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challenge ::: 1. A call or summons to engage in a contest, fight, or competition. 2. A demand for explanation or justification; a calling into question. v. **3. To invite; arouse; stimulate; provoke. challenges, challenged, challenging.**
challengeable ::: a. --> That may be challenged.
challenged ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Challenge
challenge ::: n. --> An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign.
A claim or demand.
The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.
challenger ::: n. --> One who challenges.
Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol "networking, security, standard, protocol" (CHAP) An {authentication} scheme used by {PPP} servers to validate the identity of the originator of the connection upon connection or any time later. CHAP applies a three-way {handshaking} procedure. After the link is established, the server sends a "challenge" message to the originator. The originator responds with a value calculated using a {one-way hash function}. The server checks the response against its own calculation of the expected hash value. If the values match, the authentication is acknowledged; otherwise the connection is usually terminated. CHAP provides protection against {playback} attack through the use of an incrementally changing identifier and a variable challenge value. The authentication can be repeated any time while the connection is open limiting the time of exposure to any single attack, and the server is in control of the frequency and timing of the challenges. As a result, CHAP provides greater security then {PAP}. CHAP is defined in {RFC} 1334. (1996-03-05)
Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol ::: (networking, security, standard, protocol) (CHAP) An authentication scheme used by PPP servers to validate the identity of the originator of the connection upon connection or any time later.CHAP applies a three-way handshaking procedure. After the link is established, the server sends a challenge message to the originator. The originator the values match, the authentication is acknowledged; otherwise the connection is usually terminated.CHAP provides protection against playback attack through the use of an incrementally changing identifier and a variable challenge value. The frequency and timing of the challenges. As a result, CHAP provides greater security then PAP.CHAP is defined in RFC 1334. (1996-03-05)
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AggaNNasutta. (C. Xiaoyuan jing; J. Shoengyo; K. Soyon kyong 小經). In PAli, "Discourse on Origins" or "Sermon on Things Primeval"; the twenty-seventh sutta of the DĪGHANIKAYA (a separate DHARMAGUPTAKA recension appears as the fifth SuTRA in the Chinese translation of the DĪRGHAGAMA); the sutra provides a Buddhist account of the origins of the world and of human society. The Buddha preached the sermon at SAvatthi (sRAVASTĪ) to two ordinands, VAsettha and BhAradvAja, to disabuse them of the belief that the priestly brAhmana caste was superior to the Buddha's khattiya (KsATRIYA), or warrior, caste. The Buddha describes the fourfold caste system of traditional Indian society as a by-product of the devolution of sentient beings. In the beginning of the eon (KALPA), beings possess spiritual bodies that are luminous, able to travel through the air, and feed on joy. But out of greed for sensual gratification, they degenerate into physical beings with ever grosser propensities: e.g., the coarser the food they eat (first a cream on the surface of water, then creepers, then eventually rice), the coarser their bodies become, until the beings develop sex organs, begin to have intercourse, and in turn build dwellings in order to conceal their debauchery. As their bodies become ever more physical, their life spans in turn also decrease. Immorality, strife, and violence ensue until people finally realize they need a leader to save them from anarchy. They elect the first human king, named MahAsammata, who was also the first ksatriya. It was out of the ksatriya lineage deriving from this first king that the other three classes-brAhmana, vaisya, and sudra-also evolved. This account challenges the mainstream Indian belief that the brAhmana caste is congenitally superior (descending, it claims, from the mouth of the god BrahmA himself) and posits that the effort of moral and spiritual perfection, not the accident of birth, is the true standard of human superiority. Although the Buddhist tradition presumes that this sermon offers a distinctively Buddhistic account of the origin and development of both the universe and society, many of the topoi adopted in the story derive from Brahmanical cosmogonies, perhaps employed here as a satire of Brahmanical pretensions in Indian society. The scripture has also been treated by modern interpreters as offering an incipient Buddhist "environmentalism," wherein human actions, motivated by greed and lust, cause deleterious effects on the physical world, turning, for example, naturally growing rice into a rice that must be cultivated.
Al-Aziz ::: The One who, with His unchallengeable might, disposes as He wishes. The One whose will to do as He likes, nothing can oppose. This name works in parallel with the name Rabb. The Rabb attribute carries out the demands of the Aziz attribute!
Altalena Affair ::: Ship carrying immigrants and ammunition from France to Israel in June, 1948 under the command of Etzel leader Menachem Begin. Ben Gurion, objecting to an armed militia after the creation of the State of Israel, demanded the weapons be turned over to Israel Defense Force. The shipment was a direct challenge to the ruling party's (Labor) authority, and the IDF was ordered to open fire, killing 21 on board and nearly sparking a civil war.
anti-novel: An experimental type of fiction, which intentionally challenges the conventions of the traditional novel. Some possible aspects include alternative beginnings and endings.
appeal ::: v. t. --> To make application for the removal of (a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injustice or illegality in the trial below. We say, the cause was appealed from an inferior court.
To charge with a crime; to accuse; to institute a private criminal prosecution against for some heinous crime; as, to appeal a person of felony.
To summon; to challenge.
appellant ::: a. --> Relating to an appeal; appellate. ::: n. --> One who accuses another of felony or treason.
One who appeals, or asks for a rehearing or review of a cause by a higher tribunal.
A challenger.
Arachne (Greek) In Greek mythology the daughter of the dyer Idmon of Colophon, who was so skillful a weaver that she dared to challenge Athena to a competitive trial. Indignant because Arachne had presumed to depict the amours of the gods in her weaving, Athena tore her work, Arache hung herself, and Athena turned the presumptuous maiden into a spider, doomed to spin her web forever. The amours of the gods woven by Arachne signify the weaving of the marvelous web of manifested existence in all its intricate hierarchical structure.
assail ::: 1. To attack vigorously or violently; assault. 2. To impinge upon; make an impact on; beset. 3. To take upon oneself a difficult challenge with the intention of mastering it. assailed, assailing.
Asvajit. (P. Assaji; T. Rta thul; C. Ashuoshi; J. Asetsuji; K. Asolsi 阿示). The fifth of the five ascetics (PANCAVARGIKA), along with AJNATAKAUndINYA (P. ANNAtakondaNNa), BHADRIKA (P. Bhaddiya), VAsPA (P. Vappa), and MAHANAMAN (P. MahAnAma), who practiced austerities with GAUTAMA prior to his enlightenment. Subsequently, when Gautama abandoned the severe asceticism they had been practicing in favor of the middle way (MADHYAMAPRATIPAD), Asvajit and his companions became disgusted with Gautama's backsliding and left him, going to the ṚsIPATANA (P. Isipatana) deer park, located in the northeast of VArAnasī. After the Buddha's enlightenment, however, the Buddha sought them out to teach them the first sermon, the DHARMACAKRAPRAVARTANASuTRA (P. DHAMMACAKKAPAVATTANASUTTA); while listening to this sermon, Asvajit achieved the first stage of awakening or "opening of the dharma eye" (DHARMACAKsUS), becoming a stream-enterer (SROTAAPANNA), and was immediately ordained as a monk using the informal EHIBHIKsUKA, or "come, monk," formula. Five days later, the Buddha then preached to the group of five new monks the second sermon, the *AnAtmalaksanasutra (P. ANATTALAKKHAnASUTTA), which led to Asvajit's becoming a worthy one (ARHAT). It was through an encounter with Asvajit that sARIPUTRA and MAHAMAUDGALYAYANA, the Buddha's two chief disciples, were initially converted. SAriputra witnessed Asvajit's calm demeanor while gathering alms in the city of RAJAGṚHA. Impressed, he approached Asvajit and asked who his teacher was and what were his teachings. In response, Asvajit said that he was new to the teachings and could offer only the following summary: "Of those phenomena produced through causes, the TathAgata has proclaimed their causes and also their cessation. Thus has spoken the great renunciant." His description, which came to known as the YE DHARMA (based on its first two words of the summary), would become perhaps the most commonly repeated statement in all of Buddhist literature. Upon hearing these words, sAriputra attained the stage of stream-entry (see SROTAAPANNA), and when he repeated what he heard to his friend MaudgalyAyana, he also did so. The two then agreed to become the Buddha's disciples. According to PAli sources, Asvajit once was approached by the ascetic Nigantha Saccaka, who inquired of the Buddha's teachings. Asvajit explained the doctrine of nonself (ANATMAN) with a summary of the Anattalakkhanasutta, which the Buddha had taught him. Convinced that he could refute that doctrine, Nigantha Saccaka challenged the Buddha to a debate and was vanquished. The PAli commentaries say that Asvajit intentionally offered only the briefest of explanations of the nonself doctrine as a means of coaxing the ascetic into a direct encounter with the Buddha.
(a) The initial and inescapable problem with which the epistemologist is confronted is that of the very possibility of knowledge: Is genuine knowledge at all attainable? The natural dogmatism of the human mind is confronted with the sceptic's challenge: a challenge grounded on the relativity of the senses (sensory scepticism) and the contradictions into which the reason is often betrayed (rational scepticism). An alternative to both dogmatism and extreme scepticism is a tentative or methodological scepticism of which Descartes' systematic doubt, Locke's cautious empiricism and Kant's critical epistemology are instances. See Dogmatism; Scepticism; Criticism. Scepticism in modern epistemology is commonly associated with solipsism, since a scepticism regarding knowledge of the external world leads to solipsism and the ego-centric predicament. See Solipsism; Ego-centric predicament.
Aufklärung: In general, this German word and its English equivalent Enlightenment denote the self-emancipation of man from mere authority, prejudice, convention and tradition, with an insistence on freer thinking about problems uncritically referred to these other agencies. According to Kant's famous definition "Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority, which is the incapacity of using one's understanding without the direction of another. This state of minority is caused when its source lies not in the lack of understanding, but in the lack of determination and courage to use it without the assistance of another" (Was ist Aufklärung? 1784). In its historical perspective, the Aufklärung refers to the cultural atmosphere and contrlbutions of the 18th century, especially in Germany, France and England [which affected also American thought with B. Franklin, T. Paine and the leaders of the Revolution]. It crystallized tendencies emphasized by the Renaissance, and quickened by modern scepticism and empiricism, and by the great scientific discoveries of the 17th century. This movement, which was represented by men of varying tendencies, gave an impetus to general learning, a more popular philosophy, empirical science, scriptural criticism, social and political thought. More especially, the word Aufklärung is applied to the German contributions to 18th century culture. In philosophy, its principal representatives are G. E. Lessing (1729-81) who believed in free speech and in a methodical criticism of religion, without being a free-thinker; H. S. Reimarus (1694-1768) who expounded a naturalistic philosophy and denied the supernatural origin of Christianity; Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86) who endeavoured to mitigate prejudices and developed a popular common-sense philosophy; Chr. Wolff (1679-1754), J. A. Eberhard (1739-1809) who followed the Leibnizian rationalism and criticized unsuccessfully Kant and Fichte; and J. G. Herder (1744-1803) who was best as an interpreter of others, but whose intuitional suggestions have borne fruit in the organic correlation of the sciences, and in questions of language in relation to human nature and to national character. The works of Kant and Goethe mark the culmination of the German Enlightenment. Cf. J. G. Hibben, Philosophy of the Enlightenment, 1910. --T.G. Augustinianism: The thought of St. Augustine of Hippo, and of his followers. Born in 354 at Tagaste in N. Africa, A. studied rhetoric in Carthage, taught that subject there and in Rome and Milan. Attracted successively to Manicheanism, Scepticism, and Neo-Platontsm, A. eventually found intellectual and moral peace with his conversion to Christianity in his thirty-fourth year. Returning to Africa, he established numerous monasteries, became a priest in 391, Bishop of Hippo in 395. Augustine wrote much: On Free Choice, Confessions, Literal Commentary on Genesis, On the Trinity, and City of God, are his most noted works. He died in 430. St. Augustine's characteristic method, an inward empiricism which has little in common with later variants, starts from things without, proceeds within to the self, and moves upwards to God. These three poles of the Augustinian dialectic are polarized by his doctrine of moderate illuminism. An ontological illumination is required to explain the metaphysical structure of things. The truth of judgment demands a noetic illumination. A moral illumination is necessary in the order of willing; and so, too, an lllumination of art in the aesthetic order. Other illuminations which transcend the natural order do not come within the scope of philosophy; they provide the wisdoms of theology and mysticism. Every being is illuminated ontologically by number, form, unity and its derivatives, and order. A thing is what it is, in so far as it is more or less flooded by the light of these ontological constituents. Sensation is necessary in order to know material substances. There is certainly an action of the external object on the body and a corresponding passion of the body, but, as the soul is superior to the body and can suffer nothing from its inferior, sensation must be an action, not a passion, of the soul. Sensation takes place only when the observing soul, dynamically on guard throughout the body, is vitally attentive to the changes suffered by the body. However, an adequate basis for the knowledge of intellectual truth is not found in sensation alone. In order to know, for example, that a body is multiple, the idea of unity must be present already, otherwise its multiplicity could not be recognized. If numbers are not drawn in by the bodily senses which perceive only the contingent and passing, is the mind the source of the unchanging and necessary truth of numbers? The mind of man is also contingent and mutable, and cannot give what it does not possess. As ideas are not innate, nor remembered from a previous existence of the soul, they can be accounted for only by an immutable source higher than the soul. In so far as man is endowed with an intellect, he is a being naturally illuminated by God, Who may be compared to an intelligible sun. The human intellect does not create the laws of thought; it finds them and submits to them. The immediate intuition of these normative rules does not carry any content, thus any trace of ontologism is avoided. Things have forms because they have numbers, and they have being in so far as they possess form. The sufficient explanation of all formable, and hence changeable, things is an immutable and eternal form which is unrestricted in time and space. The forms or ideas of all things actually existing in the world are in the things themselves (as rationes seminales) and in the Divine Mind (as rationes aeternae). Nothing could exist without unity, for to be is no other than to be one. There is a unity proper to each level of being, a unity of the material individual and species, of the soul, and of that union of souls in the love of the same good, which union constitutes the city. Order, also, is ontologically imbibed by all beings. To tend to being is to tend to order; order secures being, disorder leads to non-being. Order is the distribution which allots things equal and unequal each to its own place and integrates an ensemble of parts in accordance with an end. Hence, peace is defined as the tranquillity of order. Just as things have their being from their forms, the order of parts, and their numerical relations, so too their beauty is not something superadded, but the shining out of all their intelligible co-ingredients. S. Aurelii Augustini, Opera Omnia, Migne, PL 32-47; (a critical edition of some works will be found in the Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, Vienna). Gilson, E., Introd. a l'etude de s. Augustin, (Paris, 1931) contains very good bibliography up to 1927, pp. 309-331. Pope, H., St. Augustine of Hippo, (London, 1937). Chapman, E., St. Augustine's Philos. of Beauty, (N. Y., 1939). Figgis, J. N., The Political Aspects of St. Augustine's "City of God", (London, 1921). --E.C. Authenticity: In a general sense, genuineness, truth according to its title. It involves sometimes a direct and personal characteristic (Whitehead speaks of "authentic feelings"). This word also refers to problems of fundamental criticism involving title, tradition, authorship and evidence. These problems are vital in theology, and basic in scholarship with regard to the interpretation of texts and doctrines. --T.G. Authoritarianism: That theory of knowledge which maintains that the truth of any proposition is determined by the fact of its having been asserted by a certain esteemed individual or group of individuals. Cf. H. Newman, Grammar of Assent; C. S. Peirce, "Fixation of Belief," in Chance, Love and Logic, ed. M. R. Cohen. --A.C.B. Autistic thinking: Absorption in fanciful or wishful thinking without proper control by objective or factual material; day dreaming; undisciplined imagination. --A.C.B. Automaton Theory: Theory that a living organism may be considered a mere machine. See Automatism. Automatism: (Gr. automatos, self-moving) (a) In metaphysics: Theory that animal and human organisms are automata, that is to say, are machines governed by the laws of physics and mechanics. Automatism, as propounded by Descartes, considered the lower animals to be pure automata (Letter to Henry More, 1649) and man a machine controlled by a rational soul (Treatise on Man). Pure automatism for man as well as animals is advocated by La Mettrie (Man, a Machine, 1748). During the Nineteenth century, automatism, combined with epiphenomenalism, was advanced by Hodgson, Huxley and Clifford. (Cf. W. James, The Principles of Psychology, Vol. I, ch. V.) Behaviorism, of the extreme sort, is the most recent version of automatism (See Behaviorism). (b) In psychology: Psychological automatism is the performance of apparently purposeful actions, like automatic writing without the superintendence of the conscious mind. L. C. Rosenfield, From Beast Machine to Man Machine, N. Y., 1941. --L.W. Automatism, Conscious: The automatism of Hodgson, Huxley, and Clifford which considers man a machine to which mind or consciousness is superadded; the mind of man is, however, causally ineffectual. See Automatism; Epiphenomenalism. --L.W. Autonomy: (Gr. autonomia, independence) Freedom consisting in self-determination and independence of all external constraint. See Freedom. Kant defines autonomy of the will as subjection of the will to its own law, the categorical imperative, in contrast to heteronomy, its subjection to a law or end outside the rational will. (Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, § 2.) --L.W. Autonomy of ethics: A doctrine, usually propounded by intuitionists, that ethics is not a part of, and cannot be derived from, either metaphysics or any of the natural or social sciences. See Intuitionism, Metaphysical ethics, Naturalistic ethics. --W.K.F. Autonomy of the will: (in Kant's ethics) The freedom of the rational will to legislate to itself, which constitutes the basis for the autonomy of the moral law. --P.A.S. Autonymy: In the terminology introduced by Carnap, a word (phrase, symbol, expression) is autonymous if it is used as a name for itself --for the geometric shape, sound, etc. which it exemplifies, or for the word as a historical and grammatical unit. Autonymy is thus the same as the Scholastic suppositio matertalis (q. v.), although the viewpoint is different. --A.C. Autotelic: (from Gr. autos, self, and telos, end) Said of any absorbing activity engaged in for its own sake (cf. German Selbstzweck), such as higher mathematics, chess, etc. In aesthetics, applied to creative art and play which lack any conscious reference to the accomplishment of something useful. In the view of some, it may constitute something beneficent in itself of which the person following his art impulse (q.v.) or playing is unaware, thus approaching a heterotelic (q.v.) conception. --K.F.L. Avenarius, Richard: (1843-1896) German philosopher who expressed his thought in an elaborate and novel terminology in the hope of constructing a symbolic language for philosophy, like that of mathematics --the consequence of his Spinoza studies. As the most influential apostle of pure experience, the posltivistic motive reaches in him an extreme position. Insisting on the biologic and economic function of thought, he thought the true method of science is to cure speculative excesses by a return to pure experience devoid of all assumptions. Philosophy is the scientific effort to exclude from knowledge all ideas not included in the given. Its task is to expel all extraneous elements in the given. His uncritical use of the category of the given and the nominalistic view that logical relations are created rather than discovered by thought, leads him to banish not only animism but also all of the categories, substance, causality, etc., as inventions of the mind. Explaining the evolution and devolution of the problematization and deproblematization of numerous ideas, and aiming to give the natural history of problems, Avenarius sought to show physiologically, psychologically and historically under what conditions they emerge, are challenged and are solved. He hypothesized a System C, a bodily and central nervous system upon which consciousness depends. R-values are the stimuli received from the world of objects. E-values are the statements of experience. The brain changes that continually oscillate about an ideal point of balance are termed Vitalerhaltungsmaximum. The E-values are differentiated into elements, to which the sense-perceptions or the content of experience belong, and characters, to which belongs everything which psychology describes as feelings and attitudes. Avenarius describes in symbolic form a series of states from balance to balance, termed vital series, all describing a series of changes in System C. Inequalities in the vital balance give rise to vital differences. According to his theory there are two vital series. It assumes a series of brain changes because parallel series of conscious states can be observed. The independent vital series are physical, and the dependent vital series are psychological. The two together are practically covariants. In the case of a process as a dependent vital series three stages can be noted: first, the appearance of the problem, expressed as strain, restlessness, desire, fear, doubt, pain, repentance, delusion; the second, the continued effort and struggle to solve the problem; and finally, the appearance of the solution, characterized by abating anxiety, a feeling of triumph and enjoyment. Corresponding to these three stages of the dependent series are three stages of the independent series: the appearance of the vital difference and a departure from balance in the System C, the continuance with an approximate vital difference, and lastly, the reduction of the vital difference to zero, the return to stability. By making room for dependent and independent experiences, he showed that physics regards experience as independent of the experiencing indlvidual, and psychology views experience as dependent upon the individual. He greatly influenced Mach and James (q.v.). See Avenarius, Empirio-criticism, Experience, pure. Main works: Kritik der reinen Erfahrung; Der menschliche Weltbegriff. --H.H. Averroes: (Mohammed ibn Roshd) Known to the Scholastics as The Commentator, and mentioned as the author of il gran commento by Dante (Inf. IV. 68) he was born 1126 at Cordova (Spain), studied theology, law, medicine, mathematics, and philosophy, became after having been judge in Sevilla and Cordova, physician to the khalifah Jaqub Jusuf, and charged with writing a commentary on the works of Aristotle. Al-mansur, Jusuf's successor, deprived him of his place because of accusations of unorthodoxy. He died 1198 in Morocco. Averroes is not so much an original philosopher as the author of a minute commentary on the whole works of Aristotle. His procedure was imitated later by Aquinas. In his interpretation of Aristotelian metaphysics Averroes teaches the coeternity of a universe created ex nihilo. This doctrine formed together with the notion of a numerical unity of the active intellect became one of the controversial points in the discussions between the followers of Albert-Thomas and the Latin Averroists. Averroes assumed that man possesses only a disposition for receiving the intellect coming from without; he identifies this disposition with the possible intellect which thus is not truly intellectual by nature. The notion of one intellect common to all men does away with the doctrine of personal immortality. Another doctrine which probably was emphasized more by the Latin Averroists (and by the adversaries among Averroes' contemporaries) is the famous statement about "two-fold truth", viz. that a proposition may be theologically true and philosophically false and vice versa. Averroes taught that religion expresses the (higher) philosophical truth by means of religious imagery; the "two-truth notion" came apparently into the Latin text through a misinterpretation on the part of the translators. The works of Averroes were one of the main sources of medieval Aristotelianlsm, before and even after the original texts had been translated. The interpretation the Latin Averroists found in their texts of the "Commentator" spread in spite of opposition and condemnation. See Averroism, Latin. Averroes, Opera, Venetiis, 1553. M. Horten, Die Metaphysik des Averroes, 1912. P. Mandonnet, Siger de Brabant et l'Averroisme Latin, 2d ed., Louvain, 1911. --R.A. Averroism, Latin: The commentaries on Aristotle written by Averroes (Ibn Roshd) in the 12th century became known to the Western scholars in translations by Michael Scottus, Hermannus Alemannus, and others at the beginning of the 13th century. Many works of Aristotle were also known first by such translations from Arabian texts, though there existed translations from the Greek originals at the same time (Grabmann). The Averroistic interpretation of Aristotle was held to be the true one by many; but already Albert the Great pointed out several notions which he felt to be incompatible with the principles of Christian philosophy, although he relied for the rest on the "Commentator" and apparently hardly used any other text. Aquinas, basing his studies mostly on a translation from the Greek texts, procured for him by William of Moerbecke, criticized the Averroistic interpretation in many points. But the teachings of the Commentator became the foundation for a whole school of philosophers, represented first by the Faculty of Arts at Paris. The most prominent of these scholars was Siger of Brabant. The philosophy of these men was condemned on March 7th, 1277 by Stephen Tempier, Bishop of Paris, after a first condemnation of Aristotelianism in 1210 had gradually come to be neglected. The 219 theses condemned in 1277, however, contain also some of Aquinas which later were generally recognized an orthodox. The Averroistic propositions which aroused the criticism of the ecclesiastic authorities and which had been opposed with great energy by Albert and Thomas refer mostly to the following points: The co-eternity of the created word; the numerical identity of the intellect in all men, the so-called two-fold-truth theory stating that a proposition may be philosophically true although theologically false. Regarding the first point Thomas argued that there is no philosophical proof, either for the co-eternity or against it; creation is an article of faith. The unity of intellect was rejected as incompatible with the true notion of person and with personal immortality. It is doubtful whether Averroes himself held the two-truths theory; it was, however, taught by the Latin Averroists who, notwithstanding the opposition of the Church and the Thomistic philosophers, gained a great influence and soon dominated many universities, especially in Italy. Thomas and his followers were convinced that they interpreted Aristotle correctly and that the Averroists were wrong; one has, however, to admit that certain passages in Aristotle allow for the Averroistic interpretation, especially in regard to the theory of intellect. Lit.: P. Mandonnet, Siger de Brabant et l'Averroisme Latin au XIIIe Siecle, 2d. ed. Louvain, 1911; M. Grabmann, Forschungen über die lateinischen Aristotelesübersetzungen des XIII. Jahrhunderts, Münster 1916 (Beitr. z. Gesch. Phil. d. MA. Vol. 17, H. 5-6). --R.A. Avesta: See Zendavesta. Avicehron: (or Avencebrol, Salomon ibn Gabirol) The first Jewish philosopher in Spain, born in Malaga 1020, died about 1070, poet, philosopher, and moralist. His main work, Fons vitae, became influential and was much quoted by the Scholastics. It has been preserved only in the Latin translation by Gundissalinus. His doctrine of a spiritual substance individualizing also the pure spirits or separate forms was opposed by Aquinas already in his first treatise De ente, but found favor with the medieval Augustinians also later in the 13th century. He also teaches the necessity of a mediator between God and the created world; such a mediator he finds in the Divine Will proceeding from God and creating, conserving, and moving the world. His cosmogony shows a definitely Neo-Platonic shade and assumes a series of emanations. Cl. Baeumker, Avencebrolis Fons vitae. Beitr. z. Gesch. d. Philos. d. MA. 1892-1895, Vol. I. Joh. Wittman, Die Stellung des hl. Thomas von Aquino zu Avencebrol, ibid. 1900. Vol. III. --R.A. Avicenna: (Abu Ali al Hosain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina) Born 980 in the country of Bocchara, began to write in young years, left more than 100 works, taught in Ispahan, was physician to several Persian princes, and died at Hamadan in 1037. His fame as physician survived his influence as philosopher in the Occident. His medical works were printed still in the 17th century. His philosophy is contained in 18 vols. of a comprehensive encyclopedia, following the tradition of Al Kindi and Al Farabi. Logic, Physics, Mathematics and Metaphysics form the parts of this work. His philosophy is Aristotelian with noticeable Neo-Platonic influences. His doctrine of the universal existing ante res in God, in rebus as the universal nature of the particulars, and post res in the human mind by way of abstraction became a fundamental thesis of medieval Aristotelianism. He sharply distinguished between the logical and the ontological universal, denying to the latter the true nature of form in the composite. The principle of individuation is matter, eternally existent. Latin translations attributed to Avicenna the notion that existence is an accident to essence (see e.g. Guilelmus Parisiensis, De Universo). The process adopted by Avicenna was one of paraphrasis of the Aristotelian texts with many original thoughts interspersed. His works were translated into Latin by Dominicus Gundissalinus (Gondisalvi) with the assistance of Avendeath ibn Daud. This translation started, when it became more generally known, the "revival of Aristotle" at the end of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th century. Albert the Great and Aquinas professed, notwithstanding their critical attitude, a great admiration for Avicenna whom the Arabs used to call the "third Aristotle". But in the Orient, Avicenna's influence declined soon, overcome by the opposition of the orthodox theologians. Avicenna, Opera, Venetiis, 1495; l508; 1546. M. Horten, Das Buch der Genesung der Seele, eine philosophische Enzyklopaedie Avicenna's; XIII. Teil: Die Metaphysik. Halle a. S. 1907-1909. R. de Vaux, Notes et textes sur l'Avicennisme Latin, Bibl. Thomiste XX, Paris, 1934. --R.A. Avidya: (Skr.) Nescience; ignorance; the state of mind unaware of true reality; an equivalent of maya (q.v.); also a condition of pure awareness prior to the universal process of evolution through gradual differentiation into the elements and factors of knowledge. --K.F.L. Avyakta: (Skr.) "Unmanifest", descriptive of or standing for brahman (q.v.) in one of its or "his" aspects, symbolizing the superabundance of the creative principle, or designating the condition of the universe not yet become phenomenal (aja, unborn). --K.F.L. Awareness: Consciousness considered in its aspect of act; an act of attentive awareness such as the sensing of a color patch or the feeling of pain is distinguished from the content attended to, the sensed color patch, the felt pain. The psychologlcal theory of intentional act was advanced by F. Brentano (Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkte) and received its epistemological development by Meinong, Husserl, Moore, Laird and Broad. See Intentionalism. --L.W. Axiological: (Ger. axiologisch) In Husserl: Of or pertaining to value or theory of value (the latter term understood as including disvalue and value-indifference). --D.C. Axiological ethics: Any ethics which makes the theory of obligation entirely dependent on the theory of value, by making the determination of the rightness of an action wholly dependent on a consideration of the value or goodness of something, e.g. the action itself, its motive, or its consequences, actual or probable. Opposed to deontological ethics. See also teleological ethics. --W.K.F. Axiologic Realism: In metaphysics, theory that value as well as logic, qualities as well as relations, have their being and exist external to the mind and independently of it. Applicable to the philosophy of many though not all realists in the history of philosophy, from Plato to G. E. Moore, A. N. Whitehead, and N, Hartmann. --J.K.F. Axiology: (Gr. axios, of like value, worthy, and logos, account, reason, theory). Modern term for theory of value (the desired, preferred, good), investigation of its nature, criteria, and metaphysical status. Had its rise in Plato's theory of Forms or Ideas (Idea of the Good); was developed in Aristotle's Organon, Ethics, Poetics, and Metaphysics (Book Lambda). Stoics and Epicureans investigated the summum bonum. Christian philosophy (St. Thomas) built on Aristotle's identification of highest value with final cause in God as "a living being, eternal, most good." In modern thought, apart from scholasticism and the system of Spinoza (Ethica, 1677), in which values are metaphysically grounded, the various values were investigated in separate sciences, until Kant's Critiques, in which the relations of knowledge to moral, aesthetic, and religious values were examined. In Hegel's idealism, morality, art, religion, and philosophy were made the capstone of his dialectic. R. H. Lotze "sought in that which should be the ground of that which is" (Metaphysik, 1879). Nineteenth century evolutionary theory, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and economics subjected value experience to empirical analysis, and stress was again laid on the diversity and relativity of value phenomena rather than on their unity and metaphysical nature. F. Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra (1883-1885) and Zur Genealogie der Moral (1887) aroused new interest in the nature of value. F. Brentano, Vom Ursprung sittlicher Erkenntnis (1889), identified value with love. In the twentieth century the term axiology was apparently first applied by Paul Lapie (Logique de la volonte, 1902) and E. von Hartmann (Grundriss der Axiologie, 1908). Stimulated by Ehrenfels (System der Werttheorie, 1897), Meinong (Psychologisch-ethische Untersuchungen zur Werttheorie, 1894-1899), and Simmel (Philosophie des Geldes, 1900). W. M. Urban wrote the first systematic treatment of axiology in English (Valuation, 1909), phenomenological in method under J. M. Baldwin's influence. Meanwhile H. Münsterberg wrote a neo-Fichtean system of values (The Eternal Values, 1909). Among important recent contributions are: B. Bosanquet, The Principle of Individuality and Value (1912), a free reinterpretation of Hegelianism; W. R. Sorley, Moral Values and the Idea of God (1918, 1921), defending a metaphysical theism; S. Alexander, Space, Time, and Deity (1920), realistic and naturalistic; N. Hartmann, Ethik (1926), detailed analysis of types and laws of value; R. B. Perry's magnum opus, General Theory of Value (1926), "its meaning and basic principles construed in terms of interest"; and J. Laird, The Idea of Value (1929), noteworthy for historical exposition. A naturalistic theory has been developed by J. Dewey (Theory of Valuation, 1939), for which "not only is science itself a value . . . but it is the supreme means of the valid determination of all valuations." A. J. Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic (1936) expounds the view of logical positivism that value is "nonsense." J. Hessen, Wertphilosophie (1937), provides an account of recent German axiology from a neo-scholastic standpoint. The problems of axiology fall into four main groups, namely, those concerning (1) the nature of value, (2) the types of value, (3) the criterion of value, and (4) the metaphysical status of value. (1) The nature of value experience. Is valuation fulfillment of desire (voluntarism: Spinoza, Ehrenfels), pleasure (hedonism: Epicurus, Bentham, Meinong), interest (Perry), preference (Martineau), pure rational will (formalism: Stoics, Kant, Royce), apprehension of tertiary qualities (Santayana), synoptic experience of the unity of personality (personalism: T. H. Green, Bowne), any experience that contributes to enhanced life (evolutionism: Nietzsche), or "the relation of things as means to the end or consequence actually reached" (pragmatism, instrumentalism: Dewey). (2) The types of value. Most axiologists distinguish between intrinsic (consummatory) values (ends), prized for their own sake, and instrumental (contributory) values (means), which are causes (whether as economic goods or as natural events) of intrinsic values. Most intrinsic values are also instrumental to further value experience; some instrumental values are neutral or even disvaluable intrinsically. Commonly recognized as intrinsic values are the (morally) good, the true, the beautiful, and the holy. Values of play, of work, of association, and of bodily well-being are also acknowledged. Some (with Montague) question whether the true is properly to be regarded as a value, since some truth is disvaluable, some neutral; but love of truth, regardless of consequences, seems to establish the value of truth. There is disagreement about whether the holy (religious value) is a unique type (Schleiermacher, Otto), or an attitude toward other values (Kant, Höffding), or a combination of the two (Hocking). There is also disagreement about whether the variety of values is irreducible (pluralism) or whether all values are rationally related in a hierarchy or system (Plato, Hegel, Sorley), in which values interpenetrate or coalesce into a total experience. (3) The criterion of value. The standard for testing values is influenced by both psychological and logical theory. Hedonists find the standard in the quantity of pleasure derived by the individual (Aristippus) or society (Bentham). Intuitionists appeal to an ultimate insight into preference (Martineau, Brentano). Some idealists recognize an objective system of rational norms or ideals as criterion (Plato, Windelband), while others lay more stress on rational wholeness and coherence (Hegel, Bosanquet, Paton) or inclusiveness (T. H. Green). Naturalists find biological survival or adjustment (Dewey) to be the standard. Despite differences, there is much in common in the results of the application of these criteria. (4) The metaphysical status of value. What is the relation of values to the facts investigated by natural science (Koehler), of Sein to Sollen (Lotze, Rickert), of human experience of value to reality independent of man (Hegel, Pringle-Pattlson, Spaulding)? There are three main answers: subjectivism (value is entirely dependent on and relative to human experience of it: so most hedonists, naturalists, positivists); logical objectivism (values are logical essences or subsistences, independent of their being known, yet with no existential status or action in reality); metaphysical objectivism (values --or norms or ideals --are integral, objective, and active constituents of the metaphysically real: so theists, absolutists, and certain realists and naturalists like S. Alexander and Wieman). --E.S.B. Axiom: See Mathematics. Axiomatic method: That method of constructing a deductive system consisting of deducing by specified rules all statements of the system save a given few from those given few, which are regarded as axioms or postulates of the system. See Mathematics. --C.A.B. Ayam atma brahma: (Skr.) "This self is brahman", famous quotation from Brhadaranyaka Upanishad 2.5.19, one of many alluding to the central theme of the Upanishads, i.e., the identity of the human and divine or cosmic. --K.F.L.
banter ::: v. t. --> To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity.
To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit, characteristic, and the like.
To delude or trick, -- esp. by way of jest.
To challenge or defy to a match.
challenge ::: 1. A call or summons to engage in a contest, fight, or competition. 2. A demand for explanation or justification; a calling into question. v. **3. To invite; arouse; stimulate; provoke. challenges, challenged, challenging.**
challengeable ::: a. --> That may be challenged.
challenged ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Challenge
challenge ::: n. --> An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign.
A claim or demand.
The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.
challenger ::: n. --> One who challenges.
bit bashing (Also "bit diddling" or {bit twiddling}). Any of several kinds of low-level programming characterised by manipulation of {bit}, {flag}, {nibble}, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data. These include low-level device control, encryption algorithms, checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavours of graphics programming (see {bitblt}), and assembler/compiler code generation. May connote either tedium or a real technical challenge (more usually the former). "The command decoding for the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the control registers still has bugs." See also {bit bang}, {mode bit}.
Bourgeoisie: (Fr.) In its strict sense in the theory of historical materialism (q.v.) the class of urban, commercial, banking, manufacturing and shipping entrepreneurs which, at the close of the middle ages was strong enough, by virtue of its command of developing technics, to challenge the economic power of the predominantly rural and agricultural (manorial) feudal nobility, and to supplant the latter in point of economic and social leadership. -- J.M.S.
Carmel, Mount A mountain spur in Palestine, projecting into the sea south of Haifa, Israel; traditionally a sacred place and refuge, it is mentioned in the Bible (1 Kings 18:19) as the spot where Elijah publicly challenged the priests of Ba‘al. Mt. Carmel was noted for its oracle, which was consulted by the emperor Vespasian. It became a refuge for early Christian anchorites, and a monastery dedicated to Elijah existed there by 570. About 1156 the order of Carmelites was founded, dedicated to continuing on Mt. Carmel the way of life of Elijah, pictured as a monk and the founder of monasticism, and a monastery was built. St. John of the Cross, among others, uses it in metaphors for the mystic and spiritual journey. Blavatsky connects it with the Essenes. See also MOUNTAINS, MUNDANE (BCW 11:256-7)
cartel ::: n. --> An agreement between belligerents for the exchange of prisoners.
A letter of defiance or challenge; a challenge to single combat. ::: v. t. --> To defy or challenge.
Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol "networking, security, standard, protocol" (CHAP) An {authentication} scheme used by {PPP} servers to validate the identity of the originator of the connection upon connection or any time later. CHAP applies a three-way {handshaking} procedure. After the link is established, the server sends a "challenge" message to the originator. The originator responds with a value calculated using a {one-way hash function}. The server checks the response against its own calculation of the expected hash value. If the values match, the authentication is acknowledged; otherwise the connection is usually terminated. CHAP provides protection against {playback} attack through the use of an incrementally changing identifier and a variable challenge value. The authentication can be repeated any time while the connection is open limiting the time of exposure to any single attack, and the server is in control of the frequency and timing of the challenges. As a result, CHAP provides greater security then {PAP}. CHAP is defined in {RFC} 1334. (1996-03-05)
Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol ::: (networking, security, standard, protocol) (CHAP) An authentication scheme used by PPP servers to validate the identity of the originator of the connection upon connection or any time later.CHAP applies a three-way handshaking procedure. After the link is established, the server sends a challenge message to the originator. The originator the values match, the authentication is acknowledged; otherwise the connection is usually terminated.CHAP provides protection against playback attack through the use of an incrementally changing identifier and a variable challenge value. The frequency and timing of the challenges. As a result, CHAP provides greater security then PAP.CHAP is defined in RFC 1334. (1996-03-05)
challenging ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Challenge
CHAP {Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol}
Chinese Philosophy: Confucianism and Taoism have been the dual basis of Chinese thought, with Buddhism presenting a strong challenge in medieval times. The former two, the priority of either of which is still controversial, rivaled each other from the very beginning to the present day. Taoism (tao chia) opposed nature to man, glorifying Tao or the Way, spontaneity (tzu jan), "inaction" (wu wei) in the sense of non-artificiality or following nature, simplicity (p'u), "emptiness," tranquillity and enlightenment, all dedicated to the search for "long life and lasting vision" (in the case of Lao Tzu, 570 B.C.?), for "preserving life and keeping the essence of our being intact" (in the case of Yang Chu, c. 440-360 B.C.), and for "companionship with nature" (in the case of Chuang Tzu, between 399 and 295 B.C.). The notes of the "equality of things and opinions" (ch'i wu) and the "spontaneous and unceasing transformation of things" (tzu hua) were particularly stressed in Chuang Tzu.
chuishi. (J. suiji; K. susi 垂示). In Chinese, lit "giving instructions," viz., a "pointer"; also known as shizhong (instructing the assembly), chuiyu (giving words), and suoyu (searching for words). In order to measure the depth of a student's understanding, CHAN masters often challenged him with a question, word, or phrase. This process of interrogation was referred to as chuishi. In various case (GONG'AN) collections, such as the BIYAN LU, the term chuishi also began to refer to the introductory words, or "pointers," placed before the actual case (bence). These introductory words often included questions and anecdotes. Similarly, the CONGRONG LU used the term shizhong to refer to these introductory words.
claim ::: v./. --> To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
To proclaim.
To call or name.
To assert; to maintain. ::: v. i.
command ::: v. t. --> To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.
To exercise direct authority over; to have control of; to have at one&
Competitive_intelligence ::: is the act of collecting and analyzing actionable information about competitors and the marketplace to form a business strategy. Its aim is to learn everything there is to know about the competitive environment outside your business to make the best possible decisions about how to run it. By design, competitive intelligence gathering must be performed quickly and ethically, must be all-encompassing, and must utilize both published and unpublished sources. It is successful when a business has a detailed enough portrait of the marketplace so that it may anticipate and respond to challenges and problems before they arise.
concurred in, but as a challenge. This is what Augustine said: “Every visible thing in this
death code A routine whose job is to set everything in the computer - {registers}, memory, flags - to zero, including that portion of memory where it is running; its last act is to stomp on its own "store zero" instruction. Death code isn't very useful, but writing it is an interesting hacking challenge on architectures where the instruction set makes it possible, such as the {PDP-8} or the {Data General} {Nova}. Perhaps the ultimate death code is on the {TI 990} series, where all {registers} are actually in {RAM}, and the instruction "store immediate 0" has the {opcode} 0. The {program counter} will immediately wrap around core as many times as it can until a user hits HALT. Any empty memory location is death code. Worse, the manufacturer recommended use of this instruction in startup code (which would be in {ROM} and therefore survive). [{Jargon File}]
defiance ::: n. --> The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat.
A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition to resist; contempt of opposition.
A casting aside; renunciation; rejection.
defy ::: v. t. --> To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.
To provoke to combat or strife; to call out to combat; to challenge; to dare; to brave; to set at defiance; to treat with contempt; as, to defy an enemy; to defy the power of a magistrate; to defy the arguments of an opponent; to defy public opinion. ::: n.
Dharmottara. (T. Chos mchog) (fl. eighth century). Indian author of a number of works on PRAMĀnA, the most important of which are his detailed commentary on DHARMAKĪRTI's PRAMĀnAVINIsCAYA and a shorter commentary on his NYĀYABINDU. A contemporary or student of PRAJNĀKARAGUPTA, Dharmottara was influential in the transmission of PRAMĀnA (T. tshad ma) studies in Tibet. RNGOG BLO LDAN SHES RAB's translation of Dharmakīrti's Pramānaviniscaya and Nyāyabindu into Tibetan together with Dharmottara's commentaries and his own explanations laid the foundations for the study of pramāna in GSANG PHU NE'U THOG monastery. This importance continued unchallenged until SA SKYA PAndITA's detailed explanation of Dharmakīrti's ideas based on all his seven major works, particularly his PRAMĀnAVĀRTTIKA, opened up a competing tradition of explanation.
Dwaya. (P. Dvāra). The third largest monastic fraternity (B. GAING; P. gana, cf. NIKĀYA) of modern Myanmar (Burmese) Buddhism, following the THUDHAMMA (P. Sudhammā) and the SHWEGYIN fraternities. The Dwaya fraternity was founded as a dissident group within the Burmese sangha (S. SAMGHA) in the mid-nineteenth century by the Okpo Sayadaw, U Okkamwuntha (P. OkkaMvaMsa), who hailed from the Okpo region between Yangon (Rangoon) and Bago (Pegu) in Lower Burma. During his lifetime, Lower Burma was conquered by the British with the result that many Buddhist monks fled north to seek the protection of the Burmese crown. The Okpo Sayadaw recommended against this move, claiming that if the sangha strictly observed the VINAYA, it did not need royal protection but could resist the political and religious encroachments of the British and their Christian missionaries on its own. This led him to challenge the authority of the Burmese king to direct sangha affairs in the British-controlled south. In 1857, he seceded from the royally backed Thudhamma fraternity and established an independent ordination line that came to be known as the Dwaya Gaing. The fraternity derives its name from the Okpo Sayadaw's interpretation of the correct way to take refuge in the three jewels (P. ratanattaya; S. RATNATRAYA), viz., not through one's literal acts (P. kamma; S. KARMAN) of body, speech, and mind, but rather through the "doors" (B. dwaya; P. dvāra) or "intentions" that inform one's acts of body, speech, and mind. True worship thus derives from correct mental volition (CETANĀ), not from ritual acts themselves. The Dwaya fraternity is well-known for its strict interpretation of the vinaya, and sectarian aloofness. Dwaya monks are not allowed to handle money or even to use umbrellas, preferring instead large fans made of palmyra leaf; they also are prohibited from living, eating, or otherwise associating with members of other monastic fraternities. Following the Okpo Sayadaw's death, the fraternity split into rival factions. As of 1980, the Burmese Ministry of Religious Affairs officially recognizes three independent Dwaya gaing.
Ebert test ::: A test which gauges whether a computer-based synthesized voice[159][160] can tell a joke with sufficient skill to cause people to laugh.[161] It was proposed by film critic Roger Ebert at the 2011 TED conference as a challenge to software developers to have a computerized voice master the inflections, delivery, timing, and intonations of a speaking human.[159] The test is similar to the Turing test proposed by Alan Turing in 1950 as a way to gauge a computer's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior by generating performance indistinguishable from a human being.[162]
Ego Death ::: An experience, usually entheogenically-generated, that disintegrates the usual ego associated with mundane consciousness and that challenges definitions of self. This experience can include glimpses into Causal consciousness that are usually difficult to integrate or understand as well as intense fears and feelings of self-destruction as the "self" approaches the Abyss.
Esthesis: (Gr. aisthesis, sensation or feeling, from aisthanesthai, to perceive) A state of pure feeling -- sensuous, hedonic or affective -- characterized by the absence of conceptual and interpretational elements. Aesthesis at the sensory level consists of pure sense data. See Sense datum. Though the existence of pure esthesis is challenged by most psychologists and epistemologists (see C. I. Lewis, Mind and the World Order, pp. 54-5); a state of mind approximates pure esthesis when the conceptual, interpretative and constructional elements are reduced to a minimum. -- L.W.
Exodus ::: (Gre. to exit or go out). Refers to the event of the Israelites leaving Egypt (see also Passover) and to the biblical book (see Pentateuch) that tells of that event. Also name given to ship that left France July 11, 1947, carrying 4,500 immigrants. Challenged and boarded by the British Navy—three Jews were killed. Immigrants were forcibly transported back to Germany in British transport ships. Subject of film and novel of same name by Leon Uris.
fabricated; they passed, virtually unchallenged, into the religious and secular literature of the
gage ::: n. --> A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security.
A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of the challenge; a challenge; a defiance.
A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue gage, frost gage, golden gage, etc., having more or less likeness to the
GCOS "operating system" /jee'kohs/ An {operating system} developed by {General Electric} from 1962; originally called GECOS (the General Electric Comprehensive Operating System). The GECOS-II operating system was developed by {General Electric} for the 36-bit {GE-635} in 1962-1964. Contrary to rumour, GECOS was not cloned from {System/360} [{DOS/360}?] - the GE-635 architecture was very different from the {IBM 360} and GECOS was more ambitious than DOS/360. GE Information Service Divsion developed a large special multi-computer system that was not publicised because they did not wish {time sharing} customers to challenge their bills. Although GE ISD was marketing {DTSS} - the first commercial time sharing system - GE Computer Division had no license from Dartmouth and GE-ISD to market it to external customers, so they designed a time-sharing system to sell as a standard part of GECOS-III, which replaced GECOS-II in 1967. GECOS TSS was more general purpose than DTSS, it was more a programmer's tool (program editing, e-mail on a single system) than a BASIC TSS. The {GE-645}, a modified 635 built by the same people, was selected by {MIT} and {Bell} for the {Multics} project. Multics' infancy was as painful as any infancy. Bell pulled out in 1969 and later produced {Unix}. After the buy-out of GE's computer division by {Honeywell}, GECOS-III was renamed GCOS-3 (General Comprehensive Operating System). Other OS groups at Honeywell began referring to it as "God's Chosen Operating System", allegedly in reaction to the GCOS crowd's uninformed and snotty attitude about the superiority of their product. [Can anyone confirm this?] GCOS won and this led in the orphaning and eventual death of Honeywell {Multics}. Honeywell also decided to launch a new product line called Level64, and later DPS-7. It was decided to mainatin, at least temporarily, the 36-bit machine as top of the line, because GCOS-3 was so successfull in the 1970s. The plan in 1972-1973 was that GCOS-3 and Multics should converge. This plan was killed by Honeywell management in 1973 for lack of resources and the inability of Multics, lacking {databases} and {transaction processing}, to act as a business operating system without a substantial reinvestment. The name "GCOS" was extended to all Honeywell-marketed product lines and GCOS-64, a completely different 32-bit operating system, significanctly inspired by Multics, was designed in France and Boston. GCOS-62, another different 32-bit low-end DOS level was designed in Italy. GCOS-61 represented a new version of a small system made in France and the new {DPS-6} 16-bit {minicomputer} line got GCOS-6. When the intended merge between GCOS-3 and Multics failed, the Phoenix designers had in mind a big upgrade of the architecture to introduce {segmentation} and {capabilities}. GCOS-3 was renamed GCOS-8, well before it started to use the new features which were introduced in next generation hardware. The GCOS licenses were sold to the Japanese companies {NEC} and {Toshiba} who developed the Honeywell products, including GCOS, much further, surpassing the {IBM 3090} and {IBM 390}. When Honeywell decided in 1984 to get its top of the range machines from NEC, they considered running Multics on them but the Multics market was considered too small. Due to the difficulty of porting the ancient Multics code they considered modifying the NEC hardware to support the Multics compilers. GCOS3 featured a good {Codasyl} {database} called IDS (Integrated Data Store) that was the model for the more successful {IDMS}. Several versions of transaction processing were designed for GCOS-3 and GCOS-8. An early attempt at TP for GCOS-3, not taken up in Europe, assumed that, as in {Unix}, a new process should be started to handle each transaction. IBM customers required a more efficient model where multiplexed {threads} wait for messages and can share resources. Those features were implemented as subsystems. GCOS-3 soon acquired a proper {TP monitor} called Transaction Driven System (TDS). TDS was essentially a Honeywell development. It later evolved into TP8 on GCOS-8. TDS and its developments were commercially successful and predated IBM {CICS}, which had a very similar architecture. GCOS-6 and GCOS-4 (ex-GCOS-62) were superseded by {Motorola 68000}-based {minicomputers} running {Unix} and the product lines were discontinued. In the late 1980s Bull took over Honeywell and Bull's management chose Unix, probably with the intent to move out of hardware into {middleware}. Bull killed the Boston proposal to port Multics to a platform derived from DPS-6. Very few customers rushed to convert from GCOS to Unix and new machines (of CMOS technology) were still to be introduced in 1997 with GCOS-8. GCOS played a major role in keeping Honeywell a dismal also-ran in the {mainframe} market. Some early Unix systems at {Bell Labs} used GCOS machines for print spooling and various other services. The field added to "/etc/passwd" to carry GCOS ID information was called the "{GECOS field}" and survives today as the "pw_gecos" member used for the user's full name and other human-ID information. [{Jargon File}] (1998-04-23)
Generic Image: (Lat. genus, kind) A mental image which is sufficiently vague and indeterminate to represent a number of different members of a class and thus to provide the imaginal basis of a concept. A generic image is thus intermediate between a concrete image and a generic concept. The vagueness of the generic image contrasts with the specificity of the concrete image, yet the generic image lacks the fullness of meaning requisite to a genuine concept. The doctrine of the generic image was introduced by Francis Galton who drew the analogy with composite photography (Inquiries into Human Faculty, 1883 appendix on Generic Images) and is adopted by Huxley (Hume, Ch. IV). The existence of non-specific or generic images would be challenged by most contemporary psychologists. -- L.W.
geyi. (J. kakugi; K. kyogŭi 格義). In Chinese, "matching concepts," or "categorized concepts"; geyi has typically been explained as a method of translation and exegesis that was supposedly popular during the incipiency of Buddhism in China. It has been presumed that Buddhist translators of the Wei and Jin dynasties borrowed terms and concepts drawn from indigenous Chinese philosophy (viz., "Daoism") to "match" (ge) the "meaning" (yi) of complicated and poorly understood Sanskrit Buddhist terminology. For instance, translators borrowed the term wuwei, used in both Chinese Daoist and Confucian writings to refer to "nonaction" or "nondeliberative activity," to render the seminal Buddhist concept of NIRVĀnA. Misunderstandings were rife, however, since the matches would as often distort the Buddhist denotations of terms as clarify them. The technique of geyi has often been assumed by scholars to demonstrate that early Buddhism in China drew from the indigenous Daoist tradition in its initial attempts to make its message intelligible to its new Chinese audience. This view would correspondingly suggest that Daoism provided the inspiration for much of early Buddhist writing in China. This practice of drawing parallels to native Chinese concepts was criticized as early as the fourth century by the translator and cataloguer DAO'AN (312-385), who lobbied for the creation of a distinctive Chinese Buddhist vocabulary. Eventually Chinese Buddhists created their own neologisms for Buddhist technical terms, or resorted to transcription (viz., using Sinographs phonetically to transcribe the sound of the Sanskrit words) in order to render particularly significant, or polysemous, terms: e.g., using the transcription niepan, rather than the translation wuwei, as the standard rendering for nirvāna. In fact, however, the term geyi is quite rare in Chinese Buddhist literature from this incipient period. In the few instances where the term is attested, geyi seems instead to refer to Chinese attempts to cope with the use of lengthy numerical lists of seminal factors found in Indian Buddhist doctrinal formulations. This Indian proclivity for categorization is seldom evident in traditional Chinese philosophy and it would have been an extraordinary challenge for Chinese Buddhists to learn how to employ such lists skillfully. Against the received understanding of geyi as "matching concepts," then, the term may instead mean something more akin to "categorized concepts," referring to this Buddhist proclivity for producing extensive numerical lists of dharmas. See also FASHU.
Greece. Homeric thought centered in Moira (Fate), an impersonal, immaterial power that distributes to gods and men their respective stations. While the main stream of pre-Socratic thought was naturalistic, it was not materialistic. The primordial Being of things, the Physis, is both extended and spiritual (hylozoism). Soul and Mind are invariably identified with Physis. Empedocles' distinction between inertia and force (Love and Hate) was followed by Anaxagoras' introduction of Mind (Nous) as the first cause of order and the principle of spontaneity or life in things. Socrates emphasized the ideological principle and introduced the category of Value as primary both in Nature and Man. He challenged the completeness of the mechanical explanation of natural events. Plato's theory of Ideas (as traditionally interpreted by historians) is at once a metaphysics, epistemology, and axiology. Ideas, forming a hierarchy and systematically united in the Good, are timeless essences comprising the realm of true Being. They are archetypes and causes of things in the realm of Non-Being (Space). Aristotle, while moving in the direction of common-sense realism, was also idealistic. Forms or species are secondary substances, and collectively form the dynamic and rational structure of the World. Active reason (Nous Poietikos), possessed by all rational creatures, is immaterial and eternal. Mind is the final cause of all motion. God is pure Mind, self-contained, self-centered, and metaphysically remote from the spatial World. The Stoics united idealism and hylozoistic naturalism in their doctrine of dynamic rational cosmic law (Logos), World Soul, Pneuma, and Providence (Pronoia).
Griffin, Grypes (Latin) [plural of gryps; cf Greek gryph] A creature supposed to have the fore parts and wings of an eagle and the hind parts of a lion, with either the head of a lion or an eagle; in some forms there is also a serpent’s tail. It belongs to the general class of dragons, chimeras, etc., which may be symbolic representations of abstractions, reminiscences of extinct animals, or the actual forms presented to the eye of a seer by certain cosmic powers — a familiar ancient Greek idea. Assyrian, Persian, and Greek griffins were generally represented as savage guardians of treasure, which shows them to be some of the natural energies which the individual has to defy in order to obtain such treasure. They are one way of representing the powers that guard and govern the lower kingdoms of nature, and which resist and menace whoever challenges their power and treasure; whence they appear as horrific monsters.
Gsang phu ne'u thog. (Sangphu Ne'utok). A monastery associated with the BKA' GDAMS sect established south of LHA SA in 1073 by RNGOG LEGS PA'I SHES RAB; for many centuries one of the premier institutions of learning in central Tibet. The abbacy passed to the scholar and translator RNGOG BLO LDAN SHES RAB, Legs pa'i shes rab's nephew, on his thirty-fifth birthday. Blo ldan shes rab's translations and summaries (bsdus don) of all the major works of DHARMAKĪRTI, together with the commentaries of DHARMOTTARA, as well as his two major commentaries (rnam bshad) established Gsang phu as the unchallenged center for the study of epistemology (T. tshad ma; S. PRAMĀnA) until SA SKYA PAndITA's masterly presentation of Dharmakīrti's thought in about 1219 in his TSHAD MA RIGS GTER; it criticized some aspects of the Gtsang phu tradition. Most illustrious of the line of pramāna scholars after Rngog at GSANG PHU was PHYWA PA CHOS KYI SENG GE who is credited with originating the distinctively Tibetan BSDUS GRWA genre of textbook (used widely in DGE LUGS monasteries) that introduces beginners to the main topics in ABHIDHARMA in a particular dialectical form that strings together a chain of consequences linked by a chain of reasons. Gtsang phu was also the center of PRAJNĀPĀRAMITĀ studies based on the ABHISAMAYĀLAMKĀRA, originating again with Blo ldan shes rab's translation, summary, and a major commentary. It attracted great masters of various sectarian affiliations including DUS GSUM MKHYEN PA, the first KARMA PA. The monastery divided into two colleges in the twelfth century; Gnyal [alt. Mnyal] zhig 'Jam pa'i rdo rje (fl. c. 1200) was abbot during Sa skya Pandita's early years. Gnyal zhig's students passed on the traditions down to ZHWA LU monastery and to BU STON RIN CHEN GRUB and his followers. Like many former Bka' gdams institutions, it faded into obscurity with the rise of the DGE LUGS sect.
hacker "person, jargon" (Originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe) 1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. 2. One who programs enthusiastically (even obsessively) or who enjoys programming rather than just theorizing about programming. 3. A person capable of appreciating {hack value}. 4. A person who is good at programming quickly. 5. An expert at a particular program, or one who frequently does work using it or on it; as in "a {Unix} hacker". (Definitions 1 through 5 are correlated, and people who fit them congregate.) 6. An expert or enthusiast of any kind. One might be an astronomy hacker, for example. 7. One who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations. 8. (Deprecated) A malicious meddler who tries to discover sensitive information by poking around. Hence "password hacker", "network hacker". The correct term is {cracker}. The term "hacker" also tends to connote membership in the global community defined by the net (see {The Network} and {Internet address}). It also implies that the person described is seen to subscribe to some version of the {hacker ethic}. It is better to be described as a hacker by others than to describe oneself that way. Hackers consider themselves something of an elite (a meritocracy based on ability), though one to which new members are gladly welcome. Thus while it is gratifying to be called a hacker, false claimants to the title are quickly labelled as "bogus" or a "{wannabee}". 9. (University of Maryland, rare) A programmer who does not understand proper programming techniques and principles and doesn't have a Computer Science degree. Someone who just bangs on the keyboard until something happens. For example, "This program is nothing but {spaghetti code}. It must have been written by a hacker". [{Jargon File}] (1996-08-26)
hacker ::: (person, jargon) (Originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe) 1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary.2. One who programs enthusiastically (even obsessively) or who enjoys programming rather than just theorizing about programming.3. A person capable of appreciating hack value.4. A person who is good at programming quickly.5. An expert at a particular program, or one who frequently does work using it or on it; as in a Unix hacker. (Definitions 1 through 5 are correlated, and people who fit them congregate.)6. An expert or enthusiast of any kind. One might be an astronomy hacker, for example.7. One who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations.8. (Deprecated) A malicious meddler who tries to discover sensitive information by poking around. Hence password hacker, network hacker. The correct term is cracker.The term hacker also tends to connote membership in the global community defined by the net (see The Network and Internet address). It also implies that the person described is seen to subscribe to some version of the hacker ethic.It is better to be described as a hacker by others than to describe oneself that way. Hackers consider themselves something of an elite (a meritocracy based on gratifying to be called a hacker, false claimants to the title are quickly labelled as bogus or a wannabee.9. (University of Maryland, rare) A programmer who does not understand proper programming techniques and principles and doesn't have a Computer Science example, This program is nothing but spaghetti code. It must have been written by a hacker.[Jargon File] (1996-08-26)
hardiness: personality factors (control, commitment and challenge) identified by Kobasa that help mitigate against negative effects of stress.
herald ::: n. --> An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character.
In the Middle Ages, the officer charged with the above duties, and also with the care of genealogies, of the rights and privileges of noble families, and especially of armorial bearings. In modern times, some vestiges of this office remain, especially in
High Performance Computing and Communications ::: (HPCC) High performance computing includes scientific workstations, supercomputer systems, high speed networks, special purpose and experimental systems software with all components well integrated and linked over a high speed network.[Grand Challenges 1993: High Performance Computing and Communications, Committee on Physical, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences of the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering and Technology.]
High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) High performance computing includes scientific workstations, supercomputer systems, high speed networks, special purpose and experimental systems, the new generation of large scale parallel systems, and application and systems software with all components well integrated and linked over a high speed network. ["Grand Challenges 1993: High Performance Computing and Communications", Committee on Physical, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences of the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering and Technology.]
Hongming ji. (J. Gumyoshu; K. Hongmyong chip 弘明集). In Chinese, "Collection on the Propagation and Clarification [of Buddhism]," compiled by the monk SENGYOU (445-518) of the Liang dynasty sometime between 515 and 518. The Hongming ji is a fourteen-roll collection of Buddhist apologetics, prepared in response to growing criticisms of the religion by rival Confucians and Daoists, and to interference in Buddhism's religious affairs by the government. Against these challenges, the Hongming ji attempted to defend the authenticity of the translated scriptures of Buddhism and its seminal doctrines. In its explanation and defense of such concepts as buddha or KARMAN, the Hongming ji drew not just on Buddhist sources, but also on the common terminology of its opponents. For this reason, the Hongming ji serves as an important source for studying the interactions between the different Chinese religious traditions and the process through which Buddhism was appropriated in early China. Sengyou's Hongming ji was expanded to thirty rolls by DAOXUAN in his Guang hongming ji.
