NOTES
various paths of remembering ::: whether from suffering, or studying Sri Aurobindo, or cocaine... in which ways do I come to remember?
degrees of remembering ::: from total some bottom pit of mechanical or demonic ignorance to Thee.
reason I cant remember ::: perhaps the reason I cant remember is because my vital or other is obscuring it.
requirements ::: one cannot always remember unless one is fully consecrated, or sincere perhaps. Only when all is made a temple can one always be conscious of God. "Only the one who can give everything, enjoys the Divine All everywhere."
remembering the Person ::: if remembering is the Divine's Presence, it more seemingly would have conditions, as a being? Feels true when it comes to having an environment for a Goddess to visit. though if they descend into the darkness to save, one cant expect them to stay down there with you. one must leave that place with them. or make it suitable
the Grace ::: if remembering is the Divine Grace, then the Grace perhaps has its conditions. such one perhaps cant necessarily just will remembrance. but still even with a total concentration, it should still bring about something since its an important condition.
ask for help remembering :::
degrees of remembering :::
answers ::: remember, the answers are there
lost ::: start with what you Love?, the treasures of Time?
knowledge ::: self-knowledge, world-knowledge, sevenfold knowledge
knowledge by identity ::: descriptions of to sight to relation to identity
never the same ::: when I thought of remembering, it was of like recalling some detail I already knew, and so repeating the same state of knowledge. but when it comes to remembering God, like all experiences, none are the same. this isnt the solution, but a clearing.
relation between memory and seeing ::: for to see something is to be conscious of it, thus it being in the mind to some degree.
forgetting :::
QUESTIONS
- why remember? ::: see "remember (quotes)?"
- why not read mem?
- if I cant remember everything should it all be logged then? its valuable data.
- if its not worth logging, is it worth doing?
- to remember is to be conscious of?, I dont want to remember?
- you can pray to God to help you remember mentally and in all your being.
- trying to and trying not to remember? (insincerity)(not remembering allows freedom of lower movements, remembering brings knowledge-force-bliss)
- effects of remembering? (knowledge-force-bliss?)
- what is it to remember? what does it mean to remember? (remembering to turn to God?)
QUOTES
- The limbs of knowledge may be practised at all places and at all times. Of yoga and knowledge, one may follow whichever is pleasing to one, or both, according to circumstances. The great teachers say that forgetfulness is the root of all evil, and is death for those who seek release,10 so one should rest the mind in one's Self and should never forget the Self: this is the aim. If the mind is controlled, all else can be controlled. The distinction between yoga with eight limbs and knowledge with eight limbs has been set forth elaborately in the sacred texts; so only the substance of this teaching has been given here. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Self-Enquiry, 34
--- SLICES
because the sacrifice has become acceptable.
Concentration on the Divine
always remember the Divine
Think of the Divine alone
find and to serve the Divine. The Divine is not far
find the Divine.
become conscious of the Divine
To know, be and possess the Divine(the sole good)
what the Divine wants us to be
God is
patient and persistent action on the lines laid down by this knowledge
Remember and Offer. Let whatever you do be done as an offering to the Divine. ...it will prevent...
read Savitri
his divine example as our ideal
they who have a subtle vision can see me.
must find me
you must abstain from all sexual activities
This call is satisfied by the Divine manifest
For everything is recorded there.
a shining point
I knew and willed
All that the Light from above asks of us
our thoughts and feelings a constant prayer of aspiration and seeking
all activities must have the One Divine for their object
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- Music finds its way where the rays of the sun cannot penetrate. ~ Soren Kierkegaard
- In order to remember something, you must first of all be conscious of it. ~ The Mother Words Of The Mother - III
- Whatever we do, we must always remember our aim.
- When you are away from your spiritual friends, and you feel lonely on the path, and you feel a lack of encouragement to go on, just remember that all of the enlightened beings are always with you. You are never alone.
280. If thy heart is troubled within thee,
if for long seasons thou makest no progress,
if thy strength faint and repine,
remember always the eternal word of our Lover and Master,
'I will free thee from all sin and evil; do not grieve.'
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human, Karma
--- MEMORY
The supramental memory is different from the mental, not a storing up of past knowledge and experience, but an abiding presence of knowledge that can be brought forward or, more characteristically, offers itself, when it is needed: it is not dependent on attention or on conscious reception, for the things of the past not known actually or not observed can be called up from latency by an action which is yet essentially a remembrance. Especially on a certain level all knowledge presents itself as a remembering, because all is latent or inherent in the self of supermind. The future like the past presents itself to knowledge in the supermind as a memory of the preknown. The imagination transformed in the supermind acts on one side as a power of true image and symbol, always all image or index of some value or significance or other truth of being, on the other as an inspiration or interpretative seeing of possibilities and potentialities not
less true than actual or realised things. These are put in their place either by an attendant intuitive or interpretative judgment or by one inherent in the vision of the image, symbol or potentiality, or by a supereminent revelation of that which is behind the image or symbol or which determines the potential and the actual and their relations and, it may be, overrides and overpasses them, imposing ultimate truths and supreme certitudes. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga
--- FORGETTING
crowley, the wand ::: Now there are very great difficulties to be overcome in the training of the mind. Perhaps the greatest is forgetfulness, which is probably the worst form of what the Buddhists call ignorance. Special
practices for training the memory may be of some use as a preliminary for persons whose memory is naturally poor. In
any case the Magical Record prescribed for Probationers of the A.'.A.'. is useful and necessary.
You lose it because your consciousness is still divided. The Divine has not settled in your mind; you are not wholly consecrated to the Divine Life. Otherwise you could concentrate to any extent upon such things and still you would have the sense of being helped and supported by the Divine. In all pursuits, intellectual or active, your one motto should be, 'Remember and Offer.' Let whatever you do be done as an offering to the Divine. And this too will be an excellent discipline for you; it will prevent you from doing many foolish and useless things." - The Mother
Sweet Mother how can one feel the divine Presence constantly?
Why not?
But how can one do it?
But I am asking why one should not feel it. Instead of asking the question how to feel it, I ask the question: "What do you do that you don't feel it?" There is no reason not to feel the divine Presence. Once you have felt it, even once, you should be capable of feeling it always, for it is there. It is a fact. It is only our ignorance which makes us unaware of it. But if we become conscious, why should we not always be conscious? Why forget something one has learnt? When one has had the experience, why forget it? It is simply a bad habit, that's all.
You see, there is something which is a fact, that's to say, it is. But we are unaware of it and do not know it. But after we become conscious and know it, why should we still forget it? Does it make sense? It's quite simply because we are not convinced that once one has met the Divine one can't forget Him any more. We are, on the contrary, full of stupid ideas which say, "Oh! Yes, it's very well once like that, but the rest of the time it will be as usual." So there is no reason why it may not begin again.
But if we know that... we did not know something, we were ignorant, then the moment we have the knowledge... I am sincerely asking how one can manage to forget. One might not know something, that is a fact; there are countless things one doesn't know. But the moment one knows them, the minute one has the experience, how can one manage to forget? Within yourself you have the divine Presence, you know nothing about it - for all kinds of reasons, but still the chief reason is that you are in a state of ignorance. Yet suddenly, by a clicking of circumstances, you become conscious of this divine Presence, that is, you are before a fact - it is not imagination, it is a fact, it's something which exists. Then how do you manage to forget it once you have known it?
...
It is because something in us, through cowardice or defeatism, accepts this. If one did not accept it, it wouldn't happen.
Even when everything seems to be suddenly darkened, the flame and the Light are always there. And if one doesn't forget them, one has only to put in front of them the part which is dark; there will perhaps be a battle, there will perhaps be a little difficulty, but it will be something quite transitory; never will you lose your footing. That is why it is said - and it is something true - that to sin through ignorance may have fatal consequences, because when one makes mistakes, well, these mistakes have results, that's obvious, and usually external and material results; but that's no great harm, I have already told you this several times. But when one knows what is true, when one has seen and had the experience of the Truth, to accept the sin again, that is, fall back again into ignorance and obscurity - this is indeed an infinitely more serious mistake. It begins to belong to the domain of ill-will. In any case, it is a sign of slacknes
s and weakness. It means that the will is weak.
So your question is put the other way round. Instead of asking yourself how to keep it, you must ask yourself: how does one not keep it? Not having it, is a state which everybody is in before the moment of knowing; not knowing - one is in that state before knowing. But once one knows one cannot forget. And if one forgets, it means that there is something which consents to the forgetting, it means there is an assent somewhere; otherwise one would not forget.
~ The Mother Questions And Answers 1955, 403,405,406
TERMS STARTING WITH
Remembering dreams ::: There I's a change or reversal of the consciousness that takes place and the dream* consciousness in disappearing takes away its scences' and experiences with it. This can sometimes be avoided by not coming out abruptly into the waking state or getting up quickly, but remaining quiet for a time to see if the memory lemains or comes back: Otherwise the physical memory has to be taught to remember.
If the waking is composed or it the impression is very strong, then the memory remains at least of the last dream. Those who want to remember their dreams sometimes make a practice of lying quiet and tracing backwards, recovering the dreams one by one. When the dream-state is very light, one can remember more dreams than when it is heavy.
Remember the following rules with regard to speech ;
rememberable ::: a. --> Capable or worthy of being remembered.
remembered ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Remember
rememberer ::: n. --> One who remembers.
remembering ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Remember
remember ::: v. t. --> To have ( a notion or idea) come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind again; to think of again; to recollect; as, I remember the fact; he remembers the events of his childhood; I cannot remember dates.
To be capable of recalling when required; to keep in mind; to be continually aware or thoughtful of; to preserve fresh in the memory; to attend to; to think of with gratitude, affection,
TERMS ANYWHERE
abhijNA. (P. abhiNNA; T. mngon shes; C. shentong; J. jinzu; K. sint'ong 神通). In Sanskrit, "superknowledges"; specifically referring to a set of supranormal powers that are by-products of meditation. These are usually enumerated as six: (1) various psychical and magical powers (ṚDDHIVIDHABHIJNA [alt. ṛddhividhi], P. iddhividhA), such as the ability to pass through walls, sometimes also known as "unimpeded bodily action" (ṛddhisAksAtkriyA); (2) clairvoyance, lit. "divine eye" (DIVYACAKsUS, P. dibbacakkhu), the ability to see from afar and to see how beings fare in accordance with their deeds; (3) clairaudience, lit. "divine ear" (DIVYAsROTRA, P. dibbasota), the ability to hear from afar; (4) the ability to remember one's own former lives (PuRVANIVASANUSMṚTI, P. pubbenivAsAnunssati); (5) "knowledge of others' states of mind" (CETOPARYAYABHIJNANA/PARACITTAJNANA, P. cetopariyaNAna), e.g., telepathy; and (6) the knowledge of the extinction of the contaminants (ASRAVAKsAYA, P. AsavakkhAya). The first five of these superknowledges are considered to be mundane (LAUKIKA) achievements, which are gained through still more profound refinement of the fourth stage of meditative absorption (DHYANA). The sixth power is said to be supramundane (LOKOTTARA) and is attainable through the cultivation of insight (VIPAsYANA) into the nature of reality. The first, second, and sixth superknowledges are also called the three kinds of knowledge (TRIVIDYA; P. tevijjA).
accessibility: in long-term memory, the principle that remembering and forgetting are dependent on effective retrieval; without the proper cues, information which exists in long-term memory may not be accessible.
ACTIVATION AND OBJECTIVATION, METHODS OF Methods to activate higher, as yet inactive consciousness, and to make subjective (emotional and mental) consciousness objective. Those esoteric methods, which lead rapidly and without risks to causal objective consciousness, remain the property of the planetary hierarchy. K 6.8.6
Unlike the yogis&
Adorno (1903-1969): was a philosopher, sociologist and composer. Within social psychology, is largely remembered for defining the authoritarian personality (characterised by intolerance of ambiguity, prejudiced attitudes and conformity to authority, with an emphasis on the influence of childhood experiences and internalisation) and the subsequent development of the F-scale (a measurement of the authoritarian personality).
Ahimsa (Sanskrit) Ahiṃsā [from a not + the verbal root hiṃs to injure, kill, destroy] Harmlessness; one of the cardinal virtues. The sanctity of life is imbodied in the teachings of the Buddhists and Jains, as well as of many Hindu schools. Asoka, the first Buddhist emperor, particularly espoused ahimsa as part of the practice of dharma. According to Manu (4:148), one may acquire the faculty of “remembering former births” by the observance of ahimsa.
Ahura-Mazda (Avestan) Aura-Mazda (Old Persian) Auhr-Mazd (Pahlavi) Hormazd, Hormoz, Ormazd, Ormuzd (Persian) [from Avestan ahura lord of life from the verbal root ahu conscious life + mazda the creator of mind, remembering, bearing in mind from the verbal root man to think + da the creator, bestower; cf Pahlavi dehesh creation] The lord of life and creator of mind; the immutable light, the uncreated supreme deity of the Mazdean system. Porphyry writes that Pythagoras taught that the Iranian Magis consider Ahura-Mazda a being whose body is of light and his soul is of truth. He is referred to as the maker of the material world and father of the six Amesha-Spentas. In later Persian literature similar descriptions of the supreme creator have been given. Ferdowsi refers to him as the lord of jan (consciousness) and kherad (intellect).
alias ::: 1. (operating system) A name, usually short and easy to remember and type, that is translated into another name or string, usually long and difficult memory when the interpreter starts and are expanded without needing to refer to any file.2. (networking) One of several alternative hostnames with the same Internet address. E.g. in the Unix hosts database (/etc/hosts or NIS map) the first field on a line is the Internet address, the next is the official hostname (the canonical name or CNAME), and any others are aliases.Hostname aliases often indicate that the host with that alias provides a particular network service such as archie, finger, FTP, or World-Wide Web. The alias (e.g. www.doc.ic.ac.uk) from one Internet address to another, without the clients needing to be aware of the change.3. (file system) The name used by Apple computer, Inc. for symbolic links when they added them to the System 7 operating system in 1991. (1997-10-22)4. (programming) Two names (identifiers), usually of local or global variables, that refer to the same resource (memory location) are said to be to different memory locations, aliasing can be introduced by the use of address arithmetic and pointers or language-specific features, like C++ references.Statically deciding (e.g. via a program analysis executed by a sophisticated compiler) which locations of a program will be aliased at run time is an undecidable problem.[G. Ramalingam: The Undecidability of Aliasing, ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS), Volume 16, Issue 5, September 1994, Pages: 1467 - 1471, ISSN:0164-0925.](2004-09-12)
alias 1. "operating system" A name, usually short and easy to remember and type, that is translated into another name or string, usually long and difficult to remember or type. Most {command interpreters} (e.g. {Unix}'s {csh}) allow the user to define aliases for commands, e.g. "alias l ls -al". These are loaded into memory when the interpreter starts and are expanded without needing to refer to any file. 2. "networking" One of several alternative {hostnames} with the same {Internet address}. E.g. in the {Unix} {hosts} database (/etc/hosts or {NIS} map) the first field on a line is the {Internet address}, the next is the official hostname (the "{canonical} name" or "{CNAME}"), and any others are aliases. Hostname aliases often indicate that the host with that alias provides a particular network service such as {archie}, {finger}, {FTP}, or {web}. The assignment of services to computers can then be changed simply by moving an alias (e.g. www.doc.ic.ac.uk) from one {Internet address} to another, without the clients needing to be aware of the change. 3. "file system" The name used by {Apple computer, Inc.} for {symbolic links} when they added them to the {System 7} {operating system} in 1991. (1997-10-22) 4. "programming" Two names ({identifiers}), usually of local or global {variables}, that refer to the same resource ({memory} location) are said to be aliased. Although names introduced in {programming languages} are typically mapped to different {memory} locations, aliasing can be introduced by the use of {address} arithmetic and {pointers} or language-specific features, like {C++} {references}. Statically deciding (e.g. via a {program analysis} executed by a sophisticated {compiler}) which locations of a {program} will be aliased at run time is an {undecidable} problem. [G. Ramalingam: "The Undecidability of Aliasing", ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS), Volume 16, Issue 5, September 1994, Pages: 1467 - 1471, ISSN:0164-0925.] (2004-09-12)
Amal: “It’s a reference to a supra-terrestrial region. As far as I remember, Sri Aurobindo added another similar line when I wrote to him some Latin lines from Virgil about a region where everything was ‘purple’. The adjective ‘purple’ in Latin means a region beyond the earth, which has either this colour or is simply ‘shining’. Sri Aurobindo’s new line: ‘And griefless countries under purple suns’.”
AmitAbha. (T. 'Od dpag med/Snang ba mtha' yas; C. Amituo fo/Wuliangguang fo; J. Amida butsu/Muryoko butsu; K. Amit'a pul/Muryanggwang pul 阿彌陀佛/無量光佛). In Sanskrit, "Limitless Light," the buddha of the western PURE LAND of SUKHAVATĪ, one of the most widely worshipped buddhas in the MAHAYANA traditions. As recounted in the longer SUKHAVATĪVYuHASuTRA, numerous eons ago, a monk named DHARMAKARA vowed before the buddha LOKEsVARARAJA to follow the BODHISATTVA path to buddhahood, asking him to set forth the qualities of buddha-fields (BUDDHAKsETRA). DharmAkara then spent five KALPAS in meditation, concentrating all of the qualities of all buddha-fields into a single buddha field that he would create upon his enlightenment. He then reappeared before LokesvararAja and made forty-eight specific vows (PRAnIDHANA). Among the most famous were his vow that those who, for as few as ten times over the course of their life, resolved to be reborn in his buddha-field would be reborn there; and his vow that he would appear at the deathbed of anyone who heard his name and remembered it with trust. DharmakAra then completed the bodhisattva path, thus fulfilling all the vows he had made, and became the buddha AmitAbha in the buddha-field called sukhAvatī. Based on the larger and shorter versions of the SukhAvatīvyuhasutra as well as the apocryphal GUAN WULIANGSHOU JING (*AmitAyurdhyAnasutra), rebirth in AmitAbha's buddha-field became the goal of widespread Buddhist practice in India, East Asia, and Tibet, with the phrase "Homage to AmitAbha Buddha" (C. namo Amituo fo; J. NAMU AMIDABUTSU; K. namu Amit'a pul) being a central element of East Asian Buddhist practice. AmitAbha's Indian origins are obscure, and it has been suggested that his antecedents lie in Persian Zoroastrianism, where symbolism of light and darkness abounds. His worship dates back at least as far as the early centuries of the Common Era, as attested by the fact that the initial Chinese translation of the SukhAvatīvyuhasutra is made in the mid-second century CE, and he is listed in the SADDHARMAPUndARĪKASuTRA ("Lotus Sutra") as the ninth son of the buddha MahAbhijNA JNAnAbhibhu. The Chinese pilgrims FAXIAN and XUANZANG make no mention of him by name in their accounts of their travels to India in the fifth and seventh centuries CE, respectively, though they do include descriptions of deities who seem certain to have been AmitAbha. Scriptures relating to AmitAbha reached Japan in the seventh century, but he did not become a popular religious figure until some three hundred years later, when his worship played a major role in finally transforming what had been previously seen as an elite and foreign tradition into a populist religion. In East Asia, the cult of AmitAbha eventually became so widespread that it transcended sectarian distinction, and AmitAbha became the most popular buddha in the region. In Tibet, AmitAbha worship dates to the early propagation of Buddhism in that country in the eighth century, although it never became as prevalent as in East Asia. In the sixteenth century, the fifth DALAI LAMA gave the title PAn CHEN LAMA to his teacher, BLO BZANG CHOS KYI RGYAL MTSHAN, and declared him to be an incarnation of AmitAbha (the Dalai Lama himself having been declared the incarnation of Avalokitesvara, AmitAbha's emanation). ¶ The names "AmitAbha" and "AmitAyus" are often interchangeable, both deriving from the Sanskrit word "amita," meaning "limitless," "boundless," or "infinite"; there are some intimations that Amita may actually have been the original name of this buddha, as evidenced, for example, by the fact that the Chinese transcription Amituo [alt. Emituo] transcribes the root word amita, not the two longer forms of the name. The distinction between the two names is preserved in the Chinese translations "Wuliangguang" ("Infinite Light") for AmitAbha and Wuliangshou ("Infinite Life") for AmitAyus, neither of which is used as often as the transcription Amituo. Both AmitAbha and AmitAyus serve as epithets of the same buddha in the longer SukhAvatīvyuhasutra and the Guan Wuliangshou jing, two of the earliest and most important of the sutras relating to his cult. In Tibet, his two alternate names were simply translated: 'Od dpag med ("Infinite Light") and Tshe dpag med ("Infinite Life"). Despite the fact that the two names originally refer to the same deity, they have developed distinctions in ritual function and iconography, and AmitAyus is now considered a separate form of AmitAbha rather than just a synonym for him. ¶ AmitAbha is almost universally shown in DHYANASANA, his hands at his lap in DHYANAMUDRA, though there are many variations, such as standing or displaying the VITARKAMUDRA or VARADAMUDRA. As one of the PANCATATHAGATA, AmitAbha is the buddha of the padma family and is situated in the west. In tantric depictions he is usually red in color and is shown in union with his consort PAndarA, and in East Asia he is commonly accompanied by his attendants AVALOKITEsVARA (Ch. GUANYIN) and MAHASTHAMAPRAPTA. See also JINGTU SANSHENG; WANGSHENG.
amnesia: a significant loss of memory as a result of brain damage or psychologicaltrauma. Anterograde amnesia refers to the inability to learn and remember new information after brain damage and retrograde amnesiarefers to the loss of memories from before brain damage.
amnesia ::: The pathological inability to remember or establish memories; retrograde amnesia is the inability to recall existing memories, whereas anterograde amnesia is the inability to lay down new memories.
MONAD, THE; THE SAME AS PRIMORDIAL ATOM is the smallest possible part of primordial matter and the smallest firm point for individual consciousness. K 1.4.5, 1.12.1
The monads are the sole content of the cosmos.
All forms of matter existing in the cosmos consist of monads at different stages of development. All these compositions of monads are being formed, changed, dissolved, and re-formed in innumerable variations, but the monads&
Anamnesis (Greek) [from ana back again + mimnesco remember] Recollection; used by Plato in his theory of knowledge. He taught that the human elements of consciousness sprang from seeds of inherent knowledge in the soul, present in the mind as the result of past experiences of the egoic center or reincarnating ego. Thus the acquisition of knowledge is a process of reminiscence or recollection of former experiences.
Ananda. (T. Kun dga' bo; C. Anan[tuo]; J. Anan[da]; K. Anan[da] 阿難[陀]). In Sanskrit and PAli, literally "Bliss," the name of the Buddha's cousin, longtime attendant, and one of his chief disciples. According to tradition, in his previous life, he was a god in the TUsITA heaven, who was born on the same day and into the same sAKYA clan as the BODHISATTVA and future buddha who was born as prince SIDDHARTHA. Ananda was born as the son of Amṛtodana, the brother of king sUDDHODANA. He was thus the Buddha's cousin and the brother of DEVADATTA. When the Buddha returned to his home town of KAPILAVASTU in the second year after his enlightenment, many of the sAkyan men, such as Ananda and Devadatta, wished to renounce the householder life and become the Buddha's disciples as monks. Not long after his ordination, Ananda became a SROTAAPANNA upon hearing a sermon by PuRnA. The Buddha did not have a personal attendant for the first twenty years after his enlightenment, with various monks occasionally offering various services to him. But after two decades of these ad hoc arrangements, the Buddha finally asked for someone to volunteer to be his personal attendant; all the monks volunteered except Ananda, who said that he did not do so because the Buddha would choose the correct person regardless of who volunteered. The Buddha selected Ananda, who accepted on the following conditions: the Buddha was never to give him any special food or robes that he had received as gifts; the Buddha was not to provide him with a special monk's cell; and the Buddha was not to include him in dining invitations he received from the laity. Ananda made these conditions in order to prevent anyone from claiming that he received special treatment because of serving as the Buddha's attendant. In addition, he asked to be allowed to accept invitations on behalf of the Buddha; he asked to be allowed to bring to the Buddha those who came from great distances to see him; he asked to be able to bring any questions he had to the Buddha; and he asked that the Buddha repeat to him any doctrine that had been taught in his absence. Ananda saw these latter conditions as the true advantages of serving the Buddha. For the next twenty-five years, Ananda served the Buddha with great devotion, bringing him water, sweeping his cell, washing his feet, rubbing his body, sewing his robes, and accompanying him wherever he went. He guarded the Buddha's cell at night, carrying a staff and a torch, in order to make sure that his sleep was not disturbed and to be ready should the Buddha need him. As the Buddha grew older and more infirm, Ananda provided devoted care, despite the fact that the two were exactly the same age. Because Ananda was constantly in the Buddha's presence, he played a key role in many famous events of the early dispensation. For example, it was Ananda who, on behalf of MAHAPRAJAPATI, requested that women be allowed to enter the SAMGHA as nuns, persisting in his request despite the Buddha's initial refusal. He is therefore remembered especially fondly by the order of BHIKsUnĪs, and it is said that he often preached to nuns. In a famous tale reproduced in various sources, the daughter of a woman named MAtangī attempted to seduce Ananda with the help of her mother's magical powers, only to come to realize her wrongdoing with the intervention of the Buddha. Toward the end of his life, the Buddha mentioned to Ananda that a buddha could live for a KALPA or until the end of the kalpa if he were asked to do so. (See CAPALACAITYA.) Ananda, distracted by MARA, failed to request the Buddha to do so, despite the Buddha mentioning this three times. Ananda was chastised for this blunder at the first council (see infra). Ananda figures prominently in the account of the Buddha's last days in the MAHAPARINIBBANASUTTA, weeping at the knowledge that the Buddha was about to die and being consoled by him. Ananda was known for his extraordinary powers of memory; he is said to have heard all 84,000 sermon topics (82,000 taught by the Buddha and 2,000 taught by other disciples) and was able to memorize 15,000 stanzas without omitting a syllable. He therefore played a key role in the recitation of the Buddha's teachings at the first council (SAMGĪTI; see COUNCIL, FIRST) held at RAJAGṚHA shortly after the Buddha's death. However, MAHAKAsYAPA, who convened the council, specified that all five hundred monks in attendance must be ARHATs, and Ananda was not. On the night before the opening of the council, Ananda achieved the enlightenment of an arhat as he was lying down to sleep, as his head fell to the pillow and his feet rose from the ground. He is therefore famous for achieving enlightenment in none of the four traditional postures (ĪRYAPATHA): walking, standing, sitting, or lying down. As an arhat, Ananda was welcomed to the council, where he recounted all the words of the Buddha (except those concerning the VINAYA, or monastic rules, which were recited by UPALI). For this reason, most SuTRAs open with the words, "Thus have I heard" (EVAM MAYA sRUTAM); the "I" is usually Ananda. (For this reason, Ananda is also known in China as Duowen Diyi, "First in Vast Hearing" or "He Who Heard the Most.") After the Buddha's death, the order of monks brought five charges against Ananda: (1) the Buddha had said that after his passing, the monks could disregard the minor precepts, but Ananda failed to ask him which those were; thus, all the precepts had to be followed; (2) Ananda had once stepped on the Buddha's robe when sewing it; (3) Ananda had allowed women to honor the Buddha's naked body after his death and their tears had fallen on his feet; (4) Ananda failed to ask the Buddha to live on for the rest of the kalpa; and (5) Ananda urged the Buddha to admit women to the order. Ananda replied that he saw no fault in any of these deeds but agreed to confess them. According to FAXIAN, when Ananda was 120 years old, he set out from MAGADHA to VAIsALĪ in order to die. Seeking his relics (sARĪRA), AJATAsATRU followed him to the Rohīni River, while a group from VaisAlī awaited him on the other bank. Not wishing to disappoint either group, Ananda levitated to the middle of the river in the meditative posture, preached the dharma, and then meditated on the TEJOKASInA, which prompted his body to burst into flames, with the relics dividing into two parts, one landing on each bank of the river. Ananda has long been one of the most beloved figures in the history of Buddhism, in part because he was not the wisest of the Buddha's disciples but showed unstinting devotion to the Buddha, always seeking to understand him correctly and to bring his teachings to as many people as possible.
Andarah [possibly Sanskrit andhakāra darkness, blindness from andha blind, dark, turbid from the verbal root andh to make blind + kāra making from the verbal root kṛ to do, make; or possibly Sanskrit antarāla midway, intermediate space from antar internal, intermediate + āla probably for ālaya dwelling, asylum] Possibly darkness or intermediate space; used in The Mahatma Letters: “(remember the Hindu allegory of the Fallen Devas hurled by Siva into Andarah who are allowed by Parabrahm to consider it as an intermediate state where they may prepare themselves by a series of rebirths in that sphere for a higher state — a new regeneration) . . .” (p. 87).
Another name for the spirit-man is monad used in a generalizing sense, which becomes confusing when one remembers that in the human septenary constitution there are several monads coordinately evolving. There is the divine monad, virtually atman; the spiritual monad, buddhi-manas overshone by atman; the human monad or reincarnating ego, the higher manas in conjunction with the aroma of kama and overshone by atma-buddhi; then on still lower scales of evolutionary unfolding come the animal monad seated in the manas-kama; the astral monad seated in the prana-lingasarira; and finally the physical monad, the lingasarira-sthulasarira under the gentle efflux of the higher principles, which accounts for the permanency, albeit changeability, of the physical person. In reality every portion of human pneumatology is a monad, each one producing all that any other produces, each lower being the vehicle or seat of the next higher, and the higher ones being merely more unfolded than the lower ones.
anterograde amnesia: the inability to learn and remember new information after brain damage.
Apprehension: (ad + prehendere: to seize) 1. Act involving the bare awareness of the presence of an object to consciousness; the general relation of subject to object as inclusive of the more special forms, such as perceiving or remembering, which the relation may take.
A PRIORI (Lat.) In advance, i.e. without prior investigation or experience. Opposite: a posteriori = afterwards, after investigation or experience.
The correct explanation of the aprioristic in our apprehension was given long ago by
Platon. According to him, there is another kind of certainty than that of ordinary experience. This certainty is the outcome of remembering anew concepts acquired in previous incarnations. Everything aprioristic is thus obtained ultimately from experience. K 5.28.14
Aryadeva. (T. 'Phags pa lha; C. Tipo; J. Daiba; K. Cheba 提婆). While traditional sources are often ambiguous, scholars have identified two Aryadevas. The first Aryadeva (c. 170-270 CE) was an important Indian philosopher, proponent of MADHYAMAKA philosophy, and a direct disciple of the Madhyamaka master NAGARJUNA. According to traditional accounts, he was born to a royal family in Sri Lanka. Renouncing the throne at the time of his maturity, he instead sought monastic ordination and met NAgArjuna at PAtALIPUTRA. After his teacher's death, Aryadeva became active at the monastic university of NALANDA, where he is said to have debated and defeated numerous brahmanic adherents, eventually converting them to Buddhism. He is the author of the influential work CATUḤsATAKA ("The Four Hundred"). He is also said to be the author of the *sATAsASTRA (C. BAI LUN), or "The Hundred Treatise," counted as one of the "three treatises" of the SAN LUN ZONG of Chinese Buddhism, together with the Zhong lun ("Middle Treatise," i.e., MuLAMADHYAMAKAKARIKA) and SHI'ERMEN LUN ("Twelve [Chapter] Treatise"), both attributed to NAgArjuna. The *satasAstra is not extant in Sanskrit or Tibetan, but is preserved only in Chinese. ¶ The second Aryadeva [alt. AryadevapAda; d.u.] trained in yogic practices under the tantric master NAgArjuna at NAlandA. In the Tibetan tradition, this Aryadeva is remembered for his great tantric accomplishments, and is counted among the eighty-four MAHASIDDHAs under the name Karnari or Kanheri. His important tantric works include the CaryAmelapakapradīpa ("Lamp that Integrates the Practices") and Cittavisuddhiprakarana [alt. CittAvaranavisuddhiprakarana] ("Explanation of Mental Purity").
As another corollary of this, or otherwise, we obtain also the following theorem about the propositional calculus: If A ≡ B is a theorem, and D is the result of replacing a particular occurrence of A by B in the formula C, then the inference from C to D is a valid inference. The dual of a formula C of the propositional calculus is obtained by interchanging conjunction and disjunction throughout the formula, i.e., by replacing AB everywhere by A ∨ B, and A ∨ B by AB. Thus, e.g., the dual of the formula ∼[pq ∨ ∼r] is the formula ∼[[p ∨ q] ∼r]. In forming the dual of a formula which is expressed with the aid of the defined connectives, |, ⊃, ≡, +, it is convenient to remember that the effect of interchanging conjunction and (inclusive) disjunction is to replace A|B by ∼A∼B, to replace A ⊃ B by ∼A B; and to interchange ≡ and +.
Associations ::: The phenomenon in learning that states we are better able to remember information if it is paired with something we are familiar with or otherwise stands out.
Aufklärung: In general, this German word and its English equivalent Enlightenment denote the self-emancipation of man from mere authority, prejudice, convention and tradition, with an insistence on freer thinking about problems uncritically referred to these other agencies. According to Kant's famous definition "Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority, which is the incapacity of using one's understanding without the direction of another. This state of minority is caused when its source lies not in the lack of understanding, but in the lack of determination and courage to use it without the assistance of another" (Was ist Aufklärung? 1784). In its historical perspective, the Aufklärung refers to the cultural atmosphere and contrlbutions of the 18th century, especially in Germany, France and England [which affected also American thought with B. Franklin, T. Paine and the leaders of the Revolution]. It crystallized tendencies emphasized by the Renaissance, and quickened by modern scepticism and empiricism, and by the great scientific discoveries of the 17th century. This movement, which was represented by men of varying tendencies, gave an impetus to general learning, a more popular philosophy, empirical science, scriptural criticism, social and political thought. More especially, the word Aufklärung is applied to the German contributions to 18th century culture. In philosophy, its principal representatives are G. E. Lessing (1729-81) who believed in free speech and in a methodical criticism of religion, without being a free-thinker; H. S. Reimarus (1694-1768) who expounded a naturalistic philosophy and denied the supernatural origin of Christianity; Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86) who endeavoured to mitigate prejudices and developed a popular common-sense philosophy; Chr. Wolff (1679-1754), J. A. Eberhard (1739-1809) who followed the Leibnizian rationalism and criticized unsuccessfully Kant and Fichte; and J. G. Herder (1744-1803) who was best as an interpreter of others, but whose intuitional suggestions have borne fruit in the organic correlation of the sciences, and in questions of language in relation to human nature and to national character. The works of Kant and Goethe mark the culmination of the German Enlightenment. Cf. J. G. Hibben, Philosophy of the Enlightenment, 1910. --T.G. Augustinianism: The thought of St. Augustine of Hippo, and of his followers. Born in 354 at Tagaste in N. Africa, A. studied rhetoric in Carthage, taught that subject there and in Rome and Milan. Attracted successively to Manicheanism, Scepticism, and Neo-Platontsm, A. eventually found intellectual and moral peace with his conversion to Christianity in his thirty-fourth year. Returning to Africa, he established numerous monasteries, became a priest in 391, Bishop of Hippo in 395. Augustine wrote much: On Free Choice, Confessions, Literal Commentary on Genesis, On the Trinity, and City of God, are his most noted works. He died in 430. St. Augustine's characteristic method, an inward empiricism which has little in common with later variants, starts from things without, proceeds within to the self, and moves upwards to God. These three poles of the Augustinian dialectic are polarized by his doctrine of moderate illuminism. An ontological illumination is required to explain the metaphysical structure of things. The truth of judgment demands a noetic illumination. A moral illumination is necessary in the order of willing; and so, too, an lllumination of art in the aesthetic order. Other illuminations which transcend the natural order do not come within the scope of philosophy; they provide the wisdoms of theology and mysticism. Every being is illuminated ontologically by number, form, unity and its derivatives, and order. A thing is what it is, in so far as it is more or less flooded by the light of these ontological constituents. Sensation is necessary in order to know material substances. There is certainly an action of the external object on the body and a corresponding passion of the body, but, as the soul is superior to the body and can suffer nothing from its inferior, sensation must be an action, not a passion, of the soul. Sensation takes place only when the observing soul, dynamically on guard throughout the body, is vitally attentive to the changes suffered by the body. However, an adequate basis for the knowledge of intellectual truth is not found in sensation alone. In order to know, for example, that a body is multiple, the idea of unity must be present already, otherwise its multiplicity could not be recognized. If numbers are not drawn in by the bodily senses which perceive only the contingent and passing, is the mind the source of the unchanging and necessary truth of numbers? The mind of man is also contingent and mutable, and cannot give what it does not possess. As ideas are not innate, nor remembered from a previous existence of the soul, they can be accounted for only by an immutable source higher than the soul. In so far as man is endowed with an intellect, he is a being naturally illuminated by God, Who may be compared to an intelligible sun. The human intellect does not create the laws of thought; it finds them and submits to them. The immediate intuition of these normative rules does not carry any content, thus any trace of ontologism is avoided. Things have forms because they have numbers, and they have being in so far as they possess form. The sufficient explanation of all formable, and hence changeable, things is an immutable and eternal form which is unrestricted in time and space. The forms or ideas of all things actually existing in the world are in the things themselves (as rationes seminales) and in the Divine Mind (as rationes aeternae). Nothing could exist without unity, for to be is no other than to be one. There is a unity proper to each level of being, a unity of the material individual and species, of the soul, and of that union of souls in the love of the same good, which union constitutes the city. Order, also, is ontologically imbibed by all beings. To tend to being is to tend to order; order secures being, disorder leads to non-being. Order is the distribution which allots things equal and unequal each to its own place and integrates an ensemble of parts in accordance with an end. Hence, peace is defined as the tranquillity of order. Just as things have their being from their forms, the order of parts, and their numerical relations, so too their beauty is not something superadded, but the shining out of all their intelligible co-ingredients. S. Aurelii Augustini, Opera Omnia, Migne, PL 32-47; (a critical edition of some works will be found in the Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, Vienna). Gilson, E., Introd. a l'etude de s. Augustin, (Paris, 1931) contains very good bibliography up to 1927, pp. 309-331. Pope, H., St. Augustine of Hippo, (London, 1937). Chapman, E., St. Augustine's Philos. of Beauty, (N. Y., 1939). Figgis, J. N., The Political Aspects of St. Augustine's "City of God", (London, 1921). --E.C. Authenticity: In a general sense, genuineness, truth according to its title. It involves sometimes a direct and personal characteristic (Whitehead speaks of "authentic feelings"). This word also refers to problems of fundamental criticism involving title, tradition, authorship and evidence. These problems are vital in theology, and basic in scholarship with regard to the interpretation of texts and doctrines. --T.G. Authoritarianism: That theory of knowledge which maintains that the truth of any proposition is determined by the fact of its having been asserted by a certain esteemed individual or group of individuals. Cf. H. Newman, Grammar of Assent; C. S. Peirce, "Fixation of Belief," in Chance, Love and Logic, ed. M. R. Cohen. --A.C.B. Autistic thinking: Absorption in fanciful or wishful thinking without proper control by objective or factual material; day dreaming; undisciplined imagination. --A.C.B. Automaton Theory: Theory that a living organism may be considered a mere machine. See Automatism. Automatism: (Gr. automatos, self-moving) (a) In metaphysics: Theory that animal and human organisms are automata, that is to say, are machines governed by the laws of physics and mechanics. Automatism, as propounded by Descartes, considered the lower animals to be pure automata (Letter to Henry More, 1649) and man a machine controlled by a rational soul (Treatise on Man). Pure automatism for man as well as animals is advocated by La Mettrie (Man, a Machine, 1748). During the Nineteenth century, automatism, combined with epiphenomenalism, was advanced by Hodgson, Huxley and Clifford. (Cf. W. James, The Principles of Psychology, Vol. I, ch. V.) Behaviorism, of the extreme sort, is the most recent version of automatism (See Behaviorism). (b) In psychology: Psychological automatism is the performance of apparently purposeful actions, like automatic writing without the superintendence of the conscious mind. L. C. Rosenfield, From Beast Machine to Man Machine, N. Y., 1941. --L.W. Automatism, Conscious: The automatism of Hodgson, Huxley, and Clifford which considers man a machine to which mind or consciousness is superadded; the mind of man is, however, causally ineffectual. See Automatism; Epiphenomenalism. --L.W. Autonomy: (Gr. autonomia, independence) Freedom consisting in self-determination and independence of all external constraint. See Freedom. Kant defines autonomy of the will as subjection of the will to its own law, the categorical imperative, in contrast to heteronomy, its subjection to a law or end outside the rational will. (Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, § 2.) --L.W. Autonomy of ethics: A doctrine, usually propounded by intuitionists, that ethics is not a part of, and cannot be derived from, either metaphysics or any of the natural or social sciences. See Intuitionism, Metaphysical ethics, Naturalistic ethics. --W.K.F. Autonomy of the will: (in Kant's ethics) The freedom of the rational will to legislate to itself, which constitutes the basis for the autonomy of the moral law. --P.A.S. Autonymy: In the terminology introduced by Carnap, a word (phrase, symbol, expression) is autonymous if it is used as a name for itself --for the geometric shape, sound, etc. which it exemplifies, or for the word as a historical and grammatical unit. Autonymy is thus the same as the Scholastic suppositio matertalis (q. v.), although the viewpoint is different. --A.C. Autotelic: (from Gr. autos, self, and telos, end) Said of any absorbing activity engaged in for its own sake (cf. German Selbstzweck), such as higher mathematics, chess, etc. In aesthetics, applied to creative art and play which lack any conscious reference to the accomplishment of something useful. In the view of some, it may constitute something beneficent in itself of which the person following his art impulse (q.v.) or playing is unaware, thus approaching a heterotelic (q.v.) conception. --K.F.L. Avenarius, Richard: (1843-1896) German philosopher who expressed his thought in an elaborate and novel terminology in the hope of constructing a symbolic language for philosophy, like that of mathematics --the consequence of his Spinoza studies. As the most influential apostle of pure experience, the posltivistic motive reaches in him an extreme position. Insisting on the biologic and economic function of thought, he thought the true method of science is to cure speculative excesses by a return to pure experience devoid of all assumptions. Philosophy is the scientific effort to exclude from knowledge all ideas not included in the given. Its task is to expel all extraneous elements in the given. His uncritical use of the category of the given and the nominalistic view that logical relations are created rather than discovered by thought, leads him to banish not only animism but also all of the categories, substance, causality, etc., as inventions of the mind. Explaining the evolution and devolution of the problematization and deproblematization of numerous ideas, and aiming to give the natural history of problems, Avenarius sought to show physiologically, psychologically and historically under what conditions they emerge, are challenged and are solved. He hypothesized a System C, a bodily and central nervous system upon which consciousness depends. R-values are the stimuli received from the world of objects. E-values are the statements of experience. The brain changes that continually oscillate about an ideal point of balance are termed Vitalerhaltungsmaximum. The E-values are differentiated into elements, to which the sense-perceptions or the content of experience belong, and characters, to which belongs everything which psychology describes as feelings and attitudes. Avenarius describes in symbolic form a series of states from balance to balance, termed vital series, all describing a series of changes in System C. Inequalities in the vital balance give rise to vital differences. According to his theory there are two vital series. It assumes a series of brain changes because parallel series of conscious states can be observed. The independent vital series are physical, and the dependent vital series are psychological. The two together are practically covariants. In the case of a process as a dependent vital series three stages can be noted: first, the appearance of the problem, expressed as strain, restlessness, desire, fear, doubt, pain, repentance, delusion; the second, the continued effort and struggle to solve the problem; and finally, the appearance of the solution, characterized by abating anxiety, a feeling of triumph and enjoyment. Corresponding to these three stages of the dependent series are three stages of the independent series: the appearance of the vital difference and a departure from balance in the System C, the continuance with an approximate vital difference, and lastly, the reduction of the vital difference to zero, the return to stability. By making room for dependent and independent experiences, he showed that physics regards experience as independent of the experiencing indlvidual, and psychology views experience as dependent upon the individual. He greatly influenced Mach and James (q.v.). See Avenarius, Empirio-criticism, Experience, pure. Main works: Kritik der reinen Erfahrung; Der menschliche Weltbegriff. --H.H. Averroes: (Mohammed ibn Roshd) Known to the Scholastics as The Commentator, and mentioned as the author of il gran commento by Dante (Inf. IV. 68) he was born 1126 at Cordova (Spain), studied theology, law, medicine, mathematics, and philosophy, became after having been judge in Sevilla and Cordova, physician to the khalifah Jaqub Jusuf, and charged with writing a commentary on the works of Aristotle. Al-mansur, Jusuf's successor, deprived him of his place because of accusations of unorthodoxy. He died 1198 in Morocco. Averroes is not so much an original philosopher as the author of a minute commentary on the whole works of Aristotle. His procedure was imitated later by Aquinas. In his interpretation of Aristotelian metaphysics Averroes teaches the coeternity of a universe created ex nihilo. This doctrine formed together with the notion of a numerical unity of the active intellect became one of the controversial points in the discussions between the followers of Albert-Thomas and the Latin Averroists. Averroes assumed that man possesses only a disposition for receiving the intellect coming from without; he identifies this disposition with the possible intellect which thus is not truly intellectual by nature. The notion of one intellect common to all men does away with the doctrine of personal immortality. Another doctrine which probably was emphasized more by the Latin Averroists (and by the adversaries among Averroes' contemporaries) is the famous statement about "two-fold truth", viz. that a proposition may be theologically true and philosophically false and vice versa. Averroes taught that religion expresses the (higher) philosophical truth by means of religious imagery; the "two-truth notion" came apparently into the Latin text through a misinterpretation on the part of the translators. The works of Averroes were one of the main sources of medieval Aristotelianlsm, before and even after the original texts had been translated. The interpretation the Latin Averroists found in their texts of the "Commentator" spread in spite of opposition and condemnation. See Averroism, Latin. Averroes, Opera, Venetiis, 1553. M. Horten, Die Metaphysik des Averroes, 1912. P. Mandonnet, Siger de Brabant et l'Averroisme Latin, 2d ed., Louvain, 1911. --R.A. Averroism, Latin: The commentaries on Aristotle written by Averroes (Ibn Roshd) in the 12th century became known to the Western scholars in translations by Michael Scottus, Hermannus Alemannus, and others at the beginning of the 13th century. Many works of Aristotle were also known first by such translations from Arabian texts, though there existed translations from the Greek originals at the same time (Grabmann). The Averroistic interpretation of Aristotle was held to be the true one by many; but already Albert the Great pointed out several notions which he felt to be incompatible with the principles of Christian philosophy, although he relied for the rest on the "Commentator" and apparently hardly used any other text. Aquinas, basing his studies mostly on a translation from the Greek texts, procured for him by William of Moerbecke, criticized the Averroistic interpretation in many points. But the teachings of the Commentator became the foundation for a whole school of philosophers, represented first by the Faculty of Arts at Paris. The most prominent of these scholars was Siger of Brabant. The philosophy of these men was condemned on March 7th, 1277 by Stephen Tempier, Bishop of Paris, after a first condemnation of Aristotelianism in 1210 had gradually come to be neglected. The 219 theses condemned in 1277, however, contain also some of Aquinas which later were generally recognized an orthodox. The Averroistic propositions which aroused the criticism of the ecclesiastic authorities and which had been opposed with great energy by Albert and Thomas refer mostly to the following points: The co-eternity of the created word; the numerical identity of the intellect in all men, the so-called two-fold-truth theory stating that a proposition may be philosophically true although theologically false. Regarding the first point Thomas argued that there is no philosophical proof, either for the co-eternity or against it; creation is an article of faith. The unity of intellect was rejected as incompatible with the true notion of person and with personal immortality. It is doubtful whether Averroes himself held the two-truths theory; it was, however, taught by the Latin Averroists who, notwithstanding the opposition of the Church and the Thomistic philosophers, gained a great influence and soon dominated many universities, especially in Italy. Thomas and his followers were convinced that they interpreted Aristotle correctly and that the Averroists were wrong; one has, however, to admit that certain passages in Aristotle allow for the Averroistic interpretation, especially in regard to the theory of intellect. Lit.: P. Mandonnet, Siger de Brabant et l'Averroisme Latin au XIIIe Siecle, 2d. ed. Louvain, 1911; M. Grabmann, Forschungen über die lateinischen Aristotelesübersetzungen des XIII. Jahrhunderts, Münster 1916 (Beitr. z. Gesch. Phil. d. MA. Vol. 17, H. 5-6). --R.A. Avesta: See Zendavesta. Avicehron: (or Avencebrol, Salomon ibn Gabirol) The first Jewish philosopher in Spain, born in Malaga 1020, died about 1070, poet, philosopher, and moralist. His main work, Fons vitae, became influential and was much quoted by the Scholastics. It has been preserved only in the Latin translation by Gundissalinus. His doctrine of a spiritual substance individualizing also the pure spirits or separate forms was opposed by Aquinas already in his first treatise De ente, but found favor with the medieval Augustinians also later in the 13th century. He also teaches the necessity of a mediator between God and the created world; such a mediator he finds in the Divine Will proceeding from God and creating, conserving, and moving the world. His cosmogony shows a definitely Neo-Platonic shade and assumes a series of emanations. Cl. Baeumker, Avencebrolis Fons vitae. Beitr. z. Gesch. d. Philos. d. MA. 1892-1895, Vol. I. Joh. Wittman, Die Stellung des hl. Thomas von Aquino zu Avencebrol, ibid. 1900. Vol. III. --R.A. Avicenna: (Abu Ali al Hosain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina) Born 980 in the country of Bocchara, began to write in young years, left more than 100 works, taught in Ispahan, was physician to several Persian princes, and died at Hamadan in 1037. His fame as physician survived his influence as philosopher in the Occident. His medical works were printed still in the 17th century. His philosophy is contained in 18 vols. of a comprehensive encyclopedia, following the tradition of Al Kindi and Al Farabi. Logic, Physics, Mathematics and Metaphysics form the parts of this work. His philosophy is Aristotelian with noticeable Neo-Platonic influences. His doctrine of the universal existing ante res in God, in rebus as the universal nature of the particulars, and post res in the human mind by way of abstraction became a fundamental thesis of medieval Aristotelianism. He sharply distinguished between the logical and the ontological universal, denying to the latter the true nature of form in the composite. The principle of individuation is matter, eternally existent. Latin translations attributed to Avicenna the notion that existence is an accident to essence (see e.g. Guilelmus Parisiensis, De Universo). The process adopted by Avicenna was one of paraphrasis of the Aristotelian texts with many original thoughts interspersed. His works were translated into Latin by Dominicus Gundissalinus (Gondisalvi) with the assistance of Avendeath ibn Daud. This translation started, when it became more generally known, the "revival of Aristotle" at the end of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th century. Albert the Great and Aquinas professed, notwithstanding their critical attitude, a great admiration for Avicenna whom the Arabs used to call the "third Aristotle". But in the Orient, Avicenna's influence declined soon, overcome by the opposition of the orthodox theologians. Avicenna, Opera, Venetiis, 1495; l508; 1546. M. Horten, Das Buch der Genesung der Seele, eine philosophische Enzyklopaedie Avicenna's; XIII. Teil: Die Metaphysik. Halle a. S. 1907-1909. R. de Vaux, Notes et textes sur l'Avicennisme Latin, Bibl. Thomiste XX, Paris, 1934. --R.A. Avidya: (Skr.) Nescience; ignorance; the state of mind unaware of true reality; an equivalent of maya (q.v.); also a condition of pure awareness prior to the universal process of evolution through gradual differentiation into the elements and factors of knowledge. --K.F.L. Avyakta: (Skr.) "Unmanifest", descriptive of or standing for brahman (q.v.) in one of its or "his" aspects, symbolizing the superabundance of the creative principle, or designating the condition of the universe not yet become phenomenal (aja, unborn). --K.F.L. Awareness: Consciousness considered in its aspect of act; an act of attentive awareness such as the sensing of a color patch or the feeling of pain is distinguished from the content attended to, the sensed color patch, the felt pain. The psychologlcal theory of intentional act was advanced by F. Brentano (Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkte) and received its epistemological development by Meinong, Husserl, Moore, Laird and Broad. See Intentionalism. --L.W. Axiological: (Ger. axiologisch) In Husserl: Of or pertaining to value or theory of value (the latter term understood as including disvalue and value-indifference). --D.C. Axiological ethics: Any ethics which makes the theory of obligation entirely dependent on the theory of value, by making the determination of the rightness of an action wholly dependent on a consideration of the value or goodness of something, e.g. the action itself, its motive, or its consequences, actual or probable. Opposed to deontological ethics. See also teleological ethics. --W.K.F. Axiologic Realism: In metaphysics, theory that value as well as logic, qualities as well as relations, have their being and exist external to the mind and independently of it. Applicable to the philosophy of many though not all realists in the history of philosophy, from Plato to G. E. Moore, A. N. Whitehead, and N, Hartmann. --J.K.F. Axiology: (Gr. axios, of like value, worthy, and logos, account, reason, theory). Modern term for theory of value (the desired, preferred, good), investigation of its nature, criteria, and metaphysical status. Had its rise in Plato's theory of Forms or Ideas (Idea of the Good); was developed in Aristotle's Organon, Ethics, Poetics, and Metaphysics (Book Lambda). Stoics and Epicureans investigated the summum bonum. Christian philosophy (St. Thomas) built on Aristotle's identification of highest value with final cause in God as "a living being, eternal, most good." In modern thought, apart from scholasticism and the system of Spinoza (Ethica, 1677), in which values are metaphysically grounded, the various values were investigated in separate sciences, until Kant's Critiques, in which the relations of knowledge to moral, aesthetic, and religious values were examined. In Hegel's idealism, morality, art, religion, and philosophy were made the capstone of his dialectic. R. H. Lotze "sought in that which should be the ground of that which is" (Metaphysik, 1879). Nineteenth century evolutionary theory, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and economics subjected value experience to empirical analysis, and stress was again laid on the diversity and relativity of value phenomena rather than on their unity and metaphysical nature. F. Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra (1883-1885) and Zur Genealogie der Moral (1887) aroused new interest in the nature of value. F. Brentano, Vom Ursprung sittlicher Erkenntnis (1889), identified value with love. In the twentieth century the term axiology was apparently first applied by Paul Lapie (Logique de la volonte, 1902) and E. von Hartmann (Grundriss der Axiologie, 1908). Stimulated by Ehrenfels (System der Werttheorie, 1897), Meinong (Psychologisch-ethische Untersuchungen zur Werttheorie, 1894-1899), and Simmel (Philosophie des Geldes, 1900). W. M. Urban wrote the first systematic treatment of axiology in English (Valuation, 1909), phenomenological in method under J. M. Baldwin's influence. Meanwhile H. Münsterberg wrote a neo-Fichtean system of values (The Eternal Values, 1909). Among important recent contributions are: B. Bosanquet, The Principle of Individuality and Value (1912), a free reinterpretation of Hegelianism; W. R. Sorley, Moral Values and the Idea of God (1918, 1921), defending a metaphysical theism; S. Alexander, Space, Time, and Deity (1920), realistic and naturalistic; N. Hartmann, Ethik (1926), detailed analysis of types and laws of value; R. B. Perry's magnum opus, General Theory of Value (1926), "its meaning and basic principles construed in terms of interest"; and J. Laird, The Idea of Value (1929), noteworthy for historical exposition. A naturalistic theory has been developed by J. Dewey (Theory of Valuation, 1939), for which "not only is science itself a value . . . but it is the supreme means of the valid determination of all valuations." A. J. Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic (1936) expounds the view of logical positivism that value is "nonsense." J. Hessen, Wertphilosophie (1937), provides an account of recent German axiology from a neo-scholastic standpoint. The problems of axiology fall into four main groups, namely, those concerning (1) the nature of value, (2) the types of value, (3) the criterion of value, and (4) the metaphysical status of value. (1) The nature of value experience. Is valuation fulfillment of desire (voluntarism: Spinoza, Ehrenfels), pleasure (hedonism: Epicurus, Bentham, Meinong), interest (Perry), preference (Martineau), pure rational will (formalism: Stoics, Kant, Royce), apprehension of tertiary qualities (Santayana), synoptic experience of the unity of personality (personalism: T. H. Green, Bowne), any experience that contributes to enhanced life (evolutionism: Nietzsche), or "the relation of things as means to the end or consequence actually reached" (pragmatism, instrumentalism: Dewey). (2) The types of value. Most axiologists distinguish between intrinsic (consummatory) values (ends), prized for their own sake, and instrumental (contributory) values (means), which are causes (whether as economic goods or as natural events) of intrinsic values. Most intrinsic values are also instrumental to further value experience; some instrumental values are neutral or even disvaluable intrinsically. Commonly recognized as intrinsic values are the (morally) good, the true, the beautiful, and the holy. Values of play, of work, of association, and of bodily well-being are also acknowledged. Some (with Montague) question whether the true is properly to be regarded as a value, since some truth is disvaluable, some neutral; but love of truth, regardless of consequences, seems to establish the value of truth. There is disagreement about whether the holy (religious value) is a unique type (Schleiermacher, Otto), or an attitude toward other values (Kant, Höffding), or a combination of the two (Hocking). There is also disagreement about whether the variety of values is irreducible (pluralism) or whether all values are rationally related in a hierarchy or system (Plato, Hegel, Sorley), in which values interpenetrate or coalesce into a total experience. (3) The criterion of value. The standard for testing values is influenced by both psychological and logical theory. Hedonists find the standard in the quantity of pleasure derived by the individual (Aristippus) or society (Bentham). Intuitionists appeal to an ultimate insight into preference (Martineau, Brentano). Some idealists recognize an objective system of rational norms or ideals as criterion (Plato, Windelband), while others lay more stress on rational wholeness and coherence (Hegel, Bosanquet, Paton) or inclusiveness (T. H. Green). Naturalists find biological survival or adjustment (Dewey) to be the standard. Despite differences, there is much in common in the results of the application of these criteria. (4) The metaphysical status of value. What is the relation of values to the facts investigated by natural science (Koehler), of Sein to Sollen (Lotze, Rickert), of human experience of value to reality independent of man (Hegel, Pringle-Pattlson, Spaulding)? There are three main answers: subjectivism (value is entirely dependent on and relative to human experience of it: so most hedonists, naturalists, positivists); logical objectivism (values are logical essences or subsistences, independent of their being known, yet with no existential status or action in reality); metaphysical objectivism (values --or norms or ideals --are integral, objective, and active constituents of the metaphysically real: so theists, absolutists, and certain realists and naturalists like S. Alexander and Wieman). --E.S.B. Axiom: See Mathematics. Axiomatic method: That method of constructing a deductive system consisting of deducing by specified rules all statements of the system save a given few from those given few, which are regarded as axioms or postulates of the system. See Mathematics. --C.A.B. Ayam atma brahma: (Skr.) "This self is brahman", famous quotation from Brhadaranyaka Upanishad 2.5.19, one of many alluding to the central theme of the Upanishads, i.e., the identity of the human and divine or cosmic. --K.F.L.
availability heuristic: a rule of thumb used to make decisions about frequencies of events based on how easily relevant examples can be remembered a cognitiveshort cut
availability: in memory, the principle that remembering is determined by whether the information exists in long-term memory or not; forgetting implies that the information is destroyed.
Babbage "language" The structured {assembly language} for the {General Electric Company} 4xxx range of computers and their {OS4000} {operating system}. It is strictly an assembler in that the generated code is relatively predictable but it can be written in a sufficiently structured manner, with indentation, control statements, function and procedure calls, to make the resultant source easy to read and manage. Even with this visible structure however, it is important to remember that the assembly of the statement is done left to right. The British {videotext} system, {Prestel} is programmed in Babbage. [Datamation, 1980s]. (2007-10-24)
Babbage ::: The structured assembly language for the General Electric Company 4xxx range of computers and their OS4000 operating system. It is strictly an assembler in that with this visible structure however, it is important to remember that the assembly of the statement is done left to right.The British videotext system, Prestel is programmed in Babbage.[1980's article in Datamation].
Bandura (1925 -): was a key proponent of behaviourism. Best remembered for his research into observational learning or modelling in the “Bobo doll experiment”. His work also includes self-efficacy, aggression and personality theory.
Baotang Wuzhu. (J. Hoto Muju: K. Podang Muju 保唐無住) (714-774). Chinese monk in the early CHAN school, who is considered the founder of the BAOTANG ZONG during the Tang dynasty. Baotang is the name of the monastery where Wuzhu resided (located in present-day Sichuan province). Wuzhu is said to have attained awakening through the influence of Chen Chuzhang (d.u.), a lay disciple of the monk Hui'an (582-799; a.k.a. Lao'an); Chen was thought to be an incarnation of the prototypical Buddhist layman VIMALAKĪRTI. According to the LIDAI FABAO JI, Wuzhu attended a mass ordination performed by the Korean monk CHoNGJONG MUSANG at Jingzhong monastery in the city of Chengdu. Upon hearing Musang's instructions to practice in the mountains, Wuzhu left for Baiyaishan, where he remained for the next seven years (759-766). He subsequently went to the monastery Konghuisi, until he finally moved to Baotangsi, where he passed away in the summer of 774. Wuzhu was famous for his antinomian teachings that rejected all devotional practices, and is remembered as the founder of the eponymous BAOTANG ZONG. Wuzhu's successor was a lay disciple by the name of Tu Hongjian, deputy commander-in-chief and vice president of the Imperial Chancellery.
Bentham, Jeremy: (1748-1832) Founder of the English Utilitarian School of Philosophy. In law, he is remembered for his criticism of Blackstone's views of the English constitution, for his examination of the legal fiction and for his treatment of the subject of evidence. In politics, he is most famous for his analysis of the principles of legislation and, in ethics, for his greatest happiness principle. See Hedonic Calculus; Utilitarianism. J. Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation, 1789; Outline of a New System of Logic, 1827; Deontology. -- L.E.D.
Bhaddekarattasutta. In PAli, "The Ideal Lover of Solitude," the 131st sutra in the MAJJHIMANIKAYA (there is no corresponding version in the Chinese translations of the AGAMAs); spoken at Jeta's Grove in SAvatthi (sRAVASTĪ); several related DHARMAGUPTAKA recensions appear in the Chinese translation of the MADHYAMAGAMA, although none with a corresponding title. The Buddha recites an enigmatic verse, in which he defines ideal solitude as letting go of everything involving the past or the future and dwelling solely in the present moment, discerning phenomena with wisdom as they appear. In his own exposition of the meaning of his verses, the Buddha explains that tracing back the past means not so much remembering the past but rather binding oneself to one's past aggregates (SKANDHA) through delighting in them; similarly, yearning for the future means the desire to have one's aggregates appear a certain way in the future. Instead, the religious should not identify with any of the five skandhas as being oneself; such a one is called an "ideal lover of solitude." The MajjhimanikAya collects subsequent expositions of these same verses by the Buddha's attendant ANANDA, MahAkaccAna (MAHAKATYAYANA), and Lomasakangiya. The term bhaddekaratta has given traditional PAli commentators difficulties and has sometimes been interpreted to mean "one who is happy [viz., auspicious?] for one night" (bhaddakassa ekarattassa) because he possesses insight, an interpretation that has its analogues in the Chinese translation of the Sanskrit title BHADRAKARATRĪ as shanye (a good night).
(b) In epistemology: Epistemological dualism is the theory that in perception, memory and other types of non-inferential cognition, there is a numerical duality of the content or dntum immediately present to the knowing mind and (sense datum, memory image, etc.) and the real object known (the thing perceived or remembered) (cf. A. O. Lovejoy, The Revolt Against Dualism, pp. 15-6). Epistemological monism, on the contrary identifies the immediate datum and the cognitive object either by assimilating the content to the object (epistemological realism) or the object to the content (epistemological idealism). -- L.W.
