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BOOKS
Big_Mind,_Big_Heart
Full_Circle
General_Principles_of_Kabbalah
Heart_of_Matter
Integral_Life_Practice_(book)
Life_without_Death
Modern_Man_in_Search_of_a_Soul
My_Burning_Heart
Process_and_Reality
Savitri
the_Book
The_Divine_Companion
The_Divine_Milieu
The_Imitation_of_Christ
The_Republic
The_Use_and_Abuse_of_History
The_Way_of_Perfection
Toward_the_Future

IN CHAPTERS TITLE
1.jr_-_I_See_So_Deeply_Within_Myself

IN CHAPTERS CLASSNAME

IN CHAPTERS TEXT
0.00_-_INTRODUCTION
0.00_-_THE_GOSPEL_PREFACE
0.01_-_I_-_Sri_Aurobindos_personality,_his_outer_retirement_-_outside_contacts_after_1910_-_spiritual_personalities-_Vibhutis_and_Avatars_-__transformtion_of_human_personality
0.05_-_Letters_to_a_Child
0.07_-_Letters_to_a_Sadhak
0.09_-_Letters_to_a_Young_Teacher
0.10_-_Letters_to_a_Young_Captain
0.12_-_Letters_to_a_Student
0.13_-_Letters_to_a_Student
0_1956-10-28
0_1958-05-10
0_1958-07-21
0_1959-01-14
0_1959-05-28
0_1961-01-12
0_1961-03-14
0_1961-07-15
0_1962-01-21
0_1962-10-16
0_1962-10-30
0_1963-05-25
0_1963-06-15
0_1963-09-04
0_1964-01-29
0_1964-09-18
0_1964-10-14
0_1964-11-21
0_1965-07-10
0_1965-09-22
0_1965-10-10
0_1966-11-15
0_1966-12-17
0_1967-03-29
0_1969-02-08
0_1969-05-17
0_1969-08-30
0_1971-02-24
0_1971-04-14
0_1971-05-26
0_1972-03-29a
0_1972-04-26
02.02_-_The_Kingdom_of_Subtle_Matter
03.01_-_Humanism_and_Humanism
03.04_-_The_Other_Aspect_of_European_Culture
03.06_-_Divine_Humanism
03.07_-_Brahmacharya
04.01_-_The_March_of_Civilisation
04.02_-_The_Growth_of_the_Flame
06.27_-_To_Learn_and_to_Understand
07.05_-_The_Finding_of_the_Soul
07.10_-_Diseases_and_Accidents
07.43_-_Music_Its_Origin_and_Nature
08.03_-_Death_in_the_Forest
09.02_-_The_Journey_in_Eternal_Night_and_the_Voice_of_the_Darkness
1.001_-_The_Aim_of_Yoga
10.07_-_The_Demon
1.008_-_The_Principle_of_Self-Affirmation
1.00a_-_DIVISION_A_-_THE_INTERNAL_FIRES_OF_THE_SHEATHS.
1.00_-_Main
1.00_-_PREFACE_-_DESCENSUS_AD_INFERNOS
10.11_-_Savitri
1.012_-_Joseph
1.013_-_Defence_Mechanisms_of_the_Mind
1.01_-_Adam_Kadmon_and_the_Evolution
1.01_-_BOOK_THE_FIRST
1.01_-_How_is_Knowledge_Of_The_Higher_Worlds_Attained?
1.01_-_Introduction
1.01_-_MASTER_AND_DISCIPLE
1.01_-_Necessity_for_knowledge_of_the_whole_human_being_for_a_genuine_education.
1.01_-_Our_Demand_and_Need_from_the_Gita
1.01_-_Principles_of_Practical_Psycho_therapy
1.01_-_The_Highest_Meaning_of_the_Holy_Truths
1.01_-_THE_STUFF_OF_THE_UNIVERSE
1.02_-_MAPS_OF_MEANING_-_THREE_LEVELS_OF_ANALYSIS
1.02_-_Self-Consecration
1.02_-_Skillful_Means
1.02_-_The_7_Habits__An_Overview
1.02_-_The_Child_as_growing_being_and_the_childs_experience_of_encountering_the_teacher.
1.02_-_The_Eternal_Law
1.02_-_The_Stages_of_Initiation
1.02_-_The_Two_Negations_1_-_The_Materialist_Denial
1.031_-_Intense_Aspiration
1.036_-_Ya-Seen
1.038_-_Impediments_in_Concentration_and_Meditation
1.03_-_A_Parable
1.03_-_Hymns_of_Gritsamada
1.03_-_Meeting_the_Master_-_Meeting_with_others
1.03_-_ON_THE_AFTERWORLDLY
1.03_-_PERSONALITY,_SANCTITY,_DIVINE_INCARNATION
1.03_-_Some_Practical_Aspects
1.03_-_Sympathetic_Magic
1.03_-_The_Coming_of_the_Subjective_Age
1.03_-_THE_GRAND_OPTION
1.03_-_The_Human_Disciple
1.03_-_The_Phenomenon_of_Man
1.03_-_To_Layman_Ishii
1.040_-_Re-Educating_the_Mind
1.04_-_ADVICE_TO_HOUSEHOLDERS
1.04_-_A_Leader
1.04_-_On_blessed_and_ever-memorable_obedience
1.04_-_On_Knowledge_of_the_Future_World.
1.04_-_THE_APPEARANCE_OF_ANOMALY_-_CHALLENGE_TO_THE_SHARED_MAP
1.04_-_The_Conditions_of_Esoteric_Training
1.04_-_The_Future_of_Man
1.04_-_The_Gods_of_the_Veda
1.04_-_The_Sacrifice_the_Triune_Path_and_the_Lord_of_the_Sacrifice
1.04_-_THE_STUDY_(The_Compact)
1.04_-_Wherefore_of_World?
1.05_-_Hymns_of_Bharadwaja
1.05_-_Problems_of_Modern_Psycho_therapy
1.05_-_Some_Results_of_Initiation
1.05_-_THE_HOSTILE_BROTHERS_-_ARCHETYPES_OF_RESPONSE_TO_THE_UNKNOWN
1.05_-_THE_NEW_SPIRIT
1.06_-_Being_Human_and_the_Copernican_Principle
1.06_-_BOOK_THE_SIXTH
1.06_-_Dhyana
1.06_-_LIFE_AND_THE_PLANETS
1.06_-_The_Four_Powers_of_the_Mother
1.06_-_The_Greatness_of_the_Individual
1.06_-_WITCHES_KITCHEN
1.078_-_Kumbhaka_and_Concentration_of_Mind
1.07_-_A_Song_of_Longing_for_Tara,_the_Infallible
1.07_-_Cybernetics_and_Psychopathology
1.07_-_Note_on_the_word_Go
1.07_-_The_Fire_of_the_New_World
1.080_-_Pratyahara_-_The_Return_of_Energy
1.081_-_The_Application_of_Pratyahara
1.08a_-_The_Ladder
1.08_-_BOOK_THE_EIGHTH
1.08_-_EVENING_A_SMALL,_NEATLY_KEPT_CHAMBER
1.08_-_Psycho_therapy_Today
1.08_-_Summary
1.08_-_The_Gods_of_the_Veda_-_The_Secret_of_the_Veda
1.08_-_The_Supreme_Will
1.09_-_ADVICE_TO_THE_BRAHMOS
1.09_-_Equality_and_the_Annihilation_of_Ego
1.09_-_Fundamental_Questions_of_Psycho_therapy
1.09_-_PROMENADE
1.09_-_SKIRMISHES_IN_A_WAY_WITH_THE_AGE
1.09_-_Taras_Ultimate_Nature
1.10_-_BOOK_THE_TENTH
1.10_-_THE_FORMATION_OF_THE_NOOSPHERE
1.10_-_THE_MASTER_WITH_THE_BRAHMO_DEVOTEES_(II)
1.10_-_The_Secret_of_the_Veda
1.11_-_A_STREET
1.11_-_FAITH_IN_MAN
1.11_-_Legend_of_Dhruva,_the_son_of_Uttanapada
1.11_-_The_Kalki_Avatar
1.11_-_The_Reason_as_Governor_of_Life
1.11_-_The_Second_Genesis
1.1.2_-_Commentary
1.12_-_God_Departs
1.12_-_ON_THE_FLIES_OF_THE_MARKETPLACE
1.12_-_The_Left-Hand_Path_-_The_Black_Brothers
1.12_-_TIME_AND_ETERNITY
1.13_-_Reason_and_Religion
1.14_-_INSTRUCTION_TO_VAISHNAVS_AND_BRHMOS
1.15_-_Conclusion
1.15_-_LAST_VISIT_TO_KESHAB
1.17_-_DOES_MANKIND_MOVE_BIOLOGICALLY_UPON_ITSELF?
1.17_-_M._AT_DAKSHINEWAR
1.18_-_M._AT_DAKSHINESWAR
1.19_-_THE_MASTER_AND_HIS_INJURED_ARM
12.09_-_The_Story_of_Dr._Faustus_Retold
1.20_-_RULES_FOR_HOUSEHOLDERS_AND_MONKS
1.20_-_Tabooed_Persons
1.2.1.03_-_Psychic_and_Esoteric_Poetry
1.21_-_FROM_THE_PRE-HUMAN_TO_THE_ULTRA-HUMAN,_THE_PHASES_OF_A_LIVING_PLANET
1.22_-_How_to_Learn_the_Practice_of_Astrology
1.23_-_Conditions_for_the_Coming_of_a_Spiritual_Age
1.24_-_PUNDIT_SHASHADHAR
1.2.4_-_Speech_and_Yoga
1.25_-_ADVICE_TO_PUNDIT_SHASHADHAR
1.26_-_On_discernment_of_thoughts,_passions_and_virtues
1.26_-_PERSEVERANCE_AND_REGULARITY
1.26_-_The_Ascending_Series_of_Substance
1.31_-_Adonis_in_Cyprus
1.32_-_The_Ritual_of_Adonis
1.37_-_Oriential_Religions_in_the_West
1.439
1.44_-_Demeter_and_Persephone
1.46_-_The_Corn-Mother_in_Many_Lands
1.48_-_Morals_of_AL_-_Hard_to_Accept,_and_Why_nevertheless_we_Must_Concur
15.07_-_Souls_Freedom
1.52_-_Killing_the_Divine_Animal
1.550_-_1.600_Talks
1.60_-_Between_Heaven_and_Earth
1.62_-_The_Fire-Festivals_of_Europe
1.64_-_The_Burning_of_Human_Beings_in_the_Fires
1.65_-_Balder_and_the_Mistletoe
1.66_-_Vampires
1.69_-_Farewell_to_Nemi
1.78_-_Sore_Spots
1914_06_03p
1915_04_19p
1916_12_30p
1929-05-19_-_Mind_and_its_workings,_thought-forms_-_Adverse_conditions_and_Yoga_-_Mental_constructions_-_Illness_and_Yoga
1951-01-08_-_True_vision_and_understanding_of_the_world._Progress,_equilibrium._Inner_reality_-_the_psychic._Animals_and_the_psychic.
1951-01-27_-_Sleep_-_desires_-_repression_-_the_subconscient._Dreams_-_the_super-conscient_-_solving_problems._Ladder_of_being_-_samadhi._Phases_of_sleep_-_silence,_true_rest._Vital_body_and_illness.
1951-03-14_-_Plasticity_-_Conditions_for_knowing_the_Divine_Will_-_Illness_-_microbes_-_Fear_-_body-reflexes_-_The_best_possible_happens_-_Theories_of_Creation_-_True_knowledge_-_a_work_to_do_-_the_Ashram
1951-03-29_-_The_Great_Vehicle_and_The_Little_Vehicle_-_Choosing_ones_family,_country_-_The_vital_being_distorted_-_atavism_-_Sincerity_-_changing_ones_character
1951-04-02_-_Causes_of_accidents_-_Little_entities,_helpful_or_mischievous-_incidents
1951-04-17_-_Unity,_diversity_-_Protective_envelope_-_desires_-_consciousness,_true_defence_-_Perfection_of_physical_-_cinema_-_Choice,_constant_and_conscious_-_law_of_ones_being_-_the_One,_the_Multiplicity_-_Civilization-_preparing_an_instrument
1953-05-06
1953-06-10
1953-07-01
1953-07-15
1953-10-28
1953-12-23
1953-12-30
1954-02-17_-_Experience_expressed_in_different_ways_-_Origin_of_the_psychic_being_-_Progress_in_sports_-Everything_is_not_for_the_best
1954-04-28_-_Aspiration_and_receptivity_-_Resistance_-_Purusha_and_Prakriti,_not_masculine_and_feminine
1954-06-02_-_Learning_how_to_live_-_Work,_studies_and_sadhana_-_Waste_of_the_Energy_and_Consciousness
1954-09-15_-_Parts_of_the_being_-_Thoughts_and_impulses_-_The_subconscient_-_Precise_vocabulary_-_The_Grace_and_difficulties
1954-11-03_-_Body_opening_to_the_Divine_-_Concentration_in_the_heart_-_The_army_of_the_Divine_-_The_knot_of_the_ego_-Streng_thening_ones_will
1955-02-23_-_On_the_sense_of_taste,_educating_the_senses_-_Fasting_produces_a_state_of_receptivity,_drawing_energy_-_The_body_and_food
1955-10-05_-_Science_and_Ignorance_-_Knowledge,_science_and_the_Buddha_-_Knowing_by_identification_-_Discipline_in_science_and_in_Buddhism_-_Progress_in_the_mental_field_and_beyond_it
1955-11-02_-_The_first_movement_in_Yoga_-_Interiorisation,_finding_ones_soul_-_The_Vedic_Age_-_An_incident_about_Vivekananda_-_The_imaged_language_of_the_Vedas_-_The_Vedic_Rishis,_involutionary_beings_-_Involution_and_evolution
1955-11-09_-_Personal_effort,_egoistic_mind_-_Man_is_like_a_public_square_-_Natures_work_-_Ego_needed_for_formation_of_individual_-_Adverse_forces_needed_to_make_man_sincere_-_Determinisms_of_different_planes,_miracles
1956-02-15_-_Nature_and_the_Master_of_Nature_-_Conscious_intelligence_-_Theory_of_the_Gita,_not_the_whole_truth_-_Surrender_to_the_Lord_-_Change_of_nature
1956-08-15_-_Protection,_purification,_fear_-_Atmosphere_at_the_Ashram_on_Darshan_days_-_Darshan_messages_-_Significance_of_15-08_-_State_of_surrender_-_Divine_Grace_always_all-powerful_-_Assumption_of_Virgin_Mary_-_SA_message_of_1947-08-15
1956-11-21_-_Knowings_and_Knowledge_-_Reason,_summit_of_mans_mental_activities_-_Willings_and_the_true_will_-_Personal_effort_-_First_step_to_have_knowledge_-_Relativity_of_medical_knowledge_-_Mental_gymnastics_make_the_mind_supple
1956-12-12_-_paradoxes_-_Nothing_impossible_-_unfolding_universe,_the_Eternal_-_Attention,_concentration,_effort_-_growth_capacity_almost_unlimited_-_Why_things_are_not_the_same_-_will_and_willings_-_Suggestions,_formations_-_vital_world
1957-01-23_-_How_should_we_understand_pure_delight?_-_The_drop_of_honey_-_Action_of_the_Divine_Will_in_the_world
1957-06-12_-_Fasting_and_spiritual_progress
1957-07-24_-_The_involved_supermind_-_The_new_world_and_the_old_-_Will_for_progress_indispensable
1958-08-27_-_Meditation_and_imagination_-_From_thought_to_idea,_from_idea_to_principle
1958-09-10_-_Magic,_occultism,_physical_science
1958_10_24
1960_02_17
1960_11_13?_-_50
1961_05_22?
1962_02_27
1970_01_20
1.anon_-_The_Epic_of_Gilgamesh_Tablet_IV
1.anon_-_The_Epic_of_Gilgamesh_Tablet_X
1f.lovecraft_-_A_Reminiscence_of_Dr._Samuel_Johnson
1f.lovecraft_-_At_the_Mountains_of_Madness
1f.lovecraft_-_Old_Bugs
1f.lovecraft_-_Poetry_and_the_Gods
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Beast_in_the_Cave
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Call_of_Cthulhu
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Case_of_Charles_Dexter_Ward
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Challenge_from_Beyond
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Colour_out_of_Space
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Diary_of_Alonzo_Typer
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Dream-Quest_of_Unknown_Kadath
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Dreams_in_the_Witch_House
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Dunwich_Horror
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Electric_Executioner
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Haunter_of_the_Dark
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Horror_at_Red_Hook
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Last_Test
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Loved_Dead
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Lurking_Fear
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Mound
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Music_of_Erich_Zann
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Night_Ocean
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Other_Gods
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Quest_of_Iranon
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Shadow_out_of_Time
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Shadow_over_Innsmouth
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Shunned_House
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Silver_Key
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Transition_of_Juan_Romero
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Trap
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Very_Old_Folk
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Whisperer_in_Darkness
1f.lovecraft_-_Under_the_Pyramids
1.fs_-_Fridolin_(The_Walk_To_The_Iron_Factory)
1.fs_-_German_Faith
1.fs_-_The_Driver
1.fua_-_The_Simurgh
1.jk_-_Ode_To_A_Nightingale
1.jlb_-_Unknown_Street
1.jr_-_I_See_So_Deeply_Within_Myself
1.jwvg_-_The_Wanderer
1.kbr_-_Poem_6
1.kbr_-_Tell_me,_O_Swan,_your_ancient_tale
1.mm_-_In_pride_I_so_easily_lost_Thee
1.pbs_-_A_Vision_Of_The_Sea
1.pbs_-_Hymn_to_Intellectual_Beauty
1.pbs_-_Julian_and_Maddalo_-_A_Conversation
1.pbs_-_Mont_Blanc_-_Lines_Written_In_The_Vale_of_Chamouni
1.pbs_-_Prometheus_Unbound
1.pbs_-_Saint_Edmonds_Eve
1.pbs_-_The_Revolt_Of_Islam_-_Canto_I-XII
1.pbs_-_The_Wandering_Jews_Soliloquy
1.pbs_-_To_Edward_Williams
1.pbs_-_To--_I_Fear_Thy_Kisses,_Gentle_Maiden
1.pbs_-_To_Sophia_(Miss_Stacey)
1.poe_-_For_Annie
1.poe_-_The_Conversation_Of_Eiros_And_Charmion
1.poe_-_To_The_River
1.rb_-_Paracelsus_-_Part_III_-_Paracelsus
1.rb_-_Paracelsus_-_Part_IV_-_Paracelsus_Aspires
1.rb_-_Pauline,_A_Fragment_of_a_Question
1.rb_-_Pippa_Passes_-_Part_II_-_Noon
1.rb_-_Sordello_-_Book_the_Second
1.rmr_-_Falconry
1.rmr_-_The_Last_Evening
1.rmr_-_You_Who_Never_Arrived
1.rt_-_Fireflies
1.rt_-_Kinu_Goalas_Alley
1.rt_-_The_Portrait
1.rwe_-_Initial_Love
1.snt_-_We_awaken_in_Christs_body
1.tr_-_To_My_Teacher
1.ww_-_6-_The_White_Doe_Of_Rylstone,_Or,_The_Fate_Of_The_Nortons
1.ww_-_7-_The_White_Doe_Of_Rylstone,_Or,_The_Fate_Of_The_Nortons
1.ww_-_Admonition
1.ww_-_Book_Eleventh-_France_[concluded]
1.ww_-_Book_Fourteenth_[conclusion]
1.ww_-_Book_Fourth_[Summer_Vacation]
1.ww_-_Book_Second_[School-Time_Continued]
1.ww_-_Book_Seventh_[Residence_in_London]
1.ww_-_Book_Tenth_{Residence_in_France_continued]
1.ww_-_Book_Thirteenth_[Imagination_And_Taste,_How_Impaired_And_Restored_Concluded]
1.ww_-_Lines_Composed_a_Few_Miles_above_Tintern_Abbey
1.ww_-_Michael-_A_Pastoral_Poem
1.ww_-_The_Excursion-_II-_Book_First-_The_Wanderer
1.ww_-_The_Excursion-_IX-_Book_Eighth-_The_Parsonage
1.ww_-_The_Excursion-_V-_Book_Fouth-_Despondency_Corrected
1.ww_-_The_Excursion-_VII-_Book_Sixth-_The_Churchyard_Among_the_Mountains
1.ww_-_The_Recluse_-_Book_First
2.01_-_Habit_1__Be_Proactive
2.01_-_On_Books
2.01_-_The_Therapeutic_value_of_Abreaction
2.02_-_Habit_2__Begin_with_the_End_in_Mind
2.02_-_THE_DURGA_PUJA_FESTIVAL
2.02_-_The_Ishavasyopanishad_with_a_commentary_in_English
2.03_-_The_Christian_Phenomenon_and_Faith_in_the_Incarnation
2.03_-_The_Purified_Understanding
2.03_-_The_Pyx
2.05_-_Habit_3__Put_First_Things_First
2.05_-_Infinite_Worlds
2.06_-_The_Wand
2.07_-_The_Knowledge_and_the_Ignorance
2.09_-_Human_representations_of_the_Divine_Ideal_of_Love
2.09_-_The_Pantacle
2.1.01_-_God_The_One_Reality
2.1.02_-_Love_and_Death
2.1.03_-_Man_and_Superman
2.10_-_THE_DANCING_SONG
2.11_-_The_Boundaries_of_the_Ignorance
2.11_-_WITH_THE_DEVOTEES_IN_CALCUTTA
2.13_-_The_Difficulties_of_the_Mental_Being
2.1.5.1_-_Study_of_Works_of_Sri_Aurobindo_and_the_Mother
2.1.5.5_-_Other_Subjects
2.16_-_The_Integral_Knowledge_and_the_Aim_of_Life;_Four_Theories_of_Existence
2.17_-_ON_POETS
2.17_-_THE_MASTER_ON_HIMSELF_AND_HIS_EXPERIENCES
2.18_-_The_Evolutionary_Process_-_Ascent_and_Integration
2.19_-_THE_MASTER_AND_DR._SARKAR
2.2.01_-_The_Problem_of_Consciousness
2.21_-_IN_THE_COMPANY_OF_DEVOTEES_AT_SYAMPUKUR
2.21_-_Towards_the_Supreme_Secret
2.22_-_THE_STILLEST_HOUR
2.22_-_The_Supreme_Secret
2.2.3_-_Depression_and_Despondency
2.24_-_The_Evolution_of_the_Spiritual_Man
2.24_-_The_Message_of_the_Gita
2.25_-_The_Triple_Transformation
2.26_-_Samadhi
2.3.02_-_Opening,_Sincerity_and_the_Mother's_Grace
2.3.04_-_The_Mother's_Force
2.3.1_-_Ego_and_Its_Forms
2_-_Other_Hymns_to_Agni
3.00_-_The_Magical_Theory_of_the_Universe
3.01_-_THE_BIRTH_OF_THOUGHT
3.01_-_Towards_the_Future
3.02_-_Mysticism
3.02_-_ON_THE_VISION_AND_THE_RIDDLE
3.03_-_On_Thought_-_II
3.03_-_THE_MODERN_EARTH
3.05_-_SAL
3.05_-_The_Conjunction
3.05_-_The_Divine_Personality
3.05_-_The_Physical_World_and_its_Connection_with_the_Soul_and_Spirit-Lands
3.13_-_THE_CONVALESCENT
3.18_-_Of_Clairvoyance_and_the_Body_of_Light
32.07_-_The_God_of_the_Scientist
3.20_-_Of_the_Eucharist
3.21_-_Of_Black_Magic
3.2.2_-_Sleep
3.2.4_-_Sex
33.07_-_Alipore_Jail
3.4.02_-_The_Inconscient
3-5_Full_Circle
4.01_-_Circumstances
4.01_-_Prayers_and_Meditations
4.01_-_THE_COLLECTIVE_ISSUE
4.01_-_The_Presence_of_God_in_the_World
4.02_-_Humanity_in_Progress
4.03_-_The_Meaning_of_Human_Endeavor
4.05_-_THE_MAGICIAN
4.07_-_THE_UGLIEST_MAN
4.08_-_THE_RELIGIOUS_PROBLEM_OF_THE_KINGS_RENEWAL
4.11_-_The_Perfection_of_Equality
4.2.2_-_Steps_towards_Overcoming_Difficulties
4.2.3_-_Vigilance,_Resolution,_Will_and_the_Divine_Help
5.03_-_The_Divine_Body
5.06_-_Supermind_in_the_Evolution
5.4.01_-_Notes_on_Root-Sounds
5_-_The_Phenomenology_of_the_Spirit_in_Fairytales
6.02_-_Great_Meteorological_Phenomena,_Etc
6.03_-_Extraordinary_And_Paradoxical_Telluric_Phenomena
6.04_-_The_Plague_Athens
6.07_-_THE_MONOCOLUS
6.09_-_Imaginary_Visions
6.0_-_Conscious,_Unconscious,_and_Individuation
7.02_-_The_Mind
7.15_-_The_Family
7_-_Yoga_of_Sri_Aurobindo
Aeneid
Big_Mind_(ten_perfections)
Blazing_P1_-_Preconventional_consciousness
Blazing_P2_-_Map_the_Stages_of_Conventional_Consciousness
Blazing_P3_-_Explore_the_Stages_of_Postconventional_Consciousness
BOOK_II._--_PART_I._ANTHROPOGENESIS.
BOOK_II._--_PART_III._ADDENDA._SCIENCE_AND_THE_SECRET_DOCTRINE_CONTRASTED
BOOK_II._--_PART_II._THE_ARCHAIC_SYMBOLISM_OF_THE_WORLD-RELIGIONS
BOOK_I._--_PART_I._COSMIC_EVOLUTION
BOOK_I._--_PART_III._SCIENCE_AND_THE_SECRET_DOCTRINE_CONTRASTED
BOOK_I._--_PART_II._THE_EVOLUTION_OF_SYMBOLISM_IN_ITS_APPROXIMATE_ORDER
Book_of_Genesis
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_XI._-_Augustine_passes_to_the_second_part_of_the_work,_in_which_the_origin,_progress,_and_destinies_of_the_earthly_and_heavenly_cities_are_discussed.Speculations_regarding_the_creation_of_the_world
BOOK_XIV._-_Of_the_punishment_and_results_of_mans_first_sin,_and_of_the_propagation_of_man_without_lust
BS_1_-_Introduction_to_the_Idea_of_God
Conversations_with_Sri_Aurobindo
COSA_-_BOOK_I
COSA_-_BOOK_III
COSA_-_BOOK_IX
COSA_-_BOOK_VI
COSA_-_BOOK_X
COSA_-_BOOK_XI
COSA_-_BOOK_XII
ENNEAD_03.06_-_Of_the_Impassibility_of_Incorporeal_Entities_(Soul_and_and_Matter).
ENNEAD_04.05_-_Psychological_Questions_III._-_About_the_Process_of_Vision_and_Hearing.
Gorgias
Guru_Granth_Sahib_first_part
Liber_111_-_The_Book_of_Wisdom_-_LIBER_ALEPH_VEL_CXI
Liber_46_-_The_Key_of_the_Mysteries
MMM.01_-_MIND_CONTROL
Partial_Magic_in_the_Quixote
Phaedo
Prayers_and_Meditations_by_Baha_u_llah_text
Sayings_of_Sri_Ramakrishna_(text)
Tablets_of_Baha_u_llah_text
Talks_With_Sri_Aurobindo_1
The_Act_of_Creation_text
Theaetetus
The_Aleph
The_Anapanasati_Sutta__A_Practical_Guide_to_Mindfullness_of_Breathing_and_Tranquil_Wisdom_Meditation
The_Book_of_Certitude_-_P2
The_Book_of_the_Prophet_Isaiah
The_Circular_Ruins
The_Dwellings_of_the_Philosophers
the_Eternal_Wisdom
The_Five,_Ranks_of_The_Apparent_and_the_Real
The_Garden_of_Forking_Paths_1
The_Gospel_According_to_Mark
The_Logomachy_of_Zos
The_Shadow_Out_Of_Time
Timaeus
Verses_of_Vemana

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TERMS STARTING WITH

deeply ::: adv. 1. At or to a considerable extent downward; well within or beneath a surface. 2. With deep feeling or emotion; greatly, thoroughly, intensely, acutely.

deeply ::: adv. --> At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to sink deeply.
Profoundly; thoroughly; not superficially; in a high degree; intensely; as, deeply skilled in ethics.
Very; with a tendency to darkness of color.
Gravely; with low or deep tone; as, a deeply toned instrument.
With profound skill; with art or intricacy; as, a deeply


deeply bound or linked to the heart.


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Acervulus Cerebri Brain-sand; minute particles of a yellowish, semi-transparent, hard, brilliant substance found in the pineal gland in the human brain. Its exceptional absence occurs in congenital idiots, in young children, and in the senile aged. The physiologists report that this “sand” is composed of alkaline phosphates and carbonates and some animal matter, but they fail to account for its presence or purpose. The fact that this brain-sand is of mineral rather than of osseous character is in keeping with the occult history of the once external, active third eye of early humanity. The ancients knew that, with the racial evolutionary descent into gross matter, this spiritual eye, gradually becoming atrophied and petrified, retreated deeply within the developing brain when its course was run (SD 2:294&n). The pineal gland being the chief organ of spirituality in the human brain at present, this mysterious sand is the result of the work of mental electricity upon the surrounding matter. This is based on the ancient idea that every atom of matter is only a concretion of crystallized spirit or akasa, the universal soul. See also PINEAL GLAND.

akhfa :::   very deeply hidden; the deepest part of the heart; sirr ‘ul-asrar

alveolate ::: a. --> Deeply pitted, like a honeycomb.

Amba (Sanskrit) Ambā, Amba Mother; a woman of respect or distinction. A name of Durga, consort of Siva; in the Mahabharata the eldest of the three daughters of the King of Kasi who were abducted by Bhishma to become the wives of his brother Vichitravirya. When Bhishma learned that Amba was already pledged to the Raja of Salva, he sent her to him. The Raja, however, rejected her because she had been in another man’s house. Deeply hurt, Amba retired to the forest to practice extreme austerities in order that she might gain the power to avenge the wrong done to her by Bhishma. She ended her life voluntarily on a funeral pyre and was reborn as Sikhandin, who eventually, in the great battle between the Kauravas and Pandavas, slew Bhishma. Her sisters, Ambika and Ambalika, became respectively the mothers of the blind king Dhritarashtra and of Pandu, father of Arjuna.

Ambhamsi (Sanskrit) Ambhāṃsi [from ambhas water, from the verbal root bhā to shine] Water; in the Vedas the celestial waters and also a synonym for gods, but in the Brahmanas and Puranas the four orders of beings that variously “shine” or flourish: deva-manushyah (gods and men), pitris (fathers or manes), and asuras (demons, not-gods). This is “because they are all the product of waters (mystically), of the Akasic Ocean . . . If the student of Esoteric philosophy thinks deeply over the subject he is sure to find out all the suggestiveness of the term Ambhamsi, in its manifold relations to the Virgin in Heaven, to the Celestial Virgin of the Alchemists, and even to the ‘Waters of Grace’ of the modern Baptist” (SD 1:458n).

A more subtle, deeply philosophical concept is the application of abhava to the unmanifest — that state of the cosmic essence before “becoming” began its work of differentiation into hierarchical orders, thus bringing about bhava. See also ASAT; BHAVA; SAT

Any practice of pranayama can be fraught with serious danger, not merely to physical health, but in extreme cases to mental balance or stability. Pranayama, when actually practiced according to the exoteric rules, is a very different thing from the excellent and common sense advice given by doctors to breathe deeply, and to fill the lungs with fresh air. Pranayama should never be practiced by anyone unless under the guidance of initiated teachers, and these never proclaim themselves as teachers of pranayama, for the adepts use it only in rarest cases for certain pupils who for karmic reasons can be helped in this unusual and extraordinary way.

Asat(Sanskrit) ::: A term meaning the "unreal" or the manifested universe; in contrast with sat , the real. Inanother and even more mystical sense, asat means even beyond or higher than sat, and therefore asat -"not sat." In this significance, which is profoundly occult and deeply mystical, asat really signifies theunevolved or rather unmanifested nature of parabrahman -- far higher than sat, which is the reality ofmanifested existence.

As the study or science of things which are hid and secret, occultism is a generalizing term because what is hid or secret in one age may readily be in a succeeding age more or less commonly known and open to public investigation. Many things that in medieval Europe were distinctly secret and therefore occult, are today the field of scientific investigation; and what is now considered to be occult, if science continues in its progress and research, may in the succeeding age in its turn become open and matter of common knowledge. Occultism then will simply have shifted its field of investigation and study to matters still more secret, still more recondite, still more deeply hid in fields of nature which are now scarcely suspected.

At the beginning the soul in Nature, the psychic entity, whose unfolding is the first step towards a spiritual change, is an entirely veiled part of us, although it is that by which we exist and persist as individual beings in Nature. The other parts of our natural composition are not only mutable but perishable; but the psychic entity in us persists and is fundamentally the same always: it contains all essential possibilities of our manifestation but is not constituted by them; it is not limited by what it manifests, not contained by the incomplete forms of the manifestation, not tarnished by the imperfections and impurities, the defects and depravations of the surface being. It is an ever-pure flame of the divinity in things and nothing that comes to it, nothing that enters into our experience can pollute its purity or extinguish the flame. This spiritual stuff is immaculate and luminous and, because it is perfectly luminous, it is immediately, intimately, directly aware of truth of being and truth of nature; it is deeply conscious of truth and good and beauty because truth and good and beauty are akin to its own native character, forms of something that is inherent in its own substance. It is aware also of all that contradicts these things, of all that deviates from its own native character, of falsehood and evil and the ugly and the unseemly; but it does not become these things nor is it touched or changed by these opposites of itself which so powerfully affect its outer instrumentation of mind, life and body. For the soul, the permanent being in us, puts forth and uses mind, life and body.
   Ref: CWSA Vol. 21-22, Page: 924-25


deeply ::: adv. 1. At or to a considerable extent downward; well within or beneath a surface. 2. With deep feeling or emotion; greatly, thoroughly, intensely, acutely.

deeply ::: adv. --> At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to sink deeply.
Profoundly; thoroughly; not superficially; in a high degree; intensely; as, deeply skilled in ethics.
Very; with a tendency to darkness of color.
Gravely; with low or deep tone; as, a deeply toned instrument.
With profound skill; with art or intricacy; as, a deeply


deeply bound or linked to the heart.

begrime ::: v. t. --> To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in.

bhAvanAmArga. (T. sgom lam; C. xiudao; J. shudo; K. sudo 修道). In Sanskrit, "the path of cultivation" or "path of meditation"; the fourth of the five stages of the path (MARGA) in the SARVASTIVADA soteriological system (also adopted in the MAHAYANA), which follows the path of vision or insight (DARsANAMARGA) and precedes the adept path where no further training is necessary (AsAIKsAMARGA). In the SarvAstivAda path schema, the path of vision consists of fifteen thought-moments, with a subsequent sixteenth moment marking the beginning of the path of cultivation (BHAVANAMARGA). This sixteenth moment, that of subsequent knowledge (ANVAYAJNANA) of the truth of the path (mArga), is, in effect, the knowledge that all of the afflictions (KLEsA) of both the subtle-materiality realm (RuPADHATU) and the immaterial realm (ARuPYADHATU) that are associated with the FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS have been abandoned. As a result, the meditator destroys all causes for future rebirth as an animal, ghost, or hell denizen, but is not liberated from rebirth altogether and may still be reborn as a human or divinity. The more deeply rooted afflictions are destroyed over the course of the path of cultivation. For each of the nine levels of the three realms of rebirth-the sensuous realm (with one level), the realm of subtle materiality (with four levels), and the immaterial realm (with four levels)-there are nine levels of afflictions (KLEsA), from the most coarse to the most insidious, making eighty-one levels of affliction to be destroyed. As was the case with the path of vision, these defilements must be destroyed in a two-step process: the actual destruction of the particular affliction and the knowledge that it has been destroyed. There are therefore 162 "moments" of the abandoning of afflictions. This process, which takes place over the course of the path of cultivation, may occur over several lifetimes. However, when the 162nd stage is reached, and the subtlest of the subtle afflictions associated with the ninth level-that is, the fourth absorption of the immaterial realm-has been abandoned, the adept is then liberated from rebirth. The bhAvanAmArga is one of the "paths of the nobles" (ARYAMARGA) and one on this stage is immune to any possibility of retrogression and is assured of eventually achieving NIRVAnA. Reference is also sometimes made to the mundane path of cultivation (LAUKIKA-bhAvanAmArga), which refers to the three trainings (TRIsIKsA) in morality (sĪLA), concentration (SAMADHI), and wisdom (PRAJNA) as they are developed before the first of the three fetters (SAMYOJANA) is eradicated and insight achieved. In the MahAyAna path system, with variations between YOGACARA and MADHYAMAKA, the bhAvanAmArga is the period in which the BODHISATTVA proceeds through the ten BHuMIs and destroys the afflictive obstructions (KLEsAVARAnA) and the obstructions to omniscience (JNEYAVARAnA).

Bodhisattva ::: Without delving too deeply into Buddhist philosophy, a Bodhisattva can be thought of as a being that has attained at least some level of enlightenment and has made the compassionate decision to continue causally in the phenomenal world in order to help raise all other beings from states of suffering toward realization and to help elevate and evolve society for the betterment of all beings.

brooding ::: 1. *Fig. Protecting (young) by or as if by covering with the wings. *2. Meditating or dwelling deeply on a thought.

brood ::: n. 1. Offspring; progeny; in one family. 2. A breed, species, group, kind or race with common qualities. v. 3. To think deeply on; dwell or meditate upon, contemplate. broods, brooded.

carouse ::: n. --> A large draught of liquor.
A drinking match; a carousal. ::: v. i. --> To drink deeply or freely in compliment; to take part in a carousal; to engage in drunken revels.


Chijang. (C. Dizang 地藏) (628-726). A Korean monk of the Silla dynasty, also known as KIM KYOGAK, who was closely associated with the cult of KsITIGARBHA (K. Chijang) on the Chinese sacred mountain of JIUHUASHAN. According to his biography in the SONG GAOSENG ZHUAN ("Biographies of Eminent Monks Compiled During the Song Dynasty"); Kim was a scion of the Silla royal family, who ordained as a Buddhist monk at around the age of twenty-three and then traveled to Tang China on pilgrimage. Eventually arriving at Jiuhuashan in southeastern China, Chijang ended up residing there for some seventy-five years. Chijang is said to have spent his time in meditation, surviving by eating only rice that he cooked together with "white soil" (perhaps lime or gypsum). Deeply moved by his asceticism, the laity decided to build a large monastery for him. Around 780 CE, Zhang Gongyan brought the new name plaque for Chijang's monastery, designating it Huachengsi, and many laypeople made the arduous journey from Silla Korea to visit. In the summer of 803 CE, at the age of ninety-nine, Chijang bid farewell to his congregation, sat down in full lotus position, and passed away. His corpse was placed in seated position inside a coffin but even after three years it had not decayed and his face still looked as if he were alive. People eventually came to believe that he was the manifestation of his namesake, the BODHISATTVA KsITIGARBHA (K. Chijang). A shrine hall, named Dizang dian (K. Chijang chon), was built on the site where he died, which could only be reached by pulling oneself by rope up eighty-one precarious stone steps.

coffer ::: n. --> A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables.
Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural.
A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson.
A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire.
The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a


Component Object Model "programming" (COM) An open software architecture from {DEC} and {Microsoft}, allowing interoperation between {ObjectBroker} and {OLE}. Microsoft evolved COM into {DCOM}. On page XV of Box's book in the foreword by Charlie Kindel he says, "It is Mark Ryland's fault that some people call COM the 'Common Object Model.' He deeply regrets it and apologizes profusely." ["Essential COM", Don Box]. [Details? URL?] (1999-06-12)

Component Object Model ::: (programming) (COM) An open software architecture from DEC and Microsoft, allowing interoperation between ObjectBroker and OLE. Microsoft evolved COM into DCOM.On page XV of Box's book in the foreword by Charlie Kindel he says, It is Mark Ryland's fault that some people call COM the 'Common Object Model.' He deeply regrets it and apologizes profusely.[Essential COM, Don Box].[Details? URL?] (1999-06-12)

contrite ::: a. --> Thoroughly bruised or broken.
Broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly penitent. ::: n. --> A contrite person.


crack ::: v. t. --> To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
To rend with grief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze.
To cause to sound suddenly and sharply; to snap; as, to crack a whip.
To utter smartly and sententiously; as, to crack a joke.
To cry up; to extol; -- followed by up.


dancette ::: a. --> Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancette has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon.

dandelion ::: n. --> A well-known plant of the genus Taraxacum (T. officinale, formerly called T. Dens-leonis and Leontodos Taraxacum) bearing large, yellow, compound flowers, and deeply notched leaves.

dazzled ::: 1. Overpowered or dimmed the vision of (someone) by intense light. 2. Impressed deeply; awed, overwhelmed. 3. Overpowered by light.

deep-fet ::: a. --> Deeply fetched or drawn.

deep-laid ::: a. --> Laid deeply; formed with cunning and sagacity; as, deep-laid plans.

disconsolate ::: n. --> Disconsolateness. ::: v. t. --> Destitute of consolation; deeply dejected and dispirited; hopelessly sad; comfortless; filled with grief; as, a bereaved and disconsolate parent.
Inspiring dejection; saddening; cheerless; as, the


dissected ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Dissect ::: a. --> Cut into several parts; divided into sections; as, a dissected map.
Cut deeply into many lobes or divisions; as, a dissected leaf.


diver ::: n. --> One who, or that which, dives.
Fig.: One who goes deeply into a subject, study, or business.
Any bird of certain genera, as Urinator (formerly Colymbus), or the allied genus Colymbus, or Podiceps, remarkable for their agility in diving.


dive ::: v. i. --> To plunge into water head foremost; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid.
Fig.: To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore. ::: v. t. --> To plunge (a person or thing) into water; to dip; to duck.


dkar po chig thub. (karpo chiktup). In Tibetan, "self-sufficient white [remedy]" or "white panacea"; in Tibetan pharmacology, a single remedy that has the ability to effect a cure by itself alone. In Tibetan Buddhism, the term was used as a metaphor to describe certain doctrines or methods said to be self-sufficient for bringing about awakening. Although found in various contexts, the term is best known from its use by members of the DWAGS PO BKA' BRGYUD, including SGAM PO PA BSOD NAMS RIN CHEN and his nephew's disciple BLA MA ZHANG. This method is often equated with the introduction to the nature of mind (sems kyi ngo sprod) or the direct realization of the mind's true nature, and is deeply rooted in the tradition of MAHĀMUDRĀ transmitted by Sgam po pa. In Sgam po pa's own words, "I value the realization of the nature of mind as better than excellent meditation." Some Tibetan scholars, most notably SA SKYA PAnDITA KUN DGA' RGYAL MTSHAN, rejected the notion that any single method or factor (even insight into suNYATĀ, or emptiness) could be soteriologically sufficient. He also argued that the fruit of mahāmudrā practice could never be gained through wholly nonconceptual means. Nor, he argued, could it be gained outside of strictly tantric practice, in contrast to Sgam po pa's tradition, which advocated both SuTRA and TANTRA forms of mahāmudrā. Such arguments often disparagingly associate dkar po chig thub with the subitism of MOHEYAN, the Chinese CHAN protagonist in the BSAM YAS DEBATE, who is known to have also used the metaphor.

drongo ::: n. --> A passerine bird of the family Dicruridae. They are usually black with a deeply forked tail. They are natives of Asia, Africa, and Australia; -- called also drongo shrikes.

edge ::: v. t. --> The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice.
Sharpness; readiness of fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the


Elementaries The earth-bound disimbodied human souls of people who were evil or depraved when imbodied: the conscious or quasi-conscious astral souls of people who on earth refused all spiritual light, remained and died deeply immersed in the mire of matter, and from whose souls or intermediate, personal nature the immortal spirit has gradually separated. These may exist for centuries before completely dissolving. Blavatsky writes of the spiritual death leading to this condition: “When one falls into a love of self and love of the world, with its pleasures, losing the divine love of God and of the neighbor, he falls from life to death. The higher principles which constitute the essential elements of his humanity perish, and he lives only on the natural plane of his faculties. Physically he exists, spiritually he is dead. . . . This spiritual death results from disobedience of the laws of spiritual life, which is followed by the same penalty as the disobedience of the laws of natural life. But the spiritually dead have still their delights; they have their intellectual endowments and power, and intense activities. All the animal delights are theirs, and to multitudes of men and women these constitute the highest ideal of human happiness. The tireless pursuit of riches, of the amusements and entertainments of social life; the cultivation of graces of manner, of taste in dress, of social preferment, of scientific distinction, intoxicate and enrapture these dead-alive . . .” (IU 1:318).

energy ::: “It is true that when Matter first emerges it becomes the dominant principle; it seems to be and is within its own field the basis of all things, the constituent of all things, the end of all things: but Matter itself is found to be a result of something that is not Matter, of Energy, and this Energy cannot be something self-existent and acting in the Void, but can turn out and, when deeply scrutinised, seems likely to turn out to be the action of a secret Consciousness and Being: when the spiritual knowledge and experience emerge, this becomes a certitude,—it is seen that the creative Energy in Matter is a movement of the power of the Spirit.” The Life Divine

engagedness ::: n. --> The state of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal.

engraff ::: v. t. --> To graft; to fix deeply.

engrain ::: v. t. --> To dye in grain, or of a fast color. See Ingrain.
To incorporate with the grain or texture of anything; to infuse deeply. See Ingrain.
To color in imitation of the grain of wood; to grain. See Grain, v. t., 1.


engrave ::: v. t. --> To deposit in the grave; to bury.
To cut in; to make by incision.
To cut with a graving instrument in order to form an inscription or pictorial representation; to carve figures; to mark with incisions.
To form or represent by means of incisions upon wood, stone, metal, or the like; as, to engrave an inscription.
To impress deeply; to infix, as if with a graver.


enstamp ::: v. t. --> To stamp; to mark as /ith a stamp; to impress deeply.

fissirostres ::: n. pl. --> A group of birds having the bill deeply cleft.

forficate ::: a. --> Deeply forked, as the tail of certain birds.

forktail ::: n. --> One of several Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking.
A salmon in its fourth year&


grime ::: n. --> Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained. ::: v. t. --> To sully or soil deeply; to dirt.

groundly ::: adv. --> Solidly; deeply; thoroughly.

hawthorn ::: n. --> A thorny shrub or tree (the Crataegus oxyacantha), having deeply lobed, shining leaves, small, roselike, fragrant flowers, and a fruit called haw. It is much used in Europe for hedges, and for standards in gardens. The American hawthorn is Crataegus cordata, which has the leaves but little lobed.

heartbroken ::: a. --> Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.

henbit ::: n. --> A weed of the genus Lamium (L. amplexicaule) with deeply crenate leaves.

holocaust ::: “The Mother not only governs all from above but she descends into this lesser triple universe. Impersonally, all things here, even the movements of the Ignorance, are herself in veiled power and her creations in diminished substance, her Nature-body and Nature-force, and they exist because, moved by the mysterious fiat of the Supreme to work out something that was there in the possibilities of the Infinite, she has consented to the great sacrifice and has put on like a mask the soul and forms of the Ignorance. But personally too she has stooped to descend here into the Darkness that she may lead it to the Light, into the Falsehood and Error that she may convert it to the Truth, into this Death that she may turn it to godlike Life, into this world-pain and its obstinate sorrow and suffering that she may end it in the transforming ecstasy of her sublime Ananda. In her deep and great love for her children she has consented to put on herself the cloak of this obscurity, condescended to bear the attacks and torturing influences of the powers of the Darkness and the Falsehood, borne to pass though the portals of the birth that is a death, taken upon herself the pangs and sorrows and sufferings of the creation, since it seemed that thus alone could it be lifted to the Light and Joy and Truth and eternal Life. This is the great sacrifice called sometimes the sacrifice of the Purusha, but much more deeply the holocaust of Prakriti, the sacrifice of the Divine Mother.” The Mother

Huichang fanan. (J. Kaisho no honan; K. Hoech'ang pomnan 會昌法難). In Chinese, "Huichang persecution of the dharma"; one of the worst persecutions in the history of Chinese Buddhism, which took place during the Huichang reign era (843-844) of the Tang-dynasty emperor Wuzong (r. 840-846). Factional disputes at court, growing economic strains, and opposition from Confucian officials and Daoist priests seem to have helped precipitate the Huichang persecution. The illicit buying and selling of ordination certificates (CIBU TONG) in order to avoid taxation may also have been a contributing factor in the restrictions the government imposed on Buddhism. Emperor Wuzong conducted a census of the monastic community and the number of temples in order to begin systematically to attack the Buddhist institution and to reassess the size of the population that was exempt from taxation and corvée labor. Over 260,000 monks and nuns were defrocked and returned to lay life, ostensibly for practicing alchemy or violating the precepts; this move, however, also returned them to the tax roles. Subsequently, the state placed heavy restrictions on the numbers of ordinands and their age (no one under the age of forty was allowed to ordain). Hundreds of monasteries were destroyed and much of the wealth confiscated from those temples that escaped destruction. Thousands of Buddhist images were melted down to be made into coinage. As with most persecutions, the effects were most deeply felt in the capital and major cities, effects that weakened considerably the farther away one moved from centralized power. Buddhist schools that were based on the capital, such as the HUAYAN ZONG and the Northern school (BEI ZONG) of the CHAN ZONG, were dealt such a severe blow that they were never able to fully recover. By contrast, schools located in isolated mountain sites in the countryside, such as other strands of the Chan school (e.g., HONGZHOU ZONG), were able to survive the persecution and subsequently flourish. Although the Huichang persecution indelibly scarred the Chinese Buddhist community, Buddhism continued to flourish, and even prosper, after the death of Wuzong. See also FANAN.

Hwansong Chian. (喚醒志安) (1664-1729). Korean monk from the mid-Choson dynasty. Hwansong Chian was a disciple of Woltam Solche (1632-1704) and of Moun Chinon (1622-1703), at the time was the most respected Hwaom (HUAYAN) scholar in the kingdom. At Chinon's request, Hwansong Chian began to lecture on the AVATAMSAKASuTRA in Chinon's place. Chinon eventually entrusted his disciples to Chian, and Chian thus acquired a name for himself as a Hwaom master. In 1725, he held a grand Hwaom lecture and attracted more than fourteen hundred listeners. Given the suspicion Buddhist activities engendered during this time of the religion's persecution, the government was deeply concerned about the potentially seditious impact of his lectures and consequently had him arrested and imprisoned. Chian was released after it was eventually revealed that he was falsely accused. Subsequently, a high Confucian official from Cholla province petitioned for his arrest, and he was sent into exile on Cheju island, where he died seven days later on July 7, 1729. His writings include the Sonmun ojong kangyo and the Hwansong chip.

imbue ::: v. t. --> To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black.
To tincture deply; to cause to become impressed or penetrated; as, to imbue the minds of youth with good principles.


immerse ::: a. --> Immersed; buried; hid; sunk. ::: v. t. --> To plunge into anything that surrounds or covers, especially into a fluid; to dip; to sink; to bury; to immerge.
To baptize by immersion.
To engage deeply; to engross the attention of; to


immersed ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Immerse ::: p. p. & a. --> Deeply plunged into anything, especially a fluid.
Deeply occupied; engrossed; entangled.
Growing wholly under water.


immersion ::: n. --> The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx.
Submersion in water for the purpose of Christian baptism, as, practiced by the Baptists.
The state of being overhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness.
The dissapearance of a celestail body, by passing either


implant ::: v. t. --> To plant, or infix, for the purpose of growth; to fix deeply; to instill; to inculate; to introduce; as, to implant the seeds of virtue, or the principles of knowledge, in the minds of youth.

impress ::: v. t. --> To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).
To produce by pressure, as a mark, stamp, image, etc.; to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
Fig.: To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.


(In Aesthetics): A movement in both art and general aesthetic theory which was particularly widespread and influential in the last years of the 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries. So interpreted, it is especially associated with Novalis, the Schlegels, and Jean Paul Richter in Germany, Rousseau, Chateaubriand, Hugo, Lamartine in France; Blake, Scott, the Lake Poets, Shelley, and Byron in England. As a general attitude toward art and its function, as an interpretation of the goodness, beauty, and purpose of life, romanticism has always existed and can be confined to no one period. The essence of romanticism, either as an attitude or as a conscious program, is an intense interest in nature, and an attempt to seize natural phenomena in a direct, immediate, and naive manner. Romanticism thus regards all forms, rules, conventions, and manners as artificial constructs and as hindrances to the grasp, enjoyment, and expression of nature, hence its continual opposition to any kind of classicism (q.v.), whose formalities it treats as fetters. Romanticism stresses the values of sincerity, spontaneity, and passion, as against the restraint and cultivation demanded by artistic forms and modes. It reasserts the primacy of feeling, imagination, and sentiment, as opposed to reason. It maintains that art should concern itself with the particular and the concrete, observing and reporting accurately the feelings aroused by nature, with no idealization or generalization. It commands the artist to feel freely and deeply, and to express what he has felt with no restraints, either artistic or social. It seeks in works of art a stimulus to imagination and feeling, a point of departure for free activity, rather than an object that it can accept and contemplate.

Initiation ::: In olden times there were seven -- and even ten -- degrees of initiation. Of these seven degrees, threeconsisted of teachings alone, which formed the preparation, the discipline, spiritual and mental andpsychic and physical -- what the Greeks called the katharsis or "cleansing." When the disciple wasconsidered sufficiently cleansed, purified, disciplined, quiet mentally, tranquil spiritually, then he wastaken into the fourth degree, which likewise consisted partly of teaching, but also in part of directpersonal introduction by the old mystical processes into the structure and operations of the universe, bywhich means truth was gained by first-hand personal experience. In other words, to speak in plain terms,his spirit-soul, his individual consciousness, was assisted to pass into other planes and realms of being,and to know and to understand by the sheer process of becoming them. A man, a mind, an understanding,can grasp and see, and thereby know, only those things which the individual entity itself is.After the fourth degree, there followed the fifth and the sixth and the seventh initiations, each in turn, andthese consisted of teachings also; but more and more as the disciple progressed -- and he was helped inthis development more and more largely as he advanced farther -- there was evolved forth in him thepower and faculties still farther and more deeply to penetrate beyond the veils of maya or illusion; until,having passed the seventh or last initiation of all of the manifest initiations, if we may call them that, hebecame one of those individuals whom theosophists call the mahatmas.

inly ::: 1. In an inward manner; inwardly. 2. Intimately; deeply within.

inscribe ::: v. t. --> To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint.
To mark with letters, charakters, or words.
To assign or address to; to commend to by a shot address; to dedicate informally; as, to inscribe an ode to a friend.
To imprint deeply; to impress; to stamp; as, to inscribe a sentence on the memory.
To draw within so as to meet yet not cut the


irradicate ::: v. t. --> To root deeply.

jeffersonia ::: n. --> An American herb with a pretty, white, solitary blossom, and deeply two-cleft leaves (Jeffersonia diphylla); twinleaf.

jNeyāvarana. (T. shes bya'i sgrib pa; C. suozhizhang; J. shochisho; K. sojijang 所知障). In Sanskrit, "cognitive obstructions," or "noetic obscurations"; the second of the two categories of obstructions (ĀVARAnA), together with the afflictive obstructions (KLEsĀVARAnA), that must be overcome in order to perfect the BODHISATTVA path and achieve buddhahood. In the YOGĀCĀRA and MADHYAMAKA systems, the cognitive obstructions are treated as subtler hindrances that serve as the origin of the afflictive obstructions, and result from fundamental misapprehensions about the nature of reality. According to Yogācāra, because of the attachment deriving ultimately from the reification of what are actually imaginary external phenomena, conceptualization and discrimination arise in the mind, which lead in turn to pride, ignorance, and wrong views. Based on these mistakes in cognition, then, the individual engages in defiled actions, such as anger, envy, etc., which constitute the afflictive obstructions. The afflictive obstructions may be removed by followers of the sRĀVAKA, PRATYEKABUDDHA, and beginning BODHISATTVA paths, by applying various antidotes or counteragents (PRATIPAKsA) to the afflictions (KLEsA); overcoming these types of obstructions will lead to freedom from further rebirth. The cognitive obstructions, however, are more deeply ingrained and can only be overcome by advanced bodhisattvas who seek instead to achieve buddhahood, by perfecting their understanding of emptiness (suNYATĀ). Buddhas, therefore, are the only class of beings who have overcome both types of obstructions and thus are able simultaneously to cognize all objects of knowledge in the universe; this is one of the sources for their unparalleled skills as teachers of sentient beings. The jNeyāvarana are therefore sometimes translated as "obstructions to omniscience."

Kondāne. Early Buddhist monastic cave site located in western India, which dates from the early decades of the first century CE. The highly ornamented, four-story facade of its CAITYA hall has projecting balconies supported by curved brackets and deeply recessed windows with latticed screens. Although carved in stone, the architectural form is modeled after earlier wooden designs and accords well with the real woodwork of the main arch, fragments of which are still in situ. This style of architecture is related to the slightly earlier hall at BHĀJĀ. In the third row of balconies are panels depicting pairs of dancers, who display ease of movement and considerable rhythmic grace. In this cave, there is also an inscription in BRAHMĪ script that records the name of one Balaka, a student of Kanha (or Kṛsna), who constructed the cave. The record is carved near the head of a statue that probably represents Balaka.

  “ ‘Kriyasakti — the mysterious power of thought which enables it to produce external, perceptible, phenomenal results by its own inherent energy. The ancients held that any idea will manifest itself externally if one’s attention (and Will) is deeply concentrated upon it; similarly, an intense volition will be followed by the desired result’ ” (SD 2:173).

Law of Attraction ::: A law of reality that essentially matches like archetypes with like archetypes. When applied to the human condition we find that those minds that operate on similar archetypes and within similar currents tend to find their way to one another and that those operating under different archetypes and currents tend to not intersect deeply or significantly. Think of how hetereogeneous solutions of divergent density settle at different layers when mixed together. There's a similar effect going on throughout reality.

martin ::: n. --> A perforated stone-faced runner for grinding.
One of several species of swallows, usually having the tail less deeply forked than the tail of the common swallows.


muse ::: n. 1. A state of abstraction or contemplation; reverie. 2. The goddess or the power regarded as inspiring a poet, artist, thinker, or the like. musings, musers. *v. 3. To be absorbed in one"s thoughts; engage in meditation. 4. To consider or say thoughtfully. mused, musing. adj. *mused. 5. Perplexed, bewildered, bemused. musing. 6. Being absorbed in thoughts; reflecting deeply; contemplating; engaged in meditation. muse-lipped.

NDE ::: Near-Death Experience. An experience that occurs when one is close to death or is remembered when one dies and comes back. These experiences can run the gamut from Astral episodes to deeply-moving, Causal-level events. Generally these only include experiences related to accidents or illness and not to entheogenic ego death experiences, which can have a similar feel to them. A type of OBE generally.

One phase of hatha yoga is the pranayama (suppression of the breath), interference with the normal and healthy respiration of the body; a practice which can readily produce tuberculosis of the lungs. It is breathing deeply, healthfully, and as often as common sense suggests, that brings benefits to the body because bringing about a better oxygenation of the blood and therefore a better physical tone. In very rare circumstances only, where a chela has advanced relatively far mentally and spiritually, but has still an unfortunate and heavy physical karma as yet not worked out, it may possibly be proper, under the guidance of a genuine teacher, to use the hatha yoga methods in a limited degree, but only under the teacher’s own eye. For this reason hatha yoga books are occasionally mentioned in theosophical literature — the Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali, for example, is a hatha yoga scripture, but one of the highest type. But generally, hatha yoga practices are injurious and therefore unwise, for they distract the attention from things of the spirit and direct it to the lower parts of the constitution.

penetrate ::: v. t. --> To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness.
To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to touch with feeling; to make sensible; to move deeply; as, to penetrate one&


pierce ::: 1. To cut or pass through with or as if with a sharp instrument; stab or penetrate. Also fig. 2. To make a hole or opening in; perforate. 3. To succeed in penetrating (something) with the eyes or the intellect. 4. To move or affect (a person"s emotions, bodily feelings, etc.) deeply or sharply. pierced, piercing.

pierce ::: v. t. --> To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed instrument.
To penetrate; to enter; to force a way into or through; to pass into or through; as, to pierce the enemy&


pluripartite ::: a. --> Deeply divided into several portions.

Political Philosophy: That branch of philosophy which deals with political life, especially with the essence, origin and value of the state. In ancient philosophy politics also embraced what we call ethics. The first and most important ancient works on Political Philosophy were Plato's Politeia (Republic) and Aristotle's Politics. The Politeia outlines the structure and functions of the ideal state. It became the pattern for all the Utopias (see Utopia) of later times. Aristotle, who considers man fundamentally a social creature i.e. a political animal, created the basis for modern theories of government, especially by his distinction of the different forms of government. Early Christianity had a rather negative attitude towards the state which found expression in St. Augustine's De Civitate Dei. The influence of this work, in which the earthly state was declared to be civitas diaboli, a state of the devil, was predominant throughout the Middle Ages. In the discussion of the relation between church and empire, the main topic of medieval political philosophy, certain authors foreshadowed modern political theories. Thomas Aquinas stressed the popular origin of royal power and the right of the people to restrict or abolish that power in case of abuse; William of Ockham and Marsiglio of Padua held similar views. Dante Alighieri was one of the first to recognize the intrinsic value of the state; he considered the world monarchy to be the only means whereby peace, justice and liberty could be secured. But it was not until the Renaissance that, due to the rediscovery of the individual and his rights and to the formation of territorial states, political philosophy began to play a major role. Niccolo Machiavelli and Jean Bodin laid the foundation for the new theories of the state by stressing its independence from any external power and its indivisible sovereignty. The theory of popular rights and of the right of resistance against tyranny was especially advocated by the "Monarchomachi" (Huguenots, such as Beza, Hotman, Languet, Danaeus, Catholics such as Boucher, Rossaeus, Mariana). Most of them used the theory of an original contract (see Social Contract) to justify limitations of monarchical power. Later, the idea of a Natural Law, independent from divine revelation (Hugo Grotius and his followers), served as an argument for liberal -- sometimes revolutionary -- tendencies. With the exception of Hobbes, who used the contract theory in his plea for absolutism, almost all the publicists of the 16th and 17th century built their liberal theories upon the idea of an original covenant by which individuals joined together and by mutual consent formed a state and placed a fiduciary trust in the supreme power (Roger Williams and John Locke). It was this contract which the Pilgrim Fathers translated into actual facts, after their arrival in America, in November, 1620, long before John Locke had developed his theorv. In the course of the 17th century in England the contract theory was generally substituted for the theory of the divine rights of kings. It was supported by the assumption of an original "State of Nature" in which all men enjoyed equal reciprocal rights. The most ardent defender of the social contract theory in the 18th century was J. J. Rousseau who deeply influenced the philosophy of the French revolution. In Rousseau's conception the idea of the sovereignty of the people took on a more democratic aspect than in 17th century English political philosophy which had been almost exclusively aristocratic in its spirit. This tendency found expression in his concept of the "general will" in the moulding of which each individual has his share. Immanuel Kant who made these concepts the basis of his political philosophy, recognized more clearly than Rousseau the fictitious character of the social contract and treated it as a "regulative idea", meant to serve as a criterion in the evaluation of any act of the state. For Hegel the state is an end in itself, the supreme realization of reason and morality. In marked opposition to this point of view, Marx and Engels, though strongly influenced by Hegel, visualized a society in which the state would gradually fade away. Most of the 19th century publicists, however, upheld the juristic theory of the state. To them the state was the only source of law and at the same time invested with absolute sovereignty: there are no limits to the legal omnipotence of the state except those which are self imposed. In opposition to this doctrine of unified state authority, a pluralistic theory of sovereignty has been advanced recently by certain authors, laying emphasis upon corporate personalities and professional groups (Duguit, Krabbe, Laski). Outspoken anti-stateism was advocated by anarchists such as Kropotkin, etc., by syndicalists and Guild socialists. -- W.E.

pondering ::: deeply or seriously thoughtful. n. ponderings.

ponder ::: to weigh in the mind with thoroughness and care; reflect deeply. ponders, pondered, pondering.

pored ::: 1. Meditated deeply; pondered. 2. Read or studied carefully and attentively. pores, poring.

profound ::: a. --> Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a great depth; deep.
Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough; as, a profound investigation or treatise; a profound scholar; profound wisdom.
Characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervading; overmastering; far-reaching; strongly impressed; as, a profound sleep.


quadrifid ::: a. --> Divided, or deeply cleft, into four parts; as, a quadrifid perianth; a quadrifid leaf.

rancorous ::: a. --> Full of rancor; evincing, or caused by, rancor; deeply malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely virulent.

rapt ::: 1. Deeply engrossed or absorbed. 2. Entranced; transported with emotion; enraptured; ecstatic. 3. Indicating, proceeding from, characterized by, a state of rapture. 4. Carried off spiritually to another place, sphere of existence, etc. self-rapt.

religion, deeply rooted in India, that teaches that every living thing has an eternal soul, and thus the Jains practice harmlessness to avoid harm to any living creature. The Jains believe in religious tolerance, saying that no one view can fully express reality.

Rinzaishu. (濟宗). In Japanese, "Rinzai School"; one of the major Japanese ZEN schools established in the early Kamakura period. The various branches of the Japanese Rinzai Zen tradition trace their lineages back to the Chinese CHAN master LINJI YIXUAN (J. Rinzai Gigen) and his eponymous LINJI ZONG; the name Rinzai, like its Chinese counterpart, is derived from Linji's toponym. The tradition was first transmitted to Japan by the TENDAISHu monk MYoAN EISAI (1141-1215), who visited China twice and received training and certification in the HUANGLONG PAI collateral line of the Linji lineage on his second trip. Eisai's Zen teachings, however, reflected his training in the esoteric (MIKKYo) teachings of the Tendai school; he did not really intend to establish an entirely new school. After Eisai, the Rinzai tradition was transferred through Japanese monks who trained in China and Chinese monks who immigrated to Japan. Virtually all of the Japanese Rinzai tradition was associated with the YANGQI PAI collateral line of the Linji lineage (see YANGQI FANGHUI), which was first imported by the Japanese vinaya specialist Shunjo (1166-1227). According to the early-Edo-period Nijushiryu shugen zuki ("Diagrammatic Record of the Sources of the Twenty-Four Transmissions of the Teaching"), twenty-four Zen lineages had been transmitted to Japan since the Kamakura period, twenty-one of which belonged to the Rinzai tradition; with the exception of Eisai's own lineage, the remaining twenty lineages were all associated with the Yangqi collateral line. Soon after its introduction into Japan, the Rinzai Zen tradition rose to prominence in Kamakura and Kyoto, where it received the patronage of shoguns, emperors, and the warrior class. The Rinzai teachers of this period included monks from Tendai and SHINGONSHu backgrounds, such as ENNI BEN'EN (1202-1280) and SHINCHI KAKUSHIN (1207-1298), who promoted Zen with an admixture of esoteric elements. Chinese immigrant monks like LANXI DAOLONG (J. Rankei Doryu, 1213-1278) and WUXUE ZUYUAN (J. Mugaku Sogen, 1226-1286) also contributed to the rapid growth in the popularity of the Rinzai tradition among the Japanese ruling classes, by transporting the Song-style Linji Chan tradition as well as Song-dynasty Chinese culture more broadly. With the establishment of the Ashikaga shogunate in 1338, the major Zen temples were organized following the Song Chinese model into the GOZAN (five mountains) system, a tripartite state control system consisting of "five mountains" (gozan), "ten temples" (jissetsu), and several associated "miscellaneous mountains" (shozan). The powerful gozan monasteries located in Kamakura and Kyoto functioned as centers of classical Chinese learning and culture, and continued to influence the ruling classes in Japan until the decline of the Ashikaga shogunate in the sixteenth century. The disciples of Enni Ben'en and MUSo SOSEKI (1275-1351) dominated the gozan monasteries. In particular, Muso Soseki was deeply engaged in both literary endeavors and political activities; his lineage produced several famous gozan poets, such as Gido Shushin (1325-1388) and Zekkai Chushin (1336-1405). Outside the official gozan ecclesiastical system were the RINKA, or forest, monasteries. DAITOKUJI and MYoSHINJI, the two principal rinka Rinzai monasteries, belonged to the otokan lineage, which is named after its first three masters NANPO JoMYo (1235-1309), SoHo MYoCHo (1282-1337), and KANZAN EGEN (1277-1360). This lineage emphasized rigorous Zen training rather than the broader cultural endeavors pursued in the gozan monasteries. After the decline of the gozan monasteries, the otokan lineage came to dominate the Rinzai Zen tradition during the Edo period and was the only Rinzai line to survive to the present. Despite the presence of such influential monks as TAKUAN SoHo (1573-1645) and BANKEI YoTAKU (1622-1693), the Rinzai tradition began to decline by the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries. The monk credited with revitalizing the Rinzai tradition during the Edo period is the Myoshinji monk HAKUIN EKAKU (1685-1768). Hakuin systematized the KoAN (see GONG'AN; KANHUA CHAN) method of meditation, which is the basis of modern Rinzai Zen practice; it is also through Hakuin and his disciples that most Rinzai masters of today trace their lineages. The Rinzai tradition is currently divided into the fifteen branches named after each of their head monasteries, which represents the influence of the head and branch temple system designed in the Edo period. Of the fifteen branches, the Myoshinji branch has largely eclipsed its rivals and today is the largest and most influential of all the Rinzai lines.

rocked ::: 1. Moved back and forth or from side to side, especially gently or rhythmically, as a cradle. Also fig. 2. Swayed violently, as from a blow, shock or other impact. 3. Effected deeply; stunned; moved or swayed powerfully, as with emotion. rocks.

rosicrucian ::: n. --> One who, in the 17th century and the early part of the 18th, claimed to belong to a secret society of philosophers deeply versed in the secrets of nature, -- the alleged society having existed, it was stated, several hundred years. ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the Rosicrucians, or their arts.

sadly ::: adv. --> Wearily; heavily; firmly.
Seriously; soberly; gravely.
Grievously; deeply; sorrowfully; miserably.


sākyamuni. (P. Sakkamuni; T. Shākya thub pa; C. Shijiamouni; J. Shakamuni; K. Sokkamoni 釋迦牟尼). In Sanskrit, "Sage of the sĀKYA Clan," one of the most common epithets of GAUTAMA Buddha, especially in the MAHĀYĀNA traditions, where the name sĀKYAMUNI is used to distinguish the historical buddha from the myriad other buddhas who appear in the SuTRAs. The sākyas were a tribe in northern India into which was born SIDDHĀRTHA GAUTAMA, the man who would become the historical buddha. According to the texts, the sākya clan was made up of KsATRIYAs, warriors or political administrators in the Indian caste system. The sākya clan flourished in the foothills of the Himālayas, near the border between present-day Nepal and India. Following the tradition's own model, which did not seek to provide a single and seamless biography of Gautama or sākyamuni until centuries after his death, this dictionary narrates the events of the life of the Buddha in separate entries about his previous lives, his teachings, his disciples, and the places he visited over the course of his forty-five years of preaching the dharma. In India, accounts of events in the life of the Buddha first appeared in VINAYA materials, such as the Pāli MAHĀVAGGA or the LOKOTTARAVĀDA school's MAHĀVASTU. Among the Pāli SUTTAs, one of the most detailed accounts of the Buddha's quest for enlightenment occurs in the ARIYAPARIYESANĀSUTTA. It is noteworthy that many of the most familiar events in the Buddha's life are absent in some of the early accounts: the miraculous conception and birth; the death of his mother, Queen MĀYĀ; his sheltered youth; the four chariot rides outside the palace where he beholds the four portents (CATURNIMITTA); his departure from the palace; and his abandonment of his wife, YAsODHARĀ, and his newborn son, RĀHULA. Those stories appear much later, in works like AsVAGHOsA's beloved verse narrative, the BUDDHACARITA, from the second century CE; the SARVĀSTIVĀDA school's third- or fourth-century CE LALITAVISTARA; and the NIDĀNAKATHĀ, the first biography of the Buddha in Pāli, attributed to BUDDHAGHOSA in the fifth century CE, some eight centuries after the Buddha's passing. Even in that later biography, however, the "life of the Buddha" ends with ANĀTHAPIndADA's gift of JETAVANA grove to the Buddha, twenty years after the Buddha's enlightenment and twenty-five years before his death. Other biographical accounts end even earlier, with the conversion of sĀRIPUTRA and MAHĀMAUDGALYĀYANA. Indeed, Indian Buddhist literature devotes more attention to the lives of previous buddhas and to the former lives (JĀTAKA) of Gautama or sākyamuni than they do to biographies of his final lifetime (when biography is taken to refer to a chronological account from birth to death). And even there, the tradition takes pains to demonstrate the consistency of the events of his life with those of previous buddhas; in fact, all buddhas are said to perform the same eight or twelve deeds (see BAXIANG; TWELVE DEEDS OF A BUDDHA). The momentous events of his birth, renunciation, enlightenment under the BODHI TREE, and first turning of the wheel of the dharma (DHARMACAKRAPRAVARTANA) are described in detail in a range of works, and particular attention is given to his death, in both the Pāli MAHĀPARINIBBANASUTTA and the Sanskrit MAHĀPARINIRVĀnASuTRA. And all traditions, whether MAINSTREAM BUDDHIST SCHOOLS or the Mahāyāna, are deeply concerned with the question of the location of the Buddha after his passage into PARINIRVĀnA.

sappho ::: n. --> Any one of several species of brilliant South American humming birds of the genus Sappho, having very bright-colored and deeply forked tails; -- called also firetail.

Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von (1775-1854) Founder of the philosophy of identity which holds that subject and object coincide in the Absolute, a state to be realized in intellectual intuition. Deeply involved in romanticism, Schelling's philosophy of nature culminates in a transcendental idealism where nature and spirit are linked in a series of developments by unfolding powers or potencies, together forming one great organism in which nature is dynamic visible spirit and spirit invisible nature. Freedom and necessity are different refractions of the same reality. Supplementing science -- which deals with matter as extinguished spirit and endeavors to rise from nature to intelligence -- philosophy investigates the development of spirit, theoretically practically, and artistically, converts the subjective into the objective, and shows how the world soul or living principle animates the whole. Schelling's monism recognizes nature and spirit as real and ideal poles respectively, the latter being the positive one. It is pantheistic and aesthetic in that it allows the world process to create with free necessity unconsciously at first in the manner of an artist. Art is perfect union of freedom and necessity, beauty reflects the infinite in the finite. History is the progressive revelation of the Absolute. The ultimate thinking of Schelling headed toward mysticism in which man, his personality expanded into the infinite, becomes absorbed into the absolute self, free from necessity, contingency, consciousness, and personality. Sämmtliche Werke, 14 vols. (1856, re-edited 1927). Cf. Kuno Fischer, Schellings Leben, Werke und Lehre; E. Brehier, Schelling, 1912; V. Jankelevitch, L'Odysee de la conscience dans la derniere philosophie de Schelling, 1933. -- K.F.L.

scissorstail ::: n. --> A tyrant flycatcher (Milvulus forficatus) of the Southern United States and Mexico, which has a deeply forked tail. It is light gray above, white beneath, salmon on the flanks, and fiery red at the base of the crown feathers.

settled ::: v. 1. Rendered or made stable or permanent; fixed in a certain condition; established. 2. Sank down gradually and remained. 3. Sank deeply into (the mind, heart). 4. Discontinued moving and came to rest in one place. adj. 5. Established on a permanent basis; stabilized.

shallow ::: superl. --> Not deep; having little depth; shoal.
Not deep in tone.
Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning. ::: n.


shinbutsu shugo. (神佛習合). In Japanese, "unity of spirits and buddhas" (spirits here referring to the KAMI associated with the indigenous Japanese religion now referred to as SHINTo). The practice of associating local gods and spirits with buddhas and BODHISATTVAs is documented as early as the late seventh century. By the eighth century, Shinto shrines (J. jinja) and Buddhist temples (J. TERA) were being jointly constructed beside one another. Over the course of the Heian period (794-1185), Buddhism gradually became ingrained deeply within local belief systems in communities across Japan, requiring some sort of accommodation between local and imported religions. As Buddhism became central to Japanese religious practice, the kami were sometimes either categorized as inferior beings subject to suffering who therefore needed the guidance of the Buddhist teachings, or tasked with guarding Buddhist temples and shrines. Ultimately, kami were redefined, using the principle of HONJI SUIJAKU, as local manifestations of the universal deities of the Buddhist religion. The development of temple-shrine complexes (J. jinguji), which did not differentiate between the two traditions, followed, although the shrine priests were generally subservient to their better educated, and politically and socially connected, Buddhist counterparts. During the Tokugawa period (1600-1868), tensions appeared as Nativist scholars began identifying "Shinto" as Japan's pure, indigenous religion, which they advocated should be decontaminated of so-called "foreign" elements like Buddhism and Confucianism. When the Meiji government took power in 1868, it instituted a policy known as SHINBUTSU BUNRI, which forcibly separated the putative native "Shinto" tradition from Buddhism. See also HAIBUTSU KISHAKU.

sink ::: v. i. --> To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and sink; the sun sinks in the west.
To enter deeply; to fall or retire beneath or below the surface; to penetrate.
Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.
To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fall slowly, as so the


slashed ::: gashed or cut deeply as with a violent sweeping stroke of a knife or sword.

slashed ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Slash ::: a. --> Marked or cut with a slash or slashes; deeply gashed; especially, having long, narrow openings, as a sleeve or other part of a garment, to show rich lining or under vesture.
Divided into many narrow parts or segments by sharp


sohei. (僧兵). In Japanese, "monks' militia." During the mid-Heian period, the major Buddhist monasteries near Nara and Kyoto, such as KoFUKUJI, ENRYAKUJI, and Onjoji (later called MIIDERA), became large landholders and were deeply immersed in political activities. The monasteries maintained small armies of private warriors to protect their assets and promote their interests. Although these warriors wore Buddhist robes and lived inside the temple complexes, they were not formally ordained; on the battlefield, they also wore full armor, making them virtually indistinguishable from ordinary warriors. During this period, these warriors were called simply "members of the congregation" (shuto; daishu) or pejoratively referred to as "evil monks" (akuso); the term sohei seems not to have been used until 1715, when it first appeared in the Dainihon shi ("The History of Great Japan"). These monks' militias were mustered against both rival temples and secular authorities. From the tenth to the twelfth centuries, monks' militias engaged in pitched battles with their rivals, as in the intrasectarian rivalry between the Tendai monasteries of Enryakuji and Onjoji, and the intersectarian rivalries between Kofukuji and its two Tendai counterparts. During this same period, monks' militias also participated in the Genpei War of 1180-1185, which led to the establishment of the Kamakura shogunate. There were more than two hundred major violent incidents involving monks' militias between the late-tenth and early-sixteenth centuries. The monks' militia of Enryakuji also battled the temples established by the new schools of JoDO SHINSHu and NICHIRENSHu, which gained popularity among commoners and local warlords during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries: for example, Enryakuji sohei attacked and destroyed the original HONGANJI in otani (east of Kyoto) in 1465 and twenty-one Nichiren temples in Kyoto in 1536. However, the power of monks' militias diminished significantly after 1571, when the warlord Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582) massacred the Buddhist clerics and sohei on HIEIZAN and burned down Enryakuji, which had threatened him with its military power. Monks' militias are not an exclusively Japanese phenomenon but are found across much of the Buddhist tradition. See also HUGUO FOJIAO.

*Sri Aurobindo: "It is true that when Matter first emerges it becomes the dominant principle; it seems to be and is within its own field the basis of all things, the constituent of all things, the end of all things: but Matter itself is found to be a result of something that is not Matter, of Energy, and this Energy cannot be something self-existent and acting in the Void, but can turn out and, when deeply scrutinised, seems likely to turn out to be the action of a secret Consciousness and Being: when the spiritual knowledge and experience emerge, this becomes a certitude, — it is seen that the creative Energy in Matter is a movement of the power of the Spirit.” The Life Divine

Sri Aurobindo: "The Mother not only governs all from above but she descends into this lesser triple universe. Impersonally, all things here, even the movements of the Ignorance, are herself in veiled power and her creations in diminished substance, her Nature-body and Nature-force, and they exist because, moved by the mysterious fiat of the Supreme to work out something that was there in the possibilities of the Infinite, she has consented to the great sacrifice and has put on like a mask the soul and forms of the Ignorance. But personally too she has stooped to descend here into the Darkness that she may lead it to the Light, into the Falsehood and Error that she may convert it to the Truth, into this Death that she may turn it to godlike Life, into this world-pain and its obstinate sorrow and suffering that she may end it in the transforming ecstasy of her sublime Ananda. In her deep and great love for her children she has consented to put on herself the cloak of this obscurity, condescended to bear the attacks and torturing influences of the powers of the Darkness and the Falsehood, borne to pass though the portals of the birth that is a death, taken upon herself the pangs and sorrows and sufferings of the creation, since it seemed that thus alone could it be lifted to the Light and Joy and Truth and eternal Life. This is the great sacrifice called sometimes the sacrifice of the Purusha, but much more deeply the holocaust of Prakriti, the sacrifice of the Divine Mother.” The Mother

Surgical patients suffering from fright and fear before or during the induction of an anesthetic take it with more difficulty, and feel more aftereffects, than those who meet it without anxiety. The first stage of general anesthesia, usually not unpleasant, ends with the loss of physical consciousness. Then begins the second, or stage of struggling more or less vigorously, evidently due to the automatic reaction of the physical body, from which its conscious astral soul is being dissociated. In the third stage, the muscles relax and the disturbed heart and lungs settle down to regular rhythm, controlled by the sympathetic nervous system, as in a deep, dreamless sleep. The self-conscious ego, thus withdrawing from its ordinary state of being, enters more or less deeply into the subjective realm of its inner life. It is in a state of what has been called, paradoxically, conscious unconsciousness. The danger here is that the soul may become so far separated from its body that it does not come back again, and then death results.

svasaMvedana. (T. rang rig; C. zizheng/zijue; J. jisho/jikaku; K. chajŭng/chagak 自證/自覺). In Sanskrit, lit. "self-knowledge" or "self-awareness," also seen written as svasaMveda, svasaMvit, svasaMvitti. In Buddhist epistemology, svasaMvedana is that part of consciousness which, during a conscious act of seeing, hearing, thinking, and so on, apprehends not the external sensory object but the knowing consciousness itself. For example, when a visual consciousness (CAKsURVIJNĀNA) apprehends a blue color, there is a simultaneous svasaMvedana that apprehends the caksurvijNāna; it is directed at the consciousness, and explains not only how a person knows that he knows, but also how a person can later remember what he saw or heard, and so on. There is disagreement as to whether such a form of consciousness exists, with proponents (usually YOGĀCĀRA) arguing that there must be this consciousness of consciousness in order for there to be memory of past cognitions, and opponents (MADHYAMAKA) propounding a radical form of nonessentialism that explains memory as a mere manipulation of objects with no more than a language-based reality. Beside the basic use of the term svasaMvedana to explain the nature of consciousness and the mechanism of memory, the issue of the necessary existence of svasaMvedana was pressed by the Yogācāra school because of how they understood enlightenment (BODHI). They argued that the liberating vision taught by the Buddha consisted of a self-reflexive act that was utterly free of subject-object distortion (GRĀHYAGRĀHAKAVIKALPA). In ordinary persons, they argued, all conscious acts take place within a bifurcation of subject and object, with a sense of distance between the two, because of the residual impressions or latencies (VĀSANĀ) left by ignorance. Infinite numbers of earlier conscious acts have been informed by that particular deeply ingrained ignorance. These impressions are carried at the foundational level of consciousness (ĀLAYAVIJNĀNA). When they are finally removed by the process of BHĀVANĀ, knowledge (JNĀNA) purified of distortion emerges in a fundamental transformation (ĀsRAYAPARĀVṚTTI), thus knowing itself in a nondual vision. Such a vision presupposes self-knowledge. In tantric literature, svasaMvedana has a less technical sense of a profound and innate knowledge or awareness. See also RIG PA.

Tantric, Tantrika [Sanskrit tāntrika] The adjectival form of tantra; sometimes employed to signify one who is deeply versed in some study — a scholar; but more accurately pertains to the Tantras themselves and the doctrines in them.

Tantrik or Tantrika(Sanskrit) ::: The adjective corresponding to tantra. This adjective, however, is sometimes employed tosignify one who is deeply versed in some study -- a scholar; but more particularly the adjective concernsthe Tantras and the doctrines contained in them.

Tathāgatagarbhasutra. (T. De bzhin gshegs pa'i snying po'i mdo; C. Dafangdeng rulaizang jing; J. Daihodo nyoraizokyo; K. Taebangdŭng yoraejang kyong 大方等如來藏經). In Sanskrit, "Discourse on the Embryo of the TATHĀGATAS"; also known by the longer title of Tathāgatagarbhanāmavaipulyasutra, an influential Mahāyāna sutra, and the earliest to set forth the doctrine of the womb or embryo of buddhahood (TATHĀGATAGARBHA). The sutra, which is preserved only in Chinese and later Tibetan translations, was probably composed in the second half of the third century CE. The sutra, set ten years after the Buddha's enlightenment, opens with the Buddha seated on Vulture Peak (GṚDHRAKutAPARVATA) surrounded by one hundred thousand monks and bodhisattvas equal in number to the sands of the Ganges (GAnGĀNADĪVĀLUKĀ). The Buddha causes myriad closed lotuses to fill the sky, each enclosing a buddha who is emitting rays of light. The petals of the lotuses open and then became wilted and finally rotten, but the buddhas seated upon them remain pristine. The bodhisattva Vajramati then asks the Buddha to explain what has occurred. In the most famous section of the sutra, the Buddha then sets forth nine similes of the tathāgatagarbha. (1) Just as there was a buddha seated cross-legged within decaying lotus petals, so in each sentient being, there is a buddha encased in the sheaths of the afflictions. (2) Just as a honeycomb is surrounded by bees, so the buddhahood within each being is surrounded by afflictions and impurities; just as the beekeeper removes the bees, so the Buddha removes the afflictions and impurities of sentient beings. (3) Just as a kernel is encased in a husk, so buddhahood is encased by the afflictions. (4) Just as a piece of gold covered with excrement would be hidden until its presence was revealed by a god, so the buddha within each being, covered as he is by the filth of the afflictions, remains unknown until a buddha reveals his presence. (5) Just as a treasure buried deep beneath the house of a poor man would be unknown to him, leaving him to presume he was poor, so is the buddha-nature hidden deeply within all beings unknown to them, causing them to wander in SAMSĀRA. The Buddha sees the body of a buddha within all beings and teaches them how to become treasures of the dharma. (6) Just as hidden within a fruit is a seed and sprout that will produce a tree, so the Buddha sees the body of a buddha within the sheaths of the afflictions. (7) Just as a jeweled image of the Buddha wrapped in putrid rags would lie unnoticed by the side of the road until its presence was revealed by a god, so the body of a buddha wrapped in afflictions inside even an animal is seen only by the Buddha. (8) Just as a poor and ugly woman who carried the embryo of a universal emperor (CAKRAVARTIN) in her womb would remain discouraged by her lot, so sentient beings who carry a buddha within them continue to be distressed by saMsāra. (9) Just as a golden statue remains hidden within a blackened clay mold until the goldsmith breaks the mold with a hammer, so the knowledge of a buddha remains invisible within the afflictions until the Buddha uses the dharma to remove the afflictions.

The declared purpose of the Neoplatonists was to demonstrate the reality of a fundamental wisdom, to draw together the elect of every faith, and likewise to sow the seeds for a unification of faiths. The teachings are religious in the sense that they appeal to the religious instincts and inculcate the loftiest and purest morality; but on the other hand no church or creed was founded. The conditions of the times did not call for a scientific presentation of the ancient teachings; the regimentation of external life had turned men’s hopes inward. Such a system could not be created by merely putting together borrowings from Plato and Pythagoras, the Jews, and Gnostics, etc. Behind the movement must have been minds initiated in the lore of ancient Egypt and India, and thus supplied with the design which alone could make a unity out of the elements. Through succeeding centuries, revivals of Neoplatonism have appeared, sometimes using the name itself. It deeply influenced the Christian church, not only in early times but later under the influence of the pseudo-Dionysius and still later of Erigena.

``The first step on this free, this equal, this divine way of action is to put from you attachment to fruit and recompense and to labour only for the sake of the work itself that has to be done. For you must deeply feel that the fruits belong not to you but to the Master of the world. Consecrate your labour and leave its returns to the Spirit who manifests and fulfils himself in the universal movement. The outcome of your action is determined by his will alone and whatever it be, good or evil fortune, success or failure, it is turned by him to the accomplishment of his world purpose.” Essays on the Gita*

``The first step on this free, this equal, this divine way of action is to put from you attachment to fruit and recompense and to labour only for the sake of the work itself that has to be done. For you must deeply feel that the fruits belong not to you but to the Master of the world. Consecrate your labour and leave its returns to the Spirit who manifests and fulfils himself in the universal movement. The outcome of your action is determined by his will alone and whatever it be, good or evil fortune, success or failure, it is turned by him to the accomplishment of his world purpose.” Essays on the Gita

The Heavens ::: The subtle planes of reality that resonate more deeply with archetypes of bliss, acceptance, and liberation. Generally these are in the upper Astral Plane or in the Mental Plane and certain religious systems and spiritual traditions view these planes as areas of rebirth for good karmic accumulations or as zones of reprieve before rebirth.

The Hells ::: The denser planes of reality that resonate more deeply with archetypes of suffering and severity. Generally these are in the lower Astral Plane or in denser layers of physicality than the physical world our bodies exist in. Certain religious systems and spiritual traditions view these planes as areas of rebirth for bad karmic accumulations or as zones of self-inflicted suffering due to attachment.

The influence of Kant has penetrated more deeply than that of any other modern philosopher. His doctrine of freedom became the foundation of idealistic metaphysics in Fichte, Schelling and Hegel, but not without sacrifice of the strict critical method. Schopenhauer based his voluntarism on Kant's distinction between phenomena and things-in-themselves. Lotze's teleological idealism was also greatly indebted to Kant. Certain psychological and pragmatic implications of Kant's thought were developed by J. F. Fries, Liebmann, Lange, Simmel and Vaihinger. More recently another group in Germany, reviving the critical method, sought a safe course between metaphysics and psychology; it includes Cohen, Natorp, Riehl, Windelband, Rickert, Husserl, Heidegger, and E. Cassirer. Until recent decades English and American idealists such as Caird, Green, Bradley, Howison, and Royce, saw Kant for the most part through Hegel's eyes. More recently the study of Kant's philosophy has come into its own in English-speaking countries through such commentaries as those of N. K. Smith and Paton. In France the influence of Kant was most apparent in Renouvier's "Phenomenism". -- O.F.K.

  ". . . there are a series of subtler and subtler formulations of substance which escape from and go beyond the formula of the material universe. Without going deeply into matters which are too occult and difficult for our present inquiry, we may say, adhering to the system on which we have based ourselves, that these gradations of substance, in one important aspect of their formulation in series, can be seen to correspond to the ascending series of Matter, Life, Mind, Supermind and that other higher divine triplicity of Sachchidananda. In other words, we find that substance in its ascension bases itself upon each of these principles and makes itself successively a characteristic vehicle for the dominating cosmic self-expression of each in their ascending series.” The Life Divine

“… there are a series of subtler and subtler formulations of substance which escape from and go beyond the formula of the material universe. Without going deeply into matters which are too occult and difficult for our present inquiry, we may say, adhering to the system on which we have based ourselves, that these gradations of substance, in one important aspect of their formulation in series, can be seen to correspond to the ascending series of Matter, Life, Mind, Supermind and that other higher divine triplicity of Sachchidananda. In other words, we find that substance in its ascension bases itself upon each of these principles and makes itself successively a characteristic vehicle for the dominating cosmic self-expression of each in their ascending series.” The Life Divine

The trailokya are all, in each case, nonphysical spheres, and pertain to the postmortem states of entities. These three worlds are wholly exoteric groupings — not meaning false, but not sufficiently explained in the exoteric literature to develop the real significances. In theosophy there are seven or ten groupings of the postmortem realms or states. These states cannot be grouped under the Brahmanical three worlds, but under the three Buddhist dhatus or lokas. Rupa-dhatu and arupa-dhatu may be called dhyanas (contemplation), thus designating the deeply contemplative character of the excarnate egos sunken in the profound deeps of consciousness. See also TRIBHUVANA

The vesica piscis is an instance of a large class of highly involved and entangled mystical emblems, where the phallic aspect seems to dog the footsteps of attempts to depict highly spiritual, deeply profound facts. The human mind, so desirous of making graphic emblems of purely abstract realities, sooner or later loses sight of the abstract truth, so that only the picture itself remains. See also ICHTHYS

thickly ::: adv. --> In a thick manner; deeply; closely.

thrilling ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Thrill ::: a. --> Causing a thrill; causing tremulous excitement; deeply moving; as, a thrilling romance.

tomopteris ::: n. --> A genus of transparent marine annelids which swim actively at the surface of the sea. They have deeply divided or forked finlike organs (parapodia). This genus is the type of the order, or suborder, Gymnocopa.

trench ::: v. t. --> To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.
To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.
To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.
To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next;


U. Cassina, L'oeuvre philosophique de G. Peano, Revue de Metaphysique et de Morale, vol. 40 (1933), pp. 481-491. Peirce, Charles Sanders: American Philosopher. Born in Cambridge, Mass, on September 10th, 1839. Harvard M.A. in 1862 and Sc. B. in 1863. Except for a brief cireer as lectuier in philosophy at Harvard, 1864-65 and 1869-70 and in logic at Johns Hopkins, 1879-84, he did no formal teaching. Longest tenure was with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey for thirty years beginning in 1861. Died at Milford, Pa. in 1914 He had completed only one work, The Grand Logic, published posthumously (Coll. Papers). Edited Studies in Logic (1883). No volumes published during his lifetime but author of many lectures, essays and reviews in periodicals, particularly in the Popular Science Monthly, 1877-78, and in The Monist, 1891-93, some of which have been reprinted in Chance, Love and Logic (1923), edited by Morris R. Cohen, and. together with the best of his other work both published and unpublished, in Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce (1931-35), edited by Charles Hartshorne ¦ind Paul Weiss. He was most influenced by Kant, who had he thought, raised all the relevant philosophical problems but from whom he differed on almost every solution. He was excited by Darwin, whose doctrine of evolution coincided with his own thought, and disciplined by laboratory experience in the physical sciences which inspired his search for rigor and demonstration throughout his work. Felt himself deeply opposed to Descartes, whom he accused of being responsible for the modern form of the nominalistic error. Favorably inclined toward Duns Scotus, from whom he derived his realism. Philosophy is a sub-class of the science of discovery, in turn a branch of theoretical science. The function of philosophy is to expliin and hence show unity in the variety of the universe. All philosophy takes its start in logic, or the relations of signs to their objects, and phenomenology, or the brute experience of the objective actual world. The conclusions from these two studies meet in the three basic metaphysical categories: quality, reaction, and representation. Quality is firstness or spontaneity; reaction is secondness or actuality; and representation is thirdness or possibility. Realism (q.v.) is explicit in the distinction of the modes of being actuality as the field of reactions, possibility as the field of quality (or values) and representation (or relations). He was much concerned to establish the realism of scientific method: that the postulates, implications and conclusions of science are the results of inquiry yet presupposed by it. He was responsible for pragmatism as a method of philosophy that the sum of the practical consequences which result by necessity from the truth of an intellectual conception constitutes the entire meaning of that conception. Author of the ethical principle that the limited duration of all finite things logically demands the identification of one's interests with those of an unlimited community of persons and things. In his cosmology the flux of actuality left to itself develops those systematic characteristics which are usually associated with the realm of possibility. There is a logical continuity to chance events which through indefinite repetition beget order, as illustrated in the tendency of all things to acquire habits. The desire of all things to come together in this certain order renders love a kind of evolutionary force. Exerted a strong influence both on the American pragmatist, William James (1842-1910), the instrumentalist, John Dewey (1859-), as well as on the idealist, Jociah Royce (1855-1916), and many others. -- J.K.F.

vicāra. (T. dpyod pa; C. si; J. shi; K. sa 伺). In Sanskrit and Pāli, "sustained thought," "sustained attention," "imagination," or "analysis"; one of the forty-six mental factors (CAITTA) according to the VAIBHĀsIKA school of SARVĀSTIVĀDA ABHIDHARMA, one of the fifty-one according to the YOGĀCĀRA school, and one of the fifty-two in the Pāli ABHIDHAMMA. Although etymologically the term contains the connotation of "analysis," vicāra is polysemous in the Buddhist lexicon and refers to a mental activity that can be present both in ordinary states of consciousness and in meditative absorption (DHYĀNA). In ordinary consciousness, vicāra is "sustained thought," viz., the continued pondering of things. It is listed as an indeterminate mental factor (ANIYATA-CAITTA) because it can be employed toward either virtuous or nonvirtuous ends, depending on one's intention and the object of one's attention. Vicāra as a mental activity typically follows VITARKA, wherein vitarka is the "initial application of thought" and vicāra the "sustained thought" that ensues after one's attention has already adverted toward an object. In the context of meditative absorption, vicāra may be rendered as "sustained attention" or "sustained application of attention." With vitarka the practitioner directs his focus toward a chosen meditative object. When the attention is properly directed, the practitioner follows by applying and continuously fixing his attention on the same thing, deeply experiencing (or examining) the object. In meditative absorption, vicāra is one of the five factors that make up the first dhyāna (see DHYĀNĀnGA). According to the VISUDDHIMAGGA, "applied thought" (P. vitakka; S. vitarka) is like a bee flying toward a flower, having oriented itself toward its chosen target, whereas "sustained attention" (vicāra) is like a bee hovering over that flower, fixating on the flower.

well-read ::: a. --> Of extensive reading; deeply versed; -- often followed by in.

"We must, however, consider deeply and clearly what we mean by the understanding and by its purification. We use the word as the nearest equivalent we can get in the English tongue to the Sanskrit philosophical term buddhi.” The Synthesis of Yoga

“We must, however, consider deeply and clearly what we mean by the understanding and by its purification. We use the word as the nearest equivalent we can get in the English tongue to the Sanskrit philosophical term buddhi.” The Synthesis of Yoga

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Will power is a mighty, colorless force or energy which can be set in motion by one who has the power and knowledge to do so. In India, in combination with abstract desire, it is mentioned as one of six primary powers (ichchhasakti) by which the adept accomplishes many of his wonders. “The ancients held that any idea will manifest itself externally, if one’s attention (and Will) is deeply concentrated upon it; similarly, an intense volition will be followed by the desired result . . . For creation is but the result of will acting on phenomenal matter, the calling forth out of the primordial divine Light and eternal Life “(SD 2:173). The occult power of will explains many scientific problems of animate and inanimate matter. In human beings, it may consciously and unconsciously act upon other human wills and upon that of beasts; likewise, it may act upon physical and astral substance to produce various phenomena such as levitation, fire-walking, birthmarks, etc. “Paracelsus teaches that ‘determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain’ ” (TG 370).

Zen Buddhism ::: A fusion of Mahayana Buddhism and Taoism, practiced chiefly in China and Japan. It places great importance on moment-by-moment awareness and 'seeing deeply into the nature of things' by direct experience. The name derives from the Sanskrit word dhyana referring to a particular meditative state.



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1:Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world ~ Miyamoto Musashi,
2:Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world." ~ Miyamoto Musashi,
3:If you haven't wept deeply, you haven't begun to meditate." ~ Ajahn Chah,
4:The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself." ~ Anais Nin,
5:One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world." ~ Dogen Zenji,
6:Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever. Only nothing is eternal." ~ Audre Lorde,
7:Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~ Laozi,
8:Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~ Lao Tzu,
9:To get to know a person more deeply, don't ask them what they think, but what they love. ~ Claudio Naranjo,
10:An education that seeks competition rather than collaboration is the reflection of a society that is deeply ill. ~ Claudio Naranjo,
11:As you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty." ~ Osho,
12:The unchangeable can only be realized in silence. Once realized, it will deeply affect the changeable. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Maharaj,
13:The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.
   ~ Vicktor Hugo,
14:A little meditation is no good. God cannot be realized through such lukewarm moods. One must yearn deeply, one must become restless. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA,
15:The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
   ~ Nikola Tesla,
16:I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious than any other natural resource a country can have." ~ Danny Kaye,
17:Boys and young men of pure minds should be led early into the path of religion, before worldliness enters deeply into them. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
18:A man cannot understand the art he is studying if he only looks for the end result without taking the time to delve deeply into the reasoning of the study. ~ Miyamoto Musashi,
19:Know thyself and thou shalt know the non-self, the Lord of all. Ponder deeply and thou shalt know that there is no such thing as "I". ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
20:Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. ~ Richard P. Feynman,
21:The mind of the worldly is at one time deeply engaged in religious topics, yet at the next moment lost in the enjoyment of lust and wealth. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
22:animal, or human being. Knowing how deeply our lives intertwine, We vow to not abuse the great truth of the Three Treasures." ~ Stephanie Kaza, Professor, practicing Soto Zen Buddhist, Wik.,
23:Gratitude: it is you who open all the closed doors and let the Grace which saves penetrate deeply.
   ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Gratitude and Faithfulness, [T5],
24:Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
   ~ Henry David Thoreau,
25:More deeply than the bounded senses can
Which grasp externally and find to lose, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,
26:When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending. ~ Thích Nhất Hạnh,
27:If we do not believe within ourselves this deeply rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall never find the strength to evolve into something higher. ~ Rudolf Steiner,
28:To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him. ~ Abu Hamid al-Ghazali,
29:She [St. Catherine of Siena] moves and touches me so deeply that every time I read her life, I have to hold the book in one hand and a handkerchief in the other to staunch the tears that it makes me shed continually. ~ Saint Anthony Mary Claret,
30:This one question - "What do I know for certain?" - is tremendously powerful. When you look deeply into this question, it actually destroys your world. It destroys your whole sense of self, and it's meant to. ~ Adyashanti, The End of Your World,
31:Try your utmost never to succumb to anyone's influence. In order to become firm, calm, deeply serious, full of courage, with one's personality wholly intact, pure and holy out of one's own strength, one has to be centered in God. ~ SRI ANANDAMAYI MA,
32:Perhaps we are lacking the recognition that a response to the whole world should not most deeply be that of doing, nor even that of terror and anguish, but that of wondering or marveling at what is, being amazed or astonished by it…. ~ George Grant,
33:I do not suffer any experience, pleasant or unpleasant; it is only a 'you' or a 'me' who suffers an experience. This is a very important pronouncement and you should ponder over it deeply. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj,
34:What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives." ~ Sam Harris, (b. 1967) American author, philosopher, neuroscientist, critic of religion, Wikipedia.,
35:The quiddity of things, which is the truth of beings, is unattainable in its purity; though it is sought by all philosophers, it is found by no one as it is. And the more deeply we are instructed in this ignorance, the closer we approach the truth. ~ Nicholas of Cusa, DDI I.3,
36:The nature of the bear is sluggish and his ways peculiar to himself, and deeply secretive. He has been clotlhed with a body of the same type, heavy, compact, not distinctly articulated, truly fit for chilly hibernating in caves. ~ Basil of Caesarea, On the Hexameron, Homily 9.3,
37:What have you done to deserve anything at all and who are you even? If you contemplate these thing deeply you would not be arrogant and you would not suffer. You would value life In all its experiences." ~ Mooji, (b. 1954) Jamaican spiritual teacher. From "Before I Am", (2012).,
38:Personal entity and enlightenment cannot go together. Indeed there is neither entity nor enlightenment. Understanding this deeply is itself enlightenment. Freedom is the unshakeable knowledge of your real nature, it is the total negation of entity-ness. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Maharaj,
39:Questions bring us closer to that experience, though they are often paradoxical: when we first ask them, the immediate answer is a conditioned response. To dig deeply into these questions, to look deep inside oneself, is its own spiritual practice. What is the most important thing? ~ Adyashanti,
40:Know thyself and thou shalt know the Non-ego and the Lord of all. Meditate deeply, thou shalt find there is nothing thou canst call "I". The innermost result of all analysis is the eternal divine. When egoism vanishes, divinity manifests itself. ~ Ramakrishna, the Eternal Wisdom
41:Look not so deeply into words and letters; for this Mystery hath been hidden by the Alchemists. Compose the sevenfold into a fourfold regimen; and when thou hast understood thou mayest make symbols; but by playing child's games with symbols thou shalt never understand. ~ Aleister Crowley,
42:Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and dogmatic denial very childish forms of conceit in a world of infinitely whirling complexity. None of us can see enough from one corner of space-time to know "all" about the rest of space-time. ~ Robert Anton Wilson,
43:We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.
   The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true. ~ Carl Sagan,
44:Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such a thing. It comes up and talks. And those who have heard deeply the rhythms and hymns of the gods, can recite those hymns in such a way that the gods will be attracted. ~ Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Works,
45:The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy, man's tendency to actualize himself, to become his potentialities. By this I mean the organic and human life, the urge to expand, extend, develop, mature - the tendency to express and activate all the capacities of the organism, or the self. ~ Carl Rogers,
46:It is time to put up a love-swing!
Tie the body and then tie the mind so that they
swing between the arms of the Secret One you love,
Bring the water that falls from the clouds to your eyes,
and cover yourself inside entirely with the shadow of night.
Bring your face up close to his ear,
and then talk only about what you want deeply to happen. ~ Kabir,
47:The 'little word is has its tragedies; it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger. Whenever I use the word is, except in sheer tautology, I deeply misuse it; and when I discover my error, the world seems to fall asunder and the members of my family no longer know one another. (461) ~ G Santayana,
48:In the Confucian tradition is a simple formula that appeals to me deeply: 'If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.' I urge everyone to reflect deeply on these words, as simple as they are profound. ~ Eknath Easwaran,
49:Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all. ~ Richard P Feynman,
50:This encounter, the very heart of psychotherapy, is a caring, deeply human meeting between two people, one (generally, but not always, the patient) more troubled than the other. Therapists have a dual role: they must both observe and participate in the lives of their patients. As observer, one must be sufficiently objective to provide necessary rudimentary guidance to the patient. As participant, one enters into the life of the patient and is affected and sometimes changed by the encounter. ~ Irvin D Yalom,
51:I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.
   ~ Franz Kafka,
52:The person who has allowed himself to develop certain mental habits finds that attitudes can be just as much addiction as narcotics. Someone who would not under any conditions become an alcoholic can become so completely sickened by his own habitual negative thinking, that many people around him wish he would become alcoholic as the lesser of two evils. It is hard to cure an alcoholic, although Alcoholics Anonymous can do it sometimes; but the individual who falls too deeply into some of the traps of his own thinking is practically incurable because he has warped all perspective and has no real desire to make any change in himself. ~ Manly P Hall, (Change Yourself and You Change All 1969, p.7),
53:Hearing has consequences. When I truly hear a person and the meanings that are important to him at that moment, hearing not simply his words, but him, and when I let him know that I have heard his own private personal meanings, many things happen. There is first of all a grateful look. He feels released. He wants to tell me more about his world. He surges forth in a new sense of freedom. He becomes more open to the process of change. I have often noticed that the more deeply I hear the meanings of the person, the more there is that happens. Almost always, when a person realize he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me. ~ Carl Rogers,
54:My child, if you can concentrate deeply into my eyes, then you will get all that you want to know, all that you want to comprehend, all that you want to realise, just by an intense concentration, just by the power of your will which expresses itself through your eyes.

You can have all that you aspire for, all that you need. You can see the whole world in my eyes: the whole universe unfolds in my eyes, all that is beautiful in nature as well as in the heavens. And you will not need to go here and there looking for the so-called attractions and revelations of this world. All is in me, and all expresses itself through me. Take the trouble to find me there (Mother points to the heart) and you will see everything, everything through my eyes. Voilà! ~ The Mother,
55:Why does one feel afraid?

   I suppose it is because one is egoistic.
   There are three reasons. First, an excessive concern about one's security. Next, what one does not know always gives an uneasy feeling which is translated in the consciousness by fear. And above all, one doesn't have the habit of a spontaneous trust in the Divine. If you look into things sufficiently deeply, this is the true reason. There are people who do not even know that That exists, but one could tell them in other words, 'You have no faith in your destiny' or 'You know nothing about Grace' - anything whatever, you may put it as you like, but the root of the matter is a lack of trust. If one always had the feeling that it is the best that happens in all circumstances, one would not be afraid
   ~ The Mother,
56:The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery ~ even if mixed with fear ~ that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man... I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence ~ as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.,
57:My deepest debt in this book is to the General Semantics ('non-Aristotelian system') of Alfred Korzybski. I have also drawn heavily upon the works of other contributors to semantic thought: especially C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, Thorstein Veblen, Edward Sapir, Leonard Bloomfield, Karl R. Popper, Thurman Arnold, Jerome Frank, Jean Piaget, Charles Morris, Wendell Johnson, Irving J. Lee, Ernst Cassirer, Anatol Rapoport, Stuart Chase. I am also deeply indebted to the writings of numerous psychologists and psychiatrists with one or another of the dynamic points of view inspired by Sigmund Freud: Karl Menninger, Trigant Burrow, Carl Rogers, Kurt Lewin, N. R. F. Maier, Jurgen Ruesch, Gregory Bateson, Rudolf Dreikurs, Milton Rokeach. I have also found extremely helpful the writings of cultural anthropologists, especially those of Benjamin Lee Whorf, Ruth Benedict, Clyde Kluckhohn, Leslie A. White, Margaret Mead, Weston La Barre. ~ S. I. Hayakawa,
58:For ages this idea has been proclaimed in the consummately wise teachings of religion, probably not alone as a means of ensuring peace and harmony among men, but as a deeply founded truth. The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one. Metaphysical proofs are, however, not the only ones which we are able to bring forth in support of this idea. Science, too, recognizes this connectedness of separate individuals, though not quite in the same sense as it admits that the suns, planets, and moons of a constellation are one body, and there can be no doubt that it will be experimentally confirmed in times to come, when our means and methods for investigating psychical and other states and phenomena shall have been brought to great perfection. Still more: this one human being lives on and on. The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains. Therein lies the profound difference between the individual and the whole. ~ Nikola Tesla,
59:A book like this, a problem like this, is in no hurry; we both, I just as much as my book, are friends of lento. It is not for nothing that I have been a philologist, perhaps I am a philologist still, that is to say, A TEACHER OF SLOW READING:- in the end I also write slowly. Nowadays it is not only my habit, it is also to my taste - a malicious taste, perhaps? - no longer to write anything which does not reduce to despair every sort of man who is 'in a hurry'. For philology is that venerable art which demands of its votaries one thing above all: to go aside, to take time, to become still, to become slow - it is a goldsmith's art and connoisseurship of the WORD which has nothing but delicate, cautious work to do and achieves nothing if it does not achieve it lento. But precisely for this reason it is more necessary than ever today, by precisely this means does it entice and enchant us the most, in the midst of an age of 'work', that is to say, of hurry, of indecent and perspiring haste, which wants to 'get everything done' at once, including every old or new book:- this art does not so easily get anything done, it teaches to read WELL, that is to say, to read slowly, deeply, looking cautiously before and aft, with reservations, with doors left open, with delicate eyes and fingers...My patient friends, this book desires for itself only perfect readers and philologists: LEARN to read me well! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
60:Why God sometimes allows people who are genuinely good to be hindered in the good that they do. God, who is faithful, allows his friends to fall frequently into weakness only in order to remove from them any prop on which they might lean. For a loving person it would be a great joy to be able to achieve many great feats, whether keeping vigils, fasting, performing other ascetical practices or doing major, difficult and unusual works. For them this is a great joy, support and source of hope so that their works become a prop and a support upon which they can lean. But it is precisely this which our Lord wishes to take from them so that he alone will be their help and support. This he does solely on account of his pure goodness and mercy, for God is prompted to act only by his goodness, and in no way do our works serve to make God give us anything or do anything for us. Our Lord wishes his friends to be freed from such an attitude, and thus he removes their support from them so that they must henceforth find their support only in him. For he desires to give them great gifts, solely on account of his goodness, and he shall be their comfort and support while they discover themselves to be and regard themselves as being a pure nothingness in all the great gifts of God. The more essentially and simply the mind rests on God and is sustained by him, the more deeply we are established in God and the more receptive we are to him in all his precious gifts - for human kind should build on God alone. ~ Meister Eckhart,
61:What is that work and result, if not a self-involution of Consciousness in form and a self-evolution out of form so as to actualise some mighty possibility in the universe which it has created? And what is its will in Man if not a will to unending Life, to unbounded Knowledge, to unfettered Power? Science itself begins to dream of the physical conquest of death, expresses an insatiable thirst for knowledge, is working out something like a terrestrial omnipotence for humanity. Space and Time are contracting to the vanishing-point in its works, and it strives in a hundred ways to make man the master of circumstance and so lighten the fetters of causality. The idea of limit, of the impossible begins to grow a little shadowy and it appears instead that whatever man constantly wills, he must in the end be able to do; for the consciousness in the race eventually finds the means. It is not in the individual that this omnipotence expresses itself, but the collective Will of mankind that works out with the individual as a means. And yet when we look more deeply, it is not any conscious Will of the collectivity, but a superconscious Might that uses the individual as a centre and means, the collectivity as a condition and field. What is this but the God in man, the infinite Identity, the multitudinous Unity, the Omniscient, the Omnipotent, who having made man in His own image, with the ego as a centre of working, with the race, the collective Narayana, the visvamanava as the mould and circumscription, seeks to express in them some image of the unity, omniscience, omnipotence which are the self-conception of the Divine?
   ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine,
62:For invincible reasons of homogeneity and coherence, the fibers of cosmogenesis require to be prolonged in ourselves far more deeply than flesh and bone. We are not being tossed about and drawn along in the vital current merely by the material surface of our being. But like a subtle fluid, space-time, having drowned our bodies, penetrates our soul. It fills it and impregnates it. It mingles with its powers, until the soul soon no longer knows how to distinguish space-time from its own thoughts. Nothing can escape this flux any longer, for those who know how to see, even though it were the summit of our being, because it can only be defined in terms of increases of consciousness. For is not the very act by which the fine point of our mind penetrates the absolute a phenomenon of emergence? In short, recognized at first in a single point of things, then inevitably having spread to the whole of the inorganic and organic volume of matter, whether we like it or not evolution is now starting to invade the psychic zones of the world.... The human discovers that, in the striking words of Julian Huxley, we are nothing else than evolution become conscious of itself. It seems to me that until it is established in this perspective, the modern mind...will always be restless. For it is on this summit and this summit alone that a resting place and illumination await us.... All evolution becomes conscious of itself deep within us.... Not only do we read the secret of its movements in our slightest acts, but to a fundamental extent we hold it in our own hands: responsible for its past and its future. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man,
63:
   How can one "learn of pure delight"?

First of all, to begin with, one must through an attentive observation grow aware that desires and the satisfaction of desires give only a vague, uncertain pleasure, mixed, fugitive and altogether unsatisfactory. That is usually the starting-point.

   Then, if one is a reasonable being, one must learn to discern what is desire and refrain from doing anything that may satisfy one's desires. One must reject them without trying to satisfy them. And so the first result is exactly one of the first observations stated by the Buddha in his teaching: there is an infinitely greater delight in conquering and eliminating a desire than in satisfying it. Every sincere and steadfast seeker will realise after some time, sooner or later, at times very soon, that this is an absolute truth, and that the delight felt in overcoming a desire is incomparably higher than the small pleasure, so fleeting and mixed, which may be found in the satisfaction of his desires. That is the second step.

   Naturally, with this continuous discipline, in a very short time the desires will keep their distance and will no longer bother you. So you will be free to enter a little more deeply into your being and open yourself in an aspiration to... the Giver of Delight, the divine Element, the divine Grace. And if this is done with a sincere self-giving - something that gives itself, offers itself and expects nothing in exchange for its offering - one will feel that kind of sweet warmth, comfortable, intimate, radiant, which fills the heart and is the herald of Delight.    After this, the path is easy.
   ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1957-1958,
64:19 - When I had the dividing reason, I shrank from many things; after I had lost it in sight, I hunted through the world for the ugly and the repellent, but I could no longer find them. - Sri Aurobindo

Is there really nothing ugly and repellent in the world? Is it our reason alone that sees things in that way?

To understand truly what Sri Aurobindo means here, you must yourself have had the experience of transcending reason and establishing your consciousness in a world higher than the mental intelligence. For from up there you can see, firstly, that everything that exists in the universe is an expression of Sachchidananda (Being-Consciousness-Bliss) and therefore behind any appearance whatever, if you go deeply enough, you can perceive Sachchidananda, which is the principle of Supreme Beauty.

Secondly, you see that everything in the manifested universe is relative, so much so that there is no beauty which may not appear ugly in comparison with a greater beauty, no ugliness which may not appear beautiful in comparison with a yet uglier ugliness.

When you can see and feel in this way, you immediately become aware of the extreme relativity of these impressions and their unreality from the absolute point of view. However, so long as we dwell in the rational consciousness, it is, in a way, natural that everything that offends our aspiration for perfection, our will for progress, everything we seek to transcend and surmount, should seem ugly and repellent to us, since we are in search of a greater ideal and we want to rise higher.

And yet it is still only a half-wisdom which is very far from the true wisdom, a wisdom that appears wise only in the midst of ignorance and unconsciousness.

In the Truth everything is different, and the Divine shines in all things. 17 February 1960 ~ The Mother, On Thoughts And Aphorisms,
65:I know some individuals who make this their daily practice: starting at the beginning and reading a canto or half a canto every day till they reach the end and then starting at the beginning again, and in that way they have gone through the whole of Savitri many times. When this is done in groups there's really no doubt that by this going through the whole soundbody of the epic from beginning to end aloud, there must be built up a very strong force field of vibrations. It is definitely of benefit to the people who participate in it. But again I would say that the effect or benefit of this sacrifice will be richer to the extent that the reading is done with understanding and above all with soul surrender. It shouldn't become a mere ritual.
Sri Aurobindo's mantric lines, repeated one after the other, will always have their power; but the power will be much greater if the mind can participate, and the will and the heart.
I have also heard of some groups who select one line that seems to have a particular mantric power and then within the group they chant that line many, many times. They concentrate on that one special line, and try to take its vibrations deep into themselves. Again I am sure that this is very beneficial to those who practice it.
In that way the words enter very deeply into the consciousness. There they resonate and do their work, and perhaps not just the surface meaning but the deeper meaning and the deeper vibrations may reveal their full depth to those who undertake this exercise if it is done with self-dedication, with a true aspiration to internalise the heart of the meaning, not just as a mere repetition.
At another end of the spectrum of possible approaches to Savitri, we can say there would be the aesthetic approach, the approach of enjoying it for its poetic beauty. I met a gentleman a couple of months ago, who told me, "We have faith in Sri Aurobindo, but it is so difficult to understand his books. We tried with The Life Divine, we tried with The Synthesis of Yoga but we found them so difficult. ~ collab summer & fall 2011,
66:And therefore, all of those for whom authentic transformation has deeply unseated their souls must, I believe, wrestle with the profound moral obligation to shout form the heart-perhaps quietly and gently, with tears of reluctance; perhaps with fierce fire and angry wisdom; perhaps with slow and careful analysis; perhaps by unshakable public example-but authentically always and absolutely carries a a demand and duty: you must speak out, to the best of your ability, and shake the spiritual tree, and shine your headlights into the eyes of the complacent. You must let that radical realization rumble through your veins and rattle those around you.
   Alas, if you fail to do so, you are betraying your own authenticity. You are hiding your true estate. You don't want to upset others because you don't want to upset your self. You are acting in bad faith, the taste of a bad infinity.
   Because, you see, the alarming fact is that any realization of depth carries a terrible burden: those who are allowed to see are simultaneously saddled with the obligation to communicate that vision in no uncertain terms: that is the bargain. You were allowed to see the truth under the agreement that you would communicate it to others (that is the ultimate meaning of the bodhisattva vow). And therefore, if you have seen, you simply must speak out. Speak out with compassion, or speak out with angry wisdom, or speak out with skillful means, but speak out you must.
   And this is truly a terrible burden, a horrible burden, because in any case there is no room for timidity. The fact that you might be wrong is simply no excuse: You might be right in your communication, and you might be wrong, but that doesn't matter. What does matter, as Kierkegaard so rudely reminded us, is that only by investing and speaking your vision with passion, can the truth, one way or another, finally penetrate the reluctance of the world. If you are right, or if you are wrong, it is only your passion that will force either to be discovered. It is your duty to promote that discovery-either way-and therefore it is your duty to speak your truth with whatever passion and courage you can find in your heart. You must shout, in whatever way you can. ~ Ken Wilber, One Taste,
67:Many Blows are Needed:

Mother, even when one tries to think that one is powerless, there is something which believes one is powerful. So?

Ah, yes, ah yes! Ah, it is very difficult to be sincere.... That is why blows multiply and sometimes become terrible, because that's the only thing which breaks your stupidity. This is the justification of calamities. Only when you are in an acutely painful situation and indeed before something that affects you deeply, then that makes the stupidity melt away a little. But as you say, even when there is something that melts, there is still a little something which remains inside. And that is why it lasts so long... How many blows are needed in life for one to know to the very depths that one is nothing, that one can do nothing, that one does not exist, that one is nothing, that there is no entity without the divine Consciousness and the Grace. From the moment one knows it, it is over; all difficulties have gone. When one knows it integrally and there is nothing which resists... but till that moment... And it takes very long.

   Why doesn't the blow come all at once?

   Because that would kill you. For if the blow is strong enough to cure you, it would simply crush you, it would reduce you to pulp. It is only by proceeding little by little, little by little, very gradually, that you can continue to exist. Naturally this depends on the inner strength, the inner sincerity, and on the capacity for progress, for profiting by experience and, as I said a while ago, on not forgetting. If one is lucky enough not to forget, then one goes much faster. One can go very fast. And if at the same time one has that inner moral strength which, when the red-hot iron is at hand, does not extinguish it by trying to pour water over it, but instead goes to the very core of the abscess, then in this case things go very fast also. But not many people are strong enough for this. On the contrary, they very quickly do this (gesture), like this, like this, in order to hide, to hide from themselves. How many pretty little explanations one gives oneself, how many excuses one piles up for all the foolishnesses one has committed.
   ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1954,
68:At the basis of this collaboration there is necessarily the will to change, no longer to be what one is, for things to be no longer what they are. There are several ways of reaching it, and all the methods are good when they succeed! One may be deeply disgusted with what exists and wish ardently to come out of all this and attain something else; one may - and this is a more positive way - one may feel within oneself the touch, the approach of something positively beautiful and true, and willingly drop all the rest so that nothing may burden the journey to this new beauty and truth.

   What is indispensable in every case is the ardent will for progress, the willing and joyful renunciation of all that hampers the advance: to throw far away from oneself all that prevents one from going forward, and to set out into the unknown with the ardent faith that this is the truth of tomorrow, inevitable, which must necessarily come, which nothing, nobody, no bad will, even that of Nature, can prevent from becoming a reality - perhaps of a not too distant future - a reality which is being worked out now and which those who know how to change, how not to be weighed down by old habits, will surely have the good fortune not only to see but to realise. People sleep, they forget, they take life easy - they forget, forget all the time.... But if we could remember... that we are at an exceptional hour, a unique time, that we have this immense good fortune, this invaluable privilege of being present at the birth of a new world, we could easily get rid of everything that impedes and hinders our progress.

   So, the most important thing, it seems, is to remember this fact; even when one doesn't have the tangible experience, to have the certainty of it and faith in it; to remember always, to recall it constantly, to go to sleep with this idea, to wake up with this perception; to do all that one does with this great truth as the background, as a constant support, this great truth that we are witnessing the birth of a new world.

   We can participate in it, we can become this new world. And truly, when one has such a marvellous opportunity, one should be ready to give up everything for its sake. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1957-1958, [T1],
69:The majority of Buddhists and Buddhist teachers in the West are green postmodern pluralists, and thus Buddhism is largely interpreted in terms of the green altitude and the pluralistic value set, whereas the greatest Buddhist texts are all 2nd tier, teal (Holistic) or higher (for example, Lankavatara Sutra, Kalachakra Tantra, Longchenpa's Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka treatises, and so forth).

This makes teal (Holistic), or Integral 2nd tier in general, the lowest deeply adequate level with which to interpret Buddhism, ultimate Reality, and Suchness itself. Thus, interpreting Suchness in pluralistic terms (or lower) would have to be viewed ultimately as a dysfunction, certainly a case of arrested development, and one requiring urgent attention in any Fourth Turning.

These are some of the problems with interpreting states (in this case, Suchness states) with a too-low structure (in short, a severe misinterpretation and thus misunderstanding of the Ultimate). As for interpreting them with dysfunctional structures (of any altitude), the problem more or less speaks for itself. Whether the structure in itself is high enough or not, any malformation of the structure will be included in the interpretation of any state (or any other experience), and hence will deform the interpretation itself, usually in the same basic ways as the structure itself is deformed. Thus, for example, if there is a major Fulcrum-3 (red altitude) repression of various bodily states (sex, aggression, power, feelings), those repressions will be interpreted as part of the higher state itself, and so the state will thus be viewed as devoid of (whereas this is actually a repression of) any sex, aggression, power, feelings, or whatever it is that is dis-owned and pushed into the repressed submergent unconscious. If there is an orange altitude problem with self-esteem (Fulcrum-5), that problem will be magnified by the state experience, and the more intense the state experience, the greater the magnification. Too little self-esteem, and even profound spiritual experiences can be interpreted as "I'm not worthy, so this state-which seems to love me unconditionally-must be confused." If too much self-esteem, higher experiences are misinterpreted, not as a transcendence of the self, but as a reward for being the amazing self I am-"the wonder of being me." ~ Ken Wilber, The Religion Of Tomorrow,
70:Satya Sattva - "Sri Yukteswar's intuition was penetrating; heedless of remarks, he often replied to one's unexpressed thoughts. The words a person uses, and the actual thoughts behind them, may be poles apart. 'By calmness,' my guru said, 'try to feel the thoughts behind the confusion of men's verbiage.' [...]

Many teachers talked of miracles but could manifest nothing. Sri Yukteswar seldom mentioned the subtle laws but secretly operated them at will. 'A man of realization doesn't perform any miracle until he receives an inward sanction', master explained. 'God does not wish the secrets of His creation revealed promiscuously. Also, every individual in the world has an inalienable right to his free will. A saint will not encroach on that independence.'

The silence habitual to Sri Yukteswar was caused by his deep perceptions of the Infinite. [...] Because of my guru's unspectacular guise, only a few of his contemporaries recognized him as a superman. The adage: 'He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom,' could never be applied to my profound and quiet master. Though born a mortal like all others, Sri Yukteswar achieved identity with the Ruler of time and space. Master found no insuperable obstacles to the mergence of human and Divine. No such barrier exists, I came to understand. [...]

Though my guru's undissembling speech prevented a large following during his years on Earth, nevertheless, through an ever-growing number of sincere students of his teachings, his spirit lives on in the world today. [...]

The disclosures of the Divine insight are often painful to worldly ears. Master was not popular with superficial students. The wise, always few in number, deeply revered him. I daresay Sri Yukteswar would have been the most sought-after guru in India had his speech not been so candid and so censorious. [...]

He added, 'You will go to foreign lands, where blunt assaults on the ego are not appreciated. A teacher could not spread India's message in the West without an ample fund of accommodative patience and forbearance.' [...]

I am immeasurably grateful for the humbling blows he dealt my vanity. I sometimes felt that, metaphorically, he was discovering and uprooting every diseased tooth in my jaw. The hard core of egotism is difficult to dislodge except rudely. With its departure, the Divine finds at last un unobstructed channel. In vain It seeks to percolate through flinty hearts of selfishness. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi,
71:Workshops, churches, and palaces were full of these fatal works of art; he had even helped with a few himself. They were deeply disappointing be­ cause they aroused the desire for the highest and did not fulfill it. They lacked the most essential thing-mystery. That was what dreams and truly great works of art had in common : mystery. Goldmund continued his thought: It is mystery I love and pursue. Several times I have seen it beginning to take shape; as an artist, I would like to capture and express it. Some day, perhaps, I'll be able to. The figure of the universal mother, the great birthgiver, for example. Unlike other fi gures, her mystery does not consist of this or that detail, of a particular voluptuousness or sparseness, coarseness or delicacy, power or gracefulness. It consists of a fusion of the greatest contrasts of the world, those that cannot otherwise be combined, that have made peace only in this figure. They live in it together: birth and death, tenderness and cruelty, life and destruction. If I only imagined this fi gure, and were she merely the play of my thoughts, it would not matter about her, I could dismiss her as a mistake and forget about her. But the universal mother is not an idea of mine; I did not think her up, I saw her! She lives inside me. I've met her again and again. She appeared to me one winter night in a village when I was asked to hold a light over the bed of a peasant woman giving birth: that's when the image came to life within me. I often lose it; for long periods it re­ mains remote; but suddenly it Hashes clear again, as it did today. The image of my own mother, whom I loved most of all, has transformed itself into this new image, and lies encased within the new one like the pit in the cherry.

   As his present situation became clear to him, Goldmund was afraid to make a decision. It was as difficult as when he had said farewell to Narcissus and to the cloister. Once more he was on an impor­ tant road : the road to his mother. Would this mother-image one day take shape, a work of his hands, and become visible to all? Perhaps that was his goal, the hidden meaning of his life. Perhaps; he didn't know. But one thing he did know : it was good to travel toward his mother, to be drawn and called by her. He felt alive. Perhaps he'd never be able to shape her image, perhaps she'd always remain a dream, an intuition, a golden shimmer, a sacred mystery. At any rate, he had to follow her and submit his fate to her. She was his star.

   And now the decision was at his fingertips; everything had become clear. Art was a beautiful thing, but it was no goddess, no goal-not for him. He was not to follow art, but only the call of his mother.

   ~ Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund,
72:SLEIGHT OF MIND IN ILLUMINATION
Only those forms of illumination which lead to useful behaviour changes deserve to be known as such. When I hear the word "spirituality", I tend to reach for a loaded wand. Most professionally spiritual people are vile and untrustworthy when off duty, simply because their beliefs conflict with basic drives and only manage to distort their natural behaviour temporarily. The demons then come screaming up out of the cellar at unexpected moments.

When selecting objectives for illumination, the magician should choose forms of self improvement which can be precisely specified and measured and which effect changes of behaviour in his entire existence. Invocation is the main tool in illumination, although enchantment where spells are cast upon oneselves and divination to seek objectives for illumination may also find some application.

Evocation can sometimes be used with care, but there is no point in simply creating an entity that is the repository of what one wishes were true for oneself in general. This is a frequent mistake in religion. Forms of worship which create only entities in the subconscious are inferior to more wholehearted worship, which, at its best, is pure invocation. The Jesuits "Imitation of Christ" is more effective than merely praying to Jesus for example.

Illumination proceeds in the same general manner as invocation, except that the magician is striving to effect specific changes to his everyday behaviour, rather than to create enhanced facilities that can be drawn upon for particular purposes. The basic technique remains the same, the required beliefs are identified and then implanted in the subconscious by ritual or other acts. Such acts force the subconscious acquisition of the beliefs they imply.

Modest and realistic objectives are preferable to grandiose schemes in illumination.

One modifies the behaviour and beliefs of others by beginning with only the most trivial demands. The same applies to oneselves. The magician should beware of implanting beliefs whose expression cannot be sustained by the human body or the environment. For example it is possible to implant the belief that flight can be achieved without an aircraft. However it has rarely proved possible to implant this belief deeply enough to ensure that such flights were not of exceedingly short duration. Nevertheless such feats as fire-walking and obliviousness to extreme pain are sometimes achieved by this mechanism.

The sleight of mind which implants belief through ritual action is more powerful than any other weapon that humanity possesses, yet its influence is so pervasive that we seldom notice it. It makes religions, wars, cults and cultures possible. It has killed countless millions and created our personal and social realities. Those who understand how to use it on others can be messiahs or dictators, depending on their degree of personal myopia. Those who understand how to apply it to themselves have a jewel beyond price if they use it wisely; otherwise they tend to rapidly invoke their own Nemesis with it. ~ Peter J Carroll, Liber Kaos,
73:Sometimes one cannot distinguish adverse forces from other forces.

That happens when one is quite unconscious. There are only two cases when this is possible: you are either very unconscious of the movements of your being - you have not studied, you have not observed, you do not know what is happening within you - or you are absolutely insincere, that is, you play the ostrich in order not to see the reality of things: you hide your head, you hide your observation, your knowledge and you say, "It is not there." But indeed the latter I hope is not in question here. Hence it is simply because one has not the habit of observing oneself that one is so unconscious of what is happening within.

Have you ever practised distinguishing what comes from your mind, what comes from your vital, what comes from your physical?... For it is mixed up; it is mixed up in the outward appearance. If you do not take care to distinguish, it makes a kind of soup, all that together. So it is indistinct and difficult to discoveR But if you observe yourself, after some time you see certain things, you feel them to be there, like that, as though they were in your skin; for some other things you feel you would have to go within yourself to find out from where they come; for other things, you have to go still further inside, or otherwise you have to rise up a little: it comes from unconsciousness. And there are others; then you must go very deep, very deep to find out from where they come. This is just a beginning.

Simply observe. You are in a certain condition, a certain undefinable condition. Then look: "What! how is it I am like that?" You try to see first if you have fever or some other illness; but it is all right, everything is all right, there's neither headache nor fever, the stomach is not protesting, the heart is functioning as it should, indeed, all's well, you are normal. "Why then am I feeling so uneasy?"... So you go a little further within. It depends on cases. Sometimes you find out immediately: yes, there was a little incident which wasn't pleasant, someone said a word that was not happy or one had failed in his task or perhaps did not know one's lesson very well, the teacher had made a remark. At the time, one did not pay attention properly, but later on, it begins to work, leaves a painful impression. That is the second stage. Afterwards, if nothing happened: "All's well, everything is normal, everything usual, I have nothing to note down, nothing has happened: why then do I feel like that?" Now it begins to be interesting, because one must enter much more deeply within oneself. And then it can be all sorts of things: it may be precisely the expression of an attack that is preparing; it may be a little inner anxiety seeking the progress that has to be made; it may be a premonition that there is somewhere in contact with oneself something not altogether harmonious which one has to change: something one must see, discover, change, on which light is to be put, something that is still there, deep down, and which should no longer be there. Then if you look at yourself very carefully, you find out: "There! I am still like that; in that little corner, there is still something of that kind, not clear: a little selfishness, a little ill-will, something refusing to change." So you see it, you take it by the tip of its nose or by the ear and hold it up in full light: "So, you were hiding! you are hiding? But I don't want you any longer." And then it has to go away.

This is a great progress.
   ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 102-104, [T4],
74:The ancient Mesopotamians and the ancient Egyptians had some very interesting, dramatic ideas about that. For example-very briefly-there was a deity known as Marduk. Marduk was a Mesopotamian deity, and imagine this is sort of what happened. As an empire grew out of the post-ice age-15,000 years ago, 10,000 years ago-all these tribes came together. These tribes each had their own deity-their own image of the ideal. But then they started to occupy the same territory. One tribe had God A, and one tribe had God B, and one could wipe the other one out, and then it would just be God A, who wins. That's not so good, because maybe you want to trade with those people, or maybe you don't want to lose half your population in a war. So then you have to have an argument about whose God is going to take priority-which ideal is going to take priority.

What seems to happen is represented in mythology as a battle of the gods in celestial space. From a practical perspective, it's more like an ongoing dialog. You believe this; I believe this. You believe that; I believe this. How are we going to meld that together? You take God A, and you take God B, and maybe what you do is extract God C from them, and you say, 'God C now has the attributes of A and B.' And then some other tribes come in, and C takes them over, too. Take Marduk, for example. He has 50 different names, at least in part, of the subordinate gods-that represented the tribes that came together to make the civilization. That's part of the process by which that abstracted ideal is abstracted. You think, 'this is important, and it works, because your tribe is alive, and so we'll take the best of both, if we can manage it, and extract out something, that's even more abstract, that covers both of us.'

I'll give you a couple of Marduk's interesting features. He has eyes all the way around his head. He's elected by all the other gods to be king God. That's the first thing. That's quite cool. They elect him because they're facing a terrible threat-sort of like a flood and a monster combined. Marduk basically says that, if they elect him top God, he'll go out and stop the flood monster, and they won't all get wiped out. It's a serious threat. It's chaos itself making its comeback. All the gods agree, and Marduk is the new manifestation. He's got eyes all the way around his head, and he speaks magic words. When he fights, he fights this deity called Tiamat. We need to know that, because the word 'Tiamat' is associated with the word 'tehom.' Tehom is the chaos that God makes order out of at the beginning of time in Genesis, so it's linked very tightly to this story. Marduk, with his eyes and his capacity to speak magic words, goes out and confronts Tiamat, who's like this watery sea dragon. It's a classic Saint George story: go out and wreak havoc on the dragon. He cuts her into pieces, and he makes the world out of her pieces. That's the world that human beings live in.

The Mesopotamian emperor acted out Marduk. He was allowed to be emperor insofar as he was a good Marduk. That meant that he had eyes all the way around his head, and he could speak magic; he could speak properly. We are starting to understand, at that point, the essence of leadership. Because what's leadership? It's the capacity to see what the hell's in front of your face, and maybe in every direction, and maybe the capacity to use your language properly to transform chaos into order. God only knows how long it took the Mesopotamians to figure that out. The best they could do was dramatize it, but it's staggeringly brilliant. It's by no means obvious, and this chaos is a very strange thing. This is a chaos that God wrestled with at the beginning of time.

Chaos is half psychological and half real. There's no other way to really describe it. Chaos is what you encounter when you're blown into pieces and thrown into deep confusion-when your world falls apart, when your dreams die, when you're betrayed. It's the chaos that emerges, and the chaos is everything it wants, and it's too much for you. That's for sure. It pulls you down into the underworld, and that's where the dragons are. All you've got at that point is your capacity to bloody well keep your eyes open, and to speak as carefully and as clearly as you can. Maybe, if you're lucky, you'll get through it that way and come out the other side. It's taken people a very long time to figure that out, and it looks, to me, that the idea is erected on the platform of our ancient ancestors, maybe tens of millions of years ago, because we seem to represent that which disturbs us deeply using the same system that we used to represent serpentile, or other, carnivorous predators. ~ Jordan Peterson, Biblical Series, 1,
75:Attention on Hypnagogic Imagery The most common strategy for inducing WILDs is to fall asleep while focusing on the hypnagogic imagery that accompanies sleep onset. Initially, you are likely to see relatively simple images, flashes of light, geometric patterns, and the like.

Gradually more complicated forms appear: faces, people, and finally entire scenes. 6

The following account of what the Russian philosopher P. D. Ouspensky called "half-dream states" provides a vivid example of what hypnagogic imagery can be like:

I am falling asleep. Golden dots, sparks and tiny stars appear and disappear before my eyes. These sparks and stars gradually merge into a golden net with diagonal meshes which moves slowly and regularly in rhythm with the beating of my heart, which I feel quite distinctly. The next moment the golden net is transformed into rows of brass helmets belonging to Roman soldiers marching along the street below. I hear their measured tread and watch them from the window of a high house in Galata, in Constantinople, in a narrow lane, one end of which leads to the old wharf and the Golden Horn with its ships and steamers and the minarets of Stamboul behind them. I hear their heavy measured tread, and see the sun shining on their helmets. Then suddenly I detach myself from the window sill on which I am lying, and in the same reclining position fly slowly over the lane, over the houses, and then over the Golden Horn in the direction of Stamboul. I smell the sea, feel the wind, the warm sun. This flying gives me a wonderfully pleasant sensation, and I cannot help opening my eyes. 7

Ouspensky's half-dream states developed out of a habit of observing the contents of his mind while falling asleep or in half-sleep after awakening from a dream. He notes that they were much easier to observe in the morning after awakening than before sleep at the beginning of the night and did not occur at all "without definite efforts." 8

Dr. Nathan Rapport, an American psychiatrist, cultivated an approach to lucid dreaming very similar to Ouspensky's: "While in bed awaiting sleep, the experimenter interrupts his thoughts every few minutes with an effort to recall the mental item vanishing before each intrusion that inquisitive attention." 9 This habit is continued sleep itself, with results like the following:

Brilliant lights flashed, and a myriad of sparkles twinkled from a magnificent cut glass chandelier. Interesting as any stage extravaganza were the many quaintly detailed figurines upon a mantel against the distant, paneled wall adorned in rococo.

At the right a merry group of beauties and gallants in the most elegant attire of Victorian England idled away a pleasant occasion. This scene continued for [a] period of I was not aware, before I discovered that it was not reality, but a mental picture and that I was viewing it. Instantly it became an incommunicably beautiful vision. It was with the greatest stealth that my vaguely awakened mind began to peep: for I knew that these glorious shows end abruptly because of such intrusions.

I thought, "Have I here one of those mind pictures that are without motion?" As if in reply, one of the young ladies gracefully waltzed about the room. She returned to the group and immobility, with a smile lighting her pretty face, which was turned over her shoulder toward me. The entire color scheme was unobtrusive despite the kaleidoscopic sparkles of the chandelier, the exquisite blues and creamy pinks of the rich settings and costumes. I felt that only my interest in dreams brought my notice to the tints - delicate, yet all alive as if with inner illumination. 10

Hypnagogic Imagery Technique

1. Relax completely

While lying in bed, gently close your eyes and relax your head, neck, back, arms, and legs. Completely let go of all muscular and mental tension, and breathe slowly and restfully. Enjoy the feeling of relaxation and let go of your thoughts, worries, and concerns. If you have just awakened from sleep, you are probably sufficiently relaxed.

Otherwise, you may use either the progressive relaxation exercise (page 33) or the 61-point relaxation exercise (page 34) to relax more deeply. Let everything wind down,

slower and slower, more and more relaxed, until your mind becomes as serene as the calmest sea.

2. Observe the visual images

Gently focus your attention on the visual images that will gradually appear before your mind's eye. Watch how the images begin and end. Try to observe the images as delicately as possible, allowing them to be passively reflected in your mind as they unfold. Do not attempt to hold onto the images, but instead just watch without attachment or desire for action. While doing this, try to take the perspective of a detached observer as much as possible. At first you will see a sequence of disconnected, fleeting patterns and images. The images will gradually develop into scenes that become more and more complex, finally joining into extended sequences.

3. Enter the dream

When the imagery becomes a moving, vivid scenario, you should allow yourself to be passively drawn into the dream world. Do not try to actively enter the dream scene,

but instead continue to take a detached interest in the imagery. Let your involvement with what is happening draw you into the dream. But be careful of too much involvement and too little attention. Don't forget that you are dreaming now!

Commentary

Probably the most difficult part of this technique to master is entering the dream at Step 3. The challenge is to develop a delicate vigilance, an unobtrusive observer perspective, from which you let yourself be drawn into the dream. As Paul Tholey has emphasized, "It is not desirable to want actively to enter into the scenery,

since such an intention as a rule causes the scenery to disappear." 11 A passive volition similar to that described in the section on autosuggestion in the previous chapter is required: in Tholey's words, "Instead of actively wanting to enter into the scenery, the subject should attempt to let himself be carried into it passively." 12 A Tibetan teacher advises a similar frame of mind: "While delicately observing the mind, lead it gently into the dream state, as though you were leading a child by the hand." 13

Another risk is that, once you have entered into the dream, the world can seem so realistic that it is easy to lose lucidity, as happened in the beginning of Rapport's WILD described above. As insurance in case this happens, Tholey recommends that you resolve to carry out a particular action in the dream, so that if you momentarily lose lucidity, you may remember your intention to carry out the action and thereby regain lucidity.
~ Stephen LaBerge, Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming,
76:
   Why do we forget our dreams?


Because you do not dream always at the same place. It is not always the same part of your being that dreams and it is not at the same place that you dream. If you were in conscious, direct, continuous communication with all the parts of your being, you would remember all your dreams. But very few parts of the being are in communication.

   For example, you have a dream in the subtle physical, that is to say, quite close to the physical. Generally, these dreams occur in the early hours of the morning, that is between four and five o'clock, at the end of the sleep. If you do not make a sudden movement when you wake up, if you remain very quiet, very still and a little attentive - quietly attentive - and concentrated, you will remember them, for the communication between the subtle physical and the physical is established - very rarely is there no communication.

   Now, dreams are mostly forgotten because you have a dream while in a certain state and then pass into another. For instance, when you sleep, your body is asleep, your vital is asleep, but your mind is still active. So your mind begins to have dreams, that is, its activity is more or less coordinated, the imagination is very active and you see all kinds of things, take part in extraordinary happenings.... After some time, all that calms down and the mind also begins to doze. The vital that was resting wakes up; it comes out of the body, walks about, goes here and there, does all kinds of things, reacts, sometimes fights, and finally eats. It does all kinds of things. The vital is very adventurous. It watches. When it is heroic it rushes to save people who are in prison or to destroy enemies or it makes wonderful discoveries. But this pushes back the whole mental dream very far behind. It is rubbed off, forgotten: naturally you cannot remember it because the vital dream takes its place. But if you wake up suddenly at that moment, you remember it. There are people who have made the experiment, who have got up at certain fixed hours of the night and when they wake up suddenly, they do remember. You must not move brusquely, but awake in the natural course, then you remember.

   After a time, the vital having taken a good stroll, needs to rest also, and so it goes into repose and quietness, quite tired at the end of all kinds of adventures. Then something else wakes up. Let us suppose that it is the subtle physical that goes for a walk. It starts moving and begins wandering, seeing the rooms and... why, this thing that was there, but it has come here and that other thing which was in that room is now in this one, and so on. If you wake up without stirring, you remembeR But this has pushed away far to the back of the consciousness all the stories of the vital. They are forgotten and so you cannot recollect your dreams. But if at the time of waking up you are not in a hurry, you are not obliged to leave your bed, on the contrary you can remain there as long as you wish, you need not even open your eyes; you keep your head exactly where it was and you make yourself like a tranquil mirror within and concentrate there. You catch just a tiny end of the tail of your dream. You catch it and start pulling gently, without stirring in the least. You begin pulling quite gently, and then first one part comes, a little later another. You go backward; the last comes up first. Everything goes backward, slowly, and suddenly the whole dream reappears: "Ah, there! it was like that." Above all, do not jump up, do not stir; you repeat the dream to yourself several times - once, twice - until it becomes clear in all its details. Once that dream is settled, you continue not to stir, you try to go further in, and suddenly you catch the tail of something else. It is more distant, more vague, but you can still seize it. And here also you hang on, get hold of it and pull, and you see that everything changes and you enter another world; all of a sudden you have an extraordinary adventure - it is another dream. You follow the same process. You repeat the dream to yourself once, twice, until you are sure of it. You remain very quiet all the time. Then you begin to penetrate still more deeply into yourself, as though you were going in very far, very far; and again suddenly you see a vague form, you have a feeling, a sensation... like a current of air, a slight breeze, a little breath; and you say, "Well, well...." It takes a form, it becomes clear - and the third category comes. You must have a lot of time, a lot of patience, you must be very quiet in your mind and body, very quiet, and you can tell the story of your whole night from the end right up to the beginning.

   Even without doing this exercise which is very long and difficult, in order to recollect a dream, whether it be the last one or the one in the middle that has made a violent impression on your being, you must do what I have said when you wake up: take particular care not even to move your head on the pillow, remain absolutely still and let the dream return.

   Some people do not have a passage between one state and another, there is a little gap and so they leap from one to the other; there is no highway passing through all the states of being with no break of the consciousness. A small dark hole, and you do not remember. It is like a precipice across which one has to extend the consciousness. To build a bridge takes a very long time; it takes much longer than building a physical bridge.... Very few people want to and know how to do it. They may have had magnificent activities, they do not remember them or sometimes only the last, the nearest, the most physical activity, with an uncoordinated movement - dreams having no sense.

   But there are as many different kinds of nights and sleep as there are different days and activities. There are not many days that are alike, each day is different. The days are not the same, the nights are not the same. You and your friends are doing apparently the same thing, but for each one it is very different. And each one must have his own procedure.

   Why are two dreams never alike?

Because all things are different. No two minutes are alike in the universe and it will be so till the end of the universe, no two minutes will ever be alike. And men obstinately want to make rules! One must do this and not that.... Well! we must let people please themselves.

   You could have put to me a very interesting question: "Why am I fourteen years old today?" Intelligent people will say: "It is because it is the fourteenth year since you were born." That is the answer of someone who believes himself to be very intelligent. But there is another reason. I shall tell this to you alone.... I have drowned you all sufficiently well! Now you must begin to learn swimming!

   ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 36?,

*** WISDOM TROVE ***

1:Feel deeply to think clearly. ~ nathaniel-branden, @wisdomtrove
2:I am deeply fulfilled by all that I do. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove
3:Alas! how deeply painful is all payment! ~ lord-byron, @wisdomtrove
4:People living deeply have no fear of death. ~ anais-nin, @wisdomtrove
5:Do not hesitate to love and to love deeply. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove
6:In music I feel most deeply the passing of things. ~ anais-nin, @wisdomtrove
7:Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing. ~ abraham-maslow, @wisdomtrove
8:Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove
9:Breathing out, I vow to live deeply in this day. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
10:One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world. ~ dogen, @wisdomtrove
11:Whom God would use greatly He will hurt deeply. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove
12:I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove
13:We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story... ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove
14:Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove
15:Fight fairly. Give generously. Laugh loudly. Love deeply. ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove
16:God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove
17:Ask youself: "Am I loving as deeply as I am capable of loving?" ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove
18:Words may deeply wound us, but we must run that risk to be free. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove
19:We all are so deeply interconnected; we have no option but to love all. ~ amit-ray, @wisdomtrove
20:He who is or has been deeply hurt has a RIGHT to be sure he is LOVED. ~ jean-vanier, @wisdomtrove
21:The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. ~ anais-nin, @wisdomtrove
22:Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove
23:When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself. ~ anais-nin, @wisdomtrove
24:What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
25:God cannot use a man or woman greatly until he wounds them deeply. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove
26:If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
27:It's a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
28:We scarcely wish to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove
29:The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove
30:If you want to be deeply respected, deeply respect as many people as possible. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove
31:It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove
32:I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time. ~ steve-martin, @wisdomtrove
33:Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove
34:Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove
35:There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove
36:Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me? ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove
37:The child builds his inmost self out of the deeply held impressions he receives. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove
38:If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove
39:I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove
40:It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove
41:We have not come here to take prisoners but to surrender ever more deeply to freedom and joy. ~ hafez, @wisdomtrove
42:I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove
43:To abandon a comfortable lifestyle that isn't deeply fulfilling is to abandon nothing. ~ steve-pavlina, @wisdomtrove
44:Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public. ~ johann-wolfgang-von-goethe, @wisdomtrove
45:The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove
46:Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~ lao-tzu, @wisdomtrove
47:Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
48:What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. ~ hellen-keller, @wisdomtrove
49:If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
50:music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove
51:The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove
52:If mindfulness is deeply important to you, then every moment is an opportunity to practice. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove
53:People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public. ~ johann-wolfgang-von-goethe, @wisdomtrove
54:I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove
55:Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful? ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove
56:My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove
57:Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt, but it is the only way to live life completely. ~ leo-buscaglia, @wisdomtrove
58:There is a spark of good in everybody, no matter how deeply it may be buried. It is the real you. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove
59:To live in the present, we must deeply believe that what is most important is in the here and now. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove
60:When you fall in love, love deeply. Be tough but also be open to the possibility of forgiveness. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove
61:The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all . ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove
62:I deeply, deeply believe in the mystical laws. I know that every thought sends an eternity in motion. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove
63:The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove
64:... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers. ~ mary-oliver, @wisdomtrove
65:We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove
66:For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove
67:Nothing transforms consciousness so quickly and dramatically than simply communing deeply with another being. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove
68:In the end, these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?    ~ buddha, @wisdomtrove
69:Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we're really available, really open. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove
70:To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
71:Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove
72:I deeply, deeply believe in the mystical laws. I know that every thought sends an eternity in motion. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove
73:Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.    ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove
74:By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better & prepare for a better future. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
75:The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
76:The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
77:The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
78:Power includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones. ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove
79:Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove
80:Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
81:The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove
82:Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove
83:Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove
84:If you are truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove
85:It is your holy work, to deeply love, honor and respect the precious self that you are, the soul that only you hold. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove
86:Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
87:Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
88:One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove
89:One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
90:The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove
91:I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove
92:Reading the Bible can be like meeting someone you don't know who, oddly, somehow seems to know you deeply. It's uncanny. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove
93:To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove
94:Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief - and I don't care what it is. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove
95:Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed. ~ moliere, @wisdomtrove
96:The more you meditate, the more helpful you can be to others, and the more deeply you will be in tune with God. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove
97:To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove
98:But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove
99:When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear, and we discover life with all its wonders. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
100:We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation / it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams. ~ les-brown, @wisdomtrove
101:Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life. ~ reinhold-niebuhr, @wisdomtrove
102:The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
103:You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove
104:At that time [1954], as a result of political events, I was deeply preoccupied by my relations with the Communist Party. ~ jean-paul-sartre, @wisdomtrove
105:I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply? ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove
106:Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove
107:Refine your senses a little more each day; stretch them... your awareness will pierce deeply into your body and into the world. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove
108:It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried. ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove
109:No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove
110:People want to believe that every marriage is perfect balance but it isn't. One person always loves more deeply than the other ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove
111:Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove
112:Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply. ~ reinhold-niebuhr, @wisdomtrove
113:You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove
114:Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove
115:States of consciousness are catching, because we resonate together. So when I connect deeply with someone, they often begin to wake up. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove
116:I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove
117:When you have loved deeply, that love can grow even stronger after the death of the person you love. That is the core message of Jesus. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove
118:Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove
119:The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove
120:We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value? ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove
121:Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove
122:God's entire divine nature is wholly and entirely in all creatures, more deeply, more inwardly, more present than the creature is to itself. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove
123:Look: We hate nothing that exists, not even death, suffering and dying, does not horrify our souls, as long as we learn more deeply to love. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove
124:One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove
125:It is lovely to meet an old person whose face is deeply lined, a face that has been deeply inhabited, to look in the eyes and find light there. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove
126:And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove
127:Never count your faults. Just see that your love for God is deeply For God doesn't mind your imperfections: He minds your  indifference. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove
128:The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize what feeds it, we are already on the path of emancipation. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
129:The impact of the holocaust on believers as well as unbelievers, on Jews as well as Christians, has not yet been evaluated. Not deeply, not enough. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove
130:When you meditate deeply, you will see beyond life and death. You will see that you can't die and you can't be reborn. You are existence itself. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove
131:Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove
132:What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove
133:Your unique creative talents and abilities are flowing through you and are being expressed in deeply satisfying ways. Your creativity is always in demand. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove
134:It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
135:Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it, How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove
136:Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove
137:You will gain energy by meditating deeply, by speaking the truth, by learning to be still and by avoiding the crowd, most of the time, not all of the time. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove
138:Once we deeply trust that we ourselves are precious in God's eyes, we are able to recognize the preciousness of others and their unique places in God's heart. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove
139:The world is waiting for new saints, ecstatic men and women who are so deeply rooted in the love of God that they are free to imagine a new international order. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove
140:My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go. ~ roger-penrose, @wisdomtrove
141:Our intuitions, as humans, aren't always very good. Changes that happen really suddenly, on the strength of the most minor of input, can be deeply confusing. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove
142:I have tried and I cannot find, either in scripture or in history, a strong-willed individual whom God used greatly until He allowed them to be hurt deeply. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove
143:A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself, crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove
144:We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove
145:To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove
146:Enlightenment, peace, and joy will not be granted by someone else. The well is within us, And if we dig deeply in the present moment, The water will spring forth. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
147:If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn't that what silence is? It's a listening, a deep wordless listening. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove
148:Love of self and love of life connects us with the prosperity of the Universe. Self-love creates self-expression and allows us to be creative in deeply fulfilling ways. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove
149:... it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart. ~ steve-martin, @wisdomtrove
150:When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
151:Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove
152:She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove
153:I want to invite you to wonder so deeply about life that you find yourself in a profound state of not-knowing… and to experience what happens to your state of consciousness. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove
154:The deep awake state doesn’t negate the mind. In my experience it allows me to think more deeply about things. It sets my mind free so that it functions with intuitive ease. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove
155:Being aware of stillness means to be still. To be still is to be conscious without thought. You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than when you are still. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove
156:My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove
157:When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
158:A timeless lesson for a deeply fulfilling life is to discover your calling, that special work or consuming occupation that fully engages your special talents with your passions. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove
159:Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove
160:Go back to the breathing and try to be in that moment deeply. Because there is a possibility to handle every kind of event and the essential is to keep the peace in yourself. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
161:It was inevitable, of course, but somehow it didn't seem right to Alex that they would never remember the sound of Carly's laughter, or know how deeply she'd once loved them. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove
162:One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply. ~ alan-moore, @wisdomtrove
163:The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was &
164:If we do not believe within ourselves this deeply rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall never find the strength to evolve into something higher. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove
165:Many of our ideas and beliefs about ourselves and the world are so deeply ingrained that we are unaware that they are beliefs and take them, without question, for the absolute truth. ~ rupert-spira, @wisdomtrove
166:To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove
167:We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you're looking deep into yourself, and the other person is looking deeply into the same self. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove
168:It's an incredible mystery of God's love that the more you know how deeply you are loved, the more you will see how deeply your sisters and your brothers in the human family are loved. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove
169:The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove
170:As we love truly and deeply, we see the white light of truth in them. Seeing this reminds us that the same light exists within us too - As the Tibetans say: "Recognition is liberation." ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove
171:How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most. ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove
172:... I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton.— Let each man hope & believe what he can.— ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove
173:We should never underestimate the great power of the way of love which reaches that spark of good in the other person, always there no matter how deeply buried, and the person is disarmed. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove
174:I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove
175:I have so many ideas that may perhaps be of some use in time if others more penetrating than I go deeply into them someday and join the beauty of their minds to the labour of mine. ~ gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz, @wisdomtrove
176:The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground. ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove
177:What if the key to unlocking your true authentic power, to opening up your heart deeply to love, to finding the confidence to go after everything you want in your life lies hidden in your shadow? ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove
178:The contemplation of one's mortality, the fleetingness of life and the impermanence of form is a deeply spiritual thing to do. It is a liberating act that makes life feel considerably less heavy. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove
179:The vibratory toxicity of these subsequent ages would make it impossible for reincarnating members of the Order to go deeply enough into their other memories, without the secret techniques first. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove
180:Of the entire universe, you are the subtle cause. All is because you are. Grasp this point firmly and deeply and dwell on it repeatedly. To realise this as absolutely true, is liberation. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove
181:Only the changeable can be thought of and talked about. The unchangeable can only be realised in silence. Once realised, it will deeply affect the changeable, itself remaining unaffected. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove
182:If I meet other people and criticize their weaknesses, I rob myself of higher cognitive power. But if I try to enter deeply and lovingly into another person's good qualities, I gather in that force. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove
183:We all are so deeply interconnected; we have no option but to love all. Be kind and do good for any one and that will be reflected. The ripples of the kind heart are the highest blessings of the Universe. ~ amit-ray, @wisdomtrove
184:When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see that, the capacity of accepting and having compassion for them is there. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
185:The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
186:What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness? You only truly, deeply appreciate and are grateful for something when you compare and contrast it to something worse. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
187:Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley ignored. He loved deeply and tried dogfully. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
188:To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly from any need to be relevant, and to trust ever more deeply the Word of God. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove
189:I am deeply convince that the necessity of prayer, and to pray unceasingly, is not as much based on our desire for God as on God's desire for us. It is God's passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove
190:Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
191:It deeply concerns me that somebody who knows little or nothing about the Christian faith would hear Mr. Trump call himself a Christian and then make a decision based on the Christian faith, based on his behavior. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove
192:Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove
193:I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove
194:It is necessary for God to use the hammers, the file, and the furnace in His holy work of preparing a saint for true sainthood. It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove
195:Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe that is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds.   ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove
196:The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove
197:Have you ever had the sensation of looking at someone for the first time and ever so quickly the past and future seem to fuse ? Does that not mean something ? That we felt so much, so deeply, before even speaking? ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove
198:In a spiritual partnership you learn that wanting what you want is not enough, but that you must both want it deeply and create it every day, that you must bring it into being and hold it in being with your intentions. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove
199:Success is deeply rooted in time and place. You may have the drive to read tons of books on biology. But if there are no books on biology in your library, and the library is never open, your drive is meaningless. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove
200:We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove
201:When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me". ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove
202:As you you deeply into your own awareness, and relax the self-contraction, and dissolve into the empty ground of your own primordial experience, the simply feeling of Being-right now, right here-is it not obvious at once? ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove
203:Where nature makes natural allies of us all, we can demonstrate that beneficial relations are possible even with those with whom we most deeply disagree-and this must someday be the basis of world peace and world law. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove
204:You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. &
205:Let ourselves be seen, deeply seen, vulnerably seen, to love with our whole hearts, even though there's no guarantee... to practice gratitude and joy in those moments of terror, to be this vulnerable means that we're alive. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove
206:Jesus didn't say, &
207:But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove
208:There are certain ways in which I cultivate awareness, both through mindful yoga and taking care of my body and taking time to actually drop as deeply as possible into stillness, into whatever is unfolding in the present moment. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove
209:If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
210:The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove
211:I walk until given shelter, fast until given food. I don't ask - it's given without asking. Aren't people good! There's a spark of good in everybody, no mater how deeply it may be buried. It's waiting to govern your life gloriously. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove
212:Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove
213:The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove
214:When you have strong intention to create something - that is, you deeply desire it, you completely believe that you can do it, and you are totally willing to have it - it is likely to manifest in your life in one way or another. ~ shakti-gawain, @wisdomtrove
215:For I can assure you that we love our country, not for what it was, though it has always been great - not for what it is, though of this we are deeply proud - but for what it someday can, and, through the efforts of us all, someday will be. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove
216:Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove
217:The day is ending, our life is one day shorter. Let us look carefully at what we have done. Let us practice diligently, putting our whole heart into the path. Let us live deeply each moment in freedom, so time does not slip away meaninglessly. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
218:My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence is provided by such a God. We would be unappreciative of that gift if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove
219:We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove
220:The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove
221:Fear is born from ignorance. We think that the other person is trying to take away something from us. But if we look deeply, we see that the desire of the other person is exactly our own desire - to have peace, to be able to have a chance to live. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
222:Keep steadily in the focus of consciousness the only clue you have: your certainty of being. Be with it, play with it, ponder over it, delve deeply into it, till the shell of ignorance breaks open and you emerge into the realm of reality. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove
223:Writing to me is a deeply personal, even a secret function and when the product I turned loose it is cut off from me and I have no sense of its being mine. Consequently criticism doesn't mean anything to me. As a disciplinary matter, it is too late. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
224:I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.  Albert, I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove
225:I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and as we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide, I can't do that. I'd rather quit. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove
226:So I have learned to ask myself, can I hear the sounds and sense the shape of this other person's inner world? Can I resonate to what he is saying so deeply that I sense the meanings he is afraid of, yet would like to communicate, as well as those he knows? ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove
227:Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you as few human or divine ingredients can Something is missing in my heart tonight That has made my eyes so soft and my voice so tender and my need of God so absolutely clear. ~ hafez, @wisdomtrove
228:Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove
229:The realms of life are many. For each one, special sciences develop. But life itself is a unity, and the more deeply the sciences try to penetrate into their separate realms, the more they withdraw themselves from the vision of the world as a living whole. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove
230:No matter how deeply wedded one may be to the free enterprise system (and I, for one, am wedded for life), one has to accept the need for positive government; one has to consider government action on a sizable scale as desirable rather than as a necessary evil. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove
231:... he was part of a family whether he wanted to be or not, the family of humanity, more often than not a frustrating and contentious clan, flawed and often deeply confused, but also periodically noble and admirable, with a common destiny that every member shared. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove
232:It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round, but she was convinced it ws the cries of the badly wounded andf deeply afflicted which spun the universe on the great glass pole of it's axis. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove
233:Her lie was symptomatic of a certain pride she took in mocking the romantic, in being unsentimental, matter-of-fact, stoic; yet at heart she was the oppo site: idealistic, dreamy, giving, and deeply attached to everything she liked verbally to dismiss as "mushy. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove
234:The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove
235:The happiness for which our souls ache is one undisturbed by success or failure, one which will root deeply inside us and give inward relaxation, peace, and contentment, no matter what the surface problems may be. That kind of happiness stands in need on no outward stimulus. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove
236:Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it is. To imply that Art is something heavy and solemn and dull, and Entertainment is modest but jolly and popular, is neo-Victorian idiocy at its worst. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove
237:Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. Ambrose Bierce ~ ambrose-bierce, @wisdomtrove
238:Feel this moment, see it with a willingness to experience it deeply, whether it be good, bad, or indifferent. Emotionally and feelingly be fully present, right here, vulnerable, with your heart. Just be present. Don't live from your conditioned mind, live from unconditional truth. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove
239:Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove
240:Our nature is the nature of no birth and no death. It is impossible for a cloud to pass from being into nonbeing. And that is true with a beloved person. They have not died. They have continued in many new forms and you can look deeply and recognize them in you and around you. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
241:To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove
242:You've spent years learning how to read and write, years learning how to speak. But what about listening? What training or education have you had that enables you to listen so that you really, deeply understand another human being from that individual's own frame of reference? ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove
243:Forget all the conventional &
244:If I sink my attention deeply into the presence of awareness, it’s like sinking down into the depths of the ocean of being. The sense that I am an individual experiencing the world of separateness fades and I am immersed in a profound, undifferentiated oneness, beyond words to express. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove
245:If you disregard all teachings, all books, anything out into words and dive deeply within yourself and find yourself, this alone will solve all your problems and leave you in full mastery of every situation, because you will not be dominated by your ideas about the situation. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove
246:The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. ~ m-scott-peck, @wisdomtrove
247:Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: &
248:Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic to ideas and feelings that are of deep importance but can' afford airtime in a commercialized, status-consciou s, and cynical world. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove
249:Let the experience fill your body and be as intense as possible. For example, if someone is good to you, let the feeling of being cared about bring warmth to your whole chest. Imagine or feel that the experience is entering deeply into your mind and body, like the sun’s warmth into a T-shirt. ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove
250:The simplest way to start becoming deep awake is to wonder… to look at the world with amazement… to be conscious of the breathtaking mystery of existence… to recognize that you really don’t know what life is. If you wonder deeply you’ll come out of your story and into the mystery of the moment. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove
251:For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight, The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove
252:When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present - our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love - everything that moves us most deeply. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove
253:In order to help usher in the golden age we must see the good in people. We must know it is there, no matter how deeply it may be buried. Yes, apathy is there and selfishness is there - but good is there also. It is not through judgment that the good can be reached, but through love and faith. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove
254:This doctrine of prenatal influence is now slowly being recognized, and science as well as religion calls out: &
255:We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate. There's wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove
256:We don’t think too deeply about life because the more we think about things the bleaker it gets. So we distract ourselves with consumerism we’ve embraced materialism … both as a metaphysical position and as a lifestyle choice.  Our existential emptiness demands we create a new narrative to live by.  ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove
257:Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove
258:When we understand that what we deeply long for can never be found in an object... substance... activity... relationship or state... our longing naturally and effortlessly loses its direction and dynamism and flows back to its source, and is revealed as the happiness for which we were in search. ~ rupert-spira, @wisdomtrove
259:You only need to walk in mindfulness, making peaceful, happy steps on our planet. Breathe deeply, and enjoy your breathing. Be aware that the sky is blue and the birds' songs are beautiful. Enjoy being alive and you will help the living Christ and the living Buddha continue for a long, long time. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
260:It distresses me deeply that ideas are not to be circulated freely in the USA if certain persons have their way. One of the things that was great about this country was that I could say anything and that everyone else could say anything and we would compare all possible ideas and arrive at opinions. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove
261:Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible to the scientist. DESIRE is the seed of all achievement; the starting place, back of which there is nothing, or at least there is nothing of which we have any knowledge. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove
262:Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests, ... temples filled with the varied productions of the God of Nature. No one can stand in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove
263:I am told that tens of thousands of prayer meetings are being held on this day; for that I am deeply grateful. We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. It would be fitting and good, I think, if on each inaugural day in future years it should be declared a day of prayer. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove
264:I must confess that I am deeply troubled. I fear that human beings are intent upon acting out a vast death wish and that it lies with us now to make every effort to promote resistance to the insanity and brutality of policies which encompass the extermination of hundreds of millions of human beings. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove
265:The values we care about the deepest, and the movements within society that support those values, command our love. When those things that we care about so deeply become endangered, we become enraged. And what a healthy thing that is! Without it, we would never stand up and speak out for what we believe. ~ fred-rogers, @wisdomtrove
266:Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
267:If you have not suffered hunger, you do not appreciate having something to eat. If you have not gone through a war, you don't know the value of peace. That is why we should not try to run away from one thing after another thing. Holding our suffering, looking deeply into it, we find a way to happiness. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
268:I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove
269:“I have often thought that the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it came upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: "This is the real me!"” ~ william-james, @wisdomtrove
270: M: Must one suffer only for one's own sins? Are we really separate? In this vast ocean of life, we suffer for the sins of others, and make others suffer for our sins. Of course, the law of balance rules Supreme and accounts are squared in the end. But while life lasts, we affect each other deeply. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove
271:I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove
272:In order to live fully we may need to look deeply at our own suffering and at the suffering of others. In the depths of every wound we have survived is the strength we need to live. The wisdom our wounds can offer us is a place of refuge. Finding this is not for the faint of heart. But then, neither is life. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove
273:You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome. You can't merely wing it and expect to keep up with them. Setting aside all the safety valves and pleasant distractions is the first way to send yourself the message that you're playing for keeps ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove
274:I’m struck again by the irony that spaceflight-conceived in the cauldron of nationalist rivalries and hatreds-brings with it a stunning transnational vision. You spend even a little time contemplating the Earth from orbit and the most deeply engrained nationalisms begin to erode. They seem the squabbles of mites on a plum. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove
275:Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day. Rooted deeply in our Judeo-Christian heritage, the practice of offering thanksgiving underscores our unshakable belief in God as the foundation of our Nation and our firm reliance upon Him from Whom all blessings flow. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove
276:Worry is just about the worst form of mental activity there is—next to hate, which is deeply self-destructive. Worry is pointless. It is wasted mental energy. It also creates bio- chemical reactions which harm the body, producing everything from indigestion to coronary arrest, and a multitude of things in between. ~ neale-donald-walsch, @wisdomtrove
277:Cancer is not something confined to human beings. It's found in all multi cellular organisms where the adult cells proliferate, so it's widespread in the biosphere. It's a phenomenon that is deeply related to the history of life itself, so by studying cancer I think we can illuminate the history of life itself and vice versa. ~ paul-davies, @wisdomtrove
278:... the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove
279:in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony, sunlight and maddened birds are everywhere, the phone rings gamboling its sound against the odds of the crooked sea; I drink deeply and evenly now, I drink to paradise and death and the lie of love. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove
280:When I trust deeply that today God is truly with me and holds me safe in a divine embrace, guiding every one of my steps I can let go of my anxious need to know how tomorrow will look, or what will happen next month or next year. I can be fully where I am and pay attention to the many signs of God's love within me and around me. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove
281:If we are too busy, if we are carried away every day by our projects, our uncertainty, our craving, how can we have the time to stop and look deeply into the situation-our own situation, the situation of our beloved one, the situation of our family and of our community, and the situation of our nation and of the other nations? ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
282:Science is the study of the admitted laws of existence, which cannot prove a universal negative about whether those laws could ever be suspended by something admittedly above them. It is as if we were to say that a lawyer was so deeply learned in the American Constitution that he knew there could never be a revolution in America. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove
283:We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove
284:I have held and hold souls to be immortal... . Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but go to paradise, purgatory or hell. But I have reasoned deeply, and, speaking as a philosopher, since the soul is not found without body and yet is not body, it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body. ~ giordano-bruno, @wisdomtrove
285:A queen is wise. She has earned her serenity, not having had it bestowed on her but having passer her tests. She has suffered and grown more beautiful because of it. She has proved she can hold her kingdom together. She has become its vision. She cares deeply about something bigger than herself. She rules with authentic power. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove
286:It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove
287:True belonging is the spiritual practice of believing in and belonging to yourself so deeply that you can share your most authentic self with the world and find sacredness in both being a part of something and standing alone in the wilderness. True belonging doesn’t require you to change who you are; it requires you to be who you are. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove
288:Today certain definite ideas are developing out of the Egyptian ideas. What is called Darwinism today did not arise because of external reasons. We are the same souls who, in Egypt, received the pictures of the animal forms of man's forebears. The old views have awakened again, but man has descended more deeply into the material world. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove
289:Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it's a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that's really chewing on us. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove
290:One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
291:Becoming conscious of the mystery of existence is an extremely simple way to step out of my conceptual story. When I'm stuck in my dramas, I remember that in reality I have no idea what is going on, as life is always so much more than I can possibly understand. Then if I dive deeply into the mystery, my state of consciousness begins to change. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove
292:To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth - not a truth from you head but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego but a truth from the highest source. You have to be willing to be deeply honest with yourself about the shape your life is in each day. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove
293:If we take the time to look deeply, we see that understanding and compassion arise from suffering. Understanding is the understanding of suffering, and compassion is the kind of energy that can transform suffering. If suffering is not there, we have no means to cultivate our understanding and our compassion. This is something quite simple to see. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
294:Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove
295:A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our survival. It is our birthright. When, through indifference, inattention, incompetence, or fear of skepticism, we discourage children from science, we are disenfranchisin g them, taking from them the tools needed to manage their future. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove
296:The person is of little use. It is deeply involved in its own affairs and is completely ignorant of its true being. Unless the witnessing consciousness begins to play on the person and it becomes the object of observation rather than the subject, realisation is not feasible. It is the witness that makes realisation desirable and attainable. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove
297:When the children had completed an absorbing bit of work, they appeared rested and deeply pleased. It almost seemed as if a road had opened up within their souls that led to all their latent powers, revealing the better part of themselves. They exhibited a great affability to everyone, put themselves out to help others and seemed full of good will. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove
298:I would not have said anything about Mr. Trump, never - I would never have said anything if he didn't call himself a Christian. It'd be none of my business whatsoever to make any comments about his language, his vulgarities, his slander of people, but I was deeply troubled ... that here's a man who holds up a Bible one day, and calls a lady "bimbo" the next. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove
299:I have no use whatsoever for projections or forecasts. They create an illusion of apparent precision. The more meticulous they are, the more concerned you should be. We never look at projections, but we care very much about, and look very deeply at, track records. If a company has a lousy track record, but a very bright future, we will miss the opportunity. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
300:One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal for not caring more; but one cannot and it is better, for if one grieved too deeply at other people's tears, life would be unendurable; and every man has sufficient sorrows of his own without taking to heart his neighbour's. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove
301:The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy, man's tendency to actualize himself, to become his potentialities. By this I mean the organic and human life, the urge to expand, extend, develop, mature - the tendency to express and activate all the capacities of the organism, or the self. ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove
302:When the quantum physicists looked deeply into the nature of matter, they discovered something astonishing. The quantum possibilities only come into a definite form when observed by consciousness. They concluded that consciousness ‘collapses’ the quantum possibilities into a seemingly solid universe. So, without the conscious observer the world as we know it doesn’t exist. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove
303:Mindful consumption is the object of this precept. We are what we consume. If we look deeply into the items that we consume every day, we will come to know our own nature very well. We have to eat, drink, consume, but if we do it unmindfully, we may destroy our bodies and our consciousness, showing ingratitude toward our ancestors, our parents, and future generations. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
304:I've been lonely for so long. And I've been hurt so deeply. If only I could have met you again a long time ago, then I wouldn't have had to take all these detours to get here.' Tengo shook his head. &
305:he'd once believed that the answer lay somehow in the music he created, he suspected now that He'd been mistaken. The more he thought about it, the more he'd come to realize that for him, music had always been a movement away from reality rather than a means of living in it more deeply. .. he now knew that burying himself in music had less to do with God than a selfish desire to escape. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove
306:Wouldn't it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove
307:When I dive deeply into the mystery experience it feels as if I’m dissolving in an ocean of love. There’s an awe-inspiring sense of oneness with the universe. My sensual body comes alive. The search for meaning is resolved into a wordless ‘understanding’, which is so deep it must be felt not thought. There’s the silent certainty that all is well; and such a feeling of relief… like coming home. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove
308:The way to have the life we want is to receive more deeply the life we have. Sometimes we keep our own life at arm's length, thinking we'll wait until circumstances improve before giving it all we've got. But life is just a reflection of consciousness, so it's never going to give any more to us than we give to it. Don't wait for a perfect life; breathe in the life that's already perfect. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove
309:The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove
310:Empathic listening gets you inside another person’s frame of reference. You look out through it, you see the world the way he or she sees it, and you understand how he or she feels. This does not necessarily mean you agree; it’s that you fully, deeply, understand that person emotionally as well as intellectually. You temporarily let go of your perspective to understand his or her perspective.   ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove
311:Trusting yourself is realizing yourself. Trusting life is realizing yourself as life. This is an invitation to our thinking minds to open in trust. We can trust that there is a knowing that is out of the realm of thoughts or emotions or circumstances. When we deeply trust, our minds open to discover what is true, regardless of what we are feeling. The deepest trust is a by-product of this true realization. ~ gangaji, @wisdomtrove
312:I breathe deeply, taking in the fresh spring air. Though Beaufort has changed and I have changed, the air itself has not. It's still the air of my childhood, the air of my seventeenth year, and when I finally exhale, I'm fifty-seven once more. But this is okay. I smile slightly, looking towards the sky, knowing there's one thing I haven't told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove
313:It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that, they are getting people killed. This is really my concern. My concern is that our religions, the diversity of our religious doctrines, is going to get us killed. I'm worried that our religious discourse- our religious beliefs are ultimately incompatible with civilization. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove
314:When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves. ~ fred-rogers, @wisdomtrove
315:When you rest deeply in the Unknown without trying to escape, your experience becomes very vast. As the experience of the Unknown deepens, your boundaries begin to dissolve. You realize, not just intellectually but on a deep level, that you have no idea who or what you are. A few minutes ago, you knew who you were-you had a history and a personality-but from this place of not knowing, you question all of that. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove
316:Deeply, he felt the love for the run-away in his heart, like a wound, and he felt at the same time that this wound had not been given to him in order to turn the knife in it, that it had to become a blossom and had to shine. That this wound did not blossom yet, did not shine yet, at this hour, made him sad. Instead of the desired goal, which had drawn him here following the runaway son, there was now emptiness. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove
317:Our role as gardeners is to choose, plant and tend the best seeds within the garden of our consciousness. Learning to look deeply at our consciousness is our greatest gift and our greatest need, for there lie the seeds of suffering and of love, the very roots of our being, of who we are. Mindfulness... is the guide and the practice by which we learn how to use the seeds of suffering to nourish the seeds of love. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
318:Suffering in life can uncover untold depths of character and unknown strength for service. People who go through life unscathed by sorrow and untouched by pain tend to be shallow in their perspectives on life. Suffering, on the other hand, tends to plow up the surface of our lives to uncover the depths that provide greater strength of purpose and accomplishment. Only deeply plowed earth can yield bountiful harvests. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove
319:To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his children as his conscience directs, to save for their prosperity after his death - these are wishes deeply ingrained in civilised man. Their realization is almost as necessary to our virtues as to our happiness. From their total frustration disastrous results both moral and psychological might follow. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
320:Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin! ~ salvador-dali, @wisdomtrove
321:Instead of &
322:All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if it should really become manifest - if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled into the sound itself - you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say &
323:Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove
324:It has been said that the people of this country are deeply interested in the humanitarian and philanthropic considerations involved in [the Eastern Question]. All must appreciate such feelings. But I am mistaken if there be not a yet deeper sentiment on the part of the people of this country, one with which I cannot doubt your lordships will ever sympathise, and that is - the determination to maintain the Empire of England. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove
325:In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while relinquishing things that do not matter to us. A lukewarm yearning for awakening is not enough to sustain us through the difficulties involved in letting go. It is important to understand that anything that can be lost was never truly ours, anything that we deeply cling to only imprisons us. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove
326:One of the most powerful spiritual practices is to meditate deeply on the mortality of physical forms, including your own. This is called: Die before you die. Go into it deeply. Your physical form is dissolving, is no more. Then a moment comes when all mind- forms or thoughts also die. Yet you are still there – the divine presence that you are. Radiant, fully awake. Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove
327:It was a narrow world, a world that was standing still. But the narrower it became, the more it betook of stillness, the more this world that enveloped me seemed to overflow with things and people that could only be called strange. They had been there all the while, it seemed, waiting in the shadows for me to stop moving. And every time the wind-up bird came to my yard to wind its spring, the world descendedmore deeply into chaos. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
328:I hold myself accountable for my contradictions. I deeply, deeply believe in the mystical laws. I know that every thought sends an eternity in motion. I mean, I know what I am capable of as a teacher; I know what I'm capable of because of my intelligence. But I also know that that's useless if - I have been humiliated so often, when I think that I can combat the terrors of life with intelligence. Because you can't. It'll bring you to your knees. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove
329:When they enter the church, and even more when they climb the stairs into the pulpit, I know that the people meant by Lucifer in Isaiah—the people of Babylon, especially those who named themselves the Society of Jesus—are overcome with passion. For many of them that passion comes from a hellish love. They raise their voices more vehemently and draw sighs from their chests more deeply than those whose passion comes from a heavenly love. There” ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove
330:Is the English press honest or dishonest? At normal times it is deeply dishonest. All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. Yet I do not suppose there is one paper in England that can be straightforwardly bribed with hard cash. In the France of the Third Republic all but a very few of the newspapers could notoriously be bought over the counter like so many pounds of cheese. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove
331:I hold myself accountable for my contradictions. I deeply, deeply believe in the mystical laws. I know that every thought sends an eternity in motion. I mean, I know what I am capable of as a teacher; I know what I'm capable of because of my intelligence. But I also know that that's useless if - I have been humiliated so often, when I think that I can combat the terrors of life with intelligence. Because you can't. It'll bring you to your knees. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove
332:I think that my strong determination for justice comes from the very strong, dynamic personality of my father ... I have rarely ever met a person more fearless and courageous than my father ... The thing that I admire most about my dad is his genuine Christian character. He is a man of real integrity, deeply committed to moral and ethical principles. He is conscientious in all of his undertakings ... If I had a problem I could always call Daddy. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove
333:Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions. [... ] It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. [... ] You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove
334:No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current's too overpowering; I don't have any choice. It may very well be a special place, some place I've never seen before. Danger may be lurking there, something that may end up wounding me deeply, fatally. I might end up losing everything. But there's no turning back. I can only go with the flow. Even if it means I'll be burned up, gone forever. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
335:As I wonder deeply about life, I find myself immersed in the deep mystery. Then something astonishing happens. The inarticulate question of the heart dissolves into the ocean of mystery. And I feel I’ve found the answer I’m looking for. But this answer, like the question, is more of a feeling than a thought. I can’t really express the inarticulate question, because it’s too deep for words. I can’t really express the inarticulate answer, because it’s too deep for words. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove
336:I am a deeply religious person, but I belong to no denomination. I follow the spirit of God's law, not the letter of the law. One can become so attached to the outward symbols and structure of religion that one forgets its original intent - to bring one closer to God. We can only gain access to the Kingdom of God by realizing it dwells within us as well as in all humanity. Know that we are all cells in the ocean of infinity, each contributing to the others' welfare. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove
337:There are two loves that have been deeply rooted in the human race for a long time now: love for dominating everyone, and love for possessing everyone’s wealth. If the reins are let out on the first type of love, it rushes on until it wants to be the God of all heaven. If the reins are let out on the second type of love, it rushes on until it wants to be the God of the whole world. All other forms of love for evil are ranked below these two and serve as their army.” ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove
338:The more you have loved and have allowed yourself to suffer because of your love, the more you will be able to let your heart grow wider and deeper. When your love is truly giving and receiving, those whom you love will not leave your heart even when they depart from you. The pain of rejection, absence, and death can become fruitful. Yes, as you love deeply the ground of your heart will be broken more and more, but you will rejoice in the abundance of the fruit it will bear. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove
339:Apply the blacksmith's homely principle when you are speaking. If you feel deeply about your subject you will be able to think of little else. Concentration is a process of distraction from less important matters. It is too late to think about the cut of your coat when once you are upon the platform, so centre your interest on what you are about to say—fill your mind with your speech-material and, like the infilling water in the glass, it will drive out your unsubstantial fears. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove
340:... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction betweenour present period and the centuries before. And this loss is definite. For no matter how religious our world may turn again, or how much authentic faith still exists in it, or how deeply our moral values may be rooted in our religious systems, the fear of hell is no longer among the motives which would prevent or stimulate the actions of a majority. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove
341:Someone with whom we have a lifetime's worth of lessons to learn is someone whose presence in our lives forces us to grow... those who consciously or unconsciously challenge our fearful positions. They show us our walls. Our walls are our wounds&
342:The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush&
343:If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read? So that it shall make us happy? Good God, we should also be happy if we had no books, and such books as make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. But what we must have are those books which come upon us like ill fortune, and distress us deeply, like the death of one we love better than ourselves; like suicide. A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove
344:How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is that they have become, in all quarters of the world, so deeply impressed on the minds of men; but it is worthy of remark that a belief constantly inculcated during the early years of life, while the brain is impressionable, appears to acquire almost the nature of an instinct; and the very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove
345:I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story is not intended for them. I am telling it to those who have a better knowledge of man. The adult who has learned to translate a part of his feelings into thoughts notices the absence of these thoughts in a child, and therefore comes to believe that the child lacks these experiences, too. Yet rarely in my life have I felt and suffered as deeply as at that time. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove
346:Big deal. So you fell in love with someone. Don’t you see what happened? This guy touched a place in your heart deeper than you thought you were capable of reaching, I mean you got zapped, kiddo. But that love you felt, that’s just the beginning. You just got a taste of love. That’s just limited little rinky-dink mortal love. Wait till you see how much more deeply you can love than that. Heck, Groceries‚ you have the capacity to someday love the whole world. It’s your destiny. Don’t laugh. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove
347:There are three stages in one’s spiritual development, said the Master. The carnal, the spiritual and the divine. What is the carnal stage? asked the eager disciples. That’s the stage when trees are seen as trees and mountains as mountains. And the spiritual? That’s when one looks more deeply into things—then trees are no longer trees and mountains no longer mountains. And the divine? Ah, that’s Enlightenment, said the Master with a chuckle, when trees become trees again and mountains, mountains. ~ anthony-de-mello, @wisdomtrove
348:The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need a boundless ethics which will include the animals also. My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to it. If I want others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see however strange it may be to mine. Ethics in our western world has hitherto been largely limited to the relation of man to man... but that is a limited ethics. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove
349:Spirituality emerged as a fundamental guidepost in Wholeheartedness. Not religiosity but the deeply held belief that we are inextricably connected to one another by a force greater than ourselves&
350:Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways. When we find new eyes, the unsuspected blessing in work we have done for many years may take us completely by surprise. We can see life in many ways: with the eye, with the mind, with the intuition. But perhaps it is only those who speak the language of meaning, who have remembered how to see with the heart, that life is ever deeply known or served. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove
351:There comes a time when the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping. At that moment, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable. Slowly, the realization emerges that the choice to continue what you have been doing is the choice to live in discomfort, and the choice to stop what you have been doing is the choice to breathe deeply and freely again. Once that realization has emerged, you can either honor it or ignore it, but you cannot forget it. What has become known can not become unknown again. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove
352:I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
353:Look within diligently, remember to remember that the perceived cannot be the perceiver. Whatever you see, hear or think of, remember - you are not what happens, you are he to whom it happens. Delve deeply into the sense &
354:The realization that my problem was one that concerned all men, a problem of living and thinking, suddenly swept over me and I was overwhelmed by fear and respect as I suddenly saw and felt how deeply my own personal life and opinions were immersed in the eternal stream of great ideas. Though it offered some confirmation and gratification, the realization was not really a joyful one. It was hard and had a harsh taste because it implied responsibility and no longer being allowed to be a child; it meant standing on one’s own feet. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove
355:I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of brute force. I am inclined to look at everything as resulting from designed laws, with the details, whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me. I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove
356:She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged hurt or fear, she had practiced denying them in herself. And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build laughter out of inadequate materials... .She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
357:Someone who has thought rationally and deeply about how the body works is likely to arrive at better ideas about how to be healthy than someone who has followed a hunch. Medicine presupposes a hierarchy between the confusion the layperson will be in about what is wrong with him, and the more accurate knowledge available to doctors reasoning logically. At the heart of Epicureanism is the thought that we are as bad at answering the question "What will make me happy?" as "What will make me healthy?" Our souls do not spell out their troubles. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove
358:The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the esoteric fear of simple beauty for its own sake - I am deeply concerned with these manifestations of decay. Gene Smith's work validates my most vigorous convictions that if the documentary photographs is to be truly effective it must contain elements of art, intensity, fine craft and spirituality. All these his work contains and we may turn to his work with gratitude, appreciation. ~ amsel-adams, @wisdomtrove
359:It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply." God actually rises up storms of conflict in relationships at times in order to accomplish that deeper work in our character. We cannot love our enemies in our own strength. This is graduate-level grace. Are you willing to enter this school? Are you willing to take the test? If you pass, you can expect to be elevated to a new level in the Kingdom. For He brings us through these tests as preparation for greater use in the Kingdom. You must pass the test first. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove
360:Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath. Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: with mindfulness, you can see that they are unhappy and suffering. You can see their wrong perceptions. You'll feel motivated by a desire to say or do something to help the other person suffer less. This means compassionate energy has been born in your heart. And when compassion appears, anger is deleted. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
361:I hear the words, the thoughts, the feeling tones, the personal meaning, even the meaning that is below the conscious intent of the speaker. Sometimes too, in a message which superficially is not very important, I hear a deep human cry that lies buried and unknown far below the surface of the person. So I have learned to ask myself, can I hear the sounds and sense the shape of this other person's inner world? Can I resonate to what he is saying so deeply that I sense the meanings he is afraid of, yet would like to communicate, as well as those he knows? ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove
362:I'm still a researcher. The best way to explain it is that I trusted myself deeply as a professional, but I did not have a lot of self-trust personally. When I started learning all of these things about the value and the importance of belonging, vulnerability, connection, self-kindness and self-compassion, I trusted what I was learning - again, I know I'm a good researcher. When those things and wholeheartedness started to emerge with all these different properties, I knew I had to listen. I'd heard these messages before personally but I didn't trust myself there. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove
363:This one question-&
364:Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity. ~ walt-whitman, @wisdomtrove
365:Mindfulness makes our eyes, our heart, our non-toothache, the moon, and the trees deep and beautiful. And when we touch our suffering with mindfulness, we begin to transform it.  Mindfulness is like a mother holding her baby in her arms and caring for her baby’s pain.  When our pain is held by mindfulness it loses some of its strength. . . . Mindfulness recognizes what is there, and concentration allows you to be deeply present with whatever it is.  Concentration is the ground of happiness.  If you live twenty-four hours a day in mindfulness and concentration, one day is a lot. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
366:There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from my wanderings to the living heart of the world. Sadly and yet deeply moved, I set myself to recall the last of these experiences. It was at a concert of lovely old music. After two of three notes of the piano the door was opened of a sudden to the other world. I sped through heaven and saw God at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove
367:My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence are provided by such a god. We would be unappreciative of those gifts (as well as unable to take such a course of action) if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves. On the other hand, if such a traditional god does not exist, our curiosity and our intelligence are the essential tools for managing our survival. In either case, the enterprise of knowledge is consistent with both science and religion, and is essential for the welfare of the human species. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove
368:When a child first catches adults out - when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just - his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
369:Just as fire burns away all dross and rubbish, so the three fold suffering purges man's heart from all impurity and results in a growing single mindedness in his search after Truth. When he becomes deeply conscious of his weakness and tormented by the thoughts of his undesirable impulses and distressing characteristics, when afflictions like poverty, bereavement or humiliation make him feel his life is futile, then and then only does he develop real faith and religious fervor, and becomes anxious to surrender himself at the feet of the Supreme Being. Suffering should therefore be welcomed. Never does the soft moonlight appear more soothing than after the scorching heat of a summer day. ~ anandamayi-ma, @wisdomtrove
370:At the moment you become angry, you tend to believe that your misery has been created by another person. You blame him or her for all your suffering. But by looking deeply, you may realize that the seed of anger in you is the main cause of your suffering. Many other people, confronted with the same situation, would not get angry like you. They hear the same words, they see the same situation, and yet they are able to stay calm and not be carried away. Why do you get angry so easily? You may get angry very easily because your seed of anger is too strong. And because you have not practiced the methods for taking good care of your anger, the seed of anger has been watered too often in the past. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
371:When it comes right down to it, the challenge of mindfulness is to realize that this is it Right now is my life. The question is, What is my relationship to it going to be? Does my life just automatically happen to me? Am I a total prisoner of my circumstances or my obligations, of my body or my illness, or of my history? Do I become hostile or defensive or depressed if certain buttons get pushed, happy if other buttons are pushed, and frightened if something else happens? What are my choices? Do I have any options? We will be looking into these questions more deeply when we take up the subject of our reactions to stress and how our emotions affect our health. For now the important point is to grasp the value of bringing the practice of mindfulness into the conduct of our daily lives. Is there any waking moment of your life that would not be richer and more alive for you if you were more fully awake while it was happening? ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove
372:And an unprejudiced observer will scarcely fail in this case to admit that what attracts many adherents of occult science—or occultism—is nothing but the fatal craving for what is unknown and mysterious, or even vague. And he will also be ready to own that there is much cogency in the reasons put forward against what is fantastic and visionary by serious opponents of the cause in question. In fact, one who studies occult science will do well not to lose sight of the fact that the impulse toward the mysterious leads many people on a vain chase after worthless and dangerous will-o'-the-wisps. Even though the occult scientist keeps a watchful eye on all errors and vagaries on the part of adherents of his views, and on all justifiable antagonism, yet there are reasons which hold him back from the immediate defence of his own efforts and aspirations. These reasons will become apparent to any one entering more deeply into occult science. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove
373:To free the mind from all conditioning, you must see the totality of it without thought. This is not a conundrum; experiment with it and you will see. Do you ever see anything without thought? Have you ever listened, looked, without bringing in this whole process of reaction? You will say that it is impossible to see without thought; you will say no mind can be unconditioned. When you say that, you have already blocked yourself by thought, for the fact is you do not know.  So can I look, can the mind be aware of its conditioning? I think it can. Please experiment. Can you be aware that you are a Hindu, a Socialist, a Communist, this or that, just be aware without saying that it is right or wrong? Because it is such a difficult task just to see, we say it is impossible. I say it is only when you are aware of this totality of your being without any reaction that the conditioning goes, totally, deeply—which is really the freedom from the self.   ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove
374:I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. Just by being a simple witness of your thought processes. It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness. The moment you say this is good, this is bad, you have already jumped onto the thought process.  It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher.   And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty.  That’s the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove
375:And therefore, all of those for whom authentic transformation has deeply unseated their souls must, I believe, wrestle with the profound moral obligation to shout form the heart—perhaps quietly and gently, with tears of reluctance; perhaps with fierce fire and angry wisdom; perhaps with slow and careful analysis; perhaps by unshakable public example—but authentically always and absolutely carries a a demand and duty: you must speak out, to the best of your ability, and shake the spiritual tree, and shine your headlights into the eyes of the complacent. You must let that radical realization rumble through your veins and rattle those around you. Alas, if you fail to do so, you are betraying your own authenticity. You are hiding your true estate. You don’t want to upset others because you don’t want to upset your self. You are acting in bad faith, the taste of a bad infinity. Because, you see, the alarming fact is that any realization of depth carries a terrible burden: those who are allowed to see are simultaneously saddled with the obligation to communicate that vision in no uncertain terms: that is the bargain. You were allowed to see the truth under the agreement that you would communicate it to others (that is the ultimate meaning of the bodhisattva vow). And therefore, if you have seen, you simply must speak out. Speak out with compassion, or speak out with angry wisdom, or speak out with skillful means, but speak out you must. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove

*** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***

1:I am deeply superficial. ~ Ava Gardner,
2:I belong deeply to myself. ~ Warsan Shire,
3:Drink deeply from good books. ~ John Wooden,
4:I feel things too deeply. ~ Hannah Brencher,
5:The young remember most deeply ~ Dan Simmons,
6:Trust what moves you most deeply. ~ Sam Keen,
7:I'm a deeply superficial person. ~ Andy Warhol,
8:How deeply one felt when alone. ~ William Steig,
9:I am a deeply superficial person. ~ Andy Warhol,
10:To think deeply of simple things. ~ Arnold Ross,
11:Everything is deeply intertwingled. ~ Ted Nelson,
12:TO LEARN IT MORE DEEPLY, TEACH IT ~ Daniel Coyle,
13:Deeply. Senselessly. Immeasurably. ~ Kol Anderson,
14:Feel deeply to think clearly. ~ Nathaniel Branden,
15:I believe in deeply ordered chaos ~ Francis Bacon,
16:I know how deeply slothful I am. ~ Joseph Epstein,
17:Laughing deeply is living deeply. ~ Milan Kundera,
18:She was loved deeply, but not widely ~ John Green,
19:My parents are deeply pious Hindus. ~ Akhil Sharma,
20:And then I fell deeply in love with you, ~ K M Shea,
21:My grandmother influenced me so deeply. ~ Jan Karon,
22:followed her outside, deeply moved. ~ Danielle Steel,
23:How deeply did you learn to let go? ~ Gautama Buddha,
24:I am deeply fulfilled by all that I do. ~ Louise Hay,
25:I can only connect deeply or not at all. ~ Ana s Nin,
26:Solve problems, make art, think deeply. ~ Susan Cain,
27:Turning toward what you deeply love saves you ~ Rumi,
28:Alas! how deeply painful is all payment! ~ Lord Byron,
29:Be damned for a ram as deeply as a lamb. ~ Robin Hobb,
30:dwell deeply in the present moment. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
31:Think deeply about life, it's worth it! ~ Jon Foreman,
32:Be deeply satisfied and ready for more. ~ Esther Hicks,
33:People living deeply have no fear of death. ~ Anais Nin,
34:People living deeply have no fear of death. ~ Ana s Nin,
35:Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly. ~ William Shakespeare,
36:Drink deeply. Live in serenity and joy. ~ Gautama Buddha,
37:I don’t think that I feel anything deeply. ~ Lily Morton,
38:Love is the water of life, drink deeply. ~ Michael Scott,
39:My family background was deeply Christian. ~ Abbe Pierre,
40:Oh, Karamazov, I am deeply unhappy. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
41:In America, we're divided, deeply divided. ~ Eddie Glaude,
42:The mind when distracted absorbs nothing deeply. ~ Seneca,
43:To regret deeply is to live afresh. ~ Henry David Thoreau,
44:When you’re hurting deeply, you go inward. ~ Jodi Picoult,
45:All that we love deeply becomes part of us. ~ Helen Keller,
46:Could fulfillment be felt as deeply as loss. ~ Kiran Desai,
47:Do not hesitate to love and to love deeply. ~ Henri Nouwen,
48:Food like love is a deeply emotional matter. ~ Julia Child,
49:Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder. ~ Austin Kleon,
50:Everything we feel deeply must be expressed. ~ Hans Hartung,
51:eyes like almonds deeply hooded with conviction ~ Rupi Kaur,
52:I could be myself and be loved deeply. ~ Julianne Donaldson,
53:Americans are both deeply religious and ~ Stephen R Prothero,
54:Eddie never said anything he felt that deeply. ~ Mitch Albom,
55:I'm deeply ambitious and I always have been. ~ Hayley Atwell,
56:We fall in love more deeply when were unhappy. ~ Orhan Pamuk,
57:You are young to stand so deeply in the shadow. ~ Sabaa Tahir,
58:Falling deeply in love with a pastry is easy. ~ Elizabeth Bard,
59:In music I feel most deeply the passing of things. ~ Anais Nin,
60:Silence is deeply important in all of our lives. ~ Sally Quinn,
61:We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft,
62:Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? ~ Kiran Desai,
63:I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words. ~ Harry Reid,
64:If You Look Too Deeply Everything Breaks Your Heart. ~ Ben Okri,
65:Codebreakers train themselves to see more deeply. ~ Jason Fagone,
66:Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing. ~ Abraham Maslow,
67:I missed her, deeply, painfully. But life goes on. ~ Neil Gaiman,
68:It was a summer of trying not to think too deeply. ~ Nina LaCour,
69:She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine. ~ Dan Brown,
70:They were deeply in love, which beats earplugs. ~ Salman Rushdie,
71:When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft,
72:Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. ~ Elie Wiesel,
73:I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do. ~ Ralph Fiennes,
74:Love deeply grounded, hardly is dissembled. ~ Christopher Marlowe,
75:I am deeply romantic and a genuine yet complex person. ~ Jiah Khan,
76:I deeply believe that men and women need each other. ~ Hanna Rosin,
77:Live fully, love deeply, let go with no bitterness. ~ Paulo Coelho,
78:One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world. ~ D gen,
79:One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world. ~ Dogen,
80:Share your heart as deeply as you can reach. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher,
81:Something deeply hidden had to be behind things. ~ Albert Einstein,
82:...with the flat smile of the deeply inconvenienced. ~ Martin Amis,
83:They seemed disconnected, hollow somehow, deeply withdrawn. ~ Jewel,
84:They were deeply in love. Smitten. At their age. Sad. ~ Brent Weeks,
85:We are creature deeply marked by our expectations ~ Alain de Botton,
86:Love conquers it all. But not if you love too deeply. ~ Sitta Karina,
87:Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world ~ Miyamoto Musashi,
88:What the eye sees better the heart feels more deeply. ~ Robert Kegan,
89:A life rooted deeply lives and grows in memory. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher,
90:Deeply, simply: he who cannot love cannot understand. ~ Tariq Ramadan,
91:deeply the malaise of sycophancy, careerism, genuflection ~ Anonymous,
92:Fully alive and deeply committed is a risky business. ~ Steven Kotler,
93:God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply. ~ A W Tozer,
94:hurry. * * * Bannon had delved deeply into the nature ~ Michael Wolff,
95:I and me are always too deeply in conversation. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
96:I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly. ~ Franz Kafka,
97:It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice. ~ Elisabeth Elliot,
98:London never sleeps deeply, and its dreams are uneasy. ~ Stephen King,
99:The portal to pain is caring too deeply about anyone. ~ Ellen Hopkins,
100:Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world ~ Miyamoto Musashi,
101:For those who can love deeply always draw love to them. ~ Jodi Daynard,
102:Dearly departed, scarcely lamented, deeply demented. ~ Kelley Armstrong,
103:Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever. ~ Audre Lorde,
104:I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me. ~ Miroslav Vitous,
105:I am deeply a part of the problem for which Christ died. ~ Keith Miller,
106:If you haven't wept deeply, you haven't begun to meditate. ~ Ajahn Chah,
107:"Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world." ~ Miyamoto Musashi,
108:Voltaire was deeply impressed by it and cited it often. ~ Wendy Doniger,
109:We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story. ~ Mary Oliver,
110:Consider yourself lightly; consider the world deeply. ~ Miyamoto Musashi,
111:Enough tiny sharp jabs can cut as deeply as any knife. ~ Roshani Chokshi,
112:If you look deeply into my eyes, you will see my eyeballs. ~ M R Mathias,
113:I'm in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception. ~ Glen Duncan,
114:Television lets audiences deeply connect with characters. ~ Claire Danes,
115:...we see life as deeply in our pleasures as in our pains. ~ Adam Gopnik,
116:Admonish yourself strongly. Scrutinize yourself deeply. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
117:Anyone God uses significantly is always deeply wounded. ~ Brennan Manning,
118:Dearly departed, scarcely lamented, deeply demented... ~ Kelley Armstrong,
119:I am deeply saddened by the suffering of the Iraqi people. ~ Moshe Katsav,
120:I do believe deeply in perfection. I'm never satisfied. ~ Michael Jackson,
121:I'm relentless in that I deeply believe in people. ~ Jacqueline Novogratz,
122:It is deeply satisfying to a boy's heart to hack at logs. ~ Cindy Rollins,
123:Who knows what beats deeply within the hearts of people? ~ David Baldacci,
124:As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. ~ June Jordan,
125:As I began to think a bit more deeply about my own identity, I ~ J D Vance,
126:Consideration touches more deeply and longer than passion. ~ James Crumley,
127:My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual. ~ Jeff VanderMeer,
128:Nothing says "deeply in mourning" like canapés and free beer. ~ Mira Grant,
129:Wait till you see how much more deeply you can love than that. ~ Anonymous,
130:You cannot love properly and deeply without mindfulness. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
131:Don't read too deeply into the things I say. You might drown. ~ Faraaz Kazi,
132:I'll live as well, as deeply, as madly as I can--until I die. ~ Anne Lamott,
133:I watched a lot of movies. I was deeply influenced by movies. ~ Ruskin Bond,
134:Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have ~ Eckhart Tolle,
135:Before God can use a man greatly he must wound him deeply. ~ Oswald Chambers,
136:I am deeply skeptical of re-entering into Iraq's civil war. ~ John Garamendi,
137:I will learn to listen deeply without judging or reacting. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
138:Patriotism is merely deeply-rooted government brand loyalty. ~ Bryant McGill,
139:Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. ~ Eckhart Tolle,
140:The abrupt end of one's golden years cuts more deeply than death. ~ Bi Feiyu,
141:Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
142:as she breathed deeply, trying to lower her pulse rate. Rick ~ Kathryn Hughes,
143:Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,
144:If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad. ~ Hans Eysenck,
145:I hate people who over intellectualize. It bores me deeply. ~ Carine Roitfeld,
146:kurtapyjama. His face was deeply lined, and his white ~ Gregory David Roberts,
147:Your battle is over. Live your life, be happy, love deeply. ~ Adrienne Wilder,
148:I want what I write to be deeply engaging and strange and true. ~ Dana Spiotta,
149:Leave no stone unturned. Deeply explore the beauty of your life. ~ Neil Gaiman,
150:Silence is deeply woven into the fabric of female experience. ~ Rachel Simmons,
151:You don't know how loud the silence is or how deeply it cuts. ~ Lorraine Heath,
152:You don’t know how loud the silence is or how deeply it cuts. ~ Lorraine Heath,
153:But isn't the human factor what connects us so deeply to our past? ~ Max Brooks,
154:I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me. ~ Paul Haggis,
155:It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people. ~ E B White,
156:What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space. ~ David Hockney,
157:You must learn how to become a deeply disciplined half-ass. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert,
158:Ask youself: "Am I loving as deeply as I am capable of loving?" ~ Frederick Lenz,
159:It is so pleasant, so deeply peaceful: spending the day with you. ~ Ahdaf Soueif,
160:Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic. ~ Christine Baranski,
161:Save me from the nice and sincere boys who feel things too deeply. ~ Nicola Yoon,
162:Some drink deeply from the river of knowledge. Others only gargle. ~ Woody Allen,
163:Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have. ~ Eckhart Tolle,
164:Surfing is a deeply wonderful thing – anytime, anywhere and any way ~ Gerry Lopez,
165:We are never taught more deeply and more truthfully than by pain. ~ Bryant McGill,
166:Human connections are deeply nurtured in the field of shared story. ~ Jean Houston,
167:I care deeply about journalism, but we need to be a business. ~ Katharine Weymouth,
168:It is strange how deeply colours seem to penetrate one, like scent. ~ George Eliot,
169:Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt. ~ Sammy Davis Jr,
170:These words had impressed Clement deeply, inscribed upon his heart. ~ Iris Murdoch,
171:We all are so deeply interconnected; we have no option but to love all. ~ Amit Ray,
172:But they are deeply guilty,        for their own strength is their god. ~ Anonymous,
173:He gave the impression of sorrow past, deeply felt and poorly mended. ~ Kate Morton,
174:He who is or has been deeply hurt has a RIGHT to be sure he is LOVED. ~ Jean Vanier,
175:I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world ~ Taylor Caldwell,
176:I don’t believe in objectivity, but I do believe deeply in fairness. ~ Margot Adler,
177:I was crazily, deeply, incredibly, joyously, terrifiedly in love. ~ James Patterson,
178:Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent. ~ Seneca the Younger,
179:What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person. ~ John Green,
180:Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you. ~ Khalil Gibran,
181:California just is so deeply left, particularly coastal. It just is. ~ Rush Limbaugh,
182:I can lose myself in symbolism as deeply as the next lit-geek... ~ Tanya Egan Gibson,
183:If you feel something deeply, you’re not ashamed to show your feeling. ~ John Fowles,
184:Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness. ~ Mencius,
185:Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves. ~ Annie Dillard,
186:The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. ~ Anais Nin,
187:The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. ~ Ana s Nin,
188:To love deeply is to risk grandly. One cannot be without the other. ~ Tony Bertauski,
189:If I hadn't been a part of [Harry Potter] I would have been deeply upset. ~ John Hurt,
190:Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky,
191:no matter what, I like him as deeply as I loathe him. It is a problem. I ~ Tara Brown,
192:No, you're wrong. I'm a hundred percent callow and deeply shallow. ~ Stephen Schwartz,
193:She lit my soul and inhaled deeply
Flicking my ashes occasionally. ~ Henry Rollins,
194:The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man. ~ Francis Bacon,
195:There is something deeply unsettling about a child crying insincerely. ~ Emma Forrest,
196:To be deeply in love is, of course, a great liberating force. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
197:When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself. ~ Anais Nin,
198:When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself. ~ Ana s Nin,
199:Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you. ~ Karen Marie Moning,
200:Easy, you're safe," said a deeply rich and sexy voice. "Lie back down. ~ Elena Kincaid,
201:I am deeply moved by things. I’d hate to miss the intense joy of that. ~ Elaine N Aron,
202:Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
203:Never did a man deeply in love allow the clocks to go on peacefully. ~ Alexandre Dumas,
204:One can be deeply influenced by people to whom one is utterly hostile ~ Patricia Crone,
205:She felt the end of the kiss as deeply as she’d felt the start of it. ~ Kristin Hannah,
206:underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice. ~ David Levithan,
207:What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
208:It is deeply moving, powerful, and disturbing. A film that must be seen. ~ James Dobson,
209:I unapologetically and unabashedly am deeply biased toward my mother. ~ Chelsea Clinton,
210:Jesus. Save me from the nice and sincere boys who feel things too deeply. ~ Nicola Yoon,
211:...people are most deeply offended by moral failings that mirror their own. ~ Matt Ruff,
212:To Solomon, this may have been simply a deeply personal reflection on love. ~ Anonymous,
213:You underestimate how deeply you cut when your intentions carry no knives. ~ Penny Reid,
214:a political class deeply sensitive to its moral and social responsibilities. ~ Tony Judt,
215:I believe deeply that we must find, all of us together, a new spirituality. ~ Dalai Lama,
216:I fell in love with her suddenly, deeply, in the most all-consuming way. ~ Siobhan Davis,
217:If I loved myself truly and deeply, would I let myself experience this? ~ Kamal Ravikant,
218:If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it. ~ C S Lewis,
219:In every feeling, look deeply. Explore without ceasing. At bottom, love is. ~ Gerald May,
220:In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society. ~ Simone de Beauvoir,
221:I've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me. ~ Andrew Garfield,
222:I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply. ~ H G Wells,
223:Look deeply. Don't miss the inherent quality and value of everything. ~ Marcus Aurelius,
224:The first person I ever cared deeply and sincerely about was - myself. ~ Louella Parsons,
225:Think lightly of yourself and think deeply of the world. MIYAMOTO MUSASHI ~ Phil Jackson,
226:You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony. ~ William Goldman,
227:Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you. ~ Karen Marie Moning,
228:Gullibility may be deeply engrained in the human behavioral repertoire. ~ Maria Konnikova,
229:It is a hard thing to live any deeply routine life, even if you hate it. ~ John Steinbeck,
230:It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it. ~ John Steinbeck,
231:It's very hard to be great at what you do if you aren't deeply passionate. ~ Ivanka Trump,
232:No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them ~ Otto Weininger,
233:People are deeply nourished by the process of creating wholeness. ~ Christopher Alexander,
234:She could love him, if she let it happen. Deeply, passionately, ruinously. ~ Lisa Kleypas,
235:The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined. ~ Bill Moyers,
236:There is no conflict between loving others deeply and living mindfully. ~ Sharon Salzberg,
237:war often wounds the soul as deeply as it does the body, sometimes more so. ~ Mary Balogh,
238:When I came here, I was deeply depressed. Now I’m proud to say I’m insane. ~ Paulo Coelho,
239:art is absolutely meaningless. It is, however, also deeply meaningful. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert,
240:If we want to feel deeply about God, we must learn to think deeply about God. ~ Jen Wilkin,
241:I knew I had to be a journalist because I'm deeply curious about the world. ~ Katie Couric,
242:It's a hard thing to leave any deeply routined life, even if you hate it. ~ John Steinbeck,
243:My ribs opened up like windows, I'd forgotten you could breathe that deeply. ~ Tana French,
244:Now, when she felt so deeply connected to him, they were finally estranged. ~ Iris Murdoch,
245:Over good food and lots of laughs, I fell deeply in love with Apple Drew. ~ Lani Lynn Vale,
246:She felt everything so deeply, it was like the world was too much for her. ~ Joyce Maynard,
247:We both followed our hearts and had no choice but to hurt each other deeply. ~ Lena Dunham,
248:We scarcely wish to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human. ~ Virginia Woolf,
249:What you must understand about me, Pudge, is that I’m a deeply unhappy person ~ John Green,
250:When I get a role, I try to delve as deeply as possible into the character. ~ Alanna Ubach,
251:All I know is that D'Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious. ~ Jesse Helms,
252:He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply. ~ John Buchan,
253:If I'm going to fail, let me fail with something that I care deeply about. ~ Gale Anne Hurd,
254:It is a hard thing to leave any deeply routined life, even if you hate it. ~ John Steinbeck,
255:Never count your faults. Just see that your love for God is deeply ~ Paramahansa Yogananda,
256:Pudge, what you must understand about me is that I am a deeply unhappy person. ~ John Green,
257:She felt everything too deeply, it was like the world was too much for her. ~ Joyce Maynard,
258:The corrupt man is nearly always rootless, deeply aware of his rootlessness. ~ Robert Payne,
259:The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be. ~ Walt Disney,
260:To know someone deeply
is to know a universe
contained in skin. ~ Victoria Erickson,
261:Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state. ~ Eric Maisel,
262:Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. ~ Anonymous,
263:Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures. ~ Adam Clarke,
264:He sighed deeply, pain in his eyes. “What is it you’re running from? Is it me? ~ B J Daniels,
265:It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply. ~ A W Tozer,
266:Punctuation is a deeply conservative club. It hardly ever admits a new member. ~ Mary Norris,
267:To work deeply is a big deal and should not be an activity undertaken lightly. ~ Cal Newport,
268:When you experience God it is deeply personal, but it's not at all private. ~ Timothy Keller,
269:You can be deeply non-serious and still focused, disciplined, and on task. ~ Jeff VanderMeer,
270:If you want to be deeply respected, deeply respect as many people as possible. ~ Robin Sharma,
271:It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious. ~ Jean Cocteau,
272:My nature is orderly and observant and scrupulous and deeply introverted. ~ Joyce Carol Oates,
273:One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. ~ Erich Fromm,
274:Secession is a deeply American principle. This country was born through secession. ~ Ron Paul,
275:There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply. ~ Neil Gaiman,
276:You aren’t alone.” The hope in his eyes cuts deeply. “You have your crown. ~ Victoria Aveyard,
277:I had been anxious and depressed for years and suddenly I was deeply at peace. ~ Eckhart Tolle,
278:I sought a great performer who would deeply impress me, and I found Lior Suchard. ~ Uri Geller,
279:It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill. ~ J R R Tolkien,
280:It’s unbelievable how you can affect someone else so deeply and never know. ~ Susane Colasanti,
281:I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish. ~ Lasse Hallstrom,
282:I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time. ~ Steve Martin,
283:No one understands now. Those who could
hear a song this deeply vanished long ago. ~ Li Bai,
284:someone who could love so hard and so well could also hate, and hurt, as deeply ~ Jodi Picoult,
285:There are accounts which, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply. ~ Neil Gaiman,
286:with such a distinctly macabre MO. ‘Right.’ She heard him exhale deeply. ‘Listen, ~ Casey Hill,
287:You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than when you are still. ~ Eckhart Tolle,
288:Breathing deeply and releasing fear will help you get to where you want to be. ~ Iyanla Vanzant,
289:Canadian pride may not rest on our sleeves, but it resides deeply in our hearts. ~ Steve Miller,
290:I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion. ~ Albert Einstein,
291:I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion. ~ Richard Dawkins,
292:I drop his hand like a hot potato and scowl deeply. “You’re such a vagina-tease. ~ Elle Kennedy,
293:If the error is thrust deeply enough into the soul, man cannot but succumb to it. ~ Simone Weil,
294:Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God. ~ Ronald Reagan,
295:Live simply, love seriously, care deeply, speak kindly...leave the rest to God. ~ Joanne Clancy,
296:One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. ~ Nikola Tesla,
297:Only by looking deeply into the nature of your fear can you find the way out. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
298:Our journey is about being more deeply involved in Life and yet less attached to it. ~ Ram Dass,
299:These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message ~ Galen,
300:Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. ~ Katie Cotugno,
301:Being deeply lonely seemed to cause as much stress as being punched by a stranger. ~ Johann Hari,
302:But you never feel things so deeply—so strongly—as you do in high school. You ~ Amanda Eyre Ward,
303:Change occurs when deeply felt private experiences are given public legitimacy. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,
304:I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion. ~ Albert Einstein,
305:I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion. ~ Richard Dawkins,
306:If you haven't cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn't really begun. ~ Ajahn Chah,
307:Loving someone so deeply was dangerous. It made you too vulnerable. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni,
308:No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting. ~ George Will,
309:One has to be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane ~ Nikola Tesla,
310:Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it. ~ Ram Dass,
311:There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast. ~ Charles Dickens,
312:Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely. ~ Mortimer Adler,
313:We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged. ~ Jane Hamilton,
314:When people are deeply affected by the Word, they tell it to other people. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
315:Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic. ~ Edna O Brien,
316:All music now is influenced by Hip Hop. It's so deeply ingrained in the culture. ~ Aeriel Miranda,
317:I urge you to read Eternal Treblinka and think deeply about its important message. ~ Jane Goodall,
318:I want to get to the point where people say of my work, that man feels deeply. ~ Vincent Van Gogh,
319:I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words. ~ Leonard Cohen,
320:Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning. ~ Friedrich Schiller,
321:"One becomes a deeply religious nonbeliever...". It is clear from the original ~ Albert Einstein,
322:People living deeply,” wrote poet and diarist Anaïs Nin, “have no fear of death. ~ Steve Chandler,
323:Spiritual growth involves deepening your identity, feeling more deeply who you are. ~ David Deida,
324:We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die. ~ R D Laing,
325:We should live deeply and with delight for those who were cheated of life's gift. ~ Bryant McGill,
326:While we may not mind being used, we resent deeply being made to feel discarded. ~ Chris Matthews,
327:Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me? ~ Carl Rogers,
328:How deeply bound by cords of family anger we all are[...]None of us breaks free. ~ Gregory Maguire,
329:I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself. ~ Warsan Shire,
330:It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. ~ Susan Sontag,
331:I was deeply loved. And scarred. Which is a pretty good trade-off in my holiday book. ~ Wade Rouse,
332:Kell frowned deeply. It is amazing, thought Lila, that he doesn’t have more wrinkles. ~ V E Schwab,
333:Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once. ~ Paul Auster,
334:She is divorced, pregnant, and dying of loon cancer." The crowd sympathizes deeply. ~ Cameron Jace,
335:They were my aunt and uncle; I loved them deeply, although both were mad as pants. ~ Jasper Fforde,
336:When a person’s speech is full of anger, it is because he or she suffers deeply. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
337:You are one of a kind, made on purpose, deeply loved, and called to be courageous. ~ Annie F Downs,
338:You can ravish your woman so deeply that her surrender breaks your heart into light. ~ David Deida,
339:Every second we're together, I get under your skin as deeply as you've scarred mine. ~ Kresley Cole,
340:If he didn’t love so deeply, he couldn’t grieve so deeply. But he’s drowning in it. ~ Dee Henderson,
341:I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman. ~ Richard Harris,
342:The child builds his inmost self out of the deeply held impressions he receives. ~ Maria Montessori,
343:The people who influence and touch us most deeply are those who believe what we say. ~ Paulo Coelho,
344:To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention. ~ Dorothea Lange,
345:America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music. ~ Sonny Rollins,
346:Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me? ~ Carl R Rogers,
347:and the first moment he heard her laugh, he knew he had fallen deeply in love with her. ~ Wendy Webb,
348:Dig deeply into the spring of love and partake of it. The supply is infinite. ~ Roger Delano Hinkins,
349:I believe deeply in therapy. There's no one in the world who wouldn't benefit from it. ~ Antony Sher,
350:If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness. ~ Albert Schweitzer,
351:I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life. ~ Virginia Woolf,
352:I have always been driven. I have always believed in what I believe very deeply. ~ Alastair Campbell,
353:I would find myself getting deeply distressed if I lived in hindsight all the time. ~ Andrew Lincoln,
354:Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home. ~ Nhat Hanh,
355:My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience. ~ Vali Nasr,
356:Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of things. ~ Surya Das,
357:There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers. ~ Richard Rodriguez,
358:Why is it that the beautiful things are entwined more deeply with death than with life? ~ Sui Ishida,
359:Your core values are the deeply held beliefs that authentically describe your soul. ~ John C Maxwell,
360:And now a surprise: Beethoven was deeply inspired by his reading of the Bhagavad Gita. ~ Stephen Cope,
361:As we love more genuinely and deeply, giving becomes the obvious and natural response. ~ Francis Chan,
362:Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common. ~ Melinda Gates,
363:[Depp] has real ambitions, but he is deeply afraid of being considered pretentious. ~ Lasse Hallstrom,
364:Everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel it very deeply. ~ Fiona Apple,
365:I deeply believe that a beautiful decor can have a beneficial influence on our lives. ~ Albert Hadley,
366:If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply. ~ Nhat Hanh,
367:Italian culture is so deeply soaked in an appreciation of the good things in life. ~ Mariska Hargitay,
368:Only a mind that is deeply stirred can utter something noble and beyond the power of others. ~ Seneca,
369:To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. ~ Lao Tzu,
370:We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all. ~ Annie Dillard,
371:We have not come here to take prisoners But to surrender ever more deeply To freedom and joy. ~ Hafez,
372:Few landscapes have been so deeply known. And fewer still have been so lightly inhabited. ~ Tim Winton,
373:His love for her was so deeply woven with resentment that he could not untangle the two. ~ Kim Edwards,
374:Human beings, it seems, are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging. ~ Cal Newport,
375:Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer. ~ Y S Lee,
376:She much preferred to be safely on the outside of life, watching, than deeply involved. ~ Katie Fforde,
377:The Lord works through deeply flawed people, since He made so few of the other kind. ~ Timothy B Tyson,
378:The more deeply involved we are with what we do, the more power it has to affect change. ~ Nimue Brown,
379:Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human. ~ Brian Greene,
380:Beside him, another guard recognized me, and one by one they bowed, deeply and reverently. ~ Kiera Cass,
381:Cancer is a flaw in our growth, but this flaw is deeply entrenched in ourselves. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee,
382:Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled. ~ Jaggi Vasudev,
383:Every moment of the afternoon a month or so later was so deeply etched in my memory. ~ Michael Morpurgo,
384:Getting too deeply into statistics is like trying to quench a thirst with salty water. ~ Paul Kalanithi,
385:I can’t bear the idea of looking deeply. Because you inevitably turn up horrible things. ~ Meg Wolitzer,
386:If we do seek him, he will certainly find us, and then we, ever more deeply, find him. ~ Dallas Willard,
387:If you reach deeply into yourself, you are reaching into the very essence of mankind. ~ Joseph Jaworski,
388:I have known many gods. He who denies them is blind as he who trusts them too deeply. ~ Robert E Howard,
389:I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that Im acting. ~ Tahar Rahim,
390:. . . I should wish you to think more deeply, to look further, and aim higher than you do. ~ Anne Bront,
391:It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls. ~ Max Planck,
392:One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
393:people bond more deeply over shared brokenness than they do over shared beliefs.”18 ~ Rachel Held Evans,
394:People who meditate deeply find wonderful things happening in their life all the time. ~ Frederick Lenz,
395:Robots touch something deeply human within us. For me, robots are all about people. ~ Cynthia Breazeal,
396:she was still uncomfortable about her own motives and afraid to examine them too deeply, ~ Stephen King,
397:still trying to operate according to a deeply rooted, outdated, and distorted worldview. ~ Hans Rosling,
398:The brief transcript of moments, written on the body, is so deeply satisfying to read. ~ David Levithan,
399:There is also something deeply lovely about uncertainty: the possibility of optimism. ~ Joan Wickersham,
400:The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred. ~ Soichiro Honda,
401:We cannot love deeply or risk greatly and never know failure or disappointment. ~ Erwin Raphael McManus,
402:Words can be as irrevocable as an action. They can cut as deeply as a surgeon’s scalpel. ~ Gina Barreca,
403:A certain shame or bashfulness attached itself to whatever one deeply and privately enjoyed. ~ C S Lewis,
404:Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~ Laozi,
405:I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture. ~ Claude Monet,
406:I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception. ~ Novalis,
407:I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil. ~ Martin Heidegger,
408:Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you. ~ Karen Marie Moning,
409:Love more deeply and without the sense of what you love being your personal possession. ~ Frederick Lenz,
410:Maybe it’s the act of caring so deeply about another person that it expands your heart. ~ Jill Santopolo,
411:Never to have to think of yourself as white is a luxory that makes you deeply stupid. ~ Leonard Michaels,
412:real life, even in its suffering, is much more deeply rewarding than imagined life. ~ William Paul Young,
413:She had long blond hair and bright blue eyes, and her skin was deeply tanned. ~ Gertrude Chandler Warner,
414:she is deeply daring
a beautiful assortment
she's an experience
worth fighting for ~ R H Sin,
415:The only real purpose of a goal is to inspire you to fall more deeply in love with life. ~ Michael Neill,
416:This brief transcript of moments, written in the body, is so deeply satisfying to read. ~ David Levithan,
417:Transsexualism itself is a deeply moral question rather than a medicaltechnical answer. ~ Janice Raymond,
418:By seeing ourselves honestly, we have the capacity to understand others more deeply. ~ Helen LaKelly Hunt,
419:Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
420:Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you ~ Vincent Van Gogh,
421:He was a tiny guy, deeply embedded in a leather chair, like a mouse in a baseball mitt. ~ Neal Stephenson,
422:I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry. ~ T D Jakes,
423:If Fancy's lips had been real cherries probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained. ~ Thomas Hardy,
424:I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply. ~ Angelina Jolie,
425:I never stopped loving the deeper sciences, and I read as deeply into lay science as I can. ~ Jon Spaihts,
426:it is as deeply implanted in our nature to breed children as it is to eat and drink. ~ Ernest Belfort Bax,
427:It is unpleasant and disturbing to be rejected. It is deeply satisfying to be accepted. ~ Stephen R Covey,
428:I was really, deeply, honestly, and truly infatuated with having people pay attention to me. ~ Hank Green,
429:Look deeply at yourself, and see in yourself the divine architect's incomprehensible art! ~ Bryant McGill,
430:Love deeply, love without jealousy, love blissfully and help each other to be more meditative. ~ Rajneesh,
431:Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply so we can realize we are already home. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
432:No matter how deeply you come to know a place, you can keep coming back to know it more. ~ Rebecca Solnit,
433:Not that that's the goal, but sometimes these funny insights can also be deeply profound. ~ Ted Alexandro,
434:Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply. ~ T Berry Brazelton,
435:The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator. ~ Maria Montessori,
436:There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast. ~ Charles Dickens,
437:The truth exposes some people so deeply, their last defense is to front a carefree insanity. ~ Criss Jami,
438:They knew each other most deeply through body-warmed sheets and the tangle of half dreams. ~ Megan Abbott,
439:Usually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever. ~ Rachel Zucker,
440:What is it in us that carves negative impressions so deeply into our brains? ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni,
441:What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. ~ Helen Keller,
442:Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~ Lao Tzu,
443:Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader. ~ John Ortberg,
444:He had the arrogance of the believer, but none of the humility of the deeply religious. ~ V S Ramachandran,
445:Henry deeply felt the misfortune of being debarred from a liberal education. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,
446:I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination. ~ Julianna Baggott,
447:It made no difference to me. Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,
448:I was badly misinformed, I deeply regret the error, go fuck yourself with this bag of money. ~ Scott Lynch,
449:Maybe she wasn't loved widely, but she was loved deeply. Isn't that more than most of us get? ~ John Green,
450:My music is L-O-V-E because it's a gift, and you only give something when you feel it deeply. ~ Klaus Nomi,
451:My only counsel to Ireland is that in order to become deeply Irish, she must become European. ~ Tom Kettle,
452:Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness. ~ Ian Caldwell,
453:People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply. ~ Vikas Swarup,
454:Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire. ~ Vincent Van Gogh,
455:What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? ~ Craig Groeschel,
456:All three had been TAUGHT French at school. How deeply they now wished that they had LEARNED it! ~ E Nesbit,
457:Calcutta has still not recovered from history: people mourn the past, and abhor it deeply. ~ Amit Chaudhuri,
458:Do not look into that too deeply. I do not fear commitment. I just have no interest in it. I ~ Harlan Coben,
459:I deeply believe in one's own positive will to overcome even the most daunting challenges. ~ Farrah Fawcett,
460:I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them ~ Alfred de Musset,
461:I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness. ~ Augusten Burroughs,
462:If you look at Libya, I was deeply concerned about what would happen after Qaddafi was gone. ~ Barack Obama,
463:I'm just a negative person, a deeply negative person. I see the worst aspects of everything. ~ Robert Crumb,
464:In fact, [Donald's Trump] cavalier attitude about nuclear weapons is so deeply troubling. ~ Hillary Clinton,
465:Look at
how deeply flawed
we are

and yet
capable of loving
so perfectly. ~ Sanober Khan,
466:music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts. ~ T S Eliot,
467:She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery,
468:The best way to lead people into the future is to connect with them deeply in the present. ~ James M Kouzes,
469:The deeply secretive cannot grasp that protecting your secret too fiercely exposes it. ~ Kai Ashante Wilson,
470:The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being. ~ Adyashanti,
471:Thinking prevents us from touching life deeply. I think, therefore I am really not there. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
472:Until you understand your customers - deeply and genuinely - you cannot truly serve them ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru,
473:We all have scars. From loving someone too deeply. From wanting to protect someone too much. ~ Kanae Hazuki,
474:Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins.” – Peter 4:18 ~ Corinne Michaels,
475:Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~ Anonymous,
476:being deeply loved gives you strength, and loving someone deeply gives you courage”, and ~ Sheila O Flanagan,
477:Human beings, it seems, are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging. There ~ Cal Newport,
478:I had always loved life on the road. It was just something that appealed to me very deeply. ~ Jami Attenberg,
479:It has always touched my heart to sense so deeply how much the Father loved His eldest son. ~ Robert D Hales,
480:It was a child's awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt. ~ Donna Woolfolk Cross,
481:"Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply so we can realize we are already home." ~ Thich Nhat Hanhº,
482:Now think deeply. What have you done with your life over the past year? How do you feel inside? ~ Sean Covey,
483:On that day I became convinced that it is the words of women that deeply wound other women. ~ Vivek Shanbhag,
484:power of his poetry to minister deeply to the likes of an opium addict such as Samuel Coleridge. ~ Anonymous,
485:Sometimes you think you know things very deeply, only to realize you don't know a damn thing. ~ Jandy Nelson,
486:To get to know a person more deeply, don't ask them what they think, but what they love. ~ Claudio Naranjo,
487:Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply. ~ Patti Smith,
488:Women clearly felt things more deeply: they read sub-text where men saw only white space. ~ Elin Hilderbrand,
489:Congratulations on your Engagement'.

