24:The Song Of View, Practice, And Action :::
Oh, my Guru! The Exemplar of the View, Practice, and Action,
Pray vouchsafe me your grace, and enable me
To be absorbed in the realm of Self-nature!
For the View, Practice, Action, and Accomplishment
There are three Key-points you should know:
All the manifestation, the Universe itself, is contained in the mind;
The nature of Mind is the realm of illumination
Which can neither be conceived nor touched.
These are the Key-points of the View.
Errant thoughts are liberated in the Dharmakaya;
The awareness, the illumination, is always blissful;
Meditate in a manner of non-doing and non-effort.
These are the Key-points of Practice.
In the action of naturalness
The Ten Virtues spontaneously grow;
All the Ten Vices are thus purified.
By corrections or remedies
The Illuminating Void is ne'er disturbed.
These are the Key-points of Action.
There is no Nivana to attain beyond;
There is no Samsara here to renounce;
Truly to know the Self-mind
It is to be the Buddha Himself.
These are the Key-points of Accomplishment.
Reduce inwardly the Three Key-points to One.
This One is the Void Nature of Being,
Which only a wondrous Guru
Can clearly illustrate.
Much activity is of no avail;
If one sees the Simultaneously Born Wisdom,
He reaches the goal.
For all practioners of Dharma
The preaching is a precious gem;
It is my direct experience from yogic meditation.
Think carefully and bear it in your minds,
Oh, my children and disciples. ~ Jetsun Milarepa,#KEYS |
25:But in the integral conception the Conscious Soul is the Lord, the Nature-Soul is his executive Energy. Purusha is of the nature of Sat, the being of conscious self-existence pure and infinite; Shakti or Prakriti is of the nature of Chit, - it is power of the Purusha's self-conscious existence, pure and infinite. The relation of the two exists between the poles of rest and action. When the Energy is absorbed in the bliss of conscious self-existence, there is rest; when thePurusha pours itself out in the action of its Energy, there is action, creation and the enjoyment or Ananda of becoming. But if Ananda is the creator and begetter of all becoming, its method is Tapas or force of the Purusha's consciousness dwelling upon its own infinite potentiality in existence and producing from it truths of conception or real Ideas, vijnana, which, proceedingfrom an omniscient and omnipotent Self-existence, have the surety of their own fulfilment and contain in themselves the nature and law of their own becoming in the terms of mind, life and matter. The eventual omnipotence of Tapas and the infallible fulfilment of the Idea are the very foundation of all Yoga. In man we render these terms by Will and Faith, - a will that is eventually self-effective because it is of the substance of Knowledge and a faith that is the reflex in the lower consciousness of a Truth or real Idea yet unrealised in the manifestation. It is this self-certainty of the Idea which is meant by the Gita when it says, yo yac-chraddhah sa eva sah, 'whatever is a man's faith or the sure Idea in him, that he becomes.'
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Conditions of the Synthesis, The Synthesis of the Systems, 43,#KEYS |
26:the second aid, the need for effort and aspiration, utsaha :::
The development of the experience in its rapidity, its amplitude, the intensity and power of its results, depends primarily, in the beginning of the path and long after, on the aspiration and personal effort of the sadhaka. The process of Yoga is a turning of the human soul from the egoistic state of consciousness absorbed in the outward appearances and attractions of things to a higher state in which the Transcendent and Universal can pour itself into the individiual mould and transform it. The first determining element in the siddhi is, therefore, the intensity of the turning, the force which directs the soul inward. The power of aspiration of the heart, the force of the will, the concentration of the mind, the perseverance and determination of the applied energy are the measure of that intensity. The ideal sadhaka should be able to say in the Biblical phrase, 'My zeal for the Lord has eaten me up.' It is this zeal for the Lord, -utsaha, the zeal of the whole nature for its divine results, vyakulata, the heart's eagerness for the attainment of the Divine, - that devours the ego and breaks up the petty limitations ...
So long as the contact with the Divine is not in some considerable degree established, so long as there is not some measure of sustained identity, sayujya, the element of personal effort must normally predominate. But in proportion as this contact establishes itself, the sadhaka must become conscious that a force other than his own, a force transcending his egoistic endeavour and capacity, is at work in him and to this Power he learns progressively to submit himself and delivers up to it the charge of his Yoga.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Four Aids,#KEYS |
27:outward appearances..." I did not quite understand "the egoistic state of consciousness absorbed in the outward People are occupied with outward things. That means that the consciousness is turned towards external things - that is, all the things of life which one sees, knows, does - instead of being turned inwards in order to find the deeper truth, the divine Presence. This is the first movement. You are busy with all that you do, with the people around you, the things you use; and then with life: sleeping, eating, talking, working a little, having a little fun also; and then beginning over again: sleeping, eating, etc., etc., and then it begins again. And then what this one has said, what that one has done, what one ought to do, the lesson one ought to learn, the exercise one ought to prepare; and then again whether one is keeping well, whether one is feeling fit, etc.
This is what one usually thinks about.
So the first movement - and it is not so easy - is to make all that pass to the background, and let one thing come inside and in front of the consciousness as the important thing: the discovery of the very purpose of existence and life, to learn what one is, why one lives, and what there is behind all this. This is the first step: to be interested more in the cause and goal than in the manifestation. That is, the first movement is a withdrawal of the consciousness from this total identification with outward and apparent things, and a kind of inward concentration on what one wants to discover, the Truth one wants to discover.
This is the first movement.
Many people who are here forget one thing. They want to begin by the end. They think that they are ready to express in their life what they call the supramental Force or Consciousness, and they want to infuse this in their actions, their movements, their daily life. But the trouble is that they don't at all know what the supramental Force or Consciousness is and that first of all it is necessary to take the reverse path, the way of interiorisation and of withdrawal from life, in order to find within oneself this Truth which has to be expressed.
For as long as one has not found it, there is nothing to ~ The Mother,#KEYS |
28:As far as heaven, as near as thought and hope,
Glimmered the kingdom of a griefless life.
Above him in a new celestial vault
Other than the heavens beheld by mortal eyes,
As on a fretted ceiling of the gods,
An archipelago of laughter and fire,
Swam stars apart in a rippled sea of sky.
Towered spirals, magic rings of vivid hue
And gleaming spheres of strange felicity
Floated through distance like a symbol world.
On the trouble and the toil they could not share,
On the unhappiness they could not aid,
Impervious to life's suffering, struggle, grief,
Untarnished by its anger, gloom and hate,
Unmoved, untouched, looked down great visioned planes
Blissful for ever in their timeless right.
Absorbed in their own beauty and content,
Of their immortal gladness they live sure.
Apart in their self-glory plunged, remote
Burning they swam in a vague lucent haze,
An everlasting refuge of dream-light,
A nebula of the splendours of the gods
Made from the musings of eternity.
Almost unbelievable by human faith,
Hardly they seemed the stuff of things that are.
As through a magic television's glass
Outlined to some magnifying inner eye
They shone like images thrown from a far scene
Too high and glad for mortal lids to seize.
But near and real to the longing heart
And to the body's passionate thought and sense
Are the hidden kingdoms of beatitude.
In some close unattained realm which yet we feel,
Immune from the harsh clutch of Death and Time,
Escaping the search of sorrow and desire,
In bright enchanted safe peripheries
For ever wallowing in bliss they lie.
In dream and trance and muse before our eyes,
Across a subtle vision's inner field,
Wide rapturous landscapes fleeting from the sight,
The figures of the perfect kingdom pass
And behind them leave a shining memory's trail.
Imagined scenes or great eternal worlds,
Dream-caught or sensed, they touch our hearts with their depths;
Unreal-seeming, yet more real than life,
Happier than happiness, truer than things true,
If dreams these were or captured images,
Dream's truth made false earth's vain realities.
In a swift eternal moment fixed there live
Or ever recalled come back to longing eyes
Calm heavens of imperishable Light,
Illumined continents of violet peace,
Oceans and rivers of the mirth of God
And griefless countries under purple suns.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Glory and the Fall of Life,#KEYS |
29:It is your birthday tomorrow?
Yes, Mother.
How old will you be?
Twenty-six, Mother.
I shall see you tomorrow and give you something special. You will see, I am not speaking of anything material- that, I shall give you a card and all that- but of something...You will see, tomorrow, now go home and prepare yourself quietly so that you may be ready to receive it.
Yes, Mother.
You know, my child, what "Bonne Fete" signifies, that is, the birthday we wish here?
Like that, I know what it means, Mother, but not the special significance you want to tell me.
Yes, it is truly a special day in one's life. It is one of those days in the year when the Supreme descends into us- or when we are face to face with the Eternal- one of those days when our soul comes in contact with the Eternal and, if we remain a little conscious, we can feel His Presence within us. If we make a little effort on this day, we accomplish the work of many lives as in a lightning flash. That is why I give so much importance to the birthday- because what one gains in one day is truly something incomparable. And it is for this that I also work to open the consciousness a little towards what is above so that one may come before the Eternal. My child, it is a very, very special day, for it is the day of decision, the day one can unite with the Supreme Consciousness. For the Lord lifts us on this day to the highest region possible so that our soul which is a portion of that Eternal Flame, may be united and identified with its Origin.
