TERMS STARTING WITH
thee, and conjure thee, Tehor, by all the Holy
thee and those six knots that you go quickly to
thee ::: a. --> To thrive; to prosper. ::: pron. --> The objective case of thou. See Thou.
thee down from thence.” The angel of Edom was
thee in the unitie of the Holie-Ghost, one God,
thee ::: the objective form of thou.
thee under his wings, and beneath His
TERMS ANYWHERE
Abraham (Hebrew) ’Abrāhām Traditionally the founder of the Hebrew and South-Arabian peoples, whose original name was Abram. “Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee” (Genesis 17:5). Blavatsky holds that Abraham “belongs to the universal mythology. Most likely he is but one of the numerous aliases of Zeruan (Saturn), the king of the golden age, who is also called the old man (emblem of time)” (IU 2:216). Such figures are described in various ways: as historical characters, as mythoi, and as rulers of sidereal and terrestrial powers to be interpreted astronomically and cosmically.
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)
aham tvam moksayisyami ma sucah ::: I will deliver thee, do not grieve. ::: [see the following]
aham tva sarvapapebhyo moksayisyami ma sucah ::: I will deliver thee from all sin and evil, do not grieve. [Gita 18.66]
Amal: “I am not aware of any special element in the usage ‘for ever’ as two words instead of one. I believe that in English it is usually two words as in Byron’s”Fare thee well and if for ever / Still for ever fare thee well.”
an angel before thee, to keep thee in the way and
ancient liturgical hymns, literally: "Thee, God, we praise”; a service of thanksgiving in which the recital of this hymn forms a central part.
and conjure thee, Spirit Alymon, by the most
Angel of the Spheres [Salatheel (Sealtiel);
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)
Aura ::: An extremely subtle and therefore invisible essence or fluid that emanates from and surrounds not onlyhuman beings and beasts, but as a matter of fact plants and minerals also. It is one of the aspects of theauric egg and therefore the human aura partakes of all the qualities that the human constitution contains.It is at once magneto-mental and electrovital, suffused with the energies of mind and spirit -- the qualityin each case coming from an organ or center of the human constitution whence it flows. It is the sourceof the sympathies and antipathies that we are conscious of. Under the control of the human will it can beboth life-giving and healing, or death-dealing; and when the human will is passive the aura has an actionof its own which is automatic and follows the laws of character and latent impulses of the being fromwhom it emanates. Sensitives have frequently described it in more or less vague terms as a light flowingfrom the eyes or the heart or the tips of the fingers or from other parts of the body. Sometimes this fluid,instead of being colorless light, manifests itself by flashing and scintillating changes of color -- the coloror colors in each case depending not only upon the varying moods of the human individual, but alsopossessing a background equivalent to the character or nature of the individual. Animals are extremelysensitive to auras, and some beasts even descry the human being surrounded with the aura as with acloud or veil. In fact, everything has its aura surrounding it with a light or play of color, and especially isthis the case with so-called animated beings.The essential nature of the aura usually seen is astral and electrovital. The magnificent phenomena ofradiation that astronomers can discern at times of eclipse, long streamers with rosy and other coloredlight flashing forth from the body of the sun, are not flames nor anything of the sort, but are simply theelectrovital aura of the solar body -- a manifestation of solar vitality, for the sun in occultism is a livingbeing, as indeed everything else is.
avaunt ::: interj. --> Begone; depart; -- a word of contempt or abhorrence, equivalent to the phrase "Get thee gone." ::: v. t. & i. --> To advance; to move forward; to elevate.
To depart; to move away.
To vaunt; to boast.
before thee”) has been applied to the Liberating
“Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee
Bodhisattva(Sanskrit) ::: A compound word: literally "he whose essence (sattva) has become intelligence (bodhi)." Asexplained exoterically, a bodhisattva means one who in another incarnation or in a few more incarnationswill become a buddha. A bodhisattva from the standpoint of the occult teachings is more than that. Whena man, a human being, has reached the state where his ego becomes conscious, fully so, of its innerdivinity, becomes clothed with the buddhic ray -- where, so to say, the personal man has put on thegarments of inner immortality in actuality, on this earth, here and now -- that man is a bodhisattva. Hishigher principles have nearly reached nirvana. When they do so finally, such a man is a buddha, a humanbuddha, a manushya-buddha. Obviously, if such a bodhisattva were to reincarnate, in the next incarnationor in a very few future incarnations thereafter, he would be a manushya-buddha. A buddha, in theesoteric teaching, is one whose higher principles can learn nothing more. They have reached nirvana andremain there; but the spiritually awakened personal man, the bodhisattva, the person made semi-divine touse popular language, instead of choosing his reward in the nirvana of a less degree, remains on earth outof pity and compassion for inferior beings, and becomes what is called a nirmanakaya. In a very mysticalpart of the esoteric philosophy, a bodhisattva is the representative on earth of a dhyani-buddha orcelestial buddha -- in other words, one who has become an incarnation or expression of his own divinemonad.
Buddhism ::: The teachings of Gautama the Buddha. Buddhism today is divided into two branches, the Northern andthe Southern. The Southern still retains the teachings of the "Buddha's brain," the "eye doctrine," that isto say his outer philosophy for the general world, sometimes inadequately called the doctrine of formsand ceremonies. The Northern still retains his "heart doctrine" -- that which is hid, the inner life, theheart-blood, of the religion: the doctrine of the inner heart of the teaching.The religious philosophy of the Buddha-Sakyamuni is incomparably nearer to the ancient wisdom, theesoteric philosophy of the archaic ages, than is Christianity. Its main fault today is that teachers later thanthe Buddha himself carried its doctrines too far along merely formal or exoteric lines; yet, with all that, tothis day it remains the purest and holiest of the exoteric religions on earth, and its teachings evenexoterically are true -- once they are properly understood. They need but the esoteric key in interpretationof them. As a matter of fact, the same may be said of all the great ancient world religions. Christianity,Brahmanism, Taoism, and others all have the same esoteric wisdom behind the outward veil of theexoteric formal faith.
Clement of Alexandria, as an initiated Neoplatonist, knew that Agathodaimon was the kosmic Christos and the true spiritual savior of mankind, like Prometheus — an early form of the Agathodaimon teaching applied to the enlightening of the human race through the influence of an incarnating spiritual power. Opposite to him stands a Kakodaimon, the evil genius or lower serpent, the Satan who bids Christ worship him and “I will give thee all the kingdoms of the earth.” Kakodaimon is the nether or inferior aspect of Agathodaimon, kama-manas the deluder as opposed to buddhi-manas the redeemer.
concerning thee, that they may keep thee in all
conjure thee, Evil and Accursed Serpent, N, to
Cry from the Cross The cry of the expiring Jesus — given in the Gospels as “Eli, Eli, lama, sabachthani” (Matt 27:46) [in Mark it is Eloi]; translated in Greek “Theemou, Theemou, hinati me ’egkatelipes”; and then translated into English as “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” — is a curious instance of mistranslation, for the Hebrew words as quoted mean, “My God, my God, how thou hast glorified me!” On the other hand, Psalms 22:1 has the words, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” but here the Hebrew for forsaken is ‘azabtani (forsaken me). There seems to have been a desire to represent the cry from the cross as a fulfillment of these words of Psalms. What Jesus really uttered, according to the Hebrew, was a cry of ecstasy over the peace of attainment, clarification, and liberation. The cry in Psalms is that of the candidate for initiation left to his unaided resources, to achieve or fail by them and them alone — which is the only fair and certain test of ability.
Cycles or Law of Cycles ::: An exceedingly interesting branch of theosophical study, and one dealing with a fact which is soobviously manifest in the worlds surrounding us that its existence can hardly be denied, except by thewillfully blind, is what may be called the law of cycles, or nature's repetitive operations.We find nature repeating herself everywhere, although such repetition of course is not merely a runningin the same old ruts on each recurrence of the cyclic activity; for each recurrence is of course theexpression of a modification, more or less great, of what has preceded. Day succeeds night, wintersucceeds summer, the planets circulate around the suns in regular and periodical courses; and these arebut familiar examples of cyclical activity.Cycles in nature show the time periods of periodic recurrence along and in which any evolving entity orthing expresses the energies and powers which are itself, so that cycles and evolution are like the twosides of a coin: the one shows the time periods or cycles, and the other side manifests the energic orsubstantial qualities appearing in manifestation according to these cyclical time-periods; but back of thisapparently double but actually single process always lie profound karmic causes.
Days, who sittest throned in glory; To thee all
enclitic ::: v. i. --> Alt. of Enclitical ::: n. --> A word which is joined to another so closely as to lose its proper accent, as the pronoun thee in prithee (pray thee).
Evolution ::: As the word is used in theosophy it means the "unwrapping," "unfolding," "rolling out" of latent powersand faculties native to and inherent in the entity itself, its own essential characteristics, or more generallyspeaking, the powers and faculties of its own character: the Sanskrit word for this last conception issvabhava. Evolution, therefore, does not mean merely that brick is added to brick, or experience merelytopped by another experience, or that variation is superadded on other variations -- not at all; for thiswould make of man and of other entities mere aggregates of incoherent and unwelded parts, without anessential unity or indeed any unifying principle.In theosophy evolution means that man has in him (as indeed have all other evolving entities) everythingthat the cosmos has because he is an inseparable part of it. He is its child; one cannot separate man fromthe universe. Everything that is in the universe is in him, latent or active, and evolution is the bringingforth of what is within; and, furthermore, what we call the surrounding milieu, circumstances -- nature, touse the popular word -- is merely the field of action on and in which these inherent qualities function,upon which they act and from which they receive the corresponding reaction, which action and reactioninvariably become a stimulus or spur to further manifestations of energy on the part of the evolvingentity.There are no limits in any direction where evolution can be said to begin, or where we can conceive of itas ending; for evolution in the theosophical conception is but the process followed by the centers ofconsciousness or monads as they pass from eternity to eternity, so to say, in a beginningless and endlesscourse of unceasing growth.Growth is the key to the real meaning of the theosophical teaching of evolution, for growth is but theexpression in detail of the general process of the unfolding of faculty and organ, which the usual wordevolution includes. The only difference between evolution and growth is that the former is a generalterm, and the latter is a specific and particular phase of this procedure of nature.Evolution is one of the oldest concepts and teachings of the archaic wisdom, although in ancient days theconcept was usually expressed by the word emanation. There is indeed a distinction, and an importantone, to be drawn between these two words, but it is a distinction arising rather in viewpoint than in anyactual fundamental difference. Emanation is a distinctly more accurate and descriptive word fortheosophists to use than evolution is, but unfortunately emanation is so ill-understood in the Occident,that perforce the accepted term is used to describe the process of interior growth expanding into andmanifesting itself in the varying phases of the developing entity. Theosophists, therefore, are, strictlyspeaking, rather emanationists than evolutionists; and from this remark it becomes immediately obviousthat the theosophist is not a Darwinist, although admitting that in certain secondary or tertiary senses anddetails there is a modicum of truth in Charles Darwin's theory adopted and adapted from the FrenchmanLamarck. The key to the meaning of evolution, therefore, in theosophy is the following: the core of everyorganic entity is a divine monad or spirit, expressing its faculties and powers through the ages in variousvehicles which change by improving as the ages pass. These vehicles are not physical bodies alone, butalso the interior sheaths of consciousness which together form man's entire constitution extending fromthe divine monad through the intermediate ranges of consciousness to the physical body. The evolvingentity can become or show itself to be only what it already essentially is in itself -- therefore evolution isa bringing out or unfolding of what already preexists, active or latent, within. (See also Involution)
exorcise thee, Serpent, and I command thee to
grace, and I require thee, Adonay, Amay, Horta,
hari om tat sat. :::"Glory to Thee, that eternal Truth"; a very ancient mantra from the
his angels charge concerning thee, that they may keep thee in all thy ways.” 164
human form, and fulfil what I command thee, so
“I am here with thee in thy chariot of battle revealed as the Master of Existence within and without thee and I repeat the absolute assurance, the infallible promise that I will lead thee to myself through and beyond all sorrow and evil. Whatever difficulties and perplexities arise, be sure of this that I am leading thee to a complete divine life in the universal and an immortal existence in the transcendent Spirit.” Essays on the Gita
I call thee, Evil Spirit, Cruel Spirit, Merciless
I conjure thee within the circle, accursed one, by
I do exorcise and command thee, by the four
I do invocate, conjure, and command thee, O
I exorcise thee, O impious Satan. In vain dost over his soul. I abjure thee, by him who expelled
ILSI thee 135
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.
I, N, do conjure thee, I Spirit N, by the living
Infinite ::: A term meaning that which is not finite. The expression is used sometimes with almost absurdinaccuracy, and is one which in all probability representing as it does imperfect understanding couldnever be found in any of the great religious or philosophical systems of the ancients. Occidental writersof the past and present often use the word infinite as applying to beings or entities, such as in theexpression "an infinite personal deity" -- a ludicrous joining of contradictory and disparate words. Theancients rejected the phantom idea that this term involves, and used instead expressions such as theBoundless, or the Frontierless, or the Endless, whether speaking of abstract space or abstract time -- thelatter more properly called unending duration. (See also Absolute)
In the Greek, remission (of sins) meant sending away, the intent being that the disciples and the assembled believers together were able to work a change of heart in the sinner so that he would sin no more (James 5:16), not a remission of the karmic penalty due. Only much later was the power of remission taken over by the priest. Moreover, for a thousand years the formula used was “May Christ absolve thee,” superseded by “I absolve thee.” While clearly a priest may release one from the penalties imposed by his church, he cannot release anyone from the natural consequences of his acts; yet Christians have attached extreme importance to death-bed absolution by a priest. Such death-bed repentance had its origin in the fact that the last thoughts of a dying person color his afterdeath experiences, and even his next incarnation. But though well-wishers and people of high attainment can help with their counsel and example, they cannot set aside the laws of nature. Real absolution must be emancipation from error and wrongdoing, not an escape from the demands of justice or karma.
in the way and to bring thee into the place I have
Invisible Worlds ::: The ancient wisdom teaches that the universe is not only a living organism, but that physical humanbeings live in intimate connection, in intimate contact, with invisible spheres, with invisible andintangible realms, unknown to man because the physical senses are so imperfectly evolved that weneither see these invisible realms nor feel nor hear nor smell nor taste them, nor cognize them except bythat much more highly evolved and subtle sensorium which men call the mind. These inner realmsinterpenetrate our physical sphere, permeate it, so that in our daily affairs as we go about our duties weactually pass through the dwellings, through the mountains, through the lakes, through the very beings,mayhap, of the entities of and dwelling in these invisible realms. These invisible realms are built ofmatter just as this our physical world is, but of a more ethereal matter than ours is; but we cognize themnot at all with our physical senses. The explanation is that it is all a matter of differing rates of vibrationof substances.The reader must be careful not to confuse this theosophical teaching of inner worlds and spheres withwhat the modern Spiritism of the Occident has to say on the matter. The "Summerland" of the Spiritistsin no wise resembles the actuality which the theosophical philosophy teaches of, the doctrine concerningthe structure and operations of the visible and invisible kosmos. The warning seems necessary lest anunwary reader may imagine that the invisible worlds and spheres of the theosophical teachings areidentic with the Summerland of the Spiritists, for it is not so.Our senses tell us absolutely nothing of the far-flung planes and spheres which belong to the ranges andfunctionings of the invisible substances and energies of the universe; yet those inner and invisible planesand spheres are actually inexpressibly more important than what our physical senses tell us of thephysical world, because these invisible planes are the causal realms, of which our physical world oruniverse, however far extended in space, is but the effectual or phenomenal or resultant production.But while these inner and invisible worlds or planes or spheres are the fountainhead, ultimately, of all theenergies and matters of the whole physical world, yet to an entity inhabiting these inner and invisibleworlds or planes, these latter are as substantial and "real" -- using the popular word -- to that entity as ourgross physical world is to us. Just as we know in our physical world various grades or conditions ofenergy and matter, from the physically grossest to the most ethereal, precisely after the same general plando the inhabitants of these invisible and inner and to us superior worlds know and cognize their owngrossest and also most ethereal substances and energies.Man as well as all the other entities of the universe is inseparably connected with these worlds invisible.
INVOKE THEE THROUGH THE MEDIATION OF
Involution ::: The reverse process or procedure of evolution. As evolution means the unfolding, the unwrapping, therolling forth, of what already exists and is latent, so involution means the inwrapping, the infolding, theingoing of what previously exists or has been unfolded, etc. Involution and evolution never in anycircumstances can be even conceived of properly as operative the one apart from the other: every act ofevolution is an act of involution, and vice versa. To illustrate, as spirit and matter are fundamentally oneand yet eternally coactive and interactive, so involution and evolution are two names for two phases ofthe same procedure of growth, and are eternally coactive and interactive. As an example, the so-calleddescent of the monads into matter means an involution or involving or infolding of spiritual potenciesinto material vehicles which coincidently and contemporaneously, through the compelling urge of theinfolding energies, unfold their own latent capacities, unwrap them, roll them forth; and this is theevolution of matter. Thus what is the involution of spirit is contemporaneously and pari passu theevolution of matter. Contrariwise, on the ascending or luminous arc when the involved monadic essencesbegin to rise towards their primordial spiritual source they begin to unfold or unwrap themselves aspreviously on the descending arc they had infolded or inwrapped themselves. But this process ofunfolding or evolution of the monadic essences is contemporaneous with and pari passu with theinfolding and inwrapping, the involution, of the material energies and powers.Human birth and death are outstanding illustrations or examples of the same thing. The child is born, andas it grows to its full efflorescence of power it evolves or rolls forth certain inherent characteristics orenergies or faculties, all derived from the human being's svabhava or ego. Contrariwise, when the declineof human life begins, there is a slow infolding or inwrapping of these same facilities which thus seemgradually to diminish. These facilities and energies thus evolved forth in earth-life are the working of theinnate spiritual and intellectual and psychical characteristics impelling and compelling the vehicular orbody sides of the human constitution to express themselves as organs becoming more and more perfectas the child grows to maturity.After death the process is exactly the reverse. The material or vehicular side of the being grows less andless strong and powerful, more and more involved, and becoming with every step in the process moredormant. But contemporaneously and coincidently the distinctly spiritual and intellectual powers andfaculties themselves become released from the vehicles and begin to expand into ever largerefflorescence, attaining their maximum in the devachan. It is only the usual carelessness in accuratethinking that induces the idea that evolution is one distinct process acting alone, and that involution -about which by the way very little is heard -- is another process acting alone. The two, as said above, arethe two phases of activity of the evolving monads, and these phases exist contemporaneously at anymoment, each of the two phases continually acting and interacting with the other phase. They areinseparable.Just so with spirit and matter. Spirit is not something radically distinct from and utterly separate frommatter. The two are fundamentally one, and the two are eternally coactive and interactive.There are several terms in Sanskrit which correspond to what the theosophist means by evolution, butperhaps the best general term is pravritti, meaning to "revolve" or to "roll forwards," to unroll or tounwrap. Again, the reverse procedure or involution can probably best be expressed in Sanskrit by theterm nivritti, meaning "rolling backwards" or "inwrapping" or "infolding." A term which is frequentlyinterchangeable with evolution is emanation. (See also Evolution)
I require thee, O Lord Jesus Christ, that thou
letheed ::: a. --> Caused by Lethe.
Loka(Sanskrit) ::: A word meaning "place" or "locality" or, as much more frequently used in theosophy, a"world" or "sphere" or "plane."The lokas are divided into rupa-lokas and arupa-lokas -- "material worlds" and "spiritual spheres." Thereis a wide range of teaching connected with the lokas and talas which belongs to the deeper reaches of theesoteric philosophy. (See also Arupa, Rupa, Tala)
master of Existence ::: Sri Aurobindo: "I am here with thee in thy chariot of battle revealed as the Master of Existence within and without thee and I repeat the absolute assurance, the infallible promise that I will lead thee to myself through and beyond all sorrow and evil. Whatever difficulties and perplexities arise, be sure of this that I am leading thee to a complete divine life in the universal and an immortal existence in the transcendent Spirit.” Essays on the Gita
me. I beseech thee by thine humanitie, mercie and
Mesmerism ::: An ill-understood branch of human knowledge, developed within fairly recent times, connected with theexistence of the psychomagnetic fluid in man which can be employed by the will for purposes eithergood or evil. It has been called animal magnetism, but more often in former times than at present. Thefirst European who rediscovered and openly proclaimed the existence of this subtle psychomagnetic fluidin man was Dr. Friedrich Anton Mesmer, born in Germany in 1733, who died in 1815. His honesty andhis theories have been more or less vindicated in modern times by later students of the subject.There are distinct differences as among mesmerism, hypnotism, psychologization, and suggestion, etc.(See also Hypnotism)
murmuring. I exorcise thee by the ineffable
Mysteries ::: The Mysteries were divided into two general parts, the Less Mysteries and the Greater.The Less Mysteries were very largely composed of dramatic rites or ceremonies, with some teaching; theGreater Mysteries were composed of, or conducted almost entirely on the ground of, study; and thedoctrines taught in them later were proved by personal experience in initiation. In the Greater Mysterieswas explained, among other things, the secret meaning of the mythologies of the old religions, as, forinstance, the Greek.The active and nimble mind of the Greeks produced a mythology which for grace and beauty is perhapswithout equal, but it nevertheless is very difficult to explain; the Mysteries of Samothrace and of Eleusis-- the greater ones -- explained among other things what these myths meant. These myths formed thebasis of the exoteric religions; but note well that exotericism does not mean that the thing which is taughtexoterically is in itself false, but merely that it is a teaching given without the key to it. Such teaching issymbolic, illusory, touching on the truth -- the truth is there, but without the key to it, which is theesoteric meaning, it yields no proper sense.We have the testimony of the Greek and Roman initiates and thinkers that the ancient Mysteries ofGreece taught men, above everything else, to live rightly and to have a noble hope for the life after death.The Romans derived their Mysteries from those of Greece.The mythological aspect comprises only a portion -- and a relatively small portion -- of what was taughtin the Mystery schools in Greece, principally at Samothrace and at Eleusis. At Samothrace was taught thesame mystery-teaching that was current elsewhere in Greece, but here it was more developed andrecondite, and the foundation of these mystery-teachings was morals. The noblest and greatest men ofancient times in Greece were initiates in the Mysteries of these two seats of esoteric knowledge.In other countries farther to the east, there were other Mystery schools or "colleges," and this wordcollege by no means necessarily meant a mere temple or building; it meant association, as in our modernword colleague, "associate." The Teutonic tribes of northern Europe, the Germanic tribes, whichincluded Scandinavia, had their Mystery colleges also; and teacher and neophytes stood on the bosom ofMother Earth, under Father Ether, the boundless sky, or in subterranean receptacles, and taught andlearned. The core, the heart, the center, of the teaching of the ancient Mysteries was the abstruseproblems dealing with death. (See also Guru-parampara)
Namaste (honor, reverence, to thee!) is used in greeting gurus and spiritual sages.
Nature ::: The consciousness side of nature is composed of vast hierarchies of gods, developed cosmical spirits,spiritual entities, cosmic graduates in the university of life. The material side of nature is theheterogeneous matter, the material world in its many various planes, in all stages of imperfection -- butall these stages filled with armies of entities evolving and growing. The proper term for nature in moderntheosophical usage is prakriti or still more accurately mulaprakriti -- the ever-living kosmic producer, theeternally fecund mother, of the universe. When a theosophist speaks of nature, unless he limits the termto the physical world, he never means the physical world alone, but the vast reaches of universal kosmosand more particularly the inner realms, the causal factors of the boundless All. Hence, a growingunderstanding of nature in this sense -- which is another way of saying an understanding of reality -obviously provides the only basis of a religion founded on the changeless realities.
Om Mani Padme Hum Oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ (Sanskrit) Om! the jewel in the lotus, hum! One of the most sacred Buddhist mantras or verbal formulas; used very frequently in Tibet and in surrounding countries of the Far East. Not only is every syllable said to have a secret power of producing a definite result, but the whole invocation has a number of meanings. When properly pronounced or changed, it produces different results, differing from the others according to the intonation and will given to the formula and its syllables. This mystic sentence above all refers to the indissoluble union between man and the universe, and thus conveys “I am in thee and thou art in me.” Each of us has within himself the jewel in the lotus or the divine self within. When understood in a kosmic sense, it signifies the divine kosmic self within, inspiring all beings within the range of that kosmic divinity.
"O son of Immortality, live not thou according to Nature, but according to God; and compel her also to live according to the deity within thee.” Essays Divine and Human*
“O son of Immortality, live not thou according to Nature, but according to God; and compel her also to live according to the deity within thee.” Essays Divine and Human
palilogy ::: n. --> The repetition of a word, or part of a sentence, for the sake of greater emphasis; as, "The living, the living, he shall praise thee."
Pantheism [from Greek pan all + theos god] According to Plato, theos is derived from theein (to move); hence pantheism may be defined as belief in an all-moving or all-living principle. It is the doctrine that the root-essence of the universe is utter divinity, that divinity pervades throughout and is the substratum, the inmost, of all beings and things — every atom, sun, universe, man, god. Theosophic pantheism excludes the idea that deity is separate from the universe; and while denying monotheism and polytheism when these two are regarded as being exclusive of each other, theosophy recognizes both as complementary albeit partial statements of truth. Everything that is, is a manifestation, in one degree or another, of the all-permeant, divine essence.
pare thy way for thee.”] In the view of Regamey
Path, The ::: Universal nature, our great parent, exists inseparably in each one of us, in each entity everywhere, and noseparation of the part from the whole, of the individual from the kosmos, is possible in any other than apurely illusory sense. This points out to us with unerring definiteness and also directs us to the sublimepath to utter reality. It is the path inwards, ever onwards within, which is endless and which leads intovast inner realms of wisdom and knowledge; for, as all the great world philosophies tell us so truly, ifyou know yourself you then know the universe, because each one of you is an inseparable part of it and itis all in you, its child.It is obvious from this last reflection that the sole essential difference between any two grades of theevolving entities which infill and compose the kosmos is a difference of consciousness, of understanding;and this consciousness and understanding come to the evolving entity in only one way -- by unwrappingor unfolding the intrinsic faculties or powers of that entity's own inner being. This is the path, as themystics of all ages have put it.The pathway is within yourself. There is no other pathway for you individually than the pathway leadingever inwards towards your own inner god. The pathway of another is the same pathway for that other;but it is not your pathway, because your pathway is your Self, as it is for that other one his Self -- andyet, wonder of wonders, mystery of mysteries, the Self is the same in all. All tread the same pathway, buteach man must tread it himself, and no one can tread it for another; and this pathway leads to unutterablesplendor, to unutterable expansion of consciousness, to unthinkable bliss, to perfect peace.
pity ::: “Pity may be reserved, so long as thy soul makes distinctions, for the suffering animals; but humanity deserves from thee something nobler; it asks for love, for understanding, for comradeship, for the help of the equal & brother.”
potently exorcise thee that thou appearest here to
potheen ::: n. --> See Poteen.
Prajapati(Sanskrit) ::: A word meaning "governor" or "lord" or "master" of "progeny." The word is applied to severalof the Vedic gods, but in particular to Brahma -- that is to say the second step from parabrahman -- theevolver-creator, the first and most recondite figure of the Hindu triad, consisting of Brahma, Vishnu, andSiva. Brahma is the emanator or evolver, Vishnu the sustainer or preserver, and Siva, a name which maybe translated euphemistically perhaps as "beneficent," the regenerator. Prajapati is a name which is oftenused in the plural, and refers to seven and also to ten different beings. They are the producers and giversof life of all on earth and, indeed, on the earth's planetary chain.
prakrtistvam niyoksyati ::: Nature shall yoke thee (to thy work). [Gita 18.59]
prithee ::: interj. --> A corruption of pray thee; as, I prithee; generally used without I.
prythee ::: interj. --> See Prithee.
Qabbalah(More frequently spelled Kabala or Kabbala.) ::: The Hebrew word for what the Jewish theosophicalinitiates called "the Tradition," or "the Secret Doctrine" -- meaning something which is handed down orpassed down from man to man by tradition; from a Hebrew word meaning "to receive" or "to take over."Unquestionably the Jewish Qabbalah existed as a traditional system of doctrine long before the presentmanuscripts of it were written, for these are of comparatively late production and probably date from theEuropean Middle Ages; and one proof of this statement is found in the fact that in the earliest centuriesof the Christian era several of the Church Fathers of the new Christian religion used language whichcould have been taken only from the Hebrew theosophy, that is, the Hebrew Qabbalah. The expressionshere are in some cases identic, and the thought is in all cases the same.The Zohar may be called the original and main book of the Qabbalah.The basis of the Jewish Qabbalah was the archaic Chaldean secret doctrine which was a system of occultor esoteric philosophy handed down in part by oral, and in part by written, transmission -- and mostly byoral reception, wholly so in the case of the deeper mysteries of the Qabbalah. The Jewish Qabbalah, suchas it exists today, has been disfigured and distorted by the interpolations and mutilations of manyWestern occultists, especially by mystics of strong Christian bias. The Qabbalah, therefore, is essentiallythe theosophy of the Jews, or rather the form which the universal theosophy of the archaic ages took inits transmission through the Jewish mind.
reality principle: in Freud's theory, the constraints and set of rules that govern theego, delaying the ids gratification, by recognition of the demands of the real world.
rtepi tvam ::: even without thee. [Gita 11.32]
Salatheel (Sealtiel, Sealthiel, Salathiel—“I have
Salatheel.]
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.
Saul (Hebrew) Shā’ūl A Biblical king; of particular interest is his anointing and initiation by Samuel, who said: “the Spirit of the Lord will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man” (I Sam 10:6). After his initiation he was able to prophesy, but after he became king, the spirit of prophecy left him. Although Saul prohibited divination or necromancy by means of those who had familiar spirits, he himself commanded the wise woman of Endor to bring before him the spirit of Samuel.
secret thing which I ask of Thee, whatsoever
Semothees [possible corruption of Greek hemitheos half-god, demigod] Applied to the Druids of the Gauls (IU 1:18); like the true dvija (twice-born), one who is born of the spirit as well as of matter, and therefore, following the mystical language of archaic times, was the offspring of the divine spiritual parent on one side, and of human parenthood on the other, like the Greek heroes and demigods.
sently blast thee in the utmost depths of hell.
Spirit; I call thee, who sittest in the cemetery and
*Sri Aurobindo: "If thou think defeat is the end of thee, then go not forth to fight, even though thou be the stronger. For Fate is not purchased by any man nor is Power bound over to her possessors. But defeat is not the end, it is only a gate or a beginning.” Essays Human and Divine*
*Sri Aurobindo: "Pity may be reserved, so long as thy soul makes distinctions, for the suffering animals; but humanity deserves from thee something nobler; it asks for love, for understanding, for comradeship, for the help of the equal & brother.” Essays Divine and Human
Srotapatti (Sanskrit) Srotāpatti [from srota stream, river + āpatti entering into a state or condition from a-pad to enter] One who has attained the first path of comprehension of the real and the unreal, the first of the four paths that lead to nirvana: the path of arhatship. “Once thou hast passed the gate Srotapatti, ‘he who the stream hath entered’; once thy foot hath pressed the bed of the Nirvanic stream in this or any future life, thou hast but seven other births before thee, O thou of adamantine Will” (VS 46). See also ARHAT
Surely a sweet remembrancer of Thee.
surya vyuha rasmin samuha, tejo yat te rupam kalyanatamam tat te pasyami, yosavasau purusah. sohamasmi... ::: O illuminating Sun, marshal thy rays, draw together thy light; the Lustre which is thy most blessed form of all, that in Thee I behold. The purusa there and there, He am I. [Isa 16]
Svasti (Sanskrit) Svasti Well, happily; a salutation meaning, may it be well with thee! Hail! So be it! Adieu! Amen! Also a noun meaning success, prosperity, fortune, health; a goddess so personified. Any particular auspicious object, supposed to denote good luck, is called svastika, among which is the familiar cross to which this name is given.
te deum ::: --> An ancient and celebrated Christian hymn, of uncertain authorship, but often ascribed to St. Ambrose; -- so called from the first words "Te Deum laudamus." It forms part of the daily matins of the Roman Catholic breviary, and is sung on all occasions of thanksgiving. In its English form, commencing with words, "We praise thee, O God," it forms a part of the regular morning service of the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church in America.
A religious service in which the singing of the hymn forms a
te priyamanaya vaksyami ::: I will speak to thee [who art] taking delight (in Me) . [Gita 10.1]
thee, and conjure thee, Tehor, by all the Holy
thee and those six knots that you go quickly to
thee ::: a. --> To thrive; to prosper. ::: pron. --> The objective case of thou. See Thou.
thee down from thence.” The angel of Edom was
thee in the unitie of the Holie-Ghost, one God,
thee ::: the objective form of thou.
thee under his wings, and beneath His
-. The Jewish Sect of Qumran and theEssenes. (tr. from
The Mahabharata, India: “This is the sum of all true righteousness — treat others as thou wouldst thyself be treated. Do nothing to thy neighbor which hereafter thou wouldst not have thy neighbor do to thee.”
Theos, Theoi (Greek) [from theein to run, in reference to the planetary deities who perform the formative work in cosmic evolution; or cf Sanskrit deva, Latin deus (connected with Zeus or Dios) the bright or shining one] God, gods; builders or cosmocratores. The two derivations are not antagonistic because the planets, stars, and suns are the bright and shining ones. Used in the triad of chaos, theos, cosmos — three hypostases on the matter side of cosmic evolution — meaning respectively the storehouse of cosmic seeds, the builders, and the universe built thereby.
The Roman Catholic ritual of the exorcism of salt, promulgated in 1851 and 1852 under the sanction of Cardinal Engelbert, Archbishop of Malines, and of the Archbishop of Paris, runs: “The Priest blesses the salt and says: ‘Creature of Salt, I exorcise thee in the name of the living God . . . become the health of the soul and of the body. Everywhere where thou art thrown may the unclean spirit be put to flight’ ” (IU 2:85). A Qabbalistic version is similar.
the ::: v. i. --> See Thee. ::: definite article. --> A word placed before nouns to limit or individualize their meaning. ::: adv.
thine ::: used to indicate the one or ones belonging to thee.
thou boast of this deed. I command thee to restore thee from thy stronghold, bereft thee of the arms
thy ::: pron. --> Of thee, or belonging to thee; the more common form of thine, possessive case of thou; -- used always attributively, and chiefly in the solemn or grave style, and in poetry. Thine is used in the predicate; as, the knife is thine. See Thine.
thyself ::: 1. An emphatic appositive to thou or thee. 2. A substitute for reflexive thee.
to bring thee unto the place which I have pre¬
tubhyam bhuyistham nama uktim vidhema ::: to thee completest speech of submission we would dispose. [cf. Isa 18]
tvam ::: to thee.
tvaya hrsikesa hrdi sthitena yatha niyuktosmi tatha karomi ::: according as I am appointed by Thee, O Hrsikesa, seated in my heart, so I act. [Pandavagita]
Upanishad(Sanskrit) ::: A compound, composed of upa "according to," "together with," ni "down," and the verbal rootsad, "to sit," which becomes shad by Sanskrit grammar when preceded by the particle ni: the entirecompound thus signifying "following upon or according to the teachings which were received when wewere sitting down." The figure here is that of pupils sitting in the Oriental style at the feet of the teacher,who taught them the secret wisdom or rahasya, in private and in forms and manners of expression thatlater were written and promulgated according to those teachings and after that style.The Upanishads are examples of literary works in which the rahasya -- a Sanskrit word meaning"esoteric doctrine" or "mystery" -- is imbodied. The Upanishads belong to the Vedic cycle and areregarded by orthodox Brahmans as a portion of the sruti or "revelation." It was from these wonderfulquasi-esoteric and very mystical works that was later developed the highly philosophical and profoundsystem called the Vedanta. The Upanishads are usually reckoned today as one hundred and fifty innumber, though probably only a score are now complete without evident marks of literary change oradulteration in the way of excision or interpolation.The topics treated of in the Upanishads are highly transcendental, recondite, and abstruse, and in orderproperly to understand the Upanishadic teaching one should have constantly in mind the master-keys thattheosophy puts into the hand of the student. The origin of the universe, the nature of the divinities, therelations between soul and ego, the connections of spiritual and material beings, the liberation of theevolving entity from the chains of maya, and kosmological questions, are all dealt with, mostly in asuccinct and cryptic form. The Upanishads, finally, may be called the exoteric theosophical works ofHindustan, but contain a vast amount of genuine esoteric information.
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1:Always place a definite purpose before thee. ~ Thomas A Kempis, #KEYS
2:Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being. ~ John Milton, #KEYS
3:Grant me the sight Lord that I may see Thee who hast been with me always. ~ JB, #KEYS
4:I know what thou desirest and I'm with thee everywhere ~ The Corpus Hermeticum, #KEYS
5:Glory to Thee O Lord, victor over all obstacles. ~ The Mother, #KEYS
6:Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #KEYS
7:Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
~ Michel de Montaigne,#KEYS
8:Control thy passions lest they take vengeance on thee. ~ Epictetus, #KEYS
9:Let nothing hinder thee from praying always ... ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Ecclesiastes, 18:22, #KEYS
10:.... save Thee. " ~ Fakhruddin Iraqi, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
11:If thou lovest, God liveth in thee. ~ Tolstoi, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
12:ubject thyself to thee. ~ Bhagavad Gita XII. 11, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
13:Do not thyself what displeases thee in others. ~ Thales, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
14:Do what thy Master tells thee; it is good. ~ Ptah-hotep, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
15:Verily, I say to thee; he who seeks the Eternal, finds Him. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
16:He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, 91, 11 #KEYS
17:Neglect not the gift that is in thee. ~ I. Timothy. IV. 14, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
18:Root out in thee all love of thyself and all egoism. ~ Buddhist Texts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
19:All days are nights to see, till I see thee, And nights, bright days, when dreams do show thee me." ~ Shakespeare, Sonnet 43, #KEYS
20:Verily, I say to thee; he who seeks the Eternal, finds Him. ~ Ramakrishna, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
21:One infinite pure and holy – beyond thought beyond qualities I bow down to thee ~ Swami Vivekananda, Chicago, September 1893, #KEYS
22:Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee. ~ Saint John of the Cross, #KEYS
23:How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee? ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #KEYS
24:If Paradise is not within thee, thou shalt never enter into it. ~ Angelus Silesins, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
25:All that is contains Thee; I could not exist if Thou wert not in me. ~ St Augustine, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
26:Let Him choose for thee a king's palace or the bowl of the beggar.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human,#KEYS
27:Why was I born, O God, if not to find Thee?
Why do I die, O God, if not to come to Thee?
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan, Sayings of Hazrat Khan,#KEYS
28:I meditate upon Thee, O Rama, as my Divine Master and think of myself only as Thy servant. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
29:Can it be that change terrifies thee? But nothing is done without it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
30:Hail to Thee, Master of the world, who triumphest over all darkness.
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations, [T1],#KEYS
31:If thou understand, what seems invisible to most shall be to thee very apparent. ~ Hermes, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
32:Put away from thee a forward mouth and perverse lips put away from thee. ~ Proverbs IV 24, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
33:...before Thee we bow down and implore that we may never forget all we owe to Thee.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I,#KEYS
34:See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil. ~ Deuteronomy XIII. 15, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
35:Cut away in thee the love of thyself, even as in autumn thy hand plucks the lotus. ~ Dhammapada, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
36:Expel thy desires and fears and there shall be no longer any tyrant over thee. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
37:If thou comprehend Him, what seems invisible to most, will be for thee utterly apparent. ~ Hermes, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
38:But how can that be manifested to thy eyes if what is within thee is to thyself invisible? ~ Hermes, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
39:As a living man abstains from mortal poisons, so put away from thee all defilement. ~ Buddhist Texts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
40:I see of Thee neither end nor middle nor beginning, O Lord of all and universal form. ~ Bhagavad Gita, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
41:Observe thyself, not that which is thine, nor that which is around thee, but thyself alone. ~ St. Basil, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
42:Cross even beyond the light which illumines thee and cast thyself upon the bosom of God. ~ Maitre Eckhart, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
43:When thou saidst, Seek ye my face, my heart said unto Thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek. ~ Psalms XXVII.8, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
44:In activity and in silence, in taking and in giving, always the glad remembrance of Thee.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, [T1],#KEYS
45:Arunachala! Thou blazing fire of Jnana! Deign to wrap my mother in Thy light and make her one with Thee. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
46:Seek out swiftly the way of righteousness; turn without delay from that which defiles thee. ~ Buddhist Texts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
47:Thou must pass over thyself to mount beyond, ever higher till the stars themselves are below thee. ~ Nietzsche, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
48:I will show thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare, which wise men have told: ~ Job XV. 17.18, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
49:His good and evil, sin and virtue, till
He bids thee leave. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, The Rishi,#KEYS
50:Purify thyself and thou shalt see God. Transform thy body into a temple, cast from thee evil thoughts and contemplate God with the eye of thy conscious soul. ~ Vemana, #KEYS
51:Addressed to the One Supreme Lord, There is no other sin, no other vice than to be far from Thee.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III, 240,#KEYS
52:Wouldst thou that the world should submit to thee? Be busy then to fortify thy soul without ceasing. ~ Omar Khayyam, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
53:Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
~ Anonymous, The Bible, John, 3-3, [T5],#KEYS
54:The present is the most precious moment. Use all the forces of thy spirit not to let that momentescape thee. ~ Tolstoy, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
55:Prepare thyself for thou must travel alone. The Master can only indicate to thee the road. ~ Book of the Golden Precepts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
56:Thinkest thou that thy body is nothing when in thee is contained the most perfect world? ~ Baha-ullah: The Seven Valleys, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
57:O my soul, wilt thou be one day simple, one, bare, more visible than the body which envelops thee? ~ Marcus Aurelius. X.I, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
58:I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Job, 42:5-6, [T5], #KEYS
59:Love and serve men, but beware lest thou desire their approbation. Obey rather God within thee.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human, Bhakti,#KEYS
60:That it may be easy for thee to live with every man, think of what unites thee to him and not of what separates. ~ Tolstoy, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
61:At each step we say in the language of the Sanskrit verse, "Even as I am appointed by Thee seated in my heart, so, O Lord, I act." ~ Sri Aurobindo, TSOY, The Master of the Work #KEYS
62:Thy soul cannot be hurt in thee save by reason of thy ignorant body; direct and master them both. ~ Book of Golden Precepts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
63:Let the Godhead within thee protect there a virile being, respect-worthy, a chief, a man self-disciplined. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
64:Every morning may our thoughts rise fervently towards Thee, asking Thee how we can manifest and serve Thee best.
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations,#KEYS
65:Banish all thought from thee and be God's void. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute, #KEYS
66:Reject passion and attachment, then shall be revealed in thee that which now dwells hidden from thy eyes. ~ Sutra in 42 articles, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
67:So live as if thou hadst at once to say farewell to life and the time yet accorded thee were an unexpected gift. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
68:Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee. ~ Aleister Crowley, The Vision and the Voice, [T3], #KEYS
69:Keep only my soul to adore eternally
And meet Thee in each form and soul of Thee. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Surrender,#KEYS
70:With my soul have I desired thee in the night; with my spirit within me will I seek thee early. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Isaiah, XXVI.9, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
71:Be not ashamed to be helped: thy end is to accomplish that which is incumbent on thee, like a soldier in the assault. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
72:Be not taken in the snares of the Prince of death, let him not cast thee to the ground because thou hast been heedless. ~ Buddhist Texts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
73:Do no evil and evil shall not come upon thee; be far from the unjust and sin shall be far from thee. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Ecclesiastes, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
74:Holy Knowledge, by thee illumined, I hymn by thee the ideal light; I rejoice with the joy of the Intelligence. ~ Hermes: "On the Rebirth", the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
75:No power can slay my soul; it lives in Thee.
Thy presence is my immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, The Divine Worker,#KEYS
76:Accept the world as God's theater; be thou the mask of the Actor and let Him act through thee; and take God within for thy only critic and audience. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #KEYS
77:Christ is never conquered. … He hath conquered in thy behalf, and he hath conquered for thee, and he hath conquered in thee. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
78:How can you draw close to God when you are far from your own self? Grant, Lord, that I may know myself that I may know thee.
~ Saint Augustine of Hippo,#KEYS
79:Abandon all dharmas and take refuge in Me alone; I will deliver thee from all sin and evil; do not grieve. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, (Gita 18:66), [T5}, #KEYS
80:It is written ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (Mich. 5:2): "And thou, Bethlehem, Ephrata... out of thee shall He come forth unto Me, that is to be the ruler in Israel.", #KEYS
81:Look within thee; within thee is the source of all good and a source inexhaustible provided thou dig in it unceasingly. ~ Marcus Aurelius VII. 59, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
82:Time voyages with Thee upon its prow,—
And all the future's passionate hope is Thou. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Because Thou Art,#KEYS
83:O obscurity of obscurity, O soul of the soul, Thou art more than all and before all. All is seen in Thee and Thou art seen in all. ~ Attar of Nishapur, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
84:An attentive scrutiny of thy being will reveal to thee that it is one with the very essence of absolute perfection. ~ Buddhist Writings in the Japanese, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
85:Seek wisdom carefully and she shall be uncovered to thee, and when once thou hast seen her, leave her, not. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Ecclesiastes, VI, 28, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
86:Do not to others what would displease thee done to thyself: this is the substance of the Law; all other law depends on one's good pleasure. ~ Mahabharata, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
87:Thou shalt leave behind thee the embarrassments with which wealth surrounds thee and thou shalt find the immensity of the spiritual kingdom. ~ Ahmed Halif, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
88:313. Stride swiftly for the goal is far; rest not unduly, for thy Master is waiting for thee at the end of thy journey.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human, Karma, 53, [T5],#KEYS
89:Make pain and pleasure, loss and gain, victory and defeat equal to thee, then turn thyself to the battle, so shalt thou have no sin. ~ Bhagavad Gita II. 38, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
90:O Thou who hast hidden thyself behind a veil, withdraw that veil at last, so that my soul may not consume itself in the search for Thee. ~ Attar of Nishapur, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
91:O mortal, bear, but ask not for the stroke,
Too soon will grief and anguish find thee out. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
92:Sole essence of the world, Thou createst it and thou dissolvest it. Thou makest and unmakest the universe which is born again unceasingly by Thee. ~ Harivansa, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
93:Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, #KEYS
94:Do not abandon us in impotence and darkness; shatter all limits, break all chains, dispel all illusions.
Our aspiration rises towards Thee as an ardent prayer.
~ The Mother, Prayers and Meditations,#KEYS
95:Action Human and Divine
Keep only my soul to adore eternally
And meet Thee in each form and soul of Thee. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Surrender,#KEYS
96:When they tell thee that thou must not search everywhere for truth, believe them not. Those who speak thus are thy most formidable enemies-and Truth's. ~ Tolstoi, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
97:Man's soul crosses through thee to Paradise,
Heaven's sun forces its way through death and night. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
98:Hail to Thee, to Thee, Spirit of the Supreme Spirit, Soul of souls, to Thee, the visible and invisible, who art one with Time and with the elements. ~ Vishnu Purana, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
99:That which is born of the flesh, is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit, is spirit. Marvel not that said unto thee, "Ye must be born again. " ~ John III 6. 7, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
100:Thy acts are thy helpers, all events are signs,
Waking and sleep are opportunities
Given to thee by an immortal Power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#KEYS
101:Action like inaction can find a place in thee; if thy body agitates itself, let thy mind be calm, let thy soul be limpid as a mountain lake. ~ Book of Golden Precepts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
102:O queen, thy thought is a light of the Ignorance,
Its brilliant curtain hides from thee God's face. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
103:Purify thyself and thou shalt see God. Transform thy body into a temple, cast from thee evil thoughts and contemplate God with the eye of thy conscious soul. ~ Vemana, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
104:Action like inaction may find its place in thee; if thy body is in movement, let thy mind be calm, let thy soul be as limpid as a mountain lake. ~ Book of Golden Precepts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
105:O disciple, that which was not created dwells in thee. If thou wish to attain to it,...thou must strip thyself of thy dark robes of illusion. ~ The Book of Golden Precepts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
106:Thou who art the soul of all things, Thy universal diffusion witnesses to Thy power and goodness. It is in thee, in others, in all creatures, in all worlds. ~ Vishnu Purana, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
107:Lord, without Thee life is a monstrosity. Without Thy Light, Thy Consciousness, Thy Beauty and Thy Force, all existence is a sinister and grotesque comedy.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III, 240,#KEYS
108:Where shall I direct my gaze to bless Thee, on high, below, without, within? There is no way, no place that is outside Thee, other beings exist not; all is in Thee. ~ Hermes, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
109:Lord, the year is dying and our gratitude bows down to Thee. Lord, the year is reborn, our prayer rises up to Thee. Let it be for us also the dawn of a new life.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III,#KEYS
110:If earnestly you say to the Divine, I want only Thee, the Divine will arrange the circumstances in such a way that you are compelled to be sincere.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Sincerity [T4],#KEYS
111:Strange is my case, in strangeness I am all alone Uniqe amongst mankind, peer I have none. My time in Thee eternized, is Eternity, and from myself Thou hast extinguished me." ~ Abu Bakr Shibli, (861-946) Persian Sufi, Wikipedia., #KEYS
112:As thou wrappest thy cloak about thee, feel yet greater love to God, Who alike in summer and in winter has given us coverings convenient for us, at once to preserve our life, and to cover what is unseemly. ~ Saint Basil the Great, #KEYS
113:Here 'neath veils, my Saviour darkly I behold; To my thirsting spirit all thy light unfold; Face to face in heaven let me come to thee, And the blessed vision of thy glory see. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, #KEYS
114:Let not the favourable moment pass thee by, for those who have suffered it to escape them, shall lament when they find themselves on the path which leads to the abyss. ~ Buddhist Texts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
115:Enquire, I pray thee, of the former age and prepare myself to search after the wisdom of their fathers...Shall they not teach thee and tell thee words out of their heart? ~ Job VIII.8.10, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
116:We have known thee, O most great Light who art perceived only by the intelligence I We have known thee, O Plenitude matrix of all Nature! We have known thee, O eternal Permanence ! ~ Hermes, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
117:If a thing is difficult for thee, imagine not therefore! that it is impossible to man; but if a thing is possible and proper to man, think that it is accessible to thee also. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
118:Thou art also in the trees and the plants; the earth bears Thee in its flanks and gives birth to Thee as its nursling, Thee, the Lord of beings, Thee, the essence of all that exists. ~ Harivansa, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
119:None can reproach thee with injustice done? It is too little. Banish injustice even from thy thought, It is not the actions alone, but the will that distinguishes the good from the wicked. ~ Democritus, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
120:All my thoughts go towards Thee, all my acts are consecrated to Thee; Thy Presence is for me an absolute, immutable, invariable fact, and Thy Peace dwells constantly in my heart. ~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations, Nov 19th 1912, #KEYS
121:Indifference, pain and joy, a triple disguise,
Attire of the rapturous Dancer in the ways,
Withhold from thee the body of God's bliss. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
122:Cast Thought from thee, that nimble ape of Light:
In his tremendous hush stilling thy brain
His vast Truth wake within and know and see. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Parable of the Search for the Soul,#KEYS
123:Fear not to be nothing that thou mayst be all;
Assent to the emptiness of the Supreme
That all in thee may reach its absolute. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute,#KEYS
124:Above all thou must tear this robe that thou wearest, this garment of ignorance which is the principle of wickedness, this dark covering, this living death, this tomb which thou carriest about with thee. ~ Hermes, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
125:As thou takest thy seat at table, pray. As thou liftest the loaf, offer thanks to the Giver. When thou sustainest thy bodily weakness with wine, remember Him Who supplies thee with this gift, to make thy heart glad and to comfort thy infirmity. ~ Saint Basil the Great, #KEYS
126:Ibrahim Ben Adham, in his prayers, said, "O God! In my eyes heaven itself is less than a gnat in comparison with the love of Thee and the joy of Thy remembrance which thou hast granted me." ~ Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, Alchemy of Happiness, #KEYS
127:Thou canst live without constraint in profoundest peace of heart, even if all men clamoured against thee what they will, even if wild beasts tore the members of this nature in which thou art enveloped. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
128:"As the different streams having their sources in different places all mingle their water in the sea, so, O Lord, the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee." ~ Siva Mahimnah-stotra verse 7 #KEYS
129:One must learn to dissipate the shadow and live in the Eternal. And to that end thou shouldest live and brea the in all as all breathes in thee and feel that thou dwellest in all things in the self. ~ Book of Golden Precepts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
130:If after having traversed the hall of wisdom, thou wouldst reach the valley of Beatitude, close, O disciple, thy senses to the great and cruel heresy of the separation which severs thee from the rest. ~ Book of Golden Precepts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
131:O mortal, the enchantress sensuality is dragging thee like an untameable horse to the bottom of the tomb. Death will suddenly give the rein to thy courser and thou shalt not avail to hold her back from the fatal descent. ~ Sadi, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
132:As the hart panteth after the fountains of water, so my soul panteth after Thee, O God! when shall I come and appear before the face of God? My tears have been my bread day and night, while they say to me daily: Where is thy God?" ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Psalms, xli, 2 - 4; Douay, #KEYS
133:May my actions, O Divine Mother, be fewer every day till I attain Thee. May I perform, without attachment to the results, only what action is absolutely necessary for me. May I have great love for Thee as I go on with my few duties. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
134:It is Thy rapture flaming through my nerves
And all my cells and atoms thrill with Thee;
My body Thy vessel is and only serves
As a living wine-cup of Thy ecstasy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Bliss of Identity,#KEYS
135:Regard behind thee the abyss of duration and in front that other infinity of the ages to come. What difference is there is in this immensity between one who has lived three days and one who has lived three human ages? ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
136:We utter the name of the Lord superficially, too superficially. We say, 'I am Thy servant; Thou art my Master; Thou art my Lord; I have renounced all for Thee; I call Thee, Lord, come unto me.' But we harbor withal all sorts of evil thoughts in the mind. This won't do ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
137:...a man should say to his soul every morning, "God has given thee twenty-four treasures; take heed lest thou lose anyone of them, for thou wilt not be able to endure the regret that will follow such loss. ~ Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, The Alchemy of Happiness, #KEYS
138:Thou hast lost thyself in the search for the mystery of life and death; but seek out thy path before thy life be taken from thee. If living thou find it not, hopest thou to reach this great mystery when thou art dead? ~ Attar of Nishapur, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
139:Think not that to seat thyself in gloomy forests, in a proud seclusion, aloof from men, think not that to live on roots and plants and quench thy thirst with the snow shall lead thee to the goal of the final deliverance. ~ Book of Golden Precepts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
140:Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother and then come and offer thy gift. ~ Matthew V. 23, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
141:Behold the beginning of wisdom; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding. Exalt her and she shall promote thee. She shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace; a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee. ~ Proverbs, #KEYS
142:19. Ever dost thou crush the demon-sorcerer, O Fire, never have the Rakshasas conquered thee in the battles; burn one by one from their roots the eaters of raw flesh, may they find no release from thy divine missile. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Hymns To The Mystic Fire, 2 - Other Hymns, #KEYS
143:Shed not the blood of the beings that people the earth, men, domesticated animals, wild beasts and birds: out of the depths of thy soul rises a voice that forbids thee to shed blood, for the blood is the life, and thou canst not restore life. ~ Lamartine, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
144:Thou hast demanded of me what is this phantasma goria of things here around us. To tell thee the whole truth of this matter would take too long; it is a fantastic image which issues from a vast ocean and then into that vast ocean it returns. ~ Omar Khayyam, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
145:All that man does comes to its perfection in knowledge. That do thou learn by prostration to the wise and by questioning and by serving them; they who have the knowledge and see the truths of things shall instruct thee in the knowledge. ~ Bhagavadgita IV-33-34, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
146:I bow not to thee, O huge mask of death,
Black lie of night to the cowed soul of man,
Unreal, inescapable end of things,
Thou grim jest played with the immortal spirit. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,#KEYS
147:Our will labours permitted by thy will
And without thee an empty roar of storm,
A senseless whirlwind is the Titan's force
And without thee a snare the strength of gods. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Eternal Day, The Soul's Choice and the Supreme Consummation,#KEYS
148:280. If thy heart is troubled within thee, if for long seasons thou makest no progress, if thy strength faint and repine, remember always the eternal word of our Lover and Master, 'I will free thee from all sin and evil; do not grieve.'
