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Resistance ::: In psychoanalysis, the client&
Resistance ::: or a resistance_level:, is the price point at which the rise in the price of a stock or a stock index is halted by the emergence of a growing number of sellers who wish to sell the stock at that price. Resistance levels can be short lived if new information comes to light that changes the overall market’s attitude toward a stock, or they can be long lasting.
Resistance
Resistance ::: The word commonly used to describe how Jews fought against the Nazis.
resist ::: 1. To strive to fend off or offset the actions, effects, or force of. 2. To remain firm against the actions, effects, or force of; withstand. 3. To stand firm (against); not yield (to); fight (against). resists, resisted, resisting.
resistance: in psychoanalysis, inability or unwillingness of a patient to accept the analysts interpretations of their behaviour and to discuss certain ideas or experiences.
resistance ::: n. --> The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.
The quality of not yielding to force or external pressure; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; as, the resistance of the air to a body passing through it; the resistance of a target to projectiles.
A means or method of resisting; that which resists.
A certain hindrance or opposition to the passage of an
resistance ::: the opposition offered by one thing, force, etc., to another.
RESISTANCE. ::: When the soul draws towards the Divine, there may be a resistance in the mind and the common form of that is denial and doubt — which may create mental and vital su/Tering. There may again be a resistance in the vital nature ivhose principal characer is desire and the attachment to the objects of desire, and if in this field there is conflict between the soul and the vital nature, between the Divine Attraction and the pull of the Ignorance, then obviously there may be much suffer- ing of the mind and vital parts. The pbj-sical consciousness also may offer a resistance which is usually that of a fundamental inertia, an obscurity in the very stuff of the physical, an incom- prehension, an inability to respond to the higher consciousness, a habit of helplessly responding to the lower mechanically, even when it docs not want to do so ; both lital and physical suffer- ing may be the consequence. There is, moreover, the resistance of the Universal Nature which does not want the being to escape from the Ignorance into the Light. This may take the form of a vehement insistence in the continuation of the old movements, waves of them thrown on the mind and vital and body so that old ideas, impulses, desires, feelings, responses continue even after they are thrown out and rejected, and can return like an invading army from outside, until the whole nature, given to (he
resistant ::: a. --> Making resistance; resisting. ::: n. --> One who, or that which, resists.
resist ::: But Savitri replied,”Thy gifts resist.
resisted ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Resist
resister ::: n. --> One who resists.
resistful ::: a. --> Making much resistance.
resistibility ::: n.. --> The quality of being resistible; resistibleness.
The quality of being resistant; resitstance.
resistible ::: a. --> Capable of being resisted; as, a resistible force.
resisting ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Resist ::: a. --> Making resistance; opposing; as, a resisting medium.
resistive ::: a. --> Serving to resist.
resistless ::: a. --> Having no power to resist; making no opposition.
Incapable of being resisted; irresistible.
resists the offer (actually a bribe), knowing it to be
resistunt, vincite. Amen.
resist ::: v. t. --> To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.
To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose.
To counteract, as a force, by inertia or reaction.
To be distasteful to. ::: v. i.
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1. Not inclined, willing, or ready; averse, reluctant, loath. 2. Offering resistance; stubborn or obstinate.
abutment ::: n. --> State of abutting.
That on or against which a body abuts or presses
The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut.
A fixed point or surface from which resistance or reaction is obtained, as the cylinder head of a steam engine, the fulcrum of a lever, etc.
In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel
ADESA. ::: Impulsion; inner command. The Divine speaks to us in many ways and it is not always the imperative ādeśa that comes. When it does, it is clear and irresistible, the mind has to obey and there is no question possible, even if what comes is contrary to the preconceived ideas of the mental intelligence. But more often what is said is an intuition or even less, a mere indication, which the mind may not follow because it is not impressed with its imperative necessity. It is something offered but not imposed, perhaps something not even offered but only suggested from the Truth above.
adesavan.i (adeshavani) ::: "speech of supreme command", the highest adesavani form of van.i, which "is clear and irresistible, the mind has to obey and there is no question possible, even if what comes is contrary to the preconceived ideas of the mental intelligence".
"A divine Force is at work and will choose at each moment what has to be done or has not to be done, what has to be momentarily or permanently taken up, momentarily or permanently abandoned. For provided we do not substitute for that our desire or our ego, and to that end the soul must be always awake, always on guard, alive to the divine guidance, resistant to the undivine misleading from within or without us, that Force is sufficient and alone competent and she will lead us to the fulfilment along ways and by means too large, too inward, too complex for the mind to follow, much less to dictate. It is an arduous and difficult and dangerous way, but there is none other.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“A divine Force is at work and will choose at each moment what has to be done or has not to be done, what has to be momentarily or permanently taken up, momentarily or permanently abandoned. For provided we do not substitute for that our desire or our ego, and to that end the soul must be always awake, always on guard, alive to the divine guidance, resistant to the undivine misleading from within or without us, that Force is sufficient and alone competent and she will lead us to the fulfilment along ways and by means too large, too inward, too complex for the mind to follow, much less to dictate. It is an arduous and difficult and dangerous way, but there is none other.” The Synthesis of Yoga
adversary ::: n. --> One who is turned against another or others with a design to oppose or resist them; a member of an opposing or hostile party; an opponent; an antagonist; an enemy; a foe. ::: a. --> Opposed; opposite; adverse; antagonistic.
Having an opposing party; not unopposed; as, an
Afterwards all gets surcharged with the spiritual consciousness and there is an automatic right perception and right action of the different parts because they are controlled entirely from above and do not falsify or resist or confuse its dictates.
Ahimsa: (Skr.) Non-injury, an ethical principle applicable to all living beings and subscribed to by most Hindus. In practice it would mean, e.g., abstaining from animal food, relinquishing war, rejecting all thought of taking life, regarding all living beings akin. It has led to such varied phenomena as the Buddhist's sweeping the path before him or straining the water, the almost reverential attitude toward the cow, and Gandhi's non-violent resistence campaign. -- K.F.L.
akasa-sakti (akasha-shakti) ::: the power of the akasa (to resist the akasa-sakti tapas).
alexiterical ::: a. --> Resisting poison; obviating the effects of venom; alexipharmic.
Al-Hakam ::: The Absolute Judge whose judgment (verdict) is irresistibly applied.
Al-Matin ::: The One who sustains the world of acts, the steadfast, the creator of robustness and stability, the provider of strength and resistance!
almighty ::: a. --> Unlimited in might; omnipotent; all-powerful; irresistible.
Great; extreme; terrible.
aluminium ::: n. --> The metallic base of alumina. This metal is white, but with a bluish tinge, and is remarkable for its resistance to oxidation, and for its lightness, having a specific gravity of about 2.6. Atomic weight 27.08. Symbol Al.
Amal: “ ‘Resist’ means ‘hold back’ or rather ‘force back’. Death is giving gifts. Savitri asks him to keep or rather force back his gifts.”
American Wire Gauge "hardware, standard" (AWG, sometimes "Brown and Sharpe Wire Gauge") A U.S. {standard} set of non-ferrous wire conductor sizes. Typical household wiring is AWG number 12 or 14. Telephone wire is usually 22, 24, or 26. The higher the gauge number, the smaller the diameter and the thinner the wire. Thicker wire is better for long distances due to its lower resistance per unit length. (2001-03-26)
Ampere "unit, electronics" (Amp, A) The unit of electrical current flow. One Amp is the current that will flow through a one-{ohm} resistance when one {Volt} {DC} is applied across it. (2004-01-18)
analogue "electronics" (US: "analog") A description of a continuously variable signal or a circuit or device designed to handle such signals. The opposite is "discrete" or "{digital}". Analogue circuits are much harder to design and analyse than digital ones because the designer must take into account effects such as the gain, linearity and power handling of components, the resistance, capacitance and inductance of PCB tracks, wires and connectors, interference between signals, power supply stability and more. A digital circuit design, especially for high switching speeds, must also take these factors into account if it is to work reliably, but they are usually less critical because most digital components will function correctly within a range of parameters whereas such variations will corrupt the outputs of an analogue circuit. See also {analogue computer}. (1995-11-14)
"And if there is, as there must be in the nature of things, an ascending series in the scale of substance from Matter to Spirit, it must be marked by a progressive diminution of these capacities most characteristic of the physical principle and a progressive increase of the opposite characteristics which will lead us to the formula of pure spiritual self-extension. This is to say that they must be marked by less and less bondage to the form, more and more subtlety and flexibility of substance and force, more and more interfusion, interpenetration, power of assimilation, power of interchange, power of variation, transmutation, unification. Drawing away from durability of form, we draw towards eternity of essence; drawing away from our poise in the persistent separation and resistance of physical Matter, we draw near to the highest divine poise in the infinity, unity and indivisibility of Spirit.” The Life Divine
“And if there is, as there must be in the nature of things, an ascending series in the scale of substance from Matter to Spirit, it must be marked by a progressive diminution of these capacities most characteristic of the physical principle and a progressive increase of the opposite characteristics which will lead us to the formula of pure spiritual self-extension. This is to say that they must be marked by less and less bondage to the form, more and more subtlety and flexibility of substance and force, more and more interfusion, interpenetration, power of assimilation, power of interchange, power of variation, transmutation, unification. Drawing away from durability of form, we draw towards eternity of essence; drawing away from our poise in the persistent separation and resistance of physical Matter, we draw near to the highest divine poise in the infinity, unity and indivisibility of Spirit.” The Life Divine
antiperistasis ::: n. --> Opposition by which the quality opposed asquires strength; resistance or reaction roused by opposition or by the action of an opposite principle or quality.
antirenter ::: n. --> One opposed to the payment of rent; esp. one of those who in 1840-47 resisted the collection of rents claimed by the patroons from the settlers on certain manorial lands in the State of New York.
antitypous ::: a. --> Resisting blows; hard.
antitypy ::: n. --> Opposition or resistance of matter to force.
Antitypy: The property of concepts or objects of thought to resist attribution of qualities or postulates incompatible with their semantic value and ontological nature. -- T.G.
armament ::: n. --> A body of forces equipped for war; -- used of a land or naval force.
All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.
Any equipment for resistance.
Aryaman ::: [Ved.]: the Aspirer; the aspiring power and action of the Truth; the Force of sacrifice, aspiration, battle, journey towards perfection and light and celestial bliss by which the path is created, travelled, pursued beyond all resistance and obscuration to its luminous and happy goal. [Later]: the chief of the Fathers [pitrs]. ::: Aryama [nominative]
attraction ::: n. --> An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation.
The act or property of attracting; the effect of the power or operation of attraction.
The power or act of alluring, drawing to, inviting, or engaging; an attractive quality; as, the attraction of beauty or
attract ::: v. t. --> To draw to, or cause to tend to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion, separation, or decomposition.
To draw by influence of a moral or emotional kind; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure; as, to attract admirers. ::: n.
avalanche ::: n. --> A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.
A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.
A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx of anything.
bay ::: the position or stand of an animal or fugitive that is forced to turn and resist pursuers because it is no longer possible to flee. (preceded by at).
bewitch ::: v. t. --> To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery.
To charm; to fascinate; to please to such a degree as to take away the power of resistance; to enchant.
bhava (Mahakalibhava; Mahakali bhava) ::: the Mahakali aspect of devibhava; the temperament of Mahakali, the personality ... of the sakti or devi who "embodies her power of splendid strength and irresistible passion, her warrior mood, her overwhelming will, her impetuous swiftness and world-shaking force".Mah Mahakali akali ks ksiprakarita
break ::: v. 1. To destroy by or as if by shattering or crushing. 2. To force or make a way through (a barrier, etc.). 3. To vary or disrupt the uniformity or continuity of. 4. To overcome or put an end to. 5. To destroy or interrupt a regularity, uniformity, continuity, or arrangement of; interrupt. 6. To intrude upon; interrupt a conversation, etc. 7. To discontinue or sever an association, an agreement, or a relationship. **8. To overcome or wear down the spirit, strength, or resistance of. 9. (usually followed by in, into or out). 10. To filter or penetrate as sunlight into a room. 11. To come forth suddenly. 12. To utter suddenly; to express or start to express an emotion, mood, etc. 13. Said of waves, etc. when they dash against an obstacle, or topple over and become surf or broken water in the shallows. 14. To part the surface of water, as a ship or a jumping fish. breaks, broke, broken, breaking.* *n. 15.** An interruption or a disruption in continuity or regularity.
breechblock ::: n. --> The movable piece which closes the breech of a breech-loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired.
Resistance ::: In psychoanalysis, the client&
Resistance
bulkhead ::: n. --> A partition in a vessel, to separate apartments on the same deck.
A structure of wood or stone, to resist the pressure of earth or water; a partition wall or structure, as in a mine; the limiting wall along a water front.
bullet-proof ::: a. --> Capable of resisting the force of a bullet.
bumper ::: n. --> A cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs over, particularly in drinking a health or toast.
A covered house at a theater, etc., in honor of some favorite performer.
That which bumps or causes a bump.
Anything which resists or deadens a bump or shock; a buffer.
BURNING SENSATION. ::: If one brings down more Force or Light than some part of the being is ready for and that part resists or if there is a struggle between descending and adverse forces in the body, then these things can take place.
"But the Titan will have nothing of all this; it is too great and subtle for his comprehension. His instincts call for a visible, tangible mastery and a sensational domination. How shall he feel sure of his empire unless he can feel something writhing helpless under his heel, — if in agony, so much the better? What is exploitation to him, unless it diminishes the exploited? To be able to coerce, exact, slay, overtly, irresistibly, — it is this that fills him with the sense of glory and dominion. For he is the son of division and the strong flowering of the Ego. To feel the comparative limitation of others is necessary to him that he may imagine himself immeasurable; for he has not the real, self-existent sense of infinity which no outward circumstance can abrogate. Contrast, division, negation of the wills and lives of others are essential to his self-development and self-assertion. The Titan would unify by devouring, not by harmonising; he must conquer and trample what is not himself either out of existence or into subservience so that his own image may stand out stamped upon all things and dominating all his environment.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
buttress ::: n. --> A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.
Anything which supports or strengthens. ::: v. t. --> To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.
By enforcing the peace of the higher being in the lower parts down to the physical It becomes possible to (I) create that separateness which would prevent the inner being from being affected by the superficial disturbance and resistance, and
By renunciation ^^e seize upon the falsehoods, pluck up their roots and cast them out of our way so that they shall no longer hamper by their persistence, their resistance or their recurrence the happy and harmonious growth of our divine Jivine,
By renunciation we seize upon the falsehoods, pluck up their roots and cast them out of our way so that they shall no longer hamper by their persistence, their resistance or their recurrence the happy and harmonious growth of our divine living.
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By the descent the inertia changes its character. It ceases to be a resistance of the physical and becomes only a physical con- dition to be transformed into the true basic immobility and rest.
capable ::: a. --> Possessing ability, qualification, or susceptibility; having capacity; of sufficient size or strength; as, a room capable of holding a large number; a castle capable of resisting a long assault.
Possessing adequate power; qualified; able; fully competent; as, a capable instructor; a capable judge; a mind capable of nice investigations.
Possessing legal power or capacity; as, a man capable of making a contract, or a will.
casehardened ::: a. --> Having the surface hardened, as iron tools.
Hardened against, or insusceptible to, good influences; rendered callous by persistence in wrongdoing or resistance of good influences; -- said of persons.
centreboard ::: n. --> A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel is beating to windward. It is used in vessels of all sizes along the coast of the United States
charm ::: n. --> A melody; a song.
A word or combination of words sung or spoken in the practice of magic; a magical combination of words, characters, etc.; an incantation.
That which exerts an irresistible power to please and attract; that which fascinates; any alluring quality.
Anything worn for its supposed efficacy to the wearer in averting ill or securing good fortune.
Chit ::: Chit, the divine Consciousness, is not our mental selfawareness; that we shall find to be only a form, a lower and limited mode or movement. As we progress and awaken to the soul in us and things, we shall realise that there is a consciousness also in the plant, in the metal, in the atom, in electricity, in everything that belongs to physical nature; we shall find even that it is not really in all respects a lower or more limited mode than the mental, on the contrary it is in many "inanimate" forms more intense, rapid, poignant, though less evolved towards the surface. But this also, this consciousness of vital and physical Nature is, compared with Chit, a lower and th
refore a limited form, mode and movement. These lower modes of consciousness are the conscious-stuff of inferior planes in one indivisible existence. In ourselves also there is in our subconscious being an action which is precisely that of the "inanimate" physical Nature whence has been constituted the basis of our physical being, another which is that of plantlife, and another which is that of the lower animal creation around us. All these are so much dominated and conditioned by the thinking and reasoning conscious-being in us that we have no real awareness of these lower planes; we are unable to perceive in their own terms what these parts of us are doing, and receive it very imperfectly in the terms and values of the thinking and reasoning mind. Still we know well enough that there is an animal in us as well as that which is characteristically human,—something which is a creature of conscious instinct and impulse, not
reflective or rational, as well as that which turns back in thought and will on its experience, meets it from above with the light and force of a higher plane and to some degree controls, uses and modifies it. But the animal in man is only the head of our subhuman being; below it there is much that is also sub-animal and merely vital, much that acts by an instinct and impulse of which the constituting consciousness is withdrawn behind the surface. Below this sub-animal being, there is at a further depth the subvital. When we advance in that ultra-normal self-knowledge and experience which Yoga brings with it, we become aware that the body too has a consciousness of its own; it has habits, impulses, instincts, an inert yet effective will which differs from that of the rest of our being and can resist it and condition its effectiveness. Much of the struggle in our being is due to this composite existence and the interaction of these varied and heterogeneous planes on each other. For man here is the result of an evolution and contains in himself the whole of that evolution up from the merely physical and subvital conscious being to the mental creature which at the top he is. But this evolution is really a manifestation and just as we have in us these subnormal selves and subhuman planes, so are there in us above our mental being supernormal and superhuman planes. There Chit as the universal conscious-stuff of existence takes other poises, moves out in other modes, on other principles and by other faculties of action. There is above the mind, as the old Vedic sages discovered, a Truth-plane, a plane of self-luminous, self-effective Idea, which can be turned in light and force upon our mind, reason, sentiments, impulses, sensations and use and control them in the sense of the real Truth of things just as we turn our mental reason and will upon our sense-experience and animal nature to use and control them in the sense of our rational and moral perceptions. There is no seeking, but rather natural possession; no conflict or separation between will and reason, instinct and impulse, desire and experience, idea and reality, but all are in harmony, concomitant, mutually effective, unified in their origin, in their development and in their effectuation. But beyond this plane and attainable through it are others in which the very Chit itself becomes revealed, Chit the elemental origin and primal completeness of all this varied consciousness which is here used for various formation and experience. There will and knowledge and sensation and all the rest of our faculties, powers, modes of experience are not merely harmonious, concomitant, unified, but are one being of consciousness and power of consciousness. It is this Chit which modifies itself so as to become on the Truthplane the supermind, on the mental plane the mental reason, will, emotion, sensation, on the lower planes the vital or physical instincts, impulses, habits of an obscure force not in superficially conscious possession of itself. All is Chit because all is Sat; all is various movement of the original Consciousness because all is various movement of the original Being. When we find, see or know Chit, we find also that its essence is Ananda or delight of self-existence. To possess self is to possess self-bliss; not to possess self is to be in more or less obscure search of the delight of existence. Chit eternally possesses its self-bliss; and since Chit is the universal conscious-stuff of being, conscious universal being is also in possession of conscious self-bliss, master of the universal delight of existence. The Divine whether it manifests itself in All-Quality or in No-Quality, in Personality or Impersonality, in the One absorbing the Many or in the One manifesting its essential multiplicity, is always in possession of self-bliss and all-bliss because it is always Sachchidananda. For us also to know and possess our true Self in the essential and the universal is to discover the essential and the universal delight of existence, self-bliss and all-bliss. For the universal is only the pouring out of the essential existence, consciousness and delight; and wherever and in whatever form that manifests as existence, there the essential consciousness must be and th
refore there must be an essential delight.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 23-24, Page: 387 - 88 - 89
chord ::: n. --> The string of a musical instrument.
A combination of tones simultaneously performed, producing more or less perfect harmony, as, the common chord.
A right line uniting the extremities of the arc of a circle or curve.
A cord. See Cord, n., 4.
The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension.
chthonophagy ::: n. --> A disease characterized by an irresistible desire to eat earth, observed in some parts of the southern United States, the West Indies, etc.
cinmayaisvarya (chinmayaishwarya) ::: aisvarya with full divine consciousness, "free from all element of struggle, in which force and pressure will only be present to stress the energy of fulfilment and not for overcoming resistance".
C. In natural philosophy, power corresponds to effort, to the force applied to overcome resistance. More technically, it is the time rate of the performance of work, or the transfer of energy. In optics, power is the degree to which an optical instrument magnifies.
C+- "language, humour" (C More or Less) A subject-oriented language (SOL). Each C+- {class} instance, known as a subject, holds hidden {members}, known as prejudices, agendas or undeclared preferences, which are impervious to outside messages; as well as public members, known as boasts or claims. The following {C} {operators} are overridden as shown: " better than " worse than "" way better than "" forget it ! not on your life == comparable, other things being equal !== get a life, guy! C+- is {strongly typed}, based on stereotyping and self-righteous logic. The {Boolean} {variables} TRUE and FALSE (known as constants in other, less realistic languages) are supplemented with CREDIBLE and DUBIOUS, which are fuzzier than Zadeh's traditional {fuzzy logic} categories. All Booleans can be declared with the modifiers strong and weak. Weak implication is said to "preserve deniability" and was added at the request of the DoD to ensure compatibility with future versions of {Ada}. Well-formed falsehoods (WFFs) are {assignment}-compatible with all Booleans. What-if and why-not interactions are aided by the special conditional EVENIFNOT X THEN Y. C+- supports {information hiding} and, among {friend classes} only, rumor sharing. Borrowing from the {Eiffel} lexicon, non-friend classes can be killed by arranging contracts. Note that friendships are {intransitive}, {volatile} and non-{Abelian}. {Operator precedence} rules can be suspended with the dwim {pragma}, known as the "{Do what I mean}". {ANSIfication} will be firmly resisted. C+-'s slogan is "Be Your Own Standard." [{Jargon File}] (1999-06-15)
cling ::: 1. To come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation 2. To hold fast or adhere to as if by embracing. 3. To be emotionally or intellectually attached or remain close to. 4. To hold on tightly or tenaciously to. 5. To remain attached as to an idea, hope, memory, etc. clings, clung, clinging.
coercion ::: n. --> The act or process of coercing.
The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terror as to act convulsively. At the same time coercion is not negatived by the fact of submission under force. "Coactus volui" (I consented under compulsion)
colluctancy ::: n. --> A struggling to resist; a striving against; resistance; opposition of nature.
Colossus (A huge and ancient statue on the Greek island of Rhodes). 1. "computer" The Colossus and Colossus Mark II computers used by {Alan Turing} at {Bletchley Park}, UK during the Second World War to crack the "Tunny" cipher produced by the Lorenz SZ 40 and SZ 42 machines. Colossus was a semi-fixed-program {vacuum tube} calculator (unlike its near-contemporary, the freely programmable {Z3}). ["Breaking the enemy's code", Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, September 1987, pp. 47-51.] 2. The computer in the 1970 film, "Colossus: The Forbin Project". Forbin is the designer of a computer that will run all of America's nuclear defences. Shortly after being turned on, it detects the existence of Goliath, the Soviet counterpart, previously unknown to US Planners. Both computers insist that they be linked, whereupon the two become a new super computer and threaten the world with the immediate launch of nuclear weapons if they are detached. Colossus begins to give its plans for the management of the world under its guidance. Forbin and the other scientists form a technological resistance to Colossus which must operate underground. {The Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177)}. (2007-01-04)
combat ::: v. i. --> To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight. ::: v. t. --> To fight with; to oppose by force, argument, etc.; to contend against; to resist.
compel ::: 1. To cause (someone) by force (to be or do something) 2. To force to submit; subdue. 3. To exert a strong, irresistible force on; sway. compels, compelled, compelling, compellingly.
compel ::: v. t. --> To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.
To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort.
To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate.
To gather or unite in a crowd or company.
To call forth; to summon.
Conditions of Transformafirm ::: If you desire this transforma- tion, put yourself in the hands of the Mother and her Powers without cavil or resistance and let her do unhindered her work within you. Three things you roust have, consciousness, plasti- city, unreserved surrender. For you must be conscious in your mind and soul and heart and life and the very cells of your body, aware of the Mother and her Powers and their working ; for although she can and does work in yt)u even in your obscurity and your unconscious parts and moments, it is not the same thing as when you are in an awakened and living communion with her. All your nature must be plasUc to her touch, — • not questioning as the self-sufficient ignorant mind questions and doubts and disputes and is the enemy of its enlightenment and change ; not insisting on its own movements as the vital In man insists and persistently opposes its rcfractoiy desires and ill-wilt to every divine influence ; not obstructing and entrenched m
contention ::: n. --> A violent effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist, something; contest; strife.
Strife in words; controversy; altercation; quarrel; dispute; as, a bone of contention.
Vehemence of endeavor; eagerness; ardor; zeal.
A point maintained in an argument, or a line of argument taken in its support; the subject matter of discussion or strife; a position taken or contended for.
contest ::: v. t. --> To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.
To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground.
To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert.
contradict ::: v. t. --> To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn.
To be contrary to; to oppose; to resist. ::: v. i. --> To oppose in words; to gainsay; to deny, or assert
controlment ::: n. --> The power or act of controlling; the state of being restrained; control; restraint; regulation; superintendence.
Opposition; resistance; hostility.
contumacy ::: n. --> Stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority.
A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned.
coulomb ::: n. --> The standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. It is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the current produced by an electro-motive force of one volt acting in a circuit having a resistance of one ohm, or the quantity transferred by one ampere in one second. Formerly called weber.
counteraction ::: n. --> Action in opposition; hindrance resistance.
counter brace ::: --> The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.
A brace, in a framed structure, which resists a strain of a character opposite to that which a main brace is designed to receive.
counterbrace ::: v. t. --> To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
To brace in such a way that opposite strains are resisted; to apply counter braces to.
counterstand ::: n. --> Resistance; opposition; a stand against.
countertime ::: n. --> The resistance of a horse, that interrupts his cadence and the measure of his manege, occasioned by a bad horseman, or the bad temper of the horse.
Resistance; opposition.
cryptography "cryptography" The practise and study of {encryption} and {decryption} - encoding data so that it can only be decoded by specific individuals. A system for encrypting and decrypting data is a cryptosystem. These usually involve an {algorithm} for combining the original data ("{plaintext}") with one or more "keys" - numbers or strings of characters known only to the sender and/or recipient. The resulting output is known as "{ciphertext}". The security of a cryptosystem usually depends on the secrecy of (some of) the keys rather than with the supposed secrecy of the {algorithm}. A strong cryptosystem has a large range of possible keys so that it is not possible to just try all possible keys (a "{brute force}" approach). A strong cryptosystem will produce ciphertext which appears random to all standard statistical tests. A strong cryptosystem will resist all known previous methods for breaking codes ("{cryptanalysis}"). See also {cryptology}, {public-key encryption}, {RSA}. {Usenet} newsgroups: {news:sci.crypt}, {news:sci.crypt.research}. {FAQ} {MIT (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/cryptography-faq/)}. {Cryptography glossary (http://io.com/~ritter/GLOSSARY.HTM
daisy chain "networking" A {bus} wiring scheme in which, for example, device A is wired to device B, device B is wired to device C, etc. The last device is normally wired to a resistor or {terminator}. All devices may receive identical signals or, in contrast to a simple bus, each device in the chain may modify one or more signals before passing them on. Characteristic of {RS-485}, of {Apple}'s {LocalTalk}, and of various industrial control networks; also often used to describe {Thinwire} {Ethernet} ({10base2}). (1997-01-07)
data logging "data" (data acquisition) Storing a series of measurements over time, usually from a sensor that converts a physical quantity such as temperature, pressure, relative humidity, light, resistance, current, power, speed, vibration into a voltage that is then converted by a {digital to analog converter} (DAC) into a binary number. Data logging hardware may have several DACs for multiple simultaneous measurements. The hardware usually connects to a {parallel port}, {serial port} or {USB} port on a {PC}. (2004-11-15)
defeatist ::: marked by the attitude of one who admits, expects, or no longer resists defeat, as because of a conviction that further struggle or effort is futile.
defeat ::: v. t. --> To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.
To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate.
To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow.
To resist with success; as, to defeat an assault. ::: v.
defence ::: 1. Something that defends, as a fortification, something built to resist an enemy. 3. The act of defending against attack, danger, or injury.
defenseless ::: a. --> Destitute of defense; unprepared to resist attack; unable to oppose; unprotected.
defensive ::: a. --> Serving to defend or protect; proper for defense; opposed to offensive; as, defensive armor.
Carried on by resisting attack or aggression; -- opposed to offensive; as, defensive war.
In a state or posture of defense. ::: n.
defiance ::: n. --> The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat.
A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition to resist; contempt of opposition.
A casting aside; renunciation; rejection.
defied ::: opposed or resisted with boldness and assurance; unaffected by; resisted or withstood. defying.
deforcement ::: n. --> A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.
Resistance to an officer in the execution of law.
deforce ::: v. --> To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold.
To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty.
DESERT. ::: The feeling of the desert comes because of the resistance of the vital which wants hfe to be governed by desire.
destiny ::: 1. Something that is to happen or has happened to a particular person or thing; lot or fortune. 2. The predetermined, usually inevitable or irresistible, course of events. 3. The power or agency that determines the course of events. 4. *(Cap.) This power personified or represented as a goddess. *Destiny, destinies, world-destiny.
destiny ::: n. --> That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.
The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; a resistless power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.
diathermometer ::: n. --> An instrument for examining the thermal resistance or heat-conducting power of liquids.
Digital Multimeter "electronics" (DMM) A peice of test equipment used for measuring voltage, current, resistance, and possibly other electircal quantities and displaying the value in number form. (1997-02-12)
Dnine, refiises to admit them. This is the subjective form of the universal resistance, but it may also take an objective form,
documentation "programming" The multiple kilograms of macerated, pounded, steamed, bleached, and pressed trees that accompany most modern software or hardware products (see also {tree-killer}). Hackers seldom read paper documentation and (too) often resist writing it; they prefer theirs to be terse and {on-line}. A common comment on this predilection is "You can't {grep} dead trees". See {drool-proof paper}, {verbiage}, {treeware}. [{Jargon File}] (2003-10-25)
dovetail ::: n. --> A flaring tenon, or tongue (shaped like a bird&
drag ::: n. 1. A slow, laborious motion or movement against resistance. v. 2. To pull along with difficulty or effort; haul. 3. To trail along the ground. 4. To be drawn or hauled along. 5. To introduce; inject; insert. drags, dragged, dragging.
drag ::: n. --> A confection; a comfit; a drug. ::: v. t. --> To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in
DULLNESS AND DISPERSION. ::: Two sides of the physical’s resistance to the peace and concentrated power. They correspond to the inertia and chaotic activity of physical Nature, that aspect of it which makes some scientists now say that all is brought about by chance and there is no certitude of things but only probability.
durability ::: n. --> The state or quality of being durable; the power of uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness.
durableness ::: n. --> Power of lasting, enduring, or resisting; durability.
Effort and surrender ::: Surrender is not a thing that can be done in a day. The mind has its ideas and clings to them ; the human vital resists surrender, for what it calls surrender in the early stages is a doubtful kind of self-giving with a demand in it ; the physical consciousness is like a stone and what it calls surrender is often no more Ilian Inertia. It is only the psychic that knows how to surrender and the psychic is usually very much veiled in the beginning. When the psychic awakes, it can bring a sudden and true surrender of the whole being, for the difficulty of the rest is rapidly dealt with and disappears. But till then effort is indispensable. Or else it is necessary till the
elasticity ::: n. --> The quality of being elastic; the inherent property in bodies by which they recover their former figure or dimensions, after the removal of external pressure or altering force; springiness; tendency to rebound; as, the elasticity of caoutchouc; the elasticity of the air.
Power of resistance to, or recovery from, depression or overwork.
electron "electronics" A sub-atomic particle with a negative quantised {charge}. A flow of electrical {current} consists of the unidirectional (on average) movement of many electrons. The more mobile electrons are in a given material, the greater it electrical conductance (or equivalently, the lower its resistance). (1995-10-06)
electro-tint ::: n. --> A style of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity. A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material which resists the fluids of a battery; so that, in electro-typing, the parts not covered by the varnish, etc., receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of this is then the plate for printing.
embalm ::: v. t. --> To anoint all over with balm; especially, to preserve from decay by means of balm or other aromatic oils, or spices; to fill or impregnate (a dead body), with aromatics and drugs that it may resist putrefaction.
To fill or imbue with sweet odor; to perfume.
To preserve from decay or oblivion as if with balm; to perpetuate in remembrance.
endurance ::: n. --> A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance.
The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without being overcome; sufferance; patience.
endure ::: 1. To undergo (hardship, strain, privation, etc.) without yielding; bear. 2. To bear without resistance or with patience; tolerate. 3. To admit of; allow; bear. 4. To continue to exist; last. endures, endured.
Eucken, Rudolf: (1846-1926) Being a writer of wide popularity, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1908, Eucken defends a spiritualistic-idealistic metaphysics against materialistic naturalism, positivism and mechanism. Spiritual life, not being an oppositionless experience, is a struggle, a self-asserting action by resistance, a matter of great alternatives, either-ors between the natural and the spiritual, a matter of vital choice. Thus all significant oppositions are, within spiritual life itself, at once created and overcome. Immanence and transcendence, personalism and absolutism are the two native spiritual oppositions that agitate Eucken's system. Reconciliation between the vital dualities therefore depends not on mere intellectual insight, but on personal effort, courageous, heroic, militant and devoted action. He handles the basic oppositions of experience in harmony with the activist tenor of liberal Protestantism. Eucken sought to replace the prevailing intellectualistic idealism by an activistic idealism, founded on a comprehensive and historical consideration of culture at large. He sought to interpret the spiritual content of historical movements. He conceived of historical facts as being so many systematized wholes of life, for which he coined the term syntagma. His distinctive historical method consists of the reductive and the noological aspects. The former considers the parts directly in relation to an inward whole. The latter is an inner dialectic and immanent criticism of the inward principles of great minds, embracing the cosmologicnl and psychological ways of philosophical construction and transcending by the concept of spiritual life the opposition of the world and the individual soul. Preaching the need of a cultural renewal, not a few of his popularized ideas found their more articulated form in the philosophical sociology of his most eminent pupil, Max Scheler, in the cultural psychology of both Spranger and Spengler. His philosophy is essentially a call to arms against the deadening influences of modern life. -- H.H.
External: (Fr. externe, outer) Outside a thing. Independent of opinion. Capable of pressure or resistance. Used by Peirce (1839-1914) in contradistinction to mental. -- J.K.F.
fascinate ::: v. t. --> To influence in an uncontrollable manner; to operate on by some powerful or irresistible charm; to bewitch; to enchant.
To excite and allure irresistibly or powerfully; to charm; to captivate, as by physical or mental charms.
fascination ::: n. --> The act of fascinating, bewhiching, or enchanting; enchantment; witchcraft; the exercise of a powerful or irresistible influence on the affections or passions; unseen, inexplicable influence.
The state or condition of being fascinated.
That which fascinates; a charm; a spell.
fighter ::: one who fights, struggles, resists, etc.
fight ::: v. i. --> To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in arms; -- followed by with or against.
To act in opposition to anything; to struggle against; to contend; to strive; to make resistance.
A battle; an engagement; a contest in arms; a combat; a violent conflict or struggle for victory, between individuals or
Finally, intellect and will are brought into meaningful relation (Critique of Judgment, 1789-1793) in the feelings of aesthetic (i.e., "artistic") enjoyment and natural purposiveness. The appreciation of beauty, "aesthetic judgment", arises from the harmony of an object of cognition with the forms of knowledge; the perfect compatibility, in other words, of Nature and freedom, best exemplified in genius. Natural purposiveness, on the other hand, is not necessarily a real attribute of Nature, but an a priori, heuristic principle, an irresistible hypothesis, by which we regard Nature as a supreme end or divine form in order to give the particular contents of Nature meaning and significance.
firm ::: 1. Resistant to externally applied pressure. 2. Not subject to change; fixed and definite.; not likely to change. 3. Securely fixed in place. 4. Steadfast and determined. 5. Indicating firmness and steadfastness. 6. Definitely established; decided; settled. firm-based.
fixation ::: n. --> The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed.
The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of gaseous elements.
The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.
A state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat; -- said of metals.
fixedness ::: n. --> The state or quality of being fixed; stability; steadfastness.
The quality of a body which resists evaporation or volatilization by heat; solidity; cohesion of parts; as, the fixedness of gold.
force ::: n. 1. Strength; energy; power; intensity. 2. Fig. An agency, influence, or source of power likened to a physical force. Force, force"s, forces, Force-compelled, Conscious-Force, earth-force, God-Force, lion-forces, Mother-Force, Nature-force, Nature-Force, serpent-force, soul-force, Soul-Forces, world-force, World-Force, world-forces. *v. 3. To compel or cause (a person, group, etc.) to do something through effort, superior strength, etc.; coerce. 4. To propel or drive despite resistance. 5. To break open (a gate, door, etc.) *forces, forced, forcing.
forcible ::: a. --> Possessing force; characterized by force, efficiency, or energy; powerful; efficacious; impressive; influential.
Violent; impetuous.
Using force against opposition or resistance; obtained by compulsion; effected by force; as, forcible entry or abduction.
forearm ::: v. t. --> To arm or prepare for attack or resistance before the time of need. ::: n. --> That part of the arm or fore limb between the elbow and wrist; the antibrachium.
For the grace of the Divine Mother is the sanction of the Sup- reme and now or tomorrow its effect is sure, a thing decreed, inevitable and irresistible.
fortify ::: v. t. --> To add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack.
To strengthen and secure by forts or batteries, or by surrounding with a wall or ditch or other military works; to render defensible against an attack by hostile forces. ::: v. i.
fortitude ::: n. --> Power to resist attack; strength; firmness.
That strength or firmness of mind which enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain or adversity without murmuring, depression, or despondency; passive courage; resolute endurance; firmness in confronting or bearing up against danger or enduring trouble.
friction ::: a resistance encountered when one body moves relative to another body with which it is in contact. Surface resistance to relative motion.
fried 1. "hardware" Non-working due to hardware failure; burnt out. Especially used of hardware brought down by a "power glitch" (see {glitch}), {drop-outs}, a short, or some other electrical event. (Sometimes this literally happens to electronic circuits! In particular, resistors can burn out and transformers can melt down, emitting noxious smoke - see {friode}, {SED} and {LER}. However, this term is also used metaphorically.) Compare {frotzed}. 2. "jargon" Of people, exhausted. Said particularly of those who continue to work in such a state. Often used as an explanation or excuse. "Yeah, I know that fix destroyed the file system, but I was fried when I put it in." Especially common in conjunction with "brain": "My brain is fried today, I'm very short on sleep." [{Jargon File}] (1996-04-28)
ftiction ::: n. --> The act of rubbing the surface of one body against that of another; attrition; in hygiene, the act of rubbing the body with the hand, with flannel, or with a brush etc., to excite the skin to healthy action.
The resistance which a body meets with from the surface on which it moves. It may be resistance to sliding motion, or to rolling motion.
A clashing between two persons or parties in opinions or
gainstand ::: v. t. --> To withstand; to resist.
Georg Simon Ohm "person" (1789-1854) A German physicist who became Professor of Physics at Munich University, after whom the unit of electrical resistance was named. (2003-12-02)
glide ::: to move smoothly and continuously along, as if without effort or resistance. glides, glided, gliding.
governor ::: n. --> One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of Pennsylvania.
One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.
A pilot; a steersman.
A contrivance applied to steam engines, water wheels, and other machinery, to maintain nearly uniform speed when the resistances
grievance ::: v. t. --> A cause of uneasiness and complaint; a wrong done and suffered; that which gives ground for remonstrance or resistance, as arising from injustice, tyranny, etc.; injury.
Grieving; grief; affliction.
Gunning Transceiver Logic "electronics, hardware, integrated circuit, standard" (GTL) A {standard} for electrical signals in {CMOS} circuits used to provide higher data transfer speeds with smaller voltage swings [compared with what?]. The GTL signal swings between 0.4 volts and 1.2 volts with a reference voltage of about 0.8 volts. Only a small deviation of 0.4 volts (or thereabouts) from the reference voltage is required to switch between on and off states. Therefore, a GTL signal is said to be a low voltage swing logic signal. Gunning Transceiver Logic has several advantages. The {resistive termination} of a GTL signal provides a clean signalling environment [what?]. Moreover, the low terminating voltage of 1.2 volts results in reduced voltage drops across the resistive elements. GTL has low power dissipation and can operate at high frequency and causes less {electromagnetic interference} (EMI). {GTL/BTL: A Low-Swing Solution for High-Speed Digital Logic (http://edtn.com/scribe/reference/appnotes/md003ecc.htm)}. (2000-01-16)
hack mode "jargon" Engaged in {hack}ing. A Zen-like state of total focus on The Problem that may be achieved when one is hacking (this is why every good hacker is part mystic). Ability to enter such concentration at will correlates strongly with wizardliness; it is one of the most important skills learned during {larval stage}. Sometimes amplified as "deep hack mode". Being yanked out of hack mode (see {priority interrupt}) may be experienced as a physical shock, and the sensation of being in hack mode is more than a little habituating. The intensity of this experience is probably by itself sufficient explanation for the existence of hackers, and explains why many resist being promoted out of positions where they can code. See also {cyberspace}. Some aspects of hackish etiquette will appear quite odd to an observer unaware of the high value placed on hack mode. For example, if someone appears at your door, it is perfectly okay to hold up a hand (without turning one's eyes away from the screen) to avoid being interrupted. One may read, type, and interact with the computer for quite some time before further acknowledging the other's presence (of course, he or she is reciprocally free to leave without a word). The understanding is that you might be in {hack mode} with a lot of delicate state in your head, and you dare not {swap} that context out until you have reached a good point to pause. See also {juggling eggs}. [{Jargon File}] (1996-07-31)
hard ::: superl. --> Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.
Difficult, mentally or judicially; not easily apprehended, decided, or resolved; as a hard problem.
Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure.
Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
heterodromous ::: a. --> Having spirals of changing direction.
Moving in opposite directions; -- said of a lever, pulley, etc., in which the resistance and the actuating force are on opposite sides of the fulcrum or axis.
homodromous ::: a. --> Running in the same direction; -- said of stems twining round a support, or of the spiral succession of leaves on stems and their branches.
Moving in the same direction; -- said of a lever or pulley in which the resistance and the actuating force are both on the same side of the fulcrum or axis.
hysteresis ::: n. --> A lagging or retardation of the effect, when the forces acting upon a body are changed, as if from velocity or internal friction; a temporary resistance to change from a condition previously induced, observed in magnetism, thermoelectricity, etc., on reversal of polarity.
I£ light, strength, the Mother’s consciousness is brought into the body it can penetrate the subconsclent also and convert its obscurity and resistance.
"If discipline of all the members of our being by purification and concentration may be described as the right arm of the body of Yoga, renunciation is its left arm. By discipline or positive practice we confirm in ourselves the truth of things, truth of being, truth of knowledge, truth of love, truth of works and replace with these the falsehoods that have overgrown and perverted our nature; by renunciation we seize upon the falsehoods, pluck up their roots and cast them out of our way so that they shall no longer hamper by their persistence, their resistance or their recurrence the happy and harmonious growth of our divine living.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
“If discipline of all the members of our being by purification and concentration may be described as the right arm of the body of Yoga, renunciation is its left arm. By discipline or positive practice we confirm in ourselves the truth of things, truth of being, truth of knowledge, truth of love, truth of works and replace with these the falsehoods that have overgrown and perverted our nature; by renunciation we seize upon the falsehoods, pluck up their roots and cast them out of our way so that they shall no longer hamper by their persistence, their resistance or their recurrence the happy and harmonious growth of our divine living.” The Synthesis of Yoga
immune ::: totally protected against, or naturally resistant to, a disease; injury etc. Immune, immunity.
impedance "electronics, physics" Opposition to flow of alternating current. Impedance consists of {resistance} plus {reactance} (capacitive or inductive). Measured in {Ohms}. (2003-12-02)
impregnable ::: a. --> Not to be stormed, or taken by assault; incapable of being subdued; able to resist attack; unconquerable; as, an impregnable fortress; impregnable virtue.
Capable of being impregnated, as the egg of an animal, or the ovule of a plant.
incompressible ::: a. --> Not compressible; incapable of being reduced by force or pressure into a smaller compass or volume; resisting compression; as, many liquids and solids appear to be almost incompressible.
inconscient ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Inconscient and the Ignorance may be mere empty abstractions and can be dismissed as irrelevant jargon if one has not come in collision with them or plunged into their dark and bottomless reality. But to me they are realities, concrete powers whose resistance is present everywhere and at all times in its tremendous and boundless mass.” *Letters on Savitri
". . . in its actual cosmic manifestation the Supreme, being the Infinite and not bound by any limitation, can manifest in Itself, in its consciousness of innumerable possibilities, something that seems to be the opposite of itself, something in which there can be Darkness, Inconscience, Inertia, Insensibility, Disharmony and Disintegration. It is this that we see at the basis of the material world and speak of nowadays as the Inconscient — the Inconscient Ocean of the Rigveda in which the One was hidden and arose in the form of this universe — or, as it is sometimes called, the non-being, Asat.” Letters on Yoga
"The Inconscient itself is only an involved state of consciousness which like the Tao or Shunya, though in a different way, contains all things suppressed within it so that under a pressure from above or within all can evolve out of it — ‘an inert Soul with a somnambulist Force".” Letters on Yoga
"The Inconscient is the last resort of the Ignorance.” Letters on Yoga
"The body, we have said, is a creation of the Inconscient and itself inconscient or at least subconscient in parts of itself and much of its hidden action; but what we call the Inconscient is an appearance, a dwelling place, an instrument of a secret Consciousness or a Superconscient which has created the miracle we call the universe.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga :::
"The Inconscient is a sleep or a prison, the conscient a round of strivings without ultimate issue or the wanderings of a dream: we must wake into the superconscious where all darkness of night and half-lights cease in the self-luminous bliss of the Eternal.” The Life Divine
"Men have not learnt yet to recognise the Inconscient on which the whole material world they see is built, or the Ignorance of which their whole nature including their knowledge is built; they think that these words are only abstract metaphysical jargon flung about by the philosophers in their clouds or laboured out in long and wearisome books like The Life Divine. Letters on Savitri :::
"Is it really a fact that even the ordinary reader would not be able to see any difference between the Inconscient and Ignorance unless the difference is expressly explained to him? This is not a matter of philosophical terminology but of common sense and the understood meaning of English words. One would say ‘even the inconscient stone" but one would not say, as one might of a child, ‘the ignorant stone". One must first be conscious before one can be ignorant. What is true is that the ordinary reader might not be familiar with the philosophical content of the word Inconscient and might not be familiar with the Vedantic idea of the Ignorance as the power behind the manifested world. But I don"t see how I can acquaint him with these things in a single line, even with the most. illuminating image or symbol. He might wonder, if he were Johnsonianly minded, how an Inconscient could be teased or how it could wake Ignorance. I am afraid, in the absence of a miracle of inspired poetical exegesis flashing through my mind, he will have to be left wondering.” Letters on Savitri
**inconscient, Inconscient"s.**
ineluctable ::: a. --> Not to be overcome by struggling; irresistible; inevitable.
inert ::: a. --> Destitute of the power of moving itself, or of active resistance to motion; as, matter is inert.
Indisposed to move or act; very slow to act; sluggish; dull; inactive; indolent; lifeless.
Not having or manifesting active properties; not affecting other substances when brought in contact with them; powerless for an expected or desired effect.
inevitable ::: a. --> Not evitable; incapable of being shunned; unavoidable; certain.
Irresistible.
insurgent ::: a. --> Rising in opposition to civil or political authority, or against an established government; insubordinate; rebellious. ::: n. --> A person who rises in revolt against civil authority or an established government; one who openly and actively resists the execution of laws; a rebel.
irrejectable ::: a. --> That can not be rejected; irresistible.
irresistance ::: n. --> Nonresistance; passive submission.
irresistibility ::: n. --> The quality or state of being irrestible, irresistibleness.
irresistible ::: a. --> That can not be successfully resisted or opposed; superior to opposition; resistless; overpowering; as, an irresistible attraction.
irresistible ::: impossible to resist. irresistibly.
irresistibleness ::: n. --> Quality of being irrestible.
irresistibly ::: adv. --> In an irrestible manner.
irresistibly attractive, charming; enchanting; captivating.
irresistless ::: a. --> Irresistible.
It is held that society has not accomplished many basic transformations peacefully, that fundamental changes in the economic system or the social superstructure, such as that from medieval serf-lord to modern worker-capitalist economy, have usually involved violence wherein the class struggle passes into the acute stage of revolution because the existing law articulates and the state power protects the obsolete forms and minority-interest classes which must be superseded. The evolution of capitalism is considered to have reached the point where the accelerating abundance of which its technics are capable is frustrated by economic relationships such as those involved in individual ownership of productive means, hiring and firing of workers in the light of private profits and socially unplanned production for a money market. It is held that only technics collectively owned and production socially planned can provide employment and abundance of goods for everyone. The view taken is that peaceful attainment of them is possible, but will probably be violently resisted by priveleged minorities, provoking a contest of force in which the working class majority will eventually triumph the world over.
It is usual for these resistances to rise up, for they have to manifest themselves in order that they may be dealt with and thrown out. It is best not to struggle with the resistances but to stand back from them, observe as witness, reject these move- ments and call on the Divine Power to remove them.
jansenist ::: n. --> A follower of Cornelius Jansen, a Roman Catholic bishop of Ypres, in Flanders, in the 17th century, who taught certain doctrines denying free will and the possibility of resisting divine grace.
Jhumur: “Law is capital, it has to be! It is a very powerful dominating force, a force of resistance, a force of refusal, whatever in us denies the acceptance of light. If this law were not there then there would be an immediate rising into the light and there would be perhaps no play of the manifestation. For a long time there was a kind of a backward pull for each forward attempt so that you would have to work your way up from below and these lower levels have their very strong demands or pulls to resist. Slowly you have to take up all these movements and rise, otherwise the spirit would have risen really without any restriction and that would not have been what the divine intention was, to manifest here in the inconscient, the Divine.”
Jhumur: “Mother speaks of the four great asuras who seem to have taken over the world. The earth becomes the fulcrum or territory of these forces. The Kaliyuga is exactly the world that has been taken over by the dark forces. And iron is that which doesn’t like to change or to reflect light. It is not transparent so there is a sense of resistance, of hardness, of darkness. The Indian word Kala, which is ‘time’ is also one of the names of death. From that you have also Kali. It is darkness, associated with blackness and yet it is also time, mortality.”
joule ::: n. --> A unit of work which is equal to 107 units of work in the C. G. S. system of units (ergs), and is practically equivalent to the energy expended in one second by an electric current of one ampere in a resistance of one ohm. One joule is approximately equal to 0.738 foot pounds.
killing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Kill ::: a. --> Literally, that kills; having power to kill; fatal; in a colloquial sense, conquering; captivating; irresistible.
kleptomania ::: n. --> A propensity to steal, claimed to be irresistible. This does not constitute legal irresponsibility.
knurly ::: superl. --> Full of knots; hard; tough; hence, capable of enduring or resisting much.
kremvax /krem-vaks/ (Or kgbvax) Originally, a fictitious {Usenet} site at the Kremlin, named like the then large number of {Usenet} {VAXen} with names of the form foovax. Kremvax was announced on April 1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko. The posting was actually forged by Piet Beertema as an April Fool's joke. Other fictitious sites mentioned in the hoax were moskvax and {kgbvax}. This was probably the funniest of the many April Fool's forgeries perpetrated on {Usenet} (which has negligible security against them), because the notion that {Usenet} might ever penetrate the Iron Curtain seemed so totally absurd at the time. In fact, it was only six years later that the first genuine site in Moscow, demos.su, joined {Usenet}. Some readers needed convincing that the postings from it weren't just another prank. Vadim Antonov, senior programmer at Demos and the major poster from there up to mid-1991, was quite aware of all this, referred to it frequently in his own postings, and at one point twitted some credulous readers by blandly asserting that he *was* a hoax! Eventually he even arranged to have the domain's gateway site *named* kremvax, thus neatly turning fiction into truth and demonstrating that the hackish sense of humour transcends cultural barriers. Mr. Antonov also contributed some Russian-language material for the {Jargon File}. In an even more ironic historical footnote, kremvax became an electronic centre of the anti-communist resistance during the bungled hard-line coup of August 1991. During those three days the Soviet UUCP network centreed on kremvax became the only trustworthy news source for many places within the USSR. Though the sysops were concentrating on internal communications, cross-border postings included immediate transliterations of Boris Yeltsin's decrees condemning the coup and eyewitness reports of the demonstrations in Moscow's streets. In those hours, years of speculation that totalitarianism would prove unable to maintain its grip on politically-loaded information in the age of computer networking were proved devastatingly accurate - and the original kremvax joke became a reality as Yeltsin and the new Russian revolutionaries of "glasnost" and "perestroika" made kremvax one of the timeliest means of their outreach to the West. [{Jargon File}]
LER 1. "networking" {Label Edge Router}. 2. "electronics, humour" {Light-Emitting Resistor}. [{Jargon File}] (1999-06-30)
light-emitting resistor "electronics, humour" (LER, from "{light-emitting diode}") A {resistor} in the final stages of burning up. (Though intended as purely humorous, the term could sensibly describe the filament of a common incandescent electric light bulb). See also {SED}. (1996-02-06)
line conditioning "communications" The adjustment of electrical characteristics of, e.g., {twisted pair} telephone lines by insertion of components such as resistors, capacitors, transformers or (commonly) inductors. Lines intended for analogue voice signals usually have inductors inserted every few miles; such a line is said to be "loaded". The special purpose lines which have neither inductors nor the DC voltage which powers ordinary telephones are said to be "dry," and are much better for data transmission. (1996-04-07)
lintel ::: n. --> A horizontal member spanning an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture.
live-forever ::: n. --> A plant (Sedum Telephium) with fleshy leaves, which has extreme powers of resisting drought; garden ox-pine.
Maine de Biran, F. P. Gonthier: (1766-1824) French philosopher and psychologist, who revolted against the dominant sensationalistic and materialistic psychology of Condlllac and Cabanis and developed, under the influence of Kant and Fichte, an idealistic and voluntaristic psychology. The mind directly experiences the activity of its will and at the same time the resistance offered to it by the "non-moi." Upon this basis, Maine de Biran erected his metaphysics which interprets the conceptions of force, substance, cause, etc. in terms of the directly experienced activity of the will. This system of psychology and metaphysics, which came to be known as French spiritualism, exerted considerable influence on Cousin, Ravaisson and Renouvier. His writings include: De la Decomposition de la Pensee (1805); Les Rapports du Physique et du Moral de l'Homme (1834); Essai sur les Fondements de la Psychologie (1812); Oeuvres Philosophiques, ed. by V. Cousin (1841). -- L.W.
massacre ::: n. --> The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people; as, the massacre on St. Bartholomew&
Matter: That the defining characteristic of which is extension, occupancy of space, mass, weight, motion, movability, inertia, resistance, impenetrability, attraction and repulsion, or their combinations; these characteristics or powers themselves; the extra-mental cause of sense experience; what composes the "sensible world"; the manipulate; the permanent (or relatively so); the public (accessible to more than one knower, non-pn'vate); the physical or non-mental; the physical, bodily, or non-spiritual; the relatively worthless or base; the inanimate; the worldly or natural (non-supernatural); the wholly or relatively indeterminate; potentiality for receiving form or what has that potentiality; that which in union with form constitutes an individual; differentiating content as against form; the particular as against the universal; the manifold of sensation; the given element in experience as against that supplied by mind; that of which something consists; that from which a thing develops or is made; the first existent or primordial stuff; what is under consideration. Philosophers conceive matter as appearance or privation of reality, as one or the only reality; as the principle of imperfection and limitation, as potentially or sometimes good; as substance, process, or content; as points, atoms, substrata, or other media endowed with powers mentioned above. -- M.T.K.
Maxim, ethical: In general any rule of conduct which an individual may adopt, or which he may be advised to follow as a good guide for action, e.g., Descartes' maxim to try always to conquer himself rather than fortune. The formulation of such rules is often recommended as a help in deciding what to do in particular cases, especially if time is short, in resisting temptation, etc. Kant held (1) that each voluntary act proceeds according to a maxim or "subjective principle of action," e.g., in breaking a promise one has as one's maxim, "When it is to my advantage, I will make a promise and not keep it," (2) that one can tell whether an act is right or not by asking whether one can will its maxim to be a universal law. -- W.K.F.
Medical treatment is sometimes a necessity. If one can cure by the Force it is the best ; but if for some reason the body is not able to respond to the Force (e.g. owing to doubt, lassitude or discouragement or for inability to react against the disease), then the aid of medical treatment becomes necessary. It is not that the Force ceases to act and leaves all to the medicines, — it will continue to act through the consciousness but take the support of the Irealntent so as to act directly on the resistance in the body, which responds more readily to physical means in its ordinary consciousness. ‘
megohm ::: n. --> One of the larger measures of electrical resistance, amounting to one million ohms.
microphone ::: n. --> An instrument for intensifying and making audible very feeble sounds. It produces its effects by the changes of intensity in an electric current, occasioned by the variations in the contact resistance of conducting bodies, especially of imperfect conductors, under the action of acoustic vibrations.
Mother, four of her leading Powers and Personalities have stood in front in her guidance of this Universe and in her dealings with the terrestrial play. One is her personality of calm wideness and comprehending wisdom and tranquil benignity and inexhaustible compassion and sovereign and surpassing majesty and all-ruling greatness. Another embo&es her power of splendid strength and irresistible passion, her warrior mood, her overwhelming will, her impetuous swiftness and world-shaking force. A third is vivid and sweet and wonderful with her deep secret of beauty and harmony and fine rhythm, her intricate and subtle opulence, her compelling attraction and captivating grace. The fourth is equipped with her close and profound capacity of intimate knowledge and careful flawless work and quiet and exact per- fection in all things. Wisdom, Strength, Harmony, Perfection are their several attributes and it Is these powers that they bring with them into the world. To the four we give the four great names, Maheshvari, Mahakali, Mabalakshmi, Mahasarasvati.
mutiny ::: n. --> Insurrection against constituted authority, particularly military or naval authority; concerted revolt against the rules of discipline or the lawful commands of a superior officer; hence, generally, forcible resistance to rightful authority; insubordination.
Violent commotion; tumult; strife. ::: v. i.
n. 1. The lower interior part of a ship or airplane where cargo is stored. 2. The act or a means of grasping. v. 3. To have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp. 4. To bear, sustain, or support, as with the hands or arms, or by any other means. 5. To contain or be capable of containing. 6. To keep from departing or getting away. 7. To withstand stress, pressure, or opposition; to maintain occupation of by force or coercion. 8. To have in its power, possess, affect, occupy. 9. To engage in; preside over; carry on. 10. To have or keep in the mind; think or believe. 11. To regard or consider. 12. To keep or maintain a grasp on something. 13. To maintain one"s position against opposition; continue in resistance. 14. To agree or side (usually followed by with). holds, holding. ::: hold back. 15. a. To retain possession of; keep back. b. To refrain from revealing; withhold. c. To refrain from participating or engaging in some activity.
necessity ::: n. --> The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.
The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want.
That which is necessary; a necessary; a requisite; something indispensable; -- often in the plural.
That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral;
nervous tapas ::: vital power, whose action is characterised by "the play of forces, action & reaction, resistance etc"; same as pran.amaya tapas.
neurokeratin ::: n. --> A substance, resembling keratin, present in nerve tissue, as in the sheath of the axis cylinder of medullated nerve fibers. Like keratin it resists the action of most chemical agents, and by decomposition with sulphuric acid yields leucin and tyrosin.
Next, as a consequence, it follows that only a limited part of the action of the vital or other higher plane is concerned with the earth-existence. But even this creates a mass of possibilities which is far greater than the earth can at one time mainfest or contain in its own less plastic formulas. All these possibilities do not realise themselves ; some fail altogether and leave at the most an idea that comes to nothing ; some try seriously and are repelled and defeated and, even if in action for a time, come to nothing. Others effectuate a half manifestation, and this is the most usual result, the more so as these vital or other supraphysical forces come Into conflict and have not only to overcome the resistance of the physical consciousness and of matter, but their own internecine resistance to each other. A certain number succeed in precipitating their results in a more complete and successful creation, so that if you compare this creation with its original in the higher plane, there is something
NOMEX underwear /noh'meks uhn'-der-weir/ [{Usenet}] Synonym {asbestos longjohns}, used mostly in auto-related {mailing lists} and newsgroups. NOMEX underwear is an actual product available on the racing equipment market, used as a fire resistance measure and required in some racing series. [{Jargon File}]
nonresistance ::: n. --> The principles or practice of a nonresistant; passive obedience; submission to authority, power, oppression, or violence without opposition.
nonresistant ::: a. --> Making no resistance. ::: n. --> One who maintains that no resistance should be made to constituted authority, even when unjustly or oppressively exercised; one who advocates or practices absolute submission; also, one who holds that violence should never be resisted by force.
nonresisting ::: a. --> Not making resistance.
obluctation ::: n. --> A struggle against; resistance; opposition.
ohm ::: n. --> The standard unit in the measure of electrical resistance, being the resistance of a circuit in which a potential difference of one volt produces a current of one ampere. As defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893, and by United States Statute, it is a resistance substantially equal to 109 units of resistance of the C.G.S. system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice 14.4521 grams
Ohm "unit" The {MKS} unit of electrical {resistance}. One Ohm is the resistance of a conductor across which a {potential difference} of one {Volt} produces a {current} of one {Ampere}. Named after {Georg Simon Ohm}. (2003-12-02)
opposable ::: a. --> Capable of being opposed or resisted.
Capable of being placed opposite something else; as, the thumb is opposable to the forefinger.
opposed ::: 1. Being in opposition or having an opponent. 2. Resisted or obstructed.
opposeless ::: a. --> Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible.
oppose ::: n. --> To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.
To put in opposition, with a view to counterbalance or countervail; to set against; to offer antagonistically.
To resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against; to confront; to resist; to withstand; as, to oppose the king in battle; to oppose a bill in Congress.
To compete with; to strive against; as, to oppose a rival
opposition ::: n. --> The act of opposing; an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance.
The state of being placed over against; situation so as to front something else.
Repugnance; contrariety of sentiment, interest, or purpose; antipathy.
That which opposes; an obstacle; specifically, the aggregate of persons or things opposing; hence, in politics and
oppugnancy ::: n. --> The act of oppugning; opposition; resistance.
oppugn ::: v. t. --> To fight against; to attack; to be in conflict with; to oppose; to resist.
Other main works: The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, 1897; Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, 1902; Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking, 1907; A Pluralistic Universe, 1909; Some Problems of Philosophy, 1911; Essays in Radical Empiricism, 1912. Cf. R. B. Perry, Thought and Character of William. James, 2 vols., 1935. Jansenism: The teaching of Cornelius Jansen, latinized Jansenius (1585-1638), Bishop of Ypres, and his followers in France and Holland. Its most significant doctrines were the total corruption of human nature owing to original sin, man's inability to resist either concupiscence or grace implying the denial of free will, predestination, and the denial that Christ died for all men without exception. The Jansenists were characterized by an unusual harshness, severity of manners, and moral rigorism. The doctrine was condemned by the Church. -- J.J.R.
outface ::: v. t. --> To face or look (one) out of countenance; to resist or bear down by bold looks or effrontery; to brave.
outstand ::: v. i. --> To stand out, or project, from a surface or mass; hence, to remain standing out. ::: v. t. --> To resist effectually; to withstand; to sustain without yielding.
To stay beyond.
overpowering ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Overpower ::: a. --> Excelling in power; too powerful; irresistible.
overpress ::: v. t. --> To bear upon with irresistible force; to crush; to overwhelm.
To overcome by importunity.
overtempt ::: v. t. --> To tempt exceedingly, or beyond the power of resistance.
overwhelming ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Overwhelm ::: a. --> Overpowering; irresistible.
Parts of the Being ::: In the Yoga one becomes aware of the different parts and their proper action, and puts each in its place and to its proper action under the control of the higher consciousness or else under the control of the Divine Power. Afterwards all gets surcharged with the spiritual consciousness and there is an automatic right perception and right action of the different parts because they are controlled entirely from above and do not falsify or resist or confuse its dictates.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 35, Page: 80-81
passive ::: a. --> Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene.
Receiving or enduring without either active sympathy or active resistance; without emotion or excitement; patient; not opposing; unresisting; as, passive obedience; passive submission.
Inactive; inert; not showing strong affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive.
passively ::: adv. --> In a passive manner; inertly; unresistingly.
As a passive verb; in the passive voice.
passiveness ::: n. --> The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.
pencil and paper An archaic information storage and transmission device that works by depositing smears of graphite on bleached wood pulp. More recent developments in paper-based technology include improved "write-once" update devices which use tiny rolling heads similar to mouse balls to deposit coloured pigment. All these devices require an operator skilled at so-called "handwriting" technique. These technologies are ubiquitous outside hackerdom, but nearly forgotten inside it. Most hackers had terrible handwriting to begin with, and years of keyboarding tend to have encouraged it to degrade further. Perhaps for this reason, hackers deprecate pencil-and-paper technology and often resist using it in any but the most trivial contexts. [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-06)
"Perfection is eternal; it is only the resistance of the world that makes it progressive.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15.
“Perfection is eternal; it is only the resistance of the world that makes it progressive.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15.
pinnacle ::: n. --> An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire, and the like. Pinnacles may be considered primarily as added weight, where it is necessary to resist the thrust of an arch, etc.
Anything resembling a pinnacle; a lofty peak; a pointed summit.
plasmid ::: n. --> A piece of DNA, usually circular, functioning as part of the genetic material of a cell, not integrated with the chromosome and replicating independently of the chromosome, but transferred, like the chromosome, to subsequent generations. In bacteria, plasmids often carry the genes for antibiotic resistance; they are exploited in genetic engineering as the vehicles for introduction of extraneous DNA into cells, to alter the genetic makeup of the cell. The cells thus altered may produce desirable proteins which are extracted and used; in
platinoid ::: a. --> Resembling platinum. ::: n. --> An alloy of German silver containing tungsten; -- used for forming electrical resistance coils and standards.
platinum ::: n. --> A metallic element, intermediate in value between silver and gold, occurring native or alloyed with other metals, also as the platinum arsenide (sperrylite). It is heavy tin-white metal which is ductile and malleable, but very infusible, and characterized by its resistance to strong chemical reagents. It is used for crucibles, for stills for sulphuric acid, rarely for coin, and in the form of foil and wire for many purposes. Specific gravity 21.5. Atomic weight 194.3. Symbol Pt. Formerly called platina.
Political Philosophy: That branch of philosophy which deals with political life, especially with the essence, origin and value of the state. In ancient philosophy politics also embraced what we call ethics. The first and most important ancient works on Political Philosophy were Plato's Politeia (Republic) and Aristotle's Politics. The Politeia outlines the structure and functions of the ideal state. It became the pattern for all the Utopias (see Utopia) of later times. Aristotle, who considers man fundamentally a social creature i.e. a political animal, created the basis for modern theories of government, especially by his distinction of the different forms of government. Early Christianity had a rather negative attitude towards the state which found expression in St. Augustine's De Civitate Dei. The influence of this work, in which the earthly state was declared to be civitas diaboli, a state of the devil, was predominant throughout the Middle Ages. In the discussion of the relation between church and empire, the main topic of medieval political philosophy, certain authors foreshadowed modern political theories. Thomas Aquinas stressed the popular origin of royal power and the right of the people to restrict or abolish that power in case of abuse; William of Ockham and Marsiglio of Padua held similar views. Dante Alighieri was one of the first to recognize the intrinsic value of the state; he considered the world monarchy to be the only means whereby peace, justice and liberty could be secured. But it was not until the Renaissance that, due to the rediscovery of the individual and his rights and to the formation of territorial states, political philosophy began to play a major role. Niccolo Machiavelli and Jean Bodin laid the foundation for the new theories of the state by stressing its independence from any external power and its indivisible sovereignty. The theory of popular rights and of the right of resistance against tyranny was especially advocated by the "Monarchomachi" (Huguenots, such as Beza, Hotman, Languet, Danaeus, Catholics such as Boucher, Rossaeus, Mariana). Most of them used the theory of an original contract (see Social Contract) to justify limitations of monarchical power. Later, the idea of a Natural Law, independent from divine revelation (Hugo Grotius and his followers), served as an argument for liberal -- sometimes revolutionary -- tendencies. With the exception of Hobbes, who used the contract theory in his plea for absolutism, almost all the publicists of the 16th and 17th century built their liberal theories upon the idea of an original covenant by which individuals joined together and by mutual consent formed a state and placed a fiduciary trust in the supreme power (Roger Williams and John Locke). It was this contract which the Pilgrim Fathers translated into actual facts, after their arrival in America, in November, 1620, long before John Locke had developed his theorv. In the course of the 17th century in England the contract theory was generally substituted for the theory of the divine rights of kings. It was supported by the assumption of an original "State of Nature" in which all men enjoyed equal reciprocal rights. The most ardent defender of the social contract theory in the 18th century was J. J. Rousseau who deeply influenced the philosophy of the French revolution. In Rousseau's conception the idea of the sovereignty of the people took on a more democratic aspect than in 17th century English political philosophy which had been almost exclusively aristocratic in its spirit. This tendency found expression in his concept of the "general will" in the moulding of which each individual has his share. Immanuel Kant who made these concepts the basis of his political philosophy, recognized more clearly than Rousseau the fictitious character of the social contract and treated it as a "regulative idea", meant to serve as a criterion in the evaluation of any act of the state. For Hegel the state is an end in itself, the supreme realization of reason and morality. In marked opposition to this point of view, Marx and Engels, though strongly influenced by Hegel, visualized a society in which the state would gradually fade away. Most of the 19th century publicists, however, upheld the juristic theory of the state. To them the state was the only source of law and at the same time invested with absolute sovereignty: there are no limits to the legal omnipotence of the state except those which are self imposed. In opposition to this doctrine of unified state authority, a pluralistic theory of sovereignty has been advanced recently by certain authors, laying emphasis upon corporate personalities and professional groups (Duguit, Krabbe, Laski). Outspoken anti-stateism was advocated by anarchists such as Kropotkin, etc., by syndicalists and Guild socialists. -- W.E.
pregnantly ::: adv. --> In a pregnant manner; fruitfully; significantly.
Unresistingly; openly; hence, clearly; evidently.
printed circuit board "hardware" (PCB) A thin board to which electronic components are fixed by solder. Component leads and {integrated circuit} pins may pass through holes ("vias") in the board or they may be {surface mounted}, in which case no holes are required (though they may still be used to connect different layers). The simplest kind of PCB has components and wires on one side and interconnections (the printed circuit) on the other. PCBs may have components mounted on both sides and may have many internal layers, allowing more connections to fit in the same board area. Boards with internal conductor layers usually have "plated-through holes" to improve the electrical connection to the internal layers. The connections are metal strips (usually copper). The pattern of connections is often produced using photo-resist and acid etching. Boards, especially those for high frequency circuits such as modern {microprocessors}, usually have one or more "{ground planes}" and "power planes" which are large areas of copper for greater current carrying ability. A computer or other electronic system might be built from several PCBs, e.g. processor, memory, graphics controller, disk controller etc. These boards might all plug into a {motherboard} or {backplane} or be connected by a {ribbon cable}. (1995-05-01)
proof-armoured ::: with the power to resist; strong; invulnerable.
proof ::: n. --> Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
That degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments that induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration.
The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness that resists impression, or does not yield to
quail ::: v. i. --> To die; to perish; hence, to wither; to fade.
To become quelled; to become cast down; to sink under trial or apprehension of danger; to lose the spirit and power of resistance; to lose heart; to give way; to shrink; to cower.
To curdle; to coagulate, as milk. ::: v. t.
Radio Frequency Interference "hardware, testing" (RFI) Electromagnetic radiation which is emitted by electrical circuits carrying rapidly changing signals, as a by-product of their normal operation, and which causes unwanted signals (interference or noise) to be induced in other circuits. The most important means of reducing RFI are: use of bypass or "decoupling" {capacitors} on each active device (connected across the power supply, as close to the device as possible), risetime control of high speed signals using series resistors and {VCC filtering}. Shielding is usually a last resort after other techniques have failed because of the added expense of RF gaskets and the like. The efficiency of the radiation is dependent on the height above the ground or power plane (at RF one is as good as the other) and the length of the conductor in relationship to the wavelength of the signal component (fundamental, harmonic or transient (overshoot, undershoot or ringing)). At lower frequencies, such as 133 MHz, radiation is almost exclusively via I/O cables; RF noise gets onto the power planes and is coupled to the line drivers via the VCC and ground pins. The Rf is then coupled to the cable through the line driver as common node noise. Since the noise is common mode, shielding has very little effect, even with differential pairs. The RF energy is capacitively coupled from the signal pair to the shield and the shield itself does the radiating. At higher frequencies, usually above 500 Mhz, traces get electrically longer and higher above the plane. Two techniques are used at these frequencies: wave shaping with series resistors and embedding the traces between the two planes. If all these measures still leave too much RFI, sheilding such as RF gaskets and copper tape can be used. Most digital equipment is designed with metal, or coated plastic, cases. Switching power supplies can be a source of RFI, but have become less of a problem as design techniques have improved. Most countries have legal requirements that electronic and electrical hardware must still work correctly when subjected to certain amounts of RFI, and should not emit RFI which could interfere with other equipment (such as radios). See also {Electrostatic Discharge}, {Electromagnetic Compatibility}. (1998-01-26)
RCA 1802 "processor" An extremely simple {microprocessor} fabricated in {CMOS}, running at 6.4 MHz at 10V (very fast for 1974). It could be suspended with the clock stopped. It was an 8-bit processor, with 16-bit addressing. Simplicity was the primary design goal, and in that sense it was one of the first {RISC} chips. It had sixteen 16-bit {registers}, which could be accessed as thirty-two 8-bit registers, and an {accumulator} D used for arithmetic and memory access - memory to D, then D to registers and vice versa, using one 16-bit register as an address. This led to one person describing the 1802 as having 32 bytes of {RAM} and 65535 I/O ports. A 4-bit control register P selected any one general register as the {program counter}, while control registers X and N selected registers for I/O Index and the operand for the current instruction. All instructions were 8 bits - a 4-bit {op code} (total of 16 operations) and 4-bit {operand register} stored in N. There was no real {conditional branching}, no {subroutine} support and no actual {stack} but these could be implemented by clever use of registers, e.g. changing P to another register allowed jump to a subroutine. Similarly, on an interrupt P and X were saved, then R1 and R2 were selected for P and X until an {RTI} restored them. The {RCA 1805} was an enhanced version. The 1802 was used in the {COSMAC} (VIP?) {microcomputer} kit, some video games from {RCA} and {Radio Shack}, and the {ETI-660} computer. It was chosen for the Voyager, Viking and Galileo space probes as it was also fabricated in {Silicon on Sapphire}, giving radiation and static resistance, ideal for space operation. {More history (http://cosmacelf.com)}. (2002-04-09)
reaction ::: n. --> Any action in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action.
The mutual or reciprocal action of chemical agents upon each other, or the action upon such chemical agents of some form of energy, as heat, light, or electricity, resulting in a chemical change in one or more of these agents, with the production of new compounds or the manifestation of distinctive characters. See Blowpipe reaction, Flame reaction, under Blowpipe, and Flame.
react ::: v. t. --> To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome. ::: v. i. --> To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.
rebellion ::: v. i. --> The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes obedience, and resistance to its officers and laws, either by levying war, or by aiding others to do so; an organized uprising of subjects for the purpose of coercing or overthrowing their lawful ruler or government by force; revolt; insurrection.