This day is truly an opportunity in life. One is so open and so receptive that one can assimilate all that is given. I can do many things, that is why it is important.
It is one of those days when the Lord Himself opens the doors wide for us. It is as though He were inviting us to rekindle more powerfully the flame of aspiration. It is one of those days which He gives us. We too, by our personal effort, could attain to this, but it would be long, hard and not so easy. And this- this is a real chance in life- the day of Grace.
It is an occult phenomenon that occurs invariably, without our knowledge, on this particular day of the year. The soul leaves behind the body and journeys up and up till it merges into the Source in order to replenish itself and absorb from the Supreme Its Power, Light and Ananda and comes down charged for a whole year to pass. Then again and again... it continues like this year after year. ~ The Mother, Sweet Mother, Mona Sarkar,#KEYS |
30:Something happened to you before you were born, and this is what it was:
STAGE ONE: THE CHIKHAI
The events of the 49-day Bardo period are divided into three major stages, the Chikhai, the Chonyid, and the Sidpa (in that order). Immediately following physical death, the soul enters the Chikhai, which is simply the state of the immaculate and luminous Dharmakaya, the ultimate Consciousness, the BrahmanAtman. This ultimate state is given, as a gift, to all individuals: they are plunged straight into ultimate reality and exist as the ultimate Dharmakaya. "At this moment," says the Bardo Thotrol, "the first glimpsing of the Bardo of the Clear Light of Reality, which is the Infallible Mind of the Dharmakaya, is experienced by all sentient beings.''110 Or, to put it a different way, the Thotrol tells us that "Thine own consciousness, shining, void, and inseparable from the Great Body of Radiance, hath no birth, nor death, and is the Immutable Light-Buddha Amitabha. Knowing this is sufficient. Recognizing the voidness of thine own intellect to be Buddhahood ... is to keep thyself in the Divine Mind."110 In short, immediately following physical death, the soul is absorbed in and as the ultimate-causal body (if we may treat them together).
Interspersed with this brief summary of the Bardo Thotrol, I will add my commentaries on involution and on the nature of the Atman project in involution. And we begin by noting that at the start of the Bardo experience, the soul is elevated to the utter heights of Being, to the ultimate state of Oneness-that is, he starts his Bardo career at the top. But, at the top is usually not where he remains, and the Thotrol tells us why. In Evans-Wentz's words, "In the realm of the Clear Light [the highest Chikhai stage] the mentality of a person . . . momentarily enjoys a condition of balance, of perfect equilibrium, and of [ultimate] oneness. Owing to unfamiliarity with such a state, which is an ecstatic state of non-ego, of [causal] consciousness, the . . . average human being lacks the power to function in it; karmic propensities becloud the consciousness-principle with thoughts of personality, of individualized being, of dualism, and, losing equilibrium, the consciousness-principle falls away from the Clear Light."
The soul falls away from the ultimate Oneness because "karmic propensities cloud consciousness"-"karmic propensities'' means seeking, grasping, desiring; means, in fact, Eros. And as this Erosseeking develops, the state of perfect Oneness starts to "break down" (illusorily). Or, from a different angle, because the individual cannot stand the intensity of pure Oneness ("owing to unfamiliarity with such a state"), he contracts away from it, tries to ''dilute it," tries to extricate himself from Perfect Intensity in Atman. Contracting in the face of infinity, he turns instead to forms of seeking, desire, karma, and grasping, trying to "search out" a state of equilibrium. Contraction and Eros-these karmic propensities couple and conspire to drive the soul away from pure consciousness and downwards into multiplicity, into less intense and less real states of being. ~ Ken Wilber, The Atman Project,#KEYS |
31:HOW CAN I READ SAVITRI?
An open reply by Dr Alok Pandey to a fellow devotee
A GIFT OF LOVE TO THE WORLD
Most of all enjoy Savitri. It is Sri Aurobindo's gift of Love to the world. Read it from the heart with love and gratitude as companions and drown in its fiery bliss. That is the true understanding rather than one that comes by a constant churning of words in the head.
WHEN
Best would be to fix a time that works for you. One can always take out some time for the reading, even if it be late at night when one is done with all the daily works. Of course, a certain receptivity is needed. If one is too tired or the reading becomes too mechanical as a ritual routine to be somehow finished it tends to be less effective, as with anything else. Hence the advice is to read in a quiet receptive state.
THE PACE
As to the pace of reading it is best to slowly build up and keep it steady. To read a page or a passage daily is better than reading many pages one day and then few lines or none for days. This brings a certain discipline in the consciousness which makes one receptive. What it means is that one should fix up that one would read a few passages or a page or two daily, and then if an odd day one is enjoying and spontaneously wants to read more then one can go by the flow.
COMPLETE OR SELECTIONS?
It is best to read at least once from cover to cover. But if one is not feeling inclined for that do read some of the beautiful cantos and passages whose reference one can find in various places. This helps us familiarise with the epic and the style of poetry. Later one can go for the cover to cover reading.
READING ALOUD, SILENTLY, OR WRITING DOWN?
One can read it silently. Loud reading is needed only if one is unable to focus with silent reading. A mantra is more potent when read subtly. I am aware that some people recommend reading it aloud which is fine if that helps one better. A certain flexibility in these things is always good and rigid rules either ways are not helpful.
One can also write some of the beautiful passages with which one feels suddenly connected. It is a help in the yoga since such a writing involves the pouring in of the consciousness of Savitri through the brain and nerves and the hand.
Reflecting upon some of these magnificent lines and passages while one is engaged in one\s daily activities helps to create a background state for our inner being to get absorbed in Savitri more and more.
HOW DO I UNDERSTAND THE MEANING? DO I NEED A DICTIONARY?
It is helpful if a brief background about the Canto is known. This helps the mind top focus and also to keep in sync with the overall scene and sense of what is being read.
But it is best not to keep referring to the dictionary while reading. Let the overall sense emerge. Specifics can be done during a detailed reading later and it may not be necessary at all. Besides the sense that Sri Aurobindo has given to many words may not be accurately conveyed by the standard dictionaries. A flexibility is required to understand the subtle suggestions hinted at by the Master-poet.
In this sense Savitri is in the line of Vedic poetry using images that are at once profound as well as commonplace. That is the beauty of mystic poetry. These are things actually experienced and seen by Sri Aurobindo, and ultimately it is Their Grace that alone can reveal the intrinsic sense of this supreme revelation of the Supreme. ~ Dr Alok Pandey,#KEYS |
32:EVOCATION
Evocation is the art of dealing with magical beings or entities by various acts which create or contact them and allow one to conjure and command them with pacts and exorcism. These beings have a legion of names drawn from the demonology of many cultures: elementals, familiars, incubi, succubi, bud-wills, demons, automata, atavisms, wraiths, spirits, and so on. Entities may be bound to talismans, places, animals, objects, persons, incense smoke, or be mobile in the aether. It is not the case that such entities are limited to obsessions and complexes in the human mind. Although such beings customarily have their origin in the mind, they may be budded off and attached to objects and places in the form of ghosts, spirits, or "vibrations," or may exert action at a distance in the form of fetishes, familiars, or poltergeists. These beings consist of a portion of Kia or the life force attached to some aetheric matter, the whole of which may or may not be attached to ordinary matter.
Evocation may be further defined as the summoning or creation of such partial beings to accomplish some purpose. They may be used to cause change in oneself, change in others, or change in the universe. The advantages of using a semi-independent being rather than trying to effect a transformation directly by will are several: the entity will continue to fulfill its function independently of the magician until its life force dissipates. Being semi-sentient, it can adapt itself to a task in that a non-conscious simple spell cannot. During moments of the possession by certain entities the magician may be the recipient of inspirations, abilities, and knowledge not normally accessible to him.
Entities may be drawn from three sources - those which are discovered clairvoyantly, those whose characteristics are given in grimoires of spirits and demons, and those which the magician may wish to create himself.
In all cases establishing a relationship with the spirit follows a similar process of evocation. Firstly the attributes of the entity, its type, scope, name, appearance and characteristics must be placed in the mind or made known to the mind. Automatic drawing or writing, where a stylus is allowed to move under inspiration across a surface, may help to uncover the nature of a clairvoyantly discovered being. In the case of a created being the following procedure is used: the magician assembles the ingredients of a composite sigil of the being's desired attributes. For example, to create an elemental to assist him with divination, the appropriate symbols might be chosen and made into a sigil such as the one shown in figure 4.
A name and an image, and if desired, a characteristic number can also be selected for the elemental.
Secondly, the will and perception are focused as intently as possible (by some gnostic method) on the elemental's sigils or characteristics so that these take on a portion of the magician's life force and begin autonomous existence. In the case of preexisting beings, this operation serves to bind the entity to the magician's will.
This is customarily followed by some form of self-banishing, or even exorcism, to restore the magician's consciousness to normal before he goes forth.