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human, Karma, [T1],#KEYS
149:ehold thou hast instructed many and thou hast streng thened the weak hands, thy words have upholden him that was falling and thou hast streng thened the feeble knees; but now it is come upon thee and thou faintest, it toucheth thee and thou art troubled. ~ Job. IV. 3, 4, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
150:If to thee nothing appears superior to the Genius which dwells in thee and has made itself master of his own tendencies and watches over his own thoughts and if beside him thoufindest that all the rest is petty and of no worth, then to no other thing give lodging. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
151:368. The Vedanta is God's lamp to lead thee out of this night of bondage and egoism; but when the light of Veda has dawned in thy soul, then even that divine lamp thou needest not, for now thou canst walk freely and surely in a high and eternal sunlight.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human, Karma, [T8],#KEYS
152:Jul 14 Time is infinite. Go forward: assert yourself again and again, and light must come. You may pray to everyone that was ever born, but who will come to help you? And what of the way of death from which none knows escape? Help thyself out by thyself. None else can help thee, friend.~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS
153:Always we must repeat to the doubting intellect the promise of the Master, 'I will deliver thee from all sin and evil; do not grieve.' At the end, the flickerings of faith will cease; for we shall see his face and feel always the Divine Presence.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Master of the Work, 245, [T3],#KEYS
154:247. Men in the world have two lights, duty and principle; but he who has passed over to God, has done with both and replaced them by God's will. If men abuse thee for this, care not, O divine instrument, but go on thy way like the wind or the sun fostering and destroying.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human, Karma,#KEYS
155:I remember a certain holy day in the dusk of the Year, in the dusk of the Equinox of Osiris, when first I beheld thee visibly; when first the dreadful issue was fought out; when the Ibis-headed One charmed away the strife. I remember thy first kiss, even as a maiden should. Nor in the dark byways was there another: thy kisses abide. ~ Liber HHH (341), #KEYS
156:8. O Fire, they have set thee here the Messenger, the Immortal in generation after generation, the Carrier of offerings, protector of man and the Godhead of his prayer. Gods alike and mortals sit with obeisance before the all-pervading Master of the peoples, the ever-wakeful Fire.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Hymns To The Mystic Fire,#KEYS
157:The sons of Adam are the members of one body, for in the creation they are made of one single nature. When fortune casts one member into suffering, there is no rest for the others. O thou who art without care for the pain of another, it is not fitting that one should give thee the name of man. ~ Sadi, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
158:Behold the beginning of wisdom; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding. Exalt her and she shall promote thee. She shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her. She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace; a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee. ~ Proverbs, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
159:Matter is like a stream in perpetual flow; the actions of Nature manifest by continual mutations and endless transformations. There is hardly anything that is stable. Behold near thee this immense abyss of the times that no longer are and the future in which all things will disappear. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
160:It is then that she shall show to thee the means and the way, the first and the second and the third even to the seventh door. Last the end, beyond which are extended and bathed in light of the spiritual sun glories inexpressible and invisible to all save only to the soul's eye. ~ Book of Golden Precepts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
161:Like a flame that burns in silence, like a perfume that rises straight upward without wavering, my love goes to Thee; and like the child who does not reason and has no care, I trust myself to Thee that Thy Will may be done, that Thy Light may manifest, Thy Peace radiate, Thy Love cover the world.
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations,#KEYS
162:362. Limit not sacrifice to the giving up of earthly goods or the denial of some desires and yearnings, but let every thought and every work and every enjoyment be an offering to God within thee. Let thy steps walk in thy Lord, let thy sleep and waking be a sacrifice to Krishna.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human, Karma, [T1],#KEYS
163:The senses and the mind seek to convince thee, sova in are they, that they are the end of all things. The senses and the mind are only instruments and play things. Behind the feelings and the thoughts, my brother; there dwells a more puissant master, an unknown sage; it is called the Self. ~ Nietzsche Zarathustra, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
164:THOU whom we must know, understand, realise, absolute Consciousness, eternal Law, Thou who guidest and illuminest us, who movest and inspirest us, grant that these weak souls may be strengthened and those who fear be reassured. To Thee I entrust them, even as I entrust to Thee our entire destiny.
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations, 127,#KEYS
165:Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good. ~ Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
166:And before thee she shall open wide the portals of her secret chambers and under thy eyes she shall lay bare the treasures hidden in the deeps of her bosom. But she shows not her treasures save to the eye of the spirit, the eve which is never closed, the eye which is met by no veil in any of the kingdoms of her empire. ~ Book of Golden Precepts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
167:Whoever wishes to attain to the highest perfection of his being and to the vision of the supreme good, must have a knowledge of himself as of the things about him to the very core. It is only so that he can arrive at the supreme clarity. Therefore learn to know thyself, that is better for thee than to know all the powers of the creation. ~ Maitre Eckhart, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
168:468 - I may question God, my guide and teacher, and ask Him, 'Am I right or hast Thou in thy love and wisdom suffered my mind to deceive me?' Doubt thy mind, if thou wilt, but doubt not that God leads thee.
Life is given to us to find the Divine and unite with Him. The mind tries to persuade us that it is not so. Shall we believe this liar?
~ The Mother, On Thoughts And Aphorisms,#KEYS
169:Remember that the Mother is always with you.
Address Her as follows and She will pull you out of all difficulties:
"O Mother, Thou art the light of my intelligence, the purity of my soul,
the quiet strength of my vital, the endurance of my body.
I rely on Thee alone and want to be entirely Thine.
Make me surmount all obstacles on the way."
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III, [T1],#KEYS
170:Scrutinise the heavens, sound the earth and they will reveal to thee always their impermanence, consider the world all around thee and it will reveal to thee always its impermanence: but when thou shalt have acquired spiritual illumination, thou shalt find wisdom and the intelligence that thou shalt have so attained will guide thee at once on the path. ~ Sutra in 42 Articles, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
171:By thee I have greatened my mortal arc of life,
But now far heavens, unmapped infinitudes
Thou hast brought me, thy illimitable gift!
If to fill these thou lift thy sacred flight,
My human earth will still demand thy bliss.
Make still my life through thee a song of joy
And all my silence wide and deep with thee.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Return to Earth,#KEYS
172:The law is not in heaven, that thou shouldst say, "Who shall go up for us to heaven and bring it into us that we may hear it and do it?" Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldst say "Who shall go over the sea and bring it into us that we may hear it and do it?" But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart, that thou mayst do it. ~ Deuteronomy XXX. 12-14, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
173:410 - Devotion is not utterly fulfilled till it becomes action and knowledge. If thou pursuest after God and canst overtake Him, let Him not go till thou hast His reality.
If thou hast hold of His reality, insist on having also His totality. The first will give thee divine knowledge, the second will give thee divine works and a free and perfect joy in the universe. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human,#KEYS
174:I hail thee, almighty and victorious Death,
Thou grandiose Darkness of the Infinite.
O Void that makest room for all to be ...
Thou art my shadow and my instrument.
I have given thee thy awful shape of dread
And thy sharp sword of terror and grief and pain
To force the soul of man to struggle for light"
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#KEYS
175:If thou shalt perfectly observe these rules, all the following Symbols and an infinitude of others will be granted unto thee by thy Holy Guardian Angel; thou thus living for the Honour and Glory of the True and only God, for thine own good, and that of thy neighbour. Let the Fear of God be ever before the eyes and the heart of him who shall possess this Divine Wisdom and Sacred Magic. ~ MacGregor Mathers, The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, #KEYS
176:Knowest thou not that thou nurturest in thyself a god? It is a god whom thou usest for thy strength, a god whom thou carriest with thee everywhere, and thou knowest it not at all, O unhappy man. And thinkest thou that I speak of a silver or golden idol outside thee? The god of whom I speak, thou carriest within thee and perceivest not that thou pollutest him by thy impure thoughts and infamous actions. ~ Epictetus, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
177:I have strayed like a lost sheep seeking outside me that which was within. I have run about the streets and places of the world, this great city, seeking Thee and I have not found Thee because I sought Thee ill and came not to the place where Thou wert. Thou wert within me and I sought thee without; Thou wert near and I sought thee at a distance, and if I had gone where Thou wert, I should immediately have met Thee. ~ id, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
178:279 - O soldier and hero of God, where for thee is sorrow or shame or suffering? For thy life is a glory, thy deeds a consecration, victory thy apotheosis, defeat thy triumph. - Sri Aurobindo.
For one who is totally consecrated to the Divine, there can be neither shame nor suffering, for the Divine is always with him and the Divine Presence changes all things into glory. 9 January 1970 ~ The Mother, On Thoughts And Aphorisms, volume-10, page no.295,#KEYS
179:And Thou, O Lord, who art all this made one and much more, O sovereign Master, extreme limit of our thought, who standest for us at the threshold of the Unknown, make rise from that Unthinkable some new splendour, some possibility of a loftier and more integral realisation, that Thy work may be accomplished and the universe take one step farther towards the sublime Identity, the supreme Manifestation.
And now my pen falls mute and I adore Thee in silence.*
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations, 270,#KEYS
180:377. God made the infinite world by Self-knowledge which in its works is Will-Force self-fulfilling. He used ignorance to limit His infinity; but fear, weariness, depression, self-distrust and assent to weakness are the instruments by which He destroys what He created. When these things are turned on what is evil or harmful & ill-regulated within thee, then it is well; but if they attack thy very sources of life & strength, then seize & expel them or thou diest.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human,#KEYS
181:If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent
If the unheard, unspoken
Word is unspoken, unheard;
Still is the spoken word, the Word unheard,
The Word without a word, the Word within
The world and for the world;
And the light shone in the darkness and
Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled
About the center of the silent Word.
Oh my people, what have I done unto thee.
Where shall the word be found, where shall the word
Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence ~ T S Eliot,#KEYS
182:O Thou who art the sole reality of our being, O sublime Master of love, Redeemer of life, let me have no longer any other consciousness than of Thee at every instant and in each being. When I do not live solely with Thy life, I agonise, I sink slowly towards extinction; for Thou art my only reason for existence, my one goal, my single support. I am like a timid bird not yet sure of its wings and hesitating to take its flight; let me soar to reach definitive identity with Thee.
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations,#KEYS
183:... Poor sorrowful Earth, remember that I am present in thee and lose not hope; each effort, each grief, each joy and each pang, each call of thy heart, each aspiration of thy soul, each renewel of thy seasons, all, all without exception, what seems ugly and what seems to thee beautiful, all infallibly lead thee towards me, who am endless Peace, shadowless Light, perfect Harmony, Certitude, Rest and Supreme Blessedness.
Hearken, O Earth, to the sublime voice that arises,
Hearken and take new courage!
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations, February 5th 1913,#KEYS
184:Invocation
NIGHT after night within the grove
The night wind spares the sacred fire -
The breath made visible of love,
Of worship and desire.
I set the tripod at thy shrine;
The silver bowl, the amber flame,
And in the dark where no stars shine
I speak thy name.
By the high name I call on thee
Which only I, thy priestess, know.
I tread thy dance in ecstasy,
Sweet steps and slow.
O God, the hour has come. Appear!
I have performed the appointed rite -
The dance, the fire; I long to hear
Wings in the night.
~ Alice Duer Miller,#KEYS
185:The last thing that you remember is standing before the wizard Lakmir as he gestured wildly and chanted in an archaic tongue. Now you find yourself staring at an entryway which lies at the edge of a forest. The Druid's words still ring in your ears: "Within the walls of the Castle Shadowgate lies your quest. If the prophecies hold true, the dreaded Warlock Lord will use his dark magic to raise the Behemoth, the deadliest of the Titans, from the depths of the earth. You are the seed of prophecy, the last of the line of kings, and only you can stop the Warlock Lord from darkening our world FOREVER. Fare thee well. ~ Shadowgate, #KEYS
186:Shake off thy bondage, O children,
and walk in the Light of the glorious day.
Never turn thy thoughts to the darkness
and surely ye shall be One with The Light.
Man is only what he believeth,
a brother of darkness or a Child of The Light.
Come though into the Light my Children.
Walk in the pathway that leads to the Sun.
Hark ye now, and list to the Wisdom.
Use thou the word I have given unto thee.
Use it and surely though shalt find
power and wisdom and Light to walk in the way.
Seek thee and find the key I have given
and Ever shalt Thou be a Child of The Light. ~ Emerald Tablet,#KEYS
187:Gird up thy loins now like a man; I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayst be righteous? Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him? Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty. Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud and abase him. Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place. Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret. Then I will also confess unto thee that thine own hand can save thee. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Job, 40:7-14, #KEYS
188:The Golden Light :::
Thy golden Light came down into my brain
And the grey rooms of mind sun-touched became
A bright reply to Wisdom's occult plane,
A calm illumination and a flame.
Thy golden Light came down into my throat,
And all my speech is now a tune divine,
A paean-song of Thee my single note;
My words are drunk with the Immortal's wine.
Thy golden Light came down into my heart
Smiting my life with Thy eternity;
Now has it grown a temple where Thou art
And all its passions point towards only Thee.
Thy golden Light came down into my feet,
My earth is now Thy playfield and Thy seat. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems,#KEYS
189:I Have A Hundred Lives:::
I have a hundred lives before me yet
To grasp thee in, O spirit ethereal,
Be sure I will with heart insatiate
Pursue thee like a hunter through them all.
Thou yet shalt turn back on the eternal way
And with awakened vision watch me come
Smiling a little at errors past, and lay
Thy eager hand in mine, its proper home.
Meanwhile made happy by thy happiness
I shall approach thee in things and people dear
And in thy spirit's motions half-possess
Loving what thou hast loved, shall feel thee near,
Until I lay my hands on thee indeed
Somewhere among the stars, as 'twas decreed. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, 180,#KEYS
190:The Divine Worker
I face earth's happenings with an equal soul;
In all are heard Thy steps: Thy unseen feet
Tread Destiny's pathways in my front. Life's whole
Tremendous theorem is Thou complete.
No danger can perturb my spirit's calm:
My acts are Thine; I do Thy works and pass;
Failure is cradled on Thy deathless arm,
Victory is Thy passage mirrored in Fortune's glass.
In this rude combat with the fate of man
Thy smile within my heart makes all my strength;
Thy Force in me labours at its grandiose plan,
Indifferent to the Time-snake's crawling length.
No power can slay my soul; it lives in Thee.
Thy presence is my immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems,#KEYS
191:Because Thou Art :::
Because Thou art All-beauty and All-bliss,
My soul blind and enamoured yearns for Thee;
It bears thy mystic touch in all that is
And thrills with the burden of that ecstasy.
Behind all eyes I meet Thy secret gaze
And in each voice I hear Thy magic tune:
Thy sweetness haunts my heart through Nature's ways
Nowhere it beats now from Thy snare immune.
It loves Thy body in all living things;
Thy joy is there in every leaf and stone:
The moments bring thee on their fiery wings;
Sight's endless artistry is Thou alone.
Time voyages with Thee upon its prow
And all the futures passionate hope is Thou.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems,#KEYS
192:189 - Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
190 - Fling not thy alms abroad everywhere in an ostentation of charity; understand and love where thou helpest. Let thy soul grow within thee.
191 - Help the poor while the poor are with thee; but study also and strive that there may be no poor for thy assistance.
To live within in a constant aspiration for the Divine enables us to look at life with a smile and to remain peaceful whatever the outer circumstances may be.
As for the poor, Sri Aurobindo says that to come to their help is good, provided that it is not a vain ostentation of charity, but that it is far nobler to seek a remedy for poverty so that there may be no poor left on earth.
31 October 1969 ~ The Mother, Thoughts And Aphorisms,#KEYS
193:O DIVINE Force, supreme Illuminator, hearken to our prayer, move not away from us, do not withdraw, help us to fight the good fight, make firm our strength for the struggle, give us the force to conquer!
O my sweet Master, Thou whom I adore without being able to know Thee, Thou who I am without being able to realise Thee, my entire conscious individuality prostrates itself before Thee and implores, in the name of the workers in their struggle, and of the earth in her agony, in the name of suffering humanity and of striving Nature;
O my sweet Master, O marvellous Unknowable, O Dispenser of all boons, Thou who makest light spring forth in the darkness and strength to arise out of weakness, support our effort, guide our steps, lead us to victory.
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations, 211,#KEYS
194:For throughout its life, without knowing it or with some presentiment of it, it was Thou whom it was seeking; in all its passions, all its enthusiasms, all its hopes and disillusionments, all its sufferings and all its joys, it was Thou whom it ardently wanted. And now that it has found Thee, now that it possesses Thee in a supreme Peace and Felicity, it wonders that it should have needed so many sensations, emotions, experiences to discover Thee.
But all this, which was a struggle, a turmoil, a perpetual effort, has become through the sovereign grace of Thy conscious Presence, a priceless fortune which the being rejoices to offer as its gift to Thee. The purifying flame of Thy illumination has turned it into jewels of price laid down as a living holocaust on the altar of my heart.
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations, 322, [T1],#KEYS
195:January 7, 1914
GIVE them all, O Lord, Thy peace and light, open their blinded eyes and their darkened understanding; calm their futile worries and their vain anxieties. Turn their gaze away from themselves and give them the joy of being consecrated to Thy work without calculation or mental reservation. Let Thy beauty flower in all things, awaken Thy love in all hearts, so that Thy eternally progressive order may be realised upon earth and Thy harmony be spread until the day all becomes Thyself in perfect purity and peace.
Oh! let all tears be wiped away, all suffering relieved, all anguish dispelled, and let calm serenity dwell in every heart and powerful certitude strengthen every mind. Let Thy life flow through all like a regenerating stream that all may turn to Thee and draw from that contemplation the energy for all victories. ~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations,#KEYS
196:There is nothing unintelligible in what I say about strength and Grace. Strength has a value for spiritual realisation, but to say that it can be done by strength only and by no other means is a violent exaggeration. Grace is not an invention, it is a face of spiritual experience. Many who would be considered as mere nothings by the wise and strong have attained by Grace; illiterate, without mental power or training, without "strength" of character or will, they have yet aspired and suddenly or rapidly grown into spiritual realisation, because they had faith or because they were sincere. ...
Strength, if it is spiritual, is a power for spiritual realisation; a greater power is sincerity; the greatest power of all is Grace. I have said times without number that if a man is sincere, he will go through in spite of long delay and overwhelming difficulties. I have repeatedly spoken of the Divine Grace. I have referred any number of times to the line of the Gita:
"I will deliver thee from all sin and evil, do not grieve." ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II,#KEYS
197:The tide of materialistic thoughts is always on the watch, waiting for the least weakness, and if we relax but one moment from our vigilance, if we are even slightly negligent, it rushes in and invades us from all sides, submerging under its heavy flood the result sometimes of numberless efforts. Then the being enters a sort of torpor, its physical needs of food and sleep increase, its intelligence is clouded, its inner vision veiled, and in spite of the little interest it really finds in such superficial activities, they occupy it almost exclusively. This state is extremely painful and tiring, for nothing is more tiring then materialistic thoughts, and the mind, worn out, suffers like a caged bird which cannot spread its wings and yet longs to be able to soar freely.
But perhaps this state has its own use which I do not see.... In any case, I do not struggle; and like a child in its mother's arms, like a fervent disciple at the feet of his master, I trust myself to Thee and surrender to Thy guidance, sure of Thy victory.
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations, January 4th, 1914,#KEYS
198:O King, thy fate is a transaction done
At every hour between Nature and thy soul
With God for its foreseeing arbiter.
Fate is a balance drawn in Destiny's book.
Man can accept his fate, he can refuse.
Even if the One maintains the unseen decree
He writes thy refusal in thy credit page:
For doom is not a close, a mystic seal.
Arisen from the tragic crash of life,
Arisen from the body's torture and death,
The spirit rises mightier by defeat;
Its godlike wings grow wider with each fall.
Its splendid failures sum to victory.
O man, the events that meet thee on thy road,
Though they smite thy body and soul with joy and grief,
Are not thy fate, - they touch thee awhile and pass;
Even death can cut not short thy spirit's walk:
Thy goal, the road thou choosest are thy fate.
On the altar throwing thy thoughts, thy heart, thy works,
Thy fate is a long sacrifice to the gods
Till they have opened to thee thy secret self
And made thee one with the indwelling God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 06:02 The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#KEYS
199:January 1, 1914
To Thee, supreme Dispenser of all boons,
to Thee who givest life its justification, by making it pure, beautiful and good,
to Thee, Master of our destinies and goal of all our aspirations, was consecrated the first minute of this new year.
May it be completely glorified by this consecration; may those who hope for Thee, seek Thee in the right path; may those who seek Thee find Thee, and those who suffer, not knowing where the remedy lies, feel Thy life gradually piercing the hard crust of their obscure consciousness.
I bow down in deep devotion and in boundless gratitude before Thy beneficent splendour; in name of the earth I give Thee thanks for manifesting Thyself; in its name I implore Thee to manifest Thyself ever more fully, in an uninterrupted growth of Light and Love.
Be the sovereign Master of our thoughts, our feelings, our actions.
Thou art our reality, the only Reality.
Without Thee all is falsehood and illusion, all is dismol obscurity.
In Thee are life and light and joy.
In Thee is supreme Peace.
~ The Mother, Prayers and Meditation,#KEYS
200:O soul, it is too early to rejoice!
Thou hast reached the boundless silence of the Self,
Thou hast leaped into a glad divine abyss;
But where hast thou thrown Self's mission and Self's power?
On what dead bank on the Eternal's road?
One was within thee who was self and world,
What hast thou done for his purpose in the stars?
Escape brings not the victory and the crown!
Something thou cam'st to do from the Unknown,
But nothing is finished and the world goes on
Because only half God's cosmic work is done.
Only the everlasting No has neared
And stared into thy eyes and killed thy heart:
But where is the Lover's everlasting Yes,
And immortality in the secret heart,
The voice that chants to the creator Fire,
The symbolled OM, the great assenting Word,
The bridge between the rapture and the calm,
The passion and the beauty of the Bride,
The chamber where the glorious enemies kiss,
The smile that saves, the golden peak of things?
This too is Truth at the mystic fount of Life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Adoration of the Divine Mother,#KEYS
201:I have loved in life and I have been loved.
I have drunk the bowl of poison from the hands of love as nectar,
and have been raised above life's joy and sorrow.
My heart, aflame in love, set afire every heart that came in touch with it.
My heart has been rent and joined again;
My heart has been broken and again made whole;
My heart has been wounded and healed again;
A thousand deaths my heart has died, and thanks be to love, it lives yet.
I went through hell and saw there love's raging fire,
and I entered heaven illumined with the light of love.
I wept in love and made all weep with me;
I mourned in love and pierced the hearts of men;
And when my fiery glance fell on the rocks, the rocks burst forth as volcanoes.
The whole world sank in the flood caused by my one tear;
With my deep sigh the earth trembled, and when I cried aloud the name of my beloved,
I shook the throne of God in heaven.
I bowed my head low in humility, and on my knees I begged of love,
"Disclose to me, I pray thee, O love, thy secret."
She took me gently by my arms and lifted me above the earth, and spoke softly in my ear,
"My dear one, thou thyself art love, art lover,
and thyself art the beloved whom thou hast adored. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan,#KEYS
202:The Supreme Mind
'O God! we acknowledge Thee to be the Supreme Mind
Who hast disposed and ordered the Universe;
Who gave it life and motion at the first,
And still continuest to guide and regulate it.
From Thee was its primal impulsion;
Thou didst bestow on thine Emanated Spirit of Light,
Divine wisdom and various power
To stablish and enforce its transcendent orbits.
Thou art the Inconceivable Energy
Which in the beginning didst cause all things;
Of whom shall no created being ever know
A millionth part of thy divine properties.
But the Spirit was the Spirit of the Universe-
Sacred, Holy, Generating Nature;
Which, obedient unto thy will,
Preserves and reproduces all that is in the Kosmos.
Nothing is superior to the Spirit
But Thou, alone, O God! who art the Creator and Lord;
Thou madest the Spirit to be thy servitor,
But this thy Spirit transcends all other creatures;
This is the Spirit which is in the highest heavens;
Whose influence permeates all that lives;
As a beautiful Flower diffuses fragrances
But is not diminished in aught thereby.
For all divine essences are the same,
Differing only in their degree and power and beauty;
But in no wise differing in their principle,
Which is the fiery essence of God himself.
Such is the animating flame of every existence
Being in God, purely perfect;
But in all other living things
Only capable of being made perfect.' ~ Dr E.V. Kenealy, The Book of Fo.
The Supreme Mind. from path of regeneration,#KEYS
203:AHA!"
There are seven keys to the great gate,
Being eight in one and one in eight.
First, let the body of thee be still,
Bound by the cerements of will,
Corpse-rigid; thus thou mayst abort
The fidget-babes that tense the thought.
Next, let the breath-rhythm be low,
Easy, regular, and slow;
So that thy being be in tune
With the great sea's Pacific swoon.
Third, let thy life be pure and calm
Swayed softly as a windless palm.
Fourth, let the will-to-live be bound
To the one love of the Profound.
Fifth, let the thought, divinely free
From sense, observe its entity.
Watch every thought that springs; enhance
Hour after hour thy vigilance!
Intense and keen, turned inward, miss
No atom of analysis!
Sixth, on one thought securely pinned
Still every whisper of the wind!
So like a flame straight and unstirred
Burn up thy being in one word!
Next, still that ecstasy, prolong
Thy meditation steep and strong,
Slaying even God, should He distract
Thy attention from the chosen act!
Last, all these things in one o'erpowered,
Time that the midnight blossom flowered!
The oneness is. Yet even in this,
My son, thou shalt not do amiss
If thou restrain the expression, shoot
Thy glance to rapture's darkling root,
Discarding name, form, sight, and stress
Even of this high consciousness;
Pierce to the heart! I leave thee here:
Thou art the Master. I revere
Thy radiance that rolls afar,
O Brother of the Silver Star! ~ Aleister Crowley,#KEYS
204:THE PSYCHOLOGY OF YOGA
Initial Definitions and Descriptions
Yoga has four powers and objects, purity, liberty, beatitude and perfection. Whosoever has consummated these four mightinesses in the being of the transcendental, universal, lilamaya and individual God is the complete and absolute Yogin.
All manifestations of God are manifestations of the absolute Parabrahman.
The Absolute Parabrahman is unknowable to us, not because It is the nothingness of all that we are, for rather whatever we are in truth or in seeming is nothing but Parabrahman, but because It is pre-existent & supra-existent to even the highest & purest methods and the most potent & illimitable instruments of which soul in the body is capable.
In Parabrahman knowledge ceases to be knowledge and becomes an inexpressible identity. Become Parabrahman, if thou wilt and if That will suffer thee, but strive not to know It; for thou shalt not succeed with these instruments and in this body.
In reality thou art Parabrahman already and ever wast and ever will be. To become Parabrahman in any other sense, thou must depart utterly out of world manifestation and out even of world transcendence.
Why shouldst thou hunger after departure from manifestation as if the world were an evil? Has not That manifested itself in thee & in the world and art thou wiser & purer & better than the Absolute, O mind-deceived soul in the mortal? When That withdraws thee, then thy going hence is inevitable; until Its force is laid on thee, thy going is impossible, cry thy mind never so fiercely & wailingly for departure. Therefore neither desire nor shun the world, but seek the bliss & purity & freedom & greatness of God in whatsoever state or experience or environment.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human,#KEYS
205:But now thou askest me how thou mayest destroy this naked knowing and feeling of thine own being. For peradventure thou thinkest that if it were destroyed, all other hindrances were destroyed ; and if thou thinkest thus, thou thinkest right truly. But to this I answer thee and I say, that without a full special grace full freely given by God, and also a full according ableness on thy part to receive this grace, this naked knowing and feeling of thy being may in nowise be destroyed. And this ableness is nought else but a strong and a deep ghostly sorrow. ... All men have matter of sorrow; but most specially he feeleth matter of sorrow that knoweth and feeleth that he is. All other sorrows in comparison to this be but as it were game to earnest. For he may make sorrow earnestly that knoweth and feeleth not only what he is, but that he is. And whoso felt never this sorrow, let him make sorrow; for he hath never yet felt perfect sorrow. This sorrow, when it is had, cleanseth the soul, not only of sin, but also of pain that it hath deserved for sin ; and also it maketh a soul able to receive that joy, the which reave th from a man all knowing and feeling of his being. This sorrow, if it be truly conceived, is full of holy desire; and else a man might never in this life abide it or bear it. For were it not that a soul were somewhat fed with a manner of comfort by his right working, he should not be able to bear that pain that he hath by the knowing and feeling of his being. For as oft as he would have a true knowing and a feeling of his God in purity of spirit (as it may be here), and then feeleth that he may not for he findeth evermore his knowing and his feeling as it were occupied and filled with a foul stinking lump of himself, the which must always be hated and despised and forsaken, if he shall be God's perfect disciple, taught by Himself in the mount of perfection so oft he goeth nigh mad for sorrow. . . . This sorrow and this desire must every soul have and feel in itself (either in this manner or in another), as God vouchsafed! to teach his ghostly disciples according to his good will and their according ableness in body and in soul, in degree and disposition, ere the time be that they may perfectly be oned unto God in perfect charity such as may be had here, if God vouchsafed!.
~ Anonymous, The Cloud Of Unknowing,#KEYS
206:He continuously reflected on her image and attributes, day and night. His bhakti was such that he could not stop thinking of her. Eventually, he saw her everywhere and in everything. This was his path to illumination.
He was often asked by people: what is the way to the supreme? His answer was sharp and definite: bhakti yoga. He said time and time again that bhakti yoga is the best sadhana for the Kali Yuga (Dark Age) of the present.
His bhakti is illustrated by the following statement he made to a disciple:
To my divine mother I prayed only for pure love.
At her lotus feet I offered a few flowers and I prayed:
Mother! here is virtue and here is vice;
Take them both from me.
Grant me only love, pure love for Thee.
Mother! here is knowledge and here is ignorance;
Take them both from me.
Grant me only love, pure love for Thee.
Mother! here is purity and impurity;
Take them both from me.
Grant me only love, pure love for Thee.
Ramakrishna, like Kabir, was a practical man.
He said: "So long as passions are directed towards the world and its objects, they are enemies. But when they are directed towards a deity, then they become the best of friends to man, for they take him to illumination. The desire for worldly things must be changed into longing for the supreme; the anger which you feel for fellow man must be directed towards the supreme for not manifesting himself to you . . . and so on, with all other emotions. The passions cannot be eradicated, but they can be turned into new directions."
A disciple once asked him: "How can one conquer the weaknesses within us?" He answered: "When the fruit grows out of the flower, the petals drop off themselves. So when divinity in you increases, the weaknesses of human nature will vanish of their own accord." He emphasized that the aspirant should not give up his practices. "If a single dive into the sea does not bring you a pearl, do not conclude that there are no pearls in the sea. There are countless pearls hidden in the sea.
So if you fail to merge with the supreme during devotional practices, do not lose heart. Go on patiently with the practices, and in time you will invoke divine grace." It does not matter what form you care to worship. He said: "Many are the names of the supreme and infinite are the forms through which he may be approached. In whatever name and form you choose to worship him, through that he will be realized by you." He indicated the importance of surrender on the path of bhakti when he said:
~ Swami Satyananda Saraswati, A Systematic Course in the Ancient Tantric Techniques of Yoga and Kriya,#KEYS
207:Mother of Dreams :::
Goddess supreme, Mother of Dream, by thy ivory doors when thou standest,
Who are they then that come down unto men in thy visions that troop, group upon group, down the path of the shadows slanting?
Dream after dream, they flash and they gleam with the flame of the stars still around them;
Shadows at thy side in a darkness ride where the wild fires dance, stars glow and glance and the random meteor glistens;
There are voices that cry to their kin who reply; voices sweet, at the heart they beat and ravish the soul as it listens.
What then are these lands and these golden sands and these seas more radiant than earth can imagine?
Who are those that pace by the purple waves that race to the cliff-bound floor of thy jasper shore under skies in which mystery muses,
Lapped in moonlight not of our night or plunged in sunshine that is not diurnal?
Who are they coming thy Oceans roaming with sails whose strands are not made by hands, an unearthly wind advances?
Why do they join in a mystic line with those on the sands linking hands in strange and stately dances?
Thou in the air, with a flame in thy hair, the whirl of thy wonders watching,
Holdest the night in thy ancient right, Mother divine, hyacinthine, with a girdle of beauty defended.
Sworded with fire, attracting desire, thy tenebrous kingdom thou keepest,
Starry-sweet, with the moon at thy feet, now hidden now seen the clouds between in the gloom and the drift of thy tresses.
Only to those whom thy fancy chose, O thou heart-free, is it given to see thy witchcraft and feel thy caresses.
Open the gate where thy children wait in their world of a beauty undarkened.
High-throned on a cloud, victorious, proud I have espied Maghavan ride when the armies of wind are behind him;
Food has been given for my tasting from heaven and fruit of immortal sweetness;
I have drunk wine of the kingdoms divine and have healed the change of music strange from a lyre which our hands cannot master,
Doors have swung wide in the chambers of pride where the Gods reside and the Apsaras dance in their circles faster and faster.
For thou art she whom we first can see when we pass the bounds of the mortal;
There at the gates of the heavenly states thou hast planted thy wand enchanted over the head of the Yogin waving.
From thee are the dream and the shadows that seem and the fugitive lights that delude us;
Thine is the shade in which visions are made; sped by thy hands from celestial lands come the souls that rejoice for ever.
Into thy dream-worlds we pass or look in thy magic glass, then beyond thee we climb out of Space and Time to the peak of divine endeavour. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems,#KEYS
208:To Know How To Suffer
IF AT any time a deep sorrow, a searing doubt or an intense pain overwhelms you and drives you to despair, there is an infallible way to regain calm and peace.
In the depths of our being there shines a light whose brilliance is equalled only by its purity; a light, a living and conscious portion of a universal godhead who animates and nourishes and illumines Matter, a powerful and unfailing guide for those who are willing to heed his law, a helper full of solace and loving forbearance towards all who aspire to see and hear and obey him. No sincere and lasting aspiration towards him can be in vain; no strong and respectful trust can be disappointed, no expectation ever deceived.
My heart has suffered and lamented, almost breaking beneath a sorrow too heavy, almost sinking beneath a pain too strong.... But I have called to thee, O divine comforter, I have prayed ardently to thee, and the splendour of thy dazzling light has appeared to me and revived me.
As the rays of thy glory penetrated and illumined all my being, I clearly perceived the path to follow, the use that can be made of suffering; I understood that the sorrow that held me in its grip was but a pale reflection of the sorrow of the earth, of this abysm of suffering and anguish.
Only those who have suffered can understand the suffering of others; understand it, commune with it and relieve it. And I understood, O divine comforter, sublime Holocaust, that in order to sustain us in all our troubles, to soothe all our pangs, thou must have known and felt all the sufferings of earth and man, all without exception.
How is it that among those who claim to be thy worshippers, some regard thee as a cruel torturer, as an inexorable judge witnessing the torments that are tolerated by thee or even created by thy own will?
No, I now perceive that these sufferings come from the very imperfection of Matter which, in its disorder and crudeness, is unfit to manifest thee; and thou art the very first to suffer from it, to bewail it, thou art the first to toil and strive in thy ardent desire to change disorder into order, suffering into happiness, discord into harmony.
Suffering is not something inevitable or even desirable, but when it comes to us, how helpful it can be!
Each time we feel that our heart is breaking, a deeper door opens within us, revealing new horizons, ever richer in hidden treasures, whose golden influx brings once more a new and intenser life to the organism on the brink of destruction.
And when, by these successive descents, we reach the veil that reveals thee as it is lifted, O Lord, who can describe the intensity of Life that penetrates the whole being, the radiance of the Light that floods it, the sublimity of the Love that transforms it for ever! ~ The Mother, Words Of Long Ago, To Know How To Suffer, 1910,#KEYS
209:O Death, thou lookst on an unfinished world
Assailed by thee and of its road unsure,
Peopled by imperfect minds and ignorant lives,
And sayest God is not and all is vain.
How shall the child already be the man?
Because he is infant, shall he never grow?
Because he is ignorant, shall he never learn?
In a small fragile seed a great tree lurks,
In a tiny gene a thinking being is shut;
A little element in a little sperm,
It grows and is a conqueror and a sage.
Then wilt thou spew out, Death, God's mystic truth,
Deny the occult spiritual miracle?
Still wilt thou say there is no spirit, no God?
A mute material Nature wakes and sees;
She has invented speech, unveiled a will.
Something there waits beyond towards which she strives,
Something surrounds her into which she grows:
To uncover the spirit, to change back into God,
To exceed herself is her transcendent task.
In God concealed the world began to be,
Tardily it travels towards manifest God:
Our imperfection towards perfection toils,
The body is the chrysalis of a soul:
The infinite holds the finite in its arms,
Time travels towards revealed eternity.
A miracle structure of the eternal Mage,
Matter its mystery hides from its own eyes,
A scripture written out in cryptic signs,
An occult document of the All-Wonderful's art.
All here bears witness to his secret might,
In all we feel his presence and his power.
A blaze of his sovereign glory is the sun,
A glory is the gold and glimmering moon,
A glory is his dream of purple sky.
A march of his greatness are the wheeling stars.
His laughter of beauty breaks out in green trees,
His moments of beauty triumph in a flower;
The blue sea's chant, the rivulet's wandering voice
Are murmurs falling from the Eternal's harp.
This world is God fulfilled in outwardness.
His ways challenge our reason and our sense;
By blind brute movements of an ignorant Force,
By means we slight as small, obscure or base,
A greatness founded upon little things,
He has built a world in the unknowing Void.
His forms he has massed from infinitesimal dust;
His marvels are built from insignificant things.
If mind is crippled, life untaught and crude,
If brutal masks are there and evil acts,
They are incidents of his vast and varied plot,
His great and dangerous drama's needed steps;
He makes with these and all his passion-play,
A play and yet no play but the deep scheme
Of a transcendent Wisdom finding ways
To meet her Lord in the shadow and the Night:
Above her is the vigil of the stars;
Watched by a solitary Infinitude
She embodies in dumb Matter the Divine,
In symbol minds and lives the Absolute.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
210:THE WAND
THE Magical Will is in its essence twofold, for it presupposes a beginning and an end; to will to be a thing is to admit that you are not that thing.
Hence to will anything but the supreme thing, is to wander still further from it - any will but that to give up the self to the Beloved is Black Magick - yet this surrender is so simple an act that to our complex minds it is the most difficult of all acts; and hence training is necessary. Further, the Self surrendered must not be less than the All-Self; one must not come before the altar of the Most High with an impure or an imperfect offering. As it is written in Liber LXV, "To await Thee is the end, not the beginning."
This training may lead through all sorts of complications, varying according to the nature of the student, and hence it may be necessary for him at any moment to will all sorts of things which to others might seem unconnected with the goal. Thus it is not "a priori" obvious why a billiard player should need a file.
Since, then, we may want "anything," let us see to it that our will is strong enough to obtain anything we want without loss of time.
It is therefore necessary to develop the will to its highest point, even though the last task but one is the total surrender of this will. Partial surrender of an imperfect will is of no account in Magick.
The will being a lever, a fulcrum is necessary; this fulcrum is the main aspiration of the student to attain. All wills which are not dependent upon this principal will are so many leakages; they are like fat to the athlete.
The majority of the people in this world are ataxic; they cannot coordinate their mental muscles to make a purposed movement. They have no real will, only a set of wishes, many of which contradict others. The victim wobbles from one to the other (and it is no less wobbling because the movements may occasionally be very violent) and at the end of life the movements cancel each other out. Nothing has been achieved; except the one thing of which the victim is not conscious: the destruction of his own character, the confirming of indecision. Such an one is torn limb from limb by Choronzon.
How then is the will to be trained? All these wishes, whims, caprices, inclinations, tendencies, appetites, must be detected, examined, judged by the standard of whether they help or hinder the main purpose, and treated accordingly.
Vigilance and courage are obviously required. I was about to add self-denial, in deference to conventional speech; but how could I call that self-denial which is merely denial of those things which hamper the self? It is not suicide to kill the germs of malaria in one's blood.
Now there are very great difficulties to be overcome in the training of the mind. Perhaps the greatest is forgetfulness, which is probably the worst form of what the Buddhists call ignorance. Special practices for training the memory may be of some use as a preliminary for persons whose memory is naturally poor. In any case the Magical Record prescribed for Probationers of the A.'.A.'. is useful and necessary.
Above all the practices of Liber III must be done again and again, for these practices develop not only vigilance but those inhibiting centres in the brain which are, according to some psychologists, the mainspring of the mechanism by which civilized man has raised himself above the savage.
So far it has been spoken, as it were, in the negative. Aaron's rod has become a serpent, and swallowed the serpents of the other Magicians; it is now necessary to turn it once more into a rod.
~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA, Book 4, The Wand,#KEYS
211:The supreme Form is then made visible. It is that of the infinite Godhead whose faces are everywhere and in whom are all the wonders of existence, who multiplies unendingly all the many marvellous revelations of his being, a world-wide Divinity seeing with innumerable eyes, speaking from innumerable mouths, armed for battle with numberless divine uplifted weapons, glorious with divine ornaments of beauty, robed in heavenly raiment of deity, lovely with garlands of divine flowers, fragrant with divine perfumes. Such is the light of this body of God as if a thousand suns had risen at once in heaven. The whole world multitudinously divided and yet unified is visible in the body of the God of Gods. Arjuna sees him, God magnificent and beautiful and terrible, the Lord of souls who has manifested in the glory and greatness of his spirit this wild and monstrous and orderly and wonderful and sweet and terrible world, and overcome with marvel and joy and fear he bows down and adores with words of awe and with clasped hands the tremendous vision. "I see" he cries "all the gods in thy body, O God, and different companies of beings, Brahma the creating lord seated in the Lotus, and the Rishis and the race of the divine Serpents. I see numberless arms and bellies and eyes and faces, I see thy infinite forms on every side, but I see not thy end nor thy middle nor thy beginning, O Lord of the universe, O Form universal. I see thee crowned and with thy mace and thy discus, hard to discern because thou art a luminous mass of energy on all sides of me, an encompassing blaze, a sun-bright fire-bright Immeasurable. Thou art the supreme Immutable whom we have to know, thou art the high foundation and abode of the universe, thou art the imperishable guardian of the eternal laws, thou art the sempiternal soul of existence."
But in the greatness of this vision there is too the terrific image of the Destroyer. This Immeasurable without end or middle or beginning is he in whom all things begin and exist and end.
This Godhead who embraces the worlds with his numberless arms and destroys with his million hands, whose eyes are suns and moons, has a face of blazing fire and is ever burning up the whole universe with the flame of his energy. The form of him is fierce and marvellous and alone it fills all the regions and occupies the whole space between earth and heaven. The companies of the gods enter it, afraid, adoring; the Rishis and the Siddhas crying "May there be peace and weal" praise it with many praises; the eyes of Gods and Titans and Giants are fixed on it in amazement. It has enormous burning eyes; it has mouths that gape to devour, terrible with many tusks of destruction; it has faces like the fires of Death and Time. The kings and the captains and the heroes on both sides of the world-battle are hastening into its tusked and terrible jaws and some are seen with crushed and bleeding heads caught between its teeth of power; the nations are rushing to destruction with helpless speed into its mouths of flame like many rivers hurrying in their course towards the ocean or like moths that cast themselves on a kindled fire. With those burning mouths the Form of Dread is licking all the regions around; the whole world is full of his burning energies and baked in the fierceness of his lustres. The world and its nations are shaken and in anguish with the terror of destruction and Arjuna shares in the trouble and panic around him; troubled and in pain is the soul within him and he finds no peace or gladness. He cries to the dreadful Godhead, "Declare to me who thou art that wearest this form of fierceness. Salutation to thee, O thou great Godhead, turn thy heart to grace. I would know who thou art who wast from the beginning, for I know not the will of thy workings." ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays On The Gita, 2.10_-_The_Vision_of_the_World-Spirit_-_Time_the_Destroyer,#KEYS
212:STAGE TWO: THE CHONYID
The Chonyid is the period of the appearance of the peaceful and wrathful deities-that is to say, the subtle realm, the Sambhogakaya. When the Clear Light of the causal realm is resisted and contracted against, then that Reality is transformed into the primordial seed forms of the peaceful deities (ishtadevas of the subtle sphere), and these in turn, if resisted and denied, are transformed into the wrathful deities.
The peaceful deities appear first: through seven successive substages, there appear various forms of the tathagatas, dakinis, and vidyadharas, all accompanied by the most dazzlingly brilliant colors and aweinspiring suprahuman sounds. One after another, the divine visions, lights, and subtle luminous sounds cascade through awareness. They are presented, given, to the individual openly, freely, fully, and completely: visions of God in almost painful intensity and brilliance.
How the individual handles these divine visions and sounds (nada) is of the utmost significance, because each divine scenario is accompanied by a much less intense vision, by a region of relative dullness and blunted illuminations. These concomitant dull and blunted visions represent the first glimmerings of the world of samsara, of the six realms of egoic grasping, of the dim world of duality and fragmentation and primitive forms of low-level unity.
According to the Thotrol. most individuals simply recoil in the face of these divine illuminations- they contract into less intense and more manageable forms of experience. Fleeing divine illumination, they glide towards the fragmented-and thus less intense-realm of duality and multiplicity. But it's not just that they recoil against divinity-it is that they are attracted to the lower realms, drawn to them, and find satisfaction in them. The Thotrol says they are actually "attracted to the impure lights." As we have put it, these lower realms are substitute gratifications. The individual thinks that they are just what he wants, these lower realms of denseness. But just because these realms are indeed dimmer and less intense, they eventually prove to be worlds without bliss, without illumination, shot through with pain and suffering. How ironic: as a substitute for God, individuals create and latch onto Hell, known as samsara, maya, dismay. In Christian theology it is said that the flames of Hell are God's love (Agape) denied.
Thus the message is repeated over and over again in the Chonyid stage: abide in the lights of the Five Wisdoms and subtle tathagatas, look not at the duller lights of samsara. of the six realms, of safe illusions and egoic dullness. As but one example:
Thereupon, because of the power of bad karma, the glorious blue light of the Wisdom of the Dharmadhatu will produce in thee fear and terror, and thou wilt wish to flee from it. Thou wilt begat a fondness for the dull white light of the devas [one of the lower realms].
At this stage, thou must not be awed by the divine blue light which will appear shining, dazzling, and glorious; and be not startled by it. That is the light of the Tathagata called the Light of the Wisdom of the Dharmadhatu.
Be not fond of the dull white light of the devas. Be not attached to it; be not weak. If thou be attached to it, thou wilt wander into the abodes of the devas and be drawn into the whirl of the Six Lokas.
The point is this: ''If thou are frightened by the pure radiances of Wisdom and attracted by the impure lights of the Six Lokas [lower realms], then thou wilt assume a body in any of the Six Lokas and suffer samsaric miseries; and thou wilt never be emancipated from the Ocean of Samsara, wherein thou wilt be whirled round and round and made to taste the sufferings thereof."
But here is what is happening: in effect, we are seeing the primal and original form of the Atman project in its negative and contracting aspects. In this second stage (the Chonyid), there is already some sort of boundary in awareness, there is already some sort of subject-object duality superimposed upon the original Wholeness and Oneness of the Chikhai Dharmakaya. So now there is boundary-and wherever there is boundary, there is the Atman project. ~ Ken Wilber, The Atman Project, 129,#KEYS
213:One little picture in this book, the Magic Locket, was drawn by 'Miss Alice Havers.' I did not state this on the title-page, since it seemed only due, to the artist of all these (to my mind) wonderful pictures, that his name should stand there alone.
The descriptions, of Sunday as spent by children of the last generation, are quoted verbatim from a speech made to me by a child-friend and a letter written to me by a lady-friend.
The Chapters, headed 'Fairy Sylvie' and 'Bruno's Revenge,' are a reprint, with a few alterations, of a little fairy-tale which I wrote in the year 1867, at the request of the late Mrs. Gatty, for 'Aunt Judy's Magazine,' which she was then editing.
It was in 1874, I believe, that the idea first occurred to me of making it the nucleus of a longer story.
As the years went on, I jotted down, at odd moments, all sorts of odd ideas, and fragments of dialogue, that occurred to me--who knows how?--with a transitory suddenness that left me no choice but either to record them then and there, or to abandon them to oblivion. Sometimes one could trace to their source these random flashes of thought--as being suggested by the book one was reading, or struck out from the 'flint' of one's own mind by the 'steel' of a friend's chance remark but they had also a way of their own, of occurring, a propos of nothing --specimens of that hopelessly illogical phenomenon, 'an effect without a cause.' Such, for example, was the last line of 'The Hunting of the Snark,' which came into my head (as I have already related in 'The Theatre' for April, 1887) quite suddenly, during a solitary walk: and such, again, have been passages which occurred in dreams, and which I cannot trace to any antecedent cause whatever. There are at least two instances of such dream-suggestions in this book--one, my Lady's remark, 'it often runs in families, just as a love for pastry does', the other, Eric Lindon's badinage about having been in domestic service.
And thus it came to pass that I found myself at last in possession of a huge unwieldy mass of litterature--if the reader will kindly excuse the spelling --which only needed stringing together, upon the thread of a consecutive story, to constitute the book I hoped to write. Only! The task, at first, seemed absolutely hopeless, and gave me a far clearer idea, than I ever had before, of the meaning of the word 'chaos': and I think it must have been ten years, or more, before I had succeeded in classifying these odds-and-ends sufficiently to see what sort of a story they indicated: for the story had to grow out of the incidents, not the incidents out of the story I am telling all this, in no spirit of egoism, but because I really believe that some of my readers will be interested in these details of the 'genesis' of a book, which looks so simple and straight-forward a matter, when completed, that they might suppose it to have been written straight off, page by page, as one would write a letter, beginning at the beginning; and ending at the end.
It is, no doubt, possible to write a story in that way: and, if it be not vanity to say so, I believe that I could, myself,--if I were in the unfortunate position (for I do hold it to be a real misfortune) of being obliged to produce a given amount of fiction in a given time,--that I could 'fulfil my task,' and produce my 'tale of bricks,' as other slaves have done. One thing, at any rate, I could guarantee as to the story so produced--that it should be utterly commonplace, should contain no new ideas whatever, and should be very very weary reading!
This species of literature has received the very appropriate name of 'padding' which might fitly be defined as 'that which all can write and none can read.' That the present volume contains no such writing I dare not avow: sometimes, in order to bring a picture into its proper place, it has been necessary to eke out a page with two or three extra lines : but I can honestly say I have put in no more than I was absolutely compelled to do.
My readers may perhaps like to amuse themselves by trying to detect, in a given passage, the one piece of 'padding' it contains. While arranging the 'slips' into pages, I found that the passage was 3 lines too short. I supplied the deficiency, not by interpolating a word here and a word there, but by writing in 3 consecutive lines. Now can my readers guess which they are?
A harder puzzle if a harder be desired would be to determine, as to the Gardener's Song, in which cases (if any) the stanza was adapted to the surrounding text, and in which (if any) the text was adapted to the stanza.
Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature--at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it: I have to take it as it come's is to write anything original. And perhaps the easiest is, when once an original line has been struck out, to follow it up, and to write any amount more to the same tune. I do not know if 'Alice in Wonderland' was an original story--I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it--but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen storybooks have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'--is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.
Hence it is that, in 'Sylvie and Bruno,' I have striven with I know not what success to strike out yet another new path: be it bad or good, it is the best I can do. It is written, not for money, and not for fame, but in the hope of supplying, for the children whom I love, some thoughts that may suit those hours of innocent merriment which are the very life of Childhood; and also in the hope of suggesting, to them and to others, some thoughts that may prove, I would fain hope, not wholly out of harmony with the graver cadences of Life.