But I am not engaged I am deeply distracted. ~ Jeanette Winterson,
490:Deeply smart people are unique—a product of their particular mind-set, education, and experience. ~ Anonymous,
491:Every sturdy tree that towers over human beings owes its existence to a deeply rooted core. ~ Morihei Ueshiba,
492:Hardly any animal can look as deeply disappointed as a dog to whom one says "no." ~ Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson,
493:How are we to avoid those in office becoming deeply corrupt when everything is devoid of meaning? ~ Anonymous,
494:I am deeply grateful for the concern of all those who constantly prayed for my happiness. ~ Princess Margaret,
495:I believe really deeply in the pilot process because you learn things about tone and casting. ~ John Landgraf,
496:I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken. ~ Grimes,
497:I may not worry as much as Prime Minister Eshkol does about Israel, but I worry as deeply. ~ Lyndon B Johnson,
498:I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils. ~ Howard Dean,
499:Is it ever really a waste of time to love someone, truly and deeply, with everything you have? ~ Rhoda Janzen,
500:I think sometimes we love so deeply, so profoundly, that anything else pales by comparison. ~ Debbie Macomber,
501:It’s like jumping backwards into a snowdrift and not knowing how deeply you’re going to sink. ~ Tarryn Fisher,
502:It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating. ~ Graham Norton,
503:Loving a thing is shallow, only if you don't deeply appreciate its emotional value. ~ Valerie Estelle Frankel,
504:Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying. ~ Thomas Sowell,
505:Oh, deeply vulnerable as a woman - to love someone not knowing whether they love me in return. ~ Joan Osborne,
506:People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
507:Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive. ~ William James,
508:She was a collector of reflections looking for souls that could see deeply inside her soul. ~ Shannon L Alder,
509:there is great power in association and we do become deeply affected by the company we keep. ~ Robin S Sharma,
510:Until you understand your customers - deeply and genuinely - you cannot hope to serve them ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru,
511:When you love someone deeply, you cannot stop it, because how much you try that much it hurts ~ M F Moonzajer,
512:You would not cry if you knew that by looking deeply into the rain you would still see the cloud. ~ Nhat Hanh,
513:All of our deeply held dreams and aspirations require us to build on our common bonds. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger,
514:Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~ Lisa Genova,
515:It felt like an eternity had passed since we'd kissed this deeply, but we fell into it so easily. ~ Kiera Cass,
516:It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply. ~ Vivian Gornick,
517:One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies. ~ Phil Ochs,
518:The idea that we can somehow escape affecting each other is deeply conservative. Barbarous, even. ~ Lindy West,
519:The notion that he had a life outside our life, outside our friendship, was deeply hurtful to me. ~ John Boyne,
520:To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. ~ Kallypso Masters,
521:We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value. ~ Barney Frank,
522:We only really, deeply consider what our life is when we're faced with mortality on some level. ~ Bryan Fuller,
523:When Communication with others is from love to love... it is deeply satisfying and healthy. ~ Gerald Jampolsky,
524:And the kiss feels like something completely new. But it also feels like something deeply known. ~ Gayle Forman,
525:Consistent impact over the course of your life on a body of work you care about deeply is legacy. ~ Pamela Slim,
526:Educators have yet to realize how deeply the industrial system is dependent upon them. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith,
527:He will think Lochan wasn't loved, but he was, more deeply than most people are in a lifetime. ~ Tabitha Suzuma,
528:I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves. ~ Alice Walker,
529:Internationally, I have obviously been deeply concerned about how we fight the terrorist threat. ~ Barack Obama,
530:I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life. ~ Paul Auster,
531:I so desperately want my words to be indicative of how deeply and completely I love my people. ~ Lysa TerKeurst,
532:I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly". ~ Vincent Van Gogh,
533:Most of us have experienced wow moments. We just haven't taken time to think deeply about them. ~ Michael Hyatt,
534:No hits is the mark of how deeply unfamous you are, because true freedom comes from being unknown. ~ Ruth Ozeki,
535:...the clear water the color of deeply steeped tea, surrounded by cattails and gracile grasses. ~ Lauren Slater,
536:The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward. ~ Paul Allen,
537:We're all human and disagreements come up even between two people who are deeply in love. ~ Wanda E Brunstetter,
538:being loved deeply by someone gives you strength, and loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~ Nicholas Sparks,
539:If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that. ~ Trevor Nunn,
540:I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds. ~ Sylvia Plath,
541:Isn’t it wonderful the way the world holds both the deeply serious, and the unexpectedly mirthful? ~ Mary Oliver,
542:I write in acrobatics and pirouettes in the air - I write because I so deeply want to speak. ~ Clarice Lispector,
543:Most importantly, love each other deeply, because love cause many sins to be forgiven. - 1 Peter 4:8 ~ Anonymous,
544:My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel. ~ Ernest Hemingway,
545:Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger. ~ Brad Henry,
546:Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it. ~ Haldan Keffer Hartline,
547:We so deeply want to contribute to our own salvation that we become intoxicated by the rules. ~ Jefferson Bethke,
548:What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. ~ Helen Keller,
549:When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you. ~ Arthur Ashe,
550:and comforted by his greater wisdom he fell asleep again deeply in the darkness and the stillness. ~ Pearl S Buck,
551:(for the deeply secretive cannot grasp that protecting your secret too fiercely exposes it). ~ Kai Ashante Wilson,
552:I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
553:Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America. ~ Arthur Erickson,
554:Perhaps the only way to love is to bury yourself so deeply in it that you avoid its very suffering. ~ Meghna Pant,
555:The individual cannot exist outside of the many spheres of the deeply interconnected webs of life ~ Bryant McGill,
556:The only reason to delay at this point was because the immediate prospect was so deeply uninviting. ~ J K Rowling,
557:The stronger civilization becomes, the more deeply the love of death is buried in the subconscious. ~ Antal Szerb,
558:To live in the present, we must deeply believe that what is most important is in the here and now. ~ Henri Nouwen,
559:We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty. ~ Matthew Desmond,
560:All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation. ~ Franklin D Roosevelt,
561:Can a person really love someone so deeply after only a week? Hello? Cliche much for insta-love? ~ Christy Pastore,
562:Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow. ~ Stephen Schwartz,
563:I became nothing more than a woman adored by a man so deeply destroyed he would never be perfect. ~ Pepper Winters,
564:I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice. ~ Van Jones,
565:I'd like to think that "President Obama believed deeply in this democracy and the American people." ~ Barack Obama,
566:If you wish to get hold of the invisible you must penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible. ~ Max Beckmann,
567:It's only those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work ~ Paulo Coelho,
568:It's only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work. ~ Paulo Coelho,
569:Now think deeply.
What have you done with your life over the past year?
How do you feel inside? ~ Sean Covey,
570:Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail. ~ James Fallows,
571:The outlet for my sorrow, that I do feel deeply, and the pain, is the songs. That's where it goes. ~ Dan Fogelberg,
572:There is in all humans, however, a desire and a deeply felt duty to worship a more intimate God, ~ Walter Isaacson,
573:We must practice living deeply, loving, and acting with charity if we wish to truly honor Jesus. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
574:What you want—really, deeply want—is fundamental because deliberate practice is a heavy investment. ~ Geoff Colvin,
575:When one person is in control of another, love cannot grow deeply and fully, as there is no freedom. ~ Henry Cloud,
576:When you fall in love, love deeply. Be tough but also be open to the possibility of forgiveness. ~ Nicholas Sparks,
577:By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better & prepare for a better future. ~ Nhat Hanh,
578:He has definitely cornered the market on enigma. I hope Stella goes for the deeply layered type. ~ Tera Lynn Childs,
579:I created myself, echo and abyss, by thinking. I multiplied myself by going deeply into myself... ~ Fernando Pessoa,
580:I don't like to treat words and sounds like objects. You have to penetrate deeply into their meaning. ~ Eyvind Kang,
581:I have a husband and children, and it affects me deeply that somebody could be taken away in a second. ~ Hope Davis,
582:It felt good to bring my forehead to the ground. Immediately it felt like a deeply religious contact. ~ Yann Martel,
583:The philharmonic became such a journey and adventure in my life, and a deeply satisfying thing. ~ Esa Pekka Salonen,
584:The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all . ~ Nicholas Sparks,
585:You would not cry if you knew that by looking deeply into the rain you would still see the cloud. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
586:A fish probably has no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too deeply immersed in it. ~ Oliver Lodge,
587:He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea. ~ Herman Melville,
588:If we don’t acknowledge and look deeply at our own fears, we can draw dangers and accidents to us. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
589:I’m in love with you. So deeply in love with you that I don’t think there will ever be a way out. ~ Corinne Michaels,
590:Looking deeply at life as it is in this very moment, the meditator dwells in stability and freedom. ~ Gautama Buddha,
591:Monica was deeply religious and had yet to distinguish the differences between faith and religion. ~ Debbie Macomber,
592:music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all, but
you are the music
While the music lasts. ~ T S Eliot,
593:Or music heard so deeply
That it is not heard at all, but you are the music
While the music lasts. ~ T S Eliot,
594:People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs. ~ Dennis Prager,
595:Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life. ~ Eckhart Tolle,
596:Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again. ~ Gustav Mahler,
597:The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. ~ Nicholas Sparks,
598:Write about only three things: what you love, what you hate, and what you’re deeply conflicted about. ~ Marlon James,
599:You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it. ~ Jim Harrison,
600:Being crazy about someone isn't nice or passionate or deeply moving; it is, surprisingly enough, crazy. ~ Jaida Jones,
601:Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck. ~ Gautama Buddha,
602:Besides, to fall out of love and in love at the same time is to love twice as deeply as one did before. ~ Leo Tolstoy,
603:Deeply in my heart, do I want to believe that there is that special guy that is for me. Yes, absolutely. ~ Guy Branum,
604:Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply—I was casually sorry, and then I forgot. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,
605:Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. ~ Harry Truman,
606:Grief is the proof of our love, a demonstration of how deeply we have allowed another to touch us. ~ Elizabeth Lesser,
607:Her suicide shook me deeply. It changed so much about how I view myself, the work I do with all of you. ~ Nina LaCour,
608:I deeply, deeply believe in the mystical laws. I know that every thought sends an eternity in motion. ~ Caroline Myss,
609:I needed you to see me, finally. Every moment of your life, I have fallen more deeply in love with you. ~ Lauren Kate,
610:It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply. ~ Seneca the Younger,
611:Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you. ~ Rumi,
612:The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth dwelling deeply in.. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
613:The remedy is to read, re-read, deeply ponder and learn to live out of the truths of verses 18-30! ~ Timothy J Keller,
614:The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood. ~ Maya Angelou,
615:Things that don't matter at all to one person can hurt another so deeply it seems as bad as dying. ~ Banana Yoshimoto,
616:To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us. ~ Nhat Hanh,
617:When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It's family. ~ Hank Azaria,
618:By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith. ~ Don Feder,
619:His tongue fucks my mouth the way his cock fills my pussy. Deeply, urgently, and completely unrestrained. ~ Pam Godwin,
620:How could you ever bring yourself to love so deeply if you truly knew how brief a lifetime could be? ~ Chuck Palahniuk,
621:I am deeply concerned about the kind of people Hillary Clinton's surrounded herself with in the past. ~ Rashid Khalidi,
622:I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours. ~ Helen Clark,
623:I've learned through writing that if something made me feel deeply or anything at all, it was worth it. ~ Taylor Swift,
624:I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly'. ~ Vincent van Gogh,
625:Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply. ~ Richard Brookhiser,
626:Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for. ~ Alain de Botton,
627:Nothing is harder to topple than a fact that supports a deeply held prejudice denied by its holder. ~ Russell L Ackoff,
628:Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language. ~ Vincent Van Gogh,
629:This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing. ~ Anne Lamott,
630:... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers. ~ Mary Oliver,
631:You will always remain lonely till the day you meet a person who can understand your mind deeply! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
632:Anna seemed to feel everything deeply, while I was constantly trying not to feel anything at all. ~ Kimberly Rae Miller,
633:Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. —LAO TZU ~ Susan Wiggs,
634:But the truth was, she felt deeply hurt on his behalf, and somehow responsible, as if she’d messed up. ~ Liane Moriarty,
635:Deeply-rooted conditioning has perverted us. We ARE the culture of violence. We must look at ourselves. ~ Bryant McGill,
636:Every heart has a layer of sadness, whether deeply buried or covering the surface for all to see. ~ Richelle E Goodrich,
637:Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. ~ Harry S Truman,
638:If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn't begun. ~ Alain de Botton,
639:If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn’t begun. ~ Alain de Botton,
640:I got deeply involved with the Trotskyists. I assumed simply that my enemy's enemies were my friends. ~ Murray Bookchin,
641:I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle,
642:In a global economy where our economies and supply chains are deeply integrated, it's not even possible. ~ Barack Obama,
643:Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes. ~ Margaret Mead,
644:I think you should be proud of not being worse than just deeply introverted and socially maladjusted. ~ Terry Pratchett,
645:My son, all my life I have loved this science so deeply that I can now hear my heart beat for joy. ~ Jean Baptiste Biot,
646:(One of the reasons we broke up. What's fine in a best friend can be deeply wrong in a boyfriend.) ~ Sarah Rees Brennan,
647:She was slightly afraid—deeply moved and religious. That was her best state. He was impotent against it. ~ D H Lawrence,
648:The affluent world is even more deeply identified with form, more lost in content, more trapped in ego. ~ Eckhart Tolle,
649:There was no escape from being unwanted. And that was the truth that struck at me the most deeply. ~ Julianne Donaldson,
650:Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply. ~ Vita Sackville West,
651:Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. — BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ~ Michael J Gelb,
652:We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known. ~ D H Lawrence,
653:When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man. ~ Don Williams,
654:All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter. ~ James Tiptree Jr,
655:Deeply funny musings and adventures elevate Paul Rudnick to the highest level of American comedy writing. ~ Steve Martin,
656:Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair. ~ Irvin D Yalom,
657:For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired. ~ D H Lawrence,
658:Harry!” said Fred, elbowing Percy out of the way and bowing deeply. “Simply splendid to see you, old boy — ~ J K Rowling,
659:I am deeply depressed; therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon. Psalm 42:6 ~ Beth Moore,
660:I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems. ~ Ben Nicholson,
661:I have been caused to live by the deep conditions of the universe to which I am humbly and deeply grateful. ~ Ruth Ozeki,
662:I haven't left a mark on the world, but is that so bad? Considering how deeply the world has marked me? ~ Margaret Stohl,
663:I just now put [Robert Altman] down feeling heartbroken but happily and deeply inspired. . . . Wonderful. ~ Wes Anderson,
664:I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life. ~ Ta Nehisi Coates,
665:Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life ~ Eckhart Tolle,
666:Well that was decided. This was more than a silly schoolgirl crush. This was a deeply disturbing infatuation. ~ S Walden,
667:We weren't lovers, but in a way we had opened ourselves to each other even more deeply than lovers do. ~ Haruki Murakami,
668:What if deeply reaching a small number of people matters more than reaching everybody with nothing? (p68) ~ Jaron Lanier,
669:When you're launching a business, you just really want to know somebody deeply to help in how you do it. ~ Alex Blumberg,
670:I think I'm a weird combination of deeply introverted and very daring. I can feel both those things working. ~ Helen Hunt,
671:It is not possible to become a great player without having learned how to analyse deeply and accurately. ~ Mark Dvoretsky,
672:It was the loss of her friend, not the loss of her suitor, that had taught her how deeply pain could cut. ~ Libbie Hawker,
673:I wish this didn't affect me so deeply. Would that we could choose the things that trouble us, but we can't. ~ Ted Chiang,
674:I wounded you deeply, all because it suited the situation as I saw it. Even though I loved you so much. ~ Haruki Murakami,
675:Music is truly the universal language, and when it is excellently expressed how deeply it moves our souls ~ David O McKay,
676:nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be. ~ Gregory David Roberts,
677:Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns. ~ William Dean Howells,
678:prophetic preaching can take place only where the preacher is deeply embedded in the YHWH narrative. ~ Walter Brueggemann,
679:Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life. ~ Eckhart Tolle,
680:Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don't know a damn thing. ~ Jandy Nelson,
681:Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don’t know a damn thing. ~ Jandy Nelson,
682:There is a large, leisurely center to existence where God must be deeply pondered, lovingly believed. ~ Eugene H Peterson,
683:The root of that craving is our habit energy.When we look deeply at it, we can begin to untie the knot. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
684:The tangible display and performance of the gospel in the Lord’s Supper is a deeply affecting practice. ~ James K A Smith,
685:They were all annoying and deeply inadequate humans, but I didn’t want to kill them. Okay, maybe a little. ~ Martha Wells,
686:To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us protection forever. ~ J K Rowling,
687:Walking in the night is a great blessing for the wise souls who are deeply in love with the silence! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
688:What's happening right now in the Hip Hop industry is that it is deeply affected by the general economy of America. ~ RZA,
689:What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us. ~ Helen Keller,
690:Whoever hurt you so deeply that you see things like friends and fondness as weapons instead of shields. ~ Victoria Schwab,
691:Caring deeply leaves you so open to being hurt." ~ Catherine AndersonJake Coulter [Sweet Nothings] ~ Catherine Anderson,
692:Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial. ~ Neal A Maxwell,
693:Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence. ~ Robertson Davies,
694:Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe. ~ Michael Landon,
695:..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask. ~ Ry nosuke Akutagawa,
696:..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask. ~ Ryunosuke Akutagawa,
697:I need her to obsess about me, to love me so deeply that it rocks her world, because it’s how I love her. ~ Laurelin Paige,
698:It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature. ~ Lev Grossman,
699:Life wants you to connect deeply with the hearts of other people — struggle together and rejoice together. ~ Bryant McGill,
700:Nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one-half of a great love that wasn't meant to be. ~ Gregory David Roberts,
701:Odd Thomas • Forever Odd • Brother Odd • Odd Hours • Odd Interlude • Odd Apocalypse • Deeply Odd • Saint Odd ~ Dean Koontz,
702:Once God saves us He doesn't move us beyond the gospel, but He moves us more deeply into the gospel. ~ Tullian Tchividjian,
703:Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. ~ Che Guevara,
704:All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation. ~ Michael Chekhov,
705:And no person, I was convinced, ever loved as deeply as an animal did for the person who cared for them. ~ Jessica Gadziala,
706:And the basic sort of thrust of Star Trek being about equality and tolerance and things I believe in deeply. ~ Brent Spiner,
707:As Siri says, who is deeply involved with neuroscience, emotion consolidates memory, and I think that's true. ~ Paul Auster,
708:Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge. ~ Charles Schumer,
709:Don't fall into the trap of believing so deeply in your own ideology that you cannot even see the flaws in it. ~ Glenn Beck,
710:Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work. ~ Amy Sherman Palladino,
711:He who considers more deeply knows that, whatever his acts and judgements may be, he is always wrong. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
712:I still don't think it's pathetic to cry over someone. It just means you care about them deeply and you're sad. ~ Jenny Han,
713:It is deeply unfair to task writers of color with unique responsibilities that we don't assign to all writers. ~ Roxane Gay,
714:It touched me so deeply that my soul felt as if it were being torn open, rent apart by this storm of feelings. ~ Kailin Gow,
715:I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip. ~ Alicia Keys,
716:Love causes us to be deeply connected in an unspoken way. It happens when we're really available, really open. ~ Adyashanti,
717:"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life." ~ Eckhart Tolle,
718:Those who do not yet love one another deeply have need of words; those who deeply love thrive on silences. ~ Fulton J Sheen,
719:Throughout his life, Rockefeller was wounded deeply by accusations that he was a cold, malignant personality. ~ Ron Chernow,
720:And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world. ~ Albert Camus,
721:Close my eyes and feel you here. Sigh and wish you were, my friend. Love you still and deeply. Come to me again. ~ Anonymous,
722:Could it not be, that God loves me too deeply, by having people challenge me so that I know I'm not perfect. ~ Matt Chandler,
723:Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. ~ Ronald Reagan,
724:Donald Trump is a candidate who divided his own party more deeply than any presidential candidate has before. ~ Mara Liasson,
725:Euthanasia is a topic that taps into deeply personal views of dignity and fear but, mostly, spirituality. ~ Elin Hilderbrand,
726:I'm so deeply in love with you it's hard to fathom. No words could provide quantifiable resonance or measure. ~ Truth Devour,
727:It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too. ~ Alice Hoffman,
728:Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone. ~ Nhat Hanh,
729:Miss an opportunity like Katherine and it will haunt you longer and more deeply than any ghost you keep now, ~ Mark Lawrence,
730:Naturally I am of the deeply felt conviction that it is quite nice, quite lovely to be capable of enthusiam. ~ Robert Walser,
731:Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They're bound to be deeply confused, at best. ~ Glenn Reynolds,
732:She was still deeply anguished by the loss of her father, but the anvil of grief was finally beginning to lift. ~ T L Haddix,
733:The machine is a tool. But it is not a neutral tool. We are deeply influenced by the machine while using it. ~ Jacques Ellul,
734:The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothers. ~ Ahmet Necdet Sezer,
735:The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
736:The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people. ~ Matthew Fox,
737:There are some pains that run very deeply, as so that the strongest one accept them without being broken. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,
738:When I go back and reread the stuff, I'm always floored by how deeply personal and revealing it actually is. ~ Daniel Clowes,
739:When you bow deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you ~ Morihei Ueshiba,
740:Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. ~ Storm Jameson,
741:He had nowhere to be; he had nothing to do; he was deeply depressed, fracking depressed, deep-shale shattered. ~ Lauren Groff,
742:I found the actual notes that Prendergast sent to Alfred Trude. I saw how deeply the pencil dug into the paper. ~ Erik Larson,
743:I'm deeply curious about Jewish things. I've toyed around with the idea of going to rabbinical school. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer,
744:Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day. ~ Harry Connick Jr,
745:Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
746:The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ. ~ Charles Spurgeon,
747:The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think. ~ C S Lewis,
748:The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action. ~ C S Lewis,
749:The real guru is the pure intellect within; and the purified, deeply aspiring mind is the disciple. ~ Chinmayananda Saraswati,
750:To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever ~ J K Rowling,
751:We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light! ~ Hafez,
752:What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. —Helen Keller ~ Marie Force,
753:WHEN YOU BOW deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you. ~ Morihei Ueshiba,
754:When you bow deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you. ~ Morihei Ueshiba,
755:You feel things too deeply to bear them unless you can get them out of yourself through some form of art. ~ Madeleine L Engle,
756:You feel things too deeply to bear them unless you can get them out of yourself through some sort of art. ~ Madeleine L Engle,
757:Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you will always find despair.” “I ~ Irvin D Yalom,
758:If we are deeply moved by the sight of his love for us, it detaches our hearts from other would-be saviors. ~ Timothy J Keller,
759:I have come to long not to see new places but to return and know the old ones more deeply, to see them again. ~ Rebecca Solnit,
760:Live. And live well. Breathe. Breathe in and breathe deeply. Be present. Do not be past. Do not be future. Be now. ~ Kyle Lake,
761:since the mind when distracted absorbs nothing deeply, but rejects everything which is, so to speak, crammed into it. ~ Seneca,
762:Tobacco addiction sinks its claws in deeply, it's just as powerful of [sic] an addiction as heroin or crack cocaine. ~ Al Gore,
763:To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. ~ J K Rowling,
764:To love someone so deeply means also that it will hurt a thousand times more when he disappoints or leaves you ~ J A Redmerski,
765:When he saw her, my brother stopped in his tracks and fell into her eyes so deeply you could hear the splash. ~ Peter Robinson,
766:When the subconscious mind must chose between deeply rooted emotions and logic, emotions will almost always win. ~ T Harv Eker,
767:Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
768:Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart. ~ Malcolm Gladwell,
769:And never have I felt so deeply
at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world. ~ Albert Camus,
770:And the baby would never know what it meant to hate Barnwell so deeply that she couldn't help but return to it. ~ Eleanor Brown,
771:Choosing to know yourself deeply hands you a torch to see beyond yourself, into the future. Into a strong future. ~ Bill Jensen,
772:He lit another cigarette and inhaled deeply, the tip flaring an angry red. “Isn’t love a beautiful goddamn liar? ~ Paula McLain,
773:I apologize to the women I’ve hurt. I deeply regret what I did and know that it has forever impacted all of our lives. ~ Dr Dre,
774:I desire you as deeply as I ever have, but I understand that the fervor of a desire is irrelevant to its justice. ~ Scott Lynch,
775:I don't pretend for a second that I'm that great of a person on a day-to-day basis. I'm a deeply flawed human. ~ Jami Attenberg,
776:If you want to really deeply touch the viewer or the reader, the theater might be the most powerful way to do it. ~ Ayad Akhtar,
777:I'm deeply, deeply passionate about creating peace and well-being in the classroom, and well-being as a global nation. ~ Goldie,
778:I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo. ~ Lord Acton,
779:In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go? ~ Gautama Buddha,
780:Intuition is knowledge based on experience, stored deeply within the brain, and available quickly and on demand. ~ Lolly Daskal,
781:Non-profits must become deeply engaged in the ways that their donor communities are using social technology. ~ Simon Mainwaring,
782:One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. ~ Anonymous,
783:Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense. ~ George Bernard Shaw,
784:The man snarled so deeply I could almost believe he was turning into a beast. I’d seen that happen enough times. ~ Rick Riordan,
785:There is a hunger for peace so deeply rooted in me that I cannot trace the origins to any one moment in my life. ~ Sasha Martin,
786:to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection for ever. ~ J K Rowling,
787:We deeply want to be led by people who know what they're doing and who don't have to think about it too much. ~ Daniel Kahneman,
788:A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul. ~ Thomas Moore,
789:...an irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself... ~ Homer,
790:Besides, things you loved deeply could be lost in a second, and then there was no filling the hole left inside you. ~ Libba Bray,
791:I cannot remember a single painting, although I do remember trying hard to be deeply impressed by them at the time. ~ Iain Pears,
792:I want to bask deeply in the taste of his blood, in that flowing crimson filled with his feelings melted in it... ~ Matsuri Hino,
793:Making media companies that you hope to sell is not a lot of fun for anyone who cares deeply about making media. ~ John Battelle,
794:Never never,” he whispers. His warmth, his lips, his hands. He presses his mouth to mine and kisses me deeply and I… ~ Anonymous,
795:NPD is not a chemical imbalance. And it is not genetic. It is a complex of behaviors, a deeply ingrained habit. ~ William Landay,
796:One I'm deeply into is Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals." I was the only person in the US who hadn't read it. ~ Dave Barry,
797:Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
798:She slept deeply, but as usual, she did not dream. It had been months; none of them was dreaming anymore. [p. 227] ~ Anne Lamott,
799:the Greeks were deeply critical of the written word, which they worried would destroy our ability to memorize texts. ~ Anonymous,
800:The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. ~ Albert Schweitzer,
801:Well I still don't think it's pathetic to cry over someone. It just means you care about them deeply and you're sad, ~ Jenny Han,
802:Whatever it was, it had hurt him so deeply that it seemed he would never be able to fully trust another person. ~ Danielle Paige,
803:Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert,
804:FEAR THICKENS TIME, TURNS IT slow and viscous. One second of deeply felt terror lasts longer than ten regular seconds. ~ Joe Hill,
805:I have loved deeply. I have lost intensely. I will never love again. I get that love by people who care for me. ~ Richard Simmons,
806:I'll accept that for now because there's a limit to how deeply I want to wade into your bullshit,' said Dimak. ~ Orson Scott Card,
807:I love you slowly. I love you deeply. I love you quietly. I love you powerfully. I love you unconditionally. ~ Brittainy C Cherry,
808:I’m going to put that fucker in the dirt as deeply as any man who’s ever been murdered, ever since the world began. ~ Scott Lynch,
809:In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward. ~ David Shields,
810:It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this. ~ Francis Atterbury,
811:It’s deeply un-American, you know, not to make small talk. It’s a very important part of the culture of this country. ~ Anonymous,
812:I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything. ~ Scarlett Thomas,
813:Of course I am not religious — I don't in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so. ~ Philip Warren Anderson,
814:Of course, she must be sleeping, sleeping deeply, wrapped in the darkness of that strange little world of hers. ~ Haruki Murakami,
815:Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life. Whereas ~ Eckhart Tolle,
816:She cared deeply about words and she hated their misuse as she would hate the clumsy handling of any fine thing. ~ John Steinbeck,
817:Some events mark us so deeply that they find more force of presence in their aftermath than in their occurrence. ~ R Scott Bakker,
818:The most important thing about translucent people is that their life has been deeply transformed by an awakening. ~ Arjuna Ardagh,
819:there is no need to go elsewhere for the truth. Let me show you how to go more deeply into what you already have. ~ Eckhart Tolle,
820:...to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. ~ J K Rowling,
821:Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is - no matter what form it takes - you are still, you are at peace. ~ Eckhart Tolle,
822:Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is — no matter what form it takes — you are still, you are at peace. ~ Eckhart Tolle,
823:Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man. ~ John Eldredge,
824:A good novel appeals to emotions, not intellect. It makes you feel things deeply, and then you think about them. ~ Mark Rubinstein,
825:Being madly, deeply in love is like allowing the sun to blind you just because it also keeps you warm. “Another? ~ Jessica Hawkins,
826:But as I spoke to him, all I could feel was love. That was ridiculous. And I am deeply, deeply suspicious of it. ~ Sebastian Barry,
827:Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own. ~ Alain de Botton,
828:I am deeply discouraged by Catholic Bishops who say Catholics cannot support same sex marriage in our secular culture. ~ Anne Rice,
829:If you are truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be. ~ Frederick Lenz,
830:I think you hear a lot of people say 'I support the troops' and all of that, but I really feel deeply that I do. ~ Jake Gyllenhaal,
831:It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious... Poetry is a religion without hope. ~ Jean Cocteau,
832:It is your holy work, to deeply love, honor and respect the precious self that you are, the soul that only you hold. ~ Debbie Ford,
833:It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices. ~ Linda Lingle,
834:Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love ~ Clive Barker,
835:The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
836:When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear, and we discover life with all its wonders. ~ Nhat Hanh,
837:When we truly love ourselves and love life, we are compelled to deeply explore ourselves and life's possibilities. ~ Bryant McGill,
838:Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. ~ Ernesto Che Guevara,
839:Authentic interest is generated when students are given the opportunity to delve deeply into an interesting idea. ~ Kelly Gallagher,
840:Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
841:He likes pretending to be stern and cynical, perhaps to hide the fact that he is a softie and deeply sentimental. He ~ Susan Orlean,
842:One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage. ~ Hermann Hesse,
843:Since we are part of nature...we empathize deeply with its ways... they serve as models of how things should be. ~ Lawrence Halprin,
844:Style is a deeply personal expression of who you are, and every time you dress, you are asserting a part of yourself. ~ Nina Garcia,
845:To feel deeply, intensely and constantly a total gratitude towards the Divineis the best way to be happy and peaceful. ~ The Mother,
846:To live passionately, we ought to be able to look once again at the people we once cared for deeply and painfully. ~ Paul Delaroche,
847:What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves. ~ Paul Val ry,
848:After the day is gone we shall go out, breathe deeply, and look up - and there the stars will be, unchanged, unchangeable. ~ H A Rey,
849:An education that seeks competition rather than collaboration is the reflection of a society that is deeply ill. ~ Claudio Naranjo,
850:Except that secrets, particularly the most deeply held ones, have a way of leaching into everything surrounding them. ~ Dani Shapiro,
851:Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person. ~ Tennessee Williams,
852:My mom was the best mom in the world. Except for when she wasn’t. I hated her the same way I loved her: deeply. ~ Brittainy C Cherry,
853:One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds ~ Haruki Murakami,
854:Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
855:Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again. ~ Anne Frank,
856:The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. ~ Carl Friedrich Gauss,
857:The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply. ~ Nhat Hanh,
858:The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. ~ Antoine de Saint Exupery,
859:The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry,
860:When you are confronted with a seemingly painless moral choice, the odds are that you haven’t looked deeply enough. ~ Karl Marlantes,
861:Your journey is to see how deeply you can interface your mind with infinity. That's the journey of a monk - to see. ~ Frederick Lenz,
862:As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years. ~ Debbie Allen,
863:Hurting people, really, deeply hurting them - that isn't something you do on purpose. It's just a by-product of living. ~ Leila Sales,
864:I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close. ~ Rudolf Steiner,
865:If a man loved me, I would have talked myself into loving him, and I would have loved him very deeply after a while. ~ Peter S Beagle,
866:It sometimes feels as if I had shouted a deeply cherished message out into an empty chasm and nobody heard me. ~ Douglas R Hofstadter,
867:Love not only stings when you lose it, when it’s ripped away from you. When it first bites, it can sting just as deeply. ~ Cat Porter,
868:My dear sweet girl. You take on so much. You feel things so deeply. But you will be happy, my darling. You will shine. ~ Cynthia Hand,
869:One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. ~ Haruki Murakami,
870:Reading the Bible can be like meeting someone you don't know who, oddly, somehow seems to know you deeply. It's uncanny. ~ Max Lucado,
871:Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities. ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel,
872:She could never be part of so much of his turbulent history, his youthful adventure, where life had been deeply felt. ~ Jane Hamilton,
873:the Egyptian capital remained a deeply exotic and mysterious place, unknowable in the way of all truly grand cities. ~ Scott Anderson,
874:There comes a time when our personal calling is so deeply buried in our soul as to be invisible. But it’s still there. ~ Paulo Coelho,
875:To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world. ~ Rudolf Steiner,
876:You must find something that you deeply love and are passionate about and are willing to sacrifice a lot to achieve. ~ Howard Schultz,
877:"As you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty." ~ Osho,
878:Be honest and don't pretend you're not falling truly, madly, and deeply for this guy. Denial will get you in trouble. ~ David Levithan,
879:Friends are connected by their souls, you can't just rinse something out that has been deeply instilled into your sou ~ Hiromu Arakawa,
880:I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.” ​— ​Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being ~ Penny Reid,
881:I miss home so deeply I ache inside, as if I’ve broken a bone deep in my body where a doctor cannot set it right. ~ Kate Avery Ellison,
882:I think, as this war goes on, we will all have to look more deeply. These questions are not about them, but about us. ~ Kristin Hannah,
883:... it is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person. ~ George Howe Colt,
884:Just like real sex, the touching was good, but there came a point in time when a woman needed to be filled - deeply. ~ Lacey Alexander,
885:Second, even when you retreat to a spoke to think deeply, when it’s reasonable to leverage the whiteboard effect, do so. ~ Cal Newport,
886:There was something in the bel canto, not just opera, but a certain style of Italian singing that I responded to deeply. ~ Robert Davi,
887:(Those who have no sons rarely attach any importance to the priorities of those who do, but they resent them deeply.) ~ Shashi Tharoor,
888:We all have reasons for our judgments, even if those reasons are so deeply buried we don’t recognize them ourselves. ~ Greer Hendricks,
889:You guys seemed, still seem, in love, truly, deeply.” She sighed. “But seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love. ~ Gayle Forman,
890:You won't be able to change the world, yourself, anything, if you don't change yourself inwardly, deeply, enduringly. ~ Timothy Keller,
891:Craftsmanship means dwelling on a task for a long time and going deeply into it, because you want to get it right. ~ Matthew B Crawford,
892:Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is. ~ Clifford Geertz,
893:He leans forward, his lips an inch from mine. And very deeply, very huskily, he whispers, “What do you want, Maximoff? ~ Krista Ritchie,
894:I am deeply disturbed by the senseless violence instigated by some leaders in pursuit of their personal political agenda. ~ Mwai Kibaki,
895:In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see. ~ Agnes Varda,
896:Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed. ~ Moliere,
897:The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living ~ J I Packer,
898:The more I am able to deeply love and accept my flaws and imperfections, the more I am able to do that with my fellows. ~ Alysia Reiner,
899:The more you meditate, the more helpful you can be to others, and the more deeply you will be in tune with God. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda,
900:The secret of success is doing things not merely because they are popular, but because you deeply believe in them. ~ Goswami Kriyananda,
901:These folks seemed to think leeching the world of all color was cool. I decided they all must be deeply depressed. ~ Karen Marie Moning,
902:These people might be vicious and bloodthirsty, but they loved each other. Deeply. Madly. Their devotion was palpable. ~ Gena Showalter,
903:This attachment to the body also deeply conditions our fear of death. The more we cling, the harder it is to let go. ~ Joseph Goldstein,
904:To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. ~ Jack Kornfield,
905:But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness. ~ Dean Koontz,
906:Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever. ~ Chip Esten,
907:Fear is a deeply ancient instinct, in other words, and an evolutionarily vital one... but it ain't especially smart. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert,
908:I am deeply inspired by the courage and achievements of young people who didn't have the safety nets I had growing up. ~ Michael Skolnik,
909:I can turn to that day as though it were a page in a book. It’s written so deeply upon my mind I can almost taste the ink. ~ Hannah Kent,
910:I feel everything more deeply. Every action I take, I think of her first. That's a big change for me. That - and no sleep! ~ Jenna Dewan,
911:I feel worried, deeply worried, only about one thing - the possibility that we fall... that we cannot avoid an atomic war. ~ Erich Fromm,
912:If we go deeply into the experience of whatever is known or loved we find no substance there other than Awareness itself. ~ Rupert Spira,
913:Never never,” he whispers. His warmth, his lips, his hands.
He presses his mouth to mine and kisses me deeply and I… ~ Colleen Hoover,
914:No, no, my dear Watson. The more deeply sunk impression is, of course, the hind wheel, upon which the weight rests. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle,
915:Our own ways of mourning may be unique, but the human capacity to grieve deeply is something we share with other animals. ~ Deborah Blum,
916:The Word of God is full of living water. We need to drink deeply from this living well so we can be women living well. ~ Courtney Joseph,
917:They were going to look at war, the red animal—war, the blood-swollen god. And they were deeply engrossed in this march. ~ Stephen Crane,
918:We are living through deeply anxious days and if we are to relieve our own anxiety we must diagnose its cause ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry,
919:You’re a good guy, Cam.”
“No, I’m not.” He exhaled deeply and his breath was warm against my cheek. “I’m only good with you. ~ J Lynn,
920:At any given time, no matter how deeply you are in love with one person, they're appealing to a very specific side of you. ~ Scott Porter,
921:Distortion of view takes place when we hold so deeply to our viewpoint that not even known facts can sway our beliefs. ~ Joseph Goldstein,
922:I’ve apologized for that a million times.” He inhaled deeply. “I miss you, all right.” “You should. I’m fucking awesome. ~ Suzanne Wright,
923:Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief - and I don't care what it is. ~ Dwight D Eisenhower,
924:Sometimes you can be so deeply wrapped up in a person that the only way to deal with it is to use cruelty to push them away. ~ L H Cosway,
925:There is no one experience of gratitude; rather, it is a complex and episodic thing, and one that is deeply personal. ~ Diana Butler Bass,
926:Wasn’t it hard that you did so much for children and loved them so deeply and they seemed so indifferent to you in return? ~ Maeve Binchy,
927:We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees. ~ Franklin D Roosevelt,
928:What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you? ~ Laura Dern,
929:With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex. ~ Edith Head,
930:You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential. ~ Jonathan Ive,
931:...you must never partly love or stop half way - because then, you become superficial and cannot be deeply hurt or loved... ~ John Geddes,
932:As we exercise self- awareness and examine our paradigms we discover that they are deeply ingrained. Change is not easy. ~ Stephen R Covey,
933:"By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better, and prepare for a better future." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh #hereandnow,
934:Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply. ~ Marquis de Sade,
935:I believe deeply that every one of us has an individual talent or trait that can be used to make a difference in some way. ~ Jeff Orlowski,
936:I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was. ~ Daniel Ek,
937:Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr,
938:The Outsider is primarily a critic, and if a critic feels deeply enough about what he is criticizing, he becomes a prophet. ~ Colin Wilson,
939:The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it. ~ Alan Lightman,
940:we knew that one trick to managing a terminal illness is to be deeply in love—to be vulnerable, kind, generous, grateful. ~ Paul Kalanithi,
941:We need to keep a gauge on our hearts so we can process, clarify, and understand our lives and relationships more deeply. ~ Lysa TerKeurst,
942:We unfold our deeply sensitive and expressively poetic existence as a feeling part of an organic whole. ~ Andreas Weber, Matter and Desire,
943:What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves. ~ Seneca the Younger,
944:When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
945:When they walked inside, Meryn inhaled deeply. The only thing that would make this place smell better was if it sold books. ~ Alanea Alder,
946:You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome. ~ Seth Godin,
947:At that time [1954], as a result of political events, I was deeply preoccupied by my relations with the Communist Party. ~ Jean Paul Sartre,
948:Clune went on to Rome. He was deeply torn by the calls of race and his outrage as a churchman at the taking of human life. ~ Tim Pat Coogan,
949:For Jesus, who lived so lightly on this earth, He didn’t even have a place to lay His head. I want so deeply to be like You. ~ Jen Hatmaker,
950:Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night. ~ John J Geddes,
951:God seldom calls us for an easier life, but always calls us to know more of him and drink more deeply of His sustaining grace. ~ John Piper,
952:I got schooled this year
by
a
boy.

A boy that I'm seriously, deeply, madly, incredibly, and undeniably in ,
953:I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult. ~ Jeanette Winterson,
954:In the end
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you let go? ~ Jack Kornfield,
955:I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time. ~ Diana Ross,
956:I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply? ~ Ernest Hemingway,
957:I was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine. ~ Michelle Obama,
958:Let's not underestimate the seriousness of the challenge. We have a deeply divided party. We have a deeply divided country. ~ Stephen Crabb,
959:Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life. ~ Leo Tolstoy,
960:Nothing of the sort was true in Iraq, where the people, like many Muslims in the region, deeply distrusted foreign occupiers. ~ Fred Kaplan,
961:See for me, it’s immediate. Silence is so freaking loud.' This seemed either deep or deeply oxymoronic. I wasn’t sure which. ~ Sarah Dessen,
962:Sometimes it seems to me that that’s all my life has been, a series of things that I loved deeply that I could never have. ~ Amanda Hocking,
963:The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply ~ Luis Bunuel,
964:The purest soul that deeply thinks and sinks itself in Atman, His blessed heart will have no words to tell it to the world. ~ Hermann Hesse,
965:The trouble with the merely unwise/deeply stupid line is that you often don’t know which side you’re on until it’s too late. ~ Ransom Riggs,
966:We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the mysteries of harmony. ~ Robert Schumann,
967:When you really get down to it, good writing (or good art of any kind) taps deeply into feelings more than anything else. ~ Mark Rubinstein,
968:You can't truly, deeply and sustainably motivate anybody until you know what their motives are - what motivates them...? ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru,
969:A world-class playboy once told me that the key to mesmerising women is to listen to them and look deeply into their eyes. ~ George Hamilton,
970:Business operators that really deeply care about their employees and consumers deliver the right response every day. ~ Michael J Silverstein,
971:But the imperial mentality is so deeply embedded in Western culture that this travesty passes without criticism, even notice. ~ Noam Chomsky,
972:But there is also a deeply inescapable kind of fence-sitting, which I shall call PAP (Permanent Agnosticism in Principle). ~ Richard Dawkins,
973:But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we forge too deeply into the planet there will be a reckoning- who knows? ~ Harry Truman,
974:...[C]ulture-learned behavior patterns so deeply engrained they produce unconscious involuntary reactions-is a prison. ~ John Howard Griffin,
975:I almost never slept deeply anymore--as soon as she said my name, I always sat up immediately, no matter how tired I was. ~ Cynthia Kadohata,
976:I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man. ~ Marion Barry,
977:I do not wish to talk about myself because I hold very deeply the belief that what is important is the work, not the person. ~ Remedios Varo,
978:I try to do different roles and try to immerse myself deeply and see what they need to be that's different than the last one. ~ Kelli O Hara,
979:I was deeply depressed. I felt my brain slipping out of its casing and down my neck, like an egg sliding on a frying pan. So ~ Jonathan Ames,
980:My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it. ~ Brennan Manning,
981:She was beginning to understand that it is not enough to love someone deeply; you also have to learn to love them well. ~ Louis de Berni res,
982:The entire Beauty Detox community deserves my thanks. You are an important part of the whole, and I appreciate you deeply. ~ Kimberly Snyder,
983:We are very afraid of being powerless. But we have the power to look deeply at our fears, and then fear cannot control us. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
984:When you feel things deeply and you think about things a lot and you think about how you feel, you learn a lot about yourself. ~ Fiona Apple,
985:You are a man with a protective instinct. To care that deeply is a blessing. But like most blessings, it can also be a curse. ~ Louise Penny,
986:You cannot breathe deeply and worry at the same time. Breathe. Let the worry go. Breathe. Allow the love and intuition in. ~ Sonia Choquette,
987:You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential. ~ Walter Isaacson,
988:Can you truthfully say that you treasure something buried so deeply in a closet or drawer that you have forgotten its existence? ~ Marie Kond,
989:Genius is a form of the life force that is deeply versed in illness, that both draws creatively from it and creates through it. ~ Thomas Mann,
990:I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me. I confess I don't even have a computer, I don't have a cell phone. ~ Paul Auster,
991:I say free will and imagination are deeply linked, and if you don’t believe you have one it just means that you lack the other. ~ Scott Meyer,
992:I started to think about the abyss that separates the poet from the reader and the next thing I knew I was deeply depressed. ~ Roberto Bola o,
993:I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate. ~ Ben Kingsley,
994:Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is. ~ Dwight D Eisenhower,
995:Pilgrimage is a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler. ~ Phil Cousineau,
996:Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads. ~ Harold Bloom,
997:She did not want to know what charm
he had used to make her love him so deeply. She did not want to know it wasn’t real. ~ Penelope Marzec,
998:The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers. ~ Harold Bloom,
999:The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
1000:We all sin, of course, but the unwillingness to take any responsibility for our sins implies a more deeply damaged spirit. ~ Charles J Chaput,
1001:What do I feel deeply inspired by?” and “What am I particularly talented at?” and “What meets a significant need in the world? ~ Greg McKeown,
1002:Along with the loss of the sense of self has gone a loss of our language for communicating deeply personal meanings to each other. ~ Rollo May,
1003:Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken. ~ Jean Claude Juncker,
1004:Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment. ~ Jaggi Vasudev,
1005:But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe it deeply enough to act on it. ~ Lydia Davis,
1006:Deeply he felt, more deeply than ever before, in this hour, the indestructibility of every life, the eternity of every moment. ~ Hermann Hesse,
1007:...freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night... ~ John Geddes,
1008:gliomatosis cerebri. It originates in the connective cells of the brain and infiltrates quickly, deeply into surrounding tissue. ~ Dean Koontz,
1009:However imperfect she appears to some, she is ours, and we already love her deeply and will treasure any time we have with her. ~ Kennedy Ryan,
1010:if she looked deeply where the dark sucks in the sparks, she might see something useful. She thought she might see glee. Thank ~ Thomas Harris,
1011:I think when we don't know what to do it's wise to do nothing. Sit down quietly; quiet our hearts and minds and breathe deeply. ~ Maya Angelou,
1012:Set in Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina, this book takes me home and is both deeply personal and intensely satisfying, in ~ Tanya Anne Crosby,
1013:…the pain of neuralgia…she knew what they thought. That she was cold. Couldn't feel. But in fact she felt too much. Too deeply. ~ Louise Penny,
1014:Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated. ~ May Sarton,
1015:You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love. ~ Robert Hugh Benson,
1016:How deeply bound by cords of family anger we all are, thought the Witch. None of us breaks free. 12 One afternoon a few weeks ~ Gregory Maguire,
1017:I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing. ~ Carol Gilligan,
1018:If there’s a mistake at all, it’s that we’ve created this understanding of gender that is so deeply limiting of God’s creation. ~ Austen Hartke,
1019:I grew up with the English language but not with the culture behind it. I was always outside that and deeply rooted in my own. I ~ Attia Hosain,
1020:I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice. ~ Livy,
1021:I know that while I care for him deeply, he could never break my heart. For my heart rests in no one's hands but my own now. ~ Sherry D Ficklin,
1022:I now lived deeply and fundamentally suspicious of any hint of dogma or ideology, of subjective values presented as Great Truths. ~ Shulem Deen,
1023:I think most actors rarely get the opportunity to play something really close to you and speaks to something you deeply believe. ~ Martin Sheen,
1024:It is very rare for a child of God to find gold and crude oil on the floor to fetch. He/she must dig and dig deeply well!!! ~ Israelmore Ayivor,
1025:My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense. ~ Marianne Williamson,
1026:We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to bail. ~ George Osborne,
1027:You don't have to die to enter nirvana or the Kindgom of God. You only have to dwell deeply in the present moment, right now. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
1028:Books are great tools, but they are disappointing gods. And once books become idols, those idols will leave us deeply unsatisfied. ~ Tony Reinke,
1029:he was deeply annoyed at having to leave the fair before he was drunk, a thing that had never happened to him since he was ten. ~ Winston Graham,
1030:I loved it when my heart beat quickly and erratically. Yet I found this performance, which was deeply poetic, more enjoyable. ~ Raymond Radiguet,
1031:I often say that leadership is deeply personal and inherently collective. That's a paradox that effective leaders have to embrace. ~ Peter Senge,
1032:It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried. ~ Carl Rogers,
1033:It takes more strength to care deeply enough to give your heart than it does to go into battle, and the victory is far greater. ~ Donna Fletcher,
1034:My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer. ~ Brian Greene,
1035:No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply. ~ Billy Graham,
1036:o all the varied peoples of the world nothing is so out of reach, yet so deeply personal and controlling, as the concept of god. ~ R A Salvatore,
1037:Pain shapes us, breaking us open so that we can reconfigure ourselves in a way that more deeply mirrors our authentic self. ~ Helen LaKelly Hunt,
1038:People want to believe that every marriage is perfect balance but it isn't. One person always loves more deeply than the other ~ Nicholas Sparks,
1039:The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal. ~ Victor Hugo,
1040:The only thing that deeply frustrates me is the slow speed [of major labels]. The more people involved, the slower the pace. ~ Caroline Polachek,
1041:The trouble with Austin was that he believed so deeply in the chivalrous virtues that he found it impossible to refer to them. ~ Dorothy Dunnett,
1042:This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk. ~ Patrick Rothfuss,
1043:Those of us who are locked into ineffective expressions of anger suffer as deeply as those of us who dare not get angry at all. ~ Harriet Lerner,
1044:Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing. ~ Joel Chandler Harris,
1045:You have a tale to tell, you are ancient, and deeply broken. I feel love for you and cherish that it is what it is and nothing more. ~ Anne Rice,
1046:Anything you avoid in life will come back, over and over again, until you’re willing to face it—to look deeply into its true nature. ~ Adyashanti,
1047:I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job. ~ R Buckminster Fuller,
1048:I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family values they have. ~ Ernie Harwell,
1049:It was not for Halliday to judge another's personal relationships: everyone in the city was strange, if you looked deeply enough. ~ Ellen Kushner,
1050:Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart. ~ Victor Hugo,
1051:Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love. ~ Edward Abbey,
1052:She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too. ~ Christopher Isherwood,
1053:The desire to be heard is as deeply seeded as the desire to be loved. For some people, it doesn't matter who's on the other end. ~ David Levithan,
1054:The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all. I can't describe how deeply I love them all. ~ Paul Auster,
1055:The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits. ~ William Jennings Bryan,
1056:The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau,
1057:The study of modern mindfulness meditation and emotional intelligence is deeply rooted in the ancient Vipassana meditation techniques. ~ Amit Ray,
1058:The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly. ~ Dan Simmons,
1059:Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr,
1060:WEALTH PRINCIPLE: When the subconscious mind must choose between deeply rooted emotions and logic, emotions will almost always win. ~ T Harv Eker,
1061:We can hardly have a conscious, efficacious relationship with the Other when we have a deeply wounded relationship with ourselves. ~ James Hollis,
1062:Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail. ~ Florence Scovel Shinn,
1063:What will I taste like?" I asked.
He inhaled deeply at the base of my throat. "Sweet and pure," he answered, "like white lilacs. ~ Karen Essex,
1064:When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed. ~ Margaret J Wheatley,
1065:When someone deeply listens to you, your barefeet are on the earth, and a beloved land that seemed distant, is now at home within you. ~ John Fox,
1066:When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. ~ Frank Herbert,
1067:You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility. ~ Carl Sagan,
1068:Young people feel things so deeply, don't they?' she said quietly, almost to herself. 'Everything's happening for the first time. ~ Tommy Wallach,
1069:As a healer, the first thing to tell every patient is to breathe deeply. Shallow breathing means no endurance, no patience. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi,
1070:As we enter into exquisite awareness of the life that want to live as us, we learn to love deeply. - We claim our passion. ~ Gunilla Brodde Norris,
1071:BEN (CONT’D) I am deeply, ridiculously in love with you. Above everything else, I want to be with you, forever. So, Leslie Knope, w— ~ Amy Poehler,
1072:But the feeling of scarcity does thrive in shame-prone cultures that are deeply steeped in comparison and fractured by disengagement. ~ Bren Brown,
1073:Cherish those close to you whom you deeply love, never forget the memories you share together, for that's the special part of life. ~ Heather Wolf,
1074:Having wounded each other thus, deeply, almost mortally, the two sat quietly side by side on someone’s sunny grave, haemorrhaging. ~ Arundhati Roy,
1075:I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know it is deadly. ~ Teju Cole,
1076:If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries. ~ Carl Friedrich Gauss,
1077:If your orthodoxy doesn't fully affirm compassion- if it is not, itself, deeply compassionate- then it is no orthodoxy at all. ~ Jamie Arpin Ricci,
1078:I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don’t think it’s something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that,. ~ Eva Longoria,
1079:In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility ~ Joseph Conrad,
1080:I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise. ~ George McGovern,
1081:I was reading Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks, and I'm still very, very deeply moved by Gwendolyn Brooks's life and her work. ~ Sandra Cisneros,
1082:Never was Catholicism, never were the ideas of chivalry, impressed on men so deeply, so multifariously, as the bourgeois ideas. ~ Alexander Herzen,
1083:Once again the thing to do was not to think too deeply, just keep her thoughts nice and level and focused on what she had to do. ~ Terry Pratchett,
1084:One could simply say it’s a legitimate fear-response, a reasonable and deeply internalized reaction to a shrinking economic pie. ~ Jennifer Senior,
1085:When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them. ~ Salli Richardson,
1086:Again and again, counteract the agitation and turbulence of the mind by relaxing more deeply, not by contracting the body or mind. ~ B Alan Wallace,
1087:Everything can draw inspiration: a vintage cloth, a book, a street-when I was in Japan, I was deeply inspired by Japanese pharmacies. ~ Renzo Rosso,
1088:Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. ~ Elie Wiesel,
1089:Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person. —Tennessee Williams ~ Jay Crownover,
1090:Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies and easily discount/dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies. ~ Ray Kurzweil,
1091:I am one of those people who deeply resents not having been born in the 19th century, when there were still open places to explore. ~ Bruce Babbitt,
1092:I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't. ~ Alfred North Whitehead,
1093:I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren’t. ~ Alfred North Whitehead,
1094:I kiss him and he kisses me and we laugh and we are close and I believe so deeply in that moment that I can tolerate his bullshit. ~ Jami Attenberg,
1095:In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility. ~ Joseph Conrad,
1096:Instead I had brief moments of familiarity on a highway, memories ingrained in me so deeply they could almost pass as a belonging. ~ Stephanie Land,
1097:Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent. ~ Diego Rivera,
1098:My comprehension of God comes from a deeply felt conviction of a superior intelligence that reveals itself in the knowable world. ~ Albert Einstein,
1099:She had come to accept, deeply, and with certitude, that she had been born into a world, a life, that would not let her be whole. ~ Guy Gavriel Kay,
1100:Then, having finished with his gesture of remorse, he sat down, like any decent man who has been deeply wronged, and planned murder. ~ Clive Barker,
1101:To feel deeply,intensely & constantly a total gratitude towards the Divineis the best way to be happy & peaceful. ~ The Mother#sriaurobindo,
1102:at the heart of the unconscious mind there is a panoramic intelligence that is deeply connected with fundamental human consciousness. ~ Stephen Cope,
1103:At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher. ~ Christiane Nusslein Volhard,
1104:Find something that matters deeply to you and pursue it. Question. Stand. Speak. Act. Make us uncomfortable. Make us think. ~ Terry Tempest Williams,
1105:I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation. ~ Simon Callow,
1106:If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . . ~ Muriel Spark,
1107:Instead of thinking deeply, or letting an idea simmer in the back of the mind, our instinct now is to reach for the nearest sound bite. ~ Carl Honor,
1108:It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience. ~ Lupita Nyong o,
1109:Many months would pass before I understood that people bond more deeply over shared brokenness than they do over shared beliefs. ~ Rachel Held Evans,
1110:Myths are compost. They begin as religions, the most deeply held of beliefs, or as the stories that accrete to religions as they grow. ~ Neil Gaiman,
1111:Our individual as well as communal lives are so deeply molded by our worries about tomorrow that today hardly can be experienced. ~ Henri J M Nouwen,
1112:Sometimes she wondered if those who felt too deeply were the ones who, when hurt, shut down their emotions even tighter than others. ~ Christy Reece,
1113:The goal of recovery is not to become normal. The goal is to embrace the human vocation of becoming more deeply, more fully human. ~ Patricia Deegan,
1114:The history of the distribution of wealth has always been deeply political, and it cannot be reduced to purely economic mechanisms. ~ Thomas Piketty,
1115:The more deeply we perceive, the more striking becomes the evidence that a uniform plan links every form in manifold nature. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda,
1116:The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.
   ~ Vicktor Hugo,
1117:They were average specimens of national manhood, slim and gaunt with deeply tanned skin from riding in jeeps and on motorcycles. ~ Viet Thanh Nguyen,
1118:And though I've always believed she and I shared many things in common. I did not know how deeply I could feel it.
It's killing me. ~ Tahereh Mafi,
1119:A woman is a highly developed, deeply intelligent, infinitely complicated being. And it needs to be carefully tricked into doing things. ~ Arj Barker,
1120:I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home. ~ Terry Tempest Williams,
1121:I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament. ~ Christopher Lasch,
1122:If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest. ~ Thomas Jefferson,
1123:If you are capable of living deeply one moment in your life, you can learn to live the same way all the other moments of your life. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
1124:I have loved and been loved, thoroughly and deeply by good and decent people who believed in me. Who let me dare to believe in myself. ~ Carolee Dean,
1125:I love her deeply and have done everything for her. I’ve no feeling of letting her down because I’ve put her foremost in everything. ~ John F Kennedy,
1126:I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs. ~ Gillian Flynn,
1127:I was not a lovable child, and I’d grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it’d be a scribble with fangs. ~ Gillian Flynn,
1128:Learning is a deep human need, like mating and eating, and like all such needs it is meant to be deeply pleasurable to human beings. ~ James Paul Gee,
1129:Not to aim to show God is not to love, bc God is what we need the most deeply. And to have all else without Him is to perish in the end. ~ John Piper,
1130:One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron. ~ Francis Collins,
1131:Religion is not something I like to talk about publicly. One reason is the politics, but also I think spirituality is deeply personal. ~ Mohsin Hamid,
1132:The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people. ~ John Green,
1133:the way they do remain a part of us, those people who have hurt us very deeply, or who we have hurt, never letting us go, not entirely. ~ Camilla Way,
1134:This evil of taking our cue from others has become so deeply ingrained that even that most basic feeling, grief, degenerates into imitation. ~ Seneca,
1135:Tolerance is not indifference, but a generous regard and even provision for those who differ from us on points we deeply care about. ~ Dallas Willard,
1136:Without thinking at all deeply about anything, he was chiefly aware of the need to be back in a company of men, fighting something. ~ Dorothy Dunnett,
1137:Conversely, we knew that one trick to managing a terminal illness is to be deeply in love—to be vulnerable, kind, generous, grateful. ~ Paul Kalanithi,
1138:Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise. ~ Joan Rivers,
1139:Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller, whose gifts are displayed on every page of this beautiful, daring, and deeply humane book. ~ Daniel Alarcon,
1140:Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority. ~ Juvenal,
1141:Forced labor was one of the most widespread and most deeply resented of the chronic abuses to which conquered Africans were subjected. ~ Thomas Sowell,
1142:He laughed and the others laughed with him, except Babe, who resented slightly that what he felt so deeply could be reduced to a humor. ~ J D Salinger,
1143:I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal. ~ Julianna Baggott,
1144:I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really. ~ Marilyn Monroe,
1145:I have always loved Elle. I love her now even more deeply than before, as the woman I wish to share my life with."
~Sean O'Neill ~ Brenda Joyce,
1146:"It is very important that we do not try to run away from our painful feelings. We can recognize, accept, embrace, and look deeply." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
1147:I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to engage deeply or you'd go mad. ~ Catherine Mayer,
1148:No one has ever been deeply changed by an act of the will. The only thing that can re-forge and change a life at its root, is love. ~ Timothy J Keller,
1149:Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the word mystery. ~ James Dwight Dana,
1150:The very idea of Palaeolithic art was deeply disturbing. Was not art one of the great achievements of high civilizations? ~ James David Lewis Williams,
1151:When you have loved deeply, that love can grow even stronger after the death of the person you love. That is the core message of Jesus. ~ Henri Nouwen,
1152:You cannot know how frightened gods are of pain. There is nothing more foreign to them, and so nothing they ache more deeply to see. ~ Madeline Miller,
1153:Are you able—theologically, personally, and resource-wise—to be harmoniously, sweetly, and deeply in love with Jesus together in marriage? ~ John Piper,
1154:Boredom and restlessness are deeply related. Whenever you feel boredom, then you feel restlessness. Restlessness is a by-product of boredom. ~ Rajneesh,
1155:he loved her deeply and irrevocably. His life would be forever changed and if she weren't in his life, well, it would be meaningless". ~ Laura Hunsaker,
1156:If you're going to fall out of love with public approval, something interesting will happen: people will be deeply attracted to your work. ~ Jeff Goins,
1157:I know that I'm deeply, spiritually, profoundly philosophical and I also know that I'm about the flakiest person you're gonna meet. ~ Alanis Morissette,
1158:I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific. ~ Miranda Richardson,
1159:Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience. ~ Charles R Swindoll,
1160:Love encompasses so much, reaches so far, and heals so deeply, that any attempt to describe it, no matter how poetic, only dilutes it. ~ Steve Maraboli,
1161:Many months would pass before I understood that people bond more deeply over shared brokenness than they do over shared beliefs.”18 ~ Rachel Held Evans,
1162:Please don't use the word tough. People might get the impression that I don't care. And I do care, very deeply. Resilient, I think. ~ Margaret Thatcher,
1163:Sensitive people either love deeply or they regret deeply. There really is no middle ground because they live in passionate extremes. ~ Shannon L Alder,
1164:she read books the way an addict swallowed pills. She devoured stories one after the other, trying not to let reality intrude too deeply. ~ Susan Wiggs,
1165:The best rituals are physical, solitary, and silent: These are the ones that register most deeply with the unconscious. ~ Robert A. Johnson, Inner Work,
1166:The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence. ~ Brennan Manning,
1167:The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom. ~ Marianne Williamson,
1168:to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is in your very skin. ~ J K Rowling,
1169:We want to make sure people know deeply about the trans community and deeply about Black Lives Matter so that people can act in solidarity. ~ Van Jones,
1170:Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1171:You want to know what it feels like when my cock is buried deeply inside of you, after my tongue has tasted every fucking bit of you first, ~ C D Reiss,
1172:184. "Focus your mind on one thing, absorb the old examples, study the actions of the masters- penetrate deeply into a single form of practice." ~ Dogen,
1173:But then I found out that the poem she truly loved was the other one. She chose her own way. And I fell even more deeply in love with her. ~ Ally Condie,
1174:idea that the male is the default-model human still deeply pervades our culture. The male is considered simple; the female, complex. ~ Louann Brizendine,
1175:It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books. ~ Baltasar Gracian,
1176:I was not a lovable child, and I’d grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it’d be a scribble with fangs. IT ~ Gillian Flynn,
1177:Many months would pass before I understood that people bond more deeply over shared brokenness than they do over shared beliefs.” 18 ~ Rachel Held Evans,
1178:Perhaps once one realised how deeply one could bond with a creature as foreign as a dragon, all forms of human love seemed more acceptable. ~ Robin Hobb,
1179:she was never sorry for learning how to love so deeply and for moving these people around her in ways their bodies could never imagine. ~ Robert M Drake,
1180:That kind of devotion, that kind of sacrifice, came from a deeply selfless soul. It came from someone who loved hard and loved forever. ~ Dakota Cassidy,
1181:The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~ Erik Brynjolfsson,
1182:The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them. ~ E Stanley Jones,
1183:There is something much better than sitting on an empty chair and that is to watch it and to let it to inspire you to think deeply! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
1184:The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. ~ Nikola Tesla,
1185:Together they breathed deeply, like people who exaggerate their soul because they have no other riches.' May Sarton, quoting Jean Dominique ~ May Sarton,
1186:to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection for ever. It is in your very skin. ~ J K Rowling,
1187:We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value? ~ Jack Kornfield,
1188:We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony. ~ Lizz Winstead,
1189:Whenever we are thinking too deeply and too hard about ourselves, it may be time to focus on doing something that serves somebody else. ~ Melody Beattie,
1190:You don't need to think deeply before reaching out to the excuses to give. Just lose interest in it and you gain excuses at no cost! ~ Israelmore Ayivor,
1191:Dreams, I thought. They're the riches of a poor person, stashed in treasure chests buried deeply in the imagination. But are dreams enough? ~ V C Andrews,
1192:Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time. ~ Brian Greene,
1193:How close we can approach the land of happiness with the heavy shackles on our feet of injustice permeated deeply into every corner? ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
1194:I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me. ~ John Knowles,
1195:I'm deeply concerned. And I think, in many ways, the Trump presidency poses a clear and present danger to our country and to the world. ~ Hillary Clinton,
1196:It's so weird to live in this world. What a bizarre tension to care deeply about the refugee crisis in Syria and also about Gilmore Girls. ~ Jen Hatmaker,
1197:Meditation changes your character by a process of sensitization, by making you deeply aware of your own thoughts, words, and deeds. ~ Henepola Gunaratana,
1198:Myths are compost. They begin as religions, the most deeply held of beliefs, or as the stories that accrete to religions as they grow. (“If ~ Neil Gaiman,
1199:Occasionally weep deeply over the life you hoped would be. Grieve the losses. Then wash your face. Trust God. And embrace the life you have. ~ John Piper,
1200:Populists hate journalists, they hate teachers, they hate lawyers, but they tend to like rich people. There's something deeply consistent. ~ David Brooks,
1201:Revenge is more wild, less calculated...deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp) ~ Vince Flynn,
1202:Worn with tights it is not an issue, although there is something deeply unfeminist about not being able to sit down in one comfortably. ~ Sienna Guillory,
1203:Are our competitors - for example, China, which is a deeply authoritarian nation - becoming more authoritarian or more liberal over time? ~ Edward Snowden,
1204:A writer once asked what I'd say if I ever met my biggest hater. I paused, thought deeply and said, "Probably 'suk a dog dik, motherfuker.'" ~ Ezra Koenig,
1205:Being the “best you can be” is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people. ~ Sue Johnson,
1206:If you are deeply connected with yourself, with your energy, staying awake to yourself in the moment, other prisoners tend to leave you alone. ~ James Fox,
1207:if you see for yourself, hear for yourself, and enter deeply enough this seeing and hearing, all things will speak with and through you. ~ Jane Hirshfield,
1208:I, myself, deeply regret what happened between me and President Clinton. Let me say it again: I. Myself. Deeply. Regret. What. Happened. ~ Monica Lewinsky,
1209:It's a matter of each of the two churches being very deeply enculturated in its own setting and having difficulty understand the other. ~ Justo L Gonzalez,
1210:I would adopt a standpoint, irrespective of whether someone was for or against it, if I felt deeply that it was right for the movement. ~ Alfred Rosenberg,
1211:Learning an alien culture from so deeply inside it, he could no longer accept the superiority of one particular belief or value system. To ~ Robert Greene,
1212:Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love. ~ Honore de Balzac,
1213:Not to aim to show God is not to love, because God is what we need the most deeply. And to have all else without Him is to perish in the end. ~ John Piper,
1214:The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize what feeds it, we are already on the path of emancipation. ~ Nhat Hanh,
1215:The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
1216:The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art. ~ Lorraine Toussaint,
1217:The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply. ~ Anne Rice,
1218:...to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is in your very skin. ~ J K Rowling,
1219:Two rings. One of ink and one of gold. Not too many women would ever know the blessing of being loved so deeply by more than one man. Blessed ~ Beth Flynn,
1220:Why has she loved ships so deeply, why has she always wanted to sail away from this world? Why has she always dreamed of flight, of departure? ~ Ana s Nin,
1221:Within the magical worldview everything is deeply interconnected, so if you intend to harm others, you are likely to end up harming yourself. ~ Dean Radin,
1222:Caring deeply about someone who seemed incapable of caring was a particular kind of hell that she wouldn’t wish on anyone, she said. They ~ Walter Isaacson,
1223:Given how deeply the ways of war have penetrated our collective consciousness, it will take spiritual power to turn the issue around. ~ Marianne Williamson,
1224:I am ashamed and deeply distressed that American government should have become the chief cause of disillusionment with American principles. ~ Wendell Berry,
1225:I loved them all equally, from the short story, to the poem, to the play, for nothing could touch me so deeply as a well-placed word. ~ Cheryl Anne Gardner,
1226:I think we're in an era of unprecedented dominance by corporations. I think people understand that deeply; I don't think that's even questioned. ~ Josh Fox,
1227:Matt was deeply touched that his estranged son would come to him for advice. He wasn’t going to let it show, of course. A man had his pride. ~ Diana Palmer,
1228:Paul felt deeply for the unity of the body of Christ. He was convinced that unity could only be reached by the exercise of love and prayer. ~ Andrew Murray,
1229:Pudge," She shook her head and sipped the cold coffee and wine-"Pudge, what you must understand about me is that I am a deeply unhappy person. ~ John Green,
1230:Some twisted, dark, deeply buried part of me welcomed him, stretched out her claws and found like where only difference should have been. ~ Adrienne Lecter,
1231:The demon in me that knows there's a demon in you who can mop the floor with my raunchy butt tells me to say yes. I care. Deeply." (Ren) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,
1232:The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
   ~ Nikola Tesla,
1233:And so a man’s heart, driven into the darker regions of the soul, denied the very things he most deeply desires, comes out in darker places. ~ John Eldredge,
1234:As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom. ~ Natasha Lyonne,
1235:Because he, more than anyone, knew that sometimes, love wasn’t enough. Sometimes, people changed so deeply that the change broke love itself. ~ Nalini Singh,
1236:Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest. ~ Geneen Roth,
1237:Despite Grant’s best efforts at Appomattox, the breach of the Civil War never healed but became deeply embedded in American political culture. ~ Ron Chernow,
1238:Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument. ~ Emile Durkheim,
1239:God's entire divine nature is wholly and entirely in all creatures, more deeply, more inwardly, more present than the creature is to itself. ~ Martin Luther,
1240:Here’s the reality: you’re not supposed to be perfect. You’re supposed to be human. And humans are messy, flawed, glorious, and deeply loved. ~ Holley Gerth,
1241:He was sexual in a way that made women think of deeply repressed fantasies therapists and feminists alike would cringe to hear tell of. ~ Karen Marie Moning,
1242:I'm ready to become a French person amongst French people, and more than ever I have the love for my country deeply ingrained in my heart. ~ Nicolas Sarkozy,
1243:It has been rightly said that what a critic wants to understand he must, at one time, have deeply loved, even if only for a fleeting moment. ~ Martin Esslin,
1244:Look: We hate nothing that exists, not even death, suffering and dying, does not horrify our souls, as long as we learn more deeply to love. ~ Hermann Hesse,
1245:Something unfathomable moved behind his eyes. He sighed deeply.
'Do you ever, even once,' he asked, 'consider the price of caring about you? ~ Sara Poole,
1246:That was the worst part of all, really: knowing better, but doing it anyway, no matter how deeply it went against the kind of person I was. ~ Siobhan Vivian,
1247:The illusion of skill is not only an individual aberration; it is deeply ingrained in the culture of the [investment management] industry. ~ Daniel Kahneman,
1248:The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying. ~ George Will,
1249:Thinking deeply about your choices and actions from the stance of your future self can serve as both a motivational and a corrective force. ~ Cheryl Strayed,
1250:We’ve become a nation of defaulters: we buy on credit, and when the bill comes in, we’re so deeply outraged that we refuse even to look at it. ~ Tana French,
1251:What makes me deeply vulnerable? Probably the thing I suffer most from and have the most uncontrollable reactions from is still social anxiety. ~ Alex Ebert,
1252:With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie. ~ Charles Grodin,
1253:All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it. ~ Paloma Faith,
1254:As a father, you are patterning your discipline after your heavenly Father, whom your children need to realize you deeply respect and love. ~ James MacDonald,
1255:But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God. ~ Elisabeth Elliot,
1256:Do not be reactive and vengeful and if you look deeply into your anguish, you will see that it is the anguish of our wounded collective soul. ~ Deepak Chopra,
1257:Every time we truly stop and look deeply, the result is a better understanding of the true nature of what is there inside us and around us. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
1258:He groaned deeply. “You keep looking at me like that, I’m going to strip the clothes off you and get so far deep inside you that I’ll never get out. ~ J Lynn,
1259:I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic. ~ Dennis Lehane,
1260:I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue. ~ Alan K Simpson,
1261:I did not consider him to be any kind of a genius. I considered him deeply lacking in the area that mattered most in life. Star quality. ~ Augusten Burroughs,
1262:It felt beyond strange to be riding topless in broad daylight, but the exhibitionist inside her—inside every submissive—was deeply aroused. ~ Claire Thompson,
1263:Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein. ~ Andre Maurois,
1264:Mr. Hempseed shook his head with an infinity of wisdom, tempered by deeply-rooted mistrust of the British climate and the British Government. ~ Emmuska Orczy,
1265:Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--the rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars. ~ Rodney Stark,
1266:nursing was a deeply interpersonal profession in which people had to depend on others—doctors, techs, fellow nurses—to do their job well. ~ Alexandra Robbins,
1267:Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice. ~ Dave Barry,
1268:One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return. ~ George Orwell,
1269:The best way to get through any challenge is to step back, look up at the sky, breathe deeply in and out, smile if you have to…then dive in. ~ Waylon H Lewis,
1270:The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. ~ Stephen Fry,
1271:There are no final words in science. But there you have the deeply anti-scientific temper of the global warming advocacy groups: Final words. ~ George F Will,
1272:To do the will of God means to do my own most deeply hidden will. Within even the most unworthy of men there is a servant of God, asleep. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis,
1273:We have to report this."