Open resistance to, or defiance of, lawful authority.
rebellious ::: a. --> Engaged in rebellion; disposed to rebel; of the nature of rebels or of rebellion; resisting government or lawful authority by force.
rebel ::: n. 1. One who rebels or is in rebellion. rebel"s. adj. 3. Defiant. v. rebels. 2. Resists or defies an authority or a generally accepted convention.
rebel ::: v. i. --> Pertaining to rebels or rebellion; acting in revolt; rebellious; as, rebel troops.
To renounce, and resist by force, the authority of the ruler or government to which one owes obedience. See Rebellion.
To be disobedient to authority; to assume a hostile or insubordinate attitude; to revolt. ::: n.
rebuff ::: n. --> Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance.
Sudden check; unexpected repulse; defeat; refusal; repellence; rejection of solicitation. ::: v. t. --> To beat back; to offer sudden resistance to; to check;
Recurrence of doubts ::: In the nature of these recurrences there is usually a constant return of the same adverse experiences, the same adverse resistance, thoughts destructive of all belief and faith and confidence in the future of the sadhana, frustrating doubts of what one has known as the truth, urgings to abandon- ment of the yoga or to other disastrous counsels of decheance.
reflex ::: a. --> Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective.
Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return.
Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or excitation without the necessary intervention of consciousness. ::: n.
refractory ::: a. --> Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn; unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast.
Resisting ordinary treatment; difficult of fusion, reduction, or the like; -- said especially of metals and the like, which do not readily yield to heat, or to the hammer; as, a refractory ore. ::: n.
reluctate ::: v. i. --> To struggle against anything; to resist; to oppose.
reluctation ::: n. --> Repugnance; resistance; reluctance.
reluct ::: v. i. --> To strive or struggle against anything; to make resistance; to draw back; to feel or show repugnance or reluctance.
renitency ::: n. --> The state or quality of being renitent; resistance; reluctance.
renitent ::: a. --> Resisting pressure or the effect of it; acting against impulse by elastic force.
Persistently opposed.
repel ::: 1. To push back or away by a force, as one body acting upon another (as opposed to attract). 2. To refuse to accept; reject. 3. To refuse to have to do with; resist involvement with. 4. To force or drive back (something or somebody, esp. an attacker). repels, repelled.
repel ::: v. t. --> To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.
To resist or oppose effectually; as, to repel an assault, an encroachment, or an argument. ::: v. i. --> To act with force in opposition to force impressed; to
repugnable ::: a. --> Capable of being repugned or resisted.
repugned ::: opposed; resisted.
repugn ::: v. t. --> To fight against; to oppose; to resist.
repulsion ::: n. --> The act of repulsing or repelling, or the state of being repulsed or repelled.
A feeling of violent offence or disgust; repugnance.
The power, either inherent or due to some physical action, by which bodies, or the particles of bodies, are made to recede from each other, or to resist each other&
resignation ::: an accepting, unresisting attitude, state, etc.; submission; acquiescence.
resignation ::: n. --> The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission.
The state of being resigned or submissive; quiet or patient submission; unresisting acquiescence; as, resignation to the will and providence of God.
resigned ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Resign ::: a. --> Submissive; yielding; not disposed to resist or murmur.
resist ::: 1. To strive to fend off or offset the actions, effects, or force of. 2. To remain firm against the actions, effects, or force of; withstand. 3. To stand firm (against); not yield (to); fight (against). resists, resisted, resisting.
resistance ::: n. --> The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.
The quality of not yielding to force or external pressure; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; as, the resistance of the air to a body passing through it; the resistance of a target to projectiles.
A means or method of resisting; that which resists.
A certain hindrance or opposition to the passage of an
resistance ::: the opposition offered by one thing, force, etc., to another.
RESISTANCE. ::: When the soul draws towards the Divine, there may be a resistance in the mind and the common form of that is denial and doubt — which may create mental and vital su/Tering. There may again be a resistance in the vital nature ivhose principal characer is desire and the attachment to the objects of desire, and if in this field there is conflict between the soul and the vital nature, between the Divine Attraction and the pull of the Ignorance, then obviously there may be much suffer- ing of the mind and vital parts. The pbj-sical consciousness also may offer a resistance which is usually that of a fundamental inertia, an obscurity in the very stuff of the physical, an incom- prehension, an inability to respond to the higher consciousness, a habit of helplessly responding to the lower mechanically, even when it docs not want to do so ; both lital and physical suffer- ing may be the consequence. There is, moreover, the resistance of the Universal Nature which does not want the being to escape from the Ignorance into the Light. This may take the form of a vehement insistence in the continuation of the old movements, waves of them thrown on the mind and vital and body so that old ideas, impulses, desires, feelings, responses continue even after they are thrown out and rejected, and can return like an invading army from outside, until the whole nature, given to (he
resistant ::: a. --> Making resistance; resisting. ::: n. --> One who, or that which, resists.
resist ::: But Savitri replied,”Thy gifts resist.
resisted ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Resist
resister ::: n. --> One who resists.
resistful ::: a. --> Making much resistance.
resistibility ::: n.. --> The quality of being resistible; resistibleness.
The quality of being resistant; resitstance.
resistible ::: a. --> Capable of being resisted; as, a resistible force.
resisting ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Resist ::: a. --> Making resistance; opposing; as, a resisting medium.
resistive ::: a. --> Serving to resist.
resistless ::: a. --> Having no power to resist; making no opposition.
Incapable of being resisted; irresistible.
resist ::: v. t. --> To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.
To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose.
To counteract, as a force, by inertia or reaction.
To be distasteful to. ::: v. i.
rheochord ::: n. --> A metallic wire used for regulating the resistance of a circuit, or varying the strength of an electric current, by inserting a greater or less length of it in the circuit.
rheostat ::: n. --> A contrivance for adjusting or regulating the strength of electrical currents, operating usually by the intercalation of resistance which can be varied at will.
rigidity ::: n. --> The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness.
Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.
Severity; rigor.
RTL 1. "hardware" {Resistor-Transistor Logic}. 2. "language" {Register Transfer Language}.
Rudra2 ::: "the terrible", a Vedic deity who is "the Violent and Merciful, the Mighty One, . . . the armed, wrathful and beneficent Power of God who lifts forcibly the creation upward, smites all that opposes, scourges all that errs and resists, heals all that is wounded and suffers"; (in the plural) gods with the qualities of this deity, "the fierce, impetuous ones", such as the Maruts; in later Hinduism, a name of Śiva as the Destroyer, one of the "three Powers and Personalities of the One Cosmic Godhead", of which the other two are Brahma, the Creator, and Vis.n.u, the Preserver; in the Record of Yoga, sometimes identified with the Balarama personality of the fourfold isvara. rudra ananda
sattvaguna. :::the single principle which leads to happiness, sentience, unity and unification, symmetry, salvation and liberation; resistance to binding action and to both positive and negative space-time curvatures; facilitates the reflection of consciousness and is favourable for the attainment of liberation; it's effect is Brahmavichara &
satyagraha [Hind.] ::: ["insistence on truth", in the Indian national movement the name given to the non-violent resistance advocated by Mahatma Gandhi and others].
screen saver "tool" A program which displays either a completely black image or a constantly changing image on a computer monitor to prevent a stationary image from "burning" into the phosphor of the screen. Screen savers usually start automatically after the computer has had no user input for a preset time. Some screen savers come with many different modules, each giving a different effect. Approximately pre-1990, many {cathode ray tubes}, in TVs, computer {monitors} or elsewhere, were prone to "burn-in"; that is, if the same pattern (e.g., the {WordPerfect} status line; the {Pong} score readout; or a TV channel-number display) were shown at the same position on the screen for very long periods of time, the phosphor on the screen would "fatigue" and that part of the screen would seem greyed out, even when the CRT was off. Eventually CRTs were developed which were resistant to burn-in (and which sometimes went into {sleep} mode after a period of inactivity); but in the meantime, solutions were developed: home video game systems of the era (e.g., Atari 2600s) would, when not being played, change the screen every few seconds, to avoid burn-in; and computer screen saver programs were developed. The first screen savers were simple screen blankers - they just set the screen to all black, but, in the best case of {creeping featurism} ever recorded, these tiny (often under 1K long) programs grew without regard to efficiency or even basic usefulness. At first, small, innocuous {display hacks} (generally on an almost-black screen) were added. Later, more complex effects appeared, including {animations} (often with sound effects!) of arbitrary length and complexity. Along the way, avoiding repetitive patterns and burn-in was completely forgotten and "screen savers" such as {Pointcast} were developed, which make no claim to save your monitor, but are simply bloated {browsers} for {push media} which self-start after the machine has been inactive for a few minutes. (1997-11-23)
scrofula ::: n. --> A constitutional disease, generally hereditary, especially manifested by chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of the lymphatic glands, particularly those of the neck, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery. Scrofula is now generally held to be tuberculous in character, and may develop into general or local tuberculosis
seaboat ::: --> A boat or vessel adapted to the open sea; hence, a vessel considered with reference to her power of resisting a storm, or maintaining herself in a heavy sea; as, a good sea boat.
A chitin.
sea wall ::: --> A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea.
seaworthiness ::: n. --> The state or quality of being seaworthy, or able to resist the ordinary violence of wind and weather.
sedition ::: n. --> The raising of commotion in a state, not amounting to insurrection; conduct tending to treason, but without an overt act; excitement of discontent against the government, or of resistance to lawful authority.
Dissension; division; schism.
sensible ::: a. --> Capable of being perceived by the senses; apprehensible through the bodily organs; hence, also, perceptible to the mind; making an impression upon the sense, reason, or understanding; ////// heat; sensible resistance.
Having the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; capable of perceiving by the instrumentality of the proper organs; liable to be affected physsically or mentally; impressible.
shears ::: n. --> A cutting instrument.
An instrument consisting of two blades, commonly with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, and working on both sides of the material to be cut, -- used for cutting cloth and other substances.
A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins.
A shearing machine; a blade, or a set of blades, working against a resisting edge.
shellproof ::: a. --> Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof.
short circuit ::: --> A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
short-circuit ::: v. t. --> To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance.
siege ::: the act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such a way as to isolate it from help and supplies, for the purpose of lessening the resistance of the defenders and thereby making capture possible. Also fig.
slave ::: n. --> See Slav.
A person who is held in bondage to another; one who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who is held as a chattel; one who has no freedom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another.
One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders himself to any power whatever; as, a slave to passion, to lust, to strong drink, to ambition.
soft ::: superl. --> Easily yielding to pressure; easily impressed, molded, or cut; not firm in resisting; impressible; yielding; also, malleable; -- opposed to hard; as, a soft bed; a soft peach; soft earth; soft wood or metal.
Not rough, rugged, or harsh to the touch; smooth; delicate; fine; as, soft silk; a soft skin.
Hence, agreeable to feel, taste, or inhale; not irritating to the tissues; as, a soft liniment; soft wines.
solid ::: a. --> Having the constituent parts so compact, or so firmly adhering, as to resist the impression or penetration of other bodies; having a fixed form; hard; firm; compact; -- opposed to fluid and liquid or to plastic, like clay, or to incompact, like sand.
Not hollow; full of matter; as, a solid globe or cone, as distinguished from a hollow one; not spongy; dense; hence, sometimes, heavy.
Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic; as, a solid
solidity ::: n. --> The state or quality of being solid; density; consistency, -- opposed to fluidity; compactness; fullness of matter, -- opposed to openness or hollowness; strength; soundness, -- opposed to weakness or instability; the primary quality or affection of matter by which its particles exclude or resist all others; hardness; massiveness.
Moral firmness; soundness; strength; validity; truth; certainty; -- as opposed to weakness or fallaciousness; as, the
Sri Aurobindo: "His [the Titan"s] instincts call for a visible, tangible mastery and a sensational domination. How shall he feel sure of his empire unless he can feel something writhing helpless under his heel, — if in agony, so much the better? What is exploitation to him, unless it diminishes the exploited? To be able to coerce, exact, slay, overtly, irresistibly, — it is this that fills him with the sense of glory and dominion. For he is the son of division and the strong flowering of the Ego. To feel the comparative limitation of others is necessary to him that he may imagine himself immeasurable; for he has not the real, self-existent sense of infinity which no outward circumstance can abrogate. Contrast, division, negation of the wills and lives of others are essential to his self-development and self-assertion. The Titan would unify by devouring, not by harmonising; he must conquer and trample what is not himself either out of existence or into subservience so that his own image may stand out stamped upon all things and dominating all his environment.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: “His [the Titan’s] instincts call for a visible, tangible mastery and a sensational domination. How shall he feel sure of his empire unless he can feel something writhing helpless under his heel,—if in agony, so much the better? What is exploitation to him, unless it diminishes the exploited? To be able to coerce, exact, slay, overtly, irresistibly,—it is this that fills him with the sense of glory and dominion. For he is the son of division and the strong flowering of the Ego. To feel the comparative limitation of others is necessary to him that he may imagine himself immeasurable; for he has not the real, self-existent sense of infinity which no outward circumstance can abrogate. Contrast, division, negation of the wills and lives of others are essential to his self-development and self-assertion. The Titan would unify by devouring, not by harmonising; he must conquer and trample what is not himself either out of existence or into subservience so that his own image may stand out stamped upon all things and dominating all his environment.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: “So too when the seer of the house of Atri cries high to Agni, ‘O Agni, O Priest of the offering, loose from us the cords,’ he is using not only a natural, but a richly-laden image. He is thinking of the triple cord of mind, nerves and body by which the soul is bound as a victim in the great world-sacrifice, the sacrifice of the Purusha; he is thinking of the force of the divine Will already awakened and at work within him, a fiery and irresistible godhead that shall uplift his oppressed divinity and cleave asunder the cords of its bondage; he is thinking of the might of that growing Strength and inner Flame which receiving all that he has to offer carries it to its own distant and difficult home, to the high-seated Truth, to the Far, to the Secret, to the Supreme.” The Secret of the Veda
stability ::: 1. Resistance to change, deterioration, displacement, or disturbance. 2. The state or quality of being stable. 3. The quality of being enduring and free from change or variation; permanence. Also fig. stabilities.
stable ::: 1. Resistant to change of position or condition; not easily moved or disturbed 2. Able or likely to continue or last; firmly established; enduring or permanent. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as a n.) stable-seeming, Ever-stable"s.
stand ::: 1. To remain erect on one"s feet in a specified place, occupation, position, condition, etc. 2. To be, to continue or remain in a specified state, position, relation, etc. 3. To be set, placed, located, fixed or situated. 4. To take a position or place as indicated. 5. To have or adopt a certain policy, course, or attitude, as of adherence, support, opposition, or resistance. 6. To remain erect and firm under (a crushing weight, or the like), often with up. 7. To remain firm or steadfast, as in a cause. stands, stood, standing.
stasis ::: n. --> A slackening or arrest of the blood current in the vessels, due not to a lessening of the heart&
stipulate ::: a. --> Furnished with stipules; as, a stipulate leaf. ::: v. i. --> To make an agreement or covenant with any person or company to do or forbear anything; to bargain; to contract; to settle terms; as, certain princes stipulated to assist each other in resisting the armies of France.
strength ::: n. --> The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment.
Power to resist force; solidity or toughness; the quality of bodies by which they endure the application of force without breaking or yielding; -- in this sense opposed to frangibility; as, the strength of a bone, of a beam, of a wall, a rope, and the like.
strive ::: 1. To exert oneself vigorously; try hard. 2. Make strenuous efforts towards any goal. 3. To struggle vigorously, as in opposition or resistance. 4. To contend in opposition, battle, or any conflict; compete. strives, striven, strove, striving, forward-striving, strivings.
strongly ::: adv. --> In a strong manner; so as to be strong in action or in resistance; with strength; with great force; forcibly; powerfully; firmly; vehemently; as, a town strongly fortified; he objected strongly.
strull ::: n. --> A bar so placed as to resist weight.
substrate "hardware" The body or base layer of an {integrated circuit}, onto which other layers are deposited to form the circuit. The substrate is usually Silicon, though Sapphire is used for certain applications, particularly military, where radiation resistance is important. The substrate is originally part of the {wafer} from which the {die} is cut. It is used as the electrical {ground} for the circuit. (1996-04-07)
SYSKEY "cryptography, operating system, security" A utility that {encrpyts} the {hashed} {password} information in a {SAM} database using a 128-bit {encryption key}. SYSKEY was an optional feature added in {Windows NT} 4.0 SP3. It was meant to protect against {offline} password {cracking} attacks so that the SAM database would still be secure even if someone had a copy of it. However, in December 1999, a security team from {BindView (http://bindview.com/)} found a security hole in SYSKEY which indicates that a certain form of {cryptoanalytic} attack is possible offline. A {brute-force attack} then appeared to be possible. Microsoft later collaborated with BindView to issue a fix (dubbed the 'Syskey Bug') which appears to have been settled and SYSKEY pronounced secure enough to resist brute-force attack. According to Todd Sabin of the BindView team RAZOR, the pre-RC3 versions of {Windows 2000} were also affected. {BindView Security Advisory (http://packetstorm.securify.com/9912-exploits/bindview.syskey.txt)}. {BindView press release (http://bindview.com/news/99/1222.html)}. {Microsoft bulletin (http://microsoft.com/Security/Bulletins/ms99-056.asp)}. (2000-07-16)
T2 ::: a union of two of the three elements of T3; (in 1914) abbreviation of telepathy-trikaladr.s.t.i, a combination of the knowledge faculties of T3; (usually, from 1917 onwards) abbreviation of trikaladr.s.t.itapassiddhi, representing a united action of the higher faculties of knowledge and will, with telepathy included in or replaced by trikaladr.s.t.i; in the last entries of 1927, this is associated with a "passive-active attitude . . . in which the Ishwara determines and the Powers [of the Overmind] may for a time resist and even modify temporarily what he has determined, but must now or in the end help to carry out his will".
tar and feather "jargon" (A sick contrivance from the {Unix} {tar} command and the Ku Klux Klan torture method) To create a transportable archive from a group of files by first sticking them together with {tar} (the Tape ARchiver) and then {compress}ing the result. The latter action is dubbed "feathering" (purely for contrived effect) by analogy to what you do with an aeroplane propeller to decrease wind resistance, or with an oar to reduce water resistance; smaller files, after all, slip through comm links more easily. [{Jargon File}] (1997-05-26)
tasimer ::: n. --> An instrument for detecting or measuring minute extension or movements of solid bodies. It consists essentially of a small rod, disk, or button of carbon, forming part of an electrical circuit, the resistance of which, being varied by the changes of pressure produced by the movements of the object to be measured, causes variations in the strength of the current, which variations are indicated by a sensitive galvanometer. It is also used for measuring minute changes of temperature.
terminator "electronics" A resistor connected to a signal wire in a {bus} or {network} for the purpose of impedance matching to prevent reflections. For example, a 50 ohm resistor connected across the end of an {Ethernet} cable. {SCSI} chains and some {LocalTalk} wiring schemes also require terminators. (1995-05-17)
thaumatrope ::: n. --> An optical instrument or toy for showing the presistence of an impression upon the eyes after the luminous object is withdrawn.
::: "The human vital and physical external nature resist to the very end, but if the soul has once heard the call, it arrives, sooner or later.” Letters on Yoga
“The human vital and physical external nature resist to the very end, but if the soul has once heard the call, it arrives, sooner or later.” Letters on Yoga
“The Inconscient and the Ignorance may be mere empty abstractions and can be dismissed as irrelevant jargon if one has not come in collision with them or plunged into their dark and bottomless reality. But to me they are realities, concrete powers whose resistance is present everywhere and at all times in its tremendous and boundless mass.” Letters on Savitri
the method of psychological therapy originated by Sigmund Freud in which free association, dream interpretation, and analysis of resistance and transference are used to explore repressed or unconscious impulses, anxieties, and internal conflicts, in order to free psychic energy for mature love and work.
The more complete y-our faith, sincerity and surrender, the more will grace and protection be with you. And when the grace and protection of the Divine Mother arc with you, what is there lliat can touch you or whom need you fear? A little of it even will carry you through all diiliculties, obstacles and dangers ; surrounded by its full presence you can go securely on your way because it is hers, careless of all menace, unaffected by any hostility however powerful, whether from this world or from worlds invisible. Its touch can turn difficulties into oppor- tunities, failure into success and weakness into unfaltering strength. For the grace of the Divine Mother is the sanction of the Supreme and now or tomorrow its ciTect is sure, a thing decreed. Inevitable and irresistible.
The Mother or myself send a force. If there is no openness, the force may be thrown back or returned (unless we put a great force which it is not always adwsablc to do) as from an obstruc- tion or resistance ::: if there is some openness, the result may be partial or slow ; if there is the full openness or receptivity, then the result may be immediate. Of course there are things that cannot be removed all at once, being an old part of the nature, but with receptivity these also can be more effectively and rapidly dealt with. Some people are so open that even by writing they get free before the book or letter reaches us.
theomachist ::: n. --> One who fights against the gods; one who resists God of the divine will.
Therefore, while our effort is personal. Time appears as a resist- ance, for It presents to us all the obstruction of the forces that conflict with our own. When the divine working and the per- sonal are combined in our consciousness, It appears as a medium and condition. When the two become one, it appears as a servant and instrument.
The subconscient is a concealed and unexpressed inarticulate consciousness which works below all our conscious physical activities. Just as what we call the superconscient is really a higher consciousness above from which things descend into the being, so the subconscient is below the body-consciousness and things come up into the physical, the vital and the mind-nature from there.Just as the higher consciousness is superconscient to us and supports all our spiritual possibilities and nature, so the subconscient is the basis of our material being and supports all that comes up in the physical nature.Men are not ordinarily conscious of either of these planes of their own being, but by sadhana they can become aware.The subconscient retains the impressions of all our past experiences of life and they can come up from there in dream forms: most dreams in ordinary sleep are formations made from subconscient impressions.The habit of strong recurrence of the same things in our physical consciousness, so that it is difficult to get rid of its habits, is largely due to a subconscient support. The subconscient is full of irrational habits.When things are rejected from all other parts of the nature, they go either into the environmental consciousness around us through which we communicate with others and with universal Nature and try to return from there or they sink into the subconscient and can come up from there even after lying long quiescent so that we think they are gone.When the physical consciousness is being changed, the chief resistance comes from the subconscient. It is constantly maintaining or bringing back the inertia, weakness, obscurity, lack of intelligence which afflict the physical mind and vital or the obscure fears, desires, angers, lusts of the physical vital, or the illnesses, dullnesses, pains, incapabilities to which the body-nature is prone.If light, strength, the Mother's Consciousness is brought down into the body, it can penetrate the subconscient also and convert its obscurity and resistance.When something is erased from the subconscient so completely that it leaves no seed and thrown out of the circumconscient so completely that it can return no more, then only can we be sure that we have finished with it for ever.
Ref: SABCL Vol. 22-23-24, Page: 356-57
"The true mm of old did not know what it was to love life or to have death. He did not rejoice in birth nor resist death. Spontaneously he went, spontaneously he came that was all. He did not forget whence he came, nor did he seek whence he would end. He accepted things gladly, and returned them to nature without reminiscence. This is called not to hurt Tao with the human heart, nor to assist heaven with man." (Chuang Tzu, between 399-295 B.C.)
Time is a field of circumstances and forces meeting and work- ing out a resultant progression whose course it measures. To the ego It is a tyrant or a resistance, to the Divine an instrument.
"Time is a field of circumstances and forces meeting and working out a resultant progression whose course it measures. To the ego it is a tyrant or a resistance, to the Divine an instrument. Therefore, while our effort is personal, Time appears as a resistance, for it presents to us all the obstruction of the forces that conflict with our own. When the divine working and the personal are combined in our consciousness, it appears as a medium and a condition. When the two become one, it appears as a servant and instrument.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“Time is a field of circumstances and forces meeting and working out a resultant progression whose course it measures. To the ego it is a tyrant or a resistance, to the Divine an instrument. Therefore, while our effort is personal, Time appears as a resistance, for it presents to us all the obstruction of the forces that conflict with our own. When the divine working and the personal are combined in our consciousness, it appears as a medium and a condition. When the two become one, it appears as a servant and instrument.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"Time presents itself to human effort as an enemy or a friend, as a resistance, a medium or an instrument. But always it is really the instrument of the soul.” The Synthesis of Yoga
Time ::: Time presents itself to human effort as an enemy or a friend, as a resistance, a medium or an instrument. But always it is really the instrument of the soul. Time is a field of circumstances and forces meeting and working out a resultant progression whose course it measures. To the ego it is a tyrant or a resistance, to the Divine an instrument. Th
refore, while our effort is personal, Time appears as a resistance, for it presents to us all the obstruction of the forces that conflict with our own. When the divine working and the personal are combined in our consciousness, it appears as a medium and a condition. When the two become one, it appears as a servant and instrument. The ideal attitude of the sadhaka towards Time is to have an endless patience as if he had all eternity for his fulfilment and yet to develop the energy that shall realise now and with an ever-increasing mastery and pressure of rapidity till it reaches the miraculous instantaneousness of the supreme divine Transformation.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 23-24, Page: 68
TIME. ::: Time represents itself to human cfTon as an enemy or a friend, as a resistance, a medium or an instrument. But always it is really the instrument of the soul.
Titan ::: : “His [the Titan’s] instincts call for a visible, tangible mastery and a sensational domination. How shall he feel sure of his empire unless he can feel something writhing helpless under his heel,—if in agony, so much the better? What is exploitation to him, unless it diminishes the exploited? To be able to coerce, exact, slay, overtly, irresistibly,—it is this that fills him with the sense of glory and dominion. For he is the son of division and the strong flowering of the Ego. To feel the comparative limitation of others is necessary to him that he may imagine himself immeasurable; for he has not the real, self-existent sense of infinity which no outward circumstance can abrogate. Contrast, division, negation of the wills and lives of others are essential to his self-development and self-assertion. The Titan would unify by devouring, not by harmonising; he must conquer and trample what is not himself either out of existence or into subservience so that his own image may stand out stamped upon all things and dominating all his environment.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
tough ::: superl. --> Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; as, the ligaments of animals are remarkably tough.
Not easily broken; able to endure hardship; firm; strong; as, tough sinews.
Not easily separated; viscous; clammy; tenacious; as, tough phlegm.
Stiff; rigid; not flexible; stubborn; as, a tough bow.
Transistor-Transistor Logic (TTL) A common semiconductor technology for building discrete digital logic integrated circuits. It originated from {Texas Instruments} in 1965. There have been several series of TTL logic: 7400: 10 ns propagation time, 10 mW/gate power consumption, obsolete; 74L00: Low power: higher resistances, less dissipation (1 mW), longer propagation time (30 ns); 74H00: High power: lower resistances, more dissipation: less sensitivity for noise; 74S00: Schottky-clamped: faster switching (3 ns, 19 mW) by using Schottky diodes to prevent the transistors from saturation; 74LS00: Low power, Schottky-clamped (10 ns, 2 mW); 74AS00: Advanced Schottky: faster switching, less dissipation, (1.5 ns, 10 mW); 74ALS00: Advanced Low power Schottky (4 ns, 1.3 mW). For each 74xxx family there is a corresponding 54xxx family. The 74 series are specified for operation at 0 - 70 C whereas the 54 (military) series can operate at -55 - 125 C See also {CMOS}, {ECL}.
triple cord of mind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "So too when the seer of the house of Atri cries high to Agni, ‘O Agni, O Priest of the offering, loose from us the cords," he is using not only a natural, but a richly-laden image. He is thinking of the triple cord of mind, nerves and body by which the soul is bound as a victim in the great world-sacrifice, the sacrifice of the Purusha; he is thinking of the force of the divine Will already awakened and at work within him, a fiery and irresistible godhead that shall uplift his oppressed divinity and cleave asunder the cords of its bondage; he is thinking of the might of that growing Strength and inner Flame which receiving all that he has to offer carries it to its own distant and difficult home, to the high-seated Truth, to the Far, to the Secret, to the Supreme.” *The Secret of the Veda
uncontrollable ::: a. --> Incapable of being controlled; ungovernable; irresistible; as, an uncontrollable temper; uncontrollable events.
Indisputable; irrefragable; as, an uncontrollable maxim; an uncontrollable title.
unresistance ::: n. --> Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance.
unresisted ::: a. --> Not resisted; unopposed.
Resistless; as, unresisted fate.
unresistible ::: a. --> Irresistible.
unsisting ::: a. --> Unresisting.
varnish ::: n. --> A viscid liquid, consisting of a solution of resinous matter in an oil or a volatile liquid, laid on work with a brush, or otherwise. When applied the varnish soon dries, either by evaporation or chemical action, and the resinous part forms thus a smooth, hard surface, with a beautiful gloss, capable of resisting, to a greater or less degree, the influences of air and moisture.
That which resembles varnish, either naturally or artificially; a glossy appearance.
voltage "electronics" (Or "potential difference", "electro-motive force" (EMF)) A quantity measured as a signed difference between two points in an electrical circuit which, when divided by the {resistance} in {Ohms} between those points, gives the current flowing between those points in {Amperes}, according to {Ohm's Law}. Voltage is expressed as a signed number of Volts (V). The voltage gradient in Volts per metre is proportional to the force on a charge. Voltages are often given relative to "earth" or "ground" which is taken to be at zero Volts. A circuit's earth may or may not be electrically connected to the actual earth. The voltage between two points is also given by the charge present between those points in {Coulombs} divided by the {capacitance} in {Farads}. The capacitance in turn depends on the {dielectric constant} of the insulators present. Yet another law gives the voltage across a piece of circuit as its {inductance} in {Henries} multiplied by the rate of change of current flow through it in Amperes per second. A simple analogy likens voltage to the pressure of water in a pipe. Current is likened to the amount of water (charge) flowing per unit time. (1995-12-04)
volt ::: n. --> A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a center makes two concentric tracks.
A sudden movement to avoid a thrust.
The unit of electro-motive force; -- defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and by United States Statute as, that electro-motive force which steadily applied to a conductor whose resistance is one ohm will produce a current of one ampere. It is practically equivalent to / the electro-motive force of a standard
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}]
weak ::: 1. Lacking firmness of character or strength of will. 2. Lacking physical strength, energy, or vigour; feeble. 3. Likely to fail under pressure, stress, or strain; lacking resistance; fragile. (Also used as a n.) weaker.
When the physical consciousness is being changed,' the chkl resistance comes from the subconscient. It is constantly main- taining or bringing back the inertia, weakness, obscurity, lack of intelligence which afflict the physical mind and vitd or' the obscure fears, desires, angers, Jiisis of the physical vital, or the illnesses, dullnesses, pains, incapabilUies to which the body- nature is prone.
When the resistance in the body is too strong and persistent, it can help to take some aid of physical means as an instru- mentation for the Force to work more directly on the body itself ; for the body then feels itself supported against the resistance from both sides, by means physical as well as supra-
whinstone ::: n. --> A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt.
whiteboy ::: n. --> A favorite. ::: a. --> One of an association of poor Roman catholics which arose in Ireland about 1760, ostensibly to resist the collection of tithes, the members of which were so called from the white shirts they wore in their nocturnal raids.
wirehead "jargon" /wi:r'hed/ (Probably from SF slang for an electrical brain-stimulation addict) 1. A hardware hacker, especially one who concentrates on communications hardware. 2. An expert in {local-area networks}. A wirehead can be a network software wizard too, but will always have the ability to deal with network hardware, down to the smallest component. Wireheads are known for their ability to lash up an {Ethernet} {terminator} from spare resistors, for example. [{Jargon File}] (1995-02-28)
witchcraft ::: n. --> The practices or art of witches; sorcery; enchantments; intercourse with evil spirits.
Power more than natural; irresistible influence.
witchery ::: n. --> Sorcery; enchantment; witchcraft.
Fascination; irresistible influence; enchantment.
withstander ::: n. --> One who withstands, or opposes; an opponent; a resisting power.
withstand ::: prep. --> To stand against; to oppose; to resist, either with physical or moral force; as, to withstand an attack of troops; to withstand eloquence or arguments.
wring ::: v. t. --> To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing.
Hence, to pain; to distress; to torment; to torture.
To distort; to pervert; to wrest.
To extract or obtain by twisting and compressing; to squeeze or press (out); hence, to extort; to draw forth by violence, or against resistance or repugnance; -- usually with out or form.
To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order
Zeno the Stoic: (c. 340-265 B.C.) A native of Cyprus and the founder of the Stoic School in Athens. His philosophy was built on the principle that reality is a rational order in which nature is controlled by laws of Reason, interpreted in the vein of pantheism. Men's lives are guided by Providence against which it is futile to resist and to which wise men willingly submit. -- R.B.W.
Zilog Z8000 "processor" A {microprocessor} from {Zilog} introduced not long after the {Intel 8086}, but with superior features. It was basically a 16-bit processor, but could address up to 23 bits in some versions by using {segment registers} (to supply the upper 7 bits). There was also an unsegmented version, but both could be extended further with an additional {MMU} that used 64 {segment registers}. Internally, the Z8000 had sixteen 16-bit {registers}, but register size and use were exceedingly flexible. The Z-8000 registers could be used as sixteen 8-bit registers (only the first half were used like this), sixteen 16-bit registers, eight 32-bit registers, or four 64-bit registers, and included 32-bit multiply and divide. They were all general purpose registers - the {stack pointer} was typically register 15, with register 14 holding the stack segment (both accessed as one 32-bit register for painless address calculations). The Z8000 featured two modes, one for the {operating system} and one for user programs. The user mode prevented the user from messing about with {interrupt} handling and other potentially dangerous stuff. Finally, like the {Zilog Z80}, the Z8000 featured automatic {DRAM refresh} circuitry. Unfortunately it was somewhat slow, but the features generally made up for that. Initial {bugs} also hindered its acceptance (partly because it did not use {microcode}). There was a radiation resistant military version. There was a later 32-bit, {pipelined} version, the {Zilog Z80000}. (1997-12-16)
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1:Resist much, obey little. ~ Walt Whitman, #KEYS
2:Suffering is when we resist the moment." ~ Kamal Ravikant, #KEYS
3:For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #KEYS
4:It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them." ~ Epictetus, #KEYS
5:Devotion is the secret key, for God cannot resist the outpourings of great love from a true devotee's heart. ~ PARAMAHAMSA YOGANANDA, #KEYS
6:World bound men, cannot resist the temptation of women and gold and direct their minds to God. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
7:Force cannot resist intelligence; in spite of force, in spite of men, intelligence passes on and triumphs. ~ Ramayana, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
8:The most powerful way to resist evil is to sit with good friends who have turned their faces to God. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
9:Resist not evil by doing evil in return, but make a show of resistance with a view to self-defense. This is the Dharma of a householder. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
10:All the time of our life and faith will benefit us nothing if we do not resist, as is fitting for children of God, in this present lawless age and in the coming trials. ~ Letter of Barnabas, #KEYS
11:Man may help or man may resist, but the Zeitgeist works, shapes, overbears, insists. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga, The Greatness of the Individual, #KEYS
12:Earth cannot long resist the man whom Heaven has chosen;
Gods with him walk; his chariot is led; his arm is assisted. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Ilion,#KEYS
13:Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, James, 4:7-8, #KEYS
14:If you can resist impulse to claim each & every thought as your own, you will come to a startling conclusion: you will discover that you are the consciousness in which the thoughts appear & disappear & that mind only exists when thoughts are allowed to run free. ~ Annamalai Swami, #KEYS
15:Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want." ~ Rob Bell, (b.1970), author, listed by "Time" in 2011 as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, Wikipedia., #KEYS
16:Sometimes God acts as the magnet and the devotee as the needle. God attracts the devotee to Himself. Sometimes the devotee acts as the magnet and God as the needle. Such is the attraction of the devotee that God comes to him, unable to resist his love. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
17:Knowledge of the way is not enough - one must tread it, or if one cannot do that, allow oneself to be carried along it. The human vital and physical external nature resist to the very end, but if the soul has once heard the call, it arrives, sooner or later. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II, #KEYS
18:From the point of view of action (physical action), it is the will: you must work and build up an unshakable will. From the intellectual point of view, you must work and build up a power of concentration which nothing can shake. And if you have both, concentration and will, you will be a genius and nothing will resist you.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, [T4],#KEYS
19:Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies - for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry - I say to myself, "What a pity I can't buy that book, for I already have a copy at home.
~ Jorge Luis Borges,#KEYS
20:Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of God. You who batter us and then dress our wounds, you who resist us and yield to us, you who wreck and build, you who shackle and liberate, the sap of our souls, the hand of God, the flesh of Christ: it is you, matter, that I bless. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #KEYS
21:Concentrating the Attention:
Whatever you may want to do in life, one thing is absolutely indispensable and at the basis of everything, the capacity of concentrating the attention. If you are able to gather together the rays of attention and consciousness on one point and can maintain the concentration with a presistent will, nothing can resist it - whatever it may be, from the most material physical development to the highest spiritual one. But this discipline must be followed in a constant and, it may be said, imperturbable way; not that you should always be concentrated on the same thing - thats not what I mean, I mean learning to concentrate. And materially, for studies, sports, all physical or mental development, it is absolutely indispensble. And the value of an individual is proportionate to the value of his attention. And from the spiritual point of view it is still more important. There is no spiritual obstacle which can resist a penetrating power of concentration. For instance, the discovery of the psychic being, union with the inner Divine, opening to the higher spheres, all can be obtained by an intense and obstinate power of concentration - but one must learn how to do it. There is nothing in the human or even in the superhuman field, to which the power of concentration is not the key. You can be the best athlete, you can be the best student, you can be an artistic, literary or scientific genius, you can be the greatest saint with that faculty. And everyone has in himself a tiny little beginning of it - it is given to everybody, but people do not cultivate it.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1957-1958,#KEYS
22: Sri Aurobindo writes here: "...Few and brief in their visits are the Bright Ones who are willing or permitted to succour." Why?
(1 "The Way", Cent. Vol. 17, p. 40.)
One must go and ask them! But there is a conclusion, the last sentences give a very clear explanation. It is said: "Nay, then, is immortality a plaything to be given lightly to a child, or the divine life a prize without effort or the crown for a weakling?" This comes back to the question why the adverse forces have the right to interfere, to harass you. But this is precisely the test necessary for your sincerity. If the way were very easy, everybody would start on the way, and if one could reach the goal without any obstacle and without any effort, everybody would reach the goal, and when one has come to the end, the situation would be the same as when one started, there would be no change. That is, the new world would be exactly what the old has been. It is truly not worth the trouble! Evidently a process of elimination is necessary so that only what is capable of manifesting the new life remains. This is the reason and there is no other, this is the best of reasons. And, you see, it is a tempering, it is the ordeal of fire, only that which can stand it remains absolutely pure; when everything has burnt down, there remains only the little ingot of pure gold. And it is like that. What puts things out very much in all this is the religious idea of fault, sin, redemption. But there is no arbitrary decision! On the contrary, for each one it is the best and most favourable conditions which are given. We were saying the other day that it is only his friends whom God treats with severity; you thought it was a joke, but it is true. It is only to those who are full of hope, who will pass through this purifying flame, that the conditions for attaining the maximum result are given. And the human mind is made in such a way that you may test this; when something extremely unpleasant happens to you, you may tell yourself, "Well, this proves I am worth the trouble of being given this difficulty, this proves there is something in me which can resist the difficulty", and you will notice that instead of tormenting yourself, you rejoice - you will be so happy and so strong that even the most unpleasant things will seem to you quite charming! This is a very easy experiment to make. Whatever the circumstance, if your mind is accustomed to look at it as something favourable, it will no longer be unpleasant for you. This is quite well known; as long as the mind refuses to accept a thing, struggles against it, tries to obstruct it, there are torments, difficulties, storms, inner struggles and all suffering. But the minute the mind says, "Good, this is what has to come, it is thus that it must happen", whatever happens, you are content. There are people who have acquired such control of their mind over their body that they feel nothing; I told you this the other day about certain mystics: if they think the suffering inflicted upon them is going to help them cross the stages in a moment and give them a sort of stepping stone to attain the Realisation, the goal they have put before them, union with the Divine, they no longer feel the suffering at all. Their body is as it were galvanised by the mental conception. This has happened very often, it is a very common experience among those who truly have enthusiasm. And after all, if one must for some reason or other leave one's body and take a new one, is it not better to make of one's death something magnificent, joyful, enthusiastic, than to make it a disgusting defeat? Those who cling on, who try by every possible means to delay the end even by a minute or two, who give you an example of frightful anguish, show that they are not conscious of their soul.... After all, it is perhaps a means, isn't it? One can change this accident into a means; if one is conscious one can make a beautiful thing of it, a very beautiful thing, as of everything. And note, those who do not fear it, who are not anxious, who can die without any sordidness are those who never think about it, who are not haunted all the time by this "horror" facing them which they must escape and which they try to push as far away from them as they can. These, when the occasion comes, can lift their head, smile and say, "Here I am."
It is they who have the will to make the best possible use of their life, it is they who say, "I shall remain here as long as it is necessary, to the last second, and I shall not lose one moment to realise my goal"; these, when the necessity comes, put up the best show. Why? - It is very simple, because they live in their ideal, the truth of their ideal; because that is the real thing for them, the very reason of their being, and in all things they can see this ideal, this reason of existence, and never do they come down into the sordidness of material life.
So, the conclusion:
One must never wish for death.
One must never will to die.
One must never be afraid to die.
And in all circumstances one must will to exceed oneself. ~ The Mother, Question and Answers, Volume-4, page no.353-355,#KEYS
23:Intuition And The Value Of Concentration :::
Mother, how can the faculty of intuition be developed?
... There are different kinds of intuition, and we carry these capacities within us. They are always active to some extent but we don't notice them because we don't pay enough attention to what is going on in us. Behind the emotions, deep within the being, in a consciousness seated somewhere near the level of the solar plexus, there is a sort of prescience, a kind of capacity for foresight, but not in the form of ideas: rather in the form of feelings, almost a perception of sensations. For instance, when one is going to decide to do something, there is sometimes a kind of uneasiness or inner refusal, and usually, if one listens to this deeper indication, one realises that it was justified. In other cases there is something that urges, indicates, insists - I am not speaking of impulses, you understand, of all the movements which come from the vital and much lower still - indications which are behind the feelings, which come from the affective part of the being; there too one can receive a fairly sure indication of the thing to be done. These are forms of intuition or of a higher instinct which can be cultivated by observation and also by studying the results. Naturally, it must be done very sincerely, objectively, without prejudice. If one wants to see things in a particular way and at the same time practise this observation, it is all useless. One must do it as if one were looking at what is happening from outside oneself, in someone else. It is one form of intuition and perhaps the first one that usually manifests. There is also another form but that one is much more difficult to observe because for those who are accustomed to think, to act by reason - not by impulse but by reason - to reflect before doing anything, there is an extremely swift process from cause to effect in the half-conscious thought which prevents you from seeing the line, the whole line of reasoning and so you don't think that it is a chain of reasoning, and that is quite deceptive. You have the impression of an intuition but it is not an intuition, it is an extremely rapid subconscious reasoning, which takes up a problem and goes straight to the conclusions. This must not be mistaken for intuition. In the ordinary functioning of the brain, intuition is something which suddenly falls like a drop of light. If one has the faculty, the beginning of a faculty of mental vision, it gives the impression of something coming from outside or above, like a little impact of a drop of light in the brain, absolutely independent of all reasoning. This is perceived more easily when one is able to silence one's mind, hold it still and attentive, arresting its usual functioning, as if the mind were changed into a kind of mirror turned towards a higher faculty in a sustained and silent attention. That too one can learn to do. One must learn to do it, it is a necessary discipline.
When you have a question to solve, whatever it may be, usually you concentrate your attention here (pointing between the eyebrows), at the centre just above the eyes, the centre of the conscious will. But then if you do that, you cannot be in contact with intuition. You can be in contact with the source of the will, of effort, even of a certain kind of knowledge, but in the outer, almost material field; whereas, if you want to contact the intuition, you must keep this (Mother indicates the forehead) completely immobile. Active thought must be stopped as far as possible and the entire mental faculty must form - at the top of the head and a little further above if possible - a kind of mirror, very quiet, very still, turned upwards, in silent, very concentrated attention. If you succeed, you can - perhaps not immediately - but you can have the perception of the drops of light falling upon the mirror from a still unknown region and expressing themselves as a conscious thought which has no connection with all the rest of your thought since you have been able to keep it silent. That is the real beginning of the intellectual intuition.
It is a discipline to be followed. For a long time one may try and not succeed, but as soon as one succeeds in making a mirror, still and attentive, one always obtains a result, not necessarily with a precise form of thought but always with the sensations of a light coming from above. And then, if one can receive this light coming from above without entering immediately into a whirl of activity, receive it in calm and silence and let it penetrate deep into the being, then after a while it expresses itself either as a luminous thought or as a very precise indication here (Mother indicates the heart), in this other centre.
Naturally, first these two faculties must be developed; then, as soon as there is any result, one must observe the result, as I said, and see the connection with what is happening, the consequences: see, observe very attentively what has come in, what may have caused a distortion, what one has added by way of more or less conscious reasoning or the intervention of a lower will, also more or less conscious; and it is by a very deep study - indeed, almost of every moment, in any case daily and very frequent - that one succeeds in developing one's intuition. It takes a long time. It takes a long time and there are ambushes: one can deceive oneself, take for intuitions subconscious wills which try to manifest, indications given by impulses one has refused to receive openly, indeed all sorts of difficulties. One must be prepared for that. But if one persists, one is sure to succeed.
And there comes a time when one feels a kind of inner guidance, something which is leading one very perceptibly in all that one does. But then, for the guidance to have its maximum power, one must naturally add to it a conscious surrender: one must be sincerely determined to follow the indication given by the higher force. If one does that, then... one saves years of study, one can seize the result extremely rapidly. If one also does that, the result comes very rapidly. But for that, it must be done with sincerity and... a kind of inner spontaneity. If one wants to try without this surrender, one may succeed - as one can also succeed in developing one's personal will and making it into a very considerable power - but that takes a very long time and one meets many obstacles and the result is very precarious; one must be very persistent, obstinate, persevering, and one is sure to succeed, but only after a great labour.
Make your surrender with a sincere, complete self-giving, and you will go ahead at full speed, you will go much faster - but you must not do this calculatingly, for that spoils everything! (Silence) Moreover, whatever you may want to do in life, one thing is absolutely indispensable and at the basis of everything, the capacity of concentrating the attention. If you are able to gather together the rays of attention and consciousness on one point and can maintain this concentration with a persistent will, nothing can resist it - whatever it may be, from the most material physical development to the highest spiritual one. But this discipline must be followed in a constant and, it may be said, imperturbable way; not that you should always be concentrated on the same thing - that's not what I mean, I mean learning to concentrate.
And materially, for studies, sports, all physical or mental development, it is absolutely indispensable. And the value of an individual is proportionate to the value of his attention.
And from the spiritual point of view it is still more important.
There is no spiritual obstacle which can resist a penetrating power of concentration. For instance, the discovery of the psychic being, union with the inner Divine, opening to the higher spheres, all can be obtained by an intense and obstinate power of concentration - but one must learn how to do it. There is nothing in the human or even in the superhuman field, to which the power of concentration is not the key. You can be the best athlete, you can be the best student, you can be an artistic, literary or scientific genius, you can be the greatest saint with that faculty. And everyone has in himself a tiny little beginning of it - it is given to everybody, but people do not cultivate it.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1957-1958,#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:What you resist, persists. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove 2:Resist much. Obey little. ~ walt-whitman, @wisdomtrove 3:Whatever you resist, persists. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove 4:Whatever you resist will persist. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove 5:Never resist a generous impulse. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove 6:One cannot resist an idea whose time has come. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 7:It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 8:It’s uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 9:I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. ~ mae-west, @wisdomtrove 10:I Resist the Temptation to Judge Others. ~ jonathan-lockwood-huie, @wisdomtrove 11:Don't tempt me I can resist anything but temptation. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove 12:In life, stress happens when you resist what arises. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove 13:Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist. ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove 14:Does management resist the institutional imperative? ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 15:Why resist change when it's the main source of your growth? ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 16:It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. ~ leonardo-da-vinci, @wisdomtrove 17:We resist Joy on this planet more than we resist war. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 18:Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 19:What you resist persists. What you look at disappears. ~ neale-donald-walsch, @wisdomtrove 20:Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 21:What you resist will persist; what you befriend, you will transcend. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 22:Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it. ~ lao-tzu, @wisdomtrove 23:Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 24:One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 25:Resist the need to be & 26:One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 27:Too many girls follow the line of least resistance, but a good line is hard to resist. ~ mae-west, @wisdomtrove 28:We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 29:All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it. ~ walt-whitman, @wisdomtrove 30:Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 31:It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. ~ epictetus, @wisdomtrove 32:Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 33:Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 34:Do what you do so well - and so uniquely - that people can't resist telling others about you ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 35:People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 36:There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist. ~ alexander-hamilton, @wisdomtrove 37:Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 38:We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 39:You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove 40:No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 41:We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove 42:I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. ~ george-bernard-shaw, @wisdomtrove 43:No one need fear to listen to the voice of God unless he has already made up his mind to resist it. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 44:Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 45:People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 46:To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 47:Christ lived the life we could not live and took the punishment we could not take to offer the hope we cannot resist. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 48:I am unattached to outcome. I am comfortable in the realm of uncertainty. I do not anticipate or resist, I allow. ~ deepak-chopra, @wisdomtrove 49:Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 50:Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 51:Allow rather than resist what arises in the present moment-inside or out. Let it be interesting rather than good or bad. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove 52:Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 53:No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 54:... when you resist what happens, your mind begins to race; the same thoughts that impinge upon you are actually created by you. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove 55:No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good... Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 56:Over the years I've seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 57:When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs of my brothers. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 58:A person who knows all that is good and all that is true — as much as can be known — but does not resist evils, knows nothing. ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove 59:Studies show that suppressing your thoughts makes them stronger and more frequent. Think of it this way: The thoughts you resist persist. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 60:As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 61:In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 62:Once every seven days, do something that frightens you. Every time we do something that we resist and is frightening, we actually grow in our power. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 63:None will be able to resist truth and love and sincerity. Are you sincere? Unselfish even unto death, and loving? Then fear not, not even death. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 64:The natural tendency of all human behavior is toward the path of least resistance. When you resist this tendency, you become stronger and more powerful. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 65:Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 66:Mark it down: God loves you with an unearthly love. You can't win it by being winsome. You can't lose it by being a loser. But you can be blind enough to resist it ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 67:The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest thing is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate. – When people ask you to tell them what to do, resist. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 68:Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 69:Q: Who is to do the abandoning? M: God will do it. Just see the need of being abandoned. Don't resist, don't hold on to the person you take yourself to be. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 70:Even like as St. Paul was converted, just so are all others converted; for we all resist God, but the Holy Ghost draws the will of mankind, when he pleases, through preaching. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 71:The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water... The drive for competence or to resist compulsion is a drive to avoid helplessness. ~ martin-seligman, @wisdomtrove 72:The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that there is almost nothing to resist at all. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 73:Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. ~ lao-tzu, @wisdomtrove 74:We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 75:Trust allows you to follow your feelings through your defenses to their sources, and to bring to the light of consciousness those aspects of yourself that resist wholeness, that live in fear. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 76:Much to his annoyance, a thought popped into his mind. It was very clear and very distinct, and he had now come to recognize these thoughts for what they were. His instinct was to resist them. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 77:Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how "open" you are, you'll end up surrounded by "yes people." It's hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove 78:Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove 79:Are you on the eve of change? Embrace it. Accept it. Don't resist it. Change is not only a part of life, change is a necessary part of God's strategy. To use us to change the world, he alters our assignments. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 80:I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 81:Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 82:I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove 83:Questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever. But we cannot resist it. It whispers to us that there are great things on this earth of ours, and that we must know them. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 84:Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 85:& 86:What you resist, persists. If you are resisting something, you are feeding it. Any energy you actively fight, you are feeding. If you are using negative energy to push something away, you are inviting it to stay. ~ marc-and-angel-chernoff, @wisdomtrove 87:A man is not saved against his will, but he is made willing by the operation of the Holy Ghost. A mighty grace which he does not wish to resist enters into the man, disarms him, makes a new creature of him, and he is saved. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 88:As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm life. Resistance means saying & 89:Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 90:Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future, so it perceives the timeless Now as threatening. Time and mind are in fact inseparable. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove 91:Resist discouragement by speaking His Word over your future. Keep standing. Keep hoping; keep believing because He is working behind the scenes. He's going to accelerate your times and lead you into the life of victory He has for you. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 92:All of the American's foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere to make more than a half-hearted attempt. The combats with Mexico and Spain were not wars; they were simply lynchings. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 93:Wat a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 94:I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 95:The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of the ego. The ego can never be in alignment with the present moment, which is to say, aligned with life, since its very nature compels it to ignore, resist, or devalue the Now. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove 96:Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove 97:Youd get very rich if you thought of yourself as having a card with only twenty punches in a lifetime, and every financial decision used up one punch. Youd resist the temptation to dabble. Youd make more good decisions and youd make more big decisions. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 98:You cannot resist something to which you grant no reality. The act of resisting a thing is the act of granting it life. When you resist an energy, you place it there. The more you resist, the more you make it real—whatever it is you are resisting. ~ neale-donald-walsch, @wisdomtrove 99:My slumbers& 100:People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist? ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 101:I am of a different mind ten times in the course of a day. But I resist the devil, and often it is with a fart that I chase him away. When he tempts me with silly sins I say, & 102:You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation... and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 103:They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 104:I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove 105:We must recognise that duty and morality vary under different circumstances; not that the man who resists evil is doing what is always and in itself wrong, but that in the different circumstances in which he is placed it may become even his duty to resist evil. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 106:Once you are present in the Energyfield of Self-discovery, it's like you are a piece of ice in warm water. The warm water is the Self. The ice is the mind. The warm water is not fighting with the ice. The ice can not resist the melting. It is a natural and fatal attraction. ~ mooji, @wisdomtrove 107:To his enemies the householder must be a hero. Them he must resist. That is the duty of the householder. He must not sit down in a corner and weep, and talk nonsense about non-resistance. If he does not show himself a hero to his enemies he has not done his duty. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 108:Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove 109:For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 110:We who follow Christ are men and women of eternity. We must put no confidence in the passing scenes of the disappearing world. We must resist every attempt of Satan to palm off upon us the values that belong to mortality. Nothing less than forever is long enough for us. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 111:To fight anger with anger only makes you see a deeper shade of red. To resist envy only makes it more green. To turn sadness away means it will come back tomorrow twice as blue. True self-compassion is to fully accept and allow what is. To allow it to be there and be fully felt. ~ aimee-davies, @wisdomtrove 112:As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist. Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove 113:This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise, and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal which is also very wise. No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time to trying to understand it. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 114:Christ said, "Resist not evil", and we do not understand it until we discover that it is not only moral but actually the best policy, for anger is loss of energy to the man who displays it. You should not allow your minds to come into those brain-combinations of anger and hatred. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 115:We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil, and it will somehow destroy itself. But why should it? What evidence is there that it does... unless conquered from the outside by military force? ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 116:The point is not to resist painful experiences or grasp at pleasant ones: that’s a kind of craving—and craving leads to suffering. The art is to find a balance in which you remain mindful, accepting, and curious regarding difficult experiences—while also taking in supportive feelings and thoughts. ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove 117:It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in numbers, has been rather carefully thought out... The seemingly miraculous concurrence of these numerical values must remain the most compelling evidence for cosmic design. ~ paul-davies, @wisdomtrove 118:There are times when we do not recognize that it is time for us to move forward. When life is ready for us to move and we resist, life will move us by any means necessary. What may feel like a disaster is actually a graduation. Remain open to being guided, supported and protected by the universe. ~ lyania-vanzant, @wisdomtrove 119:What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it, not how to resist it through courage and so on. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 120:While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the Great King's army and demanded that the Greeks lay down their arms and submit to the might of Persia. Leonidas laconically told Xerxes, "Come and get them. ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove 121:Time and again I was seeing that if I could handle the winds of the current storm, they would end up blowing in some great gift…Challenging situations create the force needed to bring about change. The problem is that we generally use all the stirred up energy intended to bring about change, to resist change. ~ michael-singer, @wisdomtrove 122:Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means‚Äîthe only complete realist. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 123:What then are we to do about our problems? We must learn to live with them until such time as God delivers us from them... we must pray for grace to endure them without murmuring. Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting. They harm us only when we resist them or endure them unwillingly. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 124:Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? Realize that the doctor's fight against socialized medicine is your fight. We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. Recognize that government invasion of public power is eventually an assault upon your own business. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 125:Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering. If you resist confusion, you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove 126:Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity; sometimes, even 'til the aggressor's death... In fact, this act is aimed at preserving one's life or one's goods and to make the aggressor powerless. Thus, it is a good act, which is the right of the victim. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove 127:Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity; sometimes, even 'til the aggressor's death... In fact, this act is aimed at preserving one's life or one's goods and to make the aggressor powerless. Thus, it is a good act, which is the right of the victim. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove 128:Compassion is the basis of all truthful relationship: it means being present with love-for ourselves and for all life, including animals, fish, birds, and trees. Compassion is bringing our deepest truth into our actions, no matter how much the world seems to resist, because that is ultimately what we have to give this world and one another. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove 129:[I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is afraid or merely because he lacks the instruments of violence, he is not truly nonviolent. This is why Gandhi often said that if cowardice is the only alternative to violence, it is better to fight. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 130:Leave your mind alone, that is all. Don't go along with it. After all, there is no such thing as mind apart from thoughts which come and go obeying their own laws, not yours. They dominate you only because you are interested in them. It is exactly as Christ said, & 131:And questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever. But we cannot resist it. It whispers to us that there are great things on this earth of ours, and that we can know them if we try, and that we must know them. We ask, why must we know, but it has no answer to give us. We must know that we may know. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 132:Give up salt, give up sugar, give up spices, give up vegetables, give up chutnies, give up tamarind. Serve Bhangis, serve rogues, serve inferiors, remove faecal matter. Do not revenge, resist not evil, return good for evil, bear insult and injury. Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove 133:Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions of war in full view, so that we know we are in the midst of enemies that mean us damage, and we get ready to meet and resist them. Our peculiar dangers are those that surprise us and work treachery in our fort. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 134:The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 135:Some days are born ugly. From the very first light they are no damn good what ever the weather, and everbody knows it. No one knows what causes this, but on such a day people resist getting out of bed and set their heels against the day. When they are finally forced out by hunger or job they find that the day is just as lousy as they knew it would be. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 136:Stress only happens when you resist life’s events. If you’re neither pushing life away, nor pulling toward you, then you are not creating any resistance. You are simply present. In this state, you are just witnessing and experiencing the events of life taking place. If you choose to live this way, you will see that life can be lived in a state of peace. ~ michael-singer, @wisdomtrove 137:‘Stress only happens when you resist life’s events. If you’re neither pushing life away, nor pulling toward you, then you are not creating any resistance. You are simply present. In this state, you are just witnessing and experiencing the events of life taking place. If you choose to live this way, you will see that life can be lived in a state of peace.’ ~ michael-singer, @wisdomtrove 138:Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we resist. What we resist and fear secretly follows us even as we push it away. To let go of fear or trauma, we need to acknowledge just how it is. We need to feel it fully and accept that it is so. It is as it is. Letting go begins with letting be. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 139:Our minds are forced to become fixed upon different things by an attraction in them which we cannot resist. To control the mind, to place it just where we want it, requires special training. It cannot be done in any other way. In the study of religion the control of the mind is absolutely necessary. We have to turn the mind back upon itself in this study. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 140:Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love goes on, the love goes on, blind to laws and warnings and even to wisdom and to fears. And whatever that love is, perhaps an illusion of a new love, I want it, I can’t resist it, my whole being melts in one kiss, my knowledge melts, my fears melt, my blood dances, my legs open. ~ anais-nin, @wisdomtrove 141:& 142:I always resist seeing my own personal motivation in my work, but I guess it must be there on some level. And I do feel very much that my life follows the kinds of things I talk about in my books. I've always thought of myself as an insanely lucky person, so perhaps the success of my first two books led me to want to examine this phenomenon on some unconscious level. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 143:Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies ‚ for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry ‚ I say to myself, ‚What a pity I can't buy that book, for I already have a copy at home. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove 144:But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment: "Stay, thou art so fair." And our liberty, too, is endangered if we pause for the passing moment, if we rest on our achievements, if we resist the pace of progress. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past are certain to miss the future. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 145:For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones - for it is the secret of proper timing. No rush. No dawdle. Just the sense of flowing with the course of events in the same way that you dance to music, neither trying to outpace it nor lagging behind. Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 146:I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good to be holding the helm; no matter how strong my hands, the sudden and numerous waves were stronger still, and I was wise enough to yield to them rather than resist them obstinately and make the ship founder. Thus I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by circumstances. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 147:A man's excellence is like that of water; It benefits all things without striving; It takes to the low places shunned by men. Water is akin to Tao. . . . In all the earth nothing weaker than water, Yet in attacking the hard, nothing superior, Nothing so certain in wearing down strength: There is no way to resist it. Note then: The weak conquer the strong, The yielding outlast the aggressors. ~ lao-tzu, @wisdomtrove 148:Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time. In an age when everyone invents his own truth, there is no community, only factions. Without community, there can be no consensus to resist the greedy, the envious, the power-mad narcissists who seize control and turn the institutions of civilization into a series of doom machines. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 149:Merely to resist evil with evil by hating those who hate us and seeking to destroy them, is actually no resistance at all. It is active and purposeful collaboration in evil that brings the Christian into direct and intimate contact with the same source of evil and hatred which inspires the acts of his enemy. It leads in practice to a denial of Christ and to the service of hatred rather than love. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 150:A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 151:The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed to go down. When you're supposed to go up, find the highest tower and climb to the top. When you're supposed to go down, find the deepest well and go down to the bottom. When there's no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries up. If everything dries up, the world is darkness. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 152:Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 153:Battles are fought in our minds every day. When we begin to feel the battle is just too difficult and want to give up, we must choose to resist negative thoughts and be determined to rise above our problems. We must decide that we're not going to quit. When we're bombarded with doubts and fears, we must take a stand and say: "I'll never give up! God's on my side. He loves me, and He's helping me! I'm going to make it!" ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 154:Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to be self-evident to everyone. But the surprising fact is that cultured and learned people not only do not notice the harm and stupidity of patriotism, they resist every unveiling of it with the greatest obstinacy and passion (with no rational grounds), and continue to praise it as beneficent and elevating. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 155:Without doubt the emphasis in Christian teaching today should be on worship. There is little danger that we shall become merely worshipers and neglect the practical implications of the gospel. No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist. Fellowship with God leads straight to obedience and good works. That is the divine order and it can never be reversed. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 156:Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 157:As long as you make an identity for yourself out of the pain, you cannot become free of it. As long as part of your sense of self is invested in your emotional pain, you will unconsciously resist or sabotage every attempt that you make to heal the pain. Why? Quite simply because you want to keep yourself intact, and the pain has become an essential part of you. This is an unconscious process, and the only way to overcome it is to make it conscious. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove 158:Your desintation is a life of meaning, fulfillment, creativity and joy. A life free of fears, obsessions, compulsions, and addictions, without the insecurities others activates so easily and the torments they create in you. WHen you resist your [life] experiences, you resist the guidance they offer. Anger, resentment jealousy and fear each show you in their own way what you need to change inside yourself in order to reach your destination. Are you listening? ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 159:Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. This scarcity makes leadership valuable... It's uncomfortable to stand up in front of strangers. It's uncomfortable to propose an idea that might fail. It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo. It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle... If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 160:It is not that you must be free from fear. The moment you try to free yourself from fear, you create a resistance against fear. Resistance, in any form, does not end fear. What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it, not how to resist it through courage and so on. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 161:The more I think about the human suffering in our world and my desire to offer a healing response, the more I realize how crucial it is not to allow myself to become paralyzed by feelings of helplessness and guilt. More important than ever is to be very faithful to my vocation to do well the few things I am called to do and hold on to the joy and peace they bring me. I must resist the temptation to let the forces of darkness pull me into despair and make me one more of their many victims. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 162:In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of nonviolence and the Christian ethic of love is the best weapon available to Negroes for this struggle for freedom and human dignity. It may well be that the Gandhian approach will bring about a solution to the race problem in America. His spirit is a continual reminder to oppressed people that it is possible to resist evil and yet not resort to violence. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 163:Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it. We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother. For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man's toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove 164:God made the world for the delight of human beings& 165:We are complex beings who wake up every day and fight against being labeled and diminished with stereotypes and characterizations that don’t reflect our fullness. Yet when we don’t risk standing on our own and speaking out, when the options laid before us force us into the very categories we resist, we perpetuate our own disconnection and loneliness. When we are willing to risk venturing into the wilderness, and even becoming our own wilderness, we feel the deepest connection to our true self and to what matters the most. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 166:When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 167:I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving... I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion - I have shudder'd at it - I shudder no more - I could be martyr'd for my Religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that - I could die for you. My creed is Love and you are its only tenet - You have ravish'd me away by a Power I cannot resist. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 168:For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction; (2) Just as work expands to fill available time, corporate projects or acquisitions will materialize to soak up available funds; (3) Any business craving of the leader, however foolish, will be quickly supported by detailed rate-of-return and strategic studies prepared by his troops; and (4) The behavior of peer companies, whether they are expanding, acquiring, setting executive compensation or whatever, will be mindlessly imitated. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 169:If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to the precious and sheltered sources of my earliest memories. But these possessions are far too dear and sacred for the person I now am to spoil for myself. All there is to say of my childhood is that it was good and happy. I was given the freedom to discover my own inclinations and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 170:If you do not feel deserving of happiness, consciously or subconsciously, or if you have accepted the idea that happiness is somehow wrong or cannot last, you will not respond appropriately when happiness comes knocking at your door in the form of romantic love. No matter how much you may have waited and cried, you will not welcome love when it arrives-you will find a way to sabotage it. What a challenge to resist this temptation! What an opportunity for true spiritual growth and transformation-to defy your negative feelings and honor the gift that life offers you! ~ nathaniel-branden, @wisdomtrove 171:The fear of anything is the fear of death, and the fear of death is the same as the fear of life…You cannot live fully until you are willing to die fully and you cannot die fully until you are willing to meet the fear of death fully. If you really meet the fear of death, you are at peace. You recognize what cannot die. To meet death is not suicide, nor is it the least bit dangerous. It only seems dangerous. What is dangerous, what is a living suicide, is to live your life in bondage to the belief that you are limited to a body (or a mind, or any-thing). As long as you resist the fact of death and hide from death through the tricks of the mind, you will suffer. ~ gangaji, @wisdomtrove 172:There is no need to search; achievement leads to nowhere. It makes no difference at all, so just be happy now! Love is the only reality of the world, because it is all One, you see. And the only laws are paradox, humor and change. There is no problem, never was, and never will be. Release your struggle, let go of your mind, throw away your concerns, and relax into the world. No need to resist life, just do your best. Open your eyes and see that you are far more than you imagine. You are the world, you are the universe; you are yourself and everyone else, too! It's all the marvelous Play of God. Wake up, regain your humor. Don't worry, just be happy. You are already free! ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove 173:Wake up! Wake up! Soon the person you believe you are will die - so now, wake up and be content with this knowledge: there is no need to search; achievement leads to nowhere. It makes no difference at all, so just be happy now! Love is the only reality of the world, because it is all ONE, you see. And the only laws are paradox, humor, and change. There is no problem, never was, and never will be. Release your struggle, let go of your mind, throw away your concerns, and relax into the world. No need to resist life; just do your best. Open your eyes and see that you are for more than you imagine. you are the world, you are the universe; you are yourself and everyone else too! It's all the marvelous Play of God. Wake up, regain your humor. Don't worry, just be happy. You are already free! ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:Resist. Unlearn. Defy. ~ Jeff Hardy, #NFDB
2:What you resist persist. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
3:What you resist, persists. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
4:Resist much, obey little. ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB
5:What we resist persists. ~ Sonia Johnson, #NFDB
6:"What you resist, persists." ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
7:What you resist persists. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
8:"What you resist, persisits." ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
9:Momentum is hard to resist. ~ Peter Bregman, #NFDB
10:Whatever you resist, persists. ~ Adyashanti, #NFDB
11:Do not resist the one who is evil. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
12:Rome alone can resist Rome. ~ Pierre Corneille, #NFDB
13:Whatever you resist will persist. ~ Henry Ford, #NFDB
14:If you insist, how can I resist? ~ Toni Gonzaga, #NFDB
15:What you resist, persists ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
16:Remember: Resist do not comply. ~ Andrea Dworkin, #NFDB
17:You cannot resist the encanto! ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
18:If you resist change, you resist life. ~ Sadhguru, #NFDB
19:is able to resist that temptation. ~ David Eagleman, #NFDB
20:You resist, and it drives me wild. ~ Gena Showalter, #NFDB
21:And never resist a perfect moment. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
22:I resist change even as I call for it. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
23:To resist a challenge is to resist life itself. ~ Avi, #NFDB
24:Woe and death to all who resist my will! ~ Wilhelm II, #NFDB
25:I can resist everything but temptation, ~ Alan Russell, #NFDB
26:One cannot resist the lure of Africa. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
27:I can resist everything except temptation. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
28:To be gritty is to resist complacency. ~ Angela Duckworth, #NFDB
29:You know me...I can't resist a good prank ~ Justin Bieber, #NFDB
30:Your Body Was Born to Resist Cheesecake ~ Kelly McGonigal, #NFDB
31:The only thing I can't resist is temptation. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
32:the only way to resist is to keep on loving ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
33:He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. ~ Horace Mann, #NFDB
34:The only thing I cannot resist is temptation. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
35:The world resists me and I resist the world. ~ John Gardner, #NFDB
36:One cannot resist an idea whose time has come. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
37:Do not resist the natural course of your life. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
38:It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
39:It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man. ~ Nora Roberts, #NFDB
40:To resist him that is set in authority is evil ~ John Bartlett, #NFDB
41:Why resist temptation? There will always be more. ~ Don Herold, #NFDB
42:Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations. ~ John Ciardi, #NFDB
43:I resist the temptation to curate my apartment. ~ Thelma Golden, #NFDB
44:resist the temptation to jump to a solution; ~ Mary Poppendieck, #NFDB
45:Don't tempt me, I can resist anything but temptation. ~ Bob Hope, #NFDB
46:I never can resist a touch of the dramatic. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
47:I resist my temptations in order to feel i am free. ~ Mike Gayle, #NFDB
48:Southerners can never resist a losing cause. ~ Margaret Mitchell, #NFDB
49:I can resist everything but the temptation of you. ~ Truth Devour, #NFDB
50:I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. ~ Mae West, #NFDB
51:It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion. ~ Tacitus, #NFDB
52:Resist doing things that have no meaning for life. ~ Pablo Casals, #NFDB
53:The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets. ~ Bellamy Young, #NFDB
54:To create is to resist, to resist is to create. ~ Stephane Hessel, #NFDB
55:I am not sure I have the strength to resist this. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
56:No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius. ~ Stephen Hawking, #NFDB
57:Patch grinned down at me. “I’m hard to resist. ~ Becca Fitzpatrick, #NFDB
58:Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist. ~ Plutarch, #NFDB
59:I have never been able to resist a book about books. ~ Anne Fadiman, #NFDB
60:Resist the temptation to see yourself as a victim. ~ James C Dobson, #NFDB
61:What you resist, persists. What you accept, transforms. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
62:It's impossible to resist the kindness of strangers. ~ Paula Hawkins, #NFDB
63:Does management resist the institutional imperative? ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
64:I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
65:Nothing can resist your kind heart and your sharp axe. ~ L Frank Baum, #NFDB
66:Not surprisingly, people resist being moved around. ~ Frederic Laloux, #NFDB
67:There is never any peace for those who resist God. ~ Francois Fenelon, #NFDB
68:What people resist is not change per se, but loss. ~ Ronald A Heifetz, #NFDB
69:Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force. ~ John Ruskin, #NFDB
70:People don't resist change. They resist being changed. ~ Peter M Senge, #NFDB
71:What rights are those that dare not resist for them? ~ Alfred Tennyson, #NFDB
72:I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction. ~ J M Coetzee, #NFDB
73:The most effective way to resist evil is to draw near Me. ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
74:We choose our response--rock or sponge? Resist or receive? ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
75:We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
76:In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
77:It's always easier to avoid temptation than to resist it. ~ Randy Alcorn, #NFDB
78:Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, ~ Ovid, #NFDB
79:The only way to resist colonialism is through education. ~ Tariq Ramadan, #NFDB
80:I didn’t want or expect this. But I couldn’t resist you. ~ Maria V Snyder, #NFDB
81:I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual. ~ Jan Morris, #NFDB
82:Nothing can resist your kind heart and your sharp axe." As ~ L Frank Baum, #NFDB
83:We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. ~ Jules Verne, #NFDB
84:"When you sit, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing." ~ Ajahn Chah, #NFDB
85:A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. ~ Tacitus, #NFDB
86:How can I possibly resist you when you say such pretty words? ~ Maya Banks, #NFDB
87:Men are like bulls. They cannot resist the red sole. ~ Christian Louboutin, #NFDB
88:resist. Six months from now she would have enough saved ~ Jayne Ann Krentz, #NFDB
89:The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil. ~ Thomas Malthus, #NFDB
90:Why resist change when it's the main source of your growth? ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
91:A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist. ~ Adi Da, #NFDB
92:It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
93:Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
94:They try to resist change. Power comes from becoming change. ~ Mohsin Hamid, #NFDB
95:We resist Joy on this planet more than we resist war. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
96:What rights are those that dare not resist for them? ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
97:Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses ~ Brian Tracy, #NFDB
98:For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing. ~ Marisha Pessl, #NFDB
99:It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
100:It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
101:Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her! ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
102:The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny. ~ John Locke, #NFDB
103:The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully. ~ Wallace Stevens, #NFDB
104:The promise of destroying an enemy so utterly is hard to resist. ~ Ginn Hale, #NFDB
105:You know what. You’re luring me in. You know I can’t resist— ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
106:It’s at your most lunatic moments that I can resist you least. ~ Laura London, #NFDB
107:My dear Emperor. How could I resist such a charming proposal? ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
108:The thing you resist is the thing you need to hear the most. ~ Robert Anthony, #NFDB
109:Concepts become forces when they resist one another ~ Johann Friedrich Herbart, #NFDB
110:I guess we resist changing, because we are afraid of change. ~ Spencer Johnson, #NFDB
111:I've never been able to resist you. Not then. Not now.” Not ever. ~ K Bromberg, #NFDB
112:sister was. But I couldn’t resist such a clear shot. So I said her ~ Mary Karr, #NFDB
113:Try to resist copying a blueprint from another person's ministry. ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
114:When you resist a difficulty you antagonize it, and it bites back. ~ Emmet Fox, #NFDB
115:The poem must resist the intelligence
Almost successfully. ~ Wallace Stevens,#NFDB
116:To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
117:We must resist the temptation to romanticize history's losers. ~ Niall Ferguson, #NFDB
118:the girl who was so lovely even her father couldn’t resist her. ~ Nnedi Okorafor, #NFDB
119:To resist was fatal, and it was impossible to fly. —EDWARD GIBBON, ~ Clive James, #NFDB
120:You have to be willing to face evil and resist it if you want peace. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
121:Every time you resist temptation you are winning for your children. ~ Joel Osteen, #NFDB
122:If it were easy to resist, it would not be called chocolate cake. ~ Maryrose Wood, #NFDB
123:Music is such a good way to resist. It keep you strong, it has dignity. ~ Amy Ray, #NFDB
124:Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
125:Every time we resist the slightest temptation, we honor God. Every ~ Robert Morgan, #NFDB
126:Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present. ~ Alan Watts, #NFDB
127:I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
128:I think to be creative you have to resist taking the easy path. ~ Daniel Libeskind, #NFDB
129:Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
130:We pledge to you in our name... that we will resist the invaders. ~ Saddam Hussein, #NFDB
131:Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
132:Are men truly such idiots that they cannot resist two orbs of flesh? ~ R L LaFevers, #NFDB
133:But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed. ~ Al Sharpton, #NFDB
134:I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them. ~ Charles de Gaulle, #NFDB
135:It is not really a small thing when in small things we resist self. ~ Thomas Kempis, #NFDB
136:Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
137:Of course design is about problem solving, but I cannot resist adding ~ Wim Crouwel, #NFDB
138:What you resist will persist; what you befriend, you will transcend. ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
139:All men can’t resist a challenge. Some just give up sooner than others. ~ Kate Perry, #NFDB
140:Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present. ~ Alan W Watts, #NFDB
141:Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge. ~ Stefan Molyneux, #NFDB
142:Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech. ~ Benjamin Carson, #NFDB
143:There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist ~ John Lubbock, #NFDB
144:"Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists." ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
145:Without love you can only resist, without feeling you can't exist. ~ Melissa Ferrick, #NFDB
146:...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
147:I have never compared myself to anyone, but it's hard to resist him!! ~ Shahid Afridi, #NFDB
148:Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
149:Relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority. ~ Stanley Milgram, #NFDB
150:The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resist it.” - John Hay ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
151:Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely non-resistant person. ~ Florence Scovel Shinn, #NFDB
152:Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient. ~ Ian Mcewan, #NFDB
153:There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold! ~ Aristophanes, #NFDB
154:To embrace love, we risk heartbreak. To resist love, we risk emptiness. ~ Jennifer Lane, #NFDB
155:Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable? ~ Margaret Atwood, #NFDB
156:How could she resist them eyes?
