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walking drives ::: An occasional failure mode of magnetic-disk drives back in the days when they were huge, clunky washing machines. Those old dinosaur parts carried terrific disk-accessing patterns that would do this to particular drive models and held disk-drive races.[Jargon File]
walking drives "jargon" An occasional failure mode of {magnetic-disk drives} back in the days when they were huge, clunky {washing machines}. Those old {dinosaur} parts carried terrific angular momentum; the combination of a misaligned spindle or worn bearings and stick-slip interactions with the floor could cause them to "walk" across a room, lurching alternate corners forward a couple of millimeters at a time. There is a legend about a drive that walked over to the only door to the computer room and jammed it shut; the staff had to cut a hole in the wall in order to get at it! Walking could also be induced by certain patterns of drive access (a fast seek across the whole width of the disk, followed by a slow seek in the other direction). Some bands of old-time hackers figured out how to induce disk-accessing patterns that would do this to particular drive models and held disk-drive races. [{Jargon File}] (2009-05-14)
walking ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Walk ::: --> a. & n. from Walk, v.
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1. Walking upon or over. 2. Pressing beneath the feet; trampling. treadings.
1. walking (S. cankrama; alt. gamana; T. 'chag pa; C. xing 行)
ambulando [Latin] ::: walking; see in ambulando.
ambulant ::: a. --> Walking; moving from place to place.
ambulation ::: n. --> The act of walking.
ambulative ::: a. --> Walking.
ambulatorial ::: a. --> Ambulatory; fitted for walking.
ambulatory ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to walking; having the faculty of walking; formed or fitted for walking; as, an ambulatory animal.
Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable; as, an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places.
Pertaining to a walk.
Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the
Ananda. (T. Kun dga' bo; C. Anan[tuo]; J. Anan[da]; K. Anan[da] 阿難[陀]). In Sanskrit and PAli, literally "Bliss," the name of the Buddha's cousin, longtime attendant, and one of his chief disciples. According to tradition, in his previous life, he was a god in the TUsITA heaven, who was born on the same day and into the same sAKYA clan as the BODHISATTVA and future buddha who was born as prince SIDDHARTHA. Ananda was born as the son of Amṛtodana, the brother of king sUDDHODANA. He was thus the Buddha's cousin and the brother of DEVADATTA. When the Buddha returned to his home town of KAPILAVASTU in the second year after his enlightenment, many of the sAkyan men, such as Ananda and Devadatta, wished to renounce the householder life and become the Buddha's disciples as monks. Not long after his ordination, Ananda became a SROTAAPANNA upon hearing a sermon by PuRnA. The Buddha did not have a personal attendant for the first twenty years after his enlightenment, with various monks occasionally offering various services to him. But after two decades of these ad hoc arrangements, the Buddha finally asked for someone to volunteer to be his personal attendant; all the monks volunteered except Ananda, who said that he did not do so because the Buddha would choose the correct person regardless of who volunteered. The Buddha selected Ananda, who accepted on the following conditions: the Buddha was never to give him any special food or robes that he had received as gifts; the Buddha was not to provide him with a special monk's cell; and the Buddha was not to include him in dining invitations he received from the laity. Ananda made these conditions in order to prevent anyone from claiming that he received special treatment because of serving as the Buddha's attendant. In addition, he asked to be allowed to accept invitations on behalf of the Buddha; he asked to be allowed to bring to the Buddha those who came from great distances to see him; he asked to be able to bring any questions he had to the Buddha; and he asked that the Buddha repeat to him any doctrine that had been taught in his absence. Ananda saw these latter conditions as the true advantages of serving the Buddha. For the next twenty-five years, Ananda served the Buddha with great devotion, bringing him water, sweeping his cell, washing his feet, rubbing his body, sewing his robes, and accompanying him wherever he went. He guarded the Buddha's cell at night, carrying a staff and a torch, in order to make sure that his sleep was not disturbed and to be ready should the Buddha need him. As the Buddha grew older and more infirm, Ananda provided devoted care, despite the fact that the two were exactly the same age. Because Ananda was constantly in the Buddha's presence, he played a key role in many famous events of the early dispensation. For example, it was Ananda who, on behalf of MAHAPRAJAPATI, requested that women be allowed to enter the SAMGHA as nuns, persisting in his request despite the Buddha's initial refusal. He is therefore remembered especially fondly by the order of BHIKsUnĪs, and it is said that he often preached to nuns. In a famous tale reproduced in various sources, the daughter of a woman named MAtangī attempted to seduce Ananda with the help of her mother's magical powers, only to come to realize her wrongdoing with the intervention of the Buddha. Toward the end of his life, the Buddha mentioned to Ananda that a buddha could live for a KALPA or until the end of the kalpa if he were asked to do so. (See CAPALACAITYA.) Ananda, distracted by MARA, failed to request the Buddha to do so, despite the Buddha mentioning this three times. Ananda was chastised for this blunder at the first council (see infra). Ananda figures prominently in the account of the Buddha's last days in the MAHAPARINIBBANASUTTA, weeping at the knowledge that the Buddha was about to die and being consoled by him. Ananda was known for his extraordinary powers of memory; he is said to have heard all 84,000 sermon topics (82,000 taught by the Buddha and 2,000 taught by other disciples) and was able to memorize 15,000 stanzas without omitting a syllable. He therefore played a key role in the recitation of the Buddha's teachings at the first council (SAMGĪTI; see COUNCIL, FIRST) held at RAJAGṚHA shortly after the Buddha's death. However, MAHAKAsYAPA, who convened the council, specified that all five hundred monks in attendance must be ARHATs, and Ananda was not. On the night before the opening of the council, Ananda achieved the enlightenment of an arhat as he was lying down to sleep, as his head fell to the pillow and his feet rose from the ground. He is therefore famous for achieving enlightenment in none of the four traditional postures (ĪRYAPATHA): walking, standing, sitting, or lying down. As an arhat, Ananda was welcomed to the council, where he recounted all the words of the Buddha (except those concerning the VINAYA, or monastic rules, which were recited by UPALI). For this reason, most SuTRAs open with the words, "Thus have I heard" (EVAM MAYA sRUTAM); the "I" is usually Ananda. (For this reason, Ananda is also known in China as Duowen Diyi, "First in Vast Hearing" or "He Who Heard the Most.") After the Buddha's death, the order of monks brought five charges against Ananda: (1) the Buddha had said that after his passing, the monks could disregard the minor precepts, but Ananda failed to ask him which those were; thus, all the precepts had to be followed; (2) Ananda had once stepped on the Buddha's robe when sewing it; (3) Ananda had allowed women to honor the Buddha's naked body after his death and their tears had fallen on his feet; (4) Ananda failed to ask the Buddha to live on for the rest of the kalpa; and (5) Ananda urged the Buddha to admit women to the order. Ananda replied that he saw no fault in any of these deeds but agreed to confess them. According to FAXIAN, when Ananda was 120 years old, he set out from MAGADHA to VAIsALĪ in order to die. Seeking his relics (sARĪRA), AJATAsATRU followed him to the Rohīni River, while a group from VaisAlī awaited him on the other bank. Not wishing to disappoint either group, Ananda levitated to the middle of the river in the meditative posture, preached the dharma, and then meditated on the TEJOKASInA, which prompted his body to burst into flames, with the relics dividing into two parts, one landing on each bank of the river. Ananda has long been one of the most beloved figures in the history of Buddhism, in part because he was not the wisest of the Buddha's disciples but showed unstinting devotion to the Buddha, always seeking to understand him correctly and to bring his teachings to as many people as possible.
andante: at a walking pace; i.e., at a moderate tempo
apana ::: the first stage of utthapana, consisting of the full force of laghima, mahima and an.ima in the mind stuff and psychic pran.a "so that the mind rejects all exhaustion, weariness, depression of force etc.", extended also to the physical pran.a; exercise in the form of walking (often called "physical activity") to develop this utthapana in the body.
artificial intelligence ::: (artificial intelligence) (AI) The subfield of computer science concerned with the concepts and methods of symbolic inference by computer and symbolic faster. The term was coined by Stanford Professor John McCarthy, a leading AI researcher.Examples of AI problems are computer vision (building a system that can understand images as well as a human) and natural language processing (building have foundered on the amount of context information and intelligence they seem to require.The term is often used as a selling point, e.g. to describe programming that drives the behaviour of computer characters in a game. This is often no more intelligent than Kill any humans you see; keep walking; avoid solid objects; duck if a human with a gun can see you.See also AI-complete, neats vs. scruffies, neural network, genetic programming, fuzzy computing, artificial life. CMU Artificial Intelligence Repository .(2002-01-19)
artificial intelligence "artificial intelligence" (AI) The subfield of computer science concerned with the concepts and methods of {symbolic inference} by computer and symbolic {knowledge representation} for use in making inferences. AI can be seen as an attempt to model aspects of human thought on computers. It is also sometimes defined as trying to solve by computer any problem that a human can solve faster. The term was coined by Stanford Professor {John McCarthy}, a leading AI researcher. Examples of AI problems are {computer vision} (building a system that can understand images as well as a human) and {natural language processing} (building a system that can understand and speak a human language as well as a human). These may appear to be modular, but all attempts so far (1993) to solve them have foundered on the amount of context information and "intelligence" they seem to require. The term is often used as a selling point, e.g. to describe programming that drives the behaviour of computer characters in a game. This is often no more intelligent than "Kill any humans you see; keep walking; avoid solid objects; duck if a human with a gun can see you". See also {AI-complete}, {neats vs. scruffies}, {neural network}, {genetic programming}, {fuzzy computing}, {artificial life}. {ACM SIGART (http://sigart.acm.org/)}. {U Cal Davis (http://phobos.cs.ucdavis.edu:8001)}. {CMU Artificial Intelligence Repository (http://cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/AI/html/repository.html)}. (2002-01-19)
ASANA. ::: Fixed posture habituating the body to certain attitudes of immobility. The system of Asana has at its basis two profound ideas ::: control by physical immobility, power by immobility.
The sitting motionless posture is the natural posture for concentrated meditation - walking and standing are active conditions. It is only when one has gained the enduring rest and passivity of the consciousness that it is easy to concentrate and receive when walking or doing anything. A fundamental passive condition of the consciousness gathered into itself is the proper poise for concentration and a seated gathered immobility in the body is the best position for that. It can be done also lying down, but that position is too passive, tending to be inert rather than gathered. This is the reason why yogis always sit in an āsana. One can accustom oneself to meditate walking. standing, lying but sitting is the first natural position.
Atma-vidya (Sanskrit) Ātmavidyā [from ātma self + vidyā knowledge] Knowledge of the self; the highest form of spiritual-divine wisdom, because the fundamental or essential self is a flame or spark of the kosmic self. “Of the four Vidyas — out of the seven branches of Knowledge mentioned in the Puranas — namely, ‘Yajna-Vidya’ (the performance of religious rites in order to produce certain results); ‘Maha-Vidya,’ the great (Magic) knowledge, now degenerated into Tantrika worship; ‘Guhya-Vidya,’ the science of Mantras and their true rhythm or chanting, of mystical incantations, etc. — it is only the last one, ‘Atma-Vidya,’ or the true Spiritual and Divine wisdom, which can throw absolute and final light upon the teachings of the three first named. Without the help of Atma-Vidya, the other three remain no better than surface sciences, geometrical magnitudes having length and breadth, but no thickness. They are like the soul, limbs, and mind of a sleeping man: capable of mechanical motions, of chaotic dreams and even sleep-walking, of producing visible effects, but stimulated by instinctual not intellectual causes, least of all by fully conscious spiritual impulses. A good deal can be given out and explained from the three first-named sciences. But unless the key to their teachings is furnished by Atma-Vidya, they will remain for ever like the fragments of a mangled text-book, like the adumbrations of great truths, dimly perceived by the most spiritual, but distorted out of all proportion by those who would nail every shadow to the wall” (SD 1:168-9).
Ayana (Sanskrit) Ayana [from the verbal root i, ay to go] Going, walking; road, path, way. Used in astronomy for advancing, precession; the sun’s progress northward or southward, from one solstice to the other, is an ayana or half-year, two ayanas making one year. Also the equinoctial and solstitial points, the term for the solstice being ayananta. Finally, ayana signifies circulatory courses or circulations, as of the universe.
balmoral ::: n. --> A long woolen petticoat, worn immediately under the dress.
A kind of stout walking shoe, laced in front.
bedraggle ::: v. t. --> To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc.
Bendoho. (辨道法). In Japanese, "Techniques for Pursuing the Way"; a work devoted to the rules of the SAMGHA hall (see C. SENGTANG), written by DoGEN KIGEN. Primarily during his stays at the monasteries Daibutsuji and EIHEIJI, Dogen wrote a number of related manuals on monastic rules (C. QINGGUI), of which the Bendoho is perhaps most important. These manuals, including the Bendoho, were later collected and published together as a single text known as the EIHEI SHINGI. Dogen modeled his regulations after those found in an earlier code of monastic rules produced in China, the CHANYUAN QINGGUI. The Bendoho was therefore heavily influenced by the Chinese Chan master CHANGLU ZONGZE's manual of meditation, ZUOCHAN YI, which was embedded in the Chanyuan qinggui. The text includes guidelines for all of the activities of the saMgha hall, from sitting, walking, sleeping, and cleaning to the practice of seated meditation (J. zazen; C. ZUOCHAN). The Bendoho also contains a version of Dogen's FUKAN ZAZENGI.
Bodhirak, Phra. (P. Bodhirakkha) (b. 1934). Thai Buddhist leader who is the founder of the SANTI ASOKE movement. Born in 1934 in northeastern Thailand as Mongkhon Rakphong, he became a well-known TV entertainer, songwriter, and movie producer before abruptly walking away from his career at the age of thirty-six to seek the dhamma. He was ordained in 1970 into first the THAMMAYUT and later the MAHANIKAI orders, but eventually left both orders to establish the independent Santi Asoke ("People of Asoke") movement, which grew rapidly. Bodhirak was finally excommunicated from the Thai sangha in 1989 for defying national ecclesiastical law (including publicly proclaiming himself to be a "once-returner," or sakadAgAmi [S. SAKṚDAGAMIN]) and for his controversial views on Buddhism, which mainstream traditions found to be iconoclastic and doctrinaire. He continues to live as a monk and is an influential figure in contemporary Thai Buddhism; he and his movement have also come to play a role in Thai politics through the Phalang Dhamma Party, which has ties to Santi Asoke.
Budai. (J. Hotei; K. P'odae 布袋) (d. 916). A legendary Chinese monk, whose name literally means "Hemp Sack"; also occasionally referred to as Fenghua Budai, Changtingzi, and Budai heshang. He is said to have hailed from Fenghua county in Ningbo prefecture of Zhejiang province. Budai is often depicted as a short figure with an enormous belly and a staff or walking stick on which he has hung a hemp bag or sack (budai), whence derives his name. Budai wandered from one town to the next begging for food, some of which he saved in his sack. This jolly figure is remembered as a thaumaturge who was particularly famous for accurately predicting the weather. On his deathbed, Budai left the following death verse, which implied he was in fact a manifestation of the BODHISATTVA MAITREYA: "Maitreya, true Maitreya, / His thousands, hundreds, and tens of millions of manifestations, / From time to time appear among his fellow men, / But remain unrecognized by his fellow men." Budai is also associated in China with AnGAJA, the thirteenth of the sixteen ARHATs (see sOdAsASTHAVIRA) who serve as protector figures. Angaja had been a snake wrangler before he ordained, so whenever he went into the mountains, he carried a cloth bag with him to catch snakes, which he would release after removing their fangs so they would not injure people. For this reason, he earned the nickname "Cloth-Bag Arhat" (Budai luohan/heshang). In Zhejiang province, many images of Budai were made for worship, and an image of Budai installed in the monastery of MANPUKUJI on Mt. obaku in Japan is still referred to as that of the bodhisattva Maitreya. The local cult hero and thaumaturge Budai was quickly appropriated by the CHAN community as a trickster-like figure, leading to Budai often being as called the "Laughing Buddha." In Japan, Budai is also revered as one of the seven gods of virtue (see SHICHIFUKUJIN). It is Budai who is commonly depicted in all manner of kitschy knickknacks and called the "Fat Buddha." He has never been identified with, and is not to be mistaken for, sAKYAMUNI Buddha.
bug "programming" An unwanted and unintended property of a {program} or piece of {hardware}, especially one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of {feature}. E.g. "There's a bug in the editor: it writes things out backward." The identification and removal of bugs in a program is called "{debugging}". Admiral {Grace Hopper} (an early computing pioneer better known for inventing {COBOL}) liked to tell a story in which a technician solved a {glitch} in the {Harvard Mark II machine} by pulling an actual insect out from between the contacts of one of its relays, and she subsequently promulgated {bug} in its hackish sense as a joke about the incident (though, as she was careful to admit, she was not there when it happened). For many years the logbook associated with the incident and the actual bug in question (a moth) sat in a display case at the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC). The entire story, with a picture of the logbook and the moth taped into it, is recorded in the "Annals of the History of Computing", Vol. 3, No. 3 (July 1981), pp. 285--286. The text of the log entry (from September 9, 1947), reads "1545 Relay
cane ::: n. --> A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.
Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.
Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry.
A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally
cankrama. (P. cankama; T. 'chag pa; C. jingxing; J. kyogyo/kinhin; K. kyonghaeng 經行). In Sanskrit, lit. "walking"; referring to both the physical act of walking itself and, by extension, composed, meditative walking, as well as the mendicant life of wandering as a vocation. Cankrama is the most active of the four postures (ĪRYAPATHA), and is one of the specific objects of mindfulness of the body (see SMṚTYUPASTHANA). Cankrama also refers to walking in a calm, collected manner, while maintaining one's object of meditation. Finally, cankrama refers to the wandering, "homeless" life (see PRAVRAJITA) of the Indian recluse, which was the model for the Buddhist SAMGHA. In East Asia, in addition to walking meditation per se, the term is also used to describe short periods of walking that break up extended periods of seated meditation (ZUOCHAN). In Korean meditation halls, for example, a three-hour block of meditation practice will be divided into three fifty-minute blocks of seated meditation, punctuated by ten-minutes of walking meditation. The Japanese ZEN tradition reads these Sinographs as kinhin.
capstan ::: n. --> A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket.
cicisbeo ::: n. --> A professed admirer of a married woman; a dangler about women.
A knot of silk or ribbon attached to a fan, walking stick, etc.
Circumambulation: Ceremonial walking around an object or a person. This ritual has been and is used in many religions, mystery ceremonies, etc., and occult philosophy attributes a mystic power and significance to it. It is usually done keeping one’s right side toward the object or person encircled, to show respect, to secure protection or good fortune, etc.; walking in the reverse direction shows disrespect and is held to have evil effects.
circumforaneous ::: a. --> Going about or abroad; walking or wandering from house to house.
Commanded: An act, originating in the will but executed by some other power; as walking.
Conditions essfntitd for meditation ::: There are no essential external conditions, but solitude and seclusion at the time of meditation as as stillness of the body arc helpful, sometimes almost necessary to the beginner. Bui one should not bound b' external conditions. Once the habit of meditation is formed, it should be mads possible to do it in all circumstances, l.ving. sitting, walking, alone, in company, in silettce or in the midst of noise etc. The first imeroal condition necessary is concentration of the will against the obstacles to meditation. i.e. wandermg of the mind, forgetfulness, sfeep, phjsieal and nervous impatience and restlessness etc. The second is an increasing purity and calm of the inner consciousness (citia) out of which thought and emotion arise, i.e. a freedom frona all disturb i ng reactions, such as anger, grief, depression, anxiet>' about w-orldly happenings etc. Mental perfection and moral are always closely allied to each other.
crutch ::: n. --> A staff with a crosspiece at the head, to be placed under the arm or shoulder, to support the lame or infirm in walking.
A form of pommel for a woman&
Dakini (Sanskrit) Ḍākinī Female demons, vampires, and blood-drinkers, feeding on human flesh, attendant upon Kali, the consort of Siva; a type of evil elemental. Outside of mythologic explanations, the dakinis may be said to be one type of advanced elemental beings. “But with the Fourth Race we reach the purely human period. Those who were hitherto semi-divine Beings, self-imprisoned in bodies which were human only in appearance, became physiologically changed and took unto themselves wives who were entirely human and fair to look at, but in whom lower, more material, though sidereal, beings had incarnated. These beings in female forms (Lilith is the prototype of these in the Jewish traditions) are called in the esoteric accounts ‘Khado’ (Dakini, in Sanskrit). Allegorical legends call the chief of these Liliths, Sangye Khado (Buddha Dakini, in Sanskrit); all are credited with the art of ‘walking in the air,’ and the greatest kindness to mortals; but no mind — only animal instinct” (SD 2:284-5). See also LILITH
deambulation ::: n. --> A walking abroad; a promenading.
descend ::: v. i. --> To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite of ascend.
To enter mentally; to retire.
To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon.
To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less
diddle ::: v. i. --> To totter, as a child in walking. ::: v. t. --> To cheat or overreach.
digitigrade ::: a. --> Walking on the toes; -- distinguished from plantigrade. ::: n. --> An animal that walks on its toes, as the cat, lion, wolf, etc.; -- distinguished from a plantigrade, which walks on the palm of the foot.
Dumb Supper ::: A ritualistic approach to making contact with the deceased: especially ancestors and loved ones. Involves complete silence, walking and preparing things backwards, and a meal set for the deceased. A form of necromancy.
Exercite: (in Scholasticism) The exercise (exercitium) of, for example, understanding, walking, or doing something, indicates the act itself of understanding, of walking, or of doing something. Opposed to signate (signately) (q.v.). -- H.G.
Fahua chanfa. (J. Hokke senbo; K. Pophwa ch'ambop 法華懺法). In Chinese, "penance ritual according to the 'Lotus Sutra.'" Despite its name, this intensive twenty-one-day ritual was based as much on the Guan Puxian pusa xingfa jing ("The Sutra on the Procedures for Visualizing the Bodhisattva SAMANTABHADRA") as it was on the SADDHARMAPUndARĪKASuTRA. As explained in TIANTAI ZHIYI's Fahua sanmei chanfa ("Penance Ritual according to the Lotus Samādhi"), the goal of the ritual is to ensure visions of celestial buddhas and/or BODHISATTVAs, which were taken to be signs that the one's unwholesome actions (AKUsALA-KARMAN) had been expiated. The penitent was required to refrain from lying down for the full duration of the ritual, by constantly alternating between walking and sitting postures. Demanding intense mental and physical devotion, the ritual involves extensive contemplation of the TIANTAI teachings, making vows and supplications, uttering prescribed words of repentance, chanting the Saddharmapundarīkasutra and performing intermittent circumambulation.
fettered ::: a. --> Seeming as if fettered, as the feet of certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking.
Fire-walking The ability to walk unharmed across a bed of live coals, or to handle fire and heated objects with impunity. Recently this feat has been corroborated by research. It is well known to many ordinary Oriental fakirs, tribal medicine men, sorcerers, and adepts. Some mesmerists who, with a few passes, can anesthetize a limb use the same means as the fire-walkers. While some mediums are entranced before being rendered invulnerable to fire, in Tibet and India the condition is produced consciously and at will.
footpace ::: n. --> A walking pace or step.
A dais, or elevated platform; the highest step of the altar; a landing in a staircase.
foot-sore ::: a. --> Having sore or tender feet, as by reason of much walking; as, foot-sore cattle.
gait ::: manner of walking or running; bearing.
gait ::: n. --> A going; a walk; a march; a way.
Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.
gallery ::: a. --> A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal.
A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc.
A long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets
gandhaghatikā. (T. spos snod; C. xianglu; J. koro; K. hyangno 香爐). In Sanskrit, "censer," "incense burner"; a small stove with a perforated lid, both typically made of bronze or pottery, in which incense is burned as an offering during the performance of a ritual. In certain VINAYA traditions, such as the DHARMAGUPTAKA (see SIFEN LÜ), the censer is included in a list of eighteen requisites (S. astādasadravya; see PARIsKĀRA; NIsRAYA) that monks were allowed to keep, along with tooth cleaners, soap, the three robes, water bottle, begging bowl, sitting mat, walking staff, water filter, handkerchief, knife, fire starter, tweezers, sleeping hammock, sutras, vinaya texts, buddha images, and bodhisattva images.
Gayā-Kāsyapa. (P. Gayā-Kassapa; T. Ga ya 'od srung; C. Qieye Jiashe; J. Gaya Kasho; K. Kāya Kasop 伽耶迦葉). A matted-hair ascetic who was ordained with his two brothers and became an early enlightened disciple of the Buddha. According to the Pāli account, the three brothers were fire worshippers, who practiced austerities on the banks of the NeraNjarā (S. NAIRANJANĀ) river. Gayā-Kāsyapa dwelt at Gayāsīsa with two hundred disciples, while his older brother URUVILVĀ-KĀsYAPA (P. Uruvela-Kassapa), dwelled upriver at Uruvelā with five hundred disciples, and the middle brother NADĪ-KĀsYAPA (P. Nadī-Kassapa) with three hundred disciples. All three brothers were devoted to the observance of brahmanical fire rituals. Gayā-Kāsyapa also observed the practice of bathing three times in the river in order to wash away sins during the festival of Gayāphaggu. Not long after his enlightenment, the Buddha visited the hermitage of Uruvilvā-Kāsyapa with the intention of converting him and his disciples. Uruvilvā-Kāsyapa mistakenly believed that he was already an arahant (S. ARHAT) himself and was liberated from the bonds of rebirth. Knowing that Uruvilvā-Kāsyapa could be dissuaded from his false views by a display of yogic power, the Buddha performed numerous magical feats to demonstrate his mastery of iddhi (S. ṚDDHI), including subduing a fire serpent (NĀGA) without being burned, a scene depicted in Indian rock carvings. Using his ability to read Uruvilvā-Kāsyapa's mind, the Buddha was able to dispel his view that he was an arahant and converted him and his disciples. As part of their conversion, they shaved off their long locks and threw them in the river. When Uruvilvā-Kāsyapa's younger brothers Gayā-Kāsyapa and Nadī-Kāsyapa saw all the hair floating downstream, they came to investigate. They in turn accepted the Buddha as their teacher and entered the order of monks (SAMGHA), bringing all their disciples along with them. As a result, the Buddha's community gained a thousand monks. Because of their previous devotions to fire rituals, after their ordination, the Buddha preached to all these new monks the renowned "Fire Sermon" (ĀDITTAPARIYĀYASUTTA), whereupon the three brothers and their disciples attained arahantship. Gayā-Kāsyapa earned the merit to encounter the Buddha and attain arahantship in a previous life during the time of the buddha Sikhī (S. Sikhin), when, as a hermit, he encountered that previous buddha walking in the woods and offered him fruit.
giri pradakshina. ::: walking around a holy hill or mountain
gradatory ::: a. --> Proceeding step by step, or by gradations; gradual.
Suitable for walking; -- said of the limbs of an animal when adapted for walking on land. ::: n. --> A series of steps from a cloister into a church.
gradient ::: a. --> Moving by steps; walking; as, gradient automata.
Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination; as, the gradient line of a railroad.
Adapted for walking, as the feet of certain birds. ::: n. --> The rate of regular or graded ascent or descent in a
gressorious ::: a. --> Adapted for walking; anisodactylous; as the feet of certain birds and insects. See Illust. under Aves.
gyromancy ::: n. --> A kind of divination performed by drawing a ring or circle, and walking in or around it.
Halachah (&
halt ::: --> 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contraction for holdeth. ::: n. --> A stop in marching or walking, or in any action; arrest of progress.
The act of limping; lameness.
Holkhim b'yahad ::: (Heb. Walking Together) Concept of establishing dialogue and cooperation between religious and non-religious Jews.
in ambulando [Latin] ::: while walking.
In ancient Greece levitation was called aithrobates (from which aethrobacy), meaning the art of walking in the ether or air.
incession ::: n. --> Motion on foot; progress in walking.
īryāpatha. (P. iriyāpatha; T. spyod lam; C. weiyi; J. igi; K. wiŭi 威儀). In Sanskrit, lit. "movement," referring specifically to a set of four "postures," "deportments," or modes of physical activity, in progressive order of ease: walking (CAnKRAMA [alt. gamana]; P. caraM), standing (sthāna; P. thāna, titthaM), sitting (nisanna; P. nisinna), and lying down (saya/sayana; P. sayaM/sayāna). Because the body was presumed typically to be always in one or another of these postures, they constituted specific objects of mindfulness of the body (KĀYĀNUPAsYANĀ; P. kāyānupassanā; see also SMṚTYUPASTHĀNA) and there are accounts of monks attaining the rank of ARHAT in each of the four postures. The īryāpatha figure prominently in ĀNANDA's enlightenment experience. After striving in vain all night to perfect his practice before the start of the first Buddhist council (see COUNCIL, FIRST), where the canon was to be redacted, Ānanda had given up, only to become enlightened as he was in the process of lying down to rest-and thus technically between postures. ¶ The term īryāpatha can refer in other contexts to general behavior or "deportment" (but typically to religiously salutary deportment) or to a specific "course" of religious and/or ascetic practice.
jiela. (J. kairo; K. kyerap 戒臘). In Chinese, "ordination age." According to the VINAYA, a monk's or nun's seniority is determined by the number of years he or she has been ordained as a monk or nun and not by the biological age or apparent spiritual accomplishments of the individual. Ordination seniority determines seating order within the congregation and walking order during alms-round. Seniority within the ranks of novice and fully ordained monks and nuns (BHIKsU; BHIKsUnĪ) is counted separately, so that even a novice of many years standing will again be the youngest after receiving full ordination. Monastic "years" are in turn calculated by counting the number of completed summer "rains retreats" (VARsĀ)-held once annually during that period that corresponds to the traditional summer monsoon season in South Asia-one has completed. The alternate terms fala ("dharma age") and xiala ("summer-retreat age") are also employed.
Khadomas (Tibetan) mkha’ ’gro ma (kha-do-ma) [from mkha’ sky + ’gro going + ma female] Equivalent of Sanskrit dakini; in popular Tibetan folklore, deities having feminine characteristics, and hence often styled mothers, although regarded as demons. Blavatsky states that they are elementals, “occult and evil Forces of Nature,” and that Lilith is the Jewish equivalent: “Allegorical legends call the chief of these Liliths, Sangye Khado (Buddha Dakini, in Sanskrit); all are credited with the art of ‘walking in the air,’ and the greatest kindness to mortals; but no mind — only animal instinct” (TG 177; SD 2:285). Thus the khado or khadoma are equivalent to one of the classes of nature spirits recognized by the medieval Fire-philosophers.
knock-kneed ::: a. --> Having the legs bent inward so that the knees touch in walking.
knock-knee ::: n. --> A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee.
lame ::: 1. Crippled. 2. Disabled so that movement, especially walking, is difficult or impossible. lamed.
langya ::: n. --> One of several species of East Indian and Asiatic fresh-water fishes of the genus Ophiocephalus, remarkable for their power of living out of water, and for their tenacity of life; -- called also walking fishes.
letterwood ::: n. --> The beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the genus Brosimum (B. Aubletii), found in Guiana; -- so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called snakewood, and leopardwood. It is much used for bows and for walking sticks.
light-heeled ::: a. --> Lively in walking or running; brisk; light-footed.
Lord (not named) seen walking in the midst of the
Lublin ::: City in eastern Poland that was the center of Jewish learning in Poland. In 1939, the Jewish population was 40,000, 33 percent of the city total. In the spring of 1941 the ghetto was created. On March 17, 1942, deportations began to Belzec, and then to Majdanek, walking distance from the center of town. Only a few Jews live there today.
maranānusmṛti. (P. maranānussati; T. 'chi ba rjes su dran pa; C. niansi; J. nenshi; K. yomsa 念死). In Sanskrit, "recollection of death"; one of the most widely described forms of Buddhist meditation. This practice occurs as one of the forty objects of meditation (KAMMAttHĀNA) for the development of concentration. One of the most detailed descriptions of the practice is found in the VISUDDHIMAGGA of BUDDHAGHOSA. Among six generic personality types (greedy, hateful, ignorant, faithful, intelligent, and speculative), Buddhaghosa states that mindfulness of death is a suitable object for persons of intelligent temperament. Elsewhere, however, Buddhaghosa says that among the two types of objects of concentration, the generically useful objects and specific objects, only two among the forty are generically useful: the cultivation of loving-kindness (P. mettā; S. MAITRĪ) and the recollection of death. In describing the actual practice, Buddhaghosa explains that the meditator who wishes to take death as his object of concentration should go to a remote place and repeatedly think, "Death will take place" or "Death, death." Should that not result in the development of concentration, Buddhaghosa provides eight ways of contemplating death. The first of the eight is contemplation of death as a murderer, where one imagines that death will appear to deprive one of life. Death is certain from the moment of birth; beings move progressively toward their demise without ever turning back, just as the sun never reverses its course through the sky. The second contemplation is to think of death as the ruin of all the accomplishments and fortune acquired in life. The third contemplation is to compare oneself to others who have suffered death, yet who are greater than oneself in fame, merit, strength, supranormal powers (P. iddhi; S. ṚDDHI), or wisdom. Death will come to oneself just as it has come to these beings. The fourth contemplation is that the body is shared with many other creatures. Here one contemplates that the body is inhabited by the eighty families of worms, who may easily cause one's death, as may a variety of accidents. The fifth contemplation is of the tenuous nature of life, that life requires both inhalation and exhalation of breath, requires a balanced alternation of the four postures (ĪRYĀPATHA) of standing, sitting, walking, and lying down. It requires moderation of hot and cold, a balance of the four physical constituents, and nourishment at the proper time. The sixth contemplation is that there is no certainty about death; that is, there is no certainty as to the length of one's life, the type of illness of which one will die, when one will die, nor where, and there is no certainty as to where one will then be reborn. The seventh contemplation is that life is limited in length. In general, human life is short; beyond that, there is no certainty that one will live as long as it takes "to chew and swallow four or five mouthfuls." The final contemplation is of the shortness of the moment, that is, that life is in fact just a series of moments of consciousness. Buddhaghosa also describes the benefits of cultivating mindfulness of death. A monk devoted to the mindfulness of death is diligent and disenchanted with the things of the world. He is neither acquisitive nor avaricious and is increasingly aware of impermanence (S. ANITYA), the first of the three marks of mundane existence. From this develops an awareness of the other two marks, suffering and nonself. He dies without confusion or fear. If he does not attain the deathless state of NIRVĀnA in this lifetime, he will at least be reborn in an auspicious realm. Similar instructions are found in the literatures of many other Buddhist traditions.
maturation: processes in development which seem to be relatively independent of environmental influences, such as depth perception and walking; implied in the term is the assumption that the characteristics are governed by heredity.
maximum Maytag mode "storage, humour" (From the US brand of washing machine) What a {washing machine} or, by extension, any {hard disk} is in when it's being used so heavily that it's shaking like an old Maytag with an unbalanced load. If prolonged for any length of time, can lead to disks becoming {walking drives}. [{Jargon File}] (1997-07-22)
maximum Maytag mode ::: (storage, humour) (From the US brand of washing machine) What a washing machine or, by extension, any hard disk is in when it's being used so heavily that it's shaking like an old Maytag with an unbalanced load. If prolonged for any length of time, can lead to disks becoming walking drives.[Jargon File] (1997-07-22)
Mensambulism: Literally, table-walking; table-turning (q.v.).
method of loci: a technique to increase memory effectiveness through memorising a series of different locations (such as rooms in a house) and then imagining an item to be remembered at each location. Items are then recalled by mentally "walking through" the house and "seeing" the item.
middha. (T. gnyid; C. shuimian; J. suimen; K. sumyon 睡眠). In Sanskrit and Pāli, "torpor," or sometimes simply "sleep." In the SARVĀSTIVĀDA and YOGĀCĀRA dharma lists, middha is one of the four or eight "indeterminate" (ANIYATA) factors among the fifty-one mental constituents (CAITTA; P. cetasika) that, depending on the intention of the agent, may be virtuous, nonvirtuous, or neutral. Middha is defined as the unintended withdrawal of the senses' engagement with their objects. The term is often seen in compound with "sloth" or " laziness" (STYĀNA), which together constitute one of the five hindrances (NĪVARAnA) to meditative absorption (DHYĀNA), specifically hindering the meditative factor (DHYĀNĀnGA) of applied thought (VITARKA). This hindrance is countered by the spiritual faculty (INDRIYA) of effort (VĪRYA). Ways of countering sloth and torpor include memorizing the doctrine, developing the perception of light, or simply walking around in the open air. In the Pāli abhidhamma, middha is classified as an unvirtuous (akusala) state. In Sarvāstivāda and Yogācāra it is indeterminate because sleep may be virtuous, unvirtuous, or neutral based on one's state of mind when falling asleep.
Mohe zhiguan. (J. Makashikan; K. Maha chigwan 摩訶止觀). In Chinese, "The Great Calming and Contemplation"; a comprehensive treatise on soteriological theory and meditation according to the TIANTAI ZONG; attributed to TIANTAI ZHIYI (538-597). The Mohe zhiguan is based on a series of lectures Zhiyi delivered in 594, which were transcribed and edited by his disciple GUANDING. Zhi (lit. "stopping") is the Chinese translation for sAMATHA (calmness, serenity) and guan (lit. "observation") is the Chinese for VIPAsYANĀ (insight); the work as a whole seeks to establish a proper balance between meditative practice and philosophical insight. Zhi and guan practice are treated in three different ways in this treatise. Zhi in its denotation of "stopping" means calming the mind so that it is not buffeted by distracting thoughts; fixing the mind so that it stays focused on the present; and recognizing that distraction and concentration are both manifestations of a unitary, nondual reality. Guan in its denotation of "observation" means to illuminate the illusory nature of thought so that distractions are brought to an end; to have insight into the suchness (TATHATĀ) that is the ultimate nature of all phenomena in the universe; and to recognize that in suchness both insight and noninsight ultimately are identical. The original text of the Mohe zhiguan consists of ten chapters, but only the titles of the last three chapters survive. The last extant chapter, Chapter 7 on "Proper Contemplation," comprises approximately half of the entire treatise and, as the title suggests, provides a detailed description of the ten modes of contemplation and the ten spheres of contemplation. The first of the ten spheres of contemplation is called "the realm of the inconceivable" (S. ACINTYA). In his discussion of this realm in the first part of the fifth roll, Zhiyi covers one of the most famous of Tiantai doctrines: "the TRICHILIOCOSM in a single instant of thought" (YINIAN SANQIAN), which Zhiyi frames here as the "the trichiliocosm contained in the mind during an instant of thought" (sanqian zai yinian xin), viz., that any given thought-moment perfectly encompasses all reality, both temporally and spatially. By emphatically noting the "inconceivable" ability of the mind to contain the trichiliocosm, Zhiyi sought to emphasize the importance and mystery of the mind during the practice of meditation. This chapter, however, remains incomplete. The work also offers an influential presentation of the "four SAMĀDHIs," that is, the samādhis of constant sitting, constant walking, both sitting and walking, and neither sitting nor walking. Along with Zhiyi's FAHUA XUANYI and FAHUA WENJU, the Mohe zhiguan is considered to be one of the three most important treatises in the Tiantai tradition and is regarded as Zhiyi's magnum opus. The Tiantai monk ZHANRAN's MOHE ZHIGUAN FUXING ZHUANHONG JUE is considered to be the most authoritative commentary on the Mohe zhiguan.
n. **1. A manner of walking or running. 2. Fig. The relative speed of progress or change. 3. A rate of activity, progress, growth, performance; tempo. 4. Fig. The rate of speed at which an activity or movement proceeds. v. 5. To walk with slow regular strides. 6. To walk with regular slow or fast paces or steps. paces, paced, pacing.**
noctambulation ::: n. --> Somnambulism; walking in sleep.
ornithopoda ::: n. pl. --> An order of herbivorous dinosaurs with birdlike characteristics in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind legs, which in some genera had only three functional toes, and supported the body in walking as in Iguanodon. See Illust. in Appendix.
"Our nature is not only mistaken in will and ignorant in knowledge but weak in power; but the Divine Force is there and will lead us if we trust in it and it will use our deficiencies and our powers for the divine purpose. If we fail in our immediate aim, it is because he has intended the failure; often our failure or ill-result is the right road to a truer issue than an immediate and complete success would have put in our reach. If we suffer, it is because something in us has to be prepared for a rarer possibility of delight. If we stumble, it is to learn in the end the secret of a more perfect walking.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“Our nature is not only mistaken in will and ignorant in knowledge but weak in power; but the Divine Force is there and will lead us if we trust in it and it will use our deficiencies and our powers for the divine purpose. If we fail in our immediate aim, it is because he has intended the failure; often our failure or ill-result is the right road to a truer issue than an immediate and complete success would have put in our reach. If we suffer, it is because something in us has to be prepared for a rarer possibility of delight. If we stumble, it is to learn in the end the secret of a more perfect walking.” The Synthesis of Yoga
outwalk ::: v. t. --> To excel in walking; to leave behind in walking.
pace ::: n. --> A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.
The length of a step in walking or marching, reckoned from the heel of one foot to the heel of the other; -- used as a unit in measuring distances; as, he advanced fifty paces.
Manner of stepping or moving; gait; walk; as, the walk, trot, canter, gallop, and amble are paces of the horse; a swaggering pace; a quick pace.
palmigrade ::: a. --> Putting the whole foot upon the ground in walking, as some mammals.
park ::: n. --> A piece of ground inclosed, and stored with beasts of the chase, which a man may have by prescription, or the king&
parterre ::: n. --> An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on.
The pit of a theater; the parquet.
passant ::: v. i. --> Passing from one to another; in circulation; current.
Curs/ry, careless.
Surpassing; excelling.
Walking; -- said of any animal on an escutcheon, which is represented as walking with the dexter paw raised.
Pathworking ::: The process of walking a specific path or paradigm. This is also the Kabbalistic practice of working through and attuning to the various Sephiroth and their connecting paths on the Tree of Life.
pedarian ::: n. --> One of a class eligible to the office of senator, but not yet chosen, who could sit and speak in the senate, but could not vote; -- so called because he might indicate his opinion by walking over to the side of the party he favored when a vote was taken.
pedestrianism ::: n. --> The act, art, or practice of a pedestrian; walking or running; traveling or racing on foot.
pedestrianize ::: v. i. --> To practice walking; to travel on foot.
pedometer ::: n. --> An instrument for including the number of steps in walking, and so ascertaining the distance passed over. It is usually in the form of a watch; an oscillating weight by the motion of the body causes the index to advance a certain distance at each step.
perambulate ::: v. t. --> To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line. ::: v. i. --> To walk about; to ramble; to stroll; as, he
peripatetic ::: a. --> Walking about; itinerant.
Of or pertaining to the philosophy taught by Aristotle (who gave his instructions while walking in the Lyceum at Athens), or to his followers. ::: n. --> One who walks about; a pedestrian; an itinerant.
pindapāta. (T. bsod snyoms; C. qishi; J. kotsujiki; K. kolsik 乞食). In Sanskrit and Pāli, "alms food" (or, according to other etymologies, "alms bowl"); the food received in the alms bowl (S. PĀTRA; P. patta) of a monk or nun; by extension, the "alms round" that monks and nuns make each morning to accept alms from the laity. There are numerous rules found in all Buddhist traditions concerning the proper ways of receiving and consuming alms food. In the Pāli VINAYA, for example, this food must be received and consumed between dawn and noon and may consist of five types: cooked rice, baked or roasted flour, pulse and rice, fish, and meat. The monk may not, on his own initiative, intimate to the donor that he desires food or a specific kind of food; indeed, the monk makes little if any acknowledgement of receiving the food, but simply accepts whatever is offered and continues along his route. In East Asia, and especially Japan, TAKUHATSU, lit., "carrying the bowl," is often conducted by a small group of monks who walk through the streets with walking staffs (KHAKKHARA) and bells that alert residents of their presence. Because East Asian Buddhism was generally a self-sufficient cenobitic tradition that did not depend on alms food for daily meals, monks on alms round would typically receive money or uncooked rice in their bowls as offerings from the laity. The alms round was one of the principal points of interaction between monastic and lay Buddhists, and theirs was a symbiotic relationship: monks and nuns would receive their sustenance from the laity by accepting their offerings, the laity would have the opportunity to generate merit (PUnYA) for themselves and their families by making offerings (DĀNA) to the monastics. Indeed, one of the most severe penalties the SAMGHA can administer to the laity is to refuse their donations; this act of censure is called "overturning the bowl" (see PĀTRANIKUBJANA).
plantigrade ::: a. --> Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades.
Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright. ::: n. --> A plantigrade animal, or one that walks or steps on
plodding ::: moving or walking heavily or laboriously; trudging. Also fig. with on.
podoscaph ::: n. --> A canoe-shaped float attached to the foot, for walking on water.
pradakshina. ::: walking around a sacred place, object or person in a clockwise direction, signifying that the Lord is the Centre and Source of life
prātihārya. (P. pātihāriya; T. cho 'phrul; C. shixian; J. jigen; K. sihyon 示現). In Sanskrit, "wonder" or "miracle," miraculous powers generally said to be exclusive to a buddha. In this sense, the term is sometimes distinguished from ṚDDHI, or "magical powers," which results from the attainment of states of DHYĀNA. Among the many miracles ascribed to the Buddha, two are particularly famous and are widely depicted in Buddhist iconography. Both took place at sRĀVASTĪ, where the Buddha defeated a group of TĪRTHIKAs. The first is the so-called "dual miracle" (YAMAKAPRĀTIHĀRYA) in which the Buddha caused both fire and water to emanate from his body. The second is the "great miracle" (MAHĀPRĀTIHĀRYA) in which the Buddha, seated on a great lotus, multiplied himself until the sky was filled with buddhas, some seated, some standing, some walking, some lying down, each teaching the dharma. Three categories of miracles (triprātihārya) are also enumerated. The first, the "miracle of magical power" (rddhiprātihārya) includes the myriad supranormal powers of the Buddha, including the power to fly and to appear and disappear. The second, the "miracle of foretelling" (ādesanāprātihārya), refers to the Buddha's ability to know the thoughts of others. The third, the "miracle of instruction," is the Buddha's unique ability to teach the dharma. Eight deeds of the Buddha, sometimes referred to as miracles, are commonly depicted during the Pāla period. Taking place at the eight "great sites" (MAHĀSTHĀNA), the eight are (1) the miracle of his birth at LUMBINĪ, (2) the defeat of MĀRA and achievement of buddhahood at BODHGAYĀ, (3) the turning of the wheel of the dharma (DHARMACAKRA) at ṚsIPATANA (SĀRNĀTH), (4) miracles performed at sRĀVASTĪ, (5) the descent from the TRĀYASTRIMsA heaven at SĀMKĀsYA, (6) the taming of the elephant NĀLĀGIRI at RĀJAGṚHA, (7) the receipt of the monkey's gift of honey at VAIsĀLĪ, and (8) the passage into PARINIRVĀnA at KUsINAGARĪ. (See also BAXIANG).
preambulation ::: n. --> A walking or going before; precedence.
A preamble.
promenade ::: n. --> A walk for pleasure, display, or exercise.
A place for walking; a public walk. ::: v. i. --> To walk for pleasure, display, or exercise.
[The Sufi's] aim in life is to release the captive soul from the bondage of limitations, which he accomplishes by the repetition of the sacred names of God, and by constant thought of his divine ideal, and an ever-increasing love for the divine Beloved until the beloved God with His perfection becomes manifest to his vision, and his imperfect self vanishes from his sight.
This he calls Fanā, the merging in the ideal. In order to attain the final goal he gradually raises his ideal, first to Fanā-fī-Shaikh, the ideal seen in a mortal walking on the earth, and he drills himself as a soldier before battle in devotion to his ideal.
Then comes Fanā-fī-Rasūl, when he sees his ideal in spirit, and pictures Him in all sublimity, and fashions Him with beautiful qualities, which he wishes to obtain himself. And after this he raises it to Fanā-fī-Allāh, the love and devotion for that ideal which is beyond qualities and in which is the perfection of all qualities.
rattan ::: n. --> One of the long slender flexible stems of several species of palms of the genus Calamus, mostly East Indian, though some are African and Australian. They are exceedingly tough, and are used for walking sticks, wickerwork, chairs and seats of chairs, cords and cordage, and many other purposes.
rise ::: v. --> To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait.
To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like.
To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air.
rod ::: 1. A walking sick, wand, etc. 2. A sceptre, staff, or wand symbolizing power or authority. 3. A measuring stick. 4. A stick or bundle of sticks or switches used to give punishment by whipping. rods, divining rod (see divining), measuring-rod (*see measuring)*.
Satipatthānasutta. (S. *Smṛtyupasthānasutra; T. Dran pa nye bar bzhag pa'i mdo; C. Nianchu jing; J. Nenjogyo; K. Yomch'o kyong 念處經). In Pāli, "Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness"; the tenth sutta in the MAJJHIMANIKĀYA (a separate SARVĀSTIVĀDA recension appears as the ninety-eighth SuTRA in the Chinese translation of the MADHYAMĀGAMA; there is another unidentified recension in the Chinese translation of the EKOTTARĀGAMA). An expanded version of the same sutta, titled the "Great Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness" (MAHĀSATIPAttHĀNASUTTANTA), which adds extensive discussion on mindfulness of breathing (P. ānāpānasati, S. ĀNĀPĀNASMṚTI), is the twenty-second sutta in the Pāli DĪGHANIKĀYA. This sutta is one of the most widely commented upon texts in the Pāli canon and continues to hold a central place in the modern VIPASSANĀ (S. VIPAsYANĀ) movement. The sutta was preached by the Buddha to a gathering of disciples in the town of Kammāsadhamma in the country of the Kurus. The discourse enumerates twenty-one meditation practices for the cultivation of mindfulness (P. sati, S. SMṚTI), a term that refers to an undistracted watchfulness and attentiveness, or to recollection and thus memory. In the text, the Buddha explains the practice under a fourfold rubric called the four foundations of mindfulness (P. satipatthāna, S. SMṚTYUPASTHĀNA). The four foundations are comprised of "contemplation of the body" (P. kāyānupassanā, S. KĀYĀNUPAsYANĀ); "contemplation of sensations" (P. vedanānupassanā, S. vedanānupasyanā), that is, physical and mental sensations (VEDANĀ) that are pleasurable, painful, or neutral; "contemplation of mind" (P. cittānupassanā, S. cittānupasyanā), in which one observes the broader state of mind (CITTA) as, e.g., shrunken or expanded, while under the influence of various positive and negative emotions; and "contemplation of phenomena" (P. dhammānupassanā, S. dharmānupasyanā), which involves the contemplation of several key doctrinal categories, such as the five aggregates (P. khandha, S. SKANDHA) and the FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS. The first of the four, the mindfulness of the body, involves fourteen exercises, beginning with the mindfulness of the inhalation and exhalation of the breath (P. ānāpānasati, S. ĀNĀPĀNASMṚTI). Mindfulness of the breath is followed by mindfulness of the four physical postures (P. iriyāpatha, S. ĪRYĀPATHA) of walking, standing, sitting, and lying down. This is then extended to a full general awareness of all physical activities. Thus, mindfulness is something that is also meant to accompany all of one's actions in the course of the day, and is not restricted to formal meditation sessions. This discussion is followed by mindfulness of the various components of the body, an intentionally revolting list that includes fingernails, bile, spittle, and urine. Next is the mindfulness of the body as composed of the four great elements (MAHĀBHuTA) of earth, water, fire, and air. Next are the "contemplations on the impure" (P. asubhabhāvanā, S. AsUBHABHĀVANĀ), viz., contemplation of a corpse in nine successive stages of decomposition. The practice of the mindfulness of the body is designed to induce the understanding that the body is a collection of impure elements that arise and cease in rapid succession, utterly lacking any kind of permanent self. This insight into the three marks of existence-impermanence, suffering, and no-self-leads in turn to enlightenment. Mindfulness of the body is presented as the core meditative practice, with the other three types of mindfulness applied as the meditator's attention is drawn to those factors. The sutta calls the foundations of mindfulness the ekayānamagga, which in this context might be rendered as "the only path" or "the one way forward," and states that correct practice of the four foundations of mindfulness will lead to the stage of the worthy one (P. arahant, S. ARHAT), or at least the stage of the nonreturner (P. anāgāmi, S. ANĀGĀMIN), in as little as seven days of practice, according to some interpretations. See also ANUPASSANĀ.
sleepwalking ::: n. --> Walking in one&
slide ::: v. t. --> To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain&
snowshoe ::: n. --> A slight frame of wood three or four feet long and about one third as wide, with thongs or cords stretched across it, and having a support and holder for the foot; -- used by persons for walking on soft snow.
somnambulation ::: n. --> The act of walking in sleep.
Somnambulism [from Latin somnus sleep + ambulare to walk] Sleepwalking; in this condition the person moves about as if entranced, like a human automaton. Though unconscious, he may read, write, compose music or poetry, execute skilled movements, tread dangerous heights safely, etc.; he may not only carry out the various activities of his waking state, but may perform both physical and mental feats of which he is normally incapable. He may then return to his bed, still asleep, and upon awakening retain no memory of his strange experience.
Somnambulism: Sleep-walking; the performing of certain actions in sleep, without recollection of such actions upon awakening.
somnambulist ::: n. 1. A person who walks in his/her sleep. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj.) 2. Pertaining to somnambulism, i.e. walking during sleep.)
Sona-Kolivīsa. (S. srona-ViMsatikoti/srona-KotiviMsa; T. Gro bzhin skyes bye ba nyi shu pa; C. Shoulongna/Ershiyi'er; J. Shurona/Nijuokuni; K. Surongna/Isibogi 守籠那/二十億耳). Pāli name of an ARHAT declared by the Buddha to be foremost among his monk disciples in striving energetically. According to the Pāli account, he was born the son of a wealthy man in the country of Campā. Because he had given a precious ring to a PRATYEKABUDDHA (P. paccekabuddha) in a previous life, his body was the color of burnished gold. His hands and feet were delicate, and fine curly hair covered his feet. King BIMBISĀRA of MAGADHA wished to see the unusual markings of the youth and sent for him. While at the Magadha capital of RĀJAGṚHA, Sona and eighty thousand companions went to see the Buddha, who was preaching at that time in the city. Impressed by the miraculous powers displayed by Sāgata (S. SVĀGATA), the Buddha's attendant, Sona asked his parents to allow him to enter the order. After his ordination, the Buddha gave Sona a subject of meditation (KAMMAttHĀNA), and Sona retired to the sītavana grove to practice. Sona strove diligently, taking up walking meditation as his main practice; however, because he was interrupted by frequent visitors, he made little progress and grew despondent. His feet became blistered and bled, so much so that the meditation path (P. cankama, S. CAnKRAMA) upon which he walked was soaked in blood like a slaughter house. Seeing this scene, the Buddha instructed Sona on how to temper his energy with tranquility, and in due time he attained arhatship. Because of his delicate feet, the Buddha is said to have given Sona dispensation to wear sandals of a single layer, even though monks and nuns were required to go barefoot. Sona declined the exemption, however, for he did not wish to be treated more leniently than his fellow monks. In response, the Buddha then gave permission to all his monks to use such sandals.
spanker ::: n. --> One who spanks, or anything used as an instrument for spanking.
The after sail of a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a boom and gaff; -- sometimes called driver. See Illust. under Sail.
One who takes long, quick strides in walking; also, a fast horse.
Something very large, or larger than common; a whopper, as
staff ::: 1. A stick or cane carried as an aid in walking or climbing. 2. A shepherd"s crook used to herd sheep.
staff ::: n. --> A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or srick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor&
stagger ::: n. --> To move to one side and the other, as if about to fall, in standing or walking; not to stand or walk with steadiness; to sway; to reel or totter.
To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in
step ::: a. --> To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors.
To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.
stepping-stone ::: n. --> A stone to raise the feet above the surface of water or mud in walking.
Fig.: A means of progress or advancement.
stick ::: v. t. --> A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.
Any long and comparatively slender piece of wood, whether in natural form or shaped with tools; a rod; a wand; a staff; as, the stick of a rocket; a walking stick.
Anything shaped like a stick; as, a stick of wax.
A derogatory expression for a person; one who is inert or
stilt ::: n. --> A pole, or piece of wood, constructed with a step or loop to raise the foot above the ground in walking. It is sometimes lashed to the leg, and sometimes prolonged upward so as to be steadied by the hand or arm.
A crutch; also, the handle of a plow.
Any species of limicoline birds belonging to Himantopus and allied genera, in which the legs are remarkably long and slender. Called also longshanks, stiltbird, stilt plover, and lawyer.
stroam ::: v. i. --> To wander about idly and vacantly.
To take long strides in walking.
stumble ::: n. 1. A false step, trip, or blunder. 2. v. To trip or fall while walking or running. 3. To walk or go unsteadily. 4. To make mistakes or hesitate in speech or actions. 5. To come across by accident or chance. 6. Fig. To commit a grave mistake or sin. stumbles, stumbled, stumbling, stumblings.
stumble ::: v. i. --> To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step.
To walk in an unsteady or clumsy manner.
To fall into a crime or an error; to err.
To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; -- with on, upon, or against.
stupa. (P. thupa; T. mchod rten; C. ta; J. to; K. t'ap 塔). In Sanskrit, "reliquary"; a structure, originally in the shape of a hemispherical mound, that contains the relics (sARĪRA) or possessions of the Buddha or a saint, often contained within a reliquary container. In the MAHĀPARINIBBĀNASUTTA, the Buddha says that after he has passed away, his relics should be enshrined in a stupa erected at a crossroads, and that the stupa should be honored with garlands, incense, and sandalwood paste. Because of a dispute among his lay followers after his death, his relics were said to be divided into ten portions and distributed to ten groups or individuals, each of whom constructed a stupa to enshrine their share of the relics in their home region. Two of these sites were the Buddha's home city of KAPILAVASTU, and KUsINAGARĪ, the place of his death, as well as RĀJAGṚHA and VAIsĀLĪ. The original stupas were later said to have been opened and the relics collected by the emperor AsOKA in the third century BCE so that he could subdivide them for a larger number of stupas in order to accumulate merit and protect his realm. Asoka is said to have had eighty-four thousand stupas constructed. The stupa form eventually spread throughout the Buddhist world (and during the twentieth century into the Western hemisphere), with significant variations in architectural form. For example, the dagoba of Sri Lanka and the so-called "PAGODA" (derived from a Portuguese transcription of the Sanskrit BHAGAVAT ["blessed," "fortunate"] or the Persian but kadah ["idol house"]), which are so ubiquitous in East Asia, are styles of stupas. The classical architectural form of the stupa in India consisted of a circular platform surmounted by a hemisphere made of brick within which the relics were enshrined. At the summit of the hemisphere, one or more parasols were affixed. A walking path (see CAnKRAMA) enclosed by a railing was constructed around the stupa, to allow for clockwise circumambulation of the reliquary. Each of these architectural elements would evolve in form and eventually become imbued with rich symbolic meaning as the stupa evolved in India and across Asia. The relics enshrined in the stupa are considered by Buddhists to be living remnants of the Buddha (or the relevant saint) and pilgrimage to, and worship of, stupas has long been an important type of Buddhist practice. For all Buddhist schools, the stupa became a reference point denoting the Buddha's presence in the landscape. Although early texts and archeological records link stupa worship with the Buddha's life and especially the key sites in his career, stupas are also found at places that were sacred for other reasons, often through an association with a local deity. Stupas were constructed for past buddhas and for prominent disciples (sRĀVAKA) of the Buddha. Indeed, stupas dedicated to disciples of the Buddha may have been especially popular because the monastic rules stipulate that donations to such stupas became the property of the monastery, whereas donations to stupas of the Buddha remained the property of the Buddha, who continued to function as a legal resident of most monasteries. By the seventh century, the practice of enshrining the physical relics of the Buddha ceases to appear in the Indian archeological record. Instead, one finds stupas filled with small clay tablets that have been stamped or engraved with a four-line verse (often known by its first two words YE DHARMĀ) that was regarded as conveying the essence of the Buddha's teaching: "For those factors that are produced through causes, the TATHĀGATA has set forth their causes (HETU) and also their cessation (NIRODHA). Thus has spoken the great renunciant." For the MAHĀYĀNA, the stupa conveyed a variety of meanings, such as the Buddha's immortality and buddhahood's omnipresence, and served a variety of functions, such as a site of textual revelation and a center guaranteeing rebirth in a PURE LAND. Stupas were also pivotal in the social history of Buddhism: these monuments became magnets attracting monastery building and votive construction, as well as local ritual traditions and regional pilgrimage. The economics of Buddhist devotion at these sites generated income for local monasteries, artisans, and merchants. The great stupa complexes (which often included monasteries with endowed lands, a pilgrimage center, a market, and support from the state) were essential sites for the Buddhist polities of Asia. See CAITYA and entries for specific stupas, including FAMENSI, RATNAGIRI, SĀNCĪ, SHWEDAGON, SVAYAMBHu/SVAYAMBHuNĀTH, THIÊN MỤ TỰ, THuPĀRĀMA.
styāna. (P. thina; T. rmug pa; C. hunchen; J. konjin; K. honch'im 惛沉). In Sanskrit, "torpor," often paired with "sloth" (MIDDHA). As a compound, styānamiddha constitute the third of the five "hindrances" (NĪVARAnA) to the attainment of the first meditative absorption (DHYĀNA), along with sensual desire (KĀMACCHANDA), malice or ill-will (VYĀPĀDA), restlessness and worry (AUDDHATYA-KAUKṚTYA), and skeptical doubt (VICIKITSĀ). Because of the laziness generated by this mental concomitant, styānamiddha specifically hinders the meditative constituent (DHYĀNĀnGA) of applied thought (VITARKA). This hindrance is countered by the spiritual faculty (INDRIYA) of effort (VĪRYA). Ways of countering sloth and torpor include memorizing the doctrine, developing the perception of light, or simply walking around in the open air.
Subhadra. (T. Rab bzang; P. Subhadda; C. Xubatuoluo; J. Shubatsudara; K. Subaltara 須跋陀羅). The last person converted by the Buddha before he passed into PARINIRVĀnA. According to some accounts, he was a 120-year-old brāhmana, according to others, a young ascetic. Hearing that the Buddha would be passing away that night at KUsINAGARĪ, Subhadra went to see the Buddha and asked ĀNANDA for permission to speak with him. Ānanda refused the request three times, saying that the Buddha was weary. The Buddha overheard their conversation and told Subhadra to come forward, saying, "Do not keep out Subhadra. Subhadra may be allowed to see the Tathāgata. Whatever Subhadra will ask of me, he will ask from a desire for knowledge, and not to annoy me, and whatever I may say in answer to his questions, that he will quickly understand." Subhadra began to ask the Buddha about the doctrines of various other teachers, but the Buddha cut him short, explaining that only one who knows the noble eightfold path (ĀRYĀstĀnGAMĀRGA) is a true sRAMAnA. Subhadra then asked to be ordained. The Buddha replied that adherents of other sects first had to undergo a probationary period of four months before ordination. When Subhadra announced his willingness to do so, the Buddha waived the requirement and instructed Ānanda to shave the hair and beard of Subhadra. He was then escorted back to the Buddha who ordained him, making him the last person that Buddha personally ordained. The Buddha then gave him a subject of meditation. Walking up and down in the grove, he quickly became an ARHAT and came and sat by the Buddha. According to some accounts, Subhadra felt that he was unworthy to witness the passage of the Buddha into parinirvāna and thus asked the Buddha for permission to die first. The Buddha gave his permission. ¶ Subhadra is also the name of a former barber who entered the order late in life. He always carried a certain animus against the Buddha, because, while Subhadra was still a layman, the Buddha refused to accept a meal that he had prepared for him. After the Buddha's death, Subhadra told monks who were weeping at his passing that they should instead rejoice: since the Buddha would no longer be telling them what they could and could not do, monks would now be free to do as they pleased. MAHĀKĀsYAPA overheard this remark and was said to have been so alarmed by it that he convened what came to be known as the first Buddhist council (SAMGĪTI; see COUNCIL, FIRST) to codify the monastic rules and the Buddha's discourses.
Sumedha. [alt. Sumegha] (C. Shanhui; J. Zen'e; K. Sonhye 善慧). Sanskrit and Pāli name of the BODHISATTVA who would become GAUTAMA Buddha. He was an ascetic at the time of DĪPAMKARA Buddha. Sumedha was born into a wealthy brāhmana family of AMARĀVATĪ. Disenchanted with the vanities of the householders' life, he renounced the world and took up his abode in the Himalaya mountains as an ascetic. There, he practiced assiduously and ultimately gained great yogic power. Once, when flying over the town of Ramma Nagara, he saw a crowd. He landed and asked a member of the crowd why they had gathered and was told that DīpaMkara Buddha was approaching. When he heard the word "buddha," he was overcome with joy. Seeing that people of the town were festooning the road DīpaMkara would be using with decorations, Sumedha decided to prepare and decorate a portion of the road himself. The Buddha arrived before his work was completed and, seeing that the Buddha was walking toward a mud puddle, Sumedha lay facedown and spread his long matted locks over the mud. While lying in the mud, Sumedha realized that, were he to follow DīpaMkara's teachings, he could become an ARHAT in that very lifetime. However, he resolved instead to achieve enlightenment at a time when there was no other buddha in the world, vowing to become a fully enlightened buddha (SAMYAKSAMBUDDHA) like DīpaMkara himself. DīpaMkara, using his supranormal powers, looked into the future and confirmed that Sumedha's vow (PuRVAPRAnIDĀNA) would be fulfilled and he would one day become GAUTAMA Buddha, the fourth of five perfect buddhas of the present age. It was with this vow, and with this confirmation by DīpaMkara Buddha, that the bodhisattva began the path to buddhahood, which, according to the Pāli tradition, he would complete four innumerable plus one hundred thousand eons later.
takuhatsu. (C. tuobo; K. t'akbal 托鉢). In Japanese, lit. "lifting up the bowl," viz., "to seek alms"; the Japanese form of the traditional monastic practice of alms-round (PIndAPĀTA). In Japan, takuhatsu is most commonly associated with the ZEN school and is typically conducted by a small group of monks who walk together through the streets with walking staffs (khakkhara) and bells that alert residents to their presence. Monks typically receive money or uncooked rice in their bowls as alms, rather than the cooked food received by monks in Southeast Asia. See also PĀTRA.
The puzzle of this psychophysiological state is explained by the ability of the different selves of composite human nature to function consciously upon the several planes of his own being. For instance, the ordinary somnambulist may be conscious in his own astral body which then is reflexly stimulating the instinctual cerebellum which presides over bodily movements and functions. Such a case is analogous to the unusual performances of an entranced medium. As in common dreams at night, so in sleep walking, one part of the brain, say the cerebrum, may be asleep, while the cerebellum may be awake and active. In rare cases, however, the somnambulist may so far transcend his usual character that he evidently is functioning above the astral level of his nature.
trail ::: v. t. --> To hunt by the track; to track.
To draw or drag, as along the ground.
To carry, as a firearm, with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
To tread down, as grass, by walking through it; to lay flat.
To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.
TWIG ::: Tree-Walking Instruction Generator.A code generator language. ML-Twig is an SML/NJ variant.[Twig Language Manual, S.W.K. Tijang, CS TR 120, Bell Labs, 1986]. (1995-01-31)
TWIG Tree-Walking Instruction Generator. A {code generator} language. {ML-Twig} is an {SML/NJ} variant. ["Twig Language Manual", S.W.K. Tijang, CS TR 120, Bell Labs, 1986]. (1995-01-31)
ungainly ::: a. --> Not gainly; not expert or dexterous; clumsy; awkward; uncouth; as, an ungainly strut in walking.
Unsuitable; unprofitable. ::: adv. --> In an ungainly manner.
unguligrade ::: a. --> Having, or walking on, hoofs.
utthapana ::: (literally) raising, elevating; "the state of not being subutthapana ject to the pressure of physical forces", the second member of the sarira catus.t.aya, called utthapana or levitation because of its third and final stage (tertiary utthapana) in which "gravitation is conquered", but usually referring to either of two earlier stages (primary utthapana and secondary utthapana) in which "the habit by which the bodily nature associates certain forms and degrees of activity with strain, fatigue, incapacity" is rectified, resulting in a great increase in "the power, freedom, swiftness, effectiveness of the work whether physical or mental which can be done with this bodily instrument"; exercise for the development of utthapana (such as walking for primary utthapana). utth utthapana-sakti
Vaidehī. (P. Videhī; T. Lus 'phags ma; C. Weitixi; J. Idaike; K. Wijehŭi 韋提希). Sanskrit proper name of the queen of BIMBISĀRA, king of MAGADHA, and mother of AJĀTAsATRU. According to some traditions, her name derives from the fact that she hailed from VIDEHA. When her son Ajātasatru usurped the throne and imprisoned his father, no one was allowed to visit him except for Vaidehī. Although she was prohibited from bringing Bimbisāra food, she hid food in her clothes. When this was discovered, she hid food in her hair and then in her shoes. When these were discovered, she smeared her body with the four sweet substances, which the king licked for his sustenance. When this was discovered, the king lived on the energy from walking meditation, until his son had his feet lacerated, after which he died. The incident of Vaidehī's visit to the cell of Bimbisāra provides the setting for one of the three major sutras of the East Asian PURE LAND traditions, the GUAN WULIANGSHOU JING (sometimes known by the hypothetical reconstructed Sanskrit title *Amitāyurdhyānasutra, or simply as the "Meditation Sutra"). According to this sutra, when Ajātasatru discovers that his mother has been secretly feeding the king, he incarcerates her as well. Despite her sorrow, Vaidehī does not give up her faith in the Buddha and invokes his aid. The Buddha then appears before her, and she asks that he teach her about a place where there is no sorrow. The Buddha then teaches her how to visualize the SUKHĀVATĪ pure land of the buddha named "Infinite Life" (AMITĀYUS/AMITĀBHA). He next explains to her how one may be reborn in this wonderful paradise, which is a land without suffering, a world of endless bliss. At the end of the sutra, Vaidehī is mentioned as one of many who were inspired by the Buddha's preaching.
varsā. [alt. varsa, vārsika] (P. vassa; T. dbyar gnas; C. anju; J. ango; K. an'go 安居). In Sanskrit, "rains" and, by extension, "rains retreat"; a three-month period generally beginning the day after the full-moon day of the eighth lunar month (usually July) and concluding on the full moon of the eleventh lunar month (usually October), during which time monks are required to remain in residence in one place. According to tradition, the Buddha instructed monks to cease their peregrinations during the torrential monsoon period in order to prevent the killing of insects and worms while walking on muddy roads. However, the practice of observing a rains retreat was likely adopted from other mendicant sRAMAnA sects in ancient India at the time of the Buddha. The residences established for use during the rains retreat are called varsāvāsa or "rains abode," and the institution of the rains retreat (and the consequent need for more permanent shelter) probably led to the development of formal monasteries (VIHĀRA). During this three-month period, monks are expected to continue their studies and practice. They are not permitted to leave their monasteries except for essential tasks, and then for no more than seven nights. Occasions that permit the monk to be temporarily absent from his monastery include urgent personal matters, such as illness or death of one's parents; an invitation to preach the dharma; or the donation of a VIHĀRA or land or other property to the SAMGHA or an individual monk. If for any reason the residence requirement is not kept, the monk is not eligible to receive a robe donation (KAtHINA) at the end of the rains retreat. The varsā is an important chronological marker, with monastic seniority measured by the number of rain retreats one has completed. In Thailand, where it is customary for all males to be ordained as novices for at least a brief period of their lives, the three months of the rains retreat is often chosen as a particularly auspicious time to undertake this commitment. The end of the retreat is marked by the kathina, or "cloth" ceremony, in which laypeople present gifts to the monks, including cloth for new robes.
vihāra. (T. gtsug lag khang/dgon pa; C. zhu/jingshe; J. ju/shoja; K. chu/chongsa 住/精舎). In Sanskrit and Pāli, lit. "abode"; the term commonly used for a dwelling place for monks and nuns, and thus typically translated as "monastery." In the story of the life of the Buddha, in the early days of the saMgha the monks had no fixed abode but wandered throughout the year. Eventually, the Buddha instructed monks to cease their peregrinations during the torrential monsoon period in order to prevent the killing of insects and worms while walking on muddy roads. The residences established for use during the rains retreat (VARsĀ) are called varsāvāsa or "rains abode," and the institution of the rains retreat (and the consequent need for more permanent shelter) probably led to the development of formal monasteries. According to the VINAYA, a vihāra must be donated to the SAMGHA and, once accepted, it may never be given back, but remains in perpetuity the property of the order. There are various rules and recommendations concerning the layout of a vihāra. According to the Pāli VINAYA, a vihāra may be plastered and decorated, but never using figures of human beings. It may have three kinds of rooms, upper, large, and small. These rooms are typically arrayed around a central courtyard that often enshrined a sapling of a BODHI TREE or a STuPA. The vihāra should have a refectory and a place for storing water, and it may be surrounded by a wall. It should be neither too near nor too far from a town or village and be suitable for gathering alms but secluded enough to be conducive to study and contemplation. A vihāra may be constructed for the use of the entire congregation of monks or nuns or for personal use. If a proposed vihāra for an individual monk is large or grand, permission for its construction must first be granted by the saMgha. The Indian state of Bihar takes its name from the many Buddhist vihāras that were once scattered throughout the region. See also entries on specific monasteries.
viparināmaduḥkhatā. (P. viparināmadukkha; T. 'gyur ba'i sdug bsngal; C. huaiku; J. eku; K. koego 壞苦). In Sanskrit, "suffering associated with change"; the second of the three types of suffering, along with DUḤKHADUḤKHATĀ ("physical and mental suffering") and SAMSKĀRADUḤKHATĀ ("suffering intrinsic to conditioned existence itself"). This type of suffering is defined as feelings of mental and physical pleasure that inevitably turn into pain if the activity that produces them is continued indefinitely, such as overindulging in delicious food, staying out in the sun too long, or sitting in the same posture for hours on end. The Buddhist claim is that pain and pleasure are qualitatively different: painful feelings will continue to be painful unless some further action is taken to assuage the pain, whereas pleasurable feelings will become painful if one persists in engaging in the activity that produces the pleasure. For example, after walking for a long distance, walking becomes painful, at which point it is pleasurable to sit down. After sitting for a long period of time, sitting becomes painful, and it is pleasurable to stand up and walk. Feelings of pleasure are thus a type of suffering, because they will inevitably revert to pain. An example is pouring cold water on a burn; after a moment of relief, the burning sensation will return. In the same way, feelings of pleasure are merely a brief lessening of pain.
waddle ::: v. i. --> To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles. ::: v. t. --> To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking
walking drives ::: An occasional failure mode of magnetic-disk drives back in the days when they were huge, clunky washing machines. Those old dinosaur parts carried terrific disk-accessing patterns that would do this to particular drive models and held disk-drive races.[Jargon File]
walking drives "jargon" An occasional failure mode of {magnetic-disk drives} back in the days when they were huge, clunky {washing machines}. Those old {dinosaur} parts carried terrific angular momentum; the combination of a misaligned spindle or worn bearings and stick-slip interactions with the floor could cause them to "walk" across a room, lurching alternate corners forward a couple of millimeters at a time. There is a legend about a drive that walked over to the only door to the computer room and jammed it shut; the staff had to cut a hole in the wall in order to get at it! Walking could also be induced by certain patterns of drive access (a fast seek across the whole width of the disk, followed by a slow seek in the other direction). Some bands of old-time hackers figured out how to induce disk-accessing patterns that would do this to particular drive models and held disk-drive races. [{Jargon File}] (2009-05-14)
walking ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Walk ::: --> a. & n. from Walk, v.
wanghee ::: n. --> The Chinese name of one or two species of bamboo, or jointed cane, of the genus Phyllostachys. The slender stems are much used for walking sticks.
washing machine ::: (storage) An old-style 14-inch hard disk in a floor-standing cabinet. So called because of the size of the cabinet and the top-loading access to the channel cables connecting these were called bit hoses. The washing-machine idiom transcends language barriers; it is even used in Russian hacker jargon.See also walking drives. (1995-02-15)
washing machine "storage" An old-style 14-inch {hard disk} in a floor-standing cabinet. So called because of the size of the cabinet and the "top-loading" access to the media packs - and, of course, they were always set on "spin cycle". The thick channel cables connecting these were called "{bit hoses}". The washing-machine idiom transcends language barriers; it is even used in Russian hacker jargon. See also {walking drives}. (1995-02-15)
water ouzel ::: --> Any one of several species of small insessorial birds of the genus Cinclus (or Hydrobates), especially the European water ousel (C. aquaticus), and the American water ousel (C. Mexicanus). These birds live about the water, and are in the habit of walking on the bottom of streams beneath the water in search of food.
::: "What do you call meditation? Shutting the eyes and concentrating? It is only one method for calling down the true consciousness. To join with the true consciousness or feel its descent is the only thing important and if it comes without the orthodox method, as it always did with me, so much the better. Meditation is only a means or device, the true movement is when even walking, working or speaking one is still in sadhana.” *Letters on Yoga
“What do you call meditation? Shutting the eyes and concentrating? It is only one method for calling down the true consciousness. To join with the true consciousness or feel its descent is the only thing important and if it comes without the orthodox method, as it always did with me, so much the better. Meditation is only a means or device, the true movement is when even walking, working or speaking one is still in sadhana.” Letters on Yoga
Widdershins ::: Describes a way of walking that runs counter to the usual approach. Usually refers to walking lefthandwise: that is keeping an object at one's left at all times. Workings that ask for walking widdershins are generally darker or necromantic in nature.