Kai sighed deeply in relief. "I was afraid you were going to say that we had to investigate it ourselves. ~ Genevieve Cogman,
1274:When those you love deeply reject you, leave you, or die, your heart will be broken. But that should not hold you back from loving deeply. ~ Henri J M Nouwen,
1275:Your number-one mission as a speaker is to take something that matters deeply to you and to rebuild it inside the minds of your listeners. ~ Chris J Anderson,
1276:As you acquire a sense of reverence, you develop a capacity to think more deeply about the value of Life before you commit your energy to action. ~ Gary Zukav,
1277:He drank deeply from his orange juice - really drank to savor it so that for a minute or two nothing existed in the house but his enjoyment. ~ Jeff VanderMeer,
1278:Her raised his face to the weeping sky, closed his dark eyes, and sighed deeply, a smile playing on his sensuous lips. "The bloody hour is come. ~ Rick Yancey,
1279:I knew this like I knew my heart was beating. I knew it like I knew pain, thoroughly and deeply, and in places where I could never rinse it out. ~ Audrey Bell,
1280:I think it's possible to realize you love someone as deeply as you know how to love and not end up spending the rest of your life with him. ~ Robin Jones Gunn,
1281:Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work. ~ Pat Metheny,
1282:My father was a deeply spiritual, prophetic man, [who] I adored. I watched him pray as a boy and wanted to know the "Jesus" he shed tears for. ~ Jonathan Cain,
1283:Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--th e rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars. ~ Rodney Stark,
1284:There's no doubt now that Russia has used cyber attacks against all kinds of organizations in America, and I am deeply concerned about this. ~ Hillary Clinton,
1285:The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand. ~ Nicholas Sparks,
1286:We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he'd earned. ~ Ellen Goodman,
1287:What matters most on your journey is how deeply you see, how attentively you hear, how richly the encounters are felt in your heart and soul. ~ Phil Cousineau,
1288:With God, we can be satisfied and fulfilled with very little, but without Him, all that we have will always be dry and deeply disappointing. ~ James MacDonald,
1289:Christmas split history. Foretastes of the future abound. Drink deeply on what he achieved for us. And be filled with hope for all that is coming. ~ John Piper,
1290:I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job. But I truly, deeply hated the evil that woman possessed. I hate it to this day. ~ Chris Kyle,
1291:I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply. ~ Matthew Tobin Anderson,
1292:I don't believe in God now. I can still work up an envy for someone who has a faith. I can see how that could be a deeply soothing experience. ~ Jack Nicholson,
1293:It’s wrong not to be in awe of what God created, but it’s even more deeply wrong when you can look at created glory without remembering God. ~ Paul David Tripp,
1294:No kind of writing lodges itself so deeply in our memory, echoing there for the rest of our lives, as the books that we met in our childhood. ~ William Zinsser,
1295:Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred... Now is the time for you to deeply compute the impossibility that there is anything but grace. ~ Hafez,
1296:People are the least creative when fighting the clock... Time pressure stifles creativity because people can't deeply engage with the problem. ~ Teresa Amabile,
1297:She had become so deeply sad from waking up in the morning knowing that she could stay in bed all day and it would not make any difference to anybody ~ Jo Nesb,
1298:Solitude. One knows instinctively it has benefits that must be more deeply satisfying than those of other conditions, but still it is difficult. ~ James Salter,
1299:The Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu once said that being loved deeply by someone gives you strength, and loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~ Nicholas Sparks,
1300:The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether ~ Teresa Amabile,
1301:There are so many fans and so many people who care deeply about this game, and it is because of these fans that we are who we are as cricketers. ~ Rahul Dravid,
1302:Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire. ~ Kurt Tucholsky,
1303:Those who hate so fervently, must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world, must have once embraced what they now set on fire. ~ Kurt Tucholsky,
1304:What's the n-never-fail universal apology?"

"'I was badly misinformed, I deeply regret the error, go fuck yourself with this bag of money. ~ Scott Lynch,
1305:Why am I telling an ass-hole my problems?” I shrugged.  “Maybe because my one virtue is brutal honesty.  I care enough to hurt you deeply.” She ~ Morgan Blayde,
1306:being connected in a shallow way to the entire world can prevent us from being deeply connected to those closest to us—including ourselves. ~ Arianna Huffington,
1307:But this was me—the real, behind-the-curtains me. I bruised easily, felt things deeply, and cried when I was sad. I had no desire to hide that. ~ Melanie Harlow,
1308:Dreams, I thought. They're the riches of a poor person, stashed in treasure chests buried deeply in the imagination. But are dreams enough? ~ Virginia C Andrews,
1309:Elise never thought her husband would love her as deeply as Falk did. She never imagined kisses as passionate and tingling as the ones Falk gave her. ~ K M Shea,
1310:Faye had always been sweet, flaky but sweet, unlikely to ask about your problems but deeply concerned about them if you reminded her they existed. ~ Tana French,
1311:For if ever any man were deeply and unconsciously sure that his future would be no better than his past, he might deeply wish to cease to live. ~ John Steinbeck,
1312:God is not a person; God is a sacred personification of one or more deeply significant dimensions of reality. If we miss this we miss everything! ~ Michael Dowd,
1313:I as a Muslim believe deeply in the differences that are within Islam. But I also take seriously the idea that we have to come to know one another. ~ Eboo Patel,
1314:I knew precisely what things I wanted to do—and when and why—and I was deeply resentful of other people's attempts to enforce structure on my days. ~ Sara Baume,
1315:I like to play different ranges. When you get really deeply involved in the emotional parts, I enjoy that just as much as the fun and laughter. ~ Melissa George,
1316:It is lovely to meet an old person whose face is deeply lined, a face that has been deeply inhabited, to look in the eyes and find light there. ~ John O Donohue,
1317:Looking deeply" means observing something or someone with so much concentration that the distinction between observer and observed disappears. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
1318:My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will. ~ Adam Haslett,
1319:She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne,
1320:The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
1321:The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. ~ Paul Auster,
1322:The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for Nature to realise. ~ Louis Agassiz,
1323:The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons. ~ Michael Lewis,
1324:Truth is as free as the air and we all have the right to breathe as deeply of it as we wish. It cannot be held back in the palm of any one man. ~ Mary E Pearson,
1325:We have to look deeply at things in order to see. When a swimmer enjoys the clear water of the river, he or she should also be able to be the river. ~ Nhat Hanh,
1326:What sets apart high-performance teams, however, is the degree of commitment, particularly how deeply committed the members are to one another. ~ Jon Katzenbach,
1327:for the young Louis XV: Philippe II, Duc d’Orléans, was a man who combined a negligible intellect with deeply committed self-indulgence. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith,
1328:Half an hour afterwards Dick emerged from the inn, and if Fancy's lips had been real cherries, probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained. ~ Thomas Hardy,
1329:I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers. ~ Barbara Lee,
1330:I believe deeply that it's very important to the United States, to the economic health of the United States, that we maintain a strong dollar. ~ Timothy Geithner,
1331:I believe that if one fathoms deeply one's own neighborhood and the everyday world in which he lives, the greatest of worlds will be revealed. ~ Masanobu Fukuoka,
1332:I have been so deeply, profoundly lucky to have friends in my life that have always just loved me exactly as I am no matter what time period I'm in. ~ Emma Stone,
1333:It is a disappointment to me to spawn a child who feels so deeply. I would like to refute the idea that to feel somehow makes you a better person. ~ Deborah Levy,
1334:Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly. Play as often as you can Work as smart as you are able. Share your heart as deeply as you can reach. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher,
1335:Loosely translated Der schlechte Affe hasst seinen eigenen Geruch means that people are most deeply offended by moral failings that mirror their own. ~ Matt Ruff,
1336:The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction. ~ Paul Keating,
1337:The impact of the holocaust on believers as well as unbelievers, on Jews as well as Christians, has not yet been evaluated. Not deeply, not enough. ~ Elie Wiesel,
1338:When you meditate deeply, you will see beyond life and death. You will see that you can't die and you can't be reborn. You are existence itself. ~ Frederick Lenz,
1339:As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language. ~ June Jordan,
1340:But false niceness can never and will never produce an authentic, deeply meaningful relationship, just like weeds won’t magically produce zinnias. ~ Paul Coughlin,
1341:Not for the first time Marianne thinks cruelty does not only hurt the victim, but the perpetrator also, and maybe more deeply and more permanently. ~ Sally Rooney,
1342:Read more. Read. Read. Read. Deeply, widely, read. Learn all kinds of subjects. The smarter you are as an actor, the better an actor you'll be. ~ Steve Guttenberg,
1343:This verse is a call, not to a feeling, but to a decision and a deeply rooted confidence that God exists, that he is in control, and that he is good. ~ Max Lucado,
1344:We love music deeply, but why? Put simply: music makes lives, shapes lives, expresses all shades and
stages of life - and even saves lives. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru,
1345:Women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don't necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but they don't share it as much. ~ Ashton Kutcher,
1346:And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. ~ Martin Luther King Jr,
1347:Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive. ~ Jodhi May,
1348:Getting too deeply into statistics is like trying to quench a thirst with salty water. The angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability. ~ Paul Kalanithi,
1349:If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein,
1350:I have always loved Elle. I love her now even more deeply than before, as the woman I wish to share my life with."
~ Brenda JoyceSean O'Neill ~ Brenda Joyce,
1351:I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed. ~ Wendy Carlos,
1352:In any case, though, I believe that I have not been fair to you and that, as a result, I must have led you around in circles and hurt you deeply. ~ Haruki Murakami,
1353:I never knew I could hate someone as deeply as I do you.”
“I often help others discover the outer limits of their hatred. It’s a talent of mine. ~ Kresley Cole,
1354:Just in the past couple years, we've seen digital tools display skills and abilities that ... eat deeply into what we human beings do for a living. ~ Andrew McAfee,
1355:Neither was to blame for the way they felt, because Marius was someone who embraces sorry and dwells in it, but Cosette felt it deeply but recovered. ~ Victor Hugo,
1356:That’s what true obedience is—beyond merely adhering to a set of regulations; it is doing so because you deeply and truly love the One commanding you. ~ J D Greear,
1357:The control of your mind is most important, and it will be worth your while. You must think deeply. Clear your mind of all bad, unwanted thoughts ~ William O Brien,
1358:The increasingly thoughtful child can see the whole horribly upset world and would be understandably totally bewildered and deeply troubled by it ~ Jeremy Griffith,
1359:Then he kissed her so deeply and so completely that she felt like she was falling, floating, spiraling down, down, down, like Alice in Wonderland. ~ Liane Moriarty,
1360:These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all. ~ E Lockhart,
1361:The sorrows of childhood are mercifully passing, for it is only when maturity has rendered soil mellow that grief will root very deeply. Stephen’s ~ Radclyffe Hall,
1362:The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man. ~ Ho Chi Minh,
1363:we cannot cover up the evil that is entrenched so deeply within our hearts. Our greatest need is not to try harder. Our greatest need is a new heart. ~ David Platt,
1364:When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for. ~ John Milton,
1365:When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it. ~ Jack Canfield,
1366:All of my work in some way or another speaks to political issues according to the upbringing that I had, which was deeply rooted in principles. ~ Joan Wallach Scott,
1367:And I myself was wrung with emotion -- it was heartbreaking, it was absurd, it was deeply perplexing, to think of his life lost in limbo, dissolving. ~ Oliver Sacks,
1368:But I also felt gloomy, dispirited, aware that if I stayed my life would be too deeply touched by these people. I would, in the end, become one of them. ~ Anonymous,
1369:He thinks that if one cares deeply about someone or something new one throws a kind of energy out into the world, and “fruitfulness” is drawn in. ~ Mary Ann Shaffer,
1370:I held her and she cried into my shoulder so deeply that I could feel the sorrow from her soul blending completely and profoundly with my own. ~ Christopher Scotton,
1371:I was very spiritual as a kid. I think I felt and thought about things a lot more deeply than most of the other kids my age. I wanted to help people. ~ Jake Epstein,
1372:No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them. ~ Otto Weininger,
1373:People like their high-fashion models to look as deeply unhappy as physically possible You can't have beauty and contentment: it would just be unfair. ~ Holly Smale,
1374:The best filmmakers, I think, have always had very narrow frameworks for their stories, and then they can go deeply, rather than skimming the surface. ~ Paul Auster,
1375:The number of choirboys indecently assaulted annually by vicars and churchwardens may lead you to suppose that England is a deeply religious country. I ~ Tom Sharpe,
1376:There are three stages to a man's life. 1. He laughs at Clark Griswold. 2. He sympathizes deeply with Clark Griswold. 3. He laughs at Clark Griswold. ~ James Lileks,
1377:There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like a song made solid. It is an act of creation. ~ Patrick Rothfuss,
1378:The woman got to him. Deeply. If she wasn’t spitting fire she was driving him to his knees with her kindness. Such an endearing contradiction she was. ~ Kelly Moran,
1379:Those who have deeply suffered in some particular way are welded together in an understanding incomprehensible to those who have not so suffered. ~ Elizabeth Goudge,
1380:To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
1381:You become that which you think you are. Or, it is not that you become it, but that the idea gets very deeply rooted and that's what all conditioning is. ~ Rajneesh,
1382:Cynics know the answers without having penetrated deeply enough to know the questions. When challenged by mysterious truths, they marshall 'facts. ~ Marilyn Ferguson,
1383:Don't love deeply, till you make sure that the other part loves you with the same depth, because the depth of your love today, is the depth of your wound tomorrow. ~,
1384:Don’t love deeply, till you make sure that the other part loves you with the same depth, because the depth of your love today, is the depth of your wound tomorrow. ~,
1385:I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art. ~ Jeffrey Deitch,
1386:If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to be too deeply under the sway of progress. ~ David Shields,
1387:If you could understand impermanence deeply, you would develop more equanimity. You would not get too excited about either the ups and downs of life. ~ Satya Nadella,
1388:I knew him the least well, understood him scarcely at all, felt uneasy in his presence, and yet perhaps in a strange way loved him more deeply than any. ~ Susan Hill,
1389:In short, the Romans conquered most of their known world as much with the deeply institutionalized pen as with the sword, shield, and catapult. ~ William J Bernstein,
1390:Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still it is, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness. ~ Eckhart Tolle,
1391:No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be. ~ Mitch Daniels,
1392:Now I've laid me down to die I pray my neighbors not to pry Too deeply into sins that I Not only cannot here deny But much enjoyed as life flew by. ~ Preston Sturges,
1393:So now i know. I fear the unknown so deeply that I'de rather repeat the same heart-breaking pattern than face something or someone i can't predict. ~ Valerie Frankel,
1394:The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize its source of food, we are already on the path of emancipation. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
1395:There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply. ~ Thom Gunn,
1396:... this idea, that humans are essentially weak creatures, is actually deeply woven into a lot of the ways in which humans think about our bodies. ~ Daniel Lieberman,
1397:We are all incarnate Buddhas. We just have not realized it deeply. We have not moved the mind - what our friend Don Juan calls the assemblage point. ~ Frederick Lenz,
1398:When St Francis looked deeply at an all day treatment in winter and asked it to speak to him about God, the tree was instantly covered in blossoms. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
1399:You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born. ~ Raymond E Feist,
1400:Alliance: the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted into each others’ pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.” “Are ~ Kory M Shrum,
1401:But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs. ~ Thomas Harris,
1402:Have I told you today how incredibly beautiful you are? If I haven't, I deeply apologize. That's something that should be recognized on a daily basis. ~ Jamie McGuire,
1403:How could he be so good to me when I’d hurt him so deeply? I remembered his blood-curdling roar when I’d ridden away from him—to be with Jack. . . . As ~ Kresley Cole,
1404:I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater. ~ Estelle Parsons,
1405:In the end, mastery involves discovering the most resonant information and integrating it so deeply and fully it disappears and allows us to fly free. ~ Josh Waitzkin,
1406:It is a consistent mark of the DDOs we studied that the senior people are as deeply engaged in the personal growth journey as the newest hires. Working ~ Robert Kegan,
1407:It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt. ~ Thomas Jefferson,
1408:I want to build a Big Labor party. A party of big ideas. A party which is deeply connected to the community. A party which reflects our diverse nation. ~ Bill Shorten,
1409:Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour. ~ Benjamin Disraeli,
1410:Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice in Buddhist meditation. ~ Nhat Hanh,
1411:Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate. ~ Rudyard Kipling,
1412:Perhaps the One knows
that if I travel without anything else to rely on, I’ll learn to rely more
deeply on Him. (Susan Mitchell in THE DELIVERER) ~ Sharon Hinck,
1413:Perhaps... these days of less sunlight are opportunities for more contemplative time, more looking deeply to see what can only be seen in the dark. ~ Sylvia Boorstein,
1414:Simple rules address a deeply rooted human desire for simplicity when dealing with a range of complex challenges ranging from the prosaic to the global. ~ Donald Sull,
1415:Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes. ~ Douglas Coupland,
1416:The nice thing about having a deeply weird, highly opinionated friend was that you never had to be the centre of attention if you didn’t want to be. The ~ Alexis Hall,
1417:We have to look deeply at things in order to see. When a swimmer enjoys the clear water of the river, he or she should also be able to be the river. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
1418:As a society, we are typically deeply disassociated from animal cruelty, but more than ever, animal protection organizations are telling the backstory. ~ Wayne Pacelle,
1419:Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing touch with its essence. ~ Dana Gioia,
1420:Different patterns of institutions today are deeply rooted in the past because once society gets organized in a particular way, this tends to persist. ~ Daron Acemo lu,
1421:In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you learn to let go? —JACK KORNFIELD, BUDDHIST TEACHER ~ Wendy Maltz,
1422:It lies in seeing that the most powerful influences consist of deeply human relationships in which two or more persons engage with one another. ~ James MacGregor Burns,
1423:one thing we can be certain: A person that is engaging in violence is hurting deeply, because a healthy and balanced soul is incapable of harming another. ~ Gary Zukav,
1424:Robert?”
“Yes.”
“Can you think of any reason why two persons who care deeply for each other … who love each other … should not make a match of it? ~ Cindy Anstey,
1425:The artist who goes into himself most deeply -- and it is a painful journey -- is the artist who touches us most closely, speaks to us most clearly. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,
1426:The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event. ~ Edward Gibbon,
1427:The inevitable heartache that comes with caring for someone so deeply. The pain of deceit. The scars of being let down in a way you can never recover from. ~ B L Berry,
1428:There's nothing more invigorating than being deeply involved with a small company and a young team of founders out to do something incredibly special. ~ Michael Moritz,
1429:The Right to Privacy,” arguing that robbing someone of their privacy was a crime of a deeply different nature than the theft of a material belonging. ~ Glenn Greenwald,
1430:What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives. ~ Sam Harris,
1431:Your raised arms are the fleshy petals of a magnificent lily bursting into flower. It deeply dawns on you that this new world about to bloom is you. Deep ~ Hope Jahren,
1432:Your unique creative talents and abilities are flowing through you and are being expressed in deeply satisfying ways. Your creativity is always in demand. ~ Louise Hay,
1433:Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply. ~ Sena Jeter Naslund,
1434:He said, ‘Occasionally weep deeply over the life you hoped would be. Grieve the losses. Then wash your face. Trust God. And embrace the life you have. ~ Lynnette Bonner,
1435:I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I. ~ Sylvia Plath,
1436:I can't even think of the words of what I'm feeling. This man [Prince] was my everything, we had a family. I am beyond deeply saddened and devastated. ~ Madonna Ciccone,
1437:If that were a winning argument, Donald Trump could get anybody off the bench on his cases by just something deeply offensive based on their background. ~ Deborah Rhode,
1438:I'm blessed with good health for which I'm deeply grateful, so for that reason, I feel so good. Everybody else is far more excited about the 90 than I am. ~ Betty White,
1439:I take on issues that stir my passions about the state of humanity and our world, and I deeply believe in the power of still images to change people's minds. ~ Ed Kashi,
1440:It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary ~ John Steinbeck,
1441:I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things. ~ Abel Ferrara,
1442:Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness. ~ Eckhart Tolle,
1443:Mushari didn’t see anything funny in that. He never saw anything funny in anything, so deeply immured was he by the utterly unplayful spirit of the law. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,
1444:My art is the result of a deeply personal, infinitely complex, and still essentially mysterious, exploration of experience. No words will ever touch it. ~ George Brecht,
1445:No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic. ~ George Henry Lewes,
1446:Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It ~ Eckhart Tolle,
1447:Seek to get more deeply involved in the business that you are in. If I had to distill it down into one word, you have to be curious as a professional. ~ Stephen Gillett,
1448:Sensitive people feel so deeply they often have to retreat from the world, in order to dig beneath the layers of pain to find their faith and courage. ~ Shannon L Alder,
1449:She found it curious and frightening that she could deeply dislike someone she didn’t even know. It wasn’t her. At least, it wasn’t how she used to be. ~ Veronica Rossi,
1450:The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my 50s, I realized that I had to step up to the plate. ~ Jane Fonda,
1451:Two things I ask of my God today. That my faith be hoisted high like a kite up in the sky and my fear be buried deeply like a carcass into the soil. ~ Israelmore Ayivor,
1452:Violence can never bring about peace and understanding. Only by looking deeply in order to understand the true roots of violence can we achieve peace. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
1453:We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage "People living deeply have no fear of death. ~ Anais Nin,
1454:Yes," said Locke."Yes, Master Ibelius. I'm going to put that fucker in the dirt as deeply as any man who's ever been murdered, ever since the world began. ~ Scott Lynch,
1455:You do not live as long as I have, and survive, by feeling deeply. I sometimes wonder, from my observations, if mortals do not often die from broken hearts. ~ Cindy Pon,
1456:At Ucross I learned that I am capable of focusing deeply for long periods of time. I love to write. I don't think I would have said that before this trip. ~ Edan Lepucki,
1457:Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should be an essential part of every analysis. ~ Carl Jung,
1458:For a person to become deeply involved in any activity it is essential that he knows precisely what tasks he must accomplish, moment by moment. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,
1459:For our dialogue to be open, we need to open our hearts, set aside our prejudices, listen deeply, and represent truthfully what we know and understand. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
1460:Gardening reminds us to look deeply into our food, to contemplate our interactions with earth, plants, and animals, to see both the harmony and the harm. ~ Tovar Cerulli,
1461:Generally, I am opposed to vandalism. But I am also generally opposed to Lacey Pemberton- and in the end, that proved to be the more deeply held conviction. ~ John Green,
1462:I believe a woman who loves herself is a powerful, passionate, attractive force and I commit from this day forward to love myself deeply and extravagantly ~ Jan Phillips,
1463:I believe that 'love' and 'wrong' are two deeply unrelated words that should never be thrown into the same sentence together. Like 'dessert' and 'broccoli. ~ Cat Winters,
1464:If you look deeply inside them you'll only see eternity; whereas with most human beings, when you look inside, you'll see all kinds of different things. ~ Frederick Lenz,
1465:I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems. ~ Marilyn vos Savant,
1466:More deeply than the bounded senses can
Which grasp externally and find to lose, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness,
1467:Noah, wherever you are and whenever you read this, I love you. I
love you deeply, my husband. You are, and always have been, my
dream.
Allie ~ Nicholas Sparks,
1468:That, very simply, was what adulthood must be all about—acquiring the skill to bury things more deeply. Out of sight and, whenever possible, out of mind. ~ Richard Russo,
1469:The only other series I worked on a regular basis was Benson, and that was a sitcom, so there really wasn't a chance to go deeply into the characters. ~ Rene Auberjonois,
1470:The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business. ~ Walter Lippmann,
1471:To have the “eyes of the heart enlightened” with a particular truth means to have it penetrate and grip us so deeply that it changes the whole person. ~ Timothy J Keller,
1472:To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real? ~ Orhan Pamuk,
1473:Your unique creative talents and abilities are flowing through you and are being expressed in deeply satisfying ways. Your creativity is always in demand. ~ Louise L Hay,
1474:Anything.” I loved the way she said that. Granny’s “Christian women” came out like new spit on a dusty morning, pure and precious and deeply satisfying. ~ Dorothy Allison,
1475:But do we really think about it deeply or do we just ultimately do what we're supposed to do? What our parents want us to do? What society wants us to do? ~ Matthew Quick,
1476:Each string of a wind harp responds with a different note to the same breeze. What activity makes you personally resonate most strongly, most deeply? ~ David Steindl Rast,
1477:I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source. ~ Doris Day,
1478:In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned. ~ Jules Verne,
1479:I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply English propositions. ~ Peter Greenaway,
1480:It’s so much better to have sex with someone who’s always available, knows what you want and who loves you more deeply than anyone else ever can. Yourself. ~ Ian McDonald,
1481:Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable. ~ Don Tapscott,
1482:luck was really stubbornness married to a knack for observation, a fluid sense of the truth, a sharp ear for lies, and a deeply suspicious nature. They’d ~ Michael Chabon,
1483:Music saved my life. The voice you hear, the soul, the pain, is that of a person who deeply, deeply, deeply appreciates the opportunity they've been given. ~ Cee Lo Green,
1484:She was so deeply imbedded in my consciousness that for the first year of school I seem to have believed that each of my teachers was my mother in disguise. ~ Philip Roth,
1485: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,
1486:The church of my own childhood, as well as that of my present and my future, comprises deeply flawed human beings struggling toward an unattainable ideal. ~ Philip Yancey,
1487:The mind has to be understood deeply—the mind that needs lies, the mind that needs illusions, the mind that cannot exist with the real, the mind that needs dreams. ~ Osho,
1488:the unwillingness of the U.S. government to allow the bankers to fail was less a solution than a symptom of a still deeply dysfunctional financial system. ~ Michael Lewis,
1489:until a person can say deeply and honestly, “I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday,” that person cannot say, “I choose otherwise. ~ Stephen R Covey,
1490:We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell stories to heal the pain of living. ~ Niall Williams,
1491:When you say “yes” to the “isness” of life, when you accept this moment as it is, you can feel a sense of spaciousness within you that is deeply peaceful. ~ Eckhart Tolle,
1492:As you begin to look deeply into the mystery of your own evolution, in place of good and evil you will find only stories, finished or unfinished. ~ Eric Micha el Leventhal,
1493:His habit of forgetting was too deeply ingrained, as if he passed his life perpetually walking backward through a desert, sweeping away his footprints, ~ Viet Thanh Nguyen,
1494:I deeply regret the damage which recent publicity has brought to the Labour Party. However, I reject any suggestion of intentional wrongdoing on my part. ~ Wendy Alexander,
1495:It is distressing to have to act under the impulsive orders of someone who, in a situation which concerns you deeply, does not know what he is talking about. ~ J G Farrell,
1496:Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
1497:One of feminism’s biggest failures is its failure to insist that feminism is, first and foremost, about truly, deeply, and unapologetically loving women. ~ Brittney Cooper,
1498:Society, as a whole, has a deeply contradictory attitude to failure. Even as we find excuses for our own failings, we are quick to blame others who mess up. ~ Matthew Syed,
1499:Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith. ~ Soren Kierkegaard,
1500:The power of your beliefs to keep you stuck is enormous. Those deeply ingrained notions act as chains restricting you from experiencing your unique destiny. ~ Wayne W Dyer,

IN CHAPTERS [300/454]



  122 Integral Yoga
   72 Poetry
   42 Fiction
   35 Occultism
   34 Christianity
   29 Yoga
   25 Philosophy
   14 Psychology
   11 Science
   5 Integral Theory
   4 Mythology
   4 Mysticism
   4 Education
   4 Baha i Faith
   2 Theosophy
   2 Sufism
   2 Islam
   1 Zen
   1 Hinduism
   1 Cybernetics
   1 Alchemy


   83 The Mother
   74 Sri Aurobindo
   34 Satprem
   32 H P Lovecraft
   20 Sri Ramakrishna
   19 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
   14 William Wordsworth
   13 Nolini Kanta Gupta
   13 James George Frazer
   13 Aleister Crowley
   12 Carl Jung
   10 Saint Augustine of Hippo
   10 Percy Bysshe Shelley
   9 Swami Krishnananda
   9 Friedrich Nietzsche
   8 Rudolf Steiner
   6 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
   5 Robert Browning
   4 Plato
   4 Ovid
   4 Jorge Luis Borges
   4 Baha u llah
   3 Rainer Maria Rilke
   3 Rabindranath Tagore
   3 Paul Richard
   3 Lucretius
   3 Jordan Peterson
   3 Edgar Allan Poe
   3 Anonymous
   3 Aldous Huxley
   3 A B Purani
   2 Thubten Chodron
   2 Saint John of Climacus
   2 Plotinus
   2 Muhammad
   2 Kabir
   2 George Van Vrekhem


   32 Lovecraft - Poems
   19 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
   17 The Synthesis Of Yoga
   14 Wordsworth - Poems
   13 The Golden Bough
   10 Shelley - Poems
   9 The Study and Practice of Yoga
   8 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
   8 The Life Divine
   8 Liber ABA
   7 The Future of Man
   7 The Confessions of Saint Augustine
   7 Questions And Answers 1953
   7 Letters On Yoga IV
   6 The Secret Doctrine
   6 The Practice of Psycho therapy
   6 Some Answers From The Mother
   6 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
   6 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
   5 Vedic and Philological Studies
   5 Savitri
   5 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
   5 Questions And Answers 1954
   5 Magick Without Tears
   5 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
   5 Faust
   5 Essays On The Gita
   5 Browning - Poems
   5 Agenda Vol 01
   4 Words Of Long Ago
   4 The Phenomenon of Man
   4 The Human Cycle
   4 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
   4 Questions And Answers 1956
   4 Questions And Answers 1955
   4 Metamorphoses
   4 Let Me Explain
   4 Hymn of the Universe
   4 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
   4 City of God
   4 Agenda Vol 05
   3 The Perennial Philosophy
   3 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
   3 The Bible
   3 Tagore - Poems
   3 Rilke - Poems
   3 Prayers And Meditations
   3 Poe - Poems
   3 On Education
   3 Of The Nature Of Things
   3 Mysterium Coniunctionis
   3 Maps of Meaning
   3 Labyrinths
   3 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
   3 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
   3 Essays Divine And Human
   3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
   3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
   3 Agenda Vol 12
   3 Agenda Vol 10
   3 Agenda Vol 06
   3 Agenda Vol 04
   3 Agenda Vol 03
   3 Agenda Vol 02
   2 Words Of The Mother II
   2 The Lotus Sutra
   2 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
   2 The Essentials of Education
   2 The Book of Certitude
   2 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
   2 Talks
   2 Quran
   2 Preparing for the Miraculous
   2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
   2 How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator
   2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
   2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
   2 Anonymous - Poems
   2 Agenda Vol 13
   2 Agenda Vol 07


0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
   The first of these young men to come to the Master was Latu. Born of obscure parents, in Behar, he came to Calcutta in search of work and was engaged by Ramchandra Dutta as house-boy. Learning of the saintly Sri Ramakrishna, he visited the Master at Dakshineswar and was deeply touched by his cordiality. When he was about to leave, the Master asked him to take some money and return home in a boat or carriage. But Latu declared he had a few pennies and jingled the coins in his pocket. Sri Ramakrishna later requested Ram to allow Latu to stay with him permanently. Under Sri Ramakrishna's guidance Latu made great progress in meditation and was blessed with ecstatic visions, but all the efforts of the Master to give him a smattering of education failed. Latu was very fond of kirtan and other devotional songs but remained all his life illiterate.
   --- RAKHAL

0.00 - THE GOSPEL PREFACE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  Imparting secular education was, however, only his profession ; his main concern was with the spiritual regeneration of man a calling for which Destiny seems to have chosen him. From his childhood he was deeply pious, and he used to be moved very much by Sdhus, temples and Durga Puja celebrations. The piety and eloquence of the great Brahmo leader of the times, Keshab Chander Sen, elicited a powerful response from the impressionable mind of Mahendra Nath, as it did in the case of many an idealistic young man of Calcutta, and prepared him to receive the great Light that was to dawn on him with the coming of Sri Ramakrishna into his life.
  This epoch-making event of his life came about in a very strange way. M. belonged to a joint family with several collateral members. Some ten years after he began his career as an educationist, bitter quarrels broke out among the members of the family, driving the sensitive M. to despair and utter despondency. He lost all interest in life and left home one night to go into the wide world with the idea of ending his life. At dead of night he took rest in his sister's house at Baranagar, and in the morning, accompanied by a nephew Siddheswar, he wandered from one garden to another in Calcutta until Siddheswar brought him to the Temple Garden of Dakshineswar where Sri Ramakrishna was then living. After spending some time in the beautiful rose gardens there, he was directed to the room of the Paramahamsa, where the eventful meeting of the Master and the disciple took place on a blessed evening (the exact date is not on record) on a Sunday in March 1882. As regards what took place on the occasion, the reader is referred to the opening section of the first chapter of the Gospel.

0.01 - I - Sri Aurobindos personality, his outer retirement - outside contacts after 1910 - spiritual personalities- Vibhutis and Avatars - transformtion of human personality, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
   The question which Arjuna asks Sri Krishna in the Gita (second chapter) occurs pertinently to many about all spiritual personalities: "What is the language of one whose understanding is poised? How does he speak, how sit, how walk?" Men want to know the outer signs of the inner attainment, the way in which a spiritual person differs outwardly from other men. But all the tests which the Gita enumerates are inner and therefore invisible to the outer view. It is true also that the inner or the spiritual is the essential and the outer derives its value and form from the inner. But the transformation about which Sri Aurobindo writes in his books has to take place in nature, because according to him the divine Reality has to manifest itself in nature. So, all the parts of nature including the physical and the external are to be transformed. In his own case the very physical became the transparent mould of the Spirit as a result of his intense Sadhana. This is borne out by the impression created on the minds of sensitive outsiders like Sj. K. M. Munshi who was deeply impressed by his radiating presence when he met him after nearly forty years.
   The Evening Talks collected here may afford to the outside world a glimpse of his external personality and give the seeker some idea of its richness, its many-sidedness, its uniqueness. One can also form some notion of Sri Aurobindo's personality from the books in which the height, the universal sweep and clear vision of his integral ideal and thought can be seen. His writings are, in a sense, the best representative of his mental personality. The versatile nature of his genius, the penetrating power of his intellect, his extraordinary power of expression, his intense sincerity, his utter singleness of purpose all these can be easily felt by any earnest student of his works. He may discover even in the realm of mind that Sri Aurobindo brings the unlimited into the limited. Another side of his dynamic personality is represented by the Ashram as an institution. But the outer, if one may use the phrase, the human side of his personality, is unknown to the outside world because from 1910 to 1950 a span of forty years he led a life of outer retirement. No doubt, many knew about his staying at Pondicherry and practising some kind of very special Yoga to the mystery of which they had no access. To some, perhaps, he was living a life of enviable solitude enjoying the luxury of a spiritual endeavour. Many regretted his retirement as a great loss to the world because they could not see any external activity on his part which could be regarded as 'public', 'altruistic' or 'beneficial'. Even some of his admirers thought that he was after some kind of personal salvation which would have very little significance for mankind in general. His outward non-participation in public life was construed by many as lack of love for humanity.

0.05 - Letters to a Child, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  you are sure to find me there if you enter into it deeply enough.
  Love from your mother.
  --
  is your will? I cannot express how deeply I feel your
  displeasure. Do you want more work from me - more

0.07 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  vital and the physical. But I am deeply sensible of your
  kindness, my Mother, and grateful too.

0.09 - Letters to a Young Teacher, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  It happens that when we love You deeply and are
  intimately in contact with You, we have the impression

0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  To feel deeply, intensely and constantly a total gratitude
  towards the Divine is the best way to be happy and peaceful.

0.12 - Letters to a Student, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  But if one deeply feels the beauty of Nature and communes
  with her, that can help in widening the consciousness.

0.13 - Letters to a Student, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Some have considered the problem more deeply and asked
  themselves whether human beings, who are so small and limited,

0 1956-10-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   Mother, I implore you, in the name of whatever led me to you in the first place, give me the strength to do WHAT HAS TO BE DONE. You who see and who can, decide for me. You are my Mother. Whatever my shortcomings, my difficulties, I feel I am so deeply your child.
   Signed: Bernard

0 1958-05-10, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   but it is so deeply rooted: all the reactions of the body-consciousness are like that, with a kind of shrinking at the idea of allowing a higher power to intervene.
   (silence)

0 1958-07-21, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   But instead of using the energy in this way, they immediately throw it out. They start stirring about, reacting, working, speaking They feel full of energy and they throw it all out! They cant keep anything. So naturally, since the energy was not sent to be wasted like that but for an inner use, they feel absolutely flat, run down. And it is universal. They dont know, they do not know how to make this movementto turn within, to use the energy (not to keep it, it doesnt keep), to use it to repair the damage done to the body and to go deeply within to find the reason for this accident or illness, and there to change it by an aspiration, an inner transformation. Instead of that, right away they start speaking, stirring about, reacting, doing this or that!
   In fact, the immense majority of human beings feel they are living only when they waste their energy. Otherwise, it does not seem to them to be life.

0 1959-01-14, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   Your last letter gave us great pleasure, knowing that you have finally recovered physically. But we deeply hope that you will not again take up the countless activities that formerly consumed all your timeso many people come to you egoistically, for prestige, to be able to say that they are on familiar terms with you. You know this, of course
   As for myself, a step has definitely been taken, and I am no longer swept away by this painful torrent. Depressions and attacks still come, but no longer with the same violence as before. X told me that 2/3 of the work has been done and that everything would be purged in twelve days or so, then the thing will be enclosed in a jar and buried somewhere or thrown into the sea, and he will explain it all to me. I will write and tell you about it.

0 1959-05-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   For the moment, I only want to tell you, from the bottom of my heartwhich is so deeply touchedthank you.
   With all my love.

0 1961-01-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Of course, people who dont think deeply enough will say, Oh, but if we see that things are exactly as they should be, then nothing will budge. But no! There isnt a fraction of a second when things arent moving: theres a continuous and total transformation, a movement that never stops. Only because its difficult for us to feel that way can we imagine that by our entering certain states of consciousness things would not change. Even if we entered into an apparently total inertia, things would continue to change and we along with them!
   Ultimately, disgust, rebellion and anger, all movements of violence, are necessarily movements of ignorance and of limitation with all the weakness that limitation implies. Rebellion is a weakness, for its the feeling of an impotent will. When you feel, when you see that things are not as they should be, then you rebel against whatever is out of keeping with your vision. But if you were all-powerful, if your will and your vision were all-powerful, there would be no opportunity to rebel! You would always see that all things are as they should be! That is omnipotence.1 Then all these movements of violence become not only useless but profoundly ridiculous.

0 1961-03-14, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Yet the cells sense so perfectly that. All the experiences in the subconscient at night are quite clear proofs that a a WORLD of things and vibrations is being cleaned outall the vibrations opposed to the cellular transformation. But how can one poor little body do all that work! The body is quite aware of being a sort of accumulation and concentration of things (yet there is inevitably a selectionMo ther laughsbecause if everything had to be worked out in one center like this [her body] it would be it would be impossible!). Oh, if you knew how deeply and perfectly convinced these cells are, in all their groups and sub-groups, each one individually and within the whole, that everything is not only decreed but executed by the Divine, everything! They have a kind of constant awareness so filled with a conscious faith in His infinite wisdom, even when there is what the ordinary consciousness calls suffering or pain. Thats not what it is for the cellsits something else! And the result is a state of yes, a state of peaceful combat. There is a sense of Peace, the vibration of Peace, and simultaneously an impression of being (how to put it?) on the alert, in constant combat. Taken all together it creates a rather odd situation.
   And within oh! Its like waves, constantly, the equivalent of those nuances of color I was speaking about, waves of this joy of life, the joy of life rippling past, touching; but instead of being. At times, you see, the body is in a sort of equilibrium (what we, in our ordinary outer consciousness, call equilibrium that is, good health), and then this joy is constant, like swells on the sea (Mother shapes great waves): it seems to flow on behind everything; it comes and shows its face for a moment, then vanishes. In the very tiny things of lifeyes, physical life the joy of these things, the joy life contains, this luminous, special kind of vibration, rises up as if to remind us that its here; it is here, it mustnt be forgotten, its here but its kept down by this tension.

0 1961-07-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   In the final analysis, everything obviously depends upon the Supremes Will because, if one looks deeply enough into the question, even physical laws and resistances are nothing for Him. But this kind of direct intervention takes place only at the extreme limit; if His Will is to be expressed in opposition, as it were, to the whole set of laws governing the Manifestationwell, that only comes at the very last second. Sri Aurobindo has expressed this so well in Savitri, so well! At least three times in the book he has expressed this Will that abolishes all established laws, all of them, and all the consequences of these laws, the whole formidable colossus of the Manifestation, so that in the face of it all, That can express itself and this takes place at the very last second, so to speak, at the extreme limit of possibility.
   I must say that there was a time when, as Sri Aurobindo had entrusted his work to me, there was a kind of tension to do it (it cant be called an anxiety); a tension in the will. This too has now ended (Mother stretches her arms into the Infinite). Its finished. But there MAY still be something tense lurking somewhere in the subconscient or the inconscient I dont know, its possible. Why? I dont know. I mean I have never been told, at any time, neither through Sri Aurobindo nor directly, whether or not I would go right to the end. I have never been told the contrary, either. I have been told nothing at all. And if at times I turn towards Thatnot to question, but simply to know the answer is always the same: Carry on, its not your problem; dont worry about it. So now I have learned not to worry about it; I am consciously not worried about it.

0 1962-01-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   It came after the vision of the great divine Becoming.2 Since this world is progressive, I was wondering, since it is increasingly becoming the Divine, wont there always be this deeply painful sense of the nondivine, of the state that, compared with the one to come, is not divine? Wont there always be what we call adverse forces, in other words, things that dont harmoniously follow the movement? Then came the answer, the vision of That: No, the moment of this very Possibility is drawing near, the moment for the manifestation of the essence of perfect Love, which can transform this unconsciousness, this ignorance and this ill will that goes with it into a luminous and joyous progression, wholly progressive, wholly comprehensive, thirsting for perfection.
   It was very concrete.

0 1962-10-16, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Very interesting. And Pavitra was telling me recently that the causes of aging and decay are now being very seriously and deeply investigated. Some quite interesting discoveries are being made: that the cell is immortal, and that aging results merely from a combination of circumstances. This research is tending towards the conclusion that aging is merely a bad habitwhich seems to be true. Which means that when you LIVE in the Truth-Consciousness, Matter is not in contradiction to that Consciousness.
   And this is just what I am realizing (I dont think its anything unique or exceptional): the closer one draws to the cell itself, the more the cell says, But I am immortal! Only it must become conscious. But this takes place almost automatically: the brain cells are very conscious; the cells of the hands and arms of musicians are very conscious; with athletes and gymnasts, the cells of the entire body are wonderfully conscious. So, being conscious, those cells become conscious of their principle of immortality and say, Why would I want to grow old? Why! They dont want to grow old. It is very interesting.

0 1962-10-30, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The Buddha, you know, was deeply shocked by the impermanence of things the impermanence of the whole creation, that there was nothing permanent anywhere. That was the starting point of his quest, when he saw that nothing was permanentconstant and permanen thence there was nothing one could call forever. Thats what shocked him, and he felt he had to find something permanent, and in his quest for the Permanent he came upon Nothingness. So his conclusion ran something like this: Only one thing is permanentNothingness. As soon as theres creation, its impermanent.
   Why did he object to impermanence? That, I dont knowa question of temperament, I suppose. But as far as he was concerned, thats what Nothingness is good for: its permanent.

0 1963-05-25, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I had been told that even in the College of Cardinals, things were only suggested, and each one was left to understand more or less deeply, according to his capacity. Its quite likely. But who has kept the tradition intact? We cant say.
   Anyway, put like this, it makes sense.

0 1963-06-15, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   And Nehru, you see (thats what Pavitra told me yesterday, he went to the town hall to listen to Nehrus speech), Nehru is an out-and-out social democrat who believes that the ideal organization for mankind, instead of only an elite being able to progress, is that the entire masses should progress (as if they wanted to! but anyway). Its an ideaeveryone has his own ideas. But then it seems that when the Chinese attacked, it was a violent blow to his conviction: he thought it impossible that the Chinese would do such a thing (!) He was very deeply shattered.
   Naturally, they see no farther than the tips of their noses, and then they are surprised when circumstances (laughing) dont agree!

0 1963-09-04, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   But things are rather complex. For the body in its ordinary consciousness, its absolutely normal state is when it doesnt feel itself living. When the body doesnt feel itself living, that means its functioning normally; as soon as it feels itself living in some part of itself, it means that something isnt quite normal, and instinctively (I dont mean the vital or mental consciousness), but its primal consciousness is alarmed, because its not normal (not what it calls normal); and then that sort of alarm (an alarm thats not formulated in thoughts) brings it into contact with a whole world of adverse and defeatist suggestionsoh, there is an INTENSE atmosphere of pessimistic, defeatist, adverse suggestions in which human lives are bathed, as it were. Its even very strong here, very strong I mean in the Ashramvery strong. People who are very sensitive and whose consciousness isnt firmly rooted in faith are very (what shall I say?) very deeply not deeply but intimately attacked by that atmosphere.
   And it makes bodies very ill-at-ease.

0 1964-01-29, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   And yet, difficulties pour in from everywhere, not only with regard to health (which is still linked to moral things: the mood, the state of consciousness, the thoughts and mental formations, etc.), but to money, the paper money which refuses to come! And in this connection, lately I have seen in a fairly interesting way the difference in the material mental atmosphere: there was a sort of certainty that all that was necessary would come somehowit was impossible for it not to come (I am referring to the general atmosphere); then it was replaced by you know, like when you bang your nose against a wall! That sort of very childlike, carefree trustvanished! It just vanished So I had to look deeply at it, at what was behind, and thats how I saw this change in the Inertia (how is it going to express itself? I dont know; in what way?), which I had never seen before.
   It is something there, down below. Before, it was here (gesture to the level of the forehead), like this, in the atmosphere; now, its there (gesture at ground level), that is to say, very low.

0 1964-09-18, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   And for Sri Aurobindos writings (not all), its the same; there are certain things I had truly understood, in the sense that they were already understood far more deeply and truly than even an enlightened mentality understands themthey were already felt and lived and now, they take on a completely different meaning.
   I read some of those sentences or ideas that are expressed in few words, three or four words, m which he doesnt say things fully: he simply seems to let them fall like drops of water; when I read them at the time (sometimes not long ago; sometimes only two or three years ago), I had an experience which was already far deeper or vaster than that of intelligence, but now a spark of Light suddenly appears in them, and I say, Oh, but I hadnt seen that! And its a whole understanding or CONTACT with things that I had never had before.

0 1964-10-14, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   When I was there at the Playground,1 after ten minutes (that was probably because of my presence), all the little children were deeply asleep, and as it isnt cold and they were lying on mats, they would sleep there quietly till the end of the show.
   True, at that time films were shown only once a week. Nowadays, you know how it is, its the competitiveness: everyone wants to bring films. So one turned to the French embassy, another turned to the British embassy, another to the American embassy, another to the Russian, German, Italian embassies. From all the embassies, theyre pouring in. And how do you make a choice? How do you decide without hurting one or the other? Before, it was agreed that films would be shown only on Saturday, so that on Sunday morning they could get up an hour later if they felt sleepy. Now, in effect, it takes place two or three times a week. But thats the fault of these people! Everyone took pride in bringing films from his embassy. How can you refuse some and accept others?

0 1964-11-21, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I remember having written somewhere, some ten years ago, that I would take it as a sign if my back became straight again.1 At the time, it wasnt much, but it disgusted me deeply, and I did it as a challenge. Naturally, now its very far away from my consciousness and my thought, I find it childish, but I remembered it a few days ago also, and I said to myself that now I didnt care a bit about that, because to me its nothing! All the rest rail the rest is equally inadequate, incomplete and miserable, you knowmiserable. If you think about a divine life, its miserable.
   And curiously, everything comes and presents itself as images and possibilities; so I say to myself, But if after a time all this suddenly stops functioning, what will have been the use of doing all this work? And there is always something something that comes from a very absolute regionwhich makes me feel or understand or grasp the uselessness of death.

0 1965-07-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   But you (speaking to Sujata) are one of those who can say that when I come at night, I am tall and strong. And at night, I work, I am tall, I am strong. And it goes on moaning! Its idiotic. Not only idiotic, but there is still that sort of self-pity (Mother strokes her cheek), which of all things is the most repugnant: Oh, poor little thing, how tired you are. Oh, poor little thing, how people tire you, how hard life is, how difficult things are. And then moaning and groaning like an idiot. If it were just for me, I would give them a good thrashing! But I am asked not to do it, so I dont do it. But I do feel that before the eyes of this wonderful Graceof this resplendent divine Love and this omnipotent Powerwe are deeply ridiculous, thats all.
   (silence)

0 1965-09-22, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Not quite. I have direct news from Delhi (Mother holds out a telegram): I am deeply grateful says Shastri. That was following my message.
   And in a Parliament session (I dont know if it was a Parliament session or a cabinet meeting), they were told that the true goal of India is to re-create the countrys unity, and that the second goal is to give Tibet autonomy and independence. And that these are the two things India wants. And that, somehow or other, they will have to be.

0 1965-10-10, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Satprem looks deeply disgusted)
   Oh, theres a whole work going on at night. Oh! The whole petty subconscious working of habits, with all the gradations of the importance it assumes in the general consciousness, and, very interestingly, according to the proportion of the importance, it gives the scale. There was the whole scale, from the little manias people have, which of course are very superficial and mere habits, to the known maniacs or half-mad the whole scale, along with the whole working. And then, the perception that its just a question of dosage: we all belong to the same substance! It was seen so concretely that it was quite interesting. And in conclusion, one saw how to put that under the direct Influence of the supreme Force and Consciousness so as to break the inescapable chain of habits. It was very interesting.

0 1966-11-15, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Thats how it feels. All the rest is either a bother or deeply ridiculous. Oh, often its so ridiculous! At any rate, so flimsy, so dry, like a bad performance. And what becomes quite comical, truly amusing and comical is (Mother puffs up her cheeks) when the ego swells up! Oh, then! The egos that assert themselves, that come and tell you, I want this, I dont want that, I have decided that Oh, mon petit, thats the big fun! And they dont in the least see that they are puppets.
   ***

0 1966-12-17, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (2) Sciences, if you study them deeply enough, will teach you the unreality of appearances and will thus lead you to the spiritual reality.
   (3) The study of all aspects and movements of physical Nature will bring you into contact with the universal Mother, and you will thus be nearer to me.

0 1967-03-29, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   One is always deeply disgusted at ones own faults when one encounters them in others(!)
   ***

0 1969-02-08, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   This atmosphere or consciousness [of the superman] seems to have an educative activity, because since it came, it has been looking after the education of the bodyof the bodys CONSCIOUSNESS and thats quite interesting. And this education isnt something personal at all: its the vision of the earths evolution, especially concentrated on human evolution. There are no doubt notions of the whole, and with very particular things, quite particular viewpoints, but then, with precise details and with insistence, lasting sometimes an hour on one subject, so as to make deeply understood the cause and the consequences, and the CURVE of evolution.
   Its method (in the main, not exclusively), its method consists in awakening a memory of the body that had been quite forgotten and really seemed absolutely gone; it awakens that memory and shows how the circumstance was possible in the general state, how (Ill give you an example) its a residue of the past, and how its unacceptable for the future.
   This mornings experience was very curious. All of a sudden, it awakened the memory of something that took place in my childhood when I was about eight or ten (which I had completely forgotten). On Sundays (I suppose so, or anyway on holidays), I used to go and play with my first cousins, the children of a brother of my father. I would go and play with them. I remember their house, I can still see it. We would usually spend our time playing scenes or enacting a story in tableaux. And today, it showed me something I had really forgotten. Theres a story of Bluebeard, isnt there? (Bluebeard I forget, I only know what I remembered this morning.) One day, we did a tableau vivant, in several tableaux, with the story of Bluebeard who cut off his wives heads. (To Satprem:) Thats how the story went, isnt it? (Laughter) I only remember this morning, I dont recall the story. Now, we played in a big room, a sort of enclosed verandahin Paris, a big long room. We had stood (our playmates were little boys and girls), we had stood a certain number of girls against the wall: we had stuck them to the wall, with their hair strung above their heads (Mother laughs), and we had put a sheet in front to cover the rest of their bodies the sheet reached down to the floor so that we couldnt see their bodies, only their heads! I am saying that because I saw it this morning, otherwise I didnt remember in the least. I saw this scene, I saw the memory of that room and how it was all arranged. And at the same time there came You see, we found it quite natural, just a story we had read; I remembered my impression at the time: there was no sense of horror! We didnt find it monstrous (laughing), we were having great fun! So the experience came, and it remained for OVER AN HOUR to make me understand very deeply where this memory came from, how it acted and why we were in that state. And all of it not at all from a personal standpoint, not at all: from the general standpoint of the earth and humanity in general. It was exceedingly interesting! And then, at the same time, a vision showing how, with what swift movement, the universal consciousness moves (arrowlike gesture) in a progression towards the Divine the TRUE Divine, I mean, not religions, of coursetowards the TRUE Divine through all that. And with the consciousness of the WHOLEthe whole and nuances (Sade and all that line), from the highest to the lowest. For one hour I saw a whole stage of humanitya stage towards the late 1800s, the second half of the 1800sand how it moved on and progressed (gesture like a great curve). And thats I have no words or capacity to describe it, but its extraordinarily interesting. The vision of the human collectivity on earth, with all its stages, gradations, nuances, and how it all followed a movement (same arrowlike gesture). And this story (story this VISION, rather, because it wasnt a story: I didnt see what we said or anything, only the vision of what we did), this story came as the illustration of a certain state of mind of those times, and how children were given stories of that kind to readwe found it quite natural! (Mother laughs) And those things are so dreadful.
   As soon as I am not busy talking or listening to people or doing a work, it goes on and on: certain samples, as it were, of this bodys life are taken up again, and through those samples, the whole is shown. A wonderful education! Never, never does any human education as its conceived resemble this, because its a vision of the whole, in which everything hangs together; youre shown everything together.

0 1969-05-17, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   When people speak of individuality, theres always a sort of at least a background of separation, that is, something that exists independently and has its own destiny Now, as the body consciousness knows it, its almost like a pulsation of something which MOMENTARILY has a separate action, but which, deeply, essentially, is always ONE. Like something projected like this (gesture of expansion), momentarily with a form, and then (gesture of contraction) it can cancel that form at will. Its very hard to explain, but at any rate, the sense of the permanence of separation has completely disappeared, completely The universe is an exteriorization (same gesture of pulsation) of the Supreme Consciousness; its our incapacity of total vision that enables us to have that sense of fixity: there is none, its something like pulsations or really a play of formsthere is only ONE being. There is only one being. Theres only one, only one Consciousness, only one Being.
   Separation is really I dont know what happened. And thats what made all the mischiefall the misfortune, all the misery. For the last few days, this body has gone through a series of experiences (it would be much too long to tell), through all the states of consciousness one can go through, from the sense of the single reality of this (Mother pinches the skin of her hands), of the substance, with all the misery, all the suffering which is the consequence of seeing matter as the single realityfrom that to liberation. Hour after hour, it has been a whole work. And this incident of Pavitras departure has come as an example, as a demonstration.

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 1971-02-24, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The body has once and for all taken the attitude of not thinking of itself because it would be deeply disgusted.
   But I must say there are days when I hear very well, days when I see very clearly, days when I hear nothing, days when I see nothing. So its like this (gesture of fluctuation).

0 1971-04-14, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I understand very well, Mother, deeply. But I believe only in the Grace, you knowbecause our own strength is.
   Yes, I know, mon petit.

0 1971-05-26, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Theres something I feel very deeply. (silence) Words words (Mother shakes her head). But to say it as simply as possible, I could say, The Lord loves Satprem. And thats something profound, profound, profound. The Lord loves Satprem. Thats all.
   (Satprem puts his forehead on Mothers knees)

0 1972-03-29a, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I deeply hope, Sir, that Sri Aurobindos works will be a new source of inspiration for you.
   With my best and most considerate regards,

0 1972-04-26, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Strangely enough, although I did not mention the scene in the book, it had remained deeply etched in me, and that's what Mother remembered: she remembered my own memories! One day, I had found myself in the midst of a huge tangle of fallen trees (when a giant tree falls, it uproots dozens of trees all around it), within a kind of green cataclysm redolent of torn earth and destruction, and in a silence of the end of the world.
   ***

02.02 - The Kingdom of Subtle Matter, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  Makes all creation deeply intimate:
  A fourth dimension of aesthetic sense

03.01 - Humanism and Humanism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The Graeco-Latin culture was essentially and predominantly humanistic. Even so, the mediaeval culture also, in spite of its theological stress, had a strong basis in humanism. For the religion itself, as has been pointed out, is deeply humanistic, in the sense that it brought salvation and heaven close to the level of human frailtythrough the miracle of Grace and the humanity of Christand that it envisaged a kingdom of heaven or city of God the body of Christformed of the brotherhood of the human race in its solidarity.
   The Indian outlook, it is said, is at a double remove from this type of humanism. It has not the pagan GrrecoRoman humanism, nor has it the religious humanism of Christianity. Its spirit can be rendered in the vigorous imagery of Blake: it surrounds itself with cold floods of abstraction and the forests of solitude.

03.04 - The Other Aspect of European Culture, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Nor is it a fact that Europe is and has been merely profane and materialistic in her outlook and attainment. The godless and mechanistic civilisation which is rampant today in Europe is a distemper of comparatively recent growth. Its farthest limit does not go beyond the sixteenth or the fifteenth century when the first seeds were sown by the Humanists of the Renaissance. It sprouted with the rationalists of the eighteenth century and the French Revolution cleared the ground for its free and untrammelled growth. But only in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries has it reached such vast and disconcerting proportions as to swallow all Europe's other motives and velleities and to appear as the only form of her life-expression. But in the earlier centuries, those that preceded the New Enlightenment, Europe had a different conception of culture and civilisation, she possessed almost another soul. The long period that is known as the mediaeval age was not after all so dark and unregenerate as it has been the familiar custom to represent it. Christian Europe the Europe of cathedrals and monasteries, of saints and sages, of St. Francis and St. Teresa, of Boehme and Bernard, of Thomas Aquinas and Augustine, had an enlightenment all her own, which was real and living and dynamic, possessing a far-extending and deeply penetrating influence; in as much as it was this that called into being and fashioned the more abiding forces, which underlie Europe's cultural life and social institutions, although latterly "fallen on evil days and on evil tongues".
   Even the still more ancient Grco-Latin Europe which was not, to a general and apparent view, quite spiritual or other-worldly, was yet not so exclusively materialistic and profane as modern Europe. Classical culture was rationalistic, without doubt; but that rationalism was the function of a sublimated intelligence and a refined sensibility and served as a vehicle for a Higher Perceptiona ratiocinative and ultra-logical mind, like that of Socrates, could yet be so passive and upgazing as to receive and obey the commandments of a Dmon; whereas the rationalism, which is in vogue today and to which orthodox Scientism has affixed its royal sign manual, is the product of mere brain-power, vigorous but crude, of an intellect shut up in its self-complacent cunningness, obfuscated by its infinite but shallow inquisitiveness.

03.06 - Divine Humanism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The Grco-Latin culture was essentially and predominantly humanistic. Even so, the mediaeval culture too, in spite of its theological stress, had a strong basis in humanism. For the religion itself, as has been pointed out, was deeply humanistic, in the sense that it brought salvation and heaven close to the level of human frailtythrough the miracle of Grace and the humanity of Christand that it envisaged a kingdom of heaven or city of God the body of Christformed of the brotherhood of the human race in its solidarity.
   The Indian outlook, it is said, is at a double remove from this type of humanism. It has not the pagan Grco-Roman humanism, nor has it the religious humanism of Christianity. Its spirit can best be rendered in the vigorous imagery of Blake; it surrounds itself:

03.07 - Brahmacharya, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The basis and the immediate aim of education according to the ancient system was to develop this fundamental mental capacity: the brain's power to think clearly, consistently and deeply, to undergo labour without tiring easily and also a general strength and steadiness in the nerves. The transference of nervous energy into brain energy is also a secret of the process of sublimation. It is precisely this aspect of education that has been most neglected in modern times. We give no thought to this fundamental: we leave the brain to develop as it may (or may not), it is made to grow under pressuremore to inflate than to growby forcing into it masses of information. The result at best is that it is sharpened, made acute superficially or is overgrown in a certain portion of it in respect of a narrow and very specialised function, losing thereby a healthy harmony and homogeneity in the total movement. The intellectual's nervous instability is a very common phenomenon among us.
   In recent times, however, we have begun to view children's education in a different light. It is being more and more realised that things are not to be instilled into the child from outside, but that the child should be allowed to grow and imbibe naturally. The teacher is only a companion and a guide: he is to let the child move according to its own inclinations, follow its own line of curiosity; he can open up and present new vistas of curiosity, seek to evoke new interests. Sympathy and encouragement on his side giving scope to freedom and autonomous development for the childthis is the watchword and motto for the ideal teacher.

04.01 - The March of Civilisation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   We are familiar with the phrase "Augustan Age": it is in reference to a particular period in a nation's history when its creative power is at its highest both in respect of quantity and quality, especially in the domain of art and literature, for it is here that the soul of a people finds expression most easily and spontaneously. Indeed, if we look at the panorama that the course of human evolution unfolds, we see epochs of high light in various countries spread out as towering beacons or soaring peaks bathed in sunlight dominating the flat plains or darksome valleys of the usual normal periods. Take the Augustan Age itself which has given the name: it is a very crucial and one of the earlier outflowerings of the human genius on a considerable scale. We know of the appearance of individuals on the stage of life each with a special mission and role in various ages and various countries. They are great men of action, great men of thought, creative artists or spiritual and religious teachers. In India we call them Vibhutis (we can include the AvatarasDivine Incarnationsalso in the category). Even so, there is a collective manifestation too, an upsurge in which a whole race or nation takes part and is carried and raised to a higher level of living and achievement. There is a tide in the affairs not only of men, but of peoples also: and masses, large collectivities live on the crest of their consciousness, feeling and thinking deeply and nobly, acting and creating powerfully, with breadth of vision and intensity of aspiration, spreading all around something that is new and not too common, a happy guest come from elsewhere.
   Ancient Greece, the fountainhead of European civilisationof the world culture reigning today, one can almost sayfound itself epitomised in the Periclean Age. The lightgrace, harmony, sweet reasonableness that was Greece, reached its highest and largest, its most characteristic growth in that period. Earlier, at the very beginning of her life cycle, there came indeed Homer and no later creation reached a higher or even as high a status of creative power: but it was a solitary peak, it was perhaps an announcement, not the realisation of the national glory. Pericles stood as the guardian, the representative, the emblem and nucleus of a nation-wide efflorescence. Not to speak of the great names associated with the age, even the common peoplemore than what was normally so characteristic of Greecefelt the tide that was moving high and shared in that elevated sweep of life, of thought and creative activity. Greece withdrew. The stage was made clear for Rome. Julius Caesar carried the Roman genius to its sublimest summit: but it remained for his great nephew to consolidate and give expression to that genius in its most characteristic manner and lent his name to a characteristic high-water mark of human civilisation.

04.02 - The Growth of the Flame, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  Yet something deeply stirred and dimly knew;
  There was a movement and a passionate call,

06.27 - To Learn and to Understand, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   It is one thing to learn (apprendre), quite another to understand (comprendre). In learning you take in a thing by your surface mind and it is a thing that comes in from outside like a foreign body; it is put into you, almost driven and thrust into you. You do not absorb it, make it wholly your own. If you are not mindful, leave it aside for sometime, it goes clean out of your memory. Understanding a thing, on the other hand, means, you absorb it, get it into the stuff of your being, you live it in your consciousness within. When you have understood a thing you never forget it; it has become an element of your consciousness. Years and years might have passed, yet the thing would be as clear and vivid as it was on the first day. Why do you forget so easily the lessons that you learnwith pain and difficultyfrom books or at school from teachers? It is because you simply learn, but do not understand. You retain in your brain the words, the outer formula or forms, you note down the information; but what they stand for, their import and inner law, the living truth escape you totally. You read Einstein, read over and over again his formulas and equations and even commit them to memorylearn by rote; but after a time, if you lose touch with them, they vanish from your mind or become very vague and misty and you have to start again. That is because you learnt Einstein simply as a lesson, whereas if you entered into the perceptions these forms embody, the inner principles that determine them, if the Einsteinian consciousness became in some way your consciousness, then you would have understood and never forgotten. It would not be a lesson but an experience. What is needed, then, is this inner awakening by which you live a thing, identify yourself with it, become one with it and not simply meet or make a mere nodding acquaintance with it. Unless there is this awakening or openness, as we say, in the consciousness, however much a lesson is thrust into you, it will not enter deeply enough. You may learn, like a parrot, but you will not understand, it will pass over your head and soon be forgotten.
   Indeed it was not very much necessary for the ancient sages and occultists to try to hide their knowledge in an obscure language, in codes and symbols and ciphers for fear of misuse by the common uninitiate; even if they had expressed their knowledge in ordinary language, ordinary people would not have understood it at all. It would be like my speaking to you in Chinese-, you would not make out anything of it. One comprehends only what one already possesses, that is to say, you must have within you something at least of what you want to know and understand, something corresponding to it, similar in nature and vibration. That is what I mean when I say that you should be open, your mind and consciousness should be turned and attuned to the object it wishes to seize; it must have some light in it in order to receive the light outside and beyond. If it is mere obscurity, the light does not light; even if it manages to come it departs soon or is engulfed in the darkness.

07.05 - The Finding of the Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  That subtle world withdrew deeply within
  Behind the sun-veil of the inner sight.

07.10 - Diseases and Accidents, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   If you look at the thing in an ordinary way, you do not notice it. But the fact is there. You must be very careful about your associations. An unfortunate association may prove disastrous to you. The karma of others may fall upon you, unless you have the inner knowledge, the vision and the necessary power. If you see a person with something like a dark whirl around avoid him at all cost. The moral of it all is that it is very useful to look into things a little more deeply than to observe the surface only.
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07.43 - Music Its Origin and Nature, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   There is a graded scale in the source of music. A whole category of music is there that comes from the higher vital, for example: it is very catching, perhaps even a little vulgar, something that twines round your nerves, as it were, and twists them. It catches you somewhere about your loinsnavel centre and charms you in its way. As there is a vital music there is also what can be called psychic music coming from quite a different source; there is further a music which has spiritual origin. In its own region this higher music is very magnificent; it seizes you deeply and carries you away somewhere else. But if you were to express it perfectlyexecute ityou would have to pass this music too through the vital. Your music coming from high may nevertheless fall absolutely flat in the execution, if you do not have that intensity of vital vibration which alone can give it its power and splendour. I knew people who had very high inspiration, but their music turned to be quite commonplace, because their vital did not move. Their spiritual practice put their vital almost completely to sleep; yes, it was literally asleep and did not work at all. Their music thus came straight into the physical. If you could get behind and catch the source, you would see that there was really something marvellous even there, although externally it was not forceful or effective. What came out was a poor little melody, very thin, having nothing of the power of harmony which is there when one can bring into play the vital energy. If one could put all this power of vibration that belongs to that vital into the music of higher origin we would have the music of a genius. Indeed, for music and for all artistic creation, in fact, for literature, for poetry, for painting, etc. an intermediary is needed. Whatever one does in these domains depends doubtless for its intrinsic value upon the source of the inspiration, upon the plane or the height where one stands. But the value of the execution depends upon the strength of the vital that expresses the inspiration. For a complete genius both are necessary. The combination is rare, generally it is the one or the other, more often it is the vital that predominates and overshadows.
   When the vital only is there, you have the music of caf concert and cinema. It is extraordinarily clever and at the same time extraordinarily commonplace, even vulgar. Since, however, it is so clever, it catches hold of your brain, haunts your memory, rings in (or wrings) your nerves; it becomes so difficult to get rid of its influence, precisely because it is done so well, so cleverly. It is made vitally with vital vibrations, but what is behind is not, to say the least, wholesome. Now imagine the same vital power of expression joined to the inspiration coming from above, say, the highest possible inspiration when the entire heaven seems to open out, then it is music indeed; Some things in Csar Franck, some in Beethoven, some in Bach, some in some others possess this sovereignty. But after all it is only a moment, it comes for a moment and does not abide. There is not a single artist whose whole work is executed at such a pitch. The inspiration comes like a flash of lightning, most often it lasts just long enough to be grasped and held in a few snatches.