If I have not already exhausted the patience of my readers, I would like to seize this opportunity perhaps the last I shall have of addressing so many friends at once of putting on record some ideas that have occurred to me, as to books desirable to be written--which I should much like to attempt, but may not ever have the time or power to carry through--in the hope that, if I should fail (and the years are gliding away very fast) to finish the task I have set myself, other hands may take it up.
First, a Child's Bible. The only real essentials of this would be, carefully selected passages, suitable for a child's reading, and pictures. One principle of selection, which I would adopt, would be that Religion should be put before a child as a revelation of love--no need to pain and puzzle the young mind with the history of crime and punishment. (On such a principle I should, for example, omit the history of the Flood.) The supplying of the pictures would involve no great difficulty: no new ones would be needed : hundreds of excellent pictures already exist, the copyright of which has long ago expired, and which simply need photo-zincography, or some similar process, for their successful reproduction. The book should be handy in size with a pretty attractive looking cover--in a clear legible type--and, above all, with abundance of pictures, pictures, pictures!
Secondly, a book of pieces selected from the Bible--not single texts, but passages of from 10 to 20 verses each--to be committed to memory. Such passages would be found useful, to repeat to one's self and to ponder over, on many occasions when reading is difficult, if not impossible: for instance, when lying awake at night--on a railway-journey --when taking a solitary walk-in old age, when eyesight is failing or wholly lost--and, best of all, when illness, while incapacitating us for reading or any other occupation, condemns us to lie awake through many weary silent hours: at such a time how keenly one may realise the truth of David's rapturous cry "O how sweet are thy words unto my throat: yea, sweeter than honey unto my mouth!"
I have said 'passages,' rather than single texts, because we have no means of recalling single texts: memory needs links, and here are none: one may have a hundred texts stored in the memory, and not be able to recall, at will, more than half-a-dozen--and those by mere chance: whereas, once get hold of any portion of a chapter that has been committed to memory, and the whole can be recovered: all hangs together.
Thirdly, a collection of passages, both prose and verse, from books other than the Bible. There is not perhaps much, in what is called 'un-inspired' literature (a misnomer, I hold: if Shakespeare was not inspired, one may well doubt if any man ever was), that will bear the process of being pondered over, a hundred times: still there are such passages--enough, I think, to make a goodly store for the memory.
These two books of sacred, and secular, passages for memory--will serve other good purposes besides merely occupying vacant hours: they will help to keep at bay many anxious thoughts, worrying thoughts, uncharitable thoughts, unholy thoughts. Let me say this, in better words than my own, by copying a passage from that most interesting book, Robertson's Lectures on the Epistles to the Corinthians, Lecture XLIX. "If a man finds himself haunted by evil desires and unholy images, which will generally be at periodical hours, let him commit to memory passages of Scripture, or passages from the best writers in verse or prose. Let him store his mind with these, as safeguards to repeat when he lies awake in some restless night, or when despairing imaginations, or gloomy, suicidal thoughts, beset him. Let these be to him the sword, turning everywhere to keep the way of the Garden of Life from the intrusion of profaner footsteps."
Fourthly, a "Shakespeare" for girls: that is, an edition in which everything, not suitable for the perusal of girls of (say) from 10 to 17, should be omitted. Few children under 10 would be likely to understand or enjoy the greatest of poets: and those, who have passed out of girlhood, may safely be left to read Shakespeare, in any edition, 'expurgated' or not, that they may prefer: but it seems a pity that so many children, in the intermediate stage, should be debarred from a great pleasure for want of an edition suitable to them. Neither Bowdler's, Chambers's, Brandram's, nor Cundell's 'Boudoir' Shakespeare, seems to me to meet the want: they are not sufficiently 'expurgated.' Bowdler's is the most extraordinary of all: looking through it, I am filled with a deep sense of wonder, considering what he has left in, that he should have cut anything out! Besides relentlessly erasing all that is unsuitable on the score of reverence or decency, I should be inclined to omit also all that seems too difficult, or not likely to interest young readers. The resulting book might be slightly fragmentary: but it would be a real treasure to all British maidens who have any taste for poetry.
If it be needful to apologize to any one for the new departure I have taken in this story--by introducing, along with what will, I hope, prove to be acceptable nonsense for children, some of the graver thoughts of human life--it must be to one who has learned the Art of keeping such thoughts wholly at a distance in hours of mirth and careless ease. To him such a mixture will seem, no doubt, ill-judged and repulsive. And that such an Art exists I do not dispute: with youth, good health, and sufficient money, it seems quite possible to lead, for years together, a life of unmixed gaiety--with the exception of one solemn fact, with which we are liable to be confronted at any moment, even in the midst of the most brilliant company or the most sparkling entertainment. A man may fix his own times for admitting serious thought, for attending public worship, for prayer, for reading the Bible: all such matters he can defer to that 'convenient season', which is so apt never to occur at all: but he cannot defer, for one single moment, the necessity of attending to a message, which may come before he has finished reading this page,' this night shalt thy soul be required of thee.'
The ever-present sense of this grim possibility has been, in all ages, 1 an incubus that men have striven to shake off. Few more interesting subjects of enquiry could be found, by a student of history, than the various weapons that have been used against this shadowy foe. Saddest of all must have been the thoughts of those who saw indeed an existence beyond the grave, but an existence far more terrible than annihilation--an existence as filmy, impalpable, all but invisible spectres, drifting about, through endless ages, in a world of shadows, with nothing to do, nothing to hope for, nothing to love! In the midst of the gay verses of that genial 'bon vivant' Horace, there stands one dreary word whose utter sadness goes to one's heart. It is the word 'exilium' in the well-known passage
Omnes eodem cogimur, omnium
Versatur urna serius ocius
Sors exitura et nos in aeternum
Exilium impositura cymbae.
Yes, to him this present life--spite of all its weariness and all its sorrow--was the only life worth having: all else was 'exile'! Does it not seem almost incredible that one, holding such a creed, should ever have smiled?
And many in this day, I fear, even though believing in an existence beyond the grave far more real than Horace ever dreamed of, yet regard it as a sort of 'exile' from all the joys of life, and so adopt Horace's theory, and say 'let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.'
We go to entertainments, such as the theatre--I say 'we', for I also go to the play, whenever I get a chance of seeing a really good one and keep at arm's length, if possible, the thought that we may not return alive. Yet how do you know--dear friend, whose patience has carried you through this garrulous preface that it may not be your lot, when mirth is fastest and most furious, to feel the sharp pang, or the deadly faintness, which heralds the final crisis--to see, with vague wonder, anxious friends bending over you to hear their troubled whispers perhaps yourself to shape the question, with trembling lips, "Is it serious?", and to be told "Yes: the end is near" (and oh, how different all Life will look when those words are said!)--how do you know, I say, that all this may not happen to you, this night?
And dare you, knowing this, say to yourself "Well, perhaps it is an immoral play: perhaps the situations are a little too 'risky', the dialogue a little too strong, the 'business' a little too suggestive.
I don't say that conscience is quite easy: but the piece is so clever, I must see it this once! I'll begin a stricter life to-morrow." To-morrow, and to-morrow, and tomorrow!
"Who sins in hope, who, sinning, says,
'Sorrow for sin God's judgement stays!'
Against God's Spirit he lies; quite stops Mercy with insult; dares, and drops,
Like a scorch'd fly, that spins in vain
Upon the axis of its pain,
Then takes its doom, to limp and crawl,
Blind and forgot, from fall to fall."
Let me pause for a moment to say that I believe this thought, of the possibility of death--if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong. If the thought of sudden death acquires, for you, a special horror when imagined as happening in a theatre, then be very sure the theatre is harmful for you, however harmless it may be for others; and that you are incurring a deadly peril in going. Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.
But, once realise what the true object is in life--that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds'--but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man--and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!
One other matter may perhaps seem to call for apology--that I should have treated with such entire want of sympathy the British passion for 'Sport', which no doubt has been in by-gone days, and is still, in some forms of it, an excellent school for hardihood and for coolness in moments of danger.
But I am not entirely without sympathy for genuine 'Sport': I can heartily admire the courage of the man who, with severe bodily toil, and at the risk of his life, hunts down some 'man-eating' tiger: and I can heartily sympathize with him when he exults in the glorious excitement of the chase and the hand-to-hand struggle with the monster brought to bay. But I can but look with deep wonder and sorrow on the hunter who, at his ease and in safety, can find pleasure in what involves, for some defenceless creature, wild terror and a death of agony: deeper, if the hunter be one who has pledged himself to preach to men the Religion of universal Love: deepest of all, if it be one of those 'tender and delicate' beings, whose very name serves as a symbol of Love--'thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women'--whose mission here is surely to help and comfort all that are in pain or sorrow!
'Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.' ~ Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno,#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:Eternity forbids thee to forget. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 2:Press on! A better fate awaits thee. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 3:Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 4:Take the goods the gods provide thee. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 5:But did thee feel the earth move? ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 6:Drive thy business or it will drive thee. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove 7:Success! to thee, as to a God, men bend the knee. ~ aeschylus, @wisdomtrove 8:America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, ~ george-carlin, @wisdomtrove 9:Control thy passions lest they take vengeance on thee. ~ epictetus, @wisdomtrove 10:I love thee, as the good love heaven. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 11:I am not bound to please thee with my answer. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove 12:And Doubt and Discord step & 13:Am not IA fly like thee?Or art not thouA man like me? ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 14:Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 15:I see thee better in the dark I do not need a light. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 16:The unwritten only still belongs to thee: ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 17:And sure in language strange she said, / I love thee true. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 18:How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 19:When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. ~ plato, @wisdomtrove 20:I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 21:I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 22:Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee? ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 23:Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 24:Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 25:A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 26:I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 27:Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering? ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 28:No other God have I but thee, born in a manger, died on a tree. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 29:The caterpillar on the leaf / Repeats to thee thy mother's grief. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 30:I am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art! ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 31:Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee! ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 32:Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee! ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 33:Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 34:Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee. ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove 35:Already with thee! tender is the night. . . But here there is no light. . . ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 36:And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death. ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 37:Thus, while I am borne to loftiest heights, I behold Thee as Infinity ~ nicholas-of-cusa, @wisdomtrove 38:What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should'st move My heart so potently? ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 39:Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 40:If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me? ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 41:How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee? ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 42:I will love thee to the death, And out beyond into the dream to come. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 43:We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee! ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 44:Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses. Write not again, but come, sweet mate ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove 45:I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 46:Short is the little time which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 47:So preach that those who do not fall out with their sins may fall out with thee. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 48:Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 49:Then blessings on thee, my afternoon torpor Thou makest a prince of a mental porpor. ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 50:My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 51:Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 52:Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove 53:And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 54:Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove 55:But let me see thee stoop from heaven on wings That fill the sky with silver glitterings! ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 56:Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove 57:Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 58:Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 59:Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 60:Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 61:Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 62:What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes. ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 63:With thee all tales are sweet; each clime has charms; earth - sea alike - our world within our arms. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 64:If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path. ~ sri-ramakrishna, @wisdomtrove 65:Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 66:There's nothing fair nor beautiful, but takes Something from thee, that makes it beautiful. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 67:Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ~ oliver-goldsmith, @wisdomtrove 68:Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee! ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 69:Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 70:I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove 71:I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove 72:If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 73:Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 74:I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee! ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 75:I love thee, I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold And the stars grow old. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove 76:And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 77:Sister, mother And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea, Suffer me not to be separated And let my cry come unto Thee. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 78:We love but while we may; And therefore is my love so large for thee, Seeing it is not bounded save by love. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 79:If it be not true to me, What care I how true it be.. Though it be not true to thee, It's gay and gospel truth to me. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 80:If your faith does not make you pray, have nothing to do with it; get rid of it, and God help thee to begin again. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 81:It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 82:Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog! ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 83:Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life. ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 84:For none can express thee, though all should approve thee. I love thee so, Dear, that I only can love thee. ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 85:Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 86:Yet I did love thee to the last, As ferverently as thou, Who didst not change through all the past, And canst not alter now. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 87:Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee. ~ immanuel-kant, @wisdomtrove 88:My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give thee, the more I have, For both are infinite. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove 89:Take this sorrow to thy heart and make it part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 90:Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 91:When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 92:Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove 93:Tell me, O Octopus, I begs,/ Is those things arms, or is they legs?/ I marvel at thee, Octopus; If I were thou, I'd call me Us. ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 94:Farewell, my sister, fare thee well. The elements be kind to thee, and make Thy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove 95:Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove 96:Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 97:Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 98:I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried- "La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall! ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 99:Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 100:Or thou might'st better listen to the wind, Whose language is to thee a barren noise, Though it blows legend-laden through the trees. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 101:My life is a divine tautology. I am the adoration of God, by the grace of God. Apart from adoration I have no existence. I adore Thee. ~ barry-long, @wisdomtrove 102:And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 103:Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward & portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 104:Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us O'er the world's tempestuous sea; Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, For we have no help but Thee. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 105:Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, our faith triumphant o’er our fears, are all with thee – are all with thee! ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 106:Tis necessary for thee to learn all things, both the abiding essence of persuasive truth, and men's opinions in which rests no true belief. ~ parmenides, @wisdomtrove 107:And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 108:Guess now who holds thee?'& 109:And there shall be for thee all soft delight That shadowy thought can win, A bright torch, and a casement ope at night, To let the warm Love in! ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 110:Fountain of Love my source is in thee - Loving thy will my spirit is free - Beautiful day when all of us see - The hope of the world is Love! ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 111:This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 112:Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 113:When the stars threw down their spears, and watered heaven with their tears, did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 114:I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 115:master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 116:Seeke out ye goode in everie man, and speke of alle the beste ye can; then wil alle men speke wel of thee and say how kynde of hearte ye bee ~ geoffrey-chaucer, @wisdomtrove 117:Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 118:If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 119:Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom, On thee shall press no ponderous tomb; But on thy turf shall roses rear Their leaves, the earliest of the year. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 120:In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 121:This is my password," said the King as he drew his sword. "The light is dawning, the lie broken. Now guard thee, miscreant, for I am Tirian of Narnia. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 122:When the stars threw down their spears, / And watered heaven with their tears, / Did he smile his work to see? / Did he who made the Lamb make thee? ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 123:We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead And thirst our souls from Thee to fill. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 124:Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 125:Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 126:Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove 127:I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need, by sun and candle light... I love thee with the breath,smiles,t ears,of all my life. ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 128:Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove 129:Take them, O Death! and bear away Whatever thou canst call thine own! Thine image, stamped upon this clay, Doth give thee that, but that alone! ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 130:Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything - God alone suffices. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 131:Sweet April! many a thought Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed; Nor shall they fail, till, to its autumn brought, Life's golden fruit is shed. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 132:O money, money, money. I'm not necessarily one of those who think thee holy, but I often stop to wonder how thou canst go out so fast when thou comest in so slowly. ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove 133:Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, Where thou may'st warble, eat and dwell. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 134:Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest! ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 135:Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 136:Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 137:MY river runs to thee: Blue sea, wilt welcome me? My river waits reply. Oh sea, look graciously! I ‚Äôll fetch thee brooks From spotted nooks,‚Äî Say, sea, Take me! ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 138:Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head? ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 139:Why ponder thus the future to foresee, and jade thy brain to vain perplexity? Cast off thy care, leave Allah’s plans to him – He formed them all without consulting thee. ~ omar-khayyam, @wisdomtrove 140:Every president has taken comfort and courage when told... that the Lord "will be with thee. He will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Fear not-neither be thou dismayed." ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 141:My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 142:I see, Lord, through Thine infinite mercy, that Thou art Infinity encompassing all things. Nothing exists outside Thee, and all things -in Thee are not other than Thee ~ nicholas-of-cusa, @wisdomtrove 143:Why ponder thus the future to foresee, and jade thy brain to vain perplexity? Cast off thy care, leave Allah‚Äôs plans to him ‚Äì He formed them all without consulting thee. ~ omar-khayyam, @wisdomtrove 144:By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom. ~ omar-khayyam, @wisdomtrove 145:In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 146:... for, by all the stars That tend thy bidding, I do think the bars That kept my spirit in are burst - that I Am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art! ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 147:Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 148:I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 149:The image of Eternity& 150:If I had to baptise a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words & 151:O world, I am in tune with every note of thy great harmony. For me nothing is early, nothing late, if it be timely for thee. O Nature, all that thy seasons yield is fruit for me. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 152:Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 153:Here & 154:Here & 155:He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made... . Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from heaven. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 156:How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere! ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove 157:Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 158:Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom. ~ margaret-fuller, @wisdomtrove 159:And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 160:Alas! for that accursed time They bore thee o'er the billow, From love to titled age and crime, And an unholy pillow! From me, and from our misty clime, Where weeps the silver willow! ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 161:What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 162:How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 163:Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one. ~ hafez, @wisdomtrove 164:To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow. ~ omar-khayyam, @wisdomtrove 165:The soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,And placed it by thee on a golden throne,& 166:Closer of lovely eyes to lovely dreams, Lover of loneliness, and wandering, Of upcast eye, and tender pondering! Thee must I praise above all other glories That smile us on to tell delightful stories. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 167:Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 168:Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing! ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 169:Oh Agnes, Oh my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when realities are melting from me, like the shadows which I now dismiss, still find thee near me, pointing upward! ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 170:God! if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not thine everlasting beauty. ~ rabia-basri, @wisdomtrove 171:Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove 172:Heavenly Father - take to thee The supreme iniquity Fashioned by thy candid Hand In a moment contraband - Though to trust us seem to us More respectful - We are Dust - We apologize to thee For thine own Duplicity. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 173:Let us away, my love, with happy speed; There are no ears to hear, or eyes to see, - Drown'd all in Rhenish and the sleepy mead. Awake! arise! my love and fearless be, For o'er the southern moors I have a home for thee. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 174:And when I behold Thee as absolute Infinity, to whom is befitting neither the name of creating Creator nor of creatable Creator-then indeed I begin to behold Thee unveiled, and to enter into the garden of delights! ~ nicholas-of-cusa, @wisdomtrove 175:There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 176:Almighty and eternal Lord God, the great Creator of heaven and earth, and the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; look down from heaven in pity and compassion upon me thy servant, who humbly prostrate myself before thee. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 177:I don't see why the likes o' thee Without axin' leave should go makin' free With the shank or the shin o' my father's kin; So hand the old bone over! Rover! Trover! Though dead he be, it belongs to he; So hand the old bnone over! ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 178:Produce, produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name. & 179:He fills heaven and earth as the ocean fills the bucket that is submerged in it, and as the ocean surrounds the bucket so does God in the universe He fills. "The heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee." God is not contained: He contains. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 180:Will Supreme, Thy Will prevails. The Fountain of Goodness accomplishes everything when the time is ripe. To aspire to That which is Eternal Truth is right for everyone. Of Thee alone must be the spoken word, All else is but futility and pain. ~ anandamayi-ma, @wisdomtrove 181:I would build a cloudy House For my thoughts to live in; When for earth too fancy-loose And too low for Heaven! Hush! I talk my dream aloud - I build it bright to see, - I build it on the moonlit cloud, To which I looked with thee. ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 182:Wild Nights ‚Äì Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile ‚Äì the winds ‚Äì To a heart in port ‚Äì Done with the compass ‚Äì Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden ‚Äì Ah, the sea! Might I moor ‚Äì Tonight ‚Äì In thee! ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 183:Each day of the holidays comes bringing its own gifts. Open your heart, Untie the ribbons, and enjoy the contents! Were earth a thousand times as fair Beset with gold and jewels rare She yet were far too poor to be A narrow cradle, Lord, for Thee. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 184:A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest. ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 185:As the different streams, having their sources in different places, all mingle their water in the sea; O Lord, so the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 186:Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments. ~ aeschylus, @wisdomtrove 187:Look, then, into thine heart, and write! Yes, into Life's deep stream! All forms of sorrow and delight, All solemn Voices of the Night, That can soothe thee, or affright, - Be these henceforth thy theme. (excerpt from "Voices of the Night") ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 188:If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 189:The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight, Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee! ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 190:God and Father, I repent of my sinful preoccupation with visible things. The world has been too much with me. Thou hast been here and I knew it not. I have been blind to Thy Presence. Open my eyes that I may behold Thee in and around me. For Christ's sake, Amen. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 191:I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing; for Thou hast appointed that man should from others guess much as to himself; and believe much on the strength of weak females. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 192:Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 193:Take now this Ring,' he said; & 194:friendship! thou fond soother of the human breast, to thee we fly in every calamity; to thee the wretched seek for succor; on thee the care-tired son of misery fondly relies; from thy kind assistance the unfortunate always hopes relief, and may be sure of& 195:Lord God, I thank Thee that Thou hast been pleased to make me a poor and indigent man upon earth. I have neither house nor land nor money, to leave behind me. Thou hast given me wife and children, whom I now restore to Thee. Lord, nourish, teach, and preserve them as Thou hast me. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 196:Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives, When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives, Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain, But never will be sung to us again, Is they remembrance. Now the hour of rest Hath come to thee. Sleep, darling: it is best. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 197:Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea! ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-sr, @wisdomtrove 198:For thee, sweet month; the groves green liveries wear. If not the first, the fairest of the year; For thee the Graces lead the dancing hours, And Nature's ready pencil paints the flowers. When thy short reign is past, the feverish sun The sultry tropic fears, and moves more slowly on. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 199:Since, O sweet Lord Jesus, Thou art the present portion of Thy people, favour us this year with such a sense of Thy preciousness, that from its first to its last day we may be glad and rejoice in Thee. Let January open with joy in the Lord, and December close with gladness in Jesus. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 200:Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 201:Then she fell on her knees, saying: & 202:How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate; and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 203:There is but one soul throughout the universe, all is but one existence - "Thou art in the woman, thou in the man, thou in the young man walking in the pride of youth, thou in the old man tottering on his stick - thou art All - in all, in everything, and I am thee, because I am made from thee." ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 204:Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses, to be used by Thee, O infinite creator, in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through me. I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult or too menial when offered to Thee in loving service. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 205:Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart& 206:Lord, my God, ... I see Thee to be & 207:Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 208:And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come into me, God who made heaven and earth? is there, indeed, O Lord my God, aught in me that can contain thee? ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 209:Be faithful and true of word; let thy walk be plain and lowly: thou wilt get on, though in savage land. If thy words be not faithful and true, thy walk plain and lowly, wilt thou get on, though in thine own home? Standing, see these words ranged before thee; driving, see them written upon the yoke. Then thou wilt get on. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 210:For this shall never be proved, that the things that are not are; and do thou restrain thy thought from this way of inquiry. Nor let habit force thee to cast a wandering eye upon this devious track, or to turn thither thy resounding ear or thy tongue; but do thou judge the subtle refutation of their discourse uttered by me. ~ parmenides, @wisdomtrove 211:It is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for love's sake; and the prayer goes: O Lord, I do not want wealth nor children nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth. But grant me this, that I may love thee without the hope of reward & 212:Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech, but as a thruth that they knew and acted upon. Verily it was another world then, but yet it is a pity we have lost the tidings of our souls. We shall have to go in search of them again or worse in all ways shall befall us. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 213:Thy soul shall find itself alone ‘Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone‚ Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of secrecy. Be silent in that solitude, Which is not loneliness‚for then The spirits of the dead who stood In life before thee are again In death around thee‚and their will Shall overshadow thee: be still. [... ] ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 214:A godly man often grows best when his worldly circumstances decay. He who follows Christ for his bag is a Judas; they who follow for loaves and fishes are children of the devil; but they who attend Him out of love to Himself are His own beloved ones. Lord, let me find my life in Thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 215:Sometimes I go to God and say, "God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages to come for what Thou hast done already. God’s already put me so far in debt that if I were to live one million millenniums I couldn’t pay Him for what He’s done for me. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 216:Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or sown with stars, wherever are forms with transparent boundaries, wherever are outlets into celestial space, wherever is danger, and awe, and love, there is Beauty, plenteous as rain, shed for thee. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove 217:My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 218:The sun with loving light makes bright for me each day, the soul with spirit power gives strength unto my limbs. In sunlight shining clear I revere, Oh God, the strength of humankind, which thou has planted in my soul, that I may with all my might, may love to work and learn. From thee stream light and strength to thee rise love and thanks. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove 219:Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying. If all the world be worth the winning, Think, oh think it worth enjoying: Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 220:Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,& 221:Stick to God! Who cares what comes to the body or to anything else! Through the terrors of evil, say-my God, my love! Through the pangs of death, say-my God, my love! Through all the evils under the sun, say-my God, my love! Thou art here, I see Thee. Thou art with me, I feel Thee. I am Thine, take me. I am not of the world's but Thine, leave not then me. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 222:Hence, in Thee, who art Love, the lover -is not one thing and the loved another, and the bond between them a third, but they are one and the same-Thou, Thyself, my God. Since, then, in Thee the loved is one with the lover, and being loved [is one] with loving, this bond of coincidence is an essential bond. For there is nothing in Thee that is not Thy very Essence. ~ nicholas-of-cusa, @wisdomtrove 223:Remember, too, every day, and whenever you can, repeat to yourself, Lord, have mercy on all who appear before Thee today. For every hour and every moment thousands of men leave life on this earth, and their souls appear before God. And how many of them depart in solitude, unknown, sad, dejected that no one mourns for them or even knows whether they have lived or not! ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 224:By all means they try to hold me secure who love me in this world. But it is otherwise with thy love which is greater than theirs, and thout keepst me free. Lest I forgot them they never venture to leave me alone. But day passes by after day and thou art not seen. If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 225:Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee& 226:Thou hast put me in this world for something, Lord; show me what that is, and help me to work out my life-purpose: I cannot do much, but as the widow put in her two mites, which were all her living, so, Lord, I cast my time and eternity too into thy treasury; I am all thine; take me, and enable me to glorify thee now, in all that I say, in all that I do, and with all that I have. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 227:I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried—“La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!” XI. I saw their starved lips in the gloam, With horrid warning gaped wide, And I awoke and found me here, On the cold hill’s side. XII. And this is why I sojourn here, Alone and palely loitering, Though the sedge is wither’d from the lake, And no birds sing. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 228:O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee ,has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty .how often have religions taken thee upon their scraggy knees squeezing and buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive gods (but true to the incomparable couch of death thy rhythmic lover thou answerest them only with spring) ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove 229:I f thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile ... her look ... her way Of speaking gently ... for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day- For these things in themselves, Beloved, may Be changed, or change for thee-and love so wrought, May be unwrought so. ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 230:May we feel after Thee; still calling out in the darkness, as children waking in the night call "Father," so may we call out for God; and, at times, even if we do not hear Thy voice, may there be the form of a hand resting upon us, and that shall be enough; for we shall take hold of it, though it be in the dark, and it shall guide us to the growing light; for the day shall come, and the release and triumph. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 231:Teach us, O God, that nothing is necessary to Thee. Were anything necessary to Thee that thing would be the measure of Thine imperfection: and how could we worship one who is imperfect? If nothing is necessary to Thee, then no one is necessary, and if no one, then not we. Thou dost seek us though Thou does not need us. We seek Thee because we need Thee, for in Thee we live and move and have our being. Amen. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 232:Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove 233:Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the Psalms name thee Wisdom and Truth, John names thee Light, the Book of Kings names thee Lord, Exodus names thee Providence, Leviticus Sanctity, Esdras Justice, creation names thee God, man names thee Father; but Solomon names thee Compassion, which is the most beautiful of all thy names. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 234:Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire, A million scarce would quench desire; Still would I steep my lips in bliss, And dwell an age on every kiss; Nor then my soul should sated be, Still would I kiss and cling to thee: Nought should my kiss from thine dissever, Still would we kiss and kiss for ever; E'en though the numbers did exceed The yellow harvest's countless seed; To part would be a vain endeavour: Could I desist? -ah! never-never. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 235:But first, on earth as vampire sent, Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent, Then ghastly haunt thy native place, And suck the blood of all thy race. There from thy daughter, sister, wife, At midnight drain the stream of life, Yet loathe the banquet which perforce Must feed thy livid living corse. Thy victims ere they yet expire Shall know the demon for their sire, As cursing thee, thou cursing them, Thy flowers are withered on the stem. ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove 236:I SEE thee better in the dark, I do not need a light. The love of thee a prism be Excelling violet. I see thee better for the years That hunch themselves between, The miner‚Äôs lamp sufficient be To nullify the mine. And in the grave I see thee best‚Äî Its little panels be A-glow, all ruddy with the light I held so high for thee! What need of day to those whose dark Hath so surpassing sun, It seem it be continually At the meridian? ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 237:Ah, sinner, may the Lord quicken thee! But it is a work that makes the Saviour weep. I think when He comes to call some of you from your death in sin, He comes weeping and sighing for you. There is a stone that is to be rolled away& 238:Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly? The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring ,Its summer blossoms scent the air; Yet wait till winter comes again, And who will call the wild-briar fair? Then, scorn the silly rose-wreath now, And deck thee with holly's sheen, That, when December blights thy brow, He still may leave thy garland green. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 239:Let only that little be left of me whereby I may name thee my all. Let only that little be left of my will whereby I may feel thee on every side, and come to thee in everything, and offer to thee my love every moment. Let only that little be left of me whereby I may never hide thee. Let only that little of my fetters be left whereby I am bound with thy will, and thy purpose is carried out in my life& 240:I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creatures is born. But only one who can appease their conscience can take over their freedom […] Instead of taking men's freedom from them, Thou didst make it greater than ever! Didst Thou forget that man prefers peace, and even death, to freedom of choice in the knowledge of good and evil? ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 241:Give Me Strength This is my prayer to thee, my lord - strike, strike at the root of penury in my heart. Give me the strength lightly to bear my joys and sorrows. Give me the strength to make my love fruitful in service. Give me the strength never to disown the poor or bend my knees before insolent might. Give me the strength to raise my mind high above daily trifles. And give me the strength to surrender my strength to thy will with love. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 242:Thou art merciful; when all my endeavour is turned toward Thee because all Thy endeavour is turned toward me; when I look unto Thee alone with all my attention, nor ever turn aside the eyes of my mind, because Thou dost enfold me with Thy constant regard; when I direct my love toward Thee alone because Thou, who art Love's self, hast turned Thee toward me alone. And what, Lord, is my life, save that embrace wherein Thy delightsome sweetness doth so lovingly enfold me? ~ nicholas-of-cusa, @wisdomtrove 243:During my incarceration Mother visited me. She had in some way managed to leave the workhouse and was making an effort to establish a home for us. Her presence was like a bouquet of flowers; she looked so fresh and lovely that I felt ashamed of my unkempt appearance and my shaved iodined head.'You must excuse his dirty face,' said the nurse.Mother laughed, and how well I remember her endearing words as she hugged and kissed me: & 244:The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange the senses and make things appear different from what they are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and putting the lance in rest, shot down the slope like a thunderbolt. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 245:If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent If the unheard, unspoken Word is unspoken, unheard; Still is the spoken word, the Word unheard, The Word without a word, the Word within The world and for the world; And the light shone in the darkness and Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled About the center of the silent Word. Oh my people, what have I done unto thee. Where shall the word be found, where shall the word Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 246:To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo, in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand, Ah! Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land! ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 247:No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God. Every president has taken comfort and courage when toldthat the Lord & 248:Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb and purge my heart by Thy Holy Spirit. Daily, frame me more and more in the likeness of Thy son, Jesus Christ, that living in Thy fear, and dying in Thy favor, I may in thy appointed time obtain the resurrection of the justified unto eternal life. Bless, O Lord, the whole race of mankind and let the world be filled with the knowledge of Thee and Thy son, Jesus Christ. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove 249:It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as if this clerical error became conscious of being such. Perhaps this was no error but in a far higher sense was an essential part of the whole exposition. It is, then, as if this clerical error were to revolt against the author, out of hatred for him, were to forbid him to correct it, and were to say, "No, I will not be erased, I will stand as a witness against thee, that thou art a very poor writer." ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 250:Only Thee That I want thee, only thee - let my heart repeat without end. All desires that distract me, day and night, are false and empty to the core. As the night keeps hidden in its gloom the petition for light, even thus in the depth of my unconsciousness rings the cry - `I want thee, only thee'. As the storm still seeks its end in peace when it strikes against peace with all its might, even thus my rebellion strikes against thy love and still its cry is - `I want thee, only thee'. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 251:Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls. Where words come out from the depth of truth, where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection. Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit. Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action. In to that heaven of freedom, my father, LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE! ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 252:Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I feel ashamed. I am certain that priceless wealth is in thee, and that thou art my best friend, but I have not the heart to sweep away the tinsel that fills my room. The shroud that covers me is a shroud of dust and death; I hate it, yet hug it in love. My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 253:thou with dewy locks, who lookest down Thro' the clear windows of the morning, turn Thine angel eyes upon our western isle, Which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring! The hills tell each other, and the listening Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turned Up to thy bright pavilions: issue forth, And let thy holy feet visit our clime. Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 254:I behold Thee, 0 Lord my God, in a kind of mental trance, ... Thus, while I am borne to loftiest heights, I behold Thee as Infinity... And when I behold Thee as absolute Infinity, to whom is befitting neither the name of creating Creator nor of creatable Creator-then indeed I begin to behold Thee unveiled, and to enter into the garden of delights! ... [In that vision] nothing is seen other than Thyself, [for Thou] art Thyself the object of Thyself (for Thou seest, and art That which is seen, and art the sight as well) . ~ nicholas-of-cusa, @wisdomtrove 255:Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that thou didst once love, and love the things that thou didst once hate; if thou hast really repented; if there be a thorough change of mind in thee; if thou be born again, then hast thou reason to rejoice: but if there be no vital change, no inward godliness; if there be no love to God, no prayer, no work of the Holy Spirit, then thy saying "I am saved" is but thine own assertion, and it may delude, but it will not deliver thee. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 256:The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There love ennobles all. The world may sound no trumpets, ring no bells The book of life the shining record tells. Thy love shall chant its own beatitudes After its own life-workings. A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt serve thyself by every sense, Of service which thou renderest. ~ elizabeth-barrett-browning, @wisdomtrove 257:Friend of fatherless! Fountain of happiness! Lord of the swill-bucket! Oh, how my soul is on Fire when I gaze at thy Calm and commanding eye. Like the sun in the sky, Comrade Napoleon! Thou are the giver of All thy creatures love, Full belly twice a day, clean straw to roll upon; Every beast great or small, Sleeps at peace in his stall, Thou watchest over all, Comrade Napoleon! Had I a sucking-pig, Ere he had grown as big Even as a pint bottle or a a rolling-pin He should have learned to be Faithful and true to thee, Yes, his first squeak should be Comrade Napoleon! ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 258:God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, so that I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, ‘Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away.’ Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 259:Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows Follow sweet children I'll show thee the way through all the pain and the Sorrows Weep not poor childlen for life is this way murdering beauty and Passions Hush now dear children it must be this way to weary of life and Deceptions Rest now my children for soon we'll away into the calm and the Quiet Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 260:When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain; When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love;& 261:And wilt thou have me fashion into speech The love I bear thee, finding words enough, And hold the torch out, while the winds are rough, Between our faces, to cast light on each? - I dropt it at thy feet. I cannot teach My hand to hold my spirits so far off From myself& 262:Now I behold as in a mirror, in an icon, in a riddle, life eternal, for that is naught other than that blessed regard wherewith Thou never ceasest most lovingly to behold me, yea, even the secret places of my soul. With Thee, to behold is to give life; 'tis unceasingly to impart sweetest love of Thee; 'tis to inflame me to love of Thee by love's imparting, and to feed me by inflaming, and by feeding to kindle my yearning, and by kindling to make me drink of gladness, and by drinking to infuse in me a fountain of life, and by infusing to make it increase and endure. & 263:Divinity above all knowledge, whose goodness passes understanding . . . direct our way to the summit of thy mystical oracles, most incomprehensible, most lucid and most exalted, where the simple and pure and unchangeable mysteries of theology are revealed in the darkness, clearer than light, of that silence in which secret things are hidden; a darkness that shines brighter than light, that invisibly and intangibly illuminates with splendours of inconceivable beauty the soul that sees not. Let this be my prayer; but do thou, diligently giving thyself to mystical contemplation, leave the senses, and the operations of the intellect, and all things sensible and intelligible, and things that are and things that are not, that thou mayest rise as may be lawful for thee, by ways above knowledge to union with Him who is above all knowledge and all being; that in freedom and abandonment of all, thou mayest be borne, through pure, entire and absolute abstraction of thyself from all things, into the supernatural radiance of the divine darkness. ~ pseudo-dionysius-the-areopagite, @wisdomtrove 264:“Divinity above all knowledge, whose goodness passes understanding . . . direct our way to the summit of thy mystical oracles, most incomprehensible, most lucid and most exalted, where the simple and pure and unchangeable mysteries of theology are revealed in the darkness, clearer than light, of that silence in which secret things are hidden; a darkness that shines brighter than light, that invisibly and intangibly illuminates with splendours of inconceivable beauty the soul that sees not. Let this be my prayer; but do thou, diligently giving thyself to mystical contemplation, leave the senses, and the operations of the intellect, and all things sensible and intelligible, and things that are and things that are not, that thou mayest rise as may be lawful for thee, by ways above knowledge to union with Him who is above all knowledge and all being; that in freedom and abandonment of all, thou mayest be borne, through pure, entire and absolute abstraction of thyself from all things, into the supernatural radiance of the divine darkness. ~ pseudo-dionysius-the-areopagite, @wisdomtrove 265:Mahomet has been extolled by Moslem writers for the chastity of his early life ; and it is remarkable that, with all the plurality of wives indulged in by the Arabs, and which he permitted himself in subsequent years, and with all that constitutional fondness which he evinced for the sex, he remained single in his devotion to Cadijah to her dying day, never giving her a rival in his house, nor in his heart. Even the fresh and budding charms of Ayesha, which soon assumed such empire over him, could not obliterate the deep and mingled feeling of tenderness and gratitude for his early benefactress. Ayesha was piqued one day at hearing him indulge in these fond recollections : " O, apostle of God, " demanded the youth-ful beauty, "was not Cadijah stricken in years? Has not Allah given thee a better wife in her stead?" " Never ! " exclaimed Mahomet, with an honest burst of feeling — " never did God give me a better ! When I was poor, she enriched me ; when I was pronounced a liar, she believed in me ; when I was opposed by all the world, she remained true tome! ~ washington-irving, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:Remember thee! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
2:Get thee behind me, Satan! ~ P C Cast, #NFDB
3:I love thee still. ~ Katherine Addison, #NFDB
4:Get thee behind me, tragedy. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
5:Eternity bids thee to forget ~ John Green, #NFDB
6:God deceiveth thee not. ~ Thomas a Kempis, #NFDB
7:Lust-bred diseases rot thee. ~ John Donne, #NFDB
8:Eternity bids thee to forget. ~ John Green, #NFDB
9:All I refuse and thee I choose. ~ L J Smith, #NFDB
10:Get thee to a nunnery! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
11:Get thee to a nunnery. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
12:I love thee as I love the tone ~ Eliza Acton, #NFDB
13:Eternity forbids thee to forget. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
14:If thou lovest, God liveth in thee. ~ Tolstoi, #NFDB
15:My soul I'll pour into thee. ~ Robert Herrick, #NFDB
16:what is that betwixt me and thee? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
17:Who gave thee, O Beauty, ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
18:Spirits of the dead, I summon thee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
19:Subject thyself to thee. ~ Bhagavad Gita XII. 11, #NFDB
20:The truth shall make thee fret ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
21:... And death unloads thee. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
22:Her eyes the glowworm lend thee, ~ Robert Herrick, #NFDB
23:My country tears of thee. ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti, #NFDB
24:We being round thee, forget to die. ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB
25:I arise from dreams of thee ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB
26:I don't see why the likes o' thee ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
27:Let thy vices die before thee. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
28:Press on! A better fate awaits thee. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
29:Take the good the gods provide thee. ~ John Dryden, #NFDB
30:Then, fare thee well, deceitful Maid! ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
31:Did he who made the lamb make thee? ~ William Blake, #NFDB
32:God made thee perfect, not immutable. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
33:Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB
34:Much learning doth make thee mad. ~ Acts, XXVI. 24., #NFDB
35:Akthent on thee latht thyllable. ~ Bret Easton Ellis, #NFDB
36:And thrice do I say to thee...bite me. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
37:But did thee feel the earth move? ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
38:I gave thee what could not be heard ~ Edith M Thomas, #NFDB
39:Be sure thy sin will find thee out. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
40:Come back here so that I may brain thee! ~ Jim Carrey, #NFDB
41:How does thee like thyself? ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett, #NFDB
42:I pray thee cease thy counsel, ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
43:I will love thee to the death, ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
44:My doom is, I love thee still. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
45:Thus let me hold thee to my heart, ~ Oliver Goldsmith, #NFDB
46:Thy silence, then that voices thee. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
47:With thee conversing I forget all time. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
48:Give me Thy light, and fix my eyes on Thee! ~ Boethius, #NFDB
49:Help thyself, and God will help thee. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
50:Let nothing disturb thee, ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
51:Love hath made thee a tame snake ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
52:All nature is but art unknown to thee. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
53:Do not thyself what displeases thee in others. ~ Thales, #NFDB
54:Do what thy Master tells thee; it is good. ~ Ptah-hotep, #NFDB
55:Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love. ~ John Donne, #NFDB
56:O sleep, we are beholden to thee, sleep; ~ Jean Ingelow, #NFDB
57:All nature is but art, unknown to thee. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
58:Cloath thee in war, arme thee in peace. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
59:If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all. ~ Elizabeth I, #NFDB
60:I will beat thee into handsomeness ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
61:And there shall be for thee all soft delight ~ John Keats, #NFDB
62:Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses. ~ Ovid, #NFDB
63:I crown thee king of intimate delights, ~ William Cowper, #NFDB
64:There is no living with thee, nor without thee. ~ Martial, #NFDB
65:Do what thy manhood bids thee do. ~ Richard Francis Burton, #NFDB
66:Helpe thy selfe, and God will helpe thee. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
67:Neglect not the gift that is in thee. ~ I. Timothy. IV. 14, #NFDB
68:ForTime, not Corydon, hath conquered thee. ~ Matthew Arnold, #NFDB
69:It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks ~ Johnny Cash, #NFDB
70:Light with thee walk; dark from thee flee. ~ Nancy McKenzie, #NFDB
71:Such is my love, to thee I so belong, ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
72:All things betray thee, who betrayest Me. ~ Francis Thompson, #NFDB
73:Doing thee vantage, double-vantage me. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
74:Go; for thy stay, not free, absents thee more. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
75:Go on, fair Science; soon to thee ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, #NFDB
76:I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. ~ Isak Dinesen, #NFDB
77:Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee. ~ Edward de Bono, #NFDB
78:O rose, who dares to name thee? ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, #NFDB
79:Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
80:Drive thy business or it will drive thee. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
81:Hail to thee Alabama, you verdant trollop. ~ Joshilyn Jackson, #NFDB
82:I will make thee think thy swan a crow. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
83:Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
84:Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
85:Success! to thee, as to a God, men bend the knee. ~ Aeschylus, #NFDB
86:And Doubt and Discord step 'twixt thine and thee. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
87:...and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
88:Before thee stands this fair Hesperides, ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
89:Glory to Thee O Lord, victor over all obstacles. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
90:I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
91:My philosophical heart will not judge thee ~ Benny Bellamacina, #NFDB
92:Speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
93:Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, ~ Emily Bronte, #NFDB
94:Who had deceived thee so often as thyself? ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
95:Always place a definite purpose before thee. ~ Thomas A Kempis, #NFDB
96:ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee ~ John Donne, #NFDB
97:Be of good cheer, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole. ~ John Bunyan, #NFDB
98:By Heaven, I love thee better than myself ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
99:Hail to thee, Alabama, thou verdant trollop! ~ Joshilyn Jackson, #NFDB
100:Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
101:LEIA O, I do love thee wholly, Han. HAN —I know. ~ Ian Doescher, #NFDB
102:sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
103:Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone. ~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, #NFDB
104:Aoram dhuit,” he breathes. “I will worship thee. ~ Elizabeth May, #NFDB
105:Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not, ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
106:God made thee good as thou art beautiful. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
107:I love thee, and it is my love that speaks ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
108:I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
109:4 Thee do we serve and Thee do we beseech for help.a ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
110:Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
111:Hail, Caesar, those who are about to die salute thee. ~ Suetonius, #NFDB
112:Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work. ~ Charles Kingsley, #NFDB
113:I know as well as thee that I am no poet born ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
114:I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell, ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
115:I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride, ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
116:Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee ~ Ben Jonson, #NFDB
117:Life did not present its sunny side to thee. ~ Friedrich Schiller, #NFDB
118:my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
119:One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
120:upholder of all that surrounds thee. He who ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
121:A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
122:And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
123:And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
124:Control thy passions lest they take vengeance on thee. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
125:For whom the bell jingles,
It jingles for thee ~ Tony Bertauski,#NFDB
126:If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum. ~ Fran Lebowitz, #NFDB
127:I love thee, as the good love heaven. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
128:In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes, ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
129:Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee. ~ Ben Jonson, #NFDB
130:So well thy words become thee as thy wounds. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
131:So well thy words become thee as thy wounds; ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
132:Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
133:Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
134:All this I did for thee; what doest thou for me? ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB
135:Control thy passions lest they take vengeance on thee. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
136:God I bring each wounded child to Thee. ~ Sarah Fuller Flower Adams, #NFDB
137:I am not bound to please thee with my answer. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
138:I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library. ~ Charles Lamb, #NFDB
139:Ik dacht dat jullie Britten alleen maar thee dronken. ~ Lissa Price, #NFDB
140:Ik dacht dat jullie Britten alleen maar thee drunken. ~ Lissa Price, #NFDB
141:I thank Thee that many of my prayers have been refused. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
142:Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee. ~ Ben Jonson, #NFDB
143:My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
144:neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
145:O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
146:The Siren waits thee, singing song for song. ~ Walter Savage Landor, #NFDB
147:With few words I shall make thee understand my soul. ~ Michelangelo, #NFDB
148:And when I love thee not, chaos is come again. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
149:Do the duty which lies nearest to thee. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
150:For thee, sweet month; the groves green liveries wear. ~ John Dryden, #NFDB
151:I am not bound to please thee with my answers. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
152:I love thee with the passion put to use ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, #NFDB
153:Our hearts are restless until they find rest in thee. ~ Kyle Idleman, #NFDB
154:Tujhe Izhar-E-Mohabbat Say Agar Nafrat Thee
~ Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi,#NFDB
155:Who taught thee how to make me love thee more? ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
156:25. My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
157:Accept these grateful tears...For thee they flow, for thee... ~ Homer, #NFDB
158:Anon, might I persuade thee to forgo a night rail?” ~ Barbara Devlin, #NFDB
159:Do that which is good, and no harm shall come to thee. ~ John Proctor, #NFDB
160:Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
161:Hee that gives thee a bone, would not have thee die. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
162:I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
163:Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
164:O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee. ~ Francois Fenelon, #NFDB
165:Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee. ~ William Penn, #NFDB
166:Root out in thee all love of thyself and all egoism. ~ Buddhist Texts, #NFDB
167:Thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
168:And if I died, at least I died
For thee! for thee ~ Edgar Allan Poe,#NFDB
169:Do not unto others that which is hateful unto thee. ~ Hillel the Elder, #NFDB
170:Hail, Caesar, those who are about to die salute thee.
- ~ Suetonius,#NFDB
171:Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
172:I do not love thee less for what is done, ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
173:I see thee better in the dark I do not need a light. ~ Emily Dickinson, #NFDB
174:Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee. ~ Robert Burns, #NFDB
175:Only trust theyself, and another shall noet betray thee ~ William Penn, #NFDB
176:REMEMBER, WHAT JUDGEMENT THEE, JUDGE THEE, BE JUDGED ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
177:Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good. ~ William Penn, #NFDB
178:For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers. ~ Lucretius, #NFDB
179:How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, #NFDB
180:I love thee; none but thee, and thou deservest it ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
181:I take thee... to be my awful wedded husband ~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips, #NFDB
182:I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
183:One too like thee: tameles, and swift, and proud ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB
184:Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half ~ John Milton, #NFDB
185:Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, #NFDB
186:When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. ~ Plato, #NFDB
187:Where is the peace that should with thee abide O Earth? ~ Ina Coolbrith, #NFDB
188:Wilt thou reach stars because they shine on thee? ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
189:As the river enters into the ocean,
so my heart touches Thee. ~ Kabir,#NFDB
190:Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
191:Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee. ~ Robert Herrick, #NFDB
192:But hope will make thee young, for Hope and Youth ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB
193:Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB
194:Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God! ~ John Newton, #NFDB
195:I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB
196:In all this world, I pray thee, who Is virtuous, heroic, true? ~ Valmiki, #NFDB
197:In all this world, I pray thee, who Is virtuous, heroic, true? ~ Valmiki, #NFDB
198:Less, less of self each day, And more, my God, of Thee! ~ Horatius Bonar, #NFDB
199:One too like thee: tameles, and Swift, and proud. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB
200:So tutor youth that the sins of age be not imputed to thee. ~ Pythagoras, #NFDB
201:Thou shalt rest sweetly if thy heart condemn thee not. ~ Thomas a Kempis, #NFDB
202:Always have I loved thee! Ever shall I love thee! ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, #NFDB
203:Ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee. —JOB 12:7 ~ Bernd Heinrich, #NFDB
204:Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
205:Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB
206:Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now let ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
207:I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
208:I see thee better in the dark
I do not need a light. ~ Emily Dickinson,#NFDB
209:Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
210:Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee? ~ William Blake, #NFDB
211:O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth. ~ Saadi, #NFDB
212:O God, may Thy Spirit speak in me that I may speak to Thee. I ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
213:One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB
214:Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now? ~ Emily Bronte, #NFDB
215:thee. I have no merit, let the merit of Jesus stand for me. I ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
216:Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon, #NFDB
217:Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee. ~ Isaiah, #NFDB
218:Timon: I’ll beat thee, but I should infect my hands. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
219:When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them. ~ Plato, #NFDB
220:When thou eatest, give to the dogs, should they even bite thee. ~ Voltaire, #NFDB
221:Fair youth, I would I could make thee believe I love. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
222:Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
223:Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
224:Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee. ~ John Gay, #NFDB
225:Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
226:Get thee behind me Satan, and push me along. I'm kin to the devil. ~ Eazy E, #NFDB
227:It were a grief so brief to part with thee. Farewell. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
228:Sir 7:2 Depart from the unjust, and evils shall depart from thee. ~ Various, #NFDB
229:sonny had circled three words in gold ink: i love thee. ~ Lesley Livingston, #NFDB
230:The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
231:There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
232:thy God hath lent thee— by these angels he hath sent thee ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
233:Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
234:A knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB
235:Come, lay thy head upon my breast and I'll kiss thee unto rest. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
236:Do Good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
237:England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country! ~ William Cowper, #NFDB
238:I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality. ~ Emily Dickinson, #NFDB
239:Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Poor Richard ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
240:Never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee. ~ John Donne, #NFDB
241:I’ll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way, ~ Anne Stuart, #NFDB
242:I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die. ~ Bayard Taylor, #NFDB
243:Love thyself last, cherish those hearts that hate thee; ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
244:Verily, I say to thee; he who seeks the Eternal, finds Him. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #NFDB
245:Fare thee well, and if for ever
Still for ever fare thee well. ~ Lord Byron,#NFDB
246:Guess now who holds thee?'--'Death,' I said. But, ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, #NFDB
247:how it grieves me to see thee wear thy heart in a scarf! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
248:Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy. ~ Hesiod, #NFDB
249:It were a grief so brief to part with thee.
Farewell. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
250:Legality, therefore, is not able to set thee free from thy burden. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
251:Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering? ~ John Keats, #NFDB
252:OTHELLO : —and I will kill thee,
And love thee after. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
253:PSA30.2 O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
254:Thou art fertile ground, and I will plant a garden in thee. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
255:Verily, I say to thee; he who seeks the Eternal, finds Him. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #NFDB
256:With few words I shall make thee understand my soul. ~ Michelangelo Buonarroti, #NFDB
257:Grant me the sight Lord that I may see Thee who hast been with me always. ~ JB, #NFDB
258:I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honour more. ~ Fulton J Sheen, #NFDB
259:I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
260:I know what thou desirest and I'm with thee everywhere ~ The Corpus Hermeticum, #NFDB
261:Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee... ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
262:No other God have I but thee, born in a manger, died on a tree. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
263:Oh hear us when we cry to thee for those in peril on the sea. . . . ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
264:Send not to know
For whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee. ~ John Donne,#NFDB
265:Do to me, O Allah, what is worthy of Thee; And not what is worthy of me. ~ Saadi, #NFDB
266:Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
267:I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not Honor more. ~ Richard Lovelace, #NFDB
268:O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice? ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB
269:Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? ~ William Blake, #NFDB
270:Drive thy business or it will drive thee." – Benjamin Franklin ~ James Scott Bell, #NFDB
271:He that will do thee a good turne, either he will be gon or dye. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
272:Let my soul calm itself, O Christ, in Thee. This is true. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe, #NFDB
273:No, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee ~ Gerard Manley Hopkins, #NFDB
274:Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering? ~ John Keats,#NFDB
275:Twice or thrice had I lov'd thee,
Before I knew thy face or name ~ John Donne,#NFDB
276:We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted. ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB
277:ACTION will lead thee forward to the successes thou dost desire. ~ George S Clason, #NFDB
278:Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
279:I am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art! ~ John Keats, #NFDB
280:I do wish thou were a dog, that I might love thee something. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
281:If Paradise is not within thee, thou shalt never enter into it. ~ Angelus Silesins, #NFDB
282:northward. And there will I meet thee, and I will go before thee ~ Joseph Smith Jr, #NFDB
283:All that is contains Thee; I could not exist if Thou wert not in me. ~ St Augustine, #NFDB
284:And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
285:But i must count this journey,
all
For it has brought me Thee. ~ Ally Condie,#NFDB
286:Fare thee well/ A fiend like thee might bear my soul to hell. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
287:Holy angel, in Heaven blessed,
My spirit longs with thee to rest ~ Gaston Leroux,#NFDB
288:I am an emptiness for Thee to fill; my soul a cavern for Thy sea ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
289:It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues. ~ W H Davies, #NFDB
290:The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
291:All I ask, Madam, is to share with thee a common center of gravity. ~ James K Morrow, #NFDB
292:Depart then satisfied, for he also who releases thee is satisfied. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
293:I love thee for a heart that’s kind--not for the knowledge in thy mind. ~ W H Davies, #NFDB
294:My country tis of thee, to take swings at each other on talk show TV. ~ Ani DiFranco, #NFDB
295:No, he can never be lost who recommends himself to thee, O Mary. ~ Alphonsus Liguori, #NFDB
296:There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
297:This hand shall never more come near thee with such friendship ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
298:Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee. ~ Joel S Goldsmith, #NFDB
299:What can I do to help thee?" he asked. "Believe there is a tomorrow. ~ James Clavell, #NFDB
300:When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
301:I am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky!
