1. The act, power or property of appealing, alluring, enticing or inviting. 2. A thing or feature which draws by appealing to desires, tastes, etc. 3. The action of a body or substance in drawing to itself, by some physical force, another to which it is not materially attached; the force thus exercised. attractions.
1. The fact, character, or quality of being useful or serviceable; fitness for some desirable purpose or valuable end; usefulness, serviceableness. 2. Philos. The ability, capacity, or power of a person, action, or thing to satisfy the needs or gratify the desires of the majority, or of the human race as a whole. 3. A useful, advantageous, or profitable thing, feature, etc.; a use. Chiefly in pl. utility"s, utilities.
5. The heaven of the enjoyment of creation (NIRMĀnARATI), where the gods are able to convert their mental and emotional desires into palpable physical pleasures
ABDOMINAL CENTRE. ::: Below the navel, commanding (the small vital movements, the little greeds, lusts, desires, the small sense-movements.
Advanced Technology Attachment "storage, hardware, standard" (ATA, AT Attachment or "Integrated Drive Electronics", IDE) A {disk drive} interface {standard} based on the {IBM PC} {ISA} 16-bit {bus} but also used on other {personal computers}. ATA specifies the power and data signal interfaces between the {motherboard} and the integrated {disk controller} and drive. The ATA "bus" only supports two devices - master and slave. ATA drives may in fact use any physical interface the manufacturer desires, so long as an embedded translator is included with the proper ATA interface. ATA "controllers" are actually direct connections to the ISA bus. Originally called IDE, the ATA interface was invented by {Compaq} around 1986, and was developed with the help of {Western Digital}, {Imprimis}, and then-upstart {Conner Peripherals}. Efforts to standardise the interface started in 1988; the first draft appeared in March 1989, and a finished version was sent to {ANSI} group X3T10 (who named it "Advanced Technology Attachment" (ATA)) for ratification in November 1990. X3T10 later extended ATA to {Advanced Technology Attachment Interface with Extensions} (ATA-2), followed by {ATA-3} and {ATA-4}. {X3T10 (http://symbios.com/x3t10/)}. (1998-10-08)
Advanced Technology Attachment ::: (storage, hardware, standard) (ATA, AT Attachment or Integrated Drive Electronics, IDE) A disk drive interface standard based on the IBM PC ISA integrated disk controller and drive. The ATA bus only supports two devices - master and slave.ATA drives may in fact use any physical interface the manufacturer desires, so long as an embedded translator is included with the proper ATA interface. ATA controllers are actually direct connections to the ISA bus.Originally called IDE, the ATA interface was invented by Compaq around 1986, and was developed with the help of Western Digital, Imprimis, and then-upstart group X3T10 (who named it Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA)) for ratification in November 1990.X3T10 later extended ATA to Advanced Technology Attachment Interface with Extensions (ATA-2), followed by ATA-3 and ATA-4. . (1998-10-08)
"A fabulous tribe of wild, beastlike monsters, having the upper part of a human being and the lower part of a horse. They live in the woods or mountains of Elis, Arcadia, and Thessaly. They are representative of wild life, animal desires and barbarism. (M.I.) Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works.*
“A fabulous tribe of wild, beastlike monsters, having the upper part of a human being and the lower part of a horse. They live in the woods or mountains of Elis, Arcadia, and Thessaly. They are representative of wild life, animal desires and barbarism. (M.I.) Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo’s Works.
“After death has released the intermediate nature, and during long ages has given to it its period of bliss and rest and psychical recuperation — much as a quiet and reposeful night’s sleep is to the tired physical body — then, just as a man reawakens by degrees, so does this intermediate nature or human ego by degrees recede or awaken from that state of rest and bliss called Devachan. And the seeds of thoughts, the seeds of actions which it had done in former lives, are now laid by the fabric of itself — seeds whose natural energy is still unexpended and unexhausted — and inhere in that inner psychical fabric, for they have nowhere else in which to inhere, since the man produced them there and they are a part of him. These seeds of former thoughts and acts, of former emotions, desires, loves, hates, yearnings, and aspirations, each one of such begins to make itself felt as an urge earthwards, towards the spheres and planes in which they are native, and where they naturally grow and expand and develop” (OG 175-6).
Agnus-Castus Plant A species of Vitex, a willow-like tree sometimes called the chaste tree [from hagnos chaste vs agnos willow-like]. “Prometheus is represented as crowned with the Agnus-Castus plant (logos), the leaves of which formed the Crown of the Victors in the ‘Agonia’ of the Olympic games; . . . This Agnus-Castus plant was used also in the fete of the Thesmophoria, in honour of Demeter — the law — ‘nomos’ — bringer, whose priestesses slept on its leaves as encouraging chaste desires. In Christian times this custom survived among Nuns, who used to drink a water distilled from its leaves, and Monks used knives with handles made of its wood with the same intention of encouraging chastity” (BCW 9:267, 10:90)
Anagamin (Sanskrit) Anāgāmin [from a not + āgāmin from ā-gam to come, proceed toward] One who does not come; in Southern or Theravada Buddhism, a “never returner,” one who will not be reborn on earth again — “unless he so desires in order to help mankind” (VS 88). The third stage of the fourfold path that leads to nirvana, the path of arhatship. See also ARHAT
ESSENTIAL CONSCIOUSNESS,
46-CONSCIOUSNESS The consciousness of the essential envelope is that of unity. The individual knows that he is his own self having a self-identity that will never be lost, but also a larger self together with all the monads in the five natural kingdoms and, when he so desires, he can experience others' consciousness as his own. &
“And wisely does it [the occult doctrine] explain to us that Ahura is our own inner, truly personal God and that he is our Spiritual light and the ‘Creator of the material world’ — i.e., the architect and shaper of the Microcosm — Man, when the latter knows how to resist Angra-Mainyu, or Kama — lust or material desires — by relying on him who overshadows him, the Ahura-Mazda or Spiritual Essence. . . . Ahura-Mazda is also the Father of Tistrya, the rain-bestowing god (the 6th principle) that fructifies the parched soil of the 5th and 4th, and helps them to bear good fruit through their own exertions, i.e., by tasting of Haoma, the tree of eternal life, through spiritual enlightenment” (BCW 4:520-23).
Angel of Carnal Desires [Angel of Lust]
an kaman karate sis.vidanah. ::: "who with sweat of effort creates little fragmentary desires". [R.g Veda 5.42.10]
anupubbikathA. (S. anupurvikathA; T. mthar gyis pa; C. cidi shuofa/jianwei shuofa; J. shidai seppo/zen'i seppo; K. ch'aje solbop/chomwi solbop 次第法/漸爲法). In PAli, "graduated discourse" or "step-by-step instruction"; the systematic outline of religious benefits that the Buddha used to mold the understanding of new lay adherents and to guide them toward the first stage of enlightenment. In this elementary discourse, the Buddha would outline the benefits of generosity (dAnakathA) and morality (sīlakathA) before finally holding out for the laity the prospect of rebirth in the heavens (svargakathA). Once their minds were pliant and impressionable, the Buddha then would instruct his listeners in the dangers (ADĪNAVA) inherent in sensuality (KAMA) in order to turn them away from the world and toward the advantages of renunciation (P. nekkhamme AnisaMsa). Only after his listeners' minds were made fully receptive would the Buddha then go on to teach them the doctrine that was unique to the buddhas: the FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS of suffering, origination, cessation, and path. Understanding the pervasive reality of the fact that "all that is subject to production is subject to cessation" (yaM kiNci samudayadhammaM taM nirodhadhammaM), the laity would then gain a profound personal understanding of the dharma, which often prompted the experience of "stream-entry" (SROTAAPANNA). The "graduated discourse" was such a stock formula in the standard sermon to the laity that it appears only in summary form in the NIKAYAs and AGAMAs. The only detailed treatment of the graduated discourse appears in the TundilovAdasutta (Advice to Layman Tundila), a late PAli apocryphon (see APOCRYPHA) probably composed in Sri Lanka in the eighteenth century. This late text provides a systematic outline of the specifics of the practice of generosity (DANA), morality (sĪLA), the heavens (SVARGA), the dangers in sensual desires, and the benefits of renunciation, leading up to the "perfect peace" of nibbAna (S. NIRVAnA).
A person is entranced in various minor degrees when he is temporarily absent-minded, or is absorbed in a brown study, and even in a certain sense when he is asleep. Many persons of mediumistic or psychic constitution become negatively absent from their ordinary senses, or they cultivate such a state for the purpose of becoming conscious on the astral plane. These unfortunates, who yield to the psychic lure of the unknown, receive nothing but a confused and unreliable vision. Worse yet, they thus open their own natures to the invasion and possible possession by astral entities of all kinds, even by excarnate actively evil beings — the elementaries — seeking physical satisfaction of unexpended intense desires. Not a few of such victims become such from their craving to get out in the astral, and to cultivate powers for the controlling of others, as taught by various pseudo-occultists who brazenly advertise their appeals to selfish human nature.
Apta-kama: One whose desires have been fulfilled; Jivanmukta; a realised sage.
aptakama ::: satisfied in his desires.
Arhat (Sanskrit) Arhat [from the verbal root arh to be worthy, merit, be able] Worthy, deserving; also enemy slayer [from ari enemy + the verbal root han to slay, smite], an arhat being a slayer of the foe of craving, the entire range of passions and desires, mental, emotional, and physical. Buddhists in the Orient generally define arhat in this manner, while modern scholars derive the word from the verbal root arh. Both definitions are equally appropriate (Buddhist Catechism 93).
artharthi. ::: one who desires material gain
arya (Aryan) ::: the good and noble man; the fighter; he who strives and overcomes all outside him and within him that stands opposed to the human advance; he who does the work of sacrifice, finds the sacred word of illumination, desires the gods and increases them and is increased by them into the largeness of the true existence; he is the warrior of the light and the traveller to the Truth.
Ascetic, Asceticism Originally exercise, practice, applied to monastic discipline and self-mortification, very much as was the Sanskrit tapas. But the true ascetic is not one who mortifies his passions, abuses his body, or suppresses his instincts, but one whose earthly desires have been consumed or transformed in the fire of devotion and knowledge. It is used in The Secret Doctrine with special reference to Siva, the “Great Ascetic,” and to kumaras who have maintained their purity by refusing to create.