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
Boodin, John Elof: American philosopher born in Sweden in 1869 who emigrated in 1886 to the United States. Studied at the Universities of Colorado, Minnesota, Brown and especially Harvard under Royce with whom he kept a life-long friendship though he was opposed to his idealism. His works (Time and Reality, 1904 -- Truth and Reality, 1912 -- A Realistic Universe, 1916 -- Cosmic Evolution, 1925 -- Three Interpretations of the Universe, 1934 -- God, 1935 -- The Social Mind, 1940) form practically a complete system. His philosophy takes the form of a cosmic idealism, though he was interested for a time in certain aspects of pragmatism. It grew gradually from his early studies when he developed a new concept of a real and non-serial time. The structure of the cosmos is that of a hierarchy of fields, as exemplified in physics, in organisms, in consciousness and in society. The interpenetration of the mental fields makes possible human knowledge and social intercourse. Reality as such possesses five attributes: being (the dynamic stuff of all complexes, the active energy), time (the ground of change and transformation), space (which accounts for extension), consciousness (active awareness which lights up reality in spots; it becomes the self when conative tendencies cooperate as one active group), and form (the ground of organization and structure which conditions selective direction). God is the spirit of the whole. -- T.G.J Boole, George: (1815-1864) English mathematician. Professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork, 1849-1864. While he made contributions to other branches of mathematics, he is now remembered primarily as the founder of the Nineteenth Century algebra of logic and through it of modern symbolic logic. His Mathematical Analysis of Logic appeared in 1847 and the fuller Laws of Thought in 1854. -- A.C.
Remembering dreams ::: There I's a change or reversal of the consciousness that takes place and the dream* consciousness in disappearing takes away its scences' and experiences with it. This can sometimes be avoided by not coming out abruptly into the waking state or getting up quickly, but remaining quiet for a time to see if the memory lemains or comes back: Otherwise the physical memory has to be taught to remember.
If the waking is composed or it the impression is very strong, then the memory remains at least of the last dream. Those who want to remember their dreams sometimes make a practice of lying quiet and tracing backwards, recovering the dreams one by one. When the dream-state is very light, one can remember more dreams than when it is heavy.
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'Brom ston Rgyal ba'i 'byung gnas. (Dromton Gyalwe Jungne) (1004-1064). The foremost Tibetan disciple of the Bengali scholar ATIsA, and central figure in the founding of the BKA' GDAMS sect of Tibetan Buddhism during the period known as the later dissemination (PHYI DAR) of Buddhism in Tibet. Born in central Tibet, he began his education at an early age. Toward the middle years of his life, news of Atisa's arrival in western Tibet reached him, and he set out on the arduous journey to meet the master. 'Brom ston pa became an early and close student of Atisa and made arrangements for his Indian guru's tour of central Tibet in 1045. After Atisa's death, 'Brom ston pa established RWA SGRENG monastery in 1056, consolidating his career as translator and teacher at this important religious institution. He is remembered especially for the firm austerity of his religious practice. 'Brom ston pa's instructions, as recorded in Bka' gdams pa works such as the Bka' gdams gtor bu ("Bka' gdams Miscellania"), perhaps wary of the potential abuses of tantric practice, instead emphasize meditation on impermanence and compassion coupled with adherence to strict ethical principles and monastic discipline.
Budai. (J. Hotei; K. P'odae 布袋) (d. 916). A legendary Chinese monk, whose name literally means "Hemp Sack"; also occasionally referred to as Fenghua Budai, Changtingzi, and Budai heshang. He is said to have hailed from Fenghua county in Ningbo prefecture of Zhejiang province. Budai is often depicted as a short figure with an enormous belly and a staff or walking stick on which he has hung a hemp bag or sack (budai), whence derives his name. Budai wandered from one town to the next begging for food, some of which he saved in his sack. This jolly figure is remembered as a thaumaturge who was particularly famous for accurately predicting the weather. On his deathbed, Budai left the following death verse, which implied he was in fact a manifestation of the BODHISATTVA MAITREYA: "Maitreya, true Maitreya, / His thousands, hundreds, and tens of millions of manifestations, / From time to time appear among his fellow men, / But remain unrecognized by his fellow men." Budai is also associated in China with AnGAJA, the thirteenth of the sixteen ARHATs (see sOdAsASTHAVIRA) who serve as protector figures. Angaja had been a snake wrangler before he ordained, so whenever he went into the mountains, he carried a cloth bag with him to catch snakes, which he would release after removing their fangs so they would not injure people. For this reason, he earned the nickname "Cloth-Bag Arhat" (Budai luohan/heshang). In Zhejiang province, many images of Budai were made for worship, and an image of Budai installed in the monastery of MANPUKUJI on Mt. obaku in Japan is still referred to as that of the bodhisattva Maitreya. The local cult hero and thaumaturge Budai was quickly appropriated by the CHAN community as a trickster-like figure, leading to Budai often being as called the "Laughing Buddha." In Japan, Budai is also revered as one of the seven gods of virtue (see SHICHIFUKUJIN). It is Budai who is commonly depicted in all manner of kitschy knickknacks and called the "Fat Buddha." He has never been identified with, and is not to be mistaken for, sAKYAMUNI Buddha.
buddha. (T. sangs rgyas; C. fo; J. butsu/hotoke; K. pul 佛). In Sanskrit and PAli, "awakened one" or "enlightened one"; an epithet derived from the Sanskrit root √budh, meaning "to awaken" or "to open up" (as does a flower) and thus traditionally etymologized as one who has awakened from the deep sleep of ignorance and opened his consciousness to encompass all objects of knowledge. The term was used in ancient India by a number of different religious groups, but came to be most strongly associated with followers of the teacher GAUTAMA, the "Sage of the sAKYA Clan" (sAKYAMUNI), who claimed to be only the most recent of a succession of buddhas who had appeared in the world over many eons of time (KALPA). In addition to sAkyamuni, there are many other buddhas named in Buddhist literature, from various lists of buddhas of the past, present, and future, to "buddhas of the ten directions" (dasadigbuddha), viz., everywhere. Although the precise nature of buddhahood is debated by the various schools, a buddha is a person who, in the far distant past, made a previous vow (PuRVAPRAnIDHANA) to become a buddha in order to reestablish the dispensation or teaching (sASANA) at a time when it was lost to the world. The path to buddhahood is much longer than that of the ARHAT-as many as three incalculable eons of time (ASAMKHYEYAKALPA) in some computations-because of the long process of training over the BODHISATTVA path (MARGA), involving mastery of the six or ten "perfections" (PARAMITA). Buddhas can remember both their past lives and the past lives of all sentient beings, and relate events from those past lives in the JATAKA and AVADANA literature. Although there is great interest in the West in the "biography" of Gautama or sAkyamuni Buddha, the early tradition seemed intent on demonstrating his similarity to the buddhas of the past rather than his uniqueness. Such a concern was motivated in part by the need to demonstrate that what the Buddha taught was not the innovation of an individual, but rather the rediscovery of a timeless truth (what the Buddha himself called "an ancient path" [S. purAnamArga, P. purAnamagga]) that had been discovered in precisely the same way, since time immemorial, by a person who undertook the same type of extended preparation. In this sense, the doctrine of the existence of past buddhas allowed the early Buddhist community to claim an authority similar to that of the Vedas of their Hindu rivals and of the JAINA tradition of previous tīrthankaras. Thus, in their biographies, all of the buddhas of the past and future are portrayed as doing many of the same things. They all sit cross-legged in their mother's womb; they are all born in the "middle country" (madhyadesa) of the continent of JAMBUDVĪPA; immediately after their birth they all take seven steps to the north; they all renounce the world after seeing the four sights (CATURNIMITTA; an old man, a sick man, a dead man, and a mendicant) and after the birth of a son; they all achieve enlightenment seated on a bed of grass; they stride first with their right foot when they walk; they never stoop to pass through a door; they all establish a SAMGHA; they all can live for an eon if requested to do so; they never die before their teaching is complete; they all die after eating meat. Four sites on the earth are identical for all buddhas: the place of enlightenment, the place of the first sermon that "turns the wheel of the dharma" (DHARMACAKRAPRAVARTANA), the place of descending from TRAYASTRIMsA (heaven of the thirty-three), and the place of their bed in JETAVANA monastery. Buddhas can differ from each other in only eight ways: life span, height, caste (either brAhmana or KsATRIYA), the conveyance by which they go forth from the world, the period of time spent in the practice of asceticism prior to their enlightenment, the kind of tree they sit under on the night of their enlightenment, the size of their seat there, and the extent of their aura. In addition, there are twelve deeds that all buddhas (dvAdasabuddhakArya) perform. (1) They descend from TUsITA heaven for their final birth; (2) they enter their mother's womb; (3) they take birth in LUMBINĪ Garden; (4) they are proficient in the worldly arts; (5) they enjoy the company of consorts; (6) they renounce the world; (7) they practice asceticism on the banks of the NAIRANJANA River; (8) they go to the BODHIMAndA; (9) they subjugate MARA; (10) they attain enlightenment; (11) they turn the wheel of the dharma; and (12) they pass into PARINIRVAnA. They all have a body adorned with the thirty-two major marks (LAKsAnA; MAHAPURUsALAKsAnA) and the eighty secondary marks (ANUVYANJANA) of a great man (MAHAPURUsA). They all have two bodies: a physical body (RuPAKAYA) and a body of qualities (DHARMAKAYA; see BUDDHAKAYA). These qualities of a buddha are accepted by the major schools of Buddhism. It is not the case, as is sometimes suggested, that the buddha of the mainstream traditions is somehow more "human" and the buddha in the MAHAYANA somehow more "superhuman"; all Buddhist traditions relate stories of buddhas performing miraculous feats, such as the sRAVASTĪ MIRACLES described in mainstream materials. Among the many extraordinary powers of the buddhas are a list of "unshared factors" (AVEnIKA[BUDDHA]DHARMA) that are unique to them, including their perfect mindfulness and their inability ever to make a mistake. The buddhas have ten powers specific to them that derive from their unique range of knowledge (for the list, see BALA). The buddhas also are claimed to have an uncanny ability to apply "skill in means" (UPAYAKAUsALYA), that is, to adapt their teachings to the specific needs of their audience. This teaching role is what distinguishes a "complete and perfect buddha" (SAMYAKSAMBUDDHA) from a "solitary buddha" (PRATYEKABUDDHA) who does not teach: a solitary buddha may be enlightened but he neglects to develop the great compassion (MAHAKARUnA) that ultimately prompts a samyaksaMbuddha to seek to lead others to liberation. The MahAyAna develops an innovative perspective on the person of a buddha, which it conceived as having three bodies (TRIKAYA): the DHARMAKAYA, a transcendent principle that is sometimes translated as "truth body"; an enjoyment body (SAMBHOGAKAYA) that is visible only to advanced bodhisattvas in exalted realms; and an emanation body (NIRMAnAKAYA) that displays the deeds of a buddha to the world. Also in the MahAyAna is the notion of a universe filled with innumerable buddha-fields (BUDDHAKsETRA), the most famous of these being SUKHAVATĪ of AmitAbha. Whereas the mainstream traditions claim that the profundity of a buddha is so great that a single universe can only sustain one buddha at any one time, MahAyAna SuTRAs often include scenes of multiple buddhas appearing together. See also names of specific buddhas, including AKsOBHYA, AMITABHA, AMOGHASIDDHI, RATNASAMBHAVA, VAIROCANA. For indigenous language terms for buddha, see FO (C); HOTOKE (J); PHRA PHUTTHA JAO (Thai); PUCH'o(NIM) (K); SANGS RGYAS (T).
by hand 1. Said of an operation (especially a repetitive, trivial, and/or tedious one) that ought to be performed automatically by the computer, but which a hacker instead has to step tediously through. "My mailer doesn't have a command to include the text of the message I'm replying to, so I have to do it by hand." This does not necessarily mean the speaker has to retype a copy of the message; it might refer to, say, dropping into a subshell from the mailer, making a copy of one's mailbox file, reading that into an editor, locating the top and bottom of the message in question, deleting the rest of the file, inserting """ characters on each line, writing the file, leaving the editor, returning to the mailer, reading the file in, and later remembering to delete the file. Compare {eyeball search}. 2. By extension, writing code which does something in an explicit or low-level way for which a presupplied library routine ought to have been available. "This cretinous {B-tree} library doesn't supply a decent iterator, so I'm having to walk the trees by hand." [{Jargon File}]
by hand ::: 1. Said of an operation (especially a repetitive, trivial, and/or tedious one) that ought to be performed automatically by the computer, but which a hacker mailer, reading the file in, and later remembering to delete the file. Compare eyeball search.2. By extension, writing code which does something in an explicit or low-level way for which a presupplied library routine ought to have been available. This cretinous B-tree library doesn't supply a decent iterator, so I'm having to walk the trees by hand.[Jargon File]
Cambridge Platonists: A small group of 17th century Cambridge thinkers whose views represented a kind of revival of Platonism. Esp. Ralph Cudworth and Henry More. Remembered chiefly, perhaps, for holding that ethics rests on certain absolute and self-evident truths. -- W.K.F.
Carus, Paul. (1852-1919). An early supporter of Buddhism in America and the proponent of the "religion of science": a faith that claimed to be purified of all superstition and irrationality and that, in harmony with science, would bring about solutions to the world's problems. Carus was born in Ilsenberg in Harz, Germany. He immigrated to America in 1884, settling in LaSalle, Illinois, where he assumed the editorship of the Open Court Publishing Company. He attended the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893 and became friends with several of the Buddhist delegates, including DHARMAPALA and SHAKU SoEN, who were among the first to promote his writing. Later, Shaku Soen's student, DAISETZ TEITARO SUZUKI, would spend eleven years working with and for Carus in LaSalle. In 1894, Carus published The Gospel of Buddha according to Old Records, an anthology of passages from Buddhist texts drawn from contemporary translations in English, French, and German, making particular use of translations from the PAli by THOMAS W. RHYS DAVIDS, as well as translations of the life of the Buddha from Chinese and Tibetan sources. Second only to Edwin Arnold's Light of Asia in intellectual influence at the time, The Gospel was arranged like the Bible, with numbered chapters and verses and a table at the end that listed parallel passages from the New Testament. The Gospel was intended to highlight the many agreements between Buddhism and Christianity, thereby bringing out "that nobler Christianity which aspires to the cosmic religion of universal truth." Carus was free in his manipulation of his sources, writing in the preface that he had rearranged, retranslated, and added emendations and elaborations in order to make them more accessible to a Western audience; for this reason, the translated sources are not always easy to trace back to the original literature. He also makes it clear in the preface that his ultimate goal is to lead his readers to the Religion of Science. He believed that both Buddhism and Christianity, when understood correctly, would point the way to the Religion of Science. Although remembered today for his Gospel, Carus wrote some seventy books and more than a thousand articles. His books include studies of Goethe, Schiller, Kant, and Chinese thought.
case based reasoning "artificial intelligence" (CBR) A technique for problem solving which looks for previous examples which are similar to the current problem. This is useful where {heuristic} {knowledge} is not available. There are many situations where experts are not happy to be questioned about their knowledge by people who want to write the knowledge in rules, for use in {expert systems}. In most of these situations, the natural way for an expert to describe his or her knowledge is through examples, stories or cases (which are all basically the same thing). Such an expert will teach trainees about the expertise by apprenticeship, i.e. by giving examples and by asking the trainees to remember them, copy them and adapt them in solving new problems if they describe situations that are similar to the new problems. CBR aims to exploit such knowledge. Some key research areas are efficient indexing, how to define "similarity" between cases and how to use temporal information. (1996-05-28)
Changlu Zongze. (J. Choro Sosaku; K. Changno Chongsaek 長蘆宗賾) (d.u.; fl. c. late eleventh to early twelfth centuries). Chinese CHAN monk of the YUNMEN ZONG. Little is known about his life, but Changlu is said to have been a native of Yongnian in Luozhou, in present-day Henan province. Changlu also seems to have had a close relation to the disciples of Tianyi Yihuai (993-1064), himself a disciple of the Yunmen Chan master XUEDOU CHONGXUAN. Changlu eventually became a student of Tianyi's disciples Fayun Faxiu (1027-1090) and Changlu Yingfu (d.u.), and later inherited the latter's lineage. Changlu Zongze is most famous for his compilation of the influential text on Chan monastic regulations or "rules of purity" (QINGGUI), the CHANYUAN QINGGUI, during his tenure at the Chan monastery Hongji chanyuan in 1103. When a revised edition of the Chanyuan qinggui was published in 1202, the meditation manual ZUOCHAN YI, probably composed by Changlu or his colleagues, was included. Changlu is also remembered as a PURE LAND adept renowned for his rigorous practice of NIANFO, the recitation of the name of the buddha AMITABHA. He later moved to Changlu in present-day Jiangxi province, whence he acquired his toponym. Changlu was later given the title Chan master Cijue (Compassionate Enlightenment).
Chos kyi 'byung gnas. (Chokyi Jungne) (1700-1774). Tibetan Buddhist scholar recognized as the eighth TAI SI TU incarnation, remembered for his wide learning and his editorial work on the Tibetan Buddhist canon. He traveled extensively throughout his life, maintaining strong relationships with the ruling elite of eastern Tibet and the Newar Buddhists of the Kathmandu Valley. Born in the eastern Tibetan region of SDE DGE, Chos kyi 'byung gnas was recognized as a reincarnate lama (SPRUL SKU) by the eighth ZHWA DMAR, from whom he received his first vows. He would go on to study with KAḤ THOG Rigs 'dzin Tshe dbang nor bu (1698-1755), from whom he learned about GZHAN STONG ("other emptiness"). At the age of twenty-one, he accompanied several important Bka' brgyud hierarchs, the Zhwa dmar and the twelfth KARMA PA, to Kathmandu, a journey that was to have a profound impact on the young Si tu's life. He returned to eastern Tibet in 1724, where he was received favorably by the king of Sde dge, Bstan pa tshe ring (Tenpa Tsering, 1678-1738). Under the latter's patronage, Chos kyi 'byung gnas founded DPAL SPUNGS monastery in 1727, which became the new seat for the Si tu lineage (they are sometimes called the Dpal spungs si tu). Between the years 1731 and 1733, he undertook the monumental task of editing and correcting a new redaction of the BKA' 'GYUR section of the Tibetan Buddhist canon, to be published at the printing house of Sde dge. Although in his day Tibetan knowledge of Indian linguistic traditions had waned, Chos kyi 'byung gnas devoted much of his later life to the study of Sanskrit grammar and literature, which he had first studied with Newar panditas during his time in Kathmandu. He sought out new Sanskrit manuscripts in order to establish more precise translations of Sanskrit works already translated in the Tibetan canon; he is esteemed in Tibet for his knowledge of Sanskrit grammar. In addition to his prolific scholarly work, Chos kyi 'byung gnas was an accomplished painter as well as a gifted physician, much sought after by the aristocracy of eastern Tibet. In 1748, he visited Nepal once again, where he translated the SvayambhupurAna, the legends concerning the SVAYAMBHu STuPA, into Tibetan. He was received amicably by the rulers JayaprakAsamalla (1736-1768) of Kathmandu, Ranajitamalla (1722-1769) of what is now Bhaktapur, and PṛthvīnArAyana sAha, who would unify the Kathmandu Valley under Gorkhali rule several decades later. Chos kyi 'byung gnas' collected writings cover a vast range of subjects including lengthy and detailed diaries and an important history of the KARMA BKA' BRGYUD sect coauthored by his disciple Be lo Tshe dbang kun khyab (Belo Tsewang Kunkyap, b. 1718). He is retrospectively identified as an originator of what would become known as Khams RIS MED movement, which gained momentum in early nineteenth century Sde dge.
Context Dependent Memory ::: The theory that information learned in a particular situation or place is better remembered when in that same situation or place.
Council, 1st. The term translated as "council" is SAMGĪTI, literally "recitation," the word used to describe the communal chanting of the Buddha's teaching. The term suggests that the purpose of the meeting was to recite the TRIPItAKA in order to codify the canon and remove any discrepancies concerning what was and was not to be included. The first Buddhist council is said to have been held in a cave at RAJAGṚHA shortly after the Buddha's passage into PARINIRVAnA, although its historicity has been questioned by modern scholars. There are numerous accounts of the first council and much scholarship has been devoted to their analysis. What follows draws on a number of sources to provide a general description. The accounts agree that, in the SAMGHA, there was an elderly monk named SUBHADRA, a former barber who had entered the order late in life. He always carried a certain animus against the Buddha because when Subhadra was a layman, the Buddha supposedly refused to accept a meal that he had prepared for him. After the Buddha's death, Subhadra told the distraught monks that they should instead rejoice because they could now do as they pleased, without the Buddha telling them what they could and could not do. MAHAKAsYAPA overheard this remark and was so alarmed by it that he thought it prudent to convene a meeting of five hundred ARHATs to codify and recite the rules of discipline (VINAYA) and the discourses (SuTRA) of the Buddha before they became corrupted. With the patronage of King AJATAsATRU, a meeting was called. At least one arhat, GAVAMPATI, declined to participate, deciding instead to pass into nirvAna before the council began. This led to an agreement that no one else would pass into nirvAna until after the conclusion of the council. At the time that the council was announced, ANANDA, the Buddha's personal attendant and therefore the person who had heard the most discourses of the Buddha, was not yet an arhat and would have been prevented from participating. However, on the night before the council, he fortuitously finished his practice and attained the status of arhat. At the council, MahAkAsyapa presided. He interrogated UPALI about the rules of discipline (PRATIMOKsA) of both BHIKsUs and BHIKsUnĪs. He then questioned Ananda about each of the discourses the Buddha had delivered over the course of his life, asking in each case where and on whose account the discourse had been given. In this way, the VINAYAPItAKA and the SuTRAPItAKA were established. (In many accounts, the ABHIDHARMAPItAKA is not mentioned, but in others it is said the abhidharmapitaka was recited by MahAkAsyapa or by Ananda.) Because of his extraordinary powers of memory, Ananda was said to be able to repeat sixty thousand words of the Buddha without omitting a syllable and recite fifteen thousand of his stanzas. It was at the time of his recitation that Ananda informed the council that prior to his passing the Buddha told him that after his death, the saMgha could disregard the minor rules of conduct. Since he had neglected to ask the Buddha what the minor rules were, however, it was decided that all the rules would be maintained. Ananda was then chastised for (1) not asking what the minor rules were, (2) stepping on the Buddha's robe while he was sewing it, (3) allowing the tears of women to fall on the Buddha's corpse, (4) not asking the Buddha to live for an eon (KALPA) or until the end of the eon although the Buddha strongly hinted that he could do so (see CAPALACAITYA), and (5) urging the Buddha to allow women to enter the order. (There are several versions of this list, with some including among the infractions that Ananda allowed women to see the Buddha's naked body.) The entire vinayapitaka and sutrapitaka was then recited, which is said to have required seven months. According to several accounts, after the recitation had concluded, a group of five hundred monks returned from the south, led by a monk named PurAna. When he was asked to approve of the dharma and vinaya that had been codified by the council, he declined, saying that he preferred to remember and retain what he had heard directly from the mouth of the Buddha rather than what had been chanted by the elders. PurAna also disputed eight points of the vinaya concerning the proper storage and consumption of food. This incident, whether or not it has any historical basis, suggests that disagreements about the contents of the Buddha's teaching began to arise shortly after his death.
coven ::: Coven The word coven was used specifically to denote groups of witches in the seventeenth century, but now also refers to a modern Wiccan magical group. A coven usually comprises thirteen members, including a Priest and Priestess. Funny .... I seem to remember that Jesus Christ had twelve disciples! And what part did Mary Magdalene play in it?
Cryptomnesia: The spontaneous remembering of events or facts of knowledge without being able to recall how or when the event was witnessed or the knowledge acquired.
cue-dependent coding: the concept that all information is stored in memory as a set of relationships called the context; remembering is seen as dependent on restoring the cues which formed the original context.
Daiviprakriti(Sanskrit) ::: A compound signifying "divine" or "original evolver," or "original source," of the universe orof any self-contained or hierarchical portion of such universe, such as a solar system. Briefly, therefore,daiviprakriti may be called "divine matter," matter here being used in its original sense of "divinemother-evolver" or "divine original substance."Now, as original substance manifests itself in the kosmic spaces as primordial kosmic light -- light inoccult esoteric theosophical philosophy being a form of original matter or substance -- many mysticshave referred to daiviprakriti under the phrase "the Light of the Logos." Daiviprakriti is, in fact, the firstveil or sheath or ethereal body surrounding the Logos, as pradhana or prakriti surrounds Purusha orBrahman in the Sankhya philosophy, and as, on a scale incomparably more vast, mulaprakriti surroundsparabrahman. As daiviprakriti, therefore, is elemental matter, or matter in its sixth and seventh stagescounting from physical matter upwards or, what comes to the same thing, matter in its first and secondstages of its evolution from above, we may accurately enough speak of those filmy ethereal wisps of lightseen in the midnight skies as a physical manifestation of daiviprakriti, because when they are not actuallyresolvable nebulae, they are worlds, or rather systems of worlds, in the making.When daiviprakriti has reached a certain state or condition of evolutionary manifestation, we mayproperly speak of it under the term fohat. Fohat, in H. P. Blavatsky's words, is"The essence of cosmic electricity. An occult Tibetan term for Daivi-prakriti, primordiallight: and in the universe of manifestation the ever-present electrical energy and ceaselessdestructive and formative power. Esoterically, it is the same, Fohat being the universalpropelling Vital Force, at once the propeller and the resultant." -- Theosophical Glossary, p.121All this is extremely well put, but it must be remembered that although fohat is the energizing powerworking in and upon manifested daiviprakriti, or primordial substance, as the rider rides the steed, it isthe kosmic intelligence, or kosmic monad as Pythagoras would say, working through both daiviprakritiand its differentiated energy called fohat, which is the guiding and controlling principle, not only in thekosmos but in every one of the subordinate elements and beings of the hosts of multitudes of theminfilling the kosmos. The heart or essence of the sun is daiviprakriti working as itself, and also in itsmanifestation called fohat, but through the daiviprakriti and the fohatic aspect of it runs the all-permeantand directive intelligence of the solar divinity. The student should never make the mistake, however, ofdivorcing this guiding solar intelligence from its veils or vehicles, one of the highest of which isdaiviprakriti-fohat.
Dhammacakkappavattanasutta. (S. Dharmacakrapravartanasutra; T. Chos 'khor bskor ba'i mdo; C. Zhuan falun jing; J. Tenboringyo; K. Chon pomnyun kyong 轉法輪經). In Pāli, "Discourse on Turning the Wheel of the DHARMA"; often referred to as GAUTAMA Buddha's "first sermon," delivered after his enlightenment to the "group of five" (PANCAVARGIKA; bhadravargīya), at the Deer Park (P. Migadāya; S. MṚGADĀVA) in ṚsIPATANA near SĀRNĀTH. In its Pāli version, the discourse appears in the MAHĀVAGGA section of the VINAYA, which recounts the founding of the dispensation, rather than in the suttapitaka (S. SuTRAPItAKA). (A separate SARVĀSTIVĀDA recension appears in the Chinese translation of the SAMYUKTĀGAMA; there is also an early Chinese translation by AN SHIGAO that circulated independently.) Following his enlightenment, the Buddha considered who might be able to comprehend what he had experienced and remembered the "group of five" ascetics, with whom he had previously engaged in self-mortification practices (TAPAS). Although initially reticent to receive Gautama because he had abandoned his asceticism and had become "self-indulgent," they soon relented and heard Gautama relate his realization of the deathless state. Their minds now pliant, the Buddha then "set rolling the wheel of the dharma" (DHARMACAKRAPRAVARTANA), which is the first enunciation of his liberation. In the sermon, the Buddha advocates a middle way (P. majjhimapatipadā; S. MADHYAMAPRATIPAD) between sensual indulgence and self-mortification, and equates the middle way to the noble eightfold path (P. ariyātthangikamagga; S. ĀRYĀstĀnGAMĀRGA). He follows with a detailed account of the FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS, the full knowledge and vision (P. Nānadassana; S. JNĀNADARsANA) of which leads to liberation. While listening to the discourse, ĀJNĀTAKAUndINYA (P. ANNātakondaNNa) understood the principle of causation-that all things produced will also come to an end-and achieved the first level of sanctity, that of stream-enterer (P. sotāpanna; S. SROTAĀPANNA). He was the first disciple to take ordination (UPASAMPADĀ) as a monk (P. BHIKKHU; S. BHIKsU), following the simple "come, monk" formula (P. ehi bhikkhu; S. EHIBHIKsUKĀ): "Come, monk, the dharma is well proclaimed; live the holy life for the complete ending of suffering." Soon afterward, he was followed into the order by the rest of the "group of five" monks. The site where the first sermon was delivered-the Deer Park (Mṛgadāva) in Ṛsipatana (P. Isipatana), the modern Sārnāth, near Vārānasī-subsequently became one of the four major Buddhist pilgrimage sites (MAHĀSTHĀNA) in India.
dhāranī. (T. gzungs; C. tuoluoni/zongchi; J. darani/soji; K. tarani/ch'ongji 陀羅尼/總持). In Sanskrit, "mnemonic device," "code." The term is derived etymologically from the Sanskrit root √dhṛ ("to hold" or "to maintain"), thus suggesting something that supports, holds, or retains; hence, a verbal formula believed to "retain" or "encapsulate" the meaning of lengthier texts and prolix doctrines, thus functioning as a mnemonic device. It is said that those who memorize these formulae (which may or may not have semantic meaning) gain the power to retain the fuller teachings that the dhāranī "retain." Commenting on the BODHISATTVABHuMISuTRA, Buddhist exegetes, such as the sixth-century Chinese scholiast JINGYING HUIYUAN, describe dhāranī as part of the equipment or accumulation (SAMBHĀRA) that BODHISATTVAs need to reach full enlightenment, and classify dhāranī into four categories, i.e., those associated with (1) teachings (DHARMA), (2) meaning (ARTHA), (3) spells (MANTRA), and (4) acquiescence (KsĀNTI). The first two types are involved with learning and remembering the teachings and intent of Buddhist doctrine and thus function as "codes." In the PRAJNĀPĀRAMITĀ literature, for example, a dhāranī can be a letter of the alphabet associated with a meaningful term: e.g., the letter "a" serves as code for remembering the term "ādy-anutpannatva" ("unproduced from the very beginning"). The third type (mantradhāranī) helps the bodhisattva to overcome adversity, counter baleful influences, and bestow protection (see PARĪTTA). The fourth type assists the bodhisattva in acquiescing to the true nature of dharmas as unproduced (ANUTPATTIKADHARMAKsĀNTI), giving him the courage to remain in the world for the sake of all sentient beings. Dhāranī sometimes occur at the conclusion of a Mahāyāna sutra as a terse synopsis of the fuller teaching of the sutra, again drawing on their denotation as codes. The DHARMAGUPTAKA school of mainstream Buddhism, which may date to as early as the third or second century BCE, included a dhāranī collection (dhāranīpitaka) as an addition to the usual tripartite division of the Buddhist canon (TRIPItAKA), an indication of how widespread the use of dhāranī was across the Buddhist tradition. Dhāranī also appear often in Buddhist tantras and one prevailing theory in the scholarship had been that they were the root source from which tantric literature developed. The connection between dhāranī and the TANTRAs is tenuous, however, and seems not to be found before eighth-century materials. More likely, then, dhāranī should be treated as a pan-Buddhistic, rather than a proto-tantric, phenomenon. Indeed, the DAZHIDU LUN (*MahāprajNāpāramitāsāstra), attributed to NĀGĀRJUNA, includes facility in dhāranī among the skills that all ordained monks should develop and mastery of ten different types of dhāranī as a central part of the training of bodhisattvas. See also MANTRA.
Dharma-Smriti-Upasthana (Sanskrit) Dharma-smṛti-upasthāna [from dharma law + smṛti remembrance + upasthāna the act of placing oneself] In Buddhism, the act of placing oneself in remembrance of the Law. Blavatsky paraphrases the term from another angle: “Remember, the constituents (of human nature) originate according to the Nidanas, and are not originally the Self” (TG 100). The nidanas are the chain of causal concatenation, the 12 causes of existence or manifestation which developed each one by itself, usually in serial and periodic order and strictly in accordance with stored-up karmic seeds of various kinds. Equally important is the fact that the atmic core of selfhood clothes itself in the various sheaths of consciousness, which therefore actually are the seeds or, in one sense, the very being of these nidanas; so that the nidanas may be referred back to the self as their originators. The idea is the same as that imbodied in the Christian statement: “As a man thinks so is he.”
disremember ::: v. t. --> To fail to remember; to forget.
Distinctiveness ::: The phenomenon in memory that states we are better able to remember information if it is distinctive or different from other information.
DKine above is the second way of concentration. It is impor- tant however, to remember that the concentration of the conscious- ness in the head is only a preparation for its rising to the centre
Drona. (P. Dona; T. Bre bo; C. Xiangxing poluomen; J. Kosho baramon; K. Hyangsong paramun 香姓婆羅門). A renowned brāhmana who is remembered for resolving the dispute that arose over control of the Buddha's relics following his cremation. Drona was a brāhmana with many disciples who came upon the Buddha once while traveling. After hearing the Buddha's discourse, he became a once-returner (ANĀGĀMIN) and wrote an extended verse eulogizing the Buddha. Drona was revered by the secular rulers of his day, so while he was sojourning in the city of KUsINAGARĪ (P. Kusinārā), he was able to mediate among the various competing groups concerning who would take charge of the Buddha's relics (sARĪRA) following the teacher's cremation. His solution was to divide the relics into eight parts, which he distributed among the factions to take back to their regions for enshrinement. After the division of the relics into eight shares, there remained the ashes from the cremation fire and the bucket (drona) that Drona had used to divide the relics. Drona received permission to keep the bucket himself and erected a reliquary STuPA in Kusinagarī to house the vessel that had temporarily held the relics. A young brāhmana who arrived late for the division of the relics received the ashes and built a tenth stupa to house them.
emoticon ::: (chat) /ee-moh'ti-kon/ An ASCII glyph used to indicate an emotional state in electronic mail or news. Although originally intended mostly as jokes, comments to be badly misinterpreted (not always even by newbies), resulting in arguments and flame wars.Hundreds of emoticons have been proposed, but only a few are in common use. These include: :-) smiley face (for humour, laughter,friendliness, occasionally sarcasm) generic term synonymous with emoticon, as well as specifically for the happy-face emoticon.The emoticon was invented by one Scott Fahlman on the CMU bboard systems on 1982-09-19. He later wrote: I wish I had saved the original post, or at least that he remembers this original posting, which has subsequently been .As with exclamation marks, overuse of the smiley is a mark of loserhood! More than one per paragraph is a fairly sure sign that you've gone over the line.[Jargon File](2006-07-12)
emoticon "messaging" /ee-moh'ti-kon/ (Or "smiley") An {ASCII} {glyph} used to indicate an emotional state in text-only {electronic messaging} systems such as {chat}, {electronic mail}, {SMS} or {news}. Although originally intended mostly as jokes, emoticons are widely recognised if not expected; the lack of verbal and visual cues can otherwise cause non-serious comments to be misinterpreted, resulting in offence, arguments and {flame wars}. Hundreds of emoticons have been proposed, but only a few are in common use. These include: :-) "smiley face" (for humour, laughter, friendliness, occasionally sarcasm) :-( "frowney face" (for sadness, anger, or upset) ;-) "half-smiley" (ha ha only serious); also known as "semi-smiley" or "winkey face". :-/ "wry face" These are more recognisable if you tilt your head to the left. The first two are by far the most frequently encountered. Hyphenless forms of them are also common. The acronym "{lol}" is also often used in the same context for the same effect (and is easier to type). The emoticon was invented by one Scott Fahlman on the {CMU} {bboard} systems on 1982-09-19. He later wrote: "I had no idea that I was starting something that would soon pollute all the world's communication channels." {GLS} confirms that he remembers this original posting, which has subsequently been {retrieved from a backup (http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/Smiley/BBoard_Contents.html)}. As with exclamation marks, overuse of the smiley is a mark of loserhood! More than one per paragraph is a fairly sure sign that you've gone over the line. [{Jargon File}] (2010-05-16)
EOU "character, humour" The mnemonic of a mythical {ASCII} control character (End Of User) that would make an {ASR-33} {Teletype} explode on receipt. This construction parodies the numerous obscure {delimiter} and control characters left in ASCII from the days when it was associated more with wire-service teletypes than computers (e.g. {FS}, {GS}, {RS}, {US}, {EM}, {SUB}, {ETX}, and especially {EOT}). It is worth remembering that ASR-33s were big, noisy mechanical beasts with a lot of clattering parts; the notion that one might explode was nowhere near as ridiculous as it might seem to someone sitting in front of a {tube} or flatscreen today. [{Jargon File}] (1996-06-29)
Epistemological Monism: Theory that non-inferential knowledge, (perception, memory, etc.) the object of knowledge, (the thing perceived or remembered) is numerically identical with the data of knowledge (sense data, memory images, etc.). Epistemological monism may be either (a) epistemologically realistic, when it asserts that the data exist independently of the knowing mind, or (b) epistemologically idealistic when it asserts the data to be mind constituted and to exist only when apprehended by the mind. See Epistemological Dualism, Epistemological Idealism and Epistemological Realism. -- L.W.
ESOTERIC HISTORY BEFORE 1875 Members of this planetary hierarchy incarnated in mankind, eventually to make up what in the esoteric history has been called the &
experience ::: 1. Knowledge or practical wisdom gained from what one has observed, encountered, or undergone. 2. Philos. The totality of the cognitions given by perception; all that is perceived, understood, and remembered. **world-experience.
flame "messaging" To rant, to speak or write incessantly and/or rabidly on some relatively uninteresting subject or with a patently ridiculous attitude or with hostility toward a particular person or group of people. "Flame" is used as a verb ("Don't flame me for this, but..."), a flame is a single flaming message, and "flamage" /flay'm*j/ the content. Flamage may occur in any medium (e.g. spoken, {electronic mail}, {Usenet} news, {web}). Sometimes a flame will be delimited in text by marks such as ""flame on"..."flame off"". The term was probably independently invented at several different places. Mark L. Levinson says, "When I joined the Harvard student radio station (WHRB) in 1966, the terms flame and flamer were already well established there to refer to impolite ranting and to those who performed it. Communication among the students who worked at the station was by means of what today you might call a paper-based Usenet group. Everyone wrote comments to one another in a large ledger. Documentary evidence for the early use of flame/flamer is probably still there for anyone fanatical enough to research it." It is reported that "flaming" was in use to mean something like "interminably drawn-out semi-serious discussions" (late-night bull sessions) at Carleton College during 1968-1971. {Usenetter} Marc Ramsey, who was at {WPI} from 1972 to 1976, says: "I am 99% certain that the use of "flame" originated at WPI. Those who made a nuisance of themselves insisting that they needed to use a {TTY} for "real work" came to be known as "flaming asshole lusers". Other particularly annoying people became "flaming asshole ravers", which shortened to "flaming ravers", and ultimately "flamers". I remember someone picking up on the Human Torch pun, but I don't think "flame on/off" was ever much used at WPI." See also {asbestos}. It is possible that the hackish sense of "flame" is much older than that. The poet Chaucer was also what passed for a wizard hacker in his time; he wrote a treatise on the astrolabe, the most advanced computing device of the day. In Chaucer's "Troilus and Cressida", Cressida laments her inability to grasp the proof of a particular mathematical theorem; her uncle Pandarus then observes that it's called "the fleminge of wrecches." This phrase seems to have been intended in context as "that which puts the wretches to flight" but was probably just as ambiguous in Middle English as "the flaming of wretches" would be today. One suspects that Chaucer would feel right at home on {Usenet}. [{Jargon File}] (2001-03-11)
flame ::: (messaging) To rant, to speak or write incessantly and/or rabidly on some relatively uninteresting subject or with a patently ridiculous attitude or with verb (Don't flame me for this, but...), a flame is a single flaming message, and flamage /flay'm*j/ the content.Flamage may occur in any medium (e.g. spoken, electronic mail, Usenet news, World-Wide Web). Sometimes a flame will be delimited in text by marks such as flame on>...flame off>.The term was probably independently invented at several different places.Mark L. Levinson says, When I joined the Harvard student radio station (WHRB) in 1966, the terms flame and flamer were already well established there to refer ledger. Documentary evidence for the early use of flame/flamer is probably still there for anyone fanatical enough to research it.It is reported that flaming was in use to mean something like interminably drawn-out semi-serious discussions (late-night bull sessions) at Carleton College during 1968-1971.Usenetter Marc Ramsey, who was at WPI from 1972 to 1976, says: I am 99% certain that the use of flame originated at WPI. Those who made a nuisance of flamers. I remember someone picking up on the Human Torch pun, but I don't think flame on/off was ever much used at WPI. See also asbestos.It is possible that the hackish sense of flame is much older than that. The poet Chaucer was also what passed for a wizard hacker in his time; he wrote a just as ambiguous in Middle English as the flaming of wretches would be today. One suspects that Chaucer would feel right at home on Usenet.[Jargon File](2001-03-11)
Foonly 1. The {PDP-10} successor that was to have been built by the Super Foonly project at the {Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory} along with a new operating system. The intention was to leapfrog from the old DEC {time-sharing} system SAIL was then running to a new generation, bypassing TENEX which at that time was the {ARPANET} {standard}. {ARPA} funding for both the Super Foonly and the new operating system was cut in 1974. Most of the design team went to DEC and contributed greatly to the design of the PDP-10 model KL10. 2. The name of the company formed by Dave Poole, one of the principal Super Foonly designers, and one of hackerdom's more colourful personalities. Many people remember the parrot which sat on Poole's shoulder and was a regular companion. 3. Any of the machines built by Poole's company. The first was the F-1 (a.k.a. Super Foonly), which was the computational engine used to create the graphics in the movie "TRON". The F-1 was the fastest PDP-10 ever built, but only one was ever made. The effort drained Foonly of its financial resources, and the company turned toward building smaller, slower, and much less expensive machines. Unfortunately, these ran not the popular {TOPS-20} but a TENEX variant called Foonex; this seriously limited their market. Also, the machines shipped were actually wire-wrapped engineering prototypes requiring individual attention from more than usually competent site personnel, and thus had significant reliability problems. Poole's legendary temper and unwillingness to suffer fools gladly did not help matters. By the time of the Jupiter project cancellation in 1983, Foonly's proposal to build another F-1 was eclipsed by the {Mars}, and the company never quite recovered. See the {Mars} entry for the continuation and moral of this story. [{Jargon File}]
Foonly ::: 1. The PDP-10 successor that was to have been built by the Super Foonly project at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory along with a new operating system was cut in 1974. Most of the design team went to DEC and contributed greatly to the design of the PDP-10 model KL10.2. The name of the company formed by Dave Poole, one of the principal Super Foonly designers, and one of hackerdom's more colourful personalities. Many people remember the parrot which sat on Poole's shoulder and was a regular companion.3. Any of the machines built by Poole's company. The first was the F-1 (a.k.a. Super Foonly), which was the computational engine used to create the graphics in never quite recovered. See the Mars entry for the continuation and moral of this story.[Jargon File]
Foreknowledge: Knowledge of the future of which two types may be distinguished: (a) anticipation or prescience which professes to be immediate and non-inferential and (b) expectation, which is inferential prediction of the future on the basis of the remembered or recorded past. See Anticipation, Prescience, Expectation. -- L.W.
foreremembered ::: a. --> Called to mind previously.
forgetfulness ::: n. --> The quality of being forgetful; prononess to let slip from the mind.
Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion.
Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention; as, forgetfulness of duty.
forgetting: the inability to recall or recognise what has previously been remembered. Forgetting has been explained by a number of accounts ? trace-dependent forgetting (the memory trace is lost), cue-dependent forgetting (the lack of necessary cues to retrieve the memory), repression (painful memories are unconsciously repressed) or interference.
Frequency Effect ::: The phenomenon in memory which states that we tend to remember information better if it is repeated.
From the paradox of the greatest cardinal number Russell extracted the simpler paradox concerning the class t of all classes x such that ∼ x∈x. (Is it true or not that t∈t?) At first sight this paradox may not seem to be very relevant to mathematics, but it must be remembered that it was obtained by comparing two mathematical proofs, both seemingly valid, one leading to the conclusion that there is no greatest cardinal number, the other to the conclusion that there is a greatest cardinal number. -- Russell communicated this simplified form of the paradox of the greatest cardinal number to Frege in 1902 and published it in 1903. The sime paradox wis discovered independently by Zermelo before 1903 but not published.
gorilla arm ::: The side-effect that destroyed touch-screens as a mainstream input technology despite a promising start in the early 1980s. It seems the designers of all designers; Remember the gorilla arm! is shorthand for How is this going to fly in *real* use?.
gorilla arm The side-effect that destroyed touch-screens as a mainstream input technology despite a promising start in the early 1980s. It seems the designers of all those {spiffy} touch-menu systems failed to notice that humans aren't designed to hold their arms in front of their faces making small motions. After more than a very few selections, the arm begins to feel sore, cramped, and oversized - the operator looks like a gorilla while using the touch screen and feels like one afterward. This is now considered a classic cautionary tale to human-factors designers; "Remember the gorilla arm!" is shorthand for "How is this going to fly in *real* use?".
Gtsang smyon Heruka. (Tsangnyon Heruka) (1452-1507). Tibetan iconoclast, best known as Gtsang smyon, the "madman of Gtsang"; revered especially for his literary works, including the biography of eleventh-century master MI LA RAS PA. Gtsang smyon Heruka began his career as a monk, receiving Buddhist ordination at the age of seven. He studied various systems of tantra and meditation under his chief guru, the Bka' brgyud master Shes rab 'byams pa, and later under several Sa skya teachers. Discouraged by the limitations of life as a monk and scholar, he adopted the life of a wandering YOGIN, engaging in the unusual behavior for which he earned the appellation smyon pa, "madman." His actions have been interpreted as part of a fifteenth-century reaction and reform movement against the growing wealth and power of elite incarnation lineages and religious institutions of his day. He and other "mad yogins" affiliated with the Bka' brgyud sect, such as 'BRUG BA KUN LEGS, and the lesser known Dbu smyon Kun dga' bzang po (1458-1532), sought to reemphasize the importance of meditation and retreat over strict adherence to monastic discipline or intellectual study-a tradition reaching back to the renowned Bka' brgyud founder, Mi la ras pa. Gtsang smyon Heruka himself spent many years visiting the meditation caves and retreat sites associated with Mi la ras pa. He also attempted to preserve important Bka' brgyud instruction lineages that were in danger of being lost, and toward the end of his life compiled an enormous thirteen-volume synthesis of the aural instructions (snyan brgyud) stemming from three of Mi la ras pa's principal disciples, RAS CHUNG PA RDO RJE GRAGS, SGAM PO PA BSOD NAMS RIN CHEN, and Ngan rdzongs rdo rje rgyal po (late eleventh century). He visited Nepal on several occasions, directing the renovation of SVAYAMBHu STuPA, one of the Kathmandu Valley's principal Buddhist pilgrimage centers. He is perhaps best remembered as the author of the widely read MI LA RAS PA'I RNAM THAR ("Life of Milarepa") and MI LA RAS PA'I MGUR 'BUM ("Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa"), as well as a biography of Milarepa's guru MARPA CHOS KYI BLO GROS.
help ::: v. t. --> To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man in his work; to help one to remember; -- the following infinitive is commonly used without to; as, "Help me scale yon balcony."
To furnish with the means of deliverance from trouble; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison.
To furnish with relief, as in pain or disease; to be of
“He never laid claim to spiritual powers, but proved to have a right to such claim. He used to pass into a dead trance from thirty-seven to forty-nine hours without awakening, and then knew all he had to know, and demonstrated the fact by prophesying futurity and never making a mistake. It is he who prophesied before the Kings Louis XV. and XVI., and the unfortunate Marie Antoinette. Many were the still-living witnesses in the first quarter of this century who testified to his marvellous memory; he could read a paper in the morning and, though hardly glancing at it, could repeat its contents without missing one word days afterwards; he could write with two hands at once, the right hand writing a piece of poetry, the left a diplomatic paper of the greatest importance. He read sealed letters without touching them, while still in the hand of those who brought them to him. He was the greatest adept in transmuting metals, making gold and the most marvellous diamonds, an art, he said, he had learned from certain Brahmans in India, who taught him the artificial crystallisation (‘quickening’) of pure carbon. As our Brother Kenneth Mackenzie has it: — ‘In 1780, when on a visit to the French Ambassador to the Hague, he broke to pieces with a hammer a superb diamond of his own manufacture, the counterpart of which, also manufactured by himself, he had just before sold to a jeweller for 5500 louis d’or.’ He was the friend and confidant of Count Orloff in 1772 at Vienna, whom he had helped and saved in St. Petersburg in 1762, when concerned in the famous political conspiracies of that time; he also became intimate with Frederick the Great of Prussia. As a matter of course, he had numerous enemies, and therefore it is not to be wondered at if all the gossip invented about him is now attributed to his own confessions: e.g., that he was over five hundred years old; also, that he claimed personal intimacy ‘with the Saviour and his twelve Apostles, and that he had reproved Peter for his bad temper’ — the latter clashing somewhat in point of time with the former, if he had really claimed to be only five hundred years old. If he said that ‘he had been born in Chaldea and professed to possess the secrets of the Egyptian magicians and sage,’ he may have spoken truth without making any miraculous claim. There are Initiates, and not the highest either, who are placed in a condition to remember more than one of their past lives. But we have good reason to know that St. Germain could never have claimed ‘personal intimacy’ with the Saviour. However that may be, Count St. Germain was certainly the greatest Oriental Adept Europe has seen during the last centuries. But Europe knew him not. Perchance some may recognise him at the next Terreur, which will affect all Europe when it comes, and not one country alone” (TG 308-9).
hermetic ideality ::: (in 1919) the second of the three planes of ideality, the plane whose essence is sruti (inspiration), later called srauta vijñana. Whereas the logistic ideality "remembers at a second remove the knowledge secret in the being but lost by the mind in the oblivion of the ignorance", the hermetic ideality "divines at a first remove a greater power of that knowledge". The first "resembles the reason, is a divine reason", the second is said to be of the nature of "inspired interpretation".
Hodgson, Brian Houghton. (1801-1894). An early British scholar of Sanskrit Buddhism. He was born in Derbyshire. At age fifteen, he gained admission to Haileybury, the college that had been established by the East India Company in 1806 to train its future employees. He excelled at Bengali, Persian, Hindi, political economy, and classics. Following the standard curriculum of the company, after two years at Haileybury, he went to the College of Fort William in Calcutta to continue his studies. Once in India, he immediately began to suffer liver problems and was eventually assigned to Kathmandu as Assistant Resident and later Resident to the Court of Nepal. He began his studies of Buddhism at this time (Buddhism, although long dead in India, still flourished in the Newar community of the Kathmandu Valley). Working with the assistance of the distinguished Newar scholar Amṛtānanda, Hodgson published a number of essays on Buddhism in leading journals of the day. However, he is largely remembered for his collection and distribution of Sanskrit manuscripts. In 1824, he began accumulating Buddhist works in Sanskrit (and Tibetan) and dispatching them around the world, beginning with the gift of sixty-six manuscripts to the library of the College of Fort William in 1827 and continuing until 1845: ninety-four to the Library of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, seventy-nine to the Royal Asiatic Society, thirty-six to the India Office Library, seven to the Bodleian, eighty-eight to the Société Asiatique, and later fifty-nine more to Paris. A total of 423 works were provided. The manuscripts sent to Paris drew the immediate attention of EUGÈNE BURNOUF, who used them as the basis for his monumental 1844 Introduction à l'histoire du Buddhisme indien. Hodgson's contributions to the study of Buddhism occurred in the early decades of his career; he later turned his attention to Himalayan natural history and linguistics, where he made important contributions as well.
Human mediumship is a voluntary, or more often involuntary, subjection to the lower planes of astral substance which, while more ethereal than ordinary matter, yet are of a quality more gross, more powerful, and usually more malefic. Entrance into these astral realms produces a species of astral intoxication, from the delusion of strange because unknown and often unequilibrated forces, deceptive astral pictures; and the astral intoxication is increased because of considering these experiences as wonder-phenomena. In other words, the conditions and experiences sensed are as genuine, and as unreliable and utterly useless, as are the hallucinations of the delirious or insane. Only an occultist of masterful will and great purity of life can rise consciously to the spiritual plane and, looking down on the astral levels below, understand, control, and remember what he sees. In untrained mediumship the atoms and molecules of the astrally “controlled” body which the alien astral entity uses to mold into a form and to move with its own desire-impulses, retain this astral psychomagnetic imprint. With repeated trances, the medium grows continuously and progressively less than his individual self, because of his thoughts and feelings becoming mixed with, overlaid, or blurred by ideas and emotions which per se are abnormal and misleading. He therefore becomes irresponsible as a source of genuine spiritual knowledge and prevision, and still less responsible as a guardian of sacred truths. Because of this, untrained mediumship precludes initiation into the Mysteries as the person’s faith in his astral “control” would dominate him instead of the rules of the sanctuary.
If the twelve sons of Jacob in the Hebrew scheme are made equivalent to the twelve signs of the zodiac, Dan is assigned to Scorpio; Dan is described as a serpent by the way, who bites the horse’s heels and causes the rider to fall backward — and one must here remember the role always ascribed in archaic occultism to the serpent: the Agathodaemon or the Kakodaemon, the serpent of wisdom and the serpent of evil.
IIRC "chat" If I recall/remember correctly. (1996-11-28)
IIRC ::: (chat) If I recall/remember correctly. (1996-11-28)
immemorable ::: a. --> Not memorable; not worth remembering.
Immortality ::: A term signifying continuous existence or being; but this understanding of the term is profoundlyillogical and contrary to nature, for there is nothing throughout nature's endless and multifarious realmsof being and existence which remains for two consecutive instants of time exactly the same.Consequently, immortality is a mere figment of the imagination, an illusory phantom of reality. When thestudent of the esoteric wisdom once realizes that continuous progress, i.e., continuous change inadvancement, is nature's fundamental procedure, he recognizes instantly that continuous remaining in anunchanging or immutable state of consciousness or being is not only impossible, but in the last analysis isthe last thing that is either desirable or comforting. Fancy continuing immortal in a state of imperfection such as we human beingsexemplify -- which is exactly what the usual acceptance of this term immortality means. The highest godin highest heaven, although seemingly immortal to us imperfect human beings, is nevertheless anevolving, growing, progressing entity in its own sublime realms or spheres, and therefore as the ages passleaves one condition or state to assume a succeeding condition or state of a nobler and higher type;precisely as the preceding condition or state had been the successor of another state before it.Continuous or unending immutability of any condition or state of an evolving entity is obviously animpossibility in nature; and when once pondered over it becomes clear that the ordinary acceptance ofimmortality involves an impossibility. All nature is an unending series of changes, which means all thehosts or multitudes of beings composing nature, for every individual unit of these hosts is growing,evolving, i.e., continuously changing, therefore never immortal. Immortality and evolution arecontradictions in terms. An evolving entity means a changing entity, signifying a continuous progresstowards better things; and evolution therefore is a succession of state of consciousness and being afteranother state of consciousness and being, and thus throughout duration. The Occidental idea of staticimmortality or even mutable immortality is thus seen to be both repellent and impossible.This doctrine is so difficult for the average Occidental easily to understand that it may be advisable onceand for all to point out without mincing of words that just as complete death, that is to say, entireannihilation of consciousness, is an impossibility in nature, just so is continuous and unchangingconsciousness in any one stage or phase of evolution likewise an impossibility, because progress ormovement or growth is continuous throughout eternity. There are, however, periods more or less long ofcontinuance in any stage or phase of consciousness that may be attained by an evolving entity; and thehigher the being is in evolution, the more its spiritual and intellectual faculties have been evolved orevoked, the longer do these periods of continuous individual, or perhaps personal, quasi-immortalitycontinue. There is, therefore, what may be called relative immortality, although this phrase is confessedlya misnomer.Master KH in The Mahatma Letters, on pages 128-30, uses the phrase ``panaeonic immortality" tosignify this same thing that I have just called relative immortality, an immortality -- falsely so called,however -- which lasts in the cases of certain highly evolved monadic egos for the entire period of amanvantara, but which of necessity ends with the succeeding pralaya of the solar system. Such a periodof time of continuous self-consciousness of so highly evolved a monadic entity is to us humans actually arelative immortality; but strictly and logically speaking it is no more immortality than is the ephemeralexistence of a butterfly. When the solar manvantara comes to an end and the solar pralaya begins, evensuch highly evolved monadic entities, full-blown gods, are swept out of manifested self-consciousexistence like the sere and dried leaves at the end of the autumn; and the divine entities thus passing outenter into still higher realms of superdivine activity, to reappear at the end of the pralaya and at the dawnof the next or succeeding solar manvantara.The entire matter is, therefore, a highly relative one. What seems immortal to us humans would seem tobe but as a wink of the eye to the vision of super-kosmic entities; while, on the other hand, the span ofthe average human life would seem to be immortal to a self-conscious entity inhabiting one of theelectrons of an atom of the human physical body.The thing to remember in this series of observations is the wondrous fact that consciousness frometernity to eternity is uninterrupted, although by the very nature of things undergoing continuous andunceasing change of phases in realization throughout endless duration. What men call unconsciousness ismerely a form of consciousness which is too subtle for our gross brain-minds to perceive or to sense or tograsp; and, secondly, strictly speaking, what men call death, whether of a universe or of their ownphysical bodies, is but the breaking up of worn-out vehicles and the transference of consciousness to ahigher plane. It is important to seize the spirit of this marvelous teaching, and not allow the imperfectbrain-mind to quibble over words, or to pause or hesitate at difficult terms.
Ineffable Name With the Jews, applied to the word Jehovah; with the Qabbalists, associated with the Tetragrammaton (JHVH, YHVH, or IHVH). The Ineffable Name is the secret of secrets, IHVH (or Jehovah) being used as a screen. The power of the Ineffable Name is the power or force of the natural harmony in nature, which the ancient Greek mystical philosophers called music or the cosmic harmony. The name used by the Western Qabbalists is not to be pronounced, rather than ineffable, for the “ ‘Ineffable Name’ of the true Occultist, is no name at all, least of all is it that of Jehovah. The latter implies, even in its Kabbalistical, esoteric meaning, an androgynous nature, YHVH, or one of a male and female nature. It is simply Adam and Eve, or man and woman blended in one, and as now written and pronounced, is itself a substitute. But the Rabbins do not care to remember the Zoharic admission that YHVH means ‘not as I Am written, Am I read” (Zohar, fol. III., 230a). One has to know how to divide the Tetragrammaton ad infinitum before one arrives at the sound of the truly unpronounceable name of the Jewish mystery-god” (TG 155-6).
Initiation [from Latin initio entering into, beginning] Generally, the induction of a pupil into a new way of living and into secret knowledge by the aid of a competent teacher. In ancient times initiation or the Mysteries were uniform and one everywhere, but as times passed, each country — though basing its Mysteries and initiation ceremonies on the one original wisdom common to mankind — followed manners of conducting the procedures native to the psychology and temperament of the different peoples. In still later times most of the original wisdom was but dimly remembered; and the Mysteries and the initiation ceremonies degenerated into little more than ceremonial rites, with more or less academic or theological teaching accompanying them — as was the case in the Mysteries of Greece, for instance; although it is true that there were genuine initiates in Greece down to the fall of the Mediterranean civilizations.
inly ::: The child remembering inly a far home Madhav: “The child remembers inly, not in outer memory; mark the word inly, a typically Sri Aurobindo expression. The child remembers somewhere deep inside, its ‘far home’, her home is there far above.” The Book of the Divine Mother
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
I remembered reading somewhere of an angel called Uriel and that he was a “regent of the
jātismara. (P. jātissara; T. tshe rabs dran pa; C. suming; J. shukumyo; K. sungmyong 宿命). In Sanskrit, "memory of previous births," is synonymous with "recollection of past lives" (PuRVANIVĀSĀNUSMṚTI); a supernatural power often mentioned in the early Buddhist scriptures as accessible to religious virtuosi. This talent is listed as the first of three knowledges (TRIVIDYĀ), the fourth of five or six supranormal powers (ABHIJNĀ), and the eight of the ten powers (BALA) of a TATHĀGATA. In the context of the supranormal powers, this ability to remember one's past lives is considered to be a mundane (LAUKIKA) achievement that is gained through still more profound refinement of the fourth stage of meditative absorption (DHYĀNA). In other contexts, however, this power is accessible only to those who are ARHATs, buddhas, or otherwise in no further need of training (AsAIKsA). In later MAHĀYĀNA materials, however, bodhisattvas sometimes give even unenlightened ordinary beings (PṚTHAGJANA) this insight into their past lives as a way of inspiring them in their religious practice. In other Mahāyāna texts, such as the SUVARnAPRABHĀSOTTAMASuTRA ("Golden Light Sutra"), this talent is a by-product not of meditation but of specific types of ritual activity, a "blessing" (ANUsAMSA) that accrues, for example, from formulaic exaltations of the qualities of the buddhas, recitation of lists of their names, repetitions of mnemonic codes (DHĀRAnĪ), or copying of scriptures. The ability to remember one's past lives is said to extend back to hundreds, thousands, or even millions of one's previous births. On the night of his enlightenment, the Buddha remembered all of his previous births.
Jhumur: “She (Savitri) has gone into this world of light not having really left her body. It is not an experience that is beyond the body. It is in the physical life that she has attained this plane, so topaz, a yellow colour, is the colour of the mind, stone is the consciousness in matter, so physical life, body, life, mind. Mother had told us I remember that a precious stone symbolises consciousness that is lodged in matter. It shows how blazing light is present even in the hardest matter. So you have the image of the physical light, like a kind of a wall, a barrier.”
Jingxi Zhanran. (J. Keikei Tannen; K. Hyonggye Tamyon 荊溪湛然) (711-782). Chinese monk who is the putative ninth patriarch of the TIANTAI ZONG; also known as Great Master Miaole (Sublime Bliss) and Dharma Master Jizhu (Lord of Exegesis). Zhanran was a native of Jingqi in present-day Jiangsu province. At age nineteen, Zhanran became a student of the monk Xuanlang (673-754), who had revitalized the community on Mt. Tiantai. After Xuanlang's death, Zhanran continued his efforts to unify the disparate regional centers of Tiantai learning under the school's banner; for his efforts, Zhanran is remembered as one of the great revitalizers of the Tiantai tradition. A gifted exegete who composed numerous commentaries on the treatises of TIANTAI ZHIYI, Zhanran established Zhiyi's MOHE ZHIGUAN, FAHUA XUANYI, and FAHUA WENJU as the three central texts of the Tiantai exegetical tradition. His commentary on the Mohe zhiguan, the MOHE ZHIGUAN FUXING ZHUANHONG JUE, is the first work to correlate ZHIGUAN (calmness and insight) practice as outlined by Zhiyi with the teachings of the SADDHARMAPUndARĪKASuTRA ("Lotus Sutra"), the central scripture of the Tiantai tradition. In his JINGANG PI ("Adamantine Scalpel"), Zhanran argued in favor of the controversial proposition that insentient beings also possess the buddha-nature (FOXING). Zhanran's interpretation of Tiantai doctrine and the distinction he drew between his own tradition and the rival schools of the HUAYAN ZONG and CHAN ZONG set the stage for the internal Tiantai debates during the Song dynasty between its on-mountain (shanjia) and off-mountain (shanwai) branches (see SHANJIA SHANWAI). Zhanran lectured at various monasteries throughout the country and was later invited by emperors Xuanzong (r. 712-756), Suzong (r. 756-762), and Daizong (r. 762-779) to lecture at court, before retiring to the monastery Guoqingsi on Mt. Tiantai.