She tries, says Jack. Man, did she try. ~ Moira Young,#NFDB
157:Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice. ~ James J Corbett, #NFDB
158:it’s a very hard thing to resist, real goodness, in a tough man. ~ Gregory David Roberts, #NFDB
159:Pain and loss are ineviatble and we should let go of trying to resist them ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
160:Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways. ~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, #NFDB
161:There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions. ~ Louise Erdrich, #NFDB
162:We are a species that evolved to survive starvation, not resist abundance ~ Atul Gawande, #NFDB
163:pain and loss are inevitable and we should let go of trying to resist them. ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
164:What was it Oscar Wilde said?” “I can resist everything except temptation. ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
165:But if something funny happens, I can't resist. I have to tell the people. ~ Kathy Griffin, #NFDB
166:I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
167:I try to avoid Twitter. I occasionally can't resist the siren call of email. ~ Diablo Cody, #NFDB
168:For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
169:I am sentimental and a romantic no matter how hard I try to resist those urges. ~ Sara Quin, #NFDB
170:It’s beyond wrong, but she keeps coming back to me, and I can’t resist her. ~ Vanessa Waltz, #NFDB
171:Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
172:Oscar Wilde’s comment about being able to resist everything except temptation. ~ Mark Pryor, #NFDB
173:Resist Impulses to Label Yourself with Descriptions that Limit You in Any Way. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
174:The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
175:The object of battle was the destruction of the enemy’s capacity to resist. ~ Louis L Amour, #NFDB
176:I will resist the urge to underestimate the complexity of knitting. ~ Stephanie Pearl McPhee, #NFDB
177:Never quit, you have to resist to the utmost. 'Til you drop, like a Samurai ~ Carlson Gracie, #NFDB
178:One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
179:Resist the suppressive pressure to contract, and instead expand in defiance. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
180:Confusing the weight of sins actually hurts our ability to resist temptation. ~ John Eldredge, #NFDB
181:It's so tempting to resist a little gift
when you're expecting the otherwise. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
182:Resist change at your own peril, Vivian. When something ends, let it end. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
183:The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. ~ Russell Baker, #NFDB
184:We are continually experiencing the conditioning to hold on, tighten, or resist. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
185:If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive. ~ Audre Lorde, #NFDB
186:I'm trying to be good here, Karlie. But you're making it damn hard to resist. ~ Kimberly Lewis, #NFDB
187:I see a woman may be made a fool,
If she had not a spirit to resist. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
188:It’s so hard to resist this. I don’t know how to stop it any more than you do. ~ Scarlett Cole, #NFDB
189:Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
190:Now I am punished by privilege and comfort—and I can’t resist comfort. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
191:No woman can resist a man who has tidal waves and earthquakes beneath the skin. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
192:Finally, don’t try to “get out” of anything. What you resist, persists. I ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
193:How darkness infects those among us who can't resist a juicy tale. ~ Miranda Beverly Whittemore, #NFDB
194:If you don't go with the tide of a dream - if you resist it - you wake up, you know. ~ E Nesbit, #NFDB
195:It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. —LEONARDO DA VINCI ~ Robert B Cialdini, #NFDB
196:Seriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent. ~ Stephanie Perkins, #NFDB
197:she went downstairs to boil some pasta. Puttanesca. She couldn’t resist the dig. ~ Lauren Groff, #NFDB
198:Because the only way to resist, our husbands had taught us, was by not resisting. ~ Julie Otsuka, #NFDB
199:If nothing is declared unchangeable, then the organization will resist all change. ~ Tom DeMarco, #NFDB
200:No stony bulwark can resist the love, and love dares what anyone can love. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
201:When one is experiencing failure, it is hard to resist the comfort of paranoia. ~ Thomas M Disch, #NFDB
202:I gasp, and I'm Eve in the Garden of Eden, and he's the serpent, and I cannot resist. ~ E L James, #NFDB
203:One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
204:You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
205:All truths wait in all things,/They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB
206:Even when someone hurts you, you choose how to struggle, resist, deny and receive. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
207:His enthusiasm was adorable. I couldn’t resist leaning over to kiss him on the cheek. ~ John Green, #NFDB
208:If you are a believer in Jesus Christ, you have power and you can resist temptation! ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
209:I have the financial morals of a goldfish, I can resist everything but temptation. ~ Ruth St Denis, #NFDB
210:....in this country shadings of class resist time longer than differentials in age ~ Julian Barnes, #NFDB
211:It's a shock to have it proved to you that you can't resist seducing yourself. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
212:Life sweeps you up. Some people resist a lot. I probably haven't resisted very much. ~ Uma Thurman, #NFDB
213:Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance. ~ Honore de Balzac, #NFDB
214:We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
215:But sometimes normal just isn't happening. Sometimes crazy feels too good to resist. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
216:Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you. ~ Mortimer J Adler, #NFDB
217:I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation. ~ Edna O Brien, #NFDB
218:It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals ~ Angela Davis, #NFDB
219:long as they are their mind, what they fear and resist most is their own awakening. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
220:Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
221:We are lived by drives we cannot command, and we are read by works we cannot resist. ~ Harold Bloom, #NFDB
222:It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
223:Learn to resist but do not be un-moveable in your resistance. Resist like the water. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
224:Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good. ~ Eliphas Levi, #NFDB
225:Or perhaps it's the wickedness in him that she can't resist. There are such women. ~ Madeleine Brent, #NFDB
226:Resist fear,” Jesus said. “Fear is always in the future. Cut through it. Resist it. ~ Roland Merullo, #NFDB
227:Being old enough to know better but still too young to resist mostly sucks. ~ Matthew Woodring Stover, #NFDB
228:She ate the apple and gave it also to Adam who had not the moral courage to resist her. ~ James Joyce, #NFDB
229:Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
230:The air which is so thin and unsubstantial gives birth to storms that nothing can resist. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
231:The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved. ~ Jeffrey D Sachs, #NFDB
232:To resist the depths of the world's sorrow, the truth of one's heart must be honored. ~ Rick Remender, #NFDB
233:What people resist the most about spiritual healing is changing their minds. ~ S Kelley Harrell M Div, #NFDB
234:It is not the intensity but the duration of pain that breaks the will to resist. ~ William S Burroughs, #NFDB
235:Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. ~ Brian Tracy, #NFDB
236:The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends. ~ Peter Ustinov, #NFDB
237:He was making it impossible for her to resist him, or even remember why she’d wanted to. ~ Jill Shalvis, #NFDB
238:If you see something wrong with the world, fix it. Fight. Resist. Don’t use cardboard. ~ Sylvain Neuvel, #NFDB
239:Many claim that it is insane to resist the system; but actually, it is insane not to. ~ Mumia Abu Jamal, #NFDB
240:Souls from the same star find it impossible to resist dancing to the tune of inevitability. ~ T F Hodge, #NFDB
241:What woman could resist a gentleman who was handsome, wealthy, and compassionate? Arabella ~ Jen Turano, #NFDB
242:When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers. ~ Gerald Jampolsky, #NFDB
243:Without prayer it is impossible to resist temptations and to keep the commandments. ~ Alphonsus Liguori, #NFDB
244:Do I hear a challenge?” she whispers, “Oh, Carlos. You know I can’t resist a challenge. ~ Simone Elkeles, #NFDB
245:He was too big, too dark, too strong, too seductive… simply too much for her to resist. ~ Juliette Cross, #NFDB
246:Just getting to first base seems to be a problem for you two," Cam couldn't resist saying. ~ Lauren Kate, #NFDB
247:Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you. ~ Gustave Flaubert, #NFDB
248:You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
249:Could any man resist the temptation of evil if he knew his acts could not be witnessed? ~ Steven D Levitt, #NFDB
250:I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green
head of hair like mine? ~ Darren Shan,#NFDB
251:Men can resist almost everything, but they are always jealous of the victory of a fellow man. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
252:The power of Allah: no sound, no shape, no form. But when it manifests, none can resist it. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
253:What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
254:Do what you do so well - and so uniquely - that people can't resist telling others about you ~ Walt Disney, #NFDB
255:Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour are hard to resist. ~ Tom DeLay, #NFDB
256:If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold, #NFDB
257:RESIST no thought; RETAIN no thought; REACT to no thought; RETURN to the sacred word. ~ Cynthia Bourgeault, #NFDB
258:Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning. ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
259:We have to resist, protectionism, other kinds of barriers to market access and to trade. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
260:An eight-pound Cheddar. No one can resist a bit of Cheddar cheese, ma’am. Not even the dead. ~ Julia Stuart, #NFDB
261:He was totally rocking the whole ‘bad boy in a suit’ look, how was a girl supposed to resist? ~ Mina Carter, #NFDB
262:People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
263:The current of memory carried her along, futher, futher. This time, she didn't resist. ~ Marie Myung Ok Lee, #NFDB
264:There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist. ~ Alexander Hamilton, #NFDB
265:You are too winsome to resist, too innocent to keep, and far too delightful to easily let go ~ Judith James, #NFDB
266:Few men can resist expressing their appetites when they're making a fantasy about themselves. ~ John le Carr, #NFDB
267:he couldn’t resist the smile that lit up her face when he gave her new reading material. ~ Melanie Dickerson, #NFDB
268:His jaw clenched tight. “I could not resist you last night if the world itself was on fire. ~ Juliette Cross, #NFDB
269:I kinda flirt with everything and everyone, no matter if it's a tree or a coffee cup. I can't resist. ~ Mika, #NFDB
270:At times, when loneliness seems to crush all beauty, the only way to resist is to remain open. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
271:but the combination of colorful tights and black combat boots was something I couldn’t resist. ~ Sarai Walker, #NFDB
272:Darkness approaches from outside.
I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it. ~ Christopher Pike,#NFDB
273:If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
274:If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength. ~ Fran ois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
275:I resist anything better than my own diversity, And breathe the air and leave plenty after me, ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB
276:It isn’t that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It’s that the truth is too hideous to face. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
277:I was afraid he would pull away, that he would retreat into himself and resist my comfort. But ~ Jody Hedlund, #NFDB
278:Try fighting with your head for a change...
it's a good one, even if it does resist learning. ~ Harper Lee,#NFDB
279:When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream. ~ Michel Gondry, #NFDB
280:Without prayer it is impossible to resist temptations and to keep the commandments. ~ Saint Alphonsus Liguori, #NFDB
281:As long as I think I 'should' do it, I'll resist it, even if I want very much to do it. ~ Marshall B Rosenberg, #NFDB
282:I felt a pull toward her even before I actually spotted her in her car and I’m glad I didn’t resist. ~ A R Von, #NFDB
283:If you have to live in the mud for a while, you must not resist being a frog for a while! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
284:Regeneration is a work of the omnipotent power of God, power that nothing can overcome or resist. ~ R C Sproul, #NFDB
285:Resistance is the protest of those who hope, and hope is the feast of the people who resist. ~ J rgen Moltmann, #NFDB
286:The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it. ~ Kenneth Grahame, #NFDB
287:Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves. ~ Learned Hand, #NFDB
288:What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
289:Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit. ~ Ovid, #NFDB
290:We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal. ~ Thomas Carlyle, #NFDB
291:whatever you fight, you strengthyen. What you resist, persists. "A New Earth":War is a mind set ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
292:Who can resist sleep at two or three in the afternoon in these sunlit parts of the Mediterranean? ~ Andr Aciman, #NFDB
293:You will only lose when you resist reality; you will only struggle when you disagree with what is. ~ Adyashanti, #NFDB
294:avoid solving and resist rescuing, even when they make minor mistakes or not-so-great choices. ~ Daniel J Siegel, #NFDB
295:How can we resist exploitation if we don’t have the tools to understand exploitation? ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, #NFDB
296:I can never resist telling people good news. I mean, why not brighten someone else's life too? ~ Sophie Kinsella, #NFDB
297:I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now. ~ Jack Nicholson, #NFDB
298:Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB
299:The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
300:There are people who cannot resist the desire to get into a cage with wild beasts and be mangled. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
301:Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all. ~ James Mill, #NFDB
302:Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled. ~ Nikki Giovanni, #NFDB
303:Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe. ~ T D Jakes, #NFDB
304:The pig had been killed because spirits, like people, cannot resist the smell of cooking pig. ~ Peter Matthiessen, #NFDB
305:There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false. ~ Anthony Trollope, #NFDB
306:It is only natural to expect that guilds will tend to "protect their turf" and to resist challenge. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
307:Let the thunder of a hundred cannon remind you three times daily to resist the force of habit. ~ S ren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
308:National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry. ~ Edward Sapir, #NFDB
309:No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
310:Once we recognize our shadow's existence we must resist the enticing step of going with its flow. ~ Karl Marlantes, #NFDB
311:People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must. ~ Immanuel Wallerstein, #NFDB
312:Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. ~ Margaret Atwood, #NFDB
313:We are all driven by our passions, and our task is to know when to submit to them and when to resist. ~ David Liss, #NFDB
314:And the enticement to seek a rose without thorns is never far away and always difficult to resist. ~ Zygmunt Bauman, #NFDB
315:But there was only so much temptation a man could resist without losing all respect for himself. ~ Michael Swanwick, #NFDB
316:If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
317:Its our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
318:Love is the greatest force on earth to resist, limit and ultimately halt evil's deadly progression. ~ James Robison, #NFDB
319:She felt like a god. She dreamed of people who could fight back. Of wills strong enough to resist her. ~ V E Schwab, #NFDB
320:Snarl had infiltrated my subconscious. The dream was obviously a sign: he was too enticing to resist. ~ Rachel Cohn, #NFDB
321:Sometimes I wish I was a beautiful machine so I could resist your kiss and not cry when you're mean. ~ Lana Del Rey, #NFDB
322:the greatest miracle of omnipotence was in creating beings who had the potential to resist it.2 2. ~ Gregory A Boyd, #NFDB
323:Admiral,” he said. He couldn't resist. “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. ~ Christopher G Nuttall, #NFDB
324:Do it,” he rasped. “There’s no way I can resist you. I have no damn idea how I’ve done it for this long. ~ J S Scott, #NFDB
325:Don’t be sweet. I can’t resist sweet,” Gianna warned him. “Your kids are monsters and I hate your face. ~ Lucy Score, #NFDB
326:How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change ~ Elizabeth Lesser, #NFDB
327:If Russia's interests and security are threatened, Russia will resist. Everyone needs to know that. ~ Vladimir Putin, #NFDB
328:It's our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we're willing to die for. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
329:It’s our actions that define us. What we choose. What we resist. What we’re willing to die for. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
330:One can resist the invasion of an army, but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. —VICTOR HUGO ~ Chris Guillebeau, #NFDB
331:People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are. ~ Max Barry, #NFDB
332:Today I have a choice. I can resist reality and suffer pain or peacefully accept what I cannot change. ~ Karan Casey, #NFDB
333:We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
334:As human beings, we are genetically programmed to resist change and maintain a state of equilibrium. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
335:By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world. ~ Roger Mahony, #NFDB
336:Force cannot resist intelligence; in spite of force, in spite of men, intelligence passes on and triumphs. ~ Ramayana, #NFDB
337:I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed. ~ A S Byatt, #NFDB
338:Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist. ~ Levon Helm, #NFDB
339:Mr. Asher, you can resist who you are for only so long. Finally, you just decide to go with fate. ~ Christopher Moore, #NFDB
340:There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis. ~ Wallace Stegner, #NFDB
341:How do you expect me to resist? You’re a walking temptation. A testosterone menace in a tiny little towel, ~ J S Scott, #NFDB
342:I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it. ~ Vincente Minnelli, #NFDB
343:I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
344:in some sense, it was the tyranny of cousins that allowed Indians to resist the tyranny of tyrants. ~ Francis Fukuyama, #NFDB
345:Sand can resist to water; but it cannot win. Ignorant can resist to knowledge; but it cannot win. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
346:They even come equipped with a built-in antibiotic called squalamine that helps them resist infections. ~ Ben Sherwood, #NFDB
347:When you love, especially with your heart, it comes upon you so fast, you don't have time to resist. ~ Jennifer Ashley, #NFDB
348:I have found that people who can successfully resist temptation invariably lead depressingly stunted lives. ~ C D Payne, #NFDB
349:Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves. ~ Taylor Caldwell, #NFDB
350:Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it. ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
351:People are most vociferously opposed to those forces they have to resist more fiercely within themselves. ~ Tim Kreider, #NFDB
352:Resist faith. Resist trust. Believe only in what you touch with your hands. The rest is error and air. ~ Brian Staveley, #NFDB
353:Rohan, if being a hero is having the courage to resist using power arbitrarily, then you are a hero, beloved. ~ Melanie, #NFDB
354:Sometimes, when loneliness seems about to crush everything, the only way to resist is to keep on loving. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
355:To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death. ~ Pema Chodron, #NFDB
356:Try fighting with your head for a change . . it's a good one, even if it does resist learning"
-Atticus ~ Harper Lee,#NFDB
357:you temptress,Tess; you dear damned witch of Babylon- I could not resist you as soon as I met you again. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
358:Be twice as funny as you are outrageous, because no one can resist the truth wrapped in a good joke. ~ Milo Yiannopoulos, #NFDB
359:central tenet: that pain and loss are inevitable and we should let go of trying to resist them. The prince ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
360:He had the strength to resist temptation or excitement, no matter how seductive, no matter the situation. ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
361:If you have enough unanswered questions, you have a certifiable mystery, and those are impossible to resist. ~ Lisa Lutz, #NFDB
362:I've always had a thing for beards. [...]
They're my chocolate cake.
I'm unable to resist either. ~ Daisy Prescott,#NFDB
363:The more men and women drink, the more they both seek intercourse — or, at least, the less they resist it. ~ Robin Baker, #NFDB
364:Don't obey the commandments of obstacles. Resist every opposition schemed to break you down. Wake up! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
365:I can resist anything except temptation." Ren, main character in Sherrilyn Kenyon's novel Time Untime. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
366:I couldn't resist the temptation to tease Pyle - it is, after all, the weapon of weakness and I was weak. ~ Graham Greene, #NFDB
367:If the reality is not ideal, resist and refuse the reality and change it no matter how strong it is! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
368:If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it. ~ Ben Carson, #NFDB
369:Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. ~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, #NFDB
370:(People are most vociferously opposed to those forces they have to resist most fiercely within themselves.) ~ Tim Kreider, #NFDB
371:Then she thought bitterly that it would be much easier to resist chocolate if her life were less stressful. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
372:when humans see things that challenge our mental models, we tend not just to resist them but to ignore them. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
373:When such single minded strength of will and purpose is directed to reach its goal, no boundary can resist. ~ Jean M Auel, #NFDB
374:You can't get a pay raise when you're angry. People will react to the negative energy and will resist you. ~ Stuart Wilde, #NFDB
375:He didn't want to resist anymore. In fact, he had no idea why he'd been denying himself in the first place. ~ Lynda Aicher, #NFDB
376:The reason why they resist doing as you say, is because they've been conditioned to do as you've demonstrated. ~ T F Hodge, #NFDB
377:After an agonizing silence, Levana tittered. “My dear Emperor. How could I resist such a charming proposal? ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
378:But I caught up with him and he didn’t resist when I put my arm around him and we walked on together like that. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
379:I don't resist progress, but I have a growing feeling that mankind uses it mostly for disgraceful purposes. ~ Stanislaw Lem, #NFDB
380:We need to resist the urge to do something, regardless of whether or not the proposed action is effective. ~ Bruce Schneier, #NFDB
381:for a moment I forgot to resist as our mouths moved and our bodies conversed, exchanging secrets without sound. ~ Amy Harmon, #NFDB
382:Once causes are determined, then there is talk of "social injustice" and the privileged begin to resist. ~ Gustavo Gutierrez, #NFDB
383:Rohan, if being a hero is having the courage to resist using power arbitrarily, then you are a hero, beloved. ~ Melanie Rawn, #NFDB
384:The young who are male can never resist showing off their knowledge, no doubt because they possess so little. ~ Kate Elliott, #NFDB
385:If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I'm sure I won't be able to resist coming back and doing it. ~ Aaron Sorkin, #NFDB
386:Our capacity to resist has nothing to do with our intelligence but with the degree of access to our true self. ~ Alice Miller, #NFDB
387:People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
388:The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts. ~ Karl Abraham, #NFDB
389:This is not violence, this is legitimate resistance. This is our people's right to resist Israeli occupation. ~ Khaled Mashal, #NFDB
390:To write is to struggle and resist; to write is to become; to write is to draw a map: 'I am a cartographer'. ~ Gilles Deleuze, #NFDB
391:We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing. ~ Napoleon Hill, #NFDB
392:Do not try to become anything.When you sit, let it be. When you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing.Resist nothing. ~ Ajahn Chah, #NFDB
393:If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it. ~ Benjamin Carson, #NFDB
394:It's very easy to resist men, isn't it? But managing to pick the right one -- that is truly worthy of praise. ~ Meredith Duran, #NFDB
395:Unless I have been sorely misinformed, supermodels are powerless to resist a man with illuminated doorsills. ~ Richard Hammond, #NFDB
396:We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we’ll break or whether we’ll resist. ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
397:All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
398:Every instinct told me I needed to run, that there was something about this beautiful stranger I couldn’t resist. ~ A L Jackson, #NFDB
399:No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
400:People have no idea how strong a pull sex, money, and power have on them until they try to resist their pull. ~ Brian D McLaren, #NFDB
401:three thousand pounds of steel and glass and plastic that no thing made out of flesh could resist. A car. ~ T Coraghessan Boyle, #NFDB
402:Power is not to resist the criticisms; power is to seek for something useful to use amongst the criticisms! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
403:To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself. ~ Alan Watts, #NFDB
404:what it feels like to resist without seeming to resist, to absent yourself while seeming respectful and attentive. ~ Jane Smiley, #NFDB
405:All things resist destruction, according to their capacity. Rocks, pebbles, diamonds. Unity is instinctive to being. ~ Jan Siegel, #NFDB
406:God has created you because he loved you. He loved you so much that he could not resist the temptation to create you. When ~ Osho, #NFDB
407:He looked up at me with angelic eyes. "Doing what?" "You know what. You're luring me in. You know I can't resist- ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
408:He was a being of action and vitality, and when he moved, when he smiled, he became almost impossible to resist. ~ Elizabeth Hoyt, #NFDB
409:I resist the urge to raise my hand and utter the four most reassuring words in the English language: I know a guy. ~ Sarah Vowell, #NFDB
410:Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined. ~ Raoul Peck, #NFDB
411:Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.” —BENJAMIN DISRAELI ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB
412:The meager splash of charm he rationed with that ripped body and sexy swagger, made him nearly impossible to resist. ~ Debra Webb, #NFDB
413:After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was. ~ Terry Eagleton, #NFDB
414:Christ lived the life we could not live and took the punishment we could not take to offer the hope we cannot resist. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
415:It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been. ~ Christopher Reeve, #NFDB
416:It's the ability to resist failure, in many ways, or use failure that often leads to the greatest success, isn't it? ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
417:This is why you must take up the full armor of God, so that you may be able to resist in the evil day. Ephesians 6:13 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
418:To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself. ~ Alan W Watts, #NFDB
419:Very well, Practical Vitari, if you really can’t resist me. You’ll have to go on top, though, if you don’t mind. ~ Joe Abercrombie, #NFDB
420:We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement. ~ Tami Hoag, #NFDB
421:When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
422:George feels flattered and excited...He can't resist slipping into the role Kenny so temptingly offers him. ~ Christopher Isherwood, #NFDB
423:Loss reshapes us and teaches us to fill ourselves with something new. If we resist, we feel as you do. Hollow. Empty. ~ Ash Krafton, #NFDB
424:There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading. ~ John Quincy Adams, #NFDB
425:He looked up at me with angelic eyes. "Doing what?"
"You know what. You're luring me in. You know I can't resist- ~ Richelle Mead,#NFDB
426:In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
427:In pursuing a minimalist lifestyle, we need to resist the temptation to recreate the outside world within our abodes. ~ Francine Jay, #NFDB
428:Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
429:Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
430:Resist the temptation to compare yourself to others. This is crucial in order to be able to manifest whatever you want. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
431:The more you resist to leave your comfort zone, the less colourful and the less adventerous life you will have! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
432:Few women can resist a Scotsman. No woman can resist a Highlander.” ~ Tarah Scott A truth known by every female living. ~ Tarah Scott, #NFDB
433:How could I resist your charms after I heard you tell that guy you'd cut off his balls and shove them down his throat? ~ Katee Robert, #NFDB
434:It is difficult to resist a force of nature, Maman. His seduction is like all my senses struck by bolts of lightning. ~ Nicole Jordan, #NFDB
435:It requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
436:I've been told that my belly is soft as a fluffy cloud. No one can resist my magical belly. Not even grumpy humans. ~ Yasmine Surovec, #NFDB
437:resist the urge to blast Sebastian with a “mind your own damn business” text while Jared asks the hostess for a table. ~ P T Michelle, #NFDB
438:We should have a strong president. Strong enough to resist the temptation of taking power that a president shouldn't have. ~ Ron Paul, #NFDB
439:What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged. ~ Steve Lacy, #NFDB
440:You resist your fate. Let go and trust that the wind will take you where you need to go. Follow the signs.” Archer ~ Kristen Callihan, #NFDB
441:Is truth nothing more than a convention of power, or can truthful historical accounts resist the gravity of politics? ~ Timothy Snyder, #NFDB
442:Live a fruitful life. Resist evil. Give more than you take. Help others do likewise. The rest will take care of itself. ~ Brandon Mull, #NFDB
443:Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
444:Only the honorable people resist the injustices! The rest - the honorless - are afraid of even their own shadows! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
445:Painful or undesirable situations will always arise; true suffering comes from our ego's desire to resist life as it is. ~ Abdi Assadi, #NFDB
446:Persist and resist". Persist in your efforts. Resist giving into distraction, discouragement, and disorder. - Epictetus ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
447:So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe. ~ Emma Goldman, #NFDB
448:Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
449:I shake my head. Amazing. It isn’t that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It’s that the truth is too hideous to face. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
450:It is not only in medicine that persons in authority will resist any investigation that might reduce their authority. ~ Steven Weinberg, #NFDB
451:Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory. ~ Donald Davidson, #NFDB
452:Of course they danced together; how could Callum resist dancing with a real live woman instead of a cardboard cut-out? ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
453:Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
454:We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want to eat it, too. ~ Leslie Jamison, #NFDB
455:You got to insist on your success, resist every obstacle and persist in times of difficulty and you will get there. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
456:Change can be beautiful when we are brave enough to evolve with it, and change can be brutal when we fearfully resist. ~ Bryant H McGill, #NFDB
457:History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
458:It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
459:Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved. ~ Emile M Cioran, #NFDB
460:You must direct the fire and movement of the entire element and resist the instinct to become just another gun in the fight. ~ Jack Carr, #NFDB
461:yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. + 8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
462:Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
463:Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable. ~ Alan Cohen, #NFDB
464:Education is a priority! How can we resist exploitation if we don’t have the tools to understand exploitation? ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, #NFDB
465:Everybody liked Frank, because Frank had that one quality no one could resist—he knew who he was and still liked himself. ~ Loretta Nyhan, #NFDB
466:Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
467:Inactivity should be avoided by all means. Activity always means resistance. Resist all evils, mental and physical... ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
468:[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power. ~ Walter Raleigh, #NFDB
469:It’s brave to resist the pull of the familiar. To be selfish about your own needs. I wrestle with that every day. ~ Christina Baker Kline, #NFDB
470:I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes. ~ William H Gass, #NFDB
471:When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on [gay] marriage, that's when it's time to resist. ~ Rand Paul, #NFDB
472:Clark couldn’t resist. “I’ve heard they call Bon Bon the chocolate rocket. Dips the old fuselage in fudge before blasting off. ~ M Z Kelly, #NFDB
473:It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably. ~ David Platt, #NFDB
474:It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later. ~ Ann Landers, #NFDB
475:I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that. ~ David Byrne, #NFDB
476:I wonder if they'll be able to resist. It's not exactly easy to save things for the future when the present is so uncertain. ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
477:When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist. ~ Mencius, #NFDB
478:When you are unhappy, do not resist it! Let your unhappiness do its turn. After that the turn comes to the happiness! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
479:It is a testament to just how far we fell in 2016 that to resist the fever and stand up for conservatism seemed a radical act. ~ Jeff Flake, #NFDB
480:It was calling me, that button," he offered as his excuse. "I couldn't resist." -MULCH DIGGUMS ON A HIGHLY PRESS-ABLE BUTTON- ~ Eoin Colfer, #NFDB
481:The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail. ~ Dan Ariely, #NFDB
482:They are to resist evil, support the weak, defend the poor, and intercede for all in need.” My job is to do the right thing. ~ James Runcie, #NFDB
483:Zoe’s face tilted up toward his presented a temptation he could no more resist than he could prevent the sun from rising. ~ Barbara Longley, #NFDB
484:If an obstacle in the real world can be eliminated in the mind then it can no longer resist to exist in the real world! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
485:When you resist doing what you know needs done, it is difficult. Find a mental way to enjoy it, and just do it, and it is easy. ~ Joe Vitale, #NFDB
486:A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
487:Eva: You like 'em tall and skinny
Gideon: Last I checked, the wife I can't resist was petite and voluptuous. Spectacularly so ~ Sylvia Day,#NFDB
488:Our oversized brains evolved, in large part, to detect and resist manipulation by those who want to get ahead at our expense. ~ Peter Turchin, #NFDB
489:Summer Storm
She was wild, unpredictable, beautiful, and dangerous. Impossible to resist. A summer storm in a bikini. ~ Michael Faudet,#NFDB
490:Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist. ~ Andrew Weil, #NFDB
491:No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
492:One thing I’ve learned is it’s better sometimes, in the weeds, to resist the temptation to stand up and follow the compass. * ~ John Darnielle, #NFDB
493:The heart can resist all kinds of physical trauma, but sadness can destroy it in a second. So no sadness in this house! ~ Armando Lucas Correa, #NFDB
494:The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat. ~ Edith Hamilton, #NFDB
495:There are many emotions we have to resist, but happiness is not one of them! So go ahead and be as happy as you can possibly be. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
496:What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations. ~ Calvin Coolidge, #NFDB
497:You are one ugly motherfucker.” Ethan chuckled. “Sorry. I couldn’t resist. It’s from a movie. Seriously, what the hell are you? ~ Blake Crouch, #NFDB
498:A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within. ~ Chuck Baldwin, #NFDB
499:Over the years I've seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that. ~ Billy Graham, #NFDB
500:We live in a society that feeds on criticism. It is so easy to find fault, and to resist doing so requires much discipline. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB
501:We must resist in-group thinking and practice seeing every soul as a brother or sister in a larger grouping of humans on earth. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
502:I do not resist this situation. I put it in the hands of Infinite Love and Wisdom. Let the Divine idea now come to pass. ~ Florence Scovel Shinn, #NFDB
503:The words slipped out like a bubble, too fragile to resist the destruction of air. It was like a glass smashing against a wall. ~ Dawn Kurtagich, #NFDB
504:We must continue to fight and resist. We must be the heroes we look for in others. We must no longer speak in code, but in action. ~ Joseph Fink, #NFDB
505:What Robert Bly's poetry readings say is: "You must change your life." To hear serious poems and resist all change is dangerous. ~ William Booth, #NFDB
506:Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can't resist the impulse. ~ Jackie Gleason, #NFDB
507:Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
508:Unable to resist, she said, “Mortals also go there to worship a mouse god. His likeness is everywhere. There’s a duck demigod too. ~ Kresley Cole, #NFDB
509:You have to do some thinking and know who you are, and then you have to resist compromising your truth for the comfort of others. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
510:You say the sweetest things. And that spaghetti perfume you're wearing is to die for. No hobo could resist."
She snarled. Heh. ~ Ilona Andrews,#NFDB
511:A girl’s job is to resist penetration, even with the worthiest of men, and continue resisting as long as possible to preserve her value. ~ Roosh V, #NFDB
512:He spread his hands in a self-deprecating gesture. 'Well, I'm not a cop. And I'm not a woman.' She couldn't resist. 'I had noticed. ~ Val McDermid, #NFDB
513:I marvelled at the beauty and power of a grown woman's full firm quivering bare bottom, who could resist this tasty feast of eye candy. ~ John Key, #NFDB
514:I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that. ~ Kate Beckinsale, #NFDB
515:It is no shame to be racist as long as you admit that you are racist and you try your best to resist your racism. Everyone knows this. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
516:Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
517:Successful people don’t resist change; they embrace it head-on. Every loss is a chance to win. Every mistake is a chance to grow. ~ Tabatha Coffey, #NFDB
518:There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse. ~ Garet Garrett, #NFDB
519:To those readers who feel that I didn't know any better, I assert that I did ... but the temptation was simply too great to resist. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
520:Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys. ~ J M Barrie, #NFDB
521:You are an irritating son of a bitch.”
“Ah, ma petite, how can I resist you when you whisper such sweet endearments to me? ~ Laurell K Hamilton,#NFDB
522:A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
523:Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we resist. ~ Shirley MacLaine, #NFDB
524:For who could resist a woman who could fall from being queen to commoner and yet still carry herself as if greatness was within? ~ Philippa Gregory, #NFDB
525:I resist any thing better than my own diversity, Breathe the air but leave plenty after me, And am not stuck up, and am in my place. ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB
526:I think Donald Trump's natural tendency in all things is to resist any "deal" where he doesn't get to set the terms. ~ Christopher Michael Cillizza, #NFDB
527:I’ve learned to resist my inclination to meet an expectation unthinkingly, and to ask, “Why am I meeting this expectation, anyway? ~ Gretchen Rubin, #NFDB
528:Oh my. He's English.
"Er. Does Mer live here?"
Seriously, I dont know any American girl who can resist an English accent. ~ Stephanie Perkins,#NFDB
529:People tend to resist a change into something new and different.
But after it's succeded, they easily say that the change is a must. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
530:She slipped her arms around his back. The invitation in her eyes was too much to resist. Pulling her closer, he kissed her. Oh, ~ Melanie Dickerson, #NFDB
531:The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them. ~ Pema Chodron, #NFDB
532:When conscience falls silent and we do nothing to resist it, the consequence is the dehumanization of the world and a deadly danger. ~ Benedict XVI, #NFDB
533:When surprised and excited and innocent Gus emerged from Grand Gesture Metaphorically Inclined Augustus, I literally could not resist. ~ John Green, #NFDB
534:American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away. ~ Nora Ephron, #NFDB
535:If you resist it a whole month, offer God a sacrifice, because the vice begins to weaken from day one, until it is wiped out altogether. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
536:I guess I just haven't met many guys with so much holiday spirit. In fact," she chuckled, unable to resist, "you are a holiday spirit! ~ Dani Harper, #NFDB
537:I resist the urge to pump my fist. I’m not sure why, but I feel like I’ve just won some sort of competition worthy of headlines. ~ Michelle Leighton, #NFDB
538:I think one of the problems with the capitalist mainstream is this: no matter what you create to respond or resist it they will buy it. ~ Eve Ensler, #NFDB
539:It’s been my observation, after years in the business, that a certain percent of the population simply can’t resist the urge to cheat. ~ Sue Grafton, #NFDB
540:only knows that the important part is to decide to stay. Again and again. And, on the days you can’t, to resist deciding anything else. ~ Laura Dave, #NFDB
541:People may resist our advice, spurn our appeals, reject our suggestions, refuse our help, but they are powerless against our prayers. ~ Jill Briscoe, #NFDB
542:Self-pity is, perhaps, the least becoming of all emotions, and we often indulge in it only beause we are too exhausted to resist. ~ Ivy Baker Priest, #NFDB
543:We must assist the British in the war as if there were no White Paper and we must resist the White Paper as if there were no war. ~ David Ben Gurion, #NFDB
544:When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs of my brothers. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
545:I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to the task. ~ Charles W Chesnutt, #NFDB
546:I think people resist feminism because they're scared. I think for women, they're scared of being picked on or of being called out. ~ Jessica Valenti, #NFDB
547:luscious form now Donovan nearly couldn’t resist the urge to go to her and gather her into his arms. However, there was that expression ~ C L Bevill, #NFDB
548:Resistance brings no peace; we strengthen whatever we resist. By resisting something, we solidify it, empowering it to stay in our life. ~ Ezra Bayda, #NFDB
549:Resist the urge to fill in missing information when listening to a person’s story. Pay attention to exactly what is said and not said. ~ Pamela Meyer, #NFDB
550:Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel, #NFDB
551:Those flower-like boys are not sufficiently strong to resist and break the power of the Great Mother. They are more pets than lovers. ~ Erich Neumann, #NFDB
552:Cover your face. I´m going to break through the external wall
With what? she looked around and he couldn´t resist a smile
With me ~ Claudia Gray,#NFDB
553:Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins. ~ Thomas McGuane, #NFDB
554:His excitement was adorable. I couldn't resist. I leaned over and kissed him on the cheek. -Hazel Grace Lancaster, The Fault In Our Stars ~ John Green, #NFDB
555:If a man has no heart for either living or dying; if he has no will either to resist or to run away: what are we to do with him? ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
556:I only seem to attract losers, cute losers, but I've just never been able To resist that lethal combination of black hair and green eyes. ~ Jane Green, #NFDB
557:Once you’re sensitized to the negative effects of unhealthy choices, it gets easier to turn down what used to seem impossible to resist. ~ Mark Sisson, #NFDB
558:Reading is a discipline, and all disciplines require self-discipline, and self-discipline is the one thing our sinful flesh will resist. ~ Tony Reinke, #NFDB
559:The devil I am to resist and he will flee from me, but the lusts of the flesh, I must flee, or they will surely overcome me. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
560:...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so. ~ Steve Allen, #NFDB
561:Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys. ~ James M Barrie, #NFDB
562:I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life. ~ Stephen Daldry, #NFDB
563:In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history. ~ Anthony Doerr, #NFDB
564:It is probable that no speculative or theological hatred would be ultimately strong enough to resist the persuasive power of convenience: ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
565:Kissing a girl by the end of the first date is such a reliable predictor of upcoming sex that I don’t even bother calling girls who resist it. ~ Roosh V, #NFDB
566:Stay positive. When you resist change, you are trying too hard to control the outcome and not paying enough attention to the process. ~ James Van Praagh, #NFDB
567:We need to exercise self-control and resist storing our belongings until we have finished identifying what we really want and need to keep. ~ Marie Kond, #NFDB
568:Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power? ~ Woodrow Wilson, #NFDB
569:He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise. ~ Horace Mann, #NFDB
570:I discovered there was something else I had never considered-Plan C- don't turn to mush, don't leave, stay and resist. Tango's entire point. ~ Eve Babitz, #NFDB
571:I learned not to confuse 'busy' with 'productive,' but I'm still far too addicted to email to resist its early-morning digital snuggles. ~ Chris Hardwick, #NFDB
572:I write very tightly, and my big fear is boring people. I want them to read quickly, stopped in their tracks. I resist indulging myself. ~ Robert Cormier, #NFDB
573:Mindfulness can help us embrace, rather than resist, the inevitable ups and downs of life and equip us to handle our human predicament. ~ Ronald D Siegel, #NFDB
574:So are you going to be my knight in shining armor or what?'
Kent does a little bow. 'You know I can't resist a damsel in distress. ~ Lauren Oliver,#NFDB
575:I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it. ~ Jamaica Kincaid, #NFDB
576:I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer. ~ Aleksandar Hemon, #NFDB
577:It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
578:The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
579:Apple smiled. She could play the damsel-in-distress like a cow could jump over a moon. The male species couldn’t resist wanting to help her. ~ Shannon Hale, #NFDB
580:I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths. ~ Bram Stoker, #NFDB
581:I gritted my teeth for a second, fighting a smile. If there was one thing he couldn't resist, it was an opportunity to give me something. ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
582:It is far more important to resist apathy than anarchy or despotism, for apathy can give rise, almost indifferently, to either one. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville, #NFDB
583:Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism... Resist growing up! ~ B C Forbes, #NFDB
584:My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist future dismemberment. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
585:Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed. ~ Casey Miller, #NFDB
586:The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself. ~ Anais Nin, #NFDB
587:The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB
588:There are two kinds of strength. Power and the ability to wield it is obvious, but resilience, the ability to resist power, is the other. ~ Raymond E Feist, #NFDB
589:There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
590:You must resist the common urge toward the comforting narrative of divine law, toward fairy tales that imply some irrepressible justice. ~ Ta Nehisi Coates, #NFDB
591:As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
592:He believed, as I did, that we are helpless to resist or influence what our hearts are bound to do.” - Z - A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald ~ Therese Anne Fowler, #NFDB
593:I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs". ~ Keith Carter, #NFDB
594:I resist the urge to let my anxiety win
to let it take over what I love
to let it stop me from doing what I love
from loving myself. ~ Fida Islaih,#NFDB
595:Min hadn't just played the "friend" card — she'd dressed it up in all kinds of cool Batman imagery. Gunnar and I were powerless to resist. ~ Brent Hartinger, #NFDB
596:The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
597:There wasn't a woman alive who could resist a man who paid attention to her, who made her feel like she was the only other person in his world. ~ Sylvia Day, #NFDB
598:We must all take care to resist the tendency to focus too much attention on the role that criminals and prior offenders play in gun violence. ~ James Florio, #NFDB
599:Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything. ~ Bryant H McGill, #NFDB
600:But who can resist the seductions of elevators these days, those stepping stones to Heaven, which make relentless verticality so alluring? ~ Colson Whitehead, #NFDB
601:I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story. ~ Rob Bell, #NFDB
602:Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
603:The proctor buys a pupil ices
And hopes the boy will not resist,
When he attempts to practice vices
Few people even know exist. ~ Gavin de Becker,#NFDB
604:Though I’m tempted by the call of the sea, I resist.
It can’t claim me.
In a way I’m stronger than the waves and I feel good about that. ~ Darren Shan,#NFDB
605:To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself. ~ Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity, #NFDB
606:You challenged me from the very beginning and I tried to resist you, but I knew even then that I wasn't going to walk away without you by my side. ~ R S Grey, #NFDB
607:How is it more for the glory of God to save man irresistibly, than to save him as a free agent, by such grace as he may either concur or resist? ~ John Wesley, #NFDB
608:I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing solitaire upon it. ~ Margaret Drabble, #NFDB
609:In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
610:That is the way we are to resist Satan when he comes to tempt us into condemnation, depression or any other wrong thing he is trying to give us. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
611:The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist. ~ Simon Wiesenthal, #NFDB
612:We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians. ~ Ralph E Reed Jr, #NFDB
613:He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
614:I ached for red silk romance, and carry me away passion, and I ached for it with nobody else but him. He was a breed of charming I couldn’t resist. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
615:The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole. ~ Joyce Carol Oates, #NFDB
616:The lock doesn’t exist that could resist absolute violence, and all locks are an invitation to thieves. A lock is a psychological threshold. ~ Gaston Bachelard, #NFDB
617:Unlike other product developers, Jobs did not believe the customer was always right; if they wanted to resist using a mouse, they were wrong. ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
618:What you resist persists. And only what you look at, and own, can disappear. You make it disappear by simply changing your mind about it. ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
619:As for the sport, even there Kasparov couldn't resist a sideswipe. "Most of the gold in Sochi will go to Switzerland, but into secret bank accounts. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
620:For the choke, there are no "tough guys". With an arm lock he can be tough and resist the pain. With the choke he just passes out, goes to sleep. ~ Helio Gracie, #NFDB
621:How to resist nothingness? What power
Preserves what once was, if memory does not last?
For I remember little. I remember so very little. ~ Czes aw Mi osz,#NFDB
622:It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat. ~ Sue Grafton, #NFDB
623:The natural man cannot but resist the Lord's offering to help him; yet that resistance is infallibly overcome in the elect, by converting grace. ~ Thomas Boston, #NFDB
624:Who can resist this handsome mug?” He stroked his broad jaw and I tried my hardest not to nod along. “Complete with rapist facial hair,” I added. ~ Karina Halle, #NFDB
625:Earth cannot long resist the man whom Heaven has chosen;
Gods with him walk; his chariot is led; his arm is assisted. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Ilion,#NFDB
626:He made a sound close to a growl before speaking. “Why do you resist my assistance?”
She stopped walking and faced him. “Because I don't like you. ~ Lia Davis,#NFDB
627:If your homeland were invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air and contaminated the food supply, would you resist? ~ Derrick Jensen, #NFDB
628:Please do not become so hurt by life that when someone loving comes along, or something good happens, you resist allowing the love and joy in. ~ Karen Salmansohn, #NFDB
629:Once munching has begun, Schopenhauer held, the human will cannot resist further munching, and the result is a universe with crumbs over everything. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
630:That great, mighty current of evolution which is advancing the life of everything in creation is simply invincible - no one can resist it. ~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, #NFDB
631:that we must suffer, suffer into truth.
We cannot sleep, and drop by drop at the heart
the pain of pain remembered comes again
and we resist. ~ Aeschylus,#NFDB
632:What I failed to realize at the time is that when we try to resist feeling something painful, we often protract the very pain we’re trying to avoid. ~ Mark Wolynn, #NFDB
633:When we rise above our temptations and resist them, we exercise self-control. And that's when we experience true freedom and emotional health. ~ David J Lieberman, #NFDB
634:You’ll all just have to accept that Wyatt Hammer kisses me like it’s the only thing he wants to do in the whole world, and I couldn’t resist him. ~ Lauren Blakely, #NFDB
635:At one time you take pleasure in a sort of perverse self-denial, and at another you have not resolution to resist a thing that you know to be wrong. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
636:If you think of the hardest thing for you to do and how much you resist it, then you’re looking at your greatest lesson at the moment. Surrendering, ~ Louise L Hay, #NFDB
637:It's a curious thing, but people cannot resist anonymous letters. It's like free sample offers. They appeal to all one's lower instincts. ~ Dorothy L Sayers, #NFDB
638:Once every seven days, do something that frightens you. Every time we do something that we resist and is frightening, we actually grow in our power. ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
639:Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil. ~ Edward Dahlberg, #NFDB
640:We cannot resist the conviction that this world is for us only the porch of another and more magnificent temple of the Creator's majesty. ~ Frederick William Faber, #NFDB
641:Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action. But the one who knows how to control the tongue is prepared to resist the attacks of lust ~ Pope Clement I, #NFDB
642:He's the path lined with wildflowers, And I'm Red Riding Hood. I've been warned, but I just can't resist the blossom and perfume that calls me over. ~ Liz Reinhardt, #NFDB
643:None will be able to resist truth and love and sincerity. Are you sincere? Unselfish even unto death, and loving? Then fear not, not even death. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
644:Sometimes in life, as in literature, people get their just desserts. The greedy man loses everything because he cannot resist seeking more riches. ~ Elise Blackwell, #NFDB
645:The mystery is this: there is one right thing and only one right thing to do at every moment. We can either follow or resist the slender threads. ~ Robert A Johnson, #NFDB
646:To resist a challenge is to resist life itself -Mogwat Of all challenges the greatest is to be yourself. Truth is often painful to speak but soothing to live. ~ Avi, #NFDB
647:What boy could resist you?"
"Will's hardly a boy."
"Don't give me that. He's a boy playing a game," Norris said. "The oldest game there is. ~ Caragh M O Brien,#NFDB
648:What constitutes virtue, Mrs Graham? Is it the circumstance of being able and willing to resist temptation; or that of having no temptations to resist? ~ Anne Bront, #NFDB
649:Educators must resist the quest for certainty. If there were certainty there would be no scientific advancement. So it is with morals and patriotism. ~ John Goodlad, #NFDB
650:[I]f subjects must never resist, it follows that every prince, without any effort, policy, or violence, is at once rendered absolute and uncontrollable; ~ David Hume, #NFDB
651:If we resist the temptation to allow other people to define who we are, then we will gradually be able to let the sun inside our own soul shine forth. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
652:Man may help or man may resist, but the Zeitgeist works, shapes, overbears, insists. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays in Philosophy and Yoga, The Greatness of the Individual, #NFDB
653:She made one instinctive effort to resist and then yielded, slipping down on to the floor. Not a single word was exchanged. The act was silent and brutal ~ mile Zola, #NFDB
654:Since self-control is a muscle that tires easily, it is much better to avoid temptation in the first place rather than try to resist it once it arises. ~ David Brooks, #NFDB
655:Try as we do to resist what we're given, this is the only doorway to truth. We waste too much time and energy denying or fighting where we find ourselves. ~ Mark Nepo, #NFDB
656:Vertigo is not actually the fear of heights. Vertigo is the fear that when you are standing on the edge, you won’t be able to resist the urge to step off. ~ T M Logan, #NFDB
657:We are able to cross and dissolve all kinds of borders if we are willing to go to the political, emotional, and spiritual places we most fear and resist. ~ Eve Ensler, #NFDB
658:Because if there was one thing Cress knew about heroes, it was that they could not resist a damsel in distress. And she was nothing if not in distress. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
659:Eventually I learned to reject this advice. Somehow, I figured out that it was easier for me to resist certain temptations by never giving in to them. ~ Gretchen Rubin, #NFDB
660:Research does reveal a genetic disposition to substance abuse, but those who believe their addiction is a disease show less of an inclination to resist it. ~ J D Vance, #NFDB
661:America has made it very clear in several administrations that if there is an attack by China on Taiwan, the United States is very likely to resist. ~ Henry A Kissinger, #NFDB
662:Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. ~ Salma Hayek, #NFDB
663:I know that you are young. I know that you have no power with which to resist the Controllers. But I may be able to give you some small powers that may help ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
664:It should be remembered that men of courage, integrity, and principle can stand up to Big Brother and resist the headlong march into economic tyranny. ~ Richard Ebeling, #NFDB
665:Nope. Resist the temptation, Letty. Fuck him like a Roman nympho whore with a flaming crotch, let him put it out with a cum spritzer, then run like hell. ~ Kendall Grey, #NFDB
666:Resist telling people how something should be done. Instead, tell them what needs to be done. They will often surprise you with creative solutions. ~ H Jackson Brown Jr, #NFDB
667:We cannot resist the lure of that mortal brilliance. It is its own kind of glamour, that dazzles the senses. And once we have found it, we cannot turn away. ~ Emma Bull, #NFDB
668:We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government. ~ Vince Vaughn, #NFDB
669:I don’t understand what it is about you. Right now, I’m hard as a rock just sitting near you. Something in you calls to me, and I’m powerless to resist it. ~ Helen Hardt, #NFDB
670:I meant you're very, very persuasive and I doubt I'd resist for long if you set your mind to convincing me."
"Say no sometime. Let me persuade you. ~ Anne Calhoun,#NFDB
671:Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want. ~ Rob Bell, #NFDB
672:My attitude as an actor, because I'm a stage actor, is whatever the director tells you to do, you try it. You don't resist what a director is giving you. ~ Anthony Heald, #NFDB
673:poverty eventually made criminals of everyone, even those who swore to resist—it was the only way to transcend the free fall of their marginalized lives. ~ Sonia Faleiro, #NFDB
674:that we must resist the urge of succumbing to bad memories. refuse to bow before bad months or bad years. cause our eyes are starving to feast on this world. ~ Rupi Kaur, #NFDB
675:The act of resisting something is the act of granting it life... the more you resist, the more you make it real - whatever it is you are resisting. ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
676:We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts. ~ John Calvin, #NFDB
677:Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by. ~ Mahmoud Darwish, #NFDB
678:Almost any dog thinks almost any human is the Great Spirit, the Primal Creator, and the Universal Force Behind the Sun and Tides. What human can resist? ~ Barbara Holland, #NFDB
679:Because if there was one thing Cress knew about heroes, it was that they could not resist a damsel in distress.
And she was nothing if not in distress. ~ Marissa Meyer,#NFDB
680:We have to be a state where business is welcome and jobs are created. We have to demand value for what is spent and we need to continue to resist a lottery. ~ Jesse Helms, #NFDB
681:God opposes the proud, but d gives grace to the humble.” 7Submit yourselves therefore to God. f Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 g Draw near to ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
682:He didn’t care. She was a sexual hand grenade with the pin pulled out, but he could never manage to resist her. Whatever this said about him didn’t matter. ~ Daniel Suarez, #NFDB
683:I learned a long time ago that place matters to me, on many levels, and maybe more than it should, but it is generally counter-productive for me to resist it. ~ Val Kilmer, #NFDB
684:On an emotional level many people resist the idea that random influences are important even if, on an intellectual level, they understand that they are. ~ Leonard Mlodinow, #NFDB
685:Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
686:The Force tries to resist the callings of ravenous spirits; therefore it must be broken and made a beast of burden. It must be made to answer to one’s will. ~ James Luceno, #NFDB
687:The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit. ~ Benazir Bhutto, #NFDB
688:The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, #NFDB
689:I'm afraid that's inappropriate behavior for the schoolyard," Xavier teased. "I know my charm is hard to resist, but please tray and control yourself. ~ Alexandra Adornetto, #NFDB
690:To be a lighthouse, you must be strong enough to resist every kind of storm, to every kind of loneliness and you must have a powerful light inside you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
691:Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
692:Gently resist the temptation to chase your dreams into the world; pursue them in your heart until they disappear into the Self, and leave them there. ~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, #NFDB
693:I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist? ~ Christian Louboutin, #NFDB
694:If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft's immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality. ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin, #NFDB
695:Journalists have to do their job. And journalists have to resist emotionalism. You have to keep your cool and to continue to do your job until you're prevented. ~ David Frum, #NFDB
696:Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization ~ Thomas Huxley, #NFDB
697:When a country is invaded and attacked and people resist it's important to speak up and to say they have the right to resist and to defend their right to resist. ~ Tariq Ali, #NFDB
698:Gentlemen are rare. They're like virgins or leprechauns. If I ever get married, I'm going to marry one."
I can't resist saying, "A virgin or a leprechaun? ~ Jennifer Niven,#NFDB
699:I suppose she's right. It's like a metaphor for life: No one wants an ornery old goat, but we can't resist opening the door ayway. We can't keep from hoping. ~ Lauren Myracle, #NFDB
700:When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said. ~ Jacques Maritain, #NFDB
701:Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
702:God is attracted to weakness. He can’t resist those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they need him. Our weakness, in fact, makes room for his power. ~ Jim Cymbala, #NFDB
703:He let out a long sorry sigh and I love that look on his face, that disappointment. I understand now why girls resist,just for that sweet look of regret.... ~ Kathryn Stockett, #NFDB
704:The ice inside me melts. Suddenly, I'm burning up and terrified, scared I'll be too weak to resist.
Scratch that - I'm petrified I've already given in. ~ Amanda Bouchet,#NFDB
705:You wanna go see my old bedroom?”
“Is that a pickup line?”
“Come on inside and you’ll find out.”
How was a girl supposed to resist an offer like that? ~ Jamie Farrell,#NFDB
706:I realize that I am powerless to resist him. There's nothing I can do; this man has a GPS navigation system that takes him straight to the center of my heart. ~ Carole Matthews, #NFDB
707:It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads. ~ Theodor Adorno, #NFDB
708:Meditation gives you the wherewithal to pause, observe how easily the mind can exaggerate the severity of a setback, and resist getting drawn into the abyss. ~ Richard Davidson, #NFDB
709:Soon the earth will tilt on its axis and begin to dance to the reggae beat to the accompaniment of earthquake. And who can resist the dance of the earthquake, mon? ~ Peter Tosh, #NFDB
710:When you cling to old ways and sameness, you resist My work within you. I want you to embrace all that I am doing in your life, finding your security in Me alone. ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
711:When you don’t react, a sense of ease arises. Resistance goes away. When you resist something, you have to exert double the force, it is exhausting and demoralizing. ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
712:Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist. ~ Bashar al Assad, #NFDB
713:Mark it down: God loves you with an unearthly love. You can’t win it by being winsome. You can’t lose it by being a loser. But you can be blind enough to resist it. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
714:Mark it down: God loves you with an unearthly love. You can't win it by being winsome. You can't lose it by being a loser. But you can be blind enough to resist it ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
715:Men have only two emotions: hungry and horny. If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich.A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist. ~ Adi Da, #NFDB
716:As long as part of your sense of self is invested in your emotional pain, you will unconsciously resist or sabotage every attempt that you make to heal that pain. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
717:It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads. ~ Theodor W Adorno, #NFDB
718:Prominent opponents of the war, among them Dr. Spock and the Reverend William Sloane Coffin, openly counseled young men to resist the draft and were indicted. ~ James T Patterson, #NFDB
719:This was contrary to the military intelligence, which clearly indicated that the Chinese would resist by force any attempts to take back territory held by them. ~ Rajmohan Gandhi, #NFDB
720:Yes. You’re a good listener. That’s dangerous, because it’s so hard to resist. Being listened to—really listened to—is the second-best thing in the world. ~ Gregory David Roberts, #NFDB
721:As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
722:Increasing power of a growing administrative organization is accompanied by decreasing power of the rest of the society to resist its further growth and control. ~ Herbert Spencer, #NFDB
723:I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us? ~ Philippa Gregory, #NFDB
724:It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core. ~ Thomas Moore, #NFDB
725:Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. ~ Jean Baudrillard, #NFDB
726:No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does not resist learning. ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
727:America will never resist abortion until America sees abortion... The pro-life movement is not primarily a response to Roe vs Wade. It is a response to Jesus Christ. ~ Frank Pavone, #NFDB
728:An elementary requirement for the intelligent investor is an ability to resist the blandishments of salesmen offering new common-stock issues during bull markets. ~ Benjamin Graham, #NFDB
729:Do not resist and do not panic or the animal mind may gain the ascendancy and you could do something foolish, such as try to escape through a window or charge a wall. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
730:Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can. ~ Philip Zimbardo, #NFDB
731:Stephen A.Douglas was a risk-taker by temperament; I expect that Lincoln - Douglas debates represented another risk he just couldn't resist. He lived to regret it. ~ Allen C Guelzo, #NFDB
732:They [parents] can resist the impulse to "prove" their love by showering children with things they do not need and give them precisous time and attention instead. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
733:God’s grace is resistible in the sense that we can and do resist it. It is irresistible in the sense that it achieves its purpose. It brings about God’s desired effect. ~ R C Sproul, #NFDB
734:I always had to resist the urge to go to him like a wife, as if we’d already been a couple for a hundred thousand lifetimes. Caveman and cavewoman. King and queen. Nuns. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
735:I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
736:Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to be well, we should not be sick. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
737:When I step into the kitchen in the morning, I go for the scrambled eggs with pine nuts and minced lamb. When I finish at night, it is hard to resist the burger. ~ Geoffrey Zakarian, #NFDB
738:And you can use that sword, Weland Godfredson?”
“As a woman can use her tongue, lord.”
“You’re that good, eh?” Ragnar asked, as ever unable to resist a jest. ~ Bernard Cornwell,#NFDB
739:Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can. ~ Philip G Zimbardo, #NFDB
740:Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity. ~ Marquis de Sade, #NFDB
741:Insofar as the idea of the limitlessness of human freedom is central to the arts of our time, this is also where the Anthropocene will most intransigently resist them. ~ Amitav Ghosh, #NFDB
742:Never let the emotions of the past tie you down for your future to slaughter. Resist every opportunity to become angry and you will live a healthier happier life! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
743:Sophokles is a playwright fascinated in general by people who say no, people who resist compromise, people who make stumbling blocks of themselves, like Antigone or Ajax. ~ Aeschylus, #NFDB
744:We must resist impulses to attack people, their credibility or their nature, and focus only on sharing our own positive creations, contributions, ideas and solutions. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
745:…we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense. ~ Michael Faraday, #NFDB
746:Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them. ~ Wilkie Collins, #NFDB
747:You are already in your experience. So you can either resent and resist it, and make it that much less enjoyable, or you can accept it and find something positive in it. ~ Kevin Hart, #NFDB
748:I can resist you or flee from you or try my hardest not to respond to you, but it makes no difference. You fall in love with me, and I with you". Daniel to Luce Page 352 ~ Lauren Kate, #NFDB
749:Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
750:So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones. ~ Fredric Jameson, #NFDB
751:The individuals are tragically like marionettes, independently animate but bound by a web they choose not to see; they could resist if they wished, but so few of them do. ~ Ted Chiang, #NFDB
752:There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked. ~ Baron de Montesquieu, #NFDB
753:There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object. ~ Charlotte Dacre, #NFDB
754:When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist. ~ Akhenaton, #NFDB
755:And to think, I’ve told the flight attendants time and time again to stop all the naughty play on my jet, but they must have been unable to resist you,” he said dryly. ~ Lauren Blakely, #NFDB
756:Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen. ~ John le Carre, #NFDB
757:Be vigilant! Be vigilant! If an evil is minor, resist it nonetheless. If a good deed is trifling, perform it all the same. Only wisdom and virtue can truly win men's devotion. ~ Liu Bei, #NFDB
758:Good breathers are not apt to "take cold," and they generally have plenty of good warm blood which enables them to resist the changes in the outer temperature. ~ William Walker Atkinson, #NFDB
759:Scarlatti [Kirkpatrick] started writing sonatas when he was 66 and the idea that he ran off 500 or so after he was 66 was just too much for me to resist. It's just great. ~ Frank Stella, #NFDB
760:The only way forward is in the direction of a common passion, for nothing in the universe can ultimately resist the cumulative ardor of the collective soul. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #NFDB
761:But it was too interesting, too new, too flattering, too deeply comforting to resist, it was a liberation to be in love and say so, and she could only let herself go deeper. ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB
762:But it was too interesting, too new, too flattering, too deeply comforting to resist, it was a liberation to be in love and say so, and she could only let herself go deeper. ~ Ian Mcewan, #NFDB
763:Chloe came out with two coffees. She set them both on the table and started to walk away. I curled my arm around her waist and brought her down on my lap. She didn’t resist. ~ Jay McLean, #NFDB
764:I always knew there was power in the earth, but it must be much stronger than I imagined to resist such a relentless foe, day after day, night after night, year after year. ~ Darren Shan, #NFDB
765:On résiste à l'invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l'invasion des idées.
(One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.) ~ Victor Hugo,#NFDB
766:The individuals are tragically like marionettes, independently animate but bound by a web they choose not to see; they could resist if they wished, but so few of them do. At ~ Ted Chiang, #NFDB
767:The most important thing people can do is refuse to have any resistance to staying connected to their source. People resist being able to attract abundance into their lives. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
768:Yes, Jay. I’m there, in your every pore. Taste me. Feel me. Smell me. Let yourself be taken, because you won’t be able to resist once you realize you are mine completely. ~ Clarissa Wild, #NFDB
769:I find so many people struggling today, often working harder, simply because they cling to old ideas. They want things to be the way they were, and they resist change. ~ Robert T Kiyosaki, #NFDB
770:Knowing Gary, he probably caught
sight of one of those thick, furry sausage things they have on the end of the ropes one day
and just couldn’t resist giving it a tug. ~ J L Merrow,#NFDB
771:Many women, I think, resist feminism because it is an agony to be fully conscious of the brutal misogyny which permeates culture, society, and all personal relationships. ~ Andrea Dworkin, #NFDB
772:They [parents] can resist the impulse to "prove" their love by showering children with things they do not need and give them precisous time and attention instead. ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton, #NFDB
773:A lot of people felt defeated and hopeless by Trump's election. But I feel his election should energize people to resist apathy, ignorance, sexism, xenophobia, and racism. ~ Shepard Fairey, #NFDB
774:his mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB
775:his mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez, #NFDB
776:the Son’s, love is greater than the sum of the world’s sin and how the Father cannot resist this love and lets love reign at the judgment in place of ordinary justice. ~ Adrienne von Speyr, #NFDB
777:This is the way it was with Lockwood, his shifts were sometimes so sudden that they took your breath away. But his energy and enthusiasm were always impossible to resist. ~ Jonathan Stroud, #NFDB
778:If you are going to resist the desires of the flesh (negative), you will need to live in the power of the Holy Spirit and walk according to his disciplines (positive). ~ Sinclair B Ferguson, #NFDB
779:I resist thinking of myself as a teacher. I think of myself as a writer who has pulled a fast one and hoodwinked this institution into giving me a job and health insurance. ~ Vijay Seshadri, #NFDB
780:People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their evil drives. ~ Erik von Kuehnelt Leddihn, #NFDB
781:The more you run away from the devil, the more you will realize that it is closer to you than before. Don't run away from it; RESIST the devil and it will FLEE from you! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
782:To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about going one's own way, than ever before. ~ Robert Graves, #NFDB
783:You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
784:And then I waited, which is easy, in concept. In practice, it's difficult to resist the impulse to fill silence, to let the person you love off the hook, to let them be. ~ Elizabeth J Church, #NFDB
785:Bureaucracy is always a government of experts, of an “experienced minority” which has to resist as well as it knows how the constant pressure from “the inexperienced majority ~ Hannah Arendt, #NFDB
786:But if all else fails, I can always write her a sonnet.” “A sonnet?” said Hugh. “No woman can resist having her name rhymed with a flower in iambic pentameter,” said Daniel. ~ Helen Simonson, #NFDB
787:Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
788:She was the best friend he’d ever had, and he’d tried to resist messing it up, tried not to feel anything else for her, but it was inevitable. He was meant to love Gemma Carlson. ~ Codi Gary, #NFDB
789:Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of the state, unable to resist. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
790:You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand walls, but I will find a way to resist. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
791:Even like as St. Paul was converted, just so are all others converted; for we all resist God, but the Holy Ghost draws the will of mankind, when he pleases, through preaching. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
792:Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
793:Sometimes, all you need is permission to feel. Sometimes, what causes the most pain is actually the attempt to resist feeling, or the shame that grows up like thorns around it. ~ Olivia Laing, #NFDB
794:The doctrine of salvation is unpopular because it includes the recognition of sin. Nobody likes to admit sin. And many people resist the idea that they need to be saved. ~ John F MacArthur Jr, #NFDB
795:You can see why the Marxist left would resist the idea that Hitler was a revolutionary. Because if he was, then either Hitler was a force for good, or revolutions can be bad. ~ Jonah Goldberg, #NFDB
796:I did not seek love with Thomas, but I did not resist it. And now I am trapped in desire like a butterfly with its feet in honey, and the more I struggle, the deeper I sink. ~ Philippa Gregory, #NFDB
797:Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
798:Forgiveness is healing—everything is energy—thoughts create—we are all connected—what you resist persists—true love never dies—the soul’s immortality is the only true immortality— ~ Alyson Noel, #NFDB
799:Gatlin was full of God-fearing Baptists, Methodists, and Pentecostals, but they couldn’t resist the lure of the cards, the possibility of changing the course of their own destiny. ~ Kami Garcia, #NFDB
800:I take the lighter and resist the urge to hug him. Tristan says I can be a little too touchy-feely. Actually, his term is touchy-fucky but I modify it to make myself feel better. ~ Leisa Rayven, #NFDB
801:So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
802:The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water... The drive for competence or to resist compulsion is a drive to avoid helplessness. ~ Martin Seligman, #NFDB
803:guard glowered at me in silence, of course. It was an act. No one could resist my bluff and manly charisma. In his heart of hearts, he wanted to be friends with me. I just knew it. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
804:I know you think I’m a half-wit on most days, but—”
“Only most?” Lucien couldn’t resist the verbal jab.
Charles grinned.
-Charles & Lucien. His Wicked Seduction ~ Lauren Smith,#NFDB
805:Leo waited while the fish centaur put away his supplies. Aphros's lobster-claw horns kept swimming around in his thick hair, and Leo had to resist the urge to try and rescue them. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
806:Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
807:My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it as slow a process as possible. That's more my sense of it. ~ Mark McMorris, #NFDB
808:No one suffers long, save by his own fault. If a man has no heart for either living or dying; if he has no will either to resist or to run away: what are we to do with him? ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
809:The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that there is almost nothing to resist at all. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
810:With a sigh of resignation, I dial Ryder’s number.
Exactly seven minutes later, he knocks on the door. Ryder to the rescue. I resist the urge to look around for his white horse. ~ Kristi Cook,#NFDB
811:At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other. ~ William Adams, #NFDB
812:Majority of excuses are deliberate attempts to keep success far away! Never be impressed by calling attentions that tell you to give up! Insist, Resist and Persist to the end! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
813:Perhaps death represents the severing of the living organism's connection with the orderly quantum realm, leaving it powerless to resist the randomizing forces of thermodynamics. ~ Jim Al Khalili, #NFDB
814:Readers must be given room to bring their own emotions to a piece so crammed with emotional content; the writer must tenaciously resist explaining why the material is so moving. ~ William Zinsser, #NFDB
815:Rose looks at me anxiously, waiting for me to smile back. I do, but I wish she'd stop handing me a knife to cut her with. It's only a matter of time before I'm not able to resist. ~ Katya Apekina, #NFDB
816:There’s something about you, that calls to me on some deep level I don’t understand. It’s a siren’s call. I can’t resist you, and I don’t want to lose you.
~ E L JamesChristian ~ E L James,#NFDB
817:His dark hair was thick and looked so soft I had to resist the urge to touch it. Looking into his dark eyes was like falling into the stars, making me feel weightless and disoriented. ~ Gwen Hayes, #NFDB
818:I was stirred by the dark mystery of mortality. I couldn’t resist stealing up to the edge of doom and peering over the brink (…) That was a very different thing from wanting to die. ~ Jon Krakauer, #NFDB
819:Kate& Derek
“No, Kate, you don’t understand. He vanished. He was there one moment and then he was gone.”
I couldn’t resist. “Like a ninja. In a puff of smoke. ~ Ilona Andrews,#NFDB
820:Philip wooed me with all the patience of someone trying to coax a half-wild animal into the house and, like many a stray, I found myself domesticated before I thought to resist. ~ Kelley Armstrong, #NFDB
821:Providence has delivered me of every worldly passion, save this one; the desire to acquire books, new or old books of any kind, whose charms I cannot persuade myself to resist. ~ John Henry Newman, #NFDB
822:To cultivate love, or whole-soul-fulness, we must resist the temptation to be upwardly mobile, to be always on the move, to pull up our roots and fly to the mythic kingdom of Elsewhere. ~ Sam Keen, #NFDB
823:He is a great big boy," Wilson said. "There is a sweetness about him that is very compelling. You can't resist the man. I can easily understand why his followers are so fond of him. ~ Edmund Morris, #NFDB
824:He lifts me in his arms, cradling me while I wrap my arms around his neck. My cheek brushes against his as he picks me up. Warmth flows from the touch and I resist the impulse to nuzzle. ~ Susan Ee, #NFDB
825:Kissing Jack was dangerous, like drowning in something that tasted good. He was like the artery-clogging chocolate cake she couldn’t resist, heaven in her mouth but hell on her heart. ~ Amanda Usen, #NFDB
826:Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they will. ~ Nesly Clerge, #NFDB
827:Resist the temptation to ascribe motive, because you really don't know - and it gets in the way of being able to reach a consensus on things that matter to you and to many other people. ~ Joe Biden, #NFDB
828:We need to support new organizing strategies for employees who too often have never had the benefit of collective bargaining, and we have to resist the assault on workers' rights. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
829:It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
830:My songs get to a stage where they resist any further change, you know? And that's kind of where they are, short of re-recording or starting again. That's kind of where it's gonna be. ~ Jason Pierce, #NFDB
831:Over the centuries, African nations rose and fell, like nations elsewhere around the world, the strong conquering the weak and either subjugating or enslaving those unable to resist. ~ Thomas Sowell, #NFDB
832:Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. —JAMES 1:4 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
833:Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset. ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton 1st Baron Lytton, #NFDB
834:Step beyond right and wrong, and resist passing judgment. Who you've been and what you've experienced in the past isn't good . . . and it isn't bad. You might not know the whole story. ~ Denise Linn, #NFDB
835:Step beyond right and wrong, and resist passing judgment. Who you’ve been and what you’ve experienced in the past isn’t good . . . and it isn’t bad. You might not know the whole story. ~ Denise Linn, #NFDB
836:It is wrong to keep spelling out unnecessary choices that make women unconsciously resist either commitment or motherhood--and that hold back recognition of the needed social changes. ~ Betty Friedan, #NFDB
837:I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable...eve rything that might make us closed in on ourselves. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
838:Many people do not take ownership for how they resist love. They have a lot of love around them but do not realize that their loneliness is a result of their own lack of responsiveness. ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB
839:People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort. ~ Thomas Hardy, #NFDB
840:Being attractive matters everywhere—getting jobs, getting laid, and yes, getting acquitted by a jury of your peers. No one can resist a pretty face. As long as it’s not too pretty. Back ~ Marcia Clark, #NFDB
841:Integration is a basic law of life; when we resist it, disintegration is the natural result, both inside and outside of us. Thus we come to the concept of harmony through integration. ~ Norman Cousins, #NFDB
842:Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator, obliges everyone to resist the first approaches of tyranny. ~ Elbridge Gerry, #NFDB
843:This is why tidying must start with discarding. We need to exercise self-control and resist storing our belongings until we have finished identifying what we really want and need to keep. ~ Marie Kond, #NFDB
844:At some point in your career, someone is going to tell you, "This stove is hot. Do not touch this stove." And the weird thing is, you'll want to touch it. But resist that urge, man. ~ Leonardo DiCaprio, #NFDB
845:Break every boundary with your inner passion and you will get there successfully. Resist every chance to give up... Believe you can... Rise up after every fall... Be willing to win! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
846:Every adviser told me to study the company, learn the business for the first 90 days and don't make any decisions. I couldn't resist seeing broken things and immediately taking action. ~ Marcelo Claure, #NFDB
847:Good self-esteem comes from positive self-imaging. Positive self-image make you to resist wrong definitions others give about you, guiding you to live life with enthusiasm and will! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
848:If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too much whipped cream and French pastry to keep your figure in shape, ~ Edith Head, #NFDB
849:The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is through the gradual erosion of what we do by the subtraction of what happens. ~ Thomas Nagel, #NFDB
850:The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government. ~ Daniel Webster, #NFDB
851:Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?
People have the right to resist annihilation ~ Arundhati Roy,#NFDB
852:Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency, rarely resisted, towards utopianism. ~ John Derbyshire, #NFDB
853:Providence has delivered me of every worldly passion, save this one; the desire to acquire books, new or old books of any kind, whose charms I cannot persuade myself to resist. ~ Saint John Henry Newman, #NFDB
854:Should your naughty new neighbors resist your suggestions, invite them over to see your new media room. The fact that it doubles as a torture chamber should encourage them to toe the line! ~ Josie Brown, #NFDB
855:Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever. ~ Brennan Manning, #NFDB
856:There are those who say that to know God you must overcome all earthly passions. Yet to understand and accept them is enough. What you resist persists. What you look at disappears. ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
857:We have to recover personal authority because the din and demand of the world is too huge to ignore, too intrusive to resist, even if we think we have rebelled and held to our own course. ~ James Hollis, #NFDB
858:When a people lose the courage to resist encroachment on their rights, then they can’t be saved by an outside force. Our belief is that people always have the kind of government they want ~ A E van Vogt, #NFDB
859:When you are faced with deficiencies instead of strengths and inclinations, this is the strategy you must assume: ignore your weaknesses and resist the temptation to be more like others. ~ Robert Greene, #NFDB
860:Why should I ever resist any delay or disapointment, any affliction or oppression or humiliation - when I know God will use it in my life to make me like Jesus and to prepare me for heaven? ~ Kay Arthur, #NFDB
861:All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
862:It is the villains who covet treasure, not the heroes. Unless the treasure in question is a really snazzy belt buckle, in which case, who can resist? —THE HERO’S GUIDE TO BEING A HERO ~ Christopher Healy, #NFDB
863:It seems as if the more youthful and impressible streams can hardly resist the numerous invitations and temptations to leave theirnative beds and run down their neighbors' channels. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
864:We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils. ~ Thomas Carlyle, #NFDB
865:You’re a good man, Connor.”