Asceticism: (Gr. askesis, exercise) The view -- now and then appearing in conjunction with religion, particularly the Christian and Buddhistic one, or the striving for personal perfection or salvation, for self and others -- that the body is an evil and a detriment to a moral, spiritual, and god-pleasing life. Hence the negative adjustments to natural functions, desires, and even needs, manifesting themselves in abnegation of pleasures, denial of enjoyments, non-gratification of the senses, stifling of physical cravings, as well as self-torture which is meant to allay or kill off physical and worldly longings by destroying their root, in preparation for a happier, perhaps desireless future, in a post mortem existence. -- K.F.L.
asinata ::: indifference (udasinata) due to a combination of sattva and tamas, which can arise when tamasic udasinata aids itself "by the intellectual perception that the desires of life cannot be satisfied, that the soul is too weak to master life, that the whole thing is nothing but sorrow and transient effort", or when sattwic udasinata "calls in the aid of the tamasic principle of inaction" to get rid of the disturbances caused by rajas, and the seeker of liberation "strives by imposing an enlightened tamas on his natural being . . . to give the sattwic guna freedom to lose itself in the light of the spirit". sattwic ud udasinata
“As Kamaloka is on the earth plane and differs from its degree of materiality only in the degree of its plane of consciousness, for which reason it is concealed from our normal sight, the occasional apparition of such shells is as natural as that of electric balls and other atmospheric phenomena. Electricity as a fluid, or atomic matter (for Theosophists hold with Maxwell that it is atomic), though invisible, is ever present in the air, and manifests under various shapes, but only when certain conditions are there to ‘materialize’ the fluid, when it passes from its own on to our plane and makes itself objective. Similarly with the eidola of the dead. They are present, around us, but being on another plane do not see us any more than we see them. But whenever the strong desires of living men and the conditions furnished by the abnormal constitutions of mediums are combined together, these eidola are drawn — nay, pulled down from their plane on to ours and made objective. This is Necromancy; it does no good to the dead, and great harm to the living, in addition to the fact that it interferes with a law of nature. The occasional materialization of the ‘astral bodies’ or doubles of living persons is quite another matter. These ‘astrals’ are often mistaken for the apparitions of the dead, since, chameleon-like, our own ‘Elementaries,’ along with those of the disembodied and cosmic Elementals, will often assume the appearance of those images which are strongest in our thoughts. In short, at the so-called ‘materialization’ séances it is those present and the medium, who create the peculiar likeness of the apparitions. Independent ‘apparitions’ belong to another kind of psychic phenomena. Materializations are also called ‘form-manifestations’ and ‘portrait statues.’ To call them materialized spirits is inadmissible, for they are not spirits but animated portrait-statues, indeed” (TG 210).
astamahopaputra. (T. nye ba'i sras chen brgyad; C. ba da pusa; J. hachidai bosatsu; K. p'al tae posal 八大菩薩). In Sanskrit, the "eight great associated sons"; a group of eight bodhisattvas also known as the AstAMAHABODHISATTVA or "eight great bodhisattvas"; they are KsITIGARBHA, AKAsAGARBHA, AVALOKITEsVARA, VAJRAPAnI, MAITREYA, SARVANĪVARAnAVIsKAMBHIN, SAMANTABHADRA, and MANJUsRĪ. Textual evidence for the grouping is found as early as the third century, the date of ZHI QIAN's Chinese translation of the Astabuddhakasutra (Fo shuo ba jixiangshen zhoujing). In earlier representations, they flank either sAKYAMUNI or AMITABHA. Their roles are laid out in the Astamandalakasutra, where the aims of their worship are essentially mundane-absolution from transgressions, fulfillment of desires, and protection from ills. The grouping is known throughout Asia, from northern India, where they first appeared in ELLORA, Ratnagiri, and NALANDA, and from there as far east as Japan and Indonesia-indeed, virtually anywhere MAHAYANA and tantric Buddhism flourished. They figure as a group in TANTRAs of various classes, where their number of arms corresponds to the main deity of the MAndALA and their colors correspond to the direction in which they are placed. In the mandala of the GUHYASAMAJATANTRA, they flank the central figure AKsOBHYA, who appears in the form of Vajradhṛk and his consort SparsavajrA. When each has a consort, the females are called the astapujAdevī ("eight offering goddesses"). There are four in the GuhyasamAjatantra mandala: RupavajrA, sabdavajrA, GandhavajrA, and RasavajrA. In the vajradhAtu mahAmandala, the group of bodhisattvas is expanded to sixteen.
Astral projection: In occult terminology, the partial or complete separation of the astral body (q.v.) from the physical body, and visiting another locality, near or far. This occurs in sleep—though, as a general rule, one does not recall the experience on waking. The adept can command his astral body to go any place he desires in order to make observations and investigations, and acquire essential information.
asvamedha (Ashwamedha) ::: the offering of the horse. [Ved.]: the offering of the Life-Power with all its impulses, desires, enjoyments to the divine existence. [Later]: [a great sacrifice performed by an imperial sovereign and sometimes used as a means of empire-building.]
asya vaira ::: enmity (vaira) as a form of service (dasya), enforcing "with more or less violence the higher in place of the lower aims" of those whom it serves by opposing their desires.
Atmasamyama Yoga (Sanskrit) Ātmasaṃyama-yoga [from ātma self + saṃyama restraint + yoga union] The attaining of at-one-ment with the highest by means of self-restraint. The Bhagavad-Gita (ch 6) treats of atmasamyama yoga, or the quieting of the mind and the passions and desires of the personal self, in order to attain the complete realization of the true self or atman.
at will. At one"s discretion; as one desires.
Bacon's theory of poetry also deserves consideration. Whereas reason adapts the mind to the nature of things, and science conquers nature by obeying her, poetry submits the shows of things to the desires of the mind and overcomes nature by allowing us in our imagination to escape from her. Out of present experience and the record of history, poetry builds its narrative and dramatic fancies. But it may also, in allegory and parable, picture symbolically scientific and philosophic truths and religious mysteries -- in which case it creates mythologies. Fr. Bacon, Works, 7 vols., 1857, ed. Spedding and Ellis. -- B.A.G.F.
(b) Being moved, being awakened, in the sense that it is the nature of man to be tranquil, but when man comes into contact with external things, his nature is moved, and desires and passions follow. (Confucianism) -- W.T.C.
(b) Completeness of life, that is, "all desires reach a proper harmony." (Taoism.) -- W.T.C.
“… desires come from outside, enter the subconscious vital and rise to the surface. It is only when they rise to the surface and the mind becomes aware of them, that we become conscious of the desire. It seems to us to be our own because we feel it thus rising from the vital into the mind and do not know that it came from outside.” Letters on Yoga
desires.
desirest ::: a native English form of the verb, to desire, now only in formal and poetic usage.
belief-desire-intention software model (BDI) ::: A software model developed for programming intelligent agents. Superficially characterized by the implementation of an agent's beliefs, desires and intentions, it actually uses these concepts to solve a particular problem in agent programming. In essence, it provides a mechanism for separating the activity of selecting a plan (from a plan library or an external planner application) from the execution of currently active plans. Consequently, BDI agents are able to balance the time spent on deliberating about plans (choosing what to do) and executing those plans (doing it). A third activity, creating the plans in the first place (planning), is not within the scope of the model, and is left to the system designer and programmer.
BELIEF is absolute, unreasonable emotional conviction, unamenable to correction or reason. Everybody has his petty beliefs about almost any absurdity, and this is because man is unable to truly know anything but definitively established facts in the visible world. In contrast, assumption, is preliminary, valid only until one has come to know, in amenable to rational arguments, and desires correction. K 1.2.11
benthamism ::: n. --> That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions.
“Bereft as it is of its higher mind, spirit and physical senses, if left alone to its own senseless devices, it will gradually fade out and disintegrate. But, if forcibly drawn back into the terrestrial sphere whether by the passionate desires and appeals of the surviving friends or by regular necromantic practices — one of the most pernicious of which is mediumship — the ‘spook’ may prevail for a period greatly exceeding the span of the natural life of its body. Once the Kamarupa has learnt the way back to living human bodies, it becomes a vampire, feeding on the vitality of those who are so anxious for its company. In India these eidolons are called Pisachas, and are much dreaded . . .” (TG 172).
"But man also has a life-mind, a vital mentality which is an instrument of desire: this is not satisfied with the actual, it is a dealer in possibilities; it has the passion for novelty and is seeking always to extend the limits of experience for the satisfaction of desire, for enjoyment, for an enlarged self-affirmation and aggrandisement of its terrain of power and profit. It desires, enjoys, possesses actualities, but it hunts also after unrealised possibilities, is ardent to materialise them, to possess and enjoy them also. It is not satisfied with the physical and objective only, but seeks too a subjective, an imaginative, a purely emotive satisfaction and pleasure.” *The Life Divine
“But man also has a life-mind, a vital mentality which is an instrument of desire: this is not satisfied with the actual, it is a dealer in possibilities; it has the passion for novelty and is seeking always to extend the limits of experience for the satisfaction of desire, for enjoyment, for an enlarged self-affirmation and aggrandisement of its terrain of power and profit. It desires, enjoys, possesses actualities, but it hunts also after unrealised possibilities, is ardent to materialise them, to possess and enjoy them also. It is not satisfied with the physical and objective only, but seeks too a subjective, an imaginative, a purely emotive satisfaction and pleasure.” The Life Divine
By negative I mean merely repressing the desires and wrong movements and egoism ; by positive I mean the bring-
Cetokhilasutta. (C. Xinhui jing; J. Shinnekyo; K. Simye kyong 心穢經). In PAli, "Discourse on Mental Obstructions"; the sixteenth sutta of the MAJJHIMANIKAYA (a separate SarvAstivAda recension appears as the 206th sutra in the Chinese translation of the MADHYAMAGAMA; a recension of unidentified affiliation also occurs in the Chinese translation of the EKOTTARAGAMA), preached by the Buddha to a gathering of monks in the JETAVANA grove in the town of SAvatthi (sRAVASTĪ). The Buddha describes five mental obstructions and five fetters that constitute impediments to overcoming suffering. The five obstructions include (1) doubt about the teacher, the Buddha; (2) doubt about the dhamma (DHARMA); (3) doubt about the SAMGHA; (4) doubt about the value of morality (sīla; S. sĪLA), meditative concentration (SAMADHI), and wisdom (paNNA; S. PRAJNA); 5) ill will and animosity toward one's fellow monks. The five fetters include (1) attachment to sensual desires, (2) attachment to a sense of self, (3) attachment to material possessions, (4) excessive sleeping and eating, and (5) adopting the life of renunciation merely for the limited goal of a blissful existence in the heavens.
Chhanda-riddhi-pada (Sanskrit) Chanda-ṛddhi-pāda [from chanda desire + ṛddhi supernormal power + pāda step, ray, beam] Pleasure-power-training; one of the steps enumerated in raja yoga: “the final renunciation of all desire as a sine qua non condition of phenomenal powers, and entrance on the direct path of Nirvana” (TG 324). The compound itself points out that by abandoning the lower desires and pleasures, one enters upon the path of obtaining the celestial joys and vast expansion of faculty and its spiritual use, although even this last is finally abandoned for a still higher stage.
Choice: (a) In ethics the term choice refers to an agent's act of volition in deciding between two or more alternatives. Sometimes it is said that we may choose only between alternative courses of action, sometimes that we may also choose between alternative ends of action. In either case it is said that choice is deliberate and knowing, as compared with preference, which may be spontaneous; and that it is one's choices which both determine and express one's moral character. Two further questions arise (a) Are our choices free in the sense of not being determined by previous events' and (b) Are our choices simply the determinations of our strongest desires? -- W.K.F.