How beautiful thou art! ~ John Keats,#NFDB
302:Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
303:Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
304:My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.—Psa. 63:8 ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
305:Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists. ~ Friedrich Schiller, #NFDB
306:And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies. ~ Marie Antoinette, #NFDB
307:And verily the Hereafter will be better for thee than the present." (93:4) ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
308:Every day will I bless thee; And I will praise thy name for ever and ever. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
309:I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
310:If thy morals make thee dreary, depend upon it they are wrong ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
311:Love, and love alone, is capable of giving thee a happier life. ~ Ludwig van Beethoven, #NFDB
312:My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me. —Psa. 63:8 ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
313:Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
314:Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
315:Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee. ~ Philip Massinger, #NFDB
316:Can it be that change terrifies thee? But nothing is done without it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
317:Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee. ~ Epictetus Epictetus ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
318:Father, I want to know Thee, but my coward heart fears to give up its toys. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
319:For none can express thee, though all should approve thee. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, #NFDB
320:Get thee behind me, Satan. Seek not come between a lover and his love. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
321:God, I pray light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee. ~ Jim Elliot, #NFDB
322:Neither shall you know nor me
Man is the killer and creator of thee ~ Santosh Kalwar,#NFDB
323:Seraphs share with thee Knowledge; but Art, O Man, is thine alone! ~ Friedrich Schiller, #NFDB
324:The man that feareth, Lord, to doubt,
In that fear doubteth thee. ~ George MacDonald,#NFDB
325:'T is sweeter for thee despairing Than aught in the world beside,-Jessy! ~ Robert Burns, #NFDB
326:What can I do to help thee?" he asked.
"Believe there is a tomorrow. ~ James Clavell,#NFDB
327:Already with thee! tender is the night. . . But here there is no light. . . ~ John Keats, #NFDB
328:And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, #NFDB
329:But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
330:Caesar, Now be still, I killed not thee with half so good a will"? ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
331:cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
332:Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
333:I do love thee so,
That I will shortly send thy soul to heaven ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
334:Know the grave doth gape for thee thrice wider than for other men. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
335:My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee. ~ Walter Scott, #NFDB
336:O God, I am thinking Thy thoughts after Thee. ~ Johannes Kepler, when studying astronomy, #NFDB
337:ps.122.6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
338:The Lord watch between me and thee when we are absent one from another ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
339:What is there in thee, Moon! That thou should'st move My heart so potently? ~ John Keats, #NFDB
340:As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
341:Good. I go. And if thou dost not love me, I love thee enough for both. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
342:If thou understand, what seems invisible to most shall be to thee very apparent. ~ Hermes, #NFDB
343:Only preserve the love of God in thy heart, and all will go well with thee. ~ Jacob Grimm, #NFDB
344:Put away from thee a forward mouth and perverse lips put away from thee. ~ Proverbs IV 24, #NFDB
345:Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
~ Michel de Montaigne,#NFDB
346:Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB
347:Wean our heart from every creature Thee to love and Thee alone. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
348:Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee! ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
349:If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me? ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, #NFDB
350:Love her who is present, for be sure she who is absent is false to thee; ~ H Rider Haggard, #NFDB
351:My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator. ~ Alphonse de Lamartine, #NFDB
352:No, he can never be lost who recommends himself to thee, O Mary. ~ Saint Alphonsus Liguori, #NFDB
353:PSA69.5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
354:Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
355:Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee. ~ John Donne, #NFDB
356:...upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, till famine cling thee. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
357:Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
358:With thee it was not as with many that will and would and wait and never do. ~ James Joyce, #NFDB
359:Already with thee! tender is the night. . .
But here there is no light. . . ~ John Keats,#NFDB
360:came because I wished to see thee—misguided by the Red Mist of affection. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
361:Q: Why do I love thee, O Night?
A: Because you know I will never answer. ~ Vera Nazarian,#NFDB
362:Short is the little which remains to thee in life. Live as on a mountain. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
363:Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
364:So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee. ~ Robert Browning, #NFDB
365:Thou art preparing fire for us. Look thee, here's water to quench it. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
366:Why did thee call that hell-goat Mephistopheles?” asked McTavish one day. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
367:Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee. ~ Homer, #NFDB
368:Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise. ~ William Congreve, #NFDB
369:Go, and peace go with thee. Only, another time do not meddle with my game. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
370:Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me! ~ Charles Lamb, #NFDB
371:I could wish there were a God, if it were only to ask him to bless thee. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell, #NFDB
372:In all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee. ~ Various, #NFDB
373:Not speak however silently,
But my hushed voice will answer Thee ~ Edna St Vincent Millay,#NFDB
374:Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World! ~ Cotton Mather, #NFDB
375:And if God choose
I shall but love thee better after death. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning,#NFDB
376:As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
377:Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me, starlight and dewdrop are waiting for thee. ~ Stephen Foster, #NFDB
378:Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater, #NFDB
379:My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. ~ Beverly Lewis, #NFDB
380:Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
381:We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee! ~ T S Eliot, #NFDB
382:And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
383:But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with thee Came not all hell broke loose?
~ John Milton,#NFDB
384:Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
385:England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee! ~ Philip James Bailey, #NFDB
386:Everyman, I will go with thee and be thy guide, in thy most need to go by thy side ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
387:Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
388:I bid thee be wary, | but be not fearful; (Beware most with ale or another's wife, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
389:In a thousand ages of the gods I could not tell thee of the glories of Himachal. ~ Ruskin Bond, #NFDB
390:Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds that I may be a vehicle for thee. ~ Van Morrison, #NFDB
391:Let nothing hinder thee from praying always ... ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Ecclesiasticus, 18:22, #NFDB
392:See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil. ~ Deuteronomy XIII. 15, #NFDB
393:The happy life is this - to rejoice to thee, in thee, and for thee. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
394:When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
395:Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
396:Cut away in thee the love of thyself, even as in autumn thy hand plucks the lotus. ~ Dhammapada, #NFDB
397:Dost thou reckon thyself only a puny form When within thee the universe is folded? ~ Bah u ll h, #NFDB
398:Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee. ~ Pope Leo XIII, #NFDB
399:If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee. ~ John Donne, #NFDB
400:I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, #NFDB
401:I pray thee let me and my fellow have a haire of the dog that bit us last night. ~ John Heywood, #NFDB
402:My God, I feel it is heaven to please Thee, and to be what Thou wouldst have me be. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
403:O horror! Horror! Horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
404:Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
405:So well thy words become thee as thy wounds,
They smack of honor both. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
406:The night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee… ~ Karleen Koen, #NFDB
407:Thus saith the Lord God; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
408:Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
409:Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee. ~ Christopher Marlowe, #NFDB
410:And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
411:And now run the race which is set before thee, in the royal way of universal love. ~ John Wesley, #NFDB
412:As thou hast created me out of mingled air and glitter, I thank thee for it. ~ Friedrich Ruckert, #NFDB
413:But I love thee as I love what I love most in the world and I love thee more. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
414:do you want me to shoot thee, ingles?...quieres? it is nothing. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
415:Expel thy desires and fears and there shall be no longer any tyrant over thee. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
416:How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ; And how with the longest day enjoy! ~ Tibullus, #NFDB
417:Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, #NFDB
418:Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
419:Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind--But how could I forget thee? ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB
420:O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee. ~ John Donne, #NFDB
421:So preach that those who do not fall out with their sins may fall out with thee. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
422:Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee. ~ Plato, #NFDB
423:Always be thou prepared, and so live that death may never find thee unprepared. ~ Thomas a Kempis, #NFDB
424:Groop I implore thee,” continued the merciless Vogon, “my foonting turlingdromes. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
425:How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee? ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
426:If thou comprehend Him, what seems invisible to most, will be for thee utterly apparent. ~ Hermes, #NFDB
427:It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise. ~ Richard Rolle, #NFDB
428:Now fight me! For today thee House of Hades will be called the saviors of Olympus. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
429:O Misfortune, blessed be thou; for through thee I have seen the face of my Lover. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
430:Then blessings on thee, my afternoon torpor Thou makest a prince of a mental porpor. ~ Ogden Nash, #NFDB
431:...get thee to a dictionary and be relentless about your visits there. p. 591 ~ Mark Z Danielewski, #NFDB
432:How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee? ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
433:If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee. ~ John Donne,#NFDB
434:If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. ~ Anne Bradstreet, #NFDB
435:If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come? ~ Thomas a Kempis, #NFDB
436:Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
437:Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
438:That is thy home burning. That is the Normans' work, and never thee forget it! ~ Rosemary Sutcliff, #NFDB
439:This is the sum of duty: do naught to others which if done to thee, would cause thee pain. ~ Vyasa, #NFDB
440:Thou wouldst never have chosen Him, if that loving and gracious God had not chosen thee. ~ Various, #NFDB
441:Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
442:What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
443:Zwounds, ye fat paunch, an ye call me a coward, by the Lord, I'll stab thee. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
444:19 That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
445:But how can that be manifested to thy eyes if what is within thee is to thyself invisible? ~ Hermes, #NFDB
446:Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
447:Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me. ~ Robert Frost, #NFDB
448:It sucked me first, and now sucks thee,
And in this flea our two bloods mingled be; ~ John Donne,#NFDB
449:My love is deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, both are infinite. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
450:O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
451:Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
452:Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
453:the hate I bear thee can afford no better term then this: thou art a villian. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
454:To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true. ~ Matthew Arnold, #NFDB
455:Accept the things that happen to thee as good, knowing that without God nothing happens. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
456:And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head. ~ John Keats, #NFDB
457:As a living man abstains from mortal poisons, so put away from thee all defilement. ~ Buddhist Texts, #NFDB
458:Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. ~ Robert Frost,#NFDB
459:From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, #NFDB
460:Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
461:Lord, the task is impossible for me but not for Thee. Lead the way and I will follow. ~ Mary Slessor, #NFDB
462:Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
463:O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! ~ Dante Alighieri, #NFDB
464:O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore! ~ Dante Alighieri, #NFDB
465:shall i compare thee to a summers day? thou art more lovely and more temperate ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
466:will espouse thee to Me in faith,”7 that is, I will unite Myself to thee in faith. ~ Juan de la Cruz, #NFDB
467:Ah my deare God! though I am clean forgot, Let me not love thee, if I love thee not. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
468:Before, I loved thee as a brother, John, But now, I do respect thee as my soul. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
469:Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
470:Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight. ~ Roberto Bolano, #NFDB
471:Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
472:Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
473:I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, "I do not love thee." ~ Martial, #NFDB
474:If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
475:I see of Thee neither end nor middle nor beginning, O Lord of all and universal form. ~ Bhagavad Gita, #NFDB
476:Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
477:LUCIFER: I pity thee who lovest what must perish.
CAIN: And I thee who lov'st nothing ~ Lord Byron,#NFDB
478:Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
479:Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.”11 ~ Gerald G May, #NFDB
480:With thee conversing I forget all time, all seasons and their change, all please alike. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
481:But let me see thee stoop from heaven on wings That fill the sky with silver glitterings! ~ John Keats, #NFDB
482:But what, without the social thought of thee,
Would be the wonders of the sky and sea? ~ John Keats,#NFDB
483:Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea. ~ Charles Lamb, #NFDB
484:For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
485:I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee. ~ Leonard Cohen, #NFDB
486:Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
487:My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, both are infinite. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
488:my soul longs and passionately breathes after conformity to Thee and the full enjoyment of ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
489:Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~ George Edward Moore, #NFDB
490:PSA119.63 I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
491:PSA84.4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
492:Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies. ~ Edmund Burke, #NFDB
493:Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
494:Where’e’er I go, my Soul shall stay with thee: ’Tis but my Shadow that I take away; ~ Susanna Kearsley, #NFDB
495:Whither do I call Thee, since I am in Thee? or whence canst Thou enter into ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
496:And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed,
Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head. ~ John Keats,#NFDB
497:He who helped thee when thou wert in trouble ought not afterwards to be despised by thee. ~ Jacob Grimm, #NFDB
498:I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon, #NFDB
499:Master, go on, and I will follow thee
To the last gasp with truth and loyalty. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
500:Now that I have found thee, I know that in the first step I took, I moved away from thee. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
501:Observe thyself, not that which is thine, nor that which is around thee, but thyself alone. ~ St. Basil, #NFDB
502:Before, I loved thee as a brother, John,
But now, I do respect thee as my soul. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
503:But come what may, I do adore thee so That danger shall seem sport, and I will go! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
504:Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so. ~ John Donne, #NFDB
505:For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
506:I am not sorry neither. I'd have thee live, for in my tense 'tis happiness to die. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
507:Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel, #NFDB
508:Oh all the world is a little queer, except thee and me, and sometimes, I wonder about thee. ~ Keri Hulme, #NFDB
509:PSA37.4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
510:That’s right. Get thee behind me, bitches. I don’t got no time for you. Ha! (Tabitha) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
511:Their images I loved I view in thee
And thou, all they, hast all the all of me. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
512:The straight roads are the roads of progress, the crooked roads are thee roads of genius. ~ Robert Towne, #NFDB
513:Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. ~ Robert Greene, #NFDB
514:Bethink thee of the adage, 'Call none blest, till peaceful death have crowned a life of weal. ~ Aeschylus, #NFDB
515:But let me see thee stoop from heaven on wings
That fill the sky with silver glitterings! ~ John Keats,#NFDB
516:Cross even beyond the light which illumines thee and cast thyself upon the bosom of God. ~ Maitre Eckhart, #NFDB
517:Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, #NFDB
518:God hears your every thought, whether you dress it up with 'Thee' and 'Thou' or not. ~ Catherine Richmond, #NFDB
519:he trespass against thee the fourth time thou shalt not ~ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, #NFDB
520:I’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,
To die upon the hand I love so well. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
521:I sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright
Who art cold as Hel, as dark as night ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
522:Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
523:Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
524:No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne, #NFDB
525:Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account. ~ Thomas Carlyle, #NFDB
526:Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
527:The children born of thee are sword and fire,
Red ruin, and the breaking up of laws, ~ Alfred Tennyson,#NFDB
528:We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. ~ John Lubbock, #NFDB
529:When thou saidst, Seek ye my face, my heart said unto Thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek. ~ Psalms XXVII.8, #NFDB
530:Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
531:Dost thou reckon thyself only a puny form/When within thee the universe is folded?Baha'u'llah ~ Bah u ll h, #NFDB
532:Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee. ~ John Heywood, #NFDB
533:Hail to Thee, Master of the world, who triumphest over all darkness. ~ The Mother(Prayers and Meditations), #NFDB
534:He can supply thee with all, or, better still, He can be to thee instead of all. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
535:Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee.”1 ~ James MacDonald, #NFDB
536:One infinite - pure and holy - beyond thoughts and beyond qualities - bow down to thee ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
537:Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms. Fairies, be gone, and be all ways away. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
538:The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon! Where got’st thou that goose look? ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
539:Who hail thee, Man! the pilgrim of the day, spouse of the worm, and brother of the clay. ~ Thomas Campbell, #NFDB
540:All this dread order break- for whom? for thee?
Vile worm!- oh madness! pride! impiety! ~ Alexander Pope,#NFDB
541:Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy;
My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy ~ Ben Jonson,#NFDB
542:For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
543:From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
544:His good and evil, sin and virtue, till
He bids thee leave. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, The Rishi,#NFDB
545:I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
546:Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
547:Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. ~ Joseph Smith Jr, #NFDB
548:Make thee another self for love of me,
That beauty still may live in thine or thee ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
549:Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades? ~ John Milton, #NFDB
550:My son ask for thyself another Kingdom, for that which I leave is too small for thee ~ Philip II of Macedon, #NFDB
551:O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings ~ John Keats, #NFDB
552:there is more virtue in one sin to destroy, than in all thy righteousness to save thee alive. ~ John Bunyan, #NFDB
553:we offer ourselves as learners; we would indeed be taught of Thee. 'Lord, teach us to pray. ~ Andrew Murray, #NFDB
554:With thee conversing I forget all time,
All seasons and their change,
All please alike. ~ John Milton,#NFDB
555:Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
556:Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny.BibleMatt.xx. 13.5. To ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
557:Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
558:Lo thus by day my limbs, by night my mind,
For thee, and for myself, no quiet find. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
559:"No power can slay my soul; it lives in Thee.Thy presence is my immortality."(Divine Worker ~ Sri Aurobindo), #NFDB
560:PSA73.25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
561:Seek a suitable time for thy meditation, and think frequently of the mercies of God to thee. ~ Thomas Kempis, #NFDB
562:Seek out swiftly the way of righteousness; turn without delay from that which defiles thee. ~ Buddhist Texts, #NFDB
563:Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
564:what? drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word as I hate Hell, all Montagues, and thee ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
565:And sixthly, sweet reader (we grieve to be so prolix), we would just hint to thee that ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton, #NFDB
566:Attila, my lord, and thy lord, commands thee to provide a palace for his immediate reception. ~ Edward Gibbon, #NFDB
567:Believe me, a thousand friends suffice thee not; In a single enemy thou hast more than enough. ~ Muhammad Ali, #NFDB
568:But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
569:If I should meet thee
After long years
How should I greet thee?
With silence and tears. ~ Lord Byron,#NFDB
570:I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should live out the life-time of his God? ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
571:Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
572:Suffer love; a good epithet! I do suffer love, indeed, for I love thee against my will. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
573:Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear, thy dial how thy precious minutes waste ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
574:What made me love thee? let that persuade thee, there's something extraordinary in thee ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
575:A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
576:A good lenten answer! I can tell thee where that saying was born, of ‘I fear no colours. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
577:Do not despair, little Alice. Only persist, and thou shalt see, Jane Austen's all in all to thee. ~ Fay Weldon, #NFDB
578:For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
579:Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
580:Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away. ~ William Cowper, #NFDB
581:God bless thee; and put meekness in thy breast, Love, charity, obedience, and true duty! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
582:I assure thee: setting the attractions of my
good parts aside I have no other charms. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
583:I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
584:Let Him choose for thee a king's palace or the bowl of the beggar.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human,#NFDB
585:Listen to me, attend me!
And I will breathe into thee a soul,
And thou shalt live for ever. ~ Ezra Pound,#NFDB
586:Love and serve men, but beware lest thou desire their approbation.Obey rather God within thee. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
587:Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
588:Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, #NFDB
589:Thou must pass over thyself to mount beyond, ever higher till the stars themselves are below thee. ~ Nietzsche, #NFDB
590:Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee! ~ Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger, #NFDB
591:When summoned hence to thine eternal sleep, Oh, may'st thou smile while all around thee weep. ~ Charles Wesley, #NFDB
592:I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice ~ Walter Scott, #NFDB
593:If the aegis of the Almighty cover thee, what sword can smite thee? Rest thou secure. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
594:I have not art to reckon my groans, but that I love thee best, oh, most best, believe it. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
595:I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. ~ Harry Dean Stanton, #NFDB
596:I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this,
Killing myself, to die upon a kiss. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
597:I will show thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare, which wise men have told: ~ Job XV. 17.18, #NFDB
598:More flow'rs I noted, yet I none could see
But sweet or color it had stol'n from thee. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
599:Psalms 25:8 O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
600:That I shall love always,
I argue thee
that love is life,
and life hath immortality ~ Emily Dickinson,#NFDB
601:What art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? Turn thee Benvolio, look upon thy death. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
602:What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, #NFDB
603:With my soul have I desired thee in the night; with my spirit within me will I seek thee early. ~ Isaiah XXVI.9, #NFDB
604:But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
605: But if thou live, remember'd not to be, Die single and thine image dies with thee. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
606:Give me one kiss, I'll give it thee again / And one for int'rest, if thou wilt have twain. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
607:Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel. ~ Karel Capek, #NFDB
608:I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you. 17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, ~ Matthew Henry, #NFDB
609:ISA49:16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
610:Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
611:Proud of my broken heart since thou didst Break it, Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee ~ Emily Dickinson, #NFDB
612:Thou hast been called, O sleep, the friend of woe, But 'tis the happy that have called thee so. ~ Robert Southey, #NFDB
613:What I do, and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, #NFDB
614:because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
615:Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
616:but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
617:Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee! ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
618:Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, Flow gently, I'll sing thee a song in thy praise. ~ Robert Burns, #NFDB
619:Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
620:...Thus have I had thee as a dream doth flatter: in sleep a king but waking no such matter. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
621:With thee all tales are sweet; each clime has charms; earth - sea alike - our world within our arms. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
622:And Mizpah, for he said, the Lord watch between me and thee when we are absent from one another. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
623:Come my flocks, my flower. I have some very definite pear-shaped ideas I'd like to discuss with thee. ~ W C Fields, #NFDB
624:Compare her face with some that I shall show, 85 And I will make thee think thy swan a crow. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
625:Dost thou love picking meat? Or wouldst thou see
A man in the clouds, and have him speak to thee? ~ John Bunyan,#NFDB
626:Grant me on earth what seems Thee best, Till death and Heav’n reveal the rest. —Isaac Watts ~ Marilynne Robinson, #NFDB
627:If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #NFDB
628:I pray thee, sir, forgive me for the mess/And whether I shot first, I'll not confess.
- Han Solo ~ Ian Doescher,#NFDB
629:Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree
Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. ~ Alexander Pope,#NFDB
630:Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
631:Not so much thy skill, then, O hunter, as the great necessities that strike the victory to thee! ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
632:TOOKEST THEE LONG ENOUGH, intoned the arrow. FOR FORTNIGHTS UNTOLD HAVE I TRIED TO SPEAK WITH THEE. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
633:what thou lovest well is
thy true heritage
what thou lovest well shall
not be reft from thee ~ Ezra Pound,#NFDB
634:Ariel spoke Tybalt's line: "'Have at thee, coward!'"
"Save yer breath for a pretty death rattle. ~ Lisa Mantchev,#NFDB
635:But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB
636:But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go! ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
637:Hail to Thee, Master of the world, who triumphest over all darkness.
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations, [T1],#NFDB
638:He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
639:Get thee behind me, tragedy. Kneeling over her, he lifted her and impaled her gently on his sex. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
640:In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts. ~ John Locke, #NFDB
641:O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
642:Said Hamlet to Ophelia, I'll draw a sketch of thee. What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B? ~ Spike Milligan, #NFDB
643:Send me nor this, nor that, to increase my store,
But swear thou think'st I love thee, and no more. ~ John Donne,#NFDB
644:Sir 12:18 An enemy hath tears in his eyes, and while he pretendeth to help thee, will undermine thy feet. ~ Various, #NFDB
645:So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
646:Teach me, my God and king In all things thee to see And what I do in anything To do it as for thee ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
647:Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
648:Trust Love, nor fear to soar upon his track. The wings that bore to Heaven will bear thee back. ~ Richard B Garnett, #NFDB
649:Wouldst thou that the world should submit to thee? Be busy then to fortify thy soul without ceasing. ~ Omar Khayyam, #NFDB
650:Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
651:Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride. ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB
652:The mountain rill Seeks with no surer flow the far bright sea, Than my unchang'd affections flow to thee. ~ Benjamin, #NFDB
653:Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow? ~ John Milton, #NFDB
654:Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
655:What thou art, that thou art; that God knoweth thee to be and thou canst be said to be no greater. ~ Thomas a Kempis, #NFDB
656:With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow ~ Sylvain Reynard, #NFDB
657:All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
658:Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass. ~ Muhammad Iqbal, #NFDB
659:BENEDICK Suffer love! A good epithet, I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
660:Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. PSALM 37:4 ~ Wanda E Brunstetter, #NFDB
661:Didst thou give me this inescapable loneliness so that it would be easier for me to give thee all? ~ Dag Hammarskj ld, #NFDB
662:Do no evil and evil shall not come upon thee; be far from the unjust and sin shall be far from thee. ~ Ecclesiasticus, #NFDB
663:Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
664:Faygne woulde I curse thee further, botte mie tyngue
Denies mie harte the favoure soe toe doe. ~ Thomas Chatterton,#NFDB
665:In thee hath neither sting, knot, nor confine, For thou art all, and all things else are thine. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
666:Let me this day know Thee as Thou art, love Thee supremely, serve Thee wholly, admire Thee fully. Through ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
667:So long as lips shall kiss,and eyes shall see,so long lives this ,and this gives life to thee. ~ Mallanaga V tsy yana, #NFDB
668:That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
669:There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil; for to thee is this world given. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne, #NFDB
670:This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
671:Thou hast struck a heavy blow at my pride, at the false god of self, and I lie in pieces before Thee. But ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
672:We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
673:What courage, man! What though care killed a cat? Thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
674:What is required of thee, O man, but to do justly, love mercy and walk humbly with thy God.
Micah 6:8 ~ Anonymous,#NFDB
675:Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne, #NFDB
676:Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? ~ John Milton, #NFDB
677:Do no evil and evil shall not come upon thee; be far from the unjust and sin shall be far from thee. ~ Ecclesiasticus, #NFDB
678:For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
679:Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child; Pity my simplicity, Suffer me to come to thee. ~ Charles Wesley, #NFDB
680:Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
681:Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy. ~ Robert Burton, #NFDB
682:May the Lord array thee in the garment of salvation and surround thee with the cloak of happiness. ~ Pope Alexander VI, #NFDB
683:My guitar, I sing of thee 'Tis with thee that I decoy And ensnare enchantingly the ladies I enjoy. ~ Pierre de Ronsard, #NFDB
684:Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created. ~ Bah u ll h, #NFDB
685:Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand, To read it well; that is to understand. ~ Ben Jonson, Epigram 1., #NFDB
686:So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
687:The present is the most precious moment. Use all the forces of thy spirit not to let that momentescape thee. ~ Tolstoy, #NFDB
688:Think what you will, blackbird, for I'll be here long after thee's gone they course and died thy death. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
689:Thou shalt not think that thou be a leader, merely because thee be having more than 0 followers. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
690:Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale... from hell's heart I stab at thee. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
691:Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
692:A brave heart and a courteous tongue, said he. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
693:Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear,
Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
694:GRATIANO: Can no prayers pierce thee?
SHYLOCK: No, none that thou hast wit enough to make. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
695:Hail to Thee, Master of the world, who triumphest over all darkness. ~ The Mother(Prayers and Meditations)#sriaurobindo, #NFDB
696:He who cries out with his whole heart, "O Lord, I want but Thee" , to him the Lord reveals Himself. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
697:If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
698:In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
699:It came from God, and so is Christ true, and Christ is thy God, who is in heaven and awaits thee. ~ Girolamo Savonarola, #NFDB
700:Least Rivers—docile To Some Sea
212
Least Rivers—docile to some sea.
My Caspian—thee.
~ Emily Dickinson,#NFDB
701:Sir 8:14 Stand not against the face of an injurious person, lest he sit as a spy to entrap thee in thy words. ~ Various, #NFDB
702:Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day. ~ Walter Scott, #NFDB
703:6 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion; for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee ~ Joseph Smith Jr, #NFDB
704:Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
705:But, Lord, we have yet another burden — it is that we ourselves do not love Thee as we should, ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
706:For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
Job 8:8 ~ Anonymous,#NFDB
707:For He shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways." The Bible - Psalms 91:11 ~ Michelle Rathore, #NFDB
708:for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
709:From thee all human actions take their springs, The rise of empires, and the fall of kings. ~ Samuel Boyse, The Deity, #NFDB
710:If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
711:If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
712:JER33.3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
713:Love makes clear the eyes that else would never see: "Love makes blind the eyes to all but me and thee. ~ William Morris, #NFDB
714:@Minu_Rajangam @Kalpana_72 Supreme Lord , Eternal Truth Let us obey Thee alone and live according to Truth. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
715:Prepare thyself for thou must travel alone. The Master can only indicate to thee the road. ~ Book of the Golden Precepts, #NFDB
716:ROMEO
By heaven, I love thee better than myself,
For I come hither arm'd against myself. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
717:Then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
718:There's nothing fair nor beautiful, but takes Something from thee, that makes it beautiful. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
719:Thinkest thou that thy body is nothing when in thee is contained the most perfect world? ~ Baha-ullah: The Seven Valleys, #NFDB
720:All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
721:And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
722:As Augustine observed: “Late have I loved Thee, O Beauty, so ancient and so new. Late have I loved Thee. ~ Fulton J Sheen, #NFDB
723:Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ~ Oliver Goldsmith, #NFDB
724:For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
725:Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won. Then never live within the Bond of Slavery. ~ William Wallace, #NFDB
726:I fear no foe with Thee at hand to bless; Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness. ~ Henry Francis Lyte, Eventide, #NFDB
727:Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
728:O my soul, wilt thou be one day simple, one, bare, more visible than the body which envelops thee? ~ Marcus Aurelius. X.I, #NFDB
729:Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee. ~ Aleister Crowley, #NFDB
730:The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
731:17Every man shall give as he is able, aaccording to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
732:...before Thee we bow down and implore that we may never forget all we owe to Thee.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother I,#NFDB
733:For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere,
From me far off, with others all too near. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
734:O thou invisible spirit of wine
If thou hast no name to be known by let us call thee Devil... ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
735:That it may be easy for thee to live with every man, think of what unites thee to him and not of what separates. ~ Tolstoy, #NFDB
736:Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might? ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
737:Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee! ~ Emily Dickinson, #NFDB
738:Bid me to live, and I will liveThy Protestant to be,Or bid me love, and I will giveA loving heart to thee. ~ Robert Herrick, #NFDB
739:Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee. ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB
740:Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee. ~ Blaise Pascal, #NFDB
741:Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys. ~ John Donne, #NFDB
742:He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
743:If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally. ~ Angelus Silesius, #NFDB
744:If thou remeber'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not lov'd ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
745:in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
746:Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise. ~ George Chapman, #NFDB
747:Thy soul cannot be hurt in thee save by reason of thy ignorant body; direct and master them both. ~ Book of Golden Precepts, #NFDB
748:World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
749:And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
750:ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND. 1863-1914. LLIE LIGHTLY UPON HIM EARTH, THO' HE / LAID MANY A HEAVY BURDEN UPON THEE. ~ John Green, #NFDB
751:CLYTEMNESTRA
What ails thee, raising this ado for us?
SLAVE
I say the dead are come to slay the living. ~ Aeschylus,#NFDB
752:Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me? ~ John Milton,#NFDB
753:He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
754:I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
755:Let not the general representation unto thyself of the wretchedness of this our mortal life, trouble thee. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
756:Let the Godhead within thee protect there a virile being, respect-worthy, a chief, a man self-disciplined. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
757:MAR5.34 And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
758:Said Hamlet to Ophelia,
I'll draw a sketch of thee.
What kind of pencil shall I use?
2B or not 2B? ~ Spike Milligan,#NFDB
759:Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly. ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
760:Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
761:Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die ~ Nikolai Gogol, #NFDB
762:wishing thee a short and prosperous voyage, with a full portion of happiness we remain thy friends. In ~ Nathaniel Philbrick, #NFDB
763:Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy, to comfort thee, though thou art banished. Friar Lawrence to Romeo. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
764:But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end. —William Shakespeare ~ Courtney Walsh, #NFDB
765:Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
766:O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below! ~ Dante Alighieri, #NFDB
767:Permit Sweet Mother,that we be, Now & for ever more, Thy simple children, loving Thee More & still more. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
768:Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea. ~ Charles Lamb, #NFDB
769:228. "Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, bind then about thy neck, write them upon the tablet of thy heart." ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
770:40Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
771:Arunachala! Thou blazing fire of Jnana! Deign to wrap my mother in Thy light and make her one with Thee. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
772:Bellator silvae servi. Warrior of the forest, I, the alpha, call on thee to serve in this time of need. ~ Andrea Cremer, #NFDB
773:I love thee, I love thee with a love that shall not die. Till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
774:Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season. ~ Hesiod, #NFDB
775:My Son, take it not sadly to heart, if any think ill of thee, and say of thee what thou art unwilling to hear. ~ Thomas Kempis, #NFDB
776:Oh, thou clear spirit, of thy fire thou madest me, and like a true child of fire, I breathe it back to thee. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
777:Then wilt thou not be loath
To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess
A Paradise within thee, happier far. ~ John Milton,#NFDB
778:Be exhausted for God, but remember that your supply comes from Him. 'All my fresh springs shall be in thee.' ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB
779:For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
780:Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters. ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB
781:Now, feel. I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. And feel now. Thou hast no heart but mine. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
782:PSA55.22 Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
783:Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat
in this distracted globe. Remember thee? ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
784:Thou art of the Jungle and not of the Jungle. And I am only a black panther. But I love thee, Little Brother. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
785:8.
Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one,
Sings this to thee: 'thou single wilt prove none. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
786:Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article." --Othello, Act III, Scene iii ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
787:Because thou writest me often, I thank thee ... Never do I receive a letter from thee, but immediately we are together. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
788:Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee. ~ Saint John of the Cross, #NFDB
789:Enrich my heart, mouth, hands in me, With faith, with hope, with charity, That I may run, rise, rest with Thee. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
790:If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, #NFDB
791:I'll lock thy heaven from thee.
O, that men's ears should be
To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
792:let the love of the pure Truth draw thee to read. Ask not, who hath said this or that, but look to what he says. ~ Thomas Kempis, #NFDB
793:Love that only which happens to thee and is spun with the thread of thy destiny. For what is more suitable? In ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
794:Pride of the dewy morning, The swain's experienced eye From thee takes timely warning. Nor trusts the gorgeous sky. ~ John Keble, #NFDB
795:Reject passion and attachment, then shall be revealed in thee that which now dwells hidden from thy eyes. ~ Sutra in 42 articles, #NFDB
796:the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
797:We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more. ~ A E Housman, #NFDB
798:Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, My native land-Good Night! ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
799:Banish all thought from thee and be God’s void. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute, #NFDB
800:Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people. ~ Saadi, #NFDB
801:Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee. ~ Saint John of the Cross, #NFDB
802:I am a man," he told her, "and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone, woman, and bring me something brown. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
803:I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee! ~ William Blake, #NFDB
804:I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
805:Keep only my soul to adore eternally
And meet Thee in each form and soul of Thee. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Surrender,#NFDB
806:Let thy personal weakness, O Christian, be an argument to make thee pray earnestly to thy God for help. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
807:Look in, let not either the proper quality, or the true worth of anything pass thee, before thou hast fully it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
808:Lord judge between me and thee, and the Lord avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee. 13 As saith the ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
809:Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium. ~ Charles Gounod, #NFDB
810:O crooked paths! Woe to the audacious soul, which hoped, by forsaking Thee, to gain some better thing! ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
811:PSA21.11 For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
812:PSA81.10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
813:When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
814:(27) And what could make thee conceive what hell-fire is? (28) It does not allow to live, and neither leaves [to die], ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
815:And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, #NFDB
816:Damn you, Captain Black!” she yelled into the twilight. “This isn’t over yet! From hell’s heart, I stab at thee! ~ James L Cambias, #NFDB
817:Defrauded I A Butterfly
730
Defrauded I a Butterfly—
The lawful Heir—for Thee—
~ Emily Dickinson,#NFDB
818:Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
819:Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God. ~ Thomas a Kempis, #NFDB
820:Hail to Thee, Master of the world, who triumphest over all darkness. ~ The Mother(Prayers and Meditations)#sriaurobindo #themother, #NFDB
821:If I forget thee, O Vulcan, let my eyes lose their fire, my blood lose its flame, and my intellect its keenness. ~ Josepha Sherman, #NFDB
822:If I love in thee, beloved, only what thou lovest most, do not be angry; for so one spirit is enamoured of another. ~ Michelangelo, #NFDB
823:I take thee at thy word:
Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;
Henceforth I never will be Romeo. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
824:Light though thou be, thou leapest out of darkness; but I am darkness leaping out of light, leaping out of thee! ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
825:So live as if thou hadst at once to say farewell to life and the time yet accorded thee were an unexpected gift. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
826:Stride swiftly for the goal is far; rest not unduly, for thy Master is waiting for thee at the end of thy journey. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
827:Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee. ~ Stephen Crane, #NFDB
828:Welcome to thee,
O sword of eternity!
Through Buddha
And through Daruma alike
Thou hast cleft thy way. ~ Kakuz Okakura,#NFDB
829:10. When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; 11. Discretion shall preserve thee, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
830:A thousand shall fall at thy side and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee (Psalm 91:7). ~ Joseph Murphy, #NFDB
831:Beauty crowds me till I die,
Beauty, mercy have on me!
But if I expire today,
Let it be in sight of thee ~ Emily Dickinson,#NFDB
832:Do, soul, do; abuse and contemn thyself; yet a while and the time for thee to respect thyself, will be at an end. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
833:Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me. ~ Laurence Sterne, #NFDB
834:I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, #NFDB
835:I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught… ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, #NFDB
836:Let the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk; and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee. ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB
837:Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine. ~ Angelus Silesius, #NFDB
838:Seek wisdom carefully and she shall be uncovered to thee, and when once thou hast seen her, leave her, not. ~ Ecclesiasticus VI, 28, #NFDB
839:To The Reader
Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand,
To read it well - that is, to understand.
~ Ben Jonson,#NFDB
840:Welcome the sour cup of prosperity! Affliction may one day smile again, and till then, Sit thee down, sorrow! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
841:what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
842:Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee. ~ Robert Herrick, #NFDB
843:I arise from dreams of thee, And a spirit in my feet Has led me- who knows how? To thy chamber-window, Sweet! ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB
844:If it be not true to me, What care I how true it be.. Though it be not true to thee, It's gay and gospel truth to me. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
845:No power can slay my soul; it lives in Thee.
Thy presence is my immortality. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, The Divine Worker,#NFDB
846:O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: - the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea. ~ Christina Rossetti, #NFDB
847:The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee. ~ Akhenaton, #NFDB
848:A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
849:Away! away! for I will fly to thee,
Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,
But on the viewless wings of Poesy, ~ John Keats,#NFDB
850:I am a man" he told her, "and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone woman, and bring me something brown. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
851:I am misanthropos, and hate mankind, For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, That I might love thee something. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
852:If it be not true to me, What care I how true it be.. Though it be not true to thee, It's gay and gospel truth to me.. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
853:If thou thy star do follow,
Thou canst not fail thee of a glorious port. If well I judged in the life beautiful ~ Dante Alighieri,#NFDB
854:If your faith does not make you pray, have nothing to do with it; get rid of it, and God help thee to begin again. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
855:It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage. ~ Horace, #NFDB
856:My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have; for both are infinite. ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
857:One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB
858:On my strand, lovely flowers their blossoms unfold,
My mother shall grace thee with garments of gold. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,#NFDB
859:Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves! ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB
860:...the worth of that is that which it contains, and that is this, and this with thee remains." end of Sonnet 74 ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
861:Two turtle doves will show thee
Where my cold ashes lie
And sadly murmuring tell thee
How in tears I did die ~ Nikolai Gogol,#NFDB
862:(34) [And yet, O man, thine end comes hourly] nearer unto thee, and nearer – (35) and ever nearer unto thee, and nearer! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
863:Be content with no degree of sanctification. Be always crying out, "Lord, let me know more of myself and of thee." ~ George Whitefield, #NFDB
864:Benedick
By this hand, I love thee.
Beatrice
Use it for my love some other way than swearing by it. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
865:Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog! ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
866:Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, #NFDB
867:For a small moment have I aforsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee. ~ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, #NFDB
868:From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire. ~ Bayard Taylor, #NFDB
869:Good fool, help me to some light and some paper. I tell thee, I am as well in my wits as any man in Illyria. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
870:How beautiful is sunset when the glow Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy! ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB
871:If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God. ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB
872:I loved thee, though I told thee not,
Right earlily and long, thou wert joy of my ever spot
theme of my every song. ~ John Clare,#NFDB
873:I will deny thee nothing:
Whereon, I do beseech thee, grant me this,
To leave me but a little to myself. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
874:Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long. In Jesus' Name, Amen. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
875:Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much. ~ John Newton, #NFDB
876:Thou art coming to a King, Large petitions with thee bring; For His grace and power are such, None can ever ask too much. ~ John Piper, #NFDB
877:To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
878:...to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
879:Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship,
I'll perform it to the last article."
--Othello, Act III, Scene iii ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
880:Be not ashamed to be helped: thy end is to accomplish that which is incumbent on thee, like a soldier in the assault. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
881:Ere I could make thee open thy white hand, and clap thyself my love; then didst thou utter, I am your's for ever! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
882:In activity and in silence, in taking and in giving, always the glad remembrance of Thee.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, [T1],#NFDB
883:Jesus Lord, welcome thou me In form of bread as I see thee Jesus, for thy holy name, Shield me today from sin and shame. ~ Paul Doherty, #NFDB
884:O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age! ~ John Milton, #NFDB
885:Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come? ~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca, #NFDB
886:Then I shall bid thee goodnight, my dear. Sweet pixies watch over the dusty moonlight of your dreams, Jessameine. ~ Jennifer Silverwood, #NFDB
887:Thou art standing all this while at the door of eternity, and death is waiting to open the door, and put thee in(247). ~ Richard Baxter, #NFDB
888:Zion, thou art doubtless anxious for news of thy captives; they ask after thee, they who are the remainder of thy flock. ~ Judah Halevi, #NFDB
889:At thee seaside all is narrow horizontals, the world reduced to a few long straight lines pressed between earth and sky. ~ John Banville, #NFDB
890:Be not taken in the snares of the Prince of death, let him not cast thee to the ground because thou hast been heedless. ~ Buddhist Texts, #NFDB
891:He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
892:Horatio. Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! [ ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
893:How unsound and insincere is he who says, I have determined to deal with thee in a fair way.—What art thou doing, man? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
894:I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
895:No Prisoner Be
720
No Prisoner be—
Where Liberty—
Himself—abide with Thee—
~ Emily Dickinson,#NFDB
896:Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
897:O heavenly Sower, plough me first, and then cast the truth into me, and let me yield Thee a bounteous harvest. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
898:Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least; nor are those empty-hearted whose low sounds reverb no hollowness. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
899:Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
900:DEU8.10 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
901:Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Thow you are singing somewhere still I can no longer hear you. ~ Leonard Cohen, #NFDB
902:Fight valiantly to-day; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
903:Holy Knowledge, by thee illumined, I hymn by thee the ideal light; I rejoice with the joy of the Intelligence. ~ Hermes: “On the Rebirth”, #NFDB
904:If I had but an hour of love,if that be all that is given me,an hour of love upon this earth,I would give my love to thee. ~ Alice Sebold, #NFDB
905:I give thee all,-I can no more, Though poor the off'ring be; My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring to thee. ~ Charles Lamb, #NFDB
906:I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life! And if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death... ~ James O Barr, #NFDB
907:it is sweet and entertaining to look into my being when all my powers and passions are united and engaged in pursuit of Thee, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
908:One of my favourite quotations is: 'That which thy father bequeathed thee, earn it anew, if thou wouldst possess it.' ~ Margaret Thatcher, #NFDB
909:Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May ~ C D Reiss, #NFDB
910:Thee onnlly wway ttoo ccope withh ssometthingg ddeadly sseriouss iss ttoo ttry ttoo trreatt itt a llittlle lligghtly. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
911:Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, #NFDB
912:Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
913:Yet I did love thee to the last, As ferverently as thou, Who didst not change through all the past, And canst not alter now. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
914:Every one that flatters thee Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind, Faithful friends are hard to find. ~ Richard Barnfield, #NFDB
915:Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee. ~ Immanuel Kant, #NFDB
916:O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them? ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
917:Take this sorrow to thy heart and make it part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
918:The dearest idol I have known, Whate’er that idol be; Help me to tear it from thy throne, And worship only thee. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
919:Why was I born, O God, if not to find Thee?
Why do I die, O God, if not to come to Thee?
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan, Sayings of Hazrat Khan,#NFDB
920:Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead, for the door of choice is not open either to thee or me. ~ Hafez, #NFDB
921:Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
922:From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,— Path, motive, guide, original, and end. ~ Samuel Johnson, Motto to The Rambler, No. 7, #NFDB
923:Help us for Christ’s sake to have our eyes open to sin, so that we shall always know when we are not pleasing Thee. ~ Grace Livingston Hill, #NFDB
924:I will have thee, as our rarer monsters are, painted upon a pole,and underwrit: "Here you may see the tyrant, Macbeth ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
925:I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes—and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
926:Lord, it is my chief complaint, That my love is weak and faint; Yet I love thee and adore, Oh for grace to love thee more! ~ William Cowper, #NFDB
927:Time voyages with Thee upon its prow,—
And all the future’s passionate hope is Thou. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Because Thou Art,#NFDB
928:When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, #NFDB
929:Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good. ~ Saadi, #NFDB
930:Even so, beloved Eva! fair star of thy dwelling! Thou art passing away; but they that love thee dearest know it not. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe, #NFDB
931:When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love. ~ Charles Lamb, #NFDB
932:Caliban: As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
933:Come, come to Him who made thy heart; Come weary and oppressed; To come to Jesus is thy part; His part, to give thee rest. ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
934:Drive thy business, let not that drive thee; and Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise, ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
935:Farewell, my sister, fare thee well. The elements be kind to thee, and make Thy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
936:Forth in thy name,O Lord, I go, My daily labour to pursue. Thee, only thee, resolved to know, In all I think or speak or do. ~ Charles Wesley, #NFDB
937:I arise from dreams of thee,
And a spirit in my feet
Has led me- who knows how?
To thy chamber-window, Sweet! ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley,#NFDB
938:“Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.” ~ Jalaluddin Rumi#poetry #mysticpoetry, #NFDB
939:Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last. ~ Thomas a Kempis, #NFDB
940:Oft did I weary of wrestling with thee.
Carved an unknown galley slave into an oar.
And Rudyard Kipling into his desk. ~ David Markson,#NFDB
941:All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem (25) To have thee crowned withal. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
942:A Satanist practices the motto, "If a man smite thee on one cheek, smash him on the other!" Let no wrong go unredressed. ~ Anton Szandor LaVey, #NFDB
943:Don't forget, Riddler, how I love thee. Or all we shared together. Or that this sea and all other seas can lead you back to me. ~ Janet Morris, #NFDB
944:God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
945:Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine. ~ Robert Browning, #NFDB
946:I go and it is done. The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
947:It was St. Augustine who once prayed, "Thou halt made us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it finds its rest in Thee. ~ R C Sproul, #NFDB
948:I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy
eyes—and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
949:No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free More fond than mistress, make me that to thee! ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
950:Oh, great and just God, no man among us knows what the sleeper knows, nor is it for us to judge what lies between him and Thee. ~ Willa Cather, #NFDB
951:Prince, thou art
sad. Get thee a wife, get thee a wife. There is no staff more
reverend than one tipped with horn. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
952:Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee. ~ Horace, #NFDB
953:Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
954:You do not come to the thee-ator and it will wither your soul." (Madam Leadora Seamstress for the Royal Magnificent Theater) ~ Kristen Britain, #NFDB
955:Addressed to the One Supreme Lord, There is no other sin, no other vice than to be far from Thee.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III, 240,#NFDB
956:Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
957:How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning,#NFDB
958:If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year. ~ Walter Raleigh, #NFDB
959:Look for me by moonlight; Watch for me by moonlight; I’ll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way! —Alfred Noyes ~ M C Beaton, #NFDB
960:Marriage is lawful, merchandise is lawful, husbandry is lawful, but never one of these is lawful when they hinder thee from the Lord. ~ Various, #NFDB
961:O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
962:So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
963:Help me to live to Thee for ever, to make Thee my last and only end, so that I may never more in one instance love my sinful self. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
964:I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind, t'were perjury to love thee now! ~ Paul Tillich, #NFDB
965:Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
966:The house of my soul is too small to receive Thee: let it be enlarged by Thee. It is all in ruins: do Thou repair it. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
967:TIMON
A fool of thee: depart.
APEMANTUS
I love thee better now than e'er I did.
TIMON
I hate thee worse. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
968:Dost thee?” said Bildad, in a hollow tone, and turning round to me. “I dost,” said I unconsciously, he was so intense a Quaker. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
969:In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
970:Look within thee; within thee is the source of all good and a source inexhaustible provided thou dig in it unceasingly. ~ Marcus Aurelius VII. 59, #NFDB
971:Now it is time to sit quiet, face to face with thee, and to sing dedication of life in this silent and overflowing leisure. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, #NFDB
972:Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
973:While Thee I seek, protecting Power, Be my vain wishes stilled; And may this consecrated hour With better hopes be filled. ~ Helen Maria Williams, #NFDB
974:Can I view thee panting, lying
On thy stomach, without sighing;
Can I unmoved see thee dying
On a log
Expiring frog! ~ Charles Dickens,#NFDB
975:Forthwith I crush this acid lemon
Freeing myself of the malefic venom
Hither I let thee rotten
Let my curse be forgotten. ~ Camilla Isley,#NFDB
976:I'm in the Dance Band on the Titanic Singing "Nearer my God to thee" and the icebergs on the starboard bow Won't you dance with me? ~ Harry Chapin, #NFDB
977:I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried- "La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall! ~ John Keats, #NFDB
978:Now remember what the angel Raphael said to the boy Tobias. Remember it.
'Do that which is good,and no harm shall come to thee. ~ Arthur Miller,#NFDB
979:Or thou might'st better listen to the wind, Whose language is to thee a barren noise, Though it blows legend-laden through the trees. ~ John Keats, #NFDB
980:O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams
That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere. ~ John Milton,#NFDB
981:Should prosperity befall thee, rejoice not, and should abasement come upon thee, grieve not, for both shall pass away and be no more. ~ Bah u ll h, #NFDB
982:That which is impossible to thee is not impossible to me: I shall save my word in all things and I shall make all things well. ~ Julian of Norwich, #NFDB
983:Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee. ~ Emily Bronte, #NFDB
984:What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB
985:Yet I did love thee to the last,
As ferverently as thou,
Who didst not change through all the past,
And canst not alter now. ~ Lord Byron,#NFDB
986:11 For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform. 12 Therefore shalt thou ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
987:And when we would make much of that which cannot matter much to thee, forgive us -a frequent part of the prayer that opened sermons. ~ John E Hines, #NFDB
988:Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward & portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
989:GEN12.3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
990:lead me to cast away my thoughts of what I think I know, and make me kneel before Thee in true teachableness and poverty of spirit. ~ Andrew Murray, #NFDB
991:Let the whole world end now, since all for whichIt was created is fulfilled at lastAnd I am swallowed up in thee, O God. ~ Sri AurobindoShort Poems, #NFDB
992:Love and serve men, but beware lest thou desire their approbation. Obey rather God within thee.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human, Bhakti,#NFDB
993:May my desires be enlarged and my hopes emboldened, that I may honour Thee by my entire dependency and the greatness of my expectation. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
994:My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
995:Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray thee, Lord, my soul to keep.
If I should die before I wake,I pay thee, Lord, my soul to take. ~ Lauren Oliver,#NFDB
996:Oh! that Thou wouldest enter into my heart, and inebriate it, that I may forget my ills, and embrace Thee, my sole good! ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
997:Out o' th' moon, I do assure thee. I was the man in the moon when time was,
--Stephano
(Act II, scene 2, lines 136-137) ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
998:Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, #NFDB
999:Think'st thou heaven is such a glorious thing?
I tell thee, 'tis not so fair as thou
Or any man that breathes on earth. ~ Christopher Marlowe,#NFDB
1000:When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells. ~ Elizabeth Fry, #NFDB
1001:All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1002:And in Life's noisiest hour,
There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee,
The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge,#NFDB
1003:D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee!" -D'Artagnan ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
1004:found thee not without, Wisdom, because I erred in seeking without what was already within.” —Possidius Adeodat, Archivist of Kenatos ~ Jeff Wheeler, #NFDB
1005:I am all Thine; take me, and enable me to glorify Thee now, in all that I say, in all that I do, and with all that I have. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1006:JER1.19 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1007:Lord, I desire to live as one Who bears a blood-bought name, As one who fears but grieving Thee, And knows no other shame. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1008:My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may do thee good. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1009:Abide with me from morn to eve, / For without Thee I cannot live: / Abide with me when night is nigh. / For without Thee I dare not die. ~ John Keble, #NFDB
1010:And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
1011:As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated with a clown, As the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1012:Come, my heart, rejoice in the immunity which thy Redeemer has secured thee, and bless His name all the day, and every day. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1013:Have I not confessed against myself my transgressions unto Thee, and Thou, my God, hast forgiven the iniquity of my heart? ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
1014:ISA33.2 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1015:Let me seek Thee in longing," pleaded Anselm, "let me long for Thee in seeking; let me find Thee in love, and love Thee in finding." Love ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
1016:My brother had pulled one of our mom’s largest crucifixes off the wall and held it in the air at me while he hissed, “I banish thee! ~ Mariana Zapata, #NFDB
1017:Guess now who holds thee?” — “Death,” I said. But, there, The silver answer rang, — “Not Death, but Love.” — ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
1018:He crept up, and touched the face of the boy. "Didst thou dream that I should be faithless and forsake thee? I— a dog?" said that mute caress. ~ Ouida, #NFDB
1019:I see the stars. I hear the rolling thunder, thy power throughout the universe displayed. Then sings my soul, my Savior, God, to thee. ~ Reba McEntire, #NFDB
1020:I thank thee, king, For thy great bounty, that not only givest Me cause to wail but teachest me the way How to lament the cause. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1021:Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had. ~ James Brown, #NFDB
1022:O obscurity of obscurity, O soul of the soul, Thou art more than all and before all. All is seen in Thee and Thou art seen in all. ~ Farid-uddin-attar, #NFDB
1023:Other response, he said, I make thee not,
Except the doing; for the modest asking
Ought to be followed by the deed in silence. ~ Dante Alighieri,#NFDB
1024:Sun of my soul, thou Savior dear, It is not night if thou be near. Oh, may no earthborn cloud arise To hide thee from thy servant's eyes. ~ John Keble, #NFDB
1025:The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
1026:Zamore may say within his tomb, as says the Greek dancer in her epitaph: “Earth, rest lightly on me, for I rested lightly on thee. ~ Th ophile Gautier, #NFDB
1027:An attentive scrutiny of thy being will reveal to thee that it is one with the very essence of absolute perfection. ~ Buddhist Writings in the Japanese, #NFDB
1028:And once for all, let me tell thee and assure thee, young man, it's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
1029:A thousand suns will stream on thee,
A thousand moons will quiver;
But not by thee my steps shall be,
For ever and for ever. ~ Alfred Tennyson,#NFDB
1030:I do think the bars
That kept my spirit in are burst - that I
Am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky!