Need built in his chest, and he pulled her in close, unable to resist. “Yeah? How good?”
She let him kiss her thoroughly before murmuring, “So good. ~ Kimberly Kincaid,#NFDB
866:Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we dig in our heels, we just can't resist the gravity of alternate worlds. ~ Jonathan Gottschall, #NFDB
867:Trust allows you to follow your feelings through your defenses to their sources, and to bring to the light of consciousness those aspects of yourself that resist wholeness, that live in fear. ~ Gary Zukav, #NFDB
868:What are you doing eight
states away from home, Mr. Noel Springs? What’s your story?”
“Short version?”
I couldn’t resist flirting, just a little. “Long. Short. Whatever ya
got. ~ K C Kendricks,#NFDB
869:Consciousness is a prize we must fight to gain, for the most part fighting against ourselves since we have an unfathomable predilection to resist it. ~ Bud Harris, Knowing the Questions, Living the Answers, #NFDB
870:I don’t know if you realize exactly how beautiful you are. Your heart, mind, and soul are every bit as beautiful as your gorgeous exterior, and I’ve spent years trying to resist temptation. ~ Siobhan Davis, #NFDB
871:I grab her hand and pull her toward me. She doesn't resist, and I don't stop pulling until the full lengths of our bodies are touching. I don't stop pulling until she's in my breathing space. ~ Nicola Yoon, #NFDB
872:The connected economy of ideas demands that we contribute initiative. And yet we resist, because our lizard brain, the one that lives in fear, relentlessly exaggerates the cost of being wrong. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
873:Uh, you're going to take off your clothes?" she asked.
He gave her a grin. "Well, I normally don't sleep in my full regalia."
"What do you sleep in?"
He couldn't resist. "Nothing. ~ Jenna Petersen,#NFDB
874:And most women know this, that we are supposed to disappear, but it’s something that needs to be said, loudly, over and over again, so that we can resist surrendering to what is expected of us. ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB
875:As Sophia held her gaze, it was clear that the magnetism of the Sydney family was not limited to the males. She radiated a mixture of warmth and self-confidence that was impossible to resist. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
876:For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
877:I'd been at the mercy of a prick on a power trip, the kind of buttoned-up bantam rooster who gets off on control and then, when you resist him, tells you that you've got issues with control. ~ Norah Vincent, #NFDB
878:I'm the fussiest eater on earth; my husband despairs. I like chicken and pasta, and can't resist milk chocolate. I figure if you're going to do something naughty, make it really enjoyable. ~ Bonnie Langford, #NFDB
879:It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away. ~ Klaus Kinski, #NFDB
880:Reading aloud is different from just following sentences with your eyes. Something quite unexpected wells up in your mind, a kind of indefinable resonance that I find impossible to resist. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
881:Yet never resist anything. If you think that by your resistance you will eliminate it, think again. You only plant it more firmly in place. Have I not told you all thought is creative? ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
882:Because elites dominating extractive institutions fear creative destruction, they will resist it, and any growth that germinates under extractive institutions will be ultimately short lived. ~ Daron Acemo lu, #NFDB
883:Beyond the walls are cruelty and deceit, lies and pain, ageing and death. As long as we are strong we can resist these things, but if we let our guard down, all manner of pestilence will enter. ~ Casey Hill, #NFDB
884:Each time one has to go against one's natural tendency, to resist the way one instinctively wants to be and to act, the resulting tension potentially generates an increase in consciousness. ~ Keiron le Grice, #NFDB
885:Gods, woman," William said. "Your voice is like death. Can you shut it until I leave the room? Please. Seriously, you're like the one woman in the world I want to resist." -Page 271 ~ Gena Showalter, #NFDB
886:Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar tradition at a nunnery in the Philippines. It's the sort of quest I can't resist. ~ Tahir Shah, #NFDB
887:Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive. ~ Audre Lorde, #NFDB
888:Cosimo stretched out his arms. 'I came up here before you, my lords, and here I will stay afterwards too!'
-'You want to withdraw!' cried El Conde.
-'No, to resist,' replied the Baron. ~ Italo Calvino,#NFDB
889:He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
890:I have to ask you to resist, not to comply, to destroy the power men have over women, to refuse to accept it, to abhor it and to do whatever is necessary despite its cost to you to change it. ~ Andrea Dworkin, #NFDB
891:It's intrusive for grandparents to think they're in charge. It's manipulative. Also, it's self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you, you won't get your mitts on the kid as often. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
892:Life offers infinite possible roads. Sometimes your head chooses the route, sometimes your heart. And sometimes, for better or worse, neither head nor heart can resist the stubborn pull of fate. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
893:Much to his annoyance, a thought popped into his mind. It was very clear and very distinct, and he had now come to recognize these thoughts for what they were. His instinct was to resist them. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
894:One phrase stuck in Fainy’s mind, and he repeated it to himself after he had gone to bed that night: It is time for all honest men to band together to resist the ravages of greedy privilege. ~ John Dos Passos, #NFDB
895:When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree not to resist evil is to become an accomplice of all injustice. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll, #NFDB
896:Yet the illusion of meaning recurred, much as you tried to resist it: like childhood, I said, which we treat as an explanatory text rather than merely as a formative experience of powerlessness. ~ Rachel Cusk, #NFDB
897:It's funny what they say about men in uniform - how people think women just can't resist 'em. Fact is, I think we're just pleased to see a man groomed, bathed, and wearing clothes that fit him. ~ Cherie Priest, #NFDB
898:There is strong mentoring of women in the academy. Corporations appear more willing to resist affirmative action to advance women, and boards and shareholders are more tolerant of this approach. ~ Ruth Simmons, #NFDB
899:Advance towards socialism cannot but cause the exploiting elements to resist the advance, and the resistance of the exploiters cannot but lead to the inevitable sharpening of the class struggle. ~ Joseph Stalin, #NFDB
900:I discovered an astonishing truth: God is attracted to weakness. He can’t resist those who humbly and honestly admit how desperately they need him. Our weakness, in fact, makes room for his power. ~ Jim Cymbala, #NFDB
901:There was a whole display set up of all the X-Men paraphernalia. My wife couldn't resist telling this 5-year-old boy that I was Wolverine. The little kid looked up at me and he was staring at me. ~ Hugh Jackman, #NFDB
902:Why can't we resist the urge to second-guess and evaluate each other?...Sometimes I wonder if the final judgment will be a breeze compared with what we've put each other through here on earth. p 225 ~ Sheri Dew, #NFDB
903:You must not fall. / When you lose your balance, resist for a long time before turning yourself toward the earth. Then jump. / You must not force yourself to stay steady. You must move forward. ~ Philippe Petit, #NFDB
904:Hold on to your friends.
Resist - or move on
Be mad, be rash
Smoke and explode
Sell all of your clothes
Just bear in mind:
There just might come a time
When you need some friends ~ Morrissey,#NFDB
905:Our problem as Americans -- at least, among my race and gender -- is that we resist the very idea of limits, regarding limits of all sorts as temporary and regrettable impositions on our lives. ~ Parker J Palmer, #NFDB
906:Raising Black children — female and male — in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive. ~ Audre Lorde, #NFDB
907:She wouldn’t want to be caught on his bad side—assuming he had a good side—yet the naughty bad boy vibes were like an undercurrent pulling her in.
Don’t-mess-with-me meets I-dare-you-to-resist. ~ Kelly Moran,#NFDB
908:Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice. ~ Milan Kundera, #NFDB
909:We're all collectors by nature. But if you're talking about an orderly life, there has to be a stop sign somewhere. Building a collection requires a strong constitution and the ability to resist. ~ Albert Hadley, #NFDB
910:When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge. ~ Gerald Jampolsky, #NFDB
911:Desire so strong it destroyed the ability to resist was a myth. Any woman who fell into bed with a man did it because she made a choice at some point between meeting him and removing her clothes. ~ Jennifer Blake, #NFDB
912:If you give somebody a lot of questions to answer and then they walk by a bowl of candy, they are more likely to grab the candy because they're tired out from answering questions and can't resist. ~ Edward Boyden, #NFDB
913:she, being human, could not resist the satisfaction of pouring even more poison into her brother’s heart by exaggerating the calamity, even though she loved him sincerely and with compassion. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
914:We resist transition not because we can't accept the change, but because we can't accept letting go of that piece of ourselves that we have to give up when and because the situation has changed. ~ William Bridges, #NFDB
915:For instance, think back to those moments when you’re unable to resist a tasty treat. It probably happened later in the day after you’d completed a dozen tasks and made a series of important decisions. ~ Hal Elrod, #NFDB
916:Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing. ~ Ajahn Chah, #NFDB
917:God calls big trees out of small seeds, so He prepares great monuments out of small minds. He will definitely call those wonderful things he put in you out of you. When He begins, do not resist! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
918:I don’t know why she tries so hard to resist me. I’m not such a bad guy. I’m fit and healthy, a successful business owner, I’m not in debt, and I’m pretty damn good-looking. Or so I hear anyway. ~ Michelle Leighton, #NFDB
919:The Eurozone die is cast. Countries must withdraw from the euro so that governments can create their own money once again, and resist creditor demands to carve up and privatize their public domain. ~ Michael Hudson, #NFDB
920:They teach you how to resist the enemy, how to protect your mind and spirit. They don’t teach you how to resist your own people, especially people who think they’re trying to “help” you see “the truth. ~ Max Brooks, #NFDB
921:We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might. ~ Matthew Henry, #NFDB
922:What I failed to realize at the time is that when we try to resist feeling something painful, we often protract the very pain we're trying to avoid. Doing so is a prescription for continued suffering. ~ Mark Wolynn, #NFDB
923:Wish there was something that I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you. But I'd rather walk alone than chase you around, I'd rather fall myself then let you drag me on down. ~ Ben Harper, #NFDB
924:He laid the boy gently on the bed, strangely reluctant to put him down. The warmth of the child against his chest was comforting. He couldn’t resist touching his floppy blond hair. Beautiful little kid. ~ Robyn Carr, #NFDB
925:Our choice, it seems, is whether we will let our past and present sufferings be sufficient to soften and break us, or whether we will resist and harden ourselves so even more suffering is required. ~ Brian D McLaren, #NFDB
926:Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how "open" you are, you'll end up surrounded by "yes people." It's hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation. ~ Tom Peters, #NFDB
927:The more we resist change, the more we are allied against the nature of nature and the developmental agenda of our own psyches. Being aligned against our own nature is the very definition of neurosis. ~ James Hollis, #NFDB
928:There! there!” said Holmes, soothing, patting him upon the shoulder. “It was too bad to spring it on you like this, but Watson here will tell you that I never can resist a touch of the dramatic. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
929:As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothing suitable to wear with them. Others adore frilly lingerie but never have any money to buy outer clothing. ~ Edith Head, #NFDB
930:God grant me the serenity to accept my goal weight, the courage to resist anything with more than three hundred calories, and the wisdom to check the fat grams before I open my mouth and insert a fork. ~ Shirley Jump, #NFDB
931:It's about something that strikes you as funny but I do it with a Christian world view: why we think the way we do based on God's plan. I lift up my God and my country and I resist political correctness. ~ Brad Stine, #NFDB
932:Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there. ~ Alice Walker, #NFDB
933:The mistake we have made in our lives is that over and over again we've run into the needful moment and then failed to learn its higher lesson. We don't like needful moments and therefore we resist them. ~ Guy Finley, #NFDB
934:We must talk about how sexism and patriarchy operate in conjunction with state violence. Until we're honest about that, and do something to resist, we're complicit in the persistence of oppression. ~ Marc Lamont Hill, #NFDB
935:When enough people believe something of you, it can distort your view of yourself. We mimic the judgments of others. It would take a very strong person indeed to resist the effects of so much ill will. ~ Jeff Wheeler, #NFDB
936:When I look back, Raffe has a smug grin on his face. That’s when I realize I’ve been manipulated into feeling better. I stubbornly try to resist but it’s already too late.
I do feel a little better. ~ Susan Ee,#NFDB
937:When I was young, I thought that I would live my life as freely as the writers and artists I took as my heroes. But in the end I wasn’t brave enough to resist the current pulling me toward convention. ~ Nicole Krauss, #NFDB
938:It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals in order for people today to recognize their potential agency as a part of an ever-expanding community of struggle. ~ Angela Y Davis, #NFDB
939:I couldn't resist. I went over and joined in, and we just sang the song together, ... They had no idea that I had written it, or who I was. I was just some weird guy who wanted to join in on the singing. ~ Neil Diamond, #NFDB
940:On a fundamental level, I am someone who would throw sand at children. I know this because I have had to resist doing it, and that means that it's what I would naturally be doing if I wasn't resisting it. ~ Allie Brosh, #NFDB
941:On a fundamental level, I am someone who would throw sand at children. I know this because I have had to resist doing it, and that means that it’s what I would naturally be doing if I wasn’t resisting it. ~ Allie Brosh, #NFDB
942:People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me." Then when somebody does something different, real architecture, the push-back is amazing. People resist it. At first it's new and scary. ~ Frank Gehry, #NFDB
943:A practical profession is a salvation for a man of my type; an academic career compels a young man to scientific production and only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
944:As human beings we have a choice: we can resist the change and crumble or we can accept the change, experience the feelings they provoke and then consciously respond with the true light of our power. 3. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
945:I’m not ready to say goodnight yet.”
“Then don’t.”
I raised a brow. “If I go with you, I might not be able to resist kissing you again.”
“Oh, I’m counting on it.” She grinned. “Get in. ~ Lisa Kessler,#NFDB
946:I pause. My face feels warm, but pleasantly so. It occurs to me that, no matter how much I avoid him, no matter how wrong I know he is for me, he is going to be nearly impossible to resist.
Dammit! ~ Michelle Leighton,#NFDB
947:Is not prayer the intensely personal struggle within each disciple, and among us collectively, to resist the despair and distractions that cause us to practice unbelief, to abandon or avoid the way of Jesus? ~ Ched Myers, #NFDB
948:She had dark brown eyes and a slightly upturned nose. With her silver circlet and her proud expression, she looked so much like royalty that I had to resist the urge to sit up straight and say “Yes, ma’am. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
949:Are you on the eve of change? Embrace it. Accept it. Don't resist it. Change is not only a part of life, change is a necessary part of God's strategy. To use us to change the world, he alters our assignments. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
950:Boys' connections—to other people and to their selves—can enable them to think and act of their own volition and to resist overly restrictive norms and expectation when they are faced with pressures to conform. ~ Judy Chu, #NFDB
951:I fear I am losing my mind. I do not mean “losing my grasp of reality.” I know perfectly well what is happening. But I am powerless to prevent the outcome. Each day, I have less strength of mind to resist. ~ David Morrell, #NFDB
952:The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them. ~ Gene Sharp, #NFDB
953:Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
954:I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it. ~ Charles Darwin, #NFDB
955:It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals in order for people today to recognize their potential agency as a part of an ever-expanding community of struggle. What ~ Angela Y Davis, #NFDB
956:You have to resist falling in love with the money they [producers] want to give you. You have to really resist that, and you have to just think about the work and whether it's a movie that you would want to see. ~ Ice Cube, #NFDB
957:People often resist change for reasons that make good sense to them, even if those reasons don't correspond to organizational goals. So it is crucial to recognize, reward, and celebrate accomplishments. ~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter, #NFDB
958:Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come? ~ Rumi, #NFDB
959:It baffled me how people could resist math's gorgeousness, but people did, and people do. The fine of its purity drives them away, the purity of the fine, unmixed with the heaviness of unnecessitated being. ~ Rebecca Goldstein, #NFDB
960:People who resist authority, who defend the rights of the individual, who try in a period of increasing totalitarianism and centralization to reclaim these rights - this is the true left in the United States. ~ Murray Bookchin, #NFDB
961:Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. JAMES 4:7–8 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
962:The difference between past and present immigration experience is the existence of a defiant anti-assimilationist lobby that encourages legal and illegal aliens to resist adapting to the American way of life. ~ Michelle Malkin, #NFDB
963:There is no want of power in God to cast wicked men into hell at any moment. Men’s hands can’t be strong when God rises up: the strongest have no power to resist him, nor can any deliver out of his hands. He ~ Jonathan Edwards, #NFDB
964:Yes, her childlessness was a fugue in itself, a flight- this was the habitual theme she was trying now to resist- a flight from her proper destiny. Her failure to become a woman, as her mother understood the term. ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB
965:Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
966:I've tired so hard to stay away from you, buy your soul is so powerful. It can't be ignored. It calls to me. It's like trying to resist every lust you've ever suffered - all at once. I feel that every time I see you. ~ H M Ward, #NFDB
967:Just as global networks of communication and transportation had made the mass migrations of the late nineteenth century possible,6 so political networks of populism and nativism sprang into life to resist them. ~ Niall Ferguson, #NFDB
968:Once the idea is accepted that money is something whose supply is determined simply by the printing press, it becomes impossible for the politicians in power to resist the constant demands for further inflation. ~ Henry Hazlitt, #NFDB
969:Terrorism thrives on a free society. The terrorist uses the feelings in a free society to sap the will of civilization to resist. If the terrorist succeeds, he has won and the whole of free society has lost. ~ Margaret Thatcher, #NFDB
970:You have to remain critically vigilant.” Question every premise, challenge conventional wisdom, and never accept the truth of something merely because everyone else views it as obvious. Resist being credulous. ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
971:Ashton grinne and raised her eyebrows. "I can't believe you're telling me a Vincent boy brought you to Grove, Alabama and not me."
Shrugging, I returned her smile. "They're heard to resist."
"Don't I know it. ~ Abbi Glines,#NFDB
972:For are women not supposed to resist even those they would happily surrender to, so that when they resist a more brutal violation how can the man be sure that any struggle, any protestation is not merely for show? ~ Iain M Banks, #NFDB
973:It's impossible to resist the kindness of strangers. Someone who looks at you, who doesn't know you, who tells you it's OK, whatever you did, whatever you've done: you suffered, you hurt, you deserve forgiveness. ~ Paula Hawkins, #NFDB
974:It’s impossible to resist the kindness of strangers. Someone who looks at you, who doesn’t know you, who tells you it’s OK, whatever you did, whatever you’ve done: you suffered, you hurt, you deserve forgiveness. ~ Paula Hawkins, #NFDB
975:The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks; climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity; the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors. They all need to go on safari together. ~ Thomas Friedman, #NFDB
976:It takes a very strong brain to resist the absolutes, the myths that the media and the politicians peddle - the idea that if you are too kind, where does it all end? That not to help someone is somehow a good idea. ~ Peter Mullan, #NFDB
977:Therefore it says, e “God opposes the proud, but d gives grace to the humble.” 7Submit yourselves therefore to God. f Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 g Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
978:What woman could resist a handsome, wealthy, powerful, nice man who was also just a tiny bit broken inside? It meant that in spite of him seemingly having everything, there was something he still needed from me. ~ Shanna Swendson, #NFDB
979:Discipline is what you must have to resist the lure of excuses. It is self-discipline that enables you to “vote yourself off the island.” It is the key to a great life and, without it, no lasting success is possible. ~ Brian Tracy, #NFDB
980:Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the world which is a pure colony; colonial in psychology as well as in mercantile economics. ~ Northrop Frye, #NFDB
981:Singleton has an almost uncanny ability to resist being caught up in the fads and fancies of the moment. Like most great innovators [and investors! - Ed.], Henry Singleton is supremely indifferent to criticism. ~ Robert J Flaherty, #NFDB
982:So this is what sex with you would be like.” I can’t resist teasing him. “I was hoping you’d participate a little more.” He finally says something. “I’d participate. So well, you wouldn’t walk straight the next day. ~ Sally Thorne, #NFDB
983:What is the purpose of piety if there are no temptations to resist? Man is not God, his strength is the ability to restrain his own nature, so I thought, and if he has nothing to restrain, then what are his merits? ~ Me a Selimovi, #NFDB
984:What you had left before I saw you, of course I do not know; but I counsel you to resist firmly every temptation which would incline you to look back: pursue your present career steadily, for some months at least ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
985:I couldn’t stay away, I could barely resist you at all, but I didn’t want to push you into something. Not when you’d just escaped a man that took and took. I didn’t want you to think that was all men were good for. ~ Laura Thalassa, #NFDB
986:I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
987:It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history. ~ Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, #NFDB
988:It was as if I were powerless to resist the temptation; my senses were overcome. I could hear the emptiness, and taste the silence, and smell the solitude, and I wanted it more than I have ever wanted anything before. ~ Nick Hornby, #NFDB
989:I wanted to resist, allowing the night to go on forever. As we walked along the beach, I pressed my feet into the sand firmly, leaving an impression deep enough to last a lifetime.
And I did not look back... ~ Scott Hildreth,#NFDB
990:Consciousness has to resist these instinctive reactions because the ego is liable to be overpowered by the blind force of instinct, against which the conscious system must protect itself if development is to proceed. ~ Erich Neumann, #NFDB
991:Fear, in its many guises, is here to test you. Surrendering to fear only limits you and makes your path more difficult. Know that fear is an illusion and a trickster and that there are tools to help you resist it. ~ James Van Praagh, #NFDB
992:I never sought to be a pundit, or on TV, or a writer-it just kind of came to me. If you just keep doing what you want to do, you wind up doing precisely what you want to be doing. Don't resist how life bats you around. ~ Ann Coulter, #NFDB
993:Overcoming doesn't work. There is a universal law of human behavior: You cannot argue another person into believing that they are wrong. The more you push another person, the more they dig their heels in and resist you. ~ Jeb Blount, #NFDB
994:Roberta said, ‘With such devices we have made a major step towards a true post-scarcity society. Hunger banished without labour, for ever.’ Dev couldn’t resist it. ‘Can it give me Earl Grey tea?’ Lee grinned. ‘Hot! ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
995:Sure, he could die before dinnertime. But he loved being told that something was impossible. It was like someone handing him a lemon meringue pie and telling him not to throw it. He just couldn’t resist the challenge. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
996:THE hardest run is the run downhill. The world wants to pull you forward by your own momentum and dash you down on your face, and you must resist it: the art of running downhill is the art of the controlled descent. ~ Seth Dickinson, #NFDB
997:Was there anyone before you?” “You might have thought so at the time.” “I feel like no one’s ever loved me before.” “I’m sure they did their best, but you always belonged to me.” Monica Faulkner, Jonathan Drazen - Resist ~ C D Reiss, #NFDB
998:Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe ~ Horace, #NFDB
999:"Why should I become angry just because another man has made a fool of himself. Do thou resist not evil!" That is what the lovers of God say. Whatever the world does, wherever it goes, has no influence [on them]. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1000:All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch). ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB
1001:...she still cannot resist looking out the window every couple of minutes. The sound of a passing truck causes her to glance away. Even if there is no sound, the weight of a hundred seconds always turns her head. ~ Mark Z Danielewski, #NFDB
1002:The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks; climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity; the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors.
They all need to go on safari together. ~ Thomas L Friedman,#NFDB
1003:Words are powerful. If you’ve been on the other end of stinging criticism, you know what I mean. Will one positive remark transform your family? Probably not. But keep it up. No one can resist the power of encouragement. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
1004:Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
1005:38 h “You have heard that it was said, y ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ 39But I say to you, z Do not resist the one who is evil. But a if anyone b slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1006:And yet this same Deity says to me, resist not evil; pray for those that despitefully use you; love your enemies, but I will eternally damn mine. It seems to me that even gods should practice what they preach. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll, #NFDB
1007:I’m not going to ask a thousand people for their opinions,” Phoebe said evenly. “Only one opinion is required, and it happens to be mine.” She went to the doorway and paused, unable to resist adding, “That’s leadership. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
1008:A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it. ~ Nikki Giovanni, #NFDB
1009:Christ, under the law, appeared on a red horse, denoting the terror of that dispensation, and that he had yet his conflict before him, when he was to resist unto blood. But, under the gospel, he appears on a white horse ~ Matthew Henry, #NFDB
1010:Few people can resist the temptation to try a little amateur research in a department quite outside their own, if only for the satisfaction of showing how successful they would have been had they only taken it up seriously. ~ M R James, #NFDB
1011:Though both partners may wish for reconciliation, their unspoken goals are often sharply in conflict. The abuser usually wishes to reestablish his pattern of coercive control, while the victim wishes to resist it. ~ Judith Lewis Herman, #NFDB
1012:Whenever tragic loss occurs, you either resist or you yield. Some people become bitter or deeply resentful; others become compassionate, wise, and loving. Yielding means inner acceptance of what is.You are open to life. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
1013:From a caprice of nature, not from the ignorance of man. Not a mistake has been made in the working. But we cannot prevent equilibrium from producing its effects. We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. ~ Jules Verne, #NFDB
1014:If I had to summarize the entirety of most people’s lives in a few words, it would be endless resistance to what is. As we resist, we are in constant motion trying to adjust, and yet we still remain unhappy about what is. ~ Haemin Sunim, #NFDB
1015:The thing about the yellow road is that it’s enchanted. It wants you to follow it—not for any devious reason, but just because it likes to have a purpose. It’s very hard to resist a road with such infectious enthusiasm. ~ Danielle Paige, #NFDB
1016:1. I DO SOLEMNLY RESOLVE to embrace my current season of life and will maximize my time in it. I will resist the urge to hurry through or circumvent any portion of my journey but will live with a spirit of contentment. ~ Priscilla Shirer, #NFDB
1017:(about cats) They also resist our calls to come, to move, to obey, to present themselves, to do all the things that dogs do so easily. This drives some people crazy. Cats do not even care what drives us crazy! ~ Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, #NFDB
1018:As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm life. Resistance means saying 'No' to all the forces of death, wherever they may be. ~ Henri Nouwen, #NFDB
1019:But he gives greater grace. Therefore he says: God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. D 7 Therefore, submit to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1020:I envied her for her faith, which had kept her strong and helped her resist the same pressures I had surrendered to … This woman, I realized, loved God so much that she feared disappointing Him more than she feared death. ~ Roxana Saberi, #NFDB
1021:The dreams you have that may meet mockeries from the lips of negative people will yield the success that will squeeze tears from their eyes later! Dare to resist every negative criticism and persist to make it happen! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1022:When I was really low, when it was all I could do not to feel sorry for myself, I played that game too. I knew I could never win, but some days, the dark days, the allure of playing 'if only' was too strong to resist. ~ Becca Fitzpatrick, #NFDB
1023:A person could resist popular belief and stand up for personal principles, and though there may be consequences, not everything would necessarily be lost. In fact, something important might be gained, if only within oneself. ~ Jean M Auel, #NFDB
1024:Genghis snorted. “Men always die in war. Their kings expect it. I want them to know that if they resist me, they are putting their hand in the mouth of a wolf. They will lose everything and they can expect no mercy. ~ Conn Iggulden, #NFDB
1025:His enthusiasm was adorable. I couldn’t resist leaning over to kiss him on the cheek. “Just so you know, I’m right here,” Mom said. “Sitting next to you. Your mother. Who held your hand as you took your first infantile steps. ~ John Green, #NFDB
1026:The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1027:Always cooperate with the work God is doing in you. The more we resist, the longer it takes. Don’t ever let how you feel dictate God’s love for you. He is always loving us, even when our circumstances don’t make us feel good. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
1028:And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now. ~ Patrick Carney, #NFDB
1029:Bind to you friends of your own kind, friends who will encourage you, stand with you, live as you desire to live, who will enjoy the same kind of entertainment, and who will resist the evil that you determine to resist. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB
1030:Infant, I can’t resist it. I’m going to put you to the proof; and if you impress us with your worth, then quicquid libet, licet; as was remarked on another, unsavoury occasion. Are you willing to be wooed, sweet Marigold? ~ Dorothy Dunnett, #NFDB
1031:They used the ever-effective Hegelian Dialectic: create a problem that causes the masses to react and insist on a solution from leaders, and then provide the solution you always intended but knew the masses would resist. Our ~ Nesly Clerge, #NFDB
1032:To run to anything else is to resist the irresistible. To seek other than The One (al Wahid), is to become scattered, but never filled. How can we find unity, completion of heart or soul or mind in anything other than Him? ~ Yasmin Mogahed, #NFDB
1033:You're a rare breed, Richard d'Alencon."
She didn't know the half of it.
Unable to resist, he dipped his head and touched his lips to hers in a gentle caress.
Her breath caught.
Lightning struck. ~ Dianne Duvall,#NFDB
1034:A person could resist popular belief and stand up for personal principles, and though there might be consequences, not everything would necessarily be lost. In fact, something important might be gained, if only within oneself. ~ Jean M Auel, #NFDB
1035:She was flushed, panting, and pissed off at him. The Holy Trinity of turn-ons, and he couldn’t resist grabbing her hand and pulling her in for a kiss, but before his mouth connected, he got a sharp shove to the solar plexus. ~ Laura Griffin, #NFDB
1036:fighting desires—over time these distractions drained their finite pool of willpower until they could no longer resist. The same will happen to you, regardless of your intentions—unless, that is, you’re smart about your habits. ~ Cal Newport, #NFDB
1037:Giles, if you were teasing about teaching me how to kiss, I’ll never forgive you.” “Perish the thought.” Attractive self-mockery twisted those full lips. “How the devil can I resist turning you into another man’s dream lover? ~ Anna Campbell, #NFDB
1038:...he was an ass. Her husband and Thomas' father was an ass: a fool who thought iut funny to frighten a small child, who could not resist the small, mean act of betrayal that proved him more powerful than his four-year-old son. ~ Jenny Diski, #NFDB
1039:... my mother reached over and laid her hand on my arm, saying that was true, ... and I felt something twist in me, the motion of some unthinking thing when it is gripped too hard, and I had to resist the urge to pull away. ~ Garth Greenwell, #NFDB
1040:Self-definitions of Black womanhood were designed to resist the negative controlling images of Black womanhood advanced by Whites as well as the discriminatory social practices that these controlling images supported. ~ Patricia Hill Collins, #NFDB
1041:A man is not saved against his will, but he is made willing by the operation of the Holy Ghost. A mighty grace which he does not wish to resist enters into the man, disarms him, makes a new creature of him, and he is saved. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
1042:Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing. ~ Dietrich Fischer Dieskau, #NFDB
1043:A wise prince then...should never be idle in times of peace but should industriously lay up stores of which to avail himself in times of adversity so that when fortune abandons him he may be prepared to resist her blows. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli, #NFDB
1044:It is better to be an outcast, a stranger in one’s own country, than an outcast from one’s self. It is better to see what is about to befall us and to resist than to retreat into the fantasies embraced by a nation of the blind. ~ Chris Hedges, #NFDB
1045:The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of unsettled minds are always driven about with passions, but never absolutely filled with any. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB
1046:With journalism, films always have to be to do with some personal statement of your own. As a general rule, I resist that. In the States, a question that kept coming up was this: how can you, as a man, talk about three women? ~ Stephen Daldry, #NFDB
1047:A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the State with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and they are commonly treated by it as enemies. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1048:I go out and I say and do what I want - even if people may find that shocking. One could, of course, decide to be suffocated by all the pomp here in Élysée Palace. But if you decide to resist it, then you won't be suffocated. ~ Emmanuel Macron, #NFDB
1049:It made no sense, she knew, arranging flowers before the water was in — but there it was; she couldn't resist moving them around, and not everything people did could be in a correct, logical order, especially when they were alone. ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB
1050:It was a question I had worn on my lips for days—like a loose thread on my favorite sweater I couldn’t resist pulling—despite knowing it could all unravel around me. “Do you love me?” I ask. In your hesitation I found my answer. ~ Lang Leav, #NFDB
1051:The anxious heart, in its flailings, loses its hold on whatever grace God has bestowed upon it, and is sapped of the strength to "resist the temptations of the Evil One, who is all the more ready to fish...in troubled waters. ~ Lauren F Winner, #NFDB
1052:God is attracted to weakness. He cannot resist when we humbly and honestly admit how desperately we need Him. When we are empty vessels, He longs to fill us with His grace, love and goodness. This is God’s law of attraction. ~ Jentezen Franklin, #NFDB
1053:It was a question I had worn on my lips for days—like a loose thread on my favorite sweater I couldn’t resist pulling—despite knowing it could all unravel around me. “Do you love me?” I ask. In your hesitation I found my answer. ~ Lang Leav, #NFDB
1054:To the States or any of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little,/Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,/Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty. ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB
1055:When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it’s dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment ~ Pema Ch dr n, #NFDB
1056:When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it’s dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment ~ Pema Chodron, #NFDB
1057:You are the enemy and a vessel through which the cure flows - if Christ lives in you, then you are an embodiment of the very shot this hostile and crying world needs as it, in every waking moment, struggles belligerently to resist. ~ Criss Jami, #NFDB
1058:I like ass-watching.” Peabody settled herself in comfortably.“When I see one bigger than mine, it makes me feel good. When I see one smaller, it helps me resist eating a whole bunch of cookies. It’s a productive hobby, my ass-watching ~ J D Robb, #NFDB
1059:I thank the Father that His Only Begotten Son did not say in defiant protest at Calvary, "My body is my own!" I stand in admiration of women today who resist the "fashion of abortion, by refusing to make the sacred womb a tomb!" ~ Neal A Maxwell, #NFDB
1060:It made me realize how unimaginative I had always been about battered wives. Disaster creeps up, a tidal wave on the tourist beach. By the time you can see it, you are powerless or unable to resist it and it rolls you up and away. ~ Nicci French, #NFDB
1061:Offence is like muddy soil; when trapped underfoot, it resists rapid progress. Don't trap offences under your mind, else you resist change! Jesus said "Shake the soil off your sandals"! What are you waiting for? Shake it off! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1062:of the validation you already possess. When you understand this, it then gives you a context for the praise you receive. You will be able to resist internalizing praise to the point that not receiving it affects your self-worth. ~ DeVon Franklin, #NFDB
1063:Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them. ~ Adyashanti, #NFDB
1064:Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future, so it perceives the timeless Now as threatening. Time and mind are in fact inseparable. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
1065:You are alive, so take your life and enjoy it. Don’t resist life passing through you, because that is God passing through you. Just your existence proves the existence of God. Your existence proves the existence of life and energy. ~ Miguel Ruiz, #NFDB
1066:Your cable television is experiencing difficulties. Please do not panic. Resist the temptation to read or talk to loved ones. Do not attempt sexual relations, as years of TV radiation have left your genitals withered and useless. ~ Matt Groening, #NFDB
1067:Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to the point of ostracism; to define oneself, and by extension one's generation, as new, novel, ungovernable. ~ Joyce Carol Oates, #NFDB
1068:Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that tools of the kind we now have are in principle sufficient to understand the universe as a whole. ~ Thomas Nagel, #NFDB
1069:I'll be fine. Maybe I should make up a magic milk bath with the Golden Fruit, huh?" I laughed.
Kishan considered and grinned. "A giant bowlful of milk with you in the middle might be a little too much for us cats to resist. ~ Colleen Houck,#NFDB
1070:Nick couldn't resist teasing Ash. 'So does this make you visibly challenged?' 'No.' Ash said, putting his I.D back into his pocket, 'but if you don't lay off me, I'm going to make you breathing impaired.'"
"-Nick and Ash ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
1071:Think of King Jesus as our greatest doubter. Who saw the order of society and taught us to defy it. Who saw the ugly urges in ourselves and taught us to resist them. As we navigate through the powerful tides, doubt is our rudder. ~ Victor LaValle, #NFDB
1072:You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
1073:All truths wait in all things,
They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it,
They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon,
The insignificant is as big to me as any,
(What is less or more than a touch)... ~ Walt Whitman,#NFDB
1074:Baird finally understood. For some reason, she was determined to resist him. Well, they would see how long that lasted when his scent began working on her. How long she could hold out when he was at last allowed to touch her. ~ Evangeline Anderson, #NFDB
1075:Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
1076:In life, stress happens when you resist... No matter what comes your way, if you take a rigid position, you experience pain. Never oppose force with force. Instead, absorb it and use it... Yielding can overcome even a superior force. ~ Dan Millman, #NFDB
1077:On the contrary, they wanted to hear her scream; and the sooner the better. The pride she mustered to resist and remain silent did not long endure: they even heard her beg them to untie her, to stop for a second, just for a second. ~ Pauline R age, #NFDB
1078:Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of security.
-Alma Mavis Taraza ~ Frank Herbert,#NFDB
1079:All of us resist growth to some extent. It’s built in; I’m convinced of it. To paraphrase Tom Hanks’s character in the movie A League of Their Own, if growth were easy, everybody would be doing it. But that’s what makes it great. ~ John A McDougall, #NFDB
1080:Sometimes you can change the environment. Always you can change your mind. If you can change your environment from a sense of positive vision, you will succeed. Remember to work toward what you want rather than against what you resist. ~ Alan Cohen, #NFDB
1081:Therefore if you would be subject to God, you should resist the devil and he will flee for his life from you, 8. draw near to God and He will draw near to you.1 Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1082:To recognize untruth as a condition of life: that, to be sure, means to resist customary value-sentiments in a dangerous fashion; and a philosophy which ventures to do so places itself, by that act alone, beyond good and evil. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1083:TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty. ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB
1084:Unbelievers resist truth because it brings to the surface their God-instilled knowledge of right and wrong, which they’ve buried in order to pursue their ungodly behavior without the annoyance of conscience (Romans 1:18-21). That’s ~ David Jeremiah, #NFDB
1085:Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to take their part and continue to resist the people who profit by them, who slaughter them and who torture them. ~ Denis de Rougemont, #NFDB
1086:Dear religious, all-powerful entity, please help me be professional. Please help me resist sleeping with my sexual titan of a boss on this business trip. In the name of God or Krishna or Moses, or whoever can freaking help me. Amen. ~ Annabel Joseph, #NFDB
1087:In a fundamental sense, this debate about NAFTA is a debate about whether we will embrace these changes and create the jobs of tomorrow, or try to resist these changes, hoping we can preserve the economic structures of yesterday. ~ William J Clinton, #NFDB
1088:In a relationship, it's so important that a man knows how much you physically desire him. When he wears that shirt that makes him look sexy, tell him he's sexy! If he wears a cologne you like, say "I can't resist that smell on you". ~ Matthew Hussey, #NFDB
1089:Maybe, if you had your way, your day would never end. Every moment demands to be savored. You resist sleep as long as possible because you love being awake so much. If you are like that, congratulations. If not, welcome to the majority. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
1090:Passion is that drive, that self-confidence, that enthusiasm that makes one to resist every obstacle that attempts to stop him from attaining his ultimate status in life and guides him to keep trying till the harvest time is due. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1091:Like it or not, people tend to buy paintings to match their drapes, couch or carpet. I know you want them to be so overwhelmed with your skills they can't resist hauling your art home. These three factors are what dictate most art sales. ~ Jack White, #NFDB
1092:The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George...Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent than it is to conformity and a blind desire for safety and security. ~ Ron Paul, #NFDB
1093:Would it really be such a bad idea to act on something they both wanted so badly? “What way will I get you then?” He couldn't resist asking and was shocked when she met his eyes. “Any way you want as long as it's just sex, no strings.” He ~ S J McCoy, #NFDB
1094:As long as we are alive, we feel fear. It is an intrinsic part of our makeup, as natural as a bitter cold winter day or the winds that rip branches off trees. If we resist it or push it aside, we miss a powerful opportunity for awakening. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1095:Forgive me for my unbelief [in myself]. If I realized how valuable I am, my insatiable need for affirmation would be quieted. Forgive me for being such a perfectionist that I resist doing something good out of fear that it won't be great. ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1096:In fact, most women who are sexually assaulted do not resist. The fear is overwhelming. They often feel helpless. Sometimes they make a conscious choice not to resist because they are afraid if they resist, they will be hurt even worse. ~ Jon Krakauer, #NFDB
1097:The original American patriots were those individuals brave enough to resist with force the oppressive power of King George... Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent than it is to conformity and a blind desire for safety and security. ~ Ron Paul, #NFDB
1098:Every generation of cancer cells creates a small number of cells that is genetically different from its parents. When a chemotherapeutic drug or the immune system attacks cancer, mutant clones that can resist the attack grow out. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee, #NFDB
1099:In theatre, presence is the matrix of power; the postmodern theatre of resistance must therefore both expose the collusion of presence with authority and resist such collusion by refusing to establish itself as the charismatic Other. ~ Philip Auslander, #NFDB
1100:living is difficult. it is difficult for everybody. and it is at that moment when living feels like crawling through a pin-sized hole. that we must resist the urge of succumbing to bad memories. refuse to bow before bad months or bad years. ~ Rupi Kaur, #NFDB
1101:The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle? ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, #NFDB
1102:Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and good for us in the long run, not what we want to do right now. It's central, in fact, to civilisation. ~ Roy Baumeister, #NFDB
1103:Be grateful for holiness when you find it among churchmen, but do not expect it. As Flannery O’Connor wrote, “All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful. Priests resist it as well as others. ~ Rod Dreher, #NFDB
1104:But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women's art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist. ~ Barbara Kruger, #NFDB
1105:I've come to see that I have two choices in how I approach change: I can either resist change or be open to what's ahead and feel the peace that "all is well in the universe." When I lean into the latter, I feel excited about the future. ~ Marci Shimoff, #NFDB
1106:Lucas smiled back. Bowden projected an effortless charisma and he had to resist the urge to tug at his forelock: “Not close enough. A little closer and she wouldn’t be in the Senate—she’d be in a different federal institution altogether. ~ John Sandford, #NFDB
1107:No one made cars like this anymore. She could suck a gas pump dry and empty a man's wallet without ever coming up for air. Hard to resist a beauty with that combo of skills - especially when she made him feel so damn good while it happend. ~ Alison Kent, #NFDB
1108:Now toasted cheese is a temptation few men can resist, be they charcoal burners or kings. John Uskglass reasoned thus: all of Cumbria belonged to him – therefore this wood belonged to him – therefore this toasted cheese belonged to him. ~ Susanna Clarke, #NFDB
1109:This sort of thing reduces my mind to a pulp. I can faintly resist when a man says that if the earth were a globe cats would not have four legs; but when he says that if the earth were a globe cats would not have five legs I am crushed. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
1110:This strange cold desert does not care if you live or die in it, but he fell for it anyway. He had not known before then that a place could feel so raw and so close to the surface. His weak heart felt the danger but could not resist. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
1111:You're a spelling bee champ, aren't you, White Fang? How do you spell, 'If I don't learn to speak to my betters with more respect, I'm going to get my face smashed in'?"
Tom laughed, unable to resist. "That one's easy. It's K-A-R-L. ~ S J Kincaid,#NFDB
1112:if you thought of yourself as having a card with only twenty punches in a lifetime, and every financial decision used up one punch. You’d resist the temptation to dabble. You’d make more good decisions and you’d make more big decisions. ~ Alice Schroeder, #NFDB
1113:I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it. ~ William Eldridge Odom, #NFDB
1114:The more money you make, the more the culture already attracts you to serve it, with an aura of glitter and power, to reproduce it in even stronger ways. And you have to resist that so much if any meaningful artistic integrity is to be had. ~ Fady Joudah, #NFDB
1115:The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility and out of self-interest for himself, his family, and the future of his country to resist government abuse of power. He rejects the notion that patriotism means obedience to the state. ~ Ron Paul, #NFDB
1116:A Question It was a question I had worn on my lips for days—like a loose thread on my favorite sweater I couldn't resist pulling—despite knowing it could all unravel around me. “Do you love me?” I ask. In your hesitation I found my answer. ~ Lang Leav, #NFDB
1117:But he knew plenty of distracting sinkholes too: gossip, the endless call of work, as well as fear, suspicion, lust. Every human being is pulled by these internal and external forces that are increasingly more powerful and harder to resist. ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1118:But often, it's easier to resist temptation with distraction, or to be so inculcated in doing the right thing that it's automatic, outside the frontal cortex's portfolio - Then it isn't the harder thing, it's the only thing you can do. ~ Robert M Sapolsky, #NFDB
1119:In those days we were punished very frequently and I felt that it was often unjust, and so I would resist the desire to agree with many, many things. So I used to get beaten quite frequently and I more or less accepted it as part of life. ~ Edmund Hillary, #NFDB
1120:It’s not that I want to join in. It’s just . . . I want to want to, if that makes any sense. My time with Toby taught me to look both ways before attempting anything new. Until now, when even the suggestion of joining in makes me resist. ~ Kirsten Hubbard, #NFDB
1121:Matthew lists Rahab as one of the ancestresses of the Lord Jesus Christ (Matthew 1:5), and that may be one reason why there was something about free-wheeling ladies with warm and generous hearts that he was never quite able to resist. ~ Frederick Buechner, #NFDB
1122:Some decisions are hard, some are easy, but either way it's our choices that matter. Who we chose to align with. What we choose to give in to. What we choose to resist. And most of all, who we choose to be. Because it is always our choice. ~ Daisy Whitney, #NFDB
1123:There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against. ~ Woodrow Wilson, #NFDB
1124:There's something about you Anastasia, that calls to me on some deep level I don't understand. It's a siren's call. I can't resist you, and I don't want to lose you.... don't run, please - have a little faith in me and a little patience please ~ E L James, #NFDB
1125:To Steve, “no” is simply a challenge to change the other person’s mind. This boundary problem is called control. Controllers can’t respect others’ limits. They resist taking responsibility for their own lives, so they need to control others. ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB
1126:TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little,
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty. ~ Walt Whitman,#NFDB
1127:You named your horse Mr. Merriweather?” Wilhelmina couldn’t resist asking, even with certain danger and death sliding ever closer their way. “I did. I actually wanted to name him Charlie, but he simply refused to answer to that name.” Holding ~ Jen Turano, #NFDB
1128:By God’s grace, I can resist the temptation to treat my children as interruptions to my will for my life. Instead, God enables me to treat my children as precious gifts he is using to shape me into his image according to his will for my life. ~ Tony Reinke, #NFDB
1129:He beguiled me almost by surprise into doing wrong, then he got me accustomed to having bad thoughts which I had no will to resist—willpower being the only force capable of driving them back to the infernal darkness from which they emerged. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
1130:Kornblum was, nevertheless, unable to resist offering that final criticism to his erstwhile pupil on his performance that night. “Never worry about what you are escaping from,” he said. “Reserve your anxieties for what you are escaping to. ~ Michael Chabon, #NFDB
1131:Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread - these are two laws of nature. If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood! ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
1132:Resist the urge to plan a “comeback” or a rebuttal. Your brain cannot listen well and prepare to speak at the same time. Use your self-management skills to silence your inner voice and direct your attention to the person in front of you. ~ Travis Bradberry, #NFDB
1133:She turned her attention toward the next customers, and I couldn’t resist catching her around the waist from behind. “Careful, city girl. I’ll want to keep you.” She laughed as I let her go. But the scary thing was, I was only half joking. ~ Melanie Harlow, #NFDB
1134:By God’s grace I can resist the temptation to treat my children as interruptions to my will for my life. Instead, God enables me to treat my children as precious gifts he is using to shape me into his image according to his will for my life. ~ Gloria Furman, #NFDB
1135:Fire and Water are archetypes, the split sides of consciousness; one aware, the other, not. The two parts of us that desire synthesis, yet resist it: the self and the shadow. But they are also the element of chance, of the random roll of dice. ~ Chris Abani, #NFDB
1136:Only two possible reactions to the mimetic contagion exist, and they make an enormous difference. Either we surrender and join the persecuting crowd, or we resist and stand alone. The first way is the unanimous self-deception we call mythology. ~ Ren Girard, #NFDB
1137:She'd never been able to resist temptation - especially an unhealthy one - and at that moment he was another pill, another line; one she needed, one she would die if she couldn't have, and her entire body was already vibrating in anticipation. ~ Stacia Kane, #NFDB
1138:We each have two human needs: To learn and grow & to be respected, accepted and loved the way you are. Even though feedback facilitates learning and growth, it conflicts with our need to feel respected. This is a key reason we resist feedback. ~ Sheila Heen, #NFDB
1139:A giant gleaming Tesco supermarket had opened a few months previously, and, as is the way with these out-of-town monoliths, it exerted a gravitational pill that could be felt for many miles. Buy one get one free is, after all, hard to resist. ~ K R Griffiths, #NFDB
1140:All of the American's foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere to make more than a half-hearted attempt. The combats with Mexico and Spain were not wars; they were simply lynchings. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
1141:A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
1142:do everything, I thought, on the contrary, whatever you can to resist the ingenious temptations of compromises, cling to the suffering, stir up the dread, for the monsters are also the benevolent guardians of the survivor's presence within me ~ H l ne Cixous, #NFDB
1143:During breakfast there is something I cannot resist, apart from my boyfriend - it's actually the phone. I have a phone breakfast. Always. I call friends, boyfriend, family. Checking who is where. 'Is everything fine?' This is breakfast. ~ Christian Louboutin, #NFDB
1144:So what does true commitment mean? The most obvious meaning is that we resist possibilities with other people. We’re faithful sexually and faithful emotionally to our partner. We maintain boundaries in our relationships outside the marriage. ~ John M Gottman, #NFDB
1145:Uncommon strength of character is needed to resist the blandishments of those who assure us that we have an obvious, even God-given, superiority over our fellows. The more precarious our self-esteem, the greater our vulnerability to such appeals. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1146:His life meanwhile continued as before, with the same infatuations and dissipations. He liked to dine and drink well, and though he considered it immoral and humiliating could not resist the temptations of the bachelor circles in which he moved. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
1147:[In my dream] they slide their lips over my skin, whispering whispering whispering. They tell me their names, they tell me their lives, they tell me their pain...I can't struggle, I can't stop laughing, I can't resist these people who once were. ~ Carrie Ryan, #NFDB
1148:Kate hovers a hand above my cookie. "You really don't want it? Eric said you wouldn't be able to resist cookies."
"I'm stronger than he thinks," I say aloud, and then to myself, And infinitely more awkward than he realizes. ~ Sarah Lyons Fleming,#NFDB
1149:Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people. ~ Viggo Mortensen, #NFDB
1150:But I have a secret. You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I wil find a way to resist.
I love you. Remember. They cannot take it. ~ Lauren Oliver,#NFDB
1151:I’ve never really responded to peer pressure. What I do respond to, however, is someone categorically telling me I can’t do something. I trill at the sound of a gauntlet going down. It feels like a dare. And I’ve never been able to resist a dare. ~ Sue Perkins, #NFDB
1152:My slumbers--if I slumber--are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not: in my heart There is a vigil, and these eyes but close To look within; and yet I live, and bear The aspect and the form of breathing men. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1153:The black dog I hope always to resist, and in time to drive, though I am deprived of almost all those that used to help me… When I rise my breakfast is solitary, the black dog waits to share it, from breakfast to dinner he continues barking... ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
1154:The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist ~ Danny Glover, #NFDB
1155:There was scarcely a woman alive, it seemed, who could resist the urge to haul men down onto beds, car seats, kitchen floors, dining-room tables, park grass, parlor sofas, or packing crates, entwine warm thighs around them, and pant in ecstasy. ~ Russell Baker, #NFDB
1156:It was a question I had worn on my lips for days - like a loose thread on my favourite sweater I couldn't resist pulling - despite knowing it could all unravel around me.
"Do you love me?" I ask.
In your hesitation I found my answer. ~ Lang Leav,#NFDB
1157:Mass was like grand opera, a magic show with the most expensive props in town. And faith, a sleight of hand trick, in which one was both the magician and the audience; the deceiver and the deceived. Still, who could resist a good magic trick? ~ Kathleen Tessaro, #NFDB
1158:The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne, #NFDB
1159:To the States To the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty. ~ Walt Whitman, #NFDB
1160:Wat a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever. ~ Virginia Woolf, #NFDB
1161:Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, sometimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them. ~ John Locke, #NFDB
1162:If I am inclined to doubt, steady my faith; if I am tempted, make me strong to resist; if I should miss the mark, give me courage to try again. Guide me with the light of truth and grant me wisdom by which I may understand the answer to my prayer. ~ Ronie Kendig, #NFDB
1163:She was different to other women, that’s why. She hadn’t gone all fluttery-eyed on him.
Instead, she’d stood up to him, and for some reason that difference meant he’d lost the ability
to resist. “Contrary bastard,” he muttered to himself. ~ Saskia Walker,#NFDB
1164:The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne, #NFDB
1165:Change and uncertainty are part of life. Our job is not to resist them but to build the capability to recover when unexpected events occur. If you don’t always try to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
1166:I know of a number of people who are successfully earning to give. That isn't for everyone but for those with the ability to earn a lot of money and the character to resist the temptation to spend it on themselves, it can be a great way to do good. ~ Peter Singer, #NFDB
1167:It is impossible for a Parisian to resist the desire to flick through the old volumes laid out by a bookseller.
[Il est impossible, pour un Parisien, de résister au désir de feuilleter de vieux ouvrages étalés par un bouquiniste.] ~ G rard de Nerval,#NFDB
1168:Resist the temptation to explain to her that she is misinterpreting what you said. Once the hurt is there it needs to be heard if it is to be healed. Explanations are helpful only after the hurt is healed with some validation and caring understanding. ~ John Gray, #NFDB
1169:There's very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists. How the hell did we get here? What shocks me is that bacteria alter their genes and resist antibiotics and viruses resist vaccines. ~ Bernie Siegel, #NFDB
1170:I can't think in your presence."
"Why not?"
"Because looking at you is like..." She tossed up her hands. "It's like walking down the chips and cookie aisle at the grocery store. I can't resist you, and then I'll forget why you're bad for me. ~ Jill Shalvis,#NFDB
1171:If we resist our tendency to take flight before painful experiences, we can descend into the dark aspects of the unconscious.... Turning toward such darkness requires a willingness to stay with the suffering to make a descent into the unconscious. ~ Stanton Marlan, #NFDB
1172:If you find your sustenance in Christ, my dear young people, and if you live profoundly in him as did the Apostle Paul, you will not be able to resist speaking about him and making him known and loved by many of your friends and contemporaries. ~ Pope Benedict XVI, #NFDB
1173:I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
1174:It’s all you, Mia … You’re different from the rest. I tried to resist the temptation, but all it took was one taste and you had me. Everywhere I look, everything I do, every spare moment of every single day, all I see is you. All I want is you. ~ B J Harvey, #NFDB
1175:One of the most important tasks of any therapist is to help depressed patients find the courage and determination to resist and fight these hopeless feelings. This battle is often fierce and rarely easy, but nearly always rewarding in the long run. ~ David D Burns, #NFDB
1176:Sola scriptura means at least this: that the church's proclamation is always subject to potential correction from the canon. It is for this reason that we resist simply collapsing the text into the tradition of its interpretation and performance. ~ Kevin Vanhoozer, #NFDB
1177:When they asked me, couldn't you give money out of the United Jewish Appeal funds for the rescue of Jews in Europe, I said, 'NO!' and I say again 'NO!' ... one should resist this wave which pushes the Zionist activities to secondary importance. ~ Yitzhak Gruenbaum, #NFDB
1178:• Change and uncertainty are part of life. Our job is not to resist them but to build the capability to recover when unexpected events occur. If you don’t always try to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
1179:I am of a different mind ten times in the course of a day. But I resist the devil, and often it is with a fart that I chase him away. When he tempts me with silly sins I say, 'Devil, yesterday I broke wind too. Have you written it down on your list? ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
1180:Resist the temptation to stir in mashed bananas, applesauce, or fruit juices, or to buy prepared cereal with fruit (even down the road, after you’ve introduced these fruits), or your baby will quickly come to accept only sweet foods, rejecting all else. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1181:Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
1182:That's the most stupid expression in the world. 'I fell in love'—as if you had no choice. There's a moment, there's always a moment; I can do this, I can give in to this or I can resist it. I don't know when your moment was but I bet there was one. ~ Patrick Marber, #NFDB
1183:The inventor can't do it all, you've got to change people. We have an enormous capacity to invent super-machinery. But our desire to install the device is weak. Human inertia is the problem, not invention. Something in man makes him resist change. ~ Thomas A Edison, #NFDB
1184:Whoever uses force without Right ... puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor. ~ John Locke, #NFDB
1185:Deal with your resentment. Deal with your biases. Vigorously resist the urge to dismiss the gender problem. Make the effort and make the effort and make the effort until you no longer need to, until we don’t need to keep having this conversation. Change ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB
1186:Most of the early modern scientists were Christians; they believed that matter was *not* preexisting, but had come from the hand of God. Thus, it had no power to resist His will but would obey he rules He had laid down- with mathematical precision. ~ Nancy R Pearcey, #NFDB
1187:Sola scriptura means at least this: that the church's proclamation is always subject to potential correction from the canon. It is for this reason that we resist simply collapsing the text into the tradition of its interpretation and performance. ~ Kevin J Vanhoozer, #NFDB
1188:[T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachment of the others. ~ James Madison, #NFDB
1189:There’s no way a woman could possibly resist your charm”
Dominic smiled. “Or my dick. Don’t worry, I won’t get it out. I don’t want you all to get intimidated. and in the interest of health and safety, I think it’s better that he’s not unleashed. ~ Suzanne Wright,#NFDB
1190:Wait and see," Claire said excitedly. "Your husband will not be able to resist you."
Grace hoped Claire was right.Since the night he had kissed her in the drawing room after their disastrous dinner party,he had done a magnificent job of exactly that. ~ Kat Martin,#NFDB
1191:When we distract ourselves, we purposefully redirect our thoughts, and by doing so, we change our experience. Distraction can help us resist temptation, minimize stress, feel refreshed, and tolerate pain, and it can help us stick to our good habits. ~ Gretchen Rubin, #NFDB
1192:The more sensitive the lunatic, the less able is he to resist this prying interest of the normal human being. I felt that Renée's change of key - to myself, I compared Renée to a sweet melody, a little flat despite its laborious harmonies - was approaching. ~ Colette, #NFDB
1193:What I want you to do for me is this:
I want to understand certain things and tell them to others.
To do it, I have to get them right, so they are hard to resist.
Stay with me until I can do this.
Afterwards, you can go where you want. ~ Kenneth Koch,#NFDB
1194:Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world. (1 Peter 5:8–9) ~ David Jeremiah, #NFDB
1195:I scowled. I could resist it all I wanted, but I did understand what he was trying to explain. How sometimes he pieces of who you thought you were didn't add up to who you really were, like with me not standing up for Patrick when he wore those pants. ~ Lauren Myracle, #NFDB
1196:Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak, the intelligent frighten the stupid, the inferior resist the superior, and the young mock the old. ~ Xunzi, #NFDB
1197:The new car’s a lot prettier than Lucy, my Sweet Caroline—she’s a newer sedan, and, if I’m being perfectly honest, is actually a little bit of a risk. She’s flashier than what I’d usually pick. I just couldn’t resist her gorgeous shade of ruby red. ~ Alexandra Bracken, #NFDB
1198:Ageing. We laugh about it, and we groan about it. We resist it, but we cant't stop it. And with the chuckles and wrinkles come serious thoughts and questions about what happens when we die. Is death when we go to sleep? Or is death when we finally wake up? ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
1199:The untrained mind keeps up a running commentary, labelling everything, judging everything. Best to ignore that commentary. Don’t argue or resist, just ignore. Deprived of attention and interest, this voice gets quieter and quieter and eventually just shuts up. ~ Plato, #NFDB
1200:... at least to resist the approach of Alfred Humblot at Ollendorf and Jacques Madeleine at Fasquelle, which Proust defined as, 'the self-satisfaction felt by "busy" men - however idiotic their business - at "not having time" to do what you are doing'. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
1201:but do one thing for me if you will: you just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don’t you let ‘em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change . . . it’s a good one, even if it does resist learning. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1202:Help me resist the urge to dispute whether things are true or false which is like arguing whether it is day or night. It is always one or the other somewhere in the world. Together, we can penetrate a higher truth which like the sun is always being conveyed. ~ Mark Nepo, #NFDB
1203:How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be. ~ Elizabeth Lesser, #NFDB
1204:If you consider how much you should pay for a house, you will be influenced by the asking price. The same house will appear more valuable if its listing price is high than if it is low, even if you are determined to resist the influence of this number; ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
1205:Lord I submit my body to You. Help me to be disciplined in the way I care for it. Help me to choose health-filled and life-giving foods and be able to resist eating what I should not have. Enable me to make the right choices with regard to what I eat. ~ Stormie Omartian, #NFDB
1206:People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist? ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
1207:Temptations are as thick as the leaves of the forest, and no one can be out of the reach of temptation unless he is dead. The great thing is to make people intelligent enough and strong enough, not to keep away from temptation, but to resist it. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll, #NFDB
1208:The only acceptable response to the threat of lethal violence is immediate and savage counterattack. If you resist, you just may get killed. If you don't resist you almost certainly will get killed. It is a tough choice, but there is only one right answer. ~ Jeff Cooper, #NFDB
1209:Well, you may abuse me, be angry with me if you like," Porfiry Petrovitch began again, "but I can't resist. Allow me one little question (I know I am troubling you). There is just one little notion I want to express, simply that I may not forget it. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1210:What did you bring your host family?'
'Chocolate.'
'Chocolate.' She sighed.
'I'm afraid I'll accidentally eat it all before I get there,' I said, following the rule that you had to pretend to have this problem where you couldn't resist chocolate. ~ Elif Batuman,#NFDB
1211:You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
1212:I think someone could be near on at their deathbed, barely able to get out of bed in their final throes, and still not be able to resist the smell of frying bacon and hot coffee on a wet morning. They would postpone the afterlife for one last breakfast; ~ Michael Hiebert, #NFDB
1213:The continual emotion that is felt in the theater excites us, enervates us, enfeebles us, and makes us less able to resist our passions. And the sterile interest taken in virtue serves only to satisfy our vanity without obliging us to practice it. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, #NFDB
1214:The not so simple Truth is that we must be psychologically free in order to resist and we must resist in order to be free, and all of this requires an understanding of what bondage has been, of what it continues to be and of its ramifications for the future. ~ Mari Evans, #NFDB
1215:Change is inevitable in life. You can either resist it and potentially get run over by it, or you can choose to cooperate with it, adapt to it, and learn how to benefit from it. When you embrace change you will begin to see it as an opportunity for growth. ~ Jack Canfield, #NFDB
1216:everything comes if a man would only wait. I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose, must accomplish it and that nothing can resist a will that will stake even existence for its fulfillment”. ~ Earl Nightingale, #NFDB
1217:He pressed a kiss on her shoulder, enjoying the way she shivered. "What is it?"
There was a long pause, then a wobbly breath. "Why can't I resist you?"
"Because you don't want to."
Before she could reply, he spun her around and kissed her again. ~ Elle Kennedy,#NFDB
1218:No matter how Palestinians resist, they are shot, beaten, arrested, tortured, bombed, segregated, and collectively punished. The problem isn't the mode of Palestinian resistance, it is the existence of Palestinians on their land that Israel takes issue with. ~ Remi Kanazi, #NFDB
1219:The blamers resist change because they do not need to change, at least from their perspective. The problems all reside with other people and other situations. They don’t see anything wrong with themselves. Blamers will blame. Blamers do not want to change. ~ Thom S Rainer, #NFDB
1220:There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
1221:When leaders wonder what they can do to position their societies for the industries of the future, they need to open up and resist control-freak tendencies. The 21st century is a terrible time to be a control freak; future grown depends on empowering people. ~ Alec J Ross, #NFDB
1222:Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. ~ George Orwell in "Why I Write," Gangrel (Summer 1946)., #NFDB
1223:By this point, readers will probably they have endured enough of Nabokov's trashing of his rivals, and yet I cannot resist including just one last blast. By all means, feel free to skip it, especially if your stomach is turned by extreme boorishness. ~ Douglas R Hofstadter, #NFDB
1224:I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about. ~ Emma Thompson, #NFDB
1225:Ironically it is GMO plants—many of which are designed to resist insects and other forms of blight and thereby require greatly reduced levels of chemicals, if any—that offer the best hope for reversing environmental assault from chemicals such as pesticides. ~ Ray Kurzweil, #NFDB
1226:I was about to say that we all hurt the ones we love. That we can’t help it and that for some reason, we’re just defective like that. Maybe because those we love most bring out the very best and the worst in us, and in some twisted way, we resist that magic. ~ Rachael Wade, #NFDB
1227:People who entered the Courtyard without an invitation were just plain crazy! Wolves were big and scary and so fluffy, how could anyone resist hugging one just to feel all that fur?
“Ignore the fluffy,” she muttered. “Remember the part about big and scary. ~ Anne Bishop,#NFDB
1228:You’d get very rich if you thought of yourself as having a card with only twenty punches in a lifetime, and every financial decision used up one punch. You’d resist the temptation to dabble. You’d make more good decisions and you’d make more big decisions. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
1229:Naps improve the bedtime routine. A child who needs a nap but doesn't get one will get overtired throughout the day yet become hyperactive and resist the idea of bedtime when it arrives. An overtired child may find it difficult to fall asleep at bedtime. ~ Elizabeth Pantley, #NFDB
1230:You have charms, Segnora, which might captivate the most insensible; No heart unoccupied could resist them. Happy is it for me that mine is no longer in my possession; or I should have to reproach myself for ever with having violated the Laws of Hospitality. ~ Matthew Lewis, #NFDB
1231:You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
~ Hermann Hesse,#NFDB
1232:Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties - French characteristics remained unaltered twenty centuries after Julius Caesar made a note of them for all time. ~ Frederick Rolfe, #NFDB
1233:HOW STRANGE THAT THE NATURE OF LIFE is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be. This ~ Elizabeth Lesser, #NFDB
1234:In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than at any time since she was a small child. She also needs emotional support and protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist. ~ Caitlin Flanagan, #NFDB
1235:In no time at all, I find myself crying again. It’s impossible to resist the kindness of strangers. Someone who looks at you, who doesn’t know you, who tells you it’s OK, whatever you did, whatever you’ve done: you suffered, you hurt, you deserve forgiveness. ~ Paula Hawkins, #NFDB
1236:In several experiments, people were able to resist the effects of ego depletion when given a strong incentive to do so. In contrast, increasing effort is not an option when you must keep six digits in short-term memory while performing a task. Ego depletion ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB
1237:My slumbers--if I slumber--are not sleep,
But a continuance of enduring thought,
Which then I can resist not: in my heart
There is a vigil, and these eyes but close
To look within; and yet I live, and bear
The aspect and the form of breathing men. ~ Lord Byron,#NFDB
1238:On the pavement near my car are the smashed skeletons of two baby birds, their flattened beaks and wings making them look reptilian. They’ve been there for a year. I can’t resist looking at them each time I get in my car. We need a good flood, wash them away. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
1239:They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB
1240:You may take my purse; but I cannot have my moral Self annihilated. The purse is any Highwayman's who might meet me with a loaded pistol: but the Self is mine and God my Maker's; it is not yours; and I will resist you to the death, and revolt against you ... ~ Thomas Carlyle, #NFDB
1241:Do what boxers do, sway with the punches. Don’t resist. If any of what happens at work gets to you, just let it. You won’t be able to shut it out in the long term anyway. Take it bit by bit, release it like a dam, don’t let it collect until the wall develops cracks. ~ Jo Nesb, #NFDB
1242:I did though at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert. ~ Monica Lewinsky, #NFDB
1243:I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
1244:Lead me, Zeus, lead me, Destiny, To the goal I was long ago assigned And I will follow without hesitation. Even should I resist, In a spirit of perversity, I will have to follow nonetheless. [2] Whoever yields to necessity graciously We account wise in God’s ways. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
1245:Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out the past in this manner, life for them would lose all dignity and they could never resist the fatal familiarities to which they once submitted. ~ Honore de Balzac, #NFDB
1246:that we must suffer, suffer into truth.
We cannot sleep, and drop by drop at the heart
the pain of pain remembered comes again
and we resist, but ripeness comes as well.
From the gods enthroned on the awesome rowing-bench
there comes a violent love. ~ Aeschylus,#NFDB
1247:When a condition or situation that the mind has attached itself to and identified with changes or disappears, the mind cannot accept it. It will cling to the disappearing condition and resist the change. It is almost as if a limb were being torn off your body. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
1248:Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs though, it's intimate and psychological, a mystery resist to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul. ~ Barbara Ehrenreich, #NFDB
1249:Do not add to the cross in your life by becoming so busy that you have no time to sit quietly before God. Do not resist what God brings into your life. Be willing to suffer if that is what is needed. Overactivity and stubbornness will only increase your anguish. ~ Gene Edwards, #NFDB
1250:For the most part, people strenuously resist any redefinition of morality, because it shakes them to the very core of their being to think that in pursuing virtue they may have been feeding vice, or in fighting vice they may have in fact been fighting virtue. ~ Stefan Molyneux, #NFDB
1251:If you can't resist a burger craving, then go for it, but take off the cheese (that saves you at least 120 calories), avoid special sauces, and make burger "topless"---eat only one side of the bun. Or you can wrap the burger in lettuce and forget the bun entirely. ~ Bob Harper, #NFDB
1252:Knew you couldn’t resist me,” he says softly. I can only laugh. “Against all the odds, no,” I admit. “I can’t.” “Then I’m a happy man, Dr. Romera,” he says, letting his eyelids sink closed for a moment. “Because from the moment I saw you…I haven’t stood a chance. ~ Callie Hart, #NFDB
1253:In all cultures mothers try to shape sons in their female image. For their own good. The boys resist—and the rite of passage helps this resistance. There is always symbolism involved, because symbols are a way to represent the myths that underlie every culture. ~ Harry Harrison, #NFDB
1254:It’s delicious, ingenious, perfect, intelligent that you never felt like you fit in. It means that you were always alive, and therefore unique and irreplaceable, designed to resist any kind of labeling whatsoever, unable to be pinned down or reduced to a category. ~ Jeff Foster, #NFDB
1255:Pandora, meet my brothers, Leonardo and Michelangelo."
"Like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?" she couldn't resist asking.
"Like the Renaissance painters," Leo snapped. He exchanged a snarl with his twin brother. "I seriously hate those damned turtles. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
1256:...prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came. ~ Barbara Kingsolver, #NFDB
1257:The amazing thing about Trump is that he is so completely predictable. Hillary Clinton knows that if she teases him about either his wealth, his taxes, the women who are coming after him or his preposterous claims of being against the Iraq war, he cannot resist. ~ James Fallows, #NFDB
1258:The salient mystery of Dark Ages sets the stage for mass amnesia. People living in vigorous cultures typically treasure those cultures and resist any threat to them. How and why can a people so totally discard a formerly vital culture that it becomes vitally lost? ~ Jane Jacobs, #NFDB
1259:I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years. ~ Tony Hoare, #NFDB
1260:I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house. ~ Mary Stewart, #NFDB
1261:If I was being candid with her, she’d only find out that I felt something for her that could only be the equivalent of a gravitational pull towards the center of the earth. She was a magnet for me and I was powerless to resist. It was more than a mere attraction. ~ Fisher Amelie, #NFDB
1262:Maybe that's all bravery is: when your hunger is greater than your fear. I resist the implication that bravery is noble. I must face the things that scare me in order to survive. And survival is not noble. It is not a sacrifice of self but in service to the self. ~ Melissa Febos, #NFDB
1263:To survive, every tradition must learn to remake or give birth to itself. Picasso said that tradition is having a baby, not wearing your father’s hat. Unless creativity is allowed to overcome the forces that resist change, there can be no future for an institution. ~ David Tacey, #NFDB
1264:We live in the shadow of crime with the unspoken understanding that we are victims.. of fear, of violence, of social impotence. A man has risen to show us that the power is, ans always has been, in our hands. We are under siege. He's showing us that we can resist. ~ Frank Miller, #NFDB
1265:All truths wait in all things,
They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it,
They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon,
The insignificant is as big to me as any,
(What is less or more than a touch?)”
-from "Song of Myself ~ Walt Whitman,#NFDB
1266:And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth but when people put a pretty bow on scary things instead of saying, 'This is a nightmare. I hate everything. I’m going to go hide in the garage.' ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
1267:Chaler, who had finished his ale, left the cup where it was, making no effort to procure more, indicating that he was capable of what the natural philosopher calls "learning behaviour," which turn of phrase pleases us so much that we cannot resist making use of it. ~ Steven Brust, #NFDB
1268:Chalet, who had finished his ale, left the cup where it was, making no effort to procure more, indicating that he was capable of what the natural philosopher calls "learning behaviour," which turn of phrase pleases us so much that we cannot resist making use of it. ~ Steven Brust, #NFDB
1269:Christ is our righteousness, not that we should escape punishment, still less escape being righteous, but as the live potent creator of righteousness in us, so that we, with our wills receiving His spirit, shall like Him resist unto blood, striving against sin. ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
1270:In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense. ~ Michael Faraday, #NFDB
1271:One may surround himself with an aura of Prana, colored with strong positive thought, which will enable him to resist the adverse thought waves of others, and which will enable him to live serene in an atmosphere of antagonistic and inharmonious thought. ~ William Walker Atkinson, #NFDB
1272:You should be more careful, you know."
"Careful?" she managed to croak. "You're the one who knocked me over."
"I couldn't resist," he said, and he actually had the nerve to wink at her. "It's not often I get the chance to put my hands on such a beautiful woman. ~ Fiona Paul,#NFDB
1273:Like love, mourning affects the world—and the worldly—with unreality, with importunity. I resist the world, I suffer from what it demands of me, from its demands. The world increases my sadness, my dryness, my confusion, my irritation, etc. The world depresses me. ~ Roland Barthes, #NFDB
1274:The next time you experience a creative block, resist the temptation to doubt yourself, or to put in more blind effort. Stop and ask yourself what kind of block you are experiencing. Once you’re clear about the nature of the problem, it will be easier to solve it. ~ Jocelyn K Glei, #NFDB
1275:Thir no fuckin swaggerin aroond Leith, fuckin well surein thair no. A bunch ay fuckin sheepshaggers wi thair diddy European Cup Winner's Cup, comin doon here, drinkin in oor pubs, chattin up oor... Franco hesitates, looks at Tommy.