Will power is a mighty, colorless force or energy which can be set in motion by one who has the power and knowledge to do so. In India, in combination with abstract desire, it is mentioned as one of six primary powers (ichchhasakti) by which the adept accomplishes many of his wonders. “The ancients held that any idea will manifest itself externally, if one’s attention (and Will) is deeply concentrated upon it; similarly, an intense volition will be followed by the desired result . . . For creation is but the result of will acting on phenomenal matter, the calling forth out of the primordial divine Light and eternal Life “(SD 2:173). The occult power of will explains many scientific problems of animate and inanimate matter. In human beings, it may consciously and unconsciously act upon other human wills and upon that of beasts; likewise, it may act upon physical and astral substance to produce various phenomena such as levitation, fire-walking, birthmarks, etc. “Paracelsus teaches that ‘determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain’ ” (TG 370).
xingli. (J. anri; K. haengni 行履). In Chinese, lit., "practice hidden"; a contraction of qiongxing lijian, which literally means "assiduous practice and hidden conduct." In the CHAN traditions, xingli generally refers to the daily conduct of a monk, which includes a whole gamut of activities from walking, sitting, and keeping silence to drinking tea and eating food. As such, the term can also refer to the progress of a monk's training or to the history of his activities.
yixing sanmei. (S. ekavyuhasamādhi; J. ichigyo zanmai; K. irhaeng sammae 一行三昧). In Chinese, "single-practice SAMĀDHI." The term yixing sanmei seems to first appear in a passage in the Chinese translation of the SAPTAsATIKĀPRAJNĀPĀRAMITĀSuTRA: "The DHARMADHĀTU has only a single mark; to take the dharmadhātu as an object is called one-practice samādhi." Two practices are then recommended by the text for cultivating yixing sanmei, viz, the perfection of wisdom (PRAJNĀPĀRAMITĀ) and recollection of the Buddha's name (S. BUDDHĀNUSMṚTI; C. NIANFO). The concept of yixing sanmei was later incorporated into the apocryphal Chinese treatise DASHENG QIXIN LUN and the influential meditation manual MOHE ZHIGUAN. TIANTAI ZHIYI, the author of the Mohe Zhiguan, identified the practice of constant sitting, the first of the so-called four kinds of samādhi (sizhong sanmei), with yixing sanmei. Famous teachers of the early CHAN community, such as DAOXIN, HUINENG, and HEZE SHENHUI, also emphasized the importance of yixing sanmei, which they identified with seated meditation (ZUOCHAN) and the cultivation of prajNāpāramitā. According to the LIUZU TANJING ("Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch"), Huineng interpreted yixing sanmei as the maintenance of a straightforward mind (yizhi xin) while walking, standing, sitting, and lying. Shenhui identified yixing sanmei with "no mind" (WUXIN; see also WUNIAN).
zuochan. (J. zazen; K. chwason 坐禪). In Chinese, "seated meditation." Zuochan is a combination of the Chinese term "to sit" (zuo) and the character CHAN, a transcription of the Sanskrit term DHYĀNA (meditation); often referred to in English-language sources by the Japanese pronunciation zazen. As its etymology implies, zuochan refers to sitting with legs folded on top of each other and eyes slightly closed in meditation. This meditative practice may be generically considered to be directed at samādhi, one of the three trainings (C. sanxue; S. siksātraya), along with morality (sĪLA) and wisdom (PRAJNĀ), or alternatively at dhyāna, one of the six PĀRAMITĀs emblematic of BODHISATTVA practice, along with charity (DĀNA), precepts (sīla), forbearance (KsĀNTI), effort (VĪRYA), and wisdom (prajNā). Sitting has long held pride of place within the Buddhist tradition as the archetypal position (ĪRYĀPATHA) most suited to sustained meditation training. The prototype for zuochan is the Buddha's own seated meditation under the BODHI TREE, as well as the legendary Indian monk BODHIDHARMA's "wall gazing" (BIGUAN) for nine years in a cave. Because of these associations with both the Buddha and Bodhidharma, the founder of the Chan school, zuochan was widely considered to be the primary practice within the CHAN, SoN, and ZEN traditions. In China, zuochan came to be viewed as such a stereotypical aspect of the Chan school, broadly conceived, that Chan teachers began to critique its necessity and importance; these critiques suggested instead that Chan practice was not to be confined just to zuochan, but should also be conducted throughout the three other standard deportments of walking, standing, and lying down. For example, the LIUZU TANJING ("Platform Sutra"), attributed to the sixth patriarch HUINENG, includes such a rectification of the meaning of zuochan when it says that "'seated' means, externally, to refrain from generating thoughts related to wholesome or unwholesome objects; 'meditation' means, internally, to see that the self-nature is unmoving." In this redefinition, zuochan means not just "seated meditation" but instead encompasses a way of understanding that is to be carried through all aspects of one's experience.
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1:Paths are made by walking
~ Franz Kafka,#KEYS
2:Walking is man's best medicine.
~ Hippocrates,#KEYS
3:Life is but a walking shadow. ~ William Shakespeare, #KEYS
4:All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche,#KEYS
5:Autumn wind for all my walking - for all my walking. ~ Taneda Santoka 1882-1940, #KEYS
6:If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one." ~ Dolly Parton, #KEYS
7:Walking this path
I choose one patch of sunlight
after another. ~ Mitzu Suzuki,#KEYS
8:A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance." ~ Gregory Bateson, #KEYS
9:Things are solved by walking around. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #KEYS
10:There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
~ Lilly Wachowski, The Matrix, Morpheus,#KEYS
11:melancholy
walking alone
viewing the moon
~ Buson, @BashoSociety#KEYS
12:Let us always be terrified of mortal sin and never stop walking on the road of holy eternity." ~ Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, #KEYS
13:shadows
walking in
the cold night
~ Ogawa, @BashoSociety#KEYS
14:You don't live on the earth, you are walking through the earth." ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
15:at dawn
walking through
yellow fields
~ Ogawa, @BashoSociety#KEYS
16:walking
within a shadow
an autumn moon
~ Ogawa, @BashoSociety#KEYS
17:I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. ~ William Blake, #KEYS
18:walking alone
graffiti on a wall
autumn dusk
~ Ogawa, @BashoSociety#KEYS
19:her shadow walking
through the house
new moon
~ Ogawa, @BashoSociety#KEYS
20:Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen. ~ Bodhidharma, #KEYS
21:the bright sun
touching my face
walking in the forest
~ Ogawa, @BashoSociety#KEYS
22:a pure sky
at high noon
walking alone
~ Kobayashi Issa, @BashoSociety#KEYS
23:an open sky
at high noon
walking alone
~ Kobayashi Issa, @BashoSociety#KEYS
24:a clear sky
in the noon sun
walking alone
~ Kobayashi Issa, @BashoSociety#KEYS
25:walking on frost
it hurts me
to see him leave
~ Matsuo Basho, @BashoSociety#KEYS
26:walking through
a mountain village
on a cold autumn night
~ Ogawa, @BashoSociety#KEYS
27:It matters not that you have been walking along a wrong path. The Lord knows what he wants and in the end fulfills it. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
28:he wise man sits not inert; he is ever walking incessantly forward towards a greater light. ~ Fo-shu-hing-tsan-king, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
29:When you hear that He was lifted up, understand His hanging on high, that He might sanctify the air who had sanctified the earth by walking upon it. ~ Theophylact of Ohrid, #KEYS
30:It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching." ~ Francis of Assisi, (1181/1182-1226), Italian Catholic friar, deacon and preacher," Wikipedia., #KEYS
31:the entire family
walking canes and grey hair
visiting graves
~ Matsuo Basho, @BashoSociety#KEYS
32:I saw only the glory of green emeralds, and radiant buddhas walking everywhere, and there was no I to see any of this, but the emeralds were there just the same. ~ Ken Wilber, One Taste, #KEYS
33:He who discerns the truth as truth and the illusion as an illusion, attains to the truth and is walking in the right road. ~ Dhammapada, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
34:It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone, or seated in your shop, . . . while buying or selling, . . . or even while cooking. ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #KEYS
35:The efficient cause is the cause of that which is the end, for example, walking in order to be healthy ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (On the Principles of Nature, c. 3), #KEYS
36:Whether you are standing or walking, whether you are seated or lying down, consecrate yourselves wholly to love : it is the best way of life. ~ Metta Sutta, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
37:An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #KEYS
38:Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins. ~ Gustave Flaubert, #KEYS
39:A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately. ~ Margaret Atwood, #KEYS
40:Prophets and incarnations who have come and gone have shown us one thing, that we too can become heirs of knowledge and power like themselves - if we only have the will. If we struggle, walking the path taken by them, we too will reach that goal one day. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
41:If you would spend all your time - walking, standing, sitting or lying down - learning to halt the concept-forming activities of your own mind, you could be sure of ultimately attaining your goal." ~ Huang Po, (d. 850), an influential Chinese master of Zen Buddhism, Wikipedia., #KEYS
42:There's a community of the spirit, join it and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. Drink all your passion and be disgraced. Close both eyes to see with the other one. Open your hands if you want to be held. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #KEYS
43:You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink. ~ G K Chesterton, #KEYS
44:People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child ~ our own two eyes. All is a miracle. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #KEYS
45:Kama (Desire)
Delight and laughter walking hand in hand
Go with Me, and I play with grief and pain. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Kama
Kama (Desire)
All energies put into activity—thought, speech, feeling, act—go to constitute Karma. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I, Karma and Heredity,#KEYS
46:You are a Buddha, and so is everyone else. I didn't make that up. It was the Buddha himself who said so. He said that all beings had the potential to become awakened. To practice walking meditation is to practice living in mindfulness. Mindfulness and enlightenment are one. Enlightenment leads to mindfulness and mindfulness leads to enlightenment. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #KEYS
47:The eighth-century sage Salih of Qaswin said to his students,“Keep knocking on the door of Allah & never stop,for by His mercy,Allah will eventually open His door for those who sincerely seek Him.”The mystic Rabia Al-Adawiyya overheard this statement as she was walking by the mosque and said, “Oh Salih, who said Allah’s door is closed to begin with?” ~ Rabia al-Adawiyya, #KEYS
48:The Guru cannot make you realize the Truth unless you try hard for it yourself. The Guru can show you the way; can remove your doubts and difficulties, and correct your mistakes; can warn you if you go astray; can put you back on the right track; and can even take you some distance along it, holding you by the hand. But the walking you have to do yourself - he cannot carry you to the goal on his shoulders. ~ Swami Virajananda #KEYS
49:The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it's when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It's when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there's nothing there...
~ Stephen King,#KEYS
50:And the first of the adepts covered His shame with a cloth, walking backwards, and was white. And the second of the adepts covered his shame with a cloth, walking sideways, and was yellow. And the third of the adepts made a mock of His nakedness, walking forwards, and was black. And these are the three great schools of the Magi, who are also the three Magi that journeyed unto Bethlehem; and because thou hast not wisdom, thou shalt not know which school prevaileth, or if the three schools be not one.*
* This doctrine of the Three Schools is of extreme interest. Roughly, it may be said that the White is the Pure Mystic, whose attitude to God is one of reverence. The Yellow School conceals the Mysteries indeed, but examines them as it goes along. The Black School is that of pure Scepticism. We are now ready to study the philosophical bases of these three Schools.
~ Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears?, 43?,#KEYS
51:Sails across the sea of life in the twinkling of an eye.' One attains the vision of God if Mahamaya steps aside from the door. Mahamaya's grace is necessary: hence the worship of Sakti. You see, God is near us, but it is not possible to know Him because Mahamaya stands between. Rama, Lakshmana, and Sita were walking along. Rama walked ahead, Sita in the middle, and Lakshmana last. Lakshmana was only two and a half cubits away from Rama, but he couldn't see Rama because Sita - Mahamaya - was in the way.
"While worshipping God, one should assume a definite attitude. I have three attitudes: the attitude of a child, the attitude or a maidservant, and the attitude of a friend. For a long time I regarded myself as a maidservant and a woman companion of God; at that time I used to wear skirts and ornaments, like a woman. The attitude of a child is very good.
"The attitude of a 'hero' is not good. Some people cherish it. They regard themselves as Purusha and woman as Prakriti; they want to propitiate woman through intercourse with her. But this method often causes disaster. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,#KEYS
52:A Community of the Spirit
There is a community of the spirit.
Join it, and feel the delight
of walking in the noisy street
and being the noise.
Drink all your passion and be a disgrace.
Close both eyes to see with the other eye.
Open your hands if you want to be held.
Consider what you have been doing.
Why do you stay
with such a mean-spirited and dangerous partner?
For the security of having food. Admit it.
Here is a better arrangement.
Give up this life, and get a hundred new lives.
Sit down in this circle.
Quit acting like a wolf,
and feel the shepherd's love filling you.
At night, your beloved wanders.
Do not take painkillers.
Tonight, no consolations.
And do not eat.
Close your mouth against food.
Taste the lover's mouth in yours.
You moan, But she left me. He left me.
Twenty more will come.
Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought.
Why do you stay in prison
when the door is so wide open?
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.
Flow down and down
in always widening rings of being.
~ Jalaluddin Rumi,#KEYS
53:There is, indeed, a higher form of the buddhi that can be called the intuitive mind or intuitive reason, and this by its intuitions, its inspirations, its swift revelatory vision, its luminous insight and discrimination can do the work of the reason with a higher power, a swifter action, a greater and spontaneous certitude. It acts in a self-light of the truth which does not depend upon the torch-flares of the sense-mind and its limited uncertain percepts; it proceeds not by intelligent but by visional concepts: It is a kind of truth-vision, truth-hearing, truth-memory, direct truth-discernment. This true and authentic intuition must be distinguished from a power of the ordinary mental reason which is too easily confused with it, that power of Involved reasoning that reaches its conclusion by a bound and does not need the ordinary steps of the logical mind. The logical reason proceeds pace after pace and tries the sureness of each step like a marl who is walking over unsafe ground and has to test by the hesitating touch of his foot each span of soil that he perceives with his eye. But this other supralogical process of the reason is a motion of rapid insight or swift discernment; it proceeds by a stride or leap, like a man who springs from one sure spot to another point of sure footing, -- or at least held by him to be sure. He sees this space he covers in one compact and flashing view, but he does not distinguish or measure either by eye or touch its successions, features and circumstances. This movement has something of the sense of power of the intuition, something of its velocity, some appearance of its light and certainty, arid we always are apt to take it for the intuition. But our assumption is an error and, if we trust to it, it may lead us into grievous blunders.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
54:The capacity for visions, when it is sincere and spontaneous, can put you in touch with events which you are not capable of knowing in your outer consciousness.... There is a very interesting fact, it is that somewhere in the terrestrial mind, somewhere in the terrestrial vital, somewhere in the subtle physical, one can find an exact, perfect, automatic recording of everything that happens. It is the most formidable memory one could imagine, which misses nothing, forgets nothing, records all. And if you are able to enter into it, you can go backward, you can go forward, and in all directions, and you will have the "memory" of all things - not only of things of the past, but of things to come. For everything is recorded there.
In the mental world, for instance, there is a domain of the physical mind which is related to physical things and keeps the memory of physical happenings upon earth. It is as though you were entering into innumerable vaults, one following another indefinitely, and these vaults are filled with small pigeon-holes, one above another, one above another, with tiny doors. Then if you want to know something and if you are conscious, you look, and you see something like a small point - a shining point; you find that this is what you wish to know and you have only to concentrate there and it opens; and when it opens, there is a sort of an unrolling of something like extremely subtle manuscripts, but if your concentration is sufficiently strong you begin to read as though from a book. And you have the whole story in all its details. There are thousands of these little holes, you know; when you go for a walk there, it is as though you were walking in infinity. And in this way you can find the exact facts about whatever you want to know. But I must tell you that what you find is never what has been reported in history - histories are always planned out; I have never come across a single "historical" fact which is like history.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1950-1951, 109 [T7],#KEYS
55:PROTECTION
Going to sleep is a little like dying, a journey taken alone into the unknown. Ordinarily we are not troubled about sleep because we are familiar with it, but think about what it entails. We completely lose ourselves in a void for some period of time, until we arise again in a dream. When we do so, we may have a different identity and a different body. We may be in a strange place, with people we do not know, involved in baffling activities that may seem quite risky.
Just trying to sleep in an unfamiliar place may occasion anxiety. The place may be perfectly secure and comfortable, but we do not sleep as well as we do at home in familiar surroundings. Maybe the energy of the place feels wrong. Or maybe it is only our own insecurity that disturbs us,and even in familiar places we may feel anxious while waiting for sleep to come, or be frightenedby what we dream. When we fall asleep with anxiety, our dreams are mingled with fear and tension, sleep is less restful, and the practice harder to do. So it is a good idea to create a sense of protection before we sleep and to turn our sleeping area into a sacred space.
This is done by imagining protective dakinis all around the sleeping area. Visualize the dakinis as beautiful goddesses, enlightened female beings who are loving, green in color, and powerfully protective. They remain near as you fall asleep and throughout the night, like mothers watching over their child, or guardians surrounding a king or queen. Imagine them everywhere, guarding the doors and the windows, sitting next to you on the bed, walking in the garden or the yard, and so on, until you feel completely protected.
Again, this practice is more than just trying to visualize something: see the dakinis with your mind but also use your imagination to feel their presence. Creating a protective, sacred environment in this way is calming and relaxing and promotes restful sleep. This is how the mystic lives: seeing the magic, changing the environment with the mind, and allowing actions, even actions of the imagination, to have significance.
You can enhance the sense of peace in your sleeping environment by keeping objects of a sacred nature in the bedroom: peaceful, loving images, sacred and religious symbols, and other objects that direct your mind toward the path.
The Mother Tantra tells us that as we prepare for sleep we should maintain awareness of the causes of dream, the object to focus upon, the protectors, and of ourselves. Hold these together inawareness, not as many things, but as a single environment, and this will have a great effect in dream and sleep.
~ Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Yogas Of Dream And Sleep,#KEYS
56:3. Conditions internal and external that are most essential for meditation. There are no essential external conditions, but solitude and seculsion at the time of meditation as well as stillness of the body are helpful, sometimes almost necessary to the beginning. But one should not be bound by external conditions. Once the habit of meditation is formed, it should be made possible to do it in all circumstances, lying, sitting, walking, alone, in company, in silence or in the midst of noise etc.
The first internal condition necessary is concentration of the will against the obstacles to meditation, i.e. wandering of the mind, forgetfulness, sleep, physical and nervous impatience and restlessness etc. If the difficulty in meditation is that thoughts of all kinds come in, that is not due to hostile forces but to the ordinary nature of the human mind. All sadhaks have this difficulty and with many it lasts for a very long time. There are several was of getting rid of it. One of them is to look at the thoughts and observe what is the nature of the human mind as they show it but not to give any sanction and to let them run down till they come to a standstill - this is a way recommended by Vivekananda in his Rajayoga. Another is to look at the thoughts as not one's own, to stand back as the witness Purusha and refuse the sanction - the thoughts are regarded as things coming from outside, from Prakriti, and they must be felt as if they were passers-by crossing the mind-space with whom one has no connection and in whom one takes no interest. In this way it usually happens that after the time the mind divides into two, a part which is the mental witness watching and perfectly undisturbed and quiet and a part in which the thoughts cross or wander. Afterwards one can proceed to silence or quiet the Prakriti part also. There is a third, an active method by which one looks to see where the thoughts come from and finds they come not from oneself, but from outside the head as it were; if one can detect them coming, then, before enter, they have to be thrown away altogether. This is perhaps the most difficult way and not all can do it, but if it can be done it is the shortest and most powerful road to silence. It is not easy to get into the Silence. That is only possible by throwing out all mental-vital activities. It is easier to let the Silence descend into you, i.e., to open yourself and let it descend. The way to do this and the way to call down the higher powers is the same. It is to remain quiet at the time of efforts to pull down the Power or the Silence but keeping only a silent will and aspiration for them. If the mind is active one has to learn to look at it, drawn back and not giving sanction from within, until its habitual or mechanical activities begin to fall quiet for want of support from within. if it is too persistent, a steady rejection without strain or struggle is the one thing to be done.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Autobiographical Notes,#KEYS
57:SLEIGHT OF MIND IN ILLUMINATION
Only those forms of illumination which lead to useful behaviour changes deserve to be known as such. When I hear the word "spirituality", I tend to reach for a loaded wand. Most professionally spiritual people are vile and untrustworthy when off duty, simply because their beliefs conflict with basic drives and only manage to distort their natural behaviour temporarily. The demons then come screaming up out of the cellar at unexpected moments.
When selecting objectives for illumination, the magician should choose forms of self improvement which can be precisely specified and measured and which effect changes of behaviour in his entire existence. Invocation is the main tool in illumination, although enchantment where spells are cast upon oneselves and divination to seek objectives for illumination may also find some application.
Evocation can sometimes be used with care, but there is no point in simply creating an entity that is the repository of what one wishes were true for oneself in general. This is a frequent mistake in religion. Forms of worship which create only entities in the subconscious are inferior to more wholehearted worship, which, at its best, is pure invocation. The Jesuits "Imitation of Christ" is more effective than merely praying to Jesus for example.
Illumination proceeds in the same general manner as invocation, except that the magician is striving to effect specific changes to his everyday behaviour, rather than to create enhanced facilities that can be drawn upon for particular purposes. The basic technique remains the same, the required beliefs are identified and then implanted in the subconscious by ritual or other acts. Such acts force the subconscious acquisition of the beliefs they imply.
Modest and realistic objectives are preferable to grandiose schemes in illumination.
One modifies the behaviour and beliefs of others by beginning with only the most trivial demands. The same applies to oneselves. The magician should beware of implanting beliefs whose expression cannot be sustained by the human body or the environment. For example it is possible to implant the belief that flight can be achieved without an aircraft. However it has rarely proved possible to implant this belief deeply enough to ensure that such flights were not of exceedingly short duration. Nevertheless such feats as fire-walking and obliviousness to extreme pain are sometimes achieved by this mechanism.
The sleight of mind which implants belief through ritual action is more powerful than any other weapon that humanity possesses, yet its influence is so pervasive that we seldom notice it. It makes religions, wars, cults and cultures possible. It has killed countless millions and created our personal and social realities. Those who understand how to use it on others can be messiahs or dictators, depending on their degree of personal myopia. Those who understand how to apply it to themselves have a jewel beyond price if they use it wisely; otherwise they tend to rapidly invoke their own Nemesis with it. ~ Peter J Carroll, Liber Kaos,#KEYS
58:The true Mantra must come from within OR it must be given by a Guru
Nobody can give you the true mantra. It's not something that is given; it's something that wells up from within. It must spring from within all of a sudden, spontaneously, like a profound, intense need of your being - then it has power, because it's not something that comes from outside, it's your very own cry.
I saw, in my case, that my mantra has the power of immortality; whatever happens, if it is uttered, it's the Supreme that has the upper hand, it's no longer the lower law. And the words are irrelevant, they may not have any meaning - to someone else, my mantra is meaningless, but to me it's full, packed with meaning. And effective, because it's my cry, the intense aspiration of my whole being.
A mantra given by a guru is only the power to realize the experience of the discoverer of the mantra. The power is automatically there, because the sound contains the experience. I saw that once in Paris, at a time when I knew nothing of India, absolutely nothing, only the usual nonsense. I didn't even know what a mantra was. I had gone to a lecture given by some fellow who was supposed to have practiced "yoga" for a year in the Himalayas and recounted his experience (none too interesting, either). All at once, in the course of his lecture, he uttered the sound OM. And I saw the entire room suddenly fill with light, a golden, vibrating light.... I was probably the only one to notice it. I said to myself, "Well!" Then I didn't give it any more thought, I forgot about the story. But as it happened, the experience recurred in two or three different countries, with different people, and every time there was the sound OM, I would suddenly see the place fill with that same light. So I understood. That sound contains the vibration of thousands and thousands of years of spiritual aspiration - there is in it the entire aspiration of men towards the Supreme. And the power is automatically there, because the experience is there.
It's the same with my mantra. When I wanted to translate the end of my mantra, "Glory to You, O Lord," into Sanskrit, I asked for Nolini's help. He brought his Sanskrit translation, and when he read it to me, I immediately saw that the power was there - not because Nolini put his power into it (!), God knows he had no intention of "giving" me a mantra! But the power was there because my experience was there. We made a few adjustments and modifications, and that's the japa I do now - I do it all the time, while sleeping, while walking, while eating, while working, all the time.[[Mother later clarified: "'Glory to You, O Lord' isn't MY mantra, it's something I ADDED to it - my mantra is something else altogether, that's not it. When I say that my mantra has the power of immortality, I mean the other, the one I don't speak of! I have never given the words.... You see, at the end of my walk, a kind of enthusiasm rises, and with that enthusiasm, the 'Glory to You' came to me, but it's part of the prayer I had written in Prayers and Meditations: 'Glory to You, O Lord, all-triumphant Supreme' etc. (it's a long prayer). It came back suddenly, and as it came back spontaneously, I kept it. Moreover, when Sri Aurobindo read this prayer in Prayers and Meditations, he told me it was very strong. So I added this phrase as a kind of tail to my japa. But 'Glory to You, O Lord' isn't my spontaneous mantra - it came spontaneously, but it was something written very long ago. The two things are different."
And that's how a mantra has life: when it wells up all the time, spontaneously, like the cry of your being - there is no need of effort or concentration: it's your natural cry. Then it has full power, it is alive. It must well up from within.... No guru can give you that. ~ The Mother, Agenda, May 11 1963,#KEYS
59:Mother, how to change one's consciousness?
Naturally, there are many ways, but each person must do it by the means accessible to him; and the indication of the way usually comes spontaneously, through something like an unexpected experience. And for each one, it appears a little differently.
For instance, one may have the perception of the ordinary consciousness which is extended on the surface, horizontally, and works on a plane which is simultaneously the surface of things and has a contact with the superficial outer side of things, people, circumstances; and then, suddenly, for some reason or other - as I say for each one it is different - there is a shifting upwards, and instead of seeing things horizontally, of being at the same level as they are, you suddenly dominate them and see them from above, in their totality, instead of seeing a small number of things immediately next to yourself; it is as though something were drawing you above and making you see as from a mountain-top or an aeroplane. And instead of seeing each detail and seeing it on its own level, you see the whole as one unity, and from far above.
There are many ways of having this experience, but it usually comes to you as if by chance, one fine day.
Or else, one may have an experience which is almost its very opposite but which comes to the same thing. Suddenly one plunges into a depth, one moves away from the thing one perceived, it seems distant, superficial, unimportant; one enters an inner silence or an inner calm or an inward vision of things, a profound feeling, a more intimate perception of circumstances and things, in which all values change. And one becomes aware of a sort of unity, a deep identity which is one in spite of the diverse appearances.
Or else, suddenly also, the sense of limitation disappears and one enters the perception of a kind of indefinite duration beginningless and endless, of something which has always been and always will be.
These experiences come to you suddenly in a flash, for a second, a moment in your life, you don't know why or how.... There are other ways, other experiences - they are innumerable, they vary according to people; but with this, with one minute, one second of such an existence, one catches the tail of the thing. So one must remember that, try to relive it, go to the depths of the experience, recall it, aspire, concentrate. This is the startingpoint, the end of the guiding thread, the clue. For all those who are destined to find their inner being, the truth of their being, there is always at least one moment in life when they were no longer the same, perhaps just like a lightning-flash - but that is enough. It indicates the road one should take, it is the door that opens on this path. And so you must pass through the door, and with perseverance and an unfailing steadfastness seek to renew the state which will lead you to something more real and more total.
Many ways have always been given, but a way you have been taught, a way you have read about in books or heard from a teacher, does not have the effective value of a spontaneous experience which has come without any apparent reason, and which is simply the blossoming of the soul's awakening, one second of contact with your psychic being which shows you the best way for you, the one most within your reach, which you will then have to follow with perseverance to reach the goal - one second which shows you how to start, the beginning.... Some have this in dreams at night; some have it at any odd time: something one sees which awakens in one this new consciousness, something one hears, a beautiful landscape, beautiful music, or else simply a few words one reads, or else the intensity of concentration in some effort - anything at all, there are a thousand reasons and thousands of ways of having it. But, I repeat, all those who are destined to realise have had this at least once in their life. It may be very fleeting, it may have come when they were very young, but always at least once in one's life one has the experience of what true consciousness is. Well, that is the best indication of the path to be followed.
One may seek within oneself, one may remember, may observe; one must notice what is going on, one must pay attention, that's all. Sometimes, when one sees a generous act, hears of something exceptional, when one witnesses heroism or generosity or greatness of soul, meets someone who shows a special talent or acts in an exceptional and beautiful way, there is a kind of enthusiasm or admiration or gratitude which suddenly awakens in the being and opens the door to a state, a new state of consciousness, a light, a warmth, a joy one did not know before. That too is a way of catching the guiding thread. There are a thousand ways, one has only to be awake and to watch.
First of all, you must feel the necessity for this change of consciousness, accept the idea that it is this, the path which must lead to the goal; and once you admit the principle, you must be watchful. And you will find, you do find it. And once you have found it, you must start walking without any hesitation.
Indeed, the starting-point is to observe oneself, not to live in a perpetual nonchalance, a perpetual apathy; one must be attentive.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1956, [T6],#KEYS
60:Chapter 18 - Trapped in a Dream
(A guy is playing a pinball machine, seemingly the same guy who rode with him in the back of the boat car. This part is played by Richard Linklater, aka, the director.)
Hey, man.
Hey.
Weren't you in a boat car? You know, the guy, the guy with the hat? He gave me a ride in his car, or boat thing, and you were in the back seat with me?
I mean, I'm not saying that you don't know what you're talking about, but I don't know what you're talking about.
No, you see, you guys let me off at this really specific spot that you gave him directions to let me off at, I get out, and end up getting hit by a car, but then, I just woke up because I was dreaming, and later than that, I found out that I was still dreaming, dreaming that I'd woken up.
Oh yeah, those are called false awakenings. I used to have those all the time.
Yeah, but I'm still in it now. I, I can't get out of it. It's been going on forever, I keep waking up, but, but I'm just waking up into another dream. I'm starting to get creeped out, too. Like I'm talking to dead people. This woman on TV's telling me about how death is this dreamtime that exists outside of life. I mean, (desperate sigh) I'm starting to think that I'm dead.
I'm gonna tell you about a dream I once had. I know that's, when someone says that, then usually you're in for a very boring next few minutes, and you might be, but it sounds like, you know, what else are you going to do, right? Anyway, I read this essay by Philip K. Dick.
What, you read it in your dream?
No, no. I read it before the dream. It was the preamble to the dream. It was about that book, um Flow My Tears the Policeman Said. You know that one?
Uh, yeah yeah, he won an award for that one.
Right, right. That's the one he wrote really fast. It just like flowed right out of him. He felt he was sort of channeling it, or something. But anyway, about four years after it was published, he was at this party, and he met this woman who had the same name as the woman character in the book. And she had a boyfriend with the same name as the boyfriend character in the book, and she was having an affair with this guy, the chief of police, and he had the same name as the chief of police in his book. So she's telling him all of this stuff from her life, and everything she's saying is right out of his book. So that's totally freaking him out, but, what can he do?
And then shortly after that, he was going to mail a letter, and he saw this kind of, um, you know, dangerous, shady looking guy standing by his car, but instead of avoiding him, which he says he would have usually done, he just walked right up to him and said, "Can I help you?" And the guy said, "Yeah. I, I ran out of gas." So he pulls out his wallet, and he hands him some money, which he says he never would have done, and then he gets home and thinks, wait a second, this guy, you know, he can't get to a gas station, he's out of gas. So he gets back in his car, he goes and finds the guy, takes him to the gas station, and as he's pulling up at the gas station, he realizes, "Hey, this is in my book too. This exact station, this exact guy. Everything."
So this whole episode is kind of creepy, right? And he's telling his priest about it, you know, describing how he wrote this book, and then four years later all these things happened to him. And as he's telling it to him, the priest says, "That's the Book of Acts. You're describing the Book of Acts." And he's like, "I've never read the Book of Acts." So he, you know, goes home and reads the Book of Acts, and it's like uncanny. Even the characters' names are the same as in the Bible. And the Book of Acts takes place in 50 A.D., when it was written, supposedly. So Philip K. Dick had this theory that time was an illusion and that we were all actually in 50 A.D., and the reason he had written this book was that he had somehow momentarily punctured through this illusion, this veil of time, and what he had seen there was what was going on in the Book of Acts.
And he was really into Gnosticism, and this idea that this demiurge, or demon, had created this illusion of time to make us forget that Christ was about to return, and the kingdom of God was about to arrive. And that we're all in 50 A.D., and there's someone trying to make us forget that God is imminent. And that's what time is. That's what all of history is. It's just this kind of continuous, you know, daydream, or distraction.
And so I read that, and I was like, well that's weird. And than that night I had a dream and there was this guy in the dream who was supposed to be a psychic. But I was skeptical. I was like, you know, he's not really a psychic, you know I'm thinking to myself. And then suddenly I start floating, like levitating, up to the ceiling. And as I almost go through the roof, I'm like, "Okay, Mr. Psychic. I believe you. You're a psychic. Put me down please." And I float down, and as my feet touch the ground, the psychic turns into this woman in a green dress. And this woman is Lady Gregory.
Now Lady Gregory was Yeats' patron, this, you know, Irish person. And though I'd never seen her image, I was just sure that this was the face of Lady Gregory. So we're walking along, and Lady Gregory turns to me and says, "Let me explain to you the nature of the universe. Now Philip K. Dick is right about time, but he's wrong that it's 50 A.D. Actually, there's only one instant, and it's right now, and it's eternity. And it's an instant in which God is posing a question, and that question is basically, 'Do you want to, you know, be one with eternity? Do you want to be in heaven?' And we're all saying, 'No thank you. Not just yet.' And so time is actually just this constant saying 'No' to God's invitation. I mean that's what time is. I mean, and it's no more 50 A.D. than it's two thousand and one. And there's just this one instant, and that's what we're always in."
And then she tells me that actually this is the narrative of everyone's life. That, you know, behind the phenomenal difference, there is but one story, and that's the story of moving from the "no" to the "yes." All of life is like, "No thank you. No thank you. No thank you." then ultimately it's, "Yes, I give in. Yes, I accept. Yes, I embrace." I mean, that's the journey. I mean, everyone gets to the "yes" in the end, right?
Right.
So we continue walking, and my dog runs over to me. And so I'm petting him, really happy to see him, you know, he's been dead for years. So I'm petting him and I realize there's this kind of gross oozing stuff coming out of his stomach. And I look over at Lady Gregory, and she sort of coughs. She's like [cough] [cough] "Oh, excuse me." And there's vomit, like dribbling down her chin, and it smells really bad. And I think, "Well, wait a second, that's not just the smell of vomit," which is, doesn't smell very good, "that's the smell of like dead person vomit." You know, so it's like doubly foul. And then I realize I'm actually in the land of the dead, and everyone around me is dead. My dog had been dead for over ten years, Lady Gregory had been dead a lot longer than that. When I finally woke up, I was like, whoa, that wasn't a dream, that was a visitation to this real place, the land of the dead.
So what happened? I mean how did you finally get out of it?
Oh man. It was just like one of those like life altering experiences. I mean I could never really look at the world the same way again, after that.
Yeah, but I mean like how did you, how did you finally get out of the dream? See, that's my problem. I'm like trapped. I keep, I keep thinking that I'm waking up, but I'm still in a dream. It seems like it's going on forever. I can't get out of it, and I want to wake up for real. How do you really wake up?
I don't know, I don't know. I'm not very good at that anymore. But, um, if that's what you're thinking, I mean you, you probably should. I mean, you know if you can wake up, you should, because you know someday, you know, you won't be able to. So just, um ... But it's easy. You know. Just, just wake up. ~ Waking Life,#KEYS
61:The Supreme Discovery
IF WE want to progress integrally, we must build within our conscious being a strong and pure mental synthesis which can serve us as a protection against temptations from outside, as a landmark to prevent us from going astray, as a beacon to light our way across the moving ocean of life.
Each individual should build up this mental synthesis according to his own tendencies and affinities and aspirations. But if we want it to be truly living and luminous, it must be centred on the idea that is the intellectual representation symbolising That which is at the centre of our being, That which is our life and our light.
This idea, expressed in sublime words, has been taught in various forms by all the great Instructors in all lands and all ages.
The Self of each one and the great universal Self are one. Since all that is exists from all eternity in its essence and principle, why make a distinction between the being and its origin, between ourselves and what we place at the beginning?
The ancient traditions rightly said:
"Our origin and ourselves, our God and ourselves are one."
And this oneness should not be understood merely as a more or less close and intimate relationship of union, but as a true identity.
Thus, when a man who seeks the Divine attempts to reascend by degrees towards the inaccessible, he forgets that all his knowledge and all his intuition cannot take him one step forward in this infinite; neither does he know that what he wants to attain, what he believes to be so far from him, is within him.
For how could he know anything of the origin until he becomes conscious of this origin in himself?
It is by understanding himself, by learning to know himself, that he can make the supreme discovery and cry out in wonder like the patriarch in the Bible, "The house of God is here and I knew it not."
That is why we must express that sublime thought, creatrix of the material worlds, and make known to all the word that fills the heavens and the earth, "I am in all things and all beings."When all shall know this, the promised day of great transfigurations will be at hand. When in each atom of Matter men shall recognise the indwelling thought of God, when in each living creature they shall perceive some hint of a gesture of God, when each man can see God in his brother, then dawn will break, dispelling the darkness, the falsehood, the ignorance, the error and suffering that weigh upon all Nature. For, "all Nature suffers and laments as she awaits the revelation of the Sons of God."
This indeed is the central thought epitomising all others, the thought which should be ever present to our remembrance as the sun that illumines all life.
That is why I remind you of it today. For if we follow our path bearing this thought in our hearts like the rarest jewel, the most precious treasure, if we allow it to do its work of illumination and transfiguration within us, we shall know that it lives in the centre of all beings and all things, and in it we shall feel the marvellous oneness of the universe.
Then we shall understand the vanity and childishness of our meagre satisfactions, our foolish quarrels, our petty passions, our blind indignations. We shall see the dissolution of our little faults, the crumbling of the last entrenchments of our limited personality and our obtuse egoism. We shall feel ourselves being swept along by this sublime current of true spirituality which will deliver us from our narrow limits and bounds.
The individual Self and the universal Self are one; in every world, in every being, in every thing, in every atom is the Divine Presence, and man's mission is to manifest it.
In order to do that, he must become conscious of this Divine Presence within him. Some individuals must undergo a real apprenticeship in order to achieve this: their egoistic being is too all-absorbing, too rigid, too conservative, and their struggles against it are long and painful. Others, on the contrary, who are more impersonal, more plastic, more spiritualised, come easily into contact with the inexhaustible divine source of their being.But let us not forget that they too should devote themselves daily, constantly, to a methodical effort of adaptation and transformation, so that nothing within them may ever again obscure the radiance of that pure light.
But how greatly the standpoint changes once we attain this deeper consciousness! How understanding widens, how compassion grows!
On this a sage has said:
"I would like each one of us to come to the point where he perceives the inner God who dwells even in the vilest of human beings; instead of condemning him we would say, 'Arise, O resplendent Being, thou who art ever pure, who knowest neither birth nor death; arise, Almighty One, and manifest thy nature.'"
Let us live by this beautiful utterance and we shall see everything around us transformed as if by miracle.
This is the attitude of true, conscious and discerning love, the love which knows how to see behind appearances, understand in spite of words, and which, amid all obstacles, is in constant communion with the depths.
What value have our impulses and our desires, our anguish and our violence, our sufferings and our struggles, all these inner vicissitudes unduly dramatised by our unruly imagination - what value do they have before this great, this sublime and divine love bending over us from the innermost depths of our being, bearing with our weaknesses, rectifying our errors, healing our wounds, bathing our whole being with its regenerating streams?
For the inner Godhead never imposes herself, she neither demands nor threatens; she offers and gives herself, conceals and forgets herself in the heart of all beings and things; she never accuses, she neither judges nor curses nor condemns, but works unceasingly to perfect without constraint, to mend without reproach, to encourage without impatience, to enrich each one with all the wealth he can receive; she is the mother whose love bears fruit and nourishes, guards and protects, counsels and consoles; because she understands everything, she can endure everything, excuse and pardon everything, hope and prepare for everything; bearing everything within herself, she owns nothing that does not belong to all, and because she reigns over all, she is the servant of all; that is why all, great and small, who want to be kings with her and gods in her, become, like her, not despots but servitors among their brethren.
How beautiful is this humble role of servant, the role of all who have been revealers and heralds of the God who is within all, of the Divine Love that animates all things....
And until we can follow their example and become true servants even as they, let us allow ourselves to be penetrated and transformed by this Divine Love; let us offer Him, without reserve, this marvellous instrument, our physical organism. He shall make it yield its utmost on every plane of activity.
To achieve this total self-consecration, all means are good, all methods have their value. The one thing needful is to persevere in our will to attain this goal. For then everything we study, every action we perform, every human being we meet, all come to bring us an indication, a help, a light to guide us on the path.
Before I close, I shall add a few pages for those who have already made apparently fruitless efforts, for those who have encountered the pitfalls on the way and seen the measure of their weakness, for those who are in danger of losing their self-confidence and courage. These pages, intended to rekindle hope in the hearts of those who suffer, were written by a spiritual worker at a time when ordeals of every kind were sweeping down on him like purifying flames.
You who are weary, downcast and bruised, you who fall, who think perhaps that you are defeated, hear the voice of a friend. He knows your sorrows, he has shared them, he has suffered like you from the ills of the earth; like you he has crossed many deserts under the burden of the day, he has known thirst and hunger, solitude and abandonment, and the cruellest of all wants, the destitution of the heart. Alas! he has known too the hours of doubt, the errors, the faults, the failings, every weakness.
But he tells you: Courage! Hearken to the lesson that the rising sun brings to the earth with its first rays each morning. It is a lesson of hope, a message of solace.
You who weep, who suffer and tremble, who dare not expect an end to your ills, an issue to your pangs, behold: there is no night without dawn and the day is about to break when darkness is thickest; there is no mist that the sun does not dispel, no cloud that it does not gild, no tear that it will not dry one day, no storm that is not followed by its shining triumphant bow; there is no snow that it does not melt, nor winter that it does not change into radiant spring.
And for you too, there is no affliction which does not bring its measure of glory, no distress which cannot be transformed into joy, nor defeat into victory, nor downfall into higher ascension, nor solitude into radiating centre of life, nor discord into harmony - sometimes it is a misunderstanding between two minds that compels two hearts to open to mutual communion; lastly, there is no infinite weakness that cannot be changed into strength. And it is even in supreme weakness that almightiness chooses to reveal itself!
Listen, my little child, you who today feel so broken, so fallen perhaps, who have nothing left, nothing to cover your misery and foster your pride: never before have you been so great! How close to the summits is he who awakens in the depths, for the deeper the abyss, the more the heights reveal themselves!
Do you not know this, that the most sublime forces of the vasts seek to array themselves in the most opaque veils of Matter? Oh, the sublime nuptials of sovereign love with the obscurest plasticities, of the shadow's yearning with the most royal light!
If ordeal or fault has cast you down, if you have sunk into the nether depths of suffering, do not grieve - for there indeed the divine love and the supreme blessing can reach you! Because you have passed through the crucible of purifying sorrows, the glorious ascents are yours.
You are in the wilderness: then listen to the voices of the silence. The clamour of flattering words and outer applause has gladdened your ears, but the voices of the silence will gladden your soul and awaken within you the echo of the depths, the chant of divine harmonies!
You are walking in the depths of night: then gather the priceless treasures of the night. In bright sunshine, the ways of intelligence are lit, but in the white luminosities of the night lie the hidden paths of perfection, the secret of spiritual riches.
You are being stripped of everything: that is the way towards plenitude. When you have nothing left, everything will be given to you. Because for those who are sincere and true, from the worst always comes the best.
Every grain that is sown in the earth produces a thousand. Every wing-beat of sorrow can be a soaring towards glory.
And when the adversary pursues man relentlessly, everything he does to destroy him only makes him greater.
Hear the story of the worlds, look: the great enemy seems to triumph. He casts the beings of light into the night, and the night is filled with stars. He rages against the cosmic working, he assails the integrity of the empire of the sphere, shatters its harmony, divides and subdivides it, scatters its dust to the four winds of infinity, and lo! the dust is changed into a golden seed, fertilising the infinite and peopling it with worlds which now gravitate around their eternal centre in the larger orbit of space - so that even division creates a richer and deeper unity, and by multiplying the surfaces of the material universe, enlarges the empire that it set out to destroy.
Beautiful indeed was the song of the primordial sphere cradled in the bosom of immensity, but how much more beautiful and triumphant is the symphony of the constellations, the music of the spheres, the immense choir that fills the heavens with an eternal hymn of victory!
Hear again: no state was ever more precarious than that of man when he was separated on earth from his divine origin. Above him stretched the hostile borders of the usurper, and at his horizon's gates watched jailers armed with flaming swords. Then, since he could climb no more to the source of life, the source arose within him; since he could no more receive the light from above, the light shone forth at the very centre of his being; since he could commune no more with the transcendent love, that love offered itself in a holocaust and chose each terrestrial being, each human self as its dwelling-place and sanctuary.
That is how, in this despised and desolate but fruitful and blessed Matter, each atom contains a divine thought, each being carries within him the Divine Inhabitant. And if no being in all the universe is as frail as man, neither is any as divine as he!
In truth, in truth, in humiliation lies the cradle of glory! 28 April 1912 ~ The Mother, Words Of Long Ago, The Supreme Discovery,#KEYS
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:I walk: I prefer walking. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 2:Paths are made by walking ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 3:We're all just walking each other home. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove 4:Walking with her man, Lost in a dream. ~ a-a-milne, @wisdomtrove 5:Things are solved by walking around. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 6:Keep walking the walk, one step at a time. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 7:We grow fearless by walking into our fears. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 8:When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove 9:As Rumi says, We’re all just walking each other home. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 10:She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 11:Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 12:I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 13:You can't get to courage without walking through vulnerability. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 14:Everything is within walking distance, as long as you have time. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 15:Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 16:I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying. ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove 17:Walking along the crowded row He met the one he used to know. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 18:Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 19:Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. ~ rumi, @wisdomtrove 20:He chooses the path along which he is walking and so has no complaints. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove 21:Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 22:When you're walking, just walk. It turns out to be the hardest thing. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove 23:Every path, every street in the world is your walking meditation path. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 24:Our walking is not a means to an end. We walk for the sake of walking. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 25:I like walking in the pool. That isn't what makes me feel spiritual. But alive. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove 26:I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn't anymore. ~ a-a-milne, @wisdomtrove 27:Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 28:Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death. ~ alfred-lord-tennyson, @wisdomtrove 29:The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand. ~ fred-allen, @wisdomtrove 30:Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time. ~ elon-musk, @wisdomtrove 31:Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 32:Grammar is... the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 33:Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 34:Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded. ~ aeschylus, @wisdomtrove 35:Nirvana is outside the fun house. You are walking around in the fun house forever. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 36:How can I have peace? Not by talking about peace, But by walking Along the road of peace. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove 37:I admit that I haven't read everything in my library, but I feel smarter just walking in it! ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 38:I learned to walk when I was ten months old and I've been walking this way ever since. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 39:Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove 40:There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 41:You can either keep walking in misery or make the decision to begin taking steps out of it. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 42:I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river. ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove 43:My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands. ~ kin-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 44:I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 45:Walking in humility isn't focusing on what we are NOT; rather, it's declaring what God is. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 46:If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove 47:The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 48:Children, we should always eat our food sitting down. Do not eat standing or walking around. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 49:I was once walking through the forest alone. A tree fell right in front of me - and I didn't hear it. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 50:Last week I was walking by a cemetery, two guys came after me with shovels. It was all about money. ~ rodney-dangerfield, @wisdomtrove 51:If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress. ~ barack-obama, @wisdomtrove 52:Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead. ~ heraclitus, @wisdomtrove 53:Reaching the finish line, never walking, and enjoying the race. These three, in this order, are my goals. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 54:When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove 55:He knew a path that wanted walking; He knew a spring that wanted drinking; A thought that wanted further thinking ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 56:Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen. ~ bodhidharma, @wisdomtrove 57:Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 58:Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 59:Twas on a Holy Thursday, their innocent faces clean, / The children walking two and two, in red and blue and green. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 60:I 61:We will also be trying to circulate copies overseas, particularly in Denmark, where people are really keen on walking. ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove 62:On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 63:Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 64:Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 65:To throw the Christian into the furnace is to put him into Christ's parlor; for lo! Jesus Christ is walking with him. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 66:They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove 67:Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 68:I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 69:For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 70:If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 71:I've actually gone to the zoo and had monkeys shout to me from their cages, "I'm in here when you're walking around like that?" ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove 72:And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from & 73:The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 74:I think that the practice of medicine, the science of it, has become 50% pharmacological, so that doctors are like walking pharmacies. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 75:I was given two weeks to walk again, so I hooked up with a trainer, and he... had me walking. I'll never forget that, it was grueling. ~ richard-pryor, @wisdomtrove 76:I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove 77:If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker, and you were walking down a sidewalk, and he fell, that would be completely unacceptable. ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 78:The simple act of walking can be a tremendous boost to your focus, productivity, clarity of mind, not to mention your health and waistline. ~ leo-babauta, @wisdomtrove 79:When you're walking, just walk. When you're eating, just eat. Not in front of the TV, not with the newspaper. It turns out, that's huge. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove 80:Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade? ~ diogenes, @wisdomtrove 81:What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite? ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove 82:All too often, we spend our days waiting for the ideal path to appear in front of us. We forget that paths are made by walking, not waiting. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 83:The other day, I was walking my dog around my building . . . on the ledge. Some people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 84:We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 85:I think that the practice of medicine, the science of it, has become 50% pharmacological, so that doctors are like walking pharmacies. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 86:We are not walking in the Word if our thoughts are opposite of what it says. We are not walking in the Word if we are not thinking in the Word. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 87:I'm someone who likes ploughing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering. ~ abraham-maslow, @wisdomtrove 88:You know how it is when you’re walking up the stairs, and you get to the top, and you think there’s one more step? I’m like that all the time. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 89:Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove 90:Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake, and find the ideal, the goal. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 91:No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 92:A friend of mine is into Voodoo Acupuncture. You don't have to go. You'll just be walking down the street and . . . ooooohhhhhh, that's much better. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove 93:I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his passion. He must have looked like an earthquake walking down the street. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 94:See, the thing of it is, there's a lot of ugly people out there walking around but they don't know they're ugly because nobody actually tells them. ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove 95:If you have worries, there is no better way to eliminate them than by walking them off. Just take them out for a walk. They may take wings and fly away! ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 96:I love cell phones. I see people so happy and proud, walking around. Gesturing, you know. I'm like Karl Marx, I'm up for anything that makes people happy. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 97:Start shaping your own day. Start walking your own walk. This journey is yours, take charge of it. Stop giving other people the power to shape your life. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 98:Fool of a Took!" he growled. "This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 99:In Talmudic literature, certainly in the beginning, he was like a human being - except he was a serpent. But he was talking and walking and probably dreaming. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 100:What is most important is to find peace and to share it with others. To have peace, you can begin by walking peacefully. Everything depends on your steps. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 101:In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope. ~ henri-matisse, @wisdomtrove 102:If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 103:Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn't be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 104:Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 105:Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It is emblematic of all things a man does. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 106:As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 107:Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, but don't move the way fear makes you move. ~ rumi, @wisdomtrove 108:My God, I pray better to you by breathing and walking than by talking, just as in choir I sing best when I am thinking about something else, or better still, praying. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 109:Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 110:Most of all, God has blessed us by giving us the privilege of knowing Him and walking with Him every day. He did this by sending His Son into the world to die for our sins. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 111:That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove 112:At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . . ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 113:You have to work out where your place is. And who you are. But we're all spirit. That's all we are, we're just walking dressed up in a suit of skin, and we're going to leave that behind. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove 114:Our certainty that angels right now witness how we are walking through life should mightily influence the decisions we make. God is watching, and His angels are interested spectators too. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 115:Let there be three men walking together: from that number I should be sure to find my instructors; for what is good in them I should choose out and follow, and what is not good I should modify. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 116:If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 117:We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 118:This is something called walking meditation. The goal is to learn to be aware of each and every movement and feeling. I know it seems ridiculous, but it does change the way you experience walking. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove 119:Love is not talk or theory; it's action. In fact the Bible says that we cannot be walking in love if we see a brother in need, have what it takes to meet his need, and will not do anything to help him. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 120:If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 121:Wholehearted living is not like trying to reach a destination. It's like walking toward a star in the sky. We never really & 122:Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 123:A lot of bands have intense names, like "Rigor Mortis" or "Mortuary". We weren't that intense, we called ourselves "Injured". Later on we changed it to "Acapella" when we were walking out of the pawn shop. ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 124:First darts are unpleasant to be sure. But then we add our reactions to them. These reactions are second darts—the ones we throw ourselves. Most of our suffering comes from second darts. Suppose you’re walking ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove 125:When you sit and meditate and begin to experience expanded states of mind, you will be afraid. The light makes most people very, very afraid. The only way to overcome the fear is walking down into the light. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 126:I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, & 127:You know why dogs have no money? No pockets. & 128:I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 129:Try it for an hour. Every single thing you do should be done mindfully, and given equal importance — whether that’s putting something away, walking from one spot to another, picking up the phone, or talking to someone. ~ leo-babauta, @wisdomtrove 130:All that's visible springs from causes intimate to you. While walking, sitting, lying down, the body itself is complete truth. If someone asks the inner meaning of this: Inside the treasury of dharma eye a single grain of dust. ~ dogen, @wisdomtrove 131:They would spend a lot of their time simply walking around in the woods or in the cities, or they would come over to his house and he would teach them with a great deal of humor and laughter about the nature of existence. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 132:I'm a mumbler. If I'm walking with a friend, and I say something, he says, "What?" So I say it again, and he says, "What?" Really, it's just some insignificant stuff I'm saying, but now I'm yelling, "That tree is far away!" ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 133:How often does the tightrope walker balance when walking across the tightrope? All the time! It is the same thing if you really want to have a successful career, and you want to have a happy home life. It is a matter of balance. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 134:You are walking on the earth as in a dream. Our world is a dream within a dream; you must realize that to find God is the only goal, the only purpose, for which you are here. For Him alone you exist. Him you must find. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 135:I was walking down the street with my friend and he said & 136:If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 137:There's a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It's deceptive because when you have pride, you're usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn't sell well. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 138:When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 139:The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 140:When people laughed at him because he walked backward beneath the portico, he said to them: "Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade? ~ diogenes, @wisdomtrove 141:If you don't attach beliefs to it, sex is just like breathing or walking. It's beauty; it's you. But when you go into it seeking things like satisfaction, ecstasy, intimacy, connectedness, and romance, don't count on finding them. ~ byron-katie, @wisdomtrove 142:For the [innate] general principles enter into our thoughts, of which they form the soul and the connection. They are as necessary thereto as the muscles and sinews are for walking, although we do not at all think of them. ~ gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz, @wisdomtrove 143:Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 144:To the world I may seem very poor, walking penniless and wearing or carrying in my pockets my only material possessions, but I am really very rich in blessings which no amount of money could buy - health and happiness and inner peace. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 145:I went to high school in Indianapolis I learned how to walk around looking tough because everybody had to do that. I go out there occasionally and they're still doing it, walking around looking very tough because something might happen. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove 146:We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great beauty in this battlefield, and grace and the promise of joy. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 147:People in the West sometimes have these marvelous visions of India and Tibet. They assume that there are all these sadhus walking around and everybody is breathing enlightenment. Forget it. Don't look at it through rose-colored glasses. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 148:To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove 149:Football today is far too much a sport for the few who can play it well; the rest of us, and too many of our children, get out exercise from climbing up the seats in stadiums, or from walking across the room to turn on our television sets. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 150:I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 151:When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody On all four-footed things. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 152:Zen opens a man's eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time and infinity of space in its every palpitation; it makes us live in the world as if walking in the garden of Eden ~ d-t-suzuki, @wisdomtrove 153:There is no glimpse of the light without walking the path. You can't get it from anyone else, nor can you give it to anyone. Just take whatever steps seem easiest for you, and as you take a few steps it will be easier for you to take a few more. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 154:You got to always take advantage of getting your room cleaned. You may think it's nice not to have anybody in your room, like your privacy's not being invaded. But there's nothing like walking back into a clean room. You've got to remember that. ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 155:Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely? All this must go on without her; did she resent it; or did it not become consoling to believe that death ended absolutely? ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove 156:After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 157:If pinpointing God's presence were really that simple, then he supposed the beaches would be more crowded in the mornings. They would be filled with people on their own quests, instead of people jogging or walking their dogs or fishing in the surf. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 158:Of course I'm a fake. We're all fakes on this whole world, pretending to be something we're not. We are not just bodies walking around, not just atoms, molecules. We are unkillable, undestroyable ideas of the IS, no matter how much we believe otherwise. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 159:There was an old, crazy dude who used to live a long time ago. His name was Lord Buckley. And he said, a long time ago, he said, & 160:In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang about for a long time without spending any money. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 161:We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove 162:This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove 163:A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 164:People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our times is that we so willingly sleepwalk through the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove 165:Lord Jesus, master of both the light and the darkness, send your Holy Spirit upon our preparations for Christmas. We whose hearts are heavy seek the joy of your presence. We are your people, walking in darkness, yet seeking the light. To you we say, & 166:These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me. ~ amsel-adams, @wisdomtrove 167:Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 168:I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 169:If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. Soon, more windows will be broken, and the sense of anarchy will spread from the building to the street on which it faces, sending a signal that anything goes. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 170:I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others pain and must bear our own in solitude. For my part, I have found that walking soothes it; and that, given luck, sometimes we find one to walk besides us ... at least for a little way. ~ alan-moore, @wisdomtrove 171:The miracle is not to walk on water, or in the air, or on burning charcoal. The miracle is to walk on earth. You breathe in, you become aware of the fact that you are alive. You are alive and you are walking on this beautiful planet. The greatest of of all miracles is to be alive. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 172:A life best lived is a life by design. Not by accident, and not by just walking through the day careening from wall to wall and managing to survive. That's okay. But if you can start giving your life dimensions and design and color and objectives and purpose, the results can be staggering. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 173:Destructive criticism is the biggest single enemy of human potential. It is worse than cancer or heart disease. While those diseases can ultimately lead to the deterioration and death of an individual, destructive criticism kills the soul of the person but leaves the body walking around. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 174:Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime. [. . . ] You begin to get weak in the knees. Your head's in a whirl. And then you feel light as a feather, and before you know it, you're walking on air. And then you know what? You're knocked for a loop, and you completely lose your head! ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 175:Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 176:If you're not feeling good and you want to change the way you feel, or if you want to lift good feelings higher, then take a minute or two and god through a mental list of everything you love and adore. You can do it while getting dressed in the morning, walking, driving or traveling anywhere. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 177:When they saw me walking down the street smoking a cigar, they'd say, & 178:I find in the domestic duck that the bones of the wing weigh less and the bones of the leg more, in proportion to the whole skeleton, than do the same bones in the wild duck; and this change may be safely attributed to the domestic duck flying much less, and walking more, than its wild parents. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 179:Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness. If we're really engaged in mindfulness when walking along the path to the village, then we will consider the act of each step we take as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts like a flower, enabling us to enter the world of reality. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 180:Say So'ham, So'ham whatever comes. Tell yourself this even in eating, walking, suffering. Tell the mind this incessantly-that what we see never existed, that there is only I. Flash-the dream will break! Think day and night, this universe is zero, only God is. Have intense desire to get free. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 181:You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 182:Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman -But who is that on the other side of you? ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 183: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 184:Those who are near me do not know that you are nearer to me than they are Those who speak to me do not know that my heart is full with your unspoken words Those who crowd in my path do not know that I am walking alone with you Those who love me do not know that their love brings you to my heart ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 185:From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give me the right understanding of His Word, the Holy Scriptures; for as long as I have God's Word, I know that I am walking in His way and that I shall not fall into any error or delusion. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 186:If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! If it is not the right way, then show me another way; but if I stagger and lose the way, you must help me, you must keep me on the true path, just as I am ready to support you. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 187:Everybody has a camera on their phone these days, everybody wants a selfie or a picture, and the moment one person starts taking a picture everybody congregates around so I've become quite a fast walker. I don't like saying, "No," to people but by walking fast one might be able to avoid the first photo. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 188:Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone... . Freedom is of the essence, because you should be able to stop and go on and follow this way or that as the freak takes you... . There should be no cackle of voices at your elbow to jar on the meditative silence of the morning. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 189:Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha... . Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation. ~ bodhidharma, @wisdomtrove 190:Mother Teresa tells a story of walking past an open drain and catching a glimpse of something moving in it. She investigated and found a dying man whom she took back to a home where he could die in love and peace. & 191:The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back. In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight. When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove 192:The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back. In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight. When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove 193:Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be... a prudent insurance policy. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 194:[Herschel and Humboldt] stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science. No one or a dozen other books influenced me nearly so much as these two. I copied out from Humboldt long passages about Teneriffe and read them aloud on one of [my walking excursions]. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove 195:As she had been walking from the ward to that room, she had felt such pure hatred that now she had no more rancor left in her heart. She had finally allowed her negative feelings to surface, feelings that had been repressed for years in her soul. She had actually FELT them, and they were no longer necessary, they could leave. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove 196:Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the outside - some have weirder lives than you. Six billion stories, every one an epic, full of tragedy and triumph, good and evil, despair and hope. You and me - we aren't so special, bro. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 197:When every hope is gone, & 198:Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove 199:A Zen master was walking with one of his students who asked him: ‘How can I awaken?’ The master was quiet for a moment and then he replied: ‘Can you hear that babbling brook? … Enter there.’ The master is telling him to become profoundly conscious of what he’s already experiencing, by ‘entering’ into his sensual experience in the present moment. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 200:You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove 201:I do not care for anything. I do not care to ride, for the exercise is too violent. I do not care to walk, walking is too strenuous. I do not care to lie down, for I should either have to remain lying, and I do not care to do that, or I should have to get up again, and I do not care to do that either. Summa summarum: I do not care at all. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 202:The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement; one elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: "My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 203:You're walking through a field all by yourself one day in spring and this sweet little bear cub with velvet fur and shiny little eyes comes walking along. And he says to you, & 204:Always leave people with a solution; the heaven if you do versus the hell if you don't. If you're really skillful you can put the person into the future solution. Shoaff used to say, & 205:There is a kind of silver spiderweb that's spun around the world, and the strands of that web are certain loves and certain understandings. And if we follow those, and if we walk those strands, we're going to meet others at the intersections who have been walking the same way across this web. And when we meet, there's a kind of "I know who you are." ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 206:Whatever you do, you will be doing extraordinarily well, because the doing itself becomes the focal point of your attention. Your doing then becomes a channel through which consciousness enters this world. This means there is quality in what you do, even in the most simple action, like turning the pages in the phone book or walking across the room. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove 207:People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child - our own two eyes. All is a miracle. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 208:Pity is for this life, pity is the worm inside the meat, pity is the meat, pity is the shaking pencil, pity is the shaking voice& 209:I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate. As if the sorrows and stupidities of the human condition could overwhelm me, now that I realize what we all are. And if only everybody could realize this! But it cannot be explained. There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 210:Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud. ~ vernon-howard, @wisdomtrove 211:Remember one thing: meditation means awareness. Whatsoever you do with awareness is meditation. Action is not the question, but the quality that you bring to your action. Walking can be a meditation if you walk alertly. Sitting can be a meditation if you listen with awareness. Just listening to the inner noise of your mind can be a meditation if you remain alert and watchful. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 212:I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner, the virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous. ~ sri-ramakrishna, @wisdomtrove 213:You want to know what I was thinking?... I was thinking that I wished you'd been with me the last couple of days. I mean, I enjoyed getting to know everyone better. We ate lunch together, and the dinner last night was a lot of fun, but it just felt like something was wrong, like I was missing something. It wasn't until I saw you walking up the beach that I realized it was you. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 214:One day [when I relapsed] I walked into a store and saw a little bottle of Jack Daniel's. And then that voice - I call it the & 215:Where are you now?’ Where was I now? Gripping the receiver, I raised my hand and turned to see what lay beyond the telephone booth. Where was I now? I had no idea. No idea at all. Where was this place? All that flashed into my eyes were the countless shapes of people walking by to nowhere. Again and again, I called out for Midori from the dead center of this place that was no place. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 216:Emeth came walking forward into the open strip of grass between the bonfire and the Stable. His eyes were shining, his face was solemn, his hand was on his sword-hilt, and he carried his head high. Jill felt like crying when she looked at his face. And Jewel whispered in the King's ear, "By the Lion's Mane, I almost love this young warrior, Calormene though he be. He is worthy of a better god than Tash. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 217:I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove 218:Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 219:As to... old composers like Schubert or Beethoven, I imagine that, while modern music expresses both feeling, thought and imagination, they expressed pure feeling. And you know all day sitting at work, eating, walking, etc., you have hundreds of feelings that can't be put into words. And that is why I think that in a sense music is the highest of the arts, because it really begins where the others leave off. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 220:You have got me walking up and down all day under those trees, saying to me over and over again, "Solitude, solitude." And You have turned around and thrown the world in my lap. You have told me, "Leave all things and follow me," and then You have tied half of New York to my foot like a ball and chain. You have got me kneeling behind that pillar with my mind making a noise like a bank. Is that contemplation? ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 221:Whenever the horse stopped (which it did very often), he fell off in front; and, whenever it went on again (which it generally did rather suddenly), he fell off behind. Otherwise he kept on pretty well, except that he had a habit of now and then falling off sideways; and, as he generally did this on the side on which Alice was walking, she soon found that it was the best plan not to walk quite close to the horse. ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove 222:You could take all the gold that's ever been mined, and it would fill a cube 67 feet in each direction. For what that's worth at current gold prices, you could buy all - not some - all of the farmland in the United States. Plus, you could buy 10 Exxon Mobils, plus have $1 trillion of walking-around money. Or you could have a big cube of metal. Which would you take? Which is going to produce more value? ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 223:I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the top of a chimney. I know there's a house under there, and I'm pretty sure that I can dig it up if I want. That's how I feel. It's like the stories are already there. What they pay me for is the leap of faith that says: & 224:Far overhead from beyond the veil of blue sky which hid them the stars sang again; a pure, cold, difficult music. Then there came a swift flash like fire (but it burnt nobody) either from the sky or from the Lion itself, and every drop of blood tingled in the children's bodies, and the deepest, wildest voice they had ever heard was saying: "Narnia, Narnia, Narnia, awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 225:IN THE BEGINNING I undertook my walking not only to contact people, I undertook it as a prayer discipline to keep me concentrated on my prayer for peace... After the first few years the prayer discipline was completely unnecessary, because I had learned to pray without ceasing. I made the contact so thoroughly that into my prayer consciousness I put any condition or person in the world I am concerned about and the rest takes place automatically. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 226:The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is not, as Mr. Thomas Moore has it, "to steal a few hours from night, my love;" but, with leave be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose. The wandering man knows of certain ancients, far gone in years, who have staved off infirmities and dissolution by earnest walking,-hale fellows close upon eighty and ninety, but brisk as boys. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 227:What shall we do my darling, when trial grows more, and more, when the dim, lone light expires, and it's dark, so very dark, and we wander, and know not where, and cannot get out of the forest - whose is the hand to help us, and to lead, and forever guide us? ... Where do you think I've strayed and from what new errand returned. I have come from to and fro, and walking up and down the same place that Satan hailed from when God asked where he'd been. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove 228:When I started out on my pilgrimage, I was using walking for two purposes at that time. One was to contact people, and I still use it for that purpose today. But the other was as a prayer discipline. To keep me concentrated on my prayer for peace. And after a few years I discovered something. I discovered that I no longer needed the prayer discipline. I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument through which only truth can speak. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 229:I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And & 230:It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a world at your fingertips outside you. It is an immense privilege, and it is incredible that humans manage to forget the miracle of being here. Rilke said, ‘Being here is so much,’ and it is uncanny how social reality can deaden and numb us so that the mystical wonder of our lives goes totally unnoticed. We are here. We are wildly and dangerously free. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 231:She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He swore that it wouldn't and she believed him. But it only got worse after that, like when his dinner was cold, or when she mentioned that she'd visited with one of the neighbors who was walking by with his dog. She just chatted with him, but that night, her husband threw her into a mirror. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 232:The final awakening is the embracing of the darkness into the light. That means embracing our humanity as well as our divinity. What we go from is being born into our humanity, sleep walking for a long time, until we awaken and start to taste our divinity. And then want to finally get free. We see as long as we grab at our divinity and push away our humanity we aren’t free. If you want to be free, you can’t push away anything. You have to embrace it all. It’s all God. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove 233:Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise blots out the sounds and silences of the outdoor world; and talking leads almost inevitably to smoking, and then farewell to nature as far as one of our senses is concerned. The only friend to walk with is one who so exactly shares your taste for each mood of the countryside that a glance, a halt, or at most a nudge, is enough to assure us that the pleasure is shared. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 234:You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them a man stoop down and pick up something from the ground, look at it, and put it away in his pocket. The friend said to the devil, "What did that man pick up?" "He picked up a piece of the truth," said the devil. "That is a very bad business for you, then," said his friend. "Oh, not at all," the devil replied, "I am going to help him organize it." ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 235:Most people would never admit it, but they'd been bitching since they were born. As soon as their head popped out into that bright delivery-room light, nothing had been right. Nothing had been as comfortable or felt so good. Just the effort it took to keep your stupid physical body alive, just finding food and cooking it and dishwashing, the keeping warm and bathing and sleeping, the walking and bowel movements and ingrown hairs, it was all getting to be too much work. ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 236:Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches talk about having evidence of Divine authority because they have miracles. Miracles in our time are like candles in the street at midday. We do not want miracles. They are to teach men how to find out truths themselves; and after they have learned this, they no more need them than a well man needs a staff, or a grown-up child needs a walking-stool. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 237:That said, deciding to avoid other people does not necessarily equate with having no desire whatsoever for company; it may simply reflect a dissatisfaction with what‚Äîor who‚Äîis available. Cynics are, in the end, only idealists with awkwardly high standards. In Chamfort's words, & 238:One day Mara, the Buddhist god of ignorance and evil, was traveling through the villages of India with his attendants. He saw a man doing walking meditation whose face was lit up in wonder. The man had just discovered something on the ground in front of him. Mara's attendants asked what that was and Mara replied, "A piece of truth." "Doesn't this bother you when someone finds a piece of the truth, O evil one?" his attendants asked. "No," Mara replied. "Right after this they usually make a belief out of it." ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 239:Once I saw a duck walking down the street so I went into Subway and ordered two pieces of bread, and they informed me that they could not do that, like there was some speical rule at Subway that two pieces of bread weren't allowed to touch. So the woman asked me what I wanted on the sandwich and I said I do not care, it is for a duck, and she was like oh then it's free. I was not aware that ducks eat for free at Subway. It's like give me a chicken fajita sub, but don't worry about ringing it up, it is for a duck. ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove 240:If man had written the Gospels - say Shakespeare or Eugene O'Neill - the story of the gospel would have been drastically different. They would have placed the prince in halls and palaces and had him walking among the great. They would have had him surrounded by the important and significant of the time. Potentates and kings would have been His companions. But how sweetly common was the real God-man; though He had inhabited all eternity, He had come down and was subject to the rising and the setting of the sun. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 241:Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling - a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement! - it is emblematic of all things a man does. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 242:One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that at one time half of all the beds in our hospitals were reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who had collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives — if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: “Have no anxiety about the morrow”; or the words of Sir William Osler: "Live in day-tight compartments." ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 243:Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the arms of Tin√∫viel. But she chose mortality, and to die from the world, so that she might follow him; and it is sung that they met again beyond the Sundering Seas, and after a brief time walking alive once more in the green woods, together they passed, long ago, beyond the confines of this world. So it is that L√∫thien Tin√∫viel alone of the Elf-kindred has died indeed and left the world, and they have lost her whom they most loved. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 244:Stop walking through the world looking for confirmation that you don’t belong. You will always find it because you’ve made that your mission. Stop scouring people’s faces for evidence that you’re not enough. You will always find it because you’ve made that your goal. True belonging and self-worth are not goods; we don’t negotiate their value with the world. The truth about who we are lives in our hearts. Our call to courage is to protect our wild heart against constant evaluation, especially our own. No one belongs here more than you. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove 245:Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who are merely walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 246:The term revolution means: a sudden, radical, and complete change from the way things are normally done. I love that definition because I really feel that in order for us to start walking in the kind of love that Christ commanded us to - the "love your neighbor as yourself" kind - it's going to take a radical change in our current behavior. The church has become passive and selfish and it's going to take a revolution to get us back to the place where we are not just talking the talk, but walking in a love that shows the world Christ's love. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 247:It’s a wonderful paradox that as individual things—such as the self—feel increasingly groundless and unreliable, the totality of everything feels increasingly safe and comforting. As the sense of groundlessness grows, each apparently individual thing seems a bit like a cloud that you’ll fall through if you try to stand on it. At first this is pretty unnerving. But then you realize that the sky itself—the totality—is holding you up. You are walking on the sky because you’re sky. It has always been that way. You and every one else have been sky all along. ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove 248:Human beings look separate because you see them walking about separately. But then we are so made that we can see only the present moment. If we could see the past, then of course it would look different. For there was a time when every man was part of his mother, and (earlier still) part of his father as well, and when they were part of his grandparents. If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing& 249:We call it keeping up with the Joneses. They buy a boat and we buy a bigger one. They get a new TV and we get a big screen. They start a business and we start planning our articles of incorporation and the first stock release. And while we're so busy keeping up, we ignore our soul, the inner voice, that's telling us that it really wants to teach children to read. While it helps to identify with each other, we're not the same. So why compare ourselves on the basis of material things? Are you walking a path with heart in your own life, regardless of what others have? ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove 250:Your anger is like a flower. In the beginning you may not understand the nature of your anger, or why it has come up. But if you know how to embrace it with the energy of mindfulness, it will begin to open. You may be sitting, following your breathing, or you may be practicing walking meditation to generate the energy of mindfulness and embrace your anger. After ten or twenty minutes your anger will have to open herself to you, and suddenly, you will see the true nature of your anger. It may have arisen just because of a wrong perception or the lack of skillfulness. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove 251:As one comes into and lives continually in the full, conscious relation of his oneness with the Infinite Life and Power, then all else follows. This it is that brings the realization of such splendors, and beauties and joys, as a life that is thus related with the Infinite Power alone can know. This it is to come into the realization of heaven’s richest treasures while walking the earth. This it is to bring heaven down to earth, or rather to bring earth up to heaven. This it is to exchange weakness and impotence for strength; to exchange sorrows and sighings for joy; to exchange fears and forebodings for faith; to exchange longings for realizations. This it is to come into Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty. ~ william-walker-atkinson, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:walking contradiction. ~ Dan Harris, #NFDB
2:proceeds and walking ~ Richard Grant, #NFDB
3:I walk: I prefer walking. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
4:Paths are made by walking ~ Franz Kafka, #NFDB
5:walking sex furniture ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
6:I like walking on the edge. ~ Levon Helm, #NFDB
7:I'm a walking record. ~ Rickey Henderson, #NFDB
8:Why are you…walking a goat? ~ Vi Keeland, #NFDB
9:We make the path by walking. ~ Robert Bly, #NFDB
10:Paths are made by walking
~ Franz Kafka,#NFDB
11:walking away from America. ~ Jamie McGuire, #NFDB
12:walking is for poor people. ~ Ransom Riggs, #NFDB
13:Walking makes the mind work ~ Nancy Garden, #NFDB
14:A path is made by walking on it. ~ Zhuangzi, #NFDB
15:I hate walking up to strangers. ~ Joel Stein, #NFDB
16:Walking is man's best medicine. ~ Hippocrates, #NFDB
17:Good walking leaves no track behind it. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
18:walking calendar of crime, ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
19:Walking is a man's best medicine. ~ Hippocrates, #NFDB
20:He is now walking from his dream. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
21:Walking is man's best medicine.