Huanglong Huinan. (J. oryo/oryu Enan; K. Hwangnyong Hyenam 龍慧南) (1002-1069). Song-dynasty Chan monk who is regarded as the founder of the HUANGLONG PAI collateral lineage of the LINJI ZONG. He ordained as a monk at the age of eleven, eventually becoming a disciple of Shishuang Chuyuan (986-1039), a sixth-generation successor in the Linji school. He spent much of his life teaching at Mt. Huanglong in Xiushui county of Jiangxi province, whence he acquired his toponym. Huanglong was famous for employing three crucial questions to challenge his students and encourage their cultivation; these are known as "Huanglong's Three Checkpoints" (Huanglong sanguan): What conditioned your birth (viz., why were you born)? Why are my hands like the Buddha's? Why are my feet like a donkey's? His Huanglong lineage lasted for about one hundred fifty years, before being reabsorbed into the rival YANGQI PAI.
Hubris: The overwhelming pride that leads a mage to believe that he may challenge the cosmos itself, and that convinces a mage that his way is "the right way." Such hubris is often fatal, and it lies at the heart of the conflict between mages.
Infinite Monkey Theorem ::: (humour) If you put an infinite number of monkeys at typewriters, eventually one will bash out the script for Hamlet. (One may also hypothesise a justifying a brute force method; the implication is that, with enough resources thrown at it, any technical challenge becomes a one-banana problem.This theorem was first popularised by the astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington. It became part of the idiom through the classic short story Inflexible Logic by Russell Maloney, and many younger hackers know it through a reference in Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.See also: RFC 2795.[Jargon File](2002-04-07)
Infinite Monkey Theorem "humour" "If you put an {infinite} number of monkeys at typewriters, eventually one will bash out the script for Hamlet." (One may also hypothesise a small number of monkeys and a very long period of time.) This theorem asserts nothing about the intelligence of the one {random} monkey that eventually comes up with the script (and note that the mob will also type out all the possible *incorrect* versions of Hamlet). It may be referred to semi-seriously when justifying a {brute force} method; the implication is that, with enough resources thrown at it, any technical challenge becomes a {one-banana problem}. This theorem was first popularised by the astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington. It became part of the idiom through the classic short story "Inflexible Logic" by Russell Maloney, and many younger hackers know it through a reference in Douglas Adams's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". See also: {RFC 2795}. [{Jargon File}] (2002-04-07)
interesting ::: In hacker parlance, this word has strong connotations of annoying, or difficult, or both. Hackers relish a challenge, and enjoy wringing all the irony possible out of the ancient Chinese curse May you live in interesting times.[Jargon File]
interesting In hacker parlance, this word has strong connotations of "annoying", or "difficult", or both. Hackers relish a challenge, and enjoy wringing all the irony possible out of the ancient Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times". [{Jargon File}]
jifeng. (J. kiho; K. kibong 機鋒). In Chinese, the "sharpness of one's responsiveness." In CHAN Buddhism, especially after the middle of the Tang dynasty (c. eighth to ninth centuries), a practitioner's level of spiritual comprehension or profundity of his or her enlightenment was often determined by jifeng. The tester or challenger would raise an illogical, perplexing puzzle, an anecdotal account of Chan patriarch's conversations (see GONG'AN), or a mundane occurrence; the monk being tested was expected to offer a spontaneous, impromptu reply to the challenge. In Chan monasteries, abbots or other senior monks randomly cited events described in a gong'an and challenged the tested students or colleagues on their abilities to respond to or explain the apparently enigmatic phrases contained therein. On other occasions, they would have monks debate in groups about the meanings of these accounts; these occasions were called "dharma combat" or "dharma confrontations" (fazhan) and usually took place as a series of mutually and alternately directed questions and answers.
kalavinka. (T. ka la ping ka; C. jialupinqie niao; J. karyobinga cho; K. karyukpin'ga cho 迦陸頻伽鳥). In Sanskrit, "kalavinka (cuckoo) bird"; a mythical bird from the HIMĀLAYA mountains with a call said to be far more beautiful than that of all other birds and so compelling that it could be heard even before the bird had hatched. The bird and its call are used as a simile for the BODHISATTVAs and their aspiration for enlightenment (BODHICITTA), which are so compelling and persuasive that, even before they have achieved complete, perfect enlightenment (ANUTTARASAMYAKSAMBODHI), they are still far superior to all other spiritual adepts. As the AVATAMSAKASuTRA says, "It is like the kalavinka bird, which, even before it has hatched, has such great dynamism that other birds cannot challenge it. BODHISATTVA-MAHĀSATTVAS are just the same: even before they have hatched from inside the egg of birth-and-death, the dynamism deriving from the merit associated with generating the aspiration for enlightenment is so compelling that sRĀVAKAs and PRATYEKABUDDHAs cannot challenge them." The DAZHIDU LUN explains, "It is like the kalavinka bird, which even before it has hatched, has a call that is far more subtle and sublime than that of other birds. Bodhisattva-mahāsattvas are also just the same: although they may not have yet hatched from the egg of ignorance, the sound of their preaching and discoursing is far superior to that of the srāvakas, pratyekabuddhas, and non-Buddhists."
kanbian. (J. kanben; K. kambyon 勘辨). In Chinese, "critical examinations"; a technical term used within the CHAN school to refer to the encounters between Chan monks and masters in which each questions and challenges the understanding of the other. These examinations are often in the form of an extended exchange or dialogue, which will often involve successive series of verbal and gesticulative joustings between the parties. Paradigmatic examples of kanbian are found in the second section of the LINJI LU ("The Record of Linji"), the discourse record (YULU) attributed to LINJI YIXUAN (d. 867).
Kapimala. (C. Jiapimoluo; J. Kabimara; K. Kabimara 迦毘摩羅). Sanskrit name of an Indian monk who lived during the second century CE, who is listed as one of the successors in the Indian Buddhist lineage that traces itself back to the person of the Buddha himself. An Indian brāhmana who was a native of PĀtALIPUTRA (modern Patna), the capital of the kingdom of MAGADHA, he is said to have challenged the exegete AsVAGHOsA with his superpowers (ABHIJNĀ) but was defeated by Asvaghosa's profound learning and became his disciple, along with his three thousand adherents. He is typically listed as twelfth of twenty-three or thirteenth of twenty-four primary successors to sĀKYAMUNI Buddha.
Kobasa: (1979): examined resistance to stress, in particular “hardiness” to stress, characterised by commitment, control and challenge.
Leg bshad snying po. (Lekshe Nyingpo). In Tibetan, "The Essence of Eloquence," by TSONG KHA PA BLO BZANG GRAGS PA; its full title in Tibetan is Drang nges legs bshad snying po ("Essence of Eloquence on the Provisional and Definitive"). It is the most famous of the five texts that Tsong kha pa wrote on the view of emptiness (suNYATĀ). In it, he explores the categories of the provisional (NEYĀRTHA) and the definitive (NITĀRTHA) as they are presented in the YOGĀCĀRA (CITTAMĀTRA), *SVĀTANTRIKA, and *PRĀSAnGIKA schools. In 1402, at the age of forty-five, he completed LAM RIM CHEN MO, which concludes with a long and complex section on VIPAsYANĀ. Five years later, when he was fifty, he began writing a commentary on NĀGĀRJUNA's MuLAMADHYAMAKAKĀRIKĀ, entitled Rigs pa'i rgya mtsho ("Ocean of Reasoning"), at a hermitage above what would become SE RA monastery on the northern outskirts of LHA SA. While writing his commentary on the first chapter, he foresaw interruptions if he remained there and so moved to another hermitage nearby, called Rwa kha brag ("Goat-face Crag"). At this time, a representative of the Chinese emperor arrived in Lha sa bearing an invitation from the Ming emperor to come to teach the dharma at his court. Tsong kha pa left his hermitage in order to meet with him. Citing his advancing age and the wish to remain in retreat, Tsong kha pa sent images of the Buddha in his stead. Returning to his hermitage, he set aside for the time being his commentary on Nāgārjuna and began writing Legs bshad snying po. After completing it in 1408, he returned to his commentary on Nāgārjuna's text. In 1415, he wrote his medium length LAM RIM text, known as Lam rim 'bring, which contains a substantial exposition of vipasyanā. At the age of sixty-one, one year before his death, he composed a commentary on CANDRAKĪRTI's MADHYAMAKĀVATĀRA. Among his works on Madhyamaka, Legs bshad snying po is considered the most daunting, called his iron bow and iron arrow. Just as it is hard to pull an iron bow to its full extent, but if one can, the arrow will travel far, in the same way, the words-not to mention the meaning-of this text are difficult to understand but, when understood, are said to yield great insight. It has been viewed by generations of Tibetan scholars as a work of genius, known for its often cryptic brevity, but yielding profound insight if pursued with analytical fortitude. (The metaphor of the iron bow may also be a polite allusion to the fact that the book is so abstruse and sometimes apparently self-contradictory that it takes considerable effort to attempt to construct a consistent account of Tsong kha pa's position.) Within the DGE LUGS sect, Legs bshad snying po is regarded as the foremost philosophical tome in the eighteen volumes of Tsong kha pa's collected works, presenting a particular challenge, both as an avenue to approach reality and as an elaborate exercise in constructing his thought.
Li Tongxuan. (J. Ri Tsugen; K. Yi T'onghyon 李通玄) (635-730; alt. 646-740). Tang-dynasty lay exegete of the AVATAMSAKASuTRA (Huayan jing) and renowned thaumaturge. Li's life is the stuff of legend. He is claimed to have been related to the Tang imperial house but is known only as an elusive and eccentric lay scholar of Buddhism, who hid away in hermits' cells and mountain grottoes so as to devote himself entirely to his writing. Li's hagiographer says that he was able to work late into the night just from the radiance that issued forth from his mouth; his scholarship and health were sustained by two mysterious maidens who brought him paper, brushes, and daily provisions. The magnum opus of this life of scholarship is a forty-roll commentary to sIKsĀNANDA's "new" 699 translation of the AvataMsakasutra; his commentary is entitled the Xin Huayan jing lun and was published posthumously in 774. In the mid-ninth century, Li's commentary was published together with the sutra as the HUAYAN JING HELUN, and this compilation is the recension of Li's exegesis that is most widely used. Li also wrote a shorter one-roll treatise known usually by its abbreviated title of Shiming lun ("The Ten Illuminations"; the full title is Shi Huayan jing shi'er yuansheng jiemi xianzhi chengbei shiming lun), which discusses the Huayan jing from ten different perspectives on the doctrine of conditioned origination (PRATĪTYASAMUTPĀDA), and two other shorter works. Because Li Tongxuan was not associated with the mainstream of the Huayan lineage (HUAYAN ZONG), he was able to develop his own distinctive vision of the insights found in the AvataMsakasutra, a vision that often offered an explicit challenge to the interpretations of FAZANG and the mainstream tradition. Li stands outside the orthodox patriarchal lineage of the Huayan school by being a layperson, not a monk, and by being someone interested not just in the profound philosophical implications of the scripture but also its concrete, practical dimensions. In his commentary, Li focuses not on the description of the dimensions of the realm of reality (dharmadhātu; see SI FAJIE) as had Fazang, but instead on SUDHANA's personal quest for enlightenment in the final, and massive, GAndAVYuHA chapter of the sutra. Li moved forward the crucial point of soteriological progress from the activation of the thought of enlightenment (BODHICITTOTPĀDA), which he places at the first stage of the ten abidings (shizhu), up to the first level of the ten faiths (shixin), what had previously been considered a preliminary stage of the Huayan path (MĀRGA). Since faith alone was sufficient to generate the understanding that one's own body and mind are identical to the dharmadhātu and are fundamentally equivalent to buddhahood, buddhahood could therefore be experienced in this very life, rather than after three infinite eons (ASAMKHYEYAKALPA) of training. ¶ Although Li's writings seem to have been forgotten soon after his death, there was an efflorescence of interest in Li Tongxuan during the Song dynasty, when specialists in the Linji school of Chinese CHAN Buddhism (LINJI ZONG), such as JUEFAN HUIHONG (1071-1128) and DAHUI ZONGGAO (1089-1163), and their acquaintance, the scholar-official ZHANG SHANGYING (1043-1121), began to draw on Li's practical orientation toward the Huayan jing in order to clarify aspects of Chan practice. In particular, Li's advocacy of "nature origination" (XINGQI) in the Huayan jing (rather than conditioned origination of the dharmadhātu [FAJIE YUANQI]) seemed to offer an intriguing sutra parallel to Chan's emphasis on "seeing the nature" in order to "achieve buddhahood" (JIANXING CHENGFO). In Korea, POJO CHINUL (1158-1210) was strongly influenced by Li Tongxuan's portrayal of Huayan thought, using it to demonstrate his claim that the words of the Buddha in the scriptural teachings of KYO and the mind of the Buddha transmitted by SoN (C. Chan) were identical. Through Li, Chinul was able to justify his claim of an intrinsic harmony between Son and Kyo. Chinul also wrote two treatises on Li's Huayan thought, including a three-roll abridgement of Li's Xin Huayan jing lun, entitled the Hwaom non choryo. In Japan, MYoE KoBEN (1173-1232) drew on Li's accounts of the radiance emanating from the Buddha himself, in conjunction with his readings of esoteric Buddhism (MIKKYo) and his own prophetic dreams and visionary experiences, to create a distinctive meditative technique called the SAMĀDHI of the Buddha's radiance (Bukko zanmai). Thus, despite being outside the mainstream of the Huayan tradition, in many ways, Li Tongxuan proved to be its longest lasting, and most influential, exponent. PENG SHAOSHENG (1740-1796), in his JUSHI ZHUAN ("Biographies of [Eminent Laymen"), lists Li Tongxuan as one of the three great lay masters (SANGONG) of Chinese Buddhism, along with PANG YUN (740-803) and LIU CHENGZHI (354-410), praising Li for his mastery of scholastic doctrine (jiao).
Mahādeva. (T. Lha chen; C. Mohetipo; J. Makadaiba; K. Mahajeba 摩訶提婆). An Indian monk of questionable historicity, credited with the infamous "five theses" (paNcavastuni). Mahādeva appears in numerous accounts of the early centuries of the Buddhist order, but the various reports of dates, his affiliation, and his character are contradictory. Although extolled in some accounts, the ABHIDHARMAMAHĀVIBHĀsĀ recounts that he had sexual relations with his mother; that he murdered his father, his mother, and several ARHATs; and that his cremation fire was fueled by dog excrement. Some accounts make him a participant at the second Buddhist council (see COUNCIL, SECOND), said to have occurred a century after the Buddha's death, which resulted in the schism of the SAMGHA into the conservative STHAVIRANIKĀYA and the more liberal MAHĀSĀMGHIKA. However, the chief point of controversy there seems to have been ten relatively minor rules of discipline, the most serious of which was the prohibition against monks and nuns handling gold or silver. If Mahādeva was a historical figure, it is more likely that he was involved in a later schism that occurred within the MahāsāMghika, as a result of which the followers of Mahādeva formed the CAITYA subsect. The theses attributed to Mahādeva challenge the authority of the arhat. Although there is a lack of consistency in the various renditions of the five theses, according to one widely repeated version, the five are (1) arhats are subject to erotic dreams and nocturnal emissions; (2) arhats retain a subtle form of ignorance, called the "unafflicted ignorance" (AKLIstĀJNĀNA), which prevents them from knowing the names of people, trees, grasses, and which road to take without being told; (3) arhats are therefore subject to doubt; (4) arhats thus must rely on others for corroboration, including on the question of whether they have achieved enlightenment; (5) entry into the path can be achieved simply by attaining the first DHYĀNA, becoming a stream-enterer (SROTAĀPANNA), and exclaiming "Oh suffering" (rather than by the more protracted method of the noble eightfold path). These theses, which are widely reported, reflect the MahāsāMghika attack on the arhat ideal, and presumably the Sthaviranikāya conception thereof. When these charges were leveled, and by whom, is unclear. In some accounts, Mahādeva was himself subject to each of these faults (reflecting on his transgression, he cried out "Oh suffering" in the night and later sought to deceive those who heard him by explaining that he had been contemplating the first of the FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS) and stated the five theses to protect his own claim to being an arhat.
Mahāvihāra. (C. Mohepiheluo; J. Mahabihara/Makabikara; K. Mahabihara 摩訶毘訶羅). In Pāli, the "Great Monastery"; built in the third century BCE for the elder MAHINDA at ANURĀDHAPURA by the Sinhala king DEVĀNAMPIYATISSA, following the king's conversion to Buddhism. The Mahāvihāra became the headquarters of the orthodox THERAVĀDA fraternity on the island, with many important shrines, such as the MAHĀTHuPA, located on its grounds. Its authority was challenged by the ABHAYAGIRI and JETAVANA secessionist fraternities in the first century BCE and fourth century CE, respectively. Five hundred monks from Mahāvihāra were said to have participated in the first commitment to writing of a Buddhist canon, which occurred during the reign of VAttAGĀMAnI ABHAYA (the patron of Abhayagiri) in the last decades BCE. During the reign of Mahāsena, in the late third century CE, a royal decree forbade giving alms to the monks of the monastery, causing the monastery to be vacated for nine years; during this time, some of the buildings were destroyed, but they were eventually rebuilt. BUDDHAGHOSA composed his sutta commentaries while residing at the monastery. After the capital was moved from Anurādhapura to Pulatthipura, near the beginning of the ninth century, the monastery lost much of its influence and eventually fell into decay.
Masters, p. 231. The fact that the adversary challenges God or questions Him docs not, ipso facto, make the adversary
Metaphysics and psychology are not distinct in Herbert's view. In his day psychology was also philosophy. It was still a metaphysical science in the sense that it is differentiated from physical science. It was only later that psychology repudiated philosophy. Accepting Kant's challenge to make psychology a mathematical science, he developed an elaborate system of mathematical constructions that proved the least fruitful phase of his system. As a mathematical science psychology can use only calculation, not experiment. As the mind or soul is unitary, indivisible. science, including philosophy, is neither analytical nor experimental. Bv denying analysis to psychology, Herbart combatted the division of mind into separate faculties. Psychology is not the mere description of the mind, but the working out of its mathematical laws.
Murphy's Law "humour" (Or "Sod's Law") The correct, *original* Murphy's Law reads: "If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it." This is a principle of defensive design, cited here because it is usually given in mutant forms less descriptive of the challenges of design for {lusers}. For example, you don't make a two-pin plug symmetrical and then label it "THIS WAY UP"; if it matters which way it is plugged in, then you make the design asymmetrical (see also the anecdote under {magic smoke}). Edward A. Murphy, Jr. was one of the engineers on the rocket-sled experiments that were done by the US Air Force in 1949 to test human acceleration tolerances (USAF project MX981). One experiment involved a set of 16 accelerometers mounted to different parts of the subject's body. There were two ways each sensor could be glued to its mount, and somebody methodically installed all 16 the wrong way around. Murphy then made the original form of his pronouncement, which the test subject (Major John Paul Stapp) quoted at a news conference a few days later. Within months "Murphy's Law' had spread to various technical cultures connected to aerospace engineering. Before too many years had gone by variants had passed into the popular imagination, changing as they went. Most of these are variants on "Anything that can go wrong, will"; this is sometimes referred to as {Finagle's Law}. The memetic drift apparent in these mutants clearly demonstrates Murphy's Law acting on itself! [{Jargon File}] (1998-02-14)
Nature Philosophers: Name given to pre-Socratic "physiologers" and to Renaissance philosophers who revived the study of physical processes. Early in the 16th century, as a result of the discovery of new lands, the revival of maritime trade, and the Reformation, there appeared in Europe a renewed interest in nature. Rationalism grown around the authorities of the Bible and Aristotle was challenged and the right to investigate phenomena was claimed. Interest in nature was directed at first toward the starry heaven and resulted in important discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler. The scientific spirit of observation and research had not yet matured, however, and the philosophers of that time blended their interest in facts with much loose speculation. Among the nature philosophers of that period three deserve to be mentioned specifically, Telesio, Bruno and Carnpanella, all natives of Southern Italy. Despite his assertions that thought should be guided by the observation of the external world, Bernardino Telesio (1508-1588) confined his works to reflections on the nature of things. Particularly significant are two of his doctrines, first, that the universe must be described in terms of matter and force, the latter classified as heat and cold, and second, that mind is akin to matter. Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), a Dominican monk and a victim of the Inquisition, was greatly influenced by the Copernican conception of the universe regarded by him as a harmonious unity of which the earth was but a small and not too important part. The concept of unity was not a condition of human search for truth but a real principle underlying all things and expressing the harmonious order of Divine wisdom. Deity, in his view, was the soul of nature, operating both in the human minds and in the motion of bodies. Consequently, both living beings and material objects must be regarded as animated. Tomaso Campanella (1568-1639), another Dominican monk, was also persecuted for his teachings and spent 27 years in prison. He contended that observations of nature were not dependent on the authority of reason and can be refuted only by other observations. His interests lay largely along the lines previously suggested by Telesio, and much of his thought was devoted to problems of mind, consciousness and knowledge. He believed that all nature was permeated by latent awareness, and may therefore be regarded as an animist or perhaps pantheist. Today, he is best known for his City of the Sun, an account of an imaginary ideal state in which existed neither property nor nobility and in which all affair were administered scientifically. -- R.B.W.
needs assessment "systems" A systematic process to acquire an accurate, thorough picture of a system's strengths and weaknesses, in order to improve it and meet existing and future challenges. (2007-11-24)
NESL ::: (language) A parallel language loosely based on ML, developed at Carnegie Mellon University by the SCandAL project. NESL integrates parallel algorithms, functional languages and implementation techniques from the system's community.Nested data parallelism offers concise code that is easy to understand and debug and suits irregular data structures such as trees, graphs or sparse matrices.NESL's language based performance model is a formal way to calculate the work and depth of a program. These measures can be related to running time on a parallel computer.NESL was designed to make parallel programming easy and portable. Algorithms are typically more concise in NESL than in most other parallel programming languages and the code resembles high-level pseudocode. This places more responsibility on the compiler and run-time system for achieving good efficiency.NESL currently runs on Unix workstations, the IBM SP-2, the Thinking Machines CM5, the Cray C90 and J90, the MasPar MP2, and the Intel Paragon. Work is symmetric multiprocessors, such as the SGI Power Challenge or the DEC AlphaServer.Latest version: Release 3.1, as of 1995-11-01. .[NESL: A Nested Data-Parallel Language, Guy Blelloch, CMU-CS-93-129, April 1993]. (1997-04-13)
NESL "language" A parallel language loosely based on {ML}, developed at {Carnegie Mellon University} by the {SCandAL} project. NESL integrates parallel {algorithms}, {functional languages} and implementation techniques from the system's community. Nested {data parallelism} offers concise code that is easy to understand and debug and suits irregular data structures such as {trees}, {graphs} or {sparse matrices}. NESL's language based performance model is a formal way to calculate the "work" and "depth" of a program. These measures can be related to running time on a {parallel computer}. NESL was designed to make parallel programming easy and portable. Algorithms are typically more concise in NESL than in most other parallel programming languages and the code resembles high-level {pseudocode}. This places more responsibility on the {compiler} and {run-time system} for achieving good efficiency. NESL currently runs on {Unix} {workstations}, the {IBM SP-2}, the {Thinking Machines} {CM5}, the {Cray} {C90} and {J90}, the {MasPar} {MP2}, and the {Intel} {Paragon}. Work is underway (April 1997) on a portable {MPI} {back end}, and an implementation for {symmetric multiprocessors}, such as the {SGI} {Power Challenge} or the {DEC} {AlphaServer}. {Home (http://cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/scandal/public/www/nesl.html)}. ["NESL: A Nested Data-Parallel Language", Guy Blelloch, CMU-CS-93-129, April 1993]. (1997-04-13)
Nichiren. (日蓮) (1222-1282). Japanese founder of the NICHIRENSHu, one of the so-called new schools of Kamakura Buddhism. Nichiren is said to have been born into a commoner family in present-day Chiba prefecture. At the age of twelve he entered the priesthood and was ordained at the age of sixteen. In 1239, he left his rural temple and went first to Kamakura and then to the capital of Kyoto to study at the great monasteries there. Although he draws heavily on TENDAI and TAIMITSU teachings in his own writings, Nichiren seems to have been acquainted with other traditions of Buddhism as well. During this period, Nichiren began to question what he perceived as inconsistencies in the doctrines of the various schools he was studying. In particular, Nichiren disagreed with the JoDOSHu pure land tradition of HoNEN (1133-1212), and the practice of reciting the buddha's name (NENBUTSU; C. NIANFO). Nichiren eventually concluded that the SADDHARMAPUndARĪKASuTRA ("Lotus Sutra") contained the Buddha's ultimate teaching, relegating all other teachings to a provisional status. Armed with this new insight, Nichiren proclaimed in 1253 that people should place their faith in the Saddharmapundarīkasutra by reciting its "title" (J. DAIMOKU), viz., NAMU MYoHoRENGEKYo (Homage to the Saddharmapundarīkasutra), an act that he claimed was sufficient for gaining liberation in the time of the decline of the dharma, or mappo (C. MOFA). It was at this point that he adopted the name "Nichiren" ("Lotus of the Sun,": i.e., Japan) Although Nichiren was a controversial figure, he attracted a large number of followers in Kamakura. In 1260, he wrote the Rissho Ankokuron ("Treatise on Establishing the Right [Teaching] for Securing the Peace of Our Country"), a tract that encouraged the Kamakura military government (bakufu) to rely on the teachings of the Saddharmapundarīkasutra in order to avert political disaster and social upheaval and, in turn, to patronize Nichiren's school over other Buddhist sects. As a result of his lobbying, and his challenge to the pure land tradition, Nichiren was arrested and exiled to Shizuoka prefecture in 1261 but was pardoned two years later. In 1271, a failed assassination plot against Nichiren hardened his resolve. He was arrested again in 1272 and banished to the island of Sado, where he wrote many of his most important treatises, including Kaimokusho ("Opening the Eyes") and Kanjin no honzonsho ("The Object of Devotion for Observing the Mind"). In 1274, he was once again pardoned and subsequently returned to Kamakura. Failing for a third time to convince the Kamakura bakufu to turn to the Saddharmapundarīkasutra for protection and salvation, he retired to Mt. Minobu in Yamanashi prefecture. There, he devoted his time to educating his disciples and writing essays, including Senjisho "(On the Selection of the Time") and Ho'onsho ("Repaying Indebtedness"). Nichiren died at the age of sixty in the year 1282, leaving behind hundreds of works and divisive infighting for control of his legacy.
*Nyāyānusāra. (C. Shun zhengli lun; J. Junshoriron; K. Sun chongni non 順正理論). In Sanskrit, "Conformity with Correct Principle"; influential VAIBHĀsIKA ABHIDHARMA treatise by SAMGHABHADRA (c. fifth century CE). It is intended as a refutation of VASUBANDHU 's popular ABHIDHARMAKOsABHĀsYA and its presentation of what it purports to be the orthodox positions of the SARVĀSTIVĀDA school. The *Nyāyānusāra is both an exposition of the abhidharma philosophy of the Kashmiri Sarvāstivāda Vaibhāsikas and a critical commentary on Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakosabhāsya, which advocated many positions that critiqued the Kashmiri Vaibhāsika school. The *Nyāyānusāra is roughly three times its rival text's length and sought to defend the Vaibhāsikas against Vasubandhu's portrayal of their doctrines. For this reason, XUANZANG (who translated the text into Chinese) says that the original title of the text was the *Kosakaraka (C. Jushi bao lun) or "Hailstones upon the Kosa." As but one example of its criticisms, SaMghabhadra's opening critique of Vasubandhu centers on the latter's assumption that abhidharma does not represent the teaching of the Buddha himself. To refute Vasubandhu's misinterpretations, SaMghabhadra cites scriptural passages that prove the Vaibhāsika position, drawn from scripture (SuTRA) but also from the massive ABHIDHARMAMAHĀVIBHĀsĀ compendium of abhidharma. In addition to scriptural citation, SaMghabhadra also resorts to logical argumentation (YUKTI) to refute Vasubandhu's positions, both by exposing the contradictions explicit in Vasubandhu's own presentations of doctrine and by demonstrating how Vasubandhu's positions would undermine fundamental principles of Buddhist doctrine. In addition to his challenge of Vasubandhu, SaMghabhadra also criticizes the positions of other Vaibhāsika detractors, including the Dārstāntika teacher srīlāta, and the SAUTRĀNTIKA master Sthavira; SaMghabhadra's goal is thus clearly to defend Vaibhāsika abhidharma against any and all comers. The *Nyāyānusāra is only extant in Xuanzang's eighty-roll Chinese translation (the Sanskrit title is a reconstruction); portions of the original Sanskrit text have, however, been preserved in citations from other Indian texts, such as commentaries to the Abhidharmakosabhāsya by STHIRAMATI, Purnavardhana, and YAsOMITRA.
Oedipal conflict: in Freud's theory of development, the major conflict associated with the phallic stage which challenges the developing ego; class="d-title" named after the Greek story of Oedipus, who unknowingly killed his father and married his mother.
Ouyi Zhixu. (J. Goyaku/Guyaku Chigyoku; K. Uik Chiuk 益智旭) (1599-1655). One of the four eminent monks (si da gaoseng) of the late-Ming dynasty, along with YUNQI ZHUHONG (1535-1615), HANSHAN DEQING (1546-1623), and DAGUAN ZHENKE (1543-1604); renowned for his mastery of a wide swath of Confucian and Buddhist teachings, particularly those associated with the TIANTAI, PURE LAND, and CHAN traditions. In his youth, he studied Confucianism and despised Buddhism, even writing anti-Buddhist tracts. He had a change of heart at the age of seventeen, after reading some of Zhuhong's writings, and burned his previous screeds. According to his autobiography, Zhixu had his first "great awakening" at the age of nineteen while reading the line in the Lunyu ("Confucian Analects") that "the whole world will submit to benevolence" if one restrains oneself and returns to ritual. After his father's death that same year, he fully committed himself to Buddhism, reading sutras and performing recollection of the Buddha's name (NIANFO) until he finally was ordained under the guidance of Xueling (d.u.), a disciple of Hanshan Deqing, at the age of twenty-four. At that time, he began to read extensively in YOGĀCĀRA materials and had another great awakening through Chan meditation, in which he experienced body, mind, and the outer world suddenly disappearing. He next turned his attention to the bodhisattva precepts and the study of vinaya. Following his mother's death when he was twenty-seven, Zhixu rededicated himself to Chan meditation, but after a serious illness he turned to pure land teachings. In his early thirties, he devoted himself to the study of Tiantai materials, through which he attempted to integrate his previous research in Buddhism and began to write commentaries and treaties on Buddhist scriptures and on such Confucian classics as the Zhouyi ("Book of Changes"). In the late-sixteenth century, Jesuit missionaries such as Michele Ruggieri (1543-1607) and Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) had reintroduced Christianity to China and sought "to complement Confucianism and to replace Buddhism." This emerging religious challenge led Zhixu to publish his Bixie ji ("Collected Essays Refuting Heterodoxy") as a critique of the teachings of Christianity, raising specifically the issue of theodicy (i.e., why a benevolent and omnipotent god would allow evil to appear in the world); Zhixu advocates instead that good and evil come from human beings and are developed and overcome respectively through personal cultivation. After another illness at the age of fifty-six, his later years were focused mostly on pure land teachings and practice. In distinction to Japanese pure land teachers, such as HoNEN (1133-1212) and SHINRAN (1173-1262), who emphasized exclusively Amitābha's "other-power" (C. tali; J. TARIKI), Zhixu, like most other Chinese pure land teachers, advocated the symbiosis between the other-power of Amitābha and the "self-power" (C. jiri; J. JIRIKI) of the practitioner. This perspective is evident in his equal emphasis on the three trainings in meditation (Chan), doctrine (jiao), and precepts (lü) (cf. TRIsIKsĀ). Ouyi's oeuvre numbers some sixty-two works in 230 rolls, including treatises and commentaries on works ranging from Tiantai, to Chan, to Yogācāra, to pure land. His pure land writings have been especially influential, and his Amituojing yaojie ("Essential Explanations" on the AMITĀBHASuTRA) and Jingtu shiyao ("Ten Essentials on the Pure Land") are regarded as integral to the modern Chinese Pure Land tradition.
Pātikasutta. (C. Anouyi jing; J. Anuikyo; K. Anui kyong 阿夷經). In Pāli, "Discourse on the [Ascetic] Pātika[putta]," the twenty-fourth sutta of the DĪGHANIKĀYA (a separate DHARMAGUPTAKA recension appears as the fifteenth sutra in the Chinese translation of the DĪRGHĀGAMA); a discourse by the Buddha on the display of supernatural powers addressed to the mendicant Bhaggavagotta. The Buddha relates how his former disciple, Sunakkhatta, lost faith in the Buddha because the latter refused to display magical powers or speculate on such questions as the origin of the universe as other teachers of the time were wont to do. The Buddha explains that such displays of magic are trivial, and speculation on such matters does not lead to liberation. He does, however, relate the story of his defeat of the JAINA naked ascetic Pātikaputta, who challenges the Buddha to a miracle-working contest, but when the Buddha answers the challenge, he is unable to rise from his seat.
Phywa pa [alt. Cha pa] Chos kyi Seng ge. (Chapa Chokyi Senge) (1109-1169). The sixth abbot of GSANG PHU NE'U THOG, a BKA' GDAMS monastery founded in 1073 by RNGOG LEGS PA'I SHES RAB. Among his students are included the first KARMA PA, DUS GSUM MKHYEN PA and the SA SKYA hierarch BSOD NAMS RTSE MO. His collected works include explanations of MADHYAMAKA and PRAJNĀPĀRAMITĀ. With his influential Tshad ma'i bsdus pa yid kyi mun sel rtsa 'grel he continued the line of PRAMĀnA scholarship started by RNGOG BLO LDAN SHES RAB, one that would later be challenged by SA SKYA PAndITA. He is credited with originating the distinctively Tibetan BSDUS GRWA genre of textbook (used widely in DGE LUGS monasteries) that introduces beginners to the main topics in abhidharma in a peculiar dialectical form that strings together a chain of consequences linked by a chain of reasons. He also played an important role in the formation of the BSTAN RIM genre of Tibetan Buddhist literature, the forerunner of the more famous LAM RIM.
pilot ::: 1. A person qualified to guide ships through difficult waters going into or out of a harbour. 2. Fig. One who acts as a leader or guide through difficulties or challenges.
Pindola-Bhāradvāja. (T. Bha ra dhwa dza Bsod snyoms len; C. Bintoulu Poluoduo zunzhe; J. Binzuruharada sonja; K. Pinduro Pallat'a chonja 賓頭盧頗羅墮尊者). Sanskrit and Pāli proper name of a prominent monk-disciple of the Buddha, born as the son of a brāhmana priest in the service of King Udāyana of Kausāmbī. He was a successful teacher of the Vedas, first encountering the Buddha when his travels took him to RĀJAGṚHA. Gluttonous by nature, he was impressed by all the offerings the Buddha's disciples received and so resolved to enter the order. For this reason, he carried with him an exceptionally large alms bowl (PĀTRA) made from a gourd. After he was finally able to conquer his avarice, he became an ARHAT and uttered his "lion's roar" (SIMHANĀDA) in the presence of the Buddha, for which reason he was declared the foremost lion's roarer (siMhanādin) among the Buddha's disciples. In a famous story found in several recensions of the VINAYA, the Buddha rebuked Pindola for performing the following miracle before a crowd. A rich merchant had placed a valuable sandalwood alms bowl (pātra) atop a pole and challenged any mendicant to retrieve it with a magical display. Encouraged by MAHĀMAUDGALYĀYANA, Pindola entered the contest and used his magical powers to rise into the air and retrieve the bowl. The Buddha rebuked Pindola for his crass exhibitionism, and ordered that the bowl be ground into sandalwood powder (presumably for incense). The incident was the occasion for the Buddha to pass the "rule of defeat" (PĀRĀJIKA), forbidding monks from displaying supernatural powers before the laity. Sanskrit sources state that the Buddha rebuked Pindola for his misdeed and ordered him not to live in JAMBUDVĪPA, but to move to aparagodānīya (see GODĀNĪYA) to proselytize (where he is said to reside with a thousand disciples). The Buddha also forbade him from entering PARINIRVĀnA so that he would remain in the world after the Buddha's demise and continue to serve as a field of blessings (PUnYAKsETRA) for sentient beings; for this reason, Pindola is also known in Chinese as the "World-Dwelling Arhat" (Zhushi Luohan). This is the reason why some traditions still today invoke his name for protection and why he is traditionally listed as the first of the sixteen ARHAT elders (sOdAsASTHAVIRA), who are charged by the Buddha with protecting his dispensation until the advent of the next buddha, MAITREYA. According to the DIVYĀVADĀNA, Pindola was given the principal seat at the third Buddhist council (SAMGĪTI) called by Emperor AsOKA (see COUNCIL, THIRD); at that point, he was already several hundred years old, with long white hair and eyebrows that he had to hold back in order to see. In China, DAO'AN of the Eastern Jin dynasty once had a dream of a white-haired foreign monk, with long, flowing eyebrows. Later, Master Dao'an's disciple LUSHAN HUIYUAN read the SARVĀSTIVĀDA VINAYA and realized that the monk whom his teacher had dreamed about was Pindola. From that point on, Dao'an offered Pindola food every day, and, for this reason, a picture or image of Pindola is often enshrined in monastic dining halls in China. This is also why Pindola was given another nickname in Chinese, the "Long-Browed Monk" (Changmei Seng). In CHANYUE GUANXIU's standard Chinese depiction of the sixteen arhats, Pindola-Bharadvāja is portrayed as squatting on a rock, holding a staff in his left hand, leaning on a rock with his right, with a text placed on his knees. In Tibetan iconography Pindola holds a pātra; other East Asian images depict him holding a text and either a chowrie (C. FUZI; S. VĀLAVYAJANA) or a pātra.
postulate ::: n. --> Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged, without argument or evidence.
The enunciation of a self-evident problem, in distinction from an axiom, which is the enunciation of a self-evident theorem.
prizer ::: n. --> One who estimates or sets the value of a thing; an appraiser.
One who contends for a prize; a prize fighter; a challenger.
Probation The process of testing undergone by an aspirant to initiation, who may be simply watched to see how he will meet the temptations and trials of life, or may be caused to encounter certain experiences specially designed to test his powers. The latter is very rare and appertains only to certain conditions of occult training. Life is the great school, and a person tests himself by his actions and reactions to himself and to surrounding nature. He alone thus defines or classifies himself. A candidate taking a vow places himself under such specific watching because he has issued a challenge to his lower nature, which thereupon begins a defensive warfare against him. The process is similar in principle to that undergone by an aspirant to a position of responsibility in worldly affairs, but the aspirant to wisdom has to dig deep into his own nature: he arrays against himself powers that formerly slept, ventures into regions where unknown dangers must be encountered, and by his own will and intelligence climbs the ladder to luminous victory and undreamed of success, or if he fails — he fails but to try again.
provoke ::: v. t. --> To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate. ::: v. i.
pṛthivī. [alt. pṛthivīdhātu] (P. pathavī; T. sa; C. dida; J. jidai; K. chidae 地大). In Sanskrit, lit. "earth" or "ground," viz., the property of "solidity"; one of the four "great elements" (MAHĀBHuTA) or "major elementary qualities" of which the physical world comprised of materiality (RuPA) is composed, along with wind (viz. motion, movement, VĀYU, P. vāyu/vāyo), water (viz. cohesion, ĀPAS, P. āpo), and fire (viz. temperature, warmth, TEJAS, P. tejo). "Earth" is characterized by hardness and firmness, and can refer to anything that exhibits solidity. Because earth has temperature (viz. fire) and tangibility (viz. water), and is capable of motion (viz. wind), the existence of the other three elements may also be inferred even in that single element. In the physical body, this element is associated with hair, bones, teeth, organs, and so on. ¶ Pṛthivī, "Earth," is also the proper name of the goddess of the earth, also known as STHĀVARĀ, or "Immovable," who played a crucial role in the story of GAUTAMA Buddha's enlightenment. When the BODHISATTVA's right to occupy the sacred spot beneath the BODHI TREE was challenged by MĀRA, Gautama touched the earth (BHuMISPARsAMUDRĀ) with his right hand, calling on the goddess of the earth to testify to his boundless meritorious deeds over his past lives. She responded by causing a mild earthquake or, in other versions of the story, emerging from the earth to bear witness. See also THORANI.
pudgala. (P. puggala; T. gang zag; C. ren/buteqieluo; J. nin/futogara; K. in/pot'ŭkkara 人/補特伽羅). In Sanskrit, "person." Although all Buddhist schools deny the existence of a perduring, autonomous self (ĀTMAN), some schools accepted the provisional existence of a person that is associated with one or more of the aggregates (SKANDHA). There is a wide range of opinion as to the precise status of the person. Most Buddhist schools hold that the person is a provisional designation (PRAJNAPTI), but differ as to which among the constituents of mind and body could be designated by the term "person," with some schools asserting that all five aggregates are designated as the person, while others that only the mental consciousness (MANOVIJNĀNA) is the person. The philosophical challenge faced by the Buddhist schools is to be able to uphold the continuity (SAMTĀNA) of the accumulation and experience of KARMAN over the course of a single lifetime as well as potentially infinite lifetimes in both past and future, while simultaneously upholding the fundamental impermanence of mind and matter and the absence of a permanent self (ANĀTMAN). The VĀTSĪPUTRĪYA and the SAMMITĪYA responded to the problem of accounting for personal continuity and rebirth when there is no perduring self by positing the existence of an "inexpressible" (S. avācya) "person" that is neither permanent nor impermanent and which is neither the same as nor different from the aggregates (skandha), but which is the agent of cognition and the bearer of action (KARMAN) from moment to moment and lifetime to lifetime. This position was criticized by other Buddhist schools, including in the ninth chapter of the ABHIDHARMAKOsABHĀsYA, where VASUBANDHU condemns this view as the heretical assertion of a permanent self or soul (ĀTMAN). Pudgala is more generically also used in a salutary sense in connection with noble persons (ĀRYAPUDGALA) who have achieved one of the four stages of sanctity. See also sREnIKA HERESY.
Purana-Kāsyapa. (P. Purana-Kassapa; T. 'Od srung rdzogs byed; C. Fulanna Jiashe; J. Furannakasho; K. Puranna Kasop 富蘭那迦葉). One of the so-called "six heterodox teachers" (TĪRTHIKA) often mentioned in Buddhist sutras and criticized by the Buddha. (The other five are MASKARIN GOsĀLĪPUTRA, AJITA KEsAKAMBHALA, KAKUDA KĀTYĀYANA, SANJAYA VAIRĀtĪPUTRA, and NIRGRANTHA JNĀTĪPUTRA.) Purana-Kāsyapa is said to have propounded the view of akiriyavāda, literally "nonaction," a kind of antinomianism that denied the law of moral cause and effect (KARMAN). Purana claimed that, since there was no ultimate distinction between good and evil because actions did not have any effects, there was hence no harm in killing and stealing and no benefit in giving gifts and speaking truthfully. He also appears in accounts of the miracles the Buddha's performed at sRĀVASTĪ (i.e., the YAMAKAPRĀTIHĀRYA, or "dual miracle," and the MAHĀPRĀTIHĀRYA or "great miracle") as one of the heterodox teachers who challenges the Buddha to a miracle contest. After the Buddha defeats the tīrthikas, Purana-Kāsyapa withdraws in despair and is said to have drowned himself in Lake Anavatapta.
Queene), the Greek Titaness who challenges Jove’s
questionable ::: open to doubt or challenge; problematic.
question ::: n. 1. An interrogative sentence, phrase, or gesture. v. 2. To pose a question. 3. To challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of. 4. To express uncertainty about the validity, truth, etc., of (something); doubt. questions, questioned, questioning.
qui vive ::: --> The challenge of a French sentinel, or patrol; -- used like the English challenge: "Who comes there?"
Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal "humour" Back in the good old days - the "Golden Era" of computers, it was easy to separate the men from the boys (sometimes called "Real Men" and "Quiche Eaters" in the literature). During this period, the Real Men were the ones that understood computer programming, and the Quiche Eaters were the ones that didn't. A real computer programmer said things like "DO 10 I=1,10" and "ABEND" (they actually talked in capital letters, you understand), and the rest of the world said things like "computers are too complicated for me" and "I can't relate to computers - they're so impersonal". (A previous work [1] points out that Real Men don't "relate" to anything, and aren't afraid of being impersonal.) But, as usual, times change. We are faced today with a world in which little old ladies can get computers in their microwave ovens, 12-year-old kids can blow Real Men out of the water playing Asteroids and Pac-Man, and anyone can buy and even understand their very own Personal Computer. The Real Programmer is in danger of becoming extinct, of being replaced by high-school students with {TRASH-80s}. There is a clear need to point out the differences between the typical high-school junior Pac-Man player and a Real Programmer. If this difference is made clear, it will give these kids something to aspire to -- a role model, a Father Figure. It will also help explain to the employers of Real Programmers why it would be a mistake to replace the Real Programmers on their staff with 12-year-old Pac-Man players (at a considerable salary savings). LANGUAGES The easiest way to tell a Real Programmer from the crowd is by the programming language he (or she) uses. Real Programmers use {Fortran}. Quiche Eaters use {Pascal}. Nicklaus Wirth, the designer of Pascal, gave a talk once at which he was asked how to pronounce his name. He replied, "You can either call me by name, pronouncing it 'Veert', or call me by value, 'Worth'." One can tell immediately from this comment that Nicklaus Wirth is a Quiche Eater. The only parameter passing mechanism endorsed by Real Programmers is call-by-value-return, as implemented in the {IBM 370} {Fortran-G} and H compilers. Real programmers don't need all these abstract concepts to get their jobs done - they are perfectly happy with a {keypunch}, a {Fortran IV} {compiler}, and a beer. Real Programmers do List Processing in Fortran. Real Programmers do String Manipulation in Fortran. Real Programmers do Accounting (if they do it at all) in Fortran. Real Programmers do {Artificial Intelligence} programs in Fortran. If you can't do it in Fortran, do it in {assembly language}. If you can't do it in assembly language, it isn't worth doing. STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING The academics in computer science have gotten into the "structured programming" rut over the past several years. They claim that programs are more easily understood if the programmer uses some special language constructs and techniques. They don't all agree on exactly which constructs, of course, and the examples they use to show their particular point of view invariably fit on a single page of some obscure journal or another - clearly not enough of an example to convince anyone. When I got out of school, I thought I was the best programmer in the world. I could write an unbeatable tic-tac-toe program, use five different computer languages, and create 1000-line programs that WORKED. (Really!) Then I got out into the Real World. My first task in the Real World was to read and understand a 200,000-line Fortran program, then speed it up by a factor of two. Any Real Programmer will tell you that all the Structured Coding in the world won't help you solve a problem like that - it takes actual talent. Some quick observations on Real Programmers and Structured Programming: Real Programmers aren't afraid to use {GOTOs}. Real Programmers can write five-page-long DO loops without getting confused. Real Programmers like Arithmetic IF statements - they make the code more interesting. Real Programmers write self-modifying code, especially if they can save 20 {nanoseconds} in the middle of a tight loop. Real Programmers don't need comments - the code is obvious. Since Fortran doesn't have a structured IF, REPEAT ... UNTIL, or CASE statement, Real Programmers don't have to worry about not using them. Besides, they can be simulated when necessary using {assigned GOTOs}. Data Structures have also gotten a lot of press lately. Abstract Data Types, Structures, Pointers, Lists, and Strings have become popular in certain circles. Wirth (the above-mentioned Quiche Eater) actually wrote an entire book [2] contending that you could write a program based on data structures, instead of the other way around. As all Real Programmers know, the only useful data structure is the Array. Strings, lists, structures, sets - these are all special cases of arrays and can be treated that way just as easily without messing up your programing language with all sorts of complications. The worst thing about fancy data types is that you have to declare them, and Real Programming Languages, as we all know, have implicit typing based on the first letter of the (six character) variable name. OPERATING SYSTEMS What kind of operating system is used by a Real Programmer? CP/M? God forbid - CP/M, after all, is basically a toy operating system. Even little old ladies and grade school students can understand and use CP/M. Unix is a lot more complicated of course - the typical Unix hacker never can remember what the PRINT command is called this week - but when it gets right down to it, Unix is a glorified video game. People don't do Serious Work on Unix systems: they send jokes around the world on {UUCP}-net and write adventure games and research papers. No, your Real Programmer uses OS 370. A good programmer can find and understand the description of the IJK305I error he just got in his JCL manual. A great programmer can write JCL without referring to the manual at all. A truly outstanding programmer can find bugs buried in a 6 megabyte {core dump} without using a hex calculator. (I have actually seen this done.) OS is a truly remarkable operating system. It's possible to destroy days of work with a single misplaced space, so alertness in the programming staff is encouraged. The best way to approach the system is through a keypunch. Some people claim there is a Time Sharing system that runs on OS 370, but after careful study I have come to the conclusion that they were mistaken. PROGRAMMING TOOLS What kind of tools does a Real Programmer use? In theory, a Real Programmer could run his programs by keying them into the front panel of the computer. Back in the days when computers had front panels, this was actually done occasionally. Your typical Real Programmer knew the entire bootstrap loader by memory in hex, and toggled it in whenever it got destroyed by his program. (Back then, memory was memory - it didn't go away when the power went off. Today, memory either forgets things when you don't want it to, or remembers things long after they're better forgotten.) Legend has it that {Seymore Cray}, inventor of the Cray I supercomputer and most of Control Data's computers, actually toggled the first operating system for the CDC7600 in on the front panel from memory when it was first powered on. Seymore, needless to say, is a Real Programmer. One of my favorite Real Programmers was a systems programmer for Texas Instruments. One day he got a long distance call from a user whose system had crashed in the middle of saving some important work. Jim was able to repair the damage over the phone, getting the user to toggle in disk I/O instructions at the front panel, repairing system tables in hex, reading register contents back over the phone. The moral of this story: while a Real Programmer usually includes a keypunch and lineprinter in his toolkit, he can get along with just a front panel and a telephone in emergencies. In some companies, text editing no longer consists of ten engineers standing in line to use an 029 keypunch. In fact, the building I work in doesn't contain a single keypunch. The Real Programmer in this situation has to do his work with a "text editor" program. Most systems supply several text editors to select from, and the Real Programmer must be careful to pick one that reflects his personal style. Many people believe that the best text editors in the world were written at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center for use on their Alto and Dorado computers [3]. Unfortunately, no Real Programmer would ever use a computer whose operating system is called SmallTalk, and would certainly not talk to the computer with a mouse. Some of the concepts in these Xerox editors have been incorporated into editors running on more reasonably named operating systems - {Emacs} and {VI} being two. The problem with these editors is that Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor - complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. TECO, to be precise. It has been observed that a TECO command sequence more closely resembles transmission line noise than readable text [4]. One of the more entertaining games to play with TECO is to type your name in as a command line and try to guess what it does. Just about any possible typing error while talking with TECO will probably destroy your program, or even worse - introduce subtle and mysterious bugs in a once working subroutine. For this reason, Real Programmers are reluctant to actually edit a program that is close to working. They find it much easier to just patch the binary {object code} directly, using a wonderful program called SUPERZAP (or its equivalent on non-IBM machines). This works so well that many working programs on IBM systems bear no relation to the original Fortran code. In many cases, the original source code is no longer available. When it comes time to fix a program like this, no manager would even think of sending anything less than a Real Programmer to do the job - no Quiche Eating structured programmer would even know where to start. This is called "job security". Some programming tools NOT used by Real Programmers: Fortran preprocessors like {MORTRAN} and {RATFOR}. The Cuisinarts of programming - great for making Quiche. See comments above on structured programming. Source language debuggers. Real Programmers can read core dumps. Compilers with array bounds checking. They stifle creativity, destroy most of the interesting uses for EQUIVALENCE, and make it impossible to modify the operating system code with negative subscripts. Worst of all, bounds checking is inefficient. Source code maintenance systems. A Real Programmer keeps his code locked up in a card file, because it implies that its owner cannot leave his important programs unguarded [5]. THE REAL PROGRAMMER AT WORK Where does the typical Real Programmer work? What kind of programs are worthy of the efforts of so talented an individual? You can be sure that no Real Programmer would be caught dead writing accounts-receivable programs in {COBOL}, or sorting {mailing lists} for People magazine. A Real Programmer wants tasks of earth-shaking importance (literally!). Real Programmers work for Los Alamos National Laboratory, writing atomic bomb simulations to run on Cray I supercomputers. Real Programmers work for the National Security Agency, decoding Russian transmissions. It was largely due to the efforts of thousands of Real Programmers working for NASA that our boys got to the moon and back before the Russkies. Real Programmers are at work for Boeing designing the operating systems for cruise missiles. Some of the most awesome Real Programmers of all work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Many of them know the entire operating system of the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft by heart. With a combination of large ground-based Fortran programs and small spacecraft-based assembly language programs, they are able to do incredible feats of navigation and improvisation - hitting ten-kilometer wide windows at Saturn after six years in space, repairing or bypassing damaged sensor platforms, radios, and batteries. Allegedly, one Real Programmer managed to tuck a pattern-matching program into a few hundred bytes of unused memory in a Voyager spacecraft that searched for, located, and photographed a new moon of Jupiter. The current plan for the Galileo spacecraft is to use a gravity assist trajectory past Mars on the way to Jupiter. This trajectory passes within 80 +/-3 kilometers of the surface of Mars. Nobody is going to trust a Pascal program (or a Pascal programmer) for navigation to these tolerances. As you can tell, many of the world's Real Programmers work for the U.S. Government - mainly the Defense Department. This is as it should be. Recently, however, a black cloud has formed on the Real Programmer horizon. It seems that some highly placed Quiche Eaters at the Defense Department decided that all Defense programs should be written in some grand unified language called "ADA" ((C), DoD). For a while, it seemed that ADA was destined to become a language that went against all the precepts of Real Programming - a language with structure, a language with data types, {strong typing}, and semicolons. In short, a language designed to cripple the creativity of the typical Real Programmer. Fortunately, the language adopted by DoD has enough interesting features to make it approachable -- it's incredibly complex, includes methods for messing with the operating system and rearranging memory, and Edsgar Dijkstra doesn't like it [6]. (Dijkstra, as I'm sure you know, was the author of "GoTos Considered Harmful" - a landmark work in programming methodology, applauded by Pascal programmers and Quiche Eaters alike.) Besides, the determined Real Programmer can write Fortran programs in any language. The Real Programmer might compromise his principles and work on something slightly more trivial than the destruction of life as we know it, providing there's enough money in it. There are several Real Programmers building video games at Atari, for example. (But not playing them - a Real Programmer knows how to beat the machine every time: no challenge in that.) Everyone working at LucasFilm is a Real Programmer. (It would be crazy to turn down the money of fifty million Star Trek fans.) The proportion of Real Programmers in Computer Graphics is somewhat lower than the norm, mostly because nobody has found a use for computer graphics yet. On the other hand, all computer graphics is done in Fortran, so there are a fair number of people doing graphics in order to avoid having to write COBOL programs. THE REAL PROGRAMMER AT PLAY Generally, the Real Programmer plays the same way he works - with computers. He is constantly amazed that his employer actually pays him to do what he would be doing for fun anyway (although he is careful not to express this opinion out loud). Occasionally, the Real Programmer does step out of the office for a breath of fresh air and a beer or two. Some tips on recognizing Real Programmers away from the computer room: At a party, the Real Programmers are the ones in the corner talking about operating system security and how to get around it. At a football game, the Real Programmer is the one comparing the plays against his simulations printed on 11 by 14 fanfold paper. At the beach, the Real Programmer is the one drawing flowcharts in the sand. At a funeral, the Real Programmer is the one saying "Poor George, he almost had the sort routine working before the coronary." In a grocery store, the Real Programmer is the one who insists on running the cans past the laser checkout scanner himself, because he never could trust keypunch operators to get it right the first time. THE REAL PROGRAMMER'S NATURAL HABITAT What sort of environment does the Real Programmer function best in? This is an important question for the managers of Real Programmers. Considering the amount of money it costs to keep one on the staff, it's best to put him (or her) in an environment where he can get his work done. The typical Real Programmer lives in front of a computer terminal. Surrounding this terminal are: Listings of all programs the Real Programmer has ever worked on, piled in roughly chronological order on every flat surface in the office. Some half-dozen or so partly filled cups of cold coffee. Occasionally, there will be cigarette butts floating in the coffee. In some cases, the cups will contain Orange Crush. Unless he is very good, there will be copies of the OS JCL manual and the Principles of Operation open to some particularly interesting pages. Taped to the wall is a line-printer Snoopy calendar for the year 1969. Strewn about the floor are several wrappers for peanut butter filled cheese bars - the type that are made pre-stale at the bakery so they can't get any worse while waiting in the vending machine. Hiding in the top left-hand drawer of the desk is a stash of double-stuff Oreos for special occasions. Underneath the Oreos is a flowcharting template, left there by the previous occupant of the office. (Real Programmers write programs, not documentation. Leave that to the maintenance people.) The Real Programmer is capable of working 30, 40, even 50 hours at a stretch, under intense pressure. In fact, he prefers it that way. Bad response time doesn't bother the Real Programmer - it gives him a chance to catch a little sleep between compiles. If there is not enough schedule pressure on the Real Programmer, he tends to make things more challenging by working on some small but interesting part of the problem for the first nine weeks, then finishing the rest in the last week, in two or three 50-hour marathons. This not only impresses the hell out of his manager, who was despairing of ever getting the project done on time, but creates a convenient excuse for not doing the documentation. In general: No Real Programmer works 9 to 5 (unless it's the ones at night). Real Programmers don't wear neckties. Real Programmers don't wear high-heeled shoes. Real Programmers arrive at work in time for lunch [9]. A Real Programmer might or might not know his wife's name. He does, however, know the entire {ASCII} (or EBCDIC) code table. Real Programmers don't know how to cook. Grocery stores aren't open at three in the morning. Real Programmers survive on Twinkies and coffee. THE FUTURE What of the future? It is a matter of some concern to Real Programmers that the latest generation of computer programmers are not being brought up with the same outlook on life as their elders. Many of them have never seen a computer with a front panel. Hardly anyone graduating from school these days can do hex arithmetic without a calculator. College graduates these days are soft - protected from the realities of programming by source level debuggers, text editors that count parentheses, and "user friendly" operating systems. Worst of all, some of these alleged "computer scientists" manage to get degrees without ever learning Fortran! Are we destined to become an industry of Unix hackers and Pascal programmers? From my experience, I can only report that the future is bright for Real Programmers everywhere. Neither OS 370 nor Fortran show any signs of dying out, despite all the efforts of Pascal programmers the world over. Even more subtle tricks, like adding structured coding constructs to Fortran have failed. Oh sure, some computer vendors have come out with Fortran 77 compilers, but every one of them has a way of converting itself back into a Fortran 66 compiler at the drop of an option card - to compile DO loops like God meant them to be. Even Unix might not be as bad on Real Programmers as it once was. The latest release of Unix has the potential of an operating system worthy of any Real Programmer - two different and subtly incompatible user interfaces, an arcane and complicated teletype driver, virtual memory. If you ignore the fact that it's "structured", even 'C' programming can be appreciated by the Real Programmer: after all, there's no type checking, variable names are seven (ten? eight?) characters long, and the added bonus of the Pointer data type is thrown in - like having the best parts of Fortran and assembly language in one place. (Not to mention some of the more creative uses for
recuse ::: v. t. --> To refuse or reject, as a judge; to challenge that the judge shall not try the cause.
Revata. (T. Nam gru; C. Lipoduo; J. Ribata; K. Ibada 離婆多). Sanskrit and Pāli proper name of an important ARHAT who was foremost among the Buddha's monk disciples in mastery of meditative absorption (DHYĀNA; P. JHĀNA). He is typically known as "doubting Revata" (KĀnKsĀ-REVATA; P. Kankhā-Revata), to distinguish him from several other Revatas who appear in the literature, because prior to his enlightenment he is said to have been troubled by doubt concerning what was permissible and what was not. According to the Pāli account, Revata was born into a wealthy family in the city of Sāvitthi (S. sRĀVASTĪ). One day he heard the Buddha preach in Kapilavatthu (S. KAPILAVASTU) and resolved to renounce the world and enter the order. He attained arhatship by relying on dhyāna, and his exceptional skill in these meditative states won him distinction. Revata had resolved to attain this distinction in a previous life as a brāhmana when, during the time of the buddha Padmottara, he heard the Buddha describe one of his disciples as preeminent in his attainment of dhyāna. In another famous story, the mother of Uttara had been reborn as a hungry ghost (S. PRETA, P. peta) and after fifty-five years of wandering, encountered Revata and begged him for relief. He relieved her suffering by making various offerings to the SAMGHA in her name. ¶ There was a later monk named Revata who played a major role at the second Buddhist council (SAMGĪTI; see COUNCIL, SECOND) held at VAIsĀLĪ. Some one hundred years after the death of the Buddha, the monk YAsAS was traveling in Vaisālī when he observed the monks there receiving alms in the form of gold and silver directly from the laity, in violation of the prohibition against monks' touching gold and silver. He also found that the monks had identified ten points in the VINAYA that were classified as violations but that they had determined were sufficiently minor to be ignored. Yasas challenged the monks on these practices, but when he refused to accept their bribes to keep quiet, they expelled him from the order. Yasas sought support of several respected monks in the west, including sĀnAKAVĀSĪN and Revata, and together they traveled to Vaisālī. Once there, Revata went to Sarvagāmin, the eldest monk of his era, who is said to have been a disciple of ĀNANDA, to question him about these ten points. At Revata's suggestion, a jury of eight monks was appointed to adjudicate, with four representatives selected from each party. Revata was selected as one of four from the party declaring the ten practices to be violations, and it was Revata who publically put the questions to Sarvagāmin. In each case, the senior monk said that the practice in question was a violation of the vinaya. Seven hundred monks then gathered to recite the vinaya. Those who did not accept the decision of the council held their own convocation, which they called the MAHĀSĀMGHIKA, or "Great Assembly." This event is sometimes said to have led to the first "great schism" within the mainstream Buddhist tradition, between the STHAVIRANIKĀYA, or Fraternity of the Elders, and the MahāsāMghika.
RFC 1334 ::: (networking, security, standard, protocol) The RFC defining Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol and Password Authentication Protocol. . (1996-03-23)
RFC 1334 "networking, security, standard, protocol" The {RFC} defining {Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol} and {Password Authentication Protocol}. {(rfc:1334)}. (1996-03-23)
Richard P. Feynman "person, computing, architecture" /fayn'mn/ 1918-1988. A US physicist, computer scientist and author who graduated from {Massachusetts Institute of Technology} and {Princeton}. Feynmane was a key figure in helping Oppenheimer and team develop atomic bomb. In 1950 he became a professor at {Caltech} and in 1965 became Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics for QED (quantum electrodynamics). He was a primary figure in "solving" the Challenger disaster O-ring problem. He "rediscovered" the former Soviet Socialist Republic of Tuva. The 2001 film "Infinity" about Feynman's early life featured Matthew Broderick and Patricia Arquette. In 2001, "QED", a play about Feynman's life featuring Alan Alda opened. {(http://www.feynman.com/)}. (2008-01-14)
SaMghabhadra. (T. 'Dus bzang; C. Zhongxian; J. Shugen; K. Chunghyon 衆賢) (c. fifth century CE). In Sanskrit, "Auspicious to the Community"; the proper name of an influential Indian master of the VAIBHĀsIKA school of SARVĀSTIVĀDA ABHIDHARMA. Historical sources suggest that SaMghabhadra hailed from KASHMIR and was a younger contemporary of his principal rival VASUBANDHU. The historical records of XUANZANG and PARAMĀRTHA agree that SaMghabhadra publicly challenged Vasubandhu to debate, but his challenge was never accepted. SaMghabhadra's most famous works include the *NYĀYĀNUSĀRA, or "Conformity with Correct Principle," and the *Abhidharmasamayapradīpikā (C. Xianzong lun), or "Exposition of Accepted Doctrine." The *Nyāyānusāra is both a clarification of the ABHIDHARMA philosophy of the Vaibhāsika school and a critical commentary on the presentation found in Vasubandhu's ABHIDHARMAKOsABHĀsYA. The later Samayapradīpikā is a shorter explanation of the doctrines of the Vaibhāsikas, which in large measure summarizes the positions explored in the *Nyāyānusāra. Neither of these works survives in their Sanskrit originals but only in their Chinese translations. SaMghabhadra's defense of Kashmir Sarvāstivāda-Vaibhāsika positions ushered in the neo-Vaibhāsika period of Sarvāstivāda thought, which took the *Nyāyānusāra and the Samayapradīpikā as its main texts.