Tommy can't resist it. — Sheep? ~ Irvine Welsh,#NFDB
1276:Two are better off than one, because together they can work more effectively. If one of them falls down, the other can help him up…Two people can resist an attack that would defeat one person alone. A rope made of three cords is hard to break.” Ecclesiastes 4:9 (TEV) ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
1277:We must recognise that duty and morality vary under different circumstances; not that the man who resists evil is doing what is always and in itself wrong, but that in the different circumstances in which he is placed it may become even his duty to resist evil. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1278:A hero is someone who can take off the armor, who can be vulnerable and show up anyway, experiencing what is really happening without trying to resist or run away. I saw that an act of heroism can be an action that happens on the inside without anyone else noticing. ~ Tracy Cochran, #NFDB
1279:But death wouldn’t deter her killer. It would whet his appetite. He’d look at her corpse and see only an object of desire. Someone he can control. She doesn’t resist him. She is cool, passive flesh, yielding to any and all indignities. She is the perfect lover. The ~ Tess Gerritsen, #NFDB
1280:Deborah agrees to accompany Barak, but can’t resist a jab at the sexism of the Israelite society: “Very well, I will go with you. However, there will be no glory for you in the course you are taking, for then the Lord will deliver Sisera into the hands of a woman ~ Joseph Telushkin, #NFDB
1281:Once you are present in the Energyfield of Self-discovery, it's like you are a piece of ice in warm water. The warm water is the Self. The ice is the mind. The warm water is not fighting with the ice. The ice can not resist the melting. It is a natural and fatal attraction. ~ Mooji, #NFDB
1282:The talk of sheltering woman from the fierce storms of life is the sheerest mockery, for they beat on her from every point of thecompass, just as they do on man, and with more fatal results, for he has been trained to protect himself, to resist, to conquer. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton, #NFDB
1283:When the wakening occurs—when once-naïve people recognize in themselves the seeds of evil and monstrosity, and see themselves as dangerous (at least potentially)— their fear decreases. They develop more self-respect. Then, perhaps, they begin to resist oppression. ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
1284:But our deepest difficulties cannot be resolved merely on a narrowly intellectual plane. Our deepest difficulty is sin, rebellion against God. We have desires in our hearts that resist the Bible’s views and what God has to say. We want to be our own master. ~ Vern Sheridan Poythress, #NFDB
1285:Curiously, people usually resist their good qualities even more emphatically than they resist facing their negative [ones]. There may be a character in your dream who behaves in a noble & courageous way. Since that inner person is part of you-its qualities are also you ~ Johnson, #NFDB
1286:Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem. ~ Billy Collins, #NFDB
1287:To his enemies the householder must be a hero. Them he must resist. That is the duty of the householder. He must not sit down in a corner and weep, and talk nonsense about non-resistance. If he does not show himself a hero to his enemies he has not done his duty. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1288:When there was a conversational lull, I remembered my duty and asked my guest about himself. I listened for quite some time as Marshall went on, noting with an inward smile how right Miss Sarah had been when she said that no man could resist talking about himself. ~ Kathleen Grissom, #NFDB
1289:Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions. ~ Henry Ford, #NFDB
1290:You know, I do have some ability to resist your charms, Marco.” He smiled at her as he held the passenger side door open. “I’m trained to break through the enemy’s front line.” “So you think of me as the enemy?” “No, not really. Just as someone I need to conquer. ~ Melissa Schroeder, #NFDB
1291:I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. ~ John Polkinghorne, #NFDB
1292:Most important act for the future is to become aware of our darkness, to lower our moral sights, resist the desire to be perfect, recognize our complexity, become critical of conventional morality & search for a new balance that includes our dark side as well as the light ~ Tacey, #NFDB
1293:Owen had come along and I had fallen in love with him. I had not known then that it is not necessary to marry every man one loves. I know it now. Now I realize that it is marriage which is the great temptation for a woman, and that one can, and perhaps should, resist ~ Anita Brookner, #NFDB
1294:The key here isn’t to avoid or even to reduce the total amount of time you spend engaging in distracting behavior, but is instead to give yourself plenty of opportunities throughout your evening to resist switching to these distractions at the slightest hint of boredom. ~ Cal Newport, #NFDB
1295:When the wakening occurs—when once-naïve people recognize in themselves the seeds of evil and monstrosity, and see themselves as dangerous (at least potentially)— their fear decreases. They develop more self-respect. Then, perhaps, they begin to resist oppression. ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
1296:Our country demands all our strength, all our energies. To resist the powerful combination now forming against us will require every man at his place. If victorious, we will have everything to hope for in the future. If defeated, nothing will be left for us to live for. ~ Robert E Lee, #NFDB
1297:Sexual relations are driven not by what is good, in evolutionary terms, for men or for women, but for their chromosomes. The ability to seduce a woman was good for Y chromosomes in the past; the ability to resist seduction by a man was good for X chromosomes in the past. ~ Matt Ridley, #NFDB
1298:We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both. ~ Tiffany Madison, #NFDB
1299:You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1300:But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who show me affection, or submit to punishment when I feel it is deserved. ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
1301:Every generation of cancer cells creates a small number of cells that is genetically different from its parents. When a chemotherapeutic drug or the immune system attacks cancer, mutant clones that can resist the attack grow out. The fittest cancer cell survives. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee, #NFDB
1302:It is so much more straightforward, more dramatic, impressive & therefore more convincing, to see all the things that happen to me than to observe how I make them happen. Indeed, the animal nature of man makes him resist seeing himself as the maker of his circumstances. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
1303:But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who show me affection, or submit to punishment when I feel it is deserved. ~ Charlotte Bronte, #NFDB
1304:Kestrel's cruel calculation appalled her. This was part of what had made her resist the military: the fact that she could make decisions like this, that she did have a mind for strategy, that people could be so easily become pieces in a game she was determined to win... ~ Marie Rutkoski, #NFDB
1305:supposed to go down, find the deepest well and go down to the bottom. When there’s no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries up. If everything dries up, the world is darkness. ‘I am he and / He is me: / Spring nightfall.’ Abandon the self, and there ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1306:The obsession with which those on the right resist Charles Darwin’s insight – that the complexity of nature does not imply a designer – matches the obsession with which those on the left resist Adam Smith’s insight – that the complexity of society does not imply a planner. ~ Matt Ridley, #NFDB
1307:Arranged marriages are just an effort for you to know that your wife is with you. All religions resist divorce for the simple reason that if divorce is allowed, then the basic purpose marriage was invented for is destroyed. The basic purpose was to give you a companion, a lifelong ~ Osho, #NFDB
1308:A Yorkshireman once said to me, ‘My county folk are all alike. Their first thought is how to resist. Why! I myself, if I hear a man say it is a fine day, catch myself trying to find out that it is no such thing. It is so in thought; it is so in word; it is so in deed. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell, #NFDB
1309:I know as well as any one, [the devil] is an adversary, whom if we resist, he will fly from us--but I seldom resist him at all; from a terror, that though I may conquer, I may still get a hurt in the combat--soinstead of thinking to make him fly, I generally fly myself. ~ Laurence Sterne, #NFDB
1310:In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience! If you have to choose between the audience and the art, always choose the second! You must know that the audience will constantly pull you down; resist it and fly at the heights like an eagle! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1311:no Black Magic can affect the man or woman who knows his or her real place in nature, his or her real powers to resist the practices of those who have acquired bits of occult knowledge without the spiritual growth which would teach them how to use same properly. ~ William Walker Atkinson, #NFDB
1312:Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows of nature. If you don’t let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood! I am utterly convinced of this. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
1313:Two are better off than one, because together they can work more effectively. If one of them falls down, the other can help him up. . . . Two people can resist an attack that would defeat one person alone. A rope made of three cords is hard to break.” ECCLESIASTES 4:9 (TEV) ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB
1314:You have to be a whole, dignified, self-respecting person in order to be an English teacher or whatever kind of job your education would prepare you for, and I just knew that segregation was wrong, and I knew that I should not be going along with it. That I should resist it. ~ Diane Nash, #NFDB
1315:And there's no way I'm leaving you alone with Prince Perfect."
"So you don't trust me to resist his charms?"
"I don't even trust myself. I've never seen anyone work a crowd the way he does. I'm pretty sure the rocks and trees are getting ready to swear fealty to him. ~ Leigh Bardugo,#NFDB
1316:C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist. ~ Philip Yancey, #NFDB
1317:Every life contains the seed of death,” he had explained to Tin Win repeatedly in those first years of their friendship. Death, like birth, was a part of life that no one could escape. It was senseless to resist it. Far better to accept it as natural than to fear it. ~ Jan Philipp Sendker, #NFDB
1318:Rebecca saw red.The urge she had to fly at Elizabeth with her nails bared was too compelling. She couldn't resist it. That Elizabeth immediately stomped off wasn't going to stop her. She was going to cause the worst scandal London had seen in decades,and she didn't care! ~ Johanna Lindsey, #NFDB
1319:We don’t always get to decide which course we go down or know which mountains we’ll face. Yet we always have the most important choice there is: whether to resist, or to give ourselves over to the twists and turns of the terrain. As it goes in snowboarding, so it goes in life. ~ Amy Purdy, #NFDB
1320:Any ironic or irreverent disciple of Voltaire will find it difficult to resist making the obvious remark that, things being what they are, purity can be maintained only so long as there are innocent creatures to sacrifice in this world, whether turtledoves, lambs, or others. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
1321:Fuck How was I supposed to resist her.
Never had a woman stared at me the way Willa did. She looked at me like I was a king. The adoration in her eyes had nothing to do with my face or body. She saw straight to my center, and it was the sexiest thing I’d ever seen. ~ Devney Perry,#NFDB
1322:In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet. ~ John Ruskin, #NFDB
1323:Nevertheless, I think that the content should be accessible to many people, if they put some thought into it and resist the temptation to instantaneously misunderstand each new idea by assimilating it with the most similar-sounding cliché available in their cultural larders. ~ Nick Bostrom, #NFDB
1324:[Political] conventions lend themselves to pandering, as few politicians can resist the temptation to tell a national television audience how well they will run the country if elected. The problem is that government is not supposed to run the country - we're supposed to be free. ~ Ron Paul, #NFDB
1325:Quite clearly, the one thing the dominant culture cannot tolerate or co-opt is compassion, the ability to stand in solidarity with the victims of the present order. It can manage charity and good intentions, but it has no way to resist solidarity with pain or grief. So ~ Walter Brueggemann, #NFDB
1326:The Iron Child culture was contagious; it was hard for kids and parents to resist the pressure to study more and more. But all the while, they complained that the fixation on rankings and test scores was crushing their spirit, depriving them not just of sleep but of sanity. ~ Amanda Ripley, #NFDB
1327:I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level. ~ Barbara Kruger, #NFDB
1328:She had not thought it would be so easy to slip into the old roles. Cambridge had changed her fundamentally and she thought she was immune. No one in her family, however, noticed the transformation in her, and she was not able to resist the power of their habitual expectations. ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB
1329:Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile. ~ Edward Zwick, #NFDB
1330:To ensure that they had a working mechanism by which to resist the expansion of federal power, the architects of our Constitution hard-wired the state legislatures into its structure; with the 17th Amendment, progressives pulled out that wiring like punch-drunk Jacobins. ~ Charles C W Cooke, #NFDB
1331:I am always amazed by the novel angles that people come up with for kids' Christmas books. Even if a family is not religious, who could resist, say, "Olive, the Other Reindeer," about Olive the dog who thinks the song refers to her and heads for the North Pole to help Santa out? ~ Jabari Asim, #NFDB
1332:Leigh did what any sane female faced with such an e-mail would do: deleted it to resist the temptation of replying, cleared her trash to resist the temptation of recalling it, and then called tech support to restore all her recently deleted e-mails. (Chasing Harry Winston) ~ Lauren Weisberger, #NFDB
1333:Pakistan presents an example of how more than six decades of ossified historical inaccuracies and distortion can resist the sanitizing effect of the global information technology revolution and the resulting expansion of access to abundant—if, alas, low-quality—information. ~ C Christine Fair, #NFDB
1334:Something of the hermit's temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to pursue important work in spite of general indifference or hostility, and arrive at opinions which are opposed to prevalent errors. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
1335:The Smile won Matthew extra time before bed, extra Christmas pudding, extra anything he wanted. Adults were helpless to resist The Smile.
Matthew gave his all to this particular smile. Butter melted. Birds sang. People slipped about dazed amid the butter and birdsong. ~ Cassandra Clare,#NFDB
1336:The state can't give you free speech, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free... ~ Utah Phillips, #NFDB
1337:But if the stories of the men and women who did oppose Nazi rule are still not widely known, it is in part because they shame those who did not resist, whether owing to a preoccupation with survival, lack of opportunity, weakness of character, or active support for the Nazi regime. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1338:Exempted from automatic execution, it appears, are Christians who do not resist their new government. Baghdadi permits them to live, as long as they pay a special tax, known as the jizya , and acknowledge their subjugation. The Koranic authority for this practice is not in dispute. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1339:From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It is what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prisoner to resist, the singer to sing her song, hardly appreciated, on a side street. ~ Mark Helprin, #NFDB
1340:I could resist no longer. The love, the desire tearing apart my sould was more than I could bear. I allowed him to take my arm, allowed myself to melt into him, to close my eyes and inhale once more his scent of lavender and winter skies as we walked together towards the orchards. ~ Kailin Gow, #NFDB
1341:I hurried to the bed. But the sight of Quinn’s ass was too beautiful to resist and I quickly dropped to my knees behind him. The height of the bed gave me the perfect angle and I gave Quinn no warning whatsoever as I split him open with my hands and then dove in with my mouth. ~ Sloane Kennedy, #NFDB
1342:Come thaw my frozen heart, my little arctic kitten.”
Unable to resist, Aria jumped in and picked up the next line. “No chance, my yeti man, I’d rather be frostbitten.”
“Let me be your snowman. Come live in my igloo.”
“I’d rather freeze to death than hibernate with you. ~ Veronica Rossi,#NFDB
1343:He was raw, untapped power, a storm trapped inside a bottle, and I got the feeling he raged day and night, no matter what. It felt unsafe being so close to him, like I was being drawn closer and closer against my will, and no matter how hard I tried to resist him, I just couldn’t. ~ Callie Hart, #NFDB
1344:I am not only not prepared to bring forward any measure of this nature, but I will at once declare that, as far as I am concerned, as long as I hold any station in the Government of the country, I shall always feel it my duty to resist such measures when proposed by others. ~ Duke of Wellington, #NFDB
1345:The family is constantly changing, as each member changes. Some changes we recognize as developments, and the pleasure they bringusually makes us more adaptable. Some changes threaten, or disappoint other members, who may try to resist the change, or punish someone for changing. ~ Terri E Apter, #NFDB
1346:The temptation to start each day with several glazed donuts and to end it with an extramarital affair might be difficult for some people to resist, for reasons that are easily understood in evolutionary terms, but there are surely better ways to maximize one’s long-term well-being. ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB
1347:And I was lost. I could never resist a face toucher. I loved the feeling of being so treasured by someone. I wasn’t laboring under any delusions that Talon Steel treasured me, but oh, the touch of his calloused fingers on my bare cheek… I was in heaven, floating on a magical cloud. ~ Helen Hardt, #NFDB
1348:Given all that history has shown us of the consequences of technology - from the atlatl spear to the A-bomb - why have so few groups of human beings managed to resist the incursions of technology? Or be choosy about the extent to which they'll employ a technological innovation? ~ Stephanie Mills, #NFDB
1349:I didn’t toss aside my plan to steer clear of meaningless rebound flings because I can’t resist a French maid costume. I didn’t say yes to bedding my boss, the woman signing my paychecks, because you showed up at my door looking like a male fantasy. I couldn’t resist you.” “You ~ Sara Jane Stone, #NFDB
1350:I don’t know who or what you will compare yourself to when you start to hustle, but I promise you will find competition. That is a temptation that even the best of us can’t resist. But when you do, let the competition serve as a source of motivation, not a source of measurement. Then ~ Jon Acuff, #NFDB
1351:I turned myself to other things, and I saw the oppressions that are done under the sun, and the tears of the innocent, and they had no comforter; and they were not able to resist their violence, being destitute of help from any. Eccles 4:2 And I praised the dead rather than the living: ~ Various, #NFDB
1352:This ahimsa is the basis of the search for truth. I am realizing every day that the search is vain unless it is founded on ahimsa as the basis. It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1353:What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system of chemical philosophy'), and this proved so rapidly fruitful that only a few of the older chemists in France and Britain were able to resist it. ~ Thomas Kuhn, #NFDB
1354:When the St. Louis Rams players walked onto the field on game day two weeks ago with their hands up, they were correct: That indication of surrender would have resulted in a completely different outcome for Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Both men, however, opted to resist the police. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1355:You defy beings that should cow you into silence. You resist forces that are inevitable for no more reason than that you believe they should be resisted. You bow your head to neither demons nor angels, and you put yourself in harm’s way to defend those who cannot defend themselves. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
1356:Knowledge of the way is not enough - one must tread it, or if one cannot do that, allow oneself to be carried along it. The human vital and physical external nature resist to the very end, but if the soul has once heard the call, it arrives, sooner or later. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II, #NFDB
1357:Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution. ~ Chris Christie, #NFDB
1358:People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try to resist it. Rather, they adjust their every movement to the watercourse, use it with purpose and skill, and enjoy the adventure. ~ David Steindl Rast, #NFDB
1359:The system concedes nothing without demand, for it formulates its very method of operation on the basis that the ignorant will learn to know, the child will grow into an adult and therefore demands will begin to be made. It gears itself to resist demands in whatever way it sees fit. ~ Steven Biko, #NFDB
1360:When a people lose the courage to resist encroachment on their rights, then they can’t be saved by an outside force. Our belief is that people always have the kind of government they want and that individuals must bear the risks of freedom, even to the extent of giving their lives. ~ A E van Vogt, #NFDB
1361:Belgium, where there occurred one of the rare appearances of the hero in history, was lifted above herself by the uncomplicated conscience of her King and, faced with the choice to acquiesce or resist, took less than three hours to make her decision, knowing it might be mortal. ~ Barbara W Tuchman, #NFDB
1362:Doubt is God’s instrument, will arrive in God’s time, and will come from unexpected places—places out of your control. And when it does, resist the fight-or-flight impulse. Pass through it—patiently, honestly, and courageously for however long it takes. True transformation takes time. ~ Peter Enns, #NFDB
1363:Factfulness is … recognizing when a scapegoat is being used and remembering that blaming an individual often steals the focus from other possible explanations and blocks our ability to prevent similar problems in the future. To control the blame instinct, resist finding a scapegoat. ~ Hans Rosling, #NFDB
1364:Is what’s manifesting as a fear actually some instinct to resist being young? Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it’s too late. Is the sense of imminent death bound up in the desire to leave some kind of a legacy? ~ Lena Dunham, #NFDB
1365:Sure, they only had ten days to stop the giants from waking Gaia. Sure, he could die before dinnertime. But he loved being told that something was impossible. It was like someone handing him a lemon meringue pie and telling him not to throw it. He just couldn’t resist the challenge. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1366:Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1367:I ask permission to be like everybody else,like the rest of the world and what's more, like anybody else:I beg you, with all my heart,if we are talking about me, since we are talking about me,please resist blasting the trumpet during my visitand resign yourselves to my quiet absence. ~ Pablo Neruda, #NFDB
1368:I could not resist the clarity of the world in books, the incredibly satisfying way in which life became weighty and accessible. Books were reality. I hadn't made up my own mind about my own life, a vague, dreamy affair, amorphous and dimly perceived, without beginning or end. ~ Frank Conroy, #NFDB
1369:Robin Goodfellow is a very old faerie. Not only that, he has ballads, poems, and stories written about him, so he is very near immortal, as long as humans remember them. Not to say he is immune to iron and technology-far from it. Puck is strong, but even he cannot resist the effects. ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
1370:They would know that inconsistency in human decision can make nonsense of the best-planned espionage approach; that cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a Departmental canteen. ~ John le Carr, #NFDB
1371:This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise, and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal which is also very wise. No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time to trying to understand it. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
1372:As in everything else, I must start with myself. That is: in all circumstances try to be decent, just, tolerant, and understanding, and at the same time try to resist corruption and deception. In other words, I must do my utmost to act in harmony with my conscience and my better self. ~ Vaclav Havel, #NFDB
1373:Christ said, "Resist not evil", and we do not understand it until we discover that it is not only moral but actually the best policy, for anger is loss of energy to the man who displays it. You should not allow your minds to come into those brain-combinations of anger and hatred. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
1374:Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force? How can a truly “free” state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot. ~ Tiffany Madison, #NFDB
1375:But the Modern Utopia must not be static but kinetic, must shape not as a permanent state but as a hopeful stage, leading to a long ascent of stages. Nowadays we do not resist and overcome the great stream of things, but rather float upon it. We build now not citadels, but ships of state. ~ H G Wells, #NFDB
1376:It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation. ~ Judith Butler, #NFDB
1377:It’s uncomfortable to stand up in front of strangers. It’s uncomfortable to propose an idea that might fail. It’s uncomfortable to challenge the status quo. It’s uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle. When you identify the discomfort, you’ve found the place where a leader is needed. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
1378:When people are in a positive frame of mind, they think more quickly, and are more likely to collaborate and problem-solve (instead of fight and resist). It applies to the smile-er as much as to the smile-ee: a smile on your face, and in your voice, will increase your own mental agility. ~ Chris Voss, #NFDB
1379:God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people. ~ Francois Fenelon, #NFDB
1380:I look for women I know are gonna bust me up good. Come on, man, who can resist that? Who can resist that emotional pain? Yeah, they all have the same line, they're so sweet: I'm not gonna hurt you like all the others. Really I'm not. I'm gonna introduce you to a whole new level of pain! ~ Sam Kinison, #NFDB
1381:In the bar, the jukebox comes on. Molley must be trying to drown out the sounds of raised voices. I move toward her, unable to resist; her eyes are wet, her face flushed, and I can finally look at her, want her, let myself touch her without grief turning everything to ashes in my mouth. ~ Amie Kaufman, #NFDB
1382:it is incredibly difficult to resist our desire to form narratives, to tell stories even if they may not be altogether correct, or correct at all. We like simplicity. We like concrete reasons. We like causes. We like things that make intuitive sense (even if that sense happens to be wrong) ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1383:Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace. ~ E B White, #NFDB
1384:Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good -- we are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know -- and the masses have no right whatsoever to resist them. ~ W H Auden, #NFDB
1385:Often, as we lay on our faces, a granite boulder, as large as a village church, would start out of the bottom apparently, and seem climbing up rapidly to the surface, till presently it threatened to touch our faces, and we could not resist the impulse to seize an oar and avert the danger. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1386:Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines would compete unfairly for limited financial resources and thus diminish their own opportunity for research. ~ Hannes Alfven, #NFDB
1387:If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry should soon be expected. Our forefathers were alert to resist all encroachments upon their rights. If we wish to maintain our rights, we can do no less. ~ Calvin Coolidge, #NFDB
1388:Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little ways in which we resist the pull. Our status is backed by the solid buildings of the world, while our sense of personal identity often resides in the cracks ~ Erving Goffman, #NFDB
1389:We make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true; if we dislike an individual we adamantly resist changing our opinion, even when somebody offers proof of his decency, because it's vital to have myths about both the gods and devils in our lives. ~ Marlon Brando, #NFDB
1390:Coffee is for winners, go-getters, tea-ignorers, lunch-cancellers, early-risers, guilt-ridden strivers, money obsessives and status-driven spiritually empty lunatics. It is an enervating force. We should resist it and embrace tea, the ancient drink of poets, philosophers and meditators. ~ Tom Hodgkinson, #NFDB
1391:Freedom is not something we have, there is no such thing as freedom. Freedom is a quality of our personality: we are more or less free to resist pressure, more or less free to do what we want and to be ourselves. Freedom is always a question of increasing freedom one has, or decreasing it. ~ Erich Fromm, #NFDB
1392:I felt him and didn’t resist the power draw. I knew Aden would never do something like that unless he was in danger.” And that, Zaira thought, was why she had always trusted Vasic. Even when she’d been jealous of him, she’d known he wouldn’t hesitate to stand with Aden against any threat. ~ Nalini Singh, #NFDB
1393:Mr. Peter was sorry for every terrible thing he did to us. Mr. Peter couldn’t resist two beautiful little girls. Mr. Peter wanted us so bad he couldn’t help himself. Mr. Peter was an old man now, could never hurt another little girl. Mr. Peter begged for our forgiveness. We were young once. ~ Roxane Gay, #NFDB
1394:Nevertheless, I think that the content should be accessible to many people, if they put some thought into it and resist the temptation to instantaneously misunderstand each new idea by assimilating it with the most similar-sounding cliché available in their cultural larders. Non-technical ~ Nick Bostrom, #NFDB
1395:Take my advice, dear reader, don’t talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram. ~ Joseph P Farrell, #NFDB
1396:When a people lose the courage to resist encroachment on their rights, then they can’t be saved by an outside force. Our belief is that people always have the kind of government they want and that individuals must bear the risks of freedom, even to the extent of giving their lives.” There ~ A E van Vogt, #NFDB
1397:Will that branch hold two?” I said, looking at it.
“Maybe. The question is whether you’re willing to risk it.”
I swung onto the branch and started sidling out.
He grinned. “Dumb question, wasn’t it?”
“It was.”
“You can’t resist me.”
“No, I can’t resist a dare. ~ Kelley Armstrong,#NFDB
1398:Every writer is first a member of a community of readers, and the deepest purpose of reading and writing fiction is to sustain a sense of connectedness, to resist existential loneliness; and so a novel deserves a reader’s attention only as long as the author sustains the reader’s trust. ~ Jonathan Franzen, #NFDB
1399:It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ~ Colette, #NFDB
1400:The time has come to lower our voices, to cease imposing our mechanistic patterns on the biological processes of the earth, to resist the impulse to control, to command, to force, to oppress, and to begin quite humbly to follow the guidance of the larger community on which all life depends. ~ Thomas Berry, #NFDB
1401:The world needs you. It doesn't need you at a party having read a book about how to appear smart at parties - these books exist, and they're tempting - but resist falling into that trap. The world needs you at the party starting real conversations, saying, 'I don't know,' and being kind. ~ Charlie Kaufman, #NFDB
1402:We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil, and it will somehow destroy itself. But why should it? What evidence is there that it does... unless conquered from the outside by military force? ~ George Orwell, #NFDB
1403:It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ~ Colette, #NFDB
1404:I understand how not even a priest can resist you when you want him. I can understand how love is something horrible and complex and hurting and something that still happens even if it shouldn't, and can't, and how one can want to be somebody else's world. I get it. And it fucking hurts. ~ Aleksandr Voinov, #NFDB
1405:Once burned and twice shy in love, Dara plans to study hard and graduate at the top of her law school class. Sean’s romantic overtures don’t tempt her. But Sean’s brother Mike is her new boss, and his piercing gaze and brooding presence are infinitely harder to resist. Dara’s internship at ~ Ann Christopher, #NFDB
1406:The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties. ~ Woodrow Wilson, #NFDB
1407:Things take care of themselves as long as you trust and don't try to control too much. Things will happen. Things tend to occur. Why resist what's inevitable? That's like swimming against the current, salmon notwithstanding. Go with the flow, you know? Glide with the glow, man. It's easier. ~ Tony Vigorito, #NFDB
1408:Trenear wants novelty, he does. But what I want is to go places where I’m not welcome--and for that, I’ll need to marry a highborn lady. It doesn’t matter to me that you’re not a virgin.”
“How fortunate,” Kathleen couldn’t resist saying acidly, “since virgins don’t appear to be your forte. ~ Lisa Kleypas,#NFDB
1409:Coward,” Pablo said bitterly. “You treat a man as coward because he has a tactical sense. Because he can see the results of an idiocy in advance. It is not cowardly to know what is foolish.” “Neither is it foolish to know what is cowardly,” said Anselmo, unable to resist making the phrase. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
1410:The tragedy is not that nonviolence did not work against the Nazis, but that it was so seldom utilized... The churches as a whole were too docile or anti-semitic, and too ignorant of the nonviolent message of the Gospel, to act effectively to resist the Nazis or act in solidarity with the Jews. ~ Walter Wink, #NFDB
1411:When people are in a positive frame of mind, they think more quickly, and are more likely to collaborate and problem-solve (instead of fight and resist). It applies to the smile-er as much as to the smile-ee: a smile on your face, and in your voice, will increase your own mental agility. Playful ~ Chris Voss, #NFDB
1412:Aversion is a form of bondage. We are tied to what we hate or fear. That is why, in our lives, the same problem, the same danger or difficulty, will present itself over and over again in various prospects, as long as we continue to resist or run away from it instead of examining it and solving it. ~ Patanjali, #NFDB
1413:I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice can never resist; that it was always in our power to obstruct, by his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives. ~ Charles Brockden Brown, #NFDB
1414:Speculators buy the trend; investors are in for the long haul; "they are a different breed of cats." One reason that people lose money today is that they have lost sight of this distinction; they profess to have the long term in mind and yet cannot resist following where the hot money has led. ~ Edwin Lef vre, #NFDB
1415:The inability to resist checking email or Facebook rather than focus on the person talking to us leads to what the sociologist Erving Goffman, a masterly observer of social interaction, called an “away,” a gesture that tells another person “I’m not interested” in what’s going on here and now. ~ Daniel Goleman, #NFDB
1416:Every time we linger in bad company whose insidious influence we know we cannot resist, every time we lie in bed when we ought to be up and praying, every time we read pornographic literature, every time we take a risk which strains our self-control, we are sowing, sowing, sowing to the flesh. ~ John R W Stott, #NFDB
1417:Glaucon’s story posed a moral question: could any man resist the temptation of evil if he knew his acts could not be witnessed? Glaucon seemed to think the answer was no. But Paul Feldman sides with Socrates and Adam Smith—for he knows that the answer, at least 87 percent of the time, is yes. ~ Steven D Levitt, #NFDB
1418:Things are different when you go back to them, they seem to have more power to enter into us more sadly, more deeply, more gently than before, to merge with the death which is slowly, pleasantly, sneakily growing inside us, and which we train ourselves to resist a little less each day. ~ Louis Ferdinand C line, #NFDB
1419:You are my siren,” he said, running his hands along her thighs and down her calves, feeling the shape of her even as the silk of her gown kept them both from what they wanted. “My temptress . . . my sorceress . . . I cannot resist you, no matter how I try. You threaten to send me over the edge. ~ Sarah MacLean, #NFDB
1420:Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law. ~ Edward Abbey, #NFDB
1421:Often leaders are so consumed by their personal values and agendas that they expect their followers to be as excited about what matters to them. They get angry with followers who resist or refuse to keep pace. Those who align with their goals are celebrated. The rest are condemned as selfish ~ Devdutt Pattanaik, #NFDB
1422:This philosophy of hate, of religious and racial intolerance, with its passionate urge toward war, is loose in the world. It is the enemy of democracy; it is the enemy of all the fruitful and spiritual sides of life. It is our responsibility, as individuals and organizations, to resist this. ~ Mary Heaton Vorse, #NFDB
1423:To rediscover Christian asceticism is urgent for believers who want to train their hearts, and the hearts of their children, to resist the hedonism and consumerism at the core of contemporary culture. And it is necessary to teach us in our bones how God uses suffering to purify us for His purposes. ~ Rod Dreher, #NFDB
1424:Truth is, I don't know what Deacon wants anymore - it's not just physical. Whatever it is must scare him, though, and I'm the one who ends up getting hurt. So I make the concerted effort to resist his temptation, even if sometimes I'd like nothing more than to surround myself with his affection. ~ Suzanne Young, #NFDB
1425:Democracy is about constant vigilance. It's not straightforward, there will always be setbacks and you get particular be it religious fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalism - a partly conservative approach and actually trying to put women in a more traditional role. And we have to resist that. ~ Mary Robinson, #NFDB
1426:Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others. ~ Hanna Rosin, #NFDB
1427:I never realized how literally we battle demons. Often alone. It is a relentless skirmish with vicious wraith-monsters devouring us from within. We Fight. And resist for a time. Ultimately, desperation forces a cry for help. But where oh where are the valiant knights? When did they die off? ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
1428:It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in numbers, has been rather carefully thought out...The seemingly miraculous concurrence of these numerical values must remain the most compelling evidence for cosmic design. ~ Paul Davies, #NFDB
1429:I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of daily life. ~ Michael Faraday, #NFDB
1430:I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of dally life. ~ Michael Faraday, #NFDB
1431:Often leaders are so consumed by their personal values and agendas that they expect their followers to be as excited about what matters to them. They get angry with followers who resist or refuse to keep pace. Those who align with their goals are celebrated. The rest are condemned as selfish. ~ Devdutt Pattanaik, #NFDB
1432:was there.” “Oh.” Well, hell. “Why exactly did you leave me out?” “Because we knew you would resist.” He narrowed his eyes. “What are you up to, Mother?” She sat back down and crossed her hands on the desk in front of her. The innocent look wasn’t cutting it. “I don’t want you feeling as if you have to ~ Kim Law, #NFDB
1433:What you resist, persists. What you look at disappears. That is, it ceases to have its illusory form. You see it for what it Is. And what Is can always be changed. It is only what Is Not that cannot be changed. Therefore, to change the Isness, move into it. Do not resist it. Do not deny it. ~ Neale Donald Walsch, #NFDB
1434:How long did you resist?” asks Uriel. “Did you push her away? Did you tell her she meant no more to you than any other animal? Oh, Raffe, did she die thinking you didn't care about her? How tragic. That must just tear you to pieces.”
Raffe looks up with murder in his eyes. “Don't. Talk. About. Her. ~ Susan Ee,#NFDB
1435:I am not one of those who have the least anxiety about the triumph of the principles I have stood for. I have seen fools resist Providence before, and I have seen their destruction, as will come upon these again, utter destruction and contempt. That we shall prevail is as sure as that God reigns. ~ Woodrow Wilson, #NFDB
1436:Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange. ~ Robert Kegan, #NFDB
1437:That's what women specialize in-demanding every scrap of humanity we have. Our hearts, our souls and our balls. You can fight it, my friend, but I've learned it's a whole lot smarter to hand it all over quietly. They're going to win in the end and if you resist, you only end up having to beg more. ~ Susan Mallery, #NFDB
1438:There are times when we do not recognize that it is time for us to move forward. When life is ready for us to move and we resist, life will move us by any means necessary. What may feel like a disaster is actually a graduation. Remain open to being guided, supported and protected by the universe. ~ Iyanla Vanzant, #NFDB
1439:A line from The Picture of Dorian Gray kept running through my head- a line which, I thought, might have been written by the Devil himself:
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. ~ Syrie James,#NFDB
1440:degree of maturity in the level of personal identification with social, political, or religious ideologies; second, an ability to resist regression when subject to group processes; and third, an ability to adhere to a value system of one’s own choosing as opposed to submitting to conventionality. ~ Otto F Kernberg, #NFDB
1441:Doubt is sacred. Doubt is God’s instrument, will arrive in God’s time, and will come from unexpected places—places out of your control. And when it does, resist the fight-or-flight impulse. Pass through it—patiently, honestly, and courageously for however long it takes. True transformation takes time. ~ Peter Enns, #NFDB
1442:Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock; and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us]. ~ Baruch Spinoza, #NFDB
1443:These unfortunates are distinguished by the prevalence of malicious feelings, which often arise at the most trivial provocation. They see enmity where none exists and indulge themselves in great fantasies of revenge and mischief; fantasies which they are then powerless to resist acting upon. ~ Graeme Macrae Burnet, #NFDB
1444:We need everybody and all that we are. We need to know and make known the complete, constantly unfolding, complicated heritage that is our black experience. We should absolutely resist the superstar, one at a time mentality that threatens the varied and resilient, flexible wealth of our Black future. ~ June Jordan, #NFDB
1445:I create books for six-year-olds. I don't know why that time of my life was so important to me, but no matter what I draw, it always looks like it comes from a children's book. I can't resist. I'll set out to paint a serious picture then think, "Well, maybe there would be a little bunny in that corner." ~ Jan Brett, #NFDB
1446:If we want to resist the powers that threaten to suppress intellectual and individual freedom, we must be clear what is at stake,” he said. “Without such freedom there would have been no Shakespeare, no Goethe, no Newton, no Faraday, no Pasteur, no Lister.” Freedom was a foundation for creativity. ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
1447:Keltar mates ne’er come easily to their men. Some travel distances too vast and strange to fathom, others travel but a short path, though a far distance in their hearts. Most resist every step of the way, yet for each Keltar, one woman will make that journey. ’Tis up to the Keltar to claim her. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
1448:When we rebuff the enemy in the name of Jesus Christ, when we stand our ground, when we resist his wiles and claim the victory of faith, when we shake off discouragement in the name of our Lord, Satan falls from heaven faster than lightning. He is drowned in the Red Sea of the blood of Jesus Christ. ~ Robert Morgan, #NFDB
1449:As a child, and since then too, I have always tended to resist any kind of a possessive affection on the part of any other human being—there has always been this profound instinct to keep clear, to keep free. And only with truly supernatural people have I ever felt really at my ease, really at peace. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
1450:He looked down at her, finding it difficult to resist the urge to climb over her prone body and kiss her senseless. “Would you mind telling me why you were drinking pear brandy in the middle of the afternoon?”
“Because I couldn’ open the sherry.”
His lips twitched.
-Marcus & Lillian ~ Lisa Kleypas,#NFDB
1451:It is hard to resist discussion of artificial history without a comment on the father of all pseudothinkers, Hegel. Hegel writes a jargon that is meaningless outside of a chic Left Bank Parisian café or the humanities department of some university extremely well insulated from the real world. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
1452:No husband comes in a perfect package. No husband can do it all. Your job as a wife is to fight to stay sensitive to your husband’s strengths. Resist the temptation to compare his weaknesses to another husband’s strengths, while forgetting your husband’s strengths and that other husband’s weaknesses. ~ Gary L Thomas, #NFDB
1453:The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon. ~ Eugene Ionesco, #NFDB
1454:For those who resist the notion that the mainstream is a genre, we recommend that they browse the shelves of their local bookstore. For if the mainstream is not a genre, then it must necessarily embrace all kinds of writing: romance, adventure, horror, thriller, crime, and, yes, science fiction. ~ James Patrick Kelly, #NFDB
1455:Michelle Miyamoto’s sporting a very small towel and golden brown skin that seems to stay tanned all year. Her long legs are hardly covered. I’ve never stared for so long. But I can’t resist. As one of the very few non-Amazon demigoddesses, there is no question why her strength goes unrivaled. Michelle’s ~ Kashif Ross, #NFDB
1456:You should let yourself be carried away, like the clouds in the sky. You shouldn’t resist. God exists in your destiny just as much as he does in these mountains and in that lake. It is very difficult to understand this, because man is moving further and further away from Nature, and also from himself. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
1457:At times, reality is love’s great challenge. When our old stories and dreams are shattered, our first instinct may be to resist, deny, or cling to the way things were. But if we loosen our grip, often what fills the space is a tender forgiveness and the potential for a new and different kind of love. ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB
1458:Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas -- to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation. ~ William J Clinton, #NFDB
1459:You might hear some ugly talk about it at school, but do one thing for me if you will: you just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat.Try fighting with your head for a change . . .it's a good one, even if it does resist learning. ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
1460:I want to kiss him so bad right now but I can’t. I told him we had to wait until that first date. Now I totally regret saying it, but I’m insanely stubborn so if I said it I can’t go back and change my mind. If I did, he’d know I was too weak to resist him. Which I am. But he doesn’t need to know that. ~ Allie Everhart, #NFDB
1461:Before he sat down, my internal heat-seekers sensed what was coming my way: deep blue eyes that melted girls like Velveeta in a microwave. I tried to resist those microwave eyes, but sometimes there's no defense against them. I had a feeling I'd be seeing him weeping over my coffin later that night. ~ Natalie Standiford, #NFDB
1462:It’s natural, at first, to resist this idea, as it’s undoubtedly easier to continue to allow the twin forces of internal whim and external requests to drive your schedule. But you must overcome this distrust of structure if you want to approach your true potential as someone who creates things that matter. ~ Cal Newport, #NFDB
1463:Yet, unless he sets up as a saint, he need not hate himself for them. He is better employed, as it humbly seems to me, in giving thanks that power to resist was vouchsafed to him, than in fretting over wicked impulses which come unsought and extort an unwilling hospitality from the weakness of our nature. ~ Anthony Hope, #NFDB
1464:You might hear some ugly talk about it at school, but do one thing for me if you will: you just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don’t you let ’em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change . . . it’s a good one, even if it does resist learning. ~ Harper Lee, #NFDB
1465:A name can be a curse. Some are dragged along by their name, like muddy river waters after a heavy shower, however much they may resist they’re propelled toward their destination…Others, on the contrary – their names are like masks that hide them, that deceive. Most have no power at all, of course. ~ Jos Eduardo Agualusa, #NFDB
1466:Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity, and biological reason that culture cannot reach and that reserves the right, which sooner or later it will exercise, to judge the culture and resist and revise it. ~ Lionel Trilling, #NFDB
1467:If you can't bear what's happening to the natural world, if you can't bear the way we treat each other; if you can't bear wars, you just can't bear the whole idea of war, which is possibly unavoidable. But still, you resist it. Because you just hate our treating each other that way and causing that suffering. ~ W S Merwin, #NFDB
1468:If my work has taught me anything, it is this: While a great many curiosities can be explained using thorough scientific research and sound logic, there are a handful of them that resist such easy hypothesis. These mysteries tend to be the most human. The most important.
Chief among them is love. ~ Sarah MacLean,#NFDB
1469:Last time I had a flat tire, I pulled my truck into one of those side-of-the-road gas stations. The attendant walks out, looks at my truck, looks at me, and I swear he said, Tire go flat? I couldn't resist. Said, Nope. I was driving around and those other three just swelled right up on me. Here's your sign. ~ Bill Engvall, #NFDB
1470:While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the Great King's army and demanded that the Greeks lay down their arms and submit to the might of Persia. Leonidas laconically told Xerxes, "Come and get them. ~ Plutarch, #NFDB
1471:Greece, alone, is in a very vulnerable position. If the Greeks had had support from progressive left and popular forces elsewhere in Europe they might have been able to resist the demands of the Troika, but they had almost no support. Not even from Portugal, Spain, or other left forces. They were left alone. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
1472:It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason. ~ Lord Acton, #NFDB
1473:It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, #NFDB
1474:Still canna resist the draw of the devil."
A tremor sliced through Farah at the old woman's words. Dougan had called himself a demon the first time they'd met. If that sweet boy had been a demon, then Dorian Blackwell certainly was the devil.
And Farah was, indeed, helpless to resist his dark allure. ~ Kerrigan Byrne,#NFDB
1475:The point?” said Mr. Weasley with a hollow laugh. “Harry, that’s their idea of fun. Half the Muggle killings back when You-Know-Who was in power were done for fun. I suppose they had a few drinks tonight and couldn’t resist reminding us all that lots of them are still at large. A nice little reunion for them, ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1476:Do you see why we must bind? I wore the chains for you, céadsearc, because I almost mated with you that first night… I have not taken from you because I burn for you… I wanted you to have a choice. Every day that I am near you… every day that I share your thoughts… it becomes more difficult to resist you. ~ Michele Bardsley, #NFDB
1477:It is as true for individuals as it is for the world itself: everything comes in waves. If you ride the waves of change, you succeed. If you ignore them, you fail. When the wave is down, most people resist it by trying to go up. When the wave goes up, you should go up with it. When it comes down, you go down. ~ Koichi Tohei, #NFDB
1478:Minds vary in sensitiveness and in self-power, as bodies do in susceptibility of attraction and repulsion. When, when shall we learn that they are governed by laws as inexorable as physical laws, and that a man can as easily refuse to obey what has power over him as a steel atom can resist the magnet? ~ James Anthony Froude, #NFDB
1479:Mustn’t. Damn, Braden had met a woman who used mustn’t in everyday conversation. Did she say other sexy words, like shan’t? How about something big, like wherewithal? Braden, I shan’t resist your commands, and I have the wherewithal to ride your cock all night. Oh, yeah. And Ky thought libraries were boring? ~ Allyson James, #NFDB
1480:There is no sound so sweet as the sound of chains that held folks back for so long falling noisily to the ground. And it's still true: Once we can reimagine and resist in significant numbers, we will rise again, reaching new heights and setting better foundations for living and loving, for building a new world. ~ Bill Ayers, #NFDB
1481:You may wish to capture a wild thing as you covet their unbreakable spirit, but as much as you may wish to tame a wild thing, a wild thing, who may grow to love you, will always resist and will do anything, at any cost, even if it means hurting you, to break free. Be careful when playing with a wild thing. ~ Donna Lynn Hope, #NFDB
1482:At a time when most movements that are thought to be progressive advocate further encroachments on individual liberty, those who cherish freedom are likely to expend their energies in opposition. In this they find themselves much of the time on the same side as those who habitually resist change. ~ Friedrich August von Hayek, #NFDB
1483:He was all healthy and in shape. She’d first poison him by introducing chocolate cake to his diet. And then bacon. No one could resist bacon. It was like the Borg from Star Trek. Any second now biomechanical humanoids would come marching out of the forest. “Resistance is futile. You will eat fattening chocolate. ~ Celia Kyle, #NFDB
1484:If I come back to you now, can we be what we were before life’s uncertain rhythms tore us so far apart? If I return today, will your arms gather me in, or will I be wrenched away, snatched by riptide I have no power to resist? If I find my way to you, one man standing in a crowd, will I even know who you are? ~ Ellen Hopkins, #NFDB
1485:If this story has a soul, it is in the decisions made by its principal characters to resist the temptation of easy money and to pay special attention to the spirit in which they live their working lives. I didn’t write about them because they were controversial. I wrote about them because they were admirable. ~ Michael Lewis, #NFDB
1486:I remember once waiting for the Tube and thinking, as its oncoming headlights gleamed brighter in the tunnel, I could just jump. Not because I wanted to die, but because sometimes your mind dangles the worst-case behavior in front of you specifically so that you can be aware that you’re choosing to resist it. ~ Heather Cocks, #NFDB
1487:It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
1488:The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from which it derives strength to resist all temptations to sins of impurity, and by which it is more intimately united with the Divine Spouse; 'He who eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood, abides in Me and I in him' ~ Pope Pius XII, #NFDB
1489:We will not have any of these cases in the Soviet Union,” said a Soviet delegate confidently. Don Francis couldn’t resist saying to Marc Conant in his loudest stage whisper, “And they won’t, all right.” In a stern Russian accent, Francis continued: “You have AIDS—bang, bang, bang.” The Soviets were not amused. ~ Randy Shilts, #NFDB
1490:As he puts me into a taxi headed for the airport, I press a hundred dollars into his palm and he makes a gesture of refusing it. “You have done enough,” he says. But we both know a hundred dollars will go a long way here, so when I stuff it in his pocket he doesn’t resist. “May God bless you,” he says instead. ~ Juliann Garey, #NFDB
1491:God unleashes history in the beginning. God helps the baby to stand in the beginning. But God is also out ahead, calling history homeward across the field or across the room. God doesn't force it. Sometimes history responds, or some parts of history respond, but others resist or rebel. But God keeps calling. ~ Brian D McLaren, #NFDB
1492:I resist the urge to claim some of the pretty purple flowers for myself, though Gaewha tries the scissors and then clutches some flowers in her hand, tightly, fiercely. We have never been allowed possessions of our own. [...] Gaewha huddles in a corner with the scissors, ready to defend her flowers to the death. ~ N K Jemisin, #NFDB
1493:I try to fight it… I try to resist it… I try… I try… I fail. With pure abandon, my lips answer his with equal earnest. My body follows suit, pressing my weight back into his. Not in my wildest dreams did his mouth taste as sinful as it does right now. All inhibitions are lost. My soul is his for the taking. ~ Jeannine Colette, #NFDB
1494:Thank you for this. You’re a very talented agent of deassholization.”
“Oh, this isn’t my method of choice. Trust me. But if it makes you happy then I’m okay with it.”
She looks away shyly, but her eyes come back to mine, unable to resist the magnetism that’s between us. “Well, it makes me very happy. ~ Michelle Leighton,#NFDB
1495:They knew all about Jin-Ho because Jin-Ho’s mother had telephoned two weeks after the babies’ arrival. “I hope you don’t mind my tracking you down,” she’d said. “You’re the only Yazdans in the book and I just couldn’t resist calling you to find out how things were going.” Jin-Ho, it seemed, was doing marvelously. ~ Anne Tyler, #NFDB
1496:There is no need to search . . . achievement leads nowhere . . . makes no difference at all. Just be happy now. Release your struggle, let go of your mind, throw away your concerns, and relax into the world. No need to resist life. Open your eyes and see that you are far more than you think. You are already free. ~ Dan Millman, #NFDB
1497:Even if they do all the ‘right’ things interpersonally — even if they apply all the latest skills and techniques to their communications and tasks—it won’t matter. People ultimately resent them and their tactics. And so they end up failing as leaders — failing because they provoke people to resist them. ~ The Arbinger Institute, #NFDB
1498:It is the obligation of every person who claims to oppose oppression to resist the oppressor by every means at his or her disposal. Not to engage in physical resistance, armed resistance to oppression, is to serve the interests of the oppressor; no more, no less. There are no exceptions to the rule, no easy out. ~ Assata Shakur, #NFDB
1499:Even more than my siblings, I wondered to what extent the events of my childhood and adolescence had defined me, and it was only very late that I understood that I myself am the sole architect of my existence. This is what I am when I allow my past to influence me, and, conversely, just as much when I resist it. ~ Benedict Wells, #NFDB
1500:Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means—the only complete realist. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
685 Integral Yoga
73 Poetry
62 Christianity
44 Occultism
39 Philosophy
38 Fiction
34 Psychology
12 Science
11 Yoga
9 Mythology
7 Integral Theory
4 Theosophy
4 Hinduism
4 Baha i Faith
2 Philsophy
2 Education
1 Sufism
1 Kabbalah
1 Alchemy
461 Sri Aurobindo
280 The Mother
177 Satprem
36 H P Lovecraft
33 Nolini Kanta Gupta
30 Carl Jung
27 Saint Augustine of Hippo
19 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
14 Walt Whitman
14 A B Purani
13 Aleister Crowley
10 Plotinus
10 Aldous Huxley
8 Plato
8 Ovid
8 Friedrich Nietzsche
7 Sri Ramakrishna
7 George Van Vrekhem
6 Saint John of Climacus
6 James George Frazer
5 Jordan Peterson
5 Anonymous
4 Peter J Carroll
4 Percy Bysshe Shelley
4 Baha u llah
4 Alice Bailey
3 William Wordsworth
3 Vyasa
3 Sri Ramana Maharshi
3 Rainer Maria Rilke
3 Paul Richard
3 Nirodbaran
3 Lucretius
3 John Keats
3 Friedrich Schiller
3 Franz Bardon
2 Thubten Chodron
2 Swami Vivekananda
2 Swami Krishnananda
2 Ralph Waldo Emerson
2 Mahendranath Gupta
2 Henry David Thoreau
2 Genpo Roshi
2 Edgar Allan Poe
262 Record of Yoga
36 Lovecraft - Poems
33 Letters On Yoga IV
31 The Synthesis Of Yoga
27 Agenda Vol 01
20 City of God
19 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
16 Prayers And Meditations
16 Agenda Vol 04
14 Whitman - Poems
14 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
14 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
13 The Practice of Psycho therapy
13 Questions And Answers 1953
13 Letters On Yoga III
13 Letters On Yoga II
13 Agenda Vol 08
13 Agenda Vol 07
13 Agenda Vol 05
13 Agenda Vol 03
12 The Life Divine
12 Savitri
12 Questions And Answers 1956
12 Questions And Answers 1954
12 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
12 Agenda Vol 12
12 Agenda Vol 09
11 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
10 The Perennial Philosophy
10 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
10 Mysterium Coniunctionis
10 Agenda Vol 11
10 Agenda Vol 02
9 The Future of Man
9 Liber ABA
9 Collected Poems
8 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
8 Some Answers From The Mother
8 Metamorphoses
8 Letters On Yoga I
8 Agenda Vol 13
8 Agenda Vol 06
7 Words Of Long Ago
7 The Human Cycle
7 Preparing for the Miraculous
6 Words Of The Mother II
6 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
6 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
6 The Golden Bough
6 The Bible
6 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
6 On the Way to Supermanhood
6 Essays On The Gita
6 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
6 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
6 Agenda Vol 10
6 5.1.01 - Ilion
5 The Phenomenon of Man
5 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
5 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
5 Maps of Meaning
5 Essays Divine And Human
5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
4 Twilight of the Idols
4 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
4 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
4 Talks
4 Shelley - Poems
4 Liber Null
4 A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
3 Wordsworth - Poems
3 Vishnu Purana
3 Vedic and Philological Studies
3 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
3 The Secret Doctrine
3 The Divine Comedy
3 Schiller - Poems
3 Rilke - Poems
3 Questions And Answers 1955
3 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
3 On Education
3 Of The Nature Of Things
3 Magick Without Tears
3 Letters On Poetry And Art
3 Let Me Explain
3 Keats - Poems
3 Isha Upanishad
3 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
2 Walden
2 The Study and Practice of Yoga
2 The Secret Of The Veda
2 The Problems of Philosophy
2 The Practice of Magical Evocation
2 The Book of Certitude
2 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
2 Hymn of the Universe
2 How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator
2 Emerson - Poems
2 Aion
2 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E
0 0.01 - Introduction, #Agenda Vol 1, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Where, then, was 'the Mother of the Ashram' in all this? What is even 'the Ashram,' if not a spiritual museum of the Resistances to Something Else. They were always - and still today - reciting their catechism beneath a little flag: they are the owners of the new truth. But the new truth is laughing in their faces and leaving them high and dry at the edge of their little stagnant pond. They are under the illusion that Mother and Sri Aurobindo, twenty-seven or four years after their respective departures, could keep on repeating themselves - but then they would not be Mother and
Sri Aurobindo! They would be fossils. The truth is always on the move. It is with those who dare, who have courage, and above all the courage to shatter all the effigies, to de-mystify, and to go
000 - Humans in Universe, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
thousand times more effective in its Resistance to compression than to tension.
000.115 Throughout the three million known years of the Stone Age humans
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cohering Resistance. Gravity pushed humanity's stone structures inward toward the
Earth's center. Humans had to build their structures on bedrock "shoes" to prevent
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Unable to Resist the persuasion of Mathur Babu, Sri Ramakrishna at last entered the temple service, on condition that Hriday should be asked to assist him. His first duty was to dress and decorate the image of Kali.
One day the priest of the Radhakanta temple accidentally dropped the image of Krishna on the floor, breaking one of its legs. The pundits advised the Rani to install a new image, since the worship of an image with a broken limb was against the scriptural injunctions. But the Rani was fond of the image, and she asked Sri Ramakrishna's opinion. In an abstracted mood, he said: "This solution is ridiculous. If a son-in-law of the Rani broke his leg, would she discard him and put another in his place? Wouldn't she rather arrange for his treatment? Why should she not do the same thing in this case too? Let the image be repaired and worshipped as before." It was a simple, straightforward solution and was accepted by the Rani. Sri Ramakrishna himself mended the break. The priest was dismissed for his carelessness, and at Mathur Babu's earnest request Sri Ramakrishna accepted the office of priest in the Radhakanta temple.
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Gradually other Brahmo leaders began to feel Sri Ramakrishna's influence. But they were by no means uncritical admirers of the Master. They particularly disapproved of his ascetic renunciation and condemnation of "woman and gold".1 They measured him according to their own ideals of the householder's life. Some could not understand his samadhi and described it as a nervous malady. Yet they could not Resist his magnetic personality.
Among the Brahmo leaders who knew the Master closely were Pratap Chandra Mazumdar, Vijaykrishna Goswami, Trailokyanath Sannyal, and Shivanath Shastri.
0.02 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Break this Resistance which fills me with anguish.
Why, why this night?"5
0.03 - Letters to My little smile, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
yet concealing in itself the stream of life. Because of the Resistance
of matter, this stream of life is freed only with difficulty and can
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insistence, the Resistance of matter lessens and the life-forces are
freed. This image applies to almost everyone, but in this case
0.03 - The Threefold Life, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Its higher manifestations, even the most splendid and puissant, either merely increase the number of souls drawn out of social life and so impoverish it or disturb the society for a while by a momentary elevation. The truth is that neither the mental effort nor the spiritual impulse can suffice, divorced from each other, to overcome the immense Resistance of material Nature.
She demands their alliance in a complete effort before she will suffer a complete change in humanity. But, usually, these two great agents are unwilling to make to each other the necessary concessions.
The mental life concentrates on the aesthetic, the ethical and the intellectual activities. Essential mentality is idealistic and a seeker after perfection. The subtle self, the brilliant Atman,1 is ever a dreamer. A dream of perfect beauty, perfect conduct, perfect Truth, whether seeking new forms of the Eternal or revitalising the old, is the very soul of pure mentality. But it knows not how to deal with the Resistance of Matter. There it is hampered and inefficient, works by bungling experiments and has either to withdraw from the struggle or submit to the grey actuality. Or else, by studying the material life and accepting the conditions of the contest, it may succeed, but only in imposing temporarily some artificial system which infinite Nature either rends and casts aside or disfigures out of recognition or by withdrawing her assent leaves as the corpse of a dead ideal. Few and far between have been those realisations of the dreamer in Man which the world has gladly accepted, looks back to with a fond memory and seeks, in its elements, to cherish.
1 Who dwells in Dream, the inly conscious, the enjoyer of abstractions, the Brilliant.
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Mind finds fully its force and action only when it casts itself upon life and accepts equally its possibilities and its Resistances as the means of a greater self-perfection. In the struggle with the difficulties of the material world the ethical development of the individual is firmly shaped and the great schools of conduct are formed; by contact with the facts of life Art attains to vitality, Thought assures its abstractions, the generalisations of the philosopher base themselves on a stable foundation of science and experience.
This mixing with life may, however, be pursued for the sake of the individual mind and with an entire indifference to the forms of the material existence or the uplifting of the race. This indifference is seen at its highest in the Epicurean discipline and is not entirely absent from the Stoic; and even altruism does the works of compassion more often for its own sake than for the sake of the world it helps. But this too is a limited fulfilment. The progressive mind is seen at its noblest when it strives to elevate the whole race to its own level whether by sowing broadcast the image of its own thought and fulfilment or by changing the material life of the race into fresh forms, religious, intellectual, social or political, intended to represent more nearly that ideal of truth, beauty, justice, righteousness with which the man's own soul is illumined. Failure in such a field matters little; for the mere attempt is dynamic and creative. The struggle of Mind to elevate life is the promise and condition of the conquest of life by that which is higher even than Mind.
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But if it is often difficult for the mental life to accommodate itself to the dully Resistant material activity, how much more difficult must it seem for the spiritual existence to live on in a world that appears full not of the Truth but of every lie and illusion, not of Love and Beauty but of an encompassing discord and ugliness, not of the Law of Truth but of victorious selfishness and sin? Therefore the spiritual life tends easily in the saint and Sannyasin to withdraw from the material existence and reject it either wholly and physically or in the spirit. It sees this world as the kingdom of evil or of ignorance and the eternal and divine either in a far-off heaven or beyond where there is no world and no life. It separates itself inwardly, if not also physically, from the world's impurities; it asserts the spiritual reality in a spotless isolation. This withdrawal renders an invaluable service to the material life itself by forcing it to regard and even to bow down to something that is the direct negation of its own petty ideals, sordid cares and egoistic self-content.
But the work in the world of so supreme a power as spiritual force cannot be thus limited. The spiritual life also can return upon the material and use it as a means of its own greater fullness. Refusing to be blinded by the dualities, the appearances, it can seek in all appearances whatsoever the vision of the same Lord, the same eternal Truth, Beauty, Love, Delight. The
0.05 - Letters to a Child, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
yourself. I know that it is troublesome to feel this Resistance
in yourself; but persist in your will to overcome it and it will
0.06 - Letters to a Young Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
be done will be done despite all possible Resistances.
Is there no means of uniting my will with Yours? Perhaps
0.07 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Nothing can Resist the steady action of love. It melts all Resistances and triumphs over all difficulties...
Love and blessings to my dear child.
01.01 - The One Thing Needful, #The Integral Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
This is a slow and difficult process; the road is long and it is hard to establish even the necessary basis. The old existing nature Resists and obstructs and difficulties rise one after another and repeatedly till they are overcome. It is therefore necessary to be sure that this is the path to which one is called before one finally decides to tread it.
01.04 - The Poetry in the Making, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
I said that the supreme artist is superconscious: his consciousness withdraws from the normal mental consciousness and becomes awake and alive in another order of consciousness. To that superior consciousness the artist's mentalityhis ideas and dispositions, his judgments and valuations and acquisitions, in other words, his normal psychological make-upserves as a channel, an instrument, a medium for transcription. Now, there are two stages, or rather two lines of activity in the processus, for they may be overlapping and practically simultaneous. First, there is the withdrawal and the in-gathering of consciousness and then its reappearance into expression. The consciousness retires into a secret or subtle worldWords-worth's "recollected in tranquillity"and comes back with the riches gathered or transmuted there. But the purity of the gold thus garnered and stalled in the artistry of words and sounds or lines and colours depends altogether upon the purity of the channel through which it has to pass. The mental vehicle receives and records and it can do so to perfection if it is perfectly in tune with what it has to receive and record; otherwise the transcription becomes mixed and blurred, a faint or confused echo, a poor show. The supreme creators are precisely those in whom the receptacle, the instrumental faculties offer the least Resistance and record with absolute fidelity the experiences of the over or inner consciousness. In Shakespeare, in Homer, in Valmiki the inflatus of the secret consciousness, the inspiration, as it is usually termed, bears down, sweeps away all obscurity or contrariety in the recording mentality, suffuses it with its own glow and puissance, indeed resolves it into its own substance, as it were. And the difference between the two, the secret norm and the recording form, determines the scale of the artist's creative value. It happens often that the obstruction of a too critically observant and self-conscious brain-mind successfully blocks up the flow of something supremely beautiful that wanted to come down and waited for an opportunity.
Artists themselves, almost invariably, speak of their inspiration: they look upon themselves more or less as mere instruments of something or some Power that is beyond them, beyond their normal consciousness attached to the brain-mind, that controls them and which they cannot control. This perception has been given shape in myths and legends. Goddess Saraswati or the Muses are, however, for them not a mere metaphor but concrete realities. To what extent a poet may feel himself to be a mere passive, almost inanimate, instrumentnothing more than a mirror or a sensitive photographic plateis illustrated in the famous case of Coleridge. His Kubla Khan, as is well known, he heard in sleep and it was a long poem very distinctly recited to him, but when he woke up and wanted to write it down he could remember only the opening lines, the rest having gone completely out of his memory; in other words, the poem was ready-composed somewhere else, but the transmitting or recording instrument was faulty and failed him. Indeed, it is a common experience to hear in sleep verses or musical tunes and what seem then to be very beautiful things, but which leave no trace on the brain and are not recalled in memory.
01.04 - The Secret Knowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And beauty conquer the Resisting world,
The Truth-Light capture Nature by surprise,
01.05 - The Yoga of the King - The Yoga of the Spirits Freedom and Greatness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
As one Resisting more the more she loves,
Her great possessions and her power and lore
0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This uncertainty and these departures are due to the lower nature, which Resists the influence of the yogic power and tries to
slow down the divine action, not out of ill-will but in order to
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is the Resistance in the human consciousness to the New Force.
When the Resistance is less, everything takes place harmoniously.
(2) And is the converse always valid: if there is a war or
01.11 - The Basis of Unity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In India the spirit of renascence came very late, late almost by three centuries; and even then it could not flood the whole of the continent in all its nooks and corners, psychological and physical. There were any number of pockets (to use a current military phrase) left behind which guarded the spirit of the past and offered persistent and obdurate Resistance. Perhaps, such a dispensation was needed in India and inevitable also; inevitable, because the religious spirit is closest to India's soul and is its most direct expression and cannot be uprooted so easily; needed, because India's and the world's future demands it and depends upon it.
Only, the religious spirit has to be bathed and purified and enlightened by the spirit of the renascence: that is to say, one must learn and understand and realize that Spirit is the thing the one thing needfulTamevaikam jnatha; 'religions' are its names and forms, appliances and decorations. Let us have by all means the religious spirit, the fundamental experience that is the inmost truth of all religions, that is the matter of our soul; but in our mind and life and body let there be a luminous catholicity, let these organs and instruments be trained to see and compare and appreciate the variety, the numberless facets which the one Spirit naturally presents to the human consciousness. Ekam sat viprh bahudh vadanti. It is an ancient truth that man discovered even in his earliest seekings; but it still awaits an adequate expression and application in life.
0.11 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
or Resists, throw it into the flame of Agni, which is the fire of
aspiration.
0.14 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
plastic enough and offers Resistance; this is why the number of
incomprehensible disorders and even diseases is increasing and
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shatter all Resistance, however powerful it may be.
18 December 1971
0 1955-03-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Mother, without Mahakalis grace, I shall never be able to get out of this mechanical round, to shatter these old formations, ever the same, which keep coming back. Mother, I beg of you, help. me to BREAK this shell in which I am suffocating. Deliver me from myself, deliver me in spite of myself. Alone, I am helpless; sometimes I cannot even call you! May your force come and burn all my impurities, shatter my Resistances.
Signed: Bernard2
0 1955-04-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I know that you do not like to write, Mother, but couldnt you say in a few words if you approve of my project or what I should do? In spite of all my rebellions and discouragements and Resistances, I am your child. O Mother, help me!
Signed: Bernard
0 1955-06-09, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
If the divine force, if your grace, does not intervene to shatter this obscure Resistance that is drawing me downwards in spite of myself, I dont know what will become of me Mother, I am not blackmailing you, I am only expressing my helplessness, my anguish.
During the day, I live more or less calmly in my little morass, but as evening and the moment to meet you draw near, then the forces pinning me to the ground begin raging beneath your pressure, and I feel at times an unbearable tearing that burns and constricts in my throat like tears that cannot be shed. Afterwards, Truth regains possession of me but the following day it all begins again.
0 1955-09-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Mother suddenly everything seems to have crystallizedall the little revolts, the little tensions, the ill will and petty vital demandsforming a single block of open, determined Resistance. I have become conscious that from the beginning of my sadhana, the mind has led the gamewith the psychic behind and has held me in leash, helped muzzle all contrary movements, but at no time, or only rarely, has the vital submitted or opened to the higher influence. The rare times when the vital participated, I felt a great progress. But now, I find myself in front of this solid mass that says No and is not at all convinced of what the mind has been imposing upon it for almost two years now.
Mother, I am sufficiently awakened not to rebel against your Light and to understand that the vital is but one part of my being, but I have come to the conclusion that the only way of convincing this vital is not to force or stifle it, but to let it go through its own experience so it may understand by itself that it cannot be satisfied in this way. I feel the need to leave the Ashram for a while to see how I can get along away from here and to realize, no doubt, that one can really brea the only here.
0 1957-04-09, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
In your ignorance, you created a phantom of your destiny, and then, out of this non-existent ghost, you made a hobgoblin around which all the Resistances of your outer nature have crystallized.
It is a double ignorance:
0 1957-10-17, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
In its normal state, the body always feels that it is not its own master: illnesses invade it without its really being able to Resist thema thousand factors impose themselves or exert pressure upon it. Its sole power is the power to defend itself, to react. Once the illness has got in, it can fight and overcome iteven modern medicine has acknowledged that the body is cured only when it decides to get cured; it is not the drugs per se that heal, for if the ailment is temporarily suppressed by a drug without the bodys will, it grows up again elsewhere in some other form until the body itself has decided to be cured. But this implies only a defensive power, the power to react against an invading enemyit is not true freedom.
But with the supramental manifestation, something new has taken place in the body: it feels it is its own master, autonomous, with its two feet solidly on the ground, as it were. This gives a physical impression of the whole being suddenly drawing itself up, with its head lifted high I am my own master.
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Naturally, all this is a gradual process, but I am hopeful that little by little this new consciousness will grow, gain ground and victoriously Resist the old forces of destruction and annihilation, and this Fatality we believed to be so inexorable.
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0 1958-01-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The diamond light of Bliss has the power to melt all hostile forces. Nothing can Resist it. No consciousness, no being, no hostile will can draw near it without immediately being dissolved, for it is the Divine light in its pure creative power.
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0 1958-04-03, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And at the same time, I saw that it is you who is doing everything, you who aspires in me, you who wants the progress, and that all I myself am in this affair is a screen, a Resisting obstacle. O Mother, break this screen that I may be wholly transparent before you, that your transforming force may purify all the secret recesses in my being, that nothing may remain but you and you alone. O Mother, may all my being be a living expression of your light, your truth.
Mother, from the depths of my being, I offer you a sole prayer: may I become your more and more perfect instrument, a sword of light in your hands. Oh, to get out of this ego that belittles everything, diminishes everything, to emerge from it! All is falsehood in it.
0 1958-05-10, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
In a considerable number of people, it is their body, the physical body, that obstinately Resists.
The difficulty is greater for Westerners than for Indians. Its as though their substance were steeped in falsehood. It also happens with Indians, of course, but generally the falsehood is much more in the vital than in the physicalbecause after all, the physical has been utilized by bodies belonging to enlightened beings. The European substance seems steeped in rebellion; in the Indian substance this rebelliousness is subdued by an influence of surrender. The other day, someone was telling me about some Europeans with whom he corresponds, and I said, But tell them to read, to learn, to follow The Synthesis of Yoga!it leads you straight to the path. Whereupon he replied, Oh, but they say its full of talk on surrender, surrender, always surrender and they want none of it.
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Therefore, if we do not want to oppose the supramental action by an obscure, inert and obstinate Resistance, we have to admit once and for all that none of these things should be legitimized.
This last sentence was later added by Mother in writing.
0 1958-06-06 - Supramental Ship, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
It is likely that the greatest Resistance will be in the most conscious beings due to a lack of mental receptivity, due to the mind itself which wants things to continue (as Sri Aurobindo has written) according to its own mode of ignorance. So-called inert matter is much more easily responsive, much moreit does not Resist. And I am convinced that among plants, for example, or among animals, the response will be much quicker than among men. It will be more difficult to act upon a very organized mind; beings who live in an entirely crystallized, organized mental consciousness are as hard as stone! It Resists. According to my experience, what is unconscious will certainly follow more easily. It was a delight to see the water from the tap, the mouthwash in the bottle, the glass, the spongeit all had such an air of joy and consent! There is much less ego, you see, it is not a conscious ego.
The ego becomes more and more conscious and Resistant as the being develops. Very primitive, very simple beings, little children will respond first, because they dont have an organized ego. But these big people! People who have worked on themselves, who have mastered themselves, who are organized, who have an ego made of steel, it will be difficult for them.
Unless they go beyond all this and have enough spiritual knowledge to be able to make the ego surrender in which case the realization will naturally be much greaterit will be more difficult to accomplish, but the result will be far more complete.
0 1958-07-05, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Thats it: the capacity to be an ABSOLUTELY receptive passivitylike thatin TOTAL silence and surrender, and at the same time here, there, an IRREDUCIBLE, OMNIPOTENT will with a total power to effectuate, shattering all Resistances. Both simultaneously without one inhibiting the other, in the same joy that is the GREAT secret! The harmonization of opposites, in joy and plenitude, ALWAYS, ALWAYS, for all problems: that is the great secret.
In regard to the Ashram's financial difficulties.
0 1958-10-06, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Each time we try to realize something and we encounter a Resistance or an obstacle, or even a failurewhat appears to be a failurewe should know, we should NEVER forget, that it is exclusively, absolutely, to make the realization more perfect.
So this habit of cringing, of being discouraged or even feeling ill at ease or abusing oneself, saying, There, Ive done it again All this is absolute foolishness.
0 1958-10-10, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
And this explains everything, absolutely everything: how it works, how it functions in the world.3 I was saying to myself, But I have no powers, I have no powers! Several days ago, I said, But after all, I KNOW WHO is there, I know, yet how is it that ? There, up to there (the level of the head), it is all-powerful, nothing can Resist but here it is ineffective. So those who have faith, even an ignorant but real faith (it can be ignorant but nevertheless it is real), say, What! How can you have no powers? Because the sadhana is not yet over.
The Lord will possess his universe only when the universe will have consciously become the Lord.
0 1958-11-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
At the very bottom of the inconscience most hard and rigid Because generally, the inconscience gives the impression, precisely, of something amorphous, inert, formless, drab and gray (when formerly I entered the zones of the inconscient, that was the first thing I encountered). But this was an inconscience it was hard, rigid, COAGULATED, as if coagulated to Resist: all effort slides off it, doesnt touch it, cannot penetrate it. So I am putting, most hard and rigid and narrow (the idea of something that compresses, compresses, compresses you) and stiflingyes, stifling is the word.
I struck upon an almighty spring that cast me up forthwith into a formless, limitless vast, generator of all creation. It was yes, I have the feeling that it was not the ordinary creation, the primordial creation, but the SUPRAMENTAL creation, for it bore no similarity to the experience of returning to the Supreme, the origin of everything. I had utterly the feeling of being cast into the origin of the supramental creation something that is already (how can it be expressed?) objectified from the Supreme, with the explicit goal of the supramental creation.
0 1958-11-11, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
This vision of the Inconscient (Mother remains gazing for a moment) it was the MENTAL Inconscient. Because the starting point was mental. A special Inconscientrigid, hard, Resistantwith all that the mind has brought into our consciousness. But it was far worse, far worse than a purely material Inconscient! A mentalized Inconscient, as it were. All this rigidity, this hardness, this narrowness, this fixitya FIXITYcomes from the presence of the mind in creation. When the mind was not manifested, the Inconscient was not like that! It was formless and had the plasticity of something that is formless the plasticity has gone.
It is a terrible image of the Minds action in the Inconscient.
It has made the Inconscient aggressiveit was not so before. Aggressive, Resistant, OBSTINATE. That was not there before.
Yes, thats it. It was not an original Inconscient. It was a mentalized Inconscient. With all that the mind has brought in in the way of OPPOSITIONof Resistance, hardness, rigidity.
It would be interesting to mention this.
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It is not the experience, which I had once before, of the original Inconscient. The experience I had this time is of the Inconscient that has undergone the influence of the Mind in creation. It has become It has become a FAR greater obstacle than before. Before, it did not even have the power to Resist, it had nothing, it was truly unconscious. Now it is an Inconscient organized in its refusal to change!
It was a very new experience.
0 1958-11-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I dont have all the information, otherwise certainly Two things made me see I saw them the other day. First of all, when you didnt understand my letter, for I wrote it to a part of you that without any doubt should have understood; I was referring to something other than what is seen and known by this part of you which is this center, this knot of revolt that seems to Resist everything, that really remains knotted, in spite of your experiences and the strides you have made, as well as your openings. And what made me see is especially the fact that it Resists experiences, it is not touched by experiences; this was the point that did not understand what I wrote. Because the part of you that had the experience must necessarily understand what I wrote, without the shadow of a doubt.
Time is needed
0 1958-11-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
At that point, sometimes a great courage is needed, sometimes a great endurance is needed, sometimes a true love is enough, sometimes, oh! if only faith were there, one thing, one tiny little thing is enough, and everything can be swept away. I have done it often; there are times when I have failed. But more often than not I have been able to remove it. But then, what is needed is a great, stoical courage or a capacity to endure and to SEE IT THROUGH. The Resistance (especially in cases of former suicide), the Resistance to the temptation of renewing this stupidity creates a terrible formation. Or else this habit of fleeing when suffering comes: flee, flee, instead of absorbing the difficulty, holding on.
But just this, a faith in the Grace, or an awareness of the Grace, or the intensity of the call, or else naturally the response the response, the thing that opens, that breaks the response to this marvelous love of the Grace.
It is difficult without a strong will; and above all, above all the capacity to Resist the temptation, which was the fatal temptation throughout all ones livesbecause its power builds up. Each defeat gives it renewed force. But a tiny victory can dissolve it.
Oh, the most terrible of all is when one does not have the strength, the courage, something indomitable! How many times do they come to tell me, I want to die, I want to flee, I want to die.I say, But die, then, die to yourself! No one is asking you to let your ego survive! Die to yourself since you want to die! Have that courage, the true courage, to die to your egoism.
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So this is what I saw for you: that the crystallization of this karma occurred during a life in India in which you were put in the presence of the possibility of liberation and I dont know the details; I dont know the material facts at all. So far, I know nothing, I have only had a vision. I saw you there, as I told you, taller than you are now, in an Indian body, north Indian, for it was not dark but fair. But there was a HARDNESS in the being, the hardness born of a kind of despair mixed with rebellion, incomprehension and an ego that Resists. That is all I know. The image was of you backed up against a bronze door: BACKED UP against it. I didnt see what had caused it. As I told you, something interrupted me, so I was unable to follow it.
The other indication is what I told you the other day. When you thought of leaving to join Swami, I immediately saw a stream of light: Ah, the road is opening up! So I said, It is good. And while you were away in Ceylon, I followed you from day to day. You called much more than the second time, when you were in the Himalayas; and with the physical hardships you were undergoing, I was very, very close to you I constantly felt what was happening.
And then I saw a GREAT light, like a glory, when you were at Rameswaram. A great light. And when you returned here, this light was upon you, very strong and imposing. But at the same time, I felt that it needed protectingto be shielded, protected that it was not yet established. Established, ready to Resist all that decomposes an experience. I would have liked to have kept you apart, under a glass case, but then I saw that this would have drawbacks as well as advantages. Also, I liked the way you wanted to fight against an uncomprehending reception due to your orange robes and your shaved head. Of course, it was a much shorter path than the other, but it was more difficult.
And then, more and more, I felt that if what I saw, as I saw it, could be realized I saw two things: a journeynot at all a pilgrimage as it is commonly understooda journey towards solitude in arduous conditions, and a sojourn in a very severe solitude, facing the mountains, in arduous physical conditions. The contact with this majesty of Nature has a great influence upon the ego at certain moments: it has the power to dissolve it. But all this complication, all these organized pilgrimages, all that it brings in the whole petty side of human life which spoils everything
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But I always had a presentiment of the true thing: that only a VERY COURAGEOUS act of self-giving could efface the thingnot courageous or difficult from the material point of view, not that There is a certain zone of the vital in you, a mentalized vital but still very material, which is very much under the influence of circumstances and which very much believes in the effectiveness of outer measuresthis is what is Resisting.
That is all I know.