~ Hippocrates,#NFDB
22:Faith means walking on the waters. ~ Julien Green, #NFDB
23:I see walking bombs on the street ~ Henry Rollins, #NFDB
24:Life's but a walking shadow ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
25:Walking awakens the total senses. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
26:Walking beside you I want for nothing. ~ Tim Finn, #NFDB
27:Walking with her man, Lost in a dream ~ A A Milne, #NFDB
28:But there was something about walking ~ Simon Wood, #NFDB
29:I don't go walking into things blind. ~ Jimmy Page, #NFDB
30:In walking, we acquire more of less. ~ Robert Moor, #NFDB
31:I really feed off of The Walking Dead. ~ Paul Feig, #NFDB
32:It was a pig walking on his hind legs. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
33:Life is but a walking shadow ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
34:walking into oblivion to claim love. ~ Jan Ellison, #NFDB
35:walking slowly through the crowd. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
36:We're all just walking each other home. ~ Ram Dass, #NFDB
37:If you don't eat pussy, keep walking. ~ Amy Poehler, #NFDB
38:If you don’t eat pussy, keep walking. ~ Amy Poehler, #NFDB
39:My mother is a walking miracle. ~ Leonardo DiCaprio, #NFDB
40:Prose is walking; poetry is flying ~ Galway Kinnell, #NFDB
41:using parking meters as walking sticks. ~ Tom Waits, #NFDB
42:You’re a goddamn walking constellation, ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
43:By myself walking, To myself talking. ~ Charles Lamb, #NFDB
44:He who limps is still walking. ~ Stanis aw Jerzy Lec, #NFDB
45:He who limps is still walking. ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, #NFDB
46:Walking with her man,
Lost in a dream ~ A A Milne,#NFDB
47:We’re all just walking each other home. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
48:"We're all just walking each other home." ~ Ram Dass, #NFDB
49:I believe in walking in the Spirit. ~ David Wilkerson, #NFDB
50:I feel energized walking off stage. ~ Marketa Irglova, #NFDB
51:There are angels walking among us. ~ Jennifer McMahon, #NFDB
52:The wisdom of age: don't stop walking. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
53:Walking on thin ice, I'm paying the price. ~ Yoko Ono, #NFDB
54:I am a 'little messiah' walking on earth. ~ Benny Hinn, #NFDB
55:I changed the past by walking back into it. ~ Sapphire, #NFDB
56:Things are solved by walking around. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
57:Walking on water wasn't built in a day. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
58:walking straight toward the table like ~ Lisi Harrison, #NFDB
59:We're all just walking each other home. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
60:You're walking by the tomb of Battiades, ~ Callimachus, #NFDB
61:So that's us: processed corn, walking. ~ Michael Pollan, #NFDB
62:walking again. But being inconspicuous on ~ Susan Wiggs, #NFDB
63:Walking is also an ambulation of mind. ~ Gretel Ehrlich, #NFDB
64:with a man. Three children walking stolidly ~ Lee Child, #NFDB
65:What is hiking but walking, after all ? ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
66:11. If you don’t eat pussy, keep walking. ~ Amy Poehler, #NFDB
67:A novel is a mirror walking along a main road. ~ Stendhal, #NFDB
68:I thought Christians were walking idiots. ~ Josh McDowell, #NFDB
69:Of all exercises, walking is the best. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
70:We’re all just walking each other home.” For ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
71:Angry walking sure gets you places in a hurry. ~ Jenny Han, #NFDB
72:Beware O wanderer, the road is walking too. ~ Jim Harrison, #NFDB
73:Dad and I went on walking, our shadows touching. ~ Ken Liu, #NFDB
74:Every cripple has his own way of walking. ~ Brendan Behan, #NFDB
75:Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. ~ Paul Val ry, #NFDB
76:vigorous walking in natural surroundings, ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
77:We grow fearless by walking into our fears. ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
78:Adolescence is just one big walking pimple. ~ Carol Burnett, #NFDB
79:Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too. ~ Jim Harrison, #NFDB
80:Don't you get it? We are The Walking Dead! ~ Robert Kirkman, #NFDB
81:I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around. ~ Eric Idle, #NFDB
82:I'm not walking by sight- I'm, walking by faith ~ T D Jakes, #NFDB
83:My shoes are clean from walking in the rain. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
84:To Christine Craig, for walking me through ~ David Baldacci, #NFDB
85:I'm walking away from the Troubles in my Life. ~ Craig David, #NFDB
86:She was a princess, a walking fairy tale. ~ Melanie Benjamin, #NFDB
87:Walking, reading, watching the light change. ~ Gail Caldwell, #NFDB
88:We’re all just walking each other home. ~ Brittainy C Cherry, #NFDB
89:It's good walking with a horse in ones hand. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
90:The hardest part is walking from the car to door ~ Kim Chance, #NFDB
91:The walking of Man is falling forwards. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
92:Trying to find a heart that's not walking away. ~ Mat Kearney, #NFDB
93:Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin. ~ Bruce Chatwin, #NFDB
94:Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking. ~ Patrick Ness, #NFDB
95:Cloned chickens walking around without heads, ~ Pharoahe Monch, #NFDB
96:I'm not walking around the stage, I'm not moving. ~ Elton John, #NFDB
97:nannygoat walking surefooted, dropping currants. ~ James Joyce, #NFDB
98:The promenade is a special subset of walking. ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
99:Walking every day! I am in love with that thought. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
100:Walking in the nature is a reincarnation! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
101:Foul, misbegotten mound of walking donkey dung! ~ Werner A Lind, #NFDB
102:I wondered if walking was not a form of dancing. ~ Rory Stewart, #NFDB
103:Only ideas won by walking have any value. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
104:Walking in a silence that said a thousand words. ~ Chris Colfer, #NFDB
105:Walking is a pastime rather than an avocation. ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
106:Walking is great to be used as an exercise program. ~ Lee Haney, #NFDB
107:Walking makes us take problems in our stride. ~ Andy Hargreaves, #NFDB
108:When I looked in his eyes, I just kept on walking. ~ Bill Smith, #NFDB
109:courage is walking through your fear with faith. ~ Maria Shriver, #NFDB
110:den, and I was walking down the street with ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
111:Life is like walking you take one step at a time. ~ Taylor Swift, #NFDB
112:Mysteries, dog walking, and fae girls? I'm in! ~ Victoria Danann, #NFDB
113:There is no road, the road is made by walking. ~ Antonio Machado, #NFDB
114:Things are solved by walking around. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
115:ultimately we’re all just walking each other home. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
116:Walking bores me. I mean, we have to have a goal. ~ Marge Piercy, #NFDB
117:When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking. ~ Gertrude Stein, #NFDB
118:I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed. ~ Larry David, #NFDB
119:Today I stood taller from walking among the trees. ~ Willa Cather, #NFDB
120:Walking out of here . . . I really don't wanna go. ~ Adam Silvera, #NFDB
121:We are all of us walking communities of bacteria. ~ Lynn Margulis, #NFDB
122:Anyone truly committed to life never stops walking. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
123:Courage is walking naked through a cannibal village ~ Sam Levenson, #NFDB
124:Daryl, de The Walking Dead, y Mike, de Breaking Bad ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
125:I am a walking disaster held together with beauty. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
126:I kind of look like every other girl walking around. ~ Lena Dunham, #NFDB
127:It's like walking through someone's small intestine. ~ Cody Lundin, #NFDB
128:Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking. ~ William Inge, #NFDB
129:Saw the walking wound I was, and came to be my balm. ~ Jesmyn Ward, #NFDB
130:There is no way; we make the road by walking it. ~ Antonio Machado, #NFDB
131:Walking in high heels should be made an Olympic sport. ~ Mimi Pond, #NFDB
132:As Rumi says, “We’re all just walking each other home. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
133:control your temper, we're walking out of here now ~ Deborah Bladon, #NFDB
134:I bet that dog-walking trollop called the cops on us. ~ Laura Goode, #NFDB
135:If I don't get to go to the gym, walking is the answer. ~ Daphne Oz, #NFDB
136:She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique. ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
137:Solvitur ambulando . . . it is solved by walking. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
138:Walking is almost as important as breathing, for me. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
139:Walking on water is easy if you know where to step. ~ Peter Tieryas, #NFDB
140:You are walking, talking evidence of your beliefs. ~ Robert Anthony, #NFDB
141:A child is your heart walking around outside your body ~ Marie Force, #NFDB
142:Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. ~ Steven Wright, #NFDB
143:he could manage. Ms. Silver happened to be walking by ~ Kevin Henkes, #NFDB
144:I blinked at Colin. He was like a walking Wiki site. ~ Amanda Flower, #NFDB
145:I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm. ~ Iggy Pop, #NFDB
146:Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick. ~ Charles Lamb, #NFDB
147:Walking a trail frees my mind to wander.... ~ Debra Lauman Kingsbury, #NFDB
148:Within today, tomorrow is already walking. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, #NFDB
149:A child is your heart walking around outside your body. ~ Marie Force, #NFDB
150:Griff kept walking, keeping his damp ramrod aimed away. ~ Damon Suede, #NFDB
151:He can play that leg glance with a walking stick also. ~ Waqar Younis, #NFDB
152:If I am walking with two people, both will be my teachers ~ Confucius, #NFDB
153:I'm walking you home. It's late. And it's pouring ~ Stephanie Perkins, #NFDB
154:Lu can come with us. She’s a walking good-luck charm. ~ Lauren Oliver, #NFDB
155:Men — walking, talking proof that God is a sadist. ~ Cherise Sinclair, #NFDB
156:She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique... ~ Bob Dylan, #NFDB
157:The sea was walking the earth with a heavy heel. ~ Zora Neale Hurston, #NFDB
158:To understand the journey you have to do the walking. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
159:When I’m in, I’m all in. I’m not walking away from this. ~ Katie Reus, #NFDB
160:A few months more, and he, perhaps, may be walking here. ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
161:All truly great things are conceived by walking. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
162:All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking, ~ Gretchen Rubin, #NFDB
163:And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long. ~ Iris DeMent, #NFDB
164:Elizabeth's back at the Red Cross, and I'm walking the dog. ~ Bob Dole, #NFDB
165:Everyone steps in shit. They keep walking and it comes off. ~ H M Ward, #NFDB
166:I am a lone monk walking the world with a leaky umbrella. ~ Mao Zedong, #NFDB
167:I'm going to be 80, walking with a stick down the runway. ~ Heidi Klum, #NFDB
168:Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs. ~ Dorothy Allison, #NFDB
169:The food you eat today is walking and talking tomorrow. ~ Jack LaLanne, #NFDB
170:Walking through this life really is walking through fire. ~ Chaka Khan, #NFDB
171:From now on walking is my beer and feeling good is my hangover. ~ Homer, #NFDB
172:He had been walking these roads, he thought, all his life. ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB
173:He’s like a little bratwurst walking through the dog pound. ~ Dan Chaon, #NFDB
174:I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process. ~ Baz Luhrmann, #NFDB
175:They are walking the line between genius and insanity. ~ Madeleine Roux, #NFDB
176:To understand the journey you have to do the walking. ~ Bryant H McGill, #NFDB
177:Walking around an early spring garden- going nowhere. ~ Kyoshi Takahama, #NFDB
178:Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility. ~ Gary Snyder, #NFDB
179:All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
180:He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells. ~ Steig Larsson, #NFDB
181:He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells. ~ Stieg Larsson, #NFDB
182:I am a walking, talking contradiction! Dammit. Deal with it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
183:I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles. ~ Brian Jacques, #NFDB
184:If I'm grumpy I sure do enjoy writing The Walking Dead. ~ Robert Kirkman, #NFDB
185:If you want to be a walking-rose, wear red clothes! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
186:I look like walking proof evolution has hit a brick wall. ~ Norah Wilson, #NFDB
187:I love The Walking Dead. I’m a massive fan of that show. ~ Joseph Morgan, #NFDB
188:I'm in love with you."
"Good grief." She kept walking. ~ Tahereh Mafi,#NFDB
189:In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street. ~ Ang Lee, #NFDB
190:Its like threading a needle while walking on a water bed. ~ Phil Donahue, #NFDB
191:Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
192:Salvator ambulado. (It is solved by walking.) ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, #NFDB
193:The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around. ~ Iggy Pop, #NFDB
194:Walking away had been easy.
Not looking back was harder. ~ V E Schwab,#NFDB
195:We are all walking repositories of hidden treasures. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
196:Ah, the optimism of the walking dead; it knows no bounds. ~ Shannon Mayer, #NFDB
197:A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. ~ Franklin D Roosevelt, #NFDB
198:A young lady by the age of seventy was walking up the road.. ~ Simon Pegg, #NFDB
199:Courage is not an absence of fear; courage is fear walking. ~ Susan David, #NFDB
200:If you think while you walk, you’re not really walking. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
201:Instead of walking like you're limping, talking yang about me ~ LL Cool J, #NFDB
202:It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself. ~ Brad Pitt, #NFDB
203:Mr. Right is coming, but he's in Africa and he's walking. ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
204:Perhaps I will begin by walking where he has walked.” Arap ~ Paula McLain, #NFDB
205:That's the worst part about the walking dead... the stains. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
206:Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking. ~ Antonio Machado, #NFDB
207:We need to talk,” Adam said one day, walking into my room. ~ Tyler Oakley, #NFDB
208:Al: Now, remind me, who's walking who down the aisle again? ~ Lindsey Kelk, #NFDB
209:By walking, she tells her students, is how you make the road. ~ Leni Zumas, #NFDB
210:Doing theater is like walking a tightrope without a net. ~ Joe Manganiello, #NFDB
211:I get nervous when I fly; I'm used to walking with my feet. ~ Jack Johnson, #NFDB
212:It’s Walking with Shadows by Luke Romyn. A famous fiction ~ Alan McDermott, #NFDB
213:Mountains are the only stars we can reach by walking! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
214:only thoughts conceived while walking have any value ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
215:Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
216:People have a crab mentality, man. They're walking sideways. ~ Cody Wilson, #NFDB
217:Second class travel is better than third class walking. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
218:Walking is the best possible exercise. — THOMAS JEFFERSON ~ Michael J Gelb, #NFDB
219:Walking through darkness with thoughts full of colors". ~ Prajakta Mhadnak, #NFDB
220:You can't go walking through Mordor in naught but your skin. ~ Sam Lipsyte, #NFDB
221:All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche,#NFDB
222:All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
223:A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick ~ John Arlott, #NFDB
224:Do you want some of this cheese, or shall we just go walking? ~ Pamela Dean, #NFDB
225:Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time. ~ Steven Wright, #NFDB
226:Feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
227:Growing older is like walking on thinner and thinner ice. ~ Henning Mankell, #NFDB
228:Her life was like walking on a tightrope through a hurricane ~ Jason Parent, #NFDB
229:It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven. ~ Matthew Henry, #NFDB
230:I was lusted after walking down the streets of New York. ~ Janice Dickinson, #NFDB
231:Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying. ~ Neil Armstrong, #NFDB
232:Walk and love
We're walking in love
For the walk of love ~ Criss Jami,#NFDB
233:Walking away from you feels like not taking care of myself. ~ Trista Mateer, #NFDB
234:Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
235:walking on crutches means I’m effectively walking on my hands! ~ Robin Kaye, #NFDB
236:When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think. ~ Charles Lamb, #NFDB
237:You know, you're like a walking magnet for weird shit, Chase. ~ M R Merrick, #NFDB
238:Grant nodded then turned and started walking out of the barn. ~ Jill Sanders, #NFDB
239:I couldn't remember what life was like before I started walking. ~ Teju Cole, #NFDB
240:I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon. ~ Christa McAuliffe, #NFDB
241:...is the sort that breaks a man's heart just walking... ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
242:No human walking the earth thinks of himself as a bullshitter. ~ Emily Gould, #NFDB
243:There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage. ~ Richard Jenkins, #NFDB
244:The secret of walking on water is knowing where the stones are. ~ Herb Cohen, #NFDB
245:And, if they’re walking a dog, I do it to their little dog, too. ~ L H Cosway, #NFDB
246:If the doors aren't open, just kick them in and keep walking. ~ Michael Schur, #NFDB
247:If you must know, he said 'my goodness me, a walking potato ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
248:It is impossible to trip and fall while walking slowly. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
249:I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
250:Our cadaverous cadre has been walking for little over a day... ~ Isaac Marion, #NFDB
251:People walking? Karma walking ... Buddha nature walking..! ~ Frederick Franck, #NFDB
252:The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
253:You can't get to courage without walking through vulnerability. ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
254:You've opened the gate. Now it's a matter of walking through. ~ Andrea Cremer, #NFDB
255:Am I walking toward something I should be running away from? ~ Shirley Jackson, #NFDB
256:Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking. ~ Elsa Maxwell, #NFDB
257:Create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
258:I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it. ~ Olivia Newton John, #NFDB
259:I know so many songs. I'm like a walking karaoke torture machine. ~ Evan Dando, #NFDB
260:our group was heading south, like a walking blasphemy. ~ Jean Christophe Grang, #NFDB
261:The walking wounded, opening their veins and bleeding in public. ~ Paul Auster, #NFDB
262:To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
263:Walking through the city streets... Is it by mistake or design? ~ Lana Del Rey, #NFDB
264:If you're walking the path of the dreamer, everything is possible. ~ Jared Leto, #NFDB
265:I like to promote fitness by walking around home in my underwear. ~ Mike Wilmot, #NFDB
266:My American walking shoes are new, and my Oriental eyes are old. ~ Ameen Rihani, #NFDB
267:Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress. ~ Zora Neale Hurston, #NFDB
268:Shadow didn’t wait to see. He walked away and he kept on walking. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
269:The best thing a writer can do is walk. Walking gives you ideas. ~ Tony Grisoni, #NFDB
270:The only sperm banks we have are walking around on two legs. ~ Katherine Allred, #NFDB
271:you can’t find self-love by walking a path paved by self-hatred. ~ Virgie Tovar, #NFDB
272:Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
273:I don't have to be walking around like some peasant. I'm royalty! ~ Scott Disick, #NFDB
274:It's like walking on a 1970 blaze orange shag carpet in a kitchen. ~ Cody Lundin, #NFDB
275:Me, I'm good at nothing but walking on the set with a pretty dress. ~ Sandra Dee, #NFDB
276:Most of us just go on, the walking wounded, dealing with our lives. ~ Barry Lyga, #NFDB
277:Only those thoughts which come from walking have any value ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
278:Sleeping with strangers will have you walking with enemies. ~ Eric Jerome Dickey, #NFDB
279:There’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. ~ Tony Hsieh, #NFDB
280:The Whitehouse is talking different because we are walking different ~ Van Jones, #NFDB
281:Walking maintains the publicness and viability of public space. ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
282:And I knew I was walking into this alone. And that was for the best. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
283:Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it. ~ Robert Kennedy, #NFDB
284:His squire thinks he can outwrestle a bear while walking on water, ~ Brandon Mull, #NFDB
285:I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying. ~ Charlie Chaplin, #NFDB
286:If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across ~ Mercedes Lackey, #NFDB
287:I know how to use the safety.-Andrea, the Walking Dead S3 finale ~ Robert Kirkman, #NFDB
288:I'm not walking out into a world that will kill me before my time. ~ Adam Silvera, #NFDB
289:I was born walking, born in the nowhere between galaxies. ~ Hannah Lillith Assadi, #NFDB
290:Once you start walking, the long road will start shortening! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
291:Sometimes walking away is best. I should know. It's my specialty. ~ Joanne Harris, #NFDB
292:Walking along the crowded row He met the one he used to know. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #NFDB
293:Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth. ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
294:What's the matter? Shadowclan attacking? Starclan walking among us? ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
295:when all is said and done, we are all just walking each other home. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
296:And walking on like that, I found the well at daybreak. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
297:As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. ~ John Locke, #NFDB
298:Every path, every street in the world is your walking meditation path. ~ Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
299:Gentle walking is completely transformative for the body and mind. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
300:He starts walking toward me—sure, confident, leonine. Dazzling. ~ Georgia Le Carre, #NFDB
301:I felt like I was walking on an airport's rubber conveyor belt. ~ Douglas Coupland, #NFDB
302:If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across. ~ Mercedes Lackey, #NFDB
303:Louisa, by whom she found herself walking, burst forth into raptures ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
304:My God, is that person walking?? I have never seen such a thing. ~ Cristin Terrill, #NFDB
305:Our walking is not a means to an end. We walk for the sake of walking. ~ Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
306:Perhaps feminist is a bit like walking purposefully through a crowd. ~ Erin Wunker, #NFDB
307:Theater in Israel is not more dangerous than walking in the street. ~ Meital Dohan, #NFDB
308:The man was a walking red button – push it and bad things happen. ~ Suzanne Wright, #NFDB
309:There´s no cure for that kind of missing, but I keep walking... ~ C K Kelly Martin, #NFDB
310:Walking is easy, but it requires faith to find the right path. ~ John Twelve Hawks, #NFDB
311:What was “walking on water,” if it wasn’t Bible talk for surfing? ~ Thomas Pynchon, #NFDB
312:A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man. ~ Arnold J Toynbee, #NFDB
313:Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
314:before the gate -- my walking stick's made a river of melting snow ~ Kobayashi Issa, #NFDB
315:Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it. ~ Robert F Kennedy, #NFDB
316:He was as fucked up as a man could be and still be walking around. ~ Linda Castillo, #NFDB
317:I don't like walking in the street and seeing 30,000 copies of myself. ~ John Lydon, #NFDB
318:If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one. ~ Dolly Parton, #NFDB
319:If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one. ~ Dolly Parton, #NFDB
320:Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them. ~ Paulo Freire, #NFDB
321:Someone walking toward you is such a simple, happy-to-be-alive thing. ~ Deb Caletti, #NFDB
322:Stand up during supper and walk outdoors, and keep on walking. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
323:Stop waiting and start working. Stop wishing and start walking. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
324:Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years. ~ Bobby Knight, #NFDB
325:Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith. ~ Clarence Jordan, #NFDB
326:has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy. ~ Jesse Jackson, #NFDB
327:I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB
328:If I could write a novel while I'm walking, I probably would. ~ Shirley Geok lin Lim, #NFDB
329:If you keep walking past the barbers, eventually you'll get a haircut. ~ Paul Merson, #NFDB
330:I got off the plane - I was walking and cooking at the same time. ~ Gabriel Iglesias, #NFDB
331:I’m pretty good at walking away from things—probably too good, in fact. ~ Kate Klise, #NFDB
332:I promise to be as careful as a pussycat walking up a slippery roof, ~ Carolyn Keene, #NFDB
333:I see walking bombs on the street
Hearts not beating, but ticking ~ Henry Rollins,#NFDB
334:Piles of books on the floor made walking a straight line difficult. ~ Maria V Snyder, #NFDB
335:Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender. ~ Billy Joel, #NFDB
336:We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another. ~ Patti Smith, #NFDB
337:Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
338:For a path to be your own path you must be walking on that path! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
339:Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much. ~ Buddy Hackett, #NFDB
340:Guilt sears instantly through my brain, but I don't stop walking away. ~ Donna Cooner, #NFDB
341:I just want my brother back.-Daryl (to Maryl)
the Walking Dead S3 ~ Robert Kirkman,#NFDB
342:There's not one person in the world that's not a living, walking contradiction. ~ Nas, #NFDB
343:Walking along the crowded row
He met the one he used to know. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky,#NFDB
344:Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking. ~ Sean Penn, #NFDB
345:A day without newspapers is like walking around without your pants on. ~ Jerry Coleman, #NFDB
346:A man's daughter is his heart. Just with feet, walking out in the world. ~ Mat Johnson, #NFDB
347:Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain. ~ Billie Holiday, #NFDB
348:God walking on the earth is more important than man walking on the moon. ~ James Irwin, #NFDB
349:He had a lot to ponder and he knew that everything is solved by walking ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
350:He seemed like a walking blasphemy, a blend of the angel and the ape. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
351:I grew up in southern California in the 80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche. ~ John Scalzi, #NFDB
352:I kept walking, but inside, I felt myself pause, just for a second. ~ Kathleen Glasgow, #NFDB
353:I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country. ~ William Congreve, #NFDB
354:It's not always as comfortable blazing the trail as it is walking on it. ~ Joan Lunden, #NFDB
355:It was walking through the world with a man-eating tiger on a leash, ~ Lindsay Buroker, #NFDB
356:The best evidence of our having the truth is our walking in the truth. ~ Matthew Henry, #NFDB
357:those roots were made for walking. And that’s not all they do. ~ Christopher L Bennett, #NFDB
358:When you are out walking in the sunlight, see the love covering all. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #NFDB
359:And we'll keep walking until the rest of the world ceases to exist. ~ Stephanie Perkins, #NFDB
360:By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind sees the path ~ Antonio Machado, #NFDB
361:Dead Witch Walking is basically a modern-day witch living in Cincinnati. ~ Kim Harrison, #NFDB
362:He had a lot to ponder and he knew that everything is solved by walking. ~ Louise Penny, #NFDB
363:I look my best when I'm totally free, on holiday, walking on the beach. ~ Rosamund Pike, #NFDB
364:Instead of running for President, why don’t you try walking on a treadmill? ~ Jeff Ross, #NFDB
365:I wanted to watch her walking, unselfconscious, for as long as possible. ~ Amitav Ghosh, #NFDB
366:mattered; he stank up the cabin just by walking inside. “You’ve brought ~ Mary Connealy, #NFDB
367:Nebraska is proof that hell is full and the dead are walking the earth. ~ Lizz Winstead, #NFDB
368:Once you walked away, you had to keep walking and never look back. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
369:Outdoors for me is walking from the car to the ticket desk at the airport ~ Frank Zappa, #NFDB
370:Put on a trench, you're suddenly Audrey Hepburn walking along the Seine. ~ Michael Kors, #NFDB
371:When we are walking our chosen path, we walk elegantly, emanating light. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
372:You don't get over the shadows inside you simply by walking away from them. ~ Pico Iyer, #NFDB
373:A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man. ~ Arnold Joseph Toynbee, #NFDB
374:At first I thought he was walking a dog. Then I realized it was his date. ~ Edith Massey, #NFDB
375:Imagine walking past the place where you lost someone, every single day. ~ Paula Hawkins, #NFDB
376:I was walking around trying to act cool, like I had no fear at all. ~ Stevie Ray Vaughan, #NFDB
377:Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking. ~ E W Howe, #NFDB
378:My idea of gambling was walking through Central Park, whistling show tunes. ~ Tommy Tune, #NFDB
379:Ninety degrees but the heat made me feel safe, like walking under water. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
380:Not an option. You burned your bridges. So keep walking. Do your own time… ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
381:Selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in letting go. ~ Cecil Day Lewis, #NFDB
382:Walking this path
I choose one patch of sunlight
after another. ~ Mitzu Suzuki,#NFDB
383:Walking with a dead man over my shoulder. Don't run away, it's only me... ~ Ernest Cline, #NFDB
384:You are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen walking this earth. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
385:You are walking around with your head on fire and no one can see the flames. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
386:You can always be a real part of a beautiful road by walking on it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
387:A friend is someone who walks into a room when everyone else is walking out. ~ Gary Moore, #NFDB
388:A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance. ~ Gregory Bateson, #NFDB
389:before the gate --
my walking stick's made a river
of melting snow ~ Kobayashi Issa,#NFDB
390:I didn't mind walking into danger on my own. Not the concept of it, anyway. ~ Gwenda Bond, #NFDB
391:I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection. ~ Kurt Cobain, #NFDB
392:I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn't anymore. ~ A A Milne, #NFDB
393:Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you’ve been in before. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
394:Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
395:To keep happy seems like walking on stilts. When one is tired, one falls off. ~ W B Yeats, #NFDB
396:Walking in ignorance is a choice for those who find reality too hard to face. ~ T F Hodge, #NFDB
397:when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, ~ Arthur Conan Doyle, #NFDB
398:Americans are in the habit of never walking if they can ride. ~ Louis Philippe I of France, #NFDB
399:Being an innkeeper meant walking a fine line between courtesy and tyranny. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
400:Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers. ~ Brad Pitt, #NFDB
401:For a military cop, walking into a bar is like a batter stepping to the plate. ~ Lee Child, #NFDB
402:I like walking in the pool. That isn't what makes me feel spiritual. But alive. ~ Ram Dass, #NFDB
403:I love 'True Blood.' I love 'The Walking Dead.' Those are fantastic series. ~ Kirk Hammett, #NFDB
404:I'm a walking zombie and I think I'm going to be like that for a while. ~ Tiffani Thiessen, #NFDB
405:I was no longer just walking around the house of cards; I was living in it. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
406:Not an option. You burned your bridges. So keep walking. Do your own time… A ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
407:Sex standing up and walking on sand will bring any man to a bad end. He ~ Andrea Camilleri, #NFDB
408:Still alive? (Randy) No. I’m a walking corpse. Can’t you tell? (Steele) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
409:The beagle and the kobold approached, walking out of the dusty distance. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
410:The problem is we dont even realize that we are walking a new road everyday ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
411:Walking the roads is enough today, I’ll follow the dark line of receding sun ~ David Whyte, #NFDB
412:Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. ~ T M Frazier, #NFDB
413:Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, #NFDB
414:Carbohydrate overconsumption has created the walking dead. – Stephanie Person ~ Jimmy Moore, #NFDB
415:…Do I see the ghost of a princess?
Cease walking in some unknown era… ~ St phane Mallarm,#NFDB
416:Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time ~ Elon Musk, #NFDB
417:Ever see a little kid walking around talking to himself? I'm the same way. ~ Chubby Checker, #NFDB
418:I happen to believe we are all walking repositories of buried treasure. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
419:I shall be taken for a walking Omelet, or some large Onion running to seed! ~ Matthew Lewis, #NFDB
420:The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand. ~ Fred Allen, #NFDB
421:There aren't that many people walking about who are a total class stereotype. ~ Ezra Koenig, #NFDB
422:The she-cat carried on walking without looking back. “Mapleshade,” she mewed. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
423:Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. ~ Helen Keller, #NFDB
424:We are all revenants; all living Christians are dead pagans walking about. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
425:As long as I’m walking this Earth, I’m going to love you … You’re it for me. ~ Penelope Ward, #NFDB
426:Dancing is like walking.People always walk,right? For me,I always have to dance ~ Lee Taemin, #NFDB
427:Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors. ~ Wallace Stevens, #NFDB
428:Good. Because I’m walking with a cane and I feel about as sexy as a toaster oven. ~ J R Ward, #NFDB
429:I am a walking, talking Bombay. … I loved that city then and I love it today. ~ Gyan Prakash, #NFDB
430:I am walking toward a bright light and the nearer I get the brighter it is. ~ Dwight L Moody, #NFDB
431:I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun. ~ Robert Rauschenberg, #NFDB
432:I feel like a midget with muddy feet had been walking over my tongue all night. ~ W C Fields, #NFDB
433:If you keep walking back from good luck, he thought, you’ll come to bad luck. ~ Gary Paulsen, #NFDB
434:I'm gonna have to start walking down the street and start hitting people in the head! ~ Moby, #NFDB
435:I see you walking around tunnels With the man I love and I’m like Haiku. ~ John Joseph Adams, #NFDB
436:More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving. ~ A J Jacobs, #NFDB
437:My favored exercise was walking the length of the mall to get to Cinnabon. ~ Janet Evanovich, #NFDB
438:There was nothing ordinary about Hank Gathers. He was a walking thunderbolt. ~ Paul Westhead, #NFDB
439:Walking is a meditative act. It's so rare that we allow ourselves just to be. ~ Mohsin Hamid, #NFDB
440:Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. ~ Douglas Wynne, #NFDB
441:4The greatest joy in my life is hearing how my children are walking in the truth. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
442:Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
443:He pitched 13 times in the postseason without walking a batter or blowing a save. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
444:If we practice walking meditation, we walk just for walking, not to arrive. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
445:I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere. ~ Eddie Huang, #NFDB
446:I was the one with the heart of metal. I was the one always walking away. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
447:Life can be like walking on a high wire. Falling seems a tiny misstep away. ~ James Patterson, #NFDB
448:Mama just stepped back on the treadmill of worry and hopeless, and kept walking. ~ Rick Bragg, #NFDB
449:Still alive? (Randy)
No. I’m a walking corpse. Can’t you tell? (Steele) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
450:Tough on the outside, but fragile when you got close. A walking contradiction. ~ Nancy Naigle, #NFDB
451:WALKING BY FAITH MEANS BEING PREPARED TO TRUST WHERE WE ARE NOT PERMITTED TO SEE. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
452:Walking is broken falls, the body leaning, the legs advancing to catch it. ~ Jonathan Franzen, #NFDB
453:Walking the road already traveled was even harder. It was like not moving at all. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
454:Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
455:We emerge into the light not by denying our pain, but by walking through it. ~ Joan Borysenko, #NFDB
456:You can use a spear for a walking stick, but it will not change its nature. ~ Madeline Miller, #NFDB
457:(As Nietzsche said: “It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.”) ~ Cal Newport, #NFDB
458:Besides, the old man was out of shape, smoked and drank--a walking heart attack. ~ Anne Stuart, #NFDB
459:Destiny turned and saw a gray-haired lady in a track suit walking toward them. ~ Susan Mallery, #NFDB
460:His face gets an unreadable expression, and I wish I could take back walking over. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
461:I can get around pretty easily. People don't expect to see me walking around. ~ Robert De Niro, #NFDB
462:I even used to stop vehicles going through stop signs, even though I was walking. ~ Joe Arpaio, #NFDB
463:path's should be laid where people walk, instead of walking where paths are laid- ~ John Barth, #NFDB
464:So how'd an academic end up walking a zombie through a palace on a heist job? ~ Patrick Weekes, #NFDB
465:The tragedy is that there are many walking encyclopedias who are living failures. ~ Shiv Khera, #NFDB
466:To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: Be careful. ~ Kal Penn, #NFDB
467:Traveler, there is no path, paths are made by walking. —ANTONIO MACHADO, CANTARES ~ Rolf Potts, #NFDB
468:Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
469:Well, she's walking through the clouds, with a circus mind that's running wild. ~ Jimi Hendrix, #NFDB
470:Well, therapy was cheap and easy if you didn’t mind walking it in the snow to poop. ~ Amy Lane, #NFDB
471:We need not come to the end of the path to experience the benefits of walking it. ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB
472:Words walking without masters; walking altogether like harmony in a song. ~ Zora Neale Hurston, #NFDB
473:You are always walking in the direction of either love or fear. Choose wisely. ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
474:Happy is the man who has acquired the love of walking for its own sake! ~ William Jacob Holland, #NFDB
475:If you are facing in the right direction, all you need to do is keep on walking. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
476:I hit two trees and fell down a ditch. And that was just walking from the lodge. ~ Bill Engvall, #NFDB
477:I knew that I was choosing the road less traveled but I'm not walking it alone. ~ Jason Collins, #NFDB
478:I'm cool buying tampons, but I'm not walking a tiny dog into a store in a purse. ~ Abby Jimenez, #NFDB
479:Not stalking. Not stalking. Not stalking big not cow butt. Walking.
Beast ~ Faith Hunter,#NFDB
480:Opportunity is walking through your life every day in the form of people you meet. ~ Zig Ziglar, #NFDB
481:Some metaphors are more real than the people you see walking down the street. ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
482:True power comes from standing in your own truth and walking your own path. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
483:Walking into an ocean isn’t nearly as easy as they make it look on Baywatch. The ~ Steve Vernon, #NFDB
484:Am I being rewarded for walking?” she asked. “Yes,” Severin said. “Like a pet?” “Yes. ~ K M Shea, #NFDB
485:Grammar is...the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
486:I guess I make things that need energy stronger. I'm like a walking battery. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
487:I had a dream I was walking down the street and didn't have to hold anyone's hand ~ Kelly Oxford, #NFDB
488:In a radiated planet, the walking dead might be the only creatures left “alive.” We ~ Max Brooks, #NFDB
489:I saw a monkey walking on a leash and thought it was an ugly foreign child. ~ Augusten Burroughs, #NFDB
490:Janicek is waving from the curb, where she’s walking Thayer, her yellow Lab. ~ Wendy Corsi Staub, #NFDB
491:Management isn’t about walking around and seeing if people are in their offices, ~ Daniel H Pink, #NFDB
492:Unlike flying or astral projection, walking through walls is an earthbound pursuit. ~ Chris Rock, #NFDB
493:And, in that moment, the person that needed me most was the one walking away. ~ Alexandra Bracken, #NFDB
494:As I was walking among the fires of hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius ~ William Blake, #NFDB
495:Beauty surrounds us,
but usually we need
to be walking in a
garden to know it. ~ Rumi,#NFDB
496:If you are facing in the right direction, all you need to do is keep on walking. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
497:If you want to find the way forward, then stop looking for maps and start walking. ~ Chuck Wendig, #NFDB
498:I hate having long hair. It's like walking around with a dead koala on your back! ~ Russell Crowe, #NFDB
499:I have dreamed of going to bed as walking into clear water ringed by a snowy wood ~ Adrienne Rich, #NFDB
500:The male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage ~ Valerie Solanas, #NFDB
501:Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
502:Walking is not important; walking to the right direction, that is important! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
503:Driving a car, you are in danger of killing; walking or standing, of being killed. ~ Mary McCarthy, #NFDB
504:How had this guy not been assassinated yet? He was a walking, talking personal offense. ~ L J Shen, #NFDB
505:I grew up walking around naked in my house. My mom was like that, and my sisters. ~ Jennifer Lopez, #NFDB
506:I may be the one leaving, but you’re the one giving up everything and walking away. ~ Loni Flowers, #NFDB
507:It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions. ~ Rachel Cohn, #NFDB
508:Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded. ~ Aeschylus, #NFDB
509:Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines. ~ Andrew Weil, #NFDB
510:the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. ~ Paul Fleischman, #NFDB
511:There is nothing more dreadful than having to go walking on one’s own on Monday. ~ Thomas Bernhard, #NFDB
512:The rhythmic sound made by the blood drops was like the steps of someone walking away. ~ Liu Cixin, #NFDB
513:We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps. ~ Andy Goldsworthy, #NFDB
514:We're a walking billboard... You want to look good to everyone who is watching. ~ Chandler Parsons, #NFDB
515:A gun is a necessity. Who knows if you're walking down a street and you spot a moose? ~ Pat Paulsen, #NFDB
516:If ever we two had a soul, let our soul
—keep on walking and leave us behind. ~ Gabriela Mistral,#NFDB
517:If you were alone and suddenly became blind, and even so you keep walking forward. ~ Ayumi Hamasaki, #NFDB
518:... I love walking my feet off. Gimme a map and a box of Band-Aids and I'm all set! ~ Fran Drescher, #NFDB
519:It is wonderful barefoot in New York. It is like walking on one big giant tomb! ~ Jeffrey Eugenides, #NFDB
520:Krum had already started walking away when Ron burst out, “Can I have your autograph? ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
521:Nirvana is outside the fun house. You are walking around in the fun house forever. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
522:Sons do not need you. They are always out of your reach, Walking strange waters. ~ Phyllis McGinley, #NFDB
523:There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
524:Worrying is stupid. it's like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain. ~ Wiz Khalifa, #NFDB
525:You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame. ~ Billy Joel, #NFDB
526:You, Ms. Lane, are a menace to others! A walking, talking catastrophe in pink! ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
527:He came down the nave, walking with his graceful stride, dangerous and tear-stained. ~ Laura Kinsale, #NFDB
528:he had not guessed how much of the body of a Quest was simply walking. ~ Catherynne M Valente, #NFDB
529:hello, this was Nick, he was basically a walking billboard for inappropriateness—reduce ~ Cari Quinn, #NFDB
530:I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in. ~ Stephen Vincent Benet, #NFDB
531:I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags. ~ Guy Clark, #NFDB
532:Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them. ~ Kate Atkinson, #NFDB
533:Nobody has yet found a way of bombing that can prevent foot soldiers from walking. ~ Walter Lippmann, #NFDB
534:Progress is a metaphor from merely walking along a road—very likely the wrong road. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
535:Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.' ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
536:Sorvalh stopped walking and stood calmly at the frontier of the colony of Deliverance. ~ John Scalzi, #NFDB
537:You have to get out of the boat so you can know the intimacy of walking with Jesus. ~ Mike Pilavachi, #NFDB
538:And it felt like every time I turned around, somebody was either dying or walking out. ~ Tony Parsons, #NFDB
539:And maybe that's all a ghost is, in the end. Regret, grown legs, gone walking. ~ Nicole Kornher Stace, #NFDB
540:Artists are odd,” said Mousebones, walking around the man in blue. “Even for humans.” ~ T Kingfisher, #NFDB
541:As soon as the dead started walking, they stopped sharing their secrets with the living. ~ Mira Grant, #NFDB
542:Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of this earth ~ Yasser Seirawan, #NFDB
543:Don't you think a dream would feel shy if it were seen walking about in the waking world? ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
544:He always did the leaving. But not this time. She kept walking, and did not look back. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
545:I can cure your men of walking off the [flight] program. Let's put on the girls. ~ Jacqueline Cochran, #NFDB
546:I cry a lot. I'll cry because I see a person walking down the street looking lonely. ~ Drew Barrymore, #NFDB
547:In his mind he’s that guy in the cowboy hat from The Walking Dead, wiping out the zombies. ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB
548:It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
549:...Lovers are Like walking ghosts, they always haunt the spot Of their misdeeds. ~ George Henry Boker, #NFDB
550:Nobody should think about winter in August. It's like a goose walking over your grave. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
551:No wonder you and Jace like each other so much. You're both crazy walking arsenals. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
552:on walking through hard things, on accepting the season you’re in—even when it sucks. ~ Rachel Hollis, #NFDB
553:The problem is that they don’t even realize that they’re walking a new road every day. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
554:There are so many heroes just walking around in everyday life. It blows me away. ~ Charisma Carpenter, #NFDB
555:The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
556:To walk away from something is only half the picture. What are you walking towards? ~ Deanna Raybourn, #NFDB
557:Could a man's heart, his soul, perish and yet leave him walking and talking as if alive? ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
558:grace—knowing, walking, and living in the undeserved favor of a kind and merciful God. ~ Brian Houston, #NFDB
559:he's walking away and at the same time
i feel like i'm the one leaving him behind. ~ David Levithan,#NFDB
560:I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.”
―Charles Chaplin ~ Charlie Chaplin,#NFDB
561:Id rather be seen the way I am now instead of falling over myself walking out of a club. ~ Hilary Duff, #NFDB
562:I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape. ~ James Vincent McMorrow, #NFDB
563:It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. ~ Saint Francis of Assisi, #NFDB
564:It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians. ~ Pseudonymous Bosch, #NFDB
565:I would rather die walking than die of boredom reading about how to walk safely. This ~ Tristan Gooley, #NFDB
566:Nothing like walking face first into a spider web in the morning. Happy Friday the 13th. — ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
567:Poetry in motion walking by my side, her lovely locomotion keeps my eyes open wide. ~ Johnny Tillotson, #NFDB
568:The brain has muscles for thinking as the legs have muscles for walking. ~ Julien Offray de La Mettrie, #NFDB
569:There are newsweeklies that are dead. Some may still be walking, but they're dead. ~ Norman Pearlstine, #NFDB
570:There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. ~ Sylvia Plath, #NFDB
571:There’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. —MORPHEUS, THE MATRIX ~ Tony Hsieh, #NFDB
572:Trust and start walking. We are not alone in the dark, our path will unfold as we move. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
573:Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets. ~ Peter S Beagle, #NFDB
574:Walking the plank is a Victorian fiction, and I will not have it on my ship! ~ George MacDonald Fraser, #NFDB
575:You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street. ~ Bud Selig, #NFDB
576:A good learner is forever walking the narrow path between blindness and hallucination. ~ Pedro Domingos, #NFDB
577:But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead. ~ Max Brooks, #NFDB
578:Every working mom I know is constantly walking some kind of a tightrope of guilt. ~ Sarah Wayne Callies, #NFDB
579:Go! Have fun!” Annie said. She began walking away. “I’ll see you later! Bye, Plato! ~ Mary Pope Osborne, #NFDB
580:How can I have peace? Not by talking about peace, But by walking Along the road of peace. ~ Sri Chinmoy, #NFDB
581:I admit that I haven't read everything in my library, but I feel smarter just walking in it! ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
582:Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught. ~ Emile M Cioran, #NFDB
583:If you see him in the street, walking by
Himself, talking to himself, have pity ~ Lin Manuel Miranda,#NFDB
584:I grew up hearing about the walking undead. I had a fascination with it as a child. ~ Katherine Helmond, #NFDB
585:I hate walking down a runway in really high heels. I'm terrible in high heels. I'm so bad. ~ Lara Stone, #NFDB
586:I have never known a cat that couldn't quiet me down just by walking slowly past my chair. ~ Rod McKuen, #NFDB
587:I learned to walk when I was ten months old and I've been walking this way ever since. ~ Marilyn Monroe, #NFDB
588:The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. ~ Jean Cocteau, #NFDB
589:There was an omnivorous intellect that won him the family sobriquet of Walking Encyclopedia. ~ Eric Liu, #NFDB
590:To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us. ~ Studs Terkel, #NFDB
591:Walk at the edge of the precipices! It is the best way to learn walking carefully! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
592:Walking along a blade’s edge was only fun until the blade stopped being a metaphor. ~ Margaret Rogerson, #NFDB
593:Winter is sitting; autumn is walking; summer is running, but the Spring is flying! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
594:You don’t walk with your feet; you walk with your courage! No courage, no walking! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
595:Your blood is the sea continued in your veins. We are the ocean - walking on the land ~ Timothy Findley, #NFDB
596:You suck at walking in heels." "And you suck at trying not to fuck me in public," I retort. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
597:But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go. ~ Denise Levertov, #NFDB
598:Family’s tough. It’s like walking through a minefield, hoping you won’t get blown to bits, ~ Sue Grafton, #NFDB
599:He didn’t want to spend the rest of his life looking like an extra from The Walking Dead. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
600:Her heart was walking around the building with Kirby. And her jacket was still in his car. ~ Regina Duke, #NFDB
601:He's such a gargantuan asshole.
A giant, stupid orifice.
A walking, talking cranny. ~ Laini Taylor,#NFDB
602:I come from a family that loves to eat, not exercise. Being fat made even walking hard. ~ Joe Bastianich, #NFDB
603:I hope to begin a new plan... not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching. ~ Samuel Palmer, #NFDB
604:Nature gave us legs with which to do our own walking, and eyes with which to do our own seeing. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
605:Oh, what's this in my shoe? Red carpet insole. Everywhere I go, I'm walking on red carpet. ~ Aziz Ansari, #NFDB
606:The Buddha said, “When you are walking, walk. When you are sitting, sit. Don’t wobble. ~ Eknath Easwaran, #NFDB
607:There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
608:We’ll just walk. And we’ll keep walking until the rest of the world ceases to exist. ~ Stephanie Perkins, #NFDB
609:When you are out walking in the sunlight, see the love covering all. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #NFDB
610:You can see darn near anything just by walking along the beachfront from Venice to Malibu. ~ Del Howison, #NFDB
611:85. "And I? What am I? Do I live? Or am I always walking in death? Forever in love with time? ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
612:But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go. ~ Denise Levertov, #NFDB
613:By the time I was done talking, I considered walking into the ocean and drowning myself, ~ Megan Erickson, #NFDB
614:Don't you quit. You keep walking, you keep trying, there is help and happiness ahead. ~ Jeffrey R Holland, #NFDB
615:Do you have some sort of walking disorder? One foot in front of the other. It’s real simple. ~ Cari Quinn, #NFDB
616:I may be walking out of here, but there's not a piece of my heart that is coming with me. ~ Penelope Ward, #NFDB
617:I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now. ~ Arthur Ashe, #NFDB
618:It's a bit like walking down a long, dark corridor never knowing when the light will go on. ~ Neil Lennon, #NFDB
619:It's horrible to see her, like walking out of the best movie ever into some old afternoon. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
620:Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage. ~ Kate Atkinson, #NFDB
621:My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere. ~ Dylan McDermott, #NFDB
622:Of course your fine.” She keeps walking. “You’re the devils bride and these are his creatures. ~ Susan Ee, #NFDB
623:Sometimes, it's only in walking the path that we discover why we are walking at all. ~ Richard Paul Evans, #NFDB
624:There are magnificent beings on this earth, son, that are walking around posing as humans. ~ Fannie Flagg, #NFDB
625:The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky. ~ Zora Neale Hurston, #NFDB
626:The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth. ~ Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
627:What if some people are meant to pass through our lives instead of walking along beside us? ~ Jewel E Ann, #NFDB
628:You're walking around here with a smile on your face, Asher. It's freaking everybody out. ~ Victoria Dahl, #NFDB
629:Hello, this school now comes complete with a walking buffet, and nobody gets to take abite? ~ Claudia Gray, #NFDB
630:Lies are like a treadmill with no off switch. You have to keep walking or you'll fall off. ~ Iris St Clair, #NFDB
631:Like walking through a door. Our relationship immediately attained a sepia tone: the past. ~ Gillian Flynn, #NFDB
632:So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why. ~ Lindy Boggs, #NFDB
633:Walking with God doesn't lead to God's favor; God's favor leads to walking with God. ~ Tullian Tchividjian, #NFDB
634:When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation. ~ Shirley MacLaine, #NFDB
635:Because you remember Meredith was walking along the highway there and somebody shot him. ~ Charles Phillips, #NFDB
636:Elm, he do brood And oak, he do hate, But the willow-man goes walking, If you stays out late. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
637:God, I am walking to the edge of a cliff. Build me a bridge. I need to get to the other side. ~ Kate Bowler, #NFDB
638:Golf has too much walking to be a good game, and just enough game to spoil a good walk. ~ Harry Leon Wilson, #NFDB
639:I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo. ~ Anne Fadiman, #NFDB
640:I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth. (3 John 4) ~ Priscilla Shirer, #NFDB
641:I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it. ~ Tea Leoni, #NFDB
642:I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to. ~ Mark Hoppus, #NFDB
643:It's easy to forget how to appreciate your front door when you're always walking through it ~ Alex Gaskarth, #NFDB
644:No one's walking around here perfect. Everyone's gonna make mistakes. That's part of how you learn. ~ Jay Z, #NFDB
645:Understanding that true spiritual evolution comes from walking forward while turning inwards. ~ Emma Mildon, #NFDB
646:Walking in the light means we pursue obedience and are honest about our remaining darkness. ~ Kevin DeYoung, #NFDB
647:When your target is too far away from you, continue walking singing the song you like. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
648:You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB
649:A few times I saw a chicken walking around importantly, like some kind of a regional manager. ~ Elif Batuman, #NFDB
650:Bravery and courage is walking into pain and knowing that something better is on the other side ~ Kanye West, #NFDB
651:He was tall and abrupt and exactly the kind of guy you wanted to be walking the streets with. ~ Markus Zusak, #NFDB
652:If someone had stopped you from walking in front of a bus, Maura, Blue wouldn't be here. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
653:It seems possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation. ~ Michel de Certeau, #NFDB
654:Maybe that's what love was -- walking willingly into the unknown for the sake of the other. ~ Susan Vreeland, #NFDB
655:Of course you’re fine.” She keeps walking. “You’re the devil’s bride and these are his creatures. ~ Susan Ee, #NFDB
656:Our deepest joy comes from Christ: remaining with him, walking with him, being his disciples. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
657:They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
658:Try walking a mile in your enemy's shoes. You'll be a mile away and you'll have his shoes. ~ Sergio Aragon s, #NFDB
659:Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.” —Thomas Jefferson ~ Mark Sisson, #NFDB
660:walking on boulevards and beaches, examining postcards, studying angles of light and shadow ~ Kate Braverman, #NFDB
661:We are walking on the foundations of literature, up the steep, stony path in the fiery heat. ~ Frances Mayes, #NFDB
662:You are such a sleazeball, Rhodes—walking, talking proof of why siblings shouldn’t marry. ~ Cherise Sinclair, #NFDB
663:You want people to stop walking over you, you have to start acting like it, was her new mantra. ~ Terah Edun, #NFDB
664:And so the two of us kept walking the streets of Tokyo, Naoko searching for words in space. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
665:cave-in?” “I’ll tell you everything while we’re walking out.” Rafe smiled and looked at Seth. ~ Mary Connealy, #NFDB
666:during sleepless nights, when my body is in bed but my brain is still out walking in the dark, ~ Lauren Groff, #NFDB
667:...if one had to think about every footstep one took, ordinary walking would be impossible. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
668:If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet. ~ Simone de Beauvoir, #NFDB
669:Personally, I would rather die walking than die of boredom reading about how to walk safely. ~ Tristan Gooley, #NFDB
670:Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. ~ Jean Cocteau, #NFDB
671:The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly ~ Andr Breton, #NFDB
672:There is no use in walking anywhere to preach if your walking isn't your preaching. ~ Saint Francis of Assisi, #NFDB
673:You okay?" Alex said. "What's wrong?" "She's like a walking hourglass with fire on her head. ~ Glenn Bullion, #NFDB
674:70 percent of long-term gym memberships are mostly unused, but a dog needs walking every day. ~ Gretchen Rubin, #NFDB
675:He’s a walking, breathing erogenous zone who fascinates me and infuriates me in equal measures. ~ Leisa Rayven, #NFDB
676:his way of walking toward closed doors without slowing down, knowing they would open for him; ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
677:I'll cry anywhere because I can do it quite subtly. Walking, that's a good time to have a cry. ~ Sharon Horgan, #NFDB
678:I may have been walking into the fire, but there was a chance I wouldn’t be walking in alone. ~ Laurelin Paige, #NFDB
679:Laughing (they thought we were laughing at them). Walking fast (they thought we were running). ~ Nova Ren Suma, #NFDB
680:Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy - and then death. ~ Katharine Hepburn, #NFDB
681:She started off, walking fast, as if the speed of her steps could give form to the things she felt. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
682:The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
683:The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly ~ Andre Breton, #NFDB
684:There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
~ Lilly Wachowski, The Matrix, Morpheus,#NFDB
685:The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
686:Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead. ~ Mira Grant, #NFDB
687:Ban walking sticks in wilderness. Hikers that use walking sticks are more likely to chase animals. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
688:Daniel Day-Lewis is my favorite actor walking the planet right now. He never ceases to amaze me. ~ Les Claypool, #NFDB
689:For to get close to Soren meant walking through fire, stepping on glass, crawling through hell. ~ Tiffany Reisz, #NFDB
690:I can smell blood, Elena,” Dmitri drawled, walking back into the room. “Are you trying to flirt? ~ Nalini Singh, #NFDB
691:I don't even think when I'm walking down the runway. I don't really breathe either. ~ Rosie Huntington Whiteley, #NFDB
692:If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim. ~ Margaret Thatcher, #NFDB
693:I love Scotland, mainly for its landscape. I like walking, and it's a great place to go hiking. ~ Toby Stephens, #NFDB
694:I used to doubt the existence of angels, not realizing they were men and women walking among us. ~ Dannika Dark, #NFDB
695:Jeff knew full well what he was walking away from. Again, he needed to deal with this right away. ~ Kenneth Lay, #NFDB
696:Many exercise forms - aerobic, yoga, weights, walking and more - have been shown to benefit mood. ~ Andrew Weil, #NFDB
697:The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
698:Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie. ~ John le Carre, #NFDB
699:Great Brown Bear is walking with us, Salmon swimming upstream with us, as we stroll a city street. ~ Gary Snyder, #NFDB
700:Have I told you about Christ?" "Ghost-born-man-walking-on-water-telling-stories-dead-on-tree. ~ Robert Holdstock, #NFDB
701:He's always been kind of cold and never even cracked a smile. Now he's walking around dreamy-eyed. ~ Alexa Riley, #NFDB
702:He's hot like, the kind of hot that makes you stop walking on the street and get hit by traffic. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
703:He’s hot—like, the kind of hot that makes you stop walking on the street and get hit by traffic. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
704:I love the experience of walking into the theater, buying a ticket and all that goes with it. ~ Victoria Mahoney, #NFDB
705:I would put Flintstones vitamins in it in case I got tired, so I could pop some and keep walking. ~ Kristen Wiig, #NFDB
706:Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts ~ Saint Peter, #NFDB
707:No greater joy* do I have than this: that I should hear that my children go on walking in the truth. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
708:Say not, I have found the path of the soul Say rather, I have met the soul walking upon my path. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
709:There are hundreds of thousands of kids walking around with a sleeping monster inside them. ~ Mackenzie Phillips, #NFDB
710:Wealth is walking into any bookshop and buying any book you want without looking at the price tag. ~ John Waters, #NFDB
711:When you walk, arrive with every step. That is walking meditation. There’s nothing else to it. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
712:You better hope that I never see you walking down the street while I’m driving my car! (Tory) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
713:You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school. ~ Werner Herzog, #NFDB
714:Are you ready boots? Start Walking.....never look back. # artforfreedom # revolutionoflove ~ Madonna Ciccone, #NFDB
715:Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going. ~ Randy Savage, #NFDB
716:Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it. ~ Joyce Carol Oates, #NFDB
717:Even in walking across the room you will very slightly alter your own experience of time and space. ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
718:Even with all the walking I do, the sand is building up at the bottom of my hour-glass figure. ~ Marsha Cornelius, #NFDB
719:Fear has never helped anybody make good choices. It leads to clinging when we should be walking. ~ Harriet Lerner, #NFDB
720:If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer. ~ Gertrude Stein, #NFDB
721:I love to love. However, you won't see anybody walking the red carpet with me until I'm married. ~ Aeriel Miranda, #NFDB
722:I miss you so much. I miss us. There’s not a day goes by that I don’t regret walking away from you. ~ Sarah Grimm, #NFDB
723:It seems thus possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation. ~ Michel de Certeau, #NFDB
724:It was as simple as walking and as hard as walking on with so far gone and so far yet to go. ~ Richard Brookhiser, #NFDB
725:No matter how long we have been walking with Jesus, we need to hear again, do not love the world. ~ Kevin DeYoung, #NFDB
726:Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while. ~ Malorie Blackman, #NFDB
727:The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
728:The Queen is the only person who can put on a tiara with one hand, while walking down stairs. ~ Princess Margaret, #NFDB
729:This man is a walking billboard for both terror and lust. A human thunderstorm.
He’s beautiful. ~ T M Frazier,#NFDB
730:We can walk in such a way that we arrive with each step—not walking just to get somewhere else. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
731:Because there’s a hundred ways sex can ruin you but there’s no end to the ways love can. Walking ~ Megan Abbott, #NFDB
732:He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince. ~ William Goldman, #NFDB
733:I always get to where I'm going by walking away from where I have been." ~ A A MilneWinnie the Pooh ~ A A Milne, #NFDB
734:I don’t know what I was expecting. The boogie monster? ET? A friggin’ zombie from Walking Dead? ~ Rachel Van Dyken, #NFDB
735:I’m wondering if this was the right choice. This campus is crawling with walking, talking Barbies. ~ Kandi Steiner, #NFDB
736:in America the worst thing you could be was a black man. Worse than dead, you were a dead man walking. ~ Yaa Gyasi, #NFDB
737:Jane became something of a walking thesaurus when she was upset, a side effect of too much reading. ~ Cynthia Hand, #NFDB
738:Like the walking iris, he was too much of a good thing, something nature can’t allow for too long. ~ Julie Hockley, #NFDB
739:Look at you,” I teased, walking over to her. “Fearlessly vanquishing Cashew the Deranged Squirrel. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
740:mischievously. Clack … clack … clack; the noise of a walking stick echoed in the stairwell. An ~ Caroline Mitchell, #NFDB
741:No matter how rudely someone treats you, remain kind. Walking away at peace with yourself is worth it. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB
742:Stay in the race. Keep running. Keep walking. Keep praying. The Lord will renew your strength. ~ Jeffrey R Holland, #NFDB
743:The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back; Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat. ~ Theodore Roethke, #NFDB
744:When the doorman asked for his ID, Brent gave him a look that said seriously man? And kept walking. ~ Tessa Bailey, #NFDB
745:you would be surprised by the things you can walk through when it is necessary to keep walking. ~ Travis Mulhauser, #NFDB
746:Children, we should always eat our food sitting down. Do not eat standing or walking around. ~ Mata Amritanandamayi, #NFDB
747:For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
748:If you are walking in silence without disturbing the silence then you really love the silence! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
749:If you need to listen to music while walking, don’t walk; and please don’t listen to music. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
750:It’s a strange feeling, I thought, like my bones are walking along with me on the outside of my body. ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
751:It’s your own fault, Will. What did I tell you about walking?” “That I should leave it to the experts, ~ Jaymin Eve, #NFDB
752:None of us is okay and all of us are fine. It’s not just one way. We are walking, talking paradoxes. ~ Pema Ch dr n, #NFDB
753:No one got the better of Kaz. He was the toughest, scariest thing walking the alleys of the Barrel. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
754:Nothing unseemly? Who was she kidding? Had she never met those three smooth-talking, walking hard-ons? ~ Tate James, #NFDB
755:She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart. ~ Johnny Depp, #NFDB
756:Sometimes, when you're not getting a whole lot of attention, you're actually walking the right path. ~ Jaleel White, #NFDB
757:The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets. ~ Aaron Eckhart, #NFDB
758:The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
759:The worst mistake you can make is walking away from the person who actually stood there and waited for you. ~ Drake, #NFDB
760:Walking in the dark, seeing lovers do their thing. That's the time, I feel like making love to you. ~ Roberta Flack, #NFDB
761:Because the earth is walking in the space, even when we sit on the earth, we are still walking! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
762:But after several hours, I go anyway, walking in silent sock feet, so as not to awaken the ghosts. ~ Suzanne Collins, #NFDB
763:Every woman swoons over a man walking out of a lake in a white shirt. It's a universal truth. ~ Hillary Manton Lodge, #NFDB
764:For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives. ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
765:Go back to what's good, what's certain, what's always there. You woke up today. Just start walking. ~ Jesse L Martin, #NFDB
766:If the path you are walking today won't lead you to your desired destination, then you are STROLLING ~ Fela Durotoye, #NFDB
767:I’m sorry. I forgot that paht. We keep walking until we come to anothah street or intahsection. ~ Bobby S Richardson, #NFDB
768:In my opinion, walking over moss was as enjoyable as walking barefoot on the beach, if not more so. ~ Phaedra Weldon, #NFDB
769:I think Walking Dead is more of a stretch for me because I'm a light hearted superhero kind of guy. ~ Robert Kirkman, #NFDB
770:It was like walking: if Rumbold didn’t concentrate too hard on it, the illusion took care of itself ~ Alethea Kontis, #NFDB
771:I would feel the urge to attack people, to bite them; they'd all be walking McBloodburgers to me. ~ Charlaine Harris, #NFDB
772:Like the perfect collision of oils on a canvas.
She was a walking piece of art. Words and all. ~ Candace Knoebel,#NFDB
773:Mystic grimoirs, walking corpses... I'm so far out of my wheelhouse that I might as well be on the moon. ~ Mark Waid, #NFDB
774:The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting. ~ Oswald Chambers, #NFDB
775:The only way he could truly stick out in New Orleans was if he were walking down the street on fire. ~ Hunter Murphy, #NFDB
776:The wise man sits not inert; he is ever walking incessantly forward towards a greater light. ~ Fo-shu-hing-tsan-king, #NFDB
777:We can be walking witnesses and standing sermons to which objective onlookers can say a quiet amen. ~ Neal A Maxwell, #NFDB
778:When you find yourself knee-deep in shit, don’t sit there complaining about it. Start walking.” She ~ Shayne Silvers, #NFDB
779:You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little potbelly and a bald spot. ~ Elayne Boosler, #NFDB
780:Crowds most envy the lonely man who walks confidently as if he is walking with the great crowds! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
781:Death comes walking across the countryside swinging that scythe, and he might get you or he might not. ~ John Marsden, #NFDB
782:Have any sheep been seen walking out of the Library with seagoing adventurers clinging to their wool? ~ Lindsey Davis, #NFDB
783:I see the world as a knowledge hardware story, and every day I'm just walking through the aisles. ~ Georges St Pierre, #NFDB
784:It's just hard to love someone who cancels the cable right before the Walking Dead marathon. ~ Kwame Alexander, #NFDB
785:My China Diary and Walking With Lions, were memoirs of his diplomatic and political experiences. The ~ Shashi Tharoor, #NFDB
786:Narnia, Narnia, Narnia, awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
787:Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away. ~ Morgan Freeman, #NFDB
788:The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ. ~ Dwight L Moody, #NFDB
789:was Jo, walking tall with long, steady strides. Jo always had a multi-tool tucked in her pocket and a ~ Mariko Tamaki, #NFDB
790:We could be surrounded by walking dead in the zombie apocalypse and she’d look for the bright side. ~ Karen M McManus, #NFDB
791:You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends. ~ Charles Colson, #NFDB
792:You can't study the map forever. At some point it's time to start walking; there is only so much daylight. ~ Rob Lowe, #NFDB
793:As long as you can walk, you will find a walking stick. As long as you are brave, someone will help you. ~ Nina George, #NFDB
794:As long as you keep on walking on the old paths, you will never have footprints on the new paths! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
795:death is walking
up and down
this room
smoking my cigars
taking hits of my
wine ~ Charles Bukowski,#NFDB
796:Diogenes proved the law of motion using the phrase Solvitur ambulando, “It is solved by walking, ~ Scott Barry Kaufman, #NFDB
797:How do you expect me to resist? You’re a walking temptation. A testosterone menace in a tiny little towel, ~ J S Scott, #NFDB
798:In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid. ~ Amy Waldman, #NFDB
799:I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup. ~ Kris Allen, #NFDB
800:I was the hero, Roberto De Niro, William Shakespearo! Walking on the beaches, looking at the peaches. ~ Charlie Higson, #NFDB
801:Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am. ~ Christopher Reeve, #NFDB
802:we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives. ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
803:We're going to start walking again. We can't stand still, you know. Not as long as we're still alive. ~ Hiromu Arakawa, #NFDB
804:When I experienced humiliation and yet kept walking, I understood that I was free to choose my destiny. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
805:As that famous homosexual Winston Churchill once said, if you find yourself heartbroken, keep walking. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
806:called out Kolk, walking up and down the sides. “This is not your mother’s yard. You are marching to war! ~ Morgan Rice, #NFDB
807:Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling ~ Ann Patchett, #NFDB
808:I don't like sitting still at a desk and often conduct business on my Blackberry or in walking meetings. ~ Dylan Lauren, #NFDB
809:I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger, #NFDB
810:I knew what he was doing. He was walking away from his thoughts but his thoughts were staying with him. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
811:Im in the public eye. I know Im not going to be treated like a normal person walking down the street. ~ Nicole Appleton, #NFDB
812:In these words lies all his power: He chose the path along which he is walking and so has no complaints. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
813:I saw you walking with your other man today. If I catch you one more time, I'm gonna blow you both away. ~ Eric Clapton, #NFDB
814:I think if you're not going to look so daft walking down the street split your workouts a little bit. ~ Greg Rutherford, #NFDB
815:It's remarkable, being alive. Being, once again, someone walking through a dust of blowing snow... ~ Michael Cunningham, #NFDB
816:I’ve been wandering around all night—I couldn’t sleep—and I kept finding myself walking here. To you. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
817:My favorite question is 'What do you do?' I'm like, 'I'm a walking cliche: I'm a model and an actress. ~ Dree Hemingway, #NFDB
818:My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time. ~ Larry David, #NFDB
819:People ask me, “Why do you do walking meditation?” The best answer I can give is, “Because I like it. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
820:Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given. ~ Benjamin Harrison, #NFDB
821:Something compelling and attractive surrounded walking anonymously at night in the streets of Arrakeen. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
822:They had not yet started out across a continent of grief that a lifetime of walking could not cover. ~ Sebastian Junger, #NFDB
823:This made her remember why people take up walking: It is because they no longer have anywhere to go. ~ Chuck Klosterman, #NFDB
824:Walking away, I mentally hear glass cracking under my feet because I step right over my shattered heart. ~ Belle Aurora, #NFDB
825:What the fuck kind of question is that? Are there people walking around this planet who don’t like chocolate ~ R S Grey, #NFDB
826:You're a walking Christmas light?"
"No," he said a little defensively. "I'm a powerful warlock. ~ Michelle M Pillow,#NFDB
827:After you have put food on your table, make sure you invest in really good walking shoes and a good bed. ~ John Callaway, #NFDB
828:As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid. ~ Benjamin Hoff, #NFDB
829:As her idol Dolly Parton once said, “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one. ~ Tessa Bailey, #NFDB
830:A skeleton, even a walking one, is at least human; Death of a sort lurks inside every living creature. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
831:[ Being naked on scene ] was like walking a tightrope without a net - with a giant fan blowing at you. ~ Joe Manganiello, #NFDB
832:He hesitates and then starts walking away, and I'm cursing myself because this isn't how I want it to end. ~ Lisa McMann, #NFDB
833:I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park. ~ Willie Mays, #NFDB
834:Last week I was walking by a cemetery, two guys came after me with shovels. It was all about money. ~ Rodney Dangerfield, #NFDB
835:walking with on Robertson was an outing of the self-destructed, trying to make do with one day at a time. ~ Paul Monette, #NFDB
836:What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it? ~ O Henry, #NFDB
837:You're looking for a goal for yourself? If you can't find it, keep walking, the goal will find you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
838:Don’t forget that birds with broken wings walking on the ground were once flying high up in the sky. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
839:Do you really think anything can ever be the same again? She's empty, Sloane. She's the walking dead now. ~ Suzanne Young, #NFDB
840:Grief is an ambush. You’re walking along feeling fine, look down, see a leaf, and begin to weep. —Jack ~ Naomi Shihab Nye, #NFDB
841:He stopped walking and stared at me, his lips turned up at the corners, a small, but heartwarming smile drawn ~ T K Leigh, #NFDB
842:He tried to imagine Dave walking around the streets of Tokyo. It was like picturing RoboCop in Middle Earth— ~ David Wong, #NFDB
843:His smile showed off perfect, straight, white teeth. He was a walking, and unfortunately talking, cliché. ~ Tamra Baumann, #NFDB
844:If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
845:If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
846:I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention. ~ Libba Bray, #NFDB
847:It’s a walking cart,” Horace told him. “You get under it, so the spears won’t hit you, and go for a walk. ~ John Flanagan, #NFDB
848:Love is like walking a tightrope thirty thousand feet in the air. It's bloody terrifying. And it's amazing. ~ Donna Grant, #NFDB
849:Maybe the courage I need has nothing to do with telling the truth and everything to do with walking away. ~ Paula Hawkins, #NFDB
850:My pitching philosophy is simple. I believe in getting the ball over the plate and not walking a lot of men. ~ Bob Gibson, #NFDB
851:She wasn’t precisely sure what she was walking toward but she wouldn’t have turned around for the world. ~ Patrick deWitt, #NFDB
852:The girl was a walking heartache and there was no doubt she could break what little of me there was left. ~ Ashlan Thomas, #NFDB
853:Trust me, you see the dead walking around, you learn not to scream, laugh, or piss yourself pretty quickly. ~ Stacey Kade, #NFDB
854:Walking in the night is a great blessing for the wise souls who are deeply in love with the silence! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
855:When walking against the current of societies beliefs, you come to know, that you are walking the right path. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
856:And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars, my joys & desires. ~ William Blake,#NFDB
857:For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives. ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
858:Hmmm... that's interesting."
"What?"
"There seems to be a gentleman walking towards us with a shotgun. ~ Derek Landy,#NFDB
859:I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of new friends. ~ Ronnie Wood, #NFDB
860:I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
861:I'm walking every day and just staying kind of fit, and try not to have too many bad habits. Keep it minimal. ~ Al Jarreau, #NFDB
862:I prefer walking in the street and thinking about God to staying in the mosque and thinking about my shoes. ~ Ali Shariati, #NFDB
863:I remember being a student and I would go every Friday to the Louvre and stay for ages, just walking around. ~ Jemima West, #NFDB
864:I take it that didn’t go well. (Cassandra) About like walking into a bear cave covered in honey. (Wulf) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
865:Jerry was a walking insult to civilised rules, yet he sauntered into great houses and got waiters’ attention ~ K J Charles, #NFDB
866:My mission in life was to make sure that there were no women walking around who didn't know me personally. ~ Lorenzo Lamas, #NFDB
867:Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead. ~ Heraclitus, #NFDB
868:You may like walking barefoot, but keep your shoes with you; you may need it when the ground changes! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
869:You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact. ~ Harry Dean Stanton, #NFDB
870:And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. ~ George Chapman, #NFDB
871:But instead of walking down the aisle toward my best friend, my first and only love, I was at his funeral. ~ Kerry Lonsdale, #NFDB
872:Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. (Walk, there is no path, the path is made by walking.) ~ Antonio Machado, #NFDB
873:Even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight? ~ Jess Walter, #NFDB
874:Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by. ~ Claire Denis, #NFDB
875:Flowers don’t open and close according to who is walking by. They open and show their beauty regardless. ~ Rebecca Campbell, #NFDB
876:For me to be ten pounds thinner is a full-time job, and I am handing in my notice and walking out the door!! ~ Margaret Cho, #NFDB
877:For one kiss, darling, I swear everything I would give. Cause you're a walking, talking reason to live. ~ Bruce Springsteen, #NFDB
878:He smiled just before turning and walking toward the door. “Like I just said…I don’t play by the rules. ~ Brooke Cumberland, #NFDB
879:Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it. ~ Ann Patchett, #NFDB
880:If I'm walking very, very fast down Madison Avenue in the middle of the day, I'll say I'm stopped 10 times. ~ Kristin Davis, #NFDB
881:If I were him, I would have said, ‘You are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen walking this earth. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
882:I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB
883:I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat. ~ Albert Brooks, #NFDB
884:It only takes one slow walking person in the grocery store to destroy the illusion that I’m a nice person. ~ Lani Lynn Vale, #NFDB
885:I would just like to be real and be me. It's just really hard to do walking around and everyone knows who I am. ~ Nick Diaz, #NFDB
886:Love isn’t a straight path,” he advised. “You don’t know how twisted it will get until you try walking it. ~ Hailey Edwards, #NFDB
887:Reaching the finish line, never walking, and enjoying the race. These three, in this order, are my goals. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
888:The Zen people from Ancient China, "When you're walking, just walk." It turns out to be the hardest thing. ~ Jon Kabat Zinn, #NFDB
889:We have renounced shameful secret things, not walking in deceit or distorting God's message. 2 Corinthians 4:2 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
890:You look like Britney Spears, back when she was dating backup dancers and walking around gas stations barefoot. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
891:You're telling someone in a wheelchair 'Walking is awesome. You should get up and walk.' It's not that easy. ~ Jeff Zentner, #NFDB
892:Any woman would have to be dead not to be attracted to the walking mass of sexy that was Erik MacGregor. ~ Michelle M Pillow, #NFDB
893:Attributing to another author, "Writing a novel is like setting a goal and walking there in your sleep. ~ Karl Ove Knausg rd, #NFDB
894:Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies. ~ Kathy Acker, #NFDB
895:..I always stopped to see how far I'd come, this time I kept walking. Sometimes it's better not to look back. ~ Ransom Riggs, #NFDB
896:I don't like to be walking around in a vacuum, lost in my own thoughts. I'm much better with information. ~ Christian Slater, #NFDB
897:I'm not worried about walking the streets and looking over my shoulder because of something I might have said. ~ Andy Garcia, #NFDB
898:I’m walking two paths beginning right this minute, and I can’t let them cross. The collision would be deadly. ~ Ginger Scott, #NFDB
899:JOIN THE CIRCUS OF CHAOS ... juggling, stilt walking, and other skills for socially acceptable procrastination. ~ Pat Murphy, #NFDB
900:Love is like a colorful street. Let it blossom into the sky like a rainbow by walking it with the ones you Love. ~ Arsi Nami, #NFDB
901:My job involves a lot of sitting on aeroplanes and a lot of walking in high heels! I find yoga helps with both. ~ Anja Rubik, #NFDB
902:My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives. ~ Christopher Bollen, #NFDB
903:SACQUES. Children's Cloaks, Ladies' Breakfast Jackets, Ladies' Pique, Swiss, and Cambric Morning Robes and Walking ~ Various, #NFDB
904:San Francisco was full of people walking around with their pockets stuffed with 1.2 percent of nothing. ~ Gideon Lewis Kraus, #NFDB
905:Staying physically active - walking or running every day - and eating healthily is the best way to stay fit. ~ Lauren Conrad, #NFDB
906:that—I would remember the view from the hospital window and be glad for the sidewalk I was walking on. To ~ Elizabeth Strout, #NFDB
907:There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
908:The stones were sharp,
The wind came at my back;
Walking along the highway,
Mincing like a cat. ~ Theodore Roethke,#NFDB
909:We are out of the ditch, we're standing, we're walking, but we're not running. I want to grow the economy. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
910:We eat and sleep and shuffle through the fog, walking a marathon with no finish line, no medals, no cheering. ~ Isaac Marion, #NFDB
911:we’re walking down the wrong path, it’s never too late to make a detour and start running down the right one. ~ Jody Hedlund, #NFDB
912:What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning! ~ Cory Doctorow, #NFDB
913:When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.' ~ Shunryu Suzuki, #NFDB
914:When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us. ~ Ram Dass, #NFDB
915:All too often unemployment is used as an excuse for misbehaving when jobs are available within walking distance. ~ James Cook, #NFDB
916:Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you. ~ Bono, #NFDB
917:But instead of walking down the aisle toward my best friend, my first and only love, I was at his funeral. I ~ Kerry Lonsdale, #NFDB
918:I can only meditate when I am walking, when I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, #NFDB
919:I enjoy walking by myself on the same paths where, as a little boy, I delighted in following my father around. ~ Jimmy Carter, #NFDB
920:I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult. ~ Lydia Davis, #NFDB
921:I’ll tell them that my friend and I got mugged while we were walking in the park. Nobody is afraid of gay guys. ~ Bobby Adair, #NFDB
922:I take it that didn’t go well. (Cassandra)
About like walking into a bear cave covered in honey. (Wulf) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
923:She's walking toward me, and every step brings her close to my grasp. To the moment when I'll never let her go. ~ Alexa Riley, #NFDB
924:The good parts of our relationship felt like a rat walking around and gnawing at the inside of my stomach. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
925:There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street, and being the noise. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
926:Walking does good to the fat and giving alms does good to the sinners; these both make one feel lighter! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
927:Walking through your memories doesn't tell me what's going on inside of your head. No cause, only effect. ~ Alexandra Bracken, #NFDB
928:You are a dancer for only a part of your life. The rest of the time you are walking around, thinking about it! ~ Colum McCann, #NFDB
929:As long as you can walk upright, you will find a walking stick. As long as you are brave, someone will help you. ~ Nina George, #NFDB
930:Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere. ~ Lionel Trilling, #NFDB
931:But at no point does that child ever stop and think, “Oh, I guess walking just isn’t for me. I’m not good at it. ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
932:Food and shelter are very nice, but without stories to hear and tell, we might as well be the walking dead. ~ Leah Hager Cohen, #NFDB
933:I don't make sonic booms. I want a whip. I like the idea of walking around making sonic booms everywhere. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
934:I have my dream job! As a young person training as an actor, walking on the WB studio lot is a dream in itself. ~ Keegan Allen, #NFDB
935:I’ll see you at lunch, okay?” I kept walking as I spoke. “Once people start throwing wet stuff, I go inside. ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
936:I love competition. I thrive on it. I love being able to win the room over before even walking through the door. ~ Kellan Lutz, #NFDB
937:One of the signs that you are walking in the light is that you are honest about having walked in the darkness. ~ Kevin DeYoung, #NFDB
938:Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you're not walking in it, go find it. Love the light. ~ Roberta Flack, #NFDB
939:Visiting Anderson Silva. He's doing AMAZING! Leg is healing fast and will be walking without crutches in 30 days. ~ Dana White, #NFDB
940:Walking next to Talent, she felt the singular, cozy comfort that steals upon one who is with a good friend. ~ Kristen Callihan, #NFDB
941:Walking with Jesus is many times like walking in the eye of the storm--inner peace in the middle of chaos. ~ Alisa Hope Wagner, #NFDB
942:When walking you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder. ~ Tom Hodgkinson, #NFDB
943:"When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us." ~ Ram Dass, #NFDB
944:You see,' she said, snapping the top, and walking down the stairs, 'you are so very different from Rebecca ~ Daphne du Maurier, #NFDB
945:And even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight? ~ Jess Walter, #NFDB
946:Elizabeth Bennet: I'm very fond of walking. Mr. Darcy: Yes... yes I know. (from Pride & Prejudice, the movie) ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB
947:Ew,” I said quickly, shaking my head and walking forward. “You’re sweatier than two rats fucking in a gym sock. ~ Kandi Steiner, #NFDB
948:I was never really good at making friends. I liked reading; I liked walking in the woods; I liked being alone. ~ Sylvain Neuvel, #NFDB
949:Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person's day. It's all about paying it forward. ~ Mariska Hargitay, #NFDB
950:So elves could be walking around in our midst, disguised as normal, everyday, vertically challenged citizens. ~ Janet Evanovich, #NFDB
951:The miracle is walking on the earth, not walking on water or fire. The real miracle is walking on this earth. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
952:The probability of life ever evolving on Earth was slim to none. It's insane that we're all walking around and talking. ~ Kesha, #NFDB
953:Walking in a beautiful narrow street is an excellent way of discovering life with the feeling of security! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
954:We need to build up society in the light of the Beatitudes, walking towards the Kingdom with the least among us. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
955:When walking and thinking come together, the solution for your problem will appear on the horizon as well! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
956:With that complexion and all that hardware in his mouth, the teenager looked like a walking birth control advert. ~ Edward Lorn, #NFDB
957:An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen. ~ Valentino Garavani, #NFDB
958:Fit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room ~ John Barrowman, #NFDB
959:I can barely walk barefoot. What made you think these walking stilts of death would be a good idea?" I chuckle out. ~ C M Owens, #NFDB
960:I love walking around and grabbing coffee and sitting in a park and people watching… I love Greenwich Village. ~ Joe Manganiello, #NFDB
961:I think walking is very useful, like sleeping and dreaming, as something that's important to my ability to write. ~ Mohsin Hamid, #NFDB
962:Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets; many who are in their graves are in reality alive. ~ Idries Shah, #NFDB
963:No matter what happens I'll keep on moving. Until this life runs out of me I'll keep on walking (Allen Walker) ~ Katsura Hoshino, #NFDB
964:Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen. ~ Bodhidharma, #NFDB
965:She had a habit of walking around in white cotton panties and writing poetry on the back of crumpled envelopes. ~ Michael Faudet, #NFDB
966:The Prime Minister is stealing our clothes but he is going to look pretty ridiculous walking around in mine. ~ Margaret Thatcher, #NFDB
967:Walking into a party full of strangers was about as much fun as being strip-searched by a group of biker chicks. ~ Ellen J Green, #NFDB
968:Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”-Helen Keller
Quote Read: 6/22/18 ~ Helen Keller,#NFDB
969:We are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust. ~ Pope Benedict XVI, #NFDB
970:When you do something nice for somebody, it is just like walking around a temple. It is just like saying a prayer. ~ Pam Houston, #NFDB
971:Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper. ~ Sarah Addison Allen, #NFDB
972:If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two times-but never three. ~ Robert Motherwell, #NFDB
973:If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not. ~ Adam Carolla, #NFDB
974:I love competition.And I thrive on it. I love being able to win the room over before even walking through the door. ~ Kellan Lutz, #NFDB
975:Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
976:My life is nothing like my videos. I'm definitely not walking around with lots of hot women, as I am in my videos. ~ Romeo Santos, #NFDB
977:Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen. ~ Bodhidharma, #NFDB
978:Raffe begins walking away from the village. "Either come with me or stay. I can only help those who want to be helped. ~ Susan Ee, #NFDB
979:That'd be walking into dangerous territory," he says, getting up from the sofa. "Luke is not a morning person. ~ Jessica Sorensen, #NFDB
980:that in America the worst thing you could be was a black man. Worse than dead, you were a dead man walking. Josephine ~ Yaa Gyasi, #NFDB
981:The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
982:The lesson for Joshua was clear: walking with God was not about a method; it was about a relationship. Earlier ~ Henry T Blackaby, #NFDB
983:The most beautiful sunset is the one which suddenly appears in front of you while you are walking pensively! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
984:The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry. ~ Kathleen Norris, #NFDB
985:Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly. ~ Wilfred Owen, #NFDB
986:Why can't everything be as easy as walking into H&M and putting a week's worth of clothes on a credit card? ~ Emma McLaughlin, #NFDB
987:You can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it. ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
988:Creativity is our birthright. It is an integral part of being human, as basic as walking, talking and thinking. ~ John Daido Loori, #NFDB
989:He understood, as he would write in "Walking," that "the hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
990:Hollywood is all about making an entrance. I don't want to be a walking advertisement for anyone other than myself. ~ Rose McGowan, #NFDB
991:I love the Walking Dead, but I dont wanna be an actual prominent character on the show. I just wanna be a zombie. ~ Liana Liberato, #NFDB
992:I used to be the god of poetry, which does not mean I am a walking encyclopedia of every obscure line ever written. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
993:know that walking into a small woodlot,” he wrote, “is riskier than walking into a nearby large, extensive forest. ~ David Quammen, #NFDB
994:Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more ~ James Shapiro, #NFDB
995:"Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen." ~ Bodhidharma, #NFDB
996:Shutting up works. Following the rules works. So I shut up, and I don’t care, and I keep walking, and soon it’s over. ~ John Green, #NFDB
997:The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry. ~ Kathleen Norris, #NFDB
998:There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world. ~ Giorgio de Chirico, #NFDB
999:We're walking contradictions, seeking safety and predictability on one hand and thriving on diversity on the other. ~ Esther Perel, #NFDB
1000:When we perfect 3-D copiers and they reproduce tissue, we'll have a million Marilyns walking around with no souls. ~ John J Geddes, #NFDB
1001:When you walk in a beautiful road, you must know that you are walking on a miracle: The miracle of evolution! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1002:Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating. ~ Umberto Eco, #NFDB
1003:You shouldn’t be walking around in a towel, baby. That kind of easy access isn’t something I can turn down. ~ Aurora Rose Reynolds, #NFDB
1004:A friend said to me I'm like a walking New Yorker article. It's true! That's how I write. That's how I think. ~ Jose Antonio Vargas, #NFDB
1005:And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their brains. ~ John Drinkwater, #NFDB
1006:At the end of the day, you can't regret it if you were trying. At the end of the day I'm walking with a heart of a lion. ~ Kid Cudi, #NFDB
1007:Christian oftentimes meant walking through dark places in the journey and living only on an unseen, unfelt faith. ~ Karen Kingsbury, #NFDB
1008:I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1009:It was such an incongruous sight that for a moment Cade could only stare. The walking dead. Carrying an iPad. Cade ~ Joseph Nassise, #NFDB
1010:London is full of short stories, long stories, epics, farces, sit-coms, soaps and squibs, walking round hand in hand. ~ Martin Amis, #NFDB
1011:Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing. ~ Karlheinz Stockhausen, #NFDB
1012:The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art. ~ C sar Vallejo, #NFDB
1013:There are so many empty people walking around on this little planet. Lonely people. Angry people. Bitter. Forgotten. ~ Jeyn Roberts, #NFDB
1014:THE SUN’S WARM ON THE BACK OF MY NECK, birdsong filtering down from the trees lining the edges of the walking track. ~ Amie Kaufman, #NFDB
1015:Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
1016:We step inside mirrors Lemon petals pave the way I sleep in stages, sleep sublime Walking pages never read again ~ Vickie Johnstone, #NFDB
1017:What if I was stuck here married to one man while watching the person I truly wanted walking around my home every day? ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
1018:When the ladies see an athlette walking around, they think, Well, he got the cocaine, so let's go get high with him. ~ Moses Malone, #NFDB
1019:Anyone who's had a tattoo knows once you get your first one, as you're walking out the door, you're planning the next. ~ Chris Evans, #NFDB
1020:Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks. ~ Gayle Forman, #NFDB
1021:Endeavoring to live the Christian life by your own efforts is the greatest single hindrance to walking in the Spirit. ~ Derek Prince, #NFDB
1022:found myself closing my eyes and walking the airy streets of Waterford made weightless by the buoyancy of my nostalgia. ~ Pat Conroy, #NFDB
1023:If you ever find yourself walking a mile in my shoes, I hope that you would be at least be given the same choice. ~ Brittany Maynard, #NFDB
1024:If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman, #NFDB
1025:I'm never the romantic lead. I'm the guy walking in on the romantic lead, going, "Oh sorry! I'll leave you guys alone." ~ Bill Hader, #NFDB
1026:It's hard to be in a bad mood when you're walking around looking like you're about to play the semifinals at Wimbledon. ~ A J Jacobs, #NFDB
1027:Mark that the blessings of sacred fellowship and perfect cleansing are bound up with walking in the light. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1028:O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
1029:One minute walking along, the next minute dead. Why?”