An entity of a low order with little more than a singular task to perform can be left to fulfill its destiny with no further interference from its master. If at any time it is necessary to terminate it, its sigil or material basis should be destroyed and its mental image destroyed or reabsorbed by visualization. For more powerful and independent beings, the conjuration and exorcism must be in proportion to the power of the ritual which originally evoked them. To control such beings, the magicians may have to re-enter the gnostic state to the same depth as before in order to draw their power. ~ Peter J Carroll, Liber Null, #KEYS |
33:I have never been able to share your constantly recurring doubts about your capacity or the despair that arises in you so violently when there are these attacks, nor is their persistent recurrence a valid ground for believing that they can never be overcome. Such a persistent recurrence has been a feature in the sadhana of many who have finally emerged and reached the goal; even the sadhana of very great Yogis has not been exempt from such violent and constant recurrences; they have sometimes been special objects of such persistent assaults, as I have indeed indicated in Savitri in more places than one - and that was indeed founded on my own experience. In the nature of these recurrences there is usually a constant return of the same adverse experiences, the same adverse resistance, thoughts destructive of all belief and faith and confidence in the future of the sadhana, frustrating doubts of what one has known as the truth, voices of despondency and despair, urgings to abandonment of the Yoga or to suicide or else other disastrous counsels of déchéance. The course taken by the attacks is not indeed the same for all, but still they have strong family resemblance. One can eventually overcome if one begins to realise the nature and source of these assaults and acquires the faculty of observing them, bearing, without being involved or absorbed into their gulf, finally becoming the witness of their phenomena and understanding them and refusing the mind's sanction even when the vital is still tossed in the whirl or the most outward physical mind still reflects the adverse suggestions. In the end these attacks lose their power and fall away from the nature; the recurrence becomes feeble or has no power to last: even, if the detachment is strong enough, they can be cut out very soon or at once. The strongest attitude to take is to regard these things as what they really are, incursions of dark forces from outside taking advantage of certain openings in the physical mind or the vital part, but not a real part of oneself or spontaneous creation in one's own nature. To create a confusion and darkness in the physical mind and throw into it or awake in it mistaken ideas, dark thoughts, false impressions is a favourite method of these assailants, and if they can get the support of this mind from over-confidence in its own correctness or the natural rightness of its impressions and inferences, then they can have a field day until the true mind reasserts itself and blows the clouds away. Another device of theirs is to awake some hurt or rankling sense of grievance in the lower vital parts and keep them hurt or rankling as long as possible. In that case one has to discover these openings in one's nature and learn to close them permanently to such attacks or else to throw out intruders at once or as soon as possible. The recurrence is no proof of a fundamental incapacity; if one takes the right inner attitude, it can and will be overcome. The idea of suicide ought never to be accepted; there is no real ground for it and in any case it cannot be a remedy or a real escape: at most it can only be postponement of difficulties and the necessity for their solution under no better circumstances in another life. One must have faith in the Master of our life and works, even if for a long time he conceals himself, and then in his own right time he will reveal his Presence.
I have tried to dispel all the misconceptions, explain things as they are and meet all the points at issue. It is not that you really cannot make progress or have not made any progress; on the contrary, you yourself have admitted that you have made a good advance in many directions and there is no reason why, if you persevere, the rest should not come. You have always believed in the Guruvada: I would ask you then to put your faith in the Guru and the guidance and rely on the Ishwara for the fulfilment, to have faith in my abiding love and affection, in the affection and divine goodwill and loving kindness of the Mother, stand firm against all attacks and go forward perseveringly towards the spiritual goal and the all-fulfilling and all-satisfying touch of the All-Blissful, the Ishwara.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - IV,#KEYS |
34:To arrive then at this settled divine status must be the object of our concentration. The first step in concentration must be always to accustom the discursive mind to a settled unwavering pursuit of a single course of connected thought on a single subject and this it must do undistracted by all lures and alien calls on its attention. Such concentration is common enough in our ordinary life, but it becomes more difficult when we have to do it inwardly without any outward object or action on which to keep the mind; yet this inward concentration is what the seeker of knowledge must effect. Nor must it be merely the consecutive thought of the intellectual thinker, whose only object is to conceive and intellectually link together his conceptions. It is not, except perhaps at first, a process of reasoning that is wanted so much as a dwelling so far as possible on the fruitful essence of the idea which by the insistence of the soul's will upon it must yield up all the facets of its truth. Thus if it be the divine Love that is the subject of concentration, it is on the essence of the idea of God as Love that the mind should concentrate in such a way that the various manifestation of the divine Love should arise luminously, not only to the thought, but in the heart and being and vision of the Sadhaka. The thought may come first and the experience afterwards, but equally the experience may come first and the knowledge arise out of the experience. Afterwards the thing attained has to be dwelt on and more and more held till it becomes a constant experience and finally the Dharma or law of the being.
This is the process of concentrated meditation; but a more strenuous method is the fixing of the whole mind in concentration on the essence of the idea only, so as to reach not the thought-knowledge or the psychological experience of the subject, but the very essence of the thing behind the idea. In this process thought ceases and passes into the absorbed or ecstatic contemplation of the object or by a merging into it m an inner Samadhi. If this be the process followed, then subsequently the state into which we rise must still be called down to take possession of the lower being, to shed its light, power and bliss on our ordinary consciousness. For otherwise we may possess it, as many do, in the elevated condition or in the inward Samadhi, but we shall lose our hold of it when we awake or descend into the contacts of the world; and this truncated possession is not the aim of an integral Yoga.
A third process is neither at first to concentrate in a strenuous meditation on the one subject nor in a strenuous contemplation of the one object of thought-vision, but first to still the mind altogether. This may be done by various ways; one is to stand back from the mental action altogether not participating in but simply watching it until, tired of its unsanctioned leaping and running, it falls into an increasing and finally an absolute quiet. Another is to reject the thought-suggestions, to cast them away from the mind whenever they come and firmly hold to the peace of the being which really and always exists behind the trouble and riot of the mind. When this secret peace is unveiled, a great calm settles on the being and there comes usually with it the perception and experience of the all-pervading silent Brahman, everything else at first seeming to be mere form and eidolon. On the basis of this calm everything else may be built up in the knowledge and experience no longer of the external phenomena of things but of the deeper truth of the divine manifestation.
Ordinarily, once this state is obtained, strenuous concentration will be found no longer necessary. A free concentration of will using thought merely for suggestion and the giving of light to the lower members will take its place. This Will will then insist on the physical being, the vital existence, the heart and the mind remoulding themselves in the forms of the Divine which reveal themselves out of the silent Brahman. By swifter or slower degrees according to the previous preparation and purification of the members, they will be obliged with more or less struggle to obey the law of the will and its thought-suggestion, so that eventually the knowledge of the Divine takes possession of our consciousness on all its planes and the image of the Divine is formed in our human existence even as it was done by the old Vedic Sadhakas. For the integral Yoga this is the most direct and powerful discipline.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Integral Knowledge, Concentration, #KEYS |
35:CHAPTER XIII
OF THE BANISHINGS: AND OF THE PURIFICATIONS.
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and had better come first. Purity means singleness. God is one. The wand is not a wand if it has something sticking to it which is not an essential part of itself. If you wish to invoke Venus, you do not succeed if there are traces of Saturn mixed up with it.
That is a mere logical commonplace: in magick one must go much farther than this. One finds one's analogy in electricity. If insulation is imperfect, the whole current goes back to earth. It is useless to plead that in all those miles of wire there is only one-hundredth of an inch unprotected. It is no good building a ship if the water can enter, through however small a hole.
That first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.
If one littlest thought intrude upon the mind of the Mystic, his concentration is absolutely destroyed; and his consciousness remains on exactly the same level as the Stockbroker's. Even the smallest baby is incompatible with the virginity of its mother. If you leave even a single spirit within the circle, the effect of the conjuration will be entirely absorbed by it.> {101}
The Magician must therefore take the utmost care in the matter of purification, "firstly", of himself, "secondly", of his instruments, "thirdly", of the place of working. Ancient Magicians recommended a preliminary purification of from three days to many months. During this period of training they took the utmost pains with diet. They avoided animal food, lest the elemental spirit of the animal should get into their atmosphere. They practised sexual abstinence, lest they should be influenced in any way by the spirit of the wife. Even in regard to the excrements of the body they were equally careful; in trimming the hair and nails, they ceremonially destroyed> the severed portion. They fasted, so that the body itself might destroy anything extraneous to the bare necessity of its existence. They purified the mind by special prayers and conservations. They avoided the contamination of social intercourse, especially the conjugal kind; and their servitors were disciples specially chosen and consecrated for the work.
In modern times our superior understanding of the essentials of this process enables us to dispense to some extent with its external rigours; but the internal purification must be even more carefully performed. We may eat meat, provided that in doing so we affirm that we eat it in order to strengthen us for the special purpose of our proposed invocation.> {102}
By thus avoiding those actions which might excite the comment of our neighbours we avoid the graver dangers of falling into spiritual pride.
We have understood the saying: "To the pure all things are pure", and we have learnt how to act up to it. We can analyse the mind far more acutely than could the ancients, and we can therefore distinguish the real and right feeling from its imitations. A man may eat meat from self-indulgence, or in order to avoid the dangers of asceticism. We must constantly examine ourselves, and assure ourselves that every action is really subservient to the One Purpose.
