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object:conversation
acknowledge, alternative, predict/inquire


--- NOTES
  the goal of conversation,
    what does the other person want,
    what do I want?
    listening, (feeling what they are feeling)
    answering
    why do people talk to each other?

--- TECHNIQUES
  open ended questions where possible (aka not yes/no)

--- BY PERSON
  Both
    yesterday converted crypto to amazon gift cards

  Melissa,
    Jordan Peterson 434 Maps of meaning course
    savefrom.net

  Dad    


--- TOPICS
  ive been working on
    wordlist-terminal - school, game dev,
    video game music amd movie ost
    game dev - nrl-jrl
    
    discord

  electrical
    got battery and header pin but didnt get it working yet.
    before working on electrical.. need thing for PI to connect to screen and battery.

  gardening
    other easy things besides marijuana
    onions

  play
    retro arch (ff8)

  media
    westworld
    killing eve
    movies

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see also ::: communication, Psycho_therapy, topics

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OBJECT INSTANCES [0] - TOPICS - AUTHORS - BOOKS - CHAPTERS - CLASSES - SEE ALSO - SIMILAR TITLES

TOPICS
SEE ALSO

communication
Psycho_therapy
topics

AUTH

BOOKS
Anilbaran_Roy_Interviews_and_Conversations
Bhagavata_Purana
City_of_God
Conversations_of_Socrates
Conversations_With_God__An_Uncommon_Dialogue
Enchiridion_text
Evolution_II
Full_Circle
Infinite_Library
Know_Yourself
Life_without_Death
Modern_Man_in_Search_of_a_Soul
My_Burning_Heart
On_Education
Plotinus_-_Complete_Works_Vol_01
The_Bible
The_Divine_Milieu
The_Imitation_of_Christ
The_Mother_With_Letters_On_The_Mother
The_Republic
The_Seals_of_Wisdom
The_Use_and_Abuse_of_History
The_Way_of_Perfection
Thus_Spoke_Zarathustra
Words_Of_The_Mother_III

IN CHAPTERS TITLE
1.mb_-_long_conversations
1.pbs_-_Julian_and_Maddalo_-_A_Conversation
1.poe_-_The_Conversation_Of_Eiros_And_Charmion
4.03_-_CONVERSATION_WITH_THE_KINGS
Conversations_with_Sri_Aurobindo

IN CHAPTERS CLASSNAME

IN CHAPTERS TEXT
00.01_-_The_Mother_on_Savitri
0_0.02_-_Topographical_Note
0.00_-_INTRODUCTION
0.00_-_THE_GOSPEL_PREFACE
0.01_-_Letters_from_the_Mother_to_Her_Son
0.02_-_Letters_to_a_Sadhak
0.03_-_III_-_The_Evening_Sittings
0.03_-_Letters_to_My_little_smile
0.06_-_Letters_to_a_Young_Sadhak
0.10_-_Letters_to_a_Young_Captain
0_1957-12-21
0_1958-10-04
0_1959-03-10_-_vital_dagger,_vital_mass
0_1959-06-03
0_1959-06-07
0_1960-07-23_-_The_Flood_and_the_race_-_turning_back_to_guide_and_save_amongst_the_torrents_-_sadhana_vs_tamas_and_destruction_-_power_of_giving_and_offering_-_Japa,_7_lakhs,_140000_per_day,_1_crore_takes_20_years
0_1960-08-10_-_questions_from_center_of_Education_-_reading_Sri_Aurobindo
0_1960-08-20
0_1960-09-20
0_1960-10-25
0_1960-10-30
0_1960-11-08
0_1960-11-12
0_1960-11-15
0_1960-11-26
0_1960-12-17
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0_1961-01-07
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0_1963-06-15
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0_1963-08-07
0_1963-08-13b
0_1963-08-28
0_1963-09-07
0_1963-09-21
0_1963-10-05
0_1963-10-16
0_1963-11-23
0_1963-12-07_-_supramental_ship
0_1963-12-21
0_1964-01-04
0_1964-01-08
0_1964-01-28
0_1964-02-13
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0_1965-06-18_-_supramental_ship
0_1965-06-23
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0_1965-07-17
0_1965-07-21
0_1965-07-24
0_1965-08-07
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0_1965-08-31
0_1965-09-15a
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0_1965-12-01
0_1965-12-07
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0_1972-03-10
0_1972-03-11
0_1972-03-15
0_1972-03-24
0_1972-03-29b
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09.12_-_The_True_Teaching
1.00a_-_Introduction
1.00_-_Preliminary_Remarks
1.00_-_The_way_of_what_is_to_come
1.013_-_Defence_Mechanisms_of_the_Mind
1.01_-_Adam_Kadmon_and_the_Evolution
1.01_-_DOWN_THE_RABBIT-HOLE
1.01_-_MASTER_AND_DISCIPLE
1.01_-_Principles_of_Practical_Psycho_therapy
1.01_-_The_Castle
1.01_-_To_Watanabe_Sukefusa
10.23_-_Prayers_and_Meditations_of_the_Mother
1.02_-_MAPS_OF_MEANING_-_THREE_LEVELS_OF_ANALYSIS
1.02_-_Meeting_the_Master_-_Authors_second_meeting,_March_1921
1.02_-_On_the_Knowledge_of_God.
1.02_-_The_Development_of_Sri_Aurobindos_Thought
1.02_-_The_Human_Soul
1.02_-_THE_POOL_OF_TEARS
1.033_-_The_Confederates
1.03_-_Meeting_the_Master_-_Meeting_with_others
1.03_-_Preparing_for_the_Miraculous
1.03_-_Reading
1.03_-_The_House_Of_The_Lord
1.03_-_VISIT_TO_VIDYASAGAR
1.04_-_ADVICE_TO_HOUSEHOLDERS
1.04_-_A_Leader
1.04_-_On_blessed_and_ever-memorable_obedience
1.04_-_The_Aims_of_Psycho_therapy
1.04_-_THE_APPEARANCE_OF_ANOMALY_-_CHALLENGE_TO_THE_SHARED_MAP
1.04_-_The_Origin_and_Development_of_Poetry.
1.04_-_The_Paths
1.04_-_What_Arjuna_Saw_-_the_Dark_Side_of_the_Force
1.058_-_The_Argument
1.05_-_Adam_Kadmon
1.05_-_CHARITY
1.05_-_On_the_Love_of_God.
1.05_-_Some_Results_of_Initiation
1.05_-_THE_HOSTILE_BROTHERS_-_ARCHETYPES_OF_RESPONSE_TO_THE_UNKNOWN
1.05_-_The_Universe__The_0_=_2_Equation
1.05_-_The_Ways_of_Working_of_the_Lord
1.06_-_MORTIFICATION,_NON-ATTACHMENT,_RIGHT_LIVELIHOOD
1.06_-_Psychic_Education
1.06_-_The_Literal_Qabalah
1.06_-_THE_MASTER_WITH_THE_BRAHMO_DEVOTEES
1.06_-_The_Sign_of_the_Fishes
1.07_-_A_Song_of_Longing_for_Tara,_the_Infallible
1.07_-_BOOK_THE_SEVENTH
1.07_-_Bridge_across_the_Afterlife
1.07_-_On_Dreams
1.07_-_Savitri
1.08a_-_The_Ladder
1.08_-_Sri_Aurobindos_Descent_into_Death
1.08_-_Stead_and_the_Spirits
1.08_-_The_Depths_of_the_Divine
1.08_-_The_Four_Austerities_and_the_Four_Liberations
1.08_-_THE_QUEEN'S_CROQUET_GROUND
1.09_-_ADVICE_TO_THE_BRAHMOS
1.09_-_SKIRMISHES_IN_A_WAY_WITH_THE_AGE
1.09_-_Sri_Aurobindo_and_the_Big_Bang
1.09_-_Talks
1.11_-_Oneness
1.11_-_On_Intuitive_Knowledge
1.11_-_The_Kalki_Avatar
1.11_-_WITH_THE_DEVOTEES_AT_DAKSHINEWAR
1.12_-_THE_FESTIVAL_AT_PNIHTI
1.12_-_The_Left-Hand_Path_-_The_Black_Brothers
1.13_-_THE_MASTER_AND_M.
1.14_-_INSTRUCTION_TO_VAISHNAVS_AND_BRHMOS
1.14_-_Noise
1.14_-_ON_THE_FRIEND
1.14_-_The_Secret
1.15_-_LAST_VISIT_TO_KESHAB
1.15_-_On_incorruptible_purity_and_chastity_to_which_the_corruptible_attain_by_toil_and_sweat.
1.15_-_SILENCE
1.16_-_Advantages_and_Disadvantages_of_Evocational_Magic
1.16_-_The_Season_of_Truth
1.16_-_WITH_THE_DEVOTEES_AT_DAKSHINESWAR
1.17_-_Astral_Journey__Example,_How_to_do_it,_How_to_Verify_your_Experience
1.17_-_DOES_MANKIND_MOVE_BIOLOGICALLY_UPON_ITSELF?
1.17_-_Geryon._The_Violent_against_Art._Usurers._Descent_into_the_Abyss_of_Malebolge.
1.17_-_M._AT_DAKSHINEWAR
1.17_-_The_Transformation
1.18_-_M._AT_DAKSHINESWAR
1.18_-_THE_HEART_OF_THE_PROBLEM
1.19_-_On_sleep,_prayer,_and_psalm-singing_in_chapel.
1.19_-_The_Act_of_Truth
1.19_-_THE_MASTER_AND_HIS_INJURED_ARM
1.200-1.224_Talks
1.201_-_Socrates
1.20_-_On_bodily_vigil_and_how_to_use_it_to_attain_spiritual_vigil_and_how_to_practise_it.
1.20_-_RULES_FOR_HOUSEHOLDERS_AND_MONKS
1.21_-_A_DAY_AT_DAKSHINESWAR
1.21_-_Tabooed_Things
1.22_-_ADVICE_TO_AN_ACTOR
1.22_-_How_to_Learn_the_Practice_of_Astrology
1.2.2_-_The_Place_of_Study_in_Sadhana
1.23_-_FESTIVAL_AT_SURENDRAS_HOUSE
1.23_-_On_mad_price,_and,_in_the_same_Step,_on_unclean_and_blasphemous_thoughts.
1.240_-_1.300_Talks
1.240_-_Talks_2
1.24_-_Describes_how_vocal_prayer_may_be_practised_with_perfection_and_how_closely_allied_it_is_to_mental_prayer
1.24_-_On_meekness,_simplicity,_guilelessness_which_come_not_from_nature_but_from_habit,_and_about_malice.
1.2.4_-_Speech_and_Yoga
1.25_-_ADVICE_TO_PUNDIT_SHASHADHAR
1.25_-_SPIRITUAL_EXERCISES
1.26_-_FESTIVAL_AT_ADHARS_HOUSE
1.27_-_AT_DAKSHINESWAR
1.300_-_1.400_Talks
1.34_-_Continues_the_same_subject._This_is_very_suitable_for_reading_after_the_reception_of_the_Most_Holy_Sacrament.
1.400_-_1.450_Talks
14.03_-_Janaka_and_Yajnavalkya
1.41_-_Speaks_of_the_fear_of_God_and_of_how_we_must_keep_ourselves_from_venial_sins.
1.42_-_This_Self_Introversion
1.439
1.450_-_1.500_Talks
1.45_-_Unserious_Conduct_of_a_Pupil
1.48_-_Morals_of_AL_-_Hard_to_Accept,_and_Why_nevertheless_we_Must_Concur
1.50_-_A.C._and_the_Masters;_Why_they_Chose_him,_etc.
1.51_-_How_to_Recognise_Masters,_Angels,_etc.,_and_how_they_Work
1.54_-_On_Meanness
1.550_-_1.600_Talks
1.62_-_The_Elastic_Mind
1.65_-_Man
1.72_-_Education
1.74_-_Obstacles_on_the_Path
1.78_-_Sore_Spots
1.82_-_Epistola_Penultima_-_The_Two_Ways_to_Reality
1.83_-_Epistola_Ultima
1912_11_02p
1914_12_04p
1916_12_08p
1916_12_14p
1929-04-28_-_Offering,_general_and_detailed_-_Integral_Yoga_-_Remembrance_of_the_Divine_-_Reading_and_Yoga_-_Necessity,_predetermination_-_Freedom_-_Miracles_-_Aim_of_creation
1929-05-26_-_Individual,_illusion_of_separateness_-_Hostile_forces_and_the_mental_plane_-_Psychic_world,_psychic_being_-_Spiritual_and_psychic_-_Words,_understanding_speech_and_reading_-_Hostile_forces,_their_utility_-_Illusion_of_action,_true_action
1951-01-08_-_True_vision_and_understanding_of_the_world._Progress,_equilibrium._Inner_reality_-_the_psychic._Animals_and_the_psychic.
1951-02-05_-_Surrender_and_tapasya_-_Dealing_with_difficulties,_sincerity,_spiritual_discipline_-_Narrating_experiences_-_Vital_impulse_and_will_for_progress
1951-02-08_-_Unifying_the_being_-_ideas_of_good_and_bad_-_Miracles_-_determinism_-_Supreme_Will_-_Distinguishing_the_voice_of_the_Divine
1951-02-26_-_On_reading_books_-_gossip_-_Discipline_and_realisation_-_Imaginary_stories-_value_of_-_Private_lives_of_big_men_-_relaxation_-_Understanding_others_-_gnostic_consciousness
1951-03-12_-_Mental_forms_-_learning_difficult_subjects_-_Mental_fortress_-_thought_-_Training_the_mind_-_Helping_the_vital_being_after_death_-_ceremonies_-_Human_stupidities
1953-04-01
1953-05-20
1953-10-21
1953-11-04
1953-11-11
1954-03-24_-_Dreams_and_the_condition_of_the_stomach_-_Tobacco_and_alcohol_-_Nervousness_-_The_centres_and_the_Kundalini_-_Control_of_the_senses
1954-12-08_-_Cosmic_consciousness_-_Clutching_-_The_central_will_of_the_being_-_Knowledge_by_identity
1955-03-30_-_Yoga-shakti_-_Energies_of_the_earth,_higher_and_lower_-_Illness,_curing_by_yogic_means_-_The_true_self_and_the_psychic_-_Solving_difficulties_by_different_methods
1955-05-18_-_The_Problem_of_Woman_-_Men_and_women_-_The_Supreme_Mother,_the_new_creation_-_Gods_and_goddesses_-_A_story_of_Creation,_earth_-_Psychic_being_only_on_earth,_beings_everywhere_-_Going_to_other_worlds_by_occult_means
1955-06-22_-_Awakening_the_Yoga-shakti_-_The_thousand-petalled_lotus-_Reading,_how_far_a_help_for_yoga_-_Simple_and_complicated_combinations_in_men
1956-02-29_-_Sacrifice,_self-giving_-_Divine_Presence_in_the_heart_of_Matter_-_Divine_Oneness_-_Divine_Consciousness_-_All_is_One_-_Divine_in_the_inconscient_aspires_for_the_Divine
1956-05-23_-_Yoga_and_religion_-_Story_of_two_clergymen_on_a_boat_-_The_Buddha_and_the_Supramental_-_Hieroglyphs_and_phonetic_alphabets_-_A_vision_of_ancient_Egypt_-_Memory_for_sounds
1956-09-26_-_Soul_of_desire_-_Openness,_harmony_with_Nature_-_Communion_with_divine_Presence_-_Individuality,_difficulties,_soul_of_desire_-_personal_contact_with_the_Mother_-_Inner_receptivity_-_Bad_thoughts_before_the_Mother
1956-10-03_-_The_Mothers_different_ways_of_speaking_-_new_manifestation_-_new_element,_possibilities_-_child_prodigies_-_Laws_of_Nature,_supramental_-_Logic_of_the_unforeseen_-_Creative_writers,_hands_of_musicians_-_Prodigious_children,_men
1958-08-13_-_Profit_by_staying_in_the_Ashram_-_What_Sri_Aurobindo_has_come_to_tell_us_-_Finding_the_Divine
1966_07_06
1971_12_11
1.anon_-_The_Poem_of_Antar
1f.lovecraft_-_A_Reminiscence_of_Dr._Samuel_Johnson
1f.lovecraft_-_At_the_Mountains_of_Madness
1f.lovecraft_-_Cool_Air
1f.lovecraft_-_Facts_concerning_the_Late
1f.lovecraft_-_Herbert_West-Reanimator
1f.lovecraft_-_In_the_Walls_of_Eryx
1f.lovecraft_-_Medusas_Coil
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Call_of_Cthulhu
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Case_of_Charles_Dexter_Ward
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Disinterment
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Dream-Quest_of_Unknown_Kadath
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Dreams_in_the_Witch_House
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Electric_Executioner
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Horror_at_Martins_Beach
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Horror_at_Red_Hook
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Horror_in_the_Museum
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Last_Test
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Man_of_Stone
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Mound
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Music_of_Erich_Zann
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Picture_in_the_House
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Shadow_out_of_Time
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Shadow_over_Innsmouth
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Shunned_House
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Terrible_Old_Man
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Thing_on_the_Doorstep
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Transition_of_Juan_Romero
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Trap
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Whisperer_in_Darkness
1f.lovecraft_-_Two_Black_Bottles
1.fua_-_The_Nightingale
1.hs_-_Streaming
1.iai_-_A_feeling_of_discouragement_when_you_slip_up
1.iai_-_How_can_you_imagine_that_something_else_veils_Him
1.iai_-_How_utterly_amazing_is_someone_who_flees_from_something_he_cannot_escape
1.iai_-_The_best_you_can_seek_from_Him
1.iai_-_The_light_of_the_inner_eye_lets_you_see_His_nearness_to_you
1.iai_-_Those_travelling_to_Him
1.jk_-_Ben_Nevis_-_A_Dialogue
1.jk_-_Dedication_To_Leigh_Hunt,_Esq.
1.jk_-_The_Cap_And_Bells;_Or,_The_Jealousies_-_A_Faery_Tale_.._Unfinished
1.jlb_-_Empty_Drawing_Room
1.lb_-_Confessional
1.lb_-_Facing_Wine
1.mb_-_long_conversations
1.pbs_-_Julian_and_Maddalo_-_A_Conversation
1.pbs_-_Oedipus_Tyrannus_or_Swellfoot_The_Tyrant
1.pbs_-_Peter_Bell_The_Third
1.pbs_-_The_Cenci_-_A_Tragedy_In_Five_Acts
1.poe_-_The_Conversation_Of_Eiros_And_Charmion
1.rwe_-_The_River_Note
1.wby_-_Adams_Curse
1.ww_-_Book_Ninth_[Residence_in_France]
1.ww_-_Book_Second_[School-Time_Continued]
1.ww_-_The_Excursion-_IV-_Book_Third-_Despondency
1.ww_-_The_Excursion-_IX-_Book_Eighth-_The_Parsonage
1.ww_-_The_Excursion-_VII-_Book_Sixth-_The_Churchyard_Among_the_Mountains
1.ww_-_The_Excursion-_X-_Book_Ninth-_Discourse_of_the_Wanderer,_and_an_Evening_Visit_to_the_Lake
1.ww_-_The_Fountain
1.ww_-_The_Tables_Turned
2.01_-_AT_THE_STAR_THEATRE
2.02_-_THE_DURGA_PUJA_FESTIVAL
2.03_-_On_Medicine
2.04_-_ADVICE_TO_ISHAN
2.05_-_Aspects_of_Sadhana
2.05_-_Habit_3__Put_First_Things_First
2.05_-_On_Poetry
2.05_-_VISIT_TO_THE_SINTHI_BRAMO_SAMAJ
2.06_-_The_Wand
2.06_-_WITH_VARIOUS_DEVOTEES
2.07_-_BANKIM_CHANDRA
2.08_-_AT_THE_STAR_THEATRE_(II)
2.09_-_On_Sadhana
2.09_-_THE_MASTERS_BIRTHDAY
2.10_-_THE_MASTER_AND_NARENDRA
2.11_-_WITH_THE_DEVOTEES_IN_CALCUTTA
2.12_-_THE_MASTERS_REMINISCENCES
2.1.3.2_-_Study
2.13_-_THE_MASTER_AT_THE_HOUSES_OF_BALARM_AND_GIRISH
2.14_-_AT_RAMS_HOUSE
2.1.5.1_-_Study_of_Works_of_Sri_Aurobindo_and_the_Mother
2.15_-_CAR_FESTIVAL_AT_BALARMS_HOUSE
2.15_-_The_Lamen
2.17_-_December_1938
2.17_-_THE_MASTER_ON_HIMSELF_AND_HIS_EXPERIENCES
2.18_-_January_1939
2.18_-_ON_GREAT_EVENTS
2.18_-_SRI_RAMAKRISHNA_AT_SYAMPUKUR
2.19_-_THE_MASTER_AND_DR._SARKAR
2.20_-_THE_MASTERS_TRAINING_OF_HIS_DISCIPLES
2.21_-_IN_THE_COMPANY_OF_DEVOTEES_AT_SYAMPUKUR
2.22_-_THE_MASTER_AT_COSSIPORE
2.23_-_THE_MASTER_AND_BUDDHA
2.24_-_Note_on_the_Text
2.24_-_THE_MASTERS_LOVE_FOR_HIS_DEVOTEES
2.25_-_AFTER_THE_PASSING_AWAY
2.3.04_-_The_Mother's_Force
2.3.07_-_The_Mother_in_Visions,_Dreams_and_Experiences
2.3.08_-_The_Mother's_Help_in_Difficulties
24.05_-_Vision_of_Dante
2.4.2_-_Interactions_with_Others_and_the_Practice_of_Yoga
3.00.2_-_Introduction
30.13_-_Rabindranath_the_Artist
3.01_-_Fear_of_God
3.01_-_Towards_the_Future
3.02_-_The_Formulae_of_the_Elemental_Weapons
3.02_-_The_Psychology_of_Rebirth
3.03_-_SULPHUR
3.03_-_The_Ascent_to_Truth
3.03_-_The_Formula_of_Tetragrammaton
3.05_-_SAL
3.05_-_The_Formula_of_I.A.O.
3.07_-_The_Formula_of_the_Holy_Grail
3.10_-_The_New_Birth
3.14_-_Of_the_Consecrations
3.16.1_-_Of_the_Oath
3.16.2_-_Of_the_Charge_of_the_Spirit
3.16_-_THE_SEVEN_SEALS_OR_THE_YES_AND_AMEN_SONG
3.18_-_Of_Clairvoyance_and_the_Body_of_Light
3.20_-_Of_the_Eucharist
3.21_-_Of_Black_Magic
33.03_-_Muraripukur_-_I
33.05_-_Muraripukur_-_II
33.06_-_Alipore_Court
33.11_-_Pondicherry_II
33.13_-_My_Professors
33.16_-_Soviet_Gymnasts
33.17_-_Two_Great_Wars
3-5_Full_Circle
37.03_-_Satyakama_And_Upakoshala
4.03_-_CONVERSATION_WITH_THE_KINGS
4.05_-_THE_MAGICIAN
4.0_-_The_Path_of_Knowledge
5.4.01_-_Notes_on_Root-Sounds
6.0_-_Conscious,_Unconscious,_and_Individuation
7.14_-_Modesty
7.15_-_The_Family
Aeneid
Apology
Appendix_4_-_Priest_Spells
APPENDIX_I_-_Curriculum_of_A._A.
Averroes_Search
Big_Mind_(non-dual)
Blazing_P1_-_Preconventional_consciousness
Blazing_P2_-_Map_the_Stages_of_Conventional_Consciousness
Blazing_P3_-_Explore_the_Stages_of_Postconventional_Consciousness
BOOK_II._--_PART_III._ADDENDA._SCIENCE_AND_THE_SECRET_DOCTRINE_CONTRASTED
BOOK_I._--_PART_I._COSMIC_EVOLUTION
BOOK_I._--_PART_III._SCIENCE_AND_THE_SECRET_DOCTRINE_CONTRASTED
BOOK_IX._-_Of_those_who_allege_a_distinction_among_demons,_some_being_good_and_others_evil
Book_of_Imaginary_Beings_(text)
BOOK_VIII._-_Some_account_of_the_Socratic_and_Platonic_philosophy,_and_a_refutation_of_the_doctrine_of_Apuleius_that_the_demons_should_be_worshipped_as_mediators_between_gods_and_men
BOOK_VII._-_Of_the_select_gods_of_the_civil_theology,_and_that_eternal_life_is_not_obtained_by_worshipping_them
BOOK_XIII._-_That_death_is_penal,_and_had_its_origin_in_Adam's_sin
BOOK_XVI._-_The_history_of_the_city_of_God_from_Noah_to_the_time_of_the_kings_of_Israel
BOOK_XXI._-_Of_the_eternal_punishment_of_the_wicked_in_hell,_and_of_the_various_objections_urged_against_it
BOOK_XX._-_Of_the_last_judgment,_and_the_declarations_regarding_it_in_the_Old_and_New_Testaments
BS_1_-_Introduction_to_the_Idea_of_God
Chapter_III_-_WHEREIN_IS_RELATED_THE_DROLL_WAY_IN_WHICH_DON_QUIXOTE_HAD_HIMSELF_DUBBED_A_KNIGHT
Conversations_with_Sri_Aurobindo
COSA_-_BOOK_III
COSA_-_BOOK_IV
COSA_-_BOOK_IX
COSA_-_BOOK_VI
COSA_-_BOOK_VIII
COSA_-_BOOK_XI
ENNEAD_06.09_-_Of_the_Good_and_the_One.
For_a_Breath_I_Tarry
Gorgias
Ion
Liber
Liber_111_-_The_Book_of_Wisdom_-_LIBER_ALEPH_VEL_CXI
Liber_46_-_The_Key_of_the_Mysteries
Liber_71_-_The_Voice_of_the_Silence_-_The_Two_Paths_-_The_Seven_Portals
LUX.05_-_AUGOEIDES
Meno
Phaedo
Prayers_and_Meditations_by_Baha_u_llah_text
r1912_01_20
r1912_07_22
r1913_09_17
r1913_11_26
r1914_03_13
r1914_05_08
r1914_05_28
r1914_06_29
r1914_07_23
r1914_07_28
r1914_08_16
r1914_11_04
r1914_11_19
r1914_12_01
r1914_12_14
r1914_12_15
r1914_12_17
r1914_12_29
r1915_01_04a
r1915_01_14
r1915_05_05
r1915_05_21
r1915_05_26
r1915_06_28
r1918_05_14
r1919_06_25
r1920_02_28
Sayings_of_Sri_Ramakrishna_(text)
Sophist
Story_of_the_Warrior_and_the_Captive
Symposium_translated_by_B_Jowett
Talks_026-050
Talks_151-175
Talks_176-200
Talks_500-550
Talks_600-652
Talks_With_Sri_Aurobindo_1
Talks_With_Sri_Aurobindo_2
The_Act_of_Creation_text
Theaetetus
The_Book_of_Sand
The_Dwellings_of_the_Philosophers
The_Epistle_of_James
The_Epistle_of_Paul_to_the_Ephesians
The_Epistle_of_Paul_to_the_Philippians
the_Eternal_Wisdom
The_First_Epistle_of_Paul_to_Timothy
The_First_Epistle_of_Peter
The_Gold_Bug
The_Gospel_According_to_Luke
The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews
The_Pilgrims_Progress
The_Second_Epistle_of_Peter
The_Shadow_Out_Of_Time
Thus_Spoke_Zarathustra_text
Timaeus

PRIMARY CLASS

SIMILAR TITLES
Anilbaran Roy Interviews and Conversations
conversation
Conversations of Socrates
Conversations With God An Uncommon Dialogue
Liber 8 - conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel

DEFINITIONS


TERMS STARTING WITH

conversational ::: a. --> Pertaining to conversation; in the manner of one conversing; as, a conversational style.

conversationalist ::: n. --> A conversationist.

conversationed ::: a. --> Acquainted with manners and deportment; behaved.

conversationism ::: n. --> A word or phrase used in conversation; a colloquialism.

conversationist ::: n. --> One who converses much, or who excels in conversation.

conversation ::: n. --> General course of conduct; behavior.
Familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; close acquaintance.
Commerce; intercourse; traffic.
Colloquial discourse; oral interchange of sentiments and observations; informal dialogue.
Sexual intercourse; as, criminal conversation.


Conversational LISP "language" ({CLISP}) A mixed English-like, {ALGOL}-like surface {syntax} for {Interlisp}. ["CLISP: Conversational LISP", W. Teitelman, in Proc Third Intl Joint Conf on AI, Stanford, Aug 1973, pp. 686-690]. (1994-11-01)

Conversational LISP ::: (language) (CLISP) A mixed English-like, ALGOL-like surface syntax for Interlisp.[CLISP: Conversational LISP, W. Teitelman, in Proc Third Intl Joint Conf on AI, Stanford, Aug 1973, pp.686-690]. (1994-11-01)

Conversational Monitor System {Virtual Machine/Conversational Monitor System}


TERMS ANYWHERE

affability ::: n. --> The quality of being affable; readiness to converse; courteousness in receiving others and in conversation; complaisant behavior.

ALADIN ::: 1. (language) A Language for Attributed Definitions.2. (tool) An interactive mathematics system for the IBM 360.[A Conversational System for Engineering Assistance: ALADIN, Y. Siret, Proc Second Symp Symb Algebraic Math, ACM Mar 1971]. (1995-04-13)

ALADIN 1. "language" {A Language for Attributed Definitions}. 2. "tool" An interactive mathematics system for the {IBM 360}. ["A Conversational System for Engineering Assistance: ALADIN", Y. Siret, Proc Second Symp Symb Algebraic Math, ACM Mar 1971]. (1995-04-13)

Also conversational agent (CA). ::: A computer system intended to converse with a human with a coherent structure. Dialogue systems have employed text, speech, graphics, haptics, gestures, and other modes for communication on both the input and output channel.

Also smartbot, talkbot, chatterbot, bot, IM bot, interactive agent, conversational interface, or artificial conversational entity. ::: A computer program or an artificial intelligence which conducts a conversation via auditory or textual methods.[73]

Always and everywhere the power of mantras and incantations has been recognized. Orators use mantras — they call them slogans — with instinctive knowledge of their efficacy, and set afloat phrases that stir the public mind and strongly influence events. Often in daily conversation we instinctively forbear to speak a name or a word, though we would make no objection to writing it.

anally retentive: commonly abbreviated to "anal", is used conversationally to describe a person with such attention to detail that the obsession becomes an annoyance to others, and can be carried out to the detriment of the anal-retentive person.

anecdotal ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or abounding with, anecdotes; as, anecdotal conversation.

arhat. (P. arahant; T. dgra bcom pa; C. aluohan/yinggong; J. arakan/ogu; K. arahan/ŭnggong 阿羅漢/應供). In Sanskrit, "worthy one"; one who has destroyed the afflictions (KLEsA) and all causes for future REBIRTH and who thus will enter NIRVAnA at death; the standard Tibetan translation dgra bcom pa (drachompa) ("foe-destroyer") is based on the paronomastic gloss ari ("enemy") and han ("to destroy"). The arhat is the highest of the four grades of Buddhist saint or "noble person" (ARYAPUDGALA) recognized in the mainstream Buddhist schools; the others are, in ascending order, the SROTAAPANNA or "stream-enterer" (the first and lowest grade), the SAKṚDAGAMIN or "once-returner" (the second grade), and the ANAGAMIN or "nonreturner" (the third and penultimate grade). The arhat is one who has completely put aside all ten fetters (SAMYOJANA) that bind one to the cycle of rebirth: namely, (1) belief in the existence of a perduring self (SATKAYADṚstI); (2) skeptical doubt (about the efficacy of the path) (VICIKITSA); (3) belief in the efficacy of rites and rituals (sĪLAVRATAPARAMARsA); (4) sensual craving (KAMARAGA); (5) malice (VYAPADA); (6) craving for existence as a divinity (DEVA) in the realm of subtle materiality (RuPARAGA); (7) craving for existence as a divinity in the immaterial realm (ARuPYARAGA); (8) pride (MANA); (9) restlessness (AUDDHATYA); and (10) ignorance (AVIDYA). Also described as one who has achieved the extinction of the contaminants (ASRAVAKsAYA), the arhat is one who has attained nirvAna in this life, and at death attains final liberation (PARINIRVAnA) and will never again be subject to rebirth. Although the arhat is regarded as the ideal spiritual type in the mainstream Buddhist traditions, where the Buddha is also described as an arhat, in the MAHAYANA the attainment of an arhat pales before the far-superior achievements of a buddha. Although arhats also achieve enlightenment (BODHI), the MahAyAna tradition presumes that they have overcome only the first of the two kinds of obstructions, the afflictive obstructions (KLEsAVARAnA), but are still subject to the noetic obstructions (JNEYAVARAnA); only the buddhas have completely overcome both and thus realize complete, perfect enlightenment (ANUTTARASAMYAKSAMBODHI). Certain arhats were selected by the Buddha to remain in the world until the coming of MAITREYA. These arhats (called LUOHAN in Chinese, a transcription of arhat), who typically numbered sixteen (see sOdAsASTHAVIRA), were objects of specific devotion in East Asian Buddhism, and East Asian monasteries will often contain a separate shrine to these luohans. Although in the MahAyAna sutras, the bodhisattva is extolled over the arhats, arhats figure prominently in these texts, very often as members of the assembly for the Buddha's discourse and sometimes as key figures. For example, in the SADDHARMAPUndARĪKASuTRA ("Lotus Sutra"), sARIPUTRA is one of the Buddha's chief interlocutors and, with other arhats, receives a prophecy of his future buddhahood; in the VAJRACCHEDIKAPRAJNAPARAMITASuTRA, SUBHuTI is the Buddha's chief interlocutor; and in the VIMALAKĪRTINIRDEsA, sAriputra is made to play the fool in a conversation with a goddess.

conversational ::: a. --> Pertaining to conversation; in the manner of one conversing; as, a conversational style.

conversationalist ::: n. --> A conversationist.

conversationed ::: a. --> Acquainted with manners and deportment; behaved.

conversationism ::: n. --> A word or phrase used in conversation; a colloquialism.

conversationist ::: n. --> One who converses much, or who excels in conversation.

conversation ::: n. --> General course of conduct; behavior.
Familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; close acquaintance.
Commerce; intercourse; traffic.
Colloquial discourse; oral interchange of sentiments and observations; informal dialogue.
Sexual intercourse; as, criminal conversation.


bepommel ::: v. t. --> To pommel; to beat, as with a stick; figuratively, to assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing.

botwar "chat" The epic struggle of {bots} vying for dominance. Botwars are generally (and quite inappropriately) carried out on {talk} systems, typically {IRC}, where botwar crossfire (such as {pingflood}ing) absorbs scarce server resources and obstructs human conversation. The wisdom of experience indicates that {Core Wars}, not {talk} systems, are the appropriate venue for aggressive bots and their {botmasters}. Compare {penis war}. (1997-04-08)

botwar ::: (chat) The epic struggle of bots vying for dominance.Botwars are generally (and quite inappropriately) carried out on talk systems, typically IRC, where botwar crossfire (such as pingflooding) absorbs scarce server resources and obstructs human conversation.The wisdom of experience indicates that Core Wars, not talk systems, are the appropriate venue for aggressive bots and their botmasters.Compare penis war. (1997-04-08)

break ::: 1. To cause to be broken (in any sense). Your latest patch to the editor broke the paragraph commands.2. (Of a program) To stop temporarily, so that it may debugged. The place where it stops is a breakpoint.3. To send an EIA-232 break (two character widths of line high) over a serial line.4. [Unix] To strike whatever key currently causes the tty driver to send SIGINT to the current process. Normally, break, delete or control-C does this.5. break break may be said to interrupt a conversation (this is an example of verb doubling). This usage comes from radio communications, which in turn probably came from landline telegraph/teleprinter usage, as badly abused in the Citizen's Band craze a few years ago.6. pipeline break.7. break statement.[Jargon File](2004-03-24)

break 1. To cause to be {broken}. "Your latest patch to the editor broke the paragraph commands." 2. (Of a program) To stop temporarily, so that it may debugged. The place where it stops is a "{breakpoint}". 3. To send an {EIA-232} break (two character widths of line high) over a {serial line}. 4. [Unix] To strike whatever key currently causes the tty driver to send SIGINT to the current process. Normally, break, delete or {control-C} does this. 5. "break break" may be said to interrupt a conversation (this is an example of verb doubling). This usage comes from radio communications, which in turn probably came from landline telegraph/teleprinter usage, as badly abused in the Citizen's Band craze. 6. {pipeline break}. 7. {break statement}. [{Jargon File}] (2004-03-24)

break ::: v. 1. To destroy by or as if by shattering or crushing. 2. To force or make a way through (a barrier, etc.). 3. To vary or disrupt the uniformity or continuity of. 4. To overcome or put an end to. 5. To destroy or interrupt a regularity, uniformity, continuity, or arrangement of; interrupt. 6. To intrude upon; interrupt a conversation, etc. 7. To discontinue or sever an association, an agreement, or a relationship. **8. To overcome or wear down the spirit, strength, or resistance of. 9. (usually followed by in, into or out). 10. To filter or penetrate as sunlight into a room. 11. To come forth suddenly. 12. To utter suddenly; to express or start to express an emotion, mood, etc. 13. Said of waves, etc. when they dash against an obstacle, or topple over and become surf or broken water in the shallows. 14. To part the surface of water, as a ship or a jumping fish. breaks, broke, broken, breaking.* *n. 15.** An interruption or a disruption in continuity or regularity.

Brother(s) of the Shadow ::: A term given in occultism and especially in modern esotericism to individuals, whether men or women,who follow the path of the shadows, the left-hand path. The term "shadow" is a technical expression andsignifies more than appears on the surface: i.e., the expression is not to be understood of individuals wholive in actual physical obscurity or actual physical shadows, which literalism would be simply absurd;but applies to those who follow the path of matter, which from time immemorial in the esoteric schoolsin both Orient and Occident has frequently been called shadow or shadows. The term originally arose,without doubt, in the philosophical conception of the word maya, for in early Oriental esotericism maya,and more especially maha-maya, was a term applied in one of its many philosophical meanings to thatwhich was contrary to and, indeed, in one sense a reflection of, light. Just as spirit may be considered tobe pure energy, and matter, although essentially crystallized spirit, may be looked upon as the shadowworld or vehicular world in which the energy or spirit or pure light works, just so is maya, as the garmentor expression or sakti of the divine energy, the vehicle or shadow of the divine side of nature, in otherwords its negative or nether pole, as light is the upper or positive pole.The Brothers of the Shadow are therefore those who, being essentially of the nature of matter,instinctively choose and follow the path along which they are most strongly drawn, that is, the path ofmatter or of the shadows. When it is recollected that matter is but a generalizing term, and that what thisterm comprises actually includes an almost infinite number of degrees of increasing ethereality from thegrossest physical substance, or absolute matter, up to the most ethereal or spiritualized substance, weimmediately see the subtle logic of this technical term -- shadows or, more fully, the Path of theShadows, hence the Brothers of the Shadow.They are the so-called black magicians of the Occident, and stand in sharp and notable contrast with thewhite magicians or the Sons of Light who follow the pathway of self-renunciation, self-sacrifice,self-conquest, perfect self-control, and an expansion of the heart and mind and consciousness in love andservice for all that lives. (See also Right-hand Path)The existence and aims of the Brothers of the Shadow are essentially selfish. It is commonly, buterroneously, supposed that the Brothers of the Shadow are men and women always of unpleasant ordispleasing personal appearance, and no greater error than this could possibly be made. Multitudes ofhuman beings are unconsciously treading the path of the shadows and, in comparison with thesemultitudes, it is relatively only a few who self-consciously lead and guide with subtle and nefastintelligence this army of unsuspecting victims of maya. The Brothers of the Shadow are often highlyintellectual men and women, frequently individuals with apparent great personal charm, and to theordinary observer, judging from their conversation and daily works, are fully as well able to "quotescripture" as are the Angels of Light!

bug "programming" An unwanted and unintended property of a {program} or piece of {hardware}, especially one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of {feature}. E.g. "There's a bug in the editor: it writes things out backward." The identification and removal of bugs in a program is called "{debugging}". Admiral {Grace Hopper} (an early computing pioneer better known for inventing {COBOL}) liked to tell a story in which a technician solved a {glitch} in the {Harvard Mark II machine} by pulling an actual insect out from between the contacts of one of its relays, and she subsequently promulgated {bug} in its hackish sense as a joke about the incident (though, as she was careful to admit, she was not there when it happened). For many years the logbook associated with the incident and the actual bug in question (a moth) sat in a display case at the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC). The entire story, with a picture of the logbook and the moth taped into it, is recorded in the "Annals of the History of Computing", Vol. 3, No. 3 (July 1981), pp. 285--286. The text of the log entry (from September 9, 1947), reads "1545 Relay

bug ::: (programming) An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, especially one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature. E.g. There's a bug in the editor: it writes things out backward. The identification and removal of bugs in a program is called debugging.Admiral Grace Hopper (an early computing pioneer better known for inventing COBOL) liked to tell a story in which a technician solved a glitch in the logbook and the moth taped into it, is recorded in the Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 3, No. 3 (July 1981), pp. 285--286.The text of the log entry (from September 9, 1947), reads 1545 Relay

buttonhole ::: n. --> The hole or loop in which a button is caught. ::: v. t. --> To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour.

canonical (Historically, "according to religious law") 1. "mathematics" A standard way of writing a formula. Two formulas such as 9 + x and x + 9 are said to be equivalent because they mean the same thing, but the second one is in "canonical form" because it is written in the usual way, with the highest power of x first. Usually there are fixed rules you can use to decide whether something is in canonical form. Things in canonical form are easier to compare. 2. "jargon" The usual or standard state or manner of something. The term acquired this meaning in computer-science culture largely through its prominence in {Alonzo Church}'s work in computation theory and {mathematical logic} (see {Knights of the Lambda-Calculus}). Compare {vanilla}. This word has an interesting history. Non-technical academics do not use the adjective "canonical" in any of the senses defined above with any regularity; they do however use the nouns "canon" and "canonicity" (not "canonicalness"* or "canonicality"*). The "canon" of a given author is the complete body of authentic works by that author (this usage is familiar to Sherlock Holmes fans as well as to literary scholars). "The canon" is the body of works in a given field (e.g. works of literature, or of art, or of music) deemed worthwhile for students to study and for scholars to investigate. The word "canon" derives ultimately from the Greek "kanon" (akin to the English "cane") referring to a reed. Reeds were used for measurement, and in Latin and later Greek the word "canon" meant a rule or a standard. The establishment of a canon of scriptures within Christianity was meant to define a standard or a rule for the religion. The above non-technical academic usages stem from this instance of a defined and accepted body of work. Alongside this usage was the promulgation of "canons" ("rules") for the government of the Catholic Church. The usages relating to religious law derive from this use of the Latin "canon". It may also be related to arabic "qanun" (law). Hackers invest this term with a playfulness that makes an ironic contrast with its historical meaning. A true story: One Bob Sjoberg, new at the {MIT AI Lab}, expressed some annoyance at the incessant use of jargon. Over his loud objections, {GLS} and {RMS} made a point of using as much of it as possible in his presence, and eventually it began to sink in. Finally, in one conversation, he used the word "canonical" in jargon-like fashion without thinking. Steele: "Aha! We've finally got you talking jargon too!" Stallman: "What did he say?" Steele: "Bob just used "canonical" in the canonical way." Of course, canonicality depends on context, but it is implicitly defined as the way *hackers* normally expect things to be. Thus, a hacker may claim with a straight face that "according to religious law" is *not* the canonical meaning of "canonical". (2002-02-06)

character: A created person in a play or a narrative whose particular qualities are revealed by the action, description and conversation. Not to be mixed up with the 'actor' in a play, who represents the character.

Chatbot - a computer program designed to simulate conversation with human users, especially over the Internet.

chatbot "chat" (Or "chatterbot") A {bot} meant to be able to interact conversationally with humans. A chatbot is either an exercise in {AI} or merely an interface as in an {infobot}. One of the first and most famous chatterbots (prior to the Web) was {Eliza}. (1999-06-19)

chatbot ::: (chat) (Or chatterbot) A bot meant to be able to interact conversationally with humans. A chatbot is either an exercise in AI or merely an interface as in an infobot.One of the first and most famous chatterbots (prior to the Web) was Eliza. (1999-06-19)

chat ::: (chat, messaging) Any system that allows any number of logged-in users to have a typed, real-time, on-line conversation via a network.The medium of chat is descended from talk, but the terms (and the media) have been distinct since at least the early 1990s. talk is prototypically for a small however, there are many channels in which any number of people can talk; and users may send private (one-to-one) messages.Some early chat systems (in use 1998) include IRC, ICQ and Palace. More recent alternatives include MSN Messenger and Google Talk.Chat systems have given rise to a distinctive style combining the immediacy of talking with all the precision (and verbosity) that written language entails. It is difficult to communicate inflection, though conventions have arisen to help with this.The conventions of chat systems include special items of jargon, generally abbreviations meant to save typing, which are not used orally. E.g. BCNU, BBL, BTW, CUL, FWIW, FYA, FYI, IMHO, OT, OTT, TNX, WRT, WTF, WTH, g>, gr&d>, BBL, HHOK, NHOH, ROTFL, AFK, b4, TTFN, TTYL, OIC, re.Much of the chat style is identical to (and probably derived from) Morse code jargon used by ham-radio amateurs since the 1920s, and there is, not talk systems. Many of these expressions are also common in Usenet news and electronic mail and some have seeped into popular culture, as with emoticons.The MUD community uses a mixture of emoticons, a few of the more natural of the old-style talk mode abbreviations, and some of the social list above. In MUD cultures, which tend to include many touch typists. Abbreviations specific to MUDs include: FOAD, ppl (people), THX (thanks), UOK? (are you OK?).Some BIFFisms (notably the variant spelling d00d) and aspects of ASCIIbonics appear to be passing into wider use among some subgroups of MUDders and are already pandemic on chat systems in general.See also hakspek. .(2006-05-31)

chat "chat, messaging" Any system that allows any number of logged-in users to have a typed, real-time, on-line conversation via a {network}. The medium of {chat} is descended from {talk}, but the terms (and the media) have been distinct since at least the early 1990s. {talk} is prototypically for a small number of people, generally with no provision for {channels}. In {chat} systems, however, there are many {channels} in which any number of people can talk; and users may send private (one-to-one) messages. Some early chat systems (in use 1998) include {IRC}, {ICQ} and {Palace}. More recent alternatives include {MSN Messenger} and {Google Talk}. Chat systems have given rise to a distinctive style combining the immediacy of talking with all the precision (and verbosity) that written language entails. It is difficult to communicate inflection, though conventions have arisen to help with this. The conventions of chat systems include special items of jargon, generally abbreviations meant to save typing, which are not used orally. E.g. {BCNU}, {BBL}, {BTW}, {CUL}, {FWIW}, {FYA}, {FYI}, {IMHO}, {OT}, {OTT}, {TNX}, {WRT}, {WTF}, {WTH}, {"g"}, {"gr&d"}, {BBL}, {HHOK}, {NHOH}, {ROTFL}, {AFK}, {b4}, {TTFN}, {TTYL}, {OIC}, {re}. Much of the chat style is identical to (and probably derived from) {Morse code} jargon used by ham-radio amateurs since the 1920s, and there is, not surprisingly, some overlap with {TDD} jargon. Most of the jargon was in use in {talk} systems. Many of these expressions are also common in {Usenet} {news} and {electronic mail} and some have seeped into popular culture, as with {emoticons}. The {MUD} community uses a mixture of {emoticons}, a few of the more natural of the old-style {talk mode} abbreviations, and some of the "social" list above. In general, though, MUDders express a preference for typing things out in full rather than using abbreviations; this may be due to the relative youth of the MUD cultures, which tend to include many touch typists. Abbreviations specific to MUDs include: {FOAD}, ppl (people), THX (thanks), UOK? (are you OK?). Some {BIFF}isms (notably the variant spelling "d00d") and aspects of {ASCIIbonics} appear to be passing into wider use among some subgroups of MUDders and are already pandemic on {chat} systems in general. See also {hakspek}. {Suck article "Screaming in a Vacuum" (http://suck.com/daily/96/10/23/)}. (2006-05-31)

Citta. A lay follower of the Buddha, mentioned in PAli sources as being foremost among laymen who preached the DHARMA; also known as Cittagahapati. Citta was treasurer for the township of MacchikAsanda in the kingdom of KAsī. When he was born, the sky rained flowers of many hues, hence his name which means variegated color. Citta was converted to Buddhism when he encountered the elder MahAnAma (S. MAHANAMAN) while the latter was sojourning in MacchikAsanda. Citta was greatly impressed by the monk's demeanor and built a monastery for him in his park named AmbAtakArAma. There, listening to MahAnAma preach on the subject of the six senses, he attained to state of a nonreturner (ANAGAMIN). On one occasion, Citta visited the Buddha in the company of two thousand laypeople, bringing with him five hundred cartloads of offerings. When he bowed at the Buddha's feet, flowers in a variety of colors rained down from the heavens. Like MahAnAma, the Buddha preached a sermon on the six senses to him. Citta distributed offerings for a fortnight, the gods continuously refilling the carts. Citta was endowed with a great intellect and was a gifted speaker. His conversations with members of the order are recorded in the "Citta SaMyutta" of the PAli SAMYUTTANIKAYA, and he is also described as having refuted the views of non-Buddhist teachers, such as Nigantha NAtaputta (S. NIRGRANTHA-JNATĪPUTRA, viz., MahAvīra), the eminent JAINA teacher, and Acela Kassapa. Although he was not an ARHAT, he possessed the analytical knowledge (P. patisambhidA; S. PRATISAMVID) of a learner (P. sekha). It was for these aptitudes that he earned preeminence. On his deathbed, divinities visited him and encouraged him to seek rebirth as a heavenly king, but he refused, stating that such an impermanent reward was not his goal. He then preached to them, and to all the kinfolk who had gathered around him, before passing away. Together with HATTHAKA AlAVAKA, Citta is upheld as an ideal layman worthy of emulation.

CLISP "language" 1. A {Common Lisp} implementation by {Bruno Haible (http://haible.de/bruno/)} of {Karlsruhe University} and {Michael Stoll (http://math.uni-duesseldorf.de/~stoll/)}. of {Munich University}, both in Germany. CLISP includes an {interpreter}, {bytecode compiler}, almost all of the {CLOS} {object system}, a {foreign language interface} and a {socket interface}. An {X11} interface is available through {CLX} and {Garnet}. Command line editing is provided by the {GNU} readline library. CLISP requires only 2 MB of {RAM}. The {user interface} comes in German, English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Russian and can be changed at {run time}. CLISP is {Free Software} and distributed under the {GPL}. It runs on {microcomputers} ({OS/2}, {Microsoft Windows}, {Amiga}, {Acorn}) as well as on {Unix} workstations ({Linux}, {BSD}, {SVR4}, {Sun4}, {Alpha}, {HP-UX}, {NeXTstep}, {SGI}, {AIX}, {Sun3} and others). {Official web page (http://clisp.cons.org)}. {Mailing list (http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clisp-list)}. (2003-08-04) 2. {Conversational LISP}. (2019-11-21)

CLISP ::: (language)1. Conversational LISP.2. A Common Lisp implementation by of Karlsruhe University andCLISP requires only 2 MB of RAM. The user interface comes in German, English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Russian and can be changed at run time.CLISP is Free Software and distributed under the GPL. It runs on microcomputers (OS/2, Microsoft Windows, Amiga, Acorn) as well as on Unix workstations (Linux, BSD, SVR4, Sun4, Alpha, HP-UX, NeXTstep, SGI, AIX, Sun3, and others). .(2003-08-04)

cocktail party effect: refers to (,I) a person's ability to concentrate on just one conversation although others are going on all around and (b) the way a person engaged in (attending to) one conversation will nevertheless hear their own class="d-title" name if it is mentioned in a nearby conversation.

coffeehouse ::: n. --> A house of entertainment, where guests are supplied with coffee and other refreshments, and where men meet for conversation.

colloquial ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal; as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a colloquial style.

colloquy ::: a formal conversation, dialogue or conference. colloquies.

colloquy ::: n. --> Mutual discourse of two or more persons; conference; conversation.
In some American colleges, a part in exhibitions, assigned for a certain scholarship rank; a designation of rank in collegiate scholarship.


commune ::: v. i. --> To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
To receive the communion; to partake of the eucharist or Lord&


confab ::: n. --> Familiar talk or conversation.

confabulation ::: n. --> Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation.

conference ::: n. --> The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.
The act of consulting together formally; serious conversation or discussion; interchange of views.
A meeting for consultation, discussion, or an interchange of opinions.
A meeting of the two branches of a legislature, by their committees, to adjust between them.


conversable ::: a. --> Qualified for conversation; disposed to converse; sociable; free in discourse.

Conversational LISP "language" ({CLISP}) A mixed English-like, {ALGOL}-like surface {syntax} for {Interlisp}. ["CLISP: Conversational LISP", W. Teitelman, in Proc Third Intl Joint Conf on AI, Stanford, Aug 1973, pp. 686-690]. (1994-11-01)

Conversational LISP ::: (language) (CLISP) A mixed English-like, ALGOL-like surface syntax for Interlisp.[CLISP: Conversational LISP, W. Teitelman, in Proc Third Intl Joint Conf on AI, Stanford, Aug 1973, pp.686-690]. (1994-11-01)

Conversational Monitor System {Virtual Machine/Conversational Monitor System}

conversazi-one ::: n. --> A meeting or assembly for conversation, particularly on literary or scientific subjects.

converser ::: n. --> One who engages in conversation.

converse ::: spoken interchange of thoughts and feelings; conversation.

CPS ::: 1. Conversational Programming System. An interactive extended subset of PL/I from Allen-Babcock Corp in 1965.[Conversational Programming System under TSO (PBPO), Terminal User's Manual, SH20-1197, IBM].[Sammet 1969, p. 232-240].2. Continuation Passing Style.

CPS 1. Conversational Programming System. An interactive extended subset of {PL/I} from {Allen-Babcock} Corp in 1965. ["Conversational Programming System under TSO (PBPO), Terminal User's Manual", SH20-1197, IBM]. [Sammet 1969, p. 232-240]. 2. {Continuation Passing Style}.

cross-purpose ::: n. --> A counter or opposing purpose; hence, that which is inconsistent or contradictory.
A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas.


deipnosophist ::: n. --> One of an ancient sect of philosophers, who cultivated learned conversation at meals.

DIALOG ::: 1. A commercial bibliographic database and retrieval service from DIALOG Information Services.2. Interactive mathematics using a graphics tablet by Illinois Inst Tech, 1966.[DIALOG: A Conversational Programming System with a Graphical Orientation, S.H. Cameron et al, CACM 10:349-357 (1967). Sammet 1969, p.255-258].

DIALOG 1. A commercial bibliographic database and retrieval service from DIALOG Information Services. 2. Interactive mathematics using a {graphics tablet} by Illinois Inst Tech, 1966. ["DIALOG: A Conversational Programming System with a Graphical Orientation", S.H. Cameron et al, CACM 10:349-357 (1967). Sammet 1969, p.255-258].

dialogue ::: n. --> A conversation between two or more persons; particularly, a formal conservation in theatrical performances or in scholastic exercises.
A written composition in which two or more persons are represented as conversing or reasoning on some topic; as, the Dialogues of Plato. ::: v. i.


Digital Subscriber Line "communications, protocol" (DSL, or Digital Subscriber Loop, xDSL - see below) A family of {digital} {telecommunications} {protocols} designed to allow high speed data communication over the existing {copper} telephone lines between end-users and telephone companies. When two conventional {modems} are connected through the telephone system ({PSTN}), it treats the communication the same as voice conversations. This has the advantage that there is no investment required from the telephone company (telco) but the disadvantage is that the {bandwidth} available for the communication is the same as that available for voice conversations, usually 64 kb/s ({DS0}) at most. The {twisted-pair} copper cables into individual homes or offices can usually carry significantly more than 64 kb/s but the telco needs to handle the signal as digital rather than analog. There are many implementation of the basic scheme, differing in the communication {protocol} used and providing varying {service levels}. The {throughput} of the communication can be anything from about 128 kb/s to over 8 Mb/s, the communication can be either symmetric or asymmetric (i.e. the available bandwidth may or may not be the same {upstream} and {downstream}). Equipment prices and service fees also vary considerably. The first technology based on DSL was {ISDN}, although ISDN is not often recognised as such nowadays. Since then a large number of other protocols have been developed, collectively referred to as xDSL, including {HDSL}, {SDSL}, {ADSL}, and {VDSL}. As yet none of these have reached very wide deployment but wider deployment is expected for 1998-1999. {(http://cyberventure.com/~cedpa/databus-issues/v38n1/xdsl.html)}. {2Wire DSL provider lookup (http://2Wire.com/)}. ["Data Cooks, But Will Vendors Get Burned?", "Supercomm Spotlight On ADSL" & "Lucent Sells Paradine", Wilson & Carol, Inter@ctive Week Vol. 3

Digital Subscriber Line ::: (communications, protocol) (DSL, or Digital Subscriber Loop, xDSL - see below) A family of digital telecommunications protocols designed to allow high speed data communication over the existing copper telephone lines between end-users and telephone companies.When two conventional modems are connected through the telephone system (PSTN), it treats the communication the same as voice conversations. This has the offices can usually carry significantly more than 64 kb/s but the telco needs to handle the signal as digital rather than analog.There are many implementation of the basic scheme, differing in the communication protocol used and providing varying service levels. The throughput bandwidth may or may not be the same upstream and downstream). Equipment prices and service fees also vary considerably.The first technology based on DSL was ISDN, although ISDN is not often recognised as such nowadays. Since then a large number of other protocols have and VDSL. As yet none of these have reached very wide deployment but wider deployment is expected for 1998-1999. . .[Data Cooks, But Will Vendors Get Burned?, Supercomm Spotlight On ADSL & Lucent Sells Paradine, Wilson & Carol, Week Vol. 3

Direct Client to Client Protocol "networking" (DCC) An {IRC} {protocol} created to allow users to chat privately and to send and receive files directly instead of having to go thorugh the IRC servers. DCC protects users from being monitored by IRC Server operators that have enabled conversation logging. It also allows much more efficient use of available {bandwidth} as the data does not need to be {broadcast} all over the world just to reach a specific user. The available DCC commands include DCC CHAT (direct user to user chat), DCC SEND (direct user to user file send) and DCC GET (file acknowledgement from a receiver). (1995-04-12)

discontinuance ::: n. --> The act of discontinuing, or the state of being discontinued; want of continued connection or continuity; breaking off; cessation; interruption; as, a discontinuance of conversation or intercourse; discontinuance of a highway or of travel.
A breaking off or interruption of an estate, which happened when an alienation was made by a tenant in tail, or other tenant, seized in right of another, of a larger estate than the tenant was entitled to, whereby the party ousted or injured was driven to his


discourse: A dialogue comprised of several sentences, more generally recognised as conversations, speeches or debates. The term can also refer to theories ormetaphorical conversations on controversial issues amongst academics and scholars. For example feminism can be identified as a discourse.

discourse ::: n. --> The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty.
Conversation; talk.
The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.;


discoursive ::: a. --> Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive.
Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory.
Inclined to converse; conversable; communicative; as, a discoursive man. ::: n.