Sangha Administration Act. A law enacted in Thailand in 1902 designed to bring the entire Buddhist order (P. sangha, S. SAMGHA) of Thailand under a single administrative authority. It was primarily an initiative of Prince Wachirayān, brother of King Chulalongkorn (RĀMA V) and the son of King Mongkut (RĀMA IV). The law was initially applied only to royal monasteries and several other important monasteries, but in 1908 it was extended to encompass the entire northeast region. It established a single system for monastic education and standardized the ordination procedure. Under this act, all abbots in Thailand were appointed by government officials or the king. The act was revised in 1941 and in 1962. It has not met with universal acceptance or compliance, being challenged especially by the tradition of the forest monks (ARANNAVĀSI).
sāntideva. (T. Zhi ba lha). Eighth-century Indian monk of NĀLANDĀ monastery, renowned as the author of two influential MAHĀYĀNA texts: the BODHICARYĀVATĀRA (a long poem on the practice of the bodhisattva path) and the sIKsĀSAMUCCAYA (a compendium of passages from Mahāyāna sutras corroborating the explanations given in the Bodhicaryāvatāra). Nothing is known of his life apart from legends. According to these tales, he was of royal birth but renounced the world before his investiture as king. At Nālandā monastery, he was known as an indolent monk. In order to humiliate him, his fellow monks challenged him to recite sutras before the assembly. He asked whether they wished to hear something old or something new. When they requested something new, he recited the Bodhicaryāvatāra. When he reached the ninth chapter, on wisdom (PRAJNĀ), he began to rise into the air and disappeared, never to return. For this reason, there is some controversy as to how the ninth chapter ends, and indeed, there are different recensions of the text, one longer and one shorter. Based on the contents of the Bodhicaryāvatāra's ninth chapter, Tibetan doxographers count sāntideva as a proponent of the *PRĀSAnGIKA-MADHYAMAKA. The Bodhicaryāvatāra was very influential in Tibet; particularly noteworthy is the BKA' GDAMS tradition of dge bshes Po to ba, who lists it and the siksāsamuccaya, along with the BODHISATTVABHuMI, MAHĀYĀNASuTRĀLAMKĀRA, Āryasura's JĀTAKAMĀLĀ, and the UDĀNAVARGA, as the six fundamental treatises of the Bka' gdams tradition.
sendmail "messaging" The {BSD} Unix {Message Transfer Agent} supporting mail transport via {TCP/IP} using {SMTP}. Sendmail is normally invoked in the {background} via a {Mail User Agent} such as the {mail} command. Sendmail was written by {Eric Allman} at the {University of California at Berkeley} during the late 1970s. He now has his own company, {Sendmail Inc.} Sendmail was one of the first programs to route messages between {networks} and today is still the dominant e-mail transfer software. It thrived despite the awkward {ARPAnet} transition between {NCP} to TCP protocols in the early 1980s and the adoption of the new SMTP Simple Mail Transport Protocol, all of which made the business of mail routing a complex challenge of backward and forward compatibility for several years. There are now over one million copies of Sendmail installed, representing over 75% of all Internet mail servers. Simultaneously with the announcement of the company in November 1997, Sendmail 8.9 was launched, featuring new tools designed to limit {junk e-mail}. SendMail 8.9 is still distributed as {source code} with the rights to modify and distribute. The command sendmail -bv ADDRESS can be used to learn what the local mail system thinks of ADDRESS. You can also talk to the Sendmail {daemon} on a remote host FOO with the command telnet FOO 25 (1998-08-25)
sentinel ::: 1. A tower used by the military to watch for the enemy and defend a camp, etc. 2. A person or thing that watches or stands as if watching. 3. A soldier stationed as a guard to challenge all comers and prevent a surprise attack; a sentry. (Sri Aurobindo often employs the word as an adjective.) sentinels.
silpanirmānakāya. [alt. silpinirmānakāya] (T. bzo bo sprul sku). In Sanskrit, "artisan emanation body," one of the various of emanation bodies (NIRMĀnAKĀYA) in which a buddha may appear to the world. As the name suggests, in this case, a buddha may appear as a skilled artisan. The example that is typically cited for this type of body is when the Buddha, shortly before his passage into NIRVĀnA, took the form a celestial musician (GANDHARVA) and challenged Sunanda, the king of the celestial musicians, to a lute-playing competition. The Buddha defeated him by playing a beautiful melody on a lute that had no strings. It is said that an artisan emanation body may also take the form of a work of art that is inspiring or calming.
siMhanāda. (P. sīhanāda; T. seng ge'i nga ro; C. shizi hu; J. shishiku; K. saja hu 師子吼). In Sanskrit, "lion's roar," a phrase commonly used to describe the teaching of the Buddha or his disciples. It is said that when the lion roars in the forest, all other animals become silent and listen; in the same way, the Buddha's proclamation of the DHARMA silences all non-Buddhist teachers (TĪRTHIKA), who are afraid to challenge him. The Buddha is often compared to a lion, the king of beasts: "lion among men" (S. narasiMha) is an epithet of the Buddha, the Buddha's seat is called the lion's throne (SIMHĀSANA), and his walk is called the lion's gait (siMhavikrānta). According to the Pāli commentaries, there are two kinds of lion's roar: that of the Buddha and that of his disciples. The former applies specifically to those cases in which the Buddha proclaims his own attainments or the power of the dharma. The latter refers to those cases when disciples announce their attainment of the rank of ARHAT and their subsequent inspiriational teachings. The Buddha declared that PIndOLA-BHĀRADVĀJA was the foremost lion-roarer (siMhanādin) among his disciples. These utterances are described as a lion's roar in the ĀGAMAs and Pāli NIKĀYAs because of their incontrovertible veracity, boundless self-confidence, and ability to inspire others to urgency in their practice. Just as the lion's roar may horrify other creatures, a lion's roar may also instill fear in lesser beings, such as teachings on impermanence that strike fear into the hearts of long-lived divinities (DEVA) who mistakenly presume they are immortal. One of the best-known siMhanāda in the literature (as recorded, e.g., in the NIDĀNAKATHĀ), is the lion's roar that GAUTAMA is said to have uttered immediately after his birth. Pointing to heaven and earth, he took seven steps and said: "I am the chief of the world." The term figures prominently in Buddhist literature, as in the MAHĀSĪHANĀDASUTTA and the CulASĪHANĀDASUTTA of the MAJJHIMANIKĀYA, and in the sRĪMĀLĀDEVĪSIMHANĀDASuTRA. It also occurs in the names of deities, such as Lokesvara SiMhanāda, a form of AVALOKITEsVARA.
sramana. (P. samana; T. dge sbyong; C. shamen; J. shamon; K. samun 沙門). In Sanskrit "renunciant," "mendicant," or "recluse," a term used in ancient India to refer to male religious of a number of different itinerant sects, including Buddhism, often associated with the warrior (KsATRIYA) caste, which challenged the hegemony of the brāhmana priests and mainstream Brahmanical religion deriving from the Vedas. Whereas the Brahmanical tradition traces itself back to a body of literature centered on the Vedas, the sramana movements instead derive from historical persons who all flourished around the sixth century BCE. Six different sramana groups are mentioned in the SĀMANNAPHALASUTTANTA of the DĪGHANIKĀYA, each representing different trends in Indian thought, including antinomianism (PuRAnA-KĀsYAPA); fatalism (MASKARIN-GOsĀLĪPUTRA of the ĀJĪVAKA school); materialism (AJITA-KEsAKAMBALA of the LOKĀYATA school); atomism (KAKUDA-KĀTYĀYANA); and agnosticism (SANJAYA-VAIRĀtĪPUTRA); the sixth group is the JAINA tradition of NIRGRANTHA JNĀTĪPUTRA, also known as MAHĀVĪRA, with which Buddhism shares many affinities. These six are typically referred to in Buddhist materials as the six "heterodox teachers" (TĪRTHIKA) and are consistently criticized by the Buddha for fostering wrong views (MITHYĀDṚstI). Some scholars suggest that these groups were loosely associated with a third phase in the development of pan-Indian religion called the āranyaka (forest dwellers) movement, where the highly specialized fire rituals (HOMA) set forth in the Brāhmanas for the propitiation of Vedic gods gave way to a more internalized form of spiritual praxis. These itinerant asetics or wanders were also called PARIVRĀJAKA (P. paribbājaka; "those who go forth into homelessness"), in direct contrast to the householders (GṚHASTHA) whose behavior was governed by the laws set down in dharmasāstras. Because so many of the beliefs and practices emblematic of the sramana movement have no direct Vedic antecedents, however, other scholars have proposed that the sramana groups may instead exemplify the resurfacing in Indian religion of aboriginal elements that had long been eclipsed by the imported rituals and beliefs that the Āryans brought with them to India. These doctrines, all of which have their parallels in Buddhism, include rebirth and transmigration (e.g., PUNARJANMAN); notions that actions have effect (e.g., KARMAN); asceticism (TAPAS, DHUTAnGA) and the search for ways of behavior that would not bind one to the round of SAMSĀRA; and liberation (MOKsA, VIMOKsA) as the goal of religious practice. In Buddhism, sramana is also used generically to refer to all monks, including the Buddha, whose epithets include sramana Gautama and Mahāsramana, "Great Renunciant." The term often occurs in the compound sramanabrāhmana (P. samanabrāhmana), "recluses and brāhmanas." This compound has a range of meanings. In some cases, it refers simply to those who practice and benefit from the Buddha's teachings. In other cases, it refers to non-Buddhist religious practitioners. In the edicts of AsOKA, the term is used to refer to those who are worthy of respect and offerings, with sramana taken to mean Buddhist monks (and possibly other ascetics) and brāhmana taken to mean brāhmana priests. The term sramana should be carefully distinguished from sRĀMAnERA (s.v.), a novice monk.
srāvaka. (P. sāvaka; T. nyan thos; C. shengwen; J. shomon; K. songmun 聲聞). In Sanskrit, lit. "listener"; viz., a direct "disciple" of the Buddha who "listened" to his teachings (and sometimes seen translated over-literally from the Chinese as "sound-hearer"). In the MAHĀYĀNA, the term was used to describe those who (along with PRATYEKABUDDHAs) sought their own liberation from suffering as an ARHAT by following the HĪNAYĀNA path (see ER SHENG), and was contrasted (negatively) to the BODHISATTVAs who seeks buddhahood for the sake of all beings. There is an issue in the Mahāyāna concerning whether srāvakas will eventually enter the bodhisattva path and become buddhas, or whether arhatship is a final state where no further progress along the path (MĀRGA) will be possible (see sRĀVAKAGOTRA). The SADDHARMAPUndARĪKASuTRA, for example, declares that they will, and in the sutra the Buddha makes prophecies about the future buddhahood of several famous srāvakas. In many Mahāyāna sutras, srāvakas are often described as being in the audience of the Buddha's teaching, and certain srāvakas, such as sĀRIPUTRA, play important roles as interlocutors. In the third chapter of the VIMALAKĪRTINIRDEsA, a series of srāvakas explain why they are reluctant to visit the bodhisattva VIMALAKĪRTI, because of the insurmountable challenge his profound understanding of the dharma will present to them.
srāvastī. (P. Sāvatthi; T. Mnyan yod; C. Shewei guo; J. Shae koku; K. Sawi kuk 舍衛國). Capital city of KOsALA and one of the major cities of India at the time of the Buddha. The Pāli commentator BUDDHAGHOSA states implausibly that there were 5.7 million families living in srāvastī during the Buddha's lifetime. The Buddha spent many years there after he attained enlightenment, and he is reported to have passed twenty-five rains retreats (VARsĀ) in the city. srāvastī was ruled by the Buddha's royal patron, King PRASENAJIT, and was home to his wealthiest patron, ANĀTHAPIndADA, who offered to the Buddha the famous JETAVANA grove and its residences. Hundreds of sutras are set in srāvastī. The city is also the site where the Buddha (and, according to some accounts, all previous buddhas) performed two miracles: the "great miracle" (MAHĀPRĀTIHĀRYA), in which the Buddha creates various replicas of himself and appears simultaneously in various terrestrial and celestial abodes; and the "twin miracle" (YAMAKAPRĀTIHĀRYA) in which the Buddha, in response to a challenge from non-Buddhist YOGINs, rose into the air and simultaneously emitted fire and water from his body.
Sthāvarā. (T. Sa'i lha mo; C. Anzhu dishen; J. Anjujijin; K. Anju chisin 安住地神). In Sanskrit, "Immovable," the goddess of the earth, also known as PṚTHIVĪ. She plays an important role in the story of sĀKYAMUNI Buddha's enlightenment. After MĀRA and his armies were unable to unseat the BODHISATTVA, Māra challenged his right to occupy the space beneath the BODHI TREE, claiming that he, Māra, had a greater right since, as a god, he had greater merit; his army boisterously attested to Māra's claim. The bodhisattva responded that his merit was greater because he had practiced the ten perfections (PĀRAMITĀ) for many lifetimes. When Māra asked who would attest to the Bodhisattva's claim, he touched the earth with his right hand in the famous "earth-touching gesture" (BHuMISPARsAMUDRĀ), calling on the goddess of the earth to attest to the truth of his statement. She responded by causing a tremor; in some versions, she emerges from the earth to bear witness. In the GAndAVYuHA (the final chapter of the AVATAMSAKASuTRA), the bodhisattva SUDHANA sets out in search of a teacher, encountering fifty-two beings (twenty of whom are female), including the Buddha's mother MAHĀMĀYĀ, the future buddha MAITREYA, as well as AVALOKITEsVARA and MANJUsRĪ. The thirtieth being he encounters is Sthāvarā, whom he meets at BODHGAYĀ. She also bears witness to his practice of virtue and predicts that he will achieve buddhahood. See also THORANI.
Tendaishu. (天台宗). In Japanese, "Platform of Heaven School," the Japanese counterpart of the Chinese TIANTAI ZONG, the name of the Chinese tradition from which Tendai derives. The pilgrim-monk SAICHo (767-822) is presumed to have laid the doctrinal and institutional foundations on which the Tendai tradition in Japan was eventually constructed. Like its Chinese counterpart, the Japanese Tendai tradition took the SADDHARMAPUndARĪKASuTRA ("Lotus Sutra") and the commentaries on this sutra by TIANTAI ZHIYI as its central scriptures. The Tendai tradition also came to espouse the doctrine of original or inherent enlightenment (HONGAKU). An important step in the development of an autonomous Japanese Tendai tradition was the establishment of a MAHĀYĀNA precepts platform (daijo kaidan). Saicho made numerous petitions to the court to have an independent Mahāyāna precepts platform established on HIEIZAN (see ENRYAKUJI), which would provide him with institutional autonomy from the powerful monasteries of the well-established Buddhist sects in Nara. Saicho's petition was finally granted after his death in 823. The following year, his disciple GISHIN (781-833) was appointed head (zasu) of the Tendai tradition, and several years later, a precepts platform was constructed at the monastery of Enryakuji on Mt. Hiei. The Tendai tradition prospered under the leadership of ENNIN (794-864) and ENCHIN (814-891). A controversy in 993 between the lineages of Enchin and Ennin over the issue of succession led to a schism between Ennin's Sanmon branch at Mt. Hiei and Enchin's Jimon branch at Onjoji (see MIIDERA). The Tendai tradition also produced important figures in the history of the PURE LAND movement in Japan, such as GENSHIN, RYoNIN, HoNEN, and SHINRAN. DoGEN KIGEN, founder of the SoToSHu of ZEN, began his career in the Tendai tradition, practicing as a monk at Mt. Hiei, as did NICHIREN. From the medieval period up through the Tokugawa era (1600-1868), Tendai was a dominant force in Japanese Buddhism. By extension, it had considerable political influence at the court in Kyoto and later with the Tokugawa Bakufu. In order to weaken the powerful Mt. Hiei institution, at the start of the Tokugawa era, the shogunate constructed To Eizan in the capital of Edo ("to" means eastern, thus setting up a juxtaposition with the western Mt. Hiei), which received more funding and prestige than its western counterpart. A major factor in the success of the Tendai institution in Japan was its incorporation of esoteric Buddhism, or MIKKYo, beginning with a limited number of tantric practices that Saicho brought back with him from China. The extensive training that KuKAI (774-835), the founder of the SHINGONSHu, received in esoteric Buddhism in China ultimately rivaled that of Saicho, a challenge that would eventually threaten Tendai's political sway at court. However, after Saicho's disciples Ennin, Enchin, and ANNEN (841-889?) returned from China with the latest esoteric practices, Tendai's preeminence was secured. This Tendai form of mikkyo, which Ennin called TAIMITSU, was considered equal to the teachings of the Saddharmapundarīkasutra. Tendai also heavily influenced the esoteric practices of SHUGENDo centers around the country. During the Tokugawa era, many of these mountain practice sites became formally institutionalized under Tendai Shugendo (referred to as Honzan), and were administered by the monastery of Shogoin in Kyoto. In addition, Tendai monks were among those who made major efforts to incorporate local native spirits (KAMI) into Tendai practice, by acknowledging them as manifestations of the Buddha (see HONJI SUIJAKU).
The deceased, entering the domain as a khu, performs the same activities that he did on earth: plowing, reaping, sailing his boat, and making love. On entering Amenti, Anubis conducts the soul to the hall of Osiris where it is judged by the 42 judges and its heart is weighed against the feather of truth. If the soul passes the test, it goes to the fields of Aalu. If the names of the 15 Aats, the 7 Arrets (circles), the 21 Pylons, as well as the gods and guardians of these domains are all known, the deceased is enabled to pass from one mansion to the other, and finally to enter the Night Boat of the Sun, which passes through the Tuat on its way to arise in the heavens. The shades who miss this boat, the unprogressed egos, must remain in the afterworld or kama-loka, while those who enter the boat are carried to the heaven world or devachan where they wander about until they return to earth for rebirth. This refers to the passing from world to world by the ego proficient in knowledge of the “names,” and thereafter entering the secret or invisible pathways to the sun. The knowledge of the names indicates spiritual, intellectual, and psychic development, by which the ego of the defunct is no longer attracted to the lower spheres, but having knowledge of them correctly answers the challenges and thereafter follows the attraction upwards and onwards.
trier ::: n. --> One who tries; one who makes experiments; one who examines anything by a test or standard.
One who tries judicially.
A person appointed according to law to try challenges of jurors; a trior.
That which tries or approves; a test.
Unconscious Mind: A compartment of the mind which lies outside the consciousness, existence of which has frejuently been challenged. See for example W. James, The Principles of Psychology, Vol. I, pp. 162 ff. See Subconscious Mind. -- L.W.
VajracchedikāprajNāpāramitāsutra. (T. Rdo rje gcod pa shes rab kyi pha rol tu phyin pa'i mdo; C. Jingang jing; J. Kongokyo; K. Kŭmgang kyong 金剛經). In Sanskrit, the "Diamond-Cutter Perfection of Wisdom Sutra"; known in English as the "Diamond Sutra" (deriving from its popular abbreviated Chinese title Jingang jing, as above), one of the most famous, widely read, and commented upon of all MAHĀYĀNA sutras, together with two others that are also known by their English titles, the SADDHARMAPUndARĪKASuTRA ("Lotus Sutra") and the PRAJNĀPĀRAMITĀHṚDAYASuTRA ("Heart Sutra"). The "Diamond Sutra" was composed in Sanskrit, probably sometime between the second and fourth centuries CE. Despite its fame, much of its meaning remains elusive, beginning with the title. In Sanskrit, it is VajracchedikāprajNāpāramitā. The Sanskrit term VAJRA refers to a kind of magical weapon, sometimes described as a thunderbolt or a discus, and is said to be hard and unbreakable, like a diamond or adamant. Thus, the title might be rendered into English as "The Perfection of Wisdom That Cuts like a Diamond/Thunderbolt." The sutra opens with the Buddha residing in the JETAVANA with 1,250 monks and a large number of bodhisattvas. After returning from his begging round (PIndAPĀTA) and eating his meal, the Buddha is approached by the great ARHAT SUBHuTI, who asks him about the practice of the BODHISATTVA. The Buddha says that a bodhisattva must vow to lead all beings in the universe into NIRVĀnA, while fully recognizing that there are in fact no beings to be led into nirvāna. "If, Subhuti, a bodhisattva were to have the (mis)perception (SAMJNĀ) of a self (ĀTMAN), a being (SATTVA), a living entity (JĪVA), or a person (PUDGALA), he is not to be called 'a bodhisattva.'" This is one of many famous statements in the sutra, regarded by commentators as setting forth the doctrine of emptiness (although the technical term suNYATĀ does not appear in the sutra), i.e., that all phenomena are falsely imagined to have a self, a soul, and an "own-being," qualities that they, in fact, lack. Any meritorious deed, from the giving of a gift to the vow to free all beings, is not an authentic bodhisattva deed if it is tainted with the (mis)perception (saMjNā) of a sign (NIMITTA) of selfhood: thus the perfection of the act of charity (DĀNAPĀRAMITĀ) means that true bodhisattva giving occurs when there is no conception of there being a donor, recipient, or gift-for that kind of giving would produce immeasurable merit. The Buddha asks Subhuti whether the Buddha is to be seen through the possession of the thirty-two physical marks of a superman (MAHĀPURUsALAKsAnA) that adorn his body. Subhuti says that he is not, because what the Buddha has described as the possession of marks (LAKsAnA) is in fact the nonpossession of no-marks. This formula of question and response, with the correct answer being, "A is in fact not A, therefore it is called A" is repeated throughout the text. The sutra is not simply a radical challenge to the ordinary conception of the world, of language, and of thought; it is also a polemical Mahāyāna sutra, seeking, like other such sutras, to declare its supremacy and to promise rewards to those who exalt it. It is noteworthy that here, as in many other perfection of wisdom (PRAJNĀPĀRAMITĀ) sutras, the Buddha's interlocutor is not a bodhisattva, but an arhat, the wise Subhuti, suggesting that even those who have completed the path to nirvāna still have more to learn. The Buddha predicts that this sutra will be understood far into the future, even into the final five hundred years that the Buddha's teaching remains in the world. At that time, anyone who has even a moment of faith in this sutra will be honored by millions of buddhas. Indeed, even now, long before this point in the distant future, anyone who would teach just four lines of this sutra to others would earn incalculable merit. In a statement that appears in other perfection of wisdom sutras, the Buddha declares, "On whatever piece of ground one will proclaim this sutra, that piece of ground will become an object of worship. That piece of ground will become for the world together with its gods, humans, and demigods a true shrine to be revered and circumambulated." Scholars have seen in this statement the possibility that the perfection of wisdom sutras were something of a "cult of the book," in which the sutra itself was worshipped, serving as a substitute for more traditional sites of worship, such as reliquaries (STuPA). The sutra suggests that such practices were not always condoned by others; the Buddha goes on to say that those who worship the sutra will be ridiculed for doing so, but by suffering ridicule they will destroy the great stores of negative KARMAN accumulated over many lifetimes. The Buddha's exhortations seem to have been taken to heart. The recitation and copying of the sutra was widely practiced across Asia; many copies of the sutra were discovered at DUNHUANG, and the earliest printed book in the world is a xylographic print of the Chinese translation of the VajracchedikāprajNāpāramitā dated May 11, 868, that was found in the Dunhuang cache. On a rock cliff on the Chinese sacred mountain of Taishan, there is a massive carving of the VajracchedikāprajNāpāramitā covering some 2,100 Sinographs in 21,000 square feet (2,000 sq. m.). Miracle tales of the benefits of reciting and copying the sutra were also told across Asia. The VajracchedikāprajNāpāramitā also played an important role in the CHAN traditions of East Asia: e.g., it was the scripture that the fifth patriarch HONGREN expounded to HUINENG, bringing him to enlightenment and enabling Huineng to be his successor as the sixth patriarch (LIUZU) of Chan.
vyāpti. (T. khyab pa; C. bian/bianzhi; J. hen/henshi; K. p'yon/p'yonji 遍/遍至). In Sanskrit, "pervasion" or "concomitance"; a term used in logic to indicate the relation that obtains between the reason and the predicate in a correct syllogism (PRAYOGA). There is positive concomitance (anvaya) and negative concomitance (VYATIREKA). For example, in order for the syllogism (PRAYOGA) "Sound is impermanent because of being produced" to be correct, it must be true that whatever is impermanent must necessarily be produced. That is, the category of the reason must either be coextensive with or subsume the category of the predicate. In Tibetan monastic debate, the term figures in one of three answers that the defender of a position may give. When presented with a syllogism or consequence (PRASAnGA) by the challenger, the defender may (1) accept the thesis ('dod), (2) state that the reason is not a quality of the subject (rtags ma grub), or (3) state that there is no pervasion between the reason and the predicate (ma khyab).
warrandice ::: n. --> The obligation by which a person, conveying a subject or a right, is bound to uphold that subject or right against every claim, challenge, or burden arising from circumstances prior to the conveyance; warranty.
wenda. (J. mondo; K. mundap 問答). In Chinese, lit. "question and answer"; pedagogical technique used in the CHAN (J. ZEN; K. SoN) school that involves an "exchange" or "dialogue" between a Chan master and a disciple regarding the Buddhist teachings. The exchange often consists of questions from the disciple and the master's response, but sometimes the master would also question the disciple to check his or her level of understanding and attainment. The master's answers are typically not a theoretical or discursive response to the question, but instead will employ logical contradiction, contextual inappropriateness, and illocutionary uses of language in order to challenge the understanding of the student. The master's answer might not even be a verbal response at all but might instead employ "the stick and the shout" (BANGHE) as a way of goading the student out of his conventional ways of comprehension. The ultimate goal is to prompt not mere intellectual understanding but an experience of awakening (C. WU; J. SATORI). The recorded sayings (YULU) of eminent Chan masters often include a section on their wenda. These wenda constitute a major part of the GONG'AN literature of the Chan tradition, and the practice of wenda is itself performed using phrases drawn from the gong'an texts. During the Song dynasty in China, Chan monks were appointed to monastic positions, such as "interrogating monk" (wenseng) or "Chan receptionist" (chanke), whose responsibility was to ask questions of the master on behalf of the congregation, transforming wenda into a formal, ritualized occasion.
wu gong'an. (J. mukoan; K. mu kongan 無公案). In Chinese, "the case 'no'"; an influential CHAN case or precedent (GONG'AN) associated with the Tang-dynasty Chan master ZHAOZHOU CONGSHEN (778-897). In this exchange, once a student came to Zhaozhou and asked, "Does a dog have the buddha-nature (FOXING), or not?" Zhaozhou answered, "No" (lit., "It does not have it"). The complete exchange from which this gong'an is drawn continues: "Everything has buddha-nature, from the buddhas above, to the ants below. Why wouldn't a dog have it?" Zhaozhou replied: "Because he has the nature of karmically conditioned consciousness." This response seems to be associated with Chan debates concerning the Sinitic Buddhist doctrine of the "buddha-nature of the insentient" (wuqing foxing), which presumed that all insentient things, including rocks and tiles, trees, and grass, were also endowed with the buddha-nature; thus, if even rocks have the buddha-nature, why not dogs? Since the answer to the student's question should unequivocally be "Yes, a dog does have the buddha-nature," Zhaozhou's enigmatic response, which Wumen calls a "checkpoint of the patriarchs," seems to challenge one of the foundational beliefs of East Asian Buddhism; in so doing, it engenders a question in the student's mind, which will help to foster inquiry and ultimately a sense of doubt (YIQING). This answer "WU" ("no") became a popular meditative topic (HUATOU) in the Chan meditation practice of "questioning meditation" (KANHUA CHAN) and is one of the most important gong'ans used in kanhua Chan training, especially in the Chinese LINJI ZONG and Japanese RINZAISHu lineages, as well as in the Korean CHOGYE CHONG. The wu gong'an is the first case collected in the gong'an anthology WUMEN GUAN ("Gateless Checkpoint"), and its use in kanhua practice was popularized by the Chinese Linji teacher DAHUI ZONGGAO (1089-1163). See also GOUZI WU FOXING.
WWPD?: “What Would Porthos Do?” Half-sarcastic question when confronting a daunting challenge or puzzling enigma; essentially translates to “You’d have to be insane to figure this out.” Tends to piss off older mages, especially Hermetic ones who may have known Archmaster Porthos and revere him, despise him, or both. Technocratic Terminology For Technocratic ranks and titles, see Chapter Five, (p. 172). Note that certain phrases have different meanings for Technocrats than they do for Tradition mages, or have been repeated here for clarity.
yamakaprātihārya. (P. yamakapātihāriya; T. cho 'phrul ya ma zung; C. shuangshenbian; J. sojinpen; K. ssangsinbyon 雙神變). In Sanskrit, "paired miracle" or "twin miracle"; this and the MAHĀPRĀTIHĀRYA are the two most famous of the miracles performed by the Buddha during his career, which are frequently narrated in both canonical and commentarial literature and widely depicted in Buddhist art. Both types are generally understood to have taken place in the city of sRĀVASTĪ and thus are often referred to collectively in the literature as the sRĀVASTĪ MIRACLES. The yamakaprātihārya involved the manifestation of the contrasting physical elements (MAHĀBHuTA) of fire and water. After the Buddha established a rule preventing monks from displaying miraculous powers, he was challenged by a group of non-Buddhist yogins to a display of his own supranormal powers. As a buddha, he was exempt from this prohibition, so he accepted their challenge and stated that he would perform a miracle at the foot of a mango tree. To keep him from proceeding, his opponents uprooted all the mango trees in the vicinity, leading the Buddha to cause a great tree to grow spontaneously from a mango seed. At the appointed time, the Buddha created a bejeweled walkway in the sky and then proceeded back and forth on it, causing flames to emerge from the upper part of his body and streams of water from the lower part, then water from the upper part and flames from the lower part, then flames from the right side and water from the left side, then from his front and back, right eye and left eye, right ear and left ear, etc. He then created a double of himself (see MANOMAYAKĀYA), with whom he conversed. It is because of the simultaneous presence of fire and water (and perhaps because of his creation of his doppelgänger) that the event is called the "paired miracle." After performing the miracle and preaching for sixteen days, the Buddha departed for the heaven of the thirty-three (TRĀYASTRIMsA), where he spent the rains retreat (VARsĀ) teaching the ABHIDHARMA to his mother MĀYĀ (who had been reborn as a divinity in the TUsITA heaven). This miracle is said to be performed by all buddhas (and only by a buddha) and always in srāvastī.
Zhaozhou Congshen. (J. Joshu Jushin; K. Choju Chongsim 趙州從諗) (778-897). One of the most renowned Chinese CHAN teachers of the Tang dynasty; his toponym Zhaozhou derives from the Zhaozhou region in Hebei province, where he spent much of his later teaching career. Zhaozhou was ordained in his youth at Hutongyuan in his hometown of Caozhou (in present-day Shandong province). At the age of eighteen, he met NANQUAN PUYUAN (748-835), a successor of MAZU DAOYI (709-788), and studied under him for several decades until that teacher's death. Then in his fifties, Zhaozhou began to travel throughout China, visiting prominent Chan masters such as HUANGBO XIYUN (d. 850) and Daowu Yuanzhi (760-835). Having served as abbot of various monasteries on Mt. Huangbo, Baoshou, and Jia, Zhaozhou settled at the age of eighty in Guanyinyuan (AVALOKITEsVARA Cloister) in Zhaozhou, and taught a small group of monks there for the next forty years. Zhaozhou did not use the iconoclastic pedagogical techniques, such as shouting and beating (BANGHE), made famous by other teachers of his era, but used his words to challenge his students and lead them to self-realization. The Song-dynasty Chan master YUANWU KEQIN (1063-1135) described this characteristic of Zhaozhou's teachings when he said, "Zhaozhou's Chan lies on the lips." Zhaozhou is frequently cited in the collections of Chan GONG'AN (public cases), including five of the forty-eight gong'ans collected in the WUMEN GUAN ("Gateless Checkpoint") and twelve of the one hundred in the BIYAN LU ("Blue Cliff Record"). The most influential gong'an associated with Zhaozhou is the first case collected in the Wumen guan, the so-called WU GONG'AN: "‛Does a dog have the buddha-nature (FOXING) or not?' 'No.'" Zhaozhou's "WU" (no; lit. "it does not have it"), became one of the most oft-cited statements in all of Chan, SoN, and ZEN literature. Due in large part to the efforts of Chan master DAHUI ZONGGAO and his followers, Zhaozhou's wu came to be used as one of the meditative topics (HUATOU) in the Chan meditation practice of "questioning meditation" (KANHUA CHAN). Although Zhaozhou had thirteen dharma heirs, his lineage soon died out. He posthumously received the title "Zhenji dashi" (Great Master Apex of Truth). The record of his teachings is contained in the three rolls of the Zhenji dashi yulu ("Discourse Record of Zhenji Dashi") and in his Zhaozhou lu.
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1:Time management is a misnomer, the challenge is to manage ourselves. ~ Stephen Covey, #KEYS
2:Everything that is happening to me is a challenge to have insight into it ~ Jean Gebser, #KEYS
3:The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
~ Bertrand Russell,#KEYS
4:The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making. ~ E. W. Dijkstra, #KEYS
5:The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution that has to start with each one of us. ~ Dorothy Day, #KEYS
6:It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning…We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth." ~ Mitsugi Saotome, (b. 1937) a Japanese aikido instructor currently living in the United States, Wikipedia., #KEYS
7:For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine." ~ Father Thomas Keating, (1923 - 2018) American Catholic monk, known as one of the principal developers of Centering Prayer, Wikipedia., #KEYS
8:There are three parts of the love we are asked to give one another. They are, (1) kindness, (2) encouragement, (3) and challenge. Only the mind and heart of love know when each is needed by the one loved." ~ John Powell, S.J. "Happiness Is An Inside Job.", (1989), #KEYS
9:Summoning up the courage to take action is always the same regardless of how seemingly big or small the challenge. What may look like a small act of courage is courage nonetheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward. ~ Nichiren, #KEYS
10:But every line we write breathes victory and challenge, the bad temper of a conqueror, underground explosions, howls. We are a volcano. We vomit forth black smoke.
The heavens open and out comes an imposing
Pile of garbage; it looks a lot like Leo Tolstoy ~ Velimir Khlebnikov,#KEYS
11:Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.
~ Epictetus,#KEYS
12:People keep busy because they find it difficult to bear their own consciousness. They look for various forms of entertainment to escape from themselves. The greatest challenge lies in looking at oneself - by being "alone" with oneself. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #KEYS
13:Hermetic philosophy is complex and many-layered. At the heart, the Hermetics profess the drive to perfection. This drive manifests through trials, tests, self-discovery, and the rejoining of fragmented patterns like disparate languages or mathematical conundrums. Ideally, each individual has a Word, a divine imperative that drives the figure's revelations. By exploring the boundaries of that Word and all of its meanings, the individual rises to his inner nature, then beyond. Each step in the process is a challenge that requires a leap of perception but also opens the way to the next path. Eventually, the human passes far enough to become something cosmically divine. ~ Mage the Ascension, Order of Hermes, #KEYS
14:Every painful event contains in itself a seed of growth and liberation. In the light of this truth return to your life now and take a look at one or another of the events that you are not grateful for, and see if you can discover the potential for growth that they contain which you were unaware of and therefore failed to benefit from. Now think of some recent event that caused you pain, that produced negative feelings in you. Whoever or whatever caused those feelings was your teacher, because they revealed so much to you about yourself that you probably did not know. And they offered you an invitation and a challenge to self-understanding, self-discovery, and therefore to growth and life and freedom. ~ Anthony de Mello, #KEYS
15:What we are desperately in need of today is for the individual to wake up in himself and realize that it is not necessary for him to be part of anything he does not approve of. It is not necessary for him to compromise. He may be penalized if he does not. If he does not follow the general way, he may be subject to certain criticism and discomfort, but he has to decide for himself whether these penalties are more important than character. He must decide whether it is better to get along with other people for a few years than it is to learn to get along with himself for the full duration of life. He must decide whether he wishes to make this compromise and be fashionable for a few years, and pay for it perhaps with ten years of lingering misery at the end of his life. He has to decide where his values are. ~ Manly P Hall, Accepting the Challenge of Maturity 1965, p. 13, #KEYS
16:challenge for the Integral Yogin :::
Nor is the seeker of the integral fulfilment permitted to solve too arbitrarily even the conflict of his own inner members. He has to harmonise deliberate knowledge with unquestioning faith; he must conciliate the gentle soul of love with the formidable need of power; the passivity of the soul that lives content in transcendent calm has to be fused with the activity of the divine helper and the divine warrior. To him as to all seekers of the spirit there are offered for solution the oppositions of the reason, the clinging hold of the senses, the perturbations of the heart, the ambush of the desires, the clog of the physical body; but he has to deal in another fashion with their mutual and internal conflicts and their hindrance to his aim, for he must arrive at an infinitely more difficult perfection in the handling of all this rebel matter. Accepting them as instruments for the divine realisation and manifestation, he has to convert their jangling discords, to enlighten their thick darknesses, to transfigure them separately and all together, harmonising them in themselves and with each other, -- integrally, omitting no grain or strand or vibration, leaving no iota of imperfection anywhere. All exclusive concentration, or even a succession of concentrations of that kind, can be in his complex work only a temporary convenience; it has to be abandoned as soon as its utility is over. An all-inclusive concentration is the difficult achievement towards which he must labour.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, 78, [T9],#KEYS
17:O Death, thou lookst on an unfinished world
Assailed by thee and of its road unsure,
Peopled by imperfect minds and ignorant lives,
And sayest God is not and all is vain.
How shall the child already be the man?
Because he is infant, shall he never grow?
Because he is ignorant, shall he never learn?
In a small fragile seed a great tree lurks,
In a tiny gene a thinking being is shut;
A little element in a little sperm,
It grows and is a conqueror and a sage.
Then wilt thou spew out, Death, God's mystic truth,
Deny the occult spiritual miracle?
Still wilt thou say there is no spirit, no God?
A mute material Nature wakes and sees;
She has invented speech, unveiled a will.
Something there waits beyond towards which she strives,
Something surrounds her into which she grows:
To uncover the spirit, to change back into God,
To exceed herself is her transcendent task.
In God concealed the world began to be,
Tardily it travels towards manifest God:
Our imperfection towards perfection toils,
The body is the chrysalis of a soul:
The infinite holds the finite in its arms,
Time travels towards revealed eternity.
A miracle structure of the eternal Mage,
Matter its mystery hides from its own eyes,
A scripture written out in cryptic signs,
An occult document of the All-Wonderful's art.
All here bears witness to his secret might,
In all we feel his presence and his power.
A blaze of his sovereign glory is the sun,
A glory is the gold and glimmering moon,
A glory is his dream of purple sky.
A march of his greatness are the wheeling stars.
His laughter of beauty breaks out in green trees,
His moments of beauty triumph in a flower;
The blue sea's chant, the rivulet's wandering voice
Are murmurs falling from the Eternal's harp.
This world is God fulfilled in outwardness.
His ways challenge our reason and our sense;
By blind brute movements of an ignorant Force,
By means we slight as small, obscure or base,
A greatness founded upon little things,
He has built a world in the unknowing Void.
His forms he has massed from infinitesimal dust;
His marvels are built from insignificant things.
If mind is crippled, life untaught and crude,
If brutal masks are there and evil acts,
They are incidents of his vast and varied plot,
His great and dangerous drama's needed steps;
He makes with these and all his passion-play,
A play and yet no play but the deep scheme
Of a transcendent Wisdom finding ways
To meet her Lord in the shadow and the Night:
Above her is the vigil of the stars;
Watched by a solitary Infinitude
She embodies in dumb Matter the Divine,
In symbol minds and lives the Absolute.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Debate of Love and Death,#KEYS
18:Attention on Hypnagogic Imagery The most common strategy for inducing WILDs is to fall asleep while focusing on the hypnagogic imagery that accompanies sleep onset. Initially, you are likely to see relatively simple images, flashes of light, geometric patterns, and the like.
Gradually more complicated forms appear: faces, people, and finally entire scenes. 6
The following account of what the Russian philosopher P. D. Ouspensky called "half-dream states" provides a vivid example of what hypnagogic imagery can be like:
I am falling asleep. Golden dots, sparks and tiny stars appear and disappear before my eyes. These sparks and stars gradually merge into a golden net with diagonal meshes which moves slowly and regularly in rhythm with the beating of my heart, which I feel quite distinctly. The next moment the golden net is transformed into rows of brass helmets belonging to Roman soldiers marching along the street below. I hear their measured tread and watch them from the window of a high house in Galata, in Constantinople, in a narrow lane, one end of which leads to the old wharf and the Golden Horn with its ships and steamers and the minarets of Stamboul behind them. I hear their heavy measured tread, and see the sun shining on their helmets. Then suddenly I detach myself from the window sill on which I am lying, and in the same reclining position fly slowly over the lane, over the houses, and then over the Golden Horn in the direction of Stamboul. I smell the sea, feel the wind, the warm sun. This flying gives me a wonderfully pleasant sensation, and I cannot help opening my eyes. 7
Ouspensky's half-dream states developed out of a habit of observing the contents of his mind while falling asleep or in half-sleep after awakening from a dream. He notes that they were much easier to observe in the morning after awakening than before sleep at the beginning of the night and did not occur at all "without definite efforts." 8
Dr. Nathan Rapport, an American psychiatrist, cultivated an approach to lucid dreaming very similar to Ouspensky's: "While in bed awaiting sleep, the experimenter interrupts his thoughts every few minutes with an effort to recall the mental item vanishing before each intrusion that inquisitive attention." 9 This habit is continued sleep itself, with results like the following:
Brilliant lights flashed, and a myriad of sparkles twinkled from a magnificent cut glass chandelier. Interesting as any stage extravaganza were the many quaintly detailed figurines upon a mantel against the distant, paneled wall adorned in rococo.
At the right a merry group of beauties and gallants in the most elegant attire of Victorian England idled away a pleasant occasion. This scene continued for [a] period of I was not aware, before I discovered that it was not reality, but a mental picture and that I was viewing it. Instantly it became an incommunicably beautiful vision. It was with the greatest stealth that my vaguely awakened mind began to peep: for I knew that these glorious shows end abruptly because of such intrusions.
I thought, "Have I here one of those mind pictures that are without motion?" As if in reply, one of the young ladies gracefully waltzed about the room. She returned to the group and immobility, with a smile lighting her pretty face, which was turned over her shoulder toward me. The entire color scheme was unobtrusive despite the kaleidoscopic sparkles of the chandelier, the exquisite blues and creamy pinks of the rich settings and costumes. I felt that only my interest in dreams brought my notice to the tints - delicate, yet all alive as if with inner illumination. 10
Hypnagogic Imagery Technique
1. Relax completely
While lying in bed, gently close your eyes and relax your head, neck, back, arms, and legs. Completely let go of all muscular and mental tension, and breathe slowly and restfully. Enjoy the feeling of relaxation and let go of your thoughts, worries, and concerns. If you have just awakened from sleep, you are probably sufficiently relaxed.
Otherwise, you may use either the progressive relaxation exercise (page 33) or the 61-point relaxation exercise (page 34) to relax more deeply. Let everything wind down,
slower and slower, more and more relaxed, until your mind becomes as serene as the calmest sea.
2. Observe the visual images
Gently focus your attention on the visual images that will gradually appear before your mind's eye. Watch how the images begin and end. Try to observe the images as delicately as possible, allowing them to be passively reflected in your mind as they unfold. Do not attempt to hold onto the images, but instead just watch without attachment or desire for action. While doing this, try to take the perspective of a detached observer as much as possible. At first you will see a sequence of disconnected, fleeting patterns and images. The images will gradually develop into scenes that become more and more complex, finally joining into extended sequences.
3. Enter the dream
When the imagery becomes a moving, vivid scenario, you should allow yourself to be passively drawn into the dream world. Do not try to actively enter the dream scene,
but instead continue to take a detached interest in the imagery. Let your involvement with what is happening draw you into the dream. But be careful of too much involvement and too little attention. Don't forget that you are dreaming now!
Commentary
Probably the most difficult part of this technique to master is entering the dream at Step 3. The challenge is to develop a delicate vigilance, an unobtrusive observer perspective, from which you let yourself be drawn into the dream. As Paul Tholey has emphasized, "It is not desirable to want actively to enter into the scenery,
since such an intention as a rule causes the scenery to disappear." 11 A passive volition similar to that described in the section on autosuggestion in the previous chapter is required: in Tholey's words, "Instead of actively wanting to enter into the scenery, the subject should attempt to let himself be carried into it passively." 12 A Tibetan teacher advises a similar frame of mind: "While delicately observing the mind, lead it gently into the dream state, as though you were leading a child by the hand." 13
Another risk is that, once you have entered into the dream, the world can seem so realistic that it is easy to lose lucidity, as happened in the beginning of Rapport's WILD described above. As insurance in case this happens, Tholey recommends that you resolve to carry out a particular action in the dream, so that if you momentarily lose lucidity, you may remember your intention to carry out the action and thereby regain lucidity.