Jon Postel ::: (person) (Jonathan Bruce Postel, 1943 - 1998-10-16) /p*-stel'/ One of the Internet's founding fathers. Jon's name is prominent on many of the fundamental standards on which the Internet is built, such as UDP. He ran IANA for as long as anybody could remember, in fact for most of the time he *was* IANA.He wrote STD 1, STD 2 and several dozen other RFCs. His friend Vinton Cerf noted his passing in RFC 2468. (1998-10-21)
Jon Postel "person" (Jonathan Bruce Postel, 1943 - 1998-10-16) /p*-stel'/ One of the {Internet}'s founding fathers. Jon's name is prominent on many of the fundamental {standards} on which the Internet is built, such as {UDP}. He ran {IANA} for as long as anybody could remember, in fact for most of the time he *was* IANA. He wrote {STD 1}, {STD 2} and several dozen other {RFCs}. His friend {Vinton Cerf} noted his passing in {RFC 2468}. (1998-10-21)
karman. (P. kamma; T. las; C. ye; J. go; K. op 業). In Sanskrit, "action"; in its inflected form "karma," it is now accepted as an English word; a term used to refer to the doctrine of action and its corresponding "ripening" or "fruition" (VIPĀKA), according to which virtuous deeds of body, speech, and mind produce happiness in the future (in this life or subsequent lives), while nonvirtuous deeds lead instead to suffering. In Vedic religion, karman referred especially to ritual actions. The term came to take on wider meanings among the sRAMAnA movements of wandering ascetics, to which Buddhism belonged. The JAINAs, for example, have a theory of karman as a physical substance created through unwholesome actions, which hinder the soul's ability to achieve liberation; in order to free the soul from the bonds created through past actions, the body had to be rigorously cleansed of this karmic substance through moral discipline and asceticism. Although the Buddhists accepted the notion of moral causality, as did the Jainas, they redefined karman instead as mental intention (CETANĀ) or intentional (cetayitvā) acts: the Buddha specifically says, "Action is volition, for after having intended something, one accomplishes action through body, speech, and mind." These actions are of four types: (1) wholesome (KUsALA), which lead to wholesome results (vipāka); (2) unwholesome (AKUsALA), which lead to unwholesome results; (3) mixed, with mixed results that may be partially harmful and partially beneficial; and (4) indeterminate (AVYĀKṚTA), which are actions done after enlightenment, which yield no result in the conditioned realm. The term karman describes both the potential and kinetic energy necessary to sustain a process; and, just as energy is not lost in a physical process, neither is it lost in the process of moral cause and effect. The Buddhists assert that there is a necessary relationship that exists between the action and its fruition, but this need not manifest itself in the present life; rather, when the complex of conditions and the appropriate time for their fruition come together, actions will bear their retributive fruit, even after an interval of hundreds of millions of eons (KALPA). The fruition of action is also received by the mental continuum (CITTASAMTĀNA) of the being who initially performed the action, not by another; thus, in mainstream Buddhism, one can neither receive the fruition of another's karman nor redeem another's actions. The physical universe (BHĀJANALOKA) and all experience within it are also said to be the products of karman, although in a passive, ethically neutral sense (viz., upapattibhava; see BHAVA). The goal of the Buddhist path is to be liberated from the effects of karman and the cycle of rebirth (SAMSĀRA) by destroying attachment to the sense of self (ĀTMAN). The doctrine of karman is meant to counter the errors of antinomianism (that morality is unnecessary to salvation), annihilationism, and materialism. Actions do, in fact, matter, even if there is ultimately no self that is the agent of action. Hence, karman as representing the continuity between action and result must be understood in conjunction with the teaching of discontinuity that is ANĀTMAN: there is indeed a causal chain connecting the initiator of action and the recipient of its result, but it is not the case that the person who performs the action is the same as the person who experiences the result (the wrong view of eternality) or that the agent is different from the experiencer (the wrong view of annihilationism). This connection is likened to milk changing to its different forms of curds, butter, and ghee: the milk and the ghee are neither identical nor different, but they are causally connected. The process that connects karmic cause and effect, as well as the process by which that connection is severed, is detailed in the twelvefold chain of dependent origination (PRATĪTYASAMUTPĀDA). Enlightened beings, such as a buddha or an ARHAT, have destroyed this chain and thus have eradicated all attachment to their past karmic continuums; consequently, after their enlightenment, they can still perform actions, but those will not lead to results that would lead to additional lifetimes in saMsāra. Although the Buddha acknowledges that the connections between karman and its effect may seem so complex as to appear unfathomable (why, for example, does the evil person who harms others live in wealth, while the good Samaritan who helps others lives in poverty?), he is adamant that those connections can be known, and known with perfect precision, through the experience of awakening (BODHI). Indeed, two of the three kinds of knowledge (TRIVIDYĀ; P. tevijja) and one of the superknowledges (ABHIJNĀ) that are by-products of enlightenment involve insight into the validity of the connection between karmic cause and effect for both oneself and for all beings: viz., the ability to remember one's own former lives (PuRVANIVĀSĀNUSMṚTI: P. pubbenivāsānunssati) in all their detail; and the insight into the karmic destinies of all other beings as well (CYUTYUPAPATTIJNĀNA; P. cutupapātānuNāna). Distinguish KARMAN, "ecclesiastical proceeding," s.v.; see also ĀNANTARYAKARMAN; ANINJYAKARMAN; ER BAO; KARMĀVARAnA.
Khri srong lde btsan. (Trisong Detsen) (r. 754-799). A Tibetan ruler considered the second of three great religious kings (chos rgyal) during the Imperial Period, the other two being SRONG BTSAN SGAM PO and RAL PA CAN, and as a human incarnation of the BODHISATTVA AVALOKITEsVARA. Inheriting the throne in 754 as the thirty-eighth monarch of the Yar klungs dynasty, Khri srong lde btsan directed several events that are considered milestones in Tibetan history. During the early years of his reign, he extended the boundaries of the Tibetan empire forged under his predecessors. In 763, the king's army occupied the imperial capital of Tang China at Chang'an (present-day Xi'an), an action commemorated on a stele that was erected in front of the PO TA LA Palace. However, Khri srong lde btsan is best remembered for his patronage of Buddhism and support in founding Tibet's first Buddhist monastery of BSAM YAS. Later chronicles record that he actively suppressed the native BON religion, as well as the aristocratic clans who were its benefactors, although he never entirely proscribed early Bon rituals. Khri srong lde btsan invited the renowned Indian Buddhist preceptor sĀNTARAKsITA to oversee the project of building Bsam yas and to establish the first monastic order in Tibet. According to traditional accounts, local spirits inimical to Buddhism created obstacles that hindered the project, which prompted the Indian abbot to request Khri srong lde btsan to invite the powerful tantric master PADMASAMBHAVA to Tibet in order to aid in their subjugation, after which the establishment of the monastery was able to proceed. Khri srong lde btsan is said to have become a devotee of Padmasambhava, with one of his queens, YE SHES MTSHO RGYAL, becoming the yogin's consort and serving as scribe for many of his GTER MA teachings. Padmasambhava also revived the king's eight-year-old daughter PADMA GSAL after her death in order to bestow a special teaching. According to tradition, at the time of his death, sĀNTARAKsITA warned in his final testament that a mistaken philosophical view would become established in Tibet and advised the king to invite KAMALAsĪLA to come to Tibet in order to dispel it. The view was apparently that of the Northen Chan (BEI ZONG) monk Heshang Moheyan, who had developed a following at the Tibetan court. Kamalasīla was invited and a debate was held between the Indian monk and the Chinese monk, with the king serving as judge. It is unclear whether a face-to-face debate took place or rather an exchange of documents. According to Tibetan sources, the king declared Kamalasīla the winner, named MADHYAMAKA as the official philosophical school of his realm, and banished the Chinese party from his kingdom. (Chinese records describe a different outcome.) This event, variously known as the BSAM YAS DEBATE, the Council of Bsam yas, and the Council of Lhasa, is regarded as one of the key moments in the history of Tibetan Buddhism.
kluge "jargon" /klooj/, /kluhj/ (From German "klug" /kloog/ - clever and Scottish "{kludge}") 1. A Rube Goldberg (or Heath Robinson) device, whether in {hardware} or {software}. The spelling "kluge" (as opposed to "kludge") was used in connection with computers as far back as the mid-1950s and, at that time, was used exclusively of *hardware* kluges. 2. "programming" A clever programming trick intended to solve a particular nasty case in an expedient, if not clear, manner. Often used to repair bugs. Often involves {ad-hockery} and verges on being a {crock}. In fact, the TMRC Dictionary defined "kludge" as "a crock that works". 3. Something that works for the wrong reason. 4. ({WPI}) A {feature} that is implemented in a {rude} manner. In 1947, the "New York Folklore Quarterly" reported a classic shaggy-dog story "Murgatroyd the Kluge Maker" then current in the Armed Forces, in which a "kluge" was a complex and puzzling artifact with a trivial function. Other sources report that "kluge" was common Navy slang in the WWII era for any piece of electronics that worked well on shore but consistently failed at sea. However, there is reason to believe this slang use may be a decade older. Several respondents have connected it to the brand name of a device called a "Kluge paper feeder" dating back at least to 1935, an adjunct to mechanical printing presses. The Kluge feeder was designed before small, cheap electric motors and control electronics; it relied on a fiendishly complex assortment of cams, belts, and linkages to both power and synchronise all its operations from one motive driveshaft. It was accordingly tempermental, subject to frequent breakdowns, and devilishly difficult to repair - but oh, so clever! One traditional folk etymology of "klugen" makes it the name of a design engineer; in fact, "Kluge" is a surname in German, and the designer of the Kluge feeder may well have been the man behind this myth. {TMRC} and the MIT hacker culture of the early 1960s seems to have developed in a milieu that remembered and still used some WWII military slang (see also {foobar}). It seems likely that "kluge" came to MIT via alumni of the many military electronics projects run in Cambridge during the war (many in MIT's venerable Building 20, which housed {TMRC} until the building was demolished in 1999). [{Jargon File}] (2002-10-02)
kluge ::: (jargon) /klooj/, /kluhj/ (From German klug /kloog/ - clever and Scottish kludge) 1. A Rube Goldberg (or Heath Robinson) device, whether in hardware or software.The spelling kluge (as opposed to kludge) was used in connection with computers as far back as the mid-1950s and, at that time, was used exclusively of *hardware* kluges.2. (programming) A clever programming trick intended to solve a particular nasty case in an expedient, if not clear, manner. Often used to repair bugs. Often involves ad-hockery and verges on being a crock. In fact, the TMRC Dictionary defined kludge as a crock that works.3. Something that works for the wrong reason.4. (WPI) A feature that is implemented in a rude manner.In 1947, the New York Folklore Quarterly reported a classic shaggy-dog story Murgatroyd the Kluge Maker then current in the Armed Forces, in which a sources report that kluge was common Navy slang in the WWII era for any piece of electronics that worked well on shore but consistently failed at sea.However, there is reason to believe this slang use may be a decade older. Several respondents have connected it to the brand name of a device called a in fact, Kluge is a surname in German, and the designer of the Kluge feeder may well have been the man behind this myth.TMRC and the MIT hacker culture of the early 1960s seems to have developed in a milieu that remembered and still used some WWII military slang (see also venerable Building 20, which housed TMRC until the building was demolished in 1999).[Jargon File](2002-10-02)
knight of old, ready to try conclusions with any adversary, real or fancied. I remember one occa¬
krato krtam smara ::: 0 Will, that which was done, remember.
lazy evaluation "reduction" An {evaluation strategy} combining {normal order evaluation} with updating. Under normal order evaluation (outermost or call-by-name evaluation) an expression is evaluated only when its value is needed in order for the program to return (the next part of) its result. Updating means that if an expression's value is needed more than once (i.e. it is shared), the result of the first evaluation is remembered and subsequent requests for it will return the remembered value immediately without further evaluation. This is often implemented by graph reduction. An unevaluated expression is represented as a {closure} - a data structure containing all the information required to evaluate the expression. Lazy evaluation is one {evaluation strategy} used to implement non-{strict} functions. Function arguments may be infinite data structures (especially lists) of values, the components of which are evaluated as needed. According to Phil Wadler the term was invented by Jim Morris. Opposite: {eager evaluation}. A partial kind of lazy evaluation implements lazy data structures or especially {lazy lists} where function arguments are passed evaluated but the arguments of data constructors are not evaluated. {Full laziness} is a {program transformation} which aims to optimise lazy evaluation by ensuring that all subexpressions in a function body which do not depend on the function's arguments are only evaluated once. (1994-12-14)
Lha btsun nam mkha' 'jigs med. (Lhatsün Namka Jikme) (1597-1653). An adept of the RNYING MA sect of Tibetan Buddhism, renowned for his mastery of many Rnying ma doctrines and his great supernatural powers. Although ordained as a monk while a youth, he spent much of his life as a YOGIN, practicing meditation in retreat centers across the Tibetan countryside. He is best remembered for entering the region of Sikkim (T. 'Bras mo ljongs), in 1646, "opening" it as a place of pilgrimage and spiritual practice, and for founding the retreat center of Bkra shis lding (Tashiding).
liquid crystal display ::: (hardware) (LCD) An electro-optical device used to display digits, characters or images, commonly used in digital watches, calculators, and portable computers.The heart of the liquid crystal display is a piece of liquid crystal material placed between a pair of transparent electrodes. The liquid crystal changes the number of such cells, or more usually, by using a single liquid crystal plate and a pattern of electrodes.The simplest kind of liquid crystal displays, those used in digital watches and calculators, contain a common electrode plane covering one side and a pattern of applying voltage to one row and several columns the pixels at the intersections are set.The pixels being set one row after the other, in passive matrix displays the number of rows is limited by the ratio of the setting and fading times. In the displays (480 rows) can be easily built. As of 1995 most notebook computers used this technique.Fading can be slowed by putting an active element, such as a transistor, on the top of each pixel. This remembers the setting of that pixel. These active matrix displays are of much better quality (as good as CRTs) but are much more expensive than the passive matrix displays.LCDs are slimmer, lighter and consume less power than the previous dominant display type, the cathode ray tube, hence their importance for portable computers. (1995-12-09)
liquid crystal display "hardware" (LCD) An electro-optical device used to display digits, characters or images, commonly used in digital watches, calculators, and portable computers. The heart of the liquid crystal display is a piece of {liquid crystal} material placed between a pair of transparent {electrodes}. The liquid crystal changes the phase of the light passing through it and this phase change can be controlled by the {voltage} applied between the electrodes. If such a unit is placed between a pair of {plane polariser} plates then light can pass through it only if the correct voltage is applied. Liquid crystal displays are formed by integrating a number of such cells, or more usually, by using a single liquid crystal plate and a pattern of electrodes. The simplest kind of liquid crystal displays, those used in digital watches and calculators, contain a common electrode plane covering one side and a pattern of electrodes on the other. These electrodes can be individually controlled to produce the appropriate display. Computer displays, however, require far too many pixels (typically between 50,000 and several millions) to make this scheme, in particular its wiring, feasible. The electrodes are therefore replaced by a number of row electrodes on one side and column electrodes on the other. By applying voltage to one row and several columns the {pixels} at the intersections are set. The pixels being set one row after the other, in {passive matrix} displays the number of rows is limited by the ratio of the setting and fading times. In the setup described above (known as "{twisted nematic}") the number of rows is limited to about 20. Using an alternative "{supertwisted nematic}" setup {VGA} quality displays (480 rows) can be easily built. As of 1995 most {notebook computers} used this technique. Fading can be slowed by putting an active element, such as a {transistor}, on the top of each pixel. This "remembers" the setting of that pixel. These {active matrix} displays are of much better quality (as good as {CRTs}) but are much more expensive than the passive matrix displays. LCDs are slimmer, lighter and consume less power than the previous dominant display type, the {cathode ray tube}, hence their importance for {portable computers}. (1995-12-09)
locality ::: n. --> The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits.
Position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a geographical place or situation, as of a mineral or plant.
Limitation to a county, district, or place; as, locality of trial.
The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.
Macrocosm ::: The anglicized form of a Greek compound meaning "great arrangement," or more simply the greatordered system of the celestial bodies of all kinds and their various inhabitants, including theall-important idea that this arrangement is the result of interior orderly processes, the effects ofindwelling consciousnesses. In other and more modern phrasing the macrocosm is the vast universe,without definable limits, which surrounds us, and with particular emphasis laid on the interior, invisible,and ethereal planes. In the visioning or view of the ancients the macrocosm was an animate kosmicentity, an "animal" in the Latin sense of this word, as an organism possessing a directing and guidingsoul. But this was only the outward or exoteric view. In the Mystery schools of the archaic ages, themacrocosm was considered to be not only what is hereinbefore just stated, but also to consist moredefinitely and specifically of seven, ten, and even twelve planes or degrees of consciousness-substanceranging from the superdivine through all the intermediate stages to the physical, and even to degreesbelow the physical, these comprised in one kosmic organic unit, or what moderns would call a universe.In this sense of the word macrocosm is but another name for kosmic hierarchy, and it must beremembered in this connection that these hierarchies are simply countless in number and not only fill butactually compose and are indeed the spaces of frontierless SPACE.The macrocosm was considered to be filled full not only with gods, but with innumerable multitudes orarmies of evolving entities, from the fully self-conscious to the quasi-self-conscious downwards throughthe merely conscious to the "unconscious." Note well that in strict usage the term macrocosm was neverapplied to the Boundless, to boundless, frontierless infinitude, what the Qabbalists called Eyn-soph. Inthe archaic wisdom, the macrocosm, belonging in the astral world, considered in its causal aspect, wasvirtually interchangeable with what modern theosophists call the Absolute.
mam anusmaran ::: [remembering Me]. [Gita 8.13]
mam anusmara yudhya ca ::: remember Me and fight. [Gita 8.7]
Man ::: Man is in his essence a spark of the central kosmic spiritual fire. Man being an inseparable part of theuniverse of which he is the child -- the organism of graded consciousness and substance which thehuman constitution contains or rather is -- is a copy of the graded organism of consciousnesses andsubstances of the universe in its various planes of being, inner and outer, especially inner as being by farthe more important and larger, because causal.Human beings are one class of "young gods" incarnated in bodies of flesh at the present stage of theirown particular evolutionary journey. The human stage of evolution is about halfway between theundeveloped life-atom and the fully developed kosmic spirit or god.From another point of view, man is a sheaf or bundle of forces or energies. Force and matter, or spiritand substance being fundamentally one, hence, man is de facto a sheaf or bundle of matters of variousand differing grades of ethereality, or of substantiality; and so are all other entities and thingseverywhere.Man's nature, and the nature of the universe likewise, of which man is a reflection or microcosm or "littleworld," is composite of seven stages or grades or degrees of ethereality or of substantiality; or,kosmically speaking, of three generally inclusive degrees: gods, monads, and atoms. And so far as man isconcerned, we may take the New Testament division of the Christians, which gives the same triformconception of man, that he is composed of spirit, soul, body -- remembering, however, that all these threewords are generalizing terms.Man stands at the midway point of the evolutionary ladder of life: below him are the hosts of beings lessthan he is; above him are other hosts greater than he is only because older in experience, riper in wisdom,stronger in spiritual and in intellectual fiber and power. And these beings are such as they are because ofthe evolutionary unfoldment of the inherent faculties and powers immanent in the individuality of theinner god -- the ever-living, inner, individualized spirit.Man, then, like everything else -- entity or what is called "thing" -- is, to use the modern terminology ofphilosophical scientists, an "event," that is to say, the expression of a central consciousness-center ormonad passing through one or another particular phase of its long, long pilgrimage over and throughinfinity, and through eternity. This, therefore, is the reason why the theosophist often speaks of themonadic consciousness-center as the pilgrim of eternity.Man can be considered as a being composed of three essential upadhis or bases: first, the monadic ordivine-spiritual; second, that which is supplied by the Lords of Light, the so-called manasa-dhyanis,meaning the intellectual and intuitive side of man, the element-principle that makes man Man; and thethird upadhi we may call the vital-astral-physical.These three bases spring from three different lines of evolution, from three different and separatehierarchies of being. This is the reason why man is composite. He is not one sole and unmixed entity; heis a composite entity, a "thing" built up of various elements, and hence his principles are to a certainextent separable. Any one of these three bases can be temporarily separated from the two others withoutbringing about the death of the man physically. But the elements that go to form any one of these basescannot be separated without bringing about physical dissolution or inner dissolution.These three lines of evolution, these three aspects or qualities of man, come from three differenthierarchies or states, often spoken of as three different planes of being. The lowest comes from thevital-astral-physical earth, ultimately from the moon, our cosmogonic mother. The middle, the manasicor intellectualintuitional, from the sun. The monadic from the monad of monads, the supreme flower oracme, or rather the supreme seed of the universal hierarchy which forms our kosmical universe oruniversal kosmos.
manonubhavapratyaksa. [alt. mānasapratyaksa] (T. yid kyis myong ba'i mngon sum/yid kyi mngon sum; C. yishouxianliang; J. ijugenryo; K. ŭisuhyollyang 意受現量). In Sanskrit, "mental direct perception"; a form of perception (PRATYAKsA). According to the ABHIDHARMA analysis, the mind (MANAS) is capable of directly perceiving an object without the intrusion of a process of thought, just as the five sense consciousnesses are capable of directly perceiving a sensory object. An experience of sensory direct perception is said to be followed by a single moment of mental direct perception. That moment, however, is so short that for ordinary beings it passes without being noticed. Other forms of mental direct perception include the various superknowledges, or ABHIJNĀ, such as the ability to know the thoughts of others, the ability to remember one's own former lives, and the ability to hear and see things at a great distance. One element of the Buddhist path is the process of developing mental direct perception to the point that one can directly perceive with the mind (and without thought and imagination) the truths of impermanence, suffering, and nonself. When these truths are directly perceived at the level of a SAMĀDHI that unifies serenity (sAMATHA) and insight (VIPAsYANĀ), the mental direct perception then becomes what is called yogic direct perception (YOGIPRATYAKsA).
Mantra (Sanskrit) Mantra That portion of the Vedas which consist of hymns as distinct from the Brahmana and Upanishad portions. The mantras considered esoterically were originally as magical as they were religious in character, although the former today is virtually forgotten, although remembered as a fact which once was. In the composing of the mantras the rishis of old knew that every letter had its occult significance, and that the vowels especially contain occult and even formidable potencies when properly chanted. The words of the mantra were made to convey a certain hid meaning by certain secret rules involving first the secret potency of their sound, and incidentally the numerical value of the letters; the latter however was relatively unimportant. Hence their merely verbal significance is something quite different from their meaning as understood of old.
Matter ::: What men call matter or substance is the existent but illusory aggregate of veils surrounding thefundamental essence of the universe which is consciousness-life-substance. From another point of view,matter or substance is in one sense the most evolved form of expression of manifested spirit in anyparticular hierarchy. This is but another way of saying that matter is but inherent energies or powers orfaculties of kosmical beings, unfolded, rolled out, and self-expressed. It is the nether and lowest pole ofwhat the original and originating spirit is; for spirit is the primal or original pole of the evolutionaryactivity which brought forth through its own inherent energies the appearance or manifestation in thekosmic spaces of the vast aggregate of hierarchies. Between the originant or spirit and the resultant ormatter, there is all the vast range of hierarchical stages or steps, thus forming the ladder of life or theladder of being of any one such hierarchy.When theosophists speak of spirit and substance, of which latter, matter and energy or force are thephysicalized expressions, we must remember that all these terms are abstractions -- generalizedexpressions for hosts of entities manifesting aggregatively. The whole process of evolution is the raisingof units of essential matter, life-atoms, into becoming at one with their spiritual and inmost essence. Asthe kosmic aeons slowly drop one after the other into the ocean of the past, matter pari passu is resolvedback into the brilliant realms of spirit from which it originally came forth. All the sheaths ofconsciousness, all the blinding veils around it, arise from the matter side or dark side or night side ofnature, which is matter -- the nether pole of spirit.
Medical studies of catalepsy refer to the literary record of many classical examples of it, and claim that it has a close relationship with the ecstatic and trance-like states of mystics, but there is a marked contrast between the unnatural attitudes of the negative, unconscious cataleptic person, who remembers nothing of his entranced state, and the generally exalted spiritual consciousness of the genuine mystic who retains full memory of his self-induced experience.
member ::: v. t. --> To remember; to cause to remember; to mention. ::: n. --> A part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.
Hence, a part of a whole; an independent constituent of a body
memo function "programming" (Or "memoised function") A {function} that remembers which {arguments} it has been called with and the result returned and, if called with the same arguments again, returns the result from its memory rather than recalculating it. Memo functions were invented by Professor {Donald Michie} of {Edinburgh University}. The idea was further developed by {Robin Popplestone} in his {Pop2} language long before it was ever worked into LISP. This same principle is found at the hardware level in computer architectures which use a {cache} to store recently accessed memory locations. A {Common Lisp} package by Marty Hall "hall@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu" {(ftp://archive.cs.umbc.edu/pub/Memoization)}. ["'Memo' functions: and machine learning", Donald Michie, Nature, 218, 19-22, 1968]. (2002-07-02)
memo function ::: (programming) (Or memoised function) A function that remembers which arguments it has been called with and the result returned and, if called with the same arguments again, returns the result from its memory rather than recalculating it.Memo functions were invented by Professor Donald Michie of Edinburgh University. The idea was further developed by Robin Popplestone in his Pop2 language long before it was ever worked into LISP.This same principle is found at the hardware level in computer architectures which use a cache to store recently accessed memory locations.A Common Lisp package by Marty Hall .['Memo' functions: and machine learning, Donald Michie, Nature, 218, 19-22, 1968].(2002-07-02)
memoirs ::: n. --> A memorial account; a history composed from personal experience and memory; an account of transactions or events (usually written in familiar style) as they are remembered by the writer. See History, 2.
A memorial of any individual; a biography; often, a biography written without special regard to method and completeness.
An account of something deemed noteworthy; an essay; a record of investigations of any subject; the journals and proceedings
memorable ::: a. --> Worthy to be remembered; very important or remarkable.
memorandum ::: n. --> A record of something which it is desired to remember; a note to help the memory.
A brief or informal note in writing of some transaction, or an outline of an intended instrument; an instrument drawn up in a brief and compendious form.
memorist ::: n. --> One who, or that which, causes to be remembered.
memorize ::: v. t. --> To cause to be remembered ; hence, to record.
To commit to memory; to learn by heart.
memory ::: 1. The mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experience. 2. The act or an instance of remembering; recollection. 3. The cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered. Memory, memory"s, memories.
MEMORY Each envelope of the individual has its consciousness, its memory: the subconscious collective consciousness of its different molecules.
The primordial atom&
Memory: (Lat. memoria) Non-inferential knowledge of past perceptual objects (perceptual memory) or of past emotions, feelings and states of consciousness of the remembering subject (introspective memory). See Introspection. Memory is psychologically analyzable into three functions: revival or reproduction of the memory image, recognition of the image as belonging to the past of the remembering subject, and temporal localization of the remembered object by reference to a psychological or physical time-scheme.
memory ::: n. --> The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.
The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one&
Memory of past lives ::: The departed soul retains the memory of its past experiences only in their essence, not in their form of detail. It is only if the soul brings back some past personality or personalities as part of its present manifestation that it is likely to remember the details of the past life. Otherwise, it is only by yogadrsti* that the memory comes.
Mental: (Lat. mens, mind) Pertaining to the mind either in its functional aspect (perceiving, imagining, remembering, feeling, willing, etc.) or in its contential aspects (sense data, images and other contents existing "in" the mind). See Mind. -- L.W.
method of loci: a technique to increase memory effectiveness through memorising a series of different locations (such as rooms in a house) and then imagining an item to be remembered at each location. Items are then recalled by mentally "walking through" the house and "seeing" the item.
Mill, James: (1773-1836) Father of John Stuart Mill and close associate of Jeremy Bentham as a member of the Utilitarian School of Philosophy. His chief original contributions were in the field of psychology where he advanced an associational view and he is likewise remembered for his History of India. See Utilitarianism.
Mind: (Lat. mens) Mind is used in two principal senses: (a) The individual mind is the self or subject which perceives, remembers, imagines,feels, conceives, reasons, wills, etc. and which is functionally related to an individual bodily organism. (b) Mind, generically considered, is a metaphysical substance which pervades all individual minds and which is contrasted with matter or material substance. -- L.W.
misremember ::: v. t. & i. --> To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly.
mnemonic "programming" A word or string which is intended to be easier to remember than the thing it stands for. Most often used in "{instruction mnemonic}" which are so called because they are easier to remember than the {binary} patterns they stand for. Non-printing {ASCII} characters also have mnemonics like {NAK}, {ESC}, {DEL} intended to evoke their meaning on certain systems. (1995-05-11)
mnemonic ::: (programming) A word or string which is intended to be easier to remember than the thing it stands for. Most often used in instruction mnemonic which stand for. Non-printing ASCII characters also have mnemonics like NAK, ESC, DEL intended to evoke their meaning on certain systems. (1995-05-11)
mnemonics ::: n. Devices, such as formulas or rhymes, used as aids in remembering. adj. mnemonic. Relating to, assisting, or intended to assist the memory.
modal ::: 1. (Of an interface) Having modes. Modeless interfaces are generally considered to be superior because the user does not have to remember which mode he is in.2. See modal logic.3. In MS Windows programming, A window with the label WS_MODAL will stay on the screen and claim all the user-input. Other windows can only be accessed if dialog box to warn the user for something important, like Critical error, shut down the system and restart. (1995-02-07)
modal 1. (Of an interface) Having {modes}. Modeless interfaces are generally considered to be superior because the user does not have to remember which mode he is in. 2. See {modal logic}. 3. In {MS Windows} programming, A window with the label "WS_MODAL" will stay on the screen and claim all the user-input. Other windows can only be accessed if the MODAL window is closed. Such a window would typically be used for an error {dialog box} to warn the user for something important, like "Critical error, shut down the system and restart". (1995-02-07)
Munin (Icelandic) [from muna to mind, call to mind, remember] In Norse mythology, one of Odin’s two ravens which fly daily over the battlefield earth (Vigridsslatten) and report back to Allfather Odin. The other is Hugin (mind). Both are needed for the consciousness to learn and retain what has been learned in order to build further on it. The same idea is conveyed in Greek mythology, where Mnemosyne (memory) is the mother of all the Muses (arts and sciences).
Name ::: Jhumur: “Hold onto the Name. That is the only power. I remember Mother once told me—because there was a moment when I was attacked by a certain person. She was mad and so had a certain number of people she chose to attack with her vibrations, with her words. If she could she would throw stones. I was very, very young, about 17 or 18. I said, ‘Every time I see her, Mother, I really start to tremble. It has become something so physically terrifying. Once she (the mad person) had thrown a big paperweight, a cement paperweight in the library. It went just past my head, it could have killed me. After that I became really frightened. So Mother told me ‘Nothing will happen to you. Each time you see her just say ‘Ma, Ma, Ma.’ But it was so difficult. Each time I saw her from far I would think, ‘I have to say Ma.’ But when she came close enough I could not say the Name, for a long time, for a very long time. I was so frightened the fear would take the Name away. I knew very well I had to say the Name That is what Mother told me. And one day I could, finally I could and the mad person lost interest in me!”
Navavidhabhakti: Nine modes of devotion, viz., hearing His Names and Glories, singing them, remembering the Lord, worship (service) of His Feet, adoration with flowers, prostrations, regarding oneself as His servant, as His friend, and total self-surrender.
Nave [from Latin navis a ship] Transferred to cruciform churches from the ancient basilicas, which in turn were evolved from temples; remembering that navis, together with boat, ark, and similar words denoting a receptacle, was a symbol of the Sidereal Vessel or womb of nature, one can understand its application to a temple, with its mystical and initiatory ceremonies in ancient days, where light and new birth were given to those who had prepared themselves to receive.
NCR Corporation ::: (company) Electronics company mainly active in the midrange server market.NCR was founded 1884 as National Cash Register Company. It joint the computer industry in th 1950s. In 1991 it was absorbed by AT&T (see dinosaurs mating), only to be spat out again in 1996.NCR mainframes of the 1960's are remembered by some for their hardware incompatibility with IBM mainframes: NCR punched round holes in their punched compatible and information could not be easily shared between NCR and IBM customers. . (1997-03-10)
NCR Corporation "company" Electronics company mainly active in the midrange server market. NCR was founded 1884 as National Cash Register Company. It joint the computer industry in th 1950s. In 1991 it was absorbed by {AT&T} (see {dinosaurs mating}), only to be spat out again in 1996. NCR {mainframes} of the 1960's are remembered by some for their hardware incompatibility with {IBM} mainframes: NCR punched round holes in their {punched cards} while IBM punched rectangular ones. The codes and machines were not compatible and information could not be easily shared between NCR and IBM customers. {(http://ncr.com/)}. (1997-03-10)
NDE ::: Near-Death Experience. An experience that occurs when one is close to death or is remembered when one dies and comes back. These experiences can run the gamut from Astral episodes to deeply-moving, Causal-level events. Generally these only include experiences related to accidents or illness and not to entheogenic ego death experiences, which can have a similar feel to them. A type of OBE generally.
netiquette ::: (convention, networking) /net'ee-ket/ or /net'i-ket/ Network etiquette.The conventions of politeness recognised on Usenet and in mailing lists, such as not (cross-)posting to inappropriate groups and refraining from commercial advertising outside the biz groups.The most important rule of netiquette is Think before you post. If what you intend to post will not make a positive contribution to the newsgroup and be of interest to several readers, don't post it! Personal messages to one or two individuals should not be posted to newsgroups, use private e-mail instead.When following up an article, quote the minimum necessary to give some context to your reply and be careful to attribute the quote to the right person. If the appropriate to your reply, especially if the original message was posted to one or more inappropriate groups in the first place.Re-read and edit your posting carefully before you post. Check the spelling and grammar. Keep your lines to less than 70 characters. Don't post test messages humorous or sarcastic comments, it is conventional to append a smiley, but don't overuse them.Before asking a question, read the messages already in the group and read the group's FAQ if it has one. When you do post a question, follow it with please summary by mail. This avoids umpteen people posting the same answer to the group and umpteen others posting me toos.If you believe someone has violated netiquette, send them a message by _private e-mail_, DO NOT post a follow-up to the news. And be polite, they may not responsible for the crime - their account may have been used by someone else or their address forged.Be proud of your postings but don't post just to see your name in pixels. Remember: your future employer may be reading. . .[Jargon File] (1999-10-18)
netiquette "convention, networking" /net'ee-ket/ or /net'i-ket/ Network etiquette. The conventions of politeness recognised on {Usenet} and in {mailing lists}, such as not (cross-)posting to inappropriate groups and refraining from commercial advertising outside the biz groups. The most important rule of netiquette is "Think before you post". If what you intend to post will not make a positive contribution to the newsgroup and be of interest to several readers, don't post it! Personal messages to one or two individuals should not be posted to newsgroups, use private e-mail instead. When following up an article, quote the minimum necessary to give some context to your reply and be careful to attribute the quote to the right person. If the article you are responding to was posted to several groups, edit the distribution ("Newsgroups:") header to contain only those groups which are appropriate to your reply, especially if the original message was posted to one or more inappropriate groups in the first place. Re-read and edit your posting carefully before you post. Check the spelling and grammar. Keep your lines to less than 70 characters. Don't post test messages (except to test groups) - wait until you have something to say. When posting humorous or sarcastic comments, it is conventional to append a {smiley}, but don't overuse them. Before asking a question, read the messages already in the group and read the group's {FAQ} if it has one. When you do post a question, follow it with "please reply by mail and I will post a summary if requested" and make sure you DO post a summary if requested, or if only a few people were interested, send them a summary by mail. This avoids umpteen people posting the same answer to the group and umpteen others posting "me too"s. If you believe someone has violated netiquette, send them a message by __private e-mail__, DO NOT post a follow-up to the news. And be polite, they may not realise their mistake, they might be a beginner or may not even have been responsible for the "crime" - their account may have been used by someone else or their address forged. Be proud of your postings but don't post just to see your name in pixels. Remember: your future employer may be reading. {Netiquette for Usenet Site Administrators (http://ancho.ucs.indiana.edu/FAQ/USAGN/index.html)}. {"net.acceptable" (http://marketing.tenagra.com/net-acceptable.html)}. [{Jargon File}] (1999-10-18)
newsgroup "messaging" One of {Usenet}'s huge collection of topic groups or {fora}. {Usenet} groups can be "unmoderated" (anyone can post) or "moderated" (submissions are automatically directed to a {moderator}, who edits or filters and then posts the results). Some newsgroups have parallel {mailing lists} for {Internet} people with no netnews access, with postings to the group automatically propagated to the list and vice versa. Some moderated groups (especially those which are actually gatewayed {Internet} {mailing lists}) are distributed as "{digests}", with groups of postings periodically collected into a single large posting with an index. Among the best-known are comp.lang.c (the {C}-language forum), comp.arch (on computer architectures), comp.Unix.wizards (for {Unix wizards}), rec.arts.sf-lovers (for science-fiction fans), and talk.politics.misc (miscellaneous political discussions and {flamage}). Barry Shein "bzs@world.std.com" is alleged to have said, "Remember the good old days when you could read all the group names in one day?" This gives a good idea of the growth and size of {Usenet}. See also {netiquette}. [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-13)
newsgroup ::: (messaging) One of Usenet's huge collection of topic groups or fora. Usenet groups can be unmoderated (anyone can post) or moderated (submissions groups of postings periodically collected into a single large posting with an index.Among the best-known are comp.lang.c (the C-language forum), comp.arch (on computer architectures), comp.Unix.wizards (for Unix wizards), rec.arts.sf-lovers (for science-fiction fans), and talk.politics.misc (miscellaneous political discussions and flamage).Barry Shein is alleged to have said, Remember the good old days when you could read all the group names in one day? This gives a good idea of the growth and size of Usenet.See also netiquette.[Jargon File] (1994-12-13)
Nolini: “Griffin-Golden Hawk + Winged Lion—The piercing eye of soaring aspiration + Upsurging energy of the pure vital—Remember Vishnu’s Garuda + Durga’s lion—With these twin powers you cross safely the borderland between the lower and the upper hemisphere—the twilight world (Night and Day)—Griffin is the guardian God of this passage—dvarapalaka. Mother India—Nolini’s reply to a question from Huta.
Paley, William: (1743-1805) Was an English churchman well known for a number of works in theology. He is also widely remembered in the field of ethics. His Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy passed through many editions and served as a text book at Cambridge for many years. As an advocate of the doctrine of expediency, he gave impetus to the later Utilitarian School. He maintained that the beneficial tendency is what makes an action right. See Utilitarianism. Cf W. Paley, Horae Paulinae, 1790; View of the Evidences of Christianity, 1794; Natural Theology, 1802. -- L.E.D.
password "security" An arbitrary string of characters chosen by a user or {system administrator} and used to authenticate the user when he attempts to log on, in order to prevent unauthorised access to his account. A favourite activity among unimaginative {computer nerds} and {crackers} is writing programs which attempt to discover passwords by using lists of commonly chosen passwords such as people's names (spelled forward or backward). It is recommended that to defeat such methods passwords use a mixture of upper and lower case letters or digits and avoid proper names and real words. If you have trouble remembering random strings of characters, make up an acronym like "ihGr8trmP" ("I have great trouble remembering my password"). (1994-10-27)
password ::: (security) An arbitrary string of characters chosen by a user or system administrator and used to authenticate the user when he attempts to log on, in order to prevent unauthorised access to his account.A favourite activity among unimaginative computer nerds and crackers is writing programs which attempt to discover passwords by using lists of commonly chosen trouble remembering random strings of characters, make up an acronym like ihGr8trmP (I have great trouble remembering my password). (1994-10-27)
patch "software" 1. A temporary addition to a piece of code, usually as a {quick-and-dirty} remedy to an existing {bug} or {misfeature}. A patch may or may not work, and may or may not eventually be incorporated permanently into the program. Distinguished from a {diff} or {mod} by the fact that a patch is generated by more primitive means than the rest of the program; the classical examples are instructions modified by using the front panel switches, and changes made directly to the binary executable of a program originally written in an {HLL}. Compare {one-line fix}. 2. To insert a patch into a piece of code. 3. [in the Unix world] A {diff}. 4. A set of modifications to binaries to be applied by a patching program. {IBM} systems often receive updates to the {operating system} in the form of absolute {hexadecimal} patches. If you have modified your OS, you have to disassemble these back to the {source code}. The patches might later be corrected by other patches on top of them (patches were said to "grow scar tissue"). The result was often a convoluted {patch space} and headaches galore. There is a classic story of a {tiger team} penetrating a secure military computer that illustrates the danger inherent in binary patches (or, indeed, any patches that you can't - or don't - inspect and examine before installing). They couldn't find any {trap doors} or any way to penetrate security of IBM's OS, so they made a site visit to an IBM office (remember, these were official military types who were purportedly on official business), swiped some IBM stationery, and created a fake patch. The patch was actually the trapdoor they needed. The patch was distributed at about the right time for an IBM patch, had official stationery and all accompanying documentation, and was dutifully installed. The installation manager very shortly thereafter learned something about proper procedures. 5. {Larry Wall}'s "patch" {utility program}, which automatically applies a patch to a set of {source code} or other text files. Patch accepts input in any of the four forms output by the {Unix} {diff} utility. When the files being patched are not identical to those on which the diffs were based, patch uses {heuristics} to determine how to proceed. Diff and patch are the standard way of producing and applying updates under {Unix}. Both have been ported to other {operating systems}. {Patch Home (http://gnu.org/software/patch/patch.html)}. [{Jargon File}] (2005-05-16)
Plane(s) ::: This is a word used in theosophy for the various ranges or steps of the hierarchical ladder of lives whichblend into each other. There are no solutions of continuity in space, either in inner and invisible space orin outward and visible space. The physical world grades off into the astral world, which grades off againinto a world higher than it, the world which is superior to the astral world; and so it continues throughoutthe series of hierarchical steps which compose a universe such as our universe. Remember also that theboundless All is filled full with universes, some so much greater than ours that the utmost reach of ourimagination cannot conceive of them.To quote H. P. Blavatsky in this connection, in her Theosophical Glossary under this same head:"As used in Occultism, the term denotes the range or extent of some state of consciousness,or of the perceptive power of a particular set of senses, or the action of a particular force, orthe state of matter corresponding to any of the above." (See also Hierarchy)
posthypnotic amnesia: a subject's inability to remember something that happened while they were hypnotised.
Pralaya(Sanskrit) ::: A compound word, formed of laya, from the root li, and the prefix pra. Li means "to dissolve,""to melt away," "to liquefy," as when one pours water upon a cube of salt or of sugar. The cube of salt orof sugar vanishes in the water -- it dissolves, changes its form -- and this may be taken as a figure,imperfect as it is, or as a symbol, of what pralaya is: a crumbling away, a vanishing away, of matter intosomething else which is yet in it, and surrounds it, and interpenetrates it. Such is pralaya, usuallytranslated as the state of latency, state of rest, state of repose, between two manvantaras or life cycles. Ifwe remember distinctly the meaning of the Sanskrit word, our minds take a new bent in direction, followa new thought. We get new ideas; we penetrate into the arcanum of the thing that takes place. Pralaya,therefore, is dissolution, death.There are many kinds of pralayas. There is the universal pralaya, called prakritika, because it is thepralaya or vanishing away, melting away, of prakriti or nature. Then there is the solar pralaya. Sun inSanskrit is surya, and the adjective from this is saurya: hence, the saurya pralaya or the pralaya of thesolar system. Then, thirdly, there is the terrestrial or planetary pralaya. One Sanskrit word for earth isbhumi, and the adjective corresponding to this is bhaumika: hence, the bhaumika pralaya. Then there isthe pralaya or death of the individual man. Man is purusha; the corresponding adjective is paurusha:hence, the paurusha pralaya or death of man. These adjectives apply equally well to the several kinds ofmanvantaras or life cycles.There is another kind of pralaya which is called nitya. In its general sense, it means "constant" or"continuous," and can be exemplified by the constant or continuous change -- life and death -- of the cellsof our bodies. It is a state in which the indwelling and dominating entity remains, but its differentprinciples and rupas undergo continuous and incessant change. Hence it is called nitya, signifyingcontinuous. It applies to the body of man, to the outer sphere of earth, to the earth itself, to the solarsystem, and indeed to all nature. It is the unceasing and chronic changing of things that are -- the passingfrom phase to phase, meaning the pralaya or death of one phase, to be followed by the rebirth of itssucceeding phase. There are other kinds of pralayas than those herein enumerated.
prepaging ::: (architecture) (Or working set model) A technique whereby the operating system in a paging virtual memory multitasking environment loads all pages of a process's working set into memory before the process is restarted.Under demand paging a process accesses its working set by page faults every time it is restarted. Under prepaging the system remembers the pages in each process. Prepaging reduces the page fault rate of reloaded processes and hence generally improves CPU efficiency.[Modern Operating Systems, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, pub. Prentice Hall, Inc. 1992]. (1998-04-23)
prepaging "architecture" (Or "working set model") A technique whereby the {operating system} in a {paging} {virtual memory} {multitasking} environment loads all pages of a process's {working set} into memory before the process is restarted. Under {demand paging} a process accesses its working set by {page faults} every time it is restarted. Under prepaging the system remembers the pages in each process's working set and loads them into physical memory before restarting the process. Prepaging reduces the {page fault} rate of reloaded processes and hence generally improves CPU efficiency. ["Modern Operating Systems", Andrew S. Tanenbaum, pub. Prentice Hall, Inc. 1992]. (1998-04-23)
primacy effect: information presented first to a participant is more likely to be remembered than material subsequently presented.
Primacy Effect ::: The tendency to remember the first bit of information in a series due to increased rehearsal.
product rule: A theorem in differentiation that provides an easy way to differentiate the product of two functions. It can be easily proven from first principles and can be easily extended to cases covering the product of three or more functions. It is also easy enough to remember for most without resorting to commiting the following symbols to memory.
prophecy ::: “If this higher buddhi {{understanding in the profoundest sense] could act pure of the interference of these lower members, it would give pure forms of the truth; observation would be dominated or replaced by a vision which could see without subservient dependence on the testimony of the sense-mind and senses; imagination would give place to the self-assured inspiration of the truth, reasoning to the spontaneous discernment of relations and conclusion from reasoning to an intuition containing in itself those relations and not building laboriously upon them, judgment to a thought-vision in whose light the truth would stand revealed without the mask which it now wears and which our intellectual judgment has to penetrate; while memory too would take upon itself that larger sense given to it in Greek thought and be no longer a paltry selection from the store gained by the individual in his present life, but rather the all-recording knowledge which secretly holds and constantly gives from itself everything that we now seem painfully to acquire but really in this sense remember, a knowledge which includes the future(1) no less than the past.
purple ::: Amal: “It’s [violet valleys of the Blest] a reference to a supra-terrestrial region. As far as I remember, Sri Aurobindo added another similar line when I wrote to him some Latin lines from Virgil about a region where everything was ‘purple’. The adjective ‘purple’ in Latin means a region beyond the earth, which has either this colour or is simply ‘shining’. Sri Aurobindo’s new line: ‘And griefless countries under purple suns’.”
purvanivāsānusmṛti. (P. pubbenivāsānussati; T. sngon gyi gnas rjes su dran pa; C. suzhu suinian; J. shukujuzuinen; K. sukchu sunyom 宿住隨念). In Sanskrit, lit. "recollection of former abodes," viz., "memory of past lives."; a cardinal teaching of all schools of Buddhism and an element of meditative attainment in many Buddhist traditions. The term occurs most commonly as a component of one or another list, such as the superknowledges (ABHIJNĀ), knowledges (VIDYĀ), or powers (BALA). Although lists of five, six, and seven abhijNā appear in Buddhist literature, the most common listing is of six, with the memory of past lives being fourth. The same memory of former abodes is sometimes called the first of the three knowledges (TRIVIDYĀ) that are realized at the point of enlightenment, the other two being the divine eye (DIVYACAKsUS) and the knowledge of the destruction of the contaminants (ĀSRAVAKsAYA). In addition, the memory of former abodes occurs as the eighth of the ten powers (bala) of the TATHĀGATA. ¶ In situating the memory of former abodes within broader descriptions of the practice of the path (MĀRGA), one general account describes the path of an average monk, while in another the Buddha relates his own experience. In the SĀMANNAPHALASUTTA of the Pāli DĪGHANIKĀYA, for example, the Buddha describes the benefits of the life of mendicancy, providing a chronological catalogue of the attainments of one who follows the path, starting from the occasion of first hearing the dharma and proceeding to the attainment of NIRVĀnA. Among those attainments are the six abhiNNā/abhijNā, including memory of past lives and culminating with the knowledge of the destruction of the contaminants. Yet another variety of the arhat path is described in great detail in the CulAHATTHIPADOPAMASUTTA of the MAJJHIMANIKĀYA. This account differs from that in the Dīgha with respect to the superknowledges, in that here, having attained the fourth meditative absorption (P. jhāna, S. DHYĀNA), the monk achieves only the last three of the abhiNNā: the knowledge of former abodes, the divine eye, and the knowledge of the destruction of the contaminants. Elsewhere, these three experiences are referred to as the three types of knowledge. In the VISUDDHIMAGGA, BUDDHAGHOSA describes a regimen in which the meditator recalls his or her life in reverse order, beginning with the most recent act of sitting down to meditate, tracing the events of this life back to the moment of conception and back to the moment of death in the previous existence and so on through the eons. Non-Buddhists are said to be able to recollect as far back as forty eons, ordinary sRĀVAKAs one thousand eons, the eighty great srāvakas one hundred thousand eons, sĀRIPUTRA and MAHĀMAUDGALYĀYANA an incalculable age plus one hundred thousand eons, PRATYEKABUDDHAs two incalculable eons plus one hundred thousand eons, and buddhas limitless past lives. In the more detailed "autobiographical" narratives of the Buddha's enlightenment in mainstream sources, the bodhisattva becomes the Buddha by gaining the three types of knowledge: in the first watch of the night, the knowledge of former abodes; in the second watch, the divine eye; and in the third watch of the night, the knowledge of the destruction of the contaminants. In the second watch, he remembers his name, his clan, his caste, his food, his pleasure and pain, and his life span for individual lives over the incalculable past. In general, the achievement of the knowledge of former lives is described as the product of deep states of concentration and, as such, is accessible also to non-Buddhist YOGINs; for this reason it is considered a worldly or mundane (laukika) knowledge. In the MAHĀYĀNA sutras, similar descriptions of the six abhijNā and three vidyā are found. However, the memory of former lives also occurs simply as the product of a certain meritorious deeds. The memory of past lives typically causes the person to practice virtue in order to avoid an unfortunate rebirth. In the SUKHĀVATĪVYuHASuTRA, it is said that all beings reborn in AMITĀBHA's PURE LAND will be endowed with memory of their former abodes going back trillions of eons.
Rādha. (C. Luotuo; J. Rada; K. Rada 羅陀). Sanskrit and Pāli proper name of an eminent ARHAT deemed by the Buddha to be foremost among his monk disciples who were able to inspire speech in others. According to the Pāli account, Rādha was an aging brāhmana who was neglected by his children in his old age and sought to enter the order of monks (SAMGHA) for refuge. He initially went to a monastery in RĀJAGṚHA, where he performed chores, but was refused ordination by the monks because of his advanced age. Out of disappointment, Rādha began to grow thin. The Buddha, realizing that Rādha had the potential to achieve arhatship, summoned the monks and asked if any of them remembered any act of kindness performed for them by Rādha. sĀRIPUTRA recalled once receiving a ladle of food from Rādha's meager meal while on alms rounds in Rājagṛha, so the Buddha ordered sāriputra to ordain him and soon afterward, he became an arhat. sāriputra was pleased with Rādha's gentle behavior and kept him as an attendant; he also served for a time as an attendant to the Buddha. It was during that time that he was recognized for preeminence in inspiring others. His power even influenced the Buddha, who said that whenever he saw Rādha, he felt inclined to speak on subtle aspects of doctrine because of Rādha's wealth of views and his constant faith.
Ral pa can. (Ralpachen) (r. 815-838). The name by which Khri gtsug lde btsan (Titsuk Detsen), the forty-first ruler of the Tibetan dynastic period, is best known. He is considered to be the third of three great religious kings (chos rgyal) of Tibet, together with his predecessors SRONG BTSAN SGAM PO and KHRI SRONG LDE BTSAN. All three are regarded as human incarnations of the bodhisattva AVALOKITEsVARA. Ral pa can is remembered as an enthusiastic patron of Buddhism, especially for raising the position and prestige of monks by establishing a tax to sustain their needs. He was so devoted to the SAMGHA that he is said to have allowed monks to sit on his long locks of hair; his sobriquet "ral pa can" means "having long locks." He patronized the translation of Buddhist texts from a wide range of materials, including TANTRAs and sĀSTRAs that were not transmitted to other countries in East or Southeast Asia. The first standard Sanskrit-Tibetan lexicon, the MAHĀVYUTPATTI, was also completed during his reign. In addition to his support for Buddhism, Ral pa can is known for his military conquests, which expanded the territory of the Tibetan empire to its largest extent, conquering regions of China, India, Nepal, Khotan, Turkestan, and Gansu. After Tibetan armies attacked Yanzhou in modern Shandong Province, the Chinese sued for peace. A peace treaty in 821 set the boundaries between the two countries, marking a period of peaceful relations along the border. Three great bilingual steles bearing the inscription of this treaty were fashioned. One, erected in 823, still stands in front of the JO KHANG temple. Ral pa can's Buddhist sympathies eventually garnered the resentment of the aristocracy. In 838, he was assassinated by his elder brother, GLANG DAR MA, thus ending the period of the religious kings and the early propagation (SNGA DAR) of Buddhism in Tibet. According to Buddhist accounts, his death initiated a period of persecution of Buddhism.