0 1958-12-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
X is at the summit of tantric initiation, and his power is not the fruit of a simple knowledge. He holds it directly from the Divine, and these things have been in his family traditionally from ten generations. No black magic can Resist his power. His action is not brutal, he does not mechanically apply formulas, he holds this Science and knows how to apply it like an expert chemist, always in Light, Love and sweetness. If you agree that he come to see you, he will immediately know the source of these attacks upon you and will even be able to make the attacking force speak. He has this power. Of course, neither X nor Swami will divulge this to anyone, and everything will be kept secret. You have only to send word, or a telegram: No objection.
The work can be done from here also, but naturally it will not be quite as effective. In that case, you would have to set a specific time to synchronize the action in Rameswaram and Pondicherry. Swami can also do something in his pujas. It is for you to decide, but I hope you will not want to prolong this battle unnecessarily.
0 1959-01-14, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Sweet Mother, by what Grace have you guided and protected me through all these years? There are moments when I have the vision of this Grace, bringing me to the verge of tears. I see so clearly that you are doing everything, that you are all that is good in me, my aspiration and my strength. Me is all that is bad, all that Resists, me is horribly false and falsifying. If your Grace withdraws for one second, I collapse, I am helpless.2 You alone are my strength, the source of my life, the joy and fulfillment to which I aspire.
I am at your feet, your child eternally.
0 1960-01-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
All these repetitions of the mantra, these hours of japa I have to do every day, seem to have increased the difficulties, as if they were raising up or aggravating all the Resistances.
To the most stubborn goes the victory.
0 1960-06-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
I also use my mantra to go into trance. After relaxing on the bed and making as total a self-offering as possible of everything, from top to bottom, and after removing as fully as possible all Resistance of the ego, I start repeating the mantra.1 After repeating it two or three times, I am in trance (at the beginning it took longer). And from this trance I pass into sleep; the trance lasts as long as necessary and, quite naturally, spontaneously, I pass into sleep. And when I come back, I remember everything. The sleep was like a continuation of the trance. And essentially, the only reason for sleep is to allow the body to assimilate the results of the trance, then to allow these results to be accepted throughout and to let the body do its natural nights work of eliminating toxins. My periods of sleep practically dont exist sometimes they are as short as half an hour or 15 minutes. But in the beginning, I had long periods of sleep, one or even two hours in succession. And when I woke up, I did not feel this residue of heaviness which comes from sleep the effects of the trance continued.
It is even good for people whove never been in trance to repeat a mantra (or a word, a prayer) before going to sleep. But the words must have a life of their ownby this I dont mean an intellectual meaning, nothing of the kind, but rather a vibration. And this has an extraordinary effect on the body, it starts vibrating, vibrating, vibrating and so calm, you let yourself go, like falling off to sleep. And the body vibrates more and more, more and more, more and more, and you drift off.
0 1960-07-26 - Mothers vision - looking up words in the subconscient, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Coming at the end of the night as it did, it means that its an exploration in some part or another of a subconscious mental activity. And you can make so many discoveries there it is unbelievable! But its lovely. And rarely unpleasant. There was a time when it was very unpleasant, oppressive, full of effort and Resistance. I would want to go somewhere, but it would be impossible; I toiled and struggled, but everything would go wrong the straight paths would suddenly plunge into an abyss, and Id have to cross the abyss. For years it was like that. Just recently, I looked back over this whole period But now it is over. Now its something its lovely, its enjoyable, its a little it has a childlike simplicity.
However, its not a personal subconscient, but a its more than the Ashram. For me, the Ashram is not a separate individualityexcept in that vision the other day,1 which is what surprised me. Its hardly that. Rather, it is still this Movement of everything, of everything that is included. So its like entering into the subconscient of the whole earth, and it takes on forms which are quite familiar images to me, but they are absolutely symbolic and very, very funny! It took a moment to see that vainquons is spelled q-u-o-n-s. And I wasnt sure! I meant to ask Pavitra for a dictionary which gives verb conjugations, for then if Im stuck on something while writing, I can look it up.
0 1960-09-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Actually, it was very different at that time because I was not even aware of any Resistance or any difficulty in the outer being; it was automatic, the work was done automatically. Later on, when I had to do both thingswhat he had been doing as well as what I was doingit became rather complicated and I realized there were many what we could call gapsthings which had to be worked out, transformed, set right before the total work could be done without hindrance. So then I began. And several times I thought how unfortunate it was that I had never studied or pursued certain ancient Indian disciplines. Because, for example, when Sri Aurobindo and I were working to bring down the supramental forces, a descent from the mental plane to the vital plane, he was always telling me that everything I did (when we meditated together, when we worked)all my movements, all my gestures, all my postures, all my reactionswas absolutely tantric, as if I had pursued a tantric discipline. But it was spontaneous, it did not correspond to any knowledge, any idea, any will, nothing, and I thought it was like that simply because, as He knew, naturally I followed.
Later on, when Sri Aurobindo left his body, I said to myself, If only I knew what he had known, it would be easier! So when Swami and later X came, I thought, I am going to take advantage of this opportunity. I had written to Swami that I was working on transforming the cells of the body and that I had noticed the work was going faster with Xs influence. So it was understood that X would help when he came thats how things began, and this idea has remained with X. But I have raced on I dont wait. Ive raced on, Ive gone like wildfire. And now the situation is reversed. What I wanted to find out, I found out. I experienced what I wanted to experience, but he is still He is very kind, actually, he wants really to help me. So, when I identified with him the other day during our meditation, I realized that he wanted to give silence, control and perfect peace to the physical mind. My own trick, if you will, is to have as little relationship with the physical mind as possible, to go up above and stay therethis (Mother indicates her forehead), silent, motionless, turned upwards, while That (gesture above the head) sees, acts, knows, decidesall is done from there. Only there can you feel at ease.
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And he isnt aware of this, actually, he isnt aware at all. If he were told, he would absolutely deny it for him, its an opening onto Infinity! But in fact, its always like that, we are always shut in, each of useach one is enclosed inside certain limits which he doesnt feel, for should he feel it, he would get out! Oh, I know this feeling very well, for when I was with Sri Aurobindo I was open in this way (gesture towards the heights), and I always had this feeling of Yes, my child He tolerated me the way I was and waited for it to change. Thats truly how things are, you know. And now I feel my limits, which are the limits of the world as it is at present, but beyond that theres an unmanifested immensity, eternity and infinityto which we are closed. It merely seeps init is not the great opening. What I am trying to bring about is the great opening. Only when it has opened wide will there really be the (how should I put it?) the irreducible thing, and all the worlds Resistance, all its inertia, even its obscurity will be unable to swallow it up the determining and transforming thing I dont know when it will come.
But this experience with X was really interesting. I learned many things that day, many things If you concentrate long enough on any one point, you discover the Infinite (and in his own experience he found the infinite), what could be called your own Infinite. But this is not what WE want, not this; what we want is the direct and integral contact between the manifested universe and the Infinite out of which this universe has emerged. So then it is no longer an individual or personal contact with the Infinite, its a total contact. And Sri Aurobindo insists on this, he says that its absolutely impossible to have the transformation (not the contact, but the supramental transformation) without becoming universalized that is the first condition. You cannot become supramental before being universal. And to be universal means to accept everything, be everything, become everythingreally to accept everything. And as for all those who are shut up in a system, even if it belongs to the highest regions of thought, it is not THAT.
0 1960-10-30, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
All I know is that HERE you must be very careful not to weaken the bodys Resistance (I dont just mean in India, but here in the Ashram). Here, its important the base must be solid, for otherwise its difficult. The more the Force descendsas it has just now descended the more the body must be rather square. Its important.
Ive tried everything, you know, from complete fasting to a meat dieteverything, everything. Well, I noticed that you can have pleasant experiences while fasting, but its not good, it shouldnt be donethese are all old ideas. No, the body must be solid, solid otherwise
0 1960-11-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Symbolically, in life, we might think of tamas as the earth (the solid and obdurate earth), and this intervention of the vital is water flowing onto it. But when first it touches the earth, it stirs up mud! Theres no reason to protest, for its like that. And thereby the earth becomes less hard and Resistant, and it begins receiving.
Its an approach which is not at all mental nor intellectual nor (God knows!) moral in the leastno notion of Good or Evil nor any of those things, absolutely none of that. Theres a moment in life when you begin thinking a little and you see all this from an overall or universal point of view in which all moral notions completely disappearFOR ANOTHER REASON. This experience with Z reminded me of a certain way of approaching Beauty that enables you even to find it in what appears dirty and ugly to the common vision. It is She trying to express herself in this something which to the common vision is ugly, dirty, hypocritical. But of course, if you yourself have striven assiduously and have greatly held yourself in, then you look at it reprovingly.
0 1960-11-12, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But generally and this is something Theon had told me (Theon was very qualified on the subject of hostile forces and the workings of all that Resists the divine influence, and he was a great fighteras you might imagine! He himself was an incarnation of an asura, so he knew how to tackle these things!); he was always saying, If you make a VERY SMALL concession or suffer a minor defeat, it gives you the right to a very great victory. Its a very good trick. And I have observed, in practice, that for all things, even for the very little things of everyday life, its trueif you yield on one point (if, even though you see what should be, you yield on a very secondary and unimportant point), it immediately gives you the power to impose your will for something much more important. I mentioned this to Sri Aurobindo and he said that it was true. It is true in the world as it is today, but its not what we want; we want it to change, really change.
He wrote this in a letter, I believe, and he spoke of this system of compensation for example, those who take an illness on themselves in order to have the power to cure; and then theres the symbolic story of Christ dying on the cross to set men free. And Sri Aurobindo said, Thats fine for a certain age, but we must now go beyond that. As he told me (its even one of the first things he told me), We are no longer at the time of Christ when, to be victorious, it was necessary to die.
0 1960-11-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Not last night but the night before, I touched at least one of the causes (at that time it felt like THE cause) of a certain powerlessness to act directly on Matter You see, when the Will and the Power come, they are extremely effective everywhere UP TO A CERTAIN REGION (in other words, whether people are receptive or not, open or not, makes no differencewhen the Will is applied it is all-powerful UP TO a certain region) but once it arrives here, at the most material material, its efficacy depends on many thingsand a power which depends on something is no power! For a long, long time I have been searching for the reasons behind this powerlessness. Ive located a few, one after another, and upon these points there was an immediate effect. But some things Resisted (oh, quite a number, in a number of ways), for example it had difficulty acting on illnesses, on the cells, on doubt (not mental doubt, but rather the doubt of the physical consciousness which cant accept certain things that seem impossible to itwhat Sri Aurobindo calls disbelief,1 not a mental doubt, but the disbelief of the physical consciousness which cant accept what is contrary to its own nature and its own working). And as for illnesses, sometimes it has an immediate effect, but sometimes it drags on and has to follow its so-called normal course. On all these three points, I clearly felt that something was hampering it. These are the Enemys strongholds; all that doesnt want the Divine seizes upon it and even the working of the Power coming from above is obstructed, for when it must work here in the body, it is stopped or deformed or altered or diminished.
All this goes on in the subconscient; these are things that were pushed out of the physical consciousness down into the subconscient, so theyre there and they come back up whenever they please.
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But immediately, the following dayDarshan dayas the thing developed (you see, something was working inside), I could again turn my attention to the people who were there. And oddly enough, just when you came, there was suddenly a kind of little shock, like an electric shock, and a spark leapt out. And at that moment the Power acted for perhaps a split second You see, there has been this bad karma, this old formation around you for a very long time, and it hadnt I recall telling you several years ago, I shall be able to cure such cases as yours only when the Supramental descends. And this feeling of incapacity, of something Resisting, was still present, still aliveof not having the right power to dominate it. But just as you went by, for a second, there was this flash of like a spark when two electric wires touch. It was a golden spark, a resplendent lightzzzt! And it leapt out. Ah! I thought; its good.
That was it.
0 1961-01-10, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Love, in its essence and in its origin, is like a white flame obliterating ALL Resistances. You can have the experience yourself: whatever the difficulty in your being, whatever the weight of accumulated mistakes, the ignorance, incapacity, bad will, a single SECOND of this Lovepure, essential, suprememelts everything in its almighty flame. One single moment and an entire past can vanish. One single TOUCH of That in its essence and the whole burden is consumed.
Its easy to understand how someone who has this experience can spread it and act upon others, since to have it you must touch the unique, supreme Essence of the whole manifestation the Origin and the Essence, the Source and the Reality of all that is; then you immediately enter the realm of Unity where there is no more separation among individuals: its a single vibration that can repeat itself endlessly in outer forms.2
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And when the day comes for the manifestation of supreme Lovea crystalized, concentrated descent of supreme Love that will truly be the hour of Transformation, for nothing will be able to Resist That.
But as its all-powerful, a certain receptivity must be prepared on earth so its effects are not devastating. Sri Aurobindo has explained it in one of his letters. Someone asked him, Why doesnt this Love come now?, and he replied something like this: If divine Love in its essence were to manifest on earth, it would be like an explosion; for the earth is not supple enough or receptive enough to widen to the measure of this Love. The earth must not only open itself but become wide and supple. Matternot just physical Matter, but the substance of the physical consciousness as wellis still much too rigid.
0 1961-01-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have done these things beforeits a knowledge I already hadand it always had its effect when I did them; its not that I am passing from powerlessness to power, not at all. But its this kind of yes, something definite, absolutea kind of absolute in vision, in knowledge, in action and ABOVE ALL in powera kind of absolute that doesnt need to conquer obstacles and Resistances, but ANNULS the Resistance automatically. Then I saw that something had truly changed.
(After a digression, Mother gives another example of the change:)
0 1961-02-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And the same goes for their stories about attachments and desiresmy god! Theres nothing to it! Imagine, with anything concerning my body, through all this horror of the subconscient, NOT ONCE have I had to bear the consequence of a desire; I have always had to bear the consequences of the battle against lifes unconscious and malicious Resistances, but not once has something come up like that (gesture of something resurging from below) to tell me, You see! You had a desire, now heres the result of it! Not oncevery, very sincerely.
Thats really not the difficulty the difficulty is that the world is not ready! The very substance one is made of (Mother touches her body) shares in the worlds lack of preparationnaturally! Its the same thing, the very same thing. Perhaps there is a tiny bit more light in this body, but so little that its not worth mentioning-its all the same thing. Oh, a sordid slavery!
0 1961-03-17, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Take the case of this man Im not naming Ive been training him, working with him, for more than thirty years and I still havent managed to get him to do things spontaneously, according to the needs of the moment, without all his preconceived ideas. Thats the point where he Resists: when things have to be done quickly he follows his usual rule and it takes forever! This was illustrated strikingly that night. I told him, Just look: its there its THEREhurry up and warm it a little and Ill go. Ah! He didnt protest, didnt say anything, but he did things exactly according to his own preconceptions.
Its a terrible slavery to the lower mind, and so widespread! Oh, all these goings-on at the School, my child, all the teaching, all the teachers.2 Terrible, terrible, terrible! I was trying to turn on the switches to give some light and not one of them worked!
0 1961-04-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In your case, it is very clear: each time he comes, everything seems to go askew. And the only reason for it is the conflict between the force he brings down (of course, when he comes I encourage it to come down!), and the inner Resistances; and this creates the Contradiction, which becomes more and more pronounced.
It speeds up the work, but at the same time it makes it a bit taxing.
0 1961-04-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I live in the constant feeling of PUSHING against a world of tremendous obstacles, with the certainty thatsuddenly the Resistance will give way and there will be enlightenmentno, far more than that!
Thats all.
0 1961-07-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Everything depends upon the balance (not the equilibrium, the proportion) between the amount of Resistance in physical substance, and the Power.
But are these merely material Resistances or are they rather hostile forces?
No; outside Matter, the hostile forces dont have even a BIT of power: NONE.
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In the final analysis, everything obviously depends upon the Supremes Will because, if one looks deeply enough into the question, even physical laws and Resistances are nothing for Him. But this kind of direct intervention takes place only at the extreme limit; if His Will is to be expressed in opposition, as it were, to the whole set of laws governing the Manifestationwell, that only comes at the very last second. Sri Aurobindo has expressed this so well in Savitri, so well! At least three times in the book he has expressed this Will that abolishes all established laws, all of them, and all the consequences of these laws, the whole formidable colossus of the Manifestation, so that in the face of it all, That can express itself and this takes place at the very last second, so to speak, at the extreme limit of possibility.
I must say that there was a time when, as Sri Aurobindo had entrusted his work to me, there was a kind of tension to do it (it cant be called an anxiety); a tension in the will. This too has now ended (Mother stretches her arms into the Infinite). Its finished. But there MAY still be something tense lurking somewhere in the subconscient or the inconscient I dont know, its possible. Why? I dont know. I mean I have never been told, at any time, neither through Sri Aurobindo nor directly, whether or not I would go right to the end. I have never been told the contrary, either. I have been told nothing at all. And if at times I turn towards Thatnot to question, but simply to know the answer is always the same: Carry on, its not your problem; dont worry about it. So now I have learned not to worry about it; I am consciously not worried about it.
0 1961-08-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Three or four years ago I had to make a little effort to meditate or give a meditation to someone in a very bad condition. But now absolutely no more effort. No effort at all. And I dont notice a bit when X is having difficulty, not a bit. I prepare myself as usual before he comes and as soon as he arrives, all I have to do is call (although generally thats not necessary); I call, and then I become blissful. And I havent found more difficulties in certain cases than in others I DONT FEEL THE ResistANCE, neither in the atmosphere nor in people. The Force is imperative. Thats why I was so astounded those other times when he began to say he needed at least ten minutes to put himself into meditationit seemed fantastic to me! He said so himself, otherwise I would never have believed it.3
Well, we shall see.
0 1961-09-16, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Whats terrible is this organizing mind. Its terrible! It has us so convinced that we cant do without it that its very difficult to Resist. Indeed, it has convinced all humanity. The whole so-called elite of humanity has been convinced that nothing worthwhile can be achieved without this mental organizing power.
But Sri Aurobindo wants us to have the same simple joy as a blossoming rose: Be simple, be simple, be simple. And when I hear it or see it, its like a rivulet of golden light, like a fragrant gardenall, all, all is open. Be simple.
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These last two or three days I have been constantly seeing this for you. Then this morning it came for me, because the accumulation of work has become so tremendous that I would need ten times more time than I have merely to bring things up to date. So there I was, feeling a bit cornered; there was even a force wanting me to stop in the midst of my walk and RELAX, and I was Resisting it with all my willuntil I realized I was doing something foolish. It was the same thing, he said the same thing for me. I relaxed and immediately everything was fine.
Essentially, we live with too much tension, dont we?
0 1961-10-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And this light was absolutely immobilevibrationless, totally compact and coherent. When I see Xs light, for example, there are always vibrations in it; it vibrates, vibrates, things are shifting about; out with this, not a single vibration, not one movement: a MASS that seemed eternally immobile but which was (how to put it?) attentive, listening. It was a volume with the form of the head, as if that had wholly taken over the head. It was full, so full, yet with no feeling of tension or of anything Resisting, none at all; there was only a kind of immobile eternity and COMPACT, compact, absolutely coherent, no vibrations. And it increased, increased more and more, it became heavy, but with a very particular heavinessnot a weight, the feeling of a mass.
And within all this, I no longer existed. I seemed to vanish into a kind of trance, yet I was consciousnot I: the consciousness was conscious of what Sri Aurobindo was conscious of. And he was following the reading. But I couldnt remember anything; at the time, it was impossible to observe. I can only describe it all to you now because the experience remained for at least an hour and a half afterwards; when I left here, I began to objectify it, to see what it wasaside from that, it was merely a STATE I found myself in. But in this state there was an awareness of what he was hearing, and at two or three places in your reading he seemed to be saying (I cant be exact, I can only give the impression), Not necessary. In fact, thats what made me call this passage too philosophical (although when you first asked my opinion I was in a peculiar condition, nothing was active in me). With him, it was very clear, it was almost as if there were a certain number of words about which he said, That, not necessary. That, not necessary. Not many, not often, but once in a while. Especially at the end (he was still there inside my head while you were talking), when you were saying that its necessary to explain to people; there he very clearly said, No, not necessary.
0 1962-01-09, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
These past few days Ive had some interesting experiences from this standpoint. I had what is commonly called fever, but it wasnt feverit was a resurfacing from the subconscient of all the struggles, all the tensions this body has had for what will soon be eighty-three years. I went through a period in my life when the tension was tremendous, because it was psychological and vital as well as physical: a perpetual struggle against adverse forces; and during my stay in Japan, particularly oh, it was terrible! So at night, everything that had been part of that life in Japanpeople, things, movements, circumstancesall of it seemed to be surrounding my body in the form of vital3 vibrations, and to be taking the place of my present state, which had completely vanished. For hours during the night, the body was reliving all the terrible tensions it had during those four years in Japan. And I realized how much (because at the time you pay no attention; the consciousness is busy with something else and not concentrated on the body), how much the body Resists and is tense. And just as I was realizing this, I had a communication with Sri Aurobindo: But youre keeping it up! he told me. Your body still has the habit of being tense. (Its much less now, of course; its quite different since the inner consciousness is in perfect peace, but the BODY keeps the habit of being tense.) For instance, in the short interval between the time I get up and the time I come down to the balcony,4 when I am getting ready (I have to get this body ready to come down) well, the body is tense about being ready in time. And thats why accidents happen at that moment. So the following morning I said, All right, no more tension, and I was exclusively concerned with keeping my body perfectly tranquil I was no later than usual! So its obviously just one of the bodys bad habits. Everything went off the same as usual, and since then things are better. But its a nasty habit.
And so I looked. Is it something particular to this body? I wondered. To everyone who has lived closely with it, my body gives the impression of two things: a very concentrated, very stubborn will, and such endurance! Sri Aurobindo used to tell me he had never dreamed a body could have such endurance. And thats probably why. But I dont want to curtail this ability in any way, because it is a CELLULAR will, and a cellular endurance toowhich is quite intriguing. Its not a central will and central endurance (thats something else altogether)its cellular. Thats why Sri Aurobindo used to tell me this body had been specially prepared and chosen for the Workbecause of its capacity for obstinate endurance and will. But thats no reason to exercise this ability uselessly! So I am making sure it relaxes now; I tell it constantly, Now, now! Just let go! Relax, have some fun, wheres the harm in it? I have to tell it to be quiet, very quiet. And its very surprised to hear that: Ah! Can I live that way? I dont have to hurry? I can live that way?
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69Sin and virtue are a game of Resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection. The sense of virtue helps us to cherish our sins in secret.
Well?
0 1962-02-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ultimately, absolute sincerity is the great deciding factor for those who predict or foresee. Unfortunately, because of peoples curiosity, their insistence and the pressure they exert (which very few can Resist), an almost involuntary mechanism of inner imagination comes to add just that small missing element to something not seen with precision or exactness. Thats what causes flaws in prediction. Very few have the courage to say, Ah no, I dont know this, I dont see that, this eludes me. They dont even have the courage to say it to themselves! So then, with a tiny drop of imagination, which acts almost subconsciously, the vision or information gets rounded outit can turn out to be anything at all! Very few people can Resist this tendency. I have known many, many psychics, many extraordinarily gifted beings, and only a handful were able to stop just at the point where their knowledge stopped. Or else they embellish. Thats what gives these faculties their slightly dubious quality. One would have to be a great saint, a great sage, and completely free from other peoples influences (I dont speak of those who seek fame: they fall into the most flagrant traps); because even goodwillwanting to satisfy people, please them, help themis enough to distort the vision.
(Smiling) Are you satisfied? Have I answered everything?
0 1962-03-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Just recently, as I told you, things truly became a little disgusting, dangerous, and for an hour or an hour and a half I did a sadhana like this (Mother clenches her fists), keeping hold of this body and body-consciousness. And the whole time the Force was at work there (it was like kneading a very Resistant dough), something was saying to me, Look, you cant deny miracles any longer. It was being said to this consciousness (not to me, of course), this body-consciousness: Now you cant deny it miracles do happen. It was forced to see; there it was, gaping like an idiot being shown the skyAh! And its so stupid that it didnt even have any joy of discovery! But it was forced to see, the thing was right under its nosethere was no escaping it, it had to be admitted. But you know what, mon petit, as soon as I let up on the pressureforgotten!
I remember the whole experience, of course, but the body-consciousness forgot. The slightest difficulty, even the shadow or the recollection of a difficulty, was enough for it to start up all over again: Oh oh! Now whats going to happen? The same old anxieties and stupidities.
0 1962-04-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is the battlefield. How far it can Resist I dont know. After all, it depends on Him. He knows if the time has come or not, the time for the beginning of the Victory then the body will survive. If not, in any case, my love and consciousness will be there.
And He will have the final victory.
0 1962-05-31, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont know if its the same for others (it probably isnt), but for me it is incontestably the one truly effective thing: this sense of not existing, and that the only thing existing I mean, what one customarily calls oneselfis something that grates and Resists.
But with a very simple movement, you can easily eliminate that from the consciousness; this movement can be formulated in an almost childlike way: You alone, Lord, You alone can act. You alone, Lord, You alone can act. And then that easing off (its relaxation, actually): you just let yourself melt, let yourself melt. This (the head) keeps still, it doesnt stir; you are wholly in the sensation, you let yourself melt. And with a sense of boundlessness.
0 1962-06-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For example, just now I was sitting and waiting for you. When I have nothing to do I cant stay one second without immediately turning withininstead of the consciousness being turned outside, its turned within and well, I noticed that the body, which was sitting and waiting, had the feeling of going into something woolly, rounded, soft. And in both cases I was motionless. I was simply sitting here waiting. Its like going from something crisp, clear, precise (forget about thought or vision: this is pure sensation), from something crisp, precise, defined, into something soft, mellow like a light white smokenot milky white, but soft, transparent and oh, such peace. As if nothing in the world could Resist that peace.
It happened in a split second: I was sitting, waiting for you, thinking you were about to come; but the door wasnt opening, so automatically the body went like this (inward-turning gesture). And since it happened so suddenly, I noticed the difference in the way the body felt. What it normally feels is a formidable willvery tranquil, very peaceful, free of tension or agitation, yet so direct and clear, concentrated (not concentrated: coagulated) that it is almost hard. And thats what controls the body, thats what the body obeys. And when thats not there, its the other state: smooth, mellow, soft, woolly and what peace! As if nothing in the world could disturb it.
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As for the head, it has learned to keep still. I walk in the mornings and afternoons, saying the mantra as I did before; but while before I had to drive thoughts away, concentrate and make an effort, now this state comes and takes over everything the head, the body, everything and then I walk in that woolly dream (woolly isnt the right word, but its all I can find!). Its smooth, soft, without angles and supple! No Resistance, no Resistance. Oh, that peace!
Very well, petit.
0 1962-07-04, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There has never been too great an attachment to this form. There was never any attachment (even in so-called full Ignorance) to anything but consciousness yes, something set great store by this consciousness, wouldnt let it be destroyed, saying, This is something precious. But the body. Its not even too good an instrument; simply modest, plastic, self-effacing, and molding itself to every necessity. An ability to mold itself to all points of view and to realize every ideal it deemed worthy of realizingthis very suppleness was its one virtue. And extremely modest, never wanting to impose itself on anything or anyone. Fully conscious of its incapacity, but capable of doing anything, of realizing anything. It was consciously formed with this make-up, because thats what was necessary. And nothing is too great or overwhelming, since there isnt the Resistance put up by a small personality with the sense of its own smallness. No, none of that mattersCONSCIOUSNESS matters; consciousness vast as the universe, even vaster. And along with consciousness, the capacity to adaptto adapt and mold itself to every necessity.
Even now, my one feeling about this form is that its too rigid. Those stupendous inner revelations, those great movements of creative consciousness are constantly hampered by this. Its trying, its trying its best, but it is still governed by such appallingly rigid laws! Appalling. How long will it take to overcome this?
0 1962-07-07, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Just before leaving, Mother makes the following remark on the Paris publishers Resistance:)
This is what I am doing (gesture of applying pressure with the thumb). Who knows, anything can happen! Some rather interesting things are happening in the world, showing me that after all, there is a response there is a little response. I do this (same gesture with the thumb), and the effort isnt completely wasted. The events in Algeria2 and certain things in America too. Theres a response. And then (I think Ive told you this), some people are suddenly having experiences out of all proportion to their inner state, as though theyd been projected into a curve absorbing several lifetimes. This seems to be whats happening individually. People with the least bit of trust are gaining lifetimes perhaps many lifetimesand the world as well.
0 1962-07-31, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(After a silence) I am getting a sort of indication: when I turn the beacon to this side, the Resistance suddenly seems to give waythere must be a means of making it give way.
Dont reply, keep quiet. Write your book and we will see.
I have the feeling that, consciously or unconsciously (I dont know which), this gentleman has become a tool of Catholic Resistance. It is very strong in the Old World and in America as well, although there its more Christian than specifically Catholic. But its terribly strong in France: it tries to take advantage of every opening and to block whatever might take a new turn.
It will give way.
0 1962-08-28, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have already explained this to you on several occasions: instead of SHIFTING from one to the other, its as if one were permeated by the other, like this (Mother slips the fingers of her right hand in between the fingers of her left hand), and you can almost feel both simultaneously. Its one of the results of whats going on these days. A very slight concentration, for example, is all it takes to feel both at the same time, which leads me to a near conviction that true change in the physical results from a kind of PENETRATION. The most material physical substance no longer has that unreceptive sort of density, a density that Resists penetration: it is becoming porous, and thus can be penetrated. Several times, in fact, Ive had the experience of one vibration quite naturally changing the quality of the other the subtle physical vibration was bringing about a sort of almost a transformation, or in any case a noticeable change in the purely physical vibration.
That seems to be the process, or at least one of the most important processes.
0 1962-09-05, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Stubbornly. You have to be stubbornstubborn, stubborn, stubborn. Youre up against all the Resistance of unconsciousness and ignorance, up against all the power of unconsciousness and ignorance something obstinate and unyielding. But its like the story of the drop of water on the rock: a matter of time. The water will eventually wear its way through the rock. It takes ages, but it will succeed, for it falls persistently, drop after drop. First it runs off, eventually it makes a hole, and you have a wide river flowing below. Nature gives us this wonderful example to follow. Thats it: we must be like the water dripping on the rock.
Water is vital energy. The rock is unconsciousness.
0 1962-10-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo is speaking here of knowledge through inspiration or revelation. In other words, when something suddenly descends and illuminates your understanding: all of a sudden, you feel you know a certain thing for the very first time, because it comes to you directly from the domain of Light, the domain of true knowledge, and it comes with all its innate force of truthit illuminates you. And indeed, when youve just received it, it seems as though nothing could Resist that Light. And if you make sure to let it work in you, it brings about as much transformation as it can in its own domain.
It is a fairly common experience. When it occurs, and for some time afterwards (not very long), everything seems to organize itself quite naturally around that Light. Then, little by little, it blends with all the rest. The intellectual awareness of it remains, formulated in one way or another that much is left but its like an empty husk. It no longer has the driving force that transforms all movements of the being in the image of that Light. And this is what Sri Aurobindo means: the world moves fast, the Lord moves ever forward, and all that remains is but a trail He leaves in His wake: it no longer has the same instantaneous and almighty force it had at the MOMENT He projected it into the world.
0 1962-12-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is Resisting, Resisting everywhere. Its even more Resistant than materialism.
Of course! Nothing is more terrible than idealists, theyre the worst. Theyre worse than the bad people.
0 1963-01-30, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The trouble is writing, the materialization between the vision and the writing; the Force has to drive the hand and the pencil, and there is a slight theres still a very slight Resistance. Otherwise, if I could write automatically, oh, how nice it would be!
There may be (I cant say, its all imagination because I dont know), there may come a few somewhat weird things. But there is an insistence on the need to keep to each line as though it stood all alone in the universe. No mixing up the line order, no, no, no! For when he wrote it, he SAW it that way I knew nothing about that, I didnt even know how he wrote it (he dictated it, I believe, for the most part), but thats what he tells me now. Everything comes to a stop, everything, and then, oh, how we enjoy ourselves! I enjoy myself! Its more enjoyable than anything. I even told him yesterday, But why write? Whats the use? Then he filled me with a sort of delight. Naturally, someone in the ordinary consciousness may say, Its very selfish, but And then its like a vision of the future (not too near, not extremely nearnot extremely far either) a future when this sort of white thingwhite and stillwould spread out, and then, with the help of this work, a larger number of minds may come to understand. But thats secondary; I do the translation simply for the joy of it, thats all. A satisfaction that may be called selfish, but when he is told, Its selfish, he replies that there is no one more selfish than the Lord, because all He does is for Himself!
0 1963-03-06, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Why didnt Sri Aurobindo or you make more use of miracles as a means to overcome the Resistances of the outer human consciousness? Why this self-effacement towards the outside, this sort of nonintervention, as it were, or unobstrusiveness?
In Sri Aurobindos case, I only know what he told me several times: what people call miracles are just interventions in the physical or vital worlds. And those interventions are always mixed with ignorant or arbitrary movements.
0 1963-03-09, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The soul was very alive at the time, and with all its strength it Resisted the intrusion of the material logic4 of the worldso it seemed to me perfectly natural. I simply thought, No. Accidents cant happen to me.
But flung like that! For a very long time the memory of the SENSATION remained: something that went like this (same gesture of a leaf falling) and simply set me down on the road. When I worked with Thon, the memory came back, and I saw it was an entity: what people in Europe call angels (what do they call it?) guardian angels, thats right. An entity. Thon had told me of certain worlds (worlds of the higher intellect I dont remember, he had named all the different planes), and in that world are winged beingswho have wings of their own free choice, because they find it pretty! And Madame Thon had always seen two such beings with me. Yet she knew me more than ten years later. And it appears they were always with me. So I took a look and, sure enough, there they were. One even tried to draw: he asked me to lend him my hand to do drawings. I lent my hand, but when I saw the drawing (he did one), I told him, The ones I do without you are much better! So that was the end of the matter!
0 1963-04-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Like a bang on the head I was completely dazed. They called a doctor. There were no medicines left in the citythere werent enough medicines for people, but as we were considered important people (!) the doctor brought two tablets. I told him (laughing), Doctor, I never take any medicines. What! he said. Its so hard to get them!Thats just the point, I replied, theyre very good for others! Then, then suddenly (I was in bed, of course, with a first-rate fever), suddenly I felt seized by trance the real trance, the kind that pushes you out of your body and I knew. I knew: Its the end; if I cant Resist it, its the end. So I looked. I looked and I saw it was a being whose head had been half blown off by a bomb and who didnt know he was dead, so he was hooking on to anybody he could to suck life. And each of those beings (I saw one over me, doing his business!) was one of the countless dead. Each had a sort of atmospherea very widespread atmosphereof human decomposition, utterly pestilential, and thats what gave the illness. If it was merely that, you recovered, but if it was one of those beings with half a head or half a body, a being who had been killed so brutally that he didnt know he was dead and was trying to get hold of a body in order to continue his life (the atmosphere made thousands of people catch the illness every day, it was swarming, an infection), well, with such beings, you died. Within three days it was overeven before, within a day, sometimes. So once I saw and knew, I collected all the occult energy, all the occult power, and (Mother bangs down her fist, as if to force her way into her body) I found myself back in my bed, awake, and it was over. Not only was it over, but I stayed very quiet and began to work in the atmosphere. From that moment on, mon petit, there were no new cases! It was so extraordinary that it appeared in the Japanese papers. They didnt know how it happened, but from that day on, from that night on, not a single fresh case. And people recovered little by little.
I told the story to our Japanese friend in whose house we were living, I told him, Well, thats what this illness isa remnant of the war; and heres the way it happens. And that being was repaid for his attempt! Naturally, the fact that I repelled his influence by turning around and fighting [dissolved the formation]. But what power it takes to do that! Extraordinary.
0 1963-05-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its the perception of a terrestrial movement more than anything else. So the details are unimportant in themselves, but they are symptomatic of the whole. I mean that difficulties, obstacles, battles, victories, advances are in themselves nothing but indications of a general movement: at times, the Resistance and opposition are formidable; at other times there are fantastic advances or progress, seemingly miraculous. If you see everything together, you feel, you feel a sort of thrustan overall thrustin which a small cellular concentration seems really unimportant in itself; its importance diminishes with its lack of Resistance, in the sense that the more it allows the Work to be done without hindering or distorting the movementwithout hindering it or making it more complicated the more the sense of its importance diminishes. In other words, it appears important only insofar as it hinders.
There is evidently a twofold movement: on one hand, something that tries to draw less and less the attention and concentration of others, that is, to lessen the sense of intermediary necessary for forces and thoughts to spread (more and more there is an attempt to undo that1), and on the other hand, an increaseat times prodigious, staggeringof power. Now and then (seldom, and I must say I dont at all try to make it happen more often), now and then, for a minutenot even a minute: a few secondscomes a sense of absolute Power; but immediately it is covered over, veiled. The effect at a distance is becoming greater and greater, but that is not the result of a conscious will I mean there is no attempt to have more power, none at all. Now and then, theres the observation (a very amusing observation, sometimes) that for a moment (but its a matter of seconds), the Power is absolute, and then the usual hodgepodge takes over again.
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I forgot: immediately afterwards I swept everything clean. Except for what Ive just said, I dont remember what it was I dont remember what it was because I did NOT want it to exist. But it was horrible. And in the morning, there was such a painful impression! So I thought something was wrong over there, and when I received your letter, I understood. But it isnt limited to one person or another, one place or another: it seems to evoke a universal way of being, thats what troubles me. As if an entire way of being which Ive been Resisting for for, well, more than seventy years at any rate, which Ive been keeping at arms length so it may no longer exist in a real way, as if it were all forced on me. Like a thing from a past that no longer has the right to exist.
Afterwards, it got better. That night was the worst.
0 1963-05-29, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The less the consciousness is turned to the outside, the less it perceives obstacles, Resistancesall that appears more and more unreal, transient, extremely relative.
In the necessary and unavoidable everyday contact with people, there is a growing perception that whatever the circumstance (which in itself is so simple, simpler than a child, you knowa perfect simplicity), as soon as it comes into contact with the terrestrial human atmosphere, it becomes ever so complicated! And quite unnecessarily. It seems as if the normal human occupation is to complicate all that could be extremely simple. I see this day after day, for all the small events of every day, of each and every minute. With certain consciousnesses as soon as it touches certain consciousnesses it is twisted, sometimes into terrible knots. Then it takes a fantastic labor to undo it the whole thing PERFECTLY unnecessary!
0 1963-07-31, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And now the body KNOWS (in the beginning it didnt, it thought it was attacks from the outside, adverse forces; and it can always be explained like that, it was true in a certain way, but it wasnt the true truth, the deepest truth), now the body KNOWS where it all comes from, and its so marvelous! A marvel of wisdom. It puts everything in its place, it makes you REALIZE that all that play of the adverse forces is a way of seeing things (a necessary way at a given time, maybeby necessary, I mean practical), but its still an illusion; illnesses are a necessary way of seeing things to enable you to Resist properly, to fight properly, but its still an illusion. And now, the BODY itself knows all thisas long as it was only the mind that knew it, it was a remote notion in the realm of ideas, but now the body itself knows it. And it is full not only of goodwill but also of an infinite gratitudeit always wonders (thats its first movement), Do I have the capacity? And it always gets the same answer, It isnt YOUR capacity. Will I have the strength?It isnt YOUR strength. Even that sense of infirmity disappears in the joy of infinite gratitude the thing is done with such goodness, such insight, such thoughtfulness, such care to maintain, as far as possible, a progressive balance.
It came with a certitude, an OBVIOUSNESS: this is the process of transformation.
0 1963-08-10, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The last experience (which Ive had these last few days), in which apparently there was a hitch (it wasnt really one) was a sort of demonstration. I told you what it was, you remember: its like a purge of all the vibrations that are false vibrations, that arent the pure and simple response to the supreme Influence (all that in the cells still responds to the vibrations of falsehood, either from habit or from the people around or the food takenfifty thousand things). Then, with an aspiration or a decision, almost a prayer for purification coming from the body, something happens which, naturally, upsets the balance; the imbalance in turn brings about a general discomfort. The form discomfort takes is habitually the same: first, pains and all kinds of sensations I need not describe; if that state goes on developing, if it is allowed to assume its full proportions, it results in the past it resulted in a faint. But this time, I followed the process for about two hours from the moment I got up: the struggle between the new balance, the new Influence that was getting established, and the Resistance of all the existing elements forced to go away. That created a sort of conflict. The consciousness remained very clear the consciousness of the BODY remained very clear, very quiet, perfectly trusting. So for two hours I was able to follow the process (while going on with all my usual activities, without changing anything), until I felt, or rather was told sufficiently clearly that the Lord wanted my body to be completely immobile for a while so that He might complete His work. But I am not all alone: there are other people here to help me and watch over everything (but I dont say or explain anything to them, those are things I dont talk about I dont say what goes on, I dont say anything), so I sat there wondering, Is it really and truly indispensable? (Mother laughs) Then I felt the Lord exert a little more pressure, which heightened the intensity of the conflict, so that I had all the signs of fainting I understood (!) I stood up, let my body moan a little to make it plain it didnt feel too well (!) and I stretched out. Then I was immobile, and in that immobility, I saw the work that was being donea work that cannot be done if you go on moving about. I saw the work. It took nearly half an hour; in half an hour it was over. Which means there is really there is a fact I cannot doubt, even if all the surrounding thoughts and forces contradict it: I cannot doubt that the consciousness is increasing more and more the consciousness in the body. It is growing more and more precise, luminous, exactQUIETvery peaceful. Yet very conscious of a TREMENDOUS battle against millennial habits. Do you follow?
When it was over, I saw that even physically, bodily, there is a strength: the result is an increased strength. A very clearly increased strength.
0 1963-08-24, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I told you that the only process Ive known, and which recurred several times in my life, is to renounce an error. Something you believe to be truewhich probably was true for a timeon which you partly base your action, but which, in actuality, was only one opinion. You thought it was a truthful finding with all its logical consequences, and your action (part of your action) was based on it, so that everything proceeded from it automatically. Till suddenly an experience, a circumstance or an intuition warns you that your finding isnt so true as it appeared to be (!) Then there is a whole period of observation and study (sometimes too it comes as a revelation, a massive proof), and then its not just your idea or false knowledge that needs to be changed, but also all its consequences, perhaps an entire way of acting on a particular point. At that moment, you get a sort of sensation, something that feels like a sensation of renunciation; that is to say, you have to undo a whole collection of things you had built. Sometimes its quite considerable, sometimes a very small thing, but the experience is the same: the movement of a force, a dissolving power, and the Resistance of all that must be dissolved, all the past habit. It is the contact of the movement of dissolution with the corresponding Resistance that probably translates in the ordinary human consciousness as the sense of renunciation.
I saw that very recently; its something insignificant, the circumstances are completely unimportant in themselves (its only the study of the whole that makes it interesting). Its the only phenomenon that has recurred several times in my life and which for that reason I know well. And as the being progresses, the power of dissolution increases, becomes more and more immediate, and the Resistance lessens. But I remember the time when the Resistances were at their highest (more than half a century ago), and it never worked in any other way: it was always something outside menot outside my consciousness but outside my will something that Resists the will. I never had the feeling I had to renounce things but I felt as if I had to exert a pressure on them to dissolve them. Whereas now, the farther I go, the more imperceptible the pressure becomes, its immediate: as soon as the Force that comes to dissolve a collection of things manifests, theres no Resistance, everything gets dissolved; on the contrary, theres hardly any sense of liberation theres something that is amused every time and says, Ah, again! How many times you limit yourself. How many times you think youre constantly moving on, smoothly, without stopping, and how many times you set a little limit to your action (it isnt a big limit because its a very little thing within an immense whole, but its a limit nonetheless). And then when the Force acts to dissolve the limit, at first you feel liberated, you feel a joy; but now its not even like that any more: there is a smile. Because its not a sense of liberationyou very simply remove a stone that stands in your way.
Thats more or less what I told you last night, but I told it to you complete with illustrations! It would take pages, you understand! (Laughing) Thats why the illustrations are gone, otherwise it would fill a volume. There were all the explanations, all the details.
That idea of renunciation can occur only in an egocentric consciousness. Naturally, people (those whom I call quite unevolved) are attached to thingswhen they have something, they dont want to let go of it! That seems so childish to me! For them, if they are obliged to give it up, it hurts! Because they identify with the things they hold on to. But thats childish. The real process behind is the amount of Resistance in the things that developed on a certain basis of knowledgea knowledge at a given time, no longer a knowledge at another timea partial knowledge, not fleeting but impermanent. There is a whole collection of things built on that knowledge, and they Resist the Force that says, No! Its not true, (laughing) your basis is no longer true, away with it! But then, Oh, it hurts!thats what people feel as renunciation.
The difficult thing is perhaps not so much to renounce as to accept [Mother smiles] when you see life as it is now. But then if you accept, how can you live in the midst of all that while having that untroubled rapture the untroubled rapture not up there but here?1
0 1963-08-31, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And I see very well that if we let ourselves be carried along instead of having that absurd Resistance of habit, if we let ourselves be carried along, there would come a sort of very (same round, global gesture) very soft thing, in the sense of smooth, very soft, very complete, very living, and with a very intimate perception of things. Along with a knowledge that becomes if there werent that mixture of the old habit, it would be really extraordinary: the perception of things not as if they were outside, but an INTIMATE perception. When someone enters the room, for instance, or when the clock is about to strike, you know it just (I cant say a second, its a thousandth of a second), just before it takes place materially; which gives you the feeling of a foreknowledge, but its not that! Its not a foreknowledge, its It belongs to the realm of sensation, but its other senses. The FOREMOST feeling you get is one of intimacy, that is to say, there is no more distance, no more difference, no more seer and thing seen; yet, there is in it what corresponds to vision, hearing, sensation, all the perceptions, taste, smell and all of that.
There is here a very concrete change from before, very perceptible.
I understand very well: what prevents the functioning from being perfect is all the old habits. If we could let ourselves be carried along without Resistingwithout any will to see well, to hear well and so onwe would have the other perception, which is much TRUER. And that intimacy with things things are no longer foreign. But there is no thought in it; they speak of knowledge through identity, you know, but thats all intellectual notions, its not that! Its
And always that feeling of something smooth (same round gesture), smooth, without any clashes, any complications, as though you could no longer bump into things, no longer Its quite interesting.
It takes time simply because of the Resistance of the old habits. If we could always let ourselves be carried along, things would go much fastermuch faster. All the time, a hundred times a day (more than that!), I tell myself, Why are you thinking of this? Why are you thinking of that? For example, if I have to answer someone (not always in writing, it can be an [occult] work, to organize something), the Force acts quite naturally, smoothly, without any Resistance; then suddenly thought comes into the picture and tries to interfere (I catch it every time and I stop it every time; but its too often!), and all the old habit returns. That need to translate things into thoughts, to give them clear expression And then you hinder the entire process.
Oh, to let oneself live simply, simply, without complications.
0 1963-10-16, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Every time a new truth has attempted to manifest upon earth, it has been immediately attacked, corrupted and diverted by pseudo-spiritual forceswhich did represent a certain spirituality at a given time, but precisely the one that the new truth wants to go beyond. To give but one example of those sad spiritual diversions which clutter History, Buddhism was largely corrupted in a sizable part of Asia by a whole Tantric and magic Buddhism. The falsity lies not in the old spirituality which the new truth seeks to go beyond, but in the eternal fact that the Past clings to its powers, its means and its rule. As Mother said in her simple language, Whats wrong is to remain stuck there. And Sri Aurobindo with his ever-present humor: The traditions of the past are very great in their own place, in the past. We could expect the phenomenon to recur today. In India, Tantrism represents a powerful discipline from the Past and it was inevitable that Mother should experience the better and the worse of that system in her attempt to transform all the means and elements of the old earththis Agenda has made abundant mention of a certain X, symbol of Tantrism. Now, as it happens, we are witnessing the same phenomenon of diversion, and today this same Tantrism is seeking to divert the new truth by convincing as many adepts as possible not to say Mothers Mantra, which is too advanced for ordinary mortals, and to say Tantric mantras in its stead. This is purely and simply an attempt to take Mothers place. One has to be quite ignorant of the mechanism of forces not to understand that saying a mantra of the old gods puts you under the influence and into the orbit of precisely that which Resists the new truth. Mother had foreseen the phenomenon and forewarned me in the following conversation. Unfortunately, until recently, I always wanted to believe that Tantrism would be converted. Nothing of the sort. It is attempting to take Mothers place and lead astray those who are not sincere enough to want ONE SINGLE THING: the new world.
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0 1963-11-04, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If we look at it from a psychological standpoint On the mental plane, its very easy; on the vital plane, its not too difficult; on the physical plane, its a little heavier, because desires are passed off as needs. But there too, there has been a field of experience these last few days: the study of medical and scientific conceptions on the bodys makeup, its needs, and whats good or bad for it. And all this, in its essence, again boils down to the same question of vibrations. It was quite interesting: there was an appearance (because all things as the ordinary consciousness sees them are nothing but appearances), there was an appearance of food poisoning (mushrooms that are thought to have been bad). It was the object of a particular study to find out whether there was something absolute about the poisoning, or whether it was relative, that is, based on ignorance, a wrong reaction and the absence of the true Vibration. And the conclusion was as follows: its a question of proportion between the amount, the sum of the vibrations that belong to the Supreme, and the sum of the vibrations that still belong to darkness. Depending on the proportion, the poisoning appears as something concrete, real, or else as something that can be eliminated, in other words, that doesnt Resist the influence of the Vibration of Truth. And it was very interesting, because, immediately, as soon as the consciousness became aware of the cause of the trouble in the bodys functioning (the consciousness perceived where it came from and what it was), immediately the observation began, with the idea: Lets see what happens. First set the body perfectly at rest with the certainty (which is always there) that nothing happens except by the Lords Will and that the effect too is the Lords Will, all the consequences are the Lords Will, and consequently one should be very still. So the body is very still: untroubled, not agitated, it doesnt vibrate, nothingvery still. Once this is achieved, to what extent are the effects unavoidable? Because a certain quantity of matter that contained an element unfavorable to the bodys elements and life was absorbed, what is the proportion between the favorable and the unfavorable elements, or between the favorable and the unfavorable vibrations? And I saw very clearly: the proportion varies according to the amount of cells in the body that are under the direct Influence, that respond to the supreme Vibration alone, and the amount of other cells that still belong to the ordinary way of vibrating. It was very clear, because I could see all the possibilities, from the ordinary mass [of cells], which is completely upset by that intrusion and where you have to fight with all the ordinary methods to get rid of the undesirable element, to the totality of the cellular response to the supreme Force, which renders the intrusion perfectly innocuous. But this is still a dream for tomorrowwere on the way. But the proportion has become rather favorable (I cant say all-powerful, far from it, but rather favorable), so that the consequences of the ill-being didnt last very long and the damage was, so to say, minimal.
But all the experiences nowadays, one after the otherall the PHYSICAL experiences, of the bodypoint to the same conclusion: everything depends on the proportion between the elements that respond exclusively to the Supremes Influence, the half-and-half elements, on the road to transformation, and the elements that still follow Matters old vibratory process. The latter appear to be decreasing in number, to a great extent, but there are still enough of them to bring about unpleasant effects or unpleasant reactionsthings that are untransformed, that still belong to ordinary life. But all problems, whether psychological or purely material or chemical, all problems boil down to this: they are nothing but questions of vibrations. And there is the perception of that totality of vibrations and of what we could call (in a very rough and approximative way) the difference between the constructive and the destructive vibrations. We can say (to put it very simply) that all the vibrations that come from the One and express Oneness are constructive, while all the complications of the ordinary, separative consciousness lead to destruction.
0 1963-11-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But you cant imagine, its wonderful! Immediately there comesclear, simple, effortlessly, without seeking for itexactly what has to be done or said or written: the whole tension stops, its over. And then, if you need paper, the paper is there; if you need a fountain pen, you find just the one you need; if you need (theres no seeking: above all dont seek, dont try to seek, youll just make another mess)its there. And thats a fact of EVERY MINUTE. You have the field of experience every second. For instance, youre dealing with a servant who doesnt do things properly or as you think they should be done, or youre dealing with a stomach that doesnt work the way youd like it to and it hurts: its the same method, there is no other. You know, at times situations get so tense that you feel as if youre about to faint, the body cant stand it any more, its so tense; or else theres a pain, something wrong, things arent sorting themselves out, and theres a tension; so immediately you stop everything: Lord, You, its up to You. At first there comes a peace, as if you were entirely outside existence, and then its gone the pain goes, the dizziness disappears. And what is to happen happens automatically. And, you see, its not in meditation, not in actions of terrestrial importance: its the field of experience you have ALL the time, without interruptionwhen you know how to put it to use. And for everything: when something hurts, for instance, when things Resist or grate or howl inside there, instead of your saying, Oh, how it hurts! you call the Lord in there: Come in here, and then you stay calm, not thinking of anythingyou simply stay still in your sensation. And more than a thousand times, you know, I was almost bewildered: Look! The pain is gone! You didnt even notice how it went. So people who want to lead a special life or have a special organization to have experiences, thats quite silly the greatest possible diversity of experiences is at your disposal every minute, every minute. Only you must learn not to have a mental ambition for great things. Just the other day, I was shown in such a clear way a very small thing I had done (I, its the body speaking), a very small things that had been done by the Lord in this body (thats a long sentence!), and I was shown the terrestrial consequence of that very small thingit was visible, I mean, as my hand is visible to my eyesand the terrestrial correspondence. Then I understood.
We are given everythingEVERYTHING. All the difficulties that have to be overcome, all of them (and the more capable we are, that is, the more complex the instrument is, the more numerous the difficulties are), all the difficulties, all the opportunities to overcome them, all the possible experiences, and limited in time and space so they can be innumerable. And it has repercussions and consequences all over the earth (I am not concerned with what goes on in the universe because, for the time being, that isnt my work). But it is certain (because it has been said so and I know it) that what goes on on the earth has repercussions throughout the universe. Sitting there, you live the everyday life with its usual insignificance, its unimportance, its lack of interest and its a WONDERFUL field of experiences, of innumerable experiences, not only innumerable but as varied as can be, from the most subtle to the most material, without leaving your body. Only, you should have RETURNED to it. You cannot have authority over your body without having left it.
0 1963-11-27, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For some time, I had been encountering in N. a sort of Resistance to the Action. Whenever he entered the atmosphere (Mother makes the gesture of banging against a wall), it Resisted terribly. And I didnt have any intention other than to make it give way, in other words, I confined myself to the inner action (gesture indicating the Force at work). Then, as it happened, he fell ill. Yesterday, he came as every day, but he wasnt well. So I told him, Listen, go downstairs, shut yourself up in your room, enter Sachchidananda and dont move from it. (He is quite capable of doing it.) In the evening, the doctor came and told me that N. had a very high fever: He is restless. The fever was too high. I thought, The Resistance is even stronger than I thought. At night, when I went to bed, I began to concentrate on him to see, and I saw him surrounded by a kind of black crust, which obviously comes from the fact that he isnt used to purifying himself as things come onto him from outside (me too, for example, I would be surrounded by a black cuirass, absolutely coal black, if I didnt do my work of purification all the time, all the time, all the time). So I saw this, and did what was needed. And this morning, the fever had dropped. But the interesting thing is that when he came this morning, he told me this: Last night I had a vision: I suddenly found myself entirely surrounded by coal, a thick crust of coal, and I wanted to get rid of it and get out of it. I looked at my hands, I had nothing in them, so I thought, How can I do it? I have nothing to do it with. And instantly, I saw the crust begin to crumble and crumble and crumble into dust and gone! And this morning, I feel weak and tired, but its over.
Its a minimum of distortion.
0 1963-12-14, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The thing that Resists the most on the terrestrial level (perhaps even on the universal level) is that zone (which is more pronounced in the earths atmosphere), the emotive zone. I had the clear perception that it CLINGS to its emotions, it ENJOYS its emotions. This counteracts the effort towards perfection, towards perfect unity the pleasure of emotions.
There was an experience for a few seconds, with the clear vision and immediate action of the supreme Force over this [the emotive zone], but the experience wasnt sufficient so it could be noted down.
0 1963-12-31, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Which means that austerity, asceticism, even an intense and stern aspiration, all sternness, all that: no action. No actionFalsehood stays put in the background. But it cannot Resist the sparkling of joy. Its interesting.
(silence)
0 1964-01-29, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The extreme acuteness of your difficulties is due to the yoga having come down against the bed-rock of Inconscience which is the fundamental basis of all Resistance in the individual and in the world to the victory of the Spirit and the Divine Work that is leading toward that victory. The difficulties themselves are general in the Ashram as well as in the outside world.
The description follows. You would think it was happening now:
0 1964-02-22, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The whole day yesterday, I had an impressionnot a vague impression: a very precise sensationof the Pressure of something that was trying to manifest. But it was so material that it was almost like a physical pressure. And then a kind of Force that not only Resisted, but revolted, trying to make a muddle of everythingto create unpleasant circumstances, trouble people, all sorts of perfectly unpleasant little nothings. I was watching all that.
And in the evening the Resistance and revolt took a concrete form, as it were. Then, in response, there was in all the cells of the body a call, a desperate call for the Truth, as if all the cells were crying out, Ah, no! Weve had enough of this Falsehood, enough, enough, enough!the Truth, the Truth, the Truth. It put my body in a very deep trance. And it had the impression of a very, very intense struggle.
I was looking, and everywhere there were as if the world were made of huge engines with enormous pistons that were fallingyou know, like in engine rooms: they were rising and falling, rising and falling. It was like that everywhere. And it was pounding Matterit was frightful. To such a degree that the body felt pounded.
0 1964-03-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And something began to descendnot descend: to manifest and permeate; permeate and fill this terrestrial consciousness. What a force it had! What a power! I had never felt that kind of intensity in the material world. A stability, a power! Everything in the sense of a power, everything in the sense of a thrust forwarda thrust forward: progress, evolution, transformation. Everything like that. As if everything, everything were filled with a power of transformationnot transformation, not transmutation, I dont know how to explain it. Not the final transformation that will change the appearance, not that: it was the ananda of progress. The ananda of progress, like the ananda of progress of the animal becoming man, of man becoming supermanit wasnt transformation, it wasnt what will respond to that progress: it was progress. And with a plenitude, a constancy, and No ResistANCE ANYWHERE: there was no panic anywhere, no Resistance anywhere; everything was enthusiastically participating.
It lasted more than an hour.
0 1964-03-11, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All our endeavour is to make this consciousness and this will govern our lives and action and organise all our activities. It is the way in which the Ashram has been created. Since 1926 when Sri Aurobindo retired and gave me full charge of it (at that time there were only two rented houses and a handful of disciples) all has grown up and developed like the growth of a forest, and each service was created not by any artificial planning but by a living and dynamic need. This is the secret of constant growth and endless progress. The present difficulties come chiefly from psychological Resistances in the disciples who have not been able to follow the rather rapid pace of the sadhana and the yielding to the intrusion of mental methods which have corrupted the initial working.
A growth and purification of the consciousness is the only remedy.
0 1964-07-18, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its extremely interesting, because its becoming absolutely concrete. It isnt a thought, it isnt an idea, its absolutely concrete: all, but all the contacts with people are simply vibrations. There isnt this person or that person, thats not it: its nothing but vibrations, with places or moments of concentration, others of broadening and diffusion. And whats extremely interesting is that constant mass, in constant motion, of vibrations of all kinds: of falsehood, disorder, violence, complication. Then, within that mass, there is a rain, as it were, but a very consciously directed rain, of vibrations of Light, Order, Harmony, which enter that (Mother draws movements of forces), and it all Resists, it all works. Its something that lives untrammeled, constantly, everywhere, every second, and in a consciousness if I use the word love, it wont be understood, because Thats what is everywhere, constantly, eternally and immutably; nothing exists but by That and in Thatin fact, only That exists essentially. And within that mass, there is a sort of strugglewhich isnt a struggle because theres no sense of struggle, but an effort against a Resistance, an effort so that Order and Harmony and, naturally, eventually Love (but thats for later) overcome the disorder and confusion. And in that Order (that essentially true Order), the greatest contradiction is precisely Falsehood. But those are all vibrations. Theyre not individual wills or individual consciousnesses: within one individual aggregate, you find the whole range, and not only the whole range, but it changes constantly: the proportion of the vibrations changes; only the appearance remains what it was, but thats very superficial.
This experience is becoming so constant, so constant thats its difficult for me to adapt myself to the ordinary perception.
0 1964-08-22, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its very different from what it was before for so many yearsvery different. I feel a sort of Oh, its an impression equivalent to the one I had when Sri Aurobindo gave my mind silence. It became perfectly blank and empty (gesture to the forehead), blank and empty, and there was nothing anymore: I couldnt think anymore, not one idea, not one system anymore, nothingin a word, total imbecility! It never came back. You see, it went up above, and here there was nothing. Well, this time, it was the same thing for the body consciousness: before, it was everywhere like something holding everything together (to such a point that when there was a difficulty, I only had to stop bothering about it all and let that act, and the difficulty would automatically be sorted out by that body consciousness, which knows far better than our active thought what the body should do), and that day it left DELIBERATELY. The decision had been made the night before, but I was Resisting it, as I knew the normal consequence was fainting. But that willed it so and that chose its own time (when there was no danger, when no accident could happen and someone was there to help me), that chose its own time and that did it deliberatelygone. And it has never returned.
So the first day, I was almost dazed; I was constantly groping for the way to do things. Yesterday, it was still strong. And this morning, suddenly I began to understand (what I call to understand is to have control), I understood: Ah, thats it! Because I was wondering, But what on earth does all this mean? How can I do my work? I remember, yesterday I had to see a host of people, people who arent close and whose atmosphere isnt good: it was very difficult, I had to keep a hold on myself, and I must have looked strange, very absent I was very far away, in a very deep consciousness, so that my body wouldnt be you know, that gave it discomfort of sortsdiscomfort, yesit was hard to bear. Yesterday the body was still that way the whole morning; towards evening it got better. But the night wasnt good, oh! In the night, I am always given a state of human consciousness to put right, one after another there are millions of them. And there are always all the images and events that illustrate that particular state of consciousness. At times, its very hard going: I wake up tired, as after a long period of work. And last night, thats how it was; its always the various, multiple ways which men have of complicating the original Simplicity: of turning a simple vibration into extremely complicated eventswhere the thing should be simple and flow naturally, there are endless complications, and such difficulties! Unbearable and insuperable difficulties. I dont know if you have experienced that: you want to go somewhere, but there are hindrances everywhere; you want to go out of a room, but there is no way out, or there is one, but you have to crawl on the ground under kinds of rocks and then something in the being refuses, No, I wont do it. And with a sense of insecurity, as if at any moment the thing could topple over and crush you. There are people who want to help you, but they cant do anything at all, they only make the complication still more complicated; you start on a road with the certainty of reaching a particular place, then all of a sudden, in the middle of it the road changes, everything changes, and you have your back to the place you wanted to go. All kinds of things like that. The symbolism of it is extremely clear. But then, it makes for a lot of work.
0 1964-09-26, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are two things. One, for instance, which I have often observed: an illness is triggered, or a disorder is triggered, and there is a kind of it isnt a contagion (how can I explain it?), it would almost be like an imitation, but thats not quite it. Lets say that a certain number of cells give way; for some reason or other (there are countless reasons), they submit to the disorderobey the disorder and a particular point becomes ill according to the ordinary view of illness. But that intrusion of Disorder makes itself felt everywhere, it has repercussions everywhere: wherever there is a weaker point which doesnt Resist the attack so well, it manifests. Take someone who is in the habit of getting headaches, or toothaches, or a cough, or neuralgic pains, whatever, a host of little things of that sort that come and go, increase and decrease. But if there is an attack of Disorder somewhere, a serious attack, all those little troubles reappear instantly, here, there, there. Its a fact I have observed. And the opposite movement follows the same pattern: if you are able to bring to the attacked spot the true Vibration the Vibration of Order and Harmony and you stop the Disorder all the other things are put back in order, as if automatically.
And that doesnt happen through contagion, you see; it isnt that, for instance, the blood carries the illness here or there, thats not it: it is almost like a spirit of imitation.
0 1964-09-30, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You remember, I had that in the past (a few months or years ago), I told you, it was something that would suddenly make me bang my fist it was so terrible that I felt as if everything would be smashedits the same thing, but now organized for a definite aim: it comes fully ready, then it acts, and when its finished, it goes. It comes, and sometimes it stays long enough: it insists and insists, as though it were pummeling the Resistance; and then suddenly it stops, its finished, its gone. It comes into the consciousness spontaneously, it goes out of it spontaneously, and I am like a witness. Just a witness who is used as a linkan electric plug.
It goes towards the person (I see it with the inner vision, you understand) or towards the circumstances or towards the event, and it pummels it without letting go of it: You will do what the Lord wills, it will be as the Lord wills.
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And its completely outsideoutsidehuman feelings, human thoughts, human perceptions, which means it can go to someone very close, very intimate, just as it can go to someone very remote; it can go to someone full of goodwill just as it can go to someone full of ill willwith perfect impartiality. Its very interesting, there are no nuances in its action, no nuances. There may be a dosage, but the dosage seems to be measured according to the Resistance. But no nuances, which means that, for its action, everyone and everything is IDENTICALabsolutely identical; there arent those for and those against, that doesnt exist anymore; theres only something that isnt as it ought to be: it isnt as it ought to bebang! (Mother laughs)
It came again just yesterday.
0 1964-10-30, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Maybe that feeling of threat is the expression of the Resistance and ill will of all that doesnt want to changeits possible. Its possible. There is everything that doesnt want to change, all that exists only through and for the Falsehood, and doesnt want things to change. Its like those sudden pains in the body, if you look at them, you always see something black, a sort of black thread or black dotits something that is unwilling: I dont want any of it! I dont want things to change, I am ATTACHED to my Falsehood. So the threat may be from everything that doesnt want to change.
Ultimately, we just have to smile. And one day, it will have to change anywaywell have given it enough time, we have given it enough rein, no?
0 1964-11-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
"When darkness deepens strangling the earth's breast And man's corporeal mind is the only lamp, As a thief's in the night shall be the covert tread Of one who steps unseen into his house. A Voice ill-heard shall speak, the soul obey, A power into mind's inner chamber steal, A charm and sweetness open life's closed doors And beauty conquer the Resisting world The truth-light capture Nature by surprise, A stealth of God compel the heart to bliss And earth shall grow unexpectedly divine."
Savitri, I.IV.55
0 1964-11-21, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is clear that in order to follow its own rhythm, the body should reduce its activities to the minimum; not exactly reduce, but have the freedom of choice of its movements: nothing should be imposed on it from outsidewhich is quite far from reality. And yet, if one looks at the whole, there is an absolute conviction, even in the body, that nothing happens that isnt the effect of the supreme Will. Therefore, the conditions in which it finds itself are the conditions that He has wanted and wants that He wantsat every second. So the conclusion is that there must be in the body a Resistance or an incapacity to follow the Movement.
When the problem reaches that point, there is always a similar answer: Dont concern yourself with that! I think this is wisdom. There you are.
0 1964-11-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And anything that disturbs the Inertia is, for Inertia, a catastrophe. In the world, the earthly world (its the only one I can speak of with competence; of the others, I have only overall visions), in the earthly world, for Inertia (which is the basis of the creation and is necessary to fix, to concretize things), anything that disturbs it is a catastrophe. That is to say, the advent of Life was a monstrous catastrophe, and the advent of intelligence in Life another monstrous catastrophe, and now the advent of Supermind is the final catastrophe! Thats how it is. And for the unenlightened mind, it really is a catastrophe! I know cases, for instance, of people who are sick: if they follow the routine of the doctor and medicines and treatment and disease, they get well; if by some mischance (!) they call on the Force and I apply it, the more I apply, the more terrified they are! They feel absolutely unexpected phenomena and they are terrified: Whats happening to me! Whats happening to me! As if it were absolutely catastrophic. The minute the Force comes and they feel just a bit of it, like one drop, they tense up, they Resist, they panic, they become absolutely restless. Thats right: they become so restless, so absolutely restless! That is, the whole system spends its time rejecting and rejecting all that comes.
Its very interesting.
0 1964-12-02, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I have noticed, especially for those who have had a Western education, that they shouldnt change their external occupations abruptly. Most people tend to want to change their environment, to want to change their occupation, to want to change their surroundings, to want to change their habit, thinking that will help them to change inwardlyits not true. You are much more vigilant and alert to Resist the old movement, the old relationships, the vibrations you no longer want when you remain in a context that, in fact, is habitual enough to be automatic. You shouldnt be interested in a new external organization, because you always tend to enter it with your old way of being.
Its very interesting even, I made a very deep study of people who think that if they travel things are going to be different. When you change your external surroundings, on the contrary, you always tend to keep your internal organization in order to keep your individuality; whereas if you are held by force in the same context, the same occupations, the same routine of life, then the ways of being you no longer want become more and more evident and you can fight them much more precisely.
0 1965-01-09, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All I can say is that there is a fierceness in the Resistance to the descent of the Truth. This descent is totally concrete and evident, of course, and everything averse to it is Resisting with terrible fiercenessit cant last. But we must bear up, thats the difficulty.
For me, there is a struggle every minute with all that is most negative in life, in the terrestrial consciousness, with what REFUSES to admit the possibility of divinity. In other words, the materialistic concept in its most stubbornly dark aspect.
0 1965-03-20, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Naturally, there is a progress (a work that can be noted, discerned) in the consciousness of the cells, in their receptivity and their Resistance to Disorder; but its just a progress, meaning that the possibility, and even the recurrence of disorder, decomposition, disharmony, wrong functioning, none of that is conquered at all, not at all. There is a growing feeling of being the docile instrument of the supreme Will, to such a point that the cells feel that whatever they may be asked to do they can do, but there is at the same time the very clear perception that the field of what is asked of them is still very limitedvery limited and that they would be unable to do better or more. And thats what gives weight to the notion of wear and tear, of agingnot that they feel like that, but in material fact, what is asked of them is very limited.
(silence)
0 1965-05-29, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It seems that the only method capable of overcoming all Resistances is the method of Love; but in fact, the adverse forces have perverted it in such a way that a large quantity of sincere people, of sincere seekers, seem to be armor-plated against this method, because of its distortion. Thats the difficulty. Thats why it takes time. Anyway
Purohit: priest.
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"On the other hand however your statement is correct. It is 'natural considering the times' and the occidental mentality prevalent everywhere. It is also probably necessary that this should be faced and overcome before any supramental realisation is possible in the earth-consciousness for it is the attitude of the physical mind to spiritual things and as it is in the physical that the Resistance has to be overcome before the mind can be overpassed in the way required for this yoga, the strongest possible representation of its difficulties was indispensable."
Bulletin, August 1965
0 1965-07-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Well, yes, its a disorder. But disorder is everywhere! If its any consolation to you, my body too is in disorder. It isnt clearly a disorder but an almost total lack of harmonyits the constant condition of life; its the result of effort, of Resistance, of enduring, and also of that tension of being in search of something you hope to reach, but which always eludes you the something that eludes you is That, its that Harmony (a Harmony which, in its perfection, is Ananda, thats obvious). And the constant state is like that. In fact, thats what causes fatigue, tension and so on. Last night, I spent the whole night looking at that, and I was wondering, Why is that so? We are constantly in that state, straining after something that eludes us. And then the senses, the whole realm of the senses seems to be in a constantly false state, and they use that state of tension to give you the feeling that this is going wrong, that is going wrong, and this and that. And if by ill luck there is a vague hint of mental collaboration (from that famous physical mind), then things go awry, they become something really unpleasant.
But its not inescapable. Its not inescapable and its not realwhat I call real is something that comes from the supreme Will directly. That is true; the rest isnt true, its the product of all the confusion (zigzag gesture downward) and of all the disorder of the human consciousness illness isnt true. I dont think that one illness in a hundred (oh, maybe in a thousand) is true. Some are the expression of a Will for something wrong to be well shaken, demolished, so that, in that chaos, something truer may take form but thats an exceptional state.
0 1965-09-25, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats perfectly correct. But I mean that according to my vision (which I dont think is mine, its not a personal vision), nights and days like yesterday (which arent pleasant) obviously give you a knowledge, and upheaval [Kali] still belongs to the old methodits accepting that the world hasnt changed. While this sort of apparent shrinking is in fact perhaps the proof that the earth consciousness has changed and is putting pressure on what Resists, which gets smaller and smaller, but harder and harder.
Harder and harder, thats right.
0 1965-11-15, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You must sleep well. Yes, I have noticed that its important to sleep a long time. As soon as you feel tired, let yourself drift into sleep, dont Resist. Thats important. I am saying this from personal experience, because all of a sudden When there is a length of time (it lasts an hour, two hours, it depends) during which the atmosphere is all vibrant with this light-force-joy I spoke of the other day, and you are as if its absolutely full, absolutely full; and then all of a sudden (gesture of inward plunge), and after a time you ask yourself, Well, well, where have I been? There are times like that when you go into a sort of sleep. The first few times, I thought I had lapsed into unconsciousness (although that has rarely happened to me!), but anyway, I wondered what it meant. Then I took a good look and I saw it was a necessary period of assimilation. Its very necessary. Its in a sort of stillness of the cells consciousness that they assimilate the new force. So when it comes, dont Resist. Generally, it doesnt last very long: fifteen minutes, twenty minutes. A period of assimilation. You know, the atmosphere is charged, charged, increasingly charged. So if suddenly you feel something pulling, dont Resist, let yourself goits better not to be standing up!
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0 1965-12-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And I did it deliberately. Its true that it is dangerous to pull down because if the Resistance is too great, something gets demolished, but there was nothing to risk anymore since he himself was ready to go to Madras to be sent to another world. I did it.
Truly, even materially and even in the present state of the world, nothing is impossible. All that is needed is the Lords Sanction (sanction in the English sense of the word). And it was He who wanted it, it was He who willed it. I, who cant remain standing for more than ten minutes without my head whirling, stayed there half an hour MOTIONLESS: I didnt feel anything, I was quite beyond all karmas! It took half an hour for everything to come to a stop, and it was clearly a momentary effect, meaning that it could have lasted one hour, two hours, I dont know, but with the inner vibrations of his being (lack of faith and so on) it could only be momentary.
0 1965-12-18, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Diseases are just that. Its the same thing with the doctors illness: this tremor is the possession by an idea, its what in the conscious intelligence is expressed as the possession by an idea, a hypnosisa sort of hypnosis accompanied by a fear in matter. The two things together: possession and fear, a sort of fearfulness. And a sense of helplessness in all that. The possession by an idea and a helplessness to reject it, and a fear, a helplessness to Resist. And then a sort of fearfulness that is translated in us by, Oh, its going to be that way oh, its going to be a disease.
In the old Scriptures they used to compare that with a dogs twisted tail. And it is truly like that, its a sort of TWIST that you try to straighten out and which goes back to its shape automatically, idioticallyyou untwist it, it twists up again; you reject it, it comes again. Its extremely interesting, but its miserable. Miserable. And all illnesses are like that, all, all of them, whatever their external form. The external form is only one way of being of the SAME THINGbecause things are arranged in every possible way (there arent two identical things and everything is arranged differently), so then, some follow similar twists, and thats what doctors call such and such an illness. But if they are sincere, they will tell you, There arent two like illnesses.
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Oh, I remember, I said the other day that perfection is eternal and its because of Matters Resistance that, on earth, perfection is progressive.
In fact, a cancer.
0 1966-01-14, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The Resistance of the forces of Falsehood has reached a climax, they are in a state of acute violenceacute.
Yes, its glaring.
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The closeness was always up above (gesture above the head), in the broad lines, but here, it was a physical closeness and the sense that well, that a certain type of Resistance was going to end, was going to fall away. So I said to myself, Thats very good, very necessary. If the touring hasnt tired you too much, its all right; that was the only drawback (how can I put it?) that I cant say I feared, because I dont fear anything, but that I saw as being possible.
No, no! In a day or two, Ill be fine.
0 1966-01-31, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
To discover the obstacles, the failings, the Resistances in ones own being, in ones own consciousness, isnt a defeat, its a great victory. And one shouldnt lament, one should rejoice.
But its full of failings!
0 1966-03-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its only the incapacity, the clumsiness, the lack of faith we mix into it that takes away His power. The minute we are truly pure, that is, under His influence alone, there are no limits, no limitsnothing, nothing, there is nothing, no law of Nature that can Resist, nothing, nothing.