Christianity, in addition to a great many so-called pagan ideas, also inherited and adapted Jewish sacrificial ideas, but the word became limited to the sacrifice of Christ for the sins of the world, and the sacrifice by man of his personal desires to the behests of his divinity. The true origin of the Christian atonement is in the Mysteries, when the hierophant offered his pure and sinless life as a sacrifice for his race to the gods whom he hoped to rejoin (IU 2:42). The general sense in theosophy is that of sacrificing one’s temporal interests to a lofty ideal.
chrome "jargon" (From automotive slang via wargaming) Showy {features} added to attract users but contributing little or nothing to the power of a system. "The 3D icons in {Motif} are just chrome, but they certainly are *pretty* chrome!" Chrome is distinguished from {bells and whistles} by the fact that the latter are usually added to gratify developers' own desires for featurefulness. Often used as a term of contempt and sometimes used in conjunction with 'fluff', "all the fluff and chrome that comes with Motif". [{Jargon File}] (1997-09-19)
chrome ::: (jargon) (From automotive slang via wargaming) Showy features added to attract users but contributing little or nothing to the power of a system.The 3D icons in Motif are just chrome, but they certainly are *pretty* chrome!Chrome is distinguished from bells and whistles by the fact that the latter are usually added to gratify developers' own desires for featurefulness. Often used as a term of contempt and sometimes used in conjunction with 'fluff', all the fluff and chrome that comes with Motif.[Jargon File] (1997-09-19)
Ch'uan sheng: (a) Preservation of life, by the suppression of desires. (Taoism.)
Chun tu: The superior man, the perfect man, the moral man, the noble man. "There may have been a superior man who is not a true man (jen), but there has never been an inferior man (hsiao jen) who is a true man." The superior man "makes upward progress," "understands profit," and "despises the ordinances of Heaven, great men, and the words of the sages." (Confucius.) "The superior man's moral order is on the increase, while the inferior man's moral order is on the decrease." "The superior man abides by what is internal, whereas the inferior man abides by what is external." (Ancient Confucianism ) "The superior man makes advance in the moral law, whereas the inferior man makes advance in profit." "The superior man enjoys in the fulfillment of the moral law, whereas the inferior man enjoys in the fulfillment of his desires." (Medieval Confucianism.) The superior man "sees what is great and far" and is interested in "helping things to perfection," whereas the inferior man "sees what is small and near" and is interested in destroying things." (Neo-Confucianism.) A ruler. Husband (as in the Odes).
cittavrtti ::: waves of consciousness, waves of reaction and response which rise up from the basic consciousness [citta]; the manifold activities of consciousness (thoughts and memories and-desires and sensations and perceptions and feelings).
CIVILIZATION, STAGE OF The second of man&
coerce ::: 1. To compel or restrain by force or authority without regard to individual wishes or desires. 2. To dominate or control, esp. by exploiting fear, anxiety, etc. 3. To bring about through the use of force or other forms of compulsion. coerced, coercing.
compatibilism ::: Also known as "soft determinism" and championed by David Hume, is a theory that holds that free will and determinism are compatible. According to Hume, free will should not be understood as an absolute ability to have chosen differently under exactly the same inner and outer circumstances. Rather, it is a hypothetical ability to have chosen differently if one had been differently psychologically disposed by some different beliefs or desires. Hume also maintains that free acts are not uncaused (or mysteriously self-caused as Immanuel Kant would have it) but caused by people's choices as determined by their beliefs, desires, and by their characters. While a decision making process exists in Hume's determinism, this process is governed by a causal chain of events.
Concentration ::: Concentration is necessary, first, to turn the whole will and mind from the discursive divagation natural to them, following a dispersed movement of the thoughts, running after many branching desires, led away in the track of the senses and the outward mental response to phenomena: we have to fix the will and the thought on the eternal and real behind all, and this demands an immense effort, a one-pointed concentration. Secondly, it is necessary in order to break down the veil which is erected by our ordinary mentality between ourselves and the truth; for outer knowledge can be picked up by the way, by ordinary attention and reception, but the inner, hidden and higher truth can only be seized by an absolute concentration of the mind on its object, an absolute concentration of the will to attain it and, once attained, to hold it habitually and securely unite oneself with it. Concentration is indeed the first condition of any Yoga, but it is an all-receiving concentration that is the very nature of the integral Yoga.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 23-24, Page: 515
CONCENTRATION ::: Fixing the consciousness in one place or on one object and in a single condition.
A gathering together of the consciousness and either centralising at one point or turning on a single object, e.g. the Divine; there can also be a gathered condition throughout the whole being, not at a point.
Concentration is necessary, first to turn the whole will and mind from the discursive divagation natural to them, following a dispersed movement of the thoughts, running after many-branching desires, led away in the track of the senses and the outward mental response to phenomena; we have to fix the will and the thought on the eternal and real behind all, and this demands an immense effort, a one-pointed concentration. Secondly, it is necessary in order to break down the veil which is erected by our ordinary mentality between ourselves and the truth; for outer knowledge can be picked up by the way, by ordinary attention and reception, but the inner, hidden and higher truth can only be seized by an absolute concentration of the mind on its object, an absolute concentration of the will to attain it and, once attained, to hold it habitually and securely unite oneself with it.
Centre of Concentration: The two main places where one can centre the consciousness for yoga are in the head and in the heart - the mind-centre and the soul-centre.
Brain concentration is always a tapasyā and necessarily brings a strain. It is only if one is lifted out of the brain mind altogether that the strain of mental concentration disappears.
At the top of the head or above it is the right place for yogic concentration in reading or thinking.
In whatever centre the concentration takes place, the yoga force generated extends to the others and produces concentration or workings there.
Modes of Concentration: There is no harm in concentrating sometimes in the heart and sometimes above the head. But concentration in either place does not mean keeping the attention fixed on a particular spot; you have to take your station of consciousness in either place and concentrate there not on the place, but on the Divine. This can be done with eyes shut or with eyes open, according as it best suits.
If one concentrates on a thought or a word, one has to dwell on the essential idea contained in the word with the aspiration to feel the thing which it expresses.
There is no method in this yoga except to concentrate, preferably in the heart, and call the presence and power of the Mother to take up the being and by the workings of her force to transform the consciousness; one can concentrate also in the head or between the eye-brows, but for many this is a too difficult opening. When the mind falls quiet and the concentration becomes strong and the aspiration intense, then there is a beginning of experience. The more the faith, the more rapid the result is likely to be.
Powers (three) of Concentration ::: By concentration on anything whatsoever we are able to know that thing, to make it deliver up its concealed secrets; we must use this power to know not things, but the one Thing-in-itself. By concentration again the whole will can be gathered up for the acquisition of that which is still ungrasped, still beyond us; this power, if it is sufficiently trained, sufficiently single-minded, sufficiently sincere, sure of itself, faithful to itself alone, absolute in faith, we can use for the acquisition of any object whatsoever; but we ought to use it not for the acquisition of the many objects which the world offers to us, but to grasp spiritually that one object worthy of pursuit which is also the one subject worthy of knowledge. By concentration of our whole being on one status of itself we can become whatever we choose ; we can become, for instance, even if we were before a mass of weaknesses and fears, a mass instead of strength and courage, or we can become all a great purity, holiness and peace or a single universal soul of Love ; but we ought, it is said, to use this power to become not even these things, high as they may be in comparison with what we now are, but rather to become that which is above all things and free from all action and attributes, the pure and absolute Being. All else, all other concentration can only be valuable for preparation, for previous steps, for a gradual training of the dissolute and self-dissipating thought, will and being towards their grand and unique object.
Stages in Concentration (Rajayogic) ::: that in which the object is seized, that in which it is held, that in which the mind is lost in the status which the object represents or to which the concentration leads.
Concentration and Meditation ::: Concentration means fixing the consciousness in one place or one object and in a single condition Meditation can be diffusive,e.g. thinking about the Divine, receiving impressions and discriminating, watching what goes on in the nature and acting upon it etc. Meditation is when the inner mind is looking at things to get the right knowledge.
vide Dhyāna.
concupiscible ::: a. --> Exciting to, or liable to be affected by, concupiscence; provoking lustful desires.
Exciting desire, good or evil.
Conditions of Transformafirm ::: If you desire this transforma- tion, put yourself in the hands of the Mother and her Powers without cavil or resistance and let her do unhindered her work within you. Three things you roust have, consciousness, plasti- city, unreserved surrender. For you must be conscious in your mind and soul and heart and life and the very cells of your body, aware of the Mother and her Powers and their working ; for although she can and does work in yt)u even in your obscurity and your unconscious parts and moments, it is not the same thing as when you are in an awakened and living communion with her. All your nature must be plasUc to her touch, — • not questioning as the self-sufficient ignorant mind questions and doubts and disputes and is the enemy of its enlightenment and change ; not insisting on its own movements as the vital In man insists and persistently opposes its rcfractoiy desires and ill-wilt to every divine influence ; not obstructing and entrenched m
Consumer sovereignty - The concept of the consumer as the one who, by his or her spending, ultimately determines which goods and services will be produced in the economy. In principle, competition among producers causes them to adjust their production to the changing desires of consumers.
content ::: a. --> Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest.
To satisfy the desires of; to make easy in any situation; to appease or quiet; to gratify; to please.
To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite. ::: n.
Continence: In Aristotle's ethics the moral condition of a person able to control his bodily desires by reason. Aristotle distinguishes continence from temperance in that the former implies a conflict between bodily desires and rational choice, whereas in the temperate man there is no such conflict. -- G.R.M.
continency ::: n. --> Self-restraint; self-command.
The restraint which a person imposes upon his desires and passions; the act or power of refraining from indulgence of the sexual appetite, esp. from unlawful indulgence; sometimes, moderation in sexual indulgence.
Uninterrupted course; continuity.
continent ::: a. --> Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate.
Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste.
Not interrupted; connected; continuous; as, a continent fever.
critic, severe censurer, one who is constantly blaming others or accusing himself, vindictive. This term is often used to describe the self-reproaching aspect of the nafs as it begins to resist carnal desires. (used in the Qur'an 75:2) From the Arabic root l-w-m meaning to blame, censure, rebuke, reprimand.
Cynics: A school of Greek Philosophy, named after the gymnasium Cynosarges, founded by Antisthenes of Athens, friend of Socrates. Man's true happiness, the Cynics taught, lies in right and intelligent living, and this constitutes for them also the concept of the virtuous life. For the Cynics, this right and virtuous life consists in a course of conduct which is as much as possible independent of all events and factors external to man. This independence can be achieved through mastery over one's desires and wants. The Cynics attempted to free man from bondage to human custom, convention and institution by reducing man's desires and appetites to such only as are indispensable to life and by renouncing those whicn are imposed by civilization. In extreme cases, such as that of Diogenes, this philosophy expressed itself in a desire to live the natural life in the midst of the civilized Greek community. -- M.F.
dedicator ::: n. --> One who dedicates; more especially, one who inscribes a book to the favor of a patron, or to one whom he desires to compliment.