Real Programmer "job, humour" (From the book "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche") A variety of hacker possessed of a flippant attitude toward complexity that is arrogant even when justified by experience. The archetypal "Real Programmer" likes to program on the {bare metal} and is very good at it, remembers the binary {op codes} for every machine he has ever programmed, thinks that {high-level languages} are sissy, and uses a {debugger} to edit his code because full-screen editors are for wimps. Real Programmers aren't satisfied with code that hasn't been {bum}med into a state of {tense}ness just short of rupture. Real Programmers never use {comments} or write {documentation}: "If it was hard to write", says the Real Programmer, "it should be hard to understand." Real Programmers can make machines do things that were never in their spec sheets; in fact, they are seldom really happy unless doing so. A Real Programmer's code can awe with its fiendish brilliance, even as its crockishness appals. Real Programmers live on junk food and coffee, hang line-printer art on their walls, and terrify the crap out of other programmers - because someday, somebody else might have to try to understand their code in order to change it. Their successors generally consider it a {Good Thing} that there aren't many Real Programmers around any more. For a famous (and somewhat more positive) portrait of a Real Programmer, see "{The Story of Mel}". The term itself was popularised by a 1983 Datamation article "{Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal}" by Ed Post, still circulating on {Usenet} and Internet in on-line form. [{Jargon File}] (1997-08-29)
Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ::: (humour) Back in the good old days - the Golden Era of computers, it was easy to separate the men from the boys (sometimes called Real Men and out that Real Men don't relate to anything, and aren't afraid of being impersonal.)But, as usual, times change. We are faced today with a world in which little old ladies can get computers in their microwave ovens, 12-year-old kids can blow danger of becoming extinct, of being replaced by high-school students with TRASH-80s.There is a clear need to point out the differences between the typical high-school junior Pac-Man player and a Real Programmer. If this difference is why it would be a mistake to replace the Real Programmers on their staff with 12-year-old Pac-Man players (at a considerable salary savings).LANGUAGESThe easiest way to tell a Real Programmer from the crowd is by the programming language he (or she) uses. Real Programmers use Fortran. Quiche Eaters use need all these abstract concepts to get their jobs done - they are perfectly happy with a keypunch, a Fortran IV compiler, and a beer.Real Programmers do List Processing in Fortran.Real Programmers do String Manipulation in Fortran.Real Programmers do Accounting (if they do it at all) in Fortran.Real Programmers do Artificial Intelligence programs in Fortran.If you can't do it in Fortran, do it in assembly language. If you can't do it in assembly language, it isn't worth doing.STRUCTURED PROGRAMMINGThe academics in computer science have gotten into the structured programming rut over the past several years. They claim that programs are more easily in the world won't help you solve a problem like that - it takes actual talent. Some quick observations on Real Programmers and Structured Programming:Real Programmers aren't afraid to use GOTOs.Real Programmers can write five-page-long DO loops without getting confused.Real Programmers like Arithmetic IF statements - they make the code more interesting.Real Programmers write self-modifying code, especially if they can save 20 nanoseconds in the middle of a tight loop.Real Programmers don't need comments - the code is obvious.Since Fortran doesn't have a structured IF, REPEAT ... UNTIL, or CASE statement, Real Programmers don't have to worry about not using them. Besides, they can be simulated when necessary using assigned GOTOs.Data Structures have also gotten a lot of press lately. Abstract Data Types, Structures, Pointers, Lists, and Strings have become popular in certain circles. Languages, as we all know, have implicit typing based on the first letter of the (six character) variable name.OPERATING SYSTEMSWhat kind of operating system is used by a Real Programmer? CP/M? God forbid - CP/M, after all, is basically a toy operating system. Even little old ladies and grade school students can understand and use CP/M.Unix is a lot more complicated of course - the typical Unix hacker never can remember what the PRINT command is called this week - but when it gets right systems: they send jokes around the world on UUCP-net and write adventure games and research papers.No, your Real Programmer uses OS 370. A good programmer can find and understand the description of the IJK305I error he just got in his JCL manual. A great outstanding programmer can find bugs buried in a 6 megabyte core dump without using a hex calculator. (I have actually seen this done.)OS is a truly remarkable operating system. It's possible to destroy days of work with a single misplaced space, so alertness in the programming staff is people claim there is a Time Sharing system that runs on OS 370, but after careful study I have come to the conclusion that they were mistaken.PROGRAMMING TOOLSWhat kind of tools does a Real Programmer use? In theory, a Real Programmer could run his programs by keying them into the front panel of the computer. Back the first operating system for the CDC7600 in on the front panel from memory when it was first powered on. Seymore, needless to say, is a Real Programmer.One of my favorite Real Programmers was a systems programmer for Texas Instruments. One day he got a long distance call from a user whose system had includes a keypunch and lineprinter in his toolkit, he can get along with just a front panel and a telephone in emergencies.In some companies, text editing no longer consists of ten engineers standing in line to use an 029 keypunch. In fact, the building I work in doesn't contain a system is called SmallTalk, and would certainly not talk to the computer with a mouse.Some of the concepts in these Xerox editors have been incorporated into editors running on more reasonably named operating systems - Emacs and VI being two. The the Real Programmer wants a you asked for it, you got it text editor - complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. TECO, to be precise.It has been observed that a TECO command sequence more closely resembles transmission line noise than readable text [4]. One of the more entertaining will probably destroy your program, or even worse - introduce subtle and mysterious bugs in a once working subroutine.For this reason, Real Programmers are reluctant to actually edit a program that is close to working. They find it much easier to just patch the binary object Programmer to do the job - no Quiche Eating structured programmer would even know where to start. This is called job security.Some programming tools NOT used by Real Programmers:Fortran preprocessors like MORTRAN and RATFOR. The Cuisinarts of programming - great for making Quiche. See comments above on structured programming.Source language debuggers. Real Programmers can read core dumps.Compilers with array bounds checking. They stifle creativity, destroy most of the interesting uses for EQUIVALENCE, and make it impossible to modify the operating system code with negative subscripts. Worst of all, bounds checking is inefficient.Source code maintenance systems. A Real Programmer keeps his code locked up in a card file, because it implies that its owner cannot leave his important programs unguarded [5].THE REAL PROGRAMMER AT WORKWhere does the typical Real Programmer work? What kind of programs are worthy of the efforts of so talented an individual? You can be sure that no Real or sorting mailing lists for People magazine. A Real Programmer wants tasks of earth-shaking importance (literally!).Real Programmers work for Los Alamos National Laboratory, writing atomic bomb simulations to run on Cray I supercomputers.Real Programmers work for the National Security Agency, decoding Russian transmissions.It was largely due to the efforts of thousands of Real Programmers working for NASA that our boys got to the moon and back before the Russkies.Real Programmers are at work for Boeing designing the operating systems for cruise missiles.Some of the most awesome Real Programmers of all work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Many of them know the entire operating system of the bytes of unused memory in a Voyager spacecraft that searched for, located, and photographed a new moon of Jupiter.The current plan for the Galileo spacecraft is to use a gravity assist trajectory past Mars on the way to Jupiter. This trajectory passes within 80 +/-3 kilometers of the surface of Mars. Nobody is going to trust a Pascal program (or a Pascal programmer) for navigation to these tolerances.As you can tell, many of the world's Real Programmers work for the U.S. Government - mainly the Defense Department. This is as it should be. Recently, programmers and Quiche Eaters alike.) Besides, the determined Real Programmer can write Fortran programs in any language.The Real Programmer might compromise his principles and work on something slightly more trivial than the destruction of life as we know it, providing Fortran, so there are a fair number of people doing graphics in order to avoid having to write COBOL programs.THE REAL PROGRAMMER AT PLAYGenerally, the Real Programmer plays the same way he works - with computers. He is constantly amazed that his employer actually pays him to do what he would be breath of fresh air and a beer or two. Some tips on recognizing Real Programmers away from the computer room:At a party, the Real Programmers are the ones in the corner talking about operating system security and how to get around it.At a football game, the Real Programmer is the one comparing the plays against his simulations printed on 11 by 14 fanfold paper.At the beach, the Real Programmer is the one drawing flowcharts in the sand.At a funeral, the Real Programmer is the one saying Poor George, he almost had the sort routine working before the coronary.In a grocery store, the Real Programmer is the one who insists on running the cans past the laser checkout scanner himself, because he never could trust keypunch operators to get it right the first time.THE REAL PROGRAMMER'S NATURAL HABITATWhat sort of environment does the Real Programmer function best in? This is an important question for the managers of Real Programmers. Considering the amount of money it costs to keep one on the staff, it's best to put him (or her) in an environment where he can get his work done.The typical Real Programmer lives in front of a computer terminal. Surrounding this terminal are:Listings of all programs the Real Programmer has ever worked on, piled in roughly chronological order on every flat surface in the office.Some half-dozen or so partly filled cups of cold coffee. Occasionally, there will be cigarette butts floating in the coffee. In some cases, the cups will contain Orange Crush.Unless he is very good, there will be copies of the OS JCL manual and the Principles of Operation open to some particularly interesting pages.Taped to the wall is a line-printer Snoopy calendar for the year 1969.Strewn about the floor are several wrappers for peanut butter filled cheese bars - the type that are made pre-stale at the bakery so they can't get any worse while waiting in the vending machine.Hiding in the top left-hand drawer of the desk is a stash of double-stuff Oreos for special occasions.Underneath the Oreos is a flowcharting template, left there by the previous occupant of the office. (Real Programmers write programs, not documentation. Leave that to the maintenance people.)The Real Programmer is capable of working 30, 40, even 50 hours at a stretch, under intense pressure. In fact, he prefers it that way. Bad response time project done on time, but creates a convenient excuse for not doing the documentation. In general:No Real Programmer works 9 to 5 (unless it's the ones at night).Real Programmers don't wear neckties.Real Programmers don't wear high-heeled shoes.Real Programmers arrive at work in time for lunch [9].A Real Programmer might or might not know his wife's name. He does, however, know the entire ASCII (or EBCDIC) code table.Real Programmers don't know how to cook. Grocery stores aren't open at three in the morning. Real Programmers survive on Twinkies and coffee.THE FUTUREWhat of the future? It is a matter of some concern to Real Programmers that the latest generation of computer programmers are not being brought up with the same ever learning Fortran! Are we destined to become an industry of Unix hackers and Pascal programmers?From my experience, I can only report that the future is bright for Real Programmers everywhere. Neither OS 370 nor Fortran show any signs of dying out, one of them has a way of converting itself back into a Fortran 66 compiler at the drop of an option card - to compile DO loops like God meant them to be.Even Unix might not be as bad on Real Programmers as it once was. The latest release of Unix has the potential of an operating system worthy of any Real in - like having the best parts of Fortran and assembly language in one place. (Not to mention some of the more creative uses for
Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal "humour" Back in the good old days - the "Golden Era" of computers, it was easy to separate the men from the boys (sometimes called "Real Men" and "Quiche Eaters" in the literature). During this period, the Real Men were the ones that understood computer programming, and the Quiche Eaters were the ones that didn't. A real computer programmer said things like "DO 10 I=1,10" and "ABEND" (they actually talked in capital letters, you understand), and the rest of the world said things like "computers are too complicated for me" and "I can't relate to computers - they're so impersonal". (A previous work [1] points out that Real Men don't "relate" to anything, and aren't afraid of being impersonal.) But, as usual, times change. We are faced today with a world in which little old ladies can get computers in their microwave ovens, 12-year-old kids can blow Real Men out of the water playing Asteroids and Pac-Man, and anyone can buy and even understand their very own Personal Computer. The Real Programmer is in danger of becoming extinct, of being replaced by high-school students with {TRASH-80s}. There is a clear need to point out the differences between the typical high-school junior Pac-Man player and a Real Programmer. If this difference is made clear, it will give these kids something to aspire to -- a role model, a Father Figure. It will also help explain to the employers of Real Programmers why it would be a mistake to replace the Real Programmers on their staff with 12-year-old Pac-Man players (at a considerable salary savings). LANGUAGES The easiest way to tell a Real Programmer from the crowd is by the programming language he (or she) uses. Real Programmers use {Fortran}. Quiche Eaters use {Pascal}. Nicklaus Wirth, the designer of Pascal, gave a talk once at which he was asked how to pronounce his name. He replied, "You can either call me by name, pronouncing it 'Veert', or call me by value, 'Worth'." One can tell immediately from this comment that Nicklaus Wirth is a Quiche Eater. The only parameter passing mechanism endorsed by Real Programmers is call-by-value-return, as implemented in the {IBM 370} {Fortran-G} and H compilers. Real programmers don't need all these abstract concepts to get their jobs done - they are perfectly happy with a {keypunch}, a {Fortran IV} {compiler}, and a beer. Real Programmers do List Processing in Fortran. Real Programmers do String Manipulation in Fortran. Real Programmers do Accounting (if they do it at all) in Fortran. Real Programmers do {Artificial Intelligence} programs in Fortran. If you can't do it in Fortran, do it in {assembly language}. If you can't do it in assembly language, it isn't worth doing. STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING The academics in computer science have gotten into the "structured programming" rut over the past several years. They claim that programs are more easily understood if the programmer uses some special language constructs and techniques. They don't all agree on exactly which constructs, of course, and the examples they use to show their particular point of view invariably fit on a single page of some obscure journal or another - clearly not enough of an example to convince anyone. When I got out of school, I thought I was the best programmer in the world. I could write an unbeatable tic-tac-toe program, use five different computer languages, and create 1000-line programs that WORKED. (Really!) Then I got out into the Real World. My first task in the Real World was to read and understand a 200,000-line Fortran program, then speed it up by a factor of two. Any Real Programmer will tell you that all the Structured Coding in the world won't help you solve a problem like that - it takes actual talent. Some quick observations on Real Programmers and Structured Programming: Real Programmers aren't afraid to use {GOTOs}. Real Programmers can write five-page-long DO loops without getting confused. Real Programmers like Arithmetic IF statements - they make the code more interesting. Real Programmers write self-modifying code, especially if they can save 20 {nanoseconds} in the middle of a tight loop. Real Programmers don't need comments - the code is obvious. Since Fortran doesn't have a structured IF, REPEAT ... UNTIL, or CASE statement, Real Programmers don't have to worry about not using them. Besides, they can be simulated when necessary using {assigned GOTOs}. Data Structures have also gotten a lot of press lately. Abstract Data Types, Structures, Pointers, Lists, and Strings have become popular in certain circles. Wirth (the above-mentioned Quiche Eater) actually wrote an entire book [2] contending that you could write a program based on data structures, instead of the other way around. As all Real Programmers know, the only useful data structure is the Array. Strings, lists, structures, sets - these are all special cases of arrays and can be treated that way just as easily without messing up your programing language with all sorts of complications. The worst thing about fancy data types is that you have to declare them, and Real Programming Languages, as we all know, have implicit typing based on the first letter of the (six character) variable name. OPERATING SYSTEMS What kind of operating system is used by a Real Programmer? CP/M? God forbid - CP/M, after all, is basically a toy operating system. Even little old ladies and grade school students can understand and use CP/M. Unix is a lot more complicated of course - the typical Unix hacker never can remember what the PRINT command is called this week - but when it gets right down to it, Unix is a glorified video game. People don't do Serious Work on Unix systems: they send jokes around the world on {UUCP}-net and write adventure games and research papers. No, your Real Programmer uses OS 370. A good programmer can find and understand the description of the IJK305I error he just got in his JCL manual. A great programmer can write JCL without referring to the manual at all. A truly outstanding programmer can find bugs buried in a 6 megabyte {core dump} without using a hex calculator. (I have actually seen this done.) OS is a truly remarkable operating system. It's possible to destroy days of work with a single misplaced space, so alertness in the programming staff is encouraged. The best way to approach the system is through a keypunch. Some people claim there is a Time Sharing system that runs on OS 370, but after careful study I have come to the conclusion that they were mistaken. PROGRAMMING TOOLS What kind of tools does a Real Programmer use? In theory, a Real Programmer could run his programs by keying them into the front panel of the computer. Back in the days when computers had front panels, this was actually done occasionally. Your typical Real Programmer knew the entire bootstrap loader by memory in hex, and toggled it in whenever it got destroyed by his program. (Back then, memory was memory - it didn't go away when the power went off. Today, memory either forgets things when you don't want it to, or remembers things long after they're better forgotten.) Legend has it that {Seymore Cray}, inventor of the Cray I supercomputer and most of Control Data's computers, actually toggled the first operating system for the CDC7600 in on the front panel from memory when it was first powered on. Seymore, needless to say, is a Real Programmer. One of my favorite Real Programmers was a systems programmer for Texas Instruments. One day he got a long distance call from a user whose system had crashed in the middle of saving some important work. Jim was able to repair the damage over the phone, getting the user to toggle in disk I/O instructions at the front panel, repairing system tables in hex, reading register contents back over the phone. The moral of this story: while a Real Programmer usually includes a keypunch and lineprinter in his toolkit, he can get along with just a front panel and a telephone in emergencies. In some companies, text editing no longer consists of ten engineers standing in line to use an 029 keypunch. In fact, the building I work in doesn't contain a single keypunch. The Real Programmer in this situation has to do his work with a "text editor" program. Most systems supply several text editors to select from, and the Real Programmer must be careful to pick one that reflects his personal style. Many people believe that the best text editors in the world were written at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center for use on their Alto and Dorado computers [3]. Unfortunately, no Real Programmer would ever use a computer whose operating system is called SmallTalk, and would certainly not talk to the computer with a mouse. Some of the concepts in these Xerox editors have been incorporated into editors running on more reasonably named operating systems - {Emacs} and {VI} being two. The problem with these editors is that Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor - complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. TECO, to be precise. It has been observed that a TECO command sequence more closely resembles transmission line noise than readable text [4]. One of the more entertaining games to play with TECO is to type your name in as a command line and try to guess what it does. Just about any possible typing error while talking with TECO will probably destroy your program, or even worse - introduce subtle and mysterious bugs in a once working subroutine. For this reason, Real Programmers are reluctant to actually edit a program that is close to working. They find it much easier to just patch the binary {object code} directly, using a wonderful program called SUPERZAP (or its equivalent on non-IBM machines). This works so well that many working programs on IBM systems bear no relation to the original Fortran code. In many cases, the original source code is no longer available. When it comes time to fix a program like this, no manager would even think of sending anything less than a Real Programmer to do the job - no Quiche Eating structured programmer would even know where to start. This is called "job security". Some programming tools NOT used by Real Programmers: Fortran preprocessors like {MORTRAN} and {RATFOR}. The Cuisinarts of programming - great for making Quiche. See comments above on structured programming. Source language debuggers. Real Programmers can read core dumps. Compilers with array bounds checking. They stifle creativity, destroy most of the interesting uses for EQUIVALENCE, and make it impossible to modify the operating system code with negative subscripts. Worst of all, bounds checking is inefficient. Source code maintenance systems. A Real Programmer keeps his code locked up in a card file, because it implies that its owner cannot leave his important programs unguarded [5]. THE REAL PROGRAMMER AT WORK Where does the typical Real Programmer work? What kind of programs are worthy of the efforts of so talented an individual? You can be sure that no Real Programmer would be caught dead writing accounts-receivable programs in {COBOL}, or sorting {mailing lists} for People magazine. A Real Programmer wants tasks of earth-shaking importance (literally!). Real Programmers work for Los Alamos National Laboratory, writing atomic bomb simulations to run on Cray I supercomputers. Real Programmers work for the National Security Agency, decoding Russian transmissions. It was largely due to the efforts of thousands of Real Programmers working for NASA that our boys got to the moon and back before the Russkies. Real Programmers are at work for Boeing designing the operating systems for cruise missiles. Some of the most awesome Real Programmers of all work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Many of them know the entire operating system of the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft by heart. With a combination of large ground-based Fortran programs and small spacecraft-based assembly language programs, they are able to do incredible feats of navigation and improvisation - hitting ten-kilometer wide windows at Saturn after six years in space, repairing or bypassing damaged sensor platforms, radios, and batteries. Allegedly, one Real Programmer managed to tuck a pattern-matching program into a few hundred bytes of unused memory in a Voyager spacecraft that searched for, located, and photographed a new moon of Jupiter. The current plan for the Galileo spacecraft is to use a gravity assist trajectory past Mars on the way to Jupiter. This trajectory passes within 80 +/-3 kilometers of the surface of Mars. Nobody is going to trust a Pascal program (or a Pascal programmer) for navigation to these tolerances. As you can tell, many of the world's Real Programmers work for the U.S. Government - mainly the Defense Department. This is as it should be. Recently, however, a black cloud has formed on the Real Programmer horizon. It seems that some highly placed Quiche Eaters at the Defense Department decided that all Defense programs should be written in some grand unified language called "ADA" ((C), DoD). For a while, it seemed that ADA was destined to become a language that went against all the precepts of Real Programming - a language with structure, a language with data types, {strong typing}, and semicolons. In short, a language designed to cripple the creativity of the typical Real Programmer. Fortunately, the language adopted by DoD has enough interesting features to make it approachable -- it's incredibly complex, includes methods for messing with the operating system and rearranging memory, and Edsgar Dijkstra doesn't like it [6]. (Dijkstra, as I'm sure you know, was the author of "GoTos Considered Harmful" - a landmark work in programming methodology, applauded by Pascal programmers and Quiche Eaters alike.) Besides, the determined Real Programmer can write Fortran programs in any language. The Real Programmer might compromise his principles and work on something slightly more trivial than the destruction of life as we know it, providing there's enough money in it. There are several Real Programmers building video games at Atari, for example. (But not playing them - a Real Programmer knows how to beat the machine every time: no challenge in that.) Everyone working at LucasFilm is a Real Programmer. (It would be crazy to turn down the money of fifty million Star Trek fans.) The proportion of Real Programmers in Computer Graphics is somewhat lower than the norm, mostly because nobody has found a use for computer graphics yet. On the other hand, all computer graphics is done in Fortran, so there are a fair number of people doing graphics in order to avoid having to write COBOL programs. THE REAL PROGRAMMER AT PLAY Generally, the Real Programmer plays the same way he works - with computers. He is constantly amazed that his employer actually pays him to do what he would be doing for fun anyway (although he is careful not to express this opinion out loud). Occasionally, the Real Programmer does step out of the office for a breath of fresh air and a beer or two. Some tips on recognizing Real Programmers away from the computer room: At a party, the Real Programmers are the ones in the corner talking about operating system security and how to get around it. At a football game, the Real Programmer is the one comparing the plays against his simulations printed on 11 by 14 fanfold paper. At the beach, the Real Programmer is the one drawing flowcharts in the sand. At a funeral, the Real Programmer is the one saying "Poor George, he almost had the sort routine working before the coronary." In a grocery store, the Real Programmer is the one who insists on running the cans past the laser checkout scanner himself, because he never could trust keypunch operators to get it right the first time. THE REAL PROGRAMMER'S NATURAL HABITAT What sort of environment does the Real Programmer function best in? This is an important question for the managers of Real Programmers. Considering the amount of money it costs to keep one on the staff, it's best to put him (or her) in an environment where he can get his work done. The typical Real Programmer lives in front of a computer terminal. Surrounding this terminal are: Listings of all programs the Real Programmer has ever worked on, piled in roughly chronological order on every flat surface in the office. Some half-dozen or so partly filled cups of cold coffee. Occasionally, there will be cigarette butts floating in the coffee. In some cases, the cups will contain Orange Crush. Unless he is very good, there will be copies of the OS JCL manual and the Principles of Operation open to some particularly interesting pages. Taped to the wall is a line-printer Snoopy calendar for the year 1969. Strewn about the floor are several wrappers for peanut butter filled cheese bars - the type that are made pre-stale at the bakery so they can't get any worse while waiting in the vending machine. Hiding in the top left-hand drawer of the desk is a stash of double-stuff Oreos for special occasions. Underneath the Oreos is a flowcharting template, left there by the previous occupant of the office. (Real Programmers write programs, not documentation. Leave that to the maintenance people.) The Real Programmer is capable of working 30, 40, even 50 hours at a stretch, under intense pressure. In fact, he prefers it that way. Bad response time doesn't bother the Real Programmer - it gives him a chance to catch a little sleep between compiles. If there is not enough schedule pressure on the Real Programmer, he tends to make things more challenging by working on some small but interesting part of the problem for the first nine weeks, then finishing the rest in the last week, in two or three 50-hour marathons. This not only impresses the hell out of his manager, who was despairing of ever getting the project done on time, but creates a convenient excuse for not doing the documentation. In general: No Real Programmer works 9 to 5 (unless it's the ones at night). Real Programmers don't wear neckties. Real Programmers don't wear high-heeled shoes. Real Programmers arrive at work in time for lunch [9]. A Real Programmer might or might not know his wife's name. He does, however, know the entire {ASCII} (or EBCDIC) code table. Real Programmers don't know how to cook. Grocery stores aren't open at three in the morning. Real Programmers survive on Twinkies and coffee. THE FUTURE What of the future? It is a matter of some concern to Real Programmers that the latest generation of computer programmers are not being brought up with the same outlook on life as their elders. Many of them have never seen a computer with a front panel. Hardly anyone graduating from school these days can do hex arithmetic without a calculator. College graduates these days are soft - protected from the realities of programming by source level debuggers, text editors that count parentheses, and "user friendly" operating systems. Worst of all, some of these alleged "computer scientists" manage to get degrees without ever learning Fortran! Are we destined to become an industry of Unix hackers and Pascal programmers? From my experience, I can only report that the future is bright for Real Programmers everywhere. Neither OS 370 nor Fortran show any signs of dying out, despite all the efforts of Pascal programmers the world over. Even more subtle tricks, like adding structured coding constructs to Fortran have failed. Oh sure, some computer vendors have come out with Fortran 77 compilers, but every one of them has a way of converting itself back into a Fortran 66 compiler at the drop of an option card - to compile DO loops like God meant them to be. Even Unix might not be as bad on Real Programmers as it once was. The latest release of Unix has the potential of an operating system worthy of any Real Programmer - two different and subtly incompatible user interfaces, an arcane and complicated teletype driver, virtual memory. If you ignore the fact that it's "structured", even 'C' programming can be appreciated by the Real Programmer: after all, there's no type checking, variable names are seven (ten? eight?) characters long, and the added bonus of the Pointer data type is thrown in - like having the best parts of Fortran and assembly language in one place. (Not to mention some of the more creative uses for
rebirth. An English term that does not have an exact correlate in Buddhist languages, rendered instead by a range of technical terms, such as the Sanskrit PUNARJANMAN (lit. "birth again") and PUNARBHAVA (lit. "re-becoming"), and, less commonly, the related PUNARMṚTYU (lit. "redeath"). The Sanskrit term JĀTI ("birth") also encompasses the notion of rebirth. The doctrine of rebirth is central to Buddhism. It was not an innovation of the Buddha, being already common to a number of philosophical schools of ancient India by the time of his appearance, especially those connected with the sRAMAnA movement of religious mendicants. Rebirth (sometimes called metempsychosis) is described as a beginningless process in which a mental continuum (see SAMTĀNA) takes different (usually) physical forms lifetime after lifetime within the six realms (GATI) of SAMSĀRA: divinities (DEVA), demigods (ASURA), humans (MANUsYA), animals (TIRYAK), ghosts (PRETA), and hell denizens (NĀRAKA). The cycle of rebirth operates through the process of activity (KARMAN), with virtuous (KUsALA) actions serving as the cause for salutary rebirths among the divinities and human beings, and unvirtuous (AKUsALA) actions serving as the cause of unsalutary rebirths (DURGATI; APĀYA) among demigods, animals, ghosts, and hell denizens. The goal of the Buddhist path has been traditionally described as the cessation of the cycle of rebirth through the eradication of its causes, which are identified as the afflictions (KLEsA) of greed, hatred, and ignorance and the actions motivated by those defilements. Despite this ultimate goal, however, much traditional Buddhist practice has been directed toward securing rebirth as a human or divinity for oneself and one's family members, while avoiding rebirth in the evil realms. The issue of how Buddhism reconciles the doctrine of rebirth with its position that there is no perduring self (ANĀTMAN) has long been discussed within the tradition. Some schools of mainstream Buddhism, such as the VĀTSĪPUTRĪYA or PUDGALAVĀDA, have gone so far as to posit that, while there may be no perduring "self," there is an "inexpressible" (avācya) "person" (PUDGALA) that is neither the same as nor different from the five aggregates (SKANDHA), which transmigrates from lifetime to lifetime. A more widely accepted view among the traditions sees the person as simply a sequence of mental and physical processes, among which is the process called consciousness (VIJNĀNA). Consciousness, although changing every moment, persists as a continuum over time. Death is simply the transfer of this conscious continuum (SAMTĀNA) from one impermanent mental and physical foundation to the next, just as the light from one candle may be transferred to the next in a series of candles. The exact process by which rebirth occurs is variously described in the different Buddhist traditions, with some schools asserting that rebirth occurs in the moments immediately following death, with other schools positing the existence of an "intermediate state" (ANTARĀBHAVA) between death in one lifetime and rebirth in another, with that period lasting as long as forty-nine days (see SISHIJIU [RI] ZHAI). This state, translated as BAR DO in Tibetan, became particularly important in Tibet in both funerary rituals and in tantric practice, especially that of the RNYING MA sect. The reality of rebirth is one of the cardinal doctrines of Buddhism, which the religion claims can be empirically validated through direct spiritual insight (see YOGIPRATYAKsA). Indeed, understanding the validity of this cycle of rebirth is associated with two of the three types of knowledge (TRIVIDYĀ) that are experienced through the enlightenment of an ARHAT or a buddha: the ability to remember one's own former lives (PuRVANIVĀSĀNUSMṚTI) in all their detail and insight into the future rebirth destinies of all other beings based on their own actions (S. CYUTYUPAPĀDĀNUSMṚTI). See also SAMSĀRA.
recall ::: n. 1. The act of remembering; recollecting. v. 2. To summon back to awareness of or concern with the subject or situation at hand. 3. To revoke or withdraw. recalled, recalling.
recall ::: v. t. --> To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.
To revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree.
To call back to mind; to revive in memory; to recollect; to remember; as, to recall bygone days. ::: n.
Recency Effect ::: The tendency to remember the last bit of information due to the shorter time available for forgetting.
recollect ::: to recall to mind; remember. recollecting.
recollect ::: v. t. --> To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember.
Reflexively, to compose one&
record ::: v. t. --> To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.
To repeat; to recite; to sing or play.
To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events.
rememberable ::: a. --> Capable or worthy of being remembered.
remembered ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Remember
rememberer ::: n. --> One who remembers.
remembering ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Remember
remember ::: v. t. --> To have ( a notion or idea) come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind again; to think of again; to recollect; as, I remember the fact; he remembers the events of his childhood; I cannot remember dates.
To be capable of recalling when required; to keep in mind; to be continually aware or thoughtful of; to preserve fresh in the memory; to attend to; to think of with gratitude, affection,
REMEMBRANCE ANEW Everything which we are able immediately to grasp, comprehend, understand, we have assimilated in previous incarnations. Also qualities and abilities once acquired remain latently, until they are given opportunities to develop in some new incarnation. K 1.1.36
Remembrance anew is the ability to resuscitate the vibrations received or emitted by the envelopes.
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Remembrance in work ::: It is a certain inertia in the physical consciousness which shuts it up in the groove of what it is doing so that it is fixed in that and not free to remember.
remembrance ::: n. --> The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection.
The state of being remembered, or held in mind; memory; recollection.
Something remembered; a person or thing kept in memory.
That which serves to keep in or bring to mind; a memorial; a token; a memento; a souvenir; a memorandum or note of
remembrancer ::: fig. Someone appointed to remember things for others or something that causes another to remember.
rememorate ::: v. i. --> To recall something by means of memory; to remember.
reminded ::: caused (a person) to remember; caused (a person) to think (of someone or something). reminding.
reminiscence ::: n. --> The act or power of recalling past experience; the state of being reminiscent; remembrance; memory.
That which is remembered, or recalled to mind; a statement or narration of remembered experience; a recollection; as, pleasing or painful reminiscences.
Rgyal tshab Dar ma rin chen. (Gyaltsap Darma Rinchen) (1364-1432). One of the two principal disciples (together with MKHAS GRUB DGE LEGS DPAL BZANG) of the Tibetan Buddhist master TSONG KHA PA. Ordained and educated in the SA SKYA sect, Rgyal tshab (a name he would only receive later in life) studied with some of the great teachers of the day, including Red mda' ba gzhon nu blo gros. Rgyal tshab was already an established scholar, known especially for his expertise in PRAMĀnA, when he first met Tsong kha pa at Rab drong around 1400. According to a well-known story, Rgyal tshab sought to debate Tsong kha pa and asked a nun, "Where is Big Nose?" (impertinently referring to Tsong kha pa's prominent proboscis). The nun rinsed out her mouth and lit a stick of incense before saying that the omniscient master Tsong kha pa was teaching in the temple. Rgyal tshab entered the temple and announced his presence, at which point Tsong kha pa interrupted his teaching and invited the great scholar to join him on the teaching throne. Rgyal tshab arrogantly accepted but as he listened to Tsong kha pa's teaching, he became convinced of his great learning and edged away from the master, eventually descending from the throne and prostrating before Tsong kha pa and taking his place in the assembly. From that point, he would become Tsong kha pa's closest disciple, credited with hearing and remembering everything that Tsong kha pa taught. He assisted Tsong kha pa in the founding of DGA' LDAN monastery and upon Tsong kha pa's death in 1419, Rgyal tshab assumed the golden throne of Dga' ldan, becoming the first DGA' LDAN KHRI PA or "Holder of the Throne of Dga' ldan," a position that would evolve into the head of the DGE LUGS sect. He was also called the "regent" (rgyal tshab) of Tsong kha pa, which became the name by which he is best known. He was a prolific author, known especially for his detailed commentaries on the works of DHARMAKĪRTI, as well as such important Indian texts as the ABHISAMAYĀLAMKĀRA, BODHICARYĀVATĀRA, RATNĀVALĪ, CATUḤsATAKA, and RATNAGOTRAVIBHĀGA. Rgyal tshab figures in the most common image in Dge lugs iconography, the rje yab sras gsum, or "the triumvirate, the lord father, and the sons," showing Tsong kha pa flanked by Rgyal tshab and Mkhas grub (with Rgyal tshab often shown with white hair). The collected works of these three scholars form something of a canon for the Dge lugs sect and are often printed together as the rje yab sras gsung 'bum or the "collected works of the lord father and the [two] sons."
Rje btsun dam pa. (Jetsün Dampa). In Tibetan, "excellent lord," the Tibetan name of the Khalkha Jebtsundamba Khutuktu, the lineage of incarnate lamas who serve as head of the DGE LUGS sect in Mongolia, also known as Bogd Gegen. The lineage was established by the fifth DALAI LAMA, who, after his suppression of the JO NANG sect, declared that the renowned Jo nang scholar TĀRANĀTHA had been reborn in Mongolia, thus taking an important line of incarnations from a rival sect and transferring it to his own Dge lugs sect. The first Rje btsun dam pa was Blo bzang bstan pa'i rgyal mtshan (1635-1723), known in Mongolian as Bogdo Zanabazar or simply Zanabazar. He was the son of the Mongol prince Gombodorj, the Tosiyetu Khan, ruler of the Khan Uula district of Mongolia, and himself became the head of the Khalkha Mongols. He and the second Rje btsun dam pa lama were direct descendants of Genghis Khan. Zanabazar was ordained at the age of five and recognized as the incarnation of Tāranātha, this recognition confirmed by the fifth Dalai Lama and first PAn CHEN LAMA. He spent 1649-1651 in Tibet where he received initiations and teachings from the two Dge lugs hierarchs. Zanabazar is remembered especially as a great sculptor who produced many important bronze images. He was also a respected scholar and a favorite of the Manchu Chinese Kangxi emperor. During the Qing dynasty, the Rje btsun dam pa was selected from Tibet, perhaps in fear that a Mongol lama would become too powerful. During the Qing, it was said that the Qing emperor, the Dalai Lama, and the Rje btsun dam pa were incarnations of MANJUsRĪ, AVALOKITEsVARA, and VAJRAPĀnI, respectively. When northern Mongolia sought independence, the eighth Rje btsun dam pa (1869-1924) assumed the title of emperor of Mongolia, calling himself Boghda Khan (also "Bogd Khan"). He was the head of state until his death in 1924, after which the Communist government declared the end of the incarnation line. However, 'Jam dpal rnam grol chos kyi rgyal mtshan was recognized in LHA SA as the ninth Rje btsun dam pa; he fled into exile in India in 1959.
saga "jargon" (WPI) A {cuspy} but bogus raving story about N {random} broken people. Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by {Guy Steele} (GLS): Jon L. White (login name JONL) and I (GLS) were office mates at {MIT} for many years. One April, we both flew from Boston to California for a week on research business, to consult face-to-face with some people at {Stanford}, particularly our mutual friend {Richard Gabriel} (RPG). RPG picked us up at the San Francisco airport and drove us back to {Palo Alto} (going {logical} south on route 101, parallel to {El Camino Bignum}). Palo Alto is adjacent to Stanford University and about 40 miles south of San Francisco. We ate at The Good Earth, a "health food" restaurant, very popular, the sort whose milkshakes all contain honey and protein powder. JONL ordered such a shake - the waitress claimed the flavour of the day was "lalaberry". I still have no idea what that might be, but it became a running joke. It was the colour of raspberry, and JONL said it tasted rather bitter. I ate a better tostada there than I have ever had in a Mexican restaurant. After this we went to the local Uncle Gaylord's Old Fashioned Ice Cream Parlor. They make ice cream fresh daily, in a variety of intriguing flavours. It's a chain, and they have a slogan: "If you don't live near an Uncle Gaylord's - MOVE!" Also, Uncle Gaylord (a real person) wages a constant battle to force big-name ice cream makers to print their ingredients on the package (like air and plastic and other non-natural garbage). JONL and I had first discovered Uncle Gaylord's the previous August, when we had flown to a computer-science conference in {Berkeley}, California, the first time either of us had been on the West Coast. When not in the conference sessions, we had spent our time wandering the length of Telegraph Avenue, which (like Harvard Square in Cambridge) was lined with picturesque street vendors and interesting little shops. On that street we discovered Uncle Gaylord's Berkeley store. The ice cream there was very good. During that August visit JONL went absolutely bananas (so to speak) over one particular flavour, ginger honey. Therefore, after eating at The Good Earth - indeed, after every lunch and dinner and before bed during our April visit --- a trip to Uncle Gaylord's (the one in Palo Alto) was mandatory. We had arrived on a Wednesday, and by Thursday evening we had been there at least four times. Each time, JONL would get ginger honey ice cream, and proclaim to all bystanders that "Ginger was the spice that drove the Europeans mad! That's why they sought a route to the East! They used it to preserve their otherwise off-taste meat." After the third or fourth repetition RPG and I were getting a little tired of this spiel, and began to paraphrase him: "Wow! Ginger! The spice that makes rotten meat taste good!" "Say! Why don't we find some dog that's been run over and sat in the sun for a week and put some *ginger* on it for dinner?!" "Right! With a lalaberry shake!" And so on. This failed to faze JONL; he took it in good humour, as long as we kept returning to Uncle Gaylord's. He loves ginger honey ice cream. Now RPG and his then-wife KBT (Kathy Tracy) were putting us up (putting up with us?) in their home for our visit, so to thank them JONL and I took them out to a nice French restaurant of their choosing. I unadventurously chose the filet mignon, and KBT had je ne sais quoi du jour, but RPG and JONL had lapin (rabbit). (Waitress: "Oui, we have fresh rabbit, fresh today." RPG: "Well, JONL, I guess we won't need any *ginger*!") We finished the meal late, about 11 P.M., which is 2 A.M Boston time, so JONL and I were rather droopy. But it wasn't yet midnight. Off to Uncle Gaylord's! Now the French restaurant was in Redwood City, north of Palo Alto. In leaving Redwood City, we somehow got onto route 101 going north instead of south. JONL and I wouldn't have known the difference had RPG not mentioned it. We still knew very little of the local geography. I did figure out, however, that we were headed in the direction of Berkeley, and half-jokingly suggested that we continue north and go to Uncle Gaylord's in Berkeley. RPG said "Fine!" and we drove on for a while and talked. I was drowsy, and JONL actually dropped off to sleep for 5 minutes. When he awoke, RPG said, "Gee, JONL, you must have slept all the way over the bridge!", referring to the one spanning San Francisco Bay. Just then we came to a sign that said "University Avenue". I mumbled something about working our way over to Telegraph Avenue; RPG said "Right!" and maneuvered some more. Eventually we pulled up in front of an Uncle Gaylord's. Now, I hadn't really been paying attention because I was so sleepy, and I didn't really understand what was happening until RPG let me in on it a few moments later, but I was just alert enough to notice that we had somehow come to the Palo Alto Uncle Gaylord's after all. JONL noticed the resemblance to the Palo Alto store, but hadn't caught on. (The place is lit with red and yellow lights at night, and looks much different from the way it does in daylight.) He said, "This isn't the Uncle Gaylord's I went to in Berkeley! It looked like a barn! But this place looks *just like* the one back in Palo Alto!" RPG deadpanned, "Well, this is the one *I* always come to when I'm in Berkeley. They've got two in San Francisco, too. Remember, they're a chain." JONL accepted this bit of wisdom. And he was not totally ignorant - he knew perfectly well that University Avenue was in Berkeley, not far from Telegraph Avenue. What he didn't know was that there is a completely different University Avenue in Palo Alto. JONL went up to the counter and asked for ginger honey. The guy at the counter asked whether JONL would like to taste it first, evidently their standard procedure with that flavour, as not too many people like it. JONL said, "I'm sure I like it. Just give me a cone." The guy behind the counter insisted that JONL try just a taste first. "Some people think it tastes like soap." JONL insisted, "Look, I *love* ginger. I eat Chinese food. I eat raw ginger roots. I already went through this hassle with the guy back in Palo Alto. I *know* I like that flavour!" At the words "back in Palo Alto" the guy behind the counter got a very strange look on his face, but said nothing. KBT caught his eye and winked. Through my stupor I still hadn't quite grasped what was going on, and thought RPG was rolling on the floor laughing and clutching his stomach just because JONL had launched into his spiel ("makes rotten meat a dish for princes") for the forty-third time. At this point, RPG clued me in fully. RPG, KBT, and I retreated to a table, trying to stifle our chuckles. JONL remained at the counter, talking about ice cream with the guy b.t.c., comparing Uncle Gaylord's to other ice cream shops and generally having a good old time. At length the g.b.t.c. said, "How's the ginger honey?" JONL said, "Fine! I wonder what exactly is in it?" Now Uncle Gaylord publishes all his recipes and even teaches classes on how to make his ice cream at home. So the g.b.t.c. got out the recipe, and he and JONL pored over it for a while. But the g.b.t.c. could contain his curiosity no longer, and asked again, "You really like that stuff, huh?" JONL said, "Yeah, I've been eating it constantly back in Palo Alto for the past two days. In fact, I think this batch is about as good as the cones I got back in Palo Alto!" G.b.t.c. looked him straight in the eye and said, "You're *in* Palo Alto!" JONL turned slowly around, and saw the three of us collapse in a fit of giggles. He clapped a hand to his forehead and exclaimed, "I've been hacked!" [My spies on the West Coast inform me that there is a close relative of the raspberry found out there called an "ollalieberry" - ESR] [Ironic footnote: it appears that the {meme} about ginger vs. rotting meat may be an urban legend. It's not borne out by an examination of mediaeval recipes or period purchase records for spices, and appears full-blown in the works of Samuel Pegge, a gourmand and notorious flake case who originated numerous food myths. - ESR] [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-08)
saga ::: (jargon) (WPI) A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy Steele (GLS):Jon L. White (login name JONL) and I (GLS) were office mates at MIT for many years. One April, we both flew from Boston to California for a week on research business, to consult face-to-face with some people at Stanford, particularly our mutual friend Richard Gabriel (RPG).RPG picked us up at the San Francisco airport and drove us back to Palo Alto (going logical south on route 101, parallel to El Camino Bignum). Palo Alto is raspberry, and JONL said it tasted rather bitter. I ate a better tostada there than I have ever had in a Mexican restaurant.After this we went to the local Uncle Gaylord's Old Fashioned Ice Cream Parlor. They make ice cream fresh daily, in a variety of intriguing flavours. It's a very good. During that August visit JONL went absolutely bananas (so to speak) over one particular flavour, ginger honey.Therefore, after eating at The Good Earth - indeed, after every lunch and dinner and before bed during our April visit -- a trip to Uncle Gaylord's (the one in failed to faze JONL; he took it in good humour, as long as we kept returning to Uncle Gaylord's. He loves ginger honey ice cream.Now RPG and his then-wife KBT (Kathy Tracy) were putting us up (putting up with us?) in their home for our visit, so to thank them JONL and I took them out to a (rabbit). (Waitress: Oui, we have fresh rabbit, fresh today. RPG: Well, JONL, I guess we won't need any *ginger*!)We finished the meal late, about 11 P.M., which is 2 A.M Boston time, so JONL and I were rather droopy. But it wasn't yet midnight. Off to Uncle Gaylord's!Now the French restaurant was in Redwood City, north of Palo Alto. In leaving Redwood City, we somehow got onto route 101 going north instead of south. JONL headed in the direction of Berkeley, and half-jokingly suggested that we continue north and go to Uncle Gaylord's in Berkeley.RPG said Fine! and we drove on for a while and talked. I was drowsy, and JONL actually dropped off to sleep for 5 minutes. When he awoke, RPG said, Gee, said Right! and maneuvered some more. Eventually we pulled up in front of an Uncle Gaylord's.Now, I hadn't really been paying attention because I was so sleepy, and I didn't really understand what was happening until RPG let me in on it a few moments later, but I was just alert enough to notice that we had somehow come to the Palo Alto Uncle Gaylord's after all.JONL noticed the resemblance to the Palo Alto store, but hadn't caught on. (The place is lit with red and yellow lights at night, and looks much different from in Berkeley! It looked like a barn! But this place looks *just like* the one back in Palo Alto!RPG deadpanned, Well, this is the one *I* always come to when I'm in Berkeley. They've got two in San Francisco, too. Remember, they're a chain.JONL accepted this bit of wisdom. And he was not totally ignorant - he knew perfectly well that University Avenue was in Berkeley, not far from Telegraph Avenue. What he didn't know was that there is a completely different University Avenue in Palo Alto.JONL went up to the counter and asked for ginger honey. The guy at the counter asked whether JONL would like to taste it first, evidently their standard procedure with that flavour, as not too many people like it.JONL said, I'm sure I like it. Just give me a cone. The guy behind the counter insisted that JONL try just a taste first. Some people think it tastes like ginger roots. I already went through this hassle with the guy back in Palo Alto. I *know* I like that flavour!At the words back in Palo Alto the guy behind the counter got a very strange look on his face, but said nothing. KBT caught his eye and winked. Through my launched into his spiel (makes rotten meat a dish for princes) for the forty-third time. At this point, RPG clued me in fully.RPG, KBT, and I retreated to a table, trying to stifle our chuckles. JONL remained at the counter, talking about ice cream with the guy b.t.c., comparing Uncle Gaylord's to other ice cream shops and generally having a good old time.At length the g.b.t.c. said, How's the ginger honey? JONL said, Fine! I wonder what exactly is in it? Now Uncle Gaylord publishes all his recipes and for the past two days. In fact, I think this batch is about as good as the cones I got back in Palo Alto!G.b.t.c. looked him straight in the eye and said, You're *in* Palo Alto!JONL turned slowly around, and saw the three of us collapse in a fit of giggles. He clapped a hand to his forehead and exclaimed, I've been hacked![My spies on the West Coast inform me that there is a close relative of the raspberry found out there called an ollalieberry - ESR][Ironic footnote: it appears that the meme about ginger vs. rotting meat may be an urban legend. It's not borne out by an examination of mediaeval recipes or Samuel Pegge, a gourmand and notorious flake case who originated numerous food myths. - ESR][Jargon File] (1994-12-08)
sahityasmr.ti (sahityasmriti) ::: literary memory, the ability to recall sahityasmrti passages of poetry or other literature "not by effort to remember . . . but by inspiration" or any action of a "higher memory" by which "things are . . . remembered permanently without committing them to heart".
Samma Sambuddha: A term used by Buddhist mystics for a person’s sudden remembering of all of his past incarnations, through the mastery of Yoga.
SaMmitīya. (T. Mang bkur ba; C. Zhengliang bu; J. Shoryobu; K. Chongnyang pu 正量部). One of the "mainstream" (that is, non-Mahāyāna) schools of Indian Buddhism, a subsect of the VĀTSĪPUTRĪYA, and remembered primarily for its affirmation of the notion of a "person" (PUDGALA) that is neither the same as nor different from the aggregates (SKANDHA). Because of their assertion of such an "inexpressible" (avācya) person, the adherents of the school were dubbed PUDGALAVĀDA ("proponents of the person") and were criticized by other Buddhist schools for asserting the existence of a self, a position anathema to the mainstream Buddhist position of nonself (ANĀTMAN). Despite this apparent heresy, the school enjoyed considerable popularity in India; the seventh-century Chinese pilgrim XUANZANG describes it as the largest of the mainstream Buddhist schools in India, representing one quarter of all active monks. See VĀTSĪPUTRĪYA.
Sattva(Sanskrit) ::: One of the trigunas or "three qualities," the other two being rajas and tamas. Sattva is thequality of truth, goodness, reality, purity. These three gunas or qualities run all through the web or fabricof nature like threads inextricably mingled, for, indeed, each of these three qualities participates likewiseof the nature of the other two, yet each one possessing its predominant (which is its own svabhava) orintrinsic characteristic. One who desires to gain some genuine understanding of the manner in which thearchaic wisdom looks upon these three phases of human intellectual and spiritual activity must rememberthat not one of these three can be considered apart from the other two. The three are fundamentally threeoperations of the human consciousness, and essentially are that consciousness itself.
Sattva (Sanskrit) Sattva [from sat being] True essence, spiritual essence, reality, true being. Also one of the trigunas (three qualities), the other two being rajas and tamas. “Sattwa is the quality of truth, goodness, reality, purity. These three gunas or qualities run all through the web or fabric of Nature like threads inextricably mingled, for, indeed, each of these three qualities participate likewise in the nature of the other two, yet each one possessing its predominant (which is its own Swabhava) or intrinsic characteristic. One who desires to gain some genuine understanding of the manner in which the Archaic Wisdom looks upon these three phases of human intellectual and spiritual activity must remember that not one of these three can be considered apart from the other two. The three are fundamentally three operations of the human consciousness, and essentially are that consciousness itself” (OG 153-4). As the human being is the microcosm of the macrocosm, the same gunas can be discovered in the cosmos.
satyasya drstih srutih smrtih pratibodha iti jnanam; vrtte tu karmani ca satyadharma eva jnanam ::: [the seeing, hearing and remembering of truth, and realisation, these are jnana; and in conduct and action the Law of the Truth is jnana].
sense angels are not to be ruled out as a part of reality—always remembering that we create what
Sidgwick, Henry: (1838-1900) Last of the leading utilitarians, remembered principally for his work in ethics. He was an advocate of college education for women and one of the founders of the Society for Psychical Research. See Utilitarianism. -- L.E.D.
since time T equals minus infinity ::: A long time ago; for as long as anyone can remember; at the time that some particular frob was first designed. Usually the word time is omitted. See also time T; contrast epoch.[Jargon File]
since time T equals minus infinity A long time ago; for as long as anyone can remember; at the time that some particular frob was first designed. Usually the word "time" is omitted. See also {time T}; contrast {epoch}. [{Jargon File}]
Smarta, Smartava (Sanskrit) Smārta, Smārtava [from smṛti tradition from the verbal root smṛ to remember] A follower of Sankaracharya and the Advaita Vedantic doctrines. According to Blavatsky “this sect, founded by Sankaracharya, (which is still very powerful in Southern India) is now almost the only one to produce students who have preserved sufficient knowledge to comprehend the dead letter of the Bhashyas. The reason of this is that they alone, I am informed, have occasionally real Initiates at their head in their mathams, as for instance, in the ‘Sringa-giri,’ in the Western Ghauts of Mysore. On the other hand, there is no sect in that desperately exclusive caste of the Brahmins, more exclusive than is the Smartava; and the reticence of its followers to say what they may know of the Occult sciences and the esoteric doctrine, is only equalled by their pride and learning” (SD 1:271-2). What the original Hebrew Qabbalists were — qabbalah itself meaning tradition or traditional knowledge handed down from generation to generation of adepts — was exactly what the Smartava-Brahmanas were.
Smriti (Sanskrit) Smṛti [from the verbal root smṛ to remember] What is remembered; unwritten teachings handed down by word of mouth, distinguished from srutis or teachings handed down in traditional writings. The Hebrew word qabbalah has a literally identical meaning.
smriti &
smr.ta (smrita) ::: remembered, attended to. smrta
sobhita. (P. Sobhita; T. Mdzes pa; C. Guoyi; J. Kae; K. Kwaŭi 菓衣). An eminent ARHAT elder declared by the Buddha to be foremost among his monk disciples in remembering past births (PuRVANIVĀSĀNUSMṚTI). He was born the son of a brāhmana family and dwelled in the city of sRĀVASTĪ. Hearing the Buddha preach one day, he resolved to renounce the world and enter the order as a monk. After some time he attained arhatship. During the time of Padmottara (P. Padumuttara) Buddha, when he was a householder living in the city of HaMsavatī, he heard the Buddha praise a monk disciple as foremost in his ability to recall previous lives. It was then that he resolved to earn that same distinction during the dispensation of a future buddha. During the time of Sumedha Buddha, sobhita was a learned brāhmana who was expert in the Vedas. He renounced the householder's life to observe piety as a hermit in the environs of the Himālaya mountains. When he heard a Buddha had appeared in the world, he rushed to Bandhumatī to sing the Buddha's praises.
Songshan. (J. Suzan; K. Sungsan 嵩山). In Chinese, "Lofty Mountain"; sacred mountain located in northern Henan province. Mt. Song, also known as Zhongyue (Middle Marchmount), belongs to what is known as the wuyue, or five marchmounts. Mt. Song is actually a mountain range consisting of two groups of peaks. To the east there are twenty-four peaks known collectively as Taishi, and to the west twenty-six peaks known as Shaoshi. Since ancient times, Mt. Song has been considered sacred. Emperors frequently made visits to the mountain and many who sought physical immortality found it to be an ideal dwelling place. Mt. Song has also been the home of many Buddhist monks. Sometime during the Han dynasty, a monastery known as Fawangsi (Dharma King Monastery) was built on Mt. Song. For centuries, the monastery received the support of many emperors, such as Emperor Wendi of the Sui dynasty, who renamed it Shelisi (sARĪRA Monastery), Emperor Taizong (r. 626-649) who renamed it Gongdesi (Merit Monastery), and Emperor Daizong (r. 762-779) who renamed it Wenshushili Guangde Bao'ensi (MaNjusrī's Vast Virtue, Requiting Kindness Monastery). During the Song dynasty, the monastery was supported by Emperor Renzong (r. 1022-1063), who once again renamed it Fawangsi. Mt. Song was also the home of the famous monastery of SHAOLINSI, which is claimed to have been built on its Shaoshi peaks by a certain Indian monk named Fotuo (d.u.) in 496. Shaolinsi is perhaps best remembered as the home of the semilegendary Indian monk BODHIDHARMA, who is presumed to have dwelled in a cave nearby for nine years, engaged in BIGUAN (wall contemplation). To the west of Fawangsi, there was also a monastery by the name of Xianjusi (Tranquil Dwelling Monastery), which had once been the private villa of Emperor Xuanwudi (r. 499-515) of the Northern Wei dynasty. Xianjusi was the residence of the meditation master Sengchou (480-560), and also PUJI (651-739), the disciple of CHAN master SHENXIU, and his disciple YIXING. Other monasteries such as Yongtaisi, Fengchansi, and Qingliangsi were also built on Mt. Song.
Soulless Beings ::: "We elbow soulless men in the streets at every turn," wrote H. P. Blavatsky. This is an actual fact. Thestatement does not mean that those whom we thus elbow have no soul. The significance is that thespiritual part of these human beings is sleeping, not awake. They are animate humans with an animateworking brain-mind, an animal mind, but otherwise "soulless" in the sense that the soul is inactive,sleeping; and this is also just what Pythagoras meant when he spoke of the "living dead." They areeverywhere, these people. We elbow them, just as H. P. Blavatsky says, at every turn. The eyes may bephysically bright, and filled with the vital physical fire, but they lack soul; they lack tenderness, thefervid yet gentle warmth of the living flame of inspiration within. Sometimes impersonal love willawaken the soul in a man or in a woman; sometimes it will kill it if the love become selfish and gross.The streets are filled with such "soulless" people; but the phrase soulless people does not mean "lostsouls." The latter is again something else. The term soulless people therefore is a technical term. It meansmen and women who are still connected, but usually quite unconsciously, with the monad, the spiritualessence within them, but who are not self-consciously so connected. They live very largely in thebrain-mind and in the fields of sensuous consciousness. They turn with pleasure to the frivolities of life.They have the ordinary feelings of honor, etc., because it is conventional and good breeding so to havethem; but the deep inner fire of yearning, the living warmth that comes from being more or less at onewith the god within, they know not. Hence, they are "soulless," because the soul is not working with fieryenergy in and through them.A lost soul, on the other hand, means an entity who through various rebirths, it may be a dozen, or moreor less, has been slowly following the "easy descent to Avernus," and in whom the threads ofcommunication with the spirit within have been snapped one after the other. Vice will do this, continuousvice. Hate snaps these spiritual threads more quickly than anything else perhaps. Selfishness, the parentof hate, is the root of all human evil; and therefore a lost soul is one who is not merely soulless in theordinary theosophical usage of the word, but is one who has lost the last link, the last delicate thread ofconsciousness, connecting him with his inner god. He will continue "the easy descent," passing fromhuman birth to an inferior human birth, and then to one still more inferior, until finally the degenerateastral monad -- all that remains of the human being that once was -- may even enter the body of somebeast to which it feels attracted (and this is one side of the teaching of transmigration, which has been sobadly misunderstood in the Occident); some finally go even to plants perhaps, at the last, and willultimately vanish. The astral monad will then have faded out. Such lost souls are exceedingly rare,fortunately; but they are not what we call soulless people.If the student will remember the fact that when a human being is filled with the living spiritual andintellectual fiery energies flowing into his brain-mind from his inner god, he is then an insouled being, hewill readily understand that when these fiery energies can no longer reach the brain-mind and manifest ina man's life, there is thus produced what is called a soulless being. A good man, honorable, loyal,compassionate, aspiring, gentle, and true-hearted, and a student of wisdom, is an "insouled" man; abuddha is one who is fully, completely insouled; and there are all the intermediate grades between.
Spirit (in reference to Matter) ::: The theosophist points out that what men call spirit is the summit or acme or root or seed or beginning ornoumenon -- call it by any name -- of any particular hierarchy existing in the innumerable hosts of thekosmic hierarchies, with all of which any such hierarchy is inextricably interblended and interworking.When theosophists speak of spirit and substance, of which matter and energy or force are thephysicalized expressions, we must remember that all these terms are abstractions, generalizedexpressions for certain entities manifesting aggregatively.Spirit, for instance, is not essentially different from matter, and is only relatively so different, orevolutionally so different: the difference not lying in the roots of these two where they become one in theunderlying consciousness-reality, but in their characters they are two evolutional forms of manifestationof that underlying reality. In other words, to use the terminology of modern scientific philosophy, spiritand matter are, each of them, respectively an "event" as the underlying reality passes through eternalduration.
..[Spiritual planes above the normal range of Mind, the Higher Mind and the Illumined Mind] 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 vibrateswith 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.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 21-22, Page: 981-982
Sri Aurobindo: "If this higher buddhi {{understanding in the profoundest sense] could act pure of the interference of these lower members, it would give pure forms of the truth; observation would be dominated or replaced by a vision which could see without subservient dependence on the testimony of the sense-mind and senses; imagination would give place to the self-assured inspiration of the truth, reasoning to the spontaneous discernment of relations and conclusion from reasoning to an intuition containing in itself those relations and not building laboriously upon them, judgment to a thought-vision in whose light the truth would stand revealed without the mask which it now wears and which our intellectual judgment has to penetrate; while memory too would take upon itself that larger sense given to it in Greek thought and be no longer a paltry selection from the store gained by the individual in his present life, but rather the all-recording knowledge which secretly holds and constantly gives from itself everything that we now seem painfully to acquire but really in this sense remember, a knowledge which includes the future(1) no less than the past. ::: Footnote: In this sense the power of prophecy has been aptly called a memory of the future.]” *The Synthesis of Yoga
srīsiMha. (T. Shrī sing ha) (fl. eighth century). Sanskrit proper name of an important figure in the early dissemination (SNGA DAR) of Buddhism to Tibet, especially in the propagation of the RDZOGS CHEN teachings. According to some Tibetan accounts, he was born in China, although other sources identify his birthplace as Khotan or Kinnaur. At the age of eighteen, he is said to have traveled to Suvarnadvīpa, often identified as the island of Sumatra. There he has a vision of AVALOKITEsVARA, who advised him to go to India. Before doing so, he studied at "five-peak mountain," which some sources assume is WUTAISHAN in China. He next went to the Sosadvīpa charnel ground (sMAsĀNA), where he studied with MANJUsRĪMITRA for twenty-five years. After his teacher's death, he traveled to BODHGAYĀ, where he unearthed tantric texts hidden there by MaNjusrīmitra. srīsiMha is especially remembered in Tibet as the teacher of VAIROCANA, one of the most important figures in the earlier dissemination of Buddhism to Tibet. Vairocana was one of the first seven Tibetans (SAD MI BDUN) ordained as Buddhist monks by sĀNTARAKsITA at the monastery of BSAM YAS, and he soon became an illustrious translator. He is said to have been a disciple of PADMASAMBHAVA and a participant on the Indian side in the BSAM YAS DEBATE. After Padmasambhava's departure from Tibet, the king required a fuller exposition of TANTRA and sent Vairocana to India to obtain further tantric instructions. After many trials, he arrived in India, where he was instructed by srīsiMha. Fearing that other Indian masters would object to his imparting the precious esoteric teachings to a foreigner, srīsiMha insisted that he study sutras and less esoteric tantric texts with other teachers during the day, conveying the most secret teachings to him under the cover of darkness; these were the rdzogs chen teachings that Vairocana took back to Tibet and taught to king KHRI SRONG LDE BTSAN. Among other esoteric teachings that Vairocana gave to srīsiMha is srīsiMha's tantric commentary on the PRAJNĀPĀRAMITĀHṚDAYASuTRA.
"Stability and movement, we must remember, are only our psychological representations of the Absolute, even as are oneness and multitude. The Absolute is beyond stability and movement as it is beyond unity and multiplicity. But it takes its eternal poise in the one and the stable and whirls round itself infinitely, inconceivably, securely in the moving and multitudinous.” The Life Divine
“Stability and movement, we must remember, are only our psychological representations of the Absolute, even as are oneness and multitude. The Absolute is beyond stability and movement as it is beyond unity and multiplicity. But it takes its eternal poise in the one and the stable and whirls round itself infinitely, inconceivably, securely in the moving and multitudinous.” The Life Divine
Stanzas of Dzyan Archaic verses of philosophical and cosmogonical content drawn from the Book of Dzyan, which form the basis of The Secret Doctrine. They present the esoteric teachings in regard to cosmogenesis and anthropogenesis, and are the ancient heritage of humanity as preserved by the brotherhood of mahatmas. Every race and nation has drawn from this source through the medium of its initiated or inspired teachers and saviors. Only portions of the original verses are given in The Secret Doctrine, and Blavatsky’s presentation there represents the first time that they have been set down in a modern European language; her endeavor always was to represent the meaning rather than to give a merely literal rendering of the words: “it must be left to the intuition and the higher faculties of the reader to grasp, as far as he can, the meaning of the allegorical phrases used. Indeed it must be remembered that all these Stanzas appeal to the inner faculties rather than to the ordinary comprehension of the physical brain” (SD 1:21).
state ::: In information technology and computer science, a program is described as stateful if it is designed to remember preceding events or user interactions;[291] the remembered information is called the state of the system.
Sukhāvatīvyuhasutra. (T. Bde ba can gyi bkod pa'i mdo; C. Wuliangshou jing; J. Muryojukyo; K. Muryangsu kyong 無量壽經). Literally, the "Sutra Displaying [the Land of] Bliss," the title of the two most important Mahāyāna sutras of the "PURE LAND" tradition. The two sutras differ in length, and thus are often referred to in English as the "larger" and "smaller" (or "longer" and "shorter") Sukhāvatīvyuhasutras; the shorter one is commonly called the AMITĀBHASuTRA. Both sutras are believed to date from the third century CE. The longer and shorter sutras, together with the GUAN WULIANGSHOU JING (*Amitāyurdhyānasutra), constitute the three main texts associated with the pure land tradition of East Asia (see JINGTU SANBUJING). There are multiple Sanskrit, Chinese, and Tibetan versions of both the longer and shorter sutras, with significant differences among them. ¶ The longer Sukhāvatīvyuhasutra begins with ĀNANDA noticing that the Buddha is looking especially serene one day, and so asks him the reason. The Buddha responds that he was thinking back many millions of eons in the past to the time of the buddha LOKEsVARARĀJA. The Buddha then tells a story in the form of a flashback. In the audience of this buddha was a monk named DHARMĀKARA, who approached Lokesvararāja and proclaimed his aspiration to become a buddha. Dharmākara then requested the Buddha to describe all of the qualities of the buddha-fields (BUDDHAKsETRA). Lokesvararāja provided a discourse that lasted one million years, describing each of the qualities of the lands of trillions of buddhas. Dharmākara then retired to meditate for five eons, seeking to concentrate all of the marvelous qualities of the millions of buddha-fields that had been described to him into a single pure buddha-field. When he completed his meditation, he returned to describe this imagined land to Lokesvararāja, promising to create a place of birth for fortunate beings and vowing that he would follow the bodhisattva path and become the buddha of this new buddha-field. He described the land he would create in a series of vows, stating that if this or that marvel was not present in his pure land, may he not become a buddha: e.g., "If in my pure land there are animals, ghosts, or hell denizens, may I not become a buddha." He made forty-eight such vows. These included the vow that all the beings in his pure land will be the color of gold; that beings in his pure land will have no conception of private property; that no bodhisattva will have to wash, dry, or sew his own robes; that bodhisattvas in his pure land will be able to hear the dharma in whatever form they wish to hear it and whenever they wish to hear it; that any woman who hears his name, creates the aspiration to enlightenment (BODHICITTA), and feels disgust at the female form, will not be reborn as a woman again. Two of these vows would become the focus of particular attention. In the eighteenth vow (seventeenth in the East Asian versions), Dharmākara vows that when he has become a buddha, he will appear at the moment of death to anyone who creates the aspiration to enlightenment, hears his name, and remembers him with faith. In the nineteenth vow (eighteenth in the East Asian versions), he promises that anyone who hears his name, wishes to be reborn in his pure land, and dedicates their merit to that end, will be reborn there, even if they make such a resolution as few as ten times during the course of their life. Only those who have committed one of the five inexpiable transgressions bringing immediate retribution (ĀNANTARYAKARMAN, viz., patricide, matricide, killing an ARHAT, wounding a buddha, or causing schism in the SAMGHA) are excluded. The scene then returns to the present. Ānanda asks the Buddha whether Dharmākara was successful, whether he did in fact traverse the long path of the bodhisattva to become a buddha. The Buddha replies that he did indeed succeed and that he became the buddha Amitābha (Infinite Light). The pure land that he created is called sukhāvatī. Because Dharmākara became a buddha, all of the things that he promised to create in his pure land have come true, and the Buddha proceeds to describe sukhāvatī in great detail. It is carpeted with lotuses made of seven precious substances, some of which reach ten leagues (YOJANA) in diameter. Each lotus emits millions of rays of light and from each ray of light there emerge millions of buddhas who travel to world systems in all directions to teach the dharma. The pure land is level, like the palm of one's hand, without mountains or oceans. It has great rivers, the waters of which rise as high or sink as low as one pleases, from the shoulders to the ankles, and vary in temperature as one pleases. The sound of the river takes the form of whatever auspicious words one wishes to hear, such as "buddha," "emptiness," "cessation," and "great compassion." The words "hindrance," "misfortune," and "pain" are never heard, nor are the words "day" and "night" used, except as metaphors. The beings in the pure land do not need to consume food. When they are hungry, they simply visualize whatever food they wish and their hunger is satisfied without needing to eat. They dwell in bejeweled palaces of their own design. Some of the inhabitants sit cross-legged on lotus blossoms while others are enclosed within the calyx of a lotus. The latter do not feel imprisoned, because the calyx of the lotus is quite large, containing within it a palace similar to that inhabited by the gods. Those who dedicate their merit toward rebirth in the pure land yet who harbor doubts are reborn inside lotuses where they must remain for five hundred years, enjoying visions of the pure land but deprived of the opportunity to hear the dharma. Those who are free from doubt are reborn immediately on open lotuses, with unlimited access to the dharma. Such rebirth would become a common goal of Buddhist practice, for monks and laity alike, in India, Tibet, and throughout East Asia. ¶ The "shorter" Sukhāvatīvyuhasutra was translated into Chinese by such famous figures as KUMĀRAJĪVA and XUANZANG. It is devoted largely to describing this buddha's land and its many wonders, including the fact that even the names for the realms of animals and the realms of hell-denizens are not known; all of the beings born there will achieve enlightenment in their next lifetime. In order to be reborn there, one should dedicate one's merit to that goal and bear in mind the name of the buddha here known as AMITĀYUS (Infinite Life). Those who are successful in doing so will see Amitāyus and a host of bodhisattvas before them at the moment of death, ready to escort them to sukhāvatī, the land of bliss. In order to demonstrate the efficacy of this practice, the Buddha goes on to list the names of many other buddhas abiding in the four cardinal directions, the nadir, and the zenith, who also praise the buddha-field of Amitāyus. Furthermore, those who hear the names of the buddhas that he has just recited will be embraced by those buddhas. Perhaps to indicate how his own buddha-field (that is, our world) differs from that of Amitāyus, sākyamuni Buddha concludes by conceding that it has been difficult to teach the dharma in a world as degenerate as ours.
Sutra (Sanskrit) Sūtra [from siv to sew] A string, thread; the sutras are strings of rules or aphorisms written in verse form, composed in terse and symbolic language with the obvious intention of their being committed to memory. This was a favorite form among the Hindus, as among all ancient peoples, of imbodying and transmitting rules of ancient religious and philosophic thought. There are sutras written upon almost every subject, but the sutras commonly signify those connected with the Vedas, of which there are three kinds: the Kalpa-sutras (rules of ritual); the grihya-sutras (domestic rules) treating of ordinary family rites such as marriage, birth, name-giving, etc.; and the Samayacharika-sutras which treat of customs and temporal duties. The Kalpa-sutras belong to the class of writings called Srutis (heard or revealed); while the other two types of sutras belong to the Smritis (remembered), carried traditionally from generation to generation by word of mouth.
svasaMvedana. (T. rang rig; C. zizheng/zijue; J. jisho/jikaku; K. chajŭng/chagak 自證/自覺). In Sanskrit, lit. "self-knowledge" or "self-awareness," also seen written as svasaMveda, svasaMvit, svasaMvitti. In Buddhist epistemology, svasaMvedana is that part of consciousness which, during a conscious act of seeing, hearing, thinking, and so on, apprehends not the external sensory object but the knowing consciousness itself. For example, when a visual consciousness (CAKsURVIJNĀNA) apprehends a blue color, there is a simultaneous svasaMvedana that apprehends the caksurvijNāna; it is directed at the consciousness, and explains not only how a person knows that he knows, but also how a person can later remember what he saw or heard, and so on. There is disagreement as to whether such a form of consciousness exists, with proponents (usually YOGĀCĀRA) arguing that there must be this consciousness of consciousness in order for there to be memory of past cognitions, and opponents (MADHYAMAKA) propounding a radical form of nonessentialism that explains memory as a mere manipulation of objects with no more than a language-based reality. Beside the basic use of the term svasaMvedana to explain the nature of consciousness and the mechanism of memory, the issue of the necessary existence of svasaMvedana was pressed by the Yogācāra school because of how they understood enlightenment (BODHI). They argued that the liberating vision taught by the Buddha consisted of a self-reflexive act that was utterly free of subject-object distortion (GRĀHYAGRĀHAKAVIKALPA). In ordinary persons, they argued, all conscious acts take place within a bifurcation of subject and object, with a sense of distance between the two, because of the residual impressions or latencies (VĀSANĀ) left by ignorance. Infinite numbers of earlier conscious acts have been informed by that particular deeply ingrained ignorance. These impressions are carried at the foundational level of consciousness (ĀLAYAVIJNĀNA). When they are finally removed by the process of BHĀVANĀ, knowledge (JNĀNA) purified of distortion emerges in a fundamental transformation (ĀsRAYAPARĀVṚTTI), thus knowing itself in a nondual vision. Such a vision presupposes self-knowledge. In tantric literature, svasaMvedana has a less technical sense of a profound and innate knowledge or awareness. See also RIG PA.
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Tala(Sanskrit) ::: A word which is largely used in the metaphysical systems of India, both in contrast and at thesame time in conjunction with loka. As the general meaning of loka is "place" or rather "world," so thegeneral meaning of tala is "inferior world." Every loka has as its twin or counterpart a corresponding tala.Wherever there is a loka there is an exactly correspondential tala, and in fact the tala is the nether pole ofits corresponding loka. Lokas and talas, therefore, in a way of speaking, may be considered to be thespiritual and the material aspects or substance-principles of the different worlds which compose and infact are the kosmic universe. It is impossible to separate a tala from its corresponding loka -- quite asimpossible as it would be to separate the two poles of electricity.The number of talas as generally outlined in the exoteric philosophies of Hindustan is usually given asseven, there being thus seven lokas and seven talas; but, as a matter of fact, this number varies. If we mayspeak of a loka as the spiritual pole, we may likewise call it the principle of any world; andcorrespondentially when we speak of the tala as being the negative or inferior pole, it is quite proper alsoto refer to it as the element of its corresponding loka or principle. Hence, the lokas of a hierarchy may becalled the principles of a hierarchy, and the talas, in exactly the same way, may be called the elements orsubstantial or material aspects of the hierarchy.It should likewise be remembered that all the seven lokas and all the seven talas are continuously andinextricably interblended and interworking; and that the lokas and the talas working together form theuniverse and its various subordinate hierarchies that encompass us around. The higher lokas with thehigher talas are the forces or energies and substantial parts of the spiritual and ethereal worlds; the lowestlokas and their corresponding talas form the forces or energies and substantial parts of the physical worldsurrounding us; and the intermediate lokas with their corresponding talas form the respective energiesand substantial parts of the intermediate or ethereal realms.Briefly, therefore, we may speak of a tala as the material aspect of the world where it predominates, justas when speaking of a loka we may consider it to be the spiritual aspect of the world where itpredominates. Every loka, it should be always remembered, is coexistent with and cannot be separatedfrom its corresponding tala on the same plane.As an important deduction from the preceding observations, be it carefully noted that man's ownconstitution as an individual from the highest to the lowest is a hierarchy of its own kind, and thereforeman himself as such a subordinate hierarchy is a composite entity formed of lokas and talas inextricablyinterworking and intermingled. In this subordinate hierarchy called man live and evolve vast armies,hosts, multitudes, of living entities, monads in this inferior stage of their long evolutionary peregrination,and which for convenience and brevity of expression we may class under the general term of life-atoms.
talmud ::: Talmud This is more or less a term for the Mishna and Gemara when they are considered as one unit. Mishna derives from 'to repeat', and nowadays incorporates the meanings 'to learn' or 'to teach' by repetition. The Mishna came into being basically because the oral law was too vast for any person to remember. Gemara is basically an extension of the oral law and contains complete transcripts in question and answer format enlarging upon the Mishna. See also Torah (below) and Kabbalah.
