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BOOKS
Tara - The Feminine Divine
1.01 - Tara the Divine
1.02 - Tara's Tantra
1.03 - Invocation of Tara
1.04 - The Praise
1.05 - Buddhism and Women
1.06 - Iconography
How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator
1.01 - Who is Tara
1.02 - Meditating on Tara
1.03 - Tara, Liberator from the Eight Dangers
1.04 - Homage to the Twenty-one Taras
1.05 - Commentary on Homage to the Twenty-one Taras
1.06 - Benets of Reciting the Homage
1.07 - A Song of Longing for Tara, the Infallible
1.08 - Reflections on A Song of Longing for Tara, the Infallible
1.09 - Taras Ultimate Nature
1.10 - Emptiness and Dependent Arising
FORMS
There are many forms of Tara, including various popular lists of 21 different emanations of Tara. Green Tara, (ymatr) associated with peacefulness and enlightened activity is the most depicted and the central aspect of Tara from which others such as the 21 Taras emanate. In her Green form, she is often also known as Khadiravai-Tara (Tara of the acacia forest), who appeared to Nagarjuna in the Khadiravani forest of South India and protects from the eight great fears. She is often accompanied by her two attendants Mrc and Ekaja. Dharmachari Purna writes on the various forms of Tara:
Tara is in fact the name of a whole class of deities. She appears in all the five colours of the Jinas. There are at least ten green forms, seven white, five yellow, two blue and one red. As Sarvajamitra says of her form: 'It is a universal form, varied like crystal, since it changes according to circumstance'.She has both peaceful and wrathful forms. Her figure is shown in virtually all postures from standing to sitting, full lotus, half lotus, one leg down, and both legs down. There is apparently also a reclining Tara. She has two-armed forms, four arms, eight arms, twelve arms, and Getty even mentions a Tibetan painting showing a standing Tara with 'one thousand heads and arms'. Ghosh lists seventy-six distinct forms of Tara, and tradition tells us there are one hundred and eight names for her.[25]
According to Sarvajnamitra she has a universal form (visva-rupa), that encompasses all living beings and deities, and which changes with the needs of each being.[26]
Other forms of Tara include:
White Tara ::: (Sitatr) with two arms seated on a white lotus and with eyes on her hand and feet, as well as a third eye on her forehead (thus she is also known as "Seven eyed"). She is known for compassion, long life, healing and serenity.[27] Also known as The Wish-fulfilling Wheel, or Cintachakra.
Pravratr ::: "Tara Swift and Heroic", a Red colored form with eight arms holding bell and vajra, bow and arrow, wheel, conch, sword and noose.
Kurukull ::: (Rikchema) of red color and fierce aspect associated with magnetizing all good things
Black Tara ::: (Ugra Tara), associated with power
Various forms of Yellow or Golden colored Taras, ::: sometimes associated with wealth and prosperity including
"Yellow Cintamani Tara" (Wish-Granting Gem Tara) holding a wish granting jewel,
eight armed "Vajra Tara" and golden "Rajasri Tara" holding a blue lotus.[28]
Blue Tara ::: (Ekajati), wrathful with many heads and arms, associated with transmutation of anger
Cintmai Tara, ::: a form of Tara widely practiced at the level of Highest Yoga Tantra in the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism, portrayed as green and often conflated with Green Tara
Saraswati ::: (Yangchenma), known for the arts, knowledge and wisdom
Bhkutr ::: (Taraonyer Chendze), "Tara with a Frown", known for protection from spirits
Uavijaya Tara, ::: White Tara named "Victorious Ua" with three faces and twelve arms, associated with long life
Golden Prasanna Tara ::: wrathful form, with a necklace of bloody heads and sixteen arms holding an array of weapons and Tantric attributes.
Yeshe Tsogyal ("Wisdom Lake Queen"), ::: the consort of Padmasambhava who brought Buddhism to Tibet, was known as an emanation of Tara
Rigjay Lhamo, Goddess Who Brings Forth Awareness, ::: seated in royal posture surrounded by rainbow light.
Sitatapatra Tara, ::: protector against supernatural danger
Tara's iconography such as the lotus also shows resemblance with the Hindu goddess Lakshmi, and at least one Tibetan liturgy evokes Lakshmi as Tara.[29] According to Miranda Shaw, there is a later trend of Tara theology that began to see all other female divinities as aspects of Tara or at least associated with her. Apart from her many emanations named Tara of varying colors, other Mahayana female divinities that became part of Tara's theology include Janguli, Parnasabari, Cunda, Kurukulla, Mahamayuri, Usnisavijaya, and Marici. Based on this principle of Tara as the central female divinity, Dakinis were also seen as emanations of her.[30]
TERMS STARTING WITH
Tara —an angel with the attribute “Dieu,
Tara, Taraka (Sanskrit) Tārā, Tārakā The wife of Brihaspati (Jupiter). The Puranas relate that Soma, the moon, carried Tara off with him, which brought about the great war in heaven between the gods and the asuras. Brahma put an end to the war and had Tara restored to Brihaspati. She then gave birth to a son, Budha (esoteric wisdom), whom she claimed was the son of Soma.
Tara-daitya (Sanskrit) Tāra-daitya A daitya or danava described in the Puranas as practicing such severe spiritual and intellectual tapas as a yogi, that the gods feared lest he surpass them; therefore he was slain by Vishnu.
Taraii (or Zazay)—in the grimoires, a “high
Tarakajit (Sanskrit) Tārakajit Conqueror of Taraka, name given to the Hindu god of war, Karttikeya, because he conquered Taraka, a daitya whose austerities had made him formidable to the gods — the daityas being those early beings or races who, because of their developing intellectual powers, were found to be identical with the asuras, who were opposed to the more or less passive spiritual forces — devas or suras. In another sense, because of this developing intellectuality, the daityas, somewhat like the Greek titans or giants, were the opponents of the gods of mere ritualistic or scholastic theory, and hence the enemies of puja (ritualistic sacrifices).
Tarakajnana: The knowledge that leads to Moksha.
Tarakamaya, Taramaya (Sanskrit) Tārakāmaya, Tārāmaya The war in heaven; the struggle between the gods and the asuras for the rescue of Tara or Taraka, the wife of Brihaspati, who had been carried off by Soma. This war may be interpreted in many ways. Spiritually, the gods with Brihaspati as their head represented ritualistic, ceremonial, and exoteric worship, and the asuras were the allies of Soma who was the parent of esoteric wisdom (SD 2:498-9). See also TARA
Taraka-Raja-Yoga (Sanskrit) Tāraka-rāja-yoga A philosophical and secret Brahmanical yoga system; “its real tenets are never given out publicly. It is a purely intellectual and spiritual school of training” (Key 366).
Taraka (Sanskrit) Tāraka The daitya or giant-demon whose yoga austerities were so extraordinary that he had obtained all the divine knowledge of yoga-vidya and occult powers. The gods feared his superhuman powers and Skanda or Karttikeya, the god of war, was miraculously born to destroy him.
Tarana: Liberation; crossing over Samsara.
Tara: Name of God as the Divine Mother in a particular form.
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Taranava
Taranga: Wave.
Tara’s abduction gave rise to the Tarakamaya — the first war in heaven. The earth was shaken to its very center and turned to Brahma requesting him to restore Tara to her husband, which request was granted. Soma had for his allies the Daityas and Danavas, whose leader is Usanas (Venus) and Rudra (Siva), while the gods who sided with Brihaspati were led by Indra.
Tara 多羅. See TĀRĀ
taranis ::: n. --> A Celtic divinity, regarded as the evil principle, but confounded by the Romans with Jupiter.
tarani 陀羅尼. See DHĀRAnI
tarantass ::: n. --> A low four-wheeled carriage used in Russia. The carriage box rests on two long, springy poles which run from the fore to the hind axletree. When snow falls, the wheels are taken off, and the body is mounted on a sledge.
tarantella ::: n. --> A rapid and delirious sort of Neapolitan dance in 6-8 time, which moves in whirling triplets; -- so called from a popular notion of its being a remedy against the poisonous bite of the tarantula. Some derive its name from Taranto in Apulia.
Music suited to such a dance.
tarantism ::: n. --> A nervous affection producing melancholy, stupor, and an uncontrollable desire to dance. It was supposed to be produced by the bite of the tarantula, and considered to be incapable of cure except by protracted dancing to appropriate music.
tarantulae ::: pl. --> of Tarantula
tarantula ::: n. --> Any one of several species of large spiders, popularly supposed to be very venomous, especially the European species (Tarantula apuliae). The tarantulas of Texas and adjacent countries are large species of Mygale.
tarantulas ::: pl. --> of Tarantula
tarantulated ::: a. --> Bitten by a tarantula; affected with tarantism.
taras ::: rapidity.
TERMS ANYWHERE
Abhaya (Sanskrit) Abhaya [from a not + bhaya fear from the verbal root bhī to fear] Fearlessness, peace, mental serenity; a title of both Siva and Buddha; one of Dhritarashtra’s hundred sons; also reputedly a “son” of Dharma.
Abhutarajas (Sanskrit) Abhūtarajas [from a not + the verbal root bhū to be born, produced + rajas passion] Those not produced by or born with the quality of passion; a class of 14 gods or divinities belonging to the “fifth manvantara,” the fifth Manu of which was Raivata (cf VP 3:1). The abhutarajasas are a hierarchy of divine beings, similar to the kumaras and manasaputras, who have passed through the material worlds in previous evolutionary periods. Having risen above all passional attractions to the lower spheres, these three classes of deities are reckoned as exempt from passion — in the sense of suffering passively, one of passion’s original connotations. These divinities are masters of themselves, not passive subjects.
abhyantara. ::: internal; inward
“A Buddha in the esoteric teaching is one whose higher principles can learn nothing more in this manvantara; they have reached Nirvana and remain there. This does not mean, however, that the lower centers of consciousness of a Buddha are in Nirvana, for the contrary is true; and it is this fact that enables a Buddha of Compassion to remain in the lower realms of being as mankind’s supreme Guide and Instructor, living usually as a Nirmanakaya” (OG 33-4).
aca-pramatha (pisacha-pramatha; pisacha pramatha; pisachopramatha) ::: the combination of pisaca and pramatha, which evolves in the asura type in the third manvantara of the sixth pratikalpa.
According to the belief of most Advaita-Vedantists, Sankaracharya, the great Indian philosopher and sage, is held to be an avatara of Siva.
Adbhitanya [possibly corruption of Sanskrit adbhutama or adbhutva from adbhuta marvelous, wonderful] In the Vishnu-Purana (3:2), adbhuta is the name of the Indra of the ninth manvantara. Commentary quoted by Blavatsky refers to the first continent once “inhabited by the Sons of Sveta-dwipa [the White Island], the blessed, and Adbhitanya, east and west, the first, the one and the pure . . .” (SD 2:319). Another name for this land or primevally inhabited part of the earth is Adi-varsha.
Advent may also be used to signify the serial comings into the human sphere of a nirmanakaya who imbodies a dhyani-buddha — a perfected human being from a preceding manvantara — in order to enlighten the humanity of the current cycle. Such nirmanakayas work in the sphere of our earth as invisible or occasionally visible helpers of mankind.
Aebel-Zivo (Gnostic) Employed by the Nazarene Gnostics in the Codex Nazaraeus, equivalent to the Hebrew Metatron, Shaddai in one of its forms, the angel Gabriel, and the Legatus (ambassador) who is sent by the Lord of Celsitude as the first messenger of light. A manifestation of the divinity in man, a conscious union of the personal man with his inner god, as in the case of an avatara like Jesus, or an illuminated leader like Moses (IU 2:154).
Again, adisanat is the ever-enduring germ of cosmic mind, and because it lasts from cosmic manvantara to cosmic manvantara, sinking merely into periods of nonmanifestation during the cosmic pralayas, it is named the Primeval Ancient, the Ever-primeval One.
Agnibahu or Agnivahu is given as the first of seven rishis who will live in the fourteenth manvantara yet to come (our present world period being the seventh or Vaivasvata).
Agnishvatta(s) ::: (Sanskrit) ::: A compound of two words: agni, "fire"; shvatta, "tasted" or "sweetened," from svad, verb-rootmeaning "to taste" or "to sweeten." Therefore, literally one who has been delighted or sweetened by fire.A class of pitris: our solar ancestors as contrasted with the barhishads, our lunar ancestors.The kumaras, agnishvattas, and manasaputras are three groups or aspects of the same beings: thekumaras represent the aspect of original spiritual purity untouched by gross elements of matter. Theagnishvattas represent the aspect of their connection with the sun or solar spiritual fire. Having tasted orbeen "sweetened" by the spiritual fire -- the fire of intellectuality and spirituality -- they have beenpurified thereby. The manasaputras represent the aspect of intellectuality -- the functions of higherintellect.The agnishvattas and manasaputras are two names for the same class or host of beings, and set forth orsignify or represent two different aspects or activities of this one class of beings. Thus, for instance, aman may be said to be a kumara in his spiritual parts, an agnishvatta in his buddhic-manasic parts, and amanasaputra in his purely manasic aspect. Other beings could be called kumaras in their highest aspects,as for instance the beasts, but they are not imbodied agnishvattas or manasaputras.The agnishvattas are the solar spiritual-intellectual parts of us, and therefore are our inner teachers. Inpreceding manvantaras, they had completed their evolution in the realms of physical matter, and whenthe evolution of lower beings had brought these latter to the proper state, the agnishvattas came to therescue of these who had only the physical "creative fire," thus inspiring and enlightening these lowerlunar pitris with spiritual and intellectual energies or "fires."When this earth's planetary chain shall have reached the end of its seventh round, we, as then havingcompleted the evolutionary course for this planetary chain, will leave this planetary chain asdhyan-chohans, agnishvattas; but the others now trailing along behind us -- the present beasts -- will bethe lunar pitris of the next planetary chain to come.While it is correct to say that these three names appertain to the same class of beings, nevertheless eachname has its own significance in the occult teaching, which is why the three names are used with threedistinct meanings. Imagine an unconscious god-spark beginning its evolution in any one solar ormaha-manvantara. We may call it a kumara, a being of original spiritual purity, but with a destinythrough karmic evolution connected with the realms of matter.At the other end of the line, at the consummation of the evolution in this maha-manvantara, when theevolving entity has become a fully self-conscious god or divinity, its proper appellation then isagnishvatta, for it has been "sweetened" or purified by means of the working through it of the spiritualfires inherent in itself.Now then, when such an agnishvatta assumes the role of a bringer of mind or of intellectual light to alunar pitri which it overshadows and in which a ray from it incarnates, it then, although in its own realman agnishvatta, functions as a manasaputra or child of mind or mahat. A brief analysis of the compoundelements of these three names may be useful.Kumara is from ku meaning "with difficulty" and mara meaning "mortal." The significance of the wordtherefore can be paraphrased as "mortal with difficulty," and the meaning usually given to it by Sanskritscholars as "easily dying" is wholly exoteric and amusing, and doubtless arose from the fact that kumarais a word frequently used for child or boy, everybody knowing that young children "die easily." The ideatherefore is that purely spiritual beings, although ultimately destined by evolution to pass through therealms of matter, become mortal, i.e., material, only with difficulty.Agnishvatta has the meaning stated above, "delighted" or "pleased" or "sweetened," i.e., "purified" byfire -- which we may render in two ways: either as the fire of suffering and pain in material existenceproducing great fiber and strength of character, i.e., spirituality; or, perhaps still better from thestandpoint of occultism, as signifying an entity or entities who have become one in essence throughevolution with the aethery fire of spirit.Manasaputra is a compound of two words: manasa, "mental" or "intellectual," from the word manas,"mind," and putra, "son" or "child," therefore a child of the cosmic mind -- a "mind-born son" as H. P.Blavatsky phrases it. (See also Pitris, Lunar Pitris)
’Ahath-Ruah-’Elohim-Hayyim (Hebrew) ’Aḥath-Rūaḥ-’Elohīm-Ḥayyīm One soul, gods, lives; the Ancient of the Ancient (the cosmic originant, the hierarch of a cosmic hierarchy) which, being the source of the universe rolled out from within its own divine essence, thus becomes the universe itself; the Ancient of Days — not human days but cosmic manvantaras — or the Ancient of the Ancient is the soul (ruah), which thus expresses itself through the hierarchies of gods (’elohim) and the innumerable minor hierarchies of lives (hayyim) of which the universe as an organism is built.
Airyanem Vaejo is the primeval land of innocence and bliss of the Vendidad, similar to the Sveta-dvipa (white island) of Puranic literature or to Mount Meru. In this “beautiful land,” by the river Daitya, “the stars, the moon, and the sun are only once (a year) seen to rise and set” (Vendidad). Blavatsky equates it with the cradleland of physical humanity, and locates it in Central Asia. It is identical to Sambhala and to Arghya Varsha from which the Kalki avatara is expected (SD 2:416; BCW 4:526-7).
Airyanmen Vaeja, Airyena-Vaegah, Airyana-Vaeja (Avestan) Airyam-Veg (Pahlavi) “The Aryans (the noble ones) are said in the Avesta to have had their original home in the far land of Airyana Vaeja (the cradle land of the Aryans), the first among the lands created by Mazda. It was at the center of the earth and in its very center stood the mountain Harabareza. This corresponds with the Hindu descriptions of the Land of the Gods with Mount Meru at its center” (Taraporewala, The Religion of Zarathushtra). The Aryans divided the universe into seven regions or keshvars: 1) Arzah or Arzahe; 2) Shabah, Sava-Cavahe; 3) Fradadafsh, Fradadhfsha; 4) Vidadafsh, Vidadahfshu; 5) Vorubarst, Vourubaresti; 6) Vorugarst, Vourujaresti, Vouruzaresti; and 7) Khvanuras, Ganiratha, Hvaniratha. The seventh land is situated in the middle of the other six. According to the introduction of Abu-Mansouri’s Shah-Nameh (the older Shah-Nameh), the seventh land, which the kings named Iran-Shahr (Airya-Vaeja) is also in the middle of the other six.
Airyema-ishyo (Avestan) Airyemā-ishyō. The much-desired brotherhood, or Yasna 54: “May brotherhood of man, for which we yearn, come down amongst us and rejoice the hearts of men and maidens of Zarathustra’s faith. Bringing fulfillment unto Vohu Man; when souls of men receive their precious mead, I pray too Asha in His Grace to grant these blessings for which human souls do long, which Mazda hath meant for all.” “This verse, though actually not included in the Gathas, follows immediately after the Fifth Gatha. Both the language and the metre are exactly the same, as those of the Fifth Gatha. . . . This verse is recited during the Zoroastrian marriage service as part of ‘the blessing’ ” (Taraporewala, The Religion of Zarathushtra 148).
Aitareya (Sanskrit) Aitareya [from itara other; also from itarā mother of Aitareya] Name of a Brahmana or literary work attached to the Rig-Veda; also of Mahidasa, author of a Brahmana and an Aranyaka. The Aitareya-Brahmana (or Aitareyaka) contains forty adhyayas (sections) in which the duties of a hotri (priest) are enumerated. The Aitareya-Aranyaka consists of five books or aranyakas, the second and third of which are called the Aitareya-Upanishad (although sometimes the last four sections of the second book alone are so designated).
Ajita (Sanskrit) Ajita [from a not + the verbal root ji to conquer, triumph] The invisible, unsurpassed; in the Vayu-Purana, the highest of twelve gods, named jayas, who were created by Brahma to aid him at the beginning of the manvantara. But because they neglected his directives, Brahma “cursed” them to be born in each succeeding manvantara until the seventh, the Vaivasvata-manvantara (cf VP 1:15; n2, p. 26). These twelve jayas are the Hindu equivalent of the twelve great gods of Greco-Roman mythology. Because of their all-permeant character, on a lower scale these divinities are identical with the manasa, the jnana-devas, the rudras, and other classes of manifested deities. In these lower manifestations of their functions, they are identical with those dhyani-chohanic groups which “refuse to incarnate,” spoken of in The Secret Doctrine.
akarta ::: the non-doer. ::: akartaram [accusative]
aks.asa (pramatha-rakshasa) ::: the combination of pramatha and raks.asa, which evolves in the asura type in the fifth manvantara of the sixth pratikalpa.
Akshara (Sanskrit) Akṣara [from a not + kṣara flowing from the verbal root kṣar to flow, melt away] Imperishable; name of Brahman, also on occasion of Siva and Vishnu, signifying their enduring, imperishable nature for the term of the mahamanvantara. Krishna tells Arjuna that there are two Purushas in the world — kshara and akshara — the perishable and the imperishable; that all beings are kshara in the sense used by the Greek philosopher Heraclitus: panta rhei (all things flow); and that which dies not is akshara (BG 15:16-17). But the highest Purusha is still another, the paramatman (supreme atman).
Alcyone The brightest star in the Pleiades. Alcyone and the Pleiades are the central group of “the system of sidereal symbology. . . . the focus from which, and into which the divine breath, Motion, works incessantly during the Manvantara” (SD 2:551). The culmination of the Pleiades and Alcyone on the meridian at midnight in November has been celebrated worldwide by festivals, chiefly in honor of the dead.
Alpha and Omega The first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end,” says the Lord in Revelations. This means not only “I am all,” but also, for instance, the beginning and end of a divine-spiritual dragon or cosmic serpent, of which the alpha is the Logos or Second Person of the Trinity, and the omega is the wise men of earth. In another significance, the Logos of the solar system is the originator of a cosmic manvantara, and all the hierarchies of spiritually inferior beings flowing forth from this Logos undertake the work of building, preserving, and finally destroying the solar system when the manvantaric term is ended. Then the alpha or outflowing energy recombines with the omega or inflowing energy, recoalescing into their original oneness.
Also a great arhat Kshatriya (460?-534) who traveled to China, and was instrumental in disseminating Buddhist teachings there. His guru, Panyatara, is said to have given him the name Bodhidharma to mark his understanding (bodhi) of the Law (dharma) of the Buddha.
Also the name of a legendary muni and physician, born in Panchanada, Kashmir, said to have been the physician of Indo-Scythian King Kanishka (1st or 2nd century). Once Sesha, the King of the Serpents, visiting the earth, found only sickness and suffering everywhere. Being the recipient from a divine source of the Ayur Veda and having knowledge of all cures, he became filled with pity and determined to incarnate as the son of a muni in order to alleviate the ills of mankind. Named Charaka, as he had come to the earth as a wanderer, he then composed a new work on medicine based on the older works of Agnivesa. He is commonly accepted as an avatara of the Serpent Sesha, “an embodiment of divine Wisdom, since Sesha-Naga, the King of the ‘Serpent’ race, is synonymous with Ananta, the seven-headed Serpent, on which Vishnu sleeps during the pralayas. Ananta is the ‘endless’ and the symbol of eternity, and as such, one with Space, while Sesha is only periodical in his manifestations. Hence while Vishnu is identified with Ananta, Charaka is only the Avatar of Sesha” (TG 78).
altarage ::: n. --> The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church.
The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes.
Amba (Sanskrit) Ambā, Amba Mother; a woman of respect or distinction. A name of Durga, consort of Siva; in the Mahabharata the eldest of the three daughters of the King of Kasi who were abducted by Bhishma to become the wives of his brother Vichitravirya. When Bhishma learned that Amba was already pledged to the Raja of Salva, he sent her to him. The Raja, however, rejected her because she had been in another man’s house. Deeply hurt, Amba retired to the forest to practice extreme austerities in order that she might gain the power to avenge the wrong done to her by Bhishma. She ended her life voluntarily on a funeral pyre and was reborn as Sikhandin, who eventually, in the great battle between the Kauravas and Pandavas, slew Bhishma. Her sisters, Ambika and Ambalika, became respectively the mothers of the blind king Dhritarashtra and of Pandu, father of Arjuna.
A more mystical significance is founded in the fact that when a buddha or avatara appears or whenever an effort is made to aid mankind along spiritual lines, the powers of darkness automatically react along their own lines. This corresponding tendency to evil is the fundamental significance of Antichrist — Christos being the name of the high initiate in whom was imbodied a ray of the Logos.
Amsamsavatara (Sanskrit) Aṃśāṃśāvatāra [from aṃśāṃśā (aṃśa + aṃśa) portion of a portion, fragment + avatāra descent from ava-tṝ to cross over down, descend] The descent of a part of a part; applied to the numerous manifestations of Vishnu and Brahma; in the Vishnu-Purana more particularly to Krishna and to the “actions he performed as a part of a part [amsamsavatara] of the Supreme, upon the earth” (5:1). An avatara or so-called divine descent is never a “descent” or incarnation of the wholeness or entirety of a divinity, but only of a part of it; so that every avatara involves a descent only of a part of a part, and hence, strictly speaking, may be called an amsamsavatara. Obviously, the greater the avatara, the greater in influence though not necessarily of form is the amsa or portion which descends (cf MB Adiparvan 7).
amsavatara ::: a partial Incarnation [avatara].
an.an atarah. ::: you have passed beyond the vital forces.
anandamaya asura ::: the sadhyadeva (mind raised to the plane of anandamaya ananda) of the asura type, who evolves in the eleventh and twelfth manvantaras of the sixth pratikalpa.
Ananta-sesha (Sanskrit) Ananta-śeṣa [from an not + anta end + the verbal root śiṣ to leave remainders] Endless sishtas or remainders; name of the serpent of eternity described in the Puranas as the seat or carrier of the divine Vishnu during the periodical pralayas of the universe. It is thus infinite time itself, figurated as the great seven-headed serpent on which rests Vishnu, the manvantaric Logos when the Logos sinks into pralayic inactivity. This compound signifies the ever-continuing sishtas (spiritual cosmic seeds or residues) carried over from manvantara to manvantara through the intervening pralaya, and thus through eternity. It is on this endless aggregate of cosmic sishtas that Vishnu the cosmic Logos reclines, the thread of logoic consciousness being thus passed from manvantara to manvantara through the pralaya. Just as Vishnu in theosophy is a generalizing term for all the innumerable interblending hierarchies of beings and things which are unfolded during manvantara, so during pralaya Vishnu stands for the same aggregate of hierarchies conceived of as resting on the karmic remainders or “sleeping” webs of substance left over from the previous manvantara. See also SESHA
Angiras (Sanskrit) Aṅgiras [from the verbal root aṅg to go, move tortuously (cf agni)] One of the Saptarshis (seven rishis) or manasaputras (mind-born sons of Brahma) of the first manvantara; a secondary projection of Brahma’s mind and will because his first “mind-engendered progeny . . . did not multiply themselves (VP 1:7; SD 2:78). Hence Angiras is one of the prajapatis or progenitors whose sons and daughters people the earth in succeeding manvantaras, mankind included in their progeny.
Animal Kingdom One of the main divisions or life-waves of entities on earth, separated from the human kingdom by its lack of the emanated or evolved self-conscious mind, a faculty which can be acquired only by the aid of beings already having it — the manasaputras. The entities now pursuing their evolution in the animal kingdom will in a future imbodiment of the planetary chain become human in the same way, although a certain number of the highest animal stocks now living, such as the apes and possibly some of the monkeys, may attain incipient humanity before the end of the seventh round in the present planetary manvantara.
Aniyamsam Aniyasam (Sanskrit) Aṇīyāṃsam aṇīyasāṃ [from aṇu atom, minuteness; aṇīyāṃsam, accusative of aṇīyas, comparative of adjective aṇu + aṇīyasām genitive plural of aṇu] Philosophically, atomic of the atomic; otherwise the smallest of the small. A phrase lifted from one of the Hindu scriptures (cf VP 1:15n), without changing the first word to its nominative case. It is applied to the universal divinity whose vital intelligent essence is everywhere, to the absolutely spiritual atom which is the divine monad of every entity, great and small, in the cosmos. In Vedantic philosophy, often used as a name of Brahman, conceived as being smaller than the smallest atom and equivalently as greater than the greatest sphere or universe. The conception applies equally well to paramatman. This universality whether in infinitesimals or in cosmic reaches is expressed in the almost equivalent phrase anor aniyamsam (smaller than an atom) (BG 8:9); likewise, anor aniyan (smaller than the small) in combination with mahato mahiyan (greater than the great) in the Upanishads (Katha 1:2, 20; Svetasvatara 3:21).
Ansamsavatara. See AMSAMSAVATARA
antah.sukha ::: inner happiness. antahsukha antah antahsukho"ntararamah
antahsukhontararamah ::: he who has the inner happiness and the inner ease and repose. [see the following]
antah sukhontararamas tathantarjyotir eva yah ::: he who has the inner happiness and the inner ease and repose and the inner light. [Gita 5.24]
antara. ::: internal; interior; inside
Antarakasa (Sanskrit) Antarākāśa [from antar within, in the middle + ākāśa space, ether from ā-kāś to shine, be brilliant] The akasa of akasa, the essence of akasa; interior or inner aether. The spiritual-divine aether or pradhana which is the seat of the primordial atman, on the cosmic scale or as applicable to an individual entity. “Now what is within the brahmapura (city of brahman) is an abode, a small lotus-flower; within it is a small space (antarakasa). What is within that, should be searched out; that, assuredly, is what one should desire to understand” (ChU 8:1:1).
antararama ::: inner ease and repose. antararama
antaratman ::: inner self; inner being; soul.
Antaratman (Sanskrit) Antarātman [from antar interior, within + ātman self] Interior self; the inner self or primeval heart of an individual. The goal of the yogi is ultimate union with the antaratman.
antaratman. ::: the indwelling Self; inner soul
Antariksha, Antariksha (Sanskrit) Antarīkṣa, Antarikṣa [from antar within, interior + īkṣa from the verbal root īkṣ to behold, see] The mid-region; the firmament or space between earth and heaven, the abode of apsaras (nymphs), gandharvas (celestial musicians), and yakshas (nature sprites of many types) along with the mythical wish-granting cow of plenty, Kamadhenu. In the Vedas, antariksha is the middle or second of three lokas (spheres) usually enumerated as bhur, bhuvar, and svar. Above these rise in serial order the four higher lokas of the ordinary Brahmanical hierarchy. Hierarchically, taking the bhurloka as the physical sphere, bhuvarloka or antariksha corresponds with the astral plane. In the Vishnu-Purana (3:3), Antariksha is named as the Vyasa (arranger of the Veda) in the 13th dvapara yuga in the Vaivasvata manvantara, our present world cycle.
Anuttara, Anuttaras (Sanskrit) Anuttara, Anuttarās [from an not + uttara comparative of ud up] Nonsuperior; unrivaled, unexcelled, chief, principal; secondarily inferior, base, low. Often used adjectivally in compounds: anuttara-bodhi (unexcelled intelligence or wisdom), anuttara-dharma (unexcelled law, truth, religion). In Buddhism anuttara-tantra, one of the four classes of tantric treatises, expounds the yogic procedures for the acquisition of the highest truth.
anuttara. ::: beyond which there is nothing; the Highest; the Supreme; the Absolute
Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi (Sanskrit) Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi The unsurpassingly merciful and enlightened heart; applied to jivanmuktas or liberated, perfected beings collectively, who then may “pass through all the six worlds of Being (Rupaloka) and get into the first three worlds of Arupa” (BCW 14:409).
Anuttaras (masculine plural) is a class of deities among the Jains.
Apas or Ap is the name of the rakshasa associated with the month Karttika (October) (VP 2:10, p.5n); Apas is listed also as a prajapati of the second manvantara, son of Vasishtha (VP 3:1, n1).
aphakia ::: n. --> An anomalous state of refraction caused by the absence of the crystalline lens, as after operations for cataract. The remedy is the use of powerful convex lenses.
Apollonius of Tyana First-century neo-Pythagorean, known for his ascetic life, moral teachings, and occult powers. His biography is a Hermetic allegory, though based on facts. A theurgist and adept of high powers, he studied Phoenician sciences as well as Pythagorean philosophy. He traveled widely, journeying to Babylon and India where he associated with the Chaldeans, Magi, Brahmans, and Buddhists. His life was spent preaching noble ethics, prophesying, healing, and performing many well-attested phenomena or “miracles.” Before his death he opened an esoteric school at Ephesus. Blavatsky states that he was a nirmanakaya rather than an avatara.
Arani (Sanskrit) Araṇi, Araṇī [from the verbal root ṛ to tend upward, move, insert, fix] Moving around; being fitted in or inserted. Arani (sing) is one of the two ceremonial rubbing-sticks used to ignite the sacrificial fire: the upper stick, uttararani or pramantha, is held upright and set into a groove in the lower stick, adhararani, and when twirled or rotated rapidly it generates heat and flame. According to the Rig-Veda, the upright stick was made from the sami tree (Mimosa suma), and the horizontal from the asvattha or pipal tree (Ficus religiosa), the sacred fig tree. In the Satapatha-brahmana, however, both sticks were carved from the wood of the asvattha.
Ardhanarisa or Ardhanarisvara (Sanskrit) Ardhanārīśa, Ardhanārīśvara [from ardha half + nārī woman + īśvara, īśa lord] Half-feminine lord; a form of Siva, also applied to the first cosmic androgyne, equivalent to the mystically androgynous Sephirah-’Adam Qadmon of the Qabbalah. Cosmic entities are not sexual or sexed in the human sense, for sex as known in the human and animal kingdoms is a transitory phase of evolution. The application of terms such as androgyne, masculine, or feminine to cosmic divinities has reference to states of cosmic force or energy and substance which may be polarized or unpolarized. Human energies and substances in our present evolutionary stage — and this applies likewise to the animal kingdom, and to a degree to the vegetable kingdom — are divided into opposites which bring about sex conditions. When the forces are partially polarized, the androgynous or hermaphroditic condition results. When the forces or substances are unpolarized during pralayas and at the beginnings and endings of manvantaras, then each entity contains within itself and manifests a state of undivided unity — a complete and perfect individual.
Arthur, King (Welsh) A dual figure: historical ruler who held up for forty years or so the Saxon incursions; said to have passed (not died) at or after the Battle of Camlan (540 AD). The mythological Arthur was the son of Uther Pendragon, or Uthr Ben, the Wonderful Head. In Prydwen, his Ship of Glass, he made an expedition into Annwn (the underworld) to obtain the Pair Dadeni, or cauldron of reincarnation, the symbol of initiation. As the king that was and shall be, he appears in the Welsh version of the coming of the Kalki-avatara, which will come to pass at the end of the present yuga. After Camlan he was taken to Ynys Afallen (Apple-tree Island), to be healed of his wounds and to await his return. But the apple tree of the island, as we see in the 6th-century poem “Afallenan” by Myrddin Gwyllt, is the Tree of Wisdom. The poem tells how the tree had to be hidden and guarded, but the time would come when it should be known again: then Arthur would return, and Cadwalaor, and then “shall Wales rejoice; bright shall be her dragon (leader). The horns of joy shall sound the Song of Peace and serenity. Before the Child of the Sun, bold in his courses, evil shall be rooted out. Bards shall triumph.”
Arvaksrotas (Sanskrit) Arvāksrotas [from arvāk downwards + srotas stream] Those beings in which the current or stream of nutriment tends downwards. The creation of man, the seventh creation of Brahma in the Vishnu-Purana. These seven creations, which “did not occur on this globe, wherever else they may have taken place” (SD 2:162), refer to different stages of evolution in the earlier periods of a globe-manvantara, as well as of a chain-manvantara. See also TIRYAKSROTAS
Aryaman (Sanskrit) Aryaman The chief of the pitris or manes, one of the principle adityas (solar divinities) commonly invoked in conjunction with Varuna and Mitra. The Milky Way is called Aryamanah panthah (Aryaman’s path); and Aryaman is said to preside over one of the lunar mansions (nakshatra uttaraphalguni). As a masculine noun, bosom friend, companion.
As a proper name, a reformer of the Vaishnava sect in India (1485-1527), regarded in Bengal as an avatara of Krishna. One of his chief teachings was the duty of bhakti (attachment, devotion, or love) for Krishna so strong that no caste-feeling implying sectarian division could exist with it.
Ascending Arc or Luminous Arc ::: This term, as employed in theosophical occultism, signifies the passage of the life-waves or life-streamsof evolving mon ads upwards along, on, and through the globes of the chain of any celestial body, theearth's chain included. Every celestial body (including the earth) is one member in a limited series orgroup of globes. These globes exist on different kosmic planes in a rising series. The life-waves orlife-streams during any manvantara of such a chain circle or cycle around these globes in periodicalsurges or impulses. The ascent from the physical globe upwards is called the ascending arc; the descentthrough the more spiritual and ethereal globes downwards to the physical globe is called the descendingarc. (See also Planetary Chain)
As each of the six previous rounds developed a cosmic element-principle, the seventh element will come into manifestation; we can obtain some conception of its nature by calling it adi-tattva. “Earth will reach her true ultimate form — (inversely in this to man) — her body shell — only toward the end of the manvantara after the Seventh Round” (SD 1:260). Long before the earth shall have reached her seventh round, our moon, the earth’s mother, will have dissolved into cosmic ether and dust. In its turn, long after the seventh round, the earth will be a moon to the planetary chain-to-be.
As sesha means “remainder,” “what is left over,” the main significance is that during the pralayas Vishnu, representing the cosmic divinity, is conceived as sleeping upon the substance of a spiritual character remaining over after the dissolution of the worlds. Thus Adisesha (primeval substance or remainder) is the cosmic spatial ocean of consciousness-substance left over from the previous cosmic manvantara which acts as the mother-substance or chaos from and in which the future worlds of manifestation will be born when pralaya ends. See also ANANTA-SESHA
astara ::: invincible. astara
Astral Light ::: The astral light corresponds in the case of our globe, and analogically in the case of our solar system, towhat the linga-sarira is in the case of an individual man. Just as in man the linga-sarira or astral body is the vehicle or carrier of prana or life-energy, so is the astral light the carrier of the cosmic jiva or cosmic life-energy. To us humans it is an invisible region surrounding our earth, as H. P. Blavatsky expresses it,as indeed it surrounds every other physical globe; and among the seven kosmic principles it is the mostmaterial excepting one, our physical universe.The astral light therefore is, on the one hand, the storehouse or repository of all the energies of thekosmos on their way downwards to manifest in the material spheres -- of our solar system in general aswell as of our globe in particular; and, on the other hand, it is the receptacle or magazine of whateverpasses out of the physical sphere on its upward way.Thirdly, it is a kosmic "picture-gallery" or indelible record of whatever takes place on the astral andphysical planes; however, this last phase of the functions of the astral light is the least in importance andreal interest.The astral light of our own globe, and analogically of any other physical globe, is the region of thekama-loka, at least as concerns the intermediate and lower parts of the kama-loka; and all entities that diepass through the astral light on their way upwards, and in the astral light throw off or shed the kama-rupaat the time of the second death.The solar system has its own astral light in general, just as every globe in the universal solar system hasits astral light in particular, in each of these last cases being a thickening or materializing or concretingaround the globe of the general astral substance forming the astral light of the solar system. The astrallight, strictly speaking, is simply the lees or dregs of akasa and exists in steps or stages of increasingethereality. The more closely it surrounds any globe, the grosser and more material it is. It is thereceptacle of all the vile and horrible emanations from earth and earth beings, and is therefore in partsfilled with earthly pollutions. There is a constant interchange, unceasing throughout the solarmanvantara, between the astral light on the one hand, and our globe earth on the other, each giving andreturning to the other.Finally, the astral light is with regard to the material realms of the solar system the copy or reflection ofwhat the akasa is in the spiritual realms. The astral light is the mother of the physical, just as the spirit isthe mother of the akasa; or, inversely, the physical is merely the concretion of the astral, just as the akasais the veil or concretion of the highest spiritual. Indeed, the astral and physical are one, just as the akasicand the spiritual are one.
A striking similarity is present in the mythology of the Algonquin Indians of North America; their chief deity was a mighty hare known as Menabosho or Michabo, to whom they went at death. One account places him in the east, another in the west. The ancient Germanic and Scandinavian peoples used the hare as a symbol, being sacred to the nature goddess Freyja; likewise to the Anglo-Saxon Ostara, goddess of springtime. This is believed to be the basis for the present-day association of the rabbit or hare with Easter. The anthropomorphic idea is found also among other races, very frequently among the Mongolians, Chinese, Japanese, and other Far Eastern peoples. It was considered to be androgynous, thus typifying an attribute of the creative Logos.
asuradeva ::: the combination of asura and deva, making vijñana serve the buddhi, which evolves in the general asura type in the ninth manvantara of the sixth pratikalpa.
Asura is used in the earliest Vedic literature as a title of the cosmic hierarch or supreme spirit. The Vedic Asura is nothing other than the Great Breath of archaic occult literature — the Great Breath coming and going as manvantara and pralaya. The other Vedic gods mentioned so much more frequently in the slokas, such as Agni, Indra, and Varuna, are all subordinate hierarchically and cosmogonically to the Vedic Asura, which is really Brahman-pradhana or the Second Logos, Father-Mother; Varuna is the acme or summit of akasa-tattva; Agni is the summit or hierarch of cosmic taijasa-tattva; and Indra is often identified with Vayu as the summit of cosmic Vayu-tattva. See also MAHASURA
asura raks.asa (asura rakshasa) ::: the combination of asura and raks.asa, seeking from the buddhi the satisfaction of heart and senses, which evolves in the general asura type in the (current) seventh manvantara of the sixth pratikalpa asuriṁ raks.asiñcaiva prakr.tim apannah. (asurim rakshasincaiva asurim
Atala (Sanskrit) Atala [from a not + tala place] No place, no material locality; the first and most spiritual of the seven talas, so nearly one with satyaloka, its corresponding loka or pole, that the two nearly conjoin into one — hence it is called “no place.” Atala bears somewhat the same relation to satyaloka that prakriti bears to Brahma; hence it is the first quasi-spiritual, quasi-material plane in the solar universe. “In satyaloka-atala, the highest loka combines into or rejoins the monadic essence of the planetary chain. The differentiation so marked on the lower planes ceases here and, because of this, the two blend into or become one” (FSO 264). Cosmically atala emanates directly from the solar logos and contains with satyaloka the substantial seeds of all that was, is, and will be, from the beginning to the end of the solar mahamanvantara. Atala, with satyaloka, may be considered from one standpoint the sphere of the hierarchies of the dhyanis, who are, when completely in this condition, in a state of parasamadhi, and hence clothed in the dharmakaya.
ataraxia ::: n. --> Alt. of Ataraxy
Ataraxia: The Epicurean doctrine that the complete peace of mind was a pleasurable state of equilibrium. See Epicureanism. -- E.H.
ataraxy ::: n. --> Perfect peace of mind, or calmness.
Atma-buddhi-manas (Sanskrit) Ātma-buddhi-manas [from ātman self + buddhi spiritual soul + manas mind] The reincarnating ego in conjunction with the monad. This trinity includes only the highest essence of manas — the higher manas. The combination of atma-buddhi-manas is sometimes mystically called the divine swallow or the uraeus of flame, when the speaker intends to convey the idea that spirit, the spiritual soul, and the intellect or higher manas are all united and therefore immortal and enduring for the cosmic manvantara. “The ‘Three-tongued flame’ that never dies is the immortal spiritual triad — the Atma-Buddhi and Manas — the fruition of the latter assimilated by the first two after every terrestrial life. The ‘four wicks’ that go out and are extinguished, are the four lower principles, including the body.
atmanam akartaram ::: himself as the non-doer. [Gita 13.30]
Atmu, Atum (Egyptian) Ȧtmu, Ȧtum [from tem to make an end of, complete] Also Tem, Tum, Temu. A form of the sun god, represented as bringing the day to its close, thus associated with the evening sun — whether of our ordinary day, or of the ending of a manvantara. “I am the god Tem, the maker of the sky, the creator of things which are, who cometh forth from the earth, who made the seed of man to come into being, the Lord of things, who fashioned the gods, the Great Gods, who created himself, the Lord of Life, who made to flourish the Two Companies of the Gods. . . . My coming is like unto that god who eateth men, and who feedeth upon the gods” (Egyptian Book of the Dead, Budge 258-60).
Atri (Sanskrit) Atri [from the verbal root ad to eat] Devourer; one of the seven great rishis or maharshis, to whom many of the Vedic hymns are attributed. He is considered one of the ten prajapatis or lords of creation, the seven great rishis and ten prajapatis being intimately connected in mythologic history. He is married to Anusuya, a daughter of Daksha, their son being Durvasas. He is also represented as one of the seven mind-born sons of Brahma, who are also referred to as the seven rishis of the third manvantara (which may refer both to the third round and to the third root-race in the fourth round). The key to these shifting connections is analogy.
Atyantika Pralaya (Sanskrit) Ātyantika Pralaya [from ati beyond, over + anta end, limit; pra-laya from the verbal root lī to dissolve, dissolution] That which seems eternal or beyond limitation, which is beyond or more than the limit; individual pralaya or nirvana. The atyantika pralaya concerns only the individualities of certain rare entities, as it is the identification of the freed individual monad (jivanmukta) with the supreme spirit — a mahatmic state, whether temporary or lasting until the following mahakalpa. After having reached that state there is no future evolution possible, and consequently no reimbodiments till after the mahapralaya, which lasts 311,040,000,000,000 years. Since there is the probability of the jivanmukta’s reaching nirvana at an early cycle of the manvantara, this mahapralayic period may be almost doubled, and therefore is long enough to be regarded as eternal, if not endless. Atyantika pralaya is also occasionally used for absolute obscuration, as of a whole planetary chain (SD 2:309-10n).
Augustinianism. Alexander of Hales (+1245) is the founder of this line and the first great Scholastic to utilize all of Aristotle's works, whose terminology and concepts he adopted rather than the spirit. Others worthy of mention are John de la Rochelle (+1145), Adam of Marsh (+1258) and Thomas of York (+1260). The Metaphysica of this latter constitutes a milestone in philsophy's fight for autonomy. The outstanding representative of this group is Bonaventure (+1274), who combined great constructive ability with profound psychological and mystical insight. Prominent among his pupils were Matthew of Aquasparta (+1302), John Peckham (+1292), William de la Mare (+1298) and Walter of Brügge (+1306). Also prominent in this line are Roger of Marston, Richard of Middleton (+1308), a forerunner of Duns Scotus, William of Ware, Duns Scotus' master, and Peter Johannis Olivi (+1298). Among the Dominicans who belonged to this group should be mentioned Roland of Cremona, Peter of Tarantaise (+1276), Richard Fitzacre (+1248) and Robert Kilwardby (+1279). Among the secular clergy, although more independent in their allegiance, we may place here Gerard of Abbeville and Henri of Ghent (1293).
Auric Egg ::: A term which appertains solely to the more recondite teachings of occultism, of the esoteric philosophy.Little can be said here about it except to state that it is the source of the human aura as well as ofeverything else that the human septenary constitution contains. It is usually of an oviform or egg-shapedappearance, whence its name. It ranges from the divine to the astral-physical, and is the seat of all themonadic, spiritual, intellectual, mental, passional, and vital energies and faculties of the human septiformconstitution. In its essence it is eternal, and endures throughout the pralayas as well as during themanvantaras, but necessarily in greatly varying fashion in these two great periods of kosmic life.
Auric Egg or Envelope The source of the human aura, taking its name from its shape. It ranges from the divine to the astral-physical, and is the seat of all the monadic, spiritual, intellectual, mental, passional, and vital energies and faculties. In its essence it is eternal and endures throughout the pralayas as well as during the manvantaras.
avatara (avatar) ::: divine incarnation; the "descent into form" of the avatara Godhead (deva, isvara, purus.ottama), "when the divine Consciousness and Power, taking upon itself the human form and the human mode of action, possesses it not only by powers and magnitudes, by degrees and outward faces of itself but out of its eternal self-knowledge" in order "to exemplify the possibility of the Divine manifest in the human being" and "to leave the influence of that manifestation vibrating in the earth-nature and the soul of that manifestation presiding over its upward endeavour"; any of the ten incarnations of Vis.n.u described in the Hindu tradition, regarded by Sri Aurobindo as "a parable of evolution".
avatara (Avatar) ::: Incarnation; the descent into form; the revelation of the Godhead in humanity; the Divine manifest in a human appearance; the word avatara means a descent; it is the coming down of the Divine below the line which divides the divine from the human world or status.
AVATARA ::: One in whom the Divine Consciousness has descended into human birth for a great world-work; the Incarnation; Spirit descending into man; Descent into form; the revelation of the Godhead in humanity; the Divine who has descended into the human consciousness; coming down of the Divine below the line which divides the divine from the human world or status.
An Avatar, roughly speaking, is one who is conscious of the presence and power of the Divine born in him or descended into him governing from within his will and life action; he feels identified inwardly with this divine power and presence.
He is a realiser, an establisher - not of outward things only, though he does realise something in the outward also, but of something essential and radical needed for the terrestrial evolution which is the evolution of the embodied spirit through successive stages towards the Divine.
There are two sides of the phenomenon of avatarhood, the Divine Consciousness and the instrumental personality in Nature under the conditions of Nature which it uses according to the rules of the game.
The Avatar takes upon himself the nature of humanity in his instrumental parts, though the consciousness acting behind is divine.
Avatara(Sanskrit) ::: The noun-form derived from a compound of two words: ava, prepositional prefix meaning"down," and tri, verb-root meaning to "cross over," to "pass"; thus, avatri -- to "pass down," or to"descend." Hence the word signifies the passing down of a celestial energy or of an individualizedcomplex of celestial energies, which is equivalent to saying a celestial being, in order to overshadow andilluminate some human being -- but a human being who, at the time of such connection of "heaven withearth," of divinity with matter, possesses no karmically intermediate or connecting link between theovershadowing entity and the physical body: in other words, no human soul karmically destined to be theinner master of the body thus born.The intermediate link necessary, so that the human being-to-be may have the human intermediate orpsychological apparatus fit to express the invisible splendor of this celestial descent, is supplied by thedeliberate and voluntary entrance into the unborn child -- and coincidently with the overshadowing of thecelestial power -- of the psychological or intermediate principle of one of the Greater Ones, who thus"completes" what is to be the pure and lofty human channel through which the "descending" divinitymay manifest, this divinity finding in this high psychological principle a sufficiently evolved linkenabling it to express itself in human form upon earth.Hence an avatara is one who has a combination of three elements in his being: an inspiring divinity; ahighly evolved intermediate nature or soul, which is loaned to him and is the channel of that inspiringdivinity; and a pure, clean, physical body.
Avatar, Avatara (Sanskrit) Avatāra [from ava down + the verbal root tṛ to cross over, pass] That which passes down or descends; the passing down of a celestial energy or an individualized complex of celestial energies — a celestial being — in order to overshadow and illuminate a human being who, at the time of such connection of divinity with matter, possesses no human soul karmically destined to be the inner master of the body thus born. “Hence an Avatara is one who has a combination of three elements in his being: an inspiring divinity; a highly evolved intermediate nature or soul, which is loaned to him and is the channel of that inspiring divinity; and a pure, clean, physical body” (OG 16).
Avesa (Sanskrit) Āveśa [from ā-viś to enter into] An entering, entrance, or taking possession of, as in the instance of an obsession; in later times used to denote a fit of anger or demoniacal frenzy. In occult literature used for the temporary occupancy of a human body for specific purposes by an adept, or to refer to an avatara during the presence of the divine influence on earth. Thus it is similar in meaning to the Tibetan tulku. Avesa, therefore, means the taking possession of, or temporary imbodiment in, a body, human or other, by an outside entity or power, whether divine or evil.
Avyakta (Sanskrit) Avyakta [from a not + vyakta manifested from vy-añj to anoint, adorn, cause to appear, manifest] Unmanifested; applied to Vishnu and Siva, and in the Bhagavad-Gita to Krishna. Hence Avyakta is the unmanifest or the undifferentiated, as opposed to vyakta, the manifest or differentiated. In the Sankhya philosophy, it is mulaprikriti (root- or primordial nature), the veil of parabrahman, or parabrahman manifested in mulaprakriti. Mulaprakriti is the unmanifested side of differentiated nature, and hence avyakta; but the term is equally applicable to the consciousness side of the universe, during those immensely long time periods when cosmic consciousness is sunken in its own essence and not manifesting. Similarly, the higher or divine-spiritual parts of cosmic consciousness may be said to be avyakta even during periods of cosmic manifestation. To the Sankhyas, avyakta is the one cosmic principle which is the root of all essential selfhood and which during cosmic manvantara is in its lower parts differentiated in and through the innumerable hierarchical organisms. It therefore subsists in every kind of upadhi and is the real spiritual entity which a person has to reach in his progress towards spirit.
Balarama (Balaram) ::: [the elder brother of Krsna, sometimes regarded as an avatara of Visnu].
Balarama (Sanskrit) Balarāma Elder brother of Krishna, regarded by some as an avatara of Vishnu, by others as the incarnation of the great serpent Sesha. He spent his childhood with Krishna and during his life performed many daring exploits. Krishna, the indigo-complexioned, was considered to be a relatively full avataric manifestation of Vishnu, while Balarama, said to have been of fairer complexion, is known as a partial avataric incarnation of Vishnu.
.Bali2 ::: a daitya or Titan subdued by Vis.n.u in his fifth avatara, at the first stage of fully human evolution, when he incarnated in "man as dwarf, small and undeveloped and physical but containing in himself the godhead and taking possession of existence"; Bali is associated in the Record of Yoga with obstinacy of the will (hat.ha) as a quality needed in the complete psychological state.
Bali (Sanskrit) Bali Daitya king who through devotion and penance became ruler of the three worlds (heaven, the upper air, and patala). Vishnu as the dwarf avatara regains these for the gods by means of his three superhuman steps or strides. (BCW 13:158, 4:367). See also VAMANA-AVATARA
bande mataram [Beng. pronunciation of] ::: I bow to the Mother.
barhisad pitarah (Barhishad Pitris) ::: [the Fathers "seated on the sacrificial grass", a class of pitrs]. [Ved.]
Bhaumika Pralaya, Bhaumika Manvantara (Sanskrit) Bhaumika-pralaya, -manvantara [from bhūmi earth, land from the verbal root bhū to become, grow] The terrestrial or planetary dissolution or manifestation. The bhaumika pralaya is similar to the naimittika pralaya (occasional pralaya) or Night of Brahma. When the last round of a planetary chain has been entered upon, the highest or first globe (A), followed by all the others in succession to the last, instead of entering upon a certain time of rest or obscuration, as in the previous rounds, begins to die out. The planetary dissolution or pralaya is then at hand, and when the last hour of that pralaya has struck, each globe has to transfer its life and energy to a new laya-center, to another globe, whereupon begins the bhaumika manvantara, the great life cycle of this new globe, the reimbodiment of the inner constitution or life essence of the former now dead and decaying globe.
bhoktaram yajnatapasam ::: enjoyer of sacrifice and tapasya (askesis). [Gita 5.29]
bhoktaram yajnatapasam sarvabhutamahesvaram ::: enjoyer of sacrifice and askesis, great Lord of all beings. [cf. Gita 5.29]
Bhutasarga (Sanskrit) Bhūtasarga [from bhūta has been + sarga creation, production] Elemental creation; the second of the seven creations or emanations, popularly given in the Hindu Puranas as mahat-tattva, bhutasarga, indriya or aindriyaka, mukhya, tairyagyonya or tiryaksrota, urdhvasrotas, and arvakstrotas. Bhutasarga cosmically is the first differentiation of universal indiscrete substance, or primordial akasa, the first stage of the differentiation of the pre-cosmic elements; the word bhutasarga itself suggests that this differentiation is according to seeds or germs (bhutas) reappearing anew from the preceding cosmic manvantara. “In astronomical and Cosmogonical language this Creation relates to the first stage of cosmic-life, the Fire-Mist Period after its Chaotic stage, when atoms issue from Laya” (SD 1:453).
Bhutavat (Sanskrit) Bhūtavat [from the verbal root bhū to be, become] What has become; applicable to those seeds of cosmic being which through evolutionary unfolding in previous manvantaras remain as crystallized seeds through the cosmic pralaya, to blossom forth into the unfolding universe at the opening of the succeeding manvantara. As the term has reference to what is not pure unevolved spirit, in archaic mythology it often bears the meaning of limitation or restriction, and therefore is frequently looked upon as being evil because it is not pure spirit.
Bija (Sanskrit) Bīja Sometimes Vīja. Seed or life-germ, whether of animals or plants; esoterically the original or causal source of the urge of life to express itself. “Whether it be a kosmos or universe, or the reappearance of god, deva, man, animal, plant, or mineral, or, indeed, elemental, the seed or life-germ from and out of which any one of these arises is technically called Bija, and the reference here is almost as much to the life-germ or vehicle itself, as it is to the self-urge for manifestation working through the seed or life-germ. Mystically and psychologically, the appearance of an Avatara, for instance, is due to an impulse arising in Maha-Siva, or in Maha-Vishnu (according to circumstances), to manifest a portion of the divine essence, . . . Or again, when from the chela is born the Initiate during the dread trials of initiation, the newly-arisen Master is said to have been born from the mystic Bija or Seed within his own being” (OG 18).
Bija (sometimes Vija)(Sanskrit) ::: This word signifies "seed" or "life-germ," whether of animals or of plants. But esoterically itssignification is far wider and incomparably more abstruse, and therefore difficult to understand withoutproper study. The term is used in esotericism to designate the original or causal source and vahana or"vehicle" of the mystic impulse or urge of life, or of lives, to express itself or themselves when the timefor such self-expression arrives after a pralaya, or after an obscuration, or again, indeed, duringmanvantara. Whether it be a kosmos or universe, or the reappearance of god, deva, man, animal, plant,mineral, or elemental, the seed or life-germ from and out of which any one of these arises is technicallycalled bija, and the reference here is almost as much to the life-germ or vehicle itself as it is to theself-urge for manifestation working through the seed or life-germ. Mystically and psychologically, theappearance of an avatara, for instance, is due to an impulse arising in Maha-Siva, or in Maha-Vishnu(according to circumstances), to manifest a portion of the divine essence, in either case, when theappropriate world period arrives for the appearance of an avatara. Or again, when from the chela is bornthe initiate during the dread trials of initiation, the newly-arisen Master is said to have been born from themystic bija or seed within his own being. The doctrine connected with this word bija in its occult andesoteric aspects is far too profound to receive more than a cursory and superficial treatment.
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Blavatsky calls the anugraha creation a blind, “for it refers to a purely mental process: the cognition of the ‘ninth’ creation, which, in its turn, is an effect, manifesting in the secondary of that which was a ‘Creation’ in the Primary (Prakrita) Creation. The Eighth, then, called Anugraha (the Pratyayasarga or the intellectual creation of the Sankhyas . . .), is ‘that creation of which we have a perception’ — in its esoteric aspect — and ‘to which we give intellectual assent (Anugraha) in contradistinction to organic creation.’ It is the correct perception of our relations to the whole range of ‘gods’ and especially of those we bear to the Kumaras — the so-called ‘Ninth Creation’ — which is in reality an aspect of or reflection of the sixth in our manvantara (the Vaivasvata)” (SD 1:456).
Blavatsky says that “rebirths may be divided into three classes: the divine incarnations called Avataras; those of Adepts who give up Nirvana for the sake of helping on humanity — the Nirmanakayas; and the natural succession of rebirths for all — the common law. The Avatara . . . is a descent of the manifested Deity — whether under the specific name of Siva, Vishnu, or Adi-Buddha — into an illusive form of individuality, an appearance which to men on this illusive plane is objective, but it is not so in sober fact. That illusive form having neither past nor future, because it had neither previous incarnation nor will have subsequent rebirths, has naught to do with Karma, which has therefore no hold on it” (BCW 14:373-4).
Blavatsky says that “these twins are, in the esoteric philosophy, the Kumara-Egos, the reincarnating ‘Principles’ in this Manvantara” (TG 41). That the Greek Dioscuri were respectively the son of Zeus and the son of a mortal, is a direct reference to the dual character of the kumaric mind or the higher manas, an immortal quality in human beings in its higher aspect, the lower aspect being connected with the mortal part of the human constitution.
Boar One of the avataras of Vishnu or Brahma as Prajapati; in Hindu symbology the boar “which plunges into the ‘waters’ of space and lifts up the earth upon his tusks, and so bears it for the remainder of the manvantara, signifies not only the fourth-plane physical vitality, but likewise the cosmical vitality which infills and sustains the earth, rooted as this vitality is in the spiritual life of the god of our solar system” (FSO 493). See also AVATARA
Brahma Pralaya, Brahma Manvantara (Sanskrit) Brahmā-pralaya, -manvantara The death (or life) of Brahma, which takes place at the close of the Life or Age of Brahma, a period of 311,040,000,000,000 years; also called a mahapralaya or prakritika pralaya. One must ascertain whether the Brahma refers to a solar system or a smaller period of time, such as the life of a planetary chain.
Brahma(Sanskrit) ::: A word of which the root, brih, means "expansion." It stands for the spiritualenergy-consciousness side of our solar universe, i.e., our solar system, and the Egg of Brahma is thatsolar system.A Day of Brahma or a maha-manvantara is composed of seven rounds, a period of 4,320,000,000terrestrial years; this period is also called a kalpa. A Night of Brahma, the planetary rest period, which isalso called the parinirvanic period, is of equal length.Seven Days of Brahma make one solar kalpa; or, in other words, seven planetary cycles, each cycleconsisting of seven rounds (or seven planetary manvantaras), form one solar manvantara.One Year of Brahma consists of 360 Divine Days, each day being the duration of a planet's life, i.e., of aplanetary chain of seven globes. The Life of Brahma (or the life of the universal system) consists of onehundred Divine Years, i.e., 4,320,000,000 years times 36,000 x 2.The Life of Brahma is half ended: that is, fifty of his years are gone -- a period of 155,520,000,000,000of our years have passed away since our solar system, with its sun, first began its manvantaric course.There remain, therefore, fifty more such Years of Brahma before the system sinks into rest or pralaya. Asonly half of the evolutionary journey is accomplished, we are, therefore, at the bottom of the kosmiccycle, i.e., on the lowest plane.
Brahma (Sanskrit) Brahmā [from the verbal root bṛh to expand, grow, fructify] The first god of the Hindu Trimurti or triad, consisting of Brahma, the emanator, evolver, and creator; Vishnu, the sustainer or preserver; and Siva, the regenerator or destroyer. Brahma is the vivifying expansive force of nature in its eternally periodic manvantaras. He stands for the spiritual evolving or developing energy-consciousness of a solar system which is also called the Egg of Brahma (brahmanda). Brahma is called the creator or Logos, but in the theosophic philosophy creator is simply an abstract term or idea, like army. In Burnouf’s words:
Brahma’s Day, Night, Age, Year, Life A Day of Brahma, a cosmic manvantara or out-breathing of Brahma, represents a period where worlds are evolved and pass through their allotted ages of manvantaric existence. Each Day of Brahma consists of 1,000 aggregates of four yugas or 1,000 mahayugas (great ages). In a smaller sense it is also a mahamanvantara or kalpa of a planetary chain, composed of seven rounds, a period of 4,320,000,000 terrestrial years. A Night of Brahma, a cosmic pralaya, inbreathing of Brahma, or planetary paranirvana, is of equal length.
Brahma-Vaivarta Purana (Sanskrit) Brahma-Vaivarta Purāṇa The metamorphosis of Brahma; one of the 18 principal Hindu Puranas, dealing with Brahma in the form of the avatara Krishna and containing prayers and invocations addressed to Krishna, with narratives about his love for Radha, the gopis, etc.
br.hattara (brihattara) ::: wider; very wide.
Brihaspati (Sanskrit) Bṛhaspati [from bṛh prayer + pati lord] Sometimes Vrihaspati. A Vedic deity, corresponding to the planet Jupiter, commonly translated lord of prayer, the personification of exoteric piety and religion, but mystically the name signifies lord of increase, of expansion, growth. He is frequently called Brahmanaspati, both names having a direct significance with the power of sound as uttered in mantras or prayer united with positive will. He is regarded in Hindu mythology as the chief offerer of prayers and sacrifices, thus representing the Brahmin or priestly caste, being the Purohita (family priest) of the gods, among other things interceding with them for mankind. He has many titles and attributes, being frequently designated as Jiva (the living), Didivis (the bright or golden-colored). In later times he became the god of exoteric knowledge and eloquence — Dhishana (the intelligent), Gish-pati (lord of invocations). In this aspect he is regarded as the son of the rishi Angiras, and hence bears the patronymic Angirasa, and the husband of Tara, who was carried off by Soma (the moon). Tara is
Tara’s abduction gave rise to the Tarakamaya — the first war in heaven. The earth was shaken to its very center and turned to Brahma requesting him to restore Tara to her husband, which request was granted. Soma had for his allies the Daityas and Danavas, whose leader is Usanas (Venus) and Rudra (Siva), while the gods who sided with Brihaspati were led by Indra.
Buddha ::: [a great sage, sometimes considered to be one of the avataras of Visnu]; the awakened spirit.
Buddha(Sanskrit) ::: The past participle of the root budh, meaning "to perceive," "to become cognizant of," also "toawaken," and "to recover consciousness." It signifies one who is spiritually awakened, no longer living"the living death" of ordinary men, but awakened to the spiritual influence from within or from "above."When man has awakened from the living death in which ordinary mortals live, when he has cast off thetoils of both mind and flesh and, to use the old Christian term, has put on the garments of eternity, thenhe has awakened, he is a buddha. He has become one with -- not "absorbed" as is constantly translatedbut has become one with -- the Self of selves, with the paramatman, the Supreme Self. (See also Bodhi,Buddhi)A buddha in the esoteric teaching is one whose higher principles can learn nothing more in thismanvantara; they have reached nirvana and remain there. This does not mean, however, that the lowercenters of consciousness of a buddha are in nirvana, for the contrary is true; and it is this fact that enablesa Buddha of Compassion to remain in the lower realms of being as mankind's supreme guide andinstructor, living usually as a nirmanakaya.
Budha (Sanskrit) Budha [from the verbal root budh to awake] As an adjective, intelligent, wise, clever, fully awake; hence a wise or instructed person, a sage. In mythology, Budha is represented as the son of Tara (or Rohini), the wife of Brihaspati (the planet Jupiter). Tara was carried off by Soma (the Moon), which led to the Tarakamaya — the war in svarga (heaven) — between the gods and asuras (the latter siding with Soma against the divinities). The gods were victorious and Tara was returned to Brihaspati, but the parentage of the son she gave birth to was claimed both by Brihapati and Soma: he was so beautiful he was named Budha (cf SD 2:498-9). Upon Brahma’s demand, Tara admitted that Budha was the offspring of Soma. Budha became the god of wisdom and the husband of Ila (or Ida), daughter of Manu Vaivasvata, and in one sense stands for esoteric wisdom.
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cascade ::: n. --> A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract. ::: v. i. --> To fall in a cascade.
To vomit.
cataract ::: n. --> A great fall of water over a precipice; a large waterfall.
An opacity of the crystalline lens, or of its capsule, which prevents the passage of the rays of light and impairs or destroys the sight.
A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot.
cataractous ::: a. --> Of the nature of a cataract in the eye; affected with cataract.
Celestial Body Taken from Coleridge, who divined that in the human celestial body must be stored the memory of all preexistent experiences of the soul. The phrase is said to mean the thought-vehicle of the monad in devachan, through which functions the manasic ego (Key 137). The range of stored memory of experiences varies in extent according to the degree of sublimity of the different vestures. Ancient mysticism taught that the self has several vestures, each of which may be called a body or sheath through which the monad acts and by which it comes in contact with the particular worlds in which it may be functioning. “There are also celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial” (1 Cor 15:40). For instance, the Vedantic classification of the kosas (sheaths of atman) gives annamayakosa (physical body), pranamayakosa (vital-astral body), manomayakosa (psychological or lower manasic body), vijnanamayakosa (higher manasic body), and anandamayakosa (buddhic body). In the Taraka Raja-Yoga system are the following upadhis or vehicles of atman: sthulopadhi (gross vehicle), sukshmopadhi (subtile vehicle), and karanopadhi (causal vehicle or self).
Chain-manvantara. See MANVANTARA
Chakravartin (Sanskrit) Cakravartin [from cakra wheel, cycle + vartin turning, one who governs] Sovereign of the world, universal ruler; a title applied to several Hindu emperors, but referring particularly to Vishnu, who in the treta yuga in the form of a universal monarch protected the three worlds. At the end of kali yuga, legend states that Vishnu will appear again under his form of the Kalki-avatara, or Maitreya as the Buddhists say, reforming or doing away with the wicked and inaugurating a realm of spirituality and righteousness.
Chandravansa (Sanskrit) Candravaṃśa [from candra moon + vaṃśa lineage, race] Also Chandravamsa. The lunar race; one of the two great royal dynasties of ancient India. As related in the Vishnu-Purana, Soma (the moon), the child of the rishi Atri, gave birth to Budha (Mercury) who married Ila, daughter of the other great royal dynasty, the Suryavansa (solar race). Her descendants, Yadu and Puru, founded the two great branches of the Chandravansa (named respectively Yadava and Paurava). The last important scion of the race of Yadu was the avatara Krishna. In the race of Puru were born Pandu and Dhritarashtra — parents respectively of the Pandavas and Kurus, the heroes of the Mahabharata enumerated in the Bhagavad-Gita (ch 1). “In Occultism, man is called a solar-lunar being, solar in his higher triad, and lunar in his quaternary. Moreover, it is the Sun who imparts his light to the Moon, in the same way as the human triad sheds its divine light on the mortal shell of sinful man. Life celestial quickens life terrestrial” (TG 76).
Chaos(Greek) ::: A word usually thought to mean a sort of helter-skelter treasury of original principles and seedsof beings. Well, so it verily is, in one profound sense; but it is most decidedly and emphatically nothelter-skelter. It is properly the kosmic storehouse of all the latent or resting seeds of beings and thingsfrom former manvantaras. Of course it is this, simply because it contains everything. It means space, notthe highest mystical or actual space, not the parabrahma-mulaprakriti, the Boundless -- not that. But thespace of any particular hierarchy descending into manifestation, what space for it is at that particularperiod of its beginning of development. The directive principles in chaos are the gods when they awakenfrom their pralayic sleep. Chaos in one sense may very truly be called the condition of the space of asolar system or even of a planetary chain during its pralaya. When awakening to planetary action begins,chaos pari passu ceases.
Chaos (Greek) [from chaino to gape, yawn open] “The earth was without form and void,” says Genesis in describing the first stages of cosmogony. In Greek mythology contains the same idea of the primordial emptiness and formlessness which precedes the rebirth of a universe after pralaya. It was the vacant and spiritual space which existed before the creation of the universe or of the world; from it proceeded Darkness and Night. Chaos is “chaotic” only in the sense that its constituents are unformed and unorganized; it is the kosmic storehouse of all the latent or resting seeds from former manvantaras. It means space — not the Boundless, parabrahman-mulaprakriti, but the space of any particular hierarchy descending into manifestation. In one sense it is the condition of a solar system or planetary chain during its pralaya, containing all the elements in an undifferentiated state. Aether and chaos are the two principles immediately posterior to the first principle.
citigradae ::: n. pl. --> A suborder of Arachnoidea, including the European tarantula and the wolf spiders (Lycosidae) and their allies, which capture their prey by rapidly running and jumping. See Wolf spider.
Commenting on this, Blavatsky describes the Ah-hi as entities who “being on the highest plane, reflect the universal mind collectively at the first flutter of Manvantara. After which they begin the work of evolution of all the lower forces throughout the seven planes, down to the lowest — our own. The Ah-hi are the primordial seven rays, or Logoi, emanated from the first Logos, triple, yet one in its essence. . . .
Cosmic ideation and cosmic substance are one in their primordial character, yet as the reawakening of the universal mind into manvantara needs the appropriate cosmic fields of action, cosmic substance may be said to be the manvantaric vehicle of cosmic ideation. Conversely, during cosmic pralaya, all the varied differentiations of cosmic substance are resolved back or indrawn once again into cosmic unity, a subjective condition, and hence during the cosmic pralaya cosmic ideation can no longer be called active, but passive.
Cosmic Ideation Another name for divine thought, out of which springs the activity of universal mind — the collective aggregate of all individualized dhyani-chohanic consciousnesses everywhere. Theosophy postulates the appearance and disappearance of worlds, whether visible or invisible, as a continuous process, each world being a link in an endless chain of interlocking cosmic hierarchies. As one of these comes into manifested existence it is likened to an outbreathing of the divine breath, each such outbreathing being a thought of the cosmic ideation, this thought becoming a world. This divine breath, then, may be assumed to be cosmic ideation entering into the activity of manvantara; and cosmic ideation is the root again of all individual consciousness everywhere. Just as precosmic ideation is regarded as the root of consciousness, so precosmic substance is the spiritual substratum of matter. Thus manvantara is produced by means of the interlocking and interacting motion of cosmic ideation with primordial cosmic substance. Further, fohat is the intelligent energy behind this interlocking activity, which during manvantara joins these two together.
Cosmogenesis [from Greek kosmos world + genesis birth] The genesis of worlds, as distinguished from anthropogensis or the genesis of mankind; as defined by Blavatsky: “At the commencement of a great Manvantara, Parabrahm manifests as Mulaprakriti and then as the Logos. This Logos is equivalent to the ‘Unconscious Universal Mind,’ etc., of Western Pantheists. It constitutes the Basis of the subject-side of manifested Being, and is the source of all manifestations of individual consciousness. Mulaprakriti or Primordial Cosmic Substance, is the foundation of the object-side of things — the basis of all objective evolution and Cosmogenesis” (SD 2:24). The word is not restricted to earth, but includes innumerable globes; nor is it confined to those worlds which happen to be visible to our eye, but includes worlds on all the various planes of manifested substance. It does not mean that the worlds were created ex nihilo by divine fiat, nor that they were merely the productions from dead, unconscious, albeit eternal and uncreate matter. Again, cosmogenesis is not a process which has occurred only once and for all, but a process which is repeated indefinitely during manvantaras and after great pralayas. Thus worlds are evolved from the state of latency or pralaya into which they passed at the close of the preceding manvantara, and both primordial matter and primordial spirit come from the same source — parabrahman — and are resolved again into it. The process is one of evolution or progressive manifestation on various planes of objectivity of the potentialities latent in the spiritual germ. World must be understood, not with regard to any standards of size, but as including a universe of stars on the one hand and an atomic speck on the other.
couching ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Couch ::: n. --> The operation of putting down or displacing the opaque lens in cataract.
Embroidering by laying the materials upon the surface of the foundation, instead of drawing them through.
crantara ::: n. --> The fiery cross, used as a rallying signal in the Highlands of Scotland.
Cycle: A period of cosmic history, marking the beginning or end of some important event. (Cf. manvantara.) In astrology, the term is applied primarily to the recurrence of planetary conjunctions.
Damaghosha (Sanskrit) Damaghoṣa King of Chedi and father of Sisupala, the demon-reincarnation of Ravana who was killed by the avatara Krishna.
dandelion ::: n. --> A well-known plant of the genus Taraxacum (T. officinale, formerly called T. Dens-leonis and Leontodos Taraxacum) bearing large, yellow, compound flowers, and deeply notched leaves.
darsana (Darshan, Darshana) ::: seeing; the self-revelation of the Deity to the devotee; [an occasion when a spiritual personality in India allows himself to be seen]; [the six darsanas: the six systems of orthodox Indian philosophy: purva-mimamsa, uttara-mimamsa (vedanta), nyaya, vaisesika, samkhya, yoga].
Darsana (Sanskrit) Darśana [from the verbal root dṛs to see, perceive] Seeing, vision, view, doctrine, philosophical opinion. In the plural, it refers particularly to the six schools (Shad-darsana) of ancient Hindu philosophy: 1) the Nyaya (Logical School); 2) the Vaiseshika (Atomistic School); 3) the Sankhya; 4) the Yoga; 5) the Purva-Mimamsa (First Vedantic School); and 6) the Uttara-Mimamsa (Latter or Superior Vedantic School). These are connected together by intimate links of philosophical principles and postulates, so that to understand accurately the full nature of the universe and of the entire human constitution as an entity, as elaborated by the great Indian thinkers who founded these six schools, one should study all six. The different systems of these schools comprise expositions, according to the ideas of the respective founders, of the mysteries of cosmic and human nature, from the spiritual to the physical, explained and philosophically illustrated.
Dattatraya (Sanskrit) Dattātreya The universal lord; popularly, “the Trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva, incarnate in an Avatara — of course as a triple essence. The esoteric, and true meaning is the adept’s own trinity of body, soul, and spirit; the three being all realized by him as real, existent, and potential. By Yoga training, the body becomes pure as a crystal casket, the soul purged of all its grossness, and the spirit which, before the beginning of his course of self-purification and development, was to him but a dream, has now become a reality — the man has become a demi-god” (BCW 2:160).
Dattoli (Sanskrit) Dattoli One name of Agastya, a sage of the first manvantara, in his former birth as the son of the progenitor of the rakshasas. Variants are Dattotti, Dattoi, Dattali, Dattotri, Dattobhri, Dambhobhi, and Dhambholi. These “seven variants have each a secret sense, and refer in the esoteric comments to various ethnological classifications, and also to physiological and anthropological mysteries of the primitive races. For, surely, the Rakshasas are not demons, but simply the primitive and ferocious giants, the Atlanteans, who were scattered on the face of the globe as the Fifth Race is now. Vasishta is a warrant to this, if his words addressed to Parasara, who attempted a bit of jadoo (sorcery), which he calls ‘sacrifice,’ for the destruction of the Rakshasas, mean anything. For he says, ‘Let no more of these unoffending “Spirits of Darkness” be destroyed’ . . .” (SD 2:232n).
Day Be With Us, Great The lipikas, karmic recorders of the universe, make a barrier — the so-called ring pass-not — impassable during its existence but passable through evolution, between the personal ego and the impersonal or cosmic self. The incarnating monads cannot pass this “ring” until they have through evolutionary risings and development become merged once more in the universal or cosmic soul. The lipikas “are directly connected with Karma and what the Christians call the Day of Judgment; in the East it was called the Day after Mahamanvantara, or the ‘Day-Be-With-Us.’ Then everything becomes one, all individualities are merged into one, yet each knowing itself . . . then, that which to us now is non-consciousness or the unconscious, will then be absolute consciousness” (TBL 112). This is called with the Egyptians the Day of Come-to-Us and refers to what the Hindus call the paranirvana or great night of union in Brahman.
Death Death is not a thing in itself, but one of the phases or temporary events in the unending dramas of life, so that the opposite of death is birth rather than life. In other words, the opposite of manifested life is unmanifest life, pralaya and its aeonic rest. Manvantara and pralaya are phases in the endless flow of the alternating current of cosmic motion, which is the immediate result of the life-breath of the spiritual essence at the heart of everything in manifestation. The same eternal motion which brings everything into objective existence has thereby caused the death of the same entity on the previous subjective plane of life. Then, when the lifetime of this manifestation ends, the reverse of this rhythmic motion causes the death of the entity from objective existence, and carries it back to be reborn into its subjective life.
Devaki (Sanskrit) Devakī The mother of Krishna. She was shut up in a dungeon by her brother, King Kansa, for fear of the fulfillment of a prophecy that a son of hers would dethrone and kill him. Notwithstanding the strict watch kept, Devaki was overshadowed by Vishnu, the holy spirit, and thus gave birth to that god’s avatara, Krishna as the incarnated ray of the Logos.
Devamatri (Sanskrit) Devamātṛ Mother of the gods; a title of Aditi, kosmic or mystic space. Aditi is the Vedic Goddess-Mother from whose matrix the sun and planets were born, identical with the higher ranges of akasa, the spiritual essence pervading the space of any solar system; primordial kosmic substance in its highest or spiritual parts. Aditi therefore is the mystic womb of nature out of which all comes for the period of a kosmic manvantara, and into which again all sinks after the kosmic period of evolution has ceased and pralaya begins.
Devapi (Sanskrit) Devāpi [from deva god + āpi friend] Friend of the god; a rishi mentioned in the Rig-Veda as the son of Rishti-shena. In the Mahabharata and the Puranas he is described as a son of King Pratipa of the Kurus, who resigns his kingdom and retires into the woods, where he is still alive, awaiting with the sage Maru, at Kalapa or Katapa, the coming of Maitreya Buddha, the avatara who will come at the close of the kali yuga, according to legend.
Devasarga (Sanskrit) Devasarga [from deva divine + sarga emanation, emission, creation] Divine emanation or emission; the creation of the gods, the last of the first series of creations enumerated in the Vishnu-Purana. It “has a universal reference; namely, the Evolutions in general, not specifically to our Manvantara; but the latter begins with the same over and over again, showing that it refers to several distinct Kalpas. For it is said ‘at the close of the past (Padma) Kalpa the divine Brahma awoke from his night of sleep and beheld the universe void.’ Then Brahma is shown going once more over the ‘seven creations’ in the secondary stage of evolution, repeating the first three on the objective plane” (SD 1:454).
devasura ::: a combination of deva and asura; the deva of the asura devasura type, who evolves in the tenth manvantara of the sixth pratikalpa.
Dharmakaya (Sanskrit) Dharmakāya [from dharma law, continuance from the verbal root dhṛ to support, carry, continue + kāya body] Continuance-body, body of the law. One of the trikaya of Buddhism, which consists of 1) nirmanakaya, 2) sambhogakaya, and 3) dharmakaya. “It is that spiritual body or state of a high spiritual being in which the restricted sense of soulship and egoity has vanished into a universal (hierarchical) sense, and remains only in the seed, latent — if even so much. It is pure consciousness, pure bliss, pure intelligence, freed from all personalizing thought” (OG 38). In the dharmakaya vesture the initiate is on the threshold of nirvana or in the nirvanic state. Sometimes the dharmakaya is called the “nirvana without remains,” for once having reached that state the buddha or bodhisattva remains entirely outside of every earthly condition; he will return no more until the commencement of a new manvantara, for he has crossed the cycle of births. Dharmakaya state is that of parasamadhi, where no progress is possible — at least as long as the entity remains in it. Such entities may be said to be for the time being crystallized in purity and homogeneity. This is, likewise, one of the states of adi-buddha, and as such is called the mystic, universally diffused essence, the robe or vesture of luminous spirituality. See also TRIKAYA; TRISARANA
Dhyan(i)-Chohan(s) ::: A compound word meaning "lords of meditation" -- kosmic spirits or planetary spirits. There are threeclasses of dhyan-chohans, each of which is divided into seven subclasses. The dhyan-chohanscollectively are one division of that wondrous host of spiritual beings who are the full-blown flowers offormer world periods or manvantaras. This wondrous host are the men made perfect of those formerworld periods; and they guide the evolution of this planet in its present manvantara. They are our ownspiritual lords, leaders, and saviors. They supervise us now in our evolution here, and in our own presentcyclic pilgrimage we follow the path of the general evolution outlined by them.Man in his higher nature is an embryo dhyan-chohan, an embryo lord of meditation. It is his destiny, if herun the race successfully, to blossom forth at the end of the seventh round as a lord of meditation -- aplanetary spirit -- when this planetary manvantaric kalpa is ended, this Day of Brahma, which is theseven rounds, each round in seven stages.In one most important sense the dhyan-chohans are actually our own selves. We were born from them.We are the monads, we are the atoms, the souls, projected, sent forth, emanated, by the dhyanis.
Divine incarnations do not mean that a divine being seizes upon and occupies the body of a human being as by a kind of obsession; but that every person has within him the powers by which he can manifest his own innate divinity, and that a few people have these powers developed in a special degree. When properly understood, a truly divine incarnation, as in avataras, was one of the greatest of the mysteries of every archaic religious system.
During the fourth root-race on this globe D of the fourth round, evolution reached the middle of its course for this planetary manvantara, and the door to entry into the state of spiritual and intellectual evolution called the human kingdom was closed. All entities beneath the humans (and probably higher anthropoids who were in existence before that epoch) must await until the next succeeding round before even the highest representatives of the beast kingdom can pass on to the human stage. All subhuman kingdoms will show a tendency as time goes on to die out, because the monads of these kingdoms will go into latency for the remainder of the planetary manvantara; their chance for evolution into the human state will come again during the succeeding planetary manvantara. See also ATLANTEANS
Dwapara yuga: Sanskrit name of the third age (yuga) of a manvantara; a fourth less righteous than the preceding one, and lasting 864,000 of our years (two-tenths of the entire manvantara ).
Each one of these gunas, with its corresponding quality or sense organ, is evolved in each one of the seven root-races that form a globe manvantara. The above listing gives the order in which these gunas appear correspondentially to the root-race which brings them into activity. At the present time, being in the fifth root-race, we have evolved five perceptible gunas with their corresponding qualities and sense organs.
Easter [from Eostre or Ostara goddess of spring] In the northern hemisphere, the time of the renewal of life in nature, and therefore the appropriate season for celebrating the mystery of rebirth and regeneration. Easter day was close to the time of one of the four sacred seasons connected with the equinoxes and solstices, which were individually celebrated in the ancient Mysteries as representatives of the four main phases of the drama of initiation. It was the second stage of initiation when the awakened person, in whom the Christ had already been born (as celebrated at a winter solstice), was preparing to become a conqueror of self and then a teacher. Easter today is the result of a confusion and compromise between this ancient spring festival (chiefly in its Northern European form) with ecclesiastical legends and the Jewish Feast of the Passover (pesah). Good Friday, following the Christian version of this ancient theme, commemorates the descent of the Christ into the tomb, and the Sunday following, which is the third day counting inclusively, celebrates the resurrection. Due to a confusion in early Christian thought, there are certain aspects of the Easter celebration which properly pertain to the winter solstice, which the Christians, however, have rightly held as commemorating the birth of Christ. The Jewish ecclesiastical calendar was lunar, and the attempt to reconcile the solar calendar with the date of the Passover as fixed by the lunar calendar resulted in protracted disputes, ending in the present compromise with its fluctuating date. The use of eggs at Easter is symbolic of rebirth and shows the influence of the ancient rites, especially of Northern Europe.
Ebionites [probably from Hebrew ’ebyon poor] An early sect of Christians, but predating the term Christian. They were probably disciples of Jeshua ben Panthera, an initiated teacher living in the reign of Alexander Jannaeus (104-79 BC), around whom many scholars believe the Gospel story of the avatara Jesus was later built. There seems little support for the conjecture that they had a founder called Ebion. Accounts of their tenets are uncertain, for their name was transferred to various diverging sects, differing in the extent of their adhesion to the Mosaic law and in their way of interpreting Christian dogmas as to the nature and work of Jesus. They were regarded as Judaizers and heretics, and eventually became eliminated from the Church. As Gnostics of a kind, they regarded both Christ and the polar opposite Jehovah as emanations or rays of the Logos, and were concerned with the adaptation of esoteric teachings with the Mosaic law on the one hand and with the materializing spirit of the Church on the other.
eko vasi sarvabhutantaratma ::: one controlling Spirit within all creatures. [Katha 2.2.12]
Epicurean School: Founded by Epicurus in Athens in the year 306 B.C. Epicureanism gave expression to the desire for a refined type of happiness which is the reward of the cultured man who can take pleasure in the joys of the mind over which he can have greater control than over those of a material or sensuous nature. The friendship of gifted and noble men, the peace and contentment that comes from fair conduct, good morals and aesthetic enjoyments are the ideals of the Epicurean who refuses to be perturbed by any metaphysical or religious doctrines which impose duties and thus hinder the freedom of pure enjoyment. Epicurus adopted the atomism of Democritus (q.v.) but modified its determinism by permitting chance to cause a swerve (clinamen) in the fall of the atoms. See C. W. Bailey, Epicurus. However, physics was not to be the main concern of the philosopher. See Apathia, Ataraxia, Hedonism. -- M.F.
Events in cosmic evolution and emanation were told under the guise of fairy tales such as the above, in order to hide the meaning from those whose right to know had not yet been established through proper training, self-devotion to truth, and renunciation of the temptations of ordinary life. Here Vach is the feminine form of the Logos, and Brahma is the masculine form; the Logos is a unit, but when worlds are evolved it produces from itself its alter ego for the purpose of the ensuing manvantara, which is called the feminine Logos in which the masculine Logos of intelligence drops the seeds of thought, and from the spiritual matter or feminine Logos emanate the hierarchies of beings. The two aspects of the Logos are inseparable, but appear as a manifested duality only at the very beginnings of manvantaric time. It is thus seen that when Brahma emanates Vach as one half of his body or self, it means that for the purposes of manvantaric emanational productions, the Logos enters upon its creative activities. Brahma in this case becomes what would in the Christian Trinity be called the Father, Vach the Holy Spirit (always feminine among the early Christians), out of which comes forth the third aspect of the Logos, the manifested Logos. Brahma therefore is the First or Unmanifest Logos, Vach the Second or Manifest-unmanifest Logos; the intelligence creating the hierarchies of beings is the Third or Manifesting Logos. Thus the three Logoi are yet but one, as the Christian Trinity is said to be composed of three persons or masks philosophically, and yet to form one Godhead or Godhood.
Every avatara repeats in the small the primordial history of the cosmic Logos: the divinity sacrificing itself for the sake of all the hierarchies within it. This is the sacrifice which took place “before the beginning of the world,” the core of the mythologic story of the Christos, the Logos or cosmic Word incarnate as man.
Every round brings about a new evolutionary development on every one of the globes of the earth-chain, and a fundamental change in the physical, psychic, mental, intellectual, and spiritual constitution of man. The manas principle (the fifth or intellectual principle) will be fully developed at the end of the fifth round, and corresponding aspects of the human constitution will be evolved in minor degree during the sixth and seventh root-races of the fourth round. Although the vast majority of human beings in that future round will be far more evolved than is the present-day or fourth round mankind, nevertheless during the fifth round on this globe will occur what theosophical literature calls the moment of choice. At that time the monads which will continue to rise on the ascending arc must have reached a certain point in their unfolding evolution enabling them successfully to pursue their upward evolutionary journey towards spirit. Those monads who shall not have reached this evolutionary status, and who therefore are not able to continue the upward arc, must perforce wait for the future manvantara, a loss in evolutionary opportunity and in time of many hundreds of millions of years.
Evolution is an ancient and cardinal tenet of the archaic wisdom and was formerly called emanation. In mankind, three distinct, principal lines of evolution take place and converge; the spiritual, the mental or manasic, and the astral-vital-physical. The manasic factor is derived from the perfected humanity of a previous manvantara, whose entrance into the human stock of the third root-race brought about the union of the heavenly and the terrestrial so as to make a complete self-conscious being who thereafter mirrors every plane in nature. In humankind, the divine monad, a spark of the universal spirit, emanates from itself its first vehicle, and thus is formed the spiritual monad, atma-buddhi. This monad, emanating from itself in its turn another vehicle, becomes the higher human soul or reimbodying ego; and the emanational process is continued throughout the human constitution by the formation of the astral-vital soul which in its turn emanates or oozes forth the physical body.
Fohat ::: An extremely mystical term used in the occultism of Tibet for what in Sanskrit is called daiviprakriti,which means "divine nature" or "primordial nature," and which also can be called "primordial light." Inone sense of the word fohat may be considered as almost identical with the old mystical Greek eros, butfohat as a technical term contains within itself a far wider range of ideas than does the Greek term.Fohat may be considered as the essence of kosmic electricity, provided, however, that in this definitionwe endow the term electricity with the attribute of consciousness; or, to put it more accurately, providedthat we understand that the essence of electricity is indeed consciousness. It is ever-present and activefrom the primordial beginnings of a manvantara to its last end, nor does it then actually pass out ofexistence, but becomes quiescent or latent as it were, sleeping or dormant during the kosmic pralaya. Inone sense of the word it may be called kosmic will, for the analogy with the conscious will in humanbeings is exceedingly close. It is the incessantly active, ever-moving, impelling or urging force in nature,from the beginning of the evolution of a universe or of a solar system to its end.H. P. Blavatsky, quoting one of the ancient mystically occult works, says in substance: "Fohat is thesteed and thought is the rider." If, however, we liken fohat to what the conscious will is in the humanbeing, we must then think only of the lower or substantial parts -- the pranic activities -- of the humanwill, for behind the substantial parts stands always the directing and guiding consciousness. Fohat beingincessantly active is therefore both formative and destructive, because it is through the ceaseless workingof fohat that unending change continues -- the passing of one phase of manifested existence to anotherphase, whether this manifested existence be a solar system or a planetary chain or a globe or humanbeing or, indeed, any entity.Fohat is as active among the electrons of an atom and among the atoms themselves as it is among thesuns. In one sense it may be called the vital force of the universe, corresponding from this viewpoint tothe pranic activity on all the seven planes of the human constitution.
Fohat is ever-present and active from the primordial beginnings of a manvantara to its last end, nor does it then actually pass out of existence, but becomes quiescent or latent as it were, sleeping or dormant during the cosmic pralaya.(OG 51)
Four also appears in the sacred key-numbers 4, 3, 2 (in this sequence): these are the basic numbers used in esoteric computations, and hence they form the numerical structure of the time periods of the four yugas of ancient India, which likewise were prominent in ancient Chaldean calculations — for the numerical science was the same in both lands. “The sacredness of the cycle of 4320, with additional cyphers, lies in the fact that the figures which compose it, taken separately or joined in various combinations, are each and all symbolical of the greatest mysteries in Nature. Indeed, whether one takes the 4 separately, or the 3 by itself, or the two together making 7, or again the three [4, 3, 2] added together and yielding 9, all these numbers have their application in the most sacred and occult things, and record the workings of Nature in her eternally periodical phenomena. They are never erring, perpetually recurring numbers, unveiling, to him who studies the secrets of Nature, a truly divine System, an intelligent plan in Cosmogony, which results in natural cosmic divisions of times, seasons, invisible influences, astronomical phenomena, with their action and reaction on terrestrial and even moral nature; on birth, death, and growth, on health and disease. All these natural events are based and depend upon cyclical processes in the Kosmos itself, producing periodic agencies which, acting from without, affect the Earth and all that lives and breathes on it, from one end to the other of any Manvantara. Causes and effects are esoteric, exoteric, and endexoteric, so to say” (SD 2:73-4).
Fourfold Classification There are many different ways of dividing the constitution of the universe or of any integral entity within it, such as a human being. Several philosophical and religious systems employ a fourfold division, as is found in certain Hindu systems. Subba Row, a Vedantist as well as a theosophist, pointed out that the fourfold classification of the human principles in some Hindu systems is not only applicable to man, but likewise to the universe and solar system. The Taraka-Raja-Yoga system — perhaps the most subtlety philosophical of the Brahmanical yoga schools — divides the human constitution into three upadhis (bases) plus the atman or essential self, as follows: atman, karanopadhi, sukshmopadhi, and sthulopadhi.
Fourteen A septenate in which each member is dual. In the Hindu Laws of Manu, fourteen manus are enumerated; and in theosophy a root-manu and a seed-manu are given for each round. In a Hindu allegory, there arise from the churning of the ocean fourteen “precious things,” which in a corresponding Japanese system are enumerated as seven. See also KURMA-AVATARA
From another standpoint, bhuta applies in a general way to reproductions in a new existence of entities which “have been” in a former existence. This is the reason cosmic elements are occasionally called bhutas in their connection with the various tattvas, because the elements in any one manvantara are the derivatives or reproductions, and therefore the bhutas, of the same elements in the previous manvantara.
Further, the asuras “are the sons of the primeval Creative Breath at the beginning of every new Maha Kalpa, or Manvantara; in the same rank as the Angels who had remained ‘faithful.’ These were the allies of Soma (the parent of the Esoteric Wisdom) as against Brihaspati (representing ritualistic or ceremonial worship). Evidently they have been degraded in Space and Time into opposing powers or demons by the ceremonialists, on account of their rebellion against hypocrisy, sham-worship, and the dead-letter form” (SD 2:500).
gandharva-pasu (gandharva-pashu; gandharva pashu) ::: a combination of the gandharva and pasu, forming a kind of pasu deva or divinised pasu, which evolves in the asura type in the first manvantara of the sixth pratikalpa.
Garuda (Sanskrit) Garuḍa In Hindu mythology a gigantic half-man and half-bird, born from an egg brought forth by Vinata, wife of Kasyapa, the self-born sprung from time and one of the seven emanators of the world. Symbol of the great cycle or manvantara, Garuda is also an emblem of the sun and the solar cycle. He is made coeternal with Vishnu as one aspect or manifestation of Vishnu himself, who therefore is often described as riding on Garuda as Vishnu in space and time. Garuda’s son is Jatayu who in the Ramayana rushed to rescue Sita when she was carried off by Ravana, the Rakshasa king of Lanka, but was slain in the ensuing conflict.
Generally in The Secret Doctrine it is the fifth kosmic element from below, a link between kosmic mind or mahat and the lower manifested world, the vehicle of the former and the parent of the latter. Looking at aether in a more general kosmic way, it is the field of activity of the kosmic Third Logos, Brahma-prakriti, and therefore the great womb of manifested being, the treasure house of all kosmic types, forth from which they flow at the opening of manifestation and back into which they will again be ingathered at the beginning of kosmic pralaya. It is in consequence the great mother-substance out of which all the hierarchies are built. It interpenetrates everything, lasting from the beginning of the universal manvantara to its end, and indeed, may be said to continue, in its most spiritualized form throughout kosmic pralaya as the seed-house or storehouse from which everything will flow into manifestation again when the new period of kosmic activity arrives. Considered as the cosmic mother of all things, aether in its highest feminine aspect is the same as the Vedic Aditi or the Hera or Juno of Greece and Rome. Thus in one sense it is also mulaprakriti, the generator or producer of the seeds of beginnings and things. The Old Testament refers to aether as the kosmic waters. In its highest parts it is mystically alaya (the kosmic spirit-soul) or what in Northern Buddhism is called svabhavat, more mystically adi-buddhi. See also ACTIO IN DISTANS; AKASA
God-man Mankind after the change in the third root-race when animal humanity became incarnate devas because of the overshadowing incarnations of the manasaputras. Also manas (mind) in alliance with atma-buddhi, as contrasted with manas in alliance with the lower principles — the latter being simply and merely human. Sometimes used to describe the avataras appearing in the human race at periodic intervals, or again to describe buddhas or other spiritual-human beings.
gods "the necessary static elements, ::: Space, the ordered movements of the worlds, the ascending levels, the highest goal"; in later Hinduism, the Preserver of the world, one of the "three Powers and Personalities . of the One Cosmic Godhead", of which the other two are Brahma, the Creator, and Śiva or Rudra2, the Destroyer; also regarded as the Lord himself (isvara) who incarnates in the avataras, and the one deva of whom all the gods are manifestations; in the Record of Yoga, usually a subordinate aspect of Kr.s.n.a, sometimes identified with Pradyumna as the personality of the fourfold isvara whose sakti is Mahalaks.mi.Vis Visnu-Narayana
Great War. See TARAKAMAYA
guhyataram ::: the more secret thing. [Gita 18.63]
Hanuman or Hanumat (Sanskrit) Hanumān, Hanumat Monkey-god of the Ramayana. The son of Pavana, god of the winds, or spirit, Hanuman is fabled to have assumed any form at will, wielded rocks, removed mountains, mounted the air, seized the clouds, and to have rivaled Garuda in swiftness of flight. According to the epic, Hanuman and his host of semi-human monkey-beings became the allies of Rama, the avatara of Vishnu, in his war with the Rakshasa-king of Lanka, Ravana, who had carried off Rama’s wife, the beautiful Sita. As advisor to Rama and leader of his army, Hanuman showed unparalleled audacity, wit, and wisdom, thereby accomplishing great feats.
Hari (Sanskrit) Hari [from the verbal root hṛ to take, remove; to be yellow] Especially the name of Krishna as an avatara of Vishnu; likewise applied to other deities, generally Siva. Also an alternative name for the sign of the zodiac Simha or Leo — the word itself meaning a lion, as well as being a name for the sun, the moon, the horses of Indra, and for one of the nine varshas or divisions of the world.
Hera corresponds to the personalized prakriti of the Hindus, as Zeus in so many respects is a Greek counterpart of Brahma. This explains why the functions, high and low, of Hera were generative and productive, in general the fecund producer of all things throughout the drama of manvantara.
Heterogeneity and Homogeneity Heterogeneity applies in theosophy to the immensely differentiated and variegated emanations of the cosmic spirit, itself considered the homogeneous or nondifferentiated source and root of all. During a manvantara the one uniform and noncompounded spirit becomes differentiated into the incomprehensibly vast varieties of manifested nature; whereas during pralaya differentiation vanishes and all returns into the noncompounded homogeneity of the cosmic spirit. Neither term is used in too absolute a sense; each refers to cosmic hierarchies or universes, surrounded by the limitless spaces of infinite space. See also DIFFERENTIATION; ELEMENT; LAYA-CENTER; PRIMEVAL MATTER; UNITY
Hiranyakasipu, after being slain by the Narasimha-avatara was born as Ravana, who in turn was slain by Rama (another avatara of Vishnu); after which he is reborn as Sisupala, who was slain by Krishna (the latest avatara of Vishnu). “This parallel evolution of Vishnu (spirit) with a Daitya, as men, . . . gives us the key not only to the respective dates of Rama and Krishna but even to a certain psychological mystery” (SD 2:225).
Hiranyaksha (Sanskrit) Hiraṇyākṣa [from hiraṇya golden + akṣa eye] Golden eye; one of the principal daityas (titans), twin brother of Hrianyakasipu. In the Mahabharata, he dragged the earth to the depths of the ocean, and because of this was slain by Vishnu in his third avataric manifestation of the Varaha-avatara (the boar incarnation). His progeny is said to number 77 crores, or 770 millions. “Hiranyaksha is the ruler or king of the fifth region or Patala, a Snake-god” (SD 2:382n).
Holy City Many spiritual traditions symbolize the goal of human attainment or the abode of the gods as a holy city. With the Hindus, Brahmapura is the capital of Brahma on Mt. Kailasa in the Himalayas or on Mt. Meru, as well as being the inmost chamber of the heart. According to the Chhandogya Upanishad (8:1:1), within the Brahmapura “is an abode, a small lotus-flower; within it is a small space (antarakasa). What is within that, should be searched out; that, assuredly, is what one should desire to understand.” Hiranyapura (golden city) stands for the sun and for the invisible, etheric regions of space; while the Siddhapura or White Island is both the indestructible home of adepts on earth and the poles of the earth or Mt. Meru.
hypophysis ::: n. --> See Pituitary body, under Pituitary.
Cataract.
I-am, I-am-I I-am-I denotes self-consciousness in which the essential consciousness is reflected in a transmitting vehicle or soul. I-am denotes simple unadulterated being, and is used as a name for the cosmic self. Thus the I-am-I is a lower manifestation of the I-am, which is abstract and incomprehensible to ordinary human mentality. Philosophically, I-am-I is a temporary production of Purusha working in and through the prakritis, or of the image-making power inherent in human consciousness called ahankara (the “I-creating” faculty); so that when evolution has been completed, the I-am-I or self-consciousness will have risen through its various higher forms to become at least for a manvantara the cosmic self.