DS level ::: (communications) (Digital Signal or Data Service level) Originally an AT&T classification of transmitting one or more voice conversations in one digital data stream. The best known DS levels are DS0 (a single conversation), DS1 (24 conversations multiplexed), DS1C, DS2, and DS3.By extension, the DS level can refer to the raw data rate necessary for transmission: DS0 64 Kb/sDS1 1.544 Mb/s technologies or standards (e.g. X.25, SMDS, ISDN, ATM, PDH).Japan uses the US standards for DS0 through DS2 but Japanese DS5 has roughly the circuit capacity of US DS4, while the European standards are rather different bits per second but rates above DS1 are not necessarily integral multiples of 1,544 kb/s. (1998-05-18)

DS level "communications" (Digital Signal or Data Service level) Originally an {AT&T} classification of transmitting one or more voice conversations in one digital data stream. The best known DS levels are {DS0} (a single conversation), {DS1} (24 conversations multiplexed), {DS1C}, {DS2}, and {DS3}. By extension, the DS level can refer to the raw data rate necessary for transmission: DS0   64 Kb/s DS1 1.544 Mb/s DS1C 3.15 Mb/s DS2 6.31 Mb/s DS3 44.736 Mb/s DS4 274.1 Mb/s (where K and M signify multiplication by 1000 and 1000000, rather than powers of two). In this sense it can be used to measure of data service rates classifying the user access rates for various point-to-point {WAN} technologies or standards (e.g. {X.25}, {SMDS}, {ISDN}, {ATM}, {PDH}). Japan uses the US standards for DS0 through DS2 but Japanese DS5 has roughly the circuit capacity of US DS4, while the European standards are rather different (see {E1}). In the US all of the transmission rates are integral multiples of 8000 bits per second but rates above DS1 are not necessarily integral multiples of 1,544 kb/s. (1998-05-18)

edifying ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Edify ::: a. --> Instructing; improving; as, an edifying conversation.

electronic meeting ::: (messaging, conferencing, meeting) /e'lek-tro'nik mee'ting/ The use of a network of personal computers to improve communication that takes place in a meeting. The computers are used for typically 30-50% of the meeting. They do not eliminate conversation, discussion, or humour from the meeting.Electronic meetings are effective with as few as two participants and with over 100 participants. Participants can be face-to-face in a meeting room or distributed around the world. They may all be participating at the same time or different times. .(2000-11-16)

enjoy ::: v. t. --> To take pleasure or satisfaction in the possession or experience of; to feel or perceive with pleasure; to be delighted with; as, to enjoy the dainties of a feast; to enjoy conversation.
To have, possess, and use with satisfaction; to occupy or have the benefit of, as a good or profitable thing, or as something desirable; as, to enjoy a free constitution and religious liberty.
To have sexual intercourse with.


enterparlance ::: n. --> Mutual talk or conversation; conference.

entertainment ::: n. --> The act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general.
That which entertains, or with which one is entertained; as: (a) Hospitality; hospitable provision for the wants of a guest; especially, provision for the table; a hospitable repast; a feast; a formal or elegant meal. (b) That which engages the attention agreeably, amuses or diverts, whether in private, as by conversation,


entertain ::: v. t. --> To be at the charges of; to take or keep in one&

extroversion: a dimension of personality, characterised by sociability, the tendency to engage in conversation with others and impulsiveness. Extroversion can be measured on the Introversion-Extroversion scale of the EPI (Eysenck Personality Inventory).

fayu. (J. hogo; K. pobo 法語). In Chinese, "dharma talk" or "religious discourse," referring broadly to sermons by the Buddha or eminent teachers, teachings that accord with reality (yathābhuta), or talks on topics related to the dharma; rhyming verses or terse essays containing spiritual exhortations are also sometimes called fayu. In the CHAN zong, fayu refer to anecdotal conversations or formal lectures of the patriarchs and masters of the tradition. Chan fayu are typically in colloquial prose, and often offer transcripts of Chan masters' spontaneous utterances on, or specific responses to, real-life contingencies. There are many such anthologies of Chan fayu in the literature, including both collections of the sayings of an individual master and anthologies of the sayings of multiple teachers. See also YULU.

film at 11 "jargon" (MIT, in parody of US TV newscasters) 1. Used in conversation to announce ordinary events, with a sarcastic implication that these events are earth-shattering. "{ITS} crashes; film at 11." "Bug found in scheduler; film at 11." 2. Also widely used outside MIT to indicate that additional information will be available at some future time, *without* the implication of anything particularly ordinary about the referenced event. For example, "The mail file server died this morning; we found garbage all over the root directory. Film at 11." would indicate that a major failure had occurred but that the people working on it have no additional information about it as yet; use of the phrase in this way suggests gently that the problem is liable to be fixed more quickly if the people doing the fixing can spend time doing the fixing rather than responding to questions, the answers to which will appear on the normal "11:00 news", if people will just be patient. [{Jargon File}] (1998-03-24)

film at 11 ::: (jargon) (MIT, in parody of US TV newscasters) 1. Used in conversation to announce ordinary events, with a sarcastic implication that these events are earth-shattering. ITS crashes; film at 11. Bug found in scheduler; film at 11.2. Also widely used outside MIT to indicate that additional information will be available at some future time, *without* the implication of anything responding to questions, the answers to which will appear on the normal 11:00 news, if people will just be patient.[Jargon File] (1998-03-24)

first-person perspective ::: In human conversation, the perspective of the person speaking. First-person singular includes subjective “I,” objective “me,” and possessive “mine.” First-person plural includes “We,” “us,” and “ours.” More generally, a first person is any holon with agency or intentionality.

followup On {Usenet}, a {posting} generated in response to another posting (as opposed to a {reply}, which goes by e-mail rather than being broadcast). Followups include the ID of the {parent message} in their headers; smart news-readers can use this information to present {Usenet} news in "conversation" sequence rather than order-of-arrival. See {thread}. [{Jargon File}]

followup ::: On Usenet, a posting generated in response to another posting (as opposed to a reply, which goes by e-mail rather than being broadcast). Followups include the information to present Usenet news in conversation sequence rather than order-of-arrival. See thread.[Jargon File]

Fozhao Deguang. (J. Bussho Tokko; K. Pulcho Tokkwang 佛照德光) (1121-1203). Chinese CHAN master in the LINJI ZONG. Fozhao studied under DAHUI ZONGGAO at Mt. Ayuwang and took the name of the mountain, Yuwang, as his toponym. He later served as preceptor of Emperor Xiaozong (r. 1162-1189), from whom he received the title Chan master Fozhao. His conversations with the emperor were recorded in the Fozhao chanshi qindui lu and his teachings in the Fozhao Guang heshang yuyao.

frank ::: n. --> A pigsty.
The common heron; -- so called from its note.
Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free.
Free in uttering one&


GE Information Services "networking, company" One of the leading on-line services, started on 1st October 1985, providing subscribers with hundreds of special interest areas, computer hardware and software support, award-winning multi-player games, the most software files in the industry (over 200 000), worldwide news, sports updates, business news, investment strategies, and {Internet} {electronic mail} and fax (GE Mail). Interactive conversations (Chat Lines) and {bulletin boards} (Round Tables) with associated software archives are also provided. GEnie databases (through the ARTIST gateway) allow users to search the full text of thousands of publications, including Dun & Bradstreet Company Profiles; a GEnie NewsStand with more than 900 newspapers, magazines, and newsletters; a Reference Center with information ranging from Agriculture to World History; the latest in medical information from MEDLINE; and patent and trademark registrations. {(http://genie.com/)}. {Shopping 2000 (http://shopping2000.com/shopping2000/genie/)}. Telephone: +1 (800) 638 9636. TDD: +1 (800) 238 9172. E-mail: "info@genie.geis.com". [Connection with: GE Information Services, Inc., a division of General Electric Company, Headquarters: Rockville, Maryland, USA?] (1995-04-13)

GE Information Services ::: (networking, company) One of the leading on-line services, started on 1st October 1985, providing subscribers with hundreds of special interest areas, fax (GE Mail). Interactive conversations (Chat Lines) and bulletin boards (Round Tables) with associated software archives are also provided.GEnie databases (through the ARTIST gateway) allow users to search the full text of thousands of publications, including Dun & Bradstreet Company Profiles; a latest in medical information from MEDLINE; and patent and trademark registrations. .Telephone: +1 (800) 638 9636.TDD: +1 (800) 238 9172.E-mail: .[Connection with: GE Information Services, Inc., a division of General Electric Company, Headquarters: Rockville, Maryland, USA?] (1995-04-13)

gilley "humour" ({Usenet}) The unit of analogical bogosity. According to its originator, the standard for one gilley was "the act of bogotoficiously comparing the shutting down of 1000 machines for a day with the killing of one person". The milligilley has been found to suffice for most normal conversational exchanges. (1995-03-17)

gilley ::: (humour) (Usenet) The unit of analogical bogosity. According to its originator, the standard for one gilley was the act of bogotoficiously person. The milligilley has been found to suffice for most normal conversational exchanges. (1995-03-17)

go voice "communications" When two or more parties stop communicating digitally and resuming the conversation via voice communication over the telephone. Prototypically this is used (e.g., "Wanna go voice?") between two modem users to denote the action of picking up the phone while shutting off the modem, in order to use the same line for voice communication as had was being used for data transmission. Compare: {Voice-Net}. (1997-01-31)

go voice ::: (communications) When two or more parties stop communicating digitally and resuming the conversation via voice communication over the telephone.Prototypically this is used (e.g., Wanna go voice?) between two modem users to denote the action of picking up the phone while shutting off the modem, in order to use the same line for voice communication as had was being used for data transmission.Compare: Voice-Net. (1997-01-31)

greatwork ::: Great Work This term originates from the Latin of the Alchemists and relates to the completion of the alchemical process, the Summum Bonum. In Ceremonial/Ritual Magick, the phrase refers to the ultimate goal, i.e. union with the Divine. In Thelemic practice, it means succeeding in gaining the knowledge of and conversation with one's Holy Guardian Angel.

Hatthaka Ālavaka. An eminent lay disciple of the Buddha, declared by him to be foremost among laymen who attract followers by means of the four means of conversion (S. SAMGRAHAVASTU). According to the Pāli account, he was the son of the king of Ālavī, and received his name Hatthaka (which in Pāli means "handed over" as a child), because he had once been given to the Buddha by an ogre (S. YAKsA), who, in turn, handed him back to the king. The ogre, the yakkha Ālavaka, was going to eat the boy but was converted by the Buddha and persuaded to release him, instead. When he grew up, Hatthaka heard the Buddha preach and became a nonreturner (S. ANĀGĀMIN). A gifted preacher, Hatthaka had a following of five hundred disciples who always accompanied him. The suttapitaka records several conversations he had with the Buddha. On one occasion, after the Buddha asked him how he was able to gather such a large following around him, Hatthaka responded that it was through four means of conversion: giving gifts, kind words, kind deeds, and equality in treatment. It was for this capacity that Hatthaka won eminence. The Buddha declared him to be endowed with eight qualities: faith, virtue, conscientiousness, shame, the ability to listen, generosity, wisdom, and modesty. When he died, Hatthaka was reborn as a divinity in avihā heaven in the subtle materiality realm (RuPALOKA), where he was destined to attain final nibbāna (S. NIRVĀnA). Once, he visited the Buddha from his celestial world but collapsed in his presence, unable to support his subtle material body on earth; the Buddha instructed him to create a gross material body, by means of which he was then able to stand. He told the Buddha that he had three regrets upon his death: that he had not seen the Buddha enough, that he had not heard the DHARMA enough, and that he had not served the SAMGHA enough. Together with the householder CITTA (Cittagahapati), Hatthaka Ālavaka is upheld as an ideal layman, who is worthy of emulation.

HGA ::: Holy Guardian Angel. In Thelema knowledge and conversation with one's HGA is one of the main goals of the RHP and is a principal aim of the magician. This is a being often viewed as connected to one's Higher Self that liasons between one and the entities one conjures, that provides advice at the speed of thought, and that helps guide one's spiritual path and helps align one's path with Will.

IAW "chat" inactive window. Used in {talk} systems to mean that that person will not be taking part in the conversation for a while. The sadly mispelled alternative, "unactive window" (UAW) has also been reported. (1994-12-05)

IAW ::: (chat) inactive window.Used in talk systems to mean that that person will not be taking part in the conversation for a while. The sadly mispelled alternative, unactive window (UAW) has also been reported. (1994-12-05)

ICQ ::: (chat) 1. Abbreviation for I seek you.2. A proprietary chat system created by a couple of israeli guys, who later founded mirabilis. ICQ was sold to America On-Line around 1998.The name ICQ is a play on cq, the radio signal for seeking conversation. .[Confirm derivation? TCP? Summary?](2000-04-03)

ICQ "chat" 1. Abbreviation for "I seek you". 2. A proprietary {chat} system created by a couple of israeli guys, who later founded "mirabilis". ICQ was sold to {America On-Line} around 1998. The name "ICQ" is a play on "cq", the radio signal for seeking conversation. {(http://icq.com/)}. [Confirm derivation? TCP? Summary?] (2000-04-03)

Ikkyu Sojun. (一休宗純) (1394-1481). Japanese ZEN master in the RINZAISHu, also known by his sobriquet Kyoun shi (Master Crazy Cloud). Materials on Ikkyu's life are an often indistinguishable mixture of history and legend. Little is known of Ikkyu's early years, but he is said to have been the illegitimate son of Emperor Gokomatsu (r. 1382-1392, 1392-1412). In 1399, Ikkyu was sent to the monastery of ANKOKUJI in Kyoto. In 1410, he left Ankokuji to study under Ken'o Soi (d. 1414), who belonged to the MYoSHINJI branch of Rinzai Zen. After Ken'o's death in 1414, Ikkyu continued his studies under the monk Kaso Sodon (1352-1428) in Katada (present-day Shiga prefecture) near Lake Biwa. Kaso gave him the name Ikkyu, which he continued to use. While studying under Kaso, Ikkyu had his first awakening experience and also acquired some notoriety for his antinomian behavior. Perhaps because of his rivalry with a fellow student named Yoso Soi (1378-1458), Ikkyu left Kaso shortly before his death and headed for the city of Sakai. During this transition period, Ikkyu is said to have briefly returned to lay life, marrying a blind singer and fathering a son. Ikkyu's life in Sakai is shrouded in legend (most of which date to the Tokugawa period). There, he is said to have led the life of a mad monk, preaching in taverns and brothels. In 1437, Ikkyu is also said to have torn up the certificate of enlightenment that his teacher Kaso had prepared for him before his death. In 1440, Ikkyu was called to serve as the abbot of the monastery of DAITOKUJI, but he resigned his post the next year. Ikkyu devoted much of his later life to his famous poetry and brushstroke art. Later, Ikkyu had a falling out with Yoso, who as abbot secured Daitokuji's prominent place in Kyoto. In 1455, Ikkyu published a collection of his poems, the Jikaishu ("Self-Admonishment Collection"), and publicly attacked Yoso. In 1456, Ikkyu restored the dilapidated temple Myoshoji in Takigi (located halfway between Sakai and Kyoto). There, he installed a portrait of the Zen master Daito (see SoHo MYoCHo). Ikkyu also began identifying himself with the Chinese Chan master XUTANG ZHIYU, the spiritual progenitor of the Daitokuji lineage(s), by transforming portraits of Xutang into those of himself. In 1474, Ikkyu was appointed abbot of Daitokuji, which had suffered from a devastating fire during the onin war, and he committed himself to its reconstruction, until his death in 1481. Among his writings, his poetry collection Kyounshu ("Crazy Cloud Anthology") is most famous. Also well known is his Gaikotsu ("Skeletons"), a work, illustrated by Ikkyu himself, about his conversations with skeletons. See also WU'AI XING.

incindental ::: a. --> Happening, as an occasional event, without regularity; coming without design; casual; accidental; hence, not of prime concern; subordinate; collateral; as, an incidental conversation; an incidental occurrence; incidental expenses.

incommunicative ::: a. --> Not communicative; not free or apt to impart to others in conversation; reserved; silent; as, the messenger was incommunicative; hence, not disposed to hold fellowship or intercourse with others; exclusive.

infobot "chat" A {bot} that serves as a common database of information (often noteworthy {URLs}) for users on a {chat} system. Infobots often have a simple {chatbot interface}, responding to key-phrases, as well as to direct queries. Here, in a real conversation, the bot Purl's first response is triggered by the phrase "just tell me", and its second response is triggered by being directly asked "perlfunc?": "eesh" can someone tell me what: $num9 =     substr($number,9,1); means "Tkil" eesh -- man perlfunc, look at "substr". "eesh" just tell me "purl" Didn't your momma ever tell you, "Go     look it up in the dictionary"?! "Tkil" eesh -- no. that's all we'll tell     you. read the documentation. "Tkil" eesh -- if you haven't man pages or     perldoc, you can read them on the 'net. "Tkil" purl, perlfunc? "purl" well, perlfunc is Perl builtin     functions, at man perlfunc or     http://perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/manual/html/pod/perlfunc.html {(http://cs.cmu.edu/~lenzo/infobot.html/)}. (1998-10-30)

infobot ::: (chat) A bot that serves as a common database of information (often noteworthy URLs) for users on a chat system. Infobots often have a simple chatbot interface, responding to key-phrases, as well as to direct queries.Here, in a real conversation, the bot Purl's first response is triggered by the phrase just tell me, and its second response is triggered by being directly asked perlfunc?: eesh> can someone tell me what: $num9 =substr($number,9,1); means . (1998-10-30)

insociable ::: a. --> Incapable of being associated, joined, or connected.
Not sociable or companionable; disinclined to social intercourse or conversation; unsociable; taciturn.


interactive "programming" A term describing a program whose input and output are interleaved, like a conversation, allowing the user's input to depend on earlier output from the same run. The interaction with the user is usually conducted through either a text-based interface or a {graphical user interface}. Other kinds of interface, e.g. using {speech recognition} and/or {speech synthesis}, are also possible. This is in contrast to {batch} processing where all the input is prepared before the program runs and so cannot depend on the program's output. (1996-06-21)

interactive ::: (programming) A term describing a program whose input and output are interleaved, like a conversation, allowing the user's input to depend on earlier output from the same run.The interaction with the user is usually conducted through either a text-based interface or a graphical user interface. Other kinds of interface, e.g. using speech recognition and/or speech synthesis, are also possible.This is in contrast to batch processing where all the input is prepared before the program runs and so cannot depend on the program's output. (1996-06-21)

interlocution ::: n. --> Interchange of speech; dialogue; conversation; conference.
An intermediate act or decree before final decision.
Hence, intermediate argument or discussion.


interlocutor ::: n. --> One who takes part in dialogue or conversation; a talker, interpreter, or questioner.
An interlocutory judgment or sentence.


interlocutory ::: a. --> Consisting of, or having the nature of, dialogue; conversational.
Intermediate; not final or definitive; made or done during the progress of an action. ::: n. --> Interpolated discussion or dialogue.


interpose ::: v. t. --> To place between; as, to interpose a screen between the eye and the light.
To thrust; to intrude; to between, either for aid or for troubling.
To introduce or inject between the parts of a conversation or argument. ::: v. i.


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.

K&C ::: Knowledge and Conversation with the HGA. A breakthrough event that occurs when one beseeches their Higher Self and/or HGA. How this presents itself and what will be presented varies considerably but expect to be changed forever from the experience. A process like outlined in Liber Samekh or the Stele of Jeu of the P.G.M. is one of the better approaches to take, but the HGA can be appealed to through pure and wholehearted prayer as well.

LCC Language for Conversational Computing. Written at {CMU} in the 1960's. Similar to {JOSS}, with declarations, pointers and block structure from {ALGOL 60}. Implemented for {IBM 360}/{IBM 370} under {TSS}. ["LCC Reference Manual", H.R. Van Zoeren, CMU 196]9.

Literally means jumping off the rails. Alternate term used for derailment of thought (a morbid form of loosening of association or

literary ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to letters or literature; pertaining to learning or learned men; as, literary fame; a literary history; literary conversation.
Versed in, or acquainted with, literature; occupied with literature as a profession; connected with literature or with men of letters; as, a literary man.


lithium lick ::: NeXT employees who have had too much attention from their esteemed founder, Steve Jobs, are said to have lithium lick when they begin to show signs of Jobsian fervour and repeat the most recent catch phrases in normal conversation, e.g. It just works, right out of the box![Jargon File]

lithium lick {NeXT} employees who have had too much attention from their esteemed founder, {Steve Jobs}, are said to have "lithium lick" when they begin to show signs of Jobsian fervour and repeat the most recent catch phrases in normal conversation, e.g. "It just works, right out of the box!" [{Jargon File}]

locutory ::: n. --> A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.

Loebner Prize "artificial intelligence" An annual competition in {artificial intelligence} started by Dr. {Hugh Loebner} of New York City in 1991. A $100,000 prize is offered to the author of the first computer program to pass an unrestricted {Turing test}. Annual competitions are held each year with a $2000 prize for the best program on a restricted {Turing test}. Sponsors of previous competitions include: {Apple Computer}, {Computerland}, Crown Industries, GDE Systems, {IBM} Personal Computer Company's {Center for Natural Computing}, Greenwich Capital Markets, {Motorola}, the {National Science Foundation}, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and The Weingart Foundation. The 1995 and 1996 events were unrestricted Turing Tests, requiring computer entries to converse indefinitely with no topic restrictions. So far, even the best programs give themselves away almost immediately, either by simple grammatical mistakes or by repetition. Complete transcripts and {IBM compatible} diskettes that play the 1991, 1992, and 1993 conversations in real-time are available for purchase from the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies (telephone: +1 (617) 491 9020, Fax: 1072). Sponsorship opportunities are available. {Loebner Prize Home (http://loebner.net/)}. (2003-11-30)

Loebner Prize ::: (artificial intelligence) An annual competition in artificial intelligence started by Dr. Hugh Loebner of New York City in 1991. A $100,000 unrestricted Turing test. Annual competitions are held each year with a $2000 prize for the best program on a restricted Turing test.Sponsors of previous competitions include: Apple Computer, Computerland, Crown Industries, GDE Systems, IBM Personal Computer Company's Center for Natural Computing, Greenwich Capital Markets, Motorola, the National Science Foundation, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and The Weingart Foundation.The 1995 and 1996 events were unrestricted Turing Tests, requiring computer entries to converse indefinitely with no topic restrictions. So far, even the best programs give themselves away almost immediately, either by simple grammatical mistakes or by repetition.Complete transcripts and IBM compatible diskettes that play the 1991, 1992, and 1993 conversations in real-time are available for purchase from the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies (telephone: +1 (617) 491 9020, Fax: 1072). Sponsorship opportunities are available. .(2003-11-30)

Mahānāman. (P. Mahānāma; T. Ming chen; C. Mohenan; J. Makanan; K. Mahanam 摩訶男). The Sanskrit proper name of two significant disciples of the buddha. ¶ Mahānāman was one of the five ascetics (S. PANCAVARGIKA; P. paNcavaggiyā; alt. S. bhadravargīya) who was a companion of Prince SIDDHĀRTHA during his practice of austerities and hence one of the first disciples converted by the Buddha at the Deer Park (MṚGADĀVA) in ṚsIPATANA following his enlightenment. Together with his companions, Mahānāman heard the Buddha's first sermon, the "Setting in Motion the Wheel of Dharma" (S. DHARMACAKRAPRAVARTANASuTRA; P. DHAMMACAKKAPPAVATTANASUTTA), and he attained the state of a stream-enterer (SROTAĀPANNA) three days later. He and the others became ARHATs while listening to the buddha preach the ANATTALAKKHAnASUTTA. Mahānāman later traveled to the town of Macchikāsanda, and, while he was out on alms rounds, the householder CITTA saw him. Citta was greatly impressed by Mahānāman's dignified deportment, and invited him to his house for an meal offering. Having served Mahānāman the morning meal and listened to his sermon, Citta was inspired to offer his pleasure garden Ambātakavana to Mahānāman as a gift to the SAMGHA, and built a monastery there. ¶ Another Mahānāman was also an eminent lay disciple, whom the Buddha declared to be foremost among laymen who offer choice alms food. According to the Pāli account, Mahānāman was Anuruddha's (S. ANIRUDDHA) elder brother and the Buddha's cousin. It was with Mahānāman's permission that Anuruddha joined the order with other Sākiyan (S. sĀKYA) kinsmen of the Buddha. Mahānāman was very generous in his support of the order. During a period of scarcity when the Buddha was dwelling at VeraNja, he supplied the monks with medicines for three periods of four months each. Mahānāman was keenly interested in the Buddha's doctrine and there are several accounts in the scriptures of his conversations with the Buddha. Once while the Buddha lay ill in the Nigrodhārāma, ĀNANDA took Mahānāman aside to answer his questions on whether concentration (SAMĀDHI) preceded or followed upon knowledge. Mahānāman attained the state of a once-returner (sakadāgāmi; S. SAKṚDĀGĀMIN), but his deception toward Pasenadi (S. PRASENAJIT), the king of Kosala (S. KOsALA), precipitated the eventual destruction of the Sākiya (S. sĀKYA) clan. Pasenadi had asked Mahānāman for the hand of a true Sākiyan daughter in marriage, but the latter, out of pride, instead sent Vāsabhakkhattiyā, a daughter born to him by a slave girl. To conceal the treachery, Mahānāman feigned to eat from the same dish as his daughter, thus convincing Pasenadi of her pure lineage. The ruse was not discovered until years later when Vidudabha, the son of Pasenadi and Vāsabhakkhattiyā, was insulted by his Sākiyan kinsmen who refused to treat him with dignity because of his mother's status as the offspring of a slave. Vidudabha vowed revenge and later marched against Kapilavatthu (S. KAPILAVASTU) and slaughtered all who claimed Sākiyan descent. ¶ Another Mahānāma was the c. fifth century author of the Pāli MAHĀVAMSA.

Main works: Recherche de la verite, 1674-5; Conversations Chretiennes, 1676; Traits de la Nature et de la Grace, 1680; Traite de Morale, 1683; Entretiens sur la metaphysique et la religion, 1688; Traite de l'Amour de Dieu, 1697; Reflexions sur la premotion physique, 1714. Malevolence: Ill or evil will or disposition -- the will or disposition to do wrong or to harm others. The vice opposed to the virtue of benevolence or good will. -- W.K.F.

masquerade ::: n. --> An assembly of persons wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions.
A dramatic performance by actors in masks; a mask. See 1st Mask, 4.
Acting or living under false pretenses; concealment of something by a false or unreal show; pretentious show; disguise.
A Spanish diversion on horseback.


mensal ::: a. --> Belonging to the table; transacted at table; as, mensal conversation.
Occurring once in a month; monthly.


MilindapaNha. (C. Naxian biqiu jing; J. Nasenbikukyo; K. Nason pigu kyong 那先比丘經). In Pāli, the "Questions of Milinda"; a famous dialogical text that records the conversations of the ARHAT NĀGASENA and the Bactrian-Greek King Milinda (Menander) on various knotty points of Buddhist doctrine and ethics. The text was presumably composed in northern India in Sanskrit or Prakrit and later translated into Pāli, with the original composition or compilation probably occurring around the beginning of the Common Era. (There is an early Chinese translation made around the late fourth century, probably from a Central Asian recension in GĀNDHĀRĪ titled the *Nāgasenabhiksusutra, which is named after the BHIKsU Nāgasena rather than King Milinda.) It is uncertain whether such a dialogue ever in fact took place. There was indeed a famous king of BACTRIA named Menander (alt. Menandros; Milinda in Indian sources) who ruled over a large region that encompassed parts of modern India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan during the middle of the second century BCE. There is no evidence of Nāgasena's existence, however. Whatever the historical reality, the "Questions of Milinda" is one of the best-known texts of Pāli Buddhism. The text is structured as a series of questions by the king and answers by the monk on a wide range of topics, with each of the interlocutors displaying an impressive knowledge of Buddhist doctrine and literature. Nāgasena always provides a satisfying answer to each of the king's queries. His presentation of the dharma is so successful in fact that at the end of the dialogue King Milinda places his son upon the throne, enters the religious life, and becomes an arahant (S. arhat). The text was translated into Sinhalese in the eighteenth century by the elder Sumangala. The MilindapaNha is included in the Burmese recension of the Pāli TIPItAKA in the KHUDDAKANIKĀYA. Since its translation into English, it has become one of the more commonly anthologized of Pāli texts.

monologist ::: n. --> One who soliloquizes; esp., one who monopolizes conversation in company.

monology ::: n. --> The habit of soliloquizing, or of monopolizing conversation.

Muju Ichien. (無住一圓) (1227-1312). A Japanese monk during the Kamakura period; also known as Muju Dogyo. He was born into a warrior family and became a monk at the age of eighteen. Muju studied the doctrines of various sects, including the Hossoshu, SHINGONSHu, TENDAISHu, and JoDOSHu, and received ZEN training from the RINZAISHu monk ENNI BEN'EN (1202-1280). In 1262, Muju built Choboji (Matriarchal Longevity Monastery) in Owari (present-day Nagoya, a port city in the center of the main Japanese island of Honshu), where he spent the rest of his life. Although affiliated with the Rinzaishu, Muju took an ecumenical approach to Buddhism, arguing that all the different teachings of Buddhism were skillful means of conveying the religion's ultimate goal; he even denounced NICHIREN (1222-1382) for his contemporary's exclusivist attitude toward his own eponymous sect. Muju was also famous for his collections of Japanese folklore, such as the SHASEKISHu ("Sand and Pebbles Collection"), written between 1279 and 1283; his Tsuma kagami ("Mirror for Wives") of 1300; and his 1305 Zodanshu ("Collection of Random Conversations"). In particular, in the Shasekishu, Muju introduced the idea of the "unity of spirits and buddhas" (SHINBUTSU SHuGo), describing the Japanese indigenous gods, or KAMI, as various manifestations of the Buddha.

  “Multitudes of human beings are unconsciously treading the Path of the Shadows, and in comparison with these multitudes it is relatively only a few who self-consciously lead and guide with subtle and wicked intelligence this army of unsuspecting victims of Maya. The Brothers of the Shadow are often highly intellectual men and women, frequently individuals with apparent great personal charm, and to the ordinary observer, judging from their conversation and daily works, are fully as well able to ‘quote scripture’ as are the Angels of Light!” (OG 22).

mumble ::: 1. Said when the correct response is too complicated to enunciate, or the speaker has not thought it out. Often prefaces a longer answer, or indicates a collector, if the cache is big enough and there are some extra cache bits for the microcode to use? Well, mumble ... I'll have to think about it.2. Yet another metasyntactic variable, like foo.3. Sometimes used in public contexts on-line as a placefiller for things one is barred from giving details about. For example, a poster with pre-released hardware in his machine might say Yup, my machine now has an extra 16M of memory, thanks to the card I'm testing for Mumbleco.4. A conversational wild card used to designate something one doesn't want to bother spelling out, but which can be glarked from context. Compare blurgle.5. [XEROX PARC] A colloquialism used to suggest that further discussion would be fruitless. (1997-03-27)

mumble 1. Said when the correct response is too complicated to enunciate, or the speaker has not thought it out. Often prefaces a longer answer, or indicates a general reluctance to get into a long discussion. "Don't you think that we could improve LISP performance by using a hybrid reference-count transaction garbage collector, if the cache is big enough and there are some extra cache bits for the {microcode} to use?" "Well, mumble ... I'll have to think about it." 2. Yet another {metasyntactic variable}, like {foo}. 3. Sometimes used in "public" contexts on-line as a placefiller for things one is barred from giving details about. For example, a poster with pre-released hardware in his machine might say "Yup, my machine now has an extra 16M of memory, thanks to the card I'm testing for Mumbleco." 4. A conversational wild card used to designate something one doesn't want to bother spelling out, but which can be {glark}ed from context. Compare {blurgle}. 5. [XEROX PARC] A colloquialism used to suggest that further discussion would be fruitless. (1997-03-27)

Nakulapitṛ and Nakulamātṛ. (P. Nakulapitā and Nakulamātā; T. Ne'u le'i pha, Ne'u le'i ma; C. Nayouluo fu, Nuoguluo zhangzhe mu; J. Naura fu, Nakora choja mo; K. Naura pu, Nakkora changja mo 那憂羅父, 諾酤羅長者母). In Sanskrit, "Nakula's Father" and "Nakula's Mother"; lay followers of the Buddha, declared by him to be foremost among laypersons who are intimate companions. According to the Pāli account, they were a married couple who lived in the village of SuMsumāragiri in Bhagga country. Once on a visit to their village, the Buddha was staying at a grove called Bhesakalāvana. The couple went to pay their respects and, upon seeing the Buddha, immediately fell at his feet, calling him their son and asking why he had been away so long. This spontaneous reaction was a consequence of their past existences: for five hundred lifetimes they had been the Buddha's parents, and for many more lives they were his close relatives. The Buddha preached to them, and they immediately became stream-enterers (sotāpanna; S. SROTAĀPANNA). Once when Nakulapitā was gravely ill, he began to fret about the fate of his wife and family, should he die. Nakulamātā, noticing his condition, consoled him in such a way that his anxiety was removed and he recovered his health. Later, he recounted what had transpired to the Buddha, who congratulated him on his wife's good qualities. Nakulapitā's conversations with the Buddha are recorded in the Pāli SAMYUTTANIKĀYA. The Buddha again visited their village many years later when the couple was old. They invited him to their home for his morning meal. There, they related to him their devotion to one another and asked for a teaching that would keep them together through their future lives. It was on the basis of this discussion that the Buddha declared Nakulapitā and Nakulamātā foremost among those who live intimately. In a former life, Nakulapitā had resolved to attain this type of preeminence: during the time of the buddha Padumuttara, as a householder in the city of HaMsavatī, he overheard the Buddha praise a lay couple for their intimacy.

Nanquan Puyuan. (J. Nansen Fugan; K. Namch'on Powon 南泉普願) (748-834). Chinese CHAN master in the HONGZHOU ZONG; a native of Xinzheng in present-day Henan province. In 777, Nanquan received the full monastic precepts from a certain VINAYA master Hao (d.u.) at the nearby monastery of Huishansi in Songyue. Along with studying such important MAHĀYĀNA scriptures as the LAnKĀVATĀRASuTRA and AVATAMSAKASuTRA, Nanquan also explored the major texts of the SAN LUN ZONG, the Chinese counterpart of the MADHYAMAKA school of Buddhist philosophy. He later became the disciple of the eminent Chan master MAZU DAOYI (709-788) and eventually one of his dharma successors. In 795, he began his long-time residence on Mt. Nanquan in Chiyang (present-day Anhui province), whence he acquired his toponym. He remained on the mountain for thirty years, where he devoted himself to teaching his students. Among his immediate disciples, ZHAOZHOU CONGSHEN (778-897) is most famous. Nanquan is renowned for his enigmatic sayings and antinomian behavior. Many of his noteworthy conversations with other masters are quoted in public case collections, such as the BIYAN LU and CONGRONG LU. Nanquan's teaching style is perhaps best captured in the (in)famous public case (GONG'AN) "Nanquan cuts the cat in two" (case no. 63 of the Biyan lu, case no. 14 in the WUMENGUAN). Monks from the eastern and western wings of the monastery were arguing over possession of a cat. Nanquan grabbed the cat and told the monks, "If anyone can say something to the point, you will save this cat's life; if not, I will kill it." No one replied, so Nanquan cut the cat in two. In the following gong'an in the Biyan lu (case no. 64), his disciple Zhaozhou Congshen returned to the monastery and heard the story. He immediately took off his straw sandals, placed them on his head, and walked away. Nanquan remarked, "If you had been here a moment ago, you could have saved that cat's life."

natural language generation (NLG) ::: A software process that transforms structured data into plain-English content. It can be used to produce long-form content for organizations to automate custom reports, as well as produce custom content for a web or mobile application. It can also be used to generate short blurbs of text in interactive conversations (a chatbot) which might even be read out loud by a text-to-speech system.

Natural_Language_Processing ::: (NLP:) is a field of artificial intelligence that enables computers to analyze and understand human language. It was formulated to build software that generates and comprehends natural languages, so that a user can have natural conversations with his or her computer instead of through programming or artificial languages like Java or C.

neep-neep ::: /neep neep/ [onomatopoeic, from New York SF fandom] One who is fascinated by computers. Less specific than hacker, as it need not imply more skill than is in wide use). Fandom has a related proverb to the effect that Hacking is a conversational black hole!.[Jargon File] (1994-11-29)

neep-neep /neep neep/ [onomatopoeic, from New York SF fandom] One who is fascinated by computers. Less specific than {hacker}, as it need not imply more skill than is required to {boot} {games} on a {personal computer}. The derived noun "neeping" applies specifically to the long conversations about computers that tend to develop in the corners at most SF-convention parties (the term "neepery" is also in wide use). Fandom has a related proverb to the effect that "Hacking is a conversational black hole!". [{Jargon File}] (1994-11-29)

noddy /nod'ee/ [UK: from the children's books] 1. Small and un-useful, but demonstrating a point. Noddy programs are often written by people learning a new language or system. The archetypal noddy program is {hello, world}. Noddy code may be used to demonstrate a feature or bug of a compiler. May be used of real hardware or software to imply that it isn't worth using. "This editor's a bit noddy." 2. A program that is more or less instant to produce. In this use, the term does not necessarily connote uselessness, but describes a {hack} sufficiently trivial that it can be written and debugged while carrying on (and during the space of) a normal conversation. "I'll just throw together a noddy {awk} script to dump all the first fields." In North America this might be called a {mickey mouse program}. See {toy program}. 3. A simple (hence the name) language to handle text and interaction on the {Memotech} home computer. Has died with the machine. [{Jargon File}]

optical fibre "communications" (fibre optics, FO, US "fiber", light pipe) A plastic or glass (silicon dioxide) fibre no thicker than a human hair used to transmit information using infra-red or even visible light as the carrier (usually a laser). The light beam is an electromagnetic signal with a frequency in the range of 10^14 to 10^15 Hertz. Optical fibre is less susceptible to external noise than other transmission media, and is cheaper to make than copper wire, but it is much more difficult to connect. Optical fibres are difficult to tamper with (to monitor or inject data in the middle of a connection), making them appropriate for secure communications. The light beams do not escape from the medium because the material used provides total internal reflection. {AT&T} {Bell Laboratories} in the United States managed to send information at a rate of 420 megabits per second, over 161.5 km through an optical fibre cable. In Japan, 445.8 megabits per second was achieved over a shorter distance. At this rate, the entire text of the Encyclopedia Britannica could be transmitted in one second. Currently, AT&T is working on a world network to support high volume data transmission, international computer networking, {electronic mail} and voice communications (a single fibre can transmit 200 million telephone conversations simultaneously). See also {FDDI}, {Optical Carrier n}, {SONET}. (1997-05-26)

optical fibre ::: (communications) (fibre optics, FO, US fiber, light pipe) A plastic or glass (silicon dioxide) fibre no thicker than a human hair used to transmit laser). The light beam is an electromagnetic signal with a frequency in the range of 10^14 to 10^15 Hertz.Optical fibre is less susceptible to external noise than other transmission media, and is cheaper to make than copper wire, but it is much more difficult to communications. The light beams do not escape from the medium because the material used provides total internal reflection.AT&T Bell Laboratories in the United States managed to send information at a rate of 420 megabits per second, over 161.5 km through an optical fibre cable. voice communications (a single fibre can transmit 200 million telephone conversations simultaneously).See also FDDI, Optical Carrier n, SONET. (1997-05-26)

OSCAR ::: 1. Oregon State Conversational Aid to Research. Interactive numerical calculations, vectors, matrices, complex arithmetic, string operations, for CDC 3300. OSCAR: A User's Manual with Examples, J.A. Baughman et al, CC, Oregon State U.2. Object-oriented language used in the COMANDOS Project. OSCAR: Programming Language Manual, TR, COMANDOS Project, Nov 1988.

OSCAR 1. Oregon State Conversational Aid to Research. Interactive numerical calculations, vectors, matrices, complex arithmetic, string operations, for CDC 3300. "OSCAR: A User's Manual with Examples", J.A. Baughman et al, CC, Oregon State U. 2. Object-oriented language used in the COMANDOS Project. "OSCAR: Programming Language Manual", TR, COMANDOS Project, Nov 1988.

palaver ::: n. --> Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling talk; talk intended to deceive; flattery.
In Africa, a parley with the natives; a talk; hence, a public conference and deliberation; a debate. ::: v. t. & i. --> To make palaver with, or to; to used palaver;to


parlance ::: n. --> Conversation; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in legal parlance; in common parlance.

parle ::: v. i. --> To talk; to converse; to parley. ::: n. --> Conversation; talk; parley.

parley ::: n. --> Mutual discourse or conversation; discussion; hence, an oral conference with an enemy, as with regard to a truce. ::: v. i. --> To speak with another; to confer on some point of mutual concern; to discuss orally; hence, specifically, to confer orally with an enemy; to treat with him by words, as on an exchange of prisoners,

parlor ::: n. --> A room for business or social conversation, for the reception of guests, etc.
The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without.
In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having


Phra Malai. (P. Māleyya). A legendary arahant (S. ARHAT) and one of the most beloved figures in Thai Buddhist literature. According to legend, Phra Malai lived on the island of Sri Lanka and was known for his great compassion and supramundane abilities, including the power to fly to various realms of the Buddhist universe. On one of his visits to the hells, he alleviated the suffering of hell beings and then returned to the human realm to advise their relatives to make merit on their behalf. One day as he was on his alms round, he encountered a poor man who presented him with eight lotus blossoms. Phra Malai accepted the offering and then took the flowers to tāvatimsa (S. TRĀYASTRIMsA) heaven to present them at the Culāmani cetiya (S. caitya), where the hair relic of the Buddha is enshrined. Phra Malai then met the king of the gods, INDRA, and asked him various questions: why he had built the caitya, when the future buddha Metteya (S. MAITREYA) would come to pay respects to it, and how the other deities coming to worship had made sufficient merit to be reborn at such a high level. The conversation proceeded as one divinity after another arrived, with Indra's explanation of the importance of making merit by practicing DĀNA (generosity), observing the precepts and having faith. Eventually Metteya himself arrived and, after paying reverence to the chedi, asked Phra Malai about the people in the human realm. Phra Malai responded that there is great diversity in their living conditions, health, happiness, and spiritual faculties, but that they all hoped to meet Metteya in the future and hear him preach. Metteya in response told Phra Malai to tell those who wished to meet him to listen to the recitation of the entire VESSANTARA-JĀTAKA over the course of one day and one night, and to bring to the monastery offerings totaling a thousand flowers, candles, incense sticks, balls of rice, and other gifts. In the northern and northeastern parts of Thailand, this legend is recited in the local dialects (Lānnā Thai and Lao, respectively) as a preface to the performance or recitation of the Vessantara-Jātaka at an annual festival. In central and south Thailand, a variant of the legend emphasizing the suffering of the hell denizens was customarily recited at funeral wakes, a practice that is becoming less common in the twenty-first century.

pleasantry ::: n. --> That which denotes or promotes pleasure or good humor; cheerfulness; gayety; merriment; especially, an agreeable playfulness in conversation; a jocose or humorous remark; badinage.

puranas. ::: a number of ancient scriptures attributed to the sage Vyasa that teach spiritual principles and practices through stories about sacred historical personages which often include their teachings given in conversations

re ::: 1. (networking) The country code for Reunion.2. (chat) /re-/ (From rehi) Hello again. A greeting originating in, and most often heard on, Internet interactive conversation services.[Jargon File] (1999-02-08)

re 1. "networking" The {country code} for Reunion. 2. "chat" /re-/ (From "rehi") Hello again. A greeting originating in, and most often heard on, {Internet} interactive conversation services. [{Jargon File}] (1999-02-08)

Real World ::: 1. Those institutions at which programming may be used in the same sentence as Fortran, COBOL, RPG, IBM, DBASE, etc. Places where programs do such commercially necessary but intellectually uninspiring things as generating payroll checks and invoices.2. The location of non-programmers and activities not related to programming.3. A bizarre dimension in which the standard dress is shirt and tie and in which a person's working hours are defined as 9 to 5 (see code grinder).4. Anywhere outside a university. Poor fellow, he's left MIT and gone into the Real World. Used pejoratively by those not in residence there. In conversation, because the Cambridge campus is actually coextensive with the centre of Cambridge.See also fear and loathing, mundane, uninteresting.

Real World 1. Those institutions at which "programming" may be used in the same sentence as "Fortran", "{COBOL}", "RPG", "{IBM}", "DBASE", etc. Places where programs do such commercially necessary but intellectually uninspiring things as generating payroll checks and invoices. 2. The location of non-programmers and activities not related to programming. 3. A bizarre dimension in which the standard dress is shirt and tie and in which a person's working hours are defined as 9 to 5 (see {code grinder}). 4. Anywhere outside a university. "Poor fellow, he's left MIT and gone into the Real World." Used pejoratively by those not in residence there. In conversation, talking of someone who has entered the Real World is not unlike speaking of a deceased person. It is also noteworthy that on the campus of Cambridge University in England, there is a gaily-painted lamp-post which bears the label "REALITY CHECKPOINT". It marks the boundary between university and the Real World; check your notions of reality before passing. This joke is funnier because the Cambridge "campus" is actually coextensive with the centre of Cambridge. See also {fear and loathing}, {mundane}, {uninteresting}.

robot ::: 1. (robotics) A mechanical device for performing a task which might otherwise be done by a human, e.g. spraying paint on cars.See also cybernetics.2. (chat) An IRC or MUD user who is actually a program. On IRC, typically the robot provides some useful service. Examples are NickServ, which tries to 1990--91, have been remarkably impressive Turing test experiments, able to pass as human for as long as ten or fifteen minutes of conversation.3. (World-Wide Web) spider.[Jargon File] (1996-03-23)

robot 1. "robotics" A mechanical device for performing a task which might otherwise be done by a human, e.g. spraying paint on cars. See also {cybernetics}. 2. "chat" An {IRC} or {MUD} user who is actually a program. On IRC, typically the robot provides some useful service. Examples are {NickServ}, which tries to prevent random users from adopting {nicks} already claimed by others, and MsgServ, which allows one to send {asynchronous} messages to be delivered when the recipient signs on. Also common are "annoybots", such as KissServ, which perform no useful function except to send cute messages to other people. Service robots are less common on {MUDs}; but some others, such as the "Julia" robot active in 1990--91, have been remarkably impressive {Turing test} experiments, able to pass as human for as long as ten or fifteen minutes of conversation. 3. "web" {spider}. [{Jargon File}] (1996-03-23)

scrool /skrool/ [The pioneering Roundtable chat system in Houston ca. 1984; probably originated as a typo for "scroll"] The log of old messages, available for later perusal or to help one get back in synch with the conversation. It was originally called the "scrool monster", because an early version of the roundtable software had a bug where it would dump all 8K of scrool on a user's terminal. [{Jargon File}]

second-person perspective ::: In human conversation, the perspective of the person being spoken to: “you” or “thou.” More generally, a second person is any holon to whom agency is directed. Second person is also intimately related to first-person plural, since “you” and “I” must share a “We” in order to understand each other.

self-expression ::: the expression or assertion of one"s own personality, as in conversation, behaviour, poetry, or painting.

speaking, addressing; statement, remark, words, speech, talk, conversation; a salutation.

speech ::: n. --> The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.
he act of speaking; that which is spoken; words, as expressing ideas; language; conversation.
A particular language, as distinct from others; a tongue; a dialect.
Talk; mention; common saying.


spod "chat" (Great Britain) A lower form of life found on {chat} systems and {MUDs}. The spod has few friends in {RL} and uses chat instead, finding communication easier and preferable over the {net}. He has all the negative traits of the {computer geek} without having any interest in computers per se. Lacking any knowledge of, or interest in, how networks work, and considering his access a God-given right, he is a major irritant to {sysadmins}, clogging up lines in order to reach new {MUDs}, following passed-on instructions on how to sneak his way onto {Internet} ("Wow! It's in America!") and complaining when he is not allowed to use busy routes. A true spod will start any conversation with "Are you male or female?" (and follow it up with "Got any good numbers/IDs/passwords?") and will not talk to someone physically present in the same terminal room until they log onto the same computer that he is using and enter {chat}. Compare {newbie}, {tourist}, {weenie}, {twink}, {terminal junkie}, {dweeb}. [{Jargon File}] (1998-01-18)

ssociable ::: a. --> Capable of being, or fit to be, united in one body or company; associable.
Inclined to, or adapted for, society; ready to unite with others; fond of companions; social.
Ready to converse; inclined to talk with others; not taciturn or reserved.
Affording opportunites for conversation; characterized by much conversation; as, a sociable party.


stateless A stateless {server} is one which treats each request as an independent transaction, unrelated to any previous request. This simplifies the server design because it does not need to allocate storage to deal with conversations in progress or worry about freeing it if a client dies in mid-transaction. A disadvantage is that it may be necessary to include more information in each request and this extra information will need to be interpreted by the server each time. An example of a stateless server is a {web} server. These take in requests ({URLs}) which completely specify the required document and do not require any context or memory of previous requests. Contrast this with a traditional {FTP} server which conducts an interactive session with the user. A request to the server for a file can assume that the user has been authenticated and that the current directory and transfer mode have been set.

Subhadra. (T. Rab bzang; P. Subhadda; C. Xubatuoluo; J. Shubatsudara; K. Subaltara 須跋陀羅). The last person converted by the Buddha before he passed into PARINIRVĀnA. According to some accounts, he was a 120-year-old brāhmana, according to others, a young ascetic. Hearing that the Buddha would be passing away that night at KUsINAGARĪ, Subhadra went to see the Buddha and asked ĀNANDA for permission to speak with him. Ānanda refused the request three times, saying that the Buddha was weary. The Buddha overheard their conversation and told Subhadra to come forward, saying, "Do not keep out Subhadra. Subhadra may be allowed to see the Tathāgata. Whatever Subhadra will ask of me, he will ask from a desire for knowledge, and not to annoy me, and whatever I may say in answer to his questions, that he will quickly understand." Subhadra began to ask the Buddha about the doctrines of various other teachers, but the Buddha cut him short, explaining that only one who knows the noble eightfold path (ĀRYĀstĀnGAMĀRGA) is a true sRAMAnA. Subhadra then asked to be ordained. The Buddha replied that adherents of other sects first had to undergo a probationary period of four months before ordination. When Subhadra announced his willingness to do so, the Buddha waived the requirement and instructed Ānanda to shave the hair and beard of Subhadra. He was then escorted back to the Buddha who ordained him, making him the last person that Buddha personally ordained. The Buddha then gave him a subject of meditation. Walking up and down in the grove, he quickly became an ARHAT and came and sat by the Buddha. According to some accounts, Subhadra felt that he was unworthy to witness the passage of the Buddha into parinirvāna and thus asked the Buddha for permission to die first. The Buddha gave his permission. ¶ Subhadra is also the name of a former barber who entered the order late in life. He always carried a certain animus against the Buddha, because, while Subhadra was still a layman, the Buddha refused to accept a meal that he had prepared for him. After the Buddha's death, Subhadra told monks who were weeping at his passing that they should instead rejoice: since the Buddha would no longer be telling them what they could and could not do, monks would now be free to do as they pleased. MAHĀKĀsYAPA overheard this remark and was said to have been so alarmed by it that he convened what came to be known as the first Buddhist council (SAMGĪTI; see COUNCIL, FIRST) to codify the monastic rules and the Buddha's discourses.

talk "chat, tool, networking, messaging" A {Unix} program and {protocol} supporting conversation between two or more users who may be logged into the same computer or different computers on a network. Variants include {ntalk}, {ytalk}, and {ports} or {emulators} of these programs for other {platforms}. {Unix} has the {talk} program and {protocol} and its variants {xtalk} and {ytalk} for the {X Window System}; {VMS} has {phone}; {Windows for Workgroups} has {chat}. {ITS} also has a talk system. These split the screen into separate areas for each user. {Unix}'s {write} command can also be used, though it does not attempt to separate input and output on the screen. Users of such systems are said to be in {talk mode} which has many conventional abbreviations and idioms. Most of these survived into {chat} jargon, but many fell out of common use with the migration of {user} prattle from talk-like systems to {chat} systems in the early 1990s. These disused talk-specific forms include: "BYE?" - are you ready to close the conversation? This is the standard way to end a talk-mode conversation; the other person types "BYE" to confirm, or else continues the conversation. "JAM"/"MIN" - just a minute "O" - "over" (I have stopped talking). Also "/" as in x/y - x over y, or two newlines (the latter being the most common). "OO" - "over and out" - end of conversation. "\" - Greek {lambda}. "R U THERE?" - are you there? "SEC" - wait a second. "/\/\/" - laughter. But on a {MUD}, this usually means "earthquake fault". See also {talk bomb}. (1998-01-25)

talk ::: (chat, tool, networking, messaging) A Unix program and protocol supporting conversation between two or more users who may be logged into the same computer or different computers on a network. Variants include ntalk, ytalk, and ports or emulators of these programs for other platforms.Unix has the talk program and protocol and its variants xtalk and ytalk for the X Window System; VMS has phone; Windows for Workgroups has chat. ITS also has a talk system. These split the screen into separate areas for each user.Unix's write command can also be used, though it does not attempt to separate input and output on the screen.Users of such systems are said to be in talk mode which has many conventional abbreviations and idioms. Most of these survived into chat jargon, but many fell out of common use with the migration of user prattle from talk-like systems to chat systems in the early 1990s. These disused talk-specific forms include:BYE? - are you ready to close the conversation? This is the standard way to end a talk-mode conversation; the other person types BYE to confirm, or else continues the conversation.JAM/MIN - just a minuteO - over (I have stopped talking). Also / as in x/y - x over y, or two newlines (the latter being the most common).OO - over and out - end of conversation.\ - Greek lambda.R U THERE? - are you there?SEC - wait a second./\/\/ - laughter. But on a MUD, this usually means earthquake fault.See also talk bomb. (1998-01-25)

talker ::: n. --> One who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power of conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist.
A loquacious person, male or female; a prattler; a babbler; also, a boaster; a braggart; -- used in contempt or reproach.


talk ::: n. --> To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.
To confer; to reason; to consult.
To prate; to speak impertinently.
The act of talking; especially, familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is uttered, especially in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more.
Report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war.


teledildonics "application, virtual reality" /tel"*-dil-do"-niks/ Sex in a computer simulated {virtual reality}, especially computer-mediated sexual interaction between the VR presences of two humans. This practice is not yet possible except in the rather limited form of erotic conversation on {MUDs} and the like. The term, however, is widely recognised in the VR community as a {ha ha only serious} projection of things to come. "When we can sustain a multi-sensory surround good enough for teledildonics, *then* we'll know we're getting somewhere." [{Jargon File}] (1995-02-06)

tete-a-tete ::: n. --> Private conversation; familiar interview or conference of two persons.
A short sofa intended to accomodate two persons. ::: a. --> Private; confidential; familiar.


The first Dalai Lama, DGE 'DUN GRUB, was known as a great scholar and religious practitioner. A direct disciple of TSONG KHA PA, he is remembered for founding BKRA SHIS LHUN PO monastery near the central Tibetan town of Shigatse. The second Dalai Lama, Dge 'dun rgya mtsho, was born the son of a RNYING MA YOGIN and became a renowned tantric master in his own right. ¶ It is with the third Dalai Lama, BSOD NAMS RGYA MTSHO, that the Dalai Lama lineage actually begins. Recognized at a young age as the reincarnation of Dge 'dun rgya mtsho, he was appointed abbot of 'BRAS SPUNGS monastery near LHA SA and soon rose to fame throughout central Asia as a Buddhist teacher. He served as a religious master for the Mongol ruler Altan Khan, who bestowed the title "Dalai Lama," and is credited with converting the Tümed Mongols to Buddhism. Later in life, he traveled extensively across eastern Tibet and western China, teaching and carrying out monastic construction projects. ¶ The fourth Dalai Lama, Yon tan rgya mtsho, was recognized in the person of the grandson of Altan Khan's successor, solidifying Mongol-Tibetan ties. ¶ While the first four Dalai Lamas served primarily as religious scholars and teachers, the fifth Dalai Lama, NGAG DBANG BLO BZANG RGYA MTSHO, combined religious and secular activities to become one of Tibet's preeminent statesmen. He was a dynamic political leader who, with the support of Gushi Khan, defeated his opponents and in 1642 was invested with temporal powers over the Tibetan state, in addition to his religious role, a position that succeeding Dalai Lamas held until 1959. A learned and prolific author, he and his regent, SDE SRID SANGS RGYAS RGYA MTSHO, were largely responsible for the identification of the Dalai Lamas with the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. The construction of the PO TA LA palace began during his reign (and was completed after this death). He is popularly known as the "Great Fifth." ¶ The sixth Dalai Lama, TSHANGS DBYANGS RGYA MTSHO, was a controversial figure who chose to abandon the strict monasticism of his predecessors in favor of a life of society and culture, refusing to take the vows of a fully ordained monk (BHIKsU). He is said to have frequented the drinking halls below the Po ta la palace. He constructed pleasure gardens and the temple of the NAGAs, called the KLU KHANG, on the palace grounds. He is remembered especially for his poetry, which addresses themes such as love and the difficulty of spiritual practice. Tibetans generally interpret his behavior as exhibiting an underlying tantric wisdom, a skillful means for teaching the dharma. His death is shrouded in mystery. Official accounts state that he died while under arrest by Mongol troops. According to a prominent secret biography (GSANG BA'I RNAM THAR), however, he lived many more years, traveling across Tibet in disguise. ¶ The seventh Dalai Lama, SKAL BZANG RGYA MTSHO, was officially recognized only at the age of twelve, and due to political complications, did not participate actively in affairs of state. He was renowned for his writings on tantra and his poetry. ¶ The eighth Dalai Lama, 'Jam dpal rgya mtsho (Jampal Gyatso, 1758-1804), built the famous NOR BU GLING KHA summer palace. ¶ The ninth through twelfth Dalai Lamas each lived relatively short lives, due, according to some accounts, to political intrigue and the machinations of power-hungry regents. According to tradition, from the death of one Dalai Lama to the investiture of the next Dalai Lama as head of state (generally a period of some twenty years), the nation was ruled by a regent, who was responsible for discovering the new Dalai Lama and overseeing his education. If the Dalai Lama died before reaching his majority, the reign of the regent was extended. ¶ The thirteenth Dalai Lama, THUB BSTAN RGYA MTSHO, was an astute and forward-looking political leader who guided Tibet through a period of relative independence during a time of foreign entanglements with Britain, China, and Russia. In his last testament, he is said to have predicted Tibet's fall to Communist China. ¶ The fourteenth and present Dalai Lama, Bstan 'dzin rgya mtsho, assumed his position several years prior to reaching the age of majority as his country faced the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950. In 1959, he escaped into exile, establishing a government-in-exile in the Himalayan town of Dharamsala (DHARMAsALA) in northwestern India. Since then, he has traveled and taught widely around the world, while also advocating a nonviolent solution to Tibet's occupation. He was born in the A mdo region of what is now Qinghai province in China to a farming family, although his older brother had already been recognized as an incarnation at a nearby important Dge lugs monastery (SKU 'BUM). On his becoming formally accepted as Dalai Lama, his family became aristocrats and moved to Lha sa. He was educated traditionally by private tutors (yongs 'dzin), under the direction first of the regent Stag brag rin po che (in office 1941-1950), and later Gling rin po che Thub bstan lung rtogs rnam rgyal (1903-1983) and Khri byang rin po che Blo bzang ye shes (1901-1981). His modern education was informal, gained from conversations with travelers, such as the Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer. When the Chinese army entered the Khams region of eastern Tibet in 1951, he formally took over from the regent and was enthroned as the head of the DGA' LDAN PHO BRANG government. In the face of Tibetan unrest as the Chinese government brought Tibet firmly under central control, the Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959; the Indian government accorded the Dalai Lama respect as a religious figure but did not accept his claim to be the head of a separate state. In 1989, the Dalai Lama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, an event that increased his prominence around the world. He is the author of many books in English, most of them the written record of lectures and traditional teachings translated from Tibetan.

The sex-crergy utilised by Nature for the purpose of repro- duction is in its real nature a fundamental energy of life. It can be used not for the heightening but for a certain intensification of the vital-emotional life ; it can be controlled and diverted from the sex-purpose and used for aesthetic and artistic or other crea- tion and productiveness or preserved for heightening of the intel- lectual or other energies. Entirely controlled it can be turned into a force of spiritual energy also. This was well-known tn ancient India and was described as the conversation of retas into ojas by brahmacarya. Sex-energy misused turns to disorder and disintegration of the life-energy and its powers.

third-person perspective ::: In human conversation, the perspective of the person being spoken about: “he,” “she,” “it,” singular, or “they,” “them,” “its,” plural. More generally, a third person is any holon referred to or indicated.

Thomas, Edward Joseph. (1869-1958). British scholar of Pāli and Sanskrit Buddhism. He was the son of a Yorkshire gardener and worked as a gardener himself in his early life before studying at St. Andrews and then Cambridge, where he received his BA in 1905. He spent the remainder of his life at Cambridge, holding various positions at the university library, where he was renowned for his knowledge of languages (along with his work in Indian languages, he also published a book on Danish conversational grammar). He wrote both general works on Buddhist thought and translated Buddhist texts, including a collection of JĀTAKA stories from the Pāli. His most influential work was The Life of the Buddha as Legend and History (1927), in which he focused upon the structure of various biographical fragments and texts, and their role within the wider tradition. Thomas stressed the importance of studying all available language sources and the need to understand the mythic and fabulous elements of the religion as important traditions in their own right.

Transfiguration, in conversation with Jesus. In

Turing test ::: (artificial intelligence) A criterion proposed by Alan Turing in 1950 for deciding whether a computer is intelligent. Turing called it the Imitation Game and offered it as a replacement for the question, Can machines think?A human holds a written conversation on any topic with an unseen correspondent (nowadays it might be by electronic mail or chat). If the human believes he is talking to another human when he is really talking to a computer then the computer has passed the Turing test and is deemed to be intelligent.Turing predicted that within 50 years (by the year 2000) technological progress would produce computing machines with a capacity of 10**9 bits, and that with such machinery, a computer program would be able to fool the average questioner for 5 minutes about 70% of the time.The Loebner Prize is a competition to find a computer program which can pass an unrestricted Turing test. is a program that attempts to pass the Turing test.See also AI-complete. .(2004-02-17)

Turing test "artificial intelligence" A criterion proposed by {Alan Turing} in 1950 for deciding whether a computer is intelligent. Turing called it "the Imitation Game" and offered it as a replacement for the question, "Can machines think?" A human holds a written conversation on any topic with an unseen correspondent (nowadays it might be by {electronic mail} or {chat}). If the human believes he is talking to another human when he is really talking to a computer then the computer has passed the Turing test and is deemed to be intelligent. Turing predicted that within 50 years (by the year 2000) technological progress would produce computing machines with a capacity of 10**9 bits, and that with such machinery, a computer program would be able to fool the average questioner for 5 minutes about 70% of the time. The {Loebner Prize} is a competition to find a computer program which can pass an unrestricted Turing test. {Julia (http://fuzine.mt.cs.cmu.edu/mlm/julia.html)} is a program that attempts to pass the Turing test. See also {AI-complete}. {Turing's paper (http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/archive/00000499/00/turing.html)}. (2004-02-17)

Turing test ::: A test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human, developed by Alan Turing in 1950. Turing proposed that a human evaluator would judge natural language conversations between a human and a machine designed to generate human-like responses. The evaluator would be aware that one of the two partners in conversation is a machine, and all participants would be separated from one another. The conversation would be limited to a text-only channel such as a computer keyboard and screen so the result would not depend on the machine's ability to render words as speech.[314] If the evaluator cannot reliably tell the machine from the human, the machine is said to have passed the test. The test results do not depend on the machine's ability to give correct answers to questions, only how closely its answers resemble those a human would give.

Udāyin. (P. Udāyī; T. 'Char ka; C. Youtuoyi; J. Udai; K. Ut'ai 優陀夷). Sanskrit proper name of an eminent ARHAT disciple of the Buddha. According to the Pāli accounts, where he is known as Udāyī, he was a brāhmana from Kapilavatthu (S. KAPILAVASTU), who first encountered the Buddha when the Buddha visited his native Sākiya (S. sĀKYA) clan who resided in the city. Attracted by the Buddha's charisma, he entered the order and later became an arhat. Udāyī once uttered sixteen verses, which compared the Buddha to a majestic elephant. Udāyī was a gifted preacher who attracted large, enthusiastic audiences; once, while staying at Todeyya's mango grove in Kāmandā, he converted a pupil of a brāhmana belonging to the clan of Lady Verahaccāni. Hearing of his triumph, Verahaccāni invited Udāyī to her home several times to preach and eventually became a convert to the Buddha's teachings. In several suttas, Udāyī is described discussing points of doctrine with his fellow monks. In the Udāyīsutta, he asks ĀNANDA whether consciousness can also be deemed as lacking selfhood, and elsewhere he explains the concept of sensation (VEDANĀ) to the carpenter PaNcakanga. Ānanda reports this conversation to the Buddha, who confirms the accuracy of Udāyī's understanding. Udāyī requested instruction in the limbs of enlightenment (P. bhojjanga; S. BODHYAnGA) from the Buddha, and later reported to him how he won liberation through their cultivation. Although an arhat, Udāyī was not without fault. Once he ridiculed Ānanda for not taking advantage of his close association with the Buddha to attain arhatship. The Buddha chastised Udāyī for his remark, pointing out to him that Ānanda was destined to become an arhat in that very life.

