anxiety seeking the progress that has to be made; it may be a premonition that there is somewhere in contact with oneself something not altogether harmonious which one has to change: something one must see, discover, change, on which light is to be put, something that is still there, deep down, and which should no longer be there. Then if you look at yourself very carefully, you find out: "There! I am still like that; in that little corner, there is still something of that kind, not clear: a little selfishness, a little ill-will, something refusing to change." So you see it, you take it by the tip of its nose or by the ear and hold it up in full light: "So, you were hiding! you are hiding? But I don't want you any longer." And then it has to go away.
This is a great progress.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 102-104, [T4],#KEYS
175:DHARANA
NOW that we have learnt to observe the mind, so that we know how it works to some extent, and have begun to understand the elements of control, we may try the result of gathering together all the powers of the mind, and attempting to focus them on a single point.
We know that it is fairly easy for the ordinary educated mind to think without much distraction on a subject in which it is much interested. We have the popular phrase, "revolving a thing in the mind"; and as long as the subject is sufficiently complex, as long as thoughts pass freely, there is no great difficulty. So long as a gyroscope is in motion, it remains motionless relatively to its support, and even resists attempts to distract it; when it stops it falls from that position. If the earth ceased to spin round the sun, it would at once fall into the sun. The moment then that the student takes a simple subject - or rather a simple object - and imagines it or visualizes it, he will find that it is not so much his creature as he supposed. Other thoughts will invade the mind, so that the object is altogether forgotten, perhaps for whole minutes at a time; and at other times the object itself will begin to play all sorts of tricks.
Suppose you have chosen a white cross. It will move its bar up and down, elongate the bar, turn the bar oblique, get its arms unequal, turn upside down, grow branches, get a crack around it or a figure upon it, change its shape altogether like an Amoeba, change its size and distance as a whole, change the degree of its illumination, and at the same time change its colour. It will get splotchy and blotchy, grow patterns, rise, fall, twist and turn; clouds will pass over its face. There is no conceivable change of which it is incapable. Not to mention its total disappearance, and replacement by something altogether different!
Any one to whom this experience does not occur need not imagine that he is meditating. It shows merely that he is incapable of concentrating his mind in the very smallest degree. Perhaps a student may go for several days before discovering that he is not meditating. When he does, the obstinacy of the object will infuriate him; and it is only now that his real troubles will begin, only now that Will comes really into play, only now that his manhood is tested. If it were not for the Will-development which he got in the conquest of Asana, he would probably give up. As it is, the mere physical agony which he underwent is the veriest trifle compared with the horrible tedium of Dharana.
For the first week it may seem rather amusing, and you may even imagine you are progressing; but as the practice teaches you what you are doing, you will apparently get worse and worse. Please understand that in doing this practice you are supposed to be seated in Asana, and to have note-book and pencil by your side, and a watch in front of you. You are not to practise at first for more than ten minutes at a time, so as to avoid risk of overtiring the brain. In fact you will probably find that the whole of your willpower is not equal to keeping to a subject at all for so long as three minutes, or even apparently concentrating on it for so long as three seconds, or three-fifths of one second. By "keeping to it at all" is meant the mere attempt to keep to it. The mind becomes so fatigued, and the object so incredibly loathsome, that it is useless to continue for the time being. In Frater P.'s record we find that after daily practice for six months, meditations of four minutes and less are still being recorded.
~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA,#KEYS
176:We have now completed our view of the path of Knowledge and seen to what it leads. First, the end of Yoga of Knowledge is God-possession, it is to possess God and be possessed by him through consciousness, through identification, through reflection of the divine Reality. But not merely in some abstraction away from our present existence, but here also; therefore to possess the Divine in himself, the Divine in the world, the Divine within, the Divine in all things and all beings. It is to possess oneness with God and through that to possess also oneness with the universal, with the cosmos and all existences; therefore to possess the infinite diversity also in the oneness, but on the basis of oneness and not on the basis of division. It is to possess God in his personality and his impersonality; in his purity free from qualities and in his infinite qualities; in time and beyond time; in his action and in his silence; in the finite and in the infinite. It is to possess him not only in pure self, but in all self; not only in self, but in Nature; not only in spirit, but in supermind, mind, life and body; to possess him with the spirit, with the mind, with the vital and the physical consciousness; and it is again for all these to be possessed by him, so that our whole being is one with him, full of him, governed and driven by him. It is, since God is oneness, for our physical consciousness to be one with the soul and the nature of the material universe; for our life, to be one with all life; for our mind, to be one with the universal mind; for our spirit, to be identified with the universal spirit. It is to merge in him in the absolute and find him in all relations. Secondly, it is to put on the divine being and the divine nature. And since God is Sachchidananda, it is to raise our being into the divine being, our consciousness into the divine consciousness, our energy into the divine energy, our delight of existence into the divine delight of being. And it is not only to lift ourselves into this higher consciousness, but to widen into it in all our being, because it is to be found on all the planes of our existence and in all our members, so that our mental, vital, physical existence shall become full of the divine nature. Our intelligent mentality is to become a play of the divine knowledge-will, our mental soul-life a play of the divine love and delight, our vitality a play of the divine life, our physical being a mould of the divine substance. This God-action in us is to be realised by an opening of ourselves to the divine gnosis and divine Ananda and, in its fullness, by an ascent into and a permanent dwelling in the gnosis and the Ananda. For though we live physically on the material plane and in normal outwardgoing life the mind and soul are preoccupied with material existence, this externality of our being is not a binding limitation. We can raise our internal consciousness from plane to plane of the relations of Purusha with prakriti, and even become, instead of the mental being dominated by the physical soul and nature, the gnostic being or the bliss-self and assume the gnostic or the bliss nature. And by this raising of the inner life we can transform our whole outward-going existence; instead of a life dominated by matter we shall then have a life dominated by spirit with all its circumstances moulded and determined by the purity of being, the consciousness infinite even in the finite, the divine energy, the divine joy and bliss of the spirit.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Integral Knowledge, The Higher and the Lower Knowledge [511] [T1],#KEYS
177:This greater Force is that of the Illumined Mind, a Mind no longer of higher Thought, but of spiritual light. Here the clarity of the spiritual intelligence, its tranquil daylight, gives place or subordinates itself to an intense lustre, a splendour and illumination of the spirit: a play of lightnings of spiritual truth and power breaks from above into the consciousness and adds to the calm and wide enlightenment and the vast descent of peace which characterise or accompany the action of the larger conceptual-spiritual principle, a fiery ardour of realisation and a rapturous ecstasy of knowledge. A downpour of inwardly visible Light very usually envelops this action; for it must be noted that, contrary to our ordinary conceptions, light is not primarily a material creation and the sense or vision of light accompanying the inner illumination is not merely a subjective visual image or a symbolic phenomenon: light is primarily a spiritual manifestation of the Divine Reality illuminative and creative; material light is a subsequent representation or conversion of it into Matter for the purposes of the material Energy. There is also in this descent the arrival of a greater dynamic, a golden drive, a luminous enthousiasmos of inner force and power which replaces the comparatively slow and deliberate process of the Higher Mind by a swift, sometimes a vehement, almost a violent impetus of rapid transformation.
But these two stages of the ascent enjoy their authority and can get their own united completeness only by a reference to a third level; for it is from the higher summits where dwells the intuitional being that they derive the knowledge which they turn into thought or sight and bring down to us for the mind's transmutation. Intuition is a power of consciousness nearer and more intimate to the original knowledge by identity; for it is always something that leaps out direct from a concealed identity. It is when the consciousness of the subject meets with the consciousness in the object, penetrates it and sees, feels or vibrates with the truth of what it contacts, that the intuition leaps out like a spark or lightning-flash from the shock of the meeting; or when the consciousness, even without any such meeting, looks into itself and feels directly and intimately the truth or the truths that are there or so contacts the hidden forces behind appearances, then also there is the outbreak of an intuitive light; or, again, when the consciousness meets the Supreme Reality or the spiritual reality of things and beings and has a contactual union with it, then the spark, the flash or the blaze of intimate truth-perception is lit in its depths. This close perception is more than sight, more than conception: it is the result of a penetrating and revealing touch which carries in it sight and conception as part of itself or as its natural consequence. A concealed or slumbering identity, not yet recovering itself, still remembers or conveys by the intuition its own contents and the intimacy of its self-feeling and self-vision of things, its light of truth, its overwhelming and automatic certitude. ... Intuition is always an edge or ray or outleap of a superior light; it is in us a projecting blade, edge or point of a far-off supermind light entering into and modified by some intermediate truth-mind substance above us and, so modified, again entering into and very much blinded by our ordinary or ignorant mind substance; but on that higher level to which it is native its light is unmixed and therefore entirely and purely veridical, and its rays are not separated but connected or massed together in a play of waves of what might almost be called in the Sanskrit poetic figure a sea or mass of stable lightnings.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine,#KEYS
178:
In the lower planes can't one say what will happen at a particular moment?
That depends. On certain planes there are consciousnesses that form, that make formations and try to send them down to earth and manifest them. These are planes where the great forces are at play, forces struggling with each other to organise things in one way or another. On these planes all the possibilities are there, all the possibilities that present themselves but have not yet come to a decision as to which will come down.... Suppose a plane full of the imaginations of people who want certain things to be realised upon earth - they invent a novel, narrate stories, produce all kinds of phenomena; it amuses them very much. It is a plane of form-makers and they are there imagining all kinds of circumstances and events; they play with the forces; they are like the authors of a drama and they prepare everything there and see what is going to happen. All these formations are facing each other; and it is those which are the strongest, the most successful or the most persistent or those that have the advantage of a favourable set of circumstances which dominate. They meet and out of the conflict yet another thing results: you lose one thing and take up another, you make a new combination; and then all of a sudden, you find, pluff! it is coming down. Now, if it comes down with a sufficient force, it sets moving the earth atmosphere and things combine; as for instance, when with your fist you thump the saw-dust, you know surely what happens, don't you? You lift your hand, give a formidable blow: all the dust gets organised around your fist. Well, it is like that. These formations come down into matter with that force, and everything organises itself automatically, mechanically as around the striking fist. And there's your wished object about to be realised, sometimes with small deformations because of the resistance, but it will be realised finally, even as the person narrating the story up above wanted it more or less to be realised. If then you are for some reason or other in the secret of the person who has constructed the story and if you follow the way in which he creates his path to reach down to the earth and if you see how a blow with the fist acts on earthly matter, then you are able to tell what is going to happen, because you have seen it in the world above, and as it takes some time to make the whole journey, you see in advance. And the higher you rise, the more you foresee in advance what is going to happen. And if you pass far beyond, go still farther, then everything is possible.
It is an unfolding that follows a wide road which is for you unknowable; for all will be unfolded in the universe, but in what order and in what way? There are decisions that are taken up there which escape our ordinary consciousness, and so it is very difficult to foresee. But there also, if you enter consciously and if you can be present up there... How shall I explain that to you? All is there, absolute, static, eternal: but all that will be unfolded in the material world, naturally more or less one thing after another; for in the static existence all can be there, but in the becoming all becomes in time, that is, one thing after another. Well, what path will the unfolding follow? Up there is the domain of absolute freedom.... Who says that a sufficiently sincere aspiration, a sufficiently intense prayer is not capable of changing the path of the unfolding?
This means that all is possible.
Now, one must have a sufficient aspiration and a prayer that's sufficiently intense. But that has been given to human nature. It is one of the marvellous gifts of grace given to human nature; only, one does not know how to make use of it. This comes to saying that in spite of the most absolute determinisms in the horizontal line, if one knows how to cross all these horizontal lines and reach the highest Point of consciousness, one is able to make things change, things apparently absolutely determined. So you may call it by any name you like, but it is a kind of combination of an absolute determinism with an absolute freedom. You may pull yourself out of it in any way you like, but it is like that.
I forgot to say in that book (perhaps I did not forget but just felt that it was useless to say it) that all these theories are only theories, that is, mental conceptions which are merely more or less imaged representations of the reality; but it is not the reality at all. When you say "determinism" and when you say "freedom", you say only words and all that is only a very incomplete, very approximate and very weak description of what is in reality within you, around you and everywhere; and to be able to begin to understand what the universe is, you must come out of your mental formulas, otherwise you will never understand anything.
To tell the truth, if you live only a moment, just a tiny moment, of this absolutely sincere aspiration or this sufficiently intense prayer, you will know more things than by meditating for hours.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953,#KEYS
179:For instance, a popular game with California occultists-I do not know its inventor-involves a Magic Room, much like the Pleasure Dome discussed earlier except that this Magic Room contains an Omniscient Computer.
To play this game, you simply "astrally project" into the Magic Room. Do not ask what "astral projection" means, and do not assume it is metaphysical (and therefore either impossible, if you are a materialist, or very difficult, if you are a mystic). Just assume this is a gedankenexperiment, a "mind game." Project yourself, in imagination, into this Magic Room and visualize vividly the Omniscient Computer, using the details you need to make such a super-information-processor real to your fantasy. You do not need any knowledge of programming to handle this astral computer. It exists early in the next century; you are getting to use it by a species of time-travel, if that metaphor is amusing and helpful to you. It is so built that it responds immediately to human brain-waves, "reading" them and decoding their meaning. (Crude prototypes of such computers already exist.) So, when you are in this magic room, you can ask this Computer anything, just by thinking of what you want to know. It will read your thought, and project into your brain, by a laser ray, the correct answer.
There is one slight problem. The computer is very sensitive to all brain-waves. If you have any doubts, it registers them as negative commands, meaning "Do not answer my question." So, the way to use it is to start simply, with "easy" questions. Ask it to dig out of the archives the name of your second-grade teacher. (Almost everybody remembers the name of their first grade teacher-imprint vulnerability again-but that of the second grade teacher tends to get lost.)
When the computer has dug out the name of your second grade teacher, try it on a harder question, but not one that is too hard. It is very easy to sabotage this machine, but you don't want to sabotage it during these experiments. You want to see how well it can be made to perform.
It is wise to ask only one question at a time, since it requires concentration to keep this magic computer real on the field of your perception. Do not exhaust your capacities for imagination and visualization on your first trial runs.
After a few trivial experiments of the second-grade-teacher variety, you can try more interesting programs. Take a person toward whom you have negative feelings, such as anger, disappointment, feeling-of-betrayal, jealousy or whatever interferes with the smooth, tranquil operation of your own bio-computer. Ask the Magic Computer to explain that other person to you; to translate you into their reality-tunnel long enough for you to understand how events seem to them. Especially, ask how you seem to them.
This computer will do that job for you; but be prepared for some shocks which might be disagreeable at first. This super-brain can also perform exegesis on ideas that seem obscure, paradoxical or enigmatic to us. For instance, early experiments with this computer can very profitably turn on asking it to explain some of the propositions in this book which may seem inexplicable or perversely wrong-headed to you, such as "We are all greater artists than we realize" or "What the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves" or "mind and its contents are functionally identical."
This computer is much more powerful and scientifically advanced than the rapture-machine in the neurosomatic circuit. It has total access to all the earlier, primitive circuits, and overrules any of them. That is, if you put a meta-programming instruction into this computer; it will relay it downward to the old circuits and cancel contradictory programs left over from the past. For instance, try feeding it on such meta-programming instructions as: 1. I am at cause over my body. 2. I am at cause over my imagination. 3.1 am at cause over my future. 4. My mind abounds with beauty and power. 5.1 like people, and people like me.
Remember that this computer is only a few decades ahead of present technology, so it cannot "understand" your commands if you harbor any doubts about them. Doubts tell it not to perform. Work always from what you can believe in, extending the area of belief only as results encourage you to try for more dramatic transformations of your past reality-tunnels.
This represents cybernetic consciousness; the programmer becoming self-programmer, self-metaprogrammer, meta-metaprogrammer, etc. Just as the emotional compulsions of the second circuit seem primitive, mechanical and, ultimately, silly to the neurosomatic consciousness, so, too, the reality maps of the third circuit become comic, relativistic, game-like to the metaprogrammer. "Whatever you say it is, it isn't, " Korzybski, the semanticist, repeated endlessly in his seminars, trying to make clear that third-circuit semantic maps are not the territories they represent; that we can always make maps of our maps, revisions of our revisions, meta-selves of our selves. "Neti, neti" (not that, not that), Hindu teachers traditionally say when asked what "God" is or what "Reality" is. Yogis, mathematicians and musicians seem more inclined to develop meta-programming consciousness than most of humanity. Korzybski even claimed that the use of mathematical scripts is an aid to developing this circuit, for as soon as you think of your mind as mind 1 , and the mind which contemplates that mind as mind2 and the mind which contemplates mind2 contemplating mind 1 as mind3, you are well on your way to meta-programming awareness. Alice in Wonderland is a masterful guide to the metaprogramming circuit (written by one of the founders of mathematical logic) and Aleister Crowley soberly urged its study upon all students of yoga. ~ Robert Anton Wilson, Prometheus Rising,#KEYS
180:
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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181:
The whole question.
The whole question? And now, do you understand?... Not quite? I told you that you did not understand because it was muddled up; in one question three different ideas were included. So naturally it created a confusion. But taken separately they are what I explained to you just now, most probably; that is to say, one has this altogether ignorant and obliterated consciousness and is convinced that he is the cause and effect, the origin and result of himself, separate from all others, separate with a limited power to act upon others and a little greater capacity to be set in movement by others or to react to others' influence. That is how people think usually, something like that, isn't that so? How do you feel, you? What effect do you have upon yourself? And you? And you?... You have never thought about it? You have never looked into yourself to see what effect you exercise upon yourself? Never thought over it? No? How do you feel? Nobody will tell me? Come, you tell me that. Never tried to understand how you feel? Yes? No? How strange! Never sought to understand how, for example, decisions take place in you? From where do they come? What makes you decide one thing rather than another? And what is the relation between a decision of yours and your action? And to what extent do you have the freedom of choice between one thing and another? And how far do you feel you are able to, you are free to do this or that or that other or nothing at all?... You have pondered over that? Yes? Is there any one among the students who has thought over it? No? Nobody put the question to himself? You? You?...
Even if one thinks over it, perhaps one is not able to answer!
One cannot explain?
No.
It is difficult to explain? Even this simple little thing, to see where in your consciousness the wills that come from outside meet your will (which you call yours, which comes from within), at what place the two join together and to what extent the one from outside acts upon that from within and the one from within acts upon that from outside? You have never tried to find this out? It has never seemed to you unbearable that a will from outside should have an action upon your will? No?
I do not know.
Oh! I am putting very difficult problems! But, my children, I was preoccupied with that when I was a child of five!... So I thought you must have been preoccupied with it since a long time. In oneself, there are contradictory wills. Yes, many. That is one of the very first discoveries. There is one part which wants things this way; and then at another moment, another way, and a third time, one wants still another thing! Besides, there is even this: something that wants and another which says no. So? But it is exactly that which has to be found if you wish in the least to organise yourself. Why not project yourself upon a screen, as in the cinema, and then look at yourself moving on it? How interesting it is!
This is the first step.
You project yourself on the screen and then observe and see all that is moving there and how it moves and what happens. You make a little diagram, it becomes so interesting then. And then, after a while, when you are quite accustomed to seeing, you can go one step further and take a decision. Or even a still greater step: you organise - arrange, take up all that, put each thing in its place, organise in such a way that you begin to have a straight movement with an inner meaning. And then you become conscious of your direction and are able to say: "Very well, it will be thus; my life will develop in that way, because that is the logic of my being. Now, I have arranged all that within me, each thing has been put in its place, and so naturally a central orientation is forming. I am following this orientation. One step more and I know what will happen to me for I myself am deciding it...." I do not know, I am telling you this; to me it seemed terribly interesting, the most interesting thing in the world. There was nothing, no other thing that interested me more than that.
This happened to me.... I was five or six or seven years old (at seven the thing became quite serious) and I had a father who loved the circus, and he came and told me: "Come with me, I am going to the circus on Sunday." I said: "No, I am doing something much more interesting than going to the circus!" Or again, young friends invited me to attend a meeting where we were to play together, enjoy together: "No, I enjoy here much more...." And it was quite sincere. It was not a pose: for me, it was like this, it was true. There was nothing in the world more enjoyable than that.
And I am so convinced that anybody who does it in that way, with the same freshness and sincerity, will obtain most interesting results.... To put all that on a screen in front of yourself and look at what is happening. And the first step is to know all that is happening and then you must not try to shut your eyes when something does not appear pleasant to you! You must keep them wide open and put each thing in that way before the screen. Then you make quite an interesting discovery. And then the next step is to start telling yourself: "Since all that is happening within me, why should I not put this thing in this way and then that thing in that way and then this other in this way and thus wouldn't I be doing something logical that has a meaning? Why should I not remove that thing which stands obstructing the way, these conflicting wills? Why? And what does that represent in the being? Why is it there? If it were put there, would it not help instead of harming me?" And so on.
And little by little, little by little, you see clearer and then you see why you are made like that, what is the thing you have got to do - that for which you are born. And then, quite naturally, since all is organised for this thing to happen, the path becomes straight and you can say beforehand: "It is in this way that it will happen." And when things come from outside to try and upset all that, you are able to say: "No, I accept this, for it helps; I reject that, for that harms." And then, after a few years, you curb yourself as you curb a horse: you do whatever you like, in the way you like and you go wherever you like.
It seems to me this is worth the trouble. I believe it is the most interesting thing.
...
You must have a great deal of sincerity, a little courage and perseverance and then a sort of mental curiosity, you understand, curious, seeking to know, interested, wanting to learn. To love to learn: that, one must have in one's nature. To find it impossible to stand before something grey, all hazy, in which nothing is seen clearly and which gives you quite an unpleasant feeling, for you do not know where you begin and where you end, what is yours and what is not yours and what is settled and what is not settled - what is this pulp-like thing you call yourself in which things get intermingled and act upon one another without even your being aware of it? You ask yourself: "But why have I done this?" You know nothing about it. "And why have I felt that?" You don't know that, either. And then, you are thrown into a world outside that is only fog and you are thrown into a world inside that is also for you another kind of fog, still more impenetrable, in which you live, like a cork thrown upon the waters and the waves carry it away or cast it into the air, and it drops and rolls on. That is quite an unpleasant state. I do not know, but to me it appears unpleasant.
To see clearly, to see one's way, where one is going, why one is going there, how one is to go there and what one is going to do and what is the kind of relation with others... But that is a problem so wonderfully interesting - it is interesting - and you can always discover things every minute! One's work is never finished.
There is a time, there is a certain state of consciousness when you have the feeling that you are in that condition with all the weight of the world lying heavy upon you and besides you are going in blinkers and do not know where you are going, but there is something which is pushing you. And that is truly a very unpleasant condition. And there is another moment when one draws oneself up and is able to see what is there above, and one becomes it; then one looks at the world as though from the top of a very very high mountain and one sees all that is happening below; then one can choose one's way and follow it. That is a more pleasant condition. This then is truly the truth, you are upon earth for that, surely. All individual beings and all the little concentrations of consciousness were created to do this work. It is the very reason for existence: to be able to become fully conscious of a certain sum of vibrations representing an individual being and put order there and find one's way and follow it.
And so, as men do not know it and do not do it, life comes and gives them a blow here: "Oh! that hurts", then a blow there: "Ah! that's hurting me." And the thing goes on like that and all the time it is like that. And all the time they are getting pain somewhere. They suffer, they cry, they groan. But it is simply due to that reason, there is no other: it is that they have not done that little work. If, when they were quite young, there had been someone to teach them to do the work and they had done it without losing time, they could have gone through life gloriously and instead of suffering they would have been all-powerful masters of their destiny.
This is not to say that necessarily all things would become pleasant. It is not at all that. But your reaction towards things becomes the true reaction and instead of suffering, you learn; instead of being miserable, you go forward and progress. After all, I believe it is for this that you are here - so that there is someone who can tell you: "There, well, try that. It is worth trying." ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 199,#KEYS
182: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
1:Life must be lived as play. ~ plato, @wisdomtrove 2:Life is a game, play it. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 3:It is better to play than do nothing. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 4:Play is the work of the child. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 5:If you want to play, you gotta pay. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 6:In a world of free, everyone can play. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 7:Play is really the work of childhood. ~ fred-rogers, @wisdomtrove 8:To play the second fiddle well." ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 9:Don't do anything that isn't play. ~ joseph-campbell, @wisdomtrove 10:When the cats away, the mice will play. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 11:Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir. ~ kabir, @wisdomtrove 12:Play needs direction as well as work. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 13:Man's most serious activity is play. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 14:Play is the highest form of research. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove 15:The House Beautiful is the play lousy. ~ dorothy-parker, @wisdomtrove 16:The true object of human life is play. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 17:Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 18:In our play we reveal what kind of people we are. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 19:This is how you play tennis without the net ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 20:History is a pack of lies we play on the dead. ~ voltaire, @wisdomtrove 21:Business is business, no child's play. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 22:Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 23:God does not play dice with the universe. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove 24:Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 25:Two people can play at that game. Cheers! ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 26:By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 27:I only ever play Vegas one night at a time. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 28:Play a new game, not the older game but faster. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 29:You better play together as a team or you sit. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 30:I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 31:It's not how big you are, it's how big you play. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 32:Only in a novel are all things given full play. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 33:I play better tennis because the court is there. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 34:The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 35:Almost all creativity involves purposeful play. ~ abraham-maslow, @wisdomtrove 36:God has created the world in play, as it were. ~ sri-ramakrishna, @wisdomtrove 37:I simply do not distinguish between work and play. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 38:Me and my dad used to play tag, he'd drive! ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 39:Those who play a safe game die very safely. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 40:It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 41:When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 42:Day Play We play all day. Night Fight We fight all night. ~ dr-seuss, @wisdomtrove 43:fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards. ~ arthur-schopenhauer, @wisdomtrove 44:We are not meant to be perpetually solemn: We must play. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 45:When I play, I make love – it is the same thing. ~ arthur-rubinstein, @wisdomtrove 46:Turn your sparring into play - but always play seriously. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 47:Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove 48:Play the picture in your mind - focus on the end result. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 49:We cannot play at preaching. We preach for eternity. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 50:When you work, work. When you play, play. Don't mix the two. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 51:Do not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play. ~ plato, @wisdomtrove 52:For children, play is exceedingly seriously & important ~ fred-rogers, @wisdomtrove 53:I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play. ~ meher-baba, @wisdomtrove 54:You can steal my women but don't play with my whiskey. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 55:Bankers play far too great a part in the conduct of industry. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove 56:Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 57:One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 58:Football is part of I, When I play the world wakes up around me ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 59:I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play... ~ meher-baba, @wisdomtrove 60:The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 61:Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 62:It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part. ~ voltaire, @wisdomtrove 63:A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn’t. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 64:I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 65:When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 66:Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 67:I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement. ~ fred-allen, @wisdomtrove 68:Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes. ~ mae-west, @wisdomtrove 69:Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 70:Rest and play, are as vital to our health as nutrition and exercise ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 71:We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 72:Aion is a child at play, playing draughts; the kingship is a child's. ~ heraclitus, @wisdomtrove 73:Be sure to play "Blessed Lord" tonight - play it real pretty. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 74:I don’t think of work as work and play as play. It’s all living. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 75:Play your part in life, but never forget it is only a role. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 76:Sin then is not a toy with which to play but a terror to be shunned. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 77:Life is a game, play it... Life is too precious, do not destroy it. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 78:The opposite of play is not work‚Äîthe opposite of play is depression. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 79:World is a divine play. At the beginning and at the end, we are the same. ~ amit-ray, @wisdomtrove 80:I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life. ~ jean-paul-sartre, @wisdomtrove 81:I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before. ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 82:The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?" Muad'Dib ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove 83:Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 84:When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 85:You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you. ~ arthur-rubinstein, @wisdomtrove 86:Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 87:The only game I like to play is "Old Maid", providing she's not too old ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 88:There is no real difference between work and play - it’s all living. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 89:Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove 90:Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 91:Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 92:To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it! ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove 93:Few people realize the profound part angelic forces play in human events. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 94:If you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they'll yawn too. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 95:Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play. ~ moliere, @wisdomtrove 96:See what it is to play unfair!Where cheating is, there's mischief there. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 97:That the play is the tragedy, ‚ Man, And its hero, the Conqueror Worm. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 98:The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 99:If you hit a hole in one every hole, you wouldnt play golf for very long. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 100:Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet? ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 101:Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove 102:Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 103:Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. ~ heraclitus, @wisdomtrove 104:There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 105:When you trust the universe, you get to play in the magical world of God's plan. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove 106:Find something you love doing, that feels like play, and turn that into your job. ~ leo-babauta, @wisdomtrove 107:How can we embrace rest and play if we've tied our self-worth to what we produce? ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 108:I finished your song, she said. Our last song. And I want to play it for you. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 109:She can play my guitar note for note, she likes to stick her tongue down my throat. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 110:The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 111:The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. ~ plato, @wisdomtrove 112:We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play. ~ heraclitus, @wisdomtrove 113:An American religion: Work, play, breathe, bathe, study, live, laugh, and love. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 114:A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano - and dumb. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 115:Plurality and diversity are the play of the mind only. Reality is one ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 116:When I was a kid and we used to play Post Office, I was the Dead Letter Office. ~ phyllis-diller, @wisdomtrove 117:You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 118:Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games - they should play go[3] ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 119:If the game is designed for you to lose, don't play that game. Play a different one. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 120:Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child. ~ heraclitus, @wisdomtrove 121:Your self-image is as ephemeral as the play of light dancing on the surface of the water. ~ mooji, @wisdomtrove 122:If you ever tell anyone about Jonah's sexual dysfunction, I'll never play music again. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 123:One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 124:Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose. ~ t-harv-eker, @wisdomtrove 125:The surest way to remain a winner is to win once, and then not play any more. ~ ashleigh-brilliant, @wisdomtrove 126:Usually people are completely unaware of the roles they play. They are those roles. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove 127:Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 128:I could never be a woman, 'cause I'd just stay home and play with my breasts all day. ~ steve-martin, @wisdomtrove 129:I was so poor growing up... if I wasn't a boy... I'd have nothing to play with. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 130:You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play! ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 131:I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 132:I was so poor growing up - if I wasn't a boy - I'd have had nothing to play with ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 133:Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you, to see if you be well deck't. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 134:The world is open for play, everything and everybody is mockable in a wonderful way. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 135:In all my years of coaching, I have never been successful using somebody else's play. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove 136:So vast is that Being that there's enough room for every sensation to have its momentary play. ~ mooji, @wisdomtrove 137:We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove 138:For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 139:I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 140:Where I come from, they won't let me play with this rope. They think I might hurt myself. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 141:When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove 142:You control the terms of the conflict. Make them play your game. Don't try to play theirs. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 143:If you play divine music, spiritual music, then you are bound to give and get satisfaction. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove 144:Not only does God play dice but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen. ~ stephen-hawking, @wisdomtrove 145:I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 146:Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study. ~ aldous-huxley, @wisdomtrove 147:Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves. ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove 148:The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 149:The world is open for play, that everything and everybody is mockable, in a wonderful way. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 150:Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 151:Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. ~ immanuel-kant, @wisdomtrove 152:Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 153:Play fair, be prepared for others to play dirty, and don't let them drag you into the mud. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 154:Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 155:Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 156:Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game. ~ winston-churchill, @wisdomtrove 157:When the Williams sisters play tennis, it gets pretty hot. When they start grunting, I'm in. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 158:I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 159:In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be it is necessary to see it twice. ~ george-bernard-shaw, @wisdomtrove 160:The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed. ~ margaret-fuller, @wisdomtrove 161:The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 162:Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 163:Even kings but play; and when their part is done, some other, worse or better, mounts the throne. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 164:The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day. ~ dr-seuss, @wisdomtrove 165:We are the space in which thoughts appear, play, and dissolve like clouds drifting in the infinite sky. ~ mooji, @wisdomtrove 166:I play a lot of computer games. I love computer graphics. I've had Pixar in me for a long time. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 167:Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and wilful self-effort. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 168:My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 169:Oh, grant me my prayer, that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 170:Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 171:The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 172:See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-sr, @wisdomtrove 173:The philosopher says think your way out. The sensualist says play your way out but none of it works. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 174:We need to care enough to connect, to put ourselves at emotional risk and play one note worth hearing. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 175:When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 176:I was so ugly my parents had to hang a pork chop around my neck to get the dog to play with me. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 177:We cannot reform the world... . Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 178:You've heard of plug-and-play. This is plug, unplug and play. It's so simple to use, it's unbelievable. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 179:I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicting to gambling... I'm addicting to sitting in a semicircle. ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 180:It's the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives. ~ fred-rogers, @wisdomtrove 181:With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove 182:I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you. ~ dr-seuss, @wisdomtrove 183:Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 184:What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn’t have done it. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 185:I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-jr, @wisdomtrove 186:The Coach does not play in the game, but the Coach helps the players identify areas to improve their game. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 187:The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public. ~ phyllis-diller, @wisdomtrove 188:And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove 189:Arguing is a game that two can play at. But it is a strange game in that neither opponent ever wins. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove 190:I have always had an interest in how cultural rituals play into something as unpredictable as romance. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 191:People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove 192:When I was a kid we were so poor, if I hadn't been a boy I wouldn't have had anything to play with. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 193:Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 194:It's easier to write about those you hate ‚Äî just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book. ~ dorothy-parker, @wisdomtrove 195:Should I be the one to play God? We're both about the same age, but we grew up in different neighborhoods. ~ george-burns, @wisdomtrove 196:Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 197:I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 198:Sometimes with a comedy it's just having the instinct of how real you play it and what level you want it. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 199:The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove 200:To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove 201:You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 202:Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a life time. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 203:In the end, we are not the roles we play. We are the light that animates every soul in the dance we call life. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 204:We are fully human only while playing, and we play only when we are human in the truest sense of the word. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 205:The human need to play is a powerful one. When we ignore it, we feel there is something missing in our lives. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 206:I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an early age. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 207:Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 208:How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 209:Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 210:There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor. ~ washington-irving, @wisdomtrove 211:War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 212:God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other play. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 213:I'd rather hold one note for an hour and modulate it so that it means something than play 3,000 notes in 15 seconds. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove 214:I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 215:Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 216:When I play sports, when I dance, when I teach mysticism, I cannot explain, even to myself, how I do what I do. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 217:The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 218:God is within everyone, but man goes out in search of Him. This is what constitutes God's Play and God's Creation. ~ anandamayi-ma, @wisdomtrove 219:I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove 220:The banjo is such a happy instrument& 221:To play well the scenes in which we are & 222:What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 223:The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 224:The same inexpressible Truth is experienced in two ways: as Self-luminous Silence, or as the Eternal Play of the One. ~ anandamayi-ma, @wisdomtrove 225:Play is as necessary to the perfect development of a child as sunshine is to the perfect development of a plant. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove 226:Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 227:Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play. ~ fred-allen, @wisdomtrove 228:Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 229:If I'm going to merely ramble, maybe I should just snuggle under the warm covers, think of Miu, and play with myself. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 230:In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 231:In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 232:Kittens play with yarn, they bat it around. What they're really doing is saying, "I can't knit, get this away from me!" ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 233:Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 234:If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it; that surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove 235:The happiest people are those who have learned to mix play with their work and to bind the two together with enthusiasm. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove 236:To stimulate creativity, one must develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove 237:To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 238:At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 239:Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 240:Now that you've got me right down to it, the only thing I didn't like about The Barrets of Wimplole Street was the play. ~ dorothy-parker, @wisdomtrove 241:Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 242:The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove 243:We learned sexual technique from our dog. He taught how to beg, and he taught my wife how to roll over and play dead. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 244:When I used to play sports, I'd be the one cheering the team on, & 245:Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 246:I hear you're looking for a sexy blonde to play with the Marx Brothers. Would you like to see me. I'm blonde and I'm sexy. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 247:It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging. ~ winston-churchill, @wisdomtrove 248:Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 249:From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 250:I do not want players who do not have a keen desire to win and do not play hard and aggressively to accomplish that objective. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 251:In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 252:I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 253:Credit worthiness is like virginity, it can be preserved but not restored very easily, so it is crazy to play around with it. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 254:The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play. ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 255:We are often so caught up in our activities that we tend to worship our work, work at our play, and play at our worship. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 256:Education isn't play& 257:If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent? ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 258:I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 259:The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 260:The more baseball the better. It is a healthful sport and develops team play and initiative, plus an independent attitude. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove 261:A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 262:I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true. ~ richard-pryor, @wisdomtrove 263:One night I came home. I figured, let my wife come on. I'll play it cool. Let her make the first move. She went to Florida. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 264:Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 265:The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove 266:The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of a play, are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of action. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 267:Everyone has to play. The game goes on forever – or until you win. You win by finding death before it finds you. The prize – is life. ~ barry-long, @wisdomtrove 268:I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created... that a cat should play with mice. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 269:What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 270:A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 271:The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 272:Just a reminder, if you tell anyone about what happened with Jonah last night, I'll destroy all of my writing and never play music again. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 273:Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 274:The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it. Only laughter can be the real prayer, gratitude. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 275:Without the playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove 276:He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 277:To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 278:Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. ~ sir-arthur-eddington, @wisdomtrove 279:The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 280:Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 281:It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano. ~ arthur-rubinstein, @wisdomtrove 282:For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-jr, @wisdomtrove 283:Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 284:I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play, but in the spiritual arena there are people who are even closer to me than that. ~ meher-baba, @wisdomtrove 285:The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 286:We overlook just how large a role we all play& 287:They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 288:Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. ~ john-muir, @wisdomtrove 289:How're the Broncos doing?" "Like a bunch of carrots." "Is that bad?" "Can carrots play baseball?" "I guess not." "Then you have your answer. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 290:Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction. ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove 291:Life is a purposeless play, a play of infinite forces-beautiful if you don’t have an achiever’s mind, ugly if you have ambition to become something. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 292:Look, I happen to agree with what George says about the interpretation of the New Testament, but I want to remind both of you to never play God. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 293:My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion. ~ george-bernard-shaw, @wisdomtrove 294:Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 295:Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 296:You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 297:She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of life one scratched on the wall. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 298:The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 299:We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot! ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 300:I don't think I've ever held a racket in my hand ... There's got to be somebody in the US who isn't trying to play tennis and stinking up the court. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 301:No one gets out of the game of life alive. You either die in the bleachers, or on the field. So, you might as well play out on the field, and go for it. ~ les-brown, @wisdomtrove 302:One day the play ends and the screen goes blank. There is nothing. Everything returns to its original formlessness - and then another dream begins. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 303:The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove 304:We don't pray to win. We pray to play the best we can, and to keep us free from injury. And the prayer we say after the game is one of thanksgiving. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove 305:We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument... Hence all sin, whatever else it is, is sacrilege. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 306:Opera n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes. ~ ambrose-bierce, @wisdomtrove 307:[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 308:Krishna suprises Arjuna. He says go fight, go kill. Do this because it's only play money. You can't kill your friends any more than they can kill you. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 309:Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood. ~ fred-rogers, @wisdomtrove 310:Shakespeare's last play was called The Tempest. It wasn't called just plain Tempest. The name of my record is just plain Tempest. It's two different titles. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 311:Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 312:There's so much to learn! And just when we think, "I've got it. I really understand what's going on," we're shown a whole new stage set on which to play. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 313:Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 314:I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 315:I can play the guitar, the dulcimer, the piano, and the drums. However, I am not a "performance quality" musician. Rather, I am a composer and a producer. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 316:The all-embracing vast being which is there behind the play of the universe and with which you will have to identify yourself - for this is your true self. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 317:Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause. ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove 318:The oboe's a horn made of wood. I'd play you a tune if I could, But the reeds are a pain, And the fingering's insane. It's the ill wind that no one blows good. ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 319:Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 320:This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 321:I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 322:My responsibility is simply being who I am and not buying into any projection as real. No projection is finally real, but projection does play a very important role. ~ gangaji, @wisdomtrove 323:Football is a whole skill to itself. A whole world. A whole universe to itself. Me love it because you have to be skilful to play it! Freedom! Football is freedom. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 324:If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 325:Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential. ~ les-brown, @wisdomtrove 326:The human spirit is more powerful than any drug, and that is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 327:The human spirit is more powerful than any drug - and that is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 328:As in a game ov cards, so in the game ov life, we must play what is dealt tew us, and the glory consists, not so mutch in winning, as in playing a poor hand well. ~ josh-billings, @wisdomtrove 329:It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain the play-things of childhood. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 330:I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 331:I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove 332:One of the greatest motivating things that a coach has is the bench. They all love to play, all of them. You sit them on the bench, and they come around pretty good. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 333:When you play spin the bottle, if they don't want to kiss you they have to give you a quarter. Well, hell, by the time I was twelve years old I owned my own home. ~ phyllis-diller, @wisdomtrove 334:Faced with the opportunity to become the category of one, we almost always hesitate, almost always compromise, almost always dumb it down to play it a little bit safer ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 335:I still climb Mount Everest just as often as I used to. I play polo just as often as I used to. But to walk down to the hardware store I find a little bit more difficult ~ dr-seuss, @wisdomtrove 336:To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player... The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 337:A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 338:I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 339:Life balance is a myth. It's an illusion and the very pursuit of it is driving us crazy. For me it's about proportion - it's really a work hard/play hard equation. ~ danielle-laporte, @wisdomtrove 340:There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of interests does not lead to accomplishment. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 341:and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry! ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 342:Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive it you play deaf and dumb. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 343:In the simulator, upsetting events from the past play again and again, which unfortunately strengthens the neural associations between an event and its painful feelings. ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove 344:It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 345:The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove 346:[T]he Famous Rules which the French call, Des Trois Unitez , or, The Three Unities, which ought to be observ'd in every Regular Play; namely, of Time, Place, and Action. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 347:Today is your day to dance lightly with life. Sing wild songs of adventure. Invite rainbows and butterflies out to play. Soar your spirit and unfurl your joy. ~ jonathan-lockwood-huie, @wisdomtrove 348:Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 349:If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe. ~ aldous-huxley, @wisdomtrove 350:Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that you're still around to play the next day. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 351:When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might be Western; I don't draw a distinction between the two. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 352:The play was written, planned and rehearsed. The world just spouts into being out of nothing. Once with me you will know the Self only and see yourself in all. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 353:Let no one say that I have said nothing new... the arrangement of the subject is new. When we play tennis, we both play with the same ball, but one of us places it better. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 354:Do not take life's experiences too seriously. For in reality they are nothing but dream experiences. Play your part in life, but never forget that it is only a role. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 355:God sees everything at once and knows what you are called to do. Our part is not to play God, but to trust God - to believe that our single, solitary life can make a difference ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 356:One of the best strengtheners of character and developers of stamina ... is to assume the part you wish to play; to assert stoutly the possession of whatever you lack. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove 357:Religions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there's no reason why religions have to play that role. In a way, it's an artefact from times long gone. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 358:But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask; why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 359:Did you ever consider how ridiculous it would be to try to cram on a farm – to forget to plan in spring, play all summer, and then cram in the fall to bring in the harvest? ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove 360:The higher Truth is all the time working in us but through the lower power - Aparashakti. It is when we become conscious of the play of this higher Power then only yoga begins. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 361:You are free to smile in the midst of massive tests and challenges, knowing that you have chosen to play this game, and that you have dominion over all the appearances of earth. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 362:My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove 363:My mind begins to seem like a video game: I can either play it intelligently, learning more in each round, or I can be killed in the same spot by the same monster, again and again. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 364:Nobody's ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there's some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 365:We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 366:I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 367:You should not take prayer too seriously. There is something playful about God. You only have to look at a penguin... to realize that He likes to play little jokes on creatures. ~ thomas-keating, @wisdomtrove 368:After seeing kids play polo against big guys, it only shows that horses are the greatest equalizer in the world. No matter what you weigh, the little fellow is your equal on a horse. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 369:It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he shall go with hundreds of companions to see someone else play well. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 370:We're important, but not essential; valuable, but not indispensable. We have a part in the play, but we are not the main act. A song to sing, but we are not the featured voice. God is. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 371:We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 372:The darkness enveloped us. All I could hear was the violin and it was as if Juliek's soul had become the bow. He was playing his life... He played that which he would never play again. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 373:Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 374:I play the guitar. I taught myself how to play the guitar, which was a bad decision... because I didn't know how to play it, so I was a shitty teacher. I would never have went to me. ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 375:There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 376:There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe in God and live in a cubicle, play an organ and stay drunk on wine. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 377:If we want to live a Wholehearted life, we have to become intentional about cultivating sleep and play, and about letting go of exhaustion as a status symbol and productivity as self-worth. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 378:I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 379:In the degree that we come into this realization, and connect ourselves with this Infinite Source, do we make it possible for the higher powers to play, to work, to manifest in us. ~ william-walker-atkinson, @wisdomtrove 380:No one can force you to stand up, speak up and make a difference. But if you back off and play along, please understand that whatever happens happened, at least in part, because you acquiesced. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 381:Odinary people don't have a feeling of being loved by the people who manage to get into positions of leadership. They get in there, they make a lot of money, and then they play games with us. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove 382:City's just a jungle; more games to play Trapped in the heart of it, tryin' to get away I was raised in the country, I been workin' in the town I been in trouble ever since I set my suitcase down ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 383:I like to see Quentin (Roosevelt) practicing baseball. It gives me hope that one of my boys will not take after his father in this respect, and will prove able to play the national game. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 384:Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him? ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 385:Virtues and powers are mere tokens for children to play with. They are useful in the world, but do not take you out of it. To go beyond, you need alert immobility, quiet attention. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 386:In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. ~ arthur-schopenhauer, @wisdomtrove 387:There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than to have soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go to watch their school play basketball every Saturday and regard that as their weeks exercise. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 388:To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 389:In my experience, being deep awake is both a state of transcendental enlightenment and embodied enlivenment. It's knowing that all is one and enjoying the play of separateness from that perspective. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 390:Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove 391:God cast you in His play, wrote you into His story. He has a definite direction for your life. Fulfill it and enjoy fulfillment. Play the part God prepared for you and get ready for some great days. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 392:In the normal play of our mind there are all sorts of perversions; hence the need to stop all these things and inculcate right thinking, right willing - in other words, Truth must be established. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 393:Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right? ~ jean-paul-sartre, @wisdomtrove 394:The fun is in always building something. After it's built, you play with it awhile and then you're through. You see, we never do the same thing twice around here. We're always opening up new doors. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 395:We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 396:I don't think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 397:Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing! ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 398:Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer... . An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 399:Each human being can at once be a fighter and forgiver. When self-doubt tortures him, he most play the role of a fighter. And when his own ignorance humiliates him, he must play the role of a forgiver. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove 400:Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning... They have to play with what they know to be true in order to find out more, and then they can use what they learn in new forms of play. ~ fred-rogers, @wisdomtrove 401:Each one of us is the hero of our own movie. Isn’t that great?! I’m a walk-on part in your movie. Other people get to play the romantic interest or comic sidekick. But you’re the star who’s in every scene. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 402:If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 403:People think that singing and playing is easy. It's not. It's easy to strum along, but if you actually want to really play, where it's important, that's a hard thing and not too many people are good at it. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 404:This play John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an odd coincidence, it ran just five performances too many. ~ dorothy-parker, @wisdomtrove 405:When you play the field selfishly everything works against you: one can’t insist on love or demand affection. you’re finally left with whatever you have been willing to give which often is: nothing. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 406:I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 407:You do not have to love what is going on in your life, but you must accept that it, whatever it is, is going on. As long as you do not accept reality, you are powerless to define the role you will play. ~ lyania-vanzant, @wisdomtrove 408:London perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play and a story and a poem, without any trouble, save that of moving my legs through the streets... To walk alone through London is the greatest rest. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 409:This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, reading as if for life. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 410:Q: When both the disciple and his teacher are inadequate, what will happen? M: In the long run all will be well. After all, the real Self of both is not affected by the comedy they play for a time. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 411:You know your real nature [to be divine]. You are the king and play you are a beggar. . . . It is all fun. Know it and play. That is all there is to it. Then practice it. The whole universe is a vast play. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 412:Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with the ends for which intelligence was given you than masturbation has to do with marriage. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 413:We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 414:Lully's machine, Mill's fear and Lasswitz's chaotic library can be the subject of jokes, but they exaggerate a propensity which is common: making metaphysics and the arts into a kind of play with combinations. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove 415:Self is not liberated. It was never bound. What gets liberated are the demons as well as gods of your mind. Set them free. You are sick of playing with the game. Be willing to not play the game. This takes huge resolve. ~ gangaji, @wisdomtrove 416:So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen. ~ stephen-hawking, @wisdomtrove 417:I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 418:Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 419:You set the standards for how you will be treated. People will treat you the exact way you treat yourself. So be good to you. Take time for yourself. Rest. Play. Shower yourself with affection, support, and gifts. ~ lyania-vanzant, @wisdomtrove 420:Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind. ~ margaret-fuller, @wisdomtrove 421:The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove 422:You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 423:Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed. ~ bette-davis, @wisdomtrove 424:The music is used as a backdrop. I take the kundalini and I play against the notes with it. I do a light show inwardly and outwardly with the vortexes of energy as you sit there. It's no big deal. It's just what I do. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 425:The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part in the world. Fate has made that choice for us. The only question is whether we will play the part well or badly. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 426:In foreign affairs we must make up our minds that whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and must play a great part in the world. It is not open to us to choose whether we will play that great part or not. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 427:To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 428:Don't ask me silly questions I won't play silly games I'm just a simple choo choo train And I'll always be the same. I only want to race along Beneath the bright blue sky And be a happy choo choo train Until the day I die. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 429:If a child has been able in his play to give up his whole loving being to the world around him, he will be able, in the serious tasks of later life, to devote himself with confidence and power to the service of the world. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 430:When you do not take yourself to be the body, then the family life of the body, however intense and interesting, is seen only as a play on the screen of the mind, with the light of awareness as the only reality. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 431:Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even halfwits would argue it to pieces. Its first concern must be to penalize the free play of ideas. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 432:Politics is the best show in America. I love animals and I love politicians, and I like to watch both of 'em at play, either back home in their native state, or after they've been captured and sent to a zoo, or to Washington. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 433:Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 434:The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 435:If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 436:Tennis is a young man's game. Until you're 25, you can play singles. From 25 to 35, you should play doubles. I won't tell you exactly how old I am, but when I played, there were 28 men on the court - just on my side of the net. ~ george-burns, @wisdomtrove 437:The consciousness of the supreme Purusha remains above, but in the mind there may be a Purusha consciousness which they call the cosmic consciousness - it is wide, all-pervading, one. Outside this goes on the play of Prakriti. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 438:Joy is the wild card of life; it supersedes every other formula for success. If you can find a way to create joy, you can rise beyond all external factors. If you can play at whatever you are doing, you are the master of your life. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 439:Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an idea began to play in divine self‚Äìconsciousness. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 440:Apparently with no surprise To any happy Flower The Frost beheads it at its play - In accidental power - The blonde Assassin passes on - The Sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another Day For an Approving God. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 441:You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 442:In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy, they call the world illusion; and in Latin the root of the word illusion is ludere, to play. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 443:Once you realise that there is nothing in this world, which you can call your own, you look at it from the outside as you look at a play on the stage, or a picture on the screen, admiring and enjoying, but really unmoved. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 444:Bazzard's father, being a Norfolk farmer, would have furiously laid about him with a flail, a pitch-fork, and every agricultural implement available for assaulting purposes, on the slightest hint of his son's having written a play. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 445:I think it's very important - no matter what you may do professionally - to keep alive some of the healthy interests of your youth. Children's play is not just kids' stuff. Children's play is rather the stuff of most future inventions. ~ fred-rogers, @wisdomtrove 446:Jehovah is the great Miracle Maker, the unrivaled Wonder worker. None can be likened unto Him, He is alone in wonderland, the Creator and Worker of true marvels, compared with which all other remarkable things are as child's play. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 447:Watch and see with what endless variety of beautiful forms He plays the play of his maya with Himself alone. The lila of the all pervading One goes on and on in this way in infinite diversity. He is without beginning and without end. ~ anandamayi-ma, @wisdomtrove 448:Once I can focus in on something, I just play it in my mind until an idea comes from out of nowhere, and it's usually the key to the whole song. It's the idea that matters. It's like electricity was around long before Edison harnessed it. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 449:Among all the drudgery and broken dreams, what makes life worth all the fuss? The great lover of life Walt Whitman answers: That you are here – that life exists, and identity; That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 450:Never take liquor into the bedroom. Don't stick anything in your ears. Be anything but an architect. Live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy. Get somebody to teach you to play a musical instrument. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 451:Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 452:I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 453:On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 454:When a private citizen is robbed, a worthy man is deprived of the fruits of his industry and thrift; when the government is robbed, the worst that happens is that certain rogues and loafers have less money to play with than they had before. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 455:When I began to play Frisbee, I would play with my friends and we used to do difficult things. We would stand in front of lines of trees that were parallel. We would spend hours throwing frisbees back and forth between these tight spots. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 456:You and I are unique human beings who have never existed before and will never exist again. We are living lives that have never been lived before and will never be lived again. So let’s play our parts in the great drama with style and panache. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 457:Football today is far too much a sport for the few who can play it well; the rest of us, and too many of our children, get out exercise from climbing up the seats in stadiums, or from walking across the room to turn on our television sets. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 458:If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both & 459:Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 460:Composing a concert is like composing a menu... . If you start with light pieces and play a 45-minute sonata after the interlude, it's like starting dinner with hors d'oeuvres and dessert and finishing with a Châteaubriand and vegetables. ~ arthur-rubinstein, @wisdomtrove 461:Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc., and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 462:. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last act!) he wished the intellectual cripples and the moral hunchbacks not to be jeered at; perhaps they might turn out to be the heroes of the play. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 463:You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 464:How long do small girls play with their dolls? As long as they are not married and do not live with their husbands. After marriage they put the dolls away in a box. What further need is there of worshipping the image after the vision of God? ~ sri-ramakrishna, @wisdomtrove 465:When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 466:In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument has lost its strings, or is out of tune, it does not follow that the musician has lost his skill. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 467:Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. Arthur Eddington ~ sir-arthur-eddington, @wisdomtrove 468:The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent of how I react to it. And so it is with you. we are in charge of our attitudes. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 469:Keep steadily in the focus of consciousness the only clue you have: your certainty of being. Be with it, play with it, ponder over it, delve deeply into it, till the shell of ignorance breaks open and you emerge into the realm of reality. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 470:Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 471:War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 472:Sometimes they'll make little Play-Doh animals, and when they go to sleep, I'll break the heads off the animals and put them at the foot of their beds for them to discover in the morning. Nothing wrong with sending your kids a little Sicilian message. ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove 473:Moods are in the mind and do not matter. Go within, go beyond. Cease being fascinated by the content of your consciousness. When you reach the deep layers of your true being, you will find that the mind's surface-play affects you very little. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 474:So now I intend to play the game of life, being receptive to whatever comes to me, good and bad, sun and shadow forever alternating, and, in this way, also accepting my own nature with its positive and negative sides. Thus everything becomes more alive to me. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove 475:We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender. Each morning, we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each night, we surrender to the dark to be taken to play in the world of dreams where time is no more. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 476:The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections. Later on, this process of corruption spread to the law courts. And then to the army, and finally the Republic was subjected to the rule of emperors ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove 477:It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 478:The goal of life is not to win. It is to play the game with love. The rules of the game are: have a strong desire to win, believe that you are worthy of winning, have faith that you will win, and, as long as you are alive, never believe that the game is over. ~ lyania-vanzant, @wisdomtrove 479:The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 480:To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove 481:A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there - that of the pulse, the heart beat. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 482:I focus for periods of time on creative work and I'm very insular during those times - not a lot of socializing. I play when I want. That means I can take off on a retreat, catch a matinee, make friends. My core desired feelings are my time management system. ~ danielle-laporte, @wisdomtrove 483:A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 484:I stand for the square deal. I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 485:But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 486:If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a concert on the finest organ in the world... Thank God each time when you are privileged to sit before the organ console and assist in the worship of the Almighty. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove 487:How would your life be different if... You decided to give freely, love fully, and play feverously? Let today be the day... You free yourself from the conditioned rules that limit your happiness and dilute the beautiful life experience. Have fun. Give - Love - Play! ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 488:Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero the Conqueror Worm. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 489:I constantly caution our teams: & 490:The giving and receiving is the tricky thing. It's not the gift. It's what the heart says in giving the gift, and from my point of view, one doesn't give or receive - that's a role we have to play. But the gift - it's God's gift. I think that it's better to be souls than roles. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove 491:We can be seduced... by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion. ~ jean-vanier, @wisdomtrove 492:You are like the man in the cinema house, laughing and crying with the picture, though knowing fully well that he is all the time in his seat and the picture is but the play of light. It is enough to shift attention from the screen to oneself to break the spell. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 493:When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 494:But it’s also important to remember that everyone is the star of the show from a different perspective. You need to play a positive part in other people’s story lines, as well as inviting them to play a positive part in your story line. Then we’ll all enjoy this adventure of life. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 495:People think I'm into sports because I'm a man. But I'm not into sports. I like Gatorade, but that's about as far as it goes. By the way, you don't have to be sweaty and play basketball to enjoy Gatorade. You can just be a thirsty dude. Gatorade forgets about this demographic! ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 496:That is why we were drawn to one another and why we are brother and sister. I am going to teach you to dance and play and smile, and still not be happy. And you are going to teach me to think and to know and yet not be happy. Do you know that we are both children of the Devil? ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 497:I think the idea that women have all this wonderful emotion is a myth, as well as the fact that men do not. I mean, people are people. What is happening across the board is that the recognition that emotions, and the spirit and soul play a fundamental part in the art of healing. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 498:Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 499:The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove 500:If you asked someone, & *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:Play it fuckin' loud! ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
2:No bounce, no play. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
3:foul play, ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
4:play hooky for the day, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
5:Work hard, play hard. ~ Wiz Khalifa, #NFDB
6:You're your own play. ~ Jon Stewart, #NFDB
7:Fair play is a jewel. ~ Walter Scott, #NFDB
8:I can play the radio. ~ Becky Aikman, #NFDB
9:I love to play music. ~ Gavin DeGraw, #NFDB
10:play The Tempest, ~ Harold Schechter, #NFDB
11:Work? It’s just serious play. ~ Saul, #NFDB
12:Do you play croquet? ~ Melanie Karsak, #NFDB
13:Life should be lived as play. ~ Plato, #NFDB
14:Tom did play hookey, and ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
15:I don't play the tuba. ~ Lenny Kravitz, #NFDB
16:I just go out and play. ~ Johnny Damon, #NFDB
17:Fish play in the water ~ Thinley Norbu, #NFDB
18:I play a lot of basketball. ~ Josh Peck, #NFDB
19:I play a nobody in Japan. ~ Jackie Chan, #NFDB
20:My name's Peter. Can I play too? ~ Brom, #NFDB
21:Villains are fun to play. ~ Edi Gathegi, #NFDB
22:What we play is life. ~ Louis Armstrong, #NFDB
23:had a fondness for cum play, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
24:Life is a game, play it. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
25:The game women play is men. ~ Adam Smith, #NFDB
26:God does not play dice. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
27:God does not play dice. ~ Stephen Hawking, #NFDB
28:God does not play favorites. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
29:I can't play a slave. ~ Dorothy Dandridge, #NFDB
30:I can't play Mahatma Gandhi. ~ Kabir Bedi, #NFDB
31:I don't play for records. ~ Albert Pujols, #NFDB
32:i play a mean harmonica ~ James Patterson, #NFDB
33:I play piano every day. ~ Sarah McLachlan, #NFDB
34:I play well with everybody. ~ R Lee Ermey, #NFDB
35:It's fun to play happy people. ~ Amy Ryan, #NFDB
36:It takes a smart guy to play dumb. ~ Mr T, #NFDB
37:All play means something. ~ Johan Huizinga, #NFDB
38:Belief #6: Work is play. ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB
39:Bless up. Don't play yourself. ~ DJ Khaled, #NFDB
40:Devil has his part to play. ~ Marlon James, #NFDB
41:I want to play for years. ~ Michael Jordan, #NFDB
42:Sperm, sperm's the play! ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
43:You play to win the game. ~ Herman Edwards, #NFDB
44:Ease up, the play is over. ~ Horace Greeley, #NFDB
45:I liked to play dress-up. ~ Vanessa Paradis, #NFDB
46:I like to play small clubs. ~ Willie Nelson, #NFDB
47:I never play without my cape. ~ Bela Lugosi, #NFDB
48:I play in a lot of empty rooms. ~ Colin Hay, #NFDB
49:Lyricists play with words. ~ Paul McCartney, #NFDB
50:Our whole life is like a play. ~ Ben Jonson, #NFDB
51:Players play, tough players win. ~ Tom Izzo, #NFDB
52:Play with me , Pix. Please. ~ Scarlett Cole, #NFDB
53:Shut Up and Play your Guitar. ~ Frank Zappa, #NFDB
54:The last act crowns the play. ~ John Ruskin, #NFDB
55:The play's the thing. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
56:The song tells me what to play. ~ Joe Walsh, #NFDB
57:You write. You play. Tell me. ~ Jaci Burton, #NFDB
58:Click the image to play! Posted: ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
59:Don't bullshit' just play. ~ Wynton Marsalis, #NFDB
60:Don’t play with wild animals. ~ Milly Taiden, #NFDB
61:I am a D.J., I am what I play. ~ David Bowie, #NFDB
62:Idle time is the devil's play. ~ Mark Dayton, #NFDB
63:I play chess, but my past is checkered, ~ Ka, #NFDB
64:I shall play Scarlett O'Hara. ~ Vivien Leigh, #NFDB
65:I tend to play sort of douchey. ~ Nick Kroll, #NFDB
66:I work hard but I play hard. ~ Kenny Chesney, #NFDB
67:I work hard. But I play hard, too. ~ Pitbull, #NFDB
68:I would like to play Broadway! ~ Elena Roger, #NFDB
69:I would love to play Magnum P.I. ~ Mike Epps, #NFDB
70:Life is not some kind of play! ~ Osamu Dazai, #NFDB
71:play in, maybe even a puppy. ~ Steena Holmes, #NFDB
72:Play is experimenting with chance. ~ Novalis, #NFDB
73:Play is the work of childhood. ~ Jean Piaget, #NFDB
74:We’re going to play a game… ~ Krista Ritchie, #NFDB
75:You can't win if you don't play. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
76:Deep play precedes deep work. ~ Jeremy Rifkin, #NFDB
77:Humility is always one play away. ~ Tim Foley, #NFDB
78:I don't play tennis at all. ~ Brooklyn Decker, #NFDB
79:I like honesty and fair play. ~ Marcus Garvey, #NFDB
80:I'll play until my knees fall off. ~ Sue Bird, #NFDB
81:I want to go outside and play. ~ Jenna Elfman, #NFDB
82:You can't play pretend forever. ~ Holly Black, #NFDB
83:Zeroth law: You must play the game ~ C P Snow, #NFDB
84:Fate does not play jokes. ~ Gamal Abdel Nasser, #NFDB
85:I bet you can't play slide piano. ~ Jimmy Page, #NFDB
86:I get to play a lot of hysterics. ~ Hope Davis, #NFDB
87:I hate to play YouTube. ~ Melissa Harris Perry, #NFDB
88:I know my role and I play it well. ~ Lil Wayne, #NFDB
89:I seem to play a lot of losers. ~ Danny Huston, #NFDB
90:I sing a bit and play guitar. ~ Jesse Metcalfe, #NFDB
91:It's cool to play a vampire. ~ Josh Hutcherson, #NFDB
92:Lay low, play dumb, keep moving. ~ Roger Stone, #NFDB
93:Life’s a song, Anne. Let’s play. ~ Kylie Scott, #NFDB
94:Play the hand you're dealt. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru, #NFDB
95:Play to win, but enjoy the fun. ~ David Ogilvy, #NFDB
96:Relax. Be yourself. Play a lot. ~ Joe Satriani, #NFDB
97:You can’t win if you don’t play. ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
98:You chose to play it safe. ~ Robert T Kiyosaki, #NFDB
99:You don’t play, you can’t win. ~ Dana Stabenow, #NFDB
100:Before hard work comes play. ~ Angela Duckworth, #NFDB
101:Breath play is not my scene at all. ~ E L James, #NFDB
102:Damn-the girl knew how to play. ~ Katie McGarry, #NFDB
103:Don't play his game. Play yours. ~ Rachel Caine, #NFDB
104:Do you still play the accordian? ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
105:Grammar is a piano I play by ear. ~ Joan Didion, #NFDB
106:I don't like to play the victim. ~ Barry Pepper, #NFDB
107:I wanna go play my music in a club. ~ Joe Jonas, #NFDB
108:I was born to play baseball. ~ Roberto Clemente, #NFDB
109:Play as often as you can. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher, #NFDB
110:The big play comes with the pass. ~ Sid Gillman, #NFDB
111:we all gotta play to our strengths. ~ Ryk Brown, #NFDB
112:When you play from the heart, ~ Carlos Santana, #NFDB
113:As an actor, I'll play anything. ~ Michael Caine, #NFDB
114:Does fate ever play by the rules? ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
115:Dogs do tricks. Cats play tricks. ~ Eloisa James, #NFDB
116:Economics is not a morality play. ~ Paul Krugman, #NFDB
117:How you play is what you win. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
118:If we don't play God, who will? ~ James D Watson, #NFDB
119:I play a huge variety of roles ~ Casper Van Dien, #NFDB
120:• I Play Dodgeball with Cannibals ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
121:I wanted to play baseball! ~ Kareem Abdul Jabbar, #NFDB
122:I want to play interesting women. ~ Rachel Weisz, #NFDB
123:Life is more fun if you play games. ~ Roald Dahl, #NFDB
124:Never play leapfrog with a unicorn. ~ Benny Hill, #NFDB
125:Play hard or don't play at all. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
126:Rich could play way better than Krupa. ~ Al Hirt, #NFDB
127:The gods play games with men as balls. ~ Plautus, #NFDB
128:And the beasts came out to play… ~ Juliette Cross, #NFDB
129:I play saxophone, I play tenor sax. ~ Andy Serkis, #NFDB
130:It is better to play than do nothing. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
131:It's boring to play the girl role! ~ Olivia Wilde, #NFDB
132:Me: Let’s play sick day together. ~ Morgan Parker, #NFDB
133:Mommy play groups are cut throat ~ Willow Winters, #NFDB
134:Only a genius can play a fool. ~ Michael Rapaport, #NFDB
135:Play is the work of the child. ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
136:the gods play no
favorites. ~ Charles Bukowski,#NFDB
137:He wanted to run. He wanted to play. ~ Edward Lorn, #NFDB
138:How the hell can you play here? ~ Harmon Killebrew, #NFDB
139:I always play women I would date. ~ Angelina Jolie, #NFDB
140:I can't do anything but play guitar. ~ Tommy Bolin, #NFDB
141:I don't have a favorite place to play. ~ Keren Ann, #NFDB
142:I don't hide or play stupid games. ~ Demian Bichir, #NFDB
143:I don't mind what I play, really. ~ John Malkovich, #NFDB
144:If you want to play, you gotta pay. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
145:I just want to be me and play golf. ~ Bubba Watson, #NFDB
146:I like to play snooker, golf as well. ~ John Terry, #NFDB
147:I'm not a musician, I just play bass. ~ Bill Wyman, #NFDB
148:I must play the instrument I've got. ~ Saul Bellow, #NFDB
149:I play Rock 'n' Roll, that's what I do. ~ Kid Rock, #NFDB
150:I think life is a big game we play. ~ Eric Cantona, #NFDB
151:It's okay to play with your food. ~ Emeril Lagasse, #NFDB
152:I want you to play me like a cello. ~ Gayle Forman, #NFDB
153:I warned you I like to play games. ~ Tiffany Reisz, #NFDB
154:I wrote my first play when I was eight. ~ Pam Gems, #NFDB
155:Never play cards with a man called Doc. ~ Amy Sohn, #NFDB
156:There's no sauce for play like work. ~ Edna Ferber, #NFDB
157:work, pray and play not from here ~ Eman Herzallah, #NFDB
158:Come on, bebe. Let’s play gator. ~ S E Jakes, #NFDB
159:Don't do anything that isn't play ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB
160:Forever is a long time to play it safe. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
161:Hypocrites always wanna play innocent ~ Lauryn Hill, #NFDB
162:I didn't play with other children. ~ Karl Lagerfeld, #NFDB
163:If I don't feel it, I can't play it. ~ James Cotton, #NFDB
164:If I have a day off I will play golf. ~ Dean Norris, #NFDB
165:If life is a joke, let us play it. ~ Santosh Kalwar, #NFDB
166:I kinda wanted to play receiver more. ~ Victor Cruz, #NFDB
167:I never practice; I always play. ~ Wanda Landowska, #NFDB
168:I play keyboard for the internet. ~ Candace Blevins, #NFDB
169:I play myself on everything I do. ~ Hannibal Buress, #NFDB
170:I play piano every day. I enjoy that. ~ Frank Ocean, #NFDB
171:I usually play disenfranchised youth ~ Robin Tunney, #NFDB
172:I will never play for the Miami Heat. ~ Rajon Rondo, #NFDB
173:I would be happy to play any roles. ~ Madeline Zima, #NFDB
174:Jazz is what I play for a living. ~ Louis Armstrong, #NFDB
175:Play is battle and battle is play. ~ Johan Huizinga, #NFDB
176:Play is just another version of work ~ Ray Kurzweil, #NFDB
177:Play it cool, that's the old school rule man. ~ Nas, #NFDB
178:Play with me and you play with fire. ~ Sharon Jones, #NFDB
179:Put your ego aside and play as a team. ~ Sonny Bono, #NFDB
180:We get to play God with our stories. ~ Larry Brooks, #NFDB
181:You can't get saved if you don't play. ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
182:You could play well and still lose. ~ Retief Goosen, #NFDB
183:All I have to do is play football now. ~ Vince Young, #NFDB
184:Don't play hard to get, play hard to forget. ~ Drake, #NFDB
185:Friday the 13th...I'mma play Jason! ~ Big Daddy Kane, #NFDB
186:If I could read it, I could play it. ~ Nat King Cole, #NFDB
187:If music be the food of love, play on ~ Gayle Forman, #NFDB
188:If you can sing it, you can play it. ~ Jackie McLean, #NFDB
189:If you play golf, you are my friend. ~ Harvey Penick, #NFDB
190:I'll play anyone in Uno and crush them. ~ Nikki Sixx, #NFDB
191:I'm not a nerd, I play one on TV. ~ Curtis Armstrong, #NFDB
192:I’m not here to play. I’m here to win ~ Meghan March, #NFDB
193:I no longer have it (desire to play). ~ Joe DiMaggio, #NFDB
194:I play any piano with a good tune. ~ Pinetop Perkins, #NFDB
195:I play Beethoven and Bach. At the same ~ Alicia Keys, #NFDB
196:I play my enemies like a game of chess ~ Lauryn Hill, #NFDB
197:I spoil a lot of people with my play. ~ LeBron James, #NFDB
198:I would murder to play Gambit again! ~ Taylor Kitsch, #NFDB
199:I would pay to watch Ginobili play. ~ Jeff Van Gundy, #NFDB
200:Let the perfectionist play postal. ~ Yasser Seirawan, #NFDB
201:Life deals your hand and you play it. ~ Kevin Conroy, #NFDB
202:Life is a movie, let love play its role. ~ Lil Wayne, #NFDB
203:Men who ape the saint and play the sinner. ~ Juvenal, #NFDB
204:My one ambition is to play a hero. ~ Sessue Hayakawa, #NFDB
205:Play the tiles you get" -Grandma Nelly ~ R J Palacio, #NFDB
206:When I played ball, I didn't play for fun. ~ Ty Cobb, #NFDB
207:When the cats away, the mice will play. ~ Bob Marley, #NFDB
208:You are never too old to play chess! ~ Bobby Fischer, #NFDB
209:You got to love to be able to play ~ Louis Armstrong, #NFDB
210:You never win any games you don't play. ~ Mark Cuban, #NFDB
211:You've got to play with pride and guts. ~ Lamar Odom, #NFDB
212:Can I play with the panda?" - Nate Hathaway ~ Ron Roy, #NFDB
213:Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir. ~ Kabir, #NFDB
214:God does not play dice. ALBERT EINSTEIN ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
215:I can play all I know in eight bars. ~ Charlie Parker, #NFDB
216:I don't play to sweat, I play to win. ~ Kevin Garnett, #NFDB
217:I'd rather play a maid than be one. ~ Hattie McDaniel, #NFDB
218:If I couldn’t play, I wouldn’t be alive. ~ Frank Iero, #NFDB
219:I shoulda learned to play the guitar. ~ Mark Knopfler, #NFDB
220:I think I was supposed to play jazz. ~ Herbie Hancock, #NFDB
221:I try all night to play a pretty note. ~ Jimi Hendrix, #NFDB
222:It's nice to play someone who is naive. ~ Emily Blunt, #NFDB
223:I've never liked to play stereotypes. ~ Michael Welch, #NFDB
224:I would love to play Jimi Hendrix. ~ Chadwick Boseman, #NFDB
225:Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game. ~ Michael Jordan, #NFDB
226:Of course, it's fun to play with Blacks. ~ Boris Vian, #NFDB
227:People really appreciate the way I play. ~ Hines Ward, #NFDB
228:Play with fire and you WILL get burned. ~ Terry Spear, #NFDB
229:play with whatever the day brought in. ~ Deborah Levy, #NFDB
230:There are much worse games to play. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
231:you have to play it out sometimes. ~ Charlaine Harris, #NFDB
232:You've got to have brains to play dumb. ~ Helen Ellis, #NFDB
233:All I want to do, ever, is play chess. ~ Bobby Fischer, #NFDB
234:all-work-and-not-enough-play lifestyle. ~ Nick Vujicic, #NFDB
235:Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel ~ Jimi Hendrix, #NFDB
236:Don't be afraid, just play the music. ~ Charlie Parker, #NFDB
237:Ever seen the play Arsenic and Old Lace? ~ B J Daniels, #NFDB
238:If you play poorly one day, forget it. ~ Harvey Penick, #NFDB
239:I love drums and still play frequently. ~ Adrian Belew, #NFDB
240:I only know how to play one role: me. ~ Karl Lagerfeld, #NFDB
241:I play so young because of my looks. ~ Monique Coleman, #NFDB
242:It doesn't take any talent to play hard. ~ Derek Jeter, #NFDB
243:It is idle to play the lyre for an ass. ~ Saint Jerome, #NFDB
244:It's fun to play people who are flawed. ~ Brad Garrett, #NFDB
245:I've always wanted to play a teacher. ~ Michael Rooker, #NFDB
246:I want to play many different characters. ~ Demi Moore, #NFDB
247:I would only want to play for you. ~ Alexandra Bracken, #NFDB
248:I write short stories, and I wrote a play. ~ Rita Dove, #NFDB
249:Let's play act a murder, Wadsworth. ~ Kerri Maniscalco, #NFDB
250:Let’s Play Frisbee with Bladed Weapons! ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
251:Life and love go on, let the music play. ~ Johnny Cash, #NFDB
252:Macbeth was the first play I ever read. ~ Alan Cumming, #NFDB
253:Play every game as if it's your last one ~ Guy Lafleur, #NFDB
254:Play is the exultation of the possible. ~ Martin Buber, #NFDB
255:Play needs direction as well as work. ~ Elbert Hubbard, #NFDB
256:Poets play with words to keep themselves sane ~ Eyedea, #NFDB
257:Serious art is born from serious play. ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB
258:Sometimes you just have to play in pain. ~ Gary Carter, #NFDB
259:You care enough to play hard to get. ~ Teresa Medeiros, #NFDB
260:You don’t play fair.' I pout.