Immortality ::: A term signifying continuous existence or being; but this understanding of the term is profoundlyillogical and contrary to nature, for there is nothing throughout nature's endless and multifarious realmsof being and existence which remains for two consecutive instants of time exactly the same.Consequently, immortality is a mere figment of the imagination, an illusory phantom of reality. When thestudent of the esoteric wisdom once realizes that continuous progress, i.e., continuous change inadvancement, is nature's fundamental procedure, he recognizes instantly that continuous remaining in anunchanging or immutable state of consciousness or being is not only impossible, but in the last analysis isthe last thing that is either desirable or comforting. Fancy continuing immortal in a state of imperfection such as we human beingsexemplify -- which is exactly what the usual acceptance of this term immortality means. The highest godin highest heaven, although seemingly immortal to us imperfect human beings, is nevertheless anevolving, growing, progressing entity in its own sublime realms or spheres, and therefore as the ages passleaves one condition or state to assume a succeeding condition or state of a nobler and higher type;precisely as the preceding condition or state had been the successor of another state before it.Continuous or unending immutability of any condition or state of an evolving entity is obviously animpossibility in nature; and when once pondered over it becomes clear that the ordinary acceptance ofimmortality involves an impossibility. All nature is an unending series of changes, which means all thehosts or multitudes of beings composing nature, for every individual unit of these hosts is growing,evolving, i.e., continuously changing, therefore never immortal. Immortality and evolution arecontradictions in terms. An evolving entity means a changing entity, signifying a continuous progresstowards better things; and evolution therefore is a succession of state of consciousness and being afteranother state of consciousness and being, and thus throughout duration. The Occidental idea of staticimmortality or even mutable immortality is thus seen to be both repellent and impossible.This doctrine is so difficult for the average Occidental easily to understand that it may be advisable onceand for all to point out without mincing of words that just as complete death, that is to say, entireannihilation of consciousness, is an impossibility in nature, just so is continuous and unchangingconsciousness in any one stage or phase of evolution likewise an impossibility, because progress ormovement or growth is continuous throughout eternity. There are, however, periods more or less long ofcontinuance in any stage or phase of consciousness that may be attained by an evolving entity; and thehigher the being is in evolution, the more its spiritual and intellectual faculties have been evolved orevoked, the longer do these periods of continuous individual, or perhaps personal, quasi-immortalitycontinue. There is, therefore, what may be called relative immortality, although this phrase is confessedlya misnomer.Master KH in The Mahatma Letters, on pages 128-30, uses the phrase ``panaeonic immortality" tosignify this same thing that I have just called relative immortality, an immortality -- falsely so called,however -- which lasts in the cases of certain highly evolved monadic egos for the entire period of amanvantara, but which of necessity ends with the succeeding pralaya of the solar system. Such a periodof time of continuous self-consciousness of so highly evolved a monadic entity is to us humans actually arelative immortality; but strictly and logically speaking it is no more immortality than is the ephemeralexistence of a butterfly. When the solar manvantara comes to an end and the solar pralaya begins, evensuch highly evolved monadic entities, full-blown gods, are swept out of manifested self-consciousexistence like the sere and dried leaves at the end of the autumn; and the divine entities thus passing outenter into still higher realms of superdivine activity, to reappear at the end of the pralaya and at the dawnof the next or succeeding solar manvantara.The entire matter is, therefore, a highly relative one. What seems immortal to us humans would seem tobe but as a wink of the eye to the vision of super-kosmic entities; while, on the other hand, the span ofthe average human life would seem to be immortal to a self-conscious entity inhabiting one of theelectrons of an atom of the human physical body.The thing to remember in this series of observations is the wondrous fact that consciousness frometernity to eternity is uninterrupted, although by the very nature of things undergoing continuous andunceasing change of phases in realization throughout endless duration. What men call unconsciousness ismerely a form of consciousness which is too subtle for our gross brain-minds to perceive or to sense or tograsp; and, secondly, strictly speaking, what men call death, whether of a universe or of their ownphysical bodies, is but the breaking up of worn-out vehicles and the transference of consciousness to ahigher plane. It is important to seize the spirit of this marvelous teaching, and not allow the imperfectbrain-mind to quibble over words, or to pause or hesitate at difficult terms.
In addition, the circle of necessity refers to the wheel of time in its many intricate cyclings or whirlings, and to the peregrination or rounding through both the visible and invisible spheres of the hosts of monads during a cosmic manvantara, these taking place not only upwards and downwards, so to speak, but likewise having a distinct reference to the growth through unfolding by the monads of what is latent within them.
“In addition to this, there was still another class of Manasaputras who, as it were, started the whole thing going by inflaming . . . with their own fire of intelligent thought and self-consciousness those of the human race who, at that time, in the early part of the Third Root-Race in this Round, were ready, who caught the flame; and then their own mental apparatus, their own manasic powers, burst as it were into bloom as a rose unfolds rapidly its petals when the season comes for it to do so. And these Manasaputras . . . were the highly evolved entities from previous cosmic manvantaras, who deliberately, belonging as they do to the hierarchy of the Buddhas of Compassion, as it were left their own sublime spheres and descended among men and taught them — and then withdrew” (SOPh 468).
In a more restricted sense, applied to those rare but periodic appearances of spiritual beings in the human race, called by the ancient Hindus rishis, who are distinguished from avataras on the one hand and buddhas on the other hand — so that the compound in these last cases may be translated as rishis who are sons of devas or spiritual beings.
In ancient and modern occultism, 3, 4, and 7 are respectively held sacred as symbolizing light, life, and union — at least during our present manvantara; for the reckoning was somewhat as follows: unity, the One or the monad, was the generating point of spirit, from which flowed forth the first manifested stream of energy or the duad, which became in expressing itself the triad, the carrier and holder of cosmic wisdom and therefore light to our view. These three expressing themselves in the next stage of differentiation clothed themselves in a vehicle, the square or four, which thus became manifested life. Hence, when light and life conjoin in unitary action we have the complete septenary, the significant number of complete monadic being on this plane — the septenary individual.
Incarnation Imbodiments of an entity or monad in a body of flesh, usually human. It is also used of avataras, buddhas, etc., in treating of the manifold mystery of the union of godhood and humanhood. This mystery, both among Hindus and Christians, is a distorted and anthropomorphic understanding of the teaching as to the presence of the unseen cosmic principles throughout all nature and man, as symbolized by the circle and cross.
In cosmology, Jagannatha is the cosmic hierarch of a particular cosmic unit out of which all flows in evolutionary procession, forming the periods of that universe’s manifestation, and back into which in due course all again is gathered, to reissue forth again when the new cosmic manvantara opens. Thus in a sense Jagannatha parallels the productive member of the Hindu triad, Brahma.
India. Intimations of advanced theism, both in a deistic and immanentistic form, are to be found in the Rig Veda. The early Upanishads in general teach variously realistic deism, immanent theism, and, more characteristically, mystical, impersonal idealism, according to which the World Ground (brahman) is identified with the universal soul (atman) which is the inner or essential self within each individual person. The Bhagavad Gita, while mixing pantheism, immanent theism, and deism, inclines towards a personahstic idealism and a corresponding ethics of bhakti (selfless devotion). Jainism is atheistic dualism, with a personalistic recognition of the reality of souls. Many of the schools of Buddhism (see Buddhism) teach idealistic doctrines. Thus a monistic immaterialism and subjectivism (the Absolute is pure consciousness) was expounded by Maitreya, Asanga, and Vasubandhu. The Lankavatarasutra combined monistic, immaterialistic idealism with non-absolutistic nihilism. Subjectivistic, phenomenalistic idealism (the view that there is neither absolute Pure Consciousness nor substantial souls) was taught by the Buddhists Santaraksita and Kamalasila. Examples of modern Vedantic idealism are the Yogavasistha (subjective monistic idealism) and the monistic spiritualism of Gaudapada (duality and plurality are illusion). The most influential Vedantic system is the monistic spiritualism of Sankara. The Absolute is pure indeterminate Being, which can only be described as pure consciousness or bliss. For the different Vedantic doctrines see Vedanta and the references there. Vedantic idealism, whether in its monistic and impersonalistic form, or in that of a more personalistic theism, is the dominant type of metaphysics in modern India. Idealism is also pronounced in the reviving doctrines of Shivaism (which see).
Individuality ::: Theosophists draw a sharp and comprehensive distinction between individuality and personality. Theindividuality is the spiritual-intellectual and immortal part of us; deathless, at least for the duration of thekosmic manvantara -- the root, the very essence of us, the spiritual sun within, our inner god. Thepersonality is the veil, the mask, composed of various sheaths of consciousness through which theindividuality acts.The word individuality means that which cannot be divided, that which is simple and pure in thephilosophical sense, indivisible, uncompounded, original. It is not heterogeneous; it is not composite; it isnot builded up of other elements; it is the thing in itself. Whereas, on the contrary, the intermediate natureand the lower nature are composite, and therefore mortal, being builded up of elements other thanthemselves. Strictly speaking, individuality and monad are identical, but the two words are convenientbecause of the distinctions of usage contained in them; just as consciousness and self-consciousness arefundamentally identical, but convenient as words on account of the distinctions contained in them. (Seealso Monad)
In regard to the beast kingdom, at the midway point in the manvantara, the “door” to the human kingdom automatically closed, for then began the ascending arc: i.e., all monads not reaching the evolutionary status where they were able to pursue their evolution by entering the human kingdom must thereafter remain in the lower kingdoms for the three and one-half rounds still to come. The mammalian beasts all appeared in this round, but the first mammal on this globe was man himself, as the mammalian beasts were very early off-throwings or specializations from offthrowings originating in the human stock.
In the Brahmanical system the solar system was regarded as an Egg of Brahma (brahmanda), the prakritic or prithivi-form of Brahma, so that its life span is equivalent to the length of Brahma’s manifested life. A Day of Brahma for a planetary chain consists of a planetary manvantara — seven rounds of the various life-waves around that chain — a period of 4,320,000,000 terrestrial years. The ensuing pralaya or Night of Brahma is of an equivalent length, together equaling 8,640,000,000 terrestrial years. Forty-nine such planetary Days and Nights equal one solar manvantara, equivalent to a Year of Brahma; and each such year of Brahma is figured as being 360 of his Days; and 100 such Years of Brahma equal Brahma’s Life, a period of 311,040,000,000,000 terrestrial years — including in this vast time period the various twilights and dawns. Theosophic philosophy states that one-half of Brahma’s Life has been spent, or 50 Years of Brahma. At the end of Brahma’s Life, the final consummation of the solar system, so far as the planetary chain is concerned, will occur, and everything within the bounds of this system will vanish, and the succeeding solar pralaya will commence.
In the epics, Pururavas is the famous prince of the Soma-vansa (lunar dynasty), the father of Ayus and the ancestor of Puru, Dushyanta, Bharata, Kuru, Dhritarashtra, and Pandu. He is supposed to have instituted the three sacrificial fires, and is likewise the hero of the Vikramorvasi.
In theosophical philosophy, the cosmic divine in the hierarchical sense is both transcendent and immanent, during manifestation breaking as it were into innumerable rays which produce the various deific powers in inner and outer nature; each such immanent divinity, however, itself emanating from the all-encompassing and forever unmanifest Rootless Root or parabrahman. The various universes, sometimes referred to as sparks of eternity, spring from parabrahman at periodic intervals called manvantaras, and then resolve back into the pre-manvantaric condition or pralaya, only to issue forth again when the pralaya of whatever magnitude has run its course. Therefore, at one and the same time divinity is transcendent and immanent, eternal and unmanifest, while its rays or cosmic sparks of whatever magnitude are periodic and manifested. Hence from each such manifested One or cosmic hierarch proceed the multiple rays, to which in various theogonies are given names and attributes of superior deities. Thus the words god and deity become generic, and the general definition may be applied to the core of the core of any being, great or small, cosmic or human, for all are sparks of the cosmic flame of life.
In theosophical philosophy, the general or essential elixir is attained by the student-adept when he fills his whole being with the spiritual flow of substance and energy from the immortal center within himself. It is precisely this flow of the spirit which is the true elixir of immortality and the basis of all the marvelous powers within the person thus regenerated which enables him to transmute the base into the fine, evil into good, and to obtain self-conscious perpetuity during the manvantara. See also HETEROGENEITY AND HOMOGENEITY; PRIMEVAL MATTER
In the Puranas, Agni is variously a rishi of the fourth manvantara, the name of a kalpa, and also a star. See also FIRE.
In The Secret Doctrine (1:103), three great universal causes of manifestation are named in connection with intelligent cosmic motion, namely the breath, love or attraction, and hate or repulsion, the latter being merely polar antitheses of the same underlying cosmic energy. Through the interaction of these three, universes and worlds come into being, have their periods of manvantaric growth, and finally decay and disappear, only to reappear after a period of rest or pralaya. Herbert Spencer intuitively refers to manvantara and pralaya, and what takes place within each: “the universally co-existent forces of attraction and repulsion which, as we have seen, necessitate rhythm in all minor changes throughout the Universe, also necessitate rhythm in the totality of its changes — produce now an immeasurable period during which the attracting forces predominating, cause universal concentration, and then an immeasurable period, during which the repulsive forces predominating, causes universal diffusion — alternate eras of Evolution and dissolution” (SD 1:12).
In the theosophical scheme of rounds and races, the fifth manvantara of the Puranas refers to the first half or descending arc of the third round of our present planetary chain, and the fifth manu, Raivata, to the root-manu of this third round; further, the passage of the life-waves through each round of all the globes of the planetary chain — i.e. from globe A to globe G — consists of two “manvantaras,” and thus it is that the first half or descending arc of the third round is the fifth of these manvantaras. Moreover, just as in the third root-race on this globe in our present fourth round the manasaputras incarnated in the then relatively intellectually senseless humanity to awaken its self-conscious mind, so in their own way and on their own planes did the abhutarajasas act. In the descending arc of the third round they played the same part, albeit in a more diffuse and less active way, that they later did in the early part of the third root-race of the fourth round on this globe, when the human vehicles were evolutionally ready for a more intensive incarnation.
In the unfolding marvel of the embryonic germ-cell, both in the human and subhuman kingdoms, each kind manifests its own essential selfhood or svabhava, and its own degree of evolution. In the unfolding growth of the human embryo it rapidly epitomizes the aeon-long history of the imbodiments of the race, as it also repeats its individual course through all the forms of matter — a process often referred to as recapitulation. It goes back to past manvantaras of manifestation in mineral form, for “the cell-germinating substance (the cytoblastema) and the mother-lye from which crystals originate, are one and the same essence, save in differentiation for purposes” (SD 2:256n).
In this connection, the Kalki-avatara — stated to be the final incarnation of Vishnu in Hinduism or the incarnation of Maitreya-Buddha in Northern Buddhism — and the final great hero and savior of mankind of the Zoroastrians called Sosiosh, as well as the Faithful and True one of the Christian book of Revelation, all appear on a white horse. All these heroes or saviors are connected emblematically with horses of power because the horse has been from immemorial time a representation of solar, spiritual, and intellectual energies. See also ASVAMEDHA
In this Persian story of the conclusion of a manvantara of a life-wave on a globe, only “two persons” remain as sishtas, “one man and one woman,” a popularized and easily understood allegory — although when the seventh root-race of mankind is ended, and our human life-wave passes onwards to the next globe, there will be no man and woman, but simply human beings.
isvara (ishwara) ::: the isvara in his four personalities, usually referred to in the Record of Yoga as Mahavira, Balarama, Pradyumna and Aniruddha, to whom correspond the four aspects of his sakti and the four psychological types of the caturvarn.ya; each of these personalities is not a separate deity, but an aspect of the isvara or Kr.s.n.a, "Four who are One, One who is Four", often combined with one or more of the other three aspects. Sri Aurobindo adapted the Vaishnava tradition of the caturvyūha (fourfold manifestation of the purus.ottama) in giving to the four aspects names associated with Kr.s.n.a as an avatara.Mahavira ("the great hero") designates Śrikr.s.n.a himself, Balarama was his elder brother, Pradyumna his son and Aniruddha his grandson; they figure together in the legend of Us.a and Aniruddha told in the Bhagavata Puran.a. Other names that are sometimes used in the Record of Yoga for these aspects of the isvara are Mahesvara or Śiva for the first aspect (Mahavira), Rudra2 for the second (Balarama) and Vis.n.u for the third (Pradyumna). full dras drasta
. i ::: "the Supreme without qualities who is possessed of all qualities", the deva or isvara as at once nirgun.a and sagun.a, "the impersonal-personal" who "is beyond all limitation by quality" and .. yet "is not limited by a qualitiless void but is too all infinite qualities".[Cf. Śvetasvatara Upanis.ad 6.2, 11, 16]
It is likewise to be noted that the Vedantist classification of the principles, whether of a universe or an individual, is six in number: the essential self or atman, and five kosas emanating from it; the main reason for the Taraka-Raja-Yoga fourfold division lies in the fact that the atman of a person may be used in any one of the three upadhis independently as it were of the others, without the person’s running the risk of killing himself. In this way they form a natural division of the human being.
It is the unfolding of these seven leaves during manvantara that furnishes the whole course of evolutionary development, from the beginning of the kosmic manvantara to its end, and from the beginning of the cycle of human evolution to its end in buddhahood or human divinity.
Jagaddhatri (Sanskrit) Jagaddhātrī [from jagat the world + dhātrī mother, nurse] World-mother, world foster-mother; applied to Sarasvati and Durga, among other Hindu goddesses. Used particularly in connection with Krishna in his aspect of the Logos, the avatara, and likewise with his brother Balarama, who both are brought to their mother, Devaki, by means of Jagaddhatri. Cosmologically, the name refers to a spiritual substance which is one of the first few removes from Brahman. In the building of worlds it is the cosmic matrix out of which worlds are born, and which therefore acts not only in the sense of mother, but likewise as foster-mother, nurse, and producer.
Jagannatha (Sanskrit) Jagannātha [from jagat world + nātha protector, lord] World protector, governor or lord of the world; title of Vishnu and Krishna, especially in his avataric manifestation from Vishnu; also of Rama, a previous avatara. “This deity is worshipped equally by all the sects of India. . . . He is the god of the Mysteries, and his temples, which are most numerous in Bengal, are all of a pyramidal form” (IU 2:301). Applied specifically to the idol of Vishnu-Krishna at Puri in Orissa, Bengal, which is drawn through the street in a huge vehicle, under the wheels of which devotees were supposed to allow themselves to be crushed — the modern English form is Juggernaut, meaning any law, custom, or belief that demands blind devotion and ruthless sacrifice.
Jambu-dvipa (Sanskrit) Jambu-dvīpa [from jambu rose-apple tree (a gigantic tree said to flourish on Mount Meru) + dvīpa continent, continental island] The middle of the seven dvipas or continents enumerated in the geography of the Puranas and the Mahabharata, which relate that Mount Meru rises from the center of Jambu-dvipa. This dvipa was divided into nine varshas (parts or divisions): 1) Bharata, or India situated south of the Himalayas, the southernmost division; 2) Kimpurusha; 3) Hari-varsha; 4) Ila-vrita, the central varsha containing Mount Meru; 5) Ramyaka; 6) Hiran-maya; 7) Uttara-Kuru; 8) Bhadrasva, east of Ila-vrita; 9) Ketu-mala, west of the central varsha. Each varsha was apportioned to one of his nine sons by Agnidhra, king of Jambu-dvipa.
janma karma ca me divyam ::: My divine birth and work. [see the following] ::: janma karma ca me divyam evam yo vetti tattvatah ::: tyaktva deham punarjanma naiti mam eti sorjuna, ::: He who knoweth thus in its right principles My divine birth and My divine work, when he abandons his body, comes not to rebirth, he comes to Me, O Arjuna. [Gita 4.9] ::: vitaragabhayakrodha manmaya mam upasritah ::: bahavo jnanatapasa puta madbhavam agatah ::: Delivered from liking and fear and wrath, full of Me, taking refuge in Me, many purified by austerity of knowledge have arrived at My nature of being. [Gita 4.10]
jatyantaraparinamah prakrtyapurat ::: [evolutionary change (parinama) into another species is by the flooding of nature]. [Yogasutra 4.2]
Jaya (Sanskrit) Jaya [from the verbal root ji to conquer] Conquering, winning, victorious. As a noun, conquest, victory, hence a favorite proper name, applied to gods and goddesses, Arjuna, the sun, etc. In the Puranas, the jayas are the twelve great gods (or twelve great hierarchies of beings) created by Brahma to assist him in his work of creation in the very beginning of the kalpa. Also termed chhandajas — those born of their own will or svabhava, in human and other form. Being lost in samadhi they neglected to create, and therefore they were cursed to be born repeatedly in each manvantara until the seventh. They are called respectively: Ajitas, Tushitas, Satyas, Haris, Vaikunthas, Sadhyas, and Adityas. They are equivalent to the manasaputras or reincarnating egos.
Jivanu (Sanskrit) Jīvānu [from jīva living entity + anu atom, indivisible particle] Life-atom; a term coined by de Purucker for “a ‘life-atom,’ a life-infinitesimal, the ‘soul’ of the chemical atom. . . . [it] lasts only for a certain period of time within the cosmic manvantara” (FSO 274). See also LIFE-ATOM
Jivatman (Sanskrit) Jīvātman [from jīva living being + ātman self] The human spiritual ego, which is deathless until the end of the solar mahamanvantara. Strictly, the spiritual monad whose especial seat is the buddhi principle, the seed and the fruit of manas. Its range of consciousness is the solar system.
“Just as milliards of bright sparks dance on the waters of an ocean above which one and the same moon is shining, so our evanescent personalities — the illusive envelopes of the immortal monad-ego — twinkle and dance on the waves of Maya. They last and appear, as the thousands of sparks produced by the moon-beams, only so long as the Queen of the Night radiates her lustre on the running waters of life: the period of a Manvantara; and then they disappear, the beams — symbols of our eternal Spiritual Egos — alone surviving, re-merged in, and being, as they were before, one with the Mother-Source” (SD 1:237).
Kalanabha (Sanskrit) Kālanābha [from kāla black + nābha navel] One name of the asura Taraka.
Kalapa (Sanskrit) Kalāpa A place mentioned in the Vayu-Purana, said to be on the northern side of the Himalayas, hence in Tibet. The Matsya-Purana has it that from Kalapa (spelled Katapa) in due course will issue forth the Kalki-avatara.
Kaliya, Kaliya-naga (Sanskrit) Kāliya, Kāliya-nāga A serpent-king with five heads whose mouths vomited fire and smoke which devastated the country around, said to have lived in a deep pool of the Yamuna River. The Puranas relate that Krishna, one of the avataras of Vishnu, in his childhood overcame this serpent, then let him retreat into the ocean with his wives and offspring. This mythical monster symbolizes human passions, the river or water being a symbol of matter.
Kali yuga: The dark age of Hindu mythology, last yuga of the current manvantara (q.v.); it began at midnight between the 17th and 18th of February 3102 B.C.; it is a fourth less righteous and briefer than the preceding, enduring 432,000 years (one-tenth of the entire manvantara); it is characterized by strife, discord, quarreling, and contention; at the end of this age the world is to be destroyed.
Kalki Avatara (Sanskrit) Kalkī (or Kalki) Avatāra [from kalkin white horse + avatāra divine descent] The white-horse avatara, the 10th and last descent of Vishnu, in the form of a white horse at the end of kali yuga. “When the close of the Kali-age shall be nigh, a portion of that divine being which exists, of its own spiritual nature . . . shall descend on Earth . . . endowed with the eight superhuman faculties. . . . He will re-establish righteousness on earth, and the minds of those who live at the end of Kali-Yuga shall be awakened and become as pellucid as crystal. The men who are thus changed . . . shall be the seeds of human beings, and shall give birth to a race who shall follow the laws of the Krita-age, the age of purity” (VP 4:24).
Kalki ::: the final avatara of Vis.n.u according to the Hindu tradition, expected to come mounted symbolically on a white horse "bringing the Kingdom of the Divine upon earth, destroying the opposing Asura forces".
Kalki ::: [the tenth and final avatara of Visnu who will] fulfil in power the great struggle which the previous avataras prepared in all its potentialities.
kalottara jnana. ::: the knowledge to be revealed at the final stage of maturity
Kalpa(Sanskrit) ::: This word comes from a verb-root klrip, meaning "to be in order"; hence a "period of time," ora "cycle of time." Sometimes a kalpa is called the period of a mahamanvantara -- or "great manvantara"-- after which the globes of a planetary chain no longer go into obscuration or repose, as they periodicallydo, but die utterly. A kalpa is also called a Day of Brahma, and its length is 4,320,000,000 years. Sevenrounds form a Day of Brahma, or a planetary manvantara. (See also Brahma, Manvantara)Seven planetary manvantaras (or planetary cycles, each cycle consisting of seven rounds) form one solarkalpa (or solar manvantara), or seven Days of Brahma -- a week of Brahma.The difficulty that many Western students have had in understanding this word lies in the fact that it isunavoidably a "blind," because it does not apply with exclusive meaning to the length of one time periodalone. Like the English word age, or the English phrase time period, the word kalpa may be used forseveral different cycles. There is likewise the maha-kalpa or "great kalpa," which frequently is the namegiven to the vast time period contained in a complete solar manvantara or complete solar pralaya.
Kama-manas in the human constitution is conditionally immortal or mortal: if the kama-manas aspires successfully upwards and makes intellectual and emotional union with the buddhi over-enlightening it, the immortality for the manvantara is relatively certain. If, however, the kama-manas is insufficiently illuminated to withstand successfully the attractions of the lower astral and material realms of feeling and thought, it is attracted downwards and becomes enchained in these lower realms, and immortality in this case is lost, for the time being at least.
Kanishtha (Sanskrit) Kaniṣṭha The youngest; a class of gods which will manifest in the 14th or last manvantara of our world.
Karana-Sarira(Sanskrit) ::: A compound signifying "cause body" or "causal body," the instrument or principle or causalelement in man's constitution, and inferentially in the constitution of any other reimbodying entity, whichbrings about not merely the reproduction in imbodied form of such entity, but likewise its evolutionduring a manvantara through an unending series of reimbodiments. (See also Karanopadhi)
Karana-sarira (Sanskrit) Kāraṇa-śarīra [from kāraṇa cause + śarīra body, bodily frame] Cause-body or causal body; the principle or causal element which brings about not only the reimbodiment of an entity, but also its evolution during a manvantara through an endless series of reimbodiments.
Karanatman (Sanskrit) Kāraṇātman [from kāraṇa cause + ātman self] The causal self; the divine source of one’s being, from which flow forth in a descending scale in continuously less ethereal grades and qualities the various elements which form the human compound constitution. It is the causal self because from it as the primordial fountain of consciousness and being flow forth all the elements, principles, qualities, characteristics — the svabhava — of any entity undergoing its long evolutionary peregrination in the realms of the manifested universe. It is equivalent to atman, called in Hindu literature Isvara (Lord). The various monads in the human constitution — divine, spiritual, human, animal, and astral-vital — are derivatives from this fundamental or supreme atman in the constitution, its children or offspring. These various monads by their reproductive action actually are the causal principles or instruments of the various and unending series of reimbodiments that any entity during the kosmic manvantara is under karmic necessity of undergoing; and it is, therefore, these various monads in their outer or vehicular aspect which are the respective karanopadhis or karana-sarira.
Karanopadhi(Sanskrit) ::: A compound meaning the "causal instrument" or "instrumental cause" in the long series ofreimbodiments to which human and other reimbodying entities are subject. Upadhi, the second elementof this compound, is often translated as "vehicle"; but while this definition is accurate enough for popularpurposes, it fails to set forth the essential meaning of the word which is rather "disguise," or certainnatural properties or constitutional characteristics supposed to be the disguises or clothings or masks inand through which the spiritual monad of man works, bringing about the repetitive manifestations uponearth of certain functions and powers of this monad, and, indeed, upon the other globes of the planetarychain; and, furthermore, intimately connected with the peregrinations of the monad through the variousspheres and realms of the solar kosmos. In one sense of the word, therefore, karanopadhi is almostinterchangeable with the thoughts set forth under the term maya, or the illusory disguises through whichspirit works, or rather through which spiritual monadic entities work and manifest themselves.Karanopadhi, as briefly explained under the term "causal body," is dual in meaning. The first and moreeasily understood meaning of this term shows that the cause bringing about reimbodiment is avidya,nescience rather than ignorance; because when a reimbodying entity through repeated reimbodiments inthe spheres of matter has freed itself from the entangling chains of the latter, and has risen intoself-conscious recognition of its own divine powers, it thereby shakes off the chains or disguises of mayaand becomes what is called a jivanmukta. It is only imperfect souls, or rather monadic souls, speaking ina general way, which are obliged by nature's cyclic operations and laws to undergo the repetitivereimbodiments on earth and elsewhere in order that the lessons of self-conquest and mastery over all theplanes of nature may be achieved. As the entity advances in wisdom and knowledge, and in the acquiringof self-conscious sympathy for all that is, in other words, as it grows more and more like unto itsdivine-spiritual counterpart, the less is it subject to avidya. It is, in a sense, the seeds of kama-manas leftin the fabric or being of the reincarnating entity, which act as the karana or reproducing cause, orinstrumental cause, of such entity's reincarnations on earth.The higher karanopadhi, however, although in operation similar to the lower karanopadhi, orkarana-sarira just described, nevertheless belongs to the spiritual-intellectual part of man's constitution,and is the reproductive energy inherent in the spiritual monad bringing about its re-emergence after thesolar pralaya into the new activities and new series of imbodiments which open with the dawn of thesolar manvantara following upon the solar pralaya just ended. This latter karanopadhi or karana-sarira,therefore, is directly related to the element-principle in man's constitution called buddhi -- a veil, as itwere, drawn over the face or around the being of the monadic essence, much as prakriti surroundsPurusha, or pradhana surrounds Brahman, or mulaprakriti surrounds and is the veil or disguise or sakti ofparabrahman. Hence, in the case of man, this karanopadhi or causal disguise or vehicle corresponds in ageneral way to the buddhi-manas, or spiritual soul, in which the spiritual monad works and manifestsitself.It should be said in passing that the doctrine concerning the functions and operations of buddhi in thehuman constitution is extremely recondite, because in buddhi lie the causal impulses or urges bringingabout the building of the constitution of man, and which, when the latter is completed, and when formingman as a septenary entity, express themselves as the various strata or qualities of the auric egg.Finally, the karana-sarira, the karanopadhi or causal body, is the vehicular instrumental form orinstrumental body-form, produced by the working of what is perhaps the most mysterious principle orelement, mystically speaking, in the constitution not only of man, but of the universe -- the verymysterious spiritual bija.The karanopadhi, the karana-sarira or causal body, is explained with minor differences of meaning invarious works of Hindu philosophy; but all such works must be studied with the light thrown upon themby the great wisdom-teaching of the archaic ages, esoteric theosophy. The student otherwise runs everyrisk of being led astray.I might add that the sushupti state or condition, which is that of deep dreamless sleep, involving entireinsensibility of the human consciousness to all exterior impressions, is a phase of consciousness throughwhich the adept must pass, although consciously pass in his case, before reaching the highest state ofsamadhi, which is the turiya state. According to the Vedanta philosophy, the turiya (meaning "fourth") isthe fourth state of consciousness into which the full adept can self-consciously enter and wherein hebecomes one with the kosmic Brahman. The Vedantists likewise speak of the anandamaya-kosa, whichthey describe as being the innermost disguise or frame or vehicle surrounding the atmic consciousness.Thus we see that the anandamaya-kosa and the karana-sarira, or karanopadhi, and the buddhi inconjunction with the manasic ego, are virtually identical.The author has been at some pains to set forth and briefly to develop the various phases of occult andesoteric theosophical thought given in this article, because of the many and various misunderstandingsand misconceptions concerning the nature, characteristics, and functions of the karana-sarira or causalbody.
kartaram (api) akartaram ::: the doer (yet) the non-doer. [Gita 4.13]
Karttikeya was born for the purpose of killing Taraka, the too holy and wise deva-daimon, who had obtained through austerity all the knowledge and yoga powers of the gods. Karttikeya is equivalent to Michael, Indra, and Apollo. See also GHARMA-JA
Kaspar One of the three Magi or wise men in Christian legend. In Egypt the scribe of the gods or the recorder was Tehuti (Thoth), who was also the god of wisdom, equivalent to Hermes or Mercury: always present at initiations, and the presiding influence, as initiator, at all ancient initiations. Looking at the Christian story in this context, infant is a name for a “newly born” initiate, who thus is a twice-born (Sanskrit dvija). The star refers to the esoteric wisdom which taught the wise men of the time that the cycle in its turning had brought about the birth of an avatara, a manifestation on this earth of a certain starry or solar divinity. See also BALTHAZAR; MELCHIOR
kavim anusasitaram dhataram ::: the seer, the Master and ruler, he who sets (all things and beings) in their place. [see the following]
kavim puranam anusasitaram sarvasya dhataram ::: the seer, the Ancient of Days, the Master and ruler who sets in their place all beings and things. [Gita 8.9]
keratome ::: n. --> An instrument for dividing the cornea in operations for cataract.
keratonyxis ::: n. --> The operation of removing a cataract by thrusting a needle through the cornea of the eye, and breaking up the opaque mass.
Kesin (Sanskrit) Keśin A demon slain by Krishna, the eighth avatara of Vishnu.
klesodhikataras tesam ::: [their difficulty is greater]. [Gita 12.5]
Kratudvish (Sanskrit) Kratudviṣ In Hindu mythology, an enemy of all ritualistic and ceremonial worship and exoteric sham; the spiritual beings which represented, in their human aspect, the adepts of esoteric wisdom in opposition to the multitude who followed exoteric and popular religious forms, mummeries, and sacrifices. The kratusvishas were often called the asuras, daityas, danavas, kinnaras, etc., who fought against Brihaspati, the prototype of exoteric and ritualistic worship in the Tarakamaya (war in heaven). All the kratudvishas are represented as being yogis and ascetics of great spiritual and intellectual power.
Krishna (Sanskrit) Kṛṣṇa Black, dark, dark blue; the most celebrated and eighth avatara of Vishnu. Hindus consider him their savior, and he is worshiped as the most popular of their gods. Krishna was born some 5000 years ago, the incarnated human spiritual power that closed the dvapara yuga — his death in 3102 BC marked the beginning of kali yuga. He was the son of Devaki and the nephew of Kansa, who parallels King Herod.
Kr.s.n.a (Krishna) ::: the eighth avatara of Vis.n.u in the Hindu tradition, regarded by Sri Aurobindo as an embodiment of "the complete divine manhood" and as the avatara who opened the possibility of overmind in the evolution of consciousness on earth; a name of the universal Deity (deva) and supreme Being (purus.ottama) who is the fourfold isvara and also "the Destroyer, Preserver, Creator in one" (Rudra2,Vis.n.u, Brahma), manifesting "through the Vishnu aspect as his frontal appearance"; "the Ishwara taking delight in the world" (anandamaya isvara or lilamaya purus.a), realisation of oneness with whom is the first part of the karma catus.t.aya, seen in all things and beings in the several intensities and degrees of Kr.s.n.adarsana.
Kshira-samudra (Sanskrit) Kṣīra-samudra The ocean of milk, which was churned by the gods, according to Puranic legend. The sea of milk and curds is the Milky Way and the various congeries of nebulae. The allegory of the churning of the ocean of milk refers to a time before the kosmos was evolved. Vishnu, who here stands for aeonic preservation of karmically developed kosmic stuff or matter, is its intelligent preserver, and churns out of the primitive ocean (the chaos of a universe in pralaya) the amrita or immortal essence which is reserved only for the gods. See also KURMA-AVATARA
Kurma-avatara (Sanskrit) Kūrma-avatāra The Tortoise avatara; a descent of Vishnu, the sustainer of life, in the form of a tortoise. In the Puranas, a portion of cosmic Vishnu descended as the kurma to restore to mankind the mystic nectar (amrita), the essence of life and truth, as well as other holy and precious things needful to humanity, which had been lost. Vishnu ordered the gods to churn the sea of milk that they might procure once more these precious things, and he promised to become the tortoise on which the mountain Mandara as a churning stick should rest. Out of the sea of churned milk arose the 14 precious things, and with these the gods won their authority over the demons once more. Cosmically this churning of the sea of milk relates to a period before the earth’s formation, the sea of milk being the expanse of space populated by the nebulae and diffuse star-stuff, the seeds and substance of future worlds and their hierarchies.
Kuru (Sanskrit) Kuru The ancestor of Dhritarashtra, father of the Kauravas and the brother of Pandu, the father of the Pandavas. According to modern scholars, he ruled in the northwest of India around Delhi.
Lalitavistara (Sanskrit) Lalitavistara A celebrated biography of Gautama Buddha by Dhrarmaraksha (308 AD); a Theravada work of the Mahasanghika school, written in Sanskrit.
Linga Purana (Sanskrit) Liṅga Purāṇa One of the 18 principal Puranas, in which Siva, supposed to be present in the Agni-linga (great fiery phallus) gives an account of the formation of the worlds and the objects of life. It also contains mythologic accounts of Siva’s incarnations as avataras.
Lipika (Sanskrit) Lipika [from the verbal root lip to write] A scribe; divine beings connected with karma, recorders who impress on the astral light a record of every act and thought, great or small, in the phenomenal universe. The lipika are active cosmic karmic intelligences, the highest class of architects, which lay down from manvantara to manvantara the tracks of karmic evolution to be followed by all evolving entities within the manvantara about to begin; and these tracks are rigidly begun, and their direction controlled, by the endpoint of the paths of karmic achievement in the preceding manvantara. They “project into objectivity from the passive Universal Mind the ideal plan of the universe, upon which the ‘Builders’ reconstruct the Kosmos after every Pralaya, . . . it is they who are the direct amanuenses of the Eternal Ideation — or, as called by Plato, the ‘Divine Thought’ ” (SD 1:104). The lipika thus are in every sense the agents of karmic destiny, for they are both the vehicles of divine ideation in their work, and yet the expressions of karmic law arising in the past and projected on the background of the future. Their intelligence and vitality permeate their particular universe and all the beings in it, so that the lipikas are stamped with whatever takes place.
logical (From the technical term "logical device", wherein a physical device is referred to by an arbitrary "logical" name) Having the role of. If a person (say, Les Earnest at SAIL) who had long held a certain post left and were replaced, the replacement would for a while be known as the "logical" Les Earnest. (This does not imply any judgment on the replacement). Compare {virtual}. At Stanford, "logical" compass directions denote a coordinate system in which "logical north" is toward San Francisco, "logical west" is toward the ocean, etc., even though logical north varies between physical (true) north near San Francisco and physical west near San Jose. (The best rule of thumb here is that, by definition, El Camino Real always runs logical north-and-south.) In giving directions, one might say: "To get to Rincon Tarasco restaurant, get onto {El Camino Bignum} going logical north." Using the word "logical" helps to prevent the recipient from worrying about that the fact that the sun is setting almost directly in front of him. The concept is reinforced by North American highways which are almost, but not quite, consistently labelled with logical rather than physical directions. A similar situation exists at MIT: Route 128 (famous for the electronics industry that has grown up along it) is a 3-quarters circle surrounding Boston at a radius of 10 miles, terminating near the coastline at each end. It would be most precise to describe the two directions along this highway as "clockwise" and "counterclockwise", but the road signs all say "north" and "south", respectively. A hacker might describe these directions as "logical north" and "logical south", to indicate that they are conventional directions not corresponding to the usual denotation for those words. (If you went logical south along the entire length of route 128, you would start out going northwest, curve around to the south, and finish headed due east, passing along one infamous stretch of pavement that is simultaneously route 128 south and Interstate 93 north, and is signed as such!) [{Jargon File}] (1995-01-24)
Lunar Chain, Moon-Chain The planetary chain of the solar system which, although now dead and in decay, was the former imbodiment of our present earth-chain. When the life forces inherent in a globe of a planetary chain have completed seven rounds on that globe, these life forces progressively pass out into a laya-center which then becomes, after a time period determined by karma, the vital nucleus for the corresponding globe or the next imbodiment of that planetary chain. This took place on the lunar chain as the globes of this chain in the preceding chain-manvantara reached the end of their life-term in manifestation, and died in serial order from the first to the last globe. Thus each globe of the lunar chain as it died became a lunar globe-corpse still infilled with the molecular life of the globe, but deprived of all its higher, more ethereal and spiritual parts — exactly as happens at the death and decay of a human physical body. Though globe D of the moon-chain, as an instance in point, thus passed into invisibility with the disintegration of its molecular components and with the passage of cosmic ages, yet we are able to discern its phantom, our moon, because our senses, correlated to the physical plane of matter of our chain, are also correlated to what on the lunar chain would be astral matter, and thus are able to perceive what is actually the kama-rupa or astral shell of globe D of the lunar chain (our moon). Hence the earth-chain is the child or reimbodiment of the lunar chain.
Lunar Pitri(s) ::: Lunar of course means "belonging to the moon," while pitri is a Sanskrit word meaning "father." It is aterm used in theosophy to signify the seven or ten grades of evolving entities which at the end of thelunar manvantara pass into a nirvanic state, to leave it aeons later as the seven or tenfold hierarchy ofbeings which inform the planetary chain of earth. In a general sense lunar pitris means all entities whichoriginally came from the moon-chain to the earth-chain; but in a more particular and restricted sense itrefers to those elements of the human constitution beneath the evolutionary standing of the agnishvattas.Another term for lunar pitris is lunar ancestors or barhishads. These lunar ancestors are usually given asof seven classes, three being arupa, incorporeal, and four being rupa or corporeal. There is a vast body ofteaching connected with the lunar pitris, of which the best modern exposition thus far given is to befound in H. P. Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine. Briefly, the earth-chain including our own globe Terrawas populated from the moon-chain, because all entities now on earth, whatever their grade in evolution,came from the chain of the moon. (See also Pitris, Agnishvattas)
Madhusudana (Sanskrit) Madhusūdana The slayer of Madhu; a title of Vishnu, who slew the asura Madhu; and of Krishna as an avatara of Vishnu because he slew the demon Madhu.
Mahakalpa (Sanskrit) Mahākalpa [from mahā great + kalpa age] Great age; lifetime of Brahma consisting of 100 Divine Years, equivalent to 311,040,000,000,000 years. The time period between the beginning and end of a complete solar manvantara — the entire lifetime of our solar system.
Mahamanvantara (Sanskrit) Mahāmanvantara [from mahā great + manvantara period of manifestation] A great cycle of cosmic manifestation and activity, whether of a universe, solar system, or planet. The mahamanvantara of a solar system or Life of Brahma is a period of 311,040,000,000,000 terrestrial years. A mahamanvantara of the earth-chain is a Day of Brahma or a period of seven rounds of the planetary chain. We have lived somewhat more than one-half of our planetary mahamanvantara; and again 50 Years of Brahma (one half of the Life of Brahma) have also passed away. We have thus reached the first Divine Day of the first Divine Month of the ascending cycle of the second cosmic period of fifty Divine Years of the cosmic mahamanvantara.
Mahapralaya (Sanskrit) Mahāpralaya The great dissolution; sometimes applied to a planetary pralaya (bhaumika or naimittika pralaya), but usually applied to the pralaya of the solar system (saurya or Brahma pralaya). During a mahapralaya or Brahma pralaya, not only will material and psychic bodies be reduced to their original principles, but even the spiritual egos: the past, present, and future humanities, like all other entities and things, will be free to enter into their own divine essences. Everything then will have reentered the Great Breath and be merged in Brahman or the divine unity, so to remain until the mahapralaya is ended and a mahamanvantara begins a cycle of cosmic evolution.
Mahasaurya Manvantara and Pralaya [from Sanskrit mahā great + saurya solar] The life period or period of manifestation of the solar system, or its death and dissolution. See also MANVANTARA; PRALAYA (FSO)
Mahavishnu (Sanskrit) Mahāviṣṇu Great Vishnu; a title of Vishnu. Source of the avataras of Vishnu. See also BIJA
Mahayuga: Sanskrit for great age; the manvantara (q.v.).
mam visate tadanantaram ::: [ ...(knowing) Me, he enters immediately into That]. [Gita 18.55]
Manas (Sanskrit) Manas [from the verbal root man to think] The seat of mentation and egoic consciousness; the third principle in the descending scale of the sevenfold human constitution. Manas is the human person, the reincarnating ego, immortal in essence, enduring in its higher aspects through the entire manvantara. When imbodied, manas is dual, gravitating toward buddhi in its higher aspects and in its lower aspects toward kama. The first is intuitive mind, the second the animal, ratiocinative consciousness, the lower mentality and passions of the personality. “ ‘Manas is dual — lunar in the lower, solar in its upper portion’ . . . and herein is contained the mystery of an adept’s as of a profane man’s life, as also that of the post-mortem separation of the divine from the animal man” (SD 2:495-6).
Mandara (Sanskrit) Mandara A sacred mountain which in Hindu mythology served the gods and asuras as a churning-stick on the occasion of the churning of the ocean for the recovery of the amrita and 13 other precious and holy things, which had been lost during the preceding deluge. See also KURMA-AVATARA
Manifestation. See MANVANTARA
Manojava (Sanskrit) Manojava Swift as thought; a name of Indra in the sixth manvantara, which corresponds with the sixth manu of this round, the seed-manu of globe C, or again with the third root-race of this round.
manu ::: 1. the thinker, the mental being, man. ::: 2. Manu: the father of man. ::: 3. the four Manus (catvaro manavah): the spiritual Fathers of every human mind and body. ::: 4. [one of the fourteen progenitors who preside successively over the fourteen manvantaras; to the first of these is attributed the Manava-dharmasastra; the manu of the present (seventh) manvantara is Vaivasvata].
Manu ::: Manu in the esoteric system is the entities collectively which appear first at the beginning ofmanifestation, and from which, like a cosmic tree, everything is derived or born. Manu actually is thespiritual tree of life of any planetary chain of manifested being. Manu is thus in one sense the thirdLogos; as the second is the father-mother, the Brahma and prakriti; and the first is what we call theunmanifest Logos, or Brahman (neuter) and its cosmic veil pradhana.In other words, the second Logos, father-mother, is the producing cause of manifestation through theirson, which in a planetary chain is Manu, the first of the manus being called in the archaic Hindu systemSvayambhuva.During a Day of Brahma or period of seven rounds, fourteen subordinate or inferior manus appear aspatrons and guardians of the race cycles or life-waves (See also H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine,passim; also Manvantara).Manu is likewise the name of a great ancient Indian legislator, the alleged author of the Laws of Manu(Manava-dharma-sastra).
Manu ::: the mental being; same as Manu Prajapati; each of the fourteen manifestations of Manu Prajapati governing the manvantaras of a pratikalpa; each of "the four Type-Souls from whom all human Purushas are born".Manu Praj Prajapati
manvantara ::: [an age or period of a Manu, an extremely long period of time, one fourteenth of a day of Brahma].
manvantara (manvantara; manwantara) ::: an aeon comprising several caturyugas and corresponding to the reign of one of the fourteen Manus.
Manvantara: Sanskrit for cycle in cosmic history. The current manvantara of Hindu mystic philosophy embraces the Satya Yuga, the Golden Age (the first four-tenths of the cycle), followed by the Dwapara Yuga, the Second Age (three-tenths of the cycle), the Tretya Yuga, the Third Age (two-tenths of the cycle), and the current Kali Yuga, the Dark Age (one-tenth of the duration of the entire cycle), in which we are living now.
Manvantara(Sanskrit) ::: This word is a compound, and means nothing more than "between two manus"; more literally,"manu-within or -between." A manu, as said, is the entities collectively which appear first at thebeginning of manifestation; the spiritual tree of life of any planetary chain of manifested being. Thesecond verbal element of "manvantara," or antara, is a prepositional suffix signifying "within" or"between"; hence the compound paraphrased means "within a manu," or "between manus." Amanvantara is the period of activity between any two manus, on any plane, since in any such period thereis a root-manu at the beginning of evolution, and a seed-manu at its close, preceding a pralaya.There are many kinds of manvantaras: prakritika manvantara -- universal manvantara; sauryamanvantara -- the manvantara of the solar system; bhaumika manvantara -- the terrestrial manvantara, ormanvantara of earth; paurusha manvantara -- the manvantara, or period of activity, of man.A round-manvantara is the time required for one round: that is, the cycle from globe A to the last globeof the seven, and starting from the root-manu or collective "humanity" of globe A and ending with theseed-manu or collective "humanity" of Globe G.A planetary manvantara -- also called a maha-manvantara or a kalpa -- is the period of the lifetime of aplanet during its seven rounds. It is also called a Day of Brahma, and its length is 4,320,000,000 years.
Many of the great mystical religions refer to mundane mountains or world-mountains, whether of cosmic or terrestrial character. These myths are always extremely recondite because connected with the spiritual and psychological forces continuously at work in the solar system. They are bound up with the teachings of the other globes of the earth planetary chain, and with the relations of such globes to the solar system. Also they refer to the north pole of the earth which was the situation of the first continent on our globe when manifestation began in the fourth round. This continent, the Sacred Imperishable Land, was likewise the seat of the first race of beings who through evolution became the human and superior races. It has been called sacred and imperishable because as a land mass or massif it endures from the beginning of the fourth round to its end, without finding a final watery grave as do succeeding continental massifs. The polar land does not remain unchanged, as there is constant change through the ages involving minor subsidences and elevations and inroads of the arctic seas into the land masses, so that there is a constant shifting in topographical outline. The meaning is that as a land mass, whatever its minor changes, it remains throughout the entire globe-manvantara.
Matsya-avatara (Sanskrit) Matsya-avatāra The Fish-avatara; a descent of Vishnu, the cosmic sustainer of life, in the form of a fish — mystically not physically — in order to lead to safety from the deluge King Satyavrata and certain rishis, so that the seeds of hierarchical life might not perish from the earth. The Matsya-Purana is particularly descriptive of this incarnation.
Medium ::: A word of curiously ill-defined significance, and used mostly if not exclusively by modern Spiritists. Thegeneral sense of the word would seem to be a person of unstable psychical temperament, or constitutionrather, who is supposed to act as a canal or channel of transmission, hence "medium," between humanbeings and the so-called spirits.A medium actually in the theosophical teaching is one whose inner constitution is in unstable balance, orperhaps even dislocated, so that at different times the sheaths of the inner parts of the medium'sconstitution function irregularly and in magnetic sympathy with currents and entities in the astral light,more particularly in kama-loka. It is an exceedingly unfortunate and dangerous condition to be in, despitewhat the Spiritists claim for it.Very different indeed from the medium is the mediator, a human being of relatively highly evolvedspiritual and intellectual and psychical nature who serves as an intermediary or mediator between themembers of the Great Brotherhood, the mahatmas, and ordinary humanity. There are also mediators of astill more lofty type who serve as channels of transmission for the passing down of divine and spiritualand highly intellectual powers to this sphere. Actually, every mahatma is such a mediator of this highertype, and so in even larger degree are the buddhas and the avataras. A mediator is one of highly evolvedconstitution, every portion of which is under the instant and direct control of the spiritual dominating willand the loftiest intelligence which the mediator is capable of exercising. Every human being should striveto be a mediator of this kind between his own inner god and his mere brain-mind. The more he succeeds,the grander he is as a man.Mediator, therefore, and medium are the polar antitheses of each other. The medium is irregular,negative, often irresponsible or quasi-irresponsible, and uncertain, and is not infrequently the victim orplaything of evil and degenerate entities whom theosophists call elementaries, having their habitat in theastral light of the earth; whereas the mediator is one more or less fully insouled or inspirited with divine,spiritual, and intellectual powers and their corresponding faculties and organs.
Mimansa (Sanskrit) Mīmāṃsā [from the verbal root man to think] Profound thought, profound consideration; one of the six Darsanas or Hindu schools of philosophy. There are two Mimansas, the older or Purva-mimansa, founded by Jaimini, and the younger or Uttara-mimansa founded by Vyasa. The older is commonly known as the Mimansa, and the younger as the Vedanta.
Moksha (Sanskrit) Mokṣa [from mokṣ to release, set free probably from the verbal root much] Freedom; freedom from sentient life for the reminder of a manvantara. Equivalent to nirvana, the absolute, mukti [from the verbal root much], the Palace of Love of the Zohar, the Gnostic Pleroma of Eternal Light, the Chinese nippang, and the Burmese neibban. “When a spirit, a monad, or a spiritual radical, has so grown in manifestation that it has first become a man, and is set free interiorly, inwardly, and from a man has become a planetary spirit or dhyan-chohan or lord of meditation, and has gone still higher to become interiorly a brahman, and from a brahman the Parabrahman for its hierarchy, then it is absolutely perfected, free, released: perfected for that great period of time which to us seems almost an eternity, so long is it, virtually incomputable by the human intellect. This is the Absolute: limited in comparison with things still more immense, still more sublime; but so far as we can think of it, ‘released’ or ‘freed’ from the chains or bonds of material existence” (Fund 183).
Monad ::: A spiritual entity which to us humans is indivisible; it is a divine-spiritual life-atom, but indivisiblebecause its essential characteristic, as we humans conceive it, is homogeneity; while that of the physicalatom, above which our consciousness soars, is divisible, is a composite heterogeneous particle.Monads are eternal, unitary, individual life-centers, conscious-ness-centers, deathless during any solarmanvantara, therefore ageless, unborn, undying. Consequently, each one such -- and their number isinfinite -- is the center of the All, for the divine or the All is THAT which has its center everywhere, andits circumference or limiting boundary nowhere.Monads are spiritual-substantial entities, self-motivated, self-impelled, self-conscious, in infinitelyvarying degrees, the ultimate elements of the universe. These monads engender other monads as one seedwill produce multitudes of other seeds; so up from each such monad springs a host of living entities inthe course of illimitable time, each such monad being the fountainhead or parent, in which all others areinvolved, and from which they spring.Every monad is a seed, wherein the sum total of powers appertaining to its divine origin are latent, that isto say unmanifested; and evolution consists in the growth and development of all these seeds or childrenmonads, whereby the universal life expresses itself in innumerable beings.As the monad descends into matter, or rather as its ray -- one of other innumerable rays proceeding fromit -- is propelled into matter, it secretes from itself and then excretes on each one of the seven planesthrough which it passes, its various vehicles, all overshadowed by the self, the same self in you and inme, in plants and in animals, in fact in all that is and belongs to that hierarchy. This is the one self, thesupreme self or paramatman of the hierarchy. It illumines and follows each individual monad and all thelatter's hosts of rays -- or children monads. Each such monad is a spiritual seed from the previousmanvantara, which manifests as a monad in this manvantara; and this monad through its rays throws outfrom itself by secretion and then excretion all its vehicles. These vehicles are, first, the spiritual ego, thereflection or copy in miniature of the monad itself, but individualized through the manvantaric evolution,"bearing" or "carrying" as a vehicle the monadic ray. The latter cannot directly contact the lower planes,because it is of the monadic essence itself, the latter a still higher ray of the infinite Boundless composedof infinite multiplicity in unity. (See also Individuality)
mr.tyur va prabhavati (mrityur va prabhavati) ::: death has power.(This phrase, forming the first sortilege of 9 October 1914, occurs in a sentence in Shankara"s commentary on Śvetasvatara Upanis.ad 2.12 which is part of the second sortilege of the same date. The complete sentence means: "Over that Yogi neither disease nor old age nor death has power.")
mygale ::: n. --> A genus of very large hairy spiders having four lungs and only four spinnerets. They do not spin webs, but usually construct tubes in the earth, which are often furnished with a trapdoor. The South American bird spider (Mygale avicularia), and the crab spider, or matoutou (M. cancerides) are among the largest species. Some of the species are erroneously called tarantulas, as the Texas tarantula (M. Hentzii).
Mystically, Arjuna represents Everyman, the human ego, in contradistinction to Krishna, who stands for the spiritual monad as well as the avatara who comes forth from age to age in order to overthrow adharma (lawlessness) and restore dharma (respect for law, justice, and truth) in the land (BG 4:7-8).
Naimittika Pralaya and Naimittika Manvantara (Sanskrit) Naimittika-pralaya, -manvantara [from naimittika occasional, unusual, due to external cause from nimitti] Occasional dissolution or manifestation; in Hindu literature, pralayas or manvantaras which are unusual or occasional because occurring at wide intervals, either of time or circumstance, especially those separated by Brahma’s Days and Nights. A naimittika pralaya occurs when Brahma slumbers: it is the destruction of all that lives and has form, but not of the substance, which remains more or less in statu quo till the new dawn after that Night of Brahma. At the end of a Day of Brahma there occurs what is called in the Puranas a recoalescence of the universe, called Brahma’s “contingent or naimittika recoalescence or pralaya,” because Brahma is this universe itself. A naimittika pralaya is thus similar to the bhaumika or planetary pralaya (cf SD 1:371-2, 376-7).
Narasimha-avatara (Sanskrit) Narasiṃha-avatāra also Nṛsiṃha. The man-lion avatara; a descent of Vishnu, the sustainer of life, in the form of a man-lion in order to deliver the earth from the demon Hiranyakasipu, a despoiler of the world. These various avataras, when considered in their order of appearance, present a picture of evolutionary progress from lower to higher avataric imbodiments. They are usually reckoned as ten in number, yet one or more of the Puranas reckon the avataric imbodiments as 22, having in mind the occult meaning behind all cosmic or geologic avataric appearances. As the Bhagavata-Purana states, innumerable are the imbodiments (in avataric form) of Vishnu, for they are like the rivulets emanating from a lake of inexhaustible power. Rishis, manus, gods, sons of manus, prajapatis are therefore all emanations or portions of Vishnu.
Narasiṁha (Narasinha) ::: the man-lion, the fourth avatara of Vis.n.u,Narasimha the incarnation symbolically "bridging man and animal" in the evolutionary interpretation of the ten avataras; psychologically, leonine vital strength in a mentalised form, associated in the Record of Yoga with a "fierce & ardent" energy called Narasiṁha tejas.
nastyanto (nasti anto) vistarasya me ::: there is no end to My self-extension. [Gita 10.19]
nataraja. ::: "King of the Dance"; a title of Shiva, as the cosmic dancer
Nataraja Siva (Natarajan) ::: [(an image of) Siva as the king of the Dance].
Nidana is also a title of Brahma, considered as the first cause, being the kosmic living aggregate of vital bonds forming the universe into an organic whole; reproduced through its own internal energies from the preceding manvantara.
Nirvana has also been called the vanishing point of differentiated matter. The purely nirvanic state is an assimilation with parabrahman, a passage of spirit back to the ideal abstraction of Be-ness which has no modifying relation with the manifested planes on which our universe exists during this manvantara. Being “blown out” refers only to the lower human principles, not to entitative annihilation.
Nirvana is also “the state of the monadic entities in the period that intervenes between minor manvantaras or Rounds of a Planetary Chain; and more fully so between each seven-Round period or Day of Brahma, and the succeeding Day or new Kalpa of a Planetary Chain. At these last times, starting forth from the seventh sphere in the seventh Round, the monadic entities will have progressed far beyond even the highest state of Devachan. Too pure and too far advanced even for such a condition as the devachanic felicity, they go to their appropriate sphere and condition, which latter is the Nirvana following the end of the seventh Round” (OG 115-16).
Nirvana(Sanskrit) ::: This is a compound: nir, "out," and vana, the past participle passive of the root va, "to blow,"literallly meaning "blown out." So badly has the significance of the ancient Indian thought (and even its language, the Sanskrit) been understood, that for many years erudite European scholars were discussingwhether being "blown out" meant actual entitative annihilation or not. But the being blown out refersonly to the lower principles in man.Nirvana is a very different thing from the "heavens." Nirvana is a state of utter bliss and complete,untrammeled consciousness, a state of absorption in pure kosmic Being, and is the wondrous destiny ofthose who have reached superhuman knowledge and purity and spiritual illumination. It really ispersonal-individual absorption into or rather identification with the Self -- the highest SELF. It is also thestate of the monadic entities in the period that intervenes between minor manvantaras or rounds of aplanetary chain; and more fully so between each seven-round period or Day of Brahma, and thesucceeding day or new kalpa of a planetary chain. At these last times, starting forth from the seventhsphere in the seventh round, the monadic entities will have progressed far beyond even the highest stateof devachan. Too pure and too far advanced even for such a condition as the devachanic felicity, they goto their appropriate sphere and condition, which latter is the nirvana following the end of the seventhround.Devachan and nirvana are not localities. They are states, states of the beings in those respective spiritualconditions. Devachan is the intermediate state; nirvana is the superspiritual state; and avichi, popularlycalled the lowest of the hells, is the nether pole of the spiritual condition. These three are states of beingshaving habitat in the lokas or talas, in the worlds of the kosmic egg.So far as the individual human being is concerned, the nirvanic state or condition may be attained to bygreat spiritual seers and sages, such as Gautama the Buddha, and even by men less progressed than he;because in these cases of the attaining of the nirvana even during a man's life on earth, the meaning isthat one so attaining has through evolution progressed so far along the path that all the lower personalpart of him is become thoroughly impersonalized, the personal has put on the garment of impersonality,and such a man thereafter lives in the nirvanic condition of the spiritual monad.As a concluding thought, it must be pointed out that nirvana, while the ultima thule of the perfection tobe attained by any human being, nevertheless stands less high in the estimate of mystics than thecondition of the bodhisattva. For the bodhisattva, although standing on the threshold of nirvana andseeing and understanding its ineffable glory and peace and rest, nevertheless retains his consciousness inthe worlds of men, in order to consecrate his vast faculties and powers to the service of all that is. Thebuddhas in their higher parts enter the nirvana, in other words, assume the dharmakaya state or vesture,whereas the bodhisattva assumes the nirmanakaya vesture, thereafter to become an ever-active andcompassionate and beneficent influence in the world. The buddha indeed may be said to act indirectlyand by long distance control, thus indeed helping the world diffusively or by diffusion; but thebodhisattva acts directly and positively and with a directing will in works of compassion, both for theworld and for individuals.
Nirvanin, Nirvani (Sanskrit) Nirvāṇin One who enters, or has entered, nirvana; a jivanmukta. One who is liberated for the remainder of the entire solar manvantara from the cycle of spiritual transmigrations through the various spheres of being, visible and invisible. The nirvanin, therefore, rests in crystallized bliss and purity, relatively at one with the cosmic spirit or Logos for the remainder of the cosmic manvantara and throughout the long pralaya which succeeds it. Only when the next manvantara opens will the nirvanin, through karmic necessity, be obliged to enter the pathways of experience in the new system of worlds. Also nirvanee.
“No purely spiritual Buddhi (divine Soul) can have an independent (conscious) existence before the spark which issued from the pure Essence of the Universal Sixth principle, — or the over-soul, — has (a) passed through every elemental form of the phenomenal world of that Manvantara, and (b) acquired individuality, first by natural impulse, and then by self-induced and self-devised efforts (checked by its Karma), thus ascending through all the degrees of intelligence, from the lowest to the highest Manas, from mineral and plant, up to the holiest archangel (Dhyani-Buddha)” (SD 1:17).
“no purely spiritual Buddhi (divine Soul) can have an independent (conscious) existence before the spark which issued from the pure Essence of the Universal Sixth principle — or the OVERSOUL — has (a) passed through every elemental form of the phenomenal world of that Manvantara, and (b) acquired individuality, first by natural impulse, and then by self-induced and self-devised efforts (checked by its Karma), thus ascending through all the degrees of intelligence, from the lowest to the highest Manas, from mineral and plant, up to the holiest archangel (Dhyani-Buddha)” (SD 1:17).
Oannes (Assyrian-Babylonian) A deity, half man, half fish, who rose every day from the Persian Gulf and taught the people wisdom, the arts and sciences, agriculture, etc. Identified with the deity Ea and also called Dagon (Dāḡôn) and Annedotus. A somewhat similar story is related in the Sanskrit Hari-Purana about Vishnu during his Matsya-avatara (fish incarnation).
Ocean of Milk. See KURMA-AVATARA
One thus released or freed is called a jivanmukta (freed monad), which is never again during that manvantara subject to the qualities of either matter or karma. But if these beings choose, for the sake of doing good in the world, they may incarnate on earth as nirmanakayas. See also ABSOLUTE
Out of the Greek ichthys (fish) has been made the acrostic Jesus Christos Theou Yios Soter (Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior). Jesus, Bacchus, the Chaldean Dagon and Oannes, the Akkadian Ea, the Babylonian Xisuthrus, and the Hindu Vishsu and Vaivasvata-Manu mystically are all fish characters, and hence connected with floods and avataras.
overfall ::: n. --> A cataract; a waterfall.
A turbulent surface of water, caused by strong currents setting over submerged ridges; also, a dangerous submerged ridge or shoal.
Padma-kalpa (Sanskrit) Padma-kalpa The lotus age; the last kalpa or preceding manvantara which lasted a Year of Brahma.
Panchanana (Sanskrit) Pañcānana [from pañca five + ānana the face] Five-faced; a title of Siva alluding to the five great root-races of mankind during this fourth round, which races Siva represents as the type of “the ever reincarnating Kumara throughout the [present] Manvantara” (TG 247). As this is the fifth root-race, the title also applies to Siva as the five-faced; and in the sixth root-race he will be called six-faced, for this reason.
Pandu (Sanskrit) Pāṇḍu The pale one; a son of Vyasa by the wife of Vichitra-virya. The brother of Dhritarashtra and Vidura, and the father of the five Pandava princes of the Mahabharata.
Paramartha, in the view of Buddhist initiates, is that final or ultimate goal possible of attainment in the present sevenfold planetary manvantara by the striving and advancing adept. When he has overcome, subdued, and transformed the characteristics of the lower quaternary of his sevenfold constitution so that he lives in the highest part of the upper triad — when he has attained self-conscious living in his own monadic essence — he thereupon attains paramartha or that absolute consciousness which, because of its freedom from all human qualifications or characteristics, can equally be called absolute unconsciousness. Expressed in another way, it is conscious existence as a nirvani. It is the state into which the upper triad of the buddha passes, once the buddha state has been reached. This entrance of the buddha’s higher triad into nirvana by no means inhibits his lower quaternary from active service in the world, for his lower quaternary, being washed of all the characteristics of ordinary personality and overshadowed by the buddha’s higher triad, is a nirmanakaya of high degree.
Paranishpanna, Parinishpanna (Sanskrit) Paraniṣpanna, Pariniṣpanna [from para or pari + niṣpanna finished, completed from nis + the verbal root pad to come forth, ripen, accomplish] The state of having gone forwards beyond; philosophically, the absolute perfection to which all existences attain at the close of a great period of activity (mahamanvantara). It is identical in meaning with paranirvana, and corresponds to the Tibetan yond-grub.
Parasakti (Sanskrit) Parāśakti The supreme force or great power. The entire universe is built of seven or ten prakritis, with their corresponding seven or ten purushas or cosmic energies. Parasakti, which in one sense is the highest of these seven forces, acts, like all the other saktis, not only on its own plane or in its own specific prakriti, but likewise extends itself throughout all the other six saktis or prakritis. For this reason every kosmic plane has its own dominant energy or prakriti or sakti; and yet at the same time contains those above it, and in undeveloped form those below it which flow forth from it in the procession of unfolding powers as evolution continues through the manvantara. Thus parasakti, which includes on the physical plane what we call light and heat, on its own primordial plane likewise produces the metaphysical origins of light and heat — the intelligent activity of the buddhi principle, signifying light combined with the vital warmth of kama or cosmic love (the Greek Eros).
Parasu-rama-avatara (Sanskrit) Paraśu-rāma-avatāra The avatara or descent of Vishnu known as Rama with the Axe who, according to the purely theological interpretation, terminated the Kshattriyas (warrior castes), which were disturbing and overruling the Brahmins (priestly and learned castes). Legends of avataras are based on cosmogonic, planetary, and even human history, and also on the principles of analogical repetitives in the unfolding aeons of time.
Parasurama (Parashurama) ::: Rama of the axe, an avatara of Visnu who destroyed the unrighteous licence of the military and princely caste (the ksatriyas)
pasu-asura (pashu-asura; pashu asura) ::: the pasu stage of the asura pasu-asura .... with which the first manvantara of the sixth pratikalpa begins, when mind having evolved to the buddhi returns temporarily to a concentration on the bodily life.
Paurusha Pralaya or Manvantara (Sanskrit) Pauruṣa-pralaya, -manvantara [from pauruṣa human from puruṣa man] The death, or the life, of a human being.
pearl-eyed ::: a. --> Having a pearly speck in the eye; afflicted with the cataract.
Perfection, Perfectibility Absolute perfection is applicable, not to infinity, but to the Absolute of a universe, and theosophy teaches that all existences are tending through ever-growing evolutionary stages towards the relative perfection which all reach at the close of a manvantara; a state called paranishpanna in Sanskrit and yong-grub in Tibetan. Paranirvana is described as a state of perfect rest insofar as activity in the lower manifested realms of a universe is concerned, but not perfect spiritual inactivity — entirely to the contrary. In a larger view comprehending a galaxy of universes, or a super-galaxy of galaxies, any notion that human intelligence can entertain of perfection is relative, for we cannot assign ends to evolutionary progress, growth, or expansion.
Personality ::: Theosophists draw a clear and sharp distinction, not of essence but of quality, between personality andindividuality. Personality comes from the Latin word persona, which means a mask, through which theactor, the spiritual individuality, speaks. The personality is all the lower man: all the psychical and astraland physical impulses and thoughts and tendencies, and what not. It is the reflection in matter of theindividuality; but being a material thing it can lead us downwards, although it is in essence a reflection ofthe highest. Freeing ourselves from the domination of the person, the mask, the veil, through which theindividuality acts, then we show forth all the spiritual and so-called superhuman qualities; and this willhappen in the future, in the far distant aeons of the future, when every human being shall have become abuddha, a christ. Such is the destiny of the human race.In occultism the distinction between the personality and the immortal individuality is that drawn betweenthe lower quaternary or four lower principles of the human constitution and the three higher principles ofthe constitution or higher triad. The higher triad is the individuality; the personality is the lowerquaternary. The combination of these two into a unity during a lifetime on earth produces what we nowcall the human being. The personality comprises within its range all the characteristics and memories andimpulses and karmic attributes of one physical life; whereas the individuality is the aeonic ego,imperishable and deathless for the period of a solar manvantara. It is the individuality through its ray orhuman astral-vital monad which reincarnates time after time and thus clothes itself in one personalityafter another personality.
“ ‘Pesh-Hun’ is a general not a special Hindu possession. He is the mysterious guiding intelligent power, which gives the impulse to, and regulates the impetus of cycles, Kalpas and universal events. He is Karma’s visible adjuster on a general scale; the inspirer and the leader of the greatest heroes of this Manvantara. In the exoteric works he is referred to by some very uncomplimentary names; such as ‘Kali-Karaka,’ strife-maker, ‘Kapi-vaktra,’ monkey-faced, and even ‘Pisuna,’ the spy, though elsewhere he is called Deva-Brahma. . . .
pisaca-asura (pishacha-asura; pisacha-asura; pisacha asura) ::: the pisaca-asura pisaca stage of the asura, which evolves in the second and third manvantaras of the sixth pratikalpa. pis pisaca-pramatha
Pisces, the Fishes (Sanskrit Mina), is the last sign of the zodiac, and therefore marks the end of one cycle and the initiatory stage of the succeeding cycle. The fish-avatara of Vishnu is both the first and the tenth or last; and this applies both to mahakalpas and to minor cycles within them, likewise to a division of the present and former manvantara. Though Pisces as now understood refers to cyclic junctions in general, with their accompanying world saviors and floods, it has particular reference for Occidentals to Jesus and the entry of the equinoctial point into Pisces.
pitarah (Pitris) ::: Fathers, Manes; Fathers who have gone before and discovered the supraphysical worlds. [Puranas]: Ancestors to whom the tarpana is given. ::: pitrn [accusative plural], to the divinised Ancestors. [Gita 9.25]
Pitri(s)(Sanskrit) ::: A word meaning "father." There are seven (or ten) classes of pitris. They are called "fathers"because they are more particularly the actual progenitors of our lower principles; whereas thedhyani-chohans are actually, in one most important sense, our own selves. We were born from them; wewere the monads, we were the atoms, the souls, projected, sent forth, emanated, by the dhyanis.The pitris, for easy understanding, may be divided into two great groups, the solar and lunar. The lunarpitris or barhishads, as the name implies, came from the moon-chain; while the solar pitris whom we maygroup under the expressive name agnishvatta-pitris are those dhyan-chohans which have not the physical"creative fire," because they belong to a much superior sphere of being, but they have all the fires of thespiritual-intellectual realms active or latent within them as the case may be. In preceding manvantarasthey had finished their evolution so far as the realms of astral and physical matter were concerned, andwhen the proper time came in the cycling ages, the agnishvatta-pitris came to the rescue of those whohad only the physical creative fire, or barhishad-pitris, the lunar pitris, inspiring and enlightening theselower pitris with the spiritual and intellectual energies or "fires."In other words, the lunar pitris may briefly be said to be those consciousness-centers in the humanconstitution which feel humanly, which feel instinctually, and which possess the brain-mind mentality.The agnishvatta-pitris are those monadic centers of the human constitution which are of a purely spiritualtype. (See also Agnishvatas, Lunar Pitris)
Pitris ::: see pitarah
pitrn ::: see under pitarah
Pleiades (Greek) Also Atlantides. Six stars (the seventh being invisible or missing) in the constellation Taurus, and their heliacal rising in May was considered by sailors as a sign of propitious weather. They were, especially Alcyone, regarded as the point around which the divine breath or motion works during the manvantara, and have been thought by modern astronomers to be the center of the sun’s orbit.
Pralaya(Sanskrit) ::: A compound word, formed of laya, from the root li, and the prefix pra. Li means "to dissolve,""to melt away," "to liquefy," as when one pours water upon a cube of salt or of sugar. The cube of salt orof sugar vanishes in the water -- it dissolves, changes its form -- and this may be taken as a figure,imperfect as it is, or as a symbol, of what pralaya is: a crumbling away, a vanishing away, of matter intosomething else which is yet in it, and surrounds it, and interpenetrates it. Such is pralaya, usuallytranslated as the state of latency, state of rest, state of repose, between two manvantaras or life cycles. Ifwe remember distinctly the meaning of the Sanskrit word, our minds take a new bent in direction, followa new thought. We get new ideas; we penetrate into the arcanum of the thing that takes place. Pralaya,therefore, is dissolution, death.There are many kinds of pralayas. There is the universal pralaya, called prakritika, because it is thepralaya or vanishing away, melting away, of prakriti or nature. Then there is the solar pralaya. Sun inSanskrit is surya, and the adjective from this is saurya: hence, the saurya pralaya or the pralaya of thesolar system. Then, thirdly, there is the terrestrial or planetary pralaya. One Sanskrit word for earth isbhumi, and the adjective corresponding to this is bhaumika: hence, the bhaumika pralaya. Then there isthe pralaya or death of the individual man. Man is purusha; the corresponding adjective is paurusha:hence, the paurusha pralaya or death of man. These adjectives apply equally well to the several kinds ofmanvantaras or life cycles.There is another kind of pralaya which is called nitya. In its general sense, it means "constant" or"continuous," and can be exemplified by the constant or continuous change -- life and death -- of the cellsof our bodies. It is a state in which the indwelling and dominating entity remains, but its differentprinciples and rupas undergo continuous and incessant change. Hence it is called nitya, signifyingcontinuous. It applies to the body of man, to the outer sphere of earth, to the earth itself, to the solarsystem, and indeed to all nature. It is the unceasing and chronic changing of things that are -- the passingfrom phase to phase, meaning the pralaya or death of one phase, to be followed by the rebirth of itssucceeding phase. There are other kinds of pralayas than those herein enumerated.
pramatha-asura (pramatha-asura) ::: the pramatha stage of the asura, which evolves in the fourth manvantara of the sixth pratikalpa. pramatha-r pramatha-raksasa
Pramati (Sanskrit) Pramati Providence, care, overseeing; described as a son of fohat (SD 2:414). That aspect of the fohatic hierarchy impulsed or inspired by, or contained in, pramati — as overseeing intelligence — directs the manifold cosmic operations of cosmic intelligent energy; the manifested intelligence active in manvantara, derivative from the latent intelligence inherent in fohat.
Pramitabhas (Sanskrit) Pramitābhas [from pramita limited + ābhā splendor] Of limited splendor; a class of deities in the fifth manvantara.
pratikalpa (pratikalpa; prati-kalpa; prati kalpa) ::: a period of a hundred caturyugas, one tenth of a kalpa, also divided into fourteen manvantaras of several caturyugas each; each pratikalpa corresponds to one of the ten types or forms of consciousness (dasa-gavas) in the evolutionary scale, the present pratikalpa being regarded as the sixth in the current kalpa, the pratikalpa of the asura in which mind is concentrated on the buddhi.
Precious Things, Fourteen. See KURMA-AVATARA
Prehuman Races In a physical sense, the races from the first root-race to about the middle of the third, before man had a physical form similar to his present one; these races may be called prehuman since they were astral or semi-astral or ethereal. Again, it may refer to abortive attempts to produce beings on their way to future humanity. In another and far higher sense the prehuman races are the seeds of future humanity, these seeds being really lofty spiritual intellectual beings who had been men in a previous manvantara. These seeds have been called Sons of God, mind-born progeny of Brahma, rishis, prajapatis, manus, etc.
Protomateria [from Greek protos first, original + Latin materia matter] The primordial matter which, infilled with the karmic seeds from the preceding manvantara, evolves out of itself the cosmos. In some of its aspects equivalent to subtle prakriti or pradhana.
Purana (Sanskrit) Purāṇa Ancient, old, an ancient tale or legend. The 18 Hindu scriptures known today as the Puranas are ancient legends of olden times, written in verse, partly in symbolical and allegorical and partly in quasi-historical language. They are supposed originally to have been composed by Vyasa, the author of the Mahabharata. A Purana is a work which has five distinguishing topics (pancha-lakshanas): 1) the creation of the universe; 2) its destruction and renovation; 3) the genealogy of gods and patriarchs; 4) the reigns of the manus, forming the periods called manvantaras; and 5) the history of the solar and lunar races of kings.
Puranas(Sanskrit) ::: A word which literally means "ancient," "belonging to olden times." In India the word isespecially used as a term comprehending certain well-known sacred scriptures, which popular and evenscholarly authorities ascribe to the poet Vyasa. The Puranas contain the entire body of ancient Indianmythology. They are usually considered to be eighteen in number, and each Purana, to be complete, issupposed to consist of five topics or themes. These five topics or themes are commonly enumerated asfollows: (1) the beginnings or "creation" of the universe; (2) its renewals and destructions, ormanvantaras and pralayas; (3) the genealogies of the gods, other divine beings, heroes, and patriarchs; (4)the reigns of the various manus; and (5) a resume of the history of the solar and lunar races. Practicallynone of the Puranas as they stand in modern versions contains all these five topics, except perhaps theVishnu-Purana, probably the most complete in this sense of the word; and even the Vishnu-Puranacontains a great deal of matter not directly to be classed under these five topics. All the Puranas alsocontain a great deal of symbolical and allegorical writing.
purusa antaratman (Purusha Antaratman) ::: [the purusa as the inner self or soul].
purve pitarah manusyah ::: the ancient human fathers. [Ved.]
purve pitarah ::: the early Fathers.
Pyrrho of Elis: (c. 365-275 B.C.) A systematic skeptic who believed that it is impossible to know the true nature of things and that the wise man suspends his judgment on all matters and seeks to attain imperturbable happiness (ataraxy) by abstaining from all passion and curiosity. See Timon of Phlius, pupil of Pyrrho. -- R.B.W.
Radha (Sanskrit) Rādhā Prosperity, success; as a proper noun, a celebrated cowherdess or gopi beloved by Krishna. Regarded by some as an avatara of Lakshmi, as Krishna was of Vishnu, she has been mystically interpreted as the human ego seeking Krishna, the spiritual ego in man.
raks.asasura (rakshasasura) ::: a combination of raks.asa and asura; raksasasura the raks.asa of the asura type, who evolves in the sixth manvantara of the sixth pratikalpa.
Rama ::: [popular short form for Ramacandra, a celebrated avatara of Visnu].
Rama ::: the seventh avatara of Vis.n.u, "the divinely-natured man",Rama destroyer of Ravan.a; his work was "to fix for the future the possibility of an order proper to the sattwic civilised human being . . . in a world still occupied by anarchic forces".
reclination ::: n. --> The act of leaning or reclining, or the state of being reclined.
The angle which the plane of the dial makes with a vertical plane which it intersects in a horizontal line.
The act or process of removing a cataract, by applying the needle to its anterior surface, and depressing it into the vitreous humor in such a way that the front surface of the cataract becomes the upper one and its back surface the lower one.
Resurrection A rising again, implying a previous descent; a rebirth after death. In its widest sense, the universal law of cyclic renewal manifested in cosmic, solar, terrestrial, and human phenomena, applying to manvantaras, and to reawakenings of the earth and of man — whether humanity as a whole, races, or individuals. In the last case it means regeneration, the second birth, initiation, symbolized by the resurrection of the mystic Christ enacted in the Mysteries, when the candidate rose from that cruciform couch which he had undergone the experiences of death. In Christianity this has become an actual physical or bodily resurrection of Jesus, supported by the stories of the empty tomb and the appearances to the disciples. The dogma of the resurrection of the body, however, is pointedly related to the teaching of the migration of the life-atoms, whereby the reincarnating entity draws together the elements which it had previously discarded. There is an Arabic legend of the bone Luz, said to be one of the bones at the bottom of the spinal column, the os coccygis, as indestructible and forming the nucleus of the resurrection body. In the adytum or Holy of Holies of ancient temples was found a sarcophagus symbolizing the universal process of resurrection, but in degenerate times it was occasionally turned by ignorance into a symbol of physical procreation. Other emblems of resurrection are the frog, phoenix, and egg.
Rishi (Sanskrit) Ṛṣi An adept, seer, inspired person; in Vedic literature, used for the seers through whom the various mantras or hymns of the Veda were revealed. In later times the rishis were regarded as a particular class of beings, distinct from gods and men, the patriarchs or creators: thus there were the ten maharshis — the mind-born sons of Prajapati. In the Mahabharata, the seven rishis of the first manvantara are enumerated as Marichi, Atri, Angiras, Pulaha, Kratu, Pulastya, and Vasishtha. In Satapatha-Brahmana the Vedic rishis are named as: Gotama, Bharadvaja, Visvamitra, Jamadagni, Vasishtha, Kasyapa, and Atri. The seven rishis (saptarshis) are especially associated with the constellation of the Great Bear.
Root-types In biology animal or plant species derive from seven, ten, or twelve primeval physico-astral root-types, being in the case of every kingdom the origins of the widely differentiated, greatly specialized individuals now found on earth. “Every new Manvantara brings along with it the renovation of forms, types and species; every type of the preceding organic forms — vegetable, animal and human — changes and is perfected in the next, even to the mineral, which has received in this Round its final opacity and hardness; its softer portions having formed the present vegetation; the astral relics of previous vegetation and fauna having been utilized in the formation of the lower animals, and determining the structure of the primeval Root-Types of the highest mammalia” (SD 2:730). Primeval astral man was the root-type of those early mammalians, from whom the anthropoids sprang by human miscegenation, although this does not apply to the animals beneath the mammals.
Round, Fourth The circling of each life-wave around the globes of a planetary chain for the fourth time is its fourth round. The midpoint of the fourth round is the turning point for this planetary manvantara. Before this point the monadic hosts pursue their gyrations downwards on the descending arc, karmically evolving material vestures from within the womb of spirit. During the fourth round on globe D, during the fourth root-race, the midway point of this manvantara is reached, for the lowest point in the descent of the life-waves then takes place, and thereafter the monads begin evolving upwards on the ascending arc: the involution of matter and evolution of spirit.
Round-Manvantara Period of one circulation of the life-waves around the planetary chain from the first globe to the last globe, a period of 308,448,000 years. It is one-seventh of a Day of Brahma. (Fund)
Round ::: The doctrine concerning our planetary chain commonly called that of the seven rounds means that thelife cycle or life-wave begins its evolutionary course on globe A, the first of the series of seven (or ten)globes; then, completing its cycles there, runs down to globe B, and then to globe C, and then to globe D,our earth; and then, on the ascending arc, to globe E, then to globe F, and then to globe G. These are themanifest seven globes of the planetary chain. This is one planetary round. After the planetary round thereensues a planetary or chain nirvana, until the second round begins in the same way, but in a more"advanced" degree of evolution than was the first round.A globe round is one of the seven passages of a life-wave during its planetary round, on any one (andtherefore on and through each) of the globes. When the life-wave has passed through globe D, forinstance, and ends its cycles on globe D, this is the globe round of globe D for that particular planetaryround; and so with all the globes respectively. Seven root-races make one globe round. There are sevenglobe rounds therefore (one globe round for each of the seven globes) in each planetary round.Seven planetary rounds equal one kalpa or manvantara or Day of Brahma. When seven planetary roundshave been accomplished, which is as much as saying forty-nine globe rounds (or globe manvantaras),there ensues a still higher nirvana than that occurring between globes G and A after each planetary round.This higher nirvana is coincident with what is called a pralaya of that planetary chain, which pralaya lastsuntil the cycle again returns for a new planetary chain to form, containing the same hosts of living beingsas on the preceding chain, and which are now destined to enter upon the new planetary chain, but on andin a higher series of planes or worlds than in the preceding one.When seven such planetary chains with their various kalpas or manvantaras have passed away, thissevenfold grand cycle is one solar manvantara, and then the solar system sinks into the solar or cosmicpralaya.There are outer rounds and inner rounds. An inner round comprises the passage of the life-wave in anyone planetary chain from globe A to globe G once around, and this takes place seven times in a planetarymanvantara.The outer round comprises the passage of the entirety of a life-wave of a planetary chain along thecirculations of the solar system, from one of the seven sacred planets to another; and this for seven (orten) times.There is another aspect of the teaching concerning the outer rounds which cannot be elucidated here.
Sadaikarupa (Sanskrit) Sadaikarūpa [from sadā always + eka one + rūpa form] Always the one and same body; the essence of immutable nature. This Hindu philosophical term means the cosmically perduring (through both pralaya and manvantara following each other alternately) of the karmic substance of universal nature, however much cosmic karma may mold or vary the cosmic fields in and upon which it is eternally active.
Sadhya (Sanskrit) Sādhya [from the verbal root sādh to finish, complete, subdue, master] To be fulfilled, completed, attained; to be mastered, won, subdued. As a plural noun, a class of the gana-devatas (divine beings), specifically the jnana-devas (gods of wisdom). In the Satapatha-Brahmana of the Rig-Veda their world is said to be above the sphere of the gods, while Yaska (Nirukta 12:41) gives their locality as in Bhuvarloka. In The Laws of Manu (3:195), the sadhyas are represented as the offspring of the pitris called soma-sads who are offspring of Viraj; hence they are children of the lunar ancestors (pitris), evolved after the gods and possessing natures more fully unfolded; while in the Puranas they are the sons of Sadhya (a daughter of Daksha) and Dharma — hence called sadhyas — given variously as 12 or 17 in number. These various manners of describing the ancestry of the sadhyas originated in different ways of envisioning their origin. In later mythology they are superseded by the siddhas, the difference between sadhyas and siddhas being in many respects slight. Their mythological names are given as Manas, Mantri, Prana, Nara, Pana, Vinirbhaya, Naya, Dansa, Narayana, Vrisha, and Trabhu. Two of the names are two of the theosophic seven human principles — manas and prana; while Nara and Narayan, are other aspects of man, human or cosmic. Blavatsky terms the sadhyas divine sacrificers, “the most occult of all” the classes of the dhyanis (SD 2:605) — the reference being to the manasaputras, those intellectual beings who sacrificed themselves in order to quicken the fires of human intelligence during the third root-race. “The names of the deities of a certain mystic class change with every Manvantara” (SD 2:90); thus they are called ajitas, tushitas, satyas, haris, vaikuntas, adityas, and rudras. The key to the various names given to these higher beings lies in the composite nature of each one of them. In every manvantara and in each minor cycle of a manvantara, every being unfolds another aspect of itself, just as mankind unfolds new but latent powers and senses in each age. Special names were often given to each of the sevenfold, tenfold, or twelvefold aspects of these high beings.
saltarello ::: n. --> A popular Italian dance in quick 3-4 or 6-8 time, running mostly in triplets, but with a hop step at the beginning of each measure. See Tarantella.
Sambhala(Sanskrit) ::: A place-name of highly mystical significance. Many learned occidental Orientalists haveendeavored to identify this mystical and unknown locality with some well-known modern district ortown, but unsuccessfully. The name is mentioned in the Puranas and elsewhere, and it is stated that out ofSambhala will appear in due course of time the Kalki-Avatara of the future. The Kalki-Avatara is one ofthe manifestations or avataras of Vishnu. Among the Buddhists it is also stated that out of Sambhala willcome in due course of time the Maitreya-Buddha or next buddha.Sambhala, however, although no erudite Orientalist has yet succeeded in locating it geographically, is anactual land or district, the seat of the greatest brotherhood of spiritual adepts and their chiefs on earthtoday. From Sambhala at certain times in the history of the world, or more accurately of our own fifthroot-race, come forth the messengers or envoys for spiritual and intellectual work among men.This Great Brotherhood has branches in various parts of the world, but Sambhala is the center or chieflodge. We may tentatively locate it in a little-known and remote district of the high tablelands of centralAsia, more particularly in Tibet. A multitude of airplanes might fly over the place without "seeing" it, forits frontiers are very carefully guarded and protected against invasion, and will continue to be so until thekarmic destiny of our present fifth root-race brings about a change of location to some other spot on theearth, which then in its turn will be as carefully guarded as Sambhala now is.
Sambhala, Shambhala (Sanskrit) Śambhala A mystical and unknown locality, mentioned in the Puranas and elsewhere, from which will appear in due course the Kalki-avatara of Vishnu. Sometimes spelled Shambala. Buddhists state that out of Sambhala will come the next buddha, Maitreya. Sambhala
Sanatsujatiya (Sanskrit) Sanatsujātīya One episode in the Udyoga Parva of the Mahabharata, consisting of a dialogue between Sanatsujuata and Dhritarashtra; a philosophical treatise of high distinction, commented on by Sankaracharya.
Sandhi, Samdhi (Sanskrit) Saṃdhi [from sam together + the verbal root dhā to place] That which combines or unites; the interval between day and night, twilight; also the period at the expiration of each yuga (age), or between two manvantaras or kalpas. Equivalent to 1/10 the duration of the yuga and lasts until the commencement of the next yuga. Such is the way the time periods of the yugas are calculated, whether according to divine years or solar years. However, when attention is concentrated solely on the dawns and twilights (there being a dawn and a twilight for each such time period in a yuga), every dawn and twilight conjoined is 1/6 of the length of each such time period: in other words, a dawn or twilight is 1/12 of the length of such period. As an example, a mahayuga of 4,320,000 solar years (or 12,000 Divine Years, 360 solar years making one Divine Year) consists of four minor yugas — the krita, treta, dvapara, and kali, decreasing in length by the Pythagorean scale of 4, 3, 2, 1 respectively. Thus counting in Divine Years, the krita is 4800 such years long, the treta 3600 such years, the dvapara 2400 such years, and the kali 1200 such years. Otherwise phrased, the krita is 4000 years long plus 1/10 thereof — 400 years for its dawn and 400 years for its twilight. The treta is 3000 years long plus 1/10 that period or 300 years for its dawn and 300 years for its twilight. The dvapara and the kali are calculated by the same rule. With solar years, the system can be illustrated by stating that the kali yuga is 360,000 solar years long, 1/10 of that period or 36,000 years each for its dawn and its twilight, the total comprising the full duration of 432,000 years. Thus the 2/10 when added are 72,000, which is 1/6 of the total duration; and either the dawn or twilight is 1/12 of the total or 36,000.
Sankaracharya, Krishna, Lao-tzu, and Jesus were avataras in differing degrees, of somewhat differing structure. There was a divine ray which came down at the cyclic time of each of these incarnations, and the connecting link or the flame of mind was provided in each case by a member of the Hierarchy of Compassion. Krishna says, “I incarnate in period after period in order to destroy wickedness and reestablish righteousness” (BG ch 4, sl 8). Krishna here represents the Logos or logoic ray which “on our plane would be utterly helpless, inactive, and have no possible means of communication with us and our sphere, because that logoic ray lacks an intermediate and fully conscious vehicle or carrier, i.e., it lacks the intermediate or highly ethereal mechanism, the spiritual-human in us, which in ordinary man is but slightly active. An avatara takes place when a direct ray from the Logos enters into, fully inspires, and illuminates, a human being, through the intermediary of a bodhisattva who has incarnated in that human being, thereby supplying the fit, ready, and fully conscious intermediate vehicle or carrier” (Fund 276).
Sankaracharya (Sanskrit) Śaṅkarācārya, Śaṃkarācārya [from Saṅkara a personal name + ācarya teacher] The beneficent teacher; one of the greatest initiates of India. The Upanishads, Gautama Buddha, and Sankaracharya are considered by many to be the three lights of the wisdom of India. In a very mystical way Sankaracharya was Buddha’s esoteric successor. He was an avatara, as was Jesus. Sankaracharya set himself to preserve the wisdom previously lighted, or brought to men, by Gautama Buddha. By his pure living and high thinking, causing an outpouring of lofty spiritual and intellectual thought from his very soul-life, he kindled the truth in the hearts of many who had lost it through following dogmatic trends of religion, rather than holding to the inner spirit of the ancient teachings. Sankaracharya worked mostly with the Brahmin order — the highest caste in India — where the advantages of heredity, of ages of high ideals and rigid discipline, could most easily, if accepted, receive the pure truths, and also could best supply a body of men fitted by character and training to master the higher knowledge, sustain it, and pass it on.
Sankhasura (Sanskrit) Śaṅkhāsura A daitya said in Hindu legend to have waged war against the gods and to have conquered them, upon which he stole the Vedas and hid them at the bottom of the sea, whence they were rescued by Vishnu in the form of a fish. There are also vague references in connection with one of the dvipas (Sankha-dvipa) and it is tempting to suppose that they are connected. Another Hindu legend mentions the killing of Sankhasura by Krishna — another instance of the way in which this avatara is placed in many different ages as the Krishna spirit in the world rather than as any incarnated avatara of that name: the death of Krishna is stated as having begun the kali yuga in 3102 BC, whereas Sankha-dvipa was one of the great islands of the Atlantean continental system of several million years ago.
sapta matarah ::: the seven mothers. [Ved.]
saptarasmih ::: seven-rayed. [Ved.]
sarira (yogagnimaya sharira) ::: a body filled with the fiery energy generated by yoga. [Śvetasvatara Upanis.ad 2.12]
Satyavrata (Sanskrit) Satyavrata [from satya truth + vrata vow] A vow of truthfulness; a name of Vaivasvata-Manu, the manu of our present manvantara, corresponding to Noah.
Satya yuga: Sanskrit for age of truth; the first age (yuga) of the manvantara. The golden age, which lasted 1,728,000 of our years (the first four-tenths of the entire manvantara).
Saurya Pralaya and Saurya Manvantara (Sanskrit) Saurya-pralaya, Saurya-manvantara [from sūrya sun + pralaya dissolution; manvantara manifestation] The dissolution, or manifestation, of the solar system; frequently termed a mahapralaya or mahamanvantara.
Savior Applied to manasaputras, buddhas, bodhisattvas, avataras, messiahs, the Agathodaemon, etc. See also SALVATION
Second Coming. See MESSIAH; KALKI AVATARA; MAITREYA-BUDDHA
Self and soul ::: The true being may be realised in one or both of two aspects — the Self or Atman and the soul or antaratman, psychic being or caitya puruya. The difference is that one is felt as universal, the other as individual supporting the mind, life and body.
Sesha (Sanskrit) Śeṣa [from the verbal root śiṣ to leave a remainder or residue] Remainder; the karmic remainders of the preceding cosmic manvantara which become the basis for the manifestation of the present manvantara. Also the name of the seven-headed serpent of space on which Vishnu rests during pralaya, representing the seven principles of the cosmos in which the spiritual or unmanifested universe remains until the period for its new manifestation arrives, thereafter to become manifest by degrees. Sesha or Ananta, the couch of Vishnu, is an abstraction symbolizing ever-continuing cosmic life in space, which contains the remainders or germs of the future manvantara, and throws off periodically the efflorescence of these germs as the manifested universe. But during a solar pralaya, the cosmic spirit from which all flows forth, reposes sleeping upon Sesha, the serpent of eternity, in the midst of the kosmic Deep. Hence Sesha is considered Vishnu’s first vahana (vehicle) in the primordial water of space, before manvantaric activity begins.
Seven Eternities Seven kosmic aeons or vastly long periods of duration, becoming time to human thought; and each such kosmic aeon is an eternity [from Latin aeternitas from aetas age, time period, a space of time] which the Latins looked upon as a generalizing term for an aeon (cosmic age). “The Seven Eternities meant are the seven periods, or a period answering in duration to the seven periods, of a Manvantara, and extending throughout a Maha-Kalpa or the ‘Great Age’ — 100 years of Brahma — making a total of 311,040,000,000,000 of years” (SD 1:36). The expression applies both to the mahakalpa and to the solar pralaya.
Seven planetary rounds equal one kalpa, manvantara, or Day of Brahma. When seven planetary rounds (49 globe-rounds) have been thus accomplished, there ensues a still higher nirvana than that occurring between globes G and A after each planetary round. This higher nirvana is coincident with what is called a pralaya of that planetary chain, which lasts until a new planetary chain forms, containing the same hosts of living beings as on the preceding chain.
Siddhapura (Sanskrit) Siddhapura [from siddha attained from the verbal root sidh to attain, perfect + pura city] City of the blest, or the White Island; in Hindu mythology a sacred city situated in the extreme north. “According to Tibetan tradition the White Island is the only locality which escapes the general fate of other dwipas and can be destroyed by neither fire nor water, for — it is the ‘eternal land’ ” (SD 2:408n). All the avataras of Vishnu are said to come from this sacred place.
Siddhas (Sanskrit) Siddha-s [from the verbal root sidh to attain] Perfected one, one who has attained relative perfection in this manvantara through self-devised efforts lasting through many imbodiments towards that end. A buddha is in this sense at times called a siddha. Generally, a hierarchy of dhyani-chohans who, according to Hindu mythology, inhabit the space between the earth and heaven (bhuvar-loka); the Vishnu-Purana states that there are 88,000 of them occupying the regions of the sky north of the sun and south of the seven rishis (the Great Bear). In later mythology they are confused with or take the place of the sadhyas, but in the Vedas the siddhas are those who are possessed from birth of superhuman powers — the eight siddhis — as also of knowledge and indifference to the world (Svetasvatara-Upanishad).
Sishta(s)(Sista, Sanskrit) ::: This is a word meaning "remainders," or "remains," or "residuals" -- anything that is leftor remains behind. In the especial application in which this word is used in the ancient wisdom, thesishtas are those superior classes -- each of its own kind and kingdom -- left behind on a planet when itgoes into obscuration, in order to serve as the seeds of life for the inflow of the next incoming life-wavewhen the dawn of the new manvantara takes place on that planet.When each kingdom passes on to its next globe, each one leaves behind its sishtas, its lives representingthe very highest point of evolution arrived at by that kingdom in that round, but leaves them sleeping as itwere: dormant, relatively motionless, including life-atoms among them. Not without life, however, foreverything is as much alive as ever, and there is no "dead" matter anywhere; but the sishtas consideredaggregatively as the remnants or residuals of the life-wave which has passed on are sleeping, dormant,resting. These sishtas await the incoming of the life-waves on the next round, and then they re-awaken toa new cycle of activity as the seeds of the new kingdom or kingdoms -- be it the three elementalkingdoms or the mineral or vegetable or the beast or the next humanity.In a more restricted and still more specific sense, the sishtas are the great elect, or sages, left behind afterevery obscuration.
Sisupala (Sanskrit) Śiśupāla Child-protector; a son of Damaghosha (King of Chedi), Krishna’s great enemy, slain by him at the sacrifice of Yudhishthira. The Vishnu-Purana states that Sisupala was in a former existence the unrighteous but valiant monarch of the daityas, Hiranyakasipu, who was killed by the avatara Nara-simha (the man-lion). He was next the ten-headed Ravana, the giant king of Lanka, and was killed by Rama. After this he was born as Sisupala. “This parallel evolution of Vishnu (spirit) with a Daitya, as men, may seem meaningless, yet it gives us the key not only to the respective dates of Rama and Krishna, but even to a certain psychological mystery” (SD 2:225n).
Sita (Sanskrit) Sītā A furrow; Rama’s wife, so named because she is fabled to have sprung from a furrow made by King Janaka while plowing the ground to prepare it for a sacrifice instituted by him to obtain progeny. She was considered an avatara of Lakshmi, Vishnu’s consort in the heaven-world. In the Ramayana she is exiled with her husband, stolen by Ravana of Lanka, and finally rescued.
Skanda (Sanskrit) Skanda The attacker; a title of Karttikeya, who killed Taraka, the deva-daimon.
solfatara ::: n. --> A volcanic area or vent which yields only sulphur vapors, steam, and the like. It represents the stages of the volcanic activity.
“Soma was never given in days of old to the non-initiated Brahman — the simple Grihasta, or priest of the exoteric ritual. Thus Brihaspati — ‘guru of the gods’ though he was — still represented the dead-letter form of worship. It is Tara his wife — the symbol of one who, though wedded to dogmatic worship, longs for true wisdom — who is shown as initiated into his mysteries by King Soma, the giver of that Wisdom. Soma is thus made in the allegory to carry her away. The result of this is the birth of Budha — esoteric Wisdom — (Mercury, or Hermes in Greece and Egypt). He is represented as ‘so beautiful,’ that even the husband, though well aware that Budha is not the progeny of his dead-letter worship — claims the ‘new-born’ as his Son, the fruit of his ritualistic and meaningless forms. Such is, in brief, one of the meanings of the allegory” (SD 2:498-9).
Sosiosh, Soshyos (Persian) In Zoroastrianism, the deliverer of the world, who shall come on a white horse in a tornado of fire. According to the Avesta (Yast 19:89), he will be born from a maid near Lake Kasava; he will come from the region of the dawn to free the world from death and decay, from corruption and rottenness — ever living and ever thriving, the dead shall rise and immortality commence. This prophecy corresponds to that of the coming of Maitreya-Buddha, or of the Kalki-avatara of Vishnu, also repeated in the Christian Revelation of St. John.
Spirit Cosmically, the homogeneous emanation from the universal cosmic monad; in man, the direct emanation of his spiritual monad, the immortal element in us which never was born and which retains through the mahamanvantara its own quality, essence, and characteristics. It sends its ray through the laya-centers of all the various sheaths of consciousness-substance, and is itself a ray of the all-spirit, and, again applied to man, is used specifically for the union of the higher part of manas with atma-buddhi.
Spirit-hyle [from Greek hyle matter, stuff] The Second Logos, Father-Mother, spirit-matter, Purusha-prakriti. Hyle was used by certain Greek philosophers to signify original cosmic spirit-stuff, and therefore is equivalent to the Sanskrit pradhana, or in a higher, more spiritual essence, mulaprakriti (root-substance). Thus hyle or spirit-hyle is the primordial quasi-conscious matter-substance of cosmic space, both before cosmic manifestation begins and through the entire period of the cosmic manvantara — the cosmic spiritual substantial background, or Mother of space. Again, spirit-hyle, in its prakritis aspect, is the spiritual sediment of surrounding universal chaos, the great deep of cosmic consciousness. Thus it is the primordial element-principle, out of which an objective universe is formed, and into which it again sinks when the cosmic manvantara ends, only to reissue forth at the end of the cosmic pralaya.
Spirit ::: In the theosophical philosophy there is a distinct and important difference in the use of the words spiritand soul. The spirit is the immortal element in us, the deathless flame within us which dies never, whichnever was born and which retains throughout the entire maha-manvantara its own quality, essence, andlife, sending down into our own being and into our various planes certain of its rays or garments or soulswhich we are.The divine spirit of man is linked with the All, being in a highly mystical sense a ray of the All.A soul is an entity which is evolved by experiences; it is not a spirit because it is a vehicle of a spirit. Itmanifests in matter through and by being a substantial portion of the lower essence of the spirit.Touching another plane below it, or it may be above it, the point of union allowing ingress and egress tothe consciousness is a laya-center. The spirit manifests in seven vehicles, and each one of these vehiclesis a soul; and that particular point through which the spiritual influence passes in the soul is thelaya-center, the heart of the soul, or rather the summit thereof -- homogeneous soul-substance, if youlike.In a kosmical sense spirit should be applied only to that which belongs without qualifications to universalconsciousness and which is the homogeneous and unmixed emanation from the universal consciousness.In the case of man, the spirit within man is the flame of his deathless ego, the direct emanation of thespiritual monad within him, and of this ego the spiritual soul is the enclosing sheath or vehicle orgarment. Making an application more particularly and specifically to the human principles, when thehigher manas of man which is his real ego is indissolubly linked with buddhi, this, in fact, is the spiritualego or spirit of the individual human being's constitution. Its life term before the emanation is withdrawninto the divine monad is for the full period of a kosmic manvantara.
Spirit-man Corresponds to the spiritual ego, spiritual soul, spiritual self, or human spirit; for the higher mind or manas united with its spiritual prototype buddhi. A sharp contrast is drawn between the spirit-man and the human soul, the clothing or vehicle of the human spirit formed of kama-manas. The spirit-man is unconditionally immortal for the duration of the solar manvantara, whereas the human soul is conditionally immortal.
Spiritual Soul ::: The spiritual soul is the vehicle of the individual monad, the jivatman or spiritual ego; in the case ofman's principles it is essentially of the nature of atma-buddhi. This spiritual ego is the center or seed orroot of the reincarnating ego. It is that portion of our spiritual constitution which is deathless as anindividualized entity -- deathless until the end of the maha-manvantara of the cosmic solar system.The spiritual soul and the divine soul, or atman, combined, are the inner god -- the inner buddha, theinner christ.
Srastara (Sanskrit) Srastara A couch or sofa for reclining; “consisting of a mat or a tiger’s skin, strewn with darbha, kusa and other grasses, used by ascetics — gurus and chelas — and spread on the floor” (TG 307).
Sri-antara. See SIX-POINTED STAR; SOLOMON’s SEAL
srimad bhagavat. ::: one of the main 18 Puranas, dealing with the avataras of Vishnu, especially and in great detail with the life of Lord Krishna
Sriyantra, Sri-antara. See SIX-POINTED STAR; SOLOMON’s SEAL
Sthula-maya (Sanskrit) Sthūla-maya [from sthūla gross, bulky + maya built of] Consisting of grosser elements; material, differentiated and conditioned. A Hindu philosophical term also applicable to one of the four principles of the Taraka-Raja-Yoga system, called sthulopadhi, corresponding to the three lower principles of the theosophical septenary classification: prana, linga-sarira, and sthula-sarira.