~ Stephen LaBerge, Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming,#KEYS
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1:Words challenge eternity. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 2:Life is a challenge, we must take it. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 3:It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 4:It’s uncomfortable to challenge the status quo. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 5:Decisions can be a major challenge for all of us. ~ les-brown, @wisdomtrove 6:Give your life to Christ, he'll challenge you. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 7:In love, each man is his own personal challenge. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 8:There is no greater leadership challenge than parenting. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 9:Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 10:The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 11:Every change is a challenge to become who we really are. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 12:Every challenge is nothing more than a chance to make things better. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 13:Continually challenge and be willing to amend your best loved ideas. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 14:If you have a big challenge today, that just means you have a big destiny. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 15:There's a humorous side to every situation. The challenge is to find it. ~ george-carlin, @wisdomtrove 16:I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 17:Encouragement makes a fault easy to correct, and a challenge easy to take on. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 18:If the challenge we face doesn't scare us, then it's probably not that important. ~ tim-ferris, @wisdomtrove 19:The challenge of our time is to find a journey worthy of your heart and your soul. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 20:The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 21:An insect is more complex than a star..and is a far greater challenge to understand. ~ martin-rees, @wisdomtrove 22:Life throws challenges and every challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer it ~ amit-ray, @wisdomtrove 23:Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 24:Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 25:The hardest assumption to challenge is the one you don't even know you are making. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 26:A person who has power doesn't seek to challenge others, their battles are within. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 27:Life throws challenges and every challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer it. ~ amit-ray, @wisdomtrove 28:The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 29:Challenge serves beautifully to introduce you to your best - and most brilliant - self. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 30:The challenge to each human is creation. Will you create with reverence, or with neglect? ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 31:Every depression is a challenge to every manufacturer to put more brains into his business. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove 32:Don't limit your challenges - challenge your limits. Don't spread patriotism too thin. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 33:The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 34:Challenge the person you think you are in order to unveil the person you are capable of becoming ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove 35:Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 36:Each moment provides a challenge to you to become conscious. The game is to be waiting, and aware. ~ barry-long, @wisdomtrove 37:No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 38:The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 39:Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge? ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove 40:It's always darkest before the dawn. The bigger your challenge, the closer you are to your victory. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 41:The healing of the spirit has not been completed until openness to challenge becomes a way of life. ~ m-scott-peck, @wisdomtrove 42:The strong-minded rise to the challenge of their goals and dreams. The weak-minded become haters. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 43:The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other's smartphone. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 44:A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 45:And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 46:Time management" is really a misnomer - the challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves. ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove 47:The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else. ~ e-e-cummings, @wisdomtrove 48:We must remind ourselves that to do what is possible we must sometimes challenge ourselves with the impossible. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 49:Give your employees a mission that matches their ambitions. When you challenge people, they surprise you. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 50:I think it's quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you've got another reason for keeping fit. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 51:The & 52:The challenge of power is how to use it and not abuse it. When you abuse it, it reverses on you and it hurts you. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 53:The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge. ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove 54:True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 55:South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove 56:Apathy is a trap. There is no challenge... so there is no reward. Remember, there is always free cheese in a mousetrap. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 57:Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 58:I believe no challenge is more important to the character of America than restoring the right to life to all human beings. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 59:If you don’t love something, you’re not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 60:For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine. ~ thomas-keating, @wisdomtrove 61:Selfishness is the greatest challenge for a coach. Most players are more concerned with making themselves better than the team. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 62:An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove 63:I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 64:The spiritual challenge is to bear the suffering without closing our hearts. More than this. It’s letting the suffering open us up. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 65:The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 66:An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 67:My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, & 68:Winning Strategists are certain of triumph before seeking a challenge. Losing Strategists are certain to challenge before seeking a triumph. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 69:The great challenge is to discover that we are truly invited to participate in the divine life of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 70:But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-jr, @wisdomtrove 71:If we feel secure In the depths of our heart, We shall not challenge anybody, For inner confidence Is nothing short of Complete satisfaction. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove 72:Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through. ~ viktor-frankl, @wisdomtrove 73:The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 74:What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 75:Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 76:Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 77:I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk. ~ tony-robbins, @wisdomtrove 78:Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it and to choose to learn with wisdom. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 79:She’d seen herself as trying to wake up to ‘God’, which felt like an impossible challenge. Now she felt that ‘God’ was trying to wake up through her. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove 80:Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove 81:To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 82:Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 83:Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove 84:I thoroughly disapprove of duels; if a man would challenge me I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove 85:I like to set myself a new adventure challenge at least once or twice a year because I love that side of my life. I love getting fit and training for it. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 86:The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 87:One of the major reasons why people are not doing well is because they keep trying to get through the day. A more worthy challenge is to try to get from the day. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 88:The challenge for mindfulness is to be present for your experience as it is rather than immediately jumping in to change it or try to force it to be different. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove 89:The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience to turn that dream into reality. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 90:Go for the edges. Challenge yourself and your team to describe what those edges are, and then test which edge is most likely to deliver the marketing results you seek. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 91:The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person. ~ jean-paul-sartre, @wisdomtrove 92:If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed. ~ tony-robbins, @wisdomtrove 93:Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 94:It’s easy to be kind when others treat you well. The challenge is to preserve your loving-kindness when they treat you badly—to preserve goodwill in the face of ill will. ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove 95:Set goals that don't feel all that easy, that challenge you, stimulate you, and give you a chance to stretch and push yourself. That is where the power of growth lies. ~ nathaniel-branden, @wisdomtrove 96:When you tame and domesticate the divine it loses its danger and it's power to forgive you, make you happy, or its power to challenge you, and call you towards new growth. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 97:The spiritual test inherent in all our lives is the challenge to discover what motivates us to make the choices we do, and whether we have faith in our fears or the Divine. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 98:We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 99:While I wholeheartedly believe in choosing to approach every challenge with a great attitude, I don't mean that we should abandon authenticity and live in fantasyland. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 100:If you are trying to do something for the first time, it's always an enormous challenge, and there is no guarantee of success. If anybody can pull it off, it will be Steve. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 101:United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do-for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 102:The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature middle age, soured, cynical, unproductive. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 103:I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude... When my attitudes are right theres no challenge too great for me. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 104:The spiritual test inherent in all our lives is the challenge to discover what motivates us to make the choices we do, and whether we have faith in our fears or the Divine. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 105:God has already lined up the right people for you, people that will inspire you, challenge you and motivate you. If you’ll let go of the wrong people, then the right people will show up. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 106:One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems... wars, nations, destructions... to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 107:We're all on a journey - each one of us. And if we can be sensitive to the person who happens to be our neighbor, that, to me, is the greatest challenge as well as the greatest pleasure. ~ fred-rogers, @wisdomtrove 108:Our challenge is to not look away, but rather to transform the field; to create a new political conversation, our own conversation, out of which we can speak our truth in our own way. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 109:To live in love is life's greatest challenge. It requires more sublety, flexibility, sensitivity, understanding, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and strength than any other human endeavor. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove 110:Like the early Christians, we must move into a sometime hostile world armed with the revolutionary gospel of Jesus Christ. With this powerful gospel we shall boldly challenge the status quo. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 111:The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove 112:The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 113:We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die... .So just standing still isn't really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 114:I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don't know anything about. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 115:Perhaps your challenge isn't finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel passionate. People with passion look for ways to make things happen. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 116:Everyone needs something to aim for. You can call it a challenge, or you can call it a goal. It is what makes us human. It was challenges that took us from being cavemen to reaching for the stars. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 117:Faced with the challenge of an endless universe, Man will be forced to mature further, just as the Neanderthal-faced with an entire planet-had no choice but to grow away from the tradition of savagery. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 118:It's always a challenge bringing a great story classic to the screen. Giving visual form to the characters and places that have only existed in the imagination. But it's the kind of challenge we enjoy. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 119:I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; Yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove 120:To those who are trained in science, creationism seems a bad dream, a sudden coming back to life of a nightmare, a renewed march of an Army of the Night risen to challenge free thought and enlightenment. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove 121:Naturally, along the way, there are beings and forces that will challenge you. They want to try and get some of your power, take it away from you, all this nonsense, and of course, you just defeat them. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 122:Loyalty is very important when things get a little tough, as they often do when the challenge is great. Loyalty is a powerful force in producing one's individual best and more so in producing a team's best. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove 123:Above all, during the interval, change from ego orientation to task orientation. Think: I know this seems like a personal insult, but it is not. It is a challenge to be overcome that calls on skills I have. ~ martin-seligman, @wisdomtrove 124:Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue; Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 125:Genuine peace must be the product of many nations, the sum of many acts. It must be dynamic, not static, changing to meet the challenge of each new generation. For peace is a process-a way of solving problems. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 126:Next time you're faced with a credit-purchase decision, wait. Don't say no necessarily. Just wait. I challenge you to present your need to the Lord before presenting it to a bank, and see what He does with it. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 127:The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 128:All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 129:You present a challenge to Satan's plan. You carry something of God within you, something noble and holy, something the world needs - wisdom, kindness, mercy, skill. If Satan can neutralize you, he can mute your influence. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 130:A friend of mine once asked how to make it in show business and I said "Be so good that they can't ignore you." She thought I was being flip but it's true. The challenge is trying to live up to the opportunities given me. ~ steve-martin, @wisdomtrove 131:I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, and the stakes too high& 132:The true measure of a successful leader is their ability to discover the hidden talent in those they lead and challenge them to achieve greatness. If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you are right. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove 133:We are here to live moment by moment, and each moment brings a task, a challenge, a goal. It's good to have big goals, but we need to connect the dots between where we are and where we are going, one day, one moment at a time. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove 134:When you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 135:Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hopes. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 136:As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning it origin in human nature. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove 137:One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove 138:If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate, it has at the same time provided humanity with a supreme challenge and a supreme testing ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 139:You need to associate with people who inspire you, people that challenge you to raise higher, people that make you better. Don't waste your valuable time with people that are not adding to your growth. Your destiny is too important. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 140:Much of the time, the things we feel guilty about are not our issues. Another person behaves inappropriately or in some way violates our boundaries. We challenge the behavior, and the person gets angry and defensive. Then we feel guilty. ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove 141:Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science sometimes requires courage - at the very least the courage to question the conventional wisdom. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove 142:Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven books, but each time I think, ‘Uh oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody and they’re going to find me out. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove 143:Sometimes our body is willing, but our mind is weak. Sometimes our mind is willing, but our body is weak. Do not be afraid. Strive to extend your capacity but do not be disappointed with yourself. What does not challenge us, cannot change us. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 144:If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before don’t be afraid to step out. You have more capability than you think you do but you will never see it unless you place a demand on yourself for more. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 145:The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the manual worker, is the key to economic growth and economic performance in today's society. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 146:The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove 147:We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions... this especially applies to what we used to call bad things... the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative. ~ james-redfield, @wisdomtrove 148:An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves. ~ vernon-howard, @wisdomtrove 149:The size of a challenge should never be measured by what we have to offer. It will never be enough. Furthermore, provision is God's responsibility, not ours. We are merely called to commit what we have - even if it's no more than a sack lunch. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove 150:Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 151:Comfort is state of being in which to find rest and renewal for a short time; it is a dreary and dismal place to remain permanently. If you don’t challenge yourself on a regular basis, your abilities and effectiveness will become stale and weak. ~ marc-and-angel-chernoff, @wisdomtrove 152:Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 153:Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it, the fear that lies behind it, and choose to learn with wisdom. The fear will not vanish immediately but it will disintegrate as you work with courage. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 154:He had a certain air of being a handsome man-which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man-which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 155:Poor people will do almost anything to avoid problems. They see a challenge and they run... the secret to success, my friends, is not to try to avoid or get rid of or shrink from your problems; the secret is to grow yourself so that you are bigger than your problems. ~ t-harv-eker, @wisdomtrove 156:& 157:I can't claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don't know of any other that ends with a question and a challenge as ours does: Does that flag still wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? That is what we must all ask. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 158:I think the most important thing is that in the last seven days we've just had the greatest adventure of our lifetimes. "I'm inquisitive ... and I love a new challenge... and if I feel that we can do it better than it's been done by other people, we'll have a go." ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 159:The best lessons are usually learned from failure. You musn't beat yourself up if you fail - just pick yourself up, learn as much as you can from the experience and get on with the next challenge... The brave may not live forever, but the cautious never live at all. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 160:& 161:Those who are unconquered in spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm-that is true happiness. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 162:I would say first of all, anyone who wants to challenge the status quo always gets that response. Ninety percent of the time, that's just bull. That's just the way in which people choose to prop up their own privilege or their own particular position. So mostly I shrug it off. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 163:Turmoil is a call for awakening. Every challenge, great or small, is moving you to look deeper and draw forth the highest in you. You're never given a challenge beyond your ability to meet and master. You'll rise above every circumstance because you're greater than any circumstance. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 164:During times of challenge, what you have faith in is what determines what the challenge will turn into. Have faith in the reality of the challenge, and it will birth more challenges. Have faith in the reality of miracles, and the challenge will transform into something else. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 165:I suggest the greatest challenge to Christians in the business world is within - making the heart determination (simply put, the choice) to live by God's principles and sticking with it; making the commitment to serving Christ and mankind with our efforts, our gifts and our knowledge. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove 166:Last but not least, the happiest people do have their share of stresses, crises, and even tragedies. They may become just as distressed and emotional in such circumstances as you or I, but their secret weapon is the poise and strength they show in coping in the face of challenge. ~ sonja-lyubomirsky, @wisdomtrove 167:You must learn to get in touch with the innermost essence of your being. This true essence is beyond the ego. It is fearless; it is free; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge. It is beneath no one, superior to no one, and full of magic, mystery, and enchantment. ~ deepak-chopra, @wisdomtrove 168:If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a major challenge for libraries to adapt their content and services to such a diverse technological environment. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove 169:I've done a number of films. I've been around this. I think the biggest challenge is just getting the script right, the way that you want the script to be. It's really about capturing the complexity of emotions and creating the kind of characters that people will want to watch every week. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove 170:We [people] have a teacher! The teacher is ourselves! We already know everything we need to know - our challenge is to discover that we know it. Turning to gurus, I think, we become guru-dependent, no different from drug-dependent, alcohol-dependent - needing an outside force to control our lives. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 171:The answer to any challenge you are having has nothing to do with God's willingness to help. It has to do with your acceptance of how the Infinite is already active within you, how it has already placed within you all that you need to solve and dissolve inner conflict through conscious communion with the Self. ~ michael-beckwith, @wisdomtrove 172:The creativity and adaptability of life expresses itself through the spontaneous emergence of novelty at critical points of instability. Every human organization contains both designed and emergent structures. The challenge is to find the right balance between the creativity of emergence and the stability of design. ~ fritjof-capra, @wisdomtrove 173:Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove 174:Indeed, to spur your Baal to action, I will taunt and challenge you ... to create as much as a single frog in the name and by the power of free choice, though the heathen and ungodly magicians in Egypt were able to create many... . I will not set you the heavy task of creating lice, which they could not produce either ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 175:Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate, as did a majority of the prisoners. ~ viktor-frankl, @wisdomtrove 176:Perfection isn't human. Human beings are not perfect. What evokes our love& 177:Surrender means accepting this moment, this body, and this life with open arms. Surrender involves getting out of your own way and living in accord with a higher will, expressed as the wisdom of the heart. Far more than passive acceptance, surrender uses every challenge as a means of spiritual growth and expanded awareness. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove 178:When a warrior is present and awake to all that she is, she is able to take on any challenge, any project, or any future that she desires. Her daily prayer is to have the strength to love all of herself, the courage to listen to what she is guided to do and the confidence to go out, stand tall and deliver her gifts to the world. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove 179:When you experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power… Your true Self, which is your spirit, your soul, is completely free of those things. It is immune to criticism, it is unfearful of any challenge, and it feels beneath no one. ~ deepak-chopra, @wisdomtrove 180:Leadership is the great challenge of the 21st century in science, politics, education, and industry. But the greatest challenge in leadership is parenting. We need to do more than just get our enterprises ready for the challenges of the twenty-first century. We also need to get our children ready for the challenges of the 21st century. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 181:We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 182:A church can wither as surely under the ministry of soulless Bible exposition as it can where no Bible is given. To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people. Then, and not till then, is it the prophetic word and the man himself a prophet. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 183:David Epstein, the author of the best book on athletics in recent memory - The Sports Gene - wrote to me to say that he thinks I'm being overly generous. He points out that, for years, there used to be an all-star challenge on television, in which the best professional athletes from a variety of sports competed in a kind of makeshift decathlon. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 184:The challenge of mindfulness is to work with the very circumstances that you find yourself in—no matter how unpleasant, how discouraging, how limited, how unending and stuck they may appear to be—and to make sure that you have done everything in your power to use their energies to transform yourself before you decide to cut your losses and move on. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove 185:When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove 186:People have filled an enormously important role in my life - more than books! For me, it's not the formal advising or the therapy that meant so much. It was more the fact that someone committed himself or herself to me. They were really interested in my life; they wanted to know what I was doing; they followed me; they dared to confront and challenge me. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 187:To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America; with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove 188:Art is frightening. Art isn't pretty. Art isn't painting. Art isn't something you hang on the wall. Art is what we do when we're truly alive. An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it (all of it, the work, the process, the feedback from those we seek to connect with) personally. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 189:When something doesn't go exactly to plan, money is tight or a business is struggling - see it as a challenge rather than a failure. Look outside the box and try and find a solution - you'll be surprised how many great opportunities and possibilities arise when things look bad. You've just got to open your mind and not be afraid of sticking your neck out! ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove 190:If we've learned any lessons during the past few decades, perhaps the most important is that preservation of our environment is not a partisan challenge; it's common sense. Our physical health, our social happiness, and our economic well-being will be sustained only by all of us working in partnership as thoughtful, effective stewards of our natural resources. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 191:World conditions challenge us to look beyond the status quo for responses to the pain of our times. We look to powers within as well as powers without. A new, spiritually based social activism is beginning to assert itself. It stems not from hating what is wrong and trying to fight it, but from loving what could be and making the commitment to bring it forth. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 192:The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings of persecution by the envious and his ideals of worth. Arguably, the genuine ego is more of a circumstantial defense mechanism rather than a steady arrogance in need of starvation. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 193:The same technology transforming our lives can solve the greatest problem of the 20th century. A security shield can one day render nuclear weapons obsolete and free mankind from the prison of nuclear terror. America met one historic challenge and went to the Moon. Now America must meet another: to make our strategic defense real for all the citizens of planet Earth. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 194:In executing an Artful Strategy: When ten times greater, surround them; When five times greater, attack them; When two times greater, scatter them. If the opponent is ready to challenge: When fewer in number, be ready to evade them; When unequal to the match, be ready to avoid them. Even when the smaller opponents have a strong position, the larger opponent will capture them. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove 195:Regardless of what challenge you are facing right now, know that it has not come to stay. It has come to pass. During these times, do what you can with what you have, and ask for help if needed. Most importantly, never surrender. Put things in perspective. Take care of yourself. Find ways to replenish your energy, strengthen your faith and fortify yourself from the inside out. ~ les-brown, @wisdomtrove 196:I ask particularly that those of you who are now in school will prepare yourselves to bear the burden of leadership over the next 40 years here in the United States, and make sure that the United States - which I believe almost alone has maintained watch and ward for freedom - that the United States meet its responsibility. That is a wonderful challenge for us as a people. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 197:It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievements. Ruins pose a direct challenge to our concern with power and rank, with bustle and fame. They puncture the inflated folly of our exhaustive and frenetic pursuit of wealth. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove 198:The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others. In dangerous valleys and hazardous pathways, he will lift some bruised and beaten brother to a higher and more noble life. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 199:Most important of all, to be successful in life demands that a man make a personal commitment to excellence and to victory, even though the ultimate victory can never be completely won. Yet that victory might be pursued and wooed with every fiber of our body, with every bit of our might and all our effort. And each week, there is a new encounter; each day, there is a new challenge. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove 200:Everything is in it: the promise and the hope and the fear and the challenge and the defiance. The test is a double test: Just as God tested Abraham, Abraham tested God: "Let's see if you really want me to go ahead with it and kill my son." Then the angel says, "Do not raise your hand against the boy" [Genesis 22:12]. It was the Angel of God who says this, not God. God was embarrassed. [All laugh] ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 201:Our investments continue to be few in number and simple in concept: The truly big investment idea can usually be explained in a short paragraph. We like a business with enduring competitive advantages that is run by able and owner-oriented people. When these attributes exist, and when we can make purchases at sensible prices, it is hard to go wrong (a challenge we periodically manage to overcome). ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove 202:The very best reason parents are so special . . . is because we are the holders of a priceless gift, a gift we received from countless generations we never knew, a gift that only we now possess and only we can give to our children. That unique gift, of course, is the gift of ourselves. Whatever we can do to give that gift, and to help others receive it, is worth the challenge of all our human endeavor. ~ fred-rogers, @wisdomtrove 203:Don't ask for the task to be easy... just ask for it to be worth it. Don't wish it was easier... wish you were better. Don't ask for less challenge... ask for more skill. Don't ask for less problems... and for more wisdom. It's the challenge that makes the experience. Life and it's colour and meaning and adventure for you is this collection of experiences. To wish them away is to wish your life away. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 204:The beliefs which we have most warrant for have no safeguard to rest on but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded. If the challenge is not accepted, or is accepted and the attempt fails, we are far enough from certainty still; but we have done the best that the existing state of human reason admits of; we have neglected nothing that could give the truth a chance of reaching us. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 205:My point is that the great challenge of an artist is to balance those two things: to be strong enough to have your own personal vision that you will put on the page or the canvas or the screen, no matter what people say, but it requires a radical sensitivity. You have to be completely open to what the world is telling you, to what your audience tells you. And balancing those two things is nearly impossible. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 206:We all make mistakes, we all have fears, and we all have weaknesses. Behind all that is our essential self. When our essential self has made contact with another, the light is dazzling and would fill the universe. The challenge of enchantment is to remain faithful to that light, to believe in it when it is not so apparent. Then that light becomes an incandescent glow and it wraps itself around everything. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove 207:One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 208:The fact is that, we are not producing saints. We are making converts to an effete type of Christianity, that bears little resemblance to that of the New Testament. The average so-called Bible Christian of our times is but a shallow display of true sainthood. Yet, we put millions of dollars behind movements’ to perpetuate this lower form of religion and attack the man who dares to challenge the wisdom of it. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 209:The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable. To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily also deprives others of the right to listen to those views. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-jr, @wisdomtrove 210:The greatest challenge to organizations is the balance between continuity and change. You need both. At different times, the balance is slightly more over here, or slightly more over there, but you need both. And balance is basically the greatest task in leadership. Organizations have to have continuity, and yet if there is not enough new challenge, not enough change, they become empty bureaucracies, awfully fast. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 211:The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do, and are their own fault. The optimists, who are confronted with the same hard knocks of this world, think about misfortune in the opposite way. They tend to believe that defeat is just a temporary setback or a challenge, that its causes are just confined to this one case. ~ martin-seligman, @wisdomtrove 212:Suicide is a crime the most revolting to the feelings; nor does any reason suggest itself to our understanding by which it can be justified. It certainly originates in that species of fear which we denominate poltroonery. For what claim can that man have to courage who trembles at the frowns of fortunes? True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life in whatever shape they may challenge him to combat. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 213:The challenge of yoga is to go beyond our limits - within reason. We continually expand the frame of the mind by using the canvas of the body. It is as if you were to stretch a canvas more and create a larger surface for a painting. But we must respect the present form of our body. If you pull too much at once, we will rip the canvas. If the practice of today damages the practice of tomorrow, it is not correct practice. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 214:I am a buyer of blank books. Kids find it interesting that I would buy a blank book. They say, Twenty-Six dollars for a blank book! Why would you pay that? The reason I pay twenty-six dollars is to challenge myself to find something worth twenty-six dollars to put in there. All my journals are private, but if you ever got hold of one of them, you wouldn't have to look very far to discover it is worth more than twenty-six dollars ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove 215:Everyone must concede that there is in existence something wiser than himself. Now there is a challenge, there is a challenge which few even investigate. We're going to do that now. Let's see what we're talking about. All troubled people, which is all people, must if they are going to be delivered from themselves, must make the concession that there is a force, an entity, a power that is higher than their own present nature. ~ vernon-howard, @wisdomtrove 216:The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous one; but if we fail to meet it, the story of our race will be drawing to its close. Humanity will have turned its back upon the still untrodden heights and will be descending again the long slope that stretches, across a thousand million years of time, down to the shores of the primeval sea. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove 217:Combining these two ancient teachings (yoga and vipassana) in a seamless manner, which will bring maximum benefits to the meditators, is not at all a challenge. It is just removal of some mental blocks. Ideally speaking, this combination should be done based on scientific, clinical and neurobiological studies and the combined structure should be made brick by brick, layer by layer in a flawless manner as a homogeneous composition. ~ amit-ray, @wisdomtrove 218:In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, halting, but effective, toward bringing that power under human control. The challenge may be our salvation. As we begin to master the destructive potentialities of modern science, we move toward a new era in which science can fulfill its creative promise and help bring into existence the happiest society the world has ever known. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 219:Even a superstitious man has certain inalienable rights: the right to harbor and indulge his imbecilities, provided only that he does not try to inflict them upon others by force; he has the right to argue for them as eloquently as he can. But he has no right to be protected from the criticism of those who do not hold them. He has no right to demand that they be treated as sacred. He has no right to preach them without challenge. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove 220:When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves, or when we intentionally create pain for others, we poison our own physical and spiritual systems. By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. It disables a person's emotional resources. The challenge... is to refine our capacity to love others as well as ourselves and to develop the power of forgiveness. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 221:The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Nothing worthwhile is easy. Your ability to overcome unfavorable situations will provide you with time to demonstrate your true strength and determination for success. Always set your standards high, your greatest achievements lie within the infinite feats you achieve in your life. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 222:When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves, or when we intentionally create pain for others, we poison our own physical and spiritual systems. By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. It disables a person's emotional resources. The challenge... is to refine our capacity to love others as well as ourselves and to develop the power of forgiveness. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 223:At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire to challenge it, to put out my tongue at it. I laid down the largest stake allowe-four thousand gulden-and lost it. Then, getting hot, I pulled out all I had left, staked it on the same number, and lost again, after which I walked away from the table as though I were stunned. I could not even grasp what had happened to me. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 224:Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their own preconceptions. They also need to be conscientious. An innovator who has brilliant ideas but lacks the discipline and persistence to carry them out is merely a dreamer ... But crucially, innovators need to be disagreeable ... They are people willing to take social risks-to do things that others might disapprove of. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 225:I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It was really interesting to think of how different Asian and Western cultures are as a result of the kinds of agricultural practices that our ancestors used for thousands of years. The life of a Chinese peasant in the Middle Ages was so dramatically different from the life of a European peasant - night and day different. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 226:Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 227:I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove 228:Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak expression of pure energy. Deeds uninformed by educated thought can take false directions. When we go into action and confront our adversaries, we must be as armed with knowledge as they. Our policies should have the strength of deep analysis beneath them to be able to challenge the clever sophistries of our opponents. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove 229:There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams - not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 230:That intense faith in another world, that intense hatred for this world, that intense power of renunciation, that intense faith in God, that intense faith in the immortal soul, is in you. I challenge anyone to give it up. You cannot. You may try to impose upon me by becoming materialists, by talking materialism for a few months, but I know what you are; if I take you by the hand, back you come as good theists as ever were born. How can you change your nature? ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 231:Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. This scarcity makes leadership valuable... It's uncomfortable to stand up in front of strangers. It's uncomfortable to propose an idea that might fail. It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo. It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle... If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 232:The challenge is simple: Quitting when you hit the Dip is a bad idea. If the journey you started was worth doing, then quitting when you hit the Dip just wastes the time you've already invested. Quit in the Dip often enough and you'll find yourself becoming a serial quitter, starting many things but accomplishing little. Simple: If you can't make it through the Dip, don't start. If you can embrace that simple rule, you'll be a lot choosier about which journeys you start. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove 233:At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The reason for problems is to overcome them. Why, that’s the very nature of man, I thought, to press past limits, to prove his freedom. It isn’t the challenge that faces us, that determines who we are and what we are becoming, but the way we meet the challenge, whether we toss a match at the wreck or work our way through it, step by step, to freedom. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove 234:Someone with whom we have a lifetime's worth of lessons to learn is someone whose presence in our lives forces us to grow... those who consciously or unconsciously challenge our fearful positions. They show us our walls. Our walls are our wounds& 235:If a culture treats a particular illness with compassion and enlightened understanding, then sickness can be seen as a challenge, as a healing crisis and opportunity. Being sick is then not a condemnation or a moral judgement, but a movement in a larger process of healing and restoration. When sickness is viewed positively and in supportive terms, then illness has a much better chance to heal, with the concomitant result that the entire person may grown and be enriched in the process. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 236:Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow! ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove 237:... we have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their bundance. Whatever we do, we are supposed to do for the sake of "making a living;" such is the verdict of society, and the number of people, especially in the professions who might challenge it, has decreased rapidly. The only exception society is willing to grant is to the artist, who, strictly speaking, is the only "worker" left in a laboring society. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove 238:The exact process you use to build courage isn't important. What's important is that you consciously do it. Just as your muscles will atrophy if you don't regularly stress them, your courage will atrophy if you don't consistently challenge yourself to face down your fears. In the absence of this kind of conscious conditioning, you'll automatically become weak in both body and mind. If you aren't regularly exercising your courage, then you are strengthening your fear by default; there is no middle ground. ~ steve-pavlina, @wisdomtrove 239:Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the philosophers themselves. If then anyone there be who, boastfully taking pride in his supposed wisdom, wishes to challenge what we have written, let him not do it in some corner nor before children who are powerless to decide on such difficult matters. Let him reply openly if he dare. He shall find me there confronting him, and not only my negligible self, but many another whose study is truth. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove 240:Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the philosophers themselves. If then anyone there be who, boastfully taking pride in his supposed wisdom, wishes to challenge what we have written, let him not do it in some corner nor before children who are powerless to decide on such difficult matters. Let him reply openly if he dare. He shall find me there confronting him, and not only my negligible self, but many another whose study is truth. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove 241:But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, and the stakes too high to permit the customary passions of political debate. We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future. As Winston Churchill said on taking office some twenty years ago: if we open a quarrel between the present and the past, we shall be in danger of losing the future. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove 242:Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in hours of highly repetitive and structured practice& 243:Your spirit is the duster of any spider web. Behind every finish line, there is a start one. Behind every success, there is another challenge. While you are alive, be alive. If you miss what you once did, do it again. Don't live in yellow photos... Continue although everyone expects you to give up. Don't let oxide the iron that is inside you. Do that instead of pity, and they will respect you. When because of years you cannot run, jog. When you cannot jog, walk. When you cannot walk, use a cane. But never stop! ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 244:The Lord is near! You're not alone. You may feel alone. You may think you're alone. But there's never a moment in which you face life without help. God is near. God repeatedly pledges his proverbial presence to his people. Don't assume God is watching from a distance. Avoid the quicksand that bears the marker "God has left you!" Don't indulge this lie. If you do, your problem will be amplified by a sense of loneliness. It's one thing to face a challenge, but to face it all alone? Isolation creates a downward cycle of fret. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 245:I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove 246:This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new "class conflict" between the large minority of knowledge workers and the majority of workers who will make their livings through traditional ways, either by manual work... or by service work. The productivity of knowledge work - still abysmally low - will predictably become the economic challenge of the knowledge society. On it will depend the ability of the knowledge society to give decent incomes, and with them dignity and status, to non knowledge people. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove 247:When we are in touch with our universal Self, we are immune to criticism, but responsive to feedback. This means that on the emotional, psychological, and spiritual levels, we feel neither beneath nor superior to anyone else. This doesn’t mean we are arrogant or cocky, but a quiet confidence and dignity radiate from us that result in a fearlessness and readiness to creatively take on any challenge. It also means we are never the victim of self- importance, knowing that all self- importance is a form of self- pity in disguise. ~ deepak-chopra, @wisdomtrove 248:With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept the shibboleth of an unbridgeable gap between those who hire and those who are employed. We miserably fail to challenge the lie that what is good for management is necessarily bad for labor; that for one side to profit, the other must be depressed. Such distorted doctrine is false and foreign to the American scene where common ideals and purpose permit us a common approach toward the common good. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove 249:Finally, I would like to assure my many Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim friends that I am sincerely happy that the religion which Chance has given you has contributed to your peace of mind (and often, as Western medical science now reluctantly admits, to your physical well-being). Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants can achieve that goal will be the greatest challenge of the future. Indeed, it may well decide whether we have any future. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove 250:If you do not feel deserving of happiness, consciously or subconsciously, or if you have accepted the idea that happiness is somehow wrong or cannot last, you will not respond appropriately when happiness comes knocking at your door in the form of romantic love. No matter how much you may have waited and cried, you will not welcome love when it arrives-you will find a way to sabotage it. What a challenge to resist this temptation! What an opportunity for true spiritual growth and transformation-to defy your negative feelings and honor the gift that life offers you! ~ nathaniel-branden, @wisdomtrove 251:So when such challenges come, as they always do, make it a habit to go within at once and focus as much as you can on the inner energy field of your body. This need not take long, just a few seconds. But you need to do it the moment that the challenge presents itself. Any delay will allow a conditioned mental- emotional reaction to arise and take you over. When you focus within and feel the inner body, you immediately become still and present as you are withdrawing consciousness from the mind. If a response is required in that situation, it will come up from this deeper level. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove 252:Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he called "the love of your fate." Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, "This is what I need." It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment-not discouragement-you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow. ~ joseph-campbell, @wisdomtrove 253:We need to be gentle with ourselves, it is true; but we also need to be firm. Treat yourself with real compassion, not idiot compassion, and therefore begin to challenge yourself, engage yourself, push yourself: begin to practice. . . . The point is simple: If you are interested in genuine transformative spirituality, find an authentic spiritual teacher and begin practice. Without practice, you will never move beyond the phases of belief, faith, and random peak experiences. You will never evolve into plateau experiences, nor from there into permanent adaptation. You will remain, at best, a brief visitor in the territory of your own higher estate, a tourist in your own true Self. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 254:The optimists and the pessimists: I have been studying them for the past twenty-five years. The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do, and are their own fault. The optimists, who are confronted with the same hard knocks of this world, think about misfortune in the opposite way. They tend to believe defeat is just a temporary setback, that its causes are confined to this one case. The optimists believe defeat is not their fault: Circumstances, bad luck, or other people brought it about. Such people are unfazed by defeat. Confronted by a bad situation, they perceive it as a challenge and try harder. ~ martin-seligman, @wisdomtrove 255:You need to challenge your fear of life becoming unreasonable - because it is already unreasonable. In truth, your life has never been reasonable, it’s just that you keep hoping tomorrow will be different and that you will find a way to bring more control into your world. Recognize that life will always be full of challenges and crisis. The wise way is not to attempt to find one path that promises you will never have to endure the pain of loss and illness, but instead to learn how to endure and transcend when unreasonable events come your way. Learning to defy gravity in your world - to think, perceive, and act at the mystical level of consciousness - is the greatest gift you can give yourself, because it is the gift of truth. And as we are bound to learn again and again in this life, the truth does indeed set us free. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove 256:You need to challenge your fear of life becoming unreasonable - because it is already unreasonable. In truth, your life has never been reasonable, it’s just that you keep hoping tomorrow will be different and that you will find a way to bring more control into your world. Recognize that life will always be full of challenges and crisis. The wise way is not to attempt to find one path that promises you will never have to endure the pain of loss and illness, but instead to learn how to endure and transcend when unreasonable events come your way. Learning to defy gravity in your world - to think, perceive, and act at the mystical level of consciousness - is the greatest gift you can give yourself, because it is the gift of truth. And as we are bound to learn again and again in this life, the truth does indeed set us free. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove 257:When it comes right down to it, the challenge of mindfulness is to realize that this is it Right now is my life. The question is, What is my relationship to it going to be? Does my life just automatically happen to me? Am I a total prisoner of my circumstances or my obligations, of my body or my illness, or of my history? Do I become hostile or defensive or depressed if certain buttons get pushed, happy if other buttons are pushed, and frightened if something else happens? What are my choices? Do I have any options? We will be looking into these questions more deeply when we take up the subject of our reactions to stress and how our emotions affect our health. For now the important point is to grasp the value of bringing the practice of mindfulness into the conduct of our daily lives. Is there any waking moment of your life that would not be richer and more alive for you if you were more fully awake while it was happening? ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove 258:After a heated dispute, we each undertook an assignment for the next class: to engage in one pleasurable activity and one philanthropic activity, and write about both. The results were life-changing. The afterglow of the pleasurable activity (hanging out with friends, or watching a movie, or eating a hot fudge sundae) paled in comparison with the effects of the kind action. When our philanthropic acts were spontaneous and called upon personal strengths, the whole day went better. One junior told about her nephew phoning for help with his third-grade arithmetic. After an hour of tutoring him, she was astonished to discover that for the rest of the day, I could listen better, I was mellower, and people liked me much more than usual. The exercise of kindness is a gratification, in contrast to a pleasure. As a gratification, it calls on your strengths to rise to an occasion and meet a challenge. Kindness is not accompanied by a separable stream of positive emotion like joy; rather, it consists in total engagement and in the loss of self-consciousness. Time stops. ~ martin-seligman, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:Words challenge eternity. ~ Horace, #NFDB
2:Challenge yourself a bit. ~ Jojo Moyes, #NFDB
3:I accept any challenge. ~ Jennifer Hudson, #NFDB
4:I love to challenge myself. ~ Teresa Palmer, #NFDB
5:I've always loved a challenge. ~ Lana Turner, #NFDB
6:hopes to challenge Norway's image ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
7:I have always liked a challenge. ~ Damon Hill, #NFDB
8:Always challenge the old ways. ~ Howard Schultz, #NFDB
9:Acting is always a challenge. ~ Robert Downey Jr, #NFDB
10:Challenge me, that'd be to my advantage ~ Lil Wayne, #NFDB
11:Not being boring is quite a challenge. ~ Ian Mcewan, #NFDB
12:Challenge everything, assume nothing. ~ Sergio Zyman, #NFDB
13:Faith without challenge is nothing. ~ Iyanla Vanzant, #NFDB
14:I like the fact that there is challenge. ~ Keren Ann, #NFDB
15:What is the biggest challenge you face? ~ Chris Voss, #NFDB
16:I was raised to face any challenge. ~ Louis Zamperini, #NFDB
17:Learning lines is my biggest challenge. ~ Tim Meadows, #NFDB
18:Life is a challenge, we must take it. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
19:The challenge to each human is creation. ~ Gary Zukav, #NFDB
20:To resist a challenge is to resist life itself. ~ Avi, #NFDB
21:Challenge is good for any relationship. ~ Darren Criss, #NFDB
22:When faced with a challenge, get smarter. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
23:Each new book is a tremendous challenge. ~ Peter Straub, #NFDB
24:I accept any challenge, so challenge me ~ Shane Koyczan, #NFDB
25:I really like clever men who challenge you. ~ E L James, #NFDB
26:We need to challenge our own thinking. ~ Elliot Aronson, #NFDB
27:Life is a constant challenge to know oneself. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
28:Really?... I'll take that as a challenge. ~ Jandy Nelson, #NFDB
29:Challenge the mind and capture the heart. ~ Carly Fiorina, #NFDB
30:Consistent effort is a consistent challenge. ~ Bill Walsh, #NFDB
31:It's a challenge getting rid of your accent. ~ Odeya Rush, #NFDB
32:"These times challenge you to go deeper." ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
33:I am only alive when I perceive a challenge. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
34:I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge. ~ Ted Levine, #NFDB
35:When faced without a challenge, make one ~ Peter Diamandis, #NFDB
36:You do realize I love a challenge? ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
37:A precipice cannot challenge the bird! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
38:his extreme love of learning and challenge. ~ Carol S Dweck, #NFDB
39:I'm not much of a challenge here in the dark. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
40:In life we want to challenge ourselves... ~ Charlize Theron, #NFDB
41:The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. ~ Kurt Cobain, #NFDB
42:We need women friends, women who challenge us. ~ Jane Fonda, #NFDB
43:Burn IS Flag Challenge' Sparks Political Inferno ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
44:Choose a challenge instead of competence ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, #NFDB
45:It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
46:The challenge of life is to learn how to love ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
47:Tradition is a challenge to innovation. ~ Alvaro Siza Vieira, #NFDB
48:Woman must not accept; she must challenge. ~ Margaret Sanger, #NFDB
49:Give your life to Christ, he'll challenge you. ~ Billy Graham, #NFDB
50:I begin each book with a challenge to myself. ~ Laura Lippman, #NFDB
51:I've never been one to run from a challenge. ~ Patrick Swayze, #NFDB
52:We need to have a plan equal to the challenge. ~ Jim Yong Kim, #NFDB
53:Be positive and the challenge will be easier. ~ Rickson Gracie, #NFDB
54:I challenge you, me. Die or live and be great. ~ Alfred Bester, #NFDB
55:I'm always looking for the next challenge. ~ Richard MacDonald, #NFDB
56:if it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you. ~ Peter Voogd, #NFDB
57:Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
58:Keep training harder and always challenge yourself. ~ Jose Aldo, #NFDB
59:Sustaining growth is the century's big challenge. ~ Martin Wolf, #NFDB
60:BOREDOM IS A new challenge and responsibility. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
61:Curiosity is an enormous challenge to godly living. ~ Max Anders, #NFDB
62:If someone hits me I consider it a challenge. ~ Johnny Knoxville, #NFDB
63:It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone. ~ Anthony Hopkins, #NFDB
64:None dare challenge me when i say i am an Afrikan. ~ Thabo Mbeki, #NFDB
65:The challenge is not to be perfect…it’s to be whole ~ Jane Fonda, #NFDB
66:The Masters is going to be an awesome challenge. ~ Nigel Mansell, #NFDB
67:To portray a maniac offers a compelling challenge. ~ Bela Lugosi, #NFDB
68:You took the Alkaholik challenge, and lost your balance ~ Xzibit, #NFDB
69:I think with challenge comes a little more fun. ~ Jason Alexander, #NFDB
70:It was a challenge to my teammates to help me. ~ Wilt Chamberlain, #NFDB
71:Photography is an ambiguous challenge to chance. ~ Guy Le Querrec, #NFDB
72:Stokes gets a straight yellow for that challenge. ~ Ronnie Whelan, #NFDB
73:Without challenge, life had no meaning. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, #NFDB
74:It can’t be epic if there’s no challenge to it. ~ Jennifer E Smith, #NFDB
75:Perhaps he had seen her as a challenge. Or a novelty. ~ Ruth Hogan, #NFDB
76:Race remains a significant challenge in America. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
77:The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole. ~ Jane Fonda, #NFDB
78:There is a self-love solution for every challenge. ~ Abiola Abrams, #NFDB
79:Your biggest challenge will be building a great team. ~ John Doerr, #NFDB
80:For life to be meaningful, you must have a challenge. ~ Roma Downey, #NFDB
81:If the challenge to fight was there, I always took it. ~ Chuck Zito, #NFDB
82:I like the challenge. I do not like the attention. ~ Pedro Martinez, #NFDB
83:I'm long and I'm strong! To challenge me would be so wrong! ~ Necro, #NFDB
84:I'm ready to accept the challenge. I'm coming home. ~ LeBron James, #NFDB
85:There is no greater leadership challenge than parenting. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
86:Any Challenge was a game, and any game a pleasure. ~ Madeline Miller, #NFDB
87:Face a challenge and find joy in the capacity to meet it. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
88:If you really want a challenge, just deal with yourself. ~ Tori Amos, #NFDB
89:Slow steady progress can erode any challenge over time. ~ Brad Stone, #NFDB
90:There's always a new challenge to keep you motivated. ~ Sean Connery, #NFDB
91:the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth. ~ Phyllis Rose, #NFDB
92:Challenge is tough. It needs efforts, energy and time. ~ Joseph Finder, #NFDB
93:Jobs that offer autonomy but little challenge bore us. ~ Daniel H Pink, #NFDB
94:Love is a constant challenge, thrown to us by God. ~ Pope John Paul II, #NFDB
95:Women challenge the status quo because we are never it. ~ Cindy Gallop, #NFDB
96:Challenge your own status quo - before someone else does. ~ Ron Kaufman, #NFDB
97:I need a challenge 'cause I don't get the girl anymore. ~ Michael Caine, #NFDB
98:No matter the challenge, his people knew how to endure. ~ Brian Herbert, #NFDB
99:Not an impossible task, just an outrageous challenge. ~ Richard Roberts, #NFDB
100:We want you guys to do the Touch My Body challenge.” I ~ Megan Erickson, #NFDB
101:I like to challenge myself and I like to try new things. ~ Jessica Lucas, #NFDB
102:I like to do things that challenge me and make me nervous. ~ Amy Poehler, #NFDB
103:Only a fool would challenge the bull with a sharp stick ~ Giles Kristian, #NFDB
104:We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas. ~ Jack Layton, #NFDB
105:You do like to challenge me, don’t you, Princess?” Was ~ Jennifer Dawson, #NFDB
106:Challenge your limitations for the pure joy of challenge. ~ Chin Ning Chu, #NFDB
107:Don't limit your challenges - challenge your limits. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB
108:Every challenge is a disguised opportunity for salvation. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
109:It's always a challenge to top what I have done in the past. ~ Jeff Hardy, #NFDB
110:It's a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness. ~ Billy Gibbons, #NFDB
111:Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
112:Limitations imply possibilities. A problem is a challenge. ~ Russell Page, #NFDB
113:The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it. ~ Criss Jami, #NFDB
114:The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now. ~ James A Baldwin, #NFDB
115:The challenge is to write about real things magically. ~ Raymond Chandler, #NFDB
116:I always look for a challenge and something that's different. ~ Tom Cruise, #NFDB
117:I wanted to undertake the challenge of daring to be great. ~ Julius Erving, #NFDB
118:Loving a man has proved to be the biggest challenge in my life ~ V F Mason, #NFDB
119:Playing a superhero was an acting challenge for me. It was fun. ~ Masi Oka, #NFDB
120:A demanding performance challenge tends to create a team. ~ John Katzenbach, #NFDB
121:challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves. ~ Stephen R Covey, #NFDB
122:Challenge the negative by focusing on the positive of life. ~ Asa Don Brown, #NFDB
123:Don’t make it a challenge. You know how much I like those. ~ Jennifer Estep, #NFDB
124:I've always seen 'no' as a challenge rather than an answer. ~ Mark Lawrence, #NFDB
125:Sometimes the moments that challenge us the most, define us. ~ Deena Kastor, #NFDB
126:Transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge! ~ Czikszentmihalyi Mihalyi, #NFDB
127:as the challenge escalates, the need for teamwork elevates. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
128:For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent. ~ Joan Jett, #NFDB
129:If you want to challenge the system, don't go to bed with it. ~ Ani DiFranco, #NFDB
130:I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences. ~ Dana Spiotta, #NFDB
131:It is a challenge to have your launch date slip continuously. ~ Marc Garneau, #NFDB
132:Our biggest challenge is how to create a self-renewing company. ~ Gary Hamel, #NFDB
133:The challenge is to find who we are amid the crowd of ourselves. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
134:The goal is to meet the challenge of racial interbreeding. ~ Nicolas Sarkozy, #NFDB
135:You have an obligation to challenge your fans and your viewers. ~ Dana Gould, #NFDB
136:Art should offend people because art should challenge people. ~ Eriq La Salle, #NFDB
137:Can our Society meet the Challenge of a Technological Future? ~ Aharon Katzir, #NFDB
138:Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction. ~ Jean Baudrillard, #NFDB
139:I like the challenge. I like a good, meaty experience for me. ~ Jeff Goldblum, #NFDB
140:I'm always interested in are stories that challenge people. ~ Tatiana Maslany, #NFDB
141:It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
142:The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves. ~ Stephen Covey, #NFDB
143:The challenge of the retail business is the human condition. ~ Howard Schultz, #NFDB
144:The past may not hurt you, but it won't challenge you, either. ~ Brad Meltzer, #NFDB
145:Challenge yourself; it’s the only path which leads to growth. ~ Morgan Freeman, #NFDB
146:Challenge yourself, jump off the deep end and learn to swim. ~ Carson Kressley, #NFDB
147:Dream in light years, challenge miles, walk step by step ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
148:Every change is a challenge to become who we really are. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
149:For the next seven days, I challenge you not to complain at all. ~ T Harv Eker, #NFDB
150:I love a challenge and saving the Planet seems like a good one. ~ Paul Stamets, #NFDB
151:Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge. ~ Alan Cumming, #NFDB
152:The best way to meet any challenge is to be prepared for it. ~ Louis Zamperini, #NFDB
153:The challenge was that it was harder to be subtle than strident. ~ Nancy Gibbs, #NFDB
154:There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man. ~ Sean Connery, #NFDB
155:As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge. ~ Ben Horowitz, #NFDB
156:Consider the challenge when a steady diet of spinach is on offer. ~ Kevin Warsh, #NFDB
157:Every man is himself a class; every hour carries its new challenge. ~ W B Yeats, #NFDB
158:I'm the kind of person that responds strongly to a challenge. ~ Danica McKellar, #NFDB
159:Men want a challenge, but they want a challenge they can win. ~ Whitney Gaskell, #NFDB
160:A new challenge keeps the brain kicking and the heart ticking. ~ E A Bucchianeri, #NFDB
161:Hillary Clinton has gotten every foreign policy challenge wrong. ~ Carly Fiorina, #NFDB
162:I'll take that challenge. It's a dead hand against a living will. ~ Isaac Asimov, #NFDB
163:Life is short,” I told her. “The challenge is to make it sweet. ~ Robert Littell, #NFDB
164:My nature is that I have to excite myself with a big challenge. ~ Garry Kasparov, #NFDB
165:Remakes are always a challenge and they always are sitting ducks. ~ Nicolas Cage, #NFDB
166:The biggest challenge, I think for any new artist, is patience. ~ Brett Eldredge, #NFDB
167:The challenge and the dignity make it interesting enough. Besides, ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
168:The future had started to seem like a challenge he could conquer. ~ Jill Mansell, #NFDB
169:whenever we challenge ourselves, fear and doubt are inevitable. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
170:Your challenge is to live in such a way as to cause others to win. ~ Joel Osteen, #NFDB
171:A strategy coordinates action to address a specific challenge. ~ Richard P Rumelt, #NFDB
172:Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering. ~ Phil McGraw, #NFDB
173:Failure is no more than a mere challenge begging us to be better. ~ Asa Don Brown, #NFDB
174:It’s the very challenge of the thing keeping the man alive. ~ Victor Mil n, #NFDB
175:The descent is often as much (or more of) a challenge as the climb. ~ Steve House, #NFDB
176:There is absolutely no way for a sitcom to be a challenge to me. ~ Danny Pintauro, #NFDB
177:To not share a struggle or challenge you overcame is to betray it. ~ Jos N Harris, #NFDB
178:But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens. ~ David Brin, #NFDB
179:Challenge yourself to find ways to demonstrate your changing reality. ~ John Kehoe, #NFDB
180:I challenge anyone, even with a radar machine, to hit that slider. ~ Jerry Coleman, #NFDB
181:I live my life in faith as I explore and challenge myself and others. ~ Anna Eshoo, #NFDB
182:People who challenge themselves are beautiful. You can make it, fighting! ~ Yoseob, #NFDB
183:That's really the challenge of this century, to develop spokespeople. ~ Jim Fowler, #NFDB
184:This film, Tomb Raider 2, is a big challenge. It's quite exhausting. ~ Jan de Bont, #NFDB
185:Every challenge is nothing more than a chance to make things better. ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
186:I like movies that challenge people to recognize different things ~ Casper Van Dien, #NFDB
187:Life starts with the birth; success starts with the challenge! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
188:Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge. ~ Veronica Roth, #NFDB
189:So it's like starting over again, but I look forward to the challenge. ~ Lee Majors, #NFDB
190:Structure is, for me, the most fun challenge about writing novels. ~ Heidi Julavits, #NFDB
191:Was something worth having, though, if it didn't present a challenge? ~ Mary Balogh, #NFDB
192:What I love is finding immersive jobs. I've always wanted a challenge. ~ Naoko Mori, #NFDB
193:All men can’t resist a challenge. Some just give up sooner than others. ~ Kate Perry, #NFDB
194:A story is an invitation, and a challenge, and a choice. ~ Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, #NFDB
195:Because as the challenge escalates, the need for teamwork elevates. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
196:Challenge authority; the authority of your own rational convictions. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
197:I just love a challenge, whether it’s a relationship, my career, clothing. ~ Rihanna, #NFDB
198:I'm the kind of guy who really likes a challenge. It's more rewarding. ~ Vanilla Ice, #NFDB
199:I've love the challenge of doing something new. Bollywood is magical. ~ Indira Varma, #NFDB
200:Modifying the core institutions of the society is no small challenge. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
201:There is no fate cut in stone that love cannot challenge and change. ~ Cassie Wright, #NFDB
202:Time management is a misnomer, the challenge is to manage ourselves. ~ Stephen Covey, #NFDB
203:A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
204:best work happened when I had a big challenge and not quite enough time. ~ Jake Knapp, #NFDB
205:Challenges are solved by rising to a level higher than the challenge. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
206:Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge. ~ Robert James Waller, #NFDB
207:Continually challenge and be willing to amend your best loved ideas. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB
208:Every once in a while you need to challenge yourself and learn new things. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
209:I always like to challenge myself. I never want to be put into a box. ~ Lionel Richie, #NFDB
210:I appreciate every team that wants me and I take on every challenge. ~ Tyson Chandler, #NFDB
211:I challenge you to be finished with rationalizations and hypocrisy. ~ James MacDonald, #NFDB
212:I just want to challenge myself and play some different characters. ~ Bridgit Mendler, #NFDB
213:I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge. ~ Alison McGhee, #NFDB
214:It's such a challenge to play a good guy - it's hard to be believable. ~ Cam Gigandet, #NFDB
215:Men are many and take strength as a challenge, difference as a crime. ~ Mark Lawrence, #NFDB
216:Not to get too clever, but “consistent effort is a consistent challenge. ~ Bill Walsh, #NFDB
217:She dances in a ring of fire and throws of the challenge with a shrug. ~ Jim Morrison, #NFDB
218:The biggest challenge to developing self-awareness is objectivity. ~ Travis Bradberry, #NFDB
219:Time management is a misnomer, the challenge is to manage ourselves. ~ Stephen Covey, #NFDB
220:Consider calling it a challenge rather than calling it a crisis. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher, #NFDB
221:Don't worry, Beth; there's nothing I love more than a challenge. ~ Alexandra Adornetto, #NFDB
222:Every Canadian winter was a mortal challenge to its habitants. ~ David Hackett Fischer, #NFDB
223:I challenge that loose-assed prick, otherwise known as Moss, to a fight. ~ Keri Arthur, #NFDB
224:I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication. ~ Sean Covey, #NFDB
225:It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge. ~ Rachel Cusk, #NFDB
226:Never back down from a real challenge. They give the best lessons in life. ~ Lil Wayne, #NFDB
227:She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug. ~ Jim Morrison, #NFDB
228:I challenge anybody to show me an example of bias in Fox News Channel. ~ Rupert Murdoch, #NFDB
229:I like the challenge of doing things you know that you maybe shouldn't do. ~ Tim Burton, #NFDB
230:I love any challenge that comes my way, and I've been lucky to have many. ~ Chris Bauer, #NFDB
231:I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
232:I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations ~ Jonathan Kozol, #NFDB
233:That is why we need a great deal of courage to challenge our own beliefs. ~ Miguel Ruiz, #NFDB
234:The challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
235:The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like. ~ Stephen Hawking, #NFDB
236:To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
237:When you have small children, packing is a challenge, a project, an ordeal ~ Kim Brooks, #NFDB
238:Ah. A virtual impossibility. Just the sort of challenge Ruwach loves, ~ Priscilla Shirer, #NFDB
239:Destruction is easy. But creating something that lasts is a challenge. ~ Christie Golden, #NFDB
240:Elections with integrity are a challenge everywhere, including in the West. ~ Kofi Annan, #NFDB
241:Everything that is happening to me is a challenge to have insight into it ~ Jean Gebser, #NFDB
242:Find your spirit, and no challenge will keep you from achieving your goals. ~ Chris Penn, #NFDB
243:I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things. ~ Sasha Cohen, #NFDB
244:I should and can play better. That is going to be the challenge for me. ~ Andrew Strauss, #NFDB
245:My best work happened when I had a big challenge and not quite enough time. ~ Jake Knapp, #NFDB
246:Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong. ~ Ron Paul, #NFDB
247:Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it’s wrong. ~ Ron Paul, #NFDB
248:Solving problems should be a joy, a welcome challenge to our creativity. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
249:"The best spiritual teacher is to challenge your weaknesses." ~ Atiśa Dīpa kara Śrījñāna, #NFDB
250:The biggest challenge, I think, is always maintaining your moral compass. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
251:The challenge is to learn from those mistakes so we don’t repeat them. ~ Debbie Macomber, #NFDB
252:There's a humorous side to every situation. The challenge is to find it. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
253:You know me, love.'
'I know. You crave a challenge and you're cocky. ~ Maria V Snyder,#NFDB
254:As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge. ~ Christopher Dodd, #NFDB
255:I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
256:Life is a challenge, and facing that challenge is what makes the good great. ~ Tim Lebbon, #NFDB
257:of madmen who remained in charge simply because no one would challenge them. ~ Hugh Howey, #NFDB
258:Some people confuse intensity for passion and challenge for attraction. ~ Donna Lynn Hope, #NFDB
259:Your best teacher is the person offering you your greatest challenge. ~ Cheryl Richardson, #NFDB
260:Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance. ~ Michael Moorcock, #NFDB
261:Courage is the facing of a challenge with a healthy fear, not being fearless. ~ Les Stroud, #NFDB
262:Every day here is a challenge, a privilege, a sacrifice, and a frustration. ~ Sally Thorne, #NFDB
263:I'm happy with what I've done but it's a challenge to try to win more. ~ Jennifer Capriati, #NFDB
264:I want roles that challenge people to question where they are in life. ~ Maggie Gyllenhaal, #NFDB
265:I won't lie, I want to play in the Champions League and challenge for titles. ~ Pepe Reina, #NFDB
266:Most of all, he needed a challenge—because that was what gave life meaning. ~ Terry Brooks, #NFDB
267:Never make eye contact with a wolf. The wolf will take it as a challenge. ~ Megan Abbott, #NFDB
268:The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care. ~ Jim Fowler, #NFDB
269:The challenge for me is not to be a follower of Something but to embody it; ~ Alice Walker, #NFDB
270:This is the eternal challenge with ignorance — ignorance can't see itself. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
271:But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you. ~ Michael Pollan, #NFDB
272:Every challenge provides light. The light of understanding about life and truth. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
273:I challenge you to make up your mind right now to do something great for God. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
274:I'm not afraid of nothing, I just like the challenge, and I love being here. ~ LeBron James, #NFDB
275:I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed! ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
276:Life is meaningless; man's biggest challenge is to make it meaningful! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
277:Nearly everything that matters is a challenge, and everything matters. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB
278:Our kids biggest challenge will be to find a username that's not already taken. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
279:The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness. ~ Oscar Niemeyer, #NFDB
280:The warrior lives by challenge; therefore his life is a disciplined strategy. ~ Th un Mares, #NFDB
281:Week-by-week you grow with your character and it's an interesting challenge. ~ Yara Shahidi, #NFDB
282:We must wake up, journey, name, challenge, shed, reclaim, ground, and heal. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, #NFDB
283:You're not meant to do what's easy, you're meant to challenge yourself. ~ Justin Timberlake, #NFDB
284:A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics. ~ Hunter S Thompson, #NFDB
285:Even the Republican Party doesn't have the legs to challenge Hillary Clinton. ~ Jackie Mason, #NFDB
286:I always take criticism as a challenge. It's the way I've always looked at it. ~ Derek Jeter, #NFDB
287:I believe that everything you work at and want in life is a great challenge. ~ Anthony Rizzo, #NFDB
288:I challenge you to expect more from yourself than anybody else expects of you. ~ Peter Voogd, #NFDB
289:I don't have much patience for anyone who denies that this challenge is real. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
290:I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
291:If you are going to challenge a giant wave, you better be a giant rock! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
292:I never backed down from a challenge before, and I don't intend to start today. ~ Stacey Lee, #NFDB
293:Singapore is a pretty fantastic place, and the race is always a challenge. ~ Romain Grosjean, #NFDB
294:Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about. ~ Johann Lamont, #NFDB
295:The challenge becomes not opportunity creation, but opportunity selection. ~ James C Collins, #NFDB
296:We need to challenge the dominant culture: by ethics, principles and values. ~ Tariq Ramadan, #NFDB
297:When we turn a threat into a challenge, our body responds very differently. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
298:a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn’t a challenge at all. ~ Jon Krakauer, #NFDB
299:Encouragement makes a fault easy to correct, and a challenge easy to take on. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
300:he stared straight into those light gray eyes, meeting her challenge head-on. ~ Sasha Alsberg, #NFDB
301:I dont regret anything. I am proud to try a challenge even if I do not exceed. ~ Gael Monfils, #NFDB
302:I find it to be an ongoing challenge to keep the guitar from becoming too traditional. ~ Edge, #NFDB
303:I like playing in Italy. It was a challenge I wanted since very early in my career. ~ Ronaldo, #NFDB
304:I'm loving motherhood. It's way harder than soccer, but I love a challenge. ~ Brandi Chastain, #NFDB
305:International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia. ~ Boris Yeltsin, #NFDB
306:It's hard but it's not too much of a challenge because i'm doing what i love ~ Greyson Chance, #NFDB
307:Maybe it wasn’t about moving to new places, but about the challenge of staying put. ~ Lisa Ko, #NFDB
308:No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
309:the game is not to defeat the opponent, but to challenge his own abilities. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
310:When challenge and skills are in balance the activity is its own reward ~ Carol Ann Tomlinson, #NFDB
311:And that’s the challenge for all of us – to create warmth in a digital world. ~ Simon Garfield, #NFDB
312:Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation. ~ Bernie Siegel, #NFDB
313:Humanity's greatest challenge may soon be just making it to the next harvest. ~ Lester R Brown, #NFDB
314:Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge. ~ Tony Blair, #NFDB
315:I focus, I invent, I transform, I challenge, I attempt, I observe, I perform. ~ Philippe Petit, #NFDB
316:I have two roommates, so it's a challenge to keep the house the way I like. ~ Evangeline Lilly, #NFDB
317:I'm very strict with myself. I'm an Aries and sort of a challenge to myself. ~ Debbie Reynolds, #NFDB
318:It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation. ~ Marian Wright Edelman, #NFDB
319:My biggest challenge every day is to be a great mother and a great businesswoman. ~ Tory Burch, #NFDB
320:Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge. ~ Andrew Wiles, #NFDB
321:Soil mapping is one of the pillars to the challenge of sustainable development ~ Jeffrey Sachs, #NFDB
322:The American challenge in leading the world is compounded by our Constitution. ~ Newt Gingrich, #NFDB
323:The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems. ~ R Buckminster Fuller, #NFDB
324:There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language, ~ Ava Dellaira, #NFDB
325:There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language. ~ Ava Dellaira, #NFDB
326:The time has come to challenge our obsession with doing everything more quickly. ~ Carl Honore, #NFDB
327:To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan, #NFDB
328:Today's challenge for women: to value ourselves and demand that others do, too. ~ Gloria Feldt, #NFDB
329:Vision, the challenge of the next century, the new millennium, the road ahead. ~ Michael Lewis, #NFDB
330:When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge. ~ Terry Bradshaw, #NFDB
331:Wherever your gift is, that's where it's going to be your greatest challenge. ~ Iyanla Vanzant, #NFDB
332:Challenge doesn't come to small people. Challenge comes to great people. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi, #NFDB
333:Climate change is probably the greatest long-term challenge facing the human race. ~ Tony Blair, #NFDB
334:Freedom is not to defy, it is to co-exist. It is a challenge for the imagination ~ Ilyas Kassam, #NFDB
335:I am a Body-for-LIFE Challenge 2000 Winner. "Winners finish and finishers win." ~ Robert Cheeke, #NFDB
336:I am ready to work, I am ready for this job and I am ready for this challenge. ~ Stuart Pearce, #NFDB
337:I challenge myself to take at least one fashion risk a day, otherwise I get stuck. ~ Emma Stone, #NFDB
338:If the challenge we face doesn't scare us, then it's probably not that important. ~ Tim Ferriss, #NFDB
339:I like metal because it's complicated, technical, brutal and I like the challenge. ~ Jake Pitts, #NFDB
340:I never fear my opponent, for me he only represents a new challenge to conquer. ~ Lyoto Machida, #NFDB
341:I think that fear of embarrassment is the essence of the human challenge. ~ Frances Moore Lappe, #NFDB
342:Learning Indian mannerisms, how to wear saris, and the language were a challenge. ~ Amy Jackson, #NFDB
343:Life without challenge
is life denied any chance
for one to achieve. ~ J Benson,#NFDB
344:My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself. ~ Cillian Murphy, #NFDB
345:Once in a while it's good to challenge yourself in a way that's really daunting. ~ Alan Cumming, #NFDB
346:The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something. ~ Tom Wesselmann, #NFDB
347:The challenge of our time is to find a journey worthy of your heart and your soul. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
348:The things that scare you also always provoke you to challenge your fears! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
349:Dream big, ideate karo, there are people with funds, funds is never a challenge. ~ Rashmi Bansal, #NFDB
350:Each person shows something different, in every challenge that they come across. ~ Victor Garber, #NFDB
351:Never challenge anyone crazier than you. Crazy trumps skill every damn time. ~ Charity Parkerson, #NFDB
352:The challenge has always been that "good people" don't know how to win elections ~ Fela Durotoye, #NFDB
353:The challenge is that we live in a time where there's a lot of crap on television. ~ Jeff Corwin, #NFDB
354:The challenge is to find our destiny in exactly what we are refusing to engage in. ~ David Richo, #NFDB
355:The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
356:We can't just drill our way out of the energy and climate challenge that we face. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
357:You may be cool under pressure and challenge, but can you be cool under success? ~ Robert Holden, #NFDB
358:A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
359:Example output: Challenge Question 25: Top Territories Difficulty: Intermediate ~ Brian Cohen, #NFDB
360:I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
361:It's a big challenge for me to keep my integrity and some of my privacy intact. ~ Sarah McLachlan, #NFDB
362:I've never produced a series, so for me [X-men] was a wonderful challenge. ~ Lauren Shuler Donner, #NFDB
363:Maybe it wasn't about the moving to new places, but about the challenge of staying put. ~ Lisa Ko, #NFDB
364:Our challenge is to find the compassion for others that we want them to have for us. ~ Sally Kohn, #NFDB
365:That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant. ~ Warren G Bennis, #NFDB
366:The challenge is that the demand in our lives increasingly exceeds our capacity. ~ Jocelyn K Glei, #NFDB
367:The lesson of ARPA had lodged in my brain: When faced with a challenge, get smarter. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
368:There is no obstacle too great, no challenge too difficult, if we have faith. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB
369:An insect is more complex than a star..and is a far greater challenge to understand. ~ Martin Rees, #NFDB
370:Can you keep an open mind? Are you willing to challenge what you know to be true? ~ Sylvain Neuvel, #NFDB
371:Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best. ~ David O McKay, #NFDB
372:Just the hill and me. Just the challenge and me. Just my fears an me. Bring it on. ~ Martin Dugard, #NFDB
373:Life throws challenges and every challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer it ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
374:Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
375:The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody. ~ Vik Muniz, #NFDB
376:The hardest assumption to challenge is the one you don't even know you are making. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
377:We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth. ~ Mitsugi Saotome, #NFDB
378:A person who has power doesn't seek to challenge others, their battles are within. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
379:Change brings challenge, learning, and a sense of New. Change is full of promise. ~ Gail Vaz Oxlade, #NFDB
380:Every challenge that it contains is actually a disguised opportunity for salvation. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB
381:Facts might be false if they challenge the conviction of a mind already made up. ~ Sarah Churchwell, #NFDB
382:For a journey without challenge, has no meaning; one without purpose, has no soul. ~ Phil Cousineau, #NFDB
383:I challenge myself everyday to be the most positive and enthusiastic person I know. ~ Robert Cheeke, #NFDB
384:I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge. ~ Joseph Fiennes, #NFDB
385:I like a good challenge. And I like to feel that I'm always learning something new. ~ Hannah Fidell, #NFDB
386:It's easy to get on the path of mastery. The real challenge lies in staying on it. ~ George Leonard, #NFDB
387:Life throws challenges and every challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer it. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
388:The best friends support us, challenge us, inspire us. And we do the same for them. ~ Eric Greitens, #NFDB
389:The biggest challenge for me was Tracy’s: “I vow to embrace your family as my own. ~ Frederick Marx, #NFDB
390:The challenge is to focus on the work, not on the fear that comes from doing the work. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
391:The challenge of life is to appreciate everything and attach yourself to nothing. ~ Andrew Matthews, #NFDB
392:The greatest challenge in writing your book is maintaining the drive to finish it. ~ Tess Gerritsen, #NFDB
393:The magnitude of the challenge × the intensity of your attack = your rate of growth ~ Eric Greitens, #NFDB
394:There will be nothing learned from any challenge in which we don't try our hardest. ~ Josh Waitzkin, #NFDB
395:To me, it's all about inspiration. What gets me creatively excited is a challenge. ~ Bill Skarsgard, #NFDB
396:Treat every challenge as a lesson, every mistake you make as a blessing and move on. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
397:A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules. ~ Vivek Wadhwa, #NFDB
398:As Cuba's leader, Castro answered to no one and allowed no challenge to his authority. ~ Tom Gjelten, #NFDB
399:Believing in others is easy. It's believing in yourself that's the real challenge. ~ Giuseppe Bianco, #NFDB
400:fires up Florida Democrats, who face big election-year challenge By Adam C. Smith, Times ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
401:Our social tools are not an improvement to modern society, they are a challenge to it. ~ Clay Shirky, #NFDB
402:The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time. ~ Desmond Tutu, #NFDB
403:Those things that challenge the worst in us tend to strengthen the best in us. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
404:We have to continue to confront the challenge of corruption within the public service. ~ Thabo Mbeki, #NFDB
405:Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger, #NFDB
406:A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect. ~ John McWhorter, #NFDB
407:A woman's uniqueness is her greatest appeal to a man - and his greatest challenge. ~ Edwin Louis Cole, #NFDB
408:fangs showing as he released her arm to confront Ke’lar. “Do you challenge me for her? ~ Willow Danes, #NFDB
409:I find it a challenge to respect capable people who care only for their own interests. ~ Brandon Mull, #NFDB
410:I've been directing more and more the last few years, I find it an enjoyable challenge. ~ Eric Stoltz, #NFDB
411:Making the right choices on the worlds we explore is going to be our biggest challenge. ~ Jon Spaihts, #NFDB
412:The challenge to be the best is what drives me and to just improve my body every day. ~ Aaron Rodgers, #NFDB
413:The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind ~ Caroline Myss, #NFDB
414:To find meaning in the mystery of existence is life’s final and fascinating challenge. ~ Huston Smith, #NFDB
415:We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going. ~ John Sexton, #NFDB
416:Why should one bother to criticize what is inevitable or challenge what is omnipotent? ~ Jane Bennett, #NFDB
417:You can't understand depth of science, unless you challenge the published scientific data. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
418:Challenge serves beautifully to introduce you to your best - and most brilliant - self. ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB
419:Conquering the world was a simple thing; commanding one's spirit was the real challenge. ~ Darren Shan, #NFDB
420:Continuously accept the challenge of physical unfolding. ~ Erich Jantsch, The Self-Organizing Universe, #NFDB
421:For him, the game is not to defeat the opponent, but to challenge his own abilities. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
422:I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge. ~ Wyclef Jean, #NFDB
423:I'm always reaching to find something that will challenge me and make me do my best. ~ Elizabeth Banks, #NFDB
424:I think every job that I've done to this point has had something new to challenge me. ~ Elaine Cassidy, #NFDB
425:New material demands new methods, and new methods fling a challenge to old convention. ~ Lawren Harris, #NFDB
426:The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones. ~ Mary Oliver, #NFDB
427:The challenge to each human is creation. Will you create with reverence, or with neglect? ~ Gary Zukav, #NFDB
428:The supreme religious challenge is to see God’s image in one who is not in our image. ~ Jonathan Sacks, #NFDB
429:Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design. ~ Ellen Lupton, #NFDB
430:being afraid to take chances is scarier than actually doing things that challenge you. ~ Simone Elkeles, #NFDB
431:Climate change...is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family. ~ Ban Ki moon, #NFDB
432:Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind. ~ Lewis Gordon, #NFDB
433:Do you want to run away by dying? Or to live and accept the challenge? - Ciel Phantomhive ~ Yana Toboso, #NFDB
434:He had no college dreams and hence no proximity to the challenge of new faces and ideas. ~ Steve Martin, #NFDB
435:How to teach rigor while preserving imagination is an unsolved challenge to education. ~ Ralph W Gerard, #NFDB
436:If you want to trigger flow, the challenge should be 4 percent greater than the skills. ~ Steven Kotler, #NFDB
437:I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film. ~ Mads Mikkelsen, #NFDB
438:I really do enjoy accompanying people - it's a challenge and a joy when you get it right. ~ McCoy Tyner, #NFDB
439:I wasn't always someone who was talented. It was more that I was loud and loved a challenge. ~ Jessie J, #NFDB
440:López Obrador, a left-wing populist poised to challenge Trump, the right-wing populist. ~ Michael Wolff, #NFDB
441:Most of us can stay away from doing wrong but few of us take the challenge of doing right ~ Nancy Moser, #NFDB
442:The challenge is to ask a two-part question: What next? What now? Asking is the hard part. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
443:The human system does not really want comfort, it wants challenge. It wants adventure. ~ Steve Chandler, #NFDB
444:Do I hear a challenge?” she whispers, “Oh, Carlos. You know I can’t resist a challenge. ~ Simone Elkeles, #NFDB
445:Every depression is a challenge to every manufacturer to put more brains into his business. ~ Henry Ford, #NFDB
446:If the right thing came along at the right time, it would be an enormous kind of challenge. ~ Jamie Bell, #NFDB
447:I play in New York, man. Criticism is part of the game. You take criticism as a challenge. ~ Derek Jeter, #NFDB
448:Many children in the foster care system are often in the midst of a family challenge. ~ Michele Bachmann, #NFDB
449:My biggest challenge is being in a small town and not being able to meet a lot of people. ~ Chris Soules, #NFDB
450:My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it. ~ Vikas Swarup, #NFDB
451:One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises. ~ Bill Keller, #NFDB
452:Seven days until you’re murder free!” “Nothing like jinxing me to add to the challenge, ~ Stephanie Rowe, #NFDB
453:She knew better than to challenge a man who spent his life preparing for the apocalypse. ~ Anthony Marra, #NFDB
454:The challenge is this: training creative, independent, and innovative artists is new to us. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
455:The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact. ~ Jay Samit, #NFDB
456:The truth is that climate change is presenting the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. ~ Al Gore, #NFDB
457:To simply be ourselves is the greatest challenge but the simplest spiritual technique. A ~ Ming Dao Deng, #NFDB
458:Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB
459:Because in this life everything, absolutely everything, is either a challenge or a reward, ~ S M Stirling, #NFDB
460:Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression ~ Terrence Howard, #NFDB
461:His last thought flashed like a mantra over and over again.