DESIRE. ::: Desires come from outside, enter the subconscious vital and rise to the surface- It is only when they rise to the surface and the mind becomes aware of them, that we become conscious of the desire.
Desire-rejection ::: the rejection of desire is essentially the rejection of the element of craving, putting that out from the consciousness itself as a foreign clement not belonging to the true self and the inner nature. But refusal to indulge the sugges- tions of desire is also a part of the rejection ; to abstain from the action suggested, if it is not the right action, must be included in the yogic discipline. The first condition for getting rid of desire is, therefore, to become conscious with the true consciousness *, for then it becomes much easier to dismiss it than when one has to struggle with it as if it were a constituent part of oneself to be thrown out from the being. When the psychic being is in front, then also to get rid of desire becomes easy ; for the psychic being has in itself no desires, it has only aspirations and a seeking and love for the Divine and all things that are or tend towards the Divine.
desirer ::: n. --> One who desires, asks, or wishes.
desire’s, desires
desire"s, desires. ::: v. **3. To wish or long for; want. desires, desired, desiring.
Desire-soiil ::: The vital with its mixed aspirations, desires, hungers of all kinds, good and bad, its emotions, finer and grosser, or sensational urges crossed by the mind’s idealismgs and psychic stresses.
disappoint ::: v. t. --> To defeat of expectation or hope; to hinder from the attainment of that which was expected, hoped, or desired; to balk; as, a man is disappointed of his hopes or expectations, or his hopes, desires, intentions, expectations, or plans are disappointed; a bad season disappoints the farmer of his crops; a defeat disappoints an enemy of his spoil.
To frustrate; to fail; to hinder of result.
Discipline ::: To act according to a standard of Truth or a rule or law of action (dharma) or in obedience to a superior authority or to the highest principles discovered by the reason and intelligent will and not according to one’s own fancy, vital impulses and desires. In Yoga obedience to the Guru or to the Divine and the law of the Truth as declared by the Guru is the foundation of discipline. To live and act under control or according to a standard of what is right—not to allow the vital or the physical to do whatever they like and not to let the mind run about according to its fancy without truth or order. Also to obey those who ought to be obeyed.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 35, Page: 672
disoblige ::: v. t. --> To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be unaccommodating to.
To release from obligation.
Divine and surrender more and more one’s ordinary persona! ideas, desires, attachments, urges to action or habits of actions so that the Divine may lake up cveiything. Surrender means that, to give up our little mind and its mental ideas and prefe- rences into a divine Light and a greater knowledge, our petty persona] troubled blind stumbling will into a great calm, tran- quil, luminous Will and Force, our little, restless, tormented feel- ings into a wide intense divine Love and Ananda, our small suffering personality into the one Person of which it is an obs- cure outcome. If one insists on one's own ideas and reasonfogs, the greater Light and Knowledge cannot come or else is marked and obstructed in the coming at every step by a lower inter- ference ,* if one insists on one’s desires and fancies, that great luminous Will and Force cannot act in its own true power— for you ask it to be the servant of your desires ; if one refuses to give up one’s petty ways of feeling, eternal Love and supreme
Divine, to offer all one is and has, not to insist on one’s ideas, desires, habits etc., but to allow the divine Truth to replace them by its knowledge, will and action ewrywhere.
DRY PERIOD. ::: There is a long stage of preparation neces- sary in order to arrive at the moer psychologic^ condition in which the doors of experience can open and one can walk from vista to vista — though even then new gates may present them- selves and refuse to open until all is ready. This period can be dry and desert-like unless one has the ardour of self-introspec- tion and self-conquest and finds every step of the effort and struggle interesting or unless one has or gets the secret of trust and self-giving which secs the hand of the Divine in every step of the path and even in the difficulty the grace or the guidance.
Such interval periods come to all and cannot be avoided.
The main thing is to meet them with quietude and not become restless, depressed or despondent. A constant fire can be there only when a certain stage has been reached, that is when one is always inside consciously living in the psychic being, but for that all this preparation of the mind, vital, physical is necessary.
For this fire belongs to the psychic and one cannot command it always merely by the mind's effort. The psychic has to be fully liberated and that is what the Force is working to make fully possible.
The difficulty comes when either the vital with its desires or the physical with its past habitual movements comes in — as they do with almost everyone. It is then that the dryness and difficulty of spontaneous aspiration come. This dryness is a well- known obstacle in all sadhana. But one has to persist and not be discouraged. If one keep? the will fixed even in these barren periods, they pass and after their passage a greater force of aspiration and experience becomes possible.
Dryness comes usually when the vital dislikes a movement or' condition or the refusal of its desires and starts non-co-operation.
But sometimes it is a condition that has to be crossed through, e.g. the neutral or dry quietude which sometimes comes when the ordinary movements have been thrown out but nothing positive has yet come to take their place, i.e, peace, joy, a higher know- ledge or force or action.
Effort ::: The personal effort required is a triple labour of aspiration, rejection and surrender." And "rejection of the movements of the lower nature—rejection of the mind’s ideas, opinions,
references, habits, constructions, so that the true knowledge may find free room in a silent mind,—rejection of the vital nature’s desires . . .", etc.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 35, Page: 110
Egocentric and unegoistic ::: The egocentric man feels and takes things as they affect him. Does this please me or displease, give me gladness or pain, flatter my pride, vanity, ambition or hurt it, satisfy my desires or thwart them, etc. The unegoistic man does not look at things like that. He looks to see what things arc in themselves and would be if he were not there, what is their meaniog, how tlicy get into the scheme of things
Ehrenfels, Maria Christian Julius Leopold Karl, Freiherr von: (1859-1932) As one of the leaders of the "Brentano School", he affirmed that the fundamental factor in valuation was desire. His principal interest was to trace the way in which desires and motives generate values. He described for the most part the development, the conflict, the hierarchy, and the obsolescence of values. Having a major influence upon the analytic approach to value theory, his outlook was relativistic and evolutionary. Main works: Uber Gestaltqualitäten (1890), System der Werttheorie (1897); Sexualethik (1907). -- H.H.
EMOTIONAL ENVELOPE The monad&
"Emptiness is not in itself a bad condition, only if it is a sad and restless emptiness of the dissatisfied vital. In sadhana emptiness is very usually a necessary transition from one state to another. When mind and vital fall quiet and their restless movements, thoughts and desires cease, then one feels empty. This is at first often a neutral emptiness with nothing in it, nothing in it either good or bad, happy or unhappy, no impulse or movement. This neutral state is often or even usually followed by the opening to inner experience. There is also an emptiness made of peace and silence, when the peace and silence come out from the psychic within or descend from the higher consciousness above. This is not neutral, for in it there is the sense of peace, often also of wideness and freedom. There is also a happy emptiness with the sense of something close or drawing near which is not yet there, e.g. the closeness of the Mother or some other preparing experience.” Letters on Yoga*
“Emptiness is not in itself a bad condition, only if it is a sad and restless emptiness of the dissatisfied vital. In sadhana emptiness is very usually a necessary transition from one state to another. When mind and vital fall quiet and their restless movements, thoughts and desires cease, then one feels empty. This is at first often a neutral emptiness with nothing in it, nothing in it either good or bad, happy or unhappy, no impulse or movement. This neutral state is often or even usually followed by the opening to inner experience. There is also an emptiness made of peace and silence, when the peace and silence come out from the psychic within or descend from the higher consciousness above. This is not neutral, for in it there is the sense of peace, often also of wideness and freedom. There is also a happy emptiness with the sense of something close or drawing near which is not yet there, e.g. the closeness of the Mother or some other preparing experience.” Letters on Yoga
enemy ::: n. --> One hostile to another; one who hates, and desires or attempts the injury of, another; a foe; an adversary; as, an enemy of or to a person; an enemy to truth, or to falsehood. ::: a. --> Hostile; inimical.
envier ::: n. --> One who envies; one who desires inordinately what another possesses.
Epilepsy A disorder recognized in antiquity as an obsession or possession by an elementary which ousts temporarily the astral-vital soul from the physical body and for the time being assumes control of the bodily mechanism. The mind thereby loses direct connection with its physical vehicle and unconsciousness results. The theosophical teaching about elementaries — astral entities whose intense desires draw them to neurotic, mediumistic, and negatively sensitive natures — gives the key to the injurious, purposeless explosions of force in the person who has been dissociated from his body and brain. Of the various bizarre sensations which usher in many typical attacks, one of the most common is the sudden look of fear or terror with which the sufferer stares fixedly as if held in thrall by some gruesome astral sight. The frequent hallucinations are, as a rule, of the same quality which the alcoholic senses in delirium tremens. Blavatsky says that epileptic fits “are the first and strongest symptoms of genuine mediumship” (Key 195).
eshanatrayam. ::: three kinds of desires &
Eshanatrayam: Three kinds of desires, viz., desire for wealth, son and wife.
Fantasy is imagining that expresses desires and aims.
F. C. S. Schiller, the Oxford pragmatist or humanist, is, if anything, more hostile to rationalism, intellectualism, absolute metaphysics and even systematic and rigorous thinking than James himself. In his Humanism (1903) and his most important book Studies in Humanism (1907), he attempts to resolve or deflate metaphysical issues and controversies by practical distinctions of terms and appeal to personal, human factors, supposedly forgotten by other philosophers. Schiller wrote about many of the topics which James treated: absolute metaphysics, religion, truth, freedom, psychic research, etc., and the outcome is similar. His spirited defense of Protagoras, "the humanist", against Socrates and his tireless bantering critique of all phases of formal logic are elements of novelty. So also is his extreme activism. He goes so far as to say that "In validating our claims to 'truth' . . . we really transform them [realities] by our cognitive efforts, thereby proving our desires and ideas to be real forces in the shaping of the world". (Studies tn Humanism, 1906, p. 425.) Schiller's apparent view that desires and ideas can transform both truth and reality, even without manipulation or experiment, could also be found in James, but is absent in Dewey and later pragmatists.
fn yoga one uses the inner will and compels the vital to sub- mit itself to tapasyS so that it may become calm, strong, obe- dient— or else calls down the calm from above obliging the vital to renounce desire and become quiet and receptive. The vital is a good instrument but a bad master. If you allow it to follow its likes and dislikes, its fancies, its desires, its bad habits, it becomes your master and peace and happiness are no longer possible. It becomes not your instrument or the instrument of the Divine Shakli, but of any force of the Ignorance or even any hostile force that is able to seize and use it.