Sthulopadhi (Sanskrit) Sthūlopādhi [from sthūla gross + upādhi base, vehicle] The gross base or vehicle in the human constitution, consisting of the physical body (sthula-sarira), the astral model-body (linga-sarira), and the vital activities (prana). According to the Taraka-Raja-Yoga school there are three upadhis (bases) in the human constitution: karanopadhi, sukshmopadhi, and sthulopadhi. The sthulopadhi corresponds to the combination of the annamaya-kosa and pranamaya-kosa of the Vedantic classification.
. s.t.i (janamaya drishti) ::: vision on the plane of jana or ananda. janm janmantara antara dr drsti
. s.t.i (janmantara drishti) ::: knowledge of other (past and future) lives, a form of trikaladr.s.t.i.
Subrace Used to distinguish the major or root-races from the minor races which are offshoots from the mother-race (ML 83). In a planetary chain, there are seven rounds in a manvantara (period of activity) and root-races during each round; further that there are seven subraces in every root-race, and septenary offshoots from the subraces.
Sudarsana (Sanskrit) Sudarśana Good-looking, beautiful; the chakra or circular weapon of Vishnu-Krishna, a flaming weapon called the disc of the sun. Occultly, it is that power possessed by the highest initiates and semi-divine men, avataras, buddhas, etc., which is an emanation or out-pouring from their spiritually intellectual or buddhi-manasic principle. Intellect in its smooth and magical operations is sudarsana (beautiful to consider), and of immense power even among men on our low plane. When used as a power or “weapon” by god-men or similar beings it is virtually irresistible.
. sukho"ntararamah. ::: having the inner happiness and inner repose. [Gita 5.24]
Sukshmopadhi (Sanskrit) Sūkṣmopādhi [from śukṣma subtle, fine, ethereal + upādhi base, vehicle] The subtle base or vehicle, in the human constitution the combined qualities of the higher manas, the lower manas, the kama-energy, and their astral veil or vehicle infilled with life. According to Taraka-Raja-Yoga there are three upadhis in the human constitution: karanopadhi, sukshmopadhi, and sthulopadhi. The sukshmopadhi comprehends manas in its dual aspect in union with kama and the vital-astral portions in the theosophic sevenfold division of man, and likewise corresponds to the manomaya-kosa of the Vedantic classification. The state of consciousness known as the svapna or sleeping condition is connected causally with the sukshmopadhi. This upadhi when developed and trained in the adept is the seat of a number of remarkable faculties or powers, among them spiritual clairvoyance and clairaudience. In the ordinary person, it is the lower portion of sukshmopadhi which ordinarily acts automatically, producing flashes of unconscious clairvoyant vision, dreams of various kind, and other psychic phenomena.
Surt (Scandinavian) Surtr (Icelandic) [from svartr the black] Also Surtur, Surter. A Norse fire giant, the world-destroyer in the Edda. In the Norse myths Surt will lead the hosts of Muspellsheim (home of fire) at Ragnarok, when the gods depart the realms of life, and the worlds perish in universal conflagration. Surt himself will slay Frey, the bright god, and when all the combatants are slain, Surt will fling his firebrand, and everything animate or inanimate will be plunged into an ocean of fire, and the nine homes will be no more. Surtarlogi (flame of Surt) represents the volcanic and cosmic forces which will cause the destruction of our world when its life is over. The world, universe, or solar system becoming an ocean of cosmic flame or light refers to the ending of a manvantara and the opening of pralaya. The ocean of fire is the passing of matter back into its primordial fiery spiritual nature and the nine homes are the nine or ten cosmic planes, the nine grades or divisions of the cosmic hierarchy.
Suryavansa (Sanskrit) Sūryavaṃśa [from sūrya sun + vaṃśa race, lineage] The solar race; the race or lineage whose founder was said to be descended from the sun, just as the origin of the other great lineage, the Chandravansa, was attributed to the moon. The king who founded the suryavansa, Ikshvaku, was the son of Vaivasvata-Manu who sprang from the sun; he reigned at Ayodhya at the beginning of the second or treta yuga. The two branches of the suryavansa were the dynasty of Mithila, founded by a younger son of Ikshvaku, and that of Ayodhya, in which branch the avatara Rama was born, whose exploits are recounted in the Ramayana. The Vishnu-Purana enumerates the members of the Ayodhya dynasty, which amounts to about a hundred rulers. Several Rajput tribes still claim to belong to this race.
Sutratman(Sanskrit) ::: A compound word meaning "thread-self," the golden thread of individuality -- the stream ofself-consciousness -- on which all the substance-principles of man's constitution are strung, so to say, likepearls on a golden chain. The sutratman is the stream of consciousness-life running through all thevarious substance-principles of the constitution of the human entity -- or indeed of any other entity. Eachsuch pearl on the golden chain is one of the countless personalities which man uses during the course ofhis manvantara-long evolutionary progress. The sutratman, therefore, may be briefly said to be theimmortal or spiritual monadic ego, the individuality which incarnates in life after life, and therefore isrightly called the thread-self or fundamental self.It is this sutratman, this thread-self, this consciousness-stream, or rather stream of consciousness-life,which is the fundamental and individual selfhood of every entity, and which, reflected in and through theseveral intermediate vehicles or veils or sheaths or garments of the invisible constitution of man, or ofany other being in which a monad enshrouds itself, produces the egoic centers of self-consciousexistence. The sutratman, therefore, is rooted in the monad, the monadic essence.
Tamas(Sanskrit) ::: One of the three gunas or qualities or essential attributes of manifested beings and things.Tamas is the quality of darkness, illusion, ignorance; it also means, in a quite different sense, quiescence,passivity, repose, rest, inertia. It becomes immediately obvious from the distinctions that these two seriesof words show, that there is both a good and an evil side to tamas, just as indeed there is a good and evilside to rajas, and even to sattva. The condition of manifested existence in the state of cosmic pralaya is inone sense of the word the tamasic condition, signifying quiescence or rest. When the universe is in thestage of active manvantaric manifestation, we may in a generalizing sense say that the universe is in therajasic state or condition; and that aspect of the universe which we may call the divine-spiritual, whetherin the universe itself or in the manvantara or in the pralaya of a globe, can be spoken of as the sattvicstate or condition. From these observations it should be evident that the three gunas -- sattva, rajas, tamas-- not only can exist contemporaneously and coincidently, but actually do so exist, and that in fact thethree are inextricably interblended. They are really three phases or conditions of imbodiedconsciousnesses, and each has its noble and each its "evil" side.
taranis ::: n. --> A Celtic divinity, regarded as the evil principle, but confounded by the Romans with Jupiter.
tarantass ::: n. --> A low four-wheeled carriage used in Russia. The carriage box rests on two long, springy poles which run from the fore to the hind axletree. When snow falls, the wheels are taken off, and the body is mounted on a sledge.
tarantella ::: n. --> A rapid and delirious sort of Neapolitan dance in 6-8 time, which moves in whirling triplets; -- so called from a popular notion of its being a remedy against the poisonous bite of the tarantula. Some derive its name from Taranto in Apulia.
Music suited to such a dance.
tarantism ::: n. --> A nervous affection producing melancholy, stupor, and an uncontrollable desire to dance. It was supposed to be produced by the bite of the tarantula, and considered to be incapable of cure except by protracted dancing to appropriate music.
tarantulae ::: pl. --> of Tarantula
tarantula ::: n. --> Any one of several species of large spiders, popularly supposed to be very venomous, especially the European species (Tarantula apuliae). The tarantulas of Texas and adjacent countries are large species of Mygale.
tarantulas ::: pl. --> of Tarantula
tarantulated ::: a. --> Bitten by a tarantula; affected with tarantism.
taras ::: rapidity.
tarentism ::: n. --> See Tarantism.
tarentula ::: n. --> See Tarantula.
tartarated ::: a. --> Tartrated.
The adityas are the sustainers of the solar divine life which exists in all things, and in our present Vaivasvata manvantara they are the divine solar pitris (fathers) — not the lower or lunar pitris — which incarnated in early humanity. “The wise call our fathers Vasus; our paternal grandfathers Rudras, our paternal great grandfathers, Adityas . . . ” (Manu 3:284).
The aesir are not the highest gods, even though cosmic Odin in his capacity of Allfather is the father of gods and men by virtue of being descended from a previous era of evolution. “All the creative gods, or personal Deities, begin at the secondary stage of Cosmic evolution” (SD 1:427). The aesir were ousted from Asgard by the vaner, superior gods who remain in their high realms while the aesir dwell in living spheres. Nevertheless even the aesir receive a “hostage” (in one interpretation an avatara) from the vaner and in exchange furnish the mind and matter which enable these exalted beings to evolve.
The agnishvattas, our solar spiritual-intellectual parts, are those who in preceding manvantaras completed their evolution in the realms of matter; and when evolution had brought the nascent human stock to the state where they had only the physical creative fire, the agnishvattas came to their rescue by inspiring and enlightening these lower lunar pitris with spiritual and intellectual energies or fires (OG 14-15; SD 2:91-2).
The annihilation of those who choose the left-hand or matter path occurs because they use their manasic faculty to its prostitution for selfish and evil purposes, which leads to a final rupture of the manasic links. When this rupture is complete, the entity being no longer attached to the higher triad sinks rapidly into the whirlpool of absolute matter and is finally disintegrated into its component life-atoms. The higher triad or monad thus freed from its downward-tending personality, after a period of rest in spiritual realms evolves a new lower garment in which to manifest in a later manvantara.
The beasts, for instance, as indeed all other kingdoms in similar circumstances, are undergoing retardation at the present time in another slightly different sense: because they have not as yet evolved forth human qualities and powers. They will not make the grade into the human kingdom on the ascending arc for all the remainder of the present chain-manvantara, and this is the meaning of the phrase frequently found in theosophical writings that the door into the human kingdom closed at about the midpoint of the fourth root-race.
The Brahmanas and Puranas generally reckon twelve adityas. In a preceding manvantara they were called tushitas, but when the end of the cycle was near they entered the “womb of Aditi, that we may be born in the next Manwantara; for, thereby, we shall again enjoy the rank of gods.” Hence in the present seventh manvantara, they are known as adityas (VP 1:15). When the pralaya (dissolution) of the world comes, twelve suns will appear (MB 3:3, 26; Dict Hind 3). The twelve adityas are the twelve great gods of the Hindu pantheon; also, the twelve signs of the zodiac or twelve months of the year.
The ceaseless alternate outflowing and inflowing of cosmic life or hierarchies of lives of the one manifest reality is called the Great Breath from its analogy to physiological breathing, which implies incessant alternating motion, expansion and contraction, of life, air, wind, or spirit. The sevenfold word symbolizing the logos is said to be the evolution of the breath. Though the alternation of manvantara and pralaya conjoined are the Great Breath, the alternating motion does not cease even during the long pralayic ages.
The Christian Gospels appear to have originated in mystery-dramas, beautiful and often sublime in their inner significances, in which were depicted the experiences of the neophyte and adept in his union with the Logos, and hence such unified individual was called a Logos incarnate as a man, the Logos itself being variously named as Christos or Dionysos, and to have been by stages adapted and given a semi-historical guise, as has happened in other instances besides the Christian mythos. Christ therefore, or the Christos, is not a particular man or an especial incarnation of divinity, but a generic term for the divine as incarnated in all human beings, although Jesus was undoubtedly the name of this great Jewish initiate-avatara as an individual. Hence this universal allegory in its Christian version has a true historical peg to hang from; for there did appear, sometime before the Christian era, a special cyclic messenger who was due to come on the change of the ecliptic point from one sign of the celestial zodiac to another, from the sign of Aries to Pisces. In theosophical literature, Jesus is considered to be an avatara, the messenger for the European Messianic or Piscean cycle. As such, Jesus represented a ray sent from the Wondrous Being or spiritual hierarch of the earth into the soul of a pure human being, while the racial buddha, Gautama Buddha, supplied the intermediate or psychological nature in this act of white magic.
The contents have been criticized by several modern scholars, who do not grant it any standing as a work coming down from ancient times for linguistic reasons. However, it contains teachings which are not merely universal, but which run far back into the night of human history; for example, the first chapter suggests the seven sacred planets (vv. 15-21); each star and planet having an intelligence, a soul, and a body (23); the kingdoms of nature on the cosmic ladder of life (54-60); reincarnation (69-72); rounds (101-112); and the grand periods or manvantaras and pralayas (114-16).
The day after the mahamanvantara is the Day-Be-With-Us or the Christian Day of Judgment. Then all individualities are merged into one, each still possessing essential or intrinsic knowledge of itself. But at that time, what to us now is nonconscious or the unconscious, will be absolute consciousness.
The “descent” of the manasaputras before the middle of the third root-race was only a partial descent, and even today they are not yet fully incarnated in us, they have not yet fully manifested their splendor within us because our minds are not yet fully evolved. The descent is still in progress and will continue until the very end of the fifth round. Even the titan-intellects of the human race have not yet fully expressed the powers of the manasaputra above and within them. These manasaputras are incarnating ever more and more, just as the growing child develops more mental power as each year passes. As man proceeds along the evolutionary pathway and unfolds his inner nature, he will bring forth his own latent manasaputra and in the next manvantara he will light the way for lesser entities.
“The ‘First Cause’ had no name in the beginnings. Later it was pictured in the fancy of the thinkers as an ever invisible, mysterious Bird that dropped an Egg into Chaos, which Egg becomes the Universe. Hence Brahm was called Kalahansa, ‘the swan in (Space and) Time.’ He became the ‘Swan of Eternity,’ who lays at the beginning of each mahamanvantara a ‘Golden Egg.’ It typifies the great Circle, or O, itself a symbol for the Universe and its spherical bodies” (SD 1:359).
The first three letters in Greek make I.H.S. placed at the head of representations of the crucified Jesus, often said to stand for Iesus Hominum Salvator (Jesus the savior of men) or In hoc signo (in this sign), with reference to the alleged vision of a cross of the Emperor Constantine. Jesus is a form of a worldwide mystery-name, whose importance was its meaning, usually given as a three-letter monogram, analogous to the Sanskrit Aum. We find it in the Greek Gnostic Iao and variants are common in ancient Greece, such as Iasios, Iasion, Iason, Iasos; and initiates were known as Iasides or sons of Iaso. See also AVATARA
The higher classes of the brothers of the shadow, those who may be called spiritual sorcerers, mentioned in the New Testament as entities of spiritual wickedness, have a longer life period than have the lower classes. These spiritual sorcerers, depending upon the degree of unfolding of spiritual energy which they have attained and prostituted to evil uses, may even endure till the end of the globe manvantara, reincarnating themselves at repeated, rapid intervals; but their pathway is downwards into still deeper ranges of matter, and involves a progressively greater loss of inner spiritual light reaching them from their spiritual monad.
The higher karanopadhi, belonging to the spiritual-intellectual part of the human constitution, is the reproductive impulse in the spiritual monad which causes it to reemerge into a new series of imbodiments at the dawn of the solar manvantara. This karanopadhi is directly related to buddhi or buddhi-manas, the spiritual soul as a veil or vehicle of the monadic essence or spiritual monad. Its role is similar to that of prakriti with Purusha, or pradhana surrounding Brahman, or mulaprakriti with parabrahman. The karanopadhi is also the vehicle produced by the spiritual bija (seed).
The human kingdom’s moment of choice is that point in the evolutionary cycle reached on this globe in the fifth round when the monads not ready to continue their upward evolutionary journey must perforce wait for a future manvantara. The evolutionary moment of choice for the animal kingdom was that point in the cycle when the door to the human kingdom was closed, after which no monads can enter the human life-wave until the next manvantara. This occurred at the midpoint of the fourth round on globe D of the earth-chain, during the fourth root-race.
The Life of Brahma or of the solar system consists of 100 Divine Years (311,040,000,000,000 terrestrial years). The current Life of Brahma is about half completed — a period of about 155,520,000,000,000 of our years having passed away since our solar system first began its mahamanvantara. There remain, therefore, fifty more Years of Brahma before the system sinks into cosmic pralaya. As only half the grand evolutionary period is accomplished, we are at the bottom of the cosmic cycle, i.e., on the lowest plane. See also FOUR
The mahabhutas are so called because they are the karmic fruits or resultants from the preceding cosmic manvantara, so that even these great cosmic elements begin their evolutionary courses in the new cosmic manvantara at the exact point in development which they had acquired when the preceding pralaya began.
The monad, as its name implies, is ever-enduring as an individual, although at the end of each manvantara it rises into a still higher or divine stage of perfect union with the boundless divine, only to re-issue forth again in due course as the monad it was before, thus beginning a new, immensely long time period of active individualized life as a spiritual consciousness-center. Thus it is that even the monads evolve, each on its own plane, for the hierarchies of the monads are innumerable and exist in all-various degrees at stages of evolutionary progression on the endless ladder of cosmic life.
The more advanced portion of the Mimansa is called the Vedanta, which is the present-day theosophy of Hindustan. The Vedanta, also called the Uttara-mimansa, is attributed to Vyasa, the arranger of the Vedas, as its founder.
Theosophy, because of the confusion arising in scholastic and modern disputes, points directly to all the phenomena of nature as expressed in beings, objects, entities, and things as arising in spiritual realms, or noumena. The hidden or invisible noumena of beings and things are both real and mere abstract names. Thus force — electricity, for instance — is both an existing emanation from cosmic entities, and yet also a “name” or abstraction because it is an aggregate of effects derivative from a hid cause which is the cosmic being or beings. All natural phenomena arise in and are therefore derivative from and emanations from causal and originating cosmic intelligences, which perdure in essence throughout eternity, but express themselves by means of phenomena or effects in cosmic manvantaras. Thus the phenomena which human intelligence cognizes are transitory but yet are real in their essence, because that essence lies in the perduring intelligence or intelligences from which they flow.
Theosophy does not hold to the idea of a single-track, end-on evolution from a protoplasmic speck to human being, without inner astral, mental, and spiritual urge from within. Rather, the plan of evolution as represented by the different classes and orders of beings on earth may be represented by a tree, whose main trunk is the human stem, from which (so far as this manvantara is concerned) the various animal types have issued like branches, each of them then entering upon a special unfolding development and differentiation of its own. Indeed, the same observation applies with equal force to the vegetable and mineral kingdoms, although their root-types issued from the human stem long aeons before the animal types appeared on earth.
Theosophy teaches that unity and duality, with their development as plurality in manifestation, subsist throughout the universe, every duality being comprised in a unity existing on a higher plane of being than its dual manifestation — and the duality reproducing itself in the webwork of pluralities composing the manifested universe. This is on the principle of the Pythagorean Monad producing the Duad, which produces the Triad, the last again reproducing itself in incomputable hierarchical numbers. Thus, light and dark are the dual manifestations of that which is called at once absolute light and darkness; spirit and matter are the dual manifestations of the one life; the most fundamental duality being the alternation between manvantara and pralaya, which are aspects of the ever-productive ineffable source. Monistic and dualistic philosophies merely accentuate each its own side of the question, and in reality each view more or less implies the other. The Zoroastrian doctrine, for example, in its esoteric side recognized that dualism applies only to the planes of manifestation which flow forth from it.
Theosophy teaches the constant rebirths of the identic spiritual-intellectual individuality throughout the manvantara; and that, even after union into paranirvana, the individuality, precisely because it is then on its own higher plane or sphere of life, is not lost and will reemerge at a new manvantara to pursue its own particular cycle. This eternal monad, the spiritual-intellectual individuality, is the real and truly immortal essence of the person; and within this supreme cycle of immortality are a series of less immortalities, each representing the life cycle of one of the imbodiments of the monad. Death therefore of necessity becomes a recurrent process, precisely like birth or rebirth, and of many degrees, and simply means the dissolution of some group of lower sheaths enclosing the individual in imbodiment.
The parabrahman of the Vedantists is likewise conceived of as an eternal and periodical law which causes an active and creative force to emanate from the ever-concealed and incomprehensible one principle at the beginning of every mahamanvantara or new cycle of cosmic life.
The phrase also refers to the period in the fifth round when human beings will find themselves either able to continue their evolution further up the luminous arc, developing their buddhic qualities; or, if unable to go beyond purely mental or manasic development, forced to enter paranirvana for the rest of the planetary manvantara. This period for the human kingdom corresponds to the period for the animal kingdom in the fourth round when the “door to the human kingdom” closed. At that time animals unable in this cycle to develop manas and enter the human kingdom reached the limit of their evolution for this planetary manvantara and, in the mass (excepting sishtas), had to enter paranirvana for the remainder of this planetary cycle.
There are outer rounds and inner rounds. An inner round comprises the passage of the life-wave in any one planetary chain once from globe A to G, or from the first globe to the twelfth, and this takes place seven or twelve times in a planetary manvantara. The outer round comprises the passage of the entirety of a life-wave of a planetary chain along the circulations of the solar system, from one of the seven sacred planets to another, and in a specific serial order; and this seven or twelve times. Outer round can refer to two different events: the grand outer round, during which the spiritual monad makes a stay of varying length in each planetary chain; and the minor or small outer round, which is the post-mortem journey of the monad, after the death of an individual, to each of the planetary chains, but in this latter case its stay in each chain is relatively short. See also INNER ROUND; OUTER ROUND
“There is one great difference between the Astral Light and the Akasa which must be remembered. The latter is eternal, the former is periodic. The Astral Light changes not only with the Mahamanvantaras but also with every sub-period and planetary cycle or Round. . . .
The “second advent,” referring to a second coming of Christ, was considered imminent by some early Christian sects, and is still expected by certain sects today. This echoes the archaic teaching concerning the advent of Maitreya-Buddha — the next great Buddha to appear in the long line of Buddha-succession — as well as the second coming of Elijah among the Jews, and the coming of the Kalki-avatara among the Hindus.
These progenitors are divided into two main classes: those which are incorporeal, such as the agnishvattas, and those which are corporeal, such as the angirasas, the descendants of Angiras (VP 3:14). Theosophically, angirasas are a class of manasaputras, the emanated offspring of the incorporeal agnishvattas or kumaras. In the Vaivasvata or seventh manvantara (our present one) Angiras is given as the son of Agni, though originally Agni was born from Angiras. In astronomy Angiras is both the father or regent of Brihaspati (the planet Jupiter) and the planet itself; also a star in Ursa Major, inasmuch as Angiras is one of the seven great rishis. As such the name of Angiras is linked with the bringing of light and associated with luminous bodies.
The sun is a vitally electric glowing sphere; what our eyes see is a reflection, the shell of the real sun, which is hidden behind this reflection. Further, the sun is the storehouse of the vital force of the solar system, which is the “Noumenon of Electricity”; it issues forth from the sun as life currents not only for the earth and every organism upon it, but for all the planets of the solar system (SD 1:531). The production of this vital energy will not cease until the end of the solar manvantara when the sun will instantaneously disappear, after certain long-standing premonitory symptoms.
The term is more or less equivalent to the sukshmopadhi of the Taraka-Raja-Yoga school.
This is the Egyptian symbol of time and eternity, and of ever-recurring cycles: of birth and death, manvantara and pralaya, to which the universe and every entity within it are subject. In theosophy it symbolizes further the six forces or powers of nature, the six cosmic planes, principles, etc., all synthesized by the seventh, or central point within the star.
This loss of the soul cannot ensue as long as even one spiritual aspiration remains functionally active. When not one single, quivering aspiration spiritward remains, the soul is lost for that manvantara; its essence, as it were, is inverted, and its tendency is downwards into avichi where, depending upon the power over nature acquired by the soul, circumstances may bring about an almost immediate annihilation of it or, perhaps, a manvantara of avichi-nirvana, a fearful state indeed, contrasted with the wondrous nirvana of the dhyani-chohans.
This serpent is often mythologically represented as also having a thousand heads, referring to the thousand main divisions of abstract time into which pralaya or manvantara can be divided; and as supporting, after giving birth to them by emanation, the seven lokas and seven talas out of which the manifested hierarchies of the universe are formed during cosmic manvantara. See also ANANTA-SESHA
Though Siva is often called Maha-kala (great time) which, while being the great formative factor in manvantara is also the great dissolving power, to the Hindu mind destruction implies reproduction; so Siva is also called Sankara (the auspicious), for he is the reproductive power which is perpetually restoring that which has been dissolved, and hence is also called Mahadeva (the great god). Under this character of restorer he was often represented by the symbol of the linga or phallus: “the Lingham and Yoni of Siva-worship stand too high philosophically, its modern degeneration notwithstanding, to be called a simple phallic worship” (SD 2:588). It is under the form of the linga, either alone or combined with the yoni (female organ, the representative of his sakti or female energy), that Siva is so often worshiped today in India.
Though there are seven human principles, there are but three distinct upadhis, in each of which the atman may work independently of the rest. These three upadhis can be separated by an adept without killing himself, but he cannot separate the seven principles from each other without destroying his constitution. According to the Taraka-Raja-Yoga, these three upadhis are karanopadhi, sukshmopadhi, and sthulopadhi. Karanopadhi corresponds to the anandamaya-kosa of the Vedantic classification and to the sushupti or deep dreamless sleeping state. The avatara doctrine is closely connected with these various human upadhis.
Though Vaivasvata’s humanity — our humanity — has existed for 18-19,000,000 years, and for less than half that time we have been complete organic beings, we may look forward to many more millions of years before any radical changes will take place in our physical structure. During the fourth root-race, the Atlantean, the lowest stage of materiality was reached, and we in the fifth root-race are now somewhat less physically dense. By the time we attain the seventh root-race of this fourth round, in the far distant future, our flesh will have become much more refined and almost translucent, and near the close of the manvantara or great life-period of planetary evolution in the seventh round we shall have risen so far above the lower cosmic plane in which our earth now functions that our highly ethereal bodies “are of light.” ( )
Through and from Brahman derive the various cosmic Brahmas, the expansion of the One into the many. Brahman does not put forth evolution itself nor create, but exhibits various aspects of itself by means of emanative evolution. The Hindu Puranas say that Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva are the primordial energies of Brahman, the divine neuter. There is a clear distinction between the impersonal, supreme, all-pervading, immanent, beginningless, and endless cosmic principle, whose essence is consciousness-life-substance, and the various Brahmas; for these latter are the periodic manifestations of the highest energies flowing forth at the beginning of each manvantara from the neuter Brahman, and into which these various Brahmas are ingathered again when the cosmic cycle reaches its close and pralaya ensues.
tivratara ::: very intense. tivratara tivra-vis tivra-visaya-kama
Tretya yuga: The Sanskrit name of the second age (yuga) of the manvantara; it is one-fourth less righteous and briefer than the preceding one, enduring 1,296,000 of our years (three-tenths of the entire manvantara).
Upanishad: Sanskrit for secret teaching or Esoteric Doctrine. The Upanishads form the third section of the Vedas, recording the speculations of the Hindu sages and esoteric adepts on the nature of the world and ultimate reality and the way to spiritual union with The Absolute. The principal basis of Hindu philosophy. More than one hundred Upanishads are mentioned, but thirteen are generally listed as the oldest ones, viz. Chandogya, Brhadaranyaka, Aitareya, Taittiriya, Katha, Isa, Munda, Kausitaki, Kena, Prasna, Svetasvatara, Mandukya, and Maitri; they probably date from the 8th century B.C.
Upanishad, Upanisad: (Skr.) One of a large number of treatises, more than 100. Thirteen of the oldest ones (Chandogya, Brhadaranyaka, Aitareya, Taittiriya, Katha, Isa, Mundaka, Kausitaki, Kena, Prasna, Svetasvatara, Mandukya, Maitri) have the distinction of being the first philosophic compositions, antedating for the most part the beginnings of Greek philosophy, others have been composed comparatively recently. The mode of imparting knowledge with the pupil sitting opposite (upa-ni-sad) the teacher amid an atmosphere of reverence and secrecy, gave these onginally mnemonic treatises their name. They are remarkable for ontological, metaphysical, and ethical problems, investigations into the nature of man's soul or self (see atman), God, death, immortality, and a symbolic interpretation of ritualistic materials and observances. Early examples of universal suffrage, tendencies to break down caste, philosophic dialogues and congresses, celebrated similes, succession of philosophic teachers, among other things, may be studied in the more archaic, classical Upanishads. See ayam atema brahma, aham brahma asmi, tat tvam asi, net neti. -- K.F.L.
uttara ::: higher; north.
uttara-mimamsa ::: [a system of philosophy (one of the six darsanas) : the enquiry into the latter portion of the Veda (i.e. the Upanisads ) ; it is usually called vedanta]; the brahmavada.
Uttara-Mimamsa: Same as Vedanta (q.v.). Uttarapaksa: (Skr.) "Subsequent view", the second, or the thinker's own view, stated after the refutation (Khandana) of the opponent's view (see prvapaksa). -- K.F.L.
uttara yogin (Uttar Yogi) ::: [the yogin from the North].
Vaivasvata Manu (Vaivaswata Manu) ::: [the "sun-born Manu", the progenitor and sovereign of the present manvantara].
vanara-asura (vanara-asura) ::: the vanara stage of the asura, which vanara-asura evolves in the first two manvantaras of the sixth pratikalpa.
Varahi ::: the sakti of Vis.n.u in his third avatara, when he incarnated Varahi as a mighty boar (Varaha) to raise the Earth from the depths of the ocean.
Vedanta(Sanskrit) ::: From the Upanishads and from other parts of the wonderful cycle of Vedic literature, theancient sages of India produced what is called today the Vedanta -- a compound word meaning "the end(or completion) of the Veda" -- that is to say, instruction in the final and most perfect exposition of themeaning of the Vedic tenets.The Vedanta is the highest form that the Brahmanical teachings have taken, and under the name of theUttara-Mimamsa attributed to Vyasa, the compiler of the Vedas, the Vedanta is perhaps the noblest ofthe six Indian schools of philosophy. The Avatara Sankaracharya has been the main popularizer of theVedantic system of philosophical thought, and the type of Vedantic doctrine taught by him is what istechnically called the Advaita-Vedanta or nondualistic.The Vedanta may briefly be described as a system of mystical philosophy derived from the efforts ofsages through many generations to interpret the sacred or esoteric meaning of the Upanishads. In itsAdvaita form the Vedanta is in many, if not all, respects exceedingly close to, if not identical with, someof the mystical forms of Buddhism in central Asia. The Hindus call the Vedanta Brahma-jnana.
vedanta ::: the "end or culmination of the Veda", the Upanisads (which occur at the end of the Veda) ; a system of philosophy based on the Upanisads teaching the culminating knowledge of the Absolute, considered (sometimes under the name uttara-mimamsa) to be one of the six darsanas].
viceya-taraka prabhata-kalpeva sarvari ::: night preparing for dawn, with a few just decipherable stars. [Raghuvamsa 3.2]
Vishnu as the supporter of life is the source of one line of avataras so often spoken of in Hindu legends. These ten avataras of Vishnu are: 1) Matsya the fish; 2) Kurma the tortoise; 3) Varaha the boar; 4) Narasimha the man-lion (last of animal stage); 5) Vamana the dwarf (first step toward the human form); 6) Parasu-Rama, Rama with the axe (a hero); 7) Rama-chandra, the hero of the Ramayana; 8) Krishna, son of Devaki; 9) Gautama Buddha; and 10) Kalki, the avatara who is to appear at the end of the kali yuga mounted on a white horse, inaugurating a new reign of righteousness on earth. A horse has from immemorial time been a symbol of the spiritual as well as vital energies of the inner solar orb. Hence, when the next avatara is said to come riding a white horse, the meaning is that he comes infilled with the solar light or splendor — an avatara or manifestation of a spiritual and intellectual solar energy which will carry all before it on earth.
vitaraga. ::: free from attachment; one who has abandoned desire and attachment; a sannyasi
waterfall ::: n. --> A fall, or perpendicular descent, of the water of a river or stream, or a descent nearly perpendicular; a cascade; a cataract.
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When seven such planetary chains with their various kalpas or manvantaras and pralayas have passed away, this sevenfold grand cycle is one solar manvantara, and then the solar system sinks into the solar or cosmic pralaya.
While the Uttara-mimansa is usually considered by European Orientalists to be the later in time, it contains the philosophic key to the entire system and in other senses may be called the theosophy of the Vedas. The word vedanta itself means “end of the Veda,” in the sense of being its philosophical explication or completion.
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198 Tara Westover
151 Tara Brach
150 Quentin Tarantino
77 Tara Brown
66 Sri Aurobindo
62 Mehmet Murat ildan
30 Tara Janzen
28 Tara Sue Me
28 Taraji P Henson
25 Tara Stiles
25 Anonymous
21 Taran Matharu
21 Tara Kelly
21 Heather Matarazzo
19 Tara Sivec
19 Tara Leigh
16 Tara Conklin
14 Jill Shalvis
13 Tara Lipinski
12 Tara West
1:The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle." ~ Tara Brach, (b.1953), an American psychologist, proponent of Buddhist meditation, author and founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, D.C., Wikipedia., #KEYS
2:Who is the object of homage?
You, whose face is very white, lovely and beautiful, glowing with light like an array of a hundred full autumn moons, all together, without the dust from earth and water, You are adorned with completely open, immeasurable twofold knowledge like the hosts of a thousand stars, The brilliant light of your clear wisdom manifesting the four correct analytical knowledges shines forth, Noble Lady Tara, Goddess Vajra Sarasvati, I pay homage to you. ~ Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche, Smile Of Sun And Moon,#KEYS
3:ཨོཾ། འཇིགས་པ་བརྒྱད་སྐྱོབ་མ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །
OM, JIK PA GYÉ KYOB MA LA CHAK TSAL LO
"Om! Homage to you, who protects from the eight fears!
བཀྲ་ཤིས་དཔལ་འབར་མ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །
TASHI PAL BAR MA LA CHAK TSAL LO
Homage to you, who shines as a beacon of goodness!
ངན་སོང་སྒོ་འགེགས་མ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །
NGEN SONG GO GEK MA LA CHAK TSAL LO
Homage to you, who closes the gates to the lower realms!
མཐོ་རིས་ལམ་འདྲེན་མ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །
TORI LAM DREN MA LA CHAK TSAL LO
Homage to you, who leads the way to the higher realms!
རྟག་ཏུ་ཁྱེད་ཀྱིས་སྟོངས་པར་མཛད། །
TAK TU KYÉ KYI TONG PAR DZÉ
You are my constant companion.
ད་དུང་ཐུགས་རྗེས་བསྐྱབ་ཏུ་གསོལ། །
DA DUNG TUK JÉ KYAB TU SOL
Always protect me with compassion! ~ Prayer to Tara, H E Garchen Rinpoche?#KEYS
4: Ekajaṭī or Ekajaṭā, (Sanskrit: "One Plait Woman"; Wylie: ral gcig ma: one who has one knot of hair),[1] also known as Māhacīnatārā,[2] is one of the 21 Taras. Ekajati is, along with Palden Lhamo deity, one of the most powerful and fierce goddesses of Vajrayana Buddhist mythology.[1][3] According to Tibetan legends, her right eye was pierced by the tantric master Padmasambhava so that she could much more effectively help him subjugate Tibetan demons.
Ekajati is also known as "Blue Tara", Vajra Tara or "Ugra Tara".[1][3] She is generally considered one of the three principal protectors of the Nyingma school along with Rāhula and Vajrasādhu (Wylie: rdo rje legs pa).
Often Ekajati appears as liberator in the mandala of the Green Tara. Along with that, her ascribed powers are removing the fear of enemies, spreading joy, and removing personal hindrances on the path to enlightenment.
Ekajati is the protector of secret mantras and "as the mother of the mothers of all the Buddhas" represents the ultimate unity. As such, her own mantra is also secret. She is the most important protector of the Vajrayana teachings, especially the Inner Tantras and termas. As the protector of mantra, she supports the practitioner in deciphering symbolic dakini codes and properly determines appropriate times and circumstances for revealing tantric teachings. Because she completely realizes the texts and mantras under her care, she reminds the practitioner of their preciousness and secrecy.[4] Düsum Khyenpa, 1st Karmapa Lama meditated upon her in early childhood.
According to Namkhai Norbu, Ekajati is the principal guardian of the Dzogchen teachings and is "a personification of the essentially non-dual nature of primordial energy."[5]
Dzogchen is the most closely guarded teaching in Tibetan Buddhism, of which Ekajati is a main guardian as mentioned above. It is said that Sri Singha (Sanskrit: Śrī Siṃha) himself entrusted the "Heart Essence" (Wylie: snying thig) teachings to her care. To the great master Longchenpa, who initiated the dissemination of certain Dzogchen teachings, Ekajati offered uncharacteristically personal guidance. In his thirty-second year, Ekajati appeared to Longchenpa, supervising every ritual detail of the Heart Essence of the Dakinis empowerment, insisting on the use of a peacock feather and removing unnecessary basin. When Longchenpa performed the ritual, she nodded her head in approval but corrected his pronunciation. When he recited the mantra, Ekajati admonished him, saying, "Imitate me," and sang it in a strange, harmonious melody in the dakini's language. Later she appeared at the gathering and joyously danced, proclaiming the approval of Padmasambhava and the dakinis.[6] ~ Wikipedia,#KEYS
5:Coded Language
Whereas, breakbeats have been the missing link connecting the diasporic community to its drum woven past
Whereas the quantised drum has allowed the whirling mathematicians to calculate the ever changing distance between rock and stardom.
Whereas the velocity of the spinning vinyl, cross-faded, spun backwards, and re-released at the same given moment of recorded history , yet at a different moment in time's continuum has allowed history to catch up with the present.
We do hereby declare reality unkempt by the changing standards of dialogue.
Statements, such as, "keep it real", especially when punctuating or anticipating modes of ultra-violence inflicted psychologically or physically or depicting an unchanging rule of events will hence forth be seen as retro-active and not representative of the individually determined is.
Furthermore, as determined by the collective consciousness of this state of being and the lessened distance between thought patterns and their secular manifestations, the role of men as listening receptacles is to be increased by a number no less than 70 percent of the current enlisted as vocal aggressors.
Motherfuckers better realize, now is the time to self-actualize
We have found evidence that hip hops standard 85 rpm when increased by a number as least half the rate of it's standard or decreased at ¾ of it's speed may be a determining factor in heightening consciousness.
Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.
Equate rhyme with reason, Sun with season
Our cyclical relationship to phenomenon has encouraged scholars to erase the centers of periods, thus symbolizing the non-linear character of cause and effect
Reject mediocrity!
Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which as been given for you to understand.
The current standard is the equivalent of an adolescent restricted to the diet of an infant.
The rapidly changing body would acquire dysfunctional and deformative symptoms and could not properly mature on a diet of apple sauce and crushed pears
Light years are interchangeable with years of living in darkness.
The role of darkness is not to be seen as, or equated with, Ignorance, but with the unknown, and the mysteries of the unseen.
Thus, in the name of:
ROBESON, GOD'S SON, HURSTON, AHKENATON, HATHSHEPUT, BLACKFOOT, HELEN
LENNON, KHALO, KALI, THE THREE MARIAS, TARA, LILITH, LOURDE, WHITMAN
BALDWIN, GINSBERG, KAUFMAN, LUMUMBA, GHANDI, GIBRAN, SHABAZZ, SIDDHARTHA
MEDUSA, GUEVARA, GURDJIEFF, RAND, WRIGHT, BANNEKER, TUBMAN, HAMER, HOLIDAY
DAVIS, COLTRANE, MORRISON, JOPLIN, DUBOIS, CLARKE, SHAKESPEARE, RACHMANINOV
ELLINGTON, CARTER, GAYE, HATHAWAY, HENDRIX, KUTI, DICKINSON, RIPPERTON
MARY, ISIS, THERESA, HANSBURY, TESLA, PLATH, RUMI, FELLINI, MICHAUX, NOSTRADAMUS, NEFERTITI
LA ROCK, SHIVA, GANESHA, YEMAJA, OSHUN, OBATALA, OGUN, KENNEDY, KING, FOUR
LITTLE GIRLS, HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI, KELLER, BIKO, PERÓN, MARLEY, MAGDALENE, COSBY
SHAKUR, THOSE WHO BURN, THOSE STILL AFLAME, AND THE COUNTLESS UNNAMED
We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter.
We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun.
We are not afraid of the darkness, we trust that the moon shall guide us.
We are determining the future at this very moment.
We now know that the heart is the philosophers' stone
Our music is our alchemy
We stand as the manifested equivalent of 3 buckets of water and a hand full of minerals, thus realizing that those very buckets turned upside down supply the percussion factor of forever.
If you must count to keep the beat then count.
Find you mantra and awaken your subconscious.
Curve you circles counterclockwise
Use your cipher to decipher, Coded Language, man made laws.
Climb waterfalls and trees, commune with nature, snakes and bees.
Let your children name themselves and claim themselves as the new day for today we are determined to be the channelers of these changing frequencies into songs, paintings, writings, dance, drama, photography, carpentry, crafts, love, and love.
We enlist every instrument: Acoustic, electronic.
Every so-called race, gender, and sexual preference.
Every per-son as beings of sound to acknowledge their responsibility to uplift the consciousness of the entire fucking World.
Any utterance will be un-aimed, will be disclaimed - two rappers slain
Any utterance will be un-aimed, will be disclaimed - two rappers slain
~ Saul Williams,#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
*** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:Spitters are Quitters ~ Tara Sivec, #NFDB
2:Nothing TOUCHES ME. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
3:Shit is wrong with me. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
4:Two o’clock was missing. ~ Tara Sim, #NFDB
5:You make me everything. ~ Tara Leigh, #NFDB
6:He doesn't affect me. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
7:I'm an alcoholic, Tara. ~ Jaci Burton, #NFDB
8:My body is on auto-slut. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
9:So much silk and lace. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
10:You smell like a concert. ~ Tara Kelly, #NFDB
11:Everyone leaves, in the end. ~ Tara Sim, #NFDB
12:I had built a new life. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
13:Kid Chaos : "Yes, ma'am". ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
14:The Baths of Caracalla. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
15:This place is a shit hole. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
16:Buy now at Amazon! Dolmarehn ~ Tara Maya, #NFDB
17:disease is not a choice. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
18:Drove me to my new life. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
19:The illusion of control. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
20:Even your orgasms are mine. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
21:First loves can fuck you up. ~ Tara Kelly, #NFDB
22:FROM THE PAIN, I thought. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
23:Pleated sofa of pale pink. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
24:woman said. “You’re saying ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
25:I am the hero of my own story. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
26:validate her misperceptions. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
27:Dying sucks big fat donkey balls. ~ Tara West, #NFDB
28:He looked like Thor. Tara's ~ Jennifer Probst, #NFDB
29:started is how I would end—if ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
30:Hopeless creatures, the lot of you. ~ Tara Sim, #NFDB
31:on his knees in the dirt, staring ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
32:Become a witness to your thoughts. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
33:That peace did not come easily. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
34:Tara bonding tayo sa field trip ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
35:Go after what gives you goosebumps. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
36:Well fuck me gently with a chainsaw, ~ Tara Sivec, #NFDB
37:He should probably make love to her. ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
38:I guess music is your drug of choice. ~ Tara Kelly, #NFDB
39:When we open to love, we become love. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
40:I lived alone in a quiet apartment. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
41:Keep your hands off my chocolate. Check ~ Tara West, #NFDB
42:May this too be held in lovingkindness. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
43:Our greatest longing is to be intimate. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
44:Who writes history? I thought. I do. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
45:You can’t possibly be afraid of trees. ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
46:A gleam hits her green eyes. “Follow me. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
47:Here’s the proof: nothing touches me. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
48:on hers; And finally, Andy Cahill, who ~ Tara Dairman, #NFDB
49:Who keeps putting alcohol in my alcohol? ~ Tara Sivec, #NFDB
50:I'm gonna make like a fetus and head out. ~ Tara Sivec, #NFDB
51:None but ourselves can free our minds. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
52:The shortest way to Tara is via Holyhead ~ James Joyce, #NFDB
53:When had a heart ever listened to rules? ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
54:is self-mastery—the rule of the self, by ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
55:To tea, without which I would likely be dead. ~ Tara Sim, #NFDB
56:Vikings don't have faults, they have clubs. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
57:Fear is the anticipation of future pain. The ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
58:I believe in myself and in Saint Therese. ~ Tara Lipinski, #NFDB
59:Why was the world so obsessed with sameness? ~ Tara Kelly, #NFDB
60:Cupid shot his arrow but it crumbled my heart. ~ Tara West, #NFDB
61:Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
62:Be the silence that listens.” –Tara Brach ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
63:Each inhale creates more space in our bodies. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
64:I realized I was wetter than spring in Seattle. ~ Tara West, #NFDB
65:Pussy punch: when a twat tap just isn't enough ~ Tara Sivec, #NFDB
66:Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
67:"How you live today is how you live your life." ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
68:Meditation can change the flavor of the season. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
69:Tara grinned. “Funny how things work out, ~ Jennifer McMahon, #NFDB
70:She set him aside and moved through the door. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
71:I want to accept myself completely, just as I am. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
72:shoving lube into his own hole. As Billy struggled ~ Tara Lain, #NFDB
73:Take moments to savor what is beautiful and good. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
74:There are certain moments in life you can't miss. ~ Tara Kelly, #NFDB
75:He’s always grabbing at me and dragging me around. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
76:I don’t want your apology. I want your obedience. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
77:I guess a case of nerves could survive even death ~ Tara Hudson, #NFDB
78:I shouldn't be allowed to think when I'm drinking. ~ Tara Sivec, #NFDB
79:Learning to dance felt like learning to belong. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
80:Our attention to each breath keeps us in the now. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
81:I don't believe I'm bad, and I do believe I'm good. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
82:A kind of worth that was inherent and unshakable. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
83:Curiosity is a luxury for the financially secure. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
84:Did you see that? The fuck I give. It went that way. ~ Tara Sivec, #NFDB
85:For those who wait with full hearts and empty arms. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
86:Haven’t you heard that older men make better lovers? ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
87:memory pops back into my brain, but it doesn’t. So I ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
88:that look on his face, of love and fear and loss. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
89:The “one I love” was everywhere, including within me. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
90:There is no snooze button on life
- Tara Daniels ~ Jill Shalvis,#NFDB
91:We take care of each other because we are each other. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
92:Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
93:When you are plugged into you, anything is possible. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
94:I don’t know what it’s like not to love you, princess. ~ Tara Leigh, #NFDB
95:If we're not open to losing, we're not open to loving. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
96:Of the nature of women, nothing final can be known. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
97:Oh Sweet Jesus. Sweet mother fucking fuckery of fucks. ~ Tara Sivec, #NFDB
98:he drags me from the car it’s rough, but I fight a moan ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
99:I don't need to be saved. I'm the hero of my own story. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
100:Inspiration is a joke, real artists sit down and work ~ Tara Donovan, #NFDB
101:Perfection is not a prerequisite for anything but pain. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
102:The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course. ~ Tara Lipinski, #NFDB
103:The things you can control and the things you cannot. ~ Tara Conklin, #NFDB
104:By running from what we fear, we feed the inner darkness ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
105:Love at first sight isn’t real, Aimee. It's called lust. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
106:Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
107:She’s grasping for humor but the memory is jaundiced. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
108:Dad seemed eager to fight, to prove who was in charge. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
109:I want to stay with you, Shane. Because of you. Only you. ~ Tara Leigh, #NFDB
110:Sometimes we have to deny ourselves in order to survive. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
111:Change is good but dollars are better.
- Tara daniels ~ Jill Shalvis,#NFDB
112:If the first fall was God's will, whose was the second? ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
113:If the first fall was God’s will, whose was the second? ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
114:Nothing is wrong—whatever is happening is just “real life. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
115:There was solace in its strange formulas and equations. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
116:true freedom is being “without anxiety about imperfection. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
117:Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
118:I’m skimming over life and racing to the finish line—death. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
119:In our world, love is most certainly a weakness." ~ Belial ~ Tara Hudson, #NFDB
120:Is it too much to wish for such a life? Is it too little? ~ Tara Conklin, #NFDB
121:What is one to make of such a carousel of contradiction? ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
122:for lunch. I remember that lunch with unsettling clarity. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
123:Fuck, Dylan said, then thought it, just for the hell of it. ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
124:I could tolerate any form of cruelty better than kindness ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
125:imaginations were a dangerous toy the weak mind played with. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
126:People denied themselves daily. It was called self-control. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
127:because retaining power always feels like the way forward. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
128:Nothing is wrong - whatever is happening is just "real life." ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
129:We ran across town, like Little Red Riding Hood and her wolf. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
130:Yet by running from what we fear, we feed the inner darkness. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
131:You express yourself through written words. You’re a writer. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
132:The most powerful determinant of who you are is inside you, ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
133:You can tell a lot about yourself by how you go about things. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
134:When you know you're the ocean, you're not afraid of the waves. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
135:Aislinn Granville is everything to me.
Every. Fucking. Thing. ~ Tara Leigh,#NFDB
136:I never uttered the words “I’m from Idaho” until I’d left it. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
137:When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
138:Don't write it right, just write it, and then make it right later. ~ Tara Moss, #NFDB
139:There's a special place in hell for people who mistreat animals. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
140:I knew I could hold myself with that absolute love and compassion. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
141:I looked at the fashion model and reassured myself she wasn't dead. ~ Tara Moss, #NFDB
142:That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
143:The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
144:The truth will always out, for the truth catches up with everyone, ~ Tara Lyons, #NFDB
145:You’ve stopped crying. I’m glad. I don’t want you to cry anymore. ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
146:First find out what you are capable of, then decide who you are. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
147:for both of us and a huge grin that told me he too had been visited ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
148:I can stand in this wind, because I’m not trying to stand in it, ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
149:I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
150:I read them to learn what to think, not how to think for myself. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
151:Life never gives you what you deserve but what you decided. ~ Tara Fela Durotoye, #NFDB
152:Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
153:Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
154:Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
155:To open in a loving way is to let awareness notice that tightening. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
156:Each exhale allows us to let go of the moment that has just passed. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
157:First find out what you are capable of, then decide what you are. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
158:Tara… marrying you is getting heaven... only without having to die. ~ Lucian Bane, #NFDB
159:What you practice on the mat is what you end up doing in your life. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
160:I love you more than a hooker loves free VD testing day at the clinic ~ Tara Sivec, #NFDB
161:Loss of love, loss of limb, and loss of life are all equal tragedies. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
162:There’s a sense of sovereignty that comes from life on a mountain, ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
163:brothers do, as Robert and Emma had done, shouting for Mother. When ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
164:I’m here with you, exactly where I want to be. Exactly where I belong. ~ Tara Leigh, #NFDB
165:I think of desire as the essence that brings forth the whole universe. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
166:I would remain a child, in perpetuity, always, or I would lose him. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
167:Our reality is the thoughts and dramas we see in our mental movies. We ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
168:The reflex of fear was soon replaced with another, more useful emotion. ~ Tara Moss, #NFDB
169:Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
170:He had defined me to myself, and there’s no greater power than that. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
171:I felt exposed by the elegance and yet somehow made invisible by it. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
172:The greatest works of poetry are the stories we tell about ourselves. ~ Tara Conklin, #NFDB
173:An education is not so much about making a living as making a person. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
174:children from the same womb would share the same precious blood.” I gag. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
175:It’s strange how you give the people you love so much power over you, ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
176:It’s strange how you give the people you love so much power over you. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
177:no matter what, I like him as deeply as I loathe him. It is a problem. I ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
178:No one likes an ugly crier. It's uncomfortable for all parties involved. ~ Tara Sivec, #NFDB
179:The most powerful determinant of who you are is inside you,” he said. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
180:We are waiting for the next moment to contain what this moment does not. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
181:we explored Rome, a city that is both a living organism and a fossil. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
182:All I know is I make sense to me- it's other people who seem complicated. ~ Tara Kelly, #NFDB
183:He'd probably spent as much time practicing scales as he had jacking off. ~ Tara Kelly, #NFDB
184:If I didn’t take selfies, my friends wouldn’t even know what I look like. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
185:I just didn't feel like seeing him, or hearing his voice, so I didn't. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
186:I take refuge in awareness; I take refuge in truth; I take refuge in love ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
187:Maybe Mr. Lovelace was ready to shit out whatever bug had died in his ass. ~ Tara West, #NFDB
188:This longing to express and celebrate life is innate and quite beautiful. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
189:We are all more complicated than the roles we are assigned in stories. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
190:We have no school records because we’ve never set foot in a classroom. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
191:am not the child my father raised, but he is the father who raised her. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
192:Emotional Alchemy: How the Mind Can Heal the Heart, Tara Bennett-Goleman ~ Kristin Neff, #NFDB
193:I hear Canada is still free though. They ain't got slaver camps and ships. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
194:Journaling is contemplative, and I didn’t want to contemplate anything. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
195:My sense of direction would be the death of me. Metaphorically, at least. ~ Tara Hudson, #NFDB
196:We just wrote a song in front of hundreds of people. And we’d killed it. … ~ Tara Kelly, #NFDB
197:When we get lost in our stories, we lose touch with our actual experience. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
198:wonder if I am in hell. I am being punished for the sins I have committed. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
199:life isn’t entirely about happily ever after. It is also about perspective. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
200:The past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
201:They say the eyes are windows to the soul and in that moment, it was true. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
202:You’re judging her by her literacy,’ Tara says. ‘You’re a literacist. ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
203:I am not the child my father raised, but he is the father who raised her. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
204:Imperfection is not our personal problem - it is a natural part of existing. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
205:Safe is an illusion, and once you believe the illusion, you lose everything. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
206:The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
207:Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal. I call it an education. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
208:Buddhist mindfulness meditation called vipassana, which means “to see clearly ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
209:The one woman I shouldn’t have has become the one woman I can’t live without. ~ Tara Leigh, #NFDB
210:There are no rules in life. It’s a mind-set that limits people dramatically. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
211:When your effort results in the desired effect, then you have worked. ~ Tara Fela Durotoye, #NFDB
212:College is extra school for people too dumb to learn the first time around, ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
213:For a moment, time started. It flickered into existence like a guttering candle. ~ Tara Sim, #NFDB
214:I’d never heard anyone use the word “feminism” as anything but a reprimand. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
215:All I had to do was swap my memories for theirs, and I could have my family. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
216:In intimate relationships, if we start trying to be more real, it's very scary. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
217:It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy. ~ Tara Lipinski, #NFDB
218:She’d never known a man whose initial move was to undress the woman he wanted. ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
219:The reflex of fear was soon replaced with another, more useful emotion.
Rage. ~ Tara Moss,#NFDB
220:Believing in yourself is essential to creating lasting change and a happy life. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
221:I don’t understand why I wasn’t allowed to get a decent education as a child. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
222:I really wanted something, giving myself permission to screw up wasn't an option ~ Tara Kelly, #NFDB
223:The past was a ghost, insubstantial, unaffecting. Only the future had weight. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
224:We are continually experiencing the conditioning to hold on, tighten, or resist. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
225:You stole my heart, Regan,"he told her. "And I don't particularly want it back. ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
226:Each movement reminds us that every moment invites a new opportunity for change. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
227:I'm going to be pissed if I walk all the way to the camp and end up getting shot. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
228:I would never again be made a foot soldier in a conflict I did not understand. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
229:Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
230:She’s drunk dialing contractors ” Chloe said to Tara. “Someone should stop her. ~ Jill Shalvis, #NFDB
231:Staying occupied is a socially sanctioned way of remaining distant from our pain. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
232:Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery None but ourselves can free our minds ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
233:Everyone including YOU suffers when you refuse to BE all & DO all you can. ~ Tara Fela Durotoye, #NFDB
234:Positive liberty," another student said, "is freedom from internal constraints. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
235:Some people feed you with love,” Tara said, “and some people love you with food. ~ Graham Joyce, #NFDB
236:Some people will choose, again and again, to destroy what it is they value most. ~ Tara Conklin, #NFDB
237:Anyway, it doesn’t matter where we go, because I just want to be whenever you are. ~ Tara Hudson, #NFDB
238:If I'm judging the attachment, myself, or another person, then I create separation. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
239:Keeping busy is the best defense against feeling sad. It’s simple, but it’s true. ~ Tara Conklin, #NFDB
240:That's what yoga teaches: how to be fully present now, no matter the circumstance. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
241:The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee. ~ Tara Lipinski, #NFDB
242:Underneath the stress is fear, and the biggest is our own personal fear of failure. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
243:What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is? ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
244:Along with judging myself harshly, I'd also always seen the truth of goodness in me. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
245:Don't be afraid of what's on the inside. I can make a masterpiece with the insides. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
246:Don’t you understand? This is your chance to escape who you are, become who you want. ~ Tara Maya, #NFDB
247:Everything you say is worthwile to me. Even when you don't let me finish a sentence. ~ Tara Kelly, #NFDB
248:If I looked like him,” Tara said. “I’d want to have sex with myself. All the time. ~ Jill Shalvis, #NFDB
249:now Chloe, Tara, and Maddie were real sisters instead of strangers. Friends, even. ~ Jill Shalvis, #NFDB
250:As long as I leave my frustration behind, I know I am moving toward my goal again. ~ Tara Lipinski, #NFDB
251:I had that feeling of just pure joy and I went out there and put it in my program. ~ Tara Lipinski, #NFDB
252:...other people want to feel important and loved. Just that. [author's patient, Phil] ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
253:Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
254:Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
255:Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
256:But sometimes I think we choose our illnesses, because they benefit us in some way. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
257:Knowledge,” Tara replied, turning a page as quietly as she could manage, “is power. ~ Max Gladstone, #NFDB
258:Not for the first time, Tara wished she could read in the car without becoming sick. ~ Darcy Coates, #NFDB
259:Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
260:People don't behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
261:Say it,” he whispers. “I missed out on this the first time. I want to hear you say it. ~ Tara Sivec, #NFDB
262:The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” Our ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
263:Today is the last day of some of your life. Don't waste it." quote from Tara Daniels ~ Jill Shalvis, #NFDB
264:Guilt is the fear of one's own wretchedness. It has nothing to do with other people. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
265:Guilt is the fear of one’s own wretchedness. It has nothing to do with other people. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
266:Tragedy was a greedy motherfucker – it never contained itself to those who deserved it. ~ Tara Leigh, #NFDB
267:I'm the lucky one, Tara. I have you; I have Nathan. I have the perfect life. Thank you. ~ Jaci Burton, #NFDB
268:Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were. ~ Tara Lipinski, #NFDB
269:She was in love. In love with the same man she'd always been in love with-God save her. ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
270:We can’t understand the nature of reality until we let go of controlling our experience. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
271:Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
272:Give the power to the person who wants it the least, never the one who wants it the most. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
273:Stories can be a jumping-off point to access the emotions and the sensations in the body. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
274:I was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
275:myself, “What would it be like if I could accept life—accept this moment—exactly as it is? ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
276:If it weren't for desire, the formless would not have come into form and engage creatively. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
277:Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
278:- Which State Department, exactly, are we talking about?
- The one in Washington, D.C. ~ Tara Janzen,#NFDB
279:Why did all the hot guys have to be such jerks, and why did I still want to sleep with them? ~ Tara West, #NFDB
280:Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being “without anxiety about imperfection. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
281:Alice in tara minunilor (Caroll Lewis) - Your Highlight on page 39 | Location 589-589 | Added ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
282:Are you asking me to be your girlfriend?”
… “No … I’m not asking. You’re my girl. Period. ~ Tara Leigh,#NFDB
283:Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
284:had renounced my father’s world, I had never quite found the courage to live in this one. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
285:I'd been preparing myself to apologize. Forgive and forget, as Mom says. "Fuck you," I said. ~ Tara Kelly, #NFDB
286:I had begun to conceive of what my education might cost me, and I had begun to resent it. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
287:I would have kissed you if you were a girl. I would have kissed you if you were purple.” Danny ~ Tara Sim, #NFDB
288:Not the kind of unconsciousness that torments the dead, but the kind that kills the living. ~ Tara Hudson, #NFDB
289:The room suited my father perfectly: it was larger than life and wonderfully incongruous. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
290:He makes me see that I don’t need to fear the other things in the room. They need to fear me. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
291:If only we were smart enough to follow our hearts the first time we walk away from something. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
292:she think was going to happen, Will? What did she think happens to girls who dress like that? ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
293:The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. Carl Rogers ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
294:Everything we need is already there. The challenge is letting go of all our stuff in the way. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
295:No. Thank you she said in a voice that said he could go to hell and take his jacket with him. ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
296:Even then I understood the truth of it: that Shawn hated himself far more than I ever could. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
297:He was a boy of air and dust and sunlight. Everything that had gone into the making of the world. ~ Tara Sim, #NFDB
298:I am very competitive, so when I fail I use what I learned from that mishap to fuel success. ~ Tara Lipinski, #NFDB
299:In the collective psyche it is being understood... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
300:You're a young woman growing up in a world where love and bright spots are few and far between. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
301:Your father won’t come unless you apologize,” she said. “And I won’t, either.” I apologized. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
302:arms. He looks like he’s being hung on the cross as his arms come out and his head tilts back. A ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
303:Mission of mercy, he said, straightening up, his voice so cold, he could have owned the patent. ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
304:He cupped my face in his hand, a bold move for someone who was still on my neck-deep-in-shit list, ~ Tara West, #NFDB
305:Never again would I allow myself to be made a foot soldier in a conflict I did not understand. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
306:The belief that we are deficient and unworthy makes it difficult to trust that we are truly loved ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
307:The Day Tara the Great Destroyed the Zombie Queen and Then Ate a Grilled Cheese Sandwich would be ~ Wendy Mass, #NFDB
308:There's healthy attachment, like with a mother and child. It's biologically part of our survival. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
309:We can't change things by wishing. Only by doing. It's our actions, Tara, not our thoughts. ~ Jennifer McMahon, #NFDB
310:where the tables looked like colorful baskets and wailing songs played over the speaker system. ~ Tara Dairman, #NFDB
311:I believed then--and part of me will always believe--that my father's words ought to be my own. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
312:I talked and he listened, drawing the shame from me like a healer draws infection from a wound. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
313:skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
314:Discovering a richer quality of being-ness means to keep surrendering and letting go of resistance. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
315:From what I could tell, Dad was on track to become the best-funded lunatic in the Mountain West. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
316:Give yourself the mental freedom to enjoy the process, because the process of writing is a long one. ~ Tara Moss, #NFDB
317:I sure didn’t want to try to take a ride on that pony only to find out he had no more get up and go. ~ Tara West, #NFDB
318:It has never occurred to you,” he said, “that you might have as much right to be here as anyone. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
319:The purring kitten on her shoulder and the beauty of the day rinsed away her gloom on the walk home. ~ Tara Maya, #NFDB
320:Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
321:She just laughed. The empty basket bounced on her back as she ran. The fae followed Dindi in a cloud. ~ Tara Maya, #NFDB
322:Thoreau writes, “Is there a greater miracle than to see through another’s eyes, even for an instant? ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
323:Was Tara still standing? Or was Tara also gone with the wind which had swept through Georgia? ~ Margaret Mitchell, #NFDB
324:We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
325:Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither. ~ Tara Hunt, #NFDB
326:Even a few moments of offering lovingkindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
327:He smiles, breaking my heart with his perfection and despair. He really is the most beautiful man. He ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
328:Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
329:To get asked to do stuff like 'United States Of Tara' and 'Caprica' is terrific. I can't complain. ~ Patton Oswalt, #NFDB
330:We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
331:When January 1 dawned like any other morning, it broke Dad’s spirit. He never again mentioned Y2K. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
332:El sentimiento de culpa es el miedo a nuestra propia vileza. No guarda relación con otras personas. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
333:The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
334:although I had renounced my father’s world, I had never quite found the courage to live in this one. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
335:Hanson got to sleep with you, and I didn't,” he said, his own jaw a little tight. “So I stole his car. ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
336:is painful to face reality, she wrote. To realize there was something ugly, and I refused to see it. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
337:There are some things we can't choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
338:Those smutty books sell because women wish their husbands had half the balls the men in those books do. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
339:What you honkies doing in these parts? You wanna give us that pussy or you want us to take it?” Lorelei ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
340:I could tolerate any form of cruelty better than kindness. Praise was a poison to me; I choked on it. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
341:Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
342:She knows her place in this world. She can tear down its walls, and still nobody knows her name. - Naomi ~ Tara Kelly, #NFDB
343:There's a mystic who says there's only one really good question, which is, 'What am I unwilling to feel? ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
344:But here they were, despite death and everything, sitting in a car.
If this was fate, she was buying. ~ Tara Janzen,#NFDB
345:never about them. Guilt is the fear of one’s own wretchedness. It has nothing to do with other people. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
346:Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
347:The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
348:You know, there are several gay men on the faculty. Professor Montag makes jelly beans look colorless(...) ~ Tara Lain, #NFDB
349:Been waiting my whole life for one person, Piper. You. I love you, and I’m not letting you go, ever again. ~ Tara Leigh, #NFDB
350:Journals...
"Get them them, I'm going to read them."
"I don't have them with me." This was a lie. ~ Tara Westover,#NFDB
351:the same paranoia that was a symptom of the illness would prevent its ever being diagnosed and treated. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
352:This seemed so obvious to me now, it was difficult to understand why I had ever believed anything else. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
353:to failure.” Playing it safe requires that we avoid risky situations—which covers pretty much all of life. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
354:We could have slept anywhere and I wouldn’t have cared. His arms were the heaven I never wanted to leave. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
355:You're judging her by her literacy," Tara says. "You're a literacist."
"You've made that up. ~ Melina Marchetta,#NFDB
356:Aaarrggg, ahoy me matey, thars a great grand vagina over yonder." Penises talk like pirates when I'm drunk. ~ Tara Sivec, #NFDB
357:didn’t matter how great a mother you tried to be; eventually every child walked off into the world alone. ~ Tara Conklin, #NFDB
358:I left the bathroom carrying that calmness delicately, as if it were a china plate balancing on my head. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
359:I'm breathing out of my mouth and thinking things I have only seen on Netflix in the foreign-movie section. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
360:There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
361:To admit uncertainty is to admit to weakness, to powerlessness, and to believe in yourself despite both. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
362:I began to experience the most powerful advantage of money: the ability to think of things besides money. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
363:I breathe heavily as tears stream from my face. They aren’t fearful tears, they are my rage leaking from me. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
364:It is hard to comfort yourself when you feel miserable. Comfort requires something from the outside. ~ Tara Austen Weaver, #NFDB
365:may as well surrender my kids to the devil himself,” he said, “as send them down the road to that school. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
366:Our enjoyment is tainted by anxiety about keeping what we have and our compulsion to reach out and get more. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
367:Spiritual awakening is the process of recognizing our essential goodness, our natural wisdom and compassion. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
368:Good judgment comes from bad experience. Unfortunately, most of that comes from bad judgment.” TARA DANIELS ~ Jill Shalvis, #NFDB
369:Seated with Stuart and Brent Tarleton in the cool shade of the porch of Tara, her father's plantation, ~ Margaret Mitchell, #NFDB
370:Don't leave me, Abby."
"I let you leave once and it almost me. Please," he begged. "Please don't leave me. ~ Tara Sue Me,#NFDB
371:If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
372:It is a subject on which nothing final can be known.” The subject Mill had in mind was the nature of women. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
373:I will have you do things you never thought possible, but I can also bring you a pleasure you never imagined. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
374:Mister hit Josephine with the palm of his hand across her left cheek and it was then she knew she would run. ~ Tara Conklin, #NFDB
375:what a person knows about the past is limited, and will always be limited, to what they are told by others. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
376:what they had written was not absolute but was the result of a biased process of conversation and revision, ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
377:You were the goddess I longed to worship. My unobtainable dream. The relationship I could never hope to have. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
378:Because when the lights go out and we sit waiting in the dark, what do our fingers seek? Who do we reach for? ~ Tara Conklin, #NFDB
379:I have been teaching in Cambridge for thirty years,” he said. “And this is one of the best essays I’ve read. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
380:I mean, he is a Yank, after all, but he could be worse—he could be English. They’re all tossers with bad teeth. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
381:It’s a wonderful way to sleep, cocooned in a man who makes you feel like nothing matters beyond the two of you. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
382:My strongest memory is not a memory. It’s something I imagined, then came to remember as if it had happened. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
383:Seriously? There was a condom brand called Rough Rider? Why not just go with F**k Her Hard and be done with it? ~ Tara Sivec, #NFDB
384:Stories about ourselves and about the world continually arise in our minds and shape our beliefs about reality. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
385:The three with doctorates, and the four without high school diplomas. A chasm had appeared, and was growing. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
386:What’s her problem?” Tara asks from behind me.
“High expectations,” I say. “Misplaced high expectations. ~ Tim Tharp,#NFDB
387:When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
388:Your negative actions will always speak over top of your kind words and only fools listen where the wise watch. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
389:But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
390:Days turn to night. The ocean tide drifts in and out. And I want you, Tara. Damn you, but I do. I always have. ~ Jill Shalvis, #NFDB
391:God, I wished I could take away her pain. Our pain.
I couldn’t. But I could give her forever.
And I would. ~ Tara Leigh,#NFDB
392:... I began to experience the most powerful advantage of money: the ability to think of things besides money. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
393:'I want your light to chase his darkness [...] The best way to get rid of a nightmare is with a dream come true.' ~ Tara Lain, #NFDB
394:Our mother taught us how to protect ourselves from hurt but not how to determine what might be worth the risk. ~ Tara Conklin, #NFDB
395:If only I could freeze this moment, this feeling, because right now, nothing else mattered. I was f***ing flying. ~ Tara Kelly, #NFDB
396:It made the air heavy and the sky appear frozen, as if the town were being forced to slow down until the next hour. ~ Tara Sim, #NFDB
397:'I want your light to chase his darkness [...] The best way to get rid of a nightmare is with a dream come true.' ~ Tara Lain, #NFDB
398:can’t take the test,” I said. “I don’t know any math.” “You’ve got money,” Tyler said. “Buy books and learn it. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
399:I became committed to dropping my resistance so I could get to know this energy that was driving the wanting self. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
400:I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion. ~ Tara Lipinski, #NFDB
401:Eat like you love yourself. Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like you love yourself. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
402:I swear I’m not imaginary.” An uncontrollable grin spread across my face. “I would know if I was imaginary, right? ~ Tara Hudson, #NFDB
403:My understanding is that to love, we need to be able to totally surrender to the living/dying nature of this world. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
404:Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever, but plan for the Hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow. ~ Tara Hudson, #NFDB
405:She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it. ~ Margaret Mitchell, #NFDB
406:Te Quiero, decían mis dedos al bajar por sus brazos.
Te Quiero, respondían los suyos al acariciarme la espalda. ~ Tara Sue Me,#NFDB
407:He'd wanted to take her dirty and take her sweet, take her any way he could get her and every way he could dream up ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
408:She was just a cockney in a nice dress. Until she believed in herself. Then it didn’t matter what dress she wore. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
409:The main thing going on around intimacy is that we've developed a lot of strategies so we'll be a desirable package. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
410:When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
411:All my studying, reading, thinking, traveling, had it transformed me into someone who no longer belonged anywhere? ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
412:And I'm not sure, but I think, somehow, in the seconds before he released into me, I felt a tear fall from his eyes. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
413:And you will not hurt him anymore. Not one of you. Because I am his protector. His rear guard. I am his" -Tara Reese ~ Lucian Bane, #NFDB
414:What we need now is a nation of great people who live to positively impact others and build enduring legacies ~ Tara Fela Durotoye, #NFDB
415:When it comes to you, Pippa, want is all I’ve ever known. And I’ve never wanted anyone the way I wanted – want – you. ~ Tara Leigh, #NFDB
416:By taking the time to explore charged memories in therapy we might uncover feelings that have been buried for decades. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
417:giving you time to think, because I know you’ll search for the truth and when you find it, it’ll lead you back to me. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
418:I quickly tried to do the math but my brain was a jumbled mess and I couldn’t remember what number comes after potato! ~ Tara Sivec, #NFDB
419:Our kids go to school and they come out feeling not intelligent, not desirable, not attractive or appealing to others. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
420:Our sex need not primarily define who we are, what we are capable of, or what we can be expected to enjoy or engage in. ~ Tara Moss, #NFDB
421:The past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, & thus we don’t have ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
422:When I'm attached, I find that I don't see the other person as clearly because I'm more caught up in what I'm wanting. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
423:You could call this selfhood many things. Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal. I call it an education. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
424:Good judgment comes from bad experience. Unfortunately, most of that comes from bad judgment.
- Tara Daniels - ~ Jill Shalvis,#NFDB
425:Love is when someone puts you on a pedestal and yet when you fall, they're there to catch you anyway.' - Tara Daniels ~ Jill Shalvis, #NFDB
426:Tara's already been called a lesbian because that's how the Sebastian boys deal with any girl who has an opinion. ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
427:I remembered the words of Sancho Panza: An adventuring knight is someone who's beaten and then finds himself emperor. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
428:I remember that night fondly. And by fondly, I mean with bitter resentment toward all things alcoholic and with a penis. ~ Tara Sivec, #NFDB
429:It is through realizing loving presence as our very essence, through being that presence, that we discover true freedom. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
430:Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
431:The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
432:That term, I presented myself to the university like resin to a sculptor. I believed I could be remade, my mind recast ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
433:What’s the difference between God and a federal judge?” “I don’t know.” “God doesn’t think he’s a federal judge.” Tara ~ Laura Griffin, #NFDB
434:You could call this selfhood many things. Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal.
I call it an education. ~ Tara Westover,#NFDB
435:As we free ourselves from the suffering of 'something is wrong with me, 'we trust and express the fullness of who we are.' ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
436:But I understood this one fact: that a thousand times I had been called Nigger, and laughed, and now I could not laugh. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
437:I could stay, and search for what had been home, or I could go, now, before the walls shifted and the way out was shut. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
438:I just can't stop hurting you.” His words sound broken somehow. They don’t make complete sounds. “You just make me so mad. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
439:It happens sometimes in families: one child who doesn’t fit, whose rhythm is off, whose meter is set to the wrong tune. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
440:Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain that was entrusted to you. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
441:With meditation, you become a sensitized superhero, completely in control, with endless possibilities at your fingertips. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
442:You are whole body, whole mind, whole spirit, all the time. When you experience all of you at once, anything is possible. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
443:I love who you are. Because you accept me for who I am. You make me laugh, sometimes even at myself. And you make me happy. ~ Tara Kelly, #NFDB
444:I’ve never been so jealous of water before.” His fingers slid over my skin. “How it can touch you everywhere— all at once. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
445:People have to find their rhythm. Some people have need for more contact and time together and some people need more space. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
446:...The hurt in you and the hurt in me makes us a bad combination. Two hurt and broken things can't ever make a whole thing. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
447:The practice of being at ease also gives you the strength and stamina to pursue all that you find when you connect inward. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
448:They don't know those places in me. Only he does. Only he has seen the darkness inside of me and turns into love and light. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
449:We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
450:He can’t explain where the conviction came from, or how it burned brightly enough to shine through the black uncertainty. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
451:I love you. And hell itself won't stop that. Sorry to put it so dramatically but, well, it's the truth." ~ Joshua to Amelia ~ Tara Hudson, #NFDB
452:I smirk. There is no weird pillow talk and no pretending we're soft delicate people. No apologies, limits yes, but no shame. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
453:All the body's systems and processes - your nerves, your emotions - take instruction from what is going on with your breath. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
454:He said, 'Jasmine actually seemed like part of the band tonight.'" A smile twitched his lips. "Then he questioned his sanity. ~ Tara Kelly, #NFDB
455:His eyes were locked on me. We looked like Bambi and Faline, twitterpated, unable to be around normal people, at least I did. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
456:I just can't stop hurting you.” His words sound broken somehow. They don’t make complete sounds. “You just make me so mad." I ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
457:In the Buddhist tradition, one who has realized the fullness of compassion and lives from compassion is called a bodhisattva. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
458:me. “I have a rule about messing with things like you. I don't. I like my penis being right where it is, thank you very much. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
459:What was important to me wasn’t love or friendship, but my ability to lie convincingly to myself: to believe I was strong. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
460:Half the people in Lucky Harbor were in love with him.
The other half were men and didn't count.
-Tara on Ford ~ Jill Shalvis,#NFDB
461:Hours can pass like years when you wait impatiently for something, especially something you crave and dread at the same time. ~ Tara Hudson, #NFDB
462:Mindfulness is the intentional process of paying attention, without judgment, to the unfolding of moment-by-moment experience. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
463:I love working out and when I'm home. I love the feeling of walking out of a class. That's just an addictive feeling for me. ~ Tara Lipinski, #NFDB
464:in the end when it's taken away, the people who protest or cry the loudest are the ones who have taken it for granted the most. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
465:Real Fathers are Role Models worthy of emulation. They choose to live exemplary lifestyles of leadership and excellence ~ Tara Fela Durotoye, #NFDB
466:Sometimes home has nothing to do with family or even with love; sometimes home is simply the place where you feel safe. ~ Tara Austen Weaver, #NFDB
467:I may not have written the song, but I could add my story to it. Everyone out there could. That was what made music so powerful. ~ Tara Kelly, #NFDB
468:I never want to leave this shower,” he said, thrusting. “Never want to leave you. ’Cause I’m never going to fucking get enough. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
469:Let your heart lead you, do not be afraid, for there will be much to regret if reason and sense and fear are your only markers ~ Tara Conklin, #NFDB
470:Tara! I told you to call me Tara! Oh my God, you suck at subbing. You're going to lose points for us. Please do as you're told! ~ Lucian Bane, #NFDB
471:Tara...seemed to digest gossip as voraciously as an owl, regurgitating it in the form of little pellets of dubious information. ~ Erin Saldin, #NFDB
472:constraints.” I wrote this definition in my notes, but I didn’t understand it. The lecturer tried to clarify. He said positive ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
473:Everything becomes still. Except the blood inside of me. My body is raging with electric fire and the need to fulfill my destiny. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
474:If you let someone know you appreciate him or her, especially when you're going to disagree, it gets that person's defenses down. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
475:I have a birthday, same as you,” I wanted to tell the voices. “It just changes. Don’t you wish you could change your birthday? ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
476:I laughed maniacally for ten minutes at this irony: that having sacrificed my family to my education, I might lose that, also. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
477:In that moment part of me believed, as I had always believed, that it would be me who broke the spell, who caused it to break. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
478:On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
479:Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
480:The world sits quiet, as if sighing and taking a long inhale after what seemed like forever with mankind and the noise pollution. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
481:Why are you doing this?" Rod asked. "You hate gay men like me."
Hunter shrugged. "There are no men like you, gay or otherwise. ~ Tara Lain,#NFDB
482:Why is balance important? From a life lesson standpoint, it's about learning to enjoy yourself without getting the ego involved. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
483:A poorly written sentence was a poorly conceived idea, and in his view the grammatical logic was as much in need of correction. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
484:Even when I was trying to hate you, I still loved you. That was the only reason I could hate you—because I loved you so damn much. ~ Tara Leigh, #NFDB
485:Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don't build themselves. So YOU must build your home. ~ Tara Fela Durotoye, #NFDB
486:London had been different. Everyone had been constantly moving, their eyes focused elsewhere, pretending no one around them existed. ~ Tara Sim, #NFDB
487:Remembered pain tightened his mouth into a grim line. The weeks he’d spent looking for her had left permanent scars on his heart. ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
488:She could not leave him hanging like this. “If you were hurt, I need to know.” It was a rule somewhere, in the good-guy handbook. ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
489:Tara said, “Sorry is such a useless little word.” “It’s better than nothing,” Lauren said. “Sometimes it’s all we have. ~ Barbara Taylor Sissel, #NFDB
490:that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
491:When my mother told me she had not been the mother to me that she wished she'd been, she became that mother for the first time. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
492:En absoluto. Antes sí era un hombre seguro de mí mismo, pero ya no lo soy. Cuando estoy contigo, ya no nunca estoy seguro de nada. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
493:He needed to gather her up, hold on to her, anything to help her stop trembling. Something was going to shake loose if she didn’t. ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
494:If you start to see more successful businesses that are playing on a global level, the story of Africa will begin to change ~ Tara Fela Durotoye, #NFDB
495:Of the nature of women, nothing final can be known. Never had I found such comfort in a void, in the black absence of knowledge. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
496:The word and the way Shawn said it hadn’t changed; only my ears were different. They no longer heard the jingle of a joke in it. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
497:Water? At a wedding? I don’t understand,” he asks in confusion. “Did you invite Jesus? That’s the only way that will be acceptable. ~ Tara Sivec, #NFDB
498:First impressions,’ says Tara pensively, ‘they can set your heart on fire, but they never warn you about the disasters ahead.’ Diane ~ A J Waines, #NFDB
499:Getting through a workout is just very fulfilling. That 'Ah, I didn't want to do it but I did it and now I feel 10 times better.' ~ Tara Lipinski, #NFDB
500:It may sound lovey-dovey, but there's research showing the positive effect of meditation on parts of the brain that control emotion. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
501:We want to be in open, loving communion with each other and our greatest fear is intimacy. That it won't work and we'll be rejected. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
502:What strange times are these,” says Tara as they wend their way through the dead to safety, “when Muslims must fear other Muslims. ~ Nadeem Aslam, #NFDB
503:All my life those instincts had been instructing me in this single doctrine—that the odds are better if you rely only on yourself. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
504:I’d fooled myself into believing that I was doing fine without her.
I wasn’t.
… Maybe I would get a second chance at something. ~ Tara Leigh,#NFDB
505:I walk to the car, full of everything. Being a witch without being a vampire or a halfling is amazing. I am full, just being me. When ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
506:Never lose yourself in battle, it isn't what the enemy is going to do that matter. If you know what you are doing, you're in control. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
507:Tara moved into the kitchen and went still at the condition of it. "Formica countertops," she said as if she'd discovered asbestos. ~ Jill Shalvis, #NFDB
508:But my father had taught me that there are not two reasonable opinions to be had on any subject: there is Truth and there are Lies. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
509:He heard him long before he saw him limping slightly, his shoe scuffing against the ground in the smoke that crawled through the town. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
510:I am only seven, but I understand that it is this fact, more than any other, that makes my family different: we don’t go to school. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
511:Just remember that everyone is struggling; everyone is living with fear and uncertainty and it doesn't matter what their politics are. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
512:Some people say Earth is the bottom level of Purgatory.' She pointed toward the floor and frowned.
'I call it the top floor of Hell. ~ Tara West,#NFDB
513:When you are in touch with your body and heart, it allows you to then be in the world and act with intention and clarity and kindness. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
514:Dad lived in fear of time. He felt it stalking him. I could see it in the worried glances he gave the sun as it moved across the sky ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
515:The instant we agree to feel fear or vulnerability, greed or agitation, we are holding our life with an unconditionally friendly heart. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
516:The number of my sister wives would depend on my husband’s righteousness: the more nobly he lived, the more wives he would be given. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
517:This is my first . . . ah . . .”
“Haunting?” he offered.
I snorted. “Yes, this is my first haunting.”
“Then I’m flattered. ~ Tara Hudson,#NFDB
518:This isn't about you, Skeeter. It's about me, and I need you here. If we lose Crutchfield, we'll get him another day. If I lose you... ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
519:Dad had just turned forty when the Feds laid siege to the Weavers, an event that confirmed his worst fears. After that he was at war, ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
520:Everything you need to know is right there inside, waiting for you to tap in and discover it, and then hopefully do something about it. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
521:Felix was the one who was attacked, not you.” Bryn took slow steps toward her, lowering his voice. “But you’ve made it all about you.” I ~ Tara Kelly, #NFDB
522:He kissed my belly, “Just think. All the love that we have for each other, we put it in this safe place here.” He kissed my belly again. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
523:He punched the wall over and over until his knuckles split and bled. Until he could convince himself the tears on his face were from pain. ~ Tara Sim, #NFDB
524:When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
525:All my thoughts are of Aislinn Granville. She is the air I breathe. The beat of my heart. The light to my dark. The goddess of my dreams. ~ Tara Leigh, #NFDB
526:I love seeing other channels counterprogram the Super Bowl. PBS: "DAMN RIGHT we're airing a new 'Masterpiece Classic'! Fuck off, sports! ~ Tara Ariano, #NFDB
527:All he'd done was lose her underwear and practically get her blown up.
Hell. This had to be the absolute worst first date of her life. ~ Tara Janzen,#NFDB
528:At the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, I stood before Carrivagio's Judith Beheading Holofernes and did not once think about chickens. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
529:The thing about having a mental breakdown is that no matter how obvious it is that you're having one, it is somehow not obvious to you. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
530:The thing about having a mental breakdown is that no matter how obvious it is that you’re having one, it is somehow not obvious to you. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
531:What is a person to do, when their obligations to their family conflict with other obligations - to friends, to society, to themselves? ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
532:Brandon has a shit-eating grin. I want to make him eat it. I know what's more realistic though. I'm going to get beaten up by a little boy. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
533:Choices, numberless as grains of sand, had layered and compressed, coalescing into sediment, then into rock, until all was set in stone. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
534:Do you still have Ms. Dekker?"
Have her, had her, going to have her again-at least he'd planned on it until the troops had arrived. ~ Tara Janzen,#NFDB
535:Say you're doing a headstand. The moment you think to yourself, "Wow, I'm doing this pose!" is usually the moment you'll topple out of it. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
536:Bleached structures from antiquity lay like dried bones, embedded in pulsating cables and thrumming traffic, the arteries of modern life. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
537:If you choose to wear this, you’ll be marked as mine. Mine to do with as I wish. You will obey me and never question what I tell you to do. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
538:People say the things they want themselves to believe. They are saying it aloud to convince themselves only. Their actions are who they are. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
539:that I am not a good daughter. I am a traitor, a wolf among sheep; there is something different about me and that difference is not good. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
540:There’s a world out there, Tara,” he said. “And it will look a lot different once Dad is no longer whispering his view of it in your ear. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
541:There was only one thing I knew for sure. Delaney and I, we were linked by something I didn’t quite understand yet, but I already cherished. ~ Tara Leigh, #NFDB
542:You’re staring at my ass.”
“Yes, I am.” It’s what he did in the mornings, when she woke up and spent the first hour lying around in bed. ~ Tara Janzen,#NFDB
543:I laugh, but it's not mine. It belongs to this bitch, who sometimes likes to come out of my throat and say shit I'm not entirely sure I mean. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
544:I see now that true love isn’t fickle; it's what we put into it. If we work hard at loving someone, then no one can corrupt the love we have. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
545:This means accepting our human existence and all of life as it is. Imperfection is not our personal problem—it is a natural part of existing. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
546:When caught in conflict and blame - make a U-turn and shift your attention from blaming thoughts to what's going on emotionally in your body. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
547:You’re staring at my ass.��
“Yes, I am.” It’s what he did in the mornings, when she woke up and spent the first hour lying around in bed. ~ Tara Janzen,#NFDB
548:Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings of Alzheimer's ~ Marian Keyes, #NFDB
549:We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
550:You deserve the world, Landon Cox.”
He touched his forehead to mine, his breath ghosting across my lips. “You are my world, Piper Hastings. ~ Tara Leigh,#NFDB
551:I had been out of the game for too long. I couldn’t even get drunk and flirt anymore. I could however, get drunk and look like a stroke victim. ~ Tara Sivec, #NFDB
552:I was the real winner of Dom Wars. I’d won the treasure of a lifetime in Tara. Nothing else mattered except getting us both out of here alive. ~ Lucian Bane, #NFDB
553:"Patience gives you joy in the process of awakening. Without patience, you may find yourself at war with your own forgetfulness or reactivity." ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
554:Tell him what? Kat’s a raging nymphomaniac. (Kytara) Tara! (Kat) Oh, all right. She’s so bland she makes plain toast look spicy. (Kytara) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
555:The love of your life is always the one you have betrayed the most. The love that defines you is the one upon whom you once turned your back. ~ Tara Conklin, #NFDB
556:There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that`s here. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
557:Any of the yoga poses could be substituted in this analogy. How you practice is much more meaningful than what yoga moves you can or cannot do. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
558:Faith and trust come from an inner ability to believe in something unseen, to expect it to be there without ever having proof that it is. ~ Tara Taylor Quinn, #NFDB
559:For all my obsessing over the consequences of that night, I had misunderstood the vital truth: that its not affecting me, that was its effect. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
560:I would say both Western psychology and Eastern paths would recognize that we get caught up in feeling like a separate self and an unworthy self. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
561:We understood that the dissolution of Mother’s family was the inauguration of ours. The two could not exist together. Only one could have her. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
562:What is a person to do, I asked, when their obligations to their family conflict with other obligations—to friends, to society, to themselves? ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
563:Always watch a man to determine his character. His words will surely try to lead you to one conclusion, but his actions will lead you to the truth ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
564:Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
565:The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight of freeze response. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
566:There was a sting in this arithmetic: in knowing that in the divine calculus of heaven, one man could balance the equation for countless women. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
567:Extend an act of kindness each day. No one has to know. It can be a smile, reassuring words, a small favor - without expecting something in return. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
568:Thot was the newest trending word for slut and hated it. It sounded dirty, and of course I wasn't a slut. I was a virgin. I was the ungettable get. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
569:You wish for what's called wooing. This customary game, where the man shows the woman that resistance is impractical, strikes me as quite pointless. ~ Tara West, #NFDB
570:it came to him that Tara, dear though it was, and the County folk, with their open hearts and open houses, were not enough. He wanted a wife. ~ Margaret Mitchell, #NFDB
571:It was only as I grew older that I wondered if how I had started is how I would end - if the first shape a person takes is their only true shape. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
572:Men like to think they’re saving some brain-dead woman who’s got herself into a scrape. All I had to do was step aside and let him play the hero! ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
573:positive liberty is self-mastery—the rule of the self, by the self. To have positive liberty, he explained, is to take control of one’s own mind; ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
574:the rifle cradled in the nook of his arm. When he saw them, he slowed to a halt and scanned the forest. “Either of you hurt?” “No,” Tara said, but ~ Darcy Coates, #NFDB
575:I close the door and click the lock. My stomach sinks. I know I'm in for the fight of my life.
She is bait. If ever I've seen bait, she is it. ~ Tara Brown,#NFDB
576:I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day. ~ Margaret Mitchell, #NFDB
577:I watched you fall in love with me. I saw the smile cross your lips when it happened. I remember that day. I was the first day I knew I had no heart. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
578:Rather than relaxing and enjoying who we are and what we’re doing, we are comparing ourselves with an ideal and trying to make up for the difference. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
579:Tara, you are the most unexpected, but best thing, that has ever happened to me. I have let plenty of women into my bed, but none of them into my heart. ~ M Never, #NFDB
580:Tell him what? Kat’s a raging nymphomaniac. (Kytara)
Tara! (Kat)
Oh, all right. She’s so bland she makes plain toast look spicy. (Kytara) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
581:Truth was multilayered, shifting; it was different for everyone, each personal history carved unique from the same weighty block of time and flesh. ~ Tara Conklin, #NFDB
582:When we experience stress, the nervous system tries to control things. Part of waking up is discovering what we are beyond that controlling organism. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
583:You are not fool’s gold, shining only under a particular light. Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
584:I can feel his soul through his lips. It's telling me a story of agony over how long it's waited for this moment and how it never wants it to end. ~ Tara Elizabeth, #NFDB
585:Just come into stillness. Have your intention be to relax with the breath. That will begin to set in motion a habit that will start to train the mind. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
586:Right now, there is no distinction between need and want, necessity and luxury.
Aislinn Granville is both. And I want, need, must-fucking-have her. ~ Tara Leigh,#NFDB
587:Acting is easier than skating in ia way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over. ~ Tara Lipinski, #NFDB
588:If you like someone, you tell the truth because that, to me, is respect. If you hate someone, you tell them the truth because what do you have to lose? ~ Tara Kelly, #NFDB
589:Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our life as it is. A moment of Radical Acceptance is a moment of genuine freedom. The ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
590:Spending the next nine hours with a crying woman wal real close to the top of his "Avoid at All Costs" list right under untimely death and a desk job. ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
591:Stepping out of the busyness, stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else, is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
592:The girls who look like they’re wearing the least are wearing the most.” I wink. “Now you’ve seen behind the curtain. There’s no wizard, it’s all fake. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
593:When we're awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
594:As a female filmmaker it's important to have a voice for and about women. We have a lot of valuable stories to tell and young girls need to hear them. ~ Tara Subkoff, #NFDB
595:I'd known that I had the capacity to love, that I enjoyed seeing other people be happy, that I had a real awe and wonder about the beauty of this world. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
596:I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
597:I’m going to fuck you during the Super Bowl, Abigail.” He bit down on my earlobe, and I sucked in a breath. “As long as you’re quiet, no one will know. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
598:In a basic way, acceptance is seeing clearly what's happening and holding it with kindness. This is a radical antidote to the suffering of judging mind. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
599:Inés swatted at him while batting her lashes. “You always know how to make a lady blush. I bet those brownies aren’t half as tasty as you, Mr. Delicious. ~ Tara West, #NFDB
600:No matter what feeling comes up - numbness, irritability, shame - if I let it arise and play itself through, I naturally open into wakefulness and care. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
601:I know only this: that when my mother told me she had not been the mother to me that she wished she’d been, she became that mother for the first time. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
602:They would be shocked if they could see the other women in London: automechanics with grease in their hair, fisherwomen in from te coast with tatooed arms. ~ Tara Sim, #NFDB
603:Attention is the most basic form of love. By paying attention we let ourselves be touched by life , and our hearts naturally become more open and engaged. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
604:I'd like to hear more about them classes." he rasped one morning near the end of summer. "It sounds real interesting."
It felt like a new beginning. ~ Tara Westover,#NFDB
605:I'm a quirky, intelligent, dark haired chick! Me, me, me, pick me! And who the hell keeps whining and ruining my perfect moment? I will cut a bitch. ~ Tara Sivec, #NFDB
606:I understood that no future could hold them; no destiny could tolerate him and her. I would remain a child, in perpetuity, always, or I would lose him. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
607:Lands of mine and my kin, erase the deeds and magic within, take the words and deed done by one whose heart is cruel and transfer them all to her." Energy ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
608:The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
609:As I read the woods, I realize that if nothing interferes with the path of an object or a living thing, the possibilities of where it can go are many. ~ Tara Lynn Masih, #NFDB
610:Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. ~ Tara Lain, #NFDB
611:I hear of the ongoing drama on the mountain - the injuries, violence and shifting loyalties. But it comes to me now as distant hearsay, which is a gift. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
612:I needed to see you." He repeats himself.
I smile. I like that word, need. It's not want. He had no choice because it was a need to see me. I like that. ~ Tara Brown,#NFDB
613:In that moment, I understood that love and hate were opposite sides of the same coin. For as much as I’d loved Nathaniel ten minutes ago, I hated him now. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
614:I take a step back. Stuart looks back at me but doesn’t take his eyes off of the men, "Run." He says flatly. I don’t need to be told twice. I turn and bolt. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
615:There is a big lesson in experiencing uncertainty and calamity with a sober focus - the most chaotic moments are the ones from which we can learn the most. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
616:Yo podía disfrutar y quedarme con aquella parte de Abby sin preocuparme por el futuro: la sumisión y la confianza que me estaba entregando en ese instante. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
617:Before she came into my life, I’d never given any thought to getting married or having children. Somehow, having her in my life made anything seem possible. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
618:Most of us grow up with a sense of "I'm not intelligent enough." It's such a sad thing that in the West we worship a certain kind of left-brain intelligence. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
619:Mr. Sue Me, one day we’ll be reunited with our own two angels. If you get there before me, tell them I love them and never forgot. I’ll do the same for you. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
620:This then is the true lesson: there is nothing romantic about love. Only the most naive believe it will save them. Only the hardiest of us will survive it. ~ Tara Conklin, #NFDB
621:Curiosity is a luxury reserved for the financially secure: my mind was absorbed with more immediate concerns, such as the exact balance of my bank account, ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
622:If you say pumpkin spiced latte in the mirror three times, a white girl in yoga pants and a ponytail will jump out and tell you her favorite thing about fall. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
623:I had to strangle the sobs quickly [...] so I stopped the bawling using the old methods: staring my face down in the mirror and scolding it for every tear. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
624:I love to work out. I need to work out! Nothing makes me feel better than walking out of a spin or barre class knowing my body and mind got some attention. ~ Tara Lipinski, #NFDB
625:I reasoned with myself that my passing the ACT was so unlikely, it would take an act of God. And if God acted, then surely my going to school was His will. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
626:…only then did I understand, as I had not before, that although I had renounced my father’s world, I had never quite found the courage to live in this one. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
627:The other girls rarely spoke to me, but I loved being there with them. I loved the sensation of conformity. Learning to dance felt like learning to belong. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
628:Are you in love with me, the me I am right now?"
"Well not right now," he said, brooding. "Right now you're kinda mean."
-Tara and Logan ~ Jill Shalvis,#NFDB
629:I secretly hoped if Grim could enjoy happy hour on level thirteen, I was allowed to enjoy mind-blowing orgasms in Heaven. It was supposed to be paradise, right? ~ Tara West, #NFDB
630:You have worth you cannot see, and allowing a man to be bigger than you are in your own mind or heart is disrespectful to yourself. You are strong and capable. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
631:I couldn’t tell him that the reason I couldn’t return to Cambridge was that being here threw into great relief every violent and degrading moment of my life. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
632:Just to sit for a moment, herself, no one claiming her time or her thoughts or the product of her mind and hands. What other word to call that if not freedom? ~ Tara Conklin, #NFDB
633:Then I could have forgotten about it. In a day or two it wouldn't even have been real. It would become bad dream, and in a month, a mere echo of a bad dream. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
634:There was a pause, then more words appeared—words I hadn’t known I needed to hear, but once I saw them, I realized I’d been searching my whole life for them. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
635:Tyler stood to go. “There’s a world out there, Tara,” he said. “And it will look a lot different once Dad is no longer whispering his view of it in your ear. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
636:Everything we love goes. So to be able to grieve that loss, to let go, to have that grief be absolutely full, is the only way to have our heart be full and open. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
637:My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
638:This is the north cloister,” the porter said. “It is here that Newton stomped his foot to measure the echo, calculating the speed of sound for the first time. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
639:Dave walked closer to me, his dark eyes combing my every move. "Do you always hold your guitar like that?"
I dropped my pick. "Do you always shop at Hot Topic? ~ Tara Kelly,#NFDB
640:I wanted the mind of a scholar, but it seemed that Dr. Kerry saw in me the mind of a roofer. The other students belonged in the library; I belonged in a crane. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
641:Reality became fluid. The ground gave way beneath my feet, dragging me downward, spinning fast, like sand rushing through a hole in the bottom of the universe. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
642:The conversation was slow, halting. Audrey asked me no questions about England or Cambridge. She had no frame of reference for my life, so we talked about hers ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
643:Clicking it off, he reached his gloved hand out to cup her cheek with a tenderness he’d never shown her before. “Courage, mu Tara. They won’t take you today. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
644:Frances puts down her cane. Tara tugs on her braid. Bob tugs on his beard. Jon continues to look handsome. Alan nods. “I guess we owe you a thank-you.” “Thank ~ Sarah Mlynowski, #NFDB
645:Given the choice between seeing an evil socialist doctor, and admitting to my boyfriend that I believed doctors were evil socialists, I chose to see the doctor. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
646:I wondered if perhaps I had changed too much. All my studying, reading, thinking, traveling, had it transformed me into someone who no longer belonged anywhere? ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
647:That meant Ms. Starkova was his. He'd found her; he'd tailed her; and he'd saved her from Reinhard Klein. By jungle law, even the urban jungle, that made her his. ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
648:There are those who see a problem and there are those who will not give up until they find a solution - finding a solution is what the Full Stop Foundation is about ~ Tara Moss, #NFDB
649:When we are at ease, our bodies work efficiently, our minds settle, and space opens up for us to connect to our intuition, creativity, and sense of connectedness. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
650:He looked around the room at all the stuff. But it wasn't just stuff and it wasn't just any girl grenade that had gone off in there. It was Nikki McKinney grenade. ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
651:I left the hall the moment dessert was served. It was a relief to escape all that refinement and beauty—to be allowed to be unlovely and not a point of contrast. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
652:It was really fun being in Tara's trailer, working on my lines. Tara is such an amazing actress. She's so good at what she does. I learned a lot from watching her. ~ Carson Daly, #NFDB
653:I was going to have to tell people I got fired from selling dildos. I can't even sell fake cocks to a room full or horny women. How do you come back from that shit? ~ Tara Sivec, #NFDB
654:What kind of lunatic would come back here once he'd escaped? There were now so many pink and yellow specks in my vision, it was as if I were inside a snow globe. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
655:What you deaf, bitch? I said show me that puss—” Lightning shoots from the sky, striking him where he stands. His friends all groan and recoil, laughing at him. The ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
656:Why are you like this? Why did you terrify us like that? Why did you fight so hard against made-up monsters, but do nothing about the monsters in your own house? ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
657:A successful tree pose probably won't change your life. Learning how to keep your breath easy, long, and deep no matter what the circumstance? That absolutely will. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
658:There was a lesson in here somewhere, he was sure. Or maybe he'd offended some ancient, pre-Columbian god while he'd been in South America -because this was a test. ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
659:As we figuratively sit beside ourselves and inquire, listen and name our experience, we see Mara clearly and open our heart in tenderness for the suffering before us. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
660:The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The Protocols, published in 1903, purported to be a record of a secret meeting of powerful Jews planning world domination. The ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
661:We had lived in a state of alert, a kind of constant terror, our brains flooding with cortisol because we knew that any of those things might happen at any moment. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
662:We’re lost. All of humanity is. After what we’ve done to each other, we’re no longer human. Our humanity is lost. The animals have bested us in behavior and survival. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
663:became obsessed with their ideas about the family—with how a person ought to weigh their special obligations to kin against their obligations to society as a whole. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
664:In Speaking Out I do my best to answer those questions I was asked and more, and I provide strategies for how to speak out and keep on speaking out without burning out. ~ Tara Moss, #NFDB
665:It's the beginning of opening to love. Even if there's not much feeling of compassion toward oneself, just say, "It's okay, sweetheart," or "I'm sorry and I love you." ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
666:I wanted children, my own family, but even as I longed for it I knew I would never have it. I was not capable. I could not be near any man without despising myself. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
667:lecturer tried to clarify. He said positive liberty is self-mastery—the rule of the self, by the self. To have positive liberty, he explained, is to take control of ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
668:The poet Longfellow writes, “If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
669:There was a sting in this arithmetic: in knowing that in the divine calculus of heaven, one man could balance the equation for countless women. (Regarding polygamy) ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
670:Engineers: they spend so much time solving physical problems and obeying physical rules, they forget that nonphysical phenomena obey rules every bit as strict.” Tara ~ Max Gladstone, #NFDB
671:LaRue's father was an alcoholic in a time befor the language of addiction and empathy had been invented, when alcoholics weren't alcoholics, they were called drunks. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
672:Some things just are," he said softly against her hair. "Day turns to night. Te ocean tide drifts in and out. And I want you, Tara. Damn you, but I do. I always have. ~ Jill Shalvis, #NFDB
673:With mindfulness training we are able to recognize when we get lost in our mental dramas, and bring a kind and nonreactive presence to the feelings that accompany them. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
674:You are not fool’s gold, shining only under a particular light. Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were. It was always you. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
675:Excuse me,” she said, her voice tight. “But if I’d known there was going to be a firearms examination at the end of the kidnapping, by God, I would have studied for it! ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
676:I became obsessed with their ideas about the family—with how a person ought to weigh their special obligations to kin against their obligations to society as a whole. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
677:My empire is corrupt, and there are enemies at the gate.
Fuck that. My gate has been breached, my territory invaded.
My woman seized.
And now, I will go to war. ~ Tara Leigh,#NFDB
678:You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
679:I worked for a solid year, and at the end of it I had a draft of my thesis: “The Family, Morality, and Social Science in Anglo-American Cooperative Thought, 1813–1890. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
680:The way out of our cage begins with accepting absolutely everything about ourselves and our lives, by embracing with wakefulness and care our moment-to-moment experience. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
681:This is for anyone reading this who wants to explore it. Recognize the thought, "Afraid of loving," then gently put your hand on your heart to send a message of kindness. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
682:You are not fool’s gold, shining only under a particular light. Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were. It was always in you ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
683:All of life is faith. Just because something has a label doesn't mean it's always going to match the inside. Trust me. Sometimes it takes more faith to believe the label. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
684:effort. The good and the bad. I see now that true love isn’t fickle; it's what we put into it. If we work hard at loving someone, then no one can corrupt the love we have. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
685:She needed cans.