How beautiful thou art! ~ John Keats,#NFDB
1031:Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us O'er the world's tempestuous sea; Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, For we have no help but Thee. ~ Sigmund Freud, #NFDB
1032:Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, our faith triumphant o’er our fears, are all with thee – are all with thee! ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
1033:Reader, whoever thou art, put thy trust in thy Creator, make use of the reason he endowed thee with, and cast from thee all such fables. ~ Thomas Paine, #NFDB
1034:Straight is the line of Duty, Curved is the line of Beauty, Follow the straight line, thou shall see. The curved line ever follow thee. ~ Hilary Mantel, #NFDB
1035:Thou I cannot so freely say, My heart is with thee, my soul longeth after thee ; yet can I say, I long for such a longing heart (648). ~ Richard Baxter, #NFDB
1036:Tis necessary for thee to learn all things, both the abiding essence of persuasive truth, and men's opinions in which rests no true belief ~ Parmenides, #NFDB
1037:To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee? ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1038:Why was I not made of stone like thee?
--Quasimodo[to a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire]. ~ Victor Hugo,#NFDB
1039:And, I pray thee now, tell me for which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me? — William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1040:Every feeling hath been shaken;
Pride, which not a world could bow,
Bows to thee - by thee forsaken,
Even my soul forsakes me now. ~ Lord Byron,#NFDB
1041:For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1042:Gabriel, to thee thy course by lot hath given
Charge and strict watch that to this happy place
No evil thing approach or enter in. ~ John Milton,#NFDB
1043:If not, let me offer you some instruction in at least one area: get thee to a dictionary and be relentless about your visits there. ~ Mark Z Danielewski, #NFDB
1044:I sleep with thee, and wake with thee,
And yet thou are not there;
I fill my arms with thoughts of thee,
And press the common air. ~ John Clare,#NFDB
1045:Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
1046:"470"
How good—to be alive!
How infinite—to be
Alive—two-fold—The Birth I had
And this—besides, in—Thee!
~ Emily Dickinson,#NFDB
1047:We thank Thee, Lord, for happy hearts, for rain and sunny weather. We thank Thee, Lord for this our food, and that we are together. Amen. ~ Laura Frantz, #NFDB
1048:Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also; and if any man take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also, ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
1049:Without haste! without rest! Bind the motto to thy breast! Bear it with thee as a spell; Storm or sunshine , guard it well. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
1050:And they will ask thee of the spirit. Say: The spirit proceedeth at my Lord's command; but of knowledge, only a little is given to you. ~ Elijah Muhammad, #NFDB
1051:And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, #NFDB
1052:D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee!"
-D'Artagnan ~ Alexandre Dumas,#NFDB
1053:Do not to others what would displease thee done to thyself: this is the substance of the Law; all other law depends on one’s good pleasure. ~ Mahabharata, #NFDB
1054:Every morning may our thoughts rise fervently towards Thee, asking Thee how we can manifest and serve Thee best.
~ The Mother, Prayers And Meditations,#NFDB
1055:It's in Macbeth: "The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon." I seldom have occasion to pull it out, but it's ready and waiting! ~ Margaret Atwood, #NFDB
1056:Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state. ~ Thomas Gray, #NFDB
1057:thee!" Out came Meg, with gray horse-hair hanging about her face, a red and black robe, a staff, and cabalistic signs upon her cloak. ~ Louisa May Alcott, #NFDB
1058:Whatever have been thy failures hitherto, "be not afflicted, my child, for who shall assign to thee what thou hast left undone?" We ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1059:8 Yea, the fir-trees rejoice at thee, and also the cedars of Lebanon, saying: Since thou art laid down no feller is come up against us. ~ Joseph Smith Jr, #NFDB
1060:And when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And asleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me must be heard of, say, I taught thee. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1061:Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. ~ John Donne, #NFDB
1062:Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower. ~ Jean Paul, #NFDB
1063:How can you draw close to God when you are far from your own self? Grant, Lord, that I may know myself that I may know thee.
~ Saint Augustine of Hippo,#NFDB
1064:Just as I am, without one plea But that Thy blood was shed for me, And that thou bidd'st me come to Thee, O Lamb of God, I come! ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1065:Laurel crowns cleave to deserts And power to him who power exerts; Hast not thy share? On winged feet, Lo! it rushes thee to meet; . . . ~ Marsilio Ficino, #NFDB
1066:My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have; for both are infinite. —William Shakespeare ~ Rick Yancey, #NFDB
1067:Put not your trust in the princes of this world, for they will frig thee up and so shalt their governments, even unto the end of the earth. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1068:Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee. ~ Aleister Crowley, The Vision and the Voice, [T3], #NFDB
1069:Thou shalt leave behind thee the embarrassments with which wealth surrounds thee and thou shalt find the immensity of the spiritual kingdom. ~ Ahmed Halif, #NFDB
1070:What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage ~ Ezra Pound, #NFDB
1071:Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee. ~ John Donne, #NFDB
1072:Bleed, bleed, poor country!Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure;For goodness dares not check thee!His title is affear’d.Shakesp.Macbeth. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
1073:Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1074:He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1075:Make pain and pleasure, loss and gain, victory and defeat equal to thee, then turn thyself to the battle, so shalt thou have no sin. ~ Bhagavad Gita II. 38, #NFDB
1076:Our separation so abides, and flies,
That thou, residing here, go'st yet with me,
And I, hence fleeting, here remain with thee. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
1077:Thou movest us to delight in praising Thee; for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
1078:Walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1079:Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are aforgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1080:Action Human and Divine
Keep only my soul to adore eternally
And meet Thee in each form and soul of Thee. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Surrender,#NFDB
1081:And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. ~ Nicholas Sansbury Smith, #NFDB
1082:God mark thee to His grace! Thou was the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And might I live to see thee married once, I have my wish. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1083:I am like a child who awakes At the light, so safe and secureFree from night's fears when dawn breaks, In Thee I am ever secure. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
1084:Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again. "What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder. He resumed,--"The love of a damned soul. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1085:"Dost thou understand? I love thee!" he cried again."What love!" said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--"The love of a damned soul. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1086:Each man's death diminishes me, for I am involved in mankind. Therefore, ask not to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee. - John Donne ~ Meg Cabot, #NFDB
1087:Forgive my grief for one removed Thy creature whom I found so fair I trust he lives in Thee and there I find him worthier to be loved. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1088:If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1089:If thou knewest the whole Bible, and the sayings of all the philosophers, what should all this profit thee without the love and grace of God? ~ Thomas Kempis, #NFDB
1090:This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
1091:Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be. ~ John Donne, #NFDB
1092:We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead And thirst our souls from Thee to fill. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
1093:Dear Lord Jesus, I never tire of acknowledging Thy greatness in my life. Today may I lift Thee up so that all may see the greatness of Thee. Amen. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
1094:Her thoughts immediately brought to mind a line by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: “I shall but love thee better after death.” Some pains are sweet. ~ Sue Johnson, #NFDB
1095:I am all poverty as well as all guilt, having nothing of my own with which to repay Thee, but I bring Jesus to Thee in the arms of faith, pleading ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1096:I desire from thee to know,
Since thou thus dost treat me so,
Why have I provoked thy scorn
By the crime of being born?— ~ Pedro Calder n de la Barca,#NFDB
1097:If Brett is Sirius, brighter than anything else in the sky, Lennon is thee moon: often dark and hidden, but closer than any star. Always there. ~ Jenn Bennett, #NFDB
1098:Sit down: thou art no flatterer:
I thank thee for it; and heaven forbid
That kings should let their ears hear their
faults hid! ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
1099:Sole essence of the world, Thou createst it and thou dissolvest it. Thou makest and unmakest the universe which is born again unceasingly by Thee. ~ Harivansa, #NFDB
1100:Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, #NFDB
1101:Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
1102:Thee I do not look on, no,
For, alas! it is of moment,
That he must not see thy beauty
Who is pledged to see thy honour. ~ Pedro Calder n de la Barca,#NFDB
1103:treasure up these words in thy heart. Be faithful and diligent in keeping the commandments of God and I will encircle thee in the arms of my love. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1104:Well, let them seize on all they can;—
One treasure still is mine,—
A heart that loves to think on thee,
And feels the worth of thine. ~ Anne Bront,#NFDB
1105:When the stars threw down their spears, and watered heaven with their tears, did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? ~ William Blake, #NFDB
1106:When thou attended gloriously from heaven , Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send Thy summoning archangels to proclaim Thy dread tribunal. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
1107:Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1108:Woe is me! how high art Thou in the highest, and how deep in the deepest! and Thou never departest, and we scarcely return to Thee. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
1109:7 Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1110:And yet, because I love thee, I obtain
From that same love this vindicating grace,
To live on still in love, and yet in vain ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning,#NFDB
1111:Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee. ~ Various, #NFDB
1112:Do the things external which fall upon thee distract thee? Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1113:Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1114:Friend," replied Michael Strogoff, "Heaven reward thee for all thou hast done for me!"
"Only fools expect reward on earth," replied the mujik. ~ Jules Verne,#NFDB
1115:I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, #NFDB
1116:In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes, For they in thee a thousand errors nore; But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise." —Shakespeare ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1117:Jesus the very thought of Thee
With sweetness fills my breast;
But sweeter far Thy face to see,
And in Thy presence rest. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux,#NFDB
1118:Lay aside caution, it cannot help thee against destiny; to worry with precaution is to toil and moil; go, trust in providence, trust in the better part. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
1119:PSA39.7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. PSA39.8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1120:Remember thee! Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records. ~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet, c. 1601, Act I, scene 5, line 97., #NFDB
1121:The seasons bring the flower again, And bring the firstling to the flock; And in the dusk of thee the clock Beats out the little lives of men ~ Alfred Tennyson, #NFDB
1122:Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, #NFDB
1123:8 And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1124:Do not speak harshly to anybody; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful, blows for blows will touch thee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1125:Farewell to Thee! But not farewell To all my fondest thoughts of Thee; Within my heart they still shall dwell And they shall cheer and comfort me. ~ Anne Bronte, #NFDB
1126:Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; 3. That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1127:I saw thee ne'er before; I see thee never more; But love, and help, and pain, beautiful one, Have made thee mine, till all my years are done. ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
1128:I Stole Them From A Bee
200
I stole them from a Bee—
Because—Thee—
Sweet plea—
He pardoned me!
~ Emily Dickinson,#NFDB
1129:I throw a kiss across the sea, I drink the winds as drinking wine, And dream they all are blown from thee, I catch the whisper'd kiss of thine. ~ Joaquin Miller, #NFDB
1130:KING EDWARD IV:
To tell thee plain, I aim to lie with thee.
LADY GREY:
To tell you plain, I had rather lie in prison. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
1131:...Night has chosen thee; thy death will be thy birth. Night calls to thee; harken to Her sweet voice. Your destiny awaits you at the House of Night. ~ P C Cast, #NFDB
1132:O mortal, bear, but ask not for the stroke,
Too soon will grief and anguish find thee out. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
1133:ps.130.3 If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? ps.130.4 But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1134:Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide? ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
1135:Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1136:Doubt not his grace because of thy tribulation, but believe that he loveth thee as much in seasons of trouble as in times of happiness. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1137:Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, o Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is in due time for thee. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1138:Forgive my grief for one removed
Thy creature whom I found so fair
I trust he lives in Thee and there
I find him worthier to be loved. ~ Alfred Tennyson,#NFDB
1139:If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee. ~ John Dryden, #NFDB
1140:I love thee, Macumazahn, for we have grown grey together, and there is that between us that cannot be seen, and yet is too strong for breaking; ~ H Rider Haggard, #NFDB
1141:Love in my world usually ended up with someone hearing “I smite thee!” as she was cursed to be some lame flower for the rest of her life. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
1142:Oh, Ahab! what shall be grand in thee, it must needs be plucked at from the skies, and dived for in the deep, and featured in the unbodied air! ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
1143:O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, #NFDB
1144:Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said ... Be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods." Daniel 3:16, 18 ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1145:When they tell thee that thou must not search everywhere for truth, believe them not. Those who speak thus are thy most formidable enemies—and Truth's. ~ Tolstoi, #NFDB
1146:Angels and ministers of grace defend us!— Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn’d, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1147:In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1148:Let me willingly accept misery, sorrows, temptations, if I can thereby feel sin as the greatest evil, and be delivered from it with gratitude to Thee, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1149:Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till it get wing, and flie away with Thee. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
1150:Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home . . . and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always. ~ Saint Catherine of Siena, #NFDB
1151:MAT16.18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1152:PSA130.1 Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD. PSA130.2 Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1153:Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just? ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1154:This is my password," said the King as he drew his sword. "The light is dawning, the lie broken. Now guard thee, miscreant, for I am Tirian of Narnia. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1155:We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead And thirst our souls from Thee to fill. Come ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
1156:If it seemeth to thee that thou knowest many things, and understandest them well, know also that there are many more things which thou knowest not. ~ Thomas Kempis, #NFDB
1157:O let my trembling soul be still, And wait thy wise, thy holy will! I cannot, Lord, thy purpose see, Yet all is well since ruled by thee. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1158:Severed and gone, so many years!
And art thou still so dear to me,
That throbbing heart and burning tears
Can witness how I cling to thee? ~ Anne Bront,#NFDB
1159:8He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1160:Accept the world as God's theater; be thou the mask of the Actor and let Him act through thee; and take God within for thy only critic and audience. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
1161:Accept the world as God's theatre; be thou the mask of the Actor and let Him act through thee; and take God within for thy only critic and audience. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
1162:Be Thou exalted over my reputation. Make me ambitious to please Thee even if as a result I must sink into obscurity and my name be forgotten as a dream. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
1163:Carved in stone on the front of Old South Church in Boston is this inscription from the book of Revelation: “Behold, I Set Before Thee an Open Door. ~ Emily C Heath, #NFDB
1164:GEN28.22 And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1165:Hail to Thee, to Thee, Spirit of the Supreme Spirit, Soul of souls, to Thee, the visible and invisible, who art one with Time and with the elements. ~ Vishnu Purana, #NFDB
1166:Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
1167:When we stand up and we sing O Canada, we pledge to stand on guard for thee. If that doesn't include our water, we might as well sit down and give up. ~ Rick Mercer, #NFDB
1168:Accept the world as God's theater; be thou the mask of the Actor and let Him act through thee; and take God within for thy only critic and audience. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
1169:And what if you don't come?"
"I will. No matter what happens."
"I’ll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way,'" she murmured. ~ Anne Stuart,#NFDB
1170:Do not speak harshly to anybody; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful, blows for blows will touch thee. 134. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1171:Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
1172:Doth not a flight through illimitable plains of the ether of love inflame thy heart and compel thee to delight thyself in the Lord thy God? ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1173:I know that I have life only insofar as I have love. I have no love except it come from Thee. Help me, please, to carry this candle against the wind. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
1174:I love thee, Lord, but with no love of mine, For I have none to give; I love thee, Lord; but all the love is thine, For by thy love I live. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1175:That which is born of the flesh, is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit, is spirit. Marvel not that said unto thee, “Ye must be born again. ” ~ John III 6. 7, #NFDB
1176:…Then look for me by moonlight, Watch for me by moonlight, I’ll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.” Alfred Noyes The Highwayman ~ David Drake, #NFDB
1177:Thus do all traitors: If their purgation did consist in words, They are as innocent as grace itself. Let it suffice thee that I trust thee not. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1178:Abandon all dharmas and take refuge in Me alone; I will deliver thee from all sin and evil; do not grieve. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, (Gita 18:66), [T5}, #NFDB
1179:Action like inaction can find a place in thee; if thy body agitates itself, let thy mind be calm, let thy soul be limpid as a mountain lake. ~ Book of Golden Precepts, #NFDB
1180:Man’s soul crosses through thee to Paradise,
Heaven’s sun forces its way through death and night. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real,#NFDB
1181:O grant, that in the trials by which we must be daily exercised, we may raise upwards our minds to thee, and never cease to think that thou art near us; ~ John Calvin, #NFDB
1182:Oh, cruel ennui! It must be by mistake that those who have invented the torments of hell have forgotten to ascribe thee the first place among them. ~ Giacomo Casanova, #NFDB
1183:Purify thyself and thou shalt see God. Transform thy body into a temple, cast from thee evil thoughts and contemplate God with the eye of thy conscious soul. ~ Vemana, #NFDB
1184:There is that in thee, poor lad, which I feel too curing to my malady. Like cures like; and for this hunt, my malady becomes my most desired health. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
1185:Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. ISAIAH 26:3 CHAPTER 1 Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania ~ Wanda E Brunstetter, #NFDB
1186:Thy beauty hangs around thee like
Splendour around the moon--
Thy voice, as silver bells that strike
Upon...
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, Beautys Halo
,#NFDB
1187:We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working out a pure intent. ~ William Wordsworth, #NFDB
1188:You can’t fit the Lord in a box. But you can gather stories, tradition, wisdom, and in time, you needn’t lower the shelf; God is already nearer to thee. ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
1189:Ah, reader! I would the gods had made thee rhythmical, that thou mightest comprehend the thousandth part of my labours in the evasion of cacophony. ~ Thomas de Quincey, #NFDB
1190:Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1191:I don’t like your attitude.”
“My attitude?” he echoed dumbly.
“So get thee from my bed and from my sight and speak no more to me this night. ~ Karen Marie Moning,#NFDB
1192:If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us! Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not! ~ Leonard Ravenhill, #NFDB
1193:Mistrust all men, and slay him whom thou mistrustest overmuch; and as for women, flee from them, for they are evil, and in the end will destroy thee. ~ H Rider Haggard, #NFDB
1194:Purify thyself and thou shalt see God. Transform thy body into a temple, cast from thee evil thoughts and contemplate God with the eye of thy conscious soul. ~ Vemana, #NFDB
1195:Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
1196:Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1197:When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee? ~ William Blake,#NFDB
1198:And verily I say unto thee that thou shalt lay aside the athings of this bworld, and cseek for the things of a dbetter ~ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, #NFDB
1199:Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws. ~ Richard Francis Burton, #NFDB
1200:I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need, by sun and candle light...I love thee with the breath,smiles,t ears,of all my life. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, #NFDB
1201:Pursue not a victory too far. He hath conquered well that hath made his enemy fly; thou mayest beat him to a desperate resistance, which may ruin thee. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
1202:Thy acts are thy helpers, all events are signs,
Waking and sleep are opportunities
Given to thee by an immortal Power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Word of Fate,#NFDB
1203:We would dwell with Thee in daily experience here on this earth so that we may be accustomed to the glory when we enter Thy heaven to dwell with Thee there. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
1204:Wooed by a vivid cover, she picked one up and leafed through it. She loved thee way it smelled, the ink, the fine paper, the oversized photographs. ~ Elizabeth Brundage, #NFDB
1205:146. He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1206:Could—i Do More—for Thee
447
Could—I do more—for Thee—
Wert Thou a Bumble Bee—
Since for the Queen, have I—
Nought but Bouquet?
~ Emily Dickinson,#NFDB
1207:Farewell to thee! but not farewell
To all my fondest thoughts of thee:
Within my heart they still shall dwell;
And they shall cheer and comfort me. ~ Anne Bront,#NFDB
1208:He is Thy best servant who looks not so much to hear that from Thee which himself willeth, as rather to will that, which from Thee he heareth. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
1209:He is Thy best servant who looks not so much to hear that from Whee which himself willeth, as rather to will that, which from Thee he heareth. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
1210:I saw thee ne'er before;
I see thee never more;
But love, and help, and pain, beautiful one,
Have made thee mine, till all my years are done. ~ George MacDonald,#NFDB
1211:Lord, when my spirit shall return to thee, At the foot of a friendly tree let my body be buried, That this dust may rise and rejoice among the branches. ~ Henry Van Dyke, #NFDB
1212:O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee. ~ Jonathan Swift, #NFDB
1213:O queen, thy thought is a light of the Ignorance,
Its brilliant curtain hides from thee God’s face. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain,#NFDB
1214:Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live; And to give thanks is good, and to forgive. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne, #NFDB
1215:This is servitude, To serve th'unwise, or him who hath rebelled Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
1216:Action like inaction may find its place in thee; if thy body is in movement, let thy mind be calm, let thy soul be as limpid as a mountain lake. ~ Book of Golden Precepts, #NFDB
1217:Because thee remains there, it is easier for me to go, for thee can be the shore I look back on, the star that remains fixed."
from "The Last Runaway ~ Tracy Chevalier,#NFDB
1218:If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1219:What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee? ~ John Milton, #NFDB
1220:Day by day, dear Lord,
Of Thee three things I pray.
To see Thee more clearly,
Love Thee more dearly,
Follow Thee more nearly,
Day by day. ~ Stephen Schwartz,#NFDB
1221:Ever strive for the whole; and if no whole thou canst make thee,
Join, then, thyself to some whole, as a subservient limb!
~ Friedrich Schiller, The Duty Of All
,#NFDB
1222:More than life, more than honor, I love thee."
More than any crown or throne or title, I love thee. More than any power in faerie, I love thee. ~ Laurell K Hamilton,#NFDB
1223:O disciple, that which was not created dwells in thee. If thou wish to attain to it,...thou must strip thyself of thy dark robes of illusion. ~ The Book of Golden Precepts, #NFDB
1224:Soundless echoes - no voice,
Sadness doth keep thee at bay,
Stagnation rises as ebb & flow,
Nothing alters,
Unless you choose to break away. ~ Truth Devour,#NFDB
1225:Lie still, little frog. O though Mowgli--for Mowgli the Frog I will call thee--the time will come when thought wilt hunt Shere Khan as he has hunted thee. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
1226:May the Lord bless thee and keep thee. May the Lord be gracious unto thee. May the Lord lift up the light of His countenance upon thee and give thee peace. ~ Allan Stratton, #NFDB
1227:My Friend Judge Not Me
My friend iudge not me,
Thou seest I iudge not thee:
Betwixt the stirrop and the ground,
Mercy I askt, mercy I found.
~ Anonymous,#NFDB
1228:O God, for as much as without Thee We are not enabled to doubt Thee, Help us all by Thy grace To convince the whole race It knows nothing whatever about Thee. ~ Ronald Knox, #NFDB
1229:Resolve, and thou art free. But breathe the air
Of mountains, and their unapproachable summits
Will lift thee to the level of themselves. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,#NFDB
1230:Take them, O Death! and bear away Whatever thou canst call thine own! Thine image, stamped upon this clay, Doth give thee that, but that alone! ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
1231:The Root of All Rebellion: It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty that we want a liberty of our own different from thine. ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
1232:Thou who art the soul of all things, Thy universal diffusion witnesses to Thy power and goodness. It is in thee, in others, in all creatures, in all worlds. ~ Vishnu Purana, #NFDB
1233:We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
1234:Christian, is not this very comforting to thee also, that there is not a word which has gone out of the Saviour’s lips which He has ever retracted? ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1235:For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed. ~ Thomas Malory, #NFDB
1236:Get thee to the novel! - the novel, that word-woven submarine, piloted by intimation and intuition, that will dive you to the deeps of the heart's maelstrom. ~ Cynthia Ozick, #NFDB
1237:given to thee. If it seemeth to thee that thou knowest many things, and understandest them well, know also that there are many more things which thou knowest ~ Thomas Kempis, #NFDB
1238:I could live in the woods with thee in sight, Where never should human foot intrude: Or with thee find light in the darkest night, And a social crowd in solitude. ~ Tibullus, #NFDB
1239:Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
~ Anonymous, The Bible, St John 3-3, [T5],#NFDB
1240:Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
1241:Lord, I do not know fully what the value of the blood is, but I know that the blood has satisfied Thee; so the blood is enough for me, and it is my only plea. ~ Watchman Nee, #NFDB
1242:Lord make His face to shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee: The Lord lift up His countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.” Nothing could be more ~ Marilynne Robinson, #NFDB
1243:MIC 6.8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1244:PSA39.5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1245:time is fixed for thee, which if thou dost not use for clearing away the clouds from thy mind, it will go and thou wilt go, and it will never return. Every ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1246:Where shall I direct my gaze to bless Thee, on high, below, without, within? There is no way, no place that is outside Thee, other beings exist not; all is in Thee. ~ Hermes, #NFDB
1247:With eyes Of conjugal attraction unreprov'd. Imparadised in one another's arms. With thee conversing I forget all time. And feel that I am happier than I know. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
1248:9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1249:Aye. Would’ee speak a word of prayer first, Roland? To whatever God thee holds?” “I hold to no God,” Roland said. “I hold to the Tower, and won’t pray to that. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1250:DEU4:31 (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1251:He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1252:"Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." ~ Manly P Hall, How to Understand Your Bible, #NFDB
1253:My transgressions and short-comings present me with a list of accusations, but I bless Thee that they will not stand against me, for all have been laid on Christ. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1254:O Blessed Trinity! O simplest Majesty! O Three in One! Thou art for ever God alone. Holy Trinity! Blessed equal Three. One God, we praise Thee. Frederick W. Faber ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
1255:Oh! Ahab," cried Starbuck, "not too late is it, even now, the third day, to desist. See! Moby Dick seeks thee not. It is thou, thou, that madly seekest him! ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
1256:O Thou who hast hidden thyself behind a veil, withdraw that veil at last, so that my soul may not consume itself in the search for Thee. ~ Farid-ud-din-attar “Mantic Uttair.”, #NFDB
1257:Thee will find out in time that I have a great love of professing vile sentiments, I don't know why, unless it springs from long efforts to avoid priggery. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
1258:All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good. ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
1259:And the dead man will hate thee too, with cause. Say I am mad and give my madness rein To wreck itself; the worst that can befall Is but to die an honorable death. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
1260:Behold I offered Myself altogether to the Father for thee, I give also My whole body and blood for food, that thou mightest remain altogether Mine and I thine. ~ Thomas Kempis, #NFDB
1261:FOR AS LONG AS THERE is wind in the mountains; for as long as there’s salt in the sea; for as long as rain falls on these green hills; I will stand with thee. ~ Sarah Woodbury, #NFDB
1262:I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Job, 42:5-6, [T5], #NFDB
1263:Jesus, I live for Thee, I labor for Thee, I desire only Thee. Thou in me and I in Thee; Thou with me and I with Thee; Thou all mine and I all Thine. ~ Rose Philippine Duchesne, #NFDB
1264:My Lord, I leave the infinite to Thee, and pray Thee to put far from me such a love for the tree of knowledge as might keep me from the tree of life. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1265:Need-love cries to God from our poverty; Gift-love longs to serve, or even to suffer for, God; Appreciative love says: “We give thanks to thee for thy great glory. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1266:Sweet April! many a thought Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed; Nor shall they fail, till, to its autumn brought, Life's golden fruit is shed. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
1267:Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend,
For the lesson thou hast taught!
Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,#NFDB
1268:There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1269:What thou lovest well remains,
the rest is dross
What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage ~ Ezra Pound,#NFDB
1270:Be still, then, thou uneasy mortal; know that God is unerringly wise; and be assured that, amidst the greatest multiplicity of beings, He does not overlook thee. ~ James Hervey, #NFDB
1271:Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, #NFDB
1272:But whosoever recount his true merits to Thee, what is it that he recounts to Thee but Thine own gifts? Oh, if men would know themselves to be men... ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
1273:Immured in Heaven!
Immured in Heaven!
What a Cell!
Let every Bondage be,
Thou sweetest of the Universe,
Like that which ravished thee!
~ Emily Dickinson,#NFDB
1274:I shall draw forth thy bones one by one ere I send thee to the devil. So that for all time thy shapeless body shall serve a a carpet for all the minions of Hell. ~ Steven Brust, #NFDB
1275:Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources! ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB
1276:Love, then, had hope of richer store:
What end is here to my complaint?
This haunting whisper makes me faint,
‘More years had made me love thee more. ~ Alfred Tennyson,#NFDB
1277:Oh! that I might repose on Thee! Oh! that Thou wouldest enter into my heart, inebriate it, that I may forget my ills, and embrace Thee, my sole good? ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
1278:People ran in front of us, shrieking and crying for those they had lost. One man went mad, tearing at his hair, talking nonstop of chickens and thee chicken car. ~ Ruta Sepetys, #NFDB
1279:Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade. ~ Walter Savage Landor, #NFDB
1280:This only I know, that woe is me except in Thee: not only without but within myself also; and all abundance, which is not my God, is emptiness to me. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
1281:Thou liest in reputation sick: and thou, too careless patient as thou art, commit'st thy anointed to the cure of those physicians that first wounded thee: ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1282:What I had been without thee, I know notyet, to my sorrow
See I what, without thee, hundreds and thousands now are.
~ Friedrich Schiller, To The Muse
,#NFDB
1283:5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1284:All places that the eye of heaven visits/ Are to a wise man ports and happy havens:/ Think not the king did banish thee:/ But thou the king. --Richard II ~ James Fenimore Cooper, #NFDB
1285:As I pursue my heavenly journey by Thy grace let me be known as a man with no aim but that of a burning desire for Thee, and the good and salvation of my fellow men. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1286:Ay, roar well," said Bagheera, under his whiskers, "for the time will come when this naked thing will make thee roar to another tune, or I know nothing of man. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
1287:Be content with what thou seest; and wait until Time and Experience shall teach thee to find jealousy behind the sweet smile, and hatred under the honeyed word!’ “This ~ O Henry, #NFDB
1288:Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, #NFDB
1289:Do what thy manhood bids thee do,
from none but self expect applause.
He noblest lives and noblest dies
who makes and keeps his self-made laws. ~ Richard Francis Burton,#NFDB
1290:He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.
And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,#NFDB
1291:I cannot love thee; thou 'rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God's pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee! ~ Emily Bronte, #NFDB
1292:Kill thy physician, and the fee bestow Upon the foul disease. Revoke thy gift; Or, whilst I can vent clamour from my throat, I’ll tell thee thou dost evil. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1293:O money, money, money. I'm not necessarily one of those who think thee holy, but I often stop to wonder how thou canst go out so fast when thou comest in so slowly. ~ Ogden Nash, #NFDB
1294:Trust not to friends and kindred, neither do thou put off the care of thy soul's welfare til hereafter; for men will sooner forget thee than thou art aware of. ~ Thomas a Kempis, #NFDB
1295:a limit of time is fixed for thee, which if thou dost not use for clearing away the clouds from thy mind, it will go and thou wilt go, and it will never return. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1296:As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love thee, my Friend. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1297:Be brave and upright that God may love thee; speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death; safeguard the helpless and do no wrong. That is your oath. ~ Balian of Ibelin, #NFDB
1298:Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,-"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost." ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton 1st Baron Lytton, #NFDB
1299:Do right! and thou hast naught to fear;Right hath a power that makes thee strong.The night is dark, but light is near;The grief is short, the joy is long. ~ Thomas Cogswell Upham, #NFDB
1300:How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.' The list is long, Robert. Very long. And will grow longer still."
He smiled. "Then let us begin with number one . . . ~ Nancy Moser,#NFDB
1301:It is high time for thee, to understand that there is somewhat in thee, better and more divine than either thy passions, or thy sensual appetites and affections ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1302:Know that the fault ye find in others is a reflection of a fault in thyself. Be to others just as you would have others be to thee, and ye will remove much of that. ~ Edgar Cayce, #NFDB
1303:MY river runs to thee: Blue sea, wilt welcome me? My river waits reply. Oh sea, look graciously! I ’ll fetch thee brooks From spotted nooks,— Say, sea, Take me! ~ Emily Dickinson, #NFDB
1304:My river runs to thee: Blue sea, wilt welcome me? My river waits reply. Oh sea, look graciously! I'll fetch thee brooks From spotted nooks, — Say, sea, Take me! ~ Emily Dickinson, #NFDB
1305:Then talk not of inconstancy,
False hearts, and broken vows;
If I, by miracle, can be
This live-long minute true to thee,
’Tis all that Heav'n allows. ~ John Wilmot,#NFDB
1306:Thou didst not come down from the Cross when they shouted to Thee, mocking and reviling Thee, "Come down from the Cross and we will believe that Thou art He. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1307:Be apatient in bafflictions, for thou shalt have many; but cendure them, for, lo, I am with thee, even unto the dend of thy days. ~ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, #NFDB
1308:God save thee, ancient Mariner!
From the fiends, that plague thee thus!— 80
Why look'st thou so?"—"With my cross-bow
I shot the Albatross. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge,#NFDB
1309:He doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.” All His corrections are sent in love, to purify thee, and to draw thee nearer to Himself. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1310:He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee. 147. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1311:If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs thee, but thy own judgment about it. And it is in thy power to wipe out this judgment now. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1312:JOS1.9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1313:Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing affright thee; All passeth away: God only shall stay. Patience wins all: Who hath God, needeth nothing; For God is his All. ~ Thomas a Kempis, #NFDB
1314:Nothing is sweet to me, without thee.”
“I just don’t know who I am. I don’t know why I am.
And I’m not entirely sure I’ll be given time to find out. ~ J n Kalman Stef nsson,#NFDB
1315:O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness? ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1316:Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man marks the earth with ruin - his control
Stops with the shore. ~ Lord Byron,#NFDB
1317:Thus in this sad, but oh, too pleasing state! my soul can fix upon nothing but thee; thee it contemplates, admires, adores, nay depends on, trusts on you alone. ~ William Congreve, #NFDB
1318:313. Stride swiftly for the goal is far; rest not unduly, for thy Master is waiting for thee at the end of thy journey.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human, Karma, 53, [T5],#NFDB
1319:Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest! ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
1320:Forgetfulness of grief I yet may gain;In some wise may come ending to my pain;It may be yet the Gods will have me glad!Yet, Love, I would that thee and pain I had! ~ William Morris, #NFDB
1321:Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
1322:Have I not commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee withersoever thou goest. Joshua 1:9 ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1323:Holy Lord, I have sinned times without number, and been guilty of pride and unbelief, of failure to find Thy mind in Thy Word, of neglect to seek Thee in my daily life. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1324:How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be! ~ Alexander Pope, #NFDB
1325:I did not reach Thee But my feet slip nearer every day Three Rivers and a Hill to cross One Desert and a Sea I shall not count the journey one When I am telling thee. ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
1326:I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people. ~ Moses, #NFDB
1327:I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise. ~ Robert Browning, #NFDB
1328:Oh! that I might repose on Thee! Oh! that Thou wouldest enter into my heart, and inebriate it, that I may forget my ills, and embrace Thee, my sole good! ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
1329:This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant; I act under orders. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
1330:Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy. ~ Akhenaton, #NFDB
1331:Thou at the sight
Pleased, out of Heaven shalt look down and smile,
While by thee raised I ruin all my foes,
Death last, and with his carcass glut the grave. ~ John Milton,#NFDB
1332:Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown. ~ John Keats, #NFDB
1333:We adore Thee most holy Lord Jesus Christ, here in all Thy Churches, which are in the whole world, because by Thy holy cross, Thou hast redeemed the world ~ Saint Francis of Assisi, #NFDB
1334:Whither thou goest, I will go; Where thou diest, will I die And there will I be buried: The Angel do so to me, and more also, If aught but death part thee and me. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1335:But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee. ~ Johann Arndt, #NFDB
1336:Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
1337:I have no master but Thee, no law but Thy will, no delight but Thyself, no wealth but that Thou givest, no good but that Thou blessest, no peace but that Thou bestowest. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1338:Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything - God alone suffices. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
1339:Long my imprisoned spirit lay, Fast bound in sin and nature’s night . . . My chains fell off, my heart was free, I rose, went forth, and followed Thee. —Charles Wesley ~ Neal Lozano, #NFDB
1340:My Friend Judge Not Me
My friend iudge not me,
Thou seest I iudge not thee:
Betwixt the stirrop and the ground,
Mercy I askt, mercy I found.
~ Anonymous Americas,#NFDB
1341:Surely this sense of betrayal is what Robert Frost had in mind when he wrote: "Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee/And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me." io ~ Irvin D Yalom, #NFDB
1342:When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by thee. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
1343:But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope, That one day we shall thank thee perfectly For pain and hope and all that led or drove Us back into the bosom of thy love. ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
1344:Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1345:Had they taken her from me, I would willingly have gone with thee into the forest, and signed my name in the Black Man's book too, and that with mine own blood! ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne, #NFDB
1346:If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
1347:If I serve you in hopes of Paradise, deny me Paradise.If I serve thee in fear of hell, condemn me to hell.But if I love thee for love of thyself,then grant me thyself. ~ Mark Salzman, #NFDB
1348:O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, Where thou may'st warble, eat and dwell. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
1349:O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry; For my soul is full of troubles... ~ William Styron, #NFDB
1350:Thee would I choose as my teacher and friend. Thy living example
Teaches me,thy teaching word wakens my heart unto life.
~ Friedrich Schiller, Untitled 03
,#NFDB
1351:Fie, wrangling queen!
Whom everything becomes, to chide, to laugh,
To weep; whose every passion fully strives
To make itself, in thee, fair and admired! ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
1352:How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee. ~ William Cowper, #NFDB
1353:O sleepless as the river under thee, / Vaulting the sea, the prairies' dreaming sod, / Onto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend / And of the curveship lend a myth to God. ~ Hart Crane, #NFDB
1354:Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summer’s lease hath too short a date. ~ Cheryl Bolen, #NFDB
1355:Sword, I name thee Brisingr! And with a sound of rushing wind the blade burst into flame, an envelope of sapphire-blue fire writhing about the razor-sharp steel. ~ Christopher Paolini, #NFDB
1356:Every president has taken comfort and courage when told...that the Lord "will be with thee. He will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Fear not-neither be thou dismayed." ~ John F Kennedy, #NFDB
1357:Heavenly Father, my body cells are made of light, my fleshly cells are made of Thee. They are Spirit, for Thou art Spirit; they are immortal, for Thou art Life. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, #NFDB
1358:Let not the favourable moment pass thee by, for those who have suffered it to escape them, shall lament when they find themselves on the path which leads to the abyss. ~ Buddhist Texts, #NFDB
1359:Liberty is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it. Be assured that men most commonly seek to oblige thee only that they may engage thee to serve them. ~ Saadi, #NFDB
1360:O Heavenly Father! convert my religion from a name to a principle. Bring all my thoughts and movements into an habitual reference to Thee. ~ Thomas Chalmers, diary entry, 14 March 1812, #NFDB
1361:PSA50.14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: PSA50.15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1362:Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head? ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1363:Vengeance on a dumb brute!" cried Starbuck, "that simply smote thee from blindest instinct! Madness! To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
1364:Vengeance on a dumb brute!” cried Starbuck, “that simply smote thee from blindest instinct! Madness! To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
1365:When in the down I sink my head,
Sleep, Death's twin-brother, times my breath;
Sleep, Death's twin-brother, knows not Death,
Nor can I dream of thee as dead: ~ Alfred Tennyson,#NFDB
1366:Why ponder thus the future to foresee, and jade thy brain to vain perplexity? Cast off thy care, leave Allah’s plans to him – He formed them all without consulting thee. ~ Omar Khayyam, #NFDB
1367:All Nature is but art, unknown to thee
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony not understood;
All partial evil, universal good. ~ Alexander Pope,#NFDB
1368:Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,--thou art honest. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1369:Deliver me from every evil habit, every accretion of former sins, everything that dims the brightness of Thy grace in me, everything that prevents me taking delight in Thee. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1370:It is I who have watched over thee, life after life, in the tenderness of many mothers! See in My gaze the two black eyes, the lost beautiful eyes, thou seekest! ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, #NFDB
1371:May evil have thee! Thou desirest my head, therefore shalt thou lose thine;” and with his sword he lightly smote her head off, in the presence of the king and all the court. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1372:O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness? ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1373:thee mustna take me unkind. I wasna driving at thee in what I said just now. Some ‘s got one way o’ looking at things and some ‘s got another.” “Nay, nay, Addy, thee mean ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
1374:We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread,
And long to feast upon Thee still:
We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead
And thirst our souls from Thee to fill. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux,#NFDB
1375:10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him? ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1376:Enquire, I pray thee, of the former age and prepare myself to search after the wisdom of their fathers...Shall they not teach thee and tell thee words out of their heart? ~ Job VIII.8.10, #NFDB
1377:Go on, O Lord, and act: stir us up and call us back; inflame us and draw us to thee; stir us up and grow sweet to us; let us now love thee, let us run to thee. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
1378:ISA48.17 Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1379:Jesus! Thy Crucifix
225
Jesus! thy Crucifix
Enable thee to guess
The smaller size!
Jesus! thy second face
Mind thee in Paradise
Of ours!
~ Emily Dickinson,#NFDB
1380:O Lord! take my heart, for I cannot give it; and when Thou hast it, O! keep it, for I cannot keep it for Thee; and save me in spite of myself, for Jesus Christ's sake. ~ Francois Fenelon, #NFDB
1381:Sword, I name thee Brisingr!
And with a sound of rushing wind the blade burst into flame, an envelope of sapphire-blue fire writhing about the razor-sharp steel. ~ Christopher Paolini,#NFDB
1382:There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by the sea, from the inscrutable tides of God. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
1383:Attach thyself to truth; defend justice; rejoice in the beautiful. That which comes to thee with time, time will take away; that which is eternal will remain in thy heart. ~ Esaias Tegner, #NFDB
1384:Either teach them better if it be in thy power; or if it be not, remember that for
this use, to bear with them patiently, was mildness and goodness granted unto thee. ~ Marcus Aurelius,#NFDB
1385:How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. ~ David, #NFDB
1386:Remember how long thou hast already put off these things, and how often a certain day and hour as it were, having been set unto thee by the gods, thou hast neglected it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1387:So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed from thee. ~ Thomas de Quincey, #NFDB
1388:That is the only true secret, which in the presence of all men
Lies, and surrounds thee for ay, but which is witnessed by none.
~ Friedrich Schiller, To Mystics
,#NFDB
1389:Among the famous sayings of the Church fathers none is better known than Augustine's, "Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
1390:And all the trips you know you missed And all the lips you never kissed Cut through you like a knife. And now you see stretched out before thee Just another story of a life. ~ Harry Chapin, #NFDB
1391:Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater, #NFDB
1392:England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee. ~ William Cowper, #NFDB
1393:Here would I feed upon the bread of God, Here drink with thee the royal wine of heaven; Here would I lay aside each earthly load, Here taste afresh the calm of sin forgiven. ~ Wayne Grudem, #NFDB
1394:How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ? ~ Thomas a Kempis, #NFDB
1395:May I express thee unblam’d? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from Eternitie, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or ~ John Milton, #NFDB
1396:My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
1397:O child of suffering, be thou patient; God has not passed thee over in his providence. He who is the feeder of sparrows, will also furnish you with what you need. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1398:Psalms 25:
20 O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.
21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee. ~ Anonymous,#NFDB
1399:Therre willl nno llonggerr bee sso manyy pplleasanntt thinggss too llookk att iff rressponssible ppeoplle ddo nnott ddoo ssomethingg abboutt thee unnppleassanntt oness. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
1400:Almighty God, thee only have I; thou steerest my fate, I must give myself up to thee! Give me a livelihood! Give me a bride! My blood wants love, as my heart does! ~ Hans Christian Andersen, #NFDB
1401:How do I love thee? Let me count the ways I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. ~ Sherryl Woods, #NFDB
1402:If I had to baptise a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words 'I baptise thee in the name of Abraham'. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
1403:Is this wide world not large enough to fill thee,Nor Nature, nor that deep man's Nature, Art?Are they too thin, too weak and poor to still thee,Thou little heart? ~ Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, #NFDB
1404:It will suffice thee to remember as concerning pain ... that the mind may, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy with the body, still retain its own tranquility. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1405:Keep us living, keep us dying, keep us labouring, keep us suffering, keep us fighting, keep us resting, keep us everywhere, for everywhere we need Thee, O our God! ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1406:My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time's furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1407:O Thou whose Name is sweetest remedy
And whose remembrance heals our soul’s disease
With Thee each moment is Eternity
A drop from Heaven that consoles and frees. ~ Frithjof Schuon,#NFDB
1408:The image of Eternity--the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone. ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1409:Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end? ~ Gerard Manley Hopkins, #NFDB
1410:We have known thee, O most great Light who art perceived only by the intelligence I We have known thee, O Plenitude matrix of all Nature! We have known thee, O eternal Permanence ! ~ Hermes, #NFDB
1411:While the Rose blows along the River Brink, With old Khayyam the Ruby Vintage drink: And when the Angel with his darker Draught Draws up to thee—take that, and do not shrink. ~ Omar Khayy m, #NFDB
1412:68 He said: These are my guests, so disgrace me not, 69 And keep your duty to Allah and shame me not. 70 They said: Did we not forbid thee from (entertaining) people?a 70a. As ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1413:A sinless sinner, banned awhile on earth, But by the dead commended; and with them I shall abide for ever. As for thee, Scorn, if thou wilt, the eternal laws of Heaven. ISMENE ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
1414:As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant,
A sorcerer, that by his cunning hath
Cheated me of the island,
----Caliban
(Act III, scene II, lines 40-43) ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
1415:By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom. ~ Omar Khayyam, #NFDB
1416:Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand; Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to Thee, for a benison to fall on our meat, and on us all. Amen. ~ Robert Herrick, #NFDB
1417:Long my imprisoned spirit lay,
Fast bound in sin and nature’s night . . .
My chains fell off, my heart was free,
I rose, went forth, and followed Thee. —Charles Wesley ~ Neal Lozano,#NFDB
1418:Sir 6:37 Let thy thoughts be upon the precepts of God, and meditate continually on his commandments: and he will give thee a heart, and the desire of wisdom shall be given to thee. ~ Various, #NFDB
1419:The days are cold, the nights are long, The North wind sings a doleful song; Then hush again upon my breast; All merry things are now at rest, Save thee, my pretty love! ~ Dorothy Wordsworth, #NFDB
1420:When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by thee. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
1421:When thou art at thy worst and lowest, yet 'underneath' thee 'are everlasting arms'. Sin may drag thee ever so low, but Christ's great atonement is still under all. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1422:Be careful when power comes to thee also, lest thou too shouldst smite in thine anger or thy jealousy, for unconquerable strength is a sore weapon in the hands of erring man ~ H Rider Haggard, #NFDB
1423:But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope,
That one day we shall thank thee perfectly
For pain and hope and all that led or drove
Us back into the bosom of thy love. ~ George MacDonald,#NFDB
1424:... for, by all the stars That tend thy bidding, I do think the bars That kept my spirit in are burst - that I Am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art! ~ John Keats, #NFDB
1425:If any have more of the government of thee than Christ, or if thou hadst rather live after any other laws than his, if it were at thy choice, thou art not his disciple (331). ~ Richard Baxter, #NFDB
1426:In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears ~ Lord Byron, #NFDB
1427:In this world there is none thou mayst count upon * To befriend thy case in the nick of need: So live for thyself nursing hope of none * Such counsel I give thee: enow, take heed! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1428:Lord St. Vincent sees to it that his wife is dressed like a queen. I'll tell thee summat: if she wanted the moon for her looking glass, he'd find a way to pull it down for her. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
1429:Never thee stop believin' in th' Big Good Thing an' knowin' th' world's full of it - and call it what tha' likes. Tha' wert singin' to it when I come into t' garden. ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett, #NFDB
1430:No fearless fool now fronts thee. I own thy speechless, placeless power; but to the last gasp of my earthquake life will dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
1431:Open wide the windows of our spirits and fill us full of light; open wide the door of our hearts, that we may receive and entertain Thee with all our powers of adoration. ~ Christina Rossetti, #NFDB
1432:Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen! ~ Langston Hughes, #NFDB
1433:What is there in thee, Man, that can be known?
Dark fluxion, all unfixable by thought,
A phantom dim of past and future wrought,
Vain sister of the worm ... ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge,#NFDB
1434:Good even, good fair moon, good even to thee. I prithee, dear moon, now show to me the form and the features, the speech and degree, of the man that true lover of mine shall be. ~ Walter Scott, #NFDB
1435:If a thing is difficult for thee, imagine not therefore! that it is impossible to man; but if a thing is possible and proper to man, think that it is accessible to thee also. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1436:I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The things I seek, not love them less. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, #NFDB
1437:Rhodora! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1438:When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
- The Tyger ~ William Blake,#NFDB
1439:Whither thou goest, I will go;
Where thou diest, will I die
And there will I be buried:
The Angel do so to me, and more also,
If aught but death part thee and me. ~ Cassandra Clare,#NFDB
1440:But leave the Wise to wrangle, and with me
The Quarrel of the Universe let be:
And, in some corner of the Hubbub couch'd,
Make Game of that which makes as much of Thee. ~ Omar Khayy m,#NFDB
1441:Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1442:FOOL. If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I’ld have thee beaten for being old before thy time. LEAR. How’s that? FOOL. Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1443:I think that Shakespeare is a s***. Absolute s***! He may have been a genius for his time, but I just can't relate to that stuff. "Thee and thous" - the guy sounds like a faggot. ~ Gene Simmons, #NFDB
1444:Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in thee. ~ Augustus Toplady, Living and Dying Prayer. "Rock of Ages" is translation. from the Hebrew of "everlasting strength." Isaiah, XXVI. 4, #NFDB
1445:The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli’s shoulders. “A brave heart and a courteous tongue,” said he. “They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. ~ Cornelia Funke, #NFDB
1446:This hoary head again thy yoke shall bear: Remembering that my fairest years By Thee were marked with sighs and tears, I think thy friendship false, and shun the guileful snare. ~ Matthew Lewis, #NFDB
1447:We are not the first
Who, with best meaning, have incurr'd the worst.
For thee, oppressed king, am I cast down;
Myself could else out-frown false fortune's frown. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
1448:Wouldst thou teach me the truth? Don't take the trouble! I wish not,
Through thee, the thing to observe,but to see thee through the thing.
~ Friedrich Schiller, Untitled 02
,#NFDB
1449:Believer, though all things are apparently against thee, rest assured that God has made a reservation on thy behalf; in the roll of thy griefs there is a saving clause. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1450:Be upright in thy whole life; be content in all its changes;so shalt thou make thy profit out of all occurrences; so shall everything that happeneth unto thee be the source of praise ~ Akhenaton, #NFDB
1451:Desire nothing for thyself, seek nothing, be not anxious or envious. Man’s future and thy own fate must remain hidden from thee, but live so that thou mayest be ready for anything. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
1452:For thee I'll lock up all the gates of love
And on my eyelids shall conjecture hang,
To turn all beauty into thoughts of harm,
And never shall it be more gracious. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
1453:Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
1454:God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus. ~ Jim Elliot, #NFDB
1455:I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
1456:ISA45.3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1457:Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence. ~ James Allen, #NFDB
1458:Love resistless in fight, all yield at a glance of thine eye,
Love who pillowed all night on a maiden's cheek dost lie,
Over the upland holds. Shall mortals not yield to thee? ~ Sophocles,#NFDB
1459:Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered? ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1460:There was a Door to which I found no Key
There was a Veil past which I could not see
Some little Talk awhile of ME and THEE
There seemed--and then no more of THEE and ME. ~ Omar Khayy m,#NFDB
1461:Thou art also in the trees and the plants; the earth bears Thee in its flanks and gives birth to Thee as its nursling, Thee, the Lord of beings, Thee, the essence of all that exists. ~ Harivansa, #NFDB
1462:Thou hast but enraged, not insulted me, sir; but for that I ask thee not to beware of Starbuck; thou wouldst but laugh; but let Ahab beware of Ahab; beware of thyself, old man. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
1463:Art thou so deeply read in nature and her large philosophy, and I am yet to teach thee that deadliest hellebore or the vomit of a toad are qualified poison to the malice of a woman? ~ E R Eddison, #NFDB
1464:Cold inthe earthand the deepsnow piled abovethee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime's all-serving wave? ~ Emily Bronte, #NFDB
1465:If we break faith with thee, may the green earth gape and swallow us, may the grey seas break in and overwhelm us, may the sky of stars fall and crush us out of life for ever. ~ Rosemary Sutcliff, #NFDB
1466:I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find some one quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
1467:Out of the wastes of nothingness, with the clay of My command I made thee to appear, and have ordained for thy training every atom of existence and the essence of all created things. ~ Bah u ll h, #NFDB
1468:There was a Door to which I found no Key:
There was a Veil past which I could not see:
Some little Talk awhile of ME and THEE
There seemed—and then no more of THEE and ME. ~ Omar Khayy m,#NFDB
1469:Thou gavest; and to my nurses willingly to give me what Thou gavest them. For they, with a heaven-taught affection, willingly gave me what they abounded with from Thee. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
1470:when thou prayest, enter into thy acloset, and when thou hast bshut thy door, cpray to thy Father which is in dsecret; and thy Father which eseeth in secret shall freward thee openly. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1471:Art thou in the darkness? Mind it not, for if thou dost it will feed thee more. But stand still, and act not, and wait in patience, till light arises out of darkness and leads thee. ~ James Nayler, #NFDB
1472:For all that beauty that doth cover thee
Is but the seemly raiment of my heart,
Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me.
How can I then be elder than thou art? ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
1473:From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery. ~ John Donne, #NFDB
1474:I think thee'dst perhaps like to read it, but I didna say anything about it because thee'st seemed so full of other things. It's quite easy t' read—she writes wonderful for a woman. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
1475:Joy, joy, joy!