Let the challenge begin. ~ Jennifer Probst,#NFDB
462:I felt a challenge to compose music. That's where my challenge was, for the most part. ~ Pauline Oliveros, #NFDB
463:I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish. ~ Martha Stewart, #NFDB
464:I'm not giving up on my work. I'm still trying to challenge people's aesthetics and myself. ~ Guido Palau, #NFDB
465:I need people who look at adversity as a challenge and failure as a learning opportunity. ~ John Calipari, #NFDB
466:It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood. ~ Martin Henderson, #NFDB
467:I would never challenge any rapper to a rap-off. It's weird, I'm not that type of rapper. ~ Donald Glover, #NFDB
468:Our single greatest challenge is the ability to move power to markets outside North Dakota. ~ John Hoeven, #NFDB
469:Rather, the term “strategy” should mean a cohesive response to an important challenge. ~ Richard P Rumelt, #NFDB
470:That is definitely the biggest challenge, career and family, and learning how to balance. ~ Granger Smith, #NFDB
471:The biggest challenge for a man is to attain the wisdom of 80 years of age in youth! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
472:The challenge, Céline understood now, was to be seen—and once seen, to endure judgment. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
473:The challenge continually before you is to trust Me and search for My way through each day. ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
474:The real challenge of compassion, nonviolence and mindfulness is to love in adverse situation. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
475:We should cooperate much more closely in fighting terrorism, which is a great challenge. ~ Vladimir Putin, #NFDB
476:You challenge me to be a better person. And no one else does that, except maybe my mother. ~ Jody Hedlund, #NFDB
477:A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge. ~ China Mieville, #NFDB
478:A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge. ~ China Mi ville, #NFDB
479:Big halls allow me to be a little "larger" and the challenge is make the show feel intimate. ~ Karen Mason, #NFDB
480:But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge ~ Rachael Leigh Cook, #NFDB
481:Challenge is what makes men. It will be the end when men stop looking for new challenges. ~ Edmund Hillary, #NFDB
482:Her fingers itched to pull at the weeds, to take on the challenge of taming such a wild beast. ~ Emma Hamm, #NFDB
483:I guess that’s the challenge, huh?” Travers said, continuing to flip through the notebook. ~ Gregg Hurwitz, #NFDB
484:In some ways, the challenge of staying political is to stay a dreamer at the same time. ~ Amber Hollibaugh, #NFDB
485:It's always an interesting challenge to see if you can create a character that's got emotion. ~ Tim Burton, #NFDB
486:No matter how many options we have, the real challenge is figuring out how to evaluate them. ~ Aziz Ansari, #NFDB
487:Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief. ~ Joseph Silk, #NFDB
488:The greatest challenge for most of us is believing that we are worthy now, right this minute. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
489:There's no reason to be non-violent. There's no challenge unless you are living for people. ~ Cesar Chavez, #NFDB
490:We scientists have looked at the world for so long that we no longer challenge its reality. ~ Robert Lanza, #NFDB
491:At its best, parenthood was a challenge. At its worst, it was a struggle through quicksand. ~ Linda Barrett, #NFDB
492:Big part of the challenge to innovation is that people too easily resign themselves to dying. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
493:Everything we need is already there. The challenge is letting go of all our stuff in the way. ~ Tara Stiles, #NFDB
494:I always loved the challenge. When something new happened, I always used to get quite excited. ~ John Noble, #NFDB
495:I do a lot of challenges I run marathons and stuff like that and I like to challenge myself. ~ Michael Snow, #NFDB
496:If he was destined to oppose Tigerclaw, then so be it. Fireheart was ready for the challenge. ~ Erin Hunter, #NFDB
497:I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge. ~ Martin Short, #NFDB
498:Master the divine techniques of the Art of Peace and no enemy will dare to challenge you. ~ Morihei Ueshiba, #NFDB
499:Part of the blessing and challenge of being human is that we must discover our own true nature. ~ Mark Nepo, #NFDB
500:The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB
501:This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart. ~ Sakyong Mipham, #NFDB
502:Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable. ~ Donna Karan, #NFDB
503:Football comes naturally to me, but basketball is a challenge, that's why I like it so much. ~ Tony Gonzalez, #NFDB
504:If you want to challenge me, boy, best come at me with all you got. If you don’t, I’ll end you ~ Celia Aaron, #NFDB
505:I'm never sure what's coming next, but I'm an open minded person and I welcome any challenge. ~ Sarah Polley, #NFDB
506:I think you're always trying to challenge yourself to do new things and not repeat yourself. ~ David Hornsby, #NFDB
507:Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge. ~ Paul Simon, #NFDB
508:To be called insane: challenge convention. To be called possessed: challenge religion. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
509:You can talk any redneck into a challenge. That’s why so many rednecks die in strange ways. ~ Jase Robertson, #NFDB
510:Beyond that, living your dreams is often about facing your fears and rising to the challenge. ~ Matthew Kelly, #NFDB
511:God does not challenge weak people - he has laid this upon me and I'm not going to question it. ~ Renee Sloan, #NFDB
512:I wondered if it was really because he cared about me, or if now I was just another challenge. ~ Sarah Dessen, #NFDB
513:My challenge as university minister is about getting right balance of teaching and research. ~ David Willetts, #NFDB
514:Probably my biggest challenge is not eating all the food that I want to eat sometimes. ~ Jennifer Love Hewitt, #NFDB
515:The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. ~ Antonio Gramsci, #NFDB
516:Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness. ~ Philip Massinger, #NFDB
517:We have enough coal to last for 250 years, yet coal also prevents an environmental challenge. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
518:You can never be a giant if you do not challenge the powers much more powerful than you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
519:After a decade in a club it's quite normal and necessary that you seek and take a new challenge. ~ Oliver Kahn, #NFDB
520:Challenge the person you think you are in order to unveil the person you are capable of becoming ~ Debbie Ford, #NFDB
521:I challenge you to come find us.’ ‘This is Penryn Young, Daughter of Man, Killer of Angels." Penryn ~ Susan Ee, #NFDB
522:I'd challenge gods and queens to make you mine, Ballard. Conquer a kingdom or two if necessary. ~ Grace Draven, #NFDB
523:If you had to choose, which would it be? Loads of success and validation or lots of challenge? ~ Carol S Dweck, #NFDB
524:Instead, the challenge remains an internal battle, conducted entirely within our own private hell. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
525:It became a game, a challenge, to realise the exact moment that the predictions came true. ~ Maggie Stiefvater, #NFDB
526:Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going. ~ Carol S Dweck, #NFDB
527:Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
528:Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men...learn to suffer. ~ Mark Twight, #NFDB
529:Satan will always provide a witness to where you have been, in order to challenge your fate. ~ Shannon L Alder, #NFDB
530:The challenge before us is to savor the unknown and delight in the taste of possibility. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher, #NFDB
531:The more knowledge you have, the better-equipped you are to tackle any challenge you’ll ever face. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
532:The two key words for the European Union are creativity and fruitfulness. That's the challenge. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
533:The ultimate challenge is to keep fixing your eyes on Me, no matter what is going on around you. ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
534:We are for peace, but we accept the challenge of the enemy. We will protect our motherland. ~ Petro Poroshenko, #NFDB
535:Women don't seek power for its own sake, but to make a difference and overcome each challenge ~ Kathleen Wynne, #NFDB
536:Be a man: accept the challenge of the unknown, of the beyond. Let it become a great dream in your being. ~ Osho, #NFDB
537:God will never allow a challenge that will surmount us; we are always greater than our challenges. ~ T B Joshua, #NFDB
538:I challenge record companies to show me evidence of a single penny they've lost due to Napster. ~ Dave Rowntree, #NFDB
539:If government is inevitable, the challenge is to come up with the most effective one possible. ~ Robert H Frank, #NFDB
540:I'm doing the 2015 5x50 challenge because ... t’s the most awesome incentive for your daily motivation! ~ David, #NFDB
541:It's a real challenge to complete a story arc and end up with a cool punchline in 120 characters. ~ Mark Hoppus, #NFDB
542:The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on. ~ Bernadette Peters, #NFDB
543:There are no handicaps. Only challenges. But why does every simple thing have to be a challenge? ~ Jack Kilborn, #NFDB
544:When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
545:You challenge, rebel against me, and pushed me on every level. I wouldn't have it any other way. ~ Meghan March, #NFDB
546:Challenge every writ, and let it not be said of you, I walked a path but never left an imprint. ~ Jeffrey Archer, #NFDB
547:Darlin’, you can’t tell me your ex wasn’t adventurous and not expect me to see it as a challenge. ~ Leah Braemel, #NFDB
548:Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction. ~ Charles Koch, #NFDB
549:I like to keep pushing myself and trying things out. I get easily bored, so I need a challenge. ~ Felicity Jones, #NFDB
550:It’s never lost on me that it was the religious who Jesus had to challenge not to throw stones. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
551:Life always has a bit of a challenge in front of you, and that's what makes you fight for it. ~ Carolina Herrera, #NFDB
552:No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
553:Part of Christian belief is to find out what's true about Jesus and let that challenge our culture. ~ N T Wright, #NFDB
554:The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
555:The crucial challenge is to learn how to read critically, analyze data, and formulate ideas—and ~ Fareed Zakaria, #NFDB
556:There were certainly things I was scared to do, but I never thought I wasn't up for the challenge. ~ Rooney Mara, #NFDB
557:Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me. ~ Ingrid Bergman, #NFDB
558:To truly love ourselves, we must challenge our beliefs that we need to be different or better. ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB
559:With each film, i need an artistic challenge so I don't get bored! I like to tackle challenges. ~ Roman Polanski, #NFDB
560:A great challenge: stop ruining the garden which God has entrusted to us so that all may enjoy it. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
561:An entrepreneur’s challenge is to design and successfully implement a new business model. ~ Alexander Osterwalder, #NFDB
562:Dare: a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
I dare you.
Three stupid words. ~ Lisa Schroeder,#NFDB
563:disruptive technology should be framed as a marketing challenge, not a technological one. ~ Clayton M Christensen, #NFDB
564:Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge? ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
565:I am Juliette Ferrars, and I will lead this nation. I challenge anyone who would stand against me. ~ Tahereh Mafi, #NFDB
566:I hope this brings someone else the courage they need to face whatever challenge is before them. ~ Julianne Moore, #NFDB
567:I love to be pursued. I think that when you're not a challenge, it's just nnot as fun for the guy. ~ Eva Longoria, #NFDB
568:Once there is realization of self challenge, ego versus soul, competition with others becomes futile. ~ T F Hodge, #NFDB
569:Part of the challenge of innovation is coming up with the problem to solve, not just its solution. ~ Scott Berkun, #NFDB
570:Small spaces allow me the intimacy, but make it more of a challenge for the more theatrical pieces. ~ Karen Mason, #NFDB
571:There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think. ~ Jim Gaffigan, #NFDB
572:Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge. ~ John Cusack, #NFDB
573:Black women must challenge black men to live up to their best in every arena of the culture - ~ Michael Eric Dyson, #NFDB
574:Challenge everything for the Truth. Only those who challenge everything for the Truth are the blessed ones. ~ Osho, #NFDB
575:Challenges are the key in life. You always have to challenge yourself and try to get to different states. ~ Hiromi, #NFDB
576:enjoyment is in the learning, in the perfect balance between player skill and the challenge presented. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
577:Every generation has their challenge. And things change rapidly, and life gets better in an instant. ~ Jon Stewart, #NFDB
578:His eyes darkened, and I realized he saw my resistance as a challenge. “Constantijin, no---” “I won’t ~ Marian Tee, #NFDB
579:It is only natural to expect that guilds will tend to "protect their turf" and to resist challenge. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
580:It's fun to challenge yourself and take advantage of all the opportunities that present themselves. ~ Perez Hilton, #NFDB
581:Joy. Oh my god. He’s my joy. My laughter. My strength. My challenge. My motivation. My rock. My joy. ~ Pippa Grant, #NFDB
582:Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day. ~ Jesse Jackson, #NFDB
583:Life to me is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits ~ Lance Armstrong, #NFDB
584:See every difficulty as a challenge, a stepping stone, and never be defeated by anything or anyone. ~ Eileen Caddy, #NFDB
585:The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence. ~ Bruce Springsteen, #NFDB
586:The healing of the spirit has not been completed until openness to challenge becomes a way of life. ~ M Scott Peck, #NFDB
587:The strong-minded rise to the challenge of their goals and dreams. The weak-minded become haters. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
588:Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education. ~ George H W Bush, #NFDB
589:What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do. ~ Stanley Donen, #NFDB
590:You can do anything if you accept the challenge, rise to the occasion, try harder, and drive it home! ~ Tyler Ward, #NFDB
591:Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge. ~ Lyndon B Johnson, #NFDB
592:I enjoy a challenge or provocation, something to think about, to talk about after it's done. ~ Joseph Gordon Levitt, #NFDB
593:I find faith in human perseverance, even as the universe throws challenge after challenge our way. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
594:In some ways clarifying a vision is easy. A more difficult challenge comes in facing current reality. ~ Peter Senge, #NFDB
595:key challenge for managers is how to strike a balance between being decisive and being collegial, ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
596:Learning to love yourself should not become a life-long challenge that most of us never meet. ~ Christiane Northrup, #NFDB
597:My family gave me values that have sustained me through situations that would challenge any person. ~ Kathy Ireland, #NFDB
598:People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else. ~ Carlos Ghosn, #NFDB
599:Satisfying ever-growing energy demand in a sustainable way has become the world's biggest challenge. ~ Tony Hayward, #NFDB
600:The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it's what goes on inside your own head ~ Barbara Corcoran, #NFDB
601:The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other's smartphone. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
602:The present challenge to the photographer is to express inner significance through outward form. ~ Beaumont Newhall, #NFDB
603:There are so many challenges, but the first, closest and biggest challenge is our mindset! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, #NFDB
604:To the very last, the desire to challenge oneself and understand more. And to the very last: doubt. ~ Carlo Rovelli, #NFDB
605:Unless people believe that the strategic challenge is attainable, the change is not likely to succeed. ~ W Chan Kim, #NFDB
606:A challenge that tested Tom to his limit but in return gave him more than he could ever have imagined. ~ Bear Grylls, #NFDB
607:God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue. ~ Donald Knuth, #NFDB
608:How presumptuous they both had been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. ~ Cecelia Ahern, #NFDB
609:I know he's a good baby... but the challenge is to raise him into a good boy, then a good man. ~ Sarah Addison Allen, #NFDB
610:I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work. ~ Talib Kweli, #NFDB
611:In Russia there are no native words for efficiency, challenge, engagement ring, have fun, or take care ~ Bill Bryson, #NFDB
612:I really do believe that anything in life - any obstacle or challenge - can be made better with humor. ~ Amy Poehler, #NFDB
613:I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting. ~ Julie Taymor, #NFDB
614:I think all actors are on the constant search for a real challenge just to keep things interesting. ~ Benjamin Bratt, #NFDB
615:It's always a challenge to make an independent film. It's always a challenge to make a low budget film. ~ Anne Heche, #NFDB
616:I've just been reading about cycling. Yeah, I'm not that great at it but I like the challenge of it. ~ Joey Santiago, #NFDB
617:She wouldn’t be easy to break. I knew that already. But I was the type of person who loved a challenge. ~ Lily White, #NFDB
618:The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure. ~ James Stockdale, #NFDB
619:The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
620:The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth. ~ Timothy Radcliffe, #NFDB
621:The trouble is our lives are cluttered. The challenge is to find who we are amid the crowd of ourselves. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
622:We all fall to the floor at some point. It's how you pick yourself up that's the real challenge. Isn't it? ~ Madonna, #NFDB
623:A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
624:a radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
625:A violent scene is art, as much as a sex scene is art. For me, all the scenes were a challenge. ~ Adele Exarchopoulos, #NFDB
626:I always want to challenge myself as a writer. I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director. ~ Lena Waithe, #NFDB
627:I challenge you to a duel!” screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier. ~ Mikhail Bulgakov, #NFDB
628:I'm very happy to be directing though. It's a challenge, and it's a lot of fun for me to be on set. ~ Jason Priestley, #NFDB
629:It is, of course, the last resort of a liar to challenge his inquisitor to call him a liar directly. ~ William Landay, #NFDB
630:I try to take things that challenge me either physically or mentally, or I have to learn a new skill. ~ John C Reilly, #NFDB
631:Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge. ~ Richard E Grant, #NFDB
632:So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible. ~ Gordon Gee, #NFDB
633:Some of the best people with whom you can have a relationship are the people who challenge your thinking. ~ T D Jakes, #NFDB
634:That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother? ~ Gregory Maguire, #NFDB
635:The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
636:The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
637:thought of her grandsons. For their sake, she would challenge the enemy when they banged on her gates ~ Carol McGrath, #NFDB
638:We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes. ~ Rebecca Pidgeon, #NFDB
639:We’re called to “dare greatly” every time we make choices that challenge the social climate of scarcity. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
640:What makes you so dare to challenge me, kiddo?
It ain't about you, Sir. I just wanna confront my fear. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
641:And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge. ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
642:For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way. ~ John Hawkes, #NFDB
643:Henry knew sin was a challenge to life; not an act of unreason, but an act of courage and determination. ~ John Fowles, #NFDB
644:I awoke on the fifth morning with a brightness of anticipation that seemed to challenge fate. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB
645:If we have courage and willingness to face a challenge, perhaps then God will give us a way through it. ~ Jody Hedlund, #NFDB
646:It's always a unique challenge when you're working with somebody where English is their second language. ~ Ethan Hawke, #NFDB
647:Only when you are challenged—and only when you challenge yourself—do you discover what truly matters. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
648:People who think you weak will offer you an excuse. People who respect you will offer you a challenge. ~ Eric Greitens, #NFDB
649:Spiritually, I pray and meditate. Emotionally, I challenge myself to be open, honest, and available. ~ Malcolm Goodwin, #NFDB
650:Stop flirting. With you, every sentence is an offer."
“And with you, every sentence is a challenge. ~ Karen Hawkins,#NFDB
651:The greatest single challenge facing our globalised world is to combat and eradicate its disparities. ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
652:The most difficult challenge to the ideal is its transformation into reality, and few ideals survive. ~ William Gaddis, #NFDB
653:The performances make you want to get back out there and try something new and challenge yourself. ~ Laura Vandervoort, #NFDB
654:THERE IS IN every delicate thing, no matter how precious, nor how beautiful, a challenge. Break me. No ~ Mark Lawrence, #NFDB
655:To challenge humanism in any field, you must possess a uniquely biblical view of God, man, law, and time. ~ Gary North, #NFDB
656:A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good. ~ Rick Bass, #NFDB
657:Especially in this industry, women challenge men much more now because we're saying, 'We can do it, too.' ~ Regina King, #NFDB
658:I had to overcome challenge after challenge in order to take my life from nothing to living my dreams. ~ Curtis Jackson, #NFDB
659:In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge. ~ Tony Blair, #NFDB
660:I was very low and I had to achieve something. Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
661:Part of the challenge of Most Wanted is trying to become the most notorious street racer on the pavement. ~ Josie Maran, #NFDB
662:Simply changing how you talk to yourself about a difficulty or a challenge changes how you approach it. ~ Valerie Young, #NFDB
663:The challenge of the believer is to take the faith that you got in here and take it to the place out there. ~ T D Jakes, #NFDB
664:The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
~ Bertrand Russell,#NFDB
665:The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge. ~ Carl Lewis, #NFDB
666:You should always challenge yourself, as an actor, to find the connection between you and the character. ~ Michael Ealy, #NFDB
667:Don't surround yourself with people who just affirm you. Surround yourself with people who challenge you. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
668:I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge. ~ Jeffery Deaver, #NFDB
669:I love the challenge of an entire year has gone by and how has that affected the character you're playing. ~ Joel McHale, #NFDB
670:I'm a total luddite when it comes to technology. Pretending I know how to use a computer is a challenge. ~ Ben Schnetzer, #NFDB
671:In The Greens Are Gone, I play a character that's bipolar, so that was a big step and quite a challenge. ~ Kaitlyn Dever, #NFDB
672:No precipice can challenge you if you have the ability to build bridges over any kind of precipice! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
673:The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making. ~ Edsger Dijkstra, #NFDB
674:The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else. ~ E E Cummings, #NFDB
675:The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else. ~ e e cummings, #NFDB
676:The pallor of his eyes caught you by surprise. You expected more challenge from him, heavier shadows. And ~ John le Carr, #NFDB
677:If you lose today, win tomorrow. In this never-ending spirit of challenge is found the heart of a victor. ~ Daisaku Ikeda, #NFDB
678:In spite of the fact that at times I would challenge parents authority. They provided unconditional love. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
679:It is not art or literature's place to teach lessons but to challenge everything that's been taught. ~ J Andrew Schrecker, #NFDB
680:It was the challenge of that that I found daunting, but also engaging and interesting [to play Maigret]. ~ Rowan Atkinson, #NFDB
681:The best way to keep superstars happy is to challenge them and make sure they are constantly learning. ~ Kim Malone Scott, #NFDB
682:They had deep expertise and they were excited about the challenge. Those are people you want in your sprint. ~ Jake Knapp, #NFDB
683:when humans see things that challenge our mental models, we tend not just to resist them but to ignore them. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
684:Your greatest moments of challenge are a call to defy your timid habits of safety and rush out into life. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
685:events that challenge our optimistic beliefs can sometimes make us more rather than less optimistic. ~ Daniel Todd Gilbert, #NFDB
686:For my wife and I, the challenge is to not make every day the best day possible because it's not realistic. ~ Steve Carell, #NFDB
687:I live for challenges. In my career, all I want to do is try to challenge myself and have a varied career. ~ Douglas Booth, #NFDB
688:I'm about to challenge for the Maryland Cup in the next couple of years, as an owner, a trainer, and a rider. ~ Davy Jones, #NFDB
689:I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time. ~ Sylvester Stallone, #NFDB
690:I think the challenge for an actor is always to see which parts of you you can explore and go have fun with. ~ Ally Walker, #NFDB
691:It is a challenge for any organization to create an environment where people feel safe to show up whole. ~ Frederic Laloux, #NFDB
692:Modeling's terrifying to a lot of people. Standing in front of a camera is terrifying. I like a challenge. ~ Daria Werbowy, #NFDB
693:Our challenge is to think right in a wrong world. Our challenge is to think positive in a negative world. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
694:Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.
-- from The Sexual Side of Spirituality ~ Aberjhani,#NFDB
695:The challenge of this book is to understand how perpetrators come to do things that others see as evil. ~ Roy F Baumeister, #NFDB
696:The 'clean energy' challenge deserves a commitment akin to the Manhattan project or the Apollo moon landing. ~ Martin Rees, #NFDB
697:The computing scientist’s main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making. ~ Edsger W Dijkstra, #NFDB
698:There was nothing Jordan enjoyed more than a challenge, and Lucas Conover was nothing if not a challenge. ~ Felice Stevens, #NFDB
699:This is not over between us, Clara,” he called after her. “I like a challenge, and I do not give up easily. ~ Sarah M Eden, #NFDB
700:We must remind ourselves that to do what is possible we must sometimes challenge ourselves with the impossible. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
701:When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting ... It's a challenge. ~ Robert Loggia, #NFDB
702:Your challenge as a #GIRLBOSS is to dive headfirst into things without being too attached to the results. ~ Sophia Amoruso, #NFDB
703:Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat. ~ Prince Philip, #NFDB
704:Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability. ~ Martha Graham, #NFDB
705:From a mere vacation, one goes home older, but from true travel one returns changed by challenge. ~ William Least Heat Moon, #NFDB
706:Give your employees a mission that matches their ambitions. When you challenge people, they surprise you. ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
707:God uses the tension, complexity, and challenge of doing His kingdom work to transform us into champions. ~ Christine Caine, #NFDB
708:I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important. ~ Jeffery Deaver, #NFDB
709:I've always been interesting in characters that challenge people and who are not always that easy to like. ~ Julian McMahon, #NFDB
710:Nobody shall drive us away,” I said. “We're going to be happy here.” We said it like a challenge to fate. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
711:The challenge is that many believe heaven is the default destination when, in fact, the opposite is true. ~ Craig Groeschel, #NFDB
712:The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
713:There's a real sweet spot between challenge and hope - leaders make pathways that keep both firmly in view. ~ Marshall Ganz, #NFDB
714:The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why? ~ Kenichi Ohmae, #NFDB
715:What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect. ~ Andy Hargreaves, #NFDB
716:Whenever I'm making something, the challenge is always to create something that's interesting for me to listen to. ~ Katy B, #NFDB
717:You’ve never met a man like me, a man who can challenge and respect you, a man worthy of a woman like you. ~ Sarah Castille, #NFDB
718:China is committed to work with other countries for a solution to the global challenge of energy and resources. ~ Li Keqiang, #NFDB
719:Could it not be, that God loves me too deeply, by having people challenge me so that I know I'm not perfect. ~ Matt Chandler, #NFDB
720:Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world. ~ Albert Ellis, #NFDB
721:Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to. ~ Joe Lieberman, #NFDB
722:I love a challenge, and I think it's when people least expect you to do something that you often do your best. ~ Shayne Ward, #NFDB
723:Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure, be afraid of avoiding the challenge and doing nothing ~ Soichiro Honda, #NFDB
724:Let's face it, life is a constant challenge. It's full of unexpected detours that no one but you can navigate. ~ Sheryl Crow, #NFDB
725:Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say. ~ Mark Zandi, #NFDB
726:So often, fear keeps us from being able to say yes to love—perhaps our greatest challenge as human beings. ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB
727:The biggest challenge is not the storytelling, it's to track every character's arc through the entire movie. ~ Simon Kinberg, #NFDB
728:The challenge is not just to build a company that can endure; but to build one that is worthy of enduring. ~ James C Collins, #NFDB
729:The next time you face a challenge, remember that the cost of success is far cheaper than the price of failure. ~ Tsem Tulku, #NFDB
730:We all fall to the floor at some point. It's how you pick yourself up that's the real challenge. Isn't it? ~ Madonna Ciccone, #NFDB
731:We only have one future, and it will be made of our dreams, if we have the courage to challenge convention. ~ Soichiro Honda, #NFDB
732:When everything goes without a hitch, where's the challenge, the opportunity to find out what you're made of? ~ Shania Twain, #NFDB
733:Be a bit of a challenge; not because you're playing games but because you realize you're worth the extra effort. ~ Mandy Hale, #NFDB
734:Data is the pollution problem of the information age, and protecting privacy is the environmental challenge. ~ Bruce Schneier, #NFDB
735:Erase the word "failure" from your vocabulary. No case is ever truly closed, and no challenge is ever over. ~ Mary Lou Retton, #NFDB
736:Everything's a challenge, man. You just have to take each dance as its own separate thing and just go for it. ~ Chris Jericho, #NFDB
737:I don’t scream. It’s a known fact.” Tavis had considered it a personal challenge. “Pardon me. Your manly roar ~ Anita Clenney, #NFDB
738:If we don't learn how to cry, we can't be good Christians. This is a challenge. Don't be frightened of crying. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
739:I get to work with people I love who challenge and inspire me. And I get to sing songs that do that same thing! ~ Karen Mason, #NFDB
740:It can be easy to love all beings from a distance; it can be a great challenge when we have to live with them. ~ Gil Fronsdal, #NFDB
741:I think a challenge for myself is to see how many times I can get above 9,000. That would be a good challenge. ~ Ashton Eaton, #NFDB
742:Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is love, enjoy it! ~ Sathya Sai Baba, #NFDB
743:Life is all about toiling and labor. But obviously I get great joy in confronting challenge and taking risk. ~ Sufjan Stevens, #NFDB
744:Once danger becomes its own reward, risk moves from a threat to be avoided to a challenge to be risen toward. ~ Steven Kotler, #NFDB
745:Sometimes, our greatest obstacles are breathtakingly
beautiful challenges. Rise to the challenge! ~ Russell Anthony Gibbs,#NFDB
746:The central challenge for any company, regardless of its size, is to keep doing a better job for its customers. ~ Ralph Nader, #NFDB
747:What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter? ~ Rose Kennedy, #NFDB
748:And now it's your turn - the time to answer the greatest challenge of our existence on this planet is now. ~ Leonardo DiCaprio, #NFDB
749:Chronic pain or other challenges are invitations; gifts that challenge us to learn how to manage the mind. ~ Cheryl Richardson, #NFDB
750:For someone grieving, moving forward is the challenge. Because after extreme loss, you want to go back. ~ Holly Goldberg Sloan, #NFDB
751:I didn't get out of coaching to get back into it. This is my next challenge and I'm planning to work hard at it. ~ Bill Cowher, #NFDB
752:I'm twice as funny, I'm twice as smart, I'm twice as whatever when I'm around other people that challenge me. ~ Andrew Stanton, #NFDB
753:I think it's quite great to set yourself a big challenge and then you've got another reason for keeping fit. ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
754:It's absolutely wrong that I don't want guys to challenge me. And the people who say that aren't in the room. ~ Michael Jordan, #NFDB
755:It's sometimes said that I'm rebellious and I do things to push people's buttons, but I just like the challenge. ~ Marc Jacobs, #NFDB
756:I want to be a working actor; I want to do jobs that excite me and challenge me, and I want to something fun. ~ Nathan Fillion, #NFDB
757:I would never knowingly go into a film that I wouldn't pay to see, or something that didn't challenge me. ~ Scarlett Johansson, #NFDB
758:Jerott had no reason to challenge her wit. For a woman, it seemed to him at times excessive to tiresomeness. ~ Dorothy Dunnett, #NFDB
759:The challenge is creating a character that's rich and interesting to warrant following for a number of years. ~ Frank Spotnitz, #NFDB
760:The innermost essence of my being...is fearless; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge. ~ Eric Butterworth, #NFDB
761:The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished. ~ Elia Kazan, #NFDB
762:To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB
763:When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there. ~ Frances Hesselbein, #NFDB
764:You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas. ~ Charlie Munger, #NFDB
765:I kind of like the challenge of jumping into totally different spaces and styles and figuring out how to fit in. ~ Hugo Weaving, #NFDB
766:I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities. ~ Lisa Yuskavage, #NFDB
767:Life is a challenge" he once told me, "and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live. ~ Darren Shan, #NFDB
768:Never seen my friends do more push-ups, trying to challenge Cruises' manhood. It was like, I can be strong, too! ~ Adam Sandler, #NFDB
769:Playing sick. That is so hard to do. It has to be a total mental challenge, as well as the physical challenge. ~ Michael Jordan, #NFDB
770:that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
771:The best way to prepare for a challenge is to cultivate the ability to call on an infinite variety of responses. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
772:The challenge for your son's grandpa was grandpa's job going nowhere; for your son is his job going elsewhere. ~ Warren Farrell, #NFDB
773:There's a leadership gap in the modern business world. Young professionals need to step up to the challenge. ~ Julie Smolyansky, #NFDB
774:You really have to challenge yourself to come out of those parameters that they put you in, even if that's your job. ~ Ice Cube, #NFDB
775:As a competitor and an athlete, you love that you get to go back and challenge someone, especially the world champs. ~ Tony Romo, #NFDB
776:Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life. ~ Amy Poehler, #NFDB
777:Her nakedness was a challenge, her beauty a danger, her way of life an abomination and her existence an evil. ~ James A Michener, #NFDB
778:My challenge is, do not run away from the hard questions. Truly ask yourself what's worth living for in this life. ~ Jon Foreman, #NFDB
779:One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months. ~ James Purefoy, #NFDB
780:The challenge for most of us is that we haven’t made a decision in so long we’ve forgotten what it feels like. ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB
781:The challenge is not so much to change the sound. The challenge is to connect and to create something special. ~ Gustavo Dudamel, #NFDB
782:the challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton, #NFDB
783:When risk is a challenge, fear becomes a compass—literally pointing people in the direction they need to go next ~ Steven Kotler, #NFDB
784:Yeah, acting is very difficult. As much as I love it, and the challenge of it, I'm so often just terrified by it. ~ Kate Winslet, #NFDB
785:Any shlub can pick up a girl at a bar. Want a challenge? Try keeping a beautiful woman happy for ten years running. ~ Peter Burke, #NFDB
786:Artistically, you want to be able to do a lot of things that can challenge you to not just stay in the same thing. ~ Selena Gomez, #NFDB
787:Ben came out then, his bedhead seeming to challenge our basic understanding of the force gravity exerts upon matter. ~ John Green, #NFDB
788:Challenge isn't going to come from any curriculum, no matter how hard they make it. It's going to come from life. ~ Gordon Korman, #NFDB
789:Challenge isn’t going to come from any curriculum, no matter how hard they make it. It’s going to come from life. ~ Gordon Korman, #NFDB
790:Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that. ~ David Sylvian, #NFDB
791:Empowerment includes growth mindset, positive thinking, acceptance of new challenge, learning and positive self-image. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
792:Every fighter is my toughest challenge to date. After I get done with one fight, the next challenge is the toughest. ~ Andre Ward, #NFDB
793:Fear is my constant, annoying life companion. My new answer to fear is this: So what? Bring on the next challenge. ~ Regina Brett, #NFDB
794:Going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge. ~ Danger Mouse, #NFDB
795:Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change. ~ David Suzuki, #NFDB
796:I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head. ~ Squarepusher, #NFDB
797:If you call upon the Gods and they answer, who is there to oppose or to challenge the integrity of your Path? ~ Andrew D Chumbley, #NFDB
798:I personally think if something's not a challenge there's no point doing it because you're not gonna learn much. ~ Cillian Murphy, #NFDB
799:Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants - the whole system's wrong, and she must challenge it. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
800:My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am. ~ Lynne Truss, #NFDB
801:No prize is worth it without a challenge, don't you think? Failure is the fault of the chooser, not the choice-giver. ~ Guy Haley, #NFDB
802:Only the most saintly and delusional among us welcomes all pain as challenge, perceives all loss as harsh blessing. ~ Scott Jurek, #NFDB
803:So are you here alone or is there someone looking daggers at my back right now, ready to challenge me to a duel? ~ Somi Ekhasomhi, #NFDB
804:The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man. ~ Stephen Covey, #NFDB
805:The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair. ~ Derrick Bell, #NFDB
806:To see an obstacle as a challenge, to make the best of it anyway, that is also a choice—a choice that is up to us. ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
807:Try typing a web key on a touchscreen on an Apple iPhone, that's a real challenge. You cannot see what you type. ~ Mike Lazaridis, #NFDB
808:Understand and challenge your personal narrative. Narratives become choices and actions — which become your life. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
809:Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge. ~ Giancarlo Esposito, #NFDB
810:You already know how to be Radically Candid because you know how to care personally and to challenge directly. ~ Kim Malone Scott, #NFDB
811:Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially. ~ Ian Bremmer, #NFDB
812:Each step you take reveals a new horizon. You have taken the first step today. Now, I challenge you to take another. ~ Dan Poynter, #NFDB
813:I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish. ~ J R Martinez, #NFDB
814:I think it is good that fashion is a challenge because when something is a challenge, you want to do it better. ~ Carolina Herrera, #NFDB
815:Life throws challenges but with patience and resilience you can convert every challenge into a new opportunity to grow. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB
816:Patience is, in and of itself, a great challenge and it often holds the key to breaking through a seeming impasse. ~ Daisaku Ikeda, #NFDB
817:Some people say that you shouldn't operate from a place of fear but if there is no fear, how is there a challenge? ~ Cecelia Ahern, #NFDB
818:Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love. ~ Sarah Palin, #NFDB
819:The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time. ~ Chad Harbach, #NFDB
820:The challenge of power is how to use it and not abuse it. When you abuse it, it reverses on you and it hurts you. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
821:The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge. ~ Jerry Seinfeld, #NFDB
822:Time cannot be broken; that is our greatest burden. And our greatest challenge is to live in spite of that burden. ~ Irvin D Yalom, #NFDB
823:Challenge accepted. We were over well before we had a chance to get started, but we were about to go out with a bang. ~ T M Frazier, #NFDB
824:if you challenge the conventional wisdom, you will find ways to do things much better than they are currently done. ~ Michael Lewis, #NFDB
825:If your faith is so shaky that it can be undermined by books that challenge it, then something is rotten at the core. ~ Rysa Walker, #NFDB
826:I’ve always been an entrepreneur, but it’s never been about the money. I like a challenge, the harder the better. ~ Terry McAuliffe, #NFDB
827:Perfection is a toxic desire. We are not supposed to be perfect. The challenge is not to be perfect, it's to be whole. ~ Jane Fonda, #NFDB
828:The challenge is for the graphic designer to turn data into information and information into messages of meaning. ~ Katherine McCoy, #NFDB
829:The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
830:You can always challenge a big storm with a little boat and this will only prove how unserious person you are! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
831:You can quit smoking, and never have to have a cigarette again to survive. But with food, it is a daily challenge. ~ Jami Attenberg, #NFDB
832:All religious people in any age have to make their traditions address the challenge of their particular modernity, ~ Karen Armstrong, #NFDB
833:All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it. ~ Paracelsus, #NFDB
834:As Fuller stated, humanity's next evolutionary challenge is to learn to cooperate and solve our global problems. ~ Robert T Kiyosaki, #NFDB
835:Each movie was a challenge for me, as a man, as an actor. After each movie, something changed in my life, in my character. ~ Omar Sy, #NFDB
836:Far Out is never far enough because one challenge, if it is worthy at all, has to be followed by a greater challenge. ~ Tomi Ungerer, #NFDB
837:He was the king, damn it, the Lean Dog, an American hellhound. And fuck idiots like this who tried to challenge him. ~ Lauren Gilley, #NFDB
838:I am Abdumasi of the House of Abd, master of ships, champion cat gambler, and I challenge you to mortal up-fuckery! ~ Seth Dickinson, #NFDB
839:I'd say it's never a challenge to present white and heteronormative privilege. The hard thing is to write any other way. ~ Nell Zink, #NFDB
840:If we are not using our brains' capacity for challenge it feels to me as though it atrophies like an unused muscle. ~ Philippa Perry, #NFDB
841:Life’s tough. It’s a challenge. So think of love as your hard earned reward. Don’t let doubt take that away from you. ~ Riley Murphy, #NFDB
842:Many of these individuals agree that sensory issues are the primary challenge of autism in their daily lives. There ~ Temple Grandin, #NFDB
843:Rapidly developing technologies and new ways of communicating can challenge long-established social norms—such ~ Daniel Post Senning, #NFDB
844:Sometimes you have to do the things that scare you and that are outside of your comfort zone and challenge yourself. ~ Morten Tyldum, #NFDB
845:The ultimate goal of emotional agility is to keep a sense of challenge and growth alive and well throughout your life. ~ Susan David, #NFDB
846:This is the time to remember that I’m the protagonist in my own story, facing every challenge with grace and wit. ~ Maya Van Wagenen, #NFDB
847:True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, #NFDB
848:Why do people do crossword puzzles? There's no reward for completing one, but some people just like the challenge. ~ Scott D Anthony, #NFDB
849:Beware of "the real world". A speaker's apeal to it is always an invitation not to challenge his tacit assumptions. ~ Edsger Dijkstra, #NFDB
850:Bringing up issues that are hard to deal with is a challenge for me, and I think that's what draws me to song writing. ~ Brett Dennen, #NFDB
851:Don’t challenge the world before becoming a big fire; otherwise they will extinguish you even with little spits! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
852:Don't limit your challenges; challenge your limits. Each day we must strive for constant and never ending improvement. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
853:Every job's a challenge. The challenge is to do it and make it look right, like you belong there - wherever that is. ~ Morgan Freeman, #NFDB
854:I love to win, but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat. ~ Lou Gehrig, #NFDB
855:I thought it would be quite a challenge to direct a mystery thriller. I hadn't really done something like that. ~ Catherine Hardwicke, #NFDB
856:I would love to spend my whole career in Scan Diego because I accept the challenge of turning this team around. ~ LaDainian Tomlinson, #NFDB
857:managers in most companies are already overwhelmed with good ideas. Their challenge lies in prioritization and execution, ~ Eric Ries, #NFDB
858:The challenge and love, for me, of acting is if you get to transform or do something you haven't done before. That's fun. ~ Matt Ross, #NFDB
859:The real challenge for a vegan is getting vitamin B and omega-3s, but you can get those in a vegetarian supplement. ~ Emily Deschanel, #NFDB
860:The whole goal for me with my career is just follow good projects and good parts and challenge myself as much as I can. ~ Noel Fisher, #NFDB
861:Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others. ~ Amelia Earhart, #NFDB
862:You're better than the life you've settled for. RISE to the challenge of your dreams! Don't just dream it - LIVE it! ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
863:Your work isn't a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It's a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it. ~ Sol LeWitt, #NFDB
864:be sure to also give yourself a specific time frame to keep the session a discrete challenge and not an open-ended slog. ~ Cal Newport, #NFDB
865:Every role is a challenge.I want to keep doing everything I want to try to do things that aren't similar to one another. ~ Nina Dobrev, #NFDB
866:I didn't want to become a reserve player, or a bench player, and it was time to move on and take on another challenge. ~ Julius Erving, #NFDB
867:I thought I knew everything. There’s the challenge fate loves best, isn’t it? I was ripe for a fall and so … the apple. ~ Megan Chance, #NFDB
868:I thrive on challenges, and there is no more imposing challenge for someone in my profession than winning an NBA title. ~ Phil Jackson, #NFDB
869:I try to hire people who will challenge and have the humility to be challenged - people who have basically good values. ~ Charles Koch, #NFDB
870:It's about not accepting every challenge thrown at you. Sometimes you hold back and when it's needed you go for it. ~ Sachin Tendulkar, #NFDB
871:I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How not to make a mess of it", has not been met. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
872:South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge. ~ Tom Peters, #NFDB
873:The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity. ~ Douglas B Reeves, #NFDB
874:The Russians and rogue actors, including ISIS - this is a serious part of the 21st century security challenge that we face. ~ Jeb Bush, #NFDB
875:The world has changed around Europe. It is not only the migration crisis that has shown Europe is not up for challenge. ~ Viktor Orban, #NFDB
876:We live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny. ~ Charles Hartshorne, #NFDB
877:A hidden reservoir of strength lies dormant in each of us. Waiting for a challenge, a difficulty, an ‘impossible’ task. ~ Rashmi Bansal, #NFDB
878:A lot of people say, 'Well, I like a challenge. 'I don`t like challenges. Life is tough enough without any challenges. ~ Jackie Gleason, #NFDB
879:A real man wants to know how to make his woman moan and takes up the challenge of keepin' that up and makin' it better ~ Kristen Ashley, #NFDB
880:As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues. ~ Eric Jerome Dickey, #NFDB
881:Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced. ~ Chris Hayes, #NFDB
882:Declare a thing unknown and they will share in your wonderment. Declare it a secret and they will consider it a challenge. ~ Rod Duncan, #NFDB
883:For how does one overthrow, change or even challenge a system that you have been taught to admire, to love, to believe in? ~ bell hooks, #NFDB
884:Hitler had no doubt that it was rival empires, not native nationalism, which posed the real challenge to British rule. ~ Niall Ferguson, #NFDB
885:I always hope for roles that have some depth and that I can get my teeth into and that will challenge me, in some way. ~ Felicity Jones, #NFDB
886:I'd love to act. I feel that it's another naked, mysterious challenge, like jazz. It kind of intrigues me in the same way. ~ Paula Cole, #NFDB
887:I do like match play. I like trying to match an opponent shot for shot. It's a challenge. And it's something different. ~ Retief Goosen, #NFDB
888:I don't sit back and count up what I've done. There's just always something else to do. There's always a challenge ahead. ~ Isaac Hayes, #NFDB
889:I love indoor plants. It makes any room feel open, fresh and homey. Keeping them alive is always a fun challenge for me! ~ Karlie Kloss, #NFDB
890:I need a goal. I need an objective. I need a challenge. I need a purpose. I need to contribute. I need to do something. ~ Cecelia Ahern, #NFDB
891:My life has always been a series of challenges and I'm psychologically-prepared but this is the biggest challenge of my life. ~ Ronaldo, #NFDB
892:Nevertheless, the DARPA Robotics Challenge did what it was designed to do: expose the limits of today’s robotic systems. ~ John Markoff, #NFDB
893:Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others. ~ Marcus Buckingham, #NFDB
894:The challenge, I learned, is to not be angry with anyone for the issues they are working out, which is true compassion. ~ Galen Stoller, #NFDB
895:the challenge of data analysis is how to bring vast amounts of information into productive contact with human intelligence. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
896:The oppressed…have a higher moral right to challenge their oppressors than these have to maintain their rule by force.”6 ~ James H Cone, #NFDB
897:Today, the greatest challenge facing American evangelicals is not persecution from the world, but seduction by the world. ~ C J Mahaney, #NFDB
898:You plan to be a challenge, do you?"
Juliana smiled angelically. "I agreed to remain, my lord. Not to remain silent. ~ Sarah MacLean,#NFDB
899:Apathy is a trap. There is no challenge... so there is no reward. Remember, there is always free cheese in a mousetrap. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
900:Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has. ~ Stanislaw Ulam, #NFDB
901:I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture. ~ Dawoud Bey, #NFDB
902:I feel like every artist has an opportunity to create something new and to challenge themselves to reach out to a new crowd. ~ Joe Jonas, #NFDB
903:I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge. ~ Steven Spielberg, #NFDB
904:In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves. ~ David Hockney, #NFDB
905:It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience and compassion. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
906:Lincoln understood that the greatest challenge for a leader in a democratic society is to educate public opinion. ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin, #NFDB
907:Organizing the working class in England or the U.S. or any other advanced capitalist country has been a daunting challenge. ~ Bill Ayers, #NFDB
908:Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic. ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti, #NFDB
909:Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts. ~ Carol Tavris, #NFDB
910:sleeping with fat women can be a challenge. There must be as many paths of human fat as there are ways of human death. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
911:The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. ~ Michael Crichton, #NFDB
912:The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it. ~ M C Halliday, #NFDB
913:There must be a complete interrogation of the thinking that has allowed such practices to operate without challenge... ~ Pedro A Noguera, #NFDB
914:The statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely doable. ~ David Knopfler, #NFDB
915:You looking for a firsthand demonstration of my heterosexual prowess, cowgirl? Because I'm more than up for a challenge. ~ Lorelei James, #NFDB
916:A challenge is something you stop wanting once you acquire it. I can’t know if you’re a challenge yet until I make you mine. ~ Katy Evans, #NFDB
917:But only companies that act like commodities are the ones who wake up every day with the challenge of how to differentiate. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
918:I demand a lot of myself. I want to learn. I can't sit back. I like a challenge, so I create a lot of challenges for myself. ~ Tom Cruise, #NFDB
919:I’d tell you that you can’t stay mad forever,” Ivy commented, “but I’m pretty sure you’d take that as a challenge. ~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes, #NFDB
920:It is a challenge that progressives face throughout the country. We lose when we are divided. We win when we are united. ~ Bernie Sanders, #NFDB
921:I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, how not to make a mess of it, has not yet been met. ~ Edsger Dijkstra, #NFDB
922:Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. ~ Nelson Algren, #NFDB
923:Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way. ~ Evelyn Glennie, #NFDB
924:Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority. ~ Stanley Milgram, #NFDB
925:Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. ~ Carl Sagan, #NFDB
926:To respond to any challenge according to one’s conditioning is merely to expand the prison, or to decorate its bars. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
927:Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it's going to be even tougher. ~ Jeff Bridges, #NFDB
928:Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
929:For me... it was always about the challenge of making this voyage... It was always a calculated risk, but life is a risk. ~ Jessica Watson, #NFDB
930:For me, juggling mommyhood and work is a challenge, but each day I learn little tricks to make it all come together. ~ Kourtney Kardashian, #NFDB
931:I believe no challenge is more important to the character of America than restoring the right to life to all human beings. ~ Ronald Reagan, #NFDB
932:I guess the biggest challenge to doing any kind of animation voice work is that you only have your voice to tell the story. ~ Kevin Conroy, #NFDB
933:Indies are always an extra challenge. The time is shorter because you have less money to spend and fewer days to shoot. ~ Salli Richardson, #NFDB
934:I never dislike anyone that I am in competition with. I welcome the challenge. Besides, I get along with just about everyone. ~ Dante Hall, #NFDB
935:I think that dying is the easy part of life; for in waking each day and living in every moment, therein lies the challenge ~ Jeremy Aldana, #NFDB
936:it’s not about immediate perfection. It’s about learning something over time: confronting a challenge and making progress. ~ Carol S Dweck, #NFDB
937:Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time. ~ Sam Keen, #NFDB
938:Solving the value-loading problem is a research challenge worthy of some of the next generation’s best mathematical talent. ~ Nick Bostrom, #NFDB
939:So that's the challenge, you have a big technical aspect of what you're doing whilst you're creatively trying to improvise. ~ Brian Henson, #NFDB
940:The challenge for us is this: How can we ensure that, when we try to help others, we do so as effectively as possible? ~ William MacAskill, #NFDB
941:The fundamental task of the evangelization of culture is the challenge to make God visible in the human face of Jesus. ~ Pope Benedict XVI, #NFDB
942:The thing I like about decathlon is also the thing I dislike: It's the maximum challenge, but also the maximum frustration. ~ Ashton Eaton, #NFDB
943:We can respond creatively to what we experience as life-depriving and become richer in spirit for having met the challenge. ~ Tad Crawford, #NFDB
944:A challenge is always important; as an actor, as a human, it's good to face challenges and it's good to push your boundaries. ~ Ed Speleers, #NFDB
945:As soon as jealousy is discovered, it is regarded by the person who is its object as a challenge which justifies deception. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
946:Change is the nature of life but challenge is the future of life. So challenge the changes. Never change the challenges. ~ Amitabh Bachchan, #NFDB
947:Every day there is something new you are working on. It is a challenge every day and that is what makes this game so great. ~ Anthony Rizzo, #NFDB
948:God's grace and mercy are bigger than the biggest challenge we may face today and the worst decision we might make today. ~ Jonathan Morris, #NFDB
949:Groups, like individuals, will rise to strange heights in answer to a challenge, and vegetate in the absence of a challenge. ~ Isaac Asimov, #NFDB
950:It's fairly easy to break hearts, Miss Duvall. The more interesting challenge is how to keep someone's love, not to lose it. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
951:Jesus's miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming. ~ Timothy Keller, #NFDB
952:Let's not underestimate the seriousness of the challenge. We have a deeply divided party. We have a deeply divided country. ~ Stephen Crabb, #NFDB
953:Often, the greatest challenge facing an organization is recognizing and acting on opportunity rather than solving a problem. ~ Peter Ginter, #NFDB
954:People believe what fits their worldview without challenge most of the time, no matter the facts in front of their faces. ~ Michael Anderle, #NFDB
955:Some men are afraid of women who challenge them and demand respect and answers. That's who I am and will always be. ~ LisaRaye McCoy Misick, #NFDB
956:The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace. ~ Cornel West, #NFDB
957:The most important part is to take on the challenge of protecting the ocean as if your life depends on it - because it does. ~ Sylvia Earle, #NFDB
958:Whenever there is a challenge, there is also an opportunity to face it, to demonstrate and develop our will and determination. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB
959:wherever a human being goes, there is a challenge. Be the best man you can, and your gods will look with favor upon you. ~ James A Michener, #NFDB
960:And if you don’t accept my challenge,” shouted the Iron Man, “then you’re a miserable cowardly reptile, not fit to bother with. ~ Ted Hughes, #NFDB
961:As you say, nature taunts us with our weaknesses.
Myrina took Klito by the shoulders, 'It is not a taunt, but a challenge. ~ Anne Fortier,#NFDB
962:But there is that feeling. And there’s always another challenge, and that keeps us humble. Life knocks you off your pedestal. ~ Pema Ch dr n, #NFDB
963:Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy. ~ Flavor Flav, #NFDB
964:Every actor hopes that the character that they're playing continues to be a challenge throughout their tenure of their show. ~ Reshma Shetty, #NFDB
965:For the High Achievers, Studying Gave Them The Pleasing, Absorbing Challenge of Flow Percent of the Hours They Spent as It. ~ Daniel Goleman, #NFDB
966:I don't know about the rest of the world, but I know in our region everyone is gunning to beat us. We have a new challenge. ~ Landon Donovan, #NFDB
967:IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A CHANGE, you must challenge not only the models of Unreality, but the paradigms that underwrite them. ~ Stafford Beer, #NFDB
968:In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you. ~ Jehane Noujaim, #NFDB
969:My mother was teaching us not to shy away in the face of a challenge. Not to shrink from what was uncomfortable. ~ Kimberly Williams Paisley, #NFDB
970:Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination. ~ Al Gore, #NFDB
971:The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble. ~ Jesse Helms, #NFDB
972:The challenge with those whom we love is that they are the only ones who can get close enough to us to cause us heartbreak. ~ Iyanla Vanzant, #NFDB
973:To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
974:When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape. ~ Andy Andrews, #NFDB
975:When leaders offer a right-size challenge, people contribute quickly, build confidence, and are readied for bigger challenges. ~ Liz Wiseman, #NFDB
976:Capture my heart and my mind. Become my ultimate challenge, greatest vexation, strongest desire, and most precious blessing. ~ Imania Margria, #NFDB
977:Challenge anything that could step into your plans with the intention of acting as a resistance towards your fulfillment. ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
978:Challenge yourself with something you know you could never do, and what you'll find is that you can overcome anything son. ~ Donnell Rawlings, #NFDB
979:Continuing to do stand-up is always a challenge because the audiences and the environments in which you work very often differ. ~ Bob Newhart, #NFDB
980:For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine. ~ Thomas Keating, #NFDB
981:For someone like me, who loves to sweat and push herself, it's a challenge to slow down, to sit, to breathe and hold poses. ~ Ellen DeGeneres, #NFDB
982:Heretics are the new leaders. The ones who challenge the status quo, who get out in front of their tribes, who create movements. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
983:Her therapist, Christian, would tell her to challenge the thought to use. To stop, take a moment, and analyze the error in it. ~ Blake Crouch, #NFDB
984:Hippies survived Nixon, but punk caved in to Ronald Reagan, know what I'm saying? Punk actually couldn't take a good challenge. ~ Legs McNeil, #NFDB
985:I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion. ~ Yann Martel, #NFDB
986:If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge, why would the effort matter, what would be the point. ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
987:If you really want to strengthen your confidence account, don’t wait on life to challenge you. Start challenging yourself. Like ~ Peter Voogd, #NFDB
988:I'm diffrent! I'm diffrent!" as if she were hurling a challenge with all her might beyond the limits of the sky. ~ Rachel Simon, #NFDB
989:It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent. ~ Tucker Carlson, #NFDB
990:It is our enemies who provide us with the challenge we need to develop the qualities of tolerance, patience, and compassion. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
991:It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age. ~ David Tang, #NFDB
992:Jesus calls us to a holiness that is positive, generous and openhearted. It's a difficult, daring challenge - do we accept it? ~ Justin Welby, #NFDB
993:Jesus’s miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming. ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB
994:Life imposes certain conditions upon us. If we don't accept the challenge, we become petrified. We don't have any real choice. ~ H kan Nesser, #NFDB
995:Most women get pregnant and even though it's a challenge physically and uncomfortable, they generally wanted to be pregnant. ~ Mary McCormack, #NFDB
996:That was the challenge. How can you tell the story here and make sure it goes the same way on the other side of the world? ~ Gabriel Iglesias, #NFDB
997:The challenge he faced was to become an effective visionary—that’s what turns a dreamer into someone who changes the world. ~ Brent Schlender, #NFDB
998:The challenge of good men is not to thwart change, but to mold it as it comes, so that it may benefit rather than destroy. ~ G Norman Lippert, #NFDB
999:The darkness could not touch him as he rode, for he was darker inside than even a moonless night could hope to challenge. ~ Michael G Manning, #NFDB
1000:With every challenge you face, there is an opportunity hidden that will lead you towards the path of wealth and abundance. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
1001:As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way. ~ Serj Tankian, #NFDB
1002:Brute force will sometimes get you through a challenge, but usually not without hurting and depleting yourself in the process. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
1003:Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have. ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
1004:For me, the new pictures are what I'm thinking about every day. The past is the past, no? Every day is a new challenge. ~ Patrick Demarchelier, #NFDB
1005:History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions. ~ Ken Burns, #NFDB
1006:I feel that audiences are very sophisticated, and part of my challenge is to keep them engaged because they are so complex. ~ Chiwetel Ejiofor, #NFDB
1007:I'll challenge senators and kings for the right to know the truth, but far be it from me to challenge a woman in her own kitchen. ~ Mira Grant, #NFDB
1008:Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge. ~ Anthony Kennedy, #NFDB
1009:The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet. ~ Jeffrey Sachs, #NFDB
1010:The greatest puzzle in the world, young man, the greatest challenge a man can face, is solving the riddle of a woman's heart. ~ Steve Hamilton, #NFDB
1011:The thing that's interesting as you get older as an artist is that the biggest challenge seems to be: how do you stay relevant? ~ Robert Longo, #NFDB
1012:The trouble is if we take no new steps to try a new challenge, our comfort zone doesn't seem just to stay still, but retract. ~ Philippa Perry, #NFDB
1013:We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it. ~ Joyce Carol Oates, #NFDB
1014:What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. ~ Matina Horner, #NFDB
1015:An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait. ~ Tom Peters, #NFDB
1016:Begin with your daily life. Take your life as a challenge and try to bring yourself into harmony with each thing in your life. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
1017:Determination means to use every challenge you meet as an opportunity to open your heart and soften, determined to not withdraw. ~ Pema Chodron, #NFDB
1018:he comes across as alarmingly unpredictable, leaping out at unsuspecting passers-by and startling them with a moral challenge. ~ Bettany Hughes, #NFDB
1019:I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality. ~ Criss Jami, #NFDB
1020:Invite people into your life who don't look or act like you. You might find they challenge your assumptions and make you grow. ~ Mellody Hobson, #NFDB
1021:I think I can do it,” Lulu said. She had a lot of confidence, and, as long as it wasn’t me forcing it on her, she loved a challenge. ~ Amy Chua, #NFDB
1022:I think we need an American jobs agenda for the climate challenge which means American renewable grid, more renewable energy. ~ Martin O Malley, #NFDB
1023:Ive always been into bodybuilding and keeping in shape, and I just challenge myself to see if I can continue to make improvements. ~ Kevin Nash, #NFDB
1024:Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work. ~ Pliny the Elder, #NFDB
1025:The challenge and the mission are to find real solutions to real problems on actual schedules with available resources. ~ Frederick P Brooks Jr, #NFDB
1026:The challenge of warriorship is to step out of the cocoon, to step out into space, by being brave and at the same time gentle ~ Chogyam Trungpa, #NFDB
1027:The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians. ~ Bear Grylls, #NFDB
1028:The ultimate test of a nation's character is not how it responds to adversity in war but how it meets the challenge of peace. ~ Richard M Nixon, #NFDB
1029:Americans have powerfully sensed that we're off track. There is a structural challenge in our economy that needs to be addressed. ~ Jeff Merkley, #NFDB
1030:Change is the essence of life; change is the great challenge, the great constant. Change is the ultimate teller of tales. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach, #NFDB
1031:Finding your purpose isn't enough. the challenge for our generation is creating a world where everyone has a sense of purpose. ~ Mark Zuckerberg, #NFDB
1032:Flow tends to occur when a person's skills are fully involved in overcoming a challenge that is just about manageable. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, #NFDB
1033:From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge. ~ Joseph Boyden, #NFDB
1034:I challenge the challenges. I like to face the problems. I don't run away from them. Whatever loss I have to face it, I face it. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
1035:Immortals are constrained by ancient rules. But a hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.
-Chiron ~ Rick Riordan,#NFDB
1036:I'm no longer sceptical. I no longer have any doubt at all. I think climate change is the major challenge facing the world. ~ David Attenborough, #NFDB
1037:I'm not surprised he wants to challenge me here, where no one can protect me. He thinks I'm a weak woman. He thinks wrong. ~ Heather Day Gilbert, #NFDB
1038:I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film. Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge. ~ Alan Lightman, #NFDB
1039:I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation. ~ Dustin Hoffman, #NFDB
1040:My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
1041:No one has actually gone further than The Sex Pistols, I don't think, in that cultural music arena. They still challenge people. ~ Julien Temple, #NFDB
1042:Put yourself in a growth mindset. Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going. ~ Carol S Dweck, #NFDB
1043:Seek out and embrace people who challenge you. You will learn more from them than from the folks who hold you to lower standards. ~ Guy Kawasaki, #NFDB
1044:That sounds suspiciously like faith in me,” he mocks. “You see faith where only a challenge has been issued. Will you fail? ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB
1045:The goal of providing basic literacy and education to all the world's people is still the most basic development challenge. ~ Talal Abu Ghazaleh, #NFDB
1046:The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin, #NFDB
1047:The love you have for your child is so much greater than any challenge you'll face as a parent, and that's what helps you through. ~ Hilary Duff, #NFDB
1048:Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay ~ Plato, #NFDB
1049:Undercompensation from the absence of a stressor, inverse hormesis, absence of challenge, degrades the best of the best. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
1050:Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself. ~ Muhammad Ali, #NFDB
1051:And I hope that we can learn the lessons of the past in looking at the current challenge that China poses to a ruling America. ~ Graham T Allison, #NFDB
1052:By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones. ~ Wes Nisker, #NFDB
1053:Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom. ~ Prince Charles, #NFDB
1054:Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety. ~ Benjamin Graham, #NFDB
1055:Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries. ~ Hu Jintao, #NFDB
1056:If a road ends, that creates a great opportunity to develop new abilities to continue! Welcome every challenge in your life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1057:If you challenge conventional wisdom, you will find ways to do things much better than they are currently done.
Bill James ~ Michael Lewis,#NFDB
1058:In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it. ~ Phil McGraw, #NFDB
1059:In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a curse. ~ Randy Alcorn, #NFDB
1060:I think it's very interesting for a director that enjoys thrillers and mysteries like I do to have the challenge to do that. ~ Jaume Collet Serra, #NFDB
1061:I think the biggest challenge is to continue on the same path. I think it's easy to become complacent from the success you've had. ~ Jason Derulo, #NFDB
1062:Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity. ~ Walter Raleigh, #NFDB
1063:Success is when you realize obstacles you face are challenges to help you become better - and your response equals the challenge. ~ Stephen Covey, #NFDB
1064:Surround yourself with good people, surround yourself with positivity and people who are going to challenge you to make you better. ~ Ali Krieger, #NFDB
1065:The book was a challenge, a secondhand paperback crammed with huge and violent emotions in small crowded type on waterlogged pages. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB
1066:The real challenge of life was not fulfilling one's dreams, but being willing to give them up for the sake of a greater call. ~ Penelope J Stokes, #NFDB
1067:There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that. ~ Jordan Knight, #NFDB
1068:The writing is always the easy part, provided I can get the good material. It's the getting of the good material that's a challenge. ~ Mary Roach, #NFDB
1069:To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education. ~ William Glasser, #NFDB
1070:You must be strong and make sure you spend less time with people who don’t encourage and challenge you to become the best you can be. ~ Hal Elrod, #NFDB
1071:[Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile. ~ Edward Teller, #NFDB
1072:He has directly challenged the authority of the government, and future discipline depends upon a resolute reply to this challenge. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, #NFDB
1073:I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing. ~ Pauline Collins, #NFDB
1074:It’s a dirty, dirty job, Abby, but I’m up to the challenge.” A wag of his brows and a wicked grin had me laughing at his innuendo. ~ Ashlan Thomas, #NFDB
1075:No country has so far implemented an e-governance system for over one billion people. Therefore, it is a big challenge for us. ~ A P J Abdul Kalam, #NFDB
1076:Staying together is a challenge. We all have to accept qualities in other people that aren't always exactly what we want or need. ~ Jack Nicholson, #NFDB
1077:That is what Americans do. We face a challenge - no matter how great - because we know that on the other side there is always hope. ~ John F Kerry, #NFDB
1078:The most talented people on the planet want an aspiration that is also inspiring. The challenge for leaders is to craft such a goal. ~ Laszlo Bock, #NFDB
1079:They say that politics is show business for ugly people, but as I always crack, what would I know about that? I like a challenge ~ George Galloway, #NFDB
1080:This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood. ~ Michael Medved, #NFDB
1081:To decide to film a movie again shot by shot, you must be masochistic to a certain degree because it is a much greater challenge. ~ Michael Haneke, #NFDB
1082:What’s the biggest challenge you faced? What are we up against here? What do you see as being the most difficult thing to get around? ~ Chris Voss, #NFDB
1083:All of the evidence highlights the implicit bargain that is offered to citizens: pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry about. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1084:beauty has been known to drive men wild, like the sirens did. Man’s challenge is to steer clear from it.” - Salvadore about temptation ~ Kailin Gow, #NFDB
1085:Every sad thing, every loss or hurt really a challenge to love that much more, really just another of beauty's many strongholds. ~ Leah Hager Cohen, #NFDB
1086:For Melinda and for me, the challenge is the same: how can we do the most good for the greatest number with the resources we have ~ Stephen R Covey, #NFDB
1087:For them it’s not about immediate perfection. It’s about learning something over time: confronting a challenge and making progress. ~ Carol S Dweck, #NFDB
1088:How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser. ~ Lou Holtz, #NFDB
1089:I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams. ~ Patrick Roy, #NFDB
1090:I feel like my figure is a challenge because I'm quite flat chested but I've got a booty so I've got to look for the right things. ~ Ellie Goulding, #NFDB
1091:If you don’t love something, you’re not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much. Mr. ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
1092:If you escape from a necessary fight, pray you will live long enough to wait for and deal with the same challenge that must be settled. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB
1093:If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed. ~ Robert Kiyosaki, #NFDB
1094:I preferred my boys dirtied up and restraining order persistent. This man probably took no for an answer. Jamie took it as a challenge. ~ J Daniels, #NFDB
1095:I've always got songs ready to go. It's not a challenge to conjure anything, it's just whether the music I supply is desirable. ~ Nicholas Thorburn, #NFDB
1096:My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer? ~ Joyce Maynard, #NFDB
1097:Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge. ~ Cleveland Amory, #NFDB
1098:Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges. ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB
1099:The bond of sisterhood, the friendship two women can have is something to hold on to—to cultivate and love. And so I challenge you. ~ Savannah Page, #NFDB
1100:The challenge is to keep it fresh. If you're talking about Britney Spears over and over, it's very hard to keep that interesting. ~ Chelsea Handler, #NFDB
1101:The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time? ~ Reid Hoffman, #NFDB
1102:the great challenge is finding ways to reset their physiology, so that their survival mechanisms stop working against them. ~ Bessel A van der Kolk, #NFDB
1103:The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it. ~ Darren Shan, #NFDB
1104:When you look back over your life, what are the three greatest ways God brought you through a challenge or set you up for victory? ~ Valorie Burton, #NFDB
1105:You'd challenge me and lose. You know it, I know it, but you'd still do it. Sometimes your sense of honor confuses the hell out of me. ~ Mira Grant, #NFDB
1106:Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life. ~ Carrie Fisher, #NFDB
1107:Find the heroism within yourself to play out the hand you've been dealt.