It is ceremonially desirable to seal and affirm this mental purity by Ritual, and accordingly the first operation in any actual ceremony is bathing and robing, with appropriate words. The bath signifies the removal of all things extraneous to antagonistic to the one thought. The putting on of the robe is the positive side of the same operation. It is the assumption of the fame of mind suitable to that one thought.
A similar operation takes place in the preparation of every instrument, as has been seen in the Chapter devoted to that subject. In the preparation of theplace of working, the same considerations apply. We first remove from that place all objects; and we then put into it those objects, and only those {103} objects, which are necessary. During many days we occupy ourselves in this process of cleansing and consecration; and this again is confirmed in the actual ceremony.
The cleansed and consecrated Magician takes his cleansed and consecrated instruments into that cleansed and consecrated place, and there proceeds to repeat that double ceremony in the ceremony itself, which has these same two main parts. The first part of every ceremony is the banishing; the second, the invoking. The same formula is repeated even in the ceremony of banishing itself, for in the banishing ritual of the pentagram we not only command the demons to depart, but invoke the Archangels and their hosts to act as guardians of the Circle during our pre-occupation with the ceremony proper.
In more elaborate ceremonies it is usual to banish everything by name. Each element, each planet, and each sign, perhaps even the Sephiroth themselves; all are removed, including the very one which we wished to invoke, for that force ... ~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA,#KEYS |
36:This, in short, is the demand made on us, that we should turn our whole life into a conscious sacrifice. Every moment and every movement of our being is to be resolved into a continuous and a devoted self-giving to the Eternal. All our actions, not less the smallest and most ordinary and trifling than the greatest and most uncommon and noble, must be performed as consecrated acts. Our individualised nature must live in the single consciousness of an inner and outer movement dedicated to Something that is beyond us and greater than our ego. No matter what the gift or to whom it is presented by us, there must be a consciousness in the act that we are presenting it to the one divine Being in all beings. Our commonest or most grossly material actions must assume this sublimated character; when we eat, we should be conscious that we are giving our food to that Presence in us; it must be a sacred offering in a temple and the sense of a mere physical need or self-gratification must pass away from us. In any great labour, in any high discipline, in any difficult or noble enterprise, whether undertaken for ourselves, for others or for the race, it will no longer be possible to stop short at the idea of the race, of ourselves or of others. The thing we are doing must be consciously offered as a sacrifice of works, not to these, but either through them or directly to the One Godhead; the Divine Inhabitant who was hidden by these figures must be no longer hidden but ever present to our soul, our mind, our sense. The workings and results of our acts must be put in the hands of that One in the feeling that that Presence is the Infinite and Most High by whom alone our labour and our aspiration are possible. For in his being all takes place; for him all labour and aspiration are taken from us by Nature and offered on his altar. Even in those things in which Nature is herself very plainly the worker and we only the witnesses of her working and its containers and supporters, there should be the same constant memory and insistent consciousness of a work and of its divine Master. Our very inspiration and respiration, our very heart-beats can and must be made conscious in us as the living rhythm of the universal sacrifice.
It is clear that a conception of this kind and its effective practice must carry in them three results that are of a central importance for our spiritual ideal. It is evident, to begin with, that, even if such a discipline is begun without devotion, it leads straight and inevitably towards the highest devotion possible; for it must deepen naturally into the completest adoration imaginable, the most profound God-love. There is bound up with it a growing sense of the Divine in all things, a deepening communion with the Divine in all our thought, will and action and at every moment of our lives, a more and more moved consecration to the Divine of the totality of our being. Now these implications of the Yoga of works are also of the very essence of an integral and absolute Bhakti. The seeker who puts them into living practice makes in himself continually a constant, active and effective representation of the very spirit of self-devotion, and it is inevitable that out of it there should emerge the most engrossing worship of the Highest to whom is given this service. An absorbing love for the Divine Presence to whom he feels an always more intimate closeness, grows upon the consecrated worker. And with it is born or in it is contained a universal love too for all these beings, living forms and creatures that are habitations of the Divine - not the brief restless grasping emotions of division, but the settled selfless love that is the deeper vibration of oneness. In all the seeker begins to meet the one Object of his adoration and service. The way of works turns by this road of sacrifice to meet the path of Devotion; it can be itself a devotion as complete, as absorbing, as integral as any the desire of the heart can ask for or the passion of the mind can imagine.
Next, the practice of this Yoga demands a constant inward remembrance of the one central liberating knowledge, and a constant active externalising of it in works comes in too to intensify the remembrance. In all is the one Self, the one Divine is all; all are in the Divine, all are the Divine and there is nothing else in the universe, - this thought or this faith is the whole background until it becomes the whole substance of the consciousness of the worker. A memory, a self-dynamising meditation of this kind, must and does in its end turn into a profound and uninterrupted vision and a vivid and all-embracing consciousness of that which we so powerfully remember or on which we so constantly meditate. For it compels a constant reference at each moment to the Origin of all being and will and action and there is at once an embracing and exceeding of all particular forms and appearances in That which is their cause and upholder. This way cannot go to its end without a seeing vivid and vital, as concrete in its way as physical sight, of the works of the universal Spirit everywhere. On its summits it rises into a constant living and thinking and willing and acting in the presence of the Supramental, the Transcendent. Whatever we see and hear, whatever we touch and sense, all of which we are conscious, has to be known and felt by us as That which we worship and serve; all has to be turned into an image of the Divinity, perceived as a dwelling-place of his Godhead, enveloped with the eternal Omnipresence. In its close, if not long before it, this way of works turns by communion with the Divine Presence, Will and Force into a way of Knowledge more complete and integral than any the mere creature intelligence can construct or the search of the intellect can discover.
Lastly, the practice of this Yoga of sacrifice compels us to renounce all the inner supports of egoism, casting them out of our mind and will and actions, and to eliminate its seed, its presence, its influence out of our nature. All must be done for the Divine; all must be directed towards the Divine. Nothing must be attempted for ourselves as a separate existence; nothing done for others, whether neighbours, friends, family, country or mankind or other creatures merely because they are connected with our personal life and thought and sentiment or because the ego takes a preferential interest in their welfare. In this way of doing and seeing all works and all life become only a daily dynamic worship and service of the Divine in the unbounded temple of his own vast cosmic existence. Life becomes more and more the sacrifice of the eternal in the individual constantly self-offered to the eternal Transcendence. It is offered in the wide sacrificial ground of the field of the eternal cosmic Spirit; and the Force too that offers it is the eternal Force, the omnipresent Mother. Therefore is this way a way of union and communion by acts and by the spirit and knowledge in the act as complete and integral as any our Godward will can hope for or our soul's strength execute.