THINK OF IT MORE AS BEING…DIMENSIONALLY
DISADVANTAGED. ~ Terry Pratchett,#NFDB
1030:Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie. ~ Wes Anderson, #NFDB
1031:Part of walking the line as showrunner is trying to please people and still be true to what you believe creatively. ~ Billy Lawrence, #NFDB
1032:Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances. ~ George Saunders, #NFDB
1033:Studies show that the human mind can only truly multitask when it comes to highly automatic behaviors like walking. ~ Jocelyn K Glei, #NFDB
1034:To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible. ~ Andrew Wyeth, #NFDB
1035:Walking down the street, weaving in and out of the crowds, I try to think of something—anything—to look forward to. ~ Tabitha Suzuma, #NFDB
1036:Walking is a state in which the mind, body, and the world are aligned… it produces thoughts, experiences, arrivals. ~ Rebecca Solnit, #NFDB
1037:When I'm walking around, I'm usually drinking pop, so I can't have a mask on. That's why I couldn't be a surgeon. ~ Chuck Klosterman, #NFDB
1038:When walking into the lair of the dragon after robbing his hoard, the least you could do is hold you head high [...] ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
1039:You are what makes me indomitable and how I know to keep walking when I feel crippled in every conceivable way. ~ Mary Louise Parker, #NFDB
1040:You make choices every day and almost every hour that keep you walking in the light or moving away toward darkness. ~ Henry B Eyring, #NFDB
1041:A loving Personality dominates the Bible, walking among the trees of the garden and breathing fragrance over every scene. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
1042:For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives(Cassia 'Reached') ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
1043:For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives. “Good-bye, ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
1044:His heart expanded until he was nothing but a heart. A giant pounding heart on two shaking legs walking over to her. ~ Suanne Laqueur, #NFDB
1045:... i didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through ~ Leonard Cohen, #NFDB
1046:I’m quite capable of walking,” she pointed out.
It is faster this way. Your legs are short.”
They are not! ~ Christine Feehan,#NFDB
1047:It's like, to me, acting is like a child walking in the park, the better the actor, the greater the playground he has. ~ Logan Lerman, #NFDB
1048:Keep me walking steadfastly towards the country of everlasting delights, that paradise-land which is my true inheritance. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1049:Let me be the first to say, there isn't a hell big enough for some of the assholes we have walking here on this earth. ~ Lisa Gardner, #NFDB
1050:Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush. ~ Melissa Marr, #NFDB
1051:My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrest…I did a lot of walking in Montgomery. ~ Rosa Parks, #NFDB
1052:Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking. ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB
1053:Of course we all know that Morris was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired me. ~ Max Beerbohm, #NFDB
1054:Say something, honey. I don’t want to give up on you, but you’ve got to say something to stop me from walking out that door. ~ J Lynn, #NFDB
1055:Walking the narrow way involves not a distorted mental attitude but a clear understanding of what righteousness demands. ~ R C Sproul, #NFDB
1056:...when we perfect 3-D copiers and they reproduce tissue, we'll have a million Marilyns walking around with no souls... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
1057:Forgiveness doesn't always mean togetherness. Sometimes walking away from a relationship is the only way to find peace. ~ Melanie Dale, #NFDB
1058:Growing up is like walking through glass doors that only open one way--you can see where you came from but can't go back. ~ Meg Medina, #NFDB
1059:Holy shit, this show. I won't lie, I do watch The Walking Dead, but only so I can more accurately and effectively hate it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1060:I don't see no black and white couples in England or America walking around proud holding their children and going out. ~ Muhammad Ali, #NFDB
1061:I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both. ~ Victoria Moran, #NFDB
1062:It wasn’t wrong. I’m walking, but I’m dead already. And I don’t know how much longer I can keep up the walking part. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1063:I won't lie. Walking into a room and seeing your girlfriend reading a baby-name book can kind of make your heart stop. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
1064:On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
1065:People are walking around blind. If you are the one who can see, you will be able to navigate through this new world. ~ James Altucher, #NFDB
1066:Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air. ~ Carolyn Parkhurst, #NFDB
1067:Some people have a hard time walking and chewing gum at the same time. Not me I cant ever get the gum out of the wrapper! ~ Bill Myers, #NFDB
1068:To be aware that you are still alive, that you are walking on this beautiful planet—that is a form of enlightenment. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
1069:Walking together, matching our footfalls, we exit the lobby like two television district attorneys gunning for justice. ~ Sally Thorne, #NFDB
1070:ways. Most often, the trials we are walking through today are preparing us for a greater role in God’s unfolding story. ~ Louie Giglio, #NFDB
1071:You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying. ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
1072:Across thirty-two cities worldwide, people in 2006 were walking an average 10 percent faster than they were in 1994. ~ Richard O Connor, #NFDB
1073:All eyes went there to see Hawk Delgado and Lee Nightingale, another local badass, a private investigator, walking in. ~ Kristen Ashley, #NFDB
1074:Although I could hear the echo of my footsteps, I could have sworn I was walking a few centimeters above the ground ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
1075:Dreams are all equipped with revolving doors: Someone is always walking into the one you are leaving, and vice-versa. ~ Andrew Holleran, #NFDB
1076:Enoch O'Connor, dead-riser, born to a family of undertakers who couldn't understand why their clients kept walking away. ~ Ransom Riggs, #NFDB
1077:Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
1078:He who discerns the truth as truth and the illusion as an illusion, attains to the truth and is walking in the right road. ~ Dhammapada, #NFDB
1079:I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas. ~ Matt Smith, #NFDB
1080:I’m scared of walking out of this room, and never feeling the rest of my whole life, the way I feel when I’m with you. ~ Lani Lynn Vale, #NFDB
1081:I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree. ~ Robert Macfarlane, #NFDB
1082:I was walking toward him without realizing I was moving, obviously he had me caught in some kind of charming tractor beam. ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
1083:Lord help me, I was going to become a nun if my male radar didn't realign towards guys that were not walking penises. ~ Nicole Williams, #NFDB
1084:man I’ve been in love with since I was sixteen, I’m walking down the aisle to marry the President of the United States. ~ Sierra Simone, #NFDB
1085:Pascal told only half the story. He said man was a thinking reed. What man is, is a thinking reed and a walking genital. ~ Walker Percy, #NFDB
1086:There's a lot of work that needs to be done, and there's a difference between talking the talk and walking the walk. ~ Daniel Radcliffe, #NFDB
1087:They reminded him that people were nothing more than walking, talking bags of meat, ready to become something else’s meal. ~ J F Dubeau, #NFDB
1088:"Walking meditation is not a practice, it is an enjoyment. We don't force it, but we enjoy it. It is an act of love." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
1089:With all the precautions and risks that accompany sex today, it sounds about as much fun as walking through a minefield. ~ Erma Bombeck, #NFDB
1090:With their ship, the Horse, They ply the sea of grass, They stalk the walking mountains, With stones they make their beds. ~ Greg Keyes, #NFDB
1091:You cannot obtain wisdom by walking only in your own garden because wisdom requires knowing beyond your frontiers! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1092:Any time my walk with God gets hard, I know that I am no longer walking in the spirit but have begun living out of my soul. ~ Jack Frost, #NFDB
1093:A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1094:Dead kings were honored in the Six Kingdoms only insofar as they had the good sense to stop walking around above ground. ~ Robert Kroese, #NFDB
1095:He smiles and waves a hand in that direction, and we both begin walking. “But if I were asking to spend the night . . . ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
1096:If you are not setting a trap, then you are probably walking into one. It is the mark of the master to do both at once. ~ Jedediah Berry, #NFDB
1097:I'm a big fan of a lot of graphic novels - 'Fables,' 'Y: The Last Man' and 'The Walking Dead,' which I like a lot more. ~ Cobie Smulders, #NFDB
1098:I’m all in favor of recycling everything we can, but it’s strange to see your past walking around with a new identity. ~ Catherine Clark, #NFDB
1099:I was walking through the woods, thinking about Christ. If He was a carpenter, I wondered what He charged for bookshelves. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
1100:Kenji is a walking paradox of Unflinchingly Serious Person and 12-Year-Old Boy Going Through Puberty all rolled into one. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
1101:Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
1102:Some people make your life better by walking into it while other people make your life better by simply walking out of it. ~ Wiz Khalifa, #NFDB
1103:They are walking hand in hand and she looks so very happy that you try to find the space in your heart not to begrudge her. ~ Junot D az, #NFDB
1104:...to ask her to please promise me she isn't walking out on me. Please out my mind at rest and tell me she's not leaving. ~ Lisa Reardon, #NFDB
1105:To throw the Christian into the furnace is to put him into Christ's parlor; for lo! Jesus Christ is walking with him. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
1106:Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk. ~ Pat Conroy, #NFDB
1107:Watching my hand; He is moving it.Hearing my voice; He is speaking...Walking from room to room... No one here but Him. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #NFDB
1108:We are spiritual beings walking around in these crazy skin suits. Our insides are much more important than our outsides. ~ Rory Freedman, #NFDB
1109:What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world? ~ Rocky Marciano, #NFDB
1110:What if that child survived, and the lineage continues to this day, meaning the ancestors of Christ are walking among us? ~ Larry Brooks, #NFDB
1111:Almost overnight, Albert Pinkham had gone from being barely able to keep his head above water to walking on the stuff. ~ Cathie Pelletier, #NFDB
1112:A Negro walking through this white neighborhood at damn near midnight? He might as well be Satan strolling through Eden. ~ Victor LaValle, #NFDB
1113:By entering the cave of mind and walking into fire. By making shadows bleed. You can feel life completely by taking it away. ~ Ruth Ozeki, #NFDB
1114:Cloud walking. I like that. And yeah, that's exactly how you make me feel. Like my feet will never touch the ground. ~ A Meredith Walters, #NFDB
1115:Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin, #NFDB
1116:Don't forget when your burdens grow heavy, that God is walking alongside you, waiting for you to cast your cares upon Him. ~ Jody Hedlund, #NFDB
1117:Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it. ~ Robin Wright, #NFDB
1118:I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind. ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
1119:I'd appreciate if you'd grow the hell up and stop walking around like the world crapped on your only roll of toilet paper. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
1120:I didn’t think Joe was that desperate,” one of the men grumbled.
“I’m not,” Joe said, walking past him. “I lost a bet. ~ R L Mathewson,#NFDB
1121:I fall in love. More figuratively speaking, I am walking along the road one day when out of nowhere I am struck by lightning. ~ Ali Smith, #NFDB
1122:I inherited several things from her: long legs, stubbornness, and sarcasm. She used all three while walking away from Eli. ~ Laury Falter, #NFDB
1123:It's as if you've been walking against a great wind all your life, and then the wind is gone, and you can't walk. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh, #NFDB
1124:It's funny to me that people find other people getting coffee really interesting, or walking their dog in the dog park. ~ Jake Gyllenhaal, #NFDB
1125:Life is the path you beat while you walk it It's the walking that beats the path It is not the path that makes the walk ~ Antonio Machado, #NFDB
1126:Lo shakes his head at him.
“What?” he says.
”You’re walking a thin fucking line.”
“I always am, little brother. ~ Krista Ritchie,#NFDB
1127:Matt took another sip of his drink. Aha! Julie smiled to herself and kept walking. he did like the Coolatta. Everyone did. ~ Jessica Park, #NFDB
1128:Now with tabloids and seeing people walking around in sweats pumping gas you're like, 'Okay, they're just like us.' ~ Penelope Ann Miller, #NFDB
1129:Sometimes I feel this summer as if I were walking through the green meadow again, idly, aimlessly, unthinking and unguided. ~ Kate Chopin, #NFDB
1130:Stop walking through the motions of a conditioned routine and start consciously taking action on your visualized intent. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
1131:That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells. ~ Clint Eastwood, #NFDB
1132:The man was walking power and confidence, and he was all mine. “Seriously,” Lindsey whispered, “well done.” “I know, right? ~ Chloe Neill, #NFDB
1133:There's something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can't help getting in sync. ~ Bjork, #NFDB
1134:They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1135:Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day. ~ Henri Nouwen, #NFDB
1136:When the way looks infinitely long, if you are sure that it is the right way, ignore the distance and start walking! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1137:Who are we? That is the big question. And essentially we are just an upright-walking, big-brained, super-intelligent ape. ~ Louise Leakey, #NFDB
1138:Within walking distance of any spot on Earth there's probably more than enough mystery to investigate in a lifetime. ~ Alix Kates Shulman, #NFDB
1139:He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature. ~ Madeline Miller, #NFDB
1140:He picked up the pace. He didn’t know if he was walking away from something or toward something else, but he kept going. ~ Lisa Scottoline, #NFDB
1141:He was always running or bounding, never just walking. He seemed always at the point of defeating the law of gravity. ~ Tennessee Williams, #NFDB
1142:I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs. ~ John Major, #NFDB
1143:I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
1144:I like this feeling of weariness after training, when I'm walking home exhausted, dragging my feet. I like this a lot. ~ Fedor Emelianenko, #NFDB
1145:I'm an explorer, -thought Coraline to herself.- And I need all the ways out of here that I can get. So I shall keep walking. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1146:Konig couldn't help but think of the man as a slab of walking muscle with all the intellect of a pair of cheap shoes. ~ Michael R Fletcher, #NFDB
1147:Let us freely walk in the countryside, like a horse peacefully walking towards sunset without any particular purpose! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1148:My life was shit until a few hours ago. My heart only started beating again when I saw you walking up the stairs toward me. ~ Katy Regnery, #NFDB
1149:Not bombs nor my broken heart can take away from me walking barefoot with you in jasmine June through the Field of Mars. ~ Paullina Simons, #NFDB
1150:Perhaps I died years ago, and Hell is a flooded planet of starving children and walking corpses and endless, senseless war. ~ Isaac Marion, #NFDB
1151:Playing Rachmaninoff was like walking on a rope bridge across a gorge with dreamy skies above and a raging, muddy river below. ~ Ella Leya, #NFDB
1152:Walking in Memphis, I was walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale. Walking in Memphis, but do I really feel the way I feel? ~ Marc Cohn, #NFDB
1153:Walking the path of faith means trusting God enough to let our uh-oh moments expose how we create God to fit in our thinking. ~ Peter Enns, #NFDB
1154:We watched Alex walking away.
"What just happened?" I asked him.
There are no words for it in sign language, he said. ~ Rick Riordan,#NFDB
1155:You may actually receive a lower dose of radiation treading water in a spent fuel pool than walking around on the street. ~ Randall Munroe, #NFDB
1156:an experience can be as startling as the first awareness of a stranger walking by your side at night. You are the stranger. ~ Beryl Markham, #NFDB
1157:As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds. ~ Edmund Hillary, #NFDB
1158:being a Christian oftentimes meant walking through dark places in the journey and living only on an unseen, unfelt faith. ~ Karen Kingsbury, #NFDB
1159:But a thing can be easily breakable and still be a bastard to deal with. Ice is brittle, but try walking on half an inch of it. ~ M R Carey, #NFDB
1160:He said, I am the Light of the world. He who follows Me will not be walking in the dark, but will have the Light which is Life. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1161:His eyes held hers. “Because I knew, ten seconds after walking into this office and meeting you, that we had this in the bag. ~ Julie James, #NFDB
1162:I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat. ~ Kate Winslet, #NFDB
1163:If I don’t keep kicking the child’s legs out from under him then he will be walking in no time. Then there will be no peace. ~ Sarah Noffke, #NFDB
1164:If I’m right…’ She was already walking quickly back towards the theatre. ‘If I’m right, science killed the magician.’ * ~ Jonathan L Howard, #NFDB
1165:I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both. (48) ~ Victoria Moran, #NFDB
1166:I think anything we do - eating, walking down the street, online shopping - gives you another perspective on writing stories. ~ Peter Orner, #NFDB
1167:I've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines. ~ Rand Paul, #NFDB
1168:My emotions overload because there is no hand to hold, there’s no shoulder here to lean on; I’m walking all on my own. ~ Christina Aguilera, #NFDB
1169:My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops. ~ Ed Begley Jr, #NFDB
1170:Once, my little sister was walking down the street in her thick black glasses, and a homeless man muttered, Talk nerdy to me. ~ Lena Dunham, #NFDB
1171:Pursuing a dream without God’s approval is as dangerous as walking on a rope bridge over a big gutter? Guess the end….! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1172:Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin, #NFDB
1173:Walking toward the light. None of us lives in the light; we can only walk toward it, with the eyes and legs God has given us. ~ John Updike, #NFDB
1174:You can be walking down the street for a chat, but until you've got the selfie out of the way, people aren't ready to talk. ~ David Cameron, #NFDB
1175:By walking on the right path, you create a golden fate for yourself and you also become a silver lining for the others! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1176:God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think. ~ Rachel Caine, #NFDB
1177:He didn’t need to find a way into the Gallagher Academy, he told himself. He’d be walking through the front doors soon enough. ~ Ally Carter, #NFDB
1178:If there’s a world with ghosts, shouldn’t we be constantly walking through hundreds of apparitions of just regular old people? ~ Jake Tapper, #NFDB
1179:If you start walking to find an honest man, take lots of food and clothes with you as this will be a very long walking! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1180:I love working out and when I'm home. I love the feeling of walking out of a class. That's just an addictive feeling for me. ~ Tara Lipinski, #NFDB
1181:I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things. ~ Lech Walesa, #NFDB
1182:I saw you two walking through South Campus the other day holding hands. You looked good together. Like Beauty and the… Beauty. ~ Lauren Rowe, #NFDB
1183:Once, my little sister was walking down the street in her thick black glasses, and a homeless man muttered, “Talk nerdy to me. ~ Lena Dunham, #NFDB
1184:Please don't be alarmed, you'd be surprised how many charming people are walking our streets, the mere ghosts of themselves. ~ Doris Lessing, #NFDB
1185:Rain came down in sheets. It had been a miserable spring. Already he despaired of ever again walking under an unclouded sky. ~ Sherry Thomas, #NFDB
1186:The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still. ~ Ajahn Chah, #NFDB
1187:there is no substitute for walking in the landscape itself, or turning over dusty old pages in the archives of San Antonio. ~ Paulette Jiles, #NFDB
1188:There's something to walking with autumnal thoughts through the evening fog. One likes to compose poems at a time like that. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
1189:There's truly a story on every corner. But still might be a shock, to realize you are just one story walking among millions ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
1190:Think of this- we may live together with Him here and now, a daily walking with Him who loved us and gave Himself for us. ~ Elisabeth Elliot, #NFDB
1191:We did not know she was sick, but she has come to the fence, walking like a woman who is balancing a sword inside of her body. ~ Mary Oliver, #NFDB
1192:We reject pedestals, queenhood, and walking ten paces behind. To be recognized as human, levelly human, is enough. ~ Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor, #NFDB
1193:When I first came to Yankee Stadium I used to feel like the ghosts of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were walking around in there. ~ Mickey Mantle, #NFDB
1194:You won't further the cause of human rights by walking away with your morals intact. Change is about getting your hand dirty. ~ Brian Malloy, #NFDB
1195:And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love') ~ William Blake, #NFDB
1196:But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts. ~ Megan Hart, #NFDB
1197:For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you. ~ Krzysztof Kieslowski, #NFDB
1198:I am walking today because of chiropractic care I received years ago. I predict a great future for the science of chiropractic. ~ Jeane Dixon, #NFDB
1199:If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go ~ A A Allen, #NFDB
1200:I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat. ~ Bear Grylls, #NFDB
1201:I slammed out of the [house] and started walking, heading nowhere in particular. Sometimes you just need to go through a door. ~ Ransom Riggs, #NFDB
1202:I watch 'Sons of Anarchy' and 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Walking Dead' and think, 'I want to create that kind of television! ~ Michael Easton, #NFDB
1203:Lions walk on four legs," observed Mma Makutsi. "Was this man walking on four legs? That can be a big giveaway, Mma. ~ Alexander McCall Smith, #NFDB
1204:Sometimes being hotheaded and doing it your own way and walking out on all the hot shit might be the right thing to do. ~ Porochista Khakpour, #NFDB
1205:Spoken by Myrtle: " she smiled slowly, walking through her husband.
Spoken by Jordan: "large parties are so intimate. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,#NFDB
1206:There's nothing worse than walking around and talking about your failed relationship, all day, every day, for months on end. ~ Max Greenfield, #NFDB
1207:These boots were made for walking, that's just what they'll do. One of these days these boots are going to walk all over you. ~ Nancy Sinatra, #NFDB
1208:These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking round. ~ Bill Cosby, #NFDB
1209:We wander along the world along many paths and maybe without knowing it we are walking now along one path towards success! ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
1210:Admire the world for never ending on you -- as you would an opponent, without taking your eyes away from him, or walking away. ~ Annie Dillard, #NFDB
1211:Ava glanced over at Napoleon, who was walking back toward them. She smirked at Juliet and said, "Sweetie, you are *not* the one. ~ Jay Fingers, #NFDB
1212:Being home always made her feel like she was walking on a high wire, waiting for a gust of wind to knock her to the ground. The ~ Melissa Marr, #NFDB
1213:For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air. ~ Thomas Merton, #NFDB
1214:... i didn't fall in love of course
it's never up to you
but she was walking back and forth
and i was passing through ~ Leonard Cohen,#NFDB
1215:If one of you is walking through a dark valley personally of course it affects the marriage. But it is not about the marriage. ~ John Eldredge, #NFDB
1216:If this bitch turned off that goddamn television, I’m walking out that front door without shoes on and I’m never coming back. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
1217:If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go. ~ A A Allen, #NFDB
1218:I just can't fathom why anyone would stand on a ledge when there's a respectable amount of walking space right next to it. ~ Stephanie Perkins, #NFDB
1219:I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I'm walking down the street. ~ Angelina Jolie, #NFDB
1220:I'm the very glass of fashion and the mold of form. Aren't I, Mewster?" "You look like a walking hairball," said the kitten. ~ Gregory Maguire, #NFDB
1221:In my dreams, you were walking,” I whispered, kissing his chest.
“In mine, you stayed,” he replied on a deep, content sigh. ~ Aly Martinez,#NFDB
1222:I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day. ~ Michael J Fox, #NFDB
1223:Let your heart therefore be wholly true to the LORD our God, walking in his statutes and keeping his commandments, as at this day. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1224:Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture. ~ Russell Baker, #NFDB
1225:Life is always walking up to us and saying, ‘Come on in, the living’s fine,’ and what do we do? Back off and take its picture. ~ Russell Baker, #NFDB
1226:My waking and sleeping seem mixed together. I’m walking in a dream half the time, and sleeping through reality the other half. ~ Margaret Weis, #NFDB
1227:Oh, sweet fuck of all fucks that are downright hot, hard and sweaty. I want this man. I want this walking, fuckable man-caramel. ~ K M Golland, #NFDB
1228:Phillip laughed. “You always did give great head.” “And I’ll continue to—just not for you.” With that I winked before walking away ~ Ethan Day, #NFDB
1229:Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, #NFDB
1230:[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral. ~ Coleman Barks, #NFDB
1231:There are rivers, hundreds of them, running underground all the time, and because of this a man can say he is walking on water. ~ Ann Patchett, #NFDB
1232:There’s no substitute for daily fellowship with the Lord in his Word and in prayer, and then walking with him in obedience. ~ Warren W Wiersbe, #NFDB
1233:This was how I always felt walking home, as if I was nothing more than a puppet in a scene, being moved along by someone else. ~ Kathryn Croft, #NFDB
1234:Tommy would never look at me like that, except maybe if I were walking toward him butt naked carrying a heaping plate of bacon. ~ Beth Ehemann, #NFDB
1235:Uncorrupted man, with God's blessing, advances across the fields of the universe as though he were walking down a country lane. ~ Robert Payne, #NFDB
1236:Walking down the path of dreams, inner-self and listening to your heart are all different names given to your hidden scripts. ~ Santosh Kalwar, #NFDB
1237:Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines—it’s hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits. ~ Robin Sloan, #NFDB
1238:Well, in my defense, I was walking the floor at three this morning with her latest child. I think it’s a girl. What’s her name? ~ John Grisham, #NFDB
1239:we spend our days waiting for the ideal path to appear in front of us. We forget that paths are made by walking, not waiting. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB
1240:What is your name?” Goosefeather called after her. The she-cat carried on walking without looking back. “Mapleshade,” she mewed. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
1241:You can only push someone so far before that push sends them walking away in the opposite direction. Everyone has their limits. ~ Belle Aurora, #NFDB
1242:A degree on a wall means you’re educated as much as shoes on your feet mean you’re walking. It’s a start, but hardly sufficient. ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1243:By walking a long time in an environment, landscapes begin to influence on your mood, as( landscapes) change, your feelings do. ~ Jacques Lecoq, #NFDB
1244:I always thought it'd be fun to go to a sci-fi convention, watch a bunch of Klingons walking around, all of that kind of stuff. ~ Michael Welch, #NFDB
1245:'A man can only take so much pretty walking back and forth in front of him.' He said pretty like he meant something else. ~ Cara Hoffman, #NFDB
1246:I couldn't care less about walking down the red carpet in a pair of heels and a posh frock. I'd rather be in my pyjamas at home. ~ Sophia Myles, #NFDB
1247:If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
1248:I’m Death walking. I’m the possibility for Complete and Total World Destruction. I can sure as hell make my own decisions. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
1249:It wasn’t hard to spot Dolph. Pete McKinnon was standing with them. It was like walking towards two small mountains. Dolph ~ Laurell K Hamilton, #NFDB
1250:I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. ~ William Blake, #NFDB
1251:Making a decision to have a child—it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~ John Medina, #NFDB
1252:Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a familiar house. I do recognize everything. I could find my way around in the dark. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
1253:My understanding of zombie movies is people rising from the dead, from their graves, stuff like that, and walking very slowly. ~ Robert Carlyle, #NFDB
1254:Occasionally a man stumbles over the truth. Most dust themselves off and continue walking as though nothing had happened. ~ Winston S Churchill, #NFDB
1255:Peter did obey, walking on legs that still felt as if they were relaying their sensory input by some form of telecommunications. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1256:Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1257:Strict walking is much despised in these days, but rest assured, dear reader, it is both the safest and the happiest. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
1258:That was for the hard-on I’ll be walking around with tonight. And you’ll goddamn wear the imprint of my hand on your ass for it. ~ Tessa Bailey, #NFDB
1259:There's just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you're special. ~ Carol Rifka Brunt, #NFDB
1260:They had been products of their time, and walking in Birmingham now, Marcus was an accumulation of these times. That was the point. ~ Yaa Gyasi, #NFDB
1261:We think too fast, even while walking or on the way, or while engaged in other things, no matter how serious the subject. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1262:When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him. ~ Anton Szandor LaVey, #NFDB
1263:Because I’m sure a man with your sexual prowess has numbers that triple mine. You’re probably a walking case of gonaherphasyphilaids, ~ K Larsen, #NFDB
1264:But she is tired all the time now. She can feel how slowly she is walking, as if the air itself is something to be reckoned with. ~ Jenny Offill, #NFDB
1265:But we're all walking in the night, now, on ground we don't know. When the day comes we may know where we are, or we may not. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
1266:Good lord. Building stone patios, chopping wood, and walking everywhere was a workout video he needed to put on the market. ASAP. ~ Mia Sheridan, #NFDB
1267:He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was also his journey to accept the strangeness of others. ~ Rachel Joyce, #NFDB
1268:How the hell are you supposed to survive, when the part of you that you need to live is walking around outside your body? ~ Aurora Rose Reynolds, #NFDB
1269:If I thought I could win one more soul to the Lord by walking on my head and playing the tambourine with my toes, I'd learn how! ~ William Booth, #NFDB
1270:I’m a human, walking around this lonely planet, taking one breath after another, trying to decide what’s right and what’s wrong. ~ Renee Carlino, #NFDB
1271:Is she into chocolate?” What the fuck kind of question is that? Are there people walking around this planet who don’t like chocolate? ~ R S Grey, #NFDB
1272:I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane. ~ Julio Cortazar, #NFDB
1273:I've actually gone to the zoo and had monkeys shout to me from their cages, "I'm in here when you're walking around like that?" ~ Robin Williams, #NFDB
1274:I've always managed by walking around. Any CEO or leader who spends the majority of his time in his office is not doing his job. ~ Donny Deutsch, #NFDB
1275:I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. ~ William Blake, #NFDB
1276:I was walking in the park and this guy waved at me. Then he said, 'I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else.' I said, 'I am.' ~ Demetri Martin, #NFDB
1277:Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
1278:When you throw trash on the ground, you apparently don't see yourself as truly belonging to the world that you're walking in. ~ Sebastian Junger, #NFDB
1279:Winter invites white; white invites silence; silence invites peace. You see, there is so much peace in walking on the snow! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1280:After making love there is nothing like making love, slowly, idly, like walking without a destination, or swimming in a warm sea. ~ Chloe Thurlow, #NFDB
1281:All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking." by Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German-Swiss philosopher and writer. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
1282:And freedom? Oh, freedom.
Well that's just some people talking.
Your prison is walking through this world all alone. ~ Jacqueline Woodson,#NFDB
1283:At the end of them, you’ll either be a damned good shot or you’ll be walking with my boot wedged permanently in your butthole. ~ Robert Muchamore, #NFDB
1284:If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! ~ Philip Yancey, #NFDB
1285:I have such a hopeless dream of walking or being there at night, nothing happens, I just pass, everything is unbearably over with. ~ Jack Kerouac, #NFDB
1286:Indiana Jones. I always knew some day you'd come walking back through my door. I never doubted that. Something made it inevitable. ~ Marion Raven, #NFDB
1287:I slammed out of the Priest Hole and started walking, heading nowhere in particular. Sometimes you just need to go through a door. ~ Ransom Riggs, #NFDB
1288:I’ve watched them. Watched them walking with this stupid smile on their faces into the biggest risk you can take in this life. ~ Geraldine Brooks, #NFDB
1289:Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB
1290:Movement helps keep me centered. I am a disaster, for instance, at sitting meditation, but I'm pretty decent at walking meditation. ~ Pam Houston, #NFDB
1291:that walking with Jesus is a lifelong journey. You don’t see or understand everything at once. It comes in steps along the way. ~ Tracie Peterson, #NFDB
1292:The mobile phone is very dangerous. If you're walking and looking at your phone, you're not walking - you're surfing the internet. ~ Mohsin Hamid, #NFDB
1293:There are two kinds of people in the world Ms. Lane: those who survive no matter the cost and those who are walking victims. ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
1294:There's nothing wrong with having a few monsters in the shadows. They keep me remembering what it is that I'm walking away from. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
1295:Thor regaled me with his theories about a hypothetical death match between Daryl from The Walking Dead and Mike from Breaking Bad. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
1296:To other people, it sometimes seems like nothing at all. You are walking around with your head on fire and no one can see the flames. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
1297:Walking by faith is never easy. Especially when it’s being tested day after day. All I can say is that giving up is not the answer. ~ Francis Ray, #NFDB
1298:Walking out with the people, I didn't know which was more exciting, the air race, the parachute jump that failed, or the cunt. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
1299:[Walking's] overwhelming advantage is that it can be done by anyone, anytime, anywhere-and it doesn't even look like exercise. ~ Kenneth H Cooper, #NFDB
1300:Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits. ~ Robin Sloan, #NFDB
1301:When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward. ~ Tyler Perry, #NFDB
1302:You are walking on a street; a bird is singing, do you hear it? No? Then you are missing the life because life is awareness! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1303:As much as it hurts to know he’s walking away, I also know that I need to let him. I asked for this. We need this. I need this. I ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB
1304:He told himself to slow down to appreciate the moment, and he started walking faster to appreciate it sooner…. Photos. I need photos! ~ Tim Dorsey, #NFDB
1305:I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere. ~ Stephen Chbosky, #NFDB
1306:I know you are scared. Who could blame you? Love is a hurricane wrapped inside a chrysalis. And you are a girl walking into the storm. ~ Lang Leav, #NFDB
1307:I’m afraid I’ll fall,” I said, concentrating on walking straight.
“Don’t worry. If you fall, I’ll always be there to catch you. ~ Mia Kayla,#NFDB
1308:I’m going to fuck you right now, Emily. I’m going to bring you so much pleasure you’ll never think about walking away from me again. ~ Gail McHugh, #NFDB
1309:I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey. ~ Harland Williams, #NFDB
1310:It’s true. We’re like a walking Hallmark card, full of quotes and bible verses. We make people feel like they’ve been touched by an angel. ~ Tijan, #NFDB
1311:It was at that exact moment that I saw Peter walking down the hall toward me. He looked so good. He deserved his own background music. ~ Jenny Han, #NFDB
1312:I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping. ~ Elinor Lipman, #NFDB
1313:Just like a caravan of camels walking in the desert, be durable against the adversities of life and walk with decisive steps. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1314:Leave the talking for others and live by walking. Go, go and go extra mile and you will be a true owner of what belongs to you ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
1315:One of our church networks has as its purpose statement "To have a church within walking distance of every person living in Las Vegas. ~ Neil Cole, #NFDB
1316:The people who have the power want you scared. They want you walking around paralyzed by the notion that you could die at any moment. ~ Mira Grant, #NFDB
1317:Walking along in the silence, he had no regrets. If he died tomorrow, it would be because God was not willing to change the future. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1318:We are built to walk. Not to SoulCycle and jog and hike. Walking is mental. You sharpen your thoughts and process your emotions. ~ Caroline Kepnes, #NFDB
1319:Writing a short story is a little like walking into a dark room, finding a light and turning it on. The light is the end of the story. ~ Dan Chaon, #NFDB
1320:Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.' ~ Arthur Smith, #NFDB
1321:If you're walking with somebody, you're heading in the same direction, and the spatial dance you're doing is a little more cooperative. ~ Scott Kim, #NFDB
1322:I love movies that ask big questions but don't necessarily answer everything. I like people walking out thinking about something. ~ Joseph Kosinski, #NFDB
1323:I've always hated criminals and crime. Life is hard enough without someone walking into your life on purpose and making it worse. ~ Pauley Perrette, #NFDB
1324:I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him. ~ William H Macy, #NFDB
1325:I was thinking about New York and realized how much I hate walking around in the winter and how much I dread getting on the train. ~ Frankie Cosmos, #NFDB
1326:Just don't take forever," he said as he stood. "If I've got miles of pain before me I'd rather start walking them sooner than later. ~ Keary Taylor, #NFDB
1327:Just imagine walking away from something you’ve started. Something you really believed would be good. I don’t think i could ever do that. ~ Jo Nesb, #NFDB
1328:One of the things I've learned by working on the 'Walking Dead' and other TV shows is to be more tolerant of other people's process. ~ Glen Mazzara, #NFDB
1329:That was a pygmy marmoset by the way. Just in case you were wondering."
I wheezed. "Thank you oh Walking Monkey Dictionary. ~ Colleen Houck,#NFDB
1330:The app Headspace is a fun way to start. Try and do it every day. But I suggest not doing it while you are walking . . . for now. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB
1331:The truth has no form, you know. It's not like walking around trying to actually ask for favors and to be acknowledged, it is what it is. ~ Chuck D, #NFDB
1332:Watching my hand; He is moving it.Hearing my voice; He is speaking…Walking from room to room —No one here but Him. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi shar.es/a0Ki5I, #NFDB
1333:Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners. ~ Kate Thornton, #NFDB
1334:current. “He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature. ~ Madeline Miller, #NFDB
1335:Eden, Eden, I was dead without you. Oh God, I've been walking around like a ghost—half in this world, and half in the other. Eden . . ~ Mia Sheridan, #NFDB
1336:If my dog wants to know why I didn't feed him this morning, he may want to rethink walking out of the room when I'm telling him a joke. ~ Dana Gould, #NFDB
1337:If we aren’t walking in wisdom, intimacy, and understanding with our Lord, we are walking in folly. And folly’s ways lead to death. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
1338:I have a plan.
We’ll either destroy them for good, or they’ll destroy us.
Either way, only one of us is walking away. ~ Gena Showalter,#NFDB
1339:Im gonna walk super, super slow to when I turn 40 or something. To me, walking and floating slow represents how wealthy you are! ~ Theophilus London, #NFDB
1340:I run in Central Park as the sun comes up. Some may mistake it for walking, but I swear I am running. I could not do it without my iPod. ~ Hoda Kotb, #NFDB
1341:I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets. ~ Peter Dinklage, #NFDB
1342:I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks. ~ Bai Ling, #NFDB
1343:Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying. ~ Marilyn vos Savant, #NFDB
1344:The greatest hindrance to spiritual maturity is walking according to our emotions instead of purposely choosing to do the right thing. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
1345:Walking in a forest between two hedges of ferns transfigured by autumn--that is a triumph. What are ovations and applause beside it? ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
1346:We're all just walking each other home.- Ram Dass
Why do you prefer to crawl through life when you were given wings. - Rumi ~ Caroline E Zani,#NFDB
1347:Wisdom is the contant questioning of where you are. And when you stop wanting to know, you're dea. You're walking, but you're dead. ~ Billy Connolly, #NFDB
1348:You are such a man.” She tossed her hands up and started walking away. “Well, yeah!” I called back. “You want to check out my dick? ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
1349:Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, as the habit of walking, by walking; of running, by running. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
1350:I don't tan on my upper thighs, so when I first wore those [ cut-off jean short shorts] I look like I was walking on two cans of milk. ~ Blake Jenner, #NFDB
1351:I'm trying to phase out my availability on the phone. People call you when you're walking down the street and say the most random stuff. ~ Nico Muhly, #NFDB
1352:I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night. ~ Liam Gallagher, #NFDB
1353:Life was easier for folks when they believed monsters were only the children of imagination, not walking among them in the flesh. ~ Christian Galacar, #NFDB
1354:People look at me and keep walking - but you can tell they know who I am. I want them to bug me. Its gonna be a sad day when they dont. ~ Schoolboy Q, #NFDB
1355:She was embarrassed that Drew was the type of walking one-night stand guy their mom had warned her about. ", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow ~ Kailin Gow, #NFDB
1356:The writer Elizabeth Stone says that having a child is like deciding to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton, #NFDB
1357:Those were the days of simple living. You don’t see two-rupee notes any more. You don’t see walking sticks either. Hardly anyone walks. ~ Ruskin Bond, #NFDB
1358:To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on. --Shin'a'in saying ~ Mercedes Lackey, #NFDB
1359:Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one's own was beyond the pale. ~ Steve Hockensmith, #NFDB
1360:Walking with your chest out and your head held high says you have earned the right to stomp and pummel this particular piece of real estate. ~ RuPaul, #NFDB
1361:When I'm just walking around, I swap between the British and the American, and when I'm with my family I'm with my Nigerian accent. ~ Toks Olagundoye, #NFDB
1362:You got canned. Outsourced. Pink-slipped. Handed your walking papers. Given the go light. Slipped on the banana. Served the dead slug. ~ Kim Harrison, #NFDB
1363:You know what’s more insane than [slaughterhouses]? Meat eaters. Walking around, acting like their lifestyle isn’t causing any harm. ~ Gary Yourofsky, #NFDB
1364:[Adulthood feels like] walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you. ~ Dylan Moran, #NFDB
1365:Happiness, Success, Excellence: They are not something you get for knowing the path; they are something you experience by walking it. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
1366:I had set off, going straight ahead, to escape a broken heart. I had been walking for three hours, wherever the forest took me. ~ Timoth e de Fombelle, #NFDB
1367:I’m a walking economy. My hairline’s in recession,my waist is a victim of inflation, and together they’re putting me in a deep depression! ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1368:I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain. ~ Enya, #NFDB
1369:I never really told anybody that I'm a rapper. I wasn't walking around being like, "Yo, check out my mixtape!" It was more of a secret grind. ~ J Cole, #NFDB
1370:In God's eyes, walking on water is no more miraculous than the ability of hemoglobin to bond with oxygen inside a red blood corpuscle. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1371:I think that the practice of medicine, the science of it, has become 50% pharmacological, so that doctors are like walking pharmacies. ~ Caroline Myss, #NFDB
1372:I was given two weeks to walk again, so I hooked up with a trainer, and he... had me walking. I'll never forget that, it was grueling. ~ Richard Pryor, #NFDB
1373:My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is. ~ Ellen DeGeneres, #NFDB
1374:My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is. ~ Ellen DeGeneres, #NFDB
1375:Personal style is my mom, after some red wine, walking like she intends to restore order and beauty to the world with her posture alone. ~ Emily Henry, #NFDB
1376:Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
1377:The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. When we eat, we know we are eating, ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
1378:The most powerful, life-chaging truths that God will teach us are only learned over a continuous process of daily walking with Him ~ Alisa Hope Wagner, #NFDB
1379:The secret passages of life are simply magnificent! You can continue walking without being noticed, far away from all the perils! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1380:This walking business is overrated: I mastered the art of doing it when I was quite small, and in any case, what are taxis for? ~ Christopher Hitchens, #NFDB
1381:We took the elevator back down from the first observation level of the Eiffel Tower and started walking in he direction of the Taj Mahal ~ D J MacHale, #NFDB
1382:Audie was the cleverest man Moss had ever met. He was Yoda. He was Gandalf. He was Morpheus. Now he’d become a walking suicide note. ~ Michael Robotham, #NFDB
1383:Dear, the man can't be eviscerated because he has no viscera. He's a walking colon. If you cut him open, you only end up covered in crap. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
1384:If you don't come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you're not trying hard enough ~ Mario Andretti, #NFDB
1385:I'm not really a zombie genre guy, I'm not particularly versed in it. Doing 'The Walking Dead' sort of turned me on to the whole thing. ~ Noah Emmerich, #NFDB
1386:I’m not walking away from you or us. I wasn’t ready to love again when you came crashing into me. But you made me want to try again. ~ Corinne Michaels, #NFDB
1387:I'm walking this walk and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan? ~ Stephen Baldwin, #NFDB
1388:I should probably say fuck it and give in.” “To what?” she asked, looking worried. “To walking up to you and kissing the fuck out of you. ~ Lucian Bane, #NFDB
1389:It feels great to win and I can't be more thankful to the Lord for walking me through every step. God was and is so faithful every time. ~ Webb Simpson, #NFDB
1390:Most people when they're walking are thinking about where they have to go and what they have to do. But that removes us from happiness. ~ Oprah Winfrey, #NFDB
1391:There's right and there's wrong. Y'gotta do one or the other. Do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat. ~ John Wayne, #NFDB
1392:Walking in heels while wearing a ball gown was, as it turned out, more difficult than finagling an invitation to a state dinner. ~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes, #NFDB
1393:Wearing a burqa is like walking inside a big fabric shuttlecock with only a grille to see through and on hot days it’s like an oven. ~ Malala Yousafzai, #NFDB
1394:When I lived in rural Oxfordshire, I was walking home across a field when I stroked a cow. The damn thing butted me in the orchestras. ~ Mark Lawrenson, #NFDB
1395:A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia. ~ Sally Phillips, #NFDB
1396:But it was a road I hadn’t built, and I’m convinced you can’t ever be completely happy walking on someone else’s road. Someone else’s path. ~ Amy Harmon, #NFDB
1397:For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me. ~ Eric Bogosian, #NFDB
1398:Freedom is an illusion. Try walking along the road with long hair and it won’t be long before a sheriff pulls up asking questions. ~ Elizabeth M Herrera, #NFDB
1399:I bet The Walking Dead gets really low ratings out in Montana, just because all they need to do is look out their f-king window, am I right? ~ Bill Burr, #NFDB
1400:If the path is beautiful, all you have to do when walking in that path is to be beautiful so as to not ruin the beauty of the path! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1401:If, when reading and walking at the same time, he bumped into a lamppost, he would apologize and check that the lamppost was unhurt. ~ Katherine Rundell, #NFDB
1402:I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I'm not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I'm going to do something, I have to do it. ~ Eminem, #NFDB
1403:I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot. ~ Werner Herzog, #NFDB
1404:In the case of sociology however, we are always walking on hot coals, and the things we discuss are alive, they're not dead and buried ~ Pierre Bourdieu, #NFDB
1405:I think it is the best of humanity that goes out to walk. In happy hours, I think all affairs may be wisely postponed for walking. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1406:I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films. ~ Werner Herzog, #NFDB
1407:Life is a miracle; walking is a miracle; watching the sunset is a miracle; everything is a miracle, because existence is a miracle! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1408:My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they? ~ Tammy Duckworth, #NFDB
1409:our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create. ~ Truman Capote, #NFDB
1410:She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much. ~ Betty Smith, #NFDB
1411:The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to get it right. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1412:There is a magic in walking alone, in thinking alone: If there is no one to contact you around, the universe starts contacting you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1413:To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on.
--Shin'a'in saying ~ Mercedes Lackey,#NFDB
1414:We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me! ~ Denis Leary, #NFDB
1415:You are not walking slow enough, when taking a walk, if you do not come across as bored or depressed (to the average sane person). ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
1416:Each thing that happens to us, each and every thing, it leaves some dent, and that dent will always be there. Each of us is a walking wreck. ~ David Vann, #NFDB
1417:I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #NFDB
1418:If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker, and you were walking down a sidewalk, and he fell, that would be completely unacceptable. ~ Mitch Hedberg, #NFDB
1419:I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again and get it right. ~ John Banville, #NFDB
1420:I'm interested in how things are put together, and that's more interesting to me than just regular shows, even though I like The Walking Dead. ~ Ice Cube, #NFDB
1421:I think if I were walking someplace and I saw a corpse my brain would tell me it was a million things before I believed it was a corpse. ~ Daniel Handler, #NFDB
1422:moonlight she saw a woman walking quietly away. Her feet did not go crunch, crunch. She walked softly in the tall beach grass. ~ Gertrude Chandler Warner, #NFDB
1423:Sitting describes our position with Christ in the heavenlies. Walking is the practical outworking of that heavenly position here on earth. ~ Watchman Nee, #NFDB
1424:So at that time of day when the early sun still rings haloes on human heads, Socrates is walking through the Agora to his judgement day. ~ Bettany Hughes, #NFDB
1425:Stop,” I blurt. Sarah abruptly stops walking toward me, her eyes wide. Oh. That’s funny. I was talking to myself. But I can work with this. ~ Lauren Rowe, #NFDB
1426:The best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you can always remember where you came from, how hard walking could sometimes be. ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
1427:The problem is in the type of energy that is directed, either in the act of sex or simply walking down the street or talking to someone. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1428:To Danny and Vinny, Greg Lippmann was a walking embodiment of the bond market, which is to say he was put on earth to screw the customer. ~ Michael Lewis, #NFDB
1429:When you're walking, just walk. When you're eating, just eat. Not in front of the TV, not with the newspaper. It turns out, that's huge. ~ Jon Kabat Zinn, #NFDB
1430:When you walk into Beeber Bifocal, you’re overwhelmed by the care and the patience that was put into it. It’s like walking into a big hug. ~ Maria Semple, #NFDB
1431:Why would I want to take baby steps? Babies are shit at walking - think about it. To move forward I'll be taking jazzy little lizard steps. ~ Ruby Elliot, #NFDB
1432:Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade? ~ Diogenes, #NFDB
1433:Do only one thing at a time. When you walk, just enjoy walking. When you listen, really listen. You will become happier and more centered.^ ~ Haemin Sunim, #NFDB
1434:Fact is stranger than fiction. You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television. You have to tone it down. ~ Ricky Gervais, #NFDB
1435:For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, #NFDB
1436:Happiness is a carnival game. It's never as easy as it looks, but the dumb ones always seem to be walking around with a big stuffed animal. ~ Dov Davidoff, #NFDB
1437:He strode over to the ruined church. This, Blue had discovered, was how Gansey got places - striding. Walking was for ordinary people. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
1438:He strode over to the ruined church. This, Blue had discovered, was how Gansey got places — striding. Walking was for ordinary people. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
1439:I chuckled to myself and kept walking. The Universe had proven Curran wrong: a person who aggravated him more than me did, in fact, exist. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
1440:I do yoga, lunges, crunches, things like that for 40 minutes twice a week. For cardio I usually do the elliptical, treadmill or walking. ~ Martina McBride, #NFDB
1441:If the road is beautiful, walk the road slowly; be a turtle, be a snail and even better than this: Stop walking; live the road fully! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1442:I love being outside with trees and water, lying down somewhere or walking. I do transcendental meditation, which keeps me calm and steady. ~ Naomi Watts, #NFDB
1443:I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will. ~ Margaret Atwood, #NFDB
1444:Love is the law of our condition, without which we can no more render justice than a man can keep a straight line, walking in the dark. ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
1445:My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown. ~ Simon Callow, #NFDB
1446:Ram Dass, who described himself as a Hin-Jew, said that ultimately we’re all just walking each other home. I love that. I try to live by it. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
1447:Walking into someone's house was like entering their body. You saw what they were made of, and what they had been stewing in all this time. ~ Meg Wolitzer, #NFDB
1448:Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. ~ Leslie Stephen, #NFDB
1449:We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction. ~ Alice Cooper, #NFDB
1450:We must be courageous but also reasonable. The world admires us for walking a tightrope without falling off. It asks us to keep our balance. ~ Lech Walesa, #NFDB
1451:What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite? ~ Jorge Luis Borges, #NFDB
1452:When I'm walking along in the street, I always feel that around the corner,there is something wonderful waiting for me. That's my attitude. ~ Sophia Loren, #NFDB
1453:You don't want anybody walking into your house and taking a Gatorade out of your refrigerator, you've got to get in there and protect it. ~ Tyson Chandler, #NFDB
1454:You've been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, and deeper under, a thousand times deeper! ~ Rumi, #NFDB
1455:All too often, we spend our days waiting for the ideal path to appear in front of us. We forget that paths are made by walking, not waiting. ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
1456:"Do only one thing at a time. When you walk, just enjoy walking. When you listen, really listen. You will become happier and more centered." ~ Haemin Sunim, #NFDB
1457:every last one of us will need to fuck up and be forgiven, that we’re all just walking and walking and walking and trying to find our way, ~ Cheryl Strayed, #NFDB
1458:For a brief, weird minute I felt like Dorothy in Oz, walking down the street with Terric the doubtful, Shame the brainless, and heartless Zay. ~ Devon Monk, #NFDB
1459:He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out of him but he was yet walking. ~ Charles Frazier, #NFDB
1460:I have always found those who take the easier road, when they know they should be walking the more difficult one, to be cowards,” Robillard ~ R A Salvatore, #NFDB
1461:I just want to be the only thing he sees. I want to feel like we’re walking on clouds when we’re together. That I’m the girl he wants, ~ A Meredith Walters, #NFDB
1462:It really sucks getting older. Sometimes I'll be walking along and I'll just glance over my shoulder to make sure nothing has fallen off. ~ Karin Slaughter, #NFDB
1463:I turn around and there he is, like some freaking walking tattooed Hugo Boss advert. I spin back to Zeth. “Really? Really? You brought Rebel? ~ Callie Hart, #NFDB
1464:It was the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
1465:I want to be age appropriate. I don't want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90. ~ Stevie Nicks, #NFDB
1466:Making the decision to have a child—it’s wondrous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton, #NFDB
1467:Nobody living can ever stop me. As I go walking my freedom highway. Nobody living can make me turn back. This land was made for you and me. ~ Woody Guthrie, #NFDB
1468:The land is numb. It stands beneath the feet, and one may come Walking securely, till the sea extends Its limber margin, and precision ends. ~ Yvor Winters, #NFDB
1469:There are people everywhere standing in line at the movies, buying curtains, walking dogs, while inside, their hearts are ripping to shreds. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
1470:The trouble is, walking in Venice becomes compulsive once you start. Just over the next bridge, you say, and then the next one beckons. ~ Daphne du Maurier, #NFDB
1471:We were just two people headed in the same direction, and walking together was better than walking alone. Love should be more than that. ~ Bette Lee Crosby, #NFDB
1472:When someone is walking beside us, we have more courage to walk into the unknown and to risk the dark and messy places in our journey. ~ Henry Kimsey House, #NFDB
1473:Whether you are standing or walking, whether you are seated or lying down, consecrate yourselves wholly to love : it is the best way of life. ~ Metta Sutta, #NFDB
1474:Which one of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite? ~ Jorge Luis Borges, #NFDB
1475:Which would prove I'm a monster, Arnie? Sacrificing the people I love for the fight? Or walking away from the fight to save the people i love? ~ David Wong, #NFDB
1476:worried we would’ve broken down on the side of the road, not for my car’s sake, for my sake. I didn’t know if I could’ve handled walking with Lydia ~ Tijan, #NFDB
1477:And you know what? You can’t make me responsible for you and the choices you make.” I turned around and started walking toward the house. ~ Kristen D Randle, #NFDB
1478:He had become my poster boy, a walking testament to how will and belief can make up for lack of muscle, how anger can overcome blindness. ~ Abraham Verghese, #NFDB
1479:It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market. ~ Nicolas Chamfort, #NFDB
1480:...not with the Depression walking around outside the prison walls like a dangerous criminal, one that couldn't be caged as our charges were. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
1481:The actions of our daily life — like walking, washing, lighting incense — do not seem very important, but they comprise the whole cosmos. ~ Taisen Deshimaru, #NFDB
1482:The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells. ~ Robert Macfarlane, #NFDB
1483:The paths of the LORD are true and right, and righteous people live by walking in them. But in those paths sinners stumble and fall. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1484:The pen is to thought what the stick is to walking, but one walks most easily without a stick, and thinks most perfectly when no pen is at hand. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1485:Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult. ~ Faraaz Kazi, #NFDB
1486:Walking home with the back half of the twelve-foot ladder I turned to look in the direction of Hugh’s loft. 'You will be mine,' I commanded. ~ David Sedaris, #NFDB
1487:Are you a little tipsy, Vivian? It doesn’t look like you’re walking too straight.” “No, I’m just artificially confident and chemically relaxed. ~ Jewel E Ann, #NFDB
1488:coming home” meant, for me, walking step by step toward the One who awaits me with open arms and wants to hold me in an eternal embrace. I ~ Henri J M Nouwen, #NFDB
1489:His boots crunched behind me.
"And stop following me!" I yelled over my shoulder.
"I'm not following you.Stop walking in front of me. ~ Jennifer Echols,#NFDB
1490:how can you talk about the commands of God so continually with your children while walking along the road if you can’t recite their content? ~ Andrew M Davis, #NFDB
1491:I especially love the way he moves, like a young god who takes his time walking because he wants mere mortals like me to bask in his perfection. ~ Marian Tee, #NFDB
1492:I love living with animals. And my children love animals. I love walking around and being with the horses. But the deer? They're naughty. ~ Stephanie Seymour, #NFDB
1493:I'm a walker. I enjoy walking, which I think psychologically expresses my feelings of wanting liberation without exerting myself too much. ~ Janeane Garofalo, #NFDB
1494:I said that I’m a fairy… and I prefer to dance and fly with the butterfly but they made me talk and walk - and I hate walking and talking. ~ Sasha Pivovarova, #NFDB
1495:I think perfect dates involve walking a lot, and not a bunch of driving around in cars. Ideally, you can walk together and go to a restaurant. ~ James Mercer, #NFDB
1496:I was walking an average of about two and a half miles a day, which is still more than most Americans. Most Americans don't even walk that. ~ Morgan Spurlock, #NFDB
1497:Life was never meant to be a struggle, just a gentle progression from one point to another, much like walking through a valley on a sunny day. ~ Stuart Wilde, #NFDB
1498:Like one kissed by a goddess in a dream, he walked on air; and, while one is walking on air, it is easy to overlook the boulders in the path. ~ P G Wodehouse, #NFDB
1499:One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather. ~ Anne Bront, #NFDB
1500:Sometimes love means not walking away when things get rough. But sometimes love means chasing the idiot down and knocking some sense into him. ~ Katee Robert, #NFDB
223 Integral Yoga
79 Poetry
34 Fiction
33 Philosophy
31 Christianity
27 Yoga
19 Occultism
16 Mysticism
6 Psychology
4 Integral Theory
3 Sufism
3 Baha i Faith
2 Mythology
2 Islam
1 Zen
1 Science
1 Philsophy
1 Hinduism
1 Education
1 Cybernetics
1 Buddhism
1 Alchemy
122 The Mother
99 Satprem
82 Sri Aurobindo
29 H P Lovecraft
25 Sri Ramakrishna
19 Nolini Kanta Gupta
17 Walt Whitman
10 Anonymous
9 James George Frazer
9 Friedrich Nietzsche
8 Rabindranath Tagore
8 Plotinus
8 Aleister Crowley
7 William Butler Yeats
5 Saint Augustine of Hippo
5 Plato
5 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
5 Percy Bysshe Shelley
5 Nirodbaran
5 A B Purani
4 Sri Ramana Maharshi
4 John Keats
4 Henry David Thoreau
3 William Wordsworth
3 Swami Krishnananda
3 Saint Teresa of Avila
3 Rainer Maria Rilke
3 Jordan Peterson
3 Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia
3 Baha u llah
2 Muhammad
2 Lucretius
2 Lewis Carroll
2 Jorge Luis Borges
2 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2 Jalaluddin Rumi
2 H. P. Lovecraft
2 Carl Jung
2 Al-Ghazali
2 Aldous Huxley
55 Record of Yoga
29 Lovecraft - Poems
24 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
18 Agenda Vol 02
17 Whitman - Poems
14 Agenda Vol 03
13 Agenda Vol 01
12 The Bible
9 The Golden Bough
8 Words Of Long Ago
8 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
8 Tagore - Poems
8 Agenda Vol 07
8 Agenda Vol 04
7 Yeats - Poems
7 On the Way to Supermanhood
6 Talks
6 Agenda Vol 13
5 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
5 Shelley - Poems
5 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
5 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
5 Magick Without Tears
5 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
4 Walden
4 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
4 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
4 Questions And Answers 1955
4 Questions And Answers 1953
4 Keats - Poems
4 City of God
4 Agenda Vol 10
4 Agenda Vol 08
4 Agenda Vol 06
4 Agenda Vol 05
3 Wordsworth - Poems
3 The Synthesis Of Yoga
3 The Study and Practice of Yoga
3 The Secret Doctrine
3 The Phenomenon of Man
3 Rilke - Poems
3 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
3 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
3 Maps of Meaning
3 Liber ABA
3 Letters On Yoga IV
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
3 Anonymous - Poems
2 The Way of Perfection
2 The Perennial Philosophy
2 The Lotus Sutra
2 The Book of Certitude
2 The Blue Cliff Records
2 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
2 The Alchemy of Happiness
2 Quran
2 Questions And Answers 1956
2 Questions And Answers 1954
2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
2 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
2 On Education
2 Of The Nature Of Things
2 Labyrinths
2 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
2 Faust
2 Essays Divine And Human
2 Dark Night of the Soul
2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
2 Alice in Wonderland
2 Agenda Vol 12
2 Agenda Vol 11
2 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
At the age of six or seven Gadadhar had his first experience of spiritual ecstasy. One day in June or July, when he was Walking along a narrow path between paddy-fields, eating the puffed rice that he carried in a basket, he looked up at the sky and saw a beautiful, dark thunder-cloud. As it spread, rapidly enveloping the whole sky, a flight of snow-white cranes passed in front of it. The beauty of the contrast overwhelmed the boy. He fell to the ground, unconscious, and the puffed rice went in all directions. Some villagers found him and carried him home in their arms. Gadadhar said later that in that state he had experienced an indescribable joy.
Gadadhar was seven years old when his father died. This incident profoundly affected him. For the first time the boy realized that life on earth was impermanent. Unobserved by others, he began to slip into the mango orchard or into one of the cremation grounds, and he spent hours absorbed in his own thoughts. He also became more helpful to his mother in the discharge of her household duties. He gave more attention to reading and hearing the religious stories recorded in the Puranas. And he became interested in the wandering monks and pious pilgrims who would stop at Kamarpukur on their way to Puri. These holy men, the custodians of India's spiritual heritage and the living witnesses of the ideal of renunciation of the world and all-absorbing love of God, entertained the little boy with stories from the Hindu epics, stories of saints and prophets, and also stories of their own adventures. He, on his part, fetched their water and fuel and
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About this time he began to worship God by assuming the attitude of a servant toward his master. He imitated the mood of Hanuman, the monkey chieftain of the Ramayana, the ideal servant of Rama and traditional model for this self-effacing form of devotion. When he meditated on Hanuman his movements and his way of life began to resemble those of a monkey. His eyes became restless. He lived on fruits and roots. With his cloth tied around his waist, a portion of it hanging in the form of a tail, he jumped from place to place instead of Walking. And after a short while he was blessed with a vision of Sita, the divine consort of Rama, who entered his body and disappeared there with the words, "I bequeath to you my smile."
Mathur had faith in the sincerity of Sri Ramakrishna's spiritual zeal, but began now to doubt his sanity. He had watched him jumping about like a monkey. One day, when Rani Rasmani was listening to Sri Ramakrishna's singing in the temple, the young priest abruptly turned and slapped her. Apparently listening to his song, she had actually been thinking of a law-suit. She accepted the punishment as though the Divine Mother Herself had imposed it; but Mathur was distressed. He begged Sri Ramakrishna to keep his feelings under control and to heed the conventions of society. God Himself, he argued, follows laws. God never permitted, for instance, flowers of two colours to grow on the same stalk. The following day Sri Ramakrishna presented Mathur Babu with two hibiscus flowers growing on the same stalk, one red and one white.
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Eight years later, some time in November 1874, Sri Ramakrishna was seized with an irresistible desire to learn the truth of the Christian religion. He began to listen to readings from the Bible, by Sambhu Charan Mallick, a gentleman of Calcutta and a devotee of the Master. Sri Ramakrishna became fascinated by the life and teachings of Jesus. One day he was seated in the parlour of Jadu Mallick's garden house (This expression is used throughout to translate the Bengali word denoting a rich man's country house set in a garden.) at Dakshineswar, when his eyes became fixed on a painting of the Madonna and Child. Intently watching it, he became gradually overwhelmed with divine emotion. The figures in the picture took on life, and the rays of light emanating from them entered his soul. The effect of this experience was stronger than that of the vision of Mohammed. In dismay he cried out, "O Mother! What are You doing to me?" And, breaking through the barriers of creed and religion, he entered a new realm of ecstasy. Christ possessed his soul. For three days he did not set foot in the Kali temple. On the fourth day, in the afternoon, as he was Walking in the Panchavati, he saw coming toward him a person with beautiful large eyes, serene countenance, and fair skin. As the two faced each other, a voice rang out in the depths of Sri Ramakrishna's soul: "Behold the Christ, who shed His heart's blood for the redemption of the world, who suffered a sea of anguish for love of men. It is He, the Master Yogi, who is in eternal union with God. It is Jesus, Love Incarnate." The Son of Man embraced the Son of the Divine Mother and merged in him. Sri Ramakrishna krishna realized his identity with Christ, as he had already realized his identity with Kali, Rama, Hanuman, Radha, Krishna, Brahman, and Mohammed. The Master went into samadhi and communed with the Brahman with attributes. Thus he experienced the truth that Christianity, too, was a path leading to God-Consciousness. Till the last moment of his life he believed that Christ was an Incarnation of God. But Christ, for him, was not the only Incarnation; there were others — Buddha, for instance, and Krishna.
--- ATTITUDE TOWARD DIFFERENT RELIGIONS
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The Master wanted to train Narendra in the teachings of the non-dualistic Vedanta philosophy. But Narendra, because of his Brahmo upbringing, considered it wholly blasphemous to look on man as one with his Creator. One day at the temple garden he laughingly said to a friend: "How silly! This jug is God! This cup is God! Whatever we see is God! And we too are God! Nothing could be more absurd." Sri Ramakrishna came out of his room and gently touched him. Spellbound, he immediately perceived that everything in the world was indeed God. A new universe opened around him. Returning home in a dazed state, he found there too that the food, the plate, the eater himself, the people around him, were all God. When he walked in the street, he saw that the cabs, the horses, the streams of people, the buildings, were all Brahman. He could hardly go about his day's business. His parents became anxious about him and thought him ill. And when the intensity of the experience abated a little, he saw the world as a dream. Walking in the public square, he would strike his head against the iron railings to know whether they were real. It took him a number of days to recover his normal self. He had a foretaste of the great experiences yet to come and realized that the words of the Vedanta were true.
At the beginning of 1884 Narendra's father suddenly died of heart-failure, leaving the family in a state of utmost poverty. There were six or seven mouths to feed at home. Creditors were knocking at the door. Relatives who had accepted his father's unstinted kindness now became enemies, some even bringing suit to deprive Narendra of his ancestral home. Actually starving and barefoot, Narendra searched for a job, but without success. He began to doubt whether anywhere in the world there was such a thing as unselfish sympathy. Two rich women made evil proposals to him and promised to put an end to his distress; but he refused them with contempt.
0 1958-12-15 - tantric mantra - 125,000, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Mother, things are far from being what they were the first time in Rameswaram, and I am living through certain moments that are hell the enemy seems to have been unleashed with an extraordinary violence. It comes in waves, and after it recedes, I am literally SHATTEREDphysically, mentally and vitally drained. This morning, while going to the temple, I lived through one of these moments. All this suffering that suddenly sweeps down upon me is horrible. Yes, I had the feeling of being BACKED UP AGAINST A WALL, exactly as in your vision I was up against a wall. I was Walking among these immense arcades of sculptured granite and I could see myself Walking, very small, all alone, alone, ravaged with pain, filled with a nameless despair, for nowhere was there a way out. The sea was nearby and I could have thrown myself into it; otherwise, there was only the sanctuary of Parvati but there was no more Africa to flee to, everything closed in all around me, and I kept repeating, Why? Why? This much suffering was truly inhuman, as if my last twenty years of nightmare were crashing down upon me. I gritted my teeth and went to the sanctuary to say my mantra. The pain in me was so strong that I broke into a cold sweat and almost fainted. Then it subsided. Yet even now I feel completely battered.
I clearly see that the hour has come: either I will perish right here, or else I will emerge from this COMPLETELY changed. But something has to change. Mother, you are with me, I know, and you are protecting me, you love me I have only you, only you, you are my Mother. If these moments of utter darkness return and they are bound to return for everything to be exorcised and conqueredprotect me in spite of myself. Mother, may your Grace not abandon me. I want to be done with all these old phantoms, I want to be born anew in your Light; it has to beotherwise I can no longer go on.
0 1959-10-06 - Sri Aurobindos abode, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
It is similar with this japa: an imperceptible little change, and one can pass from a more or less mechanical, more or less efficient and real japa, to the true japa full of power and light. I even wondered if this difference is what the tantrics call the power of the japa. For example, the other day I was down with a cold. Each time I opened my mouth, there was a spasm in the throat and I coughed and coughed. Then a fever came. So I looked, I saw where it was coming from, and I decided that it had to stop. I got up to do my japa as usual, and I started Walking back and forth in my room. I had to apply a certain will. Of course, I could do my japa in trance, I could walk in trance while repeating the japa, because then you feel nothing, none of all the bodys drawbacks. But the work has to be done in the body! So I got up and started doing my japa. Then, with each word pronounced the Light, the full Power. A power that heals everything. I began the japa tired, ill, and I came out of it refreshed, rested, cured. So those who tell me they come out of it exhausted, contracted, emptied, it means that they are not doing it in the true way.
I understand why certain tantrics advise saying the japa in the heart center. When one applies a certain enthusiasm, when each word is said with a warmth of aspiration, then everything changes. I could feel this difference in myself, in my own japa.
0 1960-01-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
When I started my japa one year ago, I had to struggle with every possible difficulty, every contradiction, prejudice and opposition that fills the air. And even when this poor body began Walking back and forth for japa, it used to knock against things, it would start breathing all wrong, coughing; it was attacked from all sides until the day I caught the Enemy and said, Listen carefully. You can do whatever you want, but Im going right to the end and nothing will stop me, even if I have to repeat this mantra ten crore1 times. The result was really miraculous, like a cloud of bats flying up into the light all at once. From that moment on, things started going better.
You have no idea what an irresistible effect a well-determined will can have.
0 1960-03-03, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Only a few days ago, on the morning of the 29th, I had one of those experiences that mark ones life. It happened upstairs in my room. I was doing my japa, Walking up and down with my eyes wide open, when suddenly Krishna camea gold Krishna, all golden, in a golden light that filled the whole room. I was Walking, but I could not even see the windows or the rug any longer, for this golden light was everywhere with Krishna at its center. And it must have lasted at least fifteen minutes. He was dressed in those same clothes in which he is normally portrayed when he dances. He was all light, all dancing: You see, I will be there this evening during the Darshan.1 And suddenly, the chair I use for darshan came into the room! Krishna climbed up onto it, and his eyes twinkled mischievously, as if to say, I will be there, you see, and therell be no room for you.
When I came down that evening for distribution,2 at first I was annoyed. I had said that I didnt want anybody in the hall, precisely because I wanted to establish an atmosphere of concentration, the immobility of the Spirit but there were at least thirty people in there, those who had decorated the hall, thirty of them stirring, stirring about, a mass of little vibrations. And before I could even say scat I had hardly taken my seatsomeone put the tray of medals on my lap and they started filing past.
0 1960-05-21 - true purity - you have to be the Divine to overcome hostile forces, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Well, I tried hard but I couldnt really find the way. At times, I almost seemed to have it, a mere nothing would have been enough; it was just a matter of getting the knack (and at heart, this is what Power is all aboutto get the knack, to suddenly seize upon the means, the right vibration, what in India is called siddhi). Well, after his departure, all of a sudden it came. It happened while I was doing my japa, while I was Walking up and down my room As if I were holding all that in my armsit was so concrete and lifting it up towards the Light, along with this ascending OM, rising from the very depths, OM!and I was carrying all these people, and it was spreading forth, PHYSICALLY spreading, and I was carrying the earth, I was carrying the whole universe, but in such a tangible, concrete wayall towards the Supreme Lord.
And this was not the invisible power: it was concrete, it was tangible, it was MATERIAL.
0 1960-06-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Once Im relaxed, I have developed the habit of repeating my mantra. But its very strange with these mantras I dont know how it is for others; Im speaking of my own mantra, the one I myself foundit came spontaneously. Depending on the occasion, the time, depending on what I might call the purpose for repeating it, it has quite different results. For example, I use it to establish the contact while Walking back and forth in my roommy mantra is a mantra of evocation; I evoke the Supreme and establish the contact with the body.
This is the main reason for my japa. Theres a power in the sound itself, and by forcing the body to repeat the sound, you force it to receive the vibration at the same time. But Ive noticed that if something in the bodys working gets disturbed (a pain or disorder, the onset of some illness) and I repeat my mantra in a certain waystill the same words, the same mantra, but said with a certain purpose and above all in a movement of surrender, surrender of the pain, the disorder, and a call, like an openingit has a marvelous effect. The mantra acts in just the right way, in this way and in no other. And after a while everything is put back in order. And simultaneously, of course, the precise knowledge of what lies behind the disorder and what I must do to set it right comes to me. But quite apart from this, the mantra acts directly upon the pain itself.
0 1960-07-23 - The Flood and the race - turning back to guide and save amongst the torrents - sadhana vs tamas and destruction - power of giving and offering - Japa, 7 lakhs, 140000 per day, 1 crore takes 20 years, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
No, but in the morning while Walking, I see the difference. There is definitely a difference.