Udgata. (P. Uggata; T. 'Phags pa; C. Yujiatuo; J. Utsukada; K. Ulgat'a 欝伽陀). Lay disciple of the Buddha deemed to be foremost among laymen who served the order (SAMGHA). According to the Pāli account, where he is known as Uggata, he was a wealthy householder living in the town of Hatthigāma. One day, while the Buddha was sojourning at the Nāgavanuyyāna garden in the town, Uggata visited the garden in a drunken state, accompanied by dancers, after a drinking binge that had lasted seven days. Seeing the Buddha, he was filled with shame and immediately sobered up. The Buddha preached to him, and he became a nonreturner (ANĀGĀMIN) on the spot. He dismissed the dancers and, from that time onward, devoted himself to serving the order. He used to receive visitations from the divinities, who told him of the attainments of various members of the order and suggested that he favor these above the rest. Uggata, however, treated all monks equally and showed no preference in his benefactions between those who had attained distinction as ĀRYAPUDGALA and those who were still unenlightened. When queried, Uggata said that there were eight wonderful things that happened to, and were done by, him in this life: he recovered his sobriety the very moment he saw the Buddha; he readily understood the Buddha's teaching of the FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS; when he took a vow of celibacy, he provided for his four wives even to the point of finding one of them a new husband of her choice; he shared his great wealth with persons of good conduct; he served monks wholeheartedly, listening to their sermons or preaching to them when they did not speak; he was equally generous to all monks without making distinctions; he was not prideful of his conversations with the divinities; and he did not worry about death, for the Buddha had assured him that he would not return to this world.

unquestionable ::: a. --> Not questionable; as, an unquestionable title.
Not inviting questions or conversation.


unsociable ::: a. --> Not sociable; not inclined to society; averse to companionship or conversation; solitary; reserved; as, an unsociable person or temper.

Vatsagotra. [alt. Vatsa, VaMsa] (P. Vacchagotta; C. Pocha; J. Basa; K. Pach'a 婆差). In Sanskrit, lit. "Calf Ancestry," an ARHAT and disciple of the Buddha. According to Pāli accounts, where he is known as Vacchagotta, he was a wandering mendicant of great learning who was converted and attained arhatship in a series of encounters with the Buddha. Numerous discourses in the Pāli SUTTAPItAKA concern metaphysical questions that Vacchagotta poses to the Buddha; an entire section of the SAMYUTTANIKĀYA is devoted to these exchanges. In other suttas, he raises similar questions in conversations with such important disciples of the Buddha as Mahāmoggallāna (MAHĀMAUDGALYĀYANA) and ĀNANDA. Vacchagotta's gradual conversion is recorded in a series of discourses contained in the MAJJHIMANIKĀYA. In the Tevijja-Vacchagottasutta, he rejoices at the words of the Buddha. In the Aggi-Vacchagottasutta, Vacchagotta has a renowned exchange concerning ten "indeterminate questions" (AVYĀKṚTA)-is the world eternal or not eternal, infinite or finite, what is the state of the TATHĀGATA after death, etc. The Buddha refuses to respond to any of the questions, and instead offers the simile of extinguishing fire to describe the state of the tathāgata after death: just as after a fire has been extinguished, it would be inappropriate to say that it has gone anywhere, so too after the tathāgata has extinguished each of the five aggregates (P. khandha; S. SKANDHA), he cannot be said to have gone anywhere. At the conclusion of the discourse, Vacchagotta accepts the Buddha as his teacher. In the Mahāvacchagottasutta, he is ordained by the Buddha and attains in sequence all the knowledges possible for one who is not yet an arhat. The Buddha instructs him in the practice of tranquility (P. samatha; S. sAMATHA) and insight (VIPASSANĀ; S. VIPAsYANĀ) whereby he can cultivate the six superknowledges (P. abhiNNā; S. ABHIJNĀ); Vacchagotta then attains arhatship. ¶ The DAZHIDU LUN (*MahāprajNāpāramitā-sāstra) identifies the Vacchagotta of the Pāli suttas with srenika Vatsagotra, the namesake of what in MAHĀYĀNA sources is called the sREnIKA HERESY. The locus classicus for this heresy appears in the MAHĀPARINIRVĀnASuTRA. There, when srenika raises the question about whether there is a self or not, the Buddha keeps silent, so srenika himself offers the fire simile, but with a very different interpretation than the Buddha's. He compares the physical body and the eternal self to a house and its owner: even though the house may burn down in a fire, the owner is safe outside the house; thus, the body and its constituents (SKANDHA) may be impermanent and subject to dissolution, but not the self. In other Sanskrit sources, Vatsagotra also seems to refer to the figure most typically known as Vatsa (T. Be'u) or VaMsa, a student of the ascetic Kāsyapa.

Virtual Machine/Conversational Monitor System "operating system" (VM/CMS) An {IBM} {time-sharing} and personal computing environment executing under {Virtual Machine} (VM) in a virtual machine environment. VM/CMS is designed to support large numbers of {interactive} users. It relies on numerous {APIs} into the {Control Program} (CP) to provide very efficient single-user processing VM/CMS was only adopted some time after the original design of {Virtual Machine} as a more efficient personal computing environment than {MVS/TSO}. (1999-01-19)

Virtual Machine/Conversational Monitor System ::: (operating system) (VM/CMS) An IBM time-sharing and personal computing environment executing under Virtual Machine (VM) in a virtual machine It relies on numerous APIs into the Control Program (CP) to provide very efficient single-user processingVM/CMS was only adopted some time after the original design of Virtual Machine as a more efficient personal computing environment than MVS/TSO. (1999-01-19)

Virtual Machine ::: (operating system) (VM) An IBM pseudo-operating system hypervisor running on IBM 370, ESA and IBM 390 architecture computers.VM comprises CP (Control Program) and CMS (Conversational Monitor System) providing Hypervisor and personal computing environments respectively. VM became following widespread adoption of the IBM PC and hardware partitioning in microcode on IBM mainframes after the IBM 3090.VM has been known as VM/SP (System Product, the successor to CP/67), VM/XA, and currently as VM/ESA (Enterprise Systems Architecture). VM/ESA is still in used in 1999, featuring a web interface, Java, and DB2. It is still a major IBM operating system. .[History of VM(?), Melinda Varian, Princeton University]. (1999-10-31)

Virtual Machine "operating system" (VM) An {IBM} pseudo-{operating system} {hypervisor} running on {IBM 370}, {ESA} and {IBM 390} architecture computers. VM comprises CP ({Control Program}) and CMS ({Conversational Monitor System}) providing Hypervisor and personal computing environments respectively. VM became most used in the early 1980s as a Hypervisor for multiple {DOS/VS} and {DOS/VSE} systems and as IBM's internal operating system of choice. It declined rapidly following widespread adoption of the {IBM PC} and hardware partitioning in {microcode} on IBM {mainframes} after the {IBM 3090}. VM has been known as VM/SP (System Product, the successor to {CP/67}), VM/XA, and currently as VM/ESA (Enterprise Systems Architecture). VM/ESA is still in used in 1999, featuring a {web} interface, {Java}, and {DB2}. It is still a major IBM operating system. {(http://vmdev.gpl.ibm.com/)}. ["History of VM"(?), Melinda Varian, Princeton University]. (1999-10-31)

VM/CMS {Virtual Machine/Conversational Monitor System}

wank /wangk/ [Columbia University: probably by mutation from Commonwealth slang "wank", to masturbate] Used much as {hack} is elsewhere, as a noun denoting a clever technique or person or the result of such cleverness. May describe (negatively) the act of hacking for hacking's sake ("Quit wanking, let's go get supper!") or (more positively) a {wizard}. "wanky" describes something particularly clever (a person, program, or algorithm). Conversations can also get wanky when there are too many wanks involved. This excess wankiness is signalled by an overload of the "wankometer" (compare {bogometer}). When the wankometer overloads, the conversation's subject must be changed, or all non-wanks will leave. Compare "neep-neeping" (under {neep-neep}). Usage: US only. In Britain and the Commonwealth this word is *extremely* rude and is best avoided unless one intends to give offense.



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1:Silence is also conversation. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi,
2:No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does." ~ Christopher Morley,
3:The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
   ~ Rene Descartes,
4:When you love unseemly conversation, you prepare a feast for demons and sell your soul for their fodder. ~ Saint Ephraem the Syrian,
5:an autumn night
completely spent
in conversation
~ Matsuo Basho, @BashoSociety
6:The love of God always loves to lift the mind into divine conversation. The love of neighbor is always ready to think good about him. ~ Maximus the Confessor, Centuries on Charity 4.40,
7:Neglect not the conversation of the aged, for they speak that which they have heard from their fathers. ~ Anonymous, The Bible, Ecclesiastes, the Eternal Wisdom
8:If we want to have conversations with God (of course within us), is it possible? If yes, on what condition?

   God does not indulge in conversation.
   ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,
9:When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that in literature, but still, a story should feel like a conversation. It's not a lecture. ~ Isabel Allende,
10:... outside of the book-knowledge which is necessary to our professional training, I think I got most of my development from the good conversation to which I have always had the luck to access. ~ Alfred North Whitehead,
11:Not only our memory but somehow our eyes as well contemplate the conversation between the angel Gabriel and the wondering Mary; likewise the conception by the Holy Spirit is wonderful both in its promise and in the faith that received it." ~ Pope St. Leo the Great,
12:I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.
   ~ Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer,
13:The magicians most important invocation is that of his Genius, Daemon, True Will, or Augoeides. This operation is traditionally known as attaining the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. It is sometimes known as the Magnum Opus or Great Work.
   ~ Peter J Carroll, Liber Null,
14:A person doing his true will is assisted by the momentum of the universe and seems possessed of amazing good luck. In beginning the great work of obtaining the knowledge and conversation, the magician vows to interpret every manifestation of existence as a direct message from the infinite Chaos to himself personally
   ~ Peter J Carroll,
15:Become aware of internal, subjective, subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes. ~ Abraham Maslow,
16:It is impossible to lay down precise rules by which a man may attain to the knowledge and conversation of His Holy Guardian Angel; for that is the particular secret of each one of us; a secret not to be told or even divined by any other, whatever his grade. It is the Holy of Holies, whereof each man is his own High Priest, and none knoweth the Name of his brother's God, or the Rite that invokes Him. ~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA,
17:It should never be forgotten for a single moment that the central and essential work of the Magician is the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. Once he has achieved this he must of course be left entirely in the hands of that Angel, who can be invariably and inevitably relied upon to lead him to the further great step-crossing of the Abyss and the attainment of the grade of Master of the Temple. ~ Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears,
18:31. For your exercise this week, visualize your friend, see him exactly as you last saw him, see the room, the furniture, recall the conversation, now see his face, see it distinctly, now talk to him about some subject of mutual interest; see his expression change, watch him smile. Can you do this? All right, you can; then arouse his interest, tell him a story of adventure, see his eyes light up with the spirit of fun or excitement. Can you do all of this? If so, your imagination is good, you are making excellent progress. ~ Charles F Haanel, The Master Key System,
19:How to open to the Mother? The following are the means:
(1) To remember You constantly or from time to time--
Good.
(2) By taking Your name through Japa [mantra; repeating the Mother's name]--
Helpful.
(3) With the help of meditation--
More difficult if one has not the habit of meditation.
(4) By conversation about You with those who love and respect You--
Risky because, when talking, often some nonsense or at least some useless things can be said.
(5) By reading Your books--
Good.
(6) By spending time in thoughts of You--
Very good.
(7) By sincere prayers--
Good. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,
20:A person doing his true will is assisted by the momentum of the universe and seems possessed of amazing good luck. In beginning the great work of obtaining the knowledge and conversation, the magician vows 'to interpret every manifestation of existence as a direct message from the infinite Chaos to himself personally'
   To do this is to enter the magical world view in its totality. He takes complete responsibility for his present incarnation and must consider every experience, thing, or piece of information which assails him from any source, as a reflection of the way he is conducting his existence. The idea that things happen to one that may or may not be related to the way one acts is an illusion created by our shallow awareness.
   Keeping a close eye on the walls of the labyrinth, the conditions of his existence, the magician may then begin his invocation. The genius is not something added to oneself. Rather it is a stripping away of excess to reveal the god within.
   ~ Peter J Carroll, Liber Null, Liber LUX, Augoeides [49-50],
21:Abrahadabra is a word that first publicly appeared in The Book of the Law, the central sacred text of Thelema . Its author, Aleister Crowley, described it as the Word of the Aeon, which signifieth The Great Work accomplished. This is in reference to his belief that the writing of Liber Legis (another name for The Book of the Law) heralded a new Aeon for mankind that was ruled by the godRa-Hoor-Khuit (a form of Horus). Abrahadabra is, therefore, the magical formula of this new age. It is not to be confused with the Word of the Law of the Aeon, which is Thelema, meaning Will. ... Abrahadabra is also referred to as the Word of Double Power. More specifically, it represents the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm
   represented by the pentagram and the hexagram, the rose and the cross, the circle and the square, the 5 and the 6 (etc.), as also called the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of ones Holy Guardian Angel. In Commentaries (1996), Crowley says that the word is a symbol of the establishment of the pillar or phallus of the Macrocosm...in the void of the Microcosm.
   ~ Wikipedia,
22:
   Sweet Mother, here it is written: "There is a Yoga-Shakti lying coiled or asleep..." How can it be awakened?
I think it awakens quite naturally the moment one takes the resolution to do the yoga. If the resolution is sincere and one has an aspiration, it wakes up by itself.

   In fact, it is perhaps its awakening which gives the aspiration to do yoga.

   It is possible that it is a result of the Grace... or after some conversation or reading, something that has suddenly given you the idea and aspiration to know what yoga is and to practise it. Sometimes just a simple conversation with someone is enough or a passage one reads from a book; well, it awakens this Yoga-Shakti and it is this which makes you do your yoga.

   One is not aware of it at first - except that something has changed in our life, a new decision is taken, a turning.

   What is it, this Yoga-Shakti, Sweet Mother?

   It is the energy of progress. It is the energy which makes you do the yoga, precisely, makes you progress - consciously. It is a conscious energy.

   In fact, the Yoga-Shakti is the power to do yoga.

   Sweet Mother, isn't it more difficult to draw the divine forces from below?

   I think it is absolutely useless.

   Some people think that there are more reserves of energy - I have heard this very often: a great reserve of energy - in the earth, and that if they draw this energy into themselves they will be able to do things; but it is always mixed.

   The divine Presence is everywhere, that's well understood. And in fact, there is neither above nor below. What is called above and below, I think that is rather the expression of a degree of consciousness or a degree of materiality; there is the more unconscious and the less unconscious, there is what is subconscious and what is superconscious, and so we say above and below for the facility of speech.

   But in fact, the idea is to draw from the energies of the earth which, when you are standing up, are under your feet, that is, below in relation to you. But these energies are always mixed, and mostly they are terribly dark.
   ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1955,
23:So then let the Adept set this sigil upon all the Words he hath writ in the book of the Works of his Will. And let him then end all, saying: Such are the Words!2 For by this he maketh proclamation before all them that be about his Circle that these Words are true and puissant, binding what he would bind, and loosing what he would loose. Let the Adept perform this ritual right, perfect in every part thereof, once daily for one moon, then twice, at dawn and dusk, for two moons; next thrice, noon added, for three moons; afterwards, midnight making up his course, for four moons four times every day. Then let the Eleventh Moon be consecrated wholly to this Work; let him be instant in constant ardour, dismissing all but his sheer needs to eat and sleep.3 For know that the true Formula4 whose virtue sufficed the Beast in this Attainment, was thus:

INVOKE OFTEN

So may all men come at last to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel: thus sayeth The Beast, and prayeth his own Angel that this Book be as a burning Lamp, and as a living Spring, for Light and Life to them that read therein.

1. There is an alternative spelling, TzBA-F, where the Root, "an Host," has the value of 93. The Practicus should revise this Ritual throughout in the Light of his personal researches in the Qabalah, and make it his own peculiar property. The spelling here suggested implies that he who utters the Word affirms his allegiance to the symbols 93 and 6; that he is a warrior in the army of Will, and of the Sun. 93 is also the number of AIWAZ and 6 of The Beast.
2. The consonants of LOGOS, "Word," add (Hebrew values) to 93 [reading the Sigma as Samekh = 60; reading it as Shin = 300 gives 333], and ΕΠΗ, "Words" (whence "Epic") has also that value; ΕΙ∆Ε ΤΑ ΕΠΗ might be the phrase here intended; its number is 418. This would then assert the accomplishment of the Great Work; this is the natural conclusion of the Ritual. Cf. CCXX, III, 75.
3. These needs are modified during the process of Initiation both as to quantity and quality. One should not become anxious about one's phyiscal or mental health on à priori grounds, but pay attention only to indubitable symptoms of distress should such arise. ~ Aleister Crowley, Liber Samekh,
24:The general characteristics and attributions of these Grades are indicated by their correspondences on the Tree of Life, as may be studied in detail in the Book 777.
   Student. -- His business is to acquire a general intellectual knowledge of all systems of attainment, as declared in the prescribed books. (See curriculum in Appendix I.) {231}
   Probationer. -- His principal business is to begin such practices as he my prefer, and to write a careful record of the same for one year.
   Neophyte. -- Has to acquire perfect control of the Astral Plane.
   Zelator. -- His main work is to achieve complete success in Asana and Pranayama. He also begins to study the formula of the Rosy Cross.
   Practicus. -- Is expected to complete his intellectual training, and in particular to study the Qabalah.
   Philosophus. -- Is expected to complete his moral training. He is tested in Devotion to the Order.
   Dominus Liminis. -- Is expected to show mastery of Pratyahara and Dharana.
   Adeptus (without). -- is expected to perform the Great Work and to attain the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel.
   Adeptus (within). -- Is admitted to the practice of the formula of the Rosy Cross on entering the College of the Holy Ghost.
   Adeptus (Major). -- Obtains a general mastery of practical Magick, though without comprehension.
   Adeptus (Exemptus). -- Completes in perfection all these matters. He then either ("a") becomes a Brother of the Left Hand Path or, ("b") is stripped of all his attainments and of himself as well, even of his Holy Guardian Angel, and becomes a babe of the Abyss, who, having transcended the Reason, does nothing but grow in the womb of its mother. It then finds itself a
   Magister Templi. -- (Master of the Temple): whose functions are fully described in Liber 418, as is this whole initiation from Adeptus Exemptus. See also "Aha!". His principal business is to tend his "garden" of disciples, and to obtain a perfect understanding of the Universe. He is a Master of Samadhi. {232}
   Magus. -- Attains to wisdom, declares his law (See Liber I, vel Magi) and is a Master of all Magick in its greatest and highest sense.
   Ipsissimus. -- Is beyond all this and beyond all comprehension of those of lower degrees. ~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA,
25:64 Arts
   1. Geet vidya: art of singing.
   2. Vadya vidya: art of playing on musical instruments.
   3. Nritya vidya: art of dancing.
   4. Natya vidya: art of theatricals.
   5. Alekhya vidya: art of painting.
   6. Viseshakacchedya vidya: art of painting the face and body with color
   7. Tandula­kusuma­bali­vikara: art of preparing offerings from rice and flowers.
   8. Pushpastarana: art of making a covering of flowers for a bed.
   9. Dasana­vasananga­raga: art of applying preparations for cleansing the teeth, cloths and painting the body.
   10. Mani­bhumika­karma: art of making the groundwork of jewels.
   11. Aayya­racana: art of covering the bed.
   12. Udaka­vadya: art of playing on music in water.
   13. Udaka­ghata: art of splashing with water.
   14. Citra­yoga: art of practically applying an admixture of colors.
   15. Malya­grathana­vikalpa: art of designing a preparation of wreaths.
   16. Sekharapida­yojana: art of practically setting the coronet on the head.
   17. Nepathya­yoga: art of practically dressing in the tiring room.
   18. Karnapatra­bhanga: art of decorating the tragus of the ear.
   19. Sugandha­yukti: art of practical application of aromatics.
   20. Bhushana­yojana: art of applying or setting ornaments.
   21. Aindra­jala: art of juggling.
   22. Kaucumara: a kind of art.
   23. Hasta­laghava: art of sleight of hand.
   24. Citra­sakapupa­bhakshya­vikara­kriya: art of preparing varieties of delicious food.
   25. Panaka­rasa­ragasava­yojana: art of practically preparing palatable drinks and tinging draughts with red color.
   26. Suci­vaya­karma: art of needleworks and weaving.
   27. Sutra­krida: art of playing with thread.
   28. Vina­damuraka­vadya: art of playing on lute and small drum.
   29. Prahelika: art of making and solving riddles.
   30. Durvacaka­yoga: art of practicing language difficult to be answered by others.
   31. Pustaka­vacana: art of reciting books.
   32. Natikakhyayika­darsana: art of enacting short plays and anecdotes.
   33. Kavya­samasya­purana: art of solving enigmatic verses.
   34. Pattika­vetra­bana­vikalpa: art of designing preparation of shield, cane and arrows.
   35. Tarku­karma: art of spinning by spindle.
   36. Takshana: art of carpentry.
   37. Vastu­vidya: art of engineering.
   38. Raupya­ratna­pariksha: art of testing silver and jewels.
   39. Dhatu­vada: art of metallurgy.
   40. Mani­raga jnana: art of tinging jewels.
   41. Akara jnana: art of mineralogy.
   42. Vrikshayur­veda­yoga: art of practicing medicine or medical treatment, by herbs.
   43. Mesha­kukkuta­lavaka­yuddha­vidhi: art of knowing the mode of fighting of lambs, cocks and birds.
   44. Suka­sarika­pralapana: art of maintaining or knowing conversation between male and female cockatoos.
   45. Utsadana: art of healing or cleaning a person with perfumes.
   46. Kesa­marjana­kausala: art of combing hair.
   47. Akshara­mushtika­kathana: art of talking with fingers.
   48. Dharana­matrika: art of the use of amulets.
   49. Desa­bhasha­jnana: art of knowing provincial dialects.
   50. Nirmiti­jnana: art of knowing prediction by heavenly voice.
   51. Yantra­matrika: art of mechanics.
   52. Mlecchita­kutarka­vikalpa: art of fabricating barbarous or foreign sophistry.
   53. Samvacya: art of conversation.
   54. Manasi kavya­kriya: art of composing verse
   55. Kriya­vikalpa: art of designing a literary work or a medical remedy.
   56. Chalitaka­yoga: art of practicing as a builder of shrines called after him.
   57. Abhidhana­kosha­cchando­jnana: art of the use of lexicography and meters.
   58. Vastra­gopana: art of concealment of cloths.
   59. Dyuta­visesha: art of knowing specific gambling.
   60. Akarsha­krida: art of playing with dice or magnet.
   61. Balaka­kridanaka: art of using children's toys.
   62. Vainayiki vidya: art of enforcing discipline.
   63. Vaijayiki vidya: art of gaining victory.
   64. Vaitaliki vidya: art of awakening master with music at dawn.
   ~ Nik Douglas and Penny Slinger, Sexual Secrets,
26:AUGOEIDES:
   The magicians most important invocation is that of his Genius, Daemon, True Will, or Augoeides. This operation is traditionally known as attaining the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. It is sometimes known as the Magnum Opus or Great Work.
   The Augoeides may be defined as the most perfect vehicle of Kia on the plane of duality. As the avatar of Kia on earth, the Augoeides represents the true will, the raison detre of the magician, his purpose in existing. The discovery of ones true will or real nature may be difficult and fraught with danger, since a false identification leads to obsession and madness. The operation of obtaining the knowledge and conversation is usually a lengthy one. The magician is attempting a progressive metamorphosis, a complete overhaul of his entire existence. Yet he has to seek the blueprint for his reborn self as he goes along. Life is less the meaningless accident it seems. Kia has incarnated in these particular conditions of duality for some purpose. The inertia of previous existences propels Kia into new forms of manifestation. Each incarnation represents a task, or a puzzle to be solved, on the way to some greater form of completion.
   The key to this puzzle is in the phenomena of the plane of duality in which we find ourselves. We are, as it were, trapped in a labyrinth or maze. The only thing to do is move about and keep a close watch on the way the walls turn. In a completely chaotic universe such as this one, there are no accidents. Everything is signifcant. Move a single grain of sand on a distant shore and the entire future history of the world will eventually be changed. A person doing his true will is assisted by the momentum of the universe and seems possessed of amazing good luck. In beginning the great work of obtaining the knowledge and conversation, the magician vows to interpret every manifestation of existence as a direct message from the infinite Chaos to himself personally.
   To do this is to enter the magical world view in its totality. He takes complete responsibility for his present incarnation and must consider every experience, thing, or piece of information which assails him from any source, as a reflection of the way he is conducting his existence. The idea that things happen to one that may or may not be related to the way one acts is an illusion created by our shallow awareness.
   Keeping a close eye on the walls of the labyrinth, the conditions of his existence, the magician may then begin his invocation. The genius is not something added to oneself. Rather it is a stripping away of excess to reveal the god within.
   Directly on awakening, preferably at dawn, the initiate goes to the place of invocation. Figuring to himself as he goes that being born anew each day brings with it the chance of greater rebirth, first he banishes the temple of his mind by ritual or by some magical trance. Then he unveils some token or symbol or sigil which represents to him the Holy Guardian Angel. This symbol he will likely have to change during the great work as the inspiration begins to move him. Next he invokes an image of the Angel into his minds eye. It may be considered as a luminous duplicate of ones own form standing in front of or behind one, or simply as a ball of brilliant light above ones head. Then he formulates his aspirations in what manner he will, humbling himself in prayer or exalting himself in loud proclamation as his need be. The best form of this invocation is spoken spontaneously from the heart, and if halting at first, will prove itself in time. He is aiming to establish a set of ideas and images which correspond to the nature of his genius, and at the same time receive inspiration from that source. As the magician begins to manifest more of his true will, the Augoeides will reveal images, names, and spiritual principles by which it can be drawn into greater manifestation. Having communicated with the invoked form, the magician should draw it into himself and go forth to live in the way he hath willed.
   The ritual may be concluded with an aspiration to the wisdom of silence by a brief concentration on the sigil of the Augoeides, but never by banishing. Periodically more elaborate forms of ritual, using more powerful forms of gnosis, may be employed. At the end of the day, there should be an accounting and fresh resolution made. Though every day be a catalog of failure, there should be no sense of sin or guilt. Magic is the raising of the whole individual in perfect balance to the power of Infinity, and such feelings are symptomatic of imbalance. If any unnecessary or imbalanced scraps of ego become identified with the genius by mistake, then disaster awaits. The life force flows directly into these complexes and bloats them into grotesque monsters variously known as the demon Choronzon. Some magicians attempting to go too fast with this invocation have failed to banish this demon, and have gone spectacularly insane as a result.
   ~ Peter J Carroll, Liber Null,
27:Chapter LXXXII: Epistola Penultima: The Two Ways to Reality
Cara Soror,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

How very sensible of you, though I admit somewhat exacting!

You write-Will you tell me exactly why I should devote so much of my valuable time to subjects like Magick and Yoga.

That is all very well. But you ask me to put it in syllogistic form. I have no doubt this can be done, though the task seems somewhat complicated. I think I will leave it to you to construct your series of syllogisms yourself from the arguments of this letter.

In your main question the operative word is "valuable. Why, I ask, in my turn, should you consider your time valuable? It certainly is not valuable unless the universe has a meaning, and what is more, unless you know what that meaning is-at least roughly-it is millions to one that you will find yourself barking up the wrong tree.

First of all let us consider this question of the meaning of the universe. It is its own evidence to design, and that design intelligent design. There is no question of any moral significance-"one man's meat is another man's poison" and so on. But there can be no possible doubt about the existence of some kind of intelligence, and that kind is far superior to anything of which we know as human.

How then are we to explore, and finally to interpret this intelligence?

It seems to me that there are two ways and only two. Imagine for a moment that you are an orphan in charge of a guardian, inconceivably learned from your point of view.

Suppose therefore that you are puzzled by some problem suitable to your childish nature, your obvious and most simple way is to approach your guardian and ask him to enlighten you. It is clearly part of his function as guardian to do his best to help you. Very good, that is the first method, and close parallel with what we understand by the word Magick.

We are bothered by some difficulty about one of the elements-say Fire-it is therefore natural to evoke a Salamander to instruct you on the difficult point. But you must remember that your Holy Guardian Angel is not only far more fully instructed than yourself on every point that you can conceive, but you may go so far as to say that it is definitely his work, or part of his work; remembering always that he inhabits a sphere or plane which is entirely different from anything of which you are normally aware.

To attain to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel is consequently without doubt by far the simplest way by which you can yourself approach that higher order of being.

That, then, is a clearly intelligible method of procedure. We call it Magick.

It is of course possible to strengthen the link between him and yourself so that in course of time you became capable of moving and, generally speaking, operating on that plane which is his natural habitat.

There is however one other way, and one only, as far as I can see, of reaching this state.

It is at least theoretically possible to exalt the whole of your own consciousness until it becomes as free to move on that exalted plane as it is for him. You should note, by the way, that in this case the postulation of another being is not necessary. There is no way of refuting the solipsism if you feel like that. Personally I cannot accede to its axiom. The evidence for an external universe appears to me perfectly adequate.

Still there is no extra charge for thinking on those lines if you so wish.

I have paid a great deal of attention in the course of my life to the method of exalting the human consciousness in this way; and it is really quite legitimate to identify my teaching with that of the Yogis.

I must however point out that in the course of my instruction I have given continual warnings as to the dangers of this line of research. For one thing there is no means of checking your results in the ordinary scientific sense. It is always perfectly easy to find a subjective explanation of any phenomenon; and when one considers that the greatest of all the dangers in any line of research arise from egocentric vanity, I do not think I have exceeded my duty in anything that I have said to deter students from undertaking so dangerous a course as Yoga.

It is, of course, much safer if you are in a position to pursue in the Indian Jungles, provided that your health will stand the climate and also, I must say, unless you have a really sound teacher on whom you can safely rely. But then, if we once introduce a teacher, why not go to the Fountain-head and press towards the Knowledge and conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel?

In any case your Indian teacher will ultimately direct you to seek guidance from that source, so it seems to me that you have gone to a great deal of extra trouble and incurred a great deal of unnecessary danger by not leaving yourself in the first place in the hands of the Holy Guardian Angel.

In any case there are the two methods which stand as alternatives. I do not know of any third one which can be of any use whatever. Logically, since you have asked me to be logical, there is certainly no third way; there is the external way of Magick, and the internal way of Yoga: there you have your alternatives, and there they cease.

Love is the law, love under will.

Fraternally,

666 ~ Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears,

*** WISDOM TROVE ***

1:Repartee is the soul of conversation. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove
2:I must have my share in the conversation. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove
3:I must have my share in the conversation… ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove
4:Unconstraint is the grace of conversation. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove
5:No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove
6:Good writing is good conversation, only more so. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove
7:Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove
8:Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
9:I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove
10:I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. ~ george-bernard-shaw, @wisdomtrove
11:Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove
12:WANT shows up in conversation - EXPECTATION shows up in behavior. ~ les-brown, @wisdomtrove
13:People learn more from observation that they do from conversation. ~ will-rogers, @wisdomtrove
14:Meditation is my soul's soundless conversation with my inner pilot. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove
15:Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove
16:Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove
17:Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. ~ oscar-wilde, @wisdomtrove
18:Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove
19:The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove
20:Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove
21:The free conversation of a friend is what I would prefer to any environment. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove
22:Ne speaketh not; and yet there lies a conversation in his eyes. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove
23:When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove
24:Whoever takes just plain ginger ale soon gets drowned out of the conversation. ~ kin-hubbard, @wisdomtrove
25:The conversation is happening about your brand whether you're a part of it or not. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove
26:There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove
27:Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove
28:Never criticize, condemn or complain in a conversation with a customer or prospect. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove
29:If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism. ~ immanuel-kant, @wisdomtrove
30:While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. ~ alan-moore, @wisdomtrove
31:If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
32:A long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove
33:A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. ~ mark-twain, @wisdomtrove
34:Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove
35:Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove
36:The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. ~ winston-churchill, @wisdomtrove
37:The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.    ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove
38:The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. ~ rene-descartes, @wisdomtrove
39:It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove
40:There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove
41:The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. ~ george-bernard-shaw, @wisdomtrove
42:Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove
43:Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove
44:Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove
45:Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove
46:Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove
47:A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove
48:It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation. ~ a-a-milne, @wisdomtrove
49:Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener. ~ ambrose-bierce, @wisdomtrove
50:I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove
51:Conversation, fastidious goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove
52:I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written. ~ paulo-coelho, @wisdomtrove
53:Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove
54:A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove
55:There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove
56:A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove
57:Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. ~ kin-hubbard, @wisdomtrove
58:I think those of us on a spiritual journey can help create a new conversation, a new America, and a new world. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove
59:Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating.  Think more often of God than you breathe. ~ epictetus, @wisdomtrove
60:In their presence, there's no need for continuous conversation, but you find you're quite content in just having them nearby. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove
61:If you never mention the Lord in conversation with each other,isn't that proof that you aren't so concerned about Him? ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove
62:That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments... ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove
63:Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove
64:The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove
65:A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove
66:C-C-Can you get bones in your buh-buh-brain?' Bill asked. This was turning into the most interesting conversation he'd had in weeks. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove
67:The universe must be full of voices, calling from star to star in a myriad tongues. One day we shall join that cosmic conversation. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove
68:Art is the conversation between lovers. Art offers an opening for the heart. True art makes the divine silence in the soul Break into applause. ~ hafez, @wisdomtrove
69:That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short&
70:It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove
71:The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had. ~ steven-wright, @wisdomtrove
72:The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove
73:But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience. ~ barack-obama, @wisdomtrove
74:My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove
75:The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove
76:A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
77:Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove
78:A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove
79:It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove
80:If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove
81:Wisdom, in the world of enlightenment, is not gained through conversation. Wisdom and enlightenment is something that you gain by making the mind still. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove
82:In time, we lose our freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove
83:In short, we lose the freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove
84:I can once more carry on a conversation with myself, and don't stare so into complete emptiness. Only in this way is there any possibility of improvement for me. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove
85:She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove
86:A country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may have agreeable topicks for conversation when they are by themselves. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove
87:Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove
88:What track needs to figure out: how to engage us between the races. Instead, the entire off-the-track conversation is about doping. This is how you kill a sport. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove
89:Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove
90:Not to discuss with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To discuss with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove
91:Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove
92:We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove
93:When we make a true commitment to walk in love, it usually causes a huge shift in our lifestyle. Many of our ways - our thoughts, our conversation, our habits - have to change. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove
94:With the advance of refrigeration, I hope that along with the frozen foods someday we will have frozen conversation. A person will be able to keep a frozen promise indefinitely. ~ fred-allen, @wisdomtrove
95:Nietzsche had a little one-liner on how to choose a wife. He said, "Are you willing to have a conversation with this woman for the next forty years?" That's how to pick a wife. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove
96:A delicacy of taste is favorable to love and friendship, by confining our choice to few people, and making us indifferent to the company and conversation of the greater part of men. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove
97:I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove
98:What manner of men should ministers be? They should thunder in preaching, and lighten in conversation; they should be flaming in prayer, shining in life, and burning in spirit. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
99:It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power to help you to hate and flee from sin as you should. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove
100:There are some people, who I'll charitably call snobs, who are dismissive of any conversation that doesn't begin with the full level of complexity. That's just not how the world works. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove
101:Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication ~ groucho-marx, @wisdomtrove
102:Everything's a business. Love, truth, beauty. Conversation is a business. Spirituality is not a business, so it's going to go against the grain of people who are trying to exploit other people. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove
103: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
104:You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
105:Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on. ~ a-a-milne, @wisdomtrove
106:He learned to communicate with birds and discovered their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with windspeed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove
107:I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,&
108:If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove
109:In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with the mind and lips, but in a certain sense with one's whole being... All good meditative prayer is a conversation of our entire self to God. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove
110:Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove
111:Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove
112:Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made him talk or whether he loved conversation because it made him thirsty. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove
113:Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses. ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove
114:What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation... we must follow what brings us alive. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove
115:Ask purposeful questions. Questions elicit answers. The kind of questions you ask will steer the direction of the conversation. To have a meaningful conversation with the other person, ask meaningful questions. ~ celestine-chua, @wisdomtrove
116:Good conversation is the enemy of falsity, facade, and shallowness. It chases the truth of things, it demolishes the flimsy foundation of facade and it penetrates the depths so as to soar into unfolding possibility. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove
117:The goal of a marketing interaction isn't to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove
118:When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyway. Kino sighed with satisfaction - and that was conversation. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
119:A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove
120:I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove
121:The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts. ~ rene-descartes, @wisdomtrove
122:Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove
123:The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove
124:Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations to those of our companions, and to curb and conceal that presumption and arrogance so natural to the human mind. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove
125:I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove
126:He was silent for thirty seconds, maybe a minute. I uncrossed my legs under the table and wondered if this was the right moment to leave. It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the right point in a conversation to say goodbye. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
127:Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the famous airs of operas which thrilled the first audiences come to be played on hand-organs in the streets. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove
128:Angels can recognize the nature of our unique essence on the basis of nothing more than a brief conversation with us. From hearing the tone of our voice angels sense what we love; and from hearing what we say, angels sense our level of understanding. ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove
129:The friendship of a dog is precious. It becomes even more so when one is so far removed from home... . I have a Scottie. In him I find consolation and diversion... he is the "one person" to whom I can talk without the conversation coming back to war. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove
130:We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we're willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives, we will never change. Never, ever. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove
131:Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now? ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove
132:If people are highly successful in their profession they lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. They lose their sense of proportion. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove
133:Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen. ~ plutarch, @wisdomtrove
134:Who ARE You?" This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, I&
135:The whole of ancient astrology owed its origin to conversation with the cosmic intelligences. But by the time of the first centuries after the rise of Christianity, ancient astrology - that is to say, conversation with cosmic intelligences - was a thing of the past. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove
136:Prayer is spiritual communication between man and God, a two-way relationship in which man should not only talk to God but also listen to Him. Prayer to God is like a child's conversation with his father. It is natural for a child to ask his father for the things he needs. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove
137:A level of anxiety and tension and outright fear that so many people have felt, not only during the recession but during this slow economic recovery since. This made me very much want to up the conversation about how miracle-minded thinking applies to that area of life. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove
138:50-50 sharing. I always think that a great conversation should be made up of equal sharing by both parties. Sometimes it may be 40-60 or 60-40 depending on the circumstances, but by and large, both parties should have equal opportunities to share and contribute to the conversation. ~ celestine-chua, @wisdomtrove
139:Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt themselves with the useless conversation of idle people, and debase the intellect from the lofty imaginations in which they are always absorbed. ~ michelangelo, @wisdomtrove
140:I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even if they relate to literature), to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to the very soul. Conversation takes the importance, the seriousness, the truth, out of everything I think. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove
141:I was so uncomfortable at a party recently when the conversation droned on about women who are constantly getting married. I was on the edge of my chair, close to squirming in embarrassment because I myself was guilty of four husbands. I finally leaned forward and squeaked, &
142:We should reserve the notion of &
143:Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, and what is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversation? ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove
144:Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove
145:The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose. ~ benjamin-franklin, @wisdomtrove
146:Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove
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148:In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up. ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove
149:[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called conversation, but in which there was scarcely ever any exchange of opinion, and not often any resemblance of subject, for Mrs. Thorpe talked chiefly of her children, and Mrs. Allen of her gowns. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove
150:The world is waiting for you to wake up to the person you are called to be. Stop listening to the negative inner conversation that's causing you to play small. Focus your mind on positive thoughts, possibilities and solutions that can move you forward. Tap into your creativity and determination and stay busy. Stay focused. ~ les-brown, @wisdomtrove
151:When I live lucidly, I shift between these two perspectives. It's a state of dynamic balance. It's not a compromise in which I settle for a bit of both. It's more like a dance where I move between the extremes. It's a continual conversation between oneness and separateness. It's a bit like keeping my balance when riding a bike. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove
152:Become aware of internal, subjective, subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes. ~ abraham-maslow, @wisdomtrove
153:We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are condemned to the banalities of the conversation manual. Their brain is seething with ideas, and they can only tell you that the umbrella of the gardener's aunt is in the house. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove
154:Just as it drives me mad when I’m with someone who won’t stop talking, it also drives me mad when I won’t stop talking to myself. I need to be quiet as well as talk. I need to be conscious of the deep silence as well as the ideas that arise within it. Then thinking isn’t a problem. In fact, like a good conversation, it’s a great pleasure. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove
155:It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you say to them, they always purr: "If they would only purr for &
156:What if you knew that the next person you’d see would be the last person you would ever see? You’d be right there soaking it in, experiencing it. It wouldn’t matter what they were saying; you’d just enjoy hearing the words because it would be the last conversation you’d ever have. What if you brought that kind of awareness to every conversation? ~ michael-singer, @wisdomtrove
157:I feel that the term "new age" is used by basically hostile media to diminish and marginalize a conversation that is very significant. It's held in place by journalists who are constantly looking for hooks and sound bites to keep them from having to make the effort of a deeper understanding and a more profound level of communication with the public. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove
158:We can either have a twenty-first-century conversation about morality and the human well-being - a conversation in which we avail ourselves of all scientific insights and philosophical arguments that have accumulated in the last two thousand years of human discourse - or we can confine ourselves to a first-century conversation as it is preserved in the Bible. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove
159:He told me that one of the reasons people are so unhappy is they don't talk to themselves. He said you have to keep a conversation going with yourself throughout your life to see how you're doing, to keep your focus, to remain your own friend. He told me that he talked to himself all the time, and that it helped him to grow stronger and better everyday. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove
160:After doing this work or the past twelve years and watching scarcity ride roughshod over our families, organizations, and communities, I'd say the one thing we have in common is that we're sick of feeling afraid. we want to dare greatly. We're tired of the national conversation centering on "What should we fear" and "Who should we blame?" We all want to be brave. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove
161:Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and good Company. By that Means, every Thing of what we call Belles Lettres became totally barbarous, being cultivated by Men without any Taste of Life or Manners, and without that Liberty and Facility of Thought and Expression, which can only be acquir'd by Conversation. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove
162:When you look at some faces, you can see the turbulence of the infinite beginning to gather to the surface. This moment can open in a gaze from a stranger, or in a conversation with someone you know well. Suddenly, without their intending it or being conscious of it, their gaze lasts for only a second. In that slightest interim, something more than the person looks out. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove
163:You know, it’s the same thing as the question of free will and destiny, the question of creativity - you, the artist, you’re not the puppet of the piano, you’re not the puppet of the muse, but you’re not its master, either. It’s a relationship, it’s a conversation, and all it wants is to be treated with respect and dignity - and it will return ten thousand times over. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove
164:Be true to yourself. Your best asset is your true personality. Embrace it and let it shine. Don’t cover it up. It’ll be pretty boring if all you do is mime the other person’s words during a conversation; there wouldn’t be anything to discuss at all. Be ready to share your real thoughts and opinions. Be proud of what you stand for and be ready to let others know the real you. ~ celestine-chua, @wisdomtrove
165:The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
166:All I did was collect a few of the questions I've been asked through the years, write up a brief response and put them in this publication. As a pastor, you get asked questions and receive emails. Many of them I had answered, but just in conversation. So we kind of re-crafted the question and answered it. It turned out to be an interesting exercise. I hope it's encouraging for people. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove
167:. . . nothing could touch the strength of my love, and the thoughts of my beloved. Had I known then that my wife was dead, I think that I still would have given myself, undisturbed by that knowledge, to the contemplation of that image, and that my mental conversation with her would have been just as vivid and just as satisfying. "Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death." ~ viktor-frankl, @wisdomtrove
168:Religious faith is the only area of discourse where immunity through conversation is considered noble . It's the only area of our lives where someone can win points for saying, "There's nothing that you can do to change my mind and I'm taking no state of the world ultimately into account in believing what I believe. There's nothing to change about the world that would cause me to revise my beliefs. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove
169:Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something. Prayer is to enter into that activity... Convert your thoughts into prayer. As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer. The difference is not that prayer is thinking about other things, but that prayer is thinking in dialogue,... a conversation with God. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove
170:I support people if they are called to be active and protesting, resisting, working for restoration or, for more just political conversation. I also support everyone in listening to each other. We're at a very interesting and disturbing time in terms of our civil discourse. And yet always, in disturbance, things are shook up and that shaking can lead to deeper maturity and a deeper discourse. May it be so. ~ gangaji, @wisdomtrove
171:When it seemed like I was going to really have to be there at Todd's [Willingham] execution, I don't think I could have done it. I think I began to distance myself. I didn't visit as often; I didn't write as often. This was kind of after my conversation with [fire science expert] Gerald Hurst. And the [car] accident made sure that I didn't have to go up there. But I think he and I both shared that. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove
172:You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
173:I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book. ~ robert-frost, @wisdomtrove
174:He spent a lot of time flying. He learnt to communicate with birds and discovered that their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with wind speed, wing spans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries. Unfortunately, he discovered, once you have learnt birdspeak you quickly come to realize that the air is full of it the whole time, just inane bird chatter. There is no getting away from it. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove
175:The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove
176:Water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. What if someone says, Well, that’s not how I choose to think about water.? All we can do is appeal to scientific values. And if he doesn’t share those values, the conversation is over. If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic? ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove
177:What if you knew that the next person you’d see would be the last person you would ever see? You’d be right there soaking it in, experiencing it. It wouldn’t matter what they were saying; you’d just enjoy hearing the words because it would be the last conversation you’d ever have. What if you brought that kind of awareness to every conversation? That’s what happens when you’re told that death is around the corner: you change, life doesn’t change. ~ michael-singer, @wisdomtrove
178:I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the street with her. I didn't want conversation, or to go anywhere except the racetrack or the boxing matches. I didn't understand t.v. I felt foolish paying money to go into a movie theatre and sit with other people to share their emotions. Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateur drunks, the bores. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove
179:Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that this is neither innocent or praiseworthy. Of that lamentable company am I. Conversation after a time bores me, games tire me and my own thoughts, which we are told are the unfailing resource of a sensible man, have a tendency to run dry. Then I fly to my book as the opium-smoker to his pipe. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove
180:The other day I met a man who didn't know where Tripoli was. Tripoli happened to come into the conversation, and he was evidently at a loss. "Let's see," he said. "Tripoli is just down by the - er - you know. What's the name of that place?" "That's right," I answered, "just opposite, Thingumabob. I could show you in a minute on a map. It's near - what do they call it?" At this moment the train stopped, and I got out and went straight home to look at my atlas. ~ a-a-milne, @wisdomtrove
181:Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom we know nothing. Romances are never as pure as those we imagine during long train journeys, as we secretly contemplate a beautiful person who is gazing out of the window – a perfect love story interrupted only when the beloved looks back into the carriage and starts up a dull conversation about the excessive price of the on-board sandwiches with a neighbour or blows her nose aggressively into a handkerchief. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove
182:People will then often say, &
183:So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called a conversation. It was as though we were speaking in different languages. If the Dalai Lama were on his deathbed and the jazz musician Eric Dolphy were to try to explain to him the importance of choosing one's engine oil in accordance with changes in the sound of the bass clarinet, that exchange might have been more worthwhile and effective than my conversations with Noboru Wataya. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
184:The problem with movies and books is they make evil look glamorous, exciting, when it's no such thing. It's boring and it's depressing and it's stupid. Criminals are all after cheap thrills and easy money, and when they get them, all they want is more of the same, over and over. They're shallow, empty, boring people who couldn't give you five minutes of interesting conversation if you had the piss-poor luck to be at a party full of them. Maybe some can be monkey-clever, some of the time, but they aren't hardly ever smart. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove
185:You can start over again! Don't even think about quitting now! It is easy to replay in your mind how things did not work, how much you lost, what you are going through, how angry you are. There is no amount of conversation or magic that is going to wipe the slate clean. You are wasting valuable time and energy that could be used to regain a new normal and start another version of your life. Even though you are hurt and you may be feeling down — stop kicking yourself! Face what has happened. Make the decision to start over again. ~ les-brown, @wisdomtrove
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187:I'm scared to let you know that I just wrote this article and I'm under total fire for it and people are making fun of me and I'm feeling hurt - the same thing that I told someone in an intimate conversation. So what I do is I floodlight you with it - I don't know you very well or I'm in front of a big group, or it's a story that I haven't processed enough to be sharing with other people - and you immediately respond "hands up; push me away" and I go, "See? No one cares about me. No one gives a s*** that I'm hurting. I knew it." ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove
188:All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art of Conversation pauses with so much care to make it understood that we must not judge of the capacity of a man by the excellence of a happy remark that we heard him make. Let us penetrate, says he, the mind from which it proceeds. It will oftenest be seen that he will be made to disavow it on the spot, and will be drawn very far from this better thought in which he does not believe, to plunge himself into another, quite base and ridiculous. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove
189:We need to have greater patience with our sense of inner contradiction in order to allow its different dimensions to come into conversation within us. There is a secret light and vital energy in contradiction. Where is energy, there is life and growth. Your contemplative solitude will allow your contradictions to emerge with clarity and force. If you remain faithful to this energy, you will gradually come to participate in a harmony that lies deeper than any contradiction. This will give you new courage to engage the depth, danger, and darkness of your life. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove
190:If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. Humanity goes. Money making becomes so important that they must work by night as well as by day. Health goes. And so competitive do they become that they will not share their work with others though they have more themselves. What then remains of a human being who has lost sight, sound, and sense of proportion? Only a cripple in a cave. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove
191:I am a free man‚ and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company. What do you want of me? When I have something to say, I put it in print. When I have something to give, I give it. Your prying curiosity turns my stomach! Your compliments humiliate me! Your tea poisons me! I owe nothing to any one. I would be responsible to God alone‚ if He existed! ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove
192:The conversation between Fletcher and Jonathan Livingston Seagull is centered on why some have achieved more than others . . . are they divine . . . ahead of their times . . . Fletcher says, Well, this kind of flying has always been here to be learned by anybody who wanted to discover it; that's got nothing to do with time. We're ahead of the fashion, maybe. Ahead of the way most gulls fly. Poor Fletch. Don't you believe what your eyes are telling you? All they show is limitations. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove
193:All I'm arguing for really is that we should have a conversation where the best ideas really thrive, where there's no taboo against criticizing bad ideas, and where everyone who shows up, in order to get their ideas entertained, has to meet some obvious burdens of intellectual rigor and self-criticism and honesty-and when people fail to do that, we are free to stop listening to them. What religion has had up until this moment is a different set of rules that apply only to it, which is you have to respect my religious certainty even though I'm telling you I arrived at it irrationally. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove

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1:Drying up in conversation ~ Thom Yorke,
2:conversation faded. ~ Ellen Marie Wiseman,
3:Yes! Art is a conversation! ~ Ani DiFranco,
4:Deborah Feldman in Conversation ~ Anonymous,
5:The conversation of bullets. ~ Markus Zusak,
6:Your ignorance cramps my conversation ~ Bob Hope,
7:Debate is the death of conversation. ~ Emil Ludwig,
8:Conversation makes one what he is. ~ George Herbert,
9:Repartee is the soul of conversation. ~ John Dryden,
10:Silence is also conversation. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi,
11:Together we are an endless conversation ~ Rupi Kaur,
12:Content isn’t king. Conversation is. ~ Cory Doctorow,
13:polite conversation is rarely either ~ Fran Lebowitz,
14:into a conversation. I am hoping that, ~ Jodi Picoult,
15:Polite conversation is rarely either. ~ Fran Lebowitz,
16:Criticism should be a casual conversation. ~ W H Auden,
17:Good-bye broadcast, Hello, conversation. ~ Shel Israel,
18:the soul of conversation is sympathy ~ Thomas Campbell,
19:Editing is a conversation, not a monologue ~ Susan Bell,
20:I must have my share in the conversation. ~ Jane Austen,
21:I must have my share in the conversation… ~ Jane Austen,
22:The best of life is conversation. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
23:You marry to continue the conversation. ~ Julian Barnes,
24:Conversation is a game of circles. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
25:seem inclined to begin the conversation ~ David Baldacci,
26:Love without conversation is impossible. ~ Mortimer Adler,
27:the conversation with the two musicians, ~ Danielle Steel,
28:Kipling called it a very long conversation. ~ Lauren Groff,
29:The desire to perform impedes conversation. ~ Mason Cooley,
30:thinking that this conversation was going ~ Jackie Collins,
31:Silence is one great art of conversation. ~ William Hazlitt,
32:The art of conversation lies in listening. ~ Malcolm Forbes,
33:The only proper intoxication is conversation. ~ Oscar Wilde,
34:Unconstraint is the grace of conversation. ~ Samuel Johnson,
35:A man of no conversation should smoke. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
36:An hour of play is worth a lifetime of conversation. ~ Plato,
37:Argument is the worst sort of conversation. ~ Jonathan Swift,
38:Conversation is a catalyst for innovation ~ John Seely Brown,
39:I love the conversation between film and music. ~ Agnes Obel,
40:But conversation, choose what theme we may, ~ William Cowper,
41:Business is nothing more than a conversation: ~ Robin S Sharma,
42:Talk shows are proof that conversation is dead. ~ Mason Cooley,
43:The sun felt so loud, it stood in for conversation. ~ Lucy Tan,
44:The water as a topic of conversation dried up. ~ P G Wodehouse,
45:waiting for him to start the conversation. ~ Max Allan Collins,
46:Whole worlds open up when we start a conversation. ~ Ali Smith,
47:Why write stories? To join the conversation. ~ Dorothy Allison,
48:Conversation was irrelevant. Only pie mattered. ~ Richelle Mead,
49:I can read your body language like a conversation ~ Dom Kennedy,
50:We only really learn in conversation after sex. ~ Judith Merril,
51:What is reading but silent conversation? ~ Walter Savage Landor,
52:CONVERSATION is the vehicle for change. ~ Terry Tempest Williams,
53:The conversation burned off like fog in sunlight. ~ Annie Proulx,
54:Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. ~ William Hazlitt,
55:A little less conversation, a little more ACTION. ~ Elvis Presley,
56:-What is there to keep me here?
-Conversation ~ Samuel Beckett,
57:No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation ~ Lewis Carroll,
58:Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation. ~ W H Auden,
59:There is no God, and conversation is a dying art. ~ Raymond Carver,
60:All social change begins with a conversation. ~ Margaret J Wheatley,
61:Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food. ~ Alfred Hitchcock,
62:Conversation: The slowest form of human communication. ~ Don Herold,
63:Copy is a direct conversation with the consumer. ~ Shirley Polykoff,
64:Good writing is good conversation, only more so. ~ Ernest Hemingway,
65:It's like watching a train wreck, this conversation. ~ Cynthia Hand,
66:Right. Conversation. I might want to try some of that. ~ Devon Monk,
67:Sex is a conversation carried out by another means. ~ Peter Ustinov,
68:Conversation had been sparse during the bleak ride, ~ Laura Spinella,
69:conversation to continue in the direction it was going. ~ Eve Carter,
70:Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God. ~ Timothy Keller,
71:Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit. ~ Julie Mehretu,
72:The conversation is happening about your brand whether ~ Seth Godin,
73:this marked the end of our toothbrush conversation. ~ Patrick deWitt,
74:A good friendship is a conversation that never ends. ~ Gloria Steinem,
75:A novel is a conversation between a reader and a writer. ~ John Green,
76:He died in the middle of our conversation. How rude. ~ Hiromu Arakawa,
77:I and me are always too deeply in conversation. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
78:I detest war; it ruins conversation ~ Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle,
79:The newspaper is a lecture. The Web is a conversation. ~ James Lileks,
80:We aren't really having this conversation," Neil said. ~ Nora Sakavic,
81:We should have a conversation when we hang up. ~ Benedict Cumberbatch,
82:Dialogue concentrates meaning; conversation dilutes it. ~ Robert McKee,
83:home truth stopped the conversation dead. They spent ~ Paul Pilkington,
84:It's all about bucks, kid. The rest is conversation. ~ Michael Douglas,
85:It’s like you can’t have a real conversation with anyone. ~ Jeff Hobbs,
86:More of your conversation would infect my brain. ~ William Shakespeare,
87:We change people through conversation, not through censorship. ~ Jay Z,
88:Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation. ~ Jean de la Bruyere,
89:Cecile carried on a full conversation, on and on ~ Rita Williams Garcia,
90:Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
91:He died in the middle of our conversation. How rude... ~ Hiromu Arakawa,
92:social networking is the new dinner conversation .  ~ William Bernhardt,
93:Conversation that was lifeless, hollow, dry as bone. ~ Diane Chamberlain,
94:conversation with Dave, telling him what had happened. ~ Jennifer Weiner,
95:Dude, this is a stoner conversation and we're not even high ~ Libba Bray,
96:Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household. ~ Paul Lynde,
97:...insults were exchanged, but never conversation" (p.17). ~ Evan Thomas,
98:I think good conversation is really the best form of sex. ~ Paul Russell,
99:product development into a conversation with customers. ~ Alistair Croll,
100:Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul. ~ Isabel Allende,
101:...An honest conversation with anyone is a form of praying. ~ Kate Jacobs,
102:Chamber music - a conversation between friends. ~ Catherine Drinker Bowen,
103:Conceit causes more conversation than wit. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld,
104:He could not meet her in conversation, rational or playful. ~ Jane Austen,
105:If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, ~ Nicholas Sparks,
106:I hate war, for it spoils conversation. ~ Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle,
107:Male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication ~ Deborah Tannen,
108:Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture. ~ William Hazlitt,
109:She was the only girl who didn’t run out of conversation; ~ Smita Kaushik,
110:Silence is one of the great arts of conversation. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero,
111:The First Goal of Conversation: Understanding, not Agreement ~ Danny Silk,
112:All problems exist in the absence of a good conversation. ~ Thomas Leonard,
113:Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think. ~ Nick Cannon,
114:Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. ~ Michael Chabon,
115:Silence can be defined as conversation with an Englishman ~ Heinrich Heine,
116:The greatest single antidote to violence is conversation. ~ Jonathan Sacks,
117:Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God. ~ Billy Graham,
118:All stories are in conversation with other stories. —Neil Gaiman ~ Anonymous,
119:Change comes from listening, learning, caring and conversation. ~ Gwen Ifill,
120:Chatter: any conversation with someone who has not suffered. ~ Emil M Cioran,
121:creating a void which others seek to fill through conversation. ~ Iain Pears,
122:« Having a conversation with him was like licking a cactus » ~ Elaine Levine,
123:I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart. ~ Gabrielle Zevin,
124:Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation. ~ Warren Buffett,
125:All was acknowledged, and half the night spent in conversation. ~ Jane Austen,
126:and her answer to it because she’s driving the conversation. In ~ Tim Sanders,
127:Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary. ~ Peter Sellers,
128:Dialogue is not conversation. It is conversation's greatest hits. ~ Amy Bloom,
129:I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author. ~ Elbert Hubbard,
130:I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. ~ George Bernard Shaw,
131:It's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding! ~ Lewis Carroll,
132:I wanted to have an honest conversation for fucking once. ~ Isabella Starling,
133:Listen, this is a rake and a shovel conversation, no hoes allowed. ~ Sapphire,
134:Our conversations were like sex, our sex like conversation. ~ Patrick McGrath,
135:Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. ~ Samuel Johnson,
136:What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation. ~ Anatole France,
137:Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about. ~ Cory Doctorow,
138:For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen. ~ Margaret Mead,
139:Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation. ~ Lizz Winstead,
140:I don’t think we ever had one real conversation our whole lives. ~ Noah Cicero,
141:That," he said, "is so not the point of this conversation. ~ Maggie Stiefvater,
142:this is a rake and a shovel conversation, no hoes allowed. Get out! ~ Sapphire,
143:Those who hold conversation with themselves keep sorry company. ~ Stephen King,
144:Vigorous conversation still murmured up through the floor. ~ Maggie Stiefvater,
145:When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation. ~ Gail Parent,
146:Often, the most important part of a conversation was the waiting. ~ Susan Wiggs,
147:She felt so human that he could barely carry on a conversation. ~ L A Weatherly,
148:She's a girl after my own heart. Food first, conversation later. ~ Kelly Risser,
149:A performance is a conversation between you and an audience. ~ Livingston Taylor,
150:Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation ~ Jonathan Swift,
151:Hey, tell me, when did this conversation go completely whoosh? ~ Justin Richards,
152:Our “conversation” was a kaleidoscope of brilliant vibrations. ~ Andrew Davidson,
153:A lie to the faithless is merely a conversation in their language. ~ Lorrie Moore,
154:All stories are in conversation with other stories. —Neil Gaiman ~ Benjamin Percy,
155:Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
156:His conversation was marked by its happy abundance. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,
157:I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation. ~ Clement Attlee,
158:In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve. ~ Cato the Younger,
159:In conversation, everyone sits in confident judgment on the world. ~ Mason Cooley,
160:Marriage is like a long conversation that always ends too soon. ~ Cassandra Clare,
161:Meditation is my soul's soundless conversation with my inner pilot. ~ Sri Chinmoy,
162:The conversation of the drunk is only interesting to the drunk. ~ Joe Abercrombie,
163:It's not polite to pass out when you've got company. Conversation, ~ David Morrell,
164:Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation. ~ Mason Cooley,
165:Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson,
166:One of my favorite things: good conversation with good friends. ~ Karen Salmansohn,
167:Texting is more direct. You don't have to use conversation filler. ~ Sherry Turkle,
168:There are words which close a conversation as with an iron door. ~ Alexandre Dumas,
169:When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation. ~ Kenneth Koch,
170:Without ignorance or disagreement all conversation would be boring. ~ Josh Steimle,
171:Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. ~ Nikki Giovanni,
172:Funny what a difference one successful phone conversation can make! ~ Blue Balliett,
173:Neil had no idea how the conversation had gone from murder to Renee. ~ Nora Sakavic,
174:The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them. ~ Neal Stephenson,
175:The conversation had gotten off on the wrong foot and she knew it. ~ Robert Littell,
176:There's no time for conversation dear, moan is all I want to hear. ~ Big Daddy Kane,
177:They are conversation-openers in the arcane femine language of Shoe. ~ Claire Cross,
178:Why don't you and I have a nice penetrating man-to-man conversation? ~ Sanami Matoh,
179:A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. ~ Andr Maurois,
180:Conversation over coffee tended to be candid and invited confidences. ~ Joanne Fluke,
181:If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. ~ James Whistler,
182:Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence ~ O Henry,
183:Not all prayer is in words, because not all conversation is in words. ~ Peter Kreeft,
184:Plenty of guys are good at sex, but conversation, now there's an art. ~ Linda Barnes,
185:The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation. ~ Damian Lewis,
186:Unattached details take all the sparkle out of your conversation. ~ Vladimir Nabokov,
187:Why should conversation always be so much more coherent than experience? ~ Amy Leach,
188:A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. ~ Andre Maurois,
189:Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal. ~ Sergey Brin,
190:Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. ~ Oscar Wilde,
191:Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect. ~ John Keats,
192:how many friends in my life have i already had my last conversation with? ~ Jomny Sun,
193:I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conversation of souls. ~ John Green,
194:in conversation discretion is more important than eloquence. cxlix ~ Baltasar Graci n,
195:Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence. ~ O Henry,
196:So if you’re losing the debate, you change the conversation. ~ Robert Jackson Bennett,
197:The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming. ~ Alice Munro,
198:The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk. ~ George Santayana,
199:A conversation with Mabh was like playing tag with a grizzly bear. ~ Lesley Livingston,
200:A great dinner must include not only yummy food, but good conversation. ~ Laurie David,
201:Customer conversion is dependent on the right customer conversation ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru,
202:Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. ~ Mortimer J Adler,
203:Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
204:Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation. ~ Michel de Montaigne,
205:Always enter the conversation already occurring in the customer's mind. ~ Dan S Kennedy,
206:As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks ~ Clive James,
207:Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld,
208:Conversation is the image of the mind. As the man is, so is his talk. ~ Publilius Syrus,
209:There were oceans of unspoken conversation in long marriages, it seemed. ~ Stephen King,
210:A good rule of conversation is never answer a foolish question. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith,
211:In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself. ~ James A Baldwin,
212:Never have a long conversation with anyone who says "between you and I. ~ E L Konigsburg,
213:Our conversation rate has to go up before our conversion rate can go up. ~ Reggie McNeal,
214:Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila,
215:Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well ~ Mark Haddon,
216:There was much conversation, most of which sounded like the rest of it. ~ Sinclair Lewis,
217:Why, he is an Anythingarian. ~ Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (c. 1738), Dialogue I,
218:You learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. ~ Plato,
219:Can we move this conversation along, I'm getting frightfully tired of 'hoa'. ~ Dave Barry,
220:Conversation was a thing that made time pass, not a way of passing the time. ~ E F Benson,
221:Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one. ~ George Santayana,
222:Every person has something meaningful to say in the conversation of life. ~ Bryant McGill,
223:I am glad that people are trying to have a rational conversation about drugs. ~ Carl Hart,
224:I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it`s a conversation piece. ~ Hedda Hopper,
225:I don't think politics is any longer about a conversation with the country. ~ Jon Stewart,
226:If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation. ~ Oscar Wilde,
227:Just 'cuz a kid is crying doesn't mean it's a conversation worth crying over. ~ Tite Kubo,
228:My life is a never ending conversation of the things that people do not say ~ Ally Carter,
229:Other people’s tragedies should not be the subject of idle conversation. ~ Kate DiCamillo,
230:People are worms and they have to stay worms. —from a wiretapped conversation ~ Anonymous,
231:People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were. ~ Edward R Murrow,
232:Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. ~ Mark Haddon,
233:Somehow, by holding hands you can carry on a conversation without talking. ~ Maureen Daly,
234:The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar’s crooked nose. ~ Ella Leya,
235:The conversation was like the sort one has in dreams—mad but interesting. ~ Robert Graves,
236:The free conversation of a friend is what I would prefer to any environment. ~ David Hume,
237:What’s most unsettling about a madman is his sane conversation, ~ Gustavo Faver n Patriau,
238:When you get to 60, the word "retirement" comes in on every conversation. ~ Ozzy Osbourne,
239:You’re not a bad fellow, but you won’t drink. Sobriety disturbs conversation. ~ Anonymous,
240:Ever try to have a conversation with someone on drugs? It just doesn't work. ~ Frank Zappa,
241:Feminism was not a rulebook but a discussion, a conversation, a process... ~ Tavi Gevinson,
242:Getting the number is a natural end to the conversation, so walk away afterward. ~ Roosh V,
243:I'm not rapping, I'm conversing. It's just a conversation between me and you. ~ Snoop Dogg,
244:In one brief conversation, she made me see that there’s nothing wrong with me. ~ Jen Wilde,
245:My favorite kinds of movies are the ones that start a conversation. ~ Joseph Gordon Levitt,
246:My life is a never-ending conversation of the things that people do not say. ~ Ally Carter,
247:No man comes out of his own memorandum of conversation looking second best. ~ Dean Acheson,
248:Prayer mixed with worry and a negative conversation doesn't bring an answer. ~ Joyce Meyer,
249:Race is a part of every conversation in America, whether you know it or not. ~ Paul Singer,
250:The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. ~ William Hazlitt,
251:What do you call it when a straight person comes out? ... A conversation ~ Bill Konigsberg,
252:Always enter the conversation already taking place in the customer's mind. ~ Robert Collier,
253:Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius ~ Cal Newport,
254:Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation. ~ Sophia Loren,
255:Look lak we done run our conversation from grass roots tuh pine trees. ~ Zora Neale Hurston,
256:Mrs. Penniman always, even in conversation, italicised her personal pronouns. ~ Henry James,
257:Overheard today in restaurant: Can you stop listening to our conversation? ~ Demetri Martin,
258:The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud. ~ William Hazlitt,
259:Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown. ~ Aldous Huxley,
260:We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is ~ Joan D Chittister,
261:Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation. —Warren Buffett ~ Michael Lewis,
262:Change the conversation of the world by dwelling on what's gone right. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher,
263:If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation. ~ Alan Rickman,
264:Ne speaketh not; and yet there lies a conversation in his eyes. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
265:Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company. ~ Doug Stanhope,
266:The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence. ~ Henry David Thoreau,
267:We had talk enough, but no conversation. —SAMUEL JOHNSON, THE RAMBLER (1752) ~ Sherry Turkle,
268:When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation. ~ Samuel Johnson,
269:Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing. ~ Oscar Wilde,
270:It was artificial conversation, but it tided us over the first awkwardness. ~ Agatha Christie,
271:Sexuality is, of course, a great way of having a conversation between people. ~ Tilda Swinton,
272:Theater is all about foyers and conversation and digesting what you've seen. ~ Cate Blanchett,
273:The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation. ~ Mary Somerville,
274:trying to have a conversation with him was like playing catch with a well. ~ Patrick Rothfuss,
275:You never know what you're missing when you run away from a conversation. ~ Kelly Eileen Hake,
276:A quote is not a conversation, but an invitation to change your perspective. ~ Shannon L Alder,
277:At detumescence, after all, there is conversation, that is where love begins. ~ Hanif Kureishi,
278:Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. ~ Edward Gibbon,
279:Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion ~ Dwight Macdonald,
280:Everything is inspiring! It could be fine art or a conversation I have with somebody! ~ Hiromi,
281:I don't want to have this conversation. It's sunny out. There's bacon downstairs. ~ Libba Bray,
282:Moulmein for food,
Mandalay for conversation,
Rangoon for ostentation ~ Aung San Suu Kyi,
283:My ass hurts, Garrett.”
“Didn’t we have this conversation when we first met? ~ Abigail Roux,
284:When the conversation turns too quickly to films,I see it as a sign of weakness. ~ Herman Koch,
285:But the last conversation had been particularly virulent, and Taylor was through. ~ J T Ellison,
286:Every person I have a conversation with now runs a chance of being fictionalized. ~ Nick Miller,
287:finished our conversation yet.” “We haven’t?” Ben asked, lowering to the bench ~ Melissa Cutler,
288:If you’re stuck in hell, you might as well roast some marshmallows. Conversation, ~ J A Konrath,
289:There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. ~ Michel de Montaigne,
290:The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation. ~ Mason Cooley,
291:Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. ~ Benjamin Disraeli,
292:Conversation is not his strong suit. In fact, I’m not sure it’s a suit he owns. ~ David Levithan,
293:Evidently conversation with an actual human being had become passé. Stupid Internet. ~ Anonymous,
294:Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation. ~ Anton Chekhov,
295:Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
296:In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. ~ George Herbert,
297:Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes ~ Oscar Wilde,
298:Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation. ~ Margaret J Wheatley,
299:Sometimes I text the "wrong" person ... on purpose. Just to start a conversation. ~ Frank Warren,
300:The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago,' continued Marvin. ~ Douglas Adams,
301:tyro psychiatrist who provided the topic for a great deal of their conversation. ~ Reginald Hill,
302:What was the point of even having a conversation when words couldn't be trusted? ~ James Dashner,
303:A kiss is the natures way to stop a conversation, when the words are superfluous ~ Ingrid Bergman,
304:And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation? ~ Lewis Carroll,
305:Hold that thought. This sounds like the kind of conversation I’ll need pants for.” It ~ Sam Sykes,
306:I feel like R&B is really based off of emotion and truth. R&B is a conversation. ~ Sevyn Streeter,
307:If you had not answered the call, it wouldn't have become a conversation ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah,
308:I kept longing for a secret conversation, away from the pitchforks of the Internet ~ Sarah Hepola,
309:I like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time. ~ Courtney Milan,
310:I'm pragmatic. If I were cruel, I'd give him an eulogy instead of a conversation. ~ Leigh Bardugo,
311:It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then. ~ Richard Armour,
312:Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. Presumably ~ Mortimer J Adler,
313:Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation ~ Studs Terkel,
314:The conversation he'd been waiting years for. Quite possibly his entire life for. ~ Robin Parrish,
315:The most important conversation is the one you are having with yourself. When ~ Robert T Kiyosaki,
316:The true language of commerce is the natural conversation between human beings. ~ William C Brown,
317:Thought
Moves you past these lines
Into conversation
With the undead ~ Dorothea Lasky,
318:You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. ~ Unknown,
319:Can I just fight you now? Please? I’d rather die than continue this conversation. ~ Alethea Kontis,
320:Fairytales had more logic holes than the average conversation with a three-year-old ~ Debora Geary,
321:I am a dull fellow...my person reeks, my conversation consists of insipid platitudes. ~ Jack Vance,
322:In foreign policy it's not necessary to have similar views to have a conversation. ~ Narendra Modi,
323:In the tall tales told by firelight there was always a brief and laconic conversation. ~ Lee Child,
324:I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man. ~ Edward Dahlberg,
325:Okay, outside," the clerk said. "Conversation outside. Bye! Have a nice night! ~ Maggie Stiefvater,
326:Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation. ~ Studs Terkel,
327:This is a damn useless conversation. Goodbye. (Charles Goodnight to Woodrow Call) ~ Larry McMurtry,
328:What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation. ~ Glenn Close,
329:Are you listening, Buckman? For that is your role in this conversation. You listen.’ I ~ Robin Hobb,
330:Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine. ~ Esi Edugyan,
331:Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest. ~ Jonathan Swift,
332:Cut one off, or cut both off simultaneously. Either way, mustn’t the conversation stop? ~ C S Lewis,
333:If I start writing a song and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person. ~ Halsey,
334:I like when you can have a conversation with people and it's not just stock questions. ~ Jonah Hill,
335:It was an irresistible novelty having a conversation about books with a stranger. ~ Jaclyn Dolamore,
336:One does not hold a conversation with him. One holds a symposium. – Elizabeth Drew ~ Rick Perlstein,
337:One way to prevent conversation from being boring is to say the wrong thing. ~ Francis Joseph Sheed,
338:Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself, avoid trifling conversation. ~ Benjamin Franklin,
339:They didn't speak a word, but it was still their best conversation in a long time. ~ Katrina Kittle,
340:This is not a conversation, it is Agnes sending out darts and watching them pierce. ~ Jessie Burton,
341:Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation. ~ David Weinberger,
342:Checking out a girl’s cleavage was not necessarily an invitation for conversation. ~ Meredith Schorr,
343:I am often attracted to people with whom I could not hold a five minute conversation. ~ Mason Cooley,
344:Now if you tell anyone about this deep conversation, I'll cut off one of your nuts. ~ Glenna Maynard,
345:Prayer is - loving conversation with the One who has invited us into His embrace. ~ Richard J Foster,
346:taking a long walk was his preferred way to have a serious conversation. It turned ~ Walter Isaacson,
347:There's nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation. ~ Agatha Christie,
348:I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation. ~ W H Auden,
349:No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does. ~ Christopher Morley,
350:Whenever Percy stopped by to see her, she was so lost in thought that the conversation ~ Rick Riordan,
351:Artists are always good for conversation, so long as you want to talk about their art. ~ Craig Johnson,
352:Conversation is fruitful only between minds given to consolidating their perplexities. ~ Emil M Cioran,
353:Conversation without you trying to be sexy can still come off as very sexy. Trust me! ~ Sevyn Streeter,
354:I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained. ~ Tom Stoppard,
355:Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I'd like to learn how to have a conversation. ~ Sherry Turkle,
356:the only weapon I bring to a conversation is a knife. A gun means the talking is over. ~ Meljean Brook,
357:There is nothing so dangerous for any one who has something to hide as conversation! ~ Agatha Christie,
358:Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. ~ Elizabeth Drew,
359:Twitter is not a technology. It's a conversation and it's happening with or without you. ~ Charlene Li,
360:A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas. ~ Stan Getz,
361:A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation. ~ Daniel Handler,
362:If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism. ~ Immanuel Kant,
363:Ils avaient fui les perils de la conversation pour le terrain plus rassurant des livres. ~ Stefan Zweig,
364:Moon felt as if the conversation was a weight he had to drag along on the end of a rope. ~ Tom Stoppard,
365:Prayer is inward communication with yourself; action is outward conversation with God. ~ Steve Maraboli,
366:So honest conversation about concerning geezerhood takes place mostly among geezers. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,
367:The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably. ~ Hayley Atwell,
368:With that right person, you can have a late-night conversation at any time of the day. ~ David Levithan,
369:A half-hour conversation with Binky was like eating a Whitman Sampler in one sitting. ~ Armistead Maupin,
370:Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas. ~ Ambrose Bierce,
371:I’m fascinated, both by the news and also by the randomness of this continued conversation. ~ K F Breene,
372:It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much. —YOGI BERRA ~ Jim Afremow,
373:Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career. ~ Michael J Fox,
374:Knowledge comes from personal experience of truth and awareness, not from conversation. ~ Frederick Lenz,
375:What had started as idle conversation began to take concrete shape as a plan of action. ~ Sidney Sheldon,
376:What you gotta understand is, in this conversation and in our fight, you're not in control. ~ Andre Ward,
377:A silent conversation passes between us. You give me what I want. I give you what you need ~ Meghan March,
378:I'm still not sure I didn't hallucinate the conversation while overdosing on his pheromones. ~ Sylvia Day,
379:...she and Felix had their own, private, decades-long conversation that had never stopped. ~ Atul Gawande,
380:Stay out of the gutter in your conversation. Foul talk defiles the man who speaks it. ~ Gordon B Hinckley,
381:That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation. ~ Noah Baumbach,
382:The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries. ~ Ren Descartes,
383:They put more money toward the men to avoid what they feared would be a tough conversation. ~ Laszlo Bock,
384:While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. ~ Alan Moore,
385:Conversation became strained as they each waited for a sign that they would not be rebuffed. ~ Robin Baker,
386:Don't steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility. ~ Bill Hybels,
387:I can't wait to be eighty. So I can shock people by saying "rim job" in casual conversation. ~ Lena Dunham,
388:If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. ~ C S Lewis,
389:Interviewing is a lot like talking, but you have to guide the conversation. You have to ~ Anthony DeCurtis,
390:It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man. ~ W Somerset Maugham,
391:I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation. ~ Samuel Beckett,
392:It's annoying when people tag my name in their conversation with someone else [on Twitter.] ~ Casper Smart,
393:My idea of a good night has always been having a lovely meal and a proper conversation. ~ Kirsty Gallacher,
394:There’s nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation. ~ Jodi Picoult,
395:What you’re reading here is basically a person having a conversation with his own biography. ~ David Lynch,
396:A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb,
397:A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. ~ Mark Twain,
398:Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do. ~ Billy Corgan,
399:I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine. ~ Naomi Watts,
400:If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating. ~ Leigh Hunt,
401:I'm not sure why I've always assumed that the responsibility of a conversation falls on me. ~ Julie Buxbaum,
402:It was a good conversation to have, actually. I just didn’t know how to participate in it. ~ Laurelin Paige,
403:Perhaps this is fashionable conversation—combative and unsettling, passing for casual talk. ~ Jessie Burton,
404:The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation. ~ Michel de Montaigne,
405:There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation. ~ Jodi Picoult,
406:Any conversation with more than three people is typically a conversation with too many people. ~ Jason Fried,
407:Few things are more annoying than a man who must constantly one-up others during conversation. ~ Brett McKay,
408:I believe that every conversation you have is an invitation to risk revealing the real you. ~ Keith Ferrazzi,
409:If I was going to have this conversation, I was going to need my good friends Pinot and Grigio. ~ Erin Duffy,
410:In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage. ~ John Milton,
411:Listening well is one of the most powerful skills you can bring to a difficult conversation. ~ Douglas Stone,
412:Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men. ~ Marshall McLuhan,
413:People are meant to live in an ongoing conversation with God, speaking and being spoken to. ~ Dallas Willard,
414:Since Chuck’s a sporting guy, I think it’s only fair that I keep score of his conversation. ~ David Levithan,
415:When was the last time he’d held a conversation with a woman about the motivations of men? ~ Catherine Bybee,
416:Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going? ~ Phyllis McGinley,
417:Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. ~ Andr Maurois,
418:I am beginning to feel the need of a glass of wine to fortify myself against this conversation. ~ Naomi Novik,
419:I know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes. ~ Brie Larson,
420:I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't. ~ James Stockdale,
421:I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room. ~ Amanda Pays,
422:i tried to find it
but there was no answer
at the end of the last conversation
- closure ~ Rupi Kaur,
423:Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world. ~ Seth Godin,
424:Naming can satisfy a need, it can shorten a conversation that otherwise might go on for hours. ~ Nihad Sirees,
425:Relieved, I wait anxiously for her to kick-start the next round of stimulating conversation. ~ Alretha Thomas,
426:Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. ~ Benjamin Franklin,
427:The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. ~ Winston Churchill,
428:The Davos agenda emphasizes emerging markets, but the U.S. economy may dominate the conversation. ~ Anonymous,
429:The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. ~ Immanuel Kant,
430:Your haters are not here for a conversation. They are here to keep you from doing your work. ~ Kameron Hurley,
431:After he leaves, we both kill a few minutes drowning our fries and the conversation in ketchup. ~ Gayle Forman,
432:A lot of people especially want to know about going into business. But it's a two-way conversation. ~ Alek Wek,
433:Can we ever have a normal conversation without it disintegrating into an argument? It's exhausting ~ E L James,
434:Conversation takes practice; the more we do it, the better we get, and the more easily we do it. ~ Susan RoAne,
435:Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. ~ Andre Maurois,
436:I also have a feeling your mother’s going to have a very ugly conversation with me." – Dimitri ~ Richelle Mead,
437:It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady. ~ Henry David Thoreau,
438:Neither question nor answer was meant as anything more than a polite preamble to conversation. ~ Arundhati Roy,
439:Only an atmosphere of quiet hard work and dull, serious conversation were appropriate to him. ~ Anthony Powell,
440:The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. ~ Rene Descartes,
441:The reading of all good books is like conversation with the noblest men of the past centuries. ~ Sharon Lathan,
442:Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. ~ Oscar Wilde,
443:une once d'inertie pèse plus qu'un boisseau de sagesse
(La conversation à Innsbruck) ~ Marguerite Yourcenar,
444:Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair. ~ Harry Mulisch,
445:We've had this conversation already and watch your mouth, you fuckhead, there's a lady here. ~ Lisa Marie Rice,
446:A kind word will never replace the conversation that God has prompted you to repeatedly have. ~ Shannon L Alder,
447:Conversation with God leads to an encounter with God. Prayer turns theology into experience. ~ Timothy J Keller,
448:He wasn't much cut out for serious conversations. And a goodbye is a serious conversation. ~ Alessandro Baricco,
449:I hate being so emotionally slutty. I need to stop loving everyone I have a long conversation with. ~ Sara Quin,
450:I'm constantly on the brink of tears in conversation about things that happen to people. ~ Phoebe Waller Bridge,
451:I rubbed my head trying to fend off the headache I was sure this conversation would bring me. ~ Hilary Grossman,
452:Odd, she thought of him as her friend though in truth they had shared only one brief conversation. ~ Lois Lowry,
453:Since Svarte and Kol had not a single word to say about this matter, their conversation died out. ~ Jan Guillou,
454:The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. ~ Winston S Churchill,
455:The mechanical effort of conversation is nastier and more complicated than defecation. ~ Louis Ferdinand C line,
456:The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone ~ Richard Sennett,
457:When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip. ~ Henry David Thoreau,
458:Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance. ~ Kim Stanley,
459:Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated. ~ Marquis de Sade,
460:Daniel?” I ask, just about holding onto the back of the conversation as it streaks away from me. ~ Stuart Turton,
461:For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me. ~ Sue Monk Kidd,
462:[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute. ~ Rick Moody,
463:LOL has turned into something you type when you have nothing better to add into a conversation. ~ Richard Harris,
464:Marie always had a head-ache on hand for any conversation that did not exactly suit her. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe,
465:My daily conversation, it consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of struggle. ~ Kevin Gates,
466:Palindromes are the number one conversation stopper, like party killer, I think I've ever seen. ~ Demetri Martin,
467:Tension pulled my shoulders tight, and I prayed my conversation skills were better than my magic. ~ Kim Harrison,
468:Then I tried to get them in a little intelligent conversation, but it was practically impossible. ~ J D Salinger,
469:The scent of the tree's flowers can stop conversation. Rohan knows no purer source of melancholy. ~ Nadeem Aslam,
470:What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher. ~ William Glasser,
471:Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation. ~ Paul Theroux,
472:And how did this misfortune occur?" inquired the latter, resuming the interrupted conversation. ~ Alexandre Dumas,
473:How easily an innocent remark could be misconstrued when every conversation was loaded with history. ~ Jojo Moyes,
474:I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ~ Niall Ferguson,
475:I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life. ~ Young Jeezy,
476:I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me. ~ John Sherman Cooper,
477:It took all the guts in the world to keep that conversation going. Guts and two plastic cups of beer. ~ Jay Asher,
478:Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
479:The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
   ~ Rene Descartes,
480:an opinion I communicate to him with a look. Cadi notices our silent conversation and smiles. Lucas ~ Trisha Leigh,
481:As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral. ~ Jane Smiley,
482:Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth. ~ Rob Bell,
483:Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure. ~ W Somerset Maugham,
484:I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am. ~ Ryan Giggs,
485:I never got into 'MacGyver,' but 'All the President's Men' and 'The Conversation' were big for me. ~ Shane Carruth,
486:Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation. ~ Mark Twain,
487:no poverty of any kind, except of conversation, appeared—but there, the deficiency was considerable. ~ Jane Austen,
488:Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation. ~ James Hervey,
489:The food was bad but the conversation was vigorous as they sat and talked about many of the campers ~ Meg Wolitzer,
490:The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation. ~ Plato,
491:The phone conversation where I haven't had a smoke, it's like trying to talk without using adverbs. ~ Eddie Vedder,
492:The wind seems to be blowing through the gaps in the conversation like the rushing of empty space. ~ Michael Cisco,
493:This whole conversation was turning into a twisted version of Abbot & Costello's Who's on First. ~ Kelly Moran,
494:What times are these when a conversation is almost a crime because it includes so much made explicit? ~ Paul Celan,
495:You've got to dig in [and learn about things you don't know] if you want to stay in the conversation. ~ Suzy Welch,
496:A great way to be left alone on the subway is to appear to be deep in conversation with a small knife. ~ Dana Gould,
497:A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.”

- Chinese proverb ~ Alvin Toffler,
498:As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree. ~ Albert Camus,
499:A word-of-mouth conversation by a new customer leads to an almost $200 increase in restaurant sales. ~ Jonah Berger,
500:Behind every communication problem is a sweaty ten-minute conversation that you don't want to have. ~ Gay Hendricks,
501:Every conversation, every failure, every opportunity is a chance to get better. Starting today. ~ Gary W Goldstein,
502:Going on and on in detail about how stressed out I am isn’t conversation. It’ll never lead anywhere. ~ Mindy Kaling,
503:He wants to be included in every activity, every conversation, every problem, and even every thought. ~ Rick Warren,
504:If I were a man I would kill you!"
"If you were a man we wouldn't be having this conversation! ~ Georgette Heyer,
505:I'm more likely to strike up a conversation with a stranger than to try any antic or pickup lines. ~ Clayton Snyder,
506:No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation. ~ Thomas a Kempis,
507:So, destroy?" Cal asked. Clearly, the conversation was giving his two brain cells a serious workout. ~ Rick Riordan,
508:Teaching, I soon learned, was a deliberate dance, a constant running conversation, a pleasure. ~ Siva Vaidhyanathan,
509:There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit ~ Stephen Leacock,
510:There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation. ~ Blaise Pascal,
511:The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides,
512:The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. ~ George Bernard Shaw,
513:You can’t have a conversation with an autograph and you can’t go out to lunch with a group selfie ~ Caroline Kepnes,
514:A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation. ~ Mark Twain,
515:American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that. ~ Shirley Henderson,
516:If the conversation people think is coming is the 'death panel' conversation, that's a total failure. ~ Atul Gawande,
517:Once again I had asked an innocent question, and because of it, I was banished from the conversation. ~ John Grisham,
518:perhaps you three could continue this conversation when the ship is not under attack? Mr.Kadam said. ~ Colleen Houck,
519:Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow. ~ Jonathan Swift,
520:Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation? ~ Stella Gibbons,
521:The words I’m sorry did not appear in the conversation, though it was what we ate for dinner. ~ Benjamin Alire S enz,
522:was necessary to ignore most of those Gus made or else you got bogged down in useless conversation. ~ Larry McMurtry,
523:Any honest conversation about engaging young people must address discrimination against young people. ~ Adam Fletcher,
524:Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that. ~ Penn Jillette,
525:Enough of this. Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut? Get out of the car. ~ Jonathan Lethem,
526:Facebook has focused on the conversation, but not really on absorbing the Web into its walled garden. ~ David Rusenko,
527:...insisting that you control the topic of behavioral conversation ensures accountability by students... ~ Doug Lemov,
528:It is seldom that a gentleman raises the subject of sewage so early in a conversation, I reflected. ~ Deanna Raybourn,
529:It's amazing how many people think a conversation is little more than reading their resume aloud. ~ Marshall Thornton,
530:It was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship. ~ Naomi Shihab Nye,
531:I want to touch your boob any time I see you and talk to you. It doesn’t matter the topic of conversation.” I ~ Tijan,
532:Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people. ~ Pete Wentz,
533:The ever-more distant sound of waves was like eavesdropping on a sinister, whispering conversation. ~ Jeff VanderMeer,
534:The more you perform, the more adept you get at the nuances of navigating that communal conversation. ~ Ted Alexandro,
535:The point of philosophy, as I see it, is to change thinking, and thereby to change the conversation. ~ Philip Kitcher,
536:They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them. ~ Edward Snowden,
537:What kind of trees are those?” she asked Milo. “Green,” he said, and that’s how the conversation ended. ~ Derek Landy,
538:What was it that drew you back? My marvellous personality, I suppose? Or my sparkling conversation? ~ Jonathan Stroud,
539:An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public. ~ Maurice Chevalier,
540:...and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind ~ David Nicholls,
541:conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation? ~ Lewis Carroll,
542:Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure. ~ Edmund Burke,
543:I despise this weakness in myself--this endless one-sided conversation that takes the place of action... ~ Stef Penney,
544:I do lots of crowd work in my set, because I enjoy writing material through riffing and conversation. ~ Chris Hardwick,
545:Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation. ~ Clarence Darrow,
546:I think I've scratched the surface after twenty years of marriage. Women want chocolate and conversation. ~ Mel Gibson,
547:It was like his entire body was having a conversation with Justin's body, though they were barely touching. ~ P E Ryan,
548:Let me know when you're done with this conversation. Peter needs his tongue bath. I mean sponge bath. ~ Dani Alexander,
549:Now I am shut up with his mother on Bramble farm and she is no better for conversation than prune whip ~ Sandra Dallas,
550:Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz. ~ Stan Getz,
551:She closed her eyes and opened them a moment later, like she was erasing the conversation from her memory. ~ Lee Child,
552:She hadn’t meant to get trapped in a conversation. That was the trouble with offering help to old people. ~ Libba Bray,
553:- Still reading, Miss St John? You read a lot, don't you?
- It saves me from conversation. ~ Sylvia Townsend Warner,
554:Their conversation was a flow of erudite commentary, moist with the syrup of a superior education. She ~ Gail Carriger,
555:The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak. ~ Winston Churchill,
556:Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,
557:Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. ~ H L Mencken,
558:America does, in the future, need to have a conversation with and try to move forward with Russia. ~ Philip M Breedlove,
559:But when we reduce the conversation to simply passing judgment, we are left with no conversation at all. ~ Esther Perel,
560:I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger,
561:I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation. ~ Megan Fox,
562:In any conversation, I was taught, there are at least three parties: you, the other person, and the Lord. ~ Mitch Albom,
563:I only had a telephone conversation with [Donald Trump], whereas [Shinzō ] Abe met with him in person. ~ Vladimir Putin,
564:Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that's so near how the conversation went, I'm going to call it truth. ~ Shannon Hale,
565:Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action. ~ Tupac Shakur,
566:people teaches children how to be in a relationship, beginning with the ability to have a conversation. ~ Sherry Turkle,
567:Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age (New York: Penguin, 2015), 42. ~ Johann Hari,
568:Teaching...can be likened to a conversation in which you listen to the speaker carefully before you reply. ~ Marie Clay,
569:There are certain things that are obviously problems and should be topics of conversation that aren't. ~ Justin Hartley,
570:This isn’t a negotiation, it’s not even a conversation. I’m just setting out the terms, that’s all. ~ David Lagercrantz,
571:A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George. ~ Dennis Miller,
572:Don’s European friends occasionally came up in conversation, but they’d yet to materialize in real life. ~ Joanna Rakoff,
573:Fat chance. “Fuck Neil Young,” he snapped, “and fuck his records. You keep them.” End of conversation. ~ Brent Schlender,
574:(frames create context and relevance; as we will see, the person who owns the frame owns the conversation). ~ Oren Klaff,
575:It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation. ~ Edward St Aubyn,
576:Massive shift from presentation to participation...people want to be part of to be part of the conversation ~ Roy Sekoff,
577:Mizzy has, again, wandered into the garden, like a child who feels no fealty to adult conversation. ~ Michael Cunningham,
578:Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,
579:Neglect not the conversation of the aged, for they speak that which they have heard from their fathers. ~ Ecclesiasticus,
580:Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies ~ John Cleese,
581:She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak. ~ Jane Austen,
582:Then I laughed because here I was having a conversation with a cat about having a conversation with a cat. ~ Sofie Kelly,
583:Why do people, when they are wrong, twist the conversation around and place the blame on someone else? ~ Hilary Grossman,
584:A conversation with her is a special pleasure because there are no words that are not preceded by thoughts. ~ Irin Carmon,
585:As a salesperson, you will be judged by your ability to keep a stalled conversation moving along briskly. ~ Harvey Mackay,
586:A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city. ~ Samuel Johnson,
587:Before any of them could risk starting a conversation that was bound to be awkward—and perhaps acrimonious ~ Stephen King,
588:give me raw conversation without filters or restraints. i yearn for something deeper, i long for understanding. ~ R H Sin,
589:I don't feel old. Okay, maybe I do when I get in a conversation with Earl Thomas, who was born in 1989. ~ Matt Hasselbeck,
590:I hate to be sanctimonious about it, but it turns out that good conversation solves a great many problems. ~ E K Johnston,
591:I learned that it is possible to make conversation with anyone, if you figure out what they wish to discuss. ~ Alex Flinn,
592:In any conversation, I was taught, there are at least three parties: you, the other person, and the Lord. I ~ Mitch Albom,
593:It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation. ~ A A Milne,
594:Life hack: if you don’t want someone asking you questions, say the word tampon, and the conversation ends. ~ Elle Kennedy,
595:Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different. ~ Abdul Kalam,
596:Mr. Satterthwaite’s conversation was apt to be unduly burdened by mentions of his titled acquaintances. ~ Agatha Christie,
597:nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women. ~ Lady Hester Stanhope,
598:Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
599:Texting is so much more natural. It’s a conversation. You know when you’re understood. And when you’re not. ~ Kelly Harms,
600:That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood. ~ Alexander Pope,
601:That entire conversation had the feeling of a pleasant stroll inches away from the edge of the Grand Canyon. ~ Hank Green,
602:The good thing about being with a woman who has amnesia is that the conversation gets to be all about you ~ Carla Cassidy,
603:there was little significance in their conversation, just father and son taking a verbal stroll together. The ~ Liu Cixin,
604:The time has come for a new kind of conversation, a new kind of Christianity, a new kind of revolution. ~ Shane Claiborne,
605:Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument. ~ Amy Tan,
606:Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence. ~ Robertson Davies,
607:Get over here. We're having intimate bed conversation and I won't do it with a foot of mattress between us. ~ Jane Seville,
608:God say what He got to say and that’s it. He leaves it up to us to listen or not. End of conversation. ~ Michelle Stimpson,
609:I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge. ~ Seth Godin,
610:I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability. ~ Edward Burtynsky,
611:Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed. ~ Oscar Wilde,
612:Note: “people like you” is a good warning that a conversation is about to head into pretty racist territory. ~ Ijeoma Oluo,
613:That's probably the most boring conversation you could hear - an actor talk about politics. I won't go there. ~ Anne Heche,
614:We could be silent for a while because we'd
know we had the rest of our lives together for conversation. ~ Paulo Coelho,
615:You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact. ~ Harry Dean Stanton,
616:A story can start from the oddest things: a magic lamp, a conversation overheard, a shadow moving on a wall. ~ Ahdaf Soueif,
617:Conversation, fastidious goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. ~ Virginia Woolf,
618:He'll never be Jordan. This clearly takes him out of the conversation. He can win as much as he wants to. ~ Charles Barkley,
619:I ate with Wolf in the Situation Room. The pizza was good. The conversation did nothing to brighten my mood. ~ Kathy Reichs,
620:If ever you grow weary of concrete, so much concrete conversation, you might take your questions to the forest. ~ Amy Leach,
621:(Query: Is it possible to cultivate the art of conversation when living in the country all the year round?) ~ E M Delafield,
622:She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation. ~ Charles Frazier,
623:Sometimes, life is like that. One moment. One person. One conversation. And your life is forever enriched. ~ Michael Dillon,
624:...tethered to the ground by quotidian conversation.

... the window rosy with anemic November light. ~ Lauren Slater,
625:The elites - or managers in companies - no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start. ~ Marc Benioff,
626:The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it's changing the conversation. ~ Bill Moyers,
627:The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer. ~ Andrew Sullivan,
628:Their voices were just murmurs, the distant music that a conversation makes when it’s too dim for words. ~ Patrick Rothfuss,
629:...the sound of our lack of conversation amplified by the echo of our footsteps on the stone around us. ~ Maggie Stiefvater,
630:what they had written was not absolute but was the result of a biased process of conversation and revision, ~ Tara Westover,
631:Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God. ~ R C Sproul,
632:6Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone. ~ Anonymous,
633:Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing. ~ Edith Wharton,
634:Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about. ~ Agnes Repplier,
635:I am aware that, every time I have a conversation with a book, I benefit from someone's decision against silence. ~ Yiyun Li,
636:I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written. ~ Paulo Coelho,
637:I don’t have to tell you, once you get a corpse really caught up in conversation, your battle’s half over. ~ William Goldman,
638:I find it very hard to believe that people would prefer an awkward picture with me than a normal conversation. ~ Alison Pill,
639:I'm definitely a people person. I love socializing and being around people and having a good conversation. ~ Emily Deschanel,
640:I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation. ~ Anne Bront,
641:It was certainly easy making conversation with this woman. You didn’t even have to know the native tongue. ~ Gillian Roberts,
642:Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable. ~ Joseph Joubert,
643:Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation. ~ Grant Morrison,
644:The last thing she needed to do was start a difficult conversation without knowing her own mind and heart. ~ Cindy Woodsmall,
645:Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation. ~ Jane Austen,
646:I have this very strange relationship with my work, which is that it's like a conversation between me and it. ~ Tilda Swinton,
647:I love art. To experience sombodys art is to be invited into a silent conversation they are having with themself. ~ Jomny Sun,
648:I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation. ~ Anne Bronte,
649:I was an adult before I began to learn that there is a difference between a conversation and an argument. ~ Marion Dane Bauer,
650:Living is a conversation with no end, a dance with no steps, a song with no words, a reason too big for any mind. ~ Mark Nepo,
651:Our rule is: If it makes the parent laugh, and the kid asks why, that can't be an uncomfortable conversation. ~ Dan Povenmire,
652:The art of classic prose is to signpost sparingly, as we do in conversation, and with a minimum of metadiscourse. ~ Anonymous,
653:The shame is disguised here as helpful. But both people in this conversation would know it was bullying. ~ Augusten Burroughs,
654:The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton,
655:You can tell how poor someone feels by the number of times he references “money” in his conversation. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb,
656:A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation. ~ William Blake,
657:band, and it was as if, instead of conversation, he was talking to me through these more exotic instruments. ~ Sebastian Barry,
658:Even if she realized that they didn’t want her overhearing their conversation, she didn’t seem to care at all. ~ Christa Faust,
659:God knew where he was, but he asked so as to start a conversation with Adam and avoid startling him too much to reply. ~ Rashi,
660:It’s the spaces between words, the downbeats in a conversation in which two people feel bad for having fought. ~ Josh Malerman,
661:It's time to change the conversation about nature to focus on what we all have in common: our shared humanity. ~ Harrison Ford,
662:It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the right point in a conversation to say goodbye. ~ Haruki Murakami,
663:my idea of good company.. is the company of clever, well-informed people. who have a great deal of conversation. ~ Jane Austen,
664:That was the trouble with this house. A girl couldn't even carry on a telephone conversation with any privacy ~ Beverly Cleary,
665:The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have. ~ Jordan Peele,
666:The conversation has changed now that science has proven that processed foods—and especially sugar—are addictive. ~ Mark Hyman,
667:What sounds intelligent in a conversation or a meeting, or, particularly, in the media, is suspicious. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb,
668:All conversation, in addition to whatever else it does, displays, and asks for recognition of, our competence. ~ Deborah Tannen,
669:conversation a man had with his father—only not about the planned and carried out destruction of the entire world. ~ Hugh Howey,
670:Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too? ~ Edgar Degas,
671:God, just shoot me the day I start making music you can just put on in the car and have a conversation over it. ~ Jack Antonoff,
672:I do chat to my mother in Norwegian, particularly when we want a secret conversation. It is useful that way. ~ Alexander Hanson,
673:I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation. ~ Charlotte Gainsbourg,
674:I just want somebody I can have a decent conversation with over dinner.” —Tom Hanks, Sleepless in Seattle (1993) ~ Jenn Bennett,
675:In fact there was no such thing as a rumor. There was fact, and there was what did not come up in conversation. ~ Joshua Ferris,
676:I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation ~ Clifton Fadiman,
677:Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction. ~ Baltasar Gracian,
678:Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different. ~ A P J Abdul Kalam,
679:That was just how we spoke. Every conversation a game of poker, every line a bet or a raise, a bluff or a call. ~ Mark Lawrence,
680:The problem with Thanksgiving is that the pressure for the meal and the conversation to be perfect is daunting. ~ Lolly Winston,
681:There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation. ~ Samuel Johnson,
682:The Rule of Three is simply getting the other guy to agree to the same thing three times in the same conversation. ~ Chris Voss,
683:To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it. ~ Jonathan Edwards,
684:What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming. ~ Edgar Degas,
685:Whenever people ask you where you're from and you say New Orleans, it's always going to create a conversation. ~ Peyton Manning,
686:Everyone is interesting. If you’re ever bored in a conversation, the problem’s with you, not the other person. ~ Timothy Ferriss,
687:i love art. to experience somebodys art is to be invited into a silent conversation they are having with themselves. ~ Jomny Sun,
688:My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal. ~ Eddie Izzard,
689:Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation. ~ Dorothy Richardson,
690:The key to conversation at work is flexibility and understanding how what you say might be perceived by others. ~ Deborah Tannen,
691:The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered. ~ Henry David Thoreau,
692:The pains and pleasures of the body, howsoever important to ourselves, are an indelicate subject of conversation ~ Edward Gibbon,
693:Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say. ~ Hoda Kotb,
694:When a conversation has taken a wrong turn for us, we only get farther and farther into the swamp of awkwardness. ~ George Eliot,
695:With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this. ~ Werner Herzog,
696:Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. ~ Laurence Sterne,
697:A gin and tonic under its tiny canopy of lime, I said, elevates character and makes for enlightened conversation ~ Michael Chabon,
698:A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
699:As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element. ~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton,
700:Beginning of our conversation with Donald Trump, I made it very clear that Mexico will not pay for the wall. ~ Enrique Pena Nieto,
701:Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words. ~ Donalyn Miller,
702:CHAPTER XLIX MONKS AND MR. BROWNLOW AT LENGTH MEET. THEIR CONVERSATION, AND THE INTELLIGENCE THAT INTERRUPTS IT ~ Charles Dickens,
703:Colleen glanced up from her conversation with the station-wagon mom and caught him looking at her butt. Help. ~ Suzanne Brockmann,
704:Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
705:Don't let other people's conversations about what you're doing or you've done be part of your own conversation. ~ Kristen Stewart,
706:Every conversation I have almost always revolves around, you know, personnel and policy focused on producing results. ~ Paul Ryan,
707:He let talk wash over him, a small rock in a large stream, never poking out no matter how shallow the conversation. ~ Mick Herron,
708:It's better to play to the host as though in a real conversation and let the audience listen in- which they are. ~ Franklyn Ajaye,
709:I wasn’t wondering whether you had a lip fungus, but thank you for getting that awkward conversation out of the way. ~ Penny Reid,
710:One thing i am sure of is that our brief conversation in the dark showed him who i really am. I am a dumb fuck. ~ Kyung Sook Shin,
711:'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing. ~ Thomas Szasz,
712:Some people knew how to kill a conversation. Cura, on the other hand, could make it wish it had never been born. ~ Nicholas Eames,
713:They tended to give a little start when she spoke, as if the potted plant had tried to join in the conversation. ~ Liane Moriarty,
714:we were both content to spend the trip in awkward silence, which was vastly preferable to awkward conversation. *** ~ Andrew Rowe,
715:Bean sighed inwardly. It never failed. Whenever he had any conversation with Ender, it turned into an argument. ~ Orson Scott Card,
716:Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human. ~ Bryce Courtenay,
717:I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well. ~ Jennifer Weiner,
718:I had a great conversation with Trent Reznor. Trent said, "I'd have a sixpack, too, if I didn't write my own music!" ~ Ian Astbury,
719:I just want somebody I can have a decent conversation with over dinner.” —Tom Hanks, Sleepless in Seattle (1993) 11 ~ Jenn Bennett,
720:I once asked Lady Moseley what she found so beguiling about Hitler's conversation. 'Oh, the jokes', she said at once. ~ A N Wilson,
721:I would have chatted with Tempi, but trying to have a conversation with him was like playing catch with a well. ~ Patrick Rothfuss,
722:No other practice will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects. ~ Gordon B Hinckley,
723:Sometimes when it looks like I’m deep in thought I’m just trying not to have a conversation with people. PETE WENTZ ~ Guy Kawasaki,
724:There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives. ~ Cornel West,
725:This isn’t exactly a conversation two guys have over coffee. ‘Hey, dude, how well does your wife shave your balls? ~ Tymber Dalton,
726:Although I do not need to be surrounded by others in order to feel alive, I do need some conversation and distraction. ~ Iain Pears,
727:If I forgot something he said, there was no point worrying: we’d repeat the same conversation again in a few minutes. ~ Ken Dickson,
728:I pray everyday, all the time. Prayer is when you are actually experiencing a conversation with divine intelligence. ~ John Assaraf,
729:it’s a strange thing happening here cause nobody saying nothing and we still managing to have us a conversation. ~ Kathryn Stockett,
730:It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the appropriate point in a conversation to say goodbye ~ Haruki Murakami,
731:I walked beside the woman I had killed last week and tried to hold up my end of a conversation about cats. There ~ Richard K Morgan,
732:I want love, passion, honesty, and companionship... sex that drives me crazy and conversation that drives me sane. ~ Steve Maraboli,
733:Oh shit, another guy who doesn’t talk. Is this what makes women lesbians? The desire to have a good conversation? ~ Caroline Hanson,
734:Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy) ~ Joseph Brodsky,
735:Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation-and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies. ~ Frank C Laubach,
736:Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies. ~ Frank Laubach,
737:All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is. ~ Sebastian Junger,
738:As long as everyone's wearing their own pants." "I see I have come in on a fascinating moment in the conversation. ~ Cassandra Clare,
739:A song ain't nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it. ~ Woody Guthrie,
740:Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation. ~ Richard Russo,
741:For there is nothing more essential to the enjoyment of a civilized lunch than to have a lively topic of conversation. ~ Amor Towles,
742:Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor. ~ Adam Driver,
743:If we exchange bombs for bread there will be less reason for wanting to kill us. I just want to have the conversation. ~ Tom Shadyac,
744:I think those of us on a spiritual journey can help create a new conversation, a new America, and a new world. ~ Marianne Williamson,
745:Natasha tried to wedge herself into the conversation, but as usual the triangle would not widen into a square. p.302 ~ Anthony Marra,
746:Our gazes met. It seemed an entire conversation took place in that one glance. Each of us saw what we needed to know. ~ Lisa Kleypas,
747:She was the type who went to bars intent on conversation, while he was the type who went in hopes of being left alone. ~ Sue Grafton,
748:The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example. ~ Patricia Highsmith,
749:There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told. ~ David Byrne,
750:This is one of the last industries where the subject is off limits. Nobody’s comfortable in engaging in a conversation. ~ Rick Welts,
751:Whatever it is, you’re going to have to start broadcasting it via bait no later than the fifth minute of the conversation. ~ Roosh V,
752:Working to keep negative information out during a difficult conversation is like trying to swim without getting wet. ~ Douglas Stone,
753:Having an energy conversation without talking about climate is like talking about smoking and not talking about cancer. ~ Chris Hayes,
754:How was work?” I asked to keep the conversation going. Even if it was a downhill direction, movement was movement. ~ Rachel Hawthorne,
755:Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved. ~ Peter Ustinov,
756:So at school events you’ve got a plumber, a banker and a crystal healer standing around trying to make conversation. ~ Liane Moriarty,
757:The conversation between your fingers and someone else’s skin. This is the most important discussion you can ever have. ~ Iain Thomas,
758:While Christians tend to turn to Scripture to end a conversation, Jews turn to Scripture to start a conversation. ~ Rachel Held Evans,
759:You’re not really an adult at all. You’re just a tall child holding a beer, having a conversation you don’t understand. ~ Dylan Moran,
760:Bisexual people are the primary conduits for the cultural conversation that America is having about gay rights. ~ Jennifer Baumgardner,
761:Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene. ~ John Barth,
762:I am like no one.’ He said this casually, but it was the type of statement that eclipsed the conversation, killed it. ~ Patrick deWitt,
763:I have a bunch of information in my head that I'm not afraid to put in song or onto a canvas. Into any conversation. ~ John Mellencamp,
764:It's unfiltered conversation and I love it. I also like to argue with children, so it's the perfect platform for me. ~ Chelsea Handler,
765:Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell.
(in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy) ~ Joseph Brodsky,
766:Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. ~ Bruce Catton,
767:Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend. ~ Maggie Scarf,
768:The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation. ~ Agnes Repplier,
769:The conversation blended into a sort of anecdotal jambalaya, with bits of our history woven in with pop culture trivia. ~ Tracy Brogan,
770:The next woman you talk to is one you want to have sex with, not one you want to simply practice having a conversation with. ~ Roosh V,
771:There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk to much. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
772:To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context. ~ Rowan Williams,
773:...une conversation entre hommes, cette chose curieuse qui semble toujours hésiter entre la pédérastie et le duel ~ Michel Houellebecq,
774:As long as everyone's wearing their own pants."
"I see I have come in on a fascinating moment in the conversation. ~ Cassandra Clare,
775:Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing. ~ Stephen Nachmanovitch,
776:How can we effect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation? ~ Emma Watson,
777:Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe. ~ Epictetus,
778:The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states - as in his conversation with Vasetta. ~ Annie Besant,
779:Their time together had become one long conversation—contentious sometimes, yes—yet she had opened his mind in many ways. ~ Nancy Horan,
780:There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
781:These intellectual guys don't like to have an intellectual conversation with you unless they're running the whole thing. ~ J D Salinger,
782:We`re not in agreement on all topics. I had a conversation with Mr. [Donald] Trump that was open and constructive. ~ Enrique Pena Nieto,
783:Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading. ~ Jonathan Swift,
784:Even the way he was the only man she’d ever met who both could and dared to hold up his side of a conversation with her. ~ Suzanne Enoch,
785:Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being. ~ John Oliver,
786:The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship. ~ Deborah Tannen,
787:The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation — or a relationship. ~ Deborah Tannen,
788:The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't. ~ Christian Lacroix,
789:told her to engage them in a conversation where she summarized the situation and then asked, “How am I supposed to do that? ~ Chris Voss,
790:What is prayer, then, in the fullest sense? Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word ~ Timothy J Keller,
791:You couldn't let too much truth seep into your conversation, you couldn't admit with your mouth what your eyes had seen. ~ David Benioff,
792:All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
793:Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten. ~ Chinua Achebe,
794:Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor. ~ Seneca,
795:Each one roars by us for a few days, is remarked upon in casual conversation and filed away as something less than a memory. ~ Bill James,
796:If you're about to tell me that I need to stop fighting for you, that's not a conversation I want to have" ~ Kiera CassAspen ~ Kiera Cass,
797:It sometimes feels as though young women are trained from birth never to contribute anything original to a conversation. ~ Jessica Cluess,
798:Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld,
799:Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation. ~ Fran ois de La Rochefoucauld,
800:Much of the president’s daily conversation was a repetitive rundown of what various anchors and hosts had said about him. ~ Michael Wolff,
801:Of course. NSA is rumored to tape record every transatlantic telephone conversation. Maybe they’d recorded this session. ~ Clifford Stoll,
802:People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks. ~ Peter Hedges,
803:The conversation around policing is painful but I believe it provides us with an opportunity to learn, to change and to grow. ~ Ed Murray,
804:The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation. ~ Karl Barth,
805:Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
806:We call talking about other people’s personal lives ‘gossip’ only if we aren’t or weren’t part of the conversation. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
807:...and it's a strange thing happening here cause nobody saying nothing and we still managing to have us a conversation. ~ Kathryn Stockett,
808:In their presence, there's no need for continuous conversation, but you find you're quite content in just having them nearby. ~ Bob Marley,
809:I wasn't as good at semi-normal conversation as I was at ones that were written down, or adrenalized in a surreal moment. ~ David Levithan,
810:Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters. ~ Vince Gill,
811:people organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. ~ Jordan Peterson,
812:people threw around when they wanted the conversation to end, and for brains to go dead, and for all questioning to cease. ~ Michael Lewis,
813:The cabbie's eyes sort of glazed over. Canada kills any conversation quick, I learned long ago. It's a little trick of mine. ~ Esi Edugyan,
814:The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned. ~ Al Gore,
815:The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression. ~ Samuel Johnson,
816:Because if that’s what she meant, then yes, I just stared at him. I didn’t realize it was a conversation because penis. ~ Maggie Stiefvater,
817:Broke people talk about people and problems. Rich people talk about ideas and goals. Your conversation chooses your destiny. ~ Darren Hardy,
818:Forcing myself to make conversation felt like standing on a cliff, peering over the edge, about to tumble down headfirst. ~ Hiromi Kawakami,
819:If we ever meet in real life, we can have a conversation. But you should go and live your real life and I'll go and live mine. ~ Matt Corby,
820:If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk. ~ Wendell Berry,
821:I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people. ~ Lionel Richie,
822:I never only have a blade—but the only weapon I bring to a conversation is a knife. A gun means the talking is over. ~ Meljean Brook,
823:I want to be able to have a conversation with people. I don't want to be stupid. I'd like to have a life outside acting. ~ Callan McAuliffe,
824:I was still scared by every gap in our conversation, fearing that this was it, the point where we had nothing left to say. ~ David Levithan,
825:Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation. ~ Douglas Coupland,
826:Nothing- not a conversation, not a handshake or even a hug- establishes friendship so forcefully as eating together. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer,
827:Tedros and I had a conversation once,” said Hort. “I spent the whole time farting silently, hoping it might suffocate him. ~ Soman Chainani,
828:That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments... ~ Samuel Johnson,
829:The Beddingfeld girl was deep in conversation with the missionary parson, Chichester. Women always flutter round parsons. ~ Agatha Christie,
830:The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago,” continued Marvin. [...] “And that was with a coffee machine. ~ Douglas Adams,
831:The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at ~ John C Maxwell,
832:There's no way to be prepared for a conversation with someone you don't know about something that means the world to you. ~ Kristen Stewart,
833:To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld,
834:To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. ~ Fran ois de La Rochefoucauld,
835:What was one to do, thought Adela, with someone who didn't talk gardening or dogs - those standbys of rural conversation. ~ Agatha Christie,
836:A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances. ~ Lisa Kleypas,
837:Help is a conversation. If one side talks too much, the other side will get bored. So make sure you help back when you can. ~ James Altucher,
838:If you'd sat there any longer,' Annabeth said, 'you would have spontaneously combusted. I hope the conversation was worth it? ~ Rick Riordan,
839:It’s not the normal conversation society thinks we should be having, but I know it’s the conversation we should be having. Just ~ Max Monroe,
840:Lies aren’t a part of this conversation, Sloane. They’ll never be a part of any conversation we have again. Do you understand? ~ Callie Hart,
841:Listening to your own sets and listening to the audience as you perform. It's a conversation of sorts. There is an exchange. ~ Ted Alexandro,
842:people organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. ~ Jordan B Peterson,
843:So familiar that it didn't even register in the conversation; but it did reappear when I laid it out on the table of my dreams. ~ C sar Aira,
844:That's the point, to get the people who wouldn't otherwise think to eavesdrop on a conversation that involves science. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson,
845:The laughs are honestly bigger, ... They are the kind of unexpected belly laughs you get with your friends during conversation. ~ Drew Carey,
846:We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing. ~ Thomas B Macaulay,
847:We talked across each other, our conversation at right angles, only meeting in the intersections of silence at story’s end. ~ Harlan Ellison,
848:A good competition for comedians would be where a comedian has a conversation and is then quizzed on what the other person says. ~ Dana Gould,
849:And yet, he knew Audra did genuinely feel the loss of these conversations, of any conversation that she didn’t get to have. ~ Katherine Heiny,
850:A perfectly tuned conversation is a vision of sanity--a ratification of one's way of being human and one's way in the world. ~ Deborah Tannen,
851:As a practical guide, music you can carry on a conversation over is safe. If you have to shout over the noise, it’s too loud. ~ William Sears,
852:Casual conversation could be monitored and, given the day’s purpose, could be used against us in a court of human resources. ~ Seanan McGuire,
853:For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation. ~ Plato,
854:Friendship does not depend on conversation. Sometimes the most important communication is not mouth to ear, but heart to heart. ~ Dean Koontz,
855:If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and ~ Nicholas Sparks,
856:I've had that conversation! "You had a minute! Why didn't you do that?" So if husbands could read our minds that would be great. ~ Mila Kunis,
857:Literature is humanity's ongoing conversation with itself about what it means to be human, to be good, to live with meaning. ~ Sarah Clarkson,
858:Men, she decided, were a strange, thick-skulled, ball-kicking species no one on earth could have a sensible conversation with. ~ Irma Joubert,
859:purpose for every conversation you have, in every personal interaction, is that the person who hears you will receive grace. We ~ C J Mahaney,
860:...Simon and I by then were practicing to be apart, rehearsing together in the same room and often in the same conversation. ~ Elliot Perlman,
861:The circular conversation wasn’t new. Instead of feeling annoyed, I felt only sad. This man, for better or worse, was my father. ~ Megan Hart,
862:There's little value in advancing technology if our consciousness, compassion, conversation and cooperation is regressing. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru,
863:The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's how are your parents doing. ~ Kal Penn,
864:Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance. ~ Saadi,
865:With the right person, you can have a late-night conversation at any time of the day. But it helps to have it late at night. ~ David Levithan,
866:Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery. ~ Alexander Pope,
867:Among the Ibo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten. Okoye ~ Chinua Achebe,
868:If it were that important, SHIELD would have sent me." "Remember that conversation we had about being more supportive?" "Sorry. ~ Chelsea Cain,
869:Linguist say parties in the conversation will tolerate silence for four seconds before interjecting anything, however unrelated. ~ Bill Bryson,
870:The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton 1st Baron Lytton,
871:To be honest, I couldn't hold a conversation with anybody in any language other than English - and that's a struggle sometimes! ~ Phil Collins,
872:When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall. ~ Marina Abramovic,
873:Changing the focus of the conversation from religion to Jesus actually invites people to face him and the grace he provides. ~ Jefferson Bethke,
874:Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor. ~ Seneca,
875:I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators. Stand-up comedy is very much a conversation. It's very personal, stylistically. ~ Jim Gaffigan,
876:I’m not difficult,” Violet said. “I’m simple. I like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time. ~ Courtney Milan,
877:In conversation, points arise! If a human being converses much, it is impossible for him to avoid the truth! (Hercule Poirot) ~ Agatha Christie,
878:Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way. ~ Jordan Peele,
879:Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record. ~ Cyril Connolly,
880:Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation. ~ Benjamin Disraeli,
881:One person seeks a midwife for his thoughts; the other, someone he can assist. Here is the origin of a good conversation. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
882:Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush. ~ Andrew Sullivan,
883:The conversation had turned again to those moments, by now enriched by a private mythology, when they first set eyes on each other ~ Ian McEwan,
884:The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
885:The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,
886:Zane Nicholson might not be big on conversation, but the man obviously knew his way around the bedroom…not to mention her body. ~ Susan Mallery,
887:A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time. ~ Gertrude Stein,
888:A revolution is taking place within her, as though a lifetime's experience could be outdistanced in the span of a conversation. ~ A S A Harrison,
889:He began to wish to know more of her, and as a step towards conversing with her himself, attended to her conversation with others. ~ Jane Austen,
890:I have always been astonished that women were allowed to enter churches. What conversation can they possibly have with God? ~ Charles Baudelaire,
891:I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving. ~ Craig Ferguson,
892:I never, with important air, In conversation overbear. . . . . My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much must talk in vain. ~ John Gay,
893:Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day. ~ John Mayer,
894:The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
895:The polite conversation that carried over from cocktails into dinner was so stifling that it carried a certain ruthlessness, ~ Bret Easton Ellis,
896:There will be no conversation in which you call me a racist, and I explain why I’m not a racist. That’s a conversation for idiots. ~ Ben Shapiro,
897:What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people's minds. ~ Walter Scott,
898:A writer of classic prose must simulate two experiences: showing the reader something in the world, and engaging her in conversation. ~ Anonymous,
899:did I do that? ‘I am waiting . . .’ the same female voice was quick to interrupt his conversation with himself. He looked at the ~ Ravinder Singh,
900:For what is more formal than a family dinner? An official occasion of uncomfortable people Who meet very seldom, making conversation. ~ T S Eliot,
901:For women, talking is a means to no particular end, while a conversation between men is almost entirely designed to convey information. ~ Roosh V,
902:I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him. ~ Antonin Artaud,
903:In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in love with books. ~ Dan Chaon,
904:It seems a little self-involved to be like, 'Oh, he's hitting on me.' Maybe he's just trying to start up an innocent conversation. ~ Krista Allen,
905:I've never been convinced that everything in a relationship needs to be talked about. Some things can't be fixed by a conversation ~ Lisa Kleypas,
906:On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.' ~ Mitt Romney,
907:She glanced at Tyson, who'd lost interest in our conversation and was happily making toy boats out of cups and spoons in the lava. ~ Rick Riordan,
908:The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of empty sounds. ~ Joseph Conrad,
909:They were joking, but it was a serious conversation. They were often like that, Mary and her granny, when they were alone together. ~ Roddy Doyle,
910:This is the most insane conversation I’ve ever had. Are you just trying to brag about your massive penis in a roundabout sort of way? ~ Anonymous,
911:We show our fear of silence in our conversation: I wonder if the orally-minded Elizabethans used “um” and “er” the way we do? ~ Madeleine L Engle,
912:You know you’ve been friends with someone a long time when you can hold an entire conversation with the exchange of single words. ~ Angela Roquet,
913:A conversation began to take shape between us. A conversation that happened in unspoken words, in false words, in knowing glances. ~ Nadia Hashimi,
914:I am thrilled and honored to have a seat at the table for meaningful conversation with so many accomplished women in the sports world. ~ Laila Ali,
915:I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are. ~ Billy Joel,
916:If the lift is broken, I'll just sit and wait for them to sort it out. I don't believe in friendly conversation or chit-chat. ~ Marco Pierre White,
917:I'm not going to sit here and spitball about hyperspatial reality theory with a psychopathic calculator. This conversation is over. ~ Amie Kaufman,
918:I realized that my kisses with Dane had become a form of punctuation, the quotations or the hasty dash at the end of a conversation ~ Lisa Kleypas,
919:It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him. ~ W Somerset Maugham,
920:No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. ~ Fran Lebowitz,
921:No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. ~ Fran Lebowitz,
922:That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation. ~ Lewis Carroll,
923:This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees. ~ Saigyo,
924:Today you will spend solitary moments of conversation with yourself, either listing your complaints or counting your blessings. ~ Paul David Tripp,
925:Why talk to a person if you had nothing in common with them? What would that accomplish, other than a painfully stunted conversation? ~ L H Cosway,
926:Yet in diplomacy nothing lasts, nothing is absolute, a conspiracy to murder is no grounds for endangering the flow of conversation. ~ John le Carr,
927:C-C-Can you get bones in your buh-buh-brain?' Bill asked. This was turning into the most interesting conversation he'd had in weeks. ~ Stephen King,
928:Conversation is good - you might not agree with everyone, but at least it gives you a chance to contemplate someone else's ideas. ~ Brandi Chastain,
929:German wasn’t good for conversation because you had to wait to the end of the sentence for the verb, and so couldn’t interrupt. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides,
930:I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that no meant no, but that's it. ~ Nate Parker,
931:I've always been kind of a shy guy. Not very outgoing. I might not start a conversation, but if somebody else does, I'll chat away. ~ Retief Goosen,
932:James was quite confident that nobody had ever enjoyed a conversation with Colonel Armstrong as much as Leo Page was pretending to. ~ Cat Sebastian,
933:Lively conversation and stimulating company can make a meal,” she said. “Without it, the rarest delicacy has no savor. Don’t you agree? ~ Eli Brown,
934:Men have just come up to me and asked for my number right away. That doesn't work. You have to know somebody and have a conversation. ~ Leah Remini,
935:One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word. ~ Andre Gide,
936:There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence. ~ James Robertson,
937:There`s a long conversation we`re going to have about how to enforce immigration laws. But physically securing the border is essential. ~ Paul Ryan,
938:Trying to act normal with FBI running from office to office, was like trying to carry on a conversation when having a colonoscopy. ~ Matthew Mather,
939:TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation. ~ Ann Landers,
940:You see what I have done?' he asked the ceiling, which seemed to flinch slightly at being yanked so suddenly into the conversation. ~ Douglas Adams,
941:As soon as she set foot outside, she could hear the empty conversation and laughter resume. Like sounding brass and tinkling cymbals. ~ Laura Frantz,
942:At one point or another I was pretty sure the kids had scurried across every possible surface during the conversation—even the ceiling. ~ Amy Boyles,
943:How can you be sure that we are holding a conversation? Nobody would know whether or not accurate communication occurred, correct? ~ Nagaru Tanigawa,
944:I don't think I've ever seen a person having a serious conversation on a cellphone. It's like a kiddie thing, a complete time waster. ~ Paul Theroux,
945:I’m too angry to have a helpful conversation right now, so I’m going to take some time to calm down, and then we’ll talk in a bit. ~ Daniel J Siegel,
946:I think it's important to find projects that evoke people into conversation. It's like reading a good book. You want to talk about it. ~ Juno Temple,
947:Mental prayer is, as I see it, simply a friendly intercourse and frequent solitary conversation with Him who, as we know, loves us. ~ Teresa of vila,
948:Much of that which passes for conversation these days is the lobbing of small bombs of dogma and little clots of banality at one another. ~ Dee Hock,
949:Say the first word. Set the tone for the conversation. Be poised, prepared, and ready to say the first word in any debate or meeting. ~ Gloria Feldt,
950:Servants were the main topic of conversation in St. Mary Mead, so it was not difficult to lead the conversation in that direction. ~ Agatha Christie,
951:Several of the younger boys with whom she had been on eye-gouging terms only a few years ago made self-conscious conversation with her. ~ Harper Lee,
952:There were gaps and breaks in our conversation, silences that stretched too long, silences that were short but terrifyingly deep. ~ Patrick Rothfuss,
953:The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. ~ Iris Murdoch,
954:The walk-in privilege, to walk into the Oval Office and have a conversation with the president, is not something that everybody gets. ~ Josh Earnest,
955:...Want of reverence of the Word is the ground of all disorders that are in the heart, life, conversation, and in Christian communion. ~ John Bunyan,
956:Certainly, he was the only one in the room who'd actually engaged Dante in direct conversation and informed the Poet he was an ass. ~ Sylvain Reynard,
957:Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out. ~ Sarah Orne Jewett,
958:Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
959:Even though you're reading something, it's as though that person who wrote it is speaking to you. It's a form of conversation, really. ~ Robert Barry,
960:Have I interrupted a conversation?' she asked.
'No, only a complete silence,' said Birkin.
'Oh,' said Ursula, vaguely, absent. ~ D H Lawrence,
961:Here's what I love: I love sitting at my desk, staring at the blank screen, and beginning that conversation with my imaginary friends. ~ Brad Meltzer,
962:His eyes are deep brown.