The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. ~ Darren Shan,#NFDB
1108:Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1109:Honestly, the challenge about being a mom is when something goes wrong - someone's sick, getting someone to doctor's appointments. ~ Soledad O Brien, #NFDB
1110:I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face. ~ Johnny Depp, #NFDB
1111:Intentions are flimsy in the face of opposing danger. Determination, on the other hand, is resilient to challenge. It’s the antidote. ~ Sarah Noffke, #NFDB
1112:I think the challenge is to takedifficult and painful times and turn them into something beneficial, something that makes you grow. ~ Michelle Akers, #NFDB
1113:Jack threw back his shoulders. "It would appear,as usual, that everything is up to me. Good thing I'm always ready for a challenge. ~ Kiersten White, #NFDB
1114:More than any other faith challenge I face, believing that I am who God says I am necessitates choosing what God says over what I feel. ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
1115:Nintendo's way is to challenge conventional thinking. Not just for the sake of doing things differently, but to do things better. ~ Reggie Fils Aime, #NFDB
1116:Our challenge is to live with all the sincerity that is in our hearts, and hope that those who doubt will come to see the truth. ~ Stephen P Kiernan, #NFDB
1117:Something that's fun for me is a challenge. When you have a challenge and you take on that challenge and succeed, that's the best feeling. ~ Amy Lee, #NFDB
1118:The challenge is trying to set people free, and help them be 'successful' in the world, which are almost always opposite objectives. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
1119:The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us ~ Emmet Gowin, #NFDB
1120:The only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge. Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB
1121:There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now. ~ James Baldwin, #NFDB
1122:There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now. ~ James A Baldwin, #NFDB
1123:To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge. ~ Geezer Butler, #NFDB
1124:We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge. ~ Lucy Lawless, #NFDB
1125:When you're acting you put so much of yourself into working. As much fun as it is, it's still hard work and it's still a challenge. ~ Dakota Fanning, #NFDB
1126:An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
1127:I don't intend to kind of like wind down and get decrepit. I have a challenge to keep myself going. To eat right. To exercise. ~ James son of Zebedee, #NFDB
1128:I dont really like simple characters too much; its too easy. I like a challenge, and I like characters you connect with on screen. ~ Kodi Smit McPhee, #NFDB
1129:If God is real, why does he align perfectly with our views? We should expect God to challenge us on what we think is right somewhere ~ Timothy Keller, #NFDB
1130:I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled. ~ Cate Tiernan, #NFDB
1131:It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble. ~ Robert J Shiller, #NFDB
1132:I think every actor is looking for a challenge, and to play something different, and to be a part of a project with other great actors. ~ Hilary Duff, #NFDB
1133:It’s a nice challenge to escape your reality. I think that’s why actors do what we do. We like to play other people. It’s therapeutic. ~ Stella Maeve, #NFDB
1134:Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another. ~ Louis Farrakhan, #NFDB
1135:That's what really seems to be the more difficult aspect - to have the men break through and challenge the best players in the world. ~ Michael Chang, #NFDB
1136:The prophet disdains those for whom God's presence is a comfort and security; to him it is a challenge, an incessant demand. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel, #NFDB
1137:There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation. ~ Kingman Brewster Jr, #NFDB
1138:The Saudi authorities are concerned that IS will inspire Saudi jihadists to challenge the monarchy's legitimacy and seek to overthrow it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1139:The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge. ~ Darren Hardy, #NFDB
1140:The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
1141:Trust God more than you trust that thought. Don’t try to fight those thoughts with your willpower alone—challenge them with God’s Word. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
1142:We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive. ~ Alexander Eliot, #NFDB
1143:We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet. ~ William O Douglas, #NFDB
1144:Even as a kid I would find the one person whose attention I didn't have and I would zone in on that person. It became a challenge. ~ Justin Timberlake, #NFDB
1145:…it seems we may best be able to inhabit a place where we are not faced with the additional challenge of having to be there.” (p.23) ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
1146:Our lives are rich with opportunities and our challenge is to live them to the full. All of us can be the creative artists of our lives. ~ Roger Walsh, #NFDB
1147:Revenge is ruled out. Instead, we are to find creative, surprising new ways of dealing with people who hurt us. This is a huge challenge. ~ Tom Wright, #NFDB
1148:The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the movie going consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for? ~ Johnny Depp, #NFDB
1149:The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us? ~ Dorothy Day, #NFDB
1150:Winning Strategists are certain of triumph before seeking a challenge. Losing Strategists are certain to challenge before seeking a triumph. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB
1151:And the challenge in the next round would be determined by the winner of this test. "Like, what, the DOM-matrix?" ~ Lucian BaneTara Reese ~ Lucian Bane, #NFDB
1152:Bank accounts for each household is a national priority for us. We need to rise to the occasion & successfully overcome this challenge. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB
1153:came. Despite the huge challenge, it was also a project right after my heart and fired my imagination too. We moved from the design ~ A P J Abdul Kalam, #NFDB
1154:I enjoyed the hands-on nature of this work, and the challenge of creating an environment from which the subject would spring to life. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1155:If I had train someone to fight Anderson Silva that would probably be my biggest challenge yet as far as being prepared for a striker. ~ Shawn Tompkins, #NFDB
1156:If I have to, I will use one challenge after another to dismantle governmental operations that I consider violations of the Constitution. ~ Greg Abbott, #NFDB
1157:I'm more interested in melodic things. I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent a melody on the spot. ~ Frank Zappa, #NFDB
1158:I think today the church faces a very real challenge in not repeating the errors of the past, in sort of a stand off, a fear of science. ~ George Coyne, #NFDB
1159:Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door. ~ H G Wells, #NFDB
1160:The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market. ~ Jonathan Dimbleby, #NFDB
1161:The challenge is to just focus on what's actually happening, focus on the people who get it, and focus on the people who are listening. ~ Amanda Palmer, #NFDB
1162:The challenge is to translate the song into something that works on the stage. It's pop music, but I try to keep it as loose as possible. ~ Tove Styrke, #NFDB
1163:The elementary notion, what gave Toynbee's work its popular appeal, was readily capsuled in the ideas of "challenge" and "response. ~ Daniel J Boorstin, #NFDB
1164:The movie that you'll be in is a new challenge. Photography is just the shot - one day, two days - and the next day you're gone. ~ Patrick Demarchelier, #NFDB
1165:The only way I can work is if I care and am passionate about a project, so the challenge is to find projects that I feel that way about. ~ David Heyman, #NFDB
1166:These hiding places may have been helping you cope, but they are not who you are.
These good girl voices challenge your identity. ~ Emily P Freeman,#NFDB
1167:To look in the mirror and smile is a challenge for many people. Those who do so without the slightest scowl are indeed fortunate. ~ Richelle E Goodrich, #NFDB
1168:You'd challenge me and lose. You know it, I know it, but you'd still do it. Sometimes your sense of honor confuses the hell out of me. ~ Seanan McGuire, #NFDB
1169:After you get a season under your belt, you learn a lot of lessons. It's a much bigger challenge, logistically, in terms of production. ~ Ronald D Moore, #NFDB
1170:As long as life continues, the creative challenge is to tussle, play, and make love with the present moment while giving your unique gift. ~ David Deida, #NFDB
1171:Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove. ~ William Ralph Inge, #NFDB
1172:I believe that if I committed to basketball, I could make an impact in the NBA. I now see football as my job and my greatest challenge. ~ Julius Peppers, #NFDB
1173:impossible is just the kind of challenge we’ve been waiting for. What the world needs most is Superman. What the world needs most is us. ~ Steven Kotler, #NFDB
1174:In fact, we urge you to focus on one challenge, identify the best way to overcome it and create a daily habit that reinforces this behavior. ~ S J Scott, #NFDB
1175:I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't know they could until now. ~ Ricky Gervais, #NFDB
1176:[Motherhood] is an incredibly huge challenge. You need support. You need resources. You need access to childcare and good safe schools. ~ Chrissy Teigen, #NFDB
1177:Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge. ~ Timothy Leary, #NFDB
1178:Some people say that you shouldn’t operate from a place of fear,’ Constance went on, ‘but if there is no fear, how is there a challenge? ~ Cecelia Ahern, #NFDB
1179:So the challenge for us is to live in such a way that we are radically dependent on and desperate for the power that only God can provide. ~ David Platt, #NFDB
1180:The art feeds my mind and soul and the job pays my bills. Finding the balance can be a challenge, but I am very fortunate for it. ~ Guinevere Van Seenus, #NFDB
1181:The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge. ~ Tony Blair, #NFDB
1182:The challenge there is that ISIL doesn't have an air force, so the damage done there is not against ISIL, it's against the Syrian regime. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
1183:We need to make sure we have the best people we can in our operations, and that is a constant challenge. There is always room to improve. ~ James Packer, #NFDB
1184:When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses. ~ Karl Lagerfeld, #NFDB
1185:Anytime you have any opportunity to be with the national team it's an honor and a challenge, and it is something I am looking forward to. ~ Heather Mitts, #NFDB
1186:Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
1187:Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part. ~ Frances Parkinson Keyes, #NFDB
1188:I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man. ~ Romain Gary, #NFDB
1189:I think it's always a challenge to adapt something from one medium to another - a novel into a film or a play into a movie or whatever. ~ Julian Fellowes, #NFDB
1190:It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests. ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
1191:It was always a challenge for me to prove that a Russian financial investor can be as successful in the West as back at home in Russia. ~ Alisher Usmanov, #NFDB
1192:Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has. ~ Lou Reed, #NFDB
1193:The biggest challenge to being an actor is when you're not working, just being unemployed, the downtime and not having anything to do. ~ Alden Ehrenreich, #NFDB
1194:The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole. ~ Peter Block, #NFDB
1195:The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
1196:The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else. —E. E. CUMMINGS, POET (1894–1962) ~ Mark Divine, #NFDB
1197:The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them. ~ Woodrow Wilson, #NFDB
1198:There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,” she said. “That’s one of the reasons that we have poetry. ~ Ava Dellaira, #NFDB
1199:The Sessions becomes a dance of joy in the midst of severe challenge, and a movie with a light spirit that lifts a tale of heavy fate. ~ Lisa Schwarzbaum, #NFDB
1200:You can always stage a bigger battle than the one you have to face. Watch what it does to your motivation going into the real challenge. ~ Steve Chandler, #NFDB
1201:You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism. ~ J D Hayworth, #NFDB
1202:Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring. ~ Sugar Ray Leonard, #NFDB
1203:Challenge yourself to find the good and beautiful thing inside of everyone. It’s there. It’s your job to find it. Not their job to show you. ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
1204:Drawing is like the first kiss. It carries within it the deepest emotion and the challenge of the first step. It is the first cry after birth ~ Ala Bashir, #NFDB
1205:Haiti, like any place, has its security problems; it has a great challenge in terms of establishing a kind of globally acceptable rule of law. ~ Sean Penn, #NFDB
1206:His lips quirk. “A challenge is something you stop wanting once you acquire it. I can’t know if you’re a challenge yet until I make you mine. ~ Katy Evans, #NFDB
1207:How can the creation challenge and control the Creator? Oh mortal man, know that there is an immortal God with an immortal power! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, #NFDB
1208:How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge of the memoirist. ~ Tracy Kidder, #NFDB
1209:If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge? Why would the effort matter? What would be the point? - Odd Thomas ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
1210:I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new. ~ Isabel Lucas, #NFDB
1211:Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and to be willing to challenge their own preconceptions. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1212:It’s important to constantly challenge and stretch yourself, and not be stuck in a job where you don’t feel like you are growing or learning. ~ Tony Hsieh, #NFDB
1213:It's the challenge of trying to evoke any kind of sympathy for a role that ordinarily we would say, "Oh, this is a bad guy" and dismiss him. ~ Dan Stevens, #NFDB
1214:Much as soldiers come back, they've been in combat or the edge of it and suddenly that adjustment back to civilian life is a real challenge. ~ Mark Dayton, #NFDB
1215:My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo. ~ Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, #NFDB
1216:Take a war to make you spend. Take a jam to make you think. Take a challenge to make you great. Rest of the time you sit around lazy, you. ~ Alfred Bester, #NFDB
1217:The criticism is that it's too simple, but my feeling is it's more of a challenge making someone feel an emotion in four notes than in 25 notes. ~ Kenny G, #NFDB
1218:The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can. ~ Don Murray, #NFDB
1219:The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders. ~ Herbert Hoover, #NFDB
1220:The great challenge is to discover that we are truly invited to participate in the divine life of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. ~ Henri Nouwen, #NFDB
1221:This book is dedicated to all those who fell by the airside, for nothing is wasted, and every apparent failure is but a challenge to others. ~ Amy Johnson, #NFDB
1222:To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity - there is the challenge. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel, #NFDB
1223:To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
1224:Two brains are better than one. You've twice the brain capacity and you have two sets of experiences and genes to bring to any challenge. ~ Philippa Perry, #NFDB
1225:We don't really have a star system in Canada, so to try and get people to watch your show or stand-up is always a challenge. That's the trick. ~ Gerry Dee, #NFDB
1226:Because discipline begets discipline. When you step up to a challenge before you, your ramped-up resources rub off on other areas of your life. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1227:But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, #NFDB
1228:Dominance. Control. These things the unjust seek most of all. And so it is the duty of the just to defy dominance and to challenge control. ~ Robert Fanney, #NFDB
1229:grip My hand tightly and look for growth opportunities. Instead of bemoaning the loss of your comfort, accept the challenge of something new. ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
1230:I could stay making nice safe BBC movies for the rest of my life, so I decided to risk it. It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone. ~ Anthony Hopkins, #NFDB
1231:If we feel secure In the depths of our heart, We shall not challenge anybody, For inner confidence Is nothing short of Complete satisfaction. ~ Sri Chinmoy, #NFDB
1232:If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
1233:I like to do projects that challenge me, and hopefully in turn challenge the audience, or open your eyes to something you're not aware of. ~ Mia Wasikowska, #NFDB
1234:I'm always interested in finding new aesthetic problems to deal with and challenge myself, even if the aesthetic problem is one of content. ~ Stephen Shore, #NFDB
1235:People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and challenge of the work itself. ~ Teresa Amabile, #NFDB
1236:The biggest challenge for newspapers has been that the public has far more choices for news, information, and diversion than in the past. ~ Robert G Picard, #NFDB
1237:The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
1238:The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and to challenge ourselves without being crushed. ~ Timothy Keller, #NFDB
1239:The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present ~ Robert Kennedy, #NFDB
1240:The real challenge is to remember to see clearly when everything's flying around us and we're wrapped up in our [emotional] wounds and traumas. ~ Mark Nepo, #NFDB
1241:The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it. ~ Marianne Williamson, #NFDB
1242:We've got to keep 6 billion people happy without destroying our planet. It's the biggest challenge we've ever faced....but we're taking it on. ~ Hank Green, #NFDB
1243:Who says reading should be easy? Shouldn't it challenge you as hard sometimes as love. Maybe "hard" is not the right word in this context. Ha! ~ Hilton Als, #NFDB
1244:You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's a real challenge. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB
1245:A clear and current organizational chart, with some discussion, can clear up far more of the culture challenge than you might think. It’s ~ Jonathan Raymond, #NFDB
1246:Everything that you do is a challenge. And acting is just building up your concentration and being able to listen and to do the ridiculous. ~ Clint Eastwood, #NFDB
1247:Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge. ~ Michael Bennet, #NFDB
1248:If the oppressed must be alert enough to follow the rulers' instructions, they are therefore conscious enough to be able to challenge them. ~ Terry Eagleton, #NFDB
1249:I guess it's a kind of a goal for any actor to be the lead of a movie. Not for ego reasons, but because it is creatively the biggest challenge. ~ Seth Rogen, #NFDB
1250:I look at what I have as a challenge and I could list a whole bunch of different challenges. And I choose not to be daunted by any of them. ~ Justin Trudeau, #NFDB
1251:I think doing different accents is part of the job of acting, really. It's something else that I quite enjoy the challenge of, to be honest. ~ David Tennant, #NFDB
1252:I vote, I challenge Bathymaasy and we shoot arrows at you dearest brother." Artemis
Set and Bathymaas laughed.
Apollo, not so much. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
1253:My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now. ~ Cameron Diaz, #NFDB
1254:Nearly every problem has been solved by someone, somewhere. The challenge of the 21st century is to find out what works and scale it up. ~ William J Clinton, #NFDB
1255:Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside. ~ Andy Stanley, #NFDB
1256:No, he needed to mould the context, to shape his environment in a way that would stimulate and spark, that would challenge and charge him. ~ Mark Billingham, #NFDB
1257:Perhaps because there are those who believe that authority is all of a piece and that to challenge it anywhere is to threaten it everywhere. ~ Arthur Miller, #NFDB
1258:Tennis has always been a big challenge to me and to be able to play that kind of tennis - well, only tennis can produce these feelings for me. ~ Steffi Graf, #NFDB
1259:That’s the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don’t annoy your friends with your whining. ~ Marc Maron, #NFDB
1260:The allure of immodesty is not in what is seen but what is not seen. Modesty issues a challenge for one man to romantically earn your virtue. ~ Dannah Gresh, #NFDB
1261:The authors challenge that the marriage in which one cannot express disappointment has become an idol – The Thing that Cannot Be Questioned. ~ John Eldredge, #NFDB
1262:The challenge now is to renovate the baroque structure that the Kyoto Plan has become—or else scrap it and get ready to start all over. ~ Christopher Flavin, #NFDB
1263:Well,” Etta said weakly, “she's always told me a good challenge builds character.”
“Then we'll have an excess of it,” he said dryly. ~ Alexandra Bracken,#NFDB
1264:We love comfort, and people make a lot of money selling us comfort, but I would challenge the notion that comfort is usually good for us. ~ Daniel Lieberman, #NFDB
1265:What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB
1266:When we encounter an unexpected challenge of threat the only way to save ourselves is to hold on tight to the people around us and not let go. ~ Shawn Achor, #NFDB
1267:Every once in a while, life threw you an opportunity to redefine yourself. You could either rise up to the challenge or live with the regret. ~ Ruth Cardello, #NFDB
1268:I like poems that affect me emotionally and also provoke me to further, deeper thought. I enjoy challenge, but not, I think, for its own sake. ~ James Arthur, #NFDB
1269:In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you're playing ~ Kwame Anthony Appiah, #NFDB
1270:I remembered Duffy's challenge. Imagine a world worth living in, a world worth fighting for. I closed my eyes and allowed my hopes to soar. ~ Leslie Feinberg, #NFDB
1271:Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence. ~ Peter Drucker, #NFDB
1272:Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do. ~ Karen DeCrow, #NFDB
1273:Part of the challenge of the Barack Obama campaign was to try to neutralize that white backlash, and of course, he was masterful in doing that. ~ Cornel West, #NFDB
1274:Sometimes women entrepreneurs are their own challenge, [in terms of] believing in themselves. There is no need to apologise for being ambitious. ~ Tory Burch, #NFDB
1275:Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through. ~ Viktor E Frankl, #NFDB
1276:Technology changing the world so quickly. I think it's even more difficult for older people to keep up in the world. And that's a challenge. ~ Fisher Stevens, #NFDB
1277:The best way to get through any challenge is to step back, look up at the sky, breathe deeply in and out, smile if you have to…then dive in. ~ Waylon H Lewis, #NFDB
1278:The challenge for any artist—and we are all creating something on the canvas of our lives—is to do our work well while letting go of the result. ~ Jeff Goins, #NFDB
1279:The challenge that climate change presents to us, both in Australia and around the world, won't be solved by ramping up the nuclear industry. ~ Peter Garrett, #NFDB
1280:there is nothing else in life like getting to the summit. What’s more, I’ve always felt that the greater the challenge, the greater the reward. ~ Ed Viesturs, #NFDB
1281:There was an electric anger in his gaze, and a sort of challenge that made Simon long to hit him with something heavy. Like a pickup truck. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
1282:We have to challenge ourselves and be innovative so as to change the world. Get to this level of thinking. No small dreams, do big things! ~ Chris Oyakhilome, #NFDB
1283:During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events. ~ Tariq Ali, #NFDB
1284:For any scientist the real challenge is not to stay within the secure garden of the known but to venture out into the wilds of the unknown. ~ Marcus du Sautoy, #NFDB
1285:I always get offered the pretty, popular girl roles, but I want to do something dark, really challenge myself and get out of my comfort level. ~ Ashley Benson, #NFDB
1286:If you are at Coca-Cola, the creative challenge is one of maintaining - rather than creating - a tremendous level of consumption for your products. ~ John Kao, #NFDB
1287:If you have a pre-conceived idea of the world, you edit information. When it leads you down a certain road, you don't challenge your own beliefs. ~ David Icke, #NFDB
1288:I have a very strong opinion. I'm absolutely against it. I'm against the challenge system. I'm for the way it is right now. Don't change that. ~ Roger Federer, #NFDB
1289:My tendency as an actor is, when there's a certain energy, I feel a challenge to match it, to come up to that plate and play on the same level. ~ Carla Gugino, #NFDB
1290:Politics is the art of the possible’?” “Quite true—which is why only second-rate minds go into it. Genius likes to challenge the impossible. ~ Arthur C Clarke, #NFDB
1291:Raising parent awareness on how to support their students to be safe, responsible and discerning users of technology continues to be a challenge. ~ Susan Mann, #NFDB
1292:Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible. ~ Jimmy Connors, #NFDB
1293:The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history. ~ Lawrence Summers, #NFDB
1294:The relations between a man and his or her god is a personal matter; you can't go out and challenge the belief of people in a superior being. ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
1295:The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field. ~ Ty Cobb, #NFDB
1296:You always want to challenge yourself and work with people you respect. You can't always go by genres, but it's always fun to challenge yourself. ~ Mila Kunis, #NFDB
1297:You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things. ~ Nate Berkus, #NFDB
1298:But let's not assume that trade is the only challenge we have in the economy. I think it is a part of it, and I've said what I'm going to do. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
1299:Challenge yourself to find the good and beautiful thing inside of everyone. It's there. It's your job to find it. Not their job to show you. p149 ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
1300:Computers are here to stay. It is a major challenge for the future to use computers efficiently in combinatorics without losing its special appeal. ~ Noga Alon, #NFDB
1301:Crime is common. Logic is rare.” Why? Logic is boring. We think we’ve already figured it out. In pushing past this preconception lies the challenge ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1302:Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
1303:If you don’t trust the Bible enough to let it challenge and correct your thinking, how could you ever have a personal relationship with God? ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB
1304:I love characters that are very layered and complex. It's more exciting and different than any simple role- plus, I love a good challenge. ~ Lorraine Toussaint, #NFDB
1305:I'm a tek addict myself. No matter where you are, people are looking for something to tear them away from reality, challenge their state of mind. ~ Greg Evigan, #NFDB
1306:In half a century of challenge and learning and trial-and-error, each of us had struggled from hard times to a present lovely beyond our dreams. ~ Richard Bach, #NFDB
1307:I suppose that one is always tempted to challenge those who think that they and they alone possess the truth or the way or the key to the mystery. ~ Gore Vidal, #NFDB
1308:[...] it's about challenge and fulfillment, finding the perfect combination of striving and achievement that comes from reaching a big goal. ~ Chris Guillebeau, #NFDB
1309:No challenge can stop you if you have the courage to keep moving forward in the face of your greatest fears and biggest challenges. Be courageous. ~ Jon Gordon, #NFDB
1310:Parenting is a gift for adults’ spiritual growth spurts, and it’s a challenge to think of anything else that fills a home with more laughter! ~ Gabriel Cousens, #NFDB
1311:Taking baths in Africa was a real challenge at times. I got real dirty, and sometimes I stayed like that for 2 days. That was pretty hard going. ~ Kim Basinger, #NFDB
1312:The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole. ~ Joyce Carol Oates, #NFDB
1313:The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect. ~ Ferdinand Marcos, #NFDB
1314:This is the greatest challenge of faith, says Polish, “to live with a God we cannot fully understand, whose actions we explain at our own peril. ~ James Martin, #NFDB
1315:Today our challenge is to both imagine and create the new technologies that can make the 21st century more peaceful and prosperous than the 20th. ~ Peter Thiel, #NFDB
1316:Ultimately, then, the purpose of every life challenge is the same: to grant us the opportunity to embrace that which we have so far resisted. ~ Robert Schwartz, #NFDB
1317:A leader’s challenge...is to explain why the old world went away, show people what the new world looks like and get them excited to be a part of it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1318:Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church. ~ Timothy Radcliffe, #NFDB
1319:Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few. ~ Ken Robinson, #NFDB
1320:I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
1321:If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis. ~ Patrick Swayze, #NFDB
1322:I'm always looking for a new challenge. There are a lot of mountains to climb out there. When I run out of mountains, I'll build a new one. ~ Sylvester Stallone, #NFDB
1323:I only have one why, and my challenge is to make sure the things I say and the things I do remain consistent for as often and as long as possible. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
1324:I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go. ~ Mehmet Oz, #NFDB
1325:I still think I have the speed and the variations also to win the matches, but its very good competition and also a great challenge for me too. ~ Martina Hingis, #NFDB
1326:I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam. ~ Kareem Abdul Jabbar, #NFDB
1327:I think that ultimately what drives my decisions is if I think the opportunity is going to challenge me in a way that makes me better as an actor. ~ Dane DeHaan, #NFDB
1328:It is therefore always open to Americans to challenge a law abridging free speech and assembly by showing that there was no emergency justifying it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1329:Rock n roll is what I would die for, but I love music and I love exploring, taking the challenge of playing, writing or singing... or producing. ~ Andrew Taylor, #NFDB
1330:The challenge is to develop visions, strategies, design and innovation, not just for surviving but for thriving in this new globalising society. ~ Peter Ellyard, #NFDB
1331:The man who succeeds proves himself an expert puzzle-solver, and the challenge of the puzzle is an important part of what usually drives him on. ~ Thomas S Kuhn, #NFDB
1332:The screen is a window through which one sees a virtual world. The challenge is to make that world look real, act real, sound real, feel real. ~ Ivan Sutherland, #NFDB
1333:the stoutest Nehru defender must admit that the Indian prime minister responded poorly and also unwisely to the challenge that China presented ~ Rajmohan Gandhi, #NFDB
1334:We were taught never to give up, never to passively accept fate, but to exhaust every last ounce of will and hope in the face of any challenge. ~ Edward Kennedy, #NFDB
1335:Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it and to choose to learn with wisdom. ~ Gary Zukav, #NFDB
1336:Breaking the rules just for fun is too easy—the real challenge lies in perfecting the art of knowing which rules to accept and which to rewrite. ~ Sophia Amoruso, #NFDB
1337:Celebrate each accomplishment on your way to reaching your goal. Each challenge conquered whether large or small is a positive step to greatness. ~ Robert Cheeke, #NFDB
1338:Face your life Its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken” “Leave no path untaken,” repeated Bod. “A difficult challenge, but I can try my best. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB
1339:I enjoy writing the same way I enjoy doing standup. Part of the challenge is being creative and making it work no matter what the constraints. ~ Greg Fitzsimmons, #NFDB
1340:I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks, #NFDB
1341:If there is a fundamental challenge within these stories, it is simply to change our lurking suspicion that some lives matter less than other lives. ~ Greg Boyle, #NFDB
1342:I like challenges. If you're involved, as one is, in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself. You don't want to repeat what you're done before. ~ Jared Harris, #NFDB
1343:In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations. ~ Jeff Bridges, #NFDB
1344:Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and to be willing to challenge their own preconceptions. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
1345:It's a challenge to work a character's arc into a format in which you only have a very limited amount of time to grow and develop a character. ~ Ginnifer Goodwin, #NFDB
1346:It's a physical challenge. It's a spiritual challenge. I'm studying almost every day a different symphony, not returning to any one for a week. ~ Gustavo Dudamel, #NFDB
1347:Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant. ~ Mira Nair, #NFDB
1348:My personal interest in ordinary people is unlimited, but I am fascinated by the challenge of portraying true greatness adequately with my camera. ~ Yousuf Karsh, #NFDB
1349:People have the inner resources to become anything they want to be. Challenge just becomes the vehicle for tapping into those inner resources. ~ Erik Weihenmayer, #NFDB
1350:She taught me to challenge authority and question the system. The only way it backfired on her was that I constantly challenged and questioned her. ~ Trevor Noah, #NFDB
1351:The challenge, it turns out, isn’t in perfecting your ability to know when to start and when to stand by. The challenge is getting into the habit of ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
1352:[The dancing] was a challenge. It was fun, though. I was nervous, at first, because I danced so long ago that it was weird picking it back up. ~ Evan Rachel Wood, #NFDB
1353:The funny thing about courage is that it is often more of an internal journey than it is an external challenge – thought it may present as one ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru, #NFDB
1354:The major challenge of most executives is not understanding the practice of leadership - it is practicing their understanding of leadership. ~ Marshall Goldsmith, #NFDB
1355:Transforming the European Union into a single State with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age ~ Joschka Fischer, #NFDB
1356:Video can seem like just another challenge to overcome, but I see a major increase in my business and brand awareness, all from the power of video. ~ Lewis Howes, #NFDB
1357:We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1358:We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that’s exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which. ~ Jodi Picoult, #NFDB
1359:We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate. ~ Jesse Jackson, #NFDB
1360:You cannot kill and eat animals and expect to help them, much less challenge the food system that profits from our choice to keep eating them. ~ James McWilliams, #NFDB
1361:…a cheerful black shadow reared up behind him as he spoke, thundering a happy challenge to my Dark Passenger, which slid forward and bellowed back. ~ Jeff Lindsay, #NFDB
1362:Does the work yield insights? Did it challenge me to think? Does it suggest a different view of the world? Do I know something I didn't know before? ~ Gareth Cook, #NFDB
1363:Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
1364:Filming is always a challenge because I'm not used to it. But I approach it head-on. I'm not technically brilliant, but it's the spirit that counts. ~ Martin Parr, #NFDB
1365:if half the cells inside of you are not you, doesn't that challenge the whole notion of me as a singular pronoun, let alone as the author of my fate? ~ John Green, #NFDB
1366:If people don't like what I'm doing I really don't have time to hear it. I'm doing something good with my life and I challenge them to do the same. ~ Eddie Vedder, #NFDB
1367:If you come up with a new product, you can very easily track its contribution to the bottom line. But often the challenge can be both large and subtle. ~ John Kao, #NFDB
1368:I like to challenge myself and give myself a timeline. It pushes me to be more creative and actually do these things, not just dream about them. ~ Balthazar Getty, #NFDB
1369:I think, it is a challenge to get critics or whoever to see past what you wear and makeup and the way you look and just concentrate on the music. ~ Ellie Goulding, #NFDB
1370:I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
1371:My sense is if the Episcopal Church can't stand challenge within its own ranks, then it is not a church I would want to be a member of anyway. ~ John Shelby Spong, #NFDB
1372:Nothing - I mean nothing - and no-one - I mean no-one - will stop me going through to the end, and trying to be ready for the challenge of 2007. ~ Nicolas Sarkozy, #NFDB
1373:Tests were always easy for me. I saw them as games, saw myself as being in a contest against a mythical adversary, and welcomed the challenge. ~ Walter Dean Myers, #NFDB
1374:The world is full of suffering and exploitation, and that fact keeps one in touch with the realities that make one's behavior a moral challenge. ~ Daniel Berrigan, #NFDB
1375:When people are convinced you want something FOR them rather than something FROM them, they are less likely to be offended when you challenge them. ~ Andy Stanley, #NFDB
1376:Working from home is so, so hard because I want to be present for them and yet there's so much to do work-wise. That's the biggest challenge for me. ~ Andy Serkis, #NFDB
1377:Yesterday's success formula is often today's obsolete dogma ... We must continually challenge the past so that we can renew ourselves each day. ~ Sumantra Ghoshal, #NFDB
1378:AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching. ~ Mangosuthu Buthelezi, #NFDB
1379:Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, #NFDB
1380:High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs them neither study nor labor. ~ Jean de la Bruyere, #NFDB
1381:Honestly, every movie I do in America, the only challenge for me is English. I've done everything already, for me it's pretty easy. Only the English. ~ Jackie Chan, #NFDB
1382:I study the bible regularly, meet with older wiser mentors weekly, and keep a group of guys in my life who challenge me spiritually. That keeps me moving. ~ LeCrae, #NFDB
1383:I think people get too comfortable, in just doing what they do every week. And I'm all about challenge and change, and I like to read the audience. ~ Trish Stratus, #NFDB
1384:Science was meant to be hard. After all, what was science but a bunch of bored human beings trying to challenge themselves when faith became too easy ~ Joseph Fink, #NFDB
1385:She taught me to challenge authority and question the system. The only way it backfired on her was that I constantly challenged and questioned her. — ~ Trevor Noah, #NFDB
1386:That's the pleasure and challenge of reading great novels; you get to see yourself as others see you and you get to see others as they see themselves. ~ John Green, #NFDB
1387:The rush of creating sounds and mixing sounds is always an interesting challenge, especially for someone like me, who doesn't know about sound. ~ Hank Williams III, #NFDB
1388:Whoever orders chicken cordon bleu at Chonchy Joe’s Gasoline and Beef Jerky Emporium is asking for the intestinal challenge that they will soon face. ~ Johnny Shaw, #NFDB
1389:Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults. ~ John Lasseter, #NFDB
1390:An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence ~ Christopher Hitchens, #NFDB
1391:As a woman, as a lesbian, as a Jew, much of what I call history, others will not. But answering that challenge of exclusion is the work of a lifetime. ~ Joan Nestle, #NFDB
1392:A warrior lives by challenge. The average man sees everything in his life as either a blessing or a curse; the warrior sees everything as a challenge. ~ Th un Mares, #NFDB
1393:But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds. ~ Robert Duvall, #NFDB
1394:Codecademy’s symbols of progression and instantaneous variable feedback tap into rewards of the self, turning a difficult path into an engaging challenge ~ Nir Eyal, #NFDB
1395:College basketball was one of the hardest, most rewarding experiences of my life. Every single day on the court was a mental and physical challenge. ~ Ashley Graham, #NFDB
1396:Dialogue starts with the willingness to challenge our own thinking, to recognize that any certainty we have is, at best, a hypothesis about the world. ~ Peter Senge, #NFDB
1397:Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works. ~ Mike Easley, #NFDB
1398:If we can directly address our problem and focus our energies on finding a solution, for instance, the problem can be transformed into a challenge. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB
1399:In other cases the challenge is to appreciate how, though human physiology resembles that of other species, we use the physiology in novel ways. ~ Robert M Sapolsky, #NFDB
1400:It actually felt harder, not easier, to be with people. The toughest challenge was my face; maintaining a 'normal' expression was utterly exhausting. ~ Marian Keyes, #NFDB
1401:Moments of sadness, grief, unhappiness and lack of motivation are results of stepping back, just move on and challenge your limits, you will do it. ~ Santosh Kalwar, #NFDB
1402:Science was meant to be hard. After all, what was science but a bunch of bored human beings trying to challenge themselves when faith became too easy? ~ Joseph Fink, #NFDB
1403:The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence. ~ John Boehner, #NFDB
1404:To resist a challenge is to resist life itself -Mogwat Of all challenges the greatest is to be yourself. Truth is often painful to speak but soothing to live. ~ Avi, #NFDB
1405:We play lots of roles in our lives, but I got to do that in one movie [Parental Guidance], and ride the feelings, and it was a good challenge for me. ~ Marisa Tomei, #NFDB
1406:When I talk to people and I get animated, I touch them and am very physically involved. It's actually been really hard, but it's an acting challenge. ~ Meaghan Rath, #NFDB
1407:You're always looking for some new way to tell the same story, but it's how they get to the happy end that is the challenge and the fun for a writer. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB
1408:All the poems have wolves in them. All but one. The most beautiful one of all. She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug. ~ Jim Morrison, #NFDB
1409:But great companies give their people a purpose or challenge around which to develop ideas rather than simply instruct them to make a better mousetrap. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB
1410:Challenge is an art; you must know whom to challenge, how to challenge and when to challenge well, otherwise defeat becomes the inevitable fate! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1411:Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones. ~ Azar Nafisi, #NFDB
1412:Fidel Castro had universal health care for all Cubans, and universal education for all the Cuban people, no money required. This was his challenge. ~ Louis Farrakhan, #NFDB
1413:I accept that climate change is a challenge, I accept the broad theory about global warming. I am sceptical about a lot of the more gloomy predictions. ~ John Howard, #NFDB
1414:I believe these words came from the Pokemon movie. Life can be a challenge. Life can seem impossible. It's never easy when there's so much on the line. ~ Herman Cain, #NFDB
1415:I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact. ~ Maggie Gyllenhaal, #NFDB
1416:I don't think people should do things that they're not comfortable with, unless they want to stretch themselves in that way and challenge themselves. ~ Gaby Hoffmann, #NFDB
1417:If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge. ~ James S Coleman, #NFDB
1418:It's a challenge to express real life in dramatic terms. In an entirely "made-up" story, you are sometimes overwhelmed by the infinite possibilities. ~ Daniel Clowes, #NFDB
1419:It’s easy to recognize the surface of beauty. To see it with your two eyes. But the challenge to the artist is conveying the many layers underneath. ~ Alyson Richman, #NFDB
1420:Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. ~ Og Mandino, #NFDB
1421:Take a war to make you spend. Take a jam to make you think. Take a challenge to make you great. Rest of the time you sit around lazy, you. Pigs, you! ~ Alfred Bester, #NFDB
1422:The real challenge is to make good communication a handy and well-used tool. Then you are likely to pick it up and use it without thinking. —MAX DEPREE ~ David Allen, #NFDB
1423:The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy”— ~ James Comey, #NFDB
1424:They presume on their justification in being whatever they are—unlike a thought, which by nature is open to challenge and invites the question “Why? ~ Dallas Willard, #NFDB
1425:We read to escape, to embrace, to challenge, and to understand. Reading enages our intellect, but also our empathy, and we are all the better for it. ~ Dean F Wilson, #NFDB
1426:By creating an artificial environment, we're not stimulating our immune system enough. Germs are immune-stimulants. They challenge you to be prepared. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
1427:his body. “Josie,” he rasped, searching her face. “Make it up to me, Luke,” she said, her tone a challenge. “Right here, right now.” For a long, pregnant ~ Lisa Regan, #NFDB
1428:How can one belief lead to all this—the love of challenge, belief in effort, resilience in the face of setbacks, and greater (more creative!) success? ~ Carol S Dweck, #NFDB
1429:Human beings are natural problem solvers and enjoy the challenge of puzzles. We will always invent new loopholes, and no rule can govern all the cracks. ~ Dov Seidman, #NFDB
1430:If you come across a high mountain on your way, thank to it, because a good challenge is a great chance for you to surpass yourself! Thank to it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
1431:I love Morocco - it's a real challenge to all five senses. You think you know something, and you don't. It's wonderful. It keeps you on your toes that way. ~ Amy Ryan, #NFDB
1432:in 1444, Cosimo founded Europe’s first public library, the Library of San Marco, and thus began to challenge the Church’s long monopoly of learning. ~ Michael Baigent, #NFDB
1433:I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances. ~ Darren Aronofsky, #NFDB
1434:Life is a game...play it.
Life is a challenge...meet it.
Life is a dream...realize it.
Life is a sacrifice...offer it.
Life is love...enjoy it. ~ Sai Baba,#NFDB
1435:My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality. ~ Regina King, #NFDB
1436:My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun? ~ Wernher von Braun, #NFDB
1437:Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst. ~ Eric Ries, #NFDB
1438:The more educated you get, the better shot you have to get it right, but if you're really trying something different, it's a challenge every time. ~ David Copperfield, #NFDB
1439:The Priya he knows is all sharp edges and snarls and smiles that slap you in the face like a challenge. Anything softer—anything kinder—is accidental. ~ Dot Hutchison, #NFDB
1440:The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers. ~ Muhammad Yunus, #NFDB
1441:There are those who believe destiny rests at the feet of the gods, but the truth is that it confronts the conscious of man with a burning challenge. ~ Eduardo Galeano, #NFDB
1442:The writing life is not for the timid. It's filled with challenge, uncertainty & frustration, but it's a beautiful, expansive & creative one ~ Mark Rubinstein, #NFDB
1443:This terrible tragedy.... the entire international community should unite in the struggle against terrorism this is a blatant challenge to humanity. ~ Vladimir Putin, #NFDB
1444:Time is a dimension of human understanding, a challenge to our assumptions, imagination and our ability to make and, on occasion, break connections. ~ Ziauddin Sardar, #NFDB
1445:Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB
1446:When leaders are doing their best, they Model the Way, Inspire a Shared Vision, Challenge the Process, Enable Others to Act, and Encourage the Heart. ~ James M Kouzes, #NFDB
1447:Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge. ~ Jenna Elfman, #NFDB
1448:Data integration and access software are frequently cited as the greatest and most expensive challenge that organisations face (Bernstein & Haas, 2008) ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1449:If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense. ~ Lyall Watson, #NFDB
1450:If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about. ~ Carlos Santana, #NFDB
1451:I know, we can barely fit them in. That is a big challenge. Treating four lead characters equally, within a 30-minute format, is definitely challenging. ~ Mark Duplass, #NFDB
1452:I'll do it, even if I'm not ready, because you can't be ready for everything and sometimes over-thinking a challenge makes overcoming it impossible.. ~ Alexandra Oliva, #NFDB
1453:So, regardless of what they do, we have to play like we’re capable of playing. That’s a greater challenge in itself, but that’s really what we’re after. ~ Pete Carroll, #NFDB
1454:That's what I think is the biggest challenge, is just being still and learning how to just be present in that stillness and not over do it, not over act. ~ Andy Serkis, #NFDB
1455:The challenge we now face is to build on the record of the past, to continue accepting new responsibilities and seeking new opportunities to serve. ~ Lady Bird Johnson, #NFDB
1456:The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions. ~ Vincent Cassel, #NFDB
1457:The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to everyday life. ~ Huston Smith, #NFDB
1458:The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ~ Fali S Nariman, #NFDB
1459:Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years. ~ Al Gore, #NFDB
1460:We rise to a challenge and set a course. We take a decision. You put your mind to something. Just deciding to do it gets you halfway there. Daring to try. ~ Tim Winton, #NFDB
1461:According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all. ~ Jon Krakauer, #NFDB
1462:According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless’s beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn’t a challenge at all. ~ Jon Krakauer, #NFDB
1463:America's leaders have to find a way to work together, rise to the challenge, and come up with solutions as bold and visionary as the people of this nation. ~ Joe Biden, #NFDB
1464:Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents. ~ Michael Gove, #NFDB
1465:I accept the historical challenge, and with that, I accept the essentially Christian position that God always has more light to break out of his holy Word. ~ N T Wright, #NFDB
1466:I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet. ~ Nadia Comaneci, #NFDB
1467:I love working with younger actors because they always come into the game full of energy and ideas that challenge me and keep me learning and stimulated. ~ Nicolas Cage, #NFDB
1468:I'm both challenged and excited. My excitement is: I get a chance to give something back. My challenge is: The shortest seminar I usually do is 50 hours. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB
1469:I wake up every morning fearing I am going to fail. But I love a challenge, big or small. There's so much I want to do. I only sleep four hours a night. ~ Michelle Mone, #NFDB
1470:Leadership deals with people and their dynamics, which are continually changing. The challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
1471:Life is a song-sing it. Life is a game-play it. Life is a challenge-meet it. Life is a dream-realize it. Life is a sacrifice-offer it. Life is love-enjoy it. ~ Sai Baba, #NFDB
1472:Like any challenge in life, once the mind was focused on the job in question, it became a simple matter of getting on with it, inch by inch, step by step. ~ Lisa Jewell, #NFDB
1473:The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS. ~ Philip Emeagwali, #NFDB
1474:The great ones realize that what you did yesterday guarantees you nothing today. The challenge is too many people are busy celebrating yesterday's success. ~ Don Yaeger, #NFDB
1475:The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
1476:The solidarity - now, you can`t challenge [Donald Trump] until he gets there [White House], but let me tell you, we are united. We are going to do our job. ~ Bill Press, #NFDB
1477:This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane. ~ Thomas Keller, #NFDB
1478:Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We're not here to be comfortable—we're here, really, to shake things up. That's our job. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB
1479:An attack is proof that one is out of control. Never run away from any kind of challenge, but do not try to suppress or control an opponent unnaturally ~ Morihei Ueshiba, #NFDB
1480:Challenge quandary thinking, either/or thinking come by moving from the abstract to the concrete. What can we do with the choice actually in front of us? ~ Sherry Turkle, #NFDB
1481:DNA Medicine Institute, of Cambridge, is one of the 10 top teams building a Trekkie “tricorder’’ device as part of the $10 million Qualcomm Xprize Challenge. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
1482: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, #NFDB
1483:Human entertainment will have moved on to something new. Then the ultimate challenge for us is, can we figure out what that new form of entertainment is? ~ Reed Hastings, #NFDB
1484:If, in his pride, he considers God as a challenge, he will deny Him; and if God becomes man and therefore makes Himself vulnerable, he will crucify Him. ~ Fulton J Sheen, #NFDB
1485:Islam might not be a challenge for our survival, but when it comes from the Saudis, it really is a concerning problem for the world peace and prosperity. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
1486:It is a unique challenge for a woman to demonstrate that they can lead, that they will be strong, that they can handle crisis, and that they gain respect. ~ Wendy Greuel, #NFDB
1487:Open relationships can give you the freedom to create unique relationships, explore yourself and your sexuality, and challenge society's expectations. ~ Tristan Taormino, #NFDB
1488:The challenge for me is his size because, for the first time in my career, I'll be meeting an opponent who is taller than me and has a longer reach. ~ Wladimir Klitschko, #NFDB
1489:The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in it will feel natural. ~ Lawrence Halprin, #NFDB
1490:The willingness to challenge hardships taps the power within human beings to transform even a place of tragedy into a stage for fulfilling one's mission. ~ Daisaku Ikeda, #NFDB
1491:If I don't have a script I adore, I do one I like. If I don't have one I like, I do one that has an actor I like or that presents some technical challenge. ~ Sidney Lumet, #NFDB
1492:If we feel secure
In the depths of our heart,
We shall not challenge anybody,
For inner confidence
Is nothing short of
Complete satisfaction. ~ Sri Chinmoy,#NFDB
1493:I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone. ~ Jane Fonda, #NFDB
1494:It should be like a salmon taking to open water. I've done so much morning radio that I won't be overwhelmed by it, but it's still going to be a challenge. ~ Adam Carolla, #NFDB
1495:Jesus doesn’t invite us on a business trip. Instead, He says let’s go after those things that inspire and challenge you and let’s experience them together. You ~ Bob Goff, #NFDB
1496:most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One ~ Viktor E Frankl, #NFDB
1497:My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike. ~ Carlos Mesa, #NFDB
1498:No challenge, no matter how insignificant, can be left unanswered. Even a cry in the wilderness must be acknowledged, because someone might have heard it. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
1499:No crime too small’ was never exactly Moriarty’s slogan, but the criminal genius would apply himself to minor offences if an unusual challenge was presented. ~ Kim Newman, #NFDB
1500:Our lives are ruled by impermanence. The challenge is how to create something of enduring value within the context of our impermanent lives. Soka Gakkai ~ William Hazlitt, #NFDB
52 Integral Yoga
32 Poetry
17 Occultism
13 Psychology
10 Philosophy
10 Fiction
9 Christianity
3 Science
3 Mythology
2 Yoga
1 Buddhism
1 Baha i Faith
1 Alchemy
41 Sri Aurobindo
15 The Mother
11 Satprem
10 H P Lovecraft
9 Aleister Crowley
8 Carl Jung
6 Walt Whitman
6 Robert Browning
6 Nolini Kanta Gupta
5 Plato
5 Jordan Peterson
4 Friedrich Nietzsche
4 A B Purani
3 Plotinus
3 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
3 Jorge Luis Borges
3 James George Frazer
2 William Wordsworth
2 Thubten Chodron
2 Sri Ramana Maharshi
2 Sri Ramakrishna
2 Saint John of Climacus
2 Saint Augustine of Hippo
2 Rudolf Steiner
2 Ovid
2 Nirodbaran
10 Lovecraft - Poems
9 Magick Without Tears
6 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
6 Collected Poems
6 Browning - Poems
5 Whitman - Poems
5 Talks
5 Maps of Meaning
5 5.1.01 - Ilion
4 The Synthesis Of Yoga
4 The Practice of Psycho therapy
4 Record of Yoga
4 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
3 Vedic and Philological Studies
3 The Secret Doctrine
3 The Golden Bough
3 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
3 Agenda Vol 01
2 Wordsworth - Poems
2 Twilight of the Idols
2 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
2 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
2 The Problems of Philosophy
2 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
2 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
2 The Future of Man
2 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
2 Savitri
2 Questions And Answers 1956
2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
2 Metamorphoses
2 Letters On Yoga II
2 Letters On Poetry And Art
2 Labyrinths
2 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
2 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
2 How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator
2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
2 Agenda Vol 12
2 Agenda Vol 04
0 0.01 - Introduction, #Agenda Vol 1, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Mother, for She never ceased being a mystery right to her ninety-fifth year, and to this day still, challenges us from the other side of a wall of invisibility and keeps us floundering fully in the mystery - with a smile. She always smiles. But the mystery is not solved.
Perhaps this AGENDA is really an endeavor to solve the mystery in the company of a certain
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Gauri said: "I feel it in my heart and I have the scriptures on my side. I am ready to prove it to anyone who challenges me."
"Well," Sri Ramakrishna said, "it is you who say so; but, believe me, I know nothing about it."
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The other movement playing an important part in the nineteenth-century religious revival of India was the Arya Samaj. The Brahmo Samaj, essentially a movement of compromise with European culture, tacitly admitted the superiority of the West. But the founder of the Arya Samaj was a ' pugnacious Hindu sannyasi who accepted the challenge of Islam and Christianity and was resolved to combat all foreign influence in India. Swami Dayananda (1824-1883) launched this movement in Bombay in 1875, and soon its influence was felt throughout western India. The Swami was a great scholar of the Vedas, which he explained as being strictly monotheistic. He preached against the worship of images and re-established the ancient Vedic sacrificial rites. According to him the Vedas were the ultimate authority on religion, and he accepted every word of them as literally true. The Arya Samaj became a bulwark against the encroachments of Islam and Christianity, and its orthodox flavour appealed to many Hindu minds. It also assumed leadership in many movements of social reform. The caste-system became a target of its attack. Women it liberated from many of their social disabilities. The cause of education received from it a great impetus. It started agitation against early marriage and advocated the remarriage of Hindu widows. Its influence was strongest in the Punjab, the battle-ground of the Hindu and Islamic cultures. A new fighting attitude was introduced into the slumbering Hindu society. Unlike the Brahmo Samaj, the influence of the Arya Samaj was not confined to the intellectuals. It was a force that spread to the masses. It was a dogmatic movement intolerant of those who disagreed with its views, and it emphasized only one way, the Arya Samaj way, to the realization of Truth. Sri Ramakrishna met Swami Dayananda when the latter visited Bengal.
--- KESHAB CHANDRA SEN
01.12 - Goethe, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
The challenge and the Pact
There is on the earthly stage the play of a challenge, a twofold challenge, one between God and Satan and another, as a consequence, between Man and Satan.
Satan is jealous of man who is God's favourite. He tells God that his partiality to man is misplaced. God has put into man a little of his light (reason and intelligence and something more perhaps), but to what purpose? Man tries to soar, he thinks he flies high and wide, but in fact he is and will be an insect that "lies always in the grass and sings its old song in the grass." God answers that whatever the perplexity in which man now is, in the end he will come out and reach the Light with a greater and richer experience of it. Satan smiles in return and says he will prove otherwise. Given a free hand, he can do whatever he likes with man: "Dust shall he eat and with a relish." God willingly agrees to the challenge: there is no harm in Satan's trying his hand. Indeed, Satan will prove to be a good companion to man; for man is normally prone to inertia and sinks into repose and rest and stagnation. Satan will be the goad, the force that drives towards ceaseless activity. For activity is life, and without activity no progress.
Thus, as sanctioned by God, there is a competition, a wager between man and Satan. The pact between the parties is this that, on the one hand, Satan will serve man here in life upon earth, and on the other hand, in return, man will have to serve Satan there, on the other side of life. That is to say, Satan will give the whole world to man to enjoy, man will have to give Satan only his soul. Man in his ignorance says he does not care for his soul, does not know of a there or elsewhere: he will be satisfied if he gets what he wants upon earth. That, evidently, is the demand of what is familiarly known as life-force (lan vital): the utmost fulfilment of the life-force is what man stands for, although the full significance of the movement may not be clear to him or even to Satan at the moment. For life-force does not necessarily drag man down, as its grand finale as it were, into hellhowever much Satan might wish it to be so. In what way, we shall see presently. Now Satan promises man all that he would desire and even more: he would give him his fill so' that he will ask for no more. Man takes up the challenge and declares that his hunger is insatiable, whatever Satan can bring to it, it will take in and press on: satisfaction and satiety will never come in his way. Satan thinks he knows better, for he is armed with a master weapon to lay man low and make him cry halt!
Love Human and Love Divine
0 1956-08-10, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
My Lord, through me thou hast challenged the world and all the adverse forces have risen in protest.1
But Thy Grace is winning the victory.
0 1958-10-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
But how many people know how to use it in this way? Very few, which is why they have to be taught. What I call teach is to show, to give the example. We want to be the example of true living in the world. Its a challenge I am placing before the whole financial world: I am telling them that they are in the process of withering and ruining the earth with their idiotic system; and with even less than they are now spending for useless thingsmerely for inflating something that has no inherent life, that should be only an instrument at the service of life, that has no reality in itself, that is only a means and not an end (they make an end of something that is only a means)well then, instead of making of it an end, they should make it the means. With what they have at their disposal they could oh, transform the earth so quickly! Transform it, put it into contact, truly into contact, with the supramental forces that would make life bountiful and, indeed, constantly renewedinstead of becoming withered, stagnant, shrivelled up: a future moon. A dead moon.
We are told that in a few millions or billions of years, the earth will become some kind of moon. The movement should be the opposite: the earth should become more and more a resplendent sun, but a sun of life. Not a sun that burns, but a sun that illuminesa radiant glory.
0 1958-11-04 - Myths are True and Gods exist - mental formation and occult faculties - exteriorization - work in dreams, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
The story narrated in the film went like this: Narada, as usual, was having fun. (Narada is a demigod with a divine position that is, he can communicate with man and with the gods as he pleases, and he serves as an intermediary, but then he likes to have fun!) So he was quarrelling with one of the goddesses, I no longer recall which one, and he told her (Ah, yes! The quarrel was with Saraswati.) Saraswati was telling him that knowledge is much greater than love (much greater in that it is much more powerful than love), and he replied to her, You dont know what youre talking about! (Mother laughs) Love is much more powerful than knowledge. So she challenged him, saying, Well then, prove it to me.I shall prove it to you, he replied. And the whole story starts there. He began creating a whole imbroglio on earth just to prove his point.
It was only a film story, but anyway, the goddesses, the three wives of the Trimurti that is, the consort of Brahma, the consort of Vishnu and the consort of Shivajoined forces (!) and tried all kinds of things to foil Narada. I no longer recall the details of the story Oh yes, the story begins like this: one of the three I believe it was Shivas consort, Parvati (she was the worst one, by the way!)was doing her puja. Shiva was in meditation, and she began doing her puja in front of him; she was using an oil lamp for the puja, and the lamp fell down and burned her foot. She cried out because she had burned her foot. So Shiva at once came out of his meditation and said to her, What is it, Devi? (laughter) She answered, I burned my foot! Then Narada said, Arent you ashamed of what you have done?to make Shiva come out of his meditation simply because you have a little burn on your foot, which cannot even hurt you since you are immortal! She became furious and snapped at him, Show me that it can be otherwise! Narada replied, I am going to show you what it is to really love ones husbandyou dont know anything about it!
0 1963-03-09, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I remember also, once, there were iron hoops (I dont know if they still exist) bordering the lawns in the Bois de Boulogne and I used to take a walk on them! It was a challenge I threw to my brother (there was a difference of sixteen months between us, he was older and much better behaved too!). I told him, Can you walk on these? Leave me alone, he answered, its not interesting. Just watch! I told him. And I started walking on them, with such ease! As if I had done it all my life. It was the same phenomenon: I felt weightless.
Always the feeling of being carried: something holding me up, carrying me. And now if I compare the movement or the sensation its the same as that vast movement of wings the same vibration.
0 1963-07-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
If, out of the need to enlarge, the Pope accepts, for instance, all the different sects (theyve already started to accept the Protestants), if he accepts all those sects, (laughing) little by little they will either break apart or be drowned! You follow, if we look at it from above Lets even assume its an Asuric powerit isnt (Mother hesitates) it isnt clearly and distinctly an Asuric power, because by his very position, the Pope is OBLIGED to recognize a god higher than himself; that god may, of course, be an Asura, but I have a sort of memory the memory of a very ancient story no one ever told me in which the first Asura challenged the supreme Lord and told him, I am as great as You! And the answer was, I wish you would become greater than I, because then there will be no more Asura.
This memory is very living, somewhere. If you become the Whole, its finishedyou see, the Asuras ambition is to be greater than the supreme Lord: Become greater than I, then there will be no more Asura.
0 1964-11-21, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I remember having written somewhere, some ten years ago, that I would take it as a sign if my back became straight again.1 At the time, it wasnt much, but it disgusted me deeply, and I did it as a challenge. Naturally, now its very far away from my consciousness and my thought, I find it childish, but I remembered it a few days ago also, and I said to myself that now I didnt care a bit about that, because to me its nothing! All the rest rail the rest is equally inadequate, incomplete and miserable, you knowmiserable. If you think about a divine life, its miserable.
And curiously, everything comes and presents itself as images and possibilities; so I say to myself, But if after a time all this suddenly stops functioning, what will have been the use of doing all this work? And there is always something something that comes from a very absolute regionwhich makes me feel or understand or grasp the uselessness of death.
0 1969-08-20, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Hes had that sensation. He said, They will do it as they usually do; they generally give you a promotion somewhere: they might, for instance, nominate me bishop of [such and such a country]. Then he would be driven out of the Vatican. But when something of that kind happens, you are put under the Holy Office, which means you cannot talk to anyone and are obliged to answer with yes or no. If this situation comes, asks PL., what shall I do? Should I fight it out to assert my place at the Vatican, because they must give me the reasons for my exclusion (he can openly challenge their intentions), or should I accept, get caught tip in the meshes of a post such as that of bishop [of such and such a country], with, at the same time, a rather widespread sphere of actionshould I accept that? Or what should I do in that case? His sensation is that he is going to be excluded from the Vatican this year.
Officially, is it the Pope who does it, or the cardinals?
0 1970-05-09, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Thats the thing, you understand, thats the thing, and the body is capable. Yesterday when I read that aphorism, I said to Sri Aurobindo, But you said that the body, too, would change; here [in the aphorism] its the image that one sheds when one goes back towards the Truth, but you said the true Truth is that things would change HERE.I challenged [him], yes! And I had that answer. Two what we might call two dreams, but I dont dream anymore. Those were two activities of the subtle physical (laughing), extraordinary!
But whom did you kill?
0 1971-03-06, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Maybe it will be a challenge!
Can you read it to me?
0 1971-05-15, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The Great History tells us that India must again be one, and that particular current of history is so imperative that twice already Destiny has managed to put India before the possibility of her reunification. The first time was in 1965 when Pakistans foolish aggressiveness enabled India to counterattack and carry the battle right into the suburbs of Lahore and up to Karachi had she but had the courage to seize boldly her destiny. The hour was indeed for a decisive choice. The Mother declared categorically: India is fighting for the triumph of Truth, and She must fight until India and Pakistan become ONE again, for such is the truth of their being. At Tashkent, we yielded on the crest of a petty compromise which was to lead us into a second, more bloody and painful reef, Bangladesh. There too destiny graciously arranged to enable India to hasten to the aid of her massacred brethreneven the famous skyjacking incident of January4 was, as it were, arranged by the Grace so as to spare India from delaying her intervention until it was too late (or to spare her the shame of not intervening at all and allowing Pakistans planes to fly over her head loaded with weaponry and murderers to slaughter her brothers). But there again, yielding to the demands of the moment and to the small, shortsighted interests, we refused to accept the challenge of the Great Direction of our History, and we now find ourselves on the brink of a new compromise which will lead us inevitably to a third and even more disastrous and bloody reef. For one day India must inevitably face that which twice she has fled. Only each time the conditions are more disastrous for her and for the worldperhaps so disastrous that the whole earth will even be engulfed in another general conflict, while the whole story could have been resolved at the little symbolic point that is Bangladesh, at the right hour, with the right gesture and a minimum of suffering.
For let there be no doubt about it, the Bangladesh affair is not an Indian event, it is a world event. The division of India is not a local incident, it is a terrestrial Falsehood which must disappear if the division of the world is to disappear. And here again we hear the voice of Sri Aurobindo, six months before his passing, referring to yet another phenomenon which then seemed of such slight importance, so remote, a trifling local affair at the other end of the world: the invasion of South Korea in 1950, twenty-one years ago. And yet that small Korean symbol, like the small symbol of Bangladesh (or the one of Czechoslovakia in 1938), contained in seed the whole fatal course which is still carrying the world toward a sinister destiny: The affair of Korea, wrote Sri Aurobindo, is the first move in the Communist plan of campaign to dominate and take possession first of these northern parts and then of South East Asia as a preliminary to their manoeuvres with regard to the rest of the continentin passing, Tibet as a gate opening to India. Now, twenty-one years later, we see that Tibet and the whole of South East Asia have been swallowed up and the gate into India has truly been opened wide by the wound of the Pakistani Falsehoodalready, or very shortly, the Chinese are, or will be, in Khulna, some eighty miles from Calcutta, to help Yahya Khan to pacify Bengal. And Sri Aurobindo added, If they succeed, there is no reason why domination of the whole world should not follow by steps until they are ready to deal with America.
02.04 - The Right of Absolute Freedom, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
A nation cannot claim the right, even in the name of freedom, to do as it pleases. An individual has not that right, the nation too has not. A nation is a member of humanity, there are other members and there is the common welfare of all. A nation by choosing a particular line of action, in asserting its absolute freedom, may go against other nations, or against the general good. Such freedom has to be curbed and controlled. Collective lifeif one does not propose to live the life of the solitary the animal or the saintis nothing if not such a system of controls. "The whole of politics is an interference with personal liberty. Law is such an interference; protection is such an interference; the rule which makes the will of the majority prevail is such an interference. The right to prevent such use of personal liberty as will injure the interests of the race is the fundamental law of society. From this point of view the nation is only using its primary rights when it restrains the individual from buying or selling foreign goods." Thus spoke a great Nationalist leader in the days of Boycott and Swadeshi. What is said here of the individual can be said of the nation too in relation to the greater good of humanity. The ideal of a nation or state supreme all by itself, with rights that none can challenge, inevitably leads to the cult of the Super-state, the Master-race. If such a monster is not to be tolerated, the only way left is to limit the absolute value of nationhood, to view a nation only as a member in a comity of nations forming the humanity at large.