Cans, because it was her who show me that I could be much more than the world thought. We could be much more than the world thought. - Nathaniel West ~ Tara Sue Me,#NFDB
686:We might begin by scanning our body . . . and then asking, "What is happening?" We might also ask, "What wants my attention right now?" or, "What is asking for acceptance? ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
687:You are not fool’s gold, shining only under a particular light. Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were. It was always in you. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
688:Reggie smiled. 'You haven't changed at all.' Tara took another pile of clothing from her bag and gave Reggie a sly grin from over the top of it. 'Do any of us really? ~ Jennifer McMahon, #NFDB
689:Monday nights always brought in the worst kind of crazy. Tonight that crazy came in the form of Paul Cross, town hermit. One of them, anyway. This was the Pacific Northwest. ~ Tara Kelly, #NFDB
690:We're so used to presenting ourselves and getting approval according to our achievements that it's difficult to be authentic and trust that we'll be accepted just as we are. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
691:Clothes could not fix what was wrong with me. Something had rotted on the inside, and the stench was too powerful, the core too rancid, to be covered up by mere dressings. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
692:the granddaddy that I never knew is dead. I have no one. No kin. I have Tessa, whose elevator only stops on one floor, the crazy one, and my ghost aunt and my ghost sister. I ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
693:Then it was spring, then summer, and finally as summer turned to fall, I found I could read with focus. I could hold thoughts in my head besides anger and self-accusation. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
694:there was something in me, something like what was in the prophets, and that it was not male or female, not old or young; a kind of worth that was inherent and unshakable. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
695:Todos somos parte del mundo, hija. Nosotros somos el mundo. Si dañamos a Tara, nos dañamos a nosotros mismos. No lo olvides nunca. Ten fe en ti misma y no te rindas. ~ Laura Gallego Garc a, #NFDB
696:As soon as Tara looked at the skull-and-barbed-wire
tattoo showing beneath the sleeve of Flynn O’Mara’s tight t-shirt, she flashed on a jail cell. Bummer. His Dad’s in jail ~ Sharon Sala,#NFDB
697:It took weeks for me to come to terms with this fact, but as I did, I began to experience the most powerful advantage of money: the ability to think of things besides money. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
698:Jews: look to Miriam, not Moses ... Muslims: look to Fatimah, not Muhammad. Buddhists: remember Tara, the mother of liberation. Christians: pray to Mary for your salvation. ~ Naomi Alderman, #NFDB
699:Self-judgment continues to arise - it's a strong habit - but the fact that I made a conscious commitment to recognize it has helped me stop feeding the story of being unworthy. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
700:The past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, & thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
701:You take yourself out of the moment and knock yourself off balance when you judge and think about what you are doing, rather than experiencing and enjoying what you are doing. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
702:I believe in love at first sight, and I believe that’s what we’ve got going here. I was willing to die for you. I’m sure as hell not going to pass up a chance to live with you. ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
703:I se parea ca ajunsese intr-o tara unde timpul nu are nici o insemnatate pentru nimeni, o tara in care, in sens absolut literal, toata lumea avea la dispozitie vesnicia. ~ Henrik Pontoppidan, #NFDB
704:Tara by Maria Popova (page 406), who said, “[Tara] has changed my life, perhaps more profoundly than anybody in my life.” I then read Tara’s first book, Radical Acceptance, ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
705:Epey ilerideki bir karanlık yanı başındaki karanlıktan daha iyidir çünkü birincisinden kaçınmak için bir yol bulabilirsin! İlerdeki fırtınaları görmek için ufukları tara! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
706:If there's a demand of being together in a certain way, those expectations and judgements take away from that space and create an edginess and a cramped-ness to the relationship. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
707:Politics and war were just different names for power, and the price of power was predictably high and could be precisely measured-in dollards,yen,euros,rubles,riyals, and blood. ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
708:The girl was just…too much. Too much for me to deserve. But damn I wanted to take her places she’d never been show her the dark corners of my soul I’d been hiding for a lifetime. ~ Tara Leigh, #NFDB
709:Negative liberty,” he said, “is the freedom from external obstacles or constraints. An individual is free in this sense if they are not physically prevented from taking action. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
710:The wind is just wind. You could withstand these gusts on the ground, so you can withstand them in the air. There is no difference. Except the difference you make in your head. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
711:Why didn't Lina know their names? Why hadn't she studied their histories? Where was the monument? Where was the museum? What had they wished for and worked for and loved? ~ Tara Conklin, #NFDB
712:I had read that slaves in colonial times were happier and more free than their masters, because the masters were burdened with the cost of their care. That had made sense to me. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
713:She'd kicked Klein's ass and still had enough moxie to tag him, and enough physical strength to get herself out of a window ten feet up on the wall.
He really should marry her. ~ Tara Janzen,#NFDB
714:Sometimes in the winter, when the fog rolled in and silenced the waves, it felt as if death had its fingers around my neck. Fingers like frostbitten twigs that made me ache inside. ~ Tara Kelly, #NFDB
715:believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing. —JOHN DEWEY ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
716:Like a boundless sea, we have the capacity to embrace the waves of life as they move through us. Even when the sea is stirred up by the winds of self-doubt, we can find our way home. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
717:Of the nature of women, nothing final can be known. Never had I found such comfort in a void, in the black absence of knowledge. It seemed to say: whatever you are, you are woman. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
718:The image of him standing in the elevator doors, in his silver dress shirt and dark-grey dress pants wiping me off his lips, is the sexiest and most devastating thing I've ever seen. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
719:I believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing. —JOHN DEWEY ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
720:In the process of deeply accepting our own inner experience, instead of being identified with a story of a limited self, we realize the compassion and wakefulness that is our essence. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
721:I point, "This is Michelle."
Lance nods, "Mickey and Tink. I like it."
Michelle looks lost, "What just happened?" I shake my head at her. It's impossible to explain any of them. ~ Tara Brown,#NFDB
722:When we pause, we don’t know what will happen next. But by disrupting our habitual behaviors, we open to the possibility of new and creative ways of responding to our wants and fears. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
723:When we see the secret beauty of anyone, including ourselves, we see past our judgment and fear into the core of who we truly are - not an entrapped self but the radiance of goodness. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
724:As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their own. . . . There was no sense of a self owning them. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
725:Caroline. Listen to me. You have to decide what you love. Joe wasn't the only one. You have to decide now and hold on. Start small. Begin with the small things and work up from here. ~ Tara Conklin, #NFDB
726:No amount of anger or rage directed at others can subside it, because guilt is never about THEM. Guilt is the fear of one's own wretchedness. It has nothing to do with other people. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
727:Really?” Briton nodded slowly, taking it in. “How?” Jamie continued, “We’re looking into it. Was made to look like she passed in her sleep, but I think we all know that’s not possible. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
728:Sometimes the scariest things in life aren’t the Vampires and the Werewolves, sometimes there are things even God doesn’t want to know about. Which is why he created the Devil's Roses. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
729:By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
730:Did you read the Outlander book by the Gabaldon lady?" She nods. "Yeah." I sigh. "I wish Will was more like Jamie." She sighs and whispers back, "I think we all wish men were like that. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
731:'Give me a break. You're smart; you're capable. You even have a disturbing streak of honesty, which you occasionally acknowledge. And I suppose some people wouldn't mind looking at you.' ~ Tara Lain, #NFDB
732:sometimes I wondered if perhaps school was less evil than Dad thought, because Tyler was the least evil person I knew, and he loved school—loved it more, it seemed, than he loved us. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
733:The poet Rumi saw clearly the relationship between our wounds and our awakening. He counseled, “Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
734:We also had an "in" with MTV those days. Tara Reid was engaged to Carson Daly. She just called him and was like, "Do you want to be in the movie?" So they kind of had to make it work. ~ Harry Elfont, #NFDB
735:We withdraw from our experience of the present moment. We pull away from the raw feelings of fear and shame by incessantly telling ourselves stories about what is happening in our life. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
736:You told me your story so I could stop you if you ever did something crazy. Well, Tara, this is it. This is crazy. I can still fix this, I chanted as the plane lifted off the tarmac. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
737:'Give me a break. You're smart; you're capable. You even have a disturbing streak of honesty, which you occasionally acknowledge. And I suppose some people wouldn't mind looking at you.' ~ Tara Lain, #NFDB
738:Letting you go ripped a hole in my heart so big it aches every time I breathe.”
Standing so close to him, she almost believed him. But it was easy to say the words. Words were cheap. ~ Tara Sue Me,#NFDB
739:Seeing sunshine, I suspected rain. I felt a relentless desire to ask people to verify whether they were seeing what I was seeing. Is this book blue? I wanted to ask. Is that man tall? ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
740:In anguish and desperation, I reached out as I had many times before to the presence I call the Beloved. This unconditionally loving and wakeful awareness had always been a refuge for me. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
741:Mother never delivered lectures or administered exams. She never assigned essays. There was a computer in the basement with a program called Mavis Beacon, which gave lessons on typing. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
742:Despite the singularity of her childhood, the questions her book poses are universal: How much of ourselves should we give to those we love? And how much must we betray them to grow up? ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
743:It was not spite or retaliation that made Tara abandon Bim — it was the spider fear that lurked at the center of the web-world for Tara. Yet she did abandon Bim, it was true that she did. ~ Anita Desai, #NFDB
744:That’s my cat,” Dindi said. “Don’t chase him off, he might get lost.” “He terrified my chipmunk!” “I’m sure he meant no harm,” Dindi said. “He just wanted to eat an arm or two. Maybe a leg. ~ Tara Maya, #NFDB
745:How do you thank a brother who refused to let you go, who seized your hand and wrenched you upward, just as you had decided to stop kicking and sink? There aren’t words for that, either. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
746:I preferred the family I had chosen to the one I had been given, so the happier I became in Cambridge, the more my happiness was made fetid by my feeling that I had betrayed Buck’s Peak. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
747:They say writing a book is like giving birth. They lie. I’ve had two children via C-section, and all I did was lie on a table. Writing a book is much harder. And they don’t give you drugs. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
748:From what I was able to hear," Dane said, "Tara dumped off a surprise baby with your mother, who's planning to sell it on eBay." "Social Services," I said. "She hasn't thought of eBay yet. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
749:You have one chance in life to make it something special. Why would you waste it on mediocrity? Safe and easy is for pussies. Be amazing and different. Be grateful for the uniqueness in you. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
750:It really was no wonder that Alise was so dumb. She had friends texting her hundreds of text messages consisting of garbled English 24/7. She didn’t have time to do anything but underachieve. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
751:I told her she shouldn’t marry someone who scares her, that no one should, but the words left my lips stillborn. I believed them, but I didn’t understand them well enough to make them live. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
752:I’ve never understood it before. The truth is this: that I am not a good daughter. I am a traitor, a wolf among sheep; there is something different about me and that difference is not good. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
753:Tara Reid is charging $3,500 for a personal appearance fee. So, for only $3,500 you can either buy a 1998 Jetta with 130,000 miles on it... or Tara Reid, who only has 98,000 miles on her. ~ Chelsea Handler, #NFDB
754:The past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, & thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. —VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
755:Tom made her watch all three movies one afternoon," Justine says. "I wonder if Tara's ever forgiven you."
The phone beeps again and she reads, "I want those ten hours of my life back. ~ Melina Marchetta,#NFDB
756:What is a person to do, I asked, when their obligations to their family conflict with other obligations—to friends, to society, to themselves? I began the research. I narrowed the question, ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
757:From what I was able to hear," Dane said, "Tara dumped off a surprise baby with your mother, who's planning to sell it on eBay."
"Social Services," I said. "She hasn't thought of eBay yet. ~ Lisa Kleypas,#NFDB
758:This is the suffering of fear.
Fear is part of being alive.
Other people experience this too . . . I am not alone. May I be kind to myself . . . may I give myself the compassion I need. ~ Tara Brach,#NFDB
759:A lot of times in spiritual communities, detachment is considered to be an expression of being spiritually evolved when often, we have want and fear around being in relationship with each other. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
760:in what they’ve done. Feed right into their narcissism. They were doing the world a favor.” “Yes, people who believe that. Hitler, for example.” “Except Tara Grimm wasn’t obvious,” Benton ~ Patricia Cornwell, #NFDB
761:Once someone is an unreal other, we lose sight of how they hurt. Because we don’t experience them as feeling beings, we not only ignore them, we can inflict pain on them without compunction. Not ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
762:I arrived at the church full of anxious energy, as though I'd been sent through time from some disastrous future to this moment, when my actions still had weight and my thoughts, consequences. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
763:We can't leave the internet to the bullies. You deserve to speak out and be heard just as much as the next man. Don't let bullies silence you. Support others, and make sure you look after yourself. ~ Tara Moss, #NFDB
764:Don’t you teach your children to wash after they use the toilet?” Grandma said. Dad shifted the truck into gear. As it rolled forward he waved and said, “I teach them not to piss on their hands. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
765:For me, there’s something liberating in knowing you can drop all your worries, cares, and inhibitions and just feel for a while. Trust someone else to take care of everything. To take care of you. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
766:If you live long enough and well enough to know love, its various permutations and shades, you will falter. You will break someone’s heart. Fairy tales don’t tell you that. Poetry doesn’t either. ~ Tara Conklin, #NFDB
767:I’m an unguarded fortress.
My gates are open, my weapons surrendered. All for this woman. For my spitfire with the power to incinerate me.
And maybe she will, but not until I set her on fire. ~ Tara Leigh,#NFDB
768:See you soon,” I whispered. I bit my lip; and, in a moment of sheer abandon, I added, “I think I might . . . you know . . . love you, by the way.”
“Too,” Joshua whispered back groggily. “Love. ~ Tara Hudson,#NFDB
769:decisions that go into making a life—the choices people make, together and on their own, that combine to produce any single event. Grains of sand, incalculable, pressing into sediment, then rock. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
770:Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
771:The trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach. The path to "the sweetness of belonging," is acceptance - acceptance of ourselves and acceptance of others without judgment. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
772:women have been coaxed, cajoled, shoved and squashed into a series of feminine contortions for so many centuries, that it is now quite impossible to define their natural abilities or aspirations. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
773:Gray was two people from different worlds coming together unexpectedly and creating something new. Gray took the best parts of us both and fit them together into something larger than we were apart. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
774:I think there's two kinds of love. One kind of love burns so hot that it burns out before you get a chance to enjoy it. The other love is one that lifts you and makes you better than you were before. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
775:Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do, watcha gonna do when they cut your wiener,” Gavin sang as he pointed his gun at random objects.
“Wow, cops have gotten pretty hardcore lately” Carter muttered. ~ Tara Sivec,#NFDB
776:He's normal and squeaky and responsible. Shell would call him Vanilla. I like Vanilla. You know what you're getting into with it. You can add anything to it. It doesn’t spank you and make you like it. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
777:I nod up at the sky above us swirling with the ghosts of the witches. “Lord thundering fuck, what is that?” “Your prior victims, I would imagine. I’ve freed the witches.” He looks at the gate under me ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
778:My success had given me so much. Money, trophies, fame, endless options for how to enjoy all three.
But there were times, like this morning, when I could only see how much that success had cost me. ~ Tara Leigh,#NFDB
779:To have positive liberty, he explained, is to take control of one’s own mind; to be liberated from irrational fears and beliefs, from addictions, superstitions and all other forms of self-coercion. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
780:What they heard was a signal, a call through time, which was answered with a mounting conviction: that never again would I allow myself to be made a foot soldier in a conflict I did not understand. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
781:My prayer became 'May I find peace... May I love this life no matter what.' I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence and wholeness that could carry me through whatever losses might come. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
782:We yearn for an unquestioned experience of belonging, to feel at home with ourselves and others, at ease and fully accepted. But the trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
783:As cartoonist Jules Feiffer puts it: “I grew up to have my father’s looks, my father’s speech patterns, my father’s posture, my father’s walk, my father’s opinions and my mother’s contempt for my father. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
784:He wasn’t a man who often admitted his feelings.
“You know damn well it would kill me if anything happened to you, Dena.”
Which was as close to an “I love you” as she was going to get out of him. ~ Tara Sue Me,#NFDB
785:Not only will I discover every single nerve and crevice in your vulnerable, and very naked body, I will devour and exploit every one of your weaknesses. I won’t merely control you, Reina. I will own you. ~ Tara Leigh, #NFDB
786:I walked away without a backward glance, so afraid that if I turned around, even for just a split second, I’d be incapable of leaving her at all. Ever.
And I’d been running from that regret ever since. ~ Tara Leigh,#NFDB
787:Making a U-turn from our thoughts to our feelings re-connects us to our own inner experience and creates the grounds for connecting with others in a more authentic way. It's a movement from head to heart. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
788:Just because I had reasons for leaving you before doesn’t mean that it wasn’t a goddamn mistake. One I’m never making again, you hear me? … Wasted six years without you, I don’t want to waste another hour. ~ Tara Leigh, #NFDB
789:Telling each other the truth and being who we are, and having space for the other person's vulnerability in being who they are, allows us to move in a kind of dance together that's very fluid and graceful. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
790:Unless we're completely awake, have a degree of that. We tense against love and hold on in a way that doesn't let it flow. When that's really strong, the key piece to freeing our hearts is self-compassion. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
791:all the decisions that go into making a life—the choices people make, together and on their own, that combine to produce any single event. Grains of sand, incalculable, pressing into sediment, then rock. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
792:Dad lived in fear of time. He felt it stalking him. I could see it in the worried glances he gave the sun as it moved across the sky, in the anxious way he appraised every length of pipe or cut of steel. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
793:Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
794:There was a boldness in not editing for consistency, in not ripping out the one page or the other. To admit uncertainty is to admit to weakness, to powerlessness, and to believe in yourself despite both. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
795:Yeah, and they sang ‘Rat-Boy Is Our King,’ too.” Sandy laughed. “Is that really what you think people do at private school? You read too much Harry Potter.” She shoved him. “Don’t mock the Potter.” “Okay, ~ Tara Dairman, #NFDB
796:I can smell them perfectly. The stain of the evil is everywhere. They make the air tingle, even if I don't know what they are, exactly. “Invisibility might have been more badass than winking, just saying.” I ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
797:Mother often described herself as a pleaser: she said she couldn’t stop herself from speculating what people wanted her to be, and from contorting herself, compulsively, unwillingly, into whatever it was. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
798:My friends in Cambridge has become a kind of family, and I felt a sense of belonging with them, that for many years, had been absent.... I preferred the family I had chosen to the one I had been given.... ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
799:Having lost Rhett, she can always return to the land - to Tara, to soak up its strength. . . . Tara! . . . Home. I'll go home, and I'll think of some way to get him back! After all, tomorrow is another day! ~ Vivien Leigh, #NFDB
800:I had finally begun to grasp something that should have been immediately apparent: that someone had opposed the great march toward equality; someone had been the person from whom freedom had to be wrested. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
801:There is a real effort to bully women out of public spaces and offline with violent intimidation. That issue speaks not just to casual sexism, which is more common, but actual, violent hatred of women by some. ~ Tara Moss, #NFDB
802:There was a pause, then more words appeared—words I hadn’t known I needed to hear, but once I saw them, I realized I’d been searching my whole life for them. You were my child. I should have protected you. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
803:Without Joe our atoms did not know where to rest, how to behave. We were free radicals, spinning in our own small orbits, dangerous, poisonous, causing invisible but elemental damage to anything we touched. ~ Tara Conklin, #NFDB
804:Suddenly she was standing at Tara again with the world about her ears, desolate with the knowledge that she could not face life without the terrible strength of the weak, the gentle, the tender-hearted. ~ Margaret Mitchell, #NFDB
805:We wait for things to be different in order to feel okay with life. As long as we keep attaching our happiness to the external events of our lives, which are ever changing, we’ll always be left waiting for it. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
806:When we reach the intersection with Homochitto Street, I turn right, into town, and soon we’re passing Dunleith, the antebellum mansion that I always say makes Tara from Gone with the Wind look like a woodshed. ~ Greg Iles, #NFDB
807:Hawkins's plan to be more careful was starting to include things like "carefully brushing her off," and "carefully take her home," where he could "carefully kiss her mouth" and "carefully take her clothes off. ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
808:I will always be that guy's girl. I've made him so big in my mind that I can't even move around in there. It's not that I can even be with him. I just won't ever be without him. I'll never be whole without him. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
809:Suddenly that worth felt conditional, like it could be taken or squandered. It was not inherent; it was bestowed. What was of worth was not me, but the veneer of constraints and observances that obscured me. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
810:There is only so much room inside of people for things. I see that now. I used to have room for many things. Now those things seem unimportant, and the people have taken over the limited amount of space I have. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
811:claimed that women have been coaxed, cajoled, shoved and squashed into a series of feminine contortions for so many centuries, that it is now quite impossible to define their natural abilities or aspirations. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
812:Don't you want to be neighbors?"
"No." he said. "I want to be lovers. Sleep-together lovers. Wake-up together lovers. One bed."
Oh, God, she was going to fall in love. She could feel it happening. ~ Tara Janzen,#NFDB
813:Normal is an ideal. But it’s not reality. Reality is brutal, it’s beautiful, it’s every shade between black and white, and it’s magical. Yes, magical. Because every now and then, it turns nothing into something. ~ Tara Kelly, #NFDB
814:I, Lucian Bane… do solemnly promise Tara Reese…. To always be her rear guard…to protect her…. make her laugh out loud…. Beat a motherfucker into the ground for looking at her." I wiped the tears from her cheeks. ~ Lucian Bane, #NFDB
815:A witness. An impartial account. The fever of self doubt had broken long ago. That's not to say I trusted my memory absolutely, but I trusted it as much as I trusted anybody else's, and more than some people's. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
816:Did the color of his skin matter? No, Lina decided, wouldn’t his racial ambiguity be a strength? Wasn’t this a history from which they had all emerged, every American, black and white and every shade in between? ~ Tara Conklin, #NFDB
817:I want to believe the fire between us hasn’t burned us both to ash. That we’ve been tempered by it, forged into steel. I want to own you and be owned by you. And I want to fuck you like you feel the same damn way. ~ Tara Leigh, #NFDB
818:Tyler solved the equations easily, writing out orderly explanations for every step. He was studying mechanical engineering, set to graduate near the top of his class, and soon after would start a PhD at Purdue. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
819:It takes an honest look to observe our selves without judgment, and then to do something about it. Observing without judgment is the practice of yoga. Doing something about it is the stuff that makes up your life. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
820:Billy took a breath, and it caught and trembled out of his chest. “Oh God, I am gay. I am.” He wanted to laugh. He wanted to cry. Shaz’s soft high voice sounded muffled against his chest. “Yes, dear. I think you are. ~ Tara Lain, #NFDB
821:He caught her, and he held her, and he let her cry, and cry, and cry, and he let her use his sheets to wipe her eyes, and her nose, and God knows what, because he had plenty of clean sheets, and he only had one Kat. ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
822:Mill claimed that women have been coaxed, cajoled, shoved and squashed into a series of feminine contortions for so many centuries, that it is now quite impossible to define their natural abilities or aspirations. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
823:M.J. looked at her. "What's the difference between God and a federal judge?"
"I don't know."
"God doesn't think he's a federal judge."
Tara smiled, for what seemed like the first time in days. ~ Laura Griffin,#NFDB
824:the remnants of her Georgia drawl always sounded a bit sad. She made him think of an aging Scarlett O’Hara torn from Tara’s halls but clinging to her pride and, with the help of a beauty parlor, her flaming hair. ~ Richard Laymon, #NFDB
825:My family was splitting down the middle—the three who had left the mountain, and the four who had stayed. The three with doctorates, and the four without high school diplomas. A chasm had appeared, and was growing. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
826:There was a pause, then more word appeared - words I hadn't known I needed to hear, but once I saw them, I realized I'd been searching my whole life for them.
You were my child. I should have protected you. ~ Tara Westover,#NFDB
827:Was he really so perfect though? His behavior was possessive and psychotic. His temper was foul, like horrific foul. He was a playboy and I was buying into it all. I was convincing myself that I was lucky to have him, ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
828:Breaking Dawn = Bark, Gnaw, Die When Edward gets the girl, Jacob takes his revenge by chewing up Edward's shoes, having "accidents" on the rug, and howling at all hours of the night. —Tara Habenicht North Ridgeville, OH ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
829:He wanted to paddle her himself, then shake her, then sit her down in a chair and explain to her why she must never, ever get herself in a situation where she could be shot at again—and then throw himself at her feet. ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
830:His lips were smooth and strong, and his tongue stroked mine with a passion and yearning that curled my toes. And we weren’t dom and sub; we weren’t master and servant; we weren’t even man and woman. We were lovers... ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
831:In the ring Tink." Lance points at me.
I sigh, "Lance…uhm…sir. My name is Sarah."
He waves me off, "We all have nicknames here. I'll never remember Sarah. But with your hair in that bun, you look like Tinkerbell. ~ Tara Brown,#NFDB
832:Just remember, one step at a time. If you think about everything that you need to accomplish, it's easy to get overwhelmed. But if you approach your goals bit by bit, you have a good chance of succeeding" -Ms. Quincy ~ Tara Dairman, #NFDB
833:The Burgess sisters arrive together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
834:There was a pause, then more words appeared - words I hadn't known I needed to hear, but once I saw them, I realized I'd been searching my whole life for them.
You were my child. I should have protected you. ~ Tara Westover,#NFDB
835:WAITING FOR CHRISTMAS THAT year felt like waiting to walk off the edge of a cliff. Not since Y2K had I felt so certain that something terrible was coming, something that would obliterate everything I’d known before. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
836:I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
837:Cuando me encontré con sus ojos ya no pude apartar la mirada. En sus profundidades encontré la respuesta a todas las preguntas que mi corazón no se atrevía a formular. En ellos vi reflejado mi propio deseo y mi soledad. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
838:I love stepping onto the ice knowing I can create whatever I want or am feeling that day. It inspires me to be creative and artistic. It's a great therapeutic outlet to utilize both my heart and body at the same time. ~ Tara Lipinski, #NFDB
839:The stress and the money and the worry about school all faded into the background; none of it was as important as my brother. I would trade everything, all my success and chances in life, for him to be happy and healthy. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
840:vindication has no power over guilt. No amount of anger or rage directed at others can subdue it, because guilt is never about them. Guilt is the fear of one’s own wretchedness. It has nothing to do with other people. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
841:With the first out breath, you are releasing worries, plans, mental tensions. With the second out breath, you are releasing physical tightness and tension. With the third out breath, you are releasing difficult emotions. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
842:I could take it all back—blame Lucifer and be given a clean slate. I imagined how esteemed I would be, as a newly cleansed vessel. How loved. All I had to do was swap my memories for theirs, and I could have my family. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
843:I remember the scratch of my pen moving across the page, recounting in detail, for a full eight pages, precisely what my sister had said. But the memory of her saying it is gone: it is as if I wrote in order to forget. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
844:I slapped around Ben’s uncle, the pack master. He’s a dick. A first-class asshole. He’s always been a jerk to me because of the type of supernatural I was. Like he’s some kind of elitist, pure-blood bullshit prick.” Shane ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
845:I could have my mother’s love, but there were terms, the same terms they had offered me three years before: that I trade my reality for theirs, that I take my own understanding and bury it, leave it to rot in the earth. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
846:I understand, a little, what it’s like.” She paused, her breath hanging before her in the cold. “People knowing something about you that’s invisible. The way they look at you, as if they can see it if they stare hard enough. ~ Tara Sim, #NFDB
847:A man once told me that there are infinite places love will take you, but revenge is the business of hate, and there is only one place hate will take you—the end. The end of you and the end of everything you once stood for. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
848:There is only one world, the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive, this minute here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
849:was continually harassed by an inner judge who was merciless, relentless, nit-picking, driving, often invisible but always on the job. I knew I would never treat a friend the way I treated myself, without mercy or kindness. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
850:But vindication has no power over guilt. No amount of anger or rage directed at others can subdue it, because guilt is never about them. Guilt is the fear of one’s own wretchedness. It has nothing to do with other people. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
851:Everyone puts so much energy into meeting the right one. They try too hard for perfection and end up with their version of the right person but for all the wrong reasons. Or even worse, they end up being single for too long. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
852:I suddenly had a vision of my sperm swimming around and talking in Bruce Willis’s voice like in Look Who’s Talking. “Come on! Swim faster! This little shit has no idea we escaped from the condom! Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker! ~ Tara Sivec, #NFDB
853:That night I called on her and she didn’t answer. She left me. She stayed in the mirror. The decisions I made after that moment were not the ones she would have made. They were the choices of a changed person, a new self. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
854:Career-wise, I was not the most naturally talented ice skater. Of course I had a knack for it , but practice was always the answer for me. I needed to put in the time to get back the confidence that led me to Olympic gold. ~ Tara Lipinski, #NFDB
855:Hardly," I replied. "He despises me. Although probably not as much as I detest him."
Tara smirked. "My, we certainly have strong feelings for someone, don't we? Are you sure you detest him, or is it something else? ~ Elizabeth Eulberg,#NFDB
856:Presence is not some exotic state that we need to search for or manufacture. In the simplest terms, it is the felt sense of wakefulness, openness, and tenderness that arises when we are fully here and now with our experience. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
857:by the end of it, I had finally begun to grasp something that should have been immediately apparent: that someone had opposed the great march toward equality; someone had been the person from whom freedom had to be wrested. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
858:Fear of being a flawed person lay at the root of my trance, and I had sacrificed many moments over the years in trying to prove my worth. Like the tiger Mohini, I inhabited a self-made prison that stopped me from living fully. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
859:Speaking Out is honest about some of the challenges posed by speaking out and looks at possible responses and coping strategies. By comparing notes, we can help guide each other through what can be challenging life experiences. ~ Tara Moss, #NFDB
860:The world has always been a selfish place where love is fleeting and people are fickle. Once upon a time, true love accidentally happened to the fortunate. They polluted and corrupted it, and like everything else, it got sick. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
861:The world has always been a selfish place where love is fleeting and people are fickle. Once upon a time, true love accidentally happened tot he fortunate. They polluted and corrupted it, and like everything else, it got sick. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
862:Again I thought about the family. There was a puzzle in it, something unresolved. What is a person to do, I asked, when their obligations to their family conflict with other obligations—to friends, to society, to themselves? ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
863:Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
864:I’d been wondering whether something was wrong with me since the beginning of the semester, when I’d attended my first lecture on world affairs. I’d been wondering how I could be a woman and yet be drawn to unwomanly things. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
865:The spiritual path is not a solo endeavor. In fact, the very notion of a self who is trying to free her/ himself is a delusion. We are in it together and the company of spiritual friends helps us realize our interconnectedness. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
866:True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, its our own true nature. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
867:Have you ever thought maybe you should just let them go?” I hadn’t, not once. “It’s not permanent,” I said. “I can fix it.” “Funny how you can change so much,” Charles said, “but still sound the same as when we were seventeen. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
868:He steps forward and kisses my forehead. His breath is soft, devastating warmth on my face. He turns and leaves. He chooses survival over me. It's no different than what I have done. We are both just trying so hard to survive me. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
869:I could tolerate any form of cruelty better than kindness. Praise was a poison to me; I choked on it.... The ugliness of me had to be given expression. If it were not expressed in his voice, I would need to express it it mine. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
870:If our hearts are ready for anything, we will spontaneously reach out when others are hurting. Living in an ethical way can attune us to the pain and needs of others, but when our hearts are open and awake, we care instinctively. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
871:I imagined myself in Emily’s place, which was easy to do—I couldn’t stop myself from doing it—and in a moment I was in a parking lot, laughing my high-pitched cackle, trying to convince the world that my wrist wasn’t breaking. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
872:It is better to do what you love for work, but if it is your day job that enables an unpaid passion, then your life is still sweeter. What is important is that you make time for your dreams, not whether or not you get paid for it. ~ Tara Moss, #NFDB
873:Maybe I was being naive. Even stupid. I mean, who would trade Standford for being homeless? [...] But I had to know if I was meant to be a musician. Otherwise I'd spend the rest of my life regretting it. Asking myself... what if? ~ Tara Kelly, #NFDB
874:There are stories we take on from our culture, and there are stories based on our own personal history. Some of those stories lock us in limiting beliefs and lead to suffering, and there are others that can move us toward freedom. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
875:They don’t really know him, not the dark and scary parts, but then again they don’t know those places in me. Only he does. Only he has seen the darkness. Only he embraces the darkness inside of me and turns it into love and light. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
876:had begun to understand that we had lent our voices to a discourse whose sole purpose was to dehumanize and brutalize others—because nurturing that discourse was easier, because retaining power always feels like the way forward. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
877:Meditation helps us gain the capacity to relax, to connect with what is going on right here and right now, to connect with other people, to re-access our resourcefulness, our clarity and our ability to focus and keep an open heart. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
878:I had begun to understand that we had lent our voices to a discourse whose sole purpose was to dehumanize and brutalize others—because nurturing that discourse was easier, because retaining power always feels like the way forward. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
879:To admit uncertainty is to admit to weakness, to powerlessness, and to believe in yourself despite both. It is a frailty, but in this frailty there is a strength: the conviction to live in your own mind, and not in someone else’s. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
880:Seeing your goals is the first step. But reaching them often requires taking many more. The good news is that you don't need to see the entire path clearly to set out on it; you just need to see a few feet ahead of you." -Ms. Quincy ~ Tara Dairman, #NFDB
881:Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
882:I didn’t understand the magic of those words then, and I don’t understand it now. I know only this: that when my mother told me she had not been the mother to me that she wished she’d been, she became that mother for the first time. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
883:In hind sight, telling him all strangers wanted to eat him wasn’t my finest hour. Having to explain to a bunch of crying children in line to see Santa why my kid was screaming ‘DON’T GO NEAR HIM! HE’LL EAT YOUR FINGERS!’ was no picnic. ~ Tara Sivec, #NFDB
884:When we practice paying attention, whether in meditation, yoga (moving mediation), or simply walking down the street, we can choose to be at ease, or choose to be tense. It's a choice, and that choice is up to no one but us to decide. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
885:I did not study. I tried to read but the sentences meant nothing. I needed them to mean nothing. I couldn't bear to string sentences into strands of thought, or to weave those strands into ideas. Ideas were too similar to reflection. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
886:Through the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience. We begin to trust in our natural intelligence, in our naturally wise heart, in our capacity to open to whatever arises. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
887:Tired of all her efforts at Tara, Scarlett wishes to escape too: "I do want to escape too! I'm so very tired of it all!. . . The South is dead, it's dead, the Yankees and the carpetbaggers have got it and there's nothing left for us." ~ Vivien Leigh, #NFDB
888:Even going through the motions is a way of establishing a new relationship with our inner life that is caring and tender, versus one that is judging, distancing or ignoring. This is the beginning of being capable of intimacy with others. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
889:How you doing?” I shake my head. “I think I’m having my mid-life crisis. I know what I am. I know what I do. But I don't feel like I’ll ever plug that hole in my chest where my dead heart sits. I’m unfinished and incomplete without love. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
890:…I could trust myself: That there was something in me, something like what was in the prophets, and that it was not male or female, not old or young; a kind of worth that was inherent and unshakable.” Educated, A Memoir, Tara Westover ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
891: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
892:How is he so rich and hot and normal?"
I shake my head, "He's rich and hot, but he's not normal. I see a sickness in his eyes. They're broken like mine. Like a mirror with cracks in it but none of the glass has fallen out of the frame. ~ Tara Brown,#NFDB
893:Of all the screams cataloged in the encyclopedic audio library of the Hidden Schools, Tara’s bore the closest resemblance to the scream of a man whose abdomen was being devoured by a jagged-clawed insect that wore a child’s face. After ~ Max Gladstone, #NFDB
894:The man in 4B wondered if he could have your autograph. He told me his daughter is a huge fan.”
Fan? What the hell? Dylan lifted himself up and looked over the back of his seat. Since when did covert operators have fans? ~ Tara Janzen,#NFDB
895:They departed soon after to drive through the night. I watched them go, then took out my journal. It’s astonishing that I used to believe all this without the slightest suspicion, I wrote. The whole world was wrong; only Dad was right. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
896:When you love someone, you have the ability not only to harm their body, but to cut their soul to pieces. And though those cuts may heal, they leave scars behind. With enough scars, you stop feeling anything at all. The skin’s too thick. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
897:I can't help but laugh inside at how I still felt safer leaving through the backdoor, even though there is no front or back. There are only doors. They don't go anywhere anymore, because there is no direction.
Nothing goes anywhere. ~ Tara Brown,#NFDB
898:It’s strange how you give the people you love so much power over you, I had written in my journal. But Shawn had more power over me than I could possibly have imagined. He had defined me to myself, and there’s no greater power than that. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
899:And there was Tara, again with that shy half-smile and her burgundy lips slightly puckered, that shy kink, an incomplete curlicue at the corner of her mouth; he'd seen it before many times but never noted it, and now it had him mesmerized. ~ Graham Joyce, #NFDB
900:He steps back and sits in the chair in the corner. His grin is smug and cocky. He sits with his legs spread, like before.
"Undress." He watches me.
I take a deep breath and pull my shirt off, dropping it to the floor next to my jacket. ~ Tara Brown,#NFDB
901:It was one of those idiotic things that could've been resolved in a split second. Tara had no right to touch Raphael, and once she did he had every right to punch her. She should've left it at that, and now she was dead because she didn't. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
902:She had been an expert, an uncontested power; now she had to ask her ten-year-old daughter whether she'd eaten lunch. That winter was long and dark, and I wondered if sometimes Mother was staying in be even when she didn't have a migraine. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
903:wrote that children of bipolar parents are hit with double risk factors: first, because they are genetically predisposed to mood disorders, and second, because of the stressful environment and poor parenting of parents with such disorders. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
904:ignorant. I had begun to understand that we had lent our voices to a discourse whose sole purpose was to dehumanize and brutalize others—because nurturing that discourse was easier, because retaining power always feels like the way forward. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
905:I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create. If I yielded now, I would lose more than an argument. I would lose custody of my own mind. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
906:I opened it and read "Congratulations." I'd been admitted for the semester beginning January 5.
Mother hugged me. Dad tried to be cheerful. "It proves one thing at least," he said. "Our home school is as good as any public education. ~ Tara Westover,#NFDB
907:Luke didn’t go to church that Sunday, or the Sunday after that, or the one after that. Dad told us to tell people Luke was sick. He said there’d be trouble if the Government found out about Luke’s leg, that the Feds would take us kids away. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
908:I could tolerate any form of cruelty better than kindness. Praise was a poison to me; I choked on it. I wanted the professor to shout at me, wanted it so deeply I felt dizzy from the deprivation. The ugliness of me had to be given expression. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
909:If I can forgive the attachment in myself and open to the vulnerability that's underneath it, then rather than fixating on another person to satisfy my need, I'm actually going right to where the needs come from and able to bring a real healing. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
910:I have more respect for somebody who's like, 'Yeah I like to party, so screw off,' then for Tara , who talks about not partying and ends up passed out underneath a Subway, not a subway station, but the actual sandwich shop - two days later. ~ Chelsea Handler, #NFDB
911:Memories,” Dena said. “I battled memories the entire time I was in Colorado. My own. Jeff’s. Why do we carry the past around like a weight?”
“Because we’re afraid of losing it. Or we think if we don’t carry it around we’ll forget who we are. ~ Tara Sue Me,#NFDB
912:Her name is Muriel. I've never heard the name before and I'm afraid she is going to die in the crossfire and I will never hear the name again.
She is twenty-three and has a sister in the breeder farms. She got taken on the way to the towns. ~ Tara Brown,#NFDB
913:What I’m trying to say is that I’ll always be there for you, Tara. You need someone to help you, I’m your guy. You need a couple or three orgasms? I’m your personal toy. You need to let off some steam, someone to yell at, I’ll be your doormat... ~ Jill Shalvis, #NFDB
914:I evolved a new understanding of the word “whore,” one that was less about actions and more about essence. It was not that I had done something wrong so much as that I existed in the wrong way. There was something impure in the fact of my being. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
915:I offered my most enticing smile, the one I’d been perfecting for years. Sincere and encouraging, it brimmed with counterfeit confidence. My smile had earned me forgiveness when I deserved none, a seat in first class though I’d only paid for coach. ~ Tara Leigh, #NFDB
916:it wasn't the clothes that made this face, this woman, different. It was something behind her eyes, something in the set of her jaw--a hope or belief or conviction--that a life is not a thing unalterable....I suppose it was something like faith. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
917:No matter how much I appeared to have changed—how illustrious my education, how altered my appearance—I was still her. At best I was two people, a fractured mind. She was inside, and emerged whenever I crossed the threshold of my father’s house. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
918:that I am not a good daughter. I am a traitor, a wolf among sheep; there is something different about me and that difference is not good. I want to bellow, to weep into my father’s knees and promise never to do it again. But wolf that I am, I am ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
919:Holy shit, he was harder that a rod of steel, and as his leg ground out a torturous rhythm between my thighs, I realized I was hotter than spring in Seattle.
This was not a dream, this was real, and I had just fondled the boner of the Grim Reaper. ~ Tara West,#NFDB
920:Intelese imediat ca se afla in tara frumoasei adormite din padurea vrajita, acolo unde timpul sta in loc, unde florile palide ale fantasmagoriei si tulpinile tepene si pline de spini ale speculatiilor ascund cu viclenie decaderea interioara. ~ Henrik Pontoppidan, #NFDB
921:They no longer heard the jingle of a joke in it. What they heard was a signal, a call through time, which was answered with a mounting conviction: that never again would I allow myself to be made a foot soldier in a conflict I did not understand. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
922:To my surprise, Brooke smiled, and I realized that even though two of the other teams had managed to bug their marks' cell phones, the information Tara and I had received might just prove it self to be even more useful.
Take that Chloe! ~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes,#NFDB
923:Over the years she had learned to fold down rising emotion just as she would fold the clean bedsheets, the sheet growing smaller and tighter with each pass until all that remained of that wide wrinkled expanse of cotton was a hard closed-in square. ~ Tara Conklin, #NFDB
924:The biggest illusion about a path of refuge is that we are on our way somewhere else, on our way to becoming a different kind of person. But ultimately, our refuge is not outside ourselves, not somewhere in the future - it is always and already here. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
925:The door dings. I glance out and realize we are at the foyer again. A lady is standing there looking at us. She's holding a small shivering dog and they both look horrified. I follow her gaze to my shredded panties lying on the floor of the elevator. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
926:Why did she have to be different? What was it about Delaney that made me think she could fill the cracks in my soul, that maybe I could fill the ones in hers? She was a little bit broken too, I could tell. But her chips and cracks were drawing me in. ~ Tara Leigh, #NFDB
927:It was the most traditional wedding ring in the world. It reeked of stability and fiftieth wedding anniversaries. It proclaimed itself to the world as the rock upon which vows were never broken. It was a testament of his love. Proof of his commitment. ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
928:You are so lucky to have each other. I've never actually seen a man love a woman as much as he loves you, Sarah. I love your father and he loves me. We have survived a lot of things, but I know in my heart of hearts our love is not as intense as yours. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
929:He turned and I got lost for a second. His eyes pulled me in, just as they had from across the room. But up close he was so much better looking and his dark eyes were blue, an intense dark blue. His lashes were so thick and black, I was envious of them. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
930:If there is one lesson I wish to bestow upon you, one shred of wisdom I have gained from my living, dying days, it is this: let your heart lead you, do not be afraid, for there will be much to regret if reason and sense and fear are your only markers. ~ Tara Conklin, #NFDB
931:In any moment, no matter how lost we feel, we can take refuge in presence and love. We need only pause, breathe, and open to the experience of aliveness within us. In that wakeful openness, we come home to the peace and freedom of our natural awareness. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
932:I think it's possible to have experiences of love without attachment, but I think part of our conditioning is to grasp at times, especially when there are unmet needs. It's part of our nervous system to hold on to where we think those needs will be met. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
933:So you don't do one night stands. And you're not looking for a boyfriend, or a husband. What do you want, Reina?”
I swallowed, my throat suddenly dry. How could one sentence strike with the force of a lightning bolt? “How about you make me an offer? ~ Tara Leigh,#NFDB
934:There was little hope of overpowering the history my father and sister were creating for me. Their account would claim my brothers first, then it would spread to my aunts, uncles, cousins, the whole valley. I had lost an entire kinship, and for what? ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
935:The world in which we live is held together by love.
The world in which we love is held together by fate.
The world in which we die is of our own making.
Death comes from hatred and man is the only creature who hates, stronger than he loves. ~ Tara Brown,#NFDB
936:An empty house had a particular sound, Colton had come to realize: a sigh made without lungs, the silent crawl of time passing with no one to measure it in beats of words and breaths. No one to speak to or listen to or watch. A loneliness that was cutting. ~ Tara Sim, #NFDB
937:I can stand in this wind, because I'm not trying to stand in it," I said. "The wind is just wind. You could withstand these gusts on the ground, so you can withstand them in the air. There is no difference. Except the difference you make in your head. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
938:Don't want your boyfriend to see you looking so glamorous?" He smiles and jabs me with his finger. He is looking at me strangely, as if to say, This is who you are. You've been pretending that you're someone else. Someone better. But you are just this. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
939:Don't want your boyfriend to see you looking so glamorous?" He smiles and jabs me with ihs finger. He is looking at me strangely, as it to say, This is who you are. You've been pretending that you're someone else. Someone better. But you are just this. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
940:That's all that was left of the life I'd had here: a puzzle whose rules I would never understand, because they were not rules at all but a kind of cage meant for what had been home, or I could go, now, before the walls shifted and the way out was shut. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
941:I decide that if I had asked differently, been more calm, he would have stopped. I write this until I believe it, which doesn’t take long because I want to believe it. It’s comforting to think the defect is mine, because that means it is under my power. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
942:My parents’ names are Rebecca and Jeremiah, by the way,” he whispered as I approached him.
I laughed, jittery. “Got it. So even though they’ll be too busy screaming at you, and they can’t hear me anyway, I’ll at least be able to address them properly? ~ Tara Hudson,#NFDB
943:I fucking hate you,” I whispered against his lips, my body at war with my mind. I hated him for his deceit.
Mostly, I hated him for reminding me of my own.
“I fucking hate you more,” Tripp rasped, drawing my lower lip into his mouth and biting on it. ~ Tara Leigh,#NFDB
944:On the morning of what should have been Amelia Ashley's birthday, the river valley that had once housed High Bridge changed for Joshua Mayhew. For the first time in many years, it seemed beautiful to him. For the first time in many years, it was beautiful. ~ Tara Hudson, #NFDB
945:You can think of spiritual practice as a kind of spiritual re-parenting ... You're offering yourself the two qualities that make up good parenting: understanding - seeing yourself for who you truly are - and relating to what you see with unconditional love. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
946:I don't think inspiration just comes from the sky. I think you have to sit down and you have to work. Sometimes it's really hard, and sometimes things come easier, but really you have to show up, you have to get to work, and you have to have determination. ~ Tara Donovan, #NFDB
947:Oh my God," Maddie whispered, horrified. "I rented him that boat. Does that make me a murderer?"
Tara's heart clutched. "He's not dead yet."
"Hurry," Maddie called to Ford. "I can't be the one who killed Tara's ex!" I look terrible in orange! ~ Jill Shalvis,#NFDB
948:Do you remember your first time?” My best friend, AJ Dawson, checked under the door to make sure her mother’s feet weren’t nearby. I sighed, leaning against the cushioned, and surprisingly feminine, satin headboard of AJ’s twin bed. For the past six years, I’d ~ Tara West, #NFDB
949:Even the darkness in you is beautiful to me, Damon. You are my dark prince, my vengeful devil, my corrupt savior. And when you look at me, you only need to know one thing.”
… “What?” His one question is a gritty rasp.
“I am yours, Damon King. All yours. ~ Tara Leigh,#NFDB
950:I’m Briton, Briton Thorlackson.” “It’s nice to meet you, Briton. I’m Liv Daniels.” He smiled and cocked his head to the side. “Yes, I believe we’ve covered that.” I laughed, but it was a strange laugh I didn’t recall laughing before. I felt my face flush red. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
951:I mentioned earlier the two wings of awareness. The first step is recognizing the fear of getting close to others - this honest witnessing of where it is in the body, where it is in your beliefs.The other wing regards what's seen with kindness and compassion. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
952:I was bullied badly as a kid, but I could always change schools. I could always go home. Now you can't, because of cyberbullying. When bullying follows you home, and there's no escape and no end, to me, that's horror. And to so many girls, that's just life. ~ Tara Subkoff, #NFDB
953:Compassion can be described as letting ourselves be touched by the vulnerability and suffering that is within ourselves and all beings. The full flowering of compassion also includes action: Not only do we attune to the presence of suffering, we respond to it. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
954:The decisions I made after that moment were not the ones she would have made. They were the choices of a changed person, a new self.
You could call this selfhood many things. Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal.
I call it an education ~ Tara Westover,#NFDB
955:The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er; And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no more. ~ Charles Lamb, #NFDB
956:Curiosity is a luxury reserved for the financially secure: my mind was absorbed with more immediate concerns, such as the exact balance of my bank account, who I owed how much, and whether there was anything in my room I could sell for ten or twenty dollars. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
957:I could tell that the wolf thought he had it in the bag, a savage smile curling up the edges of his mouth, when all of a sudden the tree next to ours swung one of its branches over and whacked the ever-loving shit out of that wolf, right on its stupid wolf head. ~ Tara Maya, #NFDB
958:If you don't care, don't ask me how I am. Chances are, I don't care how you are, either. And it's not because I don't respect you or think you're loser. I just don't know you well enough to care yet. So, let's pass each other in silence and go on with our lives. ~ Tara Kelly, #NFDB
959:If you two yentas are finished discussing Claire’s rabid who-ha, me and the boys would like to eat sometime this century."
"You and 'the boys?' You just met them today. Does the Ya Ya Brotherhood already have a secret handshake and a password?" Liz joked. ~ Tara Sivec,#NFDB
960:Above and beyond looking after your physical needs, it can be very helpful to think about what activities and hobbies make you smile. Make room for those things in your life, so you can look after your mental wellbeing and stay energized and for life's challenges. ~ Tara Moss, #NFDB
961:Aislinn Granville is my gift from a god I stopped believing in years ago. An angel bestowed to a devil.
I’ll take her. I’ll treasure her. I’ll live for her. I’ll die for her.
And I’ll commit all seven sins – countless times, with zero regrets – to keep her. ~ Tara Leigh,#NFDB
962:... my choices still follow me. They are a part of me.'
'Only if you let them be. Yes, choices define your life, Soph, but you make new ones every single day. Life is a work in progress, and how we define it changes as we change, as our choices change. ~ Tara Taylor Quinn,#NFDB
963:And get some self-esteem. What the fuck is that? It’s so annoying to see a pretty girl see herself as not worthy. You know what it makes us guys think you aren’t worthy? We see you how you see you. You’re pretty and funny and smart. Stop being such a douche-canoe. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
964:I grip him. "Don’t leave me."
He kisses my lips, "Never again. This isn’t me leaving you. This is me choosing you." He throws my words back at me.
He kisses me once more and then pushes off. He leaves and doesn’t look back. I fight the urge to run after him. ~ Tara Brown,#NFDB
965:Mill had in mind was the nature of women. Mill claimed that women have been coaxed, cajoled, shoved and squashed into a series of feminine contortions for so many centuries, that it is now quite impossible to define their natural abilities or aspirations. Blood ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
966:You okay Em?" Stuart asks from the hole between our cells.
I shake my head, forgetting he can't see me in the blackness of the room. But I can't form words. I know he will understand. I suspect he's felt the same a few times. God knows what they’ve done to him. ~ Tara Brown,#NFDB
967:If [kids] get into loving relationships, they're afraid they'll be found wanting, won't have the looks or body shape our culture deems worthy. Many of us feel we're falling short and if we start feeling close to another person, that we'll be found out and rejected. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
968:I suppose my interest came from the sense of groundlessness I’d felt since learning about the Holocaust and the civil rights movement—since realizing that what a person knows about the past is limited, and will always be limited, to what they are told by others. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
969:The Buddha never intended to make desire itself the problem. When he said craving causes suffering, he was referring not to our natural inclination as living beings to have wants and needs, but to our habit of clinging to experience that must, by nature, pass away. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
970:I let myself enjoy the last second of the smells and feelings, before I slip away with the mist. I've always hated the dark and the things that hide there with reaching fingers and icy whispers. I never knew anything real, beyond a ghost, could live in the dark. Now ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
971:I shake my head, "What can he do he hasn’t already done? What can anyone do to me that hasn’t already be done?" I turn and face her, "I don’t have any walls left, Shell. I'm like a single tree standing in a field for everyone to see. There is nowhere for me to hide. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
972:Okay, so, Tara is in the lead, two to zero. Next question, Tara. We asked Lucian what he wanted to be when he grew up. What do you think he said?" "Ummm. I don't guess Dom was yet part of his childhood vocabulary until much later, soooo, I'll go with… Proctologist. ~ Lucian Bane, #NFDB
973:The hill is paved with wild wheat. If the conifers and sagebrush are soloists, the wheat field is a corps de ballet, each stem following all the rest in bursts of movement, a million ballerinas bending, one after the other, as great gales dent their golden heads. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
974:The process of radical acceptance is to accept that a story has appeared in the mind, and then deepen the attention to see clearly what's happening in the body, to regard those feelings and sensations with kindness and acceptance, and to notice how they come and go. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
975:We drive in silence until I need an answer, "What did he say to you at the elevator?" I look straight ahead when I ask.
"He thanked me for being there for you, even as a boy, when he could not protect you himself. He told me that I had his permission to love you. ~ Tara Brown,#NFDB
976:I play DJ, and you tell me what you like.”
“Got it,” I said with a firm nod, fighting little jitters of excitement.
“And who knows? Maybe something will be familiar. As long as it’s not death metal, I think we can rule you out as a potential Satan worshiper. ~ Tara Hudson,#NFDB
977:'It would be great not to have to deal with any of this. When I found out, I wished Killian could have wiped my memories so I wouldn't have to know that all this shit exists. I was like, "Vampires can get rid of memories. What are you good for?" But it is what it is.' ~ Tara Lain, #NFDB
978:They found the Infirmary of Justice much as they had left it: white institutional walls, too-bright floors, and a reassuring smell of antiseptic. Reassuring at least to Tara, because the smell signalled that the people running this infirmary knew about antiseptic. ~ Max Gladstone, #NFDB
979:If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
980:'It would be great not to have to deal with any of this. When I found out, I wished Killian could have wiped my memories so I wouldn't have to know that all this shit exists. I was like, "Vampires can get rid of memories. What are you good for?" But it is what it is.' ~ Tara Lain, #NFDB
981:positive liberty is self-mastery—the rule of the self, by the self. To have positive liberty, he explained, is to take control of one’s own mind; to be liberated from irrational fears and beliefs, from addictions, superstitions and all other forms of self-coercion. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
982:With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
983:Ce vreau eu sa stiu - ce ma nedumereste pe mine - este cum pot oamenii care traiesc in aceeasi tara, care vorbesc aceeasi limba, care citesc aceleasi ziare si asa mai departe, sa fie atat de deosebiti, realmente deosebiti, in sentimentele lor. Asta nu pot sa inteleg. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
984:Harriet resisted, until Tara pulled out the big move...the combination "lean-against nuzzle, with a slight lick and an adoring glance." In dog-land the move had a degree of difficulty of nine point seven, and as far as I know, there is no known defense against it. ~ David Rosenfelt, #NFDB
985:It's drugs, isn't it"? Tara was so innocent. She got pulled into that glamorous lifestyle with all her rich friends...all that cocaine dust floating around, she probably inhaled some by accident, and then -' 'There's no such thing as secondhand cocaine snorting, Mom. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
986:I think of depression as the mechanism that pushes down the pain of that loss. It tries to distance us from the loss but it lowers our whole energy level. I think that's a pervasive way we end up responding to loss or the anticipation of loss. Natural but not necessary. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
987:Our parents are held down by chains of abuse, manipulation, and control….They see change as dangerous and will exile anyone who asks for it. This is a perverted idea of family loyalty….They claim faith, but this is not what the gospel teaches. Keep safe. We love you. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
988:The distance - physical and mental-that has been traversed in the last decade nearly stopped my breath, and I wondered if perhaps I had changed too much. All my studying, reading, thinking, traveling, had it transformed me into someone who no longer belonged anywhere? ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
989:Había buscado un consejo moral, alguien que conciliara mi vocación como esposa y madre con la llamada que me llegaba de otro lugar. Y el profesor había dejado esa cuestión a un lado. Al parecer me había dicho: “Primero descubre qué eres capaz y luego decide quién eres”. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
990:[She] told me to imagine myself, whole and healthy, protected by a white bubble. Inside the bubble I was to place all the objects that I loved, all the colors that made me feel at peace. [...] "Imagine the bubble for a few hours every day," she said, "and you will heal. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
991:The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove. But I send you a cream-white rosebud With a flush on its petal tips; For the love that is purest and sweetest Has a kiss of desire on the lips. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
992:We find true refuge whenever we recognize the silent space of awareness behind all our busy doing and striving. We find refuge whenever our hearts open with tenderness and love. We find refuge whenever we connect with the innate clarity and intelligence of our true nature. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
993:He stops kissing, but his lips stay touching mine, lightly, like a feather would. "I'm bad for you, Sarah. I won't ever be the gentleman you need."
"Maybe I don’t want gentle."
He pulls something from his dress pants and presses it into my hand. "And that is my fault. ~ Tara Brown,#NFDB
994:I try to eat pretty healthy, but I do love carbs. So, I'm not the person who could stick to a perfectly healthy diet. I love chocolate too so I always have dark chocolate Hershey's kisses in my purse ready for me to have throughout the day. Dark chocolate is my weakness! ~ Tara Lipinski, #NFDB
995:It’s possible to exist under any number of illusions, to believe so thoroughly in the presence of things you cannot see—safety, God, love—that you impose upon them physical shapes. A bed, a cross, a husband. But ideas willed into being are still ideas and just as fragile. ~ Tara Conklin, #NFDB
996:Write. Start writing today. Start writing right now. Don’t write it right, just write it -and then make it right later. Give yourself the mental freedom to enjoy the process, because the process of writing is a long one. Be wary of “writing rules” and advice. Do it your way. ~ Tara Moss, #NFDB
997:Write. Start writing today. Start writing right now. Don’t write it right, just write it –and then make it right later. Give yourself the mental freedom to enjoy the process, because the process of writing is a long one. Be wary of “writing rules” and advice. Do it your way. ~ Tara Moss, #NFDB
998:Allowing another to be as they are is more what I think of as "space." The space to express yourself and know that you're going to be accepted. That's more where I go than with the actual physical logistics of how much time you have together and how much time you have apart. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
999:once a heart was shattered, it didn’t look the same. You never got those pieces back where they should have gone. That’s where the changes came from. The new imperfections and cracks. They formed us, creating the person we would become together when the broken pieces healed. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
1000:What would it be like if, right in the midst of this busyness, we were to consciously take our hands off the controls? What if we were to intentionally stop our mental computations and our rushing around and, for a minute or two, simply pause and notice our inner experience? ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1001:You're a Daniels and a Walker. That means you're 99% fine stubbornness, tenacity and resilience combined", Tara said.
"And the other 1%?" Mia asked as they sat at the tiny galley table.
Ford wrapped an arm around her neck and pulled her in close. "Perfection. ~ Jill Shalvis,#NFDB
1002:He moved first, rolling us so he was under me and I rested on him. “Damn you, Abby,” he whispered coarsely, but holding me tight. “Damn you for what you do to me. You are everything to me and part of me dies when I think you don’t trust me. I’d never do anything to hurt you. ~ Tara Sue Me, #NFDB
1003:He said positive liberty is self-mastery—the rule of the self, by the self. To have positive liberty, he explained, is to take control of one’s own mind; to be liberated from irrational fears and beliefs, from addictions, superstitions and all other forms of self-coercion. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1004:It's drugs, isn't it"? Tara was so innocent. She got pulled into that glamorous lifestyle with all her rich friends...all that cocaine dust floating around, she probably inhaled some by accident, and then -'
'There's no such thing as secondhand cocaine snorting, Mom. ~ Lisa Kleypas,#NFDB
1005:You're judging her by her literacy,' Tara says. 'You're a literacist.' 'You've made that up.' Thomas Mackee packs up his stuff and stands up. 'You chicks give me the shits,' he says. 'You, on the other hand, brighten up our day,' I tell him. 'We all regard you as a god. ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
1006:I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create. If I yielded now... I would lose custody of my own mind. ...What my father wanted to cast from me wasn't a demon: it was me. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1007:At nineteen, the silver spoon I’d been born with was ripped from my mouth…
I was heir to a throne built on lies, my crown forged with corruption.
Stripped of everything I’d been raised to consider my birthright.
Including my princess – who wasn’t mine after all. ~ Tara Leigh,#NFDB
1008:If attachment then carries forward in a way that's not healthy, we need to let it be there without making it wrong and bring as compassionate and honest attention to it as possible. Honor that this is part of being human, but it's important to know when it's getting in the way. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1009:I get it. She is that possibility. If you were a guy and she was a girl, she would be your girl. She is the wish, like looking down at the green pool at the bottom of that mountain. You look but you don't swim. You live but you never do anything but watch. You don't experience. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
1010:It’s tough when things happen you don’t have control over and can’t make fit your timetable.”
“Sounds like you’re speaking from experience.”
“The things we appreciate the most are the things we have to work for. Wait for. If it’s handed to us, we don’t value it as much. ~ Tara Sue Me,#NFDB
1011:Let me see your schedule.” The cop grabbed the twisted paper from my hands and carefully eyed the document, as if looking for a watermark or something to prove the schedule’s authenticity. Because evil teenagers forge school schedules all the time. “I’m going that way now. Follow ~ Tara West, #NFDB
1012:You're everything. You're... You're chaos and order and everything between. Like sunshine kept back by clouds. Like the entire world's imploded inside you, but all I see are the stars are sewn into your skin. You're filled with soft, dark music. I hear it all the time. Your music. ~ Tara Sim, #NFDB
1013:External means of escape like alcohol, drug use, and even overeating are a means of pushing uncertainty away and covering it up temporarily. And they may feel comforting for a moment, but I don't need to tell you that eventually they will cause more trouble than they ever solve. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
1014:I hung up, not sure what I’d just heard. I knew it wouldn’t last, that the next time we spoke everything would be different, the tenderness of this moment forgotten, the endless struggle between us again in the foreground. But tonight he wanted to help. And that was something. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1015:He smiles and the world is okay. It feels like it grew a tiny bit. Like I let him into the small corner where I live. He grabs my hand, squeezing it and kisses the top of it, "Now stop trying to scare me off with talks of having kids and area rugs and shit. I'm not going anywhere. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
1016:I can help," he said, "but you'll need to tell me what's bothering you." His voice was gentle, and that gentleness was cruel. I wished he would yell. If he yelled, it would make me angry, and when angry I felt powerful. I didn't know if I could do this without feeling powerful. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1017:Learning to savor the moment keeps us from living in constant worry and fear and tension over things that haven't happened yet and may never come to pass. Practicing yoga helps us to undo these bad mental habits and stress triggers that we often unknowingly pick up along the way. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
1018:...only my ears were different. They no longer heard the jingle of a joke in it. What they heard was a signal, a call through time, which was answered with a mounting conviction: that never again would I allow myself to be made a foot soldier in a conflict I did not understand. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1019:To convince myself that there was some dignity in what I planned to do, in surrendering my own perceptions of right and wrong, of reality, of sanity itself, to earn the love of my parents. For them I believed I could don armor and charge at giants, even if I saw only windmills. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1020:Why was it considered normal for a girl to live for fashion and makeup, but not car engines or bugs? And what about sports fanatics? My mom had a boyfriend who would flip out if he missed even a minute of a football game. Wouldn't that be what doctors considered autistic behavior? ~ Tara Kelly, #NFDB
1021:I don’t want to be the china doll you glued back together. I don’t want to look whole from a distance, but when you get close enough you can see all the cracks."
He runs a gloved hand down my cheeks, "The cracks make us who we are."
I shake my head, "We can be better than this. ~ Tara Brown,#NFDB
1022:Jis sakė, kad pozityvioji laisvė yra savikūra - paties nusistatytos taisyklės sau pačiam. Būti pozityviai laisvam, aiškino jis, reiškia turėti valdžią savo mąstymui, išsilaisvinti iš iracionalių baimių ir įsitikinimų, iš priklausomybių, prietarų ir kitų prievartos prieš save formų. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1023:Long before the warriors’ leap it was decided how the women would live and how they would die. By the warriors, by the women themselves. Decided. Choices, numberless as grains of sand, had layered and compressed, coalescing into sediment, then into rock, until all was set in stone. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1024:Not knowing for certain, but refusing to give way to those who claim certainty, was a privilege I had never allowed myself. My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1025:I had always believed, that it would be me who broke the spell, who caused it to break. When the stillness shattered and his fury rushed at me, I would know that something I had done was the catalyst, the cause. There is hope in such a superstition; there is the illusion of control. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1026:I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1027:I can feel the sickening fear inside of me subside as my instincts take over. Inside of me are animal instincts. They were born in a world I wasn’t. They take over when I need them to. They've taught me how to survive. I have learned it is the most important part of the world I live in. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
1028:If I can get a hike in on a regular basis I know I will feel better and I will be stronger. I set goals for myself - like learning to sew, learning to dance - things that are not work related. I find that play and craft with my family bring me a lot of joy, along with all things vintage. ~ Tara Moss, #NFDB
1029:It wasn’t that long ago that I’d crushed on Shane Hawthorne: the untouchable, unattainable rock star. But the guy I’d spent the past few days with - Shane - he was guarded and vulnerable, intuitive and volatile. The jury was still out on attainable. But touchable…hell to the yes. ~ Tara Leigh, #NFDB
1030:The clock chimed five. It sounded almost celebratory as they stood there, hands clasped between them like the meeting of continents. Colton’s mouth was soft and warm, sunlight on silk. Danny was swallowing light. It dived down inside of him until he imagined it bursting out of every pore. ~ Tara Sim, #NFDB
1031:What happened to the man who held me so tenderly and kissed me with such passion?”
He shook his head. “Let’s not rehash this. We’re not good. Good in the playroom? Yes. But outside, we just hurt each other.” Grief etched his expression. “And I love you too much to hurt you anymore. ~ Tara Sue Me,#NFDB
1032:When we practice paying attention, moving with ease of body and mind, and being efficient, our body becomes very capable and strong, and the mind is able to be calm and travel further inward, where we have direct access to your unique creativity, intuition, and feelings of connectivity. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
1033:and after that the accident would always make me think of the Apache women, and of all the decisions that go into making a life—the choices people make, together and on their own, that combine to produce any single event. Grains of sand, incalculable, pressing into sediment, then rock. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1034:I evolved a new understanding of the word "whore," one that was less about being and more about essence. It was not that I had don something wrong so much as I existed in the wrong way. [...] Shawn had more power over me than I could possibly have imagined. He had defined me to myself. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1035:You’ll survive, mu Tara. We’ll make sure of it. (Nykyrian)
You can’t guarantee that. You said it yourself. Even you’re living on borrowed time, waiting for one of them to kill you. (Kiara)
And you said I was scaring her? Damn, bud. You’re socially awkward to the extreme. (Syn) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
1036:If our sense of who we are is defined by feelings of neediness and insecurity, we forget that we are also curious, humorous and caring. We forget about the breath that is nourishing us, the love that unites us, the enormous beauty and fragility that is our shared experience in being alive. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1037:The way to develop the habit of savoring is to pause when something is beautiful and good and catches our attention - the sound of rain, the look of the night sky - the glow in a child's eyes, or when we witness some kindness. Pause... then totally immerse in the experience of savoring it. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1038:You have a unique body and mind, with a particular history and conditioning. No one can offer you a formula for navigating all situations and all states of mind. Only by listening inwardly in a fresh and open way will you discern at any given time what most serves your healing and freedom. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1039:Baby, I’ve already given you every piece of me.” I dropped my forehead to hers, cupping her gorgeous face within my palms, feeling as if I’d been stripped bare. “You have it all.”
Delaney wound her legs around my hips, pulling me in tight, tighter. “I’ll take good care of you. I promise. ~ Tara Leigh,#NFDB
1040:I was coming to realize that trying to do everything meant not doing anything terribly well. It was time to make choices. What in my life had become deadwood? As painful as it sometimes might be, perhaps a quick snip was better. Sometimes you have to cut things back in order to grow. ~ Tara Austen Weaver, #NFDB
1041:Like investigation, healthy doubt arises from the urge to know what is true--it challenges assumptions or the status quo in service of healing and freedom. In contrast, unhealthy doubt arises from fear or aversion, and it questions one's own basic potential or worth, or the value of another. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1042:The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1043:When he squirmed away from her, I felt the strangest mix of emotions. First, I wanted to jump into Joshua’s arms and give him a series of grateful kisses—rewards for his apparent disinterest in her. Next, I wished I was substantial enough to tackle this stranger and pull out her pretty hair ~ Tara Hudson, #NFDB
1044:Back then, poets seemed quaint, possibly irrelevant, but there is something about crisis that returns us to the fundamentals to make sense of an uncertain future and remind us of what we need to know. It’s been that way since humans began telling stories. We sang our poems, we chanted them. ~ Tara Conklin, #NFDB
1045:He'd kissed her, and she'd been poleaxed, frozen in place, because his mouth had felt like coming home. The taste of him, the smell of him, the sound of his breath-the slow slide of his tongue over and around and down the lenght of hers, it had all said, "Here's your place,girl,here with me. ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
1046:I had to think before I could answer. “I can stand in this wind, because I’m not trying to stand in it,” I said. “The wind is just wind. You could withstand these gusts on the ground, so you can withstand them in the air. There is no difference. Except the difference you make in your head. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1047:In that vast space you can sail unaccompanied for hours, afloat on pine and brush and rock. It’s a tranquillity born of sheer immensity; it calms with its very magnitude, which renders the merely human of no consequence. Gene was formed by this alpine hypnosis, this hushing of human drama. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1048:He seemed smaller to me than he had that morning. The disappointment in his features was so childlike, for a moment I wondered how God could deny him this. He, a faithful servant, who suffered willingly just as Noah had willingly suffered to build the ark.
But God withheld the flood. ~ Tara Westover,#NFDB
1049:I fetched a straw sombrero Grandma had given us in Arizona. Luke's teeth were still chattering so I also brought a wool blanket. And there he stood, a sombrero on his head, a wool blanket around his shoulders, and his leg in a garbage can. He looked something between homeless and on vacation. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1050:I had discerned the ways in which we have been sculpted by a tradition given to us by others. A tradition of which we were either willfully or accidentally ignorant. I had begun to understand that we had lent our voices to a discourse whose sole purpose was to dehumanize and brutalize others. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1051:I love both of you exactly the way you are. I love that you have no filter, and I adore that Gavin can make grown men cry. There is not one thing I would change about either of you, and if anyone doesn’t like it, they can kiss my ass. You guys are my life and my family now. Nothing else matters. ~ Tara Sivec, #NFDB
1052:I was grabbing at whatever piece was in the big pile, trying to jam it in, but it never fit right. Then I finally tried the piece that had always been right under my hand, and it fit perfectly. All the other pieces fell into place after that. You’re that piece, and I need you to finish my puzzle. ~ Tara Carr, #NFDB
1053:We’ve got to stop meeting like this.”
“No, we don’t.” He liked meeting like this, over her bare ass, a hot-off-the-presses copy of the Rocky Mountain News, and a steaming cup of coffee. It was so perfect, he planned on doing it every day for the rest of his life. He just hadn’t told her yet. ~ Tara Janzen,#NFDB
1054:I had never heard Mother admit that Dad was mentally ill. Years before, I had told her what I’d learned in my psychology class about bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, but she had shrugged it off. Hearing her say it now felt liberating. The illness gave me something to attack besides my father ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1055:Success will be measured by change in the appallingly high levels of violence directed at women online and in the physical world, and change in the low levels of women's participation in public life.That change will require collective action, just as the changes so far have taken collective action. ~ Tara Moss, #NFDB
1056:Being a doctor he didn't want for choices, but also being a doctor he understood the fragility of bone and sinew that encompassed the even more fragile organ of the heart. He envisioned Therese's as being wound in intricate, tight, vinelike veins that he would slowly make sense of and unravel. ~ Tara Lynn Masih, #NFDB
1057:Then you never really feel comfortable around most people. Especially your family, who probably never seemed to understand you. But as you grow up you find others like yourself, people who support you, embrace your weirdness, and love for who you are - and they become your new family." - Tara ~ Elizabeth Briggs, #NFDB
1058:Nothing scares me, mu Tara. Really.” “I admire you. I wish I could live that way.” “No, you don’t. Trust me. Your life is much better than mine.” She sipped at her milk. “Yes, but you don’t have to worry about anyone making a victim of you.” “Princess, in the end, life makes victims of us all. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
1059:stood and quietly locked the bathroom door, then I stared into the mirror at the girl clutching her wrist. Her eyes were glassy and drops slid down her cheeks. I hated her for her weakness, for having a heart to break. That he could hurt her, that anyone could hurt her like that, was inexcusable. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1060:You don't always find yourself facing audiences who are smiling the whole time. This is natural. As a speaker it is vital to prepare well and believe in what you have to say. You can't please every person in every crowd, but your message can matter much more than if you were only aiming to entertain. ~ Tara Moss, #NFDB
1061:The images for my works are somewhat insignificant to me. It became an exercise of variation. I only see the surface images as doodles in a sketchbook, but it's hard to not see an image and bring some kind of personal association, though there's not a prescribed idea of what you're supposed to see. ~ Tara Donovan, #NFDB
1062:When you are older, you will, I hope, learn something of the world and understand that each man carries with him imperfection and regret, and day by day he strives to make right the wrongs he has committed, to repair what he has broken. This is what I have struggled to do, in ways human and flawed. ~ Tara Conklin, #NFDB
1063:Aku lahir dan dibesarkan di danau ini Nak. Ratusan tahun aku menghabiskan waktu di sini. Aku tidak akan meninggalkan tempat ini. Aku suka menunggu senja di dermaga, menatap matahari tenggelam, menunggu pagi, dan menatap matahari terbit. Aku tidak akan menukarnya dengan kehidupan kota. -Nena-tara-neta V ~ Tere Liye, #NFDB
1064:A nation is not defined by its borders or the boundaries of its land mass Rather, a nation is defined by adverse people who have been unified by a cause and a value system and who are committed to a vision for the type of society they wish to live in and give to the future generations to come. ~ Tara Fela Durotoye, #NFDB
1065:Her gaze shifted to me. I hadn’t felt its strength in years and I was stunned by it. “Of all my children,” she said, “you were the one I thought would burst out of here in a blaze. I didn’t expect it from Tyler—that was a surprise—but you. Don’t you stay. Go. Don’t let anything stop you from going. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1066:Blood rushed to my brain; I felt an animating surge of adrenaline, of possibility, of a frontier being pushed outward. ‘Of the nature of women, nothing final can be known.’ Never had I found such comfort in a void, in the black absence of knowledge. It seemed to say: whatever you are, you are woman. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1067:If you are asked an overly invasive or personal question, you have the right to refuse to answer. Likewise, if you research a professional opportunity and it doesn't feel right, or if you are not being offered payment for your professional services, that may be a sign that you should consider saying no. ~ Tara Moss, #NFDB
1068:I sometimes call this our "spacesuit self" because we come into an environment that is difficult and challenging, where we're told to be different. We're told to jump over hoops to be loved and appreciated, so we have to develop spacesuit strategies to get approval and create ways to avoid being judged. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1069:I would say facing the obstacles surrounding the day-to-day pressures of an elite athlete at a very young age was not the easiest task. Learning to deal with the nerves and feeling the pressure of representing my country, all while wanting to achieve my own dreams, was a big obstacle to plow through. ~ Tara Lipinski, #NFDB
1070:Dear God, why? Don’t do that. Why do you always have to let me see ALL the things you do? Why can't there be a little mystery with you, Evie? You pass gas, burp, eat too fast and lick your fingers. You take all the covers and then kick them off and I'm freezing. You are like, like a… like a… like a wife. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
1071:My proximity to this murdered boy could be measured in the lives of people I knew. The calculation was not made with reference to vast historical or geological shifts—the fall of civilizations, the erosion of mountains. It was measured in the wrinkling of human flesh. In the lines on my mother’s face. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1072:We had been bruised and gashed and concussed, had our legs set on fire and out heads cut open. We had lived in a state of alert, a kind of constant terror, our brains flooding with cortisol because we knew that any of those things might happen at any moment. Because Dad always put faith before safety. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1073:When your life is not in balance and you're struggling to achieve stability, practicing observation without judgment gets really interesting, and very useful. How? Because you can learn to distance yourself from the roller coaster ride of your emotions and circumstances but still enjoy the ride of life. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
1074:Wine is the liquid form of the Goddess Tara, who is the saviour of all living creatures, the mother of all enjoyment and Release, the destroyer of dangers and disease, who burns up all sins and purifies the worlds, O Beloved , who grants all success and increases knowledge, understanding and learning. ~ Wendy Doniger, #NFDB
1075:I speak a lot about what I call "the trance of unworthiness" which is really epidemic in our culture, this sense of "I'm not enough," or "something's wrong with me." Most of us have some level of it because our culture has all these standards (handed down through our families) of what it means to be okay. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1076:I returned to the internet and then to the shelves, where i exchanged the books of the second wave that preceded the first- Mary Wollstonecraft and John Stuart Mill. I read through the afternoon and into the evening, developing for the first time a vocabulary for the uneasiness I'd felt since childhood. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1077:The lecturer tried to clarify. He said positive liberty is self-mastery—the rule of the self, by the self. To have positive liberty, he explained, is to take control of one’s own mind; to be liberated from irrational fears and beliefs, from addictions, superstitions and all other forms of self-coercion. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1078:The most powerful determinant of who you are is inside you,” he said. “Professor Steinberg says this is Pygmalion. Think of the story, Tara.” He paused, his eyes fierce, his voice piercing. “She was just a cockney in a nice dress. Until she believed in herself. Then it didn’t matter what dress she wore. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1079:When your breathing is easy and deep, your body works efficiently, and your mind settles. That doesn't mean that your balance (in tree pose or anywhere else) will be perfect and your life will be seamless, but you'll be better equipped to deal with the wobbles and earthquakes that get thrown into the mix. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
1080:You nights of anguish. Why didn’t I kneel more deeply to accept you, Inconsolable sisters, and, surrendering, lose myself in your loosened hair. How we squander our hours of pain. How we gaze beyond them into the bitter duration To see if they have an end. Though they are really Seasons of us, our winter … ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1081:It was better to talk, which would be a helluva lot easier if he would just talk back a little. Damn it, it was like pulling a teeth to get him to say anything.
Like right now. He'd gone completely silent on her again, leaving the ball in her court, where the ball had been for the last half an hour. ~ Tara Janzen,#NFDB
1082:The word “slaughter” came to mind, because slaughter is the word for it, for a battle when one side mounts no defense. It’s the word we used on the farm. We slaughtered chickens, we didn’t fight them. A slaughter was the likely outcome of the warriors’ bravery. They died as heroes, their wives as slaves. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1083:Holy. Shit,” Lucian whispered when they were alone. “Love, you neglected to tell me that she was a fireball!” he busted out in silent laughter and Tara put her head on his chest, welcoming his tight embrace. “I fucking love her, oh my God.” He took her face in his hands and looked at her, smiling. “Tara Mae. ~ Lucian Bane, #NFDB
1084:On 3 March, after Sikh and Hindu MLAs refused to support an alternative League ministry, which therefore could not be formed, Master Tara Singh unsheathed his sword on the steps of the Punjab legislature building in Lahore and said that Sikhs would not live under Muslim rule nor allow Pakistan to emerge. ~ Rajmohan Gandhi, #NFDB
1085:As an athlete, everyone was always like, 'Listen to your body.' Whether it's an injury or whether it's just a nagging ache, that can affect your progress just because you think 'Oh, I'll push through it today' and then you can't work out for two weeks. I've learned that, as a skater, I'm very aware of that. ~ Tara Lipinski, #NFDB
1086:Offer some gesture of kindness to yourself. Sometimes it's just a message, to say: "It's okay. You're going to be okay. We've been through this before." The intention is reassurance, that you are not alone and you can do this. It is the most powerful way to come out of what I call the "trance of unworthiness." ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1087:bit. Her tall, thin body has curves in the right places, pronounced by the tight dress and heels. She looks like a businesswoman, not a fairy or an elf. She doesn't look like the fae, the way they always look a bit hippie. She’s elegant and her face has me convinced, instantly, she’s innocent in all of this. “I ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
1088:The most powerful determinant of who you are is inside you," he said. "Professor Steinberg says this is Pygmalion. Think of the story, Tara."
He paused, his eyes fierce, his voice piercing. "She was just a cockney in a nice dress. Until she believed in herself. Then it didn't matter what dress she wore". ~ Tara Westover,#NFDB
1089:We need to stick together. This is going to get worse before it gets better, and I don’t know what’s going to happen with our fathers. All I know is,” I took a breath, diving forward, “all I know is how I feel about you. I love you, Jolie. And that’s never going to change. Not today, and not tomorrow. Not ever. ~ Tara Leigh, #NFDB
1090:In the space of a moment, he had accepted our claim to ride him, to his being ridden. He had accepted the world as it was, in which he was an owned thing. He had never been feral, so he could not hear the maddening call of that other world, on the mountain, in which he could not be owned, could not be ridden. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1091:It is natural that our minds replay old stories, because that is our own mechanism for trying to work out unresolved problems. Yet rerunning those stories will be a fruitless looping until we learn how to move from the story into our body. This is why therapy alone often doesn't bring full healing and awakening. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1092:Most of us grew up with a very damaging story that something is wrong with us. Gradually - or as in my case, suddenly - we become resolved not to believe this anymore. It takes a dedicated practice to follow up on that resolution, because the conditioning is very strong to keep generating self-demeaning stories. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1093:The lecturer tried to clarify. He said positive liberty is self-mastery—the rule of the self, by the self. To have positive liberty, he explained, is to take control of one’s own mind; to be liberated from irrational fears and beliefs, from addictions, superstitions and all other forms of self-coercion. I had ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1094:To me, bringing mindfulness-bas ed practices to students, teachers and parents is some of the most important work we can be doing. If we can help the next generation become more self-aware, empathetic and emotionally resilient, they will bring their wisdom to healing the earth and creating a more peaceful world. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1095:When desire for a certain person's attention becomes an "I have to have" kind of grasping, then identity gets organized around needing that and it becomes very solid and sticky. That causes suffering because we're not inhabiting the fullness of who we are, we're fixated and contracted on life being a certain way. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1096:When we disconnect from the body, we are pulling away from the energetic expression of our being that connects us with all of life. By imagining a great tree uprooted from earth, we can sense the unnaturalness, violence, and suffering of this severed belonging. The experience of being uprooted is a kind of dying. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1097:As we stood in the apartment kitchen, Dane put a warm hand on my shoulder. The shaky-cold feeling began to subside.
“From what I was able to hear,” Dane said, “Tara dumped off a surprise baby with your mother, who’s planning to sell it on eBay.”
“Social Services,” I said. “She hasn’t thought of eBay yet. ~ Lisa Kleypas,#NFDB
1098:I know fear. Fear that cripples you. Fear that takes everything from you. The loss of my dream in the middle of the night ain't the issue. The warmth of the heavy air don't bother me none. Being woken to the feeling of someone's whispered words on my lips wouldn’t be disturbing, if I knew whose words they was. But ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
1099:Where did that flashlight come from?" Chloe asked.
"My purse."
Chloe looked at Tara. "She carries a flashlight in her purse."
"For emergencies," Maddie said, trying to see into the yard.
"You have any chocolate?" Chloe asked hopefully. "For emergencies?"
"Of course. Side Pocket, next to the fork. ~ Jill Shalvis,#NFDB
1100:Your tree pose is going crazy and you're falling; and your leg is burning; and it feels impossible to maintain any sort of stability practice observing what's happening instead of getting wrapped up in the circumstance. If you can learn to be easy with your breath in these moments, your body and mind will follow. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
1101:Her favorite was a highlander romance series about a guy named Jamie and a lady named Claire. It was sad." My cheeks heat up as I recall the details of that book. They have stayed with me forever. "Diana Gabaldon. I won't ever forget her name." I can't help but wish Will was more like the Jamie guy. He was perfect. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
1102:The fear side can have us pull away and protect us, but it's really a withdrawal, a disassociation, a cutting off. Rather than the word detachment, I usually use the word non-attachment. That can be wholesome when we care and are completely engaged with each other but are not attached to things being a certain way. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1103:If someone had asked me, I'd have said Charles was the most important thing in the world to me. But he wasn't. And I would prove it to him. What was important to me wasn't love or friendship, but my ability to lie convincingly to myself: to believe I was strong. I could never forgive Charles for knowing I wasn't. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1104:Once justified, I thought the strangling guilt would release me and I could catch my breath. But vindication has no power over guilt. No amount of anger or rage directed at others can subdue it, because guilt is never about them. Guilt is the fear of one’s own wretchedness. It has nothing to do with other people. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1105:No amount of money could tempt them. Dad explained that they were taking the bulk of their profits and reconsecrating them to God in the form of supplies—food, fuel, maybe even a real bomb shelter. I suppressed a grin. From what I could tell, Dad was on track to become the best-funded lunatic in the Mountain West. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1106:I could tolerate any form of cruelty better than kindness. Praise was a poison to me; I choked on it. I wanted the professor to shout at me, wanted it so deeply I felt dizzy from the deprivation. The ugliness of me had to be given expression. If it was not expressed in his voice, I would need to express it in mine. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1107:I’m just standing,” I said. “You are all trying to compensate, to get your bodies lower because the height scares you. But the crouching and the sidestepping are not natural. You’ve made yourselves vulnerable. If you could just control your panic, this wind would be nothing.” “The way it is nothing to you,” he said. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1108:Dad lived in fear of time. He felt it stalking him. I could see it in the worried glances he gave the sun as it moved across the sky, in the anxious way he appraised every length of pipe or cut of steel. Dad saw every piece of scrap as the money it could be sold for, minus the time needed to sort, cut and deliver it. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1109:I shed my guilt when I accepted my decision on its own terms, without endlessly prosecuting old grievances, without weighing his sins against mine. Without thinking of my father at all. I learned to accept my decision for my own sake, because of me, not because of him. Because I needed it, not because he deserved it. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1110:In retrospect, I see that this was my education., the one that would matter: the hours I spent sitting at a borrowed desk, struggling to parse narrow strands of Mormon doctrine in mimicry of a brother who'd deserted me. The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1111:What are you doing?" He asks looking intimidating.
I shrug, "I want pancakes."
"I'll make you pancakes."
I laugh and turn around to walk backwards, "I don’t want your pancakes. I want normal pancakes. Not head game pancakes. Not maybe I'll make you happy or maybe I'll scare the shit out of you pancakes. You know? ~ Tara Brown,#NFDB
1112:I began to read—Hume, Rousseau, Smith, Godwin, Wollstonecraft and Mill. I lost myself in the world they had lived in, the problems they had tried to solve. I became obsessed with their ideas about the family—with how a person ought to weigh their special obligations to kin against their obligations to society as a whole ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1113:If you can, do a gratitude practice: Each day write down three things you're grateful for. There are different ways to do this. You can have a gratitude buddy, someone with whom, at the end of the day, you exchange messages listing these three things you are grateful for. Also, you can journal it or reflect on it silently. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1114:It is a subject on which nothing final can be known.” The subject Mill had in mind was the nature of women. Mill claimed that women have been coaxed, cajoled, shoved and squashed into a series of feminine contortions for so many centuries, that it is now quite impossible to define their natural abilities or aspirations. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1115:I tried to imagine what it would have been like to study at such a place, to walk across marble floors each morning and, day after day, come to associate learning with beauty. But my imagination failed me. I could only imagine the school as I was experiencing it now, as a kind of museum, a relic from someone else’s life ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1116:Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns...We may want to love other people without holding back, to feel authentic, to breathe in the beauty around us, to dance and sing. Yet each day we listen to inner voices that keep our life small. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1117:[Rick] “Tara.”
The sound of his voice snapped her away from the memories. His command brooked no argument as he looked up from between her spread thighs.
“Eyes on me.”
His voice told her not to think, dominated every part of her soul, until she couldn’t fight him, and she slipped firmly back into the present. ~ Jennifer Probst,#NFDB
1118:She screamed. Not a normal scream of pain, but a deep and blind cry as reason deserted her. Of all the screams cataloged in the encyclopedic audio library of the Hidden Schools, Tara’s bore the closest resemblance to the scream of a man whose abdomen was being devoured by a jagged-clawed insect that wore a child’s face. ~ Max Gladstone, #NFDB
1119:You can fall out of a tree pose with ease, or with frustration and a sense of defeat. Just like you can take a spill in your life and decide to dust yourself off - with a chuckle or an annoyed grunt - and get back up, or you can stay down, lie there, and give up. It's entirely up to you. It's your life, and your practice. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
1120:From the tree he heard her whisper, “Telling me not to talk and just dance. Asshole.” A smile covered his face. She was thinking about him. She was his. Even if theirs would always be a silent attraction, she was his. She whispered again, “Night, Mom. I like Josh. I think you would have too.” His fangs popped from his teeth ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
1121:In that moment part of me believed, as I had always believed, that it would be me who broke the spell, who caused it to break. When the stillness shattered and his fury rushed at me, I would know that something I had done was the catalyst, the cause. There is hope in such a superstition; there is the illusion of control. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1122:The dark is a quiet place. Reflection and contemplation are the only things to do in it. Well that, and imagine the worst things possible.
I don’t have to reflect or contemplate or any of those things. I know what the worst things possible are. I know about the things that hide in the dark. Insanity is the least of them. ~ Tara Brown,#NFDB
1123:I'm done waiting. Done doing things the easy way and letting things happen as they will."
Her heart caught. "What does that mean?"
"It means this is too important to let slip away again. You're too important." He leaned back against the truck with a low grunt of effort, eyes dark, jaw clenched. "I love you too, Tara. ~ Jill Shalvis,#NFDB
1124:Each full, deep inhale creates more space in your body and mind. Each long, exhale moves you directly into that space. The deeper you breathe, the more opens up. It's like opening a door and walking through with each breath. The fuller your breaths the more and more doors open on up, leaving you with the space to walk on in! ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
1125:In exposing vulnerability we are always taking a chance and sometimes might get hurt. What makes us willing is that the greater hurt, the real suffering, is in staying armored and isolated. While it takes courage to be vulnerable, the reward is sweet: We awaken compassion and genuine intimacy in our relationships with others. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1126:Strong communities are born out of individuals being their best selves.
Not Murdered and Not Missing: Rebelling against Colonial Gender Violence. March 15, 2014. Nations Rising. Thanks to Miigwech/Nia:wen/Mahsi Cho, Tara Williamson, Melody McKiver, Jessica Danforth, Glen Coulthard, and Jarrett Martineau. ~ Leanne Betasamosake Simpson,#NFDB
1127:They play at gods,' said Piedar Dooly, and spat. 'French and English alike. Gods out of hell would you say, harrowing green land for their tennis courts and dressing lapdogs in treasure that would keep half Ireland in bread for a year. The heroes of Tara would have put them face to schisty face and used them for millstones. ~ Dorothy Dunnett, #NFDB
1128:A woman’s place is in the home,” he would say every time he saw a married woman working in town. Now I’m older, I sometimes wonder if Dad’s fervor had more to do with his own mother than with doctrine. I wonder if he just wished that she had been home, so he wouldn’t have been left for all those long hours with Grandpa’s temper. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1129:The word and the way Shawn had said it hadn’t changed; only my ears were different. They no longer heard the jingle of a joke in it. What they heard was a signal, a call through time, which was answered with a mounting conviction: that never again would I allow myself to be made a foot soldier in a conflict I did not understand. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1130:It would be many years before I would understand what had happened that night, and what my role in it had been. How I had opened my mouth when I should have stayed silent, and shut it when I should have spoken out. What was needed was a revolution, a reversal of the ancient, brittle roles we’d been playing out since my childhood. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1131:I registered the dukkha of self-aversion with such clarity that I knew there was no freedom unless I could love this life without holding back. This didn't mean I was going to ignore my flaws and stop seeking to improve what I could. But in the deepest way, I was not going to fixate on the conclusion that something was wrong with me. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1132:He allowed a guarded love out, but he never allowed any in. With Tara… everything was wide open. She was the ocean and his heart was a gaping hole at the bottom, sucking her down with a scary ferocity. At that rate it devoured, he’d drain her dry. And the cravings… they seemed to constantly evolve and morph into… what? Only God knew. ~ Lucian Bane, #NFDB
1133:My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1134:So what are Isaiah Berlin’s two concepts?” the lecturer asked. Nearly everyone raised a hand. The lecturer called on the student who had studied at Oxford. “Negative liberty,” he said, “is the freedom from external obstacles or constraints. An individual is free in this sense if they are not physically prevented from taking action. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1135:Suddenly, Tara's accomplishment was clear. She had lined up allies among the school's various groups and got them all to work together for probably the first time in the school's history. She was like a master builder who could bend materials like stone and steel and clay to her will... except her materials were flesh and spirit. ~ Neal Shusterman, #NFDB
1136:We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1137:For years my father and I had been locked in conflict, an endless battle of wills. I thought I had accepted it, accepted our relationship for what it was. But in that moment, I realized how much I’d been counting on that conflict coming to an end, how deeply I believed in a future in which we would be a father and daughter at peace. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1138:There are many branches of time reaching from your bodies—I can see them attached to one another. Humans call it fate, but it’s nothing so poetic as that. It’s simply time. Time, and the decisions you make as it passes, which in turn make history. When one decision becomes impossible, the thread snaps, leaving you fewer and fewer choices. ~ Tara Sim, #NFDB
1139:The tearing of the clothes haunted me in the beginning. The infected tore flesh and the others tore clothes and the sound could swallow you up.
Now I see the greenery and listen to the sounds of the forest, and know I am safe. The forest is my friend. It was a tense relationship in the beginning, but it has earned my trust over time. ~ Tara Brown,#NFDB
1140:How could she not know he was thinking about sex? he wondered. It was all he'd been thinking about for the last eighteen hours, give or take a few minutes spent thinking about keeping them both alive. Oh, yeah, and twice he'd thought about food, once about her mother, and once he'd checked to make sure he had an extra mag for his Glock. ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
1141:So . . . this means we’re buried in the same cemetery?”
He nodded, and then the tiniest smile crept over his features. When he spoke again, his tone had lost some of its bitter edge. “More proof that we’re fated to be together, don’t you think?”
“If that were the case, Eli, I’d have a whole graveyard full of choices, wouldn’t I? ~ Tara Hudson,#NFDB
1142:We must all acknowledge our unconscious biases, and listen with less bias when women, and others who are marginalized, speak out. A lot of change is possible by just acknowledging unconscious bias - that exhaustively documented but unpleasant reality many would rather ignore - and listening with less bias and acting on what we then learn. ~ Tara Moss, #NFDB
1143:As a friend of mine put it, “Feeling that something is wrong with me is the invisible and toxic gas I am always breathing.” When we experience our lives through this lens of personal insufficiency, we are imprisoned in what I call the trance of unworthiness. Trapped in this trance, we are unable to perceive the truth of who we really are. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1144:It was as if I had stepped through a mirror and was living a day in the life I might have had, if I’d stayed on the mountain. My life had diverged from my sister’s, and it felt as though there was no common ground between us. The hours passed; it was late afternoon; and still she felt distant from me, still she refused to meet my gaze. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1145:There you are at last, girl,” said Great Aunt Sullana. “Your hair looks as though beavers had abandoned a dam there. Your face is smudged. Did you spend the morning rolling in dust? Never mind, Zavaedi Abiono is doing us the great honor of a visit. Comb your hair and wash your face before you join us. This is a kitchen, not a den of bears. ~ Tara Maya, #NFDB
1146:I still can't believe you kicked me."
"I didn’t want to. I needed to."
I glance at him as we leave the dorms, "Keep telling yourself that."
He grins his cocky, shitty grin, "Keep telling yourself the paddle doesn’t turn you on."
I snort and hate that he knows so much about me. My cheeks are on fire just hearing the word paddle. ~ Tara Brown,#NFDB
1147:Now that Connor's gotten a job helping Tara's uncle, an inventor, he gets to keep all of Mr. St. Claire's old tools. I think our parents should focus less on me, and pay more attention to the fact that Connor has dismantled most of the electronic devices in our house, our old lawn mower, and basically any object that has more than one part. ~ Wendy Mass, #NFDB
1148:All my father's stories were about our mountain, our valley, our jagged little patch of Idaho. He never told me what to do if I left the mountain, if I crossed oceans and continents and found myself in strange terrain, where I could no longer search the horizon for the Princess. He never told me how I'd know when it was time to come home. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1149:Oh my God, I sent a picture of my boobs to Jim," I moaned as a fresh wave of nausea rolled through me.
"You also threw up in the emergency room parking lot, called Drew and told him you were the Donkey Punch Dick Queen and filled out a Last Will and Testament on a Burger King napkin and then asked the drive-thru worker to notarize it. ~ Tara Sivec,#NFDB
1150:That peace did not come easily. I spent two years enumerating my father’s flaws, constantly updating the tally, as if reciting every resentment, every real and imagined act of cruelty, of neglect, would justify my decision to cut him from my life. Once justified, I thought the strangling guilt would release me and I could catch my breath. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1151:The only thing better than taking a walk, just Tara and me, is taking a walk, Tara, Laurie, and me. They are my two loves, and living under the same roof as them, and sharing walks with them, make every day the best one of my life. The only obvious exceptions to that are the two days that the Giants beat the Patriots in the Super Bowls. ~ David Rosenfelt, #NFDB
1152:Books that were of God—books written by the Mormon prophets or the Founding Fathers—were not to be studied so much as cherished, like a thing perfect in itself. I had been taught to read the words of men like Madison as a cast into which I ought to pour the plaster of my own mind, to be reshaped according to the contours of their faultless ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1153:Creamy-looking custards were followed by beautifully decorated slices of cake. Crisp-shelled pastries were set down next to gooey-centered pies. Dainty little goblets featuring ice cream and sorbet came out on a silver tray, and a pungent aroma rose off a long wooden board that was dotted with more kinds of cheese than Gladys had ever seen, ~ Tara Dairman, #NFDB
1154:What about the father?” I demanded. “Who is he?”
There was a long hesitation. “I don’t think Tara is all-the-way sure.”
“She must have some idea.”
“Well, she thought she knew, but . . . you know Tara. She’s not very organized.”
“How organized do you have to be to know who you’re sleeping with?”
-Ella & Liza ~ Lisa Kleypas,#NFDB
1155:Why do you think you get along so well?" I once asked my friend Paul's sister . . . . Michelle thought for a moment before answering my question, but not for long.
"It all goes back to when Paul was in his coma, " she said. "We realized how easy it would be to lose him and decided not to sweat the small stuff. Life is too short. ~ Tara Austen Weaver,#NFDB
1156:It had been a perfect retort until a little evil slipped from my lips, as it always did, “I mean super sexy for the younger generations, obviously. So the ladies in your group wouldn't know that—being why you weren’t aware of it.” I grinned wide, loving it when her jaw dropped. I had no self-control. The Doritos under my bed were proof of that. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
1157:Not knowing for certain, but refusing to give way to those who claim certainty, was a privilege I had never allowed myself. My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs. On Sunday, a week later, a man at church asked me to dinner. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1158:There’s a sense of sovereignty that comes from life on a mountain, a perception of privacy and isolation, even of dominion. In that vast space you can sail unaccompanied for hours, afloat on pine and brush and rock. It’s a tranquility born of sheer immensity; it calms with its very magnitude, which renders the merely human of no consequence. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1159:Forever this time," he said as Sawyer strode toward them.
Tara sighed blissfully. "You know what this means, right?"
"I'm done guessing," he said. "Tell me."
"It means you're mine," she said. "And I'm yours. No more walking away. We are going to get it right this time."
His smile was slow and easy, and just for her. "Well, finally. ~ Jill Shalvis,#NFDB
1160:There’s a sense of sovereignty that comes from life on a mountain, a perception of privacy and isolation, even of dominion. In that vast space you can sail unaccompanied for hours, afloat on pine and brush and rock. It’s a tranquillity born of sheer immensity; it calms with its very magnitude, which renders the merely human of no consequence. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1161:He remembers the times they’d walk toward him in the playground with that same look on their faces, but double in number with Siobhan and Tara. “It’s the four horsewomen of the apocalypse,” Jimmy Hailler would say. “They’re going to make us do something we don’t want to do.” “We’re not going to give in,” Tom would say. But they did. Always. ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
1162:Parecia-me que a natureza, menos livre que os velhos poetas, devia servir-se quase que exclusivamente dos elementos comuns à família e não podia atribuir-lhe tal poder de inovação que fizesse, com materiais análogos aos que compunham um tolo e um bruto, um grande espírito sem a menor tara de tolice, uma santa sem a menor mácula de brutalidade. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
1163:I am so grateful for my physical therapist, Teresa England, who taught me to respect the process of recovery. Healing is sometimes slow, and any pace but fast was alien to me. To me, the idea of patience and gradual progress was a very foreign idea. I truly learned patience from this woman, and how to appreciate the smallest signs of improvement. ~ Tara Subkoff, #NFDB
1164:I thought he was the sum of my assumptions, most of which had been wrong.
I thought he was the produce of my low expectations, most of which had been undeserved.
How could I have been so wrong? I needed to know him. The rock star and the wounded boy.
The loner.
The legend.
Landon Cox was all of those things.
And then some. ~ Tara Leigh,#NFDB
1165:They're normal. He's wearing a sweater and a polo and she's got on a blouse. The people who wore sweaters and blouses were the ones you wanted at the orphanage. I always wanted a sweater and a blouse. But they all knew who I was. No one wants that kid. God knows what's already been done to that kid or what they’ll do to the kids already in your house. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
1166:Baali scoffed, ‘I don’t believe in God. No creature except man believes in God, Tara. The animals and birds believe in the power of their limbs, in the speed of their feet, in the strength of their wings. No God has punished any animal for not worshiping him or her. I’m Vanara, an animal and no God—if he exists—will punish me for being me, Tara. ~ Anand Neelakantan, #NFDB
1167:Holy shit, did they just kill off that fish’s wife?” I blurted in shock.
“Yep,” Gavin replied. “That big, mean fish ated her.”
He said it so calmly – like it was no big deal that a sweet, loving cartoon fish just got murdered. What the fuck was wrong with this movie? This couldn’t be appropriate for kids. I didn’t think it was appropriate for me. ~ Tara Sivec,#NFDB
1168:When other students asked where I was from, I said, 'I'm from Idaho," a phrase that, as many times as I've had to repeat it over the years, has never felt comfortable in my mouth. When you are part of a place, growing that moment in its soil, there's never a need to say you're from there. I never uttered the words 'I'm from Idaho" until I'd left it. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1169:A lot of women in the workplace are stuck in the uncomfortable place of having to come to terms with the fact that something isn't right, while no one around them will listen, or accept that something is wrong. Many workplaces have best practice, but sadly, many do not. The barriers are not insurmountable, but they are there, and we see that in the stats. ~ Tara Moss, #NFDB
1170:It didn’t treat Mormonism as the objective of human history, but neither did it discount the contribution Mormonism had made in grappling with the questions of the age. Instead, it treated the Mormon ideology as a chapter in the larger human story. In my account, history did not set Mormons apart from the rest of the human family; it bound them to it. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1171:When I am abused online I take snapshots for evidence, I report it to the social media platform and I ban the abuser. If I am threatened with violence I report the abuser to the police. It is vital to remember that threatening violence online is just as illegal as it is offline. Know your rights and the reporting procedures of any online platform you use. ~ Tara Moss, #NFDB
1172:It is important to know that criticism is a natural part of life and speaking out, and to know that a certain amount of the criticism you receive may have nothing to do with you, your argument, or the way you are articulating yourself. Some criticism online and in the physical world is neither constructive, nor balanced or intelligent. Some of it is abuse. ~ Tara Moss, #NFDB
1173:The hill is paved with wild wheat. If the conifers and sagebrush are soloists, the wheat field is a corps de ballet, each stem following all the rest in bursts of movement, a million ballerinas bending, one after the other, as great gales dent their golden heads. The shape of that dent lasts only a moment, and is as close as anyone gets to seeing wind. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1174:Somewhere in my early twenties I realized I was pretty constantly monitoring myself, judging how I was always falling short, whether it was about not being a good enough daughter or friend, or my appearance, or whatever. I ended up becoming involved with a spiritual path in the yogic tradition, living in an ashram, doing a very rigorous spiritual practice. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1175:I don’t know what caused the transformation, why suddenly I could engage with the great thinkers of the past, rather than revere them to the point of muteness. But there was something about that city, with its white marble and black asphalt, crusted with history, ablaze in traffic lights, that showed me I could admire the past without being silenced by it. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1176:I had learned that there were substitutes for a mother who couldn't be a mother. You could find love with other people. You could find it in places you weren't even looking. But the original wound would never heal. I would carry it with me forever, and so would Tara. That was the trick . . . accepting it, going on with your life, knowing it was part of you. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
1177:I had wanted to escape the maze with its disorienting switchbacks, its ever-modulating pathways, to find the precious thing. But now I understood: the precious thing, that was the maze. That’s all that was left of the life I’d had here: a puzzle whose rules I would never understand, because they were not rules at all but a kind of cage meant to enclose me. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1178:It was in this state that I first heard the term bipolar disorder. I was sitting in psychology 101 when the professor read the symptoms aloud from the overhead screen: depression, mania, paranoia, euphoria, euphoria, delusions of grandeur and persecution. I listened with a desperate interest.