It has all the power of a way of works integral and absolute, but because of its law of sacrifice and self-giving to the Divine Self and Master, it is accompanied on its one side by the whole power of the path of Love and on the other by the whole power of the path of Knowledge. At its end all these three divine Powers work together, fused, united, completed, perfected by each other.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Works, The Sacrifice, the Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice [111-114],#KEYS |
37: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 |
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50:pero la impaciencia y la anhelación no son controlables y absorben. ~ Javier Mar as
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110:That, I suppose, is a price we pay for love: the absorbing of another’s pain as our own. ~ Matt Haig
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111:The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself. ~ Maria Montessori
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112:The empath helps others by absorbing some of their pain, but who helps the empath? ~ Donna Lynn Hope
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113:The past has no belongings. The past does not obligingly absorb what is not wanted. ~ William Trevor
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114:It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine. ~ Charles Darwin
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115:The future isn't so much about absorbing or tolerating change, it's about making change. ~ Seth Godin
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116:There may be some truth in that idea houses absorb the emotions that are spent in them ~ Stephen King
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117:When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration. ~ Helen Wills
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118:Fear is the most absorbing and luxurious of emotions. One forgets all else if one is afraid. ~ Various
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119:Inside you're like some kind of mirror, reflecting everything without absorbing it. ~ Arthur J Deikman
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120:One of the most fascinating lessons I've absorbed about life is that the struggle is good. ~ Joe Rogan
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121:The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified. ~ Jonathan Culler
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122:What’s important is that I absorb, listen, talk, connect, help, and share. Constantly. ~ Amanda Palmer
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123:You can’t get anything done trying to absorb and neutralize everyone else’s criticisms. ~ Brian Grazer
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124:He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying. ~ Saint Francis de Sales
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125:Since 1955 the oceans have absorbed roughly twenty times more heat than the atmosphere. ~ Joseph J Romm
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126:That, I suppose, is a price we pay for love: the absorbing of another’s pain as if our own. ~ Matt Haig
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127:the true God gives so we can become joyful givers and not just self-absorbed receivers. ~ Miroslav Volf
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128:Up to ninety percent of a politician’s time is absorbed just doing fund-raising. That’s ~ Larry Correia
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129:You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving. ~ John Keats
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130:Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book. ~ Chetan Bhagat
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131:The clock is ticking as nature attempts to absorb the increased greenhouse gas emissions. ~ Ernest Moniz
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132:The love of science to rival the love of woman, in its depth and absorbing energy. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
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133:The sea was the first thing he had found that was large enough to absorb his sorrow. After ~ Nina George
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134:We’re too absorbed in communicating among ourselves to worry about an almighty architect. ~ Kathy Reichs
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135:Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you. ~ E A Bucchianeri
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136:There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb. ~ Alvin Toffler
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137:the squares on your abdomen have been reabsorbed, like tiny islands in a rising sea of lard. ~ Junot D az
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138:When we live in a system, we absorb a system and think in a system. —JAMES W. DOUGLASS ~ T Colin Campbell
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139:Computers combine things to make new knowledge at such high speed that we cannot absorb it. ~ Orson Welles
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140:Not enough families eat together. We eat in front of the TV while we're absorbed in a program. ~ Mehmet Oz
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141:Potter, you really are just as foolish and preposterously self-absorbed as your father. ~ G Norman Lippert
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142:want to lean into him until he absorbs me and I can’t tell where he ends and where I begin. ~ Kennedy Ryan
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143:Besides one should not believe that the people only want reading that is easy to absorb. ~ Jean Paul Sartre
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144:Be willing to absorb some risk and failures to allow people freedom to express themselves. ~ John C Maxwell
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145:he had read and absorbed more than he could understand, so he lived by pastiche and pretence. ~ Stephen Fry
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146:I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes… ~ Jennifer Elisabeth
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147:Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning. ~ Robert Frost
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148:Taken together, you get the best indication that water absorbs microwave frequencies. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
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149:The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. ~ Albert Einstein
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150:The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it. ~ Walt Whitman
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151:In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings. ~ Rudy Rucker
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152:[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air. ~ Charles Dickens
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153:I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time. ~ Pierre Loti
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154:is a categorical imperative commanding you to absorb what it is you love and make it yours. ~ Thornton Wilder
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155:If the mind becomes absorbed in the Heart, pure Consciousness alone remains resplendent. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
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156:I’ve always been a sponge, just absorbing whatever I see, whether it’s in daily life or in art. ~ Tomi Ungerer
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157:I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea’s consoling silence. ~ Cristina Garc a
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158:Just pause, let the audience absorb the hostility, then say, ‘I didn’t pay him to say that.’ ~ Gloria Steinem
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159:most of the people on there are self-absorbed asses using it to validate their own importance. ~ Chelsea Field
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160:However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing. ~ Adam Clarke
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161:I don't have an ego that makes me believe the world revolves around me. I am not self-absorbed. ~ Rush Limbaugh
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162:of the weirdos are like diapers – self-absorbed, full of shit, and need to be disposed of. But ~ Suzanne Wright
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163:As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow
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164:British toilet paper. A way of life. Coated. Refusing to absorb, soften, or bend (stiff upper lip). ~ Erica Jong
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165:Facebook had to be the biggest playground for self-absorbed assholes that the world had ever seen. ~ Jana Deleon
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166:The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness. ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
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167:The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. ~ Franz Kafka
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168:Earth is a show, and Heaven is a vain reward." Primitive Buḍḍhism was engrossed, absorbed, ~ Henry Steel Olcott
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169:Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization. ~ Max Born
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170:The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible. ~ Sarah Palin
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171:The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. ~ Franz Kafka
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172:American's could be any more self absorbed if they were made of equal parts water and paper towel. ~ Dennis Miller
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173:Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow. ~ Stephen Schwartz
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174:I am much more powerful today than the old programs and mind viruses that I absorbed in my childhood. ~ Wayne Dyer
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175:Li Na was, in fact, absorbing live DNA from other animals, there was very little she could do. ~ Michael C Grumley
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176:Those who are so absorbed in their own desires and needs they exclude others (a form of narcissism). ~ Henry Cloud
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177:You don't need to be able to absorb a tremendous amount of the mystical kundalini to realize God. ~ Frederick Lenz
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178:Everything died off and disappeared in that silent way only an eon can absorb and keep secret. ~ Charles D Ambrosio
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179:It seemed Yolande had become so self-absorbed she no longer existed. She'd finally absorbed herself. ~ Louise Penny
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180:The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps. ~ Louisa May Alcott
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181:Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. ~ Paul Newman
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182:He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. ~ William Golding
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183:I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated. ~ Prince Charles
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184:Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform. ~ Pythagoras
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185:The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question. ~ Jean Paul Sartre
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186:Facebook has focused on the conversation, but not really on absorbing the Web into its walled garden. ~ David Rusenko
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187:God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends. ~ Mackenzi Lee
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188:Those who dissolve their body of perception completely are absorbed into what we would call nirvana. ~ Frederick Lenz
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189:As to hate – he’s a lying, bullying, self-absorbed snob, and he hates deeper than most people love. ~ Jonathan Renshaw
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190:Is there anything sexier than a man absorbed in a book? Not to this self-confessed book nerd there isn't. ~ Jana Aston
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191:the old name absorbs into me—MANNAHATTA, "the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters. ~ Walt Whitman
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192:A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor. ~ Victor Hugo
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193:I think the culture can absorb so many people writing poetry and trying to earn their living in poetry. ~ Edward Hirsch
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194:To live was to absorb a shadow of everything that he encountered and use it to improve himself. Unlike ~ David Gatewood
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195:Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram. ~ H L Mencken
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196:Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence. ~ Kim Edwards
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197:The air was hot and wet, as if it had absorbed the sweat of countless bodies. It dripped also with scandal. ~ Monica Ali
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198:The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb. ~ Red Auerbach
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199:The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed. ~ Rob Chapman
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200:Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. ~ Jean Paul Sartre
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201:A strange idea was pecking at his brain like a chicken in the egg, and very, very much absorbed him. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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202:but God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends. ~ Mackenzi Lee
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203:Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily. ~ Lucille Ball
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204:Life" is defined as the ability to absorb nutrients (of any kind) and to replicate, not just to exist. ~ Zecharia Sitchin
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205:One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. ~ Oscar Wilde
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206:We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. ~ Jonathan Gottschall
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207:Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed ~ Hillary Clinton
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208:The great thing about the United States is our ability to absorb foreign people and make them a part of us. ~ S I Hayakawa
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209:The habit of quietly absorbing the shocks will be quite a great help to stabilize pure awareness. ~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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210:Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique. ~ Hattie McDaniel
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211:I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it. ~ Jeremy Northam
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212:It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate. ~ Dave Barry
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213:My act of rebellion would be absorbed like rain on an ocean and leave no trace. I would not cause a ripple. ~ Joseph Heller
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214:Taggle was absorbed in the meat pie. ‘It’s covered in BREAD,’ he huffed. ‘What fool has covered MEAT with BREAD? ~ Erin Bow
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215:41: Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress. ~ Alan Perlis, Epigrams on Programming, 1982
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216:A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. ~ Victor Hugo
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217:A red rose absorbs all colors but red; red is therefore the one color that it is not." ~ Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies,
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218:Everything human beings can imagine has been thrown at injustice, and injustice just absorbs it, and enlarges. ~ Greg Baxter
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219:Pups are programmed by their DNA to absorb the rules, boundaries, and limitations of the societies they live in. ~ Anonymous
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220:Success means pursuing a career that inspires you-brings passion to your life and totally absorbs your energy. ~ Marin Alsop
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221:That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution. ~ Michael Chabon
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222:Tiny pieces of clay that they would never find, that would be absorbed into that earth from which they came. The ~ Yaa Gyasi
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223:Unless you have read and absorbed the best that can be read and absorbed, you will not think clearly or well. ~ Harold Bloom
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224:Why was it so difficult to be absorbed in the most vital and, in a way, the most natural of all questions? ~ Jostein Gaarder
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225:Alternatively, you may look for magnesium oil, which also allows magnesium to be absorbed through the skin. FAQs ~ Jason Fung
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226:As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time. ~ George W Bush
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227:Give me needy emotional whining bullshit.
Flash.
Give me self-absorbed egocentric twaddle.