In the beginning, I said Id do a crore,4 and if that were not enough, Id do ten crore. And one crore will take 20 years!
0 1960-10-11, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
It happened this morning while I was Walking back and forth in my room. I had finished my japa I had to stop and hold my head in my hands to keep from bursting into tears. No, it is too dreadful, I said to myself; and to think that we want Perfection!
Then naturally there came as a consolation: only because the consciousness is getting closer to THE REAL THING can it see all this wretchedness, and the contrast alone makes these things appear so mean.
0 1960-10-22, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
For some time now Ive been experiencing a precise moment during my japa when something takes hold of me and I have all the difficulty in the world to keep from entering into trance. Yet I remain standing. Usually Im Walking, but some things I say while leaning up against the windownot a very good place to go into trance! And it grabs me exactly at the same place each time.
Yesterday, I suddenly saw a huge living head of blue lightthis blue light which is the force, the powerful force in material Nature (this is the light the tantrics use). The head was made entirely of this light, and it wore a sort of tiaraa big head, so big (Mother indicates the length of her forearm); its eyes werent closed, but rather lowered, like this. The immobility of eternity, absolutely the repose, the immobility of eternity. A magnificent head, quite similar to the way the gods here are represented, but even better; something between certain heads of the Buddha and (these heads most probably come to the artists). Everything else was lost in a kind of cloud.
0 1960-10-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
It was just before Durga Puja,3 or just after I cant remember (dates and I dont go together)no, it was after Durga Puja. So I went into a deep concentration and, as a matter of fact, I saw that a very powerful and dangerous rakshasic4 power was involved. And then, when I started Walking for my japa upstairs in my room (I had given some thought to this story and tried asking for something to be done), I suddenly saw Durga before me raising high a lance of white light the lance of light that destroys the hostile forcesand She struck into a black swarming mass of men.
But then there came a frightful reaction. For one day I was nearly as sicknot quiteas two years ago5 (they must have used the same mantra). And, you see, I who never vomit terrible vomitingeverything inside came out! Only now Im a bit more experienced than two years ago (!), so I set it right It happened here, downstairs, in the afternoon. I went right back up to my room (I didnt see anyone that afternoon), and I remained concentrated to try to find out what had happened. I saw that it came from therea backlash of those people trying to defend themselves.
0 1960-11-12, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Yes, everything is getting mildewed, everything you touch. Im sleeping in a damp bed; to walk on the woolen carpets upstairs is like Walking on mossin the forest! For myself, I dont mind.
Theres a certain sensibility which makes any increase in humidity felt. Before it starts raining, even several hours before, it feels like there are drops falling on my body. I can always say when its going to rain. Its entirely physical, actually, merely a heightened sensitivity. It feels like very tiny drops (you know, like drizzle), the feeling of a very fine spray falling on the body. And yet the sky is clear; I say, Hmm, its going to rain. And it rains I felt it. I feel the water, and it never fails to come a few hours later.
0 1960-11-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
Then afterwards, when you wrote that you were sick, I thought, Well, well! What does it mean? I didnt answer, I didnt say a thing, but when I went back upstairs and started Walking for my japa, I brought back this experience of the Darshanthis moment during the Darshan and I felt that it had left something behind (the effect was not total or absolute, but something had been left), and I decided that through this I would try to make you feel better.
I felt your intervention very clearly. I was really in a bad way, but when I came out of the japa, I knew it was cured. There is still something in the leg that pulls a little, but it has practically disappeared.
0 1960-12-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
If I could only note all this down Its been so interesting all morning, right from the starton the balcony, then upstairs while Walking for my japa! And it was on this same theme (experience of the speck of dust) This habit people have (especially in India, but more or less everywhere among those who have a religious nature), this habit of doing all things religious with respect and compunction and no mixing of things, above all there should be no mixing; in some circumstances, at certain times, you MUST NOT think of God, for then it would be a kind of blasphemy.
Theres the religious attitude, and then theres ordinary life where people do thingsworking, living, eating, enjoying life; they regard these as the essentials, and as for the rest, well, when theres time they think about it. But what Sri Aurobindo brought down, precisely I remember at Tlemcen, Theon used to say that there was a whole world of things, such as eating, for example, or taking care of your body, that should be done automatically, without giving it any importanceits not the time to think of things divine.(!) Thats what he preached. So you have the religious attitude of all the religious types, and then ordinary life I found both of them equally unsatisfactory. Then I came here and told Sri Aurobindo my feeling; I said that if someone is truly in union with the Divine, it CANNOT change no matter what he does (the quality of what youre doing may change, but the union cant change no matter what youre doing). And when he said that this was the truth, I felt a relief. And that feeling has stayed with me all through my life.
And now, all these different attitudes which individuals, groups and categories of men hold are coming from every direction (while Im Walking upstairs) to assert their own points of view as the true thing. And I see that for myself, Im being forced to deal with a whole mass of things, most of which are quite futile from an ordinary point of viewnot to mention the things of which these moral or religious types disapprove. Quite interestingly, all kinds of mental formations come like arrows while Im Walking for my japa upstairs (Mother makes a gesture of little arrows in the air coming into her mental atmosphere from every direction); and yet, Im entirely in what I could call the joy and happiness of my japa, full of the energy of Walking (the purpose of Walking is to give a material energy to the experience, in all the bodys cells). Yet in spite of this, one thing after another comes, like this, like that (Mother draws little arrows in the air): what I must do, what I must answer to this person, what I must say to that one, what has to be done All kinds of things, most of which might be considered most futile! And I see that all this is SITUATED in a totality, and this totality I could say that its nothing but the body of the Divine. I FEEL it, actually, I feel it as if I were touching it everywhere (Mother touches her arms, her hands, her body). And all these things neither veil nor destroy nor divert this feeling of being entirely this a movement, an action in the body of the Divine. And its increasing from day to day, for it seems that He is plunging me more and more into entirely material things with the will that THERE TOO it must be done that all these things must be consciously full of Him; they are full of Him, in actual fact, but it must become conscious, with the perception that it is all the very substance of His being which is moving in everything
It was quite beautiful on the balcony this morning
0 1961-01-24, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mother did her japa while Walking back and forth in her room.
Satprem later asked Mother what she meant by these 'things,' and Mother replied: 'For example, there was a certain man's attitude with respect to life and to the Divine, and what he thought of himself, and so forth. You see, what came was a whole range of characters and one particular action of one man, and then something else came up.... How to explain? ... These are POINTS OF WORK which come to me, things that present themselves in the atmosphere for me to seethings I see and which have to be acted upon.'
0 1961-02-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One day I will find his photo and show it to you; he is there with a big dog he called Little Boy, a dog that could exteriorizehe would dream and go out of his body! This dog had a kind of adoration for me. (I should mention that at a fixed time in the afternoons I used to meditate and go into trance. When it was finished I would go out Walking with Theon, and the dog always came with us, usually coming to fetch me in my room.) One day I was lying on a divan in trance when I felt his cold muzzle nudging my hand to wake me. I opened my eyes no dog. Yet I had positively, clearly felt his cold muzzle. So I got ready, went downstairs, and who did I find fast asleep on the landing but Little Boyhe was in trance as well! He had come to wake me in his sleep. When I reached the landing he woke up, shook himself and trotted off.
It was an interesting life.
0 1961-02-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Now the body has a kind of extraordinary smile for everything. At the end of the day, with the accumulation of everything coming from the people I have seen and the work I have done, when I have to push and pull myself just to climb the stairs because my legs are like iron rods, without any will (thats the most terrible part: they dont respond to the will), even at times like these, when my arms are what pull me up the stairs (no longer my legs), the body doesnt protest, doesnt protest. Then it begins Walking back and forth for japa. And after half an hour of Walking, things are infinitely better (Mother makes a gesture of the Force descending into her body).
(silence)
0 1961-03-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Things are going very badly: a pack of enemies assailing me, friends deserting usits going very, very badly. Then yesterday evening, while I was Walking for japa and all these good tidings were arriving, I said to the Lord, Listen, Lord, you have Indra to help the good people I beseech you, send him to me; he has some work to do!(Mother laughs) Then my walk became so amusing! I was watching them come in as I walked Indra and all the other godsand they were hard at work. Delightful!
Hibiscus, double flower, light pink.
0 1961-03-11, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It doesnt matter. Fundamentally, it doesnt matter. Yesterday, while I was Walking I was Walking in a kind of universe that was EXCLUSIVELY the Divineit could be touched, felt: it was within, without, everywhere. For three-quarters of an hour, NOTHING but that, everywhere. Well, I can assure you, at that moment there were certainly no more problems! And what simplicitynothing to think about, nothing to want, nothing to decide: to BE, be, be! (Mother seems to dance) To be in the infinite complexity of a perfect unity: all was there but nothing was separate; all was in movement yet nothing changed place. Truly an experience.
When we become like that, it will be very easy.
0 1961-03-14, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Then there are days when you are in contact with the divine Consciousness, with the Grace, and all is tinged, colored by this Presence, and things which usually seem dull to you become charming and pleasant all is alive, all is vibrant. At other moments you are clouded, closed, you no longer feel anything, everything loses its flavor you are like a Walking block of wood.
It comes and goes along the way, you dont keep it permanently; its like crossing a zone, a perfumed zone, and then its past for the moment, its over. A fleeting caress.
0 1961-04-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
They are really something, you cant imagine! Once, when she was due to give birth and was very heavy, she was Walking along the window ledge and I dont know what happened, but she fell. She had wanted to jump from the ledge, but she lost her footing and fell. It must have injured something. The kittens didnt come right away, they came later, but three of them were deformed (there were six in all). Well, when she saw how they were, she simply sat on themkilled them as soon as they were born. Such incredible wisdom! (They were completely deformed: the hind paws were turned the wrong way roundthey would have had an impossible life.)
And she used to count her little ones. She knew perfectly well how many she had. I just had to tell her, Keep only two or threealthough the first time there were only three, which was still too many, yet it was absolutely impossible not to let her keep them all. But later on I had to chide her. I didnt take them from her, but I would speak to her, convince her: Its too much, youll be ill. Just keep these. See how nice these two are. Take care of them.
0 1961-04-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But for those who are here, we can say, It is what the Supreme Lord is preparing for the earth. He sent Sri Aurobindo to prepare it; Sri Aurobindo called it the supramental realization, and to facilitate communication we can use the same words. Well, this movement (gesture of a rising flame) towards That must be constantconstant, total. All the rest is none of our business, and the less we meddle with it mentally, the better. But THAT, that Flame, is indispensable. And when it goes out, light it again; when it falters, rekindle itall the time, all the time, ALL THE TIMEwhen sleeping, Walking, reading, moving around, speaking all the time.
The rest doesnt matter, one can do anything (it depends on people and their ways of thinking). You can just ask people like X, they will tell you: You can do anything at allit doesnt matter in the least. Only you mustnt feel its you doing it, thats all. You have to feel that Nature does it. But I dont much approve of this system.
0 1961-04-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It came last night. It came slowly, but last night it was very strong: no more sequence, no more linking of cause and effect, no more goal, no more purpose, no more intentiona kind of Absolute which does not exclude the creation. It is not Nirvana, it has nothing to do with Nirvana (I know Nirvana very well, Ive had itjust yesterday evening, for instance, while Walking for japa, and even this morning. You see, I begin by an invocation to the Supreme under his three aspects, and no sooner have I uttered the sound, TAT when all is abolished: Nirvana. And the last few days I have noticed that its instantaneous, so easy! Oh, a delight! Bah!). But its not Nirvana, its beyond that; it contains Nirvana and it contains the manifested world and it contains everything else; all the appearances and disappearances13all of that is contained in it.
Something.
0 1961-05-19, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had already had the experience for the sense of smell the divine vibration, the vibration of Ananda in odors. Just under my window, you know, Nripendra has his kitchen, where every morning and afternoon food is prepared for the children2it all comes wafting up on gusts of air. And when the Samadhi tree is in flower, the scent wafts up to me on gusts of air; when people burn incense down below, it comes wafting up here on gusts of aireach and every fragrance (fragrancelets say odor). And generally it all comes while I am Walking for my japaan Ananda of odors, each one with its meaning, its expression, its (how to say it?) its motivation and its goal. Marvelous! And there are no longer any good or bad odors that notion is gone completely. Each one has its meaningits meaning and its raison dtre. I have been experiencing this for a long time.
But this experience of taste was completely new. It didnt last long, only a few minutes, because it amazed me so! It was as if I had a mouthful of the most marvelous foods one could imagine. And my hands were gathering it up in the atmosphere it was so funny!
0 1961-06-06, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Oh, it was so lovely yesterday! The whole dayand all, all, all was the same as nowall the circumstances, the condition of the body, everything. It cant even be said that in one case the body was well and in the other it wasntit isnt true, it was all the same thing, all was the same. But in one case you floatyou float in a beatific light which carries you for all Eternity; and in the other case you seem to be Walking through shifting sands without seeing clearly, without understandingdeadened, absolutely deadened.
Thats why I had difficulty listening to you just now [during the work], because since last night I have been constantly facing this problem, and all morning long Ive had to you know, do like this (Mother clenches her fist, as though getting a grip on herself) in order to come here and listen. I didnt feel like seeing anyone, doing anything only staying like this (Mother keeps still, her arms at her sides) until that problem is willing to explain itself.
0 1961-07-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
While Walking in my room, a series of invocations or prayers have come to me2 (I didnt choose themthey were dictated to me) in which I implore the Lord to manifest his Perfection (and I am quite aware of how foolish this expression is, but it does correspond to an aspiration).3 When I say manifest, I mean to manifest in our physical, material world Im asking for the transformation of this world. And the moment I utter one of these invocations, the sense of the particular approach it represents is there; thats why I am now able to give such a lecture on PerfectionPerfection is one of these approaches. Manifest this, I tell Him, Manifest that, manifest Your Perfection. (The series is very long and it takes me quite a while to go through it all.) Well, each time I say Manifest Your Perfection, I have an awareness of what constitutes Perfectionit is something global.
Its like the word purityone could lecture endlessly on the difference between divine purity and what people call purity. Divine purity (at the lowest level) is to admit but one influence the divine Influence (but this is at the lowest level, and already terribly distorted). Divine purity means that only the Divine existsnothing else. It is perfectly pureonly the Divine exists, nothing other than He.
0 1961-07-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But Perfection is only one side, one special way of approaching the Divine. There are innumerable sides, angles, aspectsinnumerable ways to approach the Divine. When I am Walking, for example, doing japa, I have the sense of Unity (I have spoken to you of all the things I mention when I am upstairs Walking: will, truth, purity, perfection, unity, immortality, eternity, infinity, silence, peace, existence, consciousness the list goes on). And when one follows a particular tack and does succeed in reaching or approaching or contacting the Divine, one realizes through experience that these many approaches differ only in their most external forms the contact itself is identical. Its like looking through a kaleidoscopeyou revolve around a center, a globe, and see it under various aspects; but as soon as the contact is established, its identical.
The number of approaches is practically infinite. Each one senses the path which accords with his temperament.
0 1961-07-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Onlythere is an only in all thisif there were a more liberal proportion between the refreshing (if I may say so) freedom of solitude and the necessity for collective work, there would probably be fewer difficulties. Towards the end of the first year after I retired upstairs3 (perhaps even before, but anyway, some time after I began doing japa while Walking), I recall having such sessions up there! Had there been a personal goal, this goal was clearly attained; it is indescribable, absolutely beyond all imaginable or expressible splendor.
And that was when I received the Command from the Supreme, who was right here, this close (Mother presses her face). He told me, This is what is promised. Now the Work must be done.
0 1961-07-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I would be satisfied only if. Can one ever be satisfied? At any rate, I would begin to be satisfied only if this were a constant and total condition, active in all circumstances and at every moment, day and night. But is it possible with this INUNDATION pouring in from outside? Constantly! While Walking this morning I was (how to put it?) something of a witness, watching what was coming in from outside. One thing after another, one thing after anotherwhat a mixture! From all sides, from everyone and everything and everywhere. And not only from here, but from far, far away on the earth and sometimes from far back in time, back into the pastthings out of the past coming up, presenting themselves to the new Light to be put in their place. Its always that: each thing wanting to be put in its place. And this work has to be done constantly. Its as if one keeps catching a new illness to be cured.
A fresh disorder to be straightened out.
0 1961-08-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had a VERY interesting experienceit was last year or the year before, I dont recall, but after I retired to my room upstairs.6 You know that during pujas these goddesses come all the timethey dont enter the body and tie themselves to it, but they do come and manifest. Well, this time I think it must have been for last years pujaDurga came (she always arrives a few days in advance and remains in the atmosphere; she is present, like thisgesture as if Durga were Walking up and down with Mother). I was in touch with her during my meditations upstairs, and this new Power in the body was in me then as it is in me now, and (how to put it?) I made her participate in this concept of surrender. What an experience she had, mon petit! An extraordinary experience of the joy of being connected with That. And she declared, From now on, I am a bhakta of the Lord.
It was beautiful.
0 1961-08-18, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It was rather interesting in that I wasnt expecting it; it came suddenly when I was Walking in my room in the evening the feeling not positively that the body no longer existed, since it kept Walking, but that there was no more center. I cant put it any other waythere was no more center. There was only one Center. It was all, all the same thing, and from the absolutely material standpoint, the standpoint of sensationsmaterial sensations, exchanges, vibrationseverything. At one point it even became so strong that something laughed and said, Ah! So thats how to no longer exist!
It was very interesting. However, the experience could not last because after a while I wasnt alone anymore. Actually, it was dinner time. Not that I couldnt eat in that stateit makes no difference (I can eat very easily through others, for instance: it has happened quite frequently that someone else eats and I am satisfied; theres no need to put anything inside, its very convenient! These are experiments.) But this was it was the almost total annihilation of the center. It didnt last because of the people (four, as always) bringing in dinner, serving the plates, etc.their concentration weakened the experience: it faded. The feeling of Im eating returned a littlenot I! That notion disappeared a long time ago! Not my true Imy true I has been settled up above for a very long time, and it doesnt move from there. But this body is eating; this body which has been put at the disposal of the work is eating (it didnt come in so many words and sentences, but still!). In short, the experience faded with the sensation of eating and I was unable to know its effect.
0 1961-09-16, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This morning when I was Walking, the program of the day and the work ahead of me was so formidable that I felt it to be impossible. And yet simultaneously there was this immobile inner POSITION in me; as soon as I stop my movement of formation and action, it becomes like a dance of joy: all the cells vibrating (there is a sort of vivacity, and an extraordinary music), all the cells vibrant with the joy of the Presence the divine Presence. But when I see the outside world entering and attacking, well this joy doesnt exactly disappear, but it retreats. And the result is that I always feel like sitting down and keeping stillwhen I can do that it is marvelous. But of course, all the suggestions from outside come in: suggestions of helplessness and old age, of wear and tear, of diminishing power, all thatand I know positively that its false. But calm in the body is indispensable. Well, for me also Sri Aurobindos answer is always the same: Be simple, be simple, very simple.
And I know what he means: to deny entry to regimenting, organizing, prescriptive, judgmental though the wants none of all that. What he calls being simple is a joyous spontaneity; in action, in expression, in movement, in lifebe simple, be simple, be simple. A joyous spontaneity. To rediscover in evolution that condition he calls divine, which was a spontaneous and happy condition. He wants us to rediscover that. And for days now he has been here telling me (and the same goes for your work): Be simple, be simple, be simple. And in his simplicity was a luminous joy.
0 1962-02-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Because a day or two ago (I dont remember exactly, it was rather fleeting but very interesting), I went through such a moment while Walking in my room (it lasted while I was out on the balcony, too): suddenly a kind of absolute certainty that I knew nothing (there was no I at all) that one knew nothing (one, there was no one, there was only); one couldnt know (I have to use words), one couldnt know, there was nothing to know, it was totally hopeless, it was completely IMPOSSIBLE to understand anything, even, even going beyond the mind, and no formulation was possible, there was no possibility of understanding. It was really so absolute that helping others, making the world progress, spiritual life, seeking the Divine, all of that seemed idle talk, empty words! There was nothing in it, it was nothing, and there was nothing to understand, it was impossible to understandit was impossible to BE. The feeling of a total incapacity. The experience was like a solventeverything seemed to dissolve: the world, the earth, people, life, intelligence, all of it, everything was dissolved. An absolutely negative state. And my solution was the same as always: when the experience was total and complete, when nothing was left, then: Who cares! (it could really be put in the most ordinary words), I adore You! And the I was something utterly insubstantial: there was no form, no being, no qualityonly I adore You. This I was I adore You, there was just enough I to adore You with.
From that moment on there was an inexpressible Sweetness, and within that Sweetness, a Voice so sweet and harmonious too! There was a sound but no wordsyet it held a perfectly clear meaning for me, like very precise words: You have just had your most creative moment!
0 1962-02-13, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I always have the most acute experiences when I am getting ready to go down for the balcony [darshan]. Thats when they come, during the most prosaic part of daily life. When I am meditating or Walking or even seeing someone, its different: physical things fade away, they lose their significance. But in this case, its when I am in the very midst of physical life.
It was odd this morning because on one side I felt (one sideits not even a side; I dont know how to explain, they are both together) the body was unwell, most unharmonious (someone in an ordinary consciousness would have said the body was ill, or at any rate very weak, very not at all in good condition), and simultaneously, in the SAME PHYSICAL SENSATION: a glory! A marvelous glory of blissfulness, joy, splendor! But how could the two be together?
0 1962-02-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ive had many such experiences. Once I was Walking along a mountain path wide enough only for one: on one side, a precipice, on the other, sheer rock. Three children were behind me and a fourth person brought up the rear. I was in the lead. The path skirted the rock so you couldnt see what lay ahead. It was quite dangerous, besides: one slip and you fell off the cliff. I was Walking in front when suddenly, with other eyes than these (yet I was carefully watching my steps), I saw a snake lying on the rocks around the bend. Waiting. I took one soft step and a snake was actually there! This spared me the shock of surprise (because I had seen it and was advancing cautiously), and as there was no shock of surprise, I could say to the children without scaring them, Stop, be quiet, dont move. A shock might have caused a mishap the snake had heard us and was already on the defensive, coiled before his hole, head swayinga viper. It was in France. Nothing happened, but with confusion and commotion, who knows?
This type of thing has happened to me very, very oftenfour times with snakes. There was one incident here near the fishing village of Ariankuppam, a place where a river empties into the sea. Night had fallen swiftly, it was pitch dark, and I was Walking along a road when right in the middle of a step (I had already lifted my foot and was about to lower it), I distinctly heard a voice in my ear: Watch out! Yet no one had spoken. So I looked, and just as my foot was about to touch the ground, I saw an enormous black cobra right where I was casually going to put my foot. Those fellows dont like that sort of thing! It slithered away and swam across the waterwhat a beauty, mon petit! Hood wide open, head held high, he swam across like a king. I would certainly have been punished for my impertinence!
I have had hundreds and hundreds of experiences like thatinformed just at the last moment (not one second too soon)and in very different circumstances. Once in Paris I was crossing the Boulevard Saint Michel (I had resolved to attain union with the psychic presence, the inner Divine, within a certain number of months, and these were the last weeks I was thinking of nothing but that, engrossed in that alone). I lived near the Luxembourg Gardens and was going there for a stroll, to sit in the gardens that eveningstill indrawn. I came to a kind of intersectionnot a very sensible place to cross when youre interiorized! So, in that state, I started to cross when all of a sudden I had a shock, as if something had hit me, and I instinctively jumped back. As I jumped back a streetcar rushed by. I had felt the streetcar at a little more than arms length. It had touched my aura, the protective aura (that aura was very strong at the time I was deep into occultism and knew how to maintain it). My protective aura was touched, and it literally threw me backwards, just like a physical shock. Accompanied by the drivers insults!
0 1962-05-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Did I tell you about it? It was a sort of vision that I took for a beginning of work on the subconscient. I had come to a place where Sri Aurobindo was staying and found him closeted in his room. There was a sort of large hall, an immense hall with rooms opening onto it, and his apartment was off to one side (gesture). I asked to see him. I was told it wasnt possible and I had to wait. I was astonished. Then certain things happened in the hall concerning A. and M. (rather interesting things, but concerning them personally). And at the same time, I was waiting. When it was all over, I asked once again to go into the room. Then through the doorway I saw I saw a tall Sri Aurobindomuch taller than he actually wasstrong but rather thin, thin in a way that not the way he really wasit was rather a gauntness, very harsh, very cold; and he was somewhat darker than he used to be. I saw him there, Walking up and down; and when he was told I was asking to see him, I saw him in the distance saying, No, I dont want to see her. I wont acknowledge her and I dont want anything to do with hershe has betrayed me. Something like that (I couldnt hear the actual words, but the gestures were plain enough). Well, that was the very first timenothing of the kind had ever occurred before.
And I immediately felt that it was the expression of certain peoples thoughts. During the war there was a whole clique (I know their names and all the details) who said I had influenced Sri Aurobindo, made him deviate from his nationalist path and turn towards the Allies; they considered me to have ruined his life, his consciousness, his workeverything, you understand.1
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For instance, I am Walking a little now, with someones assistance, to get the body used to it again. And when I started Walking, I became aware of a rather peculiar state I might describe it as: what gives me the illusion of a body (Mother laughs). I entrust it to the person I walk with. In other words, its not my responsibility: the other person has to make sure it doesnt fall, doesnt bump into anythingyou see what I mean. And the consciousness is a limitless consciousness, like a material equivalent or expression of these gustsits like waves, but waves with no. Not separate waves, but a MOVEMENT of waves; a movement of what might be called material, corporeal waves, as vast as the earth, but not not round, not flat. Something giving a great sense of infinity but moving in waves. And this wave movement is the movement of life. And the consciousness (the body-consciousness, I suppose) floats along in this, with a sensation of eternal peace. But its not an expanse thats not the word for it. It is a limitless movement, with a very harmonious and very tranquil rhythm, very vast, very calm. And this movement is life itself.
I walk around the room, and that is what is Walking.
And it is very silent there is no thought; there is barely, barely the ability to observe. And all kinds of movements, an infinity of movements and vibrations of something that could be the essence of thoughts, move there, rhythmically, in a movement of waves without beginning or end, with a condensation like this (gesture from above down), with a condensation like that (horizontal gesture), and a movement of expansion (gesture like a pulsating ocean). That is, a sort of contraction, concentration, and then expansion, diffusion.2
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Striking though the parallel may be, there is still a fundamental difference between these mathematical concepts and Mothers experience. In the first case, we are dealing with conceptual instruments used by the human mind to better explain and master the world: no one has actually seen electromagnetic wavesnot to speak of gravitational ones! They are images, convenient models, invisible and nonexistent in themselves. They exist only through their effects: a beam of sunlight, which is an electromagnetic wave, strikes our retina and enables us to distinguish a flower; by means of gravitational waves, Newtons apple falls from the tree but no one has lived the reality of those waves. The way Mother grasps reality, on the contrary, is first and foremost through lived experience. She is the movement, she is the wave: I walk around the room, and that is what is Walking. Here we touch upon a stupendous mystery and a formidable question: How is it possible for a material and cellular body to be the wave that at once constitutes and carries the worlds along in its infinite undulating movement and governs the existence of atoms and galaxies? How is it possible to be an infinite and ubiquitous electromagnetic wave while remaining within the narrow confines of a human body?
In being THAT, it might be said, Mother thus resolves the famous question of the unified-field theory, the theory to which Einstein devoted the last years of his life in vain, that would describe the movements of both planets and atoms in a single mathematical equation. Mothers body-consciousness is one with the movement of the universe, Mother lives the unified-field theory in her body. In so doing she opens up to us not merely one more physical theory, but the very path to a new species on earth, a species that will physically and materially live on the scale of the universe. The posthuman species might not simply be one with a few organs more or less, but rather one capable of being at every point in the universe. A sort of material ubiquity. It may not be so much a new as an ubiquitous species, a species that embraces everything, from the blade of grass under our feet to the far galaxies. A multifarious, undulating existence. A resume or epitome of evolution, really, which at the end of its course again becomes each point and each species and each movement of its own evolution.
0 1962-05-29, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yes, exactly! Thats where I find fault with the Tantric system they have no belief in the possibility of something helping you from above. They believe in Walking the tightrope. Its no good.
Yes, I sensed its very subtle, but I sensed a change for the better.
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No, its solely a question of health. If I could. Listen, I also had a longing to go to the Himalayas, I had a great longing for it when I was in France. When I came here the first time it was fine, I was very happy, everything was beautiful, everything was perfect, but oh, to go to the Himalayas for a while! (I have always loved mountains.) I was living over there in the Dupleix house, and I used to meditate while Walking back and forth. There was a small courtyard with a dividing wall, and shards of glass were stuck on top of the wall to keep out thieves. And I was meditatingmeditating on the spiritual lifewhen suddenly something caught my eye: a ray of sunlight on a sharp piece of blue glass on top of the wall. And positively, spontaneously, without thinking or reflecting or anything I saw the summits of the Himalayas: I was on the summits of the Himalayas.
It lasted more than half an hour. It was a marvelous mountain scene, with mountain air and the lightness of the mountainsit was all there. The splendor of sunlight on the Himalayan peaks.
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I was given a similar experience with the sea. In the house where I distribute prosperity1 theres a veranda with a little nook, and set in the nook is a window (not a window, actuallyan opening), and through the opening you can glimpse a patch of sea, no bigger than this (gesture). And at that time too the body was feeling closed in, a little weary and confined. I used to give meditations to about twenty people on the veranda (afterwards I would always tell Sri Aurobindo what had gone on). And one day, as I am Walking across the veranda to give the meditation, I turn my eye and I see the sea. And suddenly it was all oceanic immensity and with a sense of free sailing, from one place to another. The sea breeze, the taste of the sea, and the sense of immensity, vastness, freedom something limitless. It lasted a quarter of an hour, twenty minutes. My body came out of it refreshed, as if I had gone for a long sail.
I want to emphasize that the effect is PHYSICAL: the experience is concrete and has a physical effect. Thats what I would like to give you.
0 1962-05-31, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The only thing to do is not torment yourself and to say to the Lord (in all sincerity, of course), Its up to You. Rid me of this. And it is very effective. Very effective. At times I have had old things like that dissolved in a flash; certain inveterate little habitsso stupid, but so ingrained you cant get rid of them. Then, while doing japa or Walking or meditating or whatever, suddenly the flame flares up and (you have really had enough of it; it disgusts you, you want it to change, you really want the change) and you say to the Lord, I cant do it on my own. (You very sincerely know you cant do it; you have tried and tried and tried and have achieved exactly nothingyou cant do it.) Well then, I offer it to YouYou do it. Just like that. And all at once you see the thing fading away. It is simply wonderful. You know how Sri Aurobindo used to take away someones pain? Its exactly the same. Certain habits bound up with the bodys formation.
One day I will certainly use the same method on those room changes, but for that it will have to become very clear and distinct, well defined in the consciousness. Because that change of room (intellectually you would call it a change of consciousness, but that means nothing at all; were dealing here with something very, very material) I have sometimes gone through it without experiencing ANY CHANGE OF EFFECT, which probably means I was centered not in the material consciousness but in a higher consciousness dwelling and looking on from elsewherea witness consciousness and I was in a state where everything flows flows like a river of tranquil peace. Truly, its marvelousall creation, all life, all movements, all things, and everything like a single mass, with the body in the midst of it all, blending homogeneously with the whole and it all flows on like a river of peace, peaceful and smiling, on to infinity. And then oops! You trip (gesture of inversion2) and once again find yourself SITUATEDyou ARE somewhere, at some specific moment of time; and then theres a pain here, a pain there, a pain. And sometimes I have seen, I have witnessed the change from the one to the other WITHOUT feeling the pains or experiencing the thing concretely, which means that I wasnt at all in the body, I wasnt BOUND to the body I was seeing, only seeing, just like a witness. And its always accompanied by the kind of observation an indulgent (but not blind) friend might make: But why? Why that again? Thats how it comes. Whats the use of that? And I cant catch hold of what makes it happen.
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In ordinary language, the vibration of the mantra is what helps the body to enter a certain state but it is not particularly THIS mantra: it is the particular relationship established between a mantra (it has to be a true one, a mantra endowed with power) and the body. It surges up spontaneously: as soon as the body starts Walking, it walks to the rhythm of those Words. And the rhythm of the Words quite naturally brings about a certain vibration, which in turn brings about the state.
But to say its these particular Words exclusively would be ridiculous. What counts is the sincerity of the aspiration, the exactness of the expression and the power; that is, the power that comes from the mantra being accepted. This is something very interesting: the mantra has been ACCEPTED by the supreme Power as an effective tool, and so it automatically contains a certain force and power.5 But it is a purely personal phenomenon (the expression is the same, but the vibrations are personal). A mantra leading one person straight to divine realization will leave another person cold and flat.
0 1962-06-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But one thing has happened practically without my noticing it. In the past, before that experience [April 13], the body used to feel the struggle against the forces of wear and tear (different organs wearing out, losing their endurance, their power of reaction, and certain movements, for instance, becoming less easy to make). Thats what the body felt, although the body-consciousness never sensed any aging, never, none that simply didnt exist. But in actual material fact, there was some difficulty. And now, looking at it in the ordinary way, externally, superficially, you might say there has been a great deterioration; well, the body doesnt feel that way at all! What it feels is that a particular movement, effort, gesture or action belongs to the worldthis world of ignorance and isnt being performed in the true way: its not the true movement, done in the true way. And its sensation or perception is that the state I was speaking of, soft, with no angles, has to develop along a certain line and produce effects on the body that will make true action possible, action expressing the true will. With no difference on the surface, perhaps (I dont know about that yet) but done in another way. And I am not talking about grandiose things, mind you, but of everyday activities: getting up, Walking, taking a bath. I no longer have a feeling of incapacity, but a feeling of (whats the word for it?) an unwillingnessa bodily unwillingnessto do things in the old way.
There is another way to be found.
0 1962-06-23, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One or two days ago, I am not sure when, but anyway after our last meeting, suddenly, without thinking about it or wishing it or anything (I was Walking or doing something or other), I suddenly became, or saw, a tall being, all white, with a kind of halberd in its hand and an expression of iron will. And it seemed as if the world were being told: Enough shilly-shallying, enough wavering, now it is time: the thing must be done.
And the bodys activities hadnt the least importance; whatever I did, that remained. I was seeing that tall being from above, like a great transformative power in the vital. A huge being, very calm and powerfulwith no violence in it of course, but utterly indomitable, and: Enough waiting, enough shilly-shallying, enough vacillating: IT IS TIME.
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It lasted a long time, but I dont remember exactly when it was. Part of it happened while I was Walking (I walk at five in the morning and five in the evening). When I started Walking it was there and it lasted for a long time afterwardswhe ther morning or evening I dont remember.
In the morningevery morning, as I walk I concentrate on you in the hope that you will remember your nights and have an experience.
0 1962-06-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Did I ever tell you? Last time I went down for the pujas (was it last year or the year before? I remember nothing any more, you know: it all gets swept away, brrt!). Yes, it was the year before last, in 60, after that anniversary.6 (Durga used to come every year, two or three days before the Durga puja.) I was Walking as usual and she came; that was when she made her surrender to the Supreme. Those divinities dont have the sense of surrender. Divinities such as Durga and the Greek gods (although the Greek gods are a bit dated now; but the gods of India are still very much alive!). Well, they are embodimentswhat you might almost call localizationsof something eternal, but they lack the sense of surrender to the Supreme. And while I was Walking, Durga was therereally, it was beautiful! Durga, with that awesome power of hers, forever bringing the adverse forces to heel and she surrendered to the Supreme, to the point of no longer even recognizing the adverse forces: ALL is the Supreme. It was like a widening of her consciousness.
Some interesting things have been happening in that world [since the supramental descent]. How can I explain? Those beings have an independence, an absolute freedom of movement (although at the same time, they are all a single Being), but they had the true sense of perfect Unity only with the supreme Consciousness. And now with this present intervention [Mothers], with this incarnation and the establishment of the Consciousness here, like this (Mother makes a fist in a gesture of immutable solidity), in such an absolute way (I mean there are no fluctuations) HERE, on earth, in the terrestrial atmosphere, this incarnation has a radiating action throughout all those worlds, all those universes, all those Entities. And it results in small events,7 incidents scaled to the size of the earthwhich in themselves are quite interesting.
0 1962-06-30, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Twice I knew that it wasnt just images but something that had happened to ME, but it took another form. Once (when I was older, around twenty) it happened at Versailles. I had been invited to dinner by a cousin who, with no warning, served me dry champagne during dinner and I drank it unsuspectingly (I who never drank at all, neither wine nor liquor!). When I had to get up and cross the crowded room, oh, how very difficult it became, so difficult! Then we went to a place near the chateau, with a view of the whole park. And I was staring at the park, when I saw I saw the park filling up with lights (the electric lights had vanished), with all kinds of lights, torches, lanterns and then crowds of people Walking about in Louis XIV dress! I was staring at this with my eyes wide open, holding on to the balustrade to keep from falling down (I wasnt too sure of myself!). I was seeing it all, then I saw myself there, engrossed in conversation with some people (I dont remember now, but there were certain corrections here too). I mean I was a certain person (I dont remember who) and there were those two brothers who were sculptors (Mother vainly tries to recollect the names3) anyhow, all kinds of people were there and I saw myself talking, chatting. And I seem to have been sufficiently in control of myself, because when I related all that I had seen, there were some quite interesting details and corrections. That was one time.
There was another time at Blois. They make Anjou wine at Blois. It was the same story: I never drank anything but water or herb tea, but there was a luncheon and they served us sparkling Anjou wine it seemed so light! Afterwards (I was with an artist friend, we were all artists) we went to see the museum, and it appears I was sparkling with wit! And I suddenly halted in front of a painting by now lets see, who was it? Cou? No, Clouet! Clouet: the princess one of the princesses.4 And I started making a few remarks out loud (it took me a little while to notice that people were listening). Look at this! I was saying. Just look at this! Look what this fellow has done to me! See what hes done to meit wasnt at all like that! It was actually a beautiful painting, but I was quite unhappy about it: Look what hes done to me! Lookhe made this like that, but thats not at all how it was, it was LIKE THIS! Details. And then I became aware (I wasnt too conscious physically) I realized that people were standing around listening, so I got a grip on myself, and left without a word. But I told my friends, Listen, it was definitely me! It was MY portrait, it was ME!
0 1962-07-14, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And simultaneously there is an automatic perception of timeclock timewhich is rather curious (everything is regulated by the comings and goings of the people around me, you see: such a thing at this time, such a thing at that time), I dont need to hear the clock I am warned just before it strikes. I repeat one part of the japa in a particular way while lying down, because the Power is greater (these arent meditations, they are actions), and another part while Walking. So I stay stretched out for a certain time, I walk for a certain time, and at a fixed hour this one goes, another comes, and so on. But none of them are people; I dont tell them so, but theyre not people: they are movements of the Lord. And its extremely interestingone of the Lords movements will have this particular character, another movement will have a different type of vibration, and they all harmonize very nicely into a whole. But I know what time it is just before the clock strikes: six oclock, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, like that. Not with the words six, seven, but: its time, its time, its time. And along with thisthis clockwork precision I have that other notion of time which is quite different, its. Although its a very rigid convention, our time is a living formation with its own living power here in the world of action. The other time is the rhythm of consciousness. So according to the intensity of the Presence (theres a concentration and an expansion, I mean), according to this pulsationwhich can vary, its not regular and mechanical Walking around the room takes either no time at all, or else an ENORMOUS amount of time. But this doesnt interfere with the other time, theres no contradiction. Our time is on a different plane, something far more external; but it has its usefulness and its own law, and the one doesnt hinder the other.4
And its gradually becoming foreseeable that.5
0 1962-07-18, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This experience I am describing is exactly what happened yesterday (it happens every day, but yesterday it was especially clear). And its still here I am seeing it as I saw it, its still here. Actually, it is always herealways herethough its more striking when the body is stretched out, motionless in the Yoga. The experience is slightly different when Walking because that involves action. When the body walks, it acts on behalf of everything thats related to it, hence the action is vaster and more powerful. But when it is stretched out and asks the Lord to take possession of it, it really asks with all its aspiration. And the very intensity of the aspiration brings in the possibility of a slight emotional vibration. But it is immediately drowned in the immobile immensity of matter, which senses the Divine Descent like a leaven that makes dough rise thats it exactly, the terrestrial immensity of matter and the leavening action of the Divine Descent. The intensity of these vibrations is above and beyond anything we are used to feeling the vital seems dull and flat in comparison. And what a Wisdom! It knows how to make use of time that is, it actually changes itself into timeso as to minimize the possibilities of damage.
Its plain to see that, left to itself in its full power of transformation and progress, this flame of aspiration, this flame of Agni would have scant consideration for the result of the process the result of the process is that fire burns. And there could be mishaps in the functioning of the organs. All the organs must undergo a transformation, but were it too rapid and too sudden, well, everything would go out of whack. The machine would simply explode. But this Wisdom doesnt come from the universal consciousness (which I dont really think is so wise!), its infinitely higher: the Supreme Wisdom. Something so wonderful! It foresees things the universal forces in their universal play would overlooka wonder!
0 1962-08-08, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am making some interesting discoveries. They arent really discoveries, but nowadays none of these things are theoretical, not the least bit mental (the mind is in a quiet ease)theyre essentially practical. And they take unexpected forms. The other day as I was Walking, an old formation suddenly popped up, some. thing that had already tried to materialize when Sri Aurobindo was still here, but which he had stopped. It was one possibility among innumerable others, trying to manifest in this bodys existence I wont say what it is.
It was one of the very saddest things that could manifest physically in association with a spiritual life.
0 1962-12-19, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But in the past, you see, I used to go up and down the stairs four or five times a day; I would go out, go down the other stairs, it gave me some exercise. Nowadays I dont get any exercise, except Walking for half an hour twice a day, but thats no substitute: my legs are a bit stiff from lack of exercise. So I didnt feel like Walking on the balcony like a puppet before of all those people waiting and wondering. You see, more than three-quarters of them think I was very sick (Mother laughs), practically dying (thats the form it takes in their consciousness). I couldnt show them someone who seemed to be emerging from a serious illness! So I clearly saw I had to tell my body, Now dont walk like that! Youve got to walk like thisthis is how you used to walk. And the body was listening like a little child. Youre going to walk, I had to tell it, youre going to walk like this. And it started Walking! It was funny.
(Mother hands a box to Satprem) F. and R. have come and she brought me some candied chestnuts from Paris.
0 1963-03-09, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I remember also, once, there were iron hoops (I dont know if they still exist) bordering the lawns in the Bois de Boulogne and I used to take a walk on them! It was a challenge I threw to my brother (there was a difference of sixteen months between us, he was older and much better behaved too!). I told him, Can you walk on these? Leave me alone, he answered, its not interesting. Just watch! I told him. And I started Walking on them, with such ease! As if I had done it all my life. It was the same phenomenon: I felt weightless.
Always the feeling of being carried: something holding me up, carrying me. And now if I compare the movement or the sensation its the same as that vast movement of wings the same vibration.
0 1963-03-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I came across a man who had that blue light but I found him rather formidable. He looked after all the religious rites and priests of B.s state. He came here and asked to see me. I saw him on a December 9 (I think) when I paid a visit to the estate at Aryankuppam. I was Walking in the gardens when suddenly I felt something pulling at meand none too gently! I turned around and saw a tall man, standing and staring at me. So (I didnt know who he was, no one had told me), I stared back and simply answered his impudence! And pfft! it just fell off. I was surprised. Later (I had not yet been told who he was), he asked to see me. When he entered the room, I felt I felt a solid being. I dont know how to define it, I had never before felt it in a human beingsolid. As solid as rock. Extraordinarily solidcoagulated, an edifice. And quite powerful, I must say. Not like an arrow (gesture upward) but all around him. Then it was very funny (because theres no doubt he must have had an awesome effect on people instantly, without a word or anything), but I answered in my own way, with something else!
He entered the room wearing some kind of religious headdress, I cant say what, and intending to be very arrogant. He went past me stiffly, and suddenly what do I see but the man do his pranam.2 He stepped back, took off his hat and did his pranam. And stayed that way for nearly a quarter of an hour. And it was interesting, his response was interesting. Then he started talking to me (someone translatedhe spoke in Hindi, I think), asking me to take care of B. I said something in turn, and then thought strongly, Now, time is up, it cant last forever! (He had already been there for more than fifteen minutes.) And suddenly I see him stiffen, put his thing back on his head, and go.
0 1963-03-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
These last few days, while Walking in meditation, I said to the Lord, What do I have? I have no certainty, no foreknowledge, no absolute power, I have nothing. (I dont mean I, I mean the bodythis body.) The body was saying: Do you see my condition? I am still full of (it was complaining bitterly), oh, full of the silliest movements. Petty movements of apprehension, petty movements of uncertainty, petty movements of anxiety, petty movements of all kinds of very, very petty thingsthose who live a normal life dont take any notice, they dont know, but when you observe whats going on deep down with that discernment oh, mon petit! Its so petty, so petty, so petty.
Only one thing (which is not even absolute): a sort of equality that has come into the bodynot an equality of soul (laughing): an equality in the cells! It has come into the body. There is no longer that clash of joy and painalways and for everything, every minute, every reaction, You, Lord, to You, Lord. As though the cells were chanting, To You Lord, to You Lord, to You Lord. And well, thats how it is.
0 1963-05-11, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its the same with my mantra. When I wanted to translate the end of my mantra, Glory to You, O Lord, into Sanskrit, I asked for Nolinis help. He brought his Sanskrit translation, and when he read it to me, I immediately saw that the power was therenot because Nolini put his power into it (!), God knows he had no intention of giving me a mantra! But the power was there because my experience was there. We made a few adjustments and modifications, and thats the japa I do now I do it all the time, while sleeping, while Walking, while eating, while working, all the time.1 And thats how a mantra has life: when it wells up all the time, spontaneously, like the cry of your beingthere is no need of effort or concentration: its your natural cry. Then it has full power, it is alive. It must well up from within. No guru can give you that.
Well up. Well, its a long way to go! I will need a great deal of paper for all those diagrams [Tantric diagrams given by X]: seventy-two every day.
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It came to me while I was Walking [for the japa]. I had a kind of vision of you squatting askew and writing. And I thought, But thats awful! Hell ruin his health!
What is needed is to have the inner attitude.
0 1963-06-22, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I had a rather amusing experience while Walking [during japa]. I was looking at peoples attitude (I mean those who think they lead a spiritual life, who think they have made a surrender), and how they are utterly vexed when things dont happen the way they want! (They dont always admit it, they dont always say it to themselves, but its a fact.) Then all at once, I saw a huge robothuge, magnificent, resplendent, covered with gold and jewelsa huge being but a robot. And all-powerfulall-powerful, capable of doing anything, anything at all; anything you could imagine, he could do it: you had only to press a button and he did it. And it was (laughing) as if the Lord were telling me, See, here is what I am to them!
I couldnt have recounted the experience just like that, but I made a note of it. He said, See, this is what I am to them. So I wrote it down.
0 1963-07-13, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I receive letters from everywhere, from Argentina, Canada and so on, from people I dont know but who are really sweet. Listen to this one (Mother takes a letter from beside her), its from the mother of Z, who is here: If I were within Walking distance of you, I would pick a rose, not yet full bloomed, laden and fragrant, to lay at your feet. This sounds like a love letterwell, it is! My son has been trying to teach me through you that all letters should be love letters. Its lovely. So I replied like this: Indeed, all life is love if we know how to live it.
And then Nolini told me
0 1963-11-20, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Mother laughs) I remember, it wasnt at night, but in daytime; while I was Walking, the Lord complimented me on you.
Well, Ill be!
0 1963-12-11, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I was completely in trance, you see. I was Walking, but completely in trance.
Anyway, things went back to normal fairly quickly at the time. But the other day, the 9th, there was a return of that attack, as though that ill will hadnt been completely eliminated, completely defeated there was a return. It didnt have the same effect, but it was painful. A curious feeling, as if (I was sitting at the table, as I always do on mornings when there is meditation), then at the beginning, in some parts of the body, the cells seemed to be grating. I concentrated, I called, and I saw there was a battlea formidable battle being waged down below. It was grating, its curious. A kind of grating of things that arent smooth. And I wondered, When will it be able to relax? Then spasms here, at the solar plexus. And on those days, the doctor and P. always stay here for the meditation; but I was in trance, in my battle, when suddenly I felt a pressure on my pulse (laughing): it was the doctor, who had got up from his meditation (I must have been making some strange noises!) and was feeling my pulseit seems my pulse was fading! But I didnt come out of my trance (I was conscious, but I didnt come out of it), I stayed like that till the end of the meditation, even a little afterwards. Then when the grating diminished, I came out of the trance and saw them both standing in front of me. I gave them a nice smile and told them, Its all right. And I lay down. Then I went into a deep trance, completely out of the body, and everything returned to normal.
0 1964-04-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
For the past three days, I dont know how Ive lived; I feel somewhat like a sleepwalker jostled about here, there and everywhere, Walking, Walking without quite knowing how, in a thick darknessall I know is the Force, which I hold on to like a drowning man. All that is left is the feeling of being far from home, far from all that is true, good, restful, the feeling of living in a hallucination and yet, marvelously, the Force is there every minute, I brea the with it, live with it, otherwise I would drop dead, or simply go mad.
This is the last time in my life Ill return to the West, unless I receive an Order from Sri Aurobindo and Mother to do so I cannot live here anymore, I feel as if I were going back to the prehistoric age of caves.
0 1964-07-31, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Before he broke his leg, Sri Aurobindo used to walk from the street over there up to the garden here, straight through the rooms for a precise length of time. And to make sure he didnt walk for too long or too short a time, he had four wall clocks placed at a certain distance from each other, all synchronized; the last one was here and the first one was in his room, near him. One day, as he was Walking as usual, he looked at the first clock: stopped; he looks at the second clock (he used to wind them himself): stopped, at the same time; looks at the third clock: stopped, at the same time; the fourth clock: stopped, at the same time. I was meditating at the time, and I heard him exclaim, Oh, that is a bad joke! And they all started up again one after the other.
That I saw with my own eyes (and he wasnt under any illusions, nor was I). I asked him, What happened? He told me, See, all the clocks have stopped, and all the clocks started up again.
0 1964-08-29, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats odd! Very recently, a few days ago, after you came last time, again while I was Walking for my japa, this whole story of Narada came to me! Sri Aurobindo said that Narada himself was deceived and didnt recognize in Janaka a true spiritual manit all came back to me suddenly. I wondered, Well, well! Why am I thinking of this?
Its like that all the time! All the time, all the time.
0 1964-09-23, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
From a certain point of view, its good, because W has never been able to see anything through to the end, its the first time he has persevered. From that point of view, its good for his character. But still, I found the amount fantastic! He has to do three lakhs of this, four lakhs1 of that, some six or seven hours of recitation a day. Its a lot. And then you have to remain sitting in the same position all the timehe should at least be allowed to do it Walking.
Yes, there was a time when I was doing it five to six hours a day.
0 1965-02-19, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The mantra Did you get my note? Several times while Walking for my japa, I sent you the mantra insistently.
The truth is that I intend to give you a beautiful present. Only, for it to be truly a beautiful present, it is necessary that the mind shouldnt interfere in any way; otherwise I wont be able to pass the Power on to you along with the words.
0 1965-03-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo picked up those letters (at that moment I knew exactly what they meant, but its secondary), then he took me by the hand (that is, his right hand took my left hand: I was on his right), and we started Walking on the road. And while we were Walking on the road, after a time (there were many details and things I am not telling because they are incidental, they had their meaning at the time but they dont matter), while we were Walking on the road, he suddenly leaned over towards me and showed me that I was Walking on flint. (You know, when the road is made of chips of stones and slightly cambered to make water flow away? On the side some earth has been washed away and sometimes the stones are bared.) And I was Walking on those stonesno, he was Walking on them and he showed them to me, so I had him walk in the middle of the road and I started Walking on the stones so he wouldnt walk on them (but I didnt feel the stones at all). And then I noticed (I looked at him at that moment), I noticed Sri Aurobindos head a glorified head, truly a supramental head, a marvel! And his whole body, EVERY PART OF HIS BODY was someone in whom he was manifesting for a particular work or reason, or a particular action in relation to me; and as for me, I wasnt a person, I was only a Force (I noticed that I didnt have a body). And I saw all those who were participating (not their physical appearance, but I knew who they were): for this one, such and such a thing; for that one, such and such a thing; the hand, such and such a thing; the arm, such and such a thing and so on. And I saw his feet: they were my feet with tabis on; they were my feet, my feet with tabis on. And it was my feet with tabis on that didnt want to let him walk on the stones, on the side of the road, and that was why he left it.
It was wonderfully clear and meaningful! And I saw, I knew exactly someones place in the Work; and in that Work, in that relationship with me, he was supported, directed by Sri Aurobindo. The whole thing in detail.
0 1965-06-18 - supramental ship, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Another thing, yesterday Something being prepared. In the past, when Sri Aurobindo was there and I lived in that house which is now the dormitory annex, there was a large verandah, and I used to walk up and down on the verandah (Sri Aurobindo was in his room, working), and I would walk alone; but I was never alone: Krishna was always thereKrishna, the god Krishna as he is known, but taller, more beautiful, and not with that ridiculous blue, you know, that slate blue! Not like that. And always, we always walked up and down togetherwe would walk together. He was just a little behind (gesture behind, almost against the nape of the neck and the shoulders); I was a little in front, as if my head was on his shoulder, and he would walk (I didnt have the feeling of my head resting on his shoulder, but thats how it was), and we would walk, we would communicate. That lasted more than a year, you know, every day. Then it ended. Afterwards I saw him from time to time (when we moved to the new house I saw him); sometimes at night when I was very tired, he would come and I would sleep on his shoulder. But I knew very well that it was a way Sri Aurobindo had of showing himself. Then when I came here [to Mothers present room], Sri Aurobindo had left, and I began Walking up and down while reciting my mantra. Sri Aurobindo came, and he was at exactly the same place as Krishna was (same gesture, just behind the head); I would walk, and he was there, and we would walk together day after day, day after day. And it was becoming so concrete, so marvelous that I started thinking, Why look after people and things, I want to remain like this for ever! He caught my thought, and he said, I am not coming anymore. And he stopped. I said, Very well, and I started my mantra to the supreme Lord, and I tried a lot to have Him come and walk with me, but in no other form but Himself. And the Force, the Presence, everything was there, and I would feel Him more and more clearly, staying like that, just behind me, impersonal. For a few days, Ive had a sort of feeling that I was close to something; and yesterday, for half an hour: THE Presencea Presence An absolutely concrete presence. And it is He who told me, First Krishna, then Sri Aurobindo, then I.
Only (laughing), He doesnt want the effect to be the same and me to say, Now I am fed up with people!
0 1965-12-28, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Take Purani,1 for instance: I used to see him almost every night, and then some fifteen days ago (ten to fifteen days ago, I think2), before he left his body here, like that, I saw him in a place Its a place which is entirely made of a sort of pinkish gray clayits sticky, gluey, and rather liquid (Mother makes the gesture of stretching chewing gum). There were lots of people. It was a place where lots of people were going to prepare themselves there for the supramental life but not in their present bodies, which means they were preparing something in order to be ready for the supramental life in a future existence. And I had been taken there; there was a good number of people who had taken me there so I would see (so I would have an action of control there). But as for me, great care was taken to prevent me from being touched by that substance (it was important that I shouldnt be touched), so they wrapped me in golden veils and all sorts of things, and I was Walking along. And I saw him I was Walking on a sort of verandah (but it all had a very peculiar character, all was made of a bizarre matter), and there was a sort of large courtyard which was entirely made of that semiliquid, semigluey matter which looked like very diluted but very sticky clay (same elastic gesture like chewing gum). And suddenly I saw Purani rushing into it. From the far end he comes to me covered all over in that and sweeping through it with such strokes! He had it all over his face, all over everywhere! You could see nothing but that. I told him (laughing), Oh, you like it! He told me, Oh, its very nice, very nice!
Since that evening I havent seen him again. And then, some twelve or fifteen days later, I dont remember, he left his body.
0 1966-03-19, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But it isnt substantial. Its VERY conscious, but not substantial. Its very conscious, far more conscious than the consciousness here. Its a clear, precise, powerful consciousness (sovereign gesture), with the sense of a great mastery over things. But it isnt substantial. Its probably my translationtranslation in the physical consciousness that gives the impression of of what? They are like huge, huge halls, and so high! Theres no ceiling, you dont see any ceiling; you dont see any floor, yet you walkyou walk, but without the feeling of Walking: you move about. And then, if you want something somewhere, you seem to open a drawer or a cupboard and you find it, but there are no keys, no knobs, you dont even see any objects.
Its very conscious, but not at all material.
0 1966-05-28, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I dont feel tired, but Ive had for a long time and increasingly (the last few days it has become very acute) the impression of Walking forward, moving on (gesture in a precarious balance), and that the slightest false step would hurl me into the chasm. I seem to be on a ridge between two chasms.
And thats something going on in the bodys cells. Theres nothing moral to it, nothing even to do with sensation.
0 1966-06-02, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When I lie down on my bed at night, there is an offering of all the cells, which regularly surrender as completely as they can, with an aspiration not only for union but for fusion: let there remain nothing but the Divine. Its regular, every day, every single day. And for some time, these cells or this body consciousness (but it isnt organized as a consciousness: its like a collective consciousness of the cells), it seemed to be complaining a little, to be saying, But we dont feel much. We do feel (they cant say they dont feel: they feel protected, supported), but still They are like children, they were complaining that it wasnt spectacular: It HAS to be marvelous. (Mother laughs) Ah, very well, then! So two nights ago, they were in that state when I went to bed. I didnt move from the bed till about two in the morning. At two in the morning I got up, and I suddenly noticed that all the cells, the whole body (but it really is a cellular consciousness, not a body consciousness; it isnt the consciousness of this or that person: theres no person, its the consciousness of a cellular aggregate), that consciousness felt bathed in and at the same time shot through by a MATERIAL power of a fan-tas-tic velocity bearing no relation to the velocity of light, none at all: the velocity of light is something slow and unhurried in comparison. Fantastic, fantastic! Something that must be like the movement of the centers out there (Mother gestures towards faraway galactic space). It was so awesome! I remained quite peaceful, still, I sat quite peaceful; but still, peaceful as I could be, it was so awesome, as when you are carried away by a movement and are going so fast that you cant breathe. A sort of discomfort. Not that I couldnt breathe, that wasnt the point, but the cells felt suffocated, it was so awesome. And at the same time with a sensation of power, a power that nothing, nothing whatsoever can resist in any way. So I had been pulled out of my bed (I noticed it) so that the BODY consciousness (mark the difference: it wasnt the cells consciousness, it was the bodys consciousness) would teach the cells how to surrender and tell them, There is only one way: a total surrender, then you will no longer have that sensation of suffocation. And there was a slight concentration, like a little lesson. It was very interesting: a little lesson, how it should be done, what should be done, how to abandon oneself entirely. And when I saw it had been understood, I went back to bed. And then, from that time (it was two, two: twenty) till quarter to five, I was in that Movement without a single break! And the peculiar thing was that when I got up, there was in that consciousness (which is both cellular and a bit corporeal) the sense of Ananda [divine joy] in everything the body did: getting up, Walking, washing its eyes, brushing its teeth. For the first time in my life I felt the Ananda (a quite impersonal Ananda), an Ananda in those movements. And with the feeling, Ah, thats how the Lord enjoys Himself.
Its no longer in the foreground (it was in the foreground for an hour or two to make me understand), now its a bit further in the background. But, you understand, previously the body used to feel that its whole existence was based on the Will, the surrender to the supreme Will, and endurance. If it was asked, Do you find life pleasant?, it didnt dare to say no, because but it didnt find it pleasant. Life wasnt for its own pleasure and it didnt understand how it could give pleasure. There was a concentration of will in a surrender striving to be as perfectpainstakingly perfectas possible, and a sense of endurance: holding on and holding out. That was the basis of its existence. Then, when there were transitional periods which are always difficult, like, for instance, switching from one habit to another, not in the sense of changing habits but of switching from one support to another, from one impulsion to another (what I call the transfer of power), its always difficult, it occurs periodically (not regularly but periodically) and always when the body has gathered enough energy for its endurance to be more complete; then the new transition comes, and its difficult. There was that will and that endurance, and also, Let Your Will be done, and Let me serve You as You want me to, as I should serve You, let me belong to You as You want me to, and also, Let there remain nothing but You, let the sense of the person disappear (it had indeed disappeared to a considerable extent). And there was this sudden revelation: instead of that base of enduranceholding on at any costinstead of that, a sort of joy, a very peaceful but very smiling joy, very smiling, very sweet, very smiling, very charmingcharming! So innocent, something so pure and so lovely: the joy which is in all things, in everything we do, everything, absolutely everything. I was shown last night: everything, but everything, there isnt one vibration that isnt a vibration of joy.
0 1966-09-28, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(Nolini:) This lady was suffering from that cancer (the whole lungs were almost gone), but she began to miraculously recover. Really it is almost a miracle. Her husband, who is here, says, I am a surgeon and I have dealt with so many cases of this kind, I know what it isgradually it has almost disappeared. Miraculous it is. Now she is Walking about.2
Ah, if one could catch hold of that, everything could be cured.
0 1966-10-05, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
About the financial situation, I have a little story to tell you, which took place on Sunday or Monday. I told you that the situation was quite to ordinary consciousnesses, it was critical. And there was a payment to be made. I dont remember the material details, but something had to be paid very urgently (I think it was to the workers: they were hungry and hadnt been given their money). And I needed a certain amountwhich I didnt have: I had nothing. Then a sort of compassion came into me for those people who didnt have any money. I saw it wasnt right, and I couldnt do anything because there was none. So, in the evening while I was Walking (I have an hour of meditation and quiet, of concentration), I presented it all like this (gesture upward), and with an almost childlike attitude I said to the Lord (He was there, of course, I was with Him) something that can be translated (I dont know, I dont speak but it could be translated into words) roughly like this: I know You are with me and behind everything I do and everywhere, but Id like to know whether what I do, the work I do, interests You or not! (Mother laughs) And if it does interest You, well, I must have this money.
It came like that, in a quite childlike form, but very, very pure. And two days later, when it was necessary for the money to come, for me to have money, just as everything seemed quite impossible, Amrita suddenly came in, telling me, Here, so-and-so has sent a cheque for such-and-such an amount.Exactly the amount needed. And I think it was the first time that person had sent money. It was quite unexpected, absolutely a miraclea miracle for children. The required amount, just at the required time, and absolutely unexpected. Then I had a good laugh. And I said to myself, How silly we can be! We dont know that everything happens exactly as it has to.
0 1966-10-19, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
She would come, she was absolutely present during the six days of pranam downstairs. But now, since I dont know (I dont remember because for me time isnt quite clear anymore, it no longer has the same value), but I remember it happened while I was Walking for my japa. I told her there was something more important than that semireligious recollection people have, that what was more important was the deeper nature of the Work and the choice of the adverse aspect (represented by a universal difficulty, or, at any rate, if we only consider the earth, a human difficulty), the aspect that had to be vanquished, dominated in order to lead it to the transformation. And its in this connection that I told her that receiving the indication from the Supreme was the true thing; that He saw better than we did what had to be done and the order in which it had to be done. And I felt (she was very concrete [Mother makes a gesture as if Durga was in her]), I felt she was immensely interested. Then I told her, Well, you see, hasnt the time come (I am putting it into words, but there werent any words), hasnt the time come to receive from Him the direct impulsion for your action? And she responded joyfully and spontaneously.
The difference is that, now, wherever she manifests, I feel the call to the supreme Truth, to manifest it, is truly there.
0 1966-11-19, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Yesterday, lots and lots of things kept coming in that way while I was Walking in the afternoon. Then I stayed quiet, still, for five or ten minutes after the walk as usual, and more kept coming and coming. So I said to the Lord, Cant I have five minutes of peace and quiet with You! (Mother laughs) If you knew this atmosphere, this light of laughter, and such a wonderful laughterso wonderfully merciful, in fact, and understanding and tender, oh! So I said to myself, Really, what an imbecile I am!
Its becoming a really interesting life.
0 1966-12-17, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I saw it was clearly that. I saw how it had happened (because his question made me look at it, so I saw). There is an interesting point, its that the mental initiative in swimming across that pond was P.s and anothersso, humanly speaking, they are the ones who are responsible (but thats not true, its not like that!). But anyway, they were outside the group, it was an action that had nothing to do with the group, and they did it because they were to rejoin the group at a precise time and they were late. So it was clearly an individual outgrowth. Walking round the pond would have taken three hours while there were hardly two hours left before nightfall, and they were in a jungle, without any light or anything. That was another impossibility. So with his reason and human common sense, he said, The best is to swim across. But he hadnt foreseen (that was the reckless part) that the water would be icy.
(Sujata:) But P. had already swum across the water once, because he wasnt part of the group that had the accident: they called him from the camp, he came and swam through that water, and the accident took place on the way back. The others were on the other side.
0 1967-04-22, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its like that habit of the cells of drawing the force from below (through food and so on): when you try to transform that into a constant habit of drawing the force from above, every instant, in every small detail, theres a difficult moment. (From above is a manner of speaking, because if you think about it, it may also be from the depths: theres no sense of direction, no high or low or anything of the sort.) But its no longer leaning on the surface for support for standing, Walking, sitting, for making movements.
There is also the pressure of external agitation (the world lives in perpetual agitation), the external agitation: everything and everyone is rushing towards one really doesnt know why. They want to do ten times more things in a given space of time than is normally possible, so it goes like this (gesture of trepidation). And to have the strength to remain calm and well-balanced in the middle of it, in that whirl
0 1967-05-06, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
So I was Walking (I always walk a half-hour in the morning, repeating the mantra), and he went on and on and on repeating it, this way, that way, until this form was arrived at. Then, when I had noted it on paper, it was over.
Afterwards, he told me to put it into French like this:
0 1967-05-17, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
An Italian professor did some research in Mexico. He says: Human cells can generate enough electrical energy to electrocute another human being standing eighteen feet away. Dr. Ruggiero feels that his experiments in human cells may result in the cure of paralysis and he says that an electrical energy screen generated by human cells could be used to stop bullets. Electrical energy could make a human dynamo capable not only of inflicting death, but of literally Walking on air. By connecting cables to the human frame, human cells could produce energy and light sufficient to fill the power needs of an average home or small manufacturing unit. In experiments in his Mexico City laboratory, Dr. Ruggiero has produced a current from a goat enough to light up a series of 40 watt bulbs and to activate an electric door bell
But its been known for a long time that cats, the skin of cats, is full of electricity. It was used in the past to cure rheumatism.
0 1967-05-27, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
He lived for a time in that house at the corner, which has become the Auroville Office, and the roof of that house is uneven (one part is at a certain height, and without warning, it suddenly drops down half a story). Once while he was Walking on the roof in meditation, he fell; it seems he had just taken his meal, and he had a blockage. And he claimed he cured himself with an hour of concentration. It may be
He was very childlike, very enthusiastic, and very boastful at the same time, but with a fervour which was rather fine. A sort of very young enthusiasm. Now he must be rather old. And I always see him in the middle of a large crowd. He knows how to comm and attention. He isnt quite indifferent. But I didnt work to send him away from here: he had quarrelled with someone or other, then started openly receiving a large number of disciples; I said, It would be better if you saw your disciples elsewhere. Then he left.
0 1968-09-04, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Three or four days ago, after lunch (I rest before going to take my bath, I lie down here), I fell asleep (I sleep very little: I go into an inner consciousness, but I dont sleep). I fell asleep. I woke up, then got up and started towards the bathroom I felt as I did before: I was Walking by myself, I had my balance. And spontaneously, without thought. But then it was taken away (gesture as if someone came to take that strength away from Mother). So I suspected that during my sleep, a part of the vital being (laughing) had come back, and naturally I was beginning to live again! So it was taken away.
And the body is being given an education: its being taught how to will the true way of being and willing. And over the entire material creation (gesture covering and enveloping the earth), there is a tissuewhich we might call catastrophica tissue of bad will. That is to say, a sort of web, yes, a defeatist webdefeatist, catastrophicwhere you botch what you wanted to do, where there are all possible accidents, all possible bad wills. Like a web. And the body is being taught to get out of it.2
0 1969-05-28, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its about that time. Thats when he started Walking with two canes.
(After a long silence) It would mean that he took upon himself quite a few peoples burdens. So that would explain what happened: on the day he left, a number of people were terribly attacked by things, as if those were coming back onto them; things that had been taken away from them and which were coming back onto themespecially women.
0 1969-08-20, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I saw PL. There are two things, first a personal one, then a more general one. He said the last time he saw you, after leaving you he went to the Samadhi, and there he suddenly had an extremely sharp pain in the lower abdomen. But he said it was very strange because it didnt feel like an ordinary pain: it didnt stop him from Walking about, but it remained centered therea sharp pain.
As for me, I am afraid those people there may have cast a spell on him.
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The day before that incident, lie had a vision (I dont know if theres any connection). He was with me, we were Walking together on a mountain road; I was holding his hand. Then, after some time, he felt tired; he said to me, Oh, I am tired. But I was holding his hand, and I told him, Come. We walked on in that mountain, then once again he said, You are going too fast for me, I cant follow you. Again I told him, Come, and pulled him along. Then we reached the top of that mountain, it was all in light, and there was a sort of precipice. And it seems I hurled him into the precipicewithout any violence, any movement of passion: I simply flung him into the precipice. And he went downhe told me, It wasnt a fall, it was rather a descent; I wasnt at all going to crash down at the bottom: I was just going down. And he saw my eyes at the top. He felt no passion, no violence, nothing of that sort in me, but simply, quietly, I hurled him into the void.
It means his mind is affected.
0 1969-10-01, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Naturally, the two are interdependent: the ego must be abolished the RULE of the ego must be abolished. Generally, people think its not possible to abolish the physical ego; not only is it possible, its DONE, and the body continues, it keeps on Walkingit hasnt gone! (It had a difficult little moment a little moment.)
Now these cells are wondering how one can continue to exist without this movement of adoration. Theyre like this, everywhere (gesture of intense aspiration), everywhere. Its very interesting.
0 1969-11-12, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
That was the time when, in France, Mother spent nights Walking through gardens full of snakes (Richard's atmosphere).
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0 1970-05-09, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There were two activities. The first I cant recount, because, naturally, it cant be used. But the second vision was like this: I was Walking around naked, but DELIBERATELY naked from here to there (gesture from the top of the chest to the thighs); here (above), there may have been clothes. I was DELIBERATELY showing myself to certain people, and I had near me someone, always the same person: the physical Mother. She is the physical Mother, the image or the symbol of the physical Mother. She was with me, and I was wearing, except on the exposed part3 (Mother breaks off) Ah, and that part I was showing was sexless, that is to say, neither man nor woman: there was nothing; and its color was a little like Aurovilles color [orange], like that, but vibrant, that is, as if not luminous, but with a sort of luminosity. So then, the Mother wore a large cloak, like a large veil over her whole being, with that same color, and she told me, See, I have put it on because Ive accepted itto tell you that Ive accepted it.
That was the second dream.
0 1970-05-16, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Two nights ago, shortly before dawn, I was with you and you were outside. We seemed to be Walking together, I was Walking with you in a street. It was outdoors. Then you told me, But why dont you ask me questions about the outside world? Then you started talking about China, and you said, if I understood well, that China was going to sweep over the world.
Bah!
I dont know what that means. But it was outdoors. And one detail, for example: I tape-recorded what you said, and I realized there was in the distance the old machine we used when you were downstairs. I dont know if this detail means anything. We were in a street, Walking together; I walked by your side.
(silence)
0 1971-07-17, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
At night I go Walking on dirt roads which collapse.
Oh!
0 1971-07-21, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But I feel Im Walking like a blind man in that Force.
Yes.
0 1972-01-15, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
That experience is more and more constant. Its become very. Sometimes its for one thing, sometimes for another (the practical things of life like eating, Walking, etc.). It has become very intense. But at the same time, theres the knowledge (Mother raises her forefinger): Now is the time to win the Victory. Which comes from the psychic, from above. Hold on hold on, now is the time to win the Victory.
Quite interesting really.
0 1972-04-15, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As a matter of fact, I wanted to tell you (I dont know if I did2): the first time I went to Tlemcen (I dont remember when exactly),the first day I arrived at Tlemcen, Thon came to meet me and said (I didnt understand then, but now I do!), he said, You are now alone with me, arent you afraid? And I replied (I was absolutely conscious and calm). I remember we were Walking in his huge estate, we were Walking up towards the house, and I told him (Mother raises her index finger), My psychic being governs me I am afraid of nothing. Well (Thon started as if he had been burned).
I acquired that psychic consciousness just before leaving for Tlemcen. And it grew stronger there.
0 1972-05-17, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You know, Mother, I had an odd dream yesterday morning. In my dream I saw Satprems garden. I was Walking in the street, passing by his garden, and I glimpsed an Adoration tree1 covered with adoration flowers. I was filled with such joy. Then, a little farther on, behind this tree, I glimpsed another plantit was very tall and it was the Mind2
(Mother nods her head)
0 1972-06-03, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As if I were Walking on a very thin and narrow line: on one side, imbecility, and on the other genius! Thats how I progress (gesture of standing on a ridge).
What does it depend on? I have no idea.
0 1972-09-09, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(This morning, someone told Mother he saw her in his sleep, and she was Walking along in the street.)
Ill walk along in the street when I am hundred years old.
0 1973-05-05, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(One dayit was on May 2while Walking in Auroville's canyons as I did every evening, I decided to force the Mantra into the body.)
Would you like to. [meditate]? Or do you have something to say?
02.05 - The Godheads of the Little Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A somnambulist Walking under the moon,
An image of ego treads through an ignorant dream
02.07 - George Seftris, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Suddenly I was Walking and not Walking.
I looked at the flying birds: they had turned to stone.
02.08 - Jules Supervielle, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
(You are Walking along the road)
Does all this get us anywhere?
02.09 - Two Mystic Poems in Modern French, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The earthly blood that loses its way is heavy because it treads here below. Here there are stagnant waters, dead ashes. The arm from on high must extend here too. Here all forms are Walking statues. They delay and delay in a death that is yet warmonly lukewarm but lifeless. The earthly love I bear is my enemy. Its fire ends in dust and I go to sleep into the unconsciousness. My home here is a mourning hall; how can it be changed into a hall of beauty and living and moving shapes? Yes, my mouth is empty and full of dust, yes, it cries bitten by a corrosive acid thrown upon an increasing silence. It is a fire that comes from the chill snowy heights.
A Note
03.01 - The New Year Initiation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
We who have taken the side that is for Light and Evolution and the great Future, must be thoroughly alive to the heavy responsibility that lies on us. The choice of the path is not by itself sufficient. Next to that, we have to see, at every step, and make sure that we are really Walking straight along the true path, that we do not fall and slip down, that we do not stray unawares into a wrong track or a blind alley.
So far as the World War is concerned all nations and peoples and groups on our side who have felt and proclaimed that they stand for equality, fraternity and freedom, the priests and prophets of a new future, of a happier humanity, all such warriors are also facing a solemn ordeal. For them also the time has come to be on their guard and be watchful. They must see that they give exact expression in their actions to what they have thought, felt and proclaimed. They have to prove by every means, by thought, word and deed, that their entire being is really one, whole and indivisible, in ideal and in intention.
03.02 - Yogic Initiation and Aptitude, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Mantra or initiation, in its essence, is nothing else than contacting the inner being. In our Path, at least, there is no other rite or rule, injunction or ceremony. The only thing needed is to awake to the consciousness of the psychic being, to hear its callto live and move and act every moment of our life under the eye of this indwelling Guide, in accordance with its direction and impulsion. Our initiation is not therefore a one-time affair only; but at every moment, at each step, it has to be taken again and again, it must be renewed, revitalised, furthered and streng thened constantly and unceasingly; for it means that at each step and at every moment we have to maintain the contact of our external consciousness with the inner being; at each step and every moment we have to undergo the test of our sincerity and loyalty the test whether we are tending to our inner being, moving in its stream or, on the contrary, Walking the way of our external animal nature, whether the movements in the mind and life and body are controlled by their habitual inferior nature or are open to and unified with their hidden divine source. This recurrent and continuous initiation is at the secret basis of all spiritual disciplinein the Integral Yoga this is the one and all-important principle.
Mundaka, Ill. 2. 4
06.04 - The Conscious Being, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The mind, however, has a central consciousness which may be called the Witness Mind, the Purusha in the mind. It stands apart and observes whatever is happening in the mind and in other parts as well; it is in fact the observer of the whole dhra. The other parts are the vital and the physical. The vital too has its own central consciousness, its witness Purusha, which observes all the vital movements and also through its own angle the other parts. Likewise the physical has a Purusha and it too observes through its own consciousness. The mental Purusha says, I see I am thinking, reasoning, etc.; the vital Purusha says, I see I am angry, violent or enjoying, energising, etc.; the physical Purusha says, I see I am acting, Walking, running, etc. Now each of these three Purushas, in an ordinary person, stands separately, each is conscious in its own way; they are not clearly conscious of each other; they intermix, but not happily, they are more often than not at cross purposes. Very rarely are they unified and harmonised or bound together as a team for serving a common purpose, a single aim. That union and harmonisation can be done only through the supreme Purusha, the Divine Witness who is the true conscious Being, the one Purusha behind or above all the others, whose light first of all centralises in the psychic being and then through it is canalised into its delegates or emanations on the lower levels, the mind, the vital and the physical.
What is consciousness? It is the inverse of Inconscience. It is the creative essence of the universe: without consciousness there is no creation. Inconscience means non-existence. The supreme Non-manifest becomes conscious of itself, that is, objectifies itself, sees itself created or reflected in multiple centres: that is the origin of all creation. By consciousness all is, by unconsciousness nothing is. Consciousness is light, consciousness is life.