Force can work In you without anything refusing or obstructing her action. If the min d is shut up in its own ideas and refuses to allow her to bring in the Eight and the Truth, if the vital clings to its desires and does not admit the true initiative and impulsions* that the Mother's power brings, if the physical is shut up In its desire habits and inertia and does not allow the Light and Force to enter in it and work, then one is not open. It is not possible to be entirely open all at once in all the mo^’emeots, but there must be a central opening in each part.
for the fulfillment of the invocant’s desires. Corael
four noble truths. (S. catvāry āryasatyāni; P. cattāri ariyasaccāni; T. 'phags pa'i bden pa bzhi; C. si shengdi; J. shishodai; K. sa songje 四聖諦). Although the term "four noble truths" is well established in English-language works on Buddhism, it is a misleading translation of the original Sanskrit and Pāli terms. The term translated as "noble" (ĀRYA) refers not to the truths themselves, but to those who understand them; thus, the compound may more accurately, if less euphoniously, be rendered as "four truths [known by the spiritually] noble"; they are four facts known to be true by those "noble ones" with insight into the nature of reality, but not known by ordinary beings (PṚTHAGJANA). The four truths are: suffering (DUḤKHA), origination (SAMUDAYA), cessation (NIRODHA), and path (MĀRGA). The four noble truths are the subject of extensive exegesis in the tradition, but the four terms and the relationships among them may be summarized as follows. Existence in the realms that are subject to rebirth, called SAMSĀRA, is qualified by suffering (duḥkha), the first truth (the Sanskrit term may also be rendered as "sorrow," "pain," or more generally "unsatisfactoriness"). The types of sufferings that beings undergo in the various destinations of rebirth are enumerated at great length in Buddhist texts. In his first sermon delivered after his enlightenment (see DHARMACAKRAPRAVARTANASuTRA), the Buddha identifies the following as forms of suffering: birth, aging, sickness, death, encountering what is unpleasant, separation from what is pleasant, not gaining what one desires, and the five SKANDHAs. The second truth is the origination (samudaya), or cause, of suffering. In his first sermon, the Buddha identifies the cause of suffering as craving (TṚsnĀ) or attachment; in his second sermon, the ANATTALAKKHAnASUTTA, said to have been delivered five days later, he suggests that the belief is self (ĀTMAN) is the cause of suffering. In other works, he lists two causes of suffering: unwholesome or unsalutary (AKUsALA) actions (KARMAN) such as killing, stealing, and lying, and the unwholesome mental states (see CAITTA) that motivate unwholesome actions. These unwholesome mental states include greed (LOBHA), hatred (DVEsA), and ignorance (MOHA), with ignorance referring here to an active misperception of the nature of the person and the world or, more technically, to an unsystematic attention (AYONIsOMANASKĀRA) to the true nature of things, leading to the following "inverted views" (VIPARYĀSA): seeing pleasure where there is actually pain, purity where there is impurity, permanence where there is impermanence, and self where there is no self. The third truth is the cessation (nirodha) of suffering, which refers to NIRLĀnA, the "deathless" (AMṚTA) state that transcends all suffering. The fourth and final truth is that of the path (mārga) to the cessation of suffering. The path is delineated in exhaustive detail in Buddhist texts; in his first sermon, the Buddha describes an eightfold path (ĀRLĀstĀnGAMĀRGA). The four truths therefore posit the unsatisfactory nature of existence, identify its causes, hold out the prospect of a state in which suffering and its causes are absent, and set forth a path to that state. Suffering is to be identified, its origin destroyed, its cessation realized, and the path to its cessation followed. The four truths demonstrate the importance of causality (see HETUPRATYAYA) in Buddhist thought and practice. Suffering is the effect of the cause, or origin, viz., "craving." Cessation is the absence of suffering, which results from the destruction of suffering's origin, craving. The path is the means by which one attains that cessation. The Buddha states in his first sermon that when he gained absolute and intuitive knowledge of the four truths, he achieved complete enlightenment and freedom from future rebirth. The four truths are also often described in terms of their sixteen aspects (sodasākāra), which counteract four inverted views (viparyāsa) for each truth. For the truth of suffering, the four aspects are knowledge that the aggregates (SKANDHA) are impermanent, suffering, empty, and selfless; these counteract seeing permanence, pleasure, mine (MAMAKĀRA), and I (AHAMKĀRA), respectively. For the truth of origination, the four aspects are knowledge that KLEsA(affliction) and action (karman) are cause (HETU), origination (samudaya), producer (saMbhava), and condition (PRATYAYA); they counteract the view that there is no cause, that there is a single cause, that the cause is transformation of a fundamental nature, and that the cause is a prior act of divine will, respectively. For the truth of cessation, the four aspects are knowledge that nirvāna is cessation (NIRODHA), peace (sānta), sublime (pranīta), and a definite escape (niryāna); these counteract the view that there is no liberation, that liberation is suffering, that the pleasure of meditative absorption (DHYĀNA) is unmitigated, and that NIRLĀnA is not firmly irreversible. And for the truth of the path, the four aspects are knowledge that the eightfold noble path is a path (mārga), correct method (UPĀYA), practice (PRATIPATTI), and brings a definite escape (nairyānika); these counteract the view that there is no path, that this eightfold noble path is vile, that something else is also a path, and that this path is reversible. Some Mahāyāna sutras say that those who are attached to (ABHINIVEsA) the four noble truths as being essentially true do not understand the purport of the Buddha's doctrine; only the teaching of the third noble truth, NIRLĀnA, is definitive (NĪTĀRTHA), the statements about the other truths require interpretation (NEYĀRTHA). See also DARsANAMĀRGA.
free ::: superl. --> Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one&
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fulfilment of the invocant’s desires. Pagiel is cited,
functionalism ::: The dominant theory of mental states in modern philosophy. Functionalism was developed as an answer to the mind-body problem because of objections to both identity theory and logical behaviorism. Its core idea is that the mental states can be accounted for without taking into account the underlying physical medium (the neurons), instead attending to higher-level functions such as beliefs, desires, and emotions.
Generally speaking, because of their menacing aspects, the term Dweller on the Threshold might be applied to the denizens of kama-loka, specifically to the past kama-lokic or astral remnants of a former incarnation which haunt the new imbodiment of that reincarnating ego. A person who gives way to strongly material impulse and desires forms for himself a kama-rupa which, when the person dies, can persist without undergoing complete dissolution until the quick return of such materially-minded human soul to reincarnation, when the kama-rupa is then strongly attracted to the person thus reimbodied and haunts him as an evil genius, continually instilling by automatic psychomagnetic action thoughts and impulses of evil, temptations, and suggestions of fear and terror — all of which the person himself was responsible for in his last life.
Ghost The occasional apparitions of deceased persons — but in no instances whatsoever of the spirits of the dead — or invisible astral entities producing various psychic phenomena. This age-old belief is consistent with the breaking up of composite human nature into its component parts at death. As the astral model-body, when freed from its familiar physical duplicate, is still magnetically attached to the body, it is sometimes seen haunting the new grave for a short time. Soon the atoms of this shadowy form begin to dissipate. But the more ethereal and enduring astral atoms cohere in the kama-rupic body of the deceased person’s lower mental, emotional, and psychic nature. These imbodied lower passions and desires become in connection with their astral automatic vehicle an earth-bound entity when they are separated from the reimbodying ego at the second death in the purgatorial astral underworld. These so-called spooks are what the Roman writers named umbrae or larvae of the dead; earlier, the Greeks spoke of these human reliquiae as eidola — the astral “images” of the dead. The ancients were well informed regarding the shades or shells which were cast off by the purified inner self when it ascended from kama-loka to its devachan in higher spheres.
going, moving; as a blowing breeze or rolling waters) put out, vanished; calmed, quieted, tamed; blown out, extinguished, perfect calm, highest bliss; annihilation of desires and passions.
gratification ::: n. --> The act of gratifying, or pleasing, either the mind, the taste, or the appetite; as, the gratification of the palate, of the appetites, of the senses, of the desires, of the heart.
That which affords pleasure; satisfaction; enjoyment; fruition: delight.
A reward; a recompense; a gratuity.
gratify ::: v. t. --> To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc.
To requite; to recompense.
Guanyin. (J. Kannon; K. Kwanŭm 觀音). In Chinese, "Perceiver of Sounds," an abbreviation of the longer name Guanshiyin (J. Kanzeon; K. Kwanseŭm; Perceiver of the World's Sounds); the most famous and influential BODHISATTVA in all of East Asia, who is commonly known in Western popular literature as "The Goddess of Mercy." Guanyin (alt. Guanshiyin) is the Chinese translation of AVALOKITEsVARA, the bodhisattva of compassion; this rendering, popularized by the renowned Kuchean translator KUMĀRAJĪVA in his 405-406 CE translation of the SADDHARMAPUndARĪKASuTRA ("Lotus Sutra"), derives from an earlier form of this bodhisattva's name, Avalokitasvara, which is attested in some Sanskrit manuscripts of this scripture; Kumārajīva interprets this name as "gazing" (avalokita; C. guan) on the "sounds" (svara; C. yin) [of this wailing "world" (C. shi) of suffering]. Avalokitasvara was supplanted during the seventh century CE by the standard Sanskrit form Avalokitesvara, the "gazing" (avalokita) "lord" (īsvara); this later form is followed in XUANZANG's Chinese rendering Guanzizai (J. Kanjizai; K. Kwanjajae), as found in his 649 CE translation of the PRAJNĀPĀRAMITĀHṚDAYASuTRA ("Heart Sutra"). The primary textual source for Guanyin worship is the twenty-fifth chapter of the Saddharmapundarīkasutra; that chapter is devoted to the bodhisattva and circulated widely as an independent text in East Asia. The chapter guarantees that if anyone in danger calls out Guanshiyin's name with completely sincerity, the bodhisattva will "perceive the sound" of his call and rescue him from harm. Unlike in India and Tibet, Avalokitesvara took on female form in East Asia around the tenth century. In traditional China, indigenous forms of Guanyin, such as BAIYI GUANYIN (White-Robed Guanyin), Yulan Guanyin (Guanyin with Fish Basket), SHUIYUE GUANYIN (Moon in Water Guanyin), Songzi Guanyin (Child-Granting Guanyin), MALANG FU, as well as Princess MIAOSHAN, became popular subjects of worship. Guanyin was worshipped in China by both monastics and laity, but her functions differed according to her manifestation. Guanyin thus served as a protectress against personal misfortune, a symbol of Buddhist ideals and restraint, or a granter of children. Various religious groups and lay communities also took one of her various forms as their patroness, and in this role, Guanyin was seen as a symbol of personal salvation. Beginning in the tenth century, these different manifestations of Guanyin proliferated throughout China through indigenous sutras (see APOCRYPHA), secular narratives, miracle tales, monastic foundation legends, and images. In later dynasties, and up through the twentieth century, Guanyin worship inspired both male and female religious groups. For example, White Lotus groups (see BAILIAN SHE; BAILIAN JIAO) during the Song dynasty included members from both genders, who were active in erecting STuPAs and founding cloisters that promoted Guanyin worship. In the twentieth century, certain women's groups were formed that took Princess Miaoshan's refusal to marry as inspiration to reject the institution of marriage themselves and, under the auspices of a Buddhist patron, pursue other secular activities as single women. ¶ In Japan, Kannon was originally introduced during the eighth century and took on additional significance as a female deity. For example, Kannon was often invoked by both pilgrims and merchants embarking on long sea voyages or overland travel. Invoking Kannon's name was thought to protect travelers from seven different calamities, such as fire, flood, storms, demons, attackers, lust and material desires, and weapons. Moreover, Kannon worship in Japan transcended sectarian loyalties, and there were numerous miracle tales concerning Kannon that circulated throughout the Japanese isles. ¶ In Korea, Kwanŭm is by far the most popular bodhisattva and is also known there as a deity who offers succor and assistance in difficult situations. The cult of Kwanŭm flourished initially under the patronage of the aristocracy in both the Paekche and Silla kingdoms, and historical records tell of supplications made to Kwanŭm for the birth of children or to protect relatives who were prisoners of war or who had been lost at sea. Hence, while the cult of AMITĀBHA was principally focused on spiritual liberation in the next life, Kwanŭm instead was worshipped for protection in this life. Still today, Kwanŭm is an object of popular worship and a focus of ritual chanting in Korean Buddhist monasteries by both monks and, especially, laywomen (and usually chanted in the form Kwanseŭm).