Past ages crowd on thee, but each one remembers,
And the future is dark, and the present is spread,
Like a pillow of thorns for thy slumberless head. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley,#NFDB
1476:Riches, the dumb god that giv'st all men tongues, / That canst do nought, and yet mak'st men do all things; / The price of souls; even hell, with thee to boot, / Is made worth heaven! ~ Ben Jonson, #NFDB
1477:Shall I compare thee to a really large rat? Thou art more longer, with less disease. One would never mistake you for a listless cat . . . Nor a filthy dog, because my dog has fleas. ~ Cynthia Hand, #NFDB
1478:Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not the victory vain. Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky. ~ William Morris, #NFDB
1479:Thee’s a good man, Roland of Gilead.” He considered this, then slowly shook his head. “All my life I’ve had the fastest hands, but at being good I was always a little too slow.” She ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1480:The same God who directs the earth in its orbit, who feeds the burning furnace of the sun, and trims the lamps of heaven, has promised to supply thee with daily strength. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1481:Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
1482:Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB
1483:24.14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets: ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1484:(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1485:Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee. ~ William Blake, #NFDB
1486:I dub thee Toadsticker,” I said. “Slayer of miscreants, opener of packages, occasional carver of baked turkeys. Let all men hear, and know mild caution.” I swear the steel flickered. ~ Frank Tuttle, #NFDB
1487:I have not snares around thee cast; Thyself hast led thyself into the meshes. Who traps the Devil, hold him fast! Not soon a second time he’ll catch a prey so precious. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
1488:LUK23.42 And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. LUK23.43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1489:O soul, thou pleasest me—I thee;
Sailing these seas, or on the hills, or waking in the night,
Thoughts, silent thoughts, of Time, and Space, and Death, like waters flowing... ~ Walt Whitman,#NFDB
1490:Ride forth upon me as Thou didst ride into Jerusalem mounted upon the humble little beast, a colt, the foal of an ass, and let me hear the children cry to Thee, "Hosanna in the highest. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
1491:Stern as my conscience, thou seest the points wherein I'm deficient;
Therefore I've always loved thee, as my own conscience I've loved.
~ Friedrich Schiller, The Observer
,#NFDB
1492:25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. 26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1493:Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me. ~ A E Waite, #NFDB
1494:He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from heaven. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
1495:I am a man,” he told her, “and men do not consume pink beverages. Get thee gone, woman, and bring me something brown.” “Brown?” Isabelle made a face. “Brown is a manly color,” said ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1496:25. Try how the life of the good man suits thee, the life of him who is satisfied with his portion out of the whole, and satisfied with his own just acts and benevolent disposition. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
1497:Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy: sayest thou that house is dark? ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1498:Here 'neath veils, my Saviour darkly I behold; To my thirsting spirit all thy light unfold; Face to face in heaven let me come to thee, And the blessed vision of thy glory see. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, #NFDB
1499:Know thyself as the pride of His creation, the link uniting divinity and matter; behold a part of God Himself within thee; remember thine own dignity nor dare descend to evil or meanness. ~ Akhenaton, #NFDB
1500:Lord Jesus, I am weary in Thy work, but not of it. If I have not yet finished my course, let me go and speak for Thee once more in the field, seal Thy truth, and come home to die. ~ George Whitefield, #NFDB
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137 Sri Aurobindo
134 Percy Bysshe Shelley
130 William Wordsworth
67 John Keats
65 Friedrich Schiller
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50 Nolini Kanta Gupta
45 Sri Ramakrishna
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2 Rabbi Moses Luzzatto
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2 Alexander Pope
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134 Shelley - Poems
130 Wordsworth - Poems
67 Keats - Poems
65 Schiller - Poems
51 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
44 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
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33 The Divine Comedy
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32 Collected Poems
29 Tagore - Poems
29 Goethe - Poems
28 Poe - Poems
27 Emerson - Poems
22 Faust
21 Of The Nature Of Things
20 City of God
19 The Bible
19 Savitri
15 Mysterium Coniunctionis
15 Magick Without Tears
13 Vishnu Purana
13 The Perennial Philosophy
13 The Golden Bough
13 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
13 Metamorphoses
13 Hafiz - Poems
13 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
12 Lovecraft - Poems
11 The Way of Perfection
11 Essays On The Gita
10 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
10 Liber ABA
9 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
9 5.1.01 - Ilion
8 The Synthesis Of Yoga
8 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
8 Crowley - Poems
7 Essays Divine And Human
7 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
6 Isha Upanishad
6 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
6 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
5 Twilight of the Idols
5 The Secret Of The Veda
5 The Secret Doctrine
5 The Interior Castle or The Mansions
5 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
5 Some Answers From The Mother
5 Kena and Other Upanishads
5 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
4 Words Of The Mother II
4 Vedic and Philological Studies
4 Talks
4 Record of Yoga
4 Maps of Meaning
4 Aion
3 Yeats - Poems
3 Words Of The Mother III
3 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
3 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
3 The Practice of Psycho therapy
3 The Life Divine
3 The Book of Certitude
3 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
3 Songs of Kabir
3 Preparing for the Miraculous
3 Letters On Yoga II
3 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
3 Bhakti-Yoga
3 Amrita Gita
3 Agenda Vol 06
2 Words Of The Mother I
2 Words Of Long Ago
2 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
2 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
2 The Alchemy of Happiness
2 Rilke - Poems
2 Questions And Answers 1953
2 On Education
2 Letters On Yoga IV
2 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
2 General Principles of Kabbalah
2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
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2 Anonymous - Poems
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2 Agenda Vol 08
2 Agenda Vol 04
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0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
As his love for God deepened, he began either to forget or to drop the formalities of worship. Sitting before the image, he would spend hours singing the devotional songs of great devotees of the Mother, such as Kamalakanta and Ramprasad. Those rhapsodical songs, describing the direct vision of God, only intensified Sri Ramakrishna's longing. He felt the pangs of a child separated from its mother. Sometimes, in agony, he would rub his face against the ground and weep so bitterly that people, thinking he had lost his earthly mother, would sympathize with him in his grief. Sometimes, in moments of scepticism, he would cry: "Art Thou true, Mother, or is it all fiction — mere poetry without any reality? If Thou dost exist, why do I not see Thee? Is religion a mere fantasy and art Thou only a figment of man's imagination?" Sometimes he would sit on the prayer carpet for two hours like an inert object. He began to behave in an abnormal manner
, most of the time unconscious of the world. He almost gave up food; and sleep left him altogether.
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Naturally the temple officials took him for an insane person. His worldly well-wishers brought him to skilled physicians; but no-medicine could cure his malady. Many a time he doubted his sanity himself. For he had been sailing across an uncharted sea, with no earthly guide to direct him. His only haven of security was the Divine Mother Herself. To Her he would pray: "I do not know what these things are. I am ignorant of mantras and the scriptures. Teach me, Mother, how to realize Thee. Who else can help me? Art Thou not my only refuge and guide?" And the sustaining presence of the Mother never failed him in his distress or doubt. Even those who criticized his conduct were greatly impressed with his purity, guilelessness, truthfulness, integrity, and holiness. They felt an uplifting influence in his presence.
It is said that samadhi, or trance, no more than opens the portal of the spiritual realm. Sri Ramakrishna felt an unquenchable desire to enjoy God in various ways. For his meditation he built a place in the northern wooded section of the temple garden. With Hriday's help he planted there five sacred trees. The spot, known as the Panchavati, became the scene of many of his visions.
--
"O Mother," he would constantly pray, "I have taken refuge in Thee. Teach me what to do and what to say. Thy will is paramount everywhere and is for the good of Thy children. Merge my will in Thy will and make me Thy instrument."
His visions became deeper and more intimate. He no longer had to meditate to behold the Divine Mother. Even while retaining consciousness of the outer world, he would see Her as tangibly as the temples, the trees, the river, and the men around him.
0.00 - The Book of Lies Text, #The Book of Lies, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
It dies, it gives itself; to Thee is the fruit!
Be thou the Bride; thou shalt be the Mother here-
--
To all impressions thus. Let them not overcome Thee;
yet let them breed within Thee. The least of the
impressions, come to its perfection, is Pan.
--
terror else had driven Thee far away.
O thou that stridest upon the middle of The Path, no
phantoms mock Thee. For the stride's sake thou
stridest.
--
tion else had driven Thee far away.
O thou that drawest toward the End of The Path,
--
Resemble all that surroundeth Thee; yet be Thyself
-and take thy pleasure among the living.
--
doeth itself through Thee. Not until then is that
which is done well done.
--
Yet a Looby to Thee, and a Booby to me, a Balassius
Ruby to GOD, may be!
--
sacrifice that which is dearest to Thee unto the
Infernal Gods!
--
Who told Thee, man, that LAYLAH is not Nuit, nd
I hadit?
--
Thine Asana, death will relieve Thee!
Bite not, Zelator dear, but bide! Ten days didst
--
silver moonlight; it shall hang Thee, O Holy One,
O Hanged Man, O Camel-Termination-of-the-
--
Could but Thy mother behold Thee, O thou UNT!(37)
The Infinite Snake Ananta that surroundeth the
--
"Some talk there was of Thee and Me
There seemed; and then no more of Thee and Me.")
The third person plural must be used, because he has now perceived himself
--
on Thee with favour. [157]
74
--
the TARO alone avails Thee consciously.
Meditate long and broad and deep, O man, upon this
--
Thee!
[176]
0.02 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
"To turn towards Thee, unite with Thee, live in Thee and
for Thee, is supreme happiness, unmixed joy, immutable
peace.... Why do men flee from these boons as though
--
I open myself to Thee and I would obey Thee with an absolute
faithfulness.
--
"To Thee all the fervour of my adoration."7
It is adoration expressing itself in work - all the more precious.
--
one with Thee.
This thirst shall be quenched when this ("O Sweet Mother, I
become one with Thee") is psychologically realised.
2 August 1932
0.04 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am sorry to submit to Thee the following about X. For
no reason he has beaten Ra with the back of his sandal in
0.07 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
"O Lord, awaken my entire being that it may be for Thee
the needed instrument, the perfect servant."
01.03 - Mystic Poetry, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
To Thee, invisible, unrumoured, still:
White for Thy whiteness all desires burn.
--
No other lord but Thee can Radha seek.7
there is nothing in the matter or manner which can indicate, to the uninitiated, any reference to the Spirit or the Divine. Or this again,
--
Created glories under Thee,
Resume Thy spirit from this world of thrall
01.05 - The Nietzschean Antichrist, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Nietzsche as the apostle of force is a name now familiar to all the world. The hero, the warrior who never tamely accepts suffering and submission and defeat under any condition but fights always and fights to conquersuch is the ideal man, according to Nietzsche,the champion of strength, of greatness, of mightiness. The dominating personality infused with the supreme "will to power"he is Ubermensch, the Superman. Sentiment does not move the mountains, emotion diffuses itself only in vague aspiration. The motive power, the creative fiat does not dwell in the heart but somewhere higher. The way of the Cross, the path of love and charity and pity does not lead to the kingdom of Heaven. The world has tried it for the last twenty centuries of its Christian civilisation and the result is that we are still living in a luxuriant abundance of misery and sordidness and littleness. This is how Nietzsche thinks and feels. He finds no virtue in the old rgimes and he revolts from them. He wants a speedy and radical remedy and teaches that by violence only the Kingdom of Heaven can be seized. For, to Nietzsche the world is only a clash of forces and the Superman therefore is one who is the embodiment of the greatest force. Nietzsche does not care for the good, it is the great that moves him. The good, the moral is of man, conventional and has only a fictitious value. The great, the non-moral is, on the other hand, divine. That only has a value of its own. The good is nothing but a sort of makeshift arrangement which man makes for himself in order to live commodiously and which changes according to his temperament. But the great is one with the Supreme Wisdom and is absolute and imperative. The good cannot create the great; it is the great that makes for the good. This is what he really means when he says, "They say that a good cause sanctifies war but I tell Thee it is a good war that sanctifies all cause." For the goodness of your cause you judge by your personal predilections, by your false conventionalities, by a standard that you set up in your ignoranceBut a good war, the output of strength in any cause is in itself a cause of salvation. For thereby you are the champion of that ultimate verity which conduces to the ultimate good. Do not shrink, he would say, to be even like the cyclone and the avalanche, destructive, indeed, but grand and puissant and therefore truer emblems of the BeyondJenseitsthan the weak, the little, the pitiful that do not dare to destroy and by that very fact cannot hope to create.
This is the Nietzsche we all know. But there is another aspect of his which the world has yet been slow to recognise. For, at bottom, Nietzsche is not all storm and fury. If his Superman is a Destroying Angel, he is none the less an angel. If he is endowed with a supreme sense of strength and power, there is also secreted in the core of his heart a sense of the beautiful that illumines his somewhat sombre aspect. For although Nietzsche is by birth a Slavo-Teuton, by culture and education he is pre-eminently Hellenic. His earliest works are on the subject of Greek tragedy and form what he describes as an "Apollonian dream." And to this dream, to this Greek aesthetic sense more than to any thing else he sacrifices justice and pity and charity. To him the weak and the miserable, the sick and the maimed are a sort of blot, a kind of ulcer on the beautiful face of humanity. The herd that wallow in suffering and relish suffering disfigure the aspect of the world and should therefore be relentlessly mowed out of existence. By being pitiful to them we give our tacit assent to their persistence. And it is precisely because of this that Nietzsche has a horror of Christianity. For compassion gives indulgence to all the ugliness of the world and thus renders that ugliness a necessary and indispensable element of existence. To protect the weak, to sympathise with the lowly brings about more of weakness and more of lowliness. Nietzsche has an aristocratic taste par excellencewhat he aims at is health and vigour and beauty. But above all it is an aristocracy of the spirit, an aristocracy endowed with all the richness and beauty of the soul that Nietzsche wants to establish. The beggar of the street is the symbol of ugliness, of the poverty of the spirit. And the so-called aristocrat, die millionaire of today is as poor and ugly as any helpless leper. The soul of either of them is made of the same dirty, sickly stuff. The tattered rags, the crouching heart, the effeminate nerve, the unenlightened soul are the standing ugliness of the world and they have no place in the ideal, the perfect humanity. Humanity, according to Nietzsche, is made in order to be beautiful, to conceive the beautiful, to create the beautiful. Nietzsche's Superman has its perfect image in a Grecian statue of Zeus cut out in white marble-Olympian grandeur shedding in every lineament Apollonian beauty and Dionysian vigour.
01.08 - Walter Hilton: The Scale of Perfection, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Here is the Augustinian mantra taken as the motto of The Scale of Perfection: We ascend the ascending grades in our heart and we sing the song of ascension1. The journey's end is heavenly Jerusalem, the House of the Lord. The steps of this inner ascension are easily visible, not surely to the outer eye of the sense-burdened man, but to the "ghostly seeing" of the aspirant which is hazy in the beginning but slowly clears as he advances. The first step is the withdrawal from the outer senses and looking and seeing within. "Turn home again in thyself, and hold Thee within and beg no more without." The immediate result is a darkness and a restless darknessit is a painful night. The outer objects of attraction and interest have been discarded, but the inner attachments and passions surge there still. If, however, one continues and persists, refuses to be drawn out, the turmoil settles down and the darkness begins to thin and wear away. One must not lose heart, one must have patience and perseverance. So when the outward world is no more-there and its call also no longer awakes any echo in us, then comes the stage of "restful darkness" or "light-some darkness". But it is still the dark Night of the soul. The outer light is gone and the inner light is not yet visible: the night, the desert, the great Nought, stretches between these two lights. But the true seeker goes through and comes out of the tunnel. And there is happiness at the end. "The seeking is travaillous, but the finding is blissful." When one steps out of the Night, enters into the deepest layer of the being, one stands face to face to one's soul, the very image of God, the perfect God-man, the Christ within. That is the third degree of our inner ascension, the entry into the deepest, purest and happiest statein which one becomes what he truly is; one finds the Christ there and dwells in love and union with him. But there is still a further step to take, and that is real ascension. For till now it has been a going within, from the outward to the inner and the inmost; now one has to go upward, transcend. Within the body, in life, however deep you may go, even if you find your soul and your union with Jesus whose tabernacle is your soul, still there is bound to remain a shadow of the sinful prison-house; the perfect bliss and purity without any earthly taint, the completeness and the crowning of the purgation and transfiguration can come only when you go beyond, leaving altogether the earthly form and worldly vesture and soar into Heaven itself and be in the company of the Trinity. "Into myself, and after... above myself by overpassing only into Him." At the same time it is pointed out, this mediaeval mystic has the common sense to see that the going in and going above of which one speaks must not be understood in a literal way, it is a figure of speech. The movement of the mystic is psychological"ghostly", it is saidnot physical or carnal.
This spiritual march or progress can also be described as a growing into the likeness of the Lord. His true self, his own image is implanted within us; he is there in the profoundest depth of our being as Jesus, our beloved and our soul rests in him in utmost bliss. We are aware neither of Jesus nor of his spouse, our soul, because of the obsession of the flesh, the turmoil raised by the senses, the blindness of pride and egoism. All that constitutes the first or old Adam, the image of Nought, the body of death which means at bottom the "false misruled love in to thyself." This self-love is the mother of sin, is sin itself. What it has to be replaced by is charity that is the true meaning of Christian charity, forgetfulness of self. "What is sin but a wanting and a forbearing of God." And the whole task, the discipline consists in "the shaping of Christ in you, the casting of sin through Christ." Who then is Christ, what is he? This knowledge you get as you advance from your sense-bound perception towards the inner and inmost seeing. As your outer nature gets purified, you approach gradually your soul, the scales fall off from your eyes too and you have the knowledge and "ghostly vision." Here too there are three degrees; first, you start with faith the senses can do nothing better than have faith; next, you rise to imagination which gives a sort of indirect touch or inkling of the truth; finally, you have the "understanding", the direct vision. "If he first trow it, he shall afterwards through grace feel it, and finally understand it."
--
If you are told you are still full of sins and you are not worthy to follow the path, that you must go and work out your sins first, here is your answer: "Go shrive Thee better: trow not this saying, for it is false, for thou art shriven. Trust securely that thou art on the way, and Thee needeth no ransacking of shrift for that that is passed, hold forth thy way and think on Jerusalem." That is to say, do not be too busy with the difficulties of the moment, but look ahead, as far as possible, fix your attention upon the goal, the intermediate steps will become easy. Jerusalem is another name of the Love of Jesus or the Bliss in Heaven. Grow in this love, your sins will fade away of themselves. "Though thou be thrust in an house with thy body, nevertheless in thine heart, where the stead of love is, thou shouldst be able to have part of that love... " What exquisite utterance, what a deep truth!
Indeed, there are one or two points, notes for the guidance of the aspirant, which I would like to mention here for their striking appositeness and simple "soothfastness." First of all with regard to the restless enthusiasm and eagerness of a novice, here is the advice given: "The fervour is so mickle in outward showing, is not only for mickleness of love that they have; but it is for littleness and weakness of their souls, that they may not bear a little touching of God.. afterward when love hath boiled out all the uncleanliness, then is the love clear and standeth still, and then is both the body and the soul mickle more in peace, and yet hath the self soul mickle more love than it had before, though it shew less outward." And again: "without any fervour outward shewed, and the less it thinketh that it loveth or seeth God, the nearer it nigheth" ('it' naturally refers to the soul). The statement is beautifully self-luminous, no explanation is required. Another hurdle that an aspirant has to face often in the passage through the Dark Night is that you are left all alone, that you are deserted by your God, that the Grace no longer favours you. Here is however the truth of the matter; "when I fall down to my frailty, then Grace withdraweth: for my falling is cause there-of, and not his fleeing." In fact, the Grace never withdraws, it is we who withdraw and think otherwise. One more difficulty that troubles the beginner especially is with regard to the false light. The being of darkness comes in the form of the angel of light, imitates the tone of the still small voice; how to recognise, how to distinguish the two? The false light, the "feigned sun" is always found "atwixt two black rainy clouds" : they are "highing" of oneself and "lowing" of others. When you feel flattered and elated, beware it is the siren voice tempting you. The true light brings you soothing peace and meekness: the other light brings always a trail of darknessf you are soothfast and sincere you will discover it if not near you, somewhere at a distance lurking.
0.11 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
first, "to live in Thee" or "to live for Thee". Before the
mind could set to work to find the answer, the reply that
--
in Thee" soon follows.
But of course, for the first to be perfect, the second must be
0.14 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
themselves, the only safety lies in taking refuge in Thee!
Grant that nothing in us may be an obstacle to the fulfilment
0 1961-06-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I came to sit before Thee
and let them flow reverently in offering.
--
I feel so near, so near to Thee
that my whole being quivers with joy.
--
knowest beforeh and all we can say to Thee
because Thou art its source!
--
It would be folly to seek elsewhere than in Thee
for one who will listen, understand, love and guide,
--
at once before Thee, O my Well-Beloved!
It was under very tragic circumstances.
0 1961-10-30, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
All is reconciled. The Rishi is the son of two mothers: son of Aditi, the luminous cow, Mother of infinite Light, creatrix of the worlds; and son as well of Diti, the black cow, Mother of the tenebrous infinite and divided existence for when Diti at last reaches the end of her apparent Night, she gives us divine birth and the milk of heaven. All is fulfilled, The Rishi sets flowing in one movement human strengths and things divine (IX.70.3), he has realized the universal in the individual, become the Infinite in the finite: Then shall thy humanity become as if the workings of these gods; it is as if the visible heaven of light were founded in Thee (V.66.2). Far from spurning the earth, he prays: O Godhead, guard for us the Infinite and lavish the finite(IV.2.11).
The voyage draws to its close. Agni has recovered its solar totality, its two concealed extremities. The inviolable work is fulfilled. For Agni is the place where high meets lowand in truth, there is no longer high nor low, but a single Sun everywhere: O Flame, thou goest to the ocean of Heaven, towards the gods; thou makest to meet together the godheads of the planes, the waters that are in the realm of light above the sun and the waters that abide below (III.22.3). O Fire O universal Godhead, thou art the navel-knot of the earths and their inhabitants; all men born thou controllest and supportest like a pillar (I.59.1). O Flame, thou foundest the mortal in a supreme immortality thou createst divine bliss and human joy (I.31.7). For the worlds heart is Joy, Joy dwells in the depths of all things, the well of honey covered by the rock (II.24.4).
0 1962-06-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A whiteness and a strength is in the skies... Virgin formidable In beauty, disturber of the ancient world!... How art thou white and beautiful and calm, Yet clothed in tumult! Heaven above Thee shakes Wounded with lightnings, goddess, and the sea Flees from thy dreadful tranquil feet.
Perseus the Deliverer, Cent. Ed., VI. 6.
0 1963-10-16, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I answer to Thee with the Truth that saves.
(X.III.621)
0 1963-12-07 - supramental ship, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
than to be far from Thee.
Then, the entire world, the universe, appeared to me in that light, and at every point (which takes up no space), at every point of the universe and throughout the universe, its that way. Not that there are far and near places in the universe, thats not what I mean (its beyond space), but there is a whole hierarchy of nearness, up to something that doesnt feel and doesnt knowits not that it is outside, because nothing can be outside the Lord, but it is as if the extreme limit: so far away, so far, so farabsolutely black that He seems not to reach there.
It was a very total vision. And such an acute experience that it seemed to be the only true thing. It didnt take up any space, yet there was that sensation of nearness and farness. And there was a kind of Focus, or a Center, I cant say (but it was everywhere), which was the climax of Theepurely Thee. And it had a quality of its own. Then it began to move farther and farther away, which produced a kind of mixture with something that was nothing that didnt exist but that altered the vibration, the intensity, which made it move farther and farther away to Darknessunconscious Darkness.
And something kept coming again and again to me: there is no other sin (because this followed a few lines I read in Savitri on the glorification of sin in the vital world, the words came to me because of that) there is no other sin, no other vice than to be far from Thee.
It seemed to explain everything.
--
The far from Thee is so, so intense in its vibration, it has a concrete meaning.
And thats the only thing: all the rest, all moral notions, everything, everything, even the notion of Ignorance it all becomes mental chatter. But this, this experience, is marvelous. Far from Thee.
Mother means structures, not cells in the biological sense.
0 1964-02-05, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
97When thou affirmest thy soul-experience and deniest the different soul-experience of another, know that God is making a fool of Thee. Dost thou not hear His self-delighted laughter behind thy souls curtains?
Oh, its charming!
0 1965-05-29, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
110To see the composition of the sun or the lines of Mars is doubtless a great achievement; but when thou hast the instrument that can show Thee a mans soul as thou seest a picture, then thou wilt smile at the wonders of physical Science as the playthings of babies.
Its the continuation of what we were saying about those who want to see.
0 1965-06-12, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then will I give Thee all thy soul desires
Hes a joker.
--
[Then will I give Thee all thy soul desires]
The soul doesnt desire anything! Its easy to say, I will give Thee all thy soul desires, the soul desires nothing. So he doesnt commit himself to much!
Hes a jokerhe made him quite a joker.
0 1965-06-14, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have given Thee thy awful shape of dread And thy sharp sword of terror and grief and pain To force the soul of man to struggle for light... Thou art his spur to greatness in his works, The whip to his yearning for eternal bliss, His poignant need of immortality. Live, Death, awhile, be still my instrument.
X.IV.666
0 1967-11-22, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
we implore Thee, give us
the strength and the beauty,
0 1967-11-Prayers of the Consciousness of the Cells, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
We implore Thee, give us
the strength and the beauty,
0 1970-01-07, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
272Fight, while thy hands are free, with thy hands and thy voice and thy brain and all manner of weapons. Art thou chained in the enemys dungeons and have his gags silenced Thee? Fight with thy silent all-besieging soul and thy wide-ranging will-power and when thou art dead, fight still with the world-encompassing force that went out from God within Thee.
***
0 1970-05-20, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
as a wrestler with his comrade, thy souls strength shall always be hid from Thee.
516O fool of thy weakness, cover not Gods face from thyself by a veil of awe, approach Him not with a suppliant weakness. Look! thou wilt see on His face not the solemnity of the King and Judge, but the smile of the Lover.
0 1971-06-09, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Supreme Lord, Eternal Truth Let us obey Thee alone
and live according to Truth.
0 1973-04-11, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
O Thee, Supreme Consciousness
Unique Reality
02.03 - The Shakespearean Word, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
[Rising]Now, fellow, fare Thee well.
Edg. Gone, sir, farewell,. ..
--
Bar. 'Tis not struck twelve; get Thee to bed, Francisco.
Fran. For this relief much thanks. 'Tis bitter cold,
--
Mar. Peace, break Thee off; look where it comes again.
Bar. In the same figure, like the King that's dead.
--
Did sometimes march? By heaven I charge Thee, speak!
Mar. It is offended.
--
Hor. Stay! speak, speak! I charge Thee, speak!
Exit Ghost
02.04 - Two Sonnets of Shakespeare, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
[Fool'd by] these rebel pow'rs that Thee array,
Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth,
02.11 - Hymn to Darkness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
And sends its call to Thee alone.
Yes, the Darkness is there no longer;
02.13 - Rabindranath and Sri Aurobindo, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Rabindranath, O Aurobindo, bows to Thee!
O friend, my country's friend, O voice incarnate, free,
03.01 - The New Year Initiation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
O Lord, the world implores Thee to prevent it from falling back always into the same stupidities.
Grant that the mistakes recognised may never be renewed.
03.02 - The Adoration of the Divine Mother, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
One was within Thee who was self and world,
What hast thou done for his purpose in the stars?
03.04 - The Vision and the Boon, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
I ask Thee not to merge thy heart of flame
In the Immobile's wide uncaring bliss,
--
My light shall be in Thee, my strength thy force.
Let not the impatient Titan drive thy heart,
--
Why breaks not in some distant gleam of Thee?
Ever the centuries and millenniums pass.
--
While men seek Thee outside and never find,
Mystery and Muse with hieratic tongue,
--
Mission to earth some living form of Thee.
One moment fill with thy eternity,
04.03 - The Call to the Quest, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The moon shut in her halo dreams like Thee.
A mighty Presence still defends thy frame.
Perhaps the heavens guard Thee for some great soul,
Thy fate, thy work are kept somewhere afar.
--
What message of heavenly strength and bliss in Thee
Is written with the Eternal's sun-white script,
--
Thy unknown lover waits for Thee the unknown.
Thy soul has strength and needs no other guide
--
Who shall give voice to what in Thee is mute.
Then shall you grow like vibrant kindred harps,
04.10 - To the Heights-X, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
They will love Thee and cling to Thee the more passionately,
And understand Thee with a clearer vision;
They will know Thee and will come back to Thee
At the end of all their nightmare!
04.13 - To the HeightsXIII, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Saints and great souls sing to Thee in adoration,
O Mother omnipotent, Mother victorious!
04.17 - To the Heights-XVII, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
I shall find a new world in Thee, a world made of Thee;
Therein each limb of mine shall realise its fullness of union with Thee
And shall taste utter felicity.
04.18 - To the Heights-XVIII, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
And now we blame Thee and slight Thee, because thou art
become like us-earthly and human.
04.21 - To the HeightsXXI, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Let me not shame Thee, my soul,
Let me not profane Thee-
With a faithless glance or a straying step
Or a sigh that heaves not for Thee.
Straight as the sun's ray, clear as the virgin spaces
Let my whole being converse and fix upon Thee.
Thy voice is still and small-
04.22 - To the Heights-XXII, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The winging curves of grace that embody Thee-
In a delight that was gathered to its core of utmost intensity,
--
This body has grown sheer into Thee as if it were thy own limb!
October 3, 1933
04.35 - To the Heights-XXXV, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In Thee I am a perfect slave,
Sovereignly free and happy!
Without Thee I become the master,
Bound head to foot, a figure of misery !
05.03 - Satyavan and Savitri, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Delays Thee and the torrent's leaping wine,
Descend. Let thy journey cease, come down to us.
--
There let me lead Thee into an opulent life.
Bare, simple is the sylvan hermit-life;
--
To make a resting chamber fit for Thee."
Awhile she paused as if hearing still his voice,
--
Musical on earth expresses Thee to men?
What trunk of kings watered by fortunate streams
--
Contented, for not yet of Thee aware,
In my high-peopled loneliness of spirit
--
I would know Thee as if we had ever lived
Together in the chamber of our souls.
--
A soul made ready on earth's soil for Thee.
Once were my days like days of other men:
--
For now another realm draws near with Thee
And now diviner voices fill my ear,
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A cry of spheres comes with Thee and a song
Of flaming gods. I draw a wealthier breath
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Wear bridal raiment to be fit for Thee
And sunlight grows a shadow of thy hue
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For here are secret spaces made for Thee
Whose caves of emerald long to screen thy form.
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Let the dim rustling arches over Thee lean;
One with the breath of things eternal live,
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"O Satyavan, I have heard Thee and I know;
I know that thou and only thou art he."
05.22 - Success and its Conditions, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
How is this tranquil energism to be secured? What are the conditions that produce and maintain and foster it? The first condition is self-confidence. One must have trust in oneself, a full faith that one is able to do the thing. A pessimist, a half-hearted doubter, a defeatist can never achieve anything in the world. All successful men, whatever share they agreed to give to chance, had always immense hope and faith. Against failures, against tremendous odds they have always persisted, always believed in their star. Like Caesar they said not only to themselves but also to others: "Thou carriest with Thee the fate of Caesar." Only, of course, the self-confidence sometimes overrides itself, becomes conceit and arrogance. Then you go beyond your depth, tempt the fates beyond your control and open the door to failure. So along with self-confidence, there must be an element of sobriety; we will call it modestytrue modesty that can perceive the extreme limit at least of the possible and the impossible. Such modesty itself is a source of serenity and calmness in the mind and nerves. Imagine a lion couchant, aiming at its prey. The prey remains spellbound, unable to run away. The lion's gaze is fixed upon its victim; its hypnotism consists in a calm and absolute self-confidence, an unshakable assurance that its will shall prevail.
Man's self-confidence is, as I have said, apt to overleap itself; it turns into self-conceit and blind and obstinate complacence. An animal by instinct knows how to remain within its limits and continue to be unfailing in its judgment: it is domestic animals that begin to get muddled in their instinctive movements. With the growth of the mental self-consciousness man loses the sense of his limits and always seeks to exceed himself. And therefore failure and fall have become almost his constant companions. His efforts are not commensurate with his powers. Hence in his case modesty is a great asset and a desideratum. Modesty, we said, is the consciousness of one's limitationnot over-estimating oneself, nor for that matter under-estimating oneself: it is judging exactly what one is.
06.01 - The Word of Fate, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Of a remembered clasp, and in Thee glows
A heavenly jar, thy firm deep-honied heart,
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But truest truth of that which in Thee sleeps.
For such is thy spirit, a sister of the gods,
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"The truth thou hast claimed; I give to Thee the truth.
A marvel of the meeting earth and heavens
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It bids Thee streng then thy undying spirit;
It offers its severe benignancies
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Given to Thee by an immortal Power.
So canst thou raise thy pure unvanquished spirit,
06.02 - The Way of Fate and the Problem of Pain, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Its brilliant curtain hides from Thee God's face.
It illumes a world born from the Inconscience
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Thy mind's light hides from Thee the Eternal's thought,
Thy heart's hopes hide from Thee the Eternal's will,
Earth's joys shut from Thee the Immortal's bliss.
Thence rose the need of a dark intruding god,
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A little bliss is lent Thee from above,
A touch divine upon thy human days.
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Too soon will grief and anguish find Thee out.
Too enormous is that venture for thy will;
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A power is in Thee that thou knowest not;
Thou art a vessel of the imprisoned spark.
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Withhold from Thee the body of God's bliss.
Thy spirit's strength shall make Thee one with God,
Thy agony shall change to ecstasy,
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O man, the events that meet Thee on thy road,
Though they smite thy body and soul with joy and grief,
Are not thy fate, - they touch Thee awhile and pass;
Even death can cut not short thy spirit's walk:
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Till they have opened to Thee thy secret self
And made Thee one with the indwelling God.
O soul, intruder in Nature's ignorance,
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Intervene not in a strife too great for Thee,
A struggle too deep for mortal thought to sound,
07.01 - The Joy of Union; the Ordeal of the Foreknowledge, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
That thrills to Thee the message of my heart.
For soon we part and who shall know how long
07.02 - The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Cast Thought from Thee, that nimble ape of Light:
In his tremendous hush stilling thy brain
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Cast from Thee sense that veils thy spirit's sight:
In the enormous emptiness of thy mind
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All things shall fold Thee into his embrace.
Conquer thy heart's throbs, let thy heart beat in God:
07.03 - The Entry into the Inner Countries, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And praise thy fate that made Thee one of ours.
All here, docketed and tied, the mind can know,
07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And make Thee drink from the Eternal's cup;
His streams of force shall triumph in thy limbs
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Then will I give to Thee the mirror of God;
Thou shalt see self and world as by him they are seen
07.06 - Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
That all in Thee may reach its absolute.
Accept to be small and human on the earth,
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Banish all thought from Thee and be God's void.
Then shalt thou uncover the Unknowable
08.03 - Death in the Forest, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
I hold Thee for a strong goddess who has come
Pitying our barren days; so dost thou serve
09.01 - Towards the Black Void, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And bear Thee through the pathless infinite.
Only in human limits man lives safe.
09.02 - The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
What shall the ancient goddess give to Thee
Who helps thy heart-beats? Only she prolongs
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Hope not to win back to Thee Satyavan.
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"I bow not to Thee, O huge mask of death,
Black lie of night to the cowed soul of man,
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Open at last on Thee their marble eyes."
But Savitri answered the disdainful Shade:
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That I may scourge Thee with despair and grief
And thou come bleeding to me at the last,
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I will take from Thee the black eternal grip:
Clasping in thy heart thy fate's exiguous dole
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Is Death in Thee dreaming of eternity.
I am the Immobile in which all things move,
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My last grand death shall rescue Thee from life;
Then shalt thou rise into thy unmoved source."
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Dowered with a mind and heart to conquer Thee."
In the eternity of his ruthless will
10.02 - Beyond Vedanta, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The relation between the Supreme (over and above the creation) and the individual in the creation representing the creation is sometimes described in human terms to give it a concrete and graphic form. This relationship characteristically indicates the fundamental nature of the Reality it deals with. Thus in the Vedantic tradition the Supreme is worshipped as the Father (pit no asi). It is also a relation of Master and disciple, the leader and the led. Ii brings out into prominence the Purusha aspect of the Reality. In the Tantra the relation is as between Mother and child. The supreme Reality is the Divine Mother holding the universe in her arms. The individual worships and adores the Supreme Prakriti as a human child does. The Vaishnava makes the relation as between the lover and the beloved, and the love depicted is intensely vital and even physical, as intense and poignant as the ordinary ignorant human passion. It is to show that the Love Divine can beat the human love on its own ground, that is to say, it can be or it is as passionately sweet and as intensely intimate as any human love. It is why Bhakta Prahlad said to his beloved Vishnu "O Lord, what ordinary men feel and enjoy in and through their physical senses, may I have the same enjoyment in and through Thee."
Still the Vaishnava love in its concrete reality is a manifestation in a subtle world, the world of an inner physical consciousness.
10.02 - The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Thy mortal longing made for Thee a soul.
This angel in thy body thou callst love,
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A cord tying Thee to eternity.
And yet how brief and frail! how soon is spent
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Death saves Thee from this and saves Satyavan:
He now is safe, delivered from himself;
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Soon hard necessity will smite Thee awake:
Purest delight began and it must end.
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If thy mind seems to Thee a radiant sun,
If thy life runs a swift and glorious stream,
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A strange wine of beauty lifting Thee to false sight.
A noble fiction of thy yearnings made,
10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
I answer to Thee with the Truth that saves.
A traveller new-discovering himself,
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Assailed by Thee and of its road unsure,
Peopled by imperfect minds and ignorant lives,
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"O Death, I have triumphed over Thee within;
I quiver no more with the assault of grief;
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I have claimed from Thee the living Satyavan,
But for his work and mine, our sacred charge.
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Trample Thee down to reach the immortal heights,
Transcending grief and pain and fate and death.
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Then will I give Thee all thy soul desires,
All the brief joys earth keeps for mortal hearts.
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"I give to Thee, saved from death and poignant fate
Whatever once the living Satyavan
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Bright noons I give Thee and unwounded dawns,
Daughters of thy own shape in heart and mind,
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Love shall bind by Thee many gathered hearts.
The opposite sweetness in thy days shall meet
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A gentle memory pushed away from Thee
By new love and thy children's tender hands,
10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Man's soul crosses through Thee to Paradise,
Heaven's sun forces its way through death and night;
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And they who formed like Thee, for both art thou,
Have come into the narrow bounds of life
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Then will I give Thee back thy Satyavan.
But here are only facts and steel-bound Law.
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"But who can show to Thee Truth's glorious face?
Our human words can only shadow her.
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Knowledge is with Thee, Truth speaks through thy words;
The light of things beyond shines in thy eyes.
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Then will I give back to Thee Satyavan.
Or if the Mighty Mother is with Thee,
Show me her face that I may worship her;
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Then can thy dead return to Thee and live.
The prostrate earth perhaps shall lift her gaze
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"I hail Thee, almighty and victorious Death,
Thou grandiose Darkness of the Infinite.
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I have given Thee thy awful shape of dread
And thy sharp sword of terror and grief and pain
1.00 - Main, #The Book of Certitude, #Baha u llah, #Baha i
Thou speakest false! By God! What thou dost possess is naught but husks which We have left to Thee as bones are left to dogs. By the righteousness of the one true God! Were anyone to wash the feet of all mankind, and were he to worship God in the forests, valleys, and mountains, upon high hills and lofty peaks, to leave no rock or tree, no clod of earth, but was a witness to his worship-yet, should the fragrance of My good pleasure not be inhaled from him, his works would never be acceptable unto God. Thus hath it been decreed by Him Who is the Lord of all. How many a man hath secluded himself in the climes of India, denied himself the things that God hath decreed as lawful, imposed upon himself austerities and mortifications, and hath not been remembered by God, the Revealer of Verses. Make not your deeds as snares wherewith to entrap the object of your aspiration, and deprive not yourselves of this Ultimate Objective for which have ever yearned all such as have drawn nigh unto God. Say: The very life of all deeds is My good pleasure, and all things depend upon Mine acceptance. Read ye the Tablets that ye may know what hath been purposed in the Books of God, the All-Glorious, the Ever-Bounteous. He who attaineth to My love hath title to a throne of gold, to sit thereon in honour over all the world; he who is deprived thereof, though he sit upon the dust, that dust would seek refuge with God, the Lord of all Religions.
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O Emperor of Austria! He Who is the Dayspring of God's Light dwelt in the prison of Akka at the time when thou didst set forth to visit the Aqsa Mosque. Thou passed Him by, and inquired not about Him by Whom every house is exalted and every lofty gate unlocked. We, verily, made it a place whereunto the world should turn, that they might remember Me, and yet thou hast rejected Him Who is the Object of this remembrance, when He appeared with the Kingdom of God, thy Lord and the Lord of the worlds. We have been with Thee at all times, and found Thee clinging unto the Branch and heedless of the Root. Thy Lord, verily, is a witness unto what I say. We grieved to see Thee circle round Our Name, whilst unaware of Us, though We were before thy face. Open thine eyes, that thou mayest behold this glorious Vision, and recognize Him Whom thou invokest in the daytime and in the night season, and gaze on the Light that shineth above this luminous Horizon.
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Say: O King of Berlin! Give ear unto the Voice calling from this manifest Temple: "Verily, there is none other God but Me, the Everlasting, the Peerless, the Ancient of Days." Take heed lest pride debar Thee from recognizing the Dayspring of Divine Revelation, lest earthly desires shut Thee out, as by a veil, from the Lord of the Throne above and of the earth below. Thus counselleth Thee the Pen of the Most High. He, verily, is the Most Gracious, the All-Bountiful. Do thou remember the one (Napoleon III) whose power transcended thy power, and whose station excelled thy station. Where is he? Whither are gone the things he possessed? Take warning, and be not of them that are fast asleep. He it was who cast the Tablet of God behind him when We made known unto him what the hosts of tyranny had caused Us to suffer. Wherefore, disgrace assailed him from all sides, and he went down to dust in great loss. Think deeply, O King, concerning him, and concerning them who, like unto Thee, have conquered cities and ruled over men. The All-Merciful brought them down from their palaces to their graves. Be warned, be of them who reflect.
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O people of Constantinople! Lo, from your midst We hear the baleful hooting of the owl. Hath the drunkenness of passion laid hold upon you, or is it that ye are sunk in heedlessness? O Spot that art situate on the shores of the two seas! The throne of tyranny hath, verily, been established upon Thee, and the flame of hatred hath been kindled within thy bosom, in such wise that the Concourse on high and they who circle around the Exalted Throne have wailed and lamented. We behold in Thee the foolish ruling over the wise, and darkness vaunting itself against the light. Thou art indeed filled with manifest pride. Hath thine outward splendour made Thee vainglorious? By Him Who is the Lord of mankind! It shall soon perish, and thy daughters and thy widows and all the kindreds that dwell within Thee shall lament. Thus informeth Thee the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.
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Let nothing grieve Thee, O Land of Ta,+F1 for God hath chosen Thee to be the source of the joy of all mankind. He shall, if it be His Will, bless thy throne with one who will rule with justice, who will gather together the flock of God which the wolves have scattered. Such a ruler will, with joy and gladness, turn his face towards, and extend his favours unto, the people of Baha. He indeed is accounted in the sight of God as a jewel among men. Upon him rest forever the glory of God and the glory of all that dwell in the kingdom of His revelation.
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Rejoice with great joy, for God hath made Thee Tihran "the Dayspring of His light", inasmuch as within Thee was born the Manifestation of His Glory. Be thou glad for this name that hath been conferred upon Thee-a name through which the Day-Star of grace hath shed its splendour, through which both earth and heaven have been illumined.
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Erelong will the state of affairs within Thee be changed, and the reins of power fall into the hands of the people. Verily, thy Lord is the All-Knowing. His authority embraceth all things. Rest thou assured in the gracious favour of thy Lord. The eye of His loving-kindness shall everlastingly be directed towards Thee.
The day is approaching when thy agitation will have been transmuted into peace and quiet calm. Thus hath it been decreed in the wondrous Book.
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O Land of Kha! We hear from Thee the voice of heroes, raised in glorification of thy Lord, the All-Possessing, the Most Exalted. Blessed the day on which the banners of the divine Names shall be upraised in the kingdom of creation in My Name, the All-Glorious.
On that day the faithful shall rejoice in the victory of God, and the disbelievers shall lament.
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The inscription on these rings should read, for men: "Unto God belongeth all that is in the heavens and on the earth and whatsoever is between them, and He, in truth, hath knowledge of all things"; and for women: "Unto God belongeth the dominion of the heavens and the earth and whatsoever is between them, and He, in truth, is potent over all things". These are the verses that were revealed aforetime, but lo, the Point of the Bayan now calleth out, exclaiming, "O Best-Beloved of the worlds! Reveal Thou in their stead such words as will waft the fragrance of Thy gracious favours over all mankind. We have announced unto everyone that one single word from Thee excelleth all that hath been sent down in the Bayan. Thou, indeed, hast power to do what pleaseth Thee. Deprive not Thy servants of the overflowing bounties of the ocean of Thy mercy! Thou, in truth, art He Whose grace is infinite." Behold, We have hearkened to His call, and now fulfil His wish. He, verily, is the Best-Beloved, the Answerer of prayers. If the following verse, which hath at this moment been sent down by God, be engraved upon the burial-rings of both men and women, it shall be better for them; We, of a certainty, are the Supreme Ordainer: "I came forth from God, and return unto Him, detached from all save Him, holding fast to His Name, the Merciful, the Compassionate." Thus doth the Lord single out whomsoever He desireth for a bounty from His presence. He is, in very truth, the God of might and power.
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"All praise be to Thee, O Thou the Desire of the worlds!" In truth, it is in the hand of God to give what He willeth to whomsoever He willeth, and to withhold what He pleaseth from whomsoever He may wish. He knoweth the inner secrets of the hearts and the meaning hidden in a mocker's wink. How many an embodiment of heedlessness who came unto Us with purity of heart have We established upon the seat of Our acceptance; and how many an exponent of wisdom have We in all justice consigned to the fire. We are, in truth, the One to judge. He it is Who is the manifestation of "God doeth whatsoever He pleaseth", and abideth upon the throne of "He ordaineth whatsoever He chooseth".
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O Land of Kaf and Ra!+F1 We, verily, behold Thee in a state displeasing unto God, and see proceeding from Thee that which is inscrutable to anyone save Him, the Omniscient, the All-Informed; and We perceive that which secretly and stealthily diffuseth from Thee. With Us is the knowledge of all things, inscribed in a lucid Tablet. Sorrow not for that which hath befallen Thee. Erelong will God raise up within Thee men endued with mighty valour, who will magnify My Name with such constancy that neither will they be deterred by the evil suggestions of the divines, nor will they be kept back by the insinuations of the sowers of doubt. With their own eyes will they behold God, and with their own lives will they render Him victorious. These, truly, are of those who are steadfast.
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Say: O source of perversion! Abandon thy wilful blindness, and speak forth the truth amidst the people. I swear by God that I have wept for Thee to see Thee following thy selfish passions and renouncing Him Who fashioned Thee and brought Thee into being. Call to mind the tender mercy of thy Lord, and remember how We nurtured Thee by day and by night for service to the Cause. Fear God, and be thou of the truly repentant. Granted that the people were confused about thy station, is it conceivable that thou thyself art similarly confused? Tremble before thy Lord and recall the days when thou didst stand before Our throne, and didst write down the verses that We dictated unto
Thee-verses sent down by God, the Omnipotent Protector, the Lord of might and power. Beware lest the fire of thy presumptuousness debar Thee from attaining to God's Holy Court. Turn unto Him, and fear not because of thy deeds. He, in truth, forgiveth whomsoever He desireth as a bounty on His part; no God is there but Him, the Ever-Forgiving, the All-Bounteous.
We admonish Thee solely for the sake of God. Shouldst thou accept this counsel, thou wilt have acted to thine own behoof; and shouldst thou reject it, thy Lord, verily, can well dispense with Thee, and with all those who, in manifest delusion, have followed Thee. Behold! God hath laid hold on him who led Thee astray. Return unto God, humble, submissive and lowly; verily, He will put away from Thee thy sins, for thy Lord, of a certainty, is the Forgiving, the Mighty, the All-Merciful.
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1.00 - Preliminary Remarks, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
First, let the body of Thee be still,
Bound by the cerements of will,
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Pierce to the heart! I leave Thee here:
Thou art the Master. I revere
1.00 - PROLOGUE IN HEAVEN, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
And him, with Thee, be downward led;
Then stand abashed, when thou art forced to say:
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The like of Thee have never moved My hate.
Of all the bold, denying Spirits,
1.01 - BOOK THE FIRST, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
By Thee, than that of Heav'n for Jove was deem'd:
Who with his hand, and voice, did first restrain
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Of all thy conquests, when I conquer Thee.
He said, and soaring, swiftly wing'd his flight:
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My mistress, I espouse Thee for my tree:
Be thou the prize of honour, and renown;
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Invites Thee to yon cooler shades; to shun
The scorching rays of the meridian sun.
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This hill has browz for them, and shade for Thee.
The God, who was with ease induc'd to climb,
--
I swear that Sun begot Thee; if I lye,
Let him his chearful influence deny:
1.01 - Economy, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
The whole ground of human life seems to some to have been gone over by their predecessors, both the heights and the valleys, and all things to have been cared for. According to Evelyn, the wise Solomon prescribed ordinances for the very distances of trees; and the Roman prtors have decided how often you may go into your neighbors land to gather the acorns which fall on it without trespass, and what share belongs to that neighbor. Hippocrates has even left directions how we should cut our nails; that is, even with the ends of the fingers, neither shorter nor longer. Undoubtedly the very tedium and ennui which presume to have exhausted the variety and the joys of life are as old as Adam. But mans capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried. Whatever have been thy failures hitherto, be not afflicted, my child, for who shall assign to Thee what thou hast left undone?
We might try our lives by a thousand simple tests; as, for instance, that the same sun which ripens my beans illumines at once a system of earths like ours. If I had remembered this it would have prevented some mistakes. This was not the light in which I hoed them. The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment! Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each others eyes for an instant? We should live in all the ages of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages. History, Poetry,
1.01 - Foreward, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
auspicious) form of Thee; he who is this Purusha, He am I." The
golden lid is meant to be the same as the inferior covering truth,
1.01 - Fundamental Considerations, #The Ever-Present Origin, #Jean Gebser, #Integral
There is hardly another text extant that describes so succinctly and so memorably the collapse of an entire world and a hitherto valid and effectual human attitude. The magic-mythical world of the Mexicans could not prevail against the Spaniards; it collapsed the moment it encountered the rational-technological mentality. The materialistic orientation of present-day Europeans will tend to attribute this collapse to the Spaniards technological superiority, but in actual fact it was the vigor of the Spanish consciousness vis--vis the weakness of the Mexican that was decisive. It is the basic distinction between Theego-less man, bound to the group and a collectivementality, and the individual securely conscious of his individuality. Au thentic spell-casting, a fundamental element of the collective consciousness for the Mexicans, is effective only for the members attuned to the group consciousness. It simply by-passes those who are not bound to, or sympathetic toward, the group. The Spaniards superiority, which compelled the Mexicans to surrender almost without a struggle, resulted primarily from their consciousness of individuality, not from their superior weaponry. Had it been possible for the Mexicans to step out of their egoless attitude, the Spanish victory would have been less certain and assuredly more difficult.
What is of interest to us within the present context is not the historical predicament occasioned by the collision of peoples of differing might, but rather the supersession of the magic group-consciousness and its most potent weapon, spell-casting, by rational, ego-consciousness. Today this rational consciousness, with nuclear fission its strongest weapon, is confronted by a similar catastrophic situation of failure; consequently, it too can be vanquished by a new consciousness structure. We are convinced that there are powers arising from within ourselves that are already at work overcoming the deficiency and dubious nature of our rational ego-consciousness via the new aperspectival awareness whose manifestations are surging forth everywhere. The aperspective consciousness structure is a consciousness of the whole, an integral consciousness encompassing all time and embracing both mans distant past and his approaching future as a living present. The new spiritual attitude can take root only through an insightful process of intensive awareness. This attitude must emerge from its present concealment and latency and become effective, and thereby prepare the transparency of the world and man in which spirituality can manifest itself.
1.01 - Isha Upanishad, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Zen
2. Doing verily2 works in this world one should wish to live a hundred years. Thus it is in Thee and not otherwise than this; action cleaves not to a man.3
3. Sunless4 are those worlds and enveloped in blind gloom whereto all they in their passing hence resort who are slayers of their souls.
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16. O Fosterer, O sole Seer, O Ordainer, O illumining Sun, O power of the Father of creatures, marshal thy rays, draw together thy light; the Lustre which is thy most blessed form of all, that in Thee I behold. The Purusha there and there, He am I.
17. The Breath of things11 is an immortal Life, but of this body ashes are the end. OM! O Will,12 remember, that which was done remember! O Will, remember, that which was done remember.
18. O god Agni, knowing all things that are manifested, lead us by the good path to the felicity; remove from us the devious attraction of sin.13 To Thee completest speech of submission we would dispose.14
1 There are three possible senses of vasyam, "to be clothed", "to be worn as a garment" and "to be inhabited". The first is the ordinarily accepted meaning. Shankara explains it in this significance, that we must lose the sense of this unreal objective universe in the sole perception of the pure Brahman. So explained the first line becomes a contradiction of the whole thought of the Upanishad which teaches the reconciliation, by the perception of essential Unity, of the apparently incompatible opposites, God and the
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3 Shankara reads the line, "Thus in Thee - it is not otherwise than thus - action cleaves not, a man." He interprets karman.i in the first line in the sense of Vedic sacrifices which are permitted to the ignorant as a means of escaping from evil actions and their results and attaining to heaven, but the second karma in exactly the opposite sense, "evil action". The verse, he tells us, represents a concession to the ignorant; the enlightened soul abandons works and the world and goes to the forest. The whole expression and construction in this rendering become forced and unnatural. The rendering I give seems to me the simple and straightforward sense of the Upanishad.