08.03 - Death in the Forest, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  An answer. deeply she listened, but to hear
  The voice that soon would cease from tender words

09.02 - The Journey in Eternal Night and the Voice of the Darkness, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  More deeply than the bounded senses can
  Which grasp externally and find to lose,

1.001 - The Aim of Yoga, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  The ancient sages and masters, both of the East and the West, have deeply pondered over this question, and one of the most magnificent proclamations of a solution to these problems is found in the Veda. Among the many aspects of this solution that are presented before us by these mighty revelations, I can quote one which to my mind appears to be a final solution at least, I have taken it as a solution to all my problems - which comes in the Rig Veda, the Yajur Veda, the Sama Veda and the Atharva Veda. In all the four Vedas it occurs: tam eva viditv atimtyum eti nnya panth vidyate ayanya. This is a great proclamation. What is the meaning of this proclamation? There is no way of escape from this problem, says this mantra, other than knowing 'That'. This is a very simple aphoristic precept that is before us: Knowing 'That' is the solution, and we have no other solution. Now, knowing 'That' what is this 'That'.
  Knowing has been generally regarded as a process of understanding and accumulation of information, gathering intellectual or scientific definitive descriptions in respect of things. These days, this is what we call education. We gather definitions of things and try to understand the modes of their apparent functions in temporal life. This is what we call knowing, ordinarily speaking. I know that the sun is rising. This is a kind of knowledge. What do I mean by this knowledge? I have only a functional perception of a phenomenon that is taking place which I regard as the rise of the sun. This is not real knowledge. When I say, "I know that the sun is rising", I cannot say that I have a real knowledge of the sun, because, first of all, the sun is not rising it is a mistake of my senses. Secondly, the very idea of rising itself is a misconception in the mind. Unless I am static and immovable, I cannot know that something is moving. So when I say, "The sun is moving", I mean that I am not moving; it is understood there. But it is not true that I am not moving. I am also in a state of motion for other reasons which are not easily understandable. So it is not possible for a moving body to say that something else is moving. Nothing that is in a state of motion can say that something else is in motion. There is a relative motion of things, and so perception of the condition of any object ultimately would be impossible. This is a reason why scientific knowledge fails.

1.008 - The Principle of Self-Affirmation, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  The status that one occupies in human society is not the true nature of that person. The status need not necessarily be a social imposition it can be a psychological circumstance also, and it can even be biological. All these keep us in a state of subconscious tension. If very deeply studied, psychoanalytically, we will find that every human being is a patient not psychologically healthy, at least from a very profound point of view a patient in the sense that there is something external grown as an accretion upon one's true nature which has covered up and smothered one's own freedom of existence. All these various types of fungii that have grown around us in the form of the biological, psychological and social relationships, keep us in a fool's paradise a fool's paradise in the sense that we live in a world which is totally false, and which is not true or compatible with our real nature.
  The practice of yoga is very cautious about all these internal structural devices, which have been manufactured by nature to keep the individual under subjugation by brainwashing him from birth until death and never allowing him to think of what these devices are. If we want to subordinate a person and keep that person under subjection always, we have to brainwash that person every day by telling him something contrary to what he is, repeating it every day every moment in every thought, every speech and every action so that there is a false personality grown around that person and he becomes our servant. This has happened to everyone, and this trick seems to be played by the vast diversified nature itself, so that everyone is a servant of nature rather than a master. This is the source of sorrow.

1.00a - DIVISION A - THE INTERNAL FIRES OF THE SHEATHS., #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
  The subject of the blending of these two fires, which is complete in a normal and healthy person, should engross the attention of the modern physician. He will then concern himself with the removal of nerve congestion or material congestion, so as to leave a free channel for the inner warmth. This blending, which is now a natural and usual growth in every human being, was one of the signs of attainment or of initiation in an earlier solar system. Just as initiation and liberation are marked in this solar system by the blending of the fires of the body, of the mind and of the Spirit, so in an earlier cycle attainment was marked by the blending of the latent fires of matter with the radiatory or active fires, and then their union with the fires of mind. In the earlier period the effects in manifestation of the divine Flame were so remote and deeply hidden as to be scarcely recognisable, though dimly there. Its correspondence can be seen in the animal kingdom, in which instinct holds the intuition in latency, [58] and the Spirit dimly overshadows. Yet all is part of a divine whole.
  The subject of the radiatory heat of the macrocosmic and microcosmic systems will be dealt with in detail in a later subdivision. Here we will only deal with the latent interior fire of the

1.00 - Main, #The Book of Certitude, #Baha u llah, #Baha i
  Say: O King of Berlin! Give ear unto the Voice calling from this manifest Temple: "Verily, there is none other God but Me, the Everlasting, the Peerless, the Ancient of Days." Take heed lest pride debar thee from recognizing the Dayspring of Divine Revelation, lest earthly desires shut thee out, as by a veil, from the Lord of the Throne above and of the earth below. Thus counselleth thee the Pen of the Most High. He, verily, is the Most Gracious, the All-Bountiful. Do thou remember the one (Napoleon III) whose power transcended thy power, and whose station excelled thy station. Where is he? Whither are gone the things he possessed? Take warning, and be not of them that are fast asleep. He it was who cast the Tablet of God behind him when We made known unto him what the hosts of tyranny had caused Us to suffer. Wherefore, disgrace assailed him from all sides, and he went down to dust in great loss. Think deeply, O King, concerning him, and concerning them who, like unto thee, have conquered cities and ruled over men. The All-Merciful brought them down from their palaces to their graves. Be warned, be of them who reflect.
  We have asked nothing from you. For the sake of God We, verily, exhort you, and will be patient as We have been patient in that which hath befallen Us at your hands, O concourse of kings!

1.012 - Joseph, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  30. Some ladies in the city said, “The governor's wife is trying to seduce her servant. She is deeply in love with him. We see she has gone astray.”
  31. And when she heard of their gossip, she invited them, and prepared for them a banquet, and she gave each one of them a knife. She said, “Come out before them.” And when they saw him, they marveled at him, and cut their hands. They said, “Good God, this is not a human, this must be a precious angel.”

1.013 - Defence Mechanisms of the Mind, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  So even in self-control there are varieties. It is not the same type of technique that we adopt uniformly and universally, as previously mentioned. Though it is true that everyone is hungry and everyone needs food, universally and uniformly, it does not follow that we all have to be given the same food. The whole world cannot be served the same kind of diet merely because everyone is equally hungry. In the same way, even though self-control is a universal necessity for the purpose of higher spiritual regeneration, the methods of practice may vary in detail according to the conditions of the individual in the stages of evolution, the circumstances in which one lives, and various other such relevant factors. The dependence of the mind on externals is also, therefore, variegated. It is not a uniform type of dependence. Therefore, each one has to investigate into the peculiar type of dependence due to which one is suffering. This requires leisurely thinking. A hurried mind cannot think so deeply on this subject, because it is not easy to detect where we are weak, and upon what things we are hanging for our dependence, for our existence.
  Apart from the usual and obvious forms of dependence, such as the need for food, clothing and shelter, there are other types of dependence which are secret, subtler in their nature, and these are more important for the purposes of investigation than the grosser needs, because the grosser needs are well known to everyone. Everyone knows that we will be hungry, and will feel heat and cold, and that we need a shelter for living. But there are other things which may not be known to everybody. We have weaknesses other than the feeling of hunger, thirst, etc., and these are the harassing factors of life. We are worried not so much because of food, clothing and shelter, but due to other things which are the secret wire-pullers of the individual's existence. These other things are not minor factors. They are made to appear as if they are insignificant and secondary on account of a trick played by the mind, because if they are brought to the forefront they will not succeed in their attempts. So, a subtle devise is adopted by the mind to succeed in its attempts.

1.01 - BOOK THE FIRST, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
  But sighs are deeply drawn from out thy breast;
  And speech deny'd, by lowing is express'd.

1.01 - How is Knowledge Of The Higher Worlds Attained?, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
  If we do not develop within ourselves this deeply rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall never find the strength to evolve to something higher. The initiate has only acquired the strength to lift his head to the heights of knowledge by guiding his heart to the depths of veneration and devotion. The heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility. You can only acquire right knowledge when you have learnt to esteem it. Man has certainly the right to turn his eyes to the light, but he must first acquire this right. There are laws in the spiritual life, as in the physical life. Rub a glass rod with an appropriate material and it will become electric, that is, it will receive the power of attracting small bodies. This is in keeping with a law of nature. It is known to all who have learnt a little physics. Similarly, acquaintance with the first principles of spiritual science shows that every
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1.01 - Introduction, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  The mind that looks deeply into existence, finds there no shadow but that of appearances, and the most obscure and infinitesimal of these can uncover to its search sovereign realities, once it has accustomed its gaze to the light of the mystery which every appearance conceals. Where the indifferent sees only a valueless object or a fortuitous and unimportant detail, the thinker whom no coverings can deceive, is able to detect one of the signs by which eternal laws yield up their secret. A stone that falls, a ripe fruit that opens, become to his vision initiating symbols, keys to a supreme knowledge. By relativities that all disdain, the Absolute delivers up to him the secrets reserved for the sages.
  For him the very darkness becomes light, because all is light. But what light can be sufficient for eyes that keep themselves closed, for the mind which remains sealed?

1.01 - MASTER AND DISCIPLE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  The sight of the samadhi, and the divine bliss he had witnessed, left an indelible impression on M.'s mind. He returned home deeply moved. Now and then he could hear within himself the echo of those soul-intoxicating lines: Immerse yourself for evermore, O mind,
  In Him who is Pure Knowledge and Pure Bliss.

1.01 - Necessity for knowledge of the whole human being for a genuine education., #The Essentials of Education, #unset, #Zen
  As a teacher, anything I do to a child during the years of ele- mentary education will sink deeply into the physical, psychologi- cal, and spiritual nature of that individual. Whatever I do that plants a seed at the beginning of life will in some way go on liv- ing and weaving for decades beneath the surface, reappearing in remarkable ways many years later, perhaps not until the very end of life. Its possible to affect childhood in the right way only if we consider not just childhood but all of human life as seen from the perspective of a real knowledge of human nature.
  This is the knowledge I have in mind as I give you a few exam- ples about the intimate ways the teachers soul can affect the childs soul. I will present only a few indications for todaywe will go into greater detail later. We can understand how to prepare the intellect for impulses of the will only if we can answer this ques- tion: What happens between the teacher and the child, simply because the teacher and the child are present together, each with a unique nature and temperamenta particular character, level of development, constitution of body and soul? Before we even begin to teach and educate, the teacher and the child are both present. There is already an interaction. The teachers relationship to the child presents the first important question.
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  If we achieve pedagogical understanding by looking at the whole human being and not just at the childwhich is much more comfortableit becomes clear that education and teaching play a central role in the course of human life. We see how often happiness or unhappiness in the spirit, soul, or physical life is related to a persons education and schooling. Just consider this: doctors are asked by older people to correct the mistakes of their educators, when in fact the problems have sunk so deeply into the person that no more can be done. The impressions on the childs soul have been transformed into physical effects, and the psycho- logical interacts with the physical; knowing all this, we begin to pay attention in the right way, and we acquire a proper apprecia- tion for teaching methods and what is required for a viable educa- tion according to the reality of human nature.
  The Phlegmatic Temperament
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  The teacher who gives full vent to a sanguine temperament is sus- ceptible to all kinds of impressions. When a student makes a mess, the teacher looks the other way instead of getting angry. A student may whisper to a neighbor, and the teacher again looks the other way. This is typical of the sanguine temperament; impressions come quickly, but dont penetrate deeply. Such a teacher may call on a little girl to ask a brief question; but the teacher isnt interested in her for long and almost immediately sends her back to her seat. This teacher is completely sanguine.
  Again, if we look at the whole human life, we can trace many cases of insufficient vitality and zest for lifewhich is a patho- logical symptom exhibited by many peopleto the effects of a teachers undisciplined sanguine temperament. Without self-trans- formation, a teachers sanguine temperament suppresses vitality, dampens the zest for life, and weakens the will that wells up from the childs individuality.
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  It will be argued that there comes a point when we have to begin to educate. Yes, and immediately we encounter the opin- ion that anyone can teach someone else whatever theyve already learned. If Ive learned something, I am, so to speak, qualified to teach it to someone else. People frequently fail to notice that there is an inner attitude of temperament, character, and so on, which is the result of the teachers own inner work or teacher training (as well see), behind everything that a teacher can learn on her own, what she can assimilate. Here, too, a real knowledge of the human constitution leads more deeply into human nature itself.
  Lets inquire, then, about teaching an unschooled child some- thing we have learned. Is it enough to present it to the child just as we learned it? It certainly is not. Now I will speak of an empirical fact, the results of a real observation of the whole life of a human being in body, soul, and spirit. It concerns the first period of life, from birth until the change of teeth.

1.01 - Our Demand and Need from the Gita, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
   striking speculations of a philosophic intellect, but rather enduring truths of spiritual experience, verifiable facts of our highest psychological possibilities which no attempt to read deeply the mystery of existence can afford to neglect. Whatever the system may be, it is not, as the commentators strive to make it, framed or intended to support any exclusive school of philosophical thought or to put forward predominantly the claims of any one form of Yoga. The language of the Gita, the structure of thought, the combination and balancing of ideas belong neither to the temper of a sectarian teacher nor to the spirit of a rigorous analytical dialectics cutting off one angle of the truth to exclude all the others; but rather there is a wide, undulating, encircling movement of ideas which is the manifestation of a vast synthetic mind and a rich synthetic experience. This is one of those great syntheses in which Indian spirituality has been as rich as in its creation of the more intensive, exclusive movements of knowledge and religious realisation that follow out with an absolute concentration one clue, one path to its extreme issues. It does not cleave asunder, but reconciles and unifies.
  The thought of the Gita is not pure Monism although it sees in one unchanging, pure, eternal Self the foundation of all cosmic existence, nor Mayavada although it speaks of the

1.01 - Principles of Practical Psycho therapy, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  dialectical process just as deeply as the so-called patient.
  [9]
  --
  incorrect, superfluous, or obsolete. The more deeply we penetrate the
  nature of the psyche, the more the conviction grows upon us that the

1.01 - The Highest Meaning of the Holy Truths, #The Blue Cliff Records, #Yuanwu Keqin, #Zen
  regret this deeply." He further eulogized him by saying, "If
  your mind exists, you are stuck in the mundane for eternity; if

1.01 - THE STUFF OF THE UNIVERSE, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  farther and more deeply we penetrate into matter, by means of
  increasingly powerful methods, the more we are confounded by

1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
  And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly, I say to you,
  no sign shall be given to this generation.

1.02 - Self-Consecration, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  8:The difficulty of the task has led naturally to the pursuit of easy and trenchant solutions; it has generated and fixed deeply' the tendency of religions and of schools of Yoga to separate the life of the world from the inner life. The powers of this world and their actual activities, it is felt, either do not belong to God at all or are for some obscure and puzzling cause, Maya or another, a dark contradiction of the divine Truth. And on their own opposite side the powers of the Truth and their ideal activities are seen to belong to quite another plane of consciousness than that, obscure, ignorant and perverse in its impulses and forces, on which the life of the earth is founded. There appears at once the antinomy of a bright and pure kingdom of God and a dark and impure kingdom of the devil; we feel the opposition of our crawling earthly birth and life to an exalted spiritual God-consciousness; we become readily convinced of the incompatibility of life's subjection to Maya with the soul's concentration in pure Brahman existence. The easiest way is to turn away from all that belongs to the one and to retreat by a naked and precipitous ascent into the other. Thus arises the attraction and, it would seem, the necessity of the principle of exclusive concentration which plays so prominent a part in the specialised schools of Yoga; for by that concentration we can arrive through an uncompromising renunciation of the world at an entire self-consecration to the One on whom we concentrate. It is no longer incumbent on us to compel all the lower activities to the difficult recognition of a new and higher spiritualised life and train them to be its agents or executive powers. It is enough to kill or quiet them and keep at most the few energies necessary, on one side, for the maintenance of the body and, on the other, for communion with the Divine.
  9:The very aim and conception of an integral Yoga debars us from adopting this simple and strenuous high-pitched process. The hope of an integral transformation forbids us to take a short cut or to make ourselves light for the race by throwing away our impediments. For we have set out to conquer all ourselves and the world for God; we are determined to give him our becoming as well as our being and not merely to bring the pure and naked spirit as a bare offering to a remote and secret Divinity in a distant heaven or abolish all we are in a holocaust to an immobile Absolute. The Divine that we adore is not only a remote extracosmic Reality, but a half-veiled Manifestation present and near to us here in the universe. Life is the field of a divine manifestation not yet complete: here, in life, on earth, in the body, -- ihaiva, as the Upanishads insist, -- we have to unveil the Godhead; here we must make its transcendent greatness, light and sweetness real to our consciousness, here possess and, as far as may be, express it. Life then we must accept in our Yoga in order utterly to transmute it; we are forbidden to shrink from the difficulties that this acceptance may add to our struggle. Our compensation is that even if the path is more rugged, the effort more complex and bafflingly arduous, yet after a point we gain an immense advantage. For once our minds are reasonably fixed in the central vision and our wills are on the whole converted to the single pursuit. Life becomes our helper. Intent, vigilant, integrally conscious, we can take every detail of its forms and every incident of its movements as food for the sacrificial Fire within us. Victorious in the struggle, we can compel Earth herself to be an aid towards our perfection and can enrich our realisation with the booty torn from the powers that oppose us.

1.02 - Skillful Means, #The Lotus Sutra, #Anonymous, #Various
  When he said this, ve thousand monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen in the assembly immediately got up from their seats, bowed to the Buddha, and left. What was the reason for this? Because the roots of error among this group had been deeply planted and they were arrogant, thinking they had attained what they had not attained and had realized what they had not realized. Because of such defects they did not stay. And the Bhagavat remained silent and did not stop them.
  Then the Buddha addressed riputra: My assembly here is free of useless twigs and leaves; only the pure essence remains.
  --
  They are so rmly and deeply attached to false teachings
  That they cannot get rid of them.
  --
  They are deeply attached to the desires of the ve senses,
  Just as yaks are attached to their tails.

1.02 - The 7 Habits An Overview, #The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, #Stephen Covey, #unset
  Breaking deeply imbedded habitual tendencies such as procrastination, impatience, criticalness, or selfishness that violate basic principles of human effectiveness involves more than a little willpower and a few minor changes in our lives. "Lift off" takes a tremendous effort, but once we break out of the gravity pull, our freedom takes on a whole new dimension.
  Like any natural force, gravity pull can work with us or against us. The gravity pull of some of our habits may currently be keeping us from going where we want to go. But it is also gravity pull that keeps our world together, that keeps the planets in their orbits and our universe in order. It is a powerful force, and if we use it effectively, we can use the gravity pull of habit to create the cohesiveness and order necessary to establish effectiveness in our lives.
  --
  Even if I do know that in order to interact effectively with others I really need to listen to them, I may not have the skill. I may not know how to really listen deeply to another human being.
  But knowing I need to listen and knowing how to listen is not enough. Unless I want to listen, unless I have the desire, it won't be a habit in my life. Creating a habit requires work in all three dimensions.
  --
  As an interdependent person, I have the opportunity to share myself deeply, meaningfully, with others, and I have access to the vast resources and potential of other human beings.
  Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make. Dependent people cannot choose to become interdependent. They don't have the character to do it; they don't own enough of themselves.
  --
  Either way -- authoritarian or permissive -- you have the golden egg mentality. You want to have your way or you want to be liked. But what happens, meantime, to the goose? What sense of responsibility, of self-discipline, of confidence in the ability to make good choices or achieve important goals is a child going to have a few years down the road? And what about your relationship? When he reaches those critical teenage years, the identity crises, will he know from his experience with you that you will listen without judging, that you really, deeply care about him as a person, that you can be trusted, no matter what? Will the relationship be strong enough for you to reach him, to communicate with him, to influence him?
  Suppose you want your daughter to have a clean room -- that's P, production, the golden egg. And suppose you want her to clean it -- that's PC, Production Capability. Your daughter is the goose, the asset, that produces the golden egg.
  --
  The seventh habit, if deeply internalized, will renew the first six and will make you truly independent and capable of effective interdependence. Through it, you can charge your own batteries.
  Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.

1.02 - The Child as growing being and the childs experience of encountering the teacher., #The Essentials of Education, #unset, #Zen
  Pondering such things awakens something in us like a priestly attitude in education. Until this priestly feeling for the first years of childhood has become a part of education as a whole, educa- tion wont find the conditions that bring it to life. If we merely try to understand the requirements of education intellectually, or try rationally to design a method of education based on external observations of a childs nature, at best we accomplish a quarter education. A complete educational method cant be formulated by the intellect alone; rather, it has to flow from the whole of human naturenot merely from the part that observes externally in a rational way, but the whole that deeply and inwardly experi- ences the secrets of the universe.
  Few things have a more wonderful effect on the human heart than seeing inner spirit and soul elements released day to day, week to week, month to month, year to year, during the first period of childhood. We see how, beginning with chaotic limb movements, the glance filled with rapture by outer experiences, the play of expressions that dont yet seem to belong to the child, something develops and impresses itself on the surface of the human form that arises from the center of the human constitution, where the divine spiritual being is unfolding in its descent from pre-earthly life. If we can make this divine office of education a concern of the heart, we understand these things in such a way that we say: Here the Godhead Who has guided a human being until birth is revealed again in the impression of the human organism; the living Godhead is there to see; God is gazing into us. This will lead, out of the teachers own individuality, not to something learned by rote, but to a living method of education and instruction, a method that springs from our souls and spirits.
  --
  Many people are completely unaware that their judgments dont spring from the primal source of human nature but from elements implanted in our outer culture since the fourteenth cen- tury as a result of the materialistic paradigm. The duty of teach- ers, of educatorsreally the duty of all human beings that have anything to do with childrenis to look more deeply into what it means to be human. In other words, we need to become more aware of how anything acting as a stimulus in the environment continues to resonate within the child. We have to be very clear that, in this sense, were dealing with imponderables.
  Children are aware, whenever we do something in their environment, of the thoughts behind a hand-gesture or facial expression. Children intuit them: they dont, obviously, interpret facial features, since what operates instead is a much more powerful inner connection between the child and adult than will exist later between adults. Consequently, we must never allow ourselves to feel or think anything around children that shouldnt be allowed to reverberate within the child. The rule of thumb for all relationships in early education has to be this: Whether in perception, feeling, or thought, whatever we do around children needs to be done in such a way that it can be allowed to continue resonate within their souls.

1.02 - The Eternal Law, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
  because spontaneously, in their very physical substance, without the least "thought" or even "faith," Indians sink their roots very deeply into other worlds; they do not altogether belong here. In them, these other worlds rise constantly to the surface; at the least touch the veil is rent, remarks Sri Aurobindo. This physical world, which for us is so real and absolute and unique, seems to them but one way of living among many others, one modality of the total existence among many others; in other words, a small chaotic, agitated, and rather painful frontier on the margin of immense continents which lie behind,
  unexplored.16 This substantial difference between Indians and other peoples appears most strikingly in their art, as it does also in Egyptian art (and, we assume without knowing it, in the art of Central America). If we leave behind our light and open cathedrals that soar high like a triumph of the divine thought in man suddenly to find 16

1.02 - The Stages of Initiation, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
  By sinking deeply into such thoughts, and while doing so, observing the stone and the animal with rapt attention, there arise in the soul two quite separate kinds of feelings. From the stone there flows into the soul the one kind of feeling, and from the animal the other kind. The attempt
   p. 52

1.02 - The Two Negations 1 - The Materialist Denial, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  19:What is that work and result, if not a self-involution of Consciousness in form and a self-evolution out of form so as to actualise some mighty possibility in the universe which it has created? And what is its will in Man if not a will to unending Life, to unbounded Knowledge, to unfettered Power? Science itself begins to dream of the physical conquest of death, expresses an insatiable thirst for knowledge, is working out something like a terrestrial omnipotence for humanity. Space and Time are contracting to the vanishing-point in its works, and it strives in a hundred ways to make man the master of circumstance and so lighten the fetters of causality. The idea of limit, of the impossible begins to grow a little shadowy and it appears instead that whatever man constantly wills, he must in the end be able to do; for the consciousness in the race eventually finds the means. It is not in the individual that this omnipotence expresses itself, but the collective Will of mankind that works out with the individual as a means. And yet when we look more deeply, it is not any conscious Will of the collectivity, but a superconscious Might that uses the individual as a centre and means, the collectivity as a condition and field. What is this but the God in man, the infinite Identity, the multitudinous Unity, the Omniscient, the Omnipotent, who having made man in His own image, with the ego as a centre of working, with the race, the collective Narayana,7 the visvamanava8 as the mould and circumscription, seeks to express in them some image of the unity, omniscience, omnipotence which are the self-conception of the Divine? "That which is immortal in mortals is a God and established inwardly as an energy working out in our divine powers."9 It is this vast cosmic impulse which the modern world, without quite knowing its own aim, yet serves in all its activities and labours subconsciously to fulfil.
  20:But there is always a limit and an encumbrance, - the limit of the material field in the Knowledge, the encumbrance of the material machinery in the Power. But here also the latest trend is highly significant of a freer future. As the outposts of scientific Knowledge come more and more to be set on the borders that divide the material from the immaterial, so also the highest achievements of practical Science are those which tend to simplify and reduce to the vanishing-point the machinery by which the greatest effects are produced. Wireless telegraphy is Nature's exterior sign and pretext for a new orientation. The sensible physical means for the intermediate transmission of the physical force is removed; it is only preserved at the points of impulsion and reception. Eventually even these must disappear; for when the laws and forces of the supraphysical are studied with the right starting-point, the means will infallibly be found for Mind directly to seize on the physical energy and speed it accurately upon its errand. There, once we bring ourselves to recognise it, lie the gates that open upon the enormous vistas of the future.

1.031 - Intense Aspiration, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  There is nothing in this world which is spatially cut off by a long distance, ultimately speaking. The distance between the seeker and the sought is an apparent one it is not a real one. If the distance is real, it would be difficult for us to achieve anything. If there is a real gap between me and somebody else, that somebody else will be outside me for ever and ever. The object that we seek is not really cut off by a gap of distance spatial or even temporal. Even the time factor is not a bar to the achievement of the objective, because while space and time seem to be the principle obstructions to our achievement of anything, they are ultimately nothing if we come to the truth about them. These so-called terrific factors called 'space' and 'time', which on one side make the object appear far off in space and on the other side make it appear distant in time, are ultimately illusory vestments over the consciousness of what the truth is. The achievement of anything is a simple affair if the correct technique is known, because nothing can be simpler to understand and experience than truth. The easiest thing is truth, because it is truth after all, and what else can be as easy as truth? It will be difficult to catch untruth. But it should not be difficult to catch truth. We have said it is truth. It is real. It is a fact. It is what it is. How can we say that it is so hard to get it? To utter a truth is very easy; to tell a lie is very difficult, as we know very well, because we have to think deeply before we utter a lie. But what is the difficulty in telling the truth? It is a plain fact.
  The whole-souled movement of consciousness towards the objective is not merely, or not necessarily, a spatial movement. The great teacher Acharya Sankara was never tired of removing this misconception in the minds of people the travelling to truth does not mean travelling in a vehicle towards some distant place, as if it is a village or a town. In every commentary on every Upanishad and Brahma Sutra he mentions this point that here, 'travelling' does not mean travelling in a vehicle, nor does it mean movement in space. It is nothing of the kind. It is a different thing altogether that takes place, because the object of our quest is ultimately connected with us I would say, even now. But even if we do not want to accept that, at least ultimately it is connected with us. Therefore, finally, it is a movement towards our own self.

1.036 - Ya-Seen, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  47. And when it is said to them, “Spend of what God has provided for you,” those who disbelieve say to those who believe, “Shall we feed someone whom God could feed, if He so willed? You must be deeply misguided.”
  48. And they say, “When will this promise be, if you are truthful?”

1.038 - Impediments in Concentration and Meditation, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  So this peculiar, inert and neutral condition of the mind, where it is deeply sunk in a kind of sorrow for some reason or the other, is a dangerous state where there is a possibility of a strong wind blowing from any direction. When there are dark clouds soaring in the sky, and the sun is completely dimmed and nothing can be seen, we know that it is a preparation for a violent storm, and we do not know from which side the wind will blow, or towards what direction. So this despondency daurmanasya a mood of melancholy which follows this sorrow, which is associated with sorrow and is a part of sorrow, can produce any consequence of a devastating nature, and it is here that the subtle potentialities within can take very strong shapes and violent forms.
  Duhkha and daurmanasya sorrow and depression in the mind can be due to a memory in the mind of having lost everything pleasurable in life. This memory can come after years and years of practice. The memory need not come immediately. After fifteen, twenty years of meditation we may remember, "After all, I have lost all the goods of life. I am a miserable person." This condition can supervene due to the memory of having lost the centres of satisfaction in life. Or there can be a writhing of spirit from within due to the pressure of Reality itself, though our meditation has been correct and in the right direction, and this requires that the external centres of pleasure be isolated from the spiritual ideal that is before it, because the centres of pleasure, whatever they be, are ultimately irreconcilable with the ideal of meditation.

1.03 - A Parable, #The Lotus Sutra, #Anonymous, #Various
  Grieving and blaming myself deeply,
  I thought incessantly:
  --
  They are deeply attached to worldly pleasures
  And have no wisdom.
  --
  And are deeply attached to pleasures,
  I teach them the truth of suffering (i.e., the First Noble Truth).
  --
  Who are deeply attached to its causes
  And unable to abandon them even for a while,
  --
  Who are deeply attached
  To the desires of the ve senses,

1.03 - Hymns of Gritsamada, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
    1. O Fire, mayst thou rejoice in the fuel I bring thee, rejoice in my session of sacrifice. deeply lend ear to my words.
    2. O Fire, who art brought to perfect birth, Child of Energy, Impeller of the Horse, we would worship thee with this oblation, we would worship thee with this Word well-spoken.

1.03 - Meeting the Master - Meeting with others, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
   Sri Aurobindo: Yes, I can protect you if you have the absolute faith and make the right choice. If you make the wrong choice I cannot protect you. You must know that this is not a simple affair at all. It is not a revolt against the British Government which anyone can easily do. It is, in fact, a revolt against the whole universal Nature and so one must think deeply before enrolling oneself with me.
   There will be tremendous forces that will attack you and you have constantly to go on making the right choice and giving consent to the working of the Higher Truth and thereby prove your strength. If you begin this Yoga the first result is likely to be a feverish internal commotion, Ashanti, rather than the Shanti that you are in search of. And when you come to the material plane, there especially, the odds are almost insurmountable.

1.03 - ON THE AFTERWORLDLY, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
  experienced only by those who suffer most deeply.
  Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one

1.03 - PERSONALITY, SANCTITY, DIVINE INCARNATION, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
  Those whose discrimination is stolen away by such talk grow deeply attached to pleasure and power. And so they are unable to develop that one-pointed concentration of the will, which leads a man to absorption in God.
  Bhagavad Gita

1.03 - Some Practical Aspects, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
   of sights and hearing in your soul and spirit. Do not expect immediately to see and hear in the world of soul and spirit, for all that you are doing does but contri bute to the development of your higher senses, and you will only be able to hear with soul and spirit when you possess these higher senses. Having persevered for a time in silent inner seclusion, go about your customary daily affairs, imprinting deeply upon your mind this thought: "Some day, when I have grown sufficiently, I shall attain that which I am destined to attain," and make no attempt to attract forcefully any of these higher powers to yourself. Every student receives these instructions at the outset. By observing them he perfects himself. If he neglects them, all his labor is in vain. But they are only difficult of achievement for the impatient and the unpersevering. No other obstacles exist save those which we ourselves place in our own path, and which can be avoided by all who really will. This point must be continually emphasized, because many people form an altogether wrong conception of the difficulties that beset the path to higher knowledge. It is easier, in a certain sense, to accomplish the first steps along this path than
   p. 110

1.03 - Sympathetic Magic, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  the Chinese belief that the fortunes of a town are deeply affected
  by its shape, and that they must vary according to the character of

1.03 - The Coming of the Subjective Age, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  All these tendencies, though in a crude, initial and ill-developed form, are manifest now in the world and are growing from day to day with a significant rapidity. And their emergence and greater dominance means the transition from the ratio-nalistic and utilitarian period of human development which individualism has created to a greater subjective age of society. The change began by a rapid turning of the current of thought into large and profound movements contradictory of the old intellectual standards, a swift breaking of the old tables. The materialism of the nineteenth century gave place first to a novel and profound vitalism which has taken various forms from Nietzsches theory of the Will to be and Will to Power as the root and law of life to the new pluralistic and pragmatic philosophy which is pluralistic because it has its eye fixed on life rather than on the soul and pragmatic because it seeks to interpret being in the terms of force and action rather than of light and knowledge. These tendencies of thought, which had until yesterday a profound influence on the life and thought of Europe prior to the outbreak of the great War, especially in France and Germany, were not a mere superficial recoil from intellectualism to life and action,although in their application by lesser minds they often assumed that aspect; they were an attempt to read profoundly and live by the Life-Soul of the universe and tended to be deeply psychological and subjective in their method. From behind them, arising in the void created by the discrediting of the old rationalistic intellectualism, there had begun to arise a new Intuitionalism, not yet clearly aware of its own drive and nature, which seeks through the forms and powers of Life for that which is behind Life and sometimes even lays as yet uncertain hands on the sealed doors of the Spirit.
  The art, music and literature of the world, always a sure index of the vital tendencies of the age, have also undergone a profound revolution in the direction of an ever-deepening sub jectivism. The great objective art and literature of the past no longer commands the mind of the new age. The first tendency was, as in thought so in literature, an increasing psychological vitalism which sought to represent penetratingly the most subtle psychological impulses and tendencies of man as they started to the surface in his emotional, aesthetic and vitalistic cravings and activities. Composed with great skill and subtlety but without any real insight into the law of mans being, these creations seldom got behind the reverse side of our surface emotions, sensations and actions which they minutely analysed in their details but without any wide or profound light of knowledge; they were perhaps more immediately interesting but ordinarily inferior as art to the old literature which at least seized firmly and with a large and powerful mastery on its province. Often they described the malady of Life rather than its health and power, or the riot and revolt of its cravings, vehement and therefore impotent and unsatisfied, rather than its dynamis of self-expression and self-possession. But to this movement which reached its highest creative power in Russia, there succeeded a turn towards a more truly psychological art, music and literature, mental, intuitional, psychic rather than vitalistic, departing in fact from a superficial vitalism as much as its predecessors departed from the objective mind of the past. This new movement aimed like the new philo sophic Intuitionalism at a real rending of the veil, the seizure by the human mind of that which does not overtly express itself, the touch and penetration into the hidden soul of things. Much of it was still infirm, unsubstantial in its grasp on what it pursued, rudimentary in its forms, but it initiated a decisive departure of the human mind from its old moorings and pointed the direction in which it is being piloted on a momentous voyage of discovery, the discovery of a new world within which must eventually bring about the creation of a new world without in life and society. Art and literature seem definitely to have taken a turn towards a subjective search into what may be called the hidden inside of things and away from the rational and objective canon or motive.

1.03 - THE GRAND OPTION, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  is deeply embedded in our thought, namely the habit of mind
  which causes us to contrast unity with plurality, the element with

1.03 - The Human Disciple, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  From the beginning of the Gita this characteristic temperament of the disciple is clearly indicated and it is maintained throughout. It becomes first evident in the manner in which he is awakened to the sense of what he is doing, the great slaughter of which he is to be the chief instrument, in the thoughts which immediately rise in him, in the standpoint and the psychological motives which make him recoil from the whole terrible catastrophe. They are not the thoughts, the standpoint, the motives of a philosophical or even of a deeply reflective mind or a spiritual temperament confronted with the same or a similar problem.
  They are those, as we might say, of the practical or the pragmatic man, the emotional, sensational, moral and intelligent human being not habituated to profound and original reflection or any sounding of the depths, accustomed rather to high but fixed standards of thought and action and a confident treading through all vicissitudes and difficulties, who now finds all his standards failing him and all the basis of his confidence in himself and his life shorn away from under him at a single stroke. That is the nature of the crisis which he undergoes.
  --
   never realised it all; obsessed by his claims and wrongs and by the principles of his life, the struggle for the right, the duty of the Kshatriya to protect justice and the law and fight and beat down injustice and lawless violence, he has neither thought it out deeply nor felt it in his heart and at the core of his life. And now it is shown to his vision by the divine charioteer, placed sensationally before his eyes, and comes home to him like a blow delivered at the very centre of his sensational, vital and emotional being.
  The first result is a violent sensational and physical crisis which produces a disgust of the action and its material objects and of life itself. He rejects the vital aim pursued by egoistic humanity in its action, - happiness and enjoyment; he rejects the vital aim of the Kshatriya, victory and rule and power and the government of men. What after all is this fight for justice when reduced to its practical terms, but just this, a fight for the interests of himself, his brothers and his party, for possession and enjoyment and rule? But at such a cost these things are not worth having. For they are of no value in themselves, but only as a means to the right maintenance of social and national life and it is these very aims that in the person of his kin and his race he is about to destroy. And then comes the cry of the emotions. These are they for whose sake life and happiness are desired, our "own people". Who would consent to slay these for the sake of all the earth, or even for the kingdom of the three worlds? What pleasure can there be in life, what happiness, what satisfaction in oneself after such a deed? The whole thing is a dreadful sin, - for now the moral sense awakens to justify the revolt of the sensations and the emotions. It is a sin, there is no right nor justice in mutual slaughter; especially are those who are to be slain the natural objects of reverence and of love, those without whom one would not care to live, and to violate these sacred feelings can be no virtue, can be nothing but a heinous crime. Granted that the offence, the aggression, the first sin, the crimes of greed and selfish passion which have brought things to such a pass came from the other side; yet armed resistance to wrong under such circumstances would be itself a sin and

1.03 - The Phenomenon of Man, #Let Me Explain, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  which makes him the most perfectly and deeply centred of
  all cosmic particles within the field of our experience;
  --
  most highly complex and at the same time the most deeply
  centred of all the 'molecules'.

1.03 - To Layman Ishii, #Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin, #unset, #Zen
  I recently overheard several of Boku's comrades discussing him. "Boku hit on a truly splendid plan," they decided. "He is sure to return with a much deeper attainment." I wasn't so sure. "Boku," I said to myself. "This is not a good idea. Being a kind and deeply compassionate man, when the
  Layman sees how troubled you are, he is sure to be greatly concerned and want to help you. But whatever help you receive now, even though you may gain something from it, it is going to stick to your bones and cling to your hide, and will prevent you from experiencing the intense joy that should accompany the sudden entrance into satori. You will remain a humble little stable boy the rest of your life, your wisdom never completely clear, your attainment never truly alive and vital. b A most regrettable outcome!"
  --
  "One day when I was in Mino Province, I observed a cicada casting its skin in the shade. It managed to get its head free, and then its hands and feet emerged one after the other. Only its left wing remained inside, adhering to the old skin. It didn't look as though the cicada would ever get that wing unstuck. Watching it struggling to free itself, I was moved by feelings of pity to assist it with my fingernail. 'Excellent,' I thought. 'Now you are free to go on your way.' But the wing I had touched remained shut and would not open. The cicada never was able to fly the way it should have. Watching it, I felt ashamed of myself, regretting deeply what I had done.
  "When you consider it, present-day Zen teachers act in much the same way in guiding their students. I've seen and heard how they take young people of exceptional talent-those destined to become the very pillars and ridgepoles of our school-and with their extremely ill-advised and inopportune methods, end up turning them into something half-baked and unachieved. This is the primary reason for the decline of our Zen school, why the Zen groves are withering away.
  --
  Some find ways to attract large numbers of people to their temples, believing to the end of their days that this is proof of a successful teaching career. Now it is true that compared to fellows of that stamp, students who reach satori thanks to teachings they hear, or arrive at cessation thanks to advice they receive from a teacher, are indeed wonderful occurrences-as rare as lotus flowers blossoming amid a raging fire. They owe the attainment they achieve to the large store of karmic merit they accumulated in previous existences. Attainment such as theirs is not easy to achieve, it is not insignificant, and it must be valued and deeply respected.
  "But for all that, there is still no getting around the fact that genuine practicers of Zen must once achieve kensh (see their true nature), and bring the one great matter of their life to final cessation.
  --
  Now, I don't want you to think I've been spinning out these stories to impress you with my insights and learning. I heard them thirty years ago from my teacher Shju Rjin. He was always lamenting the fading of the Zen transmission. It now hung, he said, by a few thin strands. These concerns of his became deeply engrained in my bones and marrow. They have been forever etched in my liver and bowels. But being afraid that if I spoke out I would have trouble making people believe what I said, I have for a long time kept my silence. I have constantly regretted that you, Mr. Ishii, and the two or three laymen who study here with you, were never able to meet Master Shju. For that reason I have taken up my brush and rashly scribbled down all these verbal complexities on paper. Having finished,
  I find my entire back streaming with profuse sweat, partly in shame, partly in gratitude. My only request is that after reading this letter, you will pass it on to the fire god with instructions to consign it to his eternal storehouse. Ha. Ha.

1.040 - Re-Educating the Mind, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  It is this subtle disharmony we have in ourselves, and an irreconcilability of our nature with the nature of other persons and things, that is the cause of failure in our life. We do not succeed, because we do not want to be friendly with anyone. We are always opposed to something or the other, and this sense of opposition within us can be felt by everybody, though we do not express it openly with our mouths. In this world, an open expression through words is not necessary. The vibrations of our very being will be felt by the vibrations of other things and other persons in life through a peculiar sensation that they have got, and which will act or react according to the circumstance on hand. Therefore truthfulness of attitude, or openness in one's dealing with others, does not constitute merely a question of speaking with people or gesticulating in society, but an inward harmonious feeling which is deeper than the conscious relationships that we deliberately put on, sometimes contrary to what we are inside, deeply, at the core.
  It is not true that our inward life is the same as our outward life. They are two different things altogether, and this is perhaps the case in 99.9% of people. For various reasons, psychological as well as social, it becomes difficult for the individual to express his real nature outwardly. Whatever the reason behind it, the fact is there the outward relationships and inward characters do not coincide with each other; therefore there is irreconcilability, obviously. So, there is no friendship. Friendship is not a matter of writing a letter or speaking a word, but a matter of feeling. This feeling is impossible unless there is the capacity to appreciate the condition or circumstance of the person or the object with whom we are related, or with which we are related, and finally, to enter into the very feeling of that very person and the being of that object which is alone, ultimately speaking, real fraternity of feeling or friendship.

1.04 - ADVICE TO HOUSEHOLDERS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  "A drunkard, deeply intoxicated, says, 'Verily I am Kli!' The gopis, intoxicated with love, exclaimed, 'Verily I am Krishna!'
  "One who thinks of God, day and night, beholds Him everywhere. It is like a man's seeing flames on all sides after he has gazed fixedly at one flame for some time."

1.04 - A Leader, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  From Kiev to see us! This was something indeed. We were surprised. He thought our silence indicated doubt, and after some hesitation he added in a lower tone, Yes, in Kiev there is a group of students who are deeply interested in great philosophical ideas. Your books have fallen into our hands, and we were happy to find at last a synthetical teaching which does not limit itself to theory, but encourages action. So my comrades, my friends, told me, Go and seek their advice on what is preoccupying us. And I have come.
  It was clearly expressed, in correct if not elegant language, and we immediately knew that if, perhaps out of caution, he was withholding something from us, what he was telling us at least was the truth.

1.04 - On blessed and ever-memorable obedience, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
  When he was still living, I asked this great Isidore what occupation his mind had found during his time at the gate. And the famous ascetic did not hide this from me, wishing to help me: In the beginning, he said, I judged that I had been sold into slavery for my sins; and so it was with bitterness, with a great effort, and as it were with blood that I made the prostration. But after a year had passed, my heart no longer felt sorrow, and I expected a reward for my obedience from God Himself. But when another year had gone by, I began to be deeply conscious of my unworthiness even to live in the monastery, and see and meet the fathers, and partake of the Divine Mysteries. And I did not dare to look anyone in the face, but bending low with my eyes, and still lower with my thought, I sincerely asked for the prayers of those coming in and going out.
  About Laurence
  --
  He who is running towards dispassion and God regards as a great loss any day in which he is not reviled. Just as trees swayed by the winds drive their roots deeply into the earth, so those who live in obedience get strong and unshakable souls.
  He who has come to know his weakness by living in solitude, and has then changed his place and sold himself to obedience, has without trouble recovered his sight and seen Christ.

1.04 - On Knowledge of the Future World., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
  Suppose a person, a prince, had been passing his life in banqueting and pleasure, and every one around him had been submissive and obedient to his orders. But an enemy comes and deprives him of his principality, enslaves his wife and servants, and they plunder him of his money and property before his eyes. His pearls and jewels are wasted upon trifles, and his beautiful studs of horses and his retinue are dispersed. He becomes a subject in his own city, is compelled to wear coarse clothing in the presence of his former servants, and is appointed to guard and feed the dogs. Can you in any wise appreciate the misfortune into which the prince has fallen, and how deeply he must be a prey to anguish ? Probably he exclaims many times in a [89] day, "Would rather that I had fallen into the abyss of the earth and perished!" The severity of his torture is in proportion to the amount of sensual enjoyments in which he had participated while he was a prince. And it is plain that this torture is not inflicted on the body, but upon only the spirit, and that it is more excruciating than any pains of the body would be.
  So long as a man is attached to the things of this world engrossed with the care of his body, and gives over his nature to intercourse with sensual enjoyments, he will not care for the warnings his spirit receives in this world, nor for the torment that it will incur in the future world. A sick man for example will not be so excessively despondent about his malady in the day time, because his senses are interested in other things, and aa his heart follows in their train, he in some measure forgets his malady. In the night, however, when his senses have nothing to be employed about, his thoughts about his malady do not leave his mind free for one moment, and his pain increases. So also in death, the cares and thoughts of the world and the external senses cease entirely to operate on account of the torment of the spirit, and then the perfect torment of the spirit becomes manifest.

1.04 - THE APPEARANCE OF ANOMALY - CHALLENGE TO THE SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
  Those who undergo a second initiation suffer more deeply and profoundly from life than their peers; are, in
  Jungs phrase, the most complex and differentiated minds of their age.425 These creative individuals

1.04 - The Conditions of Esoteric Training, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
   for himself But they lie deeply buried, and can only be brought up from their deep shafts after all obstacles have been cleared away. Only the experienced can advise how this may be done. Such advice is found in spiritual science. No truth is forced on anyone; no dogma is proclaimed; a way only is pointed out. It is true that everyone could find this way unaided, but only perhaps after many incarnations. By esoteric training this way is shortened. We thus reach more quickly a point from which we can cooperate in those worlds where the salvation and evolution of man are furthered by spiritual work.
  This brings to an end the indications to be given in connection with the attainment of knowledge of higher worlds. In the following chapter, and in further connection with the above, it will be shown how this development affects the higher elements of the human organism (the soul-organism or astral body, and the spirit or thought-body.) In this way the indications here given will be placed in a new light, and it will be possible to penetrate them in a deeper sense.

1.04 - The Future of Man, #Let Me Explain, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  closely and more deeply and then make up our minds to
  draw the final consequences from this essential fact: that

1.04 - The Gods of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  The immediate or at any rate the earliest known successors of the Rishis, the compilers of the Brahmanas, the writers of theUpanishads give a clear & definite answer to this question.The Upanishads everywhere rest their highly spiritual & deeply mystic doctrines on the Veda.We read in the Isha Upanishad of Surya as the Sun God, but it is the Sun of spiritual illumination, of Agni as the Fire, but it is the inner fire that burns up all sin & crookedness. In the Kena Indra, Agni & Vayu seek to know the supreme Brahman and their greatness is estimated by the nearness with which they touched him,nedistham pasparsha. Uma the daughter of Himavan, the Woman, who reveals the truth to them is clearly enough no natural phenomenon. In the Brihadaranyaka, the most profound, subtle & mystical of human scriptures, the gods & Titans are the masters, respectively, of good and of evil. In the Upanishads generally the word devah is used as almost synonymous with the forces & functions of sense, mind & intellect. The element of symbolism is equally clear. To the terms of the Vedic ritual, to their very syllables a profound significance is everywhere attached; several incidents related in the Upanishads show the deep sense then & before entertained that the sacrifices had a spiritual meaning which must be known if they were to be conducted with full profit or even with perfect safety. The Brahmanas everywhere are at pains to bring out a minute symbolism in the least circumstances of the ritual, in the clarified butter, the sacred grass, the dish, the ladle. Moreover, we see even in the earliest Upanishads already developed the firm outlines and minute details of an extraordinary psychology, physics, cosmology which demand an ancient development and centuries of Yogic practice and mystic speculation to account for their perfect form & clearness. This psychology, this physics, this cosmology persist almost unchanged through the whole history of Hinduism. We meet them in the Puranas; they are the foundation of the Tantra; they are still obscurely practised in various systems of Yoga. And throughout, they have rested on a declared Vedic foundation. The Pranava, the Gayatri, the three Vyahritis, the five sheaths, the five (or seven) psychological strata, (bhumi, kshiti of the Vedas), the worlds that await us, the gods who help & the demons who hinder go back to Vedic origins.All this may be a later mystic misconception of the hymns & their ritual, but the other hypothesis of direct & genuine derivation is also possible. If there was no common origin, if Greek & Indian separated during the naturalistic period of the common religion supposed to be recorded in the Vedas it is surprising that even the little we know of Greek rites & mysteries should show us ideas coincident with those of Indian Tantra & Yoga.
  When we go back to the Veda itself, we find in the hymns which are to us most easily intelligible by the modernity of their language, similar & decisive indications. The moralistic conception of Varuna, for example, is admitted even by the Europeans. We even find the sense of sin, usually supposed to be an advanced religious conception, much more profoundly developed in prehistoric India than it was in any other old Aryan nation even in historic times. Surely, this is in itself a significant indication. Surely, this conception cannot have become so clear & strong without a previous history in the earlier hymns. Nor is it psychologically possible that a cult capable of so advanced an idea, should have been ignorant of all other moral & intellectual conceptions reverencing only natural forces & seeking only material ends. Neither can there have been a sudden leap filled up only by a very doubtful henotheism, a huge hiatus between the naturalism of early Veda and the transcendentalism of the Vedic Brahmavada admittedly present in the later hymns. The European interpretation in the face of such conflicting facts threatens to become a brilliant but shapeless monstrosity. And is there no symbolism in the details of the Vedic sacrifice? It seems to me that the peculiar language of the Veda has never been properly studied or appreciated in this connection. What are we to say of the Vedic anxiety to increase Indra by the Soma wine? Of the description of Soma as the amritam, the wine of immortality, & of its forces as the indavah or moon powers? Of the constant sense of the attacks delivered by the powers of evil on the sacrifice? Of the extraordinary powers already attri buted to the mantra & the sacrifice? Have the neshtram potram, hotram of the Veda no symbolic significance? Is there no reason for the multiplication of functions at the sacrifice or for the subtle distinctions between Gayatrins, Arkins, Brahmas? These are questions that demand a careful consideration which has never yet been given for the problems they raise.

1.04 - The Sacrifice the Triune Path and the Lord of the Sacrifice, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  For it is behind the mystery of the presence of personality in an apparently impersonal universeas in that of consciousness manifesting out of the Inconscient, life out of the inanimate, soul out of brute Matter that is hidden the solution of the riddle of existence. Here again is another dynamic Duality more pervading than appears at first view and deeply necessary to the play of the slowly self-revealing Power. It is possible for the seeker in his spiritual experience, standing at one pole of the Duality, to follow Mind in seeing a fundamental Impersonality everywhere. The evolving soul in the material world begins from a vast impersonal Inconscience in which our inner sight yet perceives the presence of a veiled infinite Spirit; it proceeds with the emergence of a precarious consciousness and personality that even at their fullest have the look of an episode, but an episode that repeats itself in a constant series; it arises through experience of life out of mind into an infinite, impersonal and absolute Superconscience in which personality, mind-consciousness, life-consciousness seem all to disappear by a liberating annihilation, Nirvana. At a lower pitch he still experiences this fundamental impersonality as an immense liberating force everywhere. It releases his knowledge from the narrowness of personal mind, his will from the clutch of personal desire, his heart from the bondage of petty mutable emotions, his life from its petty personal groove, his soul from ego, and it allows them to embrace calm, equality, wideness, universality, infinity. A Yoga of works would seem to require Personality as its mainstay, almost its source, but here too the impersonal is found to be the most direct liberating force; it is through a wide egoless impersonality that one can become a free worker and a divine creator. It is not surprising that the overwhelming power of this experience from the impersonal pole of the Duality should have moved the sages to declare this to be the one way and an impersonal Superconscience to be the sole truth of the Eternal.
  But still to the seeker standing at the opposite pole of the Duality another line of experience appears which justifies an intuition deeply-seated behind the heart and in our very life-force, that personality, like consciousness, life, soul, is not a brief-lived stranger in an impersonal Eternity, but contains the very meaning of existence. This fine flower of the cosmic Energy carries in it a forecast of the aim and a hint of the very motive of the universal labour. As an occult vision opens in him, he becomes aware of worlds behind in which consciousness and personality hold an enormous place and assume a premier value; even here in the material world to this occult vision the inconscience of Matter fills with a secret pervading consciousness, its inanimation harbours a vibrant life, its mechanism is the device of an indwelling Intelligence, God and soul are everywhere. Above all stands an infinite conscious Being who is variously self-expressed in all these worlds; impersonality is only a first means of that expression. It is a field of principles and forces, an equal basis of manifestation; but these forces express themselves through beings, have conscious spirits at their head and are the emanation of a One Conscious Being who is their source. A multiple innumerable personality expressing that One is the very sense and central aim of the manifestation and if now personality seems to be narrow, fragmentary, restrictive, it is only because it has not opened to its source or flowered into its own divine truth and fullness packing itself with the universal and the infinite. Thus the world-creation is no more an illusion, a fortuitous mechanism, a play that need not have happened, a flux without consequence; it is an intimate dynamism of the conscious and living Eternal.
  This extreme opposition of view from the two poles of one Existence creates no fundamental difficulty for the seeker of the integral Yoga; for his whole experience has shown him the necessity of these double terms and their currents of Energy, negative and positive in relation to each other, for the manifestation of what is within the one Existence. For himself Personality and Impersonality have been the two wings of his spiritual ascension and he has the prevision that he will reach a height where their helpful interaction will pass into a fusion of their powers and disclose the integral Reality and release into action the original force of the Divine. Not only in the fundamental Aspects but in all the working of his sadhana he has felt their double truth and mutually complementary working. An impersonal Presence has dominated from above or penetrated and occupied his nature; a Light descending has suffused his mind, life-power, the very cells of his body, illumined them with knowledge, revealed him to himself down to his most disguised and unsuspected movements, exposing, purifying, destroying or brilliantly changing all that belonged to the Ignorance. A Force has poured into him in currents or like a sea, worked in his being and all its members, dissolved, new-made, reshaped, transfigured everywhere. A Bliss has invaded him and shown that it can make suffering and sorrow impossible and turn pain itself into divine pleasure. A Love without limits has joined him to all creatures or revealed to him a world of inseparable intimacy and unspeakable sweetness and beauty and begun to impose its law of perfection and its ecstasy even amidst the disharmony of terrestrial life. A spiritual Truth and Right have convicted the good and evil of this world of imperfection or of falsehood and unveiled a supreme good and its clue of subtle harmony and its sublimation of action and feeling and knowledge. But behind all these and in them he has felt a Divinity who is all these things, a Bringer of Light, a Guide and All-Knower, a Master of Force, a Giver of Bliss, Friend, Helper, Father, Mother, Playmate in the world-game, an absolute Master of his being, his souls Beloved and Lover. All relations known to human personality are there in the souls contact with the Divine; but they rise towards superhuman levels and compel him towards a divine nature.
  It is an integral knowledge that is being sought, an integral force, a total amplitude of union with the All and Infinite behind existence. For the seeker of the integral Yoga no single experience, no one Divine Aspect,however overwhelming to the human mind, sufficient for its capacity, easily accepted as the sole or the ultimate reality,can figure as the exclusive truth of the Eternal. For him the experience of the Divine Oneness carried to its extreme is more deeply embraced and amply fathomed by following out to the full the experience of the Divine Multiplicity. All that is true behind polytheism as well as behind monotheism falls within the scope of his seeking; but he passes beyond their superficial sense to human mind to grasp their mystic truth in the Divine. He sees what is aimed at by the jarring sects and philosophies and accepts each facet of the Reality in its own place, but rejects their narrownesses and errors and proceeds farther till he discovers the One Truth that binds them together. The reproach of anthropomorphism and anthropolatry cannot deter him,for he sees them to be prejudices of the ignorant and arrogant reasoning intelligence, the abstracting mind turning on itself in its own cramped circle. If human relations as practised now by man are full of smallness and perversity and ignorance, yet are they disfigured shadows of something in the Divine and by turning them to the Divine he finds that of which they are a shadow and brings it down for manifestation in life. It is through the human exceeding itself and opening itself to a supreme plenitude that the Divine must manifest itself here, since that comes inevitably in the course and process of the spiritual evolution, and therefore he will not despise or blind himself to the Godhead because it is lodged in a human body, mnu tanum ritam. Beyond the limited human conception of God, he will pass to the one divine Eternal, but also he will meet him in the faces of the Gods, his cosmic personalities supporting the World-Play, detect him behind the mask of the Vibhutis, embodied World-Forces or human Leaders, reverence and obey him in the Guru, worship him in the Avatar. This will be to him his exceeding good fortune if he can meet one who has realised or is becoming That which he seeks for and can by opening to it in this vessel of its manifestation himself realise it. For that is the most palpable sign of the growing fulfilment, the promise of the great mystery of the progressive Descent into Matter which is the secret sense of the material creation and the justification of terrestrial existence.
  Thus reveals himself to the seeker in the progress of the sacrifice the Lord of the sacrifice. At any point this revelation can begin; in any aspect the Master of the Work can take up the work in him and more and more press upon him and it for the unfolding of his presence. In time all the Aspects disclose themselves, separate, combine, fuse, are unified together. At the end there shines through it all the supreme integral Reality, unknowable to Mind which is part of the Ignorance, but knowable because self-aware in the light of a spiritual consciousness and a supramental knowledge.

1.04 - THE STUDY (The Compact), #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
  Can deeply stir the inner sources;
  The God, above my powers enthroned,

1.04 - Wherefore of World?, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  But why any reasons? Is it not possible that the world may have no reason for existence outside itself? Is it really necessary that what is, should justify its existence? Is not the simple fact of existence sufficient to itself? There can be no doubt of it, once we perceive that the fact of existence contains in itself all its own reasons for existence. Only they are so deeply hidden and profound that they escape the vision of the mind. And therefore, because it cannot see, it replaces contemplation by reasoning, vision by intellectual search.
  The various hypotheses constructed by the reasoning mind about that which is beyond its knowledge, would undoubtedly have shed light on the riddle of the world but for our regrettable habit of opposing them to each other instead of harmonising them. Harmonised, their number would have increased our knowledge. As things stand, their diversity rather increases the perplexity of our minds.
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  Thus these contradictory hypotheses and exclusive doctrines appear insufficient and too exiguous in their Simplicity, if they are considered separately, but reconcilable, if more deeply regarded, and capable of completing each other by their reconciliation.
  Here, as elsewhere, contradictories prove to be only complementaries ill-adjusted and inconscient of each other.

1.05 - Hymns of Bharadwaja, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  7. Men deeply meditating aspire to thee that the godheads may
  come to them; mortals they aspire to the God in the sacrifice.

1.05 - Problems of Modern Psycho therapy, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  they are deeply convinced of its truth. Then again it is just the
  intellectually differentiated people who grasp the truth of the reductive

1.05 - Some Results of Initiation, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
   in such associations. It is just this source which must be dammed up by all who seek to develop their ten-petalled lotus flower. deeply hidden characteristics in other souls can be perceived by this organ, but their truth depends on the attainment of immunity from the above-mentioned illusions. For this purpose it is necessary that the student should control and dominate everything that seeks to influence him from outside. He should reach the point of really receiving no impressions beyond those he wishes to receive. This can only be achieved by the development of a powerful inner life; by an effort of the will he only allows such things to impress him to which his attention is directed, and he actually evades all impressions to which he does not voluntarily respond. If he sees something it is because he wills to see it, and if he does not voluntarily take notice of something it is actually non-existent for him. The greater the energy and inner activity devoted to this work, the more extensively will this faculty be attained. The student must avoid all vacuous gazing and mechanical listening. For him only those things exist to which he turns his eye or his ear. He
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   to the results of spiritual research there is no chance whatever of attaining genuine higher knowledge. It would be as though a child, during gestation, were to refuse the forces coming to it through its mother, and proposed to wait until it could procure them for itself. Just as the embryonic child in its incipient feeling for life learns to appreciate what is offered to it, so can the non-seer appreciate the truth of the teachings of spiritual science. An insight into these teachings based on a deeply rooted feeling for truth, and a clear, sound, all-around critical and reasoning faculty are possible even before spiritual things are actually perceived. The esoteric knowledge must first be studied, so that this study becomes a preparation for clairvoyance. A person attaining clairvoyance without such preparation would resemble a child born with eyes and ears but without a brain. The entire world of sound and color would display itself before him, but he would be helpless in it.
  At this stage of his esoteric development the student realizes, through personal inward experience, all that had previously appealed to his sense of truth, to his intellect and reason. He has now

1.05 - THE HOSTILE BROTHERS - ARCHETYPES OF RESPONSE TO THE UNKNOWN, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
  it? Oh yes, I suppose You do, he added, deeply immersed in thought, his eyes fixed for a moment on
  his prisoner.548
  --
  features. Such writers are as deeply pondered by readers as the Greek and Hebrew oracles were: like them, they
  shock and disturb; like them, they may be full of contradictions and ambiguities, yet they retain a curiously haunting

1.05 - THE NEW SPIRIT, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  which makes him the most perfecdy and deeply centered of all cos-
  mic particles within the field of our experience;
  --
  gions where it threatened to plunge most deeply into darkness. On
  the one hand the overwhelming vastness of the Cosmos need no

1.06 - Being Human and the Copernican Principle, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
  peer deeply and dispassionately into the heart of the Uni
  verse. 21

1.06 - BOOK THE SIXTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
  Sigh'd deeply, and the pangs of smart express'd,
  While the shaft stuck, engor'd within his breast:
  --
  Now, with remorse his conscience deeply stung,
  He drew the faulchion that beside her hung,

1.06 - Dhyana, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  47:We may, however, provisionally accept the view that Dhyana is real; more real and thus of more importance to ourselves than all other experience. This state has been described not only by the Hindus and Buddhists, but by Mohammedans and Christians. In Christian writings, however, the deeply-seated dogmatic bias has rendered their documents worthless to the average man. They ignore the essential conditions of Dhyana, and insist on the inessential, to a much greater extent than the best Indian writers. But to any one with experience and some knowledge of comparative religion the identity is certain. We may now proceed to Samadhi.

1.06 - LIFE AND THE PLANETS, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  Earth who draws back in order to be able to see more deeply into the
  matter and spirit of a movement upon which his happiness depends.

1.06 - The Four Powers of the Mother, #The Mother With Letters On The Mother, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  6:The Mother not only governs all from above but she descends into this lesser triple universe. Impersonally, all things here, even the movements of the Ignorance, are herself in veiled power and her creations in diminished substance, her Naturebody and Nature-force, and they exist because, moved by the mysterious fiat of the Supreme to work out something that was there in the possibilities of the Infinite, she has consented to the great sacrifice and has put on like a mask the soul and forms of the Ignorance. But personally too she has stooped to descend here into the Darkness that she may lead it to the Light, into the Falsehood and Error that she may convert it to the Truth, into this Death that she may turn it to godlike Life, into this world-pain and its obstinate sorrow and suffering that she may end it in the transforming ecstasy of her sublime Ananda. In her deep and great love for her children she has consented to put on herself the cloak of this obscurity, condescended to bear the attacks and torturing influences of the powers of the Darkness and the Falsehood, borne to pass through the portals of the birth that is a death, taken upon herself the pangs and sorrows and sufferings of the creation, since it seemed that thus alone could it be lifted to the Light and Joy and Truth and eternal Life. This is the great sacrifice called sometimes the sacrifice of the Purusha, but much more deeply the holocaust of Prakriti, the sacrifice of the Divine Mother
  7:Four great Aspects of the Mother four of her leading Powers and Personalities have stood in front in her guidance of this universe and in her dealings with the terrestrial play. One is her personality of calm wideness and comprehending wisdom and tranquil benignity and inexhaustible compassion and sovereign and surpassing majesty and all-ruling greatness. Another embodies her power of splendid strength and irresistible passion, her warrior mood, her overwhelming will, her impetuous swiftness and world-shaking force. A third is vivid and sweet and wonderful with her deep secret of beauty and harmony and fine rhythm, her intricate and subtle opulence, her compelling attraction and captivating grace. The fourth is equipped with her close and profound capacity of intimate knowledge and careful flawless work and quiet and exact perfection in all things. Wisdom, Strength, Harmony, Perfection are their several attributes and it is these powers that they bring with them into the world, manifest in a human disguise in their Vibhutis and shall found in the divine degree of their ascension in those who can open their earthly nature to the direct and living influence of the Mother To the four we give the four great names, Maheshwari, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi, Mahasaraswati.

1.06 - The Greatness of the Individual, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  In all movements, in every great mass of human action it is the Spirit of the Time, that which Europe calls the Zeitgeist and India Kala, who expresses himself. The very names are deeply significant. Kali, the Mother of all and destroyer of all, is the Shakti that works in secret in the heart of humanity manifesting herself in the perpetual surge of men, institutions and movements, Mahakala the Spirit within whose energy goes abroad in her and moulds the progress of the world and the destiny of the nations. His is the impetus which fulfils itself in Time, and once there is movement, impetus from the Spirit within, Time and the Mother take charge of it, prepare, ripen and fulfil. When the Zeitgeist, God in Time, moves in a settled direction, then all the forces of the world are called in to swell the established current towards the purpose decreed. That which consciously helps, swells it, but that which hinders swells it still more, and like a wave on the windswept Ocean, now rising, now falling, now high on the crest of victory and increase, now down in the troughs of discouragement and defeat, the impulse from the hidden Source sweeps onward to its preordained fulfilment. Man may help or man may resist, but the Zeitgeist works, shapes, overbears, insists.
  The great and memorable vision of Kurukshetra when Sri Krishna manifesting his world-form declared himself as destroying Time, is significant of this deep perception of humanity. When Arjuna wished to cast aside his bow and quiver, when he said, This is a sin we do and a great destruction of men and brothers, I will forbear, Sri Krishna after convincing his intellect of error, proceeded by that marvellous vision described in the eleventh canto of the Gita to stamp the truth of things upon his imagination. Thus run the mighty stanzas:

1.06 - WITCHES KITCHEN, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
  From all men deeply hidden!
  Who takes no thought,

1.078 - Kumbhaka and Concentration of Mind, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  As far as the inhalation is concerned, we cannot use this technique; we have to infer the movement of the prana when we inhale merely by feeling its movement within. If we are cautious and contemplative, we can feel how the prana moves when we deeply brea the in. The purpose is to stop this leng thening of the breath, outwardly as well as inwardly to shorten it as far as possible, until it becomes so short that there is practically no movement at all. That cessation of movement is called kumbhaka.
  This cessation of the breath can be brought about in many ways. Though the yoga shastras speak of several types of pranayama or kumbhaka, Patanjali concerns himself with only four types which are actually not four, really speaking. They are only one, mentioned in four different ways. Bhya bhyantara stambha vtti (II.50) are the terms used in the sutra. Bahya is external; abhyantara is internal; stambha is sudden retention; vritti is the process. The external retention is what is known as bahya vritti,the internal retention is what is known as abhyantara vritti, and the sudden retentionis what is known as stambha vritti.
  --
  Or there can be abhyantara vritti, which is retention of the breath after inhalation. We brea the in, in the same way as we exhale calmly, forcefully, deeply and then do not brea the out. That retention of the breath after deep inhalation is a pranayama by itself. The way in which we retain the breath is called kumbhaka. Kumbha means a kind of pot which can be filled with things. We fill our system with the whole prana in pranayama. You may ask me, Is not the body filled with prana at other times? Is it filled with prana only during kumbhaka?
  The idea behind this filling is very peculiar. Though the prana is moving everywhere in the system even at other times than during the time of kumbhaka, something very peculiar takes place during kumbhaka which does not happen at other times. During kumbhaka the prana in the system is filled to the brim, and it remains unmoving and unshaken, just as a pot may be filled to the brim and the content or liquid inside does not shake due to its being filled up to the brim, to the utmost possible extent. There is no movement of the prana in kumbhaka; it is not trying to escape from one place to another place.
  --
  Of course, it does not mean that this stambha is to be introduced into pranayama by shock or fear; that is not the idea. What is intended is that the absorption of the mind in the object or ideal of yoga should be so comprehensive so deep and absorbing, and intense that there will be no time for the mind to supply the motive force to the prana to move at all. When we are deeply absorbed in a particular thought, very deeply absorbed, and we are not able to think anything other than that one particular thought due to intense affection or intense hatred, or for any reason whatsoever, the prana stops; there will be no breathing at that time. When we are overpowered with the emotion of love, or fear, or hatred, there will be a stoppage of prana. Thus, raga, bahya and krodha are the causes of the prana suddenly stopping intense raga, intense bahya and intense krodha.
  Here we are not concerned with bahya or krodha, or with raga of the ordinary type; but if we want to call it raga, we may call it so. It is a great love for the great ideal of yoga; the ardour that is expected in every student of yoga. The yearning that he cherishes within, the longing that is uncontrollable for God-realisation may be regarded as a kind of superior raga that is present, which prevents the mind from thinking anything else. When the prana is suddenly withheld not accompanied either by expulsion or inhalation that type of retention which is suddenly introduced, for any reason whatsoever, is called stambha vritti. They are the three types of kumbhaka mentioned in the sutra, bhya bhyantara stambha vtti (II.50).

1.07 - A Song of Longing for Tara, the Infallible, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
  words may be added to clarify the meaning. These verses deeply touched me
  at the time and continue to do so.
  --
  teachers to be deeply engaged with us, we have to make ourselves into better
  qualied disciples by improving our own capabilities so that we become more
  --
  A disciple with this quality is willing to do the work of deeply investigating
  the meaning of the teachings.

1.07 - Cybernetics and Psychopathology, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
  more, the permanent memory becomes more and more deeply
  involved, and the pathological process which occurred at first at

1.07 - Note on the word Go, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  All the passages I have quoted proceed from the hymns of Madhuchchhanda son of Viswamitra, the opening eleven hymns of the Rigveda. This seer is one of the deepest & profoundest of the spirits chosen as vessels & channels of the divine knowledge of the Veda, one of those who least loses the thing symbolised in the material symbol, but who tends rather to let the symbol disappear in that which it symbolises. The comparison of the maker of beautiful images to the milch cow & Indra to the milker is an example of his constant tendency the word gavam is avoided with sudugham, so that the idea of milking or pressing forth may be suggested without insisting on the material image of the cow, & in goduhe, the symbol of the cow melts away into the thing symbolised, knowledge, light, illumination. A comparison with Medhatithi son of Kanwa brings out the difference. In Madhuchchhandas hymns the materialist rendering is often inapplicable & even when applicable yields a much poorer sense than the symbolic renderingbecause the seer is little concerned with the symbol except as the recognised means of suggesting things supramaterial. But Medhatithi is much concerned with the symbol & not indifferent to the outer life; in his hymns the materialist rendering gives us a good sense without excluding the symbolic, but often the symbolic has to be sought for & if we did not know the true Vedic tradition from Madhuchchhanda we could not gather it unaided from Medhatithi. The son of Viswamitra is deeply concerned with knowledge & with immortality & rapture as its attendant circumstances & conditions, the son of Kanwa, though not indifferent to knowledge, with the intoxication of the wine of immortality & its outpouring in mortal life & action. To use Vedic symbolism, one is a herder of kine, the other a herder of horses; Madhuchchhandas totem is the meditative cow, Medhatithis the rapid & bounding horse. There is a great calm, depth & nobility in the first eleven hymns, a great verve, joy, energy & vibrant force in the twelve that follow.
  There is only one passage in which Medhatithi uses the word go and that passage is characteristic. There are only three main ideas in the hymn, the drinking of the Soma by Indra, the increase of his rapture & force by the drinking of the Soma, & the result of that increase, Semam nah kamam a prina gobhir aswaih shatakrato, Then do thou fill full this desire of ours with horses & with kine, O Shatakratu. Read apart from his other & deeper hymns, we should not venture to put any symbolic sense into these horses & kine; but from other passages it is evident that Medhatithi was not dispossessed of the tradition of Vedic symbolism, & it would be an injustice to him to suppose that he was lusting merely for a material wealth, that this was his desire and not the illumination of knowledge & the inner joy & vigour which is denoted by the symbol of the steed.

1.07 - The Fire of the New World, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
  A flame that does not know, does not see, but is. And there is a sort of softness in simply being that flame, that tiny little flame without object it is, it simply is, purely. It even looks as if it did not need anything else. We sink into it, live in it; it is like a love for nothing, for everything. And sometimes we plunge very deeply into it; then, all the way at the end of this tranquil fire so tranquil we seem to glimpse a childlike smile, something that looks transparently at the world; and, if we do not pay attention, that look is suddenly dispersed, flows with things, breathes with the plant, goes off into infinity everywhere, smiles in this one, smiles in that one, and everything becomes immediate. There is nothing to take anymore, nothing to seize, nothing to want. It is there; everything is there! It is there everywhere. A look without walls, a vision that does not bind, a knowledge that takes nothing everything is known, instantly known. And it goes through things effortlessly, like quicksilver, light as pollen, free as the wind, smiling at everything as if we were smiling at ourselves behind everything. Where is the other, the not-me, the outside, the inside, the near, the far? It merges with everything, communicates instantly, as if it were the same thing everywhere. And soon this little flame begins to recognize its own world; the new geography begins to take on relief, hues, variations. It is one and the same thing, and yet each thing looks unique; there is one and the same fire, but each fire has a particular intensity, a special frequency, a dominant vibration and a seemingly totally different music. Each being has its music, each thing its rhythm, each moment its color, each event its cadence, and everything begins to be tied together. Everything takes on another meaning, a kind of total meaning in which each minute performer has its irreplaceable role, its unique presence, its unique note, its indispensable gesture. Then a vast, miraculous unfolding begins to take place before our eyes. The world is a miracle a discovery at every step, a revelation of a microscopic order, an infinite journey into the finite. We are in the new consciousness; we have seized the fire of the new world: O Fire... thou art the supreme growth and expansion of our being, all glory and beauty are in thy desirable hue and thy perfect vision. O Vastness, thou art the plenitude that carries us to the end of our way; thou art a multitude of riches spread out on every side.15

1.080 - Pratyahara - The Return of Energy, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  Therefore, first and foremost, what is required is a severance of the attention of consciousness in respect of the movement of the senses towards objects. The attention is diverted. That is why sometimes, when we are deeply thinking over some important matter, even if we may be looking at some object, we may not see it. Our eyes may be open; it may appear that we are gazing at something, but we are seeing nothing at all on account of the fact that the energy that is necessary for the cognition of an object is withdrawn. There cannot be perception when the attention is diverted in some other way. Thus, in pratyahara there is first a diversion of attention from one place to another place. We have to find out what that place is, which is the object of meditation.
  In this withdrawal of the consciousness from its movement along the lines of the senses, what happens is, it returns to the source from where it started. It will be difficult for one to distinguish between the senses and the mind at this moment. The senses and the mind become one. Here, the mind becomes powerful because when we turn off all the lights, turn off all the fans, and all the expenditure of electric energy is cut off on account of the turning off of all the switches, we see that the power station feels the surge immediately. The energy returns to the power station because we have turned off all the switches; there is no expenditure of energy. All the sources of the external movement of energy are severed on account of the turning off of the switches; naturally, the energy has to increase at the source, and we will see the indication of the increase in kilowatts recorded in the meters of the power station. The engineer in the power station will find out that people have turned off all the switches, because consumption of energy has gone down.