Deep like a good conversation.
Deep like a hole.
Deep, of course, like
the ocean.
-Amber ~ Lisa Schroeder,
963:I have said that music allows for quick creation. But it is nothing compared with what you humans can destroy in a single conversation. ~ Mitch Albom,
964:In fact, if the conversation had been animate, the merciful thing to do would have been to take it out behind the barn and shoot it. ~ Courtney Milan,
965:It was a test. That was just how we spoke. Every conversation a game of poker, every line a bet or a raise, a bluff or a call. “Party ~ Mark Lawrence,
966:Men are often (though not always) the pursuers for sex, just like women are often (though not always) the pursuers for conversation. ~ Harriet Lerner,
967:Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat. ~ Henry Van Dyke,
968:Of course I remember. I traded a lifetime of servitude for a box of conversation hearts. That's not something I'm likely to forget. ~ Stephenie Meyer,
969:[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one. ~ Florence Nightingale,
970:She was laughing at something Dov was saying to her, but she was looking at me, like he was the distraction and I was the conversation. ~ Rachel Cohn,
971:Sometimes the fragment of a conversation, the color of the sky, the image in a dream, has everything to do with where the song begins. ~ Rosanne Cash,
972:The Bible isn’t a book that reflects one point of view. It is a collection of books that records a conversation—even a debate—over time. ~ Peter Enns,
973:The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness. ~ John Green,
974:There has to be a reason and objective (to air strikes). What does it do to move the effort down the road for a political conversation? ~ Chuck Hagel,
975:The universe must be full of voices, calling from star to star in a myriad tongues. One day we shall join that cosmic conversation. ~ Arthur C Clarke,
976:This divergence of experience was not a stumbling block to conversation; indeed, it was what made the conversation interesting. ~ Michael David Lukas,
977:Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life. ~ Agnes Repplier,
978:Don't discount the power of your words. The thought that they might cause unnecessary hurt or discomfort should inform every conversation. ~ P M Forni,
979:If youre a vegan who ran a marathon & got your dogs from a shelter, how do you decide which thing to wedge into the conversation first? ~ Ken Jennings,
980:I love my husband, but it is nothing like a conversation with a woman that understands you. I grow so much from those conversations. ~ Beyonce Knowles,
981:It is like the feeling you have when someone says your first name all the time in conversation and you know he’s been reading Carnegie. ~ Reid Hoffman,
982:On n'est bien que libre, et cacher ses opinions est encore plus gênant que de couvrir sa peau.
(La conversation à Innsbruck) ~ Marguerite Yourcenar,
983:She said one thing and I said another and the next thing I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life in the middle of that conversation. ~ Hank Moody,
984:That seemed a bit odd. I didn’t yet know that taking a long walk was his preferred way to have a serious conversation. It turned out ~ Walter Isaacson,
985:There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation. ~ William Hazlitt,
986:The ultimate male tradition is keeping women from sitting at the table of conversation regarding the balance of power between genders. ~ Bryant McGill,
987:To believe in God starts with a conclusion about Him, develops into confidence in Him, and then matures into a conversation with Him. ~ Stuart Briscoe,
988:Today's evangelism is just as likely to take place via chat rooms and viral videos as it is in a personal conversation or a sermon. ~ Martin Lindstrom,
989:Art is the conversation between lovers. Art offers an opening for the heart. True art makes the divine silence in the soul Break into applause. ~ Hafez,
990:But—” I start to say. “It never helps to start a sentence from behind,” Katherine says, trying to add some lightness to the conversation. ~ David Estes,
991:decision. I was tired of his jealousy, sick of his belief that the only permissible topic of conversation was his unrecognized genius. ~ Francine Prose,
992:I didn’t feel like I was watching a movie of our conversation. I was having it. I could listen to her, and I knew she was listening to me. ~ John Green,
993:I feel like when there's so much conversation about women's athletics right now, we need to focus on their performance and their skill. ~ Shawn Johnson,
994:If we can't have a serious conversation without politicizing it on cable TV and making it a scoring point for one day, we're in trouble. ~ John F Kerry,
995:loneliness has its roots in words,in internal conversation that nodbody answers,solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity. ~ Miley Cyrus,
996:Many designers are gay men making clothes for women. Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it is for women. ~ Kim Gordon,
997:One thing my dad once said to me, "You either want to be right, or you want to be happy. To be happy, there's gotta be a conversation." ~ Donald Glover,
998:Privileges of age, size, and ass-kissing. If you survive this conversation, you'll find that it's just the same in most of the big gangs. ~ Scott Lynch,
999:So you are expecting Stepan Arkadyevitch today?" said Sergey Ivanovitch, evidently not disposed to pursue the conversation about Varenka. ~ Leo Tolstoy,
1000:The biblical purpose of every conversation you have, in every personal interaction, is that they person who hears you will receive grace. ~ C J Mahaney,
1001:A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone. ~ David Shields,
1002:As others might prepare for an exam whose subject matter is unknown to them, so I must study, cram, for every conversation with my folks. ~ Alice Walker,
1003:But gossip must see its characters in black and white, equip them with sins and motives easily conveyed in the shorthand of conversation. ~ John le Carr,
1004:But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,
1005:Had a nice conversation with Tim Cook today. Discussed my opinion that a larger buyback should be done now. We plan to speak again shortly. ~ Carl Icahn,
1006:He is clearly bookish. I did not follow a single word of their conversation at dinner last night, not one jot of it. He must be bookish. ~ Gail Carriger,
1007:I feel my stomach do that weird little flip-flop thing you hear about. Not good. This is our second conversation. Not good at all, Samantha. ~ Anonymous,
1008:Like attracts like. Your world is a mirror reflecting back to you your inner world of thought, feeling, beliefs, and inner conversation. ~ Joseph Murphy,
1009:Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
1010:Maybe we should have this conversation in an alternate universe where Alternate Indy gives a shit what Alternate Lee wants her to wear. ~ Kristen Ashley,
1011:People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation. ~ Chuck Klosterman,
1012:The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had. ~ Steven Wright,
1013:They were always doing that to each other, misinterpreting, imagining the worst. No wonder every conversation bruised one or the other. ~ Kristin Hannah,
1014:Two people may arrive at a conversation with very different conversational patterns. But almost instantly they reach a common ground. ~ Malcolm Gladwell,
1015:At the end of the day, I want to be part of the same conversation as Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor. ~ Kevin Hart,
1016:His mouth seemed designed for kissing. Maybe it was all that non-conversation. Maybe talking too much undermined a man’s ability to kiss. ~ Susan Mallery,
1017:I feel like my first conversation with someone, I really get a good feeling about who that person is and mainly about how open they are. ~ Elisabeth Shue,
1018:It was nearly midnight when the conversation finally stopped on its own weight. The question was unresolved, at least in any explicit way. ~ Bob Woodward,
1019:My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't do to what we can. ~ Sheryl Sandberg,
1020:Reading is precisely a conversation with men who are both wiser and more interesting than those we might have occasion to meet ourselves. – ~ John Ruskin,
1021:The Conversation was a movie I saw probably for the first time in the early 2000s. I immediately loved the piano and just how simple it is. ~ Petra Haden,
1022:The principle: God speaks to us in his Word, and we respond in prayer, entering into the divine conversation, into communion with God. ~ Timothy J Keller,
1023:The rat was merely trying to sleep. Believe me, pup, if I had wanted to kill you we wouldn’t be having this conversation,” said Ripred. ~ Suzanne Collins,
1024:When women vote, Progressives can win. When women organize and bring some common sense to the conversation, it becomes more authentic. ~ Christine Pelosi,
1025:With that, the conversation finally exhausted itself, leaving us to nuzzle our cocktails with the affection one reserved for puppies. ~ Viet Thanh Nguyen,
1026:You want to throw your life away for some stupid conversation we had? Like we're the first people ever who talk about people we want dead. ~ Sara Shepard,
1027:Can I get your cell phone number so we can text like normal antisocial human beings, since we are both too fucked up to have a conversation? ~ J P Barnaby,
1028:Conversation is a beautiful thing. When I was a younger guy, just wandering around talking to people was what kept me connected to the world. ~ Marc Maron,
1029:I could almost hear the conversation in her mind. And I think you move your hip section to the right. Or side to side. Yeah, let's try that. ~ Lucian Bane,
1030:I don’t want to have this conversation. It’s sunny out. There’s bacon downstairs. My life is starting over today. I’ve just made it official. ~ Libba Bray,
1031:It felt like the most meaningful conversation I had ever had was happening even though no words were exchanged as we looked at each other. ~ Jay Crownover,
1032:Shy, delicate, gentle Jane, though the eldest, could no more initiate conversation with a newly met man than a rose petal could belch. ~ Steve Hockensmith,
1033:The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze. ~ Edmund Burke,
1034:There are many who would much prefer that the word 'climate' never be mentioned and that the issue be eliminated from our national conversation. ~ Al Gore,
1035:There have been so many times I felt like I've ended the conversation lately I've decided that if I had a Wu Tang name it'd be Threadkilla. ~ Kirk Curnutt,
1036:We need to start having a very real conversation about why we accept truths about ourselves as women that we would never consider for men. ~ Rachel Hollis,
1037:A book is the pinnacle of arrogance for it demands to be heard, but it cannot listen. It desires to communicate, yet it refuses conversation. ~ Alec Hutson,
1038:All Greencloaks spoke to their spirit animals, but Maya was holding what appeared to be an intense one-sided conversation with an amphibian! ~ Shannon Hale,
1039:A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot. ~ Maggie Stiefvater,
1040:As much as I like my sister-in-law, I didn't want her two cents. This was a conversation for siblings, with in-laws as invested observers. ~ Elisabeth Egan,
1041:Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor. ~ Seneca the Younger,
1042:Cooperativeness in conversation is achieved when you show that you consider the other person’s ideas and feelings as important as your own. ~ Dale Carnegie,
1043:Here the conversation seemed interesting and he stood waiting for an opportunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing. ~ Leo Tolstoy,
1044:I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others. ~ Richard Chamberlain,
1045:I had a long conversation with the imam, the Grand Imam of the Al-Azhar University, and I know how they think... They seek peace, encounter. ~ Pope Francis,
1046:In the summer we lay up a stock of experiences for the winter, as the squirrel of nuts?something for conversation in winter evenings. ~ Henry David Thoreau,
1047:I suppose the difference between baby people and me is that I do not consider smiling while farting 'holding up your end of a conversation. ~ Lizz Winstead,
1048:It is always reasonably easy to get conversation going in a pub, and it will be a black day for detectives when beer is abolished. After ~ Dorothy L Sayers,
1049:It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. ~ Agnes Repplier,
1050:So she apologized, over and over, until apologizing felt just the same as having an ordinary conversation. She grew accustomed to it. ~ Lynda Cohen Loigman,
1051:There have been so many times I felt like I've ended the conversation lately I've decided that if I had a Wu Tang name it'd be Threadkilla. ~ Kirk Curnutt,
1052:...though the conversation always touched an exceptionally high level of brilliance, there was apt to be a good deal of sugar thrown about. ~ P G Wodehouse,
1053:Young feminists are a thrilling phenomenon: smart, bold, funny defenders of rights and claimers of space—and changers of the conversation. ~ Rebecca Solnit,
1054:A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight. ~ Steven Sinofsky,
1055:But—but—Fingap Falls is too close to the Dark Sea. Might fall in.” Podo crossed his arms over his chest as if that ended the conversation. ~ Andrew Peterson,
1056:Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation. ~ David Brooks,
1057:If you’ve just had a brief conversation at an event, ask, “Is it all right if I drop you a note?” You can follow up with a question in writing. ~ Kate White,
1058:I have had a certain amount of experience with skepticism and the conversation it generates, and there is an inevitable futility in it. ~ Marilynne Robinson,
1059:Just ended a conversation with one of America's most famous atheists with "God bless you." Couldn't help it. And I meant it. And he knew it. ~ Albert Mohler,
1060:The idea that you make an experience that requires a conversation in a public place is training for the fact that culture is collective. ~ Edwin Schlossberg,
1061:The older couple shrugged and continued their conversation about the good ol’ days and how they missed things like pouring peanuts in Pepsi. ~ Heather Burch,
1062:There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
1063:When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought. ~ Anthony Kiedis,
1064:Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet. ~ Ernest Bramah,
1065:And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid. ~ Jonathan Swift,
1066:An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy. ~ Charles Williams,
1067:Challenging is good, like good conversation, yes? Who wants to have dinner with the same old easy listening music sounding friends all the time? ~ Hilton Als,
1068:He started the damn thing!” Nixon said in a taped telephone conversation with his spiritual adviser, the Reverend Billy Graham. “He killed Diem! ~ Tim Weiner,
1069:His prayer was so different, like a conversation. People should not talk to the Almighty God like they were friends. It simply wasn't done. ~ Melissa Jagears,
1070:I should have known before I even opened my mouth that you can’t have a serious conversation with a guy named Moose, but I keep trying anyway. ~ Jillian Dodd,
1071:It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book, ~ Amor Towles,
1072:It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book. ~ Amor Towles,
1073:I was raised to be a very strong and independent woman without anybody ever saying the word feminist or having any political conversation. ~ Kellyanne Conway,
1074:My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. ~ Jane Austen,
1075:No matter what anyone's saying to you from outside, the most important conversation is the one you are gaving with yourself on the inside ~ Robert T Kiyosaki,
1076:Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him. ~ Timothy Keller,
1077:Prayer is not about informing or persuading God but about connecting with Him in relationship. He is looking for conversation and dialogue with ~ Mike Bickle,
1078:The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb. ~ Benjamin Disraeli,
1079:The norms of conversation dictate that we include in our statements that information which we deem relevant to the point we’re seeking to make. ~ Sam Sommers,
1080:There was a nice dilemma. How does one interject into a polite conversation, "By the way, in case you're ever interested, I do have a penise."? ~ Brent Weeks,
1081:When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached. ~ Kalup Linzy,
1082:When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress. ~ Anne Lamott,
1083:You can say, 'Can I use your bathroom?' and nobody cares. But if you ask, 'Can I use the plop-plop machine?' it always breaks the conversation. ~ Dave Attell,
1084:A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1085:A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture. ~ William Hazlitt,
1086:Because in the conversation beneath this one, what we're really saying is I am an imperfect person. Here are my failures. Do you want me anyway? ~ Nina LaCour,
1087:CHAPTER XXXV CONTAINING THE UNSATISFACTORY RESULT OF OLIVER’S ADVENTURE; AND A CONVERSATION OF SOME IMPORTANCE BETWEEN HARRY MAYLIE AND ROSE ~ Charles Dickens,
1088:Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation. ~ Andrew Rannells,
1089:Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end. ~ Samuel Johnson,
1090:I enjoy people, I enjoy a good conversation and doing something together, but I don’t require it in my week. I do need several hours of quiet. ~ Dee Henderson,
1091:I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is the conversation you must have. ~ Lupe Fiasco,
1092:It’s a real conversation. That’s what this is. Our first real conversation. Probably ever. It’s so much easier to allow fears to be unspoken. ~ Willow Winters,
1093:Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine. ~ Carol Shields,
1094:Since you’ve had a rational conversation without breaking down or bursting into tears, I think you’re mentally sound enough to be sacrificed. ~ Jessie Donovan,
1095:There was an air of vague and unsettling paranoia, an undercurrent of rumors, snatched fragments of conversation anticipating future revolution. ~ Patti Smith,
1096:What we need is a gigantic, messy community conversation about what is teaching and learning for the 21st century. We need to engage communities. ~ Bill Ayers,
1097:you can't go around telling people, 'I'm on a mission to discover the purpose of life.' Not if you're hoping to prolong the conversation. ~ Barbara Ehrenreich,
1098:You mentioned a telephone conversation that you had with him, your last conversation. While you were in Kirkjubaejarklaustur. He called you there. ~ Anonymous,
1099:for, failing to capture the attention of a waiter, I hooked one of them by the arm and ordered a whiskey and soda. The buzz of conversation, ~ Elizabeth Peters,
1100:He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them. ~ Bryant H McGill,
1101:I so wanted out of this conversation, but it was like a car accident: Once you started spinning, you could only wait and see what you hit. ~ Laurell K Hamilton,
1102:I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth. ~ John Baldessari,
1103:My mother was a drunk. That’s all I have to say about her.” “Mother issues,” said Felicity, when Tess repeated this conversation. “Run a mile. ~ Liane Moriarty,
1104:No matter what anyone is saying to you from outside, the most important conversation is the one you are having with yourself on the inside. ~ Robert T Kiyosaki,
1105:Prayer is continuing a conversation that God has started through his Word and his grace, which eventually becomes a full encounter with him. ~ Timothy J Keller,
1106:Religion has no place in his heart, his home, or his conversation. He is all talk, and his religion is to make noise with his mouth."
"Really! ~ John Bunyan,
1107:Remaining open to the powers of conversation—to new evidence and better arguments—is not only essential for rationality. It is essential for love. ~ Sam Harris,
1108:Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right. ~ Ann Patchett,
1109:They aren’t having a mental conversation between people with different thought processes. All their thoughts are present, together, at once. ~ Orson Scott Card,
1110:When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I've had conversations with journalists that I've never had with anybody else. ~ Tori Amos,
1111:Any conversation is a unique jazz performance. Some are more pleasing to the ears, but that is not necessarily a measurement of their importance ~ Frank Herbert,
1112:Author describes one monarch's impressive table but conveys a contemporary's observation, "the weightiest thing at dinner was the conversation". ~ Peter Heather,
1113:Conversation was tedious; she wanted something big, and she believed that it would have come to her on the windswept platform of an electric tram. ~ E M Forster,
1114:Even an idle phone conversation when driving takes a 40 percent bite out of your focus and, surprisingly, can have the same effect as being drunk. ~ Gary Keller,
1115:I came across Piper deep in conversation with Jet one afternoon and when I asked her what they were talking about she shrugged and said Dog Things. ~ Meg Rosoff,
1116:I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation. ~ Jason Collins,
1117:I love a small dinner party - let's say six people, max, were everybody's having the same conversation. That's my favorite thing in the world. ~ Paul F Tompkins,
1118:I'm lying here in a tent, pretending to be asleep but actually fearing for my life as I watch a bunny murderer have a conversation with our campfire. ~ Amy Plum,
1119:I’m lying here in a tent, pretending to be asleep but actually fearing for my life as I watch a bunny murderer have a conversation with our campfire. ~ Amy Plum,
1120:I was far from understanding that the capacity of men interested in power is not necessarily expressed in the brilliance of their conversation. ~ Anthony Powell,
1121:My idea of good company... is the company of clever, well informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. ~ Jane Austen,
1122:Now I realized just how stupid I had been to even think that I might be able to undo a lifetime of love and attraction in just one conversation. ~ Bella Forrest,
1123:One must keep a store of common sense,” said Tchitchikov, “and consult one’s common sense at every minute, have a friendly conversation with it. ~ Nikolai Gogol,
1124:That conversation... was as dirty as a sewer! It is not enough for you to take no part in it. You must show your repugnance for it strongly! ~ Josemaria Escriva,
1125:The fact is that [Hillary Clinton] has been the person who started this type of conversation in the campaign. She should be ashamed of herself. ~ Chris Christie,
1126:The love of books was an instant connection, and a true boon for a girl who tended toward shyness, because it was a source of endless conversation. ~ Tessa Dare,
1127:The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater,
1128:The only good news is that he didn't qualify what he meant by emergencies, so every conversation with Didi now starts with 'Didi, it's an emergency. ~ Mila Gray,
1129:The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. ~ John C Maxwell,
1130:They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyay. Kino sighed with satisfaction -- and that was conversation. ~ John Steinbeck,
1131:We were having a serious conversation about a murder in another dimension, that’s all, but that’s not an explanation my big sister needs to hear. ~ Claudia Gray,
1132:A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. ~ Henry Ward Beecher,
1133:change leadership involves an ongoing prayer conversation with God to give you love for all the sheep. He will teach you how to love these sheep. ~ Thom S Rainer,
1134:Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
1135:Everyone had something disparaging to say about the unfortunate Maltyshcheva, and the conversation began crackling merrily like a kindling bonfire. ~ Leo Tolstoy,
1136:for falling into conversation with strangers; and that freedom from conscience that springs from a contempt for the dozing rich he preyed upon. ~ Thornton Wilder,
1137:For long rides, I require a stimulating conversation partner with deep reservoirs of cultural references upon which my metaphors can find purchase…. ~ Tim Dorsey,
1138:Fuck me, shut the fuck up,” Cal entered the conversation, glaring at both Ryker and Devin. “Caked. Jesus. Seriously? Are we talkin’ about cakes? ~ Kristen Ashley,
1139:I don't know what to say when I have a crush on somebody. I kind of lose my words. I really try to start a conversation, and I can't. It's horrible. ~ Alexa Vega,
1140:In any conversation, it's often something that seems quite insignificant at the time that gives you the piece of information you're looking for. ~ Jeffrey Archer,
1141:It's not like I'm an introvert. You get to know me, I can have a conversation with you. But in front of the media, I'm probably more of a quiet guy. ~ Derrek Lee,
1142:Prayer is not about informing or persuading God but about connecting with Him in relationship. He is looking for conversation and dialogue with us. ~ Mike Bickle,
1143:She saw only that he was quiet and unobtrusive, and she liked him for it. He did not disturb the wretchedness of her mind by ill-timed conversation ~ Jane Austen,
1144:the quality of the conversation drives the nature of the impact. At the moment of contact, conversations have the power to transform our lives. ~ Judith E Glaser,
1145:There is no way this conversation is not going to get horrible, thought Odette. No situation is improved by the presence of a gigantic anus. At ~ Daniel O Malley,
1146:The stronger person is not the one making the most noise but the one who can quietly direct the conversation toward defining and solving problems. ~ Aaron T Beck,
1147:Whatever Microsoft product you use or have an interest in, there’s an engineer or product manager carrying on a conversation in public about it. ~ Chris Anderson,
1148:Even an idle phone conversation when driving takes a 40 percent bite out of your focus and, surprisingly, can have the same effect as being drunk. ~ Gary W Keller,
1149:For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships. ~ Deborah Tannen,
1150:He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat. ~ Ian McEwan,
1151:He's never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat. ~ Ian Mcewan,
1152:If getting into Heaven was based on interesting elevator conversation then there would be more suits lined up to Hell than the eye could ever see. ~ Michael Ebner,
1153:I needed reassurance from the doubts that were beginning to surface in my mind since I'd first given voice to them in conversation with Amy. ~ Catherine Sanderson,
1154:It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work. ~ Alain de Botton,
1155:My idea of good company ... is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. ~ Jane Austen,
1156:She saw only that he was quiet and onubtrusive, and she liked him for it. He did not disturb the wretchedness of her mind by ill-timed conversation. ~ Jane Austen,
1157:Social is about engaging, it's about a conversation, it's about listening and then responding, it's an ongoing conversation with our fan base. ~ Stephanie McMahon,
1158:The conversation at dinner hadn't been successful either; it bore the marks of an old married couple who had very little left to say to each other. ~ Steve Martin,
1159:The first step towards philosophy is incredulity. ~ Denis Diderot, Last Conversation. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 596-97.,
1160:The love of books was an instant connection, and a true boon for a girl who tended toward shyness, because it was a source of endless conversation. A ~ Tessa Dare,
1161:These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation. ~ Chris Christie,
1162:We don’t begin every new sentence in a conversation by restating our names, so why would you bombard people with your company logo on every slide? ~ Garr Reynolds,
1163:We have become dependent upon our technologies to navigate the world, to hold intelligent conversation, to write intelligently, and to remember. ~ Donald A Norman,
1164:Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship. ~ Lewis Mumford,
1165:As he listened to them, Neil realised he was happy. It was such an unexpected and unfamiliar feeling he lost track of the conversation for a minute. ~ Nora Sakavic,
1166:A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process. ~ Henry Rollins,
1167:Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
1168:Hem,' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence rather than at the end. ~ Ernest Hemingway,
1169:I feel comfortable tweeting things that I would never feel comfortable saying in a real life conversation, or even in other places on the internet. ~ Mira Gonzalez,
1170:I like men with quick wit, good conversation and a great sense of humour. I love banter. I want a man to like me for me - I want him to be authentic. ~ Emma Watson,
1171:Instead of responding to me, he shakes his head and walks out of the room. And because I’m me, I follow. We are not done with this conversation. ~ Elizabeth Norris,
1172:It was getting to be the best conversation she ever had. She had always thought the only way to have conversations like that was in your head. Then ~ Norman Mailer,
1173:Jon Davis of Korn and Frank Mullen of Suffocation are one of my favorite bands and from that moment, we started a conversation and lead to the song. ~ Mitch Lucker,
1174:My conversation is probably something like the rain. On some days it pours, and then on other days there's just a clear sky- not a word in sight. ~ Heather O Neill,
1175:A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. ~ Truman Capote,
1176:Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
1177:But gossip must see its characters
in black and white, equip them with
sins and motives easily conveyed in
the shorthand of conversation. ~ John le Carr,
1178:Conversation doesn’t have to lead to consensus about anything especially not values; it’s enough that it helps people get used to one another ~ Kwame Anthony Appiah,
1179:Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place. ~ Adriana Trigiani,
1180:I love to cook. But I'm a bit rubbish. I tend to start something and then dip into a book or have a conversation and come back and everything's burnt. ~ Isla Fisher,
1181:It came to Tej then, belatedly, that Lady Alys had just spent much of the prior conversation slowly, gently, and thoroughly roasting her son. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold,
1182:It's a sweet thing to sit quietly in the early-morning darkness and talk to God for a while. It's amazing what you gain from the conversation. ~ Richelle E Goodrich,
1183:Ours was the kind of dinner conversation one might expect to find in an English-as-a-second-language course or in the babble of a Pentecostal church. ~ Tracy Brogan,
1184:Prayer was not to be used just for emergency appeals; it was to be an unbroken conversation built around a living, loving fellowship with God. ~ John F MacArthur Jr,
1185:quand je vois combien peu de gens lisent L'Iliade d'Homère, je prends plus gaiement mon parti d'être peu lu.
(La conversation à Innsbruck) ~ Marguerite Yourcenar,
1186:The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation. ~ Jerzy Kosinski,
1187:There was a nice dilemma.
How does one interject into a polite conversation,
"By the way, in case you're ever interested, I do have a penise."? ~ Brent Weeks,
1188:To make a song is a gift, and once it's done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other people. It's like a conversation. ~ Ryan Adams,
1189:When it comes to climate, we can all make a big difference. At the most basic level, don't let denial go unchallenged and win the conversation on climate. ~ Al Gore,
1190:Be collaborative. I've had some of my best experiences with directors who were able to sit down and have a conversation and ask me what I thought. ~ Michael B Jordan,
1191:Conversation, the gradual unveiling of oneself, one’s quirks and characteristics, opinions and beliefs; what a fraught and awkward business that is. ~ David Nicholls,
1192:Hayley—I owe you an apology.’ He tried to redeem himself. ‘Can we start this conversation again?’ ‘I don’t think so. It was bad enough the first time. ~ Sarah Morgan,
1193:His lips parted, but long years of experience with Ramses, and to some extent, Emerson, had taught me how to turn a conversation into a monologue. ~ Elizabeth Peters,
1194:I, meanwhile, was forcing my swelling feet to take just one more step while walking alone, usually too nervous to strike up a conversation with a stranger. ~ Various,
1195:In my experience—and I admit I didn't anticipate this—most blacks are delighted to have a 100-percent honest conversation with a white man about race. ~ Jared Taylor,
1196:I would love to have a long and serious conversation with the Pope. And Woody Allen, whom I have never interviewed. Then, after those two? Steve Jobs. ~ Charlie Rose,
1197:The solution to the collaboration issue is to move all team conversations out of the inbox and into a tool that’s designed for this type of conversation. ~ S J Scott,
1198:They say, You can't give a smile away; it always comes back. The same is true of a kind word or a conversation starter. What goes around, comes around. ~ Susan RoAne,
1199:We've had this conversation before, but humor me. How many people in this room have a soul? A shot at heaven, or whatever there is after this life. ~ Stephenie Meyer,
1200:when you are having a conversation about racial oppression, you will not be the only one who is nervous and you will not be the only one taking a risk. ~ Ijeoma Oluo,
1201:About this time two new propositions entered Fat’s mind, due to this particular conversation. 1) Some of those in power are insane. 2) And they are right. ~ Anonymous,
1202:But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal. ~ Frank Bidart,
1203:conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale. ~ Nicholas Sparks,
1204:Have you ever dreamt of someone who’s gone,but in the dream you have new conversation? The world you enter then is not so far from the world I'm in now. ~ Mitch Albom,
1205:I feel like in a conversation if things get said and then repeated, it sort of becomes inherently part of the narrative whether you want it to be or not. ~ Panda Bear,
1206:I figure, oftentimes the best way in is through humor, and you can deal with serious situations a lot easier, or at least bring up the conversation. ~ Andrew Rannells,
1207:If I'm feeling that I have an angle or something to say or something where in a way I'm having a conversation with myself, that's immensely pleasurable. ~ David Byrne,
1208:I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present ~ Maya Lin,
1209:I think every morning we wake up offers a new beginning, a new way of stepping into the day. I think every conversation could be a new chance. ~ Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor,
1210:I used to. When we were real people. When we could talk about the things in our hearts. You know this is the first real conversation I’ve had in years? ~ Blake Crouch,
1211:the conversation of the mind was truer than any language, and they knew each other better than they ever could have by use of mere sight and touch. ~ Orson Scott Card,
1212:Thinking about how a form can be organized as a conversation instead of an interrogation can go a long way toward making new customers feel welcome. ~ Luke Wroblewski,
1213:To distance ourselves from our experience makes our feelings a liability, while staying in conversation with our experience makes our feelings a resource. ~ Mark Nepo,
1214:We’re all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one. ~ Will Schwalbe,
1215:We were too different, yet too alike. We could not deceive one another, and that makes conversation hard. Each of us was almost a caricature of the other. ~ Anonymous,
1216:You are reminded of a conversation you had recently, comparing the merits of sentences constructed implicitly with “yes, and” rather than “yes, but. ~ Claudia Rankine,
1217:A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. ~ Emile M Cioran,
1218:Can you believe the weather?'...'Actually, I CAN believe the weather. What I can't believe is that I'm actually having a conversation about the weather. ~ Maria Semple,
1219:Every negotiation, every conversation, every moment of life, is a series of small conflicts that, managed well, can rise to creative beauty. Embrace them. ~ Chris Voss,
1220:Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven't said to that someone. ~ Iyanla Vanzant,
1221:He thinks that there has been some routine polite conversation along the way, but there is never any point in actually monitoring that kind of thing. ~ Neal Stephenson,
1222:Let's have an honest conversation about what's going on. A man and a man at a bar looks like mentoring. A man and a woman at a bar looks like dating. ~ Sheryl Sandberg,
1223:Moreover it is easier, in the informality of conversation, to achieve that excitement and incoherence which is the true eloquence of love. ~ Pierre Choderlos de Laclos,
1224:We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation. ~ Agnes Repplier,
1225:We're all in the end-of-your-life book-club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one. ~ Will Schwalbe,
1226:You know,I think I'd rather freeze than continue this conversation. You've been warned.Proceed at your own risk."
He smiled. "I always do,darlin'. ~ Johanna Lindsey,
1227:After macrobiotics, Zen, and channeling, the "poor Vanishing Indian" is once more the subject of "deep and meaningful conversation" in the high rises. ~ Mary Brave Bird,
1228:Daemon had spoken to Blake earlier in the day; the entire conversation had gone down between the two without fists being thrown and I missed it. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout,
1229:I felt a little self-conscious walking the streets with a glowing broadsword, so I had a conversation with my weapon. (Because that wasn’t crazy at all.) ~ Rick Riordan,
1230:[Indira Gandhi] answered cautiously at first. Then she opened up like a flower and the conversation flowed along without obstacles, in mutual sympathy. ~ Oriana Fallaci,
1231:I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place. ~ Holly Johnson,
1232:It was very common to find Christians, whenever they met in any place, instead of engaging in conversation, to fall on their knees in prayer. ~ Charles Grandison Finney,
1233:Maybe that’s what a marriage is,” Mqaret said. “Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance. ~ Kim Stanley Robinson,
1234:Since I enjoy intelligent conversation, I generally want an IQ that's larger than the bra size.”

“So, if I’m a drooling idiot, you’ll leave me alone? ~ Ann Bruce,
1235:Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
1236:The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
1237:We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it's uncomfortable to talk about. ~ Al Franken,
1238:When I say that I love you, I don't say it out of habit or to make conversation. I say it to remind you that you're the best thing that's ever happened to me. ~ Kaitlyn,
1239:Alone-sex didn't count. It's like the difference between thinking to yourself or having a good conversation with someone--the pleasure is in the exchange. ~ Lisa Kleypas,
1240:And why, just at the moment when he had brought away the embryo of his idea from the old woman had he dropped at once upon a conversation about her? ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
1241:An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation. ~ Jean de la Bruyere,
1242:Before we get arrested,” Jacob said, “I’m a little curious about what we’re breaking into here. Just as a conversation-starter with my boss when he fires me. ~ J L Bryan,
1243:By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy. ~ Jason Bateman,
1244:Folks double my age and older often run down a conversation tracking a vanishing world that will, with the passing of their memory, vanish entirely. ~ Charles D Ambrosio,
1245:He defined good company not by the conversation but by the lack of it. When there was no need to talk to feel comfortable, that was the right company. ~ Michael Connelly,
1246:I close my eyes and focus on breathing. 'You can talk to me. Just don't touch me.' 7 seconds of silence join the conversation. 'Maybe I want to touch you. ~ Tahereh Mafi,
1247:If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale. ~ Nicholas Sparks,
1248:If I want to have a conversation, I can't have a list of questions, because the second question on the list is going to interrupt the conversation. ~ Michael Silverblatt,
1249:I've been trying to write. I also spent a lot of time on different campuses, in conversation, helping other writers. That's what I do: I teach them writing. ~ Junot Diaz,
1250:Missing from the national conversation are voices of pro-immigration reformers and civil rights leaders, who can speak on behalf of those who have no voice. ~ Andrew Lam,
1251:modern science was largely conceived of as an answer to the servant problem and ... it is generally practiced by those who lack a flair for conversation. ~ Fran Lebowitz,
1252:My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. ~ Jane Austen,
1253:perhaps we hurt for the lost opportunities, for the conversation that would have released all the unspoken words, for the way it should have been. “Where ~ Mark Lawrence,
1254:Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition. ~ Dave Grohl,
1255:Vegans have a way of circling every conversation back to food, much like born-again Christians have a way of returning every conversation to the scripture. ~ Will Potter,
1256:Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
1257:Wisdom, in the world of enlightenment, is not gained through conversation. Wisdom and enlightenment is something that you gain by making the mind still. ~ Frederick Lenz,
1258:You think everyone pervs you."... "That's cos they do, and you're just jealous, cos I'm gorgeous and you're not." ~ conversation between Dante &Ash ~ Marita A Hansen,
1259:character simply by listening to their conversation. The more loving our words and actions are toward others, the more loving and kind our thoughts will be. ~ Joyce Meyer,
1260:He thinks I’m a snob? He’s not the first. Just because I’m quiet doesn’t mean I’m aloof. Maybe I just want to be alone. Maybe I’m not good at conversation. ~ Jenn Bennett,
1261:Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere connection. ~ Sherry Turkle,
1262:I could report the rest of the conversation, but it's just more of the same, two people whose love became toxic, lobbing regret grenades at each other. ~ Jonathan Tropper,
1263:I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy. ~ Damon Lindelof,
1264:In real life, I try to be honest but not overshare. There are people that turn every conversation into a therapy session and you want to start charging them. ~ Hugh Dancy,
1265:It was like trying to have a conversation with a distracted and very soggy scone. Every time he pushed in one direction the earl either oozed or crumbled. ~ Gail Carriger,
1266:It would make things easier for both of us, especially for you, if we could forgo the part of this conversation where you take me for a complete idiot... ~ Sylvain Neuvel,
1267:My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. ~ Jane Austen,
1268:My mother loved people and she loved conversation, and she loved to engage with people. She was a really fantastic person. You would've really liked her. ~ Louie Anderson,
1269:Socrates pioneered conversation as a means of intellectual exploration, of questioning assumptions, ones so deeply ingrained we dont even know we have them. ~ Eric Weiner,
1270:Thank you, sir. Thus far the highlight of my stay has been making love to you.”
Mr. Nobley bowed in acknowledgment. The conversation completely quieted. ~ Shannon Hale,
1271:The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food. ~ Clifton Fadiman,
1272:We didn’t have to talk then, and that is real friendship. Never uncomfortable with silence, which, in its welcome form, is yet an extension of conversation. ~ Patti Smith,
1273:Hearing this, I had that feeling again, like the conversation was a pack of wild horses pounding out ahead of me, leaving nothing but dust behind. Trifecta? ~ Sarah Dessen,
1274:If the whole country had to have the same conversation that was safe for everybody, it would be a pretty awful place to live. There wouldn't be a conversation. ~ Louis C K,
1275:If you are having a difficult conversation, and someone asks why you disagree, how come you never say, “Because what I’m saying makes absolutely no sense”? ~ Douglas Stone,
1276:I, cruel to Marks? I'm the one you should worry about. After a conversation with her, I usually walk away with my entrails dragging behind me. ~ Lisa Kleypas,
1277:I just realized that we're facing here is an empathy gap. And this was just another way to generate conversation about something that nobody wanted to look at. ~ Teju Cole,
1278:In conversation we are sometimes confused by the tone of our own voice, and mislead to make assertions that do not at all correspond to our opinions. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
1279:In time, we lose our freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve. ~ Dale Carnegie,
1280:I object to that conversation!" interposed the old woman. "I was not capable enough to hear what I said, and what is said out of my hearing is not evidence. ~ Thomas Hardy,
1281:I think I have an ongoing conversation with God. I think throughout the day, I'm constantly asking myself questions about what I'm doing, why am I doing it. ~ Barack Obama,
1282:My idea of good company, Mr. Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. ~ Jane Austen,
1283:She left him alone by never speaking unless he spoke to her first, never asking him questions, never extending the conversation, letting it die instead. He ~ Tiffany Reisz,
1284:The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist. ~ Marcel Proust,
1285:The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever. ~ Edward Bulwer Lytton 1st Baron Lytton,
1286:This brief conversation reminded me of my old life: driving everywhere, going to a job I hated, and not spending enough time outside. I was so “busy” then, ~ Tammy Strobel,
1287:You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about. ~ Sophia Loren,
1288:Even though they, each for his own reason, did not wish to end the conversation, they had come to the end of what they could say in peace, and said goodbye. ~ Boris Fishman,
1289:I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero,
1290:In short, we lose the freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve. ~ Dale Carnegie,
1291:I would have waited outside if I’d known, since the potential for really awkward conversation seems pretty high in the waiting room of a psychiatrist’s office. ~ David Wong,
1292:The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others. ~ Jean de la Bruyere,
1293:The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld,
1294:Whether it's creating a chapter of a book or a quiet conversation, trying to do too many things at once is one of my biggest obstacles to living artfully. ~ Emily P Freeman,
1295:A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought. ~ Hector Hugh Munro,
1296:Be a good listener. With rapt attention, let every communication or conversation you have with your mentor, friends or even strangers be well understood. ~ Israelmore Ayivor,
1297:It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics. ~ Nicholas A Christakis,
1298:People have an actual bias against there being some kind of popularity for political films, and when they get acknowledged, it helps keep the conversation going. ~ Jay Roach,
1299:Since we started this conversation,” I said, “two hundred babies have been born on this planet. And what have we accomplished? You have eaten that thing. ~ Maggie Stiefvater,
1300:The backgrounds by design are a very key part of the conversation, because I want a kind of fight or pressure to exist between the figure and the background. ~ Kehinde Wiley,
1301:The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees. ~ Douglas Adams,
1302:The pause in conversation when you're about to introduce someone but you've forgotten their name. There's a word for it. In Scotland, it's called a tartle. ~ Robyn Schneider,
1303:There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance. ~ Joy Williams,
1304:These napkins are more holy than righteous,” Mrs. Wapshot said, and most of her conversation at table was made up of just such chestnuts, saws and hoary puns. ~ John Cheever,
1305:They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation. ~ Jerome K Jerome,
1306:Vous parliez d'une conversation où rien ne serait caché: cela s'appelle l'enfer, si je ne m'abuse. Se dévoiler devant quelqu'un est le prélude à la trahison. ~ Irvin D Yalom,
1307:83. Avoid all conversation with the multitude or common people; for I would not have you subject to envy, much less to be ridiculous unto the multitude. ~ Hermes Trismegistus,
1308:a conversation with him took you places you didn’t expect. It forced you not just to defend but also to engage. And that in itself, I came to believe, had value. ~ Ed Catmull,
1309:All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground. ~ Henry James,
1310:English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities. ~ Elspeth Huxley,
1311:I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it's still a fantastic, amazing place. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow,
1312:It's a hard thing to hold a civil conversation after recalling that one party has used a Taser on the other, so both of them finished the walk in silence. ~ Maggie Stiefvater,
1313:It’s a hard thing to hold a civil conversation after recalling that one party has used a Taser on the other, so both of them finished the walk in silence. ~ Maggie Stiefvater,
1314:It was always the same: everywhere there were the hard-hearted who pretended an interest, who began a conversation and then, their cadging over, walked away. ~ William Trevor,
1315:Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance sentence, without turning her head. ~ Vladimir Nabokov,
1316:That pause in conversation when you’re about to introduce someone but you’ve forgotten their name. There’s a word for it. In Scotland, it’s called a tartle. ~ Robyn Schneider,
1317:They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation. ~ Jerome K Jerome,
1318:Dance removes you from this construct of the world that you have, and it's a conversation that you're having with people. That's how dance grew, as an art form. ~ Stephen Boss,
1319:I can once more carry on a conversation with myself, and don't stare so into complete emptiness. Only in this way is there any possibility of improvement for me. ~ Franz Kafka,
1320:I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas. ~ Edmund Wilson,
1321:I'm a star player when it comes to being sociable. It's because I'm inquisitive. When I meet someone for the first time, I want to start up a conversation with them. ~ Seungri,
1322:It's hard these days to have a conversation, at least it is for me, about [Truman]Capote without "Good Night, and Good Luck" coming up in the same conversation. ~ Tavis Smiley,
1323:It's sad to think how humanity has been reduced to being more comfortable communing through the medium of a keyboard, rather than having a real life conversation. ~ L H Cosway,
1324:Only in New York would a total stranger butt into your private conversation just to let you know there’s somebody out there who’s a tiny bit crazier than you. ~ Elizabeth Bard,
1325:Phryne read a detective story, frequently going back because she suddenly found herself reading a conversation between two characters she had not met before— ~ Kerry Greenwood,
1326:She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions. ~ Jane Austen,
1327:The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld,
1328:The conversation was slow, halting. Audrey asked me no questions about England or Cambridge. She had no frame of reference for my life, so we talked about hers ~ Tara Westover,
1329:We have to be role models. We have to be curious. Above all, we have to pay attention and be part of the conversation while our kids are still listening to us. ~ Anya Kamenetz,
1330:We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all. ~ William James,
1331:What ho!" I said. "What ho!" said Motty. "What ho! What ho!" "What ho! What ho! What ho!" After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation. ~ P G Wodehouse,
1332:What ho!' I said. 'What ho!' said Motty. 'What ho! What ho!' 'What ho! What ho! What ho!' After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation. ~ P G Wodehouse,
1333:You could sit down with another mom, even one halfway around the world whose life was very different from your own, and find easy conversation, shared spirit, ~ Laurie Frankel,
1334:A country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may have agreeable topicks for conversation when they are by themselves. ~ Samuel Johnson,
1335:Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
1336:He shed his name, as you know, within a few short years of that conversation and created the mask of “Lord Voldemort” behind which he has been hidden for so long. ~ J K Rowling,
1337:How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked. “Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging. ~ John Green,
1338:If after reading the newspaper, hearing the news, or being in a conversation, we feel anxious or worn out, we know we have been in contact with toxins. Movies ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
1339:If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country. ~ Al Franken,
1340:I'm not a 'celebrity'. I'm not a big huge star and so when people see me it's usually to talk about something I've done and that's a great conversation to have. ~ Jason Bateman,
1341:I see in my friends that don't have kids, when they come over, and the amount of times our conversation gets interrupted by my children. It's almost jarring. ~ Shannyn Sossamon,
1342:Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern. ~ George Washington,
1343:Most of the humorous writers I know, me included, aren’t very funny in conversation. In fact, I’m so boring I could suck the laughs out of a hyena convention. ~ Scott Nicholson,
1344:My hair is hungry,” announced Carol. That brought the conversation to its second screeching halt in as many minutes, as everyone turned to stare at the gorgon. ~ Seanan McGuire,
1345:No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi. ~ Ben Elton,
1346:silent desperation of everything they never said - gaps and absences in every conversation, the past circumscribing the present, the future hemming in the past. ~ Anthony Doerr,
1347:Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesnt have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood. ~ Rosecrans Baldwin,
1348:There comes a point in every conversation where at least one of the people involved has to know what is being talked about, and I decided that point had arrived. ~ Jeff Lindsay,
1349:William was dazed. The entire conversation had been too overwhelming to believe, but believe it he did. He knew the earl well enough to know he was not being ~ Kathryn Le Veque,
1350:All you need is a pool table, beer, an electric jukebox and good conversation. The day a girl beats me in a game of Beirut [a kind of beer pong] is a good sign! ~ Chace Crawford,
1351:At the end of their conversation, for no good reason, he told a joke. “What’s brown and sticky?” “I know that one,” the Voice said. “A stick.” “A turd.” Click. ~ Jeff VanderMeer,
1352:Display politeness and frankness always both in action and conversation. Don’t keep engaging in useless arguments. It scares your dreams away. Talk sensibly. ~ Israelmore Ayivor,
1353:IF OUR PHONE CONVERSATION GETS DISCONNECTED, THERE’S NO NEED TO CALL BACK I get it. You get it. We take forever getting off the phone anyway. This was a blessing. ~ Mindy Kaling,
1354:I hope that being in places from the [Shinzo Abe] Prime Minister's past will motivate us to have a sincere, very practical and, I hope, productive conversation. ~ Vladimir Putin,
1355:I’m going to hell.” Parker continued her solo conversation. “Not because I kissed your husband…” she knelt on the floor by Sabrina’s suitcase “…because I liked it. ~ Jewel E Ann,
1356:It's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You speak so well!' I'm like, 'What do you mean? Do you understand that's an insult? ~ Jay Z,
1357:Lets us all have an open conversation about what this might mean if [Donald] Trump gets his way or how we might be able to adjust that and make American people safer. ~ Ted Cruz,
1358:My last bedside conversation in the hospital just a few weeks before Allen Ginsberg died was 'please take care of so and so. And the legacy of the Kerouac school. ~ Anne Waldman,
1359:Nightmares," Neil echoed. It wasn't the turn he'd thought this conversation would take but he could guess what was tearing Aaron apart. "About November, you mean. ~ Nora Sakavic,
1360:Polite conversation followed rules. Topics were sequential, orderly, and flowed from one to the next like a gentle current when all those conversing were skilled. ~ Kresley Cole,
1361:Thankfully, not many attempt to talk to me, probably because I don't come across as friendly, and I don't often engage in conversation with people I don't know. ~ Helena Hunting,
1362:The best ideas come unexpectedly from a conversation or a common activity like watering the garden. These can get lost or slip away if not acted on when they occur. ~ Ruth Asawa,
1363:The best joke-tellers are those who have the patience to wait for conversation to come around to the point where the jokes in their repertoire have application. ~ Joseph Epstein,
1364:The essence of wisdom is learning the value of “staying in the conversation,” even when it makes you uncomfortable. Especially when it makes you uncomfortable. ~ Stefan Molyneux,
1365:They did not practice fighting, for Katsa was shy of his touch. And he didn’t press it upon her. He pressed nothing upon her, even conversation, even his gaze. ~ Kristin Cashore,
1366:This isn't a conversation. This is the sort of monologue you run in your head with lovers you'll never speak to again. This is what happens when thoughts curdle. ~ Kieron Gillen,
1367:You can enlarge the conversation by taking your focus off the negative and noticing all the things that are going right, taking a stand for the goodness of humanity. ~ Pam Grout,
1368:Il est bon de n'avoir pas à alimenter une conversation. D'où vient la difficulté de la vie en société? De cet impératif de trouver toujours quelque chose à dire. ~ Sylvain Tesson,
1369:I like the idea of a book being a democratic space which readers enter, carrying their own thoughts, and participate in a conversation, or experience of grace. ~ Aleksandar Hemon,
1370:Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't know where it's going. I just hope to find it somewhere along the way. Like an improv conversation. An improversation. ~ Michael Scott,
1371:This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution. ~ Mike DeWine,
1372:We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the
meaning of it all. ~ William James,
1373:We move in response to our conversation partner’s face, and our brain also fires as we move those muscles and stirs the passions. Paralyzing the face is idiotic. ~ John M Gottman,
1374:Withdrawn into the peace of this desert, along with some books, few but wise, I live in conversation with the deceased, and listen to the dead with my eyes ~ Francisco de Quevedo,
1375:Worse still is the white person who might be willing to entertain the possibility of said racism, but who thinks we enter this conversation as equals. We don't. ~ Reni Eddo Lodge,
1376:You see beauty in things other people just take for granted. You need understanding, and, and…deep conversation, and someone who can keep up with that mind of yours! ~ Amy Harmon,
1377:But . . . I want to remember this conversation! I want to understand! I don’t want to be a toy! I don’t want to be a thing! I want to know how everything works! ~ Frances Hardinge,
1378:Conflicts at work tend to fester when people passively avoid problems, because people lack the skills needed to initiate a direct, yet constructive conversation ~ Travis Bradberry,
1379:Every natural language has redundancy built in; this is why people can understand text riddled with errors and why they can understand conversation in a noisy room. ~ James Gleick,
1380:How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked.
“Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging. ~ John Green,
1381:I am sure your piety does you great credit, Margaret. But certainly, if God is speaking to the king, then He has not chosen the best time for this conversation. ~ Philippa Gregory,
1382:In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez,
1383:In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez,
1384:One aristocratic leader's club was known for, "an atmosphere of solemn tranquility, in which reading, dozing, and meditation took precedence over conversation. ~ Barbara W Tuchman,
1385:real magic comes out of what is around you, it is born from the long conversation, negotiation, fellowship that human beings have with the things of the world. ~ Emily Croy Barker,
1386:She did not want conversation or company, just the presence of other people; she hoped the background drone of their lives would fill the empty spaces in her mind. ~ Brian Herbert,
1387:There sprang up between them the light jesting conversation of people who are free and satisfied, to whom it does not matter where they go or what they talk about. ~ Anton Chekhov,
1388:The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself—and keep it there. ~ Margaret Mitchell,
1389:A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees. ~ Dick Cavett,
1390:Are we, like, having a conversation?"
"Did you just, like, ask me for advice and listen with an open mind? If so, then yes, I would call this a conversation ~ Karen Marie Moning,
1391:conversation is like a dear little baby that is brought in to be handed round. You must rock it, nurse it, keep it on the move if you want it to keep smiling. ~ Katherine Mansfield,
1392:Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. ~ William Shakespeare,
1393:Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself. ~ Edward Hyde 1st Earl of Clarendon,
1394:Grimm frowned. “Ah. Um. Am I in any danger?” “You’re dead as a stone, man!” “I am?” “Yes. No, actually, not even remotely, but for purposes of this conversation, yes. ~ Jim Butcher,
1395:I really hated being the Norwegian girl in every single conversation in Australia, so I tried to make my Norwegian-ness invisible, speaking like whoever was around me. ~ Jenny Hval,
1396:Lady Maria’s charity-knitting which she had taken up. Emily was so gratified that she found conversation easy. She did not realise that at that particular ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett,
1397:Magnus didn't really want this kind of thing this early in the morning - this talk of aching memories and wanting to forget. This conversation needed to end, now. ~ Cassandra Clare,
1398:The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago,' continued Marvin.
Again the pause. '
Oh d—'
'And that was with a coffee machine.' He waited. ~ Douglas Adams,
1399:The painters could be identified by dirty fingernails; the writers by conversation in labored monosyllables and aggressive vulgarities which disguised their minds. ~ William Gaddis,
1400:We need the word proclaimed so that we hear the gospel clearly, but then it's also very natural to have people talk about the Christian faith in ordinary conversation. ~ Mark Dever,
1401:."We're going to need more alcohol," Char whispered under her breath to Jake.
"And a roofie," Jake added. "I don't want to remember this conversation. Ever.". ~ Rachel Van Dyken,
1402:We're not living in a society that science actually dominates the conversation. We're living in a situation where some science is allowed and a lot of it's about policy. ~ Josh Fox,
1403:What track needs to figure out: how to engage us between the races. Instead, the entire off-the-track conversation is about doping. This is how you kill a sport. ~ Malcolm Gladwell,
1404:You may fail to shine in the opinion of others, both in our conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior to them. ~ Greville Janner Baron Janner of Braunstone,
1405:You've got better boobs," I acknowledged. And just as we'd done each time we'd had this boobs-versus-legs conversation, we looked down at our chests. Ogled. Compared. ~ Chloe Neill,
1406:CHAPTER XXIII WHICH CONTAINS THE SUBSTANCE OF A PLEASANT CONVERSATION BETWEEN MR. BUMBLE AND A LADY; AND SHEWS THAT EVEN A BEADLE MAY BE SUSCEPTIBLE ON SOME POINTS ~ Charles Dickens,
1407:didn’t need a fifteen-minute conversation, just some human interaction. It can be had, and easily: a gesture, a joke, something that says, “I live in this world too. ~ David Sedaris,
1408:If I was so malicious or off-color or just plain wrongheaded that I had to constantly censor my conversation with a minister, then I needed the experience anyway. ~ Charlaine Harris,
1409:Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation. Silence is the respite of the confident and the strong. ~ Ryan Holiday,
1410:The conversation limped along this line of thought much like a zombie: lifeless and mindless and making a jelly of whatever healthy brains were within its reach. ~ Steve Hockensmith,
1411:Theology is not reserved for those in the academy; it is an aspect of thought and conversation for all who live and breathe, who wrestle and fear, who hope and pray. ~ Kelly M Kapic,
1412:Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself. ~ Robin Sharma,
1413:Always remember that no matter what anyone is saying to you from the outside, the most important conversation is the one you are having with yourself on the inside. ~ Robert Kiyosaki,
1414:As conversation with men is wonderfully helpful, so is a visit to foreign lands...to whet and sharpen our wits by rubbing them upon those of others."--Montaigne ~ Michel de Montaigne,
1415:As many have said about such stoic institutions: theories, beliefs, and practices die one generation at a time. But the conversation and battle must start somewhere. ~ Matthew Walker,
1416:Duden Dictionary Meaning #4. Wort - Word: A meaningful unit of language / a promise / a short remark, statement, or conversation. Related words: term, name, expession. ~ Markus Zusak,
1417:Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats. ~ Umberto Eco,
1418:He [Harry Bosch] defined good company not by the conversation but by the lack of it. When there was no need to talk to feel comfortable, that was the right company ~ Michael Connelly,
1419:I had a conversation with somebody. It was an epiphany.” His voice was rueful. He rocked her. “From that point on I swore I would never eat something that could talk. ~ Thea Harrison,
1420:It has been years since I have seen anyone who could even look as if he were in love. No one's face lights up any more except for political conversation. ~ Margaret Caroline Anderson,
1421:Literature does not occur in a vacuum. It cannot be a monologue. It has to be a conversation, and new people, new readers, need to be brought into the conversation too. ~ Neil Gaiman,
1422:Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool. ~ Elizabeth Olsen,
1423:NONVERSATION—noun: a conversation in which one person isn’t paying attention to what the other person is saying, generally due to lack of interest or being distracted. ~ Neil Strauss,
1424:Only literature can grant you access to a spirit from beyond the grave—a more direct, more complete, deeper access than you’d have in conversation with a friend. ~ Michel Houellebecq,
1425:other words, the meaningful conversation we should be having is about absolute poverty, not relative poverty. In so many of the discussions about income inequality, ~ Lawrence W Reed,
1426:There were simply some guys you wanted to hold on to—every memory, every note, every conversation—you longed to keep it all. And that was how I felt when it came to him. ~ J Sterling,
1427:1. Interrupt the interrupters.....