THIS IS MY FATHER, I wrote in my notes. HE'S DESCRIBING DAD. ~ Tara Westover,#NFDB
1179:I walked back to the kitchen, comparing the clean, balanced equation to the mayhem of unfinished computations and dizzying sketches. I was struck by the strangeness of that page: Dad could command this science, could decipher its language, decrypt its logic, could bend and twist and squeeze from it the truth. But as it passed through him, it turned to chaos. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1180:I was fifteen and I felt it, felt the race I was running with time. My body was changing, bloating, swelling, stretching, bulging. I wished it would stop, but it seemed my body was no longer mine. It belonged to itself now, and cared not at all how I felt about these strange alterations, about whether I wanted to stop being a child, and become something else. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1181:There comes a moment when time seems to slip faster, running long then short, shadows shrinking as the sun climbs. It’s the moment, he decided, when you’re no longer a child. When the concept of time and the need for more of it come together and make you powerless. Make you yearn for the longer days, the lazy days, before you knew what time passing actually meant. ~ Tara Sim, #NFDB
1182:we had been sculpted by a tradition given to us by others, a tradition of which we were either willfully or accidentally ignorant. I had begun to understand that we had lent our voices to a discourse whose sole purpose was to dehumanize and brutalize others—because nurturing that discourse was easier, because retaining power always feels like the way forward. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1183:Go on and get some sleep, Tara. Nurse Kenny is officially on duty.”
Kenny slid into the seat by the bed as soon as Tara left. “And I’d better be getting paid for this.”
“You’ll get paid exactly what you’re worth.” Sean hid a smile as he rolled over toward the wall. It would take Kenny a while to realize he’d just been insulted, but that was half the fun. ~ Alexis Morgan,#NFDB
1184:It's a weird smile, but it reaches his eyes and I bottle it. And I put it in my ammo pack that's kept right next to my soul and Justine's spirit and Siobhan's hope and Tara's passions. Because if I'm going to wake up one morning and not be able to get out of bed, I'm going to need everything I've got to fight this disease that could be sleeping inside of me. ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
1185:In class I had been taught about neurotransmitters and their effect on brain chemistry; I understood that disease is not a choice. This knowledge might have made me sympathetic to my father, but it didn't. I felt only anger. WE were the ones who paid for it, I thought. We had been bruised and gashed and concussed, had our legs set on fire and our heads cut open. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1186:In the valley, Faye tried to stop her ears against the constant gossip of a small town, whose opinions pushed in through the windows and crept under the doors. Mother often described herself as a pleaser: she said she couldn’t stop herself from speculating what people wanted her to be, and from contorting herself, compulsively, unwillingly, into whatever it was. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1187:This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, Some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! … The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. Rumi ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1188:That person was Shawn, and I was looking at him but I wasn’t seeing him. I don’t know what I saw—what creature I conjured from that violent, compassionate act—but I think it was my father, or perhaps my father as I wished he were, some longed-for defender, some fanciful champion, one who wouldn’t fling me into a storm, and who, if I was hurt, would make me whole. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1189:The counseling did nothing at first—I can’t think of a single session I would describe as “helpful”—but their collective power over time was undeniable. I didn’t understand it then, and I don’t understand it now, but there was something nourishing in setting aside that time each week, in the act of admitting that I needed something I could not provide for myself. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1190:Tara Bennett-Goleman uses the metaphor of alchemy to symbolize the spiritual and emotional transformation that’s possible when we embrace our pain with caring concern. When we give ourselves compassion, the tight knot of negative self-judgment starts to dissolve, replaced by a feeling of peaceful, connected acceptance—a sparkling diamond that emerges from the coal. ~ Kristin Neff, #NFDB
1191:how a person ought to weigh their special obligations to kin against their obligations to society as a whole. Then I began to write, weaving the strands I’d found in Hume’s Principles of Morals with filaments from Mill’s The Subjection of Women. It was good work, I knew it even as I wrote it, and when I’d finished I set it aside. It was the first chapter of my PhD. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1192:I can't let him go. I can't. There must be some way to bring him back. Oh, I can't think about this now! I'll go crazy if I do! I'll think about it tomorrow. But I must think about it. I must think about it. What is there to do? What is there that matters? Tara! Home. I'll go home. And I'll think of some way to get him back. After all... tomorrow is another day! ~ Margaret Mitchell, #NFDB
1193:The reality is that we do not live in a predominantly feminist or 'gender equal' world, and many Australian women are experiencing workplace discrimination, sexual harassment, online abuse or worse, or common forms of casual, everyday sexism. They find themselves dismissed, talked over, ignored or facing backlash for doing the same thing their male colleagues are doing. ~ Tara Moss, #NFDB
1194:Two hundred and fifty years of nameless, faceless, forgotten individuals. Yes, they were America's founding fathers and mothers as much as the bewigged white men who laid the whips upon their backs. Why didn't Lina know their names? Why hadn't she studied their histories? Where was the monument? Where was the museum? What had they wished for and worked for and loved? ~ Tara Conklin, #NFDB
1195:Do you have a name I asked?" I asked.
"Yes." He stared back at me, blinking.
"What is it?"
"Clover." He looked away and typed something into the computer. His mouth kept twitching, like he was trying to hold in laughter.
"Seriously?"
He pushed his sleeve up, giving me a view of a blue clover tattooed on his forearm. "I'm half Irish."
And half shithead. ~ Tara Kelly,#NFDB
1196:I begin to reason with myself, to doubt whether I had spoken clearly: what had I whispered and what had I screamed? I decide that if I had asked differently, been more calm, he would have stopped. I write this until I believe it, which doesn't take long because I want to believe it. It's comforting to think the defect is mine, because that means it is under my power. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1197:A decade later my understanding would shift, part of my heavy swing into adulthood, and after that the accident would always make me think of the Apache women, and of all the decisions that go into making a life—the choices people make, together and on their own, that combine to produce any single event. Grains of sand, incalculable, pressing into sediment, then rock. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1198:Then I wonder if perhaps my mother, who had always reflected so perfectly the will of my father, had that night merely been reflecting mine. No, I tell myself. They were her words. But hers or not, those words, which had so comforted and healed me, were hollow. I don't believe they were faithless, but sincerity failed to give them substance, and they were swept away... ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1199:Define your own success: If you're going after a million bucks with your own startup, you've already failed yourself. Instead, do something because it's interesting, challenging, it offers you the chance to learn something new or gives you the chance to work with really interesting people. Most startups that are designed to make money, especially in this environment, don't. ~ Tara Hunt, #NFDB
1200:When you are not in a position of power over your own destiny, when the quality and shape of your days are dependent on the favor of others, you become sensitive; you become savvy. You learn to soothe and coddle, influence and meddle, all under the radar. Call it female intuition, call it outright manipulation, call it womanly wiles if you like. I call it survival. ~ Tara Austen Weaver, #NFDB
1201:Because we have such a deeply grooved conditioning to reject and condemn ourselves, particularly in this culture, I find that emphasis on the word "acceptance" is central in healing. It brings our attention to the possibility of saying yes to what we are experiencing in the moment, and counteracts the conditioning to push away what feels unpleasant or intense or unfamiliar. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1202:I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create. If I yielded now, I would lose more than an argument. I would lose custody of my own mind. This was the price I was being asked to pay, I understood that now. What my father wanted to cast from me wasn't a demon: it was me. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1203:Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1204:I fashioned a new history for myself. I became a popular dinner guest, with my stories of hunting and horses, of scrapping and fighting mountain fires. Of my brilliant mother, midwife and entrepreneur; of my eccentric father, junkman and zealot. I thought I was finally being honest about the life I’d had before. It wasn’t the truth exactly, but it was true in a larger sense: ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1205:I thought about the Apache women. Like the sandstone altar on which they had died, the shape of their lives had been determined years before—before the horses began their gallop, their sorrel bodies arching for that final collision. Long before the warriors’ leap it was decided how the women would live and how they would die. By the warriors, by the women themselves. Decided. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1206:How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races—the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses. Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are only princesses waiting for us to act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1207:Most of the time Marilyn's mother remained unconscious, her breath labored and erratic. One morning before dawn, she suddenly opened her eyes and looked clearly and intently at her daughter. "You know," she whispered softly, "all my life I thought something was wrong with me." Shaking her head slightly, as if to say, "What a waste," she closed her eyes and drifted back into a coma. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1208:I had learned that there were substitutes
for a mother who couldn't be a mother. You
could find love with other people. You could
find it in places you weren't even looking.
But the original wound would never heal. I
would carry it with me forever, and so would
Tara. That was the trick . . . accepting it, going
on with your life, knowing it was part of
you. ~ Lisa Kleypas,#NFDB
1209:He’s thinking about me because I’m a novelty, that’s all.”
“I don’t think that’s the reason,” Shaun said.
I glared at him. “Trust me, Shaun, a lot is going on here that you don’t know about.”
“Tara told me he kissed you.”
I frowned at Tara. “You told him?”
“Well, yeah. I tell Shaun everything. He’s my boyfriend.”
“I’m starting to hate that term. ‘My boyfriend. ~ Rachel Hawthorne,#NFDB
1210:I sat him down the other night and explained as gently as possible that I do not care about ice-skating. I do not care about Michelle Kwan or Tara Lipinski and would be happy if I never hear the words triple lutz or double axel again. I told him that on Friday and walked into the kitchen an hour later to find him in tears. “It’s heartbreaking,” he said, watching his beloved skaters. ~ David Sedaris, #NFDB
1211:By the end of the semester the world felt big, and it was hard to imagine returning to the mountain, to a kitchen, or even to a piano in the room next to the kitchen. This caused a kind of crisis in me. My love of music, and my desire to study it, had been compatible with my idea of what a woman is. My love of history and politics and world affairs was not. And yet they called to me. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1212:I don’t want to scare the guests with a big old guard dog,” Tara protested.
“Safety is far more important than worrying about what anyone else thinks,” Sawyer told her.
“You’re right, of course.” Tara looked at her sisters. “We’ll think about both an alarm and a dog.”
“We can borrow Izzy from Jax,” Maddie said.
“Sure,” Tara said. “And she can lick the next bad guy to death. ~ Jill Shalvis,#NFDB
1213:Shawn shifted into high gear, revving the engine and pulling beside the Kenworth so that the two fifty-foot trailers were running side by side, blocking both lanes. The Ferrari honked, weaved back and forth, braked, honked again. “How long should we keep him back there?” the husky voice said, with a deep laugh. “Until he calms down,” Shawn answered. Five miles later, they let him pass. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1214:There was something wrong with me. I was becoming something like my ex-stalker with Lochlan. I understood Mitch’s need to control me and have me be with him. It was an addiction. I had used Lochlan’s love and guilt as a weapon. I’d manipulated him. I didn’t recognize myself. I packed my bags. I needed to get away before he got home, hating himself for whatever he’d done when he was angry. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
1215:But you must know that there are infinite places love will take you, and revenge is the business of hate. There is only one place hate will take you—the end. The end of you and the end of everything you once stood for. I was once where you are, alone and hiding as my family was slaughtered. I chose to seek my revenge. I welcomed my end—you should not. Take the other path and free yourself. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
1216:When radical acceptance blossoms in our relationships, it becomes a kind of spiritual re-parenting that enables us to trust the goodness and beauty of who we really are. Just as good parenting mirrors back to a child that they are lovable, when we understand and accept others, we affirm their intrinsic worth and belonging. To receive this kind of Radical Acceptance can transform our lives. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1217:I tried to comfort him by explaining that when we really spend time with any living beings—as he had with the ants—we find out that they are real. They are changing, animated, hungry, social. Like us, their life is fragile and they want to stay alive. His playmates hadn’t had the chance to get to know ants in the way he did, I told him. If they had, they wouldn’t want to injure them either. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1218:May I be filled with lovingkindness; may I be held in lovingkindness.
May I feel safe and at ease.
May I feel protected from inner and outer harm.
May I be happy.
May I accept myself just as I am.
May I touch deep, natural peace.
May I know the natural joy of being alive.
May I find true refuge within my own being.
May my heart and mind awaken; may I be free. ~ Tara Brach,#NFDB
1219:No natural sister should love a stranger more than a brother, I thought, and what sort of daughter prefers a teacher to her own father? But although I wished it were otherwise, I did not want to go home. I preferred the family I had chosen to the one I had been given, so the happier I became in Cambridge, the more my happiness was made fetid by my feeling that I had betrayed Buck’s Peak. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1220:When you are balancing perfectly in a tree pose, everything is easy; your breath is deep and relaxed, and your muscles are working for you just as you'd like. It's pure and simple. Efficient. When you are having a great day, the same things occur. Your breathing is relaxed, your body is working harmoniously with your mind; everything just feels easier because you are in a state of balance. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
1221:wonder if perhaps my mother, who had always reflected so perfectly the will of my father, had that night merely been reflecting mine. No, I tell myself. They were her words. But hers or not, those words, which had so comforted and healed me, were hollow. I don’t believe they were faithless, but sincerity failed to give them substance, and they were swept away by other, stronger currents. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1222:Don’t you like them? (Nykyrian) Did you see the price? (Kiara) I’m more than capable of supplying you with several wardrobes from here. (Nykyrian) But– (Kiara) But nothing, mu Tara. Start shoping. (Nykyrian) This really isn’t– (Kiara) Kiara. Buy clothes or go naked. Personally, naked works for me. (Nykyrian) Fine. When you’re homeless and bankrupt, remember I tried to stop you. (Kiara) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
1223:Si, ca intotdeauna, paradisul mi s-a parut o ratacire la fel de teribila ca si infernul. Niciodata nu le opusesem unul altuia, dimpotriva, stiusem mereu ca infernul si paradisul erau aliate si luptau impreuna pentru distrugerea fiintei, tara torturii si tara placerii fiind invecinate in regiunile de jos ale mintii, asemenea zonei intunecate, ano-genitale, de sub labirintul intestinal. ~ Mircea C rt rescu, #NFDB
1224:had discerned the ways in which we had been sculpted by a tradition given to us by others, a tradition of which we were either willfully or accidentally ignorant. I had begun to understand that we had lent our voices to a discourse whose sole purpose was to dehumanize and brutalize others—because nurturing that discourse was easier, because retaining power always feels like the way forward. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1225:We have come a long way, particularly in terms of women becoming more equal under the law. Fortunately, workplace discrimination is now a crime - but unfortunately women still experience it. Fortunately, sexual harassment is now a crime - but unfortunately women still experience it. Fortunately, the assault of women is now a crime - but unfortunately women still experience it. The list goes on. ~ Tara Moss, #NFDB
1226:We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives. We find true refuge whenever we recognize the silent space of awareness behind all our busy doing and striving. We find refuge whenever our hearts open with tenderness and love. We find refuge whenever we connect with the innate clarity and intelligence of our true nature. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1227:I had discerned the ways in which we had been sculpted by a tradition given to us by others, a tradition of which we were either willfully or accidentally ignorant. I had begun to understand that we had lent our voices to a discourse whose sole purpose was to dehumanize and brutalize others—because nurturing that discourse was easier, because retaining power always feels like the way forward. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1228:The image itself is kind of the least important factor to me, though I'm still interested in putting forth an interesting image. I see the image as the screen laid over top of what really interests me, which is that depth of surface and that filmic quality that it has when you pass the piece. The idea that my pieces look like paintings, but are most definitely not, is really interesting to me. ~ Tara Donovan, #NFDB
1229:With the spirit of her people those who would not know defeat, even when it stared them in the face, she raised her chin. She could get Rhett back. She knew she could. There had never been a man she couldn't get, once she set her mind upon him. I'll think of it all tomorrow at Tara. I can strand it then. Tomorrow , I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day. ~ Margaret Mitchell, #NFDB
1230:Scarlett, from the ashes of the war-ravaged land at Tara, remembering what she was taught by her father in happier times: "As God is my witness, as God is my witness, they're not going to lick me! I'm going to live through this, and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again - no, nor any of my folks! If I have to lie, steal, cheat, or kill! As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again." ~ Vivien Leigh, #NFDB
1231:The thing about having a mental breakdown is that no matter how obvious it is that you're having one, it is somehow not obvious to you. I'm fine, you think. So what if I watched TV for twenty-four straight hours yesterday. I'm not falling apart. I'm just lazy. Why it's better to think yourself lazy than think yourself in distress, I'm not sure. But it was better. More than better: it was vital. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1232:The thing about having a mental breakdown is that no matter how obvious it is that you’re having one, it is somehow not obvious to you. I’m fine, you think. So what if I watched TV for twenty-four straight hours yesterday. I’m not falling apart. I’m just lazy. Why it’s better to think yourself lazy than think yourself in distress, I’m not sure. But it was better. More than better: it was vital. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1233:Find a sitting position that allows you to be alert—spine erect but not rigid—and also relaxed. Close your eyes and rest your hands in an easy, effortless way. Allow your awareness to scan through your body and, wherever possible, soften and release obvious areas of physical tension. Because we so easily get lost in thoughts, vipassana begins with attention to the breath. Using the breath as a ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1234:All the baby books written by women who had the most perfect birth experience in the world said you should talk to your child in the womb. That was about the only piece of advice I took from those things. Every day I told him if he ruined my vagina I would video tape his birth and show all his future girlfriends what happened to your who-ha when you had sex, ensuring that he will never, ever get laid. ~ Tara Sivec, #NFDB
1235:A woman could never be a prophet, yet here was Tyler, telling me I reminded him of one of the greatest prophets of all. I still don’t know what he meant by it, but what I understood at the time was that I could trust myself: that there was something in me, something like what was in the prophets, and that it was not male or female, not old or young; a kind of worth that was inherent and unshakable. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1236:She was seeing things with new eyes for, somewhere along the long road to Tara, she had left her girlhood behind her. She was no longer plastic clay, yielding imprint to each new experience. The clay had hardened, some time in this indeterminate day which had
lasted a thousand years. Tonight was the last time she would ever be ministered to as a child. She was a woman now and youth was gone. ~ Margaret Mitchell,#NFDB
1237:a single line written by John Stuart Mill that, when I read it, moved the world: “It is a subject on which nothing final can be known.” The subject Mill had in mind was the nature of women. Mill claimed that women have been coaxed, cajoled, shoved and squashed into a series of feminine contortions for so many centuries, that it is now quite impossible to define their natural abilities or aspirations. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1238:At first, it’s hard for us to give to others, so we give a carrot from one hand to the other. Then we give away simple things, such as a jar of thumbtacks. Then, we grow a little bit and give away things that we hold more dear. Later, we can share our time or whatever else is more difficult for us to give. When we eventually become Tara, we will be able to give everything effortlessly and joyfully. ~ Thubten Chodron, #NFDB
1239:Però ho capito che per indurre un francese a riconoscere una tara della sua genìa basta parlargli male di un altro popolo, come a dire “noi polacchi abbiamo questo o quest’altro difetto” e, poiché non vogliono essere secondi a nessuno, neppure nel male, subito reagiscono con “oh no, qui in Francia siamo peggio” e via a sparlare dei francesi, sino a che non si rendono conto che li hai presi in trappola. ~ Umberto Eco, #NFDB
1240:When I was a child, I waited for my mind to grow, for my experiences to accumulate and my choices to solidify, taking shape into the likeness of a person. That person, or that likeness of one, had belonged. I was of that mountain, the mountain that had made me. It was only as I grew older that I wondered if how I had started is how I would end—if the first shape a person takes is their only true shape. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1241:No comma, no period, no adjective or adverb was beneath his interest. He made no distinction between grammar and content, between form and substance. A poorly written sentence was a poorly conceived idea, and in his view the grammatical logic was as much in need of correction. “Tell me,” he would say, “why have you placed this comma here? What relationship between these phrases are you hoping to establish? ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1242:Each time you meet an old emotional pattern with presence, your awakening to truth can deepen. There’s less identification with the self in the story and more ability to rest in the awareness that is witnessing what’s happening. You become more able to abide in compassion, to remember and trust your true home. Rather than cycling repetitively through old conditioning, you are actually spiraling toward freedom. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1243:It would be something, being in another place.'
A spark of an idea caught tinder. 'Where would you most like to go?'
'I don't know. I know nothing about the world. Enfield is my world.'
It was the saddest thing Dany had ever heard. 'How about this: when I come next time, I'll bring the world to you.'
Though he didn't understand, Colton looked interested. 'Is that possible?'
'Anything is possible'. ~ Tara Sim,#NFDB
1244:Don’t you like them? (Nykyrian)
Did you see the price? (Kiara)
I’m more than capable of supplying you with several wardrobes from here. (Nykyrian)
But– (Kiara)
But nothing, mu Tara. Start shoping. (Nykyrian)
This really isn’t– (Kiara)
Kiara. Buy clothes or go naked. Personally, naked works for me. (Nykyrian)
Fine. When you’re homeless and bankrupt, remember I tried to stop you. (Kiara) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
1245:Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain that was entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, each of us is part of her heart and is, therefore, endowed with a certain measure of cosmic pain. You are sharing in the totality of that pain. You are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self-pity. -Sufi poetry ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1246:There’s a sense of sovereignty that comes from life on a mountain, a perception of privacy and isolation, even of dominion. In that vast space you can sail unaccompanied for hours, afloat on pine and brush and rock. It’s a tranquillity born of sheer immensity; it calms with its very magnitude, which renders the merely human of no consequence. Gene was formed by this alpine hypnosis, this hushing of human drama. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1247:At first I merely believed this, until one day it became the truth. Then I was able to tell myself, without lying, that it didn't affect me, that he didn't affect me, because nothing affected me. I didn't understand how morbidly right I was. How I had hollowed myself out. For all my obsessing over the consequences of that night, I had misunderstood the vital truth: that its not affecting me, that was its effect. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1248:So I ring Justine Kalinsky and I say, "It's Francesca Spinelli," and she says, "Francesca, you've got to stop using last names. How are you doing?" and I say "I feel like shit", and I don't know how it happens, but by eight o'clock that night I'm lying next to her on the couch with Siobhan and Tara and we're eating junk food and watching a Keanu movie. And I want to stay on that couch for the rest of my life. ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
1249:The mistake we make is that when we're feeling another person is not treating us in the way that makes us feel secure and loved, we fixate our attention on that person and what's wrong with them. We also fixate on what's wrong with us. Instead, we can bring forward two wings of awareness: the wing of mindfulness (noticing what's going on inside us) and the wing of kindness (compassion to what's going on inside us). ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1250:Radical Acceptance reverses our habit of living at war with experiences that are unfamiliar, frightening or intense. It is the necessary antidote to years of neglecting ourselves, years of judging and treating ourselves harshly, years of rejecting this moment’s experience. Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our life as it is. A moment of Radical Acceptance is a moment of genuine freedom. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1251:The emotion of fear often works overtime. Even when there is no immediate threat, our body may remain tight and on guard, our mind narrowed to focus on what might go wrong. When this happens, fear is no longer functioning to secure our survival. We are caught in the trance of fear and our moment-to-moment experience becomes bound in reactivity. We spend our time and energy defending our life rather than living it fully. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1252:my father’s fears and paranoias, his scriptures and prophecies. I had wanted to escape the maze with its disorienting switchbacks, its ever-modulating pathways, to find the precious thing. But now I understood: the precious thing, that was the maze. That’s all that was left of the life I’d had here: a puzzle whose rules I would never understand, because they were not rules at all but a kind of cage meant to enclose me. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1253:So, you’re finally ready to admit there’s an us?”
Her breathy laugh, low and quiet, whispered across my lips. “There’s always been an us.”
The truth we were finally willing to admit thickened the air between us, pushing us closer together until not even a breath separated our mouths.
This girl? She held my heart in her hands. A heart that beat for her, belonged to her. A heart that had only ever been hers. ~ Tara Leigh,#NFDB
1254:The next time you find yourself in some way trying desperately to land safely, your compassion might be what finally gives you the courage you need to let go of the controls. In doing so, you might discover that each time you let go, it becomes easier and easier to re-enter the atmosphere of your own aliveness. Gradually you’ll come home to the flow of your own living presence, the warmth and space of your awakening heart. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1255:I laugh nervously and jerk my hand free, "I want the you that tilts his head back and eats the snow. I want the you that holds me and snuggles into me. I want him, but you hardly ever show him to me. I see a glimpse of him and then it's you that’s back." I point disappointedly. "I want the sweet guy who puts his hand out for me."
His eyes fight something. His lips tighten, "He's in here too. I think there are a few of us. ~ Tara Brown,#NFDB
1256:Good God. Johnny freakin' Ramos. Out in the hall. Of course, out in the hall. Hell, he'd spent half his life out in the hall,especially at Campbell Junior High,especially during seventh-grade social studies call. She'd gotten sent out in the hall with him once, her one and only time in the hall ever, the two of them put there to "work things out", and her poor little thirteen-year-old heart had barely survived the experience. ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
1257:From my father I had learned that books were to be either adored or exiled. Books that were of God...were not to be studied so much as cherished, like a thing perfect in itself. I had been taught to read the words of men like Madison as a cast into which I ought to pour the plaster of my own mind, to be reshaped according to the contours of their faultless model. I read them to learn what to think, not how to think for myself. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1258:Learning to pause is the first step in the practice of Radical Acceptance. A pause is a suspension of activity, a time of temporary disengagement when we are no longer moving toward any goal ... The pause can occur in the midst of almost any activity and can last for an instant, for hours or for seasons of our life ... You might try it now: Stop reading and sit there, doing 'no thing,' and simply notice what you are experiencing. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1259:God loves all of us,’ she says, ‘and She wants us to know that She has changed Her garment merely. She is beyond female and male, She is beyond human understanding. But She calls your attention to that which you have forgotten. Jews: look to Miriam, not Moses, for what you can learn from her. Muslims: look to Fatimah, not Muhammad. Buddhists: remember Tara, the mother of liberation. Christians: pray to Mary for your salvation. ~ Naomi Alderman, #NFDB
1260:God loves all of us,’ she says, ‘and She wants us to know that She has changed her garment merely. She is beyond female and male, She is beyond human understanding. But She calls your attention to that which you have forgotten: Jews, look to Miriam, not Moses, for what you can learn from her. Muslims: look to Fatimah, not Muhammad. Buddhists: remember Tara, the mother of liberation. Christians: pray to Mary for your salvation. ~ Naomi Alderman, #NFDB
1261:Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance. If we are holding back from any part of our experience, if our heart shuts out any part of who we are and what we feel, we are fueling the fears and feelings of separation that sustain the trance of unworthiness. Radical Acceptance directly dismantles the very foundations of this trance. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1262:Sugar," Tara said in a voice that was pure Pissed-Off South. "You need to go far, far away."
A few weeks ago, he'd have taken that to mean she didn't want to see his face within a six-hundred-mile radius. Now he knew the truth. He distracted her. He could live with that. "Came to see if I can help."
"I think I know how to make burgers," she said smoothly. "But bless your heart."
In other words, f*** off and die. ~ Jill Shalvis,#NFDB
1263:And sometimes those remembered images aren’t even accurate; in revisiting some of the movies I discuss here, I’ve been surprised to realize that what I remember about a particular movie moment, the influential lesson that has stayed with me—how to kiss in the rain, what to say to my shell-shocked parents about their divorce, where in the linen closet to hide the liquor—sometimes doesn’t actually exist in the film. It’s a trick of memory, ~ Tara Ison, #NFDB
1264:Most of us need to be reminded that we are good, that we are lovable, that we belong. If we knew just how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected the hearts of those around us, we'd reach out and join hands again and again. Our relationships have the potential to be a sacred refuge, a place of healing and awakening. With each person we meet, we can learn to look behind the mask and see the one who longs to love and be loved. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1265:Scarlett's mind went back through the years to the still hot noon at Tara when grey smoke curled above a blue-clad body and Melanie stood at the top of the stairs with Charles' sabre in her hand. Scarlett remembered that she had thought at the time: 'How silly! Melly couldn't even heft that sword!' But now she knew that had the necessity arisen, Melanie would have charged down those stairs and killed the Yankee - or been killed herself. ~ Margaret Mitchell, #NFDB
1266:Communicate, communicate, communicate: If anything, make sure to communicate what you're doing, what you're up to, what's going on and what issues your facing as often as you can - even if [you think] no one's listening. This serves both as a log of your activities and a personal record that you can refer to later but also opens the possibility that someone might just come along and be able to help you in some unexpected but totally necessary way! ~ Tara Hunt, #NFDB
1267:Jesus Christ, Pippa. Do you have any idea what you do to me? You completely wrecked me. The mess I’ve made of my life, you make me want to fix it. You make me think I can fix it. but more than anything else – when I’m with you, I want to fucking live. Just take everything I can out of this one shot we’re all given. And I want to rock the shit out of it. Not just on stage or in a music studio. But with you. Anywhere and everywhere…with you. ~ Tara Leigh, #NFDB
1268:the greatest works of poetry, what make each of us a poet, are the stories we tell about ourselves. We create them out of family and blood and friends and love and hate and what we’ve read and watched and witnessed. Longing and regret, illness, broken bones, broken hearts, achievements, money won and lost, palm readings and visions. We tell these stories until we believe them, we believe in ourselves, and that is the most powerful thing of all. ~ Tara Conklin, #NFDB
1269:He said I owed him for the car. He really only mentioned it but I became crazed, hysterical. For the first time in my life, I shouted at my father - not about the car but about the Weavers. I was so suffocated by rage, my words didn't come out as words, but as choking, sputtering sobs. Why are you like this? Why did you terrify us like that? Why did you fight so hard against made-up monsters, but do nothing about the monsters in your own house? ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1270:Why are you bringing these things up?" I asked softly.
[...]
Serena still wore that cold smile...Then, without warning, her face fell and she sighed heavily.
"I'm saying all these things, Amelia, because you're my bestie."
Serena's tone was sincere, but it made me scowl at her. The last time she'd called me "bestie," she'd shoved me over the guardrail of a suspension bridge. That kind of thing could really take the shine out of a word. ~ Tara Hudson,#NFDB
1271:I recently read in the book My Stroke of Insight by brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor that the natural life span of an emotion—the average time it takes for it to move through the nervous system and body—is only a minute and a half. After that we need thoughts to keep the emotion rolling. So if we wonder why we lock into painful emotional states like anxiety, depression, or rage, we need look no further than our own endless stream of inner dialogue. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1272:To me it seems pretty obvious that it would be simple to build a business around helping people achieve autonomy, a feeling of competence and relatedness. In fact, every web company that has been successful thusfar has their business build solidly on one or all of these. And I believe that as people discover that these things are within their reach, they will gravitate more and more towards companies that offer tools to helping them achieve happiness. ~ Tara Hunt, #NFDB
1273:The last thing she needed was to fall for someone again.
Before the move from Denver, she’d had her first serious
boyfriend. Millicent had gone along on every one of their
dates, suddenly determined to play chaperone. Uncle Pat’s
decision to move came just as the relationship was heating
up
Tara sagged. Why bother falling for another guy? It would
hurt too much when Uncle Pat pulled up stakes again.
My life sucks, she thought. ~ Sharon Sala,#NFDB
1274:You’re my one percent.”
Her eyebrows wrinkled. “Your what?”
“Before you came to my office that first day,” I explained, “I felt complete and at ease with my life ninety-nine percent of the time. But it was the missing one percent that haunted me. Then I found you—my missing one percent.”
Her eyes grew wide. “Oh.”
“It’s you. It’s always been you. When you left me, it was you. When you came back, it was you. It will never be anyone else. ~ Tara Sue Me,#NFDB
1275:I'm too intense. I feel too much. And when I experience certain sensations, I act. Even if the situation is one I should probably walk away from. But you know what?" She was feeling a little better. "I'm never going to walk away, not from any of it. I can't. I am what I am. I'm intense, just as my fiance said. I feel everything around me, and I'm glad about that. I can't imagine life without the depth, without the magic that accompanies the pain. ~ Tara Taylor Quinn, #NFDB
1276:Bringing back a long-neglected patch of earth is no easy feat. On the days I came to Orchard House, I never knew where to start. The scale of all that needed to be done was overwhelming; it was tempting to just stand there and gawk. My urge was always to run away, or to take a nap. In the face of insurmountable, my instinct is to not even try.
My mother is built of sterner stuff. Because she expects the worst, perhaps, she jumps in swinging. ~ Tara Austen Weaver,#NFDB
1277:You are not fool’s gold, shining only under a particular light. Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were. It was always in you. Not in Cambridge. In you. You are gold. And returning to BYU, or even to that mountain you came from, will not change who you are. It may change how others see you, it may even change how you see yourself—even gold appears dull in some lighting—but that is the illusion. And it always was. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1278:I might find that I have a habit of being jealous and comparing myself with other people and riveting my attention on how much somebody else is accomplishing or doing, or how much better they are at such and such. First, I might recognize the story - the mental images and internal dialogue - and say, "Okay, comparing mind." Then, rather than staying caught in the content, I'll bring my attention into my body and open to the immediate feelings that are there. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1279:Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create. If I yielded now, I would lose more than an argument. I would lose custody of my own mind. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1280:It worried him. Like him, she had to be exhausted. She smelled like gasoline; her clothes were torn. She had a small white bandage on her forehead where the EMT had cleaned her cut. Dirt smudged her face, her arms, her legs. He knew she still didn't have any underwear, and for the first time, he felt bad about it. Real bad. He wanted to protect her, make her feel secure, keep her from harm—and all he'd done was lose her underwear and practically get her blown up. ~ Tara Janzen, #NFDB
1281:At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness: All these I place, By God's almighty help and grace Between myself and the powers of darkness! ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
1282:Me, I never blamed anyone for the accident, least of all Tyler. It was just one of those things. A decade later my understanding would shift, part of my heavy swing into adulthood, and after that the accident would always make me think of the Apache women, and of all the decisions that go into making a life—the choices people make, together and on their own, that combine to produce any single event. Grains of sand, incalculable, pressing into sediment, then rock. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1283:Dalam banyak situasi, menunggu adalah kebijaksanaan tiada tara.
Dalam banyak kondisi, menunggu adalah solusi terbaik tanpa tanding.
Saya tidak bergurau. Meski diluar sana banyak sekali orang yang justeru menyuruh bergegas, siapa cepat dia dapat. Dalam banyak keadaan, justeru menunggu adalah yang terbaik.
Jangan lupa, lengkapi menunggu tersebut dengan dua syarat pentingnya: bersabar dan berdoa. Maka kita tidak akan pernah merugi atas setiap urusan. ~ Tere Liye,#NFDB
1284:I found I could read with focus. I could hold thoughts in my head besides anger and self-accusation. I returned to the chapter I had written nearly two years before at Harvard. Again I read Hume, Rousseau, Smith, Godwin, Wollstonecraft and Mill. Again I thought about the family. There was a puzzle in it, something unresolved. What is a person to do, I asked, when their obligations to their family conflict with other obligations—to friends, to society, to themselves? ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1285:I fumbled with the cables while Dad stood over me, shouting. I kept dropping them. My mind pulsed with panic, which overpowered every thought, so that I could not even remember how to connect red to red, white to white.
Then it was gone. I looked up at my father, at his purple face, at the vein pulsing in his neck. I still hadn't managed to attach the cables. I stood, and once on my feet, didn't care whether the cables were attached. I walked out of the room. ~ Tara Westover,#NFDB
1286:In it I saw myself as unbreakable, as tender as stone. At first I merely believed this, until one day it became the truth. Then I was able to tell myself, without lying, that it didn’t affect me, that he didn’t affect me, because nothing affected me. I didn’t understand how morbidly right I was. How I had hollowed myself out. For all my obsessing over the consequences of that night, I had misunderstood the vital truth: that its not affecting me, that was its effect. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1287:If I’d been paying closer attention—”
“It wouldn’t have changed anything. It was nothing you did. Nothing.” His voice was soft but firm. “I was living with you, remember? You did everything right. It just wasn’t meant to be.”
“It’s so much easier to blame myself.”
“That’s because you want there to be a reason for everything, and in the absence of finding one, you make one up. The fact is, sometimes there’s not a reason. Sometimes things just are what they are. ~ Tara Sue Me,#NFDB
1288:I had been taught to read the words of men like Madison as a cast into which I ought to pour the plaster of my own mind, to be reshaped according to the contours of their faultless model. I read them to learn what to think, not how to think for myself. Books that were not of God were banished; they were a danger, powerful and irresistible in their cunning.
To write my essay I had to read books differently, without giving myself over to either fear or adoration. ~ Tara Westover,#NFDB
1289:Joshua?" I called out, a slight hitch in my voice.
"Yeah?"
"What do I look like to you?"
He tilted his head to the side, frowning.
"What do I look like to you?" I repeated urgently, afraid that if I didn't talk fast enough, I would have time to realize how absolutely, mind-bogglingly stupid I sounded.
Joshua smiled. He answered me, so quietly I almost couldn't hear him.
"Beautiful. Too beautiful for people not to have noticed you the other night. ~ Tara Hudson,#NFDB
1290:While they plotted how to reconvert me, I plotted how to let them. I was ready to yield, even if it meant an exorcism. A miracle would be useful: if I could stage a convincing rebirth, I could dissociate from everything I’d said and done in the last year. I could take it all back—blame Lucifer and be given a clean slate. I imagined how esteemed I would be, as a newly cleansed vessel. How loved. All I had to do was swap my memories for theirs, and I could have my family. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1291:My mother wasn't there to comfort me—she had rarely been able to give me what I needed. But here was a garden of vegetables she had worked hard to grow. Now, when I needed it most, she was nourishing me. She couldn't give me herself. Instead she had given me the tools to be strong on my own. Perhaps that was her greatest gift to me: resilience and strength, the ability to survive.
Maybe this is how my mother loves me. Maybe this is the best she can do. ~ Tara Austen Weaver,#NFDB
1292:His voice is deep and relaxed, "I thought he was your dreamboat?"
I laugh, it's playful and resembles a giggle, "Who even says dreamboat?"
"Well?"
I shake my head, playing with the edge of the blanket I'm lying on. "No. Not so dreamboatish."
He sighs and I'm not entirely sure it isn’t relief, "Why? Did he hurt you?"
I press my lips together and nod. It takes me a minute to answer, "I guess so."
"How?" His voice is angry. The switch is fast and slightly creepy ~ Tara Brown,#NFDB
1293:I had wanted to escape the maze with its disorienting switchbacks, its ever-modulating pathways, to find the precious thing. But now I understood: the precious thing, that was the maze. That's all that was left of the life I'd had here: a puzzle whose rules I would never understand, because they were not rules at all but a kind of cage meant to enclose me. I could stay, and search for what had been home, or I could go, now, before the walls shifted and the way out was shut. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1294:There was a date beneath the image: 1955. I realized that Mother had been four years old in 1955, and with that realization, the distance between me and Emmett Till collapsed. My proximity to this murdered boy could be measured in the lives of people I knew. The calculation was not made with reference to vast historical or geological shifts—the fall of civilizations, the erosion of mountains. It was measured in the wrinkling of human flesh. In the lines on my mother's face. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1295:There was a date beneath the image: 1955. I realized that Mother had been four years old in 1955, and with that realization, the distance between me and Emmett Till collapsed. My proximity to this murdered boy could be measured in the lives of people I knew. The calculation was not made with reference to vast historical or geological shifts--the fall of civilizations, the erosion of mountains. It was measured in the wrinkling of human flesh. In the lines on my mother's face. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1296:from the great heart and centre of the Irish kingdom, five great arteries or roads radiated from Tara to the various parts of the country — the Slighe Cualann, which ran toward the present County Wicklow; the Slighe Mor, the great Western road, which ran via Dublin to Galway; the Slighe Asail which ran near the present Mullingar; the Slighe Dala which ran Southwest; and the Slighe Midluachra, the Northern road. Great, noble and beautiful truly was our Tara of the Kings.[17] ~ Seumas MacManus, #NFDB
1297:Tell me, Jolie,” I growled, wishing my damn conscience would shut the fuck up. “Tell me you’ve missed this. Tell me you want this as much as I do. Tell me you want me. Tell me you want us.”
“You’ve got it wrong. I don’t want to go backwards, Jolie.” I groaned against her mouth, lust tugging at my brainstem. I had tried ignoring her. I had tried forgetting her. I had tried deceiving her. It was about time I tried something different. “I want to fuck you into next week. ~ Tara Leigh,#NFDB
1298:She hated the powerlessness. The feeling of weakness always lurking beneath the surface, making her confidence seem phony, making her feel like a fraud. Other people in her profession went about the whir of life so nonchalantly, and their ease had always felt alien to her. It made her feel estranged from everyone else. How could people see what they saw—especially social workers and beat cops who saw everything—and not be consumed with anger all the time? How did they do it? Tara ~ Laura Griffin, #NFDB
1299:When I watch that attachment happening, I see the beliefs that I have around it. If somebody's not paying attention to me in a certain way, in my mind, it means they don't love me or they don't respect me. Bringing awareness to the beliefs that are underneath the attachment and bringing awareness to the way my body and heart are tightening, helps me wake up and re-inhabit a larger space of being. Holding on and pushing away might be going on but I'm freer to respond in a healthy way. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1300:It was years before I realized the sort of sadness my mother had couldn't be taken away by a new scarf or a piece of jewelry. The sadness my mother had was in her bones; it would never be vanquished, no matter how hard I tried to be happy for both of us. There was nothing I could purchase or do or even cook that would change things. Life had fundamentally let her down, it seemed, and the shade of that disappointment colored everything. There was nothing I could do to fix that. ~ Tara Austen Weaver, #NFDB
1301:The great gift of a spiritual path is coming to trust that you can find a way to true refuge. You realize that you can start right where you are, in the midst of your life, and find peace in any circumstance. Even at those moments when the ground shakes terribly beneath you—when there’s a loss that will alter your life forever—you can still trust that you will find your way home. This is possible because you’ve touched the timeless love and awareness that are intrinsic to who you are. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1302:Did you make the crawl of shame?"
I open one eye and smirk, "What?"
She pulls back the covers and plucks my t-shirt, "What is this?"
I swallow and stretch and moan a little, "My…" I clear my throat, "Uhm...t-shirt."
I make duck lips and watch her.
She arches her eyebrow and shakes her head, pointing at my shirt and waggling her finger. "Nuh uh. No. I know all your dirty skeezy little orphan clothes and this shit isn’t yours." She bats her eyelashes blankly, "Spill bitch. ~ Tara Brown,#NFDB
1303:I think it's really important that women support each other. I've heard of a very successful female director saying she doesn't identify as being a feminist or a woman in Hollywood. And I understand that, but I feel so differently. It's so important to identify as a woman and have a voice, to understand that it's different from a male voice, and to understand the nuances that go into that. I love women. I think I'm a girl's girl. It's super important that we have a voice in the industry. ~ Tara Subkoff, #NFDB
1304:She’s a fine one to talk—her accent is hilarious. She is Scottish and sort of prejudiced against everyone in Europe. She hasn’t lived in Seattle long. Not long enough to decide if she likes the city or hates it. Apparently, she still hates the Irish, though. And the English. And Germans. And Polish people. She hates everyone, including us “bloody Yanks” who are always “bloody rude” to her and ripping her off. She kills me with all the things she hates and then loves in a bipolar sort of fashion. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
1305:As Buddhism has been integrated into the West, the meaning of sangha has come to include all our contemporaries who in various ways are consciously pursuing a path of awakening. We are held by sangha when we work individually with a therapist or healer, or when a close friend lets us be vulnerable and real. Taking refuge in the sangha reminds us that we are in good company: We belong with all those who long to awaken, with all those who seek the teachings and practices that lead to genuine peace. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1306:It was the first time I’d seen her without it and that’s when it finally occurred to me: that Grandma was the only person who might have understood what was happening to me. How the paranoia and fundamentalism were carving up my life, how they were taking from me the people I cared about and leaving only degrees and certificates—an air of respectability—in their place. What was happening now had happened before. This was the second severing of mother and daughter. The tape was playing in a loop. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1307:He grabs my arm and pulls me into his embrace. I close my eyes and it's perfection. The kiss is needy and desperate even if it's closed mouth. It's the things we don't say. Words like, I needed you more than anything in the entire world and here you are. It's the sentences neither of us can say. Because neither of us likes grand gestures or big words. But the kiss says it all, the desperate tremble of his fearful lips against mine, speak volumes compared to the words we may or may not be able to say. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
1308:At Tara in this fateful hour,
I place all Heaven with its power,
And the sun with its brightness,
And the snow with its whiteness,
And the fire with all the strength it hath,
And the lightning with its rapid wrath,
And the winds with their swiftness along their path,
And the sea with its deepness,
And the rocks with their steepness,
And the earth with its starkness:
All these I place,
By God's almighty help and grace
Between myself and the powers of darkness! ~ Madeleine L Engle,#NFDB
1309:I had started on a path of awareness, had perceived something elemental about my brother, my father, myself. I had discerned the ways in which we had been sculpted by a tradition given to us by others, a tradition of which we were either willfully or accidentally ignorant. I had begun to understand that we had lent our voices to a discourse whose sole purpose was to dehumanize and brutalize others—because nurturing that discourse was easier, because retaining power always feels like the way forward. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1310:beer, chatting amiably. They hid their thighs with waist blankets and caped themselves in shoulder blankets that reached the ground. Dindi slithered by them. Unfortunately, the first person Dindi locked eyes with was Great Aunt Sullana. Though the whole plaza separated them, Great Aunt Sullana tore across the market like a tornado on the Purple Plains. She would demand to examine Dindi’s basket, and finding nothing in it except a kitten, pinch her cheek until Dindi stuttered some explanation. The natural ~ Tara Maya, #NFDB
1311:He listened to Dad, who settled into a lecture. “There’s two kinds of them college professors,” Dad said. “Those who know they’re lying, and those who think they’re telling the truth.” Dad grinned. “Don’t know which is worse, come to think of it, a bona fide agent of the Illuminati, who at least knows he’s on the devil’s payroll, or a high-minded professor who thinks his wisdom is greater than God’s.” He was still grinning. The situation wasn’t serious; he just needed to talk some sense into his son. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1312:To admit uncertainty is to admit to weakness, to powerlessness, and to believe in yourself despite both. It is a frailty but in this frailty there is a strength: the conviction to live in your own mind, and not in someone else's. I have often wondered if the most powerful words I wrote that night came not from anger or rage, but from doubt: I don't know. I just don't know.
Not knowing for certain, but refusing to give way to those who claim certainty, was a privilege I had never allowed myself. ~ Tara Westover,#NFDB
1313:to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create. If I yielded now, I would lose more than an argument. I would lose custody of my own mind. This was the price I was being asked to pay, I understood that now. What my father wanted to cast from me wasn’t a demon: it was me. Dad reached ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1314:I’ve been praying,” he said. His voice was soft, a loving voice. “I’ve been praying about your decision to go to college.” His eyes opened. His pupils had dilated in the lamplight, absorbing the hazel of the iris. I’d never seen eyes so given over to blackness; they seemed unearthly, tokens of spiritual power. “The Lord has called me to testify,” he said. “He is displeased. You have cast aside His blessings to whore after man’s knowledge. His wrath is stirred against you. It will not be long in coming. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1315:I can stand in this wind, because I’m not trying to stand in it....The wind is just wind. You could withstand these gusts on the ground, so you can withstand them in the air. There is no difference. Except the difference you make in your head. I’m just standing....You are all trying to compensate, to get your bodies lower because the height scares you. But the crouching and the sidestepping are not natural. You’ve made yourselves vulnerable. If you could just control your panic, this wind would be nothing. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1316:And yet, without our fear, we would not be able to stay alive or to thrive. The problem is: The emotion of fear often works overtime. Even when there is no immediate threat, our body may remain tight and on guard, our mind narrowed to focus on what might go wrong. When this happens, fear is no longer functioning to secure our survival. We are caught in the trance of fear and our moment-to-moment experience becomes bound in reactivity. We spend our time and energy defending our life rather than living it fully. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1317:Times are changing, Tara. A Baali doesn’t have any place in this new world. I would have been a misfit. A new era is dawning and men like Angada will inherit it. A new world is dawning where convoluted justifications will take the place of the simple sense of right and wrong. Dwarfs will be made into giants and praised by blind followers who will attack like a pack of wolves and devour any dissenters. But don’t give up, Tara. In the era of darkness, be a lamp. Your people need you. Don’t give up on life. ~ Anand Neelakantan, #NFDB
1318:I look past them to where Will and his friends are sitting and he catches my eye for a moment and smiles. It’s a weird smile, but it reaches his eyes and I bottle it. And I put it in my ammo pack that’s kept right next to my soul. The one that holds Mia’s scent and Justine’s spirit and Siobhan’s hope and Tara’s passions. Because if I’m going to wake up one morning and not be able to get out of bed, I’m going to need everything I’ve got to fight this bastard of a disease that could be sleeping inside of me. ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
1319:I look past them to where Will and his friends are sitting, and he catches my eye for a moment and smiles. It’s a weird smile, but it reaches his eyes and I bottle it. And I put it in my ammo pack that’s kept right next to my soul. The one that holds Mia’s scent and Justine’s spirit and Siobhan’s hope and Tara’s passions. Because if I’m going to wake up one morning and not be able to get out of bed, I’m going to need everything I’ve got to fight this bastard of a disease that could be sleeping inside of me. ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
1320:Who is the object of homage?
You, whose face is very white, lovely and beautiful, glowing with light like an array of a hundred full autumn moons, all together, without the dust from earth and water, You are adorned with completely open, immeasurable twofold knowledge like the hosts of a thousand stars, The brilliant light of your clear wisdom manifesting the four correct analytical knowledges shines forth, Noble Lady Tara, Goddess Vajra Sarasvati, I pay homage to you. ~ Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche, Smile Of Sun And Moon,#NFDB
1321:I do not mourn the loss of my sister because she will always be with me, in my heart," she says. "I am, however, rather annoyed that my Tara has left me to suffer you lot alone. I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister. Then at least she would be here to mock my appearance and claim to be the pretty one for a change. We have all lost our Tara, but I have lost a part of myself as well. ~ Erin Morgenstern, #NFDB
1322:In less than a month it would be the magical feast of Samhain. Some years this took place at the great ceremonial centre of Tara; other years it was held at other places. At Samhain the excess livestock would be slaughtered, the rest put out on the wasteland and later brought into pens, while the High King and his followers set off on their winter rounds. Until then, however, it was a slow and peaceful time. The harvest was in, the weather still warm. It should, for the High King, have been a time of contentment. ~ Edward Rutherfurd, #NFDB
1323:I carried the books to my room and read through the night. I loved the fiery pages of Mary Wollstonecraft, but there was a single line written by John Stuart Mill that, when I read it, moved the world: “It is a subject on which nothing final can be known.” The subject Mill had in mind was the nature of women. Mill claimed that women have been coaxed, cajoled, shoved and squashed into a series of feminine contortions for so many centuries, that it is now quite impossible to define their natural abilities or aspirations. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1324:Our mother-daughter bonding was cut short by the sound of the doorbell. Mom turned, and without a second glance, raced downstairs. Dad had already let them in, Rose Marie…and Chad. He was holding her suitcase; she was holding his hand with her other hand resting on her stomach. I did a double take. Was Rose Marie, my perfect sister, getting fat? My dad swore. My mom wailed like a baby. I thought, “Hey, parents, chill, it’s just the freshman fifteen. Lots of students gain weight their first year in college.” Then it hit me. ~ Tara West, #NFDB
1325:D. H. Lawrence described our Western culture as being like a great uprooted tree with its roots in the air. “We are perishing for lack of fulfillment of our greater needs,” he wrote, “we are cut off from the great sources of our inward nourishment and renewal.” We come alive as we rediscover the truth of our goodness and our natural connectedness to all of life. Our “greater needs” are met in relating lovingly with each other, relating with full presence to each moment, relating to the beauty and pain that is within and around us. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1326:Feelings and stories of unworthiness and shame are perhaps the most binding element in the trance of fear. When we believe something is wrong with us, we are convinced we are in danger. Our shame fuels ongoing fear, and our fear fuels more shame. The very fact that we feel fear seems to prove that we are broken or incapable. When we are trapped in trance, being fearful and bad seem to define who we are. The anxiety in our body, the stories, the ways we make excuses, withdraw or lash out—these become to us the self that is most real. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1327:Data from any single gene cannot really tell you anything so definitive. If you follow the mitochondrial DNA backwards, it will take you to a certain place – to an Ursula or Tara or whatever. But if you take any other bit of DNA, any gene at all, and trace it back, it will take you someplace else altogether.’ It was a little, I gathered, like following a road randomly out of London and finding that eventually it ends at John O’Groats, and concluding from this that anyone in London must therefore have come from the north of Scotland. ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
1328:I was wrong to tell you that this is a story about the failures of love. No, it is about real love, true love. Imperfect, wretched, weak love. No fairy tales, no poetry. It is about the negotiations we undertake with ourselves in the name of love. Every day we struggle to decide what to give away and what to keep, but every day we make that calculation and we live with the results. This then is the true lesson: there is nothing romantic about love. Only the most naive believe it will save them. Only the hardiest of us will survive it ~ Tara Conklin, #NFDB
1329:But vindication has no power over guilt. No amount of anger or rage directed at others can subdue it, because guilt is never about them. Guilt is the fear of one’s own wretchedness. It has nothing to do with other people. I shed my guilt when I accepted my decision on its own terms, without endlessly prosecuting old grievances, without weighing his sins against mine. Without thinking of my father at all. I learned to accept my decision for my own sake, because of me, not because of him. Because I needed it, not because he deserved it. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1330:But vindication has no power over guilt. No amount of anger or rage directed at others can subdue it, because guilt is never about them. Guilt is the fear of one's own wretchedness. It has nothing to do with other people. I shed my guilt when I accepted my decision on its own terms, without endlessly prosecuting old grievances, without weighting his sins against mine. Without thinking of my father at all. I learned to accept my decision for my own sake, because of me, not because of him. Because I needed it, not because he deserved. it. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1331:Sometimes a kitchen-table chat with a friend is exactly what you need to soothe the barbs of the day. We all have our small but significant heartbreaks. We all need help in hard times. But sometimes help works in mysterious ways. I might have been helping my friend, bu she was helping me just as much.
That is the mark of a good friendship, I thought . . . . When you each give all you have and you both think you are getting the better deal; when walking through the door of a house that is not your own feels like coming home. ~ Tara Austen Weaver,#NFDB
1332:You must stop yourself from thinking like that,” Dr. Kerry said, his voice raised. “You are not fool’s gold, shining only under a particular light. Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were. It was always in you. Not in Cambridge. In you. You are gold. And returning to BYU, or even to that mountain you came from, will not change who you are. It may change how others see you, it may even change how you see yourself—even gold appears dull in some lighting—but that is the illusion. And it always was. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1333:In the valley, Faye tried to stop her ears against the constant gossip of a small town, whose opinions pushed in through the windows and crept under the doors. Mother often described herself as a pleaser: she said she couldn’t stop herself from speculating what people wanted her to be, and from contorting herself, compulsively, unwillingly, into whatever it was. Living in her respectable house in the center of town, crowded by four other houses, each so near anyone could peer through the windows and whisper a judgment, Faye felt trapped. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1334:I am plenty romantic. Just this morning while he slept, I had left Carter a box of his favorite candy next to his pillow - Globs: piles of white chocolate covered, crushed potato chips and pretzels drizzled with caramel. I figured it would soften him up to the note I placed next to the box telling him if he left the toilet seat up one more time and my ass got an involuntary bath at six in the morning, I would put super glue on the head of his penis while he slept. I had even signed the note with a couple of Xs and Os. Who says romance is dead? ~ Tara Sivec, #NFDB
1335:So I say: Mind, don't you sleep Or Time is going to get in and steal from you. You hold on to the sword of Kali's name. The shield of Tara's name. Can Death overwhelm you? Sound Kali's name on a horn and sound it loud. Chant Durga, Durga, Until you bring the dawn around. If She won't save you in this Dark Age --. But how many great sinners have been saved! Is Ramprasad then So unsalvageable a rogue? [2720.jpg] -- from This Dance of Bliss: Ecstatic Poetry from Around the World, Edited by Ivan M. Granger
~ Ramprasad, So I say- Mind, dont you sleep
,#NFDB
1336:I had been educated in the rhythms of the mountain, rhythms in which change was never fundamental, only cyclical. The same sun appeared each morning, swept over the valley and dropped behind the peak. The snows that fell in winter always melted in the spring. Our lives were a cycle—the cycle of the day, the cycle of the seasons—circles of perpetual change that, when complete, meant nothing had changed at all. I believed my family was a part of this immortal pattern, that we were, in some sense, eternal. But eternity belonged only to the mountain. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1337:expansive sky of a “yes” that had endless room for grouchiness and irritation. Critical comments continued to arise, and with yes they continued to pass. When my mind suggested that I was using a gimmick that wouldn’t work for long, saying yes to the story allowed the thought to dissolve. I wasn’t resisting anything or holding on to anything. Moods and sensations and thoughts moved through the friendly skies of Radical Acceptance. I felt the inner freedom that comes from agreeing unconditionally to life. I was inviting Mara to tea. We bring alive the ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1338:Jillian,” I whispered, “I know you don’t know who I am. But I love your brother, and I know you do too. So . . . do you think you could wake up? Do you think you could at least try?”
For far too long she gave me no response. I’d just about given up—hung my head and prepared myself for the inevitable, impossible job of comforting Joshua—when Jillian whispered back.
“I guess. Since you asked so nicely.”
In spite of everything, a quiet laugh escaped my lips.
“Thank God. Because I have a feeling you’d be a huge pain in the ass if you died. ~ Tara Hudson,#NFDB
1339:Whatever you think or do regularly becomes a habit, a strongly conditioned pathway in the brain. The more you think about what can go wrong, the more your mind is primed to anticipate trouble. The more you lash out in anger, the more your body and mind are geared toward aggression. The more you think about how you might help others, the more your mind and heart are inclined to be generous. Just as weight lifting builds muscles, the way you direct your attention can strengthen anxiety, hostility, and addiction, or it can lead you to healing and awakening. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1340:In bullfighting there is an interesting parallel to the pause as a place of refuge and renewal. It is believed that in the midst of a fight, a bull can find his own particular area of safety in the arena. There he can reclaim his strength and power. This place and inner state are called his querencia. As long as the bull remains enraged and reactive, the matador is in charge. Yet when he finds his querencia, he gathers his strength and loses his fear. From the matador's perspective, at this point the bull is truly dangerous, for he has tapped into his power. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1341:Ned?' he says, after a while. 'Oi, Ned?'
'What?'
'If someone says to you that the guy they're going out with doesn't have to prove how smart he is, what's your response?'
'That he's dumb.'
'And if he has a sixpack?'
'Dumb jock.'
'Not too intense.'
'Dumb jock with no personality.'
'And they see eye to eye?'
Ned pauses. 'With the spitfire from Dili?'
'Same,' Tom corrects.
Ned holds up a hand to where Tara would reach him in height.
'Dumb jock with no personality and short-man syndrome.'
'Thanks, Ned.'
'Anytime. ~ Melina Marchetta,#NFDB
1342:This moment would define my memory of that night, and of the many nights like it, for a decade. In it I saw myself as unbreakable, as tender as stone. At first I merely believed this, until one day it became the truth. Then I was able to tell myself, without lying, that it didn't affect me, that he didn't affect me, because nothing affected me. I didn't understand how morbidly right I was. How I had hollowed myself out. For all my obsessing over the consequences of that night, I had misunderstood the vital truth: that its not affecting me, that was its effect. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1343:This moment would define my memory of that night, and of the many nights like it, for a decade. In it I saw myself as unbreakable, as tender as stone. At first I merely believed this, until one day it became the truth. Then I was able to tell myself, without lying, that it didn’t affect me, that he didn’t affect me, because nothing affected me. I didn’t understand how morbidly right I was. How I had hollowed myself out. For all my obsessing over the consequences of that night, I had misunderstood the vital truth: that its not affecting me, that was its effect. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1344:Kau tahu, Nak, sepotong intan terbaik dihasilkan dari dua hal, yaitu, suhu dan tekanan yang tinggi di perut bumi. Semakin tinggi suhu yang diterimanya, semakin tinggi tekanan yang diperolehnya, maka jika dia bisa bertahan, tidak hancur, dia justeru berubah menjadi intan yang berkilau tiada tara. Keras. Kokoh. Mahal harganya.
“Sama halnya dengan kehidupan, seluruh kejadian menyakitkan yang kita alami, semakin dalam dan menyedihkan rasannya, jika kita bisa bertahan, tidak hancur, maka kita akan tumbuh menjadi seseorang berkarakter laksana intan. Keras. Kokoh. ~ Tere Liye,#NFDB
1345:Better was largely irrelevant when it came to mothering because the entire enterprise relied on the presumption that one day, sooner than you thought, your child would become an entirely self-reliant, independent person who made her own decisions. That child wouldn't necessarily remember the Halloween costumes you made from hand six years running. Or maybe she did, but she resented you for it because she'd wanted store-bought costumes just like all her friends. It didn't matter how great a mother you tried to be; eventually every child waled off in to the world alone. ~ Tara Conklin, #NFDB
1346:Feeling not okay went hand in hand with deep loneliness. In my early teens I sometimes imagined that I was living inside a transparent orb that separated me from the people and life around me. When I felt good about myself and at ease with others, the bubble thinned until it was like an invisible wisp of gas. When I felt bad about myself, the walls got so thick it seemed others must be able to see them. Imprisoned within, I felt hollow and achingly alone. The fantasy faded somewhat as I got older, but I lived with the fear of letting someone down or being rejected myself. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1347:We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing -- our inner moods, our bodies, our work, the people we love, the world we live in. We can't hold on to anything -- a beautiful sunset, a sweet taste, an intimate moment with a lover, our very existence as the body/mind we call self -- because all things come and go. Lacking any permanent satisfaction, we continuously need another injection of fuel, stimulation, reassurance from loved ones, medicine, exercise, and meditation. We are continually driven to become something more, to experience something else. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1348:There’s a story my father used to tell about the peak. She was a grand old thing, a cathedral of a mountain. The range had other mountains, taller, more imposing, but Buck’s Peak was the most finely crafted. Its base spanned a mile, its dark form swelling out of the earth and rising into a flawless spire. From a distance, you could see the impression of a woman’s body on the mountain face: her legs formed of huge ravines, her hair a spray of pines fanning over the northern ridge. Her stance was commanding, one leg thrust forward in a powerful movement, more stride than step ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1349:I began to study trigonometry. There was solace in its strange formulas and equations. I was drawn to the Pythagorean theorem and its promise of a universal—the ability to predict the nature of any three points containing a right angle, anywhere, always. What I knew of physics I had learned in the junkyard, where the physical world often seemed unstable, capricious. But here was a principle through which the dimensions of life could be defined, captured. Perhaps reality was not wholly volatile. Perhaps it could be explained, predicted. Perhaps it could be made to make sense. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1350:In a popular teaching story, a man being chased by a tiger leaps off a cliff in his attempt to get away. Fortunately, a tree growing on the side of the cliff breaks his fall. Dangling from it by one arm—tiger pacing above, jutting rocks hundreds of feet below—he yells out in desperation, “Help! Somebody help me!!” A voice responds, “Yes?” The man screams, “God, God, is that you?” Again, “Yes.” Terrified, the man says, “God, I’ll do anything, just please, please, help me.” God responds, “Okay then, just let go.” The man pauses for a moment, then calls out, “Is anyone else there? ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1351:So…this Samuel guy…why’s he back in town?” Tara interrupted her mom’s giddy monologue.
“Well, Nettie told me he’s come back to help her and Don get things in order.” Louise responded. “They don’t really have anybody else, ya know, and they’re gettin’ on in years. Tabrina and her husband are no help - those two together are about as smart as a box of rocks.”
“Louise!” I scolded
“Oh okay, Josie. I am bein’ kinda harsh.” She amended with “Tabrina and her husband are about as smart as a box of frogs.” She smirked at me over her right shoulder before she continued ~ Amy Harmon,#NFDB
1352:Those instincts were my guardians. They had saved me before, guiding my movements on a dozen bucking horses, telling me when to cling to the saddle and when to pitch myself clear of pounding hooves. They were the same instincts that, years before, had prompted me to hoist myself from the scrap bin when Dad was dumping it, because they had understood, even if I had not, that it was better to fall from that great height rather than hope Dad would intervene. All my life those instincts had been instructing me in this single doctrine—that the odds are better if you rely only on yourself. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1353:I believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing. —JOHN DEWEY I’m standing on the red railway car that sits abandoned next to the barn. The wind soars, whipping my hair across my face and pushing a chill down the open neck of my shirt. The gales are strong this close to the mountain, as if the peak itself is exhaling. Down below, the valley is peaceful, undisturbed. Meanwhile our farm dances: the heavy conifer trees sway slowly, while the sagebrush and thistles quiver, ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1354:Imagine you are walking in the woods and you see a small dog sitting by a tree. As you approach it, it suddenly lunges at you, teeth bared. You are frightened and angry. But then you notice that one of its legs is caught in a trap. Immediately your mood shifts from anger to concern: You see that the dog's aggression is coming from a place of vulnerability and pain. This applies to all of us. When we behave in hurtful ways, it is because we are caught in some kind of trap. The more we look through the eyes of wisdom at ourselves and one another, the more we cultivate a compassionate heart. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1355:Danny had never been so aware for anyone else in his life. Everything shrank from a universe to a pinpoint, every turn of the earth dependent on his next breath, each touch lingering until those eyes found his.
Colton pressed a hand to Danny’s chest and laid his mouth gently against his. Danny wasn’t prepared for it—the reminder that Colton was not like him, that his palms were smooth and free of flaws, that his wrist showed no veins, that his mouth tasted of copper and of sweet clean air.
He was a boy of air and dust and sunlight. Everything that had gone into the making of the world. ~ Tara Sim,#NFDB
1356:Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create. If I yielded now, I would lose more than an argument. I would lose custody of my own mind. This was the price I was being asked to pay, I understood that now. What my father wanted to cast from me wasn't a demon: it was me. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1357:Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create. If I yielded now, I would lose more than an argument. I would lose custody of my own mind. This was the price I was being asked to pay, I understood that now. What my father wanted to cast from me wasn’t a demon: it was me. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1358:suppose my interest came from the sense of groundlessness I’d felt since learning about the Holocaust and the civil rights movement—since realizing that what a person knows about the past is limited, and will always be limited, to what they are told by others. I knew what it was to have a misconception corrected—a misconception of such magnitude that shifting it shifted the world. Now I needed to understand how the great gatekeepers of history had come to terms with their own ignorance and partiality. I thought if I could accept that what they had written was not absolute but was the result of ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1359:I mumbled something about historiography. I had decided to study not history, but historians. I suppose my interest came from the sense of groundlessness I’d felt since learning about the Holocaust and the civil rights movement—since realizing that what a person knows about the past is limited, and will always be limited, to what they are told by others. I knew what it was to have a misconception corrected—a misconception of such magnitude that shifting it shifted the world. Now I needed to understand how the great gatekeepers of history had come to terms with their own ignorance and partiality. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1360:This is a magical place,” I said. “Everything shines here.” “You must stop yourself from thinking like that,” Dr. Kerry said, his voice raised. “You are not fool’s gold, shining only under a particular light. Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were. It was always in you. Not in Cambridge. In you. You are gold. And returning to BYU, or even to that mountain you came from, will not change who you are. It may change how others see you, it may even change how you see yourself—even gold appears dull in some lighting—but that is the illusion. And it always was. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1361:He grabs my hands and lifts them up in the air. I grip the railing on the top of the bed.
"Don’t move those hands," he whispers into my nape. I nod and lick my lips. I'm on my tiptoes. My breath is catching and coming out spurts of rough air. His hands run down my arms. I shiver and pant. His lips brush the back of my neck. He sweeps my hair to one side, kissing down my shoulder blade. Heat and nerves battle low in my belly as his hands grip my hips, pulling me back to him.
"Don't let go of that railing, Sarah." His words are growled between kisses and licks. I hear the menacing threat in them. ~ Tara Brown,#NFDB
1362:If we are taken over by craving, no matter who or what is before us, all we can see is how it might satisfy our needs. This kind of thirst contracts our body and mind into a profound trance. We move through the world with a kind of tunnel vision that prevents us from enjoying what is in front of us. The color of an autumn leaves or a passage of poetry merely amplifies the feeling that there is a gaping hole in our life. The smile of a child only reminds us that we are painfully childless. We turn away from simple pleasures because our craving compels us to seek more intense stimulation or numbing relief. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1363:There was a pause, then more words appeared—words I hadn’t known I needed to hear, but once I saw them, I realized I’d been searching my whole life for them. You were my child. I should have protected you. I lived a lifetime in the moment I read those lines, a life that was not the one I had actually lived. I became a different person, who remembered a different childhood. I didn’t understand the magic of those words then, and I don’t understand it now. I know only this: that when my mother told me she had not been the mother to me that she wished she’d been, she became that mother for the first time. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1364:The words of the second entry would not obscure the words of the first. Both would remain, my memories set down alongside his. There was a boldness in not editing for consistency, in not ripping out either the one page or the other. To admit uncertainty is to admit to weakness, to powerlessness, and to believe in yourself despite both. It is a frailty, but in this frailty there is a strength: the conviction to live in your own mind, and not in someone else’s. I have often wondered if the most powerful words I wrote that night came not from anger or rage, but from doubt: I don’t know. I just don’t know. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1365:enrolled in the university counseling service. I was assigned to a sprightly middle-aged woman with tight curls and sharp eyes, who rarely spoke in our sessions, preferring to let me talk it out, which I did, week after week, month after month. The counseling did nothing at first—I can’t think of a single session I would describe as “helpful”—but their collective power over time was undeniable. I didn’t understand it then, and I don’t understand it now, but there was something nourishing in setting aside that time each week, in the act of admitting that I needed something I could not provide for myself. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1366:Your friends are at the house.'
I sit up, straight. 'Who'?
'I don't know. Weird people. The Sullivan girl, whose father got the Gosford police to pick you up.'
'Siobhan?'
'And another one who's making cups of tea for everyone, and keeping the boy who's telling Luca fart jokes away from the girl who says he's "the last bastion of patriarchal poor taste".'
'Justine, Thomas and Tara.'
And the drug fiend, Jimmy, is keeping Mia calm and the Trombal boy's rung about ten times. I don't like his manner on the phone.'
'You won't like any guy's manner on the phone. ~ Melina Marchetta,#NFDB
1367:As we drove to the trailer, the sun dipping in the sky, its last rays reaching across the highway, I thought about the Apache women. Like the sandstone altar on which they had died, the shape of their lives had been determined years before—before the horses began their gallop, their sorrel bodies arching for that final collision. Long before the warriors’ leap it was decided how the women would live and how they would die. By the warriors, by the women themselves. Decided. Choices, numberless as grains of sand, had layered and compressed, coalescing into sediment, then into rock, until all was set in stone. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1368:I tried to imagine what future such a woman might claim for herself. I tried to conjure other scenes in which she and her father were of two minds. When she ignored his counsel and kept her own. But my father had taught me that there are not two reasonable opinions to be had on any subject: there is Truth and there are Lies. I knelt on the carpet, listening to my father but studying this stranger, and felt suspended between them, drawn to each, repelled by both. I understood that no future could hold them; no destiny could tolerate him and her. I would remain a child, in perpetuity, always, or I would lose him. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1369:Mentre tornavo a casa a piedi col pesante manoscritto, ripensai a quella volta che il professor Kerry aveva cominciato una lezione scrivendo alla lavagna: "Chi scrive la storia?". Lì per lì mi era sembrata una domanda strana. L'idea che avevo degli storici non era umana: erano personaggi simili a mio padre, più profeti che uomini, le cui concezioni sul passato così come sul futuro non potevano essere messe in discussione né tantomeno ampliate. Adesso, mentre attraversavo il King's College all'ombra dell'enorme cappella, la mia vecchia diffidenza mi sembrò quasi buffa. Chi scrive la storia? Pensai. La scrivo io. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1370:Well…” Steve contemplated, taking her question seriously. “The blow up dolls could very easily be dressed in normal clothes and called plain ole’ dolls.” Lucian and Tara bent over each other, unable to breathe while Steve continued, oblivious. “For the god-awful gaping hole on its face we could… maybe fill with candy or… each could have a special message saying they’re so happy and excited to finally have a little girl to belong to and call their own. A sister.” Lucian kicked his feet and rocked in fits, his sides hurting now. “Oh my God,” Tara squeaked. “Candy!” She held on to Lucian and peeped, “She’s so happy! ~ Lucian Bane, #NFDB
1371:Hey, sleepyhead,” Mom said brightly when I walked into the kitchen.
I grunted. Tara handed me my coffee mug. I filled it quickly, added my milk and sugar, and took my first sip.
“Watching Ash drink coffee is kinda like watching a werewolf movie,” Tara said. “You can see the transformation from man into beast.”
“Except for me, it’s beast into girl, I know,” I said sourly and took another sip.
“Want some pancakes?” Mom asked.
“No, thanks.” I leaned against the counter.
“They’re really good,” Josh said. He was watching me like he was hoping to see the transformation that Tara was talking about. ~ Rachel Hawthorne,#NFDB
1372:I put away my journal and lie in bed, reciting this narrative as if it is a poem I’ve decided to learn by heart. I’ve nearly committed it to memory when the recitation is interrupted. Images invade my mind—of me on my back, arms pressed above my head. Then I’m in the parking lot. I look down at my white stomach, then up at my brother. His expression is unforgettable: not anger or rage. There is no fury in it. Only pleasure, unperturbed. Then a part of me understands, even as I begin to argue against it, that my humiliation was the cause of that pleasure. It was not an accident or side effect. It was the objective. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1373:The holding of the Feis of Tara was the occasion also for holding a great Aonach or fair. Almost all the great periodic assemblages of ancient Ireland had fairs in their train. After that of Tara the most famous of these periodic assemblies were those held at Tlachtga, Uisnech, Cruachan and Tallite — the three royal residences in those three portions of the royal domain of Meath, which had been annexed from Leinster, Munster, Connaught and Ulster, respectively. Also the Fair of Emain Macha (in the present county of Armagh), the Fair of Colmain on the Curragh of Kildare, and the famous Fair of Carman (Wexford). As ~ Seumas MacManus, #NFDB
1374:It doesn’t matter if we love men or women, there’s always someone – there’s always that one person who can get away with so much in our lives. They can love us, control us, make us stand tall as well as crushing us. They have the power to change our moods in an instant, change the way we think and feel and, I suppose, completely change the course of our lives. But is it really them at all? Surely we’ve handed that power to them. We’ve allowed them to have an effect on our thoughts and feeling and ideas. So, actually, can’t we take it back from them whenever we choose? Can’t we decide when they no longer have the power? ~ Tara Lyons, #NFDB
1375:Sitting across from me is my father, and as I look into his worn face it hits me, a truth so powerful I don’t know why I’ve never understood it before. The truth is this: that I am not a good daughter. I am a traitor, a wolf among sheep; there is something different about me and that difference is not good. I want to bellow, to weep into my father’s knees and promise never to do it again. But wolf that I am, I am still above lying, and anyway he would sniff the lie. We both know that if I ever again find Shawn on the highway, soaked in crimson, I will do exactly what I have just done. I am not sorry, merely ashamed. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1376:Quel momento avrebbe definito il mio ricordo di quella sera, e di molte altre sere simili, per dieci anni a venire. In quel ricordo mi vedevo incrollabile, dura come pietra. All’inizio me l’immaginai e basta, finché un giorno divento realtà. Allora potevo dirmi, senza mentire, che non aveva nessun effetto su di me, che lui non aveva nessun effetto su di me, perché niente l’aveva. Non capivo quanto fosse vero e malsano. Quanto mi fossi svuotata. Nonostante tutto il mio arrovellarmi sulle conseguenze di quella sera, non avevo capito la verità essenziale: che il fatto che non avesse nessun effetto su di me era il suo effetto. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1377:I did not think of my brother as that person; I doubt I will ever think of him that way. But something had shifted nonetheless. I had started on a path of awareness, had perceived something elemental about my brother, my father, myself. I had discerned the ways in which we had been sculpted by a tradition given to us by others, a tradition of which we were either willfully or accidentally ignorant. I had begun to understand that we had lent our voices to a discourse whose sole purpose was to dehumanize and brutalize others—because nurturing that discourse was easier, because retaining power always feels like the way forward. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1378:I have no idea what my siblings did when they did school, but when I did it I opened my math book and spent ten minutes turning pages, running my fingers down the center fold. If my finger touched fifty pages, I’d report to Mother that I’d done fifty pages of math. “Amazing!” she’d say. “You see? That pace would never be possible in the public school. You can only do that at home, where you can sit down and really focus, with no distractions.” Mother never delivered lectures or administered exams. She never assigned essays. There was a computer in the basement with a program called Mavis Beacon, which gave lessons on typing. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1379:All had suffered crushing misfortunes and had not been crushed. They had not been broken by the crash of empires, the machetes of revolting slaves, war, rebellion, proscription, confiscation. Malign fate had broken their necks, perhaps, but never their hearts. They had not whined, they had fought. And when they died, they died spent but unquenched. All of those shadowy folks whose blood flowed in her veins seemed to moved quietly in the moonlit room. And Scarlett was not surprised to see them, these kinsmen who had taken the worst that fate could send and hammered it into the best. Tara was her fate, her fight, and she must conquer it. ~ Margaret Mitchell, #NFDB
1380:She had never felt real in the eyes of her parents, she went on. Being an only child, she felt as if she was on the planet to be the person her parents wanted her to be. Her value rested solely on how well she represented them, and whether or not she made them proud. She was their object to manage and control, to show off or reprimand. Her opinions and feelings didn’t matter because, as she said, they didn’t see her as “her own person.” Her identity was based on pleasing others and the fear of not being liked if she didn’t. In her experience, she was not a real person who deserved respect and who, without any fabrication or effort, was lovable. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1381:I put the issue from my mind. My mother had taken up the cause. She was strong. She had built that business, with all those people working for her, and it dwarfed my father’s business, and all the other businesses in the whole town; she, that docile woman, had a power in her the rest of us couldn’t contemplate. And Dad. He had changed. He was softer, more prone to laugh. The future could be different from the past. Even the past could be different from the past, because my memories could change: I no longer remembered Mother listening in the kitchen while Shawn pinned me to the floor, pressing my windpipe. I no longer remembered her looking away. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1382:After several days, I had a pivotal interview with my teacher. When I described how I’d become so overwhelmed, she calmly asked, “How are you relating to the presence of desire?” I was startled into understanding. Her question pointed me back to the essence of mindfulness practice: It doesn’t matter what is happening. What matters is how we are relating to our experience. For me, desire had become the enemy, and I was losing the battle. She advised me to stop fighting my experience and instead investigate the nature of my wanting mind. Desire was just another passing phenomenon, she reminded me. It was attachment or aversion to it that was the problem. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1383:Ella. This is an emergency!” To my mother, Candy Varner, everything was an emergency. She was a shock-and-awe parent, the ultimate drama queen. But she had covered it up so adeptly that few people suspected what went on behind closed doors. She had demanded her daughters’ collusion in the myth of our happy family life, and Tara and I had given it to her without question. At times Mom wanted interaction with my younger sister and me, but she quickly became impatient and surly. We learned to watch for every sign that would indicate the fluctuations of her mood. We had been storm chasers, trying to stay close to the twister without getting swept up in it ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
1384:Right when my fingers started to slip inside my underwear, I opened my eyes and screamed. "HOLY SHIT!" My son stood there next to the bed just staring at me. Seriously, two inches from my face just staring at me like those creepy twins in "The Shining." I waited for him to start saying, "Come play with us" in their freaky twin voices while I tried not to have a heart attack. "Gavin, seriously. You can't just stand here and stare at mommy. It's weird," I grumbled as I put my hand to my aching head and tried to calm my pounding heart. Sweet Jesus, who kicked me in the head and shit in my mouth last night? "You said a bad word, Mommy, ~ Tara Sivec, #NFDB
1385:To admit uncertainty is to admit to weakness, to powerlessness, and to believe in yourself despite both. It is a frailty, but in this frailty there is a strength: the conviction to live in your own mind, and not in someone else’s. I have often wondered if the most powerful words I wrote that night came not from anger or rage, but from doubt: I don’t know. I just don’t know. Not knowing for certain, but refusing to give way to those who claim certainty, was a privilege I had never allowed myself. My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1386:I told them I'd been poor, I told them I'd been ignorant, and in telling them this I felt not the slightest prick of shame. Only then did I understand where the shame had come from: it wasn't that I hadn't studied in a marble conservatory, or that my father wasn't a diplomat. It wasn't that Dad was half out of his mind, or that Mother followed him. It had come from having a father who shoved me toward the chomping blades of the Shear, instead of pulling me away from them. It had come from those moments on the floor, from knowing that Mother was in the next room, closing her eyes and ears to me, and choosing, for that moment, not to be my mother at all. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1387:I told them I’d been poor, I told them I’d been ignorant, and in telling them this I felt not the slightest prick of shame. Only then did I understand where the shame had come from: it wasn’t that I hadn’t studied in a marble conservatory, or that my father wasn’t a diplomat. It wasn’t that Dad was half out of his mind, or that Mother followed him. It had come from having a father who shoved me toward the chomping blades of the Shear, instead of pulling me away from them. It had come from those moments on the floor, from knowing that Mother was in the next room, closing her eyes and ears to me, and choosing, for that moment, not to be my mother at all. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1388:Learning to pause is the first step in the practice of Radical Acceptance. A pause is a suspension of activity, a time of temporary disengagement when we are no longer moving toward any goal. . . . The pause can occur in the midst of almost any activity and can last for an instant, for hours or for seasons of our life. . . . We may pause in the midst of meditation to let go of thoughts and reawaken our attention to the breath. We may pause by stepping out of daily life to go on a retreat or to spend time in nature or to take a sabbatical. . . . You might try it now: Stop reading and sit there, doing "no thing," and simply notice what you are experiencing. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1389:Most modern authors dealing with Erzsébet's life and crimes have produced works of fiction, including Jozo Niznansky's The Lady of Čachtice (1932); Kálmán Vándor's Báthory Erzsébet (1940); La Comtesse sanglante, by Valentine Penrose (1962), Alejandra Pizarnik's Acerca's de la Contessa sangrienta (1968); Comtesse de Sang, by Maurice Périsset (1975); Andrei Codrescu's The Blood Countess (1995); Ella, Drácula, by Javier García Sanchez (2002); Alisa Libby's The Blood Confession (2006); Alexandre Heredia's O Legado de Báthory (2007); The Countess, by Rebecca Johns (2010); Maria Szabó's Én, Báthory Erzsébet (2010); and The Blood Countess by Tara Moss (2012). ~ Peter Vronsky, #NFDB
1390:Charlotte Joko Beck, Zen teacher and author, teaches that the “secret” of spiritual life is the capacity to “… return to that which we have spent a lifetime hiding from, to rest in the bodily experience of the present moment—even if it is a feeling of being humiliated, of failing, of abandonment, of unfairness.” Through the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience. We begin to trust in our natural intelligence, in our naturally wise heart, in our capacity to open to whatever arises. Like awakening from a dream, in the moment of pausing our trance recedes and Radical Acceptance becomes possible. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1391:While the bodies of young children are usually relaxed and flexible, if experiences of fear are continuous over the years, chronic tightening happens. Our shoulders may become permanently knotted and raised, our head thrust forward, our back hunched, our chest sunken. Rather than a temporary reaction to danger, we develop a permanent suit of armor. We become, as Chogyam Trungpa puts it, “a bundle of tense muscles defending our existence.” We often don’t even recognize this armor because it feels like such a familiar part of who we are. But we can see it in others. And when we are meditating, we can feel it in ourselves—the tightness, the areas where we feel nothing. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1392:Tara. I'm a vampire," Pearl said.
"Yeah, whatever, and I'm queen of the sea."
"Your Marine Majesty, I'm a vampire," Pearl said.
Concentrating, she slid her fangs out. "Tara. Tara!" She curled back her lips to expose the points. "See"
Tara screamed.
"I won't hurt you," Pearl said. Calm down. Sheesh."
Tara continued to scream.
Pearl considered biting her merely to shut her up. Regrettably that would be counter productive. Studying her nails, she waited for Tara to quit screaming. She noticed that Tara didn't try to exit the car, which was an interesting choice.
"You aren't running away," Pearl said.
"Duh, it's raining outside," Tara said. ~ Sarah Beth Durst,#NFDB
1393:To write my essay I had to read books differently, without giving myself over to either fear or adoration. Because Burke had defended the British monarchy, Dad would have said he was an agent of tyranny. He wouldn't have wanted the book in the house. There was a thrill in trusting myself to read the words. I felt a similar thrill in reading Madison, Hamilton and Jay, especially on those occasions when I discarded their conclusions in favor of Burke's, or when it seemed to me that their ideas were not really different in substance, only in form. There were wonderful suppositions embedded in this method of reading: that books are not tricks, and that I was not feeble. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1394:To write my essay I had to read books differently, without giving myself over to either fear or adoration. Because Burke had defended the British monarchy, Dad would have said he was an agent of tyranny. He wouldn’t have wanted the book in the house. There was a thrill in trusting myself to read the words. I felt a similar thrill in reading Madison, Hamilton and Jay, especially on those occasions when I discarded their conclusions in favor of Burke’s, or when it seemed to me that their ideas were not really different in substance, only in form. There were wonderful suppositions embedded in this method of reading: that books are not tricks, and that I was not feeble. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1395:He clears his throat, "Have you considered he sees you as a girl at school? Not all girls are whole when you meet them. Sometimes you have to help them get there. Right now, you are a broken girl. That doesn’t mean that you'll always be broken. That doesn’t make you less of a girl." He clears his throat again, "I'll call the doc. She'll want to talk to you."
The tears in my eyes don’t come out. They stay in there like tiny kaleidoscopes, trying to make the world the way I need it to be. My words don’t come right away either. I don’t hear the click on his end when I whisper, "I'm not broken." But he isn’t there. He never really is. He is the master of not being there. ~ Tara Brown,#NFDB
1396:It was crucial that I not look at him. As long as I kept my eyes on the spire, I almost believed he couldn’t touch me. Almost. Because even while I clung to this belief, I waited to feel his hands on my neck. I knew I would feel them, and soon, but I didn’t dare do anything that might break the spell of waiting. In that moment part of me believed, as I had always believed, that it would me to break the spell, who caused it to break. When the stillness shattered and his fury rushed at me, I would know that something I had done was the catalyst, the cause. There is hope in such superstition; there is the illusion of control.
I stayed still, without thought or motion. ~ Tara Westover,#NFDB
1397:I had to think before I could answer. “I can stand in this wind, because I’m not trying to stand in it,” I said. “The wind is just wind. You could withstand these gusts on the ground, so you can withstand them in the air. There is no difference. Except the difference you make in your head.”
He stared at me blankly. He hadn’t understood.
“I’m just standing,” I said. “You are all trying to compensate, to get your bodies lower because the height scares you. But the crouching and the sidestepping are not natural. You’ve made yourselves vulnerable. If you could just control your panic, this wind would be nothing.”
“The way it is nothing to you,” he said. ~ Tara Westover,#NFDB
1398:I HAVE heard the pigeons of the Seven Woods
Make their faint thunder, and the garden bees
Hum in the lime-tree flowers; and put away
The unavailing outcries and the old bitterness
That empty the heart. I have forgot awhile
Tara uprooted, and new commonness
Upon the throne and crying about the streets
And hanging its paper flowers from post to post,
Because it is alone of all things happy.
I am contented, for I know that Quiet
Wanders laughing and eating her wild heart
Among pigeons and bees, while that Great Archer,
Who but awaits His hour to shoot, still hangs
A cloudy quiver over Pairc-na-lee.
~ William Butler Yeats, In The Seven Woods
,#NFDB
1399:I knew what it was to have a misconception corrected—a misconception of such magnitude that shifting it shifted the world. Now I needed to understand how the great gatekeepers of history had come to terms with their own ignorance and partiality. I thought if I could accept that what they had written was not absolute but was the result of a biased process of conversation and revision, maybe I could reconcile myself with the fact that the history most people agreed upon was not the history I had been taught. Dad could be wrong, and the great historians Carlyle and Macaulay and Trevelyan could be wrong, but from the ashes of their dispute I could construct a world to live in. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1400:When I heard this story, I made the only good decision I had made for months: I enrolled in the university counseling service. I was assigned to a sprightly middle-aged woman with tight curls and sharp eyes, who rarely spoke in our sessions, preferring to let me talk it out, which I did, week after week, month after month. The counseling did nothing at first—I can’t think of a single session I would describe as “helpful”—but their collective power over time was undeniable. I didn’t understand it then, and I don’t understand it now, but there was something nourishing in setting aside that time each week, in the act of admitting that I needed something I could not provide for myself. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1401:The way out of our cage begins with accepting absolutely everything about ourselves and our lives, by embracing with wakefulness and care our moment-to-moment experience. By accepting absolutely everything, what I mean is that we are aware of what is happening within our body and mind in any given moment, without trying to control or judge or pull away. I do not mean that we are putting up with harmful behavior—our own or another’s. This is an inner process of accepting our actual, present-moment experience. It means feeling sorrow and pain without resisting. It means feeling desire or dislike for someone or something without judging ourselves for the feeling or being driven to act on it. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1402:Thich Nhat Hanh calls his practice of yes “smile yoga.” He suggests bringing a slight but real smile to our lips many times throughout the day, whether we are meditating or simply stopping for a red light. “A tiny bud of a smile on your lips,” writes Thich Nhat Hanh, “nourishes awareness and calms you miraculously … your smile will bring happiness to you and to those around you.” The power of a smile to open and relax us is confirmed by modern science. The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight, fight or freeze response. A smile is the yes of unconditional friendliness that welcomes experience without fear. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1403:I could not judge her for her choice, but in that moment I knew I could not choose it for myself. Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create. If I yielded now, I would lose more than an argument. I would lose custody of my own mind. This was the price I was being asked to pay, I understood that now. What my father wanted to cast from me wasn’t a demon: it was me. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1404:Through Buddhist awareness practices, we free ourselves from the suffering of trance by learning to recognize what is true in the present moment, and by embracing whatever we see with an open heart. This cultivation of mindfulness and compassion is what I call Radical Acceptance. Radical Acceptance reverses our habit of living at war with experiences that are unfamiliar, frightening or intense. It is the necessary antidote to years of neglecting ourselves, years of judging and treating ourselves harshly, years of rejecting this moment’s experience. Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our life as it is. A moment of Radical Acceptance is a moment of genuine freedom. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1405:Our sex need not primarily define who we are, what we are capable of, or what we can be expected to enjoy or engage in. In other words, the boy with the Barbie doll does not have a problem with identity. He simply has a Barbie doll. The full-time working mother and full-time stay-at-home father have not given up something essential to their identities by taking on those roles: they have negotiated their lives as it works for them. Likewise, a stay-at-home mum is not anti-feminist any more than a stay-at-home dad is. Other characteristics, such as individual ability, personal relationships, personal choice, past experience and education, are far more important than that box you tick defining yourself as M or F. ~ Tara Moss, #NFDB
1406:Nikki : I think he makes women question their position in life through their association with the dichotomy of his physical power and his whole feminine mystique. That's the part of Travis I'm always trying to capture. The tension. You must have felt it in the studio.
She was serious. He could tell by the tone of her voice. And again, unbelievably, she was waiting for an answer.
Kid : Uh...no.
Nikki : You didn't feel the tension ?
Kid : Yeah, there was tension. I just didn't realize it was the dichotomy of Travis' physical powers and his,uh,feminine mystique creating it. I thought it was the paint and the hellish death motif, not to mention the,uh,sheer demonic luridness of the eternity-sucking vortex. ~ Tara Janzen,#NFDB
1407:My mother would come home late a night, tired after a long day of teaching or clients, and look around for what wasn't working. With the final bit of energy she had, she fixed problems. Sometimes she yelled in frustration or anger. There was no time to enjoy what might be going on.
Even today, my mother scans for problems. If something is done there is no acknowledgement, thanks, or praise; done means one less thing to worry about. It's the problems that draw her. Maybe she just needs to be useful. If something is going right it's no longer her concern. My mother's spent her life in triage, as if on a battle field.
It's efficient, but it's a hard way to live. It's almost impossible to live with. ~ Tara Austen Weaver,#NFDB
1408:So . . . " I began with some trepidation. "Did you have an okay time?" My mother is not once to mince words. She is not one to pretend. And I would never ask if something had been good. Good is more than I ever hope for with my mother.
"I guess it wasn't too terrible," she allowed.
In a world of broken glasses, in the world my mother inhabits, this is almost praise.
I thought back on all the laughter, the spring flowers, the hula-hooping, the girls. I didn't know what she was waiting for—a personal hallelujah chorus? Couldn't she just be happy for once? There wasn't much time left.
"You might want to try enjoying it," I told her. "This might be as good as it gets. ~ Tara Austen Weaver,#NFDB
1409:l. She
dared one more quick look at the tat, but her attention soon
moved to the size of the muscle on which it had been inked.
Definitely leer-worthy. When he passed beside her on his
way toward the back of the room, she caught a whiff of sexy
aftershave and stifled a groan. Millicent was going to be all
a-twitter over him. Tara just knew it.
When she heard someone behind her whisper, “He’s
sooo hot,” she couldn’t help but silently agree.
But it was another girl’s answer that made her curious.
“Yeah . . . but no one in her right mind would mess with
him.”
“Bethany did.”
“But not for long.”
“Yeah. Right.”
Ahah. Bethany must be the girl glaring at him beside the
teacher’s desk. ~ Sharon Sala,#NFDB
1410:sometimes he feels a pull towards Francesca. She was the reason he came into the group. It was her misery that united them and somehow her personality that kept them together when everyone split. She’s the one that writes the letter to kept the world informed. She listens to the news every hour to make sure everyone’s safe. So tonight he walks away even though she’s moved forward to give him a hug. Because he wants to kiss her, and knows she’ll hate him for it and that he’ll hate himself. He knows it’s for all the wrong reasons and that he’ll end up thinking of Tara Finke and her Brazilian peacekeeper and will Trombal and how he doesn’t do romance, but it eats the space between him and Francesca every time he’s in the room with her. ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
1411:In the Lakota/Sioux tradition, a person who is grieving is considered most wakan, most holy. There's a sense that when someone is struck by the sudden lightning of loss, he or she stands on the threshold of the spirit world. The prayers of those who grieve are considered especially strong, and it is proper to ask them for their help.
You might recall what it's like to be with someone who has grieved deeply. The person has no layer of protection, nothing left to defend. The mystery is looking out through that person's eyes. For the time being, he or she has accepted the reality of loss and has stopped clinging to the past or grasping at the future. In the groundless openness of sorrow, there is a wholeness of presence and a deep natural wisdom. ~ Tara Brach,#NFDB
1412:I knew what it was to have a misconception corrected—a misconception of such magnitude that shifting it shifted the world. Now I needed to understand how the great gatekeepers of history had come to terms with their own ignorance and partiality. I thought if I could accept that what they had written was not absolute but was the result of a biased process of conversation and revision, maybe I could reconcile myself with the fact that the history most people agreed upon was not the history I had been taught. Dad could be wrong, and the great historians Carlyle and Macaulay and Trevelyan could be wrong, but from the ashes of their dispute I could construct a world to live in. In knowing the ground was not ground at all, I hoped I could stand on it. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1413:What happened with Dane?” Jack asked casually. “Did you break up?”
“No, not at all. We’re still together.” I paused uncomfortably before adding, “But we’re on . . . hiatus. Just for three months, until Tara comes for her baby and I go back to Austin.”
“Does that mean you’re free to see other people?”
“We’ve always been free to see other people. Dane and I have an open relationship. No promises, no commitments.”
“There is no such thing. A relationship is promises and commitments.”
“To conventional people, maybe. But Dane and I believe you can’t own someone.”
“Sure you can,” Jack said.
I raised my brows.
“Maybe it’s different in Austin,” Jack continued. “But in Houston, a dog doesn’t share his bone.”
-Jack & Ella ~ Lisa Kleypas,#NFDB
1414:Before we returned to Harvard, I convinced my parents to take a detour to Niagara Falls. The mood in the car was heavy, and at first I regretted having suggested the diversion, but the moment Dad saw the falls he was transformed, elated. I had a camera. Dad had always hated cameras but when he saw mine his eyes shone with excitement. “Tara! Tara!” he shouted, running ahead of me and Mother. “Get yourself a picture of this angle. Ain’t that pretty!” It was as if he realized we were making a memory, something beautiful we might need later. Or perhaps I’m projecting, because that was how I felt. There are some photos from today that might help me forget the grove, I wrote in my journal. There’s a picture of me and Dad happy, together. Proof that’s possible. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1415:I’d always known that my father believed in a different God. As a child, I’d been aware that although my family attended the same church as everyone in our town, our religion was not the same. They believed in modesty; we practiced it. They believed in God’s power to heal; we left our injuries in God’s hands. They believed in preparing for the Second Coming; we were actually prepared. For as long as I could remember, I’d known that the members of my own family were the only true Mormons I had ever known, and yet for some reason, here at this university, in this chapel, for the first time I felt the immensity of the gap. I understood now: I could stand with my family, or with the gentiles, on the one side or the other, but there was no foothold in between. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1416:As Annie Dillard wrote: "We have less time than we knew."
I wanted my mother to understand that I didn't plan picnics and parties because life was perfect and easy—I planned them because it wasn't. I planned them because my friend had died, because another friend's father had been diagnosed with cancer, because none of us knew what the future held. I planned them because, on the long, difficult slog up the mountain, it's important to stop and look at the view. I planned them because what is all the work for if you cannot gather the people you love around you in a golden sunset and laugh together? I planned them because winter was coming and we needed warm memories to sustain us.
We have less time than we knew. I understood that now. ~ Tara Austen Weaver,#NFDB
1417:That’s your project,” he said. “You can do something no one has done: you can examine Mormonism not just as a religious movement, but as an intellectual one.” I began to reread the letters of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. As a child I’d read those letters as an act of worship; now I read them with different eyes, not the eyes of a critic, but also not the eyes of a disciple. I examined polygamy, not as a doctrine but as a social policy. I measured it against its own aims, as well as against other movements and theories from the same period. It felt like a radical act. My friends in Cambridge had become a kind of family, and I felt a sense of belonging with them that, for many years, had been absent on Buck’s Peak. Sometimes I felt damned for those feelings. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1418:In class I had been taught about neurotransmitters and their effect on brain chemistry; I understood that disease is not a choice. This knowledge might have made me sympathetic to my father, but it didn’t. I felt only anger. We were the ones who’d paid for it, I thought. Mother. Luke. Shawn. We had been bruised and gashed and concussed, had our legs set on fire and our heads cut open. We had lived in a state of alert, a kind of constant terror, our brains flooding with cortisol because we knew that any of those things might happen at any moment. Because Dad always put faith before safety. Because he believed himself right, and he kept on believing himself right—after the first car crash, after the second, after the bin, the fire, the pallet. And it was us who paid. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1419:It had played out when, for reasons I don’t understand, I was unable to climb through the mirror and send out my sixteen-year-old self in my place. Until that moment she had always been there. No matter how much I appeared to have changed—how illustrious my education, how altered my appearance—I was still her. At best I was two people, a fractured mind. She was inside, and emerged whenever I crossed the threshold of my father’s house. That night I called on her and she didn’t answer. She left me. She stayed in the mirror. The decisions I made after that moment were not the ones she would have made. They were the choices of a changed person, a new self. You could call this selfhood many things. Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal. I call it an education. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1420:The more different someone seems from us, the more unreal they may feel to us. We can too easily ignore or dismiss people when they are of a different race or religion, when they come from a different socioeconomic “class.” Assessing them as either superior or inferior, better or worse, important or unimportant, we distance ourselves. Fixating on appearances—their looks, behavior, ways of speaking—we peg them as certain types. They are HIV positive or an alcoholic, a leftist or fundamentalist, a criminal or power monger, a feminist or do-gooder. Sometimes our typecasting has more to do with temperament—the person is boring or narcissistic, needy or pushy, anxious or depressed. Whether extreme or subtle, typing others makes the real human invisible to our eyes and closes our heart. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1421:That only seemed to anger her more. “Are you the one who will take me home?” “If you prefer, I could float you back.” He expected her to cut loose with profanity all over him. But she surprised him. “You know, your sarcasm isn’t appreciated right now. I’ve been drugged, beaten, nearly raped, saved, drugged again, hijacked, and now threatened by you. Tell me, what else should I look forward to? Torture, or just a good maiming?” Nykyrian did something he’d never done before. He backed off. She was right. She’d been through one hell of an ordeal and all things considered, she’d come out of it with her spirit intact. He cut a slight bow to her. “Forgive me, mu Tara. I’m not trained for manners.” Kiara would have asked him what he was trained for, but the answer was obvious. To kill. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
1422:Mohini was a regal white tiger who lived for many years at the Washington, D.C. National Zoo. For most of those years her home was in the old lion house—a typical twelve-by-twelve-foot cage with iron bars and a cement floor. Mohini spent her days pacing restlessly back and forth in her cramped quarters. Eventually, biologists and staff worked together to create a natural habitat for her. Covering several acres, it had hills, trees, a pond and a variety of vegetation. With excitement and anticipation they released Mohini into her new and expansive environment. But it was too late. The tiger immediately sought refuge in a corner of the compound, where she lived for the remainder of her life. Mohini paced and paced in that corner until an area twelve by twelve feet was worn bare of grass. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1423:My strongest memory is not a memory. It's something I imagined, then came to remember as if it had happened. The memory was formed when I was five, just before I turned six, from a story my father told in such detail that I and my brothers and sister had each conjured our own cinematic version, with gunfire and shouts. Mine had crickets. That's the sound I hear as my family huddles in the kitchen, lights off, hiding from the Feds who've surrounded the house. A woman reaches for a glass of water and her silhouette is lighted by the moon. A shot echoes like the lash of a whip and she falls. In my memory it's always Mother who falls, and she has a baby in her arms.
The baby doesn't make sense - I'm the youngest of my mother's seven children - but like I said, none of this happened. ~ Tara Westover,#NFDB
1424:I had decided to study not history, but historians. I suppose my interest came from the sense of groundlessness I'd felt since learning about the Holocaust and the civil rights movement--since realizing that what a person knows about the past is limited, and will always be limited, to what they are told by others. I knew what it was to have a misconception corrected--a misconception of such magnitude that shifting it shifted the world. Now I needed to understand how the great gatekeepers of history had come to terms with their own ignorance and partiality. I thought if I could accept that what they had written was not absolute but was the result of a biased process of conversation and revision, maybe I could reconcile myself with the fact that the history most people agreed upon was not the history I had been taught. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1425:Sometimes I wondered if my mother's unconventional choices were her billboard to a cruel world: I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK OF ME. Had she chosen to walk away, or did she withdraw early to avoid failure? Were my mother's eccentricities a strength or just the way she covered up her own vulnerabilities? I knew from my own life that it's easier to pretend you don't want the thing you cannot have.
I feared rejection as well. The isolation and lack of communication I had been raised with made me feel—not that I was doing things wrong, but that I was wrong. I feared opening up by home would reveal all my messy, broken bits, all the ways I continually failed. If anyone got close enough to see, I was sure they wouldn't want to know me.
After years of shutting people out, how could I possibly let them in? ~ Tara Austen Weaver,#NFDB
1426:I could probably go back further still. Back to ancestors who fled from oppression, who hid from armies, who survived on their wits. Perhaps my mother expects the worst because her people so often experienced it. My brother and I are the first generation to know privilege, to have opportunities and advantages. It seems ungrateful to complain.
But what a cross to bear—to expect the worst, to wait for the sky to fall. All my life I had been told it wasn't if the world would go to hell, just when. Tomorrow? Next week? It's best to be prepared.
I didn't want to live like that. I wanted grace.
And yet, I owed my existence to the fears that had made my ancestors suspicious. Those who trusted often died. Only the crafty and cynical made it out alive. Who am I to say where the line should be drawn? ~ Tara Austen Weaver,#NFDB
1427:I carried the books to my room and read through the night. I loved the fiery pages of Mary Wollstonecraft, but there was a single line written by John Stuart Mill that, when I read it, moved the world: "It is a subject on which nothing final can be known." The subject Mill had in mind was the nature of women. Mill claimed that women have been coaxed, cajoled, shoved and squashed into a series of feminine contortions for so many centuries, that it is now quite impossible to define their natural abilities or aspirations.