4 We have two readings, asurya, sunless, and asurya, Titanic or undivine. The third verse is, in the thought structure of the Upanishad, the starting-point for the final movement in the last four verses. Its suggestions are there taken up and worked out. The prayer to the Sun refers back in thought to the sunless worlds and their blind gloom, which are recalled in the ninth and twelfth verses. The sun and his rays are intimately connected in other Upanishads also with the worlds of Light and their natural opposite is the dark and sunless, not the Titanic worlds.
1.01 - Maitreya inquires of his teacher (Parashara), #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
OM! GLORY TO VĀSUDEVA[1].-Victory be to Thee, Puṇḍarīkākṣa; adoration be to Thee, Vīswabhāvana; glory be to Thee, Hṛṣikeśa, Mahāpuruṣa, and Pūrvaja[2].
May that Viṣṇu, who is the existent, imperishable, Brahma, who is Īśvara[3], who is spirit[4]; who with the three qualities[5] is the cause of creation, preservation, and destruction; who is the parent of nature, intellect, and the other ingredients of the universe[6]; be to us the bestower of understanding, wealth, and final emancipation.
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Maitreya said, Master! I have been instructed by you in the whole of the Vedas, and in the institutes of law and of sacred science: through your favour, other men, even though they be my foes, cannot accuse me of having been remiss in the acquirement of knowledge. I am now desirous, oh thou who art profound in piety! to hear from Thee, how this world was, and how in future it will be? what is its substance, oh Brahman, and whence proceeded animate and inanimate things? into what has it been resolved, and into what will its dissolution again occur? how were the elements manifested? whence proceeded the gods and other beings? what are the situation and extent of the oceans and the mountains, the earth, the sun, and the planets? what are the families of the gods and others, the Menus, the periods called Manvantaras, those termed Kalpas, and their subdivisions, and the four ages: the events that happen at the close of a Kalpa, and the terminations of the several ages[11]: the histories, oh great Muni, of the gods, the sages, and kings; and how the Vedas were divided into branches (or schools), after they had been arranged by Vyāsa: the duties of the Brahmans, and the other tribes, as well as of those who pass through the different orders of life? All these things I wish to hear from you, grandson of Vaśiṣṭha. Incline thy thoughts benevolently towards me, that I may, through thy favour, be informed of all I desire to know. Parāśara replied, Well inquired, pious Maitreya. You recall to my recollection that which was of old narrated by my father's father, Vaśiṣṭha. I had heard that my father had been devoured by a Rākṣas employed by Visvāmitra: violent anger seized me, and I commenced a sacrifice for the destruction of the Rākṣasas: hundreds of them were reduced to ashes by the rite, when, as they were about to be entirely extirpated, my grandfather Vaśiṣṭha thus spake to me: Enough, my child; let thy wrath be appeased: the Rākṣasas are not culpable: thy father's death was the work of destiny. Anger is the passion of fools; it becometh not a wise man. By whom, it may be asked, is any one killed? Every man reaps the consequences of his own acts. Anger, my son, is the destruction of all that man obtains by arduous exertions, of fame, and of devout austerities; and prevents the attainment of heaven or of emancipation. The chief sages always shun wrath: he not thou, my child, subject to its influence. Let no more of these unoffending spirits of darkness be consumed. Mercy is the might of the righteous[12].
Being thus admonished by my venerable grandsire, I immediately desisted from the rite, in obedience to his injunctions, and Vaśiṣṭha, the most excellent of sages, was content with me. Then arrived Pulastya, the son of Brahmā[13], who was received by my grandfather with the customary marks of respect. The illustrious brother of Pulaha said to me; Since, in the violence of animosity, you have listened to the words of your progenitor, and have exercised clemency, therefore you shall become learned in every science: since you have forborne, even though incensed, to destroy my posterity, I will bestow upon you another boon, and, you shall become the author of a summary of the Purāṇas[14]; you shall know the true nature of the deities, as it really is; and, whether engaged in religious rites, or abstaining from their performance[15], your understanding, through my favour, shall be perfect, and exempt from). doubts. Then my grandsire Vaśiṣṭha added; Whatever has been said to Thee by Pulastya, shall assuredly come to pass.
Now truly all that was told me formerly by Vaśiṣṭha, and by the wise Palastya, has been brought to my recollection by your questions, and I will relate to you the whole, even all you have asked. Listen to the complete compendium of the Pur pas, according to its tenour. The world was produced from Viṣṇu: it exists in him: he is the cause of its continuance and cessation: he is the world[16].
1.01 - MAXIMS AND MISSILES, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
Help thyself, then everyone will help Thee. A principle of
neighbour-love.
1.01 - NIGHT, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
Thee, boundless Nature, how make Thee my own?
Where you, ye beasts? Founts of all Being, shining,
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I feel Thee draw my heart, absorb, exhaust me:
Thou must! thou must! and though my life it cost me!
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Woe! I endure not Thee!
SPIRIT
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Thou busy Spirit, how near I feel to Thee!
SPIRIT
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Not Thee!
Whom then?
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Not even like Thee!
(A knock).
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Is parchment, then, the holy fount before Thee,
A draught wherefrom thy thirst forever slakes?
No true refreshment can restore Thee,
Save what from thine own soul spontaneous breaks.
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To Thee, of all earth's sons the poorest, dullest!
For thou hast torn me from that desperate state
1.01 - On knowledge of the soul, and how knowledge of the soul is the key to the knowledge of God., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
O seeker of the mysteries! since there is nothing nearer to Thee than thyself, and that still with thy soul alone, thou canst not discriminate anything, and art impotent to find out and know thyself, in what way canst thou become acquainted with anything else, and with that which is even separate from thyself? And how should'st thou be able to comprehend God, who in his nature cannot be comprehended, [14] and of whose absolute essence it is not possible to give Thee any explanation. If thou should'st say, "I perfectly know myself," we reply, that we have no doubt that what you are acquainted with is your own hand and foot, with your eye and mouth, and animals even have this kind of knowledge. You know also that if you are hungry, your stomach craves food, and that if you are cold, you desire clothing; but other animals also understand these things.
However, that knowledge of the soul which leads to the knowledge of God, is not of this kind. The knowledge which you need to possess is, to know what you are; how you are created; whence you are; for what you are here; whither you are going; in what your happiness consists, and what you must do to secure it; in what your misery consists, and what you must do to avoid it. And further, your internal qualities are distributed into animal, ferocious, demoniacal and angelic qualities. You need to know, therefore, what qualities predominate in your character, and in the predominance of which your true happiness consists. If your qualities are chiefly animal, the essence of which is to eat and drink, you will day and night seek after these things. If your qualities are of the ferocious kind, the essence of which is to tear and rend, to injure and destroy, you will act accordingly. If you are endowed chiefly with the qualities of devils, which consist in evil machinations, deceit and delusion, then you should know and be aware of it, that you may turn towards the path of perfection. And if you possess angelic qualities, whose nature it is to worship God in sincerity and continually to await the vision of His beauty, then like them you should unceasingly, resting neither day or night, be zealous and strive that you may become worthy of the vision of the Lord. For know, O student of the mysteries! that man was created to stand at the door of service in frailty and weakness, [15] and wait for the opening of the door of spiritual union, and for the vision of beauty, as God declares in his holy word: "I have not created the genii and men except that they should worship me."1
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Know, O seeker after the divine mysteries! that the body is the kingdom of the heart, and that in the body there are many forces in contrariety with the heart, as God speaks [18] in his Holy Word: "And what shall teach Thee the forces of thy Lord ?" The heart was destined to acquire a knowledge of God, in which its happiness consists. But we cannot grow in the knowledge of God, unless we understand the works of God.
The works of God are apprehended by the senses, which are five, hearing, sight, taste, smell and touch. For such an arrangement of the senses, there was also need of a body. The body itself is composed of four diverse elements, water, earth, air and fire. Being, therefore, liable to decay, it is in continual danger of perishing from the external and internal enemies that perpetually assail it. Its external enemies, are such as wild beasts, drowning and conflagrations; its internal enemies, such as hunger and thirst. For the purpose of resisting these, it was in want of various internal and external forces, such as the hand and foot, sight and hearing, food and drink. And in this connection, for eating and drinking, it is in want of internal and external instruments like the hand, the mouth, the stomach, the powers of appetite and digestion. In addition to these instruments, there was need of means to guide in their occasional use, that is, for the internal senses. These are five, the faculties of perception, reflection, memory, recollection and imagination. Their home is in the brain, and each has a specific function, as is well known to the learned. If to any one of all these faculties and instruments an injury occurs, the actions of man are defective. Now all these are the agents of the heart and subject to its rule. If, for example, the heart gives permission to the ear, hearing results; if it gives permission to the eye, there follows sight; if it gives permission to the foot, there is movement. All the other members are obedient in the same manner to the commands of the heart. The divine plan in all this arrangement is, that while the members preserve [19] the body for a few days from harm, the heart, in its vehicle the body, should pursue its business of cultivating the seeds of happiness for eternity and prepare for its journey to its native country. So long as the various forces of the body are obedient to the dictates of the heart, in like manner as the angels obey in the presence of God, no contrariety of action can arise among them.
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The heart of man while in the spiritual world knew its maker and creator; it had mingled with angels and knew for what service it was created; and in the assembly where they said, "Yes," it was intoxicated as with wine at the [26] interrogation, "Am I not your Lord?" As at that moment, it was seen with the eye of certainty, no person had any doubt on the subject, as God says in his holy word: "If you ask them, who created the heavens and the earth, they will answer Thee, the wise and holy God."1 All the prophets were apparently of the same nature as other men without any difference, as we find in God's holy word: "Say, I am a man like you: it was revealed to me."2 Afterwards the heart descended from the world of divine union to this house of separation, from that assembly of love to this station of sorrow, and from the spiritual to the material, and entering within the curtain of the senses, it became occupied with the care of the body and was overcome by the animal affections and material pleasures. The heart of man, veiled with the garments of heedlessness, forgot the assembly with which it had been familiar, and imagining that this miserable place was to be its mansion of rest, it chose to establish itself here in this world of perdition, as if this was its home. Still the veil of heedlessness disappeared from the eyes of those to whom the grace and guidance of the Eternal and unchangeable gave aid and support, and the discovery of the invisible world was not concealed from the view of some of those who came into this material world, but was anew revealed to them, after a measure of exertion of spiritual ardor.
To whomsoever this revelation has been vouchsafed, if it directs him to reform the world, to invite the nations to turn to God, and to a peculiar way of life, that person is called a prophet, and his way of life is called a law; and that influence which proceeds from him, which transcends what is ordinary, is called a miracle. If he has not been appointed to invite the nations, but worships in accordance with the law of another, he is called a saint, and that which [27] proceeds from him, which transcends what is ordinary, is called a manifestation of grace. The miracle performed by a saint is accounted a miracle of that prophet whose law he follows. He who has received, by whatever meaus, a revelation of the invisible world, is capable of being ordained to the office of a prophet. And if he is not appointed by God, the reason will be either, that at the time the existing law had been newly revealed, and that there was no occasion for a prophet, or else that there may be a peculiarity in prophets which is not found in the saints. It follows that it is our duty not to deny either the saintship or the miracles of the saints, but to acknowledge them as real.
1.01 - On renunciation of the world, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
6 Psalm lxii, 9. (R.V. Psalm lxiii, 8); My soul followeth hard after Thee. Using the Old Latin, Agglutinata est anima mea post Te, my soul is glued behind Thee, St. Augustine asks: What is that glue? It is love. And St. Chrysostom compares this close union to the nails of the Cross.
7 Jeremiah xvii, 16.
1.01 - Prayer, #Bhakti-Yoga, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
"That deathless love which the ignorant have for the fleeting objects of the senses as I keep meditating on Thee may not that love slip away from my heart!" Love! For whom? For the Supreme Lord Ishvara. Love for any other being, however great cannot be Bhakti; for, as Ramanuja says in his Shri Bhshya, quoting an ancient chrya, i.e. a great teacher:
"From Brahm to a clump of grass, all things that live in the world are slaves of birth and death caused by Karma; therefore they cannot be helpful as objects of meditation, because they are all in ignorance and subject to change." In commenting on the word Anurakti used by Shandilya, the commentator Svapneshvara says that it means Anu, after, and Rakti, attachment; i.e. the attachment which comes after the knowledge of the nature and glory of God; else a blind attachment to any one, e.g. to wife or children, would be Bhakti. We plainly see, therefore, that Bhakti is a series or succession of mental efforts at religious realisation beginning with ordinary worship and ending in a supreme intensity of love for Ishvara.
1.01 - Proem, #Of The Nature Of Things, #Lucretius, #Poetry
Through Thee alone are evermore conceived,
Through Thee are risen to visit the great sun-
Before Thee, Goddess, and thy coming on,
Flee stormy wind and massy cloud away,
For Thee the daedal Earth bears scented flowers,
For Thee waters of the unvexed deep
Smile, and the hollows of the serene sky
Glow with diffused radiance for Thee!
For soon as comes the springtime face of day,
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First fowls of air, smit to the heart by Thee,
Foretoken thy approach, O thou Divine,
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Seized with the spell, all creatures follow Thee
Whithersoever thou walkest forth to lead,
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Guidest the Cosmos, and without Thee naught
Is risen to reach the shining shores of light,
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Gazing, my Goddess, open-mouthed at Thee,
Pastures on love his greedy sight, his breath
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For Thee the light beyond, wherewith to view
The core of being at the centre hid.
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For Thee with eager service, thou disdain
Before thou comprehendest: since for Thee
I prove the supreme law of Gods and sky,
1.01 - THAT ARE THOU, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
Though GOD is everywhere present, yet He is only present to Thee in the deepest and most central part of thy soul. The natural senses cannot possess God or unite Thee to Him; nay, thy inward faculties of understanding, will and memory can only reach after God, but cannot be the place of his habitation in Thee. But there is a root or depth of Thee from whence all these faculties come forth, as lines from a centre, or as branches from the body of the tree. This depth is called the centre, the fund or bottom of the soul. This depth is the unity, the eternity I had almost said the infinityof thy soul; for it is so infinite that nothing can satisfy it or give it rest but the infinity of God.
William Law
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O my God, how does it happen in this poor old world that Thou art so great and yet nobody finds Thee, that Thou callest so loudly and nobody hears Thee, that Thou art so near and nobody feels Thee, that Thou givest Thyself to everybody and nobody knows Thy name? Men flee from Thee and say they cannot find Thee; they turn their backs and say they cannot see Thee; they stop their ears and say they cannot hear Thee.
Hans Denk
1.01 - The Dark Forest. The Hill of Difficulty. The Panther, the Lion, and the Wolf. Virgil., #The Divine Comedy, #Dante Alighieri, #Christianity
And lead Thee hence through the eternal place,
Where thou shalt hear the desperate lamentations,
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With her at my departure I will leave Thee;
Because that Emperor, who reigns above,
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And I to him: "Poet, I Thee entreat,
By that same God whom thou didst never know,
1.01 - The Lord of hosts, #Sefer Yetzirah The Book of Creation In Theory and Practice, #Anonymous, #Various
Concerning the number ten of the spheres of existence out of nothing keep thy tongue from speaking and thy mind from pondering on it, and if thy mouth urges Thee to speak, and thy heart to think about it, return! as it reads: "And the living creatures ran and returned," (Ezekiel 1,14.) and upon this 12 was the covenant made.
SECTION 8.
1.01 - The Rape of the Lock, #The Rape of the Lock, #unset, #Zen
Know then, unnumber'd spirits round Thee fly,
The light militia of the lower sky;
1.01 - The Unexpected, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
Visitors had swollen the even flow of our life; among them, Miss Wilson, daughter of President Wilson, had come from far-off America for the Master's Darshan. His book Essays on the Gita had cast an unearthly spell upon her. That there could be someone who could write such a wonderful book in this materialistic age was beyond her imagination. She could hear the Voice of the Lord saying to man, "Abandon all dharmas. Take refuge in me alone. I shall deliver Thee from all Sin." The book was her Bible. She decided she must have the Darshan of such a unique person.
The day passed in a happy rhythm. Most of the sadhaks had gone to bed early to prepare inwardly for the great event. Over the Ashram reigned an atmosphere of deep peace and silence. Only one light was burning in Sri Aurobindo's corner room towards the street and keeping a vigil over the pervasive darkness. The Mother too had retired early, leaving Sri Aurobindo at his work. He was perhaps busy with Savitri now that the "avalanche of correspondence" had been arrested due to Darshan work. Thus the small hours were reached. Then in Purani's room the light was switched on; it was 2 a.m. He had to prepare hot water for the Mother's bath. At 7.30 a.m. the Darshan would start. But nobody suspected that
1.02.1 - The Inhabiting Godhead - Life and Action, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Zen
is in Thee and not otherwise than this; action cleaves not to a man.
3. Sunless are those worlds and enveloped in blind gloom whereto all they in their
10.23 - Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
How many and different are the degrees of consciousness! This word should be reserved for that which, in a being, is illumined by Thy Presence, identifies itself with Thee and participates in Thy absolute Consciousness, for that which has knowledge, which is "perfectly awakened" as says the Buddha.
Outside this state, there are infinite degrees of consciousness descending down to the complete darkness, the veritable inconscience which may be a domain not yet touched by the light of Thy divine love (but that appears improbable in physical substance), or which is by reason of some ignorance, outside our individual region of perception.
Each day, each moment, must be an occasion for a new and completer consecration; and not one of those enthusiastic and trepidant consecrations, overactive, full of the illusion of the work, but a profound and silent consecration which need not be apparent, but which penetrates and transfigures every action. Our mind, solitary and at peace, must rest always in Thee, and from this pure summit it must have the exact perception of realities, of the sole and eternal Reality, behind unstable fugitive appearances.
It is always good to look within ourselves from time to time and see that we are nothing and can do nothing, but we must then turn our look towards Thee, knowing that Thou art all and that Thou canst do all.
We must at each moment shake off the past like falling dust, so that it may not soil the virgin path which, also at each moment, opens before us.
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Like a flame that burns in silence, like a perfume that rises straight upward without wavering, my love goes to Thee. .
My heart has fallen asleep, down to the very depths of my being.
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Although my whole being is in theory consecrated to Thee, O Sublime Master, who art the life, the light and the love in all things, I still find it hard to carry out this consecration in detail. It has taken me several weeks to learn that the reason for this written meditation, its justification lies in the very fact of addressing it daily to Thee. In this way I shall put into material shape each day a little of the conversation I have so often with Thee; I shall make my confession to Thee as well as it may be..
I then thought of all those who were watching over the ship to safeguard and protect our route, and in gratitude, I willed that Thy peace should be born and live in their hearts; then I thought of all those who, confident and carefree, slept the sleep of inconscience and, with solicitude for their miseries, pity for their latent suffering which would awake in them in their own waking, I willed that a little of Thy Peace might dwell in their hearts and bring to birth in them the life of the Spirit, the light which dispels ignorance. I then thought of the dwellers of this vast sea, visible and invisible, and I willed that over them might be extended Thy Peace. I thought next of those whom we had left far away and whose affection is with us, and with a great tenderness I willed for them Thy conscious and lasting Peace, the plenitude of Thy Peace proportioned to their capacity to receive it. Then I thought of all those to whom we are going, who are restless with childish preoccupations and fight for mean competitions of interest in ignorance and egoism and ardently, in a great aspiration for them I asked for the plenty light of Thy Peace. I next thought of all those whom we know, of all those whom we do not know, of all the life that is working itself out, of all that has changed its form and all that is not yet in form, and for all that, and also for all of which I cannot think, for all that is present to my memory and for all that I forget, in a great eg ingathering and mute adoration, I implored Thy Peace.
What I willed for them, with Thy will, at the moments when I could be in a true communion with Thee, grant that they may have received it on the day when, striving to forget external contingencies, they turned towards their noblest thought, towards their best feelings.
May the supreme serenity of Thy sublime Presence awake in them.
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This sorrowful world kneels before Thee, 0 Lord, in mute supplication; this tortured Matter nestles at thy feet, its last, its sole refuge; and so imploring Thee, it adores Thee, Thee whom it neither knows nor understands! Its prayer rises like the cry of one in a last agony; that which is disappearing feels confusedly the possibility of living again in Thee; the earth awaits Thy decree in a grandiose prostration.
Mother, sweet Mother, who I am, Thou art at once the destroyer and the builder.
1.02.4.1 - The Worlds - Surya, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Zen
blessed form of all, that in Thee I behold. The Purusha there and there, He am I.
THE THREE STATES
1.02.4.2 - Action and the Divine Will, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Zen
the felicity; remove from us the devious attraction of sin. To Thee completest speech of
submission we address.
10.24 - Savitri, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
I ask Thee not to merge thy heart of flame
In the Immobile's wide uncaring bliss. .||89.20||
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Then will I give back to Thee Satyavan.||146.82||
Or if the Mighty Mother is with Thee,
Show me her face that I may worship her;
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I hail Thee almighty and victorious Death,
Thou grandiose Darkness of the Infinite. .||147.16||
I have given Thee thy awful shape of dread
And thy sharp sword of terror and grief and pain
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Still am I she who came to Thee mid the murmur
Of sunlit leaves upon this forest verge. .||157.40||
All that I was before, I am to Thee still. .||157.41||
Voicing Satyavan's thought and feeling, all humanity, the whole world in joy and gratefulness, utters this mantra of thanksgiving:
1.02 - BEFORE THE CITY-GATE, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
Turn Thee about, and from this height
Back on the town direct thy sight.
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Then may his teaching cheerfully impel Thee:
Dost thou, as man, increase the stores of truth?
Then may thine own son afterwards excel Thee.
FAUST
1.02 - BOOK THE SECOND, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
My son thou art, and I must call Thee so."
"Light of the world," the trembling youth replies,
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Has told Thee true; a parent's name I own,
And deem Thee worthy to be called my son.
As a sure proof, make some request, and I,
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And better for Thee than thy self provide!
See, while I speak, the shades disperse away,
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And give Thee over to the pow'r of Fate."
Thus entring into destiny, the maid
1.02 - IN THE COMPANY OF DEVOTEES, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Sri Ramakrishna was talking to Kli, the Divine Mother of the Universe. He said: "Mother, everyone says, 'My watch alone is right.' The Christians, the Brahmos, the Hindus, the Mussalmans, all say, 'My religion alone is true.' But, Mother, the fact is that nobody's watch is right. Who can truly understand Thee? But if a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path. Mother, show me some time how the Christians pray to Thee in their churches. But Mother, what will people say if I go in? Suppose they make a fuss! Suppose they don't allow me to enter the Kli temple again! Well then, show me the Christian worship from the door of the church."
The mind's inability to comprehend God
1.02 - Karmayoga, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It is an error, we repeat, to think that spirituality is a thing divorced from life. "Abandon all" says the Isha Upanishad "that thou mayst enjoy all, neither covet any man's possession. But verily do thy deeds in this world and wish to live thy hundred years; no other way is given Thee than this to escape the bondage of thy acts." It is an error to think that the heights of religion are above the struggles of this world. The recurrent cry of Sri
Krishna to Arjuna insists on the struggle; "Fight and overthrow thy opponents!" "Remember me and fight!" "Give up all thy works to me with a heart full of spirituality, and free from craving, free from selfish claims, fight! let the fever of thy soul pass from Thee." It is an error to imagine that even when the religious man does not give up his ordinary activities, he yet becomes too sattwic, too saintly, too loving or too passionless for the rough work of the world. Nothing can be more extreme and uncompromising than the reply of the Gita in the opposite sense, "Whosoever has his temperament purged from egoism, whosoever suffers not his soul to receive the impress of the deed, though he slay the whole world yet he slays not and is not bound." The Charioteer of Kurukshetra driving the car of
Arjuna over that field of ruin is the image and description of
1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
Speak and stand forth; when he sees Thee, he will be at rest.
[Marduk] was glad at the word of his father;
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What man is it who has brought battle against Thee?
Tiamat, who is a woman, is coming against Thee with arms!
My father, creator, be glad and rejoice;
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Unto Lahmu and Lahamu I will send Thee;
Thou knowest how to discern and art able to relate.
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What I am about to tell Thee repeat unto them.
Anshar, your son, has sent me.
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I have cast the spell for Thee, I have made Thee great in the assembly of the gods.
The dominion over all the gods I have given into thy hand.
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As for Thee, thy comm and shall not be changed, the word of thy mouth shall be dependable!
Now when Kingu had been exalted and had received supreme dominion,
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What shall be the sign of our gratitude before Thee?
Come, let us make something whose name shall be called Sanctuary.
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declarations as these: Incite your heart to know ma at; I make Thee to know the thing of ma at in thy
heart; mayest thou do what is right for Thee! Or: I was a man who loved ma at and hated sin. For I
knew that (sin) is an abomination to God. And in fact it is God who bestows the necessary knowledge.
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now the son of a king, a prince, as long as thy heart (i.e., spirit) shall be with Thee. Following Osiris
example, and with his help, the dead are able to transform themselves into souls, that is, into perfectly
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Will he make many supplications unto Thee? will he speak soft words unto Thee?
Will he make a covenant with Thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
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battle to establish the world [Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against Thee,
Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is
1.02 - On detachment, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
1. The man who really loves the Lord, who has made a real effort to find the coming Kingdom, who has really begun to be troubled by his sins, who is really mindful of eternal torment and judgment, who really lives in fear of his own departure, will not love, care or worry about money, or possessions, or parents, or worldly glory, or friends, or brothers, or anything at all on earth. But having shaken off all ties with earthly things and having stripped himself of all his cares, and having come to hate even his own flesh, and having stripped himself of everything, he will follow Christ without anxiety or hesitation, always looking heavenward and expecting help from there, according to the word of the holy man: My soul sticks close behind Thee,6 and according to the ever-memorable author who said: I have not wearied of following Thee, nor have I desired the day (or rest) of man, O Lord.7
2. After our call, which comes from God and not man, we have left all that is mentioned above, and it is a great disgrace for us to worry about anything that cannot help us in the hour of our need that is to say, the hour of our death. For as the Lord said, this means looking back and not being fit for the Kingdom of Heaven.8 Knowing how fickle we novices are and how easily we turn to the world through visiting, or being with, worldly people, when someone said to Him: Suffer me first to go and bury my father, our Lord replied, Leave the dead to bury their own dead.9
1.02 - On the Service of the Soul, #The Red Book Liber Novus, #unset, #Zen
68. Matthew 21:18-20 : Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered. And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on Thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away. And when the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away! In 1944 Jung wrote: "The ChristianmyChristianknows no curse formulas; indeed he does not even sanction the cursing of the innocent fig-tree by the rabbi Jesus (Why I have not adopted the Catholic truth? CW 18, 1468).
69. The Draft continues: They may serve your redemption (p.34)
1.02 - Pranayama, Mantrayoga, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
To tremble before Thee: --
I, I adore Thee!
There are many other mantras. Sri Sabapaty Swami gives a particular one for each of the Cakkras. But let the student select one mantra and master it thoroughly.
1.02 - The Descent. Dante's Protest and Virgil's Appeal. The Intercession of the Three Ladies Benedight., #The Divine Comedy, #Dante Alighieri, #Christianity
That thou mayst free Thee from this apprehension,
I'll tell Thee why I came, and what I heard
At the first moment when I grieved for Thee.
Among those was I who are in suspense,
--
Bestir Thee now, and with thy speech ornate,
And with what needful is for his release,
--
Beatrice am I, who do bid Thee go;
I come from there, where I would fain return;
--
Full often will I praise Thee unto him.'
Then paused she, and thereafter I began:
--
At this impediment, to which I send Thee,
So that stern judgment there above is broken.
--
Of Thee, and unto Thee I recommend him."
Lucia, foe of all that cruel is,
--
Why succourest thou not him, who loved Thee so,
For Thee he issued from the vulgar herd?
Dost thou not hear the pity of his plaint?
--
Which honours Thee, and those who've listened to it.'
After she thus had spoken unto me,
--
And unto Thee I came, as she desired;
I have delivered Thee from that wild beast,
Which barred the beautiful mountain's short ascent.
--
Are caring for Thee in the court of Heaven,
And so much good my speech doth promise Thee?"
Even as the flowerets, by nocturnal chill,
--
The words of truth which she addressed to Thee!
Thou hast my heart so with desire disposed
1.02 - The Divine Is with You, #Words Of The Mother II, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
remembrance of Thee.
All our thoughts, all our sentiments will move towards the
1.02 - THE NATURE OF THE GROUND, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
O nobly born, the time has now come for Thee to seek the Path. Thy breathing is about to cease. In the past thy teacher hath set Thee face to face with the Clear Light; and now thou art about to experience it in its Reality in the Bardo state (the intermediate state immediately following death, in which the soul is judgedor rather judges itself by choosing, in accord with the character formed during its life on earth, what sort of an after-life it shall have). In this Bardo state all things are like the cloudless sky, and the naked, immaculate Intellect is like unto a translucent void without circumference or centre. At this moment know thou thyself and abide in that state. I too, at this time, am setting Thee face to face.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
1.02 - THE QUATERNIO AND THE MEDIATING ROLE OF MERCURIUS, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
Ostanes said, Save me, O my God, for I stand between two exalted brilliancies known for their wickedness, and between two dim lights; each of them has reached me and I know not how to save myself from them. And it was said to me, Go up to Agathodaimon the Great and ask aid of him, and know that there is in Thee somewhat of his nature, which will never be corrupted. . . . And when I ascended into the air he said to me, Take the child of the bird which is mixed with redness and spread for the gold its bed which comes forth from the glass, and place it in its vessel whence it has no power to come out except when thou desirest, and leave it until its moistness has departed.25
[6] The quaternio in this case evidently consists of the two malefici, Mars and Saturn (Mars is the ruler of Aries, Saturn of Capricorn); the two dim lights would then be feminine ones, the moon (ruler of Cancer) and Venus (ruler of Libra). The opposites between which Ostanes stands are thus masculine / feminine on the one hand and good / evil on the other. The way he speaks of the four luminarieshe does not know how to save himself from themsuggests that he is subject to Heimarmene, the compulsion of the stars; that is, to a transconscious factor beyond the reach of the human will. Apart from this compulsion, the injurious effect of the four planets is due to the fact that each of them exerts its specific influence on man and makes him a diversity of persons, whereas he should be one.26 It is presumably Hermes who points out to Ostanes that something incorruptible is in his nature which he shares with the Agathodaimon,27 something divine, obviously the germ of unity. This germ is the gold, the aurum philosophorum,28 the bird of Hermes or the son of the bird, who is the same as the filius philosophorum.29 He must be enclosed in the vas Hermeticum and heated until the moistness that still clings to him has departed, i.e., the humidum radicale (radical moisture), the prima materia, which is the original chaos and the sea (the unconscious). Some kind of coming to consciousness seems indicated. We know that the synthesis of the four was one of the main preoccupations of alchemy, as was, though to a lesser degree, the synthesis of the seven (metals, for instance). Thus in the same text Hermes says to the Sun:
. . . I cause to come out to Thee the spirits of thy brethren [the planets], O Sun, and I make them for Thee a crown the like of which was never seen; and I cause Thee and them to be within me, and I will make thy kingdom vigorous.30
This refers to the synthesis of the planets or metals with the sun, to form a crown which will be within Hermes. The crown signifies the kingly totality; it stands for unity and is not subject to Heimarmene. This reminds us of the seven- or twelve-rayed crown of light which the Agathodaimon serpent wears on Gnostic gems,31 and also of the crown of Wisdom in the Aurora Consurgens.32
1.02 - The Refusal of the Call, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
Thou dravest love from Thee, who dravest Me."
Proverbs, 1:24-27, 32.
--
O Peneus' daughter, stay!" the deity called to herlike the frog to the princess of the fairy tale; "I who pursue Thee am no enemy.
Thou knowest not whom thou fleest, and for that reason dost thou flee. Run with less speed, I pray, and hold thy flight. I, too, will follow with less speed. Nay, stop and ask who thy lover is."
--
"O king, wait another year and, if after that thou be minded to speak to him on the matter of marriage, speak not to him privily, but address him on a day of state, when all the emirs and wazir s are present with the whole of the army standing before Thee. And when all are in crowd then send for thy son, Kamar al-Zaman, and summon him; and, when he cometh, broach to him the mat ter of marriage before the wazirs and grandees and officers of
state and captains; for he will surely be bashful and daunted by their presence and will not dare to oppose thy will."
When the moment came, however, and King Shahriman gave his comm and before the state, the prince bowed his head awhile, then raising it towards his father, and, being moved by youthful folly and boyish ignorance, replied: "But for myself I will never marry; no, not though I drink the cup of death! As for Thee, thou art great in age and small of wit: hast thou not, twice ere this day and before this occasion, questioned me of the matter of marriage, and I refused my consent? Indeed thou dotest and art not fit to govern a flock of sheep!" So saying Kamar al-Zaman unclapsed his hands from behind his back and tucked up his sleeves above his elbows before his father, being in a fit of fury; moreover, he added many words to his sire, knowing not what he said, in the trouble of his spirits.
The king was confounded and ashamed, since this befell in the presence of his grandees and soldier-officers assembled on a high festival and state occasion; but presently the majesty of kingship took him, and he cried out at his son and made him tremble. Then he called to the guards standing before him and commanded, "Seize him!" So they came forward and laid hands on him and, binding him, brought him before his sire, who bade them pinion his elbows behind his back and in this guise make him stand before the presence. And the prince bowed down his head for fear and apprehension, and his brow and face were beaded and spangled with sweat; and shame and confusion trou bled him sorely. Thereupon his father abused him and reviled him and cried, "Woe to Thee, thou son of adultery and nursling of abomination! How durst thou answer me in this wise before my captains and soldiers? But hitherto none hath chastised Thee.
Knowest thou not that this deed thou hast done were a disgrace to him had it been done by the meanest of my subjects?" And the king ordered his mamelukes to loose his elbow-bonds and imprison him in one of the bastions of the citadel.
1.02 - The Two Negations 1 - The Materialist Denial, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
0:He energised conscious-force (in the austerity of thought) and came to the knowledge that Matter is the Brahman. For from Matter all existences are born; born, by Matter they increase and enter into Matter in their passing hence. Then he went to Varuna, his father, and said, "Lord, teach me of the Brahman." But he said to him: "Energise (again) the conscious-energy in Thee; for the Energy is Brahman." Taittiriya Upanishad.1
1:THE AFFIRMATION of a divine life upon earth and an immortal sense in mortal existence can have no base unless we recognise not only eternal Spirit as the inhabitant of this bodily mansion, the wearer of this mutable robe, but accept Matter of which it is made, as a fit and noble material out of which He weaves constantly His garbs, builds recurrently the unending series of His mansions.
10.34 - Effort and Grace, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
I will pursue Thee across the century;
Thou shalt be hunted through the world by love,
10.37 - The Golden Bridge, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A paean-song of Thee my single note;
My words are drunk with the Immortal's wine.
--
And all its passions point towards only Thee.
Thy golden Light came down into my feet:
1.03 - APPRENTICESHIP AND ENCULTURATION - ADOPTION OF A SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
Thou shalt not make unto Thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or
that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
1.03 - BOOK THE THIRD, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
What kindled in Thee this unpity'd love?
Thy own warm blush within the water glows,
With Thee the colour'd shadow comes and goes,
Its empty being on thy self relies;
--
O'er other hearts, by Thee alone disdain'd.
But why should I despair? I'm sure he burns
--
"'Twere well, presumptuous man, 'twere well for Thee
If thou wert eyeless too, and blind, like me:
1.03 - Hymns of Gritsamada, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
6. O Fire, thou art Rudra, the mighty one of the great Heaven and thou art the army of the Life-Gods and hast power over all that fills desire. Thou journeyest with dawn-red winds to bear Thee and thine is the house of bliss; thou art Pushan and thou guardest with thyself thy worshippers.
7. O Fire, to one who makes ready and sufficient his works thou art the giver of the treasure; thou art divine Savitri and a founder of the ecstasy. O Master of man, thou art Bhaga and hast power for the riches; thou art the guardian in the house for one who worships Thee with his works.
3 Or, the Goddess tenant of the city.
8. O Fire, men turn to Thee the master of the human being in his house; Thee they crown, the king perfect in knowledge. O strong force of Fire, thou masterest all things; thou movest to the thousands and the hundreds and the tens.
9. O Fire, men worship Thee with their sacrifices as a father and Thee that thou mayst be their brother by their achievement of works when thou illuminest the body with thy light. Thou becomest a son to the man who worships Thee; thou art his blissful friend and guardest him from the violence of the adversary.
10. O Fire, thou art the craftsman Ribhu, near to us and to be worshipped with obeisance of surrender; thou hast mastery over the store of the plenitude and the riches. All thy wide shining of light and onward burning is for the gift of the treasure; thou art our instructor in wisdom and our builder of sacrifice.
--
13. O Fire, the sons of the indivisible Mother made Thee their mouth, the pure Gods made Thee their tongue; O Seer, they who are ever close to our giving are constant to Thee in the rites of the Path; the Gods eat in Thee the offering cast before them.
14. O Fire, all the Gods, the Immortals unhurtful to man, eat in Thee and by thy mouth the offering cast before them; by Thee mortal men taste of the libation. Pure art thou born, a child of the growths of the earth.
15. O Fire that hast come to perfect birth, thou art with the Gods and thou frontest them in thy might and thou exceedest them too, O God, when here the satisfying fullness of Thee becomes all-pervading in its greatness along both the continents, Earth and Heaven.
16. When to those who chant Thee, the luminous Wise Ones set free thy gift, O Fire, the wealth in whose front the Ray-Cow walks and its form is the Horse, thou leadest us on and leadest them to a world of greater riches. Strong with the strength of the heroes, may we voice the Vast in the coming of knowledge.
SUKTA 2
--
2. The Nights and the Dawns have lowed to Thee as the milchcows low towards a calf in their lairs of rest. O Fire of many blessings, thou art the traveller of Heaven through the ages of man and thou shinest self-gathered through his nights.5
3. The Gods have sent into the foundation of the middle world this great worker and pilgrim of earth and of heaven, whom we must know, like our chariot of white-flaming light, Fire whom we must voice with our lauds like a friend in the peoples.
--
11. Awake, O forceful Fire, one to be voiced by our lauds; for thou art he in whom the luminous seers come to perfect birth and speed on their way. O Fire, thou art the sacrifice and to Thee the Horses of swiftness come there where thou shinest with light in the eternal son and in thy own home.
7 Or, wake in ourselves a strength of heroes beyond men's scope by the power of the War-Horse or by the Word;
12. O Fire, O God who knowest all things born, may we both abide in thy peace, those who hymn Thee and the luminous seers. Be forceful for the opulence of the Treasure with the multitude of its riches and its many delights and its issue and the offspring of the Treasure.
13. When to those who hymn Thee the luminous Wise set free, O Fire, the gift in whose front the Ray-Cow walks and whose form is the Horse, thou leadest us on and leadest them to a world of greater riches. Strong with the strength of the Heroes, may we voice the Vast in the coming of the knowledge.
SUKTA 3
--
9. To the luminous Wise Ones and to him who voices Thee, O Fire, be the founder of their growth and expansion, that the Gritsamadas strong with the strength of the Heroes and overcoming the hostile forces may conquer the higher worlds by thy force and take delight of13 the secret inner spaces.
SUKTA 5
--
8. Even as one who has the knowledge let him work out the rite for all the lords of the sacrifice. On Thee, O Fire, is this sacrifice that we have made.
SUKTA 6
1. O Fire, mayst thou rejoice in the fuel I bring Thee, rejoice in my session of sacrifice. Deeply lend ear to my words.
2. O Fire, who art brought to perfect birth, Child of Energy, Impeller of the Horse, we would worship Thee with this oblation, we would worship Thee with this Word well-spoken.
3. We would wait with our Words on thy joy in the Word; O Treasure-giver, we would wait on the seeker of the Treasure. Let us serve Thee, all whose desire is thy service.
19 Or, for then it is complete, we have moved (on the way). Or, let us take full joy of the laud and the sacrifice; for we have given.
--
6. O Messenger, O youngest Power, come at our word for him who aspires to Thee and craves for thy safeguard; arrive, O Priest of the call, strong for sacrifice.
7. O Fire, O seer, thou movest within having knowledge of both the Births;21 thou art like a messenger from a friendly people.22
--
3. And so by Thee may we plunge and pass beyond all hostile forces as through streams of rushing water.
4. O cleansing Fire, thou art pure and adorable; vast is the beauty of thy light fed with the clarities.
--
3. May we worship Thee in thy supreme Birth, O Fire; may we worship Thee with our chants in the world of thy lower session: I adore with sacrifice thy native lair from which thou hast arisen. The offerings have been cast into Thee when thou wert kindled and ablaze.
4. O Fire, be strong for sacrifice, do worship with my oblation; swiftly voice my thought towards the gift of the Treasure. For thou art the wealth-master who hast power over the riches, thou art the thinker of the brilliant Word.
--
thinking human being with Thee for Messenger. I am one
who would conquer the Treasure and I call to the Fire with
1.03 - On exile or pilgrimage, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
It is not from hatred that we separate ourselves from our own people or places (God forbid!), but to avoid the harm which might come to us from them. In this, as in everything else, it is Christ who teaches us what is good for us. For it is clear that He often left His parents according to the flesh. And when He was told, Thy Mother and Thy brethren are seeking for Thee, our good Lord and Master at once showed us an example of dispassionate3 hatred when He said, My Mother and My brethren are they who do the will of My Father who is in heaven.4
1 Romans ii, 21.
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No one has gone into exile so nobly as that great patriarch4 to whom it was said: Get Thee out of thy country and from thy kindred and from thy fathers house.5 And then he was ordered to go into a foreign and barbarous land.
Sometimes the Lord has brought more glory to the man who has gone into exile after the manner of this great patriarch. But even if glory is God-given, yet it is excellent to divert it from oneself with the shield of humility.
1.03 - PERSONALITY, SANCTITY, DIVINE INCARNATION, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
But now thou askest me how thou mayest destroy this naked knowing and feeling of thine own being. For per-adventure thou thinkest that if it were destroyed, all other hindrances were destroyed; and if thou thinkest thus, thou thinkest right truly. But to this I answer Thee and I say, that without a full special grace full freely given by God, and also a full according ableness on thy part to receive this grace, this naked knowing and feeling of thy being may in nowise be destroyed. And this ableness is nought else but a strong and a deep ghostly sorrow. All men have matter of sorrow; but most specially he feeleth matter of sorrow that knoweth and feeleth that he is. All other sorrows in comparison to this be but as it were game to earnest. For he may make sorrow earnestly that knoweth and feeleth not only what he is, but that he is. And whoso felt never this sorrow, let him make sorrow; for he hath never yet felt perfect sorrow. This sorrow, when it is had, cleanseth the soul, not only of sin, but also of pain that it hath deserved for sin; and also it maketh a soul able to receive that joy, the which reaveth from a man all knowing and feeling of his being.
This sorrow, if it be truly conceived, is full of holy desire; and else a man might never in this life abide it or bear it. For were it not that a soul were somewhat fed with a manner of comfort by his right working, he should not be able to bear that pain that he hath by the knowing and feeling of his being. For as oft as he would have a true knowing and a feeling of his God in purity of spirit (as it may be here), and then feeleth that he may not for he findeth evermore his knowing and his feeling as it were occupied and filled with a foul stinking lump of himself, the which must always be hated and despised and forsaken, if he shall be Gods perfect disciple, taught by Himself in the mount of perfctionso oft he goeth nigh mad for sorrow.
1.03 - Preparing for the Miraculous, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
to Thee, o Lord, supreme Triumpher! (This was one of the
Mothers mantric formulas which we find already in her
1.03 - Questions and Answers, #Book of Certitude, #unset, #Zen
105. And in another Tablet, these exalted words have been revealed: O Muhammad! The Ancient of Days hath turned His countenance towards Thee, making mention of Thee, and exhorting the people of God to educate their children. Should a father neglect this most weighty commandment laid down in the Kitab-i-Aqdas by the Pen of the Eternal King, he shall forfeit rights of fatherhood, and be accounted guilty before God. Well is it with him who imprinteth on his heart the admonitions of the Lord, and steadfastly cleaveth unto them. God, in truth, enjoineth on His servants what shall assist and profit them, and enable them to draw nigh unto Him. He is the Ordainer, the Everlasting.
106. He is God, exalted be He, the Lord of majesty and power! The Prophets and Chosen Ones have all been commissioned by the One True God, magnified be His glory, to nurture the trees of human existence with the living waters of uprightness and understanding, that there may appear from them that which God hath deposited within their inmost selves. As may be readily observed, each tree yieldeth a certain fruit, and a barren tree is but fit for fire. The purpose of these Educators, in all they said and taught, was to preserve man's exalted station. Well is it with him who in the Day of God hath laid fast hold upon His precepts and hath not deviated from His true and fundamental Law. The fruits that best befit the tree of human life are trustworthiness and godliness, truthfulness and sincerity; but greater than all, after recognition of the unity of God, praised and glorified be He, is regard for the rights that are due to one's parents. This teaching hath been mentioned in all the Books of God, and reaffirmed by the Most Exalted Pen. Consider that which the Merciful Lord hath revealed in the Qur'an, exalted are His words: "Worship ye God, join with Him no peer or likeness; and show forth kindliness and charity towards your parents..." Observe how loving-kindness to one's parents hath been linked to recognition of the one true God! Happy they who are endued with true wisdom and understanding, who see and perceive, who read and understand, and who observe that which God hath revealed in the Holy Books of old, and in this incomparable and wondrous Tablet.
1.03 - Supernatural Aid, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
course to Thee, would have his desire fly without wings. Thy be
nignity not only succors him who asks, but oftentimes freely
foreruns the asking. In Thee mercy, in Thee pity, in Thee mag
nificence, in Thee whatever of goodness is in any creature, are
united."
--
conjure Thee," she commanded, "by the light of my love's glori
ous countenance, go at once, O accursed, and bring hither thy
1.03 - Sympathetic Magic, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
jaundice: in the colour of the red bull do we envelop Thee! We
envelop Thee in red tints, unto long life. May this person go
unscathed and be free of yellow colour! The cows whose divinity is
--
every form and every strength we do envelop Thee. Into the parrots,
into the thrush, do we put thy jaundice, and, furthermore, into the
--
thou; I see Thee, the firm one. Firm be thou with me, O thriving
one!" Then, turning to his wife, he should say, "To me Brihaspati
has given Thee; obtaining offspring through me, thy husband, live
with me a hundred autumns." The intention of the ceremony is plainly
1.03 - The Gate of Hell. The Inefficient or Indifferent. Pope Celestine V. The Shores of Acheron. Charon. The, #The Divine Comedy, #Dante Alighieri, #Christianity
We to the place have come, where I have told Thee
Thou shalt behold the people dolorous
--
He answered: "I will tell Thee very briefly.
These have no longer any hope of death;
--
To Thee, as soon as we our footsteps stay
Upon the dismal shore of Acheron."
--
Withdraw Thee from these people, who are dead!"
But when he saw that I did not withdraw,
--
A lighter vessel needs must carry Thee."
And unto him the Guide: "Vex Thee not, Charon;
It is so willed there where is power to do
--
And hence if Charon doth complain of Thee,
Well mayst thou know now what his speech imports."
1.03 - THE ORPHAN, THE WIDOW, AND THE MOON, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
By heart is signified love, which is said to be in the heart, and the container is put in the place of the contained; and this metaphor is taken from the lover who loves his beloved exceeding much, so that his heart is wounded with love. So was Christ upon the cross wounded for love of his Church:176 Thou didst first wound my heart when I was scourged for thy love, that I might make Thee my sister. . . . Again thou didst wound my heart with one of thine eyes177 when, hanging upon the cross, I was wounded for love of Thee, that I might make Thee my bride to share my glory.178
[26] The moment of the eclipse and mystic marriage is death on the cross. In the Middle Ages the cross was therefore logically understood as the mother. Thus in the Middle English Dispute between Mary and the Cross, the cross is a false tree that destroyed Marys fruit with a deadly drink. She laments: My sonys stepmodir I Thee calle. Sancta Crux replies:
Lady, to Thee I owe honour . . .
Thi fruyt me florysschith in blood colour.179
1.03 - THE STUDY (The Exorcism), #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
Behind the stove repose Thee in quiet!
My softest cushion I give to Thee.
As thou, up yonder, with running and leaping
--
So now I take Thee into my keeping,
A welcome, but also a silent, guest.
--
If I must share my chamber with Thee,
Poodle, stop that howling, pri Thee!
--
O, now am I sure of Thee!
For all of thy half-hellish brood
--
Now, to undisguise Thee,
Hear me exorcise Thee!
Art thou, my gay one,
--
Thou seest, not vain the threats I bring Thee:
With holy fire I'll scorch and sting Thee!
Wait not to know
--
The modest truth I speak to Thee.
If Man, that microcosmic fool, can see
--
The pentagram prohibits Thee?
Why, tell me now, thou Son of Hades,
--
The poodle naught remarked, as after Thee he speeded;
But other aspects now obtain:
--
All that is promised shall delight Thee purely;
No skinflint bargain shalt thou see.
--
One moment more I ask Thee to remain,
Some pleasant news, at least, to tell me.
--
I have not snares around Thee cast;
Thyself hast led thyself into the meshes.
--
An't please Thee, also I'm content to stay,
And serve Thee in a social station;
But stipulating, that I may
With arts of mine afford Thee recreation.
FAUST
--
That which the dainty spirits sing Thee,
The lovely pictures they shall bring Thee,
Are more than magic's empty show.
--
Summons Thee hither to the door-sill,
To gnaw it where, with just a morsel
Of oil, he paints the spot for Thee:
There com'st thou, hopping on to me!
1.03 - The Void, #Of The Nature Of Things, #Lucretius, #Poetry
Which to have known will serve Thee many a turn,
Nor will not leave Thee wandering in doubt,
Forever searching in the sum of all,
--
Lest it avail to lead Thee off from truth:
Waters (they say) before the shining breed
--
Of life within us, ere for Thee my verse
Hath put within thine ears the stores of proofs
1.03 - VISIT TO VIDYASAGAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
"'I' and 'mine' - these constitute ignorance. 'My house', 'my wealth', 'my learning', 'my possessions' - the attitude that prompts one to say such things comes of ignorance. On the contrary, the attitude born of Knowledge is: 'O God, Thou art the Master, and all these things belong to Thee. House, family, children, attendants, friends, are Thine.'
"One should constantly remember death. Nothing will survive death. We are born into this world to perform certain duties, like the people who come from the countryside to Calcutta on business. If a visitor goes to a rich man's garden, the superintendent says to him, 'This is our garden', 'This is our lake', and so forth. But if the Superintendent is dismissed for some misdeed, he can't carry away even his mango-wood chest. He sends it secretly by the gate-keeper. (Laughter.)
1.04 - ADVICE TO HOUSEHOLDERS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
In the boundless bliss of Thy Love, and utterly forget Myself, O Lord, attaining Thee.
Narendra sang again:
--
O Lord, how full of bliss Thou art! Victory unto Thee!
On every side shine devotees, like stars around the moon; Their Friend, the Lord All-merciful, joyously plays with them.
1.04 - ALCHEMY AND MANICHAEISM, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
Learn therefore, O Mind, to practise sympathetic love in regard to thine own body, by restraining its vain appetites, that it may be apt with Thee in all things. To this end I shall labour, that it may drink with Thee from the fountain of strength,233 and, when the two are made one, that ye find peace in their union. Draw nigh, O Body, to this fountain, that with thy Mind thou mayest drink to satiety and hereafter thirst no more after vanities. O wondrous efficacy of this fount, which maketh one of two, and peace between enemies! The fount of love can make mind out of spirit and soul, but this maketh one man of mind and body.234
1.04 - BOOK THE FOURTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
Then incense burn, and, Bacchus, Thee adore,
Or lov'st thou Nyseus, or Lyaeus more?
--
By Thee the Tuscans, who conspir'd to keep
Thee captive, plung'd, and cut with finns the deep.
--
We scorn ingratitude: to Thee, we know,
This safe conveyance of our minds we owe.
--
'Tis I am guilty, I have Thee betray'd,
Who came not early, as my charming maid.
Whatever slew Thee, I the cause remain,
I nam'd, and fix'd the place where thou wast slain.
--
Ev'n I for Thee as bold a hand can show,
And love, which shall as true direct the blow.
--
And never Thee, lamented youth, survive.
The world may say, I caus'd, alas! thy death,
But saw Thee breathless, and resign'd my breath.
Fate, tho' it conquers, shall no triumph gain,
--
Still let our loves from Thee be understood,
Still witness in thy purple fruit our blood.
--
'Tis not the moon, that o'er Thee casts a veil
'Tis love alone, which makes thy looks so pale.
--
And said, Thy foster-God has cost Thee dear.
A rock there stood, whose side the beating waves
--
Let not the suit of Venus Thee displease,
Pity the floaters on th' Ionian seas.
1.04 - GOD IN THE WORLD, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
St. Bernard speaks in what seems a similar strain. What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scripture, I learnt in woods and fields. I have had no other masters than the beeches and the oaks. And in another of his letters he says: Listen to a man of experience: thou wilt learn more in the woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach Thee more than thou canst acquire from the mouth of a magister. The phrases are similar; but their inner significance is very different. In Augustines language, God alone is to be enjoyed; creatures are not to be enjoyed but usedused with love and compassion and a wondering, detached appreciation, as means to the knowledge of that which may be enjoyed. Wordsworth, like almost all other literary Nature-worshippers, preaches the enjoyment of creatures rather than their use for the attainment of spiritual endsa use which, as we shall see, entails much self-discipline for the user. For Bernard it goes without saying that his correspondents are actively practising this self-discipline and that Nature, though loved and heeded as a teacher, is only being used as a means to God, not enjoyed as though she were God. The beauty of flowers and landscape is not merely to be relished as one wanders lonely as a cloud about the countryside, is not merely to be pleasurably remembered when one is lying in vacant or in pensive mood on the sofa in the library, after tea. The reaction must be a little more strenuous and purposeful. Here, my brothers, says an ancient Buddhist author, are the roots of trees, here are empty places; meditate. The truth is, of course, that the world is only for those who have deserved it; for, in Philos words, even though a man may be incapable of making himself worthy of the creator of the cosmos, yet he ought to try to make himself worthy of the cosmos. He ought to transform himself from being a man into the nature of the cosmos and become, if one may say so, a little cosmos. For those who have not deserved the world, either by making themselves worthy of its creator (that is to say, by non-attachment and a total self-naughting), or, less arduously, by making themselves worthy of the cosmos (by bringing order and a measure of unity to the manifold confusion of undisciplined human personality), the world is, spiritually speaking, a very dangerous place.