'I know. ~ E L James,#NFDB
261:Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. ~ Jimi Hendrix, #NFDB
262:Can I, just one time, play the good guy? ~ Clancy Brown, #NFDB
263:Don’t play the occasion, play the game. ~ Alex Ferguson, #NFDB
264:I also play fiddle, banjo and mandolin. ~ Sonny Burgess, #NFDB
265:I have fun with ideas; I play with them. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
266:I know I can still play at a high level. ~ Michael Vick, #NFDB
267:I like to disappear in the parts I play. ~ Mark Ruffalo, #NFDB
268:I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV. ~ Ana Gasteyer, #NFDB
269:In our play we reveal what kind of people we are ~ Ovid, #NFDB
270:love me
it's your play
I say ~ Alejandra Pizarnik,#NFDB
271:Man's most serious activity is play. ~ George Santayana, #NFDB
272:Now close your eyes. I want to play. ~ Annalise Delaney, #NFDB
273:players never quit, and quiters never play. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
274:Play is the highest form of research. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
275:Play is the highest from of research. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
276:Play the game without mercy, play to win ~ Wilbur Smith, #NFDB
277:The House Beautiful is the play lousy. ~ Dorothy Parker, #NFDB
278:...you play the instrument you have. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
279:Any game you play, you got to lose sometime. ~ Roy Acuff, #NFDB
280:Because there wasn’t enough time to play 54 ~ Grant Fuhr, #NFDB
281:Belief is a deception you play upon yourself. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
282:Even play has ended in fierce strife and anger. ~ Horace, #NFDB
283:Every girl wants to play Bridget Jones. ~ Sheridan Smith, #NFDB
284:God does not play dice with the Universe! ~ Marcus Chown, #NFDB
285:God never wrote a good play in his life. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
286:Honor bright! Fair play is a jewel! ~ E D E N Southworth, #NFDB
287:I always wanted to play against the best. ~ Eric Cantona, #NFDB
288:I don’t have to play football for money. ~ Carson Palmer, #NFDB
289:If I ever play Hamlet, it'll be in a dress! ~ Matt Lucas, #NFDB
290:If scientists don't play God, who will? ~ James D Watson, #NFDB
291:In our play we reveal what kind of people we are. ~ Ovid, #NFDB
292:I play DEA, CIA, FBI, LAPD; I got 'em all. ~ Dean Norris, #NFDB
293:I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion. ~ Teena Marie, #NFDB
294:I've been wanting to do a play for years. ~ Michael Cera, #NFDB
295:I went to my first college to play soccer. ~ Sean Durkin, #NFDB
296:James Brown is the reason I play guitar. ~ Kevin Eubanks, #NFDB
297:Just thought he might want to see me play. ~ Jaci Burton, #NFDB
298:Never play a thing the same way twice. ~ Louis Armstrong, #NFDB
299:The camera is really the play-by-play person. ~ Joe Buck, #NFDB
300:This is how you play tennis without the net ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB
301:To initiate something is to play the fool. ~ Chris Kraus, #NFDB
302:We'll just play it cool, like Elvis at 19. ~ Pat Benatar, #NFDB
303:You have to like the characters you play. ~ Ted McGinley, #NFDB
304:You never play age, you play character. ~ Michael Steger, #NFDB
305:You want to play? Come find me angel boy. ~ Nalini Singh, #NFDB
306:All I ever want to do is just play chess. ~ Bobby Fischer, #NFDB
307:All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. ~ James Joyce, #NFDB
308:Coltrane, you cant play everything at once! ~ Miles Davis, #NFDB
309:Death isn’t picky, doesn’t play favorites. ~ Jeremy Bates, #NFDB
310:History is a pack of lies we play on the dead. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
311:I can play the air guitar really, really well. ~ Jessie J, #NFDB
312:I can play the harmonica with my nose. ~ Chord Overstreet, #NFDB
313:I'd love to play a full-out rocking chick. ~ Carmen Ejogo, #NFDB
314:I'm a gamer. I play PlayStation all the time. ~ Luke Goss, #NFDB
315:In Australia, kids play in American accents. ~ Yael Stone, #NFDB
316:I think we all have a role to play in life. ~ Jimmy Cliff, #NFDB
317:It was all I lived for, to play baseball. ~ Mickey Mantle, #NFDB
318:I usually only play with very close friends. ~ Emanuel Ax, #NFDB
319:I wish I could sing or play an instrument. ~ Sigrid Agren, #NFDB
320:I would play football, because I love it. ~ Summer Altice, #NFDB
321:I would play with Guns n' Roses anytime. ~ Sebastian Bach, #NFDB
322:I write because I love to play with language. ~ W H Auden, #NFDB
323:Let's play. I'm willing to play anywhere. ~ Bobby Fischer, #NFDB
324:Let the music play on would be my legacy. ~ Lionel Richie, #NFDB
325:Never do anything that isn't play. ~ Marshall B Rosenberg, #NFDB
326:Never play anything the same way twice. ~ Louis Armstrong, #NFDB
327:No need to play small—this is your life! ~ Valorie Burton, #NFDB
328:Play what you know and then play above that ~ Miles Davis, #NFDB
329:The body and the soul know how to play ~ Theodore Roethke, #NFDB
330:There are good places to play and bad places. ~ Iron Wine, #NFDB
331:We need to play each others instruments. ~ Steven Johnson, #NFDB
332:When I play on my fiddle in Dooney ~ William Butler Yeats, #NFDB
333:Who are we beyond the roles that we play? ~ Joan Anderson, #NFDB
334:You can play with your flamethrower later. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
335:You have to play the logic of a character. ~ Emily Watson, #NFDB
336:Always play to your opponent’s weaknesses. ~ Ruth Cardello, #NFDB
337:As long as I'm having fun I'm going to play. ~ Derek Jeter, #NFDB
338:Bass is for people who can't play guitar ~ Eddie Van Halen, #NFDB
339:Business is business, no child's play. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
340:Death likes it when you play hard to get. ~ R K Milholland, #NFDB
341:Don’t play dumb. Something’s up. A new case ~ John Grisham, #NFDB
342:Each time I play a song it seems more real. ~ Robert Smith, #NFDB
343:Every song that I play I wrote by myself. ~ Noel Gallagher, #NFDB
344:Fate shuffles the cards and we play. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
345:He said to play louder. He can't hear you. ~ Mickey Mantle, #NFDB
346:I dare anyone to play like Charlie Watts. ~ Randy Castillo, #NFDB
347:I don't play chess with my life, ya' know. ~ Russell Crowe, #NFDB
348:I don’t want to play anymore … I love you. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
349:I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll. ~ Ginger Baker, #NFDB
350:I love her. My piano. play the sh*t outta her. ~ Lady Gaga, #NFDB
351:I love the role that men play in our lives. ~ Shania Twain, #NFDB
352:I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play. ~ Louis Armstrong, #NFDB
353:I never thought I didn't have a card to play. ~ Jim Lovell, #NFDB
354:I Play Dodgeball with Cannibals (Chapter 2) ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
355:I play golf - even though I'm awful at it. ~ Clare Balding, #NFDB
356:I probably play games more than I practice. ~ Kevin Durant, #NFDB
357:I really believe in the characters I play. ~ Minnie Driver, #NFDB
358:I used to play tenor sax in high school, man. ~ Sean Price, #NFDB
359:I was allowed to play at philosophy no longer. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
360:I will play on this blessed earth until I die. ~ Ada Limon, #NFDB
361:Just play every hand, you can't miss them all. ~ Sam Farha, #NFDB
362:Live with a purpose, play with a purpose. ~ Russell Wilson, #NFDB
363:Lots of animals in a trap will play dead. ~ Emily Fridlund, #NFDB
364:Love is a game that two can play and both win. ~ Eva Gabor, #NFDB
365:Maurice Maeterlinck’s play The Blue Bird. ~ Gretchen Rubin, #NFDB
366:Pay now, play later; play now, pay later. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
367:Play! Invent the world! Invent reality! ~ Vladimir Nabokov, #NFDB
368:Play is hand-to-hand encounter with Fate. ~ Anatole France, #NFDB
369:Play the game, never let the game play you. ~ Tupac Shakur, #NFDB
370:Rule #76: No excuses. Play like a champion! ~ Vince Vaughn, #NFDB
371:Some actors play themselves, don't they? ~ Christian McKay, #NFDB
372:Study hard, practice hard, play ferociously. ~ John Kessel, #NFDB
373:The essence of childhood, of course, is play. ~ Bill Cosby, #NFDB
374:The reluctant hero is always fun to play. ~ David Giuntoli, #NFDB
375:To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch. ~ Ruud Gullit, #NFDB
376:We win because we play together as a team. ~ John Havlicek, #NFDB
377:Women play into each other's weaknesses. ~ Mika Brzezinski, #NFDB
378:You cannot play for safety and make art. ~ Lucille Clifton, #NFDB
379:Birds fly, fish swim, and children play. ~ Garry L Landreth, #NFDB
380:Bitch wants to play games, let’s play games. ~ Nalini Singh, #NFDB
381:Can’t play it safe when nowhere safe anymore ~ Marlon James, #NFDB
382:Color will play no part in the art of future. ~ Gunter Brus, #NFDB
383:Did I still remember how to let my mind play? ~ Larry Niven, #NFDB
384:Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you. ~ Charlie Parker, #NFDB
385:Gamblers and lovers really play to lose. ~ Lawrence Durrell, #NFDB
386:Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
387:God does not play dice with the universe. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
388:God gave us music, so we play with our words. ~ Talib Kweli, #NFDB
389:I'd like to play nothing but good characters. ~ Joan Leslie, #NFDB
390:I don't play golf. Mark Twain is golf to me. ~ Hal Holbrook, #NFDB
391:If it's a good role, I'm happy to play it. ~ Peter Jacobson, #NFDB
392:If you don't know what to play, play nothing. ~ Miles Davis, #NFDB
393:I love bad boys. They're the most fun to play. ~ Alex Meraz, #NFDB
394:I love to watch movies and play cricket. ~ Riteish Deshmukh, #NFDB
395:I never play the victim, I’d rather be a stalker. ~ Rihanna, #NFDB
396:In my 33rd year, I was called to play Jesus. ~ Jim Caviezel, #NFDB
397:I play piano and write better than I can sing. ~ Irene Cara, #NFDB
398:I play to lift a city, and raise a banner. ~ Prince Fielder, #NFDB
399:It's really challenging to play comedy. ~ Michelle Monaghan, #NFDB
400:It's really hard for me to sing and play bass. ~ Kim Gordon, #NFDB
401:I've always wanted to play more comic parts. ~ Dominic West, #NFDB
402:Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it. ~ Horace, #NFDB
403:Like a sprained ankle boy I aint nothin to play wit ~ Drake, #NFDB
404:Novels are make-believe and play for adults. ~ Mohsin Hamid, #NFDB
405:One play can change your momentum forever. ~ Sherman Alexie, #NFDB
406:place to play, and then build the clubhouse, ~ John Grisham, #NFDB
407:Play doesn't have to be the opposite of work. ~ Jill Vialet, #NFDB
408:Play within the system. Be a decision maker. ~ Dabo Swinney, #NFDB
409:play with it. “The store clerk wasn’t happy. He ~ J D Vance, #NFDB
410:She went from opera, park, assembly, play, ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
411:Take deeds
Away.
Play music
please. ~ J P Donleavy,#NFDB
412:The final curtain of life’s play is dropp’d. ~ Ian Doescher, #NFDB
413:The mob taught me how to play gin rummy. ~ Shirley MacLaine, #NFDB
414:'Tis an awkward thing to play with souls. ~ Robert Browning, #NFDB
415:To play Holland, you've got to play the Dutch ~ Ruud Gullit, #NFDB
416:We play our Irish songs a bit more loosely. ~ Caroline Corr, #NFDB
417:You have to learn to play with what you've got. ~ Don Meyer, #NFDB
418:You're a musician: You play. That's what you do. ~ Lou Reed, #NFDB
419:Angels Don't Play This HAARP, Nick Begich Ph.D.) ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
420:An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation. ~ Plato, #NFDB
421:By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
422:Don't play what s there play what's not there. ~ Miles Davis, #NFDB
423:Five years is a long time to play one part. ~ Mary McCormack, #NFDB
424:How every fool can play upon the word! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
425:I'd like to be in a play with Mark Rylance. ~ Julian Ovenden, #NFDB
426:I don't want to play out of another man's bag. ~ Ben Webster, #NFDB
427:If music be the food of love, play on. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
428:If music be the food of love, play on; ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
429:If music is the food of love, play on. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
430:If you judge the character, you cant play it. ~ Alan Rickman, #NFDB
431:If you play and work hard then rest hard. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
432:I learned you can't drink whiskey and play golf. ~ John Daly, #NFDB
433:I like to have fun, but I don't play games. ~ Yolanda Foster, #NFDB
434:I'll never play a drum solo you can't dance to. ~ Gene Krupa, #NFDB
435:I might play in shorts, but I wear the pants. ~ LeBron James, #NFDB
436:Interesting little game we play with each other. ~ Guy Clark, #NFDB
437:I only ever play Vegas one night at a time. ~ Robin Williams, #NFDB
438:I play harder when my family is watching. ~ Chauncey Billups, #NFDB
439:I prefer to play the villain or the antihero. ~ Scott Adkins, #NFDB
440:I want to play trailer trash; I swear to God. ~ Joan Van Ark, #NFDB
441:Jeremy, are we going to play your games? ~ Alastair Campbell, #NFDB
442:Life is a game, kid! It all depends on how you play! ~ Mario, #NFDB
443:Life is one game where people don't play fair. ~ Mary Monroe, #NFDB
444:People like to play with the tuna, sometimes. ~ Alex Timbers, #NFDB
445:Play a new game, not the older game but faster. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
446:The end of the play is kind of the beginning. ~ Michael Urie, #NFDB
447:There's no way I can go play for the Yankees. ~ Johnny Damon, #NFDB
448:Whatever I hear in my head is what I play. ~ Marketa Irglova, #NFDB
449:When I play poker, I don't like losing the pot. ~ Drew Carey, #NFDB
450:While the cat's away, the mice will play. ~ James Arthur Ray, #NFDB
451:Why play a chord when you can play one note? ~ Alex Kapranos, #NFDB
452:You can play a shoestring if you're sincere. ~ John Coltrane, #NFDB
453:You can't play in shit and not get some on you. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
454:You play by the rules of the world you're in. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
455:All play and no work makes me a happy girl ~ Carole Radziwill, #NFDB
456:All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. ~ Stanley Kubrick, #NFDB
457:don’t play bridge but I’m going to learn. The ~ Susan Howatch, #NFDB
458:Don t play what's there, play what's not there. ~ Miles Davis, #NFDB
459:Don't play what's there, play what's not there. ~ Miles Davis, #NFDB
460:Don't play what's there; play what's not there. ~ Miles Davis, #NFDB
461:From the moment I first heard Steve Laury play, ~ Nathan East, #NFDB
462:God does not play dice [with the universe]. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
463:Great leaders don't play by the existing rules. ~ Mark V Hurd, #NFDB
464:I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot. ~ Deep Roy, #NFDB
465:I encourage girls to play sports and play hard. ~ Lisa Leslie, #NFDB
466:If there's grass in the field, play ball! ~ William J Clinton, #NFDB
467:If you can play the blues, you can do anything. ~ Ray Charles, #NFDB
468:I like to hide behind the characters I play. ~ Angelina Jolie, #NFDB
469:I love to get people to sing and play together. ~ Jules Shear, #NFDB
470:I'm Johnny Christ, and I play the tambourine. ~ Johnny Christ, #NFDB
471:I Play Dodgeball with Cannibals
(Chapter 2) ~ Rick Riordan,#NFDB
472:I play the game for the game's own sake, ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
473:I play the game for the game’s own sake, ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
474:It's so enjoyable to play a bad guy, you know. ~ Brady Corbet, #NFDB
475:I will play the swan. And die in music. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
476:I work out, I play sports, I go to concerts. ~ Angie Everhart, #NFDB
477:Now play nicely, make-believe dead girl ~ Rachel Caine, #NFDB
478:One play does not a team or victory make. ~ Elizabeth Eulberg, #NFDB
479:order to play that game one more time. The ~ Sebastian Junger, #NFDB
480:Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy. ~ Oliver Hudson, #NFDB
481:Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play. ~ Vivien Leigh, #NFDB
482:There is for many a poverty of play. ~ Donald Woods Winnicott, #NFDB
483:The true object of human life is play. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
484:To play at Chesse when the house is on fire. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
485:To play is to yield oneself to a kind of magic. ~ Hugo Rahner, #NFDB
486:When I'm not paralytic, I like to play golf. ~ Denis Thatcher, #NFDB
487:When I'm not working, I like to play golf. ~ Samuel L Jackson, #NFDB
488:You need three or five hands to play Ligeti. ~ Alfred Brendel, #NFDB
489:All I want to do is do my shows and play golf. ~ Mickey Gilley, #NFDB
490:Center is a very tough position to play. ~ Kareem Abdul Jabbar, #NFDB
491:Deep meaning lies often in childish play. ~ Friedrich Schiller, #NFDB
492:Even stupid people have a role to play ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, #NFDB
493:Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day. ~ Jeff Daniels, #NFDB
494:God, it’s like teaching a snake to play tennis. ~ Lyndsay Faye, #NFDB
495:I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano. ~ Jayne Meadows, #NFDB
496:I can't play a character that I am judging. ~ Rachelle Lefevre, #NFDB
497:I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down. ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB
498:I don't want to retire. I still want to play. ~ Peyton Manning, #NFDB
499:If I play, it will be for one reason: my fans. ~ Justine Henin, #NFDB
500:If you can play the piano, you can play any instrument. ~ E 40, #NFDB
501:If you play to win as I do, the game never ends. ~ Stan Mikita, #NFDB
502:I generally play strong people and scary people. ~ John Hawkes, #NFDB
503:I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time. ~ Daniel Craig, #NFDB
504:I just want to play for a team that wants me. ~ Andrew Wiggins, #NFDB
505:I like to play football, read some books, study. ~ Andrew Luck, #NFDB
506:I'm gonna play something so funky you can smell it ~ Buddy Guy, #NFDB
507:I practice every day, I warm up before I play. ~ Travis Barker, #NFDB
508:It is easy to work when the soul is at play. ~ Emily Dickinson, #NFDB
509:I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore. ~ Dominic Chianese, #NFDB
510:I work, play and do everything in French. ~ Philippe Falardeau, #NFDB
511:I would always play the baddie, incidentally. ~ Tom Hiddleston, #NFDB
512:life is a ball we should play with it ! ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, #NFDB
513:Oh yes, I want to play with 'Samson'. Come to Delilah. ~ Sunny, #NFDB
514:Only in a novel are all things given full play. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
515:Play without fear, and you will be successful. ~ Mario Lemieux, #NFDB
516:Practice with a purpose. Practice like you play. ~ Mike Lupica, #NFDB
517:Since we are men, we will play the part of Man. ~ Learned Hand, #NFDB
518:Sometimes, I play a round of extremely poor golf. ~ Bobby Keys, #NFDB
519:To play without passion is inexcusable! ~ Ludwig van Beethoven, #NFDB
520:Whatever role you play, play it to the hilt. ~ Lynn Flewelling, #NFDB
521:When you feel down or weary, play some music. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
522:When you have momentum going, play the momentum ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
523:You cannot win the game if you don’t play the game ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
524:As long as there are games to play its not over ~ Alex Ferguson, #NFDB
525:At every opportunity, I wanted to play football. ~ Paul Scholes, #NFDB
526:Closing Bell is unlike any play I've written. ~ Arthur Laurents, #NFDB
527:Dont play any notes. Notes are for babies. ~ Sir Richard Bishop, #NFDB
528:Even though I play guitar, I don't do it publicly. ~ Nick Nolte, #NFDB
529:Even to play a dead body; that'd be an easy gig. ~ Maria Thayer, #NFDB
530:I always wanted to play a Greek god in something. ~ Kellan Lutz, #NFDB
531:I came to AS Roma to play in the Champions League ~ Ashley Cole, #NFDB
532:I can't play guitar, but I can sure make it howl. ~ John Lennon, #NFDB
533:I'd be quite excited to play somebody British. ~ Claire Forlani, #NFDB
534:I don't do the things other people call "play." ~ Toni Morrison, #NFDB
535:I don't like to play rough, but I will if I have to. ~ Mia Hamm, #NFDB
536:I like to play golf. I like to shoot hoops. ~ Justin Timberlake, #NFDB
537:I'm the type of guy who wants to make every play. ~ Bob Sanders, #NFDB
538:I play a detective, very close to myself actually. ~ Jon Voight, #NFDB
539:I play better tennis because the court is there. ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB
540:I play every game like it's going to be my last. ~ Johnny Damon, #NFDB
541:I think I always play good, always played solid. ~ Gael Monfils, #NFDB
542:It is a happy talent to know how to play. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
543:It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two! ~ Ernie Banks, #NFDB
544:I want to play a Disney villainess so badly. ~ Kristen Johnston, #NFDB
545:Just love what you are doing, and try to play more. ~ Lang Lang, #NFDB
546:Man does not cease to play because he grows old, ~ Drew Lachey, #NFDB
547:Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was. ~ Willie Mays, #NFDB
548:My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday. ~ Etta James, #NFDB
549:Not by force shall the children learn, but through play ~ Plato, #NFDB
550:One should just be able to play a perfect game. ~ Roger Federer, #NFDB
551:Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? ~ Randy Pausch, #NFDB
552:Our swords shall play the orators for us. ~ Christopher Marlowe, #NFDB
553:Play by the rules, and lose to a rule breaker. ~ Gena Showalter, #NFDB
554:See you’ve decided not to make the right play. ~ Kristen Ashley, #NFDB
555:Sophia Loren plays peasants. I play ladies. ~ Gina Lollobrigida, #NFDB
556:Streetcar is the most wonderful, wonderful play. ~ Vivien Leigh, #NFDB
557:The Croatians don't play well without the ball. ~ Barry Venison, #NFDB
558:The serve was invented so that the net could play. ~ Bill Cosby, #NFDB
559:The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
560:War: that mad game the world so loves to play. ~ Jonathan Swift, #NFDB
561:When I play from my mind I get in trouble. ~ Stevie Ray Vaughan, #NFDB
562:When lovers play for kingdoms desire is not enough. ~ Susan Kay, #NFDB
563:When you play, never mind who listens to you. ~ Robert Schumann, #NFDB
564:Yeah, we'll play that. You want fries with that? ~ Eddie Vedder, #NFDB
565:As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself. ~ Frank Langella, #NFDB
566:Don’t just play the game – change it for good. ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
567:Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz. ~ Thelonious Monk, #NFDB
568:Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars. ~ Frank Sinatra, #NFDB
569:God has created the world in play, as it were. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #NFDB
570:God is playing my guitar, I am with God when I play. ~ Link Wray, #NFDB
571:Hey, I'm a girl, and we like to play dress-up. ~ Charlize Theron, #NFDB
572:How you coach them is how they're going to play. ~ Stefan Fatsis, #NFDB
573:I don't want one play to define me as a player. ~ Malcolm Butler, #NFDB
574:I felt no need to write a German-bashing play. ~ Israel Horovitz, #NFDB
575:If you are capable people are happy to play with you. ~ Tina Fey, #NFDB
576:If you don't like vampire games, don't play ~ Vivian Vande Velde, #NFDB
577:If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone. ~ Pablo Casals, #NFDB
578:I love a good play, but they're too hard to find. ~ Richard Hell, #NFDB
579:I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot. ~ Jay Hernandez, #NFDB
580:I prefer to be in a video than to play with it. ~ Karl Lagerfeld, #NFDB
581:I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball. ~ Casper Van Dien, #NFDB
582:I simply do not distinguish between work and play. ~ Mary Oliver, #NFDB
583:I think I will never sit down to play again! ~ Elizabeth Gaskell, #NFDB
584:I think there are some players born to play ball. ~ Joe DiMaggio, #NFDB
585:It is pleasant at times to play the madman. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
586:Life is a contact sport. Play or get off the field. ~ Jenn Brink, #NFDB
587:Make merry each day, dance and play day and night!3 ~ David Rose, #NFDB
588:Make your work your play and your play your work. ~ Phil Jackson, #NFDB
589:Me and my dad used to play tag, he'd drive! ~ Rodney Dangerfield, #NFDB
590:Men deal with life as children with their play, ~ William Cowper, #NFDB
591:Oh, I love to play on the road. I really love it ~ Johnny Winter, #NFDB
592:Play always as if in the presence of a master. ~ Robert Schumann, #NFDB
593:Poor people choose to play the role of the victim. ~ T Harv Eker, #NFDB
594:Powerful women are the most interesting to play. ~ Naomie Harris, #NFDB
595:That's the mentality - don't just play it, win it. ~ Luis Suarez, #NFDB
596:The only way to win a toxic person, is not to play, ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
597:The players have to come and play. Today we did. ~ Bill Laimbeer, #NFDB
598:There's a chunk of myself in every part I play... ~ Jay Baruchel, #NFDB
599:Those who play a safe game die very safely. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
600:Turnabout is fair play. Payback is a bitch. ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
601:Well, I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade. ~ Bobby Jones, #NFDB
602:We were just not good enough to play by ourselves. ~ R J Palacio, #NFDB
603:When you play chess alone it's always your move. ~ Charles Simic, #NFDB
604:You can't win if you don't play as a unit. ~ Kareem Abdul Jabbar, #NFDB
605:You're always striving to play that perfect match. ~ Chris Evert, #NFDB
606:Am I here to play ‘pass the parcel’ with my balls? ~ Pawan Mishra, #NFDB
607:Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves. ~ Terry Brooks, #NFDB
608:Each play I write has its own unique origin story. ~ Lynn Nottage, #NFDB
609:Eventually, people are going to find out I can play. ~ Chris Bosh, #NFDB
610:Every day you play with the light of the universe. ~ Pablo Neruda, #NFDB
611:Getting to play superheroes is a pretty good job. ~ Shawn Ashmore, #NFDB
612:I don't play solitaire. It seems so lonely, somehow. ~ Peggy Webb, #NFDB
613:I don't think I can play the game and sell myself. ~ Terry Bozzio, #NFDB
614:I don't want to play at life" I said, "But to live. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
615:I do play soccer, but it's exhausting in a way. ~ Stephen Malkmus, #NFDB
616:If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission. ~ John Lithgow, #NFDB
617:If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned. ~ Bam Bam Bigelow, #NFDB
618:I just try to play more and more difficult roles. ~ Michael Caine, #NFDB
619:I'll play what you want or I won't play at all. ~ George Harrison, #NFDB
620:I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings. ~ Bill Wyman, #NFDB
621:I'm tired of the fight. I'm lonely. I want to play. ~ Carian Cole, #NFDB
622:I play guitar because it lets me dream out loud. ~ Michael Hedges, #NFDB
623:I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats. ~ Abbie Cornish, #NFDB
624:is play my part. Sometimes I listen to them and ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
625:Itching to play a video game inside a video game? ~ Reki Kawahara, #NFDB
626:I think insanity is the hardest thing to play. ~ Richard Armitage, #NFDB
627:It's fun to play the type of people you dislike. ~ Jason Sudeikis, #NFDB
628:It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde. ~ Marilyn Monroe, #NFDB
629:I usually play character parts in Hollywood films. ~ Parker Posey, #NFDB
630:I will not play a minor role in my own life (p. 271) ~ Marc Acito, #NFDB
631:Leave your ego, play the music, love the people. ~ Luther Allison, #NFDB
632:Make a difference no matter what role you play ~ Lindsey Stirling, #NFDB
633:Oh, he knows how to play, little bitty baby Potter. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
634:Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with! ~ Vladimir Nabokov, #NFDB
635:Play in curiosity is where everything happens. ~ Andrew Zuckerman, #NFDB
636:Play is the answer to how anything new comes about. ~ Jean Piaget, #NFDB
637:Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
638:Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
639:The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire. ~ John Legend, #NFDB
640:The roots of art and play lie very close together. ~ Angus Wilson, #NFDB
641:to this very day, these grizzly events still play out ~ T J Brown, #NFDB
642:While humans play God, dogs learn from their masters. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
643:Whoever wants to understand much must play much. ~ Gottfried Benn, #NFDB
644:You don't have to live the blues to play the blues. ~ Herbie Mann, #NFDB
645:You have to play your characters, not like them. ~ John Malkovich, #NFDB
646:You know, I don't only play for the record books. ~ Roger Federer, #NFDB
647:A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello. ~ Tim Roth, #NFDB
648:All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy. ~ Paul Laurence Dunbar, #NFDB
649:Better to mock the game than to play and lose. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
650:But. . . you said we were going to play Parcheezi. . . ~ Meg Cabot, #NFDB
651:Every team doesn't fit every person's style of play. ~ Rajon Rondo, #NFDB
652:Every week you have to play well to be the champion. ~ Ruud Gullit, #NFDB
653:I don't play racing games, unless it's 'Mario Kart. ~ Scott Porter, #NFDB
654:I don't want to play in pain. I'm 25, it's my life. ~ Andrew Bynum, #NFDB
655:I either run or try to play basketball every day. ~ Harold Ford Jr, #NFDB
656:If wisdom's silence then it's time to play the fool. ~ Chris Kraus, #NFDB
657:I go on a lot of hikes. I read a lot. I play piano. ~ Michael Cera, #NFDB
658:I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs. ~ Steve Forbert, #NFDB
659:I'm amazed that I can still play really. But I can. ~ Ginger Baker, #NFDB
660:I'm lucky that I get to play a wide variety of parts. ~ Bill Nighy, #NFDB
661:In real life I can play guitar, sure, but badly. ~ Stuart Townsend, #NFDB
662:I played so perfect, I couldn't play more perfect. ~ Phil Hellmuth, #NFDB
663:I play with friends, but we don't play friendly games. ~ Ben Hogan, #NFDB
664:I still believe I have a part to play for England. ~ David Beckham, #NFDB
665:I think it's more fun to play a hero with an edge. ~ Shawn Ashmore, #NFDB
666:It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget. ~ Clement Attlee, #NFDB
667:It's easy to play the piano,but hard to play well. ~ Narayan Wagle, #NFDB
668:It's hard to play well, but it's easy to work hard. ~ Kevin Durant, #NFDB
669:I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz. ~ Rick Derringer, #NFDB
670:I want to play in a place people want to hear me. ~ Luther Allison, #NFDB
671:Little girls get hurt when they play grown-up games. ~ V C Andrews, #NFDB
672:Play allows us to maintain curiosity while learning. ~ Sarah Lewis, #NFDB
673:Play is free movement within a more rigid structure. ~ Katie Salen, #NFDB
674:Silly Caucasian girl likes to play with Samurai swords. ~ Lucy Liu, #NFDB
675:Sometimes the only way to win is not to play the game. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
676:Thank God, I'll never have to play the cello again. ~ Pablo Casals, #NFDB
677:The Book does not play James Joyce with the Universe. ~ Hal Duncan, #NFDB
678:The children in the woods play wild, secret games. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
679:The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. ~ Jane McGonigal, #NFDB
680:The play is done; the curtain drops, ~ William Makepeace Thackeray, #NFDB
681:This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
682:We have to play as a team at our best every night. ~ Evgeni Malkin, #NFDB
683:When I play a part, I never think about likability. ~ Rachel Weisz, #NFDB
684:When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
685:When we stop playing God, God can play through us. ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB
686:When you lose your hands, you can't play baseball. ~ Jerry Coleman, #NFDB
687:Whoever want my spot can play me one-on-one for it. ~ Kevin Durant, #NFDB
688:Work hard, play hard - isn't that the marshal motto? ~ Mary Calmes, #NFDB
689:You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills. ~ Anatoly Karpov, #NFDB
690:You get to play with people's little danger zones. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
691:You play for the team, you don't play for the fans. ~ Andruw Jones, #NFDB
692:You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. ~ Jeanette Winter, #NFDB
693:You're always going to be mad about a bad play. ~ Colin Kaepernick, #NFDB
694:After you play a part, you think of it as your own. ~ Gena Rowlands, #NFDB
695:All work and no play make Jack a dull boy, you know. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
696:Any guy in his right mind would die to play Batman. ~ Jensen Ackles, #NFDB
697:Avoid people with gold teeth who want to play cards ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
698:Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes. ~ Pablo Casals, #NFDB
699:He took it all too far, but boy could he play guitar. ~ David Bowie, #NFDB
700:I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure. ~ Ornette Coleman, #NFDB
701:If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best. ~ Oliver Kahn, #NFDB
702:If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything. ~ Eddie Vedder, #NFDB
703:If you don't like how we play, then turn off the tv. ~ Sergio Ramos, #NFDB
704:I'll play all five positions if my team needs me to. ~ Kevin Durant, #NFDB
705:I'll play until they have to scrape me off the stage. ~ James Young, #NFDB
706:I moved to New York to do a play when I was 18. ~ John Gallagher Jr, #NFDB
707:I never want to sit out. I want to play baseball games. ~ Matt Kemp, #NFDB
708:I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar. ~ Mike Figgis, #NFDB
709:It's fun to play somebody who's kind of struggling. ~ Gaby Hoffmann, #NFDB
710:It was great to play with some of my old linemates. ~ Mario Lemieux, #NFDB
711:Let the new faces play what tricks they will ~ William Butler Yeats, #NFDB
712:Normally I play dads, good guys, and little animals. ~ Frank Welker, #NFDB
713:Oh, God, I would love to go and do a play someplace. ~ Erika Slezak, #NFDB
714:Play fast, play smart, play aggressive, bring energy! ~ Bob Sanders, #NFDB
715:Playing Fagin in the play and film was a small miracle. ~ Ron Moody, #NFDB
716:Play well, or play badly, but play truly. ~ Constantin Stanislavski, #NFDB
717:Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel! ~ Frederic Chopin, #NFDB
718:Talking to him is rather like talking to a school play. ~ Zo Heller, #NFDB
719:Technique plays a part - you have to know how to play. ~ Jack White, #NFDB
720:That's right, kid. Never play an ace if a two will do. ~ Jeff Smith, #NFDB
721:The only thing I knew how to do was draw and play music. ~ DJ Ashba, #NFDB
722:The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
723:There's a manager (Billy Martin) I could play for. ~ Reggie Jackson, #NFDB
724:To find a man's true character, play golf with him. ~ P G Wodehouse, #NFDB
725:We only get to play this game one time, one life. ~ Gary Vaynerchuk, #NFDB
726:When you have a play, you have to be on every night. ~ Sanaa Lathan, #NFDB
727:Who knows what part we play in other people's dreams? ~ Sue Grafton, #NFDB
728:You don't really know a song until you play it live. ~ Robert Smith, #NFDB
729:You play with your soul as well as your body. ~ Kareem Abdul Jabbar, #NFDB
730:Your body is your instrument, you play it expertly. ~ Roseanne Barr, #NFDB
731:A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor. ~ Eric Bentley, #NFDB