1.081 - The Application of Pratyahara, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  There is a prejudiced notion which the mind entertains in respect of its things, of its objects. This prejudice has arisen on account of a preconceived notion that is already there; and that notion has only one objective in front of it namely, the exploitation of that object for its purposes. It has got a single intent, a deeply concentrated objective. If a wild beast looks at a prey, it has a single intention, which is not very complicated. Likewise, the mental cognition of an object, especially when it is charged with a forceful emotion, is backed up by a single intent. This is the prejudice, which is very irrational, and it will not be amenable to any kind of rational analysis.
  A sentiment or a prejudice cannot be rationally analysed. It will not be subject to analysis, and it will not agree to it either that is the force that is behind it. So there is a need to completely isolate the mind in its individual aspect as well as its externally related social aspect. The mind may not think of an object when it does not like it. This is one kind of pratyahara. Suppose we are averse to a thing; we will not think of that thing. But this is not yogic pratyahara, because the spontaneous dislike that arises in the mind on account of that particular object being an obstructing factor to its satisfactions is not a healthy condition.

1.08a - The Ladder, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
  Yoga in its scientific way reversed the process, and its devotees attempted to reproduce, by breathing slowly, deeply, and forcefully certain aspects of the mystic states.
  One may profitably confirm this theory in the Exercises of
  --
  Pratyahara, we analyse the mind more deeply. It is a sort of general examination of the contents of the mind, and it is said that in Pratyaharic introspection one per- ceives directly the arguments underlying the Berkeleyan idealism.
  Following this, we begin to control and restrict thought

1.08 - BOOK THE EIGHTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
  On the boar's bristled back, and deeply drank his blood.
  Now while the tortur'd savage turns around,

1.08 - EVENING A SMALL, NEATLY KEPT CHAMBER, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
  How deeply am I moved, this hour!
  What seek I? Why so full my heart, and sore?

1.08 - Psycho therapy Today, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  Age-old convictions and customs are deeply rooted in the instincts. If they
  get lost, the conscious mind becomes severed from the instincts and loses
  --
  which he is now in a position to understand better and more deeply. There
  are also Protestants who can discover in one of the newer variants of

1.08 - Summary, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
    Thirdly, by Pratyahara we analyse the mind yet more deeply, and begin to control and suppress thought in general of whatever nature.
    Fourthly, we suppress all other thoughts by a direct concentration upon a single thought. This process, which leads to the highest results, consists of three parts, Dharana, Dhyana, and Samadhi, grouped under the single term Samyama.

1.08 - The Gods of the Veda - The Secret of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  Moreover, even their moralised gods were only the superficial & exterior aspect of the Greek religion. Its deeper life fed itself on the mystic rites of Orpheus, Bacchus, the Eleusinian mysteries which were deeply symbolic and remind us in some of their ideas & circumstances of certain aspects of Indian Yoga. The mysticism & symbolism were not an entirely modern development. Orpheus, Bacchus & Demeter are the centre of an antique and prehistoric, even preliterary mind-movement. The element may have been native to Greek religious sentiment; it may have been imported from the East through the Aryan races or cultures of Asia Minor; but it may also have been common to the ancient systems of Greece & India. An original community or a general diffusion is at least possible. The double aspect of exoteric practice and esoteric symbolism may have already been a fundamental characteristic of the Vedic religion. Is it entirely without significance that to the Vedic mind men were essentially manu, thinkers, the original father of the race was the first Thinker, and the Vedic poets in the idea of their contemporaries not merely priests or sacred singers or wise bards but much more characteristically manishis & rishis, thinkers & sages?We can conceive with difficulty such ideas as belonging to that undeveloped psychological condition of the semi-savage to which sacrifices of propitiation & Nature-Gods helpful only for material life, safety & comfort were all-sufficient. Certainly, also, the earliest Indian writings subsequent to Vedic times bear out these indications. To the writers of the Brahmanas the sacrificial ritual enshrined an elaborate symbolism. The seers of the Upanishad worshipped Surya & Agni as great spiritual & moral forces and believed the Vedic hymns to be effective only because they contained a deep knowledge & a potent spirituality. They may have been in errormay have been misled by a later tradition or themselves have read mystic refinements into a naturalistic text. But also & equally, they may have had access to an unbroken line of knowledge or they may have been in direct touch or in closer touch than the moderns with the mentality of the Vedic singers.
  The decision of these questions will determine our whole view of Vedic religions and decide the claim of the Veda to be a living Scripture of Hinduism. It is of primary importance to know what in their nature and functions were the gods of the Veda. I have therefore made this fundamental question form the sole subject matter of the present volume. I make no attempt here to present a complete or even a sufficient justification of the conclusions which I have been led to. Nor do I present my readers with a complete enquiry into the nature & functions of the Vedic pantheon. Such a justification, such an enquiry can only be effected by a careful philological analysis & rendering of the Vedic hymns and an exhaustive study of the origins of the Sanscrit language. That is a labour of very serious proportions & burdened with numerous difficulties which I have begun and hope one day to complete myself or to leave to others ready for completion. But in the present volume I can only attempt to establish a prima facie [case] for a reconsideration of the whole question. I offer the suggestion that the Vedic creed & thought were not a simple, but a complex, not a barbarous but a subtle & advanced, not a naturalistic but a mystic & Vedantic system.

1.08 - The Supreme Will, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  10:Ordinarily, we conceive of ourselves as a separate "I" in the universe that governs a separate body and mental and moral nature, chooses in full liberty its own self-determined actions and is independent and therefore sole master of its works and responsible. It is not easy for the ordinary mind, the mind that has not thought nor looked deeply into its own constitution and constituents, it is difficult even for minds that have thought but have no spiritual vision and experience, to imagine how there can be anything else in us truer, deeper and more powerful than this apparent "I" and its empire. But the very first step towards self-knowledge as towards the true knowledge of phenomena is to get behind the apparent truth of things and find the real but masked, essential and dynamic truth which their appearances cover.
  11:This ego or "I" is not a lasting truth, much less our essential part; it is only a formation of Nature, a mental form of thought-centralisation in the perceiving and discriminating mind, a vital form of the centralisation of feeling and sensation in our parts of life, a form of physical conscious reception centralising substance and function of substance in our bodies. All that we internally are is not ego, but consciousness, soul or spirit. All that we externally and superficially are and do is not ego but Nature. An executive cosmic force shapes us and dictates through our temperament and environment and mentality so shaped, through our individualised formulation of the cosmic energies, our actions and their results. Truly, we do not think, will or act but thought occurs in us, will occurs in us, impulse and act occur in us; our ego-sense gathers around itself, refers to itself all this flow of natural activities. It is cosmic Force, it is Nature that forms the thought, imposes the will, imparts the impulse. Our body, mind and ego are a wave of that sea of force in action and do not govern it, but by it are governed and directed. The sadhaka in his progress towards truth and self-knowledge must come to a point where the soul opens its eyes of vision and recognises this truth of ego and this truth of works. He gives up the idea of a mental, vital, physical "I" that acts or governs action; he recognises that Prakriti, Force of cosmic nature following her fixed modes, is the one and only worker in him and in all things and creatures.

1.09 - ADVICE TO THE BRAHMOS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  My heart, alas, is deeply stained with sin;
  Ensnared in maya, I am all but dead.

1.09 - Equality and the Annihilation of Ego, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  8:This equality cannot come except by a protracted ordeal and patient self-discipline; so long as desire is strong, equality cannot come at all except in periods of quiescence and the fatigue of desire, and it is then more likely to be an inert indifference or desire's recoil from itself than the true calm and the positive spiritual oneness. Moreover, this discipline or this growth into equality of spirit has its necessary epochs and stages. Ordinarily we have to begin with a period of endurance; for we must learn to confront, to suffer and to assimilate all contacts. Each fibre in us must be taught not to wince away from that which pains and repels and not to run eagerly towards that which pleases and attracts, but rather to accept, to face, to bear and to conquer. All touches we must be strong to bear, not only those that are proper and personal to us but those born of our sympathy or our conflict with the worlds around, above or below us and with their peoples. We shall endure tranquilly the action and impact on us of men and things and forces, the pressure of the Gods and the assaults of Titans; we shall face and engulf in the unstirred seas of our spirit all that can possibly come to us down the ways of the soul's infinite experience. This is the stoical period of the preparation of equality, its most elementary and yet its heroic age. But this steadfast endurance of the flesh and heart and mind must be reinforced by a sustained sense of spiritual submission to a divine Will: this living clay must yield not only with a stern or courageous acquiescence, but with knowledge or with resignation, even in suffering, to the touch of the divine Hand that is preparing its perfection. A sage, a devout or even a tender stoicism of the God-lover is possible, and these are better than the merely pagan self-reliant endurance which may lend itself to a too great hardening of the vessel of God: for this kind prepares the strength that is capable of wisdom and of love; its tranquillity is a deeply moved calm that passes easily into bliss. The gain of this period of resignation and endurance is the soul's strength equal to all shocks and contacts.
  9:There is next a period of high-seated impartiality and indifference in which the soul becomes free from exultation and depression and escapes from the snare of the eagerness of joy as from the dark net of the pangs of grief and suffering. All things and persons and forces, all thoughts and feelings and sensations and actions, one's own no less than those of others, are regarded from above by a spirit that remains intact and immutable and is not disturbed by these things. This is the philosophic period of the preparation of equality, a wide and august movement. But indifference must not settle into an inert turning away from action and experience; it must not be an aversion born of weariness, disgust and distaste, a recoil of disappointed or satiated desire, the sullenness of a baffled and dissatisfied egoism forced back from its passionate aims. These recoils come inevitably in the unripe soul and may in some way help the progress by a discouragement of the eager desire-driven vital nature, but they are not the perfection towards which we labour. The indifference or the impartiality that we must seek after is a calm superiority of the high-seated soul above the contacts of things;1 it regards and accepts or rejects them but is not moved in the rejection and is not subjected by the acceptance. It begins to feel itself near, kin to, one with a silent Self and Spirit self-existent and separate from the workings of Nature which it supports and makes possible, part of or merged in the motionless calm Reality that transcends the motion and action of the universe. The gain of this period of high transcendence is the soul's peace unrocked and unshaken by the pleasant ripplings or by the tempestuous waves and billows of the world's movement.

1.09 - Fundamental Questions of Psycho therapy, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  good halt of every treatment that probes at all deeply consists in the
  doctors examining himself, for only what he can put right in himself can

1.09 - PROMENADE, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
  And deeply edified were they.
  FAUST

1.09 - SKIRMISHES IN A WAY WITH THE AGE, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
  mankind: one should take care not to read too deeply in this history.
  That which justifies man is his reality,--it will justify him to all

1.09 - Taras Ultimate Nature, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
  challenging your deeply held belief.
  3. Does the car inherently possess its parts?

1.10 - BOOK THE TENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
  Which have so deeply touch'd the queen of love.
  When bristled boars from beaten thickets spring,

1.10 - THE FORMATION OF THE NOOSPHERE, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  concentrate in the form of an ever more deeply penetrating or-
  ganism, all the reflective elements upon earth.
  --
  which envelops and constantly penetrates more deeply within each
  of us. With every day that passes it becomes a little more impossi-

1.10 - THE MASTER WITH THE BRAHMO DEVOTEES (II), #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  MASTER: "It is not possible to develop ecstatic love of God unless you love Him very deeply and regard Him as your very own.
  "Listen to a story. Once three friends were going through a forest, when a tiger suddenly appeared before them. 'Brothers,' one of them exclaimed, 'we are lost!' 'Why should you say that?' said the second friend. 'Why should we be lost? Come, let us pray to God.' The third friend said: 'No. Why should we trouble God about it? Come, let us climb this tree.'

1.10 - The Secret of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  But in spite of this great downfall the ancient tradition, the ancient sanctity survived. The people knew not what Veda might be; but the old idea remained fixed that Veda is always the fountain of Hinduism, the standard of orthodoxy, the repository of a sacred knowledge; not even the loftiest philosopher or the most ritualistic scholar could divest himself entirely of this deeply ingrained & instinctive conception. To complete the degradation of Veda, to consummate the paradox of its history, a new element had to appear, a new form of intelligence undominated by the ancient tradition & the mediaeval method to take possession of Vedic interpretation. European scholarship which regards human civilisation as a recent progression starting yesterday with the Fiji islander and ending today with Haeckel and Rockefeller, conceiving ancient culture as necessarily primitive culture and primitive culture as necessarily half-savage culture, has turned the light of its Comparative Philology & Comparative Mythology on the Veda. The result we all know. Not only all vestige of sanctity, but all pretension to any kind of spiritual knowledge or experience disappears from the Veda. The old Rishis are revealed to us as a race of ignorant and lusty barbarians who drank & enjoyed and fought, gathered riches & procreated children, sacrificed and praised the Powers of Nature as if they were powerful men & women, and had no higher hope or idea. The only idea they had of religion beyond an occasional sense of sin and a perpetual preoccupation with a ritual barbarously encumbered with a mass of meaningless ceremonial details, was a mythology composed of the phenomena of dawn, night, rain, sunshine and harvest and the facts of astronomy converted into a wildly confused & incoherent mass of allegorical images and personifications. Nor, with the European interpretation, can we be proud of our early forefa thers as poets and singers. The versification of the Vedic hymns is indeed noble and melodious,though the incorrect method of writing them established by the old Indian scholars, often conceals their harmonious construction,but no other praise can be given. The Nibelungenlied, the Icelandic Sagas, the Kalewala, the Homeric poems, were written in the dawn of civilisation by semi-barbarous races, by poets not superior in culture to the Vedic Rishis; yet though their poetical value varies, the nations that possess them, need not be ashamed of their ancient heritage. The same cannot be said of the Vedic poems presented to us by European scholarship. Never surely was there even among savages such a mass of tawdry, glittering, confused & purposeless imagery; never such an inane & useless burden of epithets; never such slipshod & incompetent writing; never such a strange & almost insane incoherence of thought & style; never such a bald poverty of substance. The attempt of patriotic Indian scholars to make something respectable out of the Veda, is futile. If the modern interpretation stands, the Vedas are no doubt of high interest & value to the philologist, the anthropologist & the historian; but poetically and spiritually they are null and worthless. Its reputation for spiritual knowledge & deep religious wealth, is the most imposing & baseless hoax that has ever been worked upon the imagination of a whole people throughout many millenniums.
  Is this, then, the last word about the Veda? Or, and this is the idea I write to suggest, is it not rather the culmination of a long increasing & ever progressing error? The theory this book is written to enunciate & support is simply this, that our forefa thers of early Vedantic times understood the Veda, to which they were after all much nearer than ourselves, far better than Sayana, far better than Roth & Max Muller, that they were, to a great extent, in possession of the real truth about the Veda, that that truth was indeed a deep spiritual truth, karmakanda as well as jnanakanda of the Veda contains an ancient knowledge, a profound, complex & well-ordered psychology & philosophy, strange indeed to our modern conception, expressed indeed in language still stranger & remoter from our modern use of language, but not therefore either untrue or unintelligible, and that this knowledge is the real foundation of our later religious developments, & Veda, not only by historical continuity, but in real truth & substance is the parent & bedrock of all later Hinduism, of Vedanta, Sankhya, Nyaya, Yoga, of Vaishnavism & Shaivism&Shaktism, of Tantra&Purana, even, in a remoter fashion, of Buddhism & the later unorthodox religions. From this quarry all have hewn their materials or from this far-off source drawn unknowingly their waters; from some hidden seed in the Veda they have burgeoned into their wealth of branchings & foliage. The ritualism of Sayana is an error based on a false preconception popularised by the Buddhists & streng thened by the writers of the Darshanas,on the theory that the karma of the Veda was only an outward ritual & ceremony; the naturalism of the modern scholars is an error based on a false preconception encouraged by the previous misconceptions of Sayana,on the theory of the Vedas [as] not only an ancient but a primitive document, the production of semi-barbarians. The Vedantic writers of the Upanishads had alone the real key to the secret of the Vedas; not indeed that they possessed the full knowledge of a dialect even then too ancient to be well understood, but they had the knowledge of the Vedic Rishis, possessed their psychology, & many of their general ideas, even many of their particular terms & symbols. That key, less & less available to their successors owing to the difficulty of the knowledge itself & of the language in which it was couched and to the immense growth of outward ritualism, was finally lost to the schools in the great debacle of Vedism induced by the intellectual revolutions of the centuries which immediately preceded the Christian era.
  --
  If this traditionlet us call it mystic or esoteric for want of a less abused wordwas already formed at the time of the Brahmanas and Upanishads, when and how did it originally arise? Two possibilities present themselves. The tradition may have grown up gradually in the period between the Vedic hymns and the exegetical writings or else the esoteric sense may have already existed in the Veda itself and descended in a stream of tradition to the later mystics, developing, modifying itself, substituting new terms for oldas is the way of traditions. The former is, practically, the European theory.We are told that this spiritual revolution, this movement away from ritual Nature-worship to Brahmavada, begun in the seed in the later Vedic hymns, is found in a more developed state in the Upanishads & culminated in Buddha. In these writings and in the Brahmanas some record can be found of the speculations by which the development was managed. If it prove to be so, if these ancient writings are really the result of progressive intellectual speculation departing from crude & imperfect beginnings of philosophic thought, the European theory justifies itself to the reason and can no longer easily be disputed. But is this the true character of the Upanishads? It seems to me that in most of their dealings with our religions and our philosophical literature European scholars have erred by imposing their own familiar ideas and the limits of their own mentality on the history of an alien mentality and an alien development. Nowhere has this error been more evident than in the failure to realise the true nature of the Upanishads. In India we have never developed, but only affirmed thought by philosophical speculation, because we have never attached to the mere intellectual idea the amazingly exaggerated value which Europe has attached to it, but regarded it only as a test of the logical value to be attached to particular intellectual statements of truth. That is not truth to us which is merely well & justly thought out & can be justified by ratiocinative argument; only that is truth which has been lived & seen in the inner experience. We meditate not to get ideas, but in order to experience, to realise. When we speak of the Jnani, the knower, we do not mean a competent and logical thinker full of wise or of brilliant ideas, but a soul which has seen and lived & spoken in himself with the living truth. Ratiocination is freely used by the later philosophers, but only for the justification against opponents of the ideas already formed by their own meditation or the meditation of others, Rishis, gurus, ancient Vedantins; it is not itself a sufficient means towards the discovery of truth, but at best a help. The ideas of our great thinkers are not mere intellectual statements or even happy or great intuitions; they are based upon spiritual experiences formalised by the intellect into a philosophy. Shankaras passionate advocacy of the idea of Maya as an explanation of life was not merely the ardour of a great metaphysician enamoured of a beautiful idea or a perfect theory of life, but the passion of a man with a deep & vast spiritual experience which he believed to be the sole means of human salvation. Therefore philosophy in India, instead of tending as in Europe to ignore or combat religion, has always been itself deeply religious. In Europe Buddha and Shankara would have become the heads of metaphysical schools & ranked with Kant or Hegel or Nietzsche1 as strong intellectual influences; in India they became, inevitably, the founders of great religious sects, immense moral & spiritual forces;inevitably because Europe has made thought its highest & noblest aim, while India seeks not after thought but soul-vision and inner experience and even in the realm of ideas believes that they can & ought to be seen & lived inwardly rather than merely thought and allowed indirectly to influence outward action. This has been the mentality of our race for ages.Was the mentality of our Vedic forefa thers entirely different from our own? Was it, as Western scholars seem to insist, a European mentality, the mentality of incursive Western savages, (it is Sergis estimate of the Aryans), changed afterwards by the contact with the cultured & reflective Dravidians into something new and strange, rationality changing to mysticism, materialism to a metaphysical spirituality? If so, the change had already been effected when the Upanishads were written. We speak of the discussions in the Upanishads; but in all truth the twelve Upanishads contain not a single genuine discussion. Only once in that not inconsiderable mass of literature, is there something of the nature of logical argument brought to the support of a philosophical truth. The nature of debate or logical reasoning is absent from the mentality of the Upanishadic thinkers. The grand question they always asked each other was not What hast thou thought out in this matter? or What are thy reasonings & conclusions? but What dost thou know? What hast thou seen in thyself? The Vedantic like the Vedic Rishi is a drashta & srota, not a manota, a kavi, not a manishi. There is question, there is answer; but solely for the comparison of inner knowledge & experience; never for ratiocinative argument, for disputation, for the battles of the logician. Always, knowledge, spiritual vision, experience are what is demanded; and often a questioner is turned back because he is not yet prepared in soul to realise the knowledge of the master. For all knowledge is within us and needs only to be awakened by the fit touch which opens the eyes of the soul or by the powerful revealing word.We find throughout the Vedic era always the same method, always the same theory of knowledge; they persist indeed in India to the present day and later habits of metaphysical debate unknown to the Vedic Brahmavadins have never been able to dethrone them from their primaeval supremacy. Let a man present never so finely reasoned a system of metaphysical philosophy, few will turn to hear, none leave his labour to receive, but let a man say as in the old Vedantic times I have experienced, my soul has seen, & hundreds in India will yet leave all to share in this new light of the eternal Truth.
  concrete visualisation & passion for his ideas & experiences which mark off the religious from the merely philosophical mind.

1.11 - A STREET, #Faust, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
  Yes, knew I not more deeply thy desire.
  For wilt thou not, no lover fairer,

1.11 - FAITH IN MAN, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  filled with symbols and fables expressing the deeply rooted resolve
  of Earth to find its way to Heaven; from which it follows that we

1.11 - Legend of Dhruva, the son of Uttanapada, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
  The boy, having heard the speech of his step-mother, quitted his father, and repaired in a passion to the apartment of his own mother; who, beholding him vexed, took him upon her lap, and, gently smiling, asked him what was the cause of his anger, who had displeased him, and if any one, forgetting the respect due to his father, had behaved ill to him. Dhruva, in reply, repeated to her all that the arrogant Suruci had said to him in the presence of the king. deeply distressed by the narrative of the boy, the humble Sunīti, her eyes dimmed with tears, sighed, and said, "Suruci has rightly spoken; thine, child, is an unhappy fate: those who are born to fortune are not liable to the insults of their rivals. Yet be not afflicted, my child, for who shall efface what thou hast formerly done, or shall assign to thee what thou hast left undone. The regal throne, the umbrella of royalty, horses and elephants, are his whose virtues have deserved them: remember this, my son, and be consoled. That the king favours Suruci is the reward of her merits in a former existence. The name of wife alone belongs to such as I, who have not equal merit. Her son is the progeny of accumulated piety, and is born as Uttama: mine has been born as Dhruva, of inferior moral worth. Therefore, my son, it is not proper for you to grieve; a wise man will be contented with that degree which appertains to him: but if you continue to feel hurt at the words of Suruci, endeavour to augment that religious merit which bestows all good; be amiable, be pious, be friendly, be assiduous in benevolence to all living creatures; for prosperity descends upon modest worth as water flows towards low ground."
  Dhruva answered; "Mother, the words that you have addressed to me for my consolation find no place in a heart that contumely has broken. I will exert myself to obtain such elevated rank, that it shall be revered by the whole world. Though I be not born of Suruci, the beloved of the king, you shall behold my glory, who am your son. Let Uttama my brother, her child, possess the throne given to him by my father; I wish for no other honours than such as my own actions shall acquire, such as even my father has not enjoyed."

1.11 - The Kalki Avatar, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
  ny to this point is quite clear and deeply moving.
  When the Divine descends, he takes upon himself the

1.11 - The Reason as Governor of Life, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  To some this godhead is Life itself or a secret Will in life; they claim that this must rule and that the intelligence is only useful in so far as it serves that and that Life must not be repressed, minimised and mechanised by the arbitrary control of reason. Life has greater powers in it which must be given a freer play; for it is they alone that evolve and create. On the other hand, it is felt that reason is too analytical, too arbitrary, that it falsifies life by its distinctions and set classifications and the fixed rules based upon them and that there is some profounder and larger power of knowledge, intuition or another, which is more deeply in the secrets of existence. This larger intimate power is more one with the depths and sources of existence and more able to give us the indivisible truths of life, its root realities and to work them out, not in an artificial and mechanical spirit but with a divination of the secret Will in existence and in a free harmony with its large, subtle and infinite methods. In fact, what the growing subjectivism of the human mind is beginning obscurely to see is that the one sovereign godhead is the soul itself which may use reason for one of its ministers, but cannot subject itself to its own intellectuality without limiting its potentialities and artificialising its conduct of existence.
  The highest power of reason, because its pure and characteristic power, is the disinterested seeking after true knowledge. When knowledge is pursued for its own sake, then alone are we likely to arrive at true knowledge. Afterwards we may utilise that knowledge for various ends; but if from the beginning we have only particular ends in view, then we limit our intellectual gain, limit our view of things, distort the truth because we cast it into the mould of some particular idea or utility and ignore or deny all that conflicts with that utility or that set idea. By so doing we may indeed make the reason act with great immediate power within the limits of the idea or the utility we have in view, just as instinct in the animal acts with great power within certain limits, for a certain end, yet finds itself helpless outside those limits. It is so indeed that the ordinary man uses his reasonas the animal uses his hereditary, transmitted instinctwith an absorbed devotion of it to the securing of some particular utility or with a useful but hardly luminous application of a customary and transmitted reasoning to the necessary practical interests of his life. Even the thinking man ordinarily limits his reason to the working out of certain preferred ideas; he ignores or denies all that is not useful to these or does not assist or justify or actually contradicts or seriously modifies them,except in so far as life itself compels or cautions him to accept modifications for the time being or ignore their necessity at his peril. It is in such limits that mans reason normally acts. He follows most commonly some interest or set of interests; he tramples down or through or ignores or pushes aside all truth of life and existence, truth of ethics, truth of beauty, truth of reason, truth of spirit which conflicts with his chosen opinions and interests; if he recognises these foreign elements, it is nominally, not in practice, or else with a distortion, a glossing which nullifies their consequences, perverts their spirit or whittles down their significance. It is this subjection to the interests, needs, instincts, passions, prejudices, traditional ideas and opinions of the ordinary mind1 which constitutes the irrationality of human existence.

1.11 - The Second Genesis, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  That which leads most philosophies to recoil from the recognition of the egoism of desire as the one sufficient reason for the existence of the worlds, is the progress which the being has made from the point of its origin. The evolution of consciousness has long ago brought into sight the goal of the first impulsion. The being by the progressive elevation of his desire has, so to speak, put far from him his own origin. As it grows and bears fairer flowers and better fruits, the tree of Life has plunged its roots also more deeply towards the Unknown Divine. And because Love has to-day become a possible conscious reason for mans actions and seems as if it were the final cause of the worlds, it is in Love that the religions think to find its first efficient cause. Thus they have provided themselves with reasons which otherwise they would not have had for their adoration of the creative act.
  But it is not in the beginning of things, it is before the beginning and outside of it, in the secret being of the Eternal that we can place what appears here only in the end. The birth to Love was for the being and is even to-day not its first but its second birth; its principle was foreign to the first act of creation, foreign at least for our distinctive categories; for in the Absolute all is one and it is by reason of that unity that in the relative the manifestation of any principle conditions that of all the rest and makes them enter into the becoming. Desire by affirming itself egoistically obliges Love to participate in its creations. And in this obligation upon Love to manifest we find the pre-creative justification of the beings coming into existence.

1.1.2 - Commentary, #Kena and Other Upanishads, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  when we study more deeply the phenomena of consciousness,
  the facts of mentality, the secret tendency, aspiration and necessity of man's own nature, we see that he cannot be the highest

1.12 - God Departs, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
  In the chapter on Talks I have indicated that in the late forties we began to notice a change coming over Sri Aurobindo. He was becoming more and more silent, aloof, as if deeply preoccupied with some problem and the talks were less and less frequent till they ceased almost completely. Many were the days when we hardly exchanged a word. We were attending on a god who had suddenly become aware of his true identity and would now escape from his human bondage. The contrast between the past years of abundance and the present years of famine was so striking that our minds were rife with all sorts of speculations as to the reason of this ominous silence. Was it a terrestrial problem or a supraterrestrial one? Could there have been any possible dereliction of duty on our part? Was it due to the increasing symptoms of the disease that had now lodged in his body? As regards terrestrial affairs, the War had come to a successful completion, India had gained her freedom, for both of which he had worked incessantly. The supraphysical was out of our ken; so we could lay our finger only on the physical world. But that would be a very tenuous ground indeed on which to build our conjecture, for Sri Aurobindo certainly was the last Person to be perturbed by mere physical troubles, however serious they might be. Besides, he had cured this disease when it appeared the first time. Surely he could do it again, if that was the real issue! What ailed him then? Or was the disease more serious?
  Let us go back to the origin of his illness and follow the sequence of events that ended with his leaving the physical sheath and were apparently its cause and try to discover the truth behind the appearance. One day we came to notice that Sri Aurobindo's urination had increased in freqency. He wanted to know the reason. The urine was examined and found to have an excessive amount of sugar with a trace of albumin. I reported the result to the Mother in Sri Aurobindo's presence and said, "It looks like diabetes." The Mother sharply retorted, "It is not diabetes." "What is it then?" I asked myself. The Mother, however, reduced considerably the amount of starchy food, particularly rice and sweets for which Sri Aurobindo seemed to have a liking. For his age and his sedentary life, so much carbohydrate was surely bad. He could hardly now walk 6-7 hours a day as he used to. I was asked to examine the urine every week and apprise him of the result. In a few weeks' time it became sugar-free but the frequency did not altogether disappear. Sri Aurobindo too had noticed it. It made me suspect some mild prostatic enlargement. When Dr. P. Sanyal, F. R. C. S., England, paid a visit to the Ashram, I consulted him and at my request Sri Aurobindo, saw him. After an enquiry he confirmed my suspicion, but added that it was just at the initial stage. He told Sri Aurobindo of the nature, course and complications of the disease, ultimately operation being the only radical cure. After a few months, on Sanyal's second visit, Sri Aurobindo told him emphatically, "It is no more troubling me. I have cured it." Our faith in the action of the Force was fortified and we felt no anxiety.

1.12 - ON THE FLIES OF THE MARKETPLACE, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
  suffer too deeply even from small wounds; and even
  before you have healed, the same poisonous worm

1.12 - The Left-Hand Path - The Black Brothers, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  Perhaps his error was so deeply rooted, from the very beginning, that it was his Evil Genius that he evoked.
  In such cases the man's policy is of course to break off all relations with the Supernal Triad, and to replace it by inventing a false crown, Dath. To them Knowledge will be everything, and what is Knowledge but the very soul of Illusion?

1.12 - TIME AND ETERNITY, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
  There is therefore a catholic spirit, a communion of saints in the love of God and all goodness, which no one can learn from that which is called orthodoxy in particular churches, but is only to be had by a total dying to all worldly views, by a pure love of God, and by such an unction from above as delivers the mind from all selfishness and makes it love truth and goodness with an equality of affection in every man, whether he is Christian, Jew or Gentile. He that would obtain this divine and catholic spirit in this disordered, divided state of things, and live in a divided part of the church without partaking of its division, must have these three truths deeply fixed in his mind. First, that universal love, which gives the whole strength of the heart to God, and makes us love every man as we love ourselves, is the noblest, the most divine, the Godlike state of the soul, and is the utmost perfection to which the most perfect religion can raise us; and that no religion does any man any good but so far as it brings this perfection of love into him. This truth will show us that true orthodoxy can nowhere be found but in a pure disinterested love of God and our neighbour. Second, that in this present divided state of the church, truth itself is torn and divided asunder; and that, therefore, he can be the only true catholic who has more of truth and less of error than is hedged in by any divided part. This truth will enable us to live in a divided part unhurt by its division, and keep us in a true liberty and fitness to be edified and assisted by all the good that we hear or see in any other part of the church. Thirdly, he must always have in mind this great truth, that it is the glory of the Divine Justice to have no respect of parties or persons, but to stand equally disposed to that which is right and wrong as well in the Jew as in the Gentile. He therefore that would like as God likes, and condemn as God condemns, must have neither the eyes of the Papist nor the Protestant; he must like no truth the less because Ignatius Loyola or John Bunyan were very zealous for it, nor have the less aversion to any error, because Dr. Trapp or George Fox had brought it forth.
  William Law

1.13 - Reason and Religion, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  The Hellenic ideal was roughly expressed in the old Latin maxim, a sound mind in a sound body. And by a sound body the ancients meant a healthy and beautiful body well-fitted for the rational use and enjoyment of life. And by a sound mind they meant a clear and balanced reason and an enlightened and well-trained mentality,trained in the sense of ancient, not of modern education. It was not to be packed with all available information and ideas, cast in the mould of science and a rational utility and so prepared for the efficient performance of social and civic needs and duties, for a professional avocation or for an intellectual pursuit; rather it was to be cultured in all its human capacities intellectual, moral, aesthetic, trained to use them rightly and to range freely, intelligently and flexibly in all questions and in all practical matters of philosophy, science, art, politics and social living. The ancient Greek mind was philosophic, aesthetic and political; the modern mind has been scientific, economic and utilitarian. The ancient ideal laid stress on soundness and beauty and sought to build up a fine and rational human life; the modern lays very little or no stress on beauty, prefers rational and practical soundness, useful adaptation, just mechanism and seeks to build up a well-ordered, well-informed and efficient human life. Both take it that man is partly a mental, partly a physical being with the mentalised physical life for his field and reason for his highest attribute and his highest possibility. But if we follow to the end the new vistas opened by the most advanced tendencies of a subjective age, we shall be led back to a still more ancient truth and ideal that overtops both the Hellenic and the modern levels. For we shall then seize the truth that man is a developing spirit trying here to find and fulfil itself in the forms of mind, life and body; and we shall perceive luminously growing before us the greater ideal of a deeply conscious self-illumined, self-possessing, self-mastering soul in a pure and perfect mind and body. The wider field it seeks will be, not the mentalised physical life with which man has started, but a new spiritualised life inward and outward, by which the perfected internal figures itself in a perfected external living. Beyond mans long intelligent effort towards a perfected culture and a rational society there opens the old religious and spiritual ideal, the hope of the kingdom of heaven within us and the city of God upon earth.
  But if the soul is the true sovereign and if its spiritual self-finding, its progressive largest widest integral fulfilment by the power of the spirit are to be accepted as the ultimate secret of our evolution, then since certainly the instinctive being of man below reason is not the means of attaining that high end and since we find that reason also is an insufficient light and power, there must be a superior range of being with its own proper powers,liberated soul-faculties, a spiritual will and knowledge higher than the reason and intelligent will,by which alone an entire conscious self-fulfilment can become possible to the human being. We must remember that our aim of self-fulfilment is an integral unfolding of the Divine within us, a complete evolution of the hidden divinity in the individual soul and the collective life. Otherwise we may simply come back to an old idea of individual and social living which had its greatness, but did not provide all the conditions of our perfection. That was the idea of a spiritualised typal society. It proceeded upon the supposition that each man has his own peculiar nature which is born from and reflects one element of the divine nature. The character of each individual, his ethical type, his training, his social occupation, his spiritual possibility must be formed or developed within the conditions of that peculiar element; the perfection he seeks in this life must be according to its law. The theory of ancient Indian cultureits practice, as is the way of human practice, did not always correspond to the theoryworked upon this supposition. It divided man in society into the fourfold orderan at once spiritual, psychic, ethical and economic orderof the Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra,practically, the spiritual and intellectual man, the dynamic man of will, the vital, hedonistic and economic man, the material man; the whole society organised in these four constituent classes represented the complete image of the creative and active Godhead.

1.14 - INSTRUCTION TO VAISHNAVS AND BRHMOS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  MASTER: "Then he won't keep his eyes on the ground so much. If the mind is much directed to something else, it doesn't dwell deeply on God."
  RAM: "I have been studying the drum only to accompany the kirtan."

1.15 - Conclusion, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  ment that penetrates at all deeply. The first of these is the
  shadow, that hidden, repressed, for the most part inferior and

1.15 - LAST VISIT TO KESHAB, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  The devotees were deeply touched to hear of Sri Ramakrishna's love for Keshab and his longing for the Brahmo leader.
  MASTER: "But this time, to tell the truth, I didn't feel anxious to that extent. Only for two or three days did I feel a little worried."

1.17 - DOES MANKIND MOVE BIOLOGICALLY UPON ITSELF?, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  even more deeply than the ending of the geocentric concept. Un-
  der the influence of this initial shock, as we can now see, the whole

1.17 - M. AT DAKSHINEWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  MASTER: " 'Is it the wheels that make it move?' 'By whose will the worlds are moved.' 'The driver moves the chariot at His Master's bidding.' I feel deeply touched by these lines."
  Sunday, December 23, 1883
  --
  In the afternoon M. paced the temple garden alone. He was deeply absorbed in the thought of the Master and was pondering the Master's words concerning the attainment of the exalted state of the paramahamsa, after the elimination of grief and desire. M.
  said to himself: "Who is this Sri Ramakrishna, acting as my teacher? Has God embodied Himself for our welfare? The master himself says that none but an Incarnation can come down to the phenomenal plane from the state of nirvikalpa samdhi."

1.18 - M. AT DAKSHINESWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  "The great souls, deeply affected by the sufferings of men, show them the way to God.
  Sankaracharya kept the 'ego of Knowledge' in order to teach mankind. The gift of knowledge and devotion is far superior to the gift of food. Therefore Chaitanyadeva distributed bhakti to all, including the outcaste. Happiness and suffering are the inevitable characteristics of the body. You have come to eat mangoes. Fulfil that desire. The one thing needful is jnna and bhakti. God alone is Substance; all else is illusory.

1.19 - THE MASTER AND HIS INJURED ARM, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  Thus the Master taught the devotees how to pray. They were deeply touched. Tears filled Mahimacharan's eyes.
  Sri Ramakrishna looked at him and sang:

12.09 - The Story of Dr. Faustus Retold, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   One day when Dr. Faust was deeply engaged in this interesting occupation, suddenly he saw standing in front of him a figurea strange figure, black, robed in black, huge in staturehe was taken by surprise. Half in curiosity, half in fear he asked who he was. The figure answered: he was what Dr. Faust wanted, that is to say, he could give Faust whatever he wanted, he was that Power. Dr. Faust questioned him and he was answered that the person was indeed what he was claiming to be. Faust was to ask only to have the thing he wanted. Faust could have more and more knowledge, more and more power. Not only that, but something infinitely greater and more precious. Dr. Faust wanted to know what that was. "Infinite pleasure, infinite delight. You will never be sad or sorrowful, never suffer, I will give you perfect enjoyment." This ambitious greedy man swallowed the bait. Faust asked whether it was all truewhat he was professing. The person answered: "More than what I have promised, I will give you. But it is give and take, you can take only when you give." "Give! What can I give? What have I got?" Oh! it is nothing, it is just a trifle. You won't ever know that you are giving. Ready?" "Ready? Yes, quite. But just tell me what it is?" "Oh! it is indeed nothingyour soul!" "Soul?" Faust did not know what the soul was. He nodded assent, strange to say, somewhat hesitatinglyalthough so eager and ardent till now. Take it then, he said.
   In the meanwhile, somewhere in the background of his mind, he felt a little queer, just a twitch, felt the presence of something, even perhaps saw a figure deep inside or far off on the horizon. The other one that was talking to him was a dark black huge, even ominous shape. But this one, although somewhat vague, was robed in white and luminous, even soft like a moonbeam. The Doctor, a little stunned, gazed and gazed at the luminous spot, rubbed his eyes, heaved a sigh, and said: "It is nothing, just an illusion", but it was his soul visiting him to give him a warning. He however turned away and looked at the tempter and with a snatch of bravado declared: "I am ready. Take my soul and give me all that you promise", and thus with his consent, through his free choice, the Devil approached him, opened his breast and took out his soul. As the operation was being done, he felt a great shadow, an infinite sadness invading him but he pushed it away and told his master: "Now bring me all that I want and all that you promised." Henceforth he virtually became lord of all things, he was taken to all kinds of worlds, offered all kinds of powers and all enjoyments, the aa-siddhi of our Indian yogalevitation, gravitation, telekinesisaim, laghim etc.were within his grasp. Even then at times a great dissatisfaction rose within him as from a secret fount and he found himself unconsciously uttering "Oh God! Oh God!". And he used to glimpse at a distance that white vague moonlight-figure. But the Devil used to reappear immediately and threaten him: "You are going to lose everything, drive away all those illusions, be your normal self, come with me, I will show you greater miracles. " He was taken to the world of beauty and beauties, the source of poignant delight, even the most poignant of all, a human physical love. He saw there rising before his eyes her who was the most beautiful woman in the world. Bewitched, beside himself, he cried out:

1.20 - RULES FOR HOUSEHOLDERS AND MONKS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  The Master was deeply touched by these words of his devotee. He suddenly stood up and blessed M. and Adhar in an ecstatic mood, touching their heads and hearts. In a voice choked with love the Master said: "I look upon you as Narayana Himself. You are indeed my own."
  Mahimacharan entered the room.

1.20 - Tabooed Persons, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  man was found to have sinned deeply, he was forbidden to share in
  the expedition. In the island of Mabuiag continence was imposed on

1.2.1.03 - Psychic and Esoteric Poetry, #Letters On Poetry And Art, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  It is not easy to say whether the poems are esoteric; for these words esoteric and exoteric are rather ill-defined in their significance. One understands the distinction between exoteric and esoteric religion that is to say, on one side, creed, dogma, mental faith, religious worship and ceremony, religious and moral practice and discipline, on the other an inner seeking piercing beyond the creed and dogma and ceremony or finding their hidden meaning, living deeply within in spiritual and mystic experience. But how shall we define an esoteric poetry? Perhaps what deals in an occult way with the occult may be called esoteric e.g., the Bird of Fire, Trance, etc. The Two Moons2 is, it is obvious, desperately esoteric. But I dont know whether an intimate spiritual experience simply and limpidly told without veil or recondite image can be called esoteric for the word usually brings the sense of something kept back from the ordinary eye, hidden, occult. Is Nirvana for instance an esoteric poem? There is no veil or symbol there it tries to state the experience as precisely and overtly as possible. The experience of the psychic fire and psychic discrimination is an intimate spiritual experience, but it is direct and simple like all psychic things. The poem which expresses it may easily be something deeply inward, esoteric in that sense, but simple, unveiled and clear, not esoteric in the more usual sense. I rather think, however, the term esoteric poem is a misnomer and some other phraseology would be more accurate.
  30 April 1935

1.21 - FROM THE PRE-HUMAN TO THE ULTRA-HUMAN, THE PHASES OF A LIVING PLANET, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  The more deeply we study this distinction the more probable
  does it seem that the human multitude is moving as time passes not

1.22 - How to Learn the Practice of Astrology, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  Within the limits of a letter I could hardly hope to go into matters much more fully or deeply than I have done; but 'pon my soul! I think that what I have said should be enough for an intelligent and assiduous student. Let me insist that all that is worth while comes by experience. Learning one thing will give you the clue to another.
  Well do I know to my sorrow how hard it is, as a rule, to learn how to do a thing solely from written instruction; so perhaps you had better arrange to see me one day about the actual setting-up of a figure. Probably, too, there will be a few points that you would like to discuss.

1.23 - Conditions for the Coming of a Spiritual Age, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  A spiritual age of mankind will perceive this truth. It will not try to make man perfect by machinery or keep him straight by tying up all his limbs. It will not present to the member of the society his higher self in the person of the policeman, the official and the corporal, nor, let us say, in the form of a socialistic bureaucracy or a Labour Soviet. Its aim will be to diminish as soon and as far as possible the need of the element of external compulsion in human life by awakening the inner divine compulsion of the spirit within and all the preliminary means it will use will have that for its aim. In the end it will employ chiefly if not solely the spiritual compulsion which even the spiritual individual can exercise on those around him, and how much more should a spiritual society be able to do it,that which awakens within us in spite of all inner resistance and outer denial the compulsion of the Light, the desire and the power to grow through ones own nature into the Divine. For the perfectly spiritualised society will be one in which, as is dreamed by the spiritual anarchist, all men will be deeply free, and it will be so because the preliminary condition will have been satisfied. In that state each man will be not a law to himself, but the law, the divine Law, because he will be a soul living in the Divine Reality and not an ego living mainly if not entirely for its own interest and purpose. His life will be led by the law of his own divine nature liberated from the ego.
  Nor will that mean a breaking up of all human society into the isolated action of individuals; for the third word of the Spirit is unity. The spiritual life is the flower not of a featureless but a conscious and diversified oneness. Each man has to grow into the Divine Reality within himself through his own individual being, therefore is a certain growing measure of freedom a necessity of the being as it develops and perfect freedom the sign and the condition of the perfect life. But also, the Divine whom he thus sees in himself, he sees equally in all others and as the same Spirit in all. Therefore too is a growing inner unity with others a necessity of his being and perfect unity the sign and condition of the perfect life. Not only to see and find the Divine in oneself, but to see and find the Divine in all, not only to seek ones own individual liberation or perfection, but to seek the liberation and perfection of others is the complete law of the spiritual being. If the divinity sought were a separate godhead within oneself and not the one Divine, or if one sought God for oneself alone, then indeed the result might be a grandiose egoism, the Olympian egoism of a Goe the or the Titanic egoism imagined by Nietzsche, or it might be the isolated self-knowledge or asceticism of the ivory tower or the Stylites pillar. But he who sees God in all, will serve freely God in all with the service of love. He will, that is to say, seek not only his own freedom, but the freedom of all, not only his own perfection, but the perfection of all. He will not feel his individuality perfect except in the largest universality, nor his own life to be full life except as it is one with the universal life. He will not live either for himself or for the State and society, for the individual ego or the collective ego, but for something much greater, for God in himself and for the Divine in the universe.

1.24 - PUNDIT SHASHADHAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  There are many people who talk big and who say that they have performed most of the duties enjoined in the scriptures. But with all that their minds are engrossed in worldliness and deeply preoccupied with money, riches, name, fame, creature comforts, and such things."
  PUNDIT: "It is true, sir. Going on a pilgrimage is like seeking diamonds and gems, while discarding the precious stone that is worn by Narayana Himself on His breast."

1.2.4 - Speech and Yoga, #Letters On Yoga IV, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  If the peace is very strong within, talking does not cloud itbecause this peace is not mental or vital even when it pervades the mind and vitalor else it is a cloud that quickly passes without touching deeply. Usually however such talk [about others] disperses the consciousness and one can lose much. The only disadvantage of not talking is that it isolates too much, if it is absolute, but by not talking these things one loses nothing.
  ***

1.25 - ADVICE TO PUNDIT SHASHADHAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  PUNDIT: "I haven't thought deeply about these things before. But now I understand."
  MASTER: "God keeps a little of 'I' in His devotee even after giving him the Knowledge of Brahman. That 'I' is the 'I of the devotee', the 'I of the Jnni'. Through that 'I' the devotee enjoys the infinite play of God.
  --
  It was dusk. Sri Ramakrishna began to chant the names of the Divine Mother, Krishna, Rma, and Hari. The devotees sat in silence. The Master chanted the names in such sweet tones that the hearts of the devotees were deeply touched. That day Balarm's house was like Navadvip when Chaitanya lived there. On the verandah it was like Navadvip, and in the parlour it was like Vrindvan.
  That same night Sri Ramakrishna was to go to Dakshineswar. Balarm took him into the inner apartments and served him with refreshments. The ladies of the family saluted the Master.

1.26 - On discernment of thoughts, passions and virtues, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
  Look unceasingly for evidence of the passions, and then you will find many of them in you which we are unable to distinguish in our diseased condition, by reason of our own weakness or because they are so deeply rooted.
  God is the judge of our intentions; but in His love He does also require us to act as far as we are able. Great is he who leaves undone nothing that is within his power; but greater is he who humbly attempts what is beyond his power.

1.26 - PERSEVERANCE AND REGULARITY, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
  Yea, some souls there are conducted by Almighty God by no other way, but only by such prayer of aridity, finding no sensible contentment in any recollection, but, on the contrary, continual pain and contradiction, and yet, by a privy grace and courage imprinted deeply in the spirit, cease not for all that, but resolutely break through all difficulties and continue, the best way they can, their internal exercises to the great advancement of their spirit.
  Augustine Baker

1.26 - The Ascending Series of Substance, #The Life Divine, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  5:All who have at all sounded those abysses are agreed and bear witness to this fact that there are a series of subtler and subtler formulations of substance which escape from and go beyond the formula of the material universe. Without going deeply into matters which are too occult and difficult for our present inquiry, we may say, adhering to the system on which we have based ourselves, that these gradations of substance, in one important aspect of their formulation in series, can be seen to correspond to the ascending series of Matter, Life, Mind, Supermind and that other higher divine triplicity of Sachchidananda. In other words, we find that substance in its ascension bases itself upon each of these principles and makes itself successively a characteristic vehicle for the dominating cosmic self-expression of each in their ascending series.
  6:Here in the material world everything is founded upon the formula of material substance. Sense, Life, Thought found themselves upon what the ancients called the Earth-Power, start from it, obey its laws, accommodate their workings to this fundamental principle, limit themselves by its possibilities and, if they would develop others, have even in that development to take account of the original formula, its purpose and its demand upon the divine evolution. The sense works through physical instruments, the life through a physical nerve-system and vital organs, the mind has to build its operations upon a corporeal basis and use a material instrumentation, even its pure mental workings have to take the data so derived as a field and as the stuff upon which it works. There is no necessity in the essential nature of mind, sense, life that they should be so limited: for the physical sense-organs are not the creators of sense-perceptions, but themselves the creation, the instruments and here a necessary convenience of the cosmic sense; the nervous system and vital organs are not the creators of life's action and reaction, but themselves the creation, the instruments and here a necessary convenience of the cosmic Life-force; the brain is not the creator of thought, but itself the creation, the instrument and here a necessary convenience of the cosmic Mind. The necessity then is not absolute, but teleological; it is the result of a divine cosmic Will in the material universe which intends to posit here a physical relation between sense and its object, establishes here a material formula and law of Conscious-Force and creates by it physical images of Conscious-Being to serve as the initial, dominating and determining fact of the world in which we live. It is not a fundamental law of being, but a constructive principle necessitated by the intention of the Spirit to evolve in a world of Matter.

1.31 - Adonis in Cyprus, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  writer, himself deeply sensitive to the witchery of music, has said
  that musical notes, with all their power to fire the blood and melt
  --
  express the religious emotions, thus modifying more or less deeply
  the fabric of belief to which at first sight it seems only to

1.32 - The Ritual of Adonis, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  was itself deeply tinged by passionate memories, memories of the
  slumber akin to death which sealed his own eyes on the slopes of the

1.37 - Oriential Religions in the West, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  Christ on the twenty-fifth of March was ancient and deeply rooted.
  It is all the more remarkable because astronomical considerations
  --
  they inculcated were too deeply opposed not only to the frailties
  but to the natural instincts of humanity ever to be carried out in

1.439, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
  All know that they must die some time or other; but they do not think deeply of the matter. All have a fear of death: such fear is momentary.
  Why fear death? Because of the I-am-the-body idea. All are fully aware of the death of the body and its cremation. That the body is lost in death is well-known. Owing to the I-am-the-body notion, death is feared as being the loss of Oneself. Birth and death pertain to the body only; but they are superimposed on the Self, giving rise to the delusion that birth and death relate to the Self.

1.44 - Demeter and Persephone, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  How deeply implanted in the mind of the ancient Greeks was this
  faith in Demeter as goddess of the corn may be judged by the

1.46 - The Corn-Mother in Many Lands, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  too old and too deeply rooted in the popular mind to be eradicated
  by logic, and so room had to be found in the reformed myth both for

1.48 - Morals of AL - Hard to Accept, and Why nevertheless we Must Concur, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  Now then let us look a little more deeply (and I hope more clearly) into his Ethics, with our minds undismayed by any human emotion.
  Aiwass is of a different Order of Being from ourselves. Consider a gold-refiner. "Analysis shows 20 % of copper in this sample; I'll beat it in a current of oxygen; that will oxidize the copper. Shake it up with sulphuric acid; then we wash away the copper sulphate, and that's that." He does not consider how the copper feels about it; indeed, he doesn't believe that the copper knows about it at all.

15.07 - Souls Freedom, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The Mother not only governs all from above but she descends into this lesser triple universe. Impersonally, all things here, even the movements of the Ignorance, are herself in veiled power and her creations in diminished substance, her Nature-body and Nature-force, and they exist because, moved by the mysterious fiat of the Supreme to work out something that was there in the possibilities of the Infinite, she has consented to the great sacrifice and has put on like a mask the soul and forms of the Ignorance. But personally too she has stooped to descend here into the Darkness that she may lead it to the Light, into the Falsehood and error that she may convert it to the Truth, into this Death that she may turn it to godlike Life, into this world-pain and its obstinate sorrow and suffering that she may end it in the transforming ecstasy of he sublime Ananda. In her deep and great love for her children she has consented to put on herself the cloak of this obscurity, condescended to bear the attacks and torturing influences of the powers of the Darkness and the Falsehood, borne to pass through the portals of the birth that is a death, taken upon herself the pangs and sorrows and sufferings of the creation, since it seemed that thus alone could it be lifted to the Light and Joy and Truth and eternal Life. This is the great sacrifice called sometimes the sacrifice of the Purusha, but much more deeply the holocaust of Prakriti, the sacrifice of the Divine Mother.2
   Rigveda, V, 2.4.

1.52 - Killing the Divine Animal, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  his palm deeply and long, at the same time invoking the favour of
  the gods. Then he leaned his chin upon his hand, and with large,
  --
  thought deeply on the questions which immediately concern him, he
  reasons about them, and though his conclusions often diverge very
  --
  prepossessions which tinge so deeply our own views of the world. If
  we do so, we shall probably discover that, however absurd his

1.550 - 1.600 Talks, #Talks, #Sri Ramana Maharshi, #Hinduism
  All know that they must die some time or other; but they do not think deeply of the matter. All have a fear of death: such fear is momentary.
  Why fear death? Because of the 'I-am-the-body' idea. All are fully aware of the death of the body and its cremation. That the body is lost in death is well-known. Owing to the I-am-the-body notion, death is feared as being the loss of Oneself. Birth and death pertain to the body only; but they are superimposed on the Self, giving rise to the delusion that birth and death relate to the Self.

1.60 - Between Heaven and Earth, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  seasons more or less deeply in the ground, perhaps in order to hide
  them from the light of the sun.
  --
  puberty is the deeply engrained dread which primitive man
  universally entertains of menstruous blood. He fears it at all times

1.62 - The Fire-Festivals of Europe, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  comparatively little moment to the European husbandman, do deeply
  concern the European herdsman; for it is on the approach of summer

1.64 - The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  transformation of witches into animals is so general and deeply
  rooted, and the fear of these uncanny beings is so strong, that it

1.65 - Balder and the Mistletoe, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  mistletoe, I assume a principle which is deeply engraved on the mind
  of primitive man.

1.66 - Vampires, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  When I crossed the Burma-China frontier for the first time, who should I meet but our Consul at Tengyueh, the admirable Litton, who had by sheer brains and personality turned the whole province of Yunnan into his own Vice-royalty? We lunched together on the grass, and I hastened to dig into the goldmine of his knowledge of the country. About the third or fourth thing he said to me was this: "Remember! whatever anyone tells you about China is true." No words have ever impressed me more deeply; they sank right in and were illuminated by daily experience until they had justified themselves a thousand times over.
  That goes for Vampires!

1.69 - Farewell to Nemi, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  entered most deeply into its texture, a dark crimson stain, which
  shades off insensibly into a lighter tint as the white thread of

1.78 - Sore Spots, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  One of the most interesting and fruitful periods of my life was when I was involved in research as to the meaning of Sankhara: "tendencies" may be, indeed is, a good enough translation, but it leaves one very much as deeply in the dark as before. You remember I hope! that Sankhara lies between Vinnanam, Pure Consciousness, and Sanna, Perception. For instance, an electric fan in motion: a house-fly "tends" to see the vanes as we do when they are still, we "tend" to see a diaphanous blur.
  Then, in delirium tremens, why do we tend to see pink rats rather than begonias or gazelles?

1914 06 03p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Now that the whole being is more and more deeply plunged into material activity, into the physical realisation which includes such a multitude of details to be thought of and regulated, I call to Thee, O Lord, so that my consciousness, turned thus outwards, may constantly keep this communion with Thee, which is the source of all peace, all strength, all bliss.
   O my sweet Master, accomplish all the work Thyself through this individual being in its integrality. Or rather, do not let anything in this individual being forget at any moment that it is only an instrument, an illusion made real for Thy intervention in it, and that Thou alone art and actest.

1915 04 19p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The condition thus trying to define itself in awkward terms gradually settled in some weeks ago, and every passing day establishes it more definitively, more deeply, more irremediably so to speak. Without having wanted it, sought for it or desired it, the being sinks deeper and deeper into it, also gradually losing consciousness of itself in a Consciousness which is no longer individual and whose immobility is inexpressiblea Consciousness from which it is no longer possible to distinguish oneself.
   ***

1916 12 30p, #Prayers And Meditations, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I feel, I see my soul living deep within my being, and my soul sees Thee, recognises Thee and loves Thee in all things, in everything that is; it is fully conscious of this, and as the outer being is surrendered to it, it too is conscious; the mind knows and never forgets; the purified vital being no longer has any attractions and repulsions, and more and more does it taste of the joy of Thy Presence in all things and always. But the heart seems to have fallen asleep in a slumber of exhaustion, and the soul no longer finds sufficient activity within it to respond fully to its impulsion. Why? Was it so poor that the struggle could thus wear it out, or so deeply wounded that it has become quite stiff? And yet it would like to answer the inner call; it wants this with a faith and ardour which have never wavered; but it is like an old man smiling benevolently at the games of youth but unable to take part in them. And yet it is full of joy and confidence, it overflows with gratitude for all the treasures of affection which Nature has so generously lavished upon it; it would like, in exchange for these precious gifts, to pour out in inexhaustible streams the golden wine of tenderness which restores and fortifies, enlivens and consoles, the true wine of life for human beings. It would like to and tries but how poor is what it does beside what it dreams of doing, how mediocre what it is able to do beside what it hopes, for it hopes always. It knows that Thy call is never heard in vain, and it has no doubt it can one day realise the splendours of which Thou hast given it a glimpse.
   Who will open these closed flood-gates?

1929-05-19 - Mind and its workings, thought-forms - Adverse conditions and Yoga - Mental constructions - Illness and Yoga, #Questions And Answers 1929-1931, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Is any one of you pure and strong enough not to be affected by suggestions? If you drink unfiltered water and think, Now I am drinking impure water, you have every chance of falling sick. And even though such suggestions may not enter through the conscious mind, the whole of your subconscious is there, almost helplessly open to take any kind of suggestion. In life it is the action of the subconscious that has the larger share and it acts a hundred times more powerfully than the conscious parts. The normal human condition is a state filled with apprehensions and fears; if you observe your mind deeply for ten minutes, you will find that for nine out of ten it is full of fearsit carries in it fear about many things, big and small, near and far, seen and unseen, and though you do not usually take conscious notice of it, it is there all the same. To be free from all fear can come only by steady effort and discipline.
  And even if by discipline and effort you have liberated your mind and your vital of apprehension and fear, it is more difficult to convince the body. But that too must be done. Once you enter the path of Yoga you must get rid of all fears the fears of your mind, the fears of your vital, the fears of your body which are lodged in its very cells. One of the uses of the blows and knocks you receive on the path of Yoga is to rid you of all fear. The causes of your fears leap on you again and again, until you can stand before them free and indifferent, untouched and pure. One has a fear of the sea, another fear of fire. The latter will find, it may be, that he has to face conflagration after conflagration till he is so trained that not a cell of his body quivers. That of which you have horror comes repeatedly till the horror is gone. One who seeks the transformation and is a follower of the Path, must become through and through fearless, not to be touched or shaken by anything whatever in any part of his nature.

1951-01-08 - True vision and understanding of the world. Progress, equilibrium. Inner reality - the psychic. Animals and the psychic., #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  However, if one observes things a little deeply, one perceives that there is progress, that things become better and better, though apparently they do not improve. And for a consciousness seated a little higher, it is quite evident that all evilat least what we call evilall falsehood, all that is contrary to the Truth, all suffering, all opposition is the result of a disequilibrium. I believe that one who is habituated to seeing things from this higher plane sees immediately that it is like that. Consequently, the world cannot be founded upon a disequilibrium, for if so it would have long since disappeared. One feels that at the origin of the universe there must have been a supreme Equilibrium and, perhaps, as we said the other day, a progressive equilibrium, an equilibrium which is the exact opposite of all that we have been taught and all that we are accustomed to call evil. There is no absolute evil, but an evil, a more or less partial disequilibrium.
  This may be taught to a child in a very simple way; it may be shown with the help of material things that an object will fall if it is not balanced, that only things in equilibrium can keep their position and duration.

1951-01-27 - Sleep - desires - repression - the subconscient. Dreams - the super-conscient - solving problems. Ladder of being - samadhi. Phases of sleep - silence, true rest. Vital body and illness., #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Yes, for more than a year I applied myself to this kind of self-discipline. I noted down everythinga few words, just a little thing, an impression and I tried to pass from one memory to another. At first it was not very fruitful, but at the end of about fourteen months I could follow, beginning from the end, all the movements, all the dreams right up to the beginning of the night. That puts you in such a conscious, continuously conscious state that finally I was not sleeping at all. My body lay stretched, deeply asleep, but there was no rest in the consciousness. The result was absolutely wonderful; you become conscious of the different phases of sleep, conscious absolutely of everything that happens there, to the least detail, then nothing can any longer escape your control. But if during the day you have a lot of work and you truly need sleep, I advise you not to try!
  In any case, there is one thing altogether indispensable, not to make the least movement when you wake up; you must learn to wake up in a state of complete immobility, otherwise everything disappears.

1951-03-14 - Plasticity - Conditions for knowing the Divine Will - Illness - microbes - Fear - body-reflexes - The best possible happens - Theories of Creation - True knowledge - a work to do - the Ashram, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Is any one of you pure and strong enough not to be affected by suggestions? If you drink unfiltered water and think, Now I am drinking impure water, you have every chance of falling sick. And even though such suggestions may not enter through the conscious mind, the whole of your subconscious is there, almost helplessly open to any kind of suggestion. The normal human condition is a state filled with apprehensions and fears; if you observe your mind deeply for ten minutes, you will find that for nine out of the ten it is full of fears.
   And even if by discipline and effort you have liberated your mind and your vital of apprehension and fear, it is more difficult to convince the body.
  --
   There are three reasons. First, an excessive concern about ones security. Next, what one does not know always gives an uneasy feeling which is translated in the consciousness by fear. And above all, one doesnt have the habit of a spontaneous trust in the Divine. If you look into things sufficiently deeply, this is the true reason. There are people who do not even know that That exists, but one could tell them in other words, You have no faith in your destiny or You know nothing about Graceanything whatever, you may put it as you like, but the root of the matter is a lack of trust. If one always had the feeling that it is the best that happens in all circumstances, one would not be afraid.
   The first movement of fear comes automatically. There was a great scientist who was also a great psychologist (I dont remember his name now); he had developed his inner consciousness but wanted to test it. So he undertook an experiment. He wanted to know if, by means of consciousness, one could control the reflex actions of the body (probably he didnt go far enough to be able to do it, for it can be done; but in any case, for him it was still impossible). Well, he went to the zoological garden, to the place where snakes were kept in a glass cage. There was a particularly aggressive cobra there; when it was not asleep, it was almost always in a fury, for through the glass it could see people and that irritated it terribly. Our scientist went and stood in front of the cage. He knew very well that it was made in such a way that the snake could never break the glass and that he ran no risk of being attacked. So from there he began to excite the snake by shouts and gestures. The cobra, furious, hurled itself against the glass, and every time it did so the scientist closed his eyes! Our psychologist told himself, But look here, I know that this snake cannot pass through, why do I close my eyes? Well, one must recognise that it is difficult to conquer the reaction. It is a sense of protection, and if one feels that one cannot protect oneself, one is afraid. But the movement of fear which is expressed by the eyes fluttering is not a mental or a vital fear: it is a fear in the cells of the body; for it has not been impressed upon them that there is no danger and they do not know how to resist. It is because one has not done yoga, you see. With yoga one can watch with open eyes, one would not close them; but one would not close them because one calls upon something else, and that something else is the sense of the divine Presence in oneself which is stronger than everything.

1951-03-29 - The Great Vehicle and The Little Vehicle - Choosing ones family, country - The vital being distorted - atavism - Sincerity - changing ones character, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I think I have already spoken about that, I have said what kind of aspiration ought to be there in the parents before the birth; but as I said, this does not happen even once in a hundred thousand instances. The willed conception of a child is extremely rare; mostly it is an accident. Among innumerable parents it is quite a small minority that even simply bothers about what a child could be; they do not even know that what the child will be depends on what they are. It is a very small lite which knows this. Most of the time things go as they can; anything at all happens and people dont even realise what is happening. So, in these conditions how do you expect to be born with a vital being sufficiently pure to be of help to you? One is born with a slough to clean before one begins to live. And once you have made a good start on the way to the inner transformation and you go down to the subconscient root of the being that exactly which comes from parents, from atavismwell, you do see what it is! And all, almost all difficulties are there, there are very few things added to existence after the first years of life. This happens at any odd moment; if you keep bad company or read bad books, the poison may enter you; but there are all the imprints deep-rooted in the subconscient, the dirty habits you have and against which you struggle. For instance, there are people who cant open their mouth without telling a lie, and they dont always do this deliberately (that is the worst of it), or people who cant come in touch with others without quarrelling, all sorts of stupidities they are there in the subconscient, deeply rooted. Now, when you have a goodwill, externally you do your best to avoid all that, to correct it if possible; you work, you fight; then become aware that this thing always keeps coming up, it comes up from some part which escapes your control. But if you enter this subconscient, if you let your consciousness infiltrate it, and look carefully, gradually you will discover all the sources, all the origins of all your difficulties; then you will begin to understand what your fathers and mothers, grandfa thers and grandmo thers were, and if at a certain moment you are unable to control yourself, you will understand, I am like that because they were like that.
   If you have within you a psychic being sufficiently awake to watch over you, to prepare your path, it can draw towards you things which help you, draw people, books, circumstances, all sorts of little coincidences which come to you as though brought by some benevolent will and give you an indication, a help, a support to take decisions and turn you in the right direction. But once you have taken this decision, once you have decided to find the truth of your being, once you start sincerely on the road, then everything seems to conspire to help you to advance, and if you observe carefully you see gradually the source of your difficulties: Ah! Wait a minute, this defect was in my father; oh! this habit was my mothers; oh! my grandmo ther was like this, my grandfa ther was like that. Or it could well be the nurse who took care of you when you were small, or brothers and sisters who played with you, the little friends you met, and you will find that all this was there, in this person or that or the other. But if you continue to be sincere, you find you can cross all this quite calmly, and after a time you cut all the moorings with which you were born, break the chains and go freely on the path.

1951-04-02 - Causes of accidents - Little entities, helpful or mischievous- incidents, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   If one answers deeply Outwardly there are many causes, but there is a deeper cause which is always there. I said the other day that if the nervous envelope is intact, accidents can be avoided, and even if there is an accident it wont have any consequences. As soon as there is a scratch or a defect in the nervous envelope of the being and according to the nature of this scratch, if one may say so, its place, its character, there will be an accident which will correspond to the diminution of resistance in the envelope. I believe almost everybody is psychologically aware of one thing: that accidents occur when one has a sort of uncomfortable feeling, when one is not fully conscious and self-possessed, when one feels uneasy. In any case, generally, people have a feeling that they are not fully themselves, not fully aware of what they are doing. If one were fully conscious, the consciousness wide awake, accidents would not occur; one would make just the right gesture, the necessary movement to avoid the accident. Hence, in an almost absolute way, it is a flagging of consciousness. Or quite possibly it may be that the consciousness is fixed in a higher domain; for example, not to speak of spiritual things, a man who is busy solving a mental problem and is very concentrated upon his mental problem, becomes inattentive to physical things, and if he happens to be in a street or in a crowd, his attention fixed upon his problem, he will not make the movement necessary to avoid the accident, and the accident will occur. It is the same for sports, for games; you can observe this easily, there is always a flagging of the consciousness when accidents occur, or a lack of attention, a little absent-mindedness; suddenly one thinks of something else, the attention is drawn elsewhereone is not fully conscious of what one is doing and the accident happens.
   As I was telling you at the beginning, if for some reason or other for example, lack of sleep, lack of rest or an absorbing preoccupation or all sorts of things which tire you, that is to say, when you are not above themif the vital envelope is a little damaged, it does not function perfectly and any current of force whatever which passes through is enough to produce an accident. In the final analysis, the accident comes always from that, it is what one may call inattentiveness or a slackening of consciousness. There are days when one feels quite not exactly uneasy, but as though one were trying to catch something which escapes, one cant hold together, one is as though half-diluted; these are the days of accidents. You must be attentive. Naturally, this is not to tell you to shut yourself up in your room and not to stir out when you feel like that! This is not what I mean. Rather I mean that you must watch all the more attentively, be all the more on your guard, not allow, precisely, this inattentiveness, this slackening of consciousness to come in.

1951-04-17 - Unity, diversity - Protective envelope - desires - consciousness, true defence - Perfection of physical - cinema - Choice, constant and conscious - law of ones being - the One, the Multiplicity - Civilization- preparing an instrument, #Questions And Answers 1950-1951, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   This is indeed something very interesting. I have seen that material things are arranged in such a way at present that one could reach a high degree of perfection of the physical instrument in any field whatever, no matter what may be the degree of inner or psychic development. This was what I thought yesterday evening about the talkies. It is evidently a great progress in the cinematographic art and it cant be called in itself bad or good. It was that I had always seen only talkies of idiotic, vulgar, crude stories, indeed all the stupidities generally shown in cinemas, and this perfection of the instrument had made the crudity yet more crude, the stupidity yet more stupid, and this kind of impression of degradation yet more strong. But yesterday, when we saw that documentary with the beautiful birds singing. Those who made this film have taken great pains, one cant imagine how much of effort and work it entails to film birds in their nests without disturbing them, then to record the sound accurately enough to be able to amplify it and make it perceptible to all. It is a very big work they have done there. And it is the same perfecting of the same instrument which permitted the production of the lovely thing we saw yesterday evening and that ignoble thing we saw sometime ago. This makes us reflect deeply on material things.
   Physical perfection does not at all prove, not the least in the world, that one has taken one step farther towards spirituality. Physical perfection means that the instrument the force will useany force whateverwill be sufficiently perfected to be remarkably expressive. But the important point, the essential point is the force which will use the instrument, and it is there that the choice is necessary. If you perfect your body and make of it a remarkable instrument, you must not at all think that because of that you are nearer to the spiritual life. You prepare a remarkable instrument so that this spiritual life may manifest in it, if it manifests itself. But it is for you always to choose what will be manifested. There are people who perfect their body, who build a strong, solid, energetic, agile, capable body, and all this simply to be able to better affirm their ego and the strength of their ego. Others may prepare the body to be sure that when the spiritual light manifests, it will find an instrument capable of doing all that is asked of it. Whatever the work required, the instrument will be so perfected as to be able to do it without difficulty, spontaneously, immediately. This is to arouse your attention to the most important fact which is the choice of the force you will allow to manifest in your body. Perfect your body, make it a remarkable instrument, but never forget that there is a choice to be made and that this choice ought to be made constantlyone doesnt make it once for all, it must always be renewed. Because, before one reaches the total union, the total expression, there will always be this invasion of external things which will try to enter you and spoil all the work. So, the necessary, indispensable condition is a constant vigilance. Do not sleep with satisfaction under the pretext that you have once made your choice: Oh! Now it is all right, everything is all right. In principle everything is all right; in the sincerity of your choice lies also the guarantee of its duration. But for the sincerity to be perfect and the choice unshakable, one must never sleep I dont mean you must not sleep physically, I mean the consciousness must not sleep! And this is an introduction to what I shall read to you next time, a letter Sri Aurobindo wrote quite a long time ago; if I remember rightly, it was in 1928, October 1928. You see, things do not change very quickly.

1953-05-06, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   After a time, the vital having taken a good stroll, needs to rest also, and so it goes into repose and quietness, quite tired at the end of all kinds of adventures. Then something else wakes up. Let us suppose that it is the subtle physical that goes for a walk. It starts moving and begins wandering, seeing the rooms and why, this thing that was there, but it has come here and that other thing which was in that room is now in this one, and so on. If you wake up without stirring, you remember. But this has pushed away far to the back of the consciousness all the stories of the vital. They are forgotten and so you cannot recollect your dreams. But if at the time of waking up you are not in a hurry, you are not obliged to leave your bed, on the contrary you can remain there as long as you wish, you need not even open your eyes; you keep your head exactly where it was and you make yourself like a tranquil mirror within and concentrate there. You catch just a tiny end of the tail of your dream. You catch it and start pulling gently, without stirring in the least. You begin pulling quite gently, and then first one part comes, a little later another. You go backward; the last comes up first. Everything goes backward, slowly, and suddenly the whole dream reappears: Ah, there! it was like that. Above all, do not jump up, do not stir; you repeat the dream to yourself several timesonce, twiceuntil it becomes clear in all its details. Once that dream is settled, you continue not to stir, you try to go further in, and suddenly you catch the tail of something else. It is more distant, more vague, but you can still seize it. And here also you hang on, get hold of it and pull, and you see that everything changes and you enter another world; all of a sudden you have an extraordinary adventureit is another dream. You follow the same process. You repeat the dream to yourself once, twice, until you are sure of it. You remain very quiet all the time. Then you begin to penetrate still more deeply into yourself, as though you were going in very far, very far; and again suddenly you see a vague form, you have a feeling, a sensation like a current of air, a slight breeze, a little breath; and you say, Well, well. It takes a form, it becomesclear and the third category comes. You must have a lot of time, a lot of patience, you must be very quiet in your mind and body, very quiet, and you can tell the story of your whole night from the end right up to the beginning.
   Even without doing this exercise which is very long and difficult, in order to recollect a dream, whether it be the last one or the one in the middle that has made a violent impression on your being, you must do what I have said when you wake up: take particular care not even to move your head on the pillow, remain absolutely still and let the dream return.

1953-06-10, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Simply observe. You are in a certain condition, a certain undefinable condition. Then look: What! how is it I am like that? You try to see first if you have fever or some other illness; but it is all right, everything is all right, theres neither headache nor fever, the stomach is not protesting, the heart is functioning as it should, indeed, alls well, you are normal. Why then am I feeling so uneasy? So you go a little further within. It depends on cases. Sometimes you find out immediately: yes, there was a little incident which wasnt pleasant, someone said a word that was not happy or one had failed in his task or perhaps did not know ones lesson very well, the teacher had made a remark. At the time, one did not pay attention properly, but later on, it begins to work, leaves a painful impression. That is the second stage. Afterwards, if nothing happened: Alls well, everything is normal, everything usual, I have nothing to note down, nothing has happened: why then do I feel like that? Now it begins to be interesting, because one must enter much more deeply within oneself. And then it can be all sorts of things: it may be precisely the expression of an attack that is preparing; it may be a little inner anxiety seeking the progress that has to be made; it may be a premonition that there is somewhere in contact with oneself something not altogether harmonious which one has to change: something one must see, discover, change, on which light is to be put, something that is still there, deep down, and which should no longer be there. Then if you look at yourself very carefully, you find out: There! I am still like that; in that little corner, there is still something of that kind, not clear: a little selfishness, a little ill-will, something refusing to change. So you see it, you take it by the tip of its nose or by the ear and hold it up in full light: So, you were hiding! you are hiding? But I dont want you any longer. And then it has to go away.
   This is a great progress.