06.15 - Ever Green, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Whenever you go inside and seek your poise, do not look for your old acquaintances, the familiar experiences, do not carry upon your back the load of the past, but go ahead, as if through a virgin tract, making quite new discoveries, and opening unexpected vistas at each step. You can make an experiment even on your physical body, i.e. take the physical consciousness too to share in your adventure of ever new discovery. Thus you may, for example, forget your habit of eating or even Walking, truly forget and try to learn over again, even as you did for the first time as a child. You have to acquire consciously a capacity of the body that has become an almost unconscious reflex action. It is a wonderful and exhilarating experience. Naturally you cannot repeat too often or carry too far an experiment of this kind on the physical plane. But you can freely deal with your inner life and consciousness. You can make your mind and your vital a clean slate, as much as you like: not once in your life, but every moment of your life. And then see how the world impinges upon your consciousness, what fresh discoveries and awakenings come to you endlessly! You can always rid yourself of the accustomed vibrations on the normal levels of your existence, the physical, vital and mental; and even you can go beyond your psychic formation and be the wide, the vast, the limitless, the Infinite itself, void of all name and form. And then with that virgin consciousness drop straight into the world of material life and form, into your body and bodily reactions. The world will give itself up to you in its pristine purity, its original beauty and truth, always luminous and glorious. This experience has to be the normal mode of your living, not simply the culmination or acme of your being, a fixed and stagnant status, even if considered the highest, the summum bonum. That is how you can keep yourself and the world around you ever fresh and young and new.
The preacher who speaks of the truth and delivers it to his hearers is usually effective for the first time or for a first few occasions only, when he feels the truth of his truth and is sincere while delivering. But as time wears on, his truth too wears out, for it becomes stereotyped, a matter of mere habit. The experience is no longer lived, but mechanically doled out. You are sincere only when the experience is new and fresh and living, it should be made so every moment, otherwise it is dead letter, letter that killeth.
07.19 - Bad Thought-Formation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
What is instinct exactly? It is Nature's consciousness. Nature is conscious of her action; it is not an individual consciousness. It is a global or collective consciousness. There is also a consciousness of the species. Each species has its consciousness which is called sometimes the spirit of the species, that is to say, a conscious being presiding over a particular species. Nature is conscious in the sense that she knows what she wants, she knows her whither and her how, her end and the way to go towards it. To man much of Nature seems incoherent, because his consciousness is narrow and he has not an overall vision. When you look at the small details, the little fragments, you do not understand; you do not find any link, sequence, sense. But Nature has a conscious will, she is a conscious being. Perhaps the word being is too human. When we speak of Nature's being, we naturally think of the human being, only a little bigger, or perhaps much bigger but working more or less in the same way. But it is not so. Instead of the word being, I would prefer the word entity. The conscious entity that is Nature has a conscious will and it does things much more deliberately and purposively than map, and it has formidable forces at its disposal. Man speaks of blind and violent Nature. But it is man who is blind and violent, not nature. You say an earthquake is a terrible affair. Thousands of houses crash into dust, millions of people are killed, whole cities devastated, entire portions of earth are swallowed up etc., etc. Yes, from the human point of view Nature seems monstrous. But what has she done after all? When you get a knock on your body somewhere there appears a blue patch. Are you worried about it? Your earthquake is nothing more than a reshuffling of a cell in your body. You destroy thousands of cells every moment of your life. You are monstrous! That is the relative proportion. And consider, we are speaking of earth alone and earthly events. But what is this earth itself in the bosom of the universe? A point, a zero. You are Walking on the ground and are not looking down. You place one step forward and then another and you trample thousands of innocent ants under your feet. If you were an ant you would have cried out, what a cruel and stupid force! Imagine other forces stalking about much bigger than yourself and under their casual steps millions of creatures like you are crushed, continents are pressed down and mountains kicked up. They do not even notice such catastrophic happenings! The only difference between man and ant is that man knows what happens to him and the ant does not. But even there are you sure?
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08.05 - Will and Desire, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
To say "no" does not cure, but to say "yes" does not cure either. I knew some persons who allowed their children to do as they pleased. There was one child who tried to eat anything he could get hold of. Naturally he fell sick and got disgusted in the end and cured of the habit. Still the method means risk. For example, a child one day got hold of a match-box and as he was not prevented, burnt himself in playing with it, although thereafter he did not touch a match-box any more. The method may be even catastrophic. For there are children who are dare-devils most children are soand when a desire possesses them they are stopped by nothing in the world. Some are fond of Walking along the edge of walls or on house tops; some have an impulse to jump into water directly they see it. Even there are some who love to take the risk of crossing a road when a car is passing. If such children are allowed to go their way, the experiment may prove fatal sometimes. There are people who do allow their children to have this liberty arid take the risk. For they say prevention is not a cure. Children who are denied anything do not usually believe that what is denied is bad, they consider that a thing is called bad simply when one wishes to deny it. So would it not be better, it is argued, to concede the liberty? The theory is that individual liberty must be respected at all costs. Past experiences should not be placed before beings that are come newly into the world; they must get their own experiences, make their own experiments free from any burden of the past. Once I remonstrated with someone that a child should be forewarned about a possible accident, I was told in answer it was none of my business. And when I persisted in saying that the child might get killed, the answer was, "What if? Each one must follow his destiny. It is neither the duty nor the right of anybody to meddle in the affairs of others. If one goes on doing stupid things One will suffer the consequences oneself and most likely stop doing them of one's own accordwhich is hundredfold better than being forced by others to stop." But naturally there are cases when one stops indeed, but not in the way expected or wished for.
The matter gets difficult and involved, if you make a theory and try to follow it. In reality, each case is different and to be able to deal with each adequately needs a whole lifetime's occupation.
1.001 - The Aim of Yoga, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
But this is a great illusion that is before us, and we live in a world of illusions which we mistake for realities. The illusion arises on account of our inability to see beyond a certain limit of the horizon of our mental perceptions. The farmer forgets that the production of the harvest in the field is not the only aim, or rather the ultimate aim, of his efforts. It has another aim altogether connected with certain others, and so on and so forth, in an endless chain which cannot easily come within the comprehension of an untutored mind. The stomach does not eat for its satisfaction. We know very well why the stomach eats. The stomach may say "I eat", but it does not eat; the eater is somebody else, though it is thrust into the stomach. The legs do not walk for their own sake. What do the legs gain by Walking? They are Walking for some other purpose somebody else's purpose, not their own. Nor do the eyes gain anything by seeing; the eyes see for somebody else.
Likewise, there is an inherent and underlying basic aim which is transcendent to the immediate purpose visible in front of any particular individual who puts forth effort, just as the legs do not walk for their own sake, the eyes do not see for their own sake, the stomach does not eat for its own sake, and so on, and they seem to be functioning for some other purpose. They can miss this purpose, and then there is what we call dismemberment or disintegration of the personality. When the aim is missed, the effort loses its motive power and it becomes a fruitless effort, because an effort that has missed its aim cannot be regarded as a meaningful effort. Also, it may be possible that we may be conscious of an immediate aim before the effort, but the aims that are further behind or ahead may not be visible to our eyes.
1.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
For Sri Aurobindo is not only the explorer of consciousness, he is the builder of a new world. Indeed, what is the point of changing our consciousness if the world around us remains as it is? We would be like Hans Christian Andersen's emperor Walking naked through the streets of his capital. Thus, after exploring the outermost frontiers of worlds that were not unknown to ancient wisdom, Sri Aurobindo discovered yet another world, not found on any map, which he called the Supermind or Supramental, and which he sought to draw down upon Earth. He invites us to draw it down a little with him and to take part in the beautiful story, if we like beautiful stories. For the Supermind, Sri Aurobindo tells us, brings a dramatic change to the 3
The Human Cycle, 15:36
1.017 - The Night Journey, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
95. Say, “If there were angels on earth, Walking around in peace, We would have sent down to them from heaven an angel messenger.”
96. Say, “God is enough witness between you and me. He is fully aware of His servants, and He sees them well.”
1.01 - Economy, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
One farmer says to me, You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with; and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; Walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plough along in spite of every obstacle. Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, the most helpless and diseased, which in others are luxuries merely, and in others still are entirely unknown.
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?
1.01 - MASTER AND DISCIPLE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
M., being at leisure on Sundays, had gone with his friend Sidhu to visit several gardens at Baranagore. As they were Walking in Prasanna Bannerji's garden, Sidhu said: "There is a charming place on the bank of the Ganges where a paramahamsa lives. Should you like to go there?" M. assented and they started immediately for the Dakshineswar temple garden. They arrived at the main gate at dusk and went straight to Sri Ramakrishna's room. And there they found him seated on a wooden couch, facing the east. With a smile on his face he was talking of God. The room was full of people, all seated on the floor, drinking in his words in deep silence.
M. stood there speechless and looked on. It was as if he were standing where all the holy places met and as if Sukadeva himself were speaking the word of God, or as if Sri Chaitanya were singing the name and glories of the Lord in Puri with Ramananda, Swarup, and the other devotees.
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The man was Walking easily on the water. Suddenly he had an intense desire to see what was tied in his cloth. He opened it and found only a leaf with the name of Rma written on it. 'What is this?' he thought. 'Just the name of Rma!' As soon as doubt entered his mind he sank under the water.
"If a man has faith in God, then even if he has committed the most heinous sins -
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At five o'clock in the afternoon all the devotees except Narendra and M. took leave of the Master. As M. was Walking in the temple garden, he suddenly came upon the Master talking to Narendra on the bank of the goose-pond. Sri Ramakrishna said to Narendra: "Look here. Come a little more often. You are a newcomer. On first acquaintance people visit each other quite often, as is the case with a lover and his sweetheart.
(Narendra and M. laugh.) So please come, won't you?"
1.01 - MAXIMS AND MISSILES, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by Walking have any value.
There are times when we psychologists are like horses, and grow
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
Man cannot comprehend states of being which transcend his own nature. Hence none but the great God himself can comprehend God, as we have shown in our Commentary upon the "Names of God." So also the prophets cannot be comprehended by any but the prophets themselves. No person, in short, can understand any individual who belongs to a scale of rank above him. It is possible that there is a peculiarity in prophets, of which no pattern or model is found in other persons, and therefore, we are incapable of understanding them. If we knew not what a vision is, and an individual should say to us, that a man, at a moment when he can neither move, see or hear, can perceive events which are to occur at a future period, and yet might not be able to perceive the same while Walking, listening or looking, we should not in any wise be able to persuade ourselves of the truth of it, as God says in his Holy word: "They treat as a lie that which they cannot comprehend with their knowledge."1 And you, do you not see that he who comes blind into the world, does not understand the pleasure which is derived from seeing? Let us not regard, therefore, as impossible all those states ascribed to the prophets which we cannot understand: for they are the accepted and praiseworthy servants of God.
From all which has been said, seeker after the divine mysteries, thou hast learned something of the dignity of the nature of man, and that the way of the mystics is holy and honorable. But I have heard that the mystics say that external knowledge is a veil upon the way to God, and [31] a hindrance in the journey to the truth. Take care and do not deny that they are correct in what they say. For, external knowledge is derived from the sensuous world, and all objects of sense are a hindrance to him who is occupied with spiritual truth; for whoever is attending to sensual objects, indicates that his mind is preoccupied with external properties. And it is impossible that he who would walk in the way of truth, should be for a moment unemployed in meditation, upon obtaining spiritual union and the vision of beauty.
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Our intention has been to show you that man is a great world, and that you might know what a multitude of servants his body has to minister to him : so that you might realize while in your enjoyments, in Walking, in sleeping or at rest in your world, that by God's appointment, these numerous servants in your employ never suffer their functions to cease for a minute. Listen now for a moment candidly. If you had a servant who had been faithful to you during his whole life, with whose services you were not able to dispense, while he could at any time find a better master-yet if he should only for a single day disobey your orders, you would get angry, beat him, and wish to get rid of him. But God has been abundant in kindness to you, and has given you so many servants, and has in no wise any need of you. How then can it be just that you should become enslaved to yourself, and follow your own passions, and that forgetful of pleasing the infinite God, you should rebel against your Creator and Benefactor, and that you should render obedience to Satan, who is your enemy and the enemy of God ?
Many and even innumerable books, O student of the divine mysteries, have been written in explanation of the organization of the body and the uses of is parts: but they have no more made the subject clear and exhausted it, than a drop can illustrate the ocean, or an atom illustrate the sun. [38] It is impossible for the thing formed to understand the knowledge of him that formed it. And how is it possible, that he who is of yesterday, should comprehend the secrets of the operations of the Ancient of days ?
1.01 - The Path of Later On, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
A young traveller is Walking briskly along, happily breathing in the pure morning air; he seems joyful, without a care for the future. The way he is following comes to a cross-roads, where innumerable paths branch off in all directions.
Everywhere the young man can see criss-crossing footprints. The sun shines ever bright in the sky; the birds are singing in the trees; the day promises to be very beautiful.
1.028 - History, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
25. Then, one of the two women approached him, Walking bashfully. She said, “My father is calling you, to reward you for drawing water for us.” And when he came to him, and told him the story, he said, “Do not fear, you have escaped from the wrongdoing people.”
26. One of the two women said, “Father, hire him; the best employee for you is the strong and trustworthy.”
1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
be modified. Let us say, for example, that you are in your office. You are accustomed to Walking down an
unobstructed hallway, to get to the elevator. You are so used to performing this activity, that you can do it
automatically so you often read while Walking. One day, while reading, you stumble over a chair
someone left in the middle of the hallway. This is normal novelty. You dont have to alter your current
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So John walked off the road. He was sick of Walking, anyhow, because people kept throwing sticks and
stones at him. The little gnome said,
1.02 - On the Knowledge of God., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
Now the faithful, truthful and experienced in religion, who are mindful that the soul is treacherous, deceptive, perfidious, malicious and false, always watch carefully over their own souls, lest they should do something that transcends the commands of the law, or that is contrary to reason. The soul is always disposed to say to itself, "I am obedient to the truth : I am submissive to the holy law : [64] and I am well instructed in knowledge." But thou, without being puffed up by this deceitful language of the soul, must constantly look to all its thoughts and states. If it is Walking in the path of the law and of the prophets and saints, it is well! and happy is he that is faithful to his word ! But if the soul begin to have an inclination for self-indulgence, to explain away or exceed the limits of the law and to contradict clear and plain knowledge, you must regard it as a machination of the devil and a temptation to the soul. In short, man, until he descends to the grave, must always watch over his soul with attention, to discover in what degree it is obedient to the holy law and in harmony with knowledge. Whoever does not thus watch over and guard himself, is most surely in a delusion and in the way of a just destruction. It is the first step in Islamism, that a man should keep his soul subject to the law.
The Alchemy of Happiness, by Mohammed Al-Ghazzali, the Mohammedan Philosopher, trans. Henry A. Homes (Albany, N.Y.: Munsell, 1873). Transactions of the Albany Institute, vol. VIII.
1.02 - Pranayama, Mantrayoga, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
On the whole, the ambulatory practices are more generally useful to the health than the sedentary; for in this way Walking and fresh air are assured. But some of the sedentary practice should be done, and combined with meditation. Of course when actually "racing" to get results, Walking is a distraction.
and should be practised certainly never less than one hour daily by the serious student.
1.02 - Skillful Means, #The Lotus Sutra, #Anonymous, #Various
And Walking about,
During those twenty-one days
1.02 - Taras Tantra, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen
In the other story, a man Walking in a forest met
with a starving lion (it seems that there were lions in
1.02 - The Concept of the Collective Unconscious, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
can and you will feel yourself raised up and Walking towards the
height, and you will seem to be in the middle of the aerial region.
1.02 - The Great Process, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
But how could we possibly know the secret of that which now seems an undefined and disturbing nonself, possibly even destructive of what we so concretely know as self, we who are at the end of this mental circle, in this age of the servants of the ego and ambiguous enjoyments of a little thinking self?... Actually, the path is made by Walking it, as in a forest. There is no path, it does not exist: it has to be made. And once we have walked a few feet, apparently in the dark, we will realize that our groping steps led to a first clearing, and that we were all the while guided, even in our darkest stumblings, by an infallible Hand that has already directed our millipede meanderings. For, in fact, the goal we pursue is already within; it is an eternal Goal. It is a Future that is millions of years old and as young as a newborn child. It is opening its eyes to everything, constantly staring in wonderment. To find It is to enter constant wonder, a new birth of the world at each instant.
But at least we have signposts to help us take these first steps, and if we pose questions about man's future (not pose questions in the sense of a theoretician spinning his vain web and adding one idea to another only to inflate the same old story, but in the sense of a sailor plotting his course, because there is a channel to go through even as the sea crashes against the reefs), we will perhaps discover a few clues by studying the old animal circle, when we were still only the future of the ape.
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We will not theorize about what this superman is. We do not wish to think him; we wish to become him, if possible, keeping away from the old walls and old lights, remaining as completely open as possible, as alert to the great process of Nature as possible just Walking, for that is the only way to do it, solvitur ambulando. Even if we don't get very far, who knows, we may still emerge in a first clearing that will fill our hearts, souls and bodies with sunlight, for everything is one and everything is saved together or nothing is.
Then others will come who will move on to a second clearing.
1.02 - The Recovery, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
December and January had rolled on smoothly. We were now looking forward to the removal of the splints. Dr. Rao on his weekly visits was pressing his case for the removal and was laughed at by all of us till he promised not to raise the issue again, only to break his word the next time. About the first week of February, some disquieting symptoms appeared. There was pain in the knee-joint and a mild swelling of the leg. We were very much perturbed by this unexpected intrusion. The specialist, informed about it, replied that such minor complications were not rare in fracture cases and would soon clear up. Now Rao got his chance: he argued that the unduly long immobilisation had caused the symptoms and urged the removal of the splints. Poor doctor! Nobody listened to his lonely voice. We all clung to the authority of the specialist and waited for his second visit. But Pondicherry to Madras was then no flying motor-drive! We had no cars, buses still belonged to the dreamland and the train service was as slow as it is today. I do not remember exactly when the specialist came and removed the splints, probably in the third or fourth week of February. As soon as it was done, the entire limb from the thigh downwards swelled up, to our deep consternation. The thigh looked frightful, almost double its size. The Mother kept an ominous silence, but Sri Aurobindo was as unconcerned as ever. The specialist repeated his view that such complications do set in in some cases, so we need not worry. The oedema was of no consequence and would gradually subside. He was satisfied that a firm union of the bone had taken place. With proper and careful treatment, massage, compress, gradual Walking, etc., the leg would return to its normal size. The Mother was not however so easily satisfied. She questioned him very closely on the cause of the oedema, its pathology, complications and danger, or other possible sequels. When the specialist stated that sometimes movements might dislodge a venous clot and bring about serious complications, the Mother caught him at once and asked how then could he recommend massage and passive movements. The doctor was not prepared for such an astute question from a "woman" and said that the Mother was a very intelligent person! We reported this remark to Sri Aurobindo; he simply smiled.
All of us were very much depressed by this adverse manifestation, since it would delay his recovery. I was particularly disturbed and worried, for I had not met with such a situation before and had to face it all alone as a doctor. I needed much strength and faith. So far it was Sri Aurobindo who had been giving me his constant spiritual support in my medical work. Now the Divine Physician himself was the patient. Whom should I approach for help? Though I did not openly ask him to cure himself using my poor self as the physical instrument, as I did in my other medical cases, still with the conviction that his and the Mother's force would be there, I proceeded with the instructions left by the specialist. But I was not free from anxiety. Meanwhile, I wrote to Dr. Manilal about the complication, asking him to come down and bring with him two or three pairs of crutches from Bombay.
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When Dr. Manilal arrived, I breathed a sigh of relief! He was not very happy to see the new development, but hoped that everything would be all right. He was confronted with three problems: the swelling, educating the patient to walk and the bending of the knee, all of which he dealt with in his characteristic efficient manner. The swelling according to him would subside in due course. Gentle massage and hot and cold compress continued, followed later by hot douche. We used to note its diminution week by week. But it took some months to disappear completely. The bending of the knee would also take some time in view of the adhesion of the patella to the underlying tissues, in spite of passive movements. The re-education in Walking seemed to be rather a straightforward job, though it was the most awkward and difficult one, for Sri Aurobindo had to walk with crutches! All that was needed was a patient and persistent effort. For Sri Aurobindo's nature, unaccustomed to physical or mechanical contrivances, and the narrow space in the room made the venture somewhat risky. The first day he got up to use the crutches was a memorable one for us. In the presence of the Mother we made him stand up, handed him the crutches and showed him how to use them. He fumbled and remarked, "Yes, it is easy to say." Two or three different pairs were tried out, but as he could not handle them properly, the Mother proposed that he had better walk leaning on two persons one on either side; It was certainly a bright suggestion, for Sri Aurobindo Walking on crutches would have reminded us of his own phrase about Hephaestus' "lame omnipotent motion", an insult to his shining majestic figure. Purani and Satyendra were selected by Dr. Manilal as his human supports, much less incongruous than the ungainly wooden instruments! That was how the re-education started. The paradox of the Divine seeking frail human aid gave food to my sense of humour. However, both men proved unequal in stature; the Mother made Champaklal replace Satyendra on the left side. Now the arrangement was just and perfect and Champaklal had his aspiration fulfilled. His was the last support Sri Aurobindo was to give up. For, as his steps gained in strength and firmness, he used a stick in the right hand, and Champaklal on the left. Finally he too was dropped. As soon as it came to be known that the Master was using a Walking stick, several were presented to him and there was one even of tea-wood from Assam! Thus everyday after the noon and night meals the Mother would come to his room and present the stick, and he would walk about for half an hour in her presence.
While waiting for the Mother's arrival, he would practise various bending exercises for the knee which had been improvised by Dr. Manilal. He did them sitting on the edge of the bed. He actively obeyed whatever was demanded of him. One of the exercises was hanging of the leg which later became a common joke amongst us.
It was not an unreasonable fear that the slightest inattention in Walking on his part might upset his balance and cause a fall. He had to walk with his head bent, looking at the ground, and had to be very careful, particularly at turnings, by checking his speed. We were posted at these turnings to prevent any possibility of a mishap. His steps were now not like those of Zeus on Mount Olympus! They had naturally lost that resounding force we were accustomed to hear, when he used to pace up and down above, during our meditation in the hall below. He told us that it was during those walks that he used to bring down the highest Force. As the Walking progressed with of his former strength, we expected a return to his God-like steps.
The days were getting hotter and he used to perspire profusely. There was no ceiling fan. We started fanning him as he walked, but what were two small hand-fans the wing-wafts of tiny birds in the sultry heat of the closed room? Sri Aurobindo did not seem to be concerned at all, though we were. Purani hit upon a brilliant idea. He came up with a huge palm leaf fan festooned with a red cloth border, as used for the temple Deities. The Mother smiled approvingly. Stationed near the door, he began fanning with all the vigour of his bare muscular arms and a miniature storm would sweep by. We enjoyed the grand sight. It was so becoming to his giant's nature! He handled it very well. Once for some days he could not come up, and the fan lay idle, like the mythical bow in the cave. With much trepidation I took it up, a pigmy to the giant, but seeing no question on the Mother's face, I set to work. The performance was not bad. I felt rather proud, but alas, pride had its quick fall! By same faux pas, or should I say fausse main, one day I struck Sri Aurobindo's back with the fan, as he was just turning my corner! He immediately looked around with an indulgent smile, and the Mother smiled graciously to lift me up from the crushing shame. But fortunately for the Guru and the disciple, it was not repeated. Afterwards both Champaklal and Mulshankar used the fan with a greater skill.
1.02 - Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us. Did you ever think what those sleepers are that underlie the railroad? Each one is a man, an Irish-man, or a Yankee man. The rails are laid on them, and they are covered with sand, and the cars run smoothly over them. They are sound sleepers, I assure you. And every few years a new lot is laid down and run over; so that, if some have the pleasure of riding on a rail, others have the misfortune to be ridden upon. And when they run over a man that is Walking in his sleep, a supernumerary sleeper in the wrong position, and wake him up, they suddenly stop the cars, and make a hue and cry about it, as if this were an exception. I am glad to know that it takes a gang of men for every five miles to keep the sleepers down and level in their beds as it is, for this is a sign that they may sometime get up again.
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches to-day to save nine to-morrow. As for _work_, we havent any of any consequence. We have the Saint Vitus dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still. If I should only give a few pulls at the parish bell-rope, as for a fire, that is, without setting the bell, there is hardly a man on his farm in the outskirts of Concord, notwithstanding that press of engagements which was his excuse so many times this morning, nor a boy, nor a woman, I might almost say, but would forsake all and follow that sound, not mainly to save property from the flames, but, if we will confess the truth, much more to see it burn, since burn it must, and we, be it known, did not set it on fire,or to see it put out, and have a hand in it, if that is done as handsomely; yes, even if it were the parish church itself. Hardly a man takes a half hours nap after dinner, but when he wakes he holds up his head and asks, Whats the news? as if the rest of mankind had stood his sentinels. Some give directions to be waked every half hour, doubtless for no other purpose; and then, to pay for it, they tell what they have dreamed. After a nights sleep the news is as indispensable as the breakfast. Pray tell me any thing new that has happened to a man any where on this globe, and he reads it over his coffee and rolls, that a man has had his eyes gouged out this morning on the Wachito River; never dreaming the while that he lives in the dark unfathomed mammoth cave of this world, and has but the rudiment of an eye himself.
1.03 - A CAUCUS-RACE AND A LONG TALE, #Alice in Wonderland, #Lewis Carroll, #Fiction
"You insult me by talking such nonsense!" said the Mouse, getting up and Walking away.
"Please come back and finish your story!" Alice called after it. And the others all joined in chorus, "Yes, please do!" But the Mouse only shook its head impatiently and walked a little quicker.
1.03 - A Parable, #The Lotus Sutra, #Anonymous, #Various
O Bhagavat! While I was dwelling alone under forest trees, whether sitting or Walking, I was constantly thinking this: Since we have also realized the true nature of the Dharma, why has the Tathgata tried to save us with the teachings of the inferior vehicle?
The fault is ours, not the Bhagavats. Why is this? If we had waited for your explanation about the way to achieve highest, complete enlightenment, we certainly would have been able to save ourselves by means of the
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Whether I was sitting or Walking,
Grieving and blaming myself deeply,
1.03 - A Sapphire Tale, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One radiant summer's day, a young girl is Walking slowly in the shade of the wonderful trees. Her name is Liane and she is fair among women; her li the body sways gracefully beneath light garments, her face, whose delicate skin seems paler for her carmine lips, is crowned with a heavy coil of hair so golden that it shines; and her eyes, like two deep doors opening on limitless blue, light up her features with their intellectual radiance.
Liane is an orphan, alone in life, but her great beauty and rare intelligence have attracted much passionate desire and sincere love. But in a dream she has seen a man, a man who seems, from his garments, to come from a distant land; and the sweet and serious gaze of the stranger has won the heart of the girl - now she can love no other. Since then she has been waiting and hoping; it is to be free to dream of the handsome face seen in the night that she is Walking amid the solitude of the lofty woods.
The dazzling sunlight cannot pierce the thick foliage; the silence is hardly broken by the light rustle of the moss beneath the footsteps of the Walking girl; all sleeps in the heavy drowse of the noonday heat; and yet she feels a vague unease, as if invisible beings were hiding in the thickets, watchful eyes peeping from behind trees.
Suddenly a bird's song rings out clear and joyful; all uneasiness vanishes. Liane knows that the forest is friendly - if there are beings in the trees, they cannot wish her harm. She is seized by an emotion of great sweetness, all appears beautiful and good to her, and tears come to her eyes. Never has her hope been so ardent at the thought of the beloved stranger; it seems to her that the trees quivering in the breeze, the moss rustling beneath her feet, the bird renewing its melody - all speak to her of the One whom she awaits. At the idea that perhaps she is going to meet him she stops short, trembling, pressing her hands against her beating heart, her eyes closed to savour to the full the exquisite emotion; and now the sensation grows more and more intense until it is so precise that Liane opens her eyes, sure of a presence. Oh, wonder of wonders! He is there, he, he in truth as she has seen him in her dream ... more handsome than men usually are. - It was Meotha.
1.03 - Bloodstream Sermon, #The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma, #Bodhidharma, #Buddhism
Or if, while you're Walking, standing, sitting, or lying in a
quiet grove, you see a light, regardless of whether it's bright or dim,
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Or if, while you're Walking, standing, sitting, or lying in the
stillness and darkness of night, everything appears as though in
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as if you were Walking in the dark, it's because your mind is masked
by cares. This too is something only you know.
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without being happy, to walk without Walking, to stand without
standing. And the sutras say, "Go beyond language. Go beyond
1.03 - Supernatural Aid, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
whence do you come together Walking?' They made no answer,
but descended the ladder. When they reached the floor she
again spoke to them, asking: 'Whither do you two go Walking
together?' 'Nowhere in particular,' they answered; 'we came
1.03 - Sympathetic Magic, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
husbands by never Walking fast, much less running, while the men are
on the road. They also do their best to ensure the benefits which,
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loom by Walking up and down the verandah. Further, they may not
cover up their faces, or the men would not to be able to find their
1.03 - THE GRAND OPTION, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
end. Walking through a town we often have to make a sharp turn to
right or left in order to reach our destination. Centuries ago the
1.03 - The House Of The Lord, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
At the beginning all of us would make it a point to be present during his meal and watch the function as well as the Mother's part in it. When the time was announced, water was brought for Sri Aurobindo to wash his hands, then he started eating with a spoon and rarely with knife and fork. He would take off his ring, place it in Champaklal's hand and wash. Champakal would put it back on his finger afterwards. Sometimes when he forgot to take off the ring, Champaklal caught hold of the hand before it was dipped in the water. Then the Mother would come, prepare and lay the table, push it herself up to Sri Aurobindo and arrange the various foods in bowls or glass tumblers, in the order of savouries, sweets and fruit juices everything having an atmosphere of cleanliness, purity and beauty. Then she would offer, one by one, the dishes to the silent Deity who would take them slowly and silently as if the eating was not for the satisfaction of the palate but an act of self-offering. Steadiness and silence were the characteristic stamps of Sri Aurobindo. Dhra, according to him, was the ideal of Aryan culture. Hurry and hustle were words not found in his dictionary. Be it eating, drinking, Walking or talking he did it always in a slow and measured rhythm, giving the impression that every movement was conscious and consecrated. The Mother would punctuate the silence with queries like, "How do you like that dish?" or such remarks as, "This mushroom is grown here, this is special brinjal sent from Benares, this is butterfruit." To all, Sri Aurobindo's reply would be, "Oh, I see! Quite good!" Typically English in manner and tone! His silence or laconic praise made us wonder if he had not lost all distinction in taste! Did rasagolla, bread and brinjal have the same taste in the Divine sense-experience? Making this vital point clear, he wrote in a letter: "Distinction is never lost, bread cannot be as tasty as a luchi, but a yogi can enjoy bread with as much rasa as a luchi which is quite a different thing." He had a liking for sweets, particularly for rasagolla, sandesh and pantua. We could see that clearly: after the Mother had banned all sweets from his menu for medical reasons, one day some pantuas found their way in by chance. The Mother could not send them back from the table. She asked him if he would take some. He replied, "If it is pantua, I can try." Since then this became a spicy joke with all of us. He enjoyed, as a matter of fact, all kinds of good dishes, European or Indian. But whatever was not to his taste, he would just touch and put away. The pungent preparations of the South could not, however, receive his blessings, except the rasam[1]. When on his arrival in Pondicherry he was given rasam, he enjoyed it very much and said in our talks, "It has a celestial taste!" He was neither a puritan god nor an epicure; only, he had no hankering or attachment for anything. His meal ended with a big tumbler of orange juice which he sipped slowly, looking after each sip to see how much was left, and keeping a small quantity as prasd. Once the entire juice had slightly fermented and after one or two sips he left it at the Mother's prompting. We conspired to make good use of it as prasd, but Sri Aurobindo got the scent of our secret design and forewarned us! We had to check our temptation.
One thing that we noticed was that unless the Mother served him in this way, he would lose all distinction between different preparations and would not know which to take first and in which order. Very probably he would have gone half-fed. On one occasion we saw him eating a whole cooked green chilly before we could cry halt! Of course, what was one chilly for him who is said in the old days to have taken a lump of opium with impunity! We have also seen him finishing his meal somehow, if for some reason the Mother could not be present and Champaklal had to serve instead. The story goes that once Mridu's dish went back without being touched by Sri Aurobindo, and she raised a storm. Sri Aurobindo had to quiet her with the plea that the Mother being absent he did not know what he had taken or what he had not. On another occasion Sri Aurobindo's meal being over earlier than usual, Mridu's dish arrived late and was left untouched. As soon as she heard about it she began to wail "like a new-born babe" as if she would bring down the whole Ashram by her lamentations. Dr. Manilal reported the fact to Sri Aurobindo and he asked, "How did she know about it?" I replied apologetically, "I told her." He said softly, "These things should not be said;" then he added with a smile, "but it is I who ought to lament for having missed her fine dish." We all had a good laugh.
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About an hour after food, came the bath. I have described the sponge-bath. Now I shall speak of the shower-bath, given with a spraying arrangement. For this kind of bath to be possible we had to wait for over two years. He would take some rest after his meal, then get up and sit on the edge of the bed waiting for the Mother's arrival. In the interval he would do the leg exercises prescribed by Dr. Manilal. Sometimes if she was late in coming, we used to fidget but Sri Aurobindo was an image of patience. Now and then if he felt drowsy, Champaklal would put a few pillows as back-rest and support them from behind till the Mother came. Then he would start Walking in her presence for about half an hour. One may be tempted to ask, "Why should he walk in her presence?" It was certainly not for any physical reason. As Sri Aurobindo's Walking had not yet become steady, the Mother's presence was necessary to protect him from any harm that could be caused by occult forces that is how I understand it. Just as Sri Aurobindo used to protect the Mother, she protected him, when needed: it was the role of the Lord and the Shakti. These are occult phenomena beyond our human intelligence. After her departure, he would go to the adjacent room which had been turned into a small bathroom, with walls of glazed tiles, the floor of mosaic and there was constant supply of hot and cold water. After long years of austerity, affluence and luxury indeed! The Divine also passes through hardships, though with a smile! The bath itself was simple enough, not taking more than half an hour. This again was like the bath of the temple Deity in a shrine, except that here the Deity was in a human body one of the most sensitive. The Deity, entirely passive, submitted himself to the care of the attendants, the sevaks who did what they thought best. In this priestly act of ablution, we felt a thrill as we touched and cleansed his body, part by part. As the face was rubbed, he closed his eyes, leaned in front or back when these parts were done respectively, and when one arm was lifted for cleaning, his hand gently pressed the fingers of the operator. Finally came the turn of the two small and dainty feet all the activities going on silently and in mutual understanding, while the conversation proceeded simultaneously. Another operation that we, following the ancient traditional practice, undertook during the bath for a short time, at the earnest request of some devotees, was what we call "sipping of water touched by the feet of the Deity". Sri Aurobindo granted the boon and even put forward his feet so that we could wash them and collect the water in a bowl.
After the bath when the word "finished" was uttered, he would rise and walk to his bed for rest. We would Put a sprinkling of talcum powder on his body. Then relaxing himself, he would enjoy a calm repose.
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Now, the part of the time that remains unaccounted for was the night. For a number of years, especially during the last ones, it was the most interesting period. For gradually, attending to Sri Aurobindo's meal, his Walking and his sleep became very complicated since these activities had to depend on the Mother's round of work. I have said before that, like life, our daily routine was continually changing. The midday meal shifted from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. We had to be guided by her clock. She had thousands of things to attend to in addition to the organisational work of the Ashram. Now she had also to bear additional responsibility for Sri Aurobindo. No wonder her time had to be very flexible. And too subtle, elusive and quick are her movements for our human calculation! Can we imagine her holding collective meditation at 11 p.m., sometimes even at 1 a.m.? Consequently Sri Aurobindo's supper began to shift from normal hours to as late as 11 p.m. after which she would go down for meditation. But if she was late, then the meal had to be served after the meditation. Later on the meditation was followed by a regular Pranam attended by more than three hundred individuals. Then the Mother would come to Sri Aurobindo's room to attend to his Walking, normally at 11 p.m., but there were occasions when she came even at 1 a.m.! Then she would come half an hour or one hour later to give him an eye-wash with a blue liquid called "blue water", and to rub lightly his upper body with a perfumed white cream. That was her last service of the day. We naturally had to keep awake till then, awaiting the soft tread of her feet in the corridor, for there was no knowing when she would turn up. Of course whenever possible, we did snatch a cat-nap in between, but it had to be "conscious sleep"! Purani, whose duty began at 2.30 a.m., sometimes found us awake! I am sure that it was Sri Aurobindo's radiant Presence which was the source of all our energy and kept us fit as a fiddle, in spite of many days of scanty sleep. I have read in Kalidasa that during Shiva's deep meditation, a constant stream of energy Tapas went out to fill his two attendants to enable them to keep vigil over the world of Nature. Even after the Mother's departure, Sri Aurobindo kept awake and only when he had learnt that she had retired, did our lights go out; that was at about 2 a.m. It was my duty to switch off the last light. The switch was above the foot, of his bed. Putting my hand on it I would look at him: he gave his impersonal sweet smile in return and the light went off. A night lamp was kept burning. Then we too would retire, sleeping in the same room. Once I had a frightful nightmare and screamed. Sri Aurobindo called me, "Nirod! Nirod!" and I woke up. Very often, Purani said, when he came he found me snoring. Champaklal amended, saying, "No, he snores even long before!" "That is perhaps in anticipation of Purani's arrival!" added Sri Aurobindo.
In spite of there being a swarm of mosquitoes, Sri Aurobindo was not in the habit of using a mosquito net. Instead, mosquito-coils imported from China were lighted and placed around the bed. These coils burn slowly, emitting a thin white trail of smoke with a smell of burnt hay or dry leaves. Its somewhat sharp odour is supposed to stave off the invasion of the invincible army of tiny pests. Chinese discovery indeed! But the smoke-line, I fear, was not impregnable and some of the wily pests would, under the cover of night, plunge their keen short proboscis into Sri Aurobindo's bare tender skin producing angry weals or scarlet buttons. Some Insectol had to be applied to prevent sepsis. During the breeding season when the army division was at its height, the Mother would bring a globe-like thing and burst, as it were, a 'gas bomb' from it, just before she took her leave at night. A huge volley of white smoke with a strong smell would fill the whole room and clear up soon after. With the installation of the ceiling-fan, these crude devices were of course dispensed with. In the daytime, when the mosquitoes were flying and humming around him, or about to sit on his legs, we would rush to kill them with a clap of our hands. Sometimes he would ask, "Got it?" and on our answering "Yes", an approving smile would be our reward.
1.03 - The Sunlit Path, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
Then the question sinks a little deeper. In fact, it is not that it sinks or intensifies; it is as if a first breath of air enabled us to appreciate better the daily suffocation we live in and revealed deeper layers to our eyes, other, subtler coverings. We are indeed Bill Smith, a legal and national artifice, a little mechanized cog that would like to get out of the machine. But what is behind Bill Smith? There is a man Walking a boulevard, going up and down the great mental roller coaster, humming with a thousand thoughts, of which none truly matters, none remedies his sorrow or desire; there is what the latest book thinks, what that billboard or those headlines scream, what the professor or schoolmaster or friend or colleague or neighbor said a thousand passersby milling in the inner street but where is the one who does not pass, the lodger of the dwelling? There is yesterday's experience, which ties in with the accident of the day before, which ties in with... a gigantic telephone network, with switches, relays and instant communications, but which really communicates nothing, except the same rehashed and self-contained story, which keeps swelling up and swelling up and curling back onto itself and unrolling a sum of past that never makes a true present, or a future that is but the sum of a million acts adding up to zero where is the act, where? Where is the self of that addition, the minute of being that is not the result of the past, the pure touch of sunlight that escapes that machinery, even more merciless than the other one? There is what our fathers and mothers have put into us, and books, priests, partisans, grandfa ther's cancer, great-uncle's lust, the good of this one, the less good of that one; there are the Tables of the Law of iron, the thou-cannots, thou-should-nots, Newton and the churches, Mendel and the law of gestation of germ cells but what germinates in all that? Where is the Germ, the pure unexpected seed suddenly bursting open, the Thou-Can like a stroke of grace in this implacable round conditioned by the fathers of our fathers inside the mental fortress? There is this little man Walking along a boulevard, going up and down the same avenue a thousand times; inside, outside, it's all the same, like nothing Walking in nothing, anybody inside anything, John or Peter with only different neckties: between this lamppost and that one nothing has happened. There was nothing, not a single second of being!
But, suddenly, on this boulevard, there is a sort of second-degree suffocation. We stop and stare. What do we stare at? We don't know, but we stare. All of a sudden we are no longer in the machine; we are no longer in it, we never were! We are no longer Bill Smith or American or New Yorker, the son of our father or the father of our son, our thought, or heart or feelings, or yesterday or tomorrow, or male or female or anything of the kind we are something else altogether. We don't know what, but it stares. We are like a window opening.
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We are no longer quite in the machine, although it may still snag us from time to time, but only to make us feel its crushing tension, its dark rotation in a nothing which connects with nothing which connects with nothing we have felt another air, even if it seems like nothing, and we can no longer put up with this nonexistence, which rambles from one end of the planet to the other, from one phone call to another, one appointment to another, which goes up and down the endless grind where nothing ever happens, except the same sempiternal story with different faces and different names and different words, on this boulevard or another it has to be! Between this lamppost and that one, this third floor and the fourth, this 9 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. of a clock that times nothing, something has to be, to live, this footstep has to have its eternal meaning as if it were unique in the millions of hours on the dial, this gesture has to be borne by someone, this newspaper stand we pass, this rip in the carpet, this doorbell we ring, this second this second has to have its own unique and irreplaceable wholeness of existence as if it alone were to shine till the end of time oh, not this nothingness Walking in nothingness! Let it be, be, be!... We want to remember, remember all the time, and not just drift down the boulevard like a jellyfish. But remember what? We don't even know what has to be remembered to be sure, not I or the machine, or anything that again connects one thing to another. A pure recall, which ends up becoming like a call, a fire burning for nothing, a little vibration of being that accompanies us everywhere and permeates everything, fills everything, each step, each gesture, each second, and which even extends behind us, as if we moved within another space, with that little fellow in the foreground who keeps going on, but who is no longer totally in it, who has already absconded, filled his lungs with another air, who hearkens to another song, runs to another rhythm and it is almost like an eternal rhythm, very vast and soft. And all of a sudden, he raises his head in the middle of that boulevard; he pokes his head above the frenzy; and it is such a clear look, so luminous, almost joyful, sparkling, wide and sunny, taking everything in at a glance, so triumphant and sure and crystalline instant royalty. We are! It is!
We are on the sunlit path, as if carried by that growing little vibration of being.
1.03 - To Layman Ishii, #Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin, #unset, #Zen
Tz'u-ming's senior disciple Attendant Shan (later Huang-lung Hui-nan [1002-69]), soon discerned that Chen's realization was incomplete. One day when they were Walking in the mountain, Shan picked up a pebble, put it on top of a large boulder, and said, "If you can come up with a good turning word for this, I will believe that you truly understand Master Tz'u-ming." Chen, glancing left and right, seemed about to make a reply, when Shan gave a loud shout. "You still haven't even overcome mental discrimination! You're hesitant and unresolved! How can you ever hope to know Tz'u-ming's inner meaning?" Chen was thoroughly ashamed, realizing the truth of Shan's words. He immediately returned and resumed his practice with Tz'u-ming, and was finally able to achieve complete enlightenment (Compendium of the Five Lamps, ch. 12).
1.03 - VISIT TO VIDYASAGAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
"One must have faith and love. Let me tell you how powerful faith is. A man was about to cross the sea from Ceylon to India. Bibhishana said to him: 'Tie this thing in a corner of your wearing-cloth, and you will cross the sea safely. You will be able to walk on the water. But be sure not to examine it, or you will sink.' The man was Walking easily on the water of the sea - such is the strength of faith - when, having gone part of the way, he thought, 'What is this wonderful thing Bibhishana has given me, that I can walk even on the water?' He untied the knot and found only a leaf with the name of Rama written on it. 'Oh, just this!' he thought, and instantly he sank.
"There is a popular saying that Hanuman jumped over the sea through his faith in Rama's name, but Rama himself had to build a bridge.
1.04 - ADVICE TO HOUSEHOLDERS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
DEVOTEE: "Yes, sir. The other day I dreamt a strange dream. I saw the whole world enveloped in water. There was water on all sides. A few boats were visible, but suddenly huge waves appeared and sank them. I was about to board a ship with a few others, when we saw a brahmin Walking over that expanse of water. I asked him, 'How can you walk over the deep?' The brahmin said with a smile: 'Oh, there is no difficulty about that. There is a bridge under the water.' I said to him, 'Where are you going?' 'To Bhawanipur, the city of the Divine Mother', he replied. 'Wait a little', I cried. 'I shall accompany you.' "
MASTER: "Oh. I am thrilled to hear the story!"
1.04 - Feedback and Oscillation, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
are the scratch and the Walking reflex.
When feedback is possible and stable, its advantage, as we
1.04 - THE APPEARANCE OF ANOMALY - CHALLENGE TO THE SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
And they heard the voice of the Lord God Walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and
his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
1.04 - The Divine Mother - This Is She, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
There was a period when the Mother was in a state of almost continuous trance. It was a very trying phase, indeed. She would enter Sri Aurobindo's room with a somnolent walk and go back swaying from side to side leaving us in fear and wonder about the delicate balancing. Sri Aurobindo would watch her intently till she was out of sight, but it was a matter of surprise how she maintained her precarious balance. Sometimes in the midst of doing his hair, her hand would stop moving at any stage; either the comb remained still, or the ribbon tied to his plaits got loose. While serving meals too, the spoon would stand still or the knife would not cut and Sri Aurobindo had to, by fictitious coughs or sounds, draw her out. Fifteen minutes' work thus took double the time and then she would hasten in order to make up for it. Such trance moods were more particularly manifest at night during the collective meditation below, and in that condition she would come to Sri Aurobindo's room with a heap of letters, reports, account-books, etc., to read, sign or answer during Sri Aurobindo's Walking time. But her pious intention would come to nothing, for no sooner did she begin than the trance overtook her. Sri Aurobindo took a few extra rounds and sat in his chair watching the Mother while she with the book open, pen in hand, had travelled into another world from whose bourne it was perhaps difficult to return. He would watch her with an indulgent smile and try all devices to bring her down to earth. We would stand by, favoured spectators of the delectable scene. When at last the Mother did wake up, Sri Aurobindo would say with a smile, "We haven't made much progress!" She would then take a firm resolve, and finish all work in a dash or go back if the trance was too heavy. Once Sri Aurobindo saw that she was writing on the book with her fountain pen unopened. He kept on watching. Suddenly she realised her mistake and Sri Aurobindo broke into a gracious smile. During the time of meditation too, her condition was most extraordinary. Someone coming for pranam would remain standing before her trance-mood for fifteen to thirty minutes, another had her hand on his bowed head for a pretty long time; all was unpredictable. There was an exceptional circumstance when Sri Aurobindo intervened in the Mother's work. On her way from Sri Aurobindo's room to the collective meditation below, she went for a while to her room to take some rest, as it was probably too early to go down. But once she sat down, time and space vanished and she was deep in trance, while below the crowd was waiting till it was about 1 a.m. Sri Aurobindo, on being informed, sent word that all should disperse and go home. The Mother, on waking up, prepared herself to go to the meditation when she was told what had happened.
After the meditation, the last lap of her service to Sri Aurobindo was to be done. Here too when the trance was upon her we were kept waiting till the early hours of the morning. Purani whose duty started at 2 a.m. often found us awake and relished our anomalous situation!
1.04 - The Qabalah The Best Training for Memory, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
It is excellent practice, but the way, to do some mental arithmetic on your walks; acquire the habit of adding up any names that you have come across in your morning's reading. Nietzsche has well observed that the best thoughts come by Walking; and it has happened to me, more than once or twice, that really important correspondences have come, as by a flashlight, when I was padding the old hoof.
You will have noticed that in this curt exposition I have confined myself to Gematria, the direct relation of number and word, omitting any reference to Notariqon, the accursed art of making words out of initials, like (in profane life) Wren and Gestapo and their horrid brood, or to Temurah, the art of altering the position of the letters in a word,[3] a sort of cipher; for these are almost always frivolous. To base any serious calculations on them would be absurd.
1.04 - The Silent Mind, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
we must first leave the old one behind; everything depends upon our determination in taking this first step. Sometimes it can happen in a flash. Something in us cries out: "Enough of this grinding!" We at once are on our way, Walking forth without ever looking back. Others say yes then no; they vacillate endlessly between two worlds. Let us emphasize here that the aim is not to amputate from ourselves any painfully acquired possession in the name of Wisdom-Peace-Serenity (we will also avoid using big and empty words); we are not seeking holiness but youth the eternal youth of an ever-progressing being;
we are not seeking a lesser being but a better being and above all a vaster one: Has it not occurred to you that if they really sought for something cold, dark and gloomy as the supreme good, they would not be sages but asses?28 Sri Aurobindo once humorously remarked.
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It is conceivable to maintain a silent mind when Walking in a crowd, eating, dressing or resting, but how is it possible at work, at the office, for example, or while having a discussion with friends? We need to think, to call upon our memory, to look for ideas, to bring in a whole mental process. Experience shows, however, that this is not inevitable, that it is only the product of a long habit in which we have grown accustomed to depending on the mind for knowledge and action; but it is only a habit, and it can be changed. In essence, yoga is not so much a way of learning as a way of unlearning a mass of supposedly imperative habits we have inherited from our animal evolution.
If the seeker undertakes to silence his mind while working, for instance, he will go through several stages. At first, he will barely manage to remember his aspiration from time to time, and to stop his work a few minutes to recapture the right wavelength, only to see everything swallowed up again in the routine. But as he develops the habit of making an effort in other places on the street, at home,
1.05 - BOOK THE FIFTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
And, Walking on, a silent current found,
Which gently glided o'er the grav'ly ground.
1.05 - Hymns of Bharadwaja, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
3. He knows the warp, he knows the woof, he tells in their time the things that must be spoken. This is the guardian of immortality who wakes to the knowledge of these things; Walking here below he is one highest beyond who sees through another.
4. This is the pristine priest of the call, behold him! this is the immortal Light in mortals. This is he that is born and grows with a body and is the Immortal seated and steadfast for ever.
1.05 - Solitude, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
Some of my pleasantest hours were during the long rain storms in the spring or fall, which confined me to the house for the afternoon as well as the forenoon, soothed by their ceaseless roar and pelting; when an early twilight ushered in a long evening in which many thoughts had time to take root and unfold themselves. In those driving north-east rains which tried the village houses so, when the maids stood ready with mop and pail in front entries to keep the deluge out, I sat behind my door in my little house, which was all entry, and thoroughly enjoyed its protection. In one heavy thunder shower the lightning struck a large pitch-pine across the pond, making a very conspicuous and perfectly regular spiral groove from top to bottom, an inch or more deep, and four or five inches wide, as you would groove a Walking-stick. I passed it again the other day, and was struck with awe on looking up and beholding that mark, now more distinct than ever, where a terrific and resistless bolt came down out of the harmless sky eight years ago. Men frequently say to me, I should think you would feel lonesome down there, and want to be nearer to folks, rainy and snowy days and nights especially. I am tempted to reply to such,This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the two most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments? Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way? This which you put seems to me not to be the most important question. What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary? I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another. What do we want most to dwell near to? Not to many men surely, the depot, the post-office, the bar-room, the meeting-house, the school-house, the grocery, Beacon Hill, or the Five
Points, where men most congregate, but to the perennial source of our life, whence in all our experience we have found that to issue, as the willow stands near the water and sends out its roots in that direction.
1.05 - THE HOSTILE BROTHERS - ARCHETYPES OF RESPONSE TO THE UNKNOWN, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
arguing with him is like Walking through a desert.
Its about people like that that they say: He made the rounds of all the smithies and came home
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I dreamed I was Walking up out of a deep valley, along a paved two-lane highway. The highway was
located in northern Alberta, where I grew up, and came out of the only valley for miles around, in the
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He was Walking along the edge of the highway, muttering to himself, and swinging the blade in a jerky
and chaotic fashion.
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surrounding plain, where the Walking would be easy but the only way to stay away from the knife was
to continue up the staircase up the axis mundi. Thus awareness of death, the grim reaper the terrible
1.05 - The Magical Control of the Weather, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
held a festival called "the nativity of the sun's Walking-stick,"
because, as the luminary declined daily in the sky, and his light
1.05 - The twelve simple letters, #Sefer Yetzirah The Book of Creation In Theory and Practice, #Anonymous, #Various
Walking, seeing, hearing, working, coition, smelling, sleep, anger, swallowing and laughing.
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THIRD DIVISION. He let the letter predominate in Walking, crowned it, combined one with the other, and formed by them: Gemini (the Twins) in the world, the month Sivan in the year, and the left foot of the human body, male and female.
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1.05 - War And Politics, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo also sent messages through Mr. Shiva Rao to Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Nehru that Cripps' offer should be accepted unconditionally. Lastly, he sent his envoy to Delhi to appeal to the Congress leaders for its acceptance, for sanity and wisdom to prevail. At this crucial moment Sri Aurobindo could not remain a passive witness to the folly that was about to be committed. His seer-vision saw that the Proposals had come on a wave of divine inspiration. The scene is still fresh in our memory. It was the evening hour. Sri Aurobindo was sitting on the edge of his bed just before his daily Walking exercise. All of us were present; Duraiswamy, the distinguished Madras lawyer and disciple, was selected as the envoy, perhaps because he was a friend of Rajagopalachari, one of the prominent Congress leaders. He was to start for Delhi that very night. He came for Sri Aurobindo's blessings, lay prostrate before him, got up and stood looking at the Master with folded hands and then departed.
He was carrying with him an urgent appeal by Sri Aurobindo to the Congress Working Committee. Sisir Kumar Mitra reports in The Liberator, "the viewpoints which Sri Aurobindo instructed his envoy to place before the Congress leaders...(1) Japan's imperialism being young and based on industrial and military power and moving westward, was a greater menace to India than the British imperialism which was old, which the country had learnt to deal with and which was on the way to elimination. (2) It would be better to get into the saddle and not be particular about the legal basis of the power. Once the power came into our hands and we occupied seats of power, we could establish our positions and assert ourselves. (3) The proposed Cabinet would provide opportunities for the Congress and the Muslims to understand each other and pull together for the country's good, especially at that time of the crisis. (4) The Hindu Mahasabha also being represented, the Hindus, as such would have a chance of proving their capacity to govern India not only for the benefit of the Hindus but for the whole country. (5) The main problem was to organise the strength of India in order to repel the threatened aggression."
1.06 - Of imperfections with respect to spiritual gluttony., #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
2. These persons are most imperfect and unreasonable; for they set bodily penance before subjection and obedience, which is penance according to reason and discretion, and therefore a sacrifice more acceptable and pleasing to God than any other. But such one-sided penance is no more than the penance of beasts, to which they are attracted, exactly like beasts, by the desire and pleasure which they find therein. Inasmuch as all extremes are vicious, and as in behaving thus such persons41 are working their own will, they grow in vice rather than in virtue; for, to say the least, they are acquiring spiritual gluttony and pride in this way, through not Walking in obedience. And many of these the devil assails, stirring up this gluttony in them through the pleasures and desires which he increases within them, to such an extent that, since they can no longer help themselves, they either change or vary or add to that which is commanded them, as any obedience in this respect is so bitter to them. To such an evil pass have some persons come that, simply because it is through obedience that they engage in these exercises, they lose the desire and devotion to perform them, their only desire and pleasure being to do what they themselves are inclined to do, so that it would probably be more profitable for them not to engage in these exercises at all.
3. You will find that many of these persons are very insistent with their spiritual masters to be granted that which they desire, extracting it from them almost by force; if they be refused it they become as peevish as children and go about in great displeasure, thinking that they are not serving God when they are not allowed to do that which they would. For they go about clinging to their own will and pleasure, which they treat as though it came from God;42 and immediately their directors43 take it from them, and try to subject them to the will of God, they become peevish, grow faint-hearted and fall away. These persons think that their own satisfaction and pleasure are the satisfaction and service of God.
1.06 - Origin of the four castes, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
Formerly, oh best of Brahmans, when the truth-meditating Brahmā was desirous of creating the world, there sprang from his mouth beings especially endowed with the quality of goodness; others from his breast, pervaded by the quality of foulness; others from his thighs, in whom foulness and darkness prevailed; and others from his feet, in whom the quality of darkness predominated. These were, in succession, beings of the several castes, Brahmans, Kṣetriyas, Vaisyas, and Śūdras, produced from the mouth, the breast, the thighs, and the feet of Brahmā[2]. These he created for the performance of sacrifices, the four castes being the fit instruments of their celebration. By sacrifices, oh thou who knowest the truth, the gods are nourished; and by the rain which they bestow, mankind are supported[3]: and thus sacrifices, the source of happiness, are performed by pious men, attached to their duties, attentive to prescribed obligations, and Walking in the paths of virtue. Men acquire (by them) heavenly fruition, or final felicity: they go, after death, to whatever sphere they aspire to, as the consequence of their human nature. The beings who were created by Brahmā, of these four castes, were at first endowed with righteousness and perfect faith; they abode wherever they pleased, unchecked by any impediment; their hearts were free from guile; they were pure, made free from soil, by observance of sacred institutes. In their sanctified minds Hari dwelt; and they were filled with perfect wisdom, by which they contemplated the glory of Viṣṇu[4]. After a while (after the Tretā age had continued for some period), that portion of Hari which has been described as one with Kāla (time) infused into created beings sin, as yet feeble though formidable, or passion and the like: the impediment of soul's liberation, the seed of iniquity, sprung from darkness and desire. The innate perfectness of human nature was then no more evolved: the eight kinds of perfection, Rasollāsā and the rest, were impaired[5]; and these being enfeebled, and sin gaining strength, mortals were afflicted with pain, arising from susceptibility to contrasts, as heat and cold, and the like. They therefore constructed places of refuge, protected by trees, by mountains, or by water; surrounded them by a ditch or a wall, and formed villages and cities; and in them erected appropriate dwellings, as defences against the sun and the cold[6]. Having thus provided security against the weather, men next began to employ themselves in manual labour, as a means of livelihood, (and cultivated) the seventeen kinds of useful grain-rice, barley, wheat, millet, sesamum, panic, and various sorts of lentils, beans, and pease[7]. These are the kinds cultivated for domestic use: but there are fourteen kinds which may be offered in sacrifice; they are, rice, barley, Māṣa, wheat, millet, and sesamum; Priya
gu is the seventh, and kulattha, pulse, the eighth: the others are, Syāmāka, a sort of panic; Nīvāra, uñcultivated rice; Jarttila, wild sesamum; Gavedukā (coix); Markata, wild panic; and (a plant called) the seed or barley of the Bambu (Venu-yava). These, cultivated or wild, are the fourteen grains that were produced for purposes of offering in sacrifice; and sacrifice (the cause of rain) is their origin also: they again, with sacrifice, are the great cause of the perpetuation of the human race, as those understand who can discriminate cause and effect. Thence sacrifices were offered daily; the performance of which, oh best of Munis, is of essential service to mankind, and expiates the offences of those by whom they are observed. Those, however, in whose hearts the dross of sin derived from Time (Kāla) was still more developed, assented not to sacrifices, but reviled both them and all that resulted from them, the gods, and the followers of the Vedas. Those abusers of the Vedas, of evil disposition and conduct, and seceders from the path of enjoined duties, were plunged in wickedness[8]. The means of subsistence having been provided for the beings he had created, Brahmā prescribed laws suited to their station and faculties, the duties of the several castes and orders[9], and the regions of those of the different castes who were observant of their duties. The heaven of the Pitris is the region of devout Brahmans. The sphere of Indra, of Kṣetriyas who fly not from the field. The region of the winds is assigned to the Vaisyas who are diligent in their occupations and submissive. Śūdras are elevated to the sphere of the Gandharvas. Those Brahmans who lead religious lives go to the world of the eighty-eight thousand saints: and that of the seven Ṛṣis is the seat of pious anchorets and hermits. The world of ancestors is that of respectable householders: and the region of Brahmā is the asylum of religious mendicants[10]. The imperishable region of the Yogis is the highest seat of Viṣṇu, where they perpetually meditate upon the supreme being, with minds intent on him alone: the sphere where they reside, the gods themselves cannot behold. The sun, the moon, the planets, shall repeatedly be, and cease to be; but those who internally repeat the mystic adoration of the divinity, shall never know decay. For those who neglect their duties, who revile the Vedas, and obstruct religious rites, the places assigned after death are the terrific regions of darkness, of deep gloom, of fear, and of great terror; the fearful hell of sharp swords, the hell of scourges and of a waveless sea[11].
1.06 - Quieting the Vital, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
spontaneously perceive all vibrations; and distinguishing what they are enables us to manipulate them, quiet them, avert or even alter them. Tranquillity, says Mother, is a very positive state; there is a positive peace which is not the opposite of strife an active and contagious and powerful peace, which subdues and calms, straightens and puts things in their place. We will give an example of this "contagious peace," although it belongs to a somewhat later stage in Sri Aurobindo's life. It was in Pondicherry, many years ago, in the season when tropical rains and sometimes cyclones sweep down suddenly and bring devastation. Doors and windows have to be barricaded with thick bamboo laths. That night, a cyclone erupted with torrents of rain, and Mother hurried to Sri Aurobindo's room to help him shut his windows. He was seated at his table, writing (for years Sri Aurobindo spent twelve hours a day writing, from six in the evening till six in the morning, then eight hours Walking up and down "for the yoga"). The windows were wide open, but not a drop of rain had come inside his room. The peace that reigned there, recalls Mother, was so solid, so compact, that the cyclone could not enter.
1.06 - The Breaking of the Limits, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
Armed with these two rules, firmly established in his sunlit position, that quiet clearing, the seeker of the new world moves within a greater self, perhaps infinite, which embraces this street and these beings and all the little gestures of the hour; he moves steadily on, as though carried by a great rhythm, which also carries the beings and things around him, the thousands of encounters sprung from nowhere and disappearing into the distance; he looks at this little Walking shadow, which seems to have walked so long, walked for many lives perhaps, repeated the same small gestures, stumbled here and there, exchanged the same comments on the mood of the times; and it all seems so similar, so mixed with sweetness that this street and these beings and passing encounters seem to be cast from the same mold, issued from the depths of night, recalled from the same identical story, under the sky of Egypt or India or Vermont, today, yesterday or five thousand years ago and what has really changed? There is a little being Walking with his fire of truth, his fire of need, so intense amid the turmoil of time a fire is perhaps the only thing that is truly he, a call of being from the depths of time, an unchanging cry amid the immense flow of things. And what is he calling for, this being; what is he crying for? Is he not in that vast and growing sunlight, in that rhythm carrying everything? He is and he is not. He has one foot in an untroubled eternity and the other stumbling and groping in the dark the other in a little self of fire yearning to fill this second of time, this empty gesture, this step among thousands of similar steps, with a fullness of true existence as complete as all the millennia put together, with as unfailing an exactness as the crisscrossing of the stars above our heads; yearning for everything to be true, true, completely true and filled with meaning, in this enormous whirlwind of vanity; yearning for this line he crosses, this street he goes down, this hand he extends, this word he utters to be linked to the great flowing of the worlds, to the rhythm of the stars, to the lines, the countless lines that furrow this universe and form a total song, a truth filled with the whole and each fragment of the whole. So he looks at all these little passing things, he fills them with his fire of entreaty, he looks and looks at that little truth everywhere as if it were going to burst out, forced into being by his fire.
And it is true that the world starts changing before our eyes and that nothing is insignificant anymore, nothing is separate from the rest. We witness a great, total birth. Our simple look has strange extensions, our little gesture a reverberating echo. But here again, it is a timid birth; it is more like scattered little hints of birth. The seeker stops and stares at a scattering of little outbreaks, of happenings with no apparent connection, a little like the ancient hominid staring at a pliant branch here and a vine and a piece of flint over there before tying them into a bow and felling his prey in full career. He does not know the connections they almost have to be invented. But our inventions are only a discovery of what is already there, like the river and the vine in the forest. A new world is a discovery of new connections. Now, ours is the age of introspection of the second kind, when the invention, the true invention, is no longer one that will bring two material objects together by means of the subtle phenomenon of thought, but one that will be able to bring together that same matter and the subtler phenomenon of a second degree of consciousness, silent and without thought. The task of our age is no longer to perfect matter through matter, to enlarge matter by adding more matter to it we are already suffocating under the monstrous plethora which fetters us and which, at bottom, is only an improvement of the ape's technique but to transform matter through that subtler power, or rather, perhaps, to make it reveal its own innate power of truth.
1.06 - The Three Schools of Magick 1, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
And the first of the adepts covered His shame with a cloth, Walking backwards, and was white. And the second of the adepts covered his shame with a cloth, Walking sideways, and was yellow. And the third of the adepts made a mock of His nakedness, Walking forwards, and was black. And these are the three great schools of the Magi, who are also the three Magi that journeyed unto Bethlehem; and because thou hast not wisdom, thou shalt not know which school prevaileth, or if the three schools be not one.*[AC14]
We are now ready to study the philosophical bases of these three Schools.
1.06 - Yun Men's Every Day is a Good Day, #The Blue Cliff Records, #Yuanwu Keqin, #Zen
Placidly Walking along, he treads down the sound of the flowing stream;
**Don't ask what's right under your feet. It's difficult to
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"Placidly Walking along, he treads down the sound of the
flowing stream." As he goes along placidly, he can tread down
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"Placidly Walking along, he treads down the sound of the flow
ing stream" isn't it; "His relaxed gaze descries the tracks of
1.07 - THE MASTER AND VIJAY GOSWAMI, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
"Each upadhi changes man's nature. If he wears a fine black-bordered cloth, you will at once find him humming Nidhu Babu's love-songs. Then playing-cards and a Walking-stick follow. If even a sickly man puts on high boots, he begins to whistle and climbs the stairs like an Englishman, jumping from one step to another. If a man but holds a pen in his hand, he scribbles on any paper he can get hold of-such is the power of the pen!
"Money is also a great upadhi. The possession of money makes such a difference in a man! He is no longer the same person. A brahmin used to frequent the temple garden.
1.07 - TRUTH, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
God being, as He is, inaccessible, do not rest in the consideration of objects perceptible to the senses and comprehended by the understanding. This is to be content with what is less than God; so doing, you will destroy the energy of the soul, which is necessary for Walking with Him.
St. John of the Cross
1.080 - Pratyahara - The Return of Energy, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
It was already mentioned on an earlier occasion that this melancholy mood is a great obstacle in yoga. Duhkha daurmanasya are the two things mentioned sorrow or grief, and dejection of spirit on account of not having gained mastery, or not having achieved anything. This should not come, because not even an adept can know what mastery he has gained, where he is standing, and what are the obstacles preventing him from achievement. Nothing will be known even to an expert. Even such a person will be kept in the dark; such is the mysterious realm that we are treading and Walking through. But, the great watchword of this practice is: never be diffident. We should never condemn ourselves or be dispirited in our practice. It may be that for months together we may not achieve concentration, which is also possible due to the working of certain karmas. Even then, one should be tirelessly pursuing it.
There is a story in which it is told that Robert Bruce saw a spider falling down many times climbing up and falling down and climbing up. Robert Bruce was defeated in a war. He was sitting in a cave somewhere, crying. He did not know what to do. Then he saw a spider climbing up the wall and falling down again it went up and again it fell down. A hundred times it fell, and finally it got up and caught the point to which it wanted to rise. Then he said, This is what I have to do now. I should not keep crying here. So, he went up with the regiment that he had and the forces available, and launched a frontal attack once again, and won victory in the war. The moral of the story is that we should not be melancholy, dispirited or lost in our conscious efforts, because the so-called defeatist feeling that we have in our practice is due to the operation of certain obstructing karmas. Otherwise, what can be the explanation for our defeat in spite of our effort to the best of our ability?
1.081 - The Application of Pratyahara, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
In every branch of learning there is the theory aspect and the practical aspect, whether it is in mathematics, or physics, or any other aspect of study. Here it is of a similar nature. Why is it that the mind is to be withdrawn from the object? The answer to this question is in the theoretical aspect which is the philosophy. What is wrong with the mind in its contemplation on things? Why should we not think of an object? Why we should not think of an object cannot be answered now, at this stage, when we have actually taken up this practice. We ought to have understood it much earlier. When we have started Walking, it means that we already know why we are Walking and where is our destination. We cannot start Walking and say, Where am I Walking to? Why did we start Walking without knowing the destination? Likewise, if our question as to why this is necessary at all is not properly answered within our own self, then immediately there will be repulsion from the mind and it will say, You do not know what you are doing. You are merely troubling me. Then the mind will not agree to this proposal of abstraction.
Hence, there should be a very clear notion before we set about doing things; and this is a principle to be followed in every walk of life. Without knowing what is to be done, why do we start doing anything? Even if it is cooking, we must know the theory first. What is it about? We cannot run about higgledy-piggledy without understanding it. The purpose of the withdrawal of the mind or the senses from the objects is simple; and that simple answer to this question is that the nature of things does not permit the notion that the mind entertains when it contacts an object. The idea that we have in our mind at the time of cognising an object is not in consonance with the nature of Truth. This is why the mind is to be withdrawn from the object. There is a peculiar definition which the mind imposes upon the object of sense at the time of cognising it, for the purpose of contacting it, etc. This definition is contrary to the true nature of that object. If we call an ass a dog, that would not be a proper definition; it would be a misunderstanding of its real essence. The object of sense is not related to the subject of perception in the manner in which the subject is defining it or conceiving it.
1.08a - The Ladder, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
Tender sky and intoxicating kisses of air. My gods, my lovers, my friends. By day it was enough to be with them, their playmate, the glad confederate, their privileged listener to secrets never quite revealed, to wisdom never wholly understood ; one with them, strong young hands in theirs, strong young feet racing beside, the same joy in the heart and ardour in the blood, the same unutterable love of life ! But at night in the cool scented darkness, before the land became bewitched beneath the blue moon of the Fens, a restlessness came out of the air and invaded the senses, that neither talking nor Walking, nor reading nor laughter would appease. As though the pipes of Pan rang still, thin, and sweet and with a music more alluring, for all its minor key, than any heard in sunlight. As though the games and delights of day with the invisible companions were not enough, but at night led further on to territories yet unknown, where mortal sense could not follow. . . . Not forbidden territories, but secret, lost, and hid from the coarser human understanding. 8 Come, come! Follow, follow ! . . .' An inexpressible peace went back with me after that idle wandering, for the spirit of the water had paced the sands beside me, in silent rhythm of feet and heart, a spirit that had entered mine and brought unutter- able joy and fullness and grave content, and went with me up the sandy path and the crooked stairs, and to the vast kingdoms of sleep, . . ."
The methods adopted by the Qabalah extend to the world a new science, providing an enormous field of investigation for all who care to undertake it. The man of science will discover unclassified phenomena to record and analyse.
1.08 - Attendants, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
I may as well narrate how I was made the recipient of a favour. Champaklal and I used to attend on Sri Aurobindo when he washed his face and mouth. Once in the course of doing it, he made a gesture of giving me something as I was holding the bowl for gargling. I immediately stretched out my left hand and he softly deposited something without any look or comment. I felt a sudden thrill and drew back into the light to see if it could be a tooth. Yes, it was indeed a whole side-tooth. I showed it to Champaklal who was busy doing some work. His eyes rolled in astonishment. Then he extracted from me the story of how I received the extraordinary present! Of course I handed it over to him for safe custody. Later several times he commented on my unusual luck! Or perhaps how he had missed it! Truly speaking, these things belonged to his domain, but the Divine sometimes oversteps our human rules and rights. Many such instances come to our notice but since they are more a question of inner perception, no rational proof can be adduced as to their truth. Only the person involved knows that his inner aspiration has found an answer. I will give an illustration. I have stated that when Sri Aurobindo resumed Walking, instead of using crutches he leaned on Purani and Champaklal. After a few months Champaklal alone was retained. He stood on the left side while Sri Aurobindo used a stick on the right. Champaklal would of course never miss his chance as well as his duty. He would not be Champaklal if he did! Now, a desire was growing within me to hold, like him, Sri Aurobindo's arm on my shoulder, at least once. But being by nature a bit shy and fearing that my unsubstantial body would be too weak to bear the divine weight and substance, I stifled my desire before it raised its head. It so happened that one day the Mother came for Sri Aurobindo's walk long before the appointed time and Champaklal was not present; only I was there. What to do? To my excited surprise the Mother said, "You can give the support!" Very cautiously and almost palpitatingly I sat by his left side on the couch and put my right hand around his waist; he put his left arm over my shoulder and stood up. We had hardly taken a round or two when Champaklal arrived running. I could guess what must have been his feeling at that momentous sight! Then I withdrew and he took his place and the Master must have felt an immense relief! But a minute's soft velvety touch is unforgettable. If such was my experience, I don't know what Purani and Champaklal, who had supported the Lord for months, must have felt! Somebody rightly appreciated the value of the touch when he said that Champaklal's shoulders should be wrapped in gold! Each one of us had his chance, as we called it; whatever we had inwardly aspired for had its proper response and he who received it could alone testify to the truth of the phenomenon, ye yatha mam prapadyante.[1] This is the divine play between the devotee and the Lord!
I shall quote another instance at the risk of being mocked at by the rationalists and being dubbed an apostate, for was I not once a materialist myself? As I have said, Sri Aurobindo used to take a peppermint pastille while he was dictating Savitri and Champaklal's role was to offer it, when wanted. He would wait and wait even if not called at the due hour, he would sometimes hurry his meal so as not to miss the occasion. I thought, "Why should I not get one chance, at least?" But my friend would hear the call even if it was whispered and would run from wherever he might be in the room. Here again, Sri Aurobindo consciously or unconsciously responded to my silent wish by asking one day for the pastille much earlier than the usual time, when Champaklal was not present. He came up and waited for the call. I put on a very innocent face though now and again a mischievous smile tried to betray it. Then at last, very much piqued, Champaklal asked me, "What's the matter? He is not asking for the pastille?" I could not help breaking into laughter. He understood but enquired exactly when he had asked, who had given it, etc., etc. All these incidents were our little pranks played among ourselves and between us and the Master. I shall not protest if anyone calls me too credulous and finds these as nothing but sentimental outpourings of bhaktas. These instances do illustrate why I call Champaklal a real bhakta and have looked upon his service as having the true spirit. No wonder that the Lord, during his last hours, amply recompensed him by repeatedly embracing him, to our great bewildered delight.
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Mulshankar, youngest of the group, was the brother of Esculape, alias Dayashankar, at one time in charge of the Ashram Dispensary. He also worked as an assistant in the Dispensary after Esculape's retirement and came to serve Sri Aurobindo as a medical aid. An excellent worker, he had the privilege of massaging Sri Aurobindo's body for a certain period. He was no masseur and in fact knew nothing about it, but he picked it up from some casual lessons and was gifted with the natural lightness and suppleness of finger movements. During the short interval that Sri Aurobindo had to wait for the Mother to come, before he started Walking, Mulshankar would sit behind and apply a good massage to his back. It was really as if an expert masseur was at work; his hands moved so lightly and fast, up and down the back and spine; sometimes using delicate finger strokes or the edge of the palms and swinging and bending the body as the various movements demanded and then finishing off with very gentle touches of the fingertips. One was tempted to take a photograph of his agile figure and beaming face visibly moved beyond measure by the unique privilege of touching the Lord's body, while Sri Aurobindo kept on sitting like a statue looking downwards as the massage proceeded, or in front, sometimes smiling by himself, perhaps oblivious of all the hundred kinds of fleeting, fluttering, striking movements being made on his back. Both the figures supplied us food for a good deal of merriment, the Guru sitting on the edge of the bed, the shishya briskly massaging his back. But the poor fellow had to miss his service because of an intractable headache that crippled him often. And every time that happened we would report to Sri Aurobindo; his comment would be: "Again?", or an exclamatory expression; we could feel at the same time that the inner help was being given.
What could be more heart-rending than that he lost his life at the hands of an assassin during the riot of 1947? When the news was brought to Sri Aurobindo that he had been fatally stabbed, the air was filled with gloom. Sri Aurobindo listened quietly and his face bore a grave and serious expression that we had not seen before. The dark forces seemed to have achieved a perilous victory in snatching away one of the personal attendants of the Divine. Such is the grim occult struggle between the forces of Light and the forces of Darkness. For days we were under a pall of gloom and none of us referred to the incident in our talks.
1.08 - The Change of Vision, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
But, beyond all meanings being released from their hiding place, the seeker touches upon an even greater mystery, something so elusive and so strong, which makes his heart flutter every time he thinks he has caught a glimpse of it oh, something that is well hidden, that will not let itself be caught and put into thoughts or mental ciphers: a supreme Cipher that deciphers all and is like the true key to the new world. Behind all his gropings and stumblings and dozens of wrong turns every day, his cries in the dark, he senses a sort of Help something is answering.... One must have walked long in the dark to appreciate the marvel of that particular answer. Something answers, moves, hears, knows where we are going! As if the new world were all here, already done, innumerably mapped under our steps and under each step of each being at each instant and we gradually enter its geography. This is really the sign of the new world: it is here; there is no distance to travel, no waiting in prayer, no cry to echo across empty spaces in order to seduce the godhead veiled in the clouds, no intensity of concentration, no long-drawn-out years or protracted efforts or arduous repetitions to try to move a deaf Force it is here, the instantaneous answer, the boon in the flesh, the vital sign, the living demonstration. It takes but a simple call. It takes but a little cry of pure truth. Actually, we do not seek; we are sought. We do not call; we are called. We grope about only as long as we want to do everything by ourselves. There is nothing to do! There is everything to undo, and let the new world flow freely, let its unexpected rivers and paths run under our steps. One brief second of abandon, and it comes in; it is there, smiling. Everything is already there! When the ape felt he was exerting himself so much to capture a subtle little vibration, when he caught hold of a thought by chance, without knowing how or why, at the moment when his simian machinery was not working as usual, he, too, perhaps was Walking in a new mental geography that was waiting for his lapses of apehood and a brief second of abandon to the mystery of the new world. We think that everything comes out of our wonderful brains, but we are the tools of a greater self, the translators of an approaching marvel, the transmitters of a growing music. But the music must be allowed to flow freely; the instrument must be clear.
And it is conceivable that if the world turned its instruments to this other music, it would find itself radically changed.
1.08 - THE QUEEN'S CROQUET GROUND, #Alice in Wonderland, #Lewis Carroll, #Fiction
"It's--it's a very fine day!" said a timid voice to Alice. She was Walking by the White Rabbit, who was peeping anxiously into her face.
"Very," said Alice. "Where's the Duchess?"