Christ. ~ Chuck Palahniuk
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228:Inside, I found a middle-aged woman sitting on a stool behind a countertop, absorbed in a Thomas Pynchon novel. ~ Robin Sloan
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229:Let us so absorb integrity—experiencing both its triumphs and defeats—that we do the right thing intuitively. ~ Ming Dao Deng
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230:Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. ~ Elbert Hubbard
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231:She nodded, golden curls beaming in their flight, as she continued her drawing, absolutely absorbed. ~ Gina Marinello Sweeney
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232:since the mind when distracted absorbs nothing deeply, but rejects everything which is, so to speak, crammed into it. ~ Seneca
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233:There is an asymmetry in the work needed to generate a good question versus the work needed to absorb an answer. ~ Kevin Kelly
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234:I keep myself to myself, quickly learning that I don’t actually like people much. I find most people self-absorbed. ~ Ker Dukey
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235:I'm not good," he said, piercing me with eyes that absorbed all light but reflected none, "but I was worse. ~ Becca Fitzpatrick
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236:I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities. ~ Lisa Yuskavage
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237:I've been surrounded by some of the best economic minds in the country, and hopefully I've absorbed some of that. ~ John Bolton
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238:people were usually too absorbed in their own needs or unwilling to be inconvenienced by someone else’s children. ~ Sarah Price
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239:The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage. ~ Alan King
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240:Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost. ~ Timothy Keller
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241:Capitalism works only when institutions are forced to absorb the consequences of the risks that they take on. ~ Sebastian Mallaby
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242:Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy. ~ Eric Hoffer
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243:There is an intelligent healing process inside of you that knows how to absorb pain and transform it into wisdom. ~ Bryant McGill
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244:There's serenity in the stillness of the water and my body absorbs it through my pours, desperate to find its peace. ~ Vi Keeland
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245:This is all happening in the future. This future, this instant. If you can’t absorb this idea, best go home now.” I ~ Don DeLillo
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246:Usually it’s very relaxing to be with someone who’s so self-absorbed, because it doesn’t make any demands on you. ~ Douglas Adams
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247:Work, fight, live. All the sweeter. Mind after mind will shape and absorb. In the end, all will be quiet with wisdom. ~ Greg Bear
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248:You snared me in your captivating hold, you re-wakened me and you’ve slowly been absorbing my soul every night since. ~ Ker Dukey
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249:All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. ~ Theodor Adorno
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250:Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own. ~ Dan Inosanto
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251:She absorbed too much of the world around her and it affected her. That wasn’t something she could change, could she? ~ Maya Banks
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252:Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone elses perspective. ~ Julia Cameron
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253:The execs were tough on him. All day he’d absorb their poison like a sponge, and at night, he’d wring it all out on me. ~ R S Grey
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254:two children, Erik and Alexandra. “ABSORBING AND INGENIOUS.” —Kirkus Reviews “[A] riveting, near-future thriller . . . ~ Greg Bear
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255:A boxing contest is a brain-damage contest. Who can give out more brain damage and who can absorb more of it? ~ Jonathan Gottschall
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256:All contents of meaning are absorbed in the only dominant form of the medium. Only the medium can make an event. ~ Jean Baudrillard
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257:All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. ~ Mitch Albom
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258:I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor. ~ Julia Roberts
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259:Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others. ~ Swami Vivekananda
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260:Nowadays, when kids decide they like an artist, they'll absorb everything that artist has ever done in a single night. ~ Judd Apatow
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261:Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why. ~ Orison Swett Marden
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262:I got a little bit of the Marine mentality from my dad, I guess. You can't but help absorb the culture you're around. ~ Robbie Lawler
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263:So don't make a show of your philosophical learning to the uninitiated, show them by your actions what you have absorbed. ~ Epictetus
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264:That shower was more vivid and absorbing than gourmet meals, amusement park rides—even moments of sexual discovery. ~ Ronald D Siegel
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265:Emma absorbed the news as she watched a garish, white stretch limo cruise past. A group of laughing girls, heads out ~ Paul Pilkington
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266:I have spent years of my life lovingly absorbed in the thoughts and perceptions of . . . people who do not exist. ~ Marilynne Robinson
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267:I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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268:You rely on your speed too much. A young man's vanity. An old man learns to absorb pain and wait for an opportunity. ~ Robert Ferrigno
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269:At times we can be self-absorbed. Lord, help us to open our hearts to others and to serve those who are most vulnerable. ~ Pope Francis
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270:Hinduism has absorbed the best of all the faiths of the world and in that sense Hinduism is not an exclusive religion. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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271:Perfect self-expression will never be labor, but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play. ~ Florence Scovel Shinn
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272:Perfect self-expression will never be labor; but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play. ~ Florence Scovel Shinn
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273:Self-criticism sessions were held, but these produced more criticism than could usefully be absorbed or accomodated. ~ Donald Barthelme
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274:The main thing I’ve noticed, however, is how unreasonable, self-absorbed and permanently outraged caffeine has made me. ~ Caitlin Moran
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275:The things you absorb you will ultimately secrete. It's all out there and available for you to enjoy...and be nourished by. ~ Tom Waits
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276:Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back at the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb. ~ Brandon Mull
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277:Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back to the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb. ~ Brandon Mull
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278:When the vasanas become extinct, the mind also disappears, absorbed into the light of the one reality, the Heart. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
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279:When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly. ~ Timothy Keller
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280:it. I want to walk beside you everywhere and absorb anything bad, so it won’t touch you. Won’t change you, make you like me. ~ Anonymous
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281:This (writing) is the love of your life. It's what I want to do when I wake up. Nothing feels so absorbing, so fulfilling. ~ Martin Amis
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282:What is realized is the heart, as the light of Pure Consciousness, into which the the mind is completely absorbed. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
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283:What little factual information I absorbed in my life was gleaned from lectures the Professor gave to Gilligan. For ~ Augusten Burroughs
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284:You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create. ~ Jimmy Page
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285:Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it. ~ Donella Meadows
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286:He had spent a lot of time thinking about himself, and had come to the conclusion that he was definitely not self-absorbed. ~ Scott Meyer
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287:Is the mean temperature of the ground in any way influenced by the presence of heat-absorbing gases in the atmosphere? ~ Svante Arrhenius
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288:It had been the golden time of evening when the sun is gone and everything gives back the light it has absorbed all day long. ~ Anne Rice
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289:it is difficult to throw oneself into other people's petty concerns when one's own are very absorbing and interesting. ~ Bertrand Russell
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290:Kids pick up and absorb a lot more than you think they do. I try to do what I think is right, and I try to lead by example. ~ Mark Martin
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291:She realizes that children are always too young and self-absorbed to really see their parents in the prime of their lives. ~ Blake Crouch
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292:What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. ~ Lance Armstrong
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293:Whenever your mind is totally absorbed in whatever activities you are performing, your mind will remain calm and content. ~ Chin Ning Chu
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294:As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely. ~ Roberta Flack
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295:Christianity has always had sort of an ability to absorb the developments in science. But, it's always done it very slowly. ~ George Coyne
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296:God loves too much to be willing to forsake his glorious kingdom of grace for your self-absorbed little kingdom of one. ~ Paul David Tripp
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297:I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures. ~ Gail Caldwell
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298:They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation. ~ Rob Lowe
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299:You may feel a sensation of floating. You may see colors, maybe no phenomena, it doesn't matter. You are absorbing power. ~ Frederick Lenz
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300:Being in it, why search for it? The ancients say: Making the vision absorbed in jnana, one sees the world as Brahman. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
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301:Not how long you live, but how much you have lived, how much meaning your life has absorbed and passed on, is what matters. ~ Lewis Mumford
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302:They no longer saw themselves as doers or avengers or saviors; the day had absorbed them. Helplessly, they were only living. ~ Stephen King
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303:Washington—the city with the largest per capita population of pompous, self-absorbed horse’s asses in these United States. ~ Marie Bostwick
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304:Art, specifically music, is a living thing,” he says. “It isn’t just absorbed by the people who hear it, but it absorbs them. ~ Kennedy Ryan
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305:Children are sponges—they are going to absorb whatever is around them, so we need to be intentional about what surrounds them. ~ Dave Ramsey
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306:For the High Achievers, Studying Gave Them The Pleasing, Absorbing Challenge of Flow Percent of the Hours They Spent as It. ~ Daniel Goleman
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307:I love libraries. Everybody there is serious and focused even if they are not absorbing or learning anything better ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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308:the hottest part of the day on Earth is not at noon, but sometime after noon, because the ground absorbs visible light ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
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309:Through enquiry into the source, the mind also disappears being absorbed into the light of the one Reality, the heart. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
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310:Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work. ~ Nikky Finney
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311:But my sister was tofu. Absorbing the characteristics of whoever has managed to capture her attention at that point in her life, ~ Minka Kent
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312:How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great. ~ Jean Paul
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313:I absorbed the lie that any smart woman would use birth control and be responsible for her body. Obviously that's not true. ~ Molly Crabapple
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314:The world can absorb only doses of truth," he said; "too much would kill it." One sought education in order to adjust the dose. ~ Henry Adams
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315:When you need Stayfree MaxiPads to absorb the expectorants produced by your insulted body, you are in serious fucking trouble. ~ Stephen King
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316:American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. ~ Henry Adams
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317:As at those words did I myself become;
And all my love was so absorbed in Him,
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318:Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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319:One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him. ~ Clive James
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320:You see, programmers tend to be arrogant, self-absorbed introverts. We didn’t get into this business because we like people. ~ Robert C Martin
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321:And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart. ~ E L Doctorow
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322:Hitler's mind was a deep-running river. You could never tell when something it had absorbed would bob to the surface again. ~ Ernst Hanfstaengl
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323:I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write. ~ Vikram Seth