Harmony, Pre-Established: The perfect functioning of mind and body, as ordained by God in the beginning. The dualism of Descartes (1596-1650) had precluded interaction between mind or soul and body by its absolute difference and opposition between res cogitans and res extensa. How does it happen, then, that the mind perceives the impressions of the body, and the body is ready to follow the mind's will? The Cartesians, in order to correct this difficulty, introduced the doctrine of "occasionalism", whereby when anything happens to either mind or body, God interferes to make the corresponding change in the other. Leibniz (1646-1716) countered by suggesting that the relation between mind and body is one of harmony, established by God before their creation. Earlier than mind or body, God had perfect knowledge of all possible minds and bodies. In an infinite number of creations all possible combinations are possible, including those minds whose sequence of ideas perfectly fits the motions of some bodies. In the latter, there is a perfect and pre-established harmony. A parallelism between mind and body exists, such that each represents the proper expression of the other. Leibniz compares their relation to that of two clocks which have been synchronized once for all and which therefore operate similarly without the need of either interaction or intervention. Expressed by Leibniz' follower, C. Wolff (1679-1754) as "that by which the intercourse of soul and bodv is explained by a series of perceptions and desires in the soul, and a series of motions in the body, which are harmonic or accordant through the nature of soul and body." -- J.K.F.
heteronomy ::: n. --> Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; -- opposed to autonomy.
A term applied by Kant to those laws which are imposed on us from without, or the violence done to us by our passions, wants, or desires.
Himitsu mandara jujushinron. (秘密曼荼羅十住心論). In Japanese, "Ten Abiding States of Mind According to the Sacred MAndALA"; a treatise composed by the Japanese SHINGONSHumonk KuKAI; often referred to more briefly as the Jujushinron. In 830, Kukai submitted this treatise in reply to Emperor Junna's (r. 823-833) request to each Buddhist tradition in Japan to provide an explanation of its teachings. In his treatise, Kukai systematically classified the various Buddhist teachings (see JIAOXIANG PANSHI) and placed them onto a spiritual map consisting of the ten stages of the mind (jujushin). The first and lowest stage of the mind ("the deluded, ram-like mind") is that of ignorant beings who, like animals, are driven by their uncontrolled desires for food and sex. The beings of the second stage ("the ignorant, childlike, but tempered mind") display ethical behavior consistent with the teachings of Confucius and the lay precepts of Buddhism. The third stage of mind ("the infantlike, fearless mind") is the state in which one worships the various gods and seeks rebirth in the various heavens, as would be the case in the non-Buddhist traditions of India and in Daoism. The fourth stage ("recognizing only SKANDHAs and no-self") corresponds to the sRĀVAKAYĀNA and the fifth stage ("mind free of karmic seeds") to that of the PRATYEKABUDDHAYĀNA. The sixth stage ("the mind of MAHĀYĀNA, which is concerned with others") corresponds to the YOGĀCĀRA teachings, the seventh ("mind awakened to its unborn nature") to MADHYAMAKA, the eighth ("mind of one path devoid of construction") to TIANTAI (J. TENDAI), and the ninth ("mind completely devoid of self-nature") to HUAYAN (J. Kegon). Kukai placed his own tradition of Shingon at the last and highest stage of mind ("the esoteric and adorned mind"). Kukai also likened each stage of mind to a palace and contended that these outer palaces surround an inner palace ruled by the buddha MAHĀVAIROCANA. To abide in the inner palace one must be initiated into the teachings of Shingon by receiving consecration (ABHIsEKA). Kukai thus provided a Buddhist (or Shingon) alternative to ideal rulership. To demonstrate his schema of the mind, Kukai frequently cites numerous scriptures and commentaries, which made his treatise extremely prolix; Kukai later provided an abbreviated version of his argument, without the numerous supporting references, in his HIZo HoYAKU.
Hsin: Heart; mind. The original or intuitive mind of man which is good (Mencius). Human desires (the hsin of man as different from the hsin of the Confucian Moral Law or tao). The Mind which is identical with the Great Ultimate (T'ai Chi). (Shao K'ang-chieh, 1011-1077.) One aspect of the Nature (hsing). "When the Nature is viewed from its goodness, it is the Moral Law (tao); when it is viewed from its essence, it is the Destiny (ming) ; when it is viewed from its natural state or spontaneity, it is Heaven (T'ien); and when it is viewed from its manifestations, it is the Mind (hsin)." (Ch'eng I-ch'uan( 1033-1107.) "The pure and refined portion of the vital force, ch'i." Being such it "has the Great Ultimate as its Reason (li) and Yin and Yang as its passivity and activity." It is the spiritual faculty or consciousness of man. (Chu Hsi, 1130-1200.) The mind conceived as identical with the Universe and Reason (li). (Lu Hsiang-shan, 1139-1193.) The mind conceived as identical with Reason (li) and intuition. (Wang Yang-ming, 14-73-1529.)
HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS During incarnation the normal individual at mankind's present stage of development is as a rule objectively conscious in his organism only, subjectively conscious in his etheric, emotional, and mental envelopes, and unconscious in his causal envelope. &
Ichchha-sakti (Sanskrit) Icchā-śakti [from icchā desire, will + śakti power] Will power or the force of desire; this power of the will is one of the occult forces of nature. Its most ordinary manifestation on the physical plane is the generation of the nerve currents necessary to set certain muscles in motion for the accomplishment of the desired object, and the paralysing of other muscles. A yogi generally performs his wonders by using ichchha-sakti combined with kriya-sakti. Desire arouses or motivates the will, which then moves in accordance with the direction given it through the desire, which always partakes of mental activity. From this general basis the adept with his knowledge of the laws of nature can utilize certain desires of a lofty character, which arouse the corresponding will on the different planes.
If behind your devotion and surrender you make a cover for your desires, egoistic demands and vital insistences, if you put these things in place of the true aspiration or mix them with it and try to impose them on the Divine Shakti, then it is idle to invoke the divine Grace to transform you.
IGNORANCE. ::: Avidya, the separative consciousness and the egoistic mind and life that flow from it and all that is natural to the separative consciousness and the egoistic mind and life.
This Ignorance is the result of a movement by which the cosmic Intelligence separated itself from the light of the Supermind (the divine Gnosis) and lost the Truth.
Sevenfold Ignorance ::: If we look at this Ignorance in which ordinarily we live by the very circumstance of our separative existence in a material, ip a spatial and temporal universe, wc see that on its obscurer side it reduces itself, from whatever direction we look at or approach it, into the fact of a many- sided self-ignorance. We are Ignorant of the Absolute which is the source of all being and becoming ; we take partial facts of being, temporal relations of the becoming for the whole truth of existence — that is the first, the original ignorance. We are ignorant of the spaceless, timeless, immobile and immutable Self ; we take the constant mobility and mutation of the cosmic becom- ing in Time and Space for the whole truth of existence — that is the second, the cosmic ignorance. We are ignorant of our universal self, the cosmic existence, the cosmic consciousness, our infinite unity with all being and becoming ; we take our limited egoistic mentality, vitality, corporeality for our true self and regard everything other than that as not-sclf — that is the tViTid, \Vie egoistic ignorance. V/c aie ignorant of oat eteinai becoming in Time ; we take this Uttle life in a small span of Time, in a petty field of Space for our beginning, our middle and our end, — that is the fourth, the temporal ignorance. Even within this brief temporal becoming we are ignorant of our large and complex being, of that in us which is super-conscient, sub- conscient, intraconscient, circumcooscient to our surface becoming; we take that surface becoming with its small selection of overtly mentalised experiences for our whole existence — that is the fifth, the psychological ignorance. We are ignorant of the true constitution of our becoming ; we take the mind or life or body or any two or all three tor our true principle or the whole account of what we are, losing sight of that which constitutes them and determines by its occult presence and is meant to deter- mine sovereignly by its emergence from their operations, — that is the sixth, the constitutional ignorance. As a result of all these ignorances, we miss the true knowledge, government and enjoy- ment of our life in the world ; we are ignorant in our thought, will, sensations, actions, return wrong or imperfect responses at every point to the questionings of the world, wander in a maze of errors and desires, strivings and failures, pain and pleasure, sin and stumbling, follow a crooked road, grope blindly for a changing goal, — that is the seventh, the practical ignorance.
"Immortality is one of the possible results of supramentalisation, but it is not an obligatory result and it does not mean that there will be an eternal or indefinite prolongation of life as it is. That is what many think it will be, that they will remain what they are with all their human desires and the only difference will be that they will satisfy them endlessly; but such an immortality would not be worth having and it would not be long before people are tired of it. To live in the Divine and have the divine Consciousness is itself immortality and to be able to divinise the body also and make it a fit instrument for divine works and divine life would be its material expression only.” *Letters on Yoga
“Immortality is one of the possible results of supramentalisation, but it is not an obligatory result and it does not mean that there will be an eternal or indefinite prolongation of life as it is. That is what many think it will be, that they will remain what they are with all their human desires and the only difference will be that they will satisfy them endlessly; but such an immortality would not be worth having and it would not be long before people are tired of it. To live in the Divine and have the divine Consciousness is itself immortality and to be able to divinise the body also and make it a fit instrument for divine works and divine life would be its material expression only.” Letters on Yoga
In cases of ecstasy, on the other hand — or of the true seer — there is supernormal activity of the mental-spiritual nature of the person whose human soul in being freed or absent from its kama-manasic desires and consciousness, becomes allied with his higher mind. Thus he becomes intellectually highly lucid, spiritually conscious, and illumined. His now quiescent personal self offers no bar to the reality of the light of truth flowing into him from his own higher nature. His condition, whether a spontaneous exaltation, a state self-induced, or invoked at will, is a direct contrast with the mediumistic state. He is vividly self-conscious of his experience, and he retains the memory of it. Such an exalted state of entrancement is only possible for those individuals who are prepared by great purity of life and a trained will, which are also prerequisites for the mystic rites of the higher initiations.
incompatible ::: a. --> Not compatible; so differing as to be incapable of harmonious combination or coexistence; inconsistent in thought or being; irreconcilably disagreeing; as, persons of incompatible tempers; incompatible colors, desires, ambition.