If a woman is cut off in conversation, cut off the interruptor: 'Olivia was speaking. Let's let her finish her thought first. ~ Joanne Lipman,
1428:At the time, I was enjoying watching her doing the preparation and the cooking and the sort of conversation you have when one of you is occupied and the other is idle. ~ Anne Youngson,
1429:Conversation on the page should reflect what the story is about. It doesn't have to be "realistic" in the sense that it's something you heard and plugged into a story. ~ Lynne Tillman,
1430:How much further can your head get up your ass that you're actually judging someone as a person based on their sexuality before you even have a conversation with them? ~ Ariana Grande,
1431:I can’t stand every boring, worthless piece of conversation I overhear because they make me wish I could be a part of them, be some nobody girl with nothing to say. ~ Courtney Summers,
1432:I love conversation and the sharing of different thoughts and philosophies. That kind of stuff always makes me happy. I don't mind interviews, either - I like doing them. ~ John Lydon,
1433:I think one of the reasons with problems with conversation on race is that this is such a deeply personal conversation that it requires trust and someone you know. ~ Jonathan Capehart,
1434:The more specific your questions the better.   If you feel that you can't really continue the conversation without asking questions, you need to ask specific questions. ~ Patrick King,
1435:Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater,
1436:To make sure employees’ conversations with their managers were more useful, we developed a one-page handout for them to use during their performance conversation. Again, ~ Laszlo Bock,
1437:After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate. ~ Mel Gibson,
1438:And healthy people love honesty. Normalizing truthfulness in your relationships is simply inserting your own realities into the conversation, the meeting, or the event. ~ John Townsend,
1439:Britain deserves better than people who say they've got a quick fix but won't tell you what it actually means for Britain, we need a much bigger conversation than this. ~ Ruth Davidson,
1440:But he didn't, it happened, know the Munsters well enough to give the case much of a lift; so that they were left together as if over the mere laid table of conversation. ~ Henry James,
1441:During relaxation we drop our guard. Particularly in conversation. Relaxed conversation leads to openness. And in openness we often reveal what should never be revealed. ~ Edward Carey,
1442:From the backseat of the pick-up stepped Dr. Marconi. I tried to imagine the conversation the three of them had on the way over, and my brain just spat out error messages. ~ David Wong,
1443:I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. ~ Sylvia Plath,
1444:Is Obama satanic?” he asked me. I was grateful for the conversation starter — I consider anything that staves off social awkwardness to be a blessing — but I couldn’t lie. ~ Jon Ronson,
1445:Literature does not occur in a vacuum. It cannot be a monologue. It has to be a conversation, and new people, new readers, need to be brought into the conversation too. I ~ Neil Gaiman,
1446:She looked up. “Oh, right,” she said, nodding. I think she hadn’t expected the conversation about Daisy to be over so quickly. But I didn’t want to talk about it anymore. ~ R J Palacio,
1447:In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved. ~ Matthew Kelly,
1448:Isabel smiled. She liked a conversation that went in odd directions; she liked the idea of playfulness in speech. People could be so depressingly literal. Jamie ~ Alexander McCall Smith,
1449:Keep each person separate in your heart. Don't have two sex patterns going at the same time. And don't ever join a conversation about something you know nothing about. ~ Elsa Lanchester,
1450:Only one thing is certian about coffee.... Wherever it is grown, sold, brewed, and consumed, there will be lively controversy, strong opinions, and good conversation. ~ Mark Pendergrast,
1451:She waited for one of them to say something that might facilitate a more in-depth conversation, something that might bridge the distance between them; but neither man spoke. ~ Wendy Wax,
1452:That may not be a simple conversation. But when you are dealing with root causes, at least you know you are fighting the real problem and not just boxing with shadows. ~ Steven D Levitt,
1453:We talked about desire and being jealous,
Our conversation a loose single gown
Or a white picnic tablecloth spread out
Like a book of manners in the wilderness. ~ Seamus Heaney,
1454:You think everyone pervs you."... "That's cos they do, and you're just jealous, cos I'm gorgeous and you're not." ~ Marita A Hansen conversation between Dante &Ash ~ Marita A Hansen,
1455:A library is a good place to soften solitude; a place where you feel part of a conversation that has gone on for hundreds and hundreds of years even when you’re all alone. ~ Susan Orlean,
1456:But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music. ~ Tom Waits,
1457:Charles’ conversation was as flat as a street pavement, on which everybody’s ideas trudged past, in their workaday dress, provoking no emotion, no laughter, no dreams. ~ Gustave Flaubert,
1458:Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality. ~ Alanis Morissette,
1459:Fidel Castro takes up so much space in the Cuban mind. It's hard for us to imagine as Americans - isn't it? - how much of everyday conversation he's dominated for 50 years. ~ Scott Simon,
1460:How could you have a serious conversation with me when I look like this?” His smile softens. “You look like that because you were making my little girl happy.” Well, shit… ~ Lili Valente,
1461:How often a mother initiated a conversation with her child was not predictive of the language outcomes—what mattered was, if the infant initiated, whether the mom responded. ~ Po Bronson,
1462:I find it is happening in different ways to every industry in the world, and positioning yourself for that, and trying to get ahead of that, is a big conversation right now. ~ Ken Moelis,
1463:It's an honest place to be if you don't understand someone else's experience, but there's no way for the other to understand if a conversation or an explanation isn't made. ~ Regina King,
1464:Jesus Christ, will you quit dictating this conversation to Hannah?' I grumble. 'Bros before hos, dude.'
'Call my girlfriend a ho one more time and you won't have a bro. ~ Elle Kennedy,
1465:that counts is the truth, McCafferty,” he would say, just before the beer turned his conversation to blather. “Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas. ~ Jojo Moyes,
1466:The constant talking didn't bother her, for cats use their voices to say 'here I am, where are you?' and this seemed to be the primary intention of most human conversation. ~ Kij Johnson,
1467:The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless. ~ Tahir Shah,
1468:Was he going to ask me to go with him? Maybe I was getting ahead of myself and he was just making conversation. Oh, why was talking to a boy so fraught with complication? ~ Donna Freitas,
1469:We must practice modesty, not only in our looks, but also in our whole deportment, and particularly in our dress, our walk, our conversation, and all similar actions. ~ Alphonsus Liguori,
1470:Worried, I touched the jacket’s sleeve. “You think it’s too much?” I asked, working hard to keep my tone non-combative. I’d had this conversation with ex-roommates before. ~ Kim Harrison,
1471:Harry padded softly in. He was in linen shirt, breeches, and bare feet, the very model of a gentleman bent on criminal conversation, and the sight made Julius’s chest heave. ~ K J Charles,
1472:He gently touched my shoulders as if we were having an ordinary conversation anywhere. But we weren’t. I had my coochie on display while Jericho was swinging in the breeze. ~ Dannika Dark,
1473:I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused. ~ Jodi Picoult,
1474:I do think we think repetitively. It's so hard to get certain thoughts out of your head. If you're angry at a friend, you're going to keep going back to that conversation. ~ Lynne Tillman,
1475:In principle, the Count generally regarded a barrage of interrogatives as bad form. Left to themselves, the words who, what, why, when, and where do not a conversation make. ~ Amor Towles,
1476:Let's hear it again!" The sweetest sound your conversation partner can hear from your lips when you're talking with a group of people is "Tell them about the time you . . . ~ Leil Lowndes,
1477:Mike could hear ELOPe’s voice right in his ear, while in the background, he could hear ELOPe carrying on a different conversation with the teenagers across the room. It ~ William Hertling,
1478:Not to discuss with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To discuss with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words. ~ Confucius,
1479:Oh, right. Of course. Well hey, if you happen to run into a vagina, ask it to invite you in for a little conversation. And by conversation, I mean sexual intercourse! ~ Brittainy C Cherry,
1480:Our supper was only half an anchovy each, on a very little strip of bread and butter, and half a pint of ale between us; but the entertainment was in her conversation. ~ Benjamin Franklin,
1481:People organize their brains with conversation. If they don't have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves. ~ Jordan Peterson,
1482:so entering a conversation that you’d overheard but hadn’t been invited to join was sort of like peeing in someone’s coffee while they stood there and watched you do it. ~ Johnny B Truant,
1483:This evening, sprawled on the sofa, this animal with whom he shared one half of his genetic code had overstepped the unspoken boundaries of decent human conversation. ~ Michel Houellebecq,
1484:What ho!" I said.
"What ho!" said Motty.
"What ho! What ho!"
"What ho! What ho! What ho!"
After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation. ~ P G Wodehouse,
1485:When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation. ~ Adelbert von Chamisso,
1486:Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! ... Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It's the most loquacious of all. You really can't get a word in edgeways. ~ Agnes Sligh Turnbull,
1487:How did that go?’ he asked. ‘Your first lengthy conversation with a girl your own age?’ ‘Fabulous,’ said Artemis, voice dripping with sarcasm. ‘We’re planning a June wedding. ~ Eoin Colfer,
1488:I don't think interviewing people is any different than normal communication. The only thing is that it has these boundaries set upon it as to what the conversation is about. ~ John Bishop,
1489:If we stepped away from so much of the victimhood talk, I think that would make a big change for the better. It does limit art. The conversation wouldn't just be one-sided. ~ Nelly Furtado,
1490:I think that today's books, in which every quote, every conversation, is taken from a memoir, an autobiography, an interview, or what-have-you, are much more convincing. ~ Russell Freedman,
1491:It’s that confused vibe that lowers her guard and makes it easy for her invest in the conversation, all because humans have an instinct to share what they know to people in need. ~ Roosh V,
1492:I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation. ~ Carol Gilligan,
1493:I won't push you for it anymore, okay. We'll stick to clever conversation.
A bit of this and that won't hurt.
Yeah, it won't hurt you. It'll drive me bloody crazy. ~ Melina Marchetta,
1494:Of course she loved her only child, but she had too much respect for herself to tolerate any more snide comments. It was like strikes—after three, Ryn ended the conversation. ~ Jewel E Ann,
1495:This is where we should start focusing this conversation: how men (as readers, critics, and editors) can start to bear the responsibility for becoming better, broader readers. ~ Roxane Gay,
1496:We should not see print and electronic literature as in competition, but rather in conversation. The more voices that join in, the richer the dialogue is likely to be. ~ N Katherine Hayles,
1497:Why are people saying it's too soon? Like the people on that flight, we need to agree about what to do about terrorism. And I think we need to have that conversation now. ~ Paul Greengrass,
1498:After 'Roe v. Wade' - when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 - I thought the national conversation about abortion and birth control would be over. It was not. ~ Karen DeCrow,
1499:English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than any of the other products of that conversation. ~ H Beam Piper,
1500:fragments of a conversation she had left a little earlier (on Rilke, not Rilke’s poetry but Rilke the man, who refused to be psychoanalyzed for fear of purging his genius); ~ William Gaddis,

IN CHAPTERS [300/720]



  432 Integral Yoga
   47 Yoga
   41 Occultism
   35 Poetry
   34 Fiction
   22 Philosophy
   21 Christianity
   10 Psychology
   4 Education
   2 Sufism
   2 Islam
   1 Zen
   1 Theosophy
   1 Science
   1 Philsophy
   1 Mythology
   1 Mysticism
   1 Integral Theory
   1 Buddhism
   1 Baha i Faith
   1 Alchemy


  367 The Mother
  333 Satprem
   47 Sri Ramakrishna
   37 Sri Aurobindo
   34 Aleister Crowley
   30 H P Lovecraft
   12 Nolini Kanta Gupta
   11 Saint Augustine of Hippo
   10 Plato
   9 A B Purani
   8 George Van Vrekhem
   8 Carl Jung
   8 Anonymous
   7 Friedrich Nietzsche
   6 William Wordsworth
   6 Saint John of Climacus
   5 Saint Teresa of Avila
   5 Jorge Luis Borges
   5 Ibn Ata Illah
   4 Sri Ramana Maharshi
   4 Percy Bysshe Shelley
   4 Aldous Huxley
   3 Nirodbaran
   3 Lewis Carroll
   3 Jordan Peterson
   3 John Keats
   2 Rudolf Steiner
   2 Muhammad
   2 Li Bai
   2 Edgar Allan Poe
   2 Al-Ghazali


   46 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
   40 Agenda Vol 03
   35 Agenda Vol 10
   35 Agenda Vol 04
   30 Lovecraft - Poems
   29 Agenda Vol 13
   28 Agenda Vol 08
   26 Record of Yoga
   26 Agenda Vol 02
   23 Agenda Vol 05
   22 Agenda Vol 07
   21 Agenda Vol 06
   20 Magick Without Tears
   18 Agenda Vol 11
   18 Agenda Vol 09
   17 Agenda Vol 12
   17 Agenda Vol 01
   14 Liber ABA
   11 Talks
   9 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
   8 The Bible
   8 Preparing for the Miraculous
   7 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
   7 City of God
   6 Wordsworth - Poems
   6 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
   6 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
   6 On Education
   5 Some Answers From The Mother
   5 Questions And Answers 1953
   5 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
   4 Words Of Long Ago
   4 The Perennial Philosophy
   4 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
   4 Shelley - Poems
   4 Questions And Answers 1956
   4 Prayers And Meditations
   3 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
   3 The Way of Perfection
   3 The Secret Doctrine
   3 The Practice of Psycho therapy
   3 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
   3 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
   3 Questions And Answers 1955
   3 Maps of Meaning
   3 Letters On Yoga IV
   3 Labyrinths
   3 Keats - Poems
   3 Alice in Wonderland
   3 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
   2 Words Of The Mother II
   2 The Interior Castle or The Mansions
   2 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
   2 The Alchemy of Happiness
   2 Symposium
   2 Quran
   2 Questions And Answers 1954
   2 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
   2 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
   2 Mysterium Coniunctionis
   2 Li Bai - Poems
   2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04


0 0.02 - Topographical Note, #Agenda Vol 1, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  From the time of Sri Aurobindo's departure (1950) until 1957, we have only a few notes and fragments or rare statements noted from memory. These are the only landmarks of this period, along with Mother's Questions and Answers from her talks at the Ashram Playground. A few of these conversations have been reproduced here insofar as they mark stages of the Supramental
  Action.
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  It was only in 1958 that we began having the first tape-recorded conversations, which, properly speaking, constitute Mother's Agenda. But even then, many of these conversations were lost or only partly noted down. Or else we considered that our own words should not figure in these notes and we carefully omitted all our questions - which was absurd. At that time, no one - neither Mother, nor ourself - knew that this was 'the Agenda' and that we were out to explore the 'Great Passage.'
  Only gradually did we become aware of the true nature of these meetings. Furthermore, we were constantly on the road, so much so that there are sizable gaps in the text. In fact, for seven years,

0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
   Sri Ramakrishna, dressed in a red-bordered dhoti, one end of which was carelessly thrown over his left shoulder, came to Jaygopal's garden house accompanied by Hriday. No one took notice of the unostentatious visitor. Finally the Master said to Keshab, "People tell me you have seen God; so I have come to hear from you about God." A magnificent conversation followed. The Master sang a thrilling song about Kali and forthwith went into samadhi. When Hriday uttered the sacred "Om" in his ears, he gradually came back to consciousness of the world, his face still radiating a divine brilliance. Keshab and his followers were amazed. The contrast between Sri Ramakrishna and the Brahmo devotees was very interesting. There sat this small man, thin and extremely delicate. His eyes were illumined with an inner light. Good humour gleamed in his eyes and lurked in the corners of his mouth. His speech was Bengali of a homely kind with a slight, delightful stammer, and his words held men enthralled by their wealth of spiritual experience, their inexhaustible store of simile and metaphor, their power of observation, their bright and subtle humour, their wonderful catholicity, their ceaseless flow of wisdom. And around him now were the sophisticated men of Bengal, the best products of Western education, with Keshab, the idol of young Bengal, as their leader.
   Keshab's sincerity was enough for Sri Ramakrishna. Henceforth the two saw each other frequently, either at Dakshineswar or at the temple of the Brahmo Samaj. Whenever the Master was in the temple at the time of divine service, Keshab would request him to speak to the congregation. And Keshab would visit the saint, in his turn, with offerings of flowers and fruits.
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   Mahendranath Gupta, better known as "M.", arrived at Dakshineswar in March 1882. He belonged to the Brahmo Samaj and was headmaster of the Vidyasagar High School at Syambazar, Calcutta. At the very first sight the Master recognized him as one of his "marked" disciples. Mahendra recorded in his diary Sri Ramakrishna's conversations with his devotees. These are the first directly recorded words, in the spiritual history of the world, of a man recognized as belonging in the class of Buddha and Christ. The present volume is a translation of this diary. Mahendra was instrumental, through his personal contacts, in spreading the Master's message among many young and aspiring souls.
   --- NAG MAHASHAY
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   In April 1885 the Master's throat became inflamed. Prolonged conversation or absorption in samadhi, making the blood flow into the throat, would aggravate the pain. Yet when the annual Vaishnava festival was celebrated at Panihati, Sri Ramakrishna attended it against the doctor's advice. With a group of disciples he spent himself in music, dance, and ecstasy. The illness took a turn for the worse and was diagnosed as "clergyman's sore throat". The patient was cautioned against conversation and ecstasies. Though he followed the physician's directions regarding medicine and diet, he could neither control his trances nor withhold from seekers the solace of his advice. Sometimes, like a sulky child, he would complain to the Mother about the crowds, who gave him no rest day or night. He was overheard to say to Her; "Why do You bring here all these worthless people, who are like milk diluted with five times its own quantity of water? My eyes are almost destroyed with blowing the fire to dry up the water. My health is gone. It is beyond my strength. Do it Yourself, if You want it done. This (pointing to his own body) is but a perforated drum, and if you go on beating it day in and day out, how long will it last?"
   But his large heart never turned anyone away. He said, "Let me be condemned to be born over and over again, even in the form of a dog, if I can be of help to a single soul." And he bore the pain, singing cheerfully, "Let the body be preoccupied with illness, but, O mind, dwell for ever in God's Bliss!"

0.00 - THE GOSPEL PREFACE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  But, all doctrinal writing is in some measure formal and impersonal, while the autobiographer tends to omit what he regards as trifling matters and suffers from the further disadvantage of being unable to say how he strikes other people and in what way he affects their lives. Moreover, most saints have left neither writings nor self-portraits, and for knowledge of their lives, their characters and their teachings, we are forced to rely upon the records made by their disciples who, in most cases, have proved themselves singularly incompetent as reporters and biographers. Hence the special interest attaching to this enormously detailed account of the daily life and conversations of Sri Ramakrishna.
  "M", as the author modestly styles himself, was peculiarly qualified for his task. To a reverent love for his master, to a deep and experiential knowledge of that master's teaching, he added a prodigious memory for the small happenings of each day and a happy gift for recording them in an interesting and realistic way. Making good use of his natural gifts and of the circumstances in which he found himself, "M" produced a book unique, so far as my knowledge goes, in the literature of hagiography. No other saint has had so able and indefatigable a Boswell. Never have the small events of a contemplative's daily life been described with such a wealth of intimate detail. Never have the casual and unstudied utterances of a great religious teacher been set down with so minute a fidelity. To Western readers, it is true, this fidelity and this wealth of detail are sometimes a trifle disconcerting; for the social, religious and intellectual frames of reference within which Sri Ramakrishna did his thinking and expressed his feelings were entirely Indian. But after the first few surprises and bewilderments, we begin to find something peculiarly stimulating and instructive about the very strangeness and, to our eyes, the eccentricity of the man revealed to us in "M's" narrative. What a scholastic philosopher would call the "accidents" of Ramakrishna's life were intensely Hindu and therefore, so far as we in the West are concerned, unfamiliar and hard to understand; its "essence", however, was intensely mystical and therefore universal. To read through these conversations in which mystical doctrine alternates with an unfamiliar kind of humour, and where discussions of the oddest aspects of Hindu mythology give place to the most profound and subtle utterances about the nature of Ultimate Reality, is in itself a liberal, education in humility, tolerance and suspense of judgment. We must be grateful to the translator for his excellent version of a book so curious and delightful as a biographical document, so precious, at the same time, for what it teaches us of the life of the spirit.
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  The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna is the English translation of the Sri Sri Rmakrishna Kathmrita, the conversations of Sri Ramakrishna with his disciples, devotees, and visitors, recorded by Mahendranth Gupta, who wrote the book under the pseudonym of "M." The conversations in Bengali fill five volumes, the first of which was published in 1897 and the last shortly after M.'s death in 1932. Sri Ramakrishna Math, Madras, has published in two volumes an English translation of selected chapters from the monumental Bengali work. I have consulted these while preparing my translation.
  M., one of the intimate disciples of Sri Ramakrishna, was present during all the conversations recorded in the main body of the book and noted them down in his diary.
  They therefore have the value of almost stenographic records. In Appendix A are given several conversations which took place in the absence of M., but of which he received a first-hand record from persons concerned. The conversations will bring before the reader's mind an intimate picture of the Master's eventful life from March 1882 to April 24, 1886, only a few months before his passing away. During this period he came in contact chiefly with English-educated Benglis; from among them he selected his disciples and the bearers of his message, and with them he shared his rich spiritual experiences.
  I have made a literal translation, omitting only a few pages of no particular interest to English-speaking readers. Often literary grace has been sacrificed for the sake of literal translation. No translation can do full justice to the original. This difficulty is all the more felt in the present work, whose contents are of a deep mystical nature and describe the inner experiences of a great seer. Human language is an altogether inadequate vehicle to express supersensuous perception. Sri Ramakrishna was almost illiterate. He never clothed his thoughts in formal language. His words sought to convey his direct realization of Truth. His conversation was in a village patois. Therein lies its charm. In order to explain to his listeners an abstruse philosophy, he, like Christ before him, used with telling effect homely parables and illustrations, culled from his observation of the daily life around him.
  The reader will find mentioned in this work many visions and experiences that fall outside the ken of physical science and even psychology. With the development of modern knowledge the border line between the natural and the supernatural is ever shifting its position. Genuine mystical experiences are not as suspect now as they were half a century ago. The words of Sri Ramakrishna have already exerted a tremendous influence in the land of his birth. Savants of Europe have found in his words the ring of universal truth.
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  I have thought it necessary to write a rather lengthy Introduction to the book. In it I have given the biography of the Master, descriptions of people who came in contact with him, short explanations of several systems of Indian religious thought intimately connected with Sri Ramakrishna's life, and other relevant matters which, I hope, will enable the reader better to understand and appreciate the unusual contents of this book. It is particularly important that the Western reader, unacquainted with Hindu religious thought, should first read carefully the introductory chapter, in order that he may fully enjoy these conversations. Many Indian terms and names have been retained in the book for want of suitable English equivalents. Their meaning is given either in the Glossary or in the foot-notes. The Glossary also gives explanations of a number of expressions unfamiliar to Western readers. The diacritical marks are explained under Notes on Pronunciation.
  In the Introduction I have drawn much material from the Life of Sri Ramakrishna, published by the Advaita Ashrama, Myvati, India. I have also consulted the excellent article on Sri Ramakrishna by Swami Nirvednanda, in the second volume of the Cultural Heritage of India.
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  After the Master's demise, M. went on pilgrimage several times. He visited Banras, Vrindvan, Ayodhy and other places. At Banras he visited the famous Trailinga Swmi and fed him with sweets, and he had long conversations with Swami Bhaskarananda, one of the noted saintly and scholarly Sannysins of the time. In 1912 he went with the Holy Mother to Banras, and spent about a year in the company of Sannysins at Banras, Vrindvan, Hardwar, Hrishikesh and Swargashram. But he returned to Calcutta, as that city offered him the unique opportunity of associating himself with the places hallowed by the Master in his lifetime. Afterwards he does not seem to have gone to any far-off place, but stayed on in his room in the Morton School carrying on his spiritual ministry, speaking on the Master and his teachings to the large number of people who flocked to him after having read his famous Kathmrita known to English readers as The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna.
  This brings us to the circumstances that led to the writing and publication of this monumental work, which has made M. one of the immortals in hagiographic literature.
  --
  Besides the prompting of his inherent instinct, the main inducement for M. to keep this diary of his experiences at Dakshineswar was his desire to provide himself with a means for living in holy company at all times. Being a school teacher, he could be with the Master only on Sundays and other holidays, and it was on his diary that he depended for 'holy company' on other days. The devotional scriptures like the Bhagavata say that holy company is the first and most important means for the generation and growth of devotion. For, in such company man could hear talks on spiritual matters and listen to the glorification of Divine attri butes, charged with the fervour and conviction emanating from the hearts of great lovers of God. Such company is therefore the one certain means through which Sraddha (Faith), Rati (attachment to God) and Bhakti (loving devotion) are generated. The diary of his visits to Dakshineswar provided M. with material for re-living, through reading and contemplation, the holy company he had had earlier, even on days when he was not able to visit Dakshineswar. The wealth of details and the vivid description of men and things in the midst of which the sublime conversations are set, provide excellent material to re-live those experiences for any one with imaginative powers. It was observed by M.'s disciples and admirers that in later life also whenever he was free or alone, he would be pouring over his diary, transporting himself on the wings of imagination to the glorious days he spent at the feet of the Master.
  During the Master's lifetime M. does not seem to have revealed the contents of his diary to any one. There is an unconfirmed tradition that when the Master saw him taking notes, he expressed apprehension at the possibility of his utilising these to publicise him like Keshab Sen; for the Great Master was so full of the spirit of renunciation and humility that he disliked being lionised. It must be for this reason that no one knew about this precious diary of M. for a decade until he brought out selections from it as a pamphlet in English in 1897 with the Holy Mother's blessings and permission. The Holy Mother, being very much pleased to hear parts of the diary read to her in Bengali, wrote to M.: "When I heard the Kathmrita, (Bengali name of the book) I felt as if it was he, the Master, who was saying all that." ( Ibid Part I. P 37.)
  --
  It looks as if M. was brought to the world by the Great Master to record his words and transmit them to posterity. Swami Sivananda, a direct disciple of the Master and the second President of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission, says on this topic: "Whenever there was an interesting talk, the Master would call Master Mahashay if he was not in the room, and then draw his attention to the holy words spoken. We did not know then why the Master did so. Now we can realise that this action of the Master had an important significance, for it was reserved for Master Mahashay to give to the world at large the sayings of the Master." ( Vednta Kesari Vol. XIX P 141.) Thanks to M., we get, unlike in the case of the great teachers of the past, a faithful record with date, time, exact report of conversations, description of concerned men and places, references to contemporary events and personalities and a hundred other details for the last four years of the Master's life (1882-'86), so that no one can doubt the historicity of the Master and his teachings at any time in the future.
  M. was, in every respect, a true missionary of Sri Ramakrishna right from his first acquaintance with him in 1882. As a school teacher, it was a practice with him to direct to the Master such of his students as had a true spiritual disposition. Though himself prohibited by the Master to take to monastic life, he encouraged all spiritually inclined young men he came across in his later life to join the monastic Order. Swami Vijnanananda, a direct Sannysin disciple of the Master and a President of the Ramakrishna Order, once remarked to M.: "By enquiry, I have come to the conclusion that eighty percent and more of the Sannysins have embraced the monastic life after reading the Kathmrita (Bengali name of the book) and coming in contact with you." ( M
  --
  As time went on and the number of devotees increased, the staircase room and terrace of the 3rd floor of the Morton Institution became a veritable Naimisaranya of modern times, resounding during all hours of the day, and sometimes of night, too, with the word of God coming from the Rishi-like face of M. addressed to the eager God-seekers sitting around. To the devotees who helped him in preparing the text of the Gospel, he would dictate the conversations of the Master in a meditative mood, referring now and then to his diary. At times in the stillness of midnight he would awaken a nearby devotee and tell him: "Let us listen to the words of the Master in the depths of the night as he explains the truth of the Pranava." ( Vednta Kesari XIX P. 142.) Swami Raghavananda, an intimate devotee of M., writes as follows about these devotional sittings: "In the sweet and warm months of April and May, sitting under the canopy of heaven on the roof-garden of 50 Amherst Street, surrounded by shrubs and plants, himself sitting in their midst like a Rishi of old, the stars and planets in their courses beckoning us to things infinite and sublime, he would speak to us of the mysteries of God and His love and of the yearning that would rise in the human heart to solve the Eternal Riddle, as exemplified in the life of his Master. The mind, melting under the influence of his soft sweet words of light, would almost transcend the frontiers of limited existence and dare to peep into the infinite. He himself would take the influence of the setting and say,'What a blessed privilege it is to sit in such a setting (pointing to the starry heavens), in the company of the devotees discoursing on God and His love!' These unforgettable scenes will long remain imprinted on the minds of his hearers." (Prabuddha Bharata Vol XXXVII P 497.)
  About twenty-seven years of his life he spent in this way in the heart of the great city of Calcutta, radiating the Master's thoughts and ideals to countless devotees who flocked to him, and to still larger numbers who read his Kathmrita (English Edition : The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna), the last part of which he had completed before June 1932 and given to the press. And miraculously, as it were, his end also came immediately after he had completed his life's mission. About three months earlier he had come to stay at his home at 13/2 Gurdasprasad Chaudhuary Lane at Thakur Bari, where the Holy Mother had herself installed the Master and where His regular worship was being conducted for the previous 40 years. The night of 3rd June being the Phalahrini Kli Pooja day, M.

0.01 - Letters from the Mother to Her Son, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  I am also sending you conversations 14 and 15. I hope that
  you have received, in several instalments, the complete series

0.02 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  (The sadhak then related his heated conversation with
  someone.) I regret having lost my temper while pronouncing these last sentences. I have noticed that even
  --
  (The sadhak recounted his conversation with Mr. Z, a
  local French official. The conversation ends:)
  Mr. Z: I have heard that Sri Aurobindo can communicate at a distance. Is it true?
  --
  putting a copy of the conversations in the tray for Mr. Z.
  27 March 1934
  --
  Does this imply that the report of your conversation with Mr. Z
  is inaccurate? This is very serious - you should not put words

0.03 - III - The Evening Sittings, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
   He came dressed as usual in dhoti, part of which was used by him to cover the upper part of his body. Very rarely he came out with chaddar or shawl and then it was "in deference to the climate" as he sometimes put it. At times for minutes he would be gazing at the sky from a small opening at the top of the grass-curtains that covered the verandah upstairs in No. 9, Rue de la Marine. How much were these sittings dependent on him may be gathered from the fact that there were days when more than three-fourths of the time passed in complete silence without any outer suggestion from him, or there was only an abrupt "Yes" or "No" to all attempts at drawing him out in conversation. And even when he participated in the talk one always felt that his voice was that of one who does not let his whole being flow into his words; there was a reserve and what was left unsaid was perhaps more than what was spoken. What was spoken was what he felt necessary to speak.
   Very often some news-item in the daily newspaper, town-gossip, or some interesting letter received either by him or by a disciple, or a question from one of the gathering, occasionally some remark or query from himself would set the ball rolling for the talk. The whole thing was so informal that one could never predict the turn the conversation would take. The whole house therefore was in a mood to enjoy the freshness and the delight of meeting the unexpected. There were peals of laughter and light talk, jokes and criticism which might be called personal, there was seriousness and earnestness in abundance.
   These sittings, in fact, furnished Sri Aurobindo with an occasion to admit and feel the outer atmosphere and that of the group living with him. It brought to him the much-needed direct contact of the mental and vital make-up of the disciples, enabling him to act on the atmosphere in general and on the individual in particular. He could thus help to remould their mental make-up by removing the limitations of their minds and opinions, and correct temperamental tendencies and formations. Thus, these sittings contributed at least partly to the creation of an atmosphere amenable to the working of the Higher Consciousness. Far more important than the actual talk and its content was the personal contact, the influence of the Master, and the divine atmosphere he emanated; for through his outer personality it was the Divine Consciousness that he allowed to act. All along behind the outer manifestation that appeared human, there was the influence and presence of the Divine.

0.03 - Letters to My little smile, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  I had an imaginary conversation in my head with X.
  I was not paying attention, but at one moment it came
  --
  suddenly the conversation stopped.
  That is how I talk to people in my head; my mind

0.06 - Letters to a Young Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  You have said in your conversations that to prepare
  oneself for the Yoga one must first of all be conscious.
  --
  My sweet beloved Mother, I read in the conversations:
  "Concentration alone will lead you to this goal." Should
  --
  In Your conversations You have said that the intellect is
  like an intermediary between the true knowledge and its

0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  You speak (in conversations) of the plunge we must
  take in order to have the true spiritual experience. Is it
  --
  You write in Your conversations: "Each time that
  something of the Divine Truth and the Divine Force
  --
  the whole conversation, but the impression that remains
  is that You are not very pleased with the questions I ask

0 1957-12-21, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   (Note written by Mother in connection with the conversation of December 21, 1957)
   At the very top, a constant vision of the Supremes will.

0 1958-10-04, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   (Towards the end of the conversation, about money:)
   Money belongs to the one who spends it; that is an absolute law. You may pile up money, but it doesnt belong to you until you spend it. Then you have the merit, the glory, the joy, the pleasure of spending it!

0 1959-03-10 - vital dagger, vital mass, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   (The disciple returned to the Ashram, but as he was very quickly seized again by his mania for the road, the Agenda of 1959, alas, is strewn with great gaps and is almost nonexistent. The following conversation is in regard to one of Mother's commentaries on the Dhammapada: 'Evil')
   I spent a nighta night of battlewhen, for some reason or other, a multitude of vital formations of all kinds entered into the room: beings, things, embryos of beings, residues of beingsall kinds of things And it was a frightful assault, absolutely disgusting.

0 1959-06-03, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   This was a first, hasty conversation, and we did not discuss things at length. I said nothing. I have no confidence in my reactions when I am in the midst of my crises of complete negation. And truly speaking, at the time of my last crisis in Pondicherry, I do not know if it was really Xs occult working that set things right, for personally (but perhaps it is an ignorant impression), I felt that it was thanks to Sujata and her childlike simplicity that I was able to get out of it.
   In any event, since I left Pondicherry, I have been living like a kind of robot (it began in the train); I am empty, void of the least feeling for whomever it may be. I keep going by a kind of acquired momentum, but actually I feel completely anesthetized.

0 1959-06-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   I thought certain details from my conversations with X might interest you:
   1) X spoke to me of the Vedic times when a single emperor or sage ruled the entire world with the help of governors; then these governors gradually became independent kings, and conflicts were born. So I asked him what was going to happen after this next war and whether the world would be better. He replied as follows: Yes, great sages like Sri Aurobindo who are wandering now in their subtle bodies will appear. Some sages may take the physical body of political leaders in the West. It will be the end of ignorant atomic machines and the beginning of a new age with great sages leading the world. So it seems that Xs vision links up with Sri Aurobindos prediction for 1967.

0 1960-07-23 - The Flood and the race - turning back to guide and save amongst the torrents - sadhana vs tamas and destruction - power of giving and offering - Japa, 7 lakhs, 140000 per day, 1 crore takes 20 years, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   I remember wandering about one night some time ago. Its no longer very clear, but one thing has remained I had gone out of India, and then when I returned to India, I found huge elephants installed EVERYWHEREenormous elephants. At that time I was not at all aware that the Communists in India had adopted the elephant as their symbol; I only learned that later. What does this mean, I said to myself. Does it signify the Indian army? But they did not resemble war elephants. These elephants were like immense mammoths, and they looked like they were settling down with all the power of a tremendous inertia. That was the impression something heavy in an inert and very tamasic way, forever immovable. I did not like this occupation. When I came back, I had a rather painful feeling, and for several days I wondered if it did not mean war. Then by chance, in a conversation, I learned that the Communists had selected the elephant as their symbol whereas the Congress had chosen the bullock In my vision, I was moving (as I always do), I was moving among them, and nothing moved. And if I needed room, some of them even tried to stir a little.
   But when human beings are involved, I believe that visions take on a special formits a special image. Not an inundation like this. That was very, very impersonal. They were forces. A feeling of floodgates bursting open, of something being held back, retained or prevented, then suddenly

0 1960-08-10 - questions from center of Education - reading Sri Aurobindo, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   (Concerning two teachers at the Ashram's Center of Education who wrote Mother asking if 'only' Sri Aurobindo should be studied. Pavitra was present during this conversation.)
   An eight page letternothing but passion.

0 1960-08-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   Of these conversations that make up the Agenda.
   The French publishers, ditions du Seuil.

0 1960-09-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   This lasted about half an hour. I quietly remained there I heard the noise of their conversation, but I wasnt listening. And then when I got up, I no longer knew anything, I no longer thought anything, I no longer had any mental constructioneverything was gone, absolutely gone, blank!as if I had just been born.
   ***

0 1960-10-25, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   (The conversation resumes here)
   But I was mainly interested by the fact that I felt the danger these people representednot because they were brigands, but because they had some powerbrigands with a power and from what I saw, it was not merely an hypnotic power. There must have been a tantric force in it, otherwise they would not have been so powerful, and especially so powerful from a distance. I had said to myself, They MUST be caught. Which was why (the Force kept on working, you see). And yesterday, the newspaper said that a gang of five men, eight women and half a dozen children had been arrested by the police in Allahabad for using what the newspaper called mesmeric means to rob people, attack them, etc. (They were operating in Poona, Bombay and Ahmedabad, but they were caught in Allahabad). Probably when they realized that the boy was gone, they got frightened and fled to the North. And they were arrested in Allahabad I had made a very strong formation and had said, They MUST be caught.

0 1960-10-30, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   (After a meditation with Mother on the occasion of the disciple's birthday. At the outset of the conversation, Mother had given the disciple a small leather wallet with an Egyptian fresco depicted on it.)
   Let me see the wallet (Mother looks at it) Ah, so that has nothing to do with it!

0 1960-11-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   (After a conversation with Z, a distant 'disciple' reputed for his loose morals and the object of numerous 'moralistic' or even so-called 'yogic' criticisms among the 'true disciples' in the Ashram)
   He lives in a region which is largely a kind of vital vibration which penetrates the mind and makes use of the imagination (essentially its the same region most so-called cultured men live in). I dont mean to be severe or critical, but its a world that likes to play to itself. Its not really what we could call histrionics, not thatits rather a need to dramatize to oneself. So it can be an heroic drama, it can be a musical drama, it can be a tragic drama, or quite simply a poetic drama and ninety-nine times out of a hundred, its a romantic drama. And then, these soul states (!) come replete with certain spoken expressions (laughing) Im holding myself back from saying certain things!You know, its like a theatricals store where you rent scenery and costumes. Its all ready and waitinga little call, and there it comes, ready-made. For a particular occasion, they say, Youre the woman of my life (to be repeated as often as necessary), and for another they say Its a whole world, a whole mode of human life which I suddenly felt I was holding in my arms. Yes, like a decoration, an ornament, a nicetyan ornament of existence, to keep it from being flat and dull and the best means the human mind has found to get out of its tamas. Its a kind of artifice.
  --
   All this came to me yesterday. I kept Z with me for more than half an hour, nearly 45 minutes. He told me some very interesting things. What he said was quite good and I encouraged him a great dealsome action on the right lines which will be quite useful, and then a book unfortunately mixed with an influence from that artificial world (but actually, even that can be used as a link to attract people). He must have spoken to you about this. He wants to write a kind of dialogue to introduce Sri Aurobindos ideasits a good idealike the conversations in Les Hommes de Bonne Volont by Jules Romain. He wants to do it, and I told him it was an excellent idea. And not only one typehe should take all types of people who for the moment are closed to this vision of life, from the Catholic, the fervent believer, right to the utmost materialist, men of science, etc. It could be very interesting.
   This is what you see in life, its all like thateach thing has its place and its necessity. This has made me see a whole current of life I was very, very involved with people from this milieu during a whole period of my existence and in fact, its the first approach to Beauty. But it gets mixed.

0 1960-11-12, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   A while ago You know that I have TREMENDOUS financial difficulties. In fact, I have handed the whole matter over to the Lord, telling Him, Its your affair; if you want us to continue this experience, well, you must provide the means. But this upsets some of them, so they come along with all kinds of suggestions to keep me from having to to resort to something so drastic. They suggest all kinds of things; some time ago they said, What about a good cyclone, or a good earthquake? A lot of damage to the Ashram, a public appeal that would bring in some funds! (Mother laughs) Yes, its of this order! And its all quite clear and definitewe have veritable conversations!
   I listen, I answer. Its not satisfactory! I told them. But theyve kept to their idea, they like it. When that first storm came some time back (you remember, with those terrible bolts of lightning and that asuric being P.K. saw and sketched): Dont you want us to destroy something? I got angry. But it was This influence was so close and acute that it gave you goose bumps! The whole time the storm lasted, I had to hold on tight in my bed, like this (Mother closes her fists tight as in a trance or deep concentration), and I didnt movedidnt movelike a a rock during the entire storm, until he consented to go a bit further away. Then I moved. And even now, it comesfrom others (theres not just one, you see, there are many): How about a good flood? A roof collapsed the other day with someone underneath, but he was able to escape. So roofs are collapsing, houses Arouse public sympathy, we must help the Ashram! Its no good, I said. But maybe thats whats responsible for this interminable rain. And they offer so many other things oh, what they parade past me! You could write books on all this!

0 1960-11-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   conversation of November 8, the 'artist' disciple with loose morals.
   ***

0 1960-11-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   (Mother had wanted this personal conversation to be erased and remain untranscribed, but considering its importance, we thought it better to preserve it.)
   Your force cured me in one hour in a spectacular way. I would understand if you had merely cured my flu, for thats something more general, and with a good general vibration it can be removed; but the force acted with an astonishing precision and accuracy: first it wiped out my flu, then it touched a toothache thats been hurting for the last three days, and in five minutes that was gone. Finally, I had a pulled ligament which for three or four years now has periodically given me pain (a thigh ligament where it joins the pelvis, to be precise) and this last week it was hurting so much that I found it difficult to sit cross-legged for meditation. And then I felt the force come and touch just there, exactly at this point, and the pain vanished. And yet the problem was of an organic nature, not some general illness!

0 1960-12-17, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   (Soon afterwards, concerning the conversation of November 5 on the subconscious roots in the cells that can make everything fall apart in a second: To change it, you have to descend into it it makes for painful moments Once its done, Ill have the power )
   When was this? November 5? And now its December 17 Well, its still continuing!

0 1960-12-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   (Soon afterwards, concerning the last conversation of December 17a speck of dust which you sweep away, or ecstatic contemplation, Its all the same)
   If I could only note all this down Its been so interesting all morning, right from the starton the balcony, then upstairs while walking for my japa! And it was on this same theme (experience of the speck of dust) This habit people have (especially in India, but more or less everywhere among those who have a religious nature), this habit of doing all things religious with respect and compunction and no mixing of things, above all there should be no mixing; in some circumstances, at certain times, you MUST NOT think of God, for then it would be a kind of blasphemy.

0 1961-01-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Later, during the course of the conversation, Mother remarked:)
   Understanding The Synthesis of Yoga is quite simple: I have only to be silent for a moment, and Sri Aurobindo is here.

0 1961-01-29, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Concerning the last conversation where Mother spoke of the essential Sound, or the Word of the Vedic Rishis:)
   I promised Nolini I would show him this.

0 1961-02-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Here Mother gradually goes into trance and all the rest of this conversation will take place in a state of trance.
   I.e., it is not through any effort or tapasya that the true change is brought about.

0 1961-02-28, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   See conversation of February 18: 'Sri Aurobindo is an Action...'
   Mother added: And I am just trying to fulfill that action.

0 1961-03-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   See conversation of February 18, 1961
   Gaillardia.

0 1961-03-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (After the work, towards the end of the conversation:)
   Ive been feeling lazy! I have received an abominable avalanche of letters, three-quarters of which are useless but I have to look at them to know whether theyre useless or not, so it takes up my morning before coming downstairs. I usually translated The Synthesis of Yoga in the afternoons, or answered questions, but nowadays I go into concentration at that time: I dont do anything. I want to cure my legs.

0 1961-04-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   See conversations of February 11, p. 73 and March 7, p. 114.
   Note that just a few days earlier, the Ashram coffers were completely empty. Mother had sold the last of her jewels: 'It is not for the upkeep of any [Ashram] department that I have sold my jewels; it is for food, lodging [of the sadhaks] and wages for domestic servants.'

0 1961-04-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   See conversation of March 4.
   After Mother's departure, this 'Society' would try to appropriate Auroville: 'Auroville is a project of the Sri Aurobindo Society.' (sic)

0 1961-04-29, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Some fragments of this conversation were originally published in Mother's 'Commentaries on the Aphorisms' of Sri Aurobindo. Considering it too personal, Mother had not wanted the unabridged text to appear even in her Agenda. However, we felt it should be kept. This conversation's starting point was the following aphorism:)
   59One of the greatest comforts of religion is that you can get hold of God sometimes and give him a satisfactory beating. People mock at the folly of savages who beat their gods when their prayers are not answered; but it is the mockers who are the fools and the savages.

0 1961-05-19, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Later, Satprem wanted to read certain past conversations to Mother for her to add to her Agenda. Mother refused to listenit wasnt the first time, either and lively protestations ensued.)
   You dont want to hear them?

0 1961-06-17, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (At the end of the conversation, Satprem complains to Mother of the tiresome task of eating, and asks her if he couldnt cut it down drastically.)
   The time has not yet come when we can stop eating. Never in my life has food interested me; there have been long periods when I ate almost nothing. One day I said to myself, Why lose so much time eating? And the reply was, Dont stop yet, wait; thats not your look-out.

0 1961-06-24, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Not long ago M.s sister died (psychologically, she was in a terrible stateshe had no faith). Well, on that day,5 just when I came to know that she was passing away, I remember being upstairs in the bathroom communicating with Sri Aurobindo, having a sort of conversation with him (it happens very often), and I asked him, What happens to such people when they die here at the Ashram? Look, he replied, and I saw her passing away; and on her forehead, I saw Sri Aurobindos symbol in a SOLID golden light (not very luminous, but very concrete). There it was. And with the presence of this sign the psychological state no longer matterednothing touched her. And she departed tranquilly, tranquilly. Then Sri Aurobindo told me, All who have lived at the Ashram and who die there have automatically the same protection, whatever their inner state.
   I cant say I was surprised, but I admired the mighty power by which the simple fact of having been here and died here was sufficient to help you to the utmost in that transition.

0 1961-06-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (After listening to the conversation of June 24, concerning death:)
   You know, we are just on the frontier, on the edge: its as if there were a semi-transparent curtainone sees things on the other side, tries to grasp them, but as yet cannot. But there is such a sense of proximity!

0 1961-07-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Regarding the last conversation, where Mother spoke of divine Perfection and of the series of invocations in her japa imploring the Lord to manifest his various aspects:)
   But Perfection is only one side, one special way of approaching the Divine. There are innumerable sides, angles, aspectsinnumerable ways to approach the Divine. When I am walking, for example, doing japa, I have the sense of Unity (I have spoken to you of all the things I mention when I am upstairs walking: will, truth, purity, perfection, unity, immortality, eternity, infinity, silence, peace, existence, consciousness the list goes on). And when one follows a particular tack and does succeed in reaching or approaching or contacting the Divine, one realizes through experience that these many approaches differ only in their most external forms the contact itself is identical. Its like looking through a kaleidoscopeyou revolve around a center, a globe, and see it under various aspects; but as soon as the contact is established, its identical.

0 1961-07-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   That was the basic problembecause the identification of the two [Sri Aurobindo and Mother] was almost childs play, it was nothing: for me to merge into him or him to merge into me was no problem, it wasnt difficult. We had some conversations on precisely this subject, because we saw that (there were many other things, too, but this isnt the time to speak of them) the prevailing conditions were such that I told him I would leave this body and melt into him with no regret or difficulty; I told him this in words, not just in thought. And he also replied to me in words: Your body is indispensable for the Work. Without your body the Work cannot be done. After that, I said no more. It was no longer my concern, and that was the end of it.
   This was said in 1949, just a little more than a year before he left.

0 1961-07-26, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Satprem reads several passages from the July 15th conversation where Mother says that Sri Aurobindo left before saying what he had been doing, and that it was a path through a virgin forest: 'Eyes blindfolded, knowing nothing, one plods on....')
   Its still true.

0 1961-07-28, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   See the addendum following this conversation for a transcription of Mother's vision as she noted it down for publication in Theon's Cosmic Review in 1906.
   Cent. Ed., Vol. XVII, p. 28 ff.
  --
   Mother is referring to the book Satprem will write on Sri Aurobindo, which prompted the questions posed in this conversation.
   'Evolutor': a word coined by Mother.

0 1961-08-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   First of all, in the Questions and Answers you speak of the reversal of consciousness. Is this synonymous with the psychic realization? Because in one conversation you connect the two things: the reversal of consciousness and the discovery of the psychic being.
   Its the result of this discovery. In fact, its the result of union with the psychic being.

0 1961-09-03, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The beginning of this conversation has unfortunately disappeared. It dealt with the book that Satprem was writing on Sri Aurobindo, and he spoke to Mother of his dream of writing automatically, without even needing to think, letting the writing flow along by itself.)
   You would like to carry thought into higher domains, beyond the province of thought itself! This is something practically impossible.

0 1961-09-30, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  1. This letter to Mother is, with a few others, the sole survivor of thirteen years of correspondence. All the rest, all Satprem's correspondence with Mother since 1960, was confiscated by the Ashram after the Mother's departure, for its own reasons. His letters of 1960, already published in Volume I, escaped the destruction because Mother herself had kept them. It makes a big hole in this Agenda, not only for himbecause he had poured out his heart, his questions and doubts and difficulties into these letters but also from an historical point of view, for many of these conversations with Mother were invisibly oriented by his own condition. In fact, he was intimately linked with the flow of this Agenda, which thus stands mutilated. Need we add that we had to prepare the first two volumes as fugitives, and it required Mother's miraculous help to avert even more serious mutilations than the auto-da-f of Satprem's correspondence.
   ***

0 1961-10-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Towards the end of the conversation, Satprem once again complains of his difficulties in writing his book. Mother proposes that he try to unblock the way by reading his manuscript to her.)
   You know, it [Mothers consciousness] is an immobile mirror that projects things from below upwards and receives things from above to transmit them below. This mirror is two-surfaced, and absolutely immobile, not adding any vibration to what is received or transmitted: a perfect neutrality. In this mirror, therefore, you would be able to see your book a little more impersonally, outside yourself and your own creative power.

0 1961-10-30, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The day before and at the beginning of this conversation, Satprem read aloud some passages of his manuscript relating to the Veda. Then Mother chose the photograph of Sri Aurobindo for the frontispiece. She speaks slowly, as though from a great distance, in a semi-trance.)
   Thats how I first saw him, at the head of the staircase.
  --
   The day before, Mother had listened to the passage of the manuscript concerning 'The Secret of the Veda.' Several extracts from it are included in the Addendum to this conversation.
   The Secret of the Veda, Cent. Ed., Vol. X, p. 34.
  --
   In the preceding conversation, Mother was alluding particularly to this passage.
   Reminiscent of Homer and the 'herds of Helios.'

0 1961-11-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Not a physical place. See conversation of November 7, p. 380.
   Richard died in the United States in 1967, then made a vain attempt to reincarnate in Auroville. Thus the danger of 'attracting him,' at least under this form, seems remote.
  --
   According to Mother's wishes, the tape was erased up to this point. But years passed and circumstances changed, and when Satprem found the transcription of this conversation among his papers, he deemed it worthwhile to preserve the major portion of it for its historical interest. Mother's difficulties are always the difficulties of the 'Terrestrial Work'; and this particular Asura, who disturbed the earth in such a particular way, could hardly be passed over in silence.
   See conversation of July 28, p. 279.
   ***

0 1961-11-07, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   This conversation was interrupted before Mother could conclude.
   ***

0 1961-12-16, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Then Mother thought that this message might not be too comforting and she put it aside (after asking the opinion of two disciples). Finally she chose the text of the experience which is the subject of this conversation. But the coming year, 1962, would be marked by the first great turning-point in Mother's yoga and a rather calamitous ordeal for the body.
   ***

0 1961-12-20, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   See conversation of November 5, 1961.
   Perhaps Mother is alluding to this passage from Prayers and Meditations (October 10, 1918): 'My Father smiled at me and gathered me into his powerful arms....'

0 1962-01-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The point of departure for this conversation was one of Sri Aurobindo's aphorisms:)
   70Examine thyself without pity, then thou wilt be more charitable and pitiful to others.
  --
   See conversation of January 12, 1962
   When Satprem published extracts from this conversation in the Ashram Bulletin of April 1962, Mother had this passage modified (over his protests). Instead of "Do not try to be virtuous," she put "Do not try to seem virtuous"; and she added: "There's a drawback here. People never understand anything, or rather they understand everything in their own way. They would take this sentence as an encouragement to get into mischief, to misbehave, to entertain wrong feelings, and then proclaim, 'We are the Lord's favorites!' ... There was something like it in one of Sri Aurobindo's letters, you remembera letter to people who wanted to bring all the impurities in themselves out to the surface; he told them that was definitely not the way!" (See Sri Aurobindo's two letters on psychoanalysis in the Addendum)
   Letters on Yoga, Cent. Ed., XXIV. 1605 ff.

0 1962-01-24, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (In connection with the preceding conversation on antidivine forces:)
   I read a passage in Savitri which seems to link up exactly with what you were saying.

0 1962-02-13, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   In fact, in the Agenda conversations of 1958 and '59 (never noted by Satprem because he believed them too "personal"), Mother mentioned this as one of the main reasons for encouraging his tantric discipline. He even set out for the Himalayas, like a knight of yore, with the idea of bringing back to Mother the secrets of transformation; and Mother indicated to him the spot where one of her former bodies lay in a Himalayan cave, petrified by a mineral spring. But the secret of the new species can manifestly not be found through any "trick" tantric or otherwiseone's very nature must change. No one could help Mother because if someone "knew," it would already be done.
   Mother means that it wasn't possible for Sri Aurobindo to continue.

0 1962-02-17, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Unfortunately, Satprem didn't keep Mother's reply, nor the long story she told afterwards about squabbles among certain Ashram people. Only the end of the conversation still exists.
   I climb not to thy everlasting Day... Earth is the chosen place of mightiest souls; Earth is the heroic spirit's battlefield... Thy servitudes on earth are greater, king, Than all the glorious liberties of heaven... Oh, to spread forth, oh to encircle and seize More hearts till love in us has filled thy world!... Are there not still a million fights to wage?

0 1962-03-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   See conversation of February 24.
   Aphorism 463At first whenever I fell back into sin, I used to weep and rage against myself and against God for having suffered it. Afterwards it was as much as I could dare to ask, "Why hast thou rolled me again in the mud, O my playfellow?"...

0 1962-03-11, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Satprem suggests he read certain past Agenda conversations to Mother. She refuses:)
   You know, Ive almost felt like telling you that all this Agenda stuff isnt meant for circulation. Its only for when I have come to the endand then whats in it wont matter at all. Or else I will have gone, leaving a note saying I dont want it published

0 1962-03-13, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   This would be the last conversation before Mother's great ordeal.
   L'Orpailleur (The Gold-Seeker).

0 1962-04-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Since March 16, Mother has been going through a grave ordeal that threatened her physical existence. Even so, she went down to the balcony on the 18th and 20th of March, which were to be the last times. She has not left her room since then. All her conversations with Satprem will henceforth take place in her upstairs room. The latest attack occurred the previous night, April 2-3, and took the form of a total cardiac arrest. Despite her condition, this morning Mother has found the strength to speak. She speaks in English. Her words have been noted down from memory.)
   Just between eleven and twelve [last night] I had an experience by which I discovered that there is a group of peoplepurposely their identity was not revealed to mewanting to create a kind of religion based on the revelation of Sri Aurobindo. But they have taken only the side of power and force, a certain kind of knowledge and all which could be utilized by Asuric forces. There is a big Asuric being that has succeeded in taking the appearance of Sri Aurobindo. It is only an appearance. This appearance of Sri Aurobindo has declared to me that the work I am doing is not his. It has declared that I have been a traitor to him and to his work and has refused to have anything to do with me.

0 1962-05-13, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (This is the first conversation with Mother in two months. She is still reclining on her chaise longue. She looks quite pale and fragile, almost translucent. She enlarges upon the experience she had a month earlier, on April 13. The following text was not taped but noted down from memory and then read out to Mother.)
   I was at the Origin I WAS the Origin. For more than two hours, consciously, here on this bed, I was the Origin. And it was like gustslike great gusts ending in explosions. And each one of these gusts was a span of the universe.

0 1962-05-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Satprem then reads to Mother his notes from the May 13 conversation and asks for further details on the April 13 experience:)
   About that promise you received.
  --
   See note at the end of this conversation
   To illustrate this, Mother added: "I was always BATHED in the atmosphere of the people around metheir thoughts, their ways of feeling and seeing and understanding."

0 1962-05-22, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The beginning of this conversation, unfortunately not kept, dealt with certain instances of human ugliness. The topic, in fact, was Satprem's break with X who had been his guru for the past few years. The reasons for this rupture may one day be told, but it should be stressed right now that the fault did not really lie with X, whom Satprem continued to respect, but with a group of schemers at the Ashram who fastened onto X in the hope of god knows what "powers." It is perhaps just as well that the human "ugliness" here in question has vanished from Satprem's records, foralthough it did come up again immediately after Mother's departureit concerned only the Ashram disciples. All the details and all Mother's reflections on the subject have thus been lost, with the exception of this last fragment:)
   What a world!

0 1962-05-24, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   See conversation of May 13
   Mother later changed her opinion about this.

0 1962-05-31, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Mother is entering into a sort of trance and, almost to the end of this conversation, will be speaking slowly, as if from far away.
   Interestingly enough, physicists also say that the wave movement does not displace matter. For example, the concentric ripples caused on the surface of a pond by the fall of a pebble do not carry the water molecules along with them: a cork floating on the water rises and falls with the undulatory rhythm without traveling on the pond.

0 1962-06-02, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Mother refers to the previous conversation, in which she was looking for the reasons behind the passage from one room to another, from the room of pain to the true room: "I can't catch hold of what makes it happen. What's happening? What's going on?!")
   I had an experience yesterday afternoon that might put us on the track.
  --
   (Mother then refers to a passage from the previous conversation in which she said: I dont want to find anything for myself alone every time I am in that state I spread it around.)
   Immediately, as soon as I am in that state, theres an instantaneous will to spread it around as much as possible, so that all who are close to me in some way, materially or spiritually, may benefit from it. Thats my very first movement. And its probably also how I catch the contagion of the wrong room!

0 1962-06-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (A little later, towards the end of the conversation:)
   Petit, before you go to sleep, when you get into bed, simply think of me a little, with the will to receive what I send youjust for the space of a few seconds before you go to sleep, thats all. Dont try to concentrate and keep yourself awake, just formulate it, then go to sleep. Because I am really trying!

0 1962-06-09, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (In the course of the preceding conversation, Satprem had thought that rather than a subjective change, a change in one's attitude towards things, there should be an objective change, a power capable of changing the very substance of things: their property of hardness, for instance. Here Mother elucidates her previous statement that "if matter were changeable, it would have changed long ago," a statement that, at first glance, seemed to shatter all hope of transformation.)
   There is nothing to change! Only the relations between things change.

0 1962-06-12, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Unexpectedly, this conversation led into the subject of Satprem's break with X, who had been his guru for the past few years. Here then, briefly, is the story behind the rupture: No sooner had Satprem brought X to the Ashram than a swarm of disciples threw themselves at him. Conspicuous among these were the moneymen, the same wheelerdealers who, eleven years later, after Mother's departure, were to reveal their ambitions in Auroville as well as Pondicherry. Satprem's somewhat straightforward manner soon got in the way of their schemes. He had a deep affection for X and when he repeatedly saw that these peoplespiritual scoundrels is the only word for themwere, in the hope of sowing confusion (for they always prosper best in confusion), bringing false reports to Mother of things X had supposedly said, he tried in all innocence to put X on his guard against the false reports and dishonest people who were wronging him. But instead of listening to Satprem and understanding that he spoke out of love, Xwith all his Tantric power behindflew into a violent rage against him, as if he had been casting a slur on X's prestige. Satprem then broke with X, but not without sorrow.)
   Anything new?
  --
   There is a way of looking at thingsan all too human waywhich sees me as VERY dangerous, very dangerous. It has been said time and time again. There was an Englishwoman who came here after an unhappy love affair. She had come to India seeking consolation, and stumbled onto Pondicherry. It was right at the beginning (those English conversations5 are things I said to her; I spoke in English and then translated itor rather said it all over again in French). And at the end of a years stay, this woman said to me (with such despair!), When I came here I was still able to love and feel goodwill towards people; but now that Ive become conscious, I am full of contempt and hatred! So I answered her, Go a bit farther on. Oh, no! she replied. Its enough for me as it is! And she added, You are a very dangerous person. Because I was making people conscious! (Mother laughs) But its true! Once you start, you have to go right to the end; you mustnt stop on the wayon the way, it gets to be hard going.
   I dont do it on purpose.
  --
   conversations with the Mother, 1929.
   Brindaban: known as the city of Krishna, where he grew up and played with the Gopis (cowherds and milkmaids).

0 1962-06-30, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Regarding the last conversation and Mothers innumerable vital beings, who reincarnated this time in a deluge:)
   As a child, when I was around ten or twelve years old, I had some rather interesting experiences which I didnt understand at all. I had some history booksyou know, the textbooks they give you to learn history. Well, Id read and suddenly the book would seem to become transparent, or the printed words would become transparent, and Id see other words or even pictures. I hadnt the faintest idea what was happening to me! And it appeared so natural to me that I thought it was the same for everybody. But my brother and I were great chums (he was only a year and a half older), so I would tell him: They talk nonsense in history, you knowit is LIKE THIS; it isnt like that: it is LIKE THIS! And several times the corrections I got on one person or another turned out to be quite exact and detailed. And (I see it now I understood it later on) they were certainly memories. About some passages I would even say, How stupid! It was never that; THIS is what was said. It never happened like that; THIS is how it happened. And the book was simply open before me; I was just reading along like any other child and suddenly something would occur. It was something in me, of course, but I used to think it was in the book!
  --
   Twice I knew that it wasnt just images but something that had happened to ME, but it took another form. Once (when I was older, around twenty) it happened at Versailles. I had been invited to dinner by a cousin who, with no warning, served me dry champagne during dinner and I drank it unsuspectingly (I who never drank at all, neither wine nor liquor!). When I had to get up and cross the crowded room, oh, how very difficult it became, so difficult! Then we went to a place near the chateau, with a view of the whole park. And I was staring at the park, when I saw I saw the park filling up with lights (the electric lights had vanished), with all kinds of lights, torches, lanterns and then crowds of people walking about in Louis XIV dress! I was staring at this with my eyes wide open, holding on to the balustrade to keep from falling down (I wasnt too sure of myself!). I was seeing it all, then I saw myself there, engrossed in conversation with some people (I dont remember now, but there were certain corrections here too). I mean I was a certain person (I dont remember who) and there were those two brothers who were sculptors (Mother vainly tries to recollect the names3) anyhow, all kinds of people were there and I saw myself talking, chatting. And I seem to have been sufficiently in control of myself, because when I related all that I had seen, there were some quite interesting details and corrections. That was one time.
   There was another time at Blois. They make Anjou wine at Blois. It was the same story: I never drank anything but water or herb tea, but there was a luncheon and they served us sparkling Anjou wine it seemed so light! Afterwards (I was with an artist friend, we were all artists) we went to see the museum, and it appears I was sparkling with wit! And I suddenly halted in front of a painting by now lets see, who was it? Cou? No, Clouet! Clouet: the princess one of the princesses.4 And I started making a few remarks out loud (it took me a little while to notice that people were listening). Look at this! I was saying. Just look at this! Look what this fellow has done to me! See what hes done to meit wasnt at all like that! It was actually a beautiful painting, but I was quite unhappy about it: Look what hes done to me! Lookhe made this like that, but thats not at all how it was, it was LIKE THIS! Details. And then I became aware (I wasnt too conscious physically) I realized that people were standing around listening, so I got a grip on myself, and left without a word. But I told my friends, Listen, it was definitely me! It was MY portrait, it was ME!
  --
   (A little later, Mother refers to a passage from the preceding conversation in which she said that her present incarnation on earth didnt have a merely terrestrial effect but an effect on all the other worlds as well and particularly on the gods.)
   None of those beings, those gods and deities of various pantheons, have the same rapport with the Supreme that man has; for man has a psychic being, in other words, the Supremes presence within him. These gods are emanationsindependent emanationscreated for a special purpose and a particular action which they fulfill SPONTANEOUSLY; they do it not with a sense of constant surrender to the Divine but simply because thats what they are, and why they are, and all they know is what they are. They dont have the conscious link with the Supreme that man hasman carries the Supreme within himself.
  --
   conversation of June 27
   Some days later, Satprem again brought up the above passage, asking whether the Mother hadn't been active on earth since the beginning of time and not merely "with this present incarnation of the Mahashakti." The reply: "It was always through EMANATIONS, while now it's as Sri Aurobindo writes in Savitri the Supreme tells Savitri that a day will come when the earth is ready and 'The Mighty Mother shall take birth'.... But Savitri was already on earthshe was an emanation.