732:As an actor all we want to do is act and play people. ~ Angie Harmon, #NFDB
733:Don't play with something you should cherish for life. ~ Marvin Gaye, #NFDB
734:French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch. ~ Eva Green, #NFDB
735:He must play the game of survival until the very end. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
736:I always told my dad I'd play professional football. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
737:I don't play games with people's lives like you do. ~ Simone Elkeles, #NFDB
738:I don't want to play fat cops for the rest of my life. ~ Will Patton, #NFDB
739:I learn everything I play by listening to somebody else. ~ Buddy Guy, #NFDB
740:I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something. ~ Paul Giamatti, #NFDB
741:I'm just going to play whatever game is in front of me. ~ Tim Duncan, #NFDB
742:I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room. ~ Gary Oldman, #NFDB
743:I played piano as a kid; I still play a little bit. ~ Bobby McFerrin, #NFDB
744:Is Messi a real player or a Play Station character? ~ Radamel Falcao, #NFDB
745:It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself. ~ Miles Davis, #NFDB
746:It would be a blessing to play in Brooklyn Nets . ~ Lance Stephenson, #NFDB
747:I've always had a desire to play a cop or FBI agent. ~ Tricia Helfer, #NFDB
748:I’ve never promised to play fair where you’re concerned. ~ E L James, #NFDB
749:I was meant to play the bad guy, for always and ever. ~ Cam Gigandet, #NFDB
750:I would like to play with electronic keyboards again. ~ Andy Summers, #NFDB
751:Life is but a play of chance in the game of choice. ~ Twinkle Khanna, #NFDB
752:Part of my success was having a place to play as a kid. ~ Dante Hall, #NFDB
753:People judge you by the way you play in the playoffs. ~ Jaromir Jagr, #NFDB
754:Play Mozart in memory of me - and I will hear you. ~ Frederic Chopin, #NFDB
755:said, to play bridge with friends in Fourbourne. ~ Rosamunde Pilcher, #NFDB
756:Seeing Messi play is like watching a video game. ~ Victoria Azarenka, #NFDB
757:The most important part of my religion is to play guitar. ~ Lou Reed, #NFDB
758:The problem play is a melodrama cleansed of invention. ~ David Mamet, #NFDB
759:We are not meant to be perpetually solemn: We must play. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
760:Where I play, the greens always break toward the bar. ~ George Gobel, #NFDB
761:You can't just play the same thing, over and over again. ~ Neko Case, #NFDB
762:You play Bach your way, and I’ll play him his way. ~ Wanda Landowska, #NFDB
763:You try to play the song better than you had before. ~ John Petrucci, #NFDB
764:All bankers assume your money is theirs to play with. ~ Lindsey Davis, #NFDB
765:Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play? ~ Tom Lehrer, #NFDB
766:As actors, you play people who are not yourselves! ~ Laura Carmichael, #NFDB
767:As dad would always say, when in doubt- play for time. ~ Nick Bantock, #NFDB
768:Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
769:Being a pianist allows me to play in any language. ~ Dino Kartsonakis, #NFDB
770:But for you, work is play. Not to work would be work. ~ Elaine N Aron, #NFDB
771:Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty. ~ Harry Vardon, #NFDB
772:Don't push your weaknesses, play with your strengths ~ Jennifer Lopez, #NFDB
773:Fear did rather play havoc with one's self of time. ~ Julie Anne Long, #NFDB
774:Feels like I'm in a play and I don't know all my lines. ~ Lisa McMann, #NFDB
775:Give me something interesting to play and I'm happy. ~ Morgan Freeman, #NFDB
776:He can play that leg glance with a walking stick also. ~ Waqar Younis, #NFDB
777:History plays for keeps; individuals play for time. ~ Gregory Maguire, #NFDB
778:Human life is a comedy-one must play it seriously. ~ Alexandre Koj ve, #NFDB
779:I always wanted to play the boyfriends of doomed girls. ~ Justin Long, #NFDB
780:I can't play long solos anymore without boring myself. ~ Eric Clapton, #NFDB
781:I could play ball all day. That's all I want to do. ~ Stephon Marbury, #NFDB
782:I didn't play much ball. I wasn't much of a ball fan. ~ Harrison Ford, #NFDB
783:I did play every little note on the guitar on that record ~ Lita Ford, #NFDB
784:I don't believe you. You're a liar. Play it fucking loud! ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
785:I don't get called very often to play innocents. ~ Christopher Meloni, #NFDB
786:I don't play villains, I play very interesting people ~ Alan Rickman, #NFDB
787:I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs. ~ Lou Holtz, #NFDB
788:If you come from Spain, you have to play football. ~ Enrique Iglesias, #NFDB
789:If you love Senegal so much, why don't you play for them? ~ Roy Keane, #NFDB
790:If you play more than two chords, you're showing off. ~ Woody Guthrie, #NFDB
791:I just want to continue to play football and be myself. ~ Victor Cruz, #NFDB
792:I learned how to play against players better than me. ~ Manu Ginobili, #NFDB
793:I like to play dress up, I'm in love with fashion. ~ Fantasia Barrino, #NFDB
794:I play music but only for myself. For my ears only. ~ Kristen Stewart, #NFDB
795:I play the dance because girls fuck men who play the dance. ~ Roosh V, #NFDB
796:I sometimes get very protective of the people I play. ~ Sienna Miller, #NFDB
797:I think every boy would quite like to play James Bond! ~ Charlie Rowe, #NFDB
798:I think I know what it is but don't ask me to play it ~ John Coltrane, #NFDB
799:I think that every single person should play sports. ~ Donovan Bailey, #NFDB
800:I try to put myself into whatever character I play. ~ Gugu Mbatha Raw, #NFDB
801:I want to play characters that are interesting to watch. ~ Ben Barnes, #NFDB
802:I want to play the mean girl one day - or the mean gay! ~ Alex Newell, #NFDB
803:I was an actor for over a year before I ever saw a play. ~ Len Cariou, #NFDB
804:I write to the beat and let life play the guitar strings ~ Macklemore, #NFDB
805:Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden? ~ Elton John, #NFDB
806:Learn to swim. It is a sport all the peasants can play. ~ Mao Zedong, #NFDB
807:Life's a game-and I happen to know how to play. ~ Alexandra Adornetto, #NFDB
808:Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff. ~ Cass McCombs, #NFDB
809:My eyes, those sluts, those whores, would play no more. ~ Anne Sexton, #NFDB
810:My goal is to be able to play wherever my team needs me. ~ Chris Bosh, #NFDB
811:My life is not a game that I play to entertain you. ~ Madonna Ciccone, #NFDB
812:Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies. ~ Pierre Soulages, #NFDB
813:Play is the creation of value that is not necessary. ~ Dallas Willard, #NFDB
814:Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple. ~ Johan Cruijff, #NFDB
815:That's right, kid. Never play an ace when a two will do. ~ Jeff Smith, #NFDB
816:Turn it," Thomas said, without smiling. "Play it again. ~ Esi Edugyan, #NFDB
817:Turn your sparring into play - but always play seriously. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
818:We knew how to play it, how not to need anything. ~ Meaghan O Connell, #NFDB
819:We love playing music but were too weird to play music. ~ Wayne Coyne, #NFDB
820:When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads ~ Miles Davis, #NFDB
821:When you made plans, the saboteurs came out to play. ~ Kat Rosenfield, #NFDB
822:Yes I would have been able to play for Bill Parcells. ~ Deion Sanders, #NFDB
823:You gotta have a little kid in you to play football. ~ Herman Edwards, #NFDB
824:You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB
825:Actors are responsible to the people we play. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman, #NFDB
826:A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
827:always leave a party when people begin to play the bongos. ~ Eric Idle, #NFDB
828:And what’s he then that says I play the villain? ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
829:Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home. ~ Aaron Carter, #NFDB
830:Be yourself. Play within yourself. Play your own game. ~ Harvey Penick, #NFDB
831:Come an’ play, stupid dogs,” Bruenor chuckled wickedly ~ R A Salvatore, #NFDB
832:Every night I play as if my life depends on it. ~ Billie Joe Armstrong, #NFDB
833:Every time I see a piano, I have this urge to play it. ~ Margot Robbie, #NFDB
834:I can play any instrument if you give me 20 minutes. ~ Brittany Murphy, #NFDB
835:I couldn't play off people that I don't personally like. ~ Bob Newhart, #NFDB
836:I didn't want to play by what rules are in Hollywood. ~ Dwayne Johnson, #NFDB
837:I don’t want to hurt you, but I’m more than happy to play. ~ E L James, #NFDB
838:...if you get confused, just listen to the music play. ~ Robert Hunter, #NFDB
839:if you want to win at life, you have to play the game ~ Winter Renshaw, #NFDB
840:I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game. ~ Jean Nouvel, #NFDB
841:I'm usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl. ~ Hope Davis, #NFDB
842:I need to work on defensive play and being consistent. ~ Sidney Crosby, #NFDB
843:I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech. ~ Tina Weymouth, #NFDB
844:I play my own music. Fans come out to hear the songs I've made. ~ TyDi, #NFDB
845:Is a gay play a play that has sex with other plays? ~ Harvey Fierstein, #NFDB
846:It is play and only play that makes man complete. ~ Friedrich Schiller, #NFDB
847:It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play. ~ Dizzy Gillespie, #NFDB
848:It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep. ~ John Cage, #NFDB
849:It would have been a lot of fun as a receiver to play. ~ Steve Largent, #NFDB
850:I want to be the best player to ever play this game. ~ Adrian Peterson, #NFDB
851:Lots of times I'll play lead and rhythm together. ~ Stevie Ray Vaughan, #NFDB
852:One of the fun things about play is making up stories. ~ John Lasseter, #NFDB
853:Pippa was too unpredictable and wild to play away with. ~ Faith Martin, #NFDB
854:Play and write music the way you want the world to be. ~ Wayne Shorter, #NFDB
855:Play no fiddle with me, Miss Oh So
Young and Pretty! ~ Stephen King,#NFDB
856:Play your music whether you have audience or not! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
857:Salomé...possibly the least successful play in history. ~ Julie Powell, #NFDB
858:Sex is a three act play: foreplay, play and afterplay. ~ Chloe Thurlow, #NFDB
859:That was how we wanted to play, majestic and chaotic. ~ Anthony Kiedis, #NFDB
860:The character of Johnny Drama was a lot of fun to play. ~ Kevin Dillon, #NFDB
861:The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games. ~ Ernest Cline, #NFDB
862:The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
863:Those who play for applause....Tha t’s all they get. ~ Wynton Marsalis, #NFDB
864:Usually most characters I play are quite realistic. ~ Virginie Ledoyen, #NFDB
865:We're ruthless bastards and we always play dirty. ~ James Alan Gardner, #NFDB
866:What is impossible with man is child's play with God. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
867:When I sit down and play the guitar, Im 20 years old again. ~ J J Cale, #NFDB
868:You can never play a part in life, especially not in love. ~ Sarah Jio, #NFDB
869:A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal. ~ Howard Barker, #NFDB
870:All great men are play actors of their own ideal. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
871:As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing. ~ Walter Scott, #NFDB
872:A strange One-Act play in the theater of dreams. ~ Kealan Patrick Burke, #NFDB
873:Don't let fear play with you; love is the game changer. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
874:Every actor wants to be everybody - play all the roles. ~ Kyle Chandler, #NFDB
875:Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy. ~ Dan Castellaneta, #NFDB
876:I actually think I play better now than Ive ever played. ~ Andy Summers, #NFDB
877:I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world. ~ Maya Lin, #NFDB
878:I don't play golf. I have more fun singing and dancing. ~ Dick Van Dyke, #NFDB
879:I don't try to be anything. I just want to play my game. ~ Jaromir Jagr, #NFDB
880:I have a doggy, a Japanese Akita, who I live to play with. ~ Corey Haim, #NFDB
881:I like to play with things a while before annihilation. ~ Max von Sydow, #NFDB
882:I'll play it first and figure out what it's called later. ~ Miles Davis, #NFDB
883:I only know how to play two ways: reckless and abandon. ~ Magic Johnson, #NFDB
884:I play guitar and I love the Beatles and melodic music. ~ Stephen Dorff, #NFDB
885:I play my king all over the board. I make him fight! ~ Wilhelm Steinitz, #NFDB
886:I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. ~ Michael Jordan, #NFDB
887:It’s an excuse to let their vilest impulses out to play. ~ Rachel Caine, #NFDB
888:It was great to play for a live audience on a stage. ~ John Lloyd Young, #NFDB
889:I want people to recognize Luther Allison when I play. ~ Luther Allison, #NFDB
890:I want to play a villain - I can't wait to play a villain. ~ Bernie Mac, #NFDB
891:I want to write songs and play them for people - live. ~ T Bone Burnett, #NFDB
892:I would love to play Wonder Woman on the big screen. ~ Adrianne Palicki, #NFDB
893:Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
894:Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live. ~ James Brown, #NFDB
895:My children, who don't know they play on a graveyard. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
896:Play becomes joy, joy becomes work, work becomes play. ~ Johannes Itten, #NFDB
897:Play the picture in your mind - focus on the end result. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
898:right. We are mates, and you’re mine to keep and play with. ~ Lia Davis, #NFDB
899:The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
900:The most successful way to play golf is the easiest way. ~ Harry Vardon, #NFDB
901:The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games. ~ Eugene Jarvis, #NFDB
902:The only way to win against evil is not to play the game. ~ Terri Garey, #NFDB
903:The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play. ~ Max Beerbohm, #NFDB
904:Those who play badminton well take decisions quickly. ~ Dmitry Medvedev, #NFDB
905:We cannot play at preaching. We preach for eternity. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
906:We Play the broken string of our instruments one last time ~ John Green, #NFDB
907:What twelve year old wouldn't want to play an evil wizard? ~ Tom Felton, #NFDB
908:When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it. ~ Tanith Lee, #NFDB
909:When you play a game of thrones you win or you die. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
910:When you work, work. When you play, play. Don't mix the two. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
911:Wrote a play tonight which delights me—it is so myself! ~ Ruth Franklin, #NFDB
912:You can't play God without being acquainted with the devil ~ J D Barker, #NFDB
913:You don't play for revenge, you play for respect & pride ~ Rahul Dravid, #NFDB
914:You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play. ~ Robert Duvall, #NFDB
915:You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues. ~ Ted Williams, #NFDB
916:You should only play pieces that you're willing to marry. ~ Pepe Romero, #NFDB
917:A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself. ~ Finley Peter Dunne, #NFDB
918:as I think Hebbel says, in a good play everyone is right. ~ Alan Bennett, #NFDB
919:Ask nice. Play nice. Marcella was so fucking tired of nice. ~ V E Schwab, #NFDB
920:As the man says in the play, for this relief, much thanks. ~ Roger Ebert, #NFDB
921:A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
922:Close to the Edge by Yes. Such a fun tune to play on bass. ~ Brian Acton, #NFDB
923:Don’t play with scorpions unless you intend to get stung. ~ Leylah Attar, #NFDB
924:Emotion did not play a part in truth, only reality did. ~ Terry Goodkind, #NFDB
925:...for nothing is more boring than being forced to play. ~ Angela Carter, #NFDB
926:Get up. Go to work. Play the game. Get showered. Go home. ~ Paul Scholes, #NFDB
927:I'd love to play Puck in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' ~ Daniel Radcliffe, #NFDB
928:I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court. ~ John Ashcroft, #NFDB
929:I dont play villainy. I wouldnt even know how to play it. ~ Kevin Spacey, #NFDB
930:I don't take life so seriously I can just play with life. ~ Eric Cantona, #NFDB
931:I do think the position I play is a powerful position. ~ Denise Morrison, #NFDB
932:If a caddie can help you, you don't know how to play golf. ~ Dan Jenkins, #NFDB
933:If I do something weird, play it twice and it's a new part. ~ Neil Peart, #NFDB
934:I hate people who say 'Just to play devil's advocate.' ~ Seth MacFarlane, #NFDB
935:I have to get better, but I can't change the way I play. ~ Adrian Beltre, #NFDB
936:I just don't want to play the same guy again over and over. ~ Ray Romano, #NFDB
937:Individuals play the game, but teams win championships. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
938:In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. ~ Charles Mingus, #NFDB
939:I play American and World music, Texas style. ~ Clarence Gatemouth Brown, #NFDB
940:I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths. ~ John Lurie, #NFDB
941:I play piano, by ear. Yes, I write songs... and good ones. ~ Nina Simone, #NFDB
942:I play to represent God, something bigger than baseball. ~ Albert Pujols, #NFDB
943:Its interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done. ~ Kevin Spacey, #NFDB
944:I used to be a real doctor. Now I just play one on TV. ~ Richard Carmona, #NFDB
945:I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf. ~ Jack Lemmon, #NFDB
946:My first major role was in a play called Through the Leaves. ~ Ken Stott, #NFDB
947:My goal is to always play interesting and very odd women. ~ Jillian Bell, #NFDB
948:Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
949:Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit. ~ Alfred Adler, #NFDB
950:Pressure is what you make of it. It makes me play harder. ~ Steve McNair, #NFDB
951:Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk. ~ Steve Lacy, #NFDB
952:Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die. ~ Eddie Van Halen, #NFDB
953:Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute. ~ Robert Jordan, #NFDB
954:The art of interpretation is not to play what is written. ~ Pablo Casals, #NFDB
955:The best players want to play in the best competition. ~ Brendan Rodgers, #NFDB
956:The best teams play for each other, not with each other ~ Jeff Van Gundy, #NFDB
957:The games of gods play out upon the backbones of mortals. ~ Ella Summers, #NFDB
958:The key is to be honest. Be honest, but don't play yourself. ~ DJ Khaled, #NFDB
959:The more people they can give us upfront the harder we play. ~ Bon Scott, #NFDB
960:The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB
961:The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
962:There's probably a lot of people wondering if I can play. ~ Jaromir Jagr, #NFDB
963:This is nothin for the radio... but they'll still play it though ~ Drake, #NFDB
964:Titleist has offered me a big contract not to play its balls. ~ Bob Hope, #NFDB
965:Why call something a play that’s based on a text? ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky, #NFDB
966:Women who do not play hard to get are hard to get. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
967:Women who play hard to get make life seem shorter. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
968:You can’t play city rules when you live in a jungle. ~ Hunter S Thompson, #NFDB
969:You have to break your fingers to learn how to play guitar. ~ Ester Dean, #NFDB
970:All we can do is play our parts and keep each other company. ~ Bill Clegg, #NFDB
971:And even if this world burns up hidden harps will still play here. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
972:Art is a form of play rejoicing before the face of God. ~ Hans Rookmaaker, #NFDB
973:As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one. ~ Sam Waterston, #NFDB
974:Does the moon play only silver when it strums the galaxy? ~ Joni Mitchell, #NFDB
975:Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. ~ Jean Baudrillard, #NFDB
976:[Fences] is just a great play to bring to the screen. ~ Denzel Washington, #NFDB
977:Football is just a game. What matters is what you play for. ~ Ernie Davis, #NFDB
978:God made certain people to play football. He was one of them. ~ Joe Gibbs, #NFDB
979:Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality. ~ Michael Sheen, #NFDB
980:I'd never even seen a play by the time I was 24 years old. ~ John Corbett, #NFDB
981:I don't think many people get to play big emotions in life. ~ Dan Stevens, #NFDB
982:I don't wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore. ~ Billy Corgan, #NFDB
983:If I wanted to play mind games, I'd buy a Rubik's cube ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
984:If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play ~ John Cleese, #NFDB
985:I know I'm a good person. I know I can play basketball. ~ Jermaine O Neal, #NFDB
986:I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes. ~ Otis Rush, #NFDB
987:I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play. ~ Meher Baba, #NFDB
988:Imagine blocks and blocks of no cocaine, blocks with no gun play. ~ Nelly, #NFDB
989:I'm a playwright. All I care about is the play being good. ~ Aaron Sorkin, #NFDB
990:I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports. ~ Vince Carter, #NFDB
991:I still like to play the blues more than anything else. ~ Christine McVie, #NFDB
992:I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is. ~ Edward Albee, #NFDB
993:It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play. ~ Miles Davis, #NFDB
994:It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game. ~ Neil Young, #NFDB
995:I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash. ~ Jason Statham, #NFDB
996:I've been lucky to play characters that are really broad. ~ Anton Yelchin, #NFDB
997:Life is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right. ~ Taylor Swift, #NFDB
998:People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
999:Play and practice like you are trying to make the team. ~ Mike Krzyzewski, #NFDB
1000:Play like a champ. Win like a champ. Act like a champ. ~ Jordan Henderson, #NFDB
1001:Play with the devil," Finan said, "and you get burned. ~ Bernard Cornwell, #NFDB
1002:Politicians are fools and the games they play are fools games. ~ M J Rose, #NFDB
1003:...Rise up and play
Those liquid notes that steal men's hearts away. ~,#NFDB
1004:The biggest change is I get to play my music for the people. ~ Kris Allen, #NFDB
1005:The correct unit of study is not the play; it is the scene. ~ David Mamet, #NFDB
1006:“The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.” ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
1007:The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play ~ Blaise Pascal, #NFDB
1008:The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts. ~ John Landy, #NFDB
1009:To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth. ~ Herbert Spencer, #NFDB
1010:To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth ~ Herbert Spencer, #NFDB
1011:To play Cleopatra on Broadway would just be incredible. ~ Gugu Mbatha Raw, #NFDB
1012:To play for your country is the best thing that can happen. ~ Ruud Gullit, #NFDB
1013:We play the broken strings of our instruments one last time. ~ John Green, #NFDB
1014:What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play. ~ Plato, #NFDB
1015:When you are too old to play golf, you had better die. ~ King Edward VIII, #NFDB
1016:Working because you want to is the best sort of play. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
1017:You can always depend on an Englishman to play the game ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
1018:You can steal my women but don't play with my whiskey. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1019:You know, I like to climb trees and ride bikes and play. ~ Anthony Kiedis, #NFDB
1020:And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers. ~ Sonia Braga, #NFDB
1021:A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth. ~ Edward Albee, #NFDB
1022:Bankers play far too great a part in the conduct of industry. ~ Henry Ford, #NFDB
1023:Besides my great fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica. ~ James Patterson, #NFDB
1024:Chemistry is the melodies you can play on vibrating strings. ~ Michio Kaku, #NFDB
1025:Come out, little Katherine, he’d say. Let’s play a game. ~ Victoria Schwab, #NFDB
1026:Everyone plays guitar alone, but we can play side by side. ~ Jennifer Lane, #NFDB
1027:Getting to play with Thor's hammer while he stroked my bow ~ Jeremy Renner, #NFDB
1028:God is no respector of persons, but He does play favorites. ~ Tommy Tenney, #NFDB
1029:He who have the fastest cart never have to play a bad lie. ~ Mickey Mantle, #NFDB
1030:However, I knew Mimi would want me to play, so I agreed to. ~ Ann M Martin, #NFDB
1031:I’d have to play this smart … which was not my usual style. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1032:I'd like to play passionate women, but no one will let me. ~ Russell Crowe, #NFDB
1033:I'd love to play Carmen - it's the perfect mezzo role. ~ Katherine Jenkins, #NFDB
1034:I don't like to play the piano. It makes me too attractive. ~ Oscar Levant, #NFDB
1035:I don't need to play Beatport Top 10 to get the crowd going ~ Paul van Dyk, #NFDB
1036:I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows. ~ David Cassidy, #NFDB
1037:If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
1038:If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. ~ John Cleese, #NFDB
1039:I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered ~ Kathleen Turner, #NFDB
1040:I know it’s cliché, but life is too short to play it safe. ~ Stephen Guise, #NFDB
1041:I loved WICKED. I wish there were a part I could play in it. ~ Hugh Panaro, #NFDB
1042:I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas. ~ Norman Granz, #NFDB
1043:In case of Ragnarok break glass and play an E flat. Where’s ~ Lev Grossman, #NFDB
1044:I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting. ~ Kaitlyn, #NFDB
1045:I play into the perception of me, but it's not really me. ~ Kim Kardashian, #NFDB
1046:I play patterns. I'll make up a pattern and just play it. ~ Richard Manuel, #NFDB
1047:Is it very cold? This place where you’re going to play poker? ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
1048:It's very easy to fall in love with every character you play. ~ Jim Howick, #NFDB
1049:I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone. ~ Dolph Lundgren, #NFDB
1050:I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball. ~ Summer Altice, #NFDB
1051:I wish I could play the World Cup; thats one of my dreams. ~ Gabriel Basso, #NFDB
1052:I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars. ~ Honus Wagner, #NFDB
1053:Language is play to most writers, thoughts are play. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1054:Life is too short and hell is too hot to just play church. ~ Larry Osborne, #NFDB
1055:My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio. ~ Robin Thicke, #NFDB
1056:now you play the loving woman, I play the faithful man ~ Bruce Springsteen, #NFDB
1057:people can’t live without a story, without a role to play. ~ Donald Miller, #NFDB
1058:Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom. ~ Frank Bidart, #NFDB
1059:Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport. ~ Pierre de Coubertin, #NFDB
1060:Some day I want to play a grandmother. And a foxy one at that! ~ Pam Grier, #NFDB
1061:Sure, I'd play an ape if they asked me. Maurice Evans did. ~ Joan Crawford, #NFDB
1062:The game of life has one rule: if you play, you lose. ~ Swami Chetanananda, #NFDB
1063:The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king. ~ Alex Cox, #NFDB
1064:The mind cannot long play the heart's role. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
1065:There's no time in life to do all the roles I'd like to play. ~ Bruce Dern, #NFDB
1066:Walter Payton is still the best back ever to play the game. ~ Corey Dillon, #NFDB
1067:When I'm not happy, I can't play. That's just the way I am. ~ Jaromir Jagr, #NFDB
1068:You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at. ~ J Mascis, #NFDB
1069:A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't. ~ Tom Waits, #NFDB
1070:A good fight should be like a small play, but played seriously. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
1071:A luxury liner is really just a bad play surrounded by water. ~ Clive James, #NFDB
1072:Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt. ~ Holly Black, #NFDB
1073:DEAN: Come back when you’re ready to play with the grown-ups. ~ Mina Carter, #NFDB
1074:Devil wanted to play cricket. So Ravindra Jadeja was born. ~ Sunil Gavaskar, #NFDB
1075:Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
1076:Focus on the play like it has a history and a life of its own. ~ Nick Saban, #NFDB
1077:He’s seriously going to try and teach me how to play baseball? ~ Eve Jagger, #NFDB
1078:I always beat Jankovic so who do you think I want to play? ~ Marion Bartoli, #NFDB
1079:I always like to play with a lot of color. Color is great. ~ Olivia Palermo, #NFDB
1080:I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess. ~ Bobby Fischer, #NFDB
1081:I do not want to play a character who is exactly like me. ~ Jodelle Ferland, #NFDB
1082:I don't get DRUNK before I play but I might get drunk after. ~ Chuck Mosley, #NFDB
1083:I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd ~ Johnny Giles, #NFDB
1084:I feel like any role that I play is a little piece of me. ~ Kiersey Clemons, #NFDB
1085:If I can play 15 when I am 25, I can play 35 when I'm 55. ~ Britt Robertson, #NFDB
1086:If you just play really hard, he says, nothing else matters. ~ Kekla Magoon, #NFDB
1087:... If you want to win at life, you have to play the game. ~ Winter Renshaw, #NFDB
1088:I know I'm not doing myself any favors by continuing to play. ~ Brett Favre, #NFDB
1089:I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids. ~ Floyd Mayweather Jr, #NFDB
1090:I'm going to try to fit in where I can and play the way I can. ~ Tim Duncan, #NFDB
1091:I'm learning to play piano. And also the musical saw. ~ Rachel Trachtenburg, #NFDB
1092:I'm LeBron, baby. I can play on this level. I got some game. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1093:In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues. ~ Robert Cray, #NFDB
1094:I play blues, sure, but don't call me a bluesman ~ Clarence Gatemouth Brown, #NFDB
1095:I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do. ~ Gareth Bale, #NFDB
1096:I play keyboards and sing. I've written a couple of songs too. ~ Corey Haim, #NFDB
1097:I play mostly bad guys on TV and mostly good guys in movies. ~ Kyle Gallner, #NFDB
1098:I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year. ~ Michael Gambon, #NFDB
1099:I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play. ~ Elisabeth Shue, #NFDB
1100:I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty. ~ Jules Shear, #NFDB
1101:It's the clothes that influence the music I'm going to play. ~ Graham Coxon, #NFDB
1102:Just because you play bass, doesn't mean you have no presence. ~ Jimmy Page, #NFDB
1103:Man is never so authentically himself as when at play. ~ Friedrich Schiller, #NFDB
1104:Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out. ~ Sigourney Weaver, #NFDB
1105:One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1106:Our ancestors used to play with snakes, we play with mouse. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
1107:Sometimes you have to play a long time to play like yourself. ~ Miles Davis, #NFDB
1108:Take away our play stations and we are a third world nation. ~ Ani DiFranco, #NFDB
1109:That done, he let his fingers play briefly over the magneto. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1110:The ability to play is essential to being a creative artist. ~ Dewitt Jones, #NFDB
1111:There is a little bit of me infused in every character I play. ~ Laz Alonso, #NFDB
1112:They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze. ~ Michael Stipe, #NFDB
1113:Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton. ~ Chet Baker, #NFDB
1114:We must play as if there are no more games, no more tomorrows. ~ Jock Stein, #NFDB
1115:We would normally play it to Cynthia or whoever was around ~ Paul McCartney, #NFDB
1116:Whatever instrument I play, I always try to keep it unreal. ~ Rob Schwimmer, #NFDB
1117:You can live vicariously through the characters you play. ~ Charlize Theron, #NFDB
1118:You live like comfortable strangers. Like characters in a play. ~ Aryn Kyle, #NFDB
1119:All of your experience comes into play when you're composing. ~ Terry Bozzio, #NFDB
1120:All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy. ~ Hill Harper, #NFDB
1121:A manager has his cards dealt to him and he must play them. ~ Miller Huggins, #NFDB
1122:A matinee, a Pinter play,
Perhaps a piece of Mahler's. ~ Stephen Sondheim,#NFDB
1123:At the end of six innings of play, it's Montreal 5, Expos 3. ~ Jerry Coleman, #NFDB
1124:A vampire may play with his food, but he never sets it free. ~ Pamela Palmer, #NFDB
1125:Being a father kind of gives you something more to play for. ~ Stephen Curry, #NFDB
1126:Cinema will always have an important role to play in society. ~ Leslie Caron, #NFDB
1127:deny that she had the go-ahead to play with other guys if ~ Kirsten McCurran, #NFDB
1128:Don't just play with your phone: go out and produce something. ~ Merlin Mann, #NFDB
1129:Dr. Thomas Fuller wrote: "With foxes, we must play the fox". ~ Thomas Fuller, #NFDB
1130:Football is part of I, When I play the world wakes up around me ~ Bob Marley, #NFDB
1131:Having the opportunity to play a strong woman is a good one. ~ Kari Matchett, #NFDB
1132:I assume most of the characters I play are exactly like me. ~ Jack Nicholson, #NFDB
1133:I create a playlist for each and every character that I play. ~ Adhir Kalyan, #NFDB
1134:I did a theatrical performance about puns. It was a play on words. ~ Unknown, #NFDB
1135:I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin. ~ Edwin Land, #NFDB
1136:I don't need my players to like me. I need them to play for me ~ Jerry Sloan, #NFDB
1137:If God won’t play by the rules, then I don’t have to, either. ~ Austin Aslan, #NFDB
1138:If I'm going to play, it's going to be 100-percent commitment. ~ Brett Favre, #NFDB
1139:I know that sacrifices have to be made to play with good teams. ~ Chris Bosh, #NFDB
1140:I'm a Gibson guy. I play anything from Hummingbirds to J200s. ~ Corey Taylor, #NFDB
1141:I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy ~ Max von Sydow, #NFDB
1142:I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing. ~ David Lynch, #NFDB
1143:I'm sure there's pieces of me in all the characters I play. ~ John Krasinski, #NFDB
1144:I never want to play a character that's one-dimensional. ~ Laura Vandervoort, #NFDB
1145:I play piano, but not well enough to play professionally. ~ Gordon Lightfoot, #NFDB
1146:I say that I get paid to travel, and I play the shows for free. ~ Tyler Farr, #NFDB
1147:I take great responsibility in any character that I play. ~ Jessica Chastain, #NFDB
1148:It could still be a good night if you play your cards right. ~ Bruce Forsyth, #NFDB
1149:It's always great to play parts that are larger than life. ~ Vanessa Hudgens, #NFDB
1150:It's cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side. ~ Lukas Haas, #NFDB
1151:It was very unusual for a boy to play tennis in my country. ~ Novak Djokovic, #NFDB
1152:I want to play every game of my career in an Astros uniform. ~ Lance Berkman, #NFDB
1153:I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company. ~ Steve Kazee, #NFDB
1154:Little kids play house; they play war; they play relationships. ~ John Green, #NFDB
1155:Looks to me like the sort of fellow one doesn't play cards with. ~ H G Wells, #NFDB
1156:Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world. ~ George Soros, #NFDB
1157:No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world. ~ Pat Buchanan, #NFDB
1158:People used to play with toys.