Only, the whole thing is that the time must have come, there must be only That leftall the rest spoils, whatever it is, even the highest, purest, noblest, most beautiful and marvelous things: all that spoils. Only That.
0 1966-06-02, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When I lie down on my bed at night, there is an offering of all the cells, which regularly surrender as completely as they can, with an aspiration not only for union but for fusion: let there remain nothing but the Divine. Its regular, every day, every single day. And for some time, these cells or this body consciousness (but it isnt organized as a consciousness: its like a collective consciousness of the cells), it seemed to be complaining a little, to be saying, But we dont feel much. We do feel (they cant say they dont feel: they feel protected, supported), but still They are like children, they were complaining that it wasnt spectacular: It HAS to be marvelous. (Mother laughs) Ah, very well, then! So two nights ago, they were in that state when I went to bed. I didnt move from the bed till about two in the morning. At two in the morning I got up, and I suddenly noticed that all the cells, the whole body (but it really is a cellular consciousness, not a body consciousness; it isnt the consciousness of this or that person: theres no person, its the consciousness of a cellular aggregate), that consciousness felt bathed in and at the same time shot through by a MATERIAL power of a fan-tas-tic velocity bearing no relation to the velocity of light, none at all: the velocity of light is something slow and unhurried in comparison. Fantastic, fantastic! Something that must be like the movement of the centers out there (Mother gestures towards faraway galactic space). It was so awesome! I remained quite peaceful, still, I sat quite peaceful; but still, peaceful as I could be, it was so awesome, as when you are carried away by a movement and are going so fast that you cant breathe. A sort of discomfort. Not that I couldnt breathe, that wasnt the point, but the cells felt suffocated, it was so awesome. And at the same time with a sensation of power, a power that nothing, nothing whatsoever can Resist in any way. So I had been pulled out of my bed (I noticed it) so that the BODY consciousness (mark the difference: it wasnt the cells consciousness, it was the bodys consciousness) would teach the cells how to surrender and tell them, There is only one way: a total surrender, then you will no longer have that sensation of suffocation. And there was a slight concentration, like a little lesson. It was very interesting: a little lesson, how it should be done, what should be done, how to abandon oneself entirely. And when I saw it had been understood, I went back to bed. And then, from that time (it was two, two: twenty) till quarter to five, I was in that Movement without a single break! And the peculiar thing was that when I got up, there was in that consciousness (which is both cellular and a bit corporeal) the sense of Ananda [divine joy] in everything the body did: getting up, walking, washing its eyes, brushing its teeth. For the first time in my life I felt the Ananda (a quite impersonal Ananda), an Ananda in those movements. And with the feeling, Ah, thats how the Lord enjoys Himself.
Its no longer in the foreground (it was in the foreground for an hour or two to make me understand), now its a bit further in the background. But, you understand, previously the body used to feel that its whole existence was based on the Will, the surrender to the supreme Will, and endurance. If it was asked, Do you find life pleasant?, it didnt dare to say no, because but it didnt find it pleasant. Life wasnt for its own pleasure and it didnt understand how it could give pleasure. There was a concentration of will in a surrender striving to be as perfectpainstakingly perfectas possible, and a sense of endurance: holding on and holding out. That was the basis of its existence. Then, when there were transitional periods which are always difficult, like, for instance, switching from one habit to another, not in the sense of changing habits but of switching from one support to another, from one impulsion to another (what I call the transfer of power), its always difficult, it occurs periodically (not regularly but periodically) and always when the body has gathered enough energy for its endurance to be more complete; then the new transition comes, and its difficult. There was that will and that endurance, and also, Let Your Will be done, and Let me serve You as You want me to, as I should serve You, let me belong to You as You want me to, and also, Let there remain nothing but You, let the sense of the person disappear (it had indeed disappeared to a considerable extent). And there was this sudden revelation: instead of that base of enduranceholding on at any costinstead of that, a sort of joy, a very peaceful but very smiling joy, very smiling, very sweet, very smiling, very charmingcharming! So innocent, something so pure and so lovely: the joy which is in all things, in everything we do, everything, absolutely everything. I was shown last night: everything, but everything, there isnt one vibration that isnt a vibration of joy.
0 1966-07-09, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The Resistance of inertia in consciousnesses and in Matter are the reason why that Action, instead of being direct and perfectly harmonious, becomes confused, full of contradictions, shocks and conflicts. Instead of everything working out normally, I might say, smoothly (as it should), all that Resisting, opposing inertia causes things to start clashing together in a tangled movement, with disorder and destruction, which are made necessary only by the Resistance but were NOT indispensable: they might not have beenthey should not have been, to tell the truth. Because that Will, that Power, is a Power of perfect harmony in which each thing is in its place, and It organizes everything wonderfully: It comes as an absolutely luminous and perfect organization, which you can see when you have the vision. But when It descends and presses down on Matter, everything starts seething and Resisting. So to want to ascribe to the divine Action and the divine Power the disorder and confusion and destruction is yet more human nonsense. Its inertia (not to speak of ill will), its inertia that CAUSES the catastrophe. It isnt that the catastrophe is willed, or even that its foreseen: it is CAUSED by the Resistance.
Then, added to this is the vision of the action of the Grace that comes and mitigates the results wherever possible, that is to say, wherever its accepted. And thats what explains that the aspiration, the faith, the complete trust of the human, terrestrial element, have a power of harmonization, because they allow the Grace to come and mend the consequences of blind Resistance.
Its a clear, very clear vision, clear even in the details.
If one wanted to, one could prophesy by telling what one sees. But there is a sort of supercompassion preventing that prophecy, because the Word of Truth has a power of manifestation, and to express the result of Resistance would make that state more concrete and would lessen the action of the Grace. Thats why even when one sees, one cannot speak, one MUST NOT speak.
But Sri Aurobindo certainly meant that this Power or this Force is what does everythingeverything. When you see It or are one with It, at the same time you know, and you know that That is the only thing that really acts and creates; the rest is the result of the field or the world or the matter or the substance in which It actsits the result of Resistance, but its not the Action. And to unite with That means that you unite with the Action; to unite with whats below means that you unite with the Resistance.
So then, because they fidget, stir, bustle, want to do this and that, think, make plans they imagine theyre doing something (!)they just Resist.
Later, a little later, Ill be able to give examples for very small things, showing how the Force acts, and what interferes and mixes in, or what is driven by that Force but distorts its movement, and the result, that is to say, the physical appearance as we see it. Even an example for a very small thing without any world importance gives a clear notion of the way in which everything occurs and is distorted here.
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There immediately comes the why and the how. But that belongs to the realm of mental curiosity, because the important fact is to put a stop to the Resistance. Thats the important thing, putting a stop to the Resistance so the universe may become what it must be: the expression of a harmonious, luminous, marvelous power, incomparably beautiful. Afterwards, once the Resistance has ceased, if out of curiosity we want to know why it occurred it will no longer matter. But right now, its not by looking for the why that we will be able to bring about the remedy: its by taking the true position. Thats the only thing that matters.
Putting a stop to the Resistance through complete surrender, complete self-giving, in all the cells if one can do it.
They are beginning to have that intense joy of being only through the Lord, for the Lord, in the Lord.
0 1966-08-03, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was almost a disappointment for these cells, which thought they were very ardent (!) and have had to realize that that semi-drowsiness was entirely responsible for all thats habitually called illnesses but I dont believe in illnesses anymore. I believe in them less and less. Everything that comes is a particular form of disorder, Resistance, incomprehension or incapacityit all belongs to the domain of Resistance. And there isnt really a deliberate Resistance [in Mothers cells], I mean, whats conventionally called bad will (I hope this is true! If there is any, they havent become aware of it yet), but those things come as keen indications of the different points [of work or Resistance in Mothers body], so it results in whats called pains, or a sense of disorder, or a discomfort. (A discomfort, that is to say, a sense of disorder or disharmony, is much harder to bear than a sharp pain, much harder; its like something that starts grating and gets stuck and cant get back into place.) All that, in the ordinary consciousness or the ordinary human view, is what people call illnesses.
There only remains the phenomenon of contagion (contagion of viruses or germs), but there, experience shows that phenomena of psychological disorderall psychological disordersappear to be, according to experience, of the same nature as the contagion of a contagious disease and of all viruses and germs (such as the plague, cholera and so on). There are psychological contagions of psychological states: states of revolt or violence, of anger AND DEPRESSION, are contagious in the same manner, its a similar phenomenon. Therefore, since its a similar phenomenon, it can be mastered. Its simply a question of words: we call them illnesses (but these [psychological contagions] can also be called illnesses) or we can call them any name we like, its a question of words, thats all. But its similar, its the same thing: its an opening to disorder or an opening to revolt. We can call it what we like. Only, its in a different field of vibrations. But the character is identical.
0 1966-08-19, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This last line, this argument, it was so concrete: No, its not God, its only his name that was yesterday or the day before, not earlier. And then (Mother recalls her experience) Strangely, the victories over these arguments have the same character of bursts as did those bursts of Love I lived up above the same character and they shatter the Resistance. And the something that bursts forth is Lovetrue Love.
Its very interesting.
And from everywhere, but everywhere, the opposition, the Resistance is rising up; and the more it rises up, the more imperative That is.
But at such times one feels how precarious the equilibrium of material life is. Oh, its very, very interesting. When I am able to say all this, it will be worthwhile.
0 1966-09-07, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont think so! I dont think so, because for my part I told them everything I could; I even told them it made me ill. They dont have the strength to Resist: its the current of the outer world and they dont have the strength to Resist it.
And I go as fast as I can, its not that I fall asleep! With the transformation, might we have the power to do all this work in less time?
0 1966-09-24, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its everywhere. Its like a coalition of Falsehood trying to Resist.
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0 1966-09-28, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This has become a certitude because the aspiration has been born in all these cells, and its growing more and more intense and is surprised at the Resistance. But they have observed that when something is upset in the functioning (which means that instead of being supple, spontaneous, natural, the functioning becomes a painful effort, a struggle with something that takes on the appearance of a bad will but is only a reluctance devoid of understanding), at such times the intensity of the aspiration, of the call, grows tenfold: it becomes constant. The difficulty is to keep up this state of intensity; generally it all falls back into, I cant say drowsiness, but its a sort of slackening: you take things easy. And its only when the inner disorder becomes hard to bear that the intensity grows and becomes permanent. For hourshourswithout flagging, the call, the aspiration, the will to unite with the Divine, to become the Divine, is kept up at its peakwhy? Because there was whats outwardly called a physical disorder, a suffering. Otherwise, when there isnt any suffering, there is now and then an upsurge, then it flags and falls back; then at some other time, another upsurge It never ends! It lasts for eternities. If we want things to go fast (fast relatively to the rhythm of our lives), the whiplash is necessary. I am convinced of this, because as soon as you are in your inner being, you treat this with contempt (for yourself).
But then, when that true Compassion of divine Love comes and you see all those things that look so horrible, so abnormal, so absurd, that great pain over all beings and even over things Then there was born in this physical being the aspiration to relieve, to cure, to make all that disappear. There is something in Love in its Origin that is constantly expressed by the intervention of the Grace; a force, a sweetness, something like a vibration of solace, spread everywhere, but which an enlightened consciousness can direct, concentrate on certain points. And thats just where I saw the true use one could make of thought: thought is used as a channel to carry the vibration from place to place, wherever its necessary. This force, this vibration of sweetness is there over the world in a static way, pressing to be received, but its an impersonal action, and thoughtenlightened thought, surrendered thought, the thought that is nothing more than an instrument, that no longer tries to set things in motion, that is satisfied with being moved by the higher Consciousness thought is used as an intermediary to make contact, to build a connection and allow this impersonal Force to act wherever its necessary, on precise points.
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If, when the transformative action creates a suffering, there is in what suffers the necessary aspiration and opening, the remedy is absorbed at the same time, and the effect is total, complete: the transformation, along with the action necessary to obtain it, and at the same time the cure of the false sensation caused by the Resistance. And the suffering is replaced by something unknown on this earth, but which has to do with joy, ease, trust, and security. Its a supersensation, in perfect peace, and clearly the only thing that can be eternal.
This analysis expresses very imperfectly what we could call the content of the Ananda.
0 1966-09-30, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Something is needed that has the power to Resist the contagion. Man cannot Resist the contagion from the animal, he cant, he has constant relationships. Well, how will that being manage? It would seem that for a long timea long timehe will still be subject to the laws of contagion.
I dont know, it doesnt seem impossible to me.
0 1966-11-15, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its true, I feel this: the Resistance is so TOTAL that were That to go like this (gesture of descent on the earth), nothing would be left!
But for those who are on the right side, of course its actively with them.
0 1966-11-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its been a long time since these attacks last came. I told you several times that I was able to Resist the attack, but this time, this morning, it was formidable. Formidable. It was exactly like this Gentleman [Death] trying to uproot everything. So I Resisted and Resisted, then suddenly it could no longer walk, I had to lie down and stay still. And also not eat I didnt feel like eating. I can eat only when everything is fine.
As soon as there is stillness and contemplation, its fine.
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It came with hosts of suggestions (they arent suggestions: they are formations), adverse formations of disorganization; like, for instance the one C. [one of Mothers attendants, who has just fallen ill] received. I was warned two days beforeh and and tried my best: I couldnt I couldnt, he gave way. So now its dragging on and on (the doctor himself says theres no reason for it to last so long), its dragging on because he gave way. So all that must be slowly won back. And it comes to everyone, to every circumstancenot to me, never to me because it has no effect on me: if the suggestion comes, I say, So what! I dont care. So it doesnt try, its useless. But it comes to everyone, to disorganize everything and everyone, one after another. This morning, it was everybody at the same time, a complete disorganization of everything. I Resisted and Resisted and Resisted, then suddenly something (Mother makes a gesture). So the body said, All right.
If I stay still, its over. I skipped a meal. The doctor is unhappy, but (laughing) it makes ME happy! Meals are work (a lot of work).
0 1967-01-11, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have noticed that if I Resist, things go badly. If I have a sense of fluidity, there arent anymore clashes. Its the same thing as with this scratch (Mother shows her elbow). You see, if you stiffen up and things Resist, you knock yourself. Its like people who know how to fall: they fall without breaking anything. With people who dont know how to fall, the slightest tumble and they break something. Its the same thing. We must learn to be perfect oneness. To correct, to straighten things out, is still to Resist.
So whats going to happen [if the invasion goes on]? It will be amusing, well see! (Mother laughs) Since the others arent in the same state, maybe theyll feel vexed, but I cant help it! (Mother laughs)
0 1967-01-18, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If a certain balance is kept, that state (of prolonged trance) may be dispensed with, but then the same work which would have been done in a few weeks or a few months (I dont know) will extend over yearsyears and years. So its a question of patiencepatience isnt lacking. But its not only a question of patience; its a question of proportion: there must be a certain balance between the two, between the pressure from outside of the external work (not external, the collective work), and the pressure on the body for its transformation. If wisdom is still there, that is, if the instrument is constantly and infallibly capable of doing exactly what is expected of it (to put it into words: the supreme Lords precise will), then the trance would not be necessary. It would only be if there is a Resistance in the execution (out of ignorance).
Thats how I perceive it.
This possibility of transformation in trance was announced to the body about yes, about sixty years ago, and periodically afterwards. And there has always been a prayer: No, may it not be necessary: its the method of laziness. Its the method of inertia. Now all those preferences, all that is gone. There is only an increasingly alerted, awakened consciousness, but awakened to the point of being alerted to the possibility of unconscious Resistances, with the will for them to disappear. All depends on the plasticity, the receptivity.
You understand, even if this body is told, You will have to last a hundred or two hundred years for the work to be done without trance, it says, Its all the same to me. All it wants is to be conscious. All it wants is, Lord, to be conscious of Your consciousness, nothing else. Thats its sole, exclusive will: To be conscious of Your consciousness, that is, to consciously become You in another mode. But it isnt in a hurry, because it has no reason to be in a hurry.
0 1967-02-08, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Each illness represents its own vibratory mode. Each illness has its own vibratory mode; it represents a whole field of vibrations to be corrected. Its the EXACT measure of what in Matter Resists the divine Influence the exact measure, down to the atom.
Oh, how interesting it is, if you knew how interesting. Take coughing, for instance (not in the chest, in the throat). So, the first vibration: an irritation that draws your attention in order to make you cough. It has a certain kind of vibration which we may call pointed, but its not violent: its light, annoying. Its the first little vibration. So with that vibration: awakening of the attention in the surrounding consciousness (of the throat cells); then a refusal to accept the cough, a rejection here (in the throat), which at first almost causes nausea (all this is seen through a microscope, you understand, they are very tiny things). The attention is focused. Then, at that point, there are several possible factors, which are sometimes simultaneous and sometimes one drives away the other; one is anxiety: something goes wrong and there is apprehension at whats going to happen; the other is a will that nothing should be disturbed by the irritation; and then all of a sudden, the faith that the Force is capable of restoring order everywhere immediately (none of this is intellectual: its vibrations).
0 1967-02-21, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And beauty conquer the Resisting world,
The truth-light capture Nature by surprise,
0 1967-04-22, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The difficulty is always the transition. You see, the body acts (it is carried, so to speak: things are done without the sense of Resistance or fatigue, nothing of the sort, that doesnt exist), and then, if for some reason or other (generally an influence or a thought coming from someone else), if the memory of the other method (the ordinary method, the universal method of all human beings) comes all of a sudden, it is as if (its very strange) it is as if the body could no longer DO ANYTHING, absolutely as if it were about to faint. Then, there immediately comes the reaction, and the other movement gets the upper hand again. But that makes for a difficult time. When these lapses will become impossible, there will be security. But as it is now, its difficult.
Only, now (formerly there was a moment when it was dangerous), now there is immediately in the cells that movement of adoration, which calls, You, You, You Then its all right.
0 1967-04-27, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I told you about that experience (which has been growing increasingly concrete and constant) of the Vibration of Harmony (a higher harmony expressing the essential Consciousness in its aspect of love and harmony and, as it draws nearer to the manifestation, of order and organization), and of the nearly constant and general vibration of disorder, disharmony, conflictin reality, Matters Resistance to this Action. The two vibrations are like this (Mother slips the fingers of her right hand between those of the left), as if they interpenetrated each other and a simple movement of consciousness sent you to one side or the other, or rather, the aspiration, the will for realization, put you into contact with the Vibration of Harmony, and the SLIGHTEST slackening made you lapse into the other. It has become constant. And then, on the 24th, right from morning there was a constant aspiration, a constant will for the triumph of the Vibration of Harmony. Then I sat down at my table as I always do, about five or ten minutes before it began. And instantly, with a puissancea puissance capable of crushing an elephantthis Vibration of Harmony came down like that, massive to the point that the body lost the sense of its existence altogether: it became That, it was conscious of nothing but That. And the first quarter of an hour literally flashed by in a second. Then, there were three people in the room; one of the three, or maybe all three, felt a malaise (nothing surprising!), and that woke me up: I saw the light (I burn a candle on my table) and I saw the time, but it wasnt me something saw. Then there was a sort of pacifying action on the place, and thengone again. And one second later, the call of the end!1
Its the first time that has happened to my body. It always used to remain conscious. Sri Aurobindo, too, told me the same thing, that he never, ever, had samadhi in his body. Neither did I: I always, always, always used to remain conscious. While that only the Force remained, there was nothing left but the Force at work: there was a concentration here, a concentration on the whole country, and a concentration on the whole earth. And all that was conscious, like that (vast gesture above the head), at work. But something massive, as powerful as an elephantenough to crush you.
0 1967-05-06, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And then, Resistances are clearly expressed as a disharmony.
Something extremely smiling, harmonious, smiling, harmonious.
0 1967-06-14, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If, for this wear and tear, this deterioration (which comes from the Inconscient and is the result of the ResistANCE of the Inconscient), if for this we can substitute the aspiration for progress and transformation (not with words the vibration) That experience has been given to me several times. For example, suppose there is something which goes wrong, there is a pain somewhere, something disorganized that no longer works properly; if there is the vision and conception in the faith (faith and consecration to the Supreme) that its deliberate, that the Supreme has allowed it to be (how can I express it? All words are meaningless), has allowed or willed it, or wanted it to be, because to Him it seems the best way to transform the thing, to have it make the necessary progress, if the cells that are somewhat disorganized and sick, as they say, are able to feel this then straight away it takes a marvellous turn for the betterimmediately, in five minutes, ten minutes. I could give concrete, precise examples, with all the details. So that means bringing the two extremes into contact, we could say. And if that can become the normal life of the elements which make up this outer form, then there is no reason why No, there is no need to die, no need whatsoever. There comes a point when death loses all meaning.
And one learns in the smallest detail, in the little cell or the faint sensation (and when it comes down to feelings, there is something which is the embryo of thoughtoh, then), the taste for drama. Ah, then everything is explained.
0 1967-07-12, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
What people generally call healing power is a very great mental or vital power that imposes itself through the Resistance of Matter but this isnt that at all! Its the contagion of a vibration. And then its irrevocable.
But its gone in a flash. Its only a promise or an example of what will be: it WILL be like that, obviously. Obviously. When? Thats another question.
0 1967-07-22, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In a magazine (I think its Life, an American magazine), they published the story of a man (who is in fact one of the editors or administrators of the magazine), a man who was given an injection of penicillin and who was allergic to penicillin. And lo and behold, suddenly all his cells begin to dissolve, while he, entirely conscious and as if concentrated in his brain, watches the dissolution. When it reached up to the heart, the doctors declared him dead. The impression it had on him was that the cells had a kind of expanding movement, then burst and dissolved one after another: feet, legs, abdomen, everything. And when it reached the heart, the doctor said, Hes dead. But he had taken refuge in his brain and thought, I must hold out; if I can hold out here, concentrate and Resist here, all will be well. And thats what he did. Then he felt all at once a power, he says, something so luminous, so beautiful, so gentle, so so much more full of love than anything else in the world, such a marvellous sensation that he let himself melt into it, and after some time, everything was put in order and he came back to life! He describes that. He describes it (with sentences: its in a magazine, so he makes sentences), but his experience is really interesting. You see, because of that will to concentrate in what he conceived to be the essential part of his being, the centre of his life, he suddenly found himself in the presence of that power. He said he tried to recapture it afterwards, but I forget what it was, I no longer remember, except for the sensation, that sensation more marvellous than anything one can conceive.2
I found that interesting.
0 1967-08-02, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But its not the full Presence yet, not the complete Presence of the being, which, through an incontrovertible omnipotence, changes things. And then, the body, with something so very moving in the simplicity of its prayer and its childlike astonishment, asks, Since You are there, how can that be? And all that is ready to be transformed is transformed. But it isnt yet (how can I explain?) the compelling thing (gesture of ir Resistible descent), the absolute authority that nothing can Resistits not that, not yet, far from it.
Theres no knowing how much more time it will take.
0 1967-09-30, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It began with the perception of the remaining difference between how things were and how they should be, then that perception disappeared and there only remained that. Something (how can I explain?) The English word smooth is the most expressive; everything is done smoothly, everything without exception: bathing, brushing ones teeth, washing ones face, everything (eating, since long has been worked on in order for it to be done in the true way). It always begins with this sort of (Mother opens her hands) surrender (I dont know the right word, its neither abdication nor offering but between the two; I dont know, there is no French word for it), the surrender of the WAY in which we do things: not of the thing in itself, which is quite unimportant (in that state there is no big and small, no important and unimportant). And its something so (even gesture) uniform in its multiplicity, there is nothing that clashes or grates or causes difficulties anymore or (all those words express things so crudely): its something that moves forward, on and on in a movement so (same even gesture) the nearest word is smooth, that is, without Resistance. I dont know. And its not an intensity of delight, its not that: that also is so even, so regular (same even gesture), but not uniform: its innumerable. And EVERYTHING is like that (same gesture), in one same rhythm (the word rhythm is violent). Its not uniformity, but something so even, and which feels so sweet, you know, and with a TREMENDOUS power in the smallest things.
For several days there was (I told you the other day) the vision of cruelty in human beings, and a very active work to make it disappear from the manifestation. Thats part of the general work, with such a concrete power (Mother clenches her fist) for it to disappear. It began with visions of horrors (almost memories), which were seenmore than seen, you understand: things that aroused that reprobation, horror. Then it organizes itself in its totality and the whole thing was taken up like that (Mother opens her arms), all those movements in time (time and space merge into something an immensityimmensity, infinitude, and, I might say, multiplicity, but the words are poor), anyway it was a totality taken up in the consciousnessa totality of ways of being and vibrationsand as if presented to the Supreme Consciousness so it may be transformed, so it may cease to exist.
--
And its not a thought communication like what they call telepathy, its not that: its movements of consciousness. That too, without Resistance: movements of consciousness [in Matter]. If, for instance, something needs to be done but not by this body, by another, we are still obliged to say, This needs to be done in such and such a way, and that represents you feel as if you have to lift a mountain, whereas if the other person were in the same state, it would get done quite naturally and spontaneously. Ive had examples: now and then I SEE (not think, but see), I see: This needs to be like that (very small things) and I dont say anything the other body does it. It happens now and then, rarely but it ought to be the constant state. Oh, what an admirable life!
(silence)
0 1967-10-04, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its a collective suggestion, mon petit, and so strong, so strong! I told you the story: some people, when they are awake, Resist and fight; intellectually, they understand; then, when they are half conscious or in sleep, it seizes them and they are terrorized. Its over the WHOLE earth, the whole earth (there are Christians everywhere), its an atmosphere that I see like a huge spider over the whole earth.
(silence)
0 1968-01-06, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
That makes speaking difficult, because of this old habit (maybe also a necessity to make oneself understood) of using the word II, whats this I? It no longer corresponds to anything, except for a mere appearance. And this appearance is the only contradiction. Thats the interesting point: this appearance is clearly a contradiction of the truth; its something that still belongs to the old laws, at least, in fact, in its appearance. And because of that, you are forced to say things in a certain way, but it doesnt correspondit doesnt correspond to your state of consciousness, not in the least. There is a fluidity, a breadth, a sort of totality, and above all, more and more strongly the sense that this (pointing to the body) must grow INCREASINGLY SUPPLEsupple, fluid, so to speak, so as to express without Resistance or distortion the vision the real vision, the real state of consciousness. To the consciousness, this possibility of fluidity, of plasticity, is growing more and more evident, with only, only just something outwardly which is increasingly becoming an illusion. And yet, yet thats what others see, understand, know and call me. And it truly strives and strives to adapt more and more, but time still appears to have its importance.
(long silence)
0 1968-02-03, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In my life, I have been given so many, so many experiences, as proof that EVERYTHING is possible. For instance, when I was twenty-two, one night, after an experience I had in the night (I forget the details of it) at the time women wore dresses that exactly touched the ground, just touched it without resting on it (gesture of skimming the ground), and in my experience at night, I had grown tallin the morning, there was one inch between the dress and the ground! Which means that the body had grown one inch WITH THE NIGHTS EXPERIENCE. You see, in the nights experience I had grown tall (I dont remember the details), and in the morning And Ive been given that material verification for many such experiences, so as to be sure, so the body may be convinced without having to repeat the experiences over and over again. So it KNOWS, it knows there is nothing impossible, it knows impossible doesnt mean anything. But it doesnt depend on an individual will, you understand. The Consciousness which rules things is a marvel of wisdom, patience, compassion, endurance. When there is destruction or disorder, it means its absolutely unavoidable, absolutelybecause matters Resistance in the individual or in things is so strong that it quite naturally brings about disorder or destruction. But that doesnt form part of the Action, the supreme Action, which is a marvel. The body has understood that; it has understood, it is patient. Only, from time to time (how can I put it?) There are people whom I prevent from dyingseveral people. I dont yet have the consciousness, the conscious power to cure them, but the possibility is there and I maintain it above them. That is to say, its not all-powerful in the sense that a certain receptivity, a certain response, a certain attitude are necessary which arent always there (human natures are very fluctuating, there are ups and downs and more ups and downs, and that makes the work very difficult), but at times, during a down spell, when a being suffers or sags, there is something in the consciousness [of Mother], a compassion (how can I explain that?) Affliction and all those movements are movements of weakness, but that is something at once very strong and very sweet, almost like sorrow, and the whole, entire consciousness in the body rises like a prayer and an aspirationa pure prayer: Why are things still in this pitiful state, why? Why? And it instantly has an effect [in the sick person]. Unfortunately, the effect doesnt last; it doesnt last because certain conditions in others are still necessary. But its wonderful, you know! Its something so wonderful. And it makes one understand the necessity of a presence on this side, a presence capable of feeling, understanding still IN THE OTHER WAY, so the suffering of others may be a reality. And that also is taken into account, that also means time is needed, patience is needed. Now the body knows ittheres no longer any impatience; there is only, now and then, that sort of sorrow, especially when beings are full of aspiration, goodwill, faith, and in spite of it this suffering is still there, clinging. That on one side, and on the other, one thing: there is still a sort of horror and reprobation of acts of cruelty, of THE cruelty; thats And then, there is this awesome Poweryou feel, you can feel that a mere nothing, a simple little movement would, oh, bring about a catastrophe. So you have to keep that still, still, still so what happens may always be the best.
Now stupidity, imbecility, ignorance, all those things are looked at with a patience which waits for them to grow. But bad will and crueltyespecially viciousness, cruelty, what LOVES to cause suffering thats still difficult, one still has to keep a hold on oneself. In figurative language (not language, but a way of being), its Kali that wants to strike, and I have to tell her, Keep still, keep still. But thats a human transcription. All those gods, all those beings are real, they exist, but its a transcription. True truth is beyond all that.
0 1968-03-02, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And for the human consciousness, it takes long. But as you remarked just before, its pretty. It feels like something going like this (gesture like a tide spreading out), very slowly for the human consciousness, certainly, but quite implacable towards Resistances, and so sov-er-eign-ly sure of its victory. Thats pretty. And with the least amount of damage, undeniably. Not to mention that what looks like damage may only be, seen in the whole, a means of higher realization.
"To live in Auroville one must be a willing servitor of the Divine Consciousness."
0 1968-05-02, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He suddenly got scared stiff over there. Its true that their occult power is very great and one has to be very strong to Resist it. And he got scared stiff. Thats what made him sick.
My own feeling is that the other fellow, this Monsignor R., wanted to get rid of him. Seriously, I think he smelled something fishy and said, Hed better leave.
0 1968-05-04, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, they are going to Resist as much as they can.
It would be good if contact could be made between you and him.
0 1968-05-15, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I felt it immediately and was able to Resist for a very long time, but then the atmosphere here isnt pure enough.
It makes use of one or the other.
0 1968-05-22, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
With this latest adventure [the attack on Mother], this body has learned trust. It was very much steeped in pessimism because of its material antecedents. Certain antecedents, that is, father and mother, had been chosen for their great practicality and a very concrete material honesty, but no mysticism, nothing of the sortdeliberately. But then, it gave a kind of not exactly pessimism, but a very sharp vision of how things go wrong. The body had that, and its faith had to struggle against a habit of expecting difficulty, obstacles, Resistance; although it had complete faith in the final Victory, it couldnt overcome the habit of expecting difficulties on the path. This latest adventure has given it a good push forward: its trust is much more smiling. And the general vision is as I told you. And constantly, all the time, even at the time of the worst difficulties, all the time there is it wells up from the cells, like a golden hymn: an incantation, you know, a call, an incantation to the supreme Power. And with such faith! A marvelous faith.
(silence)
--
For perhaps a long time yet, or at any rate for some time, P.L. must be the intermediary, but a somewhat conscious onenot active. He acts as an intermediary, as a link (gesture as of a bridge between Mother and the Vatican), but he shouldnt He doesnt have the capacity to Resist those peoples tremendous power. He should remain very stillvery still, very peacefulhe should let himself live happily, then he will fulfill his function.
See conversation of April 3, 1968.
0 1968-06-08, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You see, every human being (and that Resists all developments and all widenings) spontaneously and naturally puts himself in the center and organizes the world around himself; so, for him, the Divine is necessarily something that has put itself in the center and organizes the world in the same way.
For maybe a few hours (I dont exactly know because I didnt pay attention to time), the consciousness was as if I dont know, turned over (I dont know what word I should use), and there was no center anymore, that center with everything organized around no longer existed at all; that is to say, the divine Consciousness wasnt a central consciousness with everything organized around itnot at all, not at all! It was something extraordinarily simple and at the same time extraordinarily complex.
0 1968-06-15, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You understand, it has reached a point where there is an impression of fluidity and plasticity asserting itself increasingly with the growth of the true consciousness. The hardening seems to be the result of Unconsciousness; the lack of fluidity and plasticity seems to be the result of Unconsciousness. Not only in the body: for everything the impression is the same. With the growth and the normal state of consciousness, there comes a suppleness and fluidity that completely change the nature of the substance, and the Resistance comes from the degree of unconsciousness alone, its proportional to the degree of unconsciousness.
All this way of speaking [as in the Talk], the ordinary way of speaking seems to be yes, a manner of speaking, thats right! But it doesnt correspond to fact. It doesnt correspond to reality. Its a manner of speaking, a manner of feeling, a manner of seeingan old habit. But its not that.
0 1968-06-22, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
P. L. could be very, very useful if he wanted tovery useful. But theres a little something that Resists, I dont know whatmaybe like a slight lack of courage somewhere, I dont know what. When he is in front of difficulty, he is instantly tormented.
Thats what bothers me. Because I have put on him enough force for him to pull through in any event, but if inwardly he starts vibrating, it cant work anymore.
0 1968-08-28, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ah, that was very interesting! It was very interesting because I saw like this (gesture like a film unfolding), it was changing. If someone came near me, it would change. Near me were P., V., the doctor, and C. less often, now and then, but C. didnt have much effect on the atmosphere. But the other three, especially P. and V. One day, mon petit, I dont know what happened to them: they were superhuman. A day when I must have been apparently in danger, I dont know. One day, the whole day long, the pictures (not pictures: those places where I was) were so wonderfully beautiful, harmonious. It was inexpressible, inexpressible. And with the slightest thing changing in their consciousness, lo and behold, everything would start changing! It was a sort of perpetual kaleidoscope, day and night. If there had been some way to record it it was unique. Unique. And the body was in it, you understand, almost porousporous, without Resistance, as if the thing were passing through it.
I lived hours the most wonderful hours, I believe, that one can live on earth.
0 1968-11-27, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I told you it was here (Mother points to her nose, mouth and throat) that there was the most complete Resistance. As an experience its very interesting, but its still in full work.
(silence)
0 1969-02-15, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The cells themselves were saying their effort to be transformed, and there was a Calm. (How can I explain this?) The body was saying its aspiration and will to prepare itself, and, not asking but striving to be what it should be; all that always with this question (its not the body that asks it, its the environment, those around the world, as if the world were asking the question): Will it continue, or will it have to dissolve? The body is like this (gesture of abandon, hands open upward), it says, What You will, Lord. But then, it knows the question is decided, and One doesnt want to tell itit accepts. It doesnt lose patience, it accepts, it says, Very well, it will be as You will. But That which knows and That which doesnt answer is something that cant be expressed. It is yes, I think the only word that can describe the sensation it gives is an Absolutean Absolute. Absolute. Thats the sensation: of being in the presence of the Absolute. The Absolute: absolute Knowledge, absolute Will, absolute Power Nothing, nothing can Resist. And then this Absolute (theres this sensation, concrete) is so merciful! But if we compare it with all that we regard as goodness, mercy ugh! thats nothing at all. Its THE Mercy with the absolute power and its not Wisdom, not Knowledge, its It has nothing to do with our process. And That is everywhere, its everywhere. Its the bodys experience. And to That it has given itself entirely, totally, without asking anythinganything. A single aspiration (same gesture, hands open upward), To be capable of being That, what That wills, of serving Thatnot even serving, of BEING That.
But that state, which lasted for several hours never had this body, in the ninety-one years its been on earth, felt such happiness: freedom, absolute power, and no limits (gesture here and there and everywhere), no limits, no impossibilities, nothing. It was all other bodies were itself. There was no difference, it was only a play of the consciousness (gesture like a great Rhythm) moving about.
0 1969-04-26, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But thats the image of what I saw. It has aroused the Resistance.
But the Consciousness was quite smilingwith an absolute certitude. It was showing me, it was there around someone (an imaginary person), it was around like that, and really with a smile: it came (gesture showing the onslaught of the bad vibrations), and as soon as it touched That, it was thrown back but thrown back with extraordinary power!
0 1969-05-14, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, it began on Sunday (I saw you on Saturday the 10th, and it began on Sunday). It started with a kind of raging toothache, but it wasnt that. Theres the whole Resistance centered here (gesture to the throat and mouth). So it caught on here, and the pain became so acute (and naturally, impossible to eat), then Naturally, I concentrated, I wanted to know, and I realized all that was the preparation for (Mother points to her heart).
So its a bit difficult. There.
0 1969-08-23, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I very clearly see the way in which it works: it puts a pressure for all that Resists in someones nature to come to the surface and manifest, and so the ridiculous or wrong side of the thing becomes conspicuous, and it has either to go or to Ive noticed that. Its its way of working.
But in fact, with this pressure, you realize that people are always ten times more stupid than you thought they themselves know nothing about it (but thats the habit: one is generally very unconscious of ones own stupidity), but even when you thought you were conscious of what theyre like, you werent even remotely aware of what theyre like!
--
Its only the pressure of the Consciousness on the inconscientand then, in people, the measure of the Resistance or of the receptivity. its like that. In some people (and not always the apparently bad ones), theres such Resistance! Its like like iron. While others
Its going much faster. Things are moving fast just now.
0 1969-11-08, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I told you that I did what Sri Aurobindo had done, that is, being absolutely passive, with the aspirationliving ONLY in the aspiration to unite with and manifest the Divine: the ONLY occupation. But then, I saw that life was getting more and more disorganized!3 So I decided that on certain points, what I saw as being the true thing, I would impose. And I must say that the Power is really powerful! (Mother laughs) See the result!4 I decided. I was expecting more Resistance, but there was none. Well see if now it continues5
***
0 1969-12-13, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ah, yes, thats the general rule. Whats needed is the opposite! Instead of repelling it, to offer it. Its to put the thing, the movement itself, to CAST it into the Light . Generally, it squirms and refuses! But (laughing) its the only way. Thats why this Consciousness is so precious . You understand, what caused the repression is the idea of good and evila sort of contempt or shame at whats regarded as evil and so one goes like this (gesture of repelling), one doesnt want to see it, doesnt want to let it be. Whats needed The first thing the first thing to be realized is that the infirmity of our consciousness is what creates this division, and that there is a Consciousness (I am sure of it now), there is a Consciousness in which that doesnt exist, in which what we call evil is as necessary as what we call good, and if we could cast our sensationor our activity or perceptioncast it into this Light, thats what cures.2 Instead of repressing or repelling it as something one wants to destroy (it cant be destroyed!), one must cast it into the Light. I had in fact several days of an experience which for that reason was very interesting; instead of trying to drive far away from yourself certain things (which you dont accept or which cause a disequilibrium in the being), instead of that, accept them, take them as a part of yourself, and (Mother opens her hands) offer themthey dont want to be offered, but theres a way to compel them. A way to compel them: the Resistance is lessened to the extent that we can lessen in us the sense of disapproval. If we can replace that sense of disapproval with a higher understanding, then we can do it. Its much easier.
I had a whole baggage which remained like that, of things I did when I was young; it remained like that (gesture on the side), and in fact, after that supramental experience, I was able to gather all of it, and all of a sudden, it got entirely clarified, I understood everything, and it evaporated. Things I had been dragging along for a very long time I didnt want to know, you understand, didnt want to have anything to do with them anymore and then it was all over. It melted, it was clarified like Well, it was in its place.
0 1970-01-03, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The trouble ([laughing] I say trouble!) is that in people it expresses itself as disorders. People close to me for the work fall ill. One of them is at the nursing home, the other is in difficulty. And depending on their receptivity, I must find a way to make them understand that they shouldnt worry, that its not an illness, but the bodys Resistance. The body [Mothers body] has learned that at its own expense!Its constantly like that: if you are in the true position, everything is fineprovided you dont observe yourself, dont keep observing, Oh, the body is like this, or like that, it feels this way or As soon as you pay attention to it, as soon as the consciousness is turned to it, something goes wrong. It goes wrong. One has to be like this (gesture turned upward). And then, there is something that KNOWS all the same, something that knows, but without observing (I dont know how to explain). And you can see that as soon as the consciousness of the cells takes the true attitude, the thing that manifested as a disorder no longer manifests as such: the nature of the manifestation changeshow?
Not only that, the may Your Will be done (without worrying in the least about what it is, what that Will may be, in other words an acceptance of anything in advance) is replaced in a strange waya strange wayby something that has nothing to do with thought and less and less to do with vision, something superior which is a kind of perceptiona new kind of perception: you KNOW. But that has already come for a few seconds. Now and then it comes, and then the old habits start up again. Its above, far, far above thought, and above vision. Its a kind of perception: there is no more differentiation of the organs (Mother touches her eyes, her ears). And its a perception yes, which is total: its at the same time (if you want to explain it), at the same time vision, hearing, and knowledge. A perception something that is a new type of perception. So then, you KNOW. It replaces learning. But the moment you want to bring it to the plane of learning, its over, you lose contact.
0 1970-01-31, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its its a sort of absolute conviction. And I SEE it, you know, its something I see. How could I put it? That conviction, I am now paying for it! The body, in its transfer of authority (what I call the transfer) goes through difficult moments, really difficult, and then, seen with the ordinary vision, it would make no sense because difficulties appear to increase with what we might call the conversion, but to the true vision (when you are IN the true vision) its what is left of Falsehood that is the cause of all unpleasantness (whats still mixed). Even quite materially (morally, its been conquered for a long time: with the disappearance of desire, ALL torments disappear and are replaced by a perpetual smile, absolutely sincerenot willed, but effortless, natural and spontaneous), but what I mean is PHYSICALLY, materially: discomforts and difficulties and all that. Its the same thing. Its the same thing, but one is less ready, you understand; matter is slower to be transformed, so there is more Resistance.
The only solution, every minute and in every case, is (gesture of surrender): What You will. In other words, the abolition of preference and desire. Even the preference not to suffer.
--
I clearly see, the body clearly realizes that its only its own Resistanceits Resistance to the Truth that makes it possible for it to suffer. Wherever there is complete adherence, suffering disappears instantly.
(silence)
But its the same thing for countries and nations: its the same change of authority. Instead of personal authorities, there will be a divine authority, and the same change of authority causes the unspeakable chaos we live inbecause of the Resistance.
(long silence)
--- Overview of verb resist
The verb resist has 6 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)
1. (12) defy, resist, refuse ::: (elude, especially in a baffling way; "This behavior defies explanation")
2. (11) resist, hold out, withstand, stand firm ::: (stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something)
3. (2) protest, resist, dissent ::: (express opposition through action or words; "dissent to the laws of the country")
4. (1) resist, stand, fend ::: (withstand the force of something; "The trees resisted her"; "stand the test of time"; "The mountain climbers had to fend against the ice and snow")
5. resist, reject, refuse ::: (resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ; "His body rejected the liver of the donor")
6. resist, balk, baulk, jib ::: (refuse to comply)
--- Grep of noun resist
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Wikipedia - Birger Stromsheim -- Norwegian resistance fighter in World War II
Wikipedia - Birte Hoeg Brask -- Danish resistance fighter and psychiatrist
Wikipedia - Black Lions -- Ethiopian anti-fascist resistance movement
Wikipedia - Bronchodilator -- Substance that decreases resistance in respiratory airways and increases airflow to the lungs
Wikipedia - Buckling-restrained braced frame -- Structural steel frame that provides lateral resistance to buckling
Wikipedia - Bulk modulus -- Measure of how incompressible / resistant to compressibility a substance is
Wikipedia - Bulletproof glass -- Transparent material that is particularly resistant to penetration by projectiles
Wikipedia - Bulletproofing -- Provision for resisting fired bullets
Wikipedia - Can't Resist -- 2005 single by Texas
Wikipedia - Caratacus's last battle -- Battle of Caer Caradoc was the final battle in Caratacus's resistance to Roman rule (50 AD)
Wikipedia - Category:American tax resisters
Wikipedia - Category:English tax resisters
Wikipedia - Category:Executed German Resistance members
Wikipedia - Category:Female resistance members of World War II
Wikipedia - Category:French Resistance members
Wikipedia - Category:Protestants in the German Resistance
Wikipedia - Category:Resistance members killed by Nazi Germany
Wikipedia - Category:Resistance members who died in Nazi concentration camps
Wikipedia - Category:Roman Catholics in the German Resistance
Wikipedia - Category:Tax resisters
Wikipedia - Catherine Dior -- French resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Cecile Cerf -- French resistance member
Wikipedia - Cecile Rol-Tanguy -- French resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Ceux de la Liberation -- French resistance movement
Wikipedia - Champaran Satyagraha -- First civil resistance movement led by Gandhi in India in 1916
Wikipedia - Chemical Agent Resistant Coating -- Paint commonly applied to military vehicles
Wikipedia - Christiana Riot -- 1851 armed resistance by free Blacks and escaped slaves
Wikipedia - CM-CM-$sar Horn -- German resistance member
Wikipedia - Cognitive inertia -- The tendency for a particular orientation in how an individual thinks about an issue, belief or strategy to endure or resist change
Wikipedia - Collision resistance
Wikipedia - Collision-resistant
Wikipedia - Colour fastness -- Property of colored materials such as textiles to resist fading and running when exposed to various agencies such as washing, rubbing, daylight, etc.
Wikipedia - Combat (newspaper) -- French Resistance newspaper
Wikipedia - Contact lithography -- Lithography technique where a photomask comes into direct contact with a photoresist-coated substrate
Wikipedia - Cornelis Pieter van den Hoek -- Dutch resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Corrie ten Boom -- Dutch resistance hero and writer
Wikipedia - Courage to Resist -- American anti-war organization (e. 2003)
Wikipedia - Cursed soldiers -- Term applied to a variety of anti-Soviet and anti-communist Polish resistance movements
Wikipedia - Cut-resistant gloves -- Type of personal protective equipment
Wikipedia - Dame Blanche (resistance) -- Resistance movement
Wikipedia - Deep Green Resistance
Wikipedia - Delayed gratification -- Resistance of an immediate reward in return for a later reward
Wikipedia - Denise Domenach-Lallich -- French resistance member
Wikipedia - Digital Resistance -- 2014 studio album by Slough Feg
Wikipedia - Dihya -- Berber queen who resisted the Umayyad conquest of the Maghreb
Wikipedia - Dorian Gray syndrome -- Psychological syndrome where men resist aging to an unusual degree
Wikipedia - Drag coefficient -- Dimensionless parameter to quantify fluid resistance
Wikipedia - Drug Abuse Resistance Education -- US anti-drug educational program
Wikipedia - Drug resistance -- Pathogen resistance to medications
Wikipedia - Durabis -- scratch resistant polymer coating by TDK used on blu-ray discs
Wikipedia - Earthquake Baroque -- Baroque architecture in the Philippines intended to resist earthquakes.
Wikipedia - Earthquake-resistant structures -- Structures designed to protect buildings from earthquakes
Wikipedia - Ebba Lund -- Scientist; Danish Resistance fighter during World War II
Wikipedia - Ecological resilience -- Capacity of ecosystems to resist and recover from change
Wikipedia - Edward Gott-Getynski -- Major of Artillery in the Polish Army and underground resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Electrical resistance and conductance -- Opposition to the passage of an electric current
Wikipedia - Electrical resistance
Wikipedia - Electrical resistivities of the elements (data page)
Wikipedia - Electrical resistivity and conductivity -- Measure of a substance's ability to resist or conduct electric current
Wikipedia - Electrical resistivity tomography -- A geophysical technique for imaging sub-surface structures
Wikipedia - Electric resistance welding -- Welding processes that use heat produced by electric current through the work pieces
Wikipedia - Elie LM-CM-)vy -- French Resistance member during WWII
Wikipedia - Ellen Christensen -- Danish resistance member and nurse
Wikipedia - Emmanuel d'Astier de La Vigerie -- French journalist, politician and member of the French Resistance
Wikipedia - Enforcement Acts -- Laws aiming to combat resistance to reconstruction after the US Civil War
Wikipedia - Erik Briand Clausen -- Danish resistance member
Wikipedia - Erik Crone (resistance member) -- Danish resistance member
Wikipedia - Erling Foss -- Danish politician and resistance member
Wikipedia - Ernst Hampel -- German painter and resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Ernst von Harnack -- German politician and resistance member
Wikipedia - Erwin Planck -- German politician and resistance member
Wikipedia - ESR meter -- Tool for measuring equivalent series resistance of capacitors
Wikipedia - Eugenie Djendi -- French resistance fighter
Wikipedia - EuResist -- International project designed to improve the treatment of HIV patients
Wikipedia - Eva-Maria Buch -- German resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin -- German resistance member
Wikipedia - Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin -- German politician and resistance member
Wikipedia - Fernand Holweck -- French physicist and resistant
Wikipedia - Fincastle Resolutions -- Statement expressing support for Congress' resistance to the Intolerable Acts
Wikipedia - Fire-King -- Brand of heat-resistant glassware manufactured by Anchor Hocking
Wikipedia - Fire-safe polymers -- Polymers resistant to degradation at high temperatures
Wikipedia - First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups -- Clandestine, Marxist-Leninist Spanish republican group
Wikipedia - Flash welding -- Type of resistance welding that does not use any filler metals
Wikipedia - Flatiron (geomorphology) -- A steeply sloping triangular landform created by the differential erosion of a steeply dipping, erosion-resistant layer of rock overlying softer strata.
Wikipedia - Floor slip resistance testing -- Testing of floor surfaces for slip resistance relating to slip and fall hazards.
Wikipedia - Francois Amoudruz -- French resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Francois Le Leve -- French resistance member
Wikipedia - Francois-Yves Guillin -- French doctor and resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Frank Blaichman -- Polish resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Franz Leuninger -- German trade unionist and resistant
Wikipedia - Freenet -- Peer-to-peer Internet platform for censorship-resistant communication
Wikipedia - French resistance
Wikipedia - French Resistance -- Collection of French resistance movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy regime
Wikipedia - Friction -- Force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other
Wikipedia - Frida Wattenberg -- French resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Fritz Goerdeler -- German resistance member
Wikipedia - Fritz Kolbe -- German diplomat and resistance member
Wikipedia - From the Clouds to the Resistance -- 1979 film
Wikipedia - Galina Romanova -- Ukrainian doctor and member of the German resistance
Wikipedia - Gani Bey Kryeziu -- Kosovo Albanian anti-communist resistance fighter (1900-1952)
Wikipedia - Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer -- Dutch resistance fighter
Wikipedia - George Maduro -- Dutch Resistance member
Wikipedia - Georgios Sifakis -- Cretan priest, teacher, and resistance member
Wikipedia - German Resistance
Wikipedia - Gheorghe Arsenescu -- Romanian Army officer and anti-communist resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Giant magnetoresistance
Wikipedia - Gilberte Roca -- French politician and member of the Resistance
Wikipedia - Gilbert Renault -- French resistance member
Wikipedia - Ginette Hamelin -- French engineer and architect, member of the French resistance
Wikipedia - Giselle Cossard -- French resistance fighter, anthropologist and religious leader
Wikipedia - Groupe G -- Belgian resistance group during WWII
Wikipedia - Hanneke Ippisch -- Dutch resistance member
Wikipedia - Hans Conrad Leipelt -- German resistance member
Wikipedia - Hans Coppi -- German resistance member
Wikipedia - Hans John -- German resistance member
Wikipedia - Hans Koch -- German resistance member
Wikipedia - Harald Christensen (resistance member) -- Danish resistance member
Wikipedia - Hardness -- Resistance to localized plastic deformation from mechanical indentation or abrasion
Wikipedia - Heinrich Koenen -- German resistance member
Wikipedia - Helmuth James von Moltke -- German resistance member
Wikipedia - Henk van Gelderen -- Dutch resistance member
Wikipedia - Henri Fertet -- French resistance fighter
Wikipedia - HenriM-CM-+tte Pimentel -- Dutch teacher and resistance worker
Wikipedia - Henri Rol-Tanguy -- French communist and a leader in the Resistance during World War II
Wikipedia - Henryk Lederman -- Polish resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Herman Bodson -- Belgian scientist and resistance member
Wikipedia - Hjalmar Uggla -- Soil scientist and member of anti-Nazi resistance in Poland
Wikipedia - HMS Irresistible (1898) -- British pre-dreadnought battleship
Wikipedia - Holger Danske (resistance group) -- Danish resistance group during World War II
Wikipedia - Howard Clark (pacifist) -- British pacifist and Chair of ''War Resisters International'' (2006 - 2013)
Wikipedia - Hurmiz Malik Chikko -- Assyrian activist and armed-resistance leader
Wikipedia - Hydraulic roughness -- A measure of frictional resistance water experiences when passing over land and channel features
Wikipedia - Impedance phlebography -- Medical test to measure small changes in electrical resistance of the chest
Wikipedia - Inequity aversion -- Preference for fairness and resistance to incidental inequalities
Wikipedia - Ingeborg Kahlenberg -- Dutch resistance fighter and photographer (1920-1996)
Wikipedia - Innu Nikamu: Resist and Sing -- 2017 Canadian documentary film
Wikipedia - Internal resistance to apartheid -- Social movement about apartheid
Wikipedia - Iro Konstantopoulou -- Greek resistance member during WWII
Wikipedia - Irresistible (2020 film) -- 2020 American political comedy film written and directed by Jon Stewart
Wikipedia - Irresistible force paradox -- What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?
Wikipedia - Irresistible grace
Wikipedia - Irresistible impulse
Wikipedia - Irresistible (Jessica Simpson song) -- 2001 single by Jessica Simpson
Wikipedia - Irresistible (Wisin & Yandel song) -- Song by Wisin & Yandel
Wikipedia - Isabel Pell -- American socialite and member of the French Resistance
Wikipedia - Italian resistance movement
Wikipedia - Jadwiga Dzido -- Polish resistance worker
Wikipedia - Jakob Schmid -- Janitor of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, presented the German resistants Hans and Sophie Scholl
Wikipedia - Jan Karski -- Polish World War II resistance movement fighter
Wikipedia - Jean Burger -- French resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Jean Fonteyne -- Belgian lawyer, resistant, politician, and filmmaker
Wikipedia - Jean Maurice Paul Jules de Noailles -- French nobleman, member of the French Resistance
Wikipedia - Jean Moulin -- French resistance fighter and civil servant
Wikipedia - Jeannette Guyot -- French Resistance operative
Wikipedia - Jewish resistance in German-occupied Europe -- Various forms of resistance conducted by Jews against Nazi occupation regimes
Wikipedia - Joachim Meichssner -- German resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Johannes Popitz -- German politician and resistance member
Wikipedia - Josef Wirmer -- German jurist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime
Wikipedia - Joseph Kony -- Leader of the Lord's Resistance Army
Wikipedia - Jozef Franczak -- Polish resistance member
Wikipedia - Jozef Pukowiec -- Polish resistance member
Wikipedia - Julian Kulski -- Polish resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Julienne Aisner -- French World War II resistance agent
Wikipedia - Julius Leber -- German politician of the SPD and a member of the German Resistance against the Nazi regime
Wikipedia - Kai Holst -- Norwegian resistance member
Wikipedia - Kaj Leo Kristensen -- Danish resistance member
Wikipedia - KakM-EM-^M Moriguchi -- Japanese resist-dye textile artist, known for his revival of the makinori technique
Wikipedia - Kanthal (alloy) -- Alloy of iron, chromium and aluminium used as resistance and heating wire
Wikipedia - Karl Gustav Stricker Brondsted -- Member of the Danish resistance movement
Wikipedia - Kevlar -- Heat-resistant and strong aromatic polyamide fiber
Wikipedia - Kheda Satyagraha of 1918 -- Civil resistance movement organized by Gandhi in India
Wikipedia - Kim Malthe-Bruun -- Danish resistance member
Wikipedia - Klementyna Mankowska -- Member of the Polish resistance during WW II
Wikipedia - Kleptomania -- Inability to resist the urge to steal
Wikipedia - Krzysztof Markiewicz -- Polish underground resistance movement officer
Wikipedia - Kurt Kresse -- German resistance member
Wikipedia - Kurt von Plettenberg -- German forester, cavalry officer and resistance member
Wikipedia - La Resistencia (gang) -- Mexican criminal enforcer squad
Wikipedia - Laure Diebold -- French resistance member
Wikipedia - Laure Gatet -- French biochemist, member of the French Resistance, deported to Auschwitz
Wikipedia - LCR meter -- Electronic test equipment that measures inductance, capacitance, and resistance
Wikipedia - Leon Weinstein -- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Liberal Civic Resistance Party -- Defunct political party in Panama
Wikipedia - LibM-CM-)ration-sud -- French resistance group
Wikipedia - Liliane Klein-Lieber -- French resistance member
Wikipedia - Lim Bo Seng -- Celebrated Chinese resistance fighter based in Singapore and Malaya during World War II
Wikipedia - Lis Mellemgaard -- Danish resistance worker
Wikipedia - List of films about the Czech resistance to Nazi occupation -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Germans who resisted Nazism -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of historical acts of tax resistance -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Iraq War resisters
Wikipedia - List of networks and movements of the French Resistance -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of people involved with the French Resistance -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - Lithuanian partisans -- Resistance against Soviet regime after World War II
Wikipedia - Lone Maslocha -- Danish photographer and resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Lord's Resistance Army insurgency -- Ongoing insurgency in central Africa
Wikipedia - Lotte Bergtel-Schleif -- German librarian who resisted against the Nazi state.
Wikipedia - Louisa Gould -- British resistance member
Wikipedia - Low rolling resistance tire -- Tires that improve vehicle fuel efficiency compared with conventional tires
Wikipedia - Ludwig Gehre -- German resistance member
Wikipedia - Macedonian Partisans -- Communist and antifascist resistance movement
Wikipedia - Madeleine Cestari -- French Resistance fighter and deportee
Wikipedia - Magnetoresistance -- The tendency of some materials to change the value of their electrical resistance when placed in an external magnetic field
Wikipedia - Magnetoresistive RAM -- Novel type of computer memory
Wikipedia - Magnetoresistive random-access memory
Wikipedia - Maisie Renault -- French Resistance fighter, deportee
Wikipedia - Maquis de l'Oisans -- French resistance group
Wikipedia - Maquis de Vabre -- French Resistance organization
Wikipedia - Maquis (World War II) -- World War Two French resistance groups
Wikipedia - Marc Bloch -- French historian and Resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Marcel Le Roy -- French resistance member
Wikipedia - March 1st Movement -- 1919 Korean public display of resistance against Japanese rule
Wikipedia - Maria von Maltzan -- German resistance member an aristocrat
Wikipedia - Marie Schonfeld -- Austrian government worker and anti-Nazi resistance activist
Wikipedia - Marion Yorck von Wartenburg -- German resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Marthe Delpirou -- French resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Massive resistance -- Strategy declared by U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd to resist public school desegregation in Virginia
Wikipedia - MassResistance -- 501(c)(4) group in Massachusetts that promotes social conservatism and opposes the LGBT+ movement
Wikipedia - Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont -- French resistance member
Wikipedia - MecA -- Gene for resistance to beta-lactan antibiotics
Wikipedia - MEGARes -- Curated antibiotic resistance gene database
Wikipedia - Merkle-DamgM-CM-%rd construction -- Method of building collision-resistant cryptographic hash functions
Wikipedia - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus -- Bacterium responsible for difficult-to-treat infections in humans
Wikipedia - Midnight Resistance -- 1989 video game
Wikipedia - Mir Masjidi Khan -- Afghan resistance leader
Wikipedia - Missak Manouchian -- French-Armenian resistance fighter
Wikipedia - MM-CM-)linM-CM-)e Manouchian -- French resistance member
Wikipedia - Mohs scale of mineral hardness -- Qualitative ordinal scale characterizing scratch resistance of various minerals
Wikipedia - Multuggerah -- Aboriginal Australian resistance fighter and leader of Jagera people in Queensland in the 1840s
Wikipedia - Murder of M-CM-^Vzgecan Aslan -- Turkish university student who was murdered while resisting attempted rape.
Wikipedia - Mustafa Gjinishi -- Albanian communist resistance fighter (1912-1944)
Wikipedia - Myrtle Solomon -- British pacifist, general secretary of the ''Peace Pledge Union'' and Chair of ''War Resisters International (1975 - 86)
Wikipedia - National Council of European Resistance -- European far-right political organization
Wikipedia - National Council of the Resistance -- an administrative organ of the French Resistance
Wikipedia - Nationalism and resistance in Algeria
Wikipedia - National Resistance Front of Sao TomM-CM-) and Principe - Renewal -- Political party in Sao TomM-CM-) and Principe
Wikipedia - National Resistance Front of Sao TomM-CM-) and Principe -- Political party in Sao TomM-CM-) and Principe
Wikipedia - National Resistance Movement -- Political party in Uganda
Wikipedia - National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
Wikipedia - Natural resistance-associated macrophage protein -- Family of transport proteins
Wikipedia - Negative resistance
Wikipedia - Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus -- Impaired renal function disease characterized by a complete or partial resistance of the kidneys to vasopressin (ADH)
Wikipedia - Never Trump movement -- Political resistance to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign
Wikipedia - NewHope -- Cryptographic protocol designed to resist quantum computer attacks
Wikipedia - Nikolaus Gross -- German resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Nils Uhlin Hansen -- Norwegian long jumper and resistance member
Wikipedia - NoM-CM-+lla Rouget -- French resistant and teacher
Wikipedia - Nomex -- Flame-resistant meta-aramid material
Wikipedia - Non-cooperation movement -- Resistance of British rule in India through non violent means
Wikipedia - Nonresistance
Wikipedia - Non-violent resistance
Wikipedia - Nonviolent resistance -- Act of protest through nonviolent means
Wikipedia - Nonviolent revolution -- Civil resistance to bring about the departure of governments
Wikipedia - Nordic Resistance Movement -- Pan-Nordic neo-Nazi movement
Wikipedia - Northern California War Tax Resistance
Wikipedia - Norwegian resistance movement -- Resistance to German occupation in WWII
Wikipedia - NYC Resistor -- Hackerspace in New York
Wikipedia - Obrana naroda -- Czech resistance organization in World War II
Wikipedia - Odette Abadi -- Physician and member of the French Resistance during WWII
Wikipedia - Ohmmeter -- Tool for measuring electrical resistance
Wikipedia - Ohm -- SI unit of electrical resistance
Wikipedia - Old Believers -- Eastern Orthodox Christians who resist reforms of Nikon in 1652-1666
Wikipedia - Ole Borge -- Norwegian resistance member
Wikipedia - Omar al-Mukhtar -- Libyan resistance leader
Wikipedia - Orthodox Church of Greece (Holy Synod in Resistance) -- Traditionalist Greek Orthodox jurisdiction following the (Julian or Old) church calendar
Wikipedia - Otto Punter -- Swiss journalist and anti-Nazi resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Partido Union Republicana Progresista -- Former political party in Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Partisan (military) -- Member of a resistance movement
Wikipedia - Passive-aggressive behavior -- Indirect resistance to the demands of others
Wikipedia - Passive resistance
Wikipedia - Password strength -- Measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting guessing and brute-force attacks
Wikipedia - Patriotic Resistance Front of Ituri -- Political party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Wikipedia - Paulette Sarcey -- French resistant
Wikipedia - Paul Langen -- German resistance member
Wikipedia - Pentalobe screw -- proprietary tamper-resistant screw
Wikipedia - People Power, Our Power -- Resistance pressure group in Uganda
Wikipedia - Per Lie -- Norwegian resistance member
Wikipedia - Peter Bogstad Mandel -- Danish resistance member
Wikipedia - Phosphated distarch phosphate -- Modified resistant starch
Wikipedia - Pierre Kaan -- French educator and resistance member
Wikipedia - Pierre Simonet -- French resistance fighter and official
Wikipedia - Piezoresistive pressure sensor -- Component which changes electrical resistance proportional to applied pressure
Wikipedia - Piezoresistive
Wikipedia - Polish resistance movement in World War II
Wikipedia - Poly(methyl methacrylate) -- Transparent thermoplastic often used in sheet form as a lightweight or shatter-resistant alternative to glass
Wikipedia - Popular Resistance of the Eastern Region -- Pro-Syrian government insurgent group in the Syrian Civil War
Wikipedia - Port Militarization Resistance -- American anti-war movement
Wikipedia - Potentiometer -- Type of resistor, usually with three terminals
Wikipedia - Preben Gylche -- Danish resistance member
Wikipedia - Preimage resistance
Wikipedia - Psychological resistance
Wikipedia - Pyromania -- Irresistance to starting fires
Wikipedia - Rachel Dubendorfer -- Anti-Nazi resistance fighter
Wikipedia - RAC: Repository of Antibiotic resistance Cassettes -- biological database
Wikipedia - Radiation hardening -- Processes and techniques used for making electronic devices resistant to ionizing radiation
Wikipedia - Radiation resistance
Wikipedia - Radioresistance -- Level of ionizing radiation that organisms are able to withstand
Wikipedia - Railway sabotage during World War II -- Anti-Nazi resistance
Wikipedia - Rain pants -- Waterproof or water-resistant pants
Wikipedia - Rani of Jhansi -- Queen of the Indian princely state of Jhansi, symbol of resistance to British Raj
Wikipedia - Raymond Anne -- French resistance fighter
Wikipedia - RC circuit -- Electric circuit composed of resistors and capacitors
Wikipedia - Redemption movement -- Debt resistance movement
Wikipedia - Refuse/Resist -- 1994 song by Sepultura
Wikipedia - Resistance (2020 film) -- 2020 film directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz
Wikipedia - Resistance Conspiracy case
Wikipedia - Resistance during World War II -- Irregular forces opposing Nazi/fascist regimes
Wikipedia - Resistance: Fall of Man -- 2006 first-person shooter game
Wikipedia - Resistance Is Futile! -- 2018 book by Ann Coulter
Wikipedia - Resistance Manual
Wikipedia - Resistance movement -- Refusal of obedience toward the government or an occupying power
Wikipedia - Resistance of Guinea-Bissau-Bafata Movement -- Political party in Guinea-Bissau
Wikipedia - Resistance Patriots MaM-CM-/-MaM-CM-/ -- Political party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Wikipedia - Resistance (psychoanalysis)
Wikipedia - Resistance (psychology)
Wikipedia - Resistance Records -- Canadian record label owned by Resistance LLC which was closely connected to the organization National Alliance
Wikipedia - Resistance (Star Wars) -- Fictional organisation in the Star Wars universe
Wikipedia - Resistance theory in the Early Modern period
Wikipedia - Resistant reading
Wikipedia - Resistants -- Fictional comic book group
Wikipedia - Resistbot -- automated political tool
Wikipedia - Resist dyeing -- Traditional method of dyeing textiles with patterns
Wikipedia - ResistirM-CM-) (Chilean TV series) -- Chilean reality TV series
Wikipedia - Resistive RAM
Wikipedia - Resistive random-access memory -- Novel type of computer memory
Wikipedia - Resistivity logging -- Measuring as a function of depth of the rock resistivity around a borehole
Wikipedia - RESIST (non-profit)
Wikipedia - Resistol -- Hat manufacturer
Wikipedia - Resistor ladder -- Electrical circuit
Wikipedia - Resistor -- Passive electrical component providing electrical resistance
Wikipedia - Rita Arnould -- Member of the Red Orchestra resistance group
Wikipedia - RLC circuit -- Resistor Inductor Capacitor Circuit
Wikipedia - Robert Abshagen -- German resistance member
Wikipedia - Rolling resistance
Wikipedia - Rudolf Schwarz (resistance activist) -- German contributing editor
Wikipedia - Said Bey Kryeziu -- Kosovo Albanian anti-communist resistance fighter (1911-1993)
Wikipedia - Sara Ginaite -- Jewish Lithuanian resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Satyagraha -- Nonviolent resistance
Wikipedia - Scratch hardness -- Any measure of hardness based on scratch resistance
Wikipedia - Security -- Degree of resistance to, or protection from, harm
Wikipedia - Seismic retrofit -- Modification of existing structures to make them more resistant to seismic activity
Wikipedia - Service for Poland's Victory -- First Polish resistance movement in World War II
Wikipedia - Sheikh Khairy Khedr -- Leader of the Yazidi Sinjar resistance units
Wikipedia - Sidney Koreneff -- New Zealand French resistance worker
Wikipedia - Siege of KrujM-CM-+ (1466-1467) -- Ottoman siege of the Albanian resistance in KrujM-CM-+
Wikipedia - Simone Le Port -- French Resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Simone Michel-LM-CM-)vy -- French resistance member
Wikipedia - Simply Irresistible (film) -- 1999 film by Mark Tarlov
Wikipedia - Sonia Orbuch -- American educator and resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Sophie Scholl -- German resistance fighter during the Nazi regime, member of the White Rose
Wikipedia - Space cloth -- Hypothetical plane with resistivity of 376.7 ohms per square.
Wikipedia - Spitzer resistivity
Wikipedia - Spot welding -- A process in which contacting metal surfaces are joined by heat from resistance to electric current
Wikipedia - Stainless steel -- steel alloy resistant to corrosion
Wikipedia - Stanislaw Ostwind-Zuzga -- Polish resistance member
Wikipedia - Sta-Prest -- A brand of wrinkle-resistant trousers
Wikipedia - Star Wars Resistance -- 2018 animated television show by Dave Filoni
Wikipedia - Stiffness -- Resistance to deformation in response to force
Wikipedia - Streamliner -- Vehicle incorporating streamlining in a shape providing reduced air resistance
Wikipedia - Stress inoculation training -- Building resistance to stress through cognitive and behavioral skill training and exposure to stressful stimuli
Wikipedia - Superconductivity -- Electrical conductivity with exactly zero resistance
Wikipedia - Sustainability and systemic change resistance
Wikipedia - Suzanne Masson -- French resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Svend Glendau -- Danish resistance member
Wikipedia - Tarpaulin -- large sheet of strong, flexible, water-resistant or waterproof material
Wikipedia - Tax resistance in the United States -- Refusal to pay taxes in the U.S.
Wikipedia - Tax resistance
Wikipedia - Technora -- Aramid fibre with high strength and chemical resistance
Wikipedia - Template talk:Tax resistance
Wikipedia - The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance -- American dark fantasy/adventure streaming television series
Wikipedia - The Irresistible Lover -- 1927 film
Wikipedia - The Irresistible Man -- 1937 film
Wikipedia - The Resistance Banker -- 2018 film
Wikipedia - The Resistance (film) -- 2011 Chinese martial art action film
Wikipedia - The Resistance (game) -- Social role-playing game
Wikipedia - The Resistance with Keith Olbermann -- Political web series
Wikipedia - The Restless Conscience: Resistance to Hitler Within Germany 1933-1945 -- 1992 film
Wikipedia - Thermistor -- Type of resistor whose resistance varies with temperature
Wikipedia - The Third of May 1808 -- 1814 painting by Francisco de Goya commemorating Spanish resistance to Napoleon's armies
Wikipedia - The X-Files: Resist or Serve -- 2004 video game
Wikipedia - Tie-dye -- A technique of wax-resist dyeing
Wikipedia - Todor Angelov -- Belgian resistance member
Wikipedia - Totally drug-resistant tuberculosis -- Tuberculosis that is resistant to more drugs than XDR-TB
Wikipedia - Total Resistance (book) -- Guerilla warfare manual by Hans von Dach, 1957
Wikipedia - Tridilosa -- Light and resistant materials-efficient 3-D structure
Wikipedia - Truus Menger-Oversteegen -- Dutch sculptor, painter, and wartime resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Tryon Resolves -- Declaration of resistance to British colonial policies
Wikipedia - Tuscan Committee of National Liberation -- Italian resistance organisation
Wikipedia - Type 2 diabetes -- Type of diabetes mellitus with high blood sugar and insulin resistance
Wikipedia - Upset welding -- Electric resistance welding technique where the heated parts are forced together resulting in a thickened section along the weld area
Wikipedia - Utilization behavior -- Neurobehavioral disorder involving irresistible usage of objects in view
Wikipedia - Vaccine-naive -- Resistance of vaccination
Wikipedia - Vajra -- Weapon &/or symbol of pure, irresistible spiritual power in Dharmic religions
Wikipedia - ValM-CM-)rie AndrM-CM-) -- Veteran of the French resistance, neurosurgeon, aviator, first female General Officer
Wikipedia - Valtr Eisinger -- Czech resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus -- Bacterial strains of Enterococcus that are resistant to the antibiotic vancomycin
Wikipedia - Via Rasella attack -- 1944 action taken by the Italian resistance movement against Nazi Germany
Wikipedia - Victor Martin -- Sociologist involved with the WWII Belgian Resistance
Wikipedia - Walraven van Hall -- Dutch banker and resistance member
Wikipedia - War Resisters' International -- International anti-war organisation
Wikipedia - War Resisters League
Wikipedia - War resister
Wikipedia - Waterproof digital camera -- Digital camera which is inherently water resistant to a specified depth
Wikipedia - Waterproof fabric -- Textile that resists moisture penetration through its construction, inherent materials or finish
Wikipedia - Waterproofing -- Process of making an object or structure waterproof or water-resistant
Wikipedia - Water Resistant mark
Wikipedia - Water resistant watch
Wikipedia - Wave-making resistance -- The energy required to push the water out of the way of the hull, which creates the associated waves
Wikipedia - Werner Scharff -- German-Jewish resistance member
Wikipedia - Wetting current -- Minimum electric current through a contact to break through the surface film resistance
Wikipedia - Wheeler Incremental Inductance Rule -- A rule of thumb for estimating skin effect resistance of parallel transmission lines.
Wikipedia - White Rose -- Resistance group in Nazi Germany
Wikipedia - Wilhelm Guddorf -- Belgian journalist and resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Windbreaker -- Thin coat designed to resist wind chill and light rain
Wikipedia - Witold Pilecki -- Polish underground resistance soldier, World War II concentration camp resistance leader
Wikipedia - Witwatersrand -- Ridge of erosion resistant rock in South Africa
Wikipedia - Wladyslaw Koba -- Polish resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Women's Tax Resistance League
Wikipedia - Working Group (resistance organization) -- World War Two Jewish resistance organisation in Slovakia
Wikipedia - Zofia Poznanska -- Polish-Jewish WW2 resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Zone to Defend -- French sites occupied by citizens to resist development projects
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V the mini series (1984 - 1985) - When aliens come to Earth to ask for our help, a few suspicious humans discover their horrific true intentions and prepare to resist.
'Allo 'Allo! (1982 - 1992) - Ren Artois is the owner and manager of a caf in German-occupied France of World War II. Ren's cafe is the focal point for the show, frequented by both the German military and the French resistance. Ren's a bit of a coward and is stuck in the middle trying to humor both sides. Hidden in the cafe...
V Gundam (1993 - 1994) - Space Colony Side 2 calls itself the Zanscare Empire and begins conquering Earth territory. The League Militaire resists their onslaught and builds the V Gundam to help them fight. As pilot of V Gundam, fifteen-year-old Usso Evin becomes embroiled in the fight to save his world. It is Universal Cent...
Earth: Final Conflict (1997 - 2002) - They are the Companions. Aliens, come to earth on a mission of peace. Their true mission, the secrets they hide, forever alter humanity. In the struggle for our planet, the battle between these Taelon Companions and the Human Resistance, holds the key to Earths future and the fate of mankind. On Ear...
The Swan Princess(1994) - Princess Odette and Prince Derek are just kids...and their parents want to betroth them to unite their kingdoms. The problem is Odette and Derek despise each other-until they become adults. Prince Derek finds Odette irresistible and proposes to her. When she feels that he is only doing this because...
Drive Me Crazy(1999) - Opposites attract with irresistible force in this fresh, funny, feel-good comedy about two mismatched teens who scheme to make their ex's jealous. Melissa Joan Hart (TV's "Sabrina the Teenage Witch") is "picture perfect" (CBS-TV, Fort Worth) as a peppy preppy who performs the ultimate makeover on he...
City of Joy(1992) - An American surgeon loses a young patient, quits the medical profession and goes to India to find himself. There he runs into a nun who is trying to establish a free clinic in a neighborhood of untouchables. He resists the call back to medicine, but eventually begins helping them build the clinic, w...