Tenkei Denson. (天桂傳尊) (1648-1735). Japanese ZEN master and scholar in the SoToSHu. Tenkei was born in Kii (present-day Wakayama prefecture). He left home at an early age and served under various teachers during his youth. In 1677, he became the dharma heir of Goho Kaion (d.u.) at the temple of Jokoji in Suruga (present-day Shizuoka prefecture). He served as abbot of various other temples throughout his career. Tenkei is often remembered as the opponent of fellow Soto adept MANZAN DoHAKU and his efforts to reform the practice of IN'IN EKISHI, or "changing teachers according to temple," whereby a monk would take the dharma lineage of the monastery where he was appointed abbot. Tenkei rejected Manzan's call for direct, face-to-face transmission (menju shiho) from a single master to a disciple (isshi insho) and supported the in'in ekishi custom. The military bakufu favored Manzan's reforms and Tenkei's efforts were ultimately to no avail. Tenkei is also remembered for his extensive commentary to DoGEN KIGEN's magnum opus SHoBoGENZo, entitled the Shobogenzo benchu.
Thang stong rgyal po. (Tangtong Gyalpo) (1361-1485). A great adept famed throughout the Tibetan Buddhist world for his illustrious career as a YOGIN and teacher, as well as his many contributions to the fields of engineering, metallurgy, temple construction, and the performing arts. His biographies credit him with a life span of 124 years, during which he traveled widely throughout Tibet and the Himālayan regions, including India, Ladakh, Mongolia, China, and Bhutan. As a youth he studied under numerous masters and spent much of early life in meditation retreat. He received, and is said to have mastered, the corpus of teachings of the SHANG PA BKA' BRGYUD sect as well as the BYANG GTER (Northern Treasure) tradition of the RNYING MA. He is venerated as a treasure revealer (GTER STON) who extracted treasure teachings (GTER MA) from the CHIMS PHU retreat complex near BSAM YAS monastery, from STAG TSHANG in Bhutan, and the region of TSA RI in southern Tibet. His best known teachings include instructions on the system known as "severance" (GCOD) and a visionary meditation SĀDHANA based on the bodhisattva of compassion AVALOKITEsVARA called 'Gro don mkha' khyab ma ("The Benefit of Others, Vast as Space"), which continues to be practiced by Tibetan Buddhists of many sectarian affiliations. Thang stong rgyal po is also remembered for his construction of iron chain-link bridges throughout Tibet and Bhutan-an activity inspired directly by visions of Avalokitesvara. For this reason, he is often called Lcags zam pa, literally the "Iron Bridge Man," and his lineage the "Iron Bridge" (lcags zam) tradition. He is most commonly depicted as holding links of iron chains in one hand. Thang stong rgyal po founded numerous geomantically important religious structures, including the great STuPA of GCUNG RI BO CHE in western Tibet, which became an important seat of the master's tradition, and the ZLUM BRTSEGS temple in Bhutan. Thang stong rgyal po is also traditionally acknowledged as the father of the Tibetan performing arts, with his image commonly displayed prior to theatrical performances.
That an initiate could never be married is true of the highest class of adepts, but history shows that both men and women initiates, although very rarely of the highest rank, have been married. It is likewise to be remembered that one of the grandest initiates known to human history, Gautama Buddha, married and had a child.
that does not remember; unmindful (of a thing).
The concept of original evidence is accordingly relativized and broadened to include all kinds of consciousness in which the intended object is given in the most original manner possible for an object of its kind and status. Thus, e.g., clear direct remembering is original evidence of one's own retained past, qua past, and perceptive empathy is original evidence of another's consciousness. Evidence of every kind (and in each of the above-defined senses) has its parallel in phantasy (fictive consciousness). Fictive empirical evidence involves non-fictive evidence of the essential possibility of an individual having the fictively presented determinations. The evident incompatibility of fictively experienced determinations is evidence of the essential impossibility of any individual having such determinations. Apodictic evidence is evidence together with the further evidence that no conflicting evidence is essentially possible. Essential possibilities, impossibilities, and necessities, admit of apodictic evidence. The only actual individual object that can be an object of apodictic evidence is one's own subjectivity. Evidence is not to be confounded with certainty of positing (see Modality) nor conceived as restricted to apodictic evidence. Furthermore, it is evident that no evidence is a talisman against error. What is evident in one process may evidently conflict with what is evident in another, or, again, the range of evidence may be overestimated. Evidence is exemplified in valuing and willing as well as in believing. It is the source of all objective sense (see Apperception and Genesis) and the basis of all rationality (see Reason). -- D.C.
The first Dalai Lama, DGE 'DUN GRUB, was known as a great scholar and religious practitioner. A direct disciple of TSONG KHA PA, he is remembered for founding BKRA SHIS LHUN PO monastery near the central Tibetan town of Shigatse. The second Dalai Lama, Dge 'dun rgya mtsho, was born the son of a RNYING MA YOGIN and became a renowned tantric master in his own right. ¶ It is with the third Dalai Lama, BSOD NAMS RGYA MTSHO, that the Dalai Lama lineage actually begins. Recognized at a young age as the reincarnation of Dge 'dun rgya mtsho, he was appointed abbot of 'BRAS SPUNGS monastery near LHA SA and soon rose to fame throughout central Asia as a Buddhist teacher. He served as a religious master for the Mongol ruler Altan Khan, who bestowed the title "Dalai Lama," and is credited with converting the Tümed Mongols to Buddhism. Later in life, he traveled extensively across eastern Tibet and western China, teaching and carrying out monastic construction projects. ¶ The fourth Dalai Lama, Yon tan rgya mtsho, was recognized in the person of the grandson of Altan Khan's successor, solidifying Mongol-Tibetan ties. ¶ While the first four Dalai Lamas served primarily as religious scholars and teachers, the fifth Dalai Lama, NGAG DBANG BLO BZANG RGYA MTSHO, combined religious and secular activities to become one of Tibet's preeminent statesmen. He was a dynamic political leader who, with the support of Gushi Khan, defeated his opponents and in 1642 was invested with temporal powers over the Tibetan state, in addition to his religious role, a position that succeeding Dalai Lamas held until 1959. A learned and prolific author, he and his regent, SDE SRID SANGS RGYAS RGYA MTSHO, were largely responsible for the identification of the Dalai Lamas with the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. The construction of the PO TA LA palace began during his reign (and was completed after this death). He is popularly known as the "Great Fifth." ¶ The sixth Dalai Lama, TSHANGS DBYANGS RGYA MTSHO, was a controversial figure who chose to abandon the strict monasticism of his predecessors in favor of a life of society and culture, refusing to take the vows of a fully ordained monk (BHIKsU). He is said to have frequented the drinking halls below the Po ta la palace. He constructed pleasure gardens and the temple of the NAGAs, called the KLU KHANG, on the palace grounds. He is remembered especially for his poetry, which addresses themes such as love and the difficulty of spiritual practice. Tibetans generally interpret his behavior as exhibiting an underlying tantric wisdom, a skillful means for teaching the dharma. His death is shrouded in mystery. Official accounts state that he died while under arrest by Mongol troops. According to a prominent secret biography (GSANG BA'I RNAM THAR), however, he lived many more years, traveling across Tibet in disguise. ¶ The seventh Dalai Lama, SKAL BZANG RGYA MTSHO, was officially recognized only at the age of twelve, and due to political complications, did not participate actively in affairs of state. He was renowned for his writings on tantra and his poetry. ¶ The eighth Dalai Lama, 'Jam dpal rgya mtsho (Jampal Gyatso, 1758-1804), built the famous NOR BU GLING KHA summer palace. ¶ The ninth through twelfth Dalai Lamas each lived relatively short lives, due, according to some accounts, to political intrigue and the machinations of power-hungry regents. According to tradition, from the death of one Dalai Lama to the investiture of the next Dalai Lama as head of state (generally a period of some twenty years), the nation was ruled by a regent, who was responsible for discovering the new Dalai Lama and overseeing his education. If the Dalai Lama died before reaching his majority, the reign of the regent was extended. ¶ The thirteenth Dalai Lama, THUB BSTAN RGYA MTSHO, was an astute and forward-looking political leader who guided Tibet through a period of relative independence during a time of foreign entanglements with Britain, China, and Russia. In his last testament, he is said to have predicted Tibet's fall to Communist China. ¶ The fourteenth and present Dalai Lama, Bstan 'dzin rgya mtsho, assumed his position several years prior to reaching the age of majority as his country faced the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950. In 1959, he escaped into exile, establishing a government-in-exile in the Himalayan town of Dharamsala (DHARMAsALA) in northwestern India. Since then, he has traveled and taught widely around the world, while also advocating a nonviolent solution to Tibet's occupation. He was born in the A mdo region of what is now Qinghai province in China to a farming family, although his older brother had already been recognized as an incarnation at a nearby important Dge lugs monastery (SKU 'BUM). On his becoming formally accepted as Dalai Lama, his family became aristocrats and moved to Lha sa. He was educated traditionally by private tutors (yongs 'dzin), under the direction first of the regent Stag brag rin po che (in office 1941-1950), and later Gling rin po che Thub bstan lung rtogs rnam rgyal (1903-1983) and Khri byang rin po che Blo bzang ye shes (1901-1981). His modern education was informal, gained from conversations with travelers, such as the Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer. When the Chinese army entered the Khams region of eastern Tibet in 1951, he formally took over from the regent and was enthroned as the head of the DGA' LDAN PHO BRANG government. In the face of Tibetan unrest as the Chinese government brought Tibet firmly under central control, the Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959; the Indian government accorded the Dalai Lama respect as a religious figure but did not accept his claim to be the head of a separate state. In 1989, the Dalai Lama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, an event that increased his prominence around the world. He is the author of many books in English, most of them the written record of lectures and traditional teachings translated from Tibetan.
The line of Karma pas originated during the twelfth century with DUS GSUM MKHYEN PA, a close disciple of SGAM PO PA BSOD NAMS RIN CHEN, who had himself studied under the famous YOGIN MI LA RAS PA. Dus gsum mkhyen pa established several important monasteries, including Mtshur phu, which served as the main seat of the Karma pas and the Karma bka' brgyud in central Tibet. Dus gsum mkhyen pa's successor, the second Karma pa KARMA PAKSHI, is remembered especially for his prowess in meditation and thaumaturgy. He was patronized by the Mongols, first by Mongke (1209-1259) and later by his brother, the Yuan emperor Qubilai Khan (r. 1260-1294) before losing the emperor's support. The third Karma pa RANG 'BYUNG RDO RJE continued this affiliation with the Mongol court, playing a role in emperor Toghun Temür's (r. 1333-1368) ascension to the throne. The fourth Karma pa Rol pa'i rdo rje and fifth Karma pa Bde bzhin gshegs pa maintained ties with the Chinese court-the former with Toghun Temür and the latter serving as the preceptor of the Yongle emperor (reigned 1402-1424) of the Ming dynasty, a position of great influence. The sixth Karma pa Mthong ba don ldan did not maintain the same political connections of his predecessors; he is remembered especially for his contributions to the religious life of the Karma bka' brgyud, producing meditation and ritual manuals. The seventh Karma pa Chos grags rgya mtsho is known primarily for his philosophical works on logic and epistemology (PRAMĀnA); his voluminous text on the topic is still used today as a principal textbook in many Bka' brgyud monasteries. The eighth Karma pa MI BSKYOD RDO RJE is among the most renowned scholars of his generation, a prolific author whose writings encompassed Sanskrit, poetry, and art, as well as MADHYAMAKA philosophy and tantra. The ninth Karma pa DBANG PHYUG RDO RJE is revered for his influential works on the theory and practice of MAHĀMUDRĀ. It was during his lifetime that the DGE LUGS hierarchs ascended to power, with an attendant decline in the political fortunes of his sect in central Tibet. His successor, the tenth Karma pa Chos kyi dbang phyug, was thus forced into a life of virtual exile near the Sino-Tibetan border in the east as his patron, the king of Gtsang, was defeated by the Gushri Khan, patron of the Dge lugs. As the war came to an end, the tenth Karma pa returned to LHA SA where he established ties with the fifth Dalai Lama NGAG DBANG BLO BZANG RGYA MTSHO. The eleventh Karma pa Ye shes rdo rje and twelfth Karma pa Byang chub rdo rje lived relatively short lives, although the latter made an important journey through Nepal together with his disciple, the brilliant scholar and Sanskritist Si tu CHOS KYI 'BYUNG GNAS. The life of the thirteenth Karma pa Bdud 'dul rdo rje was, for the most part, lived outside the sphere of politics. He is remembered for his love of animals, to which he taught the dharma. Beginning during his lifetime and continuing into that of the fourteenth Karma pa Theg mchog rdo rje, there was a revival of Bka' brgyud doctrine in the eastern Tibetan province of Khams, as part of what has come to be called the RIS MED or non-sectarian movement. The fourteenth Karma pa's disciple, 'JAM MGON KONGS SPRUL BLO GROS MTHA' YAS, played a leading role. The fifteenth Karma pa Mkha' khyab rdo rje, a principal disciple of 'Jam mgon kongs sprul, was a prolific scholar. The sixteenth Karma pa RANG 'BYUNG RIG PA'I RDO RJE, like other lamas of his generation, saw the Communist Chinese occupation of Tibet, fleeing to India in 1959 and establishing an exile seat at Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim. He was the first Karma pa to visit the West. The seventeenth Karma pa O rgyan 'phrin las rdo rje was enthroned at Mtshur phu monastery on September 27, 1992. In late December 2000, he escaped into exile, establishing a residence in Dharamsala, India. Although his identification as the Karma pa has been disputed by a small number of followers of a rival candidate, O rgyan 'phrin las rdo rje is regarded as the seventeenth Karma pa by the majority of the Tibetan community, including the Dalai Lama.
The moon is the giver of one form of life, as well as of lower forms of mind, to our earth and its inhabitants; while the sun is the giver of life in general to the planetary system, as well as of the higher forms or aspects of mind. Remembering the extremely occult character of both moon and sun, when they are spoken of as givers this in no sense implies that they give to those who have it not, but rather give in the sense of being transmitters, nurses of, and producers of what already exists in those to whom the gifts are thus given. Thus a father or mother may be said to be the giver of life to the children, although the children themselves are in and from themselves a vital fountain: giving here means transmitting, fostering, producing, but not creating and donating.
“There is one great difference between the Astral Light and the Akasa which must be remembered. The latter is eternal, the former is periodic. The Astral Light changes not only with the Mahamanvantaras but also with every sub-period and planetary cycle or Round. . . .
The subconscient is not the whole foundation of the nature; it is only the lower basis of the Ignorance and affects mostly the lower vital and physical exterior consciousness and these again affect the higher parts of the nature. While it is well to see what it is and how it acts, one must not be too preoccupied with this dark side or this apparent aspect of the instrumental being. One should rather regard it as something not oneself, a mask of false nature imposed on the true being by the Ignorance. The true being is the inner with all its vast possibilities of reaching and expressing the Divine and especially the inmost, the soul, the psychic Purusha which is always in its essence pure, divine, turned to all that is good and true and beautiful. The exterior being has to be taken hold of by the inner being and turned into an instrument no longer of the upsurging of the ignorant subconscient Nature, but of the Divine. It is by remembering always that and opening the nature upwards that the Divine Consciousness can be reached and descend from above into the whole inner and outer existence, mental, vital, physical, the subconscient, the subliminal, all that we overtly or secretly are. This should be the main preoccupation. To dwell solely on the subconscient and the aspect of imperfection creates depression and should be avoided. One has to keep a right balance and stress on the positive side most, recognising the other but only to reject and change it. This and a constant faith and reliance on the Mother are what is needed for the transformation to come. P.S. It is certainly the abrupt and decisive breaking that is the easiest and best way for these things—vital habits.
Ref: SABCL Vol. 22-23-24, Page: 355
Thích Nhất Hạnh. (釋一行) (1926-). Internationally renowned Vietnamese monk and one of the principal propounders of "Engaged Buddhism." He was born in southern Vietnam, the son of a government bureaucrat. Nhát Hạnh entered a Buddhist monastery as a novice in 1942, where he studied with a Vietnamese Zen master, and received full ordination as a monk in 1949. His interests in philosophy, literature, and foreign languages led him to leave the Buddhist seminary to study at Saigon University. While teaching in a secondary school, he served as editor of the periodical "Vietnamese Buddhism," the organ of the Association of All Buddhists in Vietnam. In 1961, he went to the United States to study at Princeton University, returning to South Vietnam in December 1963 after the overthrow of the government of the Catholic president Ngô Đình Diem, which had actively persecuted Buddhists. The persecutions had led to widespread public protests that are remembered in the West through photographs of the self-immolation of Buddhist monks. Nhát Hạnh worked to found the Unified Buddhist Church and the Institute of Higher Buddhist Studies, which later became Vạn Hạnh University. He devoted much of his time to the School of Youth for Social Service, which he founded and of which he was the director. The school's activities included sending teams of young people to the countryside to offer various forms of social assistance to the people. He also founded a new Buddhist sect (the Order of Interbeing), and helped establish a publishing house, all of which promoted what he called Engaged Buddhism. A collection of his pacifist poetry was banned by the governments of both North and South Vietnam. While engaging in nonviolent resistance to the Vietnam War, he also sought to aid its victims. In 1966, Nhát Hạnh promulgated a five-point peace plan while on an international lecture tour, during which he met with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (who would later nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize) and Thomas Merton in the United States, addressed the House of Commons in Britain, and had an audience with Pope Paul VI in Rome. The book that resulted from his lecture tour, Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire, was banned by the South Vietnamese government. Fearing that he would be arrested or assassinated if he returned to Vietnam after the lecture tour, his supporters urged him to remain abroad and he has lived in exile ever since, residing primarily in France. He founded a center called Plum Village in southern France, whence he has sought to assist Vietnamese refugees and political prisoners and to teach Engaged Buddhism to large audiences in Europe and the Americas. A prolific writer, he has published scores of books on general, nonsectarian Buddhist teachings and practices, some of which have become bestsellers. He has made numerous trips abroad to teach and lead meditation retreats. In his teachings, Nhát Hạnh calls for a clear recognition and analysis of suffering, identifying its causes, and then working to relieve present suffering and prevent future suffering through nonviolent action. Such action in bringing peace can only truly succeed when the actor is at peace or, in his words, is "being peace."
think ::: v. t. --> To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.
To employ any of the intellectual powers except that of simple perception through the senses; to exercise the higher intellectual faculties.
To call anything to mind; to remember; as, I would have sent the books, but I did not think of it.
To reflect upon any subject; to muse; to meditate; to
Thub bstan rgya mtsho. (Tupten Gyatso) (1876-1933). The thirteenth DALAI LAMA of Tibet, remembered as a particularly forward-thinking and politically astute leader. Born in southeastern Tibet, he was recognized as the new Dalai Lama in 1878 and enthroned the next year. Surviving an assassination attempt (using black magic) by his regent, he assumed the duties of his office in 1895 during a period of complicated international politics between Britain, Russia, and China. British troops under the command of Col. Francis Younghusband entered Tibet in 1903. Before the British arrived in LHA SA the following year, the Dalai Lama fled to Mongolia and then continued to China, not returning to Lha sa until 1909. The following year, Chinese Manchu troops invaded Tibet and the Dalai Lama fled to India, returning in 1912. In 1912, the Manchu troops were expelled, and in 1913 the Dalai Lama declared Tibet's de facto independence. A progressive thinker, the thirteenth Dalai Lama made direct contact with Europe and the United States, and befriended Sir Charles Bell, the British political officer in Sikkim, Bhutan, and Tibet. He tried, unsuccessfully, to have Tibet admitted to the League of Nations, developed Tibet's first modern army, and sent the first young Tibetans to be educated in England. Most of his progressive plans, however, were thwarted by conservative religious and political forces within Tibet. The thirteenth Dalai Lama died in 1933, leaving behind a chilling prophecy, which read in part: "The monasteries will be looted and destroyed, and the monks and nuns killed or chased away. The great works of the noble dharma kings of old will be undone, and all of our cultural and spiritual institutions persecuted, destroyed, and forgotten. The birthrights and property of the people will be stolen. We will become like slaves to our conquerors, and will be made to wander helplessly like beggars. Everyone will be forced to live in misery, and the days and nights will pass slowly, with great suffering and terror."
top-level domain ::: (networking) The last and most significant component of an Internet fully qualified domain name, the part after the last .. For example, host wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk is in top-level domain uk (for United Kingdom).Every other country has its own top-level domain, including .us for the U.S.A. Within the .us domain, there are subdomains for the fifty states, each generally and a .co.uk domain for commercial ones. Other top-level domains may be divided up in similar ways.In the US and some other countries, the following top-level domains are used much more widely than the country code: .com - commercial bodies.edu - educational institutions as to make it easy for customers to guess or remember the URL of the comany's home page.United Nations entities use the domain names of the countries where they are located. The UN headquarters facility in New York City, for example, is un.org.Several new top-level domains are about to be added (Oct 1997): .nom - individual people (1997-10-08)
top-level domain "networking" The last and most significant component of an {Internet} {fully qualified domain name}, the part after the last ".". For example, {host} wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk is in top-level domain "uk" (for United Kingdom). Every other country has its own top-level domain, including ".us" for the U.S.A. Within the .us domain, there are subdomains for the fifty states, each generally with a name identical to the state's postal abbreviation. These are rarely used however. Within the .uk domain, there is a .ac.uk subdomain for academic sites and a .co.uk domain for commercial ones. Other top-level domains may be divided up in similar ways. In the US and some other countries, the following top-level domains are used much more widely than the country code: .com - commercial bodies .edu - educational institutions .gov - U. S. government .mil - U. S. armed services .net - network operators .org - other organisations Since the rapid commercialisation of the Internet in the 1990s the ".com" domain has become particularly heavily populated with every company trying to register its company name as a subdomain of .com, e.g. "netscape.com" so as to make it easy for customers to guess or remember the {URL} of the comany's {home page}. United Nations entities use the domain names of the countries where they are located. The UN headquarters facility in New York City, for example, is un.org. Several new top-level domains are about to be added (Oct 1997): .nom - individual people .rec - recreational organisations .firm - businesses such as law, accounting, engineering .store - commercial retail companies .ent - entertainment facilities and organisations (1997-10-08)
topology ::: n. --> The art of, or method for, assisting the memory by associating the thing or subject to be remembered with some place.
Tradition has it that in the immemorial past, certain lower gods associated intimately with their children, humanity, on this globe; but as time went by and mankind became more immersed in material pursuits, people grew to become increasingly forgetful of their divine origin and of the presence of the shining divinities instructing and guiding their forebears, so that the gods and demigods were remembered only in mythologies and religious metaphors of the various races.
Transmigration ::: This word is grossly misunderstood in the modern Occident, as also is the doctrine comprised under theold Greek word metempsychosis, both being modernly supposed to mean, through the commonmisunderstanding of the ancient literatures, that the human soul at some time after death migrates into thebeast realm and is reborn on earth in a beast body. The real meaning of this statement in ancient literaturerefers to the destiny of what theosophists call the life-atoms, but it has absolutely no reference to thedestiny of the human soul, as an entity.Theosophy accepts all aspects of the ancient teaching, but explains and interprets them. Our doctrine inthis respect unless, indeed, we are treating of the case of a "lost soul,"is "once a man, always a man." Thehuman soul can no more migrate over and incarnate in a beast body than can the psychical apparatus of abeast incarnate in human flesh. Why? Because in the former case, the beast vehicle offers to the humansoul no opening at all for the expression of the spiritual and intellectual and psychical powers andfaculties and tendencies which make a man human. Nor can the soul of the beast enter into a humanbody, because the impassable gulf of a psychical and intellectual nature, which separates the twokingdoms, prevents any such passage from the one up into another so much its superior in all respects. Inthe former case, there is no attraction for the man beastwards; and in the latter case there is theimpossibility of the imperfectly developed beast mind and beast soul finding a proper lodgment in whatto it is truly a godlike sphere which it simply cannot enter.Transmigration, however, has a specific meaning when the word is applied to the human soul: the livingentity migrates or passes over from one condition to another condition or state or plane, as the case maybe, whether these latter be in the invisible realms of nature or in the visible realms, and whether the stateor condition be high or low. The specific meaning of this word, therefore, implies nothing more than achange of state or of condition or of plane: a migrating of the living entity from one to the other, butalways in conditions or estates or habitudes appropriate and pertaining to its human dignity.In its application to the life-atoms, to which are to be referred the observations of the ancients withregard to the lower realms of nature, transmigration means briefly that the particular life-atoms, which intheir aggregate compose man's lower principles, at and following the change that men call death migrateor transmigrate or pass into other bodies to which these life-atoms are attracted by similarity ofdevelopment -- be these attractions high or low, and they are usually low, because their own evolutionarydevelopment is as a rule far from being advanced. Nevertheless, it should be remembered that theselife-atoms compose man's inner -- and outer -- vehicles or bodies, and that in consequence there arevarious grades or classes of these life-atoms, from the physical upwards (or inwards if you please) to theastral, purely vital, emotional, mental, and psychical.This is, in general terms, the meaning of transmigration. The word means no more than the specificsenses just outlined, and stops there. But the teaching concerning the destiny of the entity is continuedand developed in the doctrine pertaining to the word metempsychosis.
trividyā. [alt. traividyā] (P. tevijjā; T. rig gsum; C. sanming; J. sanmyo; K. sammyong 三明). In Sanskrit, lit. "three knowledges"; three specific types of knowledge (VIDYĀ) that are the products of the enlightenment experience of an ARHAT or buddha, and a sequential set of insights achieved by the Buddha during the three watches of the night of his own enlightenment. They are: (1) the ability to remember one's own former lives (PuRVANIVĀSĀNUSMṚTI; P. pubbenivāsānunssati) in all their detail, due to direct insight into the inexorable connection between action (KARMAN) and its fruition (VIPĀKA), viz., karmic cause and effect; (2) insight into the future rebirth destinies of all other beings (S. CYUTYUPAPATTIJNĀNA [alt. cyutyupapādānusmṛti]; P. cutupapātaNāna), a by-product of the "divine eye" (DIVYACAKsUS); (3) knowledge of the extinction of the contaminants (ĀSRAVAKsAYA; P. āsavakhaya), which ensures complete liberation from the cycle of rebirth (SAMSĀRA). The first and third types are also included in the superknowledges (ABHIJNĀ; P. abhiNNā). At various points in the literature of the MAINSTREAM BUDDHIST SCHOOLS (e.g., the Pāli ITIVUTTAKA), the Buddha describes the above list as the three knowledges of a true brāhmana; in such accounts, the Buddha is intentionally contrasting his three knowledges (vidyā) with that of brāhmana priests who have merely memorized the traditional three Vedas of Brahmanical religion. See also TEVIJJASUTTA.
Tulku (Tibetan) sprul sku [short for sprul pa’i sku (tul-pe-ku) from sprul pa phantom, disembodied spirit; cf Sanskrit nirmāṇakāya body of magical transformation] Applied to a lama of high rank, often to the head abbot of a monastery; specifically, to those lamas who have proved their ability of remembering their office and standing in a former incarnation, e.g., by selecting articles belonging previously to themselves, describing details of a former life, surroundings, etc. The two most important tulkus in the Tibetan Buddhist hierarchy are the Tashi and Dalai Lamas. Tulku is often referred to as an incarnation but, outside of the many varieties of an incarnating or imbodying power or energy, incarnation in popular usage is the direct continuance of a previous imbodiment. These so-called living buddhas of Tibet are one kind of tulku — the transmission of a spiritual power or energy from one Buddha-lama of a Tibetan monastery when he dies, to a child or adult successor. If the transmission is successful, the result is tulku.
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usability ::: (programming) The effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction with which users can achieve tasks in a particular environment of a product. High usability means a system is: easy to learn and remember; efficient, visually pleasing and fun to use; and quick to recover from errors. . (1999-04-01)
usability "programming" The effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction with which users can achieve tasks in a particular environment of a product. High usability means a system is: easy to learn and remember; efficient, visually pleasing and fun to use; and quick to recover from errors. {(http://orrnet.com/)}. (1999-04-01)
Uzkurullah ::: "Remember (make zikr of) Allah"
vanity domain ::: (networking) A domain you register for the sole purpose of having your own domain so you can have an easily remembered URL and e-mail address. The domain is usually served (often vhosted) off someone else's machines.This is as opposed to a domain you register because you have machines of your own which are already on the Internet and which you want to make addressable via something other than dot addresses.Whereas vanity domains were almost unheard-of in 1980s, since the invention and popularisation of the Web in the mid-1990s and the desire for URLs which consist movies to car wax, vanity domains have come to be the rule instead of the exception. (1997-09-11)
vanity domain "networking" A {domain} you register for the sole purpose of having your own domain so you can have an easily remembered {URL} and {e-mail} address. The domain is usually served (often {vhost}ed) off someone else's machines. This is as opposed to a domain you register because you have machines of your own which are already on the Internet and which you want to make addressable via something other than {dot address}es. Whereas vanity domains were almost unheard-of in 1980s, since the invention and popularisation of the {Web} in the mid-1990s and the desire for {URLs} which consist only of memorable domain names (e.g., "http://pbs.org") for everything from movies to car wax, vanity domains have come to be the rule instead of the exception. (1997-09-11)
Vātsīputrīya. (P. Vajjiputtakā/Vajjiputtiyā; T. Gnas ma'i bu pa; C. Duzi bu; J. Tokushibu; K. Tokcha pu 犢子部). One of the traditional eighteen schools of "mainstream" (i.e., non-MAHĀYĀNA) Indian Buddhism, which takes its name from its leader, Vātsīputra. An offshoot of the SARVĀSTIVĀDA school, it is remembered primarily as one of the schools labeled by others as PUDGALAVĀDA, or "proponents of the person," that is, the apparently heretical position that there is a "person" (PUDGALA) with qualities that are "inexpressible" (avācya), which transmigrates from lifetime to lifetime. This position was criticized by exegetes in virtually all rival Buddhist schools, and earned a long critique in the ninth chapter of VASUBANDHU's ABHIDHARMAKOsABHĀsYA, where it was denigrated as the assertion of a permanent self or soul (ĀTMAN). In their defense, the Vātsīputrīyas argued that the pudgala was neither the same as nor different from the five aggregates (SKANDHA)-viz., that the pudgala was in an "indeterminate" relationship vis-à-vis the skandhas-thus conforming to the Buddha's dictum that there was no self to be discovered among the aggregates. For the Vātsīputrīyas, it was argued that it was necessary to posit the existence of the pudgala in order to account for personal continuity over the course of a single lifetime, karmic continuity over the course of multiple lifetimes, and, ultimately, so that there would be something that would attain NIRVĀnA upon the cessation of the aggregates. However, recognizing the special nature of their view of the person, the Vātsīputrīya posited it as a fifth category of dharmas in addition to the standard four of the Sarvāstivāda school, viz., (1)-(3) conditioned factors (SAMSKṚTADHARMA) belonging to the three time periods of past, present, and future; (4) an unconditioned factor (ASAMSKṚTADHARMA), which for the Vātsīputrīyas, like the STHAVIRANIKĀYA, included only nirvāna; and (5) "inexpressible dharmas" (S. *avācyadharma; C. bukeshuo fa), a category exclusive to the Vātsīputrīyas, which included the notion of a pudgala. Despite the apparent heresy of this position, Chinese pilgrims reported the prominence in India of schools that held this view. The Vātsīputrīya spawned four additional mainstream schools: the Dharmottarīya, Bhadrayānīya, SAMMITĪYA, and sannagarika.
Venugrāmaka. (P. Beluvagāmaka/Velugāma; T. 'Od ma can gyi grong; C. Zhulincong; J. Chikurinso; K. Chungnimch'ong竹林叢). In Sanskrit, "Bamboo Town," near the city of VAIsĀLĪ; remembered as the town where the Buddha spent his last rains retreat (VARsĀ) prior to his passage into PARINIRVĀnA. Because there was a famine in the region, making it difficult for the local population to support a large group of monks, the Buddha went to Venugrāmaka accompanied only by ĀNANDA. During their sojourn there, the Buddha, already eighty, became seriously ill. However, he did not want to die without addressing the SAMGHA one last time, and, by using his powers of concentration (SAMĀDHI) to reduce the physical discomfort, the disease abated. It was while staying at Venugrāmaka that the Buddha made two famous statements to Ānanda. According to the Pāli MAHĀPARINIBBĀNASUTTANTA, when the Buddha expressed his wish to address the saMgha, Ānanda assumed that the Buddha had a teaching he had not yet delivered to the monks. The Buddha replied that he was not one who taught with a "teacher's fist" (P. ācariyamutthi) or "closed fist," holding back some secret teaching, but that he had in fact revealed everything. The Buddha also said that he was not the head of saMgha and that after his death each monk should "be an island unto himself," with the DHARMA as his island and his refuge.
wannabee /won'*-bee/ (Or, more plausibly, spelled "wannabe") [Madonna fans who dress, talk, and act like their idol; probably originally from biker slang] A would-be {hacker}. The connotations of this term differ sharply depending on the age and exposure of the subject. Used of a person who is in or might be entering {larval stage}, it is semi-approving; such wannabees can be annoying but most hackers remember that they, too, were once such creatures. When used of any professional programmer, CS academic, writer, or {suit}, it is derogatory, implying that said person is trying to cuddle up to the hacker mystique but doesn't, fundamentally, have a prayer of understanding what it is all about. Overuse of hacker terms is often an indication of the {wannabee} nature. Compare {newbie}. Historical note: The wannabee phenomenon has a slightly different flavour now (1993) than it did ten or fifteen years ago. When the people who are now hackerdom's tribal elders were in {larval stage}, the process of becoming a hacker was largely unconscious and unaffected by models known in popular culture - communities formed spontaneously around people who, *as individuals*, felt irresistibly drawn to do hackerly things, and what wannabees experienced was a fairly pure, skill-focussed desire to become similarly wizardly. Those days of innocence are gone forever; society's adaptation to the advent of the microcomputer after 1980 included the elevation of the hacker as a new kind of folk hero, and the result is that some people semi-consciously set out to *be hackers* and borrow hackish prestige by fitting the popular image of hackers. Fortunately, to do this really well, one has to actually become a wizard. Nevertheless, old-time hackers tend to share a poorly articulated disquiet about the change; among other things, it gives them mixed feelings about the effects of public compendia of lore like this one. [{Jargon File}]
White light is in the physical world resolvable into a spectrum or band of colors, and color is defined as a quality of visual perception depending on the wavelength of light. But according to theosophy we could see no color at all unless we had it in our mind from the first, and thus recognized the color outside because of its identity with what is within us. Still less could we resolve the continuous band into seven colors, as even infants can do. The physical stimuli merely evokes what is already in us, the latter recognizing what is objective outside us, causing a phenomenon of cognition to pass along the plane of the physical senses. This becomes more evident when we remember that color sense is relative, depending largely on contrast. Colors are light or sight in its septenary aspect; and color, sight, and light are used almost interchangeably in speaking of the evolution of the senses and their corresponding planes of prakriti.
Windows NT 3.1 ::: (operating system) Microsoft's first version of Windows NT, released in September 1993, price UKP 395, after having been in beta-test for as long as anyone could remember.The person responsible for VMS on the DEC VAX [who?] was also responsible for Windows NT. Incrementing each letter in VMS yields WNT. .(2000-08-12)
Windows NT 3.1 "operating system" {Microsoft}'s first version of {Windows NT}, released in September 1993, price UKP 395, after having been in {beta-test} for as long as anyone could remember. The person responsible for {VMS} on the {DEC VAX} [who?] was also responsible for Windows NT. Incrementing each letter in VMS yields WNT. {(http://win2000mag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=4494)}. (2000-08-12)
Wordsworth, William: Born in 1770, William Wordsworth was an English PoetLaureate. He was arguably the founder of romanticism. The Prelude will be remembered as one of his greatest achievements. See romanticism.
Work and consciousness ; The rememberance and conscious- ness in work have to come by degrees, you must not expect to have it all at once ; nobody can get it all at once. It comes in two ways ::: first, if one practises remembering the Mother and oUcring the work to her each time one docs something (not all the time one is doing, but at the beginning or whenever one can remember), then that slowly becomes easy and habitual to the nature. Secondly, by the meditation an inner consciousness begins to develop which, after a time, not at once or suddenly, becomes more and more auloraatically permanent. One feels this as a separate consciousness from that outer which works. At first this separate consciousness is not felt when one is not work- ing, but as soon as the work stops one feels it was there all the time watching from behind ; afterwards it begins to be felt during the work itself, as if there tverc'two parts of oneself ■— one watching and supporting from behind and remembering the
yam smaran bhavam tyajati ante kalevaram ::: [remembering which(ever) subjective becoming he abandons the body at the end]. [Gita 8.6]
Yet, how can I not remember those moments at Her feet, the times when She and Sri Aurobindo came to me in vision during sleep, the gifts of the spirit they showered upon me and on all of us…
Yishan Yining. (J. Issan Ichinei; K. Ilsan Illyong 一山一寧) (1247-1317). Chinese CHAN master in the LINJI ZONG; a native of Taizhou prefecture in present-day Zhejiang province. At a young age, Yishan became a student of a certain Wudeng Rong (d.u.) at the monastery of Hongfusi on Mt. Fu near his hometown in Taizhou. He was later ordained at the monastery of Puguangsi in Siming in Zhejiang province and continued to study VINAYA at Yingzhensi and TIANTAI thought and practice at Yanqingsi. Yishan then began his training in Chan under several teachers. He eventually became a disciple of Wanji Xingmi (d.u.), a disciple of the Chan master CAOYUAN DAOSHENG. In 1299, the Yuan emperor Chengzong (r. 1294-1307) bestowed upon him the title Great Master Miaoci Hongji (Subtle Compassion, Universal Salvation) and an official post as the overseer of Buddhist matters in Zhejiang. That same year, he was sent to Japan as an envoy of the court, but was detained temporarily at the temple of Shuzenji in Izu by the Kamakura shogunate. When the Hojo rulers learned of Yishan's renown in China, Yishan was invited to reside as abbot of the powerful monasteries of KENCHoJI, ENGAKUJI, and Jochiji in Kamakura. In 1313, Yishan was invited by the retired Emperor Gouda (r. 1274-1287) to reside as the third abbot of the monastery NANZENJI in Kyoto. Yishan had many students in Japan including the eminent Japanese monk MUSo SOSEKI. Yishan became ill and passed away in the abbot's quarters (J. hojo; C. FANGZHANG) of Nanzenji in 1317. The emperor bestowed upon him the title state preceptor (J. kokushi; C. GUOSHI) Issan (One Mountain). Yishan is also remembered for his calligraphy and for introducing to Japan the new commentaries written by the great Neo-Confucian scholar Zhu Xi (1130-1200) to Japan. He and his disciples, such as Shiliang Rengong (1266-1334), Mujaku Ryoen (d.u.), Monkei Ryoso (d. 1372), and Torin Yukyu (d. 1369), contributed much to the development of GOZAN culture in Japan.
Yizkor ::: (“Remembrance”) It is the name of the Memorial Service on Yom Kippur, and a prayer in that service in which Jews specify those whom they are remembering.
You know you've been hacking too long when... ::: The set-up line for a genre of one-liners told by hackers about themselves. These include the following:* Not only do you check your e-mail more often than your paper mail, but you remember your network address faster than your postal one.* Your SO kisses you on the neck and the first thing you think is Uh, oh, priority interrupt.* You go to balance your chequebook and discover that you're doing it in octal.* Your computers have a higher street value than your car.* In your universe, round numbers are powers of 2, not 10.* You have woken up recalling a dream in some programming language.* You realise you have never seen half of your best friends.[An early version of this entry said All but one of these have been reliably reported as hacker traits (some of them quite often). Even hackers may have reports of its actually happening, most famously to Grace Hopper while she was working with BINAC in 1949. - ESR] (1995-04-07)
zākir ::: a rememberer; a grateful person, a praiser of God.
Zechariel (“Jehovah remembers”)—one of the
Zikar (Zikr, Dhikr, Dzikr) (A) Sufi practice. Zikar is Arabic for ‘reference’, ‘remembrance’. During the practice the soul tries to remember its true origin and identity; the true Self. During the practice the phrase: La ilaha illa ‘llahu, is recited, literally meaning: no deity, except God. As instatic (as opposed to extatic) meditation this practice is performed sitting down, combined with certain rotating movements of the torso.
ZX-80 ::: (computer) Sinclair's cheap personal computer with built-in BASIC, launched at the end of January 1980 at a computer fair in Wembley, UK. The 24 lines by 32 characters of monochrome text. An audio cassette recorder was used to save programs.The ZX-80 was sold in kit form for �79.95 or ready-built for �99.95. It was used by many UK hobbyists as a means of learning the basics of computing. Some remember the 1KB ZX-80 for the claim in its advertising that you could control a nuclear power station with it.The ZX-80 was succeeded by the ZX-81. . . .(2002-08-30)
ZX-80 "computer" {Sinclair}'s cheap {personal computer} with built-in {BASIC}, launched at the end of January 1980 at a computer fair in Wembley, UK. The processor was an {NEC 780-C} running at 3.25 MHz. It had 1KB of {RAM}, externally expandable to 16KB, and 4KB of ROM. It had RF video output to a TV, displaying 24 lines by 32 characters of monochrome text. An audio cassette recorder was used to save programs. The ZX-80 was sold in kit form for £79.95 or ready-built for £99.95. It was used by many UK hobbyists as a means of learning the basics of computing. Some remember the 1KB ZX-80 for the claim in its advertising that you could control a nuclear power station with it. The ZX-80 was succeeded by the {ZX-81}. {(http://home.t-online.de/home/p.liebert/zx80_eng.htm)}. {Planet Sinclair (http://nvg.ntnu.no/sinclair/)}. {The Sinclair Story (http://sincuser.f9.co.uk/046/sstory.htm)}. (2002-08-30)
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2 Sri Ramana Maharshi
2 Saint Padre Pio
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1 Steve Jobs
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1:Remember yourself always and everywhere. ~ Gurdjieff, #KEYS
2:Unless we remember we cannot understand. ~ Edward M Forster, #KEYS
3:To remember you
I carve true words
in stone
~ Ejo,#KEYS
4:If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. ~ Mark Twain, #KEYS
5:Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged. ~ Bruce Lee, #KEYS
6:Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ~ George Santayana, #KEYS
7:Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." ~ Benjamin Franklin, #KEYS
8:Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer,#KEYS
9:Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. ~ Dalai Lama, #KEYS
10:Then he said 'Remember Bob: no fear, no envy, no meanness,' and I said 'hmmm, right.' ~ Bob Dylan, #KEYS
11:Remember that the devil has only one door by which to enter the soul: the will." ~ Saint Padre Pio, #KEYS
12:Remember, the silence in between the notes is just as important as the notes themselves.
~ B D Schiers,#KEYS
13:I am told I was born. I do not remember. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #KEYS
14:Love alone makes me remember. It alone makes me alert. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #KEYS
15:I remember your name in the night, O Lord, and keep your law. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 119:55, #KEYS
16:It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #KEYS
17:The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
18:Remember, what hurts you, also blesses you. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
19:Her depths remember what she came to do, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02:06 #KEYS
20:Where God may place you at any time and under whatever circumstances, remember that it is all for the best. ~ Anandamayi Ma, #KEYS
21:But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
~ Arthur C Clarke,#KEYS
22:I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #KEYS
23:We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh,#KEYS
24:Let all involuntary suffering teach you to remember God, and you will not lack occasion for repentance. ~ Saint Mark the Ascetic, #KEYS
25:Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent. ~ Saint John of the Cross, #KEYS
26:Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
~ Dalai Lama XIV,#KEYS
27:When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
~ Henry Ford,#KEYS
28:Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
29:In order to remember something, you must first of all be conscious of it. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III, #KEYS
30:I remember the days of old; I meditate on all that you have done; I ponder the work of your hands. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 143:5, #KEYS
31:You must remember that you are His children. But do not let this make you proud. Pride must be given up once for all. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
32:Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. ~ Saint Basil the Great, #KEYS
33:Try to remember the Master always and perform your Japa whenever you can; at least you can salute Him mentally, can't you? ~ Sri Sarada Devi, #KEYS
34:Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress - in plain language, every new development is good news, bad news. ~ ken-wilber, #KEYS
35:When everything goes wrong, one must know how to remember that God is all-powerful.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
36:Remember, the Rishis of old gave up the world in order to attain God. This is the one thing needful. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
37:Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." ~ Epicurus, #KEYS
38:Every breath of ours should be associated with the Lord, in our mind. God is behind you. always remember Him in everything you do. ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
39:Remember to keep in mind that all the past is nothing and that every day we should say with David, "Now I begin to love my God." ~ Saint Francis de Sales, #KEYS
40:Remember that people are only guests in your story - the same way you are only a guest in theirs - so make the chapters worth reading.
~ Lauren Klarfeld,#KEYS
41:Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think, and twice as beautiful as you've ever imagined." ~ Dr. Seuss, #KEYS
42:You may talk of the vision of God or of meditation, but remember, the mind is everything. One gets everything when the mind becomes steady. ~ Sri Sarada Devi, #KEYS
43:How to harmonize the world and God: Be in the world, but always remember Him and never go astray from His path. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
44:Remember God so much that you are forgotten. Let the caller and the called disappear; be lost in the Call. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, [T5], #KEYS
45:Whenever you are in awe of an enlightened being, remember to be in awe of your own potential too. Because ultimately there is no difference. ~ Chamtrul Rinpoche, #KEYS
46:Good is our nature, perfection is our nature, not imperfection, not impurity — and we should remember that. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
47:Even though the mind wanders, involved in external matters, one should remember: The body is not I. Who am I? ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
48:In all pursuits, intellectual or active, your one motto should be, Remember and Offer.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931, [T5],#KEYS
49:Remember that it is not feeling of guilt that constitutes sin but the consent to sin. Only the free will is capable of good or evil. ~ Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, #KEYS
50:if a mirror ever makes
you sad, remember that
it does not know you
~ Kabir, @BashoSociety#KEYS
51:Whatever we do, we must always remember our aim. 7 December 1954
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, The True Aim of Life, [4] [T0],#KEYS
52:Whatever you do, always remember the Divine. 5 May 1954
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, The Divine Is with You, [10] [T0],#KEYS
53:Remember, you cannot abandon what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, [T5],#KEYS
54:Even the body shall remember God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #KEYS
55:I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #KEYS
56:It is more important that we should remember God than that we should breathe: indeed, if one may say so, we should do nothing else besides. ~ Saint Gregory of Nazianzus, [T5], #KEYS
57:Remember in your prayers the Church in Syria, which now has God for its shepherd, instead of me. Jesus Christ alone will oversee it, and your love. ~ Saint Ignatius of Antioch, #KEYS
58:It is necessary to remember oneself, but it is not necessary to forget phenomena. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad, A Commentary on the Isha Upanishad, #KEYS
59:Remember for just one minute of the day, it would be best to try looking upon yourself more as God does, for She knows your true royal nature.
~ Hafiz, [T6],#KEYS
60:Remember always the Divine and all you do will be an expression of the Divine Presence.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, The Divine Is with You [T1],#KEYS
61:They shut our eyes and drive us, but at last
Our souls remember when the act is done. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Short Stories - I, Act Five,#KEYS
62:And remember you don't bargain with love. The choice is not yours. It is a mirror, it reflects only your essence... ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
63:Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity." ~ George Gurdjieff, #KEYS
64:Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers.
~ William Strunk,#KEYS
65:Wake up and recognize the dignity of your nature! Remember that you were made in the image of God—which, although it was corrupted in Adam, was still re-molded in Christ. ~ Saint Leo the Great, #KEYS
66:Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire. ~ Franz Kafka, #KEYS
67:At the Guru's death, either the Body awakens or His Work in the world is forsaken and His light grows dim. In every breath, remember Him." ~ Red Hawk, (b. 1943) "Mother Guru: Savitri Love Poems,", (2014), #KEYS
68:The supreme duty of man is to remember the Lord always, whether one is engaged in consciously repeating His name or not. Every breath of ours should be associated with Him, in our mind. ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
69:If Allah causes you to think about him, remember him and reflect on his greatness this is an opening in the affair of worship. ~ Habīb 'Umar bin Hafīz, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
70:Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you. ~ Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta, #KEYS
71:Since the measuring device has been constructed by the observer ... we have to remember that what we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
~ Werner Heisenberg,#KEYS
72:Christian, remember your dignity, and now that you share in God's own nature, do not return by sin to your former base condition. Bear in mind who is your head and of whose body you are a member. ~ Leo the Great, #KEYS
73:Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art. ~ Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, #KEYS
74:You must remember one thing. God knows our inner feeling. A man gets the fulfillment of the desire he cherishes while practicing sadhana. As one thinks, so one receives. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
75:Always remember God. Each and every event, everywhere, is by His Will alone and is for our own good. Each thing in our lives is always only Blessing, even though it may not appear so, at the time. ~ Sri Yogi Ramsuratkumar, #KEYS
76:Have courage and do not fear the assaults of the Devil. Remember this forever; it is a healthy sign if the devil shouts and roars around your conscience, since this shows that he is not inside your will. ~ Saint Padre Pio, #KEYS
77:There is one thing you should remember. When a boy walks holding his father's hand, he may fall into the gutter; but what has he to fear if the father holds him by the hand? ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
78:There are no conditions to fulfil. There is nothing to be done, nothing to be given up. Just look and remember, whatever you perceive is not you, nor yours. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #KEYS
79:Remember your nothingness in the presence of the Great Spirit." ~ Black Elk, (1863 - 1950), Medicine man, holy man of the Oglala Lakota people, Wikipedia. Quote from: "The Spiritual Athlete: A Primer for the Inner Life,", (1992), #KEYS
80:Always remember the Mother. Call upon her. Then the difficulties will go away. Do not be afraid, do not be perturbed by the difficulties. Call upon the Mother steadily. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Annual, Issue 27, #KEYS
81:Remember two inevitable tendencies in history: one, that no system, however perfect, however glorious, however far reaching, can go on for 2000 years (or 200 for that matter) without enormous changes being made in it simply by time; #KEYS
82:Cultivate the attitude that the real you is beyond the reach of all troubles and obstacles. There are no obstacles for the Self. If you can remember that you always are the Self, obstacles will be of no importance. ~ Annamalai Swami, #KEYS
83:How to remember the Mother during work?
One starts by a mental effort - afterwards it is an inner consciousness that is formed... it is always conscious of her.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Correspondences, 17,#KEYS
84:The greatest of all duties is to remember God. The first thing to do in the morning is to meditate on Him and think how you can give your life to His service, so that all day long you will be filled with His joy. ~ Paramahamsa Yogananda, #KEYS
85:When you are away from your spiritual friends, and you feel lonely on the path, and you feel a lack of encouragement to go on, just remember that all of the enlightened beings are always with you. You are never alone. ~ Chamtrul Rinpoche, #KEYS
86:Therefore neither you, O judges, nor men in general ought to fear death: they have only to remember one thing, that for a just man there is no ill in life and no ill in death. ~ Socrates, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
87:Contemplation is the essence of a religious life. It is through contemplation that one attains the knowledge of Reality. So one has to withdraw from the external world and turn towards God and constantly remember Him. ~ SWAMI VIRESWARANANDA, #KEYS
88:Before the soul can understand and remember it must be united to Him who speaks by His silence, as to the mind of the potter the form on which the clay is modelled. ~ Book of Golden Precepts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
89:Remember that you are. This is your working capital. Rotate it and there will be much profit. Go beyond, go back to the source, go to the Self that is the same whatever happens. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #KEYS
90:"Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Isaiah, 43:18-19, #KEYS
91:Remember the true basis of yoga... Obedience to the divine Will, nor assertion of self-will is the very first mantra... learn thou first absolutely to obey. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Ashram Diary 1984, August 21 and September 9, #KEYS
92:We are the Self. All we have to do is to remember that. We keep on forgetting it and thus think we are this body, or this ego. If the will and desire to remember Self are strong enough, they will eventually overcome vasanas. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
93:Whenever there is any difficulty we must always remember that we are here exclusively to accomplish the Divine's will.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Elements of Yoga, Surrender to the Divine Will, Surrender, [T1],#KEYS
94:Remember always that you too are Brahman and the divine Shakti is working in you; reach out always to the realisation of God's omnipotence and his delight in the Lila. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, [T5], #KEYS
95:Both states of consciousness, sleep and the waking state, are equally subjective. Only by beginning to remember himself does a man really awaken. And then all surrounding life acquires for him a different aspect and a different meaning. ~ Peter Ouspensky, #KEYS
96:I have two ways of loving You:
A selfish one
And another way that is worthy of You.
In my selfish love, I remember You and You alone.
In that other love, You lift the veil
And let me feast my eyes on Your living face. ~ Rabia al-Adawiyya,#KEYS
97:Let us always remember the world is only the projection of the mind and the mind is in the Self. Wherever the body may move the mind must be kept under control. The body moves, but not the Self. The world is within the Self, that is all. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
98:Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug." ~ Og Mandino, #KEYS
99:You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Deuteronomy, 5:15, #KEYS
100:As thou takest thy seat at table, pray. As thou liftest the loaf, offer thanks to the Giver. When thou sustainest thy bodily weakness with wine, remember Him Who supplies thee with this gift, to make thy heart glad and to comfort thy infirmity. ~ Saint Basil the Great, #KEYS
101:Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other." ~ 14th Dalai Lama, (b. 1935), Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 and the US Congressional Gold Medal in 2006, Lives as a refugee in India, Wikipedia., #KEYS
102:Remember what the Lord taught when he said, 'Do not judge, that you may not be judged; forgive and you will be forgiven; be merciful and you will receive mercy. For whatever you measure out to other people will be measured out to you also.' ~ Polycarp to the Philippians, #KEYS
103:You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people." ~ Fulton John Sheen, (1895 - 1979) American bishop, (later archbishop) of the Catholic Church known for his preaching and especially his work on television and radio, Wikipedia., #KEYS
104:Have faith that we have to regain our lost Self and 'Stop not till the goal is reached.' Remember these words of Swamiji, 'Do not forget the ideal - do not cut it down.' Let this body perish, still do not lower the ideal. Pray for strength. Pray always. ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
105:Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel, (1907-1972) a Polish-born American rabbi and mystic. Wikipedia., #KEYS
106:You can meditate and chant the name of the Lord very well sitting on a chair. There is no rule regarding time and place for meditating on the Lord and repeating His holy name, What is needed is to remember our Chosen Ideal always and in all circumstances. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
107:Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor this will produce an unemployment situation in comparison with which the depression of the thirties will seem a pleasant joke.
~ Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings, 1954,#KEYS
108:The Divine is present among us. When we remember Him always He gives us the strength to face all circumstances with perfect peace and equanimity. Become aware of the Presence and your difficulties will disappear.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
109:The very word paradox is paradoxical. Let the paradox be... Remember, after all, that the Gospel is full of paradoxes, that man is himself a living paradox, and that according to the Fathers of the Church, the Incarnation is the supreme Paradox." ~ Henri De Lubac, Par. of Faith, #KEYS
110:It was necessary first to establish the awful difference btn God and the world before we could be permitted to see the awful likeness. It will always remain necessary to remember the difference in the likeness. Neither of these two Ways is or can be exclusive. ~ Charles Williams, #KEYS
111:Given that 'we' are the product of all previous human culture, we have at some level already experienced those gods... If we are truly to understand ancient [religion], it will be part of our task to 'remember' what we have forgotten, but which in some sense we already know. ~ RB, #KEYS
112:In the smothering stress of this stupendous Nought
Mind could not think, breath could not breathe, the soul
Could not remember or feel itself. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#KEYS
113:Misery and difficulties come at times to strengthen our character. They are like examinations. We must prepare and pass them. Know that they are very good for the formation of character. The more we meet with difficulties, the more we remember our Mother for protection.~ Swami Paramananda, #KEYS
114:And from this point of view no formulation is better than any other; the best of all is the one that helps each one to remember, that is, the way in which the intervention of the Grace has crystallised in the thought.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1957-1958,#KEYS
115:It is not at first easy to remember the presence in work; but if one revives the sense of the presence immediately after the work is over it is all right. In time the sense of the presence will become automatic even in work. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II, #KEYS
116:If you can remember that all beings have buddha nature, it will help you cultivate equanimity, because it will feel like everybody is your family. The greater your equanimity, the greater your love and compassion towards them, no matter who they are, or what they have done. ~ Chamtrul Rinpoche, #KEYS
117:Remember that work is only the first step in spiritual life. God cannot be realized without sattva-love, discrimination, kindness, and so on. If a man is entangled in too many activities he surely forgets God. He becomes more and more attached to 'lust and gold' ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
118:You can remember at the beginning and offer your reading to the Divine and at the end again. There is a state of consciousness in which only a part of it is reading or doing the work and behind there is the consciousness of the Divine always.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - IV,#KEYS
119:280. If thy heart is troubled within thee, if for long seasons thou makest no progress, if thy strength faint and repine, remember always the eternal word of our Lover and Master, 'I will free thee from all sin and evil; do not grieve.'
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human, Karma, [T1],#KEYS
120:There is one thing to remember in this world. If you were to forget everything but didn't forget that thing there'd be no cause to worry. Whereas if you performed, remembered and didn't forget every single thing but forgot that thing you would have done nothing whatsoever. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #KEYS
121:You have either to train the memory by practising to remember - or if you cannot do that, try only to understand, read much and let the memory remember what it can. There are people who have a bad memory but they succeed in their studies in spite of it.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - IV,#KEYS
122:Always remember that how we react to every moment of our life will reinforce either our negative habits or positive habits. No matter how challenging life may be, each moment can be seen as either a problem or an opportunity. If we can understand this, we can start to bring our entire life to the path. ~ Chamtrul Rinpoche, #KEYS
123:If you can't as yet remember the Divine all the time you are working, it does not greatly matter. To remember and dedicate at the beginning and give thanks at the end ought to be enough for the present. Or at the most to remember too when there is a pause...
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II,#KEYS
124:I remember a certain holy day in the dusk of the Year, in the dusk of the Equinox of Osiris, when first I beheld thee visibly; when first the dreadful issue was fought out; when the Ibis-headed One charmed away the strife. I remember thy first kiss, even as a maiden should. Nor in the dark byways was there another: thy kisses abide. ~ Liber HHH (341), #KEYS
125:Praise be to God; whose compassion is all-embracing and Whose mercy is universal; Who rewards His servants for their remembrance [dhikr] [of Him] with His remembrance [of them] - verily God (Exalted is He!) has said, 'Remember Me, and I will remember you' - Opening lines from Kitab al-Adhkar wa'l Da'awat of the Ihya ulum ad-Din" ~ Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, #KEYS
126:The crisis we are experiencing is unique in history. It is a world which must burst out of a crucible in which so many different energies are working. Let us thank God that He makes us live among the present problems... it is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre. All men have the imperative duty to remember that they have a mission to fulfill, that of doing the impossible. ~ Pope Pius XII, #KEYS
127:Ultimately there is light and love and intelligence in this universe. And we are it, we carry that within us, it's not just something out there, it is within us and this is what we are trying to reconnect with, our original light and love and intelligence, which is who we are, so do not get so distracted by all this other stuff, you know, really remember what we are here on this planet for. ~ Tenzin Palmo, #KEYS
128:Remember that the Mother is always with you.
Address Her as follows and She will pull you out of all difficulties:
"O Mother, Thou art the light of my intelligence, the purity of my soul,
the quiet strength of my vital, the endurance of my body.
I rely on Thee alone and want to be entirely Thine.
Make me surmount all obstacles on the way."
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III, [T1],#KEYS
129:When coming out of sleep you must keep quiet for a few moments and consecrate the coming day to the Divine, praying to remember Him always and in all circumstances.
Before going to sleep you must concentrate for a few minutes, look into the day that has passed, remember when and where you have forgotten the Divine, and pray that such forgettings should not happen again. 31 August 1953
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III,#KEYS
130:MASTER: "I want you to remember this. You may impart thousands of instructions to people, but they will not bear fruit except in proper time. On going to bed, a child said to his mother, 'Mother, please wake me up when I feel the call of nature.' The mother said: 'Don't worry about it, my child. That call will wake you up itself.' (All laugh.) One feels yearning for God at the proper time. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
131:This is how it works. I love the people in my life, and I do for my friends whatever they need me to do for them, again and again, as many times as is necessary. For example, in your case you always forgot who you are and how much you're loved. So what I do for you as your friend is remind you who you are and tell you how much I love you. And this isn't any kind of burden for me, because I love who you are very much. Every time I remind you, I get to remember with you, which is my pleasure. ~ James Lecesne, #KEYS
132:You are here now, I mean on earth, because you once chose to be - you don't remember it, but I know; that's why you are here. Well, you must stand up to the task. You must make an effort, you must conquer pettiness and limitations, and above all tell the ego: your time is over. We want a race without ego, with the divine consciousness in place of the ego. That's what we want: the divine consciousness, which will enable the race to develop and the superman to be born.
~ The Mother, Agenda Vol 13, Satprem,#KEYS
133:The Mother says, "Look at me, I am here, come back in my new body, divine, transformed and glorious. And I am the same Mother, still human. Do not worry. Do not be concerned about your own self, your progress and realisation, nor about others. I am here, look at me, gaze into me, enter into me wholly, merge into my being, lose yourself into my love, with your love. You will see all problems solved, everything done. Forget all else, forget the world. Remember me alone, be one with me, with my love." ~ Priti Dasgupta, Moments Eternal, #KEYS
134:The Master came back to the drawing-room and said: "The worldly minded practise devotions, japa, and austerity only by fits and starts. But those who know nothing else but God repeat His name with every breath. Some always repeat mentally, 'Om Rāma'.
Even the followers of the path of knowledge repeat, 'Soham', 'I am He'. There are others whose tongues are always moving, repeating the name of God. One should remember and think of God constantly." ~ Sri Ramakrishna, The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishana,#KEYS
135:This gesture of the Divine Mother teaches us also what should be the approach and attitude of human beings in all their activities. In all our movements we should always remember Him, refer to Him, consider that in the last analysis each and every movement comes from Him and we must always offer them to Him, return them to the parent-source from where they come, therein lies freedom, the divine detachment which the individual must possess always in order to be one with Him, feel one's identity with Him. ~ Nolini Kanta Gupta, On Savitri, 12, #KEYS
136:From the point of view of a spiritual life, it is not what you do that matters most, but the way in which it is done and the consciousness you put into it. Remember always the Divine and all you do will be an expression of the Divine Presence. When all your actions are consecrated to the Divine, there will be no longer activities that are superior and activities that are inferior; all will have an equal importance - the value given them by the consecration.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, The Divine Is with You,#KEYS
137:Increasing knowledge is important, but we must also remember that we already know far more than we are willing or able to apply. The human race is not wandering in darkness without guidance or direction. It is not necessary to be universally enlightened in order to live a constructive code. The conflict is in the individual. He must decide for himself the degree to which he is willing to control and re-educate his own appetites and instincts. The inducements to personality reorientation are real, evident, and undeniable. ~ Manly P. Hall, Horizon Magazine, Winter 1950, p. 16, #KEYS
138:But you must remember one thing. One cannot see God sporting as man unless one has had the vision of Him. Do you know the sign of one who has God-vision? Such a man acquires the nature of a child. Why a child? Because God is like a child. So he who sees God becomes like a child.
God-vision is necessary. Now the question is, how can one get it? Intense renunciation is the means. A man should have such intense yearning for God that he can say, 'O Father of the universe, am I outside Your universe? Won't You be kind to me, You wretch? ~ Sri Ramakrishna,#KEYS
139:... Poor sorrowful Earth, remember that I am present in thee and lose not hope; each effort, each grief, each joy and each pang, each call of thy heart, each aspiration of thy soul, each renewel of thy seasons, all, all without exception, what seems ugly and what seems to thee beautiful, all infallibly lead thee towards me, who am endless Peace, shadowless Light, perfect Harmony, Certitude, Rest and Supreme Blessedness.
Hearken, O Earth, to the sublime voice that arises,
Hearken and take new courage!
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations, February 5th 1913,#KEYS
140:The Master always encouraged us to practise spiritual disciplines. He would tell us: "Pray unceasingly. Be sincere. Don't show your spiritual disciplines to others. If the character is not good, what good will japam do? Young women should be very careful. Be pure. The trees suck water from the earth through their roots, unperceived. Likewise, some people show a religious nature outwardly but secretly enjoy lustful things. Don't be a hypocrite."
One time he said to me: "If you cannot remember God, think of me. That will do." ~ Sri Ramakrishna, [Post#KEYS
141:The reason why you do not touch fire is because you know that it will cause you to suffer. Likewise, if you truly understand karma, you will not commit a single negative action, because unless that negative karma is purified, you know that it will eventually ripen into suffering.