A nation not free, still in bondage, cannot likewise justify its claim to absolute freedom by all or any means, at all times, in all circumstances. There are times and circumstances when even an enslaved nation has to bide its time. Man, in order to assert his freedom and individuality, cannot sign a pact with Mephistopheles; if he does so he must be prepared for the consequences. The same truth holds with regard to the nation. A greater danger may attend a nation than the loss of freedom the life and soul of humanity itself may be in imminent peril. Such a cataclysmic danger mankind has just passed through or is still passing through. All nations, however circumstanced in the old world, who have stood and fought on the side of humanity, by that very gesture, have acquired the rightand the might too,to gain freedom and greatness and all good things which would not be possible otherwise.
03.03 - A Stainless Steel Frame, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
So the ideal proposed is that of moral regeneration. But what is the kind of moral regeneration and how is it to be effected? All depends upon that. If you issue some moral rules and regulations, inscribe them on pillars, print them in pamphlets, preach them from the platform and the pulpit, these things have been done in the past and for ages, the result is not assured and the world goes its way as ever. Something more than mental and moral rules has to be discovered: some dynamic and irresistible element in man has to be touched, evoked and brought out, something that challenges the whole world and maintains its truth and the fiat of its truth. That is the inmost soul in man, the real being behind all the apparent forms of his personality, the divine element, the very Divine in him. It is the outer man, the marginal man, man in his inferior nature that lives and moves in normal circumstances; instead, the central man, man in his higher and highest nature has to come out and take his place in the world.
What is needed then is an army of souls: individuals, either separately or in groups, who have contacted their inmost reality, their divinity, in some way or othermen with a new consciousness and aspiration, a new life and realisation. They will live in the midst of the general degeneration and disintegration, not aloof and immured in their privacy of purity, but take part in the normal activities of everyday life, still acting from the height and depth of the pure consciousness prove by their very living that one can be in the world and yet not of it, doing what is necessary for the maintenance and enhancement of life and yet not stooping to the questionable ways that are supposed to be necessary and inevitable. In other words, they will disprove that safety and success and prosperity in life can be had only if one follows the lead of Evil, if one sells one's soul. On the contrary, by living out one's divine essence one will have conquered the worldihaiva tairjitam. At every moment, in all circumstances one follows the voice of the highest in oneself. If it is that and no other inferior echo, then one becomes fearless and immortal and all-conquering.
05.05 - In Quest of Reality, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
This faculty of direct knowledge, however, is not such a rare thing as it may appear to be. Indeed if we step outside the circumscribed limits of pure science instances crowd upon us, even in our normal life, which would compel one to conclude that the rational and sensory process is only a fringe and a very small part of a much greater and wider form of knowing. Poets and artists, we all know, are familiar only with that form: without intuition and inspiration they are nothing. Apart from that, modern inquiries and observations have established beyond doubt certain facts of extra-sensory, suprarational perceptionof clairvoyance and clairaudience, of prophecy, of vision into the future as well as into the past. Not only these unorthodox faculties of knowledge, but dynamic powers that almost negate or flout the usual laws of science have been demonstrated to exist and can be and are used by man. The Indian yogic discipline speaks of the eight siddhis, super-natural powers attained by the Yogi when he learns to control nature by the force of his consciousness. Once upon a time these facts were challenged as facts in the scientific world, but it is too late now in the day to deny them their right of existence. Only Science, to maintain its scientific prestige, usually tries to explain such phenomena in the material way, but with no great success. In the end she seems to say these freaks do not come within her purview and she is not concerned with them. However, that is not for us also the subject for discussion for the moment.
The first point then we seek to make out is that even from a rigid positivist stand a form of knowledge that is not strictly positivist has to be accepted. Next, if we come to the content of the knowledge that is being gained, it is found one is being slowly and inevitably led into a world which is also hardly positivistic. We have in our study of the physical world come in close contact with two disconcerting facts or two ends of one fact the infinitely small and the infinitely large. They have disturbed considerably the normal view of things, the view that dominated Science till yesterday. The laws that hold good for the ordinary sensible magnitudes fail totally, in the case of the infinite magnitudes (whether big or small). In the infinite we begin squaring the circle.
10.03 - The Debate of Love and Death, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
His ways challenge our reason and our sense;
By blind brute movements of an ignorant Force,
10.04 - The Dream Twilight of the Earthly Real, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
A hybrid mystery challenges the view,
Or a discouraging sordid miracle.
1.01 - A NOTE ON PROGRESS, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
lier creeds. But how does it all arise the challenge on the one
hand, and the mistrust on the other except out of the fact that
1.01 - Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
is exceedingly difficult, because it not only challenges the whole
man, but reminds him at the same time of his helplessness and
1.01 - Meeting the Master - Authors first meeting, December 1918, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
"Who can give such an assurance?" I could feel the echo of doubt and challenge in my own question.
Again he remained silent for three or four minutes. Then he looked at me and added: "Suppose I give you the assurance?"
1.01 - Tara the Divine, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen
were certainly the greatest challenge one could meet
in ancient India. Nevertheless, the list is not
1.01 - The Unexpected, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
As for myself, my feelings are more complex. I have broken verbal lances with him, challenged his views, poked fun at his Yoga. I know all these will be forgotten at the moment when I shall meet his august Presence. He will be as affable as in his letters and bestow his gracious smile from his transcendental height while my heart will beat in joy and wonder. Still, the mind cannot be entirely free from a conventional fear.
In this mood of expectation we arrived at the eve of the Darshan, November 24th. The Mother gave her blessings to all in the morning. Embodiment of the Mahalakshmi Grace and Beauty, she poured her smile and filled our hearts with love and adoration, an ideal condition in which to present ourselves to the Lord. Each Darshan is an occasion for him to survey the progress we have made after the last one and to give us a fresh push towards a further advance.
10.24 - Savitri, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Indeed Death is not merely a destruction of the body, it is in reality nothingness, non-being. The moment being, existence, reality manifested itself, established itself as a material fact, simultaneously there came out and stood against it, its opposite non-being, non-existence, non-reality; against an everlasting 'yes' there was posited an everlasting 'no'. And in fact, this everlasting No proves to be a greater effective reality, it has wound itself around every constituent atom of the universe. That is what has expressed itself in the material domain as the irreversible degradation of energy and in the mortal world it is denial and doubt and falsehoodit is that which brings about failure in life, and frustration, misery and grief. But then Savitri's vision penetrated beyond and she saw, Death is a way of achieving the end more swiftly and more completely. The negation is an apparent obstacle in order to increase, to purify and intensify the speed of the process by which the world and humanity is being remodelled and recreated. This terrible Godhead pursues the human endeavour till the end; until he finds that nothing more is to be done; then his mission too is fulfilled.1 So a last cry, the cry of a desperate dying Death, pierces the universe and throws the final challenge to Savitri:
Who must goad and tease
1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
Things or situations with indeterminate meanings therefore challenge our adaptive competence; force us
to revaluate our present circumstances, and alter our ongoing behaviors. Such circumstances arise when
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terrifies the Devil and his minions). Marduk confronts Tiamat, accuses her of treachery, and challenges her
to battle.
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embodiment of past wisdom, is insufficient to deal with the challenges of the present). This idea is
developed much more explicitly by the Egyptians, as we shall see. Back to Eliades story:
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The Terrible Mother challenges and threatens the individual, absolutely. She is goddess of anxiety,
depression, and psychological chaos goddess of the possibility of pain and death. She is horror, insofar as
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capacity to maintain territorial position when challenged is therefore indicative of the degree to which
intrapsychic state is integrated with regards to current motivation [which means, indicative of how
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strength of beliefs of this type can be determined, accurately, through challenge (since the capacity to
withstand challenge is dependent upon that strength). This means that the ability of those who hold an idea
to withstand challenge without wavering constitutes one [non-empirical (?)] affective criteria for
determination of the truth of that idea or at least of its intrapsychic utility. Hence the power of the martyr
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unprecedented fact is the way the prophets challenged their actions.354
Smith concludes:
1.02 - The Shadow, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
H The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole
ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow
1.03 - APPRENTICESHIP AND ENCULTURATION - ADOPTION OF A SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
the renovelization of the environment: sufficient challenge posed to the integrity of a previous
personality disrupts its structure, freeing phenomena previously adapted to from the grasp of familiar
1.03 - Man - Slave or Free?, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It is from these false and dangerous doctrines of materialism which tend to subvert mans future and hamper his evolution, that Yoga gives us a means of escape. It asserts on the contrary mans freedom from matter and gives him a means of asserting that freedom. The first great fundamental discovery of the Yogins was a means of analysing the experiences of the mind and the heart. By Yoga one can isolate mind, watch its workings as under a microscope, separate every minute function of the various parts of the antakaraa, the inner organ, every mental and moral faculty, test its isolated workings as well as its relations to other functions and faculties and trace backwards the operations of mind to subtler and ever subtler sources until just as material analysis arrives at a primal entity from which all proceeds, so Yoga analysis arrives at a primal spiritual entity from which all proceeds. It is also able to locate and distinguish the psychical centre to which all psychical phenomena gather and so to fix the roots of personality. In this analysis its first discovery is that mind can entirely isolate itself from external objects and work in itself and of itself. This does not, it is true, carry us very far because it may be that it is merely using the material already stored up by its past experiences. But the next discovery is that the farther it removes itself from objects, the more powerfully, surely, rapidly can the mind work with a swifter clarity, with a victorious and sovereign detachment. This is an experience which tends to contradict the scientific theory, that mind can withdraw the senses into itself and bring them to bear on a mass of phenomena of which it is quite unaware when it is occupied with external phenomena. Science will naturally challenge these as hallucinations. The answer is that these phenomena are related to each other by regular, simple and intelligible laws and form a world of their own independent of thought acting on the material world. Here too Science has this possible answer that this supposed world is merely an imaginative reflex in the brain of the material world and to any arguments drawn from the definiteness and unexpectedness of these subtle phenomena and their independence of our own will and imagination it can always oppose its theory of unconscious cerebration and, we suppose, unconscious imagination. The fourth discovery is that mind is not only independent of external matter, but its master; it can not only reject and control external stimuli, but can defy such apparently universal material laws as that of gravitation and ignore, put aside and make nought of what are called laws of nature and are really only the laws of material nature, inferior and subject to the psychical laws because matter is a product of mind and not mind a product of matter. This is the decisive discovery of Yoga, its final contradiction of materialism. It is followed by the crowning realisation that there is within us a source of immeasurable force, immeasurable intelligence, immeasurable joy far above the possibility of weakness, above the possibility of ignorance, above the possibility of grief which we can bring into touch with ourselves and, under arduous but not impossible conditions, habitually utilise or enjoy. This is what the Upanishads call the Brahman and the primal entity from which all things were born, in which they live and to which they return. This is God and communion with Him is the highest aim of Yogaa communion which works for knowledge, for work, for delight.
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1.03 - .REASON. IN PHILOSOPHY, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
I shall facilitate comprehension, and shall likewise challenge
contradiction.
1.03 - Supernatural Aid, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
her to forbear. But she challenged him to declare whence he
should be coming at this hour of the night. He replied that he
1.03 - Tara, Liberator from the Eight Dangers, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
and the stubborn tenacity with which we hold them. When someone challenges our distorted views, we become upset and defensive. We may even dis-
tara, liberator from the eight dangers
1.03 - The Desert, #The Red Book Liber Novus, #unset, #Zen
Let me bring only one complaint before you: I suffer from scorn, my own scorn. But my soul said to me, "Do you think little of yourself?" I do not believe so. My soul answered, Then listen, do you think little of me? Do you still not know that you are not writing a book to feed your vanity, but that you are speaking with me? How can you suffer from scorn if you address me with those words that I give you? Do you know, then, who I am? Have you grasped me, defined me, and made me into a dead formula? Have you measured the depths of my chasms, and explored all the ways down which I am yet going to lead you? Scorn cannot challenge you if you are not vain to the marrow of your bones. Your truth is hard. I want to lay down my vanity before you, since it blinds me.
See, that is why I also believed my hands were empty when I came to you today. I did not consider that it is you who fills empty hands if only they want to stretch out, yet they do not want to. I did not know that I am your vessel, empty without you but brimming over with you.
1.04 - THE APPEARANCE OF ANOMALY - CHALLENGE TO THE SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
object:1.04 - THE APPEARANCE OF ANOMALY - challenge TO THE SHARED MAP
author class:Jordan Peterson
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CHAPTER 4: THE APPEARANCE OF ANOMALY: challenge TO THE SHARED MAP
Moral theories necessarily share common features with other theories. One of the most fundamental shared
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and evaluation. Strange things or situations can pose a challenge to the structure of a given system of
action and related beliefs; can pose such a challenge at comparatively restricted (normal) or broader
(revolutionary) levels of organization. A prolonged drought, for example, at the social level or the
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anything outside shares the capacity to frighten (or enlighten) anything inside. challenges posed to the
highest levels of order are clearly the most profound, and are likely to engender the most thorough
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frame: challenge posed to extremely implicit personalities may evoke reactions that extend over
centuries, in the form of abstract exploration and argumentation, revision of action, and war between
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exists as the literal embodiment of challenges to the a priori assumptions guiding belief. The stranger does
not act in the manner expected. His inherent unpredictability renders him indistinguishable from the
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the proper consequence. Any assumption can be challenged. The most fundamental expectation of my
fantasies whatever they might be is that my assumptions are valid. Mismatch between what I desired
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Successful challenge to this idea would invalidate the actions and goals of the western individual, would
destroy the western dominance hierarchy the social context for individual action. In the absence of this
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structure dissolves. The Second World and Cold wars were fought largely to eliminate such a challenge.
For the man whose beliefs have become abstracted (and, therefore, more doubtful, more debatable), the
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held faith in a particular conceptualization of the way) is challenged, such constraints vanish. This
deconstruction of symbolically patriarchal custom and belief subjects the individual to intrapsychic war
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which present a challenge to presumptions deemed necessarily inviolable such as the (most dangerous,
authoritarian) presumption that all currently accepted presumptions are true. Medieval horror of heresy
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sensory information, made possible by linguistic communication challenged belief in the reality of the
mythic world, which was in fact never objective, from the perspective of perception and sensation. The
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infinite in possibility. The nature of experience itself varies with time. New challenges and dangers appear
out of the future, into the present, where none existed before. History, as description of the past, is
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history; discovers the nakedness of the father (Genesis 9:20-25). He must, therefore, challenge history, and
face what it had previously protected him from. Contact with the Terrible Mother means exposure to
1.04 - The Divine Mother - This Is She, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
Now we come to a different field of activity altogether, one whose place in Yoga will be strongly challenged, especially when the Mother herself used it as a means of sadhana: her playing tennis. I won't discuss the issue, for the quotation cited above gives the answer. Before she started playing tennis the Mother joined our young group in playing table-tennis. When a young boy asked her if he could install a table in his house for the game, the Mother replied, "Why not at Nanteuil?[4] then I can come and play too." He was much surprised and delighted at the divine proposal! She must have found it a good light exercise as well as an admirable means of contact with the young set which was gradually increasing; it was perhaps also her yogic means of action upon them. After a year or so the Mother decided to have a tennis court. She might have felt that she needed some more brisk exercise in the open air. She often talked of her project to Sri Aurobindo. One day we heard that the entire wasteland along the north-eastern seaside was taken on a long lease from the Government and a part of it would be made into tennis courts and the rest into a playground. One cannot imagine now what this place was like before. It was one of the filthiest spots of Pondicherry, full of thistles and wild undergrowth, an open place for committing nuisance as well as a pasture for pigs! The stink and the loathsome sight made the place a Stygian sore and a black spot on the colonial Government. The Mother changed this savage wasteland into a heavenly playground, almost a supramental transformation of Matter. The sea-front was clothed in a vision of beauty and delight. If for nothing else, for this transformation at least, Pondicherry should be eternally grateful to the Mother. But who remembers the past? Gratitude is a rare human virtue. I was particularly very happy, first, because I was fond of tennis; secondly, I fancied that Yoga would be now made easy. Who could ever think of tennis in Yoga! But woe to me, how it completely upset my balance!
All this, however, is by the way. My point was to demonstrate the Mother's method of working. As soon as the plot was acquired, she went about the work in her usual one-pointed manner. And what a job it was! To build a long rampart against the surges of the sea was itself a gigantic enterprise for a private institution like our Ashram without any income of its own. But I shall confine myself to the construction of the tennis courts only. She did not count the expense; men and money were freely employed, for the courts had to be made ready within a minimum period of time. We have observed that when the Mother feels the need for a work to be done, she goes ahead, confident that the required resources will come. In the present case, there was also the question of the right worker to see the project through. The Mother said to Sri Aurobindo, "I know there is one man who can do it." It was Monoranjan Ganguli, a sadhak. I saw him at this work and was really amazed at his wonderful devotion to the Mother, his determination to fulfil the trust she had placed in him. He supervised the operation with unfailing love and duty and cool temper, making the tennis ground his home and passing many sleepless nights sitting on a stool. When I asked him why he should be in such a hurry, he replied, "Mother wants it so. I must finish it within the appointed time." "Is it possible? Only a few days are left!" I voiced my doubt. "Oh, I must!" and he did. A singular feat indeed, and again the Mother's right choice.
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The picture that now emerges of the Mother's daily life is one of intense dynamism expressing itself in various ways: creative, organisational, artistic, physical, etc., etc., leaving out of account numberless small individual touches interspersed between the big activities. Except for a few hours for meals and bath and some rest at night, the wheel went round and round with hardly a stop. Even in the midst of such whirling activity she found time for teaching arithmetic to a boy and reading Prayers and Meditations in French, at midnight to some youngsters. Once a young boy was found in the streets at about 2 a.m. The French officer who was on patrol challenged him. When he saw that the boy had a flower in his hand, he asked, "This flower is from the Mother?" "Yes!" he replied, "I am coming from the Mother." "So late at night?" exclaimed the officer, utterly baffled, and let him go. The officer knew the Mother. I have seen her bestowing special attention on some young people and sending them to bed past midnight. Mysterious are her ways! I shall cite an instance of her eye for minor details. A sadhika recounted to me how the Mother remembers even the smallest details in the midst of her most busy hours. Once during the Pranam and sari distribution,[^8] when all the inmates, numbering about 500, passed in a line before the Mother and a sadhak standing by her side handed the saris to her one by one, the Mother gave the sadhika a sari with a black border. Next day when she came up to see the Mother on some business, she said, "I don't know why X handed that black-bordered sari for you. There is a heap over there, go and choose whichever you like." The sadhika replied, "It doesn't matter, Mother. Give me whichever you like." The Mother gave her a green-bordered one. She was simply staggered at her extraordinary observation and recollection of even an apparently insignificant detail in the midst of a crowded programme and was quite overwhelmed by the unexpected touch of her Divine Grace. And this is not the only instance. In those old days when our number was limited and the Mother could establish a personal contact with all of us, big or small, we all had such unexpected touches to treasure in our memory. This faculty, whatever else it might be, is certainly not human, it is a Power beyond and above the human that is all the time at work.
Here is another small instance, gathered from the private diary of a young sadhika, to show how the Mother in the midst of her crammed activities found time to push individuals or groups on the path of their soul's aspiration. She used to see ten or twelve young girls in the evening at about 8 p.m. before she came down for meditation. But many a day they had to wait for hours, even up to 10 p.m. They would feel hungry or sleepy and had to go without their dinner, for the meditation followed immediately after their meeting. One day one of them lost patience and went away, leaving her flowers in a dish for the Mother. Just then, the Mother came. The girls were very much struck by this coincidence. What a test, they thought! As soon as one girl approached the Mother, the Mother asked, "Who has left this dish of flowers here? Oh, is it X? You really surprise me! You can't wait even a little while for me, you get so impatient? Do you know how the gods and goddesses yearn to have my darshan, and the saints and sages consider themselves most blessed when they see me in their meditation even for a minute?"
1.04 - The Gods of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
We are no longer with Madhuchchhanda Vaiswamitra. It is Medhatithi of the Kanwas who has taken the word, a soul of great clearness & calmness who is full of a sort of vibrating peace. Yet we find the same strain, the same fixed ideas, the same subjective purpose & spiritual aspiration. A few words here & there in my translation may be challenged and given a different meaning. Throughout the Veda there are words like radhas etc to which I have given a sense based on reasons of context & philology but which must be allowed to remain conjectural till I am able to take up publicly the detailed examination of the language & substance of the Rigveda. But we have sumati again and the ever recurring vaja, the dhartara charshaninam, holders of actions, & rayah which certainly meant felicity in the Veda. It is clear from the third verse that Varuna and Indra are called to share in the felicity of the poets soul,that felicity is his material of sacrifice,anukamam tarpayetham, he says, Delight in it to your hearts content; and again in the seventh shloka he tells them, Vam aham huve chitraya radhase, a phrase which, in view of verse 3, I can only translate I call you for rich and varied ecstasy; for it is evidently meant to describe that felicity, that heart-filling satisfaction which he has already offered in the third sloka. In return he asks them to give victory. Always in the Veda there is the idea of the spiritual battle as well as the outer struggles of life, the battle with the jealous forces of Nature, with Vala, the grudging guardian of light, with the great obscuring dragon Vritra & his hosts, with the thieving Panis, with all the many forces that oppose mans evolution & support limitation and evil. A great many of the words for sacrifice, mean also war and battle, in Sanscrit or in its kindred tongues.
Indra and Varuna are called to give victory, because both of them are samrat. The words samrat & swarat have in Veda an ascertained philosophical sense.One is swarat when, having self-mastery & self-knowledge, & being king over his whole system, physical, vital, mental & spiritual, free in his being, [one] is able to guide entirely the harmonious action of that being. Swarajya is spiritual Freedom. One is Samrat when one is master of the laws of being, ritam, rituh, vratani, and can therefore control all forces & creatures. Samrajya is divine Rule resembling the power of God over his world. Varuna especially is Samrat, master of the Law which he follows, governor of the heavens & all they contain, Raja Varuna, Varuna the King as he is often styled by Sunahshepa and other Rishis. He too, like Indra & Agni & the Visvadevas, is an upholder & supporter of mens actions, dharta charshaninam. Finally in the fifth sloka a distinction is drawn between Indra and Varuna of great importance for our purpose. The Rishi wishes, by their protection, to rise to the height of the inner Energies (yuvaku shachinam) and have the full vigour of right thoughts (yuvaku sumatinam) because they give then that fullness of inner plenty (vajadavnam) which is the first condition of enduring calm & perfection & then he says, Indrah sahasradavnam, Varunah shansyanam kratur bhavati ukthyah. Indra is the master-strength, desirable indeed, (ukthya, an object of prayer, of longing and aspiration) of one class of those boons (vara, varyani) for which the Rishis praise him, Varuna is the master-strength, equally desirable, of another class of these Vedic blessings. Those which Indra brings, give force, sahasram, the forceful being that is strong to endure & strong to overcome; those that attend the grace of Varuna are of a loftier & more ample description, they are shansya. The word shansa is frequently used; it is one of the fixed terms of Veda. Shall we translate it praise, the sense most suitable to the ritual explanation, the sense which the finally dominant ritualistic school gave to so many of the fixed terms of Veda? In that case Varuna must be urushansa, because he is widely praised, Agni narashansa because he is strongly praised or praised by men,ought not a wicked or cruel man to be nrishansa because he is praised by men?the Rishis call repeatedly on the gods to protect their praise, & Varuna here must be master of things that are praiseworthy. But these renderings can only be accepted, if we consent to the theory of the Rishis as semi-savage poets, feeble of brain, vague in speech, pointless in their style, using language for barbaric ornament rather than to express ideas. Here for instance there is a very powerful indicated contrast, indicated by the grammatical structure, the order & the rhythm, by the singular kratur bhavati, by the separation of Indra & Varuna who have hitherto been coupled, by the assignment of each governing nominative to its governed genitive and a careful balanced order of words, first giving the master Indra then his province sahasradavnam, exactly balancing them in the second half of the first line the master Varuna & then his province shansyanam, and the contrast thus pointed, in the closing pada of the Gayatri all the words that in their application are common at once to all these four separated & contrasted words in the first line. Here is no careless writer, but a style careful, full of economy, reserve, point, force, and the thought must surely correspond. But what is the contrast forced on us with such a marshalling of the stylists resources? That Indras boons are force-giving, Varunas praiseworthy, excellent, auspicious, what you will? There is not only a pointless contrast, but no contrast at all. No, shansa & shansya must be important, definite, pregnant Vedic terms expressing some prominent idea of the Vedic system. I shall show elsewhere that shansa is in its essential meaning self-expression, the bringing out of our sat or being that which is latent in it and manifesting it in our nature, in speech, in our general impulse & action. It has the connotation of self-expression, aspiration, temperament, expression of our ideas in speech; then divulgation, publication, praiseor in another direction, cursing. Varuna is urushansa because he is the master of wide self-expression, wide aspirations, a wide, calm & spacious temperament, Agni narashansa because he is master of strong self-expression, strong aspirations, a prevailing, forceful & masterful temperament;nrishansa had originally the same sense, but was afterwards diverted to express the fault to which such a temper is prone,tyranny, wrath & cruelty; the Rishis call to the gods to protect their shansa, that which by their yoga & yajna they have been able to bring out in themselves of being, faculty, power, joy,their self-expression. Similarly, shansya here means all that belongs to self-expression, all that is wide, noble, ample in the growth of a soul. It will follow from this rendering that Indra is a god of force, Varuna rather a god of being and as it appears from other epithets, of being when it is calm, noble, wide, self-knowing, self-mastering, moving freely in harmony with the Law of things because it is aware of that Law and accepts it. In that acceptance is his mighty strength; therefore is he even more than the gods of force the king, the giver of internal & external victory, rule, empire, samrajya to his votaries. This is Varuna.
1.05 - BOOK THE FIFTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
Your challenge justly merited a curse,
And this unmanner'd railing makes it worse.
1.05 - Some Results of Initiation, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
The third requirement is the cultivation of endurance (perseverance). The student is impervious to all influences which would divert him from the goal he has set himself, as long as he can regard it as the right goal. For him, obstacles contain a challenge that impels him to surmount them, but never a reason for giving up.
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1.05 - The Activation of Human Energy, #Let Me Explain, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
claims its challenge: either it must be irreversible, or it need
not go on at all! Man the individual consoles himself for his
1.05 - THE HOSTILE BROTHERS - ARCHETYPES OF RESPONSE TO THE UNKNOWN, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
further based upon faith in human potential upon faith that the individual spirit will respond to challenge,
and flourish. Such belief must be posited voluntarily, freely prior to participation in any heroic
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rely on when he is finally challenged.
The decadent looks to subvert the process of maturation looks for a way out of group affiliation.
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diversity out of his species. No diversity means no variance in response to new challenges means one
solution (likely the wrong one) to every problem. The suppression of deviance, of the unknown, therefore
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adaptive flexibility, in the face of the true challenges of life; will ensure that lifes challenges appear
devastating; will assure endless hopeless suffering, pointless, miserable and frustrating. The myth of the
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challenge an absolutely fatal challenge, in my estimation to Freudian psychoanalytic preconceptions.
They have been overlooked because Jung took the frightening and mysterious statements of religion
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unknown. Admission of personal ignorance presents a challenge to the cultural canon (to the degree that the
ignorant one is identified with that canon) and sets the stage for moral transformation, which manifests
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previously identified and which had to be abandoned or challenged, before the investigation of
matter/unknown could begin in earnest. Destruction of the culturally-determined patriarchal system is
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dissolution. Nonetheless, challenge presented to the prevailing spirit of the times means the removal of
knowledge from the context within which it has relevance, and the subsequent return of what is
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Melzack, R. & Wall, P.D. (1983). The challenge of pain. New York: Basic Books.
Milner, B. (1963). Effects of different brain lesions on card sorting. Archives of Neurology, 9, 100-110.
1.06 - BOOK THE SIXTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
The Goddess now the challenge waves no more,
Nor, kindly good, advises as before.
1.06 - LIFE AND THE PLANETS, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
claims its challenge: either it must be irreversible, or it need not go on
at all! Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the
1.06 - On Induction, #The Problems of Philosophy, #Bertrand Russell, #Philosophy
It is obvious that if we are asked why we believe that the sun will rise to-morrow, we shall naturally answer 'Because it always has risen every day'. We have a firm belief that it will rise in the future, because it has risen in the past. If we are challenged as to why we believe that it will continue to rise as heretofore, we may appeal to the laws of motion: the earth, we shall say, is a freely rotating body, and such bodies do not cease to rotate unless something interferes from outside, and there is nothing outside to interfere with the earth between now and to-morrow. Of course it might be doubted whether we are quite certain that there is nothing outside to interfere, but this is not the interesting doubt. The interesting doubt is as to whether the laws of motion will remain in operation until to-morrow. If this doubt is raised, we find ourselves in the same position as when the doubt about the sunrise was first raised.
The _only_ reason for believing that the laws of motion will remain in operation is that they have operated hitherto, so far as our knowledge of the past enables us to judge. It is true that we have a greater body of evidence from the past in favour of the laws of motion than we have in favour of the sunrise, because the sunrise is merely a particular case of fulfilment of the laws of motion, and there are countless other particular cases. But the real question is: Do _any_ number of cases of a law being fulfilled in the past afford evidence that it will be fulfilled in the future? If not, it becomes plain that we have no ground whatever for expecting the sun to rise to-morrow, or for expecting the bread we shall eat at our next meal not to poison us, or for any of the other scarcely conscious expectations that control our daily lives. It is to be observed that all such expectations are only _probable_; thus we have not to seek for a proof that they _must_ be fulfilled, but only for some reason in favour of the view that they are _likely_ to be fulfilled.
1.06 - Wealth and Government, #Words Of The Mother III, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
On the other hand, for human authority to be legitimately exercised over others, it must be enlightened, impartial and unegoistic to the extent that nobody can reasonably challenge its value.
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1.07 - A Song of Longing for Tara, the Infallible, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
tain prayers or practices repeatedly, doing them with feeling can be a challenge. We easily fall into saying them, blah, blah, blah, and then complain,
My practice isnt going well. Im spinning my wheels and nothings happening.
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Some people dislike being challenged to give from the heart and get stuck
thinking, What is a fair price for this? Even though they havent told me, Ill
1.07 - The Ideal Law of Social Development, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
True, his life and growth are for the sake of the world, but he can help the world by his life and growth only in proportion as he can be more and more freely and widely his own real self. True, he has to use the ideals, disciplines, systems of cooperation which he finds upon his path; but he can only use them well, in their right way and to their right purpose if they are to his life means towards something beyond them and not burdens to be borne by him for their own sake or despotic controls to be obeyed by him as their slave or subject; for though laws and disciplines strive to be the tyrants of the human soul, their only purpose is to be its instruments and servants and when their use is over they have to be rejected and broken. True it is, too, that he has to gather in his material from the minds and lives of his fellow-men around him and to make the most of the experience of humanitys past ages and not confine himself in a narrow mentality; but this he can only do successfully by making all this his own through assimilation of it to the principle of his own nature and through its subservience to the forward call of his enlarging future. The liberty claimed by the struggling human mind for the individual is no mere egoistic challenge and revolt, however egoistically or with one-sided exaggeration and misapplication it may sometimes be advanced; it is the divine instinct within him, the law of the Self, its claim to have room and the one primary condition for its natural self-unfolding.
Individual man belongs not only to humanity in general, his nature is not only a variation of human nature in general, but he belongs also to his race-type, his class-type, his mental, vital, physical, spiritual type in which he resembles some, differs from others. According to these affinities he tends to group himself in Churches, sects, communities, classes, coteries, associations whose life he helps, and by them he enriches the life of the large economic, social and political group or society to which he belongs. In modern times this society is the nation. By his enrichment of the national life, though not in that way only, he helps the total life of humanity. But it must be noted that he is not limited and cannot be limited by any of these groupings; he is not merely the noble, merchant, warrior, priest, scholar, artist, cultivator or artisan, not merely the religionist or the worldling or the politician. Nor can he be limited by his nationality; he is not merely the Englishman or the Frenchman, the Japanese or the Indian; if by a part of himself he belongs to the nation, by another he exceeds it and belongs to humanity. And even there is a part of him, the greatest, which is not limited by humanity; he belongs by it to God and to the world of all beings and to the godheads of the future. He has indeed the tendency of self-limitation and subjection to his environment and group, but he has also the equally necessary tendency of expansion and transcendence of environment and groupings. The individual animal is dominated entirely by his type, subordinated to his group when he does group himself; individual man has already begun to share something of the infinity, complexity, free variation of the Self we see manifested in the world. Or at least he has it in possibility even if there be as yet no sign of it in his organised surface nature. There is here no principle of a mere shapeless fluidity; it is the tendency to enrich himself with the largest possible material constantly brought in, constantly assimilated and changed by the law of his individual nature into stuff of his growth and divine expansion.
1.08 - Psycho therapy Today, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
situation of our time and to see clearly the problems and challenges with
which it faces us. Even if our voice is too weak to make itself heard above
1.08 - The Gods of the Veda - The Secret of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
If indeed the philology of the Europeans were an exact science or its conclusions inevitable results from indisputable premises, there would be no room for any reopening of the subject. But the failure of comparative philology to develop a sound scientific basis & to create a true science of language has been one of the conspicuous intellectual disappointments of the nineteenth century. There can be no denial of that failure. This so-called science is scouted by scientific minds and even the possibility of an etymological science has been disputed. The extravagances of the philological sun myth weavers have been checked by a later method which prefers the evidence of facts to the evidence of nouns & adjectives. The later ethnological theories ignore the conclusions & arguments of the philologists. The old theory of Aryan, Semite, Dravidian & Turanian races has everywhere been challenged and is everywhere breached or rejected. The philologists have indeed established some useful identities and established a few rules of phonetical modification and detrition. But the rest is hypothesis and plausible conjecture. The capacity of brilliant conjecture, volatile inference and an ingenious imagination have been more useful to the modern Sanscrit scholar than rigorous research, scientific deduction or patient and careful generalisation. We are therefore at liberty even on the ground of European science & knowledge to hesitate before the conclusions of philological scholarship.
But for my own part I do not hold myself bound by European research&European theories.My scepticism of nineteenth century results goes farther than is possible to any European scepticism. The Science of comparative religion in Europe seems to me to be based on a blunder. The sun & star theory of comparative mythology with its extravagant scholastic fancies & lawless inferences carries no conviction to my reason. I find in the Aryan & Dravidian tongues, the Aryan and Dravidian races not separate & unconnected families but two branches of a single stock. The legend of the Aryan invasion & settlement in the Panjab in Vedic times is, to me, a philological myth. The naturalistic interpretation of theVedas I accept only as a transference or adhyaropa of European ideas into the Veda foreign to the mentality of the Vedic Rishis & Max Mullers discovery of Vedic henotheism as a brilliant & ingenious error. Whatever is sound & indisputable in European ideas & discoveries, I am bound to admit & shall use, but these large generalisations & assumptions ought, I think, no longer to pass current as un challengeable truth or the final knowledge about the Vedas. My method is rather to make a tabula rasa of all previous theories European or Indian & come back to the actual text of the Veda for enlightenment, the fundamental structure & development of the old Sanscrit tongue for a standard of interpretation and the connection of thought in the hymns for a guide to their meaning. I have arrived as a result at a theory of the Vedic religion, of which this book is intended to give some initial indications.
1.08 - The Splitting of the Human Personality during Spiritual Training, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
sought for on this earth, and anyone desiring to shirk his earthly task and to escape into another world may be certain he will never reach his goal. Yet what the senses perceive is only part of the world, and it is in the spirit world that the beings dwell who express themselves in the facts of the physical world. Man must become a partaker of the spirit in order to carry its revelations into the physical world. He transforms the earth by implanting in it what he has ascertained in the spiritual world. That is his task. It is only because the physical world is dependent upon the spiritual, and because man can work upon earth, in a true sense, only if he is a participator in those worlds in which the creative forces lie concealed-only for these reasons should he have the desire to ascend to the higher worlds. No one approaching esoteric training with these sentiments, and resolved not to deviate for a moment from these prescribed directions, need fear the slightest danger. No one should allow the prospect of these dangers to deter him from esoteric training; it should rather act as a strong challenge to one and all to acquire those faculties which every true esoteric student must possess.
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1.09 - Fundamental Questions of Psycho therapy, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
other hand, Freuds discoveries were just as much of a challenge and a
stumbling-block to the purely somatic views of the doctors. And so they
1.09 - SKIRMISHES IN A WAY WITH THE AGE, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
When the latter state prevails, much is dared, much is challenged,
and much is also _squandered_. That which formerly was simply the
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and terrible instincts which challenge the _maximum_ amount of
authority and discipline to oppose them--the finest example of this
1.10 - The Secret of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
We should realise that these so-called Sciences of Comparative Philology and Comparative Mythology on which the European interpretation of Veda is founded are not true Sciences at all. They are, rather, if Sciences at all, then pseudo-Sciences. All the European mental sciences, not excluding Psychology, though that is now proceeding within certain narrow limits by a sounder method, belong to a doubtful class of branches of research which have absorbed the outward method of Science, without its inward spirit. The true scientists in Germany, the home of both Science & Philology, accustomed to sound methods, certain results, patient inquiry, slow generalisations, have nothing but contempt for the methods of Philology, its patchiness, its haste, its guesswork, and profess no confidence in its results; the word Philologe is even, in their mouths, a slighting & discourteous expression. This contempt, itself no doubt excessive, is practically admitted to be just by the great French thinker, Renan, who spent the best part of his life in philological & kindred researches, when he described apologetically his favourite pursuits as petty conjectural sciences. Now, a Science that is conjectural, a Science that proceeds not by fixed laws and certain methods, but by ingenious inference & conjecture, & this is in truth the nature of Comparative Philology & Comparative Mythology,is no science at all; it is a branch of research, a field of inquiry & conjecture in which useful discoveries may be made; it may even contain in itself the germs of a future science, but it is not yet itself worthy of that name & its results have no right to cloak themselves falsely in the robe of authority which belongs only to the results of the true Sciences. So long as a science is conjectural, its results are also conjectural, can at any moment be challenged and ought at all times even in its most brilliant & confident results to be carefully and sceptically scrutinised.
Among such branches of research which can even now be used in spite of new & hostile conclusions as a sort of side support to the modern theory of the Veda stand in a curious twilit corner of their own the researches of the ethnologists. There is no more glaring instance of the conjectural and unsubstantial nature of these pseudo-Sciences than the results of Ethnology which yet claims to deduce its results from fixed and certain physical tests and data. We find the philological discovery of the Aryan invasion supported by the conclusions of ethnologists like Sir Herbert Risley, who make an ethnological map of India coloured in with all shades of mixed raciality, Dravidian,Scytho-Dravidian, Mongolo-Dravidian, Scytho-Aryan. More modern schools of ethnology assert positively on the strength of [the] same laws & the same tests that there is but one homogeneous Indo-Afghan race inhabiting the whole peninsula from theHimalayas to Cape Comorin. What are we to think of a science of which the tests are so pliant and the primary results so irreconcilable? Or how, if the more modern theory is correct, if a distinct homogeneous race inhabits India, can we fail to doubt strongly as a philological myth the whole story of the Aryan invasion & colonisation of Northern India, which has been so long one of the most successful & loudly proclaimed results of the new philology? As a result perhaps of these later conclusions we find a tendency even in philological scholarship towards the rise of new theories which dispute the whole legend of an Aryan invasion, assert an indigenous or even a southern origin for the peoples of the Vedic times and suppose Aryanism to have been a cult and not a racial distinction. These new theories destroy all fixed confidence in the old without themselves revealing any surer foundations for their own guesses; both start from conjectural philology & end in an imaginatively conjectural nation-building or culture-building. It is exceedingly doubtful whether the Vedic terms Aryan & unAryan at all refer to racial or cultural differences; they may have an entirely different and wholly religious & spiritual significance & refer to the good and evil powers & mortals influenced by them. If this prove to be the truth, and the close contiguity & probable historical connection between the Vedic Indians & the Zoroastrian Persians gives it a great likelihood, then the whole elaborate edifice built up by the scholars of an Aryan invasion and an Aryan culture begins to totter & seek the ground, there to lie in the dust amid the wrecks of other once confident beliefs and triumphant errors.
1.11 - On Intuitive Knowledge, #The Problems of Philosophy, #Bertrand Russell, #Philosophy
There is a common impression that everything that we believe ought to be capable of proof, or at least of being shown to be highly probable. It is felt by many that a belief for which no reason can be given is an unreasonable belief. In the main, this view is just. Almost all our common beliefs are either inferred, or capable of being inferred, from other beliefs which may be regarded as giving the reason for them. As a rule, the reason has been forgotten, or has even never been consciously present to our minds. Few of us ever ask ourselves, for example, what reason there is to suppose the food we are just going to eat will not turn out to be poison. Yet we feel, when challenged, that a perfectly good reason could be found, even if we are not ready with it at the moment. And in this belief we are usually justified.
But let us imagine some insistent Socrates, who, whatever reason we give him, continues to demand a reason for the reason. We must sooner or later, and probably before very long, be driven to a point where we cannot find any further reason, and where it becomes almost certain that no further reason is even theoretically discoverable. Starting with the common beliefs of daily life, we can be driven back from point to point, until we come to some general principle, or some instance of a general principle, which seems luminously evident, and is not itself capable of being deduced from anything more evident. In most questions of daily life, such as whether our food is likely to be nourishing and not poisonous, we shall be driven back to the inductive principle, which we discussed in Chapter VI. But beyond that, there seems to be no further regress. The principle itself is constantly used in our reasoning, sometimes consciously, sometimes unconsciously; but there is no reasoning which, starting from some simpler self-evident principle, leads us to the principle of induction as its conclusion. And the same holds for other logical principles. Their truth is evident to us, and we employ them in constructing demonstrations; but they themselves, or at least some of them, are incapable of demonstration.
1.11 - Woolly Pomposities of the Pious Teacher, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
All such points you must decide for yourself; the important thing is that you should challenge any such ideas.
Above all, do not avoid, or slur, unwelcome trains of thought or distressing problems. Don't say "he passed on" when you mean "he died," and don't call a spade a bloody shovel!
1.1.2 - Commentary, #Kena and Other Upanishads, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
and is met by the challenge "Who art thou? What is the force in
thee?" His name is Agni Jatavedas, the Power that is at the basis
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same formidable challenge "Who art thou? What is the force in
thee?" This is Vayu Matarishwan and the power in him is this
1.16 - WITH THE DEVOTEES AT DAKSHINESWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Rma had married Sita after breaking the great bow of iva. On the way to Ayhodhya with His bride, Rma was confronted by the warrior sage Parasurama, who was about to make trouble for Him. Parasurama threw a bow at Rma and challenged Him to string it. Dasaratha, Rma's father, was seized with fear. With a smile, Rma took the bow in His left hand and strung it. Then twanging the bow-string, He fixed an arrow and asked Parasurama where to shoot it. That curbed the pride of the warrior sage. Prostrating himself before Rma, Parasurama worshipped Him as the Supreme Brahman.
As Sri Ramakrishna listened to Parasurama's hymn, he went into a spiritual mood and now and then chanted the name of Rma in his melodious voice.
1.17 - The Transformation, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
because this time, instead of having Nature to do her work of transmutation without much concern for existing contingencies, we can become conscious collaborators in our own evolution, accept the challenge, or, as Sri Aurobindo says, let ourselves be surpassed.
Future Prospects What will this new race be like? To understand the goal is already a 340
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It's even more than a difficulty; I think I told you before that each one represents an impossibility to be resolved; when all these imposibilities are resolved, the Work will be over. As previously mentioned, each person has a shadow that keeps pursuing him and that seems to contradict the very aim of his existence. This is the particular vibration he must transform, his field of work, his impossible knot. At once the challenge of his life and its potential triumph, it is his share in the progress of the collective evolution upon the earth. But something curious happens in this particular laboratory: in ordinary life, or in an individual yoga, the shadow is more or less dormant,
more or less bothersome, and usually dissolves by itself or, rather,
1.18 - The Importance of our Conventional Greetings, etc., #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
The practice of Liber III vel Jugorum*[AC26] is the complement of these grouped customs. By sharp physical self-chastisement when you think, say, or do whatever it is that you have set yourself to avoid doing, you set a sentry at the gate of your mind ready to challenge all comers, and so you acquire the habit of being on the alert. Keep this in mind, and you will have no difficulty in following the argument of this letter.
When you are practicing Dharana[AC27] concentration, you allow yourself so many minutes. It is a steady, sustained effort. The mind constantly struggles to escape control. (I hope you remember the sequence of "breaks." In case you don't, I summarize them.
1.200-1.224 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
Brahman. Does a man go on repeating I am a man? Unless he is challenged, why should he declare himself a man? Does anyone mistake oneself for a brute, that he should say No. I am not a brute; I am a man? Similarly, Brahman or I being alone, there is no one there to challenge it and so there is no need to be repeating I am Brahman.
17th June, 1936
1.20 - On bodily vigil and how to use it to attain spiritual vigil and how to practise it., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
19. When prayer is finished wait soberly, and you will see that swarms of demons, as if challenged by us, try to invade us after prayer with absurd phantasies. Sit and watch; you will see those who are in the habit of snatching away the first fruits of the soul.
20. It may happen that continuous meditation on passages of the Psalms is prolonged into the hour of sleep. And it may happen that the demons put these passages into our mind in order to lead us to pride. I would not have mentioned the third case, had not someone forced me to do so. The soul which has spent all day unceasingly engaged with the word of the Lord will love to be occupied with it in sleep too. For this second grace is in a special sense a reward for the first and helps us to avoid falls and phantasies.
1.240 - Talks 2, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
This asura being in samadhi, all the asuras are in peace. There is no fight, no trial of strength, no search for power, nor the means for gaining power. In the absence of such means for power - yaga, yajna, etc., i.e., the gods are not thriving; there is no new creation; nor even is any existence justified. So I will wake him up; then the asuras will rise up; their original nature will manifest itself; the gods will challenge them: the asuras and others will then seek strength and adopt the means for its acquisition.
Yajnas, etc., will flourish; the gods will thrive; there will be more and more of creation, more of fight and I shall have enough to do.
1.26 - On discernment of thoughts, passions and virtues, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
If you will listen to me, you who are willing to do so, it is best for us not to be versatile and not to split our wretched soul into detachments, and not to challenge to battle with oneself thousands and myriads of the enemies:2 for it is not in our power to comprehend or even to discover all their hosts.
With the help of the Holy Trinity, let us battle with three against three.3 Otherwise we shall make much toil for ourselves.
1.28 - Need to Define God, Self, etc., #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
We of Thelema challenge all this briskly. "The word of Sin is Restriction." (AL I, 41). Our formula, roughly speaking, is to go out and grab what we want. We do this so thoroughly that we grow thereby, extending our conception of "I" by including each new accretion instead of remaining a closely delineated self, proud of possessing other things, as do the Black Brothers.
We are whole-hearted extroverts; the penalty of restricting oneself is anything from neurosis to down right lunacy; in particular, melancholia.
1.29 - What is Certainty?, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
* [AC35] It seems natural to me apodeictic after a fashion to treat Doubt as positive, even aggressive. There is none of the wavering, wobbling, woebegone wail of the weary and bewildered wage-slave; it is a triumphant challenge, disagreement for its own sake. Irish!
Browing painted a quite perfect picture of my Doubt.
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Blew with his bugle a challenge to Drouth,
Cocked his flap-hat with the tosspot feather,
1.300 - 1.400 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
"This asura being in samadhi, all the asuras are in peace. There is no fight, no trial of strength, no search for power, nor the means for gaining power. In the absence of such means for power - yaga, yajna, etc., i.e., the gods are not thriving; there is no new creation; nor even is any existence justified. So I will wake him up; then the asuras will rise up; their original nature will manifest itself; the gods will challenge them: the asuras and others will then seek strength and adopt the means for its acquisition.
Yajnas, etc., will flourish; the gods will thrive; there will be more and more of creation, more of fight and I shall have enough to do".
1.36 - Human Representatives of Attis, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
Celaenae in Phrygia. Vain of his skill, he challenged Apollo to a
musical contest, he to play on the flute and Apollo on the lyre.
1.400 - 1.450 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
The first challenged her to prove his mind. She accepted. The second desired to be left alone with only a shred of garment in which to clo the herself. The first sister returned home, leaving the other alone with flimsy clothing. As the latter continued to remain under the tree, she appeared penitent and humble. The saint noticed her and approached her after some time. He asked what had happened to her that she
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1.40 - Coincidence, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
When I was writing that letter about prophecy, I was hot and bothered all the time by my faithful sentinel, the well-greaved Hoplite that stands at the postern of my consciousness, ready to challenge every thought and woe to the intruder who cannot give the countersign! This time the dear old ruffian thought the matter serious enough to report Higher Up. "It is put plainly enough, emphatically enough, incontrovertibly enough" was the gist of his communication "that the first and most irretrievable trick of the enemy is to dupe you into passing Captain Coincidence as 'Friend,' whereas he is naturally the most formidable of all your foes when it comes to a question of proof."
Quite right, Sergeant-Major! But it is not only about prophecy, but about all sorts of things, in particular, of course, the identification of angels and similar problems.
1.439, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
The first challenged her to prove his mind. She accepted. The second desired to be left alone with only a shred of garment in which to clo the herself. The first sister returned home, leaving the other alone with flimsy clothing. As the latter continued to remain under the tree, she appeared penitent and humble. The saint noticed her and approached her after some time. He asked what had happened to her that she
Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi looked so lowly. She pleaded penitence for her past life, desired to lead a purer and nobler life and finished with a prayer to him to accept her humble services in the garden or attendance on himself. He advised her to return home and lead a normal life. But she protested. So he detained her for watering the tulasi plants. She accepted the function with delight and began to work in the garden.
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M.: Why should you think I am a man? If you are challenged you
may say I am a man. Therefore the thought - I am a man - is
1.47 - Lityerses, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
Midas, was wont to challenge people to a reaping match with him, and
if he vanquished them he used to thrash them; but one day he met
1.63 - Fear, a Bad Astral Vision, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Well, this is not an example for you to copy, is it? But it gives an idea of the principle "Take the bull by the horns." A practice easier to imitate was this following. In most great cities, always in Eastern cities, are black slums. Here one may find blind alleys, dark doorways open to unlighted houses. One may explore such places, looking for adventure and it was rather a point of honour to accept the challenge in whatever form it took. Again, one may walk with deliberate carelessness into the traffic[118]; this practice does not in my considerable experience, conduce to one's personal popularity. Another idea was to hasten to cholera-stricken cities, to places where Yellow Jack, plague, typhoid and typhus, dysentery (et hc turba malorum) were endemic; and (of course) big-game hunting takes one to the certainty of malarial fever, with no doctors (or worse, Bengali doctors!) within many a league.
The general principle seems to be "This boat carries Caesar and his Fortunes!" and no doubt Pride in its most Satanic degree is one's greatest asset. But the essence of the practice, as a practice, is to seek out and to face what one fears. Do not forget that courage implies fear what else should fear be useful for?
1.66 - The External Soul in Folk-Tales, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
Kalmuck tale we read how a certain khan challenged a wise man to
show his skill by stealing a precious stone on which the khan's life
1.69 - Original Sin, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
P.S. On reading this, I note that I passed over with deserved contempt the theory of "original sin" in the sense which you probably meant me to take: the defect deliberately implanted in man by "Old Nobodaddy" with no better object than to prepare the grotesquely tragic farce of the "Atonement." I will merely remark that no idea at once so base and so contemptible, so bestial and so idiotic, can challenge its ignoble absurdity.
Rotten with sex-perversion, it is a noisome blend of sadism and masochism based on the most abject form of fear.
1.72 - Education, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
6. A player whose turn it is must either add his letter within a reasonable (This is a matter of good feeling, courtesy and consideration) time, may say "I challenge" or, alternatively, "That is a 'word'." The other must then give the "word" that he intends, or deny that it is a "word" within the meaning of the Art, as the case may be. The Dictionary decides the winner. The challenged player may give one word only, and that in the form which is printed in the Dictionary; e.g. if he were challenged at BRUSS, and answered Brussels, he would lose; if BRUSSELS-SPROUTS, he would win. Hyphens need not be given. CASHMERE is a "word"; it is a kind of shawl, etc., so is CHARLEY, a night-watchman. Don't argue: the Dictionary decides.
7. This game calls not only for an extensive vocabulary but for courage; foresight, judgment, resource, subtlety and even low cunning. It can be played by more than two players, but the more there are, the more the element of chance comes in; and this is hateful to really fine players and diminishes the excitement. The rapier-play of two experts, when a word changes from one line of formation to another, and then again, perhaps even a third time, is as exhilarating as a baseball-game or a bull-fight.
1.74 - Obstacles on the Path, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Yes child, my deepest attitude is to be found in my life. I have been to most of the holy inaccessible places, and talked with the most holy inaccessible men; I have dared all the most dangerous adventures, both of the flesh and of the spirit; and I challenge the world's literature to match for sublimity and terror such experiences as those in the latter half of The Vision and the Voice.
You understand, of course, that I say all this merely in indication; or rather, as I said before, as an appeal for clemency.
1951-03-22 - Relativity- time - Consciousness - psychic Witness - The twelve senses - water-divining - Instinct in animals - story of Mothers cat, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Animals have much more perfect senses than those of men. I challenge you to track a man as a dog does, for instance!
This means that in the curve or rather the spiral of evolution, animals (and more so those we call higher animals, because resemble us more closely) are governed by the spirit of the species which is a highly conscious consciousness. Bees, ants, obey this spirit of the species which is of quite a special quality. And what is called instinct in animals is simply obedience to the spirit of the species which always knows what ought and ought not to be done. There are so many examples, you know. You put a cow in a meadow; it roams around, sniffs, and suddenly puts out its tongue and snatches a blade of grass. Then it wanders about again, sniffs and gets another tuft of grass, and so it goes on. Has anyone ever known a cow under these conditions to eat poisonous grass? But shut this poor animal up in a cow-shed, gather and put some grass before it, and the poor creature which has lost its instinct because it now obeys man (excuse me), eats the poisonous grass along with the rest of it. We have already had three such cases here, three cows which died from having eaten poisonous grass. And these unfortunate animals, like all animals, have a kind of respect (which I could call unjustifiable) for the superiority of manif he puts poisonous grass before the cow and tells it to eat, it eats it! But left to itself, that is, without anything interfering between it and the spirit of the species, it would never do so. All animals which live close to man lose their instinct because they have a kind of admiration full of devotion for this being who can give them shelter and food without the least difficulty and a little fear too, for they know that if they dont do what man wants they will be beaten!
1953-11-25, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It is not altogether like that. The divine Consciousness works always, everywhere and in the same way. The divine Grace is active everywhere, and in all circumstances in the same way. And so on. But according to your personal attitude, you create within yourself the conditions for receiving what is done or not receiving it. And trustindeed, trust in the Truth, trust in the Grace, trust in the divine Knowledgethis puts you in that state of receptivity in which you can receive these things. Whilst, if you have no trust you may still try to receive something there are people, for instance, who fling a sort of challenge, they throw a challenge at the Divine and tell him: Heres the situation such as it is, I am in these conditions which seem to me at least inextricable, it is impossible to get out of them. But if the Divine pulls me out of the difficulty, I shall put my trust in him. There are many people they do not formulate it like this but many feel and think in this way. Well, this is the worst of all possible conditions. Generally it puts you into a complete hole. And it is exactly the state most opposed to trustfulness. And besides, it is quite a vulgar bargaining: If you do this for me, I shall have faith that you exist. I am going to try and see if you really exist and whether you are what they say. Do this, and we are going to see clearly if you succeed. Then I shall trust in you. And many people do that, even without being aware of it. Any number of men say: How can I have trust in the Divine? I have such a lamentable and unhappy life! That is to say, they limit the divine Consciousness to their little personal needs.
If one has the trust, does the help come automatically?
1956-07-11 - Beauty restored to its priesthood - Occult worlds, occult beings - Difficulties and the supramental force, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And so I said: From that moment the transforming Grace will radiate in the most effective way. Well, I challenge anyone to tell me the opposite!
But here indeed it begins to be a little more I added: And fortunately for the aspirants this happy future I dont think I wrote it in this way, but that doesnt matterthis happy future will materialise for them in spite of all the obstacles that the unregenerate human nature may put up against it. I continue to hope that it will be like this!
1956-09-05 - Material life, seeing in the right way - Effect of the Supermind on the earth - Emergence of the Supermind - Falling back into the same mistaken ways, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The worst of it is that generally the whole material reality seems to be the only reality, and everything which is not that seems altogether secondary. And the right of that material consciousness to rule, guide, organise life, to dominate all the rest, is justified to such an extent that if someone tries to challenge this sacrosanct authority, he is considered half-mad or extremely dangerous. It seems to me one must still go a very long way to consider material life in the way Sri Aurobindo has described it here. And I am quite convinced that if one feels it like that, sees it like that, as he has described it, one is very, very close to the remedy.
It is only lite natures, those who have already had a contact with a higher reality, with something of the divine Consciousness, who feel earthly existence in that way. And when one can become so fully conscious of all these weaknesses and stupidities of the outer consciousness, all these falsehoods of so-called material knowledge and so-called physical laws, the so-called necessities of the body, the reality of ones needs; if one begins to see how very false, stupid, illusory, obscure, foolish all this is, one is truly very close to the solution.
1957-05-15 - Differentiation of the sexes - Transformation from above downwards, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Obviously, if you are a thorough-going materialist, you will say that it is the development of the form which brings out new capacities; but still, this is not quite correct, it is not exactly like this that things usually happen, and I challenge you to transform your body before your mind has been transformed. Just try, let us see!
You cannot move a finger, say a word, walk one step without the minds intervention; so with what instrument are you going to transform your body if your mind is not already transformed?
1.anon - Others have told me, #Anonymous - Poems, #unset, #Zen
I will challenge him
Let me shout out in Uruk: I am the mighty one!'
1f.lovecraft - Collapsing Cosmoses, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
which I soon recognised as a hail and a challenge. An answering thrill
crept through me as I met with uplifted antennae this threat of battle
1f.lovecraft - Out of the Aeons, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
smiled to those who might resent the gods will or challenge its right
to the sacrifices. In later years the ruse of Imash-Mo became known to
1f.lovecraft - The Challenge from Beyond, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
object:1f.lovecraft - The challenge from Beyond
author class:H P Lovecraft
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history, that constituted a challenge that would not let him sleep.
[A. Merritt]
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But the shape was a challenge that he could not ignore. Moving to the
edge of the water he knelt in the soft mud and reached out toward the
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Return to The challenge from Beyond
1f.lovecraft - The Dreams in the Witch House, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
of the thing was a tremendous challenge to scientific curiosity. One of
the small radiating arms was broken off and subjected to chemical
1f.lovecraft - The Green Meadow, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
the challenge of the waving green branches. Then a thick mist arose
from the sea to join the sky-forms, and the shore was erased from my
1f.lovecraft - The Haunter of the Dark, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Cautious investigators will hesitate to challenge the common belief
that Robert Blake was killed by lightning, or by some profound nervous
1f.lovecraft - The Horror in the Museum, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
challenge.
Who goes there? Who are you? What do you want?
1f.lovecraft - The Terrible Old Man, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
is in his profession, there is a lure and a challenge about a very old
and very feeble man who has no account at the bank, and who pays for
1f.lovecraft - The Whisperer in Darkness, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
challengers of my views. For one thing, he was really close to the
actual phenomenavisible and tangiblethat he speculated so grotesquely
1f.lovecraft - Winged Death, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
challenged my identity. Have had some inconclusive business talks to
keep up my part as a mine broker, and believe I may actually work
1.jk - Sonnet XV. On The Grasshopper And Cricket, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
'Charles Cowden Clarke records that this sonnet was written at Leigh Hunt's cottage, on a challenge from Hunt.' Both Hunt's and Keats's sonnets 'appeared together in The Examiner for the 21st of September 1817; but Keats's volume [Poems] had already appeared in June of that year.'
~ Poetical Works of John Keats, ed. H. Buxton Forman, Crowell publ. 1895. by owner. provided at no charge for educational purposes
1.rb - Master Hugues Of Saxe-Gotha, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
O you may challenge them, not a response
Get the church-saints on their rounds!
1.rb - Nationality In Drinks, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
Blew with his bugle a challenge to Drouth,
Cocked his flap-hat with the tosspot-feather,
1.rb - Paracelsus - Part I - Paracelsus Aspires, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
And who am I, to challenge and dispute
That clear belief? I will divest all fear.
1.rb - Sordello - Book the First, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
Life, thenwilt challenge life for us: our race
Is vindicated so, obtains its place
1.rb - Sordello - Book the Fourth, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
A liegeman's challenge, straight he too was calmed:
As if his hate could bear to lie embalmed,
1.rb - Sordello - Book the Second, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
A common law was challenged and allowed
If calmly reasoned of, howe'er denied
1.rmr - Dedication, #Rilke - Poems, #Rainer Maria Rilke, #Poetry
will be for me a challenge I must meet.
If this presumptuous seems, God, may I be forgiven.
1.whitman - A Riddle Song, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Invoking here and now I challenge for my song.
Indifferently, 'mid public, private haunts, in solitude,
1.whitman - Now List To My Mornings Romanza, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
A man is a summons and challenge;
(It is vain to skulkDo you hear that mocking and laughter? Do you
1.whitman - Passage To India, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Thyself, O soul, that will not brook a challenge.
The medieval navigators rise before me,
1.whitman - Song of Myself, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
The heav'd challenge from the east that moment over my head,
The mocking taunt, See then whether you shall be master!
1.whitman - Song Of Myself- XXIV, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Zen
The heav'd challenge from the east that moment over my head,
The mocking taunt. See then whether you shall be master!
1.ww - 24 - Walt Whitman, a cosmos, of Manhattan the son, #Song of Myself, #unset, #Zen
Original Language English Walt Whitman, a cosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them, No more modest than immodest. Unscrew the locks from the doors! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs! Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me. Through me the afflatus surging and surging, through me the current and index. I speak the password primeval, I give the sign of democracy, By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms. Through me may long dumb voices, Voices of the interminable generations of prisoners and slaves, Voices of the diseased and despairing and of thieves ad dwarfs, Voices of cycles of preparation and accretion, And of the threads that connect the stars, and of wombs and of the father stuff, And of the rights of them the others are down upon, Of the deformed, trivial, flat, foolish, despised, Fog in the air, beetles rolling balls of dung. Through me forbidden voices, Voices of sexes and lusts, voices veiled and I remove the veil, Voices indecent by me clarified and transfigured. I do not press my fingers across my mouth, I keep as delicate around the bowels as around the head and heart, Copulation is no more rank to me than death is. I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from, The scent of these armpits aroma finer than prayer, This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds. If I worship one thing more than another it shall be the spread of my own body, or any part of it, Translucent mold of me it shall be you! Shaded ledges and rests it shall be you! Firm masculine colter it shall be you! Whatever goes to the tilth of me it shall be you! You my rich blood! you milky stream pale strippings of my life! Breast that presses against other breasts it shall be you! My brain it shall be your occult convolutions! Root of washed sweet flag! timorous pond snipe! next of guarded duplicate eggs! it shall be you! Mixed tussled hay of head, beard, brawn, it shall be you! Trickling sap of maple, fiber of manly wheat, it shall be you! Sun so generous it shall be you! Vapors lighting and shading my face it shall be you! You sweaty brooks and dews it shall be you! Winds whose soft-tickling genitals rub against me it shall be you! Broad muscular fields, branches of live oak, loving lounger in my winding paths, it shall be you! Hands I have taken, face I have kissed, mortal I have ever touched, it shall be you. I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious, Each moment and whatever happens thrills me with joy, I cannot tell how my angles bend, nor whence the cause of my faintest wish, Nor the cause of the friendship I emit, nor the cause of the friendship I take again. That I walk up my stoop, I pause to consider if it really be, A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. To behold the daybreak! The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows, The air tastes good to my palate. Hefts of the moving world at innocent gambols silently rising, freshly exuding, Scooting obliquely high and low. Something I cannot see puts upward libidinous prongs, Seas of bright juice suffuse heaven. The earth by the sky stayed with, the daily close of their junction, The heaved challenge from the east that moment over my head, The mocking taunt, See then whether you shall be master! [2333.jpg] -- from Song of Myself, by Walt Whitman <
1.ww - The Horn Of Egremont Castle, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
Hear the challenge with delight.