Blood rushed to my brain; I felt an animating surge of adrenaline, of possibility, of a frontier being pushed outward. Of the nature of women, nothing final can be known. Never had I found such comfort in a void, in the black absence of knowledge. It seemed to say: whatever you are, you are woman. ~ Tara Westover,#NFDB
1428:A brittle smile worked across my face, and I drew back from her. “See you later, Mom.”
She picked up her handbag, and sauntered out into the hallway. Jack looked around the doorjamb, his gaze sliding over me. “I’ll be back in a minute.”
By the time Jack had returned, I had downed a shot of tequila from the pantry, hoping the liquor would burn through my head-to-toe numbness. It hadn’t. I felt like a freezer that needed to be defrosted. Luke fretted in my arms, making impatient noises, wriggling.
Jack came to me and touched my chin, forcing me to meet his searching gaze.
“Now aren’t you sorry you didn’t take my advice and leave?” I asked morosely.
“No. I wanted to see what you grew up with.”
“I guess you can tell why Tara and I both needed therapy.”
“Hell, I need therapy, and I only spent an hour with her. ~ Lisa Kleypas,#NFDB
1429:Ichecked myself over nervously. I had never been the new kid before, and I wanted at least one friend before the day was done. One besides Josh. Girlfriends were a necessity. Plenty had eyed me up at the ball but none had been brave enough to talk to me. Not even when I danced with Josh. I smiled unintentionally, thinking about Josh. Perhaps he would be my only friend. I could live with that, couldn’t I? No. Girlfriends were a necessity. Who would I toil over Josh with? And who would I talk about Briton with? No, I needed fiends. I surveyed my gray skinny jeans, black-and-white striped three-quarter-sleeve shirt, and knee-high beige dress boots, and grinned. I looked like a city kid. Great. No one would want to hang with me. My long hair looked silky and fine, not thick and unruly like it truly was, and I had on too much makeup. Yikes. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
1430:God loves all of us,” she says, “and She wants us to know that She has changed Her garment merely. She is beyond female and male, She is beyond human understanding. But She calls your attention to that which you have forgotten. Jews: look to Miriam, not Moses, for what you can learn from her. Muslims: look to Fatima, not Muhammad. Buddhists: remember Tara, the mother of liberation. Christians: pray to Mary for your salvation. “You have been taught that you are unclean, that you are not holy, that your body is impure and could never harbor the divine. You have been taught to despise everything you are and to long only to be a man. But you have been taught lies. God lies within you, God has returned to earth to teach you, in the form of this new power. Do not come to me looking for answers, for you must find the answers within yourself. ~ Naomi Alderman, #NFDB
1431:But it’s okay, it’s fine, because Tara is saying let’s go and dance before it wears off, so they all go and stand in the railway arches in a loose group facing the DJ and the lights, and they dance for a while in the dry ice, grinning and nodding and exchanging that strange puckered frown, eyebrows knitted, but the nodding and grinning are less from elation now, more from a need for reassurance that they’re still having fun, that it isn’t all about to end. Dexter wonders if he should take his shirt off, that sometimes helps, but the moment has passed. Someone nearby shouts ‘tune’ half-heartedly, but no-one’s convinced, there are no tunes. The enemy, self-consciousness, is creeping up on them and Gibbsy or Biggsy is the first to crack, declaring that the music is shit and everyone stops dancing immediately as if a spell has been broken. ~ David Nicholls, #NFDB
1432:It is not in my nature to see what is not there. I've never felt like I could create a new reality—I was too busy trying to make the pieces I had been given fit together. It didn't occur to me that I could walk away and start from scratch.
To create takes more than imagination. There is an audacity to creation, whether you are designing a new house, a new life, or a new garden bed. There must be an overriding belief in your own worth—and in a world benevolent enough to make room for your vision. To be able to create, you need to have faith.
I do not come from people who have faith. I come from people who expect to be wiped out in a freak snowstorm in July.
And yet, looking around this bedraggled side yard, I tried to imagine what it might look like. I mustered up all I had, and I began to dream and make plans. ~ Tara Austen Weaver,#NFDB
1433:We're not going to make it," I said.
The words caught in my throat, choking me. What was it Leslie had said to me when we were discussing Shannon's and Antoinetta's disappearance? 'You're beginning to sound like one of the characters in your books, Adam.' She'd been right. If this were a novel my heroes would have arrived just in the nick of time and saved the day. But real life didn't work like that. Real life had no happy endings. Despite our best efforts, despite my love for Tara [his wife] and my determination to protect her, and after everything we'd been through at the LeHorn house, fate conspired against us. We were still nine or ten miles from home, and night was almost upon us. By the time we got there it would already be too late. I fought back tears. I had the urge just to lie down in the middle of the road and let the next car run over me. ~ Brian Keene,#NFDB
1434:But the real drama had already played out in the bathroom. It had played out when, for reasons I don’t understand, I was unable to climb through the mirror and send out my sixteen-year-old self in my place. Until that moment she had always been there. No matter how much I appeared to have changed—how illustrious my education, how altered my appearance—I was still her. At best I was two people, a fractured mind. She was inside, and emerged whenever I crossed the threshold of my father’s house. That night I called on her and she didn’t answer. She left me. She stayed in the mirror. The decisions I made after that moment were not the ones she would have made. They were the choices of a changed person, a new self. You could call this selfhood many things. Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal. I call it an education. This story is not about Mormonism. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1435:I was wrong to tell you that this is a story about the failures of love. No, it is about real love, true love. Imperfect, wretched, weak love. No fairy tales, no poetry. It is about the negotiations we undertake with ourselves in the name of love. Every day we struggle to decide what to give away and what to keep, but every day we make that calculation and we live with the results. This then is the true lesson: there is nothing romantic about love. Only the most naive believe it will save them. Only the hardiest of us will survive it.
And yet, And yet! We believe in love because we want to believe in it. Because really what else is there, amid all our glorious follies and urges and weaknesses and stumbles? The magic, the hope, the gorgeous idea of it. Because when the lights go out and we sit waiting in the dark, what do our fingers seek? Who do we teach for? ~ Tara Conklin,#NFDB
1436:That peace did not come easily. I spent two years enumerating my father’s flaws, constantly updating the tally, as if reciting every resentment, every real and imagined act of cruelty, of neglect, would justify my decision to cut him from my life. Once justified, I thought the strangling guilt would release me and I could catch my breath. But vindication has no power over guilt. No amount of anger or rage directed at others can subdue it, because guilt is never about them. Guilt is the fear of one’s own wretchedness. It has nothing to do with other people. I shed my guilt when I accepted my decision on its own terms, without endlessly prosecuting old grievances, without weighing his sins against mine. Without thinking of my father at all. I learned to accept my decision for my own sake, because of me, not because of him. Because I needed it, not because he deserved it. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1437:The two left wheels of Tara and Abelard’s carriage lurched off the ground as the driver swung them into the narrow gap between a large driverless wagon and a mounted courier. Tara scrambled to the elevated side of the passenger cabin, eyes wide, and shot an angry look at Abelard when he chortled. The airborne wheels returned to the cobblestones with a bone-jarring thud. Tara’s teeth clapped together so hard her jaw ached. “Is our driver insane?” He brought one finger to his lips. “Don’t let him hear you. Cabbies in Alt Coulumb are touchy, with reason. The Guild has zero tolerance for accidents.” “They fire you if you have a wreck?” “It involves fire, yes. Trust me, there’s no safer place on the road in Alt Coulumb than in a cab.” “Especially when there are cabs on the road,” she noted as they cut off a one-horse hatchback, which careened out of control into a delivery wagon. ~ Max Gladstone, #NFDB
1438:La Ierusalim oamenii mergeau intotdeauna ca dupa un mort sau ca intarziatii la un concert. Mai intai puneau jos varful pantofului si incercau pamantul. Apoi, dupa ce asezau piciorul, nu se grabeau deloc sa-l miste: asteptasem doua mii de ani ca sa putem pune piciorul in Ierusalim, si nu voiam sa renuntam la asta. Daca ridicam piciorul s-ar fi putut sa vina cineva si sa ne insface fasiuta de tara. Pe de alta parte, dupa ce ai ridicat piciorul, nu te pripi sa-l pui iar jos: cine stie in ce cuib de vipere poti calca. Sute de ani ne-am platit cu sange impetuozitatea, am cazut iar si iar in mainile dusmanilor pentru ca am pus picioarele pe pamant fara sa ne uitam pe unde mergem. Cam asa paseau oamenii la Ierusalim. Dar la Tel Aviv - maiculita! Intreg orasul era o lacusta uriasa. Oamenii saltau, ca si casele, strazile, pietele, briza marii, nisipul, bulevardele, si chiar norii de pe cer. ~ Amos Oz, #NFDB
1439:Throughout the South for fifty years there would be bitter-eyed women who looked backward, to dead times, to dead men, evoking memories that hurt and were futile, bearing poverty with bitter pride because they had those memories. But Scarlett was never to look back.
She gazed at the blackened stones and, for the last time, she saw Twelve Oaks rise before her eyes as it had once stood, rich and proud, symbol of a race and a way of living. Then she started down the road toward Tara, the heavy basket cutting into her flesh.
Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach again and she said aloud:
“As God is my witness, as God is my witness, the Yankees aren’t going to lick me. I’m going to live through this, and when it’s over, I’m never going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill–as God is my witness, I’m never going to be hungry again. ~ Margaret Mitchell,#NFDB
1440:I can’t believe that someone’s life can be bartered and sold so easily. That it’s so common that there are even names for the different ways to take a person’s life. For torturing them? My God, what is wrong with you people?” “We’re not the ones who are sick, mu Tara. With us—the predators—you know what we’ll do and why we do it. What we’re capable of. We make no bones about it and we wear the uniform so that you can see us coming. The ones who are sickening are the cowards who masquerade as sheep. The ones who lull you into trusting them and smile at your face while they plot your downfall behind your back for any number of psychotic reasons. The friends who turn on you out of jealousy or greed. Who try to ruin you for no reason at all. They are the ones who should be put down.” For once, she heard the hatred underlying those words. “And they’re the ones who are truly sickening. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
1441:Now she could look back down the long years and see herself in green flowered dimity, standing in the sunshine at Tara, thrilled by the young horseman with his blond hair shining like a silver helmet. She could see so clearly now that he was only a childish fancy, no more important really than her spoiled desire for the aquamarine earbobs she had coaxed out of Gerald. For, once she owned the earbobs, they had lost their value, as everything except money lost its value once it was hers. And so he, too, would have become cheap if, in those first far-away days, she had ever had the satisfaction of refusing to marry him. If she had ever had him at her mercy, seen him grown passionate, importunate, jealous, sulky, pleading, like the other boys, the wild infatuation which had possessed her would have passed, blowing away as lightly as mist before sunshine and light wind when she met a new man. ~ Margaret Mitchell, #NFDB
1442:over me. And his brother offers me his hand. “The girl who tamed the beast. It’s nice to finally meet.” Andy laughs. I can tell by the sparkle in his eyes he knows exactly what his brother is like. “Come on, let's sit and get ready.” Their mom sits and drags me with her. “How did BJ seem today? He gets tense sometimes when it’s game day. Was he tense?” She’s tense but I get it. This is a lifetime of work coming to a head. The culmination of a family full of dreams all coming true in one moment. Sami sits next to me, doing her indifferent face. It’s weird being with them and being with my family. The life was the same and then completely opposite. His parents wanted what was best for him, same as mine, and they had a dream for him, same as mine, but they let him choose the dream, in the end. My dad did that for me, but my mom didn't. I wish she could see and feel what this moment is like. I wish I ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
1443:Acaba bu da seni fazlasıyla etkisi altına almış bilimkurgu filmleriyle mi ilgili?”dedi Jay gözlerini devirip.
“ Hayır… Bu seferki korku filmleriyle ilgili. Madde 1; dağın başındaysan, yağmur yağıyorsa, düşmek ve ya diri diri gömülmek için son derece elverişli pek çok alan varsa birden çok gruba ayrılmak demek; iki grupta da sadece bir kişi kalıp onlarda finalde dramatik bir şekilde birleşinceye dek herkesin ölmesi demektir… Grup falan yok.”
“ Tara, onlar sadece kurgu.”dedi Jay bütün kelimeleri Tara’nın iyice anlamasını ister gibi tek tek ve yavaşça telaffuz etmişti.
“ Sahi mi? Son bir hafta da yaptığın film konusu olamayacak kadar sıradan tek bir olay söyle ben de tek başıma bütün dağı dolaşayım.” Jay bir çizgi halini alıncaya dek dudaklarını sinirle birbirlerine bastırdı. Tara yüzüne çarpık bir gülümseme yerleştirip el fenerini açarak Jay’in yüzüne tuttu.
“ Ben de öyle düşünmüştüm. ~ zge Il k,#NFDB
1444:For one bitter moment, I thought Dad had lied. Then I remembered the fear on his face, the heavy rattling of his breath, and I felt certain that he’d really believed we were in danger. I reached for some explanation and strange words came to mind, words I’d learned only minutes before: paranoia, mania, delusions of grandeur and persecution. And finally the story made sense—the one on the page, and the one that had lived in me through childhood. Dad must have read about Ruby Ridge or seen it on the news, and somehow as it passed through his feverish brain, it had ceased to be a story about someone else and had become a story about him. If the Government was after Randy Weaver, surely it must also be after Gene Westover, who’d been holding the front line in the war with the Illuminati for years. No longer content to read about the brave deeds of others, he had forged himself a helmet and mounted a nag. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1445:Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were. It was always in you. Not in Cambridge. In you. You are gold. And returning to BYI, or even that mountain you came from, will not change who you are. It may change how others see you, it may even change how you see yourself—even gold appears dull in some lighting—but that is the illusion. And it always was.... The most powerful determination of who you are is inside you, he said, ‘Professor Steinberg says this Pygmalion.... She was just a cockney in a nice dress. Until she believed in herself. Then it didn’t matter what dress she wore.’
I wanted to believe him, to take his words and remake myself, but I’d never had that kind of faith. No matter how deeply I interred the memories, how tightly I shut my eyes against them, when I thought of my self, the images that came to mind were of that girl, in the bathroom, in the parking lot. ~ Tara Westover,#NFDB
1446:A MAN I praise that once in Tara's Hals
Said to the woman on his knees, "Lie still.
My hundredth year is at an end. I think
That something is about to happen, I think
That the adventure of old age begins.
To many women I have said, ""Lie still,''
And given everything a woman needs,
A roof, good clothes, passion, love perhaps,
But never asked for love; should I ask that,
I shall be old indeed.'
Thereon the man
Went to the Sacred House and stood between
The golden plough and harrow and spoke aloud
That all attendants and the casual crowd might hear.
"God I have loved, but should I ask return
Of God or woman, the time were come to die.'
He bade, his hundred and first year at end,
Diggers and carpenters make grave and coffin;
Saw that the grave was deep, the coffin sound,
Summoned the generations of his house,
Lay in the coffin, stopped his breath and died.
~ William Butler Yeats, In Taras Halls
,#NFDB
1447:Mother charged about five hundred dollars for a delivery, and this was another way midwifing changed her: suddenly she had money. Dad didn’t believe that women should work, but I suppose he thought it was all right for Mother to be paid for midwifing, because it undermined the Government. Also, we needed the money. Dad worked harder than any man I knew, but scrapping and building barns and hay sheds didn’t bring in much, and it helped that Mother could buy groceries with the envelopes of small bills she kept in her purse. Sometimes, if we’d spent the whole day flying about the valley, delivering herbs and doing prenatal exams, Mother would use that money to take me and Audrey out to eat. Grandma-over-in-town had given me a journal, pink with a caramel-colored teddy bear on the cover, and in it I recorded the first time Mother took us to a restaurant, which I described as “real fancy with menus and everything.” According to the entry, my meal came to $3.30. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1448:In those days, when my mother visited Seattle to see her grandchildren, she brought books. On the inside cover she always inscribed the same message. It was what she told the girls on the phone from California . . . Grandma loves you all the time.
As the girls grew, they learned to parrot my mother, they said it together at the end of phone conversations or when she was leaving after a visit. Their high, chirpy voices blended with her own low tones to make a chant, a chorus, a call to arms. She would start and they would join in: "Grandma loves you all the time."
They thought it was a game, a joke. Only I knew the sad, scared place it came from. Only I knew what it really meant: a little girl with a single memory of her own mother. A little girl who did not remember ever being loved.
Even if she is not here, even when you cannot see her, even if she dies, even if you don't remember her: Grandma loves you all the time. ~ Tara Austen Weaver,#NFDB
1449:My mom won’t let him.” I sighed. “She’s starting to really get on my nerves, too.” Krysta’s eyes widened. “Why?” “Ever since Rose Marie came home, it’s been Rose Marie this or baby that. You should see the money my mom has spent. She already bought a crib and they’re painting dinosaurs all over my bedroom. They didn’t even ask me.” “I don’t think it’s your bedroom anymore, Sophie,” Krysta reminded me. AJ leaned forward and narrowed her gaze. “You sound jealous, Sophie.” “Jealous?” I snapped, ready to tear off AJ’s head. “How could you say that, AJ? Why would you think I’m jealous? They’ve just thrown their lives down the toilet and you think I’m jealous?” AJ leaned back and shrugged. “You don’t have to get so defensive. It was just an observation.” “I’m not jealous.” The pitch in my voice rose. “It just pisses me off that Rose Marie screws up and she gets the royal treatment. Mom wouldn’t do that for me.” “Yep.” AJ waved her finger at me. “That’s jealousy.” “You ~ Tara West, #NFDB
1450:And let’s face it people, no one is ever honest with you about child birth. Not even your mother. “It’s a pain you forget all about once you have that sweet little baby in your arms.” Bullshit. I CALL BULLSHIT. Any friend, cousin, or nosey-ass stranger in the grocery store that tells you it’s not that bad is a lying sack of shit. Your vagina is roughly the size of the girth of a penis. It has to stretch and open andturn into a giant bat cave so the life-sucking human you’ve been growing for nine months can angrily claw its way out. Who in their right mind would do that willingly? You’re just walking along one day and think to yourself, “You know, I think it’s time I turn my vagina into an Arby’s Beef and Cheddar (minus the cheddar) and saddle myself down for a minimum of eighteen years to someone who will suck the soul and the will to live right out of my body so I’m a shell of the person I used to be and can’t get laid even if I pay for it. ~ Tara Sivec, #NFDB
1451:For two days we explored Rome, a city that is both a living organism and a fossil. Bleached structures from antiquity lay like dried bones, embedded in pulsating cables and thrumming traffic, the arteries of modern life. We visited the Pantheon, the Roman Forum, the Sistine Chapel. My instinct was to worship, to venerate. That was how I felt toward the whole city: that it should be behind glass, adored from a distance, never touched, never altered. My companions moved through the city differently, aware of its significance but not subdued by it. They were not hushed by the Trevi Fountain; they were not silenced by the Colosseum. Instead, as we moved from one relic to the next, they debated philosophy—Hobbes and Descartes, Aquinas and Machiavelli. There was a kind of symbiosis in their relationship to these grand places: they gave life to the ancient architecture by making it the backdrop of their discourse, by refusing to worship at its altar as if it were a dead thing. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1452:A startling thought this, that a woman could handle business
matters as well as or better than a man, a revolutionary thought to
Scarlett who had been reared in the tradition that men were
omniscient and women none too bright. Of course, she had
discovered that this was not altogether true but the pleasant
fiction still stuck in her mind. Never before had she put this
remarkable idea into words. She sat quite still, with the heavy
book across her lap, her mouth a little open with surprise,
thinking that during the lean months at Tara she had done a man's
work and done it well. She had been brought up to believe that a
woman alone could accomplish nothing, yet she had managed the
plantation without men to help her until Will came. Why, why, her
mind stuttered, I believe women could manage everything in the
world without men's help--except having babies, and God knows, no
woman in her right mind would have babies if she could help it. ~ Margaret Mitchell,#NFDB
1453:There is a certain kind of man who is forever searching. He wanders from place to place, he looks hard into the eyes of women and men in every town, maybe he scratches the earth or wields a gun, remedies illnesses or writes books, and there is always a vague emptiness within him. It is the emptiness that drives him and he does not know even how to name that thing that might fill it. No idea of home or love or peace comes to him. He does not know, so he cannot stop. On and on he moves. and the emptiness blinds him and pulls at him and he is like a newborn baby searching for the teat, knowing it is there, but where?
And sometimes such a man is handed a gift. A gift of direction. A path that is marked for him and there, yes, this will ease your suffering, it is sure. This will cure you, it will fill you up, at least for a time. There will be a home, and love, there will no longer be the sorrow when you look at a cold night sky, the sorrow as the sun rises and the mist burns away. ~ Tara Conklin,#NFDB
1454:The blessing was a mercy. He was offering me the same terms of surrender he had offered my sister. I imagined what a relief it must have been for her, to realize she could trade her reality—the one she shared with me—for his. How grateful she must have felt to pay such a modest price for her betrayal. I could not judge her for her choice, but in that moment I knew I could not choose it for myself. Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create. If I yielded now, I would lose more than an argument. I would lose custody of my own mind. This was the price I was being asked to pay, I understood that now. What my father wanted to cast from me wasn’t a demon: it was me. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1455:The Fianna[20] recruited at the great fairs, especially at Tara, Uisnech, and Taillte. The greatest discrimination was used in choosing the eligible ones from amongst the candidate throng — which throng included in plenty sons of chieftains and princes. But no candidate would be considered unless he, his family, and clan, were prepared philosophically to accept for him life or death, all the daily hazards of a hazardous career — and that his family and his clan should, from the day he joined the Fian, renounce all claims to satisfaction or vengeance for his injuring or ending. His comrades must henceforth be his moral heirs and executors, who would seek and get the satisfaction due if he were wounded or killed by any means that violated the code of honor and justice. And, it should here be remarked that the high ethical code of the Red Branch Knights in the days of Christ was not any more admirable than the code of justice and of honor observed now, two centuries after, by the Fian. Many ~ Seumas MacManus, #NFDB
1456:There’s a moment in [Anne of Green Gables] where Anne Shirley (great character) […] is in the same classroom as Gilbert Blythe and she hit’s him over the head with a slate, which is their kind of writing tool, and I always say that moment for me was just, I was just absolutely mesmerised. I thought it was so romantic, though she hated his guts. I would always say that in every one of my novels there is a moment where my characters metaphorically hit their potential love interests over the head with a slate. It could be that winning an argument or getting the upper hand, an example in say The Piper’s Son could be here’s Tom thinking it will be easy, text messaging Tara saying ‘How’s it going, babe’ and her response, that for me is the hitting someone over the head with a slate. It happens in Saving Francesca when she kind of meets Will and Will’s such a bastard to her. So they’re moments I kind of adopted and I loved that particular one, so I would say [L.M. Montgomery] was a major influence. ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
1457:Are you serious about leaving?"
I touched my aching face. "Yes.But I don't know how."
"I'd go with you," Colin said quietly.
"Really?"
"You know I would."
"If you could do anything, what would you do? Would you go back to Ireland?"
"Maybe," he said. "I've no family left there but I miss the green hills. I'd love to show them to you, show you Tara and the Cliffs of Moher.We could live in a thatched cottage and keep sheep."
I grinned at him. "If you clean up after them."
"What would be your perfect day then?" he asked, grinning back at me. "If you don't like my sheep?"
"Your cottage sounds nice," I allowed. "I'd like to sleep in late and read as many books as I'd like and drink tea with lemon and eat pineapple slices for breakfast."
"No velvet dresses and diamonds?"
I rolled my eyes, then stopped when the bruises throbbed. "Ouch.And no, of course not.I don't care about that. Only books." I looked at him shyly. "And you."
"That's all right then," he said softly. ~ Alyxandra Harvey,#NFDB
1458:stairwell and started the climb to the seventh floor. He was knackered by the time they got to the third, but his agitation drove him on. Amisha's smooth and regular breathing, as she bounded up behind, stood in stark contrast to H's heavy panting. H reached the seventh. Ignoring the faces surprised to see him turning up at work, he steered a path through the open plan office and burst his way into the incident room, where an update on the Tara case was in progress. ‘Inspector Hawkins, how nice of you to drop in,’ said Hilary. ‘This is not your case - please leave immediately and make your way to my office. When I’m finished here you can update me on your case and explain where the hell you have been these last few days.’ H believed in the chain of command when he felt it was necessary. At this moment he didn’t. He stared hard at the officer in charge of the Tara case and went straight to the crux of the matter. ‘Marchant, you got anything yet?’ Miller-Marchant remained silent. H knew what that meant. Hilary ~ Roy Robson, #NFDB
1459:We focus on other people’s faults. There is a saying that the world is divided into people who think they are right. The more inadequate we feel, the more uncomfortable it is to admit our faults. Blaming others temporarily relieves us from the weight of failure. The painful truth is that all of these strategies simply reinforce the very insecurities that sustain the trance of unworthiness. The more we anxiously tell ourselves stories about how we might fail or what is wrong with us or with others, the more we deepen the grooves—the neural pathways—that generate feelings of deficiency. Every time we hide a defeat we reinforce the fear that we are insufficient. When we strive to impress or outdo others, we strengthen the underlying belief that we are not good enough as we are. This doesn’t mean that we can’t compete in a healthy way, put wholehearted effort into work or acknowledge and take pleasure in our own competence. But when our efforts are driven by the fear that we are flawed, we deepen the trance of unworthiness. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1460:spinning too long in a circle. It’s not exactly happiness, but I’ll take it. “Priceless! Legendary!” Courtney’s thumping the back of my seat, and Bethany’s just shaking her head and reaching forward to touch me, eyes wide, amazed, like I’m a saint and she’s trying to cure herself of a disease. Tara’s screaming with laughter. She can barely watch the road, her eyes are tearing up so badly. She chokes out, “Did you see their faces? Did you see?” and I realize I didn’t see. I couldn’t see anything, couldn’t feel anything but the roaring around me, heavy and loud, and it occurs to me that I’m not sure whether this is what it’s like to be really, truly alive or this is what it’s like to be dead, and it strikes me as hilarious. Courtney thumps me one more time, and I see her face rising behind me in the rearview mirror, red as a sun, and I start laughing too, and the four of us laugh all the way back to Ridgeview—over eighteen miles—while the world streaks past us in a smear of blacks and grays, like a bad painting of itself. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
1461:You’ve been downgraded from a thrill-kill to a simple bill-kill. (Nykyrian)
Bill-kill? (Kiara)
Kill you any way possible and send the bill in for payment. (Nykyrian)
I can’t believe that someone’s life can be bartered and sold so easily. That it’s so common that there are even names for the different ways to take a person’s life. For torturing them? My God, what is wrong with you people? (Kiara)
We’re not the ones who are sick, mu Tara. With us –the predators– you know what we’ll do and why we do it. What we’re capable of. We make no bones about it and we wear the uniform so that you can see us coming. The ones who are sickening are the cowards who masquerade as sheep. The ones who lull you into trusting them and smile at your face while they plot your downfall behind your back for any number of psychotic reasons. The friends who turn on you out of jealousy or greed. Who try to ruin you for no reason at all. They are the ones who should be put down. And they’re the ones who are truly sickening. (Nykyrian) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
1462:One tool of mindfulness that can cut through our numbing trance is inquiry. As we ask ourselves questions about our experience, our attention gets engaged. We might begin by scanning our body, noticing what we are feeling, especially in the throat, chest, abdomen and stomach, and then asking, “What is happening?” We might also ask, “What wants my attention right now?” or, “What is asking for acceptance?” Then we attend, with genuine interest and care, listening to our heart, body and mind. Inquiry is not a kind of analytic digging—we are not trying to figure out, “Why do I feel this sadness?” This would only stir up more thoughts. In contrast to the approach of Western psychology, in which we might delve into further stories in order to understand what caused a current situation, the intention of inquiry is to awaken to our experience exactly as it is in this present moment. While inquiry may expose judgments and thoughts about what we feel is wrong, it focuses on our immediate feelings and sensations. I might be feeling like a bad mother ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1463:To try to establish whether these qualities are present in an individual, the first thing Tara does is to take the person in question out to lunch, and then, once the food arrives, to offer to share a bite of hers. Some people will, in effect, say, “No thanks, I ordered what I want and I’m sticking to it.” Others will gladly accept the bite Tara offers and proffer one from their plate in return. Guess which one is the cross-pollinator? Tara in fact finds a high correlation. “People who won’t share food don’t do well with us,” says Tara. “It’s a brutal indicator.”6 (Though she’s learned that this test doesn’t always extend across cultures and nationalities. The British, in her experience, simply don’t like to share food.) “People who share food tend to be less territorial. They’re less likely to say, ‘I ordered that. That’s what I wanted. I got exactly what I wanted,’ and more likely to say, enthusiastically, ‘Hey, what’s the table ordering? I want to try a little of everything.’ Those folks tend to have a lot more ease in our working process. ~ John Seely Brown, #NFDB
1464:The sky is full of the sun and the stars
The universe is full of life
Among all these I have found a place
And in wonder and amazement I sing.
The world is swayed
By eternitys rushing tide
Rising and falling
I have felt its tug in my blood
Racing through my veins
And in wonder and amazement I sing.
While walking in the woodlands
With my feet I have touched the blades of grass
I have been startled by the flowers fragrance
They have all maddened my mind
The gifts of gladness and joy
Are strewn all around
And in wonder and amazement I sing.
I have pricked my ears
I have opened my eyes
I have bared my heart to the world
In the midst of the known
I have sought the unknown
And in wonder and amazement I sing.
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Transcreation of the song Akash bhara surya tara biswabhara pran by Rabindranath Tagore. Listening to Debabrata Biswas singing this wonderful song is a rare experience. Transcreation by Kumud Biswas.
Translated by Kumud Biswas
~ Rabindranath Tagore, And In Wonder And Amazement I Sing
,#NFDB
1465:At Emain and Cruachan, as well as at Tara, the assemblages were primarily political. They were conventions of representatives from all parts, for the purpose of discussing national affairs — and were presided over by the king. The yearly Fair of Taillte (now Telltown) in Meath, was mainly for athletic contests — and for this was long famous throughout Eirinn, Alba, and Britain. In the course of time, too, Taillte acquired new fame as a marriage mart. Boys and girls, in thousands, were brought there by their parents, who matched them, and bargained about their tinnscra (dowry) — in a place set apart for the purpose, whose Gaelic name, signifying marriage-hollow, still commemorates its purpose. The games of Taillte were Ireland’s Olympics, and, we may be sure, caused as keen competition and high excitement as ever did the Grecian. These Tailltin games took place during the first week of August — and the first of August, to this day, is commonly called Lugnasad — the games of the De Danann Lugh, who first instituted this gathering in memory of his foster-mother, Taillte. ~ Seumas MacManus, #NFDB
1466:If there was a single moment when the breach between us, which had been cracking and splintering for two decades, was at last too vast to be bridged, I believe it was that winter night, when I stared at my reflection in the bathroom mirror, while, without my knowing it, my father grasped the phone in his knotted hands and dialed my brother. Diego, the knife. What followed was very dramatic. But the real drama had already played out in the bathroom. It had played out when, for reasons I don’t understand, I was unable to climb through the mirror and send out my sixteen-year-old self in my place. Until that moment she had always been there. No matter how much I appeared to have changed—how illustrious my education, how altered my appearance—I was still her. At best I was two people, a fractured mind. She was inside, and emerged whenever I crossed the threshold of my father’s house. That night I called on her and she didn’t answer. She left me. She stayed in the mirror. The decisions I made after that moment were not the ones she would have made. They were the choices of a changed person, a new self. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1467:And in Wonder and Amazement I Sing
The sky is full of the sun and the stars
The universe is full of life
Among all these I have found a place
And in wonder and amazement I sing.
The world is swayed
By eternitys rushing tide
Rising and falling
I have felt its tug in my blood
Racing through my veins
And in wonder and amazement I sing.
While walking in the woodlands
With my feet I have touched the blades of grass
I have been startled by the flowers fragrance
They have all maddened my mind
The gifts of gladness and joy
Are strewn all around
And in wonder and amazement I sing.
I have pricked my ears
I have opened my eyes
I have bared my heart to the world
In the midst of the known
I have sought the unknown
And in wonder and amazement I sing.
This transcreation of the song Akash bhara surya tara biswabhara pran was created by Kumud Biswas. As he says . . "Listening to Debabrata Biswas singing this wonderful song is a rare experience."
Translated by Kumud Biswas
~ Rabindranath Tagore, Akash Bhara Surya Tara Biswabhara Pran (Translation)
,#NFDB
1468:Buddhism offers a basic challenge to this cultural worldview. The Buddha taught that this human birth is a precious gift because it gives us the opportunity to realize the love and awareness that are our true nature. As the Dalai Lama pointed out so poignantly, we all have Buddha nature. Spiritual awakening is the process of recognizing our essential goodness, our natural wisdom and compassion. In stark contrast to this trust in our inherent worth, our culture’s guiding myth is the story of Adam and Eve’s exile from the Garden of Eden. We may forget its power because it seems so worn and familiar, but this story shapes and reflects the deep psyche of the West. The message of “original sin” is unequivocal: Because of our basically flawed nature, we do not deserve to be happy, loved by others, at ease with life. We are outcasts, and if we are to reenter the garden, we must redeem our sinful selves. We must overcome our flaws by controlling our bodies, controlling our emotions, controlling our natural surroundings, controlling other people. And we must strive tirelessly—working, acquiring, consuming, achieving, e-mailing, overcommitting and rushing—in a never-ending quest to prove ourselves once and for all. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
1469:I think that, to me it’s a story about forgiveness. Some people say to me that they would never forgive Tom for what he did. Other people say ‘well he was grief stricken’. But I still think that the way he acted was awful. There was a trust thing that happened there and especially coming from a character like Tara Finke, he’s not really a player and she’s not really a confidant person on so many different levels. But I think for me there was just, ultimately I know what he did was wrong but there was such a respect between them as people and I like the fact that he had to actually work instead of trying. Like I think in the past he had found it so easy to charm people but at this particular case because he didn’t have her there in front of him, he actually had to work at wooing her back. And I think he succeeds. And there are so many times when people around him don’t think he is going to succeed at that, there’s no way that she will forgive him and I like the fact that she does, and it’s not because she’s a pushover it’s because Tom has really worked at it that he has opened himself to her in the same that that she kind of opened herself to him. I suppose it’s about trust between people in the end. ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
1470:I won’t be here that long. Tara will come for him, and then I’m going back to Austin.”
“Back to what? A guy who bails on you when you need him? What’s Dane doing now that’s more important than helping you? Fighting for the rights of endangered ferns?”
I stiffened and pushed away from him, irritation jolting me out of my fugue-state. “You have no right to judge Dane or my relationship with him.”
Jack made a scoffing sound. “That half-assed excuse for a relationship was over the moment Dane told you not to bring the baby to Austin. You know what he should have said? . . . ‘Hell, yes, Ella, I’ll stand by you no matter what you do. Shit happens. We’ll make it work. Come home now and get in bed.’”
“There was no way Dane could have handled this and kept his company going, and you have no idea how many causes he has, how many people he helps—”
“His woman should be his number-one cause.”
“Spare me the bumper-sticker philosophy. And quit taking cheap shots at Dane. When have you ever put a woman first?”
“I’m about to put you first right now, darlin’.”
That comment could have been construed a few different ways, but the gleam in his eyes gave it a positively filthy spin.
-Ella & Jack ~ Lisa Kleypas,#NFDB
1471:p.cm. Includes indexes.ISBN-13: 978-0-7360-6278-7 (soft cover) ISBN-10: 0-7360-6278-5 (soft cover) 1. Hatha yoga.2. Human anatomy.I.Title.RA781.7. K356 2007 613.7’046--dc22 2007010050 ISBN-10: 0-7360-6278-5 (print) ISBN-13: 978-0-7360-6278-7 (print) ISBN-10: 0-7360-8218-2 (Adobe PDF) ISBN-13: 978-0-7360-8218-1 (Adobe PDF) Copyright © 2007 by The Breathe Trust All rights reserved. Except for use in a review, the reproduction or utilization of this work in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including xerography, photocopying, and recording, and in any information storage and retrieval system, is forbidden without the written permission of the publisher. Acquisitions Editor: Martin Barnard Developmental Editor: Leigh Keylock Assistant Editor: Christine Horger Copyeditor: Patsy Fortney Proofreader: Kathy Bennett Graphic Designer: Fred Starbird Graphic Artist: Tara Welsch Original Cover Designer: Lydia Mann Cover Revisions: Keith Blomberg Art Manager: Kelly Hendren Project Photographer: Lydia Mann Illustrator (cover and interior): Sharon Ellis Printer: United Graphics Human Kinetics books are available at special discounts for bulk purchase. Special editions or book excerpts ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1472:Inainte chiar de a afla vreun raspuns satisfacator, si numai prin faptul ca a fost rostita, intrebarea justa regenereaza si fertilizeaza; si nu numai fiinta omeneasca, ci intreg Cosmosul. Ghicesc in acest simbolism solidaritatea omului cu Firea intreaga; intreaga viata cosmica sufera si se ofileste prin nepasarea omului fata de problemele centrale. Uitand sa ne punem intrebarea justa, pierzandu-ne timpul cu futilitati sau intrebari frivole, ne omoram nu numai pe noi, ci omoram prin moarte lenta si sterilizare o particica din Cosmos. As putea merge si mai departe. As putea presupune ca oamenii continua sa traiasca sanatosi si Cosmosul isi continua ritmurile datorita exclusiv intrebarilor pe care si le pun acei cativa alesi care, asemenea lui Parsifal, patimesc pentru lenea noastra spirituala. Poate ca am deveni, peste noapte, sterpi si bolnavi daca n-ar exista, in fiecare tara si in fiecare moment istoric, anumiti oameni hotarati si luminati, care sa-si puna intrebarea justa... Si n-ar fi deloc exclus ca haosul si catastrofa in care ne pregatim sa intram si noi sa se datoreze, in ultima instanta, disparitiei acestor oameni hotarati si luminati, sau faptului ca nimeni nu se mai indreapta spre ei ca sa le puna, din nou, intrebarea justa... ~ Mircea Eliade, #NFDB
1473:To write my essay I had to read books differently, without giving myself over to either fear or adoration. Because Burke had defended the British monarchy, Dad would have said he was an agent of tyranny. He wouldn't have wanted the book in the house. There was a thrill in trusting myself to read the words. I felt a similar thrill in reading Madison, Hamilton and Jay, especially on those occasions when I discarded their conclusions in favor of Burke's, or when it seemed to me that their ideas were not really different in substance, only in form. There were wonderful suppositions embedded in this method of reading: that books are not tricks, and that I was not feeble.”
― Tara Westover, Educated
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“The hill is paved with wild wheat. If the conifers and sagebrush are soloists, the wheat field is a corps de ballet, each stem following all the rest in bursts of movement, a million ballerinas bending, one after the other, as great gales dent their golden heads.”
― Tara Westover, Educated: A Memoir
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“But vindication has no power over guilt. No amount of anger or rage directed at others can subdue it, because guilt is never about them. Guilt is the fear of one’s own wretchedness. It has nothing to do with other people. ~ Tara Westover,#NFDB
1474:From my father I had learned that books were to be either adored or exiled. Books that were of God—books written by the Mormon prophets or the Founding Fathers—were not to be studied so much as cherished, like a thing perfect in itself. I had been taught to read the words of men like Madison as a cast into which I ought to pour the plaster of my own mind, to be reshaped according to the contours of their faultless model. I read them to learn what to think, not how to think for myself. Books that were not of God were banished; they were a danger, powerful and irresistible in their cunning.
To write my essay I had to read books differently, without giving myself over to either fear or adoration. Because Burke had defended the British monarchy, Dad would have said he was an agent of tyranny. He wouldn’t have wanted the book in the house. There was a thrill in trusting myself to read the words. I felt a similar thrill in reading Madison, Hamilton and Jay, especially on those occasions when I discarded their conclusions in favor of Burke’s, or when it seemed to me that their ideas were not really different in substance, only in form. There were wonderful suppositions embedded in this method of reading: that books are not tricks, and that I was not feeble. ~ Tara Westover,#NFDB
1475:Again starting with an unusual Y-chromosome, they noticed its occurrence in a related set of surnames that were linked to branches of the Ui Neill, the clan that had held the High Kingship at Tara, and had expelled the Dál Riata to Argyll. The Ui Neill equivalent of Somerled was Niall Noigiallach, better known as Niall of the Nine Hostages, who lived in the second half of the fourth century AD. This was a time when the Romans were beginning to withdraw from mainland Britain. According to legend, Niall raided and harassed western Britain and specialized in capturing and then ransoming high-ranking hostages, hence his soubriquet. His most famous captive was one Succat, who went on to become St Patrick. Niall’s military exploits carried him over the sea to Scotland, where he fought the Picts who were trying to retake the recent Irish colonies of Dalriada. It was during a raid even further afield, in France, that an arrow from the bow of an Irish rival killed Niall on the banks of the River Loire in AD 405. Niall was succeeded in the High Kingship by his nephew, Dathi, his father’s brother’s son. This was typical of the Gaelic tradition of derbhfine, the rules of inheritance that chose the new king from among the direct male relatives of the old. This served to ensure the patrilineal inheritance of the High Kingship itself ~ Bryan Sykes, #NFDB
1476:Didn't you get the money for the taxes? Don't tell me the wolf is still at the door of Tara." There was a different tone in his voice.
She looked up to meet his dark eyes and caught an expression which startled and puzzled her at first, and then made her suddenly smile, a sweet and charming smile which was seldom on her face these days. What a perverse wretch he was, but how nice he could be at times! She knew now that the real reason for his call was not to tease her but to make sure she had gotten the money for which she had been so desperate. She knew now that he had hurried to her as soon as he was released, without the slightest appearance of hurry, to lend her the money if she still needed it. And yet he would torment and insult her and deny that such was his intent, should she accuse him. He was quite beyond all comprehension. Did he really care about her, more than he was willing to admit? Or did he have some other motive? Probably the latter, she thought. But who could tell? He did such strange things sometimes.
"No," she said, "the wolf isn't at the door any longer. I--I got the money."
"But not without a struggle, I'll warrant. Did you manage to restrain yourself until you got the wedding ring on your finger?" She tried not to smile at his accurate summing up of her conduct but she could not help dimpling. ~ Margaret Mitchell,#NFDB
1477:Suddenly, the wind got colder for a moment. Colder and fiercer. I had to hold my hair down, the blonde locks thick with mousse and hairspray, as they were being whipped around my face. Something caught my eye. Out in the dark yard, behind the huge maple tree, I saw movement—a dark figure shifting as if to hide behind the tree. A Peeping Tom? Creepy. And you always think in the city you’ll see the weirdos, and there I was in a small town, blatantly staring at a man watching me. Maybe it was Josh. But wouldn’t he just say hi and be my Romeo to his Juliet? Holding my hair to my face, I tried to focus my eyes. But with so little light behind the shape, it was hard to see clearly, and I lost it completely when it stopped moving. I squinted in disbelief at two red slits glowing mid-trunk on the tree. I would’ve thought they were cat’s eyes catching the light, but they seemed much too large and far too high up the trunk of the tree. Not to mention, they were red. If I didn’t know better, I would’ve thought they belonged to the dark figure hiding behind the tree trunk, but that had clearly been a man spying on me. What man had red eyes? I blinked several times, assuming it was a hallucination. When the red eyes didn’t leave and the figure didn’t move from the tree, my stomach sank and my heart raced, but I didn’t move. I was frozen in fear, no—terror. After ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
1478:fantastical. The memories were more real—more believable—than the stone spires. To myself I pretended there were other reasons I couldn’t belong at Cambridge, reasons having to do with class and status: that it was because I was poor, had grown up poor. Because I could stand in the wind on the chapel roof and not tilt. That was the person who didn’t belong in Cambridge: the roofer, not the whore. I can go to school, I had written in my journal that very afternoon. And I can buy new clothes. But I am still Tara Westover. I have done jobs no Cambridge student would do. Dress us any way you like, we are not the same. Clothes could not fix what was wrong with me. Something had rotted on the inside, and the stench was too powerful, the core too rancid, to be covered up by mere dressings. Whether Dr. Kerry suspected any part of this, I’m not sure. But he understood that I had fixated on clothes as the symbol of why I didn’t, and couldn’t, belong. It was the last thing he said to me before he walked away, leaving me rooted, astonished, beside that grand chapel. “The most powerful determinant of who you are is inside you,” he said. “Professor Steinberg says this is Pygmalion. Think of the story, Tara.” He paused, his eyes fierce, his voice piercing. “She was just a cockney in a nice dress. Until she believed in herself. Then it didn’t matter what dress she wore. ~ Tara Westover, #NFDB
1479:Onstage, Hendrix was trying to get a young couple to engage in a dialogue sequence. The pair sat in armchairs facing each other, and Hendrix old the man, Michael, to pay his wife of three months, Tara, a compliment.
'What I appreciate most about you is that you're a good cook,' Michael said.
'So what I'm hearing you saying is that you appreciate that I'm a good cook,' Tara said, She seemed bored.
To prompt Michael, Hendrix began, 'When I think about you as a good cook, I feel--'
'When I think about you as a good cook,' Michael said, 'I feel full, sleepy, and-- sexy.'
'Really?' asked Tara, a little annoyed. The woman sitting next to me groaned.
Hendrix jumped in, 'When I think about you as a good cook, it reminds me of... try to find something from your childhood.'
'When I think about you as a good cook, I--' Michael stopped, then started over. 'When the house smells good, it reminds me of home and when my mom cooked and I feel loved.'
Tara repeated him, her eyes now glassy with affection. Unprompted, she spoke the next line in the sequence: 'Is there anything more to that?' There wasn't. They hugged for sixty seconds as the rest of us watched. Hendrix told the crowd that the length of the average hug is three to nine seconds, but that a good hug, one that 'pushes the boundaries of relationship,' takes a whole minute. ~ Jessica Weisberg,#NFDB
1480:Her eyes opened at this sight against her will and she looked around the room almost in fear. But it was dark and shadowy, shaded by the bamboo screen at the door, the damp rush mats at the windows, the old heavy curtains and the spotted, peeling walls, and in their shade she saw how she loved him, loved Raja and Tara and all of them who had lived in this house with her. There could be no love more deep and full and wide than this one, she knew. No other love had started so far back in time and had had so much time in which to grow and spread. They were really all parts of her, inseparable, so many aspects of her as she was of them, so that the anger or the disappointment she felt in them was only the anger and disappointment she felt at herself. Whatever hurt they felt, she felt. Whatever diminished them, diminished her. What attacked them, attacked her. Nor was there anyone else on earth whom she was willing to forgive more readily or completely, or defend more instinctively and instantly. She could hardly believe, at that moment, that she would Iive on after they did or they would continue after she had ended. If such an unimaginable phenomenon could take place, then surely they would remain flawed, damaged for life. The wholeness of the pattern, its perfection, would be gone.
She lay absolutely still, almost ceasing to breathe, afraid to diminish by even a breath the wholeness of that love. ~ Anita Desai,#NFDB
1481:My name is Liv Daniels. What’s yours?” He smiled wider, nearly sending my heart into overload. “Liv. That’s a nice name. Is it short for something?” He stood and I craned my neck. He was quite tall. His tailored suit had made him appear far slighter than he was up close. He offered me a hand, again politely. I studied his hand for a moment, before taking it. It was huge and for some reason, I had the strangest feeling I shouldn’t, I shouldn’t touch his hand. I should back away and return to the idiot at my table. Somehow his hand became a fork in a road, and I knew myself; I would take the wrong road. “Olive, but I like Liv.” I reached forward and squeezed his hand, trying desperately not to let go. There was no spark or great event, like I had imagined there might be. It was a simple handshake but my heart was beating a mile a minute. I peered back up at him, overwhelmed by the height difference between us. Maybe he wasn’t my age. He was extremely tall and broad. I had to be at least five foot six in my four-inch heels, but still I craned my neck to stare into his eyes. They were midnight-blue pools that I wanted to swim in. “I’m Briton, Briton Thorlackson.” “It’s nice to meet you, Briton. I’m Liv Daniels.” He smiled and cocked his head to the side. “Yes, I believe we’ve covered that.” I laughed, but it was a strange laugh I didn’t recall laughing before. I felt my face flush red. “Yes, I believe you’re correct. ~ Tara Brown, #NFDB
1482:Anishanaabeg women hunted, trapped, fished, held leadership positions, and engaged in warfare as well as engaged in domestic affairs and looked after children. They were encouraged to show a broad range of emotions, and express their gender and sexuality in a way that was true to their own being, as a matter of both principle and survival. Anishinaabeg men hunted, trapped, fished, held leadership positions, engaged in warfare, and also knew how to cook, sew, and look after children. They were encouraged to show a broad range of emotions, and express their gender and sexuality in a way that was true to their own being, as a matter of both principle and survival. This is true for other genders as well. The degree to which individuals engaged in each of these activities depended on their name, clan, extended family, skill, interest, and most important, individual self-determination or agency. Agency was valued, honored, and respected, because it produced a diversity of highly self-sufficient individuals, families, and communities. This diversity of highly self-sufficient and self-determining people ensured survival and resilience that enabled the community to withstand difficult circumstances.
Not Murdered and Not Missing: Rebelling against Colonial Gender Violence. March 15, 2014. Nations Rising. Thanks to Miigwech/Nia:wen/Mahsi Cho, Tara Williamson, Melody McKiver, Jessica Danforth, Glen Coulthard, and Jarrett Martineau. ~ Leanne Betasamosake Simpson,#NFDB
1483:When their father, the High King, learnt how that Eochaid had brought about his daughters’ dishonour and death, he rallied auxiliaries to his aid, and marched into Leinster, ravaging it as he went. The province and its king were saved only by Eochald’s humiliated submission, and his binding the province to pay to the High King at Tara, every alternate year for an Indefinite period, the tremendous tribute which came to be known as the Boru or cow-tribute — five thousand cows, five thousand hogs, five thousand cloaks, five thousand vessels of brass and bronze, and five thousand ounces of silver. This crushing tribute was henceforth laid upon Leinster, by the High King of Tara from the time of Tuathal forward till the reign of Fionnachta, a period of five hundred years — but in most cases having to be lifted with steel hands. It caused more bloody history than did almost any other festering sore with which Ireland was ever afflicted. During these five centuries hardly a High King sat upon the throne of Tara, who did not have to carry the bloody sword into Leinster again and again, forcibly to hack his pound of flesh from off that province’s palpitating body. And only sometimes was the fight fought between Meath and Leinster alone. Often, through alliances, mutual sympathies, antagonisms, hopes, or dangers, half of Ireland, and sometimes all of Ireland was embroiled. So, together with much that was good Tuathal left to his country a bloody legacy.[15] ~ Seumas MacManus, #NFDB
1484:I couldn’t articulate how the name made me feel. Shawn had meant it to humiliate me, to lock me in time, into an old idea of myself. But far from fixing me in place, that word transported me. Every time he said it—“Hey Nigger, raise the boom” or “Fetch me a level, Nigger”—I returned to the university, to that auditorium, where I had watched human history unfold and wondered at my place in it. The stories of Emmett Till, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King were called to my mind every time Shawn shouted, “Nigger, move to the next row.” I saw their faces superimposed on every purlin Shawn welded into place that summer, so that by the end of it, I had finally begun to grasp something that should have been immediately apparent: that someone had opposed the great march toward equality; someone had been the person from whom freedom had to be wrested.
I did not think of my brother as that person; I doubt I will ever think of him that way. But something had shifted nonetheless. I had started on a path of awareness, had perceived something elemental about my brother, my father, myself. I had discerned the ways in which we had been sculpted by a tradition given to us by others, a tradition of which we were either willfully or accidentally ignorant. I had begun to understand that we had lent our voices to a discourse whose sole purpose was to dehumanize and brutalize others—because nurturing that discourse was easier, because retaining power always feels like the way forward. ~ Tara Westover,#NFDB
1485:Kiara rubbed her bruised throat and slid from the table. She jumped in reflex as Pitala moved his weapon toward the pair standing in the doorway.
Before he could aim it at either man, two blasters came out of nowhere to balance their sights on his body. Two red targeting lasers hovered without shaking-one between his eyes and one over his grain.
"Think," Nykyrian said ominously, clicking back the release of his blaster with his thumb.
Pitala gave a nervous laugh, and held up his hands. "I wouldn't actually try to shoot you. I just wanted to see if you were as good as they say."
"Better." Syn moved forward to pull Pitala's blaster from his hand. "And that's with me drunk off my ass. Imagine what I'd do to you sober."
It was only after he was disarmed and Syn stood between her and Pitala that Nykyrian's red light vanished from Pitala's forehead.
With an amazing nonchalance, Nykyrian holstered his weapon. "Apologize to Tara Zamir for ruining her night and you can leave."
Angry black eyes focused on Kiara with an unspoken promise he would be back. "My apologies, princess," he rasped. "It was nothing personal."
Cold sweat beaded on her body as Pitala bent and slapped his partner awake. Within seconds, the pair of assassins were gone.
Her relief at their departure gave way to suspicion over the two of them and their intentions. "What are you doing here?"
"Saving you," Nykyrian said absently, looking down the corridor with his back to them.
-Nykyrian, Pitala, Syn, & Kiara ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
1486:TIA OR TARA has stopped applying makeup to my wife’s face and is looking at Scottie with disapproval. The light is hitting this woman’s face, giving me an opportunity to see that she should perhaps be working on her own makeup. Her coloring is similar to a manila envelope. There are specks of white in her eyebrows, and her concealer is not concealing. I can tell my daughter doesn’t know what to do with this woman’s critical look.
“What?” Scottie asks. “I don’t want any makeup.” She looks at me for protection, and it’s heartbreaking. All the women who model with Joanie have this inane urge to make over my daughter with the notion that they’re helping her somehow. She’s not as pretty as her older sister or her mother, and these other models think that slapping on some rouge will somehow make her feel better about her facial fate. They’re like missionaries. Mascara thumpers.
“I was just going to say that I think your mother was enjoying the view,” Tia or Tara says. “It’s so pretty outside. You should let the light in.”
My daughter looks at the curtain. Her little mouth is open. Her hand reaches for a tumbleweed of hair.
“Listen here, T. Her mother was not enjoying the view. Her mother is in a coma. And she’s not supposed to be in bright light.”
“My name is not T,” she says. “My name is Allison.”
“Okay, then, Ali. Don’t confuse my daughter, please.”
“I’m turning into a remarkable young lady,” Scottie says.
“Damn straight.” My heart feels like one of Scottie’s clogs clomping down the hall. I don’t know why I became so angry. ~ Kaui Hart Hemmings,#NFDB
1487:This is Tara’s son. Luke. She gave birth to him, left him with my mother, and took off somewhere. We’re trying to locate her. Meanwhile I’m trying to secure some kind of situation for the baby.”
Travis was very still. The atmosphere in the office took on a hostile chill. I saw that I had been identified as a threat, or perhaps just a nuisance. Either way, his mouth was now edged with contempt. “I think I get the stinger you’re working around to,” he said. “He’s not mine, Ella.”
I forced myself to hold that unnerving black gaze. “According to Tara, he is.”
“The Travis name inspires a lot of women to notice a likeness between me and their fatherless children. But it’s not possible for two reasons. First, I never have sex without holstering the gun.”
Despite the seriousness of the conversation, I wanted to smile at the phrase. “You’re referring to a condom? That method of protection has an average failure rate of fifteen percent.”
“Thank you, professor. But I’m still not the father.”
“How can you be sure?”
“Because I never had sex with Tara. The night I took her out, she drank too much. And I don’t sleep with women in that condition.”
“Really,” I said skeptically.
“Really,” came the soft reply.
Luke burped, and settled into the curve of my neck like a sack of pinto beans. I thought of what Liza had told me about Jack Travis’s hyperactive love life, his near-legendary womanizing, and I couldn’t prevent a cynical smile. “Because you’re a man of high principles?” I asked acidly.
“No, ma’am. It’s just that I prefer the woman to participate.”
-Ella & Jack ~ Lisa Kleypas,#NFDB
1488:Have you eaten yet?” I heard Jack ask.
“Other than snack food from the minibar, no.”
“Do you want to go out to dinner?”
“With you?” Caught off guard by the question, I looked at him in surprise. “You must be having a slow night. Don’t you have a harem to get back to or something?”
Jack regarded me with narrowed eyes.
I was instantly contrite. I had not meant to sound bitchy. But in my current state of physical and mental exhaustion, I had no conversational red flags left.
Before I could apologize, Jack asked in a low voice, “Have I done something to you, Ella? Other than help you get a hotel room, and agree to take an unwarranted paternity test?”
“I’m paying for the room. And the paternity test. And if it was all that unwarranted, you wouldn’t be taking it.”
“I may back out of it now. There’s only so much I’ll put up with, even for a free buccal swab.”
An apologetic grin pulled at the corners of my mouth. “I’m sorry,” I said. “I’m hungry and sleep-deprived. I’ve had no time to prepare for any of this. I can’t find my sister, my mother is crazy, and my boyfriend is in Austin. So I’m afraid you’re dealing with all my accumulated frustration. And I think on a subconscious level, you represent all the guys who might have knocked up my sister.”
Jack gave me a sardonic glance. “It’s a lot easier to knock up someone when you actually have sex with her.”
“We’ve already established that you’re not one hundred percent certain whether you slept with Tara or not.”
“I am one hundred percent certain. The only thing we’ve established is that you don’t believe me.”
-Jack & Ella ~ Lisa Kleypas,#NFDB
1489:The formula proposed, as I told you, is energy equals the mass times the speed of light squared, and light is very fast indeed. So that with only a little matter, if any of its energy were released into the world…' She shook her head. 'Of course the strong force means that would never happen. But we continue to investigate this element alactin, that the Travancori physicists call Hand of Tara. I suspect its heartknot is unstable, and Piali is beginning to agree with me. Clearly it is very full of the jinni, both yin and yang, in such a fashion that to me it is acting like a droplet of water held together by surface tension, but so big that the surface tension is just barely holding it, and it stretches out like a water drop in the air, deforming this way and that, but held together, just, except for sometimes, when it stretches too far for surface tension, the strong force in this case, and then the natural repulsion between the jinni makes a heartknot split in two, becoming atoms of lead, but releasing some of its bound power as well, in the form of rays of invisible energy. That's what we are seeing on the photographic plates you help with. It's quite a bit of energy, and that's just one heartknot breaking. What we have been wondering what we have been forced to consider, given the nature of the phenomenon – is, if we gathered enough of these atoms together, and broke even one heartknot apart, would the released qi break a lot more of them at the same time, more and more again all at the speed of light, in a space this big,' holding her hands apart. 'If that might not set off a short chain reaction,' she said. ~ Kim Stanley Robinson, #NFDB
1490:Trebuiau să poarte un nume
Eminescu n-a existat.
A existat numai o tara frumoasa
La o margine de mare
Unde valurile fac noduri albe.
Ca o barba nepieptanata de crai.
Si niste ape ca niste copaci curgatori
În care luna îsi avea cuibar rotit.
Si, mai ales, au existat niste oameni simpli
Pe care-i chema : Mircea cel Batrîn,
Stefan cel Mare,
Sau mai simplu : ciobani si plugari,
Carora le placea să spuna
Seara în jurul focului poezii -
"Miorita" si "Luceafarul" si "Scrisoarea a III-a".
Dar fiindca auzeau mereu
Latrînd la stîna lor cîinii,
Plecau să se bata cu tatarii
Si cu avarii si cu hunii si cu lesii
Si cu turcii.
În timpul care le ramînea liber
Între doua primejdii,
Acesti oameni faceau din fluierele lor
Jgheaburi
Pentru lacrimile pietrelor înduiosate,
De curgeau doinele la vale
Pe toti muntii Moldovei si ai Munteniei
Si ai Tarii Bîrsei si ai Tariii Vrancei
Si ai altor tari românesti.
Au mai existat si niste codri adînci
Si un tînar care vorbea cu ei,
Întrebîndu-i ce se tot leagana fără vînt ?
Acest tînar cu ochi mari,
Cît istoria noastra,
Trecea batut de gînduri
Din cartea cirilica în cartea vietii,
Tot numarînd plopii luminii, ai dreptatii,
ai iubirii,
Care îi ieseau mereu fără sot.
Au mai existat si niste tei,
Si cei doi îndragostiti
Care stiau să le troieneasca toata floarea
Într-un sarut.
Si niste pasari ori niste nouri
Care tot colindau pe deasupra lor
Ca lungi si miscatoare sesuri.
Si pentru ca toate acestea
Trebuiau să poarte un nume,
Un singur nume,
Li s-a spus
Eminescu. ~ Marin Sorescu,#NFDB
1491:Ella has a problem we were hoping you could help with,” Haven said from the kitchen, opening the refrigerator.
Jack stared at me steadily, while one corner of his mouth curled upward. “What’s your problem, Ella?”
“You want a beer, Jack?” came Hardy’s voice.
“Yeah,” Jack replied. “Lime wedge if you got it.”
“I’m trying to get a meeting with Mark Gottler,” I told Jack. “To talk with him about my sister.”
His expression softened. “Is she okay?”
“Yes, I think so. But I don’t think she’s doing anything to secure her own interests, or Luke’s. I need to meet with Gottler and pin him down on a few things. He’s not going to pay Tara’s clinic bill and dust his hands and think he’s through with the whole thing. He’s going to have to do right by Tara and Luke.”
Settling Luke back onto the blanket, Jack picked up a little stuffed bunny and dangled it over him, causing Luke to kick his legs in enjoyment. “So you want me to get you in there,” he said.
“Yes. I need to see Gottler privately.”
“I can arrange a meeting, but the only way you’ll get in there is by going embedded.”
I gave him an outraged glance, incredulous that he would have propositioned me within earshot of his sister. “If you think I’m going to sleep with you just so I can see Gottler—”
“I said embedded, Ella. Not ‘in bed.’”
“Oh,” I said, chastened. “You meant like a computer virus?”
Jack nodded, looking sardonic. “I’ll come up with some reason to meet with him and take you along. No sex required. Although if you’re feeling grateful . . .”
“I’m not that grateful.” But I couldn’t help smiling, because I had never met a man who could have exuded such barely leashed sexiness while holding a stuffed bunny. ~ Lisa Kleypas,#NFDB
1492:In the garden of my childhood my mother grew corn and asparagus, beans, zucchini, and more, but the thing I remember most is the cherry tomatoes, bushy in their cages, the leaves slightly sticky, funny smelling. My mother wore long-sleeve shirts to weed the tomatoes.
I remember her plucking them off the bush, my brother and me opening our mouths like baby birds for her to pop them in. I closed my eyes to experience the exact moment my teeth pierced the smooth skin and the tomato exploded in a burst of acid sweet, the seeds slightly bitter in their jelly pouches. The sensation was so unexpected each time it happened that my eyes flew open. And there was my mother, smiling at me. That is what I remember.
My mother did not smile often. We have pictures where she is smiling, me or my brother nestled on her lap. You can tell she loves us. Her body language shows it. But mostly we knew she loved us because of how hard she worked for us. Usually elsewhere.
But the garden—the garden was her project. In the little time she had not devoted to work and cleaning and trying to hold her small world together, my mother grew food.
My brother and I didn't help in the garden, but we were usually playing nearby. We always wanted to be nearby when she was home. I remember her letting us crawl through the dried cornstalks after the ears had been harvested. I remember running my hands through the asparagus that had been allowed to go to seed. I remember eating plums from the old tree that lived in the corner of the yard. I remember her feeding us tomatoes fresh off the vine and still warm from the sun.
When I think of those tomatoes, it is not the flavor that moves me. They were shockingly sweet and tangy, but that is not what I remember the most. It is not what I yearned for.
Eating cherry tomatoes meant my mother was home; it meant she was smiling at me. ~ Tara Austen Weaver,#NFDB
1493:Far, far better to die. One by one the rest of the Zavaedis came to cast their stones for either exoneration, exile, or death. Some spoke to the assembly of their reasons why, others simply placed the stone according to their choice. Unfortunately, his mother’s plea moved many people to pity him. When all the rocks had piled up, the orange mat held the most stones. Exile. Kavio swallowed hard to conceal his reaction. You have murdered me all the same. Father pounded the rain stick. “Kavio, you have been found guilty of the most heinous of crimes—hexcraft. Though you remain a member of the secret societies that initiated you and are therefore spared death, nonetheless you are forbidden to enter the Labyrinth, to take with you anything from the Labyrinth, or to study with any dancing society of the Labyrinth. Do you understand and acknowledge your punishment?” “I understand it all too well,” Kavio said through gritted teeth. “But I will never acknowledge it as just.” “So be it,” Father said tonelessly. “Bring the pot of ashes.” Two warriors hefted a ceramic pot from where it had rested in the shadow of the tall platform. They forced Kavio to lean back while still on his knees. They smeared him with a paste and rubbed in the gray-black powder. His bare chest and clean shaven face disappeared under a scum of grey crud. Humiliation itched, but like poison ivy, he knew it would be worse if he scratched it. He forced himself still as stone while the warriors slapped on more mud. “You must wear mud and ash for the rest of your days,” the Maze Zavaedi concluded. His voice broke. “I am ashamed to call you my son.” Kavio struggled to his feet. The warriors escorting him surrounded him with a hedge of spears. Did they fear him, even now? “You never could just trust me, could you, Father?” Kavio asked. Father’s jaw jutted forward. A muscle moved in his neck. Otherwise, he might have been rock. “Escort my son out of the Labyrinth. ~ Tara Maya, #NFDB
1494:Kate McDermott taught pie making around the world; I had taken her class several years before. It hadn't made me a baker, but it had given me some perspective on the art of pies. Mostly I had been taken by her attitude.
"I make ugly pies," she told me. "They don't have to look perfect."
That day Kate had ably patched ripped piecrust, shoring up weak spots where the dough had been rolled too thin. She didn't think it needed to be perfect. "Just fix any mistakes you make," she said without concern. "It doesn't matter."
Kate's approach was breezy and relaxed. She barely followed a recipe. "See how it feels," she told me. "Trust yourself." As I ran my hands through the butter cut into flour, I felt emboldened. Things didn't have to be perfect. Kate seemed at peace with imperfections, her pies beautiful in their rustic uniqueness, no two ever the same.
Perhaps the secret was finding comfort in the way things were: a process of accepting rather than hiding.
The irony was that I liked it when other people let me see them as they truly were: less-than-perfect houses, disordered garages, overdue library books. The imperfections in my friends' lives didn't make me like them any less—they made me like them more. I felt more comfortable with the flaws in my own life, more intimately connected to them; it made me feel like family.
I knew this intellectually, but it was harder to apply. I might be able to appreciate rustic charm in a pie, to enjoy the comfortable clutter of a friend's house, but I held myself to a higher standard—one I never managed to achieve. I just couldn't give myself that same compassion.
But rolling out and patching the rips in my pie dough that afternoon, as Kate had shown me, I began to wonder if there might not be another way. And when I pulled the pie out of the oven, bumpy, irregular, burnished and glossy and smelling like raspberry heaven, for a moment I thought it was beautiful. My beautifully imperfect pie. ~ Tara Austen Weaver,#NFDB
1495:Kulakundalini, Goddess Full of Brahman, Tara -- You are inside me. You are inside me, Ma in the muladhara, the sahasrara, and the wish-granting manipura. The Ganges flows to the left, the Yamuna to the right; in their midst streams the Sarasvati where Siva and Sakti shine. Meditating on You like this a ruby-red snake sleeping coiled around the Lord Self-Born a man is blessed. In each glorious lotus Muladhara, svadhisthana, manipura at the navel, anahata, and visuddha You incarnate as letters v to s, b to l, d to ph, k to th, sixteen vowels at the throat, and h and ks between the eyebrows. My teacher was firm with me; he told me to think of You like this in my body. Brahma and the four gods, and Dakini and her five saktis inhabit the ascending lotuses, supported underneath by an elephant, a crocodile, a ram, an antelope, and a second elephant. If you hold your breath you can know Her and hear the buzzing hum of a drunken bee. Earth, water, fire, and air dissolve immediately when you sound "yam," ram," "lam," "ham," and "haum." Then cast me a compassionate glance -- I keep being reborn! Your feet alone drip nectar. You are Sakti, cosmic sound, and Siva the dot in "Om" full of nectar like the moon. Who can cleave the One Self? Ritual worship, controversies over dualism and nondualism these don't bother me, for the Great Mistress of Time tramples Time. Once sleep is broken there's no more sleep, and the soul will be turned into Siva. Could one like this even if reborn drown anew in the senses? Liberation adores him like a daughter. Pierce the agna cakra; dispel the devotee's despair. Traveling past lotuses four, six, ten, twelve, sixteen, and two to the thousand-petaled flower at the top of the head the female swan unites with Her handsom amde in the residence of the Lord. Hearing Prasad's words, the yogi floats in a sea of bliss. [1770.jpg] -- from Singing to the Goddess: Poems to Kali and Uma from Bengal, Translated by Rachel Fell McDermott
~ Ramprasad, Kulakundalini, Goddess Full of Brahman, Tara
,#NFDB
1496: Ekajaṭī or Ekajaṭā, (Sanskrit: "One Plait Woman"; Wylie: ral gcig ma: one who has one knot of hair),[1] also known as Māhacīnatārā,[2] is one of the 21 Taras. Ekajati is, along with Palden Lhamo deity, one of the most powerful and fierce goddesses of Vajrayana Buddhist mythology.[1][3] According to Tibetan legends, her right eye was pierced by the tantric master Padmasambhava so that she could much more effectively help him subjugate Tibetan demons.
Ekajati is also known as "Blue Tara", Vajra Tara or "Ugra Tara".[1][3] She is generally considered one of the three principal protectors of the Nyingma school along with Rāhula and Vajrasādhu (Wylie: rdo rje legs pa).
Often Ekajati appears as liberator in the mandala of the Green Tara. Along with that, her ascribed powers are removing the fear of enemies, spreading joy, and removing personal hindrances on the path to enlightenment.
Ekajati is the protector of secret mantras and "as the mother of the mothers of all the Buddhas" represents the ultimate unity. As such, her own mantra is also secret. She is the most important protector of the Vajrayana teachings, especially the Inner Tantras and termas. As the protector of mantra, she supports the practitioner in deciphering symbolic dakini codes and properly determines appropriate times and circumstances for revealing tantric teachings. Because she completely realizes the texts and mantras under her care, she reminds the practitioner of their preciousness and secrecy.[4] Düsum Khyenpa, 1st Karmapa Lama meditated upon her in early childhood.
According to Namkhai Norbu, Ekajati is the principal guardian of the Dzogchen teachings and is "a personification of the essentially non-dual nature of primordial energy."[5]
Dzogchen is the most closely guarded teaching in Tibetan Buddhism, of which Ekajati is a main guardian as mentioned above. It is said that Sri Singha (Sanskrit: Śrī Siṃha) himself entrusted the "Heart Essence" (Wylie: snying thig) teachings to her care. To the great master Longchenpa, who initiated the dissemination of certain Dzogchen teachings, Ekajati offered uncharacteristically personal guidance. In his thirty-second year, Ekajati appeared to Longchenpa, supervising every ritual detail of the Heart Essence of the Dakinis empowerment, insisting on the use of a peacock feather and removing unnecessary basin. When Longchenpa performed the ritual, she nodded her head in approval but corrected his pronunciation. When he recited the mantra, Ekajati admonished him, saying, "Imitate me," and sang it in a strange, harmonious melody in the dakini's language. Later she appeared at the gathering and joyously danced, proclaiming the approval of Padmasambhava and the dakinis.[6] ~ Wikipedia,#NFDB
1497:I made myself listen to the music I loved as I worked. I would not be a coward anymore. If I acted like a lunatic, so be it! In my mind I raged and I vowed that Samuel’s leaving would not make me resort to musical holocaust. I was done with that nonsense! I played Grieg until my fingers were stiff, and I worked with the frenzy of Balakirev’s ‘Islamey’ pounding out of the loud speakers. My dad came inside during that one and turned around and walked right back out again.
On day 15, I made a chocolate cake worthy of the record books. It was disgustingly rich and fattening, teetering several stories high, weighing more than I did, laden with thick cream cheese frosting, and sprinkled liberally with chocolate shavings. I sat down to eat it with a big fork and no bib. I dug in with a gusto seen only at those highly competitive hotdog eating contests where the tiny Asian girl kicks all the fat boys’ butts.
“JOSIE JO JENSEN!” Louise and Tara stood at the kitchen door, shock and revulsion, and maybe just a little envy in their faces. Brahms ‘Rhapsodie No. 2 in G Minor’ was making my little kitchen shake. Eating cake to Brahms was a new experience for me. I liked it. I dug back in, ignoring them.
“Well Mom,” I heard Tara say, “what should we do?!”
My Aunt Louise was a very practical woman. “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em!” She quoted cheerfully.
Before I knew it, Tara and Louise both had forks, too. They didn’t seem to need bibs either. We ate, increasing our tempo as the music intensified.
“ENOUGH!” My dad stood in the doorway. He was good and mad, too. His sun-browned face was as ruddy as my favorite high heels.
“I sent you two in for an intervention! What is this?! Eater’s Anonymous Gone Wild?”
“Aww, Daddy. Get a fork,” I replied, barely breaking rhythm.
My dad strode over, took the fork from my hand and threw it, tines first, right into the wall. It stuck there, embedded and twanging like a sword at a medieval tournament. He pulled out my chair and grabbed me under the arms, pushing me out of the kitchen. I tried to take one last swipe at my cake, but he let out this inhuman roar, and I abandoned all hope of making myself well and truly sick.
“Tara! Aunt Louise!” I shouted frantically. “I want you gone!!! That’s my cake! You can’t have any more without me!”
My dad pushed me through the front door and out onto the porch, the screen banging behind him. I sunk to the porch swing, sullenly wiping chocolate crumbs from my mouth. My dad stomped back inside the house and suddenly the music pouring from every nook and cranny stopped abruptly. I heard him tell Louise he’d call her later, and then the kitchen door banged, indicating my aunt’s and Tara’s departure. Good. They would have eaten that whole cake. I saw the way they were shoveling it in. ~ Amy Harmon,#NFDB
1498:Coded Language
Whereas, breakbeats have been the missing link connecting the diasporic community to its drum woven past
Whereas the quantised drum has allowed the whirling mathematicians to calculate the ever changing distance between rock and stardom.
Whereas the velocity of the spinning vinyl, cross-faded, spun backwards, and re-released at the same given moment of recorded history , yet at a different moment in time's continuum has allowed history to catch up with the present.
We do hereby declare reality unkempt by the changing standards of dialogue.
Statements, such as, "keep it real", especially when punctuating or anticipating modes of ultra-violence inflicted psychologically or physically or depicting an unchanging rule of events will hence forth be seen as retro-active and not representative of the individually determined is.
Furthermore, as determined by the collective consciousness of this state of being and the lessened distance between thought patterns and their secular manifestations, the role of men as listening receptacles is to be increased by a number no less than 70 percent of the current enlisted as vocal aggressors.
Motherfuckers better realize, now is the time to self-actualize
We have found evidence that hip hops standard 85 rpm when increased by a number as least half the rate of it's standard or decreased at ¾ of it's speed may be a determining factor in heightening consciousness.
Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.
Equate rhyme with reason, Sun with season
Our cyclical relationship to phenomenon has encouraged scholars to erase the centers of periods, thus symbolizing the non-linear character of cause and effect
Reject mediocrity!
Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which as been given for you to understand.
The current standard is the equivalent of an adolescent restricted to the diet of an infant.
The rapidly changing body would acquire dysfunctional and deformative symptoms and could not properly mature on a diet of apple sauce and crushed pears
Light years are interchangeable with years of living in darkness.
The role of darkness is not to be seen as, or equated with, Ignorance, but with the unknown, and the mysteries of the unseen.
Thus, in the name of:
ROBESON, GOD'S SON, HURSTON, AHKENATON, HATHSHEPUT, BLACKFOOT, HELEN
LENNON, KHALO, KALI, THE THREE MARIAS, TARA, LILITH, LOURDE, WHITMAN
BALDWIN, GINSBERG, KAUFMAN, LUMUMBA, GHANDI, GIBRAN, SHABAZZ, SIDDHARTHA
MEDUSA, GUEVARA, GURDJIEFF, RAND, WRIGHT, BANNEKER, TUBMAN, HAMER, HOLIDAY
DAVIS, COLTRANE, MORRISON, JOPLIN, DUBOIS, CLARKE, SHAKESPEARE, RACHMANINOV
ELLINGTON, CARTER, GAYE, HATHAWAY, HENDRIX, KUTI, DICKINSON, RIPPERTON
MARY, ISIS, THERESA, HANSBURY, TESLA, PLATH, RUMI, FELLINI, MICHAUX, NOSTRADAMUS, NEFERTITI
LA ROCK, SHIVA, GANESHA, YEMAJA, OSHUN, OBATALA, OGUN, KENNEDY, KING, FOUR
LITTLE GIRLS, HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI, KELLER, BIKO, PERÓN, MARLEY, MAGDALENE, COSBY
SHAKUR, THOSE WHO BURN, THOSE STILL AFLAME, AND THE COUNTLESS UNNAMED
We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter.
We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun.
We are not afraid of the darkness, we trust that the moon shall guide us.
We are determining the future at this very moment.
We now know that the heart is the philosophers' stone
Our music is our alchemy
We stand as the manifested equivalent of 3 buckets of water and a hand full of minerals, thus realizing that those very buckets turned upside down supply the percussion factor of forever.
If you must count to keep the beat then count.
Find you mantra and awaken your subconscious.
Curve you circles counterclockwise
Use your cipher to decipher, Coded Language, man made laws.
Climb waterfalls and trees, commune with nature, snakes and bees.
Let your children name themselves and claim themselves as the new day for today we are determined to be the channelers of these changing frequencies into songs, paintings, writings, dance, drama, photography, carpentry, crafts, love, and love.
We enlist every instrument: Acoustic, electronic.
Every so-called race, gender, and sexual preference.
Every per-son as beings of sound to acknowledge their responsibility to uplift the consciousness of the entire fucking World.
Any utterance will be un-aimed, will be disclaimed - two rappers slain
Any utterance will be un-aimed, will be disclaimed - two rappers slain
~ Saul Williams,#NFDB
1499:KING EOCHAID came at sundown to a wood
Westward of Tara. Hurrying to his queen
He had outridden his war-wasted men
That with empounded cattle trod the mire,
And where beech-trees had mixed a pale green light
With the ground-ivy's blue, he saw a stag
Whiter than curds, its eyes the tint of the sea.
Because it stood upon his path and seemed
More hands in height than any stag in the world
He sat with tightened rein and loosened mouth
Upon his trembling horse, then drove the spur;
But the stag stooped and ran at him, and passed,
Rending the horse's flank. King Eochaid reeled,
Then drew his sword to hold its levelled point
Against the stag. When horn and steel were met
The horn resounded as though it had been silver,
A sweet, miraculous, terrifying sound.
Horn locked in sword, they tugged and struggled there
As though a stag and unicorn were met
Among the African Mountains of the Moon,
Until at last the double horns, drawn backward,
Butted below the single and so pierced
The entrails of the horse. Dropping his sword
King Eochaid seized the horns in his strong hands
And stared into the sea-green eye, and so
Hither and thither to and fro they trod
Till all the place was beaten into mire.
The strong thigh and the agile thigh were met,
The hands that gathered up the might of the world,
And hoof and horn that had sucked in their speed
Amid the elaborate wilderness of the air.
Through bush they plunged and over ivied root,
And where the stone struck fire, while in the leaves
A squirrel whinnied and a bird screamed out;
But when at last he forced those sinewy flanks
Against a beech-bole, he threw down the beast
And knelt above it with drawn knife. On the instant
It vanished like a shadow, and a cry
So mournful that it seemed the cry of one
Who had lost some unimaginable treasure
Wandered between the blue and the green leaf
And climbed into the air, crumbling away,
Till all had seemed a shadow or a vision
But for the trodden mire, the pool of blood,
The disembowelled horse.
King Eochaid ran
Toward peopled Tara, nor stood to draw his breath
Until he came before the painted wall,
The posts of polished yew, circled with bronze,
Of the great door; but though the hanging lamps
Showed their faint light through the unshuttered
windows,
Nor door, nor mouth, nor slipper made a noise,
Nor on the ancient beaten paths, that wound
From well-side or from plough-land, was there noise;
Nor had there been the noise of living thing
Before him or behind, but that far off
On the horizon edge bellowed the herds.
Knowing that silence brings no good to kings,
And mocks returning victory, he passed
Between the pillars with a beating heart
And saw where in the midst of the great hall
pale-faced, alone upon a bench, Edain
Sat upright with a sword before her feet.
Her hands on either side had gripped the bench.
Her eyes were cold and steady, her lips tight.
Some passion had made her stone. Hearing a foot
She started and then knew whose foot it was;
But when he thought to take her in his arms
She motioned him afar, and rose and spoke:
"I have sent among the fields or to the woods
The fighting-men and servants of this house,
For I would have your judgment upon one
Who is self-accused. If she be innocent
She would not look in any known man's face
Till judgment has been given, and if guilty,
Would never look again on known man's face.'
And at these words he paled, as she had paled,
Knowing that he should find upon her lips
The meaning of that monstrous day.
Then she:
"You brought me where your brother Ardan sat
Always in his one seat, and bid me care him
Through that strange illness that had fixed him there.
And should he die to heap his burial-mound
And carve his name in Ogham.' Eochaid said,
"He lives?' "He lives and is a healthy man.'
"While I have him and you it matters little
What man you have lost, what evil you have found.'
"I bid them make his bed under this roof
And carried him his food with my own hands,
And so the weeks passed by. But when I said,
""What is this trouble?'' he would answer nothing,
Though always at my words his trouble grew;
And I but asked the more, till he cried out,
Weary of many questions: ""There are things
That make the heart akin to the dumb stone.''
Then I replied, ""Although you hide a secret,
Hopeless and dear, or terrible to think on,
Speak it, that I may send through the wide world
Day after day you question me, and I,
Because there is such a storm amid my thoughts
I shall be carried in the gust, command,
Forbid, beseech and waste my breath.'' Then I:
Although the thing that you have hid were evil,
The speaking of it could be no great wrong,
And evil must it be, if done 'twere worse
Than mound and stone that keep all virtue in,
And loosen on us dreams that waste our life,
Shadows and shows that can but turn the brain.''
but finding him still silent I stooped down
And whispering that none but he should hear,
Said, ""If a woman has put this on you,
My men, whether it please her or displease,
And though they have to cross the Loughlan waters
And take her in the middle of armed men,
Shall make her look upon her handiwork,
That she may quench the rick she has fired; and though
She may have worn silk clothes, or worn a crown,
She'II not be proud, knowing within her heart
That our sufficient portion of the world
Is that we give, although it be brief giving,
Happiness to children and to men.''
Then he, driven by his thought beyond his thought,
And speaking what he would not though he would,
Sighed, ""You, even you yourself, could work the
cure!''
And at those words I rose and I went out
And for nine days he had food from other hands,
And for nine days my mind went whirling round
The one disastrous zodiac, muttering
That the immedicable mound's beyond
Our questioning, beyond our pity even.
But when nine days had gone I stood again
Before his chair and bending down my head
I bade him go when all his household slept
To an old empty woodman's house that's hidden
Westward of Tara, among the hazel-trees
For hope would give his limbs the power and await
A friend that could, he had told her, work his cure
And would be no harsh friend.
When night had deepened,
I groped my way from beech to hazel wood,
Found that old house, a sputtering torch within,
And stretched out sleeping on a pile of skins
Ardan, and though I called to him and tried
To Shake him out of sleep, I could not rouse him.
I waited till the night was on the turn,
Then fearing that some labourer, on his way
To plough or pasture-land, might see me there,
Went out.
Among the ivy-covered rocks,
As on the blue light of a sword, a man
Who had unnatural majesty, and eyes
Like the eyes of some great kite scouring the woods,
Stood on my path. Trembling from head to foot
I gazed at him like grouse upon a kite;
But with a voice that had unnatural music,
""A weary wooing and a long,'' he said,
""Speaking of love through other lips and looking
Under the eyelids of another, for it was my craft
That put a passion in the sleeper there,
And when I had got my will and drawn you here,
Where I may speak to you alone, my craft
Sucked up the passion out of him again
And left mere sleep. He'll wake when the sun
wakes,
push out his vigorous limbs and rub his eyes,
And wonder what has ailed him these twelve
months.''
I cowered back upon the wall in terror,
But that sweet-sounding voice ran on: ""Woman,
I was your husband when you rode the air,
Danced in the whirling foam and in the dust,
In days you have not kept in memory,
Being betrayed into a cradle, and I come
That I may claim you as my wife again.''
I was no longer terrified his voice
Had half awakened some old memory
Yet answered him, ""I am King Eochaid's wife
And with him have found every happiness
Women can find.'' With a most masterful voice,
That made the body seem as it were a string
Under a bow, he cried, ""What happiness
Can lovers have that know their happiness
Must end at the dumb stone? But where we build
Our sudden palaces in the still air
pleasure itself can bring no weariness.
Nor can time waste the cheek, nor is there foot
That has grown weary of the wandering dance,
Nor an unlaughing mouth, but mine that mourns,
Among those mouths that sing their sweethearts' praise,
Your empty bed.'' ""How should I love,'' I answered,
""Were it not that when the dawn has lit my bed
And shown my husband sleeping there, I have sighed,
"Your strength and nobleness will pass away'?
Or how should love be worth its pains were it not
That when he has fallen asleep within my arms,
Being wearied out, I love in man the child?
What can they know of love that do not know
She builds her nest upon a narrow ledge
Above a windy precipice?'' Then he:
""Seeing that when you come to the deathbed
You must return, whether you would or no,
This human life blotted from memory,
Why must I live some thirty, forty years,
Alone with all this useless happiness?''
Thereon he seized me in his arms, but I
Thrust him away with both my hands and cried,
""Never will I believe there is any change
Can blot out of my memory this life
Sweetened by death, but if I could believe,
That were a double hunger in my lips
For what is doubly brief.''
And now the shape
My hands were pressed to vanished suddenly.
I staggered, but a beech-tree stayed my fall,
And clinging to it I could hear the cocks
Crow upon Tara."
King Eochaid bowed his head
And thanked her for her kindness to his brother,
For that she promised, and for that refused.
Thereon the bellowing of the empounded herds
Rose round the walls, and through the bronze-ringed
door
Jostled and shouted those war-wasted men,
And in the midst King Eochaid's brother stood,
And bade all welcome, being ignorant.
~ William Butler Yeats, The Two Kings
,#NFDB
1500: V - AUERBACH'S CELLAR IN LEIPZIG
CAROUSAL OF JOLLY COMPANIONS
FROSCH
Is no one laughing? no one drinking?
I'll teach you how to grin, I'm thinking.
To-day you're like wet straw, so tame;
And usually you're all aflame.
BRANDER
Now that's your fault; from you we nothing see,
No beastliness and no stupidity.
FROSCH
(Pours a glass of wine over BRANDER'S head.)
There's both together!
BRANDER
Twice a swine!
FROSCH
You wanted them: I've given you mine.
SIEBEL
Turn out who quarrelsout the door!
With open throat sing chorus, drink and roar!
Up! holla! ho!
ALTMAYER
Woe's me, the fearful bellow!
Bring cotton, quick! He's split my ears, that fellow.
SIEBEL
When the vault echoes to the song,
One first perceives the bass is deep and strong.
FROSCH
Well said! and out with him that takes the least offence!
Ah, tara, lara da!
ALTMAYER
Ah, tara, lara, da!
FROSCH
The throats are tuned, commence!
(Sings.)
The dear old holy Roman realm,
How does it hold together?
BRANDER
A nasty song! Fie! a political song
A most offensive song! Thank God, each morning, therefore,
That you have not the Roman realm to care for!
At least, I hold it so much gain for me,
That I nor Chancellor nor Kaiser be.
Yet also we must have a ruling head, I hope,
And so we'll choose ourselves a Pope.
You know the quality that can
Decide the choice, and elevate the man.
FROSCH
(sings)
Soar up, soar up, Dame Nightingale!
Ten thousand times my sweetheart hail!
SIEBEL
No, greet my sweetheart not! I tell you, I'll resent it.
FROSCH
My sweetheart greet and kiss! I dare you to prevent it!
(Sings.)
Draw the latch! the darkness makes:
Draw the latch! the lover wakes.
Shut the latch! the morning breaks
SIEBEL
Yes, sing away, sing on, and praise, and brag of her!
I'll wait my proper time for laughter:
Me by the nose she led, and now she'll lead you after.
Her paramour should be an ugly gnome,
Where four roads cross, in wanton play to meet her:
An old he-goat, from Blocksberg coming home,
Should his good-night in lustful gallop bleat her!
A fellow made of genuine flesh and blood
Is for the wench a deal too good.
Greet her? Not I: unless, when meeting,
To smash her windows be a greeting!
BRANDER (pounding on the table)
Attention! Hearken now to me!
Confess, Sirs, I know how to live.
Enamored persons here have we,
And I, as suits their quality,
Must something fresh for their advantage give.
Take heed! 'Tis of the latest cut, my strain,
And all strike in at each refrain!
(He sings.)
There was a rat in the cellar-nest,
Whom fat and butter made smoother:
He had a paunch beneath his vest
Like that of Doctor Luther.
The cook laid poison cunningly,
And then as sore oppressed was he
As if he had love in his bosom.
CHORUS (shouting)
As if he had love in his bosom!
BRANDER
He ran around, he ran about,
His thirst in puddles laving;
He gnawed and scratched the house throughout.
But nothing cured his raving.
He whirled and jumped, with torment mad,
And soon enough the poor beast had,
As if he had love in his bosom.
CHORUS
As if he had love in his bosom!
BRANDER
And driven at last, in open day,
He ran into the kitchen,
Fell on the hearth, and squirming lay,
In the last convulsion twitching.
Then laughed the murderess in her glee:
"Ha! ha! he's at his last gasp," said she,
"As if he had love in his bosom!"
CHORUS
As if he had love in his bosom!
SIEBEL
How the dull fools enjoy the matter!
To me it is a proper art
Poison for such poor rats to scatter.
BRANDER
Perhaps you'll warmly take their part?
ALTMAYER
The bald-pate pot-belly I have noted:
Misfortune tames him by degrees;
For in the rat by poison bloated
His own most natural form he sees.
FAUST AND MEPHISTOPHELES
MEPHISTOPHELES
Before all else, I bring thee hither
Where boon companions meet together,
To let thee see how smooth life runs away.
Here, for the folk, each day's a holiday:
With little wit, and ease to suit them,
They whirl in narrow, circling trails,
Like kittens playing with their tails?
And if no headache persecute them,
So long the host may credit give,
They merrily and careless live.
BRANDER
The fact is easy to unravel,
Their air's so odd, they've just returned from travel:
A single hour they've not been here.
FROSCH
You've verily hit the truth! Leipzig to me is dear:
Paris in miniature, how it refines its people!
SIEBEL
Who are the strangers, should you guess?
FROSCH
Let me alone! I'll set them first to drinking,
And then, as one a child's tooth draws, with cleverness,
I'll worm their secret out, I'm thinking.
They're of a noble house, that's very clear:
Haughty and discontented they appear.
BRANDER
They're mountebanks, upon a revel.
ALTMAYER
Perhaps.
FROSCH
Look out, I'll smoke them now!
MEPHISTOPHELES (to FAUST)
Not if he had them by the neck, I vow,
Would e'er these people scent the Devil!
FAUST Fair greeting, gentlemen!
SIEBEL
Our thanks: we give the same.
(Murmurs, inspecting MEPHISTOPHELES from the side.)
In one foot is the fellow lame?
MEPHISTOPHELES
Is it permitted that we share your leisure?
In place of cheering drink, which one seeks vainly here,
Your company shall give us pleasure.
ALTMAYER
A most fastidious person you appear.
FROSCH
No doubt 'twas late when you from Rippach started?
And supping there with Hans occasioned your delay?
MEPHISTOPHELES
We passed, without a call, to-day.
At our last interview, before we parted
Much of his cousins did he speak, entreating
That we should give to each his kindly greeting.
(He bows to FROSCH.)
ALTMAYER (aside)
You have it now! he understands.
SIEBEL
A knave sharp-set!
FROSCH
Just wait awhile: I'll have him yet.
MEPHISTOPHELES
If I am right, we heard the sound
Of well-trained voices, singing chorus;
And truly, song must here rebound
Superbly from the arches o'er us.
FROSCH
Are you, perhaps, a virtuoso?
MEPHISTOPHELES
O no! my wish is great, my power is only so-so.
ALTMAYER
Give us a song!
MEPHISTOPHELES
If you desire, a number.
SIEBEL
So that it be a bran-new strain!
MEPHISTOPHELES
We've just retraced our way from. Spain,
The lovely land of wine, and song, and slumber.
(Sings.)
There was a king once reigning,
Who had a big black flea
FROSCH
Hear, hear! A flea! D'ye rightly take the jest?
I call a flea a tidy guest.
MEPHISTOPHELES (sings)
There was a king once reigning,
Who had a big black flea,
And loved him past explaining,
As his own son were he.
He called his man of stitches;
The tailor came straightway:
Here, measure the lad for breeches.
And measure his coat, I say!
BRANDER
But mind, allow the tailor no caprices:
Enjoin upon him, as his head is dear,
To most exactly measure, sew and shear,
So that the breeches have no creases!
MEPHISTOPHELES
In silk and velvet gleaming
He now was wholly drest
Had a coat with ribbons streaming,
A cross upon his breast.
He had the first of stations,
A minister's star and name;
And also all his relations
Great lords at court became.
And the lords and ladies of honor
Were plagued, awake and in bed;
The queen she got them upon her,
The maids were bitten and bled.
And they did not dare to brush them,
Or scratch them, day or night:
We crack them and we crush them,
At once, whene'er they bite.
CHORUS (shouting)
We crack them and we crush them,
At once, whene'er they bite!
FROSCH Bravo! bravo! that was fine.
SIEBEL
Every flea may it so befall!
BRANDER
Point your fingers and nip them all!
ALTMAYER
Hurrah for Freedom! Hurrah for wine!
MEPHISTOPHELES
I fain would drink with you, my glass to Freedom clinking,
If 'twere a better wine that here I see you drinking.
SIEBEL
Don't let us hear that speech again!
MEPHISTOPHELES
Did I not fear the landlord might complain,
I'd treat these worthy guests, with pleasure,
To some from out our cellar's treasure.
SIEBEL
Just treat, and let the landlord me arraign!
FROSCH
And if the wine be good, our praises shall be ample.
But do not give too very small a sample;
For, if its quality I decide,
With a good mouthful I must be supplied.
ALTMAYER (aside)
They're from the Rhine! I guessed as much, before.
MEPHISTOPHELES
Bring me a gimlet here!
BRANDER
What shall therewith be done?
You've not the casks already at the door?
ALTMAYER
Yonder, within the landlord's box of tools, there's one!
MEPHISTOPHELES (takes the gimlet)
(To FROSCH.)
Now, give me of your taste some intimation.
FROSCH
How do you mean? Have you so many kinds?
MEPHISTOPHELES
The choice is free: make up your minds.
ALTMAYER (to FROSCH)
Aha! you lick your chops, from sheer anticipation.
FROSCH
Good! if I have the choice, so let the wine be Rhenish!
Our Fatherl and can best the sparkling cup replenish.
MEPHISTOPHELES
(boring a hole in the edge of the table, at the place where
FROSCH sits)
Get me a little wax, to make the stoppers, quick!
ALTMAYER
Ah! I perceive a juggler's trick.
MEPHISTOPHELES (to BRANDER)
And you?
BRANDER
Champagne shall be my wine,
And let it sparkle fresh and fine!
MEPHISTOPHELES
(bores: in the meantime one has made the wax stoppers, and
plugged the holes with them.)
BRANDER
What's foreign one can't always keep quite clear of,
For good things, oft, are not so near;
A German can't endure the French to see or hear of,
Yet drinks their wines with hearty cheer.
SIEBEL
(as MEPHISTOPHELES approaches his seat)
For me, I grant, sour wine is out of place;
Fill up my glass with sweetest, will you?
MEPHISTOPHELES (boring)
Tokay shall flow at once, to fill you!
ALTMAYER
Nolook me, Sirs, straight in the face!
I see you have your fun at our expense.
MEPHISTOPHELES
O no! with gentlemen of such pretence,
That were to venture far, indeed.
Speak out, and make your choice with speed! With what a vintage can I serve you?
ALTMAYER
With anyonly satisfy our need.
(After the holes have been bored and plugged)
MEPHISTOPHELES (with singular gestures)
Grapes the vine-stem bears,
Horns the he-goat wears!
The grapes are juicy, the vines are wood,
The wooden table gives wine as good!
Into the depths of Nature peer,
Only believe there's a miracle here!
Now draw the stoppers, and drink your fill!
ALL
(as they draw out the stoppers, and the wine which has been
desired flows into the glass of each)
O beautiful fountain, that flows at will!
MEPHISTOPHELES
But have a care that you nothing spill!
(They drink repeatedly.)
ALL (sing)
As 'twere five hundred hogs, we feel
So cannibalic jolly!
MEPHISTOPHELES
See, now, the race is happyit is free!
FAUST
To leave them is my inclination.
MEPHISTOPHELES
Take notice, first! their bestiality
Will make a brilliant demonstration.
SIEBEL
(drinks carelessly: the wine spills upon the earth, and turns to
flame)
Help! Fire! Help! Hell-fire is sent!
MEPHISTOPHELES (charming away the flame)
Be quiet, friendly element!
(To the revellers)
A bit of purgatory 'twas for this time, merely.
SIEBEL
What mean you? Wait!you'll pay for't dearly!
You'll know us, to your detriment.
FROSCH
Don't try that game a second time upon us!
ALTMAYER
I think we'd better send him packing quietly.
SIEBEL
What, Sir! you dare to make so free,
And play your hocus-pocus on us!
MEPHISTOPHELES
Be still, old wine-tub.
SIEBEL
Broomstick, you!
You face it out, impertinent and heady?
BRANDER
Just wait! a shower of blows is ready.
ALTMAYER
(draws a stopper out of the table: fire flies in his face.)
I burn! I burn!
SIEBEL
'Tis magic! Strike
The knave is outlawed! Cut him as you like!
(They draw their knives, and rush upon MEPHISTOPHELES.)
MEPHISTOPHELES (with solemn gestures)
False word and form of air,
Change place, and sense ensnare!
Be here and there!
(They stand amazed and look at each other.)
ALTMAYER
Where am I? What a lovely land!
FROSCH
Vines? Can I trust my eyes?
SIEBEL
And purple grapes at hand!
BRANDER
Here, over this green arbor bending,
See what a vine! what grapes depending!
(He takes SIEBEL by the nose: the others do the same reciprocally,
and raise their knives.)
MEPHISTOPHELES (as above)
Loose, Error, from their eyes the band,
And how the Devil jests, be now enlightened!
(He disappears with FAUST: the revellers start and separate.)
SIEBEL
What happened?
ALTMAYER
How?
FROSCH
Was that your nose I tightened?
BRANDER (to SIEBEL)
And yours that still I have in hand?
ALTMAYER
It was a blow that went through every limb!
Give me a chair! I sink! my senses swim.
FROSCH
But what has happened, tell me now?
SIEBEL
Where is he? If I catch the scoundrel hiding,
He shall not leave alive, I vow.
ALTMAYER
I saw him with these eyes upon a wine-cask riding
Out of the cellar-door, just now.
Still in my feet the fright like lead is weighing.
(He turns towards the table.)
Why! If the fount of wine should still be playing?
SIEBEL
'Twas all deceit, and lying, false design!
FROSCH
And yet it seemed as I were drinking wine.
BRANDER
But with the grapes how was it, pray?
ALTMAYER
Shall one believe no miracles, just say!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, AUERBACHS CELLAR
,#NFDB
16 Integral Yoga
11 Yoga
11 Poetry
6 Buddhism
4 Philosophy
4 Occultism
4 Mysticism
1 Psychology
1 Mythology
1 Fiction
1 Christianity
1 Alchemy
8 Sri Ramakrishna
6 Thubten Chodron
6 Nolini Kanta Gupta
6 Bokar Rinpoche
4 The Mother
4 A B Purani
3 Sri Aurobindo
3 James George Frazer
2 William Butler Yeats
2 Ramprasad
2 Rabindranath Tagore
2 Mahendranath Gupta
2 Friedrich Nietzsche
8 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
6 Tara - The Feminine Divine
6 How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator
5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
4 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
3 The Secret Doctrine
3 The Golden Bough
2 Yeats - Poems
2 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
2 Tagore - Poems
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Taraknath Ghoshal (Swami Shivananda)
Jogindranath Choudhury (Swami Jogananda)
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Others destined to be monastic disciples of Sri Ramakrishna came to Dakshineswar. Taraknath Ghoshal had felt from his boyhood the noble desire to realize God. Keshab and the Brahmo Samaj had attracted him but proved inadequate. In 1882 he first met the Master at Ramchandra's house and was astonished to hear him talk about samadhi, a subject which always fascinated his mind. And that evening he actually saw a manifestation of that superconscious state in the Master. Tarak became a frequent visitor at Dakshineswar and received the Master's grace in abundance. The young boy often felt ecstatic fervour in meditation. He also wept profusely while meditating on God. Sri Ramakrishna said to him: "God favours those who can weep for Him. Tears shed for God wash away the sins of former births."
--- BABURAM
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It took the group only a few days to become adjusted to the new environment. The Holy Mother, assisted by Sri Ramakrishna's niece, Lakshmi Devi, and a few woman devotees, took charge of the cooking for the Master and his attendants. Surendra willingly bore the major portion of the expenses, other householders contributing according to their means. Twelve disciples were constant attendants of the Master: Narendra, Rakhal, Baburam, Niranjan, Jogin, Latu, Tarak, the-elder Gopal, Kali, Sashi, Sarat, and the younger Gopal. Sarada, Harish, Hari, Gangadhar, and Tulasi visited the Master from time to time and practised sadhana at home. Narendra, preparing for his law examination, brought his books to the garden house in order to continue his studies during the infrequent spare moments. He encouraged his brother disciples to intensify their meditation, scriptural studies, and other spiritual disciplines. They all forgot their relatives and their
worldly duties.
0 1961-04-29, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I remember once going into a church (which I wont name) and I found it a very beautiful place. It wasnt a feast or ceremony day, so it was empty. There were just one or two people at prayer. I went in and sat down in a little chapel off to the side. Someone was praying there, someone who must have been in distressshe was crying and praying. And there was a statue, I no longer know of whom: Christ or the Virgin or a Saint I have no idea. And, oh! Suddenly, in place of the statue, I saw an enormous spider like a Tarantula, you know, but (gesture) huge! It covered the entire wall of the chapel and was just waiting there to swallow all the vital force of the people who came. It was heart-rending. I said to myself, Oh, these people There was this miserable woman who had come seeking solace, who was praying there, weeping, hoping to find solace; and instead of reaching a consciousness that was at least compassionate, her supplications were feeding this monster!
I have seen other things but I have rarely seen anything favorable in churches. Here, I remember going to M I was taken inside and received there in quite an unusual waya highly respected person introduced me as a great saint! They led me up to the main altar where people are not usually allowed to go, and what did I see there! An asura (oh, not a very high-ranking one, more like a rakshasa4), but such a monster! Hideous. So I went wham! (gesture of giving a blow) I thought something was going to happen. But this being left the altar and came over to try to intimidate me; of course, he saw it was useless, so he offered to make an alliance: If you just keep quiet and dont do anything, I will share all I get with you. Well, I sent him packing! The head of this Math5. It was a Math with a monastery and temple, which means a substantial fortune; the head of the Math has it all at his disposal for as long as he holds the position and he is appointed for life. But he has to name his successor and as a rule, his own life is considerably shortened by the successorthis is how it works. Everyone knew that the present head had considerably shortened the life of his predecessor. And what a creature! As asuric as the god he worshipped! I saw some poor fellows throw themselves at his feet (he must have been squeezing them pitilessly), to beg forgiveness and mercyan absolutely ruthless man. But he received meyou should have seen it! I said nothing, not a word about their god; I gave no sign that I knew anything. But I thought to myself, So thats how it is!