Now the toys play with them. ~ Idries Shah,#NFDB
1159:Play is the establishment and exploration of relationship. ~ Gregory Bateson, #NFDB
1160:... Play the age as comedy if you want to get away with murder. ~ James Agee, #NFDB
1161:The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great. ~ Val Kilmer, #NFDB
1162:The mind is often an area where "people play around with sin". ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
1163:The most creative people have this childlike facility to play. ~ John Cleese, #NFDB
1164:The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe. ~ Casey Neistat, #NFDB
1165:The play of sunlight is amusement enough for a lazy man. ~ Walter J Phillips, #NFDB
1166:The sign of a mature musician is knowing what not to play. ~ Dizzy Gillespie, #NFDB
1167:The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown. ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
1168:The wise musicians are those who play what they can master. ~ Duke Ellington, #NFDB
1169:The world is your playground - play with a sense of destiny. ~ Edward Boyden, #NFDB
1170:Use volleyball quotes to motivate your teammates to play hard. ~ John Kessel, #NFDB
1171:Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on. ~ John Cusack, #NFDB
1172:We are all looking for someone whose demons play well with ours. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1173:Who makes you Storyteller? You do. You are. Go play. ~ Will Hindmarch, #NFDB
1174:you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself. ~ Miles Davis, #NFDB
1175:You play to win the game...Hello. You play to win the game. ~ Herman Edwards, #NFDB
1176:A bystander often sees more of the game than those that play ~ Horace Walpole, #NFDB
1177:Any good marriage involves a certain amount of play-acting. ~ Margaret Millar, #NFDB
1178:Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world. ~ Robert Smith, #NFDB
1179:Because I'm not perfect looking, I get to play better roles. ~ Juliette Lewis, #NFDB
1180:Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band. ~ Les Claypool, #NFDB
1181:Both plain and plump can be a difficult hand of cards to play. ~ Juliette Fay, #NFDB
1182:Do ballet and play football. Sing and dance. Laugh and cry. ~ Michael Skolnik, #NFDB
1183:Don't play, Gia," he growled. "Suck me or fuck me. Make me come. ~ Sylvia Day, #NFDB
1184:Fair play to all those who dare to dream and don't give up. ~ Marketa Irglova, #NFDB
1185:He didn't want to play football. He wanted to be told the truth. ~ John Boyne, #NFDB
1186:How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to. ~ Emanuel Ax, #NFDB
1187:I Am Really Gifted To Play Under The Leadership Of MS Dhoni. ~ Michael Hussey, #NFDB
1188:I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands. ~ Miles Davis, #NFDB
1189:I don't play just one-two-three-four. I try to play melodies. ~ John Densmore, #NFDB
1190:If you play safely, then you’ve got nothing to fear about talking. ~ J A Rock, #NFDB
1191:If you play with temptation do not expect God will deliver you ~ Mary Slessor, #NFDB
1192:I guess it takes one to know one, and two can play that game. ~ Siobhan Davis, #NFDB
1193:I just want to play strong characters, whatever that is in. ~ Paula Malcomson, #NFDB
1194:I know there are only so many characters I'll be able to play. ~ Ryan Gosling, #NFDB
1195:I'm a kid for a living: I get to play the piano for a living. ~ Bruce Hornsby, #NFDB
1196:I’m not trying to play the guitar. I’m trying to play music. ~ Michael Hedges, #NFDB
1197:In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1198:I play American football every Saturday, which I find calming. ~ Chad Harbach, #NFDB
1199:I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son ~ John Turturro, #NFDB
1200:It's a lot harder to play football when you haven't got the ball. ~ Andy Gray, #NFDB
1201:It's always been a dream for me to play a comic book character. ~ Celina Jade, #NFDB
1202:I want to be out there every single snap, every single play. ~ Peyton Manning, #NFDB
1203:I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball. ~ Kareem Abdul Jabbar, #NFDB
1204:I was always nervous to play my father's [John Lennon's] songs. ~ Sean Lennon, #NFDB
1205:Life was much too short to play by anyone's rules but her own. ~ Joanna Shupe, #NFDB
1206:Majors are important but so is every other tournament I play. ~ Retief Goosen, #NFDB
1207:Man is never so authentically himself than when at play. ~ Friedrich Schiller, #NFDB
1208:Most people play a fair game of golf - if you watch them. ~ Joey Lauren Adams, #NFDB
1209:Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians. ~ Henry Rollins, #NFDB
1210:No one goes out to play anymore. Simulation is becoming reality. ~ Mary Roach, #NFDB
1211:"Play it as it lies" is one of the fundamental dictates of golf ~ Henry Beard, #NFDB
1212:Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext. ~ Gary Oldman, #NFDB
1213:The games we have the ability to play in our minds amaze me. ~ Anita Moorjani, #NFDB
1214:The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
1215:We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences. ~ Miles Davis, #NFDB
1216:What gives you the right to play judge and jury and executioner? ~ V E Schwab, #NFDB
1217:When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it. ~ Jennifer Jason Leigh, #NFDB
1218:When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool. ~ Josh Hutcherson, #NFDB
1219:Yes, I play dress up. I do it for a living, like a retard. ~ Jennifer Aniston, #NFDB
1220:You wanna play hardball, sweetheart? Welcome to the big leagues. ~ K Bromberg, #NFDB
1221:Amy likes to play God when she’s not happy. Old Testament God. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
1222:And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor. ~ Ted Shackelford, #NFDB
1223:At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. ~ Ian Fleming, #NFDB
1224:at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. ~ Ian Fleming, #NFDB
1225:Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those. ~ Mayer Hawthorne, #NFDB
1226:Every role that you play comes with its own set of challenges. ~ Mireille Enos, #NFDB
1227:He knows exactly how to play, and that's why he loses every time ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
1228:History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
1229:How come we play war and not peace?"
"Too few role models. ~ Bill Watterson,#NFDB
1230:I can always see something of myself in the characters I play. ~ Mark Wahlberg, #NFDB
1231:I doubt nuclear power will play a much larger role than it does now. ~ Al Gore, #NFDB
1232:If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
1233:If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band. ~ Paul McCartney, #NFDB
1234:I have to learn from Sehwag how to play in the nervous 90's ~ Sachin Tendulkar, #NFDB
1235:I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit. ~ Sachin Tendulkar, #NFDB
1236:I know it comes easy, Geels, but try not to play dumb with me. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
1237:I'll play drums a lot at home, and it will help my wrist action. ~ Tommy Bolin, #NFDB
1238:I love to play the guitar. I also love photography and fashion. ~ Emily Osment, #NFDB
1239:I'm a safety - I play free, strong, whatever you ask me to play. ~ Sean Taylor, #NFDB
1240:I'm at the age where i don't have to kiss arse or play nice! ~ Sharon Osbourne, #NFDB
1241:In every real man, a child is hidden that wants to play. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1242:Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play. ~ Kenny Werner, #NFDB
1243:I play a piano of words—its icy tinkle echoes through your halls ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
1244:I think all characters that we play are facets of ourselves. ~ Gugu Mbatha Raw, #NFDB
1245:I think there are parts of myself in every character I play. ~ Gugu Mbatha Raw, #NFDB
1246:It's been a lifetime ambition of mine to play an 007 villain. ~ Angelina Jolie, #NFDB
1247:It's very difficult to play when your lung comes out of your air ~ Paul Merson, #NFDB
1248:Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~ Truman Capote, #NFDB
1249:Life is a piano what you get out of it depends on how you play it ~ Tom Lehrer, #NFDB
1250:Look good, play good. Play good, eat good. Eat good, die good. ~ Deion Sanders, #NFDB
1251:Man, I'm not trying to be important; I just go out and play. ~ Carmelo Anthony, #NFDB
1252:Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love. ~ Herbie Mann, #NFDB
1253:My game is a lot about footwork. If I move well, I play well. ~ Roger Federer, #NFDB
1254:Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl. ~ Victor Cruz, #NFDB
1255:Or was he saying, "Hi! Wanna play?" And I did. Of course I did. ~ Jeff Lindsay, #NFDB
1256:play fair, Haller.” “It’s not a fair game. Did she tell you ~ Michael Connelly, #NFDB
1257:Play like a child, because you are still that beautiful child. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
1258:play the piano she says it’s not good for you not to write. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1259:Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play. ~ Franklin D Roosevelt, #NFDB
1260:The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay! ~ Homer, #NFDB
1261:Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB
1262:To enjoy each breathing day, you have to set time aside to play. ~ Suzy Kassem, #NFDB
1263:WE all have to play as a team to make the world a better place ~ Magic Johnson, #NFDB
1264:we are merely actors in a play written by someone else—more ~ William B Irvine, #NFDB
1265:We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast ~ Louis Armstrong, #NFDB
1266:We’re talkin’ hearts, here. You don’t play games with hearts. ~ Kristen Ashley, #NFDB
1267:what role the emotions might play in making social order possible. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1268:When in doubt, play track 4 - it is usually the one you want. ~ Elvis Costello, #NFDB
1269:With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over. ~ Ikue Mori, #NFDB
1270:You get dealt a hand and you play those cards the best you can. ~ Chris Soules, #NFDB
1271:You know what I'd like to do? I'd like to play a bag lady. ~ Michelle Pfeiffer, #NFDB
1272:You need to play to win. But you also need to win ... to play. ~ Michael Scott, #NFDB
1273:Your money is like your willy, it only grows if you play with it ~ Len Goodman, #NFDB
1274:A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn’t. ~ Nick Offerman, #NFDB
1275:Are we not all actors playing parts in another person's play? ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
1276:As long as life has the level of being a game, you can play it. ~ L Ron Hubbard, #NFDB
1277:But if I didn't have to make money, I would still play my horn. ~ Sonny Rollins, #NFDB
1278:But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can. ~ Travis Barker, #NFDB
1279:For now I will play by the rules and go as far as I can with that. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
1280:God has given me a lot of ability to play the game of baseball. ~ Lance Berkman, #NFDB
1281:He knows exactly how to play, and that’s why he loses every time. ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
1282:I believe the Rolling Stones wanted to play in Golden Gate Park. ~ Paul Kantner, #NFDB
1283:I can’t believe I was almost too chicken to play Captain America. ~ Chris Evans, #NFDB
1284:I did not dive and I am not a cheat. That is not the way I play. ~ Robert Pires, #NFDB
1285:I don't play a character. It's totally just an extension of myself. ~ John Cena, #NFDB
1286:I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium. ~ James Taylor, #NFDB
1287:I eat whatever I like, but I play tennis and run nearly every day. ~ Toni Garrn, #NFDB
1288:I like to play video games like 'Rock Band' and 'Guitar Hero.' ~ Carmen Electra, #NFDB
1289:I make up a set of rules and play within those rules until I win. ~ Harold Town, #NFDB
1290:In America there are some places that are just gorgeous to play. ~ Terry Bozzio, #NFDB
1291:I play a role in front of the cameras, just like in the movies. ~ Eva Herzigova, #NFDB
1292:Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool? ~ John Locke, #NFDB
1293:I think it's great to dress up and play on all the girly features. ~ Katy Perry, #NFDB
1294:I think it’s important for me to play well and set the tone. ~ Annika Sorenstam, #NFDB
1295:I think it's therapeutic when we play. It's just like therapy. ~ Sam McCandless, #NFDB
1296:It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
1297:It's important to have balance in your life between work and play. ~ Bobby Flay, #NFDB
1298:I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart. ~ Bobby Womack, #NFDB
1299:I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie. ~ Alec Baldwin, #NFDB
1300:I write and play music. I'd like to be a musician at some point. ~ Laurence Fox, #NFDB
1301:Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth. ~ Bruno Bettelheim, #NFDB
1302:The lightly-jumping, glowrin' trouts, That thro' my waters play. ~ Robert Burns, #NFDB
1303:The only people who should play for England are English people. ~ Jack Wilshere, #NFDB
1304:These different people that I play become the loves of my life. ~ Nicole Kidman, #NFDB
1305:The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life. ~ Helen Hayes, #NFDB
1306:Those who play with fire should expect to be consumed by it. ~ Katie MacAlister, #NFDB
1307:Thus play I in one person many people/ And none contented ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1308:To have someone play off and be with a band is more pleasurable. ~ Steve Martin, #NFDB
1309:We all know Gael - when he's at his best, it's tough to play. ~ Grigor Dimitrov, #NFDB
1310:What was romance but a lovely bit of play between man and woman? ~ Eileen Wilks, #NFDB
1311:When something goes wrong, smile, cause there's always a next play. ~ Ray Lewis, #NFDB
1312:When you're down to small stakes, you have to play long odds. ~ Joe Abercrombie, #NFDB
1313:Why don't we play a game of riddles?"
...
Gupta beamed. ~ Roshani Chokshi,#NFDB
1314:Worse, she never hesitated to play the depression card to ~ MaryJanice Davidson, #NFDB
1315:You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential. ~ Bobby Knight, #NFDB
1316:You, too, may strike it rich who dares to play the Westing game. ~ Ellen Raskin, #NFDB
1317:Against stereotype, she can’t play a note of piano or violin. ~ Angela Duckworth, #NFDB
1318:A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1319:All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
1320:Any day is a good day so long as you survive to play another day. ~ Jayne Castle, #NFDB
1321:Anything was better than Ezra learning to play the bassoon... ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
1322:Because anyone can hit a jackpot, right? You just have to play. And ~ Emma Scott, #NFDB
1323:Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat. ~ Miles Davis, #NFDB
1324:Emotions don't play by rules. That's what makes them so incredible. ~ Riley Hart, #NFDB
1325:Even championship-winning teams don't play well all the time. ~ Teddy Sheringham, #NFDB
1326:Excuse me a moment, princess. I have to go play with the puppies. ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
1327:fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals. ~ Agnes Repplier, #NFDB
1328:God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us. ~ Jeannette Walls, #NFDB
1329:I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past. ~ Mario Lemieux, #NFDB
1330:I can play anywhere on the park. Im a bit like that in bed, too ~ Steven Gerrard, #NFDB
1331:I didn't want to play a mediocre villain. I wanted to go full-on. ~ Casper Crump, #NFDB
1332:I don't flirt and I don't play the people that I'm meeting with. ~ Sherilyn Fenn, #NFDB
1333:I don't play to prove people right or wrong. I just want to win. ~ Mark Teixeira, #NFDB
1334:I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play. ~ Coleman Hawkins, #NFDB
1335:If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential. ~ Don Nelson, #NFDB
1336:If you play against your own side you’ll lose the whole game. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1337:If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending. ~ John Hawkes, #NFDB
1338:I guess chemistry always changes when you play with someone else. ~ Brad Mehldau, #NFDB
1339:I'll never play at Wembley again, unless I play at Wembley again. ~ Kevin Keegan, #NFDB
1340:I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am. ~ Idris Elba, #NFDB
1341:I'm a workaholic because I love to play, if that makes sense. ~ Rachelle Lefevre, #NFDB
1342:I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor. ~ Randy Quaid, #NFDB
1343:I’m not John or Nine,” Six said. “I don’t play well with others. ~ Pittacus Lore, #NFDB
1344:In 1989, SimCity introduced an entirely new brand of game play. ~ Nolan Bushnell, #NFDB
1345:I only play projects with weird interpretations of presidents. ~ Benjamin Walker, #NFDB
1346:I played it for my bride, and one day you will play for yours. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1347:I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it. ~ Jackson Browne, #NFDB
1348:It is a beautiful world for the people who get to play the fist. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
1349:It is my baby and if I want to bring it out to play again, I will. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1350:It matters not how you play the game, So long as you never lose. ~ Prescott Bush, #NFDB
1351:It's always important to me to play something other DJs aren't playing. ~ A Trak, #NFDB
1352:It's not about the cards you're dealt, but how you play the hand. ~ Randy Pausch, #NFDB
1353:It was kind of a prodding myself to play I Walk The Line straight. ~ Johnny Cash, #NFDB
1354:It will be great to play a short, fat sweaty loser for a change. ~ Ricky Gervais, #NFDB
1355:I’ve even written a role for Dolly Parton to play the town mayor! ~ Heidi Montag, #NFDB
1356:Maybe now they would play my game, all these shysters and whores. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1357:Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time. ~ Cyndi Lauper, #NFDB
1358:She felt like a bad actress in a play she never wanted to be in. ~ Lorna Landvik, #NFDB
1359:She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody. ~ Eric Roth, #NFDB
1360:Still. Proud. Savages play by the rules; Lampreys get things done. ~ Lucy Parker, #NFDB
1361:Take a chance and risk it all or play it safe and suffer defeat. ~ Pittacus Lore, #NFDB
1362:The best of my nature reveals itself in play, and play is sacred. ~ Isak Dinesen, #NFDB
1363:There's only one thing we can control, and that is how hard we play. ~ Don Meyer, #NFDB
1364:The rules of fair play do not apply in love and war.” -John Lyly ~ Angela Roquet, #NFDB
1365:The trick is, when you grow up, find work that feels like play. ~ Nathan Fillion, #NFDB
1366:To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star. ~ Yehudi Menuhin, #NFDB
1367:We are all searching for someone whose demons play well with ours. ~ Faraaz Kazi, #NFDB
1368:We cannot change the cards we are delt, just how we play the hand ~ Randy Pausch, #NFDB
1369:We can't change the cards we're dealt, just how we play the hand. ~ Randy Pausch, #NFDB
1370:We're not allowed to play Monopoly at home. It gets too vicious. ~ Prince Andrew, #NFDB
1371:Whenever I play something, everybody just thinks that's who I am. ~ Sharon Stone, #NFDB
1372:When I’m on the court, I try to play with all my emotion and heart. ~ Jeremy Lin, #NFDB
1373:When one is at play, one should not think of one's learning. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB
1374:When you hear something you don't like, don't ever play it again. ~ Joe Satriani, #NFDB
1375:When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
1376:You can go on 'Saturday Night Live' now and not even play live. ~ Raphael Saadiq, #NFDB
1377:You don't have to play masculine to be a strong woman. ~ Mary Elizabeth Winstead, #NFDB
1378:All drama is about lies. When the lie is exposed, the play is over. ~ David Mamet, #NFDB
1379:All my life I wanted to play golf like Jack Nicklaus, and now I do. ~ Paul Harvey, #NFDB
1380:Anyone wanna play Dungeons & Dragons for the next quadrillion years? ~ Gary Gygax, #NFDB
1381:As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character. ~ Olga Kurylenko, #NFDB
1382:Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1383:Because hubris is not only a sin, it's a fun game to play at parties ~ Mira Grant, #NFDB
1384:Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano. ~ Ben Folds, #NFDB
1385:
We play rough. We love hard. We live every fucking fantasy. ~ Pepper Winters,#NFDB
1386:Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration ~ Jean Piaget, #NFDB
1387:Don't play with your calling, because the enemy certainly isn't. ~ Andrena Sawyer, #NFDB
1388:Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple. ~ Johan Cruijff, #NFDB
1389:Good things never came from days when the devil climbed up to play. ~ Ethan Cross, #NFDB
1390:He didn’t send me anywhere. I am the heroine of my own play, sir. ~ Sarah MacLean, #NFDB
1391:Her monster was free now. Hopefully his would come out to play. ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
1392:How can I play baseball when I'm worried about foreign policy? ~ Charles M Schulz, #NFDB
1393:I don't like to play slow or softly. I like to play hard. Always. ~ Adrian Beltre, #NFDB
1394:I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie. ~ Kim Cattrall, #NFDB
1395:If my life was to be all work no play, I wanted my work to be play. ~ Phil Knight, #NFDB
1396:If you play well on the field, everything will take care of itself. ~ Derek Jeter, #NFDB
1397:If you're going to have to beg them to play, it's not going to work. ~ Chuck Daly, #NFDB
1398:If you wish to seduce an angel, you must play the part of a devil. ~ Eliphas Levi, #NFDB
1399:I'm going to Inter to see if they will let me play a bit of football. ~ Luis Figo, #NFDB
1400:In my life, I'd like to play more golf and, and get a decent handicap. ~ Ken Buck, #NFDB
1401:I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement. ~ Fred Allen, #NFDB
1402:I play honestly and I play to win. If I lose, I take my medicine. ~ Bobby Fischer, #NFDB
1403:It can play solitaire and minesweeper,” replied Artemis innocently. ~ Eoin Colfer, #NFDB
1404:I try to do my absolute best for the people who come see me play. ~ Billy Sheehan, #NFDB
1405:I try to play what comes naturally at the moment and let it happen. ~ McCoy Tyner, #NFDB
1406:It's easier to be creative if you've got other people to play with. ~ John Cleese, #NFDB
1407:It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one. ~ Alessandro Nivola, #NFDB
1408:I would rather not work than play in a movie that nobody watches. ~ Famke Janssen, #NFDB
1409:Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes. ~ Mae West, #NFDB
1410:Music is not simply playing notes. You have to play the silence too. ~ Ann E Burg, #NFDB
1411:My goal for Actress is to have it play more traditional theaters. ~ Robert Greene, #NFDB
1412:Nay! Faith, let me not play a woman! I have a beard coming! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1413:Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB
1414:Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it. ~ William Butler Yeats, #NFDB
1415:Or was he saying, "Hi! Wanna play?"
And I did. Of course I did. ~ Jeff Lindsay,#NFDB
1416:Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut. ~ Sparky Anderson, #NFDB
1417:Rest and play, are as vital to our health as nutrition and exercise ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
1418:Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed. ~ Lynn Swann, #NFDB
1419:Teams tend to fold if you come out and play hard in the beginning. ~ Andrew Bynum, #NFDB
1420:That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack. ~ Joe Mantegna, #NFDB
1421:The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
1422:There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater. ~ Tony Kushner, #NFDB
1423:This is today. More plans are in motions. More ideas are in play. ~ Ben H Winters, #NFDB
1424:This is what you get for letting rednecks play with antimatter, boss ~ John Ringo, #NFDB
1425:We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
1426:We play very dangerous games with life and no one knows our rules. ~ Parke Godwin, #NFDB
1427:What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character. ~ Karlie Kloss, #NFDB
1428:What I want to do, is play music for somebody who believe in me. ~ Luther Allison, #NFDB
1429:Whenever the sun is shining, I feel obligated to play outside! ~ Charles M Schulz, #NFDB
1430:When they play MARRY/FUCK/KILL, you'll never be KILL again! ~ Kelly Sue DeConnick, #NFDB
1431:Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. ~ Karl Barth, #NFDB
1432:You can do anything with children if you only play with them. ~ Otto von Bismarck, #NFDB
1433:You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game. ~ Rickie Lee Jones, #NFDB
1434:You can't play hockey with a bald spot, so I'm hanging up the skates. ~ Joe Sakic, #NFDB
1435:You don't need to play every ball but every ball needs your judgement. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
1436:You have no idea how dirty I can play.” He laughed. “Bring. It. On. ~ Amy Andrews, #NFDB
1437:You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does. ~ Glenn Close, #NFDB
1438:A daily newspaper should report the news, not play at geopolitics. ~ Rafael Correa, #NFDB
1439:Aion is a child at play, playing draughts; the kingship is a child's. ~ Heraclitus, #NFDB
1440:A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
1441:And when I play they know I exist, and it leaves a space when I go. ~ Sunny Murray, #NFDB
1442:Anyone serious about playing indoor, you should play outdoor. ~ Sean William Scott, #NFDB
1443:Does Zeus have a perfect tan? Can he play the ukulele? I think not! ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1444:Don t play this piece fast. It is never right to play ragtime fast. ~ Scott Joplin, #NFDB
1445:Don't search for the music in other people. Play it yourself. ~ Stephanie Kuehnert, #NFDB
1446:Every time I try to play by rules I get smashed into the ground. ~ Rebecca Forster, #NFDB
1447:Hell's a-coming and we all gotta learn to play the blues. (347) ~ Jonathan Maberry, #NFDB
1448:I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows. ~ Julian Casablancas, #NFDB
1449:I am not an actress. I can only play me - on and off the screen. ~ Brigitte Bardot, #NFDB
1450:I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. ~ Mother Jones, #NFDB
1451:I don't know how other bands play the same songs every night. ~ Grant Lee Phillips, #NFDB
1452:I don’t think of work as work and play as play. It’s all living. ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
1453:I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English. ~ Paz Vega, #NFDB
1454:If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms. ~ Mike Ditka, #NFDB
1455:If I didn't play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist. ~ Arthur Ashe, #NFDB
1456:If you are serious, don't play with my heart, it makes me furious. ~ Aaron Neville, #NFDB
1457:I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll. ~ Joan Jett, #NFDB
1458:I like a girl who doesn't play any games. I like a very sweet girl. ~ Mark Salling, #NFDB
1459:I live and die for the Buckeyes. I also love to play racquetball. ~ Alan Lowenthal, #NFDB
1460:I love theater, I would love to do a play, but it's hard to beat. ~ Justin Hartley, #NFDB
1461:I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs? ~ Dave Grohl, #NFDB
1462:I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage. ~ Adam Levine, #NFDB
1463:I think Hamlet is a very funny play - Hamlet is riddled with wit. ~ Chukwudi Iwuji, #NFDB
1464:I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended. ~ Camryn Manheim, #NFDB
1465:I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects. ~ Jackie Chan, #NFDB
1466:I want to play every day. This year will be absolutely no different. ~ Derek Jeter, #NFDB
1467:I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that. ~ Vijay Mallya, #NFDB
1468:I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me ~ Mother Jones, #NFDB
1469:I would have loved to play against Bill Russell. He was such a force. ~ Tim Duncan, #NFDB
1470:Like Andy Rooney and Judy Garland screaming “Let’s put on a play!” the ~ Wendy Wax, #NFDB
1471:Mona played with dolls, I play with body parts. Game on bitches. -A ~ Sara Shepard, #NFDB
1472:Not only does God play dice with the universe, He's using loaded dice. ~ John Ford, #NFDB
1473:Old endgame lost of old, play and lose and have done with losing. ~ Samuel Beckett, #NFDB
1474:Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born. ~ Charlie Parker, #NFDB
1475:One feels relieved these days when a play is not like television. ~ Valerie Martin, #NFDB
1476:One should play and sweat. Life shouldn't be bogged down by books. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
1477:Peter stood up and let a wicked smile slide across his face. "Time to play. ~ Brom, #NFDB
1478:Play like dreams serves the function of self realization. ~ Donald Woods Winnicott, #NFDB
1479:Play music that means something to you. Make it happen for yourself. ~ Mark Hoppus, #NFDB
1480:Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.
~ Bruno Bettelheim,#NFDB
1481:She said if she couldn't play, she had nothing left. What about me? ~ Gayle Forman, #NFDB
1482:So basically, you get to play Super Mario all you want, any time you want, for , #NFDB
1483:The drummer; he inspired me to play like no one else I have ever met. ~ Chet Baker, #NFDB
1484:The hardest thing in the world to play is something close to myself. ~ Chris Bauer, #NFDB
1485:the lost sense that we play out our lives as part of a greater story ~ David Whyte, #NFDB
1486:The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression. ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
1487:The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1488:Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike. ~ Karel Appel, #NFDB
1489:To say that I haven't been motivated to play is absolute nonsense. ~ Robbie Fowler, #NFDB
1490:We are all searching for someone whose demons play well with ours. ~ Heidi R Kling, #NFDB
1491:We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. ~ Randy Pausch, #NFDB
1492:We each play several roles in life – that doesn’t make them all lies. ~ Erin Beaty, #NFDB
1493:We only have so long to play in the dirt and ask questions of rivers. ~ John Green, #NFDB
1494:when truth has fair play, it will always prevail over falsehood. ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
1495:Why do you play a game? I play a game to see how good we can be. ~ Mike Krzyzewski, #NFDB
1496:won’t let my weakness get the better of me. Or play with my mind. ~ Krista Ritchie, #NFDB
1497:You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played ~ Miles Davis, #NFDB
1498:You have Obama that wants to play golf instead of deal with people. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
1499:You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play. ~ Nikki Giovanni, #NFDB
1500:You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have. ~ Richard Siken, #NFDB
884 Integral Yoga
552 Poetry
143 Philosophy
126 Occultism
102 Mysticism
86 Fiction
74 Yoga
74 Christianity
57 Psychology
16 Philsophy
16 Mythology
13 Islam
12 Science
12 Integral Theory
11 Theosophy
10 Education
6 Sufism
6 Buddhism
5 Hinduism
5 Cybernetics
2 Zen
2 Baha i Faith
1 Thelema
1 Alchemy
530 Sri Aurobindo
435 The Mother
266 Satprem
215 Nolini Kanta Gupta
70 William Wordsworth
59 H P Lovecraft
58 Carl Jung
56 Rabindranath Tagore
55 Sri Ramakrishna
47 William Butler Yeats
44 Walt Whitman
39 James George Frazer
38 Aleister Crowley
37 Robert Browning
37 Percy Bysshe Shelley
32 John Keats
28 Plotinus
27 Friedrich Schiller
27 Friedrich Nietzsche
26 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
22 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
18 A B Purani
16 Ralph Waldo Emerson
13 Saint Augustine of Hippo
13 Ovid
13 Muhammad
12 Plato
12 Jorge Luis Borges
11 Swami Vivekananda
11 Rudolf Steiner
10 Aldous Huxley
9 Swami Krishnananda
9 Nirodbaran
9 Li Bai
9 Aristotle
8 Rainer Maria Rilke
8 Hafiz
8 George Van Vrekhem
8 Franz Bardon
6 Sri Ramana Maharshi
6 Jordan Peterson
5 Paul Richard
5 Norbert Wiener
5 Jalaluddin Rumi
5 Henry David Thoreau
5 Anonymous
5 Alice Bailey
4 Saint Teresa of Avila
4 Omar Khayyam
4 Kabir
4 Edgar Allan Poe
4 Bokar Rinpoche
3 Thomas Merton
3 Ramprasad
3 Lucretius
3 Joseph Campbell
3 Jayadeva
3 Al-Ghazali
2 Vyasa
2 Thubten Chodron
2 Taigu Ryokan
2 Peter J Carroll
2 Namdev
2 Mahendranath Gupta
2 Lewis Carroll
2 Lalla
2 Ken Wilber
2 Jorge Luis Borges
2 Jetsun Milarepa
2 Genpo Roshi
2 Dadu Dayal
2 Baha u llah
110 The Synthesis Of Yoga
80 Record of Yoga
70 Wordsworth - Poems
59 Lovecraft - Poems
53 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
52 Tagore - Poems
47 Yeats - Poems
45 The Life Divine
44 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
42 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
40 Whitman - Poems
39 The Golden Bough
37 Shelley - Poems
37 Browning - Poems
36 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
34 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
32 Savitri
32 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
32 Keats - Poems
29 Letters On Yoga IV
27 Schiller - Poems
27 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
27 Agenda Vol 03
26 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
26 Agenda Vol 10
25 Agenda Vol 04
24 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
24 Agenda Vol 01
23 Mysterium Coniunctionis
23 Magick Without Tears
23 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
23 Agenda Vol 09
22 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
22 Letters On Yoga II
22 Agenda Vol 06
21 Questions And Answers 1956
21 Collected Poems
20 Agenda Vol 07
19 Letters On Yoga I
19 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
18 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
18 Agenda Vol 02
17 Agenda Vol 08
17 Agenda Vol 05
16 Questions And Answers 1953
16 Essays On The Gita
16 Essays Divine And Human
16 Emerson - Poems
15 The Human Cycle
15 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
15 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
14 The Practice of Psycho therapy
14 Faust
13 Quran
13 Questions And Answers 1954
13 Metamorphoses
12 Liber ABA
11 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
11 On the Way to Supermanhood
10 The Phenomenon of Man
10 The Perennial Philosophy
10 Some Answers From The Mother
10 Questions And Answers 1955
10 Prayers And Meditations
10 Labyrinths
10 Isha Upanishad
10 City of God
10 Aion
10 Agenda Vol 11
9 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
9 The Study and Practice of Yoga
9 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
9 The Future of Man
9 Talks
9 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
9 Poetics
9 On Education
9 Li Bai - Poems
8 Rilke - Poems
8 Preparing for the Miraculous
8 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
8 Letters On Yoga III
8 Goethe - Poems
7 Words Of Long Ago
7 The Bible
7 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
7 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
7 Bhakti-Yoga
7 5.1.01 - Ilion
6 Vedic and Philological Studies
6 The Practice of Magical Evocation
6 Theosophy
6 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
6 Maps of Meaning
6 Hafiz - Poems
6 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
6 Agenda Vol 12
5 Words Of The Mother III
5 Walden
5 Twilight of the Idols
5 The Secret Doctrine
5 Cybernetics
5 A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
5 Agenda Vol 13
4 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
4 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
4 Tara - The Feminine Divine
4 Letters On Poetry And Art
4 Hymn of the Universe
4 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
3 Writings In Bengali and Sanskrit
3 The Secret Of The Veda
3 The Interior Castle or The Mansions
3 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
3 The Alchemy of Happiness
3 Songs of Kabir
3 Song of Myself
3 Raja-Yoga
3 Poe - Poems
3 Of The Nature Of Things
3 Let Me Explain
3 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
3 Kena and Other Upanishads
3 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
3 Crowley - Poems
2 Words Of The Mother II
2 Words Of The Mother I
2 Vishnu Purana
2 The Lotus Sutra
2 The Integral Yoga
2 The Essentials of Education
2 The Blue Cliff Records
2 Symposium
2 Sex Ecology Spirituality
2 Selected Fictions
2 Ryokan - Poems
2 Rumi - Poems
2 Milarepa - Poems
2 Liber Null
2 Initiation Into Hermetics
2 How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator
2 Borges - Poems
2 Anonymous - Poems
2 Alice in Wonderland
2 Agenda Vol 1
2 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E
0 0.01 - Introduction, #Agenda Vol 1, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
something to be Played forever as the one great game of the world; a who-knows-what that left this sprig of a pensive man in the middle of a clearing; a little 'something' that beats, beats, that keeps on breathing beneath every skin that has ever been put on it - like our deepest breath, our lightest air, our air of nothing - and it keeps on going, it keeps on going. We must catch the light little breath, the little pulsation of nothing. Then suddenly, on the threshold of our clearing of concrete, our head starts spinning incurably, our eyes blink into something else, and all is different, and all seems surcharged with meaning and with life, as though we had never lived until that very minute.
Then we have caught the tail of the Great Possible, we are upon the wayless way, radically in the new, and we flow with the little lizard, the pelican, the big man, we flow everywhere in a world that has lost its old separating skin and its little baggage of habits. We begin seeing otherwise, feeling otherwise. We have opened the gate into an inconceivable clearing. Just a light little vibration that carries you away. Then we begin to understand how it CAN CHANGE, what the mechanism is - a light little mechanism and so miraculous that it looks like nothing. We begin feeling the wonder of a pure little cell, and that a sparkling of joy would be enough to turn the world inside out. We were living in a little thinking fishbowl, we were dying in an old, bottled habit. And then suddenly, all is different. The Earth is free! Who wants freedom?