1953-07-01, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Note that this power of formation has a great advantage, if one knows how to use it. You can make good formations and if you make them properly, they will act in the same way as the others. You can do a lot of good to people just by sitting quietly in your room, perhaps even more good than by undergoing a lot of trouble externally. If you know how to think correctly, with force and intelligence and kindness, if you love someone and wish him well very sincerely, deeply, with all your heart, that does him much good, much more certainly than you think. I have said this often; for example, to those who are here, who learn that someone in their family is very ill and feel that childish impulse of wanting to rush immediately to the spot to attend to the sick person. I tell you, unless it is an exceptional case and there is nobody to attend on the sick person (and at times even in such a case), if you know how to keep the right attitude and concentrate with affection and good will upon the sick person, if you know how to pray for him and make helpful formations, you will do him much more good than if you go to nurse him, feed him, help him wash himself, indeed all that everybody can do. Anybody can nurse a person. But not everybody can make good formations and send out forces that act for healing.
   In any case, to come back to our paradise, it is a childish deformationignorant or politicalof something which is true in a sense but not quite like that. I have told you many times and I could not repeat it too often, that one is not built up of one single piece. We have within us many states of being and each state of being has its own life. All this is put together in one single body, so long as you have a body, and acts through that single body; so that gives you the feeling that it is one single person, a single being. But there are many beings and particularly there are concentrations on different levels: just as you have a physical being, you have a vital being, you have a mental being, you have a psychic being, you have many others and all possible intermediaries. But it is a little complicated, you might not understand. Suppose you were living a life of desire, passion and impulse: you live with your vital being dominant in you; but if you live with spiritual effort, with great good will, the desire to do things well and an unselfishness, a will for progress, you live with the psychic being dominant in you. Then, when you are about to leave your body, all these beings start to disperse. Only if you are a very advanced yogi and have been able to unify your being around the divine centre, do these beings remain bound together. If you have not known how to unify yourself, then at the time of death all that is dispersed: each one returns to its domain. For example, with regard to the vital being, all your different desires will be separated and each one run towards its own realisation, quite independently, for the physical being will no longer be there to hold them together. But if you have united your consciousness with the psychic consciousness, when you die you remain conscious of your psychic being and the psychic being returns to the psychic world which is a world of bliss and delight and peace and tranquillity and of a growing knowledge. So, if you like to call that a paradise, it is all right; because in fact, to the extent to which you are identified with your psychic being, you remain conscious of it, you are one with it, and it is immortal and goes to its immortal domain to enjoy a perfectly happy life or rest. If you like to call that paradise, call it paradise. If you are good, if you have become conscious of your psychic and live in it, well, when your body dies, you will go with your psychic being to take rest in the psychic world, in a blissful state.

1953-07-15, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   But there is a way out of the difficulty. (To a child) Do you know it, you? Yes, yes, you know it! You will see all these conceptions and this idea that you have are based upon one thing, an entity that you call God and a world that you call his creation, and you believe these are two different things, one having made the other and the other being under the first, being the expression of what the first has made. Well, that is the initial error. If you could feel deeply that there is no division between that something you call God and this something you call his creation, if you said: It is exactly the same thing and if you could feel that what you call God (perhaps it is only a word), what you call God suffers when you suffer, he does not know when you do not know; and that it is through this creation, little by little, step by step, that he finds himself again, unites with himself, is realising himself, expressing himself, and it is not at all something he wanted in an arbitrary way or made like an autocrat, but that it is the growing expression, developing more and more, of a consciousness that is objectifying itself to itself. Then there is no other thing but the sense of a collective advancing towards a more total realisation, a self-awareness of knowledge-consciousness no other thing but that, a progressive self-awareness of knowledge-consciousness in a total unity which will reproduce integrally the Original Consciousness.
   That changes the problem.

1953-10-28, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   You have followed very little of this movement of art I am speaking about, which is related to European civilisation, it has not been felt much herejust a little but not deeply. Here, the majority of creations (this is a very good example), the majority of works, I believe even almost all the beautiful works, are not signed. All those paintings in the caves, those statues in the temples these are not signed. One does not know at all who created them. And all this was not done with the idea of making a name for oneself as at present. One happened to be a great sculptor, a great painter, a great architect, and then that was all, there was no question of putting ones name on everything and proclaiming it aloud in the newspapers so that no one might forget it! In those days the artist did what he had to do without caring whether his name would go down to posterity or not. All was done in a movement of aspiration to express a higher beauty, and above all with the idea of giving an appropriate abode to the godhead who was evoked. In the cathedrals of the Middle Ages, it was the same thing, and I dont think that there too the names of the artists who made them have remained. If any are there, it is quite exceptional and it is only by chance that the name has been preserved. Whilst today, there is not a tiny little piece of canvas, painted or daubed, but on it is a signature to tell you: it is Mr. So-and-so who made this!
   It is said that a synthesis of western and eastern art could be made?

1953-12-23, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   If one sees things from the ordinary viewpoint, one does not notice this. But the associations of atmosphereone must take care of that. That is why when one travels in groups, one must know with whom one travels. One should have an inner knowledge, should have a vision. And then, if one sees somebody who has a kind of small black cloud around him, one must take care not to travel with him, for, surely an accident will occurthough perhaps not to him. Hence, it is quite useful to know things a little more deeply than in the altogether superficial way.
   (Looking at the child) He looks as if he found life becoming very difficult in this way!

1953-12-30, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Yes, my child. And for years I have been fighting for it to be otherwise. When youyou children, herewhen you are old enough and ready to become teachers, then you will be entrusted with teaching the newcomers the right thing, in the right way. Actually, for the time being, it is much more a school of teachers than a school of students! What is wanted is that you prepare yourselves by learning what everybody knows for there is an indispensable basis: it is not anything very much, it is not a very detailed or very deeply established basis, but still there is a basis of general human knowledge thats necessary but once you have that basis and have at the same time benefited by the influence that is here, and when you have read and understood sufficiently well to be able to see from that angle the angle of the true lifewell, when you know all that, you will be the ones asked to teach the children from outside what you have learnt. That is part of the work.
   It is true that apart from a few rare exceptions, the teaching is given on the most ordinary principles. I know it. But, for instance, in order that it be otherwise, the books which are used should be prepared here, with the extracts chosen here, even with the method of teaching worked out here. I have asked several persons to do it. But this is one of those interminable tasks which make you always put off for the next year the possibility of taking a class which does not follow the grooves of the past. That preparation of the material, for instance, for the true understanding of things, that takes time. One has to face very concrete problems. It is difficult to teach children without their having books to be able to study. But these books, finally, are perforce ordered from the stock available. There is not much choice. One tries to find the best that is available, but the best that is there is yet not very good. There also, I need people to prepare them, these books. But precisely, I believe that someone who has grown up here from childhood and felt things quite subconsciously when very young and who has in spite of every-thing that leaves a trace, it cannot go without any effect; and when one sees children brought up here beside those who come from outside, there is truly a great difference (perhaps not outwardly in the mechanical part of training, but in the understanding, the intelligence, in the inner awakening), there is a considerable difference, and the new ones need some time to come up to the same level. It is something beyond books, dont you see? It is like the difference between living in a pure atmosphere, filling the lungs with pure air every time one breathes and living in an infected atmosphere and poisoning oneself every time one breathes. From the point of view of consciousness it is the same phenomenon, and it is essentially the most important thing. And it is this which completely escapes the superficial consciousness. You are plunged in a sea of consciousness full of light, aspiration, true understanding, essential purity, and whether you want it or not it enters. Even for those who are shut up in their outer consciousness, well, they cannot sleep in vain. There is an action here during sleep which is quite considerable, considerable. So that has an effect, it is visible. I have seen people who had come altogether from outside, who knew nothing (only they had spent their life taking interest in children), well, the impression of these peoplevisitors, people just passing by theyare all quite bewildered: But you have children here as I have never seen elsewhere! As for us, we are used to it, arent we? They are spontaneously like that, quite naturally. But there is an awakening in the consciousness, there is a kind of inner response and a feeling of blossoming, of inner freedom which is not found elsewhere. Some of the children who come here are terribly well brought upso polite, so well-bred, who answer you so and one gets the impression of little puppets, just half alive, who have been well polished, well brushed, well groomed outside, but within there is no response. Here, I cannot say that we give an example of unusual politeness (!), one is rather a little a little what people call ill-bred. But in that too one is so alive! One feels a consciousness vibrating here. And that is the most important part of all. And of this one does not speak, for these are things one does, but does not telloccasion like todays has to be there for me to speak to you about it. Indeed, you have been here for so many years, and this is the first time I have had it. Voil.
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   Yes, every year. During the war it was wonderful, it was like a prophecy of what was going to come. Now there is no longer any war and no more need of prophecy! But it is always an indication of the progress which has to be made. You will receive it tomorrow morning, the prayer.2 But I advise you to reflect deeply on it. For truly it was spoken and considered as of great importance. Now we are becoming almost a thing of public interest, in the sense that there are lots of visitors coming and lots of people concerned about what we are doing here, and then they are taken round and told what we have supposedly done and what we are going to do and all that. And there was truly a great need to say: I beg of you, dont speak so much about what we are doing: do it. That is all.
   It is always better to do than to speak, and in the least details also.

1954-02-17 - Experience expressed in different ways - Origin of the psychic being - Progress in sports -Everything is not for the best, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  This means that the material world, just as it is, is very awkward at expressing the truth which is behind. That is obvious. I believe we dont need to reflect very deeply to perceive that, unless there are people Yes, in The Four Austerities I speak of those who are perfectly adjusted in life and find everything wonderful, but I havent yet met many of these who can believe it all their life through. I am speaking of optimistsone is optimistic so long as one is healthy and very young, and then, as soon as one begins to be less strong and less healthy, optimism vanishes. But still, if one has a little see and sensibility, it is easy to see that everything is not for the best in the best possible world, for if you yourself are comfortable and have all you need, if you are getting on well and have no cares, that does not mean that there are not millions of beings in altogether painful and sad situation. Then, it may be very easy to think only of oneself. But it is not something very advisable. I knew people who were very rich and had never had the chance to come into contact with those who had nothing or hadnt enough, and for them it was something unthinkable. I knew a lady (I knew many) who lived in a very fine apartment with many servants and all possible comfortshe had always lived thus and had never known any but easy circumstancesand one day I spoke to her about someone, a person of great worth and merit but who had nothing, hadnt enough to eatand I asked her to help that person, not with money for she would not have accepted it, but with some work or by inviting her to pass some time with her (for she had a philosophical mind and could have helped intellectually). So I told her: You know, she doesnt always eat her fill. I saw that she did not understand. I said: Well, yes, she does not always have enough money to buy foodbuy bread and what she needs to eat.But surely there is always bread and food in the kitchen! (Laughter) She said that so spontaneously!
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1954-04-28 - Aspiration and receptivity - Resistance - Purusha and Prakriti, not masculine and feminine, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  There are people, you know, who have a lot of aspiration. They call the force. The force comes to themeven enters deeply into them and they are so unconscious that they dont know it! That indeed happens quite frequently. It is their state of unconsciousness, which prevents them from even feeling the force which enters into them. It enters into them, and does its work. I knew people who were gradually transformed and yet were so unconscious that they were not even aware of it. The consciousness comes latervery much later. On the other hand, there are people who are more passive, so to speak, more open, more attentive, and even if a very slight amount of force comes, they become aware of it immediately and use it fully.
  When you have an aspiration, a very active aspiration, your aspiration is going to do its work. It is going to call down the answer to what you aspire for. But if, later, you begin to think of something else or are not attentive or receptive, you do not even notice that your aspiration has received an answer. This happen very frequently. So people tell you: I aspire and I dont receive anything, I get no answer! Yes, you do have an answer but you are not aware of it, because you continue to be active in this way, like a mill turning all the time.

1954-06-02 - Learning how to live - Work, studies and sadhana - Waste of the Energy and Consciousness, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Let us take simply a question about your class, shall we?the school class. Even as an undisciplined, disobedient and ill-willed child can disorganise the classand this is why at times one is obliged to put him out, because simply by his presence he can completely disorganise the classso too, if there is a student who has the absolutely right attitude, the will to learn in everything, so that not a word is pronounced, not a gesture made, but it becomes for him an opportunity to learn somethinghis presence can have the opposite effect and help the class to rise in education. If, consciously, he is in this state of intensity of aspiration to learn and correct himself, he communicates this to the others. It is true that in the present state of things the bad example is much more contagious than the good one! It is much easier to follow the bad example than the good, but the good too is useful, and a class with a true student who is there only because he wants to learn and apply himself, who is deeply interested in every opportunity to learn,this creates a solid atmosphere.
  You can help.

1954-09-15 - Parts of the being - Thoughts and impulses - The subconscient - Precise vocabulary - The Grace and difficulties, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Ah, yes, ah, yes! Ah, it is very difficult to be sincere That is why the blows multiply and sometimes become terrible, because thats the only thing which breaks your stupidity. This is the justification of calamities. Only when you are in an acutely painful situation and indeed before something that affects you deeply, then that makes the stupidity melt away a little. But as you say, even when there is something that melts, there is still a little something which remain inside. And that is why it lasts so long.
  How many blows are needed in life for one to know to the very depths that one is nothing, that one can do nothing that one does not exist, that one is nothing, that there is no entity without the divine Consciousness and the Grace. From the moment one knows it, it is over; all the difficulties have gone. When one knows it integrally and there is nothing which resists but till that moment And it takes very long.

1954-11-03 - Body opening to the Divine - Concentration in the heart - The army of the Divine - The knot of the ego -Streng thening ones will, #Questions And Answers 1954, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  He says here that it is easier. For some people it is more difficult, it depends on ones nature. But it is better because if you concentrate there, deeply enough, it is there that you enter into contact with the psychic for the first time; while if you concentrate in the head you have to pass later from the head to the heart to be able to identify yourself with the psychic being. And if you concentrate by gathering the energies, it is better to gather them here, because it is in this centre, in this region of the being that you find the will to progress, the force of purification, and the most intense and effective aspiration. The aspiration that comes from the heart is much more effective than that from the head.
  Will and aspiration are needed to bring down the aid of the Divine Force and to keep the being on its side in its dealings with the lower powers. What is the meaning of keep the being on its side?

1955-02-23 - On the sense of taste, educating the senses - Fasting produces a state of receptivity, drawing energy - The body and food, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  There are certain faculties which get intensified, and so one takes that for a spiritual effect. It has very little to do with the spiritual life except that there are people who eat much, think much about their food, are very deeply absorbed in it, and then when they have eaten well-and as I say, they must digest it, and so all their energies are concentrated on their digestion-these people are dull in mind, and this pulls them down very much towards matter; so if they stop eating and stop thinking about food-because there is one thing, that if one fasts and thinks all the time that he is hungry and would like to eat, then it is ten times worse than eating-and can truly fast because they think of something else and are occupied with something else and are not interested in food-then that can help one to climb to a slightly higher degree of consciousness, to free himself from the slavery to material needs. But fasting is above all good for those who believe in it-as everything. When you have the faith that this will make you progress, is going to purify you, it does you good. If you don't believe in it, it doesn't do much, except that it makes you thin.
  There was... Maeterlinck-you know the books of Maeterlinck, I think; you must have read The Blue Bird and others. He was a very fat man, and as he had a sense of beauty, becoming fat upset him very much. So he had decided to fast once a week; one day in the week he did not eat, and as he was an intelligent man he did not bother about food; he wrote, he worked hard on that day, and that kept him reasonably well and in an elegant form; and from that point of view it was very useful to him.

1955-10-05 - Science and Ignorance - Knowledge, science and the Buddha - Knowing by identification - Discipline in science and in Buddhism - Progress in the mental field and beyond it, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  The scientist will tell you: Study the laws of Nature, know all that it can teach you and it will give you the knowledge which will enable you to master life and become its possessor instead of being possessed by it. But here we see, according to what we have just read, that as he goes on studying and searching, sincerely and more and more deeply, he becomes aware that there is something which eludes him, because, quite naturally, he comes to the limit of the material world and, there, he faces a precipice; he can no longer carry on his research in what is beyond, because the same methods dont suffice.
  But if we take the question from the other end, we shall see that the ignorance the Buddha was speaking about was not at all that which consists in not knowing that if one swallows poison one is poisoned, or that if one keeps his head under water without breathing, he is sure to be drowned; it is not even in not knowing how Nature builds the atoms; but for him ignorance consisted in believing that the world was real and that life could be good if one had the good luck to live in favourable conditions. To come into the world was to be born into ignorance; it was the result, according to him, of a desire to live; and as this desire for life was in itself the supreme ignorance, if one abolished desire, quite naturally after some time one would abolish life, since it is its resultlife, the world and all this unhealthy and baneful appearance.

1955-11-02 - The first movement in Yoga - Interiorisation, finding ones soul - The Vedic Age - An incident about Vivekananda - The imaged language of the Vedas - The Vedic Rishis, involutionary beings - Involution and evolution, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  I had once read something, I dont know where now, because it was in France, it was a translation in a book, perhaps one of those theosophical books which make translations of Indian things. I had read an incident recounted about Vivekananda who had been deeply shocked and had scolded a disciple because the latter had told him: Oh! Look how magnificent is the sunset! This had shocked him deeply. I remember I read this in France and it struck me; I still remember it because it seemed to me it was his remark that seemed scandalous to me! He said, Oh! Is it beautiful? If you appreciate the beauty of Nature you will never attain the Divine. I dont know, by the way, whether this was true or had been invented by the one who narrated it, I know nothing about it. I am only saying I had read it and that it struck me so much that many times when I look at the sunset or sunrise or a lovely effect of light I still recall this and tell myself, Why! Such a dissociation how strange that one cant live the spiritual life if one admires Nature!
  So if it is true that he was like that, he was certainly at the other end of our programme. I am telling you I dont know whether it is true, but still, I am giving it to you for what its worth. And all that I read about him was like this: that he had a deep contempt for all physical things, that he took them at the most as a means of self-development and liberationnothing more.

1955-11-09 - Personal effort, egoistic mind - Man is like a public square - Natures work - Ego needed for formation of individual - Adverse forces needed to make man sincere - Determinisms of different planes, miracles, #Questions And Answers 1955, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  I knew people who had truly made a lot of progress, who were very close to the moment when one emerges into the truth of things, and who were held back simply by this. Because this need to be the source of the action, to have the merit of the effort, this need is so deeply rooted that they cannot take the last step. Sometimes it takes years. If they are told, No, it isnt you, this energy which is in you, this will which is in you, this knowledge which is in you, all this is the Divine; it is not what you call yourself, this makes them so miserable that they cant do anything any more. Thats what Sri Aurobindo wants to say in this sentence.
  There are people who have such a need to keep the sense of their separate personality that if they are forced to admit that all that springs upwards is inspired by the Divine or even done by Him, they keep for their little person the whole side of defects, faults, errors, and they cherish their defects, so that at least something remains theirs, which is indeed their own, their personal property: Yes, all that is beautiful, luminous, is the Divine; all horrible things thats myself. But a self a big self; one must not touch it!

1956-02-15 - Nature and the Master of Nature - Conscious intelligence - Theory of the Gita, not the whole truth - Surrender to the Lord - Change of nature, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  But all those who feel themselves driven by a force and say, I was forced to do it, without the participation of their will, show that they are still deeply rooted in animality, that is to say, in the inconscient. One begins to become a conscious human being only when one knows why one does things and when one is capable of changing ones action by a determined will, when one has a control. Before having any control, one is still more or less an animal with a small embryo of consciousness which is just beginning, a little flame flickering and trying to burn, and likely to be blown out by the slightest sing breeze.
    Nature as Prakriti is an inertly active Force,for she works out a movement imposed upon her; but within her is One that knows.

1956-08-15 - Protection, purification, fear - Atmosphere at the Ashram on Darshan days - Darshan messages - Significance of 15-08 - State of surrender - Divine Grace always all-powerful - Assumption of Virgin Mary - SA message of 1947-08-15, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Sri Aurobindo always spoke of two movements: the formation of the individual in order to be able to reach the goal individually, and the preparation of the world. For the progress of the individual is, so to say, not exactly delayed or helped by the condition of the whole, but this brings about a certain balance between the two. The individual movement is always much more rapid and more penetrating; it goes farther, more deeply and more quickly. The collective movement forms a sort of basis which both restrains and supports at the same time. And it is the balance between these two movements which is necessary. So, the more rapidly one goes individually, the more necessary it is to try to extend and streng then the collective basis.
  Mother, has this day, the fifteenth of August, an occult or a simple significance? For, in history, important events occurred on this day.

1956-11-21 - Knowings and Knowledge - Reason, summit of mans mental activities - Willings and the true will - Personal effort - First step to have knowledge - Relativity of medical knowledge - Mental gymnastics make the mind supple, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  And you will notice that this is perhaps the most difficult thing to do; it is the most difficult step, for, when you study general subjects like science, the different branches of science or philosophy and all such activities, when you study them a little seriously and deeply, you very easily come to the sense of the relativity of this knowledge. But when you come down a step again, just to the next level of mental activity and look at the different problems of life for example, what should be done in this or that case, the conditions for realising something, a skill one wants to learn, or even the different necessities of life, the conditions of living, of healthyou will find that generally a rational being, or somebody about to become one, forms a set of ideas for himself, which are really knowings: such a thing will produce such an effect, or in order to obtain this thing, that other must be done, etc. And you have a whole mental construction in yourself, made of observations, studies, experiments; and the more you advance in age, the greater becomes the number of experiments and results of study and observation. You make for yourself a sort of mental structure in which you live. And unless you are powerfully intelligent, with an opening to the higher worlds, you have an innate, spontaneous, unshakable conviction of the absolute worth of your observations, and even without your having to think, it acts automatically in your being: by a sort of habit this thing inevitably brings that particular result. So for you, when this has happened quite often, the habit of associating the two movements naturally gives rise within you to the feeling of the absolute value of your ideas or your knowings about yourself and your life. And there it is infinitely more difficult to come to an understanding of the relativity the uncertainty bordering on illusionof that knowledge. You find this out only if, with a will for spiritual discipline and progress, you look at these things with a deep critical sense and see the kind of bondage into which you have put yourself, which acts without any need of intervention from you, automatically, with the support of the subconscious and that kind of automatism of reflexes which makes causes and effects follow each other in a habitual order without your being in the least aware of it.
  Well, if you want to attain knowledge, the first thing, the first indispensable step is not to believe in the validity of those things. And if you observe yourself, you will realise that this belief in the validity of these observations and deductions is almost absolute in you. It expresses itself through all sorts of ideas which reasonably enough appear evident to you, yet are exactly the limitations which prevent you from reaching knowledge by identity. For instance, if a man plunges into the water without knowing how to swim, he will be drowned; if there is a fairly powerful wind, it will upset things; when it rains, you get wet, etc.you see, there are instances like this at every second, it is like that. And this seems so obvious to you that when you are told, Well, but no, this is a relative knowledge, it is like that but it could be different, the one who tells you this seems to you a priori half-mad. And you say, But still, these things are concrete! These are things we can see, touch, feel, these are proofs our senses give to us every minute, and if we do not take our stand on them, we are sure to go astray and enter the irrational.

1956-12-12 - paradoxes - Nothing impossible - unfolding universe, the Eternal - Attention, concentration, effort - growth capacity almost unlimited - Why things are not the same - will and willings - Suggestions, formations - vital world, #Questions And Answers 1956, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  These suggestions are very numerous, manifold, varied, with natures which are very, very different from each other, but they may be classified into three principal orders. Firstand they are hardly perceptible to the ordinary consciousness; they become perceptible only to those who have already reflected much, observed much, deeply studied their own beingthey are what could be called collective suggestions.
  When a being is born upon earth, he is inevitably born in a certain country and a certain environment. Due to his physical parents he is born in a set of social, cultural, national, sometimes religious circumstances, a set of habits of thinking, of understanding, of feeling, conceiving, all sorts of constructions which are at first mental, then become vital habits and finally material modes of being. To put things more clearly, you are born in a certain society or religion, in a particular country, and this society has a collective conception of its own and this nation has a collective conception of its own, this religion has a collective construction of its own which is usually very fixed. You are born into it. Naturally, when you are very young, you are altogether unaware of it, but it acts on your formation that formation, that slow formation through hours and hours, through days and days, experiences added to experiences, which gradually builds up a consciousness. You are underneath it as beneath a bell-glass. It is a kind of construction which covers and in a way protects you, but in other ways limits you considerably. All this you absorb without even being aware of it and this forms the subconscious basis of your own construction. This subconscious basis will act on you throughout your life, if you do not take care to free yourself from it. And to free yourself from it, you must first of all become aware of it; and the first step is the most difficult, for this formation was so subtle, it was made when you were not yet a conscious being, when you had just fallen altogether dazed from another world into this one (laughing) and it all happened without your participating in the least in it. Therefore, it does not even occur to you that there could be something to know there, and still less something you must get rid of. And it is quite remarkable that when for some reason or other you do become aware of the hold of this collective suggestion, you realise at the same time that a very assiduous and prolonged labour is necessary in order to get rid of it. But the problem does not end there.

1957-01-23 - How should we understand pure delight? - The drop of honey - Action of the Divine Will in the world, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Naturally, with this continuous discipline, in a very short time the desires will keep their distance and will no longer bother you. So you will be free to enter a little more deeply into your being and open yourself in an aspiration to the Giver of Delight, the divine Element, the divine Grace. And if this is done with a sincere self-giving something that gives itself, offers itself and expects nothing in exchange for its offeringone will feel that kind of sweet warmth, comfortable, intimate, radiant, which fills the heart and is the herald of Delight.
  After this, the path is easy.

1957-06-12 - Fasting and spiritual progress, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    It is indeed possible even while fasting for very long periods to maintain the full energies and activities of the soul and mind and life, even those of the body, to remain wakeful but concentrated in Yoga all the time, or to think deeply and write day and night, to dispense with sleep, to walk eight hours a day, maintaining all these activities separately or together and not feel any loss of strength, any fatigue, any kind of failure or decadence. At the end of the fast one can even resume at once taking the normal or even a greater than the normal amount of nourishment without any transition or precaution such as medical science enjoins, as if both the complete fasting and the feasting were natural conditions, alternating by an immediate and easy passage from one to the other, of a body already trained by a sort of initial transformation to be an instrument of the powers and activities of Yoga. But one thing one does not escape and that is the wasting of the material tissues of the body, its flesh and substance. Conceivably, if a practicable way and means could only be found, this last invincible obstacle too might be overcome and the body maintained by an interchange of its forces with the forces of material Nature, giving to her her need from the individual and taking from her directly the sustaining energies of her universal existence. Conceivably, one might rediscover and re-establish at the summit of the evolution of life the phenomenon we see at its base, the power to draw from all around it the means of sustenance and self-renewal. Or else the evolved being might acquire the greater power to draw down those means from above rather than draw them up or pull then in form the environment around, all about it and bellow it.
    The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp 28-29

1957-07-24 - The involved supermind - The new world and the old - Will for progress indispensable, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  At the basis of this collaboration there is necessarily the will to change, no longer to be what one is, for things to be no longer what they are. There are several ways of reaching it, and all the methods are good when they succeed! One may be deeply disgusted with what exists and wish ardently to come out of all this and attain something else; one mayand this is a more positive wayone may feel within oneself the touch, the approach of something positively beautiful and true, and willingly drop all the rest so that nothing may burden the journey to this new beauty and truth.
  What is indispensable in every case is the ardent will for progress, the willing and joyful renunciation of all that hampers the advance: to throw far away from oneself all that prevents one from going forward, and to set out into the unknown with the ardent faith that this is the truth of tomorrow, inevitable, which must necessarily come, which nothing, nobody, no bad will, even that of Nature, can prevent from becoming a realityperhaps of a not too distant futurea reality which is being worked out now and which those who know how to change, how not to be weighed down by old habits, will surely have the good fortune not only to see but to realise.

1958-08-27 - Meditation and imagination - From thought to idea, from idea to principle, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  But even without going so far that implies a rather hard discipline, doesnt it, a long-standing habityou can pass quite easily from the thought to the idea, and that gives you a light and an understanding in the mind which enables you, in your turn, to express the idea in any form. An idea can be expressed in many different forms, in many different thoughts, just as when you come down to a more material level, a thought can be expressed through many different words. Going downwards, towards expression, that is, spoken or written expression, there are many different words and different formulas which may serve to express a thought, but this thought is only one of the forms of thought which can express the idea, the idea behind, and this idea itself, if it is followed deeply, has behind it a principle of spiritual knowledge and power which can then spread and act on the manifestation.
  When you have a thought you look for words, dont you, and then you try to arrange these words to express your thought; you can use many words to express a thought, you tell yourself, No, look, if I put this word instead of that, it would express what I am thinking much better. That is what you learn when you are taught style, how to write.

1958-09-10 - Magic, occultism, physical science, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
    Occultism is associated in popular idea with magic and magical formulas and a supposed mechanism of the supernatural. But this is only one side, nor is it altogether a superstition as is vainly imagined by those who have not looked deeply or at all at this covert side of secret Nature-Force or experimented with its possibilities. Formulas and their application, a mechanisation of latent forces, can be astonishingly effective in the occult use of mind-power and life-power just as it is in physical Science, but this is only a subordinate method and a limited direction. For mind and life forces are plastic, subtle and variable in their action and have not the material rigidity; they need a subtle and plastic intuition in the knowledge of them, in the interpretation of their action and process and in their application,even in the interpretation and action of their established formulas. An overstress on mechanisation and rigid formulation is likely to result in sterilisation or a formalised limitation of knowledge and, on the pragmatic side, to much error, ignorant convention, misuse and failure. Now that we are outgrowing the superstition of the sole truth of Matter, a swing backward towards the old occultism and to new formulations, as well as to a scientific investigation of the still hidden secrets and powers of Mind and a close study of psychic and abnormal or supernormal psychological phenomena, is possible and, in parts, already visible. But if it is to fulfil itself, the true foundation, the true aim and direction, the necessary restrictions and precautions of this line of inquiry have to be rediscovered; its most important aim must be the discovery of the hidden truths and powers of the mind-force and the life-power and the greater forces of the concealed spirit. Occult science is, essentially, the science of the subliminal, the subliminal in ourselves and the subliminal in world-nature, and of all that is in connection with the subliminal, including the subconscient and the superconscient, and the use of it as part of self-knowledge and world-knowledge and for the right dynamisation of that knowledge.
    The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 875-77

1958 10 24, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   And then, once you have succeeded in going within yourself deeply enough to feel the reality of that which is within, to widen yourself progressively, systematically, to become as vast as the universe and lose the sense of limitation.
   These are the first two preparatory movements.

1960 02 17, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   To understand truly what Sri Aurobindo means here, you must yourself have had the experience of transcending reason and establishing your consciousness in a world higher than the mental intelligence. For from up there you can see, firstly, that everything that exists in the universe is an expression of Sachchidananda (Being-Consciousness-Bliss) and therefore behind any appearance whatever, if you go deeply enough, you can perceive Sachchidananda, which is the principle of Supreme Beauty. Secondly, you see that everything in the manifested universe is relative, so much so that there is no beauty which may not appear ugly in comparison with a greater beauty, no ugliness which may not appear beautiful in comparison with a yet uglier ugliness.
   When you can see and feel in this way, you immediately become aware of the extreme relativity of these impressions and their unreality from the absolute point of view. However, so long as we dwell in the rational consciousness, it is, in a way, natural that everything that offends our aspiration for perfection, our will for progress, everything we seek to transcend and surmount, should seem ugly and repellent to us, since we are in search of a greater ideal and we want to rise higher.

1960 11 13? - 50, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Naturally, people who do not think deeply enough will say, Ah, but if we saw that everything is as it should be, nothing would move! No, you cannot prevent things from moving! Even for a fraction of a second they do not stop moving. It is a continuous, total transformation, a movement that never ceases. And because it is difficult for us to feel like this, it is possible for us to imagine that if we were to enter into certain states of consciousness, things would not change. But even if we were to enter into an apparently total inertia, things would continue to change and so would we!
   Basically, disgust, revolt, anger, all these movements of violence are necessarily movements of ignorance and limitation, with all the weakness that limitation represents. Revolt is a weaknessit is the feeling of an impotent will. You willor you think you willyou feel, you see that things are not as they should be and you revolt against whatever does not agree with what you see. But if you were all-powerful, if your will and your vision were all-powerful, there would be no occasion for you to revolt, you would always see that all things are as they should be. If we go to the highest level and unite with the consciousness of the supreme Will, we see, at every second, at every moment of the universe, that all is exactly as it should be, exactly as the Supreme wills it. That is omnipotence. And all movements of violence become not only unnecessary but utterly ridiculous.

1961 05 22?, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   People are so deeply imbued with the Christian idea of God the Creator the creation on one side and God on the other. When you think about it you reject it, but it has penetrated into the sensations and feelings; so, spontaneously, instinctively, almost subconsciously, you attri bute to God everything you consider to be best and most beautiful and, above all, everything you want to attain, to realise. Naturally, each one changes the content of his God according to his own consciousness, but it is always what he considers to be best. And that is also why instinctively and spontaneously, subconsciously, you are shocked by the idea that God can be things that you do not like, that you do not approve of or do not think best.
   I put that rather childishly, on purpose, so that you can understand it properly. But it is like that I am sure, because I observed it in myself for a very long time, because of the subconscious formation of childhood, environment, education, etc. You must be able to press into this body the consciousness of Oneness, the absolute exclusive Oneness of the Divineexclusive in the sense that nothing exists except in this Oneness, even the things we find most repulsive.

1962 02 27, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I have had hundreds and hundreds of experiences like that; at the very last moment, not a second too soon, I was informed. And in the most varied circumstances. Once, in Paris, I was crossing the Boulevard Saint Michel. It was during the last weeks; I had decided that within a certain number of months I would achieve union with the psychic Presence, the inner Divine, and I no longer had any other thought, any other concern. I lived near the Luxembourg Gardens and every evening I used to walk there but always deeply absorbed within. There is a kind of intersection there, and it is not a place to cross when one is deeply absorbed within; it was not very sensible. And so I was like that, I was walking, when I suddenly received a shock, as if I had received a blow, as if something had hit me, and I jumped back instinctively. And as soon as I had jumped back, a tram went pastit was the tram that I had felt at a little more than arms length. It had touched the aura, the aura of protectionit was very strong at that time, I was deeply immersed in occultism and I knew how to keep it the aura of protection had been hit and that had literally thrown me backwards, as if I had received a physical shock. And what insults from the driver! I jumped back just in time and the tram went by.
   I could tell scores of such stories, if I could remember them.

1970 01 20, #On Thoughts And Aphorisms, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   All this makes us feel very deeply the foolishness of human judgments based on self-interest and the reactions of the ego.
   So long as men remain in their present state of ignorance, their judgments and opinions are worthless in the face of Truth and should be considered as such.

1.anon - The Epic of Gilgamesh Tablet IV, #Anonymous - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  and the dream I had was deeply disturbing(?)
  in the mountain gorges
  --
  and the dream I had was deeply disturbing.
  ,,     The heavens roared and the earth rumbled;
  --
  and the dream I had was deeply disturbing (?).
  (About 11 lines are missing)
  --
  and the dream I had was deeply disturbing (?).
  His tears were running in the presence of Shamash. 'What you said in Uruk,

1.anon - The Epic of Gilgamesh Tablet X, #Anonymous - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  My friend, whom I love deeply, who went through every hard-
               ship with me,
  Enkidu, whom I love deeply, who went through every hardship
                 with me,
  --
     My friend, whom I love deeply, who went through every hard-
                  ship with me,
     Enkidu, my friend, whom I love deeply, who went through
               every hardship with me,
  --
   My friend, whom I love deeply, who went through every hard-
                 shin with me
  Enkidu, my friend, whom I love deeply, who went through
             every hardship with me,

1f.lovecraft - A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   Annoyance to the Doctor; who was deeply orthodox, and who usd to say
   of the French Philosopher: Vir est acerrimi Ingenii et paucarum

1f.lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   prying too deeply beneath the surface of that ultimate waste of
   forbidden secrets and unhuman, aeon-cursed desolationthe
  --
   deeply riven from various geologic causes. In other places the
   stonework was worn down to the very level of the glaciation. One broad
  --
   oppressive; and there was something vaguely but deeply unhuman in all
   the contours, dimensions, proportions, decorations, and constructional
  --
   noticed that a trace of deeply filtered upper day kept the blackness
   from being absolute. Having automatically begun to move ahead, we
  --
   experiences and intimations which scar too deeply to permit of healing,
   and leave only such an added sensitiveness that memory reinspires all

1f.lovecraft - Old Bugs, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   with rigid severity. She had, in her own youth, been deeply and
   permanently impressed with the horror of dissipation by the case of one

1f.lovecraft - Poetry and the Gods, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   which was engulfing her more deeply each moment, she took a magazine
   from the table and searched for some healing bit of poetry. Poetry had

1f.lovecraft - The Beast in the Cave, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   flesh. Like those of other cave denizens, they were deeply sunken in
   their orbits, and were entirely destitute of iris. As I looked more

1f.lovecraft - The Call of Cthulhu, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   Legrasse, deeply impressed and not a little bewildered, had inquired in
   vain concerning the historic affiliations of the cult. Castro,
  --
   his stone vault at Rlyeh, and I felt deeply moved despite my rational
   beliefs. Wilcox, I was sure, had heard of the cult in some casual way,

1f.lovecraft - The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   coperating citizens think deeply. Parts of it, copied and preserved in
   the private archives of the Smith family where Charles Ward found it,
  --
   talking to her, although they made him ponder deeply when alone. These
   delusions always concerned the faint sounds which she fancied she heard
  --
   elder Ward was deeply worried and perplexed, and wished his son to get
   as much sound oversight as could be managed in the case of so secretive
  --
   deeply with the magnitude of Joseph Curwens original operations. He
   thought of the slaves and seamen who had disappeared, of the graves
  --
   significance to anyone not deeply initiated in the history of magic.
   But, he added, had you but known the words to bring up that which I
  --
   pleased them not at all. Dr. Willett was thinking deeply and rapidly,
   and his thoughts were terrible ones. Now and then he would almost break
  --
   caused the half-dazed parent to ponder long and deeply. Mr. Ward had
   not been able to go down to business since the shock of Monday with its

1f.lovecraft - The Challenge from Beyond, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   deeply learned Sussex clergyman of occultist leaningsthe Reverend
   Arthur Brooke Winters-Hallhad professed to identify the markings on

1f.lovecraft - The Colour out of Space, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   chisel. They gouged deeply this time, and as they pried away the
   smaller mass they saw that the core of the thing was not quite

1f.lovecraft - The Diary of Alonzo Typer, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   the cosmos as deeply as possible before doom comes.
   April 23

1f.lovecraft - The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   deeply cleft.
   Then came a wide gap in the range, where the hideous reaches of

1f.lovecraft - The Dunwich Horror, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   many branches are sunk into the sordid populace so deeply that only
   their names remain as a key to the origin they disgrace. Some of the

1f.lovecraft - The Electric Executioner, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   I will not pretend that I was anything but deeply and thoroughly
   frightened when I saw how things stood. Perspiration started out all
  --
   His eyes grew deeply crafty, and he leaned forward, touching me on the
   knee with the fingers of a paradoxically delicate hand.

1f.lovecraft - The Haunter of the Dark, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   stay in the citya visit to a strange old man as deeply given to occult
   and forbidden lore as hehad ended amidst death and flame, and it must

1f.lovecraft - The Horror at Red Hook, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   would not eat so deeply into his soul. But at the time it was all
   horribly real, and nothing can ever efface the memory of those nighted

1f.lovecraft - The Last Test, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   the Clarendon home, though he saw that his presence was deeply resented
   by Surama. The bony clinic-man formed the habit of glaring peculiarly
  --
   deeply despair and resentment had bitten.
   Abate? Break out again? Oh, itll abate all right! At least, theyll
  --
   room, but his energies had been taxed too deeply for such measures. A
   seconds rest in the chair by the table took matters out of his hands,

1f.lovecraft - The Loved Dead, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   tasks my vocation required, that my impressionable youth was too deeply
   affected by the dismal atmosphere of my environment. How little did he

1f.lovecraft - The Lurking Fear, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   earth back into the excavation that I could not tell how deeply I had
   dug that other day. I likewise made a difficult trip to the distant

1f.lovecraft - The Mound, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   dreamless rest. It is well that he rested deeply, for there were many
   strange things to be encountered in his next period of consciousness.

1f.lovecraft - The Music of Erich Zann, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   deeply into all the antiquities of the place; and have personally
   explored every region, of whatever name, which could possibly answer to

1f.lovecraft - The Night Ocean, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   (something I did not even wish assuaged, so deeply was it embedded in
   my heart) which had insinuated itself within me, mumbling of terrible

1f.lovecraft - The Other Gods, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   to behold the gods of earth; a man deeply learned in the seven
   cryptical books of Hsan, and familiar with the Pnakotic Manuscripts of

1f.lovecraft - The Quest of Iranon, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   slipped away. Small Romnod was now not so small, and spoke deeply
   instead of shrilly, though Iranon was always the same, and decked his

1f.lovecraft - The Shadow out of Time, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   enough I could make out some deeply carved lines in spite of the
   weathering. They were peculiar curves, just like what the blacks had
  --
   any plan you may devise. After studying your articles I am deeply
   impressed with the profound significance of the whole matter. Dr.
  --
   affable man of about fifty, admirably well-read, and deeply familiar
   with all the conditions of Australian travel. He had tractors waiting
  --
   thrust deeply within my mouthI felt myself torn by the fantastic
   stalactites of the jagged floor above me.
  --
   this last, deeply buried floor, and as I drew near it I recalled what
   thing in that space I feared. It was merely one of the metal-barred and

1f.lovecraft - The Shadow over Innsmouth, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   That inspectors story must have worked on my imagination more deeply
   than I had suspected. Again I tried to read, but found that I made no
  --
   buried myself in routine as deeply as possible. In the winter of
   193031, however, the dreams began. They were very sparse and insidious

1f.lovecraft - The Shunned House, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   The farm-like grounds extended back very deeply up the hill, almost to
   Wheaton Street. The space south of the house, abutting on Benefit
  --
   a tireless antiquarian and very deeply interested in the shunned house;
   but I may refer to several dominant points which earn notice by their
  --
   Indeed, I could see that my uncle had thought deeply on the subject,
   and that he was glad of my own interestan open-minded and sympathetic

1f.lovecraft - The Silver Key, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   Carter did not taste deeply of these modern freedoms; for their
   cheapness and squalor sickened a spirit loving beauty alone, while his

1f.lovecraft - The Transition of Juan Romero, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   pondered deeply, and made many plans for the following day. The night
   shift did not go on that evening.

1f.lovecraft - The Trap, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   crunching the roller more deeply into the glass.
   Then, very carefully indeed, I lifted the heavy mirror down from its
  --
   limitation of mankindto which end he had delved deeply into occult and
   forbidden fields ever since he was a child.

1f.lovecraft - The Very Old Folk, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   had disagreed with him; averring that I had studied deeply in the black
   forbidden lore, and that I believed the very old folk capable of

1f.lovecraft - The Whisperer in Darkness, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   ruts of custom and economic interest became so deeply cut in approved
   places that there was no longer any reason for going outside them, and
  --
   deeply interesting. This is private. Publicly I am on your side, for
   certain things shew me that it does not do for people to know too
  --
   deeply buried. But I slept soundly and long that night, and was eagerly
   busy with preparations during the ensuing two days.

1f.lovecraft - Under the Pyramids, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Zen
   deeply dramatic and absorbing, some productive of weird and perilous
   experiences, and some involving me in extensive scientific and

1.fs - The Driver, #Schiller - Poems, #Friedrich Schiller, #Poetry
  Then breathes he deeply, then breathes he long,
  And blesses the light of the day;

1.fua - The Simurgh, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
   English version by Raficq Abdulla Original Language Persian/Farsi Ah, the Simurgh, who is this wondrous being Who, one fated night, when time stood still, Flew over China, not a single soul seeing? A feather fell from this King, his beauty and his will, And all hearts touched by it were in tumult thrown. Everyone who could, traced from it a liminal form; All who saw the still glowing lines were blown By longing like trees on a shore bent by storm. The feather is lodged in China's sacred places, Hence the Prophet's exhortation for knowledge to seek Even unto China where the feather's shadow graces All who shelter under it -- to know of this is not to speak. But unless the feather's image is felt and seen None knows the heart's obscure, shifting states That replace the fat of inaction with decision's lean. His grace enters the world and molds our fates Though without the limit of form or definite shape, For all definitions are frozen contradictions not fit For knowing; therefore, if you wish to travel on the Way, Set out on it now to find the Simurgh, don't prattle and sit On your haunches till into stiffening death you stray. All the birds who were by this agitation shook, Aspired to a meeting place to prepare for the Shah, To release in themselves the revelations of the Book; They yearned so deeply for Him who is both near and far, They were drawn to this sun and burned to an ember; But the road was long and perilous that was open to offer. Hooked by terror, though each was asked to remember The truth, each an excuse to stay behind was keen to proffer. [1490.jpg] -- from The Conference of the Birds: The Selected Sufi Poetry of Farid ud-Din Attar, Translated by Raficq Abdulla <
1.jk - Ode To A Nightingale, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
  Haydon, in one of his letters to Miss Mitford (Corresp. &c., Vol. 2, pg. 72) says of Keats-- "The death of his brother wounded him deeply, and it appeared to me from that hour he began to droop. He wrote his exquisite 'Ode to the Nightingale' at this time, and as we were one evening walking in the Kilburn meadows he repeated it to me, before he put it to paper, in a low, tremulous undertone which affected me extremely."
  Lord Houghton says the Ode was suggested by the continued song of a nightingale which, in the spring of 1819, had built its nest close to Wentworth Place. "Keats," says his Lordship (Aldine ed., 1876, pg. 237), "took great pleasure in her song, and one morning took his chair from the breakfast-table to the grass plot under a plum tree, where he remained between two and three hours. He then reached the house with some scraps of paper in his hand, which he soon put together in the form of his Ode."

1.jlb - Unknown Street, #Borges - Poems, #Jorge Luis Borges, #Poetry
  intimate and deeply stirring;
  and only afterward

1.jr - I See So Deeply Within Myself, #Rumi - Poems, #Jalaluddin Rumi, #Poetry
  object:1.jr - I See So deeply Within Myself
  author class:Jalaluddin Rumi
  --
  I see so deeply within myself.
  Not needing my eyes, I can see everything clearly.

1.jwvg - The Wanderer, #Goethe - Poems, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #Poetry
  Words so deeply graven,
  Who your master's true devotion

1.kbr - Poem 6, #Songs of Kabir, #Kabir, #Sufism
  There the bee of the heart is deeply immersed, and desires no other joy.
  Translated by Rabindranath Tagore

1.kbr - Tell me, O Swan, your ancient tale, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
   English version by Rabindranath Tagore Original Language Hindi Tell me, O Swan, your ancient tale. From what land do you come, O Swan? to what shore will you fly? Where would you take your rest, O Swan, and what do you seek? Even this morning, O Swan, awake, arise, follow me! There is a land where no doubt nor sorrow have rule: where the terror of Death is no more. There the woods of spring are a-bloom, and the fragrant scent "He is I" is borne on the wind: There the bee of the heart is deeply immersed, and desires no other joy. [bk1sm.gif] -- from One Hundred Poems of Kabir: Translated by Rabindranath Tagore, by Kabir / Translated by Rabindranath Tagore <
1.mm - In pride I so easily lost Thee, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
   English version by Lucy Menzies Original Language German In pride I so easily lost Thee -- But now the more deeply I sink The more sweetly I drink Of Thee! [1815.jpg] -- from German Mystical Writings: Hildegard of Bingen, Meister Eckhart, Jacob Boehme, and others, Edited by Karen J. Campbell <
1.pbs - A Vision Of The Sea, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
  But sleep deeply and sweetly, and so be beguiled
  Of the pang that awaits us, whatever that be,

1.pbs - Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
   When musing deeply on the lot
  Of life, at that sweet time when winds are wooing

1.pbs - Julian and Maddalo - A Conversation, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
  Of one vowed deeply which he dreamed not of;
  For whose sake he, it seemed, had fixed a blot

1.pbs - Mont Blanc - Lines Written In The Vale of Chamouni, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
   Interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel.
  IV.

1.pbs - Saint Edmonds Eve, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
  Lo! deeply engraved, an inscription blood red,
  In characters fresh and clear--

1.pbs - The Revolt Of Islam - Canto I-XII, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
   Together fled, my soul was deeply laden,
    And to the shore I went to muse and weep;
  --
    Thus deeply fed, amid those ruins gray
   I watched, beneath the dark sky's starry cope;
  --
   And cried, 'Now, Mortal, thou hast deeply quaffed
  The Plague's blue kissessoon millions shall pledge the draught!

1.pbs - The Wandering Jews Soliloquy, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
  To rouse her from her deeply caverned lair,
  And, taunting her cursed sluggishness to ire,
  --
  Drink deeplydrain the cup of hate; remit this--I may die.
  Published (from the Esdaile manuscript book) by Bertram Dobell, 1887.

1.pbs - To Edward Williams, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
  So deeply is the arrow gone,
  Should quickly perish if it were withdrawn.

1.pbs - To-- I Fear Thy Kisses, Gentle Maiden, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
  My spirit is too deeply laden
  Ever to burthen thine.

1.pbs - To Sophia (Miss Stacey), #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
  As aught mute yet deeply shaken,
  As one who feels an unseen spirit

1.poe - For Annie, #Poe - Poems, #unset, #Zen
       deeply to sleep
         From the heaven of her breast.

1.poe - The Conversation Of Eiros And Charmion, #Poe - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  Mourned, Charmion?oh, deeply. To that last hour of
  all there hung a cloud of intense gloom and devout sorrow

1.poe - To The River, #Poe - Poems, #unset, #Zen
      Her image deeply lies-
     His heart which trembles at the beam

1.rb - Paracelsus - Part III - Paracelsus, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
  And I have done. I leave you, deeply moved;
  Unwilling to have fared so well, the while

1.rb - Paracelsus - Part IV - Paracelsus Aspires, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
  So deeply, surely, ineffaceably,
  That henceforth flattery shall not pucker it

1.rb - Pauline, A Fragment of a Question, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
  Comprising every joy. I deeply mused.
  And suddenly without heart-wreck I awoke

1.rb - Pippa Passes - Part II - Noon, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
  Old Luca Gaddi's, that owns the silkmills here: he dozes by the hour, wakes up, sighs deeply, says he should like to be Prince Metternich, and then dozes again, after having bidden young Sebald, the foreigner, set his wife to playing draughts. Never molest such a household, they mean well.
  Bluphocks

1.rb - Sordello - Book the Second, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
  "Too deeply for poetic purposes:
  "Rather select a theory that . . . yes,

1.rmr - Falconry, #Rilke - Poems, #Rainer Maria Rilke, #Poetry
  whatever fondness deeply chimed
  in recollection he would trash

1.rmr - The Last Evening, #Rilke - Poems, #Rainer Maria Rilke, #Poetry
  so deeply was her every feature filled
  with his young features, which bore his pain and were

1.rmr - You Who Never Arrived, #Rilke - Poems, #Rainer Maria Rilke, #Poetry
  images in me the far-off, deeply-felt landscape,
  cities, towers, and bridges, and unsuspected

1.rt - Fireflies, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
  Some have thought deeply and explored the
  meaning of thy truth,

1.rt - Kinu Goalas Alley, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
  Its banks are deeply shaded by tamal trees
  And one who keeps waiting in the courtyard

1.rt - The Portrait, #Tagore - Poems, #Rabindranath Tagore, #Poetry
  Transcreation of one of the most famous and most untranslatable poems - number 6, also called Chhabi, from the collection Balaka by Rabindranath Tagore. Written in rhyming free verse it is a deeply moving tribute to Kadambaridevi, wife of his elder brother Jyotirindranath, whom he used to call his notunbouthan (new sister-in-law). This couple made the greatest contribution to the making of the phenomenon called Rabindranath. And this talented lady was the earliest and deepest inspiration in the literary life of the poet. When only 25 she committed suicide. At the time Tagore was 23 and a struggling poet. More than anyone else it was Kadambari who helped him in his chrysalis. Transcreation by Kumud Biswas.
   Translated by Kumud Biswas

1.snt - We awaken in Christs body, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
   English version by Stephen Mitchell Original Language Greek We awaken in Christ's body as Christ awakens our bodies, and my poor hand is Christ, He enters my foot, and is infinitely me. I move my hand, and wonderfully my hand becomes Christ, becomes all of Him (for God is indivisibly whole, seamless in His Godhood). I move my foot, and at once He appears like a flash of lightning. Do my words seem blasphemous? -- Then open your heart to Him and let yourself receive the one who is opening to you so deeply. For if we genuinely love Him, we wake up inside Christ's body where all our body, all over, every most hidden part of it, is realized in joy as Him, and He makes us, utterly, real, and everything that is hurt, everything that seemed to us dark, harsh, shameful, maimed, ugly, irreparably damaged, is in Him transformed and recognized as whole, as lovely, and radiant in His light he awakens as the Beloved in every last part of our body. [1527.jpg] -- from The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, by Stephen Mitchell <
1.tr - To My Teacher, #Ryokan - Poems, #Taigu Ryokan, #Buddhism
  Learning deeply from him by the Narrow River.
  One morning I set off on my solitary journey

1.ww - 6- The White Doe Of Rylstone, Or, The Fate Of The Nortons, #Wordsworth - Poems, #unset, #Zen
  Had tinged more deeply, as it flowed,
  The wounds the broidered Banner showed,

WORDNET



--- Overview of adv deeply

The adv deeply has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
                    
1. (16) profoundly, deeply ::: (to a great depth psychologically; "They felt the loss deeply")
2. (3) deeply, deep ::: (to a great depth;far down; "dived deeply"; "dug deep")












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selforum - but this avant garde is deeply
selforum - sri aurobindo was deeply concerned with
selforum - einstein was deeply troubled by quantum
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Perry Mason (1957 - 1966) - Perry Mason is an attorney who specializes in defending seemingly indefensible cases. With the aid of his secretary Della Street and investigator Paul Drake, he often finds that by digging deeply into the facts, startling facts can be revealed. Often relying on his outstanding courtroom skills, he o...
Ghost(1990) - Sam and Molly are a very happy couple and deeply in love. Walking back to their new apartment after a night out at the theatre, they encounter a thief in a dark alley, and Sam is murdered. He finds himself trapped as a ghost and realises that his death was no accident. He must warn Molly about the d...
Mannequin Two: On the Move(1991) - Once upon a time, the prince of kingdom Hauptman-Koenig was deeply in love with the farmer's daughter Jessie. But his mother didn't approve this and cursed her to stiffen to a statue for 1000 years. Now, almost 1000 years later, she's brought to a department store for an exhibition. Unknowingly trai...
Femme Fatale(1990) - An independent American thriller of identity and personality. Joe Prince (Colin Firth) is a park ranger and an artist who falls deeply in love with Cynthia (Lisa Zane), a mysterious woman he meets in his park. They are (too) hastily married, and the day before the honeymoon Joe finds Cynthia's weddi...
Freeway (1988)(1988) - A deeply-disturbed priest goes on a murderous night-time rampage across America's highways.
Blue Jasmine(2013) - A New York socialite, deeply troubled and in denial, arrives in San Francisco to impose upon her sister. She looks a million, but isn't bringing money, peace, or love...
Don't Answer The Phone!(1980) - A deeply disturbed photographer and Vietnam veteran, named Kirk Smith, terrorizes Los Angeles by going around strangling lingerie-clad young women in their homes while taunting Lindsay Gale, a young psychologist, by calling her on a radio call-in show to describe his sexual hang-ups and misogynistic...
The Girl In A Swing(1988) - A London art broker goes to Copenhagen where he requires the services of a secretary fluent in Danish, English, and German. He falls deeply in love with the woman, despite the fact that he knows virtually nothing about her. She insists on not being married in a church, and after they are married, so...
The One Armed Executioner(1981) - This is the story of an Interpol agent turned restaurateur, out for revenge against the gangsters that cut off his arm and killed his bride. This tragedy left him deeply depressed, and his battle with depression has to be won first before he can be thoroughly trained in martial arts. After his train...
Trainspotting(1996) - Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Souvenir(1989) - In 1944, a dashing German soldier and a beautiful French girl fell deeply in love while World War II raged on. More than forty years later, Ernest Kestner, retired and recently widowed, leaves his adopted home in New York and returns to France to visit his headstrong, estranged daughter, with the fl...
Affliction (1997) ::: 7.0/10 -- R | 1h 54min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 19 February 1999 (USA) -- A deeply troubled small-town cop investigates a suspicious hunting death while other events jeopardize his sanity. Director: Paul Schrader Writers: Russell Banks (novel), Paul Schrader (screenplay)
Bates Motel ::: TV-MA | 45min | Drama, Horror, Mystery | TV Series (20132017) -- A contemporary prequel to Psycho, giving a portrayal of how Norman Bates' psyche unravels through his teenage years, and how deeply intricate his relationship with his mother, Norma, truly is. Creators:
Blue Jasmine (2013) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 38min | Drama | 23 August 2013 (USA) -- A New York socialite, deeply troubled and in denial, arrives in San Francisco to impose upon her sister. She looks a million, but isn't bringing money, peace, or love... Director: Woody Allen Writer:
Living Out Loud (1998) ::: 6.5/10 -- R | 1h 40min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6 November 1998 (USA) -- Judith Nelson quit her medical studies to marry. Years later, her husband, a physician, divorces her to be with another doctor. Deeply frustrated, she now lives alone in her luxury ... S Director: Richard LaGravenese Writer:
Lower City (2005) ::: 6.6/10 -- Cidade Baixa (original title) -- Lower City Poster -- Lifelong friends Deco and Naldinho, who own a small steaming boat in Bahia, meet strip-dancer Karinna. Both men fall for her and their friendship is deeply shattered. Director: Srgio Machado Writers:
Murder, My Sweet (1944) ::: 7.6/10 -- Approved | 1h 35min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 22 February 1945 (USA) -- After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit. Director: Edward Dmytryk Writers: John Paxton (screenplay), Raymond Chandler (novel)
Ordinary People (1980) ::: 7.7/10 -- R | 2h 4min | Drama | 19 September 1980 (USA) -- The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son. Director: Robert Redford Writers:
Pieces of a Woman (2020) ::: 7.1/10 -- R | 2h 6min | Drama | 7 January 2021 (USA) -- When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss. Director: Kornl Mundrucz Writer:
Strangler vs. Strangler (1984) ::: 8.1/10 -- Davitelj protiv davitelja (original title) -- Strangler vs. Strangler Poster A mentally disturbed flower seller starts killing young girls on the streets of Belgrade. While the frustrated police inspector is trying to stop him, an aspiring musician finds his life and work deeply intertwined with that of a killer. Director: Slobodan Sijan Writers: Nebojsa Pajkic, Slobodan Sijan
The League ::: TV-MA | 22min | Comedy, Sport | TV Series (20092015) -- An ensemble comedy that follows a group of old friends in a fantasy football league who care deeply about one another -- so deeply that they use every opportunity to make each other's lives miserable. Creators:
Trainspotting (1996) ::: 8.1/10 -- R | 1h 33min | Drama | 9 August 1996 (USA) -- Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends. Director: Danny Boyle Writers: Irvine Welsh (based on the novel by), John Hodge (screenplay)
Truly Madly Deeply (1990) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG | 1h 46min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 24 May 1991 (USA) -- A woman dealing with inconsolable grief over the death of her partner gets another chance when he returns to earth as a ghost. Director: Anthony Minghella Writer: Anthony Minghella
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Just Because! -- -- Pine Jam -- 12 eps -- Original -- Slice of Life Drama Romance School -- Just Because! Just Because! -- As another school year begins drawing to a close, the third-year high school students move steadily toward the next milestone of their lives: graduation. Among them are Mio Natsume, a girl burdened with lingering feelings; Hazuki Morikawa, a member of the concert band but distant from the others; and Haruto Souma, an athlete obsessed with baseball. Meanwhile, second-year student Ena Komiya seeks to revive the photography club to its former glory, refusing to let the organization be disbanded. Though this group lacks a strong connection with one another, their lives suddenly cross paths with the arrival of a third-year transfer student. -- -- While a transfer so close to graduation is unusual for most, it is business as usual for Eita Izumi. Due to his father's work, he has never been able to stay in one place for very long. But as luck would have it, their most recent relocation has returned Eita to his hometown for his final semester of high school. For better or worse, it also sparks the rekindling of old relationships left behind in the past. -- -- With graduation already causing its own share of anxieties, Eita's sudden arrival brings these students' carefree days to an abrupt end. Long-forgotten memories, deeply buried emotions, and inspiring new passions—everything is brought to light in their bittersweet final semester. -- -- 225,913 7.28
Just Because! -- -- Pine Jam -- 12 eps -- Original -- Slice of Life Drama Romance School -- Just Because! Just Because! -- As another school year begins drawing to a close, the third-year high school students move steadily toward the next milestone of their lives: graduation. Among them are Mio Natsume, a girl burdened with lingering feelings; Hazuki Morikawa, a member of the concert band but distant from the others; and Haruto Souma, an athlete obsessed with baseball. Meanwhile, second-year student Ena Komiya seeks to revive the photography club to its former glory, refusing to let the organization be disbanded. Though this group lacks a strong connection with one another, their lives suddenly cross paths with the arrival of a third-year transfer student. -- -- While a transfer so close to graduation is unusual for most, it is business as usual for Eita Izumi. Due to his father's work, he has never been able to stay in one place for very long. But as luck would have it, their most recent relocation has returned Eita to his hometown for his final semester of high school. For better or worse, it also sparks the rekindling of old relationships left behind in the past. -- -- With graduation already causing its own share of anxieties, Eita's sudden arrival brings these students' carefree days to an abrupt end. Long-forgotten memories, deeply buried emotions, and inspiring new passions—everything is brought to light in their bittersweet final semester. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 225,913 7.28
Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai -- -- Studio VOLN -- 1 ep -- Novel -- Slice of Life Drama Romance -- Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai -- The aloof protagonist: a bookworm who is deeply detached from the world he resides in. He has no interest in others and is firmly convinced that nobody has any interest in him either. His story begins when he stumbles across a handwritten book, titled "Living with Dying." He soon identifies it as a secret diary belonging to his popular, bubbly classmate Sakura Yamauchi. She then confides in him about the pancreatic disease she is suffering from and that her time left is finite. Only her family knows about her terminal illness; not even her best friends are aware. Despite this revelation, he shows zero sympathy for her plight, but caught in the waves of Sakura's persistent buoyancy, he eventually concedes to accompanying her for her remaining days. -- -- As the pair of polar opposites interact, their connection strengthens, interweaving through their choices made with each passing day. Her apparent nonchalance and unpredictability disrupts the protagonist's impassive flow of life, gradually opening his heart as he discovers and embraces the true meaning of living. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- Movie - Sep 1, 2018 -- 499,135 8.59
Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon -- -- Kyoto Animation -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Slice of Life Comedy Fantasy -- Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon -- As Kobayashi sets off for another day at work, she opens her apartment door only to be met by an unusually frightening sight—the head of a dragon, staring at her from across the balcony. The dragon immediately transforms into a cute, busty, and energetic young girl dressed in a maid outfit, introducing herself as Tooru. -- -- It turns out that the stoic programmer had come across the dragon the previous night on a drunken excursion to the mountains, and since the mythical beast had nowhere else to go, she had offered the creature a place to stay in her home. Thus, Tooru had arrived to cash in on the offer, ready to repay her savior's kindness by working as her personal maidservant. Though deeply regretful of her words and hesitant to follow through on her promise, a mix of guilt and Tooru's incredible dragon abilities convinces Kobayashi to take the girl in. -- -- Despite being extremely efficient at her job, the maid's unorthodox methods of housekeeping often end up horrifying Kobayashi and at times bring more trouble than help. Furthermore, the circumstances behind the dragon's arrival on Earth seem to be much more complicated than at first glance, as Tooru bears some heavy emotions and painful memories. To top it all off, Tooru's presence ends up attracting several other mythical beings to her new home, bringing in a host of eccentric personalities. Although Kobayashi makes her best effort to handle the crazy situation that she has found herself in, nothing has prepared her for this new life with a dragon maid. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 826,046 8.01
Major S6 -- -- SynergySP -- 25 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Shounen Sports -- Major S6 Major S6 -- The intense Baseball World Cup has reached its conclusion. Gorou Honda has regained his passion for baseball and is once again back in full gear. He has secured a team position with the Hornets and has travelled back to America to prepare for his spectacular debut as a Major League pitcher. -- -- However, Gorou encounters a sudden series of unexpected issues and devastating events follow, crushing his motivation and potentially reducing the baseball career that he has worked tirelessly to maintain into crumbs. In the final season of Major, Gorou must yet again overcome immense hardship in order to save his baseball career. This time there is no simple solution, as the problem is deeply rooted within his own mind... -- -- TV - Apr 3, 2010 -- 51,845 8.37
Nana -- -- Madhouse -- 47 eps -- Manga -- Music Slice of Life Comedy Drama Romance Shoujo -- Nana Nana -- Nana Komatsu is a helpless, naïve 20-year-old who easily falls in love and becomes dependent and clingy to those around her. Even though she nurses ambitious dreams of removing herself from her provincial roots and finding her true calling, she ends up traveling to Tokyo with the humble reason of chasing her current boyfriend Shouji Endo. -- -- Nana Osaki, on the other hand, is a proud, enigmatic punk rock vocalist from a similarly rural background, who nurtures the desire to become a professional singer. Putting her career with a fairly popular band (and her passionate romance with one of its former members) firmly behind her, she boards the same train to Tokyo as Nana Komatsu. -- -- Through a fateful encounter in their journey toward the metropolis, the young women with the same given name are brought together, sparking a chain of events which eventually result in them sharing an apartment. As their friendship deepens, the two attempt to support each other through thick and thin, their deeply intertwined lives filled with romance, music, challenges, and heartbreaks that will ultimately test their seemingly unbreakable bond. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks, VIZ Media -- TV - Apr 5, 2006 -- 426,579 8.46
Netoge no Yome wa Onnanoko ja Nai to Omotta? -- -- Project No.9 -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Game Comedy Romance Ecchi School -- Netoge no Yome wa Onnanoko ja Nai to Omotta? Netoge no Yome wa Onnanoko ja Nai to Omotta? -- After mustering up the courage to propose to a girl in an online game, naïve otaku Hideki "Rusian" Nishimura is devastated when she flat out rejects him. To make matters worse, the girl reveals that she is actually an older man in real life. With his dreams crushed and his heart broken, Rusian comes to an abrupt decision in the midst of his raging fit: he will never trust another girl in an online game again. -- -- Years later, Rusian is now in a guild with three other players, one of whom possesses a female avatar by the name of "Ako." Ako is deeply in love with Rusian and wants to marry him. Although he entertains the possibility that she might be a guy, Rusian accepts her proposal, claiming that her gender doesn't matter as long as she is cute in the game. However, after a discussion between guild members that led to all of them having an offline meeting, Rusian finds out that Ako, along with the other members, are not just girls, but also his schoolmates. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 401,877 6.80
Paprika -- -- Madhouse -- 1 ep -- Novel -- Dementia Fantasy Horror Mystery Psychological Sci-Fi Thriller -- Paprika Paprika -- The world of dreams can be an incredible window into the psyche, showing one's deepest desires, aspirations, and repressed memories. One hopeful tech lab has been developing the "DC Mini," a device with the power to delve into the dreams of others. Atsuko Chiba and Kosaku Tokita have been tirelessly working to develop this technology with the hopes of using it to deeply explore patients' minds and help cure them of their psychological disorders. -- -- However, having access to the deepest corners of a person's mind comes with a tremendous responsibility. In the wrong hands, the DC Mini could be used as a form of psychological terrorism and cause mental breakdowns in the minds of targets. When this technology is stolen and people around them start acting strangely, Atsuko and Kosaku know they have a serious problem on their hands. Enlisting the help of Officer Konakawa, who has been receiving this experimental therapy, they search both the real and dream worlds for their mental terrorist. -- -- Movie - Nov 25, 2006 -- 384,301 8.06
Saikin, Imouto no Yousu ga Chotto Okashiinda ga. -- -- Project No.9 -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Ecchi Romance Shounen Supernatural -- Saikin, Imouto no Yousu ga Chotto Okashiinda ga. Saikin, Imouto no Yousu ga Chotto Okashiinda ga. -- Saikin, Imouto no Yousu ga Chotto Okashiinda ga. follows a family just starting to rebuild. When they marry, Mr. and Mrs. Kanzaki bring a teenage son and daughter along for the ride. But high school freshman Mitsuki Kanzaki is less than thrilled. Stinging from a history of absent and abusive father figures, she is slow to accept her stepfather and stepbrother. -- -- But after an accident lands Mitsuki in the hospital, she finds herself possessed by the ghost of Hiyori Kotobuki, a girl her age who was deeply in love with Mitsuki's stepbrother Yuuya. Hiyori cannot pass on to her final reward because of her unrequited love for Yuuya, meaning she's got to consummate it... in Mitsuki's body?! -- -- Now, Mitsuki's life depends on getting Hiyori to Heaven. But will she get used to sharing herself with a pushy, amorous ghost? Can she overcome her distrust of her new family? Can she bring herself to fulfill Hiyori's feelings for Yuuya? And might she be hiding some feelings of her own? -- -- Licensor: -- Crunchyroll, Discotek Media -- TV - Jan 4, 2014 -- 140,422 6.26
Saikin, Imouto no Yousu ga Chotto Okashiinda ga. -- -- Project No.9 -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Ecchi Romance Shounen Supernatural -- Saikin, Imouto no Yousu ga Chotto Okashiinda ga. Saikin, Imouto no Yousu ga Chotto Okashiinda ga. -- Saikin, Imouto no Yousu ga Chotto Okashiinda ga. follows a family just starting to rebuild. When they marry, Mr. and Mrs. Kanzaki bring a teenage son and daughter along for the ride. But high school freshman Mitsuki Kanzaki is less than thrilled. Stinging from a history of absent and abusive father figures, she is slow to accept her stepfather and stepbrother. -- -- But after an accident lands Mitsuki in the hospital, she finds herself possessed by the ghost of Hiyori Kotobuki, a girl her age who was deeply in love with Mitsuki's stepbrother Yuuya. Hiyori cannot pass on to her final reward because of her unrequited love for Yuuya, meaning she's got to consummate it... in Mitsuki's body?! -- -- Now, Mitsuki's life depends on getting Hiyori to Heaven. But will she get used to sharing herself with a pushy, amorous ghost? Can she overcome her distrust of her new family? Can she bring herself to fulfill Hiyori's feelings for Yuuya? And might she be hiding some feelings of her own? -- TV - Jan 4, 2014 -- 140,422 6.26
Shuffle! -- -- Asread -- 24 eps -- Visual novel -- Harem Comedy Drama Magic Romance Ecchi Fantasy School Seinen -- Shuffle! Shuffle! -- In present times, Gods and Demons coexist together with Humans after the door between each of these worlds had opened. Tsuchimi Rin is a normal young high school student attending Verbena Academy, spending his days living peacefully with his childhood friend Kaede. Unexpectedly, one day the King of Gods, the King of Demons and their families move into be Rin's next door neighbors. Apparently the daughter of the Gods, Sia, and the daughter of the demons, Nerine, are both deeply in love with Rin after having met him in the past. Along with his playful friendship with upperclassmen Asa and his encounter with the silent but cute Primula, Rin has much on his hands dealing with the affections of each of these girls. Based on the eroge by Navel. -- 244,675 7.08
Shuffle! -- -- Asread -- 24 eps -- Visual novel -- Harem Comedy Drama Magic Romance Ecchi Fantasy School Seinen -- Shuffle! Shuffle! -- In present times, Gods and Demons coexist together with Humans after the door between each of these worlds had opened. Tsuchimi Rin is a normal young high school student attending Verbena Academy, spending his days living peacefully with his childhood friend Kaede. Unexpectedly, one day the King of Gods, the King of Demons and their families move into be Rin's next door neighbors. Apparently the daughter of the Gods, Sia, and the daughter of the demons, Nerine, are both deeply in love with Rin after having met him in the past. Along with his playful friendship with upperclassmen Asa and his encounter with the silent but cute Primula, Rin has much on his hands dealing with the affections of each of these girls. Based on the eroge by Navel. -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 244,675 7.08
Suki na Mono wa Suki Dakara Shou ga Nai!! -- -- Zexcs -- 12 eps -- Visual novel -- Comedy Drama Romance Shoujo Shounen Ai Slice of Life -- Suki na Mono wa Suki Dakara Shou ga Nai!! Suki na Mono wa Suki Dakara Shou ga Nai!! -- Hashiba Sora has fallen from a 4th story window and has lost all of his memories. When Fujimori Sunao comes to his school as his new room mate, Fujimori tells Hashiba that he is called Ran. Fujimori and Hashiba both have a split personality which they developed in their youth. Their split personalities, Yoru and Ran, are deeply in love. Even though it creeps Fujimori and Hashiba out what their other selves do with each other at night, they also start to fall for each other. Because of their relationship, Hashiba Sora finds out a lot of shocking facts about their youth. -- -- Licensor: -- Media Blasters -- TV - Jan 9, 2005 -- 44,011 6.69
The Big O -- -- Sunrise -- 26 eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Mystery Psychological Mecha -- The Big O The Big O -- Paradigm City, a city of amnesia and a place of belonging. It remains populated by forgotten pasts and the ruins of their labors due to a calamity 40 years ago. Shrouded in a fog-like mystery, it is up to people like Roger Smith to shine a light through the mist. Acting as a professional negotiator and suave agent, Roger is a self-tailored ladies man whose only love is for funeral black. However, as he gets deeply involved with his clients, what often starts as a simple negotiation evolves into Roger saving Paradigm from crime and peril. -- -- In the process, Roger stumbles even deeper into the untold folds of the city. As a rule, things are hardly ever as they appear. Serving as gray knight in a gray world, Roger is not without allies. By his side are Norman, a loyal and widely skilled butler, and Dorothy, a human-like android with deadpan snark. Together with the relic Big O, a jet-black mecha of gargantuan size and weight, they help Roger serve iron justice to Paradigm's lurking villains as he discovers the truth about 40 years ago. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment, Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Oct 13, 1999 -- 77,182 7.53
Xian Wang de Richang Shenghuo 2nd Season -- -- Haoliners Animation League -- ? eps -- Novel -- Adventure Slice of Life Comedy Demons Fantasy School -- Xian Wang de Richang Shenghuo 2nd Season Xian Wang de Richang Shenghuo 2nd Season -- (No synopsis yet.) -- ONA - ??? ??, 2021 -- 10,898 N/AIe Naki Ko -- -- Madhouse, TMS Entertainment -- 51 eps -- Novel -- Adventure Drama Historical Kids Slice of Life -- Ie Naki Ko Ie Naki Ko -- Remi is a boy living happily with his mother in the French countryside. But everything changes when his estranged father comes home and, in desperate need of money, reveals that Remi is adopted, and sells him. Heartbroken, Remi ends up with Vitalis, a traveling musician, and his troupe of animal entertainers. Together, they travel the country in search for Remi's real parents, along the way learning the harsh lessons of life. A deeply moving story about friendship, loss and the pursuit of happiness. -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- TV - Oct 2, 1977 -- 10,847 7.78
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