Hubert! though the blast be blown
1.ww - The Idle Shepherd Boys, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
The challenger pursued his march;
And now, all eyes and feet, hath gained
20.05 - Act III: The Return, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
SHEShe is our challenge to the impossible
HEIf she did not resist us
2.01 - Habit 1 Be Proactive, #The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, #Stephen Covey, #unset
I would challenge you to test the principle of proactivity for 30 days. Simply try it and see what happens. For 30 days work only in your Circle of Influence. Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
Try it in your marriage, in your family, in your job. Don't argue for other people's weaknesses.
2.02 - Habit 2 Begin with the End in Mind, #The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, #Stephen Covey, #unset
At the final session of a year-long executive development program in Seattle, the president of an oil company came up to me and said, "Stephen, when you pointed out the difference between leadership and management in the second month, I looked at my role as the president of this company and realized that I had never been into leadership. I was deep into management, buried by pressing challenges and the details of day-to-day logistics. So I decided to withdraw from management. I could get other people to do that. I wanted to really lead my organization.
"It was hard. I went through withdrawal pains because I stopped dealing with a lot of the pressing, urgent matters that were right in front of me and which gave me a sense of immediate accomplishment.
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It also means to begin each day with those values firmly in mind. Then as the vicissitudes, as the challenges come, I can make my decisions based on those values. I can act with integrity. I don't have to react to the emotion, the circumstance. I can be truly proactive, value driven, because my values are clear.
--- A Personal Mission Statement
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You can do it in every area of your life. Before a performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone." Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Your creative, visual right brain is one of your most important assets, both in creating your personal mission statement and in integrating it into your life.
2.03 - The Purified Understanding, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
We must, however, consider deeply and clearly what we mean by the understanding and by its purification. We use the word as the nearest equivalent we can get in the English tongue to the Sanskrit philosophical term buddhi; therefore we exclude from it the action of the sense mind which merely consists of the recording of perceptions of all kinds without distinction whether they be right or wrong, true or mere illusory phenomena, penetrating or superficial. We exclude that mass of confused conception which is merely a rendering of these perceptions and is equally void of the higher principle of judgment and discrimination. Nor can we include that constant leaping current of habitual thought which does duty for understanding in the mind of the average unthinking man, but is only a constant repetition of habitual associations, desires, prejudices, prejudgments, received or inherited preferences, even though it may constantly enrich itself by a fresh stock of concepts streaming in from the environment and admitted without the challenge of the sovereign discriminating reason. Undoubtedly this is a sort of understanding which has been very useful in, the development of man from the animal; but it is only one remove above the animal mind; it is a half-animal reason subservient to habit, to desire and the senses and is of no avail in the search whether for scientific or philosophical or, spiritual knowledge. We have to go beyond it; its purification can only be effected either by dismissing or silencing it altogether or by transmuting it into the true understanding.
By the understanding we mean that which at once perceives, judges and discriminates, the true reason of the human being not subservient to the senses, to desire or to the blind force of habit, but working in its own right for mastery, for knowledge. Certainly, the reason of man as he is at present does not even at its best act entirely in this free and sovereign fashion; but so far as it fails, it fails because it is still mixed with the lower half-animal action, because it is impure and constantly hampered and pulled down from its characteristic action. In its purity it should not be involved in these lower movements, but stand back from the object, and observe disinterestedly, put it in its right place in the whole by force of comparison, contrast, analogy, reason from its rightly observed data by deduction, induction, inference and holding all its gains in memory and supplementing them by a chastened and rightly-guided imagination view all in the light of a trained and disciplined judgment. Such is the pure intellectual understanding of which disinterested observation, judgment and reasoning are the law and characterising action.
2.04 - On Art, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
When these artists want to convey something then arises the real difficulty for the viewer. How on earth is one to make out what the artist means, even if he means to convey something? It is all right if you don't want to convey anything but merely express yourself and leave people to feel about it as they like. In that case one gets an impression and even though one can't put it in terms of the mind you can feel the thing, as with the two figures. But if you express something and say like the Surrealist poets, "Why should a work of art mean anything?" or "Why do you want to understand?" then it becomes difficult to accept it. Take the other picture of the Brahmin Pandit, as I call it. It would have been all right without the eyes. But the eyes, or what seem to be the eyes, at once challenge the mind to think what it means!
(Turning to a disciple) Did you see the futuristic painting representing a man in different positions? The artist wanted to convey the idea of movement! It is most absurd. Each art has its own conditions and limitations and you have to work under those conditions and limitations.
2.05 - Habit 3 Put First Things First, #The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, #Stephen Covey, #unset
But there is an emerging fourth generation that is different in kind. It recognizes that "time management" is really a misnomer -- the challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.
Satisfaction is a function of expectation as well as realization. And expectation (and satisfaction) lie in our Circle of Influence.
2.1.1.04 - Reading, Yogic Force and the Development of Style, #Letters On Poetry And Art, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
I challenge your assertion that the Force is more easily potent to produce spiritual results than mental (literary) results. It seems to me the other way round. In my own case the first time I started Yoga, Pranayama etc., I laboured 5 hours a day for a long time and concentrated and struggled for five years without any least spiritual result1, but poetry came like a river and prose like a flood and other things too that were mental, vital or physical, not spiritual, richnesses and openings. I have seen in many cases an activity of the mind in various directions as the first or at least an early result. Why? Because there is less resistance, more cooperation from the confounded lower members for these things than for a psychic or a spiritual change. That is easy to understand at least. Well?
1 November 1935
2.1.4 - The Lower Vital Being, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
It is not the vital demand but the psychic urge that alone can bring the nature towards the supramental transformation; for it alone can change the mental and vital and show them their own true movement. But constantly the vital demand is being taken for the psychic aspiration; and yet the difference is clear. In the psychic aspiration there are none of these reactions; there is no revolt, no justification of revolt: for the psychic aspires through inner union with the Divine and surrender. It does not question and challenge, but seeks to understand through unity with the Divine Will. It does not ask for small personal satisfactions, but finds its satisfaction in the growth of the Truth within the being; what it seeks and finds is not any indulgence of a vital and physical claim, but the true nearness which consists in the constant presence of the Divine in the heart and the rule of the Divine in all the nature. The cry of the psychic is always, Let the Truth prevail, let Thy will be done and not mine. But the clamour of the vital is the very opposite: it calls to the Divine, Let my will be Thine; obey my insistences, satisfy my desires, then only will I seek and accept Thee, for then only will I consent to see the Divine in Thee. It is hardly necessary to say which is the way to the Truth or which the right solution of any struggle in the nature.
The only creation for which there is any place here is the supramental, the bringing of the divine Truth down on the earth, not only into the mind and vital but into the body and into Matter. Our object is not to remove all limitations on the expansion of the ego or to give a free field and make unlimited room for the fulfilment of the ideas of the human mind or the desires of the ego-centred life-force. None of us are here to do as we like, or to create a world in which we shall at last be able to do as we like; we are here to do what the Divine wills and to create a world in which the Divine Will can manifest its truth no longer deformed by human ignorance or perverted and mistranslated by vital desire. The work which the sadhak of the supramental Yoga has to do is not his own work for which he can lay down his own conditions, but the work of the Divine which he has to do according to the conditions laid down by the Divine. Our Yoga is not for our own sake but for the sake of the Divine. It is not our own personal manifestation that we are to seek, the manifestation of the individual ego freed from all bounds and from all bonds, but the manifestation of the Divine. Of that manifestation our own spiritual liberation, perfection, fullness is to be a result and a part, but not in any egoistic sense or for any ego-centred or self-seeking purpose. This liberation, perfection, fullness too must not be pursued for our own sake, but for the sake of the Divine. I emphasise this character of the creation because a constant forgetfulness of this simple and central truth, a conscious, half-conscious or wholly ignorant confusion about it has been at the root of most of the vital revolts that have spoiled many an individual sadhana here and disturbed the progress of the general inner work and the spiritual atmosphere.
2.19 - Feb-May 1939, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
Disciple: Yes. Gandhiji also challenged the Government, the result was the Round Table Conference. In the end, Willingdon arrested him and refused even to see him.
Sri Aurobindo: Willingdon will now look with queer eyes at the Congress Ministers and think that all he had done has been undone.
2.2.02 - Consciousness and the Inconscient, #Essays Divine And Human, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
And again in this reading of the universe, more baffling than any unbelievable belief - credo quia incredibile, - with which ever dogmatic theology or mystic philosophy has challenged us, man loses all his cosmic value. An infinitesimal little creature on a tiny speck of matter lost amidst a whirling multitude of stupendous universes most or all of them perhaps vacant of life and thought and made for no other end but simply to whirl, he is (justifying Scripture) even as the worm is - only an edition de luxe, with copious developments and commentaries, of the same laborious but useless text, the same minute, careful, well-arranged, painstaking but insignificant script that we see already in the ant and the termite. Individual man lasts for a few years which are in the aimless vastness of the universe of no more matter than the few days or weeks or months of the insect. The race indeed has endured for millions of years and may endure for some centuries, some thousands, myriads or millions of years longer; but what are these millions in the incalculable aeons of the cosmos? The termite perhaps was before man and may be there when he has
Consciousness and the Inconscient
2.21 - 1940, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
Sri Aurobindo: This Being does not believe in a divine descent; it is a sort of challenge: "I will finish my first decisive victory before August 15." That shows the nature of the conflict.
Disciple: It does not seem to be only one Being, but a troop.
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Fasting and Satyagraha in order to change the heart of the opponent is absurd. If it changes anything, it may be only the mind, not the heart. What the Congress can do is to exert pressure and secure some concessions. It can't succeed if it challenges the very existence of the other force. A man may not like to face the consequences and so he will give in without any change of heart. For instance, Gandhi succeeded in settling the Ahmedabad mill-workers demands because the owners did not want to earn public obloquy. So they gave concessions to his demands. But suppose instead of some demand for amelioration he had asked them to hand over the mills to the workers, he would not have succeeded.
The English have a constitutional mind. Once they give their word, they don't go back upon it. They don't want anyone else to walk into India when they walk out of it. They are afraid of that happening if they leave India now. It would certainly mean civil war and any other power could walk into India. They have announced that they would grant Dominion Status, which amounts to Independence except in one or two matters like defence and foreign affairs.
2.22 - THE STILLEST HOUR, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
he integrates what is in him, perfects and lavishes himself, and says, "This is my way; where is yours?" Michelangelo and Mozart do not offer us "the way" but a challenge and a promise of what is possible.
12. On Old and New Tablets: Attempt at a grand summary,
2.23 - Man and the Evolution, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
But this account of the process and meaning of the terrestrial creation is at every point exposed to challenge in the mind of man himself, because the evolution is still half-way on its journey, is still in the Ignorance, is still seeking in the mind of a half-evolved humanity for its own purpose and significance. It is possible to challenge the theory of evolution on the ground that it is insufficiently founded and that it is superfluous as an explanation of the process of terrestrial existence. It is open to doubt, even if evolution is granted, whether man has the capacity to develop into a higher evolutionary being. It is open also to doubt whether the evolution is likely to go any farther than it has gone already or whether a supramental evolution, the appearance of a consummated Truth-Consciousness, a being of Knowledge, is at all probable in the fundamental Ignorance of the earthly Nature. Another construction neither teleological nor evolutionary can be put on the workings of the Spirit in the manifestation here, and it may be as well before proceeding farther to formulate succinctly the line of thinking which makes such a construction possible.
Admitting that the creation is a manifestation of the Timeless Eternal in a Time Eternity, admitting that there are the seven grades of Consciousness and that the material Inconscience has been laid down as a basis for the reascent of the Spirit, admitting that rebirth is a fact, a part of the terrestrial order, still a spiritual evolution of the individual being is not an inevitable consequence of any of these admissions or even of all of them together. It is possible to take another view of the spiritual significance and the inner process of terrestrial existence. If each thing created is a form of the manifest Divine Existence, each is divine in itself by the spiritual presence within it, whatever its appearance, its figure or character in Nature. In each form of manifestation the Divine takes the delight of existence and there is no need of change or progress within it. Whatever ordered display or hierarchy of actualised possibilities is necessitated by the nature of the Infinite Being, is sufficiently provided for by the numberless variation, the teeming multitude of forms, types of consciousness, natures that we see everywhere around us. There is no teleological purpose in creation and there cannot be, for all is there in the Infinite: the Divine has nothing that he needs to gain or that he has not; if there is creation and manifestation, it is for the delight of creation, of manifestation, not for any purpose. There is then no reason for an evolutionary movement with a culmination to be reached or an aim to be worked out and effectuated or a drive towards ultimate perfection.
2.2.7.01 - Some General Remarks, #Letters On Poetry And Art, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
I look at these things from a more impersonal or, if you like, a personal-impersonal point of view. There is on one side my effort at perfection, for myself and others and for the possibility of a greater perfection in a changed humanity: on the other side there is a play of forces some favouring it but more trying to prevent it. The challenge I speak of comes from these forces. On one side it is a pressure from the pro-forces saying Your work is not good enough; learn to do better; on the other it is a pressure from the contrary forces saying Your work? It is a delusion and error,a poor mediocre thing, and we will trample and break it to pieces. Part of the work was an attempt to inspire a poetry which would express first the aspiration and labour towards the spiritual or divine and afterwards its realisation and manifestation. There are many who write poetry in the Ashram under this impulse but in the languages which I know best (English perfectlyat least I hope soBengali a little), there were four here whose work seemed to me to contain already in a fairly ample way the ripe possibility of the thing I wantedyourself [Dilip Kumar Roy], Arjava, Amal, Harin. (I do not speak of Nishikanta and others because they are new or emergent only). There are some Gujarati poets but I do not know the poetic language and technique in that tongue well enough to form an indubitable judgment. These four then I have encouraged and tried to push on towards a greater and richer expression: I have praised but there was nothing insincere in my praise. For some time however I have received intimations from many quarters that my judgment was mistaken, ignorant, partial and perhaps not wholly sincere. It began with your poetry even at the time of Anami and the forces at play spoke through some literary coteries of Bengal and reached here through reviews, letters etc. There has been much inability to appreciate Arjavas poetry, Yeats observing that he had evidently something to say but struggled to say it with too much obscurity and roughness. Amals work is less criticised, but A. E.s attitude towards it was rather condescending as to an Indian who writes unexpectedly well in English. Finally, there is the ignoring or rejection of Harins work by this array of authorities there are as good authorities on the other side, but that is irrelevant. That makes the issue complete and clear. If I have made so big a mistake, then the whole thing is a hallucination I am an incompetent critic of poetry, at least of contemporary poetry, and my pretension to inspire cannot stand for a moment. Personally that would not matter to me, for personally I have my own feeling of these things and what it may be in the eyes of others makes no differencejust as it makes no difference to me if my own poetry is really no poetry, as Anandashanker and so many others think and may from their own viewpoint there are a million possible viewpoints in the worldbe justified in thinking. But for my work it does matter. I recognise in it the challenge of the forces and, once I recognise that in whatever field, I never think myself entitled to ignore it. If it is a challenge to do better (from the favourable forces), I must see that and get it done. If it is a challenge from the other forces, I must see that too and know how far it is justifiable or else what can be put against it. That is what I have always done both in my own Yoga looking carefully to see what was imperfect in the instrumentation of my own consciousness as a vehicle of the manifestation and working to set it right or else maintaining what was right against all challenge. So I began to do it here. Instead of reading rapidly through Harins poems every day, I began to weigh and consider looking to see what could be justly said from Krishnaprems viewpoint and what could be fairly said from mine. I took Krishnaprems criticism because it is the only thing I have that is definite and, though his technical strictures are obviously mistaken, the general ones have to be weighed even though they are far from conclusive. But this is a work for my personal use,its main object is not a weighing of Harins work but of my own capacity and judgment and that is too personal in scope for me to lay before others. That is why I said I was not writing it to circulate.
I have written all this to explain to you that you have not pained or hurt or displeased me, nor has Krishnaprem either. It would be childish to be displeased with someone because his opinions on literature or a particular piece of literature are not identical with my own at every point. I may also say that I was not displeased with you for your letter. I was a little disappointed that you should have gone back to mental doubts or to vital feelings after you had started so well for something else. But these temporary reversions are too common on the path to the Divine for me to be displeased or discouraged. The work I have to do for myself or for the world or for you or others can only be achieved if I have love for all and faith for all and go firmly on till it is done. It is why I urge you to do the same, because I know that if one does not give up, one is sure to arrive. That is the attitude you had started to take, to go quietly on and give time for the right development however slow. I want you to return to that and keep to it.
2.3.01 - Aspiration and Surrender to the Mother, #The Mother With Letters On The Mother, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
If there is so serious an obstacle to your going forward, it consists only of two things, your vital depressions and your mental doubts which make you challenge even the experiences you have and belittle any progress you make. Never have we told you to be stiff and gloomy and speechless - on the contrary we have pressed upon the other side. Other obstacles or difficulties there are, but they could be overcome if these two things were out of the way or rejected and inoperative.
If I constantly encourage you, it is not because I see you deteriorating and want to hide it - I see nothing of the kind, - but because I have faith in your capacities and see the nobler D behind all outward weakness. I would not speak what I know to be false - that much credit you can give me.
2.4.02 - Bhakti, Devotion, Worship, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
4) Obedience to the Guru, worship of the Divine are all tommy rot and fit only for sheep, not men. To turn round furiously on the Guru or the Divine, abuse him, express contempt, challenge his sincerity, declare his actions to be wrong, foolish or a trickto assert oneself as right at every point and his judgment as mistaken, prejudiced, absurd, false, a support of devils etc. etc. is the best way of devotion and the true relation between Guru and Shishya. Disobedience is the highest respect to the Guru, anger and revolt are the noblest worship one can give to the Divine.
5) One who takes the blows of Mahakali with joy as a means of discovering his faults and increasing in light and strength and purity is a sheep and unworthy of disciplehoodone who responds to the quietest pressure to change by revolt and persisting in his errors is a strong man and a mighty adhar and a noble disciple on the way to perfection.
2 - Other Hymns to Agni, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
20. Create for us a happy mind in the piercing of the Coverers by which thou mayst overcome in the battles; lay prostrate many firm positions of those who challenge us, may we conquer them by thy attacks.
21. I pray with the word the Fire set in man whom the gods sent in as the messenger and traveller, the carrier of offerings, strong to sacrifice.
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12. By which we may conquer those who challenge us in our battles, breaking through the designs of the foe; so do thou increase us with thy delight, O luminous in might, speed on their way the thoughts that find the treasure.
13. Fire is like a bull that sharpens its horns and tosses its head, his flaming jaws are too bright and keen to gaze at; strong-tusked is the Son of force.
14. O Fire, O Bull, thy tusks of flame cannot be challenged by the gaze when thou rangest abroad; so do thou, O priest of the call, make that our offering is well cast, conquer for us many desirable things.
15. In the forest thou sleepest in the two mothers, mortals kindle thee into a blaze; then sleepless thou carriest the offerings of the giver of the oblation and now thou shinest in the gods.
3.00.2 - Introduction, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
most exacting business and sometimes it sets tasks which challenge not
only our understanding or our sympathy, but the whole man. The doctor is
3.02 - The Practice Use of Dream-Analysis, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
less than a direct challenge to his ethical sense, a call to arms that must be
answered by the whole personality. As regards the maturation of
3.05 - SAL, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
[275] For this, unfortunately, there are no recipes or general rules. I have tried to present the main outlines of what the psycho therapist can observe of this wearisome and all too familiar process in my study The Relations between the Ego and the Unconscious. For the layman these experiences are a terra incognita which is not made any more accessible by broad generalizations. Even the imagination of the alchemists, otherwise so fertile, fails us completely here. Only a thorough investigation of the texts could shed a little light on this question. The same task challenges our endeavours in the field of psycho therapy. Here too are thousands of images, symbols, dreams, fantasies, and visions that still await comparative research. The only thing that can be said with some certainty at present is that there is a gradual process of approximation whereby the two positions, the conscious and the unconscious, are both modified. Differences in individual cases, however, are just as great as they were among the alchemists.
d. The Fourth of the Three
3.2.02 - The Veda and the Upanishads, #Letters On Yoga II, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
This picture of Vedic society [a completely pastoral life, without priests or warriors] could easily be challenged. The householder may have lit daily the fire on the household altar, but when he wanted to offer a sacrifice he did it with the aid of sacrificial priests who knew the ritual. Sometimes the Rishi himself performed the sacrifice for the householder. He was not a priest by profession, however, for he might have any occupation in the society. Besides, in a large sacrifice there were many versed in the Vedic rites who performed different functions. In the very first verse of the Rig Veda Agni is described as being himself the Purohit, the priest representative of the householder sacrificer, Yajamana, as the Ritwik, the one who saw to the arrangement of the rites, the Hota who invoked the Gods and gave the offering, and in other hymns he is spoken of as the priest of the purification, the priest of the lustration etc. All this has obviously an esoteric sense but it testifies to the habitual presence of a number of priests at any large sacrifice. So we cannot say that there were no priests in the Vedic age. There does not seem to have been any priestly caste until later times when the four castes came definitely into being. But the Brahmins were not predominantly priests but rather scholars and intellectuals with a religious authority derived from birth and from knowledge of the scriptures and the books of the social law, Shastra. The function of priesthood has never been highly honoured in India and it would therefore be incorrect to speak of priestcraft or any rule by priests or ecclesiastics at any time in Indian history.
As for the warriors, there are in the Rig Veda two or three hymns describing a great battle which the scholars declare to have been the fight of one king against ten allied kings, and besides that, the hymns are full of images of war and battle. These too have an esoteric meaning, but they indicate a state of things in which war and battle must have been frequent; so we cannot say that there were no warriors.
3.2.03 - Conservation and Progress, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The future repels us even while it irresistibly attracts. The repulsion lies partly in our own natural recoil from the unknown, because every step into this unknown is a wager between life and death; every decision we make may mean either the destruction or the greater fulfilment of what we now are, of the name and form to which we are attached. But also it lies in the future itself; for there, governing that future, there are not only powers which call us to fulfil them and attract us with an irresistible force but other powers which have to be conquered and do not desire to yield themselves. The future is a sphinx with two minds, an energy which offers itself and denies, gives itself and resists, seeks to enthrone us and seeks to slay. But the conquest has to be attempted, the wager has to be accepted. We have to face the futures offer of death as well as its offer of life, and it need not alarm us, for it is by constant death to our old names and forms that we shall live most vitally in greater and newer forms and names. Go on we must; for if we do not, Time itself will force us forward in spite of our fancied immobility. And this is the most pitiable and dangerous movement of all. For what can be more pitiable than to be borne helplessly forward clinging to the old that disintegrates in spite of our efforts and shrieking frantically to the dead ghosts and dissolving fragments of the past to save us alive? And what can be more dangerous than to impose immobility on that which is in its nature mobile? This means an increasing and horrible rottenness; it means an attempt to persist on as a putrid and stinking corpse instead of a living and self-renewing energetic creature. The greatest spirits are therefore those who have no fear of the future, who accept its challenge and its wager; they have that sublime trust in the God or Power that guides the world, that high audacity of the human soul to wrestle with the infinite and realise the impossible, that wise and warrior confidence in its ultimate destiny which mark the Avatars and prophets and great innovators and renovators.
If we consider carefully we shall see that the past is indeed a huge force of conservation, but of conservation that is not immobile, but on the contrary offers itself as material for change and new realisation; that the present is the constant change and new actual realisation which the past desires and compels; and that the future is that force of new realisation not yet actual towards which the past was moving and for the sake of which it lived. Then we perceive that there is no real opposition between these three; we see that they are parts of a single movement, a sort of Trinity of Vishnu-Brahma-Maheshwara fulfilling by an inseparable action the one Deity. Yet the human mind in its mania of division and opposition seeks to set them at strife and ranges humanity into various camps, the partisans of the past, the partisans of the present, the partisans of the future, the partisans of all sorts of compromises between the three forces. Nature makes good use of the struggle between these partisans and her method is necessary in our present state of passionate ignorance and egoistic obstinacy; but none the less is it from the point of view of a higher knowledge a pitiably ignorant struggle.
3.4.01 - Evolution, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The materialistic view of the world is now rapidly collapsing and with it the materialistic statement of the evolution theory must disappear. Modern European thought progresses with a vertiginous rapidity. If it is Teutonic in its fidelity of observation and its tendency to laborious systematisation, it has also another side, Celtic-Hellenic, a side of suppleness, mobility, readiness for rapid change, insatiable curiosity. It does not allow the same thought, the same system to exercise for very long a secure empire; it is in haste to question, to challenge, to reject, to remould, to discover new and opposite truths, to venture upon other experiments. At present this spirit of questioning has not attacked the evolution theory at its centre, but it is visibly preparing to give it a new form and meaning.
The general idea of evolution was the filiation of each successive form or state of things to that which preceded it, its appearance by a process of outbringing or deploying of some possibility prepared and even necessitated by previous states and previous tendencies. Not only does a form contain the seed of the form that reproduces it, but also the seed of the possible new form that varies from it. By successive progression a world-system evolves out of the nebula, a habitable planet appears in an uninhabitable system, protoplasmic life emerges by some yet unknown process out of Matter, the more developed grows out of the less developed organism. The fish and the creeping thing are the descendants of the plasm, the biped and quadruped trace back to the fish and reptile, man is a quadruped of the genus Ape who has learned to walk erect on two legs and has divested himself of characteristics unsuited to his new mode of life and progression. Force in Matter is the unconscious Goddess who has worked these miracles by her inherent principle of natural adaptation and in the organism by the additional machinery of heredity; by natural selection those species which reproduce new characteristics developed by adaptation to the environment and favourable to survival, tend to propagate themselves and remain; others fall back in the race of life and disappear.
Such were once the salient ideas; but some of them and not the least important are now questioned. The idea of the struggle for life tends to be modified and even denied; it is asserted that, at least as popularly understood, it formed no real part of Darwinism. This modification is a concession to reviving moralistic and idealistic tendencies which seek for a principle of love as well as a principle of egoism in the roots of life. Equally important are the conclusion arrived at by some investigators into the phenomena of heredity that acquired characteristics are not handed down to the posterity and the theory that it is chiefly predispositions that are inherited; for by these modifications the process of evolution begins to wear a less material and mechanical aspect; its source and the seat of its motive power are shifted to that which is least material, most psychical in Matter. Finally, the first idea of a slow and gradual evolution is being challenged by a new theory of evolution through sudden and rapid outbursts; and again we pass from the sense of an obvious superficial machinery and all-sufficient material necessity to profundities whose mystery is yet to be fathomed.
In themselves, indeed, these modifications would not be radical. Their importance lies in their synchronism with a great resurgence, in new forms, of old ideas that had been submerged by the materialistic wave. Theories of vitalism, idealistic tendencies of thought, which were supposed to have been slain by the march of physical Science, now arise, dispute the field and find their account in every change of scientific generalisation which at all opens the way to their own expansion and reassertion. In what respects then is it likely that the evolution theory will be found deficient by the wider and more complex thought of the future and compelled to undergo essential changes?
3.4.03 - Materialism, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Many hard things have been said about materialism by those who have preferred to look at life from above rather than below or who claim to live in the more luminous atmosphere of the idealistic mind or ether of the spiritual existence. Materialism has been credited with the creation of great evils, viewed even as the arch-image of a detestable transformation or the misleader guiding mankind to an appalling catastrophe. Those whose temperament and imagination dally lovingly with an idealised past, accuse it for the cultural, social, political changes which they abhor, regarding them as a disturbance, happily, they believe, temporary, of eternal moral values and divinely ordained hierarchies. Those, more numerous, who look beyond to the hope of a larger idealism and higher spirituality, proclaim in its decline and passing away a fortunate deliverance for the human spirit. World-wide strife and competition have been, it is said, its fruits, war and the holocaust of terrible sacrifice in which mankind has been squandering its strength, blood, treasure,though these are no new calamities, nor would it be safe to hope that they are the last of their kind,are pointed to as its nemesis or regarded as a funeral pyre it has lighted for itself in whose cruel flame the errors and impurities it brought into existence are being burned to ashes. Science has been declared suspect as a guide or instructor of mankind and bidden to remain parked within her proper limits, because she was for long the ally of the material view of existence, a suggester of atheism and agnosticism, a victory-bringer of materialism and scepticism, the throne of their reign or pillar of their stability. Reason has been challenged because rationalism and free-thought were appropriated as synonyms of materialistic thinking.
All this wealth of accusation may have and much of it has its truth. But most things that the human mind thus alternately trumpets and bans, are a double skein. They come to us with opposite faces, their good side and their bad, a dark aspect of error and a bright of truth; and it is as we look upon one or the other visage that we swing to our extremes of opinion or else oscillate between them. Materialism may not be quite as dead as most would declare it to be; still held by a considerable number of scientific workers, perhaps a majority, and scientific opinion is always a force both by its power of well-ascertained truth and its continued service to humanity,it constitutes even now the larger part of the real temper of action and life even where it is rejected as a set opinion. The strong impressions of the past are not so easily erased out of our human mentality. But it is a fast receding force; other ideas and standpoints are crowding in and thrust it out from its remaining points of vantage. It will be useful before we say farewell to it, and can now be done with safety, to see what it was that gave to it its strength, what it has left permanently behind it, and to adjust our new viewpoints to whatever stuff of truth may have lain within it and lent it its force of applicability. Even we can look at it with an impartial sympathy, though only as a primary but lesser truth of our actual being,for it is all that, but no more than that, and try to admit and fix its just claims and values. We can now see too how it was bound to escape from itself by the widening of the very frame of knowledge it has itself constructed.
3-5 Full Circle, #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
We know much of what the future will bring in terms of problems. We know they will be big, complex, and serious... These problems represent the givens. We know they will be there--and we know they will overwhelm us if we do not find the means of coping with them. What we lack, thus far, is conviction that there is a means of getting hold of them. They seem so staggering in their size and complexity--so far beyond the capability of a single institutional segment of the community, public or private... And they are so interrelated that to proceed to try to solve any one of them in isolation from the other is often to create more problems than are solved by the effort. The dilemma thus presented has so far frustrated most efforts to come to grips with these problems. This condition of paralysis need not obtain. None of the . . . challenges lies beyond our already existing capacity for coping with them. The tools are already at hand; and included in those tools are not only the technological capabilities but experience in systems management and systems analysis as well as proven patterns of joint public and private effort.4
2. APPLYING UNIFIED SCIENCE MODELS TO
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5. THE challenge BEFORE US
Against the background already sketched we can now consider the challenge before us. A part of the challenge is reflected in the following excerpt from Dr. N. Henry Moss' address, "The Pursuit of Knowledge-Synthesis or Fragmentation?", given as retiring President of the New York Academy of Sciences:
Where are our great synthesizers of knowledge? . . . Industry, government, universities, and medical schools have need of and eagerly seek capable people who can efl'ectively give the broad sweep, recognize the important from the unimportant, and maintain a reasonable understanding of the literature in multiple medical and scientific areas. . . . We must be able to develop a corps of such scientists and physicians as synthesizers and integrators to help guide us in directing our resources toward optimum use. . . . We must create this kind of fine generalist in the image of a captain of a team, a strong and vigorous leader with intelligent insight and technical know-how in multiple fields.7
Another part of the challenge is reflected in the sketch of Figure 3 which is a proposal for designing and developing a global network of centers and institutes for the promotion of general systems methods, philosophy, attitudes, and viewpoints. The terminology used there is suggestive rather than definitive. That mission profile is the embryo of a possible blueprint for a global campaign to translate the capabilities of unified science models into a widespread program of action. The assumption is made that the entire realm or universe of knowledge would be restructured as a prerequisite to any adequate reforms in curriculum and administration.
Proposed by Jere W. Clark, Dir., Center for Interdisciplinary Creativity, Southern Conn. State College, New Haven, March1, 1969, (revised December 23, 1969.)
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Another part of the challenge inheres in the global political setting in which both scientific research and education take place. Our national aspiration to send men to Mars and return them safely could be considered within this context. Because of the great economic and engineering capabilities required, we, as a nation, might do well to consider teaming up with the Soviet Union for this venture. We know that the Russians are quite advanced in the development and application of broad-gaged cybernetic and other broad systems models to political, scientific, and economic ventures.
In view of these considerations, along with the extremely important capabilities of unified science models, might there be something this group gathered here might be able to do to dramatize the potentials for global progress, which might result from concerted cooperative action to launch some form of this mental space vehicle? Could we, for example, initiate action leading toward a dramatic proposal that the governments of the USA and the USSR jointly appoint a global task force for exploring the possibilities of joint exploration of both physical and intellectual space?
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In overcoming the dangerous medieval haziness of thinking--in carrying out the 18th century's response to that challenge, fatuously called the Enlightenment--these scientists created the twentieth century's far more dangerous challenge: our deep Ensombrement, which Lippmann calls The Eclipse of the Public Philosophy19 (Chapter VIII). This was not due to viciousness or stupidity, but to the structure of evolution, inherent in the Systems-hierarchy, which poets have called the darkness before the dawn.32
As late as the eighteenth century, men held what Lippmann calls the doctrine of natural law: the certainty that there is law "above the ruler and the sovereign people . . . above the whole community of mortals."33 But in the twentieth century's Ensombrement there is "a plurality of incompatible faiths"34 and multitudes of agnostic, existentialistic and nihilistic people. And far worse yet, there are millions of ideologists in the totalitarian countries and infiltrated throughout the egalitarian democratic states for whom strong Circles of Perfection had been closed prematurely, and incorrectly, back in the 19th century: namely, Marxists and fascists.
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30. Jehring, J. J., Profit Sharing: The Capitalistic challenge. Profit Sharing Research Foundation, 1718 Sherman Ave., Evanston, I11., ca. 1965.
31. McCormic, Charles P., The Power of People-Multiple Management Up to Date. Harper, New York, 1949.
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One culture variable, already mentioned, is the degree of value mixture and of value dominance in each culture sample at a given time. The greater the dominance of one value-premise, and the others' corresponding absence or suppression at the time in question, the more clearly and conclusively the culture can be classified. The speed and direction (jointly called velocity) of a deviant value's emergence and challenge, determines the likelihood of the culture's transmutation: of its breakdown to a lower Period, its build-up to a higher Period, or its shift to a different Group in the same Period. Toynbee has expounded important laws of transmutation in Literate cultures (Period 5).--This variable is analogous to target velocity.
The second sighting variable, which is analogous to certain defects of the sighting mechanism, is the classifier's own mental-moral organization: his own grasp of the Periodic Law of Human Cultures. (In the history of chemistry, this mental variable produced the decisive difference between Newland's failure with his Octaves and Mendeleev's success with his Periodic Table, as described by Posin.--A famous example of this variation in anthropology is Ruth Benedict's own change of moral insight from 1934, when she copyrighted Patterns of Culture, to 1941 when she lectured on the same subject at Bryn Mawr College. In 1934 her sighting apparatus was cultural egalitarianism, which she and many others incorrectly labeled cultural relativism. It consists in flat contradiction of the Periodic Law. She stated this unequivocally in Patterns of Culture's concluding sentence, thus: "We shall arrive then at a more realistic social faith, accepting as grounds of hope and as a new basis for tolerance the coexisting and equally valid patterns of life which mankind has created for itself from the raw materials of existence" (italics added). This flat denial of the Moral Law spread widely, and has intensified the breakdown symptoms in our culture which Toynbee called promiscuity, truancy, and drift. This is the Existentialists' disastrous way of dealing with the multiplicity of sighting mechanisms which constitutes each individual culture's and sub-culture's compass; namely, the false assertion that they are "equally valid" the abdication of responsibility of judging and assessing them relative to what Heisenberg calls a central order. (This subject is dealt with extensively in Chapter V.)
3.7.1.01 - Rebirth, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
I doubt whether, even if we could have evidence of the physical memory of past lives or of such a psychical awakening, the theory would be considered any better proved than before. We now hear of many such instances confidently alleged though without that apparatus of verified evidence responsibly examined which gives weight to the results of psychical research. The sceptic can always challenge them as mere fiction and imagination unless and until they are placed on a firm basis of evidence. Even if the facts alleged are verified, he has the resource of affirming that they are not really memories but were known to the person alleging them by ordinary physical means or were suggested to him by others and have been converted into reincarnate memory either by conscious deception or by a process of self-deception and self-hallucination. And even supposing the evidence were too strong and unexceptionable to be got rid of by these familiar devices, they might yet not be accepted as proof of rebirth; the mind can discover a hundred theoretical explanations for a single group of facts. Modern speculation and research have brought in this doubt to overhang all psychical theory and generalisation.
We know for instance that in the phenomena, say, of automatic writing or of communication from the dead, it is disputed whether the phenomena proceed from outside, from disembodied minds, or from within, from the subliminal consciousness, or whether the communication is actual and immediate from the released personality or is the uprising to the surface of a telepathic impression which came from the mind of the then living man but has remained submerged in our subliminal mentality. The same kind of doubts might be opposed to the evidences of reincarnate memory. It might be maintained that they prove the power of a certain mysterious faculty in us, a consciousness that can have some inexplicable knowledge of past events, but that these events may belong to other personalities than ours and that our attri bution of them to our own personality in past lives is an imagination, a hallucination, or else an instance of that self-appropriation of things and experiences perceived but not our own which is one out of the undoubted phenomena of mental error. Much would be proved by an accumulation of such evidences but not, to the sceptic at least, rebirth. Certainly, if they were sufficiently ample, exact, profuse, intimate, they would create an atmosphere which would lead in the end to a general acceptance of the theory by the human race as a moral certitude. But proof is a different matter.
3.7.1.05 - The Significance of Rebirth, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
The Buddhistic theory adds nothing to the first obvious significance of life except an indefinite prolongation by rebirth which is a burden, not a gain, and the spiritual greatness of the discipline of self-extinction,the latter, no doubt, a thing of great value. The illusionist solution adds something, but does not differ very greatly in its motive from the Buddhistic. It sets against the futile cosmic repetition an eternity of our own absolute being; from the ignorance which creates the illusory mechanism of a recurrence of rebirth, it escapes into the self-knowledge of our ineffable existence. That seems to bring in a positive strain and to give to our being an initial, a supporting and an eventual reality. But the hiatus here is the absence of all true and valid relation between this real being of ours and all our birth and becoming. The last event and end of our births is not represented as any absolute fulfilment of what we are,that would be a great, fruitful and magnificently positive philosophy, nor as the final affirmation of a progressive self-finding,that too would give a noble meaning to our existence; it is a turning away from the demand of the universal Spirit, a refusal of all these cosmic ideas, imaginations, aspirations, action and effectuation. The way to find our being given us is an absolute denial of all our becoming. We rise to self by a liberating negation of ourselves, and in the result the Idea in the universe pursues its monstrous and aimless road, but the individual ceases and is blest in the cessation. The motive of this way of thought is the same oppressive sense of an ignorant mechanical cosmic recurrence as in the Buddhistic and the same high impatient passion of escape. There is recognition of a divine source of life, but a non-recognition of any divine meaning in life. And as for rebirth it is reduced in its significance to a constant mechanism of self-deception, and the will not to live is shown us as the last acquisition, the highest good and the one desirable result of living. The satisfaction which Illusionism gives,for it does give a certain high austere kind of satisfaction to the intellectand to one turn of spiritual tendency,is the pressing to a last point of the obvious antinomy between this great burdensome and tyrannous mechanism, the universe, and the spirit which feels itself of another and a diviner nature, the great relief to a soul passioning for freedom, but compelled to labour on as a spring of the dull machine, of being able to cast away the cosmic burden, and finally the free and bare absoluteness of this spiritual conclusion. But it gives no real, because no fruitful answer to the problem of God and man and the significance of life; it only gets away from them by a skilful evasion and takes away from them all significance, so that any question of the sense and will in all this tremendous labour and throb and seeking loses meaning. But the challenge of Gods universe to the knowledge and strength of the human spirit cannot in the end be met by man with a refusal or solved by an evasion, even though an individual soul may take refuge from the demand, as a man may from the burden of action and pain in unconsciousness, in spiritual trance or sleep or escape through its blank doors into the Absolute. Something the Spirit of the universe means by our labour in existence, some sense it has in these grandiose rhythms, and it has not undertaken them in an eternally enduring error or made them in a jest.1 To know that and possess it, to find and fulfil consciously the universal beings hidden significances is the task given to the human spirit.
There are other statements or colourings of the idea of rebirth which admit a more positive sense for existence and nourish a robuster confidence in the power and delight of being which are its secret fountains; but they all stumble in the end over the limitations of humanity and an inability to see any outlet from their bondage in the order of the universe, because they suppose this to be a thing fixed from of years sempiternalvatbhya sambhya, not an eternally developing and creative, but an immutable cycle. The Vaishnava idea of the play of God, striking as it does into the secret of the hidden deligh the core of things, is a luminous ray shot into the very heart of the mystery; but isolated it cannot solve all its enigma. There is more here in the world than a play of secret delight; there is knowledge, there is power, there is a will and a mighty labour. Rebirth so looked at becomes too much of a divine caprice with no object but its playing, and ours is too great and strenuous a world to be so accounted for. Such chequered delight as is given to our becoming, is a game of disguises and seekings with no promise here of any divine completeness; its circles seem in the end not worth following out and the soul turns gladly to its release from the games unsatisfying mazes. The Tantric solution shows us a supreme superconscient Energy which casts itself out ere into teeming worlds and multitudinous beings and in its order the soul rises from birth to birth and follows its million forms, till in a last human series it opens to the consciousness and powers of its own divinity and returns through them by a rapid illumination to the eternal superconscience. We find at last the commencement of a satisfying synthesis, some justification of existence, a meaningful consequence in rebirth, a use and a sufficient though only temporary significance for the great motion of the cosmos. On lines very like these the modern mind, when it is disposed to accept rebirth, is inclined to view it. But there is a too minor stress on the souls divine potentialities, a haste of insistence on the escape into superconscience; the supreme Energy constructs too long and stupendous a preparation for so brief and so insufficient a flowering. There is a lacuna here, some secret is still missing.
3 - Commentaries and Annotated Translations, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
impetuosity, loud breathing, and so challenge, summons etc.
The verb h; originally like h, hA and Eh meant to strike or throw
4.25 - Towards the supramental Time Vision, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Man, confronted by this incapacity of the intelligence and yet avid of the knowledge of the future, has fallen back on other and external means, omens, sortileges, dreams, astrology and many other alleged data for a past and future knowledge that have been in less sceptical times formulated as veridical sciences. challenged and discredited by the sceptical reason these still persist in attracting our minds and hold their own, supported by desire and credulity and superstition, but also by the frequent though imperfect evidence we get of a certain measure of truth in their pretensions. A higher psychical knowledge shows us that in fact the world is full of many systems of correspondences and indices and that these things, however much misused by the human intelligence, can in their place and under right conditions give us real data of a supraphysical knowledge. It is evident, however, that it is only an intuitive knowledge that can discover and formulate them, -- as it was in fact the psychical and intuitive mind that originally formulated these ways of veridical knowledge, -and it will be found in practice that only an intuitive knowledge, not the mere use either of a traditional or a haphazard interpretation or of mechanical rule and formula, can ensure a right employment of these indices. Otherwise, handled by the surface intelligence, they are liable to be converted into a thick jungle of error.
The true and direct knowledge or vision of past, present and future begins with the opening of the psychical consciousness and the psychical faculties. The psychical consciousness is that of what is now often called the subliminal self, the subtle or dream self of Indian psychology, and its range of potential knowledge, almost infinite as has been pointed out in the last chapter, includes a very large power and many forms of insight into both the possibilities and the definite actualities of past, present and future. Its first faculty, that which most readily attracts attention, is its power of seeing by the psychical sense images of all things in time and space. As exercised by clairvoyants, mediums and others this is often, and indeed usually, a specialised faculty limited though often precise and accurate in action, and implies no development of the inner soul or the spiritual being or the higher intelligence. It is a door opened by chance or by an innate gift or by some kind of pressure between the waking and the subliminal mind and admitting only to the surface or the outskirts of the latter. All things in a certain power and action of the secret universal mind are represented by images, -- not only visual but, if one may use the phrase, auditory and other images, -- and a certain development of the subtle or psychical senses makes it possible, -- if there is no interference of the constructing mind and its imaginations, if, that is to say, artificial or falsifying mental images do not intervene, if the psychical sense is free, sincere and passive, --to receive these representations or transcriptions with a perfect accuracy and not so much predict as see in its correct images the present beyond the range of the physical sense, the past and the future. The accuracy of this kind of seeing depends on its being confined to a statement of the thing seen and the attempt to infer, interpret or otherwise go beyond the visual knowledge may lead to much error unless there is at the same time a strong psychical intuition fine, subtle and pure or a high development of the luminous intuitive intelligence.
5.1.01.1 - The Book of the Herald, #5.1.01 - Ilion, #unset, #Zen
Sends Agamemnon challenge or courtesy, Greek, to the Trojans?
High like the northwind answered the voice of the doom from Achaia:
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Wake to the bruit of the Hellene challenge. Summon Aeneas.
Even as the word sank back into stillness, doffing his mantle
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Paris, plucked from the song and the lyre by the Grecian challenge,
Came with the joy in his face and his eyes that Fate could not alter.
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Friendship we clasp from Achilles, but challenge outpace with our challenge
Meeting the foe ere he moves in his will to the clash of encounter.
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Rise in the Ilian megaron, curb not the cry of the challenge.
Thus shalt thou say to them striking the ground with the staff of defiance,
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So was it spoken, the Phthian challenge. Silent the heroes
Looked back amazed on their past and into the night of their future.
5.1.01.2 - The Book of the Statesman, #5.1.01 - Ilion, #unset, #Zen
Voice of the Hellene demigod challenges timeless Troya.
Thus has he said to us: Know you not Doom when she walks in your heavens?
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High rings the Hellene challenge, earth waits for the Ilian answer.
Always mans Fate hangs poised on the flitting breath of a moment;
5.1.01.3 - The Book of the Assembly, #5.1.01 - Ilion, #unset, #Zen
Son of the Aeacids, vain is thy offer; the pride of thy challenge
Rather we choose; it is nearer to Dardanus, King of the Hellenes.
5.1.01.5 - The Book of Achilles, #5.1.01 - Ilion, #unset, #Zen
Son of the Aeacids, spurned is thy offer. The pride of thy challenge
Rather we choose; it is nearer to Dardanus, King of the Hellenes.
5.1.01.7 - The Book of the Woman, #5.1.01 - Ilion, #unset, #Zen
Response none make the Greeks to thy high-voiced message and challenge;
Only their shout at thy side will reply when thou leapst into Troya.
5.2.01 - The Descent of Ahana, #Collected Poems, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Snatches of pleasure we seized; they were haunted and challenged by sorrow.
Marred was our joy of the day by a cloud and the dread of the morrow.
5 - The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
and physical forces are challenged, and w'th th : s united strength
to fling open the door of the future. No one can help the boy
Aeneid, #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
blaring, he challenges the gods to contest;
and jealous Tritonif the tale can be
--
tough-shafted javelins, or challenge one
another now to race or box; just then
--
the challenge, and he prays with joy: "So may
the father of the gods allow it, so
--
old fight, go out to face your challenger!"
At this the violence of Turnus blazes;
Apology, #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
I dare say, Athenians, that some one among you will reply, Yes, Socrates, but what is the origin of these accusations which are brought against you; there must have been something strange which you have been doing? All these rumours and this talk about you would never have arisen if you had been like other men: tell us, then, what is the cause of them, for we should be sorry to judge hastily of you. Now I regard this as a fair challenge, and I will endeavour to explain to you the reason why I am called wise and have such an evil fame. Please to attend then. And although some of you may think that I am joking, I declare that I will tell you the entire truth. Men of Athens, this reputation of mine has come of a certain sort of wisdom which I possess. If you ask me what kind of wisdom, I reply, wisdom such as may perhaps be attained by man, for to that extent I am inclined to believe that I am wise; whereas the persons of whom I was speaking have a superhuman wisdom which I may fail to describe, because I have it not myself; and he who says that I have, speaks falsely, and is taking away my character. And here, O men of Athens, I must beg you not to interrupt me, even if I seem to say something extravagant. For the word which I will speak is not mine. I will refer you to a witness who is worthy of credit; that witness shall be the God of Delphihe will tell you about my wisdom, if I have any, and of what sort it is. You must have known Chaerephon; he was early a friend of mine, and also a friend of yours, for he shared in the recent exile of the people, and returned with you. Well, Chaerephon, as you know, was very impetuous in all his doings, and he went to Delphi and boldly asked the oracle to tell him whetheras I was saying, I must beg you not to interrupthe asked the oracle to tell him whether anyone was wiser than I was, and the Pythian prophetess answered, that there was no man wiser. Chaerephon is dead himself; but his brother, who is in court, will confirm the truth of what I am saying.
Why do I mention this? Because I am going to explain to you why I have such an evil name. When I heard the answer, I said to myself, What can the god mean? and what is the interpretation of his riddle? for I know that I have no wisdom, small or great. What then can he mean when he says that I am the wisest of men? And yet he is a god, and cannot lie; that would be against his nature. After long consideration, I thought of a method of trying the question. I reflected that if I could only find a man wiser than myself, then I might go to the god with a refutation in my hand. I should say to him, Here is a man who is wiser than I am; but you said that I was the wisest. Accordingly I went to one who had the reputation of wisdom, and observed himhis name I need not mention; he was a politician whom I selected for examinationand the result was as follows: When I began to talk with him, I could not help thinking that he was not really wise, although he was thought wise by many, and still wiser by himself; and thereupon I tried to explain to him that he thought himself wise, but was not really wise; and the consequence was that he hated me, and his enmity was shared by several who were present and heard me. So I left him, saying to myself, as I went away: Well, although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything really beautiful and good, I am better off than he is,for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know. In this latter particular, then, I seem to have slightly the advantage of him. Then I went to another who had still higher pretensions to wisdom, and my conclusion was exactly the same. Whereupon I made another enemy of him, and of many others besides him.
BOOK II. -- PART I. ANTHROPOGENESIS., #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
*** This question was amply challenged, and as amply discussed and answered. See Five Years of
Theosophy. (Art. "Mr. Sinnett's Esoteric Buddhism," pp. 325-46).
BOOK I. -- PART I. COSMIC EVOLUTION, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
"miracles" by means of the Book of Sepher Jezireh, and challenged every sceptic. Franck, quoting from
the Babylonian Talmud, names two other thaumaturgists, Rabbis Chanina and Oshoi. (See "Jerusalem
BOOK I. -- PART III. SCIENCE AND THE SECRET DOCTRINE CONTRASTED, #The Secret Doctrine, #H P Blavatsky, #Theosophy
whenever THEY HAVE THE RASHNESS TO challenge CONCLUSIONS WITH IT," one
reads in chapter III., "On Matter," as follows:
Book of Exodus, #The Bible, #Anonymous, #Various
9 For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour. 10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it: 11 Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good. 12 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.
13 If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn. 14 And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good.
Book of Imaginary Beings (text), #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
In Jotunnheim, the land of giants, Utgard-Loki challenges
the god Thor to pick up a cat; Thor, using all his strength,
BOOK V. - Of fate, freewill, and God's prescience, and of the source of the virtues of the ancient Romans, #City of God, #Saint Augustine of Hippo, #Christianity
There are those two things, namely, liberty and the desire of human praise, which compelled the Romans to admirable deeds. If, therefore, for the liberty of dying men, and for the desire of human praise which is sought after by mortals, sons could be put to death by a father, what great thing is it, if, for the true liberty which has made us free from the dominion of sin, and death, and the devil,not through the desire of human praise, but through the earnest desire of freeing men, not from King Tarquin, but from demons and the prince of the demons,we should, I do not say put to death our sons, but reckon among our sons Christ's poor ones? If, also, another Roman chief, surnamed Torquatus, slew his son, not because he fought against his country, but because, being challenged by an enemy, he through youthful impetuosity fought, though for his country, yet contrary to orders which he his father had given as general; and this he did, notwithstanding that his son was victorious, lest there should be more evil in the example of authority despised, than good in the glory of slaying an enemy;if, I say, Torquatus acted thus, wherefore should they boast themselves, who, for the laws of a celestial country, despise all earthly good things, which are[Pg 211] loved far less than sons? If Furius Camillus, who was condemned by those who envied him, notwithstanding that he had thrown off from the necks of his countrymen the yoke of their most bitter enemies, the Veientes, again delivered his ungrateful country from the Gauls, because he had no other in which he could have better opportunities for living a life of glory;if Camillus did thus, why should he be extolled as having done some great thing, who, having, it may be, suffered in the church at the hands of carnal enemies most grievous and dishonouring injury, has not betaken himself to heretical enemies, or himself raised some heresy against her, but has rather defended her, as far as he was able, from the most pernicious perversity of heretics, since there is not another church, I say not in which one can live a life of glory, but in which eternal life can be obtained? If Mucius, in order that peace might be made with King Porsenna, who was pressing the Romans with a most grievous war, when he did not succeed in slaying Porsenna, but slew another by mistake for him, reached forth his right hand and laid it on a red-hot altar, saying that many such as he saw him to be had conspired for his destruction, so that Porsenna, terrified at his daring, and at the thought of a conspiracy of such as he, without any delay recalled all his warlike purposes, and made peace;if, I say, Mucius did this, who shall speak of his meritorious claims to the kingdom of heaven, if for it he may have given to the flames not one hand, but even his whole body, and that not by his own spontaneous act, but because he was persecuted by another? If Curtius, spurring on his steed, threw himself all armed into a precipitous gulf, obeying the oracles of their gods, which had commanded that the Romans should throw into that gulf the best thing which they possessed, and they could only understand thereby that, since they excelled in men and arms, the gods had commanded that an armed man should be cast headlong into that destruction;if he did this, shall we say that that man has done a great thing for the eternal city who may have died by a like death, not, however, precipitating himself spontaneously into a gulf, but having suffered this death at the hands of some enemy of his faith, more especially when he has received from his Lord, who is also King of[Pg 212] his country, a more certain oracle, "Fear not them who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul?"[214] If the Decii dedicated themselves to death, consecrating themselves in a form of words, as it were, that falling, and pacifying by their blood the wrath of the gods, they might be the means of delivering the Roman army;if they did this, let not the holy martyrs carry themselves proudly, as though they had done some meritorious thing for a share in that country where are eternal life and felicity, if even to the shedding of their blood, loving not only the brethren for whom it was shed, but, according as had been commanded them, even their enemies by whom it was being shed, they have vied with one another in faith of love and love of faith. If Marcus Pulvillus, when engaged in dedicating a temple to Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva, received with such indifference the false intelligence which was brought to him of the death of his son, with the intention of so agitating him that he should go away, and thus the glory of dedicating the temple should fall to his colleague;if he received that intelligence with such indifference that he even ordered that his son should be cast out unburied, the love of glory having overcome in his heart the grief of bereavement, how shall any one affirm that he has done a great thing for the preaching of the gospel, by which the citizens of the heavenly city are delivered from divers errors, and gathered together from divers wanderings, to whom his Lord has said, when anxious about the burial of his father, "Follow me, and let the dead bury their dead?"[215] Regulus, in order not to break his oath, even with his most cruel enemies, returned to them from Rome itself, because (as he is said to have replied to the Romans when they wished to retain him) he could not have the dignity of an honourable citizen at Rome after having been a slave to the Africans, and the Carthaginians put him to death with the utmost tortures, because he had spoken against them in the senate. If Regulus acted thus, what tortures are not to be despised for the sake of good faith toward that country to whose beatitude faith itself leads? Or what will a man have rendered to the Lord for all He has bestowed upon him, if, for the faithfulness he owes to Him, he shall have[Pg 213] suffered such things as Regulus suffered at the hands of his most ruthless enemies for the good faith which he owed to them? And how shall a Christian dare vaunt himself of his voluntary poverty, which he has chosen in order that during the pilgrimage of this life he may walk the more disencumbered on the way which leads to the country where the true riches are, even God Himself;how, I say, shall he vaunt himself for this, when he hears or reads that Lucius Valerius, who died when he was holding the office of consul, was so poor that his funeral expenses were paid with money collected by the people?or when he hears that Quintius Cincinnatus, who, possessing only four acres of land, and cultivating them with his own hands, was taken from the plough to be made dictator,an office more honourable even than that of consul, and that, after having won great glory by conquering the enemy, he preferred notwithstanding to continue in his poverty? Or how shall he boast of having done a great thing, who has not been prevailed upon by the offer of any reward of this world to renounce his connection with that heavenly and eternal country, when he hears that Fabricius could not be prevailed on to forsake the Roman city by the great gifts offered to him by Pyrrhus king of the Epirots, who promised him the fourth part of his kingdom, but preferred to abide there in his poverty as a private individual? For if, when their republic,that is, the interest of the people, the interest of the country, the common interest,was most prosperous and wealthy, they themselves were so poor in their own houses, that one of them, who had already been twice a consul, was expelled from that senate of poor men by the censor, because he was discovered to possess ten pounds weight of silver-plate,since, I say, those very men by whose triumphs the public treasury was enriched were so poor, ought not all Christians, who make common property of their riches with a far nobler purpose, even that (according to what is written in the Acts of the Apostles) they may distribute to each one according to his need, and that no one may say that anything is his own, but that all things may be their common possession,[216]ought they not to understand that they should not vaunt themselves, because[Pg 214] they do that to obtain the society of angels, when those men did well-nigh the same thing to preserve the glory of the Romans?
How could these, and whatever like things are found in the Roman history, have become so widely known, and have been proclaimed by so great a fame, had not the Roman empire, extending far and wide, been raised to its greatness by magnificent successes? Wherefore, through that empire, so extensive and of so long continuance, so illustrious and glorious also through the virtues of such great men, the reward which they sought was rendered to their earnest aspirations, and also examples are set before us, containing necessary admonition, in order that we may be stung with shame if we shall see that we have not held fast those virtues for the sake of the most glorious city of God, which are, in whatever way, resembled by those virtues which they held fast for the sake of the glory of a terrestrial city, and that, too, if we shall feel conscious that we have held them fast, we may not be lifted up with pride, because, as the apostle says, "The sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared to the glory which shall be revealed in us."[217] But so far as regards human and temporal glory, the lives of these ancient Romans were reckoned sufficiently worthy. Therefore, also, we see, in the light of that truth which, veiled in the Old Testament, is revealed in the New, namely, that it is not in view of terrestrial and temporal benefits, which divine providence grants promiscuously to good and evil, that God is to be worshipped, but in view of eternal life, everlasting gifts, and of the society of the heavenly city itself;in the light of this truth we see that the Jews were most righteously given as a trophy to the glory of the Romans; for we see that these Romans, who rested on earthly glory, and sought to obtain it by virtues, such as they were, conquered those who, in their great depravity, slew and rejected the giver of true glory, and of the eternal city.
--- Overview of noun challenge
The noun challenge has 5 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (5) challenge ::: (a demanding or stimulating situation; "they reacted irrationally to the challenge of Russian power")
2. (3) challenge ::: (a call to engage in a contest or fight)
3. (1) challenge ::: (questioning a statement and demanding an explanation; "his challenge of the assumption that Japan is still our enemy")
4. challenge ::: (a formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror)
5. challenge ::: (a demand by a sentry for a password or identification)
--- Overview of verb challenge
The verb challenge has 4 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)
1. (12) challenge, dispute, gainsay ::: (take exception to; "She challenged his claims")
2. (7) challenge ::: (issue a challenge to; "Fischer challenged Spassky to a match")
3. (1) challenge ::: (ask for identification; "The illegal immigrant was challenged by the border guard")
4. (1) challenge, take exception ::: (raise a formal objection in a court of law)
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun challenge
5 senses of challenge
Sense 1
challenge
=> situation, state of affairs
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
challenge
=> speech act
=> act, deed, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
challenge
=> questioning, inquiring
=> request, asking
=> speech act
=> act, deed, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 4
challenge
=> objection
=> speech act
=> act, deed, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 5
challenge
=> demand
=> request, petition, postulation
=> message, content, subject matter, substance
=> communication
=> abstraction, abstract entity
=> entity
--- Hyponyms of noun challenge
1 of 5 senses of challenge
Sense 2
challenge
=> dare, daring
=> confrontation
=> call-out
=> defiance
=> calling into question, demand for explanation
=> demand for identification
=> gauntlet, gantlet
--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun challenge
5 senses of challenge
Sense 1
challenge
=> situation, state of affairs
Sense 2
challenge
=> speech act
Sense 3
challenge
=> questioning, inquiring
Sense 4
challenge
=> objection
Sense 5
challenge
=> demand
--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun challenge
5 senses of challenge
Sense 1
challenge
-> situation, state of affairs
=> absurd, the absurd
=> acceptance
=> ballgame, new ballgame
=> challenge
=> childlessness
=> complication
=> crowding
=> disequilibrium
=> element
=> environment
=> equilibrium
=> exclusion
=> goldfish bowl, fish bowl, fishbowl
=> hotbed
=> inclusion
=> intestacy
=> picture, scene
=> prison, prison house
=> rejection
=> size, size of it
=> square one
=> status quo
=> thing
Sense 2
challenge
-> speech act
=> congratulation, felicitation
=> slander
=> proposal, proposition
=> command, bid, bidding, dictation
=> agreement
=> citation
=> disagreement
=> offer, offering
=> request, asking
=> reply, response
=> description
=> affirmation, assertion, statement
=> denial
=> rejection
=> objection
=> informing, making known
=> disclosure, revelation, revealing
=> promise
=> boast, boasting, self-praise, jactitation
=> naming
=> challenge
=> explanation
=> denunciation, denouncement
=> address, speech
=> resignation
Sense 3
challenge
-> questioning, inquiring
=> challenge
=> question, inquiry, enquiry, query, interrogation
=> interrogation, examination, interrogatory
Sense 4
challenge
-> objection
=> challenge
=> complaint
=> demur, demurral, demurrer
=> dissent
=> exception
=> gripe, kick, beef, bitch, squawk
=> protest, protestation
=> protest
Sense 5
challenge
-> demand
=> challenge
=> ultimatum
=> insistence, insisting
=> call, claim
=> requisition
=> call
=> margin call, call
=> wage claim, pay claim
--- Grep of noun challenge
challenge
challenger