You might forget this natural process, or you might not believe in it, because the ripening does not always happen immediately. But your karma will follow you like your shadow, that gets closer and closer without you realising, until you are eventually touched by it. Please, I urge you to always remember this. ~ Chamtrul Rinpoche,#KEYS
142:The last thing that you remember is standing before the wizard Lakmir as he gestured wildly and chanted in an archaic tongue. Now you find yourself staring at an entryway which lies at the edge of a forest. The Druid's words still ring in your ears: "Within the walls of the Castle Shadowgate lies your quest. If the prophecies hold true, the dreaded Warlock Lord will use his dark magic to raise the Behemoth, the deadliest of the Titans, from the depths of the earth. You are the seed of prophecy, the last of the line of kings, and only you can stop the Warlock Lord from darkening our world FOREVER. Fare thee well. ~ Shadowgate, #KEYS
143:The thing is somehow to unite the mind with God. You must not forget Him, not even once. Your thought of Him should be like the flow of oil, without any interruption. If you worship with love even a brick or stone as God, then through His grace you can see Him.
"Remember what I have just said to you. One should perform such worship as the Śiva Puja. Once the mind has become mature, one doesn't have to continue formal worship for long. The mind then always remains united with God; meditation and contemplation become a constant habit of mind." ~ Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Gospel of Ramakrishna,#KEYS
144:I feel all kinds of....
Yes, yes, of course, it's inevitable. But you must call in tranquillity, that's the only thing.... It keeps coming and coming from all sides; but when you feel things going badly, when you're uneasy or thoroughly upset, you must remember to call in tranquillity.
But it's about you, directed against you, all sorts of suggestions that make me....
That want to cut you off from me. Yes, I know perfectly well. It's like that for everybody, not just for you. We must keep going right to the end, that's all - there's nothing else to do. January 31, 1961
~ The Mother, Agenda Vol 4, Satprem, 32,#KEYS
145:But you must remember that nothing can be achieved except in its proper time. Some persons must pass through many experiences and perform many worldly duties before they can turn their attention to God; so they have to wait a long time. If an abscess is lanced before it is soft, the result is not good; the surgeon makes the opening when it is soft and has come to a head. Once a child said to its mother: 'Mother, I am going to sleep now. Please wake me up when I feel the call of nature.' 'My child,' said the mother, 'when it is time for that, you will wake up yourself. I shan't have to wake you.' ~ Sri Ramakrishna, Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
146:How to open to the Mother? The following are the means:
(1) To remember You constantly or from time to time--
Good.
(2) By taking Your name through Japa [mantra; repeating the Mother's name]--
Helpful.
(3) With the help of meditation--
More difficult if one has not the habit of meditation.
(4) By conversation about You with those who love and respect You--
Risky because, when talking, often some nonsense or at least some useless things can be said.
(5) By reading Your books--
Good.
(6) By spending time in thoughts of You--
Very good.
(7) By sincere prayers--
Good. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
147:Practical Review Tools ::: Flash cards, Chapter Outlines, 4x6 Summaries: You need to find ways to repeat and rehearse information and ideas that work for you. Any number of creative tools can be used to help you organize and remember information and make it manageable. I like 4x6 cards. They are sturdy, large enough to hold succinct information, and you can scribble ideas that jog the memory. The beauty 4x6's is that they can be carried anywhere. You can study them at the library, laundry, or lavatory. They travel on the bus, they can save you from a boring date, they can be thrown away immediately without guilt or survive years of faithful service. ~ Dr Robert A Hatch, How to Study, #KEYS
148:Remember that which is written: "Moderate strength rings the bell: great strength returns the penny." It is always the little bit extra that brings home the bacon. It is the last attack that breaks through the enemy position. Water will never boil, however long you keep it at 99° C. You may find that a Pranayama cycle of 10-20-30 brings no result in months; put it up to 10-20-40, and Dhyana comes instantly. When in doubt, push just a little bit harder. You have no means of finding out what are exactly the right conditions for success in any practice; but all practices are alike in one respect; the desired result is in the nature of orgasm. ~ Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears, #KEYS
149:Did you know that when a guy comes, he comes 200 million sperm? And you're trying to tell me that your child is special because one out of 200 million -- that load! we're talking one load! -- connected. Gee, what are the fucking odds? 200 million; you know what that means? I have wiped civilizations off my chest with a gray gym sock. That is special. Entire nations have flaked and crusted in the hair around my navel! That is special. And I want you to remember that, you two egg-carrying beings out there, with that holier-than-thou "we have the gift of life" attitude. I've tossed universes...in my underpants...while napping! Boom! A milky way shoots into my jockey shorts, "Aaaah, what's for fucking breakfast? ~ Bill Hicks, #KEYS
150:I knew all along what He meant for me, for I heard it again and again, always I listened to the voice within; I am guiding, therefore fear not. Turn to your own work for which I have brought you to jail and when you come out, remember never to fear, never to hesitate. Remember that it is I who am doing this, not you nor any other. Therefore whatever clouds may come, whatever dangers and sufferings, whatever difficulties, whatever impossibilities, there is nothing impossible, nothing difficult. I am in the nation and its uprising and I am Vasudeva, I am Narayana, and what I will, shall be, not what others will. What I choose to bring about, no human power can stay.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin,#KEYS
151:Trump himself is a nothing, an empty vessel for cosmic forces to work through. Even on The Apprentice (which I used to enjoy) I remember he gave the guy who won a tour of his apartment, it was the tackiest thing you'd ever seen. Cluttered with gold furnishings so there was no space anywhere. The guy, who obviously worshipped Trump, asked who inspired him. So there he was, looking up to wait to hear some pearl of wisdom. And the Orange Clown just made some meaningless narcissistic comment about himself. It actually felt embarrassing (but not to Trump who simply isn't conscious of such things). It proves that even before his dementia he always was empty and vacuous. His ghost writer said Trump was the most evil human being he'd ever met. ~ M Alan Kazlev, FB, #KEYS
152:The other day I told you the meaning of bhakti. It is to adore God with body, mind, and words. 'With body' means to serve and worship God with one's hands, go to holy places with one's feet, hear the chanting of the name and glories of God with one's ears, and behold the divine image with one's eyes. 'With mind' means to contemplate and meditate on God constantly and to remember and think of His lila. 'With words' means to sing hymns to Him and chant His name and glories.
Devotion as described by Narada is suited to the Kaliyuga. It means to chant constantly the name and glories of God. Let those who have no leisure worship God at least morning and evening by whole-heartedly chanting His name and clapping their hands. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,#KEYS
153:When we are concentrated in mental movements or intellectual pursuits, why do we sometimes forget or lose touch with the Divine?
You lose it because your consciousness is still divided. The Divine has not settled in your mind; you are not wholly consecrated to the Divine Life. Otherwise you could concentrate to any extent upon such things and still you would have the sense of being helped and supported by the Divine. In all pursuits, intellectual or active, your one motto should be, Remember and Offer. Let whatever you do be done as an offering to the Divine. And this too will be an excellent discipline for you; it will prevent you from doing many foolish and useless things.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931, [T0],#KEYS
154:so you distill these stories great authors distill stories and we have soties that are very very very old they are usually religious stories they could be fairy tales because some people ahve traced fairy tales back 10 000 years ... a story that has been told for 10000 years is a funny kind of story its like people have remembered it and obviously modified it, like a game of telephone that has gone on for generations and all that is left is what people remember and maybe they remember whats important, because you tend to remember what's important and its not necessarily the case that you know what the hell it means ... and you dont genereally know what a book that you read means not if its profound it means more than you can understand because otherwise why read it? ~ Jordan Peterson, Maps of Meaning 2017 - 1, #KEYS
155:When the resolution has been taken, when you have decided that the whole of your life shall be given to the Divine, you have still at every moment to remember it and carry it out in all the details of your existence. You must feel at every step that you belong to the Divine; you must have the constant experience that, in whatever you think or do, it is always the Divine Consciousness that is acting through you. You have no longer anything that you can call your own; you feel everything as coming from the Divine, and you have to offer it back to its source. When you can realise that, then even the smallest thing to which you do not usually pay much attention or care, ceases to be trivial and insignificant; it becomes full of meaning and it opens up a vast horizon beyond."
Questions and Answers 1929 (28 April)
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953,#KEYS
156:The propensity to excessive simplification is indeed natural to the mind of man, since it is only by abstraction and generalisation, which necessarily imply the neglect of a multitude of particulars, that he can stretch his puny faculties so as to embrace a minute portion of the illimitable vastness of the universe. But if the propensity is natural and even inevitable, it is nevertheless fraught with peril, since it is apt to narrow and falsify our conception of any subject under investigation. To correct it partially - for to correct it wholly would require an infinite intelligence - we must endeavour to broaden our views by taking account of a wide range of facts and possibilities; and when we have done so to the utmost of our power, we must still remember that from the very nature of things our ideas fall immeasurably short of the reality. ~ James George Frazer, The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, Part 1, #KEYS
157:Turn your thoughts now, and lift up your thoughts to a devout and joyous contemplation on sage Vyasa and Vasishtha, on Narda and Valmiki. Contemplate on the glorious Lord Buddha, Jesus the Christ, prophet Mohammed, the noble Zoroaster (Zarathushtra), Lord Mahavira, the holy Guru Nanak. Think of the great saints and sages of all ages, like Yajnavalkya, Dattatreya, Sulabha and Gargi, Anasooya and Sabari, Lord Gauranga, Mirabai, Saint Theresa and Francis of Assisi. Remember St. Augustine, Jallaludin Rumi, Kabir, Tukaram, Ramdas, Ramakrishna Paramhamsa, Vivekananda and Rama Tirtha. Adore in thy heart the sacred memory of Mahatma Gandhi, sage Ramana Maharishi, Aurobindo Ghosh, Gurudev Sivananda and Swami Ramdas. They verily are the inspirers of humanity towards a life of purity, goodness and godliness. Their lives, their lofty examples, their great teachings constitute the real wealth and greatest treasure of mankind today.
~ Sri Chidananda, Advices On Spiritual Living,#KEYS
158:Now, on the other hand, there is an entirely different type of angel; and here we must be especially careful to remember that we include gods and devils, for there are such beings who are not by any means dependent on one particular element for their existence. They are microcosms in exactly the same sense as men and women are. They are individuals who have picked up the elements of their composition as possibility and convenience dictates, exactly as we do ourselves... I believe that the Holy Guardian Angel is a Being of this order. He is something more than a man, possibly a being who has already passed through the stage of humanity, and his peculiarly intimate relationship with his client is that of friendship, of community, of brotherhood, or Fatherhood. He is not, let me say with emphasis, a mere abstraction from yourself; and that is why I have insisted rather heavily that the term 'Higher Self' implies a damnable heresy and a dangerous delusion. ~ Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears, #KEYS
159:This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about. ~ Marilyn Monroe, #KEYS
160:There are two Paths to the Innermost: the Way of the Mystic, which is the way of devotion and meditation, a solitary and subjective path; and the way of the occultist, which is the way of the intellect, of concentration, and of trained will; upon this path the co-operation of fellow workers is required, firstly for the exchange of knowledge, and secondly because ritual magic plays an important part in this work, and for this the assistance of several is needed in most of the greater operations. The mystic derives his knowledge through the direct communion of his higher self with the Higher Powers; to him the wisdom of the occultist is foolishness, for his mind does not work in that way; but, on the other hand, to a more intellectual and extrovert type, the method of the mystic is impossible until long training has enabled him to transcend the planes of form. We must therefore recognize these two distinct types among those who seek the Way of Initiation, and remember that there is a path for each. ~ Dion Fortune, Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate, #KEYS
161: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
162:I have got three letters from you, but as I was busy with many things I couldn't answer them-today I am answering all the three together. It was known that it wouldn't be possible for you to come for darshan this time, it can't be easy to come twice within this short time. Don't be sorry, remain calm and remember the Mother, gather faith and strength within. You are a child of the Divine Mother, be tranquil, calm and full of force. There is no special procedure. To take the name of the Mother, to remember her within, to pray to her, all this may be described as calling the Mother. As it comes from within you, you have to call her accordingly. You can do also this - shutting your eyes you can imagine that the Mother is in front of you or you can sketch a picture of her in your mind and offer her your pranam, that obeissance will reach her. When you've time, you can meditate on her with the thinking attitude that she is with you, she's sitting in front of you. Doing these things people at last get to see her. Accept my blessings, I send the Mother's blessings also at the same time. From time to time Jyotirmoyee will take blessing flowers during pranam and send them to you. ~ The Mother, Nirodbaran Memorable contacts with the Mother, #KEYS
163:The pure existent is then a fact and no mere concept; it is the fundamental reality. But, let us hasten to add, the movement, the energy, the becoming are also a fact, also a reality. The supreme intuition and its corresponding experience may correct the other, may go beyond, may suspend, but do not abolish it. We have therefore two fundamental facts of pure existence and of worldexistence, a fact of Being, a fact of Becoming. To deny one or the other is easy; to recognise the facts of consciousness and find out their relation is the true and fruitful wisdom.
Stability and movement, we must remember, are only our psychological representations of the Absolute, even as are oneness and multitude. The Absolute is beyond stability and movement as it is beyond unity and multiplicity. But it takes its eternal poise in the one and the stable and whirls round itself infinitely, inconceivably, securely in the moving and multitudinous. World-existence is the ecstatic dance of Shiva which multiplies the body of the God numberlessly to the view: it leaves that white existence precisely where and what it was, ever is and ever will be; its sole absolute object is the joy of the dancing. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Pure Existent, 85,#KEYS
164:How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself and in no instance bypass the discriminations of reason? You have been given the principles that you ought to endorse, and you have endorsed them. What kind of teacher, then, are you still waiting for in order to refer your self-improvement to him? You are no longer a boy, but a full-grown man. If you are careless and lazy now and keep putting things off and always deferring the day after which you will attend to yourself, you will not notice that you are making no progress, but you will live and die as someone quite ordinary.
From now on, then, resolve to live as a grown-up who is making progress, and make whatever you think best a law that you never set aside. And whenever you encounter anything that is difficult or pleasurable, or highly or lowly regarded, remember that the contest is now: you are at the Olympic Games, you cannot wait any longer, and that your progress is wrecked or preserved by a single day and a single event. That is how Socrates fulfilled himself by attending to nothing except reason in everything he encountered. And you, although you are not yet a Socrates, should live as someone who at least wants to be a Socrates.
~ Epictetus, (From Manual 51),#KEYS
165:
Sweet Mother, is the physical mind the same as the mechanical mind?
Almost. You see, there is just a little difference, but not much. The mechanical mind is still more stupid than the physical mind. The physical mind is what we spoke about one day, that which is never sure of anything.
I told you the story of the closed door, you remember. Well, that is the nature of the physical mind. The mechanical mind is at a lower level still, because it doesn't even listen to the possibility of a convincing reason, and this happens to everyone.
Usually we don't let it function, but it comes along repeating the same things, absolutely mechanically, without rhyme or reason, just like that. When some craze or other takes hold of it, it goes... For example, you see, if it fancies counting: "One, two, three, four", then it will go on: "One, two, three, four; one, two, three, four." And you may think of all kinds of things, but it goes on: "One, two, three, four", like that... (Mother laughs.) Or it catches hold of three words, four words and repeats them and goes on repeating them; and unless one turns away with a certain violence and punches it soundly, telling it, "Keep quiet!", it continues in this way, indefinitely. ~ The Mother,#KEYS
166:When one goes out of the body, one must try to rush towards you I think everybody does that, dont they?
Not one in a hundred!
If you did that, very interesting things would happen to you. I knew someone in France who used to come to me every evening in order that I might show him some unknown region and take him for a ramble in the vital or mental world, and actually I used to take him there. At times there were others also, at times this person was alone. I showed him how to go out of the body, how to get back into it, how to keep the consciousness, etc., I showed him many places telling him There you must take this precaution, here you must do such and such a thing. And this continued for a long time.
I do not mean that no one among you comes to me in the night, but there are very few who do it consciously. Generally (you will tell me if I am wrong, but that is my impression), when you go to sleep and have decided to remember me before going to sleep, it is rather a call than a will to rush to me, as you say. You are there on your bed, you want to rest, to have a good sleep, remain in a good consciousness; then you call me rather than have the idea of going out of the body and coming to see me. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1950-1951, 1951-02-19,#KEYS
167:
Sweet Mother, Is it possible to have control over oneself during sleep? For example, if I want to see you in my dreams, can I do it at will?
Control during sleep is entirely possible and it is progressive if you persist in the effort. You begin by remembering your dreams, then gradually you remain more and more conscious during your sleep, and not only can you control your dreams but you can guide and organise your activities during sleep.
If you persist in your will and your effort, you are sure to learn how to come and find me at night during your sleep and afterwards to remember what has happened.
For this, two things are necessary, which you must develop by aspiration and by calm and persistent effort.
(1) Concentrate your thought on the will to come and find me; then pursue this thought, first by an effort of imagination, afterwards in a tangible and increasingly real way, until you are in my presence.
(2) Establish a sort of bridge between the waking and the sleeping consciousness, so that when you wake up you remember what has happened.
It may be that you succeed immediately, but more often it takes a certain time and you must persist in the effort. 25 September 1959
~ The Mother, Some Answers From The Mother, 226,#KEYS
168:A poet once said, 'The whole universe is in a glass of wine.' We will probably never know in what sense he meant it, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe. There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid which evaporates depending on the wind and weather, the reflection in the glass; and our imagination adds atoms. The glass is a distillation of the earth's rocks, and in its composition we see the secrets of the universe's age, and the evolution of stars. What strange array of chemicals are in the wine? How did they come to be? There are the ferments, the enzymes, the substrates, and the products. There in wine is found the great generalization; all life is fermentation. Nobody can discover the chemistry of wine without discovering, as did Louis Pasteur, the cause of much disease. How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts -- physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on -- remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure; drink it and forget it all! ~ Richard P Feynman, #KEYS
169: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
170:
Mother, in your symbol the twelve petals signify the twelve inner planes, don't they?
It signifies anything one wants, you see. Twelve: that's the number of Aditi, of Mahashakti. So it applies to everything; all her action has twelve aspects. There are also her twelve virtues, her twelve powers, her twelve aspects, and then her twelve planes of manifestation and many other things that are twelve; and the symbol, the number twelve is in itself a symbol. It is the symbol of manifestation, double perfection, in essence and in manifestation, in the creation.
What are the twelve aspects, Sweet Mother?
Ah, my child, I have described this somewhere, but I don't remember now. For it is always a choice, you see; according to what one wants to say, one can choose these twelve aspects or twelve others, or give them different names. The same aspect can be named in different ways. This does not have the fixity of a mental theory. (Silence)
According to the angle from which one sees the creation, one day I may describe twelve aspects to you; and then another day, because I have shifted my centre of observation, I may describe twelve others, and they will be equally true.
(To Vishwanath) Is it the wind that's producing this storm? It is very good for a dramatic stage-effect.... The traitor is approaching in the night... yes? We are waiting for some terrible deed....
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1954, 395,#KEYS
171:Are remembrance and memory the same thing?
Not necessarily. Memory is a mental phenomenon, purely mental. Remembrance can be a phenomenon of consciousness. One can remember in all the domains of one's being: one can remember vitally, one can remember physically, one can remember psychically, one can remember mentally also. But memory is a purely mental phenomenon. Memory can, first of all, be deformed and it can also be effaced, one can forget. The phenomenon of consciousness is very precise; if you can take the consciousness back to the state in which it was, things come back exactly as they were. It is as though you relived the same mo- ment. You can relive it once, twice, ten times, a hundred times, but you relive a phenomenon of consciousness. It is very different from the memory of a fact which you inscribe somewhere in your brain. And if the cerebral associations are disturbed in the least (for there are many things in your brain and it is a very delicate instrument), if there is the slightest disturbance, your memory goes out of order. And then holes are formed and you forget. On the other hand, if you know how to bring back a particular state of consciousness in you, it comes back exactly the same as it was. Now, a remembrance can also be purely mental and it may be a continuation of cerebral activities, but that is mental remembrance. And you have remembrances in feeling, remembrances in sensation.... ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 290-291,#KEYS
172:I have written a short sentence which will appear in the Bulletin, the next Bulletin. It goes something like this (I dont remember the words exactly now): If you say to the Divine with conviction, I want only You, the Divine will arrange all the circumstances in such a way as to compel you to be sincere.1 Something in the being I want only You. the aspiration and then one wants a hundred odd things all the time, isnt that so? At times something comes, just usually to disturb everythingit stands in the way and prevents you from realising your aspiration. Well, the Divine will come without showing Himself, without your seeing Him, without your having any inkling of it, and He will arrange all the circumstances in such a way that everything that prevents you from belonging solely to the Divine will be removed from your path, inevitably. Then when all is removed, you begin to howl and complain; but later, if you are sincere and look at yourself straight in the eye you have said to the Lord, you have said, I want only You. He will remain close to you, all the rest will go away. This is indeed a higher Grace. Only, you must say this with conviction. I dont even mean that you must say it integrally, because if one says it integrally, the work is done. What is necessary is that one part of the being, indeed the central will, says it with conviction: I want only You. Even once, and it suffices: all that takes more or less long, sometimes it stretches over years, but one reaches the goal. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1954, 1954-06-16, #KEYS
173:You say that you feel you have returned to your old life and that you have fallen from that state of spiritual consciousness in which you remained for some time. And you ask whether it comes from the fact that Sri Aurobindo and myself have withdrawn our protection and our help because you had been unable to fulfil your promise.
It is a mistake to think that anything at all has been withdrawn by us. Our help and our protection are with you as always, but it would be more correct to say that both your inability to feel our help and your inability to keep your promise are the simultaneous effects of the same cause.
Remember what I wrote to you when you went to Calcutta to fetch your family: do not let any influence come in between you and the Divine. You did not pay sufficient attention to this warning: you have allowed an influence to interfere strongly between you and your spiritual life; your devotion and your faith have been seriously shaken by this. As a consequence, you became afraid and you did not find the same joy in your offering to the Divine Cause; and also, quite naturally, you fell back into your ordinary consciousness and your old life.
You are quite right, nevertheless, not to let yourself be discouraged. Whatever the fall, it is always possible not only to get up again but also to rise higher and to reach the goal. Only a strong aspiration and a constant will are needed.
You have to take a firm resolution to let nothing interfere with your ascent towards the Divine Realisation. And then the success is certain.
Be assured of our unfailing help and protection. 3 February 1931 ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother - I,#KEYS
174:Often in the beginning of the action this can be done; but as one gets engrossed in the work, one forgets. How is one to remember?
The condition to be aimed at, the real achievement of Yoga, the final perfection and attainment, for which all else is only a preparation, is a consciousness in which it is impossible to do anything without the Divine; for then, if you are without the Divine, the very source of your action disappears; knowledge, power, all are gone. But so long as you feel that the powers you use are your own, you will not miss the Divine support.
In the beginning of the Yoga you are apt to forget the Divine very often. But by constant aspiration you increase your remembrance and you diminish the forgetfulness. But this should not be done as a severe discipline or a duty; it must be a movement of love and joy. Then very soon a stage will come when, if you do not feel the presence of the Divine at every moment and whatever you are doing, you feel at once lonely and sad and miserable.
Whenever you find that you can do something without feeling the presence of the Divine and yet be perfectly comfortable, you must understand that you are not consecrated in that part of your being. That is the way of the ordinary humanity which does not feel any need of the Divine. But for a seeker of the Divine Life it is very different. And when you have entirely realised unity with the Divine, then, if the Divine were only for a second to withdraw from you, you would simply drop dead; for the Divine is now the Life of your life, your whole existence, your single and complete support. If the Divine is not there, nothing is left. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931,#KEYS
175:Thoughts are forms and have an individual life, independent of their author: sent out from him into the world, they move in it towards the realisation of their own purpose of existence. When you think of anyone, your thought takes a form and goes out to find him; and, if your thinking is associated with some will that is behind it, the thought-form that has gone out from you makes an attempt to realise itself. Let us say, for instance, that you have a keen desire for a certain person to come and that, along with this vital impulse of desire, a strong imagination accompanies the mental form you have made; you imagine, "If he came, it would be like this or it would be like that." After a time you drop the idea altogether, and you do not know that even after you have forgotten it, your thought continues to exist. For it does still exist and is in action, independent of you, and it would need a great power to bring it back from its work. It is working in the atmosphere of the person touched by it and creates in him the desire to come. And if there is a sufficient power of will in your thought-form, if it is a well-built formation, it will arrive at its own realisation. But between the formation and the realisation there is a certain lapse of time, and if in this interval your mind has been occupied with quite other things, then when there happens this fulfilment of your forgotten thought, you may not even remember that you once harboured it; you do not know that you were the instigator of its action and the cause of what has come about. And it happens very often too that when the result does come, you have ceased to desire or care for it.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931,#KEYS
176: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
177:It doesnt interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your hearts longing. It doesnt interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive. It doesnt interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by lifes betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human. It doesnt interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithlessand therefore trustworthy. I want to know if you can see beauty even when its not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, Yes! It doesnt interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children. It doesnt interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back. It doesnt interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
~ Oriah Mountain Dreamer,#KEYS
178:How often there is a kind of emptiness in the course of life, an unoccupied moment, a few minutes, sometimes more. And what do you do? Immediately you try to distract yourself, and you invent some foolishness or other to pass your time. That is a common fact. All men, from the youngest to the oldest, spend most of their time in trying not to be bored. Their pet aversion is boredom and the way to escape from boredom is to act foolishly.
Well, there is a better way than that - to remember.
When you have a little time, whether it is one hour or a few minutes, tell yourself, "At last, I have some time to concentrate, to collect myself, to relive the purpose of my life, to offer myself to the True and the Eternal." If you took care to do this each time you are not harassed by outer circumstances, you would find out that you were advancing very quickly on the path. Instead of wasting your time in chattering, in doing useless things, reading things that lower the consciousness - to choose only the best cases, I am not speaking of other imbecilities which are much more serious - instead of trying to make yourself giddy, to make time, that is already so short, still shorter only to realise at the end of your life that you have lost three-quarters of your chance - then you want to put in double time, but that does not work - it is better to be moderate, balanced, patient, quiet, but never to lose an opportunity that is given to you, that is to say, to utilise for the true purpose the unoccupied moment before you.
When you have nothing to do, you become restless, you run about, you meet friends, you take a walk, to speak only of the best; I am not referring to things that are obviously not to be done. Instead of that, sit down quietly before the sky, before the sea or under trees, whatever is possible (here you have all of them) and try to realise one of these things - to understand why you live, to learn how you must live, to ponder over what you want to do and what should be done, what is the best way of escaping from the ignorance and falsehood and pain in which you live. 16 May 1958
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931,#KEYS
179:For centuries and centuries humanity has waited for this time. It is come. But it is difficult.
I don't simply tell you we are here upon earth to rest and enjoy ourselves, now is not the time for that. We are here..... to prepare the way for the new creation.
The body has some difficulty, so I can't be active, alas. It is not because I am old, I am not old, I am younger than most of you. If I am here inactive, it is because the body has given itself definitely to prepare the transformation. But the consciousness is clear and we are here to work - rest and enjoyment will come afterwards. Let us do our work here.
So I have called you to tell you that. Take what you can, do what you can, my help will be with you. All sincere effort will be helped to the maximum.
It is the hour to be the heroic. Heroism is not what it is said to be; it is to become wholly unified - and the Divine help will always be with those who have resolved to be heroic in full sincerity.
There!
You are here at this moment that is to say upon earth, because you chose it at one time - you do not remember it any more, but I know it - that is why you are here. Well, you must rise to the height of the task. You must strive, you must conquer all weakness and limitations; above all you must tell your ego: "Your hour is gone." We want a race that has no ego, that has in place of the ego the Divine Consciousness. It is that which we want: the Divine Consciousness which will allow the race to develop itself and the Supramental being to take birth.
If you believe that I am here because I am bound - it is not true. I am not bound, I am here because my body has been given for the first attempt at transformation. Sri Aurobindo told me so. Well, I am doing it. I do not wish anyone to do it for me because.... Because it is not very pleasant, but I do it willingly because of the result; everybody will be able to benefit from it. I ask only one thing: do not listen to the ego.
If there is in your hearts a sincere Yes, you will satisfy me completely. I do not need words, I need the sincere adhesion of your hearts. That's all. ~ The Mother, (This talk was given by the Mother on April 2,1972,#KEYS
180:But usually the representative influence occupies a much larger place in the life of the sadhaka. If the Yoga is guided by a received written Shastra, - some Word from the past which embodies the experience of former Yogins, - it may be practised either by personal effort alone or with the aid of a Guru. The spiritual knowledge is then gained through meditation on the truths that are taught and it is made living and conscious by their realisation in the personal experience; the Yoga proceeds by the results of prescribed methods taught in a Scripture or a tradition and reinforced and illumined by the instructions of the Master. This is a narrower practice, but safe and effective within its limits, because it follows a well-beaten track to a long familiar goal.
For the sadhaka of the integral Yoga it is necessary to remember that no written Shastra, however great its authority or however large its spirit, can be more than a partial expression of the eternal Knowledge. He will use, but never bind himself even by the greatest Scripture. Where the Scripture is profound, wide, catholic, it may exercise upon him an influence for the highest good and of incalculable importance. It may be associated in his experience with his awakening to crowning verities and his realisation of the highest experiences. His Yoga may be governed for a long time by one Scripture or by several successively, - if it is in the line of the great Hindu tradition, by the Gita, for example, the Upanishads, the Veda. Or it may be a good part of his development to include in its material a richly varied experience of the truths of many Scriptures and make the future opulent with all that is best in the past. But in the end he must take his station, or better still, if he can, always and from the beginning he must live in his own soul beyond the limitations of the word that he uses. The Gita itself thus declares that the Yogin in his progress must pass beyond the written Truth, - sabdabrahmativartate - beyond all that he has heard and all that he has yet to hear, - srotavyasya srutasya ca. For he is not the sadhaka of a book or of many books; he is a sadhaka of the Infinite. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Four Aids,#KEYS
181:At the basis of this collaboration there is necessarily the will to change, no longer to be what one is, for things to be no longer what they are. There are several ways of reaching it, and all the methods are good when they succeed! One may be deeply disgusted with what exists and wish ardently to come out of all this and attain something else; one may - and this is a more positive way - one may feel within oneself the touch, the approach of something positively beautiful and true, and willingly drop all the rest so that nothing may burden the journey to this new beauty and truth.
What is indispensable in every case is the ardent will for progress, the willing and joyful renunciation of all that hampers the advance: to throw far away from oneself all that prevents one from going forward, and to set out into the unknown with the ardent faith that this is the truth of tomorrow, inevitable, which must necessarily come, which nothing, nobody, no bad will, even that of Nature, can prevent from becoming a reality - perhaps of a not too distant future - a reality which is being worked out now and which those who know how to change, how not to be weighed down by old habits, will surely have the good fortune not only to see but to realise. People sleep, they forget, they take life easy - they forget, forget all the time.... But if we could remember... that we are at an exceptional hour, a unique time, that we have this immense good fortune, this invaluable privilege of being present at the birth of a new world, we could easily get rid of everything that impedes and hinders our progress.
So, the most important thing, it seems, is to remember this fact; even when one doesn't have the tangible experience, to have the certainty of it and faith in it; to remember always, to recall it constantly, to go to sleep with this idea, to wake up with this perception; to do all that one does with this great truth as the background, as a constant support, this great truth that we are witnessing the birth of a new world.
We can participate in it, we can become this new world. And truly, when one has such a marvellous opportunity, one should be ready to give up everything for its sake. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1957-1958, [T1],#KEYS
182:Why do we forget things?
Ah! I suppose there are several reasons. First, because one makes use of the memory to remember. Memory is a mental instrument and depends on the formation of the brain. Your brain is constantly growing, unless it begins to degenerate, but still its growth can continue for a very, very long time, much longer than that of the body. And in this growth, necessarily some things will take the place of others. And as the mental instrument develops, things which have served their term or the transitory moment in the development may be wiped out to give place to the result. So the result of all that you knew is there, living in itself, but the road traversed to reach it may be completely blurred. That is, a good functioning of the memory means remembering only the results so as to be able to have the elements for moving forward and a new construction. That is more important than just retaining things rigidly in the mind.
Now, there is another aspect also. Apart from the mental memory, which is something defective, there are states of consciousness. Each state of consciousness in which one happens to be registers the phenomena of a particular moment, whatever they may be. If your consciousness remains limpid, wide and strong, you can at any moment whatsoever, by concentrating, call into the active consciousness what you did, thought, saw, observed at any time before; all this you can remember by bringing up in yourself the same state of consciousness. And that, that is never forgotten. You could live a thousand years and you would still remember it. Consequently, if you don't want to forget, it must be your consciousness which remembers and not your mental memory. Your mental memory will be wiped out inevitably, get blurred, and new things will take the place of the old ones. But things of which you are conscious you do not forget. You have only to bring up the same state of consciousness again. And thus one can remember circumstances one has lived thousands of years ago, if one knows how to bring up the same state of consciousness. It is in this way that one can remember one's past lives. This never gets blotted out, while you don't have any more the memory of what you have done physically when you were very young. You would be told many things you no longer remember. That gets wiped off immediately. For the brain is constantly changing and certain weaker cells are replaced by others which are much stronger, and by other combinations, other cerebral organisations. And so, what was there before is effaced or deformed.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1954,#KEYS
183:they are acting all the while in the spirit of rajasic ahaṅkara, persuade themselves that God is working through them and they have no part in the action. This is because they are satisfied with the mere intellectual assent to the idea without waiting for the whole system and life to be full of it. A continual remembrance of God in others and renunciation of individual eagerness (spr.ha) are needed and a careful watching of our inner activities until God by the full light of self-knowledge, jñanadı̄pena bhasvata, dispels all further chance of self-delusion. The danger of tamogun.a is twofold, first, when the Purusha thinks, identifying himself with the tamas in him, "I am weak, sinful, miserable, ignorant, good-for-nothing, inferior to this man and inferior to that man, adhama, what will God do through me?" - as if God were limited by the temporary capacities or incapacities of his instruments and it were not true that he can make the dumb to talk and the lame to cross the hills, mūkaṁ karoti vacalaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim, - and again when the sadhak tastes the relief, the tremendous relief of a negative santi and, feeling himself delivered from all troubles and in possession of peace, turns away from life and action and becomes attached to the peace and ease of inaction. Remember always that you too are Brahman and the divine Shakti is working in you; reach out always to the realisation of God's omnipotence and his delight in the Lila. He bids Arjuna work lokasaṅgraharthaya, for keeping the world together, for he does not wish the world to sink back into Prakriti, but insists on your acting as he acts, "These worlds would be overpowered by tamas and sink into Prakriti if I did not do actions." To be attached to inaction is to give up our action not to God but to our tamasic ahaṅkara. The danger of the sattvagun.a is when the sadhak becomes attached to any one-sided conclusion of his reason, to some particular kriya or movement of the sadhana, to the joy of any particular siddhi of the yoga, perhaps the sense of purity or the possession of some particular power or the Ananda of the contact with God or the sense of freedom and hungers after it, becomes attached to that only and would have nothing else. Remember that the yoga is not for yourself; for these things, though they are part of the siddhi, are not the object of the siddhi, for you have decided at the beginning to make no claim upon God but take what he gives you freely and, as for the Ananda, the selfless soul will even forego the joy of God's presence, ... ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #KEYS
184:The Examiners
The integral yoga consists of an uninterrupted series of examinations that one has to undergo without any previous warning, thus obliging you to be constantly on the alert and attentive.
Three groups of examiners set us these tests. They appear to have nothing to do with one another, and their methods are so different, sometimes even so apparently contradictory, that it seems as if they could not possibly be leading towards the same goal. Nevertheless, they complement one another, work towards the same end, and are all indispensable to the completeness of the result.
The three types of examination are: those set by the forces of Nature, those set by spiritual and divine forces, and those set by hostile forces. These last are the most deceptive in their appearance and to avoid being caught unawares and unprepared requires a state of constant watchfulness, sincerity and humility.
The most commonplace circumstances, the events of everyday life, the most apparently insignificant people and things all belong to one or other of these three kinds of examiners. In this vast and complex organisation of tests, those events that are generally considered the most important in life are the easiest examinations to undergo, because they find you ready and on your guard. It is easier to stumble over the little stones in your path, because they attract no attention.
Endurance and plasticity, cheerfulness and fearlessness are the qualities specially needed for the examinations of physical nature.
Aspiration, trust, idealism, enthusiasm and generous self-giving, for spiritual examinations.
Vigilance, sincerity and humility for the examinations from hostile forces.
And do not imagine that there are on the one hand people who undergo the examinations and on the other people who set them. Depending on the circumstances and the moment we are all both examiners and examinees, and it may even happen that one is at the same time both examiner and examinee. And the benefit one derives from this depends, both in quality and in quantity, on the intensity of one's aspiration and the awakening of one's consciousness.
To conclude, a final piece of advice: never set yourself up as an examiner. For while it is good to remember constantly that one may be undergoing a very important examination, it is extremely dangerous to imagine that one is responsible for setting examinations for others. That is the open door to the most ridiculous and harmful kinds of vanity. It is the Supreme Wisdom which decides these things, and not the ignorant human will. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
185:Worthy The Name Of Sir Knight
Sir Knight of the world's oldest order,
Sir Knight of the Army of God,
You have crossed the strange mystical border,
The ground floor of truth you have trod;
You have entered the sanctum sanctorum,
Which leads to the temple above,
Where you come as a stone, and a Christ-chosen one,
In the kingdom of Friendship and Love.
II
As you stand in this new realm of beauty,
Where each man you meet is your friend,
Think not that your promise of duty
In hall, or asylum, shall end;
Outside, in the great world of pleasure,
Beyond, in the clamor of trade,
In the battle of life and its coarse daily strife
Remember the vows you have made.
III
Your service, majestic and solemn,
Your symbols, suggestive and sweet,
Your uniformed phalanx in column
On gala days marching the street;
Your sword and your plume and your helmet,
Your 'secrets' hid from the world's sight;
These things are the small, lesser parts of the all
Which are needed to form the true Knight.
IV
The martyrs who perished rejoicing
In Templary's glorious laws,
Who died 'midst the fagots while voicing
The glory and worth of their cause-
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They honored the title of 'Templar'
No more than the Knight of to-day
Who mars not the name with one blemish of shame,
But carries it clean through life's fray.
To live for a cause, to endeavor
To make your deeds grace it, to try
And uphold its precepts forever,
Is harder by far than to die.
For the battle of life is unending,
The enemy, Self, never tires,
And the true Knight must slay that sly foe every day
Ere he reaches the heights he desires.
VI
Sir Knight, have you pondered the meaning
Of all you have heard and been told?
Have you strengthened your heart for its weaning
From vices and faults loved of old?
Will you honor, in hours of temptation,
Your promises noble and grand?
Will your spirit be strong to do battle with wrong,
'And having done all, to stand?'
VII
Will you ever be true to a brother
In actions as well as in creed?
Will you stand by his side as no other
Could stand in the hour of his need?
Will you boldly defend him from peril,
And lift him from poverty's curseWill the promise of aid which you willingly made,
Reach down from your lips to your purse?
VIII
The world's battle field is before you!
Let Wisdom walk close by your side,
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Let Faith spread her snowy wings o'er you,
Let Truth be your comrade and guide;
Let Fortitude, Justice and Mercy
Direct all your conduct aright,
And let each word and act tell to men the proud fact,
You are worthy the name of 'Sir Knight'.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox,#KEYS
186:Concentration is a gathering together of the consciousness and either centralising at one point or turning on a single object, e.g., the Divine; there can be also be a gathered condition throughout the whole being, not at a point. In meditation it is not indispensable to gather like this, one can simply remain with a quiet mind thinking of one subject or observing what comes in the consciousness and dealing with it. ... Of this true consciousness other than the superficial there are two main centres, one in the heart (not the physical heart, but the cardiac centre in the middle of the chest), one in the head. The concentration in the heart opens within and by following this inward opening and going deep one becomes aware of the soul or psychic being, the divine element in the individual. This being unveiled begins to come forward, to govern the nature, to turn it and all its movements towards the Truth, towards the Divine, and to call down into it all that is above. It brings the consciousness of the Presence, the dedication of the being to the Highest and invites the descent into our nature of a greater Force and Consciousness which is waiting above us. To concentrate in the heart centre with the offering of oneself to the Divine and the aspiration for this inward opening and for the Presence in the heart is the first way and, if it can be done, the natural beginning; for its result once obtained makes the spiritual path far more easy and safe than if one begins the other ways.
That other way is the concentration in the head, in the mental centre. This, if it brings about the silence of the surface mind, opens up an inner, larger, deeper mind within which is more capable of receiving spiritual experience and spiritual knowledge. But once concentrated here one must open the silent mental consciousness upward and in the end it rises beyond the lid which has so long kept it tied in the body and finds a centre above the head where it is liberated into the Infinite. There it begins to come into contact with the universal Self, the Divine Peace, Light, Power, Knowledge, Bliss, to enter into that and become that, to feel the descent of these things into the nature. To concentrate in the head with the aspiration for quietude in the mind and the realisation of the Self and Divine above is the second way of concentration. It is important, however, to remember that the concentration of the consciousness in the head in only a preparation for its rising to the centre above; otherwise, one may get shut up in one's own mind and its experiences or at best attain only to a reflection of the Truth above instead of rising into the spiritual transcendence to live there. For some the mental concentration is easier, for some the concentration in the heart centre; some are capable of doing both alternatively - but to begin with the heart centre, if one can do it, is the most desirable.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II,#KEYS
187:(Nirodbaran:) "It was the first week of January 1930.
At about 3 p.m., I reached Dilip Kumar Roy's place. "Oh, you have come! Let us go," he said, and cutting a rose from his terrace-garden he added, "Offer this to the Mother." When we arrived at the Ashram he left me at the present Reading Room saying, "Wait here." My heart was beating nervously as if I were going to face an examination. A stately chair in the middle of the room attracted momentarily my attention. In a short while the Mother came accompanied by Nolini, Amrita and Dilip. She took her seat in the chair, the others stood by her side. I was dazzled by the sight. Was it a ‘visionary gleam’ or a reality? Nothing like it had I seen before. Her fair complexion, set off by a finely coloured sari and a headband, gave me the impression of a goddess such as we see in pictures or in the idols during the Durga Puja festival. She was all smiles and redolent with grace. I suppose this was the Mahalakshmi smile Sri Aurobindo had spoken of in his book The Mother. She bathed me in the cascade of her smile and heart-melting look. I stood before her, shy and speechless, made more so by the presence of the others who were enjoying the silent sweet spectacle. Minutes passed. Then I offered to her hand my rose and did my pranam at her feet which had gold anklets on them. She stooped and blessed me. On standing up, I got again the same enchanting smile like moonbeams from a magic sky. After a time she said to the others, "He is very shy." "[1]
(Amal Kiran:) "Now to come back to all the people, all – the undamned all who were there in the Ashram. Very soon after my coming Dilip Kumar Roy came with Sahana Devi. They came and settled down. And, soon after that, I saw the face of my friend Nirod. It was of course an unforgettable face. (laughter) I think he had come straight from England or via some place in Bengal, but he carried something of the air of England. (laughter) He had passed out as a doctor at Edinburgh. I saw him, we became friends and we have remained friends ever since. But when he came as a doctor he was not given doctoring work here. As far as I remember he was made the head of a timber godown! (laughter) All sorts of strange jobs were being given to people. Look at the first job I got. The Mother once told me, "I would like you to do some work." I said, "All right, I am prepared to do some work." Then she said,"Will you take charge of our stock of furniture?" (laughter)"[2]
(Amal Kiran:) "To return to my friend Nirod – it was after some time that he got the Dispensary. I don't know whether he wanted it, or liked it or not, but he established his reputation as the frowning physician. (laughter) People used to come to him with a cold and he would stand and glare at them, and say, "What? You have a cold!" Poor people, they would simply shiver (laughter) and this had a very salutary effect because they thought that it was better not to fall ill than face the doctor's drastic disapproval of any kind of illness which would give him any botheration. (laughter) But he did his job all right, and every time he frightened off a patient he went to his room and started trying to write poetry (laughter) – because that, he thought, was his most important job. And, whether he succeeded as a doctor or not, as a poet he has eminently succeeded. Sri Aurobindo has really made him a poet.
The doctoring as well as the poetry was a bond between us, because my father had been a doctor and medicine ran in my blood. We used to discuss medical matters sometimes, but more often the problems and pains of poetry."[3] ~ https://wiki.auroville.org.in/wiki/Nirodbaran#KEYS
188:Mother, how to change one's consciousness?
Naturally, there are many ways, but each person must do it by the means accessible to him; and the indication of the way usually comes spontaneously, through something like an unexpected experience. And for each one, it appears a little differently.
For instance, one may have the perception of the ordinary consciousness which is extended on the surface, horizontally, and works on a plane which is simultaneously the surface of things and has a contact with the superficial outer side of things, people, circumstances; and then, suddenly, for some reason or other - as I say for each one it is different - there is a shifting upwards, and instead of seeing things horizontally, of being at the same level as they are, you suddenly dominate them and see them from above, in their totality, instead of seeing a small number of things immediately next to yourself; it is as though something were drawing you above and making you see as from a mountain-top or an aeroplane. And instead of seeing each detail and seeing it on its own level, you see the whole as one unity, and from far above.
There are many ways of having this experience, but it usually comes to you as if by chance, one fine day.
Or else, one may have an experience which is almost its very opposite but which comes to the same thing. Suddenly one plunges into a depth, one moves away from the thing one perceived, it seems distant, superficial, unimportant; one enters an inner silence or an inner calm or an inward vision of things, a profound feeling, a more intimate perception of circumstances and things, in which all values change. And one becomes aware of a sort of unity, a deep identity which is one in spite of the diverse appearances.
Or else, suddenly also, the sense of limitation disappears and one enters the perception of a kind of indefinite duration beginningless and endless, of something which has always been and always will be.
These experiences come to you suddenly in a flash, for a second, a moment in your life, you don't know why or how.... There are other ways, other experiences - they are innumerable, they vary according to people; but with this, with one minute, one second of such an existence, one catches the tail of the thing. So one must remember that, try to relive it, go to the depths of the experience, recall it, aspire, concentrate. This is the startingpoint, the end of the guiding thread, the clue. For all those who are destined to find their inner being, the truth of their being, there is always at least one moment in life when they were no longer the same, perhaps just like a lightning-flash - but that is enough. It indicates the road one should take, it is the door that opens on this path. And so you must pass through the door, and with perseverance and an unfailing steadfastness seek to renew the state which will lead you to something more real and more total.
Many ways have always been given, but a way you have been taught, a way you have read about in books or heard from a teacher, does not have the effective value of a spontaneous experience which has come without any apparent reason, and which is simply the blossoming of the soul's awakening, one second of contact with your psychic being which shows you the best way for you, the one most within your reach, which you will then have to follow with perseverance to reach the goal - one second which shows you how to start, the beginning.... Some have this in dreams at night; some have it at any odd time: something one sees which awakens in one this new consciousness, something one hears, a beautiful landscape, beautiful music, or else simply a few words one reads, or else the intensity of concentration in some effort - anything at all, there are a thousand reasons and thousands of ways of having it. But, I repeat, all those who are destined to realise have had this at least once in their life. It may be very fleeting, it may have come when they were very young, but always at least once in one's life one has the experience of what true consciousness is. Well, that is the best indication of the path to be followed.
One may seek within oneself, one may remember, may observe; one must notice what is going on, one must pay attention, that's all. Sometimes, when one sees a generous act, hears of something exceptional, when one witnesses heroism or generosity or greatness of soul, meets someone who shows a special talent or acts in an exceptional and beautiful way, there is a kind of enthusiasm or admiration or gratitude which suddenly awakens in the being and opens the door to a state, a new state of consciousness, a light, a warmth, a joy one did not know before. That too is a way of catching the guiding thread. There are a thousand ways, one has only to be awake and to watch.
First of all, you must feel the necessity for this change of consciousness, accept the idea that it is this, the path which must lead to the goal; and once you admit the principle, you must be watchful. And you will find, you do find it. And once you have found it, you must start walking without any hesitation.
Indeed, the starting-point is to observe oneself, not to live in a perpetual nonchalance, a perpetual apathy; one must be attentive.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1956, [T6],#KEYS
189:Chapter LXXXII: Epistola Penultima: The Two Ways to Reality
Cara Soror,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
How very sensible of you, though I admit somewhat exacting!
You write-Will you tell me exactly why I should devote so much of my valuable time to subjects like Magick and Yoga.
That is all very well. But you ask me to put it in syllogistic form. I have no doubt this can be done, though the task seems somewhat complicated. I think I will leave it to you to construct your series of syllogisms yourself from the arguments of this letter.
In your main question the operative word is "valuable. Why, I ask, in my turn, should you consider your time valuable? It certainly is not valuable unless the universe has a meaning, and what is more, unless you know what that meaning is-at least roughly-it is millions to one that you will find yourself barking up the wrong tree.
First of all let us consider this question of the meaning of the universe. It is its own evidence to design, and that design intelligent design. There is no question of any moral significance-"one man's meat is another man's poison" and so on. But there can be no possible doubt about the existence of some kind of intelligence, and that kind is far superior to anything of which we know as human.
How then are we to explore, and finally to interpret this intelligence?
It seems to me that there are two ways and only two. Imagine for a moment that you are an orphan in charge of a guardian, inconceivably learned from your point of view.
Suppose therefore that you are puzzled by some problem suitable to your childish nature, your obvious and most simple way is to approach your guardian and ask him to enlighten you. It is clearly part of his function as guardian to do his best to help you. Very good, that is the first method, and close parallel with what we understand by the word Magick.
We are bothered by some difficulty about one of the elements-say Fire-it is therefore natural to evoke a Salamander to instruct you on the difficult point. But you must remember that your Holy Guardian Angel is not only far more fully instructed than yourself on every point that you can conceive, but you may go so far as to say that it is definitely his work, or part of his work; remembering always that he inhabits a sphere or plane which is entirely different from anything of which you are normally aware.
To attain to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel is consequently without doubt by far the simplest way by which you can yourself approach that higher order of being.
That, then, is a clearly intelligible method of procedure. We call it Magick.
It is of course possible to strengthen the link between him and yourself so that in course of time you became capable of moving and, generally speaking, operating on that plane which is his natural habitat.
There is however one other way, and one only, as far as I can see, of reaching this state.
It is at least theoretically possible to exalt the whole of your own consciousness until it becomes as free to move on that exalted plane as it is for him. You should note, by the way, that in this case the postulation of another being is not necessary. There is no way of refuting the solipsism if you feel like that. Personally I cannot accede to its axiom. The evidence for an external universe appears to me perfectly adequate.
Still there is no extra charge for thinking on those lines if you so wish.
I have paid a great deal of attention in the course of my life to the method of exalting the human consciousness in this way; and it is really quite legitimate to identify my teaching with that of the Yogis.
I must however point out that in the course of my instruction I have given continual warnings as to the dangers of this line of research. For one thing there is no means of checking your results in the ordinary scientific sense. It is always perfectly easy to find a subjective explanation of any phenomenon; and when one considers that the greatest of all the dangers in any line of research arise from egocentric vanity, I do not think I have exceeded my duty in anything that I have said to deter students from undertaking so dangerous a course as Yoga.
It is, of course, much safer if you are in a position to pursue in the Indian Jungles, provided that your health will stand the climate and also, I must say, unless you have a really sound teacher on whom you can safely rely. But then, if we once introduce a teacher, why not go to the Fountain-head and press towards the Knowledge and conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel?
In any case your Indian teacher will ultimately direct you to seek guidance from that source, so it seems to me that you have gone to a great deal of extra trouble and incurred a great deal of unnecessary danger by not leaving yourself in the first place in the hands of the Holy Guardian Angel.
In any case there are the two methods which stand as alternatives. I do not know of any third one which can be of any use whatever. Logically, since you have asked me to be logical, there is certainly no third way; there is the external way of Magick, and the internal way of Yoga: there you have your alternatives, and there they cease.
Love is the law, love under will.
Fraternally,
666 ~ Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears,#KEYS
190:summary of the entire process of psychic awakening :::
You have asked what is the discipline to be followed in order to convert the mental seeking into a living spiritual experience. The first necessity is the practice of concentration of your consciousness within yourself. The ordinary human mind has an activity on the surface which veils the real Self. But there is another, a hidden consciousness within behind the surface one in which we can become aware of the real Self and of a larger deeper truth of nature, can realise the Self and liberate and transform the nature. To quiet the surface mind and begin to live within is the object of this concentration. Of this true consciousness other then the superficial there are two main centres, one in the heart (not the physical heart, but the cardiac centre in the middle of the chest), one in the head. The concentration in the heart opens within and by following this inward opening and going deep one becomes aware of the soul or psychic being, the divine element in the individual. This being unveiled begins to come forward, to govern the nature, to turn it an d all its movements towards the Truth, towards the Divine, and to call down into it all that is above. It brings the consciousness of the Presence, the dedication of the being to the Highest and invites the descent into our nature of a greater Force and Consciousness which is waiting above us. To concentrate in the heart centre with the offering of oneself to the Divine and the aspiration for this inward opening and for the Presence in the heart is the first way and, if it can be done, the natural beginning; for its result once obtained makes the spiritual path far more easy and safe than if one begins the other way.
That other way is the concentration in the head, in the mental centre. This, if it brings about the silence of the surface mind, opens up an inner, larger, deeper mind within which is more capable of receiving spiritual experience and spiritual knowledge. But once concentrated here one must open the silent mental consciousness upward to all that is above mind. After a time one feels the consciousness rising upward and it the end it rises beyond the lid which has so long kept it tied in the body and finds a centre above the head where it is liberated into the Infinite. There it behind to come into contact with the universal Self, the Divine Peace, Light, Power, Knowledge, Bliss, to enter into that and become that, to feel the descent of these things into the nature. To concentrate in the head with the aspiration for quietude in the mind and the realisation of the Self and Divine above is the second way of concentration. It is important, however, to remember that the concentration of the consciousness in the head is only a preparation for its rising to the centre above; otherwise, one may get shut up in one's own mind and its experiences or at best attain only to a reflection of the Truth above instead of rising into the spiritual transcendence to live there. For some the mental consciousness is easier, for some the concentration in the heart centre; some are capable of doing both alternatively - but to begin with the heart centre, if one can do it, is the more desirable.
The other side of the discipline is with regard to the activities of the nature, of the mind, of the life-self or vital, of the physical being. Here the principle is to accord the nature with the inner realisation so that one may not be divided into two discordant parts. There are here several disciplines or processes possible. One is to offer all the activities to the Divine and call for the inner guidance and the taking up of one's nature by a Higher Power. If there is the inward soul-opening, if the psychic being comes forward, then there is no great difficulty - there comes with it a psychic discrimination, a constant intimation, finally a governance which discloses and quietly and patiently removes all imperfections, bring the right mental and vital movements and reshapes the physical consciousness also. Another method is to stand back detached from the movements of the mind, life, physical being, to regard their activities as only a habitual formation of general Nature in the individual imposed on us by past workings, not as any part of our real being; in proportion as one succeeds in this, becomes detached, sees mind and its activities as not oneself, life and its activities as not oneself, the body and its activities as not oneself, one becomes aware of an inner Being within us - inner mental, inner vital, inner physical - silent, calm, unbound, unattached which reflects the true Self above and can be its direct representative; from this inner silent Being proceeds a rejection of all that is to be rejected, an acceptance only of what can be kept and transformed, an inmost Will to perfection or a call to the Divine Power to do at each step what is necessary for the change of the Nature. It can also open mind, life and body to the inmost psychic entity and its guiding influence or its direct guidance. In most cases these two methods emerge and work together and finally fuse into one. But one can being with either, the one that one feels most natural and easy to follow.
Finally, in all difficulties where personal effort is hampered, the help of the Teacher can intervene and bring above what is needed for the realisation or for the immediate step that is necessary.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II, 6, {871},#KEYS
191: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
192:Attention on Hypnagogic Imagery The most common strategy for inducing WILDs is to fall asleep while focusing on the hypnagogic imagery that accompanies sleep onset. Initially, you are likely to see relatively simple images, flashes of light, geometric patterns, and the like.
Gradually more complicated forms appear: faces, people, and finally entire scenes. 6
The following account of what the Russian philosopher P. D. Ouspensky called "half-dream states" provides a vivid example of what hypnagogic imagery can be like:
I am falling asleep. Golden dots, sparks and tiny stars appear and disappear before my eyes. These sparks and stars gradually merge into a golden net with diagonal meshes which moves slowly and regularly in rhythm with the beating of my heart, which I feel quite distinctly. The next moment the golden net is transformed into rows of brass helmets belonging to Roman soldiers marching along the street below. I hear their measured tread and watch them from the window of a high house in Galata, in Constantinople, in a narrow lane, one end of which leads to the old wharf and the Golden Horn with its ships and steamers and the minarets of Stamboul behind them. I hear their heavy measured tread, and see the sun shining on their helmets. Then suddenly I detach myself from the window sill on which I am lying, and in the same reclining position fly slowly over the lane, over the houses, and then over the Golden Horn in the direction of Stamboul. I smell the sea, feel the wind, the warm sun. This flying gives me a wonderfully pleasant sensation, and I cannot help opening my eyes. 7
Ouspensky's half-dream states developed out of a habit of observing the contents of his mind while falling asleep or in half-sleep after awakening from a dream. He notes that they were much easier to observe in the morning after awakening than before sleep at the beginning of the night and did not occur at all "without definite efforts." 8
Dr. Nathan Rapport, an American psychiatrist, cultivated an approach to lucid dreaming very similar to Ouspensky's: "While in bed awaiting sleep, the experimenter interrupts his thoughts every few minutes with an effort to recall the mental item vanishing before each intrusion that inquisitive attention." 9 This habit is continued sleep itself, with results like the following:
Brilliant lights flashed, and a myriad of sparkles twinkled from a magnificent cut glass chandelier. Interesting as any stage extravaganza were the many quaintly detailed figurines upon a mantel against the distant, paneled wall adorned in rococo.
At the right a merry group of beauties and gallants in the most elegant attire of Victorian England idled away a pleasant occasion. This scene continued for [a] period of I was not aware, before I discovered that it was not reality, but a mental picture and that I was viewing it. Instantly it became an incommunicably beautiful vision. It was with the greatest stealth that my vaguely awakened mind began to peep: for I knew that these glorious shows end abruptly because of such intrusions.
I thought, "Have I here one of those mind pictures that are without motion?" As if in reply, one of the young ladies gracefully waltzed about the room. She returned to the group and immobility, with a smile lighting her pretty face, which was turned over her shoulder toward me. The entire color scheme was unobtrusive despite the kaleidoscopic sparkles of the chandelier, the exquisite blues and creamy pinks of the rich settings and costumes. I felt that only my interest in dreams brought my notice to the tints - delicate, yet all alive as if with inner illumination. 10
Hypnagogic Imagery Technique
1. Relax completely
While lying in bed, gently close your eyes and relax your head, neck, back, arms, and legs. Completely let go of all muscular and mental tension, and breathe slowly and restfully. Enjoy the feeling of relaxation and let go of your thoughts, worries, and concerns. If you have just awakened from sleep, you are probably sufficiently relaxed.
Otherwise, you may use either the progressive relaxation exercise (page 33) or the 61-point relaxation exercise (page 34) to relax more deeply. Let everything wind down,
slower and slower, more and more relaxed, until your mind becomes as serene as the calmest sea.
2. Observe the visual images
Gently focus your attention on the visual images that will gradually appear before your mind's eye. Watch how the images begin and end. Try to observe the images as delicately as possible, allowing them to be passively reflected in your mind as they unfold. Do not attempt to hold onto the images, but instead just watch without attachment or desire for action. While doing this, try to take the perspective of a detached observer as much as possible. At first you will see a sequence of disconnected, fleeting patterns and images. The images will gradually develop into scenes that become more and more complex, finally joining into extended sequences.
3. Enter the dream
When the imagery becomes a moving, vivid scenario, you should allow yourself to be passively drawn into the dream world. Do not try to actively enter the dream scene,
but instead continue to take a detached interest in the imagery. Let your involvement with what is happening draw you into the dream. But be careful of too much involvement and too little attention. Don't forget that you are dreaming now!
Commentary
Probably the most difficult part of this technique to master is entering the dream at Step 3. The challenge is to develop a delicate vigilance, an unobtrusive observer perspective, from which you let yourself be drawn into the dream. As Paul Tholey has emphasized, "It is not desirable to want actively to enter into the scenery,
since such an intention as a rule causes the scenery to disappear." 11 A passive volition similar to that described in the section on autosuggestion in the previous chapter is required: in Tholey's words, "Instead of actively wanting to enter into the scenery, the subject should attempt to let himself be carried into it passively." 12 A Tibetan teacher advises a similar frame of mind: "While delicately observing the mind, lead it gently into the dream state, as though you were leading a child by the hand." 13
Another risk is that, once you have entered into the dream, the world can seem so realistic that it is easy to lose lucidity, as happened in the beginning of Rapport's WILD described above. As insurance in case this happens, Tholey recommends that you resolve to carry out a particular action in the dream, so that if you momentarily lose lucidity, you may remember your intention to carry out the action and thereby regain lucidity.
~ Stephen LaBerge, Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming,#KEYS
193:
Why do we forget our dreams?
Because you do not dream always at the same place. It is not always the same part of your being that dreams and it is not at the same place that you dream. If you were in conscious, direct, continuous communication with all the parts of your being, you would remember all your dreams. But very few parts of the being are in communication.
For example, you have a dream in the subtle physical, that is to say, quite close to the physical. Generally, these dreams occur in the early hours of the morning, that is between four and five o'clock, at the end of the sleep. If you do not make a sudden movement when you wake up, if you remain very quiet, very still and a little attentive - quietly attentive - and concentrated, you will remember them, for the communication between the subtle physical and the physical is established - very rarely is there no communication.
Now, dreams are mostly forgotten because you have a dream while in a certain state and then pass into another. For instance, when you sleep, your body is asleep, your vital is asleep, but your mind is still active. So your mind begins to have dreams, that is, its activity is more or less coordinated, the imagination is very active and you see all kinds of things, take part in extraordinary happenings.... After some time, all that calms down and the mind also begins to doze. The vital that was resting wakes up; it comes out of the body, walks about, goes here and there, does all kinds of things, reacts, sometimes fights, and finally eats. It does all kinds of things. The vital is very adventurous. It watches. When it is heroic it rushes to save people who are in prison or to destroy enemies or it makes wonderful discoveries. But this pushes back the whole mental dream very far behind. It is rubbed off, forgotten: naturally you cannot remember it because the vital dream takes its place. But if you wake up suddenly at that moment, you remember it. There are people who have made the experiment, who have got up at certain fixed hours of the night and when they wake up suddenly, they do remember. You must not move brusquely, but awake in the natural course, then you remember.
After a time, the vital having taken a good stroll, needs to rest also, and so it goes into repose and quietness, quite tired at the end of all kinds of adventures. Then something else wakes up. Let us suppose that it is the subtle physical that goes for a walk. It starts moving and begins wandering, seeing the rooms and... why, this thing that was there, but it has come here and that other thing which was in that room is now in this one, and so on. If you wake up without stirring, you remembeR But this has pushed away far to the back of the consciousness all the stories of the vital. They are forgotten and so you cannot recollect your dreams. But if at the time of waking up you are not in a hurry, you are not obliged to leave your bed, on the contrary you can remain there as long as you wish, you need not even open your eyes; you keep your head exactly where it was and you make yourself like a tranquil mirror within and concentrate there. You catch just a tiny end of the tail of your dream. You catch it and start pulling gently, without stirring in the least. You begin pulling quite gently, and then first one part comes, a little later another. You go backward; the last comes up first. Everything goes backward, slowly, and suddenly the whole dream reappears: "Ah, there! it was like that." Above all, do not jump up, do not stir; you repeat the dream to yourself several times - once, twice - until it becomes clear in all its details. Once that dream is settled, you continue not to stir, you try to go further in, and suddenly you catch the tail of something else. It is more distant, more vague, but you can still seize it. And here also you hang on, get hold of it and pull, and you see that everything changes and you enter another world; all of a sudden you have an extraordinary adventure - it is another dream. You follow the same process. You repeat the dream to yourself once, twice, until you are sure of it. You remain very quiet all the time. Then you begin to penetrate still more deeply into yourself, as though you were going in very far, very far; and again suddenly you see a vague form, you have a feeling, a sensation... like a current of air, a slight breeze, a little breath; and you say, "Well, well...." It takes a form, it becomes clear - and the third category comes. You must have a lot of time, a lot of patience, you must be very quiet in your mind and body, very quiet, and you can tell the story of your whole night from the end right up to the beginning.