00.01 - The Approach to Mysticism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
For it must be understood that the heart, the mystic heart, is not the external thing which is the seat of emotion or passion; it is the secret heart that is behind, the inner heartantarhdaya of the Upanishadwhich is the centre of the individual consciousness, where all the divergent lines of that consciousness meet and from where they take their rise. That is what the Upanishad means when it says that the heart has a hundred channels which feed the human vehicle. That is the source, the fount and origin, the very substance of the true personality. Mystic knowledge the true mystic knowledge which saves and fulfilsbegins with the awakening or the entrance into this real being. This being is pure and luminous and blissful and sovereignly real, because it is a portion, a spark of the Divine Consciousness and Nature: a contact and communion with it brings automatically into Play the light and the truth that are its substance. At the same time it is an uprising flame that reaches out naturally to higher domains of consciousness and manifests them through its translucid dynamism.
The knowledge that is obtained without the heart's instrumentation or co-operation is liable to be what the Gita describes as Asuric. First of all, from the point of view of knowledge itself, it would be, as I have already said, egocentric, a product and agent of one's limited and isolated self, easily put at the service of desire and passion. This knowledge, whether rationalistic or occult, is, as it were, hard and dry in its constitution, and oftener than not, negative and destructivewi thering and blasting in its career like the desert simoom.
00.02 - Mystic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Man being an embodied soul, his external consciousness (what the Upanishad calls jgrat) is the milieu in which his soul-experiences naturally manifest and find their Play. It is the forms and movements of that consciousness which clo the and give a concrete habitation and name to perceptions on the subtler ranges of the inner existence. If the experiences on these planes are to be presented to the conscious memory and to the brain-mind and made communicable to others through speech, this is the inevitable and natural process. Symbols are a translation in mental and sensual (and vocal) terms of experiences that are beyond the mind and the sense and the speech and yet throw a kind of echoing vibrations upon these lesser levels.
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0 0.02 - Topographical Note, #Agenda Vol 1, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
From the time of Sri Aurobindo's departure (1950) until 1957, we have only a few notes and fragments or rare statements noted from memory. These are the only landmarks of this period, along with Mother's Questions and Answers from her talks at the Ashram Playground. A few of these conversations have been reproduced here insofar as they mark stages of the Supramental
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Algeria and in France or of her current experiences; and gradually, She opened the mind of the rebellious and materialistic Westerner that we were and made us understand the laws of the worlds, the Play of forces, the working of past lives - especially this latter, which was an important factor in the difficulties with which we were struggling at that time and which periodically made us abscond.
Mother would be seated in this rather medieval-looking chair with its high, carved back, her feet on a little tabouret, while we sat on the floor, on a slightly faded carpet, conquered and seduced, revolted and never satisfied - but nevertheless, very interested. Treasures, never noted down, were lost until, with the cunning of the Sioux, we succeeded in making Mother consent to the presence of a tape recorder. But even then, and for a long time thereafter, She carefully made us erase or delete in our notes all that concerned Her rather too personally - sometimes we disobeyed Her.
00.03 - Upanishadic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It may be asked why the dog has been chosen as the symbol of Intuition. In the Vedas, the cow and the horse also Play a large part; even the donkey and the frog have their own assigned roles. These objects are taken from the environment of ordinary life, and are those that are most familiar to the external consciousness, through which the inner experiences have to express themselves, if they are to be expressed at all. These material objects represent various kinds of forces and movements and subtle and occult and spiritual dynamisms. Strictly speaking, however, symbols are not chosen in a subtle or spiritual experience, that is to say, they are not arbitrarily selected and constructed by the conscious intelligence. They form part of a dramatization (to use a term of the Freudian psychology of dreams), a psychological alchemy, whose method and process and rationale are very obscure, which can be penetrated only by the vision of a third eye.
I. The Several Lights
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From the psychological standpoint, the four oblations are movements or reactions of consciousness in its urge towards the utterance and expression of Divine Truth. Like some other elements in the cosmic Play, these also form a quartetcaturvyha and work together for a common purpose in view of a perfect and all-round result.
Svh is the offering and invocation. One must dedicate everything to the Divine, cast all one has or does into the Fire of Aspiration that blazes up towards the Most High, and through the tongue of that one-pointed flame call on the Divinity.
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With this sacrifice nourish the Gods, that the Gods may nourish you; thus mutually nourishing ye shall obtain the highest felicity3 is the very secret of the cosmic Play, the basis of the spiritual evolution in the universal existence.
The Gods are the formations or particularisations of the Truth-consciousness, the multiple individualisations of the One spirit. The Pitris are the Divine Fathers, that is to say, souls that once laboured and realised here below, and now have passed beyond. They dwell in another world, not too far removed from the earth, and from there, with the force of their Realisation, lend a more concrete help and guidance to the destiny that is being worked out upon earth. They are forces and formations of consciousness in an intermediate region between Here and There (antarika), and serve to bring men and gods nearer to each other, inasmuch as they belong to both the categories, being a divinised humanity or a humanised divinity. Each fixation of the Truth-consciousness in an earthly mould is a thing of joy to the Pitris; it is the Svadh or food by which they live and grow, for it is the consolidation and also the resultant of their own realisation. The achievements of the sons are more easily and securely reared and grounded upon those of the forefa thers, whose formative powers we have to invoke, so that we may pass on to the realisation, the firm embodiment of higher and greater destinies.
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Agni in the physical consciousness is calledghapati, for the body is the house in which the soul is lodged and he is its keeper, guardian and lord. The fire in the mental consciousness is called daki; for it is that which gives discernment, the power to discriminate between the truth and the falsehood, it is that which by the pressure of its heat and light cleaves the wrong away from the right. And the fire in the life-force is called havanya; for pra is not only the plane of hunger and desire, but also of power and dynamism, it is that which calls forth forces, brings them into' Play and it is that which is to be invoked for the progression of the Sacrifice, for an onward march on the spiritual path.
Of the three fires one is the upholderhe who gives the firm foundation, the stable house where the Sacrifice is performed and Truth realised; the second is the Knower, often called in the Veda jtaved, who guides and directs; and the third the Doer, the effective Power, the driving Energyvaivnara.
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We have, in modern times, a movement towards a more conscious and courageous, knowledge of things that were taboo to puritan ages. Not to shut one's eyes to the lower, darker and hidden strands of our nature, but to bring them out into the light of day and to face them is the best way of dealing with such elements, which otherwise, if they are repressed, exert an unhealthy influence on the mind and nature. The Upanishadic view runs on the same lines, but, with the unveiling and the natural and not merely naturalisticdelineation of these under-worlds (concerning sex and food), it endows them with a perspective sub specie aeternitatis. The sexual function, for example, is easily equated to the double movement of ascent and descent that is secreted in nature, or to the combined action of Purusha and Prakriti in the cosmic Play, or again to the hidden fount of Delight that holds and moves the universe. In this view there is nothing merely secular and profane, but all is woven into the cosmic spiritual whole; and man is taught to consider and to mould all his movementsof soul and mind and bodyin the light and rhythm of that integral Reality.11
The central secret of the transfigured consciousness lies, as we have already indicated, in the mystic rite or law of Sacrifice. It is the one basic, fundamental, universal Law that upholds and explains the cosmic movement, conformity to which brings to the thrice-bound human being release and freedom. Sacrifice consists essentially of two elements or processes: (i) The offering or self giving of the lower reality to the higher, and, as a consequence, an answering movement of (ii) the descent of the higher into the lower. The lower offered to the higher means the lower sublimated and integrated into the higher; and the descent of the higher into the lower means the incarnation of the former and the fulfilment of the latter. The Gita elaborates the same idea when it says that by Sacrifice men increase the gods and the gods increase men and by so increasing each other they attain the supreme Good. Nothing is, nothing is done, for its own sake, for an egocentric satisfaction; all, even movements relating to food and to sex should be dedicated to the Cosmic BeingVisva Purusha and that alone received which comes from Him.
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The secularisation of man's vital functions in modem ages has not been a success. It has made him more egocentric and blatantly hedonistic. From an occult point of view he has in this way subjected himself to the influences of dark and undesirable world-forces, has made an opening, to use an Indian symbolism, for Kali (the Spirit of the Iron Age) to enter into him. The sex-force is an extremely potent agent, but it is extremely fluid and elusive and uncontrollable. It was for this reason that the ancients always sought to give it a proper mould, a right continent, a fixed and definite channel; the moderns, on the other hand, allow it to run free and Play with it recklessly. The result has been, in the life of those born under such circumstances, a growing lack of poise and balance and a corresponding incidence of neuras thenia, hysteria and all abnormal pathological conditions.
Chhandyogya, II, III.
00.04 - The Beautiful in the Upanishads, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
it cannot be defined or figured in the terms of the phenomenal consciousness. In speaking of it, however, the Upanishads invariably and repeatedly refer to two attributes that characterise its fundamental nature. These two aspects have made such an impression upon the consciousness of the Upanishadic seer that his enthusiasm almost wholly Plays about them and is centred on them. When he contemplates or communes with the Supreme Object, these seem to him to be the mark of its au thenticity, the seal of its high status and the reason of all the charm and magic it possesses. The first aspect or attri bute is that of light the brilliance, the solar effulgenceravituly-arpa the bright, clear, shadow less Light of lightsvirajam ubhram jyotim jyoti The second aspect is that of delight, the bliss, the immortality inherent in that wide effulgencenandarpam amtam yad vibhti.
And what else is the true character, the soul of beauty than light and delight? "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever." And a thing of joy is a thing of light. Joy is the radiance rippling over a thing of beauty. Beauty is always radiant: the charm, the loveliness of an object is but the glow of light that it emanates. And it would not be a very incorrect mensuration to measure the degree of beauty by the degree of light radiated. The diamond is not only a thing of value, but a thing of beauty also, because of the concentrated and undimmed light that it enshrines within itself. A dark, dull and dismal thing, devoid of interest and attraction becomes aesthetically precious and significant as soon as the artist presents it in terms of the values of light. The entire art of painting is nothing but the expression of beauty, in and through the modalities of light.
0.00a - Introduction, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
I began the study of the Qabalah at an early age. Two books I read then have Played unconsciously a prominent part in the writing of my own book. One of these was "Q.B.L. or the Bride's Reception" by Frater Achad (Charles Stansfeld Jones), which I must have first read around 1926. The other was "An Introduction to the Tarot" by Paul Foster Case, published in the early 1920's. It is now out of print, superseded by later versions of the same topic. But as I now glance through this slender book, I perceive how profoundly even the format of his book had influenced me, though in these two instances there was not a trace of plagiarism. It had not consciously occurred to me until recently that I owed so much to them. Since Paul Case passed away about a decade or so ago, this gives me the opportunity to thank him, overtly, wherever he may now be.
By the middle of 1926 I had become aware of the work of Aleister Crowley, for whom I have a tremendous respect. I studied as many of his writings as I could gain access to, making copious notes, and later acted for several years as his secretary, having joined him in Paris on October 12, 1928, a memorable day in my life.
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
At the age of nine Gadadhar was invested with the sacred thread. This ceremony conferred upon him the privileges of his brahmin lineage, including the worship of the Family Deity, Raghuvir, and imposed upon him the many strict disciplines of a brahmin's life. During the ceremony of investiture he shocked his relatives by accepting a meal cooked by his nurse, a sudra woman. His father would never have dreamt of doing such a thing But in a Playful mood Gadadhar had once promised this woman that he would eat her food, and now he fulfilled his plighted word. The woman had piety and religious sincerity, and these were more important to the boy than the conventions of society.
Gadadhar was now permitted to worship Raghuvir. Thus began his first training in meditation. He so gave his heart and soul to the worship that the stone image very soon appeared to him as the living Lord of the Universe. His tendency to lose himself in contemplation was first noticed at this time. Behind his boyish light-heartedness was seen a deepening of his spiritual nature.
About this time, on the Sivaratri night, consecrated to the worship of Siva, a dramatic performance was arranged. The principal actor, who was to Play the part of Siva, suddenly fell ill, and Gadadhar was persuaded to act in his place. While friends were dressing him for the role of Siva — smearing his body with ashes, matting his locks, placing a trident in his hand and a string of rudraksha beads around his neck — the boy appeared to become absent-minded. He approached the stage with slow and measured step, supported by his friends. He looked the living image of Siva. The audience loudly applauded what it took to be his skill as an actor, but it was soon discovered that he was really lost in meditation. His countenance was radiant and tears flowed from his eyes. He was lost to the outer world. The effect of this scene on the audience was tremendous. The people felt blessed as by a vision of Siva Himself. The performance had to be stopped, and the boy's mood lasted till the following morning.
Gadadhar himself now organized a dramatic company with his young friends. The stage was set in the mango orchard. The themes were selected from the stories of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Gadadhar knew by heart almost all the roles, having heard them from professional actors. His favourite theme was the Vrindavan episode of Krishna's life, depicting those exquisite love-stories of Krishna and the milkmaids and the cowherd boys. Gadadhar would Play the parts of Radha or Krishna and would often lose himself in the character he was portraying. His natural feminine grace heightened the dramatic effect. The mango orchard would ring with the loud kirtan of the boys. Lost in song and merry-making, Gadadhar became indifferent to the routine of school.
In 1849 Ramkumar, the eldest son, went to Calcutta to improve the financial condition of the family.
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At this time there came to Dakshineswar a youth of sixteen, destined to Play an important role in Sri Ramakrishna's life. Hriday, a distant nephew2 of Sri Ramakrishna, hailed from Sihore, a village not far from Kamarpukur, and had been his boyhood friend. Clever, exceptionally energetic, and endowed with great presence of mind, he moved, as will be seen later, like a shadow about his uncle and was always ready to help him, even at the sacrifice of his personal comfort. He was destined to be a mute witness of many of the spiritual experiences of Sri Ramakrishna and the caretaker of his body during the stormy days of his spiritual practice. Hriday came to Dakshineswar in search of a job, and Sri Ramakrishna was glad to see him.
Unable to resist the persuasion of Mathur Babu, Sri Ramakrishna at last entered the temple service, on condition that Hriday should be asked to assist him. His first duty was to dress and decorate the image of Kali.
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Yet this was only a foretaste of the intense experiences to come. The first glimpse of the Divine Mother made him the more eager for Her uninterrupted vision. He wanted to see Her both in meditation and with eyes open. But the Mother began to Play a teasing game of hide-and-seek with him, intensifying both his joy and his suffering. Weeping bitterly during the moments of separation from Her, he would pass into a trance and then find Her standing before him, smiling, talking, consoling, bidding him be of good cheer, and instructing him. During this period of spiritual practice he had many uncommon experiences. When he sat to meditate, he would hear strange clicking sounds in the joints of his legs, as if someone were locking them up, one after the other, to keep him motionless; and at the conclusion of his meditation he would again hear the same sounds, this time unlocking them and leaving him free to move about. He would see flashes like a swarm of fire-flies floating before his eyes, or a sea of deep mist around him, with luminous waves of molten silver. Again, from a sea of translucent mist he would behold the Mother rising, first Her feet, then Her waist, body, face, and head, finally Her whole person; he would feel Her breath and hear Her voice. Worshipping in the temple, sometimes he would become exalted, sometimes he would remain motionless as stone, sometimes he would almost collapse from excessive emotion. Many of his actions, contrary to all tradition, seemed sacrilegious to the people. He would take a flower and touch it to his own head, body, and feet, and then offer it to the Goddess. Or, like a drunkard, he would reel to the throne of the Mother, touch Her chin by way of showing his affection for Her, and sing, talk, joke, laugh, and dance. Or he would take a morsel of food from the plate and hold it to Her mouth, begging Her to eat it, and would not be satisfied till he was convinced that She had really eaten. After the Mother had been put to sleep at night, from his own room he would hear Her ascending to the upper storey of the temple with the light steps of a happy girl, Her anklets jingling. Then he would discover Her standing with flowing hair. Her black form silhouetted against the sky of the night, looking at the Ganges or at the distant lights of Calcutta.
Naturally the temple officials took him for an insane person. His worldly well-wishers brought him to skilled physicians; but no-medicine could cure his malady. Many a time he doubted his sanity himself. For he had been sailing across an uncharted sea, with no earthly guide to direct him. His only haven of security was the Divine Mother Herself. To Her he would pray: "I do not know what these things are. I am ignorant of mantras and the scriptures. Teach me, Mother, how to realize Thee. Who else can help me? Art Thou not my only refuge and guide?" And the sustaining presence of the Mother never failed him in his distress or doubt. Even those who criticized his conduct were greatly impressed with his purity, guilelessness, truthfulness, integrity, and holiness. They felt an uplifting influence in his presence.
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There came to Dakshineswar at this time a brahmin woman who was to Play an important part in Sri Ramakrishna's spiritual unfoldment. Born in East Bengal, she was an adept in the Tantrik and Vaishnava methods of worship. She was slightly over fifty years of age, handsome, and garbed in the orange robe of a nun. Her sole possessions were a few books and two pieces of wearing-cloth.
Sri Ramakrishna welcomed the visitor with great respect, described to her his experiences and visions, and told her of people's belief that these were symptoms of madness. She listened to him attentively and said: "My son, everyone in this world is mad. Some are mad for money, some for creature comforts, some for name and fame; and you are mad for God." She assured him that he was passing through the almost unknown spiritual experience described in the scriptures as mahabhava, the most exalted rapture of divine love. She told him that this extreme exaltation had been described as manifesting itself through nineteen physical symptoms, including the shedding of tears, a tremor of the body, horripilation, perspiration, and a burning sensation. The Bhakti scriptures, she declared, had recorded only two instances of the experience, namely, those of Sri Radha and Sri Chaitanya.
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About the year 1864 there came to Dakshineswar a wandering Vaishnava monk, Jatadhari, whose Ideal Deity was Rama. He always carried with him a small metal image of the Deity, which he called by the endearing name of Ramlala, the Boy Rama. Toward this little image he dis Played the tender affection of Kausalya for her divine Son, Rama. As a result of lifelong spiritual practice he had actually found in the metal image the presence of his Ideal. Ramlala was no longer for him a metal image, but the living God. He devoted himself to nursing Rama, feeding Rama, Playing with Rama, taking Rama for a walk, and bathing Rama. And he found that the image responded to his love.
Sri Ramakrishna, much impressed with his devotion, requested Jatadhari to spend a few days at Dakshineswar. Soon Ramlala became the favourite companion of Sri Ramakrishna too. Later on he described to the devotees how the little image would dance gracefully before him, jump on his back, insist on being taken in his arms, run to the fields in the sun, pluck flowers from the bushes, and Play pranks like a naughty boy. A very sweet relationship sprang up between him and Ramlala, for whom he felt the love of a mother.
One day Jatadhari requested Sri Ramakrishna to keep the image and bade him adieu with tearful eyes. He declared that Ramlala had fulfilled his innermost prayer and that he now had no more need of formal worship. A few days later Sri Ramakrishna was blessed through Ramlala with a vision of Ramachandra, whereby he realized that the Rama of the Ramayana, the son of Dasaratha, pervades the whole universe as Spirit and Consciousness; that He is its Creator, Sustainer, and Destroyer; that, in still another aspect, He is the transcendental Brahman, without form, attribute, or name.
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Sri Ramakrishna now devoted himself to scaling the most inaccessible and dizzy heights of dualistic worship, namely, the complete union with Sri Krishna as the Beloved of the heart. He regarded himself as one of the gopis of Vrindavan, mad with longing for her divine Sweetheart. At his request Mathur provided him with woman's dress and jewelry. In this love-pursuit, food and drink were forgotten. Day and night he wept bitterly. The yearning turned into a mad frenzy; for the divine Krishna began to Play with him the old tricks He had Played with the gopis. He would tease and taunt, now and then revealing Himself, but always keeping at a distance. Sri Ramakrishna's anguish brought on a return of the old physical symptoms: the burning sensation, an oozing of blood through the pores, a loosening of the joints, and the stopping of physiological functions.
The Vaishnava scriptures advise one to propitiate Radha and obtain her grace in order to realize Sri Krishna. So the tortured devotee now turned his prayer to her. Within a short time he enjoyed her blessed vision. He saw and felt the figure of Radha disappearing into his own body.
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On the appointed day, in the small hours of the morning, a fire was lighted in the Panchavati. Totapuri and Sri Ramakrishna sat before it. The flame Played on their faces. "Ramakrishna was a small brown man with a short beard and beautiful eyes, long dark eyes, full of light, obliquely set and slightly veiled, never very wide open, but seeing half-closed a great distance both outwardly and inwardly. His mouth was open over his white teeth in a bewitching smile, at once affectionate and mischievous. Of medium height, he was thin to emaciation and extremely delicate. His temperament was high-strung, for he was supersensitive to all the winds of joy and sorrow, both moral and physical. He was indeed a living reflection of all that happened before the mirror of his eyes, a two-sided mirror, turned both out and in." (Romain Rolland, Prophets of the New India, pp. 38-9.) Facing him, the other rose like a rock. He was very tall and robust, a sturdy and tough oak. His constitution and mind were of iron. He was the strong leader of men.
In the burning flame before him Sri Ramakrishna performed the rituals of destroying his attachment to relatives, friends, body, mind, sense-organs, ego, and the world. The leaping flame swallowed it all, making the initiate free and pure. The sacred thread and the tuft of hair were consigned to the fire, completing his severance from caste, sex, and society. Last of all he burnt in that fire, with all that is holy as his witness, his desire for enjoyment here and hereafter. He uttered the sacred mantras giving assurance of safety and fearlessness to all beings, who were only manifestations of his own Self. The rites completed, the disciple received from the guru the loin-cloth and ochre robe, the emblems of his new life.
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Sri Ramakrishna, on the other hand, though fully aware, like his guru, that the world is an illusory appearance, instead of slighting maya, like an orthodox monist, acknowledged its power in the relative life. He was all love and reverence for maya, perceiving in it a mysterious and majestic expression of Divinity. To him maya itself was God, for everything was God. It was one of the faces of Brahman. What he had realized on the heights of the transcendental plane, he also found here below, everywhere about him, under the mysterious garb of names and forms. And this garb was a perfectly transparent sheath, through which he recognized the glory of the Divine Immanence. Maya, the mighty weaver of the garb, is none other than Kali, the Divine Mother. She is the primordial Divine Energy, Sakti, and She can no more be distinguished from the Supreme Brahman than can the power of burning be distinguished from fire. She projects the world and again withdraws it. She spins it as the spider spins its web. She is the Mother of the Universe, identical with the Brahman of Vedanta, and with the Atman of Yoga. As eternal Lawgiver, She makes and unmakes laws; it is by Her imperious will that karma yields its fruit. She ensnares men with illusion and again releases them from bondage with a look of Her benign eyes. She is the supreme Mistress of the cosmic Play, and all objects, animate and inanimate, dance by Her will. Even those who realize the Absolute in nirvikalpa samadhi are under Her jurisdiction as long as they still live on the relative plane.
Thus, after nirvikalpa samadhi, Sri Ramakrishna realized maya in an altogether new role. The binding aspect of Kali vanished from before his vision. She no longer obscured his understanding. The world became the glorious manifestation of the Divine Mother. Maya became Brahman. The Transcendental Itself broke through the Immanent. Sri Ramakrishna discovered that maya operates in the relative world in two ways, and he termed these "avidyamaya" and "vidyamaya". Avidyamaya represents the dark forces of creation: sensuous desires, evil passions, greed, lust, cruelty, and so on. It sustains the world system on the lower planes. It is responsible for the round of man's birth and death. It must be fought and vanquished. But vidyamaya is the higher force of creation: the spiritual virtues, the enlightening qualities, kindness, purity, love, devotion. Vidyamaya elevates man to the higher planes of consciousness. With the help of vidyamaya the devotee rids himself of avidyamaya; he then becomes mayatita, free of maya. The two aspects of maya are the two forces of creation, the two powers of Kali; and She stands beyond them both. She is like the effulgent sun, bringing into existence and shining through and standing behind the clouds of different colours and shapes, conjuring up wonderful forms in the blue autumn heaven.
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In 1867 Sri Ramakrishna returned to Kamarpukur to recuperate from the effect of his austerities. The peaceful countryside, the simple and artless companions of his boyhood, and the pure air did him much good. The villagers were happy to get back their Playful, frank, witty, kind-hearted, and truthful Gadadhar, though they did not fail to notice the great change that had come over him during his years in Calcutta. His wife, Sarada Devi, now fourteen years old, soon arrived at Kamarpukur. Her spiritual development was much beyond her age and she was able to understand immediately her husband's state of mind. She became eager to learn from him about God and to live with him as his attendant. The Master accepted her cheerfully both as his disciple and as his spiritual companion. Referring to the experiences of these few days, she once said: "I used to feel always as if a pitcher full of bliss were placed in my heart. The joy was indescribable."
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Keshab was the leader of the Brahmo Samaj, one of the two great movements that, during the latter part of the nineteenth century, Played an important part in shaping the course of the renascence of India. The founder of the Brahmo movement had been the great Raja Rammohan Roy (1774-1833). Though born in an orthodox brahmin family, Rammohan Roy had shown great sympathy for Islam and Christianity. He had gone to Tibet in search of the Buddhist mysteries. He had extracted from Christianity its ethical system, but had rejected the divinity of Christ as he had denied the Hindu Incarnations. The religion of Islam influenced him, to a great extent, in the formulation of his monotheistic doctrines. But he always went back to the Vedas for his spiritual inspiration. The Brahmo Samaj, which he founded in 1828, was dedicated to the "worship and adoration of the Eternal, the Unsearchable, the Immutable Being, who is the Author and Preserver of the Universe". The Samaj was open to all without distinction of colour, creed, caste, nation, or religion.
The real organizer of the Samaj was Devendranath Tagore (1817-1905), the father of the poet Rabindranath. His physical and spiritual beauty, aristocratic aloofness, penetrating intellect, and poetic sensibility made him the foremost leader of the educated Bengalis. These addressed him by the respectful epithet of Maharshi, the "Great Seer". The Maharshi was a Sanskrit scholar and, unlike Raja Rammohan Roy, drew his inspiration entirely from the Upanishads. He was an implacable enemy of image worship ship and also fought to stop the infiltration of Christian ideas into the Samaj. He gave the movement its faith and ritual. Under his influence the Brahmo Samaj professed One Self-existent Supreme Being who had created the universe out of nothing, the God of Truth, Infinite Wisdom, Goodness, and Power, the Eternal and Omnipotent, the One without a Second. Man should love Him and do His will, believe in Him and worship Him, and thus merit salvation in the world to come.
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The other movement Playing an important part in the nineteenth-century religious revival of India was the Arya Samaj. The Brahmo Samaj, essentially a movement of compromise with European culture, tacitly admitted the superiority of the West. But the founder of the Arya Samaj was a ' pugnacious Hindu sannyasi who accepted the challenge of Islam and Christianity and was resolved to combat all foreign influence in India. Swami Dayananda (1824-1883) launched this movement in Bombay in 1875, and soon its influence was felt throughout western India. The Swami was a great scholar of the Vedas, which he explained as being strictly monotheistic. He preached against the worship of images and re-established the ancient Vedic sacrificial rites. According to him the Vedas were the ultimate authority on religion, and he accepted every word of them as literally true. The Arya Samaj became a bulwark against the encroachments of Islam and Christianity, and its orthodox flavour appealed to many Hindu minds. It also assumed leadership in many movements of social reform. The caste-system became a target of its attack. Women it liberated from many of their social disabilities. The cause of education received from it a great impetus. It started agitation against early marriage and advocated the remarriage of Hindu widows. Its influence was strongest in the Punjab, the battle-ground of the Hindu and Islamic cultures. A new fighting attitude was introduced into the slumbering Hindu society. Unlike the Brahmo Samaj, the influence of the Arya Samaj was not confined to the intellectuals. It was a force that spread to the masses. It was a dogmatic movement intolerant of those who disagreed with its views, and it emphasized only one way, the Arya Samaj way, to the realization of Truth. Sri Ramakrishna met Swami Dayananda when the latter visited Bengal.
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To those who became his intimate disciples the Master was a friend, companion, and Playmate. Even the chores of religious discipline would be lightened in his presence. The devotees would be so inebriated with pure joy in his company that they would have no time to ask themselves whether he was an Incarnation, a perfect soul, or a yogi. His very presence was a great teaching; words were superfluous. In later years his disciples remarked that while they were with him they would regard him as a comrade, but afterwards would tremble to think of their frivolities in the presence of such a great person. They had convincing proof that the Master could, by his mere wish, kindle in their hearts the love of God and give them His vision.
Through all this fun and frolic, this merriment and frivolity, he always kept before them the shining ideal of God-Consciousness and the path of renunciation. He prescribed ascents steep or graded according to the powers of the climber. He permitted no compromise with the basic principles of purity. An aspirant had to keep his body, mind, senses, and soul unspotted; had to have a sincere love for God and an ever mounting spirit of yearning. The rest would be done by the Mother.
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Even before Rakhal's coming to Dakshineswar, the Master had had visions of him as his spiritual son and as a Playmate of Krishna at Vrindavan. Rakhal was born of wealthy parents. During his childhood he developed wonderful spiritual traits and used to Play at worshipping gods and goddesses. In his teens he was married to a sister of Manomohan Mitra, from whom he first heard of the Master. His father objected to his association with Sri Ramakrishna but afterwards was reassured to find that many celebrated people were visitors at Dakshineswar. The relationship between the Master and this beloved disciple was that of mother and child. Sri Ramakrishna allowed Rakhal many liberties denied to others. But he would not hesitate to chastise the boy for improper actions. At one time Rakhal felt a childlike jealousy because he found that other boys were receiving the Master's affection. He soon got over it and realized his guru as the Guru of the whole universe. The Master was worried to hear of his marriage, but was relieved to find that his wife was a spiritual soul who would not be a hindrance to his progress.
--- THE ELDER GOPAL
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One day, in January 1884, the Master was going toward the pine-grove when he went into a trance. He was alone. There was no one to support him or guide his footsteps. He fell to the ground and dislocated a bone in his left arm. This accident had a significant influence on his mind, the natural inclination of which was to soar above the consciousness of the body. The acute pain in the arm forced his mind to dwell on the body and on the world outside. But he saw even in this a divine purpose; for, with his mind compelled to dwell on the physical plane, he realized more than ever that he was an instrument in the hand of the Divine Mother, who had a mission to fulfil through his human body and mind. He also distinctly found that in the phenomenal world God manifests Himself, in an inscrutable way, through diverse human beings, both good and evil. Thus he would speak of God in the guise of the wicked, God in the guise of the pious. God in the guise of the hypocrite, God in the guise of the lewd. He began to take a special delight in watching the divine Play in the relative world. Sometimes the sweet human relationship with God would appear to him more appealing than the all-effacing Knowledge of Brahman. Many a time he would pray: "Mother, don't make me unconscious through the Knowledge of Brahman. Don't give me Brahmajnana, Mother. Am I not Your child, and naturally timid? I must have my Mother. A million salutations to the Knowledge of Brahman! Give it to those who want it." Again he prayed: "O Mother let me remain in contact with men! Don't make me a dried-up ascetic. I want to enjoy Your sport in the world." He was able to taste this very rich divine experience and enjoy the love of God and the company of His devotees because his mind, on account of the injury to his arm, was forced to come down to the consciousness of the body. Again, he would make fun of people who proclaimed him as a Divine Incarnation, by pointing to his broken arm. He would say, "Have you ever heard of God breaking His arm?" It took the arm about five months to heal.
--- BEGINNING OF HIS ILLNESS
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
pretation, others contain obscure allusions, Play
upon words, secrets expressed in cryptogram, double
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illusions; let me Play the man, and thrust it from
me! Amen.
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woman, Playing by a stream, surrounded by birds and
butterflies. The pole-axe is recommended instead of
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to Play football, or of his own right not to Play it.
(As a great poet has expressed it: "We don't want to
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for the Play of the Universe is the pleasure of
FRATER PERDURABO.
0.00 - THE GOSPEL PREFACE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
The life and teachings of Sri Ramakrishna have redirected the thoughts of the denationalized Hindus to the spiritual ideals of their forefa thers. During the latter part of the nineteenth century his was the time-honoured role of the Saviour of the Eternal Religion of the Hindus. His teachings Played an important part in liberalizing the minds of orthodox pundits and hermits. Even now he is the silent force that is moulding the spiritual destiny of India. His great disciple, Swami Vivekananda, was the first Hindu missionary to preach the message of Indian culture to the enlightened minds of Europe and America. The full consequence of Swami Vivekn and work is still in the womb of the future.
May this translation of the first book of its kind in the religious history of the world, being the record of the direct words of a prophet, help stricken humanity to come nearer to the Eternal Verity of life and remove dissension and quarrel from among the different faiths!
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In the life of the great Saviours and Prophets of the world it is often found that they are accompanied by souls of high spiritual potency who Play a conspicuous part in the furtherance of their Master's mission. They become so integral a part of the life and work of these great ones that posterity can think of them only in mutual association. Such is the case with Sri Ramakrishna and M., whose diary has come to be known to the world as the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna in English and as Sri Rmakrishna Kathmrita in the original Bengali version.
Sri Mahendra Nath Gupta, familiary known to the readers of the Gospel by his pen name M., and to the devotees as Master Mahashay, was born on the 14th of July, 1854 as the son of Madhusudan Gupta, an officer of the Calcutta High Court, and his wife, Swarnamayi Devi. He had a brilliant scholastic career at Hare School and the Presidency College at Calcutta. The range of his studies included the best that both occidental and oriental learning had to offer. English literature, history, economics, western philosophy and law on the one hand, and Sanskrit literature and grammar, Darsanas, Puranas, Smritis, Jainism, Buddhism, astrology and Ayurveda on the other were the subjects in which he attained considerable proficiency.
0.01 - Letters from the Mother to Her Son, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
and which move consciously towards certain ends. The Play of
these forces is very complex and generally eludes the human
0.02 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is a Plaything I enjoyed very much when I was small.
It is made of wood, and the plank you swing on is suspended
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discusses a Play or the pronunciation of French.
As soon as the project is completely ready, when you have
0.02 - The Three Steps of Nature, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Indeed, the increasing effort towards a more intense mental life seems to create, frequently, an increasing disequilibrium of the human elements, so that it is possible for eminent scientists to describe genius as a form of insanity, a result of degeneration, a pathological morbidity of Nature. The phenomena which are used to justify this exaggeration, when taken not separately, but in connection with all other relevant data, point to a different truth. Genius is one attempt of the universal Energy to so quicken and intensify our intellectual powers that they shall be prepared for those more puissant, direct and rapid faculties which constitute the Play of the supra-intellectual or divine mind. It is not, then, a freak, an inexplicable phenomenon, but a perfectly natural next step in the right line of her evolution.
She has harmonised the bodily life with the material mind, she is harmonising it with the Play of the intellectual mentality; for that, although it tends to a depression of the full animal and vital vigour, need not produce active disturbances. And she is shooting yet beyond in the attempt to reach a still higher level.
Nor are the disturbances created by her process as great as is often represented. Some of them are the crude beginnings of new manifestations; others are an easily corrected movement of disintegration, often fruitful of fresh activities and always a small price to pay for the far-reaching results that she has in view.
0.03 - III - The Evening Sittings, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
But, over and above newcomers, some local people and the few inmates of the house used to have informal talks with Sri Aurobindo in the evening. In the beginning the inmates used to go out for Playing football, and during their absence known local individuals would come in and wait for Sri Aurobindo. Afterwards regular meditations began at about 4 p.m. in which practically all the inmates participated. After the meditation all of the members and those who were permitted shared in the evening sitting. This was a very informal gathering depending entirely upon Sri Aurobindo's leisure.
When Sri Aurobindo and the Mother moved to No. 9 Rue de la Marine in 1922 the same routine of informal evening sittings after meditation continued. I came to Pondicherry for Sadhana in the beginning of 1923. I kept notes of the important talks I had with the four or five disciples who were already there. Besides, I used to take detailed notes of the Evening Talks which we all had with the Master. They were not intended by him to be noted down. I took them down because of the importance I felt about everything connected with him, no matter how insignificant to the outer view. I also felt that everything he did would acquire for those who would come to know his mission a very great significance.