Incapable of being together without mutual reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines. ::: n.
Incontinence: (Gr. akrasia) Moral condition of a person unable to control his bodily desires by rational principles. The incontinent man is distinguished from the licentious in that in the one case there is a conflict between bodily desires and rational choice and in the other case not (Aristotle). -- G.R.M.
Inner tapasya [Austerity, Discipline]? It means the tapasya for the character, and for changing the psychological movements of the being, precisely to conquer the desires, conquer the passions, overcome egoism, get rid of fears. This is the inner tapasya. Outer tapasya is all the ascetic or hatha yogic methods; to make use of physical means for one’s yoga is an outer tapasya. But inner tapasya consists of attending to one’s character and trying to change it.
Ref: CWM Vol. 06, Page: 410
In Reconstruction in Philosophy (New York, 1920, p. 156), Dewey states "When the claim or pretension or plan is acted upon it guides us truly or falsely; it leads us to our end or away from it. Its active, dynamic function is the all-important thing about it, and in the quality of activity induced by it lies all its truth and falsity. The hypothesis that works is the true one, and truth is an abstract noun applied to the collection of cases, actual, foreseen and desired, that receive confirmation in their work and consequences". The needs and desires which truth must satisfy, however, are not conceived as personal and emotional (as with James) but rather as "public" in some not altogether explicit sense. Although Dewey emphasizes the functional role of propositions and laws (and even of sensations, facts and objects), and describes these materials of knowledge as means, tools, instruments or operations for the transformation of an indeterminate situation into a determinate one in the process of inquiry (Logic, The Theory of Inquiry, N. Y., 1938), he does not clearly deny that they have a strictly cognitive role as well, and he once states that "the essence of pragmatic instrumentalism is to conceive of both knowledge and practice as means of making goods -- excellencies of all kinds -- secure in experienced existence". (The Quest for Certainty, N. Y., 1929, p. 37.) Indeed, in his Logic (p. 345), he quotes with approval Peirce's definition "truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless inquiry would tend to bring scientific belief, . . ." Here truth seems to be represented as progressive approximation to reality, but usually it is interpreted as efficacy, verification or practical expediency.
In the composite human being — the microcosm — there are the divine, spiritual, intellectual, emotional, animal, astral, and even physical wills. The old maxim “behind will stands desire” accounts for the paradoxical influence of this colorless force which is used to energize both good and evil motives. Thus, as it operates through the intermediate human nature, the individual consciously and unconsciously gives it a right or wrong direction, according to his use of free will in choosing his course of conduct. The divine will is expressed in the sublime, impersonal desires of lofty celestial deities; while at the opposite pole, selfish, sensual, animal desires too often direct the action of the human will. The origin of good and evil lies respectively in the harmony and the conflict of wills in the kosmos.
“In the Dwapara Yuga righteousness was diminished by a half. The Veda became fourfold. Some men studied four Vedas, other three, others two, others one, and some none at all. Ceremonies were celebrated in a great variety of ways. From the decline of goodness only few men adhered to truth. When men had fallen away from goodness, many diseases, desires, and calamities, caused by destiny, assailed them, by which they were severely afflicted and driven to practise austerities. Others desiring heavenly bliss offered sacrifices. Thus men declined through unrighteousness” (abridged by Muir, 1:144)
In yoga one uses the lance wiU and compels the vital to sub- mit itself to lapasi-a so that It may become calm, strong, obe- dient— or else calls down the calm from above obliging the vital to renounce desire and become quiet and receptive. The vital is a good instrument but a bad master- If you allow it to follow its likes and dislikes, its fancies, its desires, its bad habits, it becomes your master and peace and happiness are no longer possible. It becomes not your instrument or the instrument of the Divine Shakti, but of any force of the Ignorance or even any hostile force that is able to seize and use it.
Jhumur: “Dangerous and destructive and terrifying and yet so attractive, all these desires and possessions.”
kama ::: desire; [one of the four human interests]: satisfaction of desires of all kinds. ::: kamah [nominative]
Kamadhenu (Sanskrit) Kāmadhenu [from kāma desire, wish + dhenu milch cow] Also Kamaduha, Surabhi. The mythical cow belonging to the sage Vasishtha, produced by the gods at the churning of the cosmic ocean. She is supposed to grant all desires and hence is termed the cow of plenty. This allegory refers to the appearance of the earth in space as the mother of all that later is — at least so far as our globe is concerned — the earth being mythologically considered to be milked and thus producing food. Many archaic mythologies have such an emblem of generative fertility.
kamais tais tair hrtajnanah ::: [those whose knowledge is carried away by various desires]. [Gita 7.20]
Kama-loka is the abode of the disimbodied astral forms called kama-rupas and of the still highly vitalized astral entities who quit physical existence as suicides and executed criminals who, thus violently hurled out of their bodies before the term of natural death, are as fully alive as ever they were on earth, lacking only the physical body and its linga-sarira. In addition the kama-loka contains elementaries and lost souls tending to avichi. All these entities remain in kama-loka until they fade out from it by the complete exhaustion of the effects of the mental and emotional impulses that created these eidolons of human and animal passions and desires. The second death takes place in kama-loka, after the upper duad frees itself of the lower, material human elements before entering devachan. “If, contrariwise, the entity in the kama-loka is so heavy with evil and is so strongly attracted to earth-spheres that the influence of the monad cannot withdraw the Reincarnating Ego from the Kama-rupa, then the latter with its befouled ‘soul’ sinks lower and lower and may even enter the Avichi. If the influence of the monad succeeds, as it usually does, in bringing about the ‘second death,’ then the kama-rupa becomes a mere phantom or kama-rupic spook, and begins instantly to decay and finally vanishes away, its component life-atoms pursuing each one the road whither its attractions draw it” (OG 76). The highest regions of kama-loka blend into the lowest regions of devachan, while the grossest and lowest regions of kama-loka bend into the highest regions of avichi.
Kama-Rupa(Sanskrit) ::: A compound word signifying "desire body." It is that part of man's inner constitution in whichdwell or inhere the various desires, affections, hates, loves -- in short, the various mental and psychicalenergies. After death it becomes the vehicle in the astral worlds of the higher principles of the man thatwas. But these higher principles are nevertheless scarcely conscious of the fact, because the rupture ofthe golden cord of life at the moment of the physical death plunges the cognizing personal entity into amerciful stupor of unconsciousness, in which stupor it remains a longer or shorter period depending uponits qualities of spirituality or materiality. The more spiritual the man was the longer the period ofmerciful unconsciousness lasts, and vice versa.After death, as has been frequently stated elsewhere, there occurs what is called the second death, whichis the separation of the immortal part of the second or intermediate duad from the lower portions of thisduad, which lower portions remain as the kama-rupa in the etheric or higher astral spheres which areintermediate between the devachanic and the earthly spheres. In time this kama-rupa gradually fades outin its turn, its life-atoms at such dissolution passing on to their various and unceasing peregrinations.It is this kama-rupa which legend and story in the various ancient world religions or philosophies speakof as the shade, and which it has been customary in the Occident to call the spook or ghost. It is, in short,all the mortal elements of the human soul that was. The kama-rupa is an exact astral duplicate, inappearance and mannerism, of the man who died; it is his eidolon or "image." (See also Second Death)
Kama(Sanskrit) ::: "Desire"; the fourth substance-principle of which man's constitution is composed. Kama is thedriving or impelling force in the human constitution; per se it is colorless, neither good nor bad, and isonly such as the mind and soul direct its use. It is the seat of the living electric impulses, desires,aspirations, considered in their energic aspect. Usually however, although there is a divine kama as wellas an infernal one, this word is restricted, and wrongly so, to evil desire almost exclusively.
Kama (Sanskrit) Kāma [from the verbal root kam to desire] Desire; the fourth substance-principle of which the human constitution is composed: its desire principle or the driving, impelling force. Born from the interaction of atman, buddhi, and manas, kama per se is a colorless force, good or bad according to the way the mind and soul use it. It is the seat of the living electric impulses, desires, aspirations, considered in their energic aspect. When a person follows his lower impulses and centers his consciousness in the body and astral nature, he is directing that force downwards. When he aspires and opens his heart and mind to the influence of his higher manas and buddhi, he is directing that force upwards and thus progressing in evolution.
kamin ::: one who desires; lover.
Karma yoga: The quest of the mystic union with the Divine Spirit through the karma-marga, consecrated action; complete control of one’s personality is sought, in order to subdue its self-conscious, self-centered desires, so as to make one’s actions cosmocentric, in complete harmony with the purposes of the universal One.
K’o chi: A Chinese term which may be translated as conquering, controlling oneself or self-cultivation, Chinese scholars being divided in interpretation. By the first interpretation it means “restoring the moral order” and being a true man (jen), avoiding, in particular, partiality and selfish desires. By the second interpretation it means self-realization.
K'o chi: Conquering, controlling oneself or self-cultivation, Chinese scholars being divided in interpretation. By the first interpretation it mean's "restoring the moral order" and being a true man (jen), avoiding, in particular, partiality and selfish desires. By the second interpretation it means self realization. -- W.T.C.
Language, Functions of: Some utterances (a) are produced by a speaker, (b) induce effects in an interpreter, (c) are related to a certain subject-matter (which may, but in general will not, include either the speaker or interpreter). According as one or other of the relations in which the utterance stands to the several factors of such speech-situations is selected for attention, the (token) utterance may be said to have expressive, evocative and referential functions. The utterance expresses thoughts, desires, attitudes of the speaker; evokes reactions (thoughts, evaluations, tendencies to action) in the hearer; designates or refers to its reference.
lascivious ::: a. --> Wanton; lewd; lustful; as, lascivious men; lascivious desires.
Tending to produce voluptuous or lewd emotions.
libertine ::: n. --> A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.
One of a sect of Anabaptists, in the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth century, who rejected many of the customs and decencies of life, and advocated a community of goods and of women.
One free from restraint; one who acts according to his impulses and desires; now, specifically, one who gives rein to lust; a rake; a debauchee.
libidinous ::: a. --> Having lustful desires; characterized by lewdness; sensual; lascivious.