Even without doing this exercise which is very long and difficult, in order to recollect a dream, whether it be the last one or the one in the middle that has made a violent impression on your being, you must do what I have said when you wake up: take particular care not even to move your head on the pillow, remain absolutely still and let the dream return.
Some people do not have a passage between one state and another, there is a little gap and so they leap from one to the other; there is no highway passing through all the states of being with no break of the consciousness. A small dark hole, and you do not remember. It is like a precipice across which one has to extend the consciousness. To build a bridge takes a very long time; it takes much longer than building a physical bridge.... Very few people want to and know how to do it. They may have had magnificent activities, they do not remember them or sometimes only the last, the nearest, the most physical activity, with an uncoordinated movement - dreams having no sense.
But there are as many different kinds of nights and sleep as there are different days and activities. There are not many days that are alike, each day is different. The days are not the same, the nights are not the same. You and your friends are doing apparently the same thing, but for each one it is very different. And each one must have his own procedure.
Why are two dreams never alike?
Because all things are different. No two minutes are alike in the universe and it will be so till the end of the universe, no two minutes will ever be alike. And men obstinately want to make rules! One must do this and not that.... Well! we must let people please themselves.
You could have put to me a very interesting question: "Why am I fourteen years old today?" Intelligent people will say: "It is because it is the fourteenth year since you were born." That is the answer of someone who believes himself to be very intelligent. But there is another reason. I shall tell this to you alone.... I have drowned you all sufficiently well! Now you must begin to learn swimming!
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 36?,#KEYS
194:This, in short, is the demand made on us, that we should turn our whole life into a conscious sacrifice. Every moment and every movement of our being is to be resolved into a continuous and a devoted self-giving to the Eternal. All our actions, not less the smallest and most ordinary and trifling than the greatest and most uncommon and noble, must be performed as consecrated acts. Our individualised nature must live in the single consciousness of an inner and outer movement dedicated to Something that is beyond us and greater than our ego. No matter what the gift or to whom it is presented by us, there must be a consciousness in the act that we are presenting it to the one divine Being in all beings. Our commonest or most grossly material actions must assume this sublimated character; when we eat, we should be conscious that we are giving our food to that Presence in us; it must be a sacred offering in a temple and the sense of a mere physical need or self-gratification must pass away from us. In any great labour, in any high discipline, in any difficult or noble enterprise, whether undertaken for ourselves, for others or for the race, it will no longer be possible to stop short at the idea of the race, of ourselves or of others. The thing we are doing must be consciously offered as a sacrifice of works, not to these, but either through them or directly to the One Godhead; the Divine Inhabitant who was hidden by these figures must be no longer hidden but ever present to our soul, our mind, our sense. The workings and results of our acts must be put in the hands of that One in the feeling that that Presence is the Infinite and Most High by whom alone our labour and our aspiration are possible. For in his being all takes place; for him all labour and aspiration are taken from us by Nature and offered on his altar. Even in those things in which Nature is herself very plainly the worker and we only the witnesses of her working and its containers and supporters, there should be the same constant memory and insistent consciousness of a work and of its divine Master. Our very inspiration and respiration, our very heart-beats can and must be made conscious in us as the living rhythm of the universal sacrifice.
It is clear that a conception of this kind and its effective practice must carry in them three results that are of a central importance for our spiritual ideal. It is evident, to begin with, that, even if such a discipline is begun without devotion, it leads straight and inevitably towards the highest devotion possible; for it must deepen naturally into the completest adoration imaginable, the most profound God-love. There is bound up with it a growing sense of the Divine in all things, a deepening communion with the Divine in all our thought, will and action and at every moment of our lives, a more and more moved consecration to the Divine of the totality of our being. Now these implications of the Yoga of works are also of the very essence of an integral and absolute Bhakti. The seeker who puts them into living practice makes in himself continually a constant, active and effective representation of the very spirit of self-devotion, and it is inevitable that out of it there should emerge the most engrossing worship of the Highest to whom is given this service. An absorbing love for the Divine Presence to whom he feels an always more intimate closeness, grows upon the consecrated worker. And with it is born or in it is contained a universal love too for all these beings, living forms and creatures that are habitations of the Divine - not the brief restless grasping emotions of division, but the settled selfless love that is the deeper vibration of oneness. In all the seeker begins to meet the one Object of his adoration and service. The way of works turns by this road of sacrifice to meet the path of Devotion; it can be itself a devotion as complete, as absorbing, as integral as any the desire of the heart can ask for or the passion of the mind can imagine.
Next, the practice of this Yoga demands a constant inward remembrance of the one central liberating knowledge, and a constant active externalising of it in works comes in too to intensify the remembrance. In all is the one Self, the one Divine is all; all are in the Divine, all are the Divine and there is nothing else in the universe, - this thought or this faith is the whole background until it becomes the whole substance of the consciousness of the worker. A memory, a self-dynamising meditation of this kind, must and does in its end turn into a profound and uninterrupted vision and a vivid and all-embracing consciousness of that which we so powerfully remember or on which we so constantly meditate. For it compels a constant reference at each moment to the Origin of all being and will and action and there is at once an embracing and exceeding of all particular forms and appearances in That which is their cause and upholder. This way cannot go to its end without a seeing vivid and vital, as concrete in its way as physical sight, of the works of the universal Spirit everywhere. On its summits it rises into a constant living and thinking and willing and acting in the presence of the Supramental, the Transcendent. Whatever we see and hear, whatever we touch and sense, all of which we are conscious, has to be known and felt by us as That which we worship and serve; all has to be turned into an image of the Divinity, perceived as a dwelling-place of his Godhead, enveloped with the eternal Omnipresence. In its close, if not long before it, this way of works turns by communion with the Divine Presence, Will and Force into a way of Knowledge more complete and integral than any the mere creature intelligence can construct or the search of the intellect can discover.
Lastly, the practice of this Yoga of sacrifice compels us to renounce all the inner supports of egoism, casting them out of our mind and will and actions, and to eliminate its seed, its presence, its influence out of our nature. All must be done for the Divine; all must be directed towards the Divine. Nothing must be attempted for ourselves as a separate existence; nothing done for others, whether neighbours, friends, family, country or mankind or other creatures merely because they are connected with our personal life and thought and sentiment or because the ego takes a preferential interest in their welfare. In this way of doing and seeing all works and all life become only a daily dynamic worship and service of the Divine in the unbounded temple of his own vast cosmic existence. Life becomes more and more the sacrifice of the eternal in the individual constantly self-offered to the eternal Transcendence. It is offered in the wide sacrificial ground of the field of the eternal cosmic Spirit; and the Force too that offers it is the eternal Force, the omnipresent Mother. Therefore is this way a way of union and communion by acts and by the spirit and knowledge in the act as complete and integral as any our Godward will can hope for or our soul's strength execute.
It has all the power of a way of works integral and absolute, but because of its law of sacrifice and self-giving to the Divine Self and Master, it is accompanied on its one side by the whole power of the path of Love and on the other by the whole power of the path of Knowledge. At its end all these three divine Powers work together, fused, united, completed, perfected by each other.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, The Sacrifice, the Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice [111-114],#KEYS
195:How to Meditate
Deep meditation is a mental procedure that utilizes the nature of the mind to systematically bring the mind to rest. If the mind is given the opportunity, it will go to rest with no effort. That is how the mind works.
Indeed, effort is opposed to the natural process of deep meditation. The mind always seeks the path of least resistance to express itself. Most of the time this is by making more and more thoughts. But it is also possible to create a situation in the mind that turns the path of least resistance into one leading to fewer and fewer thoughts. And, very soon, no thoughts at all. This is done by using a particular thought in a particular way. The thought is called a mantra.
For our practice of deep meditation, we will use the thought - I AM. This will be our mantra.
It is for the sound that we will use I AM, not for the meaning of it.
The meaning has an obvious significance in English, and I AM has a religious meaning in the English Bible as well. But we will not use I AM for the meaning - only for the sound. We can also spell it AYAM. No meaning there, is there? Only the sound. That is what we want. If your first language is not English, you may spell the sound phonetically in your own language if you wish. No matter how we spell it, it will be the same sound. The power of the sound ...I AM... is great when thought inside. But only if we use a particular procedure. Knowing this procedure is the key to successful meditation. It is very simple. So simple that we will devote many pages here to discussing how to keep it simple, because we all have a tendency to make things more complicated. Maintaining simplicity is the key to right meditation.
Here is the procedure of deep meditation: While sitting comfortably with eyes closed, we'll just relax. We will notice thoughts, streams of thoughts. That is fine. We just let them go by without minding them. After about a minute, we gently introduce the mantra, ...I AM...
We think the mantra in a repetition very easily inside. The speed of repetition may vary, and we do not mind it. We do not intone the mantra out loud. We do not deliberately locate the mantra in any particular part of the body. Whenever we realize we are not thinking the mantra inside anymore, we come back to it easily. This may happen many times in a sitting, or only once or twice. It doesn't matter. We follow this procedure of easily coming back to the mantra when we realize we are off it for the predetermined time of our meditation session. That's it.
Very simple.
Typically, the way we will find ourselves off the mantra will be in a stream of other thoughts. This is normal. The mind is a thought machine, remember? Making thoughts is what it does. But, if we are meditating, as soon as we realize we are off into a stream of thoughts, no matter how mundane or profound, we just easily go back to the mantra.
Like that. We don't make a struggle of it. The idea is not that we have to be on the mantra all the time. That is not the objective. The objective is to easily go back to it when we realize we are off it. We just favor the mantra with our attention when we notice we are not thinking it. If we are back into a stream of other thoughts five seconds later, we don't try and force the thoughts out. Thoughts are a normal part of the deep meditation process. We just ease back to the mantra again. We favor it.
Deep meditation is a going toward, not a pushing away from. We do that every single time with the mantra when we realize we are off it - just easily favoring it. It is a gentle persuasion. No struggle. No fuss. No iron willpower or mental heroics are necessary for this practice. All such efforts are away from the simplicity of deep meditation and will reduce its effectiveness.
As we do this simple process of deep meditation, we will at some point notice a change in the character of our inner experience. The mantra may become very refined and fuzzy. This is normal. It is perfectly all right to think the mantra in a very refined and fuzzy way if this is the easiest. It should always be easy - never a struggle. Other times, we may lose track of where we are for a while, having no mantra, or stream of thoughts either. This is fine too. When we realize we have been off somewhere, we just ease back to the mantra again. If we have been very settled with the mantra being barely recognizable, we can go back to that fuzzy level of it, if it is the easiest. As the mantra refines, we are riding it inward with our attention to progressively deeper levels of inner silence in the mind. So it is normal for the mantra to become very faint and fuzzy. We cannot force this to happen. It will happen naturally as our nervous system goes through its many cycles ofinner purification stimulated by deep meditation. When the mantra refines, we just go with it. And when the mantra does not refine, we just be with it at whatever level is easy. No struggle. There is no objective to attain, except to continue the simple procedure we are describing here.
When and Where to Meditate
How long and how often do we meditate? For most people, twenty minutes is the best duration for a meditation session. It is done twice per day, once before the morning meal and day's activity, and then again before the evening meal and evening's activity.
Try to avoid meditating right after eating or right before bed.
Before meal and activity is the ideal time. It will be most effective and refreshing then. Deep meditation is a preparation for activity, and our results over time will be best if we are active between our meditation sessions. Also, meditation is not a substitute for sleep. The ideal situation is a good balance between meditation, daily activity and normal sleep at night. If we do this, our inner experience will grow naturally over time, and our outer life will become enriched by our growing inner silence.
A word on how to sit in meditation: The first priority is comfort. It is not desirable to sit in a way that distracts us from the easy procedure of meditation. So sitting in a comfortable chair with back support is a good way to meditate. Later on, or if we are already familiar, there can be an advantage to sitting with legs crossed, also with back support. But always with comfort and least distraction being the priority. If, for whatever reason, crossed legs are not feasible for us, we will do just fine meditating in our comfortable chair. There will be no loss of the benefits.
Due to commitments we may have, the ideal routine of meditation sessions will not always be possible. That is okay. Do the best you can and do not stress over it. Due to circumstances beyond our control, sometimes the only time we will have to meditate will be right after a meal, or even later in the evening near bedtime. If meditating at these times causes a little disruption in our system, we will know it soon enough and make the necessary adjustments. The main thing is that we do our best to do two meditations every day, even if it is only a short session between our commitments. Later on, we will look at the options we have to make adjustments to address varying outer circumstances, as well as inner experiences that can come up.
Before we go on, you should try a meditation. Find a comfortable place to sit where you are not likely to be interrupted and do a short meditation, say ten minutes, and see how it goes. It is a toe in the water.
Make sure to take a couple of minutes at the end sitting easily without doing the procedure of meditation. Then open your eyes slowly. Then read on here.
As you will see, the simple procedure of deep meditation and it's resulting experiences will raise some questions. We will cover many of them here.
So, now we will move into the practical aspects of deep meditation - your own experiences and initial symptoms of the growth of your own inner silence. ~ Yogani, Deep Meditation,#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:Remember, Be Here Now. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove 2:Lovers remember everything. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 3:Remember to be calm in adversity. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 4:Not to remember is not an option. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 5:A burnt finger remember the fire. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove 6:Remember it's OK to be yourself. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 7:Remember that credit is money. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove 8:The purpose of life is to remember. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 9:They remember to do it all the time. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 10:Remember, nothing succeeds without toil. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 11:Remember the poor, it costs nothing. ~ josh-billings, @wisdomtrove 12:Success, remember is the reward of toil. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 13:Take it easy, and remember easy is right. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 14:In adversity, remember to keep an even mind. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 15:Remember You, Remembers You, Stoops ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove 16:Remember, what you say comes back to you. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 17:Remember You, Remembers You, Entrepreneur ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove 18:Unless we remember we cannot understand. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 19:Forgiveness changes the way we remember. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 20:We always remember best the irrelevant. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 21:Just remember, it all started with a mouse. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 22:Remember my mantra: distinct... or extinct. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove 23:Statesmen remember things selectively. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 24:Forget favors given; remember those received. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 25:How sweet to remember the trouble that is past. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 26:Remember, Life is a journey, not a destination. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 27:Remember that no one ever kicks a dead dog. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 28:Remember there is no success without hard work. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 29:We have happy days, remember good dinners. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 30:Helping Others, Remember You, Remembers You ~ audrey-hepburn, @wisdomtrove 31:Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 32:Remember that failure is an event, not a person. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 33:That which we can't remember, we will repeat. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 34:Appearances matter — and remember to smile. ~ nelson-mandela, @wisdomtrove 35:Oh, if we would only remember who God is! ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 36:Remember that thought is speech before God. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 37:When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 38:Remember, you only have to succeed the last time. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 39:If you don't like me, remember it's mind over matter. ~ dr-seuss, @wisdomtrove 40:Please remember: things are not what they seem. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 41:Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer. ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove 42:Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you. ~ rumi, @wisdomtrove 43:always remember your unique, just like everone else ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 44:Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer. ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove 45:Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 46:Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 47:To observe attentively is to remember distinctly. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 48:If you can remember the sixties, you weren't there. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 49:Remember even when alone, that the divine is everywhere. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 50:Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 51:As long as I can remember, I've always loved people. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 52:I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget. ~ a-a-milne, @wisdomtrove 53:Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 54:Remember that a good example is the best sermon. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 55:Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing. ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove 56:Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 57:Remember that everyone is influenced by kindness. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 58:Remember, your motto is, if they can do it, I can do it! ~ t-harv-eker, @wisdomtrove 59:I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. ~ george-burns, @wisdomtrove 60:If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 61:I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 62:Nothing that's worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 63:Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 64:Remember that the more you know, the less you fear. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 65:Remember the only sign of life is motion and growth. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 66:To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 67:Each one should remember there is a chance for him. ~ booker-t-washington, @wisdomtrove 68:Remember‚Äîboredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure. ~ tim-ferris, @wisdomtrove 69:Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 70:Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. ~ tim-ferris, @wisdomtrove 71:Remember the goodness of God in the frost of adversity. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 72:Remember the to-do list but don't forget the to-be list. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 73:Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 74:Remember, Christ's scholars must study upon their knees. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 75:Remember that winners do what losers don't want to do. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 76:Remember that you are a magnet, attracting everything to you. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 77:Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 78:I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 79:I used to be a hot-tar roofer. Yeah, I remember that... day. ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 80:Remember, either you control your money or it will control you. ~ t-harv-eker, @wisdomtrove 81:Sometimes I don't drink so the next day I can remember having fun. ~ mae-west, @wisdomtrove 82:Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of bliss. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 83:Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 84:As a kid, I remember taking apart whatever I could get my hands on. ~ jony-ive, @wisdomtrove 85:Forget what you've been taught so you can remember what you know. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 86:When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right. ~ thomas-edison, @wisdomtrove 87:When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 88:By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 89:Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 90:Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 91:Remember that unjust critisism is often a disquised compliment. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 92:Remember that your thoughts are the primary cause of everything. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 93:People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights. ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove 94:Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 95:Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. ~ alexander-the-great, @wisdomtrove 96:If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 97:Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes. ~ mae-west, @wisdomtrove 98:Remember to be submissive, thou art analien, a fugitive, and in need. ~ aeschylus, @wisdomtrove 99:Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 100:The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death. ~ sri-ramakrishna, @wisdomtrove 101:Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 102:We are vengeful. God is forgiving. We remember. God redeems. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 103:Even through your hardest days, remember we are all made of stardust. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 104:I don't remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 105:Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 106:Remember that you are a magnet! Appreciation attracts appreciation! ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 107:Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 108:A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 109:I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from? ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 110:Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 111:Remember Her? Take A Deep Breath Before You See What She Looks Like Now ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 112:Remember: Jobs are owned by the company; you own your 113:Remember there is plenty of room at the top-but not enough to sit down. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 114:Step with care and great tact. And remember life's a great balancing act. ~ dr-seuss, @wisdomtrove 115:You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 116:As to the idea that advertising motivates people, remember the Edsel. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 117:I remember when being liberal meant being generous with your own money. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 118:Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove 119:Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 120:Remember, you are special because I made you. And I don't make mistakes. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 121:Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 122:Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 123:Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 124:It helps me if I remember that God is in charge of my day - not I. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 125:Remember that underlying all our fears is a lack of trust in ourselves. ~ susan-jeffers, @wisdomtrove 126:When I'm dead I don't want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 127:Always remember, nothing can touch you if you inwardly love God. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 128:Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry. ~ dr-seuss, @wisdomtrove 129:You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove 130:Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 131:Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 132:Remember Her? Take A Deep Breath Before You See What She Looks Like Now ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 133:Remember it is not only you who are seeking truth – truth is also seeking you. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 134:Remember that how you say something is as important as what you say. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 135:Remember that life develops what it demands - the toughest path creates the ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove 136:Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don’t think so. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 137:Remember, we will all do more to avoid pain than we will to gain pleasure. ~ tony-robbins, @wisdomtrove 138:Without loving God you will not get anywhere. Remember this at all times. ~ anandamayi-ma, @wisdomtrove 139:Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent it is gone forever. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 140:Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove 141:The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 142:When it seems like that's all there is, remember all you have in Him. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 143:It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 144:Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 145:Remember, only a policeman is allowed to express himself on an expressway. ~ phyllis-diller, @wisdomtrove 146:Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 147:... so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 148:The dog barks backwards without getting up; I can remember when he was a pup ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 149:The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 150:We must remember we are stewards of what God has provided for us, not owners. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 151:You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 152:Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 153:When i feel tense, I remember to relax all of the muscles and organs in my body ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 154:I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove 155:Remember that almost everything looks better after a good night's sleep. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 156:Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove 157:Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be? ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 158:I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 159:Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 160:The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 161:Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove 162:Remember that no time is ever wasted that makes two people better friends. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 163:Remember, the grass is always greener where you don't happen to be the neighbor. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 164:Remember: the Bible is our only authoritative source of information about Heaven. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 165:Remember the instruction: Whatever you come across - go beyond. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 166:All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove 167:Remember the man who truly repents is never satisfied with his own repentance. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 168:No matter what the problem, a miracle can solve it. Remember to ask for one. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 169:Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 170:How can I be sure I've succeeded, if I can't remember what I was trying to do. ~ ashleigh-brilliant, @wisdomtrove 171:Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 172:Your power is in your thoughts, so stay awake. In other words, remember to remember. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 173:Do your homework and know your facts, but remember it's passion that persuades. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 174:I don't remember the hotel rooms or the airports but I always remember the events. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 175:Remember, a good marriage is like a campfire. Both grow cold if left unattended. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 176:Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 177:You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 178:It's important to remember that people are always doing the best they can, including you. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 179:Remember that nothing really important ever happens until someone takes a chance. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 180:When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove 181:Always remember honey. A good motto is: Take all you can get and give as little as possible. ~ mae-west, @wisdomtrove 182:Refuse to let the fear of rejection hold you back. Remember, rejection is never personal. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 183:Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 184:Remember what Lincoln said: ‘A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 185:When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin. ~ mae-west, @wisdomtrove 186:When you feel the need to hurry, remember that everything in life is a CHOICE. ~ jonathan-lockwood-huie, @wisdomtrove 187:Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 188:Do ya remember the first time you had sex? I do, and boy, was I scared! I was alone! ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 189:Please remember that your greatest talent is so much more powerful than your biggest fear. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 190:Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 191:It’s always helpful to remember that when perfectionism is driving, shame is riding shotgun. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 192:Remember to also read these funny John Mulaney quotes that will make your day better. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 193:The Universal Mind is not the Absolute, remember, but merely an emanation of it. ~ william-walker-atkinson, @wisdomtrove 194:Remember, you become what you think. Think discouraging thoughts, and you’ll get discouraged. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 195:The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 196:If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 197:In my simplicity, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 198:Remember, in the vast infinity of life, all is perfect, whole, and complete... and so are you. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 199:Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove 200:Remember that what's right isn't always popular, and what's popular isn't always right. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 201:Remember when you're out there trying to heal the sick, that you must always first forgive them. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 202:So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove 203:Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 204:I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep. ~ bette-davis, @wisdomtrove 205:I'll remember you. When I've forgotten all the rest.You to me were true. You to me were the best. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 206:Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 207:Remember men, we're fighting for this woman's honor; which is probably more than she ever did. ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 208:Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 209:In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 210:Lord, help me to remember that there are many ways to rejoice in any kind of day you make for us. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 211:Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 212:Remember that the biggest gap in the world is between & 213:Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders. ~ george-bernard-shaw, @wisdomtrove 214:The first thing to remember is how to drop thoughts and become thoughtless — thoughtless but alert. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 215:He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 216:In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 217:Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 218:People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages! ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 219:... when we are hurt it is important to remember that God Himself has allowed it for a purpose. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 220:Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 221:Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 222:Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 223:Remember, we're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably far more than she's ever done! ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove 224:Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the & 225:But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove 226:There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand. ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 227:When you plan a journey from your mind into mine, remember to allow for the time difference. ~ ashleigh-brilliant, @wisdomtrove 228:(after listening to people gripe and complain just smile and remember) Crows can’t hang with eagles. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 229:I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 230:In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 231:I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing & 232:But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 233:Control your temper. Remember, you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 234:Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume. ~ henri-matisse, @wisdomtrove 235:God, Atlantis was only yesterday. Let alone Los Angeles. Remember that incarnation in Los Angeles? ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 236:Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 237:We’re all grateful for people who write and speak in ways that help us remember that we’re not alone. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 238:Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you are and what you want. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 239:For as long as he could remember, he’d suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 240:I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 241:Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 242:Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 243:Remember there is no way you can give the father custody of the children without getting a divorce. ~ phyllis-diller, @wisdomtrove 244:I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 245:I consider myself foremost a novelist with the intent of crafting stories that people will remember. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 246:If you do something for someone else, never remember. If someone does something for you, never forget. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 247:I invented that little rhyme about & 248:It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 249:Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove 250:Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 251:Remember: you are the only person who thinks in your mind! You are the power and authority in your world. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 252:Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 253:Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence. ~ vernon-howard, @wisdomtrove 254:Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 255:The best course for My lover is to remember Me wholeheartedly as much as one can…and leave the rest to Me. ~ meher-baba, @wisdomtrove 256:Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 257:Just remember, after they foreclose on your mortgage, you get a lot more sunshine in your life. ~ jonathan-lockwood-huie, @wisdomtrove 258:Remember that you are. This is your working capital. Rotate it and there will be much profit. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 259:She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 260:We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 261:Always remember who you are. Know that you are never required to apologize to anyone for being yourself. ~ lyania-vanzant, @wisdomtrove 262:Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 263:That's how I always want to remember my time with you. Like a pure white light, breathtaking to behold. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 264:The best course for My lover is to remember Me wholeheartedly as much as one can‚Ķand leave the rest to Me. ~ meher-baba, @wisdomtrove 265:When you're sad and when you're lonely and you haven't got a friend, just remember that death is not the end. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 266:I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is. ~ fred-allen, @wisdomtrove 267:I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life. ~ steve-martin, @wisdomtrove 268:Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken. ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove 269:Always remember this: If you don't attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 270:At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 271:If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove 272:Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. ~ eleanor-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 273:Remember, every great leader (or visionary or brave thinker) was initially laughed at. Now they are revered. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 274:Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 275:You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 276:I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: & 277:Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove 278:You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets! ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 279:I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst in my carriage, when to my joy the solution occurred to me. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 280:If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 281:It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. ~ george-burns, @wisdomtrove 282:Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find "tomorrow" on the calendars of fools. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove 283:Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove 284:Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 285:See your life as a giant adventure. Keep pushing the envelope, and remember that every dream starts off small. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 286:God, help me remember that when I admit and accept the truth, I'll be given the power and guidance to change. ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove 287:Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 288:Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 289:Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. It can be so, sometimes. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 290:Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove 291:Tell people - and they may forget... show them - they may remember... but involve them and they will understand. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 292:When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove 293:Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 294:Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 295:Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 296:We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 297:Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 298:[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 299:How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 300:We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right. ~ salvador-dali, @wisdomtrove 301:It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth. ~ george-burns, @wisdomtrove 302:I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this? ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 303:Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember. ~ alan-moore, @wisdomtrove 304:The only reason to buy a paper book any longer is to own it and cherish it and remember it and tell a story about it. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 305:Every time you look in the mirror remember that God created you and that everything He creates is beautiful and good! ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 306:for how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 307:I always make special notes about evidence that contridicts me: supportive evidence I can remember without trying. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 308:It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 309:I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things. ~ dorothy-parker, @wisdomtrove 310:Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates & 311:THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 312:Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 313:We must remember there are different seasons in our lives and let God do what He wants to do in each of those seasons. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 314:What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day; how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 315:& 316:When the dream of life becomes a nightmare, I can remember that one day I'll wake up and realize that everything is okay. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 317:Forgiveness changes the way we remember. It converts the curse into a blessing. Forgiveness indeed heals memories . . . ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 318:George: Don’t insult me, my friend. Remember who you’re talking to. No one’s a bigger idiot than me. Seinfeld TV show ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove 319:Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. ~ a-a-milne, @wisdomtrove 320:Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 321:Remember to remember: & 322:We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general. ~ abraham-maslow, @wisdomtrove 323:If you're that depressed, reach out to someone. And remember, suicide is a permanent solution, to a temporary problem. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 324:I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 325:Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 326:Our noblest purpose in life is to remember our spiritual nature in the face of suggestions that we are a material society. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 327:Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 328:May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 329:Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 330:Apathy is a trap. There is no challenge... so there is no reward. Remember, there is always free cheese in a mousetrap. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 331:Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 332:I remember once a vocational director said to Fang, "You must develop some mechanical skills - like getting out of bed." ~ phyllis-diller, @wisdomtrove 333:Read carefully anything that requires your signature. Remember the big print giveth and the small print taketh away. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 334:Remember: You are the only human being in the world who can help this particular customer at this particular moment in time. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove 335:We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 336:We must remember that life begins at home and we must also remember that the future of humanity passes through the family ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 337:Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 338:Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it. ~ josh-billings, @wisdomtrove 339:I remember when I heard the words "Biblical criticism" in my town, it was with disdain: "Biblical criticism? How dare you?". ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 340:Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing. Turn out your toes as you walk. And remember who you are! ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove 341:The silence inside of you is the sound of your knowledge collapsing. Remember, it is you who said, & 342:They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 343:I could have loved you once And said it But then you went away And when you came back Love was a forgotten word, Remember? ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 344:Remember that all success is based on long-term commitment, faith, discipline, attitude and a few stepping stones along the way. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 345:They must remember that they are constantly on the run, and that the world's reality is actually expressed by their escape. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove 346:Think how you love me,' she whispered. & 347:All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 348:I like Easter. But let's remember that Christ's resurrection is not truer at Easter than at any other time of the year. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 349:Just be yourself and remember you cannot be anything else, whatsoever you do. All effort is futile. You have to be just yourself. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 350:Oh Trees, Trees, Trees... wake. Don't you remember it? Don't you remember me? Dryads and hamadryads, come out, come [out] to me. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 351:Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 352:Patience and perserverance will accomplish more in this world than a brilliant dash. Remember that when something goes wrong. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 353:I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel. ~ abraham-lincoln, @wisdomtrove 354:Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little". ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 355:O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! We still remember, we who dwell In this far land beneath the trees. Thy starlight on the Western Seas. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 356:Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is. ~ booker-t-washington, @wisdomtrove 357:Still, as Christmas-tide comes round, They remember it again - Echo still the joyful sound "Peace on earth, good-will to men!" ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove 358:When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born. ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 359:Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 360:Remember your connection with the cosmos. Remember your connection with the infinity and that remembrance will give you the freedom. ~ amit-ray, @wisdomtrove 361:Vengeance fixes your attention on life's ugliest moments. Is this where you want to look? Remember: God dispenses perfect justice. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 362:Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 363:Many of us are frightened to look within ourselves, and fear has us put up walls so thick we no longer remember who we really are. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove 364:I was mentally, emotionally and verbally abused by my father as far back as I can remember until I left home at the age of eighteen ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 365:Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can‚Äôt see it, you can't see your true self. So quietly submit to be painted. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 366:Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. ~ epicurus, @wisdomtrove 367:I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, & 368:Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 369:We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 370:When I was a kid I got no respect. I had no friends. I remember the see-saw. I had to keep runnin' from one end to the other. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 371:Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 372:A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 373:Last year we drove across the country... We had one cassette tape to listen to on the entire trip... I don't remember what it was. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 374:Time is the only commodity we deal with which cannot be counterfeited, stolen or placed in inventory. Remember, time is irreplaceable. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 375:Each stage of development, remember, has a dialectic of progress& 376:Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 377:Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course. ~ alexander-hamilton, @wisdomtrove 378:The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 379:Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy. ~ george-carlin, @wisdomtrove 380:Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 381:Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove 382:For paranoia about & 383:I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 384:It is important to remember that we are energy. Einstein told us that. And energy cannot be created or destroyed, it just changes form. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 385:Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 386:A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 387:All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 388:I have often seen a cat without a grin - but a grin without a cat - remember the cat kept appearing and disappearing slowly bit by bit. ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove 389:I think Heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of Heaven here. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 390:I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love, and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 391:Remember that all is One... and what you do to your neighbor, your friend or your foe, is a reflection of what you think of your Creator. ~ edgar-cayce, @wisdomtrove 392:A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 393:Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone might be looking. Hear and you forget, see and you remember, do and you understand. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 394:I have derived continued benefit from criticism at all periods of my life and I do not remember any time when I was ever short of it. ~ winston-churchill, @wisdomtrove 395:Remember it only takes giving love and good feelings a minimum of 51 percent of the tiem to reach the tipping point and change everything. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 396:Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 397:Remember that the only God man comes in contact with is his own God, called Spirit, Soul and Mind, or Consciousness, and these three are one. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove 398:Just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 399:Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot. ~ alan-moore, @wisdomtrove 400:Remember that just the moment you say, "I give up," someone else seeing the same situation is saying, "My, what a great opportunity." ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 401:Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. ~ tim-ferris, @wisdomtrove 402:We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 403:You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 404:Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always& 405:If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything! ~ salvador-dali, @wisdomtrove 406:Remember: A best-selling book usually follows a simple rule, It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told; not, It's a wonderfully told story. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 407:Remember this: When I am gone, only love can take my place. Be absorbed night and day in the love of God, and give that love to all. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 408:To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take the trifle Termed mortality! ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 409:Don't be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the & 410:Remember also that the smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 411:Sometimes when I'm with you, I remember things I lost when I was your age. Like I remember the sound of the rain and the smell of the wind. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 412:She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing. ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove 413:We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium. ~ amsel-adams, @wisdomtrove 414:Ricorda, se hai bisogno di una mano la troverai alla fine del tuo braccio. Remember, if you need a hand you'll find it at the end of your arm. ~ audrey-hepburn, @wisdomtrove 415:There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 416:Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 417:I don't ask you to love me always like this but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 418:If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 419:It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 420:Keep doing the right. God is building character in you, and you are passing that test. Remember, the greater the struggle, the greater the reward. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 421:Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you were standing there instead of him. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 422:Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 423:Ask yourself, & 424:If you drain others energy a lot, you don't want to see this because you do it yourself; but remember, it's real easy to manipulate a manipulator. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 425:Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 426:Remember to be kind. Remember to be loving. Remember to feel all your feelings and to take care of yourself. But most of all, remember to be happy. ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove 427:There is no such thing as not-knowing. There is only forgetting. What is wrong with forgetting? It is as simple to forget as to remember. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 428:While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 429:Without the support from religion& 430:I wish I could manage to be glad! Only I never can remember the rule. You must be very happy, living in this wood, and being glad whenever you like! ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove 431:I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", or even "Teach my performing dogs new tricks". ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 432:There's nothing wrong with us. There's nothing missing in us. Everything is for us and there is nothing against us. Let us remember this together. ~ michael-beckwith, @wisdomtrove 433:Well, just remember& 434:As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 435:I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 436:I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 437:Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo. ~ a-a-milne, @wisdomtrove 438:Often the only thing a child can remember about an adult in later years, when he or she is grown, is whether or not that person was kind to him or her. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 439:Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove 440:Sometimes sorrow, sometimes joy. But beneath it all remember the innate perfection of your life unfolding. That is the secret of unreasonable happiness. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove 441:There are two things you should remember when dealing with parallel universes. One, they're not really parallel, and two, they're not really universes ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 442:Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead log. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 443:You remember my ideal cat has always a huge rat in its mouth, just going out of sight - though going out of sight in itself has a peculiar pleasure. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 444:Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance. ~ winston-churchill, @wisdomtrove 445:Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison. ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove 446:How could such a large door be kept secret from everybody outside, apart from the dragon?" [Bilbo] asked. He was only a little hobbit you must remember. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 447:I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 448:Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be. ~ epicurus, @wisdomtrove 449:The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove 450:When I try to describe myself to God I say, & 451:A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 452:Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago. . . ~ george-burns, @wisdomtrove 453:Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 454:Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always. ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove 455:The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 456:Josiah has a tremendous reputation in the text. He rediscovered the Book of the Law; you remember how Hilkiah the High Priest somehow found it [2 Kings 22:8]. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 457:Our land is everything to us... . I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it - with their lives. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 458:And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 459:I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 460:If I supply you with a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought for yourself, I have indeed added to your stature. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 461:Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. I really hope no one misinterprets this quote as being about masturbation. ~ audrey-hepburn, @wisdomtrove 462:The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 463:When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 464:Getting older is tough. I remember the last time I felt an erection. It was at the movies. The only trouble is, it belonged to the guy sitting next to me. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 465:Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth in the West, and cometh from the Sea. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 466:When we feel deep love, we can embrace those parts of ourselves that normally seem unlovable. We can allow ourselves to remember the suffering we prefer to forget. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 467:Remember, if you are criticising, you are not being grateful. If you are blaming, you are not being grateful. If you are complaining, you are not being grateful. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 468:The moral is that it is probably better not to sin at all, but if some kind of sin you must be pursuing, Well, remember to do it by doing rather than by not doing. ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 469:When you feel anger arising, remember to return to your breathing and follow it. The other person may see that you are practicing, and she may even apologize. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 470:The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that there are no results inside its walls. The result of a business is a satisfied customer. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 471:Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are condemned to reinvent it. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 472:Throughout America today, we honor the dead of our wars. We recall their valor and their sacrifices. We remember they gave their lives so that others might live. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 473:I remember I was so depressed I was going to jump out a window on the tenth floor; they sent a priest up to talk to me and he said, & 474:i remember we all cried like the Missouri when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because somebody pressed a button (and down went my uncle Sol and started a worm farm) ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove 475:Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 476:Always remember that renunciation is the root idea. Unless one is initiated into this idea, not even Brahma and the World - gods have the power to attain Mukti ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 477:I can't see my reflection in the waters, I can't speak the sounds that show no pain. I can't hear the echo of my footsteps, or can't remember the sound of my own name. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 478:Remember, the only thing to fear is Fear, and - well, don't even fear Fear, for he's a cowardly chap at the best, who will run if you show a brave front. ~ william-walker-atkinson, @wisdomtrove 479:And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove 480:I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 481:I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 482:Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove 483:If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life - mine or that of my fellow man - is not an offering to the other, what are we doing on this earth? ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 484:Never allow weakness to overtake your mind. Remember Mahavira, remember the Divine Mother! And you will see that all weakness, all cowardice will vanish at once. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 485:That's sad too, people cannot do anything that dreadful they cannot do anything very dreadful at all they cannot even remember tomorrow what seemed dreadful today ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove 486:There should of course be left a field of work for the sake of experiment but at all times one must remember that there will always remain open a possibility of err. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 487:Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 488:Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 489:The illusion holds power over you when you are not able to remember that you are a powerful spirit that has taken on the physical experience for the purpose of learning. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 490:& 491:Oh no; but promise me you'll remember.' Her tears were falling. & 492:You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 493:Of course, we are to pray for spiritual awakening, and in various ways we can do something toward it. But we must remember that neither Paul nor Apollos gives the increase. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 494:Remember all the times you were a winner; the times when you did something you were proud of, even small things. Hold these feelings close to you, this joy and confidence. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 495:In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 496:I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to be. It's impossible not to remember wild an want it back. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 497:Take it as the absolute truth. Your joy is divine, your suffering is divine too. All comes from God. Remember it always. You are God, your will alone is done’. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 498:And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 499:People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove 500:Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:Remember, Be Here Now. ~ Ram Dass, #NFDB
2:Remember I Love You Always ~ Zane, #NFDB
3:Repeat to remember. ~ John Medina, #NFDB
4:Lovers remember everything. ~ Ovid, #NFDB
5:Remember me. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
6:Remember who God is. ~ Renee Swope, #NFDB
7:Remember me, I'm real. ~ Calia Read, #NFDB
8:Do you remember Italy? ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
9:I remember everything ~ Trent Reznor, #NFDB
10:Remember thee! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
11:Remember the Ladies. ~ Abigail Adams, #NFDB
12:Remember the memories. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
13:Remember to remember! ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
14:But I remember one thing: ~ Ken Kesey, #NFDB
15:Places remember events. ~ James Joyce, #NFDB
16:Remember to be awesome. ~ Umair Haque, #NFDB
17:Remember you must die. ~ Muriel Spark, #NFDB
18:Hey you, remember me? ~ Sidney Halston, #NFDB
19:I remember passion. ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
20:i want to remember ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
21:I remember traffic jams ~ Michael Stipe, #NFDB
22:Please remember me. ~ Loreena McKennitt, #NFDB
23:Someone has to remember. ~ Lisa Roecker, #NFDB
24:When it rains, I remember ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
25:Adversity makes men remember God. ~ Livy, #NFDB
26:But I remember now ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
27:I will always remember ~ Faith Ringgold, #NFDB
28:REMEMBER MY LAST, PETUNIA. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
29:The cat, I remember. ~ Diane Setterfield, #NFDB
30:When it rains, I remember. ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
31:I am living. I remember you. ~ Marie Howe, #NFDB
32:I remember, now, how to cry. ~ Alex Flinn, #NFDB
33:Life is what you remember. ~ Mary Rickert, #NFDB
34:What you remember saves you. ~ W S Merwin, #NFDB
35:Remember, good things happen. ~ Jojo Moyes, #NFDB
36:Remember the Russians! ~ Diana Peterfreund, #NFDB
37:Remember the stone in her fist. ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB
38:Remember to be calm in adversity. ~ Horace, #NFDB
39:Remember to be yourself. ~ Naturi Naughton, #NFDB
40:Remember me at Winterlong. ~ Elizabeth Hand, #NFDB
41:Remember one rule, no rule. ~ Janet Jackson, #NFDB
42:She can’t remember yesterday ~ Vivian Arend, #NFDB
43:We’re not dating, remember. ~ Toni Anderson, #NFDB
44:He seems to remember. “Why ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
45:I do remember being young. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
46:Remember it's me. Please ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
47:Remember us better than we are. ~ John Clare, #NFDB
48:the elephant can remember. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
49:The young remember most deeply ~ Dan Simmons, #NFDB
50:I am only what I remember. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
51:I don't remember feeling love. ~ Quincy Jones, #NFDB
52:It's so we remember to remember ~ Nicola Yoon, #NFDB
53:Remember the wonders he has done. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
54:Remember: Writing is drawing. ~ Danny Gregory, #NFDB
55:You fall, I fall, remember? ~ Jess Rothenberg, #NFDB
56:Always remember: science first! ~ Andy Andrews, #NFDB
57:Always remember your kid's name. ~ Amy Poehler, #NFDB
58:Human beings remember experiences ~ Matt Prior, #NFDB
59:i can't remember to forget you ~ Brooke Taylor, #NFDB
60:Just remember you’re not a bird, ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
61:Make sure they remember you. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
62:Remember, it’s only a game… ~ Stephanie Garber, #NFDB
63:Remember, pain serves a purpose. ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
64:Remember- their minds are chaos. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
65:Remember to live. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
66:I can remember much forgetfulness. ~ Hart Crane, #NFDB
67:I forgot to remember to forget. ~ Elvis Presley, #NFDB
68:Not to remember is not an option. ~ Elie Wiesel, #NFDB
69:Remember—action brings reaction. ~ Nick Vujicic, #NFDB
70:Remember, channel your inner winner. ~ Tim Gunn, #NFDB
71:Remember that all is opinion. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
72:Remember the face of your father ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
73:We are what we remember. ~ Benjamin Alire S enz, #NFDB
74:A burnt finger remember the fire. ~ Alice Walker, #NFDB
75:But remember when I moved in you ~ Leonard Cohen, #NFDB
76:He conquers who endures.’ Remember ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
77:I don't remember a voice ~ Mary Chapin Carpenter, #NFDB
78:I need to remember to overcome. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
79:I remember you, Matthews. Always. ~ Kahlen Aymes, #NFDB
80:No one gets left behind, remember? ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
81:Remember: Evil is a point of View ~ Cameron Jace, #NFDB
82:Remember now, Cheers, no tears. ~ Marilyn Monroe, #NFDB
83:Remember: Resist do not comply. ~ Andrea Dworkin, #NFDB
84:Remember that dead man you saw ~ Lindsay Buroker, #NFDB
85:remember: the enemy gets a vote. ~ Jocko Willink, #NFDB
86:Remember the White Knight. ~ Trenton Lee Stewart, #NFDB
87:Remember to remember! ~ Michael Bernard Beckwith, #NFDB
88:The defeated always remember. ~ Jacqueline Carey, #NFDB
89:When it rains, Kate. Remember me. ~ Lisa De Jong, #NFDB
90:Ah, yes. I remember my first beer. ~ Steve Martin, #NFDB
91:Always remember, you are beautiful. ~ Demi Lovato, #NFDB
92:Always remember: you are beautiful! ~ Demi Lovato, #NFDB
93:Be Brave. Remember, life is a gift. ~ Nicola Yoon, #NFDB
94:Can you remember? when we thought ~ Adrienne Rich, #NFDB
95:I always remember liking school. ~ Damon Lindelof, #NFDB
96:I go, but I always remember you. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
97:Remember, a book is always a gift. ~ Sheridan Hay, #NFDB
98:Remember, we all have our place ~ Rachelle Dekker, #NFDB
99:So some will be left who remember. ~ Janet Morris, #NFDB
100:Try to remember the kind of September ~ Tom Jones, #NFDB
101:We must remember to enjoy ourselves. ~ Matt Roper, #NFDB
102:You are what you remember. ~ Benjamin Alire S enz, #NFDB
103:You can remember without seeing it. ~ Etgar Keret, #NFDB
104:he just wants a way to remember. ~ Amanda Lovelace, #NFDB
105:I don't remember any blue poodles. ~ James Thurber, #NFDB
106:I miss you more than I remember you. ~ Ocean Vuong, #NFDB
107:Remember, body armor is your friend. ~ Mary Calmes, #NFDB
108:Remember: Deadlines, not dreadlines. ~ Jason Fried, #NFDB
109:Remember it's OK to be yourself. ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
110:Remember that credit is money. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
111:Remember the First Law: SJWs always lie! ~ Vox Day, #NFDB
112:Remember to let her into your heart. ~ John Lennon, #NFDB
113:The purpose of life is to remember. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
114:We Will Remember Them - Lest we Forget ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
115:What does it remember like? ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
116:Will you remember me when I'm gone? ~ Phil Donahue, #NFDB
117:You cannot accurately remember color. ~ Jay Maisel, #NFDB
118:Zachariah, which meant remember. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
119:I hardly ever remember my dreams. ~ Tyler Blackburn, #NFDB
120:I literally cannot remember one joke. ~ Judd Apatow, #NFDB
121:I'm surprised by how much I remember. ~ Mara Wilson, #NFDB
122:I would be Apollo. I would remember. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
123:No one will remember you. ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett, #NFDB
124:Observe, Remember, Compare. ~ Alexander Graham Bell, #NFDB
125:Remember God so much that you are forgotten. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
126:Remember it with the eyes of your soul, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
127:Remember not all Germans were Nazis. ~ Erin Gruwell, #NFDB
128:Remember that email is skywriting. ~ Timothy Snyder, #NFDB
129:Remember what it's like to be human, ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
130:Remember what it's like to be human. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
131:They remember to do it all the time. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
132:But let me remember what I choose. ~ Gregory Maguire, #NFDB
133:Don't forget to remember me, alright? ~ Kahlen Aymes, #NFDB
134:Good God, what did he not remember? ~ Tammara Webber, #NFDB
135:I can remember, with unsteady feet, ~ Robert Southey, #NFDB
136:I can't remember, because I never knew. ~ John Green, #NFDB
137:I don’t even remember killing Medusa. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
138:I'm the crazy girly captain, Remember? ~ Eoin Colfer, #NFDB
139:I remember only what interests me. ~ Georgette Heyer, #NFDB
140:Just remember, everything you are is. ~ Reggie Watts, #NFDB
141:Oh, everything looks bad if you remember it. ~ Homer, #NFDB
142:Please," he whispers. "remember the sky. ~ Amy Zhang, #NFDB
143:Remember, nothing succeeds without toil. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
144:Remember. Or, failing that, invent. ~ Monique Wittig, #NFDB
145:Remember, remember the 5th of November. ~ Guy Fawkes, #NFDB
146:remember slow change is still change. ~ Hans Rosling, #NFDB
147:Remember that I too am mortal. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
148:Success, remember is the reward of toil. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
149:summertime.” “I remember it well. ~ John D MacDonald, #NFDB
150:You saved me, you should remember me. ~ Louise Gl ck, #NFDB
151:Always remember your brilliance. ~ Alexandra Stoddard, #NFDB
152:Fucking idiots live everywhere, remember? ~ Cat Grant, #NFDB
153:God, let me remember all good losers. ~ Carl Sandburg, #NFDB
154:I fail to remember, the mind has fuses. ~ B S Johnson, #NFDB
155:I must always remember what’s real. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
156:In adversity, remember to keep an even mind. ~ Horace, #NFDB
157:I remember the stink of the liverwurst. ~ Anne Sexton, #NFDB
158:Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather. ~ Martial, #NFDB
159:Remember: Life is short, break the rules ~ James Dean, #NFDB
160:Remember: Move with the Cheese! Ken ~ Spencer Johnson, #NFDB
161:Remember, people make you who you are. ~ Eddie Levert, #NFDB
162:Remember that only love conquers fear. ~ Marissa Burt, #NFDB
163:Remember that your natural state is joy. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
164:Remember the music is not in the piano. ~ Clement Mok, #NFDB
165:Remember to show yourself compassion, ~ Judith Orloff, #NFDB
166:Remember to take off, you need speed. ~ Rebekah Crane, #NFDB
167:Remember two matters and forget two matters; ~ Luqman, #NFDB
168:Some things one doesn’t want to remember. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
169:Think of me. Remember me. Love me. ~ Jennifer McMahon, #NFDB
170:Unless we remember we cannot understand ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
171:When I remember something which I had, ~ Jean Ingelow, #NFDB
172:You just remember who the enemy is, ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
173:You try and remember, but it never works. ~ Kate Moss, #NFDB
174:Children are apt to forget to remember. ~ E E Cummings, #NFDB
175:I don't think I remember my first memory ~ Hannah Hart, #NFDB
176:I remember everything but forgive anyway. ~ Erica Jong, #NFDB
177:I remember every word you’ve ever breathed, ~ K C Lynn, #NFDB
178:I remember making up songs in my head. ~ Kenny Chesney, #NFDB
179:It’s funny. I don’t remember forgetting ~ Blake Crouch, #NFDB
180:It's good to remember where you've been. ~ Traci Lords, #NFDB
181:I would be Apollo.
I would remember. ~ Rick Riordan,#NFDB
182:Katniss. I remember about the bread. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
183:People don't remember. Revenge is sweet. ~ Tracey Emin, #NFDB
184:Remember Obamacare is ready to explode. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
185:Remember, the enemy's gate is down. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
186:Remember, we show courage in many ways. ~ Jody Hedlund, #NFDB
187:Take it easy, and remember "Easy is Right." ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
188:Unless we remember we cannot understand. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
189:Adieu, adieu, adieu! remember me. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
190:Cherchez la femme, Bucky. Remember that. ~ James Ellroy, #NFDB
191:Forgiveness changes the way we remember. ~ Henri Nouwen, #NFDB
192:Gentlemen always seem to remember blondes. ~ Anita Loos, #NFDB
193:I can't remember anything I ever wrote. ~ Joni Mitchell, #NFDB
194:I’m surprised I remember how to speak. I ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
195:I remember the special quiet of rainy days ~ Jan Brett, #NFDB
196:It was. It will never be again. Remember. ~ Paul Auster, #NFDB
197:Make me remember you like you remember me. ~ The Weeknd, #NFDB
198:O days remember'd well! remember'd all! ~ George Crabbe, #NFDB
199:People forget years and remember moments. ~ Ann Beattie, #NFDB
200:Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
201:Remember - purpose is shared with others. ~ Mastin Kipp, #NFDB
202:Remember that time I broke linear time? ~ Larry Correia, #NFDB
203:Remember your dreams and fight for them. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
204:Salute the darkness and remember the light. ~ P D James, #NFDB
205:We all remember what we need to remember. ~ Joan Didion, #NFDB
206:We always remember best the irrelevant. ~ Peter Drucker, #NFDB
207:You just remember to say "Screw them. ~ Jessica Valenti, #NFDB
208:Always remember: Life is for enjoying. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
209:A woman always remembers. Remember that. ~ Magic Johnson, #NFDB
210:does he not remember he is half woman. ~ Nayyirah Waheed, #NFDB
211:Happiness is what you choose to remember. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
212:I remember when I fell from my first bike: ~ Big K R I T, #NFDB
213:I remember who I am when I'm with you. ~ Nicole Christie, #NFDB
214:I've been openly gay since I can remember. ~ Marc Jacobs, #NFDB
215:I was there. I remember. It’s old and ratty. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
216:Maybe that’s who you are, what you remember. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
217:Only one who loves can remember so well. ~ Anton Chekhov, #NFDB
218:Only the vanquished remember history. ~ Marshall McLuhan, #NFDB
219:Remember always, you are the gift! ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
220:Remember, it is never the knife's fault. ~ Daniel Boulud, #NFDB
221:Remember my mantra: distinct... or extinct. ~ Tom Peters, #NFDB
222:Remember the old guy with the bell? The— ~ Joseph Finder, #NFDB
223:Remember we are all but travelers here. ~ Mary MacKillop, #NFDB
224:Remember—we seek a balance in all things. ~ Terry Brooks, #NFDB
225:Remember you belong to nature, not it to you. ~ Grey Owl, #NFDB
226:Remember yourself always and everywhere. ~ G I Gurdjieff, #NFDB
227:The hell? She BETTER fucking remember me! ~ Jenn Cooksey, #NFDB
228:The part I remember best is the beginning. ~ Jean Racine, #NFDB
229:We remember only what we want to remember. ~ Ruskin Bond, #NFDB
230:When you taste honey, remember gall. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
231:You just remember to say, "Screw them. ~ Jessica Valenti, #NFDB
232:And...remember the phoenix feather. ~ Christine E Schulze, #NFDB
233:And sometimes I remember days of old ~ Christina Rossetti, #NFDB
234:But remember, it’s just between you and me! ~ Liz Kessler, #NFDB
235:I can't remember what my first script was. ~ Tom Stoppard, #NFDB
236:I love you. Remember. They cannot take it ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
237:I may not remember you, but my heart does. ~ A J Eversley, #NFDB
238:I remember my rookie hazing. It wasnt fun. ~ Gio Gonzalez, #NFDB
239:I remember that it hurt. Looking at her hurt. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
240:I REMEMBER WHEN ALL THIS WILL BE AGAIN. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
241:I said: I must remember this, being small. ~ Sylvia Plath, #NFDB
242:I wish to remember—at this moment I remember. ~ Gurdjieff, #NFDB
243:Just remember, it all started with a mouse. ~ Walt Disney, #NFDB
244:Remember, every treasure comes with a price. ~ Kevin Kwan, #NFDB
245:remember that Life’s
a Great Balancing Act. ~ Dr Seuss,#NFDB
246:Remember that you own what happened to you. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
247:Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not. ~ Patti Smith, #NFDB
248:Remember what I've told you. Remember me. ~ Alice Hoffman, #NFDB
249:Statesmen remember things selectively. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
250:This can't be true but I remember it. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides, #NFDB
251:We have all forgot more than we remember. ~ Thomas Fuller, #NFDB
252:We only remember what never happened. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
253:You always remember your first overdose. ~ James St James, #NFDB
254:You can't regret what you can't remember. ~ Lisa Birnbach, #NFDB
255:You remember how much I come?
~Rush ~ Laura Wright,#NFDB
256:And try to remember how to be an idealist. ~ Carrie Vaughn, #NFDB
257:Don't read to remember; read to realize. ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB
258:Do you actually remember me, my beautiful? ~ Stacy Claflin, #NFDB
259:I don’t remember how to breathe without you. ~ A L Jackson, #NFDB
260:I don’t remember writing most of these posts. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
261:If I don’t remember it, it didn’t happen. ~ Mariana Zapata, #NFDB
262:I love you. Remember. They cannot take it. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
263:I love you. Remember, they cannot take it. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
264:I remember Marvin Gaye used to sing to me, ~ Tupac Shakur, #NFDB
265:I would be Apollo.
I would remember. ~ Rick Riordan,#NFDB
266:Just remember, life is a box of cookies. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
267:Most people remember me for a couple of tunes. ~ Colin Hay, #NFDB
268:Remember: Greed is a bad color on a person. ~ Bill Engvall, #NFDB
269:Remember, I will always be in front of you. ~ Ken Watanabe, #NFDB
270:Remember, slow and steady wins the race. ~ Ieyasu Tokugawa, #NFDB
271:Remember we were sitting there by the water ~ Taylor Swift, #NFDB
272:Remember you always have freedom of choice. ~ Jenny Holzer, #NFDB
273:remember you?" i croaked "i came back for you ~ Katy Evans, #NFDB
274:The more you say, the less they remember. ~ Anatole France, #NFDB
275:To remember everything is a form of madness. ~ Brian Friel, #NFDB
276:We invent the past and remember the future. ~ Isak Dinesen, #NFDB
277:Wherever you are, I'll be there. Remember? ~ Emily Murdoch, #NFDB
278:You have to remember life is short, but ~ Jack Weatherford, #NFDB
279:A Walk to Remember. 2.15.2014 #INCWorldWideWalk ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
280:Did I still remember how to let my mind play? ~ Larry Niven, #NFDB
281:Geologists have a saying - rocks remember. ~ Neil Armstrong, #NFDB
282:He who forgets will be destined to remember. ~ Eddie Vedder, #NFDB
283:How can she not remember me? - Dean Holder ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
284:How sweet to remember the trouble that is past. ~ Euripides, #NFDB
285:I don't think I remember my first memory. ~ Ellen DeGeneres, #NFDB
286:I don't want to forget I'm trying to remember. ~ E Lockhart, #NFDB
287:I’d remember to take care of your soul. ~ Viet Thanh Nguyen, #NFDB
288:If one is honest there is no need to remember. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
289:I have never felt any pain that I can remember. ~ Jon Jones, #NFDB
290:I never remember my dreams which suits me fine. ~ John King, #NFDB
291:I only see clearly what I remember. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, #NFDB
292:I think I would remember forgetting that. ~ Jeff VanderMeer, #NFDB
293:It’s a time for truth, remember? The whole truth. ~ E N Joy, #NFDB
294:I wish I could remember the first day, ~ Christina Rossetti, #NFDB
295:Remember it’s always darkest before the dawn. ~ Demi Lovato, #NFDB
296:Remember, Life is a journey, not a destination. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
297:Remember me as a revolutionary communist. ~ Leslie Feinberg, #NFDB
298:Remember me for these days, not the old ones. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
299:Remember, Team, surrender the me for the we. ~ Phil Jackson, #NFDB
300:Remember that no one ever kicks a dead dog. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
301:Remember that you are a Black Swan. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
302:Remember, the answers are in the questions. ~ John G Miller, #NFDB
303:Remember there is no success without hard work. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
304:Remember to see everything as a miracle. ~ Sahndra Fon Dufe, #NFDB
305:Remember: what you focus on becomes bigger. ~ Kathryn Alice, #NFDB
306:Remember you?” I croaked. “I came back for you ~ Katy Evans, #NFDB
307:They say that the mind cannot remember pain; ~ Claire North, #NFDB
308:To worship is to remember Who owns the house. ~ Walter Wink, #NFDB
309:We don't remember days,we remember moments. ~ Cesare Pavese, #NFDB
310:we dont remember days, we remember moments ~ Jennifer Niven, #NFDB
311:We have happy days, remember good dinners. ~ Charles Darwin, #NFDB
312:You must remember that not all angels are holy. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
313:Appearances matter — and remember to smile. ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
314:Gwen almost as long as I can remember. When I got ~ J D Robb, #NFDB
315:I can't even remember when the Seventies was. ~ Robbie Keane, #NFDB
316:I don't remember ever having finished a book. ~ Bridget Hall, #NFDB
317:If we are unable to download, remember us. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
318:If you remember the ‘90s, you weren’t there. ~ Al Jourgensen, #NFDB
319:If you win power, remember why you wanted it. ~ John Marston, #NFDB
320:I guess. I don’t remember his name but it ~ Michael Connelly, #NFDB
321:I will remember all the days at the Olympics. ~ Bonnie Blair, #NFDB
322:Men get over things. Women remember forever. ~ Susan Mallery, #NFDB
323:No one could be the way I remember my father. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
324:People who have really been raped REMEMBER!!! ~ Cee Lo Green, #NFDB
325:Remember, the greatest failure is not to try. ~ Debbi Fields, #NFDB
326:Remember the past - and await the future. ~ Deborah Harkness, #NFDB
327:Remember "the unmoored boat floats about. ~ Murasaki Shikibu, #NFDB
328:Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties. ~ Horace, #NFDB
329:Remember: what consumes us, controls us. As ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
330:Remember Whose you are and Whom you serve. ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB
331:Unless we remember we cannot understand. ~ Edward M Forster, #NFDB
332:We do not remember days, we remember moments ~ Cesare Pavese, #NFDB
333:We're all f***ed, it helps to remember that. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
334:We're all fucked. It helps to remember that. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
335:We're all fucked. It helps to remember this. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
336:You have to always remember to be yourself. ~ Vanessa Lachey, #NFDB
337:Don't focus on her hiss. Remember her purr. ~ Donna Lynn Hope, #NFDB
338:Do you remember which way I was heading? ~ Charles Hartshorne, #NFDB
339:Everyone can forget us—as long as you remember. ~ Ocean Vuong, #NFDB
340:I can hardly remember my bleak life before you. ~ Lauren Kate, #NFDB
341:I didn’t think you’d remember that,” I say. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
342:I don't remember yesterday. Today it rained. ~ Big Joe Turner, #NFDB
343:I remember who you are. Even if you forget. ~ Kristen Simmons, #NFDB
344:Jet, I can almost remember their funny faces ~ Paul McCartney, #NFDB
345:Just remember, golf is flog spelled backwards. ~ Milton Berle, #NFDB
346:Just remember, life is a box of chocolates. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
347:My name is Stuart, and I remember everything. ~ Julian Barnes, #NFDB
348:Remember, light and shadow never stand still. ~ Benjamin West, #NFDB
349:Remember me...When all else has been forgotten. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
350:Remember, nothing works unless you do the work. ~ Peter Voogd, #NFDB
351:Remember, pain is temporary; film is forever. ~ Peter Jackson, #NFDB
352:Remember that nobodies are the new somebodies. ~ Guy Kawasaki, #NFDB
353:Remember the flight, for the bird is mortal. ~ Jasmin Darznik, #NFDB
354:Remember, the Muse favors working stiffs. ~ Steven Pressfield, #NFDB
355:Remember those three magic words: You are God. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
356:Remember to be kind. Remember to be loving. ~ Melody Beattie, #NFDB
357:Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments. ~ Horace, #NFDB
358:That which we can't remember, we will repeat. ~ Sigmund Freud, #NFDB
359:We do not remember days, we remember moments. ~ Cesare Pavese, #NFDB
360:we do not remember days, we remember moments ~ Jennifer Niven, #NFDB
361:We must always remember that God is Love. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
362:You will remember me for what I truly am: A God! ~ Bray Wyatt, #NFDB
363:But remember that to kill a mockingburd is a sin. ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
364:Do you remember the name of the horse pills? ~ Kirkus MacGowan, #NFDB
365:Everyday above ground is a great day, remember that. ~ Pitbull, #NFDB
366:I can't really remember my life without movies. ~ Elle Fanning, #NFDB
367:I remember my mistakes more than my success. ~ Adrian Peterson, #NFDB
368:It is hard to remember what we came to remember. ~ Joan Didion, #NFDB
369:It's better to forget than remember me and cry. ~ Robert Smith, #NFDB
370:Make me remember what it feels like to be loved. ~ A L Jackson, #NFDB
371:Remember, 'Even this will pass away! ~ Chinmayananda Saraswati, #NFDB
372:Remember, Had. Time is precious. Waste it wisely. ~ K Bromberg, #NFDB
373:Remember how to breathe, how to live...please!! ~ Fuyumi Soryo, #NFDB
374:Remember praise is more valuable than blame. ~ George S Patton, #NFDB
375:Remember that thought is speech before God. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
376:Remember that time you tried to hump the bridge? ~ Brent Weeks, #NFDB
377:Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck. ~ Joss Whedon, #NFDB
378:Remember, vote for life. It may be your own. ~ Mother Angelica, #NFDB
379:Remember: What dad really wants is a nap. Really. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
380:Remember who you really are and be that. ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
381:Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us ~ Sappho, #NFDB
382:Something to remember, that: cats for missiles. ~ Mervyn Peake, #NFDB
383:The more you say, the less people remember. ~ Francois Fenelon, #NFDB
384:We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be ~ Holly Black, #NFDB
385:We do not remember days, we remember moments. ~ Jennifer Niven, #NFDB
386:We only remember what never really happend ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
387:We remember, we rebuild, we come back stronger. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
388:When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed. ~ Horace, #NFDB
389:Earth angels help others remember who they are. ~ Doreen Virtue, #NFDB
390:F me, she's even more gorgeous than I remember. ~ Monica Murphy, #NFDB
391:Geometry was the first exciting course I remember. ~ Steven Chu, #NFDB
392:Good God, he’s even hotter than I remember! ~ Michelle Leighton, #NFDB
393:Have faith, Raphael, I know you remember how. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
394:Have faith, Raphael. I know you remember how. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
395:I can feel my dreams but I can't remember them. ~ Terry Gilliam, #NFDB
396:I don't remember ever not knowing about acting. ~ Jennifer Grey, #NFDB
397:I don't remember one thing I learned in school. ~ Bobby Fischer, #NFDB
398:I don't remember the first stunt I ever did. ~ Johnny Knoxville, #NFDB
399:I don't want them to be told to remember me. ~ Garrison Keillor, #NFDB
400:I guess it's just so I remember where I started. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
401:I just want you to remember things the way I do. ~ Adam Silvera, #NFDB
402:I'm a woman. We mature faster than men, remember? ~ Sharon Sala, #NFDB
403:I need to remember never to get too comfortable. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
404:I remember her eyes. The eyes of Gutete Emerita. ~ Alfredo Jaar, #NFDB
405:I remember that Scott Jacoby was a nice young man. ~ Kim Hunter, #NFDB
406:I wanted to remember in order to be able to return. ~ Anais Nin, #NFDB
407:I wanted to remember in order to be able to return. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
408:Just remember, stealing's punishable by death ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
409:Maybe that's who you are, what you remember. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
410:Memories are what you no longer want to remember. ~ Joan Didion, #NFDB
411:My love for animals started before I can remember. ~ Nikki Reed, #NFDB
412:No matter what, I always want to remember his face. ~ Jenny Han, #NFDB
413:Nothing is really lost as long as you remember it ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
414:People tend to remember my performances, not me. ~ Ellen Barkin, #NFDB
415:People were mostly good. He had to remember that. ~ Ethel Rohan, #NFDB
416:Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. ~ Jodi Daynard, #NFDB
417:Remember, children, all the stories are true. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
418:Remember, 'Even this will pass away.' ~ Chinmayananda Saraswati, #NFDB
419:Remember, good things come to those who wait. ~ Debbie Macomber, #NFDB
420:Remember me, remember us, as a time of day. ~ Justin A Reynolds, #NFDB
421:Remember, none of us is as smart as all of us. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
422:Remember that life is short and death is long. ~ Fritz Scholder, #NFDB
423:Remember, there are cookies waiting here for you. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
424:Remember: things can be bad, and getting better. ~ Hans Rosling, #NFDB
425:Remember what happened last time with the 'cuda. ~ Carl Hiaasen, #NFDB
426:Remember what mom used to say? “Shred the guilt. ~ Miriam Toews, #NFDB
427:Remember, you have no companions but your shadow ~ Genghis Khan, #NFDB
428:Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
429:Someday no one will remember that she ever existed ~ John Green, #NFDB
430:Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us. ~ Sappho, #NFDB
431:This is a book. Only make-believe. Remember? ~ Susan Wise Bauer, #NFDB
432:We only remember what never really happened ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
433:What we remember is probably fiction anyway. ~ Beryl Bainbridge, #NFDB
434:Wife-Mother-Actress-Author The world will remember. ~ Eve Arden, #NFDB
435:Zakhor. Al Tichkah. Remember. Never forget. ~ Tatiana de Rosnay, #NFDB
436:And remember, no matter where you go, there you are. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
437:Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar. ~ Joseph Stalin, #NFDB
438:God, I remember when cappuccino was a delicacy. ~ Patrick Marber, #NFDB
439:He didn't remember, he didn't worry, he just was. ~ Tove Jansson, #NFDB
440:He's only a man. Remember that. He's only a man! ~ Ralph Ellison, #NFDB
441:I can’t remember when I stopped being alive. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
442:I don't remember my life before I had children. ~ John Malkovich, #NFDB
443: I do remember. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
444:I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember? ~ Stanley Kubrick, #NFDB
445:I'm the best and I'll thank you to remember that. ~ Harry Vardon, #NFDB
446:I must remember that a good friend is a new world. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
447:I remember lost loves, and loves that never were. ~ Lisa Wingate, #NFDB
448:I remember things the way they should have been. ~ Truman Capote, #NFDB
449:It's against God's nature to remember forgiven sins ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
450:It's money. I remember it from when I was single ~ Billy Crystal, #NFDB
451:I wish to remain to remember that stanzas go on ~ Gertrude Stein, #NFDB
452:I would like to learn, or remember, how to live. ~ Annie Dillard, #NFDB
453:Just remember, honey, you only have one heart. ~ Louise Bagshawe, #NFDB
454:past year—I stop, remember to breathe. Let it go. ~ Paula Weston, #NFDB
455:People who are too sensitive go crazy, remember that ~ Paul Pope, #NFDB
456:Readers are advised to remember the devil is a liar. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
457:Remember all fairy tales end at some point. ~ Melissa de la Cruz, #NFDB
458:Remember God more often than you breathe. ~ Gregory of Nazianzus, #NFDB
459:Remember, green’s your color. You are Spring. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks, #NFDB
460:Remember, it's Ok to get what you want from life. ~ Stuart Wilde, #NFDB
461:Remember that nutrition is 90%; exercise is 10%. ~ Vince Gironda, #NFDB
462:Remember the street car cannot turn out. ~ Charles Melville Hays, #NFDB
463:Remember who you are, and where you came from. ~ Melissa F Olson, #NFDB
464:Remember why you fell in love in the first place. ~ Rachel Hauck, #NFDB
465:Remember, you’re unique. And so is everyone else. ~ Jill Shalvis, #NFDB
466:Someday no one will remember that she ever existed, ~ John Green, #NFDB
467:...some of the best sex I can barely remember. ~ Chelsea Handler, #NFDB
468:That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
469:We can know ourselves only because we can remember. ~ John Ratey, #NFDB
470:We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too. ~ John Calvin, #NFDB
471:we only remember what never really happened. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
472:What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him. ~ Robert Ludlum, #NFDB
473:What you cant forget... God cant remember! ~ John F MacArthur Jr, #NFDB
474:You must remember, burn them or they'll burn you. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
475:Best she remember me as seven and not see me now. ~ Mark Lawrence, #NFDB
476:Customers pay a price, but they remember the value. ~ Ron Kaufman, #NFDB
477:Days go by, and I don't remember not to forget.. ~ Michael Chabon, #NFDB
478:Hey Highbrow. Next time remember to tuck and roll. ~ Naima Simone, #NFDB
479:honestly can’t remember much else about those years ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB
480:How can you remember shit like that?” Ty asked. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
481:I can't remember any regrets, to be honest with you. ~ Don Nelson, #NFDB
482:People forget facts, but they remember stories. ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB
483:Please remember: things are not what they seem. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
484:Remember. I'm still betting on you girl on fire ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
485:Remember, nobody changes the world on their own. ~ Chris Hadfield, #NFDB
486:So easy to forget what you didn’t want to remember. ~ B A Shapiro, #NFDB
487:... some of the best sex I can barely remember. ~ Chelsea Handler, #NFDB
488:Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that. ~ Brandi L Bates, #NFDB
489:Some things you teach yourself to remember to forget. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
490:the thing that had grown in me that I’d remember ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
491:Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember? ~ Gregory Peck, #NFDB
492:What a night to forget.