1.08 - The Supreme Discovery, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You are Walking in the depths of night: then gather the priceless treasures of the night. In bright sunshine, the ways of intelligence are lit, but in the white luminosities of the night lie the hidden paths of perfection, the secret of spiritual riches.
You are being stripped of everything: that is the way towards plenitude. When you have nothing left, everything will be given to you. Because for those who are sincere and true, from the worst always comes the best.
1.09 - Of the signs by which it will be known that the spiritual person is walking along the way of this night and purgation of sense., #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
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Of the signs by which it will be known that the spiritual person is Walking along the way of this night and purgation of sense.
BUT since these aridities might frequently proceed, not from the night and purgation of the sensual desires aforementioned, but from sins and imperfections, or from weakness and lukewarmness, or from some bad humour or indisposition of the body, I shall here set down certain signs by which it may be known if such aridity proceeds from the aforementioned purgation, or if it arises from any of the aforementioned sins. For the making of this distinction I find that there are three principal signs.
1.09 - PROMENADE, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
(FAUST, Walking thoughtfully up and down. To him MEPHISTOPHELES.)
MEPHISTOPHELES
1.09 - Sleep and Death, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
adverse forces to vanish. By remembering, it calls upon the true vibration, which has the power to dissolve or disperse all vibrations of a lesser intensity. There is even an interesting transitory stage in which we helplessly participate in terrifying pursuits, for instance, and suddenly that fragment of ourselves remembers the light (or the Master), thus abruptly reversing the situation. On these planes we can also meet many people, known or unknown, near or far away, living or dead the ever-living whom we name as dead,101 as Sri Aurobindo says who are on the same wavelength, and we can be the witness or helpless partner of their misadventures (which may translate into unpleasant happenings on earth, as we have seen; all the blows received there will be received here; each occurrence there prepares something here). But if the fragment of ourselves having the experience with the corresponding fragment of that friend or stranger or "dead" person is able to remember the Light (that is, if it is integrated around the psychic), it becomes capable of reversing the course of events, of assisting a friend or stranger in distress, of helping a disembodied being go through a difficult passage, get out of a dangerous place, or free himself from some unhealthy associations (there are so many places where we are prisoners). The following is an example of such an experience, chosen deliberately in negative terms and as simply as possible: X "dreams" that she is Walking with a friend along the shore of a lake with seemingly marvelously clear waters, when suddenly a snake springs up from the bottom of the lake and bites her friend on the throat. She makes several attempts to protect her friend, but becomes frightened herself, is pursued by the snake, and runs "back home" (into her body). The next day she learns that her friend is ill and has completely lost her voice. She herself experiences throughout the day a series of small abortive incidents,
within and without. If she had been actively conscious, centered,
1.09 - Taras Ultimate Nature, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
inherently one and the same as our mind, we couldnt say, Im Walking,
because our mind cant walk. Are we the collection of the body and mind? If
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and people understand what we mean. Likewise, although there is no inherently existent I in the aggregates, when we say, Im Walking, others
understand our meaning.
1.09 - The Greater Self, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
Gradually, he entered an all, but, oh, quite an odd all, which had nothing to do with a cosmic or transcendent or dazzling consciousness yet which was like a million little bursts of gold, fleeting, elusive, almost mocking. Perhaps we should say a microscopic consciousness? and warm: a sudden sweetness of recognition, an eruption of gratefulness, an incomprehensible flush of tenderness, as if it were living, vibrating, responding in every corner and every direction. Strangely, when a question arose, or a doubt, or an uncertainty about something or someone, a problem about a course of action, an anxiety about what to do or not to do, it seemed as if the answer came to him as living facts not as an illumination or inspiration, a revelation or thought, nothing of that sort: a material answer in external circumstances, as though the earth itself, like itself, supplied the answer. As if the very circumstances came and took his hand and said, Here, you see? And not great circumstances, not sensational flashes: very little facts, while going from one end of the street to the other. All of a sudden the thing came to him, the person or the encounter, the money, the book, or the unexpected development the living answer. Or, on the contrary, when he was so much hoping for certain news (if he had not yet been cured of the disease of hope), when he was looking forward to some arrangement, a peaceful retreat, a clear-cut solution, he was suddenly engulfed in a still greater chaos, as if everything turned against him people, things, circumstances or he fell ill, met with an accident, opened the door to an old weakness and seemed to be treading the old road of suffering again. Then, two hours or two days or two months after, he realized that that adversity was exactly what was needed, which led, by a circuitous route, to a goal larger than he had foreseen; that that illness had purified his substance, cut him off from a wrong course, and brought him back, lighter, onto the sunlit path; that that fall had exposed old hiding places in himself and clarified his heart; that that unfortunate encounter was a perfection of exactness to bring forth a whole new network of possibilities or impossibilities to overcome; and that everything concurred meticulously to prepare his strength, his breadth, his extreme swiftness, through a thousand and one detours the all prepared him for the all. He then begins to experience a succession of unbelievable little miracles, of strange happenings, bewildering coincidences... as if, really, everything knew, each thing knew what it had to do and went straight to its microscopic goal amidst millions of passersby and trifling events. At first, the seeker does not believe it; he shrugs his shoulders and dismisses it, then he opens one eye, then the other, and doubts his own amazement. It is of such microscopic exactness, such fabulously unbelievable precision in the midst of this gigantic crisscrossing of lives and things and circumstances, that it is simply impossible it is like an explosion of total knowledge embracing in one fell swoop this ant Walking down Main Street and the thousands of passersby and all their possible itineraries, all their particular circumstances past, present and future to create this unique conjunction, this incredible perfect little second in which everything accords and agrees, is inevitably, and provides the unique answer to a unique question.
And the same thing happens again and again; the coincidences multiply. Chance gradually reveals an innumerable smile or, perhaps, another self, a great self, which knows its totality, and each fragment of its totality and each second of its world, as much as our body knows the least quiver of its cells, and the passing fly, and the rhythm of its heart. With eyes wide open, the seeker begins to enter an innumerable wonder. The world is a single body, the earth, a single consciousness in motion. But not a body whose consciousness is centered in a few gray cells upstairs: an innumerable consciousness centered everywhere and as total in a little ephemeral cell as in the gesture that will alter the destiny of nations. In each point consciousness answers consciousness. The seeker has left the cutting little truths of the mind, the dogmatic and geometric lines of thought. He enters an inexpressible fullness of view, a comprehensive truth in which each fragment has its meaning and each second, its smile, each darkness, its light, each harshness, its awaiting sweetness. He gropingly discovers the honeycombs covered by the rock.22 Each fall is a degree of widening, each footstep, a blossoming of the inevitable efflorescence, each adversity, a lever of the future. Being wrong is a crack in our armor through which a flame of pure love shines which understands everything.
1.09 - To the Students, Young and Old, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The first example takes place in Paris. You have to go out into this immense city; here all is noise, apparent confusion, bewildering activity. Suddenly you see a woman Walking in front of you; she is like most other women, her dress has nothing striking about it, but her gait is remarkable, supple, rhythmic, elegant, harmonious. It catches your attention and you are full of wonder. Then, this body moving along so gracefully reminds you of all the splendours of ancient Greece and the unparalleled lesson in beauty which its culture gave to the whole world, and you live an unforgettable momentall that just because of a woman who knows how to walk!
The second example is from the other end of the world, from Japan. You have just arrived in this beautiful country for a long stay and very soon you find out that unless you have at least a minimum knowledge of the language, it will be very difficult for you to get along. So you begin to study Japanese and in order to become familiar with the language you do not miss a single opportunity to hear people talking, you listen to them carefully, you try to understand what they are saying; and then, beside you, in a tram where you have just taken your seat, there is a small child of four or five years with his mother. The child begins to talk in a clear and pure voice and listening to him you have the remarkable experience that he knows spontaneously what you have to learn with so much effort, and that as far as Japanese is concerned he could be your teacher in spite of his youth.
1.10 - Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
Warwickshire the children go from house to house on May Day, Walking
two and two in procession and headed by a King and Queen. Two boys
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from farmhouse to farmhouse, two little girls Walking at the head of
the procession as bridesmaids, and six or eight outriders galloping
1.11 - The Master of the Work, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Our nature is not only mistaken in will and ignorant in knowledge but weak in power; but the Divine Force is there and will lead us if we trust in it and will use our deficiencies and our powers for the divine purpose. If we fail in our immediate aim, it is because he has intended the failure; often our failure or ill-result is the right road to a truer issue than an immediate and complete success would have put in our reach. If we suffer, it is because something in us has to be prepared for a rarer possibility of delight. If we stumble, it is to learn in the end the secret of a more perfect Walking. Let us not be in too furious a haste to acquire even peace, purity and perfection. Peace must be ours, but not the peace of an empty or devastated nature or of slam or mutilated capacities incapable of unrest because we have made them incapable of intensity and fire and force. Purity must be our aim, but not the purity of a void or of a bleak and rigid coldness. Perfection is demanded of us, but not the perfection that can exist only by confining its scope within narrow limits or putting an arbitrary full stop to the ever self-extending scroll of the Infinite. Our object is to change into the divine nature, but the divine nature is not a mental or moral but a spiritual condition, difficult to achieve, difficult even to conceive by our intelligence. The Master of our work and our Yoga knows the thing to be done, and we must allow him to do it in us by his own means and in his own manner.
The movement of the Ignorance is egoistic at its core and nothing is more difficult for us than to get rid of egoism while yet we admit personality and adhere to action in the half-light and half-force of our unfinished nature. It is easier to starve the ego by renouncing the impulse to act or to kill it by cutting away from us all movement of personality. It is easier to exalt it into self-forgetfulness immersed in a trance of peace or an ecstasy of divine Love. But our more difficult problem is to liberate the true Person and attain to a divine manhood which shall be the pure vessel of a divine force and the perfect instrument of a divine action. Step after step has to be firmly taken; difficulty after difficulty has to be entirely experienced and entirely mastered. Only the Divine Wisdom and Power can do this for us and it will do all if we yield to it in an entire faith and follow and assent to its workings with a constant courage and patience.
1.11 - WITH THE DEVOTEES AT DAKSHINEWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
"One cannot see God unless maya steps aside from the door. Rma, Lakshmana, and Sita were Walking together. Rma was in front, Sita walked in the middle, and Lakshmana followed them. But Lakshmana could not see Rma because Sita was between them. In like manner, man cannot see God because maya is between them.
(To Mani Mallick) But maya steps aside from the door when God shows His grace to the devotee. When the visitor stands before the door, the door-keeper says to the master, 'Sir, comm and us, and we shall let him pass.'
1.12 - Brute Neighbors, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
Many a village Bose, fit only to course a mud-turtle in a victualling cellar, sported his heavy quarters in the woods, without the knowledge of his master, and ineffectually smelled at old fox burrows and woodchucks holes; led perchance by some slight cur which nimbly threaded the wood, and might still inspire a natural terror in its denizens;now far behind his guide, barking like a canine bull toward some small squirrel which had treed itself for scrutiny, then, cantering off, bending the bushes with his weight, imagining that he is on the track of some stray member of the jerbilla family. Once I was surprised to see a cat Walking along the stony shore of the pond, for they rarely wander so far from home. The surprise was mutual.
Nevertheless the most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite at home in the woods, and, by her sly and stealthy behavior, proves herself more native there than the regular inhabitants. Once, when berrying, I met with a cat with young kittens in the woods, quite wild, and they all, like their mother, had their backs up and were fiercely spitting at me. A few years before I lived in the woods there was what was called a winged cat in one of the farm-houses in Lincoln nearest the pond, Mr. Gilian Bakers. When I called to see her in June, 1842, she was gone a-hunting in the woods, as was her wont, (I am not sure whether it was a male or female, and so use the more common pronoun,) but her mistress told me that she came into the neighborhood a little more than a year before, in April, and was finally taken into their house; that she was of a dark brownish-gray color, with a white spot on her throat, and white feet, and had a large bushy tail like a fox; that in the winter the fur grew thick and flatted out along her sides, forming stripes ten or twelve inches long by two and a half wide, and under her chin like a muff, the upper side loose, the under matted like felt, and in the spring these appendages dropped off. They gave me a pair of her wings, which I keep still. There is no appearance of a membrane about them. Some thought it was part flying-squirrel or some other wild animal, which is not impossible, for, according to naturalists, prolific hybrids have been produced by the union of the marten and domestic cat. This would have been the right kind of cat for me to keep, if I had kept any; for why should not a poets cat be winged as well as his horse?
1.12 - GARDEN, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
(MARGARET on FAUST'S arm. MARTHA and MEPHISTOPHELES Walking up and down.)
MARGARET
1.13 - And Then?, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
He may also lead a revolution or accomplish an awe-inspiring and striking deed, if such is the flow of the Truth in him. He is unpredictable, elusive as Truth itself; he chaffs as he looks grave and smiles as he pores over the world's misery; for he listens to invisible calls and works ceaselessly to pour the Rhythm over the earth's wounds. He does not perform miracles that flare up like a flash in the pan, then leave the earth to its unrepentant darkness; he does not play with occult siddhis36 that upset the laws of matter for a time, then let it fall back into its old routine of pain; he has no need to convert men or preach to nations, for he knows all too well that men are not converted by ideas or words or by sensational demonstrations, but by a change of inner density, which creates a sudden little breath of ease and sunshine in the darkness he sows another law in the world, opens the window to another sun; he changes the density of hearts by the tranquil outpouring of his ray. He does not strike or break, does not condemn or judge; he tries to free the same particle of truth contained in each being and each thing and each event, and convert each by its own sun. His power is a power of truth, of matter to matter, and his vision embraces everything, because he has found the little point within that contains all points and beings and places. In this beggar Walking by, that cloud tinged with pink, this chance accident, the little nothing that jostles his house or the young shoot growing, he sees the whole earth and its millions of buds growing toward their kindred Truth, and the world's exact position in a faltering of chance or the remark of a passerby. Everything is his field of action. Through the minuscule, he acts upon the whole; in the minuscule, he deciphers the whole. From one end of the world to the other, he touches his own body.
But the work is not finished. Evolution has not reached its summit; it has not even entered its solar Truth. If the Work were to stop here, we would have reached the summit of man and produced a super-man, but not the being of the next age. Our widened consciousness, our direct perceptions, our refined senses, our exact gestures and movements, our perfect actions, our right thoughts and right wills, our unalterable joy would still rest upon an animal body an aging, precarious and decaying body, which would threaten our luminous poise with abrupt collapse at every moment, checking the operation of our truth-consciousness with a tiny grain of sand and what kind of truth is that if it is so fragile? Truth is or is not, and it is immortal, infinite, invulnerable. It is light and luminous, incorruptible, and it cannot be prevented from being all that it is, any more than the mango tree can prevent itself from being a full tree with all its flowers and every one of its golden fruits. It will not stop at that limited accomplishment and will not rest until the whole earth and all beings are in its likeness, since the whole earth and all beings are in fact its own seeds. The superman, too, is a transitional being. He is the forerunner of another being on earth, as different from man as we are from the ape, and maybe even more, for man is still made of the same substance as the ape while the new being will be made of another substance immortal, luminous and light as Truth itself. He is the elaborator of the supramental being announced by Sri Aurobindo, and his substance is the humble laboratory of a perilous adventure.
1.13 - THE MASTER AND M., #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
It was almost dusk when most of the devotees, including Narendra, took leave of the Master. Sri Ramakrishna went out and looked at the Ganges for a few minutes from the west porch. Two priests were bathing in preparation for the evening worship. Young men of the village were strolling in the garden or standing on the concrete embankment, gazing at the murmuring river. Others, perhaps more thoughtful, were Walking about in the solitude of the Panchavati.
It became dark. The maidservant lighted the lamp in Sri Ramakrishna's room and burnt incense. The evening worship began in the twelve temples of iva and in the shrines of Krishna and Kli.
1.14 - The Victory Over Death, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
Then there is that fire. This is not a myth either: The red-glowing mass of him is seen, says the Veda, (Agni, the fire) adorable, great of body, wide of light.42 At the beginning, however, this body is just a little spark, its red-glowing mass, a flickering flame sometimes lit but often extinguished, which has to be relit again and again. It is a tiny cry of suffocation in the world's night, a nameless need Walking with us, going up and down our meanderings, following us tenaciously like a memory of something else, a golden recollection amid the grayness of the days, a call for air, a need for space, a need of loving, a need of being true. And this cry, this fire, grows:
Man is a narrow bridge, a call that grows.43
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But how to induce this fire into our matter, how to effect the passage, or transfusion, of this dark and mortal body to that ardent and immortal one? The work is in progress; it is difficult to talk about. We will not really know how it is done until it is done. No one knows the country or the way to it since no one has ever gotten there. No one has ever made a supramental body! But it will be made, as inevitably as man and the ape and the millipede were already made in the great golden Seed of the world. This is the last adventure of the earth, or maybe the first of a more marvelous series on a new earth of truth. We do not know the secret; we only know in what direction to walk though knowing the direction is perhaps already knowing the secret, since it unfolds under our steps and is formed by Walking it.
So we can at least indicate the direction, the simple direction, for as usual the secrets are simple. The fire is built by the particle of consciousness we put into an unconscious act. Viewed from above, it is unconsciousness resisting and heating up from the friction of the new consciousness seeking entry it is that futile and automatic gesture which has trouble untwisting its habitual groove and turning differently, under another impulsion; and we have to untwist the old turn a thousand times, insist and persist until a little flame of consciousness replaces the dark routine. Viewed from below, it is that unconsciousness which suffocates and calls out and knocks and seeks. And both are true. It is the memory within which summons the golden ray; it is the great eternal Sun which makes that call for sunlight well up. The process, the great Process, is simple: we must light that little fire by degrees, put the ray into each gesture, each movement, each breath, each body function. Instead of doing things as usual, automatically, mechanically, we must remember Truth there too, yearn for Truth there too, infuse Truth there too. And we meet with resistance, forgetfulness, breakdowns; the machine goes on strike, falls ill, refuses to take the path of light. We must begin again thousands and thousands of times, point by point, gesture by gesture, function by function. We must remember again and again. Then, all of a sudden, in one little point of the body, in that passing little breath, something no longer vibrates in the old way, no longer works as usual; our breathing suddenly follows another rhythm, becomes wide and sunny, like a comfortable lungful of air, a breath of an air never known before, never tasted before, which refreshes everything, cures everything, even nourishes as if we were inhaling the nectar of the immortals. Then everything falls back into the old habit. We must start all over again, on one point, on another point, at each instant life becomes filled with an extreme preoccupation, an intense absorption. A second's minuscule victory streng thens us for another discovery, another victory. And we begin to work in every nook and cranny, every movement; we would like everything to be filled with truth and with that sun which changes everything, gives another flavor to everything, another rhythm, another plenitude. The body itself then begins to awaken, to yearn for truth, for sunshine. It begins to light its own fire of aspiration here and there, begins to want not to forget anymore; and whenever it forgets that new little vibration, it suddenly feels suffocated, as if it were sliding back into death. The process is simple, infinite, perpetual: each gesture or operation accomplished with a particle of consciousness binds that consciousness, that little fire of being, to the gesture or operation, and gradually transforms it. It is an infusion of consciousness, a microscopic and methodical and innumerable infusion of fire, until matter itself, under that conscious pressure, awakens to the need of consciousness as the seed awakens to the need for sunlight. Everything then starts growing together, inevitably, irresistibly, under that golden attraction. By degrees, the fire is lit, the vibration radiates, the note spreads, the cells respond to the Influx. The body inaugurates a new type of functioning, a functioning of conscious truth.
1.16 - On Self-Knowledge, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
Say not, I have found the path of the soul. Say rather, I have met the soul Walking upon my path.
For the soul walks upon all paths.
1.16 - WITH THE DEVOTEES AT DAKSHINESWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
It was night. The moon rose, flooding all the quarters with its silvery light. M. was Walking alone in the garden of the temple. On one side of the path stood the Panchavati, the bakul-grove, the nahabat, and the Master's room, and on the other side flowed the Ganges, reflecting millions of broken moons on its rippling surface.
M. said to himself: "Can one really see God? The Master says it is possible. He says that, if one makes a little effort, then someone comes forward and shows the way. Well, I am married. I have children. Can one realize God in spite of all that?"
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M. went Walking alone in the Panchavati and other places in the temple garden. He thought about the Master's assurance that God can be easily realized, and about his exhortation to lead a life of intense renunciation, and his saying that maya, when recognized, takes to flight.
Image worship
1.17 - M. AT DAKSHINEWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
MASTER (to Hazra): "The state of samdhi is certainly inspired by love. Once, at Syambazar, they arranged a kirtan at Natavar Goswami's house. There I had a vision of Krishna and the gopis of Vrindvan. I felt that my subtle body was Walking at Krishna's heels.
"I went into samdhi when similar devotional songs were sung at the Hari Sabha in Jorashanko in Calcutta. That day they feared I might give up the body."
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M. saw that the Master was Walking with Rkhl.
Friday, December 21, 1883
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While describing in this way the vision of different divine forms, the Master went into an ecstatic state and said, "I have become! I am here!" Uttering these words he went into samdhi. His body was motionless. He remained in that state a long time and then gradually regained partial consciousness of the world. He began to laugh like a boy and pace the room. His eyes radiated bliss as if he had seen a wondrous vision. His gaze was not fixed on any particular object, and his face beamed with joy. Still pacing the room, the Master said: "I saw the paramahamsa who stayed under the banyan tree Walking thus with just such a smile. Am I too in that state of mind?"
He sat on the small couch and engaged in conversation with the Divine Mother.
1.17 - The Burden of Royalty, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
they regulate all his actions, his Walking and his standing, his
eating and drinking, his sleeping and waking. To these restraints
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very hours for his Walking and bathing and sleeping with his wife,
and, in short, performing every act of life were all settled. Custom
1.18 - M. AT DAKSHINESWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
After a pleasant conversation with the sdhu, the Master returned to the carriage, the holy man Walking with him. Sri Ramakrishna looked upon him as a friend of long acquaintance, and they walked arm in arm.
The Master arrived at Surendra's garden. The very first thing he talked about was the sdhu.
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"A child, Walking on a narrow ridge and holding to his father, may slip into the ditch. But that can never happens if the father holds the child by the hand.
The Master's prayer for pure love
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At three o'clock in the afternoon, while M. was Walking up and down under a tree, a devotee came to him and said that the Master had sent for him. M. went to Sri Ramakrishna's room and found a number of devotees there. He saluted the Master.
Ram, Kedr, and others had arrived from Calcutta. Ram had brought with him the Vedantist monk whom the Master had visited near his garden a few days earlier. On that occasion Sri Ramakrishna had asked him to bring the sdhu to Dakshineswar.
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A little later the Master was Walking in the Panchavati with Ram, Kedr, M., and the other devotees.
MASTER (to Kedr, with a smile): "What did you think of the sdhu?"
1.20 - Diction, or Language in general., #Poetics, #Aristotle, #Philosophy
A Sentence or Phrase is a composite significant sound, some at least of whose parts are in themselves significant; for not every such group of words consists of verbs and nouns--'the definition of man,' for example--but it may dispense even with the verb. Still it will always have some significant part, as 'in Walking,' or 'Cleon son of Cleon.' A sentence or phrase may form a unity in two ways,--either as signifying one thing, or as consisting of several parts linked together. Thus the
Iliad is one by the linking together of parts, the definition of man by the unity of the thing signified.]
1.21 - Chih Men's Lotus Flower, Lotus Leaves, #The Blue Cliff Records, #Yuanwu Keqin, #Zen
full of doubt, Walking on river ice: they listen for the sound of
the water (below); if it doesn't make a sound, then they can
1.22 - Tabooed Words, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
of disturbing and annoying the man's spirit which is Walking about
in ghostly form. If the ghost hears his name mentioned he concludes
1.240 - 1.300 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
A middle-aged, weak-looking man came with a Walking stick in his hand, placed it before Bhagavan, bowed low and sat near Maharshi. He got up and with great humility offered the stick to Bhagavan, saying that it was sandal-wood. Sri Bhagavan told him to keep it for himself. Because nothing of Bhagavan's can be safeguarded. Being common property but coveted by some, it will be taken away by any visitor with or without
Bhagavan's permission. Then the donor may be displeased.
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Brunton and a lady were Walking home in the night, they saw a bright glow on half the hill moving slowly and gently from North to South.
Sri Bhagavan said: This hill is said to be wisdom in visible shape.
1.240 - Talks 2, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
A middle-aged, weak-looking man came with a Walking stick in his hand, placed it before Bhagavan, bowed low and sat near Maharshi. He got up and with great humility offered the stick to Bhagavan, saying that it was sandal-wood. Sri Bhagavan told him to keep it for himself. Because nothing of Bhagavans can be safeguarded. Being common property but coveted by some, it will be taken away by any visitor with or without
Bhagavans permission. Then the donor may be displeased.
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Brunton and a lady were Walking home in the night, they saw a bright glow on half the hill moving slowly and gently from North to South.
Sri Bhagavan said: This hill is said to be wisdom in visible shape.
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What does it matter whether you attend to the work or not? Suppose you walk from one place to another place. You do not attend every single step that you take. After a time, however, you find yourself at your destination. You notice how the work, i.e., Walking, goes on without your attention to it. Similarly it is with other kinds of work.
D.: Then it is like sleep- Walking.
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Sri Bhagavan said that he felt no sensation in His legs though they were massaged. If they serve the purpose of Walking what does it matter if sensation is lost? he asked. Then in the course of conversation he related that a ray of light has been found which, when projected, does not reveal the operator but enables him to witness the scene. So it is with siddhas. They are only pure light and can see others, whereas, they cannot be seen by others. For example Prabhulinga, while touring in the North, came across Goraknath. The latter displayed his yogic
Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi powers e.g., when his arm was cut by a sword, the sword was blunted without inflicting injury on him. This is making the body proof against injury (kayasiddhi). Prabhulinga offered himself to be cut. When the sword was thrust, it passed through and through his body as if it was air and there was no injury on the body. Gorak was astonished and offered himself as the disciple of Prabhulinga.
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During the time Sri Bhagavan was staying in Virupaksha Cave, Sri Bhagavan and Mudaliar Swami were Walking together behind the Skandasramam site.
There was a huge rock about 15 feet high; it was a cleft, a girl (a shepherdess) was standing there crying. Sri Bhagavan asked the reason of her sorrow.
1.24 - Necromancy and Spiritism, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
It is not fair to tar all mediums with the Sludge brush; there are many who could advance quite sincerely some of the apologia of Sludge. Why should a medium be immune to self-deception spurred by the Wish-Fiend? While there are people Walking about outside the Bug-house who can find Mrs. Simpson and Generals de Gaulle, Franco, Allenby, Montgomery and who else in the "Centuries" of Nostradamus, we should be stupid to assign everything to conscious fraud.
In that case what about poor Tiny Aleister? Do please allow me the happy young Eagles of the Old Testament; what clearer prophecy of psychoanalysis, it's only the English for Freud and Jung and Adler!
1.24 - PUNDIT SHASHADHAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
"There are innumerable pathways leading to the Ocean of Immortality. The essential thing is to reach the Ocean. It doesn't matter which path you follow. Imagine that there is a reservoir containing the Elixir of Immortality. You will be immortal if a few drops of the Elixir somehow get into your mouth. You may get into the reservoir either by jumping into it, or by being pushed into it from behind, or by slowly Walking down the steps. The effect is one and the same. You will become immortal by tasting a drop of that Elixir.
Three yogas explained by Master "Innumerable are the ways that lead to God. There are the paths of jnna, of karma, and of bhakti. If you are sincere, you will attain God in the end, whichever path you follow. Roughly speaking, there are three kinds of yoga: jnanayoga, karma yoga, and bhaktiyoga.
1.25 - Fascinations, Invisibility, Levitation, Transmutations, Kinks in Time, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
At one time, in Sicily, this happened nearly every day. Our party, strolling down to our bathing bay the loveliest spot of its kind that I have ever seen over a hillside where there wasn't cover for a rabbit, would lose sight of me, look, and fail to find me, though I was Walking in their midst. At first, astonishment, bewilderment; at last, so normal had it become: "He's invisible again."
One incident I remember very vividly indeed; an old friend and I were sitting opposite each other in armchairs in front of a large fire, smoking our pipes. Suddenly he lost sight of me, and actually cried out in alarm. I said: "What's wrong?" That broke the spell; there I was, all present and correct.
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Well I've given you a fair account of some of the principal fascinations; as to the rest, bewitchments, sorceries, inhibitions and all that lot, it is enough if I say that they follow the regular Laws of Magick; in some, fascination proper plays a prominent part; in others, it is barely more than Walking on to say "My lord, the carriage waits!" But even that can be done well or ill, and a small mistake may work a mighty mischief.
Love is the law, love under will.
1.25 - On Religion, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
And look into space; you shall see Him Walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain.
You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees.
1.25 - SPIRITUAL EXERCISES, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
When you are Walking alone, or elsewhere, glance at the general will of God, by which He wills all the works of his mercy and justice in heaven, on earth, under the earth, and approve, praise and then love that sovereign will, all holy, all just, all beautiful. Glance next at the special will of God, by which He loves his own, and works in them in divers ways, by consolation and tribulation. And then you should ponder a little, considering the variety of consolations, but especially of tribulations, that the good suffer; and then with great humility approve, praise and love all this will. Consider that will in your own person, in all the good or ill that happens to you and may happen to you, except sin; then approve, praise and love all that, protesting that you will ever cherish, honour and adore that sovereign will, and submitting to Gods pleasure and giving Him all who are yours, amongst whom am I. End in a great confidence in that will, that it will work all good for us and our happiness. I add that, when you have performed this exercise two or three times in this way, you can shorten it, vary it and arrange it, as you find best, for it should often be thrust into your heart as an aspiration.
St. Franois de Sales
Dwelling in the light, there is no occasion at all for stumbling, for all things are discovered in the light. When thou art Walking abroad it is present with thee in thy bosom, thou needest not to say, Lo here, or Lo there; and as thou lyest in thy bed, it is present to teach thee and judge thy wandering mind, which wanders abroad, and thy high thoughts and imaginations, and makes them subject. For following thy thoughts, thou art quickly lost. By dwelling in this light, it will discover to thee the body of sin and thy corruptions and fallen estate, where thou art. In that light which shows thee all this, stand; go neither to the right nor to the left.
George Fox
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The Way of Wisdom. The purpose of this discipline is to bring a man into the habit of applying the insight that has come to him as the result of the preceding disciplines. When one is rising, standing, Walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate ones mind on the act and the doing of it, not on ones relation to the act, or its character or value. One should think: there is Walking, there is stopping, there is realizing; not, I am Walking, I am doing this, it is a good thing, it is disagreeable, I am gaining merit, it is I who am realizing how wonderful it is. Thence come vagrant thoughts, feelings of elation or of failure and unhappiness. Instead of all this, one should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquillity of mind, realization, insight and Wisdom; and one should follow the practice in faith, willingness and gladness. After long practice the bondage of old habits becomes weakened and disappears, and in its place appear confidence, satisfaction, awareness and tranquillity.
What is this Way of Wisdom designed to accomplish? There are three classes of conditions that hinder one from advancing along the path to Enlightenment. First, there are the allurements arising from the senses, from external conditions and from the discriminating mind. Second, there are the internal conditions of the mind, its thoughts, desires and mood. All these the earlier practices (ethical and mortificatory) are designed to eliminate. In the third class of impediments are placed the individuals instinctive and fundamental (and therefore most insidious and persistent) urges the will to live and to enjoy, the will to cherish ones personality, the will to propagate, which give rise to greed and lust, fear and anger, infatuation, pride and egotism. The practice of the Wisdom Paramita is designed to control and eliminate these fundamental and instinctive hindrances. By means of it the mind gradually grows clearer, more luminous, more peaceful. Insight becomes more penetrating, faith deepens and broadens, until they merge into the inconceivable Samadhi of the Minds Pure Essence. As one continues the practice of the Way of Wisdom, one yields less and less to thoughts of comfort or desolation; faith becomes surer, more pervasive, beneficent and joyous; and fear of retrogression vanishes. But do not think that the consummation is to be attained easily or quickly; many rebirths may be necessary, many aeons may have to elapse. So long as doubt, unbelief, slanders, evil conduct, hindrances of karma, weakness of faith, pride, sloth and mental agitation persist, so long as even their shadows linger, there can be no attainment of the Samadhi of the Buddhas. But he who has attained to the radiance of highest Samadhi, or unitive Knowledge, will be able to realize, with all the Buddhas, the perfect unity of all sentient beings with Buddhahoods Dharmakaya. In the pure Dharmakaya there is no dualism, neither shadow of differentiation. All sentient beings, if only they were able to realize it, are already in Nirvana. The Minds pure Essence is Highest Samadhi, is Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi, is Prajna Paramita, is Highest Perfect Wisdom.
1.27 - AT DAKSHINESWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
It was about five o'clock in the afternoon. Sri Ramakrishna left his room. The devotees were Walking in the garden. Many of them were about to leave.
The Master was conversing with Hazra on the north verandah. They were talking of Narendra's frequent visits to Annada, the eldest son of the Guhas.
1.27 - On holy solitude of body and soul., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
72. There is one spirit on which you should keep a vigilant eye; he is the one who assails you unceasingly during your standing, Walking, sitting, movement, rising, prayer and sleep.
1 Psalm xlviii, 4.
1.28 - Describes the nature of the Prayer of Recollection and sets down some of the means by which we can make it a habit., #The Way of Perfection, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
and staying in no place which will distract these outward senses, may be sure that they are Walking
on an excellent road, and will come without fail to drink of the water of the fountain, for they will
1.300 - 1.400 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
What does it matter whether you attend to the work or not? Suppose you walk from one place to another place. You do not attend every single step that you take. After a time, however, you find yourself at your destination. You notice how the work, i.e., Walking, goes on without your attention to it. Similarly it is with other kinds of work.
D.: Then it is like sleep- Walking.
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Sri Bhagavan said that he felt no sensation in His legs though they were massaged. "If they serve the purpose of Walking what does it matter if sensation is lost?" he asked. Then in the course of conversation he related that a ray of light has been found which, when projected, does not reveal the operator but enables him to witness the scene. So it is with siddhas. They are only pure light and can see others, whereas, they cannot be seen by others. For example Prabhulinga, while touring in the North, came across Goraknath. The latter displayed his yogic
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During the time Sri Bhagavan was staying in Virupaksha Cave, Sri Bhagavan and Mudaliar Swami were Walking together behind the Skandasramam site.
There was a huge rock about 15 feet high; it was a cleft, a girl (a shepherdess) was standing there crying. Sri Bhagavan asked the reason of her sorrow.
13.01 - A Centurys Salutation to Sri Aurobindo The Greatness of the Great, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Sri Aurobindo was a man of action absolutely in the Gita's sense of the word. He set an example, he was an exemplar showing by his life his way of "standing and Walking" as the Gita puts it the actions that should be done and the way of doing according to the stage and the field given to oneself. This does not naturally mean that one has to be bound to the current frame, bound to the conventional, attached to what is customary, transitional and formal; on the contrary as I have said, Sri Aurobindo in his stride was always transgressing and overflowing the borders, he was a revolutionary, even an iconoclast, for nothing short of the supreme and complete and integral truth satisfied the urge of consciousness in him; in this sense each step of the scale served as a jumping board to the higher, indeed to the highest inherent or hidden in every one of them.
It was this secret ultimate truth that overshadowed, brooded over all these stages and steps and occupations he passed through: they only led up to that transcendent reality, but it was the sense, constant sense of that reality that lent a special character to all his karma. This urge towards the supreme reality, this transcendence, did not mean for him a rejection of the domains passed through: it is a subsuming, that is to say, uplifting the narrower, the lower status, integrating them into the higher: even as the soil at the root of the plant is subsumed and transmuted into the living sap that mounts high up the plant towards its very top, to the light and energy above.
1.32 - The Ninth Circle Traitors. The Frozen Lake of Cocytus. First Division, Caina Traitors to their Kindred. Camicion de' Pazzi. Second Division, Antenora Traitors to their Country. Dante questions Bocca degli, #The Divine Comedy, #Dante Alighieri, #Christianity
I know not; but in Walking 'mong the heads
I struck my foot hard in the face of one.
1.34 - The Myth and Ritual of Attis, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
sat in a waggon drawn by oxen. Preceded by the nobles Walking
barefoot, it moved slowly, to the loud music of pipes and
1.38 - Treats of the great need which we have to beseech the Eternal Father to grant us what we ask in these words: Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Explains certain temptations. This chapter is noteworthy., #The Way of Perfection, #Saint Teresa of Avila, #Christianity
already acquired it. We think we are Walking safely, when, without realizing it, we stumble, and
fall into a pit from which we cannot escape. Though we may not consciously have committed any
14.02 - Occult Experiences, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The lady's bus came last and the other two were running very fast competing as to which should go first. Well, what happened is quite natural; the bus in which I was to go dashed against a wayside tree and was damaged, and the passengers were mostly killed or seriously injured. We reached our destination and naturally I was very eager to see the lady who had stopped me from boarding the bus. I asked her, "How did you know it? How did you guess?" "I'll tell you later on." So we started again, and went to a holy place on a hillside. It was a sort of jungle and woodland, full of bushes. The lady and I were Walking quietly together. Then I stepped aside. I wanted to see what was to my left. Suddenly the lady said, "Please, please don't go to that side!" Naturally I was surprised and asked her the reason. Then I saw that behind the bushes was a 200 ft. deep precipice. If i had taken one step more I would have gone down! Then I pleaded with the lady: "Please tell me what it is; how did you see it?" She said, "All right, I'll tell you the story, let us sit down." Then she narrated the story. She said, "When I was young I lived with my grand father, and we loved each other exceedingly, we were very much attached to each other. He used to tell me stories and pleased me in all ways, so I was with him almost all the time. Then one day he fell rather seriously ill. Doctors were called and they couldn't do anything. Then my grandfa ther called me and said, 'My child, go and pray to Shiva'-Shiva was the household deity. So I went and knelt down before the image of Shiva and prayed, 'O Shiva, my grandfa ther is ill, please cure him.' One or two days I did that. But he continued to be ill, he became rather worse! Then one day the doctors gave up all hope. I was weeping standing a little away from him. Suddenly I saw a girl by the side of my grandfa ther, and I was astonished, she looked exactly like myself. Then I asked someone near me if he could see anyone by my grandfa ther 'No, I don't see anybody'. Then I went to the bedside, and the image and I stood together. Gradually my grandfa ther was cured. From that time on, wherever there is any danger, any difficulty, this image of myself comes, and helps me. So when you wanted to go in that bus I saw the same figure coming to me and telling me, 'Beware'. I don't know who she is."
So this is the story. I have brought these books because some of the poets have had such an experience.
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I was Walking one day leisurely
In a woodl and upon the heath,
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(You're Walking along the road)
The outer questioning mind says:
1.439, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
They went together, with a large crowd following the Sage. After Walking some distance the Sage wanted to ask how much further the place was.
But the old man had disappeared in the meantime. Soon after, a gang of dacoits waylaid the pilgrims who surrendered all that they had with them.
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When a man is Walking in the street his mind is full of fleeting thoughts. Suppose he passes a bazaar where some fine mangoes are for sale. He likes the mangoes and purchases them. He is next anxious to taste them. So he hastens home and eats them and feels happy.
When the fleeting thoughts give way to the pleasure at the sight of mangoes, it is priya, when he gets them as his own, the pleasure is moda; lastly, when he eats them, the pleasure is pramoda.
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Karmendriyas are organs of holding, Walking, speech, evacuation and reproduction.
Now consider the ringing of the bell; the sound is related to hearing; the bell is the object, the modification of tamoguna. The rajasic tanmatras, changing as the vibrations of sound, extend round the bell, then as ether get connected with the ear in order to be felt as sound.
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- say, even when I am writing or Walking?
M.: Now what is your real nature? Is it writing, Walking, or being? The one unalterable reality is Being. Until you realise that state of pure being you should pursue the enquiry. If once you are established in it there will be no further worry.
No one will enquire into the source of thoughts unless thoughts arise. So long as you think I am Walking, I am writing, enquire who does it.
These actions will however go on when one is firmly established in the Self. Does a man always say, I am a man, I am a man, I am a man, every moment of his life? He does not say so and yet all his actions are going on.
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They were Walking slowly, conversing at the same time. The
devotee said: There is a girl of eleven in Lahore. She is very
1.51 - How to Recognise Masters, Angels, etc., and how they Work, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
To dismiss this intricate concatenation of circumstances, culminating as they do in the showing forth of the exact sign which I had demanded, is simply to strain the theory of probabilities beyond the breaking point. Here then are two complicated episodes which do to prove that I am Walking, not by faith but by sight, in my relations with the Secret Chiefs; and these are but two links in a very long chain. This account of my career will describe many others equally striking. I might, perhaps, deny my inmost instinct the right to testify were any one case of this kind in question; but when, year after year, the same sort of thing keeps on happening, and, when, furthermore, I find myself able to predict, as experience has taught me to do in the last three years, that they will happen, and even how the pieces will fit into the puzzle, I am justified in assuming a causal connection.
Footnotes:
1.53 - The Propitation of Wild Animals By Hunters, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
in order to prevent the ghost from reanimating the body and Walking
about. But hamstringing the carcase is not the only measure which
1.550 - 1.600 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
When a man is Walking in the street his mind is full of fleeting thoughts. Suppose he passes a bazaar where some fine mangoes are for sale. He likes the mangoes and purchases them. He is next anxious to taste them. So he hastens home and eats them and feels happy.
When the fleeting thoughts give way to the pleasure at the sight of mangoes, it is priya, when he gets them as his own, the pleasure is moda; lastly, when he eats them, the pleasure is pramoda.
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Karmendriyas are organs of holding, Walking, speech, evacuation and reproduction.
Now consider the ringing of the bell; the sound is related to hearing; the bell is the object, the modification of tamoguna. The rajasic tanmatras, changing as the vibrations of sound, extend round the bell, then as ether get connected with the ear in order to be felt as sound.
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- say, even when I am writing or Walking?
M.: Now what is your real nature? Is it writing, Walking, or being? The one unalterable reality is Being. Until you realise that state of pure being you should pursue the enquiry. If once you are established in it there will be no further worry.
No one will enquire into the source of thoughts unless thoughts arise. So long as you think "I am Walking," "I am writing," enquire who does it.
These actions will however go on when one is firmly established in the Self. Does a man always say, "I am a man, I am a man, I am a man," every moment of his life? He does not say so and yet all his actions are going on.
1.60 - Between Heaven and Earth, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
marches back to the village in a single rank, the girl Walking in
the centre between her two old aunts, who hold her by the wrists.
1.66 - The External Soul in Folk-Tales, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
However, a prince made up to her one day as she was Walking alone
and disconsolate in the castle garden, and cheered by the prospect
1914 04 19p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is a great difference between being in the midst of active work, of external action, while keeping ones thought constantly fixed on Thee, and entering into that perfect union with Thee which leads to what I have called absolute Consciousness, true Omniscience, Knowledge. When one acts, though with the thought fixed on Thee, one is like a blind man Walking on the road with a sense of direction, but knowing nothing about the path he is following and how, precisely, one must walk so as to neglect nothing. In the other case, on the contrary, there is the clear vision in full light, the utilisation of the least occasion, the plenitude of action, the maximum result. And if the first attitude is indispensable before acquiring the other, yet at no moment must one cease working, making an effort to attain perfect communion.
But my heart is in peace, my thought free from impatience, and I entrust myself to Thy will with the smiling confidence of a child.
1929-05-05 - Intellect, true and wrong movement - Attacks from adverse forces - Faith, integral and absolute - Death, not a necessity - Descent of Divine Consciousness - Inner progress - Memory of former lives, #Questions And Answers 1929-1931, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The only way to fail in your battle with the hostile forces is not to have a true confidence in the divine help. Sincerity in the aspiration always brings down the required succour. A quiet call, a conviction that in this ascension towards the realisation you are never Walking all alone and a faith that whenever help is needed it is there, will lead you through, easily and securely.
Do these hostile forces generally come from outside or inside?
1929-06-16 - Illness and Yoga - Subtle body (nervous envelope) - Fear and illness, #Questions And Answers 1929-1931, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In the ordinary life of man a progressive dislocation is the rule. The mental and the vital beings of man follow as best they can the movement of the universal forces, and the stream of the worlds inner transformation and evolution carries them a certain way; but the body bound to the law of the most material nature, moves very slowly. After some years, seventy or eighty, a hundred or two hundred, and that is perhaps the maximum, thedislocation is so serious that the outer being falls to pieces. The divergence between the demand and the answer, the increasing inability and irresponsiveness of the body, brings about the phenomenon of death. By Yoga the inner transformation that is in slow constant process in the creation is rendered more intense and rapid, but the pace of the outer transformation remains almost the same as in ordinary life. As a result, the disharmony between the inner and the outer being in one who is doing Yoga tends to be all the greater, unless precautions are taken and a protection secured that will help the body to follow the inner march as closely as possible. Even then it is the very nature of the body to hold you back. It is for this reason that to many we are obliged to say, Do not pull, do not hurry; you must give your body time to follow. Some have to be kept back even for years and not allowed to do much or progress far. Sometimes, to avoid the disequilibrium becomes impossible; and then you have a disturbance which varies according to the nature of the resistance and the measure of the care you have taken or your negligence. This too is the reason why each time that there is a strong movement of progress, it is almost invariably followed by a period of immobility, which seems to those who are not warned a spell of dullness and stagnation and discouragement in which all progress is stopped, and they think anxiously, What is the matter? Am I losing time? Nothing is being done. But the truth is that it is the time needed for assimilation; a pause is made for the body to open itself more and become receptive and approach nearer to the level attained by the inner consciousness. The parents have been Walking too far ahead; they must halt so that the child left behind may run up and catch them by the hand; only then can they start again on the journey together.
Each spot of the body is symbolical of an inner movement; there is there a world of subtle correspondences. But this is a long and complex subject and we cannot enter into its details just now. The particular place in the body affected by an illness is an index to the nature of the inner disharmony that has taken place. It points to the origin, it is a sign of the cause of the ailment. It reveals too the nature of the resistance that prevents the whole being from advancing at the same high speed. It indicates the treatment and the cure. If one could perfectly understand where the mistake is, find out what has been unreceptive, open that part and put the force and the light there, it would be possible to re-establish in a moment the harmony that has been disturbed and the illness would immediately go.
1951-02-15 - Dreams, symbolic - true repose - False visions - Earth-memory and history, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
In the mental world, for instance, there is a domain of the physical mind which is related to physical things and keeps the memory of physical happenings upon earth. It is as though you were entering into innumerable vaults, one following another indefinitely, and these vaults are filled with small pigeon-holes, one above another, one above another, with tiny doors. Then if you want to know something and if you are conscious, you look, and you see something like a small pointa shining point; you find that this is what you wish to know and you have only to concentrate there and it opens; and when it opens, there is a sort of an unrolling of something like extremely subtle manuscripts, but if your concentration is sufficiently strong you begin to read as though from a book. And you have the whole story in all its details. There are thousands of these little holes, you know; when you go for a walk there, it is as though you were Walking in infinity. And in this way you can find the exact facts about whatever you want to know. But I must tell you that what you find is never what has been reported in historyhistories are always planned out; I have never come across a single historical fact which is like history. This is not to discourage you from learning history, but things are like that. Events have been quite different from the way in which they have been reported, and for a very simple reason: the human brain is not capable of recording things with exactitude; history is built upon memories and memories are always vague. If you take, for example, written memories, he who writes chooses the events which have interested him, what he has seen, noticed or known, and that is always only a very small portion of the whole. When the historian narrates, the same thing happens as with dreams where you take one point, then another, then another, and at last you can have an almost exact vision of what has taken place and with a little imagination you fill up the gaps; but historians relate a continuous story; between the events or moments there are gaps which they fill up as best they can or rather as they wish, according to their mental, vital and other preferences. And that comprises the history you are made to learn. The same story, narrated in one language and in another, in one country or in another, you cannot imagine how comic it is! This is particularly true if one of the countries is interested because of its vanity, its prestige. And finally the two pictures presented to you are so different that you could believe that two different things were being spoken about. It is unbelievable. But I have noticed that even for altogether external, concrete facts where there is no question of evaluation, it is still the same thing. No human brain is capable of understanding a thing in its totality; even the most scholarly, the most learned, even the most sincere person does not see a subjectand especially many subjectstotally. He will say what he knows, what he understands, and all that he does not know, all that he does not understand is not there, and this absolutely changes everything.
But if you can acquire this capability of entering into the terrestrial memory, I assure you it is worth the trouble. It is quite different from Yoga; it is not necessary to have a spiritual life for that, you must have a special ability.
1951-03-31 - Physical ailment and mental disorder - Curing an illness spiritually - Receptivity of the body - The subtle-physical- illness accidents - Curing sunstroke and other disorders, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Someone was seeking to establish a constant and conscious contactabsolutely constant and consciouswith the inner Godhead, not only with the psychic being but the divine Presence in the psychic being, and she had decided that she would be like this, that she would busy herself with nothing else, that is to say, whatever she might be doing, her concentration was upon this, and even when she went out Walking in the street, her concentration was upon this. She lived in a big city where there was much traffic: buses, tramways, etc., many things, and to cross the street one had to be considerably careful, wide-awake and attentive, otherwise one could get run over, but this person had resolved that she would not come out of her concentration. One day when she was crossing one of the big avenues with all its cars and its tramways, still deep in her concentration, in her inner seeking, she suddenly felt at about an arms length a little shock, like this; she jumped back and a car passed just by her side. If she had not jumped back she would have been run over. This is an extreme point, but without going so far one can very easily feel a kind of little discomfort (it is not something which is imposed with a great force), a little uneasiness coming near you from anywhere at all: front, behind, above, below. If at that moment you are sufficiently alert, you say no, as though you were cutting off the contact with great strength, and it is finished. If you are not conscious at that moment, the next minute or a few minutes later you get a queer sick feeling inside, a cold in the back, a little uneasiness, the beginning of some disharmony; you feel a maladjustment somewhere, as though the general harmony had been disturbed. Then you must concentrate all the more and with a great strength of will keep the faith that nothing can do you harm, nothing can touch you. This suffices, you can throw off the illness at that moment. But you must do this immediately, you understand, you must not wait five minutes, it must be done at once. If you wait too long and begin to feel really an uneasiness somewhere, and something begins to get quite disturbed, then it is good to sit down, concentrate and call the Force, concentrate it on the place which is getting disturbed, that is to say, which is beginning to become ill. But if you dont do anything at all, an illness indeed gets lodged somewhere; and all this, because you were not sufficiently alert. And sometimes one is obliged to follow the entire curve to find the favourable moment again and get rid of the business. I have said somewhere that in the physical domain all is a question of methoda method is necessary for realising everything. And if the illness has succeeded in touching the physical-physical, well, you must follow the procedure needed to get rid of it. This is what medical science calls the course of the illness. One can hasten the course with the help of spiritual forces, but all the same the procedure must be followed. There are some four different stages. The very first is instantaneous. The second can be done in some minutes, the third may take several hours and the fourth several days. And then, once the thing is lodged there, all will depend not only on the receptivity of the body but still more on the willingness of the part which is the cause of the disorder. You know, when the thing comes from outside it is in affinity with something inside. If it manages to pass through, to enter without ones being aware of it, it means there is some affinity somewhere, and the part of the being which has responded must be convinced.
I have known some truly extraordinary instances. If you can at the moment Wait, take an example which is quite concrete: sunstroke. This upsets you considerably, it is one of the things which makes you most illa sunstroke upsets everything, it disturbs the inner functions, it generally causes a congestion in the head and very high fever. So, if this has happened, if it has succeeded in getting through the protection and entering you, well, if you can just go into a quiet place, stretch yourself out flat, go out of your body (naturally, you must learn this; there are people who do this spontaneously, for others a long discipline is necessary), go out of your body, remain above in a way to be able to see the body (you know the phenomenon, seeing ones body when one is outside? This can be done at will, going out of ones body and remaining just above it), the body is stretched out on a bed, a bench, on the ground, anywhere; you are stretched just above it and from there, consciously, you pull the Force from above, and if you are used to doing it, if your aspiration is strong enough, you get the answer; and then, from there, taking care not to re-enter your body, you begin to push these forces into the body, like that, regularly, until you see the body receiving them (for, the first few moments they dont enter, because the body is quite upset by the illness, it is not receptive, it is curled up), you push them gently, gently, quietly, without nervousness, very peacefully, into the body. But you must not be disturbed by anyone. If someone comes along, sees you stretched out and shakes you, it is extremely dangerous. You must do this in quiet conditions, ask people not to disturb you or better shut yourself up where they cant disturb you. But you can concentrate slowly (this takes more or less timeten minutes, half an hour, one hour, two hoursdepends upon the seriousness of the disorder which has set in), slowly, from above, you concentrate the Force until you see that the body is receiving, that the Force is entering, the disorder is being set right and there is a relaxation in the body itself. Once that is done you can get back and you are cured. This has been done for a sunstroke, which is a fairly violent thing, and also for typhoid fever, and many other illnesses, as, for instance, for a liver which was suddenly upset somehow (not due to indigestion, but a liver which doesnt function properly for the moment); it may also be cured in the same way. There was a case of cholera which was healed like that. The cholera had just been caught, had entered, but was not yet lodged; it was completely cured. Consequently, when I say that if one masters the spiritual force and knows how to use it, there is no malady which cannot be cured. I dont say it just like that in the air; it is said from experience with the thing. Of course, you will say you dont know how to go out of the body, draw the Force, concentrate it, have all this mastery. It is not very frequent, but it is not impossible. And one can be sure that if one is helped In fact, there is a much easier method, it is to call for help.
1951-04-02 - Causes of accidents - Little entities, helpful or mischievous- incidents, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The other story is of the days Sri Aurobindo had the habit of Walking up and down in his rooms. He used to walk for several hours like that, it was his way of meditating. Only, he wanted to know the time, so a clock had been put in each room to enable him to see the time at any moment. There were three such clocks. One was in the room where I worked; it was, so to say, his starting-point. One day he came and asked, What time is it? He looked and the clock had stopped. He went into the next room, saying, I shall see the time there the clock had stopped. And it had stopped at the same minute as the other, you understand, with the difference of a few seconds. He went to the third room the clock had stopped. He continued Walking three times like thatall the clocks had stopped! Then he returned to my room and said, But this is impossible! This is a bad joke! and all the clocks, one after the other, started working again. I saw it myself, you know, it was a charming incident. He was angry, he said, This is a bad joke! And all the clocks started going again!
It is said that the material world in its unconsciousness has forgotten the Divine. Has it forgotten Him from the beginning?
1951-04-12 - Japan, its art, landscapes, life, etc - Fairy-lore of Japan - Culture- its spiral movement - Indian and European- the spiritual life - Art and Truth, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The art of Japan is a kind of directly mental expression in physical life. The Japanese use the vital world very little. Their art is extremely mentalised; their life is extremely mentalised. It expresses in detail quite precise mental formations. Only, in the physical, they have spontaneously the sense of beauty. For example, a thing one sees very rarely in Europe but constantly, daily in Japan: very simple people, men of the working class or even peasants go for rest or enjoyment to a place where they can see a beautiful landscape. This gives them a much greater joy than going to play cards or indulging in all sorts of distractions as they do in the countries of Europe. They are seen in groups at times, going on the roads or sometimes taking a train or a tram up to a certain point, then Walking to a place from where one gets a beautiful view. Then at this place there is a small house which fits very well into the landscape, there is a kind of small platform on which one can sit: one takes a cup of tea and at the same time sees the landscape. For them, this is the supreme enjoyment; they know nothing more pleasant. One can understand this among artists, educated people, quite learned people, but I am speaking of people of the most ordinary class, poor people who like this better than resting or relaxing at home. This is for them the greatest joy.
And in that country, for each season there are known sites. For instance, in autumn leaves become red; they have large numbers of maple-trees (the leaves of the maple turn into all the shades of the most vivid red in autumn, it is absolutely marvellous), so they arrange a place near a temple, for instance, on the top of a hill, and the entire hill is covered with maples. There is a stairway which climbs straight up, almost like a ladder, from the base to the top, and it is so steep that one cannot see what is at the top, one gets the feeling of a ladder rising to the skiesa stone stairway, very well made, rising steeply and seeming to lose itself in the skyclouds pass, and both the sides of the hill are covered with maples, and these maples have the most magnificent colours you could ever imagine. Well, an artist who goes there will experience an emotion of absolutely exceptional, marvellous beauty. But one sees very small children, families even, with a baby on the shoulder, going there in groups. In autumn they will go there. In springtime they will go elsewhere.
1951-05-05 - Needs and desires - Discernment - sincerity and true perception - Mantra and its effects - Object in action- to serve - relying only on the Divine, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But after all, I believe one doesnt need much. Once, I remember, four of us had gone on a Walking tour across the mountains of France. We had started from one town and had to reach another. It was about an eight or ten days journey across the mountain. Naturally, each of us carried a bag slung across our back, for one needs a few things. But then, before starting we had a little discussion to find out what things we really needed, what was quite indispensable. And always we came to this: Let us see, that thing we can manage in this way and everything was reduced to so little. I knew a Danish painter who used to say, Do you know, when I travel, I need only one thing, a tooth-brush. But somebody replied, But no, if you dont have a brush, you can rub with your finger!
Before undertaking any action one tries to know whether the impulse comes from the Mother or not, but generally one doesnt have enough discernment to know it and yet one acts. Can one know from the result of the action whether it came from the Mother or not?
1953-05-13, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If you want to learn, you can learn at every moment. As for me I have learnt even by listening to little childrens chatter. Every moment something may happen; someone may say a word to you, even an idiot may say a word that opens you to something enabling you to make some progress. And then, if you knew, how life becomes interesting! You can no longer get bored, that is gone, everything is interesting, everything is wonderfulbecause every minute you can learn, at each step make progress. For example, when you are in the street, instead of being simply there and not knowing what you are doing, if you look around, if you observe I remember having been thus obliged to be in the street on a shopping errand or going to see someone or to purchase something, thats not important; indeed, it is not always pleasant to be in the street, but if you begin to observe and to see how this person walks, how that one moves, how this light plays upon that object, how this little bit of a tree there suddenly makes the landscape pretty, how hundreds of things shine then every minute you can learn something. Not only can you learn, but I remember to have once had I was just Walking in the streetto have had a kind of illumination, because there was a woman Walking in front of me and truly she knew how to walk. How lovely it was! Her movement was magnificent! I saw that and suddenly I saw the whole origin of Greek culture, how all these forms descend towards the world to express Beautysimply because here was a woman who knew how to walk! You understand, this is how all things become interesting. And so, instead of going to the class and doing stupid things there (I hope none of you does that, I am sure all who come here to my class will never go and do stupid things at school, that it is exceptions that prove the rule; however, I know that unfortunately too many go there and do all the idiotic things one might invent), so, instead of that, if you could go to the class in order to make progress, every day a new little progresseven if it be the understanding why your professor bores youit would be wonderful, for all of a sudden he will no longer be boring to you, all of a sudden you will discover that he is very interesting! It is like that. If you look at life in this way, life becomes something wonderful. That is the only way of making it interesting, because life upon earth is made to be a field for progress and if we progress to the maximum we draw the maximum benefit from our life upon earth. And then one feels happy. When one does the best one can, one is happy.
When one is bored, Mother, does that mean one does not progress?
1953-07-08, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Both are good exercises. Try to compare them, youll see: you are Walking on a street, there is an army of ants going from one nest to another (you do not look down, you are talking with someone); very negligently you put one foot and then the other, and you crush hundreds of ants without even being aware of it. If you were an ant, you would say: What a wicked and beastly force! You are just Walking. You have not paid attention. But suppose there are beings of this kind for whom we are just tiny little ants. They put one foot and then the other and millions of people are killed. They are not even aware of it! They have not done it on purpose. They were just Walking along, thats all. The only difference you could make (and yet I am not quite sure), the only difference between the ant and man is that man is able to think of what happens to him, and perhaps the ant is not conscious of it? I dont know at all. I dont guarantee it. Voil.
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1953-07-22, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And I have seen just the contrary. I have seen in this country, here, village people who had only such water as was no longer water to drink, it was mere mud, I have seen it with my own eyes. It was yellowish mud in which cows had bathed and done all the rest and people had waded through it after Walking on the roads. They threw their rubbish and everything was in it. And then I saw these people. They entered it, it was, as I said, yellowish mud and there at the end there was a little bit of waterit was not water, it was yellowish, you knowthey bent over, collected this water in their palms and drank it. And there were some who did not even allow it to settle. Some knew what to put in it, the herbs needed to make it settle, and if one leaves it sufficiently long it becomes a little clearer. But there were some who knew nothing at all and drank it as it was. And I came to learn that there was just then an epidemic of cholera all round and I said: There are still people living in that village with that kind of water? I was told: We do not have a single case of cholera. They had become immune, they were habituated. But if there had been a single person who had caught it by chance, probably all would have been dead; for then fear would enter and with fear in them there would be no more resistance, for they were poor miserable things. But it is the moral conditions of these people that are terrible, more than the physical conditions the moral conditions.
There are sadhus, you know, who accept the conditions of a dirty life through saintliness. They never wash themselves, they have nothing about them that hygiene demands. They live in a truly dirty condition and they are free from all illness. Probably because they have faith and they do so purposely. Their spirit is magnificent. I am speaking of sincere people and not those who pretend. They have faith. They do not think of their body, they think of the life of their soul. They have no illness. There are some who come to a state in which an arm or a leg or any part of the body has become completely stiff due to their ascetic posture. They cannot move any more; anybody else would die under such conditions; they continue to live because they have faith and they do it purposely, because it is a thing they have imposed on themselves.
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I was in Japan. It was at the beginning of January 1919. Anyway, it was the time when a terrible flu raged there in the whole of Japan, which killed hundreds of thousands of people. It was one of those epidemics the like of which is rarely seen. In Tokyo, every day there were hundreds and hundreds of new cases. The disease appeared to take this turn: it lasted three days and on the third day the patient died. And people died in such large numbers that they could not even be cremated, you understand, it was impossible, there were too many of them. Or otherwise, if one did not die on the third day, at the end of seven days one was altogether cured; a little exhausted but all the same completely cured. There was a panic in the town, for epidemics are very rare in Japan. They are a very clean people, very careful and with a fine morale. Illnesses are very rare. But still this came, it came as a catastrophe. There was a terrible fear. For example, people were seen Walking about in the streets with a mask on the nose, a mask to purify the air they were breathing, so that it might not be full of the microbes of the illness. It was a common fear. Now, it so happened I was living with someone who never ceased troubling me: But what is this disease? What is there behind this disease? What I was doing, you know, was simply to cover myself with my force, my protection so as not to catch it and I did not think of it any more and continued doing my work. Nothing happened and I was not thinking of it. But constantly I heard: What is this? Oh, I would like to know what is there behind this illness. But could you not tell me what this illness is, why it is there? etc. One day I was called to the other end of the town by a young woman whom I knew and who wished to introduce me to some friends and show me certain things. I do not remember now what exactly was the matter, but anyway I had to cross the whole town in a tram-car. And I was in the tram and seeing these people with masks on their noses, and then there was in the atmosphere this constant fear, and so there came a suggestion to me; I began to ask myself: Truly, what is this illness? What is there behind this illness? What are the forces that are in this illness? I came to the house, I passed an hour there and I returned. And I returned with a terrible fever. I had caught it. It came to you thus, without preparation, instantaneously. Illnesses, generally illnesses from germs and microbes take a few days in the system: they come, there is a little battle inside; you win or you lose, if you lose you catch the illness, it is not complicated. But there, you just receive a letter, open the envelope, hop! puff! The next minute you have the fever. Well, that evening I had a terrible fever. The doctor was called (it was not I who called him), the doctor was called and he told me: I must absolutely give you this medicine. It was one of the best medicines for the fever, he had just a little (all their stocks were exhausted, everyone was taking it); he said: I have still a few packets, I shall give you some I beg of you, do not give it to me, I wont take it. Keep it for someone who has faith in it and will take it. He was quite disgusted: It was no use my coming here. So I said: Perhaps it was no use! And I remained in my bed, with my fever, a violent fever. All the while I was asking myself: What is this illness? Why is it there? What is there behind it At the end of the second day, as I was lying all alone, I saw clearly a being, with a part of the head cut off, in a military uniform (or the remains of a military uniform) approaching me and suddenly flinging himself upon my chest, with that half a head to suck my force. I took a good look, then realised that I was about to die. He was drawing all my life out (for I must tell you that people were dying of pneumonia in three days). I was completely nailed to the bed, without movement, in a deep trance. I could no longer stir and he was pulling. I thought: now it is the end. Then I called on my occult power, I gave a big fight and I succeeded in turning him back so that he could not stay there any longer. And I woke up.
But I had seen. And I had learnt, I had understood that the illness originated from beings who had been thrown out of their bodies. I had seen this during the First Great War, towards its end, when people used to live in trenches and were killed by bombardment. They were in perfect health, altogether healthy and in a second they were thrown out of their bodies, not conscious that they were dead. They did not know they hadnt a body any more and they tried to find in others the life they could not find in themselves. That is, they were turned into so many countless vampires. And they vampirised upon men. And then over and above that, there was a decomposition of the vital forces of people who fell ill and died. One lived in a kind of sticky and thick cloud made up of all that. And so those who took in this cloud fell ill and usually got cured, but those who were attacked by a being of that kind invariably died, they could not resist. I know how much knowledge and force were necessary for me to resist. It was irresistible. That is, if they were attacked by a being who was a centre of this whirl of bad forces, they died. And there must have been many of these, a very great number. I saw all that and I understood.
1953-11-18, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There was someone else also who told me: Oh! I can absolutely do without anything at allwe were speaking of a Walking-tour with a minimum of baggage on the back (when you are compelled to carry it for miles on end, four or five kilometres a day, you try to reduce the weight of your bag as much as possible); so we discussed about what was indispensable and had to be put in the bag. He said his tooth-brush. Another told me he needed a piece of soap (usually this spins round very simple tiny things of this kind). But here how many people there are who have never used soap, and that doesnt prevent them from being clean! There are other ways of being clean. Thats how it is, one is fixed in all kinds of small ideas and believes these are indispensable needs. And then, if you travel a little around the world, you notice that what is a need for you is for others something they dont even know of, something they have never seen in their life, which doesnt exist and hasnt the slightest importance of any kind. Hence it is not indispensable. It is just the result of an education and life in a particular environment. And these things are quite relative, and not only relative but transitory.
Voil.
1954-02-03 - The senses and super-sense - Children can be moulded - Keeping things in order - The shadow, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The names? In the Chaldean tradition they were in Chaldaic. In other traditions, in other languages; in Egypt they were written in hieroglyphs. Each system gave its names. I had a list of the namesnot only of the names but also of what they represented, what kind of see each represented but it was a very long time ago, I dont remember them any longer. As I have said there, it is in the field of things seen, felt, done at a distance by a concentrated projection of consciousness. For in stance, one is in a room and, due to an illness or an accident, one cannot move. Next to this room there is another; next to that there is a sort of bridge; after the bridge there are steps going down; and these steps go down to a big studio in the middle of a garden. Now, the person laid up in the room wishes to know what is going on in the studio. He concentrates his consciousness and then extends it, so to say (truly it is as though he extended it almost materially), and he goes along the whole way and reaches the studio. If he does this properly, he sees what there is in the studio, can hear what is going on, though he is not there himself: the body is lying in a bed in a room, but the consciousness is projected. It is a physical consciousness. It is not an inner state, for one sees physically, hears physically. If there are people in the room one sees them, and if they are speaking one hears them speaking. Naturally, it is not from the very first day that one succeeds; it asks for a very rigorous discipline. It corresponds a little (a little) to that capacity which was developed in the Red India due to the conditions of their life. I dont know how it is at present, but formerly they used to put their ear to the earth, and they had so fine an ear that they could hear steps more than a mile away. They heard the steps of those who were Walking at a distance of more than two or three kilometres simply by putting their ear to the ground. Or take the dog which, if given something to smell, finds the trail of that scent again, can follow it with its nose. Well, it is one kind of super-see, that is, a see that has reached such a degree of intensity and refinement that it can indeed feel what the ordinary see does not feel, can see at a distance, really see, see physically at a distance, through walls. It is said that the blind develop a see which enables them to feel an object at a distance. They do not see, they walk in darkness as in a black night; but they have a kind of see of touch at a distance, a material contact due to which, long before touching the object, they know; for example, if there is a piece of furniture in their way, long before knocking against it, they feel it from a distance.
In children the mind is not developed when they are small. Is this also true of the vital?
1954-04-14 - Love - Can a person love another truly? - Parental love, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are many souls upon earth, human beings Obviously, those who have a certain culture, a certain development, a certain individualisation gather together usually: instinctively they get together, form groups. And so one can find in space and time a numbernot considerable but still sufficiently largeof cultured beings who are united, but one must not believe that this gives the exact proportion of the culture and development of human beings. It is only like a sort of foam that has been brought up and is on the surface. But even among these latter, even among these beings who are already a selection, there is hardly one in a thousand who is a truly individual being, conscious of himself, united with his psychic being, governed by his inner law and, consequently, almost if not totally free from external influences; for, being conscious, when these influences come, he sees them: those that seem to him to harmonise with his inner development and normal growth he accepts; those which are opposed he refuses. And so, instead of being a chaosor in any case a frightful mixture they are organised beings, individual, conscious of themselves, Walking through life knowing where they want to go and how they want to.
Of these, if you like, we may say that they are men. That is, they are what Nature may produce of the best as far as men gothey are still men. But this is the summit of man. They are ready to become something else. But unless one is that, one is to a great extent an animal still and a very slight beginning of a man. Only that can be called man. So there you are, you have only to look into yourselves and know whether you are men or not.
1955-03-23 - Procedure for rejection and transformation - Learning by heart, true understanding - Vibrations, movements of the species - A cat and a Russian peasant woman - A cat doing yoga, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The human species has certain ways of being which are particular to it, which we reproduce almost automatically, as for example, Walking upright, like this (gesture), whereas a cat goes on four feet, you see. This instinct of standing on ones two hind feet, upright, is peculiar to man, it is a movement that belongs to the species; to sit as we do with the head up, you see, to lie down as we do on the back
You have only to watch animals: they lie down curled up, dont they? Almost all. It is with man that this way of lying on ones back, stretched out, begins, I think; I dont at all think that monkeys sleep like that, I think they sleep doubled up, that it is man who has started habits of this kind. And this reminds me
1955-05-04 - Drawing on the universal vital forces - The inner physical - Receptivity to different kinds of forces - Progress and receptivity, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Some people discover that with certain movements, certain gestures, certain activities, they enter into contact more closely. I knew people who gesticulated while Walking this truly gave them the impression that they were in contactcertain gestures they made while Walking But children do this spontaneously: when they give themselves completely in their games, running, playing, jumping, shouting; when they spend all their energies like that, they give themselves entirely, and in the joy of playing and moving and running they put themselves in contact with this universal vital force; they dont know it, but they spend their vital force in a contact with the universal vital force and that is why they can run without really feeling very tired, except after a very long time. That is, they spend so much that if they were not in contact with the universal force, they would be absolutely exhausted, immediately. And that is why, besides, they grow up; it is also because they receive more than they spend; they know how to receive more than they spend. And this does not correspond to any knowledge. It is a natural, spontaneous movement. It is the movement a movement of joy in what they are doingof joyful expenditure. One can do many things with that.
I knew young people who had always lived in citiesin a city and in those little rooms one has in the big cities in which everyone is huddled. Now, they had come to spend their holidays in the countryside, in the south of France, and there the sun is hot, naturally not as here but all the same it is very hot (when we compare the sun of the Mediterranean coasts with that of Paris, for example, it truly makes a difference), and so, when they walked around the countryside the first few days they really began to get a terrible headache and to feel absolutely uneasy because of the sun; but they suddenly thought: Why, if we make friends with the sun it wont harm us any more! And they began to make a kind of inner effort of friendship and trust in the sun, and when they were out in the sun, instead of trying to bend double and tell themselves, Oh! How hot it is, how it burns!, they said, Oh, how full of force and joy and love the sun is! etc., they opened themselves like this (gesture), and not only did they not suffer any longer but they felt so strong afterwards that they went round telling everyone who said It is hottelling them Do as we do, you will see how good it is. And they could remain for hours in the full sun, bare-headed and without feeling any discomfort. It is the same principle.
1955-05-25 - Religion and reason - true role and field - an obstacle to or minister of the Spirit - developing and meaning - Learning how to live, the elite - Reason controls and organises life - Nature is infrarational, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is among them a small number of people called the lite, who try to know what has happened to them, why they are upon earth and why all that happens to them happens. Then among these there are some who use their reason and they find a way of Walking properly on the path, much faster than the others. These are reasonable beings.
Now there is a handfula big handfulof people who are born with the feeling that there is something else to find in life, a higher purpose to life, that there is an aim, and they strive to find it. So for these the path goes beyond reason, to regions which they have to explore either with or without help, as chance takes them, and they must then discover the higher worlds. But there are not many of this kind. I dont know how many of these there are now in the world, but I have the impression that they could still be counted. So for these it depends on when they begin.
1955-06-01 - The aesthetic conscience - Beauty and form - The roots of our life - The sense of beauty - Educating the aesthetic sense, taste - Mental constructions based on a revelation - Changing the world and humanity, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Scale gives the idea of a gradation from the lowest to the highest powers; as, for example, the faculty to walk and the faculty to think: theres a gradation between the two; the faculty of Walking is an altogether physical one, the faculty of thinking is something intellectual. So these are different gradations of the consciousness of which Sri Aurobindo speaks here, the ordinary scale of our powers; he is not speaking of spiritual or yogic things; it is the scale of ordinary life, that is, for everyone it is like that. For he says that even in the barbarian, the savage, there is something which is not altogether savage, and that he has, he too, indeed, this scale; it is more rudimentary, more crude, but it exists, from the most material thing to an embryo of thought and speculation. As we are told, he has his own opinion about the world and what the world is, he has an idea about these things; it is perhaps a little childish but he has an idea about them. So he too has this gradation. Of course there are higher faculties than that of thought, but they are not frequent, that is, one doesnt often come across them.
Thats all? What are we going to do?
1956-09-26 - Soul of desire - Openness, harmony with Nature - Communion with divine Presence - Individuality, difficulties, soul of desire - personal contact with the Mother - Inner receptivity - Bad thoughts before the Mother, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are other times when, for some reason or other, one is clouded or closed or down in a hole, and so one no longer feels anything and all things lose their taste, their interest, their value; one goes about like a Walking block of wood.
Now, if one is able to consciously unite with ones psychic being, one can always be in this state of receptivity, inner joy, energy, progress, communion with the divine Presence. And when one is in communion with That, one sees it everywhere, in everything, and all things take on their true meaning.
1956-12-26 - Defeated victories - Change of consciousness - Experiences that indicate the road to take - Choice and preference - Diversity of the manifestation, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
First of all, you must feel the necessity for this change of consciousness, accept the idea that it is this, the path which must lead to the goal; and once you admit the principle, you must be watchful. And you will find, you do find it. And once you have found it, you must start Walking without any hesitation.
Indeed, the starting-point is to observe oneself, not to live in a perpetual nonchalance, a perpetual apathy; one must be attentive.
1957-03-15 - Reminiscences of Tlemcen, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
When I used to go out in the eveningstowards the end of the afternoon I used to go for a walk with Monsieur X to see the countryside, go Walking in the mountains, the neighbouring villages I used to lock my door; it was a habit with me, I always locked my door. Madame X would rarely go out, for the reasons I have already mentioned, because she was in a trance most of the time and liked to stay at home. But when I returned from the walk and opened my doorwhich was locked, and therefore nobody could have entered I would always find a kind of little garl and of flowers on my pillow. They were flowers which grew in the garden, they are called Belles de Nuit;2 we have them here, they open in the evening and have a wonderful fragrance. There was a whole alley of them, with big bushes as high as this; they are remarkable flowers I believe its the same hereon the same bush there are different coloured flowers: yellow, red, mixed, violet. They are tiny flowers like bluebells; no, rather like the convolvulus, but these grow on bushesconvolvulus is a creeper, these are busheswe have some here in the garden. She always used to put some behind her ears, for they have a lovely smell, oh! delightfully beautiful. And so, she used to take a walk in the alley between these big bushes which were quite high, and she gathered flowers, andwhen I came back, these flowers were in my room! She never told me how she did it, but she certainly did not go in there. Once she said to me, Were there no flowers in your room?Ah! yes, indeed, I said. And that was all. Then I knew it was she who had put them there.
I could tell you many stories, but I shall finish with this one she had told me, which I did not see myself.
1957-07-10 - A new world is born - Overmind creation dissolved, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One must put aside all that has been foreseen, all that has been devised, all that has been constructed, and then set off Walking into the unknown. Andcome what may! There.
A Bengali film, Rani Rasmani, which describes the lives of Sri Ramakrishna and Rani Rasmani, a rich, very intelligent and religious Bengali widow, who in 1847 built the temple of Kali at Dakshineshwar (Bengal) where Sri Ramakrishna lived and worshipped Kali.
1957-07-17 - Power of conscious will over matter, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
You see, if the matter is considered in its most modern, most external form, how is it that the movements we make almost constantly in our everyday life, or which we have to make in our work if it is a physical work, do not help or help very little, almost negligibly, to develop the muscles and to create harmony in the body? These same movements, on the other hand, if they are made consciously, deliberately, with a definite aim, suddenly start helping you to form your muscles and build up your body. There are jobs, for instance, where people have to carry extremely heavy loads, like bags of cement or sacks of corn or coal, and they make a considerable effort; to a certain extent they do it with an acquired facility, but that doesnt give them harmony of the body, because they dont do it with the idea of developing their muscles, they do it just like that. And someone who follows a method, either one he has learnt or one he has worked out for himself, and who makes these very movements with the will to develop this muscle or that, to create a general harmony in his bodyhe succeeds. Therefore, in the conscious will, there is something which adds considerably to the movement itself. Those who really want to practise physical culture as it is conceived now, everything they do, they do consciously. They walk downstairs consciously, they make the movements of ordinary life consciously, not mechanically. An attentive eye will perhaps notice a little difference but the greatest difference lies in the will they put into it, the consciousness they put into it. Walking to go somewhere and Walking as an exercise is not the same thing. It is the conscious will in all these things which is important, it is that which brings about the progress and obtains the result. Therefore, what I mean is that the method one uses has only a relative importance in itself; it is the will to obtain a certain result that is important.