1.01 - Tara the Divine, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen
object:1.01 - Tara the Divine
subject class:Buddhism
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1 - Tara the Divine
Buddhism, as it was introduced to Tibet, contains
many deities- Tara is one of them-tied to the tantric
tradition. Tibetans who, in their childhood, start to
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many questions. Before trying to define who Tara is,
it may be useful to first understand what the deities
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Let us take Tara as an example. Now, when we
practice Tara meditation, we must make a mental
effort to imagine her as she is, green in color, hands
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certain way, Tara is then the creation of our psyche,
and we remain, at least partially, prisoners of the idea
that there is "me" on the one hand and Tara on the
other. This mental creation is not useless. As a
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Answer: Tara (Drolma), like Manjushri Gam pal yang)
and Avalokiteshvara (Chenrezig) are yidams common
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ABSOLUTE Tara
What we have said about deities in general also
applies to Tara. T~ra's identity, as with that of other
deities, may be envisioned from two different points
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This double identity of Tara is not a contradiction:
One does not negate the other.
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nature itself as an awakened deity, Tara could not be
other than the nature of our own mind.
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mental elaborations, also is Tara in the ultimate
domain.
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Body of Enjoyment that feminine deities such as Tara,
Vajravarahi (Dorje Pamo), and many others appear ..
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It is also said that Tara is the "Mother of all
Buddhas," which refers also to her essence. The nature
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buddhas. Thus, Tara- the Tara beyond time, space,
and all concepts-is the mother of all buddhas.
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Even if it seems disconcerting, the existence of Tara on
an ultimate level as we have described it, . does not
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known through the work of Tananatha/ a 16thcentury lama of great realization and scholarship, Tara
was a woman before becoming a deity.
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when Buddha Amoghasiddhi lived, Tara entered
another state of concentration to protect beings from
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empowerment. This caused Tara to arise from his
heart, coming through this mode of manifestation to
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this re~son, Tara also has the name of "Daughter of
the Worlds' Sovereign," that is, daughter of
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Such is Tara's story in the domain of manifestation.
Question: Generally, a "pure land," a paradise, is attri buted
to the deities and they dwell in it. What is Tara's pure
land?
Answer: Tara dwells, as Avalokiteshvara, in the pure
land of Potala, manifested on Earth by a mountain in
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to Tara. It is a particular domain, called "Harmony of
Turquoise Leaves.,,4
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Likewise, Tara's main activity is to brush away fear
and danger.
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What is fear? How does Tara help deal with it? It
is what we will try to understand now.
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and danger is found within the divine person of Tara.
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power is effective only if we trust it. For Tara to help,
we must pray to her and call upon her from the
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is a small probability that Tara's blessing and
protection will come to us, where as a trust witho ut
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addressed to Tara. Together with Tara's immense will
to help beings, this strength makes possible the
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and Tara's compassion.
We must understand that if phenomena had reality
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prayer and Tara's answer.
It is also why, when the nature of the mind is
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Traditionally, it is said that Tara protects against the
eight great fears or eight great dangers such as
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exhaustive. Tara protects against all dangers whatever
they are when we call upon her to help us and pray
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To protect us from inner fears, Tara dissipates the
afflicting emotion itself, which is the cause of, as well
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Many stories from ancient times report Tara's
intervention to save a person from a threatening
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who pray to her, the helping activity of Tara remains
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time-he had a terrible toothache. Tara appearing to
him in a dream said, "You have no particular
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He thought that Tara's intervention was because of
a connection he had with her in a past life since he
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From that time on, he was much devoted to Tara.
Tara'S JUDICIAL SUCCESS
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great devotion to Tara. Everyone called her Amala,"
"Mother."
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know the dharma very well but her faith in Tara was
extraordinary.
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woman. She gladly admitted that she prayed to Tara
before every court trial, and never lost a single one.
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than Tara, and that the multiplication of rupees was
also due to the deity's astuteness.
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near Darjeeling, Amala donated a great Tara statue
surrounded by smaller representations of twenty-one
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to Tara was so exclusive that, Kalu Rinpoche, having
a Padmasambhava statue placed above them for a
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assiduously prayed to Tara. She would sit, not facing
the shrine, but perpendicularly to It. One day, she
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happened. Tara's torma, instead of remaining in its
normal position, had spontaneously turned very
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money, praying ceaselessly for Tara to conserve or
increase what she owned. Her motivation was neither
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devotion to Tara and by keeping the deity in her
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heart, she received Tara's blessing, and her mind
changed little by little. Toward the end of her life, she
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Such is Tara's blessing, that it turns her devotees
toward their own good beyond their limited wishes.
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protection Tara gave to his family.
In 1960, Kham (the eastern province of Tibet) was
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Tsultrim's mother, however, had great faith in Tara.
As often as she could, she secretly recited Tara's praise
and mantra. Notably, when she watched over sheep
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she recited prayers and humbly asked Tara to find her
lost husb and and children. At night, while others were
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could protect us better than Tara? To be assured of
her help, I asked the monks of the monastery, the
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to Tara and recite her praise.
We took advantage of night to continue on our
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convinced that our safe journey was due to Tara's
blessing and her kind protection.
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100,000 Tara praises.
We took the path to Nepal. About sixty people,
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We accomplished the ritual of Tara and of the
protectors. I then decided to proceed to a "divination
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snowstorm could only be Tara's blessing; Tara, whose
help we did not cease to invoke.
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only to Tara's protection when they were forced to flee
their country. The savioress' intervention in favor of
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Question: Tara IS activity is to protect. There are also
"protectors" like Mahakala and others whose function is
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would harm the dharma. Tara's protection is more
personal if we can say that. She watches over us in all
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instance, that Tara IS protection is more accessible to a
Tibetan than to a Westerner. Is there really a barrier?
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Tara being certain to be heard. Tara's blessings do not
know any borders.
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In Tibet, many stories relate of Tara's statues or
paintings that miraculously have spoken out.
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representing White Tara painted on the wall of the
main temple of Tashi lhunpo, the residence of the
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text of a praise concerning him. It is said that Tara's
fresco, taking over and encouraging them, uttered
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Another extraordinary phenomenon linked to Tara
is the appearance of "spontaneous sculptures," that is,
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in 1972, Tara's appearance on the rock wall had not
yet begun. Now, after a slow unexplained process, the
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buddhists address to Tara requesting her protection in
these difficult times.
VARIOUS Tara AsPECTS
Tara's main aspect is that of Green Tara, peaceful, a
form with two arms, one face, and two legs. We have
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There are indeed many other forms of Tara such as
the twenty-one Taras corresponding to the twenty-one
stanzas of the praise, the eight Taras each protecting
against one of the eight great fears, Tara Yogini, and
so on. These various forms are not, however, other
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of the deity, when we pray to Tara, we simply address
Green Tara thinking that she accomplishes all the
activities we are requesting.
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sometimes seen as Tara's manifestations.
Truly, if forms vary, feminine deities are all of one
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time as Tara from Avalokiteshvara's (Chenrezig) teardrop and is often
considered as an aspect of the deity.
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WHITE Tara
Among various Taras, White Tara occupies a special
place beside Green Tara. She enjoys great popularity
because of her activity, which is to provide a long life.
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threatened. Also, a thangka or a statue of White Tara
is offered to a lama as a prayer for his or her long life.
White Tara is not a deity different from Tara. There
is no separate story recounting her origin, and her
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Her mantra is also the same as Green Tara's, OM
TARE TUTTARE TURE SOHA, even if we add to it an
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White Tara is also called Chintamattra Chakra, the
"Wheel Accomplishing All Wishes." This name comes
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WHITE Tara ORDERS STATUES
The following story illustrates the specific activity of
White Tara.
A Kadampa Geshe dreamed that he saw the sun
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"There is a White Tara practice that prolongs life. Do
it, and everything will be fine."
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turned his mind to Tara. Tara again appeared to him
and said that if he was to make a statue of her, he
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Green Tara
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The symbolism of Green Tara and White Tara are as
follows:
Green Tara
Her green color is that of the awakened activity, active
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that Tara acts for the benefit of those who pray to her
with the swiftness of wind.
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emotions. The right half bent leg shows that Tara is
ready to stand up to provide help to beings. The
symbolism of the legs tells us that Tara, although
totally free from the imperfections of samsara, remains
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White Tara
White Tara differs from Green Tara. Besides the
difference in color, she has seven eyes. Three are on
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White Tara.
On the thangkas, White Tara is recognized at first glance by her color.
When we face a statue or a drawing, it is easy to distinguish White
Tara from Green Tara. Green Tara's legs are in the Bodhisattva Posture
(right leg in front) and she has only two eyes; White Tara sits in the
lotus posture and has seven eyes including one on her forehead.
1.01 - Who is Tara, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
object:1.01 - Who is Tara
class:chapter
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1 - Who is Tara?
Before you, sitting on a lotus, is a beautiful young woman with a body
of green radiating light. Who is she? What is Tara? Why do practition-
ers of Tibetan Buddhism meditate upon such a being? How can a spiritual
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qualities onto a Buddha. Tara is not a concrete, self-existent person with a
personality, and for this reason, we train our minds to see her as an emanation
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who is Tara?
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night. Because of this, she was called Arya Tara (Tib: Pagma Drolma), meaning
the noble liberator. Arya indicates that she has directly realized the nature
of reality and Tara shows her liberating activity. When the religious author-
18
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lives, Tara refused, pointing out that many Buddhas had already manifested
in male bodies. She vowed to attain full enlightenment in a womans body
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Whether were men or women, this historical Tara is a role model for us.
Just like us, she was once an ordinary being with problems, stress, and disturbing emotions. But by training her mind in the Buddhas teachings, she
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effort, we too can attain her state. Smiling at us, Tara says, If I can do it, so
can you! thus encouraging us along the path.
In another legend, Tara is said to have been born from Avalokiteshvaras
tear. As a bodhisattva, Avalokiteshvara (Tib: Chenresig; Chin: Kuan Yin)
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these ignorant beings. From one of his tears, Tara emerged and encouraged
him on the bodhisattva path, saying, Do not despair. I will help you to liberate all beings.
In this story, we again see Tara as a person, one with a miraculous birth.
This legend can inspire us not to lose faith in the arduous process of beneting beings. Such patience and perseverance are necessary for as we know,
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brings happiness and peace. Taras optimism gives us strength in difcult situations through showing us that suffering can be overcome.
Tara as a Manifestation
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A second way to understand Tara is as a manifestation or embodiment of
enlightened qualities. Anyone who has attained Buddhahood can appear in
the form of any of the deities. There isnt just one Green Tara, or ThousandArmed Avalokiteshvara, or one Manjushri, or one Vajrapani. These are simply
appearances, emanations.
who is Tara?
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order to communicate with us. Tara, like other meditation deities, is one of
those forms.
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may emphasize a particular quality. For example, Tara symbolizes enlightened activity, while Avalokiteshvara embodies compassion. Among the
diverse forms of Tara, Green Tara, who will be described below, eliminates
obstacles and brings success. White Tara counteracts illness and bestows long
life. Each of the 21 Taras and 108 Taras has her own specialty, symbolized by
her color, implements, and physical posture.
Tara is an emanation of bliss and emptiness. Within the sphere of emptiness the absence of inherent existenceblissful wisdom realizing emptiness appears in the form of Tara. By appearing in this physical form of Tara,
the wisdom of bliss and emptiness of all Buddhas inspires us to cultivate constructive attitudes and actions. By understanding the symbolic meaning of
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When we look at Tara, what kind of feeling does Tara give us? Think of
Tara and think of George W. Bush. Do you get a different feeling when you
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energy. Visualizing Tara generates a very different kind of energy in us.
Her female form draws us into spiritual life. My teacher, Lama Thubten
Yeshe, who practiced Tara meditation daily, often referred to her as Mummy
Tara. Just as most of us worldly beings feel afnity for our mothers and rely
on their constant, compassionate help, we are naturally attracted to Taras
female appearance. We can relax in her presence and look at ourselves honestly, knowing that Tara will not judge, reject, or abandon us due to our
shortcomings. Like a mother, she sees her childs potentialin this case, our
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remove the ignorance that misconstrues reality and is the root of all our suffering. Women tend to have quick, intuitive, and comprehensive understanding. Tara represents this quality and consequently can help us to develop
such wisdom. Thus she is called the mother of all the Buddhas, for the wisdom realizing reality that she embodies gives birth to full enlightenment,
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Green Taras color symbolizes activity and success. Although she possesses the same qualities as other manifestations of the omniscient ones, she
specically embodies the enlightening inuence by which the Buddhas act to
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spirit of springtime after the dreariness of winter, Taras enlightening inuence makes our good qualities bloom and leads us to the freshness of liberation after the oppression of cyclic existence.
Lush green plants that grow easily are a farmers delight. Similarly, her
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in the presence of Green Tara may easily grow into results, and requests made
who is Tara?
21
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praying to Tara, we are energized to create causes for happiness and to eliminate interferences in our Dharma practice.
Taras body is made of light. Transparent, it appears and yet is intangible,
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level, Tara appears and exists. Yet when we search for her ultimate mode of
existence, we cannot nd anything that exists inherently, independent from
causes and conditions, parts, and terms and concepts. Tara conventionally
appears, like an illusion, but ultimately cannot be found and is empty of an
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help us. Due to her altruistic intention, Tara can appear in these realms without being adversely affected by the environment. She doesnt shy away from
suffering but faces it fearlessly and compassionately, thereby counteracting
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In each hand, Tara holds the stems of utpala, or blue lotus, owers. On her
left side, one utpala is a bud, one is blossoming, and one is fully open. The bud
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On Taras crown is Amitabha Buddha, peaceful and smiling. As Taras spiritual mentor, he represents the importance of having a fully qualied, wise,
and compassionate guide on the path. By keeping her mentor on her crown,
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look beautiful, Taras inner beautyher tranquility, compassion, and wisdomare her real adornments. Her dazzling jeweled necklaces, armlets,
anklets, earrings, and tiara indicate that the six far-reaching attitudes or
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practicing the Buddhas teaching. In this way, each characteristic of Taras
form illustrates the path to Buddhahood and its resultant qualities.
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A third way to view Tara is as the reection of our present Buddha-potential
in its future fully developed state. How do we attain Buddhahood? In brief,
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who is Tara?
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the fully enlightened body and mind of a Buddha. When we visualize Tara and
regard her as the resultant Tara that we will become, we are inspired to train
our mind in the path leading to this result. Lets examine how the practice of
1.02 - Meditating on Tara, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
object:1.02 - Meditating on Tara
class:chapter
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Meditating on Tara
Tara sadhanaa text of a guided meditation on Tarais followed in
order to purify our mind and cultivate our qualities so that we can
become Tara. What follows is a general explanation of the outline of the
important points contained in many Tara sadhanas. To do the Tara practice,
certain requirements are necessary. Practitioners should consult a qualied
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A sadhana begins with visualizing Tara and seeing her as the embodiment
of the Three Jewels: Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha. Then we take refuge in the
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Visualizing Tara and contemplating the symbolisms of her body help us
to cultivate respect for virtuous qualities and inspire us to develop those qualities ourselves. The purpose of doing the Tara practice is not to worship Tara.
Tara is a fully enlightened Buddha; she doesnt need our worship or offerings. We dont do these practices for the sake of the enlightened beings, to
win their favor or soo the their wrath. As a Buddha, Tara is free from ego needs
and only experiences innite bliss. Rather, bowing, making offerings, reciting mantra, and so on generate special feelings within our own mind. We do
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same enlightened qualities as Tara.
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The purpose of meditating on Tara isnt to feel good by worshiping an
external deity, I offered apples to Tara, so Im happy because now shell help
me. The ultimate purpose of showing respect and praising Taras qualities
is to provoke us to contemplate: How can I develop those same qualities?
How can I transform my mind to become more like Tara?
Seeing Tara with her right hand reaching out and her right foot extended
to benet others causes us to reect: Do I reach out to benet others? Do I
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our daily life and Taras ability to make innite manifestations throughout all
universes? We must progress gradually and consistently. Our practice of the
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meditating on Tara
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When we eventually become Tara, we will be able to give everything effortlessly and joyfully.
Progressing gradually is important. We begin by giving to the people we
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Poor me, Im so stingy; Ill never be like Tara, lets rejoice in the level of
generosity we currently have and gradually expand it. For example, if we
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meditating on Tara
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God is. Some people who consider themselves Buddhists may pray to Tara as
if she were an external God, while some Christians may see God as emptiness
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meditating on Tara
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love that Tara has. A Buddhas love remains constant. It is shared with everyone, no matter how they treat that Buddha. Taras love and compassion do
not depend upon whether other people like her or not, whether others praise
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as human beings, we must do a little better than this. When we practice cultivating the kind of love that Tara has, we try to free ourselves from having
strings attached to our affection; we try to open our hearts impartially to all.
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meditating on Tara
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train our minds in Taras love. We try to relax the instinctual response to hiss
and growl at others. Instead, we train our minds and hearts to look at them
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meditating on Tara
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Meditating on Tara
Next in the sadhana, we purify negativities and create positive potential
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The sadhana continues with verses praising Taras qualities and requesting her inspiration for our spiritual practice. These verses, recited while we
visualize Tara in front of us, focus our attention on her enlightened qualities. The more we reect upon Taras wonderful qualities, the more we will
receive the happiness that comes from following the spiritual path she
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The heart of the sadhana the dissolution into emptiness and the selfgenerationfollows. Tara now comes on top of our head and dissolves into
green light that ows into us and merges with our heart-mind in our heart
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no concrete Tara to meditate on, and no ndable action of meditation. All
false appearances of inherent existence cease and we rest our mind in the
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our wisdom appears in the form of Tara, whose body is made of radiant green
light. Still aware of the absence of an independently existing I, we simultaneously label I in dependence on the appearance of Taras body and
meditating on Tara
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that it engenders, we nevertheless have the sense of being Tara and envision
performing her enlightening activities to benet all beings. We imagine feeling the impartial love and compassion for all beings that Tara feels and having her skillful means to be able to benet them. From our Tara body made
of light, we emanate countless small Taras that radiate throughout the universe, touching each sentient being, alleviating their suffering and becoming what they need. All sentient beings delements are puried and they
gain Taras realizations. Now that all beings have become Tara, we make
offerings to them. These offerings generate in their minds bliss uncontaminated by attachment. Then all these Taras fall like snowakes into us, blessing and inspiring our mind.
Like a child who dresses up and pretends to be a reman, thereby developing the condence to become one, we imagine ourselves to be a Buddha
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by bringing the Tara we will become in the future into the present moment
and imagining being that Tara. This plants the seeds for us to actually become
Tara in the future. Identifying ourselves with our Tara-nature, we gain invigorating condence that spurs us to make our life meaningful.
Taras Mantra
The visualization of performing Taras enlightening activities is often done
while reciting her mantra, om tare tuttare ture soha. A mantra is a set of
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Taras mantra, om represents Taras body, speech, and mind, the faculties that
we want to develop. Tare, tuttare, and ture all have the meaning of to
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path, our body, speech, and mind are puried, and we attain Taras body,
speech, and mind.
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meditating on Tara
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A praise to Taras mantra illustrates the qualities of each syllable group:
om to the transcendent subduer, Arya Tara, I prostrate.
Homage to the glorious one who frees with tare;
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Briey, this is the way that the Tara sadhana guides our mind on the path
to full enlightenment. As practitioners progress and generate an altruistic
1.02 - Taras Tantra, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen
object:1.02 - Taras Tantra
subject class:Buddhism
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2- Tara's Tantra
What we know of Tara and the practices linked to her
originally comes from the tantras. These are not texts
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ORIGIN OF THE Tara TANTRA
The origin of Tara Tantra, as with that of all tantras,
cannot be located in time. Tantras belong to the
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Likewise the Tara Tantra, which resides in the eternal
knowledge of the buddhas, had already been revealed
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As far as our kalpa is concerned, the Tara Tantra
was revealed many times by Avalokiteshvara in his
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Avalokiteshvara revealed the Tara Tantra the first
time in the "totally endow ed" epoch in a form
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These Tara Tantras uttere d by Avalokiteshvara are not
those we now have. Ours are those of Shakyamuni
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goal. At that moment, Tara appea red and with eight
great laughters made the demo ns fall to the groun d
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Potala. Most tantra s, includ ing that of Tara, were
placed under the guard of Vajra pani (Chan a Dorje),
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Texts for the Tara practice would appea r long after
the Buddh a's time thoug h divine revelation. Likewise,
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History tells us that the Tara Tantra especially was
communicated to human beings only three centuries
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reporting Tara's intervention to save her followers
from danger. Let us give two examples. The first one
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to pray to Tara. From the bottom of his heart, he
called upon her for help. Tara then manifested herself,
emitting from the soles of her feet a mighty wind that
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India up to a certain time). Our man praye d to Tara.
A young woma n came by carrying a load of leaves. It
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The principal propa gation of the Tara Tantra was
done by a Bengali monk called Hayap ala who
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instructions on Tara from Vajrapani directly. From
Guhy ashila , Haya pala recei ved the Tara
empowerment, and under his direction perfo rmed the
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- Fundamental Tantra on Tara's Origin
- Violent and Wrathful Tantra
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transmitted the Tara practice through which many of
them achieved realization.
Hayapala then transmitted Tara's lineage to his
disciple Hayagosha who passed it on to Nagarjuna. It
is because of the Tara practice that he attained
realization. Then, the transmission went on
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The Tara practice was later introduced to Tibet
through many channels. Taranatha, our main source
of information on the origins of the Tara Tantra,
received transmission from a disciple of the Indian
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Before Taranatha, Atisha, who had bonded with
the goddess, played an important role in the
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AnsHA AND Tara
It is interesting to note that Atisha's life was marked
by a profound bond to Tara. This bond seems related
to his coming to Tibet. His relationship to the deity
will illustrate for us how Tara manifests her activity.
Miraculous Transformation
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transformed into Tara's face. Everyone concluded from
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this that Tara had been his tutelary deity for many
lifetimes.
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goddess who was none other than Tara appea red and
admonished Chand ragarb ha.
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Several interventions by Tara were necessary to
convince him.
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dream in which Tara appea red and told him:
"The monk you have expelled is a bodhisattva. It
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answe red Tara.
The Yogini' s Message
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invite him to his country, Atisha again consulted Tara
on the oppor tunity to accept. The deity told him. "If
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By this story we see not only how Tara was an
inspiration for Atisha but also we see her ardor in
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revelation of the Tara Tantra.
Question: The history of propagation of the Greater Vehicle
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subject class:Buddhism
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3-Invocation of Tara
FUNCTION OF RITUALS
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the Tara practice. What is the function of these vario.us
approaches?
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There are many Tara rituals, which the various
traditions of Tibetan buddhism use according to their
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case of the Tara terma received by Chogyur Lingpa.
Chogyur Lingpa dwelled in a cave in Kham called
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vision of Tara who told hi~ three times, "It is good,
it is good, it is good," (Tibetan, lekso, lekso, lekso). This
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this terma Tara's Profound Drop, "drop" meaning here
that which collects the essential in a concise form.
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protection of Tara, and asks her to grant what he or
she wants. Because of this position of "requesting"
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deity's presence in the sky (in the form of 21 Taras) in
front of the practitioner.
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Yidams, and Protectors), and more specifically of Tara.
The practitioner also renews the will to attain
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to Tara, buddhas, and bodhisattvas the totality of the
universe gathered in the form of a mandala. The
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MANIFESTATION OF OURSELVES AS Tara AND
,INVITATION OF THE 21 TaraS to come take their places
in the sky in front of us. Tara's various aspects take
place in the sky, the principal one being Green Tara.
RECITATION OF THE PRAISE. The praise is recited in
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- During the first sequence, Tara is visualized in front
of .us with her right hand in the mudra of sublime
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- During the second recitation, Tara makes the
protection mudra. We think that she protects us
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RECITATION OF Tara'S MANTRA. Tara's aspects who
were in the sky have melted into the practitioners who
continue to imagine themselves in the form of Tara
during recitation of her mantra.
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realize the Noble Tara and may I establish all beings
in this realization."
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in the center, Green Tara (the practitioner)
around Tara, the eight Taras protecting from the
eight great fears, sitting in the same posture as Green
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- Tara' protecting from lions, blue, with a vajra on the
lotus
- Tara protecting from elephants, yellow, with a hook
on the lotus
- Tara protecting from fire, white, with a water
crystaPO on the lotus
- Tara protecting from snakes, green, with a sublime
medicine (arura) on the lotus
- Tara protecting from thieves, white, with a bow and
arrow on the lotus
- Tara protecting from imprisonment, green, with a
sword on the lotus
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- Tara protecting from water, red, with a fire crystal
on the lotus
- Tara protecting from demons, black, with a stick on
the lotus
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In the center of the celestial palace, Samaya Tara,
green, in union with the male deity Hayagriva
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Around her, there are four other aspects of Tara
who, as in the inner practice, perform the mudra of
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- In the east, Vajra Tara, blue, with a vajra on the
lotus
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- In the south, Ratna Tara, yellow, with a jewel on the
lotus
- In the west, Padma Tara, red, with a hook on the
lotus
- In the north, Karma Tara, black, with a sword on the
lotus
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Question: In Tara's ritual, as in most rituals, we offer to
the deity a small figure of dough called a torma or bultor
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accomplish Tara's rituals every morning?
Answer: Not necessarily. Some monasteries do, others
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special devotion that the Khenpo and I have for Tara,
we have also instituted the daily recitation of Tara's
ritual by the monks of the monastery.
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Question: Is there a day devoted to Tara?
Answer: Tara's day is the eighth day of the Tib-etan
month, that is, the first moon quarter (eight days after
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devotion to Tara?
Answer: Lay people were not practicing Tara's ritual
per se. It was more a monastic affair. However, most
people knew Tara's praise, which they learned by
heart as children. They used to recite it morning and
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example. They also recited Tara's mantra.
The lay people's faith in Tara was immense. If they
knew the words of the praise, they did not grasp their
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and the certitude that Tara was watching over them
were enough for them.
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to Tara?
Answer: If they do not know the praise, they can
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of danger, as Tibetans do, they can call upon Tara
,from their hearts. The blessing and protection are the
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Question: The prayer we address to Tara may seem
contradictory to the ideal of nondesire, of being content
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addressed to Tara seems to say "Bestow on us all that we
desire!" In the text following the recitation of the praise
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Answer: Tara answers the prayers of everyone
whatever one's level of understanding. In her
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himself or herself, it is this absence of need that Tara
will bestow. The person who prays for devotion to
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case, Tara will grant protection against this suffering.
On the contrary, it would be meaningless for a monk
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Tara, only by addressing Tara with trust, even if we
seek to obtain material benefit, our mind will receive
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Question: The prayer addressed to Tara allows us to obtain
all we wish, wlultever our wish. And if our wish is not
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Therefore, Tara answers the wishes of beings only if
they are characterized by bringing them more
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or deities like Tara. That is why these means allow
purification to change karma. Besides putting into
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people (as is the case for Tara) with only the condition
that everyone has taken refuge and wishes to receive
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of practice. For Tara, there is an external practice, an
inner practice, and a secret practice each requiring an
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The Tara empowerment bestowed in public is that
of the external practice belonging to the Kriya Tantra.
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the form of Tara. Ritually, permission of the Body is
conferred, besides various visualizations, through the
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He or she is allowed to recite Tara's mantra. Ritually,
the permission of Speech is conferred by repeating the
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lotus that Tara holds in her hand. It allows those who
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. Tara's other empowerments, especially those
belonging to the higher tantras, can be presented in a
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the empowerment. Is it the same for Tara?
Answer: In the higher tantras, it is not allowed to
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However, for deities like Avalokiteshvara or Tara,
who represent above all the buddha's activity, we
1.03 - Tara, Liberator from the Eight Dangers, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
object:1.03 - Tara, Liberator from the Eight Dangers
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n the previous chapter, we noted that the syllable tuttare in Taras
mantra indicates that Tara liberates us from eight external and eight
internal dangers. While the eight external ones threaten our life or property, the eight internal ones endanger us spiritually by turning us away from
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How does Tara protect us from danger? The real protection is the Dharma
Jewel in which we take refuge the true paths and true cessations of sufferings and their origins in our mindstream. To cultivate and then perfect these
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It is in this way that Tara frees our mind. First she teaches us the Dharma,
and then she stimulates us to investigate its meaning so that we reach a correct understanding. Finally, she guides us in meditation practice so that we
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Another way of seeing how Tara liberates us is to recall that she is the
wisdom of bliss and emptiness. She is all the realizations of the path. These
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The following eloquent verses requesting Tara to protect us from the
eight dangers are extracted from A Crown Ornament for the Wise, a hymn
to Tara.1 It was composed by Gyalwa Gendun Drubpa, the First Dalai Lama
(13911475) after he completed a meditation retreat on Tara. These verses
point out mental and emotional obstacles in the path so that we will investigate and understand how they operate in our mind. Then we can apply the
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In asking Tara to save us from the danger of the lion of pride, we are actually calling upon our inner Tara the seeds of our own wisdom and compassion. As these qualities gradually grow, they protect us from the damage that
pride can inict upon ourselves and others.
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When petitioning Tara for protection, we are calling forth our own powers of mindfulness and vigilance. Like a wise elephant tamer who skillfully
knows how to subdue a wild elephant and harness its energy for constructive
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star to nd our way across the dark seas of the disturbing emotions. The Sanskrit noun Tara means star, and the verb trri indicates to guide across, to
cross over. We ask Tara to protect us from danger by teaching us the path
to enlightenment. In this way she liberates us from cyclic existence and
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These are the eight dangers from which Tara protects us. In our meditation
and in our life, lets be aware of when we are under the inuence of these
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may also visualize Tara in front of us, radiating green light. This light ows
into us, lling our body/mind, so that there is no space for the eight dangers
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imagine Taras radiant green light lling the universe and all the beings
within it, liberating them from the eight dangers and enhancing their love,
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By doing Tara practice and applying the antidotes to the eight dangers in
order to benet all beings, we have created tremendous positive potential.
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Although the above verses are phrased in the manner of supplicating Tara
to protect us from the various dangers, we must remember some important
points in order to understand their meaning correctly. First, Tara is not a selfexistent, independent deity or God. Like all persons and phenomena, she
Tara, liberator from the eight dangers
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should avoid thinking of Tara as an external being who can wave a magic
wand curing our difculties and fullling our selsh desires while we sit back
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one making the request), Tara (the one we are requesting), and the action of
requesting are all empty of independent existence, yet exist conventionally.
Second, although all beings who have become Tara are free from limitations from their side to help others, they are not omnipotent. They can
teach, guide, and inspire us only to the extent that we are receptive. One of
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praying to Tara, we are invoking our internal wisdom and compassion
through generating wonderful aspirations and directing our thought toward
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beings equally, the more Tara can inuence us. The greater our wisdom
understanding the ultimate nature, the more Tara can inspire us to deepen
our realizations.
1.03 - YIBHOOTI PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
chandre Taravyoohajnanam
On the moon, (comes) the knowledge of the cluster of
1.04 - Homage to the Twenty-one Taras, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
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Homage to the Twenty-one Taras
he Homage to the Twenty-one Taras is from the tantra In Praise
of Tara, the Mother of All Tathagatas. Preceding the Homage, it reads:
Then the Bhagavan Buddha, a victorious, perfected, and transcendent
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praise of Arya Tara.2
Written down in Sanskrit, the Homage was translated into Tibetan. The
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The following is a translation of the Homage to the Twenty-one Taras
in a form that may be chanted in English.3 Chanting the Homage out loud
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our understanding, and visualizing the twenty-one Taras deepens our connection to them.
om I prostrate to the noble, transcendent liberator.
1. Homage to Tara swift and fearless,
With eyes like a ash of lightning,
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homage to the twenty-one Taras
7. Homage to you whose trey and pey
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Saying Tara twice and the letter pey,
You dispel all poisons without exception.
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homage to the twenty-one Taras
21. Homage to you, adorned with three natures,
1.04 - The Praise, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen
The Praise to the Twenty-one Taras is a prayer most used in Tara
Practice. It was rare for any Tibetan not to know it by heart. Simple
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The praise is extracted from a Tara Tantra, and we saw earlier
how the tantras are difficult texts to understand, are elliptic, often
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is founded on Taranatha's commentary. Bokar Rinpoche's
explanation of the praise does not imply, therefore, that other
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The Tara Praise, called the Praise of the Twenty-OneFold Homa ge is not a text of huma n origin. It is
contained in a tantra called The Seven Hund red
Thoughts, The King of the Tara Tantr aY
We saw earlier that tantras dwell in the
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different interpretations. We follow Taranatha's
comm entary here.
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transl ated tantras, devot ed many works to Tara, and
wrote many treatises on Kalachakra, to which the
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The praise addressed to Tara is based on the
_ recognition of Tara's greatness. Tara is in essence,
Prajnaparamita, the origin or "Mother" of all the
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devotion, a total trust in Tara that we pray from the
bottom of our heart with the request, "Protect us!"
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praise. As it includes Tara's mantra OM TARE TUTTARE
TURE SOHA, it is sometimes called the "praise of the
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it is the initial syllable of the Tara: mantra.
SOVEREIGN: In Tibetan it is two syllables (je-tsun).
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- Sovereign means that we address Tara as the
main figure of all the places of refuge.
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of the word Tara.
TARE, part of the mantra repeating the name of the
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SWIFT, moved by great compassion, Tara, when she
- comes to help beings, does it without procrastinating
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COURAGEOUS: Tara shows limitless courage with no
weakness to protect beings from suffering, whether in
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You WHO PROVIDE ALL BENEFITS: Tara bestows all
benefits, whether temporal or ultimate.
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nus stanza shows that Tara is worth pra Ismg
because she has the three qualities of an awakened
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SIGHT LIKE INSTANT LIGHTNING, Tara has the sight
(eye) of primordial knowledge; this knowledge,
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and knowledge, Tara liberates beings from the
suffering of samsara and establishes them in
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The two following lines refer to Tara's origin from a
relative point of view.
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which Tara would have appeared from a tear drop of
Avalokiteshvara. Beyond this literal meaning,
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and Tara represents the formal body (rupakaya) issued
from the dynamics of the Absolute Body.
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FULL MOONS: the luminosity of Tara's face is
comparable 'to the full radiance of one hundred
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the luminosity of Tara's face, it is now to the glitter of
Tara's body that the stars' light alludes.
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The two following lines indicate that Tara possesses
the six paramitas perfectly, the six perfections of the
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subject of the praise, Tara.
THE 1NFINITE: the infinite refers to benefits
proceeding from the praise. Wh~n we recite it, Tara
effectively grants us all that we ask of her.
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we wish, the victory is related to the help Tara brings
us to overcome fear and danger.
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mantra on all adverse circumstances]." Taranatha uses
the term "mantra" here but it seems that it is to
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TUT Tara AND HUNG: mantras used by Tara to
accomplish the activity mentioned in the stanza.
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many solar systems). Tara's activity occurs in the ten
directions (four cardinal points, four intermediate
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metaphors signifying that in her might, Tara can easily
exert her influence on the seven worlds. She can
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The first two lines underline Tara's greatness by
stating the honors given to her by the great gods of
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TRAT and P'AT: syllables used by Tara to accomplish
the activity mentioned in this stanza (Tibetans say
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on. Tara has the power to overcome all their
machinations.
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extended: to overcome the enemies, Tara not only uses
mantras TRAT and P'AT but she takes a posture called
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BLAZES WITHIN A GLOWING FIRE: Tara's body is
blazing and produces immense flames. This fire first
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TURE: in Sanskrit, swift, Tara's attribute; also
designates a part of the mantra; Tara uses the power
of this part to exert her activity.
THE VERY FRIGHfFUL: Tara's nature is to be at peace.
However, when circumstances demand it, she can take
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attitude that Tara vanquishes the demon's warriors,
since a peaceful attitude would not subdue them.
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meant that Tara's body has taken on a wrathful
expression. . The fourth line specifies that this
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and become obstacles to the dharma. When Tara
"kills" them, this means that she deprives them
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MUDRA SYMBOL OF THE THREE JEWELS: Tara, as she
is usually represented, with the left hand holding a
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Jewels mentioned here, according to Taranatha, is
completely different. Hands are joined at heart level,
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AOORNS: Light radiated by Tara's body illuminates
and beautifies the universe while spreading outward.
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It is said that a long time ago, Tara performed the
lotus mudra, consecrated it with her mantra, and
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which Tara fills the universe r;epresents her
spontaneous arrival when one of her followers calls
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demons, Tara uses her laugh ter and mantra.
SUBJUGATES DEMONS AND THEIR WORLDS: Some
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TO SUMMON: under lines Tara's greatness; all
powe rful beings obey her.
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signs of anger symbolizing Tara's force, able to brush
away any misfortune.
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inner happiness. Tara frees beings from all suffering.
Stanza 12
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stones adorning Tara's body and shining with a
radiance that emanates in all directions.
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proclaiming that Tara belongs to the lotus family ruled
by Amitabha.
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around Tara.
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SWIRLING: Tara stands up. "Swirling" indicates the
swift and various movements of her dance.
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mean that Tara holds a fixed posture. These are only
examples of her leg movements during the dance.
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the complete movement done by Tara is first to clap
her hands, then, to strike the ground. The ground
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WITH THE SYLLABLE HUNG: Tara emits this syllable
through her nose.
THE SEVEN UNDERGROUND LEVELS: Taranatha's
commentary gives the list of the seven underground
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qualities of Tara and also qualities through which she
helps beings.
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designates nirvana. As previously, not only has Tara
attained this nirvana but she provides access to it for
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SOHA and OM: mantras used by Tara.
PURITY: these mantras are pure, that is, perfectly
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mantras that she utters, Tara dissipates harmful deeds
themselves and the suffering coming from them.
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SOHA AND OM: Tara's mind, possessing the five
wisdoms, is endowed with a dynamic that manifests
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SOHA is none other than Tara.
Stanza 16
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natural effect of Tara's compassion is to provide joy
for the bodhisattvas, the Vajrayana followers having
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HUNG: the seed syllable from which Tara appears in
her wrathful form described here as blazing with light.
(The seed syllable of Tara in her peaceful form is
TAM.)
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from Tara herself. From the seed syllable appears the
mantra or the deity herself.
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Sanskrit term meaning "swift," one of Tara's
names.
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STAMPS WITH HER FOOT: indicates that Tara dons a
wrathful form here.
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BY RECITING TWICE Tara AND P'AT.
THE HARE-MARKED MOON: the moon. In the East,
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Tara AND P'AT: Mantras used by Tara to neutralize
poisons.
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show their allegiance to Tara by bowing down to her
feet.
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ARMOR: mantras consecrated by Tara and the
mudras that she accomplishes provide to those who
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of the armor provided by Tara's mantras and mudras.
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WHOSE TWO EYES SHINE: the radiance of Tara's sight
of compassion is such that it frees beings of inferior
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HARA AND TUT Tara: mantras through which Tara
dispels epidemics. Beside the literal meaning,
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HARA AND TUT Tara: represents recitation of Tara's
mantra.
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SUN AND MOON: by the light of the right eye, Tara
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VICTOR: Tara gains victory over all that causes evil.
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at the three places on Tara's body (forehead, throat,
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THE ROOT MANTRA: Tara's mantra OM TARE TUITARE
TURE SOHA is distributed throughout the text of the
1.05 - AUERBACHS CELLAR, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
Ah, Tara, lara da!
ALTMAYER
Ah, Tara, lara, da!
FROSCH
1.05 - Buddhism and Women, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen
story of Wisdom Moon-the future Tara-monks did
not hesitate to sincerely advise her, for her own good,
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In five years, your realization will be equal to Tara's."
Gelongma Palmo went to the place indicated in the
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appeared in front of her and told her, "You will obtain
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considered as emanations of Tara.
Songtsen Campo and his two spouses
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Praise, and the prayer for rebirth in the Pure Land of
1.05 - The Magical Control of the Weather, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
induced the inhabitants of a village in the Tarashchansk district to
dig up the body of a Raskolnik, or Dissenter, who had died in the
1.06 - Iconography, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen
There are several forms of Tara, which produced
abundant iconographic material. In the first chapter,
there are representations of Green Tara and White Tara.
We present here two iconographic series, a series of
twenty-one Taras and a series of the Taras offering
protection from the eight fears. These two series appear
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The Twenty-one Taras
Pravira Tara
Rabtu Pawai Drolma
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Chandrakanti Tara
Dadang Gyi Drolma
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Varada Tara
Chok Tsolwai Drolma
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Jagadvashi Tara
Drowa Gukpai
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Paripachaka Tara
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Bhrikuti Tara
Thronyer Yowai Drolma
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Vijaya Tara
Drolma Namgya lma
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Siddhisambhava Tara
Drolma Ngodrup
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Paripurana Tara
Drolma Yongzok lema
1.07 - A Song of Longing for Tara, the Infallible, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
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he following is a request prayer to Tara, A Song of Longing for Tara,
the Infallible (Tib: Dung bo lu may ma) written by Lama Lobsang Ten-
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when he gave the Chittamani Tara initiations and teachings to a group of us
at Kopan Monastery. In Lamas style, this may not be a literal translation, and
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different place than my mind was at that age! He clearly had meditation experience and a strong connection with Tara. In fact, he speaks of her here as his
personal guru.
From my heart I bow to Divine Mother Tara, essence of love and compassion, the most precious objects of refuge gathered into one. From
now until I reach enlightenment, hook me with your great love and
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I take refuge in you, Tara; like you, no Buddha could ever deceive me.
But understanding the odd character of these times, most Buddhas
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I cannot rely on non-virtuous friends for even a day. They pretend to
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Divine Wisdom Mother Tara, you know everything about my life
my ups and downs, my good and bad. Think lovingly of me, my
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Divine Wisdom Mother Tara, may I and all beings who are connected
to me reach whatever pure land we wish.
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mind, you will have close connection and will see Taras face. No hindrances will be experienced and all wishes will be fullled. You will
have a close relationship with all Buddhas and bodhisattvas, and they
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Colophon: This prayer to Venerable Tara, in heart words making his own
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Verse 1: The Three Jewels
From my heart I bow to Divine Mother Tara, essence of love and compassion, the most precious objects of refuge gathered into one. From now until
I reach enlightenment, hook me with your great love and kindness to liberate me.
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we bow to Tara. Were not doing some empty ritual. When we do cer-
tain prayers or practices repeatedly, doing them with feeling can be a challenge. We easily fall into saying them, blah, blah, blah, and then complain,
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feel comfortable with Tara; we can relax around her and dont put on a good
image in her presence in order to make her think were someone we arent.
Rather, we know that as a Buddha, she wont judge us, so we are totally honest with Tara. This lets us be nourished by her wisdom and compassion.
Symbolically, the right side of the body correlates with the method or
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The essence of love and compassion is what Tara is all about. You may
wonder, I thought Tara, as a female, represents wisdom and male deities represent compassion and now youre saying that Taras essence is compassion.
Lets not make the symbolism concrete and fabricate more preconceptions.
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one particular gure. In another way, Taras mind is the Dharma refuge
true cessations and true paths. She has realized emptiness directly and, as an
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Here our genuine spiritual aspiration becomes a ring and we request Tara,
Please hook that ring! Hook my deep spiritual longing and aspirations. I
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spiritual intention. That pure intention on our part is the ring that Tara will
hook with her wisdom and compassion. We might ask, If Tara is a Buddha,
why do we have to request her to hook us? Why do we have to request her to
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and again. Its the same thing here. By requesting Tara again and again,
Hook me with your great love and kindness, were expressing our interest
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we are incapable of doing. There is no fault in seeing Tara as a person, but we
must remember she is a noninherently existent person. As the princess
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We cant say, Tara, please inspire me to develop love and compassion
and, in the meantime, Im going to tell this guy off because hes making so
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thoughts and feelings and increase them. When we make requests to Tara, we
open ourselves up to the energy of her realizations and that can affect us. But
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phenomena affect each other, so the force of Taras realizations can positively
affect our mind.
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prayers and requests to Tara?
Prayer is not an accurate translation of the Tibetan word monlam,
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Verse 2: Connecting with Tara
By the witness of the Three Jewels, not just from my mouth but from the depths
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to develop an attitude in which Tara and her outstanding qualities are in our
hearts all the time, not just in the morning and evening.
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speech. It sounds as if we are asking Tara to walk in the door so we can see
her face. What is Taras face? What does seeing Tara mean? The Buddha said,
Those who see the Dharma see me. Seeing the Dharma means realizing
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know what the Buddha is and what Tara is. Seeing Tara doesnt mean having
a vision of Tara. It means accessing the way that things exist by understanding emptiness. Seeing Tara involves experiencing the same wisdom that is
her nature.
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mentioned that he had just had a vision of Tara. My friend got very excited
and said, Was it Tara? What did she say? What happened? The monk was
very nonchalant and said, I dont know if it was Tara, as if it didnt matter.
In other words, if you have a vision and it inspires you in your practice
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and get attached to it, thinking that now youre someone special, thats opposite to the Dharma. Whether the vision actually was Tara or not doesnt matter. Whats more important is how we relate to the vision. If we have an
insight in meditation and use it to bolster our ego, it was useless. If we have
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wisdom: May I perceive emptiness. Taras blissful face is the face of emptiness.
Grant me the nectar of your speech. They say that the way the Buddha
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other doesnt. Does being in Taras pure land mean you get to decide on the
temperature? Or does it mean that your mind is happy whatever the temperature is?
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When we say to Tara, you are my principal guru, it means that the wisdom of the Buddha is our principal guru. Inspire me, Divine Mother, essence
of love. Arouse the great power of your compassion and think of me. Here,
we ask Tara for her help and inspiration. We also say to ourselves, Im making myself ready to receive the enlightening inuence of Tara and of all the
Buddhas. I want to follow the path and do the meditations necessary to
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I take refuge in you, Tara; like you, no Buddha could ever deceive me. But
understanding the odd character of these times, most Buddhas have gone into
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doesnt mean we only practice Tara and forget the other Buddhas. This means
that besides the blissful omniscient mind that manifests in the form of Tara,
there are no other objects of refuge. In the West, when we are miserable, we
take refuge in another three jewels: in the shopping center, the refrigerator, and the tv. Realizing that these cannot provide the happiness and security we seek, we abandon our refuge in worldly things and take refuge in Tara,
who embodies the Three Jewels.
Bestow realizations upon me, Divine Mother, essence of love. Tara
doesnt just bonk us on the head and poof! we have realizations. Rather, realizations come through our practice of learning, contemplating, and meditating on the Lamrim. In addition, when visualizing Tara and reciting her
mantra, we imagine all the realizations of the Lamrim owing into us in the
form of green light radiating from Tara. This is how Tara bestows realizations, because when we meditate on her sadhana, our minds and hearts open
and are transformed.
Arouse the great power of your compassion and think of me. As if Tara
is not already doing that! Here were talking to ourselves, saying, Hey, me!
Wake up! Arouse the great power of your own wisdom and think of Tara!
Tara is doing her job already; we have to cultivate and arouse our wisdom
and think of Tara.
Verse 5: Dharma Protectors
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Why are there erce protectors? Peaceful deities such as Tara have a certain energy that calms and gladdens our mind. But sometimes our mind is so
belligerent and stuck that we need the kind of energy that goes Pow! to
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Since I cannot rely on other protectors, you are my principal protector. What is Tara? Tara is wisdom that realizes emptiness and bodhichitta,
the aspiration for full enlightenment in order to benet all sentient beings.
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protectors, we now pray to Tara but leave our bad habits and harmful attitudes as they are. Thats not it. Taras essence is all the realizations of the
path. Those realizations are our real protection because when we generate
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my motivation and think of Tara, compassion, and wisdom.
Verse 6: True Nature and Illusions
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We say to Tara, You are my real richness. Tara is the wisdom realizing
emptiness so lets not grasp Tara as an inherently existent savior. We have to
be careful here. In our ignorance, its possible to think, All these worldly
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and instead worship Tara, but meanwhile we grasp at Tara as inherently existent. We must remember that everythingincluding Tara, the Buddhas,
Dharma, Sangha, and our Dharma teachersare empty of inherent existence.
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With that understanding, we say to Tara, Please grant my desires, Divine
Mother, essence of love. What are our desires? Not Prince Charming or
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doesnt mean that we should trust only Tara and not trust sentient beings at
all. We can trust sentient beings, but we need to assess how much trust someone can bear and trust him or her to that extent, not more and not less. That
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essence of love. This helps us to open our eyes and become Taras friend and
be there with Tara. Tara is sitting there with her hand stretched out. This is
symbolicshe extends her hand, wanting to teach us and inspire us. But usually we say, Im busy today. Ive got to take the kids to soccer and nish a
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the importance of cultivating a spiritual friendship with Tara.
Verse 8: Refuge and Request
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This doesnt literally mean that Tara is our clothes, even though its said that
a Buddha can manifest as physical objects. Rather, it means we give up clinging to the eight worldly concerns and clo the ourselves in wisdom and compassion. In other words, practicing Dharma is the meaning of my life;
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them, and meditate on them. From her side, Tara appears as spiritual mentors who teach and encourage us. Tara and her manifestations as mentors in
our lives act as role models and give us a kick in the pants when were lazy.
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Verse 14: Relying on Tara
Divine Wisdom Mother Tara, you know everything about my lifemy ups
and downs, my good and bad. Think lovingly of me, my only mother.
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But here, opening up to Tara and accepting that she knows everything
about us and still accepts us is psychologically very healthy for us. Tara
knows all our ploys, our manipulations, our trips, the ways we hide things
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of me, my only mother. Tara already does this, but saying it reminds us that
she does.
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I give myself and all who trust in me to you, Divine Wisdom Mother Tara.
Being completely open to you, let us be born in the highest pure land. Set me
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Tara. With this powerful thought, we give ourselves to Tara, that is, to wisdom and compassion. This means that we make the development of these
and other spiritual qualities of foremost importance in our lives. We give not
only ourselves, but also all those who trust in us to Tara, that is, to our highest spiritual aims. At the time of death, clinging to the people we love wont
benet us or them. Separation is denite, and trying to resist the undeniable
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offer them to Tara. Taras protection, not our possessive clinging, will help
them. Wisdom and compassion will lead them to genuine happiness while
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to Tara, we can die, knowing that our dear ones are in good hands. Needless-
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Meditating on the meaning of these verses isnt simply praying to Arya Tara
as an external being. Were trying to tap into our own Tara-nature, our Tarapotential, so that we can transform our minds into the Dharma. We want to
transform not only our own mind but also the minds of all beingsOsama
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By reciting this prayer three times a day and by remembering the Divine Wisdom Mother Tara, may I and all beings who are connected to me reach whatever pure land we wish.
Although Lama Lobsang Tenpey Gyaltsen recommends reciting this prayer
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Asking the Three Jewels and Tara to hold us dear is actually admonishing
ourselves to hold them dear. Theyre already holding us dear. We need to
regard Tara and the Triple Gem as rare and precious. Through this, we will
subdue the four negative forces the four maras. The rst mara is death
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me. We know that he had a close connection with Tara because his words are
so potent and bring forth such powerful feelings within us. These verses
1.08 - The Gods of the Veda - The Secret of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The word vja, usually rendered by Sayana, food or ghee,a sense which he is swift to foist upon any word which will at all admit that construction, as well as on some which will not admit it,has in other passages another sense assigned to it, strength, bala. It is the latter significance or its basis of substance & solidity which I propose to attach to vja in every line of the Rigveda where it occursand it occurs with an abundant frequency. There are a number of words in the Veda which have to be rendered by the English strength,bala, Taras, vja, sahas, avas, to mention only the most common expressions. Can it be supposed that all these vocables rejoice in one identical connotation as commentators and lexicographers would lead us to conclude, and are used in the Veda promiscuously & indifferently to express the same idea of strength? The psychology of human language is more rich and delicate. In English the words strength, force, vigour, robustness differ in their mental values; force can be used in offices of expression to which strength and vigour are ineligible. In Vedic Sanscrit, as in every living tongue, the same law holds and a literary and thoughtful appreciation of its documents, whatever may be the way of the schools, must take account of these distinctions. In the brief list I have given, bala answers to the English strength, Taras gives a shade of speed and impetuosity, sahas of violence or force, avas of flame and brilliance, vja of substance and solidity. In the philological appendix to this work there will be found detailed reasons for concluding that strength is in the history of the word vja only a secondary sense, like its other meanings, wealth and food; the basic idea is a strong sufficiency of substance or substantial energy. Vja is one of the great standing terms of the Vedic psychology. All states of being, whether matter, mind or life and all material, mental & vital activities depend upon an original flowing mass of Energy which is in the vivid phraseology of the Vedas called a flood or sea, samudra, sindhu or arnas. Our power or activity in any direction depends first on the amount & substantiality of this stream as it flows into, through or within our own limits of consciousness, secondly, on our largeness of being constituted by the wideness of those limits, thirdly, on our power of holding the divine flow and fourthly on the force and delight which enter into the use of our available Energy. The result is the self-expression, ansa or vyakti, which is the objective of Vedic Yoga. In the language of the Rishis whatever we can make permanently ours is called our holding or wealth, dhanam or in the plural dhanni; the powers which assist us in the getting, keeping or increasing of our dhanni, the yoga, s ti & vriddhi, are the gods; the powers which oppose & labour to rob us of this wealth are our enemies & plunderers, dasyus, and appear under various names, Vritras, Panis, Daityas, Rakshasas, Yatudhanas. The wealth itself may be the substance of mental light and knowledge or of vital health, delight & longevity or of material strength & beauty or it may be external possessions, cattle, progeny, empire, women. A close, symbolic and to modern ideas mystic parallelism stood established in the Vedic mind between the external & the internal wealth, as between the outer sacrifice which earned from the gods the external wealth & the inner sacrifice which brought by the aid of the gods the internal riches. In this system the word vja represents that amount & substantial energy of the stuff of force in the dhanam brought to the service of the sacrificer for the great Jivayaja, our daily & continual life-sacrifice. It is a substantial wealth, vjavad dhanam that the gods are asked to bring with them. We see then in what sense Saraswati, a goddess purely mental in her functions of speech and knowledge, can be vjebhir vjinvat. Vjin is that which is composed of vja, substantial energy; the plural vj h or vj ni the particular substantialities of various composed. For the rest, to no other purpose can a deity of speech & knowledge be vjebhir vjinvat. In what appropriateness or coherent conceivable sense can the goddess of knowledge be possessed of material wealth or full-stored with material food, ghee & butter, beef & mutton? If it be suggested that Speech of the mantras was believed by these old superstitious barbarians to bring them their ghee & butter, beef & mutton, the answer is that this is not what the language of the hymns expresses. Saraswati herself is said to be vjinvat, possessed of substance of food; she is not spoken of as being the cause of fullness of food or wealth to others.
This explanation of vjebhir vjinvat leads at once to the figurative sense of maho arnas. Arnas or samudra is the image of the sea, flood or stream in which the Vedic seers saw the substance of being and its different states. Sometimes one great sea, sometimes seven streams of being are spoken of by the Rishis; they are the origin of the seven seas of the Purana. It cannot be doubted that the minds of the old thinkers were possessed with this image of ocean or water as the very type & nature of the flux of existence, for it occurs with a constant insistence in the Upanishads. The sole doubt is whether the image was already present to the minds of the primitive Vedic Rishis. The Europeans hold that these were the workings of a later imagination transfiguring the straightforward material expressions & physical ideas of the Veda; they admit no real parentage of Vedantic ideas in the preexistent Vedic notions, but only a fictitious derivation. I hold, on the contrary, that Vedantic ideas have a direct & true origin & even a previous existence in the religion & psychology of the Vedas. If, indeed, there were no stuff of high thinking or moral sensibility in the hymns of the Vedic sages, then I should have no foundation to stand upon and no right to see this figure in the Vedic arnas or samudra. But when these early minds,early to us, but not perhaps really so primitive in human history as we imagine,were capable of such high thoughts & perceptions as these three Riks bear on their surface, it would be ridiculous to deny them the capacity of conceiving these great philosophical images & symbols. A rich poetic imagery expressing a clear, direct & virgin perception of the facts of mind and being, is not by any means impossible, but rather natural in these bright-eyed sons of the morning not yet dominated in their vision by the dry light of the intellect or in their speech & thought by the abstractions & formalities of metaphysical thinking. Water was to them, let us hold in our hypothesis, the symbol of unformed substance of being, earth of the formed substance. They even saw a mystic identity between the thing symbolised & the symbol.
1.097 - Sublimation of Object-Consciousness, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
Patanjali mentions this to us once again, in the Vibhuti Pada, for the purpose of acquisition of the knowledge of the purusha. Sattva purua anyat khytimtrasya sarvabhva adhihttva sarvajttva ca (III.50). When there is an acquisition of this understanding and an establishment of oneself in this status of meditation, some extraordinary results follow, and they are mentioned as sarva bhava adhis thatritva and sarva jnatritva. One becomes the substratum of everything as a result of this meditation that is sarva bhava adhis thatritva. As the substratum of all things, there is no need for this consciousness to move towards objects, because it is the substratum of even the object. As the result of this, again, there is sarva jnatritva knowledge of everything. The substance of everything is also endowed with the knowledge of everything. It follows, because everything is a modification of the substance. One who has become the substance itself, as the substratum of all things, naturally gets endowed with this knowledge. This knowledge is called Taraka that which takes one across the ocean of sorrow.
Traka sarvaviaya sarvathviaya akrama ca iti vivekajam jnam (III.55). This Taraka knowledge is of such a nature that its object is everything, as different from the mental knowledge which is provided to us now, at present, which has only certain objects as its contents, and not all objects. A certain set of objects becomes the content of mental consciousness, empirically. But here, there is sarva visayatva anything that is existent is a constant and perpetual content of this consciousness. It is not merely sarva visaya, but is also sarvatha visaya it is aware of everything in every condition, not only in one condition. For example, we are aware of objects in one condition only, not in all conditions. In the earlier sutras we have been told that every object undergoes various conditions the parinamas mentioned. And we cannot be aware of all the parinamas, or all the transformations of the past, present and future at one stroke, because of the limited character of the mind in its capacity to know things. Only the present is known. The past is not known. The future is not known.
But here, there is knowledge of all conditions of the objects even those conditions which the object has not undergone and are yet to come. They also will be known at one stroke that is sarvatha visaya. Sarvaviaya sarvathviaya all knowledge, and knowledge of every condition of everything, every state through which one passed, through which one passes and through which one has to pass all these will become contents of this awareness. How, in what manner, does it become a content of awareness? One after another, successively? No. Akramam. Akramam means not successive, but simultaneous. Instantaneous awareness of all conditions that are possible, at any period of time this is called viveka jnana.Traka sarvaviaya sarvathviaya akrama ca iti vivekajam jnam (III.55).
These are only stories to the mind which is sunk in the mire of world-consciousness. One cannot even dream of what this state of affairs is. What can be meant by simultaneous awareness of all things and simultaneous awareness of every condition of all things? This is called sarva jnatritva; this is omniscience. And this is designated by the term vivekajam jnanam, knowledge born of discriminative understanding, which is a peculiar term used in the yoga psychology. It is also called Taraka, the saving knowledge. This information is given to us in these sutras to give us a comfort spiritually, that we are not merely entering into a lions den where we find nothing but death, but that we are entering into a new type of life altogether, where eternity embraces us with a new life which is durationless and, therefore, deathless. This contemplation is the only technique, the only method, the only means of the salvation of the soul.
Sattva puruayo uddhi smye kaivalyam iti (III.56). Kaivalya, or ultimate independence of the spirit, arises when there is equanimity of the structural character of sattva and the purusha. Sattva means the mind, or we may call it prakriti; purusha is the consciousness. When there is similarity established between the two, then the one does not remain as an object of the other, nor is one a subject in relation to the other. When the two become one on account of the intense purity of the experiencing consciousness, infinity enters into experience. This is kaivalya, this is moksha sattva puruayo uddhi smye kaivalyam iti (III.56). These sutras have given us, in a concise manner, the principles of spiritual contemplation.
1.09 - Taras Ultimate Nature, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
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the correct view of reality. When we visualize Tara, we begin with the lotus
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persons and phenomena are empty of inherent existence. Just as Taras radiance illumines the world, the wisdom realizing emptiness dispels the darkness of ignorance and illumines our minds. While the determination to be
free and the altruistic intention motivate us to seek liberation and enlightenment, it is wisdom that completely eliminates the afictions and their seeds.
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the same path that Tara cultivated in her mind. If we follow her example and
practice with diligence and compassion just as she did, we will attain the same
1.11 - WITH THE DEVOTEES AT DAKSHINEWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Ram, Kedar Chatterji, and Tarak arrived from Calcutta with flowers and sweets. Kedar was about fifty years old. At first he had frequented the Brahmo Samaj and joined other religious sects in his search for God, but later on he had accepted the Master as his spiritual guide. He was an accountant in a government office and lived in a suburb of Calcutta.
Tarak was a young man of twenty-four. His wife had died shortly after their marriage.
He hailed from the village of Barasat not far from Calcutta. His father, a highly spiritual soul, had visited Sri Ramakrishna many times. Tarak often went to Ram's house and used to go to Dakshineswar in the company of Ram and Nityagopal. He worked in a business firm, but his attitude toward the world was one of utter indifference.
As Sri Ramakrishna came out of the temple, he saw Ram, Kedar, M., Tarak, and other devotees standing outside. He showed his affection for Tarak by touching his chin. He was very happy to see him.
Returning to his room, the Master sat on the floor in an ecstatic mood, with his legs stretched before him. Ram and Kedar decorated his feet with flowers and garlands. The Master was in samadhi.
1.17 - The Burden of Royalty, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
rise on the king of Ireland in his bed at Tara, the old capital of
Erin; he was forbidden to alight on Wednesday at Magh Breagh, to
1.22 - ON THE GIFT-GIVING VIRTUE, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
7. On the Tarantulas: One of the central motifs of Nietzsche's philosophy is stated in italics: "that man be delivered
from revenge." In this chapter, the claim of human equality
--
Pitying" and "On the Tarantulas," one of the high points
of Part Two. Philosophically, however, it raises many difficulties. (See my Nietzsche, 6, III.)
1.24 - The Killing of the Divine King, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
a personal blemish might reign over Ireland at Tara. Hence, when the
great King Cormac Mac Art lost one eye by an accident, he at once
1953-09-16, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is not quite so simple as that. The psychic being is the result of evolution, that is to say, evolution of the divine Consciousness which spread into Matter and slowly lifted up Matter, made it develop to return to the Divine. The psychic being was formed by this divine centre progressively through all the births. There comes a time when it reaches a kind of perfection, perfection in its growth and formation. Then, most often, as it has an aspiration for realisation, for a greater perfection to manifest yet better the Divine, it generally draws towards itself a being from the involution, that is to say, one of those entities belonging to what Sri Aurobindo calls Overmind, who comes then to incarnate in this psychic being. It can be one of those entities men generally call gods, some kind of deities. And when this fusion occurs the psychic being naturally is magnified and shares in the nature of the being incarnated in it. And then it has the power to produce emanations. These beings have the power to produce emanations, that is to say, they project out of themselves a part of themselves which becomes independent and goes into others to incarnate itself. So there can be not only two, but three, four or five emanations. That depends upon cases, it can happen thus. That is to say, one can have the same origin, psycho-divine, we might say. And generally when there are a number of emanations, the different persons feel themselves to be that being, and rightly so, for they carry in themselves something of that godhead: it is as though a part of the godhead has cast itself out of itself and become independent in another being. It is not a self-duplication but a kind of self-projection. (To the child who put the question:) Duplication gives the idea that what has been duplicated has lost a part of its capability: if you cut your body in two, only half of it will remain for you; but if you have the power to emanate something out of you, you remain quite whole, as you are, and at the same time, there is another Tara who is there in another person. You understand? It is like that.
When the hands of the pianist entered the hands of another, would the one who lent his hands be able to play?
1955-06-15 - Dynamic realisation, transformation - The negative and positive side of experience - The image of the dry coconut fruit - Purusha, Prakriti, the Divine Mother - The Truth-Creation - Pralaya - We are in a transitional period, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Nolini) It is the negative and positive sideas Tara askedof allegiance to Prakriti.
Allegiance to Prakriti, yes, its true. To get rid of this allegiance to Prakriti is the negative side of the development; one frees himself from his allegiance to Prakriti, but one must take a step further and have the positive side of being surrendered to the Divine Mother.
1957-06-26 - Birth through direct transmutation - Man and woman - Judging others - divine Presence in all - New birth, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But one may live twenty-four hours out of twenty-four without giving a single thought to this difference! You must really be hypnotised by this affair. Do you suppose that when I speak to you I think that you are a man and when I speak to Tara I think she is a woman?
Still there is a difference!
1f.lovecraft - The Doom That Came to Sarnath, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
high-priest Taran-Ish lying dead, as from some fear unspeakable. And
before he died, Taran-Ish had scrawled upon the altar of chrysolite
with coarse shaky strokes the sign of DOOM.
After Taran-Ish there were many high-priests in Sarnath, but never was
the sea-green stone idol found. And many centuries came and went,
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women remembered what Taran-Ish had scrawled upon the altar of
chrysolite. Betwixt Sarnath and the city of Ilarnek arose a caravan
--
DOOM-scrawl of Taran-Ish.
Wonderful likewise were the gardens made by Zokkar the olden king. In
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Taran-Ish had died from fear and left a warning. And they said that
from their high tower they sometimes saw lights beneath the waters of
1.jk - Otho The Great - Act I, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
Bloody Taraxa, is among the dead.
Gersa. Then I retire, so generous Otho please,
1.rmpsd - Kulakundalini, Goddess Full of Brahman, Tara, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
object:1.rmpsd - Kulakundalini, Goddess Full of Brahman, Tara
author class:Ramprasad
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Kulakundalini, Goddess Full of Brahman, Tara --
You are inside me.
1.rmpsd - So I say- Mind, dont you sleep, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
The shield of Tara's name.
Can Death overwhelm you?
1.rt - Akash Bhara Surya Tara Biswabhara Pran (Translation), #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
object:1.rt - Akash Bhara Surya Tara Biswabhara Pran (Translation)
author class:Rabindranath Tagore
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This transcreation of the song Akash bhara surya Tara biswabhara pran was created by Kumud Biswas. As he says . . "Listening to Debabrata Biswas singing this wonderful song is a rare experience."
Translated by Kumud Biswas
1.rt - And In Wonder And Amazement I Sing, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
Transcreation of the song Akash bhara surya Tara biswabhara pran by Rabindranath Tagore. Listening to Debabrata Biswas singing this wonderful song is a rare experience. Transcreation by Kumud Biswas.
Translated by Kumud Biswas
1.wby - In Taras Halls, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
object:1.wby - In Taras Halls
author class:William Butler Yeats
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A MAN I praise that once in Tara's Hals
Said to the woman on his knees, "Lie still.
1.wby - The Two Kings, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
Westward of Tara. Hurrying to his queen
He had outridden his war-wasted men
--
Toward peopled Tara, nor stood to draw his breath
Until he came before the painted wall,
--
Westward of Tara, among the hazel-trees
For hope would give his limbs the power and await
--
Crow upon Tara."
King Eochaid bowed his head
1.ww - The Excursion- X- Book Ninth- Discourse of the Wanderer, and an Evening Visit to the Lake, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
To Taranis erected on the heights
By priestly hands, for sacrifice performed
20.01 - Charyapada - Old Bengali Mystic Poems, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Taraka declares there is no passage to enter into it.
If you say you understand you are hanged.
2.02 - Meeting With the Goddess, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
" 'King of Tara! I am Royal Rule
' " G o now,' she said, 'to thy brethren, and take with thee
2.02 - On Letters, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
A letter from Taraknath Das describing certain of his experiences and asking certain questions was read.
The questions were about:
2.05 - The Tale of the Vampires Kingdom, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
In the uncertain light the cards describe a nocturnal landscape, the Cups are arrayed like urns, caskets, graves among the nettles, the Swords have a metallic echo like shovels or spades against the leaden lids, the Clubs are black like crooked crosses, the gold Coins glitter like will-o'-the-wisps. As soon as a cloud discloses the Moon, a howling of jackals rises as they scratch furiously at the edges of the graves and fight with scorpions and Tarantulas over their putrid feast.
In this nocturnal setting we can imagine a King who advances, puzzled, accompanied by his jester or court dwarf (we have the cards of the King of Swords and the Fool, which fill the bill perfectly), and we can guess a dialogue between them, which the gravedigger overhears. What is the King looking for at this hour? The card of the Queen of Cups suggests he is on his wife's trail; the jester has seen her leave the palace stealthily, and, half-joking, half in earnest, he has convinced the sovereign to follow her. Mischief-maker that he is, the dwarf suspects a Love intrigue; but the King is sure that anything his wife does can bear the light of the Sun: it is her charity work with abandoned children that keeps her constantly on the go.
2.07 - On Congress and Politics, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
The Tarakeshwar affair was being settled. The first terms that were proposed did not meet with Sri Aurobindo's approval. But next day an open letter from Swami Vishwananda appeared agreeing with C. R. Das: The Mahant abdicates in favour of Prabhat Giri and the power of management of the temple rests with a committee that can, if necessary, dismiss the Mahant and the committee would appoint a separate Manager of Estates.
Sri Aurobindo: If we have our own Government we could throw out the Mahant and settle the affair once for all; but under a foreign rule if Das can establish the authority of the committee legally, it would be the cleverest thing to do, so that in case of emergency the committee can enforce its mandate by law. As it is, the whole law is against the public. After all Das is a man who 'muddles through' he acts on his intuitions and impulses and somehow muddles through a difficulty.
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Disciple: Taraknath Das in his book points out that the Indian princes could help in the work of national regeneration. They could even take part in international politics.
Sri Aurobindo: Many things are desirable, but they do not always come true. No doubt, if the princes were politicians they could hasten the march of freedom to a very great extent. They could create real centres of power within their dominions which would serve when the time for revolution came. That was the idea in the Gaekwad's mind when he began but it was not carried through.
2.07 - ON THE TARANTULAS, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
object:2.07 - ON THE TaraNTULAS
author class:Friedrich Nietzsche
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Behold, this is the hole of the Tarantula. Do you want
to see the Tarantula itself? Here hangs its web; touch it,
that it tremble!
There it comes willingly: welcome, Tarantula! Your
triangle and symbol sits black on your back; and I also
--
The Tarantulas, of course, would have it otherwise.
100
--
all whose equals we are not"-thus do the Tarantulahearts vow. "And 'will to equality' shall henceforth be
the name for virtue; and against all that has power we
--
are at the same time preachers of equality and Tarantulas. Although they are sitting in their holes, these
poisonous spiders, with their backs turned on life, they
--
home. If it were otherwise, the Tarantulas would teach
otherwise; they themselves were once the foremost slanderers of the world and burners of heretics.
--
And behold, my friends: here where the Tarantula
has its hole, the ruins of an ancient temple rise; behold
--
Alas, then the Tarantula, my old enemy, bit me. With
godlike assurance and beauty it bit my finger. "Punishment there must be and justice," it thinks; "and here he
--
if he is a dancer, he will never dance the Tarantella.
Thus spoke Zarathustra.
2.08 - On Non-Violence, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
The Tarakeshwar temple Satyagraha came in for discussion. Sri Aurobindo seemed anxious to know the details. The report was that Abhayanand was the Mahant's man and hirelings had been engaged to beat the volunteers of Swami Satchidananda and Vishwananda. Satchidananda was saved from being killed by the Gurkha, the watchman, of a Marwari Dharmasala. Sri Aurobindo was not only interested but anxious that the fight must go through to success.
Mahatmaji's silent day and the conclusion of his talk with the Swarajists came up. He wants the Swarajists to take up the constructive programme in the councils e.g., Khaddar and prohibition; in case of failure in getting them through, to resort to civil disobedience.
2.11 - WITH THE DEVOTEES IN CALCUTTA, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
A DEVOTEE: "The officer's name is Tarapada."
BALARM (smiling): "The brahmins say that Annada Guha is a very egotistic man."
--
The drawing-room was full of devotees. The Master wanted to hear some songs. At his request Tarapada sang about Krishna:
O Kesava, bestow Thy grace
--
At Sri Ramakrishna's request Tarapada sang two more songs. In the first, Nitai exhorts people to share Radha's love for Sri Krishna:
Come one and all! Take Radha's love!
2.16 - VISIT TO NANDA BOSES HOUSE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Sri Ramakrishna then saw pictures of Dhumavati, Shorasi, Bhuvanesvari, Tara, and Kli.
He said: "All these portray the terrible aspects of the Divine Mother. If one keeps these pictures, one should worship them. But you must be lucky, to be able to hang them like that on the wall."
2.19 - THE MASTER AND DR. SARKAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Kli Thou art, and Tara, and Thou the Ultimate Prakriti; Thou art the Fish, the Turtle, the Boar, and all other Avatars Earth, water, air, and fire art Thou, and Thou the sky, O Mother of the Absolute!
The Samkhya, Patanjala, Mimamsaka, and Nyaya
2.23 - THE MASTER AND BUDDHA, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Narendra had just returned from a visit to Bodh-Gaya, where he had gone with Kali and Tarak. In that sacred place he had been absorbed in deep meditation before the image of Buddha. He had paid his respects to the Bodhi-tree, which is an offshoot of the original tree under which Buddha attained Nirvana.
Kali said, "One day at Gaya, at Umesh Babu's house, Narendra sang many classical songs to the accompaniment of the mridanga."
--
M. was pacing the garden. Narendra and Tarak returned from Calcutta. They had visited Girish Ghosh's house and other places.
TaraK: "We have eaten a great deal of meat and other heavy stuff today."
--
Narendra, Rakhal, Niranjan, Sarat, Sashi, Baburam, Kali, Jogin, Latu, and a few other young devotees had been living at the Cossipore garden house in order to nurse Sri Ramakrishna. That evening Narendra, Kali, and Tarak had gone to Dakshineswar. They were going to spend the night in the Panchavati, meditating on God.
Girish, Latu, and M. went to Sri Ramakrishna's room and found him sitting on the bed. Sashi and one or two devotees had been tending the Master. Baburam, Niranjan, and Rakhal also entered the room. It was a large room. Some medicines and a few other accessories were kept near the bed. One entered the room by a door at the north end.
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It was the night of the full moon. For some time Narendra had been going to Dakshineswar daily. He spent a great deal of time in the Panchavati in meditation and contemplation. This day he returned from Dakshineswar in the evening. Tarak and Kali were with him.
It was eight o'clock in the evening. Moonlight and the south wind added to the charm of the garden house. Many of the devotees were meditating in the room downstairs. Referring to them, Narendra said to M., "They are shedding their upadhis one by one."
2.25 - AFTER THE PASSING AWAY, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Baranagore Monastery — First members — Surendra's magnanimity — Ascetic zeal of the young sannyasis — Renunciation of "woman and gold" — Siva festival at the math — Narendra's reminiscences of the Master — Narendra's foreknowledge of things — Narendra's ego — About Nityagopal — Rakhal's reminiscences of the Master — The Master and Narendra — Master's love for Narendra — Prasanna's austere sadhana — Vidyasagar's reluctance about preaching — About Sashi — Rakhal's yearning for God — Tarak and Prasanna — Narendra asks Prasanna to practise self-surrender — Narendra's longing for God-vision — About Rabindra.
SRI RAMAKRISHNA passed away on Sunday, August 15, 1886, plunging his devotees and disciples into a sea of grief. They were like men in a shipwreck. But a strong bond of love held them together, and they found assurance and courage in each other's company. They could not enjoy the friendship of worldly people and would talk only of their Master. "Shall we not behold him again?" — this was the one theme of their thought and the one dream of their sleep. Alone, they wept for him; walking in the streets of Calcutta, they were engrossed in the thought of him. The Master had once said to M., "It becomes difficult for me to give up the body, when I realize that after my death you will wander about weeping for me." Some of them thought: "He is no longer in this world. How surprising that we still enjoy living! We could give up our bodies if we liked, but still we do not." Time and again Sri Ramakrishna had told them that God reveals Himself to His devotees if they yearn for Him and call on Him with whole-souled devotion. He had assured them that God listens to the prayer of a sincere heart.
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The younger Gopal brought the Master's bed and other articles of daily use from the garden house at Cossipore. The brahmin who had been cook at Cossipore was engaged for the new monastery. The first permanent member was the elder Gopal. Sarat spent the nights there. In the beginning Sarat, Sashi, Baburam, Niranjan, and Kali used to visit the monastery every now and then, according to their convenience, Tarak, who had gone to Vrindavan following the Master's death, returned to Calcutta after a few months and soon became a permanent member of the monastery. Rakhal, Jogin, Latu, and Kali were living at Vrindavan with the Holy Mother when the monastery was started. Kali returned to Calcutta within a month, Rakhal after a few months, and Jogin and Latu after a year. The householder devotees frequently visited the monastic brothers and spent hours with them in meditation and study.
After a short time Narendra, Rakhal, Niranjan, Sarat, Sashi, Baburam, Jogin, Tarak, Kali, and Latu renounced the world for good. Sarada Prasanna and Subodh joined them some time later. Gangadhar, who was very much attached to Narendra, visited the math regularly. It was he who taught the brothers the hymn sung at the evening service in the Siva temple at Benares. He had gone to Tibet to practise austerity; now, having returned, he lived at the monastery. Hari and Tulasi, at first only visitors at the monastery, soon embraced the monastic life and thus completed the list of the Master's sannyasi disciples.1
Surendra was indeed a blessed soul. It was he who laid the foundation of the great Order later associated with Sri Ramakrishna's name. His devotion and sacrifice made it possible for those earnest souls to renounce the world for the realization of God. Through him Sri Ramakrishna made it possible for them to live in the world as embodiments of his teaching, the renunciation of "woman and gold" and the realization of God.
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Narendra, Rakhal, Niranjan, Sarat, Sashi, Kali, Baburam, Tarak, and Sarada Prasanna were living in the monastery. All day the members had been fasting in observance of the Sivaratri.2 Sarat, Kali, Niranjan, and Sarada were planning to go to Puri, the following Saturday, on a pilgrimage to the sacred Jagannath. Jogin and Latu were at Vrindavan and had not yet seen the new place.
Narendra had gone to Calcutta that morning to look after a lawsuit in which his family had been involved since the death of his father. At nine o'clock in the morning M. arrived at the math. Tarak saw him and began to sing in praise of Siva, Rakhal joining him:
There Siva dances, striking both His cheeks; and they resound, Ba-ba-bom!
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Rakhal and Tarak danced as they sang. Narendra had recently composed the song.
Sashi finished the morning worship in the shrine. Sarat then sang about Siva to the accompaniment of the tanpura.
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NARENDRA: "Kali has a craving for knowledge. I scold him for that. Is knowledge so easy to get? Let his bhakti first mature. The Master told Tarak at Dakshineswar that emotion and bhakti are by no means the last word."
M: "What other things did he say about you?"
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Harish replied in a very low voice, "Brother Tarak asked him not to go, but still he went away."
NARENDRA (to M.): "You see what a lot of trouble I am in! Here, too, I am involved in a world of maya. Who knows where this boy has gone?"
--
Presently Narendra, Tarak, and another devotee returned from the bank of the Ganges. They had intended to go to Konnagar, on the other side of the river, but had been unable to find a ferry-boat. They sat down. The conversation about the Yogavasishtha went on.
NARENDRA (to M.): "There are many nice stories in the book. Do you know the incident of Lila?"
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Tarak and Prasanna were talking in the room of the "danas". Tarak had lost his mother. His father, like Rakhal's father, had married a second time. Tarak himself had married but had lost his wife. Now the monastery was his home. He too was trying to persuade Prasanna to live there.
PRASANNA: "I have neither jnana nor prema. What have I in the world for a support?"
--
M. (to himself): "Ah! The Master used to say that those who seek God pass through the state that Prasanna is now experiencing. In that state sometimes one doubts the very existence of God. I understand that Tarak is now reading Buddhistic philosophy. That is why he says that according to the jnani God does not exist. But Sri Ramakrishna used to say that the jnani and the bhakta will ultimately arrive at the same destination."
Narendra and Prasanna were talking in the meditation room. Rakhal, Harish, and the younger Gopal were seated in another part of the room. After a while the elder Gopal came in.
--
That night Narendra, Tarak, and Harish returned from Calcutta. They said, "Oh, what a big meal we had!" They had been entertained by a devotee in Calcutta.
The members of the monastery assembled in the room of the "danas". Narendra heard Rabindra's story. He sang by way of giving instruction to him:
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^The monastic names of the Master's intimate disciples who renounced the world soon after his death were as follows: Narendra — Swami Vivekananda, Rakhal — Swami Brahmananda, Jogin — Swami Jogananda, Niranjan — Swami Niranjanananda, Latu — Swami Adbhutananda, Baburam — Swami Premananda, Tarak — Swami Shivananda, Hari — Swami Turiyananda, Sarat — Swami Saradananda, Sashi — Swami Ramakrishnananda, Kali — Swami Abhedananda, Gangadhar — Swami Akhandananda, Gopal (elder) —Swami Advaitananda, Sarada Prasanna — Swami Trigunatitananda, Subodh — Swami Subodhananda, Tulasi — Swami Nirmalananda
^The night of Siva. On this day the devotees observe fast and spend the whole night in meditation, prayer., and other spiritual exercises.
2.25 - List of Topics in Each Talk, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
| 13-09-24 | Tarakeshwar affair; Das and Kamal; Gandhi, Christianity, Karma, Faust, spinning |
| 10-10-25 | Sri Aurobindo and Moropant Joshi |
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| 20-05-24 | Local politics; Tarakeshwar affair; Chrisdanity and Buddhism; Gandhi |
| 02-06-24 | Gandhi on Gita, Dayananda, Arya Samaj |
29.04 - Mothers Playground, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
You are to take your stand on your soul, that was the lesson that the Mother was trying to impart in the playground education. So long as you are in the normal consciousness imbedded in your body-consciousness and view things from there, your life also will be built in the pattern created by the body-consciousness. Life in that pattern can proceed only through difference and distinction, contrast and contradiction, conflict and battle. So long as you stick to your habitual position it will be so; the remedy is a radical remedy; it is to reverse your position. You have to stand not on your legs but on your head, then you will find the way to march through not confrontation but co-operation, not through separation but union, not through difference but identity. So long as you are mere human beings this supreme soul-identity cannot come. You have to forget the differences... some one asked the Mother in one of the playground talks of the Mother: how is it possible for one to forget this fundamental difference that one is a man and another a woman. Mother answered: "How do you say so? Look here, when I talk to Tara, do you think I am always considering her as a woman and talking accordingly." And she could have added: "And when I answer you do you think I am speaking to a masculine person?" I may narrate here a little incident concerning me personally. It was with regard to the question of age. When someone informed Mother that they wanted to celebrate, perhaps it was my eightieth birthday, in a magnificent manner, a gala celebration, Mother roared out: "No, no, you are spoiling my work. All the while I was trying to make him forget his age and you are trying to insist on his age." Age also is a thing to be forgotten. The birthday-celebration is not for recording the progress in our age, how we are progressing year by year in our age, that is, how we are getting old - No, it is to note the progress made in the inner being and consciousness. Each birthday is to be a landmark of the forward march of your consciousness, not the greyness of your head. The touch of your soul will inspire you not merely to do the right inner movement, the enlightening of your consciousness but also it will inspire you to do the right physical movement, even lead you to the choice of the right kind of physical exercises and do them in the right manner. The lesson to learn then is to get back to your soul inside you, you will find there everything that is worth having: freedom, joy, harmony and even untold capacity.
People coming from outside asked very often and ask even now what the Ashram is doing for the country, for the world. It is confined to a few people only, is it worth doing? Mother answered simply: I am doing something which is not done anywhere else in the world, that is awakening the soul in my children, the soul that only can save and nothing else. To the outsider we say, if you come here, come then with eyes to see, look at, rather look into the soul of the people who are here. Do not look at what they learn or what they do or what they speak but look inside them, look what is there deep within. Even now I say: She is there within you, her work is not arrested. The tempo of her work is as vigorous and as living as it could be and the impact will be more and more clear and manifest.
3.09 - Of Silence and Secrecy, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Hals, Tartarin of Tarascon or Oscar Eckenstein.
My own intense absorption in Magick has not prevented
31.01 - The Heart of Bengal, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The rivers and their tri butaries washed down the soils of many lands and poured down their admixture into Bengal to add to the formation of her lands. Different peoples from different direction - the Dravidians, the Mongolians, the Aryans and the Non-Aryans - all came down to Bengal to produce the mixed race known as the Bengali. So we find that the heart of the Bengalis is full of diverse inspirations. They have curiosity in all areas. In their soul there is a harmonious union. In Bengal there flows the stream of love and strength. Tantra is prevalent in Bengal; but the truth of Vedanta, too, is present therein. This is why Bengalis utter, Tara Brahmamayi,"the Mother of power" who is but one with the absolute Brahman. There is emotion in Bengal, but the science of logic is not absent there. Navadwip, the centre of devotion and love, and Bhattapalli, the centre of Vedanta, are in close embrace with each other.
We have spoken about the simple and unostentatious beauty of Bengal. But again, it cannot be denied that Bengal is the worshipper of wealth and grandeur. Bengal has wanted a synthesis between the glorious and the sweet, between the simple and the beautiful. She may not like pomp, but she has never disdained prosperity. Bengal may be fond of life-activity, but on that account she is not prepared to forget spirituality. She might have shunned renunciation, but did not reject liberation. Bengal wants to remain within herself, but wants to keep communion with the world abroad.
33.05 - Muraripukur - II, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
But Yugantar shed off all the masks. It was the first to declare openly for an armed revolt and spoke in terms of regular warfare. It wrote out its message in words of fire and spread it to the four corners of the land. Balthazar, the king of Babylon; had once seen similar writings on the wall of his hall of feasting, words that spoke of the imminent doom of his empire. To the country and its youth the Yugantar gave its initiation of fire for nearly a couple of years. It was only after the Yugantar group had decided that the time had now come for action and not propaganda alone that there came to be established the centre at Manicktolla Gardens in Muraripukur. The section entrusted with real work and the people concerned with propaganda were to form two distinct groups; one was to work in secret, the other out in the open. Hence the work of Yugantar was entrusted to the propaganda group. The gentleman who took charge was named Taranath Roy. Those who had hitherto been on the staff of the paper left it and joined the Manicktolla Gardens for intensive training and work. It was however agreed that here too there would be two groups, one for regular work and the other for propaganda. Only, the propaganda here would be of a different kind, for here it would not be possible to speak openly of armed revolt as that would be to draw the attention of the authorities to the regular workers. It was therefore decided to have a paper in Bengali with a policy analogous to that of Bandema Taram. A paper named Navashakti was already there, owned and conducted by Sri Manoranjan Guhathakurta. It had a house rented in Grey Street (North Calcutta). An understanding was reached between the parties so that the spirit and letter of Yugantar could continue in and through Navashakti. The house was built more or less on the pattern of the one we had later at Shyampukur. There were two flats. The one in front was used as the Navashakti office; Sri Aurobindo occupied the other with his wife, Mrinalini".
A word about Manoranjan Guhathakurta will not be out of place here. In that epoch Aswinikumar Dutt and Manoranjan Guhathakurta of Barisal were two of the mighty pillars of nationalism. But whatever their achievements as political leaders and selfless patriots, as writers and orators, it was their greatness of character that mattered more. By a great character I mean one in whom there has awakened in a certain measure and manifested to some extent the inner being and the indwelling spirit; this is what Vivekananda used to call the awakening of the Brahman in the individual. I had come to know Sri Manoranjan Guhathakurta personally and I had been to his house in Giridih and stayed with him more than once. Giridih being not very far from Deoghar, he was aware that we dabbled in the bomb. He was not only aware of it, he also gave us all his help and sympathy. It had even been suggested that a factory for the making of bombs might be tried somewhere around the mica pits he owned in that region. His eldest son Satyendra had been a schoolmate and friend of Barin and the two were practically co-workers. This family had helped Barin a good deal by their offers of money and advice. But what I had in mind was not these external things but an inner life. Manoranjan Guhathakurta had an inner life, a life of sadhana. His wife in particular was known for her sadhana. In his eyes the service of the country was an occasion and a means for the service of God. But his saintliness or sadhana did not stand in the way of his strength of character. In him there was a fine blend of strength and sweetness.
33.16 - Soviet Gymnasts, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
But in one sense, even in the ordinary way of living, men can and do put up with a lot of inconvenience and suffering. Of course it might be said that this is entirely due to compulsion, that there is nothing else one could do, except endure. Even in the midst of intense pain and torture people have been known to live. On battlefields men have survived the worst calamities, even the loss of limbs. According to popular wisdom life is uncertain and quickly over, nalinidalagata-jalamati Taralam, tadvajjivanam atisaya capalam,but this is not a literal truth. Just as life can end all of a sudden so also it can stay on and withstand apparently impossible conditions. But this, it may be said again, is due to compulsion, it is not a healthy or a natural condition of our being. It is indeed painful, and what men really wish for is to come out of it - into a world of natural freedom. The new physical culture that the Russians are now following is meant to open up the hidden resources of the body. This they are doing with the help of knowledge, practice and endless, eager experiment. Rooted in the earth, one with the physical universe, the capacities of our body are daily and fast increasing. Even leaving the earth surface for the wide open spaces, one day men may (in a light, weightless condition) find a new normalcy. Where shall we draw the limit of achievement?
(2)
33.17 - Two Great Wars, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
There had come a time however when the success of the enemy appeared as a living menace. We began to hear the warning siren of imminent peril, orders were issued for the black-out of street lighting on the sea-face of Pondicherry and many other similar preparations, though most of them did not go beyond the stage of practice drills. Trenches were dug within the precincts of the Ashram itself to provide a hide-out in case of an air-raid; buckets and sand were kept ready all over the place for extinguishing the fires. This was known as Air Raid Protection work and it was under the care of a local resident, the father of our Shanta and Babu (the Ashram. record-holder in long-jump). He has been dead a long time since, but his widow, the mother of Shanta and Babu, is. still known as Tara ARP to the Mother.
Eventually, the situation grew more and more serious. Pavitra too received a call to leave here and join the colours; he then held the rank of Captain. I believe he had to report to the local barracks for duty. The Mother went so far as to make the necessary arrangements for his work during the period he might be away, though he did Rot have to go after all. You remember how the Mother herself had to leave here soon after the outbreak of the First War and was not able to return till after the end, six years later.. The Japanese were now coming close upon us. The Andamans were already in their hands, and Madras was not so far away. They had overrun Burma and were at the gates of East Bengal on the north-eastern front, with the Indian National Army of Subhash Chandra Bose. Our Doctor Jyotish, who was then serving as a medical officer in the Indian Army, had been sending out frantic SOS calls from his station at Imphal city, then practically a besieged garrison. From French Indo-China the French were running away and were on their way back through Pondicherry in the hope of reaching their own country some day - but which country? They said the Japanese might be expected any time and that we should start learning their language. Some thought we had better concentrate on German instead, for the Germans were going to occupy India. Hitler was at the time pouncing on England and Churchill alone stood up fearless against that furious onslaught.
9.99 - Glossary, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Tara: (Lit., Redeemer) A name of the Divine Mother.
tarpan: A ceremony in which a libation of water is made to dead relatives.
BOOK II. -- PART I. ANTHROPOGENESIS., #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
purpose of destroying Taraka, the Danava Demon, the grandson of Kasyapa by Hiranyaksha, his
son,*** whose ( Taraka's) yogi austerities were so extraordinary that they became formidable to the
--
Taraka, the Danava, he is Taraka-Jit, "Vanquisher of Taraka,"***** "Kumara Guha," "the mysterious
Virgin-youth" "Siddha-Sena" -- "the leader of the Siddhas"; and Saktidhara -- "Spear-holder."
--
***** The story told is, that Taraka (called also Kalabhana), owing to his extraordinary Yoga-powers,
had obtained all the divine knowledge of yoga-vidya and occult powers of the gods, who conspired
--
** In the Indian allegory of Tarakamaya, the war between the gods and the Asuras headed by Soma
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Sun sets,' to fight the Dev-Sefid, or white devil, the Taradaitya of the Puranas, whose abode was on
the seventh stage of the world, answering to the seventh zone of the Buddhists, or the White Island."
--
demons (hells). How can then Meru be Mount Atlas? Besides which, Taradaitya, a demon, cannot be
placed on the seventh zone if the latter is identified with the "white" Island, which is Sveta-dwipa, for
--
** If Div or Dev-Sefid's (the Taradaitya's) abode was on the seventh stage, it is because he came from
Pushkara, the Patala (antipodes) of India, or from America. The latter touched the walls, so to say, of
BOOK II. -- PART II. THE ARCHAIC SYMBOLISM OF THE WORLD-RELIGIONS, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
In the exoteric works, however, the episode of the Taraka war, and some esoteric commentaries, may
offer a clue perhaps. In every Purana
--
myth, he is the son of Tara, the wife of Brihaspati the "gold coloured," and of "Soma" the (male)
Moon, who, Paris-like, carries this new Helen of the Hindu sidereal Kingdom away from her husband,
--
the exoteric ritual. Thus Brihaspati -- "guru of the gods" though he was -- still represented the deadletter form of worship. It is Tara his wife -- the symbol of one who, though wedded to dogmatic
worship, longs for true wisdom -- who is shown as initiated into his mysteries by King Soma, the giver
--
** The more so since he is the reputed slayer of Tripurasura and the Titan Taraka. Michael is the
conqueror of the dragon, and Indra and Karttikeya are often made identical.
--
or purposes of meditation, these three may be sufficient, as shown by the Taraka Yoga system; but for
practical occult teaching our septenary division is the best and easiest. It is, however, a matter of
--
Spirit, Soul, and body. Behold, the Taraka Raja Yoga of India limits that division to 3, we, to 4, and
the Vedantins to 5 (koshas)." To this, we of the Archaic school, ask: -Why then does the Greek poet say that "it is not four but SEVEN who sing the praise of the Spiritual
--
conqueror of Taraka, " Taraka-jit," that he is shown most famous.
The years of the Naros, being (in India) counted in two ways -- either "100 years of the gods," (divine
BOOK I. -- PART II. THE EVOLUTION OF SYMBOLISM IN ITS APPROXIMATE ORDER, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
accounts thereof. For TaraMAYA was in a later age, and there are three accounts, each of a distinct
war, to be traced in almost every Cosmogony.
r1914 11 14, #Record of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The two questions, therefore, that still subsist are those of safety & rapiditysati & Taras. (..).
***
Talks With Sri Aurobindo 1, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
NIRODBARAN: Yes, Tarapada has already asked him to at once send any appreciation. When I took the letter to Nishikanto and said it was from Tagore he
asked, "Why again?" He expected another cold reception, but after reading
The Book of Joshua, #The Bible, #Anonymous, #Various
21 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Beth-hoglah, and the valley of Keziz, 22 And Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel, 23 And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah, 24 And Chephar-haammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages: 25 Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth, 26 And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah, 27 And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah, 28 And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.
CHAPTER 19
The Dwellings of the Philosophers, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
dragon, serpent, vampire, devil, Tarasqu. Etc. this unfortunate subject must have fallen into
disgrace with Nature. In truth, its appearance has nothing seductive about it. Black, scaly,
--- Overview of noun tara
The noun tara has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. Tara ::: (a village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin); seat of Irish kings until 6th century)
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun tara
1 sense of tara
Sense 1
Tara
INSTANCE OF=> town
=> municipality
=> urban area, populated area
=> geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region
=> region
=> location
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> administrative district, administrative division, territorial division
=> district, territory, territorial dominion, dominion
=> region
=> location
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
--- Hyponyms of noun tara
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun tara
1 sense of tara
Sense 1
Tara
INSTANCE OF=> town
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun tara
1 sense of tara
Sense 1
Tara
-> town
=> burg
=> boom town
=> cow town, cowtown
=> ghost town
=> hometown
=> Main Street
=> market town
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HAS INSTANCE=> Timimoun
HAS INSTANCE=> Nogales
HAS INSTANCE=> Santa Maria del Tule
HAS INSTANCE=> Pilsen, Plzen
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HAS INSTANCE=> Viborg
HAS INSTANCE=> Hameln, Hamelin
HAS INSTANCE=> Hohenlinden
HAS INSTANCE=> Massawa
HAS INSTANCE=> Mariehamn, Maarianhamina
HAS INSTANCE=> Knossos, Cnossos, Cnossus
HAS INSTANCE=> Actium
HAS INSTANCE=> Plataea
HAS INSTANCE=> Stagira, Stagirus
HAS INSTANCE=> Acre, Akko, Akka, Accho
HAS INSTANCE=> Nazareth
HAS INSTANCE=> Bethlehem, Bayt Lahm, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Bethlehem-Judah
HAS INSTANCE=> Anzio
HAS INSTANCE=> Tivoli, Tibur
HAS INSTANCE=> Agrigento, Acragas
HAS INSTANCE=> Nanaimo
HAS INSTANCE=> Churchill
HAS INSTANCE=> Yellowknife
HAS INSTANCE=> Kingston
HAS INSTANCE=> Sault Sainte Marie
HAS INSTANCE=> Dawson
HAS INSTANCE=> Wagga Wagga
HAS INSTANCE=> Wagram
HAS INSTANCE=> Aalst
HAS INSTANCE=> Waterloo
HAS INSTANCE=> Bath
HAS INSTANCE=> Blackpool
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HAS INSTANCE=> Sunderland
HAS INSTANCE=> Hastings
HAS INSTANCE=> Canterbury
HAS INSTANCE=> Naseby
HAS INSTANCE=> Bangor
HAS INSTANCE=> Tara
HAS INSTANCE=> Ayr
HAS INSTANCE=> Aberdare
HAS INSTANCE=> Bangor
HAS INSTANCE=> Nag Hammadi
HAS INSTANCE=> Saqqara, Saqqarah, Sakkara
HAS INSTANCE=> Avignon
HAS INSTANCE=> Calais
HAS INSTANCE=> Chablis
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HAS INSTANCE=> Cherbourg
HAS INSTANCE=> Dunkirk, Dunkerque
HAS INSTANCE=> Valenciennes
HAS INSTANCE=> Vichy
HAS INSTANCE=> Vienne
HAS INSTANCE=> Thule
HAS INSTANCE=> Monte Carlo
HAS INSTANCE=> El Aaium
HAS INSTANCE=> Cuzco, Cusco
HAS INSTANCE=> Dhahran
HAS INSTANCE=> Lubavitch
HAS INSTANCE=> Interlaken
HAS INSTANCE=> Abydos
HAS INSTANCE=> Antioch, Antakya, Antakiya
HAS INSTANCE=> Chalcedon, Kadikoy
HAS INSTANCE=> Entebbe
HAS INSTANCE=> Decatur
HAS INSTANCE=> Gadsden
HAS INSTANCE=> Selma
HAS INSTANCE=> Tuscaloosa
HAS INSTANCE=> Tuskegee
HAS INSTANCE=> Nome
HAS INSTANCE=> Sitka
HAS INSTANCE=> Skagway
HAS INSTANCE=> Flagstaff
HAS INSTANCE=> Nogales
HAS INSTANCE=> Prescott
HAS INSTANCE=> Yuma
HAS INSTANCE=> Fayetteville
HAS INSTANCE=> Fort Smith
HAS INSTANCE=> Hot Springs
HAS INSTANCE=> Jonesboro
HAS INSTANCE=> Pine Bluff
HAS INSTANCE=> Texarkana
HAS INSTANCE=> Barstow
HAS INSTANCE=> Eureka
HAS INSTANCE=> Monterey
HAS INSTANCE=> Palo Alto
HAS INSTANCE=> Redding
HAS INSTANCE=> San Mateo
HAS INSTANCE=> San Pablo
HAS INSTANCE=> Santa Barbara
HAS INSTANCE=> Santa Cruz
HAS INSTANCE=> Boulder
HAS INSTANCE=> Farmington
HAS INSTANCE=> New London
HAS INSTANCE=> Daytona Beach
HAS INSTANCE=> Fort Myers
HAS INSTANCE=> Gainesville
HAS INSTANCE=> Key West
HAS INSTANCE=> Melbourne
HAS INSTANCE=> Palm Beach
HAS INSTANCE=> Panama City
HAS INSTANCE=> Pensacola
HAS INSTANCE=> Sarasota
HAS INSTANCE=> West Palm Beach
HAS INSTANCE=> Albany
HAS INSTANCE=> Athens
HAS INSTANCE=> Brunswick
HAS INSTANCE=> Oxford
HAS INSTANCE=> Valdosta
HAS INSTANCE=> Vidalia
HAS INSTANCE=> Hilo
HAS INSTANCE=> Coeur d'Alene
HAS INSTANCE=> Idaho Falls
HAS INSTANCE=> Lewiston
HAS INSTANCE=> Nampa
HAS INSTANCE=> Pocatello
HAS INSTANCE=> Sun Valley
HAS INSTANCE=> Twin Falls
HAS INSTANCE=> Cairo
HAS INSTANCE=> Carbondale
HAS INSTANCE=> Champaign
HAS INSTANCE=> East Saint Louis
HAS INSTANCE=> Moline
HAS INSTANCE=> Rock Island
HAS INSTANCE=> Urbana
HAS INSTANCE=> Bloomington
HAS INSTANCE=> Lafayette
HAS INSTANCE=> Muncie
HAS INSTANCE=> Council Bluffs
HAS INSTANCE=> Clinton
HAS INSTANCE=> Dubuque
HAS INSTANCE=> Mason City
HAS INSTANCE=> Ottumwa
HAS INSTANCE=> Dodge City
HAS INSTANCE=> Abilene
HAS INSTANCE=> Hays
HAS INSTANCE=> Lawrence
HAS INSTANCE=> Salina
HAS INSTANCE=> Bowling Green
HAS INSTANCE=> Owensboro
HAS INSTANCE=> Paducah
HAS INSTANCE=> Alexandria
HAS INSTANCE=> Lafayette
HAS INSTANCE=> Monroe
HAS INSTANCE=> Morgan City
HAS INSTANCE=> Bangor
HAS INSTANCE=> Brunswick
HAS INSTANCE=> Lewiston
HAS INSTANCE=> Orono
HAS INSTANCE=> Aberdeen
HAS INSTANCE=> Frederick
HAS INSTANCE=> Hagerstown
HAS INSTANCE=> Concord
HAS INSTANCE=> Gloucester
HAS INSTANCE=> Lexington
HAS INSTANCE=> Medford
HAS INSTANCE=> Pittsfield
HAS INSTANCE=> Plymouth
HAS INSTANCE=> Williamstown
HAS INSTANCE=> Alpena
HAS INSTANCE=> Houghton
HAS INSTANCE=> Jackson
HAS INSTANCE=> Kalamazoo
HAS INSTANCE=> Marquette
HAS INSTANCE=> Monroe
HAS INSTANCE=> Saginaw
HAS INSTANCE=> Traverse City
HAS INSTANCE=> Bemidji
HAS INSTANCE=> Hibbing
HAS INSTANCE=> Mankato
HAS INSTANCE=> Rochester
HAS INSTANCE=> Saint Cloud, St. Cloud
HAS INSTANCE=> Virginia
HAS INSTANCE=> Biloxi
HAS INSTANCE=> Columbus
HAS INSTANCE=> Greenville
HAS INSTANCE=> Hattiesburg
HAS INSTANCE=> Meridian
HAS INSTANCE=> Natchez
HAS INSTANCE=> Tupelo
HAS INSTANCE=> Vicksburg
HAS INSTANCE=> Cape Girardeau
HAS INSTANCE=> Columbia
HAS INSTANCE=> Hannibal
HAS INSTANCE=> Poplar Bluff
HAS INSTANCE=> Saint Joseph, St. Joseph
HAS INSTANCE=> Sedalia
HAS INSTANCE=> Bozeman
HAS INSTANCE=> Butte
HAS INSTANCE=> Great Falls
HAS INSTANCE=> Missoula
HAS INSTANCE=> Grand Island
HAS INSTANCE=> North Platte
HAS INSTANCE=> Portsmouth
HAS INSTANCE=> Morristown
HAS INSTANCE=> New Brunswick
HAS INSTANCE=> Princeton
HAS INSTANCE=> Carlsbad
HAS INSTANCE=> Farmington
HAS INSTANCE=> Gallup
HAS INSTANCE=> Las Cruces
HAS INSTANCE=> Los Alamos
HAS INSTANCE=> Roswell
HAS INSTANCE=> Silver City
HAS INSTANCE=> Taos
HAS INSTANCE=> Cooperstown
HAS INSTANCE=> Ithaca
HAS INSTANCE=> Elmont
HAS INSTANCE=> Kingston
HAS INSTANCE=> Newburgh
HAS INSTANCE=> Saratoga Springs
HAS INSTANCE=> Watertown
HAS INSTANCE=> Asheville
HAS INSTANCE=> Chapel Hill
HAS INSTANCE=> Fayetteville
HAS INSTANCE=> Goldsboro
HAS INSTANCE=> Wilmington
HAS INSTANCE=> Athens
HAS INSTANCE=> Mansfield
HAS INSTANCE=> Bartlesville
HAS INSTANCE=> Enid
HAS INSTANCE=> Lawton
HAS INSTANCE=> McAlester
HAS INSTANCE=> Muskogee
HAS INSTANCE=> Bend
HAS INSTANCE=> Klamath Falls
HAS INSTANCE=> Medford
HAS INSTANCE=> Altoona
HAS INSTANCE=> Bethlehem
HAS INSTANCE=> Gettysburg
HAS INSTANCE=> Hershey
HAS INSTANCE=> Florence
HAS INSTANCE=> Greenville
HAS INSTANCE=> Aberdeen
HAS INSTANCE=> Rapid City
HAS INSTANCE=> Columbia
HAS INSTANCE=> Jackson
HAS INSTANCE=> Johnson City
HAS INSTANCE=> Bryan
HAS INSTANCE=> Del Rio
HAS INSTANCE=> Galveston
HAS INSTANCE=> Lufkin
HAS INSTANCE=> McAllen
HAS INSTANCE=> Midland
HAS INSTANCE=> Paris
HAS INSTANCE=> San Angelo
HAS INSTANCE=> Sherman
HAS INSTANCE=> Texarkana
HAS INSTANCE=> Tyler
HAS INSTANCE=> Victoria
HAS INSTANCE=> Ogden
HAS INSTANCE=> Bennington
HAS INSTANCE=> Brattleboro
HAS INSTANCE=> Rutland
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HAS INSTANCE=> Lander
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HAS INSTANCE=> Rock Springs
--- Grep of noun tara
alpine totara
podocarpus totara
tara
tara vine
tarabulus
tarabulus al-gharb
tarabulus ash-sham
taracahitian
taradiddle
tarahumara
tarahumara frog
taraktagenos
taraktagenos kurzii
taraktogenos
taraktogenos kurzii
tarantella
tarantelle
tarantino
tarantism
tarantula
taras grigoryevich shevchenko
tarawa
tarawa-makin
taraxacum
taraxacum kok-saghyz
taraxacum officinale
taraxacum ruderalia
totara
tuatara
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Chittaranjan Das ::: Born: November 5, 1870; Died: June 16, 1925; Occupation: Indian Politician;
Nayantara ::: Born: November 18, 1984; Occupation: Film actress;
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The Herculoids (1967 - 1969) - On the planet of Quasar, in a distant galaxy, One family and their animal friends fight to protect their planet from all sorts of alien plots and threats. Led by Zandor, the family consists of wife Tara and son Dorno. Their animal friends are Tundro the armored dinosaur, Igoo the mighty rock ape, Zo...