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise(1987) - Get out your white socks! This time our suave college heroes hit the road for fun and fraternity in Florida. Another opportunity for brains to triumph over brawn. How can the girls possibly resist their geek
Diner(1982) - Set in 1959, Diner shows how five young men resist their adulthood and seek refuge in their beloved Diner. The mundane, childish, and titillating details of their lives are shared. But the golden moments pass, and the men shoulder their responsibilities, leaving the Diner behind.
Top Secret!(1984) - This movie spoofs both the Beach Party movies of the 60s and spy movies as well. Rock singer Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer) plays a concert in Germany and is drafted into helping French resistance fighters save a German scientist from Nazis. Music and mayhem ensue in the way that only the Zucker Brothers...
Sign o' the Times(1987) - Sign o' the Times (styled Sign "" the Times) is a 1987 American concert film written and directed by Prince. In 1987, to capitalise on his growing success in Europe, Prince toured extensively to promote the album of the same name and sales increased accordingly. However the U.S. remained resistant...
Terminator Genisys(2015) - When John Connor, leader of the human resistance, sends Sgt. Kyle Reese back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor and safeguard the future, an unexpected turn of events creates a fractured timeline. Now, Sgt. Reese finds himself in a new and unfamiliar version of the past, where he is faced with unlikely...
Lion Of The Desert(1981) - Between two worlds wars, a struggle for freedom took place in the African desert. This movie is the historicaly accurate story about the Libyan resistance leader, Omar Mukhtar, who led the Libyan resistance against the Italian opressors from 1911-1931. The movie takes place during the reign of Musso...
King Of Hearts(1966) - An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the departing Germans have set to blow up a weapons cache. He arrives to find a very eccentric group of townspeople, inmates of...
The Train(1964) - In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.
Prototype(1992) - In a post-apocolyptic Los Angeles, a wheelchair bound veteren volunteers for an experimental cybergenic program that wil allow him to walk again only to find that it turns him into a lethal killing machine pre-programmed to kill the last remaining member of the resistance - the woman he loves.
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines(2003) - After Skynet fails to kill Sarah Connor before her son is born and to kill John himself as a child, it sends back another Terminator, the T-X, in an attempt to wipe out as many Resistance officers as possible. This includes John's future wife, but not John himself as his whereabouts are unknown to S...
Terminator Salvation(2009) - The fourth installment in the Terminator film series. In a departure from the previous installments, which were set between 1984 and 2004 and used time travel as a key plot element, Salvation is set in 2018 and focuses on the war between Skynet and humanity, with the human Resistance fighting agains...
A Fine Madness(1966) - Samson Shillitoe, mad genius of a poet irresistible to women, but plagued by writer's block, agrees to see a psychiatrist, and his beautiful wife.
Dawn Of Victory(1971) - In 1943, a commando team wants to try to destroy the largest airport of the Germans in Crete. The leader of the commando, Nikitas is Cretan, but Lefteris, who is the leader of the resistance group, refuses to help him. Eventually the mission succeeds, but Nikitas is captured. Then the resistance fig...
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker(2019) - The remaining traces of the Resistance movement assemble in their quest to overthrow the First Order, once and for all. Each member of the Resistance must contend with both their own demons and how the events of the past have affected them, learning to overcome their struggles to create a unified fr...
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof(1958) - Brick Pollitt (Paul Newman), an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie (Dame Elizabeth Taylor). His reunion with his father, Big Daddy (Burl Ives), who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
The Titfield Thunderbolt(1953) - Volunteers take over their local passenger train service (against bus company resistance) when the government announces its closure.
Allied (2016) ::: 7.1/10 -- R | 2h 4min | Action, Drama, Romance | 23 November 2016 (USA) -- In 1942, a Canadian intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war. Director: Robert Zemeckis Writer:
'Allo 'Allo! ::: 45min | Comedy, History, War | TV Series (19821992) In France during World War II, Rene Artois runs a small caf where Resistance fighters, Gestapo men, German Army officers and escaped Allied POWs interact daily, ignorant of one another's true identity or presence, exasperating Rene. Creators: David Croft, Jeremy Lloyd
Army of Shadows (1969) ::: 8.2/10 -- L'arme des ombres (original title) -- Army of Shadows Poster -- An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France. Director: Jean-Pierre Melville Writers: Joseph Kessel (novel), Jean-Pierre Melville (adaptation)
Assassination (2015) ::: 7.3/10 -- Amsal (original title) -- Assassination Poster -- While Korea is occupied by the Japanese Army in 1933, the resistance plans to kill the Japanese Commander. But their plan is threatened by a traitor within their group and also the enemies' forces are hunting them down. Director: Dong-hoon Choi
Back to Bataan (1945) ::: 6.7/10 -- Approved | 1h 35min | Drama, War | 31 May 1945 (USA) -- In 1942, after the fall of the Philippines to the Japanese, U.S. Army Col. Joseph Madden stays behind to organize the local resistance against the Japanese invaders. Director: Edward Dmytryk Writers: Ben Barzman (screenplay), Richard H. Landau (screenplay) | 2 more credits
Bewitched ::: TV-G | 25min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy | TV Series (19641972) -- A witch married to an ordinary man cannot resist using her magic powers to solve the problems her family faces. Creator: Sol Saks
Bitter Moon (1992) ::: 7.2/10 -- R | 2h 19min | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 18 March 1994 (USA) -- After hearing stories of her, a passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife. Director: Roman Polanski Writers: Pascal Bruckner (novel), Roman Polanski (screenplay) | 2 more credits
Blackboard Jungle (1955) ::: 7.4/10 -- Approved | 1h 41min | Crime, Drama | 25 March 1955 (USA) -- A new English teacher at a violent, unruly inner-city school is determined to do his job, despite resistance from both students and faculty. Director: Richard Brooks Writers:
Black Book (2006) ::: 7.7/10 -- Zwartboek (original title) -- Black Book Poster -- In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance. Director: Paul Verhoeven Writers:
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) ::: 8.0/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 48min | Drama | 29 August 1958 (USA) -- Brick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. A reunion with his terminal father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son. Director: Richard Brooks Writers:
Charlotte Gray (2001) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 1min | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 11 January 2002 (USA) -- A young Scottish woman joins the French Resistance during World War II to rescue her Royal Air Force boyfriend who is lost in France. Director: Gillian Armstrong Writers: Sebastian Faulks (novel), Jeremy Brock (screenplay)
City Hunter (2018) ::: 6.5/10 -- Nicky Larson et le parfum de Cupidon (original title) -- City Hunter Poster -- Nicky Larson, the best private investigator in the business, is called for a high-risk mission: to recover the perfume of Cupid, a perfume that would make irresistible the one who uses it. Director: Philippe Lacheau Writers:
Cleopatra (1963) ::: 7.0/10 -- G | 3h 12min | Biography, Drama, History | 31 July 1963 (Canada) -- Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome. Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Writers: Joseph L. Mankiewicz (screenplay), Ranald MacDougall (screenplay) | 5
Closer to the Moon (2014) ::: 6.9/10 -- Not Rated | 1h 52min | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 17 April 2015 (USA) -- A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of old friends from the World War II Jewish Resistance to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie. Director: Nae Caranfil Writer:
Das Boot ::: TV-MA | 1h | Drama, War | TV Series (2018 ) -- An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French resistance in the WWII drama. Creators:
Defiance (2008) ::: 7.2/10 -- R | 2h 17min | Action, Drama, History | 16 January 2009 (USA) -- Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters, and endeavor to build a village, in order to protect themselves and about one thousand Jewish non-combatants. Director: Edward Zwick Writers:
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) ::: 7.9/10 -- PG | 1h 27min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 25 November 2009 (USA) -- An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation. Director: Wes Anderson Writers: Roald Dahl (novel), Wes Anderson (screenplay) | 1 more credit
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) ::: 7.9/10 -- PG | 1h 27min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 25 November 2009 (USA) -- An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation. Director: Wes Anderson Writers: Roald Dahl (novel), Wes Anderson (screenplay) | 1 more credit
Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 55min | Drama, History, Western | 10 December 1993 (USA) -- The story of the Apache chief and his armed resistance to the U.S. Government's subjugation of his people. Director: Walter Hill Writers: John Milius (story), John Milius (screenplay) | 1 more credit
Ginny & Georgia ::: TV-14 | Comedy, Drama | TV Series (2021 ) -- Ginny Miller, an angsty fifteen-year-old, often feels more mature than her thirty-year-old mother, the irresistible and dynamic Georgia Miller. Creator:
House by the River (1950) ::: 7.1/10 -- Approved | 1h 23min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 25 March 1950 (USA) -- A deranged writer murders a maid after she resists his advances. The writer engages his brother's help in hiding the body, causing unexpected problems for both of them. Director: Fritz Lang Writers: Mel Dinelli (screenplay), A.P. Herbert (novel) Stars:
Irresistible (2020) ::: 6.3/10 -- R | 1h 41min | Comedy, Drama | 26 June 2020 (USA) -- A Democratic strategist helps a retired veteran run for mayor in a small, conservative Midwest town. Director: Jon Stewart Writer: Jon Stewart
It's a Gift (1934) ::: 7.2/10 -- Passed | 1h 8min | Comedy | 30 November 1934 (USA) -- A henpecked New Jersey grocer makes plans to move to California to grow oranges, despite the resistance of his overbearing wife. Director: Norman Z. McLeod (as Norman McLeod) Writers: Jack Cunningham (screen play), J.P. McEvoy (from "The Comic Supplement" by) | 1 more credit Stars:
Last Night (2010) ::: 6.6/10 -- R | 1h 33min | Drama, Romance | 16 February 2011 (France) -- The story follows a married couple, apart for a night while the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he's attracted. While he's resisting temptation, his wife encounters her past love. Director: Massy Tadjedin Writer:
Lion of the Desert (1980) ::: 8.4/10 -- PG | 2h 53min | Biography, Drama, History | 16 May 1981 (Japan) -- In 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as colonial governor to Italian Libya with orders to stamp-out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar. Director: Moustapha Akkad Writers: David Butler (additional material), H.A.L. Craig | 1 more credit
Little Children (2006) ::: 7.5/10 -- R | 2h 17min | Drama, Romance | 9 February 2007 (USA) -- The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations in suburban Massachusetts. Director: Todd Field Writers:
Resistance (2020) ::: 6.4/10 -- R | 2h | Biography, Drama, History | 27 March 2020 (USA) -- The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II. Director: Jonathan Jakubowicz Writer:
Riphagen (2016) ::: 7.1/10 -- 2h 11min | Biography, Drama, War | 22 September 2016 (Netherlands) -- The story about Riphagen, a cunning Dutch traitor during WW2 who helped Nazi round up Jews, stealing their treasures for himself. He destroyed Resistance groups, making many who pursued justice after the war look like fools. Director: Pieter Kuijpers Writers: Thomas van der Ree, Paul Jan Nelissen
Soldier of Orange (1977) ::: 7.7/10 -- Soldaat van Oranje (original title) -- Soldier of Orange Poster During World War II, Dutch students join the resistance movement against the German occupation of The Netherlands. Director: Paul Verhoeven Writers: Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema (book), Kees Holierhoek | 2 more credits Stars:
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) ::: 7.2/10 -- G | 1h 23min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | 24 May 2002 (USA) -- A wild stallion is captured by humans and slowly loses the will to resist training, yet, throughout his struggles for freedom, the stallion refuses to let go of the hope of one day returning home to his herd. Directors: Kelly Asbury, Lorna Cook Writers:
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 21min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 20 December 2019 (USA) -- The surviving members of the resistance face the First Order once again, and the legendary conflict between the Jedi and the Sith reaches its peak bringing the Skywalker saga to its end. Director: J.J. Abrams Writers:
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 32min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 15 December 2017 (USA) -- Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resistance prepares for battle with the First Order. Director: Rian Johnson Writers:
Terminator Salvation (2009) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 55min | Action, Sci-Fi | 21 May 2009 (USA) -- In 2018, a mysterious new weapon in the war against the machines, half-human and half-machine, comes to John Connor on the eve of a resistance attack on Skynet. But whose side is he on, and can he be trusted? Director: McG Writers:
The Age of Shadows (2016) ::: 7.1/10 -- Mil-jeong (original title) -- The Age of Shadows Poster -- Korean resistance fighters smuggle explosives to destroy facilities controlled by Japanese forces in this period action thriller. Director: Jee-woon Kim Writers:
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance ::: TV-PG | 1h | Adventure, Drama, Family | TV Series (2019) Episode Guide 10 episodes The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Poster -- Return to the world of Thra, where three Gelfling discover the horrifying secret behind the Skeksis' power, and set out to ignite the fires of rebellion and save their world. Creators:
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance ::: TV-PG | 1h | Adventure, Drama, Family | TV Series (2019) -- Return to the world of Thra, where three Gelfling discover the horrifying secret behind the Skeksis' power, and set out to ignite the fires of rebellion and save their world. Creators:
The Exception (2016) ::: 6.8/10 -- R | 1h 47min | Drama, Romance, War | 2 June 2017 (USA) -- A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman during his investigation. Director: David Leveaux Writers:
The Heroes of Telemark (1965) ::: 6.5/10 -- Approved | 2h 11min | Action, Drama, History | 3 December 1965 (UK) -- Norwegian resistance tries to stop German efforts to produce an atomic bomb component during World War II. Director: Anthony Mann Writers: Ivan Moffat (screenplay), Ben Barzman (screenplay) Stars:
The Killers (1946) ::: 7.8/10 -- Passed | 1h 43min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 30 August 1946 (USA) -- Hit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins. Director: Robert Siodmak Writers: Anthony Veiller (screenplay), Ernest Hemingway (from the story by)
The Last Ottoman: Knockout Ali (2007) ::: 6.9/10 -- Son Osmanli Yandim Ali (original title) -- The Last Ottoman: Knockout Ali Poster Story about an ottoman WWI veteran, who resistances against the occupiers. Director: Mustafa Sevki Dogan Writers: Baykut Badem (screenplay), Mehmet Soyarslan (screenplay) | 3 more credits
The Man in the White Suit (1951) ::: 7.3/10 -- Approved | 1h 25min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi | April 1952 (USA) -- An altruistic chemist invents a fabric which resists wear and stain as a boon to humanity, but big business and labor realize it must be suppressed for economic reasons. Director: Alexander Mackendrick Writers:
The Man with the Iron Heart (2017) ::: 6.4/10 -- HHhH (original title) -- The Man with the Iron Heart Poster As the German Fascists expand their borders, scorching Europe from end to end, two brave Czechs of the Resistance prepare for a suicide mission to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, the hideous mastermind behind the "Final Solution". Director: Cdric Jimenez Writers: Laurent Binet (based on the novel by), David Farr (screenplay by) | 2
The Noose (1958) ::: 7.7/10 -- Petla (original title) -- The Noose Poster One day in the life of an alcohol addict. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life. But when she's at work, Kuba is home alone, and it becomes hard not to resist the temptation. Director: Wojciech Has (as Wojciech J. Has) Writers: Marek Hlasko (story), Wojciech Has (story) (as Wojciech J. Has) | 1
The Train (1964) ::: 7.8/10 -- Not Rated | 2h 13min | Thriller, War | 7 March 1965 (USA) -- In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo. Directors: John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn (uncredited) Writers:
To Be or Not to Be (1983) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG | 1h 47min | Comedy, Drama, War | 16 December 1983 (USA) -- At the onset of WW2, a Polish actor's family and the Polish Resistance help the troupe of a theatre escape Poland and the invading Nazis. Director: Alan Johnson Writers: Thomas Meehan (screenplay), Ronny Graham (screenplay) | 2 more
To Have and Have Not (1944) ::: 7.8/10 -- Passed | 1h 40min | Adventure, Comedy, Film-Noir | 20 January 1945 -- To Have and Have Not Poster -- During World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer. Director: Howard Hawks Writers:
Top Secret! (1984) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG | 1h 30min | Comedy, Music | 8 June 1984 (USA) -- Parody of WWII spy movies in which an American rock and roll singer becomes involved in a Resistance plot to rescue a scientist imprisoned in East Germany. Directors: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker | 1 more credit Writers:
Victory (1981) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 1h 56min | Drama, Sport, War | 31 July 1981 (USA) -- As allied P.O.W.s prepare for a soccer game against the German National Team to be played in Nazi-occupied Paris, the French Resistance and British officers are making plans for the team's escape. Director: John Huston Writers: Yabo Yablonsky (story), Djordje Milicevic (story) | 3 more credits Stars:
Winter in Wartime (2008) ::: 7.0/10 -- Oorlogswinter (original title) -- Winter in Wartime Poster -- In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, a teenage boy gets involved in the Dutch Resistance after coming to the aid of a wounded RAF pilot. Director: Martin Koolhoven Writers:
Wolf (2013) ::: 7.3/10 -- Unrated | 2h 2min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 19 September 2013 -- Wolf Poster -- A promising kickboxer struggles to resist the temptations of a life of crime. Director: Jim Taihuttu Writer:
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Ao Oni The Animation -- -- Studio Deen -- 13 eps -- Game -- Comedy Horror -- Ao Oni The Animation Ao Oni The Animation -- In most ordinary high schools, many stories and rumors float around—some scandalous, some happy and some...more macabre. One such example is of monsters lurking in an abandoned mansion outside of town. Such tales, however, prove too tempting to resist for Hiroshi and his friends Mika, Takeshi, and Takurou. They decide to brave the rumored dangers in order to investigate the manor and complete a test of courage. Each of them approaches the mansion with an overwhelming sense of dread. And when they enter, they come upon a blue monster named Ao Oni who attacks them. -- -- As Hiroshi and his friends try to solve the various puzzles in the mansion and escape their new blue nemesis, they find themselves meeting several horrible endings as they fail miserably. -- -- 17,258 5.13
Bakugan Battle Brawlers: New Vestroia -- -- TMS Entertainment -- 52 eps -- Original -- Game Adventure Fantasy Shounen -- Bakugan Battle Brawlers: New Vestroia Bakugan Battle Brawlers: New Vestroia -- After the final downfall of the rogue Bakugan Naga, peace was brought back to Vestroia. With the help of Danma Kuusou, his companion Pyrus Dragonoid, and other Battle Brawlers, the Infinity and Silent Cores were combined and the realm was recreated. -- -- However, New Vestroia will not be given any respite as humanoid alien invaders, the Vestals, arrive and conquer the Bakugan world in one fell swoop. Armed with a fearsome machine capable of restricting Bakugan into their ball forms, they aim to enslave the race as a form of entertainment. -- -- Now, the only force standing in their way is the Bakugan Battle Brawlers Resistance—a group of humans, Bakugan, and Vestals who oppose the idea of annihilating a sentient race. Led by Danma, they must venture into enemy-occupied New Vestroia and repel the invaders, to assure the survival of the entire world. -- -- TV - Apr 12, 2009 -- 48,755 6.43
Big Wars: Kami Utsu Akaki Kouya ni -- -- Magic Bus -- 1 ep -- Novel -- Action Military Sci-Fi Space -- Big Wars: Kami Utsu Akaki Kouya ni Big Wars: Kami Utsu Akaki Kouya ni -- It is the dawn of the 21st century. Mankind has terraformed and colonized Mars. But we are not alone in the universe. An ancient race of alien beings, known only as "The Gods," has been watching mankind's progress ...and waiting. Now, these mysterious aliens have returned to halt mankind's expansion into space ...by force. -- -- Now, the planet named after the God of War will become our final battlefield, as mankind fights a desperate battle with the latest in high-tech, military hardware: hyper-advanced aircraft, orbital fighters, and gigantic, desert battleships brimming with the most advanced weaponry. -- -- But will it be enough? The aliens have awesome, incredibly destructive weapons at their disposal—including "Hell"—an unstoppable stealth carrier. But the alien's primary weapon is insidiously quiet and invisible—a mind control plaque. Incurable. Inevitable. Contagious. Humans are powerless to resist its effects, which transforms even the most loyal soldiers into dangerous subversives. -- -- Our last hope lies with Captain Akuh and the crew of the Battleship Aoba. If his top-secret mission is successful, mankind will deal a decisive blow to the alien armada. But Akuh's girlfriend is showing signs of nymphomania—the first symptom of alien subversion! -- -- (Source: AnimeNfo) -- -- Licensor: -- Central Park Media -- OVA - Sep 25, 1993 -- 2,482 5.45
Blue Dragon: Tenkai no Shichi Ryuu -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 51 eps -- Game -- Adventure Comedy Fantasy Supernatural -- Blue Dragon: Tenkai no Shichi Ryuu Blue Dragon: Tenkai no Shichi Ryuu -- After the events of the Blue Dragon series, Shu and Bouquet join a resistance group to fight General Rogi's army of invasion.They encounter a mysterious child , Noi, who has the power to revive Shu's shadow counter-part Blue Dragon, and save her from the pursuit of a red dragon. Now Shu and his company have to set foot once again on a journey to discover the purpose of the dragons, undergo their tests and stop the chains of events which threatens the fate of humanity. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- VIZ Media -- TV - Apr 5, 2008 -- 14,382 6.54
C³ -- -- SILVER LINK. -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Action Comedy Ecchi School Supernatural -- C³ C³ -- From the light novel series written by Minase Hazuki, comes a story of love, action, and comedy. Yachi Haruaki is a high school boy who is naturally resistant to curses. After his father sends him a mysterious black cube, Haruaki awakes to find a nude girl named Fear standing in his kitchen. She’s the human form of the cursed black cube – and an instrument of torture! Utilizing her special abilities, Fear fights alongside Haruaki to defeat other cursed instruments and their owners. -- -- (Source: FUNimation) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- TV - Oct 1, 2011 -- 157,247 6.64
C³ -- -- SILVER LINK. -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Action Comedy Ecchi School Supernatural -- C³ C³ -- From the light novel series written by Minase Hazuki, comes a story of love, action, and comedy. Yachi Haruaki is a high school boy who is naturally resistant to curses. After his father sends him a mysterious black cube, Haruaki awakes to find a nude girl named Fear standing in his kitchen. She’s the human form of the cursed black cube – and an instrument of torture! Utilizing her special abilities, Fear fights alongside Haruaki to defeat other cursed instruments and their owners. -- -- (Source: FUNimation) -- TV - Oct 1, 2011 -- 157,247 6.64
Capeta -- -- Studio Comet -- 52 eps -- Manga -- Cars Sports Shounen -- Capeta Capeta -- After losing his mother at a very young age, elementary school student Capeta Taira is forced to become more independent to avoid his father worrying for him. Working in a paving company, his father is often busy and has to work overtime to make ends meet. However, no matter how tough he acts in front of his father, Capeta is ultimately just a lonely kid with a rough life. In addition to his typical house duties, he has to deal with the bully Nobu Andou which makes him feel worse, despite support from his classmate, Monami Suzuki. -- -- One day, Capeta's father sees young go-kart drivers racing at high speeds and gets inspired by the scene. He then decides to collect scrapped parts available on the track and begins working on a gift for his son. Meanwhile, Capeta and Monami sneak into his workplace, suspecting that his father is up to something. Much to their surprise, they see a go-kart built from discarded parts—with Capeta's name attached to it! Although it lacks an engine and looks worn out, the kart is mostly complete and functional. -- -- Despite the heavy rain, Capeta cannot resist the urge to try out this new machinery. As he drives the kart downhill on a wet road, an incident that is almost a dangerous accident instead becomes a thrilling obsession. No longer bored with life, the engine of Capeta's heart is ignited with a new passion as he journeys into the world of racing. -- -- 20,851 7.82
Code Geass: Boukoku no Akito 3 - Kagayaku Mono Ten yori Otsu -- -- Sunrise -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Mecha Military -- Code Geass: Boukoku no Akito 3 - Kagayaku Mono Ten yori Otsu Code Geass: Boukoku no Akito 3 - Kagayaku Mono Ten yori Otsu -- After discovering the face of their true enemy—someone who is related to Akito and responsible for the Geass placed upon him—W-0 attempts to return to their base at Castle Weisswolf. However, stranded in Warsaw due to a complication involving their military identification, they are forced to accept the help of local gypsies, allowing the squad to take some time to deepen their bonds. -- -- Meanwhile, Britannian advisor Julius Kingsley and his guard Suzaku Kururugi begin working together with the Knights of St. Michael in order to crush the European resistance once and for all, armed with the destructive power of a giant weapon known as the Ark Fleet. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- Movie - May 2, 2015 -- 92,936 7.32
Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch -- -- Sunrise -- 25 eps -- Original -- Action Military Sci-Fi Super Power Drama Mecha School -- Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch -- In the year 2010, the Holy Empire of Britannia is establishing itself as a dominant military nation, starting with the conquest of Japan. Renamed to Area 11 after its swift defeat, Japan has seen significant resistance against these tyrants in an attempt to regain independence. -- -- Lelouch Lamperouge, a Britannian student, unfortunately finds himself caught in a crossfire between the Britannian and the Area 11 rebel armed forces. He is able to escape, however, thanks to the timely appearance of a mysterious girl named C.C., who bestows upon him Geass, the "Power of Kings." Realizing the vast potential of his newfound "power of absolute obedience," Lelouch embarks upon a perilous journey as the masked vigilante known as Zero, leading a merciless onslaught against Britannia in order to get revenge once and for all. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment, Funimation -- 1,666,592 8.71
Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch R2 -- -- Sunrise -- 25 eps -- Original -- Action Military Sci-Fi Super Power Drama Mecha -- Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch R2 Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch R2 -- One year has passed since the Black Rebellion, a failed uprising against the Holy Britannian Empire led by the masked vigilante Zero, who is now missing. At a loss without their revolutionary leader, Area 11's resistance group—the Black Knights—find themselves too powerless to combat the brutality inflicted upon the Elevens by Britannia, which has increased significantly in order to crush any hope of a future revolt. -- -- Lelouch Lamperouge, having lost all memory of his double life, is living peacefully alongside his friends as a high school student at Ashford Academy. His former partner C.C., unable to accept this turn of events, takes it upon herself to remind him of his past purpose, hoping that the mastermind Zero will rise once again to finish what he started, in this thrilling conclusion to the series. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment, Funimation -- 1,328,109 8.91
Darkside Blues -- -- J.C.Staff -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Horror Mystery Psychological Sci-Fi -- Darkside Blues Darkside Blues -- The Persona Century Corporation has purchased nearly every parcel of land on earth. Dissension is not tolerated within the corporation's borders and those who oppose Persona are dealt with swiftly. Of those few places not yet under Persona's control is the free town of Kabuki-cho, also known as "The Dark Side of Tokyo". Within the town, under the leadership of a woman named Mai, is a small resistance group called Messiah. Into this world steps a man who takes the sobriquet of Kabuki-cho: Darkside. Sealed up in another dimension eighteen years ago by Persona Century, Darkside now returns to aid Messiah using his unique mystic power of renewal. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- Movie - Oct 8, 1994 -- 8,178 6.08
Digimon Adventure tri. 4: Soushitsu -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Adventure Comedy Drama -- Digimon Adventure tri. 4: Soushitsu Digimon Adventure tri. 4: Soushitsu -- The Chosen Children have been reunited with their Digimon partners, who no longer remember them due to the effects of a digital reset. While everyone tries to reconnect with their digital monsters, Sora Takenouchi encounters resistance from Piyomon, who stubbornly refuses to speak to her. Suddenly, an attack by a hostile Digimon separates the group, scattering them and their Digimon across the Digital World. -- -- Back in the human world, Daigo Nishijima of the Incorporated Administrative Agency receives a warning that a new entity is in pursuit of "Libra," which he believes to be an alias for Meicoomon. For some reason, Meicoomon retains all of her memories and therefore still recalls her partner Meiko Mochizuki, who has come alone to the Digital World to find her. If they hope to identify what other forces have been driving the incidents thus far, the Chosen Children must survive the obstacles of the recreated Digital World and make their way back home. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Shout! Factory -- Movie - Feb 25, 2017 -- 47,790 7.33
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos -- -- Bones -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Magic Military Shounen -- Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos -- Chasing a runaway alchemist with strange powers, brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric stumble into the squalid valley of the Milos. The Milosians are an oppressed group that seek to reclaim their holy land from Creta: a militaristic country that forcefully annexed their nation. In the eye of the political storm is a girl named Julia Crichton, who emphatically wishes for the Milos to regain their strength and return to being a nation of peace. -- -- Befriending the girl, Edward and Alphonse find themselves in the midst of a rising resistance that involves the use of the very object they have been seeking all along—the Philosopher's Stone. However, their past experiences with the stone cause them reservation, and the brothers are unwilling to help. -- -- But as they discover the secrets behind Creta's intentions and questionable history, the brothers are drawn into the battle between the rebellious Milos, who desire their liberty, and the Cretan military, who seek absolute power. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- Movie - Jul 2, 2011 -- 154,554 7.31
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos -- -- Bones -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Magic Military Shounen -- Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos -- Chasing a runaway alchemist with strange powers, brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric stumble into the squalid valley of the Milos. The Milosians are an oppressed group that seek to reclaim their holy land from Creta: a militaristic country that forcefully annexed their nation. In the eye of the political storm is a girl named Julia Crichton, who emphatically wishes for the Milos to regain their strength and return to being a nation of peace. -- -- Befriending the girl, Edward and Alphonse find themselves in the midst of a rising resistance that involves the use of the very object they have been seeking all along—the Philosopher's Stone. However, their past experiences with the stone cause them reservation, and the brothers are unwilling to help. -- -- But as they discover the secrets behind Creta's intentions and questionable history, the brothers are drawn into the battle between the rebellious Milos, who desire their liberty, and the Cretan military, who seek absolute power. -- -- Movie - Jul 2, 2011 -- 154,554 7.31
Gensoumaden Saiyuuki Movie: Requiem - Erabarezaru Mono e no Chinkonka -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Adventure Shounen Supernatural -- Gensoumaden Saiyuuki Movie: Requiem - Erabarezaru Mono e no Chinkonka Gensoumaden Saiyuuki Movie: Requiem - Erabarezaru Mono e no Chinkonka -- The gang is traveling along when they find a girl in need. Of course, they all can't resist going after her. This girl isn't all that she seems... her motive or her "humanity".... and soon the whole gang has Sanzo's past on their hands and one certain young boy who can keep a grudge for decades... -- -- (Source: ANN) -- Movie - Aug 18, 2001 -- 8,647 7.35
Gintama. -- -- Bandai Namco Pictures -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Comedy Historical Parody Samurai Sci-Fi Shounen -- Gintama. Gintama. -- After joining the resistance against the bakufu, Gintoki and the gang are in hiding, along with Katsura and his Joui rebels. The Yorozuya is soon approached by Nobume Imai and two members of the Kiheitai, who explain that the Harusame pirates have turned against 7th Division Captain Kamui and their former ally Takasugi. The Kiheitai present Gintoki with a job: find Takasugi, who has been missing since his ship was ambushed in a Harusame raid. Nobume also makes a stunning revelation regarding the Tendoushuu, a secret organization pulling the strings of numerous factions, and their leader Utsuro, the shadowy figure with an uncanny resemblance to Gintoki's former teacher. -- -- Hitching a ride on Sakamoto's space ship, the Yorozuya and Katsura set out for Rakuyou, Kagura's home planet, where the various factions have gathered and tensions are brewing. Long-held grudges, political infighting, and the Tendoushuu's sinister overarching plan finally culminate into a massive, decisive battle on Rakuyou. -- -- 213,495 8.98
God Eater Prologue -- -- ufotable -- 1 ep -- Game -- Action Fantasy Military Sci-Fi -- God Eater Prologue God Eater Prologue -- Driven to the verge of extinction by "Aragami," a race of all-devouring monsters, humanity makes its last stand in isolated points of resistance. Invulnerable to conventional damage, only "Oracle Cell" weapons—composed of the same matter which makes up Aragami—can kill these creatures. -- -- However, due to their god-like ability to adapt, the Aragami soon develop further immunity. Having no other hope of fending off the enemy, the remnants of human governments decide to detonate a nuclear reactor and wipe out the monsters facing Eurasia. -- -- The soldiers tasked with this mission are aided by three "God Eaters" dispatched from the Fenrir Far East Branch, an organization controlling what remains of Japan. The state-of-the-art weapons they wield, called God Arcs, are supposedly capable of piercing through Aragami skin and tearing their cores out, pulverizing the monsters. These mighty warriors may just be humanity's last hope of fending off the Aragami threat and averting total extinction. -- -- Special - Sep 28, 2009 -- 31,718 6.68
Godzilla 2: Kessen Kidou Zoushoku Toshi -- -- Polygon Pictures -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Adventure Sci-Fi -- Godzilla 2: Kessen Kidou Zoushoku Toshi Godzilla 2: Kessen Kidou Zoushoku Toshi -- By the advent of the 21st century, much of humanity was dead, having been trampled over by a new master, Godzilla. A select few among mankind took to the stars in a spacefaring vessel called the Aratrum in search of "the promised land," the planet Tau-e that could sustain human life. But the migration plan fails, and the remnants of the human race decide to return to Earth. But the distortions in space-time and the distance traveled means that mankind is returning to a completely changed Earth some 20,000 years later. The returnees, led by hero Haruo, prepare to take the fight to Godzilla based on a strategy that has been 20 years in the making. Carried out with the help of two alien species, the Exif and the Bilusaludo, the humans succeed in defeating Godzilla in a costly battle to the death. -- -- But the victory is short-lived. Rising from the depths of the planet is a new breed of monster, dubbed "Godzilla Earth." Evolving for 20,000 years, the creature stands 300 meters high, weighs over 100,000 tons and wields such overwhelmingly destructive power that Haruo and company have no choice but to run for their lives. -- -- Coming to Haruo's rescue, however, is Miana, a member of an aboriginal tribe called the Houtua. They are the first humanoid people the returnees have encountered. Could they descend from humans? "Our tribal god was destroyed by Godzilla. All that we have left are these eggs. Anyone who has tried to fight or resist him has been drowned in fire," the tribespeople say to Haruo, who responds with: "This is our last hope of recovering our home." -- -- Meanwhile, Bilusaludo commander, Galu-gu is elated to discover that the Houtua tribe's arrowheads are made of a nanometal or a self-sustaining metal. It had been developed in the 21st century as an "anti-Godzilla" killer weapon deployed at their decisive battle fought at the foot of Mt. Fuji, but had been destroyed before it could be activated in the form of a "Mecha-Godzilla." The nanometal was its base substance, and proof that the manufacturing plant can still be used. -- -- (Source: Official site) -- Movie - May 18, 2018 -- 30,710 6.64
Godzilla 3: Hoshi wo Kuu Mono -- -- Polygon Pictures -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Adventure Sci-Fi -- Godzilla 3: Hoshi wo Kuu Mono Godzilla 3: Hoshi wo Kuu Mono -- A door opens, and a golden seal shatters a star. -- -- It is the early 21st century. Mankind has lost the battle for planet Earth to Godzilla, and has taken to the stars in search of a new home. But the search ends in vain, forcing them and their alien allies back to Earth. But 20,000 years have passed in their absence, and the Earth is a wholly different place. -- -- The planet's flora and fauna now embody and serve Godzilla. Earth is a monster's planet, ruled by the largest Godzilla ever at 300 meters in height. Godzilla Earth. -- -- Human protagonist, Captain Haruo, yearns to defeat Godzilla and retake the planet for mankind. There, he meets aboriginal descendants of the human race, the Houtua tribe. The Houtua twin sisters, Maina and Miana, lead him to the skeletal remains of Mecha-Godzilla, an old anti-Godzilla weapon, which to everyone's surprise is still alive in the form of self-generating nanometal. Taken from the Mecha-Godzilla carcass, the nanometals have gradually been rebuilding a "Mecha-Godzilla City," a potential weapon capable of destroying Godzilla Earth. -- -- As the strategy develops, a rift forms between the humans and the Bilusaludo, one of several alien races that had joined the humans on their exodus from Earth. Their leader, Galu-gu, believes that the secret to defeating Godzilla lies in the use of superhuman powers – namely, the nanometal integration – but Haruo resists, fearing that in defeating monsters, they must not become monsters themselves. Haruo ultimately uses his means for defeating Godzilla Earth to destroy the Mecha-Godzilla city so as to prevent nanometal assimilation, killing Galu-gu. However, his childhood friend, Yuuko, has been absorbed by the nanometal integration and has fallen into a brain dead coma. -- -- The human race, once again, is lost. Metphies, commander of the priestly alien race, Exif, marvels at the miraculous survival of Haruo, he begins to attract a following. The Exif has secretly harbored this outcome as their "ultimate goal." Miana and Maina issue warnings against Metphies, while Haruo begins to question mankind's next move. -- -- With no means for defeating Godzilla Earth, mankind watches as King Ghidorah, clad in a golden light, descends on the planet. The earth shakes once again with as war moves to a higher dimension. -- -- What is Godzilla exactly? Does mankind stand a chance? Is there a future vision in Haruo's eyes? Find out in the finale. -- -- (Source: Official site) -- Movie - Nov 9, 2018 -- 23,950 6.26
Guilty Crown -- -- Production I.G -- 22 eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Super Power Drama Romance Mecha -- Guilty Crown Guilty Crown -- Japan, 2039. Ten years after the outbreak of the "Apocalypse Virus," an event solemnly regarded as "Lost Christmas," the once proud nation has fallen under the rule of the GHQ, an independent military force dedicated to restoring order. Funeral Parlor, a guerilla group led by the infamous Gai Tsutsugami, act as freedom fighters, offering the only resistance to GHQ's cruel despotism. -- -- Inori Yuzuriha, a key member of Funeral Parlor, runs into the weak and unsociable Shuu Ouma during a crucial operation, which results in him obtaining the "Power of Kings"—an ability which allows the wielder to draw out the manifestations of an individual's personality, or "voids." Now an unwilling participant in the struggle against GHQ, Shuu must learn to control his newfound power if he is to help take back Japan once and for all. -- -- Guilty Crown follows the action-packed story of a young high school student who is dragged into a war, possessing an ability that will help him uncover the secrets of the GHQ, Funeral Parlor, and Lost Christmas. However, he will soon learn that the truth comes at a far greater price than he could have ever imagined. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 987,495 7.49
Hanasakeru Seishounen -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 39 eps -- Manga -- Drama Romance Shoujo -- Hanasakeru Seishounen Hanasakeru Seishounen -- Kajika Louisa Kugami Burnsworth is the only daughter of Harry Burnsworth, an influential and respected industrialist who has the power to move the world. There was a threat on Kajika’s life when she was just two years old, and her mother died protecting her. After this tragic incident, Harry sent his only child to an isolated island, Giviolle, where she was raised by the island’s native, Maria. Kajika’s companions during her time there include a white leopard named Mustafa and a boy named Li Ren Fang, who visited her two or three times a year. -- -- Kajika, now fourteen, returns to her father's side, only to be told to begin a game to find her future husband. Harry makes sure that Kajika willingly participates in this game by telling her that she needs to face the harshness of her fate along with the man she chooses to be her husband. She needs to decide among the three candidates that Harry has personally chosen, but it won’t be easy. Kajika must figure out who they are and where they are without any information to go on except that they all possess an irresistible brilliance and charm. All the while, the men aren't even aware that they are the chosen ones. Kajika must also choose wisely, as her partner has to willingly accept her to be his bride. -- -- Hansakeru Seishounen revolves around endearing love, intense passion, noble friendship, undying loyalty, family relations, and political intrigue. The heaviness of Kajika’s fate is real, the threat on Kajika’s life is inevitable, and the husband game is more than just a mere game. Harry needs to find a suitable partner to protect his daughter before someone discovers Kajika’s deep secret—a secret even she is unaware of. -- TV - Apr 5, 2009 -- 59,018 7.74
Hanma Baki: Son of Ogre -- -- TMS Entertainment -- ? eps -- Manga -- Action Martial Arts Shounen -- Hanma Baki: Son of Ogre Hanma Baki: Son of Ogre -- Third part of the Baki series. -- ONA - ??? ??, 2021 -- 11,668 N/ASenjuushi -- -- TMS Entertainment -- 12 eps -- Game -- Action Military -- Senjuushi Senjuushi -- Despair War is a battle between ancient guns and contemporary guns. Due to a nuclear war, the world was destroyed. Under the full governance of a world empire, people are living with their freedom taken. Despite the forbidden rule of owning any weapons, there is a resistance that secretly fights against the world empire. They own ancient guns left as art and fight using these. Then, the Kijuushi appear as the souls of the ancient guns. Proud and magnificent, the "Absolute Royal" are the only ones that can give hope to this world. The story depicts the everyday life of the Kijuushi. Laughter, despair, happiness, confusion, pain; they would still pursue their own absolute loyalty to fight. What do they fight for? What should they protect? -- -- (Source: MAL News) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 11,661 4.92
Hyakko -- -- Nippon Animation -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Comedy School Slice of Life -- Hyakko Hyakko -- On their first day of high school shy Ayumi Nonomura and taciturn Tatsuki Iizuka become lost on the immense campus of Kamizono Academy. An irresistible force of nature named Torako Kageyama accompanied by her best friend Suzume Saotome appears in front of them. Led, sometimes pushed, by Torako, the girls and their classmates work through problems of school, home and adolescence. -- -- Licensor: -- Nozomi Entertainment -- TV - Oct 2, 2008 -- 40,865 7.25
Inazuma Eleven Go -- -- OLM -- 47 eps -- Game -- Shounen Sports Super Power -- Inazuma Eleven Go Inazuma Eleven Go -- Tenma Matsukaze is a new student at Raimon Junior High. Due to his love for soccer, he decides to join the school soccer team, which gained its reputation after the amazing performance shown ten years earlier in the Football Frontier International, a tournament that hosts the best youth teams the world has to offer. Unfortunately, the once renowned school doesn't have the soccer spirit it once enjoyed. -- -- This is primarily due to the fact that soccer in Japan is now controlled by a dark entity known as the "Fifth Sector." They alone decide the fate of every match, instructing teams to either win or lose. The actions of the Fifth Sector have beaten down the country’s soccer teams, who no longer have a love for the game. -- -- Tenma and his teammates will look to shift this paradigm and fight back against their evil oppressors. Thankfully, they will not be alone in this battle, as they will get help from a group known as the "Resistance." Cheer on the boys of Inazuma Eleven Go as they fight the good fight! -- TV - May 4, 2011 -- 57,397 6.96
Ingress the Animation -- -- Craftar Studios -- 11 eps -- Game -- Action Game Sci-Fi Mystery -- Ingress the Animation Ingress the Animation -- A project was launched where scientists discovered a mysterious substance that can interface directly with the human brain. This substance, called "Exotic Matter (XM)," has existed since ancient times, influencing human minds and the progress of humanity. In the wake of this discovery, a battle of powerful nations and corporate giants has been unleashed. Organizations across the globe have embarked on a secret race to exploit XM. It represents both an opportunity and a threat to humanity. Two Factions seeks to control the XM. The Enlightened view XM's power as a gift that enhances human experience and discovery. The Resistance sees XM as a hostile takeover of the human mind, choosing technology as humanity's best path forward. XM, and the mystery behind it lie at the center of this battle for the fate of humanity. -- -- 2018—Now, a new struggle is about to unfold in Tokyo and across the globe. Dangerous and powerful forces seeking to exploit the potential of XM will collide. This groundbreaking project will mark the beginning of an epic augmented-reality experience combining the three elements of animation, location-based gaming, and the real world. -- -- (Source: MAL News) -- ONA - Oct 18, 2018 -- 22,463 6.36
JK to Orc Heidan: Aku Buta Oni ni Ryougyaku Sareta Seijo Gakuen -- -- PoRO -- 2 eps -- Visual novel -- Hentai Demons Supernatural -- JK to Orc Heidan: Aku Buta Oni ni Ryougyaku Sareta Seijo Gakuen JK to Orc Heidan: Aku Buta Oni ni Ryougyaku Sareta Seijo Gakuen -- Anime adaptation of the PC game by Blue Gale LIGHT. -- -- Deep in a forest, there existed an old European-style building made of brick. It was an all-girls' school attended only by girls from good families. -- -- One day the school was covered by a mysterious thick fog caused by an earthquake. Orc soldiers emerged from the ominous fog. -- -- The schoolgirls were attacked one after another by these brutes from a parallel world. The girls' resistance was futile; they were crushed by the powerful orcs. Rape and death, only tragic screams echoed through the school. -- -- Why did it become like that!? There was no one who could answer that question... -- -- (Source: VNDB) -- OVA - Jul 26, 2013 -- 6,071 6.36
Karen Senki -- -- Next Media Animation -- 11 eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi -- Karen Senki Karen Senki -- In the post-apocalyptic aftermath of a war between machines and their creators, machines rule while humans exist in a state of servitude. Titular character Karen leads Resistance Group 11, an eclectic group of humans who find themselves fighting for their lives as they are hunted by the robots in each episode. Is this the end of humanity? Are they fighting a losing battle? -- -- Through Karen, we delve into a struggle between right and wrong, between indifference and love that explores some of the deepest questions about humanity. What is the difference between a thinking machine and a human being? What is a soul? -- -- (Source: Crunchyroll) -- ONA - Sep 27, 2014 -- 10,550 5.78
Ken En Ken: Aoki Kagayaki -- -- Studio Deen -- 13 eps -- Game -- Action Adventure Demons Magic Martial Arts Fantasy -- Ken En Ken: Aoki Kagayaki Ken En Ken: Aoki Kagayaki -- Yin and Ning are two sisters who have been wandering the land together ever since their village was destroyed by the villainous Taibai Empire. Their childhood friend, Zhao, has been enslaved by the Taibai himself, and uses his brilliance at tinkering and inventing to get by as a slave to the Empire's whims. One day, Yin accidentally discovers a legendary sword, which grants her fantastic abilities in combat, and allows her to summon a mystical, mechanical fox spirit named Yun, who is sworn to fight by her side. Meanwhile, Zhao is making fast friends with a mysterious young girl who just may hold a great amount of power within the Taibai Empire. As Zhao and the Fu sisters find themselves increasingly caught up in the Empire's battle for supremacy over the land, it will take all of the magic and might that the budding resistance armies can muster to turn the tide of war once and for all. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- 13,901 6.06
Kikou Souseiki Mospeada -- -- Studio World, Tatsunoko Production -- 25 eps -- Original -- Action Mecha Military -- Kikou Souseiki Mospeada Kikou Souseiki Mospeada -- Without warning in the year 2050, an alien race known only as the Inbit arrive, invade and successfully conquer the Earth. Years later and despite brutal past failures, the inhabitants of Mars Colony send out yet another desperate Liberation Force to try and reclaim their lost home world. The fleet is all but destroyed. However, a lone survivor, Stig Bernard, finds himself on Earth. Gathering a mere handful of resistance fighters, Stig journeys on towards the Inbit's headquarters at Reflex Point in an attempt to gather intelligence and, possibly, discover a way to beat them. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- TV - Oct 2, 1983 -- 7,420 7.09
Manie-Manie: Meikyuu Monogatari -- -- Madhouse -- 3 eps -- Original -- Adventure Fantasy Horror Sci-Fi Supernatural -- Manie-Manie: Meikyuu Monogatari Manie-Manie: Meikyuu Monogatari -- Manie-Manie: Meikyuu Monogatari is an anthology film composed of three short films by acclaimed directors Rintaro, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, and Katsuhiro Otomo. -- -- Labyrinth Labyrinthos -- While Sachi is searching for her cat, Cicerone, they both fall through a mirror and become trapped in a mysterious, mind-bending labyrinth. They follow a clown's shadow into the distance, not knowing where it will lead them. -- -- Running Man -- Bob Stone is a reporter working on an article about racer Zack Hugh, the ten-year reigning champion of an extremely popular and deadly automobile race. By the time the two meet, Zack's body and mind are shells of what they used to be. When the next race starts, Bob observes what happens when both man and machine are pushed to their breaking point, and what it takes to be an enduring champion. -- -- The Order to Stop Construction -- Salaryman Tsutomo Sugioka is dispatched into the heart of a dangerous jungle in order to halt a construction project after the foreman's mysterious disappearance. There, he discovers the deadly and uncontrollable world created by the automated construction robots. When the chief robot is resistant to his orders, Tsutomo must figure out another way to stop the project before his company's financial losses become too great. -- -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films -- Movie - Sep 25, 1987 -- 24,165 7.05
Mecha-ude -- -- TriF Studio -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Mecha -- Mecha-ude Mecha-ude -- Long ago, alien lifeforms came to Earth, fusing with people on the planet. Due to their appearance, they were dubbed "Mecha-ude," as when fused, they bore a striking resemblance to mechanized limbs. -- -- Through an involuntary partnership, average middle schooler Hikaru Amatsuga works alongside the Mecha-ude Arma, who is an extremely rare and special existence. To protect Arma, the resistance group ARMS assigns the dual Mecha-ude user Aki Murasame to follow him wherever he goes. However, she is also looking for a mysterious Snake-Type Mecha-ude wielder, who has put many of her comrades in a critical state. -- -- Behind the scenes, an organization known as the Kagami Group is searching for the mythical "Trigger Arm," a Mecha-ude said to grant unlimited power. When Aki's life is threatened by this group, Hikaru must team up with Arma to find the courage to fight back and, along the way, learn that his life will never be ordinary again. -- -- ONA - Sep 30, 2018 -- 13,106 6.92
Memories -- -- Madhouse, Studio 4°C -- 3 eps -- Manga -- Drama Horror Psychological Sci-Fi -- Memories Memories -- Memories is a compilation of three standalone short films encompassing different genres. -- -- Magnetic Rose -- In the far reaches of space, after tracing a distress signal to a large abandoned space station, a pair of engineers—Heintz Beckner and Miguel Costrela—find a derelict mansion and decide to explore on foot. Their investigation reveals a dark secret surrounding the fate of Eva Friedel, a renowned opera singer with a tragic history. Hallucinations soon begin to plague them, and they must fight to retain their sanity in order to escape the station alive. -- -- Stink Bomb -- Hapless lab technician Nobuo Tanaka consumes some pills at his laboratory to cure a cold. Unknown to him, however, the pills are actually experimental drugs that enhance his flatulence to a lethal degree. As the toxic gas escaping him kills everyone in his vicinity, he is ordered by his superiors to retreat to the company headquarters in Tokyo. The journey to the city is made all the more arduous as Nobuo struggles with his deadly odor while the police, military, and foreign adversaries are hot on his trail. -- -- Cannon Fodder -- In a fortress city filled to the brim with cannons, a young boy wishes to surpass his father by becoming a revered artillery officer. Despite no proof of an enemy nation, he cannot resist the urge to partake in the daily bombardment routines organized by the city. Whether at school or just before bedtime, he only dreams of someday firing a cannon for the sake of his homeland. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media, Sony Pictures Entertainment -- Movie - Dec 23, 1995 -- 83,342 7.73
Memories -- -- Madhouse, Studio 4°C -- 3 eps -- Manga -- Drama Horror Psychological Sci-Fi -- Memories Memories -- Memories is a compilation of three standalone short films encompassing different genres. -- -- Magnetic Rose -- In the far reaches of space, after tracing a distress signal to a large abandoned space station, a pair of engineers—Heintz Beckner and Miguel Costrela—find a derelict mansion and decide to explore on foot. Their investigation reveals a dark secret surrounding the fate of Eva Friedel, a renowned opera singer with a tragic history. Hallucinations soon begin to plague them, and they must fight to retain their sanity in order to escape the station alive. -- -- Stink Bomb -- Hapless lab technician Nobuo Tanaka consumes some pills at his laboratory to cure a cold. Unknown to him, however, the pills are actually experimental drugs that enhance his flatulence to a lethal degree. As the toxic gas escaping him kills everyone in his vicinity, he is ordered by his superiors to retreat to the company headquarters in Tokyo. The journey to the city is made all the more arduous as Nobuo struggles with his deadly odor while the police, military, and foreign adversaries are hot on his trail. -- -- Cannon Fodder -- In a fortress city filled to the brim with cannons, a young boy wishes to surpass his father by becoming a revered artillery officer. Despite no proof of an enemy nation, he cannot resist the urge to partake in the daily bombardment routines organized by the city. Whether at school or just before bedtime, he only dreams of someday firing a cannon for the sake of his homeland. -- -- Movie - Dec 23, 1995 -- 83,342 7.73
Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash -- -- Sunrise -- 1 ep -- Novel -- Action Military Sci-Fi Space Drama Mecha -- Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash -- —Do you know the Nejen? -- If you know it, then I'll take you there— -- -- The year is U.C. 0105. Twelve years have passed since the end of the second Neo Zeon War (Char's Rebellion). Even after "the Axis Shock," which seemed to indicate the future of humanity and the Universal Century, the world is still in a chaotic situation where intermittent military conflicts continue to break out. The Earth Federation government is more corrupt than ever, and its leadership has not only accelerated Earth's pollution, but also implemented an inhuman "Man Hunting" policy in which civilians are forcibly exiled to outer space. -- -- The anti-Federation government organization "Mafty," led by someone called "Mafty Navue Erin," has taken a stand against the corruption of the Earth Sphere. Mafty carries out fierce acts of terrorism, assassinating high officials of the Federation government one after another, but it gains a certain level of support from the populace who are growing more opposed to the Federation government. -- -- The person who calls himself "Mafty" and leads this organization is Hathaway Noa, the son of Bright Noa, an officer of the Earth Federation Forces who once participated in the One Year War. Hathaway himself joined the forces trying to stop Char’s Rebellion. With firsthand knowledge of the ideals and ideologies of Amuro Ray and Char Aznable, he has become a warrior following in their footsteps, and plans to clear a path forward through armed resistance. His destiny, however, is drastically altered as he encounters the Federation Forces officer Kenneth Sleg and a mysterious young beauty named Gigi Andalucia. -- -- (Source: Gundam.info) -- Movie - May 7, 2021 -- 6,999 N/A -- -- MD Geist II: Death Force -- -- Zero-G Room -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Military Sci-Fi Mecha -- MD Geist II: Death Force MD Geist II: Death Force -- After unleashing the Death Force machines all over the planet Jerra, Geist has kept himself busy by dismantling them one by one. But now he faces a formidable opponent in the form of Krauser, another M.D.S. (Most Dangerous Soldier) who has aligned himself as the only savior of mankind. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Central Park Media -- OVA - Mar 1, 1996 -- 6,817 5.03
Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash -- -- Sunrise -- 1 ep -- Novel -- Action Military Sci-Fi Space Drama Mecha -- Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash -- —Do you know the Nejen? -- If you know it, then I'll take you there— -- -- The year is U.C. 0105. Twelve years have passed since the end of the second Neo Zeon War (Char's Rebellion). Even after "the Axis Shock," which seemed to indicate the future of humanity and the Universal Century, the world is still in a chaotic situation where intermittent military conflicts continue to break out. The Earth Federation government is more corrupt than ever, and its leadership has not only accelerated Earth's pollution, but also implemented an inhuman "Man Hunting" policy in which civilians are forcibly exiled to outer space. -- -- The anti-Federation government organization "Mafty," led by someone called "Mafty Navue Erin," has taken a stand against the corruption of the Earth Sphere. Mafty carries out fierce acts of terrorism, assassinating high officials of the Federation government one after another, but it gains a certain level of support from the populace who are growing more opposed to the Federation government. -- -- The person who calls himself "Mafty" and leads this organization is Hathaway Noa, the son of Bright Noa, an officer of the Earth Federation Forces who once participated in the One Year War. Hathaway himself joined the forces trying to stop Char’s Rebellion. With firsthand knowledge of the ideals and ideologies of Amuro Ray and Char Aznable, he has become a warrior following in their footsteps, and plans to clear a path forward through armed resistance. His destiny, however, is drastically altered as he encounters the Federation Forces officer Kenneth Sleg and a mysterious young beauty named Gigi Andalucia. -- -- (Source: Gundam.info) -- Movie - May 7, 2021 -- 6,999 N/A -- -- Vandread: Taidou-hen -- -- Gonzo -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Adventure Comedy Ecchi Mecha Sci-Fi Space -- Vandread: Taidou-hen Vandread: Taidou-hen -- Vandread The First Stage (season one) was immediately followed up by this TV special. This TV special, also known as Vandread Taidouhen Stage (The Movement Stage) was a recap of the first 13 episodes with additional footage. So, Vandread Taidouhen is not really a bridge between Vandread The First Stage and Vandread The Second Stage (season two). It was made to bring new viewers up to date as to what happened during the first season -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- OVA - Jan 21, 2001 -- 6,833 6.79
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans - Urðr Hunt -- -- Sunrise Beyond -- ? eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Space Drama Mecha -- Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans - Urðr Hunt Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans - Urðr Hunt -- Year P.D. 323. Gjallarhorn's political intervention into the Arbrau central parliament escalated into an armed conflict using mobile suits. The incident was brought to an end by Tekkadan, a group of boys who came from Mars. -- -- News of Tekkadan's exploits has also reached the ears of Wistario Afam, a youth born and raised at the Radonitsa Colony near Venus. Venus, which lost to Mars in the contest for development, is a remote frontier planet in which the four great economic blocs show little interest. It is now used only as a penal colony for criminals, whose inhabitants don't even have IDs. -- -- Then Wistario, who hopes to change the status quo of this homeland, encounters a girl who claims to be the guide to the Urdr-Hunt. -- -- (Source: Gundam Global Portal) -- -- ONA - ??? ??, ???? -- 7,528 N/ASayonara Ginga Tetsudou 999: Andromeda Shuuchakueki -- -- Studio World, Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Sci-Fi Adventure Space Drama -- Sayonara Ginga Tetsudou 999: Andromeda Shuuchakueki Sayonara Ginga Tetsudou 999: Andromeda Shuuchakueki -- Despite the destruction of the mechanization home world Andromeda, the machine empire is still swept across the galaxy and Earth has become a battleground. Having returned from his journey aboard the train Galaxy Express 999, Tetsurou Hoshino joins the resistance and fights alongside others who have retained their humanity. -- -- When the 999 returns to Earth, Tetsurou receives an enigmatic recorded message from his former traveling companion Maetel, telling him to board the train once more. Fighting his way to Megalopolis station, he makes it onto the train just as it departs. This time, however, Tetsurou is met with several mysteries: Maetel is nowhere to be seen, an ominous "Ghost Train" has appeared, and the ultimate destination of the 999 is unknown. Amid all this, Tetsurou finds himself confronted by the mysterious black knight Faust and soon discovers the machine empire's darkest secret. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media -- Movie - Jan 8, 1981 -- 7,501 7.29
Monster Strike: Rain of Memories -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Game -- Action Game Fantasy -- Monster Strike: Rain of Memories Monster Strike: Rain of Memories -- - They deserve better. Someone better than me... - -- -- The stage is set one year before Ren arrives in Kaminohara. -- Akira has moved to Kaminohara from Sendai, all for the sake of revenge. -- The wounds that his sister suffered in an MS battle fuel his vengeance. -- -- A lost Haruma is given directions by Akira, -- revealing a caring side to the usually cold and calculating teen. -- Haruma observes Akira's violent MS battles, -- and realizes that Akira fights while reading his enemies' attacks. -- -- Haruma proposes the idea of recruiting Akira to his teammates, -- Aoi and Minami. Surprised and naturally reluctant, -- Aoi and Minami decide to trust Haruma. -- For Haruma has resisted recruiting the fourth member of their team, -- saving the spot for the right person... -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- ONA - Dec 3, 2016 -- 2,318 6.50
Mushi-Uta -- -- Zexcs -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Action Sci-Fi Fantasy -- Mushi-Uta Mushi-Uta -- Mushi-uta's story takes place in the near future. Ten years before the story's opening, strange insect-like creatures known as "Mushi" began appearing. The Mushi are able to consume peoples' dreams and thoughts in return for supernatural powers. At the end of episode one, protagonist Daisuke "Kakkou" Kusuriya encounters a young girl named Shiika Anmoto. The two, in time, become quite close. However, unbeknownst to Kakkou, Shiika is an escapee from a secret prison known as GARDEN where those posessed by the Mushi, known as the Mushitsuki are held. GARDEN's military force, the Special Environmental Conservation Executive Office, dispatches its finest killer to track down Shiika. However, they are faced with resistance from the Mushibane resistance organisation, led by the secretive "Ladybird." -- -- (Source: ANN) -- TV - Jul 6, 2007 -- 15,212 6.64
Nami -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Dementia -- Nami Nami -- A woman is enjoying herself in bed until a swarm of fish bursts out from all over her house to disturb her leisure time. Will she decide to resist, or let them crawl inside her and take control? -- -- Movie - ??? ??, 2000 -- 11,176 2.33
Rhea Gall Force -- -- AIC, animate Film, Artmic -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Military Sci-Fi Mecha -- Rhea Gall Force Rhea Gall Force -- The Solnoid race is long dead, annihilated along with their enemies in the final battle at Sigma Narse. But their descendants survive on Earth, and have now inherited the sad destiny predicted so many years before. -- -- The year is 2085. -- -- The third world war between East and West has reduced the cities of Earth to mountains of rubble. The mechanical killing machines created by both sides now ruthlessly hunt down the remnants of humanity. Old hatreds between human factions prevent an effective resistance, and the only hope for survival rests in a desperate plan: evacuate the survivors to Mars Base. There they can rebuild and plan the liberation of the home world. -- -- Among them, one young woman carries the guilt of her father`s hand in the destruction of civilization. Unknown to her, she also carries the key to a possible salvation. As destiny draws new friends and allies to her, a new Gall Force is born to rise up against the coming destruction... -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- -- Licensor: -- Central Park Media -- OVA - Mar 21, 1989 -- 2,312 6.27
Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai: The Clouds Gather -- -- GRIZZLY -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Drama Yaoi -- Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai: The Clouds Gather Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai: The Clouds Gather -- Yashiro is the young leader of Shinseikai and the president of the Shinseikai Enterprise, but like so many powerful men, he leads a double life as a deviant and a masochist. Doumeki Chikara comes to work as a bodyguard for him and, although Yashiro had decided that he would never lay a hand on his own men, he finds there's something about Doumeki that he can't resist. Yashiro makes advances toward Doumeki, but Doumeki has mysterious reasons for denying. Yashiro, who abuses his power just to abuse himself, and Doumeki, who faithfully obeys his every command, begin the tumultuous affair of two men with songs in their hearts and no wings to fly. -- -- (Source: Juné) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- Movie - Feb 15, 2020 -- 20,850 7.52
Sakasama no Patema -- -- Purple Cow Studio Japan, Studio Rikka -- 1 ep -- Original -- Adventure Sci-Fi -- Sakasama no Patema Sakasama no Patema -- Patema is a plucky young girl from an underground civilization boasting an incredible network of tunnels. Inspired by a friend that mysteriously went missing, she is often reprimanded due to her constant excursions of these tunnels due to her royal status. After she enters what is known as the "forbidden zone," she accidentally falls into a giant bottomless pit after being startled by a strange creature. -- -- Finding herself on the surface, a world literally turned upside down, she begins falling towards the sky only to be saved by Age, a discontented student of the totalitarian nation known as Aiga. The people of Aiga are taught to believe that "Inverts," like Patema, are sinners that will be "swallowed by the sky," but Age has resisted this propaganda and decides to protect his new friend. A chance meeting between two curious teenagers leads to an exploration of two unique worlds as they begin working together to unveil the secrets of their origins in Sakasama no Patema, a heart-warming film about overcoming differences in order to coexist. -- -- -- The film was first premiered at France's Annecy, the world's largest animation festival, on June 13, 2013. Screening in Japanese theaters began on November 9, 2013. -- -- Licensor: -- GKIDS, NYAV Post -- Movie - Nov 9, 2013 -- 225,667 8.03
Seikai no Monshou -- -- Sunrise -- 13 eps -- Light novel -- Action Military Sci-Fi Space Romance -- Seikai no Monshou Seikai no Monshou -- In the distant future, humanity is under attack by the Abh Empire, a race of advanced humanoid beings possessing vastly superior technology. As countless worlds fall to the Abh, mankind establishes the Four Nations Alliance—a resistance faction made up of the United Mankind, the Republic of Greater Alcont, the Federation of Hania, and the People's Sovereign of Union Planets. -- -- Seikai no Monshou tells the story of Jinto Linn. When he was young, his father—the president of Martine—sold their world in exchange for a high position in the empire. Now a young count, Jinto must learn the ways of Abh nobility and live among those who subjugated his people. Helping him is Lafiel Abriel, an austere Abh princess whom Jinto quickly befriends. While traveling to Jinto's new school in the Abh homeland, their ship is caught in a violent space battle between the fleets of the Alliance and the Abh. Jinto and Abriel are thrust into the conflict, unaware that this skirmish marks the beginning of a full-scale war between the Abh Empire and mankind. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment, Funimation -- TV - Jan 3, 1999 -- 43,547 7.69
Seikai no Senki III -- -- Sunrise -- 2 eps -- Light novel -- Action Military Romance Sci-Fi Space -- Seikai no Senki III Seikai no Senki III -- Jinto and Lafiel were riding on a light-armed transport ship "Bokbrusue" and navigating at the planar space of the Hyde System. This was for Jinto to govern the Hyde System, which returned to Empirial rule after the Union retreated, officially as an Earl. However, the government of Martin, Jinto`s motherland, resisted obstinately against the Empirial rule. On the other side, "Daiichi Jyuurin Sentai" (the First Devastation Fleet), formed with the new ship type "Attack Vessel", travelled to the Hyde System for drilling practices, but... -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- OVA - Aug 6, 2005 -- 15,746 7.70
Seisenshi Dunbine -- -- Sunrise -- 49 eps -- Novel -- Action Sci-Fi Adventure Drama Fantasy Mecha -- Seisenshi Dunbine Seisenshi Dunbine -- Shou Zama is an ordinary 18-year-old from Tokyo who finds himself summoned to the medieval fantasy world of Byston Well. Upon arrival, he is put into service under the ambitious lord Drake Luft, who seeks to greatly expand his power. Those like Shou who come from "Upper Earth" possess strong aura power and are ordered to pilot "Aura Battlers," insectoid mecha designed by a man named Shot Weapon, who also came from Upper Earth. -- -- However, Shou's alliances quickly change when he meets Marvel Frozen, a young woman who has decided to rebel against Drake's political agenda. As he realizes the lord's true intentions, the boy chooses to join the fight against Drake and team up with Neal Given, who leads the resistance movement. The resistance isn't alone—Riml, daughter of their enemy and Neal's secret love, aids their efforts, hoping to escape from her father's clutches. As Shou finds himself fighting alongside his new comrades, they put their lives on the line to prevent the villainous Drake from taking over Byston Well before it's too late. -- -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Feb 5, 1983 -- 8,897 7.05
Sekai Saikou no Ansatsusha, Isekai Kizoku ni Tensei suru -- -- SILVER LINK., Studio Palette -- ? eps -- Light novel -- Action Fantasy -- Sekai Saikou no Ansatsusha, Isekai Kizoku ni Tensei suru Sekai Saikou no Ansatsusha, Isekai Kizoku ni Tensei suru -- "I'm going to live for myself!" -- -- The greatest assassin on Earth knew only how to live as a tool for his employers—until they stopped letting him live. Reborn by the grace of a goddess into a world of swords and sorcery, he's offered a chance to do things differently this time around, but there's a catch...He has to eliminate a super-powerful hero who will bring about the end of the world unless he is stopped. -- -- Now known as Lugh Tuatha Dé, the master assassin certainly has his hands full, particularly because of all the beautiful girls who constantly surround him. Lugh may have been an incomparable killer, but how will he fare against foes with powerful magic? -- -- (Source: Yen Press) -- TV - Jul ??, 2021 -- 10,570 N/A -- -- Karen Senki -- -- Next Media Animation -- 11 eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi -- Karen Senki Karen Senki -- In the post-apocalyptic aftermath of a war between machines and their creators, machines rule while humans exist in a state of servitude. Titular character Karen leads Resistance Group 11, an eclectic group of humans who find themselves fighting for their lives as they are hunted by the robots in each episode. Is this the end of humanity? Are they fighting a losing battle? -- -- Through Karen, we delve into a struggle between right and wrong, between indifference and love that explores some of the deepest questions about humanity. What is the difference between a thinking machine and a human being? What is a soul? -- -- (Source: Crunchyroll) -- ONA - Sep 27, 2014 -- 10,550 5.78
Senjuushi -- -- TMS Entertainment -- 12 eps -- Game -- Action Military -- Senjuushi Senjuushi -- Despair War is a battle between ancient guns and contemporary guns. Due to a nuclear war, the world was destroyed. Under the full governance of a world empire, people are living with their freedom taken. Despite the forbidden rule of owning any weapons, there is a resistance that secretly fights against the world empire. They own ancient guns left as art and fight using these. Then, the Kijuushi appear as the souls of the ancient guns. Proud and magnificent, the "Absolute Royal" are the only ones that can give hope to this world. The story depicts the everyday life of the Kijuushi. Laughter, despair, happiness, confusion, pain; they would still pursue their own absolute loyalty to fight. What do they fight for? What should they protect? -- -- (Source: MAL News) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 11,661 4.92
Shuumatsu no Harem -- -- AXsiZ, Studio Gokumi -- ? eps -- Manga -- Sci-Fi Harem Ecchi Shounen -- Shuumatsu no Harem Shuumatsu no Harem -- The Man-Killer Virus: a lethal disease that has eradicated 99.9% of the world's male population. Mizuhara Reito has been in cryogenic sleep for the past five years, leaving behind Tachibana Erisa, the girl of his dreams. When Reito awakens from the deep freeze, he emerges into a sex-crazed new world where he himself is the planet's most precious resource. Reito and four other male studs are given lives of luxury and one simple mission: repopulate the world by impregnating as many women as possible! All Reito wants, however, is to find his beloved Erisa who went missing three years ago. Can Reito resist temptation and find his one true love? -- -- (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment) -- TV - ??? ??, 2021 -- 15,282 N/A -- -- Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo Returns -- -- Toei Animation -- 25 eps -- Manga -- Mystery Shounen -- Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo Returns Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo Returns -- High school student Hajime Kindaichi is the supposed grandson of famous private detective Kosuke Kindaichi. Visiting Hong Kong for a fashion event with Kindaichi, our hero's girlfriend Miyuki is captured by a stranger in a case of mistaken identity. The journey to save Miyuki itself leads to yet another crime case... -- -- (Source: YTV) -- TV - Apr 5, 2014 -- 15,198 7.52
Shuumatsu no Harem -- -- AXsiZ, Studio Gokumi -- ? eps -- Manga -- Sci-Fi Harem Ecchi Shounen -- Shuumatsu no Harem Shuumatsu no Harem -- The Man-Killer Virus: a lethal disease that has eradicated 99.9% of the world's male population. Mizuhara Reito has been in cryogenic sleep for the past five years, leaving behind Tachibana Erisa, the girl of his dreams. When Reito awakens from the deep freeze, he emerges into a sex-crazed new world where he himself is the planet's most precious resource. Reito and four other male studs are given lives of luxury and one simple mission: repopulate the world by impregnating as many women as possible! All Reito wants, however, is to find his beloved Erisa who went missing three years ago. Can Reito resist temptation and find his one true love? -- -- (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment) -- TV - ??? ??, 2021 -- 15,282 N/AGinga Tetsudou 999 (Movie) -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Sci-Fi Adventure Space Drama Fantasy -- Ginga Tetsudou 999 (Movie) Ginga Tetsudou 999 (Movie) -- Tetsurou Hoshino is a boy bent on obtaining an immortal mechanical body in order to take revenge against his mother's murderer, the machine man Count Mecha. However, due to the incredible cost of obtaining what he seeks, his only hope is to steal a boarding pass for the Galaxy Express 999, a space train that travels across the galaxy and whose final stop is a planet where the metal replacements are provided for free. After swiping a pass, Tetsurou is pursued by the police and ends up collapsing into the arms of a mysterious woman named Maetel, who closely resembles his mother. Once he awakens, she tells the boy that she will provide him entry onto the 999 as long as he agrees to travel with her. Accepting her proposition, Tetsurou boards the cosmic railway with Maetel and begins a journey across the galaxy. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media -- Movie - Aug 4, 1979 -- 15,280 7.56
Strike Witches OVA -- -- Gonzo -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Ecchi Magic Military Sci-Fi -- Strike Witches OVA Strike Witches OVA -- In 1939, after the world has been devastated by an invasion of the "Neuroi"—alien war machines of unknown origin—humanity continues to struggle in an uneven fight. With no conventional arms able to pierce through the aliens' hardy armor, resistance forces spare no expense in their search for a way to level the playing field. -- -- Eventually, the so-called "Striker Unit" is designed—a state-of-the-art device utilizing the innate magical powers of young girls and turning them into deadly weapons. The women who are now gathering from all around the world to fight for the survival of the human race are known as "Witches," with the 501st Joint Fighter Wing—the "Strike Witches"—standing at the forefront of the deadly conflict. -- -- OVA - Jan 1, 2007 -- 23,841 6.28
Tong Ling Fei -- -- Haoliners Animation League -- 16 eps -- Web manga -- Comedy Historical Drama Romance -- Tong Ling Fei Tong Ling Fei -- When Qian Yunshang's marriage to Ye Youming is arranged by the emperor, she is terrified that the bad blood between their families will lead to her being treated miserably in the Ye household. Torn between duty and concern for his daughter, Qian Aotian devises a reckless plan. He summons his firstborn daughter—her existence unknown to all but his own family—to be the stand-in for her younger sister. -- -- Due to her unusual powers, Qian Yun Xi was exiled by her family when she was a child. Deprived of filial affection, she made a life of her own amid the wilderness on Mt. Ling Yun. However, everything begins to change when she marries Ye Youming in her sister's stead. -- -- Harboring immense contempt for the family of Qian, Ye Youming refuses to acknowledge Qian Yun Xi as his wife and treats her coldly, going so far as to banish her from his palace grounds. But he can only resist her childlike charm and boldness for so long... -- -- ONA - Nov 30, 2018 -- 20,014 7.71
Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2202: Ai no Senshi-tachi -- -- Xebec -- 26 eps -- Original -- Action Drama Military Sci-Fi Space -- Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2202: Ai no Senshi-tachi Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2202: Ai no Senshi-tachi -- Three years since the return of the legendary Space Battleship Yamato, Earth has begun rebuilding itself and has made peace with the Gamilans. However, this recovery comes at the cost of utilizing the forbidden Wave Motion technology. -- -- Meanwhile, the notorious former crew members of the Yamato, who have each gone their separate ways, receive a psychic message from the mysterious Goddess Teresa. She urges them to return to their beloved ship and travel to the distant planet Terezart. They are promised a revolutionary power to combat the unprecedented threat of the relentless Gatlantis Empire, who are approaching Earth with all but innocent intentions. -- -- Unable to resist her plea, the crew reassembles and sets sail on another perilous intergalactic voyage, one that will test their sheer courage and versatility in the face of an even greater foe. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- OVA - Feb 25, 2017 -- 18,035 7.69
Vassalord. -- -- Production I.G -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Comedy Fantasy Mystery Shounen Ai Supernatural Vampire -- Vassalord. Vassalord. -- Charley, a cyborg vampire who does the Vatican's dirty work, is the thrall of the local vampire playboy Johnny Rayflo. As the two fight crime—and each other—hilarity, violence and sacrilege ensue! But can Charley resist his own desperate cravings for blood? Find out as the devilish duo go up against a childlike vampire princess, a mysterious branch of the Unitarian Church...and one another. -- -- (Source: Tokyopop) -- OVA - Mar 15, 2013 -- 28,674 6.83
Wasurenagumo -- -- Production I.G -- 1 ep -- Original -- Comedy Supernatural -- Wasurenagumo Wasurenagumo -- Legend says that centuries ago, a colossal spider ravaged Tokyo. Resistance was futile, as none could quell the havoc wrought upon the city by the beast. Fortunately, one man—the legendary exorcist—stopped the devastation. Using his divine powers, he sealed the monster away and the world has enjoyed peace ever since. -- -- Mizuki Henmi is an adolescent girl who is acquainted with Shu Suzuri, a dull young man who runs an old Japanese bookstore. During a routine visit to his store, Mizuki learns of a mysterious and valuable book that Shu is planning to sell. Unfortunately, the unrestrained Mizuki handles the book roughly, breaking the seal that kept it shut and revealing an odd entity—a cute spider. -- -- Wasurenagumo tells the story of Mizuki, Shu, and their seemingly harmless spider. However, ominous winds begin blowing. While Shu is infatued with his arachnid friend, Mizuki becomes wary of its every move… -- -- Movie - Mar 12, 2012 -- 30,107 7.09
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