0.03 - Letters to My little smile, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
While You were Playing the organ, I had the feeling
that the others were listening to the Mother Playing the
organ for me, and it made me feel proud. I understood,
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I do not feel that I am working; I just Play like a
child all day with the marvellous Playthings my Mother
has given me to Play with all day. I don't know how to
write in any other way and that is why I write to You "I
worked" instead of "I Played".
Mother, I think the sari You wore today is my finest
0.04 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
of chess Play. So till the cart was turned over and touched
the ground, he did not know.
0.04 - The Systems of Yoga, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Mother is to embrace the Divine in her own Play and creations and there to realise It. But in the highest flights of Yoga she reaches beyond herself and realises the Divine in Itself exceeding the universe and even standing apart from the cosmic Play.
Therefore by some it is supposed that this is not only the highest but also the one true or exclusively preferable object of Yoga.
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For the contact of the human and individual consciousness with the divine is the very essence of Yoga. Yoga is the union of that which has become separated in the Play of the universe with its own true self, origin and universality. The contact may take place at any point of the complex and intricately organised consciousness which we call our personality. It may be effected in the physical through the body; in the vital through the action of
Bhakta, the devotee or lover of God; Bhagavan, God, the Lord of Love and Delight.
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But this exclusive consummation is not the sole or inevitable result of the Path of Knowledge. For, followed more largely and with a less individual aim, the method of Knowledge may lead to an active conquest of the cosmic existence for the Divine no less than to a transcendence. The point of this departure is the realisation of the supreme Self not only in one's own being but in all beings and, finally, the realisation of even the phenomenal aspects of the world as a Play of the divine consciousness and not something entirely alien to its true nature. And on the basis of this realisation a yet further enlargement is possible, the conversion of all forms of knowledge, however mundane, into activities of the divine consciousness utilisable for the perception of the one and unique Object of knowledge both in itself and through the Play of its forms and symbols. Such a method might well lead to the elevation of the whole range of human intellect
The Systems of Yoga
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Love and Bliss and utilises normally the conception of the supreme Lord in His personality as the divine Lover and enjoyer of the universe. The world is then realised as a Play of the
Lord, with our human life as its final stage, pursued through the different phases of self-concealment and self-revelation. The principle of Bhakti Yoga is to utilise all the normal relations of human life into which emotion enters and apply them no longer to transient worldly relations, but to the joy of the All-Loving, the All-Beautiful and the All-Blissful. Worship and meditation are used only for the preparation and increase of intensity of the divine relationship. And this Yoga is catholic in its use of all emotional relations, so that even enmity and opposition to God, considered as an intense, impatient and perverse form of Love, is conceived as a possible means of realisation and salvation.
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But, here too, the exclusive result is not inevitable. The Yoga itself provides a first corrective by not confining the Play of divine love to the relation between the supreme Soul and the individual, but extending it to a common feeling and mutual worship between the devotees themselves united in the same realisation of the supreme Love and Bliss. It provides a yet more general corrective in the realisation of the divine object of Love in all beings not only human but animal, easily extended to all forms whatsoever. We can see how this larger application of the Yoga of
Devotion may be so used as to lead to the elevation of the whole range of human emotion, sensation and aesthetic perception to the divine level, its spiritualisation and the justification of the cosmic labour towards love and joy in our humanity.
0.05 - The Synthesis of the Systems, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Hathayoga and Rajayoga are thus successively practised. And in a recent unique example, in the life of Ramakrishna Paramhansa, we see a colossal spiritual capacity first driving straight to the divine realisation, taking, as it were, the kingdom of heaven by violence, and then seizing upon one Yogic method after another and extracting the substance out of it with an incredible rapidity, always to return to the heart of the whole matter, the realisation and possession of God by the power of love, by the extension of inborn spirituality into various experience and by the spontaneous Play of an intuitive knowledge. Such an example cannot be generalised. Its object also was special and temporal, to exemplify in the great and decisive experience of a master-soul the truth, now most necessary to humanity, towards which a world long divided into jarring sects and schools is with difficulty labouring, that all sects are forms and fragments of a single integral truth and all disciplines labour in their different ways towards one supreme experience. To know, be and possess
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By this integral realisation and liberation, the perfect harmony of the results of Knowledge, Love and Works. For there is attained the complete release from ego and identification in being with the One in all and beyond all. But since the attaining consciousness is not limited by its attainment, we win also the unity in Beatitude and the harmonised diversity in Love, so that all relations of the Play remain possible to us even while we retain on the heights of our being the eternal oneness with the
Beloved. And by a similar wideness, being capable of a freedom in spirit that embraces life and does not depend upon withdrawal from life, we are able to become without egoism, bondage or reaction the channel in our mind and body for a divine action poured out freely upon the world.
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functioning of the complex instrument we are in our outer parts, is the condition of an integral liberty. Its result is an integral beatitude, in which there becomes possible at once the Ananda of all that is in the world seen as symbols of the Divine and the Ananda of that which is not-world. And it prepares the integral perfection of our humanity as a type of the Divine in the conditions of the human manifestation, a perfection founded on a certain free universality of being, of love and joy, of Play of knowledge and of Play of will in power and will in unegoistic action. This integrality also can be attained by the integral Yoga.
Perfection includes perfection of mind and body, so that the highest results of Rajayoga and Hathayoga should be contained in the widest formula of the synthesis finally to be effected by mankind. At any rate a full development of the general mental and physical faculties and experiences attainable by humanity through Yoga must be included in the scope of the integral method. Nor would these have any raison d'etre unless employed for an integral mental and physical life. Such a mental and physical life would be in its nature a translation of the spiritual existence into its right mental and physical values. Thus we would arrive at a synthesis of the three degrees of Nature and of the three modes of human existence which she has evolved or is evolving. We would include in the scope of our liberated being and perfected modes of activity the material life, our base, and the mental life, our intermediate instrument.
0.06 - Letters to a Young Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
is the great Play, obscure and semi-conscious, of the forces of
unillumined nature; and as soon as one succeeds in escaping
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thought about the moonlight Playing upon the water.
Or, better still, not to have thought at all but contemplated the
0.07 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
and an ocean of Love! Such is your Play, dear Playful
Mother!
0.08 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
music Played by someone else?
In the same way that one can share the emotions of another
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your music at the Playground?
This music aims at awakening certain profound feelings.
01.01 - A Yoga of the Art of Life, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It is not my purpose here to enter into details as to the exact meaning of the descent, how it happens and what are its lines of activity and the results brought about. For it is indeed an actual descent that happens: the Divine Light leans down first into the mind and begins its purificatory work therealthough it is always the inner heart which first recognises the Divine Presence and gives its assent to the Divine action for the mind, the higher mind that is to say, is the summit of the ordinary human consciousness and receives more easily and readily the Radiances that descend. From the Mind the Light filters into the denser regions of the emotions and desires, of life activity and vital dynamism; finally, it gets into brute Matter itself, the hard and obscure rock of the physical body, for that too has to be illumined and made the very form and figure of the Light supernal. The Divine in his descending Grace is the Master-Architect who is building slowly and surely the many-chambered and many-storeyed edifice that is human nature and human life into the mould of the Divine Truth in its perfect Play and supreme expression. But this is a matter which can be closely considered when one is already well within the mystery of the path and has acquired the elementary essentials of an initiate.
Another question that troubles and perplexes the ordinary human mind is as to the time when the thing will be done. Is it now or a millennium hence or at some astronomical distance in future, like the cooling of the sun, as someone has suggested for an analogy. In view of the magnitude of the work one might with reason say that the whole eternity is there before us, and a century or even a millennium should not be grudged to such a labour for it is nothing less than an undoing of untold millenniums in the past and the building of a far-flung futurity. However, as we have said, since it is the Divine's own work and since Yoga means a concentrated and involved process of action, effectuating in a minute what would perhaps take years to accomplish in the natural course, one can expect the work to be done sooner rather than later. Indeed, the ideal is one of here and nowhere upon this earth of material existence and now in this life, in this very bodynot hereafter or elsewhere. How long exactly that will mean, depends on many factors, but a few decades on this side or the other do not matter very much.
01.01 - The New Humanity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The New Man will be Master and not slave. He will be master, first, of himself and then of the world. Man as he actually is, is but a slave. He has no personal voice or choice; the determining soul, the Ishwara, in him is sleep-bound and hushed. He is a mere Plaything in the hands of nature and circumstances. Therefore it is that Science has become his supreme Dharmashastra; for science seeks to teach us the moods of Nature and the methods of propitiating her. Our actual ideal of man is that of the cleverest slave. But the New Man will have found himself and by and according to his inner will, mould and create his world. He will not be in awe of Nature and in an attitude of perpetual apprehension and hesitation, but will ground himself on a secret harmony and union that will declare him as the lord. We will recognise the New Man by his very gait and manner, by a certain kingly ease and dominion in every shade of his expression.
Not that this sovereign power will have anything to do with aggression or over-bearingness. It will not be a power that feels itself only by creating an eternal opponentErbfeindby coming in constant clash with a rival that seeks to gain victory by subjugating. It will not be Nietzschean "will to power," which is, at best, a supreme Asuric power. It will rather be a Divine Power, for the strength it will exert and the victory it will achieve will not come from the egoit is the ego which requires an object outside and against to feel and affirm itself but it will come from a higher personal self which is one with the cosmic soul and therefore with other personal souls. The Asura, in spite of, or rather, because of his aggressive vehemence betrays a lack of the sovereign power that is calm and at ease and self-sufficient. The Devic power does not assert hut simply accomplishes; the forces of the world act not as its opponent but as its instrument. Thus the New Man shall affirm his individual sovereignty and do so to perfection by expressing through it his unity with the cosmic powers, with the infinite godhead. And by being Swarat, Self-Master, he will become Samrat, world-master.
01.02 - Natures Own Yoga, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The first contact that one has with this static supra-reality is through the higher ranges of the mind: a direct and closer communion is established through a plane which is just above the mind the Overmind, as Sri Aurobindo calls it. The Overmind dissolves or transcends the ego-consciousness which limits the being to its individualised formation bounded by an outward and narrow frame or sheath of mind, life and body; it reveals the universal Self and Spirit, the cosmic godhead and its myriad forces throwing up myriad forms; the world-existence there appears as a Play of ever-shifting veils upon the face of one ineffable reality, as a mysterious cycle of perpetual creation and destructionit is the overwhelming vision given by Sri Krishna to Arjuna in the Gita. At the same time, the initial and most intense experience which this cosmic consciousness brings is the extreme relativity, contingency and transitoriness of the whole flux, and a necessity seems logically and psychologically imperative to escape into the abiding substratum, the ineffable Absoluteness.
This has been the highest consummation, the supreme goal which the purest spiritual experience and the deepest aspiration of the human consciousness generally sought to attain. But in this view, the world or creation or Nature came in the end to be looked upon as fundamentally a product of Ignorance: ignorance and suffering and incapacity and death were declared to be the very hallmark of things terrestrial. The Light that dwells above and beyond can be made to shed for a while some kind of lustre upon the mortal darkness but never altogether to remove or change itto live in the full light, to be in and of the Light means to pass beyond. Not that there have not been other strands and types of spiritual experiences and aspirations, but the one we are considering has always struck the major chord and dominated and drowned all the rest.
But the initial illusory consciousness of the Overmind need not at all lead to the static Brahmic consciousness or Sunyam alone. As a matter of fact, there is in this particular processes of consciousness a hiatus between the two, between Maya and Brahman, as though one has to leap from the one into the other somehow. This hiatus is filled up in Sri Aurobindo's Yoga by the principle of Supermind, not synthetic-analytic2 in knowledge like Overmind and the highest mental intelligence, but inescapably unitarian even in the utmost diversity. Supermind is the Truth-consciousness at once static and dynamic, self-existent and creative: in Supermind the Brahmic consciousness Sachchidanandais ever self-aware and ever manifested and embodied in fundamental truth-powers and truth-forms for the Play of creation; it is the plane where the One breaks out into the Many and the Many still remain one, being and knowing themselves to be but various self-expressions of the One; it develops the spiritual archetypes, the divine names and forms of all individualisations of an evolving existence.
SRI AUROBINDO
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In the Supermind things exist in their perfect spiritual reality; each is consciously the divine reality in its transcendent essence, its cosmic extension, its, spiritual individuality; the diversity of a manifested existence is there, but the mutually exclusive separativeness has not yet arisen. The ego, the knot of separativity, appears at a later and lower stage of involution; what is here is indivisible nexus of individualising centres of the one eternal truth of being. Where Supermind and Overmind meet, one can see the multiple godheads, each distinct in his own truth and beauty and power and yet all together forming the one supreme consciousness infinitely composite and inalienably integral. But stepping back into Supermind one sees something moreOneness gathering into itself all diversity, not destroying it, but annulling and forbidding the separative consciousness that is the beginning of Ignorance. The first shadow of the Illusory Consciousness, the initial possibility of the movement of Ignorance comes in when the supramental light enters the penumbra of the mental sphere. The movement of Supermind is the movement of light without obscurity, straight, unwavering, unswerving, absolute. The Force here contains and holds in their oneness of Reality the manifold but not separated lines of essential and unalloyed truth: its march is the inevitable progression of each one assured truth entering into and upholding every other and therefore its creation, Play or action admits of no trial or stumble or groping or deviation; for each truth rests on all others and on that which harmonises them all and does not act as a Power diverging from and even competing with other Powers of being. In the Overmind commences the Play of divergent possibilities the simple, direct, united and absolute certainties of the supramental consciousness retire, as it were, a step behind and begin to work themselves out through the interaction first of separately individualised and then of contrary and contradictory forces. In the Overmind there is a conscious underlying Unity but yet each Power, Truth, Aspect of that Unity is encouraged to work out its possibilities as if it were sufficient to itself and the others are used by it for its own enhancement until in the denser and darker reaches below Overmind this turns out a thing of blind conflict and battle and, as it would appear, of chance survival. Creation or manifestation originally means the concretisation or devolution of the powers of Conscious Being into a Play of united diversity; but on the line which ends in Matter it enters into more and more obscure forms and forces and finally the virtual eclipse of the supreme light of the Divine Consciousness. Creation as it descends' towards the Ignorance becomes an involution of the Spirit through Mind and Life into Matter; evolution is a movement backward, a return journey from Matter towards the Spirit: it is the unravelling, the gradual disclosure and deliverance of the Spirit, the ascension and revelation of the involved consciousness through a series of awakeningsMatter awakening into Life, Life awakening into Mind and Mind now seeking to awaken into something beyond the Mind, into a power of conscious Spirit.
The apparent or actual result of the movement of Nescienceof Involutionhas been an increasing negation of the Spirit, but its hidden purpose is ultimately to embody the Spirit in Matter, to express here below in cosmic Time-Space the splendours of the timeless Reality. The material body came into existence bringing with it inevitably, as it seemed, mortality; it appeared even to be fashioned out of mortality, in order that in this very frame and field of mortality, Immortality, the eternal Spirit Consciousness which is the secret truth and reality in Time itself as well as behind it, might be established and that the Divine might be possessed, or rather, possess itself not in one unvarying mode of the static consciousness, as it does even now behind the cosmic Play, but in the Play itself and in the multiple mode of the terrestrial existence.
II
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Now, with regard to the time that the present stage of evolution is likely to take for its fulfilment, one can presume that since or if the specific urge and stress has manifested and come up to the front, this very fact would show that the problem has become a problem of actuality, and even that it can be dealt with as if it had to be solved now or never. We have said that in man, with man's self-consciousness or the consciousness of the psychic being as the instrument, evolution has attained the capacity of a swift and concentrated process, which is the process of Yoga; the process will become swifter and more concentrated, the more that instrument grows and gathers power and is infused with the divine afflatus. In fact, evolution has been such a process of gradual acceleration in tempo from the very beginning. The earliest stage, for example, the stage of dead Matter, of the Play of the mere chemical forces was a very, very long one; it took millions and millions of years to come to the point when the manifestation of life became possible. But the period of elementary life, as manifested in the plant world that followed, although it too lasted a good many millions of years, was much briefer than the preceding periodit ended with the advent of the first animal form. The age of animal life, again, has been very much shorter than that of the plant life before man came upon earth. And man is already more than a million or two years oldit is fully time that a higher order of being should be created out of him.
The Dhammapada, I. 1
01.02 - Sri Aurobindo - Ahana and Other Poems, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The heart and its urges, the vital and its surges, the physical impulsesit is these of which the poets sang in their infinite variations. But the mind proper, that is to say, the higher reflective ideative mind, was not given the right of citizenship in the domain of poetry. I am not forgetting the so-called Metaphysicals. The element of metaphysics among the Metaphysicals has already been called into question. There is here, no doubt, some theology, a good dose of mental cleverness or conceit, but a modern intellectual or rather rational intelligence is something other, something more than that. Even the metaphysics that was commandeered here had more or less a decorative value, it could not be taken into the pith and substance of poetic truth and beauty. It was a decoration, but not unoften a drag. I referred to the Upanishads, but these strike quite a different, almost an opposite line in this connection. They are in a sense truly metaphysical: they bypass the mind and the mental powers, get hold of a higher mode of consciousness, make a direct contact with truth and beauty and reality. It was Buddha's credit to have forged this missing link in man's spiritual consciousness, to have brought into Play the power of the rational intellect and used it in support of the spiritual experience. That is not to say that he was the very first person, the originator who initiated the movement; but at least this seems to be true that in him and his au thentic followers the movement came to the forefront of human consciousness and attained the proportions of a major member of man's psychological constitution. We may remember here that Socrates, who started a similar movement of rationalisation in his own way in Europe, was almost a contemporary of the Buddha.
Poetry as an expression of thought-power, poetry weighted with intelligence and rationalised knowledge that seems to me to be the end and drive, the secret sense of all the mystery of modern technique. The combination is risky, but not impossible. In the spiritual domain the Gita achieved this miracle to a considerable degree. Still, the power of intelligence and reason shown by Vyasa is of a special order: it is a sublimated function of the faculty, something aloof and other-worldly"introvert", a modern mind would term it that is to say, something a priori, standing in its own au thenticity and self-sufficiency. A modern intelligence would be more scientific, let us use the word, more matter-of-fact and sense-based: the mental light should not be confined in its ivory tower, however high that may be, but brought down and placed at the service of our perception and appreciation and explanation of things human and terrestrial; made immanent in the mundane and the ephemeral, as they are commonly called. This is not an impossibility. Sri Aurobindo seems to have done the thing. In him we find the three terms of human consciousness arriving at an absolute fusion and his poetry is a wonderful example of that fusion. The three terms are the spiritual, the intellectual or philosophical and the physical or sensational. The intellectual, or more generally, the mental, is the intermediary, the Paraclete, as he himself will call it later on in a poem9 magnificently exemplifying the point we are trying to make out the agent who negotiates, bridges and harmonises the two other firmaments usually supposed to be antagonistic and incompatible.
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These wanderings of the suns, these stars at Play
In the due measure that they chose of old.. . .
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From "Ahana" in Sri Aurobindo's Ahana and Other Poems. There is a later version of the poem in Collected Poems and Plays, Vol II.
"Reminiscence."
01.02 - The Issue, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Her Playmate in the sempiternal spheres
Descended from its unattainable realms
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A chattel and a Plaything of Time's lords,
Or one more pawn who comes destined to be pushed
01.03 - Mystic Poetry, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It is not merely by addressing the beloved as your goddess that you can attain this mysticism; the Elizabethan did that in merry abundance,ad nauseam.A finer temper, a more delicate touch, a more subtle sensitiveness and a kind of artistic wizardry are necessary to tune the body into a rhythm of the spirit. The other line of mysticism is common enough, viz., to express the spirit in terms and rhythms of the flesh. Tagore did that liberally, the Vaishnava poets did nothing but that, the Song of Solomon is an exquisite example of that procedure. There is here, however, a difference in degrees which is an interesting feature worth noting. Thus in Tagore the reference to the spirit is evident, that is the major or central chord; the earthly and the sensuous are meant as the name and form, as the body to render concrete, living and vibrant, near and intimate what otherwise would perhaps be vague and abstract, afar, aloof. But this mundane or human appearance has a value in so far as it is a support, a pointer or symbol of the spiritual import. And the mysticism lies precisely in the Play of the two, a hide-and-seek between them. On the other hand, as I said, the greater portion of Vaishnava poetry, like a precious and beautiful casket, no doubt, hides the spiritual import: not the pure significance but the sign and symbol are luxuriously elaborated, they are placed in the foreground in all magnificence: as if it was their very purpose to conceal the real meaning. When the Vaishnava poet says,
O love, what more shall I, shall Radha speak,
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The growth of a philosophical thought-content in poetry has been inevitable. For man's consciousness in its evolutionary march is driving towards a consummation which includes and presupposes a development along that line. The mot d'ordre in old-world poetry was "fancy", imaginationremember the famous lines of Shakespeare characterising a poet; in modern times it is Thought, even or perhaps particularly abstract metaphysical thought. Perceptions, experiences, realisationsof whatever order or world they may beexpressed in sensitive and aesthetic terms and figures, that is poetry known and appreciated familiarly. But a new turn has been coming on with an increasing insistencea definite time has been given to that, since the Renaissance, it is said: it is the growing importance of Thought or brain-power as a medium or atmosphere in which poetic experiences find a sober and clear articulation, a definite and strong formulation. Rationalisation of all experiences and realisations is the keynote of the modern mentality. Even when it is said that reason and rationality are not ultimate or final or significant realities, that the irrational or the submental Plays a greater role in our consciousness and that art and poetry likewise should be the expression of such a mentality, even then, all this is said and done in and through a strong rational and intellectual stress and frame the like of which cannot be found in the old-world frankly non-intellectual creations.
The religious, the mystic or the spiritual man was, in the past, more or Jess methodically and absolutely non-intellectual and anti-intellectual: but the modern age, the age of scientific culture, is tending to make him as strongly intellectual: he has to explain, not only present the object but show up its mechanism alsoexplain to himself so that he may have a total understanding and a firmer grasp of the thing which he presents and explains to others as well who demand a similar approach. He feels the necessity of explaining, giving the rationality the rationale the science, of his art; for without that, it appears to him, a solid ground is not given to the structure of his experience: analytic power, preoccupation with methodology seems inherent in the modern creative consciousness.
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This is what I was trying to make out as the distinguishing trait of the real spiritual consciousness that seems to be developing in the poetic creation of tomorrow, e.g., it has the same rationality, clarity, concreteness of perception as the scientific spirit has in its own domain and still it is rounded off with a halo of magic and miracle. That is the nature of the logic of the infinite proper to the spiritual consciousness. We can have a Science of the Spirit as well as a Science of Matter. This is the Thought element or what corresponds to it, of which I was speaking, the philosophical factor, that which gives form to the formless or definition to that which is vague, a nearness and familiarity to that which is far and alien. The fullness of the spiritual consciousness means such a thing, the presentation of a divine name and form. And this distinguishes it from the mystic consciousness which is not the supreme solar consciousness but the nearest approach to it. Or, perhaps, the mystic dwells in the domain of the Divine, he may even be suffused with a sense of unity but would not like to acquire the Divine's nature and function. Normally and generally he embodies all the aspiration and yearning moved by intimations and suggestions belonging to the human mentality, the divine urge retaining still the human flavour. We can say also, using a Vedantic terminology, that the mystic consciousness gives us the tatastha lakshana, the nearest approximative attribute of the attri buteless; or otherwise, it is the hiranyagarbha consciousness which englobes the multiple Play, the coruscated possibilities of the Reality: while the spiritual proper may be considered as prajghana, the solid mass, the essential lineaments of revelatory knowledge, the typal "wave-particles" of the Reality. In the former there is a Play of imagination, even of fancy, a decorative aesthesis, while in the latter it is vision pure and simple. If the spiritual poetry is solar in its nature, we can say, by extending the analogy, that mystic poetry is characteristically lunarMoon representing the delight and the magic that Mind and mental imagination, suffused, no doubt, with a light or a reflection of some light from beyond, is capable of (the Upanishad speaks of the Moon being born of the Mind).
To sum up and recapitulate. The evolution of the poetic expression in man has ever been an attempt at a return and a progressive approach to the spiritual source of poetic inspiration, which was also the original, though somewhat veiled, source from the very beginning. The movement has followed devious waysstrongly negative at timeseven like man's life and consciousness in general of which it is an organic member; but the ultimate end and drift seems to have been always that ideal and principle even when fallen on evil days and evil tongues. The poet's ideal in the dawn of the world was, as the Vedic Rishi sang, to raise things of beauty in heaven by his poetic power,kavi kavitv divi rpam sajat. Even a Satanic poet, the inaugurator, in a way, of modernism and modernistic consciousness, Charles Baudelaire, thus admonishes his spirit:
01.03 - Sri Aurobindo and his School, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo's sadhana starts from the perception of a Power that is beyond the ordinary nature yet is its inevitable master, a fulcrum, as we have said, outside the earth. For what is required first is the discovery and manifestation of a new soul-consciousness in man which will bring about by the very pressure and working out of its self-rule an absolute reversal of man's nature. It is the Asuras who are now holding sway over humanity, for man has allowed himself so long to be built in the image of the Asura; to dislodge the Asuras, the Gods in their sovereign might have to be forged in the human being and brought into Play. It is a stupendous task, some would say impossible; but it is very far removed from quietism or passivism. Sri Aurobindo is in retirement, but it is a retirement only from the outward field of present physical activities and their apparent actualities, not from the true forces and action of life. It is the retreat necessary to one who has to go back into himself to conquer a new plane of creative power,an entrance right into the world of basic forces, of fundamental realities, into the flaming heart of things where all actualities are born and take their first shape. It is the discovery of a power-house of tremendous energism and of the means of putting it at the service of earthly life.
And, properly speaking, it is not at all a school, least of all a mere school of thought, that is growing round Sri Aurobindo. It is rather the nucleus of a new life that is to come. Quite naturally it has almost insignificant proportions at present to the outward eye, for the work is still of the nature of experiment and trial in very restricted limits, something in the nature of what is done in a laboratory when a new power has been discovered, but has still to be perfectly formulated in its process. And it is quite a mistake to suppose that there is a vigorous propaganda carried on in its behalf or that there is a large demand for recruits. Only the few, who possess the call within and are impelled by the spirit of the future, have a chance of serving this high attempt and great realisation and standing among its first instruments and pioneer workers.
01.03 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Souls Release, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Protagonist of the mysterious Play
In which the Unknown pursues himself through forms
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A Playground of the living Infinite.
This bodily appearance is not all;
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And look down on the magic and the Play
Where the God-child lies on the lap of Night and Dawn
01.03 - Yoga and the Ordinary Life, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
I may say briefly that there are two states of consciousness in either of which one can live. One is a higher consciousness which stands above the Play of life and governs it; this is variously called the Self, the Spirit or the Divine. The other is the normal consciousness in which men live; it is something quite superficial, an instrument of the Spirit for the Play of life. Those who live and act in the normal consciousness are governed entirely by the common movements of the mind and are naturally subject to grief and joy and anxiety and desire or to everything else that makes up the ordinary stuff of life.
Mental quiet and happiness they can get, but it can never be permanent or secure. But the spiritual consciousness is all light, peace, power and bliss. If one can live entirely in it, there is no question; these things become naturally and securely his.
01.04 - Sri Aurobindos Gita, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Arrived so far, we now find, if we look back, a change in the whole perspective. Karma and even Karmayoga, which hitherto seemed to be the pivot of the Gita's teaching, retire somewhat into the background and present a diminished stature and value. The centre of gravity has shifted to the conception of the Divine Nature, to the Lord's own status, to the consciousness above the three Gunas, to absolute consecration of each limb of man's humanity to the Supreme Purusha for his descent and incarnation and Play in and upon this human world.
The higher secret of the Gita lies really in the later chapters, the earlier chapters being a preparation and passage to it orpartial and practical application. This has to be pointed out, since there is a notion current which seeks to limit the Gita's effective teaching to the earlier part, neglecting or even discarding the later portion.
01.04 - The Poetry in the Making, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Still, it must be noted that Coleridge is a rare example, for the recording apparatus is not usually so faithful but puts up its own formations that disturb and alter the perfection of the original. The passivity or neutrality of the intermediary is relative, and there are infinite grades of it. Even when the larger waves that Play in it in the normal waking state are quieted down, smaller ripples of unconscious or half-conscious habitual formations are thrown up and they are sufficient to cause the scattering and dispersal of the pure light from above.
The absolute passivity is attainable, perhaps, only by the Yogi. And in this sense the supreme poet is a Yogi, for in his consciousness the higher, deeper, subtler or other modes of experiences pass through and are recorded with the minimum aberration or diffraction.
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Such a stage in human evolution, the advent of Homo Faber, has been a necessity; it has to serve a purpose and it has done admirably its work. Only we have to put it in its proper place. The salvation of an extremely self-conscious age lies in an exceeding and not in a further enhancement or an exclusive concentration of the self-consciousness, nor, of course, in a falling back into the original unconsciousness. It is this shift in the poise of consciousness that has been presaged and prepared by the conscious, the scientific artists of today. Their task is to forge an instrument for a type of poetic or artistic creation completely new, unfamiliar, almost revolutionary which the older mould would find it impossible to render adequately. The yearning of the human consciousness was not to rest satisfied with the familiar and the ordinary, the pressure was for the discovery of other strands, secret stores of truth and reality and beauty. The first discovery was that of the great Unconscious, the dark and mysterious and all-powerful subconscient. Many of our poets and artists have been influenced by this power, some even sought to enter into that region and become its denizens. But artistic inspiration is an emanation of Light; whatever may be the field of its Play, it can have its origin only in the higher spheres, if it is to be truly beautiful and not merely curious and scientific.
That is what is wanted at present in the artistic world the true inspiration, the breath from higher altitudes. And here comes the role of the mystic, the Yogi. The sense of evolution, the march of human consciousness demands and prophesies that the future poet has to be a mysticin him will be fulfilled the travail of man's conscious working. The self-conscious craftsman, the tireless experimenter with his adventurous analytic mind has sharpened his instrument, made it supple and elastic, tempered, refined and enriched it; that is comparable to what we call the aspiration or call from below. Now the Grace must descend and fulfil. And when one rises into this higher consciousness beyond the brain and mind, when one lives there habitually, one knows the why and the how of things, one becomes a perfectly conscious operator and still retains all spontaneity and freshness and wonder and magic that are usually associated with inconscience and irreflection. As there is a spontaneity of instinct, there is likewise also a spontaneity of vision: a child is spontaneous in its movements, even so a seer. Not only so, the higher spontaneity is more spontaneous, for the higher consciousness means not only awareness but the free and untrammelled activity and expression of the truth and reality it is.
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Ifso long the poet was more or less a passive, a half-conscious or unconscious intermediary between the higher and the lower lights and delights, his role in the future will be better fulfilled when he becomes fully aware of it and consciously moulds and directs his creative energies. The poet is and has to be the harbinger and minstrel of unheard-of melodies: he is the fashioner of the creative word that brings down and embodies the deepest aspirations and experiences of the human consciousness. The poet is a missionary: he is missioned by Divine Beauty to radiate upon earth something of her charm and wizardry. The fullness of his role he can only Play up when he is fully conscious for it is under that condition that all obstructing and obscuring elements lying across the path of inspiration can be completely and wholly eradicated: the instrument purified and tempered and transmuted can hold and express golden truths and beauties and puissances that otherwise escape the too human mould.
"The Last Voyage" by Charles Williams-A Little Book of Modern Verse, (Faber and Faber).
01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
These heed not the deceiving outward Play,
They turn not to the moment's busy tramp,
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A Playmate in the mighty Mother s game,
One came upon the dubious whirling globe
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There are Two who are One and Play in many worlds;
In Knowledge and Ignorance they have spoken and met
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Thus have they made their Play with us for roles:
Author and actor with himself as scene,
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Makes all reflect her whims; all is their Play:
This whole wide world is only he and she.
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Her endless space is the Playground of his thoughts;
She binds to knowledge of the shapes of Time
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In the insoluble riddle of her Play,
A creature made of perishable stuff,
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At Play with him as with her child or slave,
To freedom and the Eternal's mastery
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Till then he is a Plaything in her game;
Her seeming regent, yet her fancy's toy,
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And Plays at hide-and-seek with his own Force;
In Nature's instrument loiters secret God.
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He is the Player who became the Play,
He is the Thinker who became the thought;
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And jewelled toys brought for an infant's Play
And perishable products of hard toil
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Her Play is real; a Mystery he fulfils:
There is a plan in the Mother s deep world-whim,
01.05 - Rabindranath Tagore: A Great Poet, a Great Man, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Tagore is no inventor or innovator when he posits Spirit as Beauty, the spiritual consciousness as the ardent rhythm of ecstasy. This experience is the very core of Vaishnavism and for which Tagore is sometimes called a Neo-Vaishnava. The Vaishnava sees the world pulsating in glamorous beauty as the Lila ( Play) of the Lord, and the Lord, God himself, is nothing but Love and Beauty. Still Tagore is not all Vaishnava or merely a Vaishnava; he is in addition a modern (the carping voice will say, there comes the dilution and adulteration)in the sense that problems exist for himsocial, political, economic, national, humanitarianwhich have to be faced and solved: these are not merely mundane, but woven into the texture of the fundamental problem of human destiny, of Soul and Spirit and God. A Vaishnava was, in spite of his acceptance of the world, an introvert, to use a modern psychological phrase, not necessarily in the pejorative sense, but in the neutral scientific sense. He looks upon the universe' and human life as the Play of the Lord, as an actuality and not mere illusion indeed; but he does not participate or even take interest in the dynamic working out of the world process, he does not care to know, has no need of knowing that there is a terrestrial purpose and a diviner fulfilment of the mortal life upon earth. The Vaishnava dwells more or less absorbed in the Vaikuntha of his inner consciousness; the outer world, although real, is only a symbolic shadow Play to which he can but be a witness-real, is only a nothing more.
A modern idealist of the type of a reformer would not be satisfied with that role. If he is merely a moralist reformer, he will revolt against the "witness business", calling it a laissez-faire mentality of bygone days. A spiritual reformer would ask for morea dynamic union with the Divine Will and Consciousness, not merely a passive enjoyment in the Bliss, so that he may be a luminous power or agent for the expression of divine values in things mundane.
Not the acceptance of the world as it is, not even a joyous acceptance, viewing it as an inexplicable and mysterious and magic Play of, God, but the asp ration and endeavour to change it, mould it in the pattern of its inner divine realities for there are such realities which seek expression and embodiment in earthly life that is the great mission and labour of humanity and that is all the meaning of man's existence here below. And Tagore is one of the great prophets and labourers who had the vision of the shape of things to come and worked for it. Only it must be noted, as I have already said, that unlike mere moral reformists or scientific planners, Tagore grounded himself upon the eternal ancient truths that "age cannot wither nor custom stale"the divine truths of the Spirit.
Tagore was a poet; this poetic power of his he put in the service of the great cause for the divine uplift of humanity. Naturally, it goes without saying, his poetry did not preach or propagandize the truths for which he stoodhe had a fine and powerful weapon in his prose to do the work, even then in a poetic way but to sing them. And he sang them not in their philosophical bareness, like a Lucretius, or in their sheer transcendental austerity like some of the Upanishadic Rishis, but in and through human values and earthly norms. The especial aroma of Tagore's poetry lies exactly here, as he himself says, in the note of unboundedness in things bounded that it describes. A mundane, profane sensuousness, Kalidasian in richness and sweetness, is matched or counterpointed by a simple haunting note imbedded or trailing somewhere behind, a lyric cry persevering into eternity, the nostalgic cry of the still small voice.2
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Sri Aurobindo: "Ahana", Collected Poems & Plays, Vol. 2
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01.06 - On Communism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Now how to escape the dilemma? Only if we take the commune and the individual togetheren bloc, as has already been suggested. This means that the commune should be at the beginning a subtle and supple thing, without form and even without name, it should be no more than the circumambient aura the sukshma deha that Plays around a group of individuals who meet and unite and move together by a secret affinity, along a common path towards a common goal. As each individual develops and defines himself, the commune also takes a more and more concrete shape; and when at the last stage the individual rises to the full height of his godhead, takes possession of his integral divinity, the commune also establishes its solid empire, vivid and vibrant in form and name.