0 1962-07-04, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   See conversation of May 24, 1962
   Later, Mother commented: "This experience is interesting. He would have been able to EXIST in a psychic state (psychically, of course, one is immortal), he would have existed not knowing that he was dead ... if they hadn't burned him."
   Recall the conversation of June 12: "I don't know whether I am dead or alive.... A type of life vibration which is completely independent of.... I can't say 'I am alive,' it's something else entirely."
   "I mean a SUBTLE form," Mother clarified, "it's the body's subtle form."

0 1962-07-07, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (A little later, the subject of the increasing scarcity of the tapes Satprem uses to record these conversations comes up. It should be mentioned that Mother has never wanted to use the Ashrams tapes.)
   And then after all, if its lost, its lost! It will have been the Lords decision, so it doesnt matter.

0 1962-07-11, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Referring back to the conversation of July 4: "One must die unto death to be born to Immortality.")
   When I said that, oh, you cant imagine, I had just been seeing it somewheresomewhere in a dazzling lightand it was full of marvelous meaning. And of course when I uttered it I wondered why why it was no longer the same. It was absolutely wonderful, it explained not that it explained everything, but it was a revelation. There must have been some fault in the transcription. It all came back after you left. I looked and asked myself, Why did I say it was so marvelous! And I understood: when I saw it, I really SAW, saw those words, more dazzling than the most brilliant diamonds and full of a marvelous power of knowledge, as though it held the key to things; but when I spoke it, it became almost flat. At any rate, it was utterly flat in comparison.

0 1962-07-14, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Mother listens to Satprem read a passage from the last conversation in which she says: This is the radical difference since the experience of April 13: there is nothing but the Lord. All the rest what is it? No more than a habit of speaking (not even a habit of thinking, thats all gone). Otherwise nothing. And what else could there be? It is He who sees, He who wills, He who acts.)
   You know, theres the same vibration here as in to die unto death. Its something yes, I think we could say it is His Presence His creative Power. It is a special vibration. Dont you feel something like like a pure superelectricity?
  --
   (In the same conversation of July 11, Mother said that to have the experience in its simple purity we mustnt even know where we are, and yet we want to see ourselves being, progressing, acting, to see ourselves.)
   That [the sense of an individual position, of being a particular being in a particular place, watching and feeling oneself being] really vanished with the last experience [of April 13]. Before, it used to get in my way a lot. I was always wondering how to get rid of it.

0 1962-07-25, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   And it was he who did it, entirely. I didnt even ask him, there was no aspiration, nothing (there were my previous efforts; I knew it had to come, thats all). But on that day I hadnt mentioned it to him, I wasnt thinking about it, I wasnt doing anythingjust sitting there. And outwardly he seemed to be fully engrossed in his conversation about this and that and what was going to happen in the world.
   Thats the real way.

0 1962-07-28, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Mother refers back to the last conversation, where she spoke of her different stages of development.)
   I have seen that the different stages of my development occurred in twelve-year periods, though I dont recall the exact dates. The first period, from the age of five (I cant start earlier than five!) to about eighteen, dealt with consciousness. Then came all the artistic and vital development, culminating in the occult development with Thon (I met Thon around 1905 or 06, I think1). Then right around this time an intensive mental development beganfrom 1908 to 1920, or a little before; but it was especially intense before coming here in 1914.

0 1962-07-31, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (At the start of this conversation, Mother listens to Satprem read an unpleasant letter he has just received from P.A.L., his Paris publisher:)
   Heres what he says: I read with great interest the Introduction to your new book on Shri Aurobindo. I must confess that if I have been late in replying it is because I am still very hesitant. The text reads well, but it leaves doubts as to how well the book that follows will conform to the norms of our Spiritual Masters series. I greatly fear that we will both end up disappointed again. The book you want to write is, I feel, very personal, whereas this series must consist of books which are essentially expositions, introductions, tools of information: etc.

0 1962-08-04, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Mother comments on this sentence in the conversation of August 11.
   Satprem later remarked to Mother that it should be "is" instead of "was," since "the two things are simultaneous."
  --
   Mother comments on this passage in the conversation of August 11.
   ***

0 1962-08-11, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Then Mother comments on a passage from the same conversation of August 4 where she spoke of this sort of immense universal sieve that gives the precision.)
   Its very interesting! The fabric of the sieve serves as a filter, as it were, and thats what gives the precision.
  --
   (A little later, regarding the conversation of August 8, where Mother said that with that inner joy of the Presence, all suffering becomes negligible:)
   Oh, during those hours the Presence lasted this morning, what I say here became so obvious, so obvious! You see (theres nothing but the Lord, of course), its exactly as if the Lord were seeing all things (and this body is part of what He sees!), seeing all things and laughing, laughingforever laughing at all the tragedy the tragedy of this existence! And I was seeing Him right here, you know, there was nothing but Himimmense, marvelous, yet at the same time scaled to the size of the earth, almost to the size of this room, you could say! He was here, in everythingin all the past, all the future, in all places, in everything. And He was smiling, smiling with the consciousness of that joyits not joy, joy sounds pallid. And there was no excitement, nothing of what human consciousness mixes into these things, only an eternal certitude, a crystal clear vision of the most MINUTE details. And all of this simultaneously, just like that, with a smile. And although I cant say what is He and what is me, I have the joy of perceiving Him (that isnt abolished), and yet I am nowhere in particular! Still I have the joy, I feel the joy of perceiving Him.

0 1962-08-14, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Satprem did not keep any record of his questions at the beginning of the following conversation, nor does he exactly remember the circumstances that led to it. It seems that he wanted to write a letter to X, his former Tantric guru, or meet him, to explain what had happened and, in fact, to tell X that he still held him in deepest affection, despite external circumstances and Satprem's outward break with him.)
   One must never go back; one must always go forward.

0 1962-08-28, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (It is extremely unfortunate that the beginning of this conversation, which would have thrown a clear light on what follows, was not kept. As far as Satprem remembers, the subject was his sleep. It seems Mother was saying that while his "strolls by the sea" took place during sleep and by passing into another state, for herand this is where the notes beginthere was no more "sleep" and no more "passing" into another state, from the ordinary physical to the subtle physical, because everything seemed to have become or was becoming one and the same continuous Matter. The true Matter, probably.)
   Thats one thing thats happening. The two [the ordinary physical and the subtle physical] seem to be fusing more and more.

0 1962-08-31, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (A little later, concerning the last conversation: On the surface, its a very humble work, nothing sensational. There are no illuminations filling you with joy: all that is fine for people seeking spiritual joysit belongs to the past.)
   Yesterday I told Pavitra that all those realizations, all those yes, these powers, gifts, constructions, manifestations, it all reminded me of the life of a traveling juggler.

0 1962-09-05, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   See conversation of July 14, 1962
   ***

0 1962-09-08, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   It doesnt touch me because that whole realm has been completely set in order, but it does touch the atmosphere and puts me in contact with things I usually dont deal with. And as its a difficult time for the body now. As I told you in our last conversations, the physical is being penetrated by the subtle physical.
   The body obviously doesnt need any more difficulties than it already has.
  --
   (Towards the end of the conversation, Mother again speaks of Xs visit:)
   Little by little, what was bound to happen has happened: you have a relationship with an X who isnt the real X, but your OWN formation of X (I have already told you this), an ideal X youve set up inside yourself. Well, youd better stop associating your ideal with X, because they dont match!

0 1962-09-15, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   So Ive said that if people want to read what I have written (of course I have written certain things in English, like conversations with the Mother, which I later rewrote in Frenchnot exactly in the same way, but nearly; so thats all right, its written in English) but those who want to read me, well, let them learn French, it wont do them any harm!
   French gives a precision to thought like no other language.

0 1962-10-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   A little later, Satprem returns to the previous conversation on the gods:
   But do those gods exist independently of human consciousness? Theyre not human creations?

0 1962-10-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (An unfortunate series of power cuts prevented the recording of most of this conversation, except for a few passages. Satprem noted down the missing parts from memory, and Mother then supplemented his notes with a number of comments and additions.)
   Were going to build a little room on the terrace for the harmonium. I feel like making some experiments.
  --
   See conversation of October 6: the "rain of truth."
   ***

0 1962-10-30, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (A little later, Satprem goes back to music, a subject from the previous conversation:)
   Do those zones of music and painting and so forth form part of the overmind or not?

0 1962-11-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   In the next conversation, Mother added: "For example, if someone wants to enter some place, you needn't say, 'Don't enter'; you do what's necessary and he cannot enter, he tries but he can't that's what I call 'keeping under control.' I didn't need to speak to or touch them: the Force was doing the work."
   ***

0 1962-11-17, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   All the same, Satprem did keep this conversation, being unable to censor Mother's words or to delete them from History for where is the borderline between censorship and falsehood?
   Seven weeks after India's Independence and the creation of Pakistan, Pakistan invaded Kashmir.

0 1962-12-12, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Rightly or wrongly, Satprem did not keep the recording of this conversation, not to obey Mother, for he was never very obedient, but because the words that follow rent his heart. He didn't know at the time how very true they all were.
   ***

0 1962-12-22, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   This is the beginning of a phenomenon that will become quite acute over the years, as if an increasingly inexorable force were trying to swallow up Mother's conversations with Satprem the story of the transformation, in other wordsin favor of small parochial doings.
   ***

0 1963-01-09, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   During the last conversation, Mother had broken off abruptly as if about to faint.
   ***

0 1963-01-12, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Later, regarding the last conversation, in which Mother said that the body lives only out of a habit of living:)
   Ive had a very interesting experience (not personal). Did you know Benjamin3? His psychic being had left him quite some time ago and, as a result, to the surface consciousness he seemed a bit derangedhe wasnt deranged but diminished. And he lived, as I said, out of habit. The physical consciousness still held a minimum of vital and mind and he lived out of habit. But the remarkable thing is that sometimes, for a few seconds, he would live admirably, in full light, while at other times he couldnt even control his gestures. Then he left altogether: all the accumulated energy dwindled little by little, little by little, and whatever remained left his body. It was just on his birthday, on December 30 (the night of December 30). He left. So they did as is always done: they cleaned his room, took out the furniture. Since then, there had been no sign of him. Yesterday evening, after dinner (which is about the same time he left twelve days ago), I was in concentration, resting, when suddenly here comes a very agitated Benjamin who tells me, Mother, theyve taken all the furniture out of my room! What am I to do now!? I told him gently, Do not fret, you dont need anything any more. Then I put him to rest and sent him to join the rest of his being.
  --
   In the next conversation, Satprem asked for some clarification of this passage, and Mother repeated her experience, adding some details and comments:
   There's just one passage that isn't clear to me.

0 1963-02-15, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I had asked Sujata for two copies, but then I realized it wasnt at all necessary. I told you I would give it to A. for him to read, and when A. came, I showed him one or two of the latest [Agenda conversations] typed by Sujata and soon lost any desire to try again.
   Well, when do I see you next?

0 1963-02-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (An experience Mother had the day after the last conversation, on February 16:)
   It was really very interesting. Afterwards its just a memory, no longer the thing. It concerned the creation of the material world, the material universe, in the light of the conception of the Supreme in love with His emanation. But the vision was all-embracing, as if I were on the other side the side of the Supreme, not of the creation and saw the creation as a whole, with the true sense of progress, the true sense of advance, of movement, and the true way in which all that doesnt belong to the future creation will disappear in a kind of pralaya1 (it cant really disappear but it will be withdrawn from the Manifestation). And it was very interesting: all that doesnt collaborate (in the sense that it is a sufficient experience, an experience that has come to its end) was reabsorbed. It was like the true vision of what was rendered as the Last Judgment. It is something going on constantly, that mighty gust of manifestation, and there are things that have been, according to our vision of time, but that live on, that continue to exist in the future; there are things that exhaust themselves (thats in the present), and there are things that have no more purpose, that cannot keep pace with the movement (I dont know how to explain this) and enter the Non-Being the pralaya, the Non-Being, the unmanifestof course, not in their forms but in their essence; that is to say, the Supreme in them remains the Supreme but unmanifest.
  --
   I have made some experiments with French too. I wrote something: Pour chacun, le plus important est de savoir si on appartient au passe qui se perpetue, au present qui sepuise, lavenir qui veut natre. [The most important point for everyone is to know whether he belongs to the past perpetuating itself, to the present exhausting itself, or to the future trying to be born.] I gave it to Zhe didnt understand. So I told him, It doesnt mean our past, our present or our future. I wrote this when I was in that state [the experience Mother told at the beginning of this conversation], and it was in connection with a very sweet old lady who has just left her body. This is what I said to her. Everybody had been expecting her departure for more than a month or two, but I said, You will see, she is going to last; she will last for at least another month or two. Because she knows how to live within, outside her body, and the body lives on out of habit, without jerks and jolts. That was her condition, and it could last a very long time. They had announced she would leave within two days, but I said, Its not true. I know her well, in the sense that she had come out of her body and there was a link with me. And I said to her, What do you care! (though she wasnt at all worried, she was staying peacefully with me), The whole point is to know whether one belongs to the past perpetuating itself, to the present exhausting itself, or to the future trying to be born. Sometimes what WE call the past is right here, its the future trying to be born; sometimes what WE call the present is something in advance, something that came ahead of time; but sometimes also its something that came late, that is still part of all that is to disappear I saw it all: people, things, circumstances, everything through that perception, the vibration that would go on transforming itself, the vibration that would exhaust itself and disappear, the vibration that, though manifested for a long time, would be entitled to continue, to persist that changes all notions! It was so interesting! So I wrote it down as it waswithout any explanations (you dont feel much like explaining in such a case, the thing is so self-evident!). Poor Z, he stared at meall at sea! So I told him, Dont try to understand. I am not speaking of the past, present and future as we know them, its something else. (Mother laughs)
   But its amusing because I had never paid much attention to that [the questions of language], the experience is novel, almost the discovery of the truth behind expression. Before, my concern was to be as clear, exact and precise as possible; to say exactly what I meant and put each word in its proper place. But thats not it! Each word has its own life! Some are drawn together by affinity, others repel each other its very funny!

0 1963-02-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Gradually Mother will stop struggling and intrusion will become the rule. As a result, these conversations will suffer greatly.
   ***

0 1963-03-09, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Towards the end of the conversation, Mother asks for the next aphorism for the Bulletin and if Satprem has any questions.)
   Id like to ask you a question on death.
  --
   In the following conversation, Mother gave a very recent example of someone cured by the supramental force acting in the material mind: "After three warnings which he didn't heed, A. [a Paris disciple], one morning, found himself half-paralyzed. And the next day, it started spreading to the other side, the left side. At that point, he gave a callit struck him to see one side completely paralyzed and the other following suit, he saw himself going down, so he gave a call. And he says that inside a few minutes, a stupendous Force came into him and that Force said, "No!" And almost automatically, everything came to a stop. Nothing came over the left side, and the right side started to improve. And when I received the first telegram informing me that A. had to take to his bed because of an 'attack' (a 'heart attack,' they said, but it wasn't the heart, it was an embolism in the brain), with the telegram in my hands, I saw, written OVER the telegram's words: 'It's nothing, no need to worry'! So I said coolly, 'Oh' it's nothing, no need to worry.' (Mother laughs) Then the letter came with all the details: thrombosis, and so on. But he says he feels a Force [near Mother] that's not in his ordinary little life over there, he finds it makes all the differenceit's something which gives a LIFE that's not in his ordinary little life in France. Anyhow, this is something like a miracle."
   Just what presides over the "inevitability" of accidents, including gravitation, illness and death.

0 1963-03-16, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Regarding the conversation of March 9: "A few seconds' experience that gave me the sense that the most central problem was solved." That experience was what Mother called "the death of death.")
   Those things are strange. You dont remember actively, that is, you cant find any thought whatsoever to express the experience; even the active sensation of the experience fades away. And yet you are no longer the same person thats the remarkable thing! I experienced this phenomenon several times (I dont remember clearly enough to tell you exactly how many times), several times in my life, it was always the same thing: no longer the same person, youve become someone else. All the relationships with life, with consciousness, with movementeverything changes. Yet the central thing is just a vague impression. At the moment of the experience, for a second, its so clear, so precisea thunderbolt. But then probably the cerebral and nervous system is incapable of preserving it. But all the relationships are changed, you are another person.

0 1963-03-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Nothing, except a few Agenda conversations, as always.
   Oh, but I am weary of my.

0 1963-03-27, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Mother commented further on this passage in the following conversation.
   ***

0 1963-04-06, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   See conversation of March 16
   Gesture of junction between the Supreme and this general body consciousness.

0 1963-04-16, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Satprem did not keep note of the beginning of this conversation or of the "personal" questions and the circumstances that led to the situation. It seems that X had invited Satprem to his place, in spite of their break, and wanted to continue with him the Tantric sadhana.)
   From a deeper standpoint, what connection should I have with X? If I go there, there will be some interchange despite everything, wont there?

0 1963-05-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   In the next conversation, Mother clarified: "It isn't a movement or a vibration.... To put it accurately, one should say 'this something.'"
   At Rameshwaram, the night of April 21.

0 1963-05-11, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The beginning of this conversation was noted from memory.)
   If I could only have the Word, as the Rishis said, the true mantra, I would keep at it, Id do hours of japa if necessary, but I would go right to the end. Its as if I were told, See this plot of land, there are ten million cubic feet of earth to dig, and at the end of it is freedom. Well, Id set to it, whatever the time needed, because Id know there is an end. But for that you need a pickaxe.

0 1963-05-15, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   When Satprem later read to Mother the text of this conversation, she remarked, "Scientists will deny it, they will say I am talking nonsense; but that's because I don't use their language, it's just a question of vocabulary."
   ***

0 1963-05-18, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Mother asks for a box of paints to demonstrate practically the gradation of colors of the levels of consciousness, from the most material Nature to the Supreme. The point is to illustrate the symbol of Infinity, the figure 8, which Mother explained in the conversation of May 11: the infinite play of the Supreme reaching down to Nature and Nature rising toward the Supreme. Mother speaks in English in the presence of a disciple, who is a painter, so that he may convey her explanations to H., the disciple who is preparing illustrations for "Savitri".)
   Of course, all these things are lights, so you cant reproduce them. But still, it must be a violet that is not dull and not dark (Mother starts from the most material Nature). What she has put is too red, but if its too blue, it wont be good eitheryou understand the difficulty? Then after violet there is blue, which must be truly blue, not too light, but it must be a bright blue. Not too light because there are three consecutive blues: there is the blue of the Mind, and then comes the Higher Mind, which is paler, and then the Illumined Mind, which is the color of the flag [Mothers flag], a silver blue, but naturally paler than that. And after this comes yellow, a yellow that is the yellow of the Intuitive Mind; it must not be golden, it must be the color of cadmium. Then after this yellow, which is pale, we have the Overmind with all the colors they must all be bright colors, not dark: blue, red, green, violet, purple, yellow, all of them, all the colors. And after that, we then have all the golds of the Supermind, with its three layers. And then, after that, there is one layer of golden whiteit is white, but a golden white. After this golden white, there is silver whitesilver white: how can I explain that? (H. has sent me some ridiculous pictures of a sun shining on waterit has nothing to do with that.) If you put silver, silver gray (Mother shows a silver box nearby shining brilliantly in the sun), silver gray together with white that is, it is white, but if you put the four whites together you see the difference. There is a white white, then there is a white with a touch of pink, then a silvery white and a golden white. It makes four worlds.

0 1963-05-22, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (This conversation took place a few days after Satprem had a violent attack of an infectious "illness.")
   The other evening, around 6:30, I was in a lot of pain; my head seemed about to burst, I really suffered: a racking pain. Then I lay down, and suddenly I felt a sort of relaxationa sudden reversal followed by an easing. And, the next day, I came to know that it happened at the precise time when V. told you I was ill.

0 1963-05-29, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I would like a clarification on a passage from a previous conversation [of May 3], in which you said: Something tries to draw less and less the attention and concentration of others. And you added: That is, to lessen the SENSE OF INTERMEDIARY necessary for forces and thoughts to spread. What is this sense of intermediary? Do you mean your role of intermediary in the diffusion of forces? Do you want to lessen that roleto withdraw?
   It isnt role! The role is a fact, a sort of ineluctable fact, absolutely independent of the individual will and consciousness I am more and more convinced of it, fantastically so. The Work is done through a certain number of elementswhe ther they are aware of it or not, whether they collaborate or not makes little difference. It has been decided that way, it has been chosen that way and it is done that way. Whether you like it or not, whether you are aware of it or not, whether you collaborate or notvery little difference. Its more a question of personal satisfaction!

0 1963-06-15, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Mother returns to the previous conversation, in which she spoke of perilous periods of transition for the earth and for individuals, when everything hangs in a precarious balance.)
   It keeps happening fairly often.

0 1963-06-22, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Mother comments on the previous conversation, in which she was looking for a way out down below but abruptly came out of the experience above:)
   In order to be complete, we should add that we are aware (not aware: we know it, its a certainty) that all the upward paths are open, traveled, you can go there as you like and when you like. Thats it, and thats why, when I wanted to come out of the experience, it meant going upward, quite naturally. Not that the passage above is closed, on the contrary, its traveled, explored but inadequate. We must find the corresponding passage down below.

0 1963-07-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (This conversation took place a few days after the new Pope, Paul VI, was enthroned. Mother had asked Satprem to erase the recording, except for a few fragments, but he thought it fit to retain at least its integral transcription.)
   Here, your flowers [roses]. A magnificent color.
  --
   I have to say that I know this man. I have met him several times. I dont know whether he is conscious, I mean I dont think he remembers when he returns to his body. But for a long time (not recently, certainly at least for a year, maybe two), the man has been involving himself in world affairs, which means he takes interest in global movements.1 I met him in this connection. I cannot say weve had interesting conversations or anything of that sort, but he is part of the organizations.
   I hadnt seen that at all in the other photo [published by the daily newspapers] its his eyes. The mouth is bad as in the other photo, but bad in another way: he looks almost malicious. But the man has powerreal power; not a Popes power, I mean: real power, inside him.

0 1963-07-06, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   There is also the previous conversation: your experience of the pink clay boat.1
   Ah!

0 1963-07-10, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Satprem reads Mother a previous conversation, of May 11, in which Mother said that the true mantra is not the one given you by a guru but the mantra that wells up from within spontaneously, like the cry of your soul.)
   But how is it, if the mantra automatically contains the power of the experience, that it is always said that unless you have been given the mantra by your guru, it has no power?

0 1963-07-17, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   See last conversation, when Mother spoke of X's visit.
   ***

0 1963-07-24, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   We find it worthwhile to publish here a letter Mother wrote (in English) to Prithwi Singh, Sujata's father, just a few days before Sri Aurobindo's letter published at the beginning of this conversation, on August 30, 1945: "I do not see that the Supramental will act in the way you expect from It. Its action will be to effectuate the Divine's Will upon earth whatever that may be. On men Its action will be to turn their will consciously or unconsciously on their part towards the way in which the Divine's Will wants them to go. But I cannot promise you that the Divine's will is to preserve the present human civilisation."
   ***

0 1963-07-27, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   See conversation of July 6
   The Ashram chronically faces a worrisome financial situation.

0 1963-08-07, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (As if by chance, Satprem reads Mother an old conversation, of January 24, 1961, on the influenza epidemic in Japan during World War I.)
   And the best part of the story is that theyve never had that type of influenza since.
  --
   (Then Satprem reads the conversation of May 22, 1963, in which he tells Mother how she cured him suddenly of an infectious disease, as though something suddenly tipped over.)
   Ive noticed that phenomenon: always, when great difficulties crop upa violent attack, a disorganization the change isnt progressive: its abrupt, like a reversal.

0 1963-08-13b, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (This note came apropos of an old Playground Talk, of December 21, 1950, which Satprem read Mother during the preceding conversation. Mother spoke in it of the clear, precise and constant vision of the Truth, and she added: Some call it the Voice of God or the Will of God. The real sense of these terms has been perverted, thats why I prefer to say the Truth, although it is but one very limited aspect of That which we cannot name but is the Source and Goal of all existence.)
   Satprem,

0 1963-08-28, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   See conversation of May 25
   The author of this letter is a Westerner turned Sufi.

0 1963-09-07, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The beginning of this conversation was to disappear, but Satprem chanced on it on a second track of the tape-recording. He found it charming and inserted it back here. Quite often he deleted these beginnings of conversations.... Here the subject was his health, Sujata having written to Mother that it was deteriorating" and proposed that a supplementary diet be given him.)
   So, let me contemplate you! (laughter)
  --
   But for instance, I told you I spoke with the Pope for quite a long time the day of his election, and the conversation was abruptly interrupted by a reaction he had. (It was really a mental conversation we were having: I spoke, he replied, I heard his reply I dont know whether he was conscious of something probably not, but anyway; it wasnt at all a formation of my own mind because I received quite unexpected replies.) But the conversation was interrupted abruptly by a reaction he had when I told him that God is everywhere and in all things; that everything is He; and then a great Force came down into me and I added, Even when you descend into Hell, He is there too.
   Then everything stopped dead.

0 1963-09-21, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (During the conversation, Mother envisages the possibility of reading out a message, if any comes to her, on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Supramental Manifestation, on February 29, 1964. Then she adds:)
   Provided I can speak.

0 1963-10-05, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   See conversation of September 25
   ***

0 1963-10-16, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Mother first reads two lines from "The Debate of Love and Death" in "Savitri." She would like to put them as epigraph to the conversation of September 7, the dialogue with a materialist.)
   Listen to this:
  --
   (Satprem first decided not to publish in full the following conversation on Tantrism. Then, after Mothers departure, when he saw that same Tantrism trying to spread through Auroville, he changed his mind and decided to publish the conversation in full, preceded by a note which we are inserting below. This note was written in 1979.)
   Every time a new truth has attempted to manifest upon earth, it has been immediately attacked, corrupted and diverted by pseudo-spiritual forceswhich did represent a certain spirituality at a given time, but precisely the one that the new truth wants to go beyond. To give but one example of those sad spiritual diversions which clutter History, Buddhism was largely corrupted in a sizable part of Asia by a whole Tantric and magic Buddhism. The falsity lies not in the old spirituality which the new truth seeks to go beyond, but in the eternal fact that the Past clings to its powers, its means and its rule. As Mother said in her simple language, Whats wrong is to remain stuck there. And Sri Aurobindo with his ever-present humor: The traditions of the past are very great in their own place, in the past. We could expect the phenomenon to recur today. In India, Tantrism represents a powerful discipline from the Past and it was inevitable that Mother should experience the better and the worse of that system in her attempt to transform all the means and elements of the old earththis Agenda has made abundant mention of a certain X, symbol of Tantrism. Now, as it happens, we are witnessing the same phenomenon of diversion, and today this same Tantrism is seeking to divert the new truth by convincing as many adepts as possible not to say Mothers Mantra, which is too advanced for ordinary mortals, and to say Tantric mantras in its stead. This is purely and simply an attempt to take Mothers place. One has to be quite ignorant of the mechanism of forces not to understand that saying a mantra of the old gods puts you under the influence and into the orbit of precisely that which resists the new truth. Mother had foreseen the phenomenon and forewarned me in the following conversation. Unfortunately, until recently, I always wanted to believe that Tantrism would be converted. Nothing of the sort. It is attempting to take Mothers place and lead astray those who are not sincere enough to want ONE SINGLE THING: the new world.
   ***
  --
   Let us recall the conversation of May 15, 1962 (volume III, p. 140 ff.), in which Mother also refers to Tantric intrigues to corrupt Sri Aurobindo's teaching.
   ***

0 1963-11-23, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Nothing, Mother, except Agenda conversations.
   That will soon sound repetitiousthings are moving fast.

0 1963-12-07 - supramental ship, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Mother commented on and developed this passage in the following conversation, of December 11.
   ***

0 1963-12-21, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Regarding the "joys" of Tantric discipline, when Satprem was still at his seven thousandth, or was it seven hundred thousandth, Tantric yantram. Satprem unfortunately did not keep the beginning of this conversation.)
   Its true, in fact, off and on I have fits of revolt, but more and more Im settling into a kind of nothingnessnot many things have meaning. I was very attached to life, I loved life, I found it beautiful thats gone.

0 1964-01-04, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Krishna sometimes I walked with him for hours in conversation. At night, when I was very tired from my work, he would come and sit on the edge of my bed, I would put my head on his shoulder and fall asleep. And it lasted for years and years and years, you knownot just once by chance.
   After that, I smiled.

0 1964-01-08, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   See conversation of December 31, 1963.
   Mother is not referring to an intellectual and human negation, but to a material fact that one finds at the very roots of life, in the most material consciousness, and which shows itself as an abyss of black and stifling basalt. It is intimately linked with death. It is the very secret of death.

0 1964-01-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The following conversation between Mother and a Bengali disciple, B., was not tape-recorded but only noted from memory in English:)
   (B.) I am going to Calcutta. There they will ask me one question regarding the present situationcommunal riots.1 What is the solution?

0 1964-02-13, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Satprem kept note of the following conversation despite its episodic character, for it is, alas, a good illustration of the kind of innumerable microscopic "avalanches" that assailed Mother from every side, daily.)
   H. was so very vexed because I had this work done by Sujata that she has broken off all relations with me! Except that she sends me letters of abuse every day!

0 1964-03-04, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   This is reminiscent of the "rain of white stars" seen by Sujata (see conversation of January 29).
   On the evening of the 29th, Mother appeared at the balcony.

0 1964-03-11, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Then Mother refers to the preceding conversation, of March 7, and to her experience of the ananda of progress in life.)
   I feel it as something decisive, because, for me, things have changed. Its not one of those things that come and then go away.

0 1964-03-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Let us recall the conversation of November 4, 1963: "... It's nothing but vibrations."
   Mother made a gesture as of a flash of lightning joining the supreme height with the depths.

0 1964-03-31, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Regarding older Agenda conversations
   I forget completely. I seem to go by so fast, so fast, so fast, that its impossible to rememberit would pull me backwards.

0 1964-04-08, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (This was to be the last conversation before Satprem's departure for France, from where he would return in July.)
   Mother looks tired, she goes into a long contemplation:

0 1964-05-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   You ask me if I see you. You do not come to me in a subtle body, but I am with you very concretely, so concretely that I see through your eyes and speak through your mouth. In this way, you made me meet people whom I dont know at all physically and have strange conversations with them. A useful preparation is certainly going on.
   Through repeated, everyday experience, I am increasingly convinced that all disorders in the body and all diseases are the result of DOUBT in the cells or a certain group of cells. They doubt the Divines concrete reality, they doubt the Divine Presence in them, they doubt their being divine in their very essence, and this doubt is the cause of all disorders.2

0 1964-06-27, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I dont feel tiredwhat tires me is rather human beings with their constant agitation and troubled atmosphere. Anyway, I am happy to be with my brother. The difficulty is that I no longer know how to speak, I have lost the habit of conversation, and people talk and talk, ask questions without giving you time to answer, and in that whirl it is quite hard to pull down true words. In fact, my only rest is when I am alone doing my japa; then everything seems to open, to relax, and I feel I am back home. Otherwise I am like a cork tossed about on the sea and turned in all directions. People dont livethey bustle about. It is painful to be constantly pulled outside, constantly torn from oneself. I am not able to live in this world any longer, I think I would die if I had to stay here.
   S.

0 1964-07-13, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Satprem is back from a three-month journey to France. Unfortunately, only a fragment of this conversation was kept.)
   Did you get my last note on the golden card?

0 1964-07-18, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Then the conversation turns to Satprems brother. This person will appear several times in the Agenda, which is why we publish what concerns him.)
   Id like to talk to you about my brother and sister-in-law. They had an inner opening when they read the book.

0 1964-07-22, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   See conversations of January 29, 1964 and conversations of March 4, 1964.
   See Agenda IV, September 25, p. 319.

0 1964-07-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (This conversation is about Dr. S., who left for the U.S.A. for a brain operation. The operation consists in introducing a needle into the diseased spot and injecting liquid oxygen to destroy the group of affected cells. The first operation took place three months earlier, and the second was scheduled for this month.)
   Ive just received a long letter from Dr. S. You know that one side was operated on and that To make it interesting, I should tell you the story from the beginning.

0 1964-07-31, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The mysterious part of it is that the recording of this fragment of conversation survived, while all the rest disappeared.... Was the machine flattered?
   ***

0 1964-08-26, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (By some quirk of the tape recorder (?) the following conversation, which is so important, was almost inaudible, as if veiled, and Satprem was unable to save the recording, though he was able to save his notes. It should be said that his tape recorder was quite patched upMother never wanted him to borrow the Ashram's machines, except for "official recordings.")
   I wanted to point out to you an article in the Readers Digest on the structure of the cell according to the latest scientific discoveries.1 I thought it might throw light on certain aspects of your experiences. They speak in particular of the cells consciousness; they have discovered rather mysterious things. You would see the correspondence with your own experiences.

0 1964-09-26, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Towards the end of the conversation, an urgent letter from a disciple is brought to Mother. Mother laughs and, without reading the letter, scribbles her answer:)
   She already wrote to me the other day, shes upset because I cant read anymore! (I used to read Savitri aloud and she wanted to record me.) I told her, I cant read anymore, its not possible. So she wrote to me that I must make use of my Grace in order to cure my eyes!

0 1964-10-24b, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (As Satprem reads back to Mother the last conversation, she stops him at the following passage: It was a splendor! As if all of a sudden the physical world had become a solar world, splendid and radiant, and so light, so harmonious! It was a marvel.)
   And the experience has brought a stability that didnt exist beforea stability and a certainty, an Assurance that all will be well.
  --
   Satprem had suggested that some extracts from the last conversation be published in the Bulletin.
   ***

0 1964-11-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   At the end of the conversation, Mother consults her appointment book:
   Theres a crush of people. I ought to have some peace.

0 1964-11-25, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The following conversation is about the collective meditation of the day before, November 24, a darshan day.)
   So, what about you? Whats new? Nothing new?and whats old?! (laughter)

0 1964-12-02, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The Pope announced he was going to publish a message for non-Christians; I have asked to see it. Because in my mental conversations with him, two things have remained very precise. He has a sort of political attachment. He is a very political man, in the sense that he does things for a reason, with a precise goal calculated according to his own understanding so as to make him most effective towards that goala political man.
   He has a political attachment to the dogma. For instance, after one of my conversations (I had a good number of conversations with him, three or four, on the mental level, and perfectly objective because his reactions were unexpected; to me they were very spontaneous, in the sense that I received answers that werent at all those I might have expectedwhich proves it was genuine), but for example, before his election, I met him once (there is a part of his mental being, a higher intelligence, thats very well formed, conscious, individualized), and I had a spontaneous conversation that I hadnt sought and which was very interesting. But at one point, I replied to something he said, and I told him with the force I have there [on that higher plane], The Lord is everywhereeven in hell the Lord is there. And then it caused such a violent reaction in him that, pfft! he vanished. I found it very striking. I dont know the dogma, but it seems that in hell, according to the Catholics, whats worse than suffering, the fire and all that, is the absence of the Lord. It seems its a dogma that the Lord is absent from hell; and me, I was speaking of universal Oneness and I told him that.
   There is another thing I remember very clearly, which struck me. It was after his election (but long before his trip to India was decided upon): he had come to India and he came to Pondicherry to meet me (not to meet me: he had come to Pondicherry, then he came and met me). Once in Pondicherry, he came and I saw him there, in the room where I receive people. We had a long conversation, a very long and interesting conversation, and suddenly (it was towards the end, it was time for him to go), when he rose, he was preoccupied by something. He told me, When you speak to your children about me, what will you tell them? You understand, the ego showing itself. So I looked at him (Mother smiles) and said, I will only tell them that we have been in communion in our love for the Supreme. Then he relaxed and left. It struck me. These things are very objective.
   But these are the little turns of the nature. Otherwise, his dream is to be the potentate of human spiritual unity.

0 1964-12-07, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (This conversation took place in the music room. Mother had asked Sunil, the musician disciple, and Sujata to come.)
   Can anybody play the harmonica? (laughter) Ive just been given a harmonica! It comes from Germany. (To Sunil:) Dont you know how to play it? No?
  --
   Mother's Agenda had to be interrupted for more than a month, following a serious operation undergone by Satprem the day after this conversation.
   ***

0 1965-02-19, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (A little later, the conversation turns to the events of February 11, when during Satprems absence the Ashram was attacked by rioters and several buildings were looted and set on fire.)
   Do you have anything to ask or to say?
  --
   Since Satprem's illness, Sujata has accompanied him to see Mother, for he has been unable to carry the tape recorder. From now on and till the end, Sujata will participate in all the conversations.
   ***

0 1965-02-27, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Then the conversation turns to a person in the West who would like to make an offering of money to Mother:)
   Peoples inspirations shouldnt be contradicted, I feel them as very living, and so the Force acts (gesture far away in space).

0 1965-04-17, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The conversation is cut short by the doctors entry)
   While here, it is a new form of creation.

0 1965-04-21, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   About the last conversation, a quotation from Sri Aurobindo came to mind.
   Which quotation?
  --
   When I thought about the last conversation again, it seemed to me that the gap between the two creations, the animal and the supramental, is so huge that it doesnt make much difference whether the body is more supple and so on.
   The gap isnt so huge. The gap is huge in the MODE OF CREATION, thats where there is a huge gap. Thats where it is difficult to conceive how we will switch from one to the other and how there can be intermediaries.

0 1965-05-05, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The rest of the conversation is interspersed with long, vanishing meditations, like great stretches of Alaska in the snow.
   The vibration that doesn't move is the supramental Vibration.

0 1965-06-18 - supramental ship, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   See conversation of April 17, 1965.
   Satprem meant that he found it hard to see how the new substance, nevertheless very different from Matter, could be prepared through gymnastics for the physical body.
  --
   See conversation of June 29, 1963 Agenda IV, p. 194.
   See Agenda I, February 3, 1958, p. 137 ff.

0 1965-06-23, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   It was in the form of a conversation. I tell those who govern:
   You leave free hands to the bandits and take insulting measures against the honest people.

0 1965-06-30, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   See conversation of March 17, 1961, Agenda II, p. 129 ff.
   In the years 1972-73, an Ashram boy, V., an excellent clairvoyant whom Mother refers to several times in the Agenda, had the following vision, which may be related with Mother's: he saw the Ashram as if from above, and the whole Ashram ground was scraped clean, as it were, and riddled with innumerable holes and tunnels; rats were going and coming in and out, up and down in a constant hurry-scurry there was nothing left, everything had been scraped clean by the rats.

0 1965-07-14, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Soon afterwards, Satprem proposes to Mother the publication of a few brief extracts from the previous and very interesting conversation on illnesses in Notes on the Way, a new series started in the Ashrams Bulletin on Satprems insistence. In fact, Satprem wanted the Ashram to benefit a little from the treasure of Mothers experienceat least a few drops of it. It was those Notes on the Way that were, after Mothers departure, cooly and fraudulently renamed Mothers Agenda by the heads of the Ashram in the hope of stealing the title, throwing people into confusion, and preventing at any cost the integral publication of the real Agenda, which they dared to declare not genuine, so afraid were they of Mothers clear perception of the people around her and of the Ashram in general. Satprem remembers how much he had to insist with Mother to be allowed to publish those Notes on the Way. Her reluctance is now easier to understand.)
   I wondered if we couldnt use the last conversation for the next Notes on the Way?
   Its unpublishable. It goes in the Agenda.

0 1965-07-17, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Regarding the last conversation, in which Satprem complained about his bad nights.)
   But I just cant understand why its always that side that I remember, always the sewers, the filth. Because all the same there must be another side, mustnt there?
  --
   (Satprem returns to the attack and asks Mother for her permission to publish some of these conversations in the Notes on the Way:)
   No.
  --
   (A little later, Satprem proposes he could ask E. to buy magnetic tapes to record these conversations:)
   Poor E.! Her husb and has ruined her.
  --
   Mother had already spoken of this case in the conversation of 26 June 1965: the man who was cured of a cancer of the brain but still did not believe in the intervention of a higher force.
   The letter excerpted above also announced the patient's relapse.

0 1965-07-21, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   See in particular conversations with Pavitra of 20 November 1926. Pavitra complained that "this mechanical part of the mind is carrying me along." And Sri Aurobindo replied, "It is simply an outer functioning and it will be rejected in the course of the procedure." That was in 1926. Sri Aurobindo changed his mind later, perhaps in fact when he discovered his "mathematical formula."
   ***

0 1965-07-24, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   To begin with, last time I told you that this physical mind is being transformed; and three or four days ago, that is, before our last conversation, early in the morning I woke up abruptly in the middle of a sort of vision and activity, precisely in this physical mind. Which isnt at all usual for me. I was here in this room, everything was exactly as it is physically, and someone (I think it was Champaklal) opened the door abruptly and said, Oh, I am bringing bad news. And I heard the sound physically, which means it was very close to the physical. He has fallen and broken his head. But it was as if he were speaking of my brother (who died quite a long time ago), and during the activity I said to myself, But my brother died long ago! And it caused a sort of tension (gesture to the temples) because Its a little complicated to explain. When Champaklal gave me the news, I was in my usual consciousness, in which I immediately thought, How come the Protection didnt act? And I was looking at that when a sort of faraway memory came that my brother was dead. Then I looked (its hard to explain with words, its complex). I looked into Champaklals thought to find out who he meant had fallen and broken his head. And I saw A.s face. And all that caused a tension (same gesture to the temples), so I woke up and looked. And I saw it was an experience intended to make me clearly see that this material mind LOVES (loves, thats a way of speaking), loves catastrophes and attracts them, and even creates them, because it needs the shock of emotion to awaken its unconsciousness. All that is unconscious, all that is tamasic needs violent emotions to shake itself awake. And that need creates a sort of morbid attraction to or imagination of those thingsall the time it keeps imagining all possible catastrophes or opening the door to the bad suggestions of nasty little entities that in fact take pleasure in creating the possibility of catastrophes.
   I saw that very clearly, it was part of the sadhana of this material mind. Then I offered it all to the Lord and stopped thinking about it. And when I received your letter, I thought, Its the same thing! The same thing, its a sort of unhealthy need this physical mind has to seek the violent shock of emotions and catastrophes to awaken its tamas. Only, in the case of A. breaking his head, I waited two days, thinking, Let us see if it happens to be true. But nothing happened, he didnt break his head! In your case, too, I thought, I am not budging till we get news, because it may be true (one case in a million), so I keep silent. But this morning I looked again and saw it was exactly the same thing: its the process of development to make us conscious of the wonderful working of this mind.

0 1965-08-07, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I had a long conversation with you this morning. I told you many things. Did you hear?
   No, nothing.
  --
   (Towards the end of the conversation, Satprem, who has been approached a second time about an article for a magazine, asks for Mothers advice.)
   Do you know that theyve asked me to write an article?

0 1965-08-21, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Let us recall the last conversation (of August 18) in which Mother spoke of those glass halls as vast as the earth. Strangely, for several weeks, Satprem on his part has been immersed in the correction of sentences with the revision of the French translation of The Synthesis of Yoga.
   Mother hesitated: she was going to use the word "immortal" and not "eternal"an "immortal reality"
   see later on, conversation of August 28.
   ***

0 1965-08-28, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Regarding the conversation of August 21 and the experience of the "transfer of power" to the cellular consciousness:)
   I said the other day that this aggregate of cells had changed its initiating1 power. It struck me as a unique experience, as something that had never occurred before. Unfortunately, it didnt last long. But the experience has left a kind of certitude in the body: it is less uncertain about the future. As if the experience came to tell the body, This is how things will be.

0 1965-08-31, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Regarding the conversations of August 21 and August 28 on the "transfer of power":)
   How do you define this physical mind, the one that underwent the transfer of power?
  --
   In a former Playground Talk (of March 10, 1951), Mother said regarding the violation of tombs in Egypt: "In the physical form there is the 'spirit of the form,' and that spirit of the form persists for a time, even when outwardly the person is said to be dead. And as long as the spirit of the form persists, the body isn't destroyed. In ancient Egypt they had that knowledge; they knew that if they prepared the body in a certain way, the spirit of the form wouldn't go away and the body wouldn't be dissolved." See conversation of February 27, 1965, p. 38
   ***

0 1965-09-15a, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Then Mother gathers the texts that will make up the next Bulletin, among which is Sri Aurobindos quotation from Essays on the Gita: It is Rudra who still holds the world in the hollow of his hand. See conversation of August 25)
   You see, I told you! You asked me, Do you see anything? (Laughing) I told you, Well see.

0 1965-11-13, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Soon afterwards, Satprem sorts old Agenda conversations.
   What is it? Old ones?

0 1965-12-01, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Mother is referring to the conversation of November 27 which Satprem wished to publish at least in part in the Ashram's Bulletin.
   ***

0 1965-12-07, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The discussion goes on and Mother again wants to cut out the whole end of the conversation of November 27 which Satprem wanted to publish in Notes on the Way. It was about the double movement of Oneness and Multiplicity.)
   Dont lose heart.

0 1965-12-28, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   For Mother, fifteen days = six months. It was on June 18, 1965 (see the conversation of that date).
   ***

0 1966-01-14, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Throughout this conversation, Mother appeared rather skeptical or, to say the least, reticent.
   ***

0 1966-01-19, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Mother had already made a similar remark last year. See Agenda VI, conversation of November 6, 1965, p. 287
   ***

0 1966-01-22, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Purani, a charming old disciple, who passed away on December 11, 1965. See Agenda VI, conversation of December 28, 1965, p. 341
   ***

0 1966-01-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Regarding the previous conversation: the blue and pink Purani)
   (Ironically) Its a pity we cant make pictures of those things, because Purani had lots of admirers and disciples, plenty in America, and so if I could send them a picture of Purani as I saw him, blue and pink (laughing), that would be charming!

0 1966-01-31, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I also felt that something else had to be written, going over your whole Agenda as I did for Sri Aurobindo (that has come to me several times very clearly), going over your whole Agenda from the beginning, and then You know that before I wrote the book on Sri Aurobindo, I took all his works to read them again, and while I read them I seemed to be told, This passage that passage this passage noted down all kinds of passages. And when afterwards I wrote the book, all those selected passages automatically came to mingle with what was coming to me. And Ive had the same impression with all these Agenda conversations: one day I should read them all again in that same consciousness and pick out a number of passages, which, afterwards, would crystallize into a book.
   Yes, but not yetnot yet.2

0 1966-03-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   At the beginning of the conversation, Mother had remarked about a sick disciple: "She is extremely nervous and excited. I told her to take sedatives, I told her her whole trouble was physicalshe says she is the victim of terrible Asuras! It's ridiculous! It's a physical disturbance and she need not go and trouble the Asuras!"
   But when the hour of the Divine draws near, The Mighty Mother shall take birth in Time and God be born into the human clay...

0 1966-03-30, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The following conversation, in which Mother speaks entirely in English, took place while she listened to the English translation of the conversation of March 4, in which she said in particular: "It becomes just a choice: you choose things to be like this or like that....")
   I had the same experience in the cell-consciousness. It lasted for one hour and there it was truly almost miraculous.
   The same Consciousness as this consciousness I had in what we can call the material mental (that is, the collective consciousness of the cells), but this morning it was in the cells themselves, this Consciousness [the eternal Consciousness Mother speaks of in the conversation of March 4], the same Consciousness. And it was truly miraculous. With the impression that with THAT there [in the cells], there is nothing impossible.
   It comes, it stays in spite of everything, whatever I do, even if I speak, and it goes. And when its gone its gone, I can make an effort, it doesnt come back. But so long as it is there, it is all-powerful, it dominates everything and yes, the whole world seems to change. And yet everything is the same. You remember this sentence of Sri Aurobindo: All was changed and yet everything was the same? That is exactly that.

0 1966-04-20, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The conversation is cut short at that point by a disciple who comes in to announce his friend Anousuyas death.)
   At what time?

0 1966-05-07, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Soon afterwards, Satprem sorts old conversations:)
   Are they old ones?

0 1966-05-25, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Regarding the conversation of May 18 in which Mother said that ninety percent of the visions and dreams in the vital, or even on the other, higher planes, are subjective.)
   All the same, there is something disturbing about that almost total subjectivity.

0 1966-06-11, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The conversation begins with the book Satprem is writing, which Mother "dictates" at night, but which Satprem has difficulty receiving.)
   Mon petit, I keep on writing! Its incredible! It has never happened to me.
  --
   (Soon afterwards, the question comes up of the publication of the previous conversation, of June 8, 1966, in the appendix to the Playground Talk of April 19, 1951 fifteen years earlier. Satprem voices certain doubts, emphasizing the vast difference between the two texts.)
   We must put it in [the conversation of June 8], its very important. Very useful. People must know it.
   I felt there was such a gulf between the two.

0 1966-06-25, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Soon afterwards, regarding a European disciple who asks to help the Ashrams cottage industry. This fragment of conversation, though rather prosaic, was preserved, as it is quite illustrative.)
   This cottage industry produces things that arent very pretty. So she would like to know if you want her to go and work there or to do something on her own. I feel she has a capacity for handicraft that could be used.

0 1966-08-10, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   During the last conversation, Mother went into a deep trance, quite oblivious of the time.
   An engineer from the cole Polytechnique in Paris.

0 1966-08-17, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   During the previous conversation, Satprem read out to Mother a few pages from The Sannyasin.
   ***

0 1966-08-24, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The beginning and end of the following conversation could not be tape-recorded because of mechanical trouble, and only the middle remains. The conversation was about an experience of Mothers; she described the place in which Satprem usually rests at night and from which he draws the atmosphere of his present book: a place very harmonious in color and substance. Then Sujata tells Mother a dream she had a few days ago.)
   When you went to this place of harmony, did you play music? Because I saw you play music for him.

0 1966-09-07, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   In that letter which he never sent, Satprem ingenuously tried to make the secretaries understand that these conversations with Mother might have import for the whole world, and that if Mother was an hour late for her conversations with Satprem and tired by a heap of trifles and petty personal matters, the atmosphere was not conducive for her to recapture the thread of her experience. But Satprem clearly saw the uselessness of stressing these obvious facts and saw that he would have quite simply been assumed to be indulging in "self-promotion." So be it. (This footnote was written in 1966.)
   One lakh = 100,000 rupees (about 6,000 U.S. dollars in 1990).

0 1966-09-21, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (This conversation came about following a personal question of Satprem's, who asked Mother if he should not refuse an amount of money offered to him by the French government: a war pension. Satprem's intention was to refuse that pension, not wanting to feel tied to any government and any country for any amount of money. Mother advised him to accept that money for the divine Work.)
   I had a revelation, in the sense that it was more on the order of a vision.

0 1966-09-28, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The secretaries have left Mother an hour late, so that the conversation begins at the time it should have ended.)
   That beats all the records! And I started earlyyet the work isnt done.
  --
   (A few days later, in Nolinis presence, Mother took up the conversation again, adding:)
   One should also be given the means to open up.
  --
   The conversation is cut short by the doctor's arrival.
   Original English.

0 1966-10-08, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The conversation is about Satprem's forthcoming birthday. We publish it despite its personal character, for the "rhythmic" significance of birthdays is of general interest and there is always, as Mother says, a curve from the past that doesn't readily connect with the curve of the future.)
   It will soon be your birthday.
  --
   (Soon afterwards, the conversation turns to a question asked by a young disciple about the description of Sri Aurobindos life in The Adventure of Consciousness, when Sri Aurobindo was agnostic and began yoga for the liberation of his country.)
   Its a chapter entitled The End of the Intellect, in which I wrote that in the beginning Sri Aurobindo was an agnostic and had mainly cultivated the intellect. So V. has made a summary of this chapter, and in the end he asks: How can one practice yogic disciplines without believing in God or in the Divine?

0 1966-10-15, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The conversation begins an hour and a half late.
   All right. Its 11:30. I am not starting anythingnei ther talking nor keeping quiet (because that lasts a long time!)

0 1966-12-17, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Soon afterwards, regarding the floods in Florence. This conversation was noted down from memory.)
   Ive seen photographs of the floods in Florence. It seems the water was rushing at forty-five miles an hour! Cars were washed away and dashed against houses. They say it was a tidal wave yet the water was flowing towards the sea (or was it flowing back?). Its very mysterious, at any rate.

0 1966-12-31, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (After Satprem has read to Mother the conversation of September 30, in which she envisaged the transition from man to the new being.)
   My feeling (its a sort of feeling-sensation) is that intermediary stages are necessary.
  --
   (In the afternoon, Mother sent the following note to Satprem, like a continuation of the mornings conversation, meaning that the integral realization, that of the new being, will only be possible when)
   Oh, to be spontaneously divine without watching oneself be, having gone beyond the stage where one wants to be divine.

0 1967-01-14, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   "Surtout pas de docteurs!... il faut laisser ce corps en paix." Mother added this first sentence in a slip of paper she sent to Satprem after the conversation (see facsimile).
   It may be noted that Mother used the French word "injure" (normally meaning "insult") because she heard the English word "injury." (See conversation of January 25.)
   This note was actually translated into English by one of the Ashram's secretaries and distributed to five people among those near Mother, including Nolini. Thus, everyone "having authority" knew of it.

0 1967-01-21, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Regarding the English translation of the latest extracts from these conversations published in the Ashram's Bulletin under the title " Propos.")
   What they especially lack is the sense of a FORCE in the language.

0 1967-01-25, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Nolini reads out to Mother his translation into English of the conversation of January 11 for the Ashram Bulletin. Mother remarks that she used the French word "injure" [=insult] whereas she meant a "blow" or a "scratch", because she heard the English word "injury.")
   I so often hear Sri Aurobindo speak, and I say it in French, but I use the English word because I hear him speak.
  --
   (Then Mother listens to the English translation of the conversation of September 30, 1966, for Notes on the Way. It was question of the disappearance of the bone structure in the new being and the need for intermediary stages. Mother, speaking in English, turns to Nolini:)
   Do you think people will understand? Not much?

0 1967-02-11, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Oh, surely not! These old Agenda conversations that I read again, once they have been typed they are full of light!
   I dont know.

0 1967-02-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The following conversation was noted down from memory. It occurred apropos of a young disciple who did not understand how everythingimpulsions, desires, etc.could come from "outside," from universal Nature, as Sri Aurobindo moreover declares, "I become what I see in myself.")
   I told him once that he would begin to be intelligent when he could set all opposites face to face and make a synthesis.

0 1967-02-18, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The nature (of Mother) was rather shy, and as a matter of fact, there wasnt much confidence in the personal capacity (although there was the sense of being able to do anything, if the need arose). Till the age of twenty or twenty-one I spoke very little, and never, never anything like a speech. I wouldnt take part in conversations: I would listen, but speak very little. Then I was put in touch with Abdul Baha (the Bahai), who was then in Paris, and a sort of intimacy grew between us. I used to go to his gatherings because I was interested. And one day (when I was in his room), he said to me, I am sick, I cant speak; go and speak for me. I said, Me! But I dont speak. He replied, You just have to go there, sit quietly and concentrate, and what you have to say will come to you. Go and do it, you will see. Well then (laughing), I did as he said. There were some thirty or forty people. I went and sat in their midst, stayed very still, and then I sat like that, without a thought, nothing, and suddenly I started speaking. I spoke to them for half an hour (I dont even know what I told them), and when it was over everybody was quite pleased. I went to find Abdul Baha, who told me, You spoke admirably. I said, It wasnt me! And from that day (I had got the knack from him, you understand!), I would stay like that, very still, and everything would come. Its especially the sense of the I that must be lost thats the great art in everything, for everything, for everything you do: for painting, for (I did painting, sculpture, architecture even, I did music), for everything, but everything, if you are able to lose the sense of the I, then you open yourself to to the knowledge of the thing (sculpture, painting, etc.). Its not necessarily beings, but the spirit of the thing that uses you.
   Well, I think it should be the same thing with language. One should be tuned in to someone in that way, or through that someone to something still higher: the Origin. And then, very, very passive. But not inertly passive: vibrantly passive, receptive, like that, attentive, letting that come in and be expressed. The result would be there to see. As I said, we are limited by what we know, but that may be because were still too much of a person; if we could be perfectly plastic it might be different: there have been instances of people speaking in a language they didnt know, consequently

0 1967-03-25, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The disciple reads out to Mother an "old" conversation dating from ... two weeks ago.)
   Its gone. As soon as its said, its gone and away. When things are read back to me, I dont remember what I said, it comes like something new.

0 1967-03-29, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Regarding the conversation of March 7 on "death," in which Mother said in particular: "There really is no such thing as death.... There is no radical change in the vibration of consciousness.... You have a perception of the physical world which isn't absolutely identical, but with an effectiveness which is sometimes greater...." Mother had at first authorized the publication of this conversation in "Notes on the Way," then...)
   I begin to think that it is not good to give this kind of lived knowledge to people who are not capable of having it, of experiencing it.

0 1967-05-27, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   At the beginning of the conversation, Mother had complained that all the roses had wilted in the heat.
   ***

0 1967-06-07, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   See conversation of May 24: What is the Divine?
   The bodiless Namelessness that saw God born And tries to gain from mortal's mind and soul A deathless body and a divine name.

0 1967-06-14, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (At the end of the interview, the conversation turns to Satprems health and a certain haemoptysis.)
   Tell your cells not to make a drama and youll see! If you know how to tell them

0 1967-06-24, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   See conversation of June 14, 1967.
   ***

0 1967-07-12, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (At the end of the conversation, Mother shows Satprem a note she wrote that same morning:)
   Instead of excluding each other, religions should complement each other.

0 1967-07-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   See conversation of May 10, 1967 (Amenhotep).
   In 1920, when Mother sailed back to Pondicherry from Japan. Mao Tse-tung was writing The Great Union of Popular Masses at the time.

0 1967-07-19, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Further to the previous conversation on the psychic being.)
   Just in these last few days Ive had a series of experiences on that subject, very interesting experiences. With the same person, whom I see every day, lets say, or very often, the impression of the contact (an impression that remains more or less) that depends on the presence of the psychic. With the same person, you understand, the same relationship, at certain times it becomes full and you have the sense of something yes, fullnot exactly living, but (I cant say solid because theres nothing hard about it), but full, substantial; then, at other times, its thin, fleeting, neutral. And I have observed (with the same people in the same circumstances), at times you have the sense of a more than living contact (the word living isnt enough), an EXISTENT contact, rather; an existent, durable contact (but not durable in time: durable in its nature); at other times with the very same people (often in the same circumstances), its thin, flat, its dry, superficialit may be very active, apparently very living, but it has no depth. And I have seen that it is when the psychic participates and when it doesnt.

0 1967-07-29, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (At the beginning of this conversation, Mother expresses her strong displeasure that her so-called note on Arabs and Israelites was published in "Mother India" under the title "The Jews and the Arabs." Mother protests against the use of the word "Jew," which corresponds to only one Israelite tribe and has taken on a pejorative meaning.)
   [See conversation of June 21, 1967. This was not a note by Mother, but the rough transcription noted by a disciple, which was published outright as being Mother's words.]
   The word has so often been used as an insult.

0 1967-09-13, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   At the end of the conversation, Mother gazes at Satprem for a long time
   Did I tell you this?

0 1967-09-16, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   To come back to her Catholic preoccupation, there have been some really interesting things. You know that the Pope, when he came here to Bombay, said things that I had told him like this (gesture of inner communication) when we had that conversation2 (he certainly does not know with whom he had that conversation, but I think he is conscious enough to know he had one). A conversation We had three conversations like that, but one was long, important, precise; he himself was taken, like that, and when the time came to leave each other for him to go back to his body and for me to go back to my workhe said to me, And what will you say to people about our meeting? I told you the story. And, well, the things he said when he came here to India were exactly what I had told him; the resolutions he passed there were exactly what I had told him which proves it has had some effect.
   Have you heard about the latest decision? In the church, the priest always used to turn his back to the faithful while officiating: he would face the deity and turn his back to the faithful (the original idea was certainly that he represented the faithfuls aspiration and prayer: he addressed himself to the Divine). Now the Pope has said, Turn your altars around, face the public and represent the Divine. Its interesting. They are doing it here now, and the comical part is that theyve asked U. to do the work of turning the altars around. Thats how I know it, its U. who told me; they have asked him to go to all the churches here and turn the altars around. Its a big job because they are embedded.

0 1967-09-30, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I was very happy because it proved to me that our conversations hadnt been in vain. I was wondering if he was conscious; I dont know if he was conscious mentally, but in any case its interesting, you can read (Mother holds out a newspaper cutting to Satprem).
   Vatican City, September 26
  --
   The Osservatore Romano published in an article excerpts from a forthcoming book of conversations with the Pope by a lifelong friend, the French philosopher and academician, Jean Guitton.
   I saw, as is said in the Apocalypse, a limitless crowd, a multitude, an enormous welcome. In those thousands of faces I read, stronger than curiosity, a kind of indescribable sympathy, the Pope said.
  --
   And it explains the manner in which he received P. when he went there. P. (an Indian disciple), as you know, paid him a visit; he was taken there by an Italian who had come here (a very nice boy who showed him around Italy and took him to the Pope). The Pope gave him a private audience, and after talking to him, asking questions, replying (it was a whole conversation), he said to P. with a smile, And now what are you going to give me? (They spoke in French.) Then P. said, I have only one thing, which I always keep with me and is infinitely precious to me, but I will give it to you, and he gave him Prayers and Meditations. And the Pope answered, I am going to read them.
   So it all fits together.
  --
   And I had that mental contact with him perhaps just three weeks before he came to India (of course his thought was turned to India). We had a very interesting conversation, and all I said came to: Spirituality is much vaster than a Church, and as long as you limit spiritual realization to a Church or a religion, you will be in complete Falsehood. He listened. And when he came to India, thats what he said!
   But I told you he was tormented by something. When he left, when it was time for me to get up and take leave of each other, he looked at me with a sort of anxiety in his eyes, and he said to me, What will you say to your disciples about our meeting? I smiled and said, I will tell them that we were united in the love (not identical or common, I forget the words) for the supreme Lord. Then his face relaxed and he left. We were united in the same It wasnt the same it was I dont know, something expressing that both of us had been united in the love for the Supreme Lord. And I said it like that, with a smile, which means it was Sri Aurobindo who spoke with his sense of humour. His face relaxed and he left.