Hataraki Man (2006 - 2007) - an anime television series, which screened in Japan from October to December 2006 and a drama that aired from October 2007 to December 2007. The story centers on 28-year-old Hiroko Matsukata, editor at the magazine Weekly JIDAI (JIDAI Shkan JIDAI). Talented and hard-working, Hiroko's colleagues...
Hatara Kizzu Maihamu Gumi (2007 - 2008) - ( Hatara Kizzu Maihamu Gumi), literally "Working Kids, Meister Hamster Team", is a Japanese anime action series for young children about hamsters who hold down jobs from firefighting to cooking. The show is produced by Toei Animation and was broadcast at 6:307:00 am on Sunday every week...
Here's How! (1991 - 1991) - In this fun Canadian educational miniseries we get a look at how items are made in a factory and how they work. Starring Don Dickonson as an animated balloon, Tara Strong as a talking mouse (voiceover), and narrated by Johnie Smith. The series was released direct-to-video in Canada by TV Ontario and...
The Muppet Movie(1979) - After meeting a Hollywood agent in the swamp,Kermit the frog decided that he must go to Hollywood so he can make people happy and pursue a dream of being a star.Along the way to fulfill his goal he meets Fozzy Bear and the other muppet characters,and a restaraunt - chain owner who would stop at noth...
Pulp Fiction(1994) - With The Success Of 1992's Reservoir Dogs, Writer/Director Quentin Tarantino Stunned The Filmmaking World By Exploding Into Prominence As A Cinematic Heavyweight Contender.
Dnyay? Kurtaran Adam(1982) - Turkish rip-off movie were luke skywalker and han solo must learn karate to stop dart
The Black Cauldron(1985) - Young pigkeeper Taran is sworn to look over a pig named Hen Wen, who knows the location of the fabled magical black cauldron. When the Evil Horned King finds out that the pig knows the location, Taran and Hen Wen embark on a frantic adventure to avoid capture by the horned one, encountering witche...
Tremors(1990) - Tremors is actually two movies in one. On its own terms, it's an enjoyable modern sci-fi horror-thriller, with good pacing and a sense of humor; but it's also a loving tribute to such 1950s low-budget desert-based sci-fi-horror films like Them!, It Came From Outer Space, Tarantula, and The Monolith...
True Romance(1993) - It was directed with energetic skill by Top Gun Tony Scott, but this breathtaking 1993 thriller (think of it as an adolescent crime fantasy on steroids) has Quentin Tarantino written all over it. True Romance is really part of a loose trilogy that includes Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, with a cra...
Jackie Brown(1997) - Quentin Tarantino's ode to blaxploitation films. Jackie brown is an aging airline attendant that smuggles money into the country for her shady friend Ordell Robbie.When she is caught with drugs as well as cash she decides to work with the police and the ATF to catch Ordell or is she working with Or...
100 Proof(1997) - Based in part on an actual incident, the independent drama 100 Proof records one especially bad day in the lives of Rae (Pamela Stewart) and Carla (Tara Bellando), two tough but misused women living in a small Kentucky town. Rae and Carla get by through a combination of low-paying jobs, petty theft,...
New World Disorder(1999) - In this high-tech thriller, David Marx (Rutger Hauer), a take-no-prisoners homicide detective, is teamed with computer expert Kris Paddock (Tara Fitzgerald) to track down Kurt Bishop (Andrew McCarthy), a software pirate who has been trying to steal a valuable encryption security program. Bishop will...
Tarantella(1995) - In this drama, a young professional photographer, Diane Di Sorella, must suddenly return to her long- abandoned family home in New Jersey after her mother unexpectedly dies. Once back amongst her fellow Italian-American neighbors she begins to rediscover the heritage she rejected some many years bef...
Relax ... It's Just Sex(1998) - Tara (Jennifer Tilly) hosts a dinner party. When she discusses the HIV-positive results of her lover's brother, others join in with their opinions on AIDS. Black artist Buzz (T.C. Carson), brought to the party as the date of Vincey (Mitchell Anderson), quickly becomes a twosome with Javi (Eddie Garc...
Tarantula (1955) - Biological researcher, Professor Gerald Deemer is trying to solve the food shortage around the food. He creates a new special nutrient created from Atomic energy. He tests the nutrient on animals making them grow to unbelievable sizes this includes several rodents and most notable Tarantula. One of...
Kingdom of the Spiders(1977) - Investigating the mysterious deaths of a number of farm animals, vet Rack Hansen discovers that his town lies in the path of hoards of migrating tarantulas. Before he can take action, the streets are overrun by killer spiders, trapping a small group of towns folk in a remote hotel.
Sabrina Goes to Rome(1998) - Sabrina Spellman (Melissa Joan Hart) heads off to Italy, with stowaway cat Salem Saberhagen, to solve a family mystery regarding an antique locket and an ancient relative. Soon she meets a a fellow witch (Tara Charendoff Strong) with a talking hamster named Stonehenge, and she romances a handsome A...
Sabrina Down Under(1999) - Sabrina Spellman (Melissa Joan Hart) and her friend Gwen (Tara Charendoff Strong) go on vacation to Sydney, Australia. They soon meet a merman, and Sabrina casts a spell to give him legs for two days. But as the two witches try to investigate the pollution that's making the mermen sick, suspicion...
The Playboys(1992) - A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty (Albert Finney). The arrival of a dramatic troupe st...
Kiss Of The Tarantula(1976) - A disturbed teenage girl unleashes her pet tarantula against her "enemies."
Superchick(1973) - Tara B. True is a flight attendant who makes a weekly swing through New York, Miami, and Los Angeles. In each city, she has a man: Edward, older and wealthy; Johnny, a beach bum with gambling debts; and, Davey, a rock musician on the cusp of success. Tara is a free spirit, faithful to each man in he...
Black Belly Of The Tarantula(1971) - Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife, much in the same way tarantulas are killed by the black wasp. As suspects keep dying, Inspector directs his attention to a spa all the victims had a connection with.
Kill Bill Volume 2(2004) - Kill Bill: Volume 2 is a 2004 action filmcomedy film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It is the second of two volumes that were released several months apart. Kill Bill was originally scheduled for a single theatrical release, but with a running time of over four hours, it was separated in...
Kill Bill Volume 1(2003) - Kill Bill: Volume 1 is a 2003 American action/thrillercomedy-drama film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It is the first of two films that were theatrically released several months apart, the second one titled Kill Bil
The Last Airbender(2010) - It's been over a year since the Fire Nation declared war on the other nations of the world. In an attempt to flea the war, Sokka and Katara find a large iceberg and frozen inside is the titular Last Airbender. Only age 12, he has a lot to learn before he is ready to save the world, namely getting th...
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https://myanimelist.net/anime/41531/Hataraku_Saibou_Black -- Action, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/41694/Hataraku_Saibou_Black_TV -- Action, Drama, Seinen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/42387/Hataraku_Saibou__Saikyou_no_Teki_Futatabi_Karada_no_Naka_wa_Chou_Oosawagi -- Action, Comedy, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/45753/Tensei_shitara_Slime_Datta_Ken__Kanwa_-_Hinata_Sakaguchi -- Fantasy, Shounen
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https://myanimelist.net/anime/6533/Atarashii_Sekai -- Music
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Dance Academy ::: TV-PG | 24min | Drama, Family, Music | TV Series (20102013) -- Fifteen-year-old Tara Webster's dream of dancing comes true when she gets into a top dance academy. She soon realizes dancing is only half the battle. Creators:
Death Proof (2007) ::: 7.0/10 -- TV-MA | 2h 7min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 5 October 2007 (Canada) -- Two separate sets of voluptuous women are stalked at different times by a scarred stuntman who uses his "death proof" cars to execute his murderous plans. Director: Quentin Tarantino Writer:
Django Unchained (2012) ::: 8.4/10 -- R | 2h 45min | Drama, Western | 25 December 2012 (USA) -- With the help of a German bounty-hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal plantation-owner in Mississippi. Director: Quentin Tarantino Writer: Quentin Tarantino
Don't Bother to Knock (1952) ::: 6.9/10 -- Passed | 1h 16min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | August 1952 (USA) -- After being dumped by his girlfriend, an airline pilot pursues a babysitter in his hotel and gradually realizes she's dangerous. Director: Roy Ward Baker (as Roy Baker) Writers: Daniel Taradash (screenplay), Charlotte Armstrong (novel)
Emergence ::: TV-14 | 43min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi | TV Series (20192020) -- A police chief investigates a case involving a young child found near the site of a mysterious accident. Creators: Tara Butters, Michele Fazekas
Fire and Ice (1983) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG | 1h 21min | Animation, Fantasy, Adventure | 26 August 1983 (USA) -- At the end of the ice age, an evil queen and her son are set on conquering the world using magic and warriors. The lone survivor of a crushed village fights back as does the king of Fire Keep. Directors: Ralph Bakshi, Tom Tataranowicz Writers: Ralph Bakshi (characters created by), Frank Frazetta (characters created by) | 2 more credits
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) ::: 7.2/10 -- R | 1h 48min | Action, Crime, Horror | 19 January 1996 (USA) -- Two criminals and their hostages unknowingly seek temporary refuge in a truck stop populated by vampires, with chaotic results. Director: Robert Rodriguez Writers: Robert Kurtzman (story), Quentin Tarantino (screenplay)
Grindhouse (2007) ::: 7.5/10 -- R | 3h 11min | Action, Horror, Thriller | 6 April 2007 (USA) -- Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's homage to exploitation double features in the '60s and '70s with two back-to-back cult films that include previews of coming attractions between them. Directors: Robert Rodriguez, Eli Roth | 3 more credits Writers:
I'm Standing on a Million Lives ::: 100-man no Inochi no Ue ni Ore wa Tatte Iru (original tit ::: TV-PG | 23min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (2020- ) Episode Guide 13 episodes I'm Standing on a Million Lives Poster Yotsuya Yuusuke along with his classmates Shindou Iu and Hakozaki Kusue have been transported to a strange and unknown world inhabited by mythological creatures. As soon as they arrive, ... S Stars: Tara Sands, Makoto Koichi, Risa Kubota
Inglourious Basterds (2009) ::: 8.3/10 -- R | 2h 33min | Adventure, Drama, War | 21 August 2009 (USA) -- In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same. Director: Quentin Tarantino Writer:
Jackie Brown (1997) ::: 7.5/10 -- R | 2h 34min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 25 December 1997 (USA) -- A middle-aged woman finds herself in the middle of a huge conflict that will either make her a profit or cost her life. Director: Quentin Tarantino Writers: Quentin Tarantino (written for the screen by), Elmore Leonard (novel)
Kevin (Probably) Saves the World ::: TV-14 | 42min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | TV Series (20172018) -- Kevin, a down-on-his-luck man, is tasked by God with a mission to save the world. Creators: Tara Butters, Michele Fazekas
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) ::: 8.1/10 -- R | 1h 51min | Action, Crime, Drama | 10 October 2003 (USA) -- After awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her. Director: Quentin Tarantino Writers: Quentin Tarantino, Quentin Tarantino (character The Bride) (as Q) | 1
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) ::: 8.0/10 -- R | 2h 17min | Action, Crime, Thriller | 16 April 2004 (USA) -- The Bride continues her quest of vengeance against her former boss and lover Bill, the reclusive bouncer Budd, and the treacherous, one-eyed Elle. Director: Quentin Tarantino Writers:
Knock on Any Door (1949) ::: 6.8/10 -- Approved | 1h 40min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 17 March 1949 (USA) -- An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court. Director: Nicholas Ray Writers: Daniel Taradash (screenplay), John Monks Jr. (screenplay) | 1 more
Morituri (1965) ::: 7.0/10 -- Approved | 2h 3min | Action, Drama, Thriller | September 1965 (Austria) -- A war pacifist is blackmailed to pose as an SS officer and to disable the scuttling explosives on freighter carrying rubber cargo to be captured by the Allies. Director: Bernhard Wicki Writers: Werner Jrg Lddecke (novel) (as Werner Joerg Luedecke), Daniel Taradash (screenplay)
Natural Born Killers (1994) ::: 7.3/10 -- R | 1h 58min | Action, Crime, Drama | 26 August 1994 (USA) -- Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media. Director: Oliver Stone Writers: Quentin Tarantino (story), David Veloz (screenplay) | 2 more credits
Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood (2019) ::: 7.6/10 -- Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (original title) -- Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood Poster -- A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles. Director: Quentin Tarantino Writer:
Pulp Fiction (1994) ::: 8.9/10 -- R | 2h 34min | Crime, Drama | 14 October 1994 (USA) -- The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption. Director: Quentin Tarantino Writers:
Rancho Notorious (1952) ::: 7.0/10 -- Approved | 1h 29min | Western | 12 May 1952 (UK) -- After the murder of his fiance, a Wyoming ranch hand sets out to find her killer. Director: Fritz Lang Writers: Daniel Taradash (screenplay), Silvia Richards (original story) Stars:
Reservoir Dogs (1992) ::: 8.3/10 -- R | 1h 39min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 2 September 1992 (France) -- When a simple jewelry heist goes horribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant. Director: Quentin Tarantino Writers: Quentin Tarantino, Quentin Tarantino (background radio dialogue written
Sin City (2005) ::: 8.0/10 -- R | 2h 4min | Crime, Thriller | 1 April 2005 (USA) -- A movie that explores the dark and miserable town, Basin City, tells the story of three different people, all caught up in violent corruption. Directors: Frank Miller, Quentin Tarantino | 1 more credit Writers:
Tarantula (1955) ::: 6.5/10 -- Approved | 1h 20min | Horror, Sci-Fi | 20 February 1956 (Sweden) -- A spider escapes from an isolated Arizona desert laboratory experimenting in giantism and grows to tremendous size as it wreaks havoc on the local inhabitants. Director: Jack Arnold Writers:
Taras Bulba (1962) ::: 6.4/10 -- Approved | 2h 2min | Adventure, Drama, History | 19 December 1962 (USA) -- In the 16th-century Ukraine, the Polish overlords and Ukrainian cossacks fight for control of the land but frequent Turkish invasions force them to unite against the common Turkish foe. Director: J. Lee Thompson Writers: Waldo Salt (screenplay), Karl Tunberg (screenplay) | 1 more credit Stars:
The Hateful Eight (2015) ::: 7.8/10 -- R | 2h 48min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 30 December 2015 (USA) -- In the dead of a Wyoming winter, a bounty hunter and his prisoner find shelter in a cabin currently inhabited by a collection of nefarious characters. Director: Quentin Tarantino Writer:
The Orpheus ::: Stars: Kristin Walker, Mike Sjoerdsma, Tara Emerson Add to Watchlist [u4ZG4O9Kh-h0yDb.png] View production, box office, & company info
Tutta colpa di Freud (2014) ::: 6.4/10 -- 2h | Comedy | 23 January 2014 (Italy) -- Francesco Taramelli is a psychoanalyst who is dealing with three patients going through various hurdles in their love lives: Marta is chasing a deaf-mute man who has stolen things from her ... S Director: Paolo Genovese Writers:
United States of Tara ::: TV-MA | 30min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | TV Series (20092011) -- A woman struggles to find a balance between her dissociative identity disorder and raising a dysfunctional family. Creator: Diablo Cody
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Amanchu!: Yakusoku no Natsu to Atarashii Omoide no Koto -- -- J.C.Staff -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Slice of Life Comedy School Shounen -- Amanchu!: Yakusoku no Natsu to Atarashii Omoide no Koto Amanchu!: Yakusoku no Natsu to Atarashii Omoide no Koto -- An unaired episode bundled with the seventh Blu-ray volume of the Amanchu! anime series. -- OVA - Mar 29, 2017 -- 14,097 7.38
Andromeda Stories -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Drama Fantasy Sci-Fi Space -- Andromeda Stories Andromeda Stories -- In the Andromeda galaxy there's a planet of a highly developed human civilisation. The gentle Prince Itaka and another kingdom's beautiful Princess Lilia are about to enter a love-marriage and take over the throne, when they discover a strange object on the nightsky. Later it lands on the planet, and an alien, mechanic civilization invades King Itaka's peaceful country making nearly everybody their slave. On a fateful night Queen Lilia gives birth to twins, and to avoid misfortune, the nanny Tarama takes one of the babies away, and entrusts it to the gladiator Balga. They still don't know, that the children were born with strong powers, and hold the key to the fight against the enemy that's searching to destroy every human civilisation on the planet... -- -- (Source: Terra e... LJ Community) -- Special - Aug 22, 1982 -- 1,544 5.73
Asagiri no Miko -- -- Chaos Project, GANSIS -- 26 eps -- Manga -- Action Comedy Supernatural Fantasy Seinen -- Asagiri no Miko Asagiri no Miko -- Since childhood, Tadahiro Amatsu has two different-colored eyes - one brown and one light hazel. But because of a dark secret behind his left eye, he's become a target for the masked sorcerer Ayatara Miramune and his band of demons. To combat the demons appearing all over town, Yuzu Hieda, a priestess in training, recruits four other girls from her high school. Under the supervision of Yuzu's elder sister Kurako, the five young priestesses must undergo months of training to master their abilities. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- TV - Jul 4, 2002 -- 6,694 6.16
Ballroom e Youkoso -- -- Production I.G -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Romance School Shounen Sports -- Ballroom e Youkoso Ballroom e Youkoso -- Tatara Fujita is a shy middle schooler who has no particular plan for the future. He has gotten through life by avoiding any kind of confrontation and blending in with the crowd. But blending in isn't enough to get out of trouble, as some bullies harass him for money. Luckily, he is saved by a man named Kaname Sengoku. -- -- Kaname invites Tatara to his dance studio. Although he would normally never set foot in such a place, Tatara is captivated by Sengoku's commanding presence. Granted an opportunity to dance with fellow classmate Shizuku Hanaoka—who often practices at the studio—Tatara realizes there's something about the idea of being put in the limelight and dancing where people will see him that keeps him coming back. With an earnest, passionate drive to improve, Tatara begins his journey into the world of competitive dance. -- -- 228,858 8.20
Ballroom e Youkoso -- -- Production I.G -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Romance School Shounen Sports -- Ballroom e Youkoso Ballroom e Youkoso -- Tatara Fujita is a shy middle schooler who has no particular plan for the future. He has gotten through life by avoiding any kind of confrontation and blending in with the crowd. But blending in isn't enough to get out of trouble, as some bullies harass him for money. Luckily, he is saved by a man named Kaname Sengoku. -- -- Kaname invites Tatara to his dance studio. Although he would normally never set foot in such a place, Tatara is captivated by Sengoku's commanding presence. Granted an opportunity to dance with fellow classmate Shizuku Hanaoka—who often practices at the studio—Tatara realizes there's something about the idea of being put in the limelight and dancing where people will see him that keeps him coming back. With an earnest, passionate drive to improve, Tatara begins his journey into the world of competitive dance. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Ponycan USA -- 228,858 8.20
Chi's Sweet Home: Atarashii Ouchi -- -- Madhouse -- 104 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Kids Slice of Life -- Chi's Sweet Home: Atarashii Ouchi Chi's Sweet Home: Atarashii Ouchi -- The Yamadas and Chi move to a new apartment house, where keeping a pet is allowed. -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media -- 25,231 7.75
Frogtoise -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Dementia Music -- Frogtoise Frogtoise -- Music video directed by Katsuki Tanaka for the Exploitation Edit of Frogtoise by German musician Schneider TM (Dirk Dresselhaus). -- Music - ??? ??, 2002 -- 185 N/A -- -- Kamen no Marionette-tachi -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Dementia -- Kamen no Marionette-tachi Kamen no Marionette-tachi -- Screened at the 1st Sogetsu Animation Festival in 1965, the film was made in 35mm using the animation equipment owned by animator Yoji Kuri. -- -- (Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan) -- Movie - ??? ??, 1965 -- 184 N/A -- -- Koto no Shidai -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Music Dementia -- Koto no Shidai Koto no Shidai -- Official music video for Tamaki Roy's song Koto no Shidai, which was released on his album "Nagi" on June 21, 2017. -- Music - Jul 13, 2017 -- 184 N/A -- -- 4.Eyes Re-Mix 2005 -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Dementia -- 4.Eyes Re-Mix 2005 4.Eyes Re-Mix 2005 -- A remix of the short film 4.Eyes by Keiichi Tanaami. -- Movie - ??? ??, 2005 -- 182 N/A -- -- Animatope -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Music Dementia -- Animatope Animatope -- Space Shower TV Station ID directed by Takashi Ohashi, with music by composed by Yuri Habuka and sung by PUPI. -- Special - Jan 14, 2011 -- 182 N/A -- -- Sanuki Eiga-sai Opening Eizou -- -- - -- 2 eps -- Original -- Dementia Music -- Sanuki Eiga-sai Opening Eizou Sanuki Eiga-sai Opening Eizou -- Sanuki Film Festival in 2015 and 2016 had opening animations to officially launch the beginning of the festival. -- Movie - Feb 13, 2015 -- 182 N/A -- -- Superfluid -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Music Dementia -- Superfluid Superfluid -- Short film by Kojirou Shishido originally released in 2007. A 4K version of the film was uploaded to his YouTube channel November 14, 2018. -- ONA - Apr 16, 2007 -- 182 N/A -- -- Ringing City -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Dementia Music -- Ringing City Ringing City -- Big cities are glutted with information. Unconscious curiosity, hidden under apparent indifference, invites us into a noisy loop. -- Movie - Mar 3, 2017 -- 181 N/A -- -- Countdown -- -- - -- 1 ep -- - -- Dementia -- Countdown Countdown -- "I would make my new animation with my New Year's cards, and my New Year's cards with my new animation." -- -- (Source: Maya Yonesho) -- Movie - ??? ??, 2002 -- 180 N/A -- -- Tansui -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Dementia -- Tansui Tansui -- Early experimental film by Koji Yamamura. -- Movie - May ??, 1986 -- 180 N/A -- -- Yubi no Sukima-chan -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Dementia Music -- Yubi no Sukima-chan Yubi no Sukima-chan -- An experimental film by Tarafu Otani about hands. -- Movie - ??? ??, 2009 -- 180 5.44
Hataraki Man -- -- Gallop -- 11 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Romance Seinen Slice of Life -- Hataraki Man Hataraki Man -- Hiroko Matsukata is a woman who works for a magazine company. She puts all she has into her work, and is known as a strong, straight-forward working girl, who can at will turn herself into Hataraki man (working man) mode. Despite Hiroko's success at work, her life lacks romance. Even though a hard worker, she'd leave early anytime to go on a date. Too bad her boyfriend is even bigger a workaholic than Hiroko. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Maiden Japan -- 21,470 7.02
Hataraku Maou-sama! 2nd Season -- -- - -- ? eps -- Light novel -- Comedy Demons Supernatural Romance Fantasy -- Hataraku Maou-sama! 2nd Season Hataraku Maou-sama! 2nd Season -- Second season of Hataraku Maou-sama! -- TV - ??? ??, ???? -- 98,137 N/A -- -- Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: Fuuin Sareta Card -- -- Madhouse -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Fantasy Magic Romance Shoujo -- Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: Fuuin Sareta Card Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: Fuuin Sareta Card -- For this year's Nadeshiko Festival, Sakura Kinomoto's elementary school class is presenting a play. She will portray a princess who struggles to respond to the love confession of the neighboring country's prince. Sakura empathizes with her character all too well, since she herself still owes an answer to the boy who confessed his love for her four months ago. -- -- When cousins Shaoran and Meiling Li return from Hong Kong to pay a surprise visit to their friends in Japan, Sakura receives further encouragement to finally declare her feelings. However, she is repeatedly distracted by a presence reminiscent of a Clow Card as well as unexplained disappearances around town. -- -- Eventually, Sakura learns of another of Clow Reed's creations—the "Nothing"—which was formerly sealed away beneath the magician's old house. It has power equal to all 52 cards Sakura possesses, and furthermore, it wants to take those cards away from her! Objects, space, and people disappear from Tomoeda with each card that is stolen. Sakura sets out to capture the Nothing so everything will return to normal, but what must she sacrifice in the process? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media, Geneon Entertainment USA, Nelvana -- Movie - Jul 15, 2000 -- 97,928 8.22
Hataraku Maou-sama! 2nd Season -- -- - -- ? eps -- Light novel -- Comedy Demons Supernatural Romance Fantasy -- Hataraku Maou-sama! 2nd Season Hataraku Maou-sama! 2nd Season -- Second season of Hataraku Maou-sama! -- TV - ??? ??, ???? -- 98,137 N/A -- -- Uta no☆Prince-sama♪: Maji Love 2000% -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 13 eps -- Visual novel -- Harem Music Comedy Romance School Shoujo -- Uta no☆Prince-sama♪: Maji Love 2000% Uta no☆Prince-sama♪: Maji Love 2000% -- Entering her Master's course, Nanami Haruka is facing an even more difficult time. And she isn't the only one. The main six members of Starish are assigned new seniors to watch over them! But the seniors aren't having the best attitudes about it. -- -- Watch Uta no☆Prince-sama♪ Maji Love 2000% and find yourself completely engaged in a whole new adventure mixed in with comedy and romance! -- TV - Apr 4, 2013 -- 98,069 7.23
Hataraku Maou-sama! 2nd Season -- -- - -- ? eps -- Light novel -- Comedy Demons Supernatural Romance Fantasy -- Hataraku Maou-sama! 2nd Season Hataraku Maou-sama! 2nd Season -- Second season of Hataraku Maou-sama! -- TV - ??? ??, ???? -- 98,137 N/ADance with Devils -- -- Brain's Base -- 12 eps -- Original -- Harem Demons Supernatural Romance Vampire Shoujo -- Dance with Devils Dance with Devils -- Ritsuka Tachibana has always been a good student, so she is completely shocked when she is suddenly summoned by the student council. Even more, they seem to think of Ritsuka as a troublemaker. Led by the handsome Rem Kaginuki, the student council—also consisting of Urie Sogami, Shiki Natsumizaka and Mage Nanashiro—tries to question her, but it soon becomes clear that they have ulterior motives. -- -- However, this is only the beginning. When her mother gets kidnapped, her life is turned upside down, and Ritsuka gets drawn into a world of vampires and devils. Both groups are searching for the "Grimoire," a forbidden item allowing its owner to rule the world. The return of her brother Lindo from overseas gives her hope, but even he appears to be hiding something. In a world filled with secrets, Ritsuka questions whom she can trust in this dark musical tale, while the handsome and dangerous members of the student council compete for her attention. -- -- 97,898 6.33
Hataraku Maou-sama! -- -- White Fox -- 13 eps -- Light novel -- Comedy Demons Supernatural Romance Fantasy -- Hataraku Maou-sama! Hataraku Maou-sama! -- Striking fear into the hearts of mortals, the Demon Lord Satan begins to conquer the land of Ente Isla with his vast demon armies. However, while embarking on this brutal quest to take over the continent, his efforts are foiled by the hero Emilia, forcing Satan to make his swift retreat through a dimensional portal only to land in the human world. Along with his loyal general Alsiel, the demon finds himself stranded in modern-day Tokyo and vows to return and complete his subjugation of Ente Isla—that is, if they can find a way back! -- -- Powerless in a world without magic, Satan assumes the guise of a human named Sadao Maou and begins working at MgRonald's—a local fast-food restaurant—to make ends meet. He soon realizes that his goal of conquering Ente Isla is just not enough as he grows determined to climb the corporate ladder and become the ruler of Earth, one satisfied customer at a time! -- -- Whether it's part-time work, household chores, or simply trying to pay the rent on time, Hataraku Maou-sama! presents a hilarious view of the most mundane aspects of everyday life, all through the eyes of a hapless demon lord. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 1,131,488 7.81
Hataraku Saibou Black (TV) -- -- LIDENFILMS -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Action Drama Seinen -- Hataraku Saibou Black (TV) Hataraku Saibou Black (TV) -- Due to poor lifestyle choices, a certain human's body is in constant turmoil. With germs, bacteria, and foreign substances abound, the jobs of various cells become increasingly difficult and dangerous. As some of the unfortunate ones who matured in this chaotic environment, Sekkekkyuu AA2153 and Hakkekkyuu U-1196 strive to fulfill their duties—even if it means seeing many of their fellow cells lose their lives in duty. -- -- Set in an environment vastly different from its parent story, Hataraku Saibou Black portrays the cells' struggles as they try to maintain the body's health. However, the human's condition continues to deteriorate, and whether or not these efforts will amount to something concrete depends on the cells! -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- 147,097 7.56
Hataraku Saibou -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Sci-Fi -- Hataraku Saibou Hataraku Saibou -- A special animated commercial to celebrate the release of the manga's fifth volume. The full length version of the commercial was released on Kodansha's official YouTube channel the day after the short version was released on TV. -- -- It features the anthropomorphized cells of a human body, with the protagonist being a red blood cell named AE-3803. -- ONA - Jul 2, 2017 -- 16,581 6.84
Hataraku Saibou!! -- -- David Production -- 8 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Shounen -- Hataraku Saibou!! Hataraku Saibou!! -- The cells of the human body never rest for too long; there's always something new to do and learn every day. At least, that's what Hakkekkyuu U-1146 feels as he rushes to and fro, searching for any pathogens that could cause harm to the body. Despite his dangerous line of work, it's all worth it to protect the happy smiles of Sekkekkyuu AE3803, the platelet crew, his fellow neutrophils, and the other cells he meets along the way. -- -- In his latest pathogen-hunting adventures, Hakkekkyuu U-1146 discovers how important cells can sometimes make mistakes, and that not all bacteria are actually bad. Everybody has their bad days, but everything eventually works out when their comrades have their backs. In the end, it's just another normal day for these hardworking cells! -- -- 175,777 7.31
Hataraku Saibou: Kaze Shoukougun -- -- David Production -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Comedy Shounen -- Hataraku Saibou: Kaze Shoukougun Hataraku Saibou: Kaze Shoukougun -- A mysterious cell wearing a stylish hat appears before the regular cells, who are bored with just the same (cell division) work over and over again, every day. This mysterious cell lures the regular cells into a mischievous scheme against White Blood Cell and Killer T Cell. The regular cells enjoy working out their everyday, pent-up frustration. But, just who exactly is this cell wearing a stylish hat? -- -- (Source: ANN) -- Special - Dec 27, 2018 -- 37,187 7.27
Hataraku Saibou!!: Saikyou no Teki, Futatabi. Karada no Naka wa "Chou" Oosawagi! -- -- David Production -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Comedy Shounen -- Hataraku Saibou!!: Saikyou no Teki, Futatabi. Karada no Naka wa "Chou" Oosawagi! Hataraku Saibou!!: Saikyou no Teki, Futatabi. Karada no Naka wa "Chou" Oosawagi! -- Ippan Saibou is envious of the public praise immune system cells like white blood cells receive for protecting the human body from deadly pathogens. Instead of watching safely from his home, he also wants to be useful and get recognized for his efforts. He soon comes across a group of infantile-looking bacteria getting washed away by a river current. Despite knowing the potential dangers that they hold, he rescues the bacteria and brings them to safety. However, Hakkekkyuu U-1146 picks up the presence of these bacteria and is on the hunt for them. -- -- Meanwhile, somewhere else in the human body is NK Saibou, who is on the lookout for someone. Based on her intel, he is an antigen that the immune system cells have previously encountered, and he may have returned for revenge. -- -- Movie - Sep 5, 2020 -- 19,268 7.25
Hataraku Saibou (TV) -- -- David Production -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Shounen -- Hataraku Saibou (TV) Hataraku Saibou (TV) -- Inside the human body, roughly 37.2 trillion cells work energetically 24 hours a day and 365 days a year. Fresh out of training, the cheerful and somewhat airheaded Sekkekkyuu AE3803 is ready to take on the ever-so-important task of transporting oxygen. As usual, Hakkekkyuu U-1146 is hard at work patrolling and eliminating foreign bacteria seeking to make the body their new lair. Elsewhere, little platelets are lining up for a new construction project. -- -- Dealing with wounds and allergies, getting lost on the way to the lungs, and bickering with similar cell types, the daily lives of cells are always hectic as they work together to keep the body healthy! -- -- 471,853 7.62
Hataraku Saibou (TV) -- -- David Production -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Shounen -- Hataraku Saibou (TV) Hataraku Saibou (TV) -- Inside the human body, roughly 37.2 trillion cells work energetically 24 hours a day and 365 days a year. Fresh out of training, the cheerful and somewhat airheaded Sekkekkyuu AE3803 is ready to take on the ever-so-important task of transporting oxygen. As usual, Hakkekkyuu U-1146 is hard at work patrolling and eliminating foreign bacteria seeking to make the body their new lair. Elsewhere, little platelets are lining up for a new construction project. -- -- Dealing with wounds and allergies, getting lost on the way to the lungs, and bickering with similar cell types, the daily lives of cells are always hectic as they work together to keep the body healthy! -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- 471,853 7.62
Kannagi: Moshimo Kannagi ga Attara... -- -- A-1 Pictures, Ordet -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Comedy School Shounen Supernatural -- Kannagi: Moshimo Kannagi ga Attara... Kannagi: Moshimo Kannagi ga Attara... -- Unaired episode included in DVD Vol.7. -- -- In this episode they attempt to make a movie with some money they found lying on the ground. -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment -- Special - May 27, 2009 -- 29,660 7.08
Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara -- -- Hoods Entertainment -- 13 eps -- Light novel -- Comedy Harem Romance School -- Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara -- In visual novels, an imaginary flag is defined as an event that serves as a turning point for the whole story. A player triggering the romance flag for a heroine will proceed to her route, or a death flag will signify that a certain character will die afterwards. -- -- High school student Souta Hatate can see these flags above a person's head, and has the ability to bring them down to stop certain events from happening. Using this power, he has prevented other people's deaths. But, after a past accident with him as a sole survivor, he ended up believing that only misfortune will befall those who are near him, and has refrained from making friends or having relationships ever since. -- -- However, everything starts to change after transferring to a new school. After toppling another death flag, his classmate Nanami Knight Bladefield notices his powers and tries to learn more about him, promising that she will remain at his side no matter what may happen. Thus begins Souta's journey as he meets new friends and acquaintances while uncovering the mysteries of his ability... which might run deeper than what anyone expects. -- -- TV - Apr 7, 2014 -- 159,162 6.43
Kimi to, Nami ni Noretara -- -- Science SARU -- 1 ep -- Original -- Drama Romance Supernatural -- Kimi to, Nami ni Noretara Kimi to, Nami ni Noretara -- Entranced by surfing and the sea, Hinako Mukaimizu is a spirited girl who attends college in a coastal city with no consideration for her future career. Her life takes an unexpected turn when a fireworks mishap sets the apartment building she lives in ablaze, where she is saved by a talented firefighter named Minato Hinageshi. Upon meeting, the two quickly become acquainted with one another—Hinako is instantly enamored by Minato's reliable personality and passion for saving others, while Minato is intrigued by surfing and is eager to learn how. As Hinako begins to teach Minato about surfing, the pair eventually fall in love and begin a gentle and devoted relationship. -- -- However, while surfing may seem fun and carefree, it can still be a dangerous and unpredictable activity. This is what Hinako learns when a surfing incident completely changes her life, leaving her forced to contemplate her undecided future. In search of her own calling, Hinako begins her journey of self-discovery, keeping Minato by her side as she gradually attempts to find her purpose and ride her own wave. -- -- Movie - Jun 21, 2019 -- 90,671 7.56
Kyuukyoku Shinka shita Full Dive RPG ga Genjitsu yori mo Kusoge Dattara -- -- ENGI -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Action Game Comedy Fantasy -- Kyuukyoku Shinka shita Full Dive RPG ga Genjitsu yori mo Kusoge Dattara Kyuukyoku Shinka shita Full Dive RPG ga Genjitsu yori mo Kusoge Dattara -- In an unexpected turn of events, dull high school student Hiro Yuuki obtains the full dive role-playing game Kiwame Quest. Created by the best of technology, the game claims to take "reality to its extremes," from stunning graphics, NPCs' behavior, to the scent of vegetation, and even the sensation of wind brushing against the skin—everything was the result of an ultimate workmanship. -- -- Except, the game is a little too realistic and messy to clear. Kiwame Quest features over ten quadrillion flags and reflects the players' real-life physical abilities in the game. Being hit in the game also hurts in real life and slash wounds take days to heal. -- -- The only reward here is the sense of accomplishment. Conquer the most stressful game in history that can't be played casually! -- -- (Source: MAL News) -- 76,180 7.20
Kyuukyoku Shinka shita Full Dive RPG ga Genjitsu yori mo Kusoge Dattara -- -- ENGI -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Action Game Comedy Fantasy -- Kyuukyoku Shinka shita Full Dive RPG ga Genjitsu yori mo Kusoge Dattara Kyuukyoku Shinka shita Full Dive RPG ga Genjitsu yori mo Kusoge Dattara -- In an unexpected turn of events, dull high school student Hiro Yuuki obtains the full dive role-playing game Kiwame Quest. Created by the best of technology, the game claims to take "reality to its extremes," from stunning graphics, NPCs' behavior, to the scent of vegetation, and even the sensation of wind brushing against the skin—everything was the result of an ultimate workmanship. -- -- Except, the game is a little too realistic and messy to clear. Kiwame Quest features over ten quadrillion flags and reflects the players' real-life physical abilities in the game. Being hit in the game also hurts in real life and slash wounds take days to heal. -- -- The only reward here is the sense of accomplishment. Conquer the most stressful game in history that can't be played casually! -- -- (Source: MAL News) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 76,180 7.20
Mononoke Hime -- -- Studio Ghibli -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Adventure Fantasy -- Mononoke Hime Mononoke Hime -- When an Emishi village is attacked by a fierce demon boar, the young prince Ashitaka puts his life at stake to defend his tribe. With its dying breath, the beast curses the prince's arm, granting him demonic powers while gradually siphoning his life away. Instructed by the village elders to travel westward for a cure, Ashitaka arrives at Tatara, the Iron Town, where he finds himself embroiled in a fierce conflict: Lady Eboshi of Tatara, promoting constant deforestation, stands against Princess San and the sacred spirits of the forest, who are furious at the destruction brought by the humans. As the opposing forces of nature and mankind begin to clash in a desperate struggle for survival, Ashitaka attempts to seek harmony between the two, all the while battling the latent demon inside of him. Princess Mononoke is a tale depicting the connection of technology and nature, while showing the path to harmony that could be achieved by mutual acceptance. -- -- -- Licensor: -- GKIDS -- Movie - Jul 12, 1997 -- 916,477 8.71
Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu 2nd Season -- -- Studio Bind -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Drama Magic Fantasy -- Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu 2nd Season Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu 2nd Season -- Second half of Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu. -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- TV - Jul ??, 2021 -- 56,965 N/A -- -- Ao no Exorcist: Kyoto Fujouou-hen OVA -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 2 eps -- Manga -- Action Demons Supernatural Fantasy Shounen -- Ao no Exorcist: Kyoto Fujouou-hen OVA Ao no Exorcist: Kyoto Fujouou-hen OVA -- Bundled with the 19th and 20th volumes of the Ao no Exorcist manga. -- -- The first episode is based on the second chapter of the second Ao no Exorcist novel Home Sweet Home. -- -- The second episode is based on the title chapter from the Ao no Exorcist: Spy Game novel. -- OVA - Apr 4, 2017 -- 56,799 7.14
Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu 2nd Season -- -- Studio Bind -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Drama Magic Fantasy -- Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu 2nd Season Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu 2nd Season -- Second half of Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu. -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- TV - Jul ??, 2021 -- 56,965 N/A -- -- Rozen Maiden: Ouvertüre -- -- Nomad -- 2 eps -- Manga -- Action Comedy Drama Magic Seinen -- Rozen Maiden: Ouvertüre Rozen Maiden: Ouvertüre -- As Jun Sakurada fights and lives alongside the Rozen Maidens, special lifelike dolls made to battle each other, he enjoys a rare break in which he is told a story during the events of Rozen Maiden: Träumend. -- -- When Jun buys a brooch as a present for Shinku, the fifth doll, she refuses to accept it at any cost. Souseiseki, the fourth doll, then recounts the story of how Shinku and the first doll, Suigintou, first met. This tale tells of the cruel and heartbreaking circumstances surrounding Suigintou's birth, and how the many misunderstandings between her and Shinku shaped their longstanding rivalry fueled by Suigintou's unfettered hate towards Shinku. -- -- The stage is set in Rozen Maiden: Ouvertüre in 19th century London as the story delves into the past of these one-time friends and the secrets that they hold. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- Special - Dec 23, 2006 -- 55,918 7.73
Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu 2nd Season -- -- Studio Bind -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Drama Magic Fantasy -- Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu 2nd Season Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu 2nd Season -- Second half of Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu. -- TV - Jul ??, 2021 -- 56,965 N/A -- -- Gakuen Heaven -- -- Tokyo Kids -- 13 eps -- Visual novel -- Harem Comedy Drama Romance School Shounen Ai -- Gakuen Heaven Gakuen Heaven -- Itou Keita, an average guy, is shocked when he's invited to attend the elite institution, "Bell Liberty Academy." Unnerved by the mystery, he's further distracted by the school's social dynamics. In a sea of amazing young men, Keita struggles to find out what makes him unique, and how he can possibly deserve to be treated as an equal by the boys of BL. Lacking any particular ability, just why has Itou been welcomed into the privileged world of the talented and the beautiful? -- -- Along the way, he develops intense relationships with the almost everyone at school but he is terribly drawn to the friendly, over-caring but very mysterious classmate, Kazuki Endou. -- TV - Apr 1, 2006 -- 56,764 6.52
Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu -- -- Studio Bind -- 11 eps -- Light novel -- Drama Magic Ecchi Fantasy -- Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu -- Despite being bullied, scorned, and oppressed all of his life, a thirty-four-year-old shut-in still found the resolve to attempt something heroic—only for it to end in a tragic accident. But in a twist of fate, he awakens in another world as Rudeus Greyrat, starting life again as a baby born to two loving parents. -- -- Preserving his memories and knowledge from his previous life, Rudeus quickly adapts to his new environment. With the mind of a grown adult, he starts to display magical talent that exceeds all expectations, honing his skill with the help of a mage named Roxy Migurdia. Rudeus learns swordplay from his father, Paul, and meets Sylphiette, a girl his age who quickly becomes his closest friend. -- -- As Rudeus' second chance at life begins, he tries to make the most of his new opportunity while conquering his traumatic past. And perhaps, one day, he may find the one thing he could not find in his old world—love. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 497,034 8.43
Nouryou Anime: Denkyuu Ika Matsuri -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Psychological Dementia Horror -- Nouryou Anime: Denkyuu Ika Matsuri Nouryou Anime: Denkyuu Ika Matsuri -- Death is the gateway to birth. The deceased crosses the line to join the kingdom of the dead. He sees there the dance of the sperm and the egg. He is drawn towards the sky. This is the path to the afterlife. -- -- (Source: starandshadow.org.uk) -- Movie - ??? ??, 1993 -- 615 4.58
Oretachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai: Under the Innocent Sky. -- -- Nomad -- 12 eps -- Visual novel -- Comedy Drama Ecchi Harem Romance -- Oretachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai: Under the Innocent Sky. Oretachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai: Under the Innocent Sky. -- Haneda Takashi has a secret he cannot speak of. To leave his dull school-life, he was supposed to have escaped to another world. However, he is reeled in by certain ties on his heart. One of these is Kobato, his awkward younger sister. The other is Watarai Asuka, his negligent girlfriend. -- -- Chitose Shuusuke is a poor freeloader. He passes his days working at various part-time jobs. One day, he has a disastrous first encounter with Tamaizumi Hiyoko. The next time they meet, Shuusuke discovers that they are fellow employees at his part-time job. -- -- Narita Hayato sees himself as a "hard-boiled" person. Back-breaking jobs are nothing to him. Hayato shuns normal human contact, but, during the nights, he would get together with delinquents and other denizens of the night. One such night, he meets the cheerful and oblivious Otori Naru. -- -- The relationships with these girls will greatly affect these 3 young men. But what, exactly, is the relationship these young men have with each other? -- -- (Source: AnimeNFO) -- TV - Apr 4, 2011 -- 76,824 6.70
Oshi ga Budoukan Ittekuretara Shinu -- -- 8bit -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Music Seinen Shoujo Ai Slice of Life -- Oshi ga Budoukan Ittekuretara Shinu Oshi ga Budoukan Ittekuretara Shinu -- A girl is obsessed with her favorite idol, a minor member of a less popular group, enough that she says she'd die to see her play at Budoukan. -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 30,032 7.45
Qualidea Code -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 12 eps -- Original -- Action Magic Supernatural -- Qualidea Code Qualidea Code -- On a quiet and peaceful day, the skies split open and extradimensional beings, designated as the Unknown, launch a swift and brutal attack against humanity. To protect the future of the country, all of Japan's children are cryogenically frozen until the end of the war to keep them out of harm's way. -- -- Several years pass, and humanity has established a foothold in a corner of Japan, which now serves as the frontline of the war. No longer facing humanity's extinction, the children are awakened from their slumber. It is then discovered that, while in cryogenesis, the children had developed Worlds, supernatural powers unique to each person. The six most powerful children are given command of the reclaimed cities, using their powers to defend the strongholds against the continuing invasion. Childhood friends Ichiya Suzaku and Canaria Utara lead Tokyo, siblings Kasumi and Asuha Chigusa manage Chiba, and Maihime Tenkawa and Hotaru Rindou oversee Kanagawa. -- -- Over time, the almost routine attacks from the Unknown and the clashing personalities of the city heads and subheads cultivate petty rivalries, leading to constant arguments between the three cities. With the Unknown suddenly increasing the pressure of their attacks, the three cities' leaders must learn how to work together or risk losing the last line of defense against humanity's extinction. -- -- 141,255 6.50
Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica -- -- Ginga Ya -- 12 eps -- Visual novel -- Drama Fantasy Music Romance School -- Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica -- Phoron Tatara's no ordinary musician. As one of the rare Dantists who can summon elder spirits using music called Commandia, his gift is so strong that his spirit partner is none other than the infamous Corticarte Apa Lagranges. Sure, she may look like a young girl in her human form, but you don't get nicknames like "The Crimson Annihilator" and "The Bloody Duchess" for sitting back and watching the daisies grow. -- -- Now, at the behest of the Tsuge Divine Music Player Office, this dynamic duet travels the continent of Polyphonica on Phoron's combination motorcycle/organ, following the song of the open road, orchestrating rescues and generally fixing whatever's baroque! Some musicians wait for a muse to hit them, but Phoron makes his work for scale! -- -- (Source: RightStuf) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Apr 4, 2007 -- 29,276 6.84
Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica -- -- Ginga Ya -- 12 eps -- Visual novel -- Drama Fantasy Music Romance School -- Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica -- Phoron Tatara's no ordinary musician. As one of the rare Dantists who can summon elder spirits using music called Commandia, his gift is so strong that his spirit partner is none other than the infamous Corticarte Apa Lagranges. Sure, she may look like a young girl in her human form, but you don't get nicknames like "The Crimson Annihilator" and "The Bloody Duchess" for sitting back and watching the daisies grow. -- -- Now, at the behest of the Tsuge Divine Music Player Office, this dynamic duet travels the continent of Polyphonica on Phoron's combination motorcycle/organ, following the song of the open road, orchestrating rescues and generally fixing whatever's baroque! Some musicians wait for a muse to hit them, but Phoron makes his work for scale! -- -- (Source: RightStuf) -- TV - Apr 4, 2007 -- 29,276 6.84
Shin no Nakama ja Nai to Yuusha no Party wo Oidasareta node, Henkyou de Slow Life suru Koto ni Shima -- -- Studio Flad, Wolfsbane -- ? eps -- Light novel -- Adventure Slice of Life Fantasy -- Shin no Nakama ja Nai to Yuusha no Party wo Oidasareta node, Henkyou de Slow Life suru Koto ni Shima Shin no Nakama ja Nai to Yuusha no Party wo Oidasareta node, Henkyou de Slow Life suru Koto ni Shima -- A heroic and mighty adventurer dreams of...opening a pharmacy? -- -- Red was once a member of the Hero's party, a powerful group destined to save the world from the evil forces of Taraxon, the Raging Demon Lord. That is, until one of his comrades kicked him out. Hoping to live the easy life on the frontier, Red's new goal is to open an apothecary. However, keeping the secret of his former life may not be as simple as he thinks. Especially when the beautiful Rit, an adventurer from his past, shows up and asks to move in with him! -- -- (Source: Yen Press) -- TV - Jul ??, 2021 -- 12,587 N/A -- -- Takamiya Nasuno Desu!: Teekyuu Spin-off -- -- Millepensee -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Comedy Shounen -- Takamiya Nasuno Desu!: Teekyuu Spin-off Takamiya Nasuno Desu!: Teekyuu Spin-off -- A spin-off from Teekyuu which centers on the daily life of Nasuno Takamiya, the "exceedingly airheaded" school tennis club member in Teekyuu, and her friends. -- 12,565 6.43
Shuumatsu no Walküre -- -- Graphinica -- ? eps -- Manga -- Action Super Power Supernatural Drama Seinen -- Shuumatsu no Walküre Shuumatsu no Walküre -- High above the realm of man, the gods of the world have convened to decide on a single matter: the continued existence of mankind. Under the head of Zeus, the deities of Ancient Greece, Norse mythology, and Hinduism, among others, call assembly every one thousand years to decide the fate of humanity. Because of their unrelenting abuse toward each other and the planet, this time the gods vote unanimously in favor of ending the human race. -- -- But before the mandate passes, Brunhild, one of the 13 demigod Valkyries, puts forth an alternate proposal: rather than anticlimactically annihilating mankind, why not give them a fighting chance and enact Ragnarök, a one-on-one showdown between man and god? Spurred on by the audacity of the challenge, the divine council quickly accepts, fully confident that this contest will display the utter might of the gods. To stand a chance against the mighty heavens, Brunhild will need to assemble history's greatest individuals, otherwise the death knell will surely be sounded for mankind. -- -- ONA - Jun ??, 2021 -- 29,841 N/A -- -- Kannagi: Moshimo Kannagi ga Attara... -- -- A-1 Pictures, Ordet -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Comedy School Shounen Supernatural -- Kannagi: Moshimo Kannagi ga Attara... Kannagi: Moshimo Kannagi ga Attara... -- Unaired episode included in DVD Vol.7. -- -- In this episode they attempt to make a movie with some money they found lying on the ground. -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment -- Special - May 27, 2009 -- 29,660 7.08
Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season -- -- 8bit -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Action Adventure Comedy Demons Magic Fantasy -- Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season -- Second season of Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken. -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 443,230 8.38
Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season Part 2 -- -- 8bit -- ? eps -- Light novel -- Action Adventure Comedy Demons Magic Fantasy -- Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season Part 2 Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season Part 2 -- Second half of Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season. -- TV - Jul ??, 2021 -- 125,503 N/ABishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon R -- -- Toei Animation -- 43 eps -- Manga -- Demons Magic Romance Shoujo -- Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon R Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon R -- Usagi Tsukino and her friends have been living peacefully until they are called into action again as Sailor Guardians, planetary warriors fighting for the peace of the galaxy. Usagi, also known as Sailor Moon, leads their group into battle when a new threat from beyond the stars presents itself: two survivors of an alien race, An and Ail. In order to save the source of their life force, the Makai Tree, An and Ail begin harvesting energy from unsuspecting humans. The Sailor Guardians must stop their plot or face the annihilation of Earth. -- -- But as one threat subsides, another follows—this time in the form of a little girl from the future who seeks the source of Sailor Moon's power to save her family. However, she is not the only one vying for it, as a group known as the Black Moon Clan also wishes to obtain the power and use it for nefarious purposes. In order to protect their destinies and the harmony of the universe, Sailor Moon and the rest of the Sailor Guardians must fight to stop these forces from succeeding. -- -- TV - Mar 6, 1993 -- 125,035 7.69
Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season Part 2 -- -- 8bit -- ? eps -- Light novel -- Action Adventure Comedy Demons Magic Fantasy -- Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season Part 2 Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season Part 2 -- Second half of Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season. -- TV - Jul ??, 2021 -- 125,503 N/A -- -- Isuca -- -- Arms -- 10 eps -- Manga -- Action Comedy Ecchi Romance School Seinen Supernatural -- Isuca Isuca -- Poor Shinichirou Asano has the worst of luck. His parents abandoned him and ran off to Europe. If that isn't bad enough on its own, they barely left him any money to take care of himself. In order to pay rent and keep a roof over his head, he has to work. Unfortunately, he was just fired from his last job and as a high school student, he doesn't have many other prospects. -- -- One evening, he's attacked by a centipede monster on his way home. Shinichirou is saved by a mysterious girl with a bow and arrow, who he later discovers is Sakuya Shimazu, a beautiful student who attends his school. But when he later helps an injured girl, he discovers two things. First, the injured girl isn't human at all but rather a nekomata, a two-tailed demon cat. And second, Sakuya comes from a family of exorcists, who've protected humanity from rogue monsters and spirits for generations. Because Shinichirou was responsible for releasing the nekomata, Sakuya enlists his help in recapturing the demon, but that's just the beginning of Shinichirou's relationship with Sakuya. It turns out the Shimazu family needs a housekeeper and it just so happens that Shinichirou excels at cooking and likes to clean! It may not be his dream job, but if it pays the rent and puts food on the table... -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media -- 125,107 6.02
Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season Part 2 -- -- 8bit -- ? eps -- Light novel -- Action Adventure Comedy Demons Magic Fantasy -- Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season Part 2 Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season Part 2 -- Second half of Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken 2nd Season. -- TV - Jul ??, 2021 -- 125,503 N/AGirls Bravo: First Season -- -- AIC Spirits -- 11 eps -- Manga -- Harem Comedy Romance Ecchi Fantasy School Shounen -- Girls Bravo: First Season Girls Bravo: First Season -- Small for his age, Yukinari has been bullied and abused by girls all his life. Now in high school, he has developed a rare condition: whenever girls touch him, or even come close, he breaks out in hives. Imagine his surprise, when he is suddenly transported to the city of Seiren on a mystic world invisibly orbiting the Earth, and populated with vast numbers of women and very few men. Fortunately, he has a new friend, Miharu-chan, whose touch inexplicably doesn't affect him. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation, Geneon Entertainment USA -- TV - Jul 5, 2004 -- 125,221 6.44
Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken -- -- 8bit -- 24 eps -- Light novel -- Action Adventure Comedy Demons Magic Fantasy -- Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken -- Thirty-seven-year-old Satoru Mikami is a typical corporate worker, who is perfectly content with his monotonous lifestyle in Tokyo, other than failing to nail down a girlfriend even once throughout his life. In the midst of a casual encounter with his colleague, he falls victim to a random assailant on the streets and is stabbed. However, while succumbing to his injuries, a peculiar voice echoes in his mind, and recites a bunch of commands which the dying man cannot make sense of. -- -- When Satoru regains consciousness, he discovers that he has reincarnated as a goop of slime in an unfamiliar realm. In doing so, he acquires newfound skills—notably, the power to devour anything and mimic its appearance and abilities. He then stumbles upon the sealed Catastrophe-level monster "Storm Dragon" Veldora who had been sealed away for the past 300 years for devastating a town to ashes. Sympathetic to his predicament, Satoru befriends him, promising to assist in destroying the seal. In return, Veldora bestows upon him the name Rimuru Tempest to grant him divine protection. -- -- Now, liberated from the mundanities of his past life, Rimuru embarks on a fresh journey with a distinct goal in mind. As he grows accustomed to his new physique, his gooey antics ripple throughout the world, gradually altering his fate. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 823,286 8.08
Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken: Kanwa - Hinata Sakaguchi -- -- 8bit -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Action Adventure Comedy Demons Magic Fantasy -- Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken: Kanwa - Hinata Sakaguchi Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken: Kanwa - Hinata Sakaguchi -- A summary of season one of Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken with some extra content leading into season two. -- Special - Jan 5, 2021 -- 25,465 6.57
Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken: Kanwa - Veldora Nikki -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Comedy Fantasy Shounen -- Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken: Kanwa - Veldora Nikki Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken: Kanwa - Veldora Nikki -- Ifrit, who has been trapped in Rimuru due to the latter's Predator skill, recaps events of the season while in a discussion with Veldora as they play Shogi. -- Special - Mar 26, 2019 -- 74,576 6.53
Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken OVA -- -- 8bit -- 5 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Comedy Demons Magic Fantasy -- Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken OVA Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken OVA -- The episode bundled with the 13th volume is about the Sumo competition that held at Tempest for the first time, suggested by Rimuru. -- -- The three-part OVA bundled with the 14th, 15th, and 16th manga volumes is an original trilogy written by Fuse. -- -- Rimuru has been teaching Shizue's students at Ingracia Kingdom's Freedom Academy. The time has come for the school's annual outdoor training event, where the students will test their combat skills in the field. Rimuru is determined to win the competition and take home the prize money, but he is challenged by Jeff, an honorary teacher who sees Rimuru as a rival. The competition is underway when suddenly an unexpected enemy appears! -- -- (Source: MAL News & ANN) -- OVA - Jul 9, 2019 -- 136,788 7.46
Tensura Nikki: Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken -- -- 8bit -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Comedy Fantasy Shounen -- Tensura Nikki: Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken Tensura Nikki: Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken -- "Dear diary... I got reincarnated as a slime." -- -- Even in another world, lives aren't always on the line. There's plenty of work to be done, from feeding the community and forging the items the community needs; as well as plenty of play ...and hijinks throughout! Join Rimuru and friends as they kick back and enjoy their daily lives. -- -- (Source: Kodansha Comics) -- 134,409 7.60
Uchi no Ko no Tame naraba, Ore wa Moshikashitara Maou mo Taoseru kamo Shirenai. -- -- Maho Film -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Fantasy Slice of Life -- Uchi no Ko no Tame naraba, Ore wa Moshikashitara Maou mo Taoseru kamo Shirenai. Uchi no Ko no Tame naraba, Ore wa Moshikashitara Maou mo Taoseru kamo Shirenai. -- Eighteen-year-old Dale Reki is a skilled, kind, and respected traveller, acknowledged as one of the leading adventurers in the city of Kreuz. One day while on the hunt for magical beasts, he comes across a sweet devil girl named Latina. She is alone, dressed in rags, and bears the devils' symbol of a criminal: a broken horn. Concerned for her wellbeing, Dale decides to ensure Latina's safety by bringing her to his home, eventually leading to him adopting her. -- -- Latina is sweet, innocent and compassionate, charming Dale beyond his expectations. He begins to enjoy the life of parenthood— experiencing the trials that come with raising a child and coping with the heartache he feels whenever his busy lifestyle as an adventurer parts him from her. -- -- Although work and life as a new parent become reassuring constants for Dale, the mysteries surrounding the girl remain. Why was Latina alone in the forest, and why does she harbor the symbol of a criminal? At the same time, Latina also begins to learn about the world and herself as she adjusts to her new life with Dale. -- -- 138,657 7.05
Vandread -- -- Gonzo -- 13 eps -- Original -- Action Ecchi Mecha Sci-Fi Shounen Space -- Vandread Vandread -- In Vandread, men are from Mars and women are from Venus! Well, not quite. Technology has allowed mankind to colonize the entire Milky Way galaxy, and in one star system, the men and women live on two different planets, Taraak and Mejere. A bitter and very literal gender war rages, to the point where they don't even see each other as the sames species anymore! -- -- Hibiki Tokai, a male third-class laborer from Taraak, ends up stuck on a battleship after a botched attempt at stealing a robot. When female pirates capture the Taraakian Vanguard, things don't look like they could get any worse for Hibiki. Unfortunately, they do; when the male crew of the Vanguard fire on their captured vessel out of desperation, they created a giant wormhole, which sucks the Vanguard and the Mejeran pirate's ships into itself! Now, stuck far away from their home planets, these men and women must learn to work together if they ever wish to make it back home. -- 74,415 7.20
Vandread -- -- Gonzo -- 13 eps -- Original -- Action Ecchi Mecha Sci-Fi Shounen Space -- Vandread Vandread -- In Vandread, men are from Mars and women are from Venus! Well, not quite. Technology has allowed mankind to colonize the entire Milky Way galaxy, and in one star system, the men and women live on two different planets, Taraak and Mejere. A bitter and very literal gender war rages, to the point where they don't even see each other as the sames species anymore! -- -- Hibiki Tokai, a male third-class laborer from Taraak, ends up stuck on a battleship after a botched attempt at stealing a robot. When female pirates capture the Taraakian Vanguard, things don't look like they could get any worse for Hibiki. Unfortunately, they do; when the male crew of the Vanguard fire on their captured vessel out of desperation, they created a giant wormhole, which sucks the Vanguard and the Mejeran pirate's ships into itself! Now, stuck far away from their home planets, these men and women must learn to work together if they ever wish to make it back home. -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation, Geneon Entertainment USA -- 74,415 7.20
Vandread: The Second Stage -- -- Gonzo -- 13 eps -- Original -- Action Ecchi Mecha Sci-Fi Shounen Space -- Vandread: The Second Stage Vandread: The Second Stage -- Though Hibiki and crew defeated a super-huge battleship of the earth in the last of the first stage, they noticed five battleships further aiming at Mejeiru and Tarahk. And, crew of NIRVANA learnt Tarahk and Mejeiru which were their home had been faced to the crisis of Karitori (reaping). Travel to their home is speed up so that they may inform of the crisis. On the way, current information of the earth having been brought by girl Misty who had come to travel with them was worse than they can imagine. Hibiki and crew noticed a true fight was in the future. VANDREAD is finally changed into final system by the attack of the enemy who becomes violent more and more. Can they save their home? And, what happens to the relations between Hibiki and Dita? -- -- (Source: AnimeNfo) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation, Geneon Entertainment USA -- TV - Oct 5, 2001 -- 48,139 7.42
Vandread: The Second Stage -- -- Gonzo -- 13 eps -- Original -- Action Ecchi Mecha Sci-Fi Shounen Space -- Vandread: The Second Stage Vandread: The Second Stage -- Though Hibiki and crew defeated a super-huge battleship of the earth in the last of the first stage, they noticed five battleships further aiming at Mejeiru and Tarahk. And, crew of NIRVANA learnt Tarahk and Mejeiru which were their home had been faced to the crisis of Karitori (reaping). Travel to their home is speed up so that they may inform of the crisis. On the way, current information of the earth having been brought by girl Misty who had come to travel with them was worse than they can imagine. Hibiki and crew noticed a true fight was in the future. VANDREAD is finally changed into final system by the attack of the enemy who becomes violent more and more. Can they save their home? And, what happens to the relations between Hibiki and Dita? -- -- (Source: AnimeNfo) -- TV - Oct 5, 2001 -- 48,139 7.42
Warau Salesman Tokubetsu Bangumi -- -- Shin-Ei Animation -- 14 eps -- Manga -- Psychological Supernatural Seinen -- Warau Salesman Tokubetsu Bangumi Warau Salesman Tokubetsu Bangumi -- A special program of Warau Salesman, these episodes were released in a blast format on 3 days in a nearly 2 hour long timeslot each. The individual episodes have their own OPs. The first blast release differed from the main series by having live-action footage of real locations in Japan before delving into the story for each episode. The 2nd had Moguro with the Master interacting with the viewer as if behind the scenes for a studio before delving into each episode. And the 3rd had Moguro and the Master playing outside in the snow as if reporting on an on-location event to the viewer before delving into each episode. -- Special - Dec 26, 1992 -- 653 N/A -- -- Nouryou Anime: Denkyuu Ika Matsuri -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Psychological Dementia Horror -- Nouryou Anime: Denkyuu Ika Matsuri Nouryou Anime: Denkyuu Ika Matsuri -- Death is the gateway to birth. The deceased crosses the line to join the kingdom of the dead. He sees there the dance of the sperm and the egg. He is drawn towards the sky. This is the path to the afterlife. -- -- (Source: starandshadow.org.uk) -- Movie - ??? ??, 1993 -- 615 4.58
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2-hydroxyglutarate synthase
2-hydroxymethylglutarate dehydrogenase
2-methyleneglutarate mutase
2nd Uttarakhand Assembly
2-oxoglutaramate amidase
2-oxoglutarate carboxylase
2-oxoglutarate decarboxylase
2-oxoglutarate dioxygenase (ethylene-forming)
2-oxoglutarate/L-arginine monooxygenase/decarboxylase (succinate-forming)
2-oxoglutarate synthase
343 Ostara
3rd Uttarakhand Assembly
4-hydroxy-2-oxoglutarate aldolase
4-hydroxy-4-methyl-2-oxoglutarate aldolase
4th Uttarakhand Assembly
Aapki Antara
Aaron Altaras
Abbey of Sant'Albino, Mortara
Abdel Sattar Tarabulsi
Abdul Jalil Nasiruddin Muhtaram Shah of Perak
Aboubakar Diaby Ouattara
Acontarache
Ademir Alcntara
Administrative divisions of Uttarakhand
Adolfo Aristarain
Advayataraka Upanishad
A Fix with Sontarans
Africa Cataract Project
Afartarak, Gerede
Afutara Airport
Agadi, Uttara Kannada
Agaltara
Agustn Alcntara
Agustn Mara Muoz y Borbn, 1st Duke of Tarancn
Ahmed Al-Tarabulsi
Ahmed Ouattara
Ajattara
Ajjihalli, Uttara Kannada
Akatarawa Forest
Akatarawa Valley
Akhtarabad
Alassane Ouattara
Al-Attara
Alcantara
Alcntara
Alcntara Bridge
Alcntara Dam
Alcntara Formation
Alcntara Launch Center
Alcntara (Lisbon)
Alcntara, Maranho
Alcantara (material)
Alcntaras
Aleksandr Tarasov
Alex Alcntara
Alexander Taraikovsky
Alexander Taransky
Alexander Tarasov
Alexander Tarasov-Rodionov
Alexa Tarantino
Aliabad, Kaftarak
Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara
Alima Ouattara
Ali Taramakhi
Alla Tarasova
Allotinus taras
Alluri Seetarama Raju (film)
Alluri Sitarama Raju
Alpha-ketoglutarate-dependent hydroxylases
Altarage
Alyaksey Tarabanaw
Amangkurat III of Mataram
Amangkurat II of Mataram
Amangkurat I of Mataram
Amangkurat IV of Mataram
Amanitaraqide
Amara Ahmed Ouattara
American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
Amor de Tarapaca
Amorn Chantarasomboon
AmphetaRate
Anagnostaras
Anantha Venkatarami Reddy
Anastasiya Taranova-Potapova
Anata ga Koko ni Itara
A. Natarajan
Anatoly Tarabrin
Anatoly Tarasov
Andreas Pittaras
Andrena Tarazn
Andr Tarallo
Andrew Matarazzo
Andrey Tarasenko
Andrey Tarasenko (powerlifter)
Andronicus, Probus, and Tarachus
guttara Nikya
Anbal Tarabini
Anjuman-i Taraqqi-i Urdu
Anna Tarasova
Anodonta cataracta
Antara
Antara Biswas
Antarafacial and suprafacial
Antara Gange
Antaragni
Antarah ibn Shaddad
Antara (hospital)
Antara Mali
Antaramej
Antaramut
Antara (news agency)
Antarang Sex Health Information Art Gallery
Antarashat
Antarashen
Anthony Tarabay
Antilles pinktoe tarantula
Antnio Castilho de Alcntara Machado
Antonio Jackson de Oliveira Alcntara
Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudin
Anuttaraupaptikadah
Aotea Utanganui Museum of South Taranaki
Aq Masjed, Astara
Aranmula Kottaram
Arcangela Tarabotti
Arctostaphylos montaraensis
Ardeshir Tarapore
Ardozyga taracta
Argia tarascana
Arginine alpha-ketoglutarate
Arintaraj 26
Arismendy Alcntara
Armies of Bohemond of Taranto
A. R. Natarajan
Arnold I of Astarac
Artel Staratelei "Amur" Airlines
Arteshtaran-salar
Ashita, Haru ga Kitara
Ashtarak
Association of the Representatives of Bunyoro-Kitara
Astara
Astarabadi
Astarac
Astara District
Astara, Iran
Asura lutara
Atara
Atarabad
Atarashii Bunmei Kaika
Atarashii hibi
Atarashii Hibi/gon no Tsuki
Atarashiki Nihongo Rock no Michi to Hikari
Ataraxia
Ataraxia (band)
Ataraxia (gamer)
Atitara (plant)
Atltico Tarazona
Attarat Power Plant
Atypical tarantula
Auximobasis tarachodes
Ayya Vaikunda Avataram
Babubhai Khimabhai Katara
Baburam Bhattarai
Badavara Shramikara Raitara Congress
BAE Systems Taranis
BakerVenkataraman rearrangement
k, Gmina Stara Kiszewa
Bakri Tarab
Ballad of Tara
Banar Kabutaran
Ban Dan, Uttaradit
Bani Taratom
Bannai Tarao
Barbodes cataractae
Barkot, Uttarakhand
Baron Brabazon of Tara
Barra d'Alcntara
Bartarak
Bashqurtaran
Bastarache
Batara
Batara, Buner
Batara Eto
Batara Guru
Batarang
Bataraza
Bathylutichthys taranetzi
Battle of Alcantara
Battle of Alcntara (1580)
Battle of Alcntara (1809)
Battle of Tara
Battle of Taraca
Battle of Tara Hill
Battle of Tarain
Battle of Tarakan
Battle of Tarakan (1945)
Battle of Taranto
Battle of Taranto (disambiguation)
Battle of Tarapac
Battle of Tarawa
Battle of Tatarahama
Battle of Valencia de Alcntara
Beaver Creek (Swatara Creek tributary)
Beerendra Keshava Tarakananda Puri
Beilschmiedia tarairi
Bemetara district
Benedykt Zientara
Ben Starav
Bernard IV of Astarac
Betrayal in Antara
Bhabatarak Bhattacharyya
Bhagwanpur, Uttarakhand
Bharatiya Janata Party, Uttarakhand
Bhattarai Danda
Bhattaraka
Bhavanam Venkatarami Reddy
BHEL Ranipur (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)
Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya
Bhotiyas of Uttarakhand
Bhuvana Natarajan
Biaeboto-Stara Wie
Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi
Bidya Bhattarai
Biedrzyce-Stara Wie
Bijarabin, Astara
Bina Nusantara University
Bina Venkataraman
Binaytara Foundation
Bitarap Turkmenistan Avenue
Bitten by the Tarantula and other writing
Black Belly of the Tarantula
Bobby Tarantino
Bobby Tarantino II
Bohemond of Astarac
Bom Sucesso de Itarar
Borys Tarasyuk
Bo Thong, Uttaradit
Bow Creek (Swatara Creek tributary)
Brachycyttara
Brachycyttara griseus
Branislaw Tarashkyevich
Brazilian red and white tarantula
Brazilian whiteknee tarantula
Brevicyttara
Brooklands, Taranaki
Brwilno, Gmina Stara Biaa
Buariki (Tarawa)
Budi, Taraclia
Bulbul tarang
B. Venkatarama Reddy
Byatarayana Betta
Byatarayanapura (Vidhana Sabha constituency)
Byblia anvatara
Cahit Stk Taranc
Calabrian Tarantella
Caloptilia cataractias
Canton of Tarascon
Carlos Alcntara
Carlos Alcantara (cyclist)
Carlos Alcntara Vilar
Carlos Alfaro Alcntara
Carlos Tarazona
Carlos Zatarain Gonzlez
Carnival of Tarazona de la Mancha
Cstaras
Cataract
Cataract (band)
Cataract bog
Cataract (disambiguation)
Cataract Falls Covered Bridge
Cataract Gorge
Cataract Lake (Arizona)
Cataract-microcornea syndrome
Cataract of Lodore
Cataractonium
Cataracts (Levi the Poet album)
Cataracts of the Nile
Cataracts Provincial Park
Cataract surgery
Cataraqui
Cataraqui Cemetery
Cataraqui Centre
Cataraqui Golf and Country Club
Cataraqui, Ontario
Cataraqui (ship)
Cataratas del Iguaz International Airport
Category:Burials at Tarariras Cemetery
Catherine of Taranto, Countess of Copertino
Cattaraugus
Cattaraugus Reservation
Cdric Ouattara
Centara Grand and Bangkok Convention Centre
Centara Grand at Central Plaza Ladprao Bangkok
Centule I of Astarac
Certara
Cetara
Cetara, Campania
Chah Tarakh
Chah Tarakh-e Olya
Chah Tarakh-e Sofla
Chamba, Uttarakhand
Chandrasekhar Nataraj
Chaqataram
Chaubattakhal (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)
Chautara
Cheena Kottaram
Cheetara (ThunderCats)
Chehel Dokhtaran
Cheluvina Chittara
Cheshmeh-ye Tarava
Childhood cataract
Chilean rose tarantula
Chilenization of Tacna, Arica and Tarapac
Chillu Kottaram
Chintara Sukapatana
Chitaraque
Chittaranjan Avenue
Chittaranjan Das
Chittaranjan Locomotive Works
Chittaranjan Mahata
Chittaranjan Mitra
Chittaranjan Park Kali Mandir
Chittaranjan Tripathy
Chittaranjan Yajnik
Chodorwka Stara
Chodorwka Stara-Kolonia
Chris Tuatara-Morrison
Chubtarash Mahalleh
Chub Tarash Mian Golal
Church of Saint John, Mastara
Church of San Bartolom (Tarazona de la Mancha)
Chutavuth Pattarakampol
Ciccillo Matarazzo
Cigarette Ki Tarah
Clement Venkataramiah
C. Nataraj
Coat of arms of Stara Zagora
Cobalt blue tarantula
Coleus cataractarum
Colombian lesserblack tarantula
Convent of So Pedro de Alcntara
Convent of So Pedro de Alcntara (So Roque do Pico)
Copa Paulino Alcantara
Cosmosoma tarapotensis
Costanza Starace
COVID-19 pandemic in Uttarakhand
Craig Tara
Craugastor tarahumaraensis
Creatine-alpha ketoglutarate
Crepis vesicaria subsp. taraxacifolia
Cricket Association of Uttarakhand
C. S. Puttaraju
C. S. Venkataraman
Cuisine of Uttarakhand
Cytarabine
Cyttaranthus
D-2-hydroxyglutarate dehydrogenase
Da' Tara
brwka Stara
Dailenys Alcntara
Dakotaraptor
Daniel Taradash
Daniil Tarasov
Dasari Venkataramana
Dashavatara
Dashavatara Temple, Deogarh
Dataram
Dataran Pahlawan Melaka Megamall
Dattaram Maruti Mirasdar
Daunorubicin/cytarabine
DD Uttarakhand
Dehradun Cantt (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)
Dehradun (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)
Delaware Valley Mantarays
Demala-Gattara
Derek Moore-Brabazon, 2nd Baron Brabazon of Tara
Dhani Kumharan, Taranagar
Dhritarashtra
Dhrubatara
Dhulipala Seetarama Sastry
Diaminobutyrate2-oxoglutarate transaminase
Diocese of Waikato and Taranaki
Dirgantara Air Service
Dirgantara Monument
Disappearance of Tara Calico
Dmitri Tarasov
Dmitry Tarabin
Doiwala (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)
Dolenja Stara Vas
Dolnja Stara Vas
Domenic Cretara
Domicl Tarabildien
Dominique Folloroux-Ouattara
Dom Pedro de Alcntara
Dormition Cathedral, Staraya Ladoga
Dotara (film)
Draft:Daria Tarasova
Draft:Mahar (Uttarakhand)
Draft:Tara Reade
Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara
Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara
Duntara
Dnyay Kurtaran Adam
Duptaraup Union
urevia Tara
urevia Tara Bridge
Dwarf tarantula
Early Nusantara coins
Edoardo Mortara
Edward entara
Eero Tarasti
Ekottara Agama
Ektara
Elizabeth Nutaraluk Aulatjut
El Kantara
Eloy Tarazona
El Qantara, Egypt
Emblem of Uttarakhand
Emerson Alcntara
Emile A. Zatarain Sr.
E. M. Natarajan
Empire of Kitara
Engalaguppe Seetharamiah Venkataramiah
Era Natarasan
Ermelino Matarazzo (district of So Paulo)
Estara
Estarabad
Estarabad-e Jonubi Rural District
Estarabad-e Shomali Rural District
Estarabad Mahalleh
Etaracizumab
Ettara Yogam
Eupithecia tarapaca
va Vantara-Kelemen
Fbio Lopes Alcntara
Fabrcio Lopes Alcntara
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Stara Zagora
Fambar Ouattara Natchaba
Fate/hollow ataraxia
Fayez Tarawneh
Fazlallah Astarabadi
FC Taraz
Felipe Garn Ortiz de Taranco
Fernando Alcntara
Fernando Lopes Alcntara
Fernando Mara Muoz y Borbn, 2nd Duke of Tarancn
Finale: The Last Mantaray & More Show
First Dutch Expedition to Nusantara
First Taranaki War
Fitzroy, Taranaki
Forgetara
Francesco Matarazzo
Francis Alcantara
Francisco Linares Alcntara
Francisco Linares Alcntara Municipality
Frataraka
Fujio Mitarai
Futarasan jinja
Galactarate dehydratase
Galactarate O-hydroxycinnamoyltransferase
Galactosemic cataract
Galtara
Galtara aurivilii
Galtara doriae
Galtara elongata
Galtara extensa
Galtara nepheloptera
Galtara pulverata
Galtara purata
Galtara reticulata
Galtara somaliensis
Gardan Partaraj Tang Pivareh
Garuda Mataram Motor
Gastn Taratuta
Gattaran
Geology of Taranaki
George Kottaras
George Koumantarakis
George Tarantini
George Tarasovic
George (Tarassov)
George Taratsides
Georgy Taratorkin
German Tarasov
Giardini Botanici Villa Taranto
Gintaras Andriukeviius
Gintaras Balinas
Gintaras Beresneviius
Gintaras Didiokas
Gintaras Gruas
Gintaras Janueviius
Gintaras Kadiulis
Gintaras Kantvilas
Gintaras Krapikas
Gintaras Rinkeviius
Gintaras Savukynas
Gintaras Stakeviius
Gintaras Stau
Gintaras Steponaviius
Gintaras urkus
Giorgio Mortara
Girus Tarasii
Gitarama Province
Giuseppe Tarantino
Glutaraldehyde
GlutarateCoA ligase
Glutarate-semialdehyde dehydrogenase
Glyphipterix ataracta
Gmina Stara Biaa
Gmina Stara Botnica
Gmina Stara D
Gmina Stara Kamienica
Gmina Stara Kiszewa
Gmina Stara Kornica
Gocta Cataracts
Goli Taraghi
Gorajec-Stara Wie
Gorenja Stara Vas
Gornja Stara Vas
Government of Uttarakhand
Grande Tarantelle (Gottschalk)
Great Escape (Tara Blaise album)
Great Malay Nusantara
Greenbottle blue tarantula
Grigoriy Tarasevich
G. S. Venkataraman
Guettara
Guimbi Ouattara
Guitararama
Gulf of Taranto
Gunji, Uttarakhand
Gunung Sahari Utara
Guruttara
Guzmania 'Ostara'
Habibollah Bitaraf
Haftarah
Hakataramea
HAL HJT-36 Sitara
Hanatarash
Haridwar Rural (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)
Hataraki Man
Hatara Kizzu Maihamu Gumi
Hctor Zatarain
Heketara
Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Uttarakhand Medical Education University
Herrera de Alcntara
Heyran, Astara
Hill of Tara
Himalayan Cataract Project
Histidine-tryptophan-ketoglutarate
History of Satara district
History of Taranto
HMAS Tarakan (L3017)
HMNZS Taranaki
Holy Cross College, Kalutara
Horyszw-Stara Kolonia
Hottaraka Series
House of Mataram
Hrabove, Stara Vyzhivka Raion
Hugo Alcntara
Hugues Taraval
Hum Sitaray
Hurricane Tara
Hybrid Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia
Hypoderma tarandi
I'm Taraneh, 15
Ibrahim Pasha Qataraghasi
Ibrahim Yattara
If (Mata Aetara)
Ik Tara
Il caso Mortara
Ildemar Alcntara
Ilunga Mande Zatara
Imad Zatara
I Need a Miracle (Tara McDonald song)
Ingeniero Aeronutico Ambrosio L.V. Taravella International Airport
Insaf Ka Tarazu
Insee Chantarasatit Stadium
INS Taragiri
INS Tarangini (A75)
INS Tarasa (T94)
Intarabus
Interim Uttarakhand Assembly
International Kite Festival in Gujarat Uttarayan
Iruputuncu (Tarapac-Daniel Campos)
Iryna Taranenko-Terelia
Isabel Maria de Alcntara, Duchess of Gois
Islamic Azad University, Astara Branch
Ismail Tara
Itaran
Istaravshan
Istaravshan District
Itarana
Itarar
Itarar, Santa Maria
Iuri Alcntara
Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky (Tararui)
Ivan Taranov
Ivan Tarasov
Ivon Moore-Brabazon, 3rd Baron Brabazon of Tara
Iwona ledziska-Katarasiska
Izzy Alcntara
Jabonka Stara
Jacques Tarade
Jagannatha Panditaraja
Jagannath Sitaram Akarte
Jagatara
Jahesh Tarabar Qom BC
Jaime Alcntara Silva
Jaitaran
Jalali, Uttarakhand
Jalan Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kota Kinabalu
Jal tarang
James Taranik
James Taranto
Jamie Tarabay
Jamtara district
Jamtara Sabka Number Ayega
Jamtara (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
Janapareddy Tarakeswara Rao
Jaromr Tarabus
Jarosaw Zitara
Jasenovac i Gradika Stara
Jastrzbia Stara
Jatupat Boonpattararaksa
Javier Tarancn
Javier Tarantino
Jayanthi Natarajan
Jean Franois Boissonade de Fontarabie
Jeevana Tarangalu
Jrmy Taravel
Jess Alcntara Nez
JetBeetle Tarantula H90
Jintara Poonlarp
Jin Taraqayah
Joan of Taranto
Johannes Avetaranian
John Antaramian
John Matarazzo
John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara
John Sitaras
John Taras
Jorge Zataran
Jos Carmen Alcntara
Jos Pedro de Alcntara
Joseph Matarazzo
Jukka Vastaranta
Julio Alcantara
Julio Montes Taracena
Julius of Taranto
Kaaitara
Kabutaran, Khuzestan
Kabutaran, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad
Kal Dasht-e Taraqi
Kalutara
Kalutara Bodhiya
Kalutara Chaitya
Kalutara District
Kalutara Divisional Secretariat
Kalutara Electoral District (19471989)
Kalutara Physical Culture Club
Kalutara prison riots
Kanda, Uttarakhand
Kantara
Kantara Initiative
Kantara, skele
Kantara monastery
Kantarawadi
Karpuragauram Karunavataram
Kashipur, Uttarakhand
Katara
Katara (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
Katara (cultural village)
Kataragama
Kataragama Bodhiya
Kataragama deviyo
Kataragama temple
Katara Hospitality
Kataraki, Bagalkot
Katara Pass
Katarapko
Katarapko Wood Camp
Katara (spice)
Kaya Tarakc
Kaya Taran
Kazi MagomedAstaraAbadan pipeline
Ken Kutaragi
Khan Bahadur Ataullah Khan Tarar
Khandala, Satara
Kharatara Gaccha
Khaseh Tarash
Khashtarak
Khattar Kaka'k Tarang
Khed, Satara
Khujjuttara
Kichha (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)
Ki Hajar Dewantara
Kingship of Tara
Kitara
Kitashitara District
K. J. Taralseth Company
Kkul-tarae
K. N. Sitaram
Knut Tarald Taraldsen
Kolatan, Astara
Kolej Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Selangor
KolkataRadhikapur Express
Kollam-Kottarakkara Diocese of the Church of South India
Kone- ja Siltarakennus
Koshtaran
Kostas Tarasis
Kotara, New South Wales
Kotara South, New South Wales
Koteshwar, Uttarakhand
Kote Venkataramana Temple, Bangalore
Kottarakkara
Kottarakkara Punalur Orthodox Diocese
Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair
Kottarakkara Sree Mahaganapathi Kshethram
Kottarakkulam Sree Mahaganapathy Kovil
Kottarathil Kutty Bhootham
Kovachevo, Stara Zagora Province
Kovach, Stara Zagora Province
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai
Krishnasami Venkataraman
Krishnaswamy Natarajan
Kudal (Satara)
Kultaranta
Kunica Stara
Kynurenineoxoglutarate transaminase
L-2-hydroxyglutarate dehydrogenase
Lahartara Pond
Lai da Tarasp
Lake Kuttara
Lake Paracota (Tarata)
Lake Tarawera
Lak Tarash
Lalitavistara Stra
Lal-lo and Gattaran Shell Middens
Lambros Konstantaras
Laura Cretara
Lauttaranta
Legacy of Taras Shevchenko
Lemonia taraxaci
Leontodon taraxacoides
Limnaecia syntaracta
List of awards and nominations received by Taraji P. Henson
List of chief justices of the Uttarakhand High Court
List of chief ministers of Uttarakhand
List of cities in Uttarakhand by population
List of community development blocks of Uttarakhand
List of constituencies of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
List of districts of Uttarakhand
List of educational institutions in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand
List of finance ministers of Uttarakhand
List of governors of Uttarakhand
List of institutions of higher education in Uttarakhand
List of leaders of the opposition in the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
List of marae in Taranaki
List of mayors of Taranto
List of monuments in Tarakeshwar, Nepal
List of Monuments of National Importance in Uttara Kannada district
List of Monuments of National Importance in Uttarakhand
List of mountain peaks of Uttarakhand
List of municipal corporations in Uttarakhand
List of municipalities of the Province of Taranto
List of parganas of Uttarakhand
List of parliamentary constituencies in Uttarakhand
List of people from Uttarakhand
List of plants known as ttara
List of Rajya Sabha members from Uttarakhand
List of saltpeter works in Tarapac and Antofagasta
List of Shantaram characters
List of speakers of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
List of tarantulas of Sri Lanka
List of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv people
List of tehsils of Uttarakhand
List of urban local bodies in Uttarakhand
Lokottaravda
Lontara Bilang-bilang script
Lontara script
Loreto Convent, Tara Hall, Shimla
Loukas Notaras
Love Tara
L Taraval
Luis Manuel Otero Alcntara
Lus Tarallo
Lycosa tarantula
Lysis of Taras
Maataram
Macrocyttara expressa
Macrocyttara pamphaea
Mactara
Madhav Bhattarai
Mahabhashyam Chittaranjan
Mahbubul Alam Tara
Mahmoud Za'tara
Makeatutara
Maksim Tarasov
Mala Stara Vas
Malaysian earthtiger tarantula
Mamidipudi Venkatarangayya
Manaia, Taranaki
Manattara
Manik Sitaram Godghate
Manikyakottaram
Manvantara
Mara Dolores Katarain
Maria Isabel de Alcntara, Countess of Iguau
Marisa Matarazzo
Martin Taras
Maruti Suzuki Vitara Brezza
Masaba, Tarabo
Massimo Battara
Mata de Alcntara
Matara
Matara District
Matara District, Cajamarca
Matara Divisional Secretariat
Matara Electoral District (19471989)
Matara, Eritrea
Matara fort
Mataragka
Mataragka, Achaea
Matara Janadipathi Vidyalaya
Mataram
Mataram (city)
Mataram conquest of Surabaya
Mataram Sultanate
Matara Municipal Council
Mataranga family
Matarani
Mataranka
Matara, Sri Lanka
Matara Sri Nanarama Mahathera
Matarau
Matarazzo
Matuntara people
Mawk'ataray
Mayor of South Taranaki
Mayor of Tararua
Maysa Matarazzo
Mazraeh-ye Gorgan-e Bitaraf
Mazraeh-ye Mashtarak Abdollah
Media Nusantara Citra
Meenakshi Natarajan
Meghe Dhaka Tara
Meghe Dhaka tara
Meghe Dhaka Tara (2013 film)
Meghe Dhaka Tara (drama)
Mehtaran, Iran
Melitara
Melitara apicigrammella
Melitara dentata
Melitara doddalis
Melitara junctolineella
Melitara prodenialis
Melitara subumbrella
Melitara texana
Melphina tarace
Merpati Nusantara Airlines
Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 5601
Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 836
Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 8968
Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 9760
Metaraminol
Metaraphia
Metarauchite
Mexican redknee tarantula
Michael Kantaras
Michael Tarazi
Michail Kostarakos
Michel Bastarache
Michele Massimo Tarantini
Mikhail Tarasov (canoeist)
Milo atara
Mimandria cataractae
Minamishitara District
Minna Island (Tarama, Okinawa)
Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi
Mitarai - Tantei Mitarai Kiyoshi no Jiken Kiroku
Mitochondrial 2-oxoglutarate/malate carrier protein
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Moetara
Mohabat Subh Ka Sitara Hai
Mohamed Ouattara
Mohamed Tarabulsi
Mohamed Yattara
Mohd. Salim Uddin Tarafder
Mokhtarabad
Mokhtarabad-e Bon Rud
Mokhtarabad, Jiroft
Mokhtarabad, Rudbar-e Jonubi
Mokhtaran
Montara
Montara, California
Montara, Kansas
Montara oil spill
Monument to Taras Shevchenko (Shakhty)
Mopidevi Venkataramana
Mortara
Mortara case
Mortara Center For International Studies
Mortara, Lombardy
Mosaki-Stara Wie
Moukhtara
Mount Adatara
Mount Batutara
Mount Tarakan
Mount Taranaki
Mount Tarawera
Mount Zero-Taravale Sanctuary
Moussa Ouattara
MS Siritara Ocean Queen
MS Taras Shevchenko
MS Taras Shevchenko (1965)
Mtara Macha
Mueang Uttaradit District
Muhammad Amin al-Astarabadi
Muhammad Rafiq Tarar
Multimedia Nusantara
Multimedia Nusantara University
Murder of Tara Lynn Grant
Museo de la Secretara de Hacienda y Crdito Pblico
Music of Uttarakhand
Mustansar Hussain Tarar
Mutara III Rudahigwa
Mutara II Rwogera
Mutarara
Mutarazi Falls
Muttaraiyan (title)
Muttaraiyar
M. Venkataraju
M. Venkataramana
MV Senopati Nusantara
Mystara
Nabin K Bhattarai
Naby Yattara
Najaf-e Tarakomeh
Najeeb Tarakai
Nallam Venkataramayya
Nana Maharaj Taranekar
Nangatara
Narakattaramukku
Narayan Sitaram Phadke
Narhari Sitaram Zirwal
Narthaki Nataraj
Nastaran Mohseni
Nataraja
Natarajan Chandrasekaran
Natarajan Sankaran
Natarajasana
Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram
Nataraj XT
Natarang
National Institute of Technology, Uttarakhand
Navkat, Istaravshan
Navtarang (Fiji)
Navya Natarajan
Nayantara Sahgal
Neotarache
News18 Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand
Ngti Maru (Taranaki)
Ngti Tara Tokanui
Nick E. Tarabay
Ni Ketut Mahadewi Istarani
Nikitaras
Ninam, Satara
Nino Taranto
Nissan Pintara
Nitish Katara murder case
N-methyl-2-oxoglutaramate hydrolase
Noblella ritarasquinae
Nodar Tatarashvili
Normanby, Taranaki
Nososticta taracumbi
Notaras
Notis Mitarachi
Notte della Taranta
Nowtaraki
Nur Muhammad Taraki
Nusantara Buana Air
Nusantara Buana Air Flight 823
Nusantara Satu
N. V. Natarajan
Occupy Dataran
Oka Antara
Old Cataract Hotel
Oleh Taran
Oleksandr Tarasenko
Ol! Tarantula
Olga Tarasova-Sakharovskaya
Olimpia Cataram
Omitara
Opel Antara
Operation Moshtarak
Order of Alcntara
Ornithine oxoglutarate
Ostara (album)
Ostara (disambiguation)
tara
Otaram Dewasi
Otara (New Zealand electorate)
tara-Papatoetoe Local Board
Ouattara Lagazane
Oxoglutarate dehydrogenase complex
Oxoglutarate dehydrogenase (NADP+)
Padma Venkataraman
Padumuttara Buddha
Pandharinath Sitaramji Patil
Pangutaran
Pangutaran Sama language
Panipat Taraf Makhdum Zadgan
Paranerita patara
Paratarajas
Pardiglanis tarabinii
Parish of Tarago
Paris Intarakomalyasut
Passenger (Tara MacLean album)
Patara
Patara Beach
Patara (Cappadocia)
Patara, Jalandhar
Patara (Lycia)
Patellapis kalutarae
Pattara Piyapatrakitti
Pattaravadee Laosa
Paulino Alcntara
Payao Poontarat
Pedro Alcntara Herrn
Pedro de Alcntara Alonso Prez de Guzmn, 14th Duke of Medina Sidonia
Pedro de Alcntara lvarez de Toledo, 13th Duke of the Infantado
Pedro de Alcntara lvarez de Toledo, 13th Marquess of Villafranca
Pedro de Alcntara lvarez de Toledo y Silva, 12th Duke of the Infantado
Pedro de Alcntara, Prince of Gro-Par
Pedro de Alcntara Tllez-Girn
Pedro de Alcntara Tllez-Girn, 11th Duke of Osuna
Penataran
Pentarane
Pentarane A
Persitara Batavia Union F.C.
Persitara Jakarta Utara
Peter of Alcntara
PFC Beroe Stara Zagora
PFC Lokomotiv Stara Zagora
Phai Lom, Uttaradit
Philip II, Prince of Taranto
Philip I, Prince of Taranto
Philip of Taranto
Piampatara humeralis
Piampatara ocreata
Piampatara ubirajarai
Pierre d'Alcantara Charles
Pierre-Marie Taramarcaz
Podocarpus totara
Point Montara Light
Port Taranaki
Prabhutaratna
Pradip Bhattarai
Prafulla Samantara
Prajnatara
Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon
Pratap Singh, Raja of Satara
Prem Nagar, Uttarakhand
Princess Tarakanova
Princess Tarakanova (1938 film)
Princess Tarakanova (disambiguation)
Principality of Taranto
P. R. Natarajan
Professor Tarantoga
Province of Taranto
Psary-Stara Wie
Pseudogaltara
P. S. Nataraja Pillai
Ptyomaxia syntaractis
Puente de Alcntara
Puerta de Alcntara
Puketotara
Pundit Tara Singh
Purola (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)
Pusztaradvny
Pttara
Puttaraj Gawai
Puttarangaiah Jayapal
Pyaar Ka Tarana
Pyramid Natarajan
Qanbar Mahalleh, Astara
Qantara, Lebanon
Qashoqtarash Mahalleh
Qattara Depression
Qattara Depression Project
Qattara (disambiguation)
Qattara gecko
Qaumi Taranah
Qeshlaq-e Tarazlu
Queen Charlotte Sound / Ttaranui
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino Film Festival
Quentin Tarantino filmography
Quitaraju
Radio Taranaki
Raghupathi Venkataratnam Naidu
Raipur, Uttarakhand
Raja Bahadur Venkatarama Reddy Education Society Boys Hostel
Rajaram II of Satara
Raja Shahaji of Satara
Rajatarangini
Raj Bhavan, Uttarakhand
Rajeev Taranath
Rajeev Tarara
RAJUK Uttara Model College
Ramaswamy Venkataraman
Ramavataram
Ramgarh, Dantaramgarh
Ramnagar, Uttarakhand
RangiTaranga
Ranikhet (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)
Ranipur, Uttarakhand
Rantarata
Ral Alcntara
Raymond Taras
Reales Atarazanas (Santo Domingo)
Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Bastarache
Reinier Alcntara
Ren Tartara
Richard G. Taranto
Rimantas Tarakeviius
Rimatara
Rimatara reed warbler
Rishikesh (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)
Rista Staraki
RMS Alcantara (1913)
RMS Alcantara (1926)
R. Nataraj
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Roberto Alcntara
Roberto Alcntara Ballesteros
Robert, Prince of Taranto
RobertsonCataract Electric Building
Rodolfo Rincn Taracena
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Taranto
Roman Catholic Diocese of Tarawa and Nauru
Roman Catholic Diocese of Tarazona
Roman temple of Alcntara
Rostislav of Tmutarakan
Rotaract
Roy Anthony Cutaran Bennett
Ruatara
Rdknar, Astara
Rudreshwar, Uttarakhand
Runyakitara language
Rzeszotary-Stara Wie
Sadi Dastarac
Sahaspur (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)
Saint-lix-d'Astarac
Saint Marianeh Church, Ashtarak
Saint Peter of Alcantara Parish Church
Saint Sarkis Church of Ashtarak
Salatarae
Salcia, Taraclia
Saletara liberia
Salia Ouattara
Salto do Itarar
Salt, Uttarakhand
Salvelinus taranetzi
Salvia taraxacifolia
Samantaraja
Sammakka Saralamma Jatara
S. A. Natarajan
San Benito de Alcntara
Sanchana Natarajan
Sandy Alcntara
Sangtarash
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Sang, Uttarakhand
Sanjar Bazar Taradan
Sanjaya of Mataram
San Pedro de Alcntara
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Santiago de Alcntara
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So Pedro de Alcntara, Santa Catarina
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Satara
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Saurashtra Narmada Avtaran Irrigation
Scolopendra cataracta
Second Battle of Tarain
Second Dutch Expedition to Nusantara
Secretara de Informaciones de Estado
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Seema Tarana
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Sengalipuram Anantarama Dikshitar
Sentara Albemarle Medical Center
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Sergei Tarakanov
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Sergey Kavtaradze
Sergey Tarasov
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Shahu II of Satara
Shah Wali Taranasaz
Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
Shaneh Tarash
Shaneh Tarash Mahalleh
Shani Tarashaj
Shantaram
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Shantaram (novel)
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Shin Uttarajiva
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Shooting Star (Tara McDonald song)
Shreedev Bhattarai
Shukhtara Rahman
Shvetashvatara Upanishad
Siddapura, Uttara Kannada
Siege of Alcntara (1706)
Signs of Life (Tara MacLean EP)
Silence (Tara MacLean album)
Simon, Prince of Taranto
Sitara
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Sitara ARM Processor
Sitara Aur Mehrunissa
Sitara-e-Basalat
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Sitara Hewitt
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Sitaram Naik
Sitaram Yechury
Sitarganj (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)
Skeleton tarantula
S. K. Venkataranga
Slttaratindur
niadowo-Stara Stacja
Sogasu Chuda Taramaa?
Sogasu ja taram
Solfatara (volcano)
Somchai Chantarasamrit
Someshwar, Uttarakhand
Songkitti Jaggabatara
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South Taranaki District
South Tarawa
Spanish ship San Pedro de Alcantara
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Spyros Vrontaras
Sri Krishnavataram
Srinagar, Uttarakhand
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Stara D
Stara D
Stara D
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Stara Hacza
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Stara Ruda, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
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Staraveck
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Stara Wie
Starawie
Stara Wie Druga, Lublin Voivodeship
Stara Wie Druga, Masovian Voivodeship
Stara Wie, Gmina Kroniewice
Stara Wie, Gmina Kutno
Stara Wie, Gmina czna
Stara Wie, Gmina Puchaczw
Stara Wie-Kolonia
Stara Wie, Lubusz Voivodeship
Stara Wie, Opole Voivodeship
Stara Wie Pierwsza
Stara Wie, Podkarpackie Voivodeship
Stara Wie, Pomeranian Voivodeship
Stara Wie, Pszczyna
Stara Wie, Silesian Voivodeship
Stara Wie-Stasin
Stara Wie Trzecia
Stara Wisa
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Stara Woods
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Staraya Beryozovka
Staraya derevnya
Staraya Derevnya (Saint Petersburg Metro)
Staraya Kupavna
Staraya Ladoga
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Staraya Masra
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Staraya Poltavka
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Stara Zagora
Stara Zagora Airport
Stara Zagora Province
Stara Zagora Red
Stara Zago
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Stara Zotoria
Stara ubrwka
Star fort, Matara
Stara, Greater Poland Voivodeship
Stara, West Pomeranian Voivodeship
Stealing Tarantino
tefan Tarasov
Steve Nikitaras
titarac
St. Thomas' College, Matara
SU-152 "Taran"
Subin Bhattarai
Succinatehydroxymethylglutarate CoA-transferase
Sultan Agung Mataram 1628
Sultan Agung of Mataram
Sultanpur, Uttarakhand
Super Taranta!
Surachai Jaturapattarapong
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Suzuki Vitara
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Tara
Tara (2001 film)
Tara AI
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Tara Basro
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Tara Buckley O'Sullivan
Tara Buckman
Tara (Buddhism)
Tarabul's gerbil
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Tarabya
Tarabya II of Sagaing
Tarabya I of Pakhan
Tarabya I of Sagaing
Tarabya of Ava
Taracahitic languages
Tara Chambler
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Tarachand Goyal Mechanic
Tarache
Tarache albifusa
Tarache aprica
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Tarache areloides
Tarache augustipennis
Tarache dacia
Tarache delecta
Tarache geminocula
Tarache idella
Tarachephia
Tarache terminimaculata
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Tarache toddi
Tarachodes afzelii
Tarachodes circulifer
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Tarachodes griseus
Tarachodes maurus
Tarachodes modesta
Tarachodes monstrosus
Tarachodes perloides
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Tarachodes taboranus
Tarachoptera
Tarain Do
Taraclia
Taraclia, Cueni
Taraclia District
Tara Conner
Tara Cox
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Tara C. Smith
Taractichthys steindachneri
Taractrocera anisomorpha
Taractrocera archias
Taractrocera ardonia
Taractrocera ceramas
Taractrocera danna
Taractrocera dolon
Taractrocera ilia
Taractrocera ina
Taractrocera luzonensis
Taractrocera maevius
Taractrocera nigrolimbata
Taractrocera papyria
Tara Cunningham
Tara D'Souza
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Taradale, New Zealand
Taradas Bandyopadhyay
Tara Dawn Holland
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Tara E. Brendle
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Tara expedition
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Tara Fela-Durotoye
Taraf, Iran
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Tara Flynn
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Taraggi FK
Taragi, Kumamoto
Tara (given name)
Tarago, New South Wales
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Tara Grinstead murder case
Taragt, vrkhangai
Taraguchi opening rule
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Tara Hills, California
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Tarahumara language
Tarahumaran languages
Tarahumara salamander
Tarai-bune
Tarai gray langur
Tarai-Madhesh Loktantrik Party
Tara International
Tara, Iran
Tarairi language
Tara (Irtysh)
Taraisewaniya
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Tara-Jane Stanley
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Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo
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