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01.07 - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The process of conversion of the doubting mind, of the dry intellectual reason as propounded and perhaps practised by Pascal is also a characteristic mark of his nature and genius. It is explained in his famous letter on "bet" or "game of chance" (Le Pari). Here is how he puts the issue to the doubting mind (I am giving the substance, not his words): let us say then that in the world we are Playing a game of chance. How do the chances stand? What are the gains and losses if God does not exist? What 'are the gains and losses if God does exist? If God exists, by accepting and reaching him what do we gain? All that man cares forhappiness, felicity. And what do we lose? We lose the world of misery. If, on the other 'hand, God does not exist, by believing him to exist, we lose nothing, we are not more miserable than what we are. If, however, God exists and we do not believe him, we gain this world of misery but we lose all that is worth having. Thus Pascal concludes that even from the standpoint of mere gain and loss, belief in God is more advantageous than unbelief. This is how he applied to metaphysics the mathematics of probability.
One is not sure if such reasoning is convincing to the intellect; but perhaps it is a necessary stage in conversion. At least we can conclude that Pascal had to pass through such a stage; and it indicates the difficulty his brain had to undergo, the tension or even the torture he made it pass through. It is true, from Reason Pascal went over to Faith, even while giving Reason its due. Still it seems the two were not perfectly synthetised or fused in him. There was a gap between that was not thoroughly bridged. Pascal did not possess the higher, intuitive, luminous mind that mediates successfully between the physical discursive ratiocinative brain-mind and the vision of faith: it is because deep in his consciousness there lay this chasm. Indeed,Pascal's abyss (l' abme de Pascal) is a well-known legend. Pascal, it appears, used to have very often the vision of an abyss about to open before him and he shuddered at the prospect of falling into it. It seems to us to be an experience of the Infinity the Infinity to which he was so much attracted and of which he wrote so beautifully (L'infiniment grand et l'infiniment petit)but into which he could not evidently jump overboard unreservedly. This produced a dichotomy, a lack of integration of personality, Jung would say. Pascal's brain was cold, firm, almost rigid; his heart was volcanic, the faith he had was a fire: it lacked something of the pure light and burned with a lurid glare.
01.07 - The Bases of Social Reconstruction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
It is this persuasion which, has led many spiritual souls, siddhas, to declare that theirs is not the kingdom upon this earth, but that the kingdom of Heaven is within. And it is why great lovers of humanity have sought not to eradicate but only to mitigate, as far as possible, the ills of life. Earth and life, it is said, contain in their last analysis certain ugly and loathsome realities which are an inevitable and inexorable part of their substance and to eliminate one means to annihilate the other. What can be done is to throw a veil over the nether regions in human nature, to put a ban on their urges and velleities and to create opportunities to make social arrangements so that the higher impulses only find free Play while the lower impulses, for want of scope and indulgence, may fall down to a harmless level. This is what the Reformists hope and want and no more. Life is based upon animality, the soul is encased in an earth-sheathman needs must procreate, man needs must seek food. But what human effort can achieve is to set up barriers and limitations and form channels and openings, which will restrain these impulses, allow them a necessary modicum of Play and which for the greater part will serve to encourage and enhance the nobler urges in man. Of course, there will remain always the possibility of the whole scaffolding coming down with a crash and the aboriginal in man running riot in his nudity. But we have to accept the chance and make the best of what materials we have in hand.
No doubt this is a most dismal kind of pessimism. But it is the logical conclusion of all optimism that bases itself upon a particular view of human nature. If we question that pessimism, we have to question the very grounds of our optimism also. As a matter of fact, all our idealism has been so long infructuous and will be so in the future, if we do not shift our foundation and start from a different IntuitionWeltanschauung.
01.08 - A Theory of Yoga, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Yet even here the process of control and transformation does not end. And we now come to the Fifth Line, the real and intimate path of yoga. Conscious control gives us a natural mastery over the instinctive impulses which are relieved of their dark tamas and attain a purified rhythm. We do not seek to hide or repress or combat them, but surpass them and Play with them as the artist does with his material. Something of this katharsis, this aestheticism of the primitive impulses was achieved by the ancient Greeks. Even then the primitive impulses remain primitive all the same; they fulfil, no doubt, a real and healthy function in the scheme of life, but still in their fundamental nature they continue the animal in man. And even when Conscious Control means the utter elimination and annihilation of the primal instinctswhich, however, does not seem to be a probable eventualityeven then, we say, the basic problem remains unsolved; for the urge of nature towards the release and a transformation of the instincts does not find satisfaction, the question is merely put aside.
Yoga, then, comes at this stage and offers the solution in its power of what we may call Transubstantiation. That is to say, here the mere form is not changed, nor the functions restrained, regulated and purified, but the very substance of the instincts is transmuted. The power of conscious control is a power of the human will, i.e. of an individual personal will and therefore necessarily limited both in intent and extent. It is a power complementary to the power of Nature, it may guide and fashion the latter according to a new pattern, but cannot change the basic substance, the stuff of Nature. To that end yoga seeks a power that transcends the human will, brings into Play the supernal puissance of a Divine Will.
This is the real meaning and sense of the moral struggle in man, the continuous endeavour towards a transvaluation of the primary and aboriginal instincts and impulses. Looked at from one end, from below up the ascending line, man's ethical and spiritual ideals are a dissimulation and sublimation of the animal impulsions. But this is becauseas we see, if we look from the other end, from above down the descending lineman is not all instinct, he is not a mere blind instrument in the hands of Nature forces. He has in him another source, an opposite pole of being from which other impulsions flow and continually modify the structure of the lower levels. If the animal is the foundation of his nature, the divine is its summit. If the bodily demands form his manifest reality, the demands of the spirit enshrine his higher reality. And if as regards the former he is a slave, as regards the latter he is the Master. It is by the interaction of these double forces that his whole nature has been and is being fashioned. Man does not and cannot give carte blanche to his vital, inclinations, since there is a pressure upon them of higher forces coming down from his mental and spiritual levels. It is these latter which have deviated him from the direct line of the pure animal life.
0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
dream. As I could not tell it to You at the Playground, I
am going to tell You now.
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important meeting at the Playground, so I was hurrying there. But near the Playground in front of Standard
Stores, the road was covered with innumerable snakes.
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go round by another way to the Playground. But just
then something spoke to me within: "What! Are you
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did I disturb them. When I reached the Playground, I
started talking to a friend. Suddenly he jumped back
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exactly what happened at the Playground afterwards.
Mother, what do You think of this dream?
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and how can it be done? For instance, when we Play
tennis or basketball, how can we do it as an offering?
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deceptive appearance of a great Play of universal forces which
one does not understand.
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my room and going to meditate at the Playground with
everyone else?
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nothing - is that it is "the Divine's Play". It is incomprehensible.
That is an easy answer which one gives when one will not or
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working at the Playground and your place of work, and try to
do it as selflessly as possible.
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activities - the Playground, band, studies, etc. - and
devoting all my time to work. But my logic does not
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the state of one who feels that everything here is the Play
Sri Aurobindo sent a special messenger to Delhi advising Indian leaders to accept,
01.12 - Goethe, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There is on the earthly stage the Play of a challenge, a twofold challenge, one between God and Satan and another, as a consequence, between Man and Satan.
Satan is jealous of man who is God's favourite. He tells God that his partiality to man is misplaced. God has put into man a little of his light (reason and intelligence and something more perhaps), but to what purpose? Man tries to soar, he thinks he flies high and wide, but in fact he is and will be an insect that "lies always in the grass and sings its old song in the grass." God answers that whatever the perplexity in which man now is, in the end he will come out and reach the Light with a greater and richer experience of it. Satan smiles in return and says he will prove otherwise. Given a free hand, he can do whatever he likes with man: "Dust shall he eat and with a relish." God willingly agrees to the challenge: there is no harm in Satan's trying his hand. Indeed, Satan will prove to be a good companion to man; for man is normally prone to inertia and sinks into repose and rest and stagnation. Satan will be the goad, the force that drives towards ceaseless activity. For activity is life, and without activity no progress.
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The angels weave the symphony that is creation. They represent the various notes and rhythmsin their higher and purer degrees that make up the grand harmony of the spheres. It is magnificent, this music that moves the cosmos, and wonderful the glory of God manifest therein. But is it absolutely perfect? Is there nowhere any flaw in it? There is a doubting voice that enters a dissenting note. That is Satan, the Antagonist, the Evil One. Man is the weakest link in the chain of the apparently all-perfect harmony. And Satan boldly proposes to snap it if God only let him do so. He can prove to God that the true nature of his creation is not cosmos but chaos not a harmony in peace and light, but a confusion, a Walpurgis Night. God acquiesces in the Play of this apparent breach and proves in the end that it is part of a wider scheme, a vaster harmony. Evil is rounded off by Grace.
The total eradication of Evil from the world and human nature and the remoulding of a terrestrial life in the substance and pattern of the Highest Good that is beyond all dualities is a conception which it was not for Goe the to envisage. In the order of reality or existence, first there is the consciousness of division, of trenchant separation in which Good is equated with not-evil and evil with not-good. This is the outlook of individualised consciousness. Next, as the consciousness grows and envelops the whole existence, good and evil are both embraced and are found to form a secret and magic harmony. That is the universal or cosmic consciousness. And Goethe's genius seems to be an outflowering of something of this status of consciousness. But there is still a higher status, the status of transcendence in which evil is not simply embraced but dissolved and even transmuted into a supreme reality of which it is an aberration, a reflection or projection, a lower formulation. That is the mystery of a spiritual realisation to which Goe the aspired perhaps, but had not the necessary initiation to enter into.
0.11 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Because it is part of the Play?
It is the human mind that has the conception of success and
0.12 - Letters to a Student, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What are knowledge and intelligence? Do they Play
important roles in our life?
0 1954-08-25 - what is this personality? and when will she come?, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The following text is an extract from a 'Wednesday Class,' when every Wednesday Mother would answer questions raised by the disciples and children at the Ashram Playground.
(Mother reads to the disciples an excerpt from Sri Aurobindos THE MOTHER, in which he describes the different aspects of the Creative Powerwhat is India is called the Shakti, or the Motherwhich have presided over universal evolution.)
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If you look at yourselves straight in the face and you see what you are, then if by chance you should resolve to But what really astounds me is that you dont even seem to feel an intense NEED to do this! But how can we know? Because you DO know, you have been told over and over again, it has been drummed into your heads. You KNOW that you have a divine consciousness within you. And yet you can go on sleeping night after night, Playing day after day, doing your lessons ad infinitum and still not be not have a BURNING desire and will to come into contact with yourselves!With yourselves, yes, the you just there, inside (motion towards the center of the chest) Really, its beyond me!
As soon as I found outand no one told me, I found out through an experienceas soon as I found out that there was a discovery to be made within myself, well, it became THE MOST IMPORTANT thing in the world. It took precedence over everything else!
0 1955-04-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
When I am not immediately engrossed in work, I have to confront a thousand little temptations and daily difficulties that come from my contact with other beings and a life that does indeed remain in life. Here, even more, there is the feeling of an impossible struggle, and all these little difficulties seem to gnaw away at me; scarcely has one hole been filled when another opens up, or the same one reappears, and there is never any real victoryone has constantly to begin everything again. Finally, it seems to me that I really live only one hour a day, during the evening distribution at the Playground.2 It is scarcely a life and scarcely a sadhana!
Consequently, I understand much better now why in the traditional yogas one settled all these difficulties once and for all by escaping from the world, without bothering to transform a life that seems so untransformable.
--
Every evening at the Playground, the disciples passed before Mother one by one to receive symbolically some food.
In the Himalayas.
0 1956-05-02, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Mother, very recently a text has been circulating which says, What has just now happened, with this Victory, is not a descent but a manifestation. And it is no longer merely an individual event: the Supermind has sprung forth into the universal Play.
Yes, yes, yes! I indeed said all that. I acknowledge it. And so?
0 1958-01-01, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The evening I told you these things, I totally identified myself with Nature and I entered into her Play. And this movement of identification brought forth a response, a new kind of intimacy between Nature and myself, a long movement of drawing ever nearer which culminated in an experience that came on November 8.
Nature suddenly understood. She understood that this newborn Consciousness does not seek to reject her, but wants to embrace her entirely. She understood that this new spirituality does not stand apart from life, does not timorously recoil before the awesome richness of her movement, but on the contrary wants to integrate all her facets. She understood that the supramental consciousness is not there to diminish her but to make her complete.
Then, from the supreme Reality came this command: Awaken, O Nature, to the joy of collaboration. And suddenly, all Nature rushed forth in an immense bounding of joy, saying, I accept! I will collaborate! And at the same time, there came a calm, an absolute tranquillity, to allow this receptacle, this body, to receive and contain without breaking and without losing anything of the Joy of Nature that was rushing forth in a movement of grateful recognition like an overwhelming flood. She accepted, she sawwith all eternity before her that this supramental consciousness would fulfill her more perfectly and impart a still greater force to her movement and more richness, more possibilities to her Play.
And suddenly, as if resounding from every corner of the earth, I heard these great notes which are sometimes heard in the subtle physicalra ther like those of Beethovens Concerto in Dwhich come at moments of great progress, as though fifty orchestras were bursting forth all at once without a single discordant note, to sound the joy of this new communion of Nature and Spirit, the meeting of old friends who, after a long separation, find each other once more.
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I have one thing to add: we must not misinterpret the meaning of this experience and imagine that henceforth everything will take place without difficulties or always in accordance with our personal desires. It is not at this level. It does not mean that when we do not want it to rain, it will not rain! Or when we want some event to take place in the world, it will immediately take place, or that all difficulties will be abolished and everything will be like a fairy tale. It is not like that. It is something more profound. Nature has accepted into her Play of forces the newly manifested Force and has included it in her movements. But as always, the movements of Nature take place on a scale infinitely surpassing the human scale and invisible to the ordinary human consciousness. It is more of an inner, psychological possibility that has been born in the world than a spectacular change in earthly events.
I mention this because you might be tempted to believe that fairy tales are going to be realized upon earth. The time has not yet come.
0 1958-05-11 - the ship that said OM, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
During an Indian film on Dhruva in which this manna was chanted for a long time. This film was shown at the Ashram Playground on April 29, 1958.
In the same film.
0 1958-05-30, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
As a matter of fact, my tendency is more and more towards something in which the role of these hostile forces will be reduced to that of an examinerwhich means that they are there to test the sincerity of your spiritual quest. These elements have a reality in their action and for the workthis is their great reality but when you go beyond a certain region, it all grows dim to such a degree that it is no longer so well defined, so distinct. In the occult world, or rather if you look at the world from the occult point of view, these hostile forces are very real, their action is very real, quite concrete, and their attitude towards the divine realization is positively hostile; but as soon as you go beyond this region and enter into the spiritual world where there is no longer anything but the Divine in all things, and where there is nothing undivine, then these hostile forces become part of the total Play and can no longer be called hostile forces: it is only an attitude that they have adoptedor more precisely, it is only an attitude adopted by the Divine in his Play.
This again belongs to the dualities that Sri Aurobindo speaks of in (The Synthesis of Yoga, these dualities that are being reabsorbed. I dont know if he spoke of this particular one; I dont think so, but its the same thing. Its again a certain way of seeing. He has written of the Personal-Impersonal duality, Ishwara-Shakti, Purusha-Prakriti but there is still one more: Divine and anti-divine.
0 1958-07-23, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But the Supreme Lord answers that the comedy is not entirely Played out, and He adds: Wait for the last act; undoubtedly you will change your mind.
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0 1958-08-09, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Anusuya: wife of the rishi Atri and endowed with a great inner force. In her husband's absence, three gods came (Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva) disguised as brahmins and asked her for something to eat. Then they refused to eat unless she served them naked. Since they were brahmins, she could not send them away without feeding them, so by her inner power, she changed them into babies and served them naked. This film was shown at the Ashram Playground on August 5, 1958.
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--- Overview of noun play
The noun play has 17 senses (first 8 from tagged texts)
1. (32) play, drama, dramatic play ::: (a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage; "he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway")
2. (10) play ::: (a theatrical performance of a drama; "the play lasted two hours")
3. (8) play ::: (a preset plan of action in team sports; "the coach drew up the plays for her team")
4. (6) maneuver, manoeuvre, play ::: (a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill; "he made a great maneuver"; "the runner was out on a play by the shortstop")
5. (2) play ::: (a state in which action is feasible; "the ball was still in play"; "insiders said the company's stock was in play")
6. (1) play ::: (utilization or exercise; "the play of the imagination")
7. (1) bid, play ::: (an attempt to get something; "they made a futile play for power"; "he made a bid to gain attention")
8. (1) play, child's play ::: (activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules; "Freud believed in the utility of play to a small child")
9. playing period, period of play, play ::: ((in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds; "rain stopped play in the 4th inning")
10. free rein, play ::: (the removal of constraints; "he gave free rein to his impulses"; "they gave full play to the artist's talent")
11. shimmer, play ::: (a weak and tremulous light; "the shimmer of colors on iridescent feathers"; "the play of light on the water")
12. fun, play, sport ::: (verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously); "he became a figure of fun"; "he said it in sport")
13. looseness, play ::: (movement or space for movement; "there was too much play in the steering wheel")
14. play, frolic, romp, gambol, caper ::: (gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement; "it was all done in play"; "their frolic in the surf threatened to become ugly")
15. turn, play ::: ((game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession; "it is my turn"; "it is still my play")
16. gambling, gaming, play ::: (the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize); "his gambling cost him a fortune"; "there was heavy play at the blackjack table")
17. play, swordplay ::: (the act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully)
--- Overview of verb play
The verb play has 35 senses (first 21 from tagged texts)
1. (70) play ::: (participate in games or sport; "We played hockey all afternoon"; "play cards"; "Pele played for the Brazilian teams in many important matches")
2. (37) play ::: (act or have an effect in a specified way or with a specific effect or outcome; "This factor played only a minor part in his decision"; "This development played into her hands"; "I played no role in your dismissal")
3. (29) play ::: (play on an instrument; "The band played all night long")
4. (27) act, play, represent ::: (play a role or part; "Gielgud played Hamlet"; "She wants to act Lady Macbeth, but she is too young for the role"; "She played the servant to her husband's master")
5. (23) play ::: (be at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children; "The kids were playing outside all day"; "I used to play with trucks as a little girl")
6. (14) play, spiel ::: (replay (as a melody); "Play it again, Sam"; "She played the third movement very beautifully")
7. (8) play ::: (perform music on (a musical instrument); "He plays the flute"; "Can you play on this old recorder?")
8. (6) act, play, act as ::: (pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind; "He acted the idiot"; "She plays deaf when the news are bad")
9. (5) play ::: (move or seem to move quickly, lightly, or irregularly; "The spotlights played on the politicians")
10. (5) play ::: (bet or wager (money); "He played $20 on the new horse"; "She plays the races")
11. (4) play, recreate ::: (engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion; "On weekends I play"; "The students all recreate alike")
12. (4) play ::: (pretend to be somebody in the framework of a game or playful activity; "Let's play like I am mommy"; "Play cowboy and Indians")
13. (3) play ::: (emit recorded sound; "The tape was playing for hours"; "the stereo was playing Beethoven when I entered")
14. (2) play ::: (perform on a certain location; "The prodigy played Carnegie Hall at the age of 16"; "She has been playing on Broadway for years")
15. (2) play ::: (put (a card or piece) into play during a game, or act strategically as if in a card game; "He is playing his cards close to his chest"; "The Democrats still have some cards to play before they will concede the electoral victory")
16. (2) play, toy ::: (engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously; "They played games on their opponents"; "play the stock market"; "play with her feelings"; "toy with an idea")
17. (1) play ::: (behave in a certain way; "play safe"; "play it safe"; "play fair")
18. (1) play, run ::: (cause to emit recorded audio or video; "They ran the tapes over and over again"; "I'll play you my favorite record"; "He never tires of playing that video")
19. (1) toy, fiddle, diddle, play ::: (manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination; "She played nervously with her wedding ring"; "Don't fiddle with the screws"; "He played with the idea of running for the Senate")
20. (1) play ::: (use to one's advantage; "She plays on her clients' emotions")
21. (1) dally, trifle, play ::: (consider not very seriously; "He is trifling with her"; "She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania")
22. play ::: (be received or accepted or interpreted in a specific way; "This speech didn't play well with the American public"; "His remarks played to the suspicions of the committee")
23. dally, toy, play, flirt ::: (behave carelessly or indifferently; "Play about with a young girl's affection")
24. play ::: (cause to move or operate freely within a bounded space; "The engine has a wheel that is playing in a rack")
25. act, play, roleplay, playact ::: (perform on a stage or theater; "She acts in this play"; "He acted in `Julius Caesar'"; "I played in `A Christmas Carol'")
26. play ::: (be performed or presented for public viewing; "What's playing in the local movie theater?"; "`Cats' has been playing on Broadway for many years")
27. bring, work, play, wreak, make for ::: (cause to happen or to occur as a consequence; "I cannot work a miracle"; "wreak havoc"; "bring comments"; "play a joke"; "The rain brought relief to the drought-stricken area")
28. play ::: (discharge or direct or be discharged or directed as if in a continuous stream; "play water from a hose"; "The fountains played all day")
29. play ::: (make bets; "Play the races"; "play the casinos in Trouville")
30. bet, wager, play ::: (stake on the outcome of an issue; "I bet $100 on that new horse"; "She played all her money on the dark horse")
31. play ::: (shoot or hit in a particular manner; "She played a good backhand last night")
32. play ::: (use or move; "I had to play my queen")
33. play ::: (employ in a game or in a specific position; "They played him on first base")
34. meet, encounter, play, take on ::: (contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle; "Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to play Mary")
35. play ::: (exhaust by allowing to pull on the line; "play a hooked fish")
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun play
17 senses of play
Sense 1
play, drama, dramatic play
=> dramatic composition, dramatic work
=> writing, written material, piece of writing
=> written communication, written language, black and white
=> communication
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
play
=> show
=> social event
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
play
=> plan of action
=> plan, program, programme
=> idea, thought
=> content, cognitive content, mental object
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 4
maneuver, manoeuvre, play
=> motion, movement, move
=> change
=> action
=> act, deed, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 5
play
=> action, activity, activeness
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 6
play
=> use, usage, utilization, utilisation, employment, exercise
=> activity
=> act, deed, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 7
bid, play
=> attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try
=> activity
=> act, deed, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 8
play, child's play
=> diversion, recreation
=> activity
=> act, deed, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 9
playing period, period of play, play
=> measure, quantity, amount
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 10
free rein, play
=> freedom
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 11
shimmer, play
=> change, alteration, modification
=> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 12
fun, play, sport
=> wit, humor, humour, witticism, wittiness
=> message, content, subject matter, substance
=> communication
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 13
looseness, play
=> movability, movableness
=> mobility
=> quality
=> attribute
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 14
play, frolic, romp, gambol, caper
=> diversion, recreation
=> activity
=> act, deed, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 15
turn, play
=> activity
=> act, deed, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 16
gambling, gaming, play
=> diversion, recreation
=> activity
=> act, deed, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
=> vice
=> transgression, evildoing
=> wrongdoing, wrongful conduct, misconduct, actus reus
=> activity
=> act, deed, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 17
play, swordplay
=> action
=> act, deed, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
--- Hyponyms of noun play
12 of 17 senses of play
Sense 1
play, drama, dramatic play
=> Grand Guignol
=> theater of the absurd
=> playlet
=> miracle play
=> morality play
=> mystery play
=> Passion play
=> satyr play
Sense 2
play
=> musical, musical comedy, musical theater
=> curtain raiser
Sense 3
play
=> knock on
=> power play
=> football play
=> razzle-dazzle, razzle, razzmatazz, razmataz
=> basketball play
Sense 4
maneuver, manoeuvre, play
=> takeaway
=> figure
=> completion, pass completion
=> ball hawking
=> assist
=> icing, icing the puck
=> jugglery
=> obstruction
=> baseball play
=> footwork
=> stroke, shot
=> safety blitz, linebacker blitzing, blitz
=> mousetrap, trap play
Sense 8
play, child's play
=> house
=> doctor
=> fireman
Sense 9
playing period, period of play, play
=> hole, golf hole
=> set
Sense 12
fun, play, sport
=> jocosity, jocularity
=> waggery, waggishness
=> drollery, clowning, comedy, funniness
=> pun, punning, wordplay, paronomasia
Sense 13
looseness, play
=> wiggliness
=> slack, slackness
Sense 14
play, frolic, romp, gambol, caper
=> flirt, flirting, flirtation, coquetry, dalliance, toying
=> folly, foolery, tomfoolery, craziness, lunacy, indulgence
=> game
=> horseplay
=> teasing
=> word play
Sense 15
turn, play
=> move
=> start, starting
=> innings
=> attack
=> down
=> bat, at-bat
=> lead
=> ruff, trumping
=> trick
Sense 16
gambling, gaming, play
=> sporting life
=> bet, wager
=> game of chance, gambling game
=> throw
Sense 17
play, swordplay
=> fencing
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun play
17 senses of play
Sense 1
play, drama, dramatic play
=> dramatic composition, dramatic work
Sense 2
play
=> show
Sense 3
play
=> plan of action
Sense 4
maneuver, manoeuvre, play
=> motion, movement, move
Sense 5
play
=> action, activity, activeness
Sense 6
play
=> use, usage, utilization, utilisation, employment, exercise
Sense 7
bid, play
=> attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try
Sense 8
play, child's play
=> diversion, recreation
Sense 9
playing period, period of play, play
=> measure, quantity, amount
Sense 10
free rein, play
=> freedom
Sense 11
shimmer, play
=> change, alteration, modification
Sense 12
fun, play, sport
=> wit, humor, humour, witticism, wittiness
Sense 13
looseness, play
=> movability, movableness
Sense 14
play, frolic, romp, gambol, caper
=> diversion, recreation
Sense 15
turn, play
=> activity
Sense 16
gambling, gaming, play
=> diversion, recreation
=> vice
Sense 17
play, swordplay
=> action
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun play
17 senses of play
Sense 1
play, drama, dramatic play
-> dramatic composition, dramatic work
=> play, drama, dramatic play
=> act
=> scene
=> script, book, playscript
Sense 2
play
-> show
=> stage dancing, choreography
=> movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick
=> attraction
=> broadcast, program, programme
=> performance, public presentation
=> burlesque
=> play
=> galanty show, shadow show, shadow play
=> puppet show, puppet play
=> variety show, variety
Sense 3
play
-> plan of action
=> play
=> policy
=> battle plan
=> system
=> tactic, tactics, maneuver, manoeuvre
=> scheme, strategy
=> travel plan, itinerary
Sense 4
maneuver, manoeuvre, play
-> motion, movement, move
=> approach, approaching, coming
=> progress, progression, procession, advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion
=> locomotion, travel
=> lurch, lunge
=> travel, traveling, travelling
=> pursuit, chase, pursual, following
=> rise, ascent, ascension, ascending
=> descent
=> swing, swinging, vacillation
=> return
=> slide, glide, coast
=> slippage
=> flow, stream
=> crawl
=> speed, speeding, hurrying
=> translation, displacement
=> shift, shifting
=> haste, hurry, rush, rushing
=> maneuver, manoeuvre, play
=> migration
Sense 5
play
-> action, activity, activeness
=> agency
=> busyness, hum
=> behavior, behaviour
=> eruption, eructation, extravasation
=> operation
=> overdrive
=> play
=> swing
Sense 6
play
-> use, usage, utilization, utilisation, employment, exercise
=> practice
=> play
=> misuse, abuse
=> exploitation, development
=> recycling
=> application, practical application
Sense 7
bid, play
-> attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try
=> batting
=> best
=> worst
=> bid, play
=> crack, fling, go, pass, whirl, offer
=> essay
=> foray
=> contribution, part, share
=> liberation
=> mug's game
=> power play, squeeze play, squeeze
=> seeking
=> shot, stab
=> shot
=> striving, nisus, pains, strain
=> struggle, battle
=> takeover attempt
=> test, trial, run
=> test, trial
Sense 8
play, child's play
-> diversion, recreation
=> antic, joke, prank, trick, caper, put-on
=> bathing
=> celebration, festivity
=> dancing, dance, terpsichore, saltation
=> entertainment, amusement
=> escapade, lark
=> escape, escapism
=> eurythmy, eurhythmy, eurythmics, eurhythmics
=> fun, merriment, playfulness
=> gambling, gaming, play
=> game
=> jest, joke, jocularity
=> nightlife, night life
=> pastime, interest, pursuit
=> play, child's play
=> play, frolic, romp, gambol, caper
=> sport, athletics
Sense 9
playing period, period of play, play
-> measure, quantity, amount
=> probability, chance
=> quantum
=> value, economic value
=> fundamental quantity, fundamental measure
=> definite quantity
=> indefinite quantity
=> relative quantity
=> system of measurement, metric
=> cordage
=> octane number, octane rating
=> magnetization, magnetisation
=> radical
=> volume
=> volume
=> proof
=> time unit, unit of time
=> point, point in time
=> playing period, period of play, play
=> time interval, interval
Sense 10
free rein, play
-> freedom
=> academic freedom
=> enfranchisement
=> free hand, blank check
=> free rein, play
=> freedom of the seas
=> independence, independency
=> liberty
=> civil liberty, political liberty
=> liberty
=> svoboda
Sense 11
shimmer, play
-> change, alteration, modification
=> acceleration
=> deceleration, slowing, retardation
=> avulsion
=> break
=> mutation
=> sublimation
=> surprise
=> birth, nativity, nascency, nascence
=> separation, breakup, detachment
=> vagary
=> variation, fluctuation
=> conversion
=> death, decease, expiry
=> decrease, lessening, drop-off
=> destabilization
=> increase
=> easing, moderation, relief
=> deformation
=> transition
=> transformation, transmutation, shift
=> twinkle, scintillation, sparkling
=> shimmer, play
=> transmutation
=> damage, harm, impairment
=> development
=> revolution
=> mutation, genetic mutation, chromosomal mutation
=> sex change
=> loss of consciousness
Sense 12
fun, play, sport
-> wit, humor, humour, witticism, wittiness
=> jeu d'esprit
=> bon mot, mot
=> esprit de l'escalier
=> pungency, bite
=> sarcasm, irony, satire, caustic remark
=> repartee
=> joke, gag, laugh, jest, jape
=> caricature, imitation, impersonation
=> cartoon, sketch
=> fun, play, sport
=> ribaldry
=> topper
Sense 13
looseness, play
-> movability, movableness
=> looseness, play
=> unsteadiness, ricketiness
=> portability
=> looseness
Sense 14
play, frolic, romp, gambol, caper
-> diversion, recreation
=> antic, joke, prank, trick, caper, put-on
=> bathing
=> celebration, festivity
=> dancing, dance, terpsichore, saltation
=> entertainment, amusement
=> escapade, lark
=> escape, escapism
=> eurythmy, eurhythmy, eurythmics, eurhythmics
=> fun, merriment, playfulness
=> gambling, gaming, play
=> game
=> jest, joke, jocularity
=> nightlife, night life
=> pastime, interest, pursuit
=> play, child's play
=> play, frolic, romp, gambol, caper
=> sport, athletics
Sense 15
turn, play
-> activity
=> variation, variance
=> space walk
=> domesticity
=> operation
=> operation
=> practice, pattern
=> diversion, recreation
=> cup of tea, bag, dish
=> follow-up, followup
=> game
=> turn, play
=> music
=> acting, playing, playacting, performing
=> liveliness, animation
=> burst, fit
=> work
=> works, deeds
=> service
=> occupation, business, job, line of work, line
=> occupation
=> writing, committal to writing
=> role
=> wrongdoing, wrongful conduct, misconduct, actus reus
=> waste, wastefulness, dissipation
=> attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try
=> control
=> protection
=> sensory activity
=> education, instruction, teaching, pedagogy, didactics, educational activity
=> training, preparation, grooming
=> representation
=> creation, creative activity
=> dismantling, dismantlement, disassembly
=> puncture
=> search, hunt, hunting
=> use, usage, utilization, utilisation, employment, exercise
=> operation, military operation
=> measurement, measuring, measure, mensuration
=> calibration, standardization, standardisation
=> organization, organisation
=> grouping
=> support, supporting
=> continuance, continuation
=> procedure, process
=> ceremony
=> ceremony
=> worship
=> energizing, activating, activation
=> concealment, concealing, hiding
=> placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement
=> provision, supply, supplying
=> demand
=> pleasure
=> enjoyment, delectation
=> lamentation, mourning
=> laughter
=> market, marketplace, market place
=> politics
=> preparation, readying
=> aid, assist, assistance, help
=> support
=> behavior, behaviour, conduct, doings
=> behavior, behaviour
=> leadership, leading
=> precession, precedence, precedency
=> solo
=> buzz
=> fun
=> sin, hell
=> release, outlet, vent
=> last
=> mystification, obfuscation
=> negotiation
=> verbalization, verbalisation
=> perturbation, disturbance
=> timekeeping
Sense 16
gambling, gaming, play
-> diversion, recreation
=> antic, joke, prank, trick, caper, put-on
=> bathing
=> celebration, festivity
=> dancing, dance, terpsichore, saltation
=> entertainment, amusement
=> escapade, lark
=> escape, escapism
=> eurythmy, eurhythmy, eurythmics, eurhythmics
=> fun, merriment, playfulness
=> gambling, gaming, play
=> game
=> jest, joke, jocularity
=> nightlife, night life
=> pastime, interest, pursuit
=> play, child's play
=> play, frolic, romp, gambol, caper
=> sport, athletics
-> vice
=> gambling, gaming, play
=> intemperance, intemperateness
Sense 17
play, swordplay
-> action
=> thing
=> kindness, benignity
=> accomplishment, achievement
=> alienation
=> application
=> res gestae
=> course, course of action
=> interaction
=> fetch
=> playing
=> play, swordplay
=> arrival
=> performance, execution, carrying out, carrying into action
=> choice, selection, option, pick
=> change
=> economy, saving
=> prohibition, inhibition, forbiddance
=> resistance, opposition
=> bruxism
=> transfusion
=> pickings, taking
=> transgression
=> aggression, hostility
=> destabilization, destabilisation
=> employment, engagement
=> politeness, civility
=> reverence
=> reference, consultation
=> emphasizing, accenting, accentuation
=> beatification
=> jumpstart, jump-start
=> stupefaction
=> vampirism
--- Grep of noun play
action replay
alphanumeric display
baseball play
basketball play
byplay
child's play
computer display
counterplay
digital display
display
double play
dramatic play
draw play
dual scan display
flat panel display
football play
force play
foreplay
foul play
gunplay
horseplay
instant replay
interplay
liquid crystal display
match play
medal play
miracle play
misplay
morality play
mystery play
passing play
passion play
passive matrix display
period of play
play
play-actor
play-box
play group
play list
play reading
play therapy
playacting
playactor
playback
playbill
playbook
playbox
playboy
playday
player
player piano
playfellow
playfulness
playgoer
playground
playground ball
playground slide
playhouse
playing
playing area
playing card
playing field
playing period
playlet
playlist
playlobium obtusangulum
playmaker
playmate
playoff
playoff game
playpen
playroom
playschool
playscript
playsuit
plaything
playtime
playwright
power play
puppet play
replay
running play
safety squeeze play
satyr play
screenplay
shadow play
splay
squeeze play
stroke play
suicide squeeze play
swordplay
trap play
triple play
video display
word play
wordplay