0 1967-10-04, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The same thing with N.S. In his case also He had fallen on his head and fractured it (he fainted in the street, thats how he died). He was taken to the hospital. But he went out6 and came to me right away (and so I knew: when I was told the accident had happened, I already knew something had happened because he had come to me). I kept him there, put him to rest, and he was quite peacefulquite peaceful. They didnt even consult me to know when he should be burned or anything (of course, a family of doctors!). Then, suddenly, brrt! (gesture of bursting) he went out of my atmosphere abruptly, like that. And no more sign of him. It took me DAYS to recontact himand that was the shock he had when they burned his body. It took me days to find him again, put him back to rest, gather him together. And one part had disappeared; his whole consciousness didnt return, because a part of his most material consciousness, of the material vital, must have been thrown out by the shock. I know it, because Alberts7 father was operated on (it was more than a year later, maybe two), and when he was chloroformed, he suddenly saw N.S. in front of him (of course, even a part can take on the appearance of the whole being, Sri Aurobindo has explained that, its like a photograph). He saw N.S., and N.S. asked him for news of his family, news of his wife, news of his children, and he told him, I worry about them. It must have been the part tied to his family, which must have been separated from the rest of his being: when he came to me, he was complete, but afterwards, I dont know what happened (gesture of bursting under the shock). And it was so concrete that when Alberts father was woken up again, he said aloud, But why are you cutting short my conversation with N.S.? Thats how they found out. He told them, But I was talking with N.S., why have you interrupted my conversation? So they found out what had happened.
   There.

0 1967-10-07, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Mother continues the conversation and holds out to Satprem a peculiar rose, which in a few petals seemed to want to be red, then turned pale yellow.)
   It looks as if it doesnt know its own mind!

0 1967-10-14, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The conversation begins an hour late. Sujata gives Mother flowers called "Transformation.")
   [Millingtonia hortensis.]

0 1967-11-04, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The conversation turns to Mothers Playground Talks between 1950 and 1958. Satprem is preparing their first publication and complains that he cannot trace the original texts:)
   Q. was quite free in her movements, there are even some Talks which she destroyedshe didnt like them!

0 1967-11-08, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (At the end of the conversation, Mother returns to the experience she narrated at the beginning:)
   Last night it was very goodyou are very conscious, very conscious.

0 1967-11-22, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   There is something that renders into words (its wordless, but something in there renders into words), and so there are conversations between the cells (Mother laughs): You fool, why are you afraid? Dont you see its the Lord doing this to transform you? Then the other: Ah! And then it falls quiet, opens out, and waits. And the pain goes away, the disorder goes away, and then everything works out.
   Its admirable.

0 1967-12-02, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Then it is question of the conversation of November 22the turning point of 1962 the awakening of the cells consciousness that the disciple would like to publish in the forthcoming February issue of the Bulletin in A Propos.)
   Its too personal.

0 1967-12-20, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Then Mother reverts to the beginning of the conversation:
   Oh, the correspondence has become something fantastic! Twenty-four, twenty-six, thirty, sometimes forty letters a day. So naturally, try as I may When its just a line, its all right, but I can barely reply to eight or ten a day: I have only an hour and a half, thats not muchnot even that much! No, no, the hour is too much: I have half an hour! But I extend it: I have from 7 to 7:30 in the evening, but every day I extend it till 8. Dinner is supposedly at 7: 30, I take it at 8. Supposedly too, I go to bed at 9:30 and get up at 4:30, but when I went to bed last night it was almost 1110:30 is frequent, which means an hour late. So from time to time I get up late. You understand, between about 1 and 2 A.M. (around 12:30, 1, or 2), I complete the first stage of concentration to give the body a good rest; after that I start working, and before working, a little concentration so that whatever the work, I should be back at 4:30; but sometimes its later sometimes its 4:45. Then, afterwards, I have a certain time in the morning for washing and dressing, and thats when there have been really interesting experiences: with a certain concentration (which has nothing to do with willpower or anything of the kind: its a concentration, a certain type of concentration and making contact with the Presence and the sense of the relativity, the very considerable relativity of material time), with an intensity of concentration, you can do the same thing much faster. I eventually found out that simply by concentration you can reduce the time by more than half. And you do things in exactly the same way, but they dont take timehow? Well, the secrets havent been revealed yet. But the phenomenon exists.

0 1967-12-27, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Mother studies an enlargement of the same photograph of the November 24 darshan, of which it was question in the conversation of November 29.)
   I am beginning to think its a type of prototype of a way of being. A prototype, up above, of a way of being. I dont know, its that and its not that; I dont know how to explain. It strikes me as a photograph of what could popularly be called a mooda universal way of being.

0 1968-01-17, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Regarding an old conversation of Mother's on "Savitri," noted down from memory by a young disciple.)
   Theyre so happy, so enthusiastic! Everyone comes and says, Oh, how fine it is! I thought, How much must one err for people to find it fine! When one no longer errs, they no longer like it. There you are.

0 1968-02-03, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Mother first reads out for All India Radio the text of her "reminiscences" of her life in India: see conversation of January 27.)
   Then Ive written something else. They wanted to prepare a sort of brochure on Auroville to distribute to the press, the government, etc., on the 28th,1 and before that, there is in Delhi in two or three days a conference of all nations (all nations is an exaggeration, but anyway they say all nations). Z is going there, and she wants to take with her all the papers on Auroville. They have prepared textsalways lengthy, interminable: speeches and more speeches. So then I asked, I concentrated to know what had to be said. And all of a sudden, Sri Aurobindo gave me a revelation. That was something interesting. I concentrated to know the why, the how and so on, and all of a sudden Sri Aurobindo said (Mother reads out a note:)

0 1968-02-28, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (From a conversation between Mother and a disciple about Auroville.)
   One needs to have an absolutely transparent sincerity. Lack of sincerity is at present the cause of difficulties.
  --
   See conversation of February 3, 1968.
   ***

0 1968-04-03, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (In continuation of the conversation of March 20, 1968, regarding the member of the Roman Curia.)
   Have you seen P.L. again?

0 1968-04-13, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Mother listens to Satprem read out the last conversation)
   Its incomplete.

0 1968-05-18, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Refer to "I don't care" in the preceding conversation.
   ***

0 1968-05-22, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   See conversation of April 3, 1968.
   It should be understood that the word "truth" is not used in a philosophical or moral or ideal sense: it is reality AS IT IS, the world AS IT IS without its cloak of falsehood. Real life is a "miracle."

0 1968-06-22, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Then Mother listens to the conversation of June 15 about illnesses and the corporeal residue.)
   In my consciousness there was much more than I said.

0 1968-08-30, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Then Satprem reads Mother the Notes on the Way put together from the last conversation. Mother is unsure whether publishing those experiences is appropriate.)
   The Bulletin goes everywhere, you understand. Its not a personal question, its from the point of view of the work and the effect it will have. Anyhow, I let the two of you [Satprem and Nolini] decide whether or not its appropriate for the work.

0 1968-09-04, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Mother had Nolini called to ask him for his opinion about the conversation of August 28 and whether it should be published in "Notes on the Way.")
   (To Nolini) Have you read it? Whats your opinion?

0 1968-09-28, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Then Mother listens to Satprems reading of the previous conversation, in which she spoke of the opacity of Matter which prevents it from manifesting the Consciousness, and of the transparent but somewhat imprecise fluidity.)
   Do you have any question?

0 1968-11-09, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   She even told me (it was almost a conversation!), You who know what death is, you dont know what my death is! (Mother laughs) Its true, I dont know! You dont know what has happened to me and whats happening to me. Whats happening to me? What? I must admit its the first timeit has never happened in my life. Its the first time, the first person like that.
   And the contact was only with the mind; I dont know what happened to the rest.

0 1968-11-27, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Soon after Satprem left at the end of the conversation, Mother sent him a line containing the sentence that follows.
   "...Pain that travails towards the touch of an unimaginable ecstasy." See also Thoughts and Aphorisms: 93"Pain is the touch of our Mother teaching us how to bear and grow in rapture. She has three stages of her schooling, endurance first, next equality of soul, last ecstasy."

0 1968-11-30, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   For February 21 next, couldnt we broadcast at the Playground the recording of that very important conversation, you know, on the central experience?1
   No.
  --
   conversation of November 23. Through the "Notes on the Way" or otherwise, Satprem always wanted to make Mother's experience known to the Ashram, but did not at the time understand the reasons for her reluctance.
   ***

0 1968-12-14, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   See further the conversation of December 25.
   Mother poured that Force during eight years of Playground Talks....

0 1968-12-18, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Regarding the English translation of the conversation of November 23, 1968, which Satprem got Mother to allow for publication in "Notes on the Way.")
   People are going to be dazed!

0 1968-12-21, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   There have been a lot, a whole lot of things these last few days. But thats enough! (Mother has just listened to a conversation to be published in the next Bulletin).
   Do you have something to say? what?

0 1968-12-28, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Then Mother listens to the conversation of December 21: the universal box.)
   Its going on, day after day after day.

0 1969-01-04, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Towards the end, the conversation refers to the coming visit of Satprems mother.)
   When is your mother arriving?

0 1969-02-05, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   You see, it had left an impression: I thought I had something material to show you [at the beginning of the conversation, when Mother was looking for something on her table]. It had left a deep impression.
   (silence Mother tries to look at the clock)

0 1969-02-08, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (By some kindness of fate, the recording of the beginning of this conversation was preserved, though Satprem normally erased all those exchanges or the little facts that did not seem to have "historical" interest. For amusement we reproduce here these fragments....)
   Today is soup day! Here.

0 1969-02-19, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The conversation begins an hour late.)
   We must take life as a grace, otherwise its impossible to live.

0 1969-02-22, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   It is adapted from the conversation of June 14, 1965. See Agenda VI, p. 127.
   ***

0 1969-03-01, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The conversation begins forty-five minutes late.)
   Its going well, very well, but No more clock, that no longer exists! What should take place at 8:30 takes place at 10. And every day I turn down people, you understand, I turn down lots of them, but they tell me, You should

0 1969-03-19, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Mother listens to the English translation of the conversation of February 15"These cells, other cells, it was life everywhere, consciousness everywhere..."for "Notes on the Way," then remarks in English:)
   Its just like the bark of something! Too bad!
  --
   conversation of 15 February 1969: "There is something wholly independent of our aspiration, our will, our effort... wholly independent. And this something appears to be absolutely all-powerful."
   ***

0 1969-03-26, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Extracts from a letter from Satprem to P.L., following the conversation of November 2, 1968, in which Mother spoke about the future of Christianity. See [Agenda IX](/agenda/09/november-2-1968#p27) under that date.)
   November 26, 1968

0 1969-04-19, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   We give in addendum an account of N.S.'s conversation with Mother.
   K. is a disciple.

0 1969-04-23, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Mother laughs) They were VERY WELL received in Delhi. A. [a secretary to the government] came back and told me that Indira was in conversation for twenty or twenty-five minutes, and that she seemed quite happy. It was a complete success.
   But you know, you cant stop them from talking! They cant help it: theyre terrible, theyll talk rubbish on any subject under the sun. They even said, it seems, about that poor man, the chief minister1 of Madras who died of cancer, that I had said he was a very bad man, and thats why he died! That sort of thing, you understand.

0 1969-04-26, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   You know that L. went to Delhi to see Indira. He brought her a message about the situation up there [in Bengal]. Then, at the end of the conversation, he told her about the new Consciousness, saying she should open to this Consciousness and that its all-powerful (he repeated it all to me), all-powerful. He even told her, Even if there is a fire, you can walk through the fire without danger if this Consciousness protects you, something like that. Just when he narrated it to me, they were holding there [in North India] a meeting of the Congress1 in a big pandal [dais], and the pandal caught fire and burned down! Indira was there, and she walked out unharmedjust when he was telling me about it! Its amusing (Mother laughs).
   She is beginning to really have faith.

0 1969-05-17, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   [Pavitra left some very interesting memoirs of his conversations with Sri Aurobindo and Mother in 1925 and 1926, which unfortunately were barbarously mutilated (with whole pages torn away, almost a third of Pavitra's notebooks) by his closest collaborator, under the pretext that it would be "better left unsaid." We shudder to think what would have been the fate of this Agenda had it come into the hands of those same "collaborators." As Mother remarked in Agenda V of October 14, 1964: "They cut out and remove all that bothers them and leave only what suits them." Thus invaluable treasures disappeared.
   (See Sri Aurobindo, conversations avec Pavitra, Fayard, 1972.)]
   You know that I used to see Pavitra every day, in the evening. He was in a poor state. But I had been forewarned (long ago) that his inner being was waiting for A.1 to return before it would leave. I dont know whether he was aware of something in his outward consciousness, but at any rate he had never said anything. But I knew The day A. arrived, that very day [May 13], just before coming here, Pavitra fell down. He came here with quite a few scratches. I thought it would stop there, but the day after A.s arrival (I dont remember, I never keep a clear memory of dates), at any rate between the 15th and 16th, at night, after 9 (I didnt look at the time, so I dont know precisely, but I was on my bed), Pavitras whole individualized consciousness (but not in a form), his conscious, fully awakened consciousness, down to all that can come out of the cells, began to come and enter into me according to the ancient, the very old yogic practice of merging into the Supremein that way, that practice. It came while I was lying on my bed; it began, and it was so material that there was a very strong friction in all the cells, everywhere. It went on for three hours. After three hours, it became not exactly still, but no longer active. Then, the next morning, I saw A. (it was on the 16th), I saw A. at about 8:30 (naturally, Pavitra had been in bed since the day before, they had put him to bed), and in the morning, A. told me that just as he was about to come here, Pavitra opened his eyes and looked at him So I told him, I dont know, but with a yogic knowledge of the process, quite an extraordinary knowledge (he had never boasted of having it), his conscious being melted last night and entered my body, this body2 I told him, Well see. But half an hour later, they told me that just as I was talking with A., the doctor declared he had left.

0 1969-05-31, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   On Thursday 29th May. On the 30th too, mother received no one. This is probably the course of experience that began a little before Pavitra's departure (see conversation of May 17).
   ***

0 1969-06-04, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Soon afterwards, Satprem proposes to publish in Notes on the Way the text of the last conversation, of May 31, about the glorified body Visible to all.)
   Arent people going to believe that weve gone mad?! No?
  --
   As a matter of fact, at the end of the previous conversation, Mother remained "gazing" for a very long time with an expression that had to be seen to be believed, and Satprem felt something like a cataract of luminous power coming down.
   ***

0 1969-07-02, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Satprem proposes to Mother a partial publication of the conversations of May 31 and June 4 on the glorified body.)
   Dont you think some people are going to imagine they have a divine body?

0 1969-07-19, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   There was someone in America whom I would often see at night, a woman. I would go there, talk, and people answered. Some of those night activities are strange: I feel as if I enter someone, because I speak, people answer me. And I dont know whom I enter or what it is. But there was someone I would often see: I would see her house, I would see gatherings (there were gatherings), I would see I didnt know who it was. Then, one day, we got a letter from a woman who said that for 1972, she wanted to get a boat and come with a group of people in that boat. I replied, and she sent her photoit was the person I had seen so often and was in contact with! And she is a woman who seems to have authority there (she looks like a rich woman): she has authority, she knows government people and has written to them. She already has a very large group, there seems to be some good work being done in America. Very receptive and full of energy. I still remember that my conversations [with her] were very interesting. And the other day, her letter came (it was the second or third time she wrote) along with her photo, so I recognized her. Thats interesting, because (just then the door of Mothers room slams) the contact was constant: the place is constant, the people are constant, and I see them very often, its not something just random. She wrote to the government to tell them that they should take special interest in Auroville and do something. And she seems to have authority there.
   (Sujata goes and sees who slammed the door, then comes back)

0 1969-07-26, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I remember quite clearly and precisely (I still see the whole setting, in his room) a conversation I once had with himin what connection, I dont know. It was (I forget what preceded, you understand), he told me, We cant both remain upon earth, one must go. Then I said to him, I am ready, Ill go. Then he told me, No, you cant go, your body is better than mine, you can undergo the transformation better than I can do.
   And the strange thing is that It took place just before all his physical difficulties.
   But I didnt attach too much importance [to that conversation]; its only when he left that it suddenly came back, and I thought, So there, he knew! It was I dont know. It was almost like a speculation, you understand, which he was just mentioning. It was at the time of our moving from the other house to this one,2 because it took place one day in that room, here [downstairs], and it was before his accident, before he broke his leg.3 In what connection, I forget. Thats gone. But I remember clearly, so clearly, I still see the room and everything, how he was, how he told me, We cant both remain upon earth. Thats all.
   But why cant both remain?
  --
   This same afternoon, Satprem, struck by a sudden thought, wrote the following note to Mother: "Following this morning's conversation, I have suddenly thought, 'But Savitri goes into death in search of Satyavan... so Mother is going to bring back Sri Aurobindo?'" Mother seems to have replied to the person who brought her the note, "Something of the sort."
   ***

0 1969-07-30, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The "healer" referred to in this conversation will often recur in this Agenda, and will play a decisive role in Satprem's life, in the sense that through a sort of reductio ad absurdum, he will make Satprem suddenly understand who Mother really is.)
   Have you heard of that healer? Someone has written from France, the son of a farmer (I think), anyhow not an intellectual in the least, who by accident became aware that his hands have a healing power. So he writes a very long letter narrating all he did, how he developed himself, and so on, until he came across your book;1 and when he read your book, for him it was a revelation (he doesnt have a philosophical mind or anything), he said, Could it be that I am unknowingly following Sri Aurobindos yoga? So he writes to me narrating everything and asking me that question.
  --
   (Then Mother returns to the previous conversation about materializations, and Satprems note in which he asked, But Savitri goes into death in search of Satyavan so Mother is going to bring back Sri Aurobindo?)
   Ive received your note. But you know that Sri Aurobindo said he wanted to come back on the earth only in a superhuman body a supramental body.6

0 1969-08-27, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (This note is about a person physically close to Sri Aurobindo, who tried to destroy Mother and separate her from Sri Aurobindo. In fact, it is clear and understandable that the darkest shadow is right under the light, and that he or she who comes to do the divine work must take on himself or herself the whole burden of the Opposer. Thus is it near Sri Aurobindo and Mother that the greatest adversaries will be found. That also explains Mothers departure and the ensuing murky situation in Auroville and in the Ashram. For obvious reasons we will not publish Mothers note or the long conversation that followed in its integrality, but only a few brief extracts, insofar as they illustrate the problem, or perhaps the mystery, of Sri Aurobindos and Mothers departures, for they have one and the same reason.)
   Naturally, this mustnt be published, but its to be kept.

0 1969-08-30, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I had yesterday a long and interesting conversation with a nineteen-year-old boy who took part in the May revolution in Paris;2 he was one of the students Communist leaders. He read that little text I wrote, which I called The Great Sense, in which I try to say the true sense of things, which is neither in violence nor in nonviolence, but something else. He is a Communist, but he was very moved, he was deeply touched and called everything into question. So I tried to explain to him what you once told me, that idea of a silent, immobile revolution:3 hundreds of thousands of students who refuse, who dont move and say, Weve had enough of degrees, enough of the present structure of society, enough of being engineers or doctors or anythingwe want something else.
   Did he understand?

0 1969-09-10, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Then Satprem suggests the publication of the conversation of August 16 in which Mother says that the Only solution is to be in a state of inner stillness that does not seek to know or foresee, and to let the Force flow through the instrument; then, automatically, what has to be done is done, what has to be received is received.)
   I dont think, however, that it can be recommended to everyone to be in that state.

0 1969-09-17, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   But I told you that I met him twice: once before his nomination and once after. We spoke, and those conversations were really interesting. The second time, before leaving, he asked me, What will you tell your disciples? (I told you that.) Which shows he
   I remember, I was struck by my own answer. I told him, I will say that we were in communion in our same love for the Supreme.2

0 1969-09-20, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Id like you to see the healer and tell me about him; then Ill have him comebecause I dont speak; after a conversation one can get something out of people, but as I dont speak, it wont do: they stay put, and when people dont speak, most of the time they put on a nice little shell!
   That was the interesting thing, I told you: with the President, that opened up; with the Vice-President, nothingbecause it was an intelligent man.

0 1969-10-08, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Soon afterwards, regarding Sujatas question about love in the conversation of October 1st.)
   Last night I had a very interesting experience. I had a long visionan activitywhich I didnt remember because I didnt pay sufficient attention, but at the end, there was someone (that was certainly symbolic), a tall black man. It probably wasnt a human being, it must have been the symbol of something in my life, or something in the life of the people Ive lived with, or even the symbol of something Ive been fighting against in life. And then, after a lot, quite a lot of goings-on, I had withdrawn into a small place with a few people (those I always see, who are always there), I was there with them when that black man, or that black BEING There was no roof; it was a small place with walls, but without a roof (it was in the subtle physical). So that black being came, ripped off a huge piece of wall (the wall was built with big bricks), a huge piece of wall, and from above (he was above me), he threw it at my stomach. I felt it. And at the same time, I heard a thunderclap was there a thunderclap last night? Just one. Early in the night?

0 1969-10-11, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   During the meeting of the committee to reform the Church. See conversation of 26 March 1969.
   The Sage, staged in December, 1953.

0 1969-10-25, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The following conversation came in connection with two letters sent by the young Indian disciple who accompanied A.R., the healer, in his solitary retreat.)
   October 21, 1969

0 1969-10-29, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The conversation begins an hour late.)
   Its awful!
  --
   (Then Mother listens to the English translation of the Notes on the Way proposed by Satprem, the conversation of August 16 in which Mother spoke of the need to make a void and wait for the Command from above.)
   I think people will find it incomprehensible, theyll all fall asleep!

0 1969-11-01, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The conversation begins with a record delay of an hour and a half.)
   Its becoming a bit difficult.

0 1969-11-05, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The conversation begins an hour and a half late.)
   To tell the truth, I dont know what to do. On Wednesdays and Saturdays, I keep things to a minimum, that is to say, I turn down more than half the people. And this is how it is. And the other days, sometimes I keep working till noon. It has become
  --
   Yes, there are conditions: these conversations, as I understand, can really be what they should be only if you have a minimum of really empty time when you arent pressed by anything, so you can go into an experience.
   That I can do any time.

0 1969-11-08, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The conversation begins ten minutes early. Mother hands a "Transformation"flower to Satprem.)
   Would you like one?
  --
   conversation of October 1: "When the physical has learned something, it never forgets, that doesn't budge anymore."
   Like these conversations which began an hour and a half late.
   This conversation began at 9:50.
   The previous state of things was to return on the sly.

0 1969-12-03, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Then, regarding the forthcoming Notes on the Way in which Mother speaks of her experience of the supramental Consciousness-the conversation of November 19.)
   What I said about the supramental consciousness, is it clear?

0 1969-12-06, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Satprem reads out to Mother the conversation on the supramental Consciousness, which he proposes to publish in the next Bulletin.)
   I know many people who will read it with but its not enough.

0 1969-12-13, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   When Satprem later published this part of the conversation in the "Notes on the Way," Mother added the following comment: "In this Consciousness where the two contraries, the two opposites are joined, the nature of both changes. They don't remain as they are. it's not that they are joined and remain the same: the nature of both changes. And that's most important. Their nature, their action, their vibration are wholly different the minute they are joined. it's separation that makes them what they are. Separation must be done away with, and then their very nature changes: it's no longer 'good' and 'evil,' but something else, which is complete. It's complete."
   A letter in which a disciple said he had some spare time between 1:00 and 3:00 p.m. and asked the best way to use it.

0 1969-12-24, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   On November 12, see the conversation of that date.
   ***

0 1969-12-31, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Thus after Mother's departure, Auroville's "proprietors" soon declared they were a "religious" institution, adding spiritual imposture to financial fraud. Not a single voice rose from the Sri Aurobindo Ashram when those people dared to declare in India's courts that Sri Aurobindo's teaching was "religious." (In 1982, a bench of judges of India's Supreme Court finally rejected this, basing themselves on Sri Aurobindo's own writings and several conversations from Mother's Agenda, such as this one.)
   240"Atheism is a necessary protest against the wickedness of the Churches and the narrowness of creeds. God uses it as a stone to smash these soiled card-houses."

0 1970-01-03, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Continuation of the conversation of 31 December 1969 about Auroville and the Matrimandir.)
   Mother, I told Paolo [the Italian architect] to come, he is waiting outside.
  --
   On 27 May 1970, Mother will take up again and comment upon this part of the conversation.
   Aphorism 261: "Perceive always and act in the light of thy increasing perceptions, but not those of the reasoning brain only. God speaks to the heart when the brain cannot understand him."

0 1970-01-10, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Despite its minor character, we publish the beginning of this conversation, as it reveals some of the difficulties Mother had to struggle with.)
   And this is a translation: someone who was here (hes gone now) translated it. Its probably not worth much, I dont know. I dont know whom I should give it to. When you have nothing to do

0 1970-01-21, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Mother listens to the English translation of the conversation of 13 December 1969, in which she spoke of a cure "without repression": "What causes the repression is the idea of good and evil.... The infirmity of our consciousness is what creates this division." Mother added that one has to "learn to disappear." Satprem had proposed the publication of a few extracts in the "Notes on the Way.")
   Is it the end?

0 1970-02-18, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Since early February Mother has been coughing a lot. On the 14th, Mother was unwell and could not see Satprem. The following conversation is very important as it marks the visible beginning of a conflict that might be called "medical" and was going to assume acute proportions with every passing year.)
   Ive never had such a cold in my whole life! Last night I had a kind of physical nightmare! Never in my life have I had such things. I cant say I was quite asleep, but How can I explain? Its a mixture between something that tries to find its true inner remedy, and the Doctor who says that if I dont take medicines itll go on for months!

0 1970-03-21, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The beginning of this conversation took place in Nolini's presence.)
   Have you received yesterdays Aphorisms? Nolini might have something to say.

0 1970-04-08, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Regrettably, Satprem did not preserve the recording of the following conversation, perhaps feeling too acutely the negative appearance of Mother's difficulties, although that very negativity was the condition of the experience. At the beginning of the conversation, Mother makes a fair copy of a text to be reproduced.)
   My eyesight has gone down a lot these last two days.

0 1970-04-18, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Mother's voice sounds increasingly frail. This conversation perhaps contains the key of everything.)
   So, have you brought any questions today?

0 1970-04-22, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Generally, when Satprem leaves at the end of the conversation, Sujata remains alone with Mother for a few moments.
   ***

0 1970-05-27, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   See conversation of 9 May.
   Needless to say, Satprem is perfectly ignorant of scientific matters.

0 1970-05-30, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   See conversations with Pavitra of 11 January 1926: "In spiritual life, one should always be ready to reject every system and every construction. Any one form is helpful, then becomes harmful. In my spiritual life, since the age of forty, three or four times I have completely laid bare and broken the system I had reached."
   ***

0 1970-06-06, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Satprem reads out to Mother a letter he has received from E, a disciple who tried hard to intrude into the conversations between Mother and Satprem, notably under the pretext of translating Savitri into French. Maneuvering was beginning to make itself felt.)
   It would alter the whole character of our meetings, dont you think?

0 1970-07-01, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Satprem reads out the conversation of June 27"a very slight shift of consciousness"which Mother thought could be used for the "Notes on the Way.")
   Is that all? I said only this much?. I thought I had said something interestingits not very interesting.

0 1970-07-22, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (The following conversation is a first and highly instructive outline of the phenomenon that gave birth to all the religions of the world, a phenomenon that will try to crystallize once again after Mother's departure.)
   I have something about this Tamil Swami who had that experience of the bodys transformation. You remember this Swami Ramalingam who had that vision of the Grace-Light? You made a few remarks, part of which I passed on to the person who had asked the question. And Ive raised a storm.

0 1970-08-05, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (This conversation was to be the last before a serious ordeal which once again took the form of a month-long "illness." Let us note that on August 6, as if coincidentally, Mother's faithful attendant, Vasudha, was to leave for Bombay to be operated on for cancer. She was the last element Mother could rely on among those physically close to her. Henceforth, Mother would be alone with her "bodyguard" and her doctor. On the same August 6, she got a cold and fever.)
   Funds have suddenly fallen flat, theres nothing left! I am expecting money, but its not coming (money that should have come a month back). I hadnt reached this condition in a long time. (Laughing) I cant pay the cashier anymore! And when I stop paying him, very soon it becomes astronomical amounts. Well see.

0 1970-09-12, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   This conversation, and Satprem's cry at the end, as if to shake off... we know not what, strangely resemble the last conversation he will have three years later with Mother, on 19 May 1973, as though he had to shake off an atmosphere of impossibility and negation around Mother.
   ***

0 1970-09-19, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   In fact a conversation: see Talks with Sri Aurobindo by Nirodbaran, part I, p 179-180.
   ***

0 1970-09-23, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Then Satprem proposes to publish some fragments of the conversation of September 9the infernal Agendain the Bulletin.)
   Regarding Sri Aurobindo,2 we mustnt put it in the Bulletin. Thats impossible, it would cause a revolution.

0 1970-11-07, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Then the conversation turns to a Chinese disciple who has placed money with friends of the Ashram in Singapore.)
   Tomorrow is illusory.

0 1971-01-16, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Thank you, Mother. First, The Synthesis of Yoga (the chapter on The Liberation of the Spirit), then conversations with Pavitra, then Thoughts and Aphorisms commented on by you, and then Mother Answers, and finally two old Talks of 1953 in the Playground.
   Oh, thats [old].
  --
   Oh, yes, exactly, thats quite true! Its quite true. I hear whats necessary for me to hear, even if its a very faint sound, but all the sounds of conversation, all the things that make a lot of noise, I dont hear at all! Something is changed. Only its oldits old, I mean, it has an old habit pattern. Although fortunately I was never a creature of habit. Yes (smiling), you could say: its as if something quite tough was in the process of changing! So it lacks suppleness, ease. But the change is there the change is definite. I have changed VERY MUCH, even in character, in comprehension, in the vision of thingsvery, very much. Theres been a whole rearrangement.
   But, I didnt know whether that note could be used in a way for people to understand.

0 1971-01-17, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Satprem reads to Mother some passages from yesterday's conversation that will be published in the "Bulletin." Mother's voice is like a long moan, but her laugh is still ready to break out, as if laughter were the only true physical thing remaining.)
   Its good, youve done just what was needed. Its just right, youve said it just perfectly.

0 1971-04-03, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Another sign of the times. This conversation concerns one of the Ashram presses which was, despite Mother's instructions, about to sell fraudulently a cheaper edition of "Supermanhood" in Europe and Canada, while the rights to the book were reserved. This cheaper edition was exclusively intended for India. Satprem protests in particular against the jacket and presentation of the book, which are patently designed to make as much money as possible at a minimum cost. Mother's face is swollen, her eyes too.)
   I am disgusted. I cant trust anyone!

0 1971-04-07, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   See previous conversation. It is in reference to this man that Mother said, "You have to be very thick-skinned to lie to my face."
   This version will be adopted for the message of April 24.

0 1971-04-17, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   To throw some light on the nature of the "schism," we include at the end of this conversation the text of a letter written by Satprem to an enthusiastic and erroneous reader.
   Satprem was even accused of having "betrayed Sri Aurobindo." There was a little clique of "intellectuals" in the Ashram, who after Sri Aurobindo's passing refused for a long time to give recognition to Mother (and even while Sri Aurobindo was there, how many letters did he have to write to defend Mother). So we suspect that this same little clique, very influential today, has never really recognized Mother, except by paying lip service, preferring to hide behind a "philosophical Sri Aurobindo," while Mother was forcing them (or trying to force them) to do a more thorough yoga. This is the essence of the "schism." This first reaction of the English translator thus prefigures what will break out after Mother's passing. One by one all the little waves were beginning to pile up.
  --
   In fact, again on the 18th, the day after this conversation, the president of India, V.V. Giri, in a press interview in which he was spiritedly asked why he still had not recognized Bangladesh, said, "The central government is studying the question whether recognition should be granted to Bangladesh." Then he added, "Our sympathy is with the people of Bangladesh. It is up to the Prime Minister [Indira] and the central cabinet to decide the question." (P.T.I)
   One wonders what kind of news Mother was getting from her entourage.

0 1971-05-05, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   conversation of March 3, 1971.
   ***

0 1971-05-15, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The article appears at the end of this conversation
   A minister in the Indian government and, at the time, a friend of Indira's.

0 1971-05-29, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Mother receives Satprem nearly two hours late. Mother apologizes! The conversation starts with the Russian translation of "Supermanhood." The translator is asking for 2,000 francs.)
   I dont know if I have the right to spend the money! There are nothing but rules, rules.

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--- Overview of noun conversation

The noun conversation has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
                  
1. (20) conversation ::: (the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.)


--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun conversation

1 sense of conversation                        

Sense 1
conversation
   => speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, language, voice communication, oral communication
     => auditory communication
       => communication
         => abstraction, abstract entity
           => entity


--- Hyponyms of noun conversation

1 sense of conversation                        

Sense 1
conversation
   => crossfire
   => phatic speech, phatic communication
   => exchange
   => chat, confab, confabulation, schmooze, schmoose
   => gossiping, gossipmongering
   => talk, talking
   => nothings
   => commerce
   => colloquy
   => rap
   => rap session
   => second-hand speech
   => table talk
   => telephone conversation
   => tete-a-tete


--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun conversation

1 sense of conversation                        

Sense 1
conversation
   => speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, language, voice communication, oral communication




--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun conversation

1 sense of conversation                        

Sense 1
conversation
  -> speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, language, voice communication, oral communication
   => words
   => pronunciation, orthoepy
   => conversation
   => discussion, give-and-take, word
   => saying, expression, locution
   => non-standard speech
   => idiolect
   => monologue
   => spell, magic spell, magical spell, charm
   => dictation
   => soliloquy, monologue




--- Grep of noun conversation
conversation
conversation piece
conversation stopper
conversational partner
conversationalist
conversationist
criminal conversation
telephone conversation



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The Wire (2002 - 2008) - Set in Baltimore, this show centers around the city's inner-city drug scene. It starts as mid-level drug dealer, D'Angelo Barksdale beats a murder rap. After a conversation with a judge, Det. James McNulty has been assigned to lead a joint homicide and narcotics team, in order to bring down drug kin...
The Morning Show (Global News: National Edition) (2011 - Current) - This Canadian national weekday morning show provides half-hour smart conversations, lifestyle segments and big-name guests.
Stanley (2001 - 2004) - Stanley is an imaginative and creative little boy who loves to make simple drawings of his favorite animals. His parents and his older brother can't see or hear the conversations he has with his talking pet goldfish, Dennis. As Stanley's closest adviser, Dennis serves as a guide who shows Stanley th...
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Enemy of the State(1998) - The action producing-directing team of Jerry Bruckheimer and Tony Scott is back with another thrill-a-minute ride called Enemy of the State. Taking its "innocent man accidentally caught up in political corruption" story from such films as Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation, Alfred Hitchcock's T...
The Conversation(1974) - The Conversation is a Francis Ford Coppola thriller from 1974 about a professional surveillance man who is hired to record the conversations between two workers. Yet it looks like hes gotten into more than hes getting paid for as information about a murder may have been recorded.
A Cry in the Wild(1990) - Based on the novel "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen. The movie opens up with Brian Robeson and his mother getting a package. She later gives it to Brian revealing it to be a hatchet at the airport. When Brian gets on the single engine plane with the pilot they have a short conversation. The pilot lets Bria...
The Pit(1981) - Jamie Benjamin is a young preteen who is mocked by the town. Jamie doesn't help his cause as his strange behavior and obsession with girls catch up with him. His only friend is Teddy, a teddy bear who he has conversations with. As his parents go on a business trip he is left in the care of a young s...
My Dinner with Andre(1981) - My Dinner with Andre is a 1981 American comedy-drama film directed by Louis Malle, and written by and starring Andre Gregory (Andre) and Wallace Shawn (Wally). The actors play fictionalized versions of themselves sharing a conversation at Caf des Artistes in Manhattan. The film's dialogue covers to...
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Conversation Piece (1974) ::: 7.5/10 -- Gruppo di famiglia in un interno (original title) -- Conversation Piece Poster A reclusive, retired professor is faced with confronting modernity when a group of vulgar youths, led by an obnoxious marchesa, take up residence in his unused upper residence. Director: Luchino Visconti Writers: Enrico Medioli (story), Suso Cecchi D'Amico (screenplay) | 2 more credits
Conversations with Other Women (2005) ::: 7.0/10 -- R | 1h 24min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 11 August 2006 (Canada) -- When a man and woman flirt with each other at a wedding reception, the sexual tension seems spontaneous. As they break from the party to a hotel room, the flirtation turns into a night filled with passion and remorse. Director: Hans Canosa Writer:
The Conversation (1974) ::: 7.8/10 -- PG | 1h 53min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 12 April 1974 (Canada) -- A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered. Director: Francis Ford Coppola Writer: Francis Ford Coppola
The Joe Rogan Experience ::: 3h | Comedy, Talk-Show | TV Series (2009 ) Joe Rogan hosts long form conversations with friends and guests that include comedians, actors, musicians, MMA instructors and commentators, authors and artists. Creator: Joe Rogan Stars:
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001) ::: 7.0/10 -- R | 1h 44min | Drama | 5 July 2002 (USA) -- In New York City, the lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a house-cleaner, a professor and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability. Director: Jill Sprecher Writers:
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18if -- -- Gonzo -- 13 eps -- Game -- Mystery Supernatural -- 18if 18if -- Waking up in a strange bedroom in a dream world, teenager Haruto Tsukishiro finds a strange app on his phone. When he activates the program, an odd woman appears and tries to drag him to her realm. Luckily, a mysterious, white-haired girl severs their connection and helps him escape, revealing that the woman is a witch; however, their conversation is cut short. As Haruto enters the realm again, he meets an anthropomorphic, talking cat named Katsumi Kanzaki. While the witch's minions pursue them, the white-haired girl opens a door for them to escape. -- -- After their ordeal, Haruto describes their savior—which only he can see—and Katsumi, the leading authority on dream world research, realizes that she must be "Lily," a being that resurfaces repeatedly across multiple dreamscapes. Hoping to leave the dream world through a blue door, they enter the witch's realm once again. Finding themselves in peril, Lily reveals the truth to Haruto: witches suffer from "Sleeping Beauty Syndrome," a coma-like sleep state induced by torment in their real world lives. Thus, they cannot wake until they are defeated in the dream world. -- -- After finally defeating the witch and locating the blue door, Haruto and Katsumi say their farewells, promising to meet up in the real world. However, when Haruto exits through the door he awakens in the dream world bedroom once more. Seeking answers, Haruto and Katsumi try to uncover the mysteries of the witches, Lily, and Haruto's own inability to leave the dream world. -- -- 47,700 6.16
Akkun to Kanojo -- -- Yumeta Company -- 25 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Josei Romance School -- Akkun to Kanojo Akkun to Kanojo -- Despite his incredible bashfulness, Atsuhiro "Akkun" Kagari has landed the girl of his dreams: the sweet and loveable Non Katagiri. However, his embarrassment for affectionate acts—from giving compliments to exchanging a kiss—causes him to act harsh and downright mean to Katagiri in their day-to-day lives. But Akkun is still very much a boy in love; and he shows his admiration for Katagiri in his own way. From tailing her in order to take her picture to eavesdropping in on her conversations, he ends up stalking his own girlfriend. -- -- Luckily enough, Katagiri finds Akkun's actions cute and endearing, and knows he doesn't really mean any of his insults. Even if their close friend, Masago Matsuo, finds their dynamic a little odd, Katagiri loves her sweet tyrant just the way he is. -- -- 110,574 6.82
Animegataris -- -- WAO World -- 12 eps -- Original -- Comedy Parody School -- Animegataris Animegataris -- After dreaming about an anime she used to watch as a child, Minoa Asagaya could not forget a particularly memorable scene. However, despite her best efforts, she cannot recall the name of the show. Due to this, Minoa asks for help from her fellow classmates at Sakaneko High School. Her conversation is overheard by Arisu Kamiigusa, the most popular and wealthy girl in class who is also a hardcore otaku. Yet even with her vast knowledge, Arisu does not recognize the show. -- -- After discovering that there isn't an anime club at their school, Minoa and Arisu create the Anime Research Club, as they may obtain the answer to Minoa's mystery if they gather people who share the same interest. Thus, Minoa is exposed to a bizarre new world—the world of anime! -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 62,728 6.40
Banana Fish -- -- MAPPA -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Drama Shoujo -- Banana Fish Banana Fish -- Aslan Jade Callenreese, known as Ash Lynx, was a runaway picked off the streets of New York City and raised by the infamous godfather of the mafia, Dino Golzine. Now 17 years old and the boss of his own gang, Ash begins investigating the mysterious "Banana Fish"—the same two words his older brother, Griffin, has muttered since his return from the Iraq War. However, his inquiries are hindered when Dino sends his men after Ash at an underground bar he uses as a hideout. -- -- At the bar, Skip, Ash's friend, introduces him to Shunichi Ibe and his assistant, Eiji Okumura, who are Japanese photographers reporting on American street gangs. However, their conversation is interrupted when Shorter Wong, one of Ash's allies, calls to warn him about Dino. Soon, Dino's men storm the bar, and in the ensuing chaos kidnap Skip and Eiji. Now, Ash must find a way to rescue them and continue his investigation into Banana Fish, but will his history with the mafia prevent him from succeeding? -- -- 472,678 8.48
Binan Koukou Chikyuu Boueibu Happy Kiss! -- -- Studio Comet -- 12 eps -- Original -- Comedy Magic Parody School Slice of Life -- Binan Koukou Chikyuu Boueibu Happy Kiss! Binan Koukou Chikyuu Boueibu Happy Kiss! -- In the northern Kanto area in Japan, there is Binan City… -- -- At Binan High School, as per usual, the “Earth Defense Club (lol)” was a club that did nothing. The club members Kyoutarou Shuzenji, Ryouma Kirishima, Nanao Wakura, Taishi Manza, and Ichiro Dogou nonchalantly enjoyed tea while having pointless conversations that amount to nothing. -- -- All of them have now gathered at Kurotama Bath after school. When Ryouma pulls Kyoutarou Shuzenji by his arm out of water that he claims feels too good, together with his towel comes a pretty boy in strange clothing. -- -- These five boys are then dragged into a battle for the heir of the magical kingdom, Honila Land... -- -- (Source: KA) -- -- Licensor: -- Ponycan USA -- 9,974 6.50
Black� -- Rock Shooter (TV) -- -- Ordet, SANZIGEN -- 8 eps -- Other -- Action Drama School Slice of Life -- Black� -- Rock Shooter (TV) Black� -- Rock Shooter (TV) -- On the first day of junior high school, Mato Kuroi happens to run into Yomi Takanashi, a shy, withdrawn girl whom she immediately takes an interest in. Mato tries her best to make conversation with Yomi, wanting to befriend her. At first, she is avoided, but the ice breaks when Yomi happens to notice a decorative blue bird attached to Mato's phone, which is from the book "Li'l Birds At Play." Discovering they have a common interest, the two form a strong friendship. -- -- In an alternate universe, the young girls exist as parallel beings, Mato as Black� -- Rock Shooter, and Yomi as Dead Master. Somehow, what happens in one world seems to have an effect on the other, and unaware of this fact, the girls unknowingly become entangled by the threads of fate. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media -- 307,178 6.84
Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! Movie: Take On Me -- -- Kyoto Animation -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Comedy Drama Romance School Slice of Life -- Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! Movie: Take On Me Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! Movie: Take On Me -- Although already a third-year high school student, Rikka Takanashi remains a chuunibyou—a "disease" that causes people to fantasize about themselves and their surroundings. Her relationship with Yuuta Togashi has also gone unchanged for the past six months, and with entrance exams right around the corner, both of them strive to enroll at the same college. However, Tooka—Rikka's elder sister—decides to take Rikka to Italy as she has found a stable job there. This unforeseen turn of events causes a commotion between the couple as neither of them want to be separated from each other. Desperate for ideas, they seek assistance from their friends, and after a brief conversation, they come up with a plan—to elope. -- -- Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! Movie: Take On Me is a sensational drama featuring the couple—Yuuta and Rikka—as they journey across Japan. The two attempt to prevent Rikka from being taken to Italy, but will they be able to succeed in doing so? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- Movie - Jan 6, 2018 -- 170,451 8.14
Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! Movie: Take On Me -- -- Kyoto Animation -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Comedy Drama Romance School Slice of Life -- Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! Movie: Take On Me Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! Movie: Take On Me -- Although already a third-year high school student, Rikka Takanashi remains a chuunibyou—a "disease" that causes people to fantasize about themselves and their surroundings. Her relationship with Yuuta Togashi has also gone unchanged for the past six months, and with entrance exams right around the corner, both of them strive to enroll at the same college. However, Tooka—Rikka's elder sister—decides to take Rikka to Italy as she has found a stable job there. This unforeseen turn of events causes a commotion between the couple as neither of them want to be separated from each other. Desperate for ideas, they seek assistance from their friends, and after a brief conversation, they come up with a plan—to elope. -- -- Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! Movie: Take On Me is a sensational drama featuring the couple—Yuuta and Rikka—as they journey across Japan. The two attempt to prevent Rikka from being taken to Italy, but will they be able to succeed in doing so? -- -- Movie - Jan 6, 2018 -- 170,451 8.14
Fumikiri Jikan -- -- EKACHI EPILKA -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Slice of Life -- Fumikiri Jikan Fumikiri Jikan -- Every day, all kinds of different people stop at railroad crossings on their way to work or school, resulting in all sorts of different conversations. Friends, enemies, acquaintances, and complete strangers—there's always a new encounter to be had. -- -- Fumikiri Jikan documents the discussions that take place at these locations. Whether these are funny or depressing, expected or completely unexpected, they certainly have the potential to be quite interesting. -- -- 33,594 6.39
Gendai Kibunroku Kaii Monogatari -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- - -- Horror -- Gendai Kibunroku Kaii Monogatari Gendai Kibunroku Kaii Monogatari -- The horrid stories that remain in many conversations, the chilling urban legends come to life thanks to the Ga-nime. -- -- The terrible anecdote of an old fridge thrown by a dried up river bed in “Refrigerator”. -- The grotesque encounter with an out of place sculpture standing on top of a building in “The Dharma Statue”. -- The ghost encounter experience by a boy on a long bridge at night in “The Night Bridge” -- A purchase at the flea market that brings a man to an ironic end in “US Army Surplus” -- The enigma of continuous deadly accidents near a railroad in “The Railroad Crossing” -- The mysterious experience of a boy on summer vacation in a peaceful countryside in “I Want Friends”. -- -- 6 pieces of horror put on 1 film. The Japanese urban legends, put on screen in the characteristic drawing of KIMURA Toshiyuki, whose fame reaches outside the borders of Japan, call for a scream, with the talented collaboration for the ending theme of an artist produced by SUDOH Akira, Leilani. -- -- (Source: Toei-anim.co.jp) -- OVA - Aug 1, 2006 -- 1,097 N/A -- -- Mirai Choujuu Fobia -- -- - -- 2 eps -- - -- Hentai Horror -- Mirai Choujuu Fobia Mirai Choujuu Fobia -- Iijima is no ordinary coed. She's a tempestuous time traveler from a future ruled by hideous replinoid monsters. She has come to this past to find a hero, a man strong enough to wield her futuristic sword and save the women of Earth from a grisly doom! -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- OVA - Oct 27, 1995 -- 1,065 4.88
Initial D First Stage -- -- Gallop, Studio Comet -- 26 eps -- Manga -- Action Cars Drama Seinen Sports -- Initial D First Stage Initial D First Stage -- Unlike his friends, Takumi Fujiwara is not particularly interested in cars, with little to no knowledge about the world of car enthusiasts and street racers. The son of a tofu shop owner, he is tasked to deliver tofu every morning without fail, driving along the mountain of Akina. Thus, conversations regarding cars or driving in general would only remind Takumi of the tiring daily routine forced upon him. -- -- One night, the Akagi Red Suns, an infamous team of street racers, visit the town of Akina to challenge the local mountain pass. Led by their two aces, Ryousuke and Keisuke Takahashi, the Red Suns plan to conquer every racing course in Kanto, establishing themselves as the fastest crew in the region. However, much to their disbelief, one of their aces is overtaken by an old Toyota AE86 during a drive back home from Akina. After the incident, the Takahashi brothers are cautious of a mysterious driver geared with remarkable technique and experience in the local roads—the AE86 of Mount Akina. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation, Tokyopop -- 242,578 8.28
Joshiraku -- -- J.C.Staff -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Comedy Shounen -- Joshiraku Joshiraku -- Joshiraku follows the conversations of five rakugo storyteller girls relating the odd things that happen to them each day. Their comedic and satirical chatting covers all kinds of topics, from pointless observations of everyday life, to politics, manga, and more. Each girl has something new to add to the discussion, and the discourse never ends in the same place it began. -- -- Each of the rakugo girls has their own unique personality, with the energetic but immature Marii Buratei; the seemingly cute Kigurumi Haroukitei; the inherently lucky and carefree Tetora Bouhatei; the calm and violent Gankyou Kuurubiyuutei; and the pessimistic and unstable Kukuru Anrakutei. These girls—and their mysterious friend in a wrestling mask—give their observations to the audience, either backstage at the rakugo theater or in various famous locations around Tokyo. -- -- TV - Jul 6, 2012 -- 117,626 7.49
Kara no Kyoukai 2: Satsujin Kousatsu (Zen) -- -- ufotable -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Action Mystery Supernatural Romance Thriller -- Kara no Kyoukai 2: Satsujin Kousatsu (Zen) Kara no Kyoukai 2: Satsujin Kousatsu (Zen) -- In the winter of 1995, Mikiya Kokutou passes a young woman during a late night stroll in the snow. Clad in a striking white kimono and bearing an enigmatic gaze, Shiki Ryougi smiles at Mikiya who stares back with curiosity. Later that spring, Mikiya notices Shiki at his high school entrance ceremony, and they become acquaintances through lunchtime conversations. As Shiki begins opening up to him, Mikiya learns about her unique upbringing. -- -- Meanwhile, a series of unprecedented murders takes place across Mifune City. Seemingly related, these murders are particularly brutal and warrant a large scale police investigation. Because of his cousin's work as a police investigator, Mikiya is given insight into the investigation. Concerned for Shiki's safety, Mikiya decides to monitor her actions, but in doing so, he stumbles upon a truly frightening discovery that changes his life forever. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- Movie - Dec 29, 2007 -- 195,099 7.84
Kara no Kyoukai 2: Satsujin Kousatsu (Zen) -- -- ufotable -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Action Mystery Supernatural Romance Thriller -- Kara no Kyoukai 2: Satsujin Kousatsu (Zen) Kara no Kyoukai 2: Satsujin Kousatsu (Zen) -- In the winter of 1995, Mikiya Kokutou passes a young woman during a late night stroll in the snow. Clad in a striking white kimono and bearing an enigmatic gaze, Shiki Ryougi smiles at Mikiya who stares back with curiosity. Later that spring, Mikiya notices Shiki at his high school entrance ceremony, and they become acquaintances through lunchtime conversations. As Shiki begins opening up to him, Mikiya learns about her unique upbringing. -- -- Meanwhile, a series of unprecedented murders takes place across Mifune City. Seemingly related, these murders are particularly brutal and warrant a large scale police investigation. Because of his cousin's work as a police investigator, Mikiya is given insight into the investigation. Concerned for Shiki's safety, Mikiya decides to monitor her actions, but in doing so, he stumbles upon a truly frightening discovery that changes his life forever. -- -- Movie - Dec 29, 2007 -- 195,099 7.84
Kizumonogatari I: Tekketsu-hen -- -- Shaft -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Vampire -- Kizumonogatari I: Tekketsu-hen Kizumonogatari I: Tekketsu-hen -- During Koyomi Araragi's second year at Naoetsu Private High School, he has a chance encounter with Tsubasa Hanekawa, the top honor student in his class. When they strike up a conversation, Hanekawa mentions a shocking rumor: a vampire with beautiful blonde hair and freezing cold eyes has been seen lurking around town. -- -- Happy to have made a new friend, Araragi writes off the rumor and goes about the rest of his evening in a carefree manner. However, on his way home, he stumbles across splatters of blood leading down the stairs to the subway. His curiosity pushes him to investigate further, so he follows the gruesome pools into the depths of the station. -- -- When he arrives at the source of the blood, he is terrified by what he sees—the rumored blonde vampire herself, completely dismembered. After she calls for his help, Araragi must make a decision, one which carries the potential to change his life forever. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- Movie - Jan 8, 2016 -- 390,956 8.40
Les Misérables: Shoujo Cosette -- -- Nippon Animation -- 52 eps -- Novel -- Slice of Life Historical Drama Shoujo -- Les Misérables: Shoujo Cosette Les Misérables: Shoujo Cosette -- In 19th century France, a struggling single mother, Fantine, leaves her three-year-old daughter Cosette in the care of her new acquaintances, the Thernadiers. Unfortunately, Cosette's caretakers prove to be anything but loving, and the poor girl is subjected to repeated abuse and forced servitude. Still, she endures the torment in the hopes of seeing her mother once again. -- -- One night, while doing errands for her host family, Cosette is assisted by an honorable stranger named Jean Valjean. After a brief conversation with the young girl, Jean acknowledges her as the type of person he has been seeking and rescues her from the clutches of the Thernadiers. They make their way to a nearby town where Cosette enjoys a new life thanks to her savior. -- -- Under Jean's guidance, Cosette promises to help others with her newfound freedom. She pledges to heal the nation, ensuring that no one else suffers her fate. Though the road ahead is paved with tragedies left by the French Revolution, this idealistic girl will not rest until France is freed from poverty and suffering. -- -- TV - Jan 7, 2007 -- 22,190 7.87
Mirai Shounen Conan -- -- Nippon Animation -- 26 eps -- Novel -- Adventure Drama Sci-Fi -- Mirai Shounen Conan Mirai Shounen Conan -- Conan was the only child born on Remnant Island, a place settled by a group of refugees while they fled a terrifying wave of magnetic bombs that wiped out most of humanity. After 20 years, most of the castaways have died, save for Conan and the wise old man that raised him. -- -- Believing Remnant Island to be the last inhabited place on Earth, Conan is shocked when he discovers a young girl named Lana washed up on the beach one day. Though he is thrilled to learn that humanity has survived, Lana tells him the nation of Industria wants her as a hostage to force her grandfather, Dr. Lao, to power their machinery. Their conversation is cut short when Industria's top pilot, Monsley, suddenly appears and seizes Lana. Determined to save her, Conan immediately sets off from Remnant Island and begins a journey that will ultimately determine the fate of the world. -- -- 37,048 8.09
Momokuri -- -- Satelight -- 26 eps -- Web manga -- Comedy Romance Slice of Life -- Momokuri Momokuri -- After taking one hundred secret photos and observing him from afar for months, second-year high schooler Yuki Kurihara has finally mustered up the courage to ask out her first-year crush Shinya "Momo" Momotsuki. Although taken by surprise, the bashful Momo accepts; however, he does not know the profoundly abnormal truth. As her strait-laced friend, Norika Mizuyama, has observed, Yuki has developed some unnerving—but nonetheless sincere—habits: taking pictures of Momo in secret, doing extensive research into his personal life, collecting his used straws, and even going "Momo watching." -- -- Though Momo remains blissfully unaware of his new girlfriend's peculiar habits, he does notice some oddities in their daily conversations. Still unsure and nervous about his first relationship, Momo finds himself regularly getting into awkward interactions due to his inexperience, but nevertheless resolves to make his new girlfriend happy. -- -- Momokuri follows Yuki and Momo as they shyly explore their newfound love, and also deal with the problems that arise from it. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- ONA - Dec 24, 2015 -- 74,971 7.09
Momokuri -- -- Satelight -- 26 eps -- Web manga -- Comedy Romance Slice of Life -- Momokuri Momokuri -- After taking one hundred secret photos and observing him from afar for months, second-year high schooler Yuki Kurihara has finally mustered up the courage to ask out her first-year crush Shinya "Momo" Momotsuki. Although taken by surprise, the bashful Momo accepts; however, he does not know the profoundly abnormal truth. As her strait-laced friend, Norika Mizuyama, has observed, Yuki has developed some unnerving—but nonetheless sincere—habits: taking pictures of Momo in secret, doing extensive research into his personal life, collecting his used straws, and even going "Momo watching." -- -- Though Momo remains blissfully unaware of his new girlfriend's peculiar habits, he does notice some oddities in their daily conversations. Still unsure and nervous about his first relationship, Momo finds himself regularly getting into awkward interactions due to his inexperience, but nevertheless resolves to make his new girlfriend happy. -- -- Momokuri follows Yuki and Momo as they shyly explore their newfound love, and also deal with the problems that arise from it. -- -- ONA - Dec 24, 2015 -- 74,971 7.09
Oshiete! Galko-chan -- -- feel. -- 12 eps -- Digital manga -- Slice of Life Comedy School -- Oshiete! Galko-chan Oshiete! Galko-chan -- At first glance, Galko, Otako, and Ojou are three high school girls who seem like they wouldn’t have anything to do with each other. Galko is a social butterfly with a reputation for being a party animal, even though she is actually innocent and good-hearted despite her appearance. Otako is a plain-looking girl with a sarcastic personality and a rabid love of manga. And Ojou is a wealthy young lady with excellent social graces, though she can be a bit absent-minded at times. Despite their differences, the three are best friends, and together they love to talk about various myths and ask candid questions about the female body. -- -- Oshiete! Galko-chan is a lighthearted and humorous look at three very different girls and their frank conversations about themselves and everyday life. No topic is too safe or too sensitive for them to joke about—even though every so often, Galko seems to get a bit embarrassed by their discussions! -- -- 144,170 7.10
Planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume -- -- David Production -- 5 eps -- Visual novel -- Sci-Fi Drama -- Planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume Planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume -- It is thirty years after the failure of the Space Colonization Program. Humanity is nearly extinct. A perpetual and deadly Rain falls on the Earth. Men known as "Junkers" plunder goods and artifacts from the ruins of civilization. One such Junker sneaks alone into the most dangerous of all ruins—a "Sarcophagus City." In the center of this dead city, he discovers a pre-War planetarium. And as he enters he is greeted by Hoshino Yumemi, a companion robot. Without a single shred of doubt, she assumes he is the first customer she's had in 30 years. She attempts to show him the stars at once, but the planetarium projector is broken. Unable to make heads or tails of her conversation, he ends up agreeing to try and repair the projector... -- -- (Source: Steam) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- ONA - Jul 7, 2016 -- 79,091 7.56
Planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume -- -- David Production -- 5 eps -- Visual novel -- Sci-Fi Drama -- Planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume Planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume -- It is thirty years after the failure of the Space Colonization Program. Humanity is nearly extinct. A perpetual and deadly Rain falls on the Earth. Men known as "Junkers" plunder goods and artifacts from the ruins of civilization. One such Junker sneaks alone into the most dangerous of all ruins—a "Sarcophagus City." In the center of this dead city, he discovers a pre-War planetarium. And as he enters he is greeted by Hoshino Yumemi, a companion robot. Without a single shred of doubt, she assumes he is the first customer she's had in 30 years. She attempts to show him the stars at once, but the planetarium projector is broken. Unable to make heads or tails of her conversation, he ends up agreeing to try and repair the projector... -- -- (Source: Steam) -- ONA - Jul 7, 2016 -- 79,091 7.56
Shingeki no Kyojin: Lost Girls -- -- Wit Studio -- 3 eps -- Novel -- Action Horror Supernatural Drama Fantasy -- Shingeki no Kyojin: Lost Girls Shingeki no Kyojin: Lost Girls -- Wall Sina, Goodbye -- Annie Leonhart has a job to do—and a resulting absence that must stay off her record at all costs. With no one else to turn to, she asks her comrade Hitch Dreyse to cover for her. She agrees but puts forward a single condition: Annie must solve the fruitless missing person case Hitch was assigned. The case revolves around Carly Stratmann, a university graduate and the daughter of wealthy businessman Elliot Stratmann. With only a single day to solve the case and the underground of the Stohess District crawling with thugs, Annie must put her all into finding this girl. Yet, every answer she uncovers only leads to further questions—how has the illegal drug coderoin found its way to Stohess, what is Elliot hiding, and where has Carly disappeared to? -- -- Lost in the Cruel World -- With worry for Eren Yeager gripping her heart, Mikasa Ackerman begins to remember. She remembers her conversations with Armin Arlert, her concern for her friends, and most painfully, the time she had almost lost everything. As fear takes control, she begins to experience an alternate version of her past—some things can be changed, but are there events so inescapable that she can't even prevent them in her dreams? -- -- OVA - Dec 8, 2017 -- 196,647 7.77
Shirokuma Cafe -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 50 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Comedy Josei -- Shirokuma Cafe Shirokuma Cafe -- Situated near the local zoo and owned by the charismatic polar bear Shirokuma, Shirokuma Cafe is a popular spot for animals and humans alike, allowing them to sit back and relax after a hard day of work. Whether it's a cold beverage or the latest item on his menu, Shirokuma finds joy in being able to serve his customers, often striking up conversations about various subjects. -- -- Together with the sarcastic Penguin and the clumsy Panda, they form an odd trio who get themselves caught up in all sorts of misadventures with their other friends such as Grizzly, a bar owner, and Sasako, a human who works at the cafe. From dealing with unrequited love, outdoor camping trips, karaoke sessions, and even the secret to brewing delicious coffee, there's always something bound to be happening in Shirokuma Cafe! -- -- 77,445 7.93
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