What a night to remember. ~ Amy Zhang,#NFDB
493:What I learned on my own I still remember ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
494:What's there to remember if not the good things? ~ Susan Meissner, #NFDB
495:You can't miss what you don't remember ever having. ~ Sarah Weeks, #NFDB
496:Anon, anon! I pray you, remember the porter. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
497:But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen. ~ Krist Novoselic, #NFDB
498:honest, I can’t remember anything about it other ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
499:Humans are predators, not prey. Always remember that. ~ Dia Reeves, #NFDB
500:I don’t know. I don’t remember. What does it matter? ~ Brent Weeks, #NFDB
501:I don't understand why people don't remember my name. ~ Paul Lynde, #NFDB
502:I'm thirty-five and remember all that I've done wrong. ~ Ada Limon, #NFDB
503:In forgetting, they were trying to remember ~ William Peter Blatty, #NFDB
504:I remember being almost all of the ages I have been. ~ Joseph Fink, #NFDB
505:It’s great to remember that reading is my first love. ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB
506:It's hard to forget someone whos given so much to remember. ~ Tyga, #NFDB
507:It was better not to remember such terrible details. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
508:I used to take photographs just to remember people. ~ Gus Van Sant, #NFDB
509:I worry about a society that can remember everything. ~ Paul Saffo, #NFDB
510:No one can remember himself as an unpleasant child. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
511:Pilar-remember-nothing is so boring as devotion. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
512:Remember: Even The Beatles started as a cover band. ~ Austin Kleon, #NFDB
513:Remember, life isn’t about how you survive the storm, ~ K Bromberg, #NFDB
514:Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. ~ Tony Dungy, #NFDB
515:Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
516:remember the name of the firm which he owned. She ~ Helen MacInnes, #NFDB
517:Remember: warm heart, cold mind. The seducer's code.' ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
518:Remember when friends was friends, and LL had a Benz? ~ Biz Markie, #NFDB
519:Remember your natural affection for all of creation. ~ Rob Brezsny, #NFDB
520:someone will remember us
I say
even in another time ~ Sappho,#NFDB
521:We were giants once, remember? Kings of the Wyld. ~ Nicholas Eames, #NFDB
522:What I learned on my own I still remember. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
523:What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
524:Why do we remember the past, but not the future? ~ Stephen Hawking, #NFDB
525:You must remember, burn them or they'll burn you... ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
526:always remember, people want to be taken somewhere. ~ Donald Miller, #NFDB
527:Always remember to fall in love with your own darkness. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
528:Always remember, your focus determines your reality. ~ George Lucas, #NFDB
529:always remember your unique, just like everone else ~ Steven Wright, #NFDB
530:And I remember quiet evenings trembling close to you... ~ Tom Waits, #NFDB
531:A pity we cannot pick and choose what we remember. ~ Lorraine Heath, #NFDB
532:Every one can remember that which has interested himself. ~ Plautus, #NFDB
533:God is the place where I do not remember the rest. ~ Joseph Joubert, #NFDB
534:He didn’t just remember his grief, he relearned it. ~ Gregg Hurwitz, #NFDB
535:I am told I was born. I do not remember. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #NFDB
536:If we never lied , there would be nothing to remember. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
537:If you are not selfish you will not be altruistic, remember. ~ Osho, #NFDB
538:I gave him his first TV and he needs to remember that. ~ Kanye West, #NFDB
539:I have been restless for as long as I can remember. ~ Henry Rollins, #NFDB
540:I'm impossible to forget, but I'm hard to remember. ~ Cameron Crowe, #NFDB
541:In forgetting, they were trying to remember. ~ William Peter Blatty, #NFDB
542:I shall say you will die and none will remember you.”) ~ John Green, #NFDB
543:It is enough to remember the fact of the happiness. ~ Peter Cameron, #NFDB
544:I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
545:overwhelming as I try to remember what I’ve been ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
546:pâtisseries, and suddenly I remember Maman handing ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
547:Remember, folks, I am a comedian, not a journalist. ~ Kathy Griffin, #NFDB
548:Remember, George, this is no time to go wobbly. ~ Margaret Thatcher, #NFDB
549:Remember?” he asks. “This is where you kissed me. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
550:Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature. ~ Henry Louis Gates, #NFDB
551:Remember, laziness is a habit, not a personality trait. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
552:Remember, leadership is a choice, not a position. ~ L David Marquet, #NFDB
553:Remember: Rewards come in action, not in discussion. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
554:Remember that fate is never what we think it will be. ~ Sabaa Tahir, #NFDB
555:Remember that the only constant in life is change. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
556:Remember, things are never clear until it’s too late. ~ Peter Lynch, #NFDB
557:Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. ~ Horace, #NFDB
558:Someone will remember us
I say
Even in another time ~ Sappho,#NFDB
559:Still, there remains so much to relish and remember. ~ Anthony Lane, #NFDB
560:That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit. ~ John Cheever, #NFDB
561:The inability to remember is itself perhaps a memory. ~ John Berger, #NFDB
562:the more you remember, the more you’ve lost. ~ Emily St John Mandel, #NFDB
563:To navigate, you must be brave and you must remember. ~ Mau Piailug, #NFDB
564:To observe attentively is to remember distinctly. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
565:To observe attentively is to remember distinctly; ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
566:To Remember Is Painful, To Forget Is Impossible. ~ Maureen Connolly, #NFDB
567:What I remember are tentacles. Tentacles and teeth. ~ Daryl Gregory, #NFDB
568:Words will live as long as people can remember them. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
569:You Jump, I jump, remember
-Kate Winslet Titanic ~ Gill Paul,#NFDB
570:You must remember how to dream what you already know. ~ Lauren Kate, #NFDB
571:Always remember your focus determines your reality. ~ Peter Kingsley, #NFDB
572:And I remember "normal" might never be the same again. ~ Ally Carter, #NFDB
573:As long as I can remember, I wanted to be a writer. ~ Michael Easton, #NFDB
574:... but remember that I shall love your sorrow... ~ Cordwainer Smith, #NFDB
575:But remember, there's no greater gift than the present. ~ Dan Santat, #NFDB
576:Don’t hate me for making you remember how to fight. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
577:Every step was a victory. He had to remember that. ~ George Saunders, #NFDB
578:I am told I was born. I do not remember. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #NFDB
579:I can't be bound by a past self I don't remember. ~ Sarah Beth Durst, #NFDB
580:I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist. ~ Steve Squyres, #NFDB
581:If you can remember the sixties, you weren't there. ~ Robin Williams, #NFDB
582:I have a little name. That's why people can remember it. ~ Mike Watt, #NFDB
583:I'll remember you... I remember everyone I've lost. ~ Rebecca McNutt, #NFDB
584:I'm a Guild Boss, remember? I have no sense of humor. ~ Jayne Castle, #NFDB
585:I'm not the girl they remember. I'm not anyone they know. ~ Amy Reed, #NFDB
586:Interest level is measured by how much you remember. ~ Kevin Horsley, #NFDB
587:I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera. ~ Brendan Fraser, #NFDB
588:I remember unloading guns beneath a complex heaven ~ Nicole Blackman, #NFDB
589:I remember when I used to be really into nostalgia. ~ Demetri Martin, #NFDB
590:I shall remember the look in Margot's eyes all my life. ~ Otto Frank, #NFDB
591:It's not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember. ~ Alan Bennett, #NFDB
592:Now remember, kids, the internet is serious business. ~ Isaac Asimov, #NFDB
593:Remember even when alone, that the divine is everywhere. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
594:Remember: If you don’t find risk, risk will find you. ~ Reid Hoffman, #NFDB
595:Remember—sometimes even to live is an act of courage. ~ Jeff Wheeler, #NFDB
596:Remember, tears on one side mean laughs on the other! ~ Eiichiro Oda, #NFDB
597:Remember that every man is a variation of yourself ~ William Saroyan, #NFDB
598:remember that if God is perfect Love, then He is not ~ Gary R Renard, #NFDB
599:Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
600:(...) remember that to use a thing is not to own it. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
601:Remember the first rule of gunfighting ... have a gun. ~ Jeff Cooper, #NFDB
602:Remember the movements that don't look like moving. ~ China Mieville, #NFDB
603:Remember the movements that don't look like moving. ~ China Mi ville, #NFDB
604:Remember, there is no peace without peaceful exchange. ~ Kass Morgan, #NFDB
605:Remember, they've never seen you before in their life. ~ Andy Warhol, #NFDB
606:Remember, you’re growing a person, not fixing a problem. ~ L R Knost, #NFDB
607:someone will remember us
I say
even in another time ~ Sappho,#NFDB
608:The important thing to remember is not to forget ~ Benny Bellamacina, #NFDB
609:There is more to you than you know. Remember that. ~ Christina Henry, #NFDB
610:What we cannot remember, we must rediscover. ~ Robert Charles Wilson, #NFDB
611:Words, will live as long as people can remember them. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
612:You must remember, all stories start somewhere. ~ Drew Hayden Taylor, #NFDB
613:You want me to make you, remember? I want to make you. ~ Amanda Usen, #NFDB
614:Always remember to love the Giver more than the gifts. ~ Holley Gerth, #NFDB
615:As long as I can remember, I've always loved people. ~ Marilyn Monroe, #NFDB
616:Dad, she's beautiful. I remember where she was standing. ~ Kasie West, #NFDB
617:Forgive your enemy, but remember the bastard’s name. ~ Lani Lynn Vale, #NFDB
618:Gram did not pay much attention to them that I remember ~ Bev Sellars, #NFDB
619:He could not remember the last time he had cried. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
620:How can you forgive if you can’t remember to forget? ~ Jonathan Nolan, #NFDB
621:I always have to try and remember to be kind to myself. ~ Hannah Hart, #NFDB
622:I don’t think you remember me as well as I remember us ~ Sapan Saxena, #NFDB
623:I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget. ~ A A Milne, #NFDB
624:if you say the truth you don't have to remember anything ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
625:I never remember nice dreams; only the bad ones stick. ~ Ransom Riggs, #NFDB
626:It's important to remember we all have magic inside us. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
627:I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember. ~ B B King, #NFDB
628:I will remember and recover,
not forgive and forget. ~ J K Rowling,#NFDB
629:Just remember...you are the one with everything to lose. ~ Bray Wyatt, #NFDB
630:Kindly remember that the obvious is always overlooked. ~ Drayton Bird, #NFDB
631:Only if you can remember information can you live it. ~ Kevin Horsley, #NFDB
632:Please remember that I love you, no matter what happens ~ Celia Aaron, #NFDB
633:Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
634:Remember, all things are possible to those who believe! ~ Gail Devers, #NFDB
635:Remember, fear is of the flesh and panic is of the devil. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
636:Remember someone is going to be out, so don’t make it you. ~ Tim Gunn, #NFDB
637:Remember that a negative mind produces a negative life. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
638:Remember, the police are neutral - they hate everybody. ~ J G Ballard, #NFDB
639:Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing. ~ Charlie Chaplin, #NFDB
640:So long as we always remember, it cannot be good-bye, ~ A R Ivanovich, #NFDB
641:What people remember most is how you make them feel. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
642:When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
643:Why do we remember the past but not the future? The ~ Stephen Hawking, #NFDB
644:You have to remember a lot of business is very cyclical. ~ James Daly, #NFDB
645:Always remember, your focus determines your reality. ~ Joshua P Warren, #NFDB
646:But now I remember, of course, I'm never going to be old. ~ Sara Baume, #NFDB
647:For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
648:I can remember when safe sex meant a padded headboard. ~ Bob Monkhouse, #NFDB
649:I’ll remember this kiss till my very last breath ~ Ree Drummond, #NFDB
650:I'm the kind of person who does not remember bad things. ~ Tim Robbins, #NFDB
651:KARKAT:REMEMBER PANTS TEREZI?? YOU USED TO LOVE PANTS! ~ Andrew Hussie, #NFDB
652:Losing you're co-remember meant losing the memory itself. ~ John Green, #NFDB
653:Man and boy, I have lived ever since I can remember. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
654:Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable. ~ Zig Ziglar, #NFDB
655:Remember, breasts don't sag as we get older, they relax. ~ Marty Klein, #NFDB
656:Remember that all the others are more afraid than you ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
657:Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
658:Remember that there's a time to hate and a time to heal. ~ Gayle Roper, #NFDB
659:REMEMBER, WHAT JUDGEMENT THEE, JUDGE THEE, BE JUDGED ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
660:Remember, your motto is, if they can do it, I can do it! ~ T Harv Eker, #NFDB
661:Remember, your not your props, create the magic. ~ Harry Blackstone Jr, #NFDB
662:We bury the hatchet but then we remember where we buried it. ~ Unknown, #NFDB
663:Why bother reading something that you won’t remember? ~ Jonathan Nolan, #NFDB
664:Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. ~ Dean Acheson, #NFDB
665:Books remember all the things you cannot contain. ~ Elizabeth McCracken, #NFDB
666:Daughter, remember in this life you will have trouble ~ Karen Kingsbury, #NFDB
667:Dearest one, do you remember When we last did meet? ~ Margaret Mitchell, #NFDB
668:Do not fear … remember, perfect love drives out fear. ~ Karen Kingsbury, #NFDB
669:Do you remember when we were young and gorgeous? ~ Emily St John Mandel, #NFDB
670:Dream bigger before you can't remember to dream at all. ~ Ellen Hopkins, #NFDB
671:Great, you ruined my life and you don’t even remember it. ~ Claire Cook, #NFDB
672:How is it possible to miss someone you can’t remember? ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
673:I ain't really sure, but it seems I remember the good times ~ Tom Petty, #NFDB
674:I can't even remember not wanting to go to film school. ~ Danny McBride, #NFDB
675:I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist. ~ Ali MacGraw, #NFDB
676:If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters. ~ Chris Guillebeau, #NFDB
677:If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn? ~ Maya Lin, #NFDB
678:If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
679:I grew up with nothing - I remember sometimes not having shoes. ~ Kesha, #NFDB
680:I'll never know what it was he wanted me to remember. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
681:I remember every detail of our last meeting, daddy dear. ~ Jordan Marie, #NFDB
682:I remember what I've imagined and imagine what I remember. ~ John Green, #NFDB
683:I should remember more, and I have a pretty good memory. ~ Cesar Romero, #NFDB
684:It's never really lost to you as long as you remember it. ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
685:It’s never really lost to you as long as you remember it. ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
686:Just pause, my loves, remember me, & then keep going. ~ Kris Radish, #NFDB
687:Not belonging is the greatest gift. Always remember that. ~ Lauren Kate, #NFDB
688:One day, of course, no one will remember what I remember. ~ Donald Hall, #NFDB
689:People tend to romanticize what they can't quite remember. ~ Ira Flatow, #NFDB
690:Remember always that I love you and will watch over you. ~ Glenda Larke, #NFDB
691:Remember, if you don't sin, then Jesus died for nothing ~ Ricky Gervais, #NFDB
692:Remember, I might be the wind, but you control the kite. ~ Kathy Reichs, #NFDB
693:Remember my name-- you'll be screaming it later. ~ Florence Nightingale, #NFDB
694:Remember our new motto, dude: ‘Shit’s crazy. Don’t ask.’” ~ Rob Dircks, #NFDB
695:Remember: sentiments are infectious, whether good or bad. ~ Jason Fried, #NFDB
696:Remember that,” he groaned. “And tell everyone you know. ~ Nalini Singh, #NFDB
697:Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful. ~ Elizabeth Carter, #NFDB
698:Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
699:Remember, the way you make love is the way God will be with you. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
700:Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always ~ Dante Alighieri, #NFDB
701:Remember to practice a little every day -- that's crucial. ~ Carol Kaye, #NFDB
702:Remember to tuck the shower curtain inside the bathtub. ~ Conrad Hilton, #NFDB
703:Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
704:Remember, what you continually talk about, comes about. ~ Jack Canfield, #NFDB
705:Remember, your body is a temple, not a 7-Eleven. ~ Jennifer Love Hewitt, #NFDB
706:Strategic Principle #4: Research, dig, and document. Remember ~ Vox Day, #NFDB
707:Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
708:The real secret of creativity is to go back and remember. ~ Twyla Tharp, #NFDB
709:There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
710:though of course poverty is no crime—we must remember that! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
711:We have to change truth a little in order to remember it. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB
712:We must remember, God sends even disasters for a purpose. ~ Helen Bryan, #NFDB
713:We must remember that people are not our source - God is. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
714:We remember the missing as much as the lost, don't we? ~ Kristin Hannah, #NFDB
715:You are not my nursemaid. Remember, I am rescuing you. ~ Robin LaFevers, #NFDB
716:Always tell the truth. It's the easiest thing to remember. ~ David Mamet, #NFDB
717:And always remember how much your crazy sister loves you. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
718:anytime you speak to anybody, remember somebody ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, #NFDB
719:Do you remember? Do you remember the world before the poison? ~ Amy Reed, #NFDB
720:even if I remember it wrong, this is how I remember it. ~ Mishka Shubaly, #NFDB
721:Even in our darkest hour we must remember; never dispair. ~ Harry Vardon, #NFDB
722:From as long as I can remember, I was always fond of drawing. ~ St Lucia, #NFDB
723:I am not just what I remember. I am also what I dream. ~ Margaret Haddix, #NFDB
724:I came in 11 years ago. I remember it like it was tomorrow ~ David Moyes, #NFDB
725:I can't even remember how many times I tried to kill myself ~ Patty Duke, #NFDB
726:I could not remember the story with sufficient clarity. ~ Anthony Powell, #NFDB
727:If she dreamed, she did not remember when she awoke. ~ Caroline B Cooney, #NFDB
728:If you can't remember something, did it really happen? ~ Robin Wasserman, #NFDB
729:If you don't remember something, it doesn't hurt. ~ Benjamin Alire S enz, #NFDB
730:If you forget who you've become remember who you are ~ Benny Bellamacina, #NFDB
731:If you remember your lineage, you will never feel lonely. ~ Philip Glass, #NFDB
732:If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
733:I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt. ~ Groucho Marx, #NFDB
734:I remember the quality of the pain. You don't forget it. ~ Paula Hawkins, #NFDB
735:It is not so easy to always remember who you are. ~ Catherynne M Valente, #NFDB
736:It's been so long, I don't remember what okay feels like. ~ Kayla Krantz, #NFDB
737:I want you to remember how it feels when I look at you. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
738:Just remember it’s okay if all you did today was breathe. ~ Meggie Royer, #NFDB
739:Just remember that the enemy here is not in front of you. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
740:Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
741:only when it rains. and sometimes, too, when i remember. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
742:Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember. ~ Stanley Kunitz, #NFDB
743:Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure. ~ Tim Ferriss, #NFDB
744:Remember, disappointment is cured by revamped expectations. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
745:remember her dad using terms like knock off, or bump off, ~ David Bishop, #NFDB
746:Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
747:Remember, Lord, my ship is small and thy sea is so wide! ~ Joshua Slocum, #NFDB
748:Remember—nobody can hurt you without your permission. ~ Samantha Christy, #NFDB
749:Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
750:Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade! ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
751:Remember that the more you know, the less you fear. ~ H Jackson Brown Jr, #NFDB
752:Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty. ~ Herodotus, #NFDB
753:Remember—the Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. ~ Karin Slaughter, #NFDB
754:Remember the only sign of life is motion and growth. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
755:Remember, this is war. The gods are at war for your soul. ~ Kyle Idleman, #NFDB
756:Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you. ~ Jack LaLanne, #NFDB
757:Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always. ~ Dante Alighieri, #NFDB
758:Remember: warm heart, cold mind. The seducer's code. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
759:Remember when you were young?
You shone like the Sun... ~ Pink Floyd,#NFDB
760:Remember, you are only committed to what you confess. ~ Edwin Louis Cole, #NFDB
761:Remember, your words are your power. Never forget your words ~ Lang Leav, #NFDB
762:Shut up. You should remember, you’re my bitch tonight. ~ Lizzie Lynn Lee, #NFDB
763:Sing 'em to remember.
Sing 'em because you remember. ~ Adrienne Kress,#NFDB
764:The radio comes back even louder than you remember it. ~ Stephen Chbosky, #NFDB
765:To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
766:We are the things that others fear," I said. "Remember that. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
767:We must remember who we are by remembering Whose we are. ~ R C Sproul Jr, #NFDB
768:Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
769:Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
770:Always remember that you are unique, just like everyone else. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
771:Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember. ~ David Mamet, #NFDB
772:Are you afraid? Remember the "fear nots" of the Bible. ~ Elisabeth Elliot, #NFDB
773:As long as we remember a person, they’re not really gone. ~ Justin Cronin, #NFDB
774:Die while I can still remember who I am, who I used to be. ~ Tan Twan Eng, #NFDB
775:Each one should remember there is a chance for him. ~ Booker T Washington, #NFDB
776:Forget your mistakes but remember what they taught you ~ Vannetta Chapman, #NFDB
777:for lunch. I remember that lunch with unsettling clarity. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
778:Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester. ~ Don Rickles, #NFDB
779:He wondered what his sorrow was and could not remember. ~ N Scott Momaday, #NFDB
780:I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
781:If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
782:I just need some time away to remember why I stay. ~ Joseph Gordon Levitt, #NFDB
783:I love you. Remember. And someday, I will find you again. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
784:I remember it clearly, as if it happened yesterday…the day my ~ Mary Ting, #NFDB
785:I sort of don't remember anything I did in the '70s. ~ Cassandra Peterson, #NFDB
786:It is as well now and then not to remember all we know. ~ Publilius Syrus, #NFDB
787:I wish we could keep on forgetting to remember ourselves. ~ Julie Buxbaum, #NFDB
788:Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships. ~ Virgil, #NFDB
789:Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember. ~ Burt Bacharach, #NFDB
790:No,” said Caleb Drake. “I don’t remember anything at all. ~ Tarryn Fisher, #NFDB
791:pernicious way possible on a daily basis. I don’t remember ~ Rosanne Cash, #NFDB
792:Relax, let go. But remember only one thing: You are a witness. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
793:Remember – it’s always easier to get forgiveness than permission ~ Banksy, #NFDB
794:Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
795:Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
796:Remember that the tongue speaks only what is in the heart. ~ Theodore Epp, #NFDB
797:Remember that you are all people and that all people are you. ~ Joy Harjo, #NFDB
798:Remember, the Legislature is the joke, not our campaign. ~ Kinky Friedman, #NFDB
799:Remember, this is a time for you to let go of your compulsive ~ Hal Elrod, #NFDB
800:Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always. ~ Karen McQuestion, #NFDB
801:Remember your promises. Remember tha none of it is real ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
802:Remember, your words are your power. Never forget your words. ~ Lang Leav, #NFDB
803:They say you'll remember your first kiss forever. I will. ~ Ellen Hopkins, #NFDB
804:Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
805:To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
806:We are doomed to remember what never really happened. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
807:We do not remember days, we remember moments. –Cesare Pavese ~ Emma Scott, #NFDB
808:Whatever be thy fate today, Remember, this will pass away! ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
809:Whatever the reason, I’m happy to remember the time we had. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
810:You remember the 'be quiet' part of the rules? Embrace it. ~ Linda Howard, #NFDB
811:Always remember If you don’t love tea, you can’t make good tea. ~ Lisa See, #NFDB
812:Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of bliss. ~ Osho, #NFDB
813:Forget your mistakes but remember what they taught you. ~ Vannetta Chapman, #NFDB
814:From life to life, from breath to breath, we remember Elinor. ~ Malinda Lo, #NFDB
815:History will remember this," she says. "I do not need to. ~ Michelle Moran, #NFDB
816:I am so filled with wrong I don’t remember what right is. ~ Kiersten White, #NFDB
817:I don't remember yesterday. I pretty much live in the moment. ~ Jim Carrey, #NFDB
818:If I saw you everyday forever, I would remember this time. ~ Thomas Harris, #NFDB
819:I have a poor memory for names; but I seldom remember a face. ~ W C Fields, #NFDB
820:I'm the bartender. Everyone talks to the bartender, remember? ~ Riley Hart, #NFDB
821:I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war. ~ Jack Scalia, #NFDB
822:I remember old Elvis when he forgot to remember to forget. ~ George Strait, #NFDB
823:...I remember your profile in darkness outlined by stars ... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
824:I should take a photo.'
'No. Just remember it, and us in it. ~ Ali Shaw,#NFDB
825:Isn't it weird? The way you remember things when it's gone. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
826:It is imprtant to remember that we all have magic inside us. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
827:It's peculiar what you remember when you're not trying. ~ Chuck Klosterman, #NFDB
828:I will remember what I was. i am sick of rope and chain. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
829:I would remember him always. He would forget me tomorrow. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
830:now she couldn’t quite remember the face of the boy whose ~ Elizabeth Hoyt, #NFDB
831:Oh, that's right, she thought. I remember having good days. ~ Linda Holmes, #NFDB
832:Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember. ~ Virgil, #NFDB
833:Remember, heads high. Smiles. They're going to love you! ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
834:Remember, Pia," he whispers. "Perfect is as perfect does. ~ Jessica Khoury, #NFDB
835:Remember, she who keepeth the Books runneth the Business. ~ Thomas Pynchon, #NFDB
836:Remember, sometimes diplomacy is the better side of warfare. ~ C J Redwine, #NFDB
837:Remember that girl who gave up? Yeah, neither does anyone else ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
838:remember that “layman” is just a polite word for “idiot. ~ Neal Stephenson, #NFDB
839:Remember, that six pounds a year is but a groat a day. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
840:Remember that you are here for more than a bunch of flesh. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
841:Remember the Butterfly Effect. Tiny cause, huge effect. A ~ Harry Beckwith, #NFDB
842:Remember the golden rule: he who has the gold makes the rules. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
843:Remember the goodness of God in the frost of adversity. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
844:Remember, the past need not become our future as well. ~ Brandon Sanderson, #NFDB
845:Remember the to-do list but don't forget the to-be list. ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
846:Remember to be your brother’s keeper in September ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, #NFDB
847:Remember to say what you mean, but don't say it meanly. ~ Elizabeth George, #NFDB
848:Remember, wherever you are, you must be the lowest and last; ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
849:Remember who you are and what God expects you to become. ~ Thomas S Monson, #NFDB
850:Remember, “zealot” is just a nice way to say “crazy person. ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
851:Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. ~ Tim Ferriss, #NFDB
852:Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
853:Tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember a story. ~ John Wooden, #NFDB
854:There are people you remember and people you dream of. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
855:There are people you remember and people you dream of. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon, #NFDB
856:The things we remember best are those better forgotten. ~ Baltasar Gracian, #NFDB
857:Well, you always remember people who hurt your feelings. ~ Kristan Higgins, #NFDB
858:We're married, remember? Nobody's breaking up with anybody. ~ Jenny Offill, #NFDB
859:Why should i remember anything if i can just look it up? ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
860:You probably wouldn't remember. I probably couldn't forget. ~ Steve Miller, #NFDB
861:Always remember you’re unique
Just like everyone else. ~ Cheyenne McCray,#NFDB
862:But remember what I said about forgetting what I said? ~ Pseudonymous Bosch, #NFDB
863:Happy new year everbody! And remember: be kind to eachother. ~ Gene Simmons, #NFDB
864:I believe you can remember the future as much as the past ~ Meredith Brooks, #NFDB
865:I can still write blues songs because I remember everything. ~ Eddie Vedder, #NFDB
866:If you remember the why, the how will work itself out. ~ Richard Paul Evans, #NFDB
867:I hate women because they always remember where things are. ~ James Thurber, #NFDB
868:I may not remember her, but I sure as hell still feel her. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
869:Inactivity is the killer and, remember, it's never too late. ~ Jack LaLanne, #NFDB
870:I no longer know who I am, as I refuse to remember who I was. ~ Hans Lindor, #NFDB
871:I remember when the idea of living to be 40 seemed absurd. ~ Bruce Cockburn, #NFDB
872:I remember you, Saul. I remember the keeper of the light. ~ Jeff VanderMeer, #NFDB
873:It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us! ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
874:It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
875:I vividly remember bowling 20 + games a day, 2 or 3 times a week. ~ Joe Tex, #NFDB
876:Just remember... life without me would be even more unbearable. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
877:Let's remember, the CIA's job is to go out and create wars. ~ Jesse Ventura, #NFDB
878:One can only remember what has been consciously experienced. ~ Alice Miller, #NFDB
879:Perhaps some day it will be pleasant to remember even this. ~ Lincoln Child, #NFDB
880:Remember America, I gave you the Internet and I can take it away. ~ Al Gore, #NFDB
881:Remember, Christ's scholars must study upon their knees. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
882:Remember, for it to be a forward pass, it's got to go forward. ~ Phil Simms, #NFDB
883:Remember, half the people you know are below average. ~ Larry the Cable Guy, #NFDB
884:Remember I'm an Empath before you lie to me." - Lily Hunt ~ Jennifer DeLucy, #NFDB
885:Remember, panic’s a guy, and we just punch him in the face. ~ RoAnna Sylver, #NFDB
886:Remember that every age brings new opportunities. 1325 ~ H Jackson Brown Jr, #NFDB
887:Remember that people break down, too, not just machinery. ~ Gregory Benford, #NFDB
888:Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
889:Remember that you need not eat unless you are hungry. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
890:Remember the acorn;
It does not devour other acorns. ~ Edgar Lee Masters,#NFDB
891:Remember this always: There is a reason God limits man's days ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
892:Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life. ~ Gregory Maguire, #NFDB
893:Remember - try to stay focused on progress, not perfection. ~ Matthew Kelly, #NFDB
894:Remember who you are. It's really okay to be who you are. ~ Christina Ricci, #NFDB
895:Remember: “Yes” is nothing without “How.” So keep asking “How? ~ Chris Voss, #NFDB
896:Remember, your goal is to trade well, not to trade often. ~ Alexander Elder, #NFDB
897:Remember your promises. Remember that none of it is real. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
898:Remember, your stuff is not a record of your life - you are. ~ Francine Jay, #NFDB
899:So long as we remember names, so long those people live. ~ Bernard Cornwell, #NFDB
900:So lost in her he couldn’t remember his own name. Only hers… ~ Jill Shalvis, #NFDB
901:sometimes I am troubled. I remember poor, good-tempered Gyp; ~ Sarah Waters, #NFDB
902:The key to effective teaching is to remember how you learned. ~ Clive James, #NFDB
903:The more lies you tell the more stories you have to remember. ~ Katie Klein, #NFDB
904:There are people you remember, and people you dream of. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
905:There is no loss, if you cannot remember what you have lost. ~ Claire North, #NFDB
906:Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them. ~ John Irving, #NFDB
907:We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
908:We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass. ~ Pat Paulsen, #NFDB
909:we must remember that the soul is but a hollow which God fills. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
910:We remember an atmosphere because girls were smiling in it. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
911:We weren’t rich, but I don’t remember wanting for anything. ~ Jamie McGuire, #NFDB
912:When you die, no one's going to remember what iPhone you had. ~ Merlin Mann, #NFDB
913:Yes, Landon. I remember.” “Do you remember what I said? ~ Jennifer Handford, #NFDB
914:You do not hate anyone you are not capable of loving. Remember that. ~ Seth, #NFDB
915:You must remember, Madame Harris, elegance is in the details. ~ Lynn Sheene, #NFDB
916:Always remember that you are unique...
just like everybody else ~ Unknown,#NFDB
917:Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
918:Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are. ~ Geoffrey Jellicoe, #NFDB
919:but I remember the quality of the pain. You don’t forget it. ~ Paula Hawkins, #NFDB
920:Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt? ~ Plato, #NFDB
921:Eat, taste the food, and still remember that you are the watcher. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
922:Forget that I remember And dream that I forget. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne, #NFDB
923:Head up, chin up, shoulders back, remember the worrior queen ~ Rowan Coleman, #NFDB
924:I am gone and am not coming back, but I remember everything. ~ Keith Donohue, #NFDB
925:I couldn't remember what life was like before I started walking. ~ Teju Cole, #NFDB
926:If you ever were bullied, you always remember that feeling. ~ Odette Annable, #NFDB
927:If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. ~ Lauren Blakely, #NFDB
928:I'm so old I can remember when the Dead Sea was only sick. ~ Leon M Lederman, #NFDB
929:I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail. ~ Sugar Ray Leonard, #NFDB
930:I used to be a hot-tar roofer. Yeah, I remember that... day. ~ Mitch Hedberg, #NFDB
931:I want to remember what we were like before we became ourselves. ~ Kris Kidd, #NFDB
932:...just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives. ~ Steve Martin, #NFDB
933:Just remember that forgiveness is so much easier than regret. ~ Katie Ashley, #NFDB
934:Maybe that's who you are, what you remember.” - Valentine ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
935:Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
936:Remember, forgiveness is not a millstone but a milestone! ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
937:Remember how you made me crazy, remember how I made you scream. ~ Don Henley, #NFDB
938:Remember me from time to time. Remember how much I loved you ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
939:Remember me when I am dead
and simplify me when I'm dead. ~ Keith Douglas,#NFDB
940:Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer. 689 ~ H Jackson Brown Jr, #NFDB
941:Remember that you are a magnet, attracting everything to you. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
942:Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
943:Remember; the only way to fight negativity is with positivity. ~ Jared Leto, #NFDB
944:Remember this always: There is a reason God limits man's days. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
945:Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
946:Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
947:said, “I guess you were too drunk to remember to set ~ Pamela Fagan Hutchins, #NFDB
948:Scream silently in your prayer; remember the pain of others. ~ Megan McKenna, #NFDB
949:The Clintons are criminals, remember that. They're criminals. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
950:The least responsive audience I can ever remember playing to. ~ Trent Reznor, #NFDB
951:The reality of any place is what its people remember of it. ~ Charles Kuralt, #NFDB
952:The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said. ~ Cormac McCarthy, #NFDB
953:The very effort to forget teaches us to remember. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon, #NFDB
954:We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
955:We have all forgot more than we remember. ~ Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732., #NFDB
956:We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them. ~ Graham Greene, #NFDB
957:You surely remember your past
when you rebuke me in honesty. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
958:Always remember to bound thy thoughts to the present occasion. ~ William Penn, #NFDB
959:As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. ~ Ray Liotta, #NFDB
960:But I can't remember anymore what it's like to not be happy. ~ Mariana Zapata, #NFDB
961:But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
962:But remember, if the world didn’t suck, we’d all fall off it. ~ Janet Gurtler, #NFDB
963:Carpe Diem, just remember that we're partying on the Titanic. ~ Will McIntosh, #NFDB
964:Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place. ~ Paul Gray, #NFDB
965:Even when I do remember where, I don’t know when I am anymore. ~ Alice Feeney, #NFDB
966:I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place. ~ Amy Tan, #NFDB
967:I cannot remember a time when I was not getting into fights. ~ George Foreman, #NFDB
968:If the very old will remember, the very young will listen. ~ Chief Dan George, #NFDB
969:If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. ~ Joseph Goldstein, #NFDB
970:I have always had a bad memory, as far back as I can remember. ~ Lewis Thomas, #NFDB
971:I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
972:I remember being excited about seeing snow for the very first time. ~ Thi Bui, #NFDB
973:I remember saying in college that I would never do commercials. ~ Rob Corddry, #NFDB
974:Just remember that those things that get attention flourish. ~ Victoria Moran, #NFDB
975:Just remember: the heart! Start there, and you can't go wrong. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
976:Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. ~ Thomas De Witt Talmage, #NFDB
977:Love is magical, and it can last, if we remember our differences. ~ John Gray, #NFDB
978:No one ever told me they loved me, not that I can remember anyway ~ V F Mason, #NFDB
979:Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it. ~ L M Montgomery, #NFDB
980:Of course. Remember, I’ve seen you in her. And it’s wonderful. ~ Clive Barker, #NFDB
981:People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights. ~ Indira Gandhi, #NFDB
982:Remember, either you control your money or it will control you. ~ T Harv Eker, #NFDB
983:remember going to Roseto for the first time, and you’d see ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
984:Remember it's all just a mirror we made to see ourselves in. ~ Grant Morrison, #NFDB
985:Remember, pain is not a test. Knowledge is not enough. ~ Catherynne M Valente, #NFDB
986:Remember that one touch of ill-nature makes the whole world kin. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
987:Remember, that the logo is really the dot on top of the i. ~ Martin Lindstrom, #NFDB
988:...remember that what has once been done may be done again. ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
989:Remember that you are influencing people who are watching you. ~ Guy Kawasaki, #NFDB
990:Remember the French saying: ‘He who is absent is always wrong. ~ David Ogilvy, #NFDB
991:Remember, this--this is the end we have waited for so long. ~ Shirley Jackson, #NFDB
992:Remember, we are creating the lives we're about to enter into. ~ Jan Phillips, #NFDB
993:(Remember you always have the option of taking to the sea.) ~ Mallory Ortberg, #NFDB
994:Remember, you see in any situation what you expect to see. ~ David J Schwartz, #NFDB
995:See, I remember love. That's what people don't understand. ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
996:The color of your eyes doesn’t define you. Remember that, King. ~ Donna Grant, #NFDB
997:Through awareness of the body, we remember who we truly are. ~ Jack Kornfield, #NFDB
998:We do not remember days, we remember moments. –Cesare Pavese ~ Emma Scott, #NFDB
999:we shall no longer know who we are, or even remember our names ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
1000:when you get to the peak, remember the valley exists ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, #NFDB
1001:You remember the finals you lose as much as the ones you win. ~ Frank Lampard, #NFDB
1002:Always remember, any book you haven’t read is still a new book. ~ Ann Patchett, #NFDB
1003:Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of bliss. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
1004:Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life. ~ Marilyn Monroe, #NFDB
1005:And remember: speak least if you would be most often heard. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB
1006:As long as people remember me forever, that will be enough for me. ~ Lil Wayne, #NFDB
1007:At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember? ~ Merlin Stone, #NFDB
1008:By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember ~ Homer, #NFDB
1009:Do you remember Barbara Bush? I call her the silver douchebag. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
1010:For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost. ~ Frederick Buechner, #NFDB
1011:How do we remember people when they don’t make reservations? ~ Stephanie Izard, #NFDB
1012:I barely remember her, but I am still in love with her ghost. ~ Simon Van Booy, #NFDB
1013:I feel disappointed, but I don't remember just what I expected. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
1014:I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face. ~ Adam Ant, #NFDB
1015:I intend to remember ... even the sun shines above the storm. ~ Mallika Chopra, #NFDB
1016:I've made up so many stores about my name, I can't remember. ~ Joaquin Phoenix, #NFDB
1017:Just remember; someone loves everything you hate about yourself. ~ Frank Ocean, #NFDB
1018:Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember. ~ Nina Simone, #NFDB
1019:One forgets that one is one. I must try to remember this. ~ Mark Z Danielewski, #NFDB
1020:Part of him wanted to remember; part of him needed to forget. ~ Larry McMurtry, #NFDB
1021:People change and things go wrong but just remember life goes on. ~ Mac Miller, #NFDB
1022:Please remember, it is what you are that heals, not what you know. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
1023:Please remember that law and sense are not always the same. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru, #NFDB
1024:Real life's not all about romance and I should remember that. ~ Eimear McBride, #NFDB
1025:Remember,
the entrance door
to the sanctuary
is inside you. ~ Rumi,#NFDB
1026:Remember, code is your house, and you have to live in it. ~ Michael C Feathers, #NFDB
1027:Remember—don’t be wicked. Unless you really have to!” Parting ~ Danielle Paige, #NFDB
1028:Remember, every pro was first an amateur. Start your dream now! ~ Marie Forleo, #NFDB
1029:Remember, girl on fire,” he says, “I'm still betting on you. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
1030:Remember, guns don't kill people - unless you practice real hard. ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
1031:Remember, on the other side of your fears, lives your growth. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
1032:Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours. ~ Joseph Heller, #NFDB
1033:Remember that you are this universe and that this universe is you. ~ Joy Harjo, #NFDB
1034:Remember, the best beer in the world is the one you brewed. ~ Charlie Papazian, #NFDB
1035:Remember the pain?' thought Artemis. I hate myself. I really do. ~ Eoin Colfer, #NFDB
1036:Remember to delight yourself first, then others can be truly delighted. ~ Sark, #NFDB
1037:Remember, what you focus on expands; results follow focus. ~ Marcus Buckingham, #NFDB
1038:Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play. ~ Franklin D Roosevelt, #NFDB
1039:Remember your dream is your only scheme, so keep on pushing. ~ Curtis Mayfield, #NFDB
1040:Ricordati che è un film comico. ['Remember, this a comedy'] ~ Federico Fellini, #NFDB
1041:Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. ~ Xunzi, #NFDB
1042:There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1043:There's some nights I can't remember with friends I can't forget. ~ Toby Keith, #NFDB
1044:Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ~ DK Publishing, #NFDB
1045:To compose is to remember music that has never been written. ~ Robert Schumann, #NFDB
1046:To realize I don’t remember myself means that I’ve woken up. ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
1047:We don’t remember isolated facts; we remember things in context. ~ Joshua Foer, #NFDB
1048:We look at the Ark of the Covenant and remember who we are. ~ Geraldine Brooks, #NFDB
1049:With the right music you can forget anything or remember everything. ~ Unknown, #NFDB
1050:You forget the bad things. Why would you want to remember them? ~ James Smythe, #NFDB
1051:America is the new Roman Empire. Remember what happened to Rome. ~ Eddie Izzard, #NFDB
1052:And I remember being foolish enough to think... let's fall in love. ~ Jeph Loeb, #NFDB
1053:...and remember: There's no crying in pie baking. -The Bake-Off ~ Beth Kendrick, #NFDB
1054:Bonnie, believe in me. I’ll save you.
I remember how to fly. ~ L J Smith,#NFDB
1055:By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
1056:Eternity is a long time to exist without something to remember. ~ Colleen Houck, #NFDB
1057:Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
1058:How can you be a survivor, when you can't even remember the war? ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1059:I always remember having a healthy respect for my grandmother. ~ Prince William, #NFDB
1060:I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright. ~ Henry Rollins, #NFDB
1061:I don't think many people will remember me when I retire. ~ Svetlana Boginskaya, #NFDB
1062:I eat once a day if I remember, and I try never to go to sleep. ~ Richie Havens, #NFDB
1063:If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger, #NFDB
1064:I forgot how big you are.” “Oh, I’m going to make you remember. ~ Garrett Leigh, #NFDB
1065:I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, whats the point? ~ Nancy Meyers, #NFDB
1066:I remember my comic strips being called "new wave." It bugged me. ~ Lynda Barry, #NFDB
1067:Isn't it weird the way you remember things, when someone's gone? ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
1068:It’s just as hard to remember I’m supposed to be angry with you. ~ Ilana Waters, #NFDB
1069:It’s too painful to remember”; “It’s even more painful to forget”; ~ Val Emmich, #NFDB
1070:It would be a sin not to remember the things that make you happy. ~ Savi Sharma, #NFDB
1071:I've got "Sometimers." Sometimes I remember and sometimes I forget. ~ Spike Lee, #NFDB
1072:I wanted to always remember that all my yesterdays didn’t matter. ~ Jewel E Ann, #NFDB
1073:My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember. ~ Tracy Kidder, #NFDB
1074:Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
1075:Oh, ‘the other one.’ I remember my Other One. I wore pink chiffon. ~ Sean Platt, #NFDB
1076:Remember, a hostage negotiator plays a unique role: he has to win. ~ Chris Voss, #NFDB
1077:Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return. ~ Thomas a Kempis, #NFDB
1078:Remember: If you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget. ~ Joseph Fink, #NFDB
1079:Remember me when you do pray that hope doth lead from day to day. ~ Anne Boleyn, #NFDB
1080:Remember, no one can hurt your feelings without your permission ~ Ricky Gervais, #NFDB
1081:Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master. ~ Stephen Covey, #NFDB
1082:Remember that being a success without happiness is meaningless. ~ Richard Denny, #NFDB
1083:Remember that for every technique you think you can fall back ~ Masaaki Hatsumi, #NFDB
1084:Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
1085:Remember that panic stifles your instincts and makes you blind. ~ Lucinda Riley, #NFDB
1086:Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years. ~ Nicholas Negroponte, #NFDB
1087:Remember that unjust critisism is often a disquised compliment. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
1088:Remember that your thoughts are the primary cause of everything. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
1089:Remember that you will create peace only when you are peaceful. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1090:Remember what dad said. You're still alive-- you still fight. ~ Bill Willingham, #NFDB
1091:Remember what Doctor Who said about lines. Not at all interesting. ~ Weike Wang, #NFDB
1092:Revolutions, we must remember, are always made by minorities. ~ Peter Kropotkin, #NFDB
1093:So long as I remember the things that count. ", FADE by Kailin Gow ~ Kailin Gow, #NFDB
1094:That's just the way it is. I'll always remember. She's forgotten. ~ sa Larsson, #NFDB
1095:Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to compute it. ~ Steven Pinker, #NFDB
1096:Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it […] ~ Joan Didion, #NFDB
1097:We remember Kurt for what he was: caring, generous and sweet. ~ Krist Novoselic, #NFDB
1098:We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1099:When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
1100:Yes, I always remember my dad's, mom's and my grandma's perfumes. ~ Marc Jacobs, #NFDB
1101:Yes, I remember the one you mean. All a lot of hooey, though. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
1102:Yet remember that hard it is to lift a full cup without spilling. ~ E R Eddison, #NFDB
1103:You remember with what you are at the time you are remembering. ~ Doris Lessing, #NFDB
1104:Always remember: In the end, the surviver gets to tell the story. ~ Nancy Werlin, #NFDB
1105:Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. ~ Aesop, #NFDB
1106:& remember, / loneliness is still time spent / with the world. ~ Ocean Vuong, #NFDB
1107:And if I please you so, my lover,
Remember praise is comely. ~ Countee Cullen,#NFDB
1108:as long as he could remember, loneliness had been his companion. ~ Gregg Hurwitz, #NFDB
1109:Faced with a collective forgetting, we must fight to remember. ~ Reni Eddo Lodge, #NFDB
1110:He’s a carnivore, thinks Lion, always remember he’s a carnivore. ~ Steven Kotler, #NFDB
1111:I can't remember the last time I looked at a Nirvana web site. ~ Krist Novoselic, #NFDB
1112:I can't remember what Michael Praed looks like. I'm too young! ~ Jonas Armstrong, #NFDB
1113:I do not remember the '70s, for who-knows-what-all reasons. ~ Cassandra Peterson, #NFDB
1114:In Heaven you forget everything. In Hell they make you remember. ~ Stewart O Nan, #NFDB
1115:I tip like crazy. Theyll remember me. Celebrity can be expensive. ~ Phil Donahue, #NFDB
1116:It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret. ~ Frank Zappa, #NFDB
1117:It's the woman you should remember, not the dress, ever. ~ Diane von Furstenberg, #NFDB
1118:It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood. ~ Vera Farmiga, #NFDB
1119:I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember. ~ Tom Scholz, #NFDB
1120:I watched the way you watch when you know you want to remember. ~ Michael Dorris, #NFDB
1121:I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed. ~ Sherman Alexie, #NFDB
1122:Just remember all the good lies have an element of truth to them. ~ John J Davis, #NFDB
1123:Just remember that you don't have to be what they want you to be. ~ Muhammad Ali, #NFDB
1124:Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember. ~ Willa Cather, #NFDB
1125:Remember Amir agha. "There's no monster, just a beautiful day, ~ Khaled Hosseini, #NFDB
1126:Remember: bravery, intelligence, tenacity, creativity, honesty. ~ Tabatha Coffey, #NFDB
1127:Remember the person you're supposed to be, and remember well. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
1128:Remember the person you’re supposed to be, and remember well. ~ Victoria Aveyard, #NFDB
1129:Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors. ~ Constantin Stanislavski, #NFDB
1130:Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
1131:Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. ~ Alexander the Great, #NFDB
1132:Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you. ~ Julia Child, #NFDB
1133:She doesn't remember the twentieth century. Isn't that terrifying? ~ Tom Rachman, #NFDB
1134:Sometimes it is better to imagine the past than to remember it. ~ Anthony Shadid, #NFDB
1135:Then I remember: death comes before the rolling away of the stone. ~ Mary Oliver, #NFDB
1136:Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ~ Benjamin Graham, #NFDB
1137:To love is to return to a home we never left, to remember who we are. ~ Sam Keen, #NFDB
1138:We never remember what is important, only what matters to us ~ Suzanne Finnamore, #NFDB
1139:We remember the moments of fear, loss and humiliation most vividly. ~ Deon Meyer, #NFDB
1140:What did I use to do all day without you? Already I can't remember. ~ Sara Baume, #NFDB
1141:When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right. ~ Thomas A Edison, #NFDB
1142:When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed. ~ Jane Fonda, #NFDB
1143:Why can I remember eggplant, when I can't remember my own name?! ~ Carla Cassidy, #NFDB
1144:You are so lucky
that I cannot remember
how to use doorknobs. ~ Ryan Mecum,#NFDB
1145:you don’t need photos to remember the people who matter to you. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
1146:You need to remember your parents’ problems are theirs, not yours. ~ Amy Patrick, #NFDB
1147:You should always remember that you were chosen to be on this earth. ~ Joe Jonas, #NFDB
1148:And this is how I would remember it all, if I could. But I can’t. ~ Julian Barnes, #NFDB
1149:As far back as I can remember, I wanted to dance, sing and perform. ~ Gina Holden, #NFDB
1150:Being with friends felt like a burden. I remember just sobbing. ~ Sarah Silverman, #NFDB
1151:But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB
1152:But remember, I am no politician, and no seer into souls. ~ Rebecca Harding Davis, #NFDB
1153:can still remember watching the guys drag his body down the stairs. I ~ Mark Owen, #NFDB
1154:Go find your joy. It's what you're going to remember in the end. ~ Sandra Bullock, #NFDB
1155:Hope? Yeah, I'm beginning to remember how to spell that word, too. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1156:How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else. ~ Gary Oldman, #NFDB
1157:I actually remember my grandfather better as a woman than as a man. ~ John Irving, #NFDB
1158:I am not just what I remember. I am also what I dream. ~ Margaret Peterson Haddix, #NFDB
1159:I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs? ~ Boris Johnson, #NFDB
1160:I don’t know if these are last words or ones that I’ll remember. ~ Cristin Harber, #NFDB
1161:I don’t really remember what computer screens looked like, ~ Emily St John Mandel, #NFDB
1162:If you fall out of love, remember the love and not the fall. ~ Augusten Burroughs, #NFDB
1163:If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1164:If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1165:I remember how she looked at me the same way even when I wasn't. ~ Jennifer Niven, #NFDB
1166:It is important to remember that when it comes to law, computers ~ Brad Templeton, #NFDB
1167:It's Always The Words We Don't Want To Hear That We Remember The Most ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1168:It’s a moment I’ll remember forever, because it belongs to me. ~ Jessica Sorensen, #NFDB
1169:It's not wise to rely on a man's ability to remember anything. ~ Jeri Smith Ready, #NFDB
1170:It was one of the first times I could remember hearing him laugh. ~ Bella Forrest, #NFDB
1171:Just remember, family isn't perfect. It's just perfectly ours. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
1172:Just remember, family isn’t perfect. It’s just perfectly ours. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
1173:Just remember,” he told her. “If you run from me, I will pursue. ~ Nenia Campbell, #NFDB
1174:Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes. ~ Mae West, #NFDB
1175:Later I remember what I could do. It’s easy. I could kill them all. ~ Sally Green, #NFDB
1176:Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. ~ Coco Chanel, #NFDB
1177:Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it. ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB
1178:People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them. ~ Bobby Womack, #NFDB
1179:People will remember you better if you always wear the same outfit. ~ David Byrne, #NFDB
1180:Remember: a clever woman never lets a man know how cleaver she is ~ Lesley Downer, #NFDB
1181:Remember: If we were happy and complete, we wouldn’t judge. ~ Gabrielle Bernstein, #NFDB
1182:Remember: if you take bivouac equipment along, you will bivouac. ~ Yvon Chouinard, #NFDB
1183:Remember, most mistakes are caused by flawed systems, not bad people. ~ Eric Ries, #NFDB
1184:Remember my strong advice; just remember to always think twice. ~ Michael Jackson, #NFDB
1185:Remember that if you don’t prioritize your life someone else will. ~ Greg McKeown, #NFDB
1186:Remember, that which appeals to the ego cannot help your spiritual growth. ~ Osho, #NFDB
1187:• Remember that will power is a skill; practice it and watch it grow. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1188:Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return. Genesis 3:19 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1189:Remember the old proverb that the tree does not grow in one day. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1190:Remember: The spirit grows sluggish when you neglect the passions. ~ Laini Taylor, #NFDB
1191:Remember, the truth hurts for a little while. Lies hurt forever. ~ Gena Showalter, #NFDB
1192:Remember this phrase,” Dana tell us: “‘The heart feeds itself first. ~ Bill Hayes, #NFDB
1193:Remember this, that very little is needed to make a happy life. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1194:Remember to be submissive, thou art analien, a fugitive, and in need. ~ Aeschylus, #NFDB
1195:Remember what we've been through. Remember what we came here for. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
1196:Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
Horace ~ Horace,#NFDB
1197:Sir 28:8 Remember the fear of God, and be not angry with thy neighbour. ~ Various, #NFDB
1198:Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it. ~ George Santayana, #NFDB
1199:The gun, man. Remember the gun. My woman comes armed,” Rush warned. ~ Abbi Glines, #NFDB
1200:The thing I can't remember is, what came first? Us or the book? ~ Michael De Luca, #NFDB
1201:The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that. ~ George R R Martin, #NFDB
1202:The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #NFDB
1203:Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ~ George Santayana, #NFDB
1204:Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ~ George Santayana, #NFDB
1205:We're not just going to have a life, remember? We're going to live. ~ T M Frazier, #NFDB
1206:Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today. I'll always remember it ~ David Nicholls, #NFDB
1207:When down in the mouth, remember Jonah, he came out all right. ~ Claude M Bristol, #NFDB
1208:When you're in the arena... you just remember who the enemy is. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
1209:When you remember mercy, you are humble, thankful, and tender. ~ Paul David Tripp, #NFDB
1210:You are born to fly, and in dreams you remember the soul has wings. ~ Robert Moss, #NFDB
1211:You chose a warrior, remember?”
“As you chose an archangel. ~ Nalini Singh,#NFDB
1212:You'd better watch where you go, and remember where you've been ~ Charlie Daniels, #NFDB
1213:Always remember it’s quality not quantity of people on Facebook. ~ Christie Barlow, #NFDB
1214:Always remember that where your attention goes, your energy flows. ~ Kevin Horsley, #NFDB
1215:... and then beginning to go back to what you can't even remember. ~ Graham Greene, #NFDB
1216:As a kid, I remember taking apart whatever I could get my hands on. ~ Jonathan Ive, #NFDB
1217:Ask whatever questions you want, but remember, I may not answer. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1218:Can you remember? When we thought
the poets taught how to live? ~ Adrienne Rich,#NFDB
1219:Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt? ~ Will Durant, #NFDB
1220:Even through your hardest days, remember we are all made of stardust. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
1221:Faced with the collective forgetting, we must strive to remember ~ Reni Eddo Lodge, #NFDB
1222:I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day. ~ John Brown, #NFDB
1223:I can't remember the last live-action, non-animated Christmas movie. ~ Bob Newhart, #NFDB
1224:I do not know where I came from..For I do not remember. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
1225:I don't have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop. ~ Jenifer Lewis, #NFDB
1226:I don't remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1227:I don’t remember most of the injuries, there have been too many. ~ Travis Pastrana, #NFDB
1228:I encourage people to remember that "no" is a complete sentence. ~ Gavin de Becker, #NFDB
1229:I encourage people to remember that “no” is a complete sentence. ~ Gavin de Becker, #NFDB
1230:If I die in a plane crash remember to always bag and board your comics. ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB
1231:If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow? ~ Jennifer McMahon, #NFDB
1232:I have loved you for so long that I can’t remember a time I haven’t. ~ Melody Anne, #NFDB
1233:I hope my fans remember my name is Gene Vincent and not Gene Autry. ~ Gene Vincent, #NFDB
1234:I hope someday you will find me and remember what I once meant to you. ~ Lang Leav, #NFDB
1235:I'll remember the things you said to me and I'll cherish them always. ~ Maya Banks, #NFDB
1236:I remember seeing tears in Isabel’s eyes as she carried Auggie home. ~ R J Palacio, #NFDB
1237:It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1238:It's at moment of misfortune that we remember we're all exiles. ~ Jean Claude Izzo, #NFDB
1239:It's easier to remember your lies if they're close to the truth. ~ Jennifer Echols, #NFDB
1240:It’s easier to remember your lies if they’re close to the truth, ~ Jennifer Echols, #NFDB
1241:I will venture to go... but remember that you must hold the ropes. ~ William Carey, #NFDB
1242:Let us remember that our national unity is a most priceless asset. ~ Gerald R Ford, #NFDB
1243:Life is unfair but remember sometimes it is unfair in your favour. ~ Peter Ustinov, #NFDB
1244:Love and hate always remember; it is only indifference that forgets. ~ Myrtle Reed, #NFDB
1245:Oskar recited every strand of Annieran poetry he could remember. ~ Andrew Peterson, #NFDB
1246:Remember, girl on fire,” he says, “I’m still betting on you.” He ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
1247:Remember kid, the devil is in the details. Paris. Nineteen eighty-four. ~ K Larsen,