That Nirvana and Samsara are one is a fact about the nature of the universe; but it is a fact which cannot be fully realized or directly experienced, except by souls far advanced in spirituality. For ordinary, nice, unregenerate people to accept this truth by hearsay, and to act upon it in practice, is merely to court disaster. All the dismal story of antinomianism is there to warn us of what happens when men and women make practical applications of a merely intellectual and unrealized theory that all is God and God is all. And hardly less depressing than the spectacle of antinomianism is that of the earnestly respectable well-rounded life of good citizens who do their best to live sacramentally, but dont in fact have any direct acquaintance with that for which the sacramental activity really stands. Dr. Oman, in his The Natural and the Supernatural, writes at length on the theme that reconciliation to the evanescent is revelation of the eternal; and in a recent volume, Science, Religion and the Future, Canon Raven applauds Dr. Oman for having stated the principles of a theology, in which there could be no ultimate antithesis between nature and grace, science and religion, in which, indeed, the worlds of the scientist and the theologian are seen to be one and the same. All this is in full accord with Taoism and Zen Buddhism and with such Christian teachings as St. Augustines Ama et fac quod vis and Father Lallemants advice to theocentric contemplatives to go out and act in the world, since their actions are the only ones capable of doing any real good to the world. But what neither Dr. Oman nor Canon Raven makes sufficiently clear is that nature and grace, Samsara and Nirvana, perpetual perishing and eternity, are really and experientially one only to persons who have fulfilled certain conditions. Fac quod vis in the temporal world but only when you have learnt the infinitely difficult art of loving God with all your mind and heart and your neighbor as yourself. If you havent learnt this lesson, you will either be an antinomian eccentric or criminal or else a respectable well-rounded-lifer, who has left himself no time to understand either nature or grace. The Gospels are perfectly clear about the process by which, and by which alone, a man may gain the right to live in the world as though he were at home in it: he must make a total denial of selfhood, submit to a complete and absolute mortification. At one period of his career, Jesus himself seems to have undertaken austerities, not merely of the mind, but of the body. There is the record of his forty days fast and his statement, evidently drawn from personal experience, that some demons cannot be cast out except by those who have fasted much as well as prayed. (The Cur dArs, whose knowledge of miracles and corporal penance was based on personal experience, insists on the close correlation between severe bodily austerities and the power to get petitionary prayer answered in ways that are sometimes supernormal.) The Pharisees reproached Jesus because he came eating and drinking, and associated with publicans and sinners; they ignored, or were unaware of, the fact that this apparently worldly prophet had at one time rivalled the physical austerities of John the Baptist and was practising the spiritual mortifications which he consistently preached. The pattern of Jesus life is essentially similar to that of the ideal sage, whose career is traced in the Oxherding Pictures, so popular among Zen Buddhists. The wild ox, symbolizing the unregenerate self, is caught, made to change its direction, then tamed and gradually transformed from black to white. Regeneration goes so far that for a time the ox is completely lost, so that nothing remains to be pictured but the full-orbed moon, symbolizing Mind, Suchness, the Ground. But this is not the final stage. In the end, the herdsman comes back to the world of men, riding on the back of his ox. Because he now loves, loves to the extent of being identified with the divine object of his love, he can do what he likes; for what he likes is what the Nature of Things likes. He is found in company with wine-bibbers and butchers; he and they are all converted into Buddhas. For him, there is complete reconciliation to the evanescent and, through that reconciliation, revelation of the eternal. But for nice ordinary unregenerate people the only reconciliation to the evanescent is that of indulged passions, of distractions submitted to and enjoyed. To tell such persons that evanescence and eternity are the same, and not immediately to qualify the statement, is positively fatalfor, in practice, they are not the same except to the saint; and there is no record that anybody ever came to sanctity, who did not, at the outset of his or her career, behave as if evanescence and eternity, nature and grace, were profoundly different and in many respects incompatible. As always, the path of spirituality is a knife-edge between abysses. On one side is the danger of mere rejection and escape, on the other the danger of mere acceptance and the enjoyment of things which should only be used as instruments or symbols. The versified caption which accompanies the last of the Oxherding Pictures runs as follows.
1.04 - Hymns of Bharadwaja, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
around Thee a force invulnerable to overpower every force.
aDA hotA ysFdo yjFyAEn0-pd iqy3FX^y, sn^ .
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grown conscious of Thee, the chief and first, and followed
to a mighty treasure.
--
3. In Thee awake, they followed after the Treasure as in the
wake of one who walks on a path with many possessions,
--
5. The peoples increase Thee on the earth; both kinds of riches
of men increase Thee. O Fire, our pilot through the battle,
thou art the deliverer whom we must know, ever a father
--
the knee may we come to Thee with obeisance of surrender
when thou flamest alight in the house.
--
7. O Fire, we desire Thee, the god to whom must rise our cry,
we the right thinkers, the seekers of bliss, the builders of
1.04 - Magic and Religion, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
inculcating. Thus Micah says: "He hath shewed Thee, O man, what is
good; and what doth the Lord require of Thee, but to do justly, and
to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" And at a later time
1.04 - Narayana appearance, in the beginning of the Kalpa, as the Varaha (boar), #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
Prīthivī (Earth).-Hail to Thee, who art all creatures; to Thee, the holder of the mace and shell: elevate me now from this place, as thou hast upraised me in days of old. From Thee have I proceeded; of Thee do I consist; as do the skies, and all other existing things. Hail to Thee, spirit of the supreme spirit; to Thee, soul of soul; to Thee, who art discrete and indiscrete matter; who art one with the elements and with time. Thou art the creator of all things, their preserver, and their destroyer, in the forms, oh lord, of Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Rudra, at the seasons of creation, duration, and dissolution. When thou hast devoured all things, thou reposest on the ocean that sweeps over the world, meditated upon, oh Govinda, by the wise. No one knoweth thy true nature, and the gods adore Thee only in the forms it bath pleased Thee to assume. They who are desirous of final liberation, worship Thee as the supreme Brahmā; and who that adores not Vāsudeva, shall obtain emancipation? Whatever may be apprehended by the mind, whatever may be perceived by the senses, whatever may he discerned by the intellect, all is but a form of Thee. I am of Thee, upheld by Thee; thou art my creator, and to Thee I fly for refuge: hence, in this universe, Mādhavī (the bride of Mādhava or Viṣṇu) is my designation. Triumph to the essence of all wisdom, to the unchangeable, the imperishable: triumph to the eternal; to the indiscrete, to the essence of discrete things: to him who is both cause and effect; who is the universe; the sinless lord of sacrifice[4]; triumph. Thou art sacrifice; thou art the oblation; thou art the mystic Omkāra; thou art the sacrificial fires; thou art the Vedas, and their dependent sciences; thou art, Hari, the object of all worship[5]. The sun, the stars, the planets, the whole world; all that is formless, or that has form; all that is visible, or invisible; all, Puruṣottama, that I have said, or left unsaid; all this, Supreme, thou art. Hail to Thee, again and again! hail! all hail!
Parāśara said:-
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The Yogis.-Triumph, lord of lords supreme; Keśava, sovereign of the earth, the wielder of the mace, the shell, the discus, and the sword: cause of production, destruction, and existence. THOU ART, oh god: there is no other supreme condition, but thou. Thou, lord, art the person of sacrifice: for thy feet are the Vedas; thy tusks are the stake to which the victim is bound; in thy teeth are the offerings; thy mouth is the altar; thy tongue is the fire; and the hairs of thy body are the sacrificial grass. Thine eyes, oh omnipotent, are day and night; thy head is the seat of all, the place of Brahma; thy mane is all the hymns of the Vedas; thy nostrils are all oblations: oh thou, whose snout is the ladle of oblation; whose deep voice is the chanting of the Sāma veda; whose body is the hall of sacrifice; whose joints are the different ceremonies; and whose ears have the properties of both voluntary and obligatory rites[7]: do thou, who art eternal, who art in size a mountain, be propitious. We acknowledge Thee, who hast traversed the world, oh universal form, to be the beginning, the continuance, and the destruction of all things: thou art the supreme god. Have pity on us, oh lord of conscious and unconscious beings. The orb of the earth is seen seated on the tip of thy tusks, as if thou hadst been sporting amidst a lake where the lotus floats, and hadst borne away the leaves covered with soil. The space between heaven and earth is occupied by thy body, oh thou of unequalled glory, resplendent with the power of pervading the universe, oh lord, for the benefit of all. Thou art the aim of all: there is none other than Thee, sovereign of the world: this is thy might, by which all things, fixed or movable, are pervaded. This form, which is now beheld, is thy form, as one essentially with wisdom. Those who have not practised devotion, conceive erroneously of the nature of the world. The ignorant, who do not perceive that this universe is of the nature of wisdom, and judge of it as an object of perception only, are lost in the ocean of spiritual ignorance. But they who know true wisdom, and whose minds are pure, behold this whole world as one with divine knowledge, as one with Thee, oh god. Be favourable, oh universal spirit: raise up this earth, for the habitation of created beings. Inscrutable deity, whose eyes are like lotuses, give us felicity. Oh lord, thou art endowed with the quality of goodness: raise up, Govinda, this earth, for the general good. Grant us happiness, oh lotus-eyed. May this, thy activity in creation, be beneficial to the earth. Salutation to Thee. Grant us happiness, oh lotus-eyed. arāśara said:-
The supreme being thus eulogized, upholding the earth, raised it quickly, and placed it on the summit of the ocean, where it floats like a mighty vessel, and from its expansive surface does not sink beneath the waters. Then, having levelled the earth, the great eternal deity divided it into portions, by mountains: he who never wills in vain, created, by his irresistible power, those mountains again upon the earth which had been consumed at the destruction of the world. Having then divided the earth into seven great portions or continents, as it was before, he constructed in like manner the four (lower) spheres, earth, sky, heaven, and the sphere of the sages (Maharloka). Thus Hari, the four-faced god, invested with the quality of activity, and taking the form of Brahmā, accomplished the creation: but he (Brahmā) is only the instrumental cause of things to be created; the things that are capable of being created arise from nature as a common material cause: with exception of one instrumental cause alone, there is no need of any other cause, for (imperceptible) substance becomes perceptible substance according to the powers with which it is originally imbued[8].
1.04 - Relationship with the Divine, #Words Of The Mother II, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
None can say to the Divine, I have known Thee, and yet all carry Him in themselves, and in the silence of their soul can hear the echo of the Divines voice.
13 November 1954
1.04 - Religion and Occultism, #Words Of The Mother III, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It occurs to me to beg Thee for a key word for japa.
OM.
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In the picture which I received today from Thee, I see someone offering with two hands a full-bloomed red lotus, a lotus bud and a garland. The background of the picture is yellow in colour. What do all these signify?
The red lotus is the symbol of the Avatar and the offering of the red lotus is meant to suggest the full consecration to
1.04 - THE APPEARANCE OF ANOMALY - CHALLENGE TO THE SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
bring forth children;460 and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over Thee.
And unto Adam he said, Because thou has hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the
tree, of which I commanded Thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in
sorrow shalt thou eat of it for all the days of thy life;
Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth for Thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for dust thou art, and unto
1.04 - The Core of the Teaching, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
His grace thou shalt attain to the supreme peace and the eternal status. So have I expounded to Thee a knowledge more secret than that which is hidden. Further hear the most secret, the supreme word that I shall speak to Thee. Become my-minded, devoted to Me, to Me do sacrifice and adoration; infallibly, thou shalt come to Me, for dear to me art thou. Abandoning all laws of conduct seek refuge in Me alone. I will release Thee from all sin; do not grieve."
The argument of the Gita resolves itself into three great steps by which action rises out of the human into the divine plane leaving the bondage of the lower for the liberty of a higher law.
1.04 - The First Circle, Limbo Virtuous Pagans and the Unbaptized. The Four Poets, Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan. The Noble Castle of Philosophy., #The Divine Comedy, #Dante Alighieri, #Christianity
Now will I have Thee know, ere thou go farther,
That they sinned not; and if they merit had,
1.04 - The Gods of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
We get our first mention of Varuna at the end of the second hymn in the Rigveda, the hymn of Madhuchchhandas in which he calls, as in the third, on several gods, first to Vayu, then to Vayu and Indra together, last, Varuna and Mitra. Arrive, he says, O Vayu, O beautiful one, lo these Soma-powers in their array (is it not a battle-array?), protect them, hear their call! O Vayu, strongly thy lovers woo Thee with prayers (or, desires), they have distilled the nectar, they have found their strength (or, they know the day?). O Vayu, thy abounding stream moves for the giver, it is wide for the drinking of the Soma-juice. O Indra & Vayu, here are the outpourings, come to them with outputtings of strength, the powers of delight desire you both. Thou, O Vayu, awake, and Indra, to the outpourings of the Soma, you who are rich in power of your plenty; so (that is, rich in power) come to me, for the foe has attacked. Come O Vayu, and Indra, to the distiller of the nectar, expel the foe, swiftly hither strong by the understanding. And then comes the closing call to Mitra & Varuna. I call Mitra of purified discernment and Varuna who destroys the foe, they who effect a bright and gracious understanding. By Law of Truth, Mitra and Varuna, who by the Truth increase and to the Truth attain, enjoy a mighty strength. Mitra and Varuna, the seers, born in Force, dwellers in the Vast, uphold Daksha (the discerning intelligence) at his work.
There are here a number of words whose exact meaning is exceedingly important for any fruitful enquiry into the religious significance of the Vedas. The most important, the decisive & capital word in the passage is Ritam. Whatever it may be held to mean, it will decide for us the essential character of Varuna & his constant comradeMitra. I have already suggested in my first chapter the sense in which I understand Ritam. It is its ordinary sense in Sanscrit. Ritam is Truth, Law, that which is straight, upright, direct, rectum; it is that which gives everything its place & its motion (ritu), that which constitutes reason (ratio) in mind and rectitude in morals,it is the rightness or righteousness which makes the stars move in their orbits, the seasons occur in their order, thought & speech move towards truth, trees grow according to their seed, animals act according to their species & nature, & man walk in the paths which God has prescribed for him. It is that in the Akasha the Akasha where Varuna is lordwhich develops arrangement & order, it is the element of law in Nature. But not only in material Nature, not only in the moral akasha even,the akasha of the heart of which the Rishis spoke, but on higher levels also. I have pointed out that Ritam is the law of the Truth, of vijnana. It is this ideal Truth, the Truth of being, by which everything animate or inanimate knows in its fibres of being & serves in action & feeling the truth of itself, in which Law is born. This Law which belongs to Satyam, to the Mahas, is Ritam. Neither of the English words,Law & Truth, gives the idea; they have to be combined in order to be equivalent to ritam. Well, then Varuna is represented to us as increasing in his nature by this Truth & Law, attaining to it or possessing it; Law & Truth are the source of his strength, the means by which he has arrived at his present force & mightiness.
1.04 - THE STUDY (The Compact), #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
And I advise Thee, brief and flat,
To don the self-same gay apparel,
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Life be at last revealed to Thee!
FAUST
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That of senses and sap has betrayed Thee,
They would persuade Thee.
This nursing of the pain forego Thee,
That, like a vulture, feeds upon thy breast!
The worst society thou find'st will show Thee
Thou art a man among the rest.
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Thy steps through life, I'll guide Thee,
Will willingly walk beside Thee,
Will serve Thee at once and forever
With best endeavor,
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Will as servant, slave, with Thee abide.
FAUST
--
What no man ever saw, I'll give to Thee.
FAUST
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Will as a servant wait behind Thee.
But one thing more! Beyond all risk to bind Thee,
Give me a line or two, I pray.
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I freely leave the choice to Thee.
MEPHISTOPHELES
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The promise that I make to Thee
Is just the sum of my endeavor.
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Let him find for Thee the secret tether
That binds the Noble and Mean together.
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Set wigs of million curls upon thy head, to raise Thee,
Wear shoes an ell in height,the truth betrays Thee,
And thou remainestwhat thou art.
--
I say to Thee, a speculative wight
Is like a beast on moorlands lean,
--
Let but the Lying Spirit bind Thee
With magic works and shows that blind Thee,
And I shall have Thee fast and sure!
Fate such a bold, untrammelled spirit gave him,
--
As did the Holy Ghost dictate to Thee!
STUDENT
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Thou art a grandchild, therefore woe to Thee!
The right born with us, ours in verity,
--
As best it pleases Thee.
The little world, and then the great, we'll see.
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I gratulate Thee on thy new career!
1.04 - What Arjuna Saw - the Dark Side of the Force, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
now give to Thee, says Sri Krishna. 9
The glory of the Supreme is disclosed to the warrior.
1.05 - AUERBACHS CELLAR, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
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:
1.05 - Bhakti Yoga, #Amrita Gita, #Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #Hinduism
Let my mind be ever fixed On Thy Lotus Feet. Let me have constant remembrance of Thee. Let me sing Thy glory always.
14. The Name of the Lord is your sole refuge. It is your prop, shelter and abode. Name is divine nectar. Nama and Nami are inseparable.
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25. Shall I wash Thy Feet with holy water, O Lord? The very Ganga flows from Thy Feet. Shall I give You seat? Thou art all-pervading. Shall I wave lights for Thee? Sun and Moon are Thy Eyes! Shall I offer flowers to Thee? Thou art the essence of flowersthis is Para Puja.
26. Feel the presence of the Lord everywhere. He dwells in the chambers of your heart, too. He is in the breath in the nostrils; He glitters in your eyes. He is nearer to you than your jugular vein. Behold Him in every face.
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29. Draupadi was an Arta-Bhaktini; Nachiketas was Jijnasu-Bhakta; Dhruva was an Arthar Thee-Bhakta; Suka Deva was a Jnani-Bhakta; Prahlada was an absolutely Nishkama Bhakta.
30. Bhakti is immortalising nectar. It transmutes a man into divinity. It makes him perfect. It bestows on him everlasting peace and bliss.
1.05 - BOOK THE FIFTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
Who got Thee in the form of tempting gold.
His lance was aim'd, when Cepheus ran, and said,
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Perseus to Thee, but to the loss of her.
Phineus on him, and Perseus, roul'd about
--
This I return Thee, drawing from his side
The dart; which, as he strove to fling, he dy'd.
--
Can bear Thee; hence, o quit the Cephen shore,
And never curse us with Medusa more,
--
I warr'd not with Thee out of hate or strife,
My honest cause was to defend my wife,
--
For life I sue; the rest to Thee I yield;
In pity, from my sight remove the shield.
--
Where I now see Thee, thou shalt still be seen,
A lasting monument to please our queen;
1.05 - CHARITY, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
A beggar, Lord, I ask of Thee
More than a thousand kings could ask.
Each one wants something, which he asks of Thee.
I come to ask Thee to give me Thyself.
Ansari of Herat
1.05 - Christ, A Symbol of the Self, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
thy goodness and gentleness come before Thee." 68 God is prop-
erly exhorted to remember his good qualities. There is even a
1.05 - Hymns of Bharadwaja, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
1. O potent Fire, thou wert the first thinker of this thought and the priest of the call. O Male, thou hast created everywhere around Thee a force invulnerable to overpower every force.
2. And now strong for sacrifice, thou hast taken thy session in the seat of aspiration, one aspired to, a flamen of the call, an imparter of the impulse. Men, building the godheads, have grown conscious of Thee, the chief and first, and followed to a mighty treasure.
3. In Thee awake, they followed after the Treasure as in the wake of one who walks on a path with many possessions, in the wake of the vast glowing visioned embodied Fire that casts its light always and for ever.
4. Travellers with surrender to the plane of the godhead, seek-ers of inspired knowledge, they won an inviolate inspiration, they held the sacrificial Names and had delight in thy happy vision.
5. The peoples increase Thee on the earth; both kinds of riches of men increase Thee. O Fire, our pilot through the battle, thou art the deliverer whom we must know, ever a father and mother to human beings.
6. Dear and servable is this Fire in men; a rapturous priest of the call has taken up his session, strong for sacrifice. Pressing the knee may we come to Thee with obeisance of surrender when thou flamest alight in the house.
7. O Fire, we desire Thee, the god to whom must rise our cry, we the right thinkers, the seekers of bliss, the builders of the godheads. O Fire, shining with light thou leadest men through the vast luminous world of heaven.
8. To the seer, the Master of creatures who rules over the eternal generations of peoples, the Smiter, the Bull of those that see, the mover to the journey beyond who drives us, the purifying Flame, the Power in the sacrifice, Fire the Regent of the Treasures!
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10. O Fire, O Son of Force, may we offer to thy greatness that which is great, worshipping Thee with the obeisance and the fuel and the offering, the altar and the word and the utterance. For we would work and strive in thy happy right thinking, O Fire.
11. O thou who art filled with inspiration and a passer of barriers, O thou who hast extended earth and heaven by the wideness of thy light and thy inspired discoveries of knowledge, shine wider yet in us with thy large and solid and opulent amassings, O Fire.
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13. O King, O Fire, let me enjoy by Thee and thy princehood of the riches many riches in many ways; for, O Fire of many blessings, there are many treasures for thy worshipper in Thee, the King.
SUKTA 2
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2. Men who see aspire to Thee with the word and the sacrifice. To Thee comes the all-seeing Horse that crosses the mid-world, the Horse that no wolf tears.
3. The Men of Heaven with a single joy set Thee alight to be the eye of intuition of the sacrifice when this human being, this seeker of bliss, casts his offering in the pilgrim Rite.
4. The mortal should grow in riches who achieves the work by the Thought for Thee, the great giver; he is in the keeping of the Vast Heaven and crosses beyond the hostile powers and their evil.
5. O Fire, when mortal man arrives by the fuel of thy flame to the way of the oblation and the sharpening of thy intensities, he increases his branching house, his house of the hundred of life.
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1. The mortal who longs for the Godhead shall take up his home with Thee, O Fire, he is born into the Truth and a guardian of the Truth and comes to thy wide Light, - he in whom thou being Varuna takest with Mitra a common delight and thou guardest that mortal, O God, by thy casting away from him of evil.
2. He has sacrificed with sacrifices, he has achieved his labour by his works, he has given to the Fire whose boons grow ever in opulence. And so there befalls him not the turning away of the Glorious Ones; evil comes not to him nor the insolence of the adversary.
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5. He eats his food and sharpens his sword of defence; he is like the Life-God a master of kingdoms and passes beyond the nights. O Fire, may we pierce through the foe, O thou who breakest like a galloping steed all that battle against thy appointings, hurting around Thee our hurters as they fall upon us.
6. O Fire, thou art like the Sun with thy splendid illuminations and hast wide extended Earth and Heaven with thy light. Smeared with lustre,3 rich in brilliance he shepherds away the darknesses and like a son of the desire of the Gods rushes onward in his march.
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7. We have chosen Thee most rapturous with the flaming lights of thy illuminations; O Fire, hear for us that which is great. O Godhead of Fire, the most strong Gods fill Thee like Indra with might and like the Life-God with riches.
8. O Fire, thou journeyest happily to the treasures by paths where the wolf rends not, and carriest us beyond all evils. These high things thou givest to the luminous wise; thou lavishest the bliss on him who voices Thee with the word. May we revel in the rapture, strong with the strength of the Heroes, living a hundred winters.
SUKTA 5
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2. O Priest of the call, priest with thy many flame-forces,4 in the night and in the light the Lords of sacrifice cast on Thee their treasures. As in earth are founded all the worlds, they founded all happinesses in the purifying Fire.
4 Or, forms of flame,
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5. When man gives to Thee with the sacrifice and the fuel and with his spoken words and his chants of illumination, he becomes, O Immortal, O Son of Force, a mind of knowledge among mortals and shines with the riches and inspiration and light.
6. Missioned create that swiftly, O Fire. Force is thine, resist with thy force our confronters. When revealed by thy lights, thou art formulated by our words, rejoice in the far-sounding thought of thy adorer.
7. O Fire, may we possess in thy guard that high desire, - possess, O Lord of the treasures, that Treasure and its heroes, possess replenishing Thee thy plenitude, possess, O ageless Fire, thy ageless light.
SUKTA 6
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7. O rich in thy brilliances, Fire with thy manifold luminous mights, rivet to us the rich and various treasure, most richly diverse, that awakens us to knowledge and founds our expanding growth. O delightful God, to him who voices Thee with delightful words the vast delightful wealth and its many hero keepers!
SUKTA 7
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3. O Fire, from Thee is born the Seer, the Horse and of Thee are the Heroes whose might overcomes the adversary. O King, O universal Power, found in us the desirable treasures.
4. O Immortal, all the Gods come together to Thee in thy birth as to a new-born child. O universal Power, they travelled to immortality by the works of thy will when thou leapedst alight from the Father and Mother
5. O Fire, universal Godhead, none could do violence to the laws of thy mighty workings because even in thy birth in the lap of the Father and the Mother thou hast discovered the light of intuition of the Days in manifested things.5
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7. O our impeller,8 holder of the triple session, shield our luminous seers with thy indomitable guardian fires. Keep safe, O Fire, the army of those who have given, O Universal, hearing our hymn to Thee deliver to its forward march.
8 Or, O doer of sacrifice,
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7. All the gods were in awe of Thee when thou stoodest in the darkness and bowed down before Thee, O Fire. May the Universal Godhead keep us that we may be safe, may the Immortal keep us that we may be safe.
SUKTA 10
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6. O Fire, yearn to the sacrifice that the bringer of the offering casts to Thee; found the rapture. Hold firm in the Bharadwajas the perfect purification; guard them in their seizing of the riches of the quest.
7. Scatter all hostile things, increase the revealing Word. May we revel in the rapture, strong with the strength of the Heroes, living a hundred winters.
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3. In Thee the understanding is full of riches and it desires the gods, the divine births, that the word may be spoken and the sacrifice done, when the singer, the sage, wisest of the Angirases chants his honey-rhythm in the rite.
4. He has leaped into radiance and is wise of heart and wide of light; O Fire, sacrifice to the largeness of Earth and Heaven. All the five peoples lavish the oblation with obeisance of surrender and anoint as the living being Fire the bringer of their satisfactions.
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2. When a man sacrifices in Thee, O King, O Lord of sacrifice, when he does well his works in the wise and understanding Fire like Heaven in its all-forming labour, triple thy session; thy speed is as if of a deliverer, when thou comest to give the sacrifice whose offerings are man's human fullnesses.
3. A splendour in the forest, most brilliant-forceful is the speed of his journeying; he is like a whip on the path and ever he grows and blazes. He is like a smelter who does hurt to none; he is the Immortal who wakes of himself to knowledge: he cannot be turned from his way mid the growths of the earth.
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1. O felicitous Fire, of Thee are all felicities and they grow wide from Thee like branches from a tree. For quickly come, in the piercing of the Python adversary, the Riches and the desirable plenty and the Rain of Heaven and the flowing of the Waters.
2. Thou art Bhaga of the felicities and thou pourest on us the ecstasy and takest up thy house in us, a pervading presence and a potent splendour. O divine Fire, like Mitra thou art a feeder on the vast Truth and the much joy and beauty.
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4. O Son of Force, the mortal who has reached to the intensity of Thee by the word and the utterance and the altar and the sacrifice, draws to him sufficiency of every kind of wealth, O divine Fire, and walks on the way with his riches.
5. O Fire, O Son of Force, found for men, that they may grow, happy riches of inspiration with strength of its hero keepers, - many herds, thy creation in thy might, but now a food for the wolf and the foe and the destroyer.
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2. The Bhrigus set in the Tree the godhead of our aspiration with his high flame of light like a friend well-confirmed in his place. And now, O Wonderful, well-pleased in him who has cast to Thee the offering, thou art magnified by wordings of thy power from day to day.
3. Be in us the one whom the wolf cannot rend, the god who makes grow the discernment, makes grow the supreme inner Warrior who delivers.11 O Son of Force, extend in mortals the Riches, the wide-spreading House, for the caster of the offering, for Bharadwaja the wide-spreading House.
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8. O Fire, they have set Thee here the Messenger, the Immortal
in generation after generation, the Carrier of offerings, protector of man and the Godhead of his prayer. Gods alike and
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side the man who has reached to the Thought for Thee
the Seer and achieved the intensity of the sacrifice or its
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one who would subject us. May there come to Thee along
the path full of destructions the thousandfold delectable
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today carry with Thee our offerings, O ever-youthful Fire,
even the truths that are thine.
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let a man set Thee within him to sacrifice to Earth and
Heaven. Protect us, O King of Riches, in our conquest of
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19. O Fire, O man's master of the house, we have fed Thee with
our fuel and made Thee a vastness; let the works of the
house-master be unhalting, make us utterly keen with thy
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swiftness aspired to Thee for a twofold bliss; he has sacrificed
in the sacrifices to the king of sacrifice.
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7. Men deeply meditating aspire to Thee that the godheads may
come to them; mortals they aspire to the God in the sacrifice.
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thy gifts and in Thee is the joy of all who desire.
a`n
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11. O Angiras, we make Thee to grow by our fuel and our offering of the clarity; flame into a vast light, O ever-youthful
Fire.
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13. O Fire, Atharvan churned Thee out from the Lotus,16 from
the head of every chanting sage.
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14. And Dadhyang too, the Seer, Atharvan's son, kindled Thee a
slayer of the Python adversary and shatterer of his cities.
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15. Thee the Bull of the paths set full alight, most mighty to slay
the Destroyers, a conqueror of riches in battle upon battle.
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16. Come to me and let me voice to Thee, O Fire, true other
words; for thou growest by these moon-powers of the Wine.
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26. Let the giver be the best by work of the will; today winning Thee let him become one overflowing with affluence: a
mortal, he shall taste the perfect purification.
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37. O thou who art made by our force, we come to Thee of the
rapturous vision bringing our offerings for thy pleasure and
let forth towards Thee, O Fire, our words.
up QCAyAEmv GZ
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work and can bear Thee sufficient for our passion.
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47. We bring to Thee, O Fire, by the illumining word an offering
that is shaped by the heart. Let there be born from it thy
1.05 - Morality and War, #Words Of The Mother III, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The Victory has come, Thy Victory, O Lord, for which we render to Thee infinite thanks-giving.
But now our ardent prayer rises towards Thee. It is with Thy force and by Thy force that the victors have conquered. Grant that they do not forget it in their success and that they keep the promises which they have made to Thee in the hours of danger and anguish. They have taken Thy name to make war, may they not forget Thy grace when they have to make the peace.
15 August 1945
1.05 - MORALITY AS THE ENEMY OF NATURE, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
with an application to sexuality: "if thy eye offend Thee, pluck it
out": fortunately no Christian acts in obedience to this precept.
1.05 - On painstaking and true repentance which constitute the life of the holy convicts; and about the prison., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
Most terrible and pitiful was the sight of their last hour. When his fellow-defaulters learnt that one of their number was ready to precede them by finishing his course, they gathered round him while his mind was still active and with thirst, with tears, with love, with a tender look and sad voice, shaking their heads, they would ask the dying man, and would say to him, burning with compassion: How are you, brother and fellow criminal? What will you say? What do you hope? What do you expect? Have you accomplished what you sought with such labour or not? Has the door been opened to you, or are you still under judgment? Have you attained your object, or not yet? Have you received any sort of assurance, or is your hope still uncertain? Have you obtained freedom, or is your thought clouded with doubt? Have you felt any enlightenment in your heart or is it still dark and ashamed? Has any inner voice said: Behold thou art made whole,1 or: Thy sins are forgiven Thee, 2or: Thy faith has saved Thee?3 Or, have you heard a voice like this: Let the sinners be turned into hell,4 and: Bind him hand and foot, and cast him into the outer darkness,5 and again: Let the wicked man be removed that he may not see the glory of the Lord?6 What, quite simply, can you say, brother? Tell us, we beg you, that we too may know in what state we shall be. For your time is already closed, and you will never find another opportunity. To this some of the dying would reply: Blessed is God who has not turned away my prayer, nor His mercy from me. 7Others again: Blessed is the Lord, who has not given us for a prey to their teeth.8 Others said dolefully: Will our soul pass through the impassable water9 of the spirits of the air?not having complete confidence, but looking to see what would happen in that rendering of accounts. Others still more dolefully would answer and say: Woe to the soul that has not kept its vow intact! In this hour, and in this only, it will know what is prepared for it.
But when I had seen and heard all this among them, I nearly despaired of myself, seeing my own indifference and comparing it with their suffering. For what a place and habitation theirs was! All dark, reeking, filthy and squalid. It was rightly called the prison and house of convicts. The very sight of the place was sufficient to teach all penitence and mourning. But what is hard and intolerable for others becomes easy and acceptable for those who have fallen away from virtue and spiritual riches. For the soul that has lost its former confidence; that has lost hope of dispassion; that has broken the seal of chastity; that has allowed its treasury of gifts to be robbed; that has become a stranger to divine consolation; that has rejected the commandment of the Lord; that has extinguished the beautiful fire of spiritual10 tears, and is wounded and pierced with sorrow by the remembrance of this will not only undertake the above-mentioned labours with all readiness, but will even devoutly resolve to kill itself
1.05 - On the Love of God., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
believers, "He loves them and they love Him,"[1] and the Prophet said, "Till a man loves God and His Prophet more than anything else he has not the right faith." When the angel of death came to take the soul of Abraham the latter said, "Have you ever seen a friend take his friend's life?" God answered him, "Have you ever seen a friend unwilling to see his friend?" Then Abraham said, "O Azrael! take my soul!" The following prayer was taught by the Prophet to his companions, "O God, grant me to love Thee and to love those who love Thee, and whatsoever brings me nearer to Thy love, and make Thy love more precious to me than cold water to the thirsty." Hassan Basri used to say, "He who knows God loves Him, and he who knows the world hates it."
We come now to treat of love in its essential nature. Love may be defined as an inclination to that which is pleasant. This is apparent in the case of the five senses, each of which may be said to love that which gives it delight; thus the eye loves beautiful forms, the ear music, etc. This is a kind of love we share with the
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Yahya Ibn Muaz relates, "I watched Bayazid Bistami at prayer through one entire night. When he had finished he stood up and said, 'O Lord! some of Thy servants have asked and obtained of Thee the power to perform miracles, to walk on the sea, and to fly in, the air, but this I do not ask; some have asked and obtained treasures, but these I do not ask.' Then he turned, and, seeing me, said, 'Are you there, Yahya?' I replied, 'Yes.' He asked, 'Since when? I answered, 'For a long time.' I then asked him to reveal to me some of his spiritual experiences. 'I will reveal,' he answered, 'what is lawful to tell you. The Almighty
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showed me His kingdom, from its loftiest to its lowest; He raised me above the throne and the seat and all the seven heavens. Then He said, "Ask of me whatsoever thing thou desirest." I answered, "Lord! I wish for nothing beside Thee." '"Verily," He said, "thou art My servant.'"
On another occasion Bayazid said, "Were God to offer Thee the intimacy with Himself of Abraham, the power in prayer of Moses, the spirituality of Jesus, yet keep thy face directed to Him only, for He has treasures surpassing even these." One day a friend said to him, "For thirty years I have fasted by day and prayed by night and have found none of that spiritual joy of which thou speakest." Bayazid answered, "If you fasted and prayed for three hundred years, you would never find it." "How is that?" asked the other. "Because," said Bayazid, "your selfishness is acting as a veil between you and God." "Tell me, then, the cure." "It is a cure which you cannot carry out." However, as his friend pressed him to reveal it, Bayazid said, "Go to the nearest barber and have your beard shaved; strip yourself
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the Prophet: "The love of the Creator," she said, "has prevented my loving the creature." Ibrahim Ben Adham, in his prayers, said, "O God! In my eyes heaven itself is less than a gnat in comparison with the love of Thee and the joy of Thy remembrance which thou hast granted me."
He who supposes that it is possible to enjoy happiness in the next world apart from the love of God is far gone in error, for the very essence of the future life is to arrive at God as at an object of desire long aimed at and attained through countless obstacles. This enjoyment of God is happiness. But if he had no delight in God before, he will not delight in Him then, and if his joy in God was but slight before it will be but slight then. In brief, our future happiness will be in strict proportion to the degree in which we have loved God here.
1.05 - Problems of Modern Psycho therapy, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
the right thing becomes a bore for the man who knows how, whereas Theeternal bungler cherishes a secret longing to be right for once in some
distant future.
1.05 - Ritam, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Bring for the drinking of the Soma the gods, who, bright of surface, yoked to the mind, as thy bearers, bear Thee along; them in their sacrificial place do thou, O Agni, make to increase in truth and join to them their female powers; O sweet-tongued, make them to drink of the sweetness.
Who are these upbearing powers? They are apparently the visvadevas, the gods taken generally & in their collective activity. They are described as ghritaprishth manoyujah, richly bright of surface and yoked to mind, which immediately recalls the dhiyam ghritchm sdhant of the second hymn. In both passages mental activity & a rich luminosity of mind are suggested as the preliminary necessity of the sacrifice; in both we find the progression from this idea to the expression ritvridho. This luminous mental activity perfected, it is to be used for the increase of Truth, of ritam, of the ideal self-revealing knowledge. There is in addition an idea to which we shall have to return, the idea of the male gods & their female powers whose joint godhead is necessary for the effective perfection of the sacrifice. At present we have to observe only the recurrence of the psychological note in the description of the sacrifice, this reiteration of the idea of bright & purified mental activity as its condition & increase of ideal Truth as a large & important part of its method or object.
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The hymns of Kanwa follow the hymns of Sunahshepa and Hiranyastupa in the order of the first Mandala. In the hymns of Kanwa we find three or four times the mention, more or less extended in sense, of the Ritam. In his first reference to it he connects it not with Varuna, Mitra or Daksha, but with Agni. That Agni whom Kanwa Medhyatithi has kindled from the truth above (or it may equally mean upon the truth as a basis or in the field of the truth) and again Thee, O Agni, the Manu has set as a light for the eternal birth; thou hast shone forth in Kanwa born from the Truth. This passage is of great importance in fixing the character & psychological functions of Agni; for our present purpose it will be sufficient to notice the expression jyotir janya shashwate which may well have an intimate connection with the ritam jyotih of an earlier hymn, & the description in connection with this puissant phrase of Agni as born from the Truth, and again [of the Truth] as a sort of field in which or from which Kanwa has drawn the light of Agni.
Ritam is connected by Kanwa with Mitra, Varuna & Aryama in the forty-first hymn written in praise of these three deities; but this hymn is of so great an importance to our enquiry that I prefer to consider it separately in another chapter and to pass on to Kanwas last mention of the Ritam in the forty-third hymn of the Mandala. We may note, however, already the expression ritam yate, journeying to the Truth, in which the Ritam is regarded as a sort of place, seat or goal, a dhma or pada, in the common Vedic phrase, towards which humanity journeys & in which it seeks to dwell, & we may remember at the same time the description of Varuna, ritasya jyotishas pati, as dwelling in the vast, the uru or brihat, urukshaya, which we have supposed to be the Mahas or home of the Ritam,satyam ritam brihat. In the forty-third hymn we find indeed the actual expression, parasmin dhmann ritasya, the most high seat of the Truth.
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They who are thy children of immortality, in the most high seat of the truth, them, O Soma, head & navel, enjoy, thou, O Soma, know when they grow to Thee in their being.
Soma is the lord of the immortalising nectar, he is the god of Ananda, the divine bliss which belongs to the Amrita or divine nature of Sacchidananda and is its foundation. The most high seat of the truth, Mahas, the pure ideal principle which links the kingdom of Immortality to our mortal worlds, is peopled with the children of Immortalitywe recall at once the phrase of the Upanishad, visve amritasya putrh, all ye children of immortality & the lord of Ananda is to take them into his being through knowledge, the head, through enjoyment, the navel. By Ritam, the ideal Truth, the Rishi ascends through the gates [of] Ananda, divine beatitude, out of this death into the kingdom of Immortality, mrityum trtw amritam asnute.
1.05 - THE HOSTILE BROTHERS - ARCHETYPES OF RESPONSE TO THE UNKNOWN, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
Cherub, a splendid creature living in the garden of Eden till the day that iniquity was found in Thee. In
the New Testament (Luke 10:18) Jesus speaks of Satan as falling from heaven, hence Satans traditional
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Evil, be thou my Good: by Thee at least
Divided empire with Heavens King I hold,
By Thee, and more than half perhaps will reign;
As Man erelong, and this new World, shall know.
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Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw I Thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or
naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto Thee?
Then shall He answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least
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Then said his sister to Pharaohs daughter, Shall I go and call to Thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that
she may nurse the child for Thee?
And Pharaohs daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the childs mother. And
Pharaohs daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give Thee wages.
And the woman took the child, and nursed it.
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doest to the people? why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by Thee from morning unto
even?
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Thou shalt not make unto Thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or
that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
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here three tabernacles; one for Thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.
While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud,
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Then said they to him again, What did he to Thee? how opened he thine eyes?
He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will
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Then Jesus answered and said unto here, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto Thee even as thou wilt.
And her daughter was made whole from that hour. (Matthew 15: 21:28).
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Jehovahs comm and to Abraham: Get Thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy
fathers house, unto a land that I will show Thee (Genesis 12:1), which the midrash (Bin Gorion, Sagen
der Juden, Vol. II, Die Erzvater, XI) interprets as meaning that Abraham is to destory the gods of his
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vain appetites, that it may be apt with Thee in all things. To this end I shall labour, that it may drink with
Thee from the fountain of strength and, when the two are made one, that ye find peace in their union.
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So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue Thee out of my mouth.
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art
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I counsel Thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be
clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eye-salve, that thou mayest
1.05 - THE MASTER AND KESHAB, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Whereupon Sri Ramakrishna, taking upon himself, as it were, the agonies of all householders, sang a song complaining to the Divine Mother: Mother, this is the grief that sorely grieves my heart, That even with Thee for Mother, and though I am wide awake, There should be robbery in my house.
Many and many a time I vow to call on Thee,
Yet when the time for prayer comes round, I have forgotten.
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Out of Thine own gifts I should have given to Thee.
Glory and shame, bitter and sweet, are Thine alone; This world is nothing but Thy play.
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Then he said: "To my Divine Mother I prayed only for pure love. I offered flowers at Her Lotus Feet and prayed to Her: 'Mother, here is Thy virtue, here is Thy vice. Take them both and grant me only pure love for Thee. Here is Thy knowledge, here is Thy ignorance. Take them both and grant me only pure love for Thee. Here is Thy purity, here is Thy impurity. Take them both, Mother, and grant me only pure love for Thee.
Here is Thy dharma, here is Thy adharma. Take them both, Mother, and grant me only pure love for Thee.'
(To the Brahmo devotees) "Now listen to a song by Ramprasad: Come, let us go for a walk, O mind, to Kli, the Wish-fulfilling Tree,
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MASTER: "Yes, you can perform them too, but only as much as you need for your livelihood. At the same time, you must pray to God in solitude, with tears in your eyes, that you may be able to perform those duties in an unselfish manner. You should say to Him: 'O God, make my worldly duties fewer and fewer; otherwise, O Lord, I find that I forget Thee when I am involved in too many activities. I may think I am doing unselfish work, but it turns out to be selfish.' People who carry to excess the giving of alms, or the distributing of food among the poor, fall victims to the desire of acquiring name and fame.
"Sambhu Mallick once talked about establishing hospitals, dispensaries, and schools, making roads, digging public reservoirs, and so forth. I said to him: 'Don't go out of your way to look for such works. Undertake only those works that present themselves to you and are of pressing necessity-and those also in a spirit of detachment.' It is not good to become involved in many activities. That makes one forget God. Coming to the Kalighat temple, some, perhaps, spend their whole time in giving alms to the poor. They have no time to see the Mother in the inner shrine! (Laughter.) First of all manage somehow to see the image of the Divine Mother, oven by pushing through the crowd.
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Therefore I said to Sambhu, 'Suppose God appears before you; then will you ask Him to build hospitals and dispensaries for you?' (Laughter.) A lover of God never says that. He will rather say: 'O Lord, give me a place at Thy Lotus Feet. Keep me always in Thy company. Give me sincere and pure love for Thee.'
Path of devotion most elective for Kaliyuga
1.05 - The Second Circle The Wanton. Minos. The Infernal Hurricane. Francesca da Rimini., #The Divine Comedy, #Dante Alighieri, #Christianity
Let not the portal's amplitude deceive Thee."
And unto him my Guide: "Why criest thou too?
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We would pray unto him to give Thee peace,
Since thou hast pity on our woe perverse.
Of what it pleases Thee to hear and speak,
That will we hear, and we will speak to you,
1.05 - To Know How To Suffer, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
My heart has suffered and lamented, almost breaking beneath a sorrow too heavy, almost sinking beneath a pain too strong.... But I have called to Thee, O divine comforter, I have prayed ardently to Thee, and the splendour of thy dazzling light has appeared to me and revived me.
As the rays of thy glory penetrated and illumined all my being, I clearly perceived the path to follow, the use that can be made of suffering; I understood that the sorrow that held me in its grip was but a pale reflection of the sorrow of the earth, of this abysm of suffering and anguish.
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How is it that among those who claim to be thy worshippers, some regard Thee as a cruel torturer, as an inexorable judge witnessing the torments that are tolerated by Thee or even created by thy own will?
No, I now perceive that these sufferings come from the very imperfection of Matter which, in its disorder and crudeness, is unfit to manifest Thee; and thou art the very first to suffer from it, to bewail it, thou art the first to toil and strive in thy ardent desire to change disorder into order, suffering into happiness, discord into harmony.
Suffering is not something inevitable or even desirable, but when it comes to us, how helpful it can be!
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And when, by these successive descents, we reach the veil that reveals Thee as it is lifted, O Lord, who can describe the intensity of Life that penetrates the whole being, the radiance of the Light that floods it, the sublimity of the Love that transforms it for ever! ~ The Mother, Words Of Long Ago, To Know How To Suffer, 1910
1.05 - Vishnu as Brahma creates the world, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
MAITREYA. Thou hast briefly related to me, Muni, the creation of the gods and other beings: I am desirous, chief of sages, to hear from Thee a more ample account of their creation.
Parāśara said:-
1.06 - Agni and the Truth, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
To the sixth Rik the commentator gives a very awkward and abrupt construction and trivial turn of thought which breaks entirely the flow of the verse. "That good (in the shape of varied wealth) which thou shalt effect for the giver, thine is that. This is true, O Angiras," that is to say, there can be no doubt about this fact, for if Agni does good to the giver by providing him with wealth, he in turn will perform fresh sacrifices to Agni, and thus the good of the sacrificer becomes the good of the god. Here again it would be better to render, "The good that thou wilt do for the giver, that is that truth of Thee, O Angiras," for we thus get at once a simpler sense and construction and an explanation of the epithet, satya, true, as applied to the god of the sacrificial fire. This is the truth of Agni that to the giver of the sacrifice he surely gives good in return.
The seventh verse offers no difficulty to the ritualistic interpretation except the curious phrase, "we come bearing the prostration." Sayana explains that bearing here means simply doing and he renders, "To Thee day by day we, by night and by day, come with the thought performing the prostration." In the eighth verse he takes r.tasya in the sense of truth and explains it as the true fruit of the ritual. "To Thee shining, the protector of the sacrifices, manifesting always their truth (that is, their inevitable fruit), increasing in thy own house." Again, it would be simpler and better to take r.tam in the sense of sacrifice and to render, "To Thee shining out in the sacrifices, protector of the rite, ever luminous, increasing in thy own house." The "own house" of Agni, says the commentator, is the place of sacrifice and this is indeed called frequently enough in Sanskrit, "the house of Agni".
We see, therefore, that with a little managing we can work out a purely ritual sense quite empty of thought even for a passage which at first sight offers a considerable wealth of psychological significance. Nevertheless, however ingeniously it is effected, flaws and cracks remain which betray the artificiality of the work. We have had to throw overboard the plain sense of kavi which adheres to it throughout the Veda and foist in an unreal rendering. We have either to divorce the two words
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"The good that thou wilt create for the giver, that is that truth of Thee, O Angiras.
"To Thee day by day, O Agni, in the night and in the light we by the thought come bearing our submission, -
"To Thee who shinest out from the sacrifices (or, who governest the sacrifices), guardian of the Truth and its illumination, increasing in thy own home."
The defect of the translation is that we have had to employ one and the same word for satyam and r.tam whereas, as we see in the formula satyam r.tam br.hat, there was a distinction in the
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The state of immortality thus attained is conceived as a state of felicity or bliss founded on a perfect Truth and Right, satyam r.tam. We must, I think, understand in this sense the verse that follows. "The good (happiness) which thou wilt create for the giver, that is that truth of Thee, O Agni." In other words, the essence of this truth, which is the nature of Agni, is the freedom from evil, the state of perfect good and happiness which the Ritam carries in itself and which is sure to be created in the mortal when he offers the sacrifice by the action of Agni as the divine priest. Bhadram means anything good, auspicious, happy and by itself need not carry any deep significance. But we find it in the Veda used, like r.tam, in a special sense. It is described in one of the hymns (V.82) as the opposite of the evil dream (duh.s.vapnyam), the false consciousness of that which is not the Ritam, and of duritam, false going, which means all evil and suffering. Bhadram is therefore equivalent to suvitam, right going, which means all good and felicity belonging to the state of the Truth, the Ritam. It is Mayas, the felicity, and the gods who represent the Truthconsciousness are described as mayobhuvah., those who bring or carry in their being the felicity. Thus every part of the Veda, if properly understood, throws light upon every other part. It is only when we are misled by its veils that we find in it an incoherence.
In the next verse there seems to be stated the condition of the effective sacrifice. It is the continual resort day by day, in the night and in the light, of the thought in the human being with submission, adoration, self-surrender, to the divine Will and Wisdom represented by Agni. Night and Day, Naktos.asa, are also symbolical, like all the other gods in the Veda, and the sense seems to be that in all states of consciousness, whether
1.06 - BOOK THE SIXTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
She made Thee, Neptune, like a wanton steer,
Pacing the meads for love of Arne dear;
1.06 - Confutation Of Other Philosophers, #Of The Nature Of Things, #Lucretius, #Poetry
Giving Thee proof its parts are not compact.
But if perhaps they think, in other wise,
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From them for Thee no world can be create-
No thing of breath, no stock or stalk of tree:
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For Thee will perish all the germs of things:
'Twill come to pass they'll laugh aloud, like men,
1.06 - Hymns of Parashara, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
come to Thee, O Flame, in the secrecy.
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Thee, he who gains from Thee,10 to him, for thou knowest,
give the Riches.
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10 Or, learns from Thee,
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5. Thou establishest word of Thee in the Ray-Cow and in the
forests; it is as if all were bringing the sun-world as offering.
Men in many parts serve Thee and gather in knowledge as
from a long-lived father.
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6. He who kindles the light for Thee in thy own home and
offers obeisance of surrender day by day and thy desire is
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growth, he whom thou speedest in one car with Thee, may
he travel with the riches.
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3. When for three years, O Fire, they worshipped Thee, the
pure ones Thee the pure, with the clarity of the light, they
held too the sacrificial Names, their bodies came to perfect
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6. When the masters of sacrifice have found hidden in Thee
the thrice seven secret planes, by them they guard with one
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They have founded within upon Thee a great light; become
a universal life holder of the riches.
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7. O Fire, in Thee praying for right-thinking, the masters of
sacrifice set31 inspired knowledge in heaven: they made night
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9. O Fire, safeguarded by Thee may we conquer the war-horses
by our war-horses, the strong men by our strong men, the
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10. O ordainer of things, O Fire, may these utterances be acceptable to Thee, to the mind and to the heart; may we have
strength to control with firm yoke thy riches, holding in Thee
the inspired knowledge enjoyed by the gods.32
1.06 - MORTIFICATION, NON-ATTACHMENT, RIGHT LIVELIHOOD, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
God, if I worship Thee in fear of hell, burn me in hell. And if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not Thine everlasting Beauty.
Rabia
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Happy is the man who, by continually effacing all images and through introversion and the lifting up of his mind to God, at last forgets and leaves behind all such hindrances. For by such means only, he operates inwardly, with his naked, pure, simple intellect and affections, about the most pure and simple object, God. Therefore see that thy whole exercise about God within Thee may depend wholly and only on that naked intellect, affection and will. For indeed, this exercise cannot be discharged by any bodily organ, or by the external senses, but only by that which constitutes the essence of manunderstanding and love. If, therefore, thou desirest a safe stair and short path to arrive at the end of true bliss, then, with an intent mind, earnestly desire and aspire after continual cleanness of heart and purity of mind. Add to this a constant calm and tranquillity of the senses, and a recollecting of the affections of the heart, continually fixing them above. Work to simplify the heart, that being immovable and at peace from any invading vain phantasms, thou mayest always stand fast in the Lord within Thee, to that degree as if thy soul had already entered the always present now of eternity that is, the state of the deity. To mount to God is to enter into oneself. For he who so mounts and enters and goes above and beyond himself, he truly mounts up to God. The mind must then raise itself above itself and say, He who above all I need is above all I know. And so carried into the darkness of the mind, gathering itself into that all-sufficient good, it learns to stay at home and with its whole affection it cleaves and becomes habitually fixed in the supreme good within. Thus continue, until thou becomest immutable and dost arrive at that true life which is God Himself, perpetually, without any vicissitude of space or time, reposing in that inward quiet and secret mansion of the deity.
Albertus Magnus (?)
1.06 - Raja Yoga, #Amrita Gita, #Swami Sivananda Saraswati, #Hinduism
31. Dull Vairagya will not help you in attaining perfection in Yoga. You must have Para Vairagya or Theevra Vairagya, intense dispassion.
32. Tapas, Svadhyaya, Ishvarapranidhana constitute Kriya Yoga. Kriya Yoga purifies the heart quickly.
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