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324:...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment. ~ Jasper Fforde
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325:We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by; ~ Thomas Hardy
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326:A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius. ~ Sylvia Nasar
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327:Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment. ~ Edna O Brien
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328:In reality, there is no perpetual motion; all energy eventually gets absorbed, morphs into a different shape, changes state. ~ Christina Dalcher
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329:I've been so blessed to have my career gradually get bigger and bigger, so I've been able to absorb stuff and take stuff gradually. ~ Luke Bryan
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330:The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence. ~ George Eliot
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331:You need a balance in life between dealing with whats going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over. ~ Nigella Lawson
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332:Dios hizo añicos la inexorable ley del pecado y la retribución al invadir la tierra, absorbiendo lo peor que nosotros le podíamos ~ Philip Yancey
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333:In the now, time ceases to exist and we experience a presence that is all-absorbing, completely at peace, and totally satisfying. ~ Deepak Chopra
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334:It scares me to speak my mind, it might sound self-absorbed, I don't say half of what I think, I wonder what I'm thinking for ~ Chantal Kreviazuk
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335:Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention. ~ Maurice Maeterlinck
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336:Twitter is like Ozymandias' wall of tv's in Watchmen. You don't read every tweet, but from the whole you can absorb the zeitgeist. ~ Mike Pohjola
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337:Clever, witty and absorbing, Amortality is a much-needed anatomy of our profound malaise about ageing. Its charms will never fade. ~ David Baddiel
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338:I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil. ~ Vincent Van Gogh
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339:It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life. ~ Nicole Kidman
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340:I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did. ~ Andrew Young
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341:Mary was an odd, determined person, and now she had something interesting to be determined about, she was very much absorbed, indeed. ~ Alice Ozma
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342:The leaves of the tree were yellow, as though they have absorbed all the spring sunshine and were saving it for winter. ~ Sarah Blakley Cartwright
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343:While I am absorbed by fiction, I pull the strings like a puppeteer; I make things happen. It's a passion and a lifelong obsession. ~ Karin Fossum
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344:I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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345:I read a lot of books. So, usually when I go home I try to re-charge my batteries and absorb new stories to become inspired again. ~ Mia Wasikowska
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346:Une signature finit toujours par muter, elle absorbe la personnalité de l'auteur, elle se penche, elle se déforme, elle se contracte. ~ Fred Vargas
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347:Grudges, if left to fester, can become serious maladies. Like a painful ailment they can absorb all of our time & attention. ~ Gordon B Hinckley
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348:History was interesting to the extent that it was catastrophic and, while that might make absorbing viewing, it made horrible living. ~ Isaac Asimov
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349:In higher samadhi, in absence of any support, the consciousness is absorbed within itself in perfect awareness, clarity and peacefulness. ~ Amit Ray
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350:I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them. ~ Jean Shinoda Bolen
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351:Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying. ~ Nell Irvin Painter
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352:One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news. ~ Frank Rich
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353:Pale and massive, he absorbed time like a sponge. Moved something, wiped something, adjusted something, but the future never came. ~ Andrzej Stasiuk
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354:Conversely, real life is materially invaded by the contemplation of the spectacle, and ends up absorbing it and aligning itself with it. ~ Guy Debord
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355:El sufrimiento nos hace egoístas porque nos absorbe por entero: sólo más tarde, en forma de recuerdo, nos enseña la compasión. ~ Marguerite Yourcenar
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356:Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life. ~ Simone de Beauvoir
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357:Man dies. Come from darkness, into darkness he returns, and is reabsorbed, without a trace left, into the illimitable void of time. ~ Leonid Andreyev
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358:Politicians were creatures controlled by passion and it was most effective to quietly absorb that energy without actually giving ground. ~ Kyle Mills
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359:They coil around each other, the light and the darkness, and they absorb each other continuously, yet they never cancel each other out. ~ Tom Robbins
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360:After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin. ~ Barbara Steele
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361:Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well. ~ Jim Rohn
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362:He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah. ~ Idries Shah
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363:I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique. ~ Martin Scorsese
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364:Intenté existir, nada más, intenté absorber al hombre al que amaba mediante ósmosis, intenté grabar lo que quedaba de él sobre mi cuerpo. ~ Jojo Moyes
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365:...Marshall alone his room with a comically tall stack of books, methodically absorbing their contents as though they were drugs... ~ Douglas Coupland
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366:Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed. ~ William Damon
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367:While sin is overflowing, [grace] pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs it. ~ John Calvin
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368:Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications. ~ Alan Rickman
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369:As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more. ~ David Hockney
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370:Because you absorb the habits of those you spend time with, associate only with time-conscious people. Stay away from negative people. ~ Tommy Newberry
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371:Each country can absorb only a limited number of Jews, if she doesn't want disorders in her stomach. Germany already has too many Jews ~ Chaim Weizmann
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372:How much had her young brain already misconstrued? Observing, absorbing. Warping, twisting. Drawing conclusions about everything they did. ~ Zoje Stage
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373:If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love. ~ Boris Pasternak
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374:The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs. ~ Romare Bearden
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375:184. "Focus your mind on one thing, absorb the old examples, study the actions of the masters- penetrate deeply into a single form of practice." ~ Dogen
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376:A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different. ~ Rita Levi Montalcini
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377:Cuando escuchas, aprendes; absorbes como una esponja. Tu vida se vuelve mucho mejor que cuando sólo tratas de ser escuchado en todo momento. ~ Anonymous
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378:Far below, a deep blue lake absorbed the reflection of the clouds. Manicured gardens allowed the villa’s occupants—and, more important, ~ Kristin Hannah
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379:He rolled his eyes luxuriously at her. It was like he merely absorbed her anger, saving it all up for when he needed it for himself. ~ Maggie Stiefvater
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380:I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost in irrelevant sub-details. ~ Pam Gems
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381:I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin. ~ Sara Gruen
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382:No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit. ~ Ronald Reagan
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383:One reason why childhood lasts so long is because there is so much subtle information to absorb about human society and the natural world. ~ Michio Kaku
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384:violence doesn't stop merely by saying, 'we'll act based on love', because that can become just an idea that gets absorbed into the system. ~ David Bohm
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385:Are we asserting the easy dominion of our civilization over all times and all places, as signs that we casually absorb as a form of loot? ~ Martha Rosler
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386:A second or two later, the reptile had been quite absorbed by a handsome, arrogant-looking Englishman smelling strongly of snobbery and snake. ~ P B Kerr
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387:I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination. ~ Martha Graham
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388:Suffering turns us into egotists, for it absorbs us completely: it is later, in the form of memory, that it teaches us compassion. ~ Marguerite Yourcenar
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389:But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n
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390:Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life. ~ Shakuntala Devi
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391:It matches the capacity of evil to inflict suffering with an even more enduring capacity to absorb evil, all the while persisting in love. ~ Taylor Branch
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392:Mortgages were less about getting people into property than getting them into debt. Someone had to absorb the surplus supply of credit. ~ Douglas Rushkoff
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393:Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves. ~ Anonymous
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394:Nos parece que no se puede atribuir un apodo cualquiera a alguien que deberá absorberlo y sufrirlo como un atributo durante toda su vida. ~ Julio Cort zar
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395:Still, though reading absorbed her, what the Queen had not expected was the degree to which it drained her of enthusiasm for anything else. ~ Alan Bennett
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396:The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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397:The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed. ~ Barbara Brown Taylor
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398:Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again. ~ Charles Stross
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399:The great drawback of being witty is that you have to keep your eyes fixed on the semi-idiots around you, and absorb their worthless sensations. ~ Stendhal
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400:Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself. ~ Henry Adams
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401:Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease. ~ Gautama Buddha
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402:I relax my thoughts and absorb everything humming around me. The branches with their gray-green leaves. The birds stirring against the dawn. ~ Sophie Jordan
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403:Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. ~ Matthew Arnold
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404:Remember this: When I am gone, only love can take my place. Be absorbed night and day in the love of God, and give that love to all. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
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405:We absorb and reflect what is around us. If we live in a place where people are angry and violent, then eventually we’ll become like them. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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406:Children are not things to be molded, But are people to be unfolded.”—Jess Lair The Absorbent Mind and Sensitive Periods from Birth to Six Months ~ Anonymous
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407:Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves. ~ Nikola Tesla
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408:Solomon lifts his morning cup to the mountains. Sit down in this pavilion, and don’t listen to religious bickering. Be silent as we absorb the spring. ~ Rumi
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409:The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became. ~ Tullian Tchividjian
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410:But a lone voice carries no weight in a room full of hot air. It floats on the currents of bureaucracy and gets absorbed into the sea of deception. ~ L T Ryan
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411:He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.
Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah. ~ Idries Shah
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412:There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
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413:This new one—who has always and only been male—named himself Bright Itempas, because he was an arrogant, self-absorbed son of a demon even then. ~ N K Jemisin
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414:For, in truth, is not all human philosophy simply the piling up of one word after another in a self-absorbed train of thought and justification? ~ Mark Samuels
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415:From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature. ~ James Russell Lowell
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416:I don't know how I absorb things, but I do. I just absorb them. I don't over read the script, and I don't really ever spend much time learning it. ~ John Noble
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417:Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother ~ Barbara Johnson
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418:Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby-food. ~ Harper Lee
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419:one writerly habit was describing everything I did, no matter how absorbing or how trivial, as if I were standing outside myself and watching. ~ Gloria Steinem
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420:A moral dilemma is equally absorbing whether the stakes are the destiny of nations or the happiness of one or two people - at the most. ~ Alexander McCall Smith
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421:Arum: But where will your arrogance be when we absorb your powers?