The yogi or aspiring yogi who does asanas to obtain a spiritual result or even simply a control over his body, obtains these results because it is with this aim that he does them, whereas I know some people who do exactly the same things but for all sorts of reasons unrelated to spiritual development, and who havent even managed to acquire good health by it! And yet they do exactly the same thing, sometimes they even do it much better than the yogi, but it doesnt give them a stable health because they havent thought about it, havent done it with this purpose in mind. I have asked them myself, I said, But how can you be ill after doing all that?Oh! but I never thought of it, thats not why I do it. This amounts to saying that it is the conscious will which acts on matter, not the material fact.
1962 02 27, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But several times I have had experiences like this. For example, once when I was Walking in the mountains, I was on a path where there was only room for oneon one side the precipice, on the other sheer rock. There were three children behind me and a fourth person bringing up the rear. I was leading. The path ran along the edge of the rock; we could not see where we were going and besides, it was very dangerous; if anyone had slipped, he would have been over the edge. I was Walking in front when suddenly I saw, with other eyes than thesealthough I was watching my steps carefully I saw a snake, there, on the rock, waiting on the other side. Then I took one step, gently, and indeed on the other side there was a snake. That spared me the shock of surprise, because I had seen and I was advancing cautiously; and as there was no shock of surprise, I was able to tell the children without giving them a shock, Stop, keep quiet, dont stir. If there had been a shock, something might have happened. The snake had heard a noise, it was already coiled and on the defensive in front of its hole, with its head swayingit was a viper. This was in France. Nothing happened, whereas if there had been any confusion or commotion, anything could have happened.
This kind of thing has happened to me very, very oftenwith snakes it happened to me four times. Once, it was completely dark, here, near the fishing village of Ariankuppam. There was a river and it happened just at the place where it flows into the sea. It was dark the night had fallen very quickly. We were Walking along the road and just as I was about to put my foot down I had already lifted my foot and I was going to put it down I distinctly heard a voice in my ear: Be careful! And yet nobody had spoken. So I looked and saw, just as my foot was about to touch the ground, an enormous black cobra, which I would have comfortably stepped onthose people dont like that. He streaked away and across the waterwhat a beauty, my child! His hood open, head erect above the water, he went across like a king. Obviously, I would have been punished for my impertinence.
I have had hundreds and hundreds of experiences like that; at the very last moment, not a second too soon, I was informed. And in the most varied circumstances. Once, in Paris, I was crossing the Boulevard Saint Michel. It was during the last weeks; I had decided that within a certain number of months I would achieve union with the psychic Presence, the inner Divine, and I no longer had any other thought, any other concern. I lived near the Luxembourg Gardens and every evening I used to walk there but always deeply absorbed within. There is a kind of intersection there, and it is not a place to cross when one is deeply absorbed within; it was not very sensible. And so I was like that, I was Walking, when I suddenly received a shock, as if I had received a blow, as if something had hit me, and I jumped back instinctively. And as soon as I had jumped back, a tram went pastit was the tram that I had felt at a little more than arms length. It had touched the aura, the aura of protectionit was very strong at that time, I was deeply immersed in occultism and I knew how to keep it the aura of protection had been hit and that had literally thrown me backwards, as if I had received a physical shock. And what insults from the driver! I jumped back just in time and the tram went by.
I could tell scores of such stories, if I could remember them.
1970 04 08, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
462In our ignorance we are like children proud of our success in Walking erect and unaided and too eager to be aware of the mothers steadying touch on the shoulder. When we wake, we look back and see that God was leading and upholding us always.
463At first whenever I fell back into sin, I used to weep and rage against myself and against God for having suffered it. Afterwards it was as much as I could dare to ask, Why hast thou rolled me again in the mud, O my playfellow? Then even that came to my mind to seem too bold and presumptuous; I could only get up in silence, look at him out of the corner of my eyesand clean myself.
1.anon - But little better, #Anonymous - Poems, #unset, #Zen
blue from intense purity, they laid down their Walking sticks,
like the dweller who has pitched his tents.
1.anon - The Epic of Gilgamesh TabletIX, #Anonymous - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Gilgamesh on Walking onward,
raised his eyes and saw
1.anon - The Poem of Imru-Ul-Quais, #Anonymous - Poems, #unset, #Zen
I went out with her; she Walking, and drawing behind us, over our footmarks,
The skirts of an embroidered woolen garment, to erase the footprints.
1f.lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Walking cautiously downhill over the crusted snow toward the stupendous
stone labyrinth that loomed against the opalescent west, we felt almost
1f.lovecraft - Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
debonair though half a paralytic, still Walking with song among the
sights and sounds of living fantasy though shut forever from the
1f.lovecraft - Discarded Draft of, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
town. They used to ride on the railroad, Walking and taking the train
at Rowley or Ipswich, but now they use that bus.
1f.lovecraft - From Beyond, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
brushing past me and occasionally Walking or drifting through my
supposedly solid body, and thought I saw Tillinghast look at them as
1f.lovecraft - He, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
I saw him on a sleepless night when I was Walking desperately to save
my soul and my vision. My coming to New York had been a mistake; for
1f.lovecraft - H.P. Lovecrafts, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
After Walking for some distance, I encounterd the rusty tracks of a
street-railway, & the worm-eaten poles which still held the limp &
--
After Walking for some distance, I encountered the rusty tracks of a
street railway, and the worm-eaten poles which still held the limp and
1f.lovecraft - In the Walls of Eryx, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Walking 22 or 23 feet if he had found the opening which lay directly
behind himan opening which he overlooked in his exhaustion and
1f.lovecraft - Medusas Coil, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
She must have been Walking before the long mirror admiring herself.
That was like her. Vain from start to finishrevelling in her own
--
Somewhere a plank creaked beneath the foot of whatever was Walking, and
the sound seemed to snap the last cord of sanity in the poor old man.
1f.lovecraft - Pickmans Model, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
keep myself from running instead of Walking for the first vacant cab we
could sight. We changed to the elevated at the South Station, and at
1f.lovecraft - The Beast in the Cave, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
be that of a quadruped, Walking with a singular lack of unison betwixt
hind and fore feet, yet at brief and infrequent intervals I fancied
1f.lovecraft - The Challenge from Beyond, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
The head of the Walking man lolled hideously from side to side. From
the corners of his lax mouth drooled thick threads of amber froth,
1f.lovecraft - The Doom That Came to Sarnath, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
himself Walking over beds of the rarest flowers. And there were
likewise fountains, which cast scented waters about in pleasing jets
1f.lovecraft - The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
made a sound in Walking.
Meanwhile the ghoul that was Pickman had glibbered an order to the
1f.lovecraft - The Dreams in the Witch House, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
late hours and somnolent Walking and talking on the one hand, and by
the nearness of traditionally feared May-Eve on the other hand. That
--
of revellers who had been Walking past the mouth of the gangway just
after midnight. They admitted they had been drunk, but both vowed they
1f.lovecraft - The Ghost-Eater, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
drop of rain on my outstretched hand; and though still Walking on
automatically, resigned myself to the inevitable. Another moment and I
1f.lovecraft - The Hound, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
The horror reached a culmination on November 18, when St. John, Walking
home after dark from the distant railway station, was seized by some
1f.lovecraft - The Last Test, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
evil genius. Walking away with a firm step, Dalton resolved to be
watchful, and to act at the first sign of trouble.
--
the earth was made. Its like you, you damned Walking corpse, to start
something you wont or cant finish!
1f.lovecraft - The Lurking Fear, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
vulture and a Walking tree. We did, however, deem ourselves justified
in assuming that it was a living organism highly susceptible to
1f.lovecraft - The Mound, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
progress checked at times by the bad Walking that came from loose rock
fragments, or by the excessive precipitousness of the grade. The
--
hours Walking brought him apparently no closer to it than he had been
before. Behind him was always the great hill stretching upward into a
1f.lovecraft - The Night Ocean, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
car nor any way to leave the crouching house except by Walking in the
figure-haunted darknessI realized quite suddenly that I was, to all
1f.lovecraft - The Picture in the House, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
agewhen my attention was aroused by the unmistakable sound of Walking
in the room overhead. At first astonished and startled, considering the
1f.lovecraft - The Shadow out of Time, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Walking rapidly across the pallid, secret-guarding hillocks toward the
northeast.
--
The relatively easy Walking from this point onward went curiously to my
head. All the frantic eagerness hitherto frustrated by obstacles now
1f.lovecraft - The Shadow over Innsmouth, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
shambled out and began Walking up State Street in a silent, almost
furtive fashion. The driver also alighted, and I watched him as he went
--
town and spent his time Walking about or lounging around the fire
station. This hoary character, Zadok Allen, was ninety-six years old
--
a cast as possible, meanwhile Walking rapidly through the deserted
streets of gaping roofs and leaning houses toward the hotel where I had
--
within. Walking softly over to the Washington Street side I perceived
several open doorways, and chose the nearest as my route out. The
--
had rotted away. Walking or running on such a surface was very
difficult; but I did my best, and on the whole made very fair time. For
1f.lovecraft - The Statement of Randolph Carter, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
says, on the Gainesville pike, Walking toward Big Cypress Swamp, at
half past eleven on that awful night. That we bore electric lanterns,
1f.lovecraft - The Street, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
The Street. How strange seemed the denizens with their Walking-sticks,
tall beavers, and cropped heads! New sounds came from the
1f.lovecraft - The Trap, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
now Walking toward me.
First, I said hurriedly, tell me, Robertthose othersHolm? What
--
Walking alone on the afternoon of his disappearance; and had been
offered a motor ride by two young men who, as a joke and over his
1f.lovecraft - The Tree on the Hill, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
The morning of June 23rd found me Walking in those oddly shaped hills,
which had, since seven oclock, seemed very ordinary indeed. I must
1f.lovecraft - Through the Gates of the Silver Key, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
He got out of the car with the key in his pocket, Walking uphill deeper
and deeper into the shadowy core of that brooding, haunted countryside
--
marvels he had undergone he burned for the further marvel of Walking in
the flesh through those grotesque and incredible scenes which visions
--
dream. He was, as many a night before, Walking amidst throngs of
clawed, snouted beings through the streets of a labyrinth of
1f.lovecraft - Under the Pyramids, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
gulfs still lower down. I had, then, been Walking in the wrong
direction!
--
Walking, stalking, rumbling, lumbering, crawling . . . and all to the
abhorrent discords of those mocking instruments. And then . . . God
--
glimpsed a certain object Walking solemnly and steadily without any
body above the waist.
1.hcyc - 11 - Always working alone, always walking alone (from The Shodoka), #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
object:1.hcyc - 11 - Always working alone, always Walking alone (from The Shodoka)
author class:Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia
--
English version by Robert Aitken Original Language Chinese Always working alone, always Walking alone, The enlightened one walks the free way of Nirvana With melody that is old and clear in spirit And naturally elegant in style, But with body that is tough and bony, Passing unnoticed in the world. <
1.hcyc - 19 - Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen (from The Shodoka), #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
object:1.hcyc - 19 - Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen (from The Shodoka)
author class:Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia
--
English version by Robert Aitken Original Language Chinese Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen; Speaking or silent, active or quiet, the essence is at peace. Even facing the sword of death, our mind is unmoved; Even drinking poison, our mind is quiet. <
1.hcyc - 1 - There is the leisurely one (from The Shodoka), #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
English version by Robert Aitken Original Language Chinese There is the leisurely one, Walking the Tao, beyond philosophy, Not avoiding fantasy, not seeking truth. The real nature of ignorance is the Buddha-nature itself; The empty delusory body is the very body of the Dharma.
1.jk - Acrostic - Georgiana Augusta Keats, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
'This acrostic seems to have been written at the foot of Helvellyn on the 27th of June 1818, for although it appears in the Winchester journal-letter of September 1819 as given in the New York World of the 25th of June 1877, it purports to be copied from an old letter which reached Liverpool after the George Keatses had sailed for America, and which was therefore returned to the poet. The words "Foot of Helvellyn, June 27th," are printed in The World as if they belonged to the next piece copied into the journal-letter; but the context indicates that the date really belongs to the acrostic. Keats (with his friend Charles Armitage Brown) was on the way to Carlisle, to take coach there for Dumfries and begin the Walking tour in Scotland on which the first serious break-down of his health occurred. Leaving London about the middle of June, they had seen the George Keatses off from Liverpool for America, and had then started Walking from Lancaster; so that, by the time Keats was writing the Acrostic, he had already been Walking several days; and four days later the friends reached Carlisle, ending there the English portion of their walk.'
~ Poetical Works of John Keats, ed. H. Buxton Forman, Crowell publ. 1895. by owner. provided at no charge for educational purposes
1.jk - Endymion - Book III, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
He spake, and Walking to that aged form,
Look'd high defiance. Lo! his heart 'gan warm
1.jk - Ode To A Nightingale, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
Haydon, in one of his letters to Miss Mitford (Corresp. &c., Vol. 2, pg. 72) says of Keats-- "The death of his brother wounded him deeply, and it appeared to me from that hour he began to droop. He wrote his exquisite 'Ode to the Nightingale' at this time, and as we were one evening Walking in the Kilburn meadows he repeated it to me, before he put it to paper, in a low, tremulous undertone which affected me extremely."
Lord Houghton says the Ode was suggested by the continued song of a nightingale which, in the spring of 1819, had built its nest close to Wentworth Place. "Keats," says his Lordship (Aldine ed., 1876, pg. 237), "took great pleasure in her song, and one morning took his chair from the breakfast-table to the grass plot under a plum tree, where he remained between two and three hours. He then reached the house with some scraps of paper in his hand, which he soon put together in the form of his Ode."
1.jk - Staffa, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
'After a detention of a few hours at Inverary owing to Brown's suffering from sore feet, the travellers started again on the 19th of July, walked along "20 miles by the side of Loch Awe" -- southward, I suppose, for they next paused "between Loch Craignish and the sea just opposite Long Island," where Keats gives a very minute account to Tom of the locale. They then pushed on to Oban, "15 miles in a soaking rain" -- due north again. At Oban Keats finished the unpublished letter to Tom containing The Gadfly and the Stranger sonnet, and posted it, announcing that the travellers had given up the idea of Mull and Staffa on account of the expense. This was probably on the 22nd of July. On the 23rd he begins a fresh letter (Life, Letters &c.) stating that just after he had posted the other the guide to Mull came in and made a bargain with them. This latter letter is dated the 23rd of July, "Dunancullen" in the Life: "Dimancullen" is the name given in the same connexion in the New York World, where some Keats documents appeared; but probably the place indicated is Derrynaculen, which is at a situation on the walk through the southern part of the Isle of Mull corresponding with Keats's narrative. This narrative seems to show that on the 23rd of July they crossed from Oban to Kerrera by one ferry and from Kerrera to Mull by another, and walked across the south of the Island to the western extremity to cross to Iona by boat. By the 26th, Keats resumed his letter to Tom at Oban, and narrated that the thirty-seven miles of Walking had been very miserable, and that he and Brown had taken a boat at a bargain to carry them from Iona to Staffa, and land them finally at the head of Loch Nakeal, whence they could return to Oban by a better route. He vividly describes Staffa, including Fingal's Cave, breaks into verse with the lines given above, and resumes prose with,
"I am sorry I am so indolent as to write such stuff as this." Probably the poem should be dated the 26th of July, 1818.'
1.jr - No One Here but Him, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
English version by Andrew Harvey Original Language Persian/Farsi & Turkish Watching my hand; He is moving it. Hearing my voice; He is speaking... Walking from room to room -- No one here but Him. [1722.jpg] -- from Perfume of the Desert: Inspirations from Sufi Wisdom, by Andrew Harvey / Eryk Hanut <
1.jr - There Is A Community Of Spirit, #Rumi - Poems, #Jalaluddin Rumi, #Poetry
of Walking in the noisy street
and being the noise.
1.kbr - I Talk To My Inner Lover, And I Say, Why Such Rush?, #Songs of Kabir, #Kabir, #Sufism
Is it logical you would be Walking around entirely
orphaned now?
1.mb - No one knows my invisible life, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
English version by Willis Barnstone No one knows my invisible life. Pain and madness for Rama. Our wedding bed is high up in the gallows. Meet him? If the dark healer comes, we'll negotiate the hurt. I love the man who takes care of cows. The cowherd. Cowherd and dancer. My eyes are drunk, worn out from making love with him. We are one. I am now his dark color. People notice me, point fingers at me. They see my desire, since I'm Walking about like a lunatic. I'm wiped out, gone. Yet no one knows I live with my prince, the cowherd. The palace can't contain me. I leave it behind. I couldn't care less about gossip or my royal name. I'll be with him in all his gardens. [1508.jpg] -- from To Touch the Sky: Poems of Mystical, Spiritual & Metaphysical Light, Translated by Willis Barnstone <
1.pbs - Peter Bell The Third, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
Into a Walking paradox;
For he was neither part nor whole,
1.pbs - Prometheus Unbound, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
Met his own image Walking in the garden.
That apparition, sole of men, he saw.
1.pbs - Rosalind and Helen - a Modern Eclogue, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
Walking beneath the night of life,
Whose hours extinguished, like slow rain
1.pbs - The Devils Walk. A Ballad, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
Thus did the Devil, through earth Walking,
Hum low a hellish song.
1.pbs - The Mask Of Anarchy, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
Was Walking with a quiet mien:
XXXIII.
1.poe - Eureka - A Prose Poem, #Poe - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Again; -Let us suppose ourselves Walking, at night, on a highway. In a field on one side of the road, is a line of tall objects, say trees, the figures of which are distinctly defined against the background of the sky. This line of objects extends at right angles to the road, and from the road to the horizon. Now, as we proceed along the road, we see these objects changing their positions, respectively, in relation to a certain fixed point in that portion of the firmament which forms the background of the view. Let us suppose this fixed point -sufficiently fixed for our purpose -to be the rising moon. We become aware, at once, that while the tree nearest us so far alters its position in respect to the moon, as to seem flying behind us, the tree in the extreme distance has scarcely changed at all its relative position with the satellite. We then go on to perceive that the farther the objects are from us, the less they alter their positions; and the converse. Then we begin, unwittingly, to estimate the distances of individual trees by the degrees in which they evince the relative alteration. Finally, we come to understand how it might be possible to ascertain the actual distance of any given tree in the line, by using the amount of relative alteration as a basis in a simple geometrical problem. Now this relative alteration is what we call "parallax;" and by parallax we calculate the distances of the heavenly bodies. Applying the principle to the trees in question, we should, of course, be very much at a loss to comprehend the distance of that tree, which, however far we proceeded along the road, should evince no parallax at all. This, in the case described, is a thing impossible; but impossible only because all distances on our Earth are trivial indeed: -in comparison with the vast cosmical quantities, we may speak of them as absolutely nothing.
Now, let us suppose the star Alpha Lyrae directly overhead; and let us imagine that, instead of standing on the Earth, we stand at one end of a straight road stretching through Space to a distance equalling the diameter of the Earth's orbit -that is to say, to a distance of 190 millions of miles. Having observed, by means of the most delicate micrometrical instruments, the exact position of the star, let us now pass along this inconceivable road, until we reach its other extremity. Now, once again, let us look at the star. It is precisely where we left it. Our instruments, however delicate, assure us that its relative position is absolutely -is identically the same as at the commencement of our unutterable journey. No parallax none whatever -has been found.
1.rmr - Going Blind, #Rilke - Poems, #Rainer Maria Rilke, #Poetry
she would be beyond all Walking, and would fly.
1.rmr - Lament, #Rilke - Poems, #Rainer Maria Rilke, #Poetry
an go Walking beneath the enormous sky.
I would like to pray.
1.rmr - The Swan, #Rilke - Poems, #Rainer Maria Rilke, #Poetry
is like the awkward Walking of the swan.
And dying-to let go, no longer feel
1.rt - Akash Bhara Surya Tara Biswabhara Pran (Translation), #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
While Walking in the woodlands
With my feet I have touched the blades of grass
1.rt - And In Wonder And Amazement I Sing, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
While Walking in the woodlands
With my feet I have touched the blades of grass
1.rt - At The Last Watch, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
Your gold-mounted ivory Walking stick.
If there were time, I thought,
1.rt - Lovers Gifts XIII - Last Night In The Garden, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
To-day in the dew-cooled calm of the dawn you are Walking to
God's temple, bathed and robed in white, with a basketful of
1.rt - The Gardener XIV - I Was Walking By The Road, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
object:1.rt - The Gardener XIV - I Was Walking By The Road
author class:Rabindranath Tagore
--
I was Walking by the road, I do not
know why, when the noonday was past
--
I was Walking by the road, I do not
know why.
1.rt - The Last Bargain, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
. "Come and hire me," I cried, while in the morning I was Walking on the stone-paved road.
Sword in hand, the King came in his chariot.
1.rt - The Portrait, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
We were Walking side by side
But behind the pall of night
--
When Walking our way in an absent mind
Dont we fail to notice a flower or a star?
1.rt - Vocation, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
I can see through my open window the watchman Walking up and
down.
--
I wish I were a watchman Walking the streets all night,
chasing the shadows with my lantern.
1.rwe - Uriel, #Emerson - Poems, #Ralph Waldo Emerson, #Philosophy
Once, among the Pleiads Walking,
Sayd overheard the young gods talking;
1.snk - In Praise of the Goddess, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
English version by W. Norman Brown Slender as a streak of lightning, composed of the essence of sun, moon and fire, situated above the six lotuses, the manifestation of you in the forest of great lotuses, those with mind free of stain and illusion who view it, mighty ones, experience a flood of supreme joy. Let my idle chatter be the muttering of prayer, my every manual movement the execution of ritual gesture, my Walking a ceremonial circumambulation, my eating and other acts the rite of sacrifice, my lying down prostration in worship, my every pleasure enjoyed with dedication of myself, let whatever activity is mine be some form of worship of you. Bearing a mark of vermilion so that the impenetrable darkness of your thick locks with the hosts of their beauties makes it seem like an imprisoned ray of the new-risen sun, may it bring welfare to us, as though the flood of beauty of your face had a channel to flow in, the streak of which is the part in your hair. Your right eye, because it has the sun as its essence, gives birth to the day; Your left eye, which has the moon as its substance, produces the night; Your third eye, which resembles a golden lotus slightly opened, creates the twilight intervening between day and night. [2701.jpg] -- from A Treasury of Sanskrit Poetry, Edited by A. N. D. Haksar <
1.srm - Disrobe, show Your beauty (from The Marital Garland of Letters), #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
English version by Ivan M. Granger Original Language Tamil Disrobe, show Your beauty. Let this fickle mind see You, and rest, O Arunachala! The mind, that strumpet, will stop Walking her streets, if she can just see You. Uncover, and bind her with Your Beauty, O Arunachala! The drunken mind, on her unsteady legs, blocks the sight of You, and keeps me from peace. Give me the vision of Your Beauty, O Arunachala! You've taken me; if you don't now crush me in your embrace, where then is your honor, O Arunachala? <
1.stl - My Song for Today, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
English version by Pierre-Antoine Dujardin Original Language French My life is an instant, an hour passing by. My life is but a day escaping and fleeing. You know well, O my god! to love you on this earth I only have today. Oh! I love you, Jesus, to you my soul aspires. If only for one day remain my sweet support. Come and reign in my heart, bestow your smile on me if only for today! Do I care if, O Lord, somber is the future? To pray for tomorrow, oh no this I cannot! But my heart keep unstained, in your shadow drape me If only for today. Thinking of tomorrow, I fear my fickleness. I can feel in my heart sadness and despair bloom. But I welcome, my God, trial and suffering If only for today. I am soon to see you on the eternal shore. O, Divine Pilot! Whose hand is guiding me. On these unruly waves please keep my boat in peace If only for today. Oh! Let me hide, my lord, let me hide in your Face. From there I will not have to bear the world's vain noise. Bestow your love on me, bestow your grace again If only for today. Near to your divine heart, passing things disappear I'm no longer affraid of the fears of the night Oh! Offer me, Jesus, a seating in this Heart If only for today. Living, Heavenly Bread, God-given Eucharist, O sacred Mystery! You the product of Love... Come inhabit my heart, Jesus, my pristine Host, If only for today. Deign to unite to me, sacred and Holy Vine, So that this weakest branch can bear its fruits for you So that I can give you well ripe and golden grapes, My Lord, as of today. This bunch of grapes of love, the seeds it bears are souls I have but, to grow it, this one, this fleeting day The fire of Apostles, I ask of you, Jesus, If only for today. Virgin Immaculate! You are my Guiding Star Giving Jesus to me, uniting me to Him. O Mother! let me rest, secluded in your veil If only for today. Holy Guardian Angel, take me under your wing. May your fires cast light on this path I'm Walking. Come and direct my steps... I cry to you, help me If only for today. O Lord, I want your sight, without veils or clouds, But still exiled from you, from afar I languish. That your lovable face stays hidden, I may bear If only for today. Soon I will fly away, I will speak your praises When the sunset-less day will dawn upon my soul. Then on the Angels' lyre I'll be able to sing The Eternal Today!... <
1.tc - After Liu Chai-Sangs Poem, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
English version by David Hinton Original Language Chinese I'd long felt these mountains and lakes beckoning, and wouldn't have thought twice, but my family and friends couldn't bear talk of living apart. Then one lucky day a strange feeling came over me, and I left, Walking-stick in hand, for my western farm. No one was going back home: on those outland roads, farm after farm lay in empty ruins, but our thatch hut's already good as ever, and you'd think our new fields had been tended for years. When valley winds turn cold, spring wine eases hunger and work, and though it isn't strong, just baby-girl wine, it's better than nothing for worry. Distant -- as months and years pass away here, the bustling world's racket grows distant. Plowing and weaving provide all we use. Who needs anything more? Away, ever away into this hundred-year life and beyond, my story and I vanish together like this. [2225.jpg] -- from The Selected Poems of T'ao Ch'ien, Translated by David Hinton
1.tr - At Master Do's Country House, #Ryokan - Poems, #Taigu Ryokan, #Buddhism
My Walking stick has brought us home.
In the ancient pond huge, contented fish.
1.wby - A Coat, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
In Walking naked.
On google, I found this about Yeats:
1.wby - Anashuya And Vijaya, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
Within the temple, devious Walking, made
To wander by their melancholy minds.
1.wby - Broken Dreams, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
By merely Walking in a room.
Your beauty can but leave among us
--
Leaning or standing or Walking
In the first loveliness of womanhood,
1.wby - The Sad Shepherd, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
Went Walking with slow steps along the gleaming
And humming Sands, where windy surges wend:
1.wby - The Secret Rose, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
Who met Fand Walking among flaming dew
By a grey shore where the wind never blew,
1.wby - The Statesmans Holiday, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
Tall dames go Walking in grass-green Avalon.
Am I a great Lord Chancellor
--
Tall dames go Walking in grass-green Avalon.
With boys and girls about him.
--
Tall dames go Walking in grass-green Avalon.
1.wby - The Wanderings Of Oisin - Book III, #Yeats - Poems, #William Butler Yeats, #Poetry
And Grania, Walking and smiling, sewed with her needle of bone.
So lived I and lived not, so wrought I and wrought not, with creatures of dreams,
1.whitman - American Feuillage, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Through Mannahatta's streets I Walking, these things gathering;
On interior rivers, by night, in the glare of pine knots, steamboats
1.whitman - As I Ebbd With the Ocean of Life, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Miles Walking, the sound of breaking waves the other side of me,
Paumanok there and then as I thought the old thought of likenesses,
--
You up there Walking or sitting,
Whoever you are, we too lie in drifts at your feet.
--- Overview of noun walking
The noun walking has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. walk, walking ::: (the act of traveling by foot; "walking is a healthy form of exercise")
--- Overview of verb walk
The verb walk has 10 senses (first 5 from tagged texts)
1. (184) walk ::: (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps; "Walk, don't run!"; "We walked instead of driving"; "She walks with a slight limp"; "The patient cannot walk yet"; "Walk over to the cabinet")
2. (3) walk ::: (accompany or escort; "I'll walk you to your car")
3. (3) walk ::: (obtain a base on balls)
4. (1) walk ::: (traverse or cover by walking; "Walk the tightrope"; "Paul walked the streets of Damascus"; "She walks 3 miles every day")
5. (1) walk ::: (give a base on balls to)
6. walk ::: (live or behave in a specified manner; "walk in sadness")
7. walk ::: (be or act in association with; "We must walk with our dispossessed brothers and sisters"; "Walk with God")
8. walk ::: (walk at a pace; "The horses walked across the meadow")
9. walk ::: (make walk; "He walks the horse up the mountain"; "Walk the dog twice a day")
10. walk, take the air ::: (take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure; "The lovers held hands while walking"; "We like to walk every Sunday")
--- Overview of adj walking
The adj walking has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) walk-to, walking ::: (close enough to be walked to; "walking distance"; "the factory with the big parking lot...is more convenient than the walk-to factory")
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun walking
1 sense of walking
Sense 1
walk, walking
=> locomotion, travel
=> motion, movement, move
=> change
=> action
=> act, deed, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
--- Hyponyms of noun walking
1 sense of walking
Sense 1
walk, walking
=> ambulation
=> sleepwalking, somnambulism, somnambulation, noctambulism, noctambulation
=> gait
=> march, marching
=> plodding, plod
=> prowl
=> shamble, shambling, shuffle, shuffling
=> wading
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun walking
1 sense of walking
Sense 1
walk, walking
=> locomotion, travel
--- Similarity of adj walking
1 sense of walking
Sense 1
walk-to(prenominal), walking(prenominal)
=> close (vs. distant)
--- Antonyms of adj walking
1 sense of walking
Sense 1
walk-to(prenominal), walking(prenominal)
INDIRECT (VIA close) -> distant
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun walking
1 sense of walking
Sense 1
walk, walking
-> locomotion, travel
=> brachiation
=> walk, walking
=> step
=> gait
=> run, running
=> jog, trot, lope
=> crawl, crawling, creep, creeping
=> lap, circle, circuit
=> dance step, step
=> stroke
--- Pertainyms of adj walking
1 sense of walking
Sense 1
walk-to(prenominal), walking(prenominal)
--- Derived Forms of adj walking
--- Grep of noun walking
devil's walking stick
disability of walking
fire walking
manner of walking
plantation walking horse
power walking
sleepwalking
tennessee walking horse
tightrope walking
walking
walking delegate
walking fern
walking horse
walking leaf
walking on air
walking papers
walking shoe
walking stick
walkingstick
Wikipedia - AeroSuperBatics -- British aerobatics and wingwalking team
Wikipedia - A Line Made by Walking -- Artwork by Richard Long
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Wikipedia - Category:Tightrope walking
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Wikipedia - Footprint -- Impressions or images left behind by a person walking or running
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Wikipedia - Orthograde posture -- Manner of walking
Wikipedia - Overkill's The Walking Dead -- 2018 video game
Wikipedia - Pedestrianism -- 19th-century competitive walking contest
Wikipedia - Photowalking -- Communal activity of camera enthusiasts
Wikipedia - Plantigrade -- Walking with the toes and metatarsals flat on the ground
Wikipedia - Popliteus muscle -- Muscle responsible for unlocking the knees during walking
Wikipedia - Pottiputki -- A hand tool that allows ergonomic seed planting while walking
Wikipedia - Primer walking -- DNA sequencing method
Wikipedia - Racewalking -- Athletic discipline
Wikipedia - Recreational walks in Derbyshire -- List of walking trails in Derbyshire, England
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Wikipedia - Sasha Williams (The Walking Dead) -- The Walking Dead character
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Wikipedia - Simon (The Walking Dead) -- Fictional character from The Walking Dead
Wikipedia - Slacklining -- Sport similar to tightrope walking
Wikipedia - Sleepwalking scene -- critically celebrated scene from Macbeth
Wikipedia - Sleepwalking -- sleeping phenomenon combined with wakefulness
Wikipedia - Snowshoe -- Footwear for walking easily across snow
Wikipedia - Solvitur ambulando -- Solvitur ambulando "it is solved by walking"
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Wikipedia - The Magic Walking Stick -- 1932 children's novel by John Buchan
Wikipedia - The Walking Dead (1936 film) -- 1936 film by Michael Curtiz
Wikipedia - The Walking Dead (1995 film) -- 1995 film directed by Preston A. Whitmore II
Wikipedia - The Walking Dead (comic book) -- Comic book series
Wikipedia - The Walking Dead (franchise) -- Franchise
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Wikipedia - The Walking Dead: Road to Survival -- 2015 video game
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Wikipedia - The Walking Dead (season 3) -- Season of television series
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Wikipedia - The Walking Dead (TV series) -- American post-apocalyptic drama television series
Wikipedia - The Walking Dead (video game series) -- Video game series
Wikipedia - The Walking Dead (video game) -- Episodic adventure video game
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Wikipedia - Walking in the Sunshine -- 1981 single by Bad Manners
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Wikipedia - Walking Tall: Final Chapter -- 1977 film by Jack Starrett
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Sanjay and Craig (2013 - 2015) - Sanjay and Craig (who happens to be a talking snake) are best friends. Together they wander the suburbs doing the impossible, walking tightropes, shredding video game world records, posing as doctors, befriending gorillas and basically doing whatever they want to do. They're unstoppable... as long a...
Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983 - 1987) - A normal innocent housewife named Amanda King was walking down a subway platform until a man in a white tuxedo (whom happens to be a secret agent named Lee Stetson aka Scarecrow) stopped her a handed her a package. He told her to give the package to the man in a red hat on the train. Amanda reluctan...
High School of the Dead (2010 - 2010) - It happened suddenly: The dead began to rise and Japan was thrown into total chaos. As these monsters begin terrorizing a high school, Takashi Kimuro is forced to kill his best friend when he gets bitten and joins the ranks of the walking dead. Vowing to protect Rei Miyamoto, the girlfriend of the m...
An American Werewolf In London(1981) - While wandering the English moors on vacation, college yanks David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne) happen upon a quaint pub with a mysterious patronage who warn them not to leave the road when walking after dark. Irreverent of such advice as characters in horror films always are, the two d...
Godzilla Vs. Gigan(1972) - Giant alien cockroaches try to conqure earth with there remote controlled monsters, Gigan and King Ghidorah. When the millitary fails to stop these collosle walking nightmares, our only hope is Godzilla king of the monsters, and his best buddy Anguirus, as well as a cartoonist a kung fu bimbo and a...
Ghost(1990) - Sam and Molly are a very happy couple and deeply in love. Walking back to their new apartment after a night out at the theatre, they encounter a thief in a dark alley, and Sam is murdered. He finds himself trapped as a ghost and realises that his death was no accident. He must warn Molly about the d...
Dead Man Walking(1995) - Tim Robbins' second directorial effort (after the political satire Bob Roberts) was this drama based on a true story, which explores the issue of capital punishment. Sister Helen Prejean (Susan Sarandon) is a nun, teacher, and activist living in Louisiana who has often worked with prisoners sentence...
The Tommyknockers(1993) - Adapted for TV, this is a Stephen King story in which an aspiring writer and an alcoholic poet (with a metal plate in his head, no less) literally stumble over a long-buried spaceship while walking in the woods. It starts glowing green when uncovered and soon everyone in town has green eyes, their t...
Prom Night III: The Last Kiss(1990) - Mary Lou, the prom queen burned to death by her boyfriend back in the fifties, has escaped from hell and is once again walking the hallways of Hamilton High School, looking for blood. She chooses as her escort in world of the living Alex, an average depressed student with dreams of one day becoming...
Phenomena(1985) - One of the masters of horror, Italian horror director Dario Argento (SUSPIRIA, TENEBRE) brings us a horror film that lies within telepathic minds, witnessing murder when sleepwalking, an
Zaat(1975) - Dr. Kurt Leopold is a former Mad Nazi Scientist transforms himself into mutant walking catfish. He attempts to attack those who wronged him in past along with creating a new dominate race of creatures by using the same process o
The Accidental Tourist(1988) - After the death of his son, Macon Leary, a travel writer, seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon's wife, seems to be having trouble too, and thinks it would be best if the two would just split up. After the break up, Macon meets a strange outgoing woman, who seems to bring him back down to ea...
Walking Thunder(1997) - "In the 1850s, a young boy and his family on their way West become stranded in the Rockies. With the help of a local mountain man, a Sioux medicine man, and a legendary bear knows as "Walking Thunder," the boy learns to become a man, and his family's survival is secured. Brian Keith narrates this fa...
Walking Tall(2004) - A sheriff(Dwayne"The Rock"Johnson),and his deputy (Johnny Knoxville),leads a crusade to clean up his Washington hometown. A Remake of the 1973 film.
Walking Tall(1973) - True story of Bufford Pusser(Joe Don Baker) a Sheriff who goes on a crusade to rid his Tennessee hometown of corruption.
Eight Crazy Nights(2002) - In the town of Dukesberry, New Hampshire, Davey Stone who is a 33-year-old trouble making alcoholic gets arrested for walking out on paying a restaurant bill. Instead of jail time for another addition to his long criminal record, he gets sentenced to community service helping 70-year-old basketball...
Sleepwalking(2008) - The drama follows a 12-year-old girl's struggle to come to terms with her mother's abandonment.
Vampires: Los Muertos(2002) - A vampire hunter and a priest fight a band of the walking dead in Mexico.
Walking The Edge(1983) - A Los Angeles taxi driver helps a distraught young woman on the run from gangsters after they murder her husband and young son.
The Earth Dies Screaming(1964) - A group of survivor start gathering in a inn in Britain. A gas attack has took out a good chunk on the population but the survivors soon discover there are robots walking patrolling the streets. These robots can kill any one within a single touch and can resurrect the dead for assistance to hunt dow...
Walking The Halls(2012) - High school senior Casey finds herself seduced into the fast lifestyle of a call girl ring run by a campus police officer and must pull herself out before she loses all self-control.
Paddington(2014) - Migrating out of the jungles of Peru, Paddington bear winds up walking the streets of London where he is taken in by the Brown family. Even in the wake of his newfound love he needs to be saved from a taxidermist that wants him stuffed for her collection.
1917 (2019) ::: 8.3/10 -- R | 1h 59min | Drama, Thriller, War | 10 January 2020 (USA) -- April 6th, 1917. As a regiment assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap. Director: Sam Mendes Writers:
An American Werewolf in London (1981) ::: 7.5/10 -- R | 1h 37min | Comedy, Horror | 21 August 1981 (USA) -- Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists. Director: John Landis Writer: John Landis
Dead Man Walking (1995) ::: 7.5/10 -- R | 2h 2min | Crime, Drama | 2 February 1996 (USA) -- A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families. Director: Tim Robbins Writers: Helen Prejean (book) (as Sister Helen Prejean C.S.J.), Tim Robbins
Fear the Walking Dead ::: TV-MA | 44min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi | TV Series (2015 ) -- A Walking Dead spin-off, set in Los Angeles, following two families who must band together to survive the undead apocalypse. Creators: Dave Erickson, Robert Kirkman
Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008) ::: 6.9/10 -- R | 1h 57min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 21 August 2009 (USA) -- Martin McGartland joins the I.R.A. and feeds information to Britain's Special Branch Agent Fergus. Director: Kari Skogland Writers: Martin McGartland (inspired by the book "Fifty Dead Man Walking"),
Sleepwalk with Me (2012) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 21min | Comedy | 4 April 2013 (Australia) -- A burgeoning stand-up comedian struggles with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is desperate to ignore. Directors: Mike Birbiglia, Seth Barrish (co-director) Writers:
Talking Dead ::: TV-14 | 44min | Talk-Show | TV Series (2011 ) -- A talk show about The Walking Dead (2010) and Fear the Walking Dead (2015). Stars: Chris Hardwick, Denise M. Huth, Norman Reedus
The Rookie ::: TV-14 | 43min | Comedy, Crime, Drama | TV Series (2018 ) -- Starting over isn't easy, especially for John Nolan who, after a life-altering incident, is pursuing his dream of joining the LAPD. As their oldest rookie, he's met with skepticism from those who see him as just a walking midlife crisis. Creator:
The Secret World of Alex Mack ::: TV-Y7 | 30min | Comedy, Drama, Family | TV Series (19941998) -- She's Alex Mack. One minute she's walking home...the next there's a crash and she's drenched in some weird chemical! Then she gets powers... Creators:
The Walking Dead ::: TV-14 | 44min | Drama, Horror, Thriller | TV Series (2010 ) -- Sheriff Deputy Rick Grimes wakes up from a coma to learn the world is in ruins and must lead a group of survivors to stay alive. Creators: Frank Darabont, Angela Kang
The Walking Dead: Webisodes ::: 8min | Short, Drama, Horror | TV Series (20112013) A web-series spin-off of "The Walking Dead." Stars: Rick Otto, Lilli Birdsell, Josh Stewart Add to Watchlist
Veronica Mars (2014) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 47min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 13 March 2014 (Germany) -- Years after walking away from her past as a young private eye, Veronica Mars gets pulled back to her hometown, just in time for her high school reunion, in order to help her old flame Logan Echolls, who's embroiled in a murder mystery. Director: Rob Thomas Writers:
Walking and Talking (1996) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 1h 26min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 17 July 1996 (USA) -- Just as Amelia thinks she's over her anxiety and insecurity, her best friend announces her engagement, bringing her anxiety and insecurity right back. Director: Nicole Holofcener Writer: Nicole Holofcener Stars:
Walking Tall (1973) ::: 7.0/10 -- R | 2h 5min | Action, Biography, Crime | 22 February 1973 (USA) -- Based on the life of Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser whom almost single-handily cleaned up his small town of crime and corruption, but at a personal cost of his family life and nearly his own life. Director: Phil Karlson Writers:
War of the Worlds ::: TV-MA | 49min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi | TV Series (2019 ) -- Set in contemporary France, this Anglo-French reimagining of H. G. Wells' classic in the style of Walking Dead follows pockets of survivors forced to team up after an apocalyptic extra-terrestrial strike. Creator:
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Akaneiro ni Somaru Saka -- -- TNK -- 12 eps -- Visual novel -- Harem Comedy Romance Ecchi School -- Akaneiro ni Somaru Saka Akaneiro ni Somaru Saka -- Yuuhi Katagiri is not your average girl – she's the treasured daughter of the Katagiri family. She's generally kept under strict supervision, but one day ends up walking home from school on her own. This proves to be instant trouble when a group of boys start harassing her. Junichi Nagase, who was on his way home from a convenience store, sees the troubled Yuuhi and comes to her rescue. One of the boys recognized Junichi as the famed "Geno Killer" and they dash off. Yuuhi thanks Junichi and when she asked for his name, he just waves and leaves. Of course, he regrets trying to act cool in front of the beautiful girl right away, wishing he asked her name. -- -- The following day, a transfer student joins Junichi's class – it's Yuuhi! She calls Junichi out as the "Geno Killer", the only name she remembers him by, and rumors about the two spread quickly. Matters are made worse when Junichi kisses Yuuhi due to a misunderstanding. And on top of all that, it turns out that Junichi is Yuuhi's fiancé! -- -- Yuuhi doesn't see Junichi as someone worthy. But, she could not go against her father's wishes. The only thing that Yuuhi can do is live with Junichi in the house he shares with his little sister Minato, and prove that Junichi is not worthy to be her husband. Will she succeed in proving his unworthiness, or will she fall in love on the way? -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Oct 3, 2008 -- 135,369 6.45
Amaenaide yo!!: Yasumanaide yo!! -- -- Studio Deen -- 1 ep -- - -- Ecchi Comedy Romance Supernatural -- Amaenaide yo!!: Yasumanaide yo!! Amaenaide yo!!: Yasumanaide yo!! -- Ikko and the girls of Saienji Buddhist Temple are participating in a game show competition and happen to win a trip to a secluded inn. At the inn, Ikko is presented with the challenge of not awakening while all of the girls are sleepwalking. -- -- Licensor: -- Media Blasters, Nozomi Entertainment -- Special - Dec 21, 2005 -- 13,484 6.67
Amatsuki -- -- Studio Deen -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Action Demons Fantasy Historical Shoujo Supernatural -- Amatsuki Amatsuki -- Tokidoki Rikugou is a history-hating student who flunks out of his Japanese History course; his high school forces him to make up for his failed grade by attending a special museum lecture. Its star exhibit, a vast recreation of the Edo Period, promises to alleviate the delinquent student's poor grades with an elaborate simulation of the Tokugawa Shogunate: the Edo Bakumatsu Walking Tour and Exhibition. -- -- Knowing next to nothing about samurai culture or the times he's walked into, he is quickly surprised to learn of the superstitious nature of Japan during the 1600s. Quickly dismissing the existence of gods and demons, he is shocked when confronted by a demon on a bridge, who attacks the unsuspecting high-schooler. Saved by a mysterious swordsman named Kuchiha, he discovers that he can no longer escape the simulation at the history museum. -- -- Meeting another swordsman named Kon Shinonome, he discovers another contemporary that was trapped in the simulation before him. Quickly adjusting to his new home, Tokidoki must now help protect the village from demons, while uncovering the mystery of both the simulation and the company that created it. -- -- 53,203 6.91
Ao Haru Ride -- -- Production I.G -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Romance School Shoujo Slice of Life -- Ao Haru Ride Ao Haru Ride -- Futaba Yoshioka used to be an attractive and popular middle-schooler—well liked by the opposite sex, but ostracized by the girls. Nevertheless, she was able to brush all that off, because the only opinion that truly mattered to her was that of Kou Tanaka, a classmate with whom she shared a shelter from rain once, followed by quite a few other precious and significant memories. She even succeeded at making plans to meet with the quiet and innocent boy at the summer festival, but a simple misunderstanding, and Tanaka's subsequent disappearance, left her walking the halls of her school friendless. -- -- Now in high school, Futaba is not your typical adolescent girl. Determined to become a class favorite this time, she avoids all unwanted attention and, instead of acting cute and feminine, only stands out through her tomboyish behavior and disheveled look. But still, her world is soon turned upside down when the only boy she ever liked unexpectedly comes into her life once again—except he goes by the name of Kou Mabuchi now, and it is not his name alone that has gone through a sea change. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 638,266 7.66
Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo. -- -- Lay-duce -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Romance School Shounen -- Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo. Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo. -- When they were little kids laughing and playing together, Izumi Norimoto and Kazusa Onodera were like siblings. But as their bodies matured into middle school, Kazusa began seeing him as something different; unfortunately for her, so did the other girls. Ostracized, Kazusa had no choice but to distance herself from him going into high school. After joining the literature club, however, she finds friends that keep her mind occupied. Known throughout the school for reading aloud sex scenes in literature novels, the club's reputation has kept all teachers from accepting the task of being their adviser. -- -- During a discussion about what they would put on their bucket list, one of the girls says one thing: sex. This single word sends ripples throughout the five girls, as the thought of sex begins taking over their daily lives. And, after walking in on Izumi during a very private moment, Kazusa is sent into a spiral of emotion that forces her to face her true feelings for him. Now, with their hearts racing and the literature club facing immediate disbandment, the five girls must work hard to keep both their sanities and their club alive. -- -- 215,366 7.47
Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo. -- -- Lay-duce -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Romance School Shounen -- Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo. Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo. -- When they were little kids laughing and playing together, Izumi Norimoto and Kazusa Onodera were like siblings. But as their bodies matured into middle school, Kazusa began seeing him as something different; unfortunately for her, so did the other girls. Ostracized, Kazusa had no choice but to distance herself from him going into high school. After joining the literature club, however, she finds friends that keep her mind occupied. Known throughout the school for reading aloud sex scenes in literature novels, the club's reputation has kept all teachers from accepting the task of being their adviser. -- -- During a discussion about what they would put on their bucket list, one of the girls says one thing: sex. This single word sends ripples throughout the five girls, as the thought of sex begins taking over their daily lives. And, after walking in on Izumi during a very private moment, Kazusa is sent into a spiral of emotion that forces her to face her true feelings for him. Now, with their hearts racing and the literature club facing immediate disbandment, the five girls must work hard to keep both their sanities and their club alive. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 215,366 7.47
Arata naru Sekai: World's/Start/Load/End -- -- Madhouse -- 1 ep -- - -- Sci-Fi -- Arata naru Sekai: World's/Start/Load/End Arata naru Sekai: World's/Start/Load/End -- Four high school girls in uniforms walk silently on the barren earth. These girls are time travelers who had been sent 6000 years into the future, from their present in which the same day is endlessly repeated, in order to evade human extinction. -- -- They studied time travel in school, were examined by the aptitude test, and were sent to the future as told. What should they do now? They had no idea. The only thing they could take with them from the present was a light, toy-like cellphone. Of course, it receives no signal here. -- -- As the girls are walking, they see strange birds flying in the sky, and a discolored river in the distance. -- -- Then, one girl finds an abandoned house, and recognizes the name inscribed on the front gates. -- OVA - Oct 20, 2012 -- 18,568 6.30
Chio-chan no Tsuugakuro -- -- Diomedéa -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Seinen -- Chio-chan no Tsuugakuro Chio-chan no Tsuugakuro -- For the average Japanese high school student, walking to school can be a chore, but for first-year Chio Miyamo, it's always an adventure. Constantly running late due to her long night sessions playing video games, she is forced to come up with new routes to make it to Samejima Private Academy on time. -- -- On her many bizarre journeys to school, Chio contends with obstacles like street-blocking detours, overzealous kabaddi players, and befuddled motorcycle gang leaders. But these minor hindrances are no match for the special ops training that Chio, AKA the legendary assassin "Bloody Butterfly," has received from her extensive gaming obsession. Together with her best friends Manana Nonomura and Yuki Hosokawa, Chio will do whatever it takes to avoid her school's harsh penalties for tardiness. -- -- 91,819 7.45
Chobits -- -- Madhouse -- 26 eps -- Manga -- Sci-Fi Comedy Drama Romance Ecchi Seinen -- Chobits Chobits -- When computers start to look like humans, can love remain the same? -- -- Hideki Motosuwa is a young country boy who is studying hard to get into college. Coming from a poor background, he can barely afford the expenses, let alone the newest fad: Persocoms, personal computers that look exactly like human beings. One evening while walking home, he finds an abandoned Persocom. After taking her home and managing to activate her, she seems to be defective, as she can only say one word, "Chii," which eventually becomes her name. Unlike other Persocoms, however, Chii cannot download information onto her hard drive, so Hideki decides to teach her about the world the old-fashioned way, while studying for his college entrance exams at the same time. -- -- Along with his friends, Hideki tries to unravel the mystery of Chii, who may be a "Chobit," an urban legend about special units that have real human emotions and thoughts, and love toward their owner. But can romance flourish between a Persocom and a human? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation, Geneon Entertainment USA -- 410,390 7.43
Clannad -- -- Kyoto Animation -- 23 eps -- Visual novel -- Comedy Drama Romance School Slice of Life Supernatural -- Clannad Clannad -- Tomoya Okazaki is a delinquent who finds life dull and believes he'll never amount to anything. Along with his friend Youhei Sunohara, he skips school and plans to waste his high school days away. -- -- One day while walking to school, Tomoya passes a young girl muttering quietly to herself. Without warning she exclaims "Anpan!" (a popular Japanese food) which catches Tomoya's attention. He soon discovers the girl's name is Nagisa Furukawa and that she exclaims things she likes in order to motivate herself. Nagisa claims they are now friends, but Tomoya walks away passing the encounter off as nothing. -- -- However, Tomoya finds he is noticing Nagisa more and more around school. Eventually he concedes and befriends her. Tomoya learns Nagisa has been held back a year due to a severe illness and that her dream is to revive the school's drama club. Claiming he has nothing better to do, he decides to help her achieve this goal along with the help of four other girls. -- -- As Tomoya spends more time with the girls, he learns more about them and their problems. As he attempts to help each girl overcome her respective obstacle, he begins to realize life isn't as dull as he once thought. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 1,137,974 8.05
Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works 2nd Season -- -- ufotable -- 13 eps -- Visual novel -- Action Fantasy Magic Supernatural -- Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works 2nd Season Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works 2nd Season -- In the midst of the Fifth Holy Grail War, Caster sets her plans into motion, beginning with the capture of Shirou's Servant Saber. With the witch growing ever more powerful, Rin and Archer determine she is a threat that must be dealt with at once. But as the balance of power in the war begins to shift, the Master and Servant find themselves walking separate ways. -- -- Meanwhile, despite losing his Servant and stumbling from injuries, Shirou ignores Rin's warning to abandon the battle royale, forcing his way into the fight against Caster. Determined to show his resolve in his will to fight, Shirou's potential to become a protector of the people is put to the test. -- -- Amidst the bloodshed and chaos, the motivations of each Master and Servant are slowly revealed as they sacrifice everything in order to arise as the victor and claim the Holy Grail. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- 636,899 8.33
Fruits Basket 1st Season -- -- TMS Entertainment -- 25 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Romance Shoujo Slice of Life Supernatural -- Fruits Basket 1st Season Fruits Basket 1st Season -- Tooru Honda has always been fascinated by the story of the Chinese Zodiac that her beloved mother told her as a child. However, a sudden family tragedy changes her life, and subsequent circumstances leave her all alone. Tooru is now forced to live in a tent, but little does she know that her temporary home resides on the private property of the esteemed Souma family. Stumbling upon their home one day, she encounters Shigure, an older Souma cousin, and Yuki, the "prince" of her school. Tooru explains that she lives nearby, but the Soumas eventually discover her well-kept secret of being homeless when they see her walking back to her tent one night. -- -- Things start to look up for Tooru as they kindly offer to take her in after hearing about her situation. But soon after, she is caught up in a fight between Yuki and his hot-tempered cousin, Kyou. While trying to stop them, she learns that the Souma family has a well-kept secret of their own: whenever they are hugged by a member of the opposite sex, they transform into the animals of the Chinese Zodiac. -- -- With this new revelation, Tooru will find that living with the Soumas is an unexpected adventure filled with laughter and romance. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 425,981 8.19
Gravitation -- -- Studio Deen -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Music Romance Shoujo Shounen Ai -- Gravitation Gravitation -- All Shuichi ever dreamed about was following in the footsteps of his pop idol, Ryuichi Sakuma and the band Nittle Grasper. Together with his best friend Hiro, Shuichi's formed a band called Bad Luck and they've even managed to get signed to a major recording label! Unfortunately, the studio deadlines are looming and Shuichi still hasn't finished the lyrics for any of the songs. What he needs is a little inspiration... but he's been running a little low in that department lately. While Hiro recommends finding a girlfriend, fate has other things in store for him... -- -- Walking through the park late one night, Shuichi's latest lyrics flutter away and land at the feet of a stunning stranger that takes his breath away. Unfortunately, that mysterious stranger happens to be the famous novelist Eiri Yuki, who completely crushes the young singer by telling him he has "zero talent". Now, Shuichi's so annoyed that he's managed to finish his song just so he can find and confront Yuki once again. But, are his actions really motivated by anger, or has he actually fallen in love? -- -- (Source: RightStuf) -- -- Licensor: -- Nozomi Entertainment -- 103,035 7.00
Gyakkyou Burai Kaiji: Hakairoku-hen -- -- Madhouse -- 26 eps -- Manga -- Game Psychological Thriller Seinen -- Gyakkyou Burai Kaiji: Hakairoku-hen Gyakkyou Burai Kaiji: Hakairoku-hen -- Owing to an increasing debt, Kaiji Itou ends up resuming his old lifestyle. One day, while walking on the street, he stumbles upon Yuuji Endou, who is hunting Kaiji due to the money he owes to the Teiai Group. Unaware of this, Kaiji eagerly follows Endou, hoping for a chance to participate in another gamble, but soon finds out the loan shark's real intentions when he is kidnapped. -- -- Given that Kaiji is unable to pay off his huge debt, the Teiai Group instead sends him to work in an underground labor camp. He is told that he will have to live in this hell for 15 years, alongside other debtors, until he can earn his freedom. His only hope to put an early end to this nightmare is by saving enough money to be able to go back to the surface for a single day. Once he is there, he plans to obtain the remaining money needed to settle his account by making a high-stakes wager. However, as many temptations threaten his scarce income, Kaiji may have to resort to gambling sooner than he had expected. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 145,107 8.25
Highschool of the Dead -- -- Madhouse -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Horror Supernatural Ecchi Shounen -- Highschool of the Dead Highschool of the Dead -- It happened suddenly: The dead began to rise and Japan was thrown into total chaos. As these monsters begin terrorizing a high school, Takashi Kimuro is forced to kill his best friend when he gets bitten and joins the ranks of the walking dead. Vowing to protect Rei Miyamoto, the girlfriend of the man he just executed, they narrowly escape their death trap of a school, only to be greeted with a society that has already fallen. -- -- Soon, Takashi and Rei band together with other students on a journey to find their family members and uncover what caused this overwhelming pandemic. Joining them is Saeko Busujima, the beautiful president of the Kendo Club; Kouta Hirano, an otaku with a fetish for firearms; Saya Takagi, the daughter of an influential politician; and Shizuka Marikawa, their hot school nurse. But will the combined strength of these individuals be enough to conquer this undead apocalypse? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 1,159,336 7.13
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Movie -- -- MAPPA -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Demons Supernatural Shounen -- Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Movie Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Movie -- Yuuta Okkotsu is haunted. Ever since his childhood friend Rika died in a traffic accident, her ghost has stuck with him. But her spirit does not appear as the sweet girl Yuuta once knew. Instead, she manifests as a monstrous and powerful entity who fiercely protects him. Unable to control Rika's violent behavior, Yuuta is helpless to stop the bloodshed that follows from her brutal vengeance. As a result, when apprehended by "Jujutsu" sorcerers—the secret guardians of the world, trained to combat forces like Rika—Yuuta wishes to be completely isolated so that no one else can get hurt. -- -- Yet his apprehender, the master sorcerer Satoru Gojou, has different plans for him: he will join Jujutsu High School and learn to control Rika in order to help people. Now a first-year at this school, Yuuta starts to learn Jujutsu arts and combat malignant beings. Alongside his new classmates Maki Zenin, a Jujutsu weapons expert; Toge Inumaki, a spellcaster who uses his words as weapons; and Panda, a seemingly walking and talking panda bear, Yuuta begins to find his place in the world and, for once, to feel comfortable with his abilities. However, as his training progresses, Yuuta comes to learn that the dangers of the Jujutsu world go far beyond that of wicked spirits. -- -- Movie - ??? ??, ???? -- 97,895 N/A -- -- Boku no Hero Academia: Ikinokore! Kesshi no Survival Kunren -- -- Bones -- 2 eps -- Manga -- Action Shounen Super Power -- Boku no Hero Academia: Ikinokore! Kesshi no Survival Kunren Boku no Hero Academia: Ikinokore! Kesshi no Survival Kunren -- In this brand-new adventure, some Class 1-A students are sent to hone their survival skills at a training course. Having yet to receive their provisional licenses, they're eager to cut loose and have a little fun. -- -- They quickly discover that the danger they face is no simulation! It's going to take their combined training, teamwork, and quick thinking if they're going to pass this assignment! -- -- (Source: Funimation) -- ONA - Aug 16, 2020 -- 97,538 7.12
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Movie -- -- MAPPA -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Demons Supernatural Shounen -- Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Movie Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Movie -- Yuuta Okkotsu is haunted. Ever since his childhood friend Rika died in a traffic accident, her ghost has stuck with him. But her spirit does not appear as the sweet girl Yuuta once knew. Instead, she manifests as a monstrous and powerful entity who fiercely protects him. Unable to control Rika's violent behavior, Yuuta is helpless to stop the bloodshed that follows from her brutal vengeance. As a result, when apprehended by "Jujutsu" sorcerers—the secret guardians of the world, trained to combat forces like Rika—Yuuta wishes to be completely isolated so that no one else can get hurt. -- -- Yet his apprehender, the master sorcerer Satoru Gojou, has different plans for him: he will join Jujutsu High School and learn to control Rika in order to help people. Now a first-year at this school, Yuuta starts to learn Jujutsu arts and combat malignant beings. Alongside his new classmates Maki Zenin, a Jujutsu weapons expert; Toge Inumaki, a spellcaster who uses his words as weapons; and Panda, a seemingly walking and talking panda bear, Yuuta begins to find his place in the world and, for once, to feel comfortable with his abilities. However, as his training progresses, Yuuta comes to learn that the dangers of the Jujutsu world go far beyond that of wicked spirits. -- -- Movie - ??? ??, ???? -- 97,895 N/A -- -- Boogiepop wa Warawanai -- -- Madhouse -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Psychological Supernatural Dementia Mystery Drama Horror -- Boogiepop wa Warawanai Boogiepop wa Warawanai -- Five years ago, a string of grisly murders shook the city to its core and now the rumors have begun once more. Boogiepop... Everyone knows about Boogiepop: meet her one dark night and you are taken. People tell each other the stories and laugh: no one believes that she can possibly exist in this day and age. Still, strange things appear to be going on and the darkness is taking on many forms. Something is out there. Are you safe? -- -- (Source: RightStuf) -- 97,293 7.16
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Movie -- -- MAPPA -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Demons Supernatural Shounen -- Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Movie Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Movie -- Yuuta Okkotsu is haunted. Ever since his childhood friend Rika died in a traffic accident, her ghost has stuck with him. But her spirit does not appear as the sweet girl Yuuta once knew. Instead, she manifests as a monstrous and powerful entity who fiercely protects him. Unable to control Rika's violent behavior, Yuuta is helpless to stop the bloodshed that follows from her brutal vengeance. As a result, when apprehended by "Jujutsu" sorcerers—the secret guardians of the world, trained to combat forces like Rika—Yuuta wishes to be completely isolated so that no one else can get hurt. -- -- Yet his apprehender, the master sorcerer Satoru Gojou, has different plans for him: he will join Jujutsu High School and learn to control Rika in order to help people. Now a first-year at this school, Yuuta starts to learn Jujutsu arts and combat malignant beings. Alongside his new classmates Maki Zenin, a Jujutsu weapons expert; Toge Inumaki, a spellcaster who uses his words as weapons; and Panda, a seemingly walking and talking panda bear, Yuuta begins to find his place in the world and, for once, to feel comfortable with his abilities. However, as his training progresses, Yuuta comes to learn that the dangers of the Jujutsu world go far beyond that of wicked spirits. -- -- Movie - ??? ??, ???? -- 97,895 N/A -- -- High School DxD BorN: Yomigaeranai Fushichou -- -- TNK -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Action Ecchi Comedy Harem Romance Demons School -- High School DxD BorN: Yomigaeranai Fushichou High School DxD BorN: Yomigaeranai Fushichou -- Unaired anime episode bundled with the limited edition of High School DxD DX.2. -- OVA - Dec 9, 2015 -- 97,637 7.44
Kyattou Ninden Teyandee -- -- Tatsunoko Production -- 54 eps -- Original -- Action Comedy Mecha Super Power Sci-Fi Shounen -- Kyattou Ninden Teyandee Kyattou Ninden Teyandee -- Kyattou Ninden Teyande takes place in the city of Little Tokyo, a meld of feudal and modern Japanese culture, whose citizens are walking, talking animals. -- -- When the head palace guard catches wind that the corrupt prime minister Seymour Cheese decides to become emperor and take over Little Tokyo, he knows that only one group can save Little Tokyo: the owners of a local pizza joint, the Pizza Cats! Serving delicious pizza by day, this trio's true occupation is meowvelous warriors of justice! The Samurai Pizza Cats will do whatever it takes to protect Little Tokyo! -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media, Saban Entertainment -- 11,066 7.04
Kyoushoku Soukou Guyver II -- -- - -- 6 eps -- - -- Action Adventure Drama Horror Sci-Fi -- Kyoushoku Soukou Guyver II Kyoushoku Soukou Guyver II -- Sho and his friend Tetsurou stumble upon an odd alien artifact while walking through the woods. Then, the alien artifact breaks free of its metallic bonds and enters Sho's body, turning him into the Guyver. With this new power, Sho must do battle with the evil Chronos corporation and their genetically enhanced Zoanoids, who seek to get the Guyver back into their labs. No one close to Sho is safe from Chronos. He must fight. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Manga Entertainment -- OVA - Oct 24, 1991 -- 7,156 7.03
Nichijou -- -- Kyoto Animation -- 26 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Comedy School Shounen -- Nichijou Nichijou -- Nichijou primarily focuses on the daily antics of a trio of childhood friends—high school girls Mio Naganohara, Yuuko Aioi and Mai Minakami—whose stories soon intertwine with the young genius Hakase Shinonome, her robot caretaker Nano, and their talking cat Sakamoto. With every passing day, the lives of these six, as well as of the many people around them, experience both the calms of normal life and the insanity of the absurd. Walking to school, being bitten by a talking crow, spending time with friends, and watching the principal suplex a deer: they are all in a day's work in the extraordinary everyday lives of those in Nichijou. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment, Funimation -- 672,644 8.47
Osananajimi ga Zettai ni Makenai Love Comedy -- -- Doga Kobo -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Harem Comedy Romance School -- Osananajimi ga Zettai ni Makenai Love Comedy Osananajimi ga Zettai ni Makenai Love Comedy -- My childhood friend Shida Kuroha seems to have feelings for me. She lives next door, and is small and cute. With an outgoing character, she's the caring Onee-san type, this being one of her greatest strengths. -- -- ...But, I already have my first love, the beautiful idol of our school, and the award-winning author, Kachi Shirokusa! Thinking about it rationally, I should have no chances with her, but, while walking home from school, she only talks to me, with a smile even! I might actually have a chance, don't you think?! -- -- Or so I thought, but then I heard that Shirokusa already has a boyfriend, and my life took a turn for the worse. I want to die. Why is it not me?! Even though she was my first love... As I was drowning in despair and depression, Kuroha whispered. -- -- —If it's that tough for you, then how about we get revenge? The best revenge ever, that is~ -- -- (Source: Novel Updates, edited) -- 93,230 7.22
Ouritsu Uchuugun: Honneamise no Tsubasa -- -- Gainax -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Drama Military Sci-Fi Space -- Ouritsu Uchuugun: Honneamise no Tsubasa Ouritsu Uchuugun: Honneamise no Tsubasa -- Shirotsugh "Shiro" Lhadatt may be a cadet in the Kingdom of Honneamise's Royal Space Force (RSF), but he has never been in space before—in fact, nobody has. The RSF is often regarded as a failure both by the country's citizens and a government more interested in precipitating a war with a neighboring country than scientific achievement. Following the funeral of a fellow cadet, an unmotivated Shiro is walking in the city one night, when he bumps into Riquinni Nonderaiko, a young, pious woman, genuinely enthusiastic about the significance of space exploration. -- -- As the two gradually bond, Riquinni's encouragement inspires Shiro to volunteer as a pilot for a prospective rocket ship, potentially becoming Honneamise's first man in space. Shiro and the RSF are soon joined by a team of elderly but eager scientists and engineers, and together, they embark on a mission to mold their nation's space program into a success. However, their efforts soon catch the attention of the government, which seems to have a different plan for the RSF in mind. Even as the odds are stacked against them, these men and women continue to stubbornly look to the sky, because somewhere among the frontiers of space may lie humanity's last chance at redemption. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Visual USA, Maiden Japan, Manga Entertainment -- Movie - Mar 14, 1987 -- 35,422 7.52
Phantom The Animation -- -- Arcs Create -- 3 eps -- Visual novel -- Action Drama Shounen -- Phantom The Animation Phantom The Animation -- Zwei was an ordinary person, until one day, while walking the streets a night, he witnessed a brutal assassination. He managed to avoid the sniper, a young girl named Ein, but was soon captured, and had the memories of his former life erased. He is spared death only by accepting a condition: to train to become an assassin alongside Ein. Now, he must find a way to free himself from this shady world and reclaim his life once again. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Media Blasters -- OVA - Feb 27, 2004 -- 12,530 6.54
Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle - Shukuteki! Rätsel-hen -- -- Sunrise -- 25 eps -- Original -- Action Game Mystery Shounen -- Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle - Shukuteki! Rätsel-hen Phi Brain: Kami no Puzzle - Shukuteki! Rätsel-hen -- "Are puzzles really necessary in this world?" -- -- In order to restore Jin's memory, Kaito and his friends go on a puzzle-viewing journey to England. As they're walking through the underground maze beneath the church, where young Kaito and Rook first met Jin, a mysterious girl appears in front of them. -- -- Jin calls the girl by the name "Raetsel". It seems they know each other. However, she suddenly disappears and takes Jin with her. What's more, the traps in the underground maze are activated and start coming after Kaito and his friends. -- -- (Source: www9.nhk.or.jp) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Oct 6, 2013 -- 32,133 7.27
Rec -- -- Shaft -- 9 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Romance Seinen -- Rec Rec -- After being stood up for a movie date, marketing employee Fumihiko Matsumaru is about to throw away his tickets when he is stopped by a girl who implores him to let her accompany him instead. Thanks to his upbeat and eccentric companion Aka Onda, an aspiring voice actress, Fumihiko enjoys his evening. While walking home together, they find out that they live in the same neighborhood. Mere hours later, Fumihiko wakes up from a nightmare and hears sirens outside his window. Going outside to check the situation, he sees that Aka's apartment has burned down, along with all her possessions. Fumihiko invites the distressed Aka to stay at his place, leading to them sleeping together. -- -- In the aftermath of that fateful night, their personal and professional lives become inextricably intertwined. Not only do they begin living together platonically despite their one-night stand, they also discover that Aka will be voicing the mascot Fumihiko designed for his company's newest product. While trying to keep their live-in relationship under wraps for fear of scrutiny, the two begin to support each other throughout the difficulties in their respective careers. -- -- 100,360 7.33
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?/Sankaku no Rhythm/Trump no Arasoi -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Dementia -- ?/Sankaku no Rhythm/Trump no Arasoi ?/Sankaku no Rhythm/Trump no Arasoi -- Four short vignettes in this early animated film. In the first, shadows pull away to reveal a puddle, and automobile and bicycle tires pass through it. In the second, cutout shadows of a variety of shoes of people walking are seen. The third is a flurry of geometric forms. In the fourth, the playing card spade courts the heart and pushes away the club, but eventually the club returns, beats up the spade, and wins the heart. -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- Movie - ??? ??, 1932 -- 456 4.64
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Souryo to Majiwaru Shikiyoku no Yoru ni... -- -- Seven -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Drama Ecchi Romance -- Souryo to Majiwaru Shikiyoku no Yoru ni... Souryo to Majiwaru Shikiyoku no Yoru ni... -- At a high school reunion, Mio Fukatani reunites with a classmate she has not seen in years—Takahide Kujou. She had always wanted to know more about the kind-hearted boy in high school, but once she realizes that Kujou has become a monk, she believes that any chance of getting to know him romantically is slim. Deciding to drink away her sorrows, she ends up walking home drunk, and surprisingly, running into Kujou who helps her get home. -- -- However, once inside, Kujou's lust for Mio becomes apparent and the two share an erotic night of passion. As this steamy romance blossoms between these two unlikely lovers, Mio and Kujou will undoubtedly spend many nights together in utter ecstasy. -- -- 37,113 4.63
Super Danganronpa 2.5: Komaeda Nagito to Sekai no Hakaimono -- -- Lerche -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Mystery Horror Psychological -- Super Danganronpa 2.5: Komaeda Nagito to Sekai no Hakaimono Super Danganronpa 2.5: Komaeda Nagito to Sekai no Hakaimono -- At Hope's Peak Academy, a school full of extraordinarily talented individuals, Nagito Komaeda is an ordinary boy with no special traits or interesting skills to speak of—except for his incredible unluckiness. Just walking to school in the morning leads to a number of unfortunate accidents, which only escalate as the day goes on. Despite this, Komaeda leads a relatively normal life and is satisfied with his modest slice of happiness. -- -- But everything changes when a mysterious boy who declares himself the "Destroyer of the World" arrives to shatter this hopeless paradise. -- -- OVA - Jan 12, 2017 -- 75,565 7.18
Tamayura no Yume -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Psychological Drama -- Tamayura no Yume Tamayura no Yume -- A girl is informed by her doctor that she is pregnant. Surprised by the unexpected announcement, falls into an anguish. The fleeting dream is a despairing dream. -- -- (Source: Geidai Animation) -- Movie - ??? ??, 2011 -- 292 N/A -- -- Byulbyul Iyagi 2 -- -- - -- 6 eps -- - -- Psychological Drama -- Byulbyul Iyagi 2 Byulbyul Iyagi 2 -- This film consists of 6 animated shorts produced by the Human Rights Commission of Korea. Like the previous movie, the stories deal with seeing the world through the eyes of people who are different from social norms. The film was nominated for Best Animated Feature in 2008 from the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. -- -- 1. "The Third Wish” (AN Dong-hui, RYU Jeong-wu). A fairy godmother appears before a visually impaired young woman to grant her three wishes. But this is no fairytale. The irritable middle-aged fairy wants to finish her job as soon as possible. Yet she proves to be helpful as she leads the woman through a busy marketplace, which is delightfully reminiscent of "Amelie". But it's no walk in the park, as busy urbanites show no consideration for our protagonist. Yet she prevails through obstacles. With a walking stick, she taps together the heels of her shiny new shoes and follows the "yellow brick road" (guiding tiles for the visually impaired) around the city. -- -- 2. "Ajukari” (HONG Deok-pyo) is a street-style cartoon. It comically depicts how a certain macho "complex" can cripple men. Male circumcision becomes the ultimate standard for being "manly" and those who have failed to do the deed are forever fearful of going to public baths. -- -- 3. "Baby" (LEE Hong-su, LEE Hong-min) portrays the difficulties a career woman faces in having a child. "I'm not saying you can't have maternity leave, but can you afford to raise a child while working?" asks her boss. This smart story portrays everything from mother and daughter-in-law relationships to a parody of "Tazza: The High Rollers" and hilarious episodes where an "ambulance bus" picks up several patients en route. -- -- 4. "Shine Shine Shining" (KWON Mi-jeong) is drawn like a warm, watercolor storybook for children. Grade schooler Eun-jin is smart and popular, but she has a secret. She hides her curly hair, which she gets from her Filipino mother, in braids. -- -- 5. "Merry Golasmas" is an adorable claymation, or stop motion animation of models constructed from clay, plasticine, etc. It explores physical discrimination or stereotypes. In an open audition to find a Santa Claus, the real Santas ― one who's black, another who's Asian, a female Santa and one in a wheelchair ― lose to a fake Santa, a pot-bellied, Caucasian. -- -- 6. “Lies" explores homosexuality. Drawn in pastel-like sketches with art deco-esque details, it is a stunning digital cut-out animation, A homosexual man is forced by his parents to marry a woman, while others are pressured to fake having a girlfriend or receive "therapy" to become straight. -- -- (Source: The Korean Times) -- Movie - Apr 17, 2008 -- 257 N/A -- -- Hyoutan -- -- - -- 1 ep -- - -- Psychological -- Hyoutan Hyoutan -- Independent animation by Suzuki Shin'ichi. -- Movie - ??? ??, 1976 -- 252 N/A -- -- Pianoman Trailer -- -- Echoes -- 1 ep -- Original -- Music Psychological -- Pianoman Trailer Pianoman Trailer -- Trailer for Echoes' PIANOMAN with original animation that was not reused in the resulting short film. -- ONA - Dec 28, 2017 -- 243 5.41
The Place Where We Were -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Dementia -- The Place Where We Were The Place Where We Were -- A couple are seen at home. The woman says a heartfelt prayer while the man looks up from his newspaper, holding a cup of tea. They both look out of the window. In the sky above their house a giant angel is flying past. A forest has grown on the angel's back. In the forest three creatures sit around a table and playing cards. The cards are laid out and feature different images: three cards depicting babies jump down a hole in the middle of the table and begin a journey through the body of the angel. They stop in a cave where a creature plays the harp for them and turns the cards into tears. The tears fly through the air out of the angel's eyes and one of them reaches the woman's womb. In the next scene she is seen sitting at home, with her cat, contentedly stroking her own pregnant belly. The next scene is an exterior: a field with a lone tree growing on it. The man is dancing and walking towards the tree: behind the tree he finds his partner, the woman, holding a baby. They all smile at each other. -- -- -- (Source: Tommaso Corvi-Mora) -- Movie - ??? ??, 2008 -- 428 N/A -- -- Kiseki -- -- - -- 1 ep -- - -- Music Dementia -- Kiseki Kiseki -- Experimental animation by Kuri Youji. -- Movie - ??? ??, 1963 -- 427 4.83
Walking Man -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Dementia -- Walking Man Walking Man -- Film by Tanaami Keiichi. -- Movie - ??? ??, 2002 -- 657 4.14
Yoru no Hi -- -- - -- 1 ep -- - -- Psychological -- Yoru no Hi Yoru no Hi -- The rooftops of a darkened city, a couple walking by a lone streetlight on an otherwise darkened street, an old man rocking in a creaky chair in the corner of a room lit only by the moon or the streetlight entering through the window. -- -- (Source: Nishikata Film Review) -- Movie - ??? ??, 2005 -- 1,216 4.94
Yume Utsutsu -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Dementia -- Yume Utsutsu Yume Utsutsu -- Is the path I am walking on now part of a dream or reality? This is the first animation film that is largely motionless. -- -- (Source: Official website) -- Movie - ??? ??, 2002 -- 246 N/A -- -- Adobe Student and Teacher Edition -- -- Saigo no Shudan -- 1 ep -- Original -- Dementia -- Adobe Student and Teacher Edition Adobe Student and Teacher Edition -- Saigo no Shudan's earliest work, it is a commercial for Adobe's Student and Teacher Edition software. Though it is unknown if Saigo no Shudan created it as an example for their portfolio or if Adobe actually paid for their animation services. -- Special - Dec ??, 2009 -- 245 5.20
Yuuwaku Countdown -- -- AIC -- 6 eps -- Manga -- Action Comedy Fantasy Hentai Horror Mecha Romance Supernatural -- Yuuwaku Countdown Yuuwaku Countdown -- From famed adult comic artist Hiroyuki Utatane come six of the most erotic, the most exotic, the most unusual and just downright odd stories ever animated. -- -- In Alimony Hunter we see Jun in an extremely unusual three-for-all in which not everyone is what he (or she!) seems. She also makes an appearance as a teacher in Cherry Lips (under an alias). It all comes to conclusion in Virgin Road, there perhaps too-willing bride is having a last minute fling with her in the back room of the chapel; the groom is also not a stranger to Jun... -- -- Then there's a manly knight who discovers the joys of bondage at the hands of a fair maiden; and a Samurai policewoman forced to tackle a giant walking statue, controlled by a sex-crazed megalomaniac, before it destroys Tokyo. -- Crimson is a bloody story of a man and his blind love slave. -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- -- Licensor: -- Media Blasters, Nozomi Entertainment -- OVA - Jun 15, 1995 -- 2,453 5.81
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