Daemon: In the same place as my foot. You know, as in up your ass. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout
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422:He gave the impression of being clean and dry as though he had been pressed between two large blotters which had absorbed all his vital juices. ~ Charles Baxter
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423:I found Burns, absorbed, silent, abstracted from all around her by the companionship of a book, which she read by the dim glare of the embers. ~ Charlotte Bront
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424:I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it. ~ Mary Cassatt
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425:I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin. I want. ~ Sara Gruen
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426:Just as it had done with the hills, the mountains, and the swamps, Ravnica had annexed and absorbed the world’s lakes without so much as a hiccup. ~ Ari Marmell
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427:Watching dance isn't about picking up moves. It's about noting the relationships between motion and space and rhythm to absorb a greater concept ~ Kathryn Craft
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428:Y si nos mordemos el dolor es dulce, y si nos ahogamos en un breve y terrible absorber simultáneo del aliento, esa instantánea muerte es bella. ~ Julio Cort zar
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429:A new world order is taking shape so fast that governments as well as private citizens find it difficult just to absorb the gallop of events. ~ Mikhail Gorbachev
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430:Assuming that humans continue to burn fossil fuels, the oceans will continue to absorb carbon dioxide and will become increasingly acidified. ~ Elizabeth Kolbert
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431:I'd like to say I'm not self-absorbed compared to others, but that's hard to say since I'm far too self-absorbed to pry into others' self-absorption. ~ Anonymous
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432:Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves. The ~ Nikola Tesla
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433:Quien es purificado por el amor, es puro; y quien es absorbido en el Amado y ha abandonado todo lo demás, es un Sufi.
Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah ~ Idries Shah
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434:Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden. ~ Mason Cooley
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435:they always seemed to be halfway out the door, in their minds anyway. Iris hadn’t seen a single person completely absorbed in what they were doing. ~ Sonja Yoerg
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436:To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its image. ~ Evgeny Morozov
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437:Utterly absorbing.... If you did not have the opportunity to witness the Soviet empire in its death throes, Lenin's Tomb will take you there. ~ Jack F Matlock Jr
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438:You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it. ~ Antoine de Saint Exupery
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439:Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh. ~ Sholem Asch
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440:Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own. ~ Bruce Lee
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441:Black absorbs all color, accepts them, takes them into it and let them define it. Gray isn't anything but itself. It absorbs nothing but itself. ~ Nicole Williams
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442:Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion. ~ Etty Hillesum
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443:Her words reminded him of a comforting truth: Joan Flynn was a bright woman, and nowhere near as self-absorbed as others of her station could be. ~ Grace Burrowes
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444:I wondered why children so easily accepted it as their place to absorb the sins of their elders, even if it meant losing themselves in the process. ~ Sejal Badani
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445:Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you. ~ Chris Evert
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446:The usual surface stickiness was absent, and they absorbed nutrients at an alarmingly selfish rate. They had become parasites within their own house. ~ Robin Cook
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447:Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed. ~ Mary Parker Follett
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448:Can any work in a prison camp merge with your dreams, absorb your whole soul, rob you of sleep? It can—but only the work you do to escape! ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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449:Even the most independent and spirited young women can become humorless, self-absorbed, and fearful. It's a terrible preparation for life. ~ Christina Hoff Sommers
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450:Her face was fragile and mischievous, pale enough to absorb hues from the world around her-purple, green, pink-like a face painted by Lucian Freud. ~ Jennifer Egan
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451:Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
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452:Looking into her dull, brown eyes, David wondered if that was to be her lot in life—absorbing the emotions and passions of others, like human tofu. ~ Josh Malerman
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453:Once it has found a suitable rock, it settles down, opens its mouth to begin a life of sedentary feeding, absorbs its brain, and turns on the TV. ~ Terry Pratchett
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454:Programming (or making music) at night is dreamtime, a period exclusively mental, utterly absorbed, sustained and timeless, placeless, disembodied. ~ Stewart Brand
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455:She had seeped into his consciousness so thoroughly, absorbing all lucid thought, that not only could he think of nothing else but no longer cared to. ~ Jojo Moyes
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456:Clutter is knowing all of the things that you absorb through your fashion magazines. Clutter is knowing which celebrities broke up with whom and why. ~ Emily Giffin
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457:I like to run around. I'm enjoying traveling. I absorb as much as I can, and I get to go to beautiful places that I don't know if I would ever visit. ~ Selena Gomez
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458:It was in my nature to absorb large volumes of information during times of distress, like I could master the distress through intellectual dominance. ~ Sally Rooney
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459:The American obsession with cleanliness has diminished people’s ability to absorb good bacteria and nutrients while fighting off bad bacteria. ~ Instaread Summaries
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460:The story of a regeneration of convictions - can any story in the entire field of literature be more filled with thrilling and all-absorbing interest? ~ Lev Shestov
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461:Built into bad news is that sense of profound disbelief. The mind struggles to absorb the bare facts, defending itself against the larger implications. ~ Sue Grafton
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462:By absorbing myself in the passion of party politics, I risk forgetting that politics are meaningless unless they serve a spiritual truth. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry
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463:My mother taught me that reading is a kind of work, and that every paragraph merits exertion, and in this way, I learned how to absorb difficult books. ~ Hope Jahren
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464:The enlightened teacher is someone who has become absorbed in eternity. While they may have a body like others, the essence of their being is light. ~ Frederick Lenz
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465:Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation. ~ Winston Churchill
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466:Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable. ~ Graham Chapman
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467:He had been committed, absorbed and unthinking. Intentionally, because the story was so good. So good he felt like he’d been damaged by it, permanently. ~ Adam Nevill
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468:Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
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469:The
struggle to grow makes the vine work harder, extending its
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470:The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions. ~ Edward de Bono
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471:When my first attempt failed, fear brought into me a shock... I gave a smile, only to realize that my shock was gone. A smile is a shock absorber! ~ Israelmore Ayivor
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472:You can increase your capacity to absorb the mystical kundalini. I have 3 or 4 students who are on the path of mysticism, they can absorb more of it. ~ Frederick Lenz
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473:How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air. ~ Daniel H Wilson
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474:If our stubborn minds would absorb that we are accepted by God because of Jesus Christ, our choices and subsequent behaviors would be profoundly affected. ~ Beth Moore
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475:If we are like Christ, we shall seek, not to absorb, but to reflect the light which falls upon others, and thus we shall become pure and spotless. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
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476:I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.
I want. ~ Sara Gruen
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477:I was meant to live in the shadows and secrets. I can be Thomas’ secret, for a little while, at least—until I absorb all of his pain and set him free. ~ Saffron A Kent
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478:La faz de la tierra que nosotros pisamos conduce al mismo centro del globo terráqueo, y éste a su vez, ha absorbido una cantidad asombrosa de tiempo. ~ Haruki Murakami
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479:Nameless the austere ascetics without home
Abandoning speech and motion and desire
Aloof from creatures sat absorbed, alone. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Quest,
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480:The “nervous system environment” a girl absorbs during her first two years becomes a view of reality that will affect her for the rest of her life. ~ Louann Brizendine
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481:The retina absorbs the light via sensitive light-gathering cells ... In humans these cells make up about 70 percent of all the sensory cells in our body. ~ Neil Shubin
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482:This was one of the images of his lifetime. He simply exposed his retina and let love burn her flickering, shimmering, absorbed face onto his soul. ~ Diane Setterfield
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483:A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice is much harder to hide. ~ Jo Brand
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484:I had the impression that, although I was absorbing much of that sight, many things, too many, were scattering around me without letting me grasp them. ~ Elena Ferrante
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485:I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink. ~ Georges Simenon
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486:The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith. ~ T S Eliot
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487:The only way some feminists were able to absorb the notion of a woman who didn’t necessarily want to marry a man was to understand her as homosexual. ~ Rebecca Traister
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488:They teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n
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489:When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind. ~ Michel de Montaigne
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490:When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind. ~ Michel de Montaigne
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491:Facts that challenge basic assumptions-and thereby threaten people's livelihood and self-esteem-are simply not absorbed. The mind does not digest them. ~ Daniel Kahneman
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492:frog. It was this spongelike rubber cushion that absorbed the first terrific shock of a thousand-pound horse galloping over a hard surface at high speed. ~ Walter Farley
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493:In a boxing match, the fighters absorb some vicious blows because they’re ready for them. And usually, the knockout punch is the one they didn’t see coming. ~ Todd Burpo
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494:I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~ Sufjan Stevens
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495:The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith. ~ T S Eliot
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496:a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a ‘function’, one cog in a machine. ~ Yukio Mishima
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497:A young child's brain has a thinner skull and the brain contains more fluid. The more fluid or fat in any material, the more it absorbs microwave radiation. ~ Devra Davis
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498:In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them. ~ Mark Twain
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499:Part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot that arrived on our shores. ~ Barack Obama
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500:Samadhi is perfect absorption to the point where there is no sense of being absorbed, not the consciousness of knowing that you are having an experience. ~ Frederick Lenz
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