Life-Atoms ::: The physical body is composed essentially of energy, of energies rather, in the forms that are spoken ofin modern physical science as electrons and protons. These are in constant movement; they areincessantly active, and are what theosophists call the imbodiments or manifestations of life-atoms. Theselife-atoms are inbuilt into man's body during the physical life which he leads on earth, although they arenot derivative from outside, but spring forth from within himself -- at least a great majority of them aresuch. This is equivalent to saying that they compose both his physical as well as his intermediate nature,which latter is obviously higher than the physical.When the man dies -- that is to say, when the physical body dies -- its elements pass, each and all, intotheir respective and appropriate spheres: some into the soil, to which those that go there are drawn bymagnetic affinity, an affinity impressed upon their life-energies by the man when alive, whoseovershadowing will and desires, whose overlordship and power, gave them that direction. Others passinto the vegetation from the same reason that the former are impelled to the mineral kingdom; others passinto the various beasts with which they have, at the man's death, magnetic affinity, psychic affinity moreaccurately, an affinity which the man has impressed upon them by his desires and various impulses; andthose which take this path go to form the interior or intermediate apparatus of the beasts into which theypass. So much for the course pursued by the life-atoms of the man's lowest principles.But there are other life-atoms belonging to him. There are life-atoms, in fact, belonging to the sphere ofeach one of the seven principles of man's constitution. This means that there are life-atoms belonging tohis intermediate nature and to his spiritual nature and to all grades intermediate between these two higherparts of him. And in all cases, as the monad "ascends" or "rises" through the spheres, as he goes step bystep higher on his wonderful postmortem journey, on each such step he discards or casts off thelife-atoms belonging to each one of these steps or stages of the journey. With each step, he leaves behindthe more material of these life-atoms until, when he has reached the culmination of his wonderfulpostmortem peregrination, he is, as Paul of the Christians said, living in "a spiritual body" -- that is tosay, he has become a spiritual energy, a monad.Nature permits no absolute standing still for anything, anywhere. All things are full of life, full of energy,full of movement; they are both energy and matter, both spirit and substance; and these two arefundamentally one -- phases of the underlying reality, of which we see but the maya or illusory forms.The life-atoms are actually the offspring or the off-throwings of the interior principles of man'sconstitution. It is obvious that the life-atoms which ensoul the physical atoms in man's body are asnumerous as the atoms which they ensoul; and there are almost countless hosts of them, decillions upondecillions of them, in practically incomputable numbers. Each one of these life-atoms is a being which isliving, moving, growing, never standing still -- evolving towards a sublime destiny which ultimatelybecomes divinity.
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It started life as extracted phrases from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of Cicero's "De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" ("The Extremes of Good and Evil"), which read: Sed ut perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium doloremque laudantium, totam rem aperiam, eaque ipsa quae ab illo inventore veritatis et quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sunt explicabo. Nemo enim ipsam voluptatem quia voluptas sit aspernatur aut odit aut fugit, sed quia consequuntur magni dolores eos qui ratione voluptatem sequi nesciunt. Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit, sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem. Ut enim ad minima veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequatur? 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Itaque earum rerum hic tenetur a sapiente delectus, ut aut reiciendis voluptatibus maiores alias consequatur aut perferendis doloribus asperiores repellat. Translation: But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure? On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains. -- Translation by H. Rackham, from his 1914 edition of De Finibus. However, since textual fidelity was unimportant to the goal of having {random} text to fill a page, it has degraded over the centuries, into "Lorem ipsum...". The point of using this text, or some other text of incidental intelligibility, is that it has a more-or-less normal (for English and Latin, at least) distribution of ascenders, descenders, and word-lengths, as opposed to just using "abc 123 abc 123", "Content here content here", or the like. The text is often used when previewing the layout of a document, as the use of more understandable text would distract the user from the layout being examined. A related technique is {greeking}. {Lorem Ipsum - All the facts (http://lipsum.com/)}. (2006-09-18)
lover ::: n. --> One who loves; one who is in love; -- usually limited, in the singular, to a person of the male sex.
A friend; one strongly attached to another; one who greatly desires the welfare of any person or thing; as, a lover of his country.
One who has a strong liking for anything, as books, science, or music.
Alt. of Lovery
lust ::: 1. A passionate or overmastering desire or craving. 2. Longing desire; eagerness to possess. 3. Intense sexual desire or appetite; libidinous desire, degrading animal passion. 4. Desires. lust"s, lusts, lusted, lusting.
Madhav: “Gropes means moves without direction, searching for direction; our desires, our passions, our intensities search for this fulfilment in her [the Mother].” The Book of the Divine Mother
mahā-upaputra. [alt. mahopaputra] (T. nye ba'i sras chen brgyad; C. ba dapusa; J. hachidai bosatsu; K. p'al taebosal 八大菩薩). In Sanskrit, the "eight close sons"; a group of "eight great BODHISATTVAs" (which is the Chinese translation of the term). They are KsITIGARBHA, ĀKĀsAGARBHA, AVALOKITEsVARA, VAJRAPĀnI, MAITREYA, SARVANĪVARAnAVIsKAMBHIN, SAMANTABHADRA, and MANJUsRĪ. These eight are often depicted flanking the buddhas sĀKYAMUNI or AMITĀBHA. This grouping is known throughout Asia, from northern India, where they appear in ELLORĀ, RATNAGIRI, and NĀLANDĀ, to Japan, as well as Indonesia-indeed, wherever MAHĀYĀNA and tantric Buddhism flourished. They figure as a group in TANTRAs of various classes, where the number of their arms corresponds to the main deity of the MAndALA and their colors correspond to the direction in which they are placed. Textual evidence for the grouping is known from as early as the third century CE, with the Chinese translation of the Ba jixiang shen jing ("Eight Auspicious Spirits Scripture"). Their roles are laid out in the Astamandalakasutra, where the aims of their worship are essentially mundane-absolution from evil, fulfillment of desires, and protection from ills. See also AstAMAHOPAPUTRA.
Malavasanarahita: Free from impurities and subtle desires.
Many moralists deny that there are any categorical obligations, and maintain that moral obligations are all hypothetical. E.g., John Gay defines obligation as "the necessity of doing or omitting any action in order to be happy." On such views one's obligation to do a certain deed reduces to one's desire to do it or to have that to which it conduces. Obligation and motivation coincide. Hence J. S. Mill identifies sanctions, motives, and sources of obligation. Other moralists hold that hypothetical obligations are merely pragmatic or prudential, and that moral obligations are categorical (Kant, Sidgwick). On this view obligation and motivation need not coincide, for obligation is independent of motivation. There is, it is said, a real objective necessity or obligation to do certain sorts of action, independently of our desires or motives. Indeed, it is sometimes said (Kant, Sidgwick) that there is no obligation for one to do an action unless one is at least susceptible to an inclination to do otherwise.
material vital ::: that part of the lower vital turned entirely to physical things, full of desires and greeds and seekings for pleasure on the physical plane.
Medium Anything that serves as an intermediate, especially applied by modern spiritualists to a person who, alleged to be under the “control” of some other being, usually invisible, becomes a transmitting medium for phenomenal messages, feelings, or actions. These entities, mistakenly called spirits of the dead, are no part of the spiritual nature of composite man. On the contrary, these communications come from various entities in the astral world which interpenetrates and surrounds the physical earth, just as our astral model-body and aura surround and interpenetrate our physical form, cell for cell. In our present state of evolution, the astral or model-body acts normally only when conjoined to the physical — a natural provision for protection from conditions with which we are as yet evolutionally unprepared to deal. The medium, however, is one who is born with or develops a peculiarly unstable and often actually dislocated state of the elements of his inner constitution. Thereby he becomes at times disorganized physiologically and in his nervous system, which connects the inner man with the outer world, and he suffers, in effect, a psychic dislocation. Then the entranced, unconscious medium functions with magnetic sympathy with currents and entities in the astral light, especially with those in the kama-lokic levels which are nearest the earth. Of these many entities, the types usually manifesting are nature spirits or elements of various kinds; kamic remnants, the shells or spooks of the dead; and elementaries or the imperfect astral remains of excarnate human beings who when alive on earth showed marked tendencies to gross and evil living. Being fated, because of their strongly materialistic biases and appetites, to exist in the astral realm, these last are a peculiarly dangerous and demoralizing influence, especially to people of weak will or of mediumistic temperament. Without physical body or real conscience, the elementaries yet are living entities of the unexpended force of their earth-passions and desires, eager to occupy and use a living body, meantime absorbing its vital essence if they can make psychic contact with it. They are psychomagnetically drawn to such conditions as the seance room usually offers. The delicate tingling on the medium’s skin, supposed to come from angelic fingers, is actually an astral emanation of vitality to form an atmosphere or aura for the besieging control. These feathery touches are like the aurae which often precede convulsive epileptic attacks where the pale, cold, unconscious body of the ousted sufferer becomes temporarily possessed. Each time when the passive medium is controlled, his spiritual will is progressively weakened, his higher mind is blurred, and he becomes an open door for all kinds of uncanny astral influences. It is true that psychic sensitives of clean life and honest purpose, may first attract entities belonging to higher kama-lokic levels. But the finest types of supposed spirit faces that they see are generally reflections from their own mental pictures of beloved ones, or of their own innate ideals.
mental vital ::: that part of the higher vital being which gives a mental expression by thought, speech or otherwise to the emotions, desires, passions, sensations and other movements of the vital being.
moral relativism ::: The belief that there are no moral facts independent of an individual's or culture's beliefs or desires. Depending on the version of relativism, a given moral statement is true only if an individual (in the case of ethical subjectivism) believes it to be, or if a culture (in the case of cultural relativism) believes it to be true.
mortifying ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Mortify ::: a. --> Tending to mortify; affected by, or having symptoms of, mortification; as, a mortifying wound; mortifying flesh.
Subduing the appetites, desires, etc.; as, mortifying penances.
mortify ::: v. t. --> To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.
To destroy the active powers or essential qualities of; to change by chemical action.
To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to humble.
To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to
mumukshu. ::: one who desires to be liberated
mumuksu ::: [one who desires liberation].
nympholepts ::: those who are in an emotional frenzy, esp. with desires that cannot be fulfilled.
obsequious ::: a. --> Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted.
Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite.
Of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal.
OBVIOUSLY we must leave far behind us the current theory of Karma and its shallow attempt to justify the ways of the Cosmic Spirit by forcing on them a crude identity with the summary notions of law and justice, the crude and often savagely primitive methods of reward and punishment, lure and deterrent dear to the surface human mind. There is here a more authentic and spiritual truth at the base of Nature’s action and a far less mechanically calculable movement. Here is no rigid and narrow ethical law bound down to a petty human significance, no teaching of a child soul by a mixed system of blows and lollipops, no unprofitable wheel of a brutal cosmic justice automatically moved in the traces of man’s ignorant judgments and earthy desires and instincts. Life and rebirth do not follow these artificial constructions, but a movement spiritual and intimate to the deepest intention of Nature. A cosmic Will and Wisdom observant of the ascending march of the soul’s consciousness and experience as it emerges out of subconscient Matter and climbs to its own luminous divinity fixes the norm and constantly enlarges the lines of the law—or, let us say, since law is a too mechanical conception, — the truth of Karma.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 20, 13 Page: 128, 427
"One starts by an intense idea and will to know or reach the Divine and surrenders more and more one"s ordinary personal ideas, desires, attachments, urges to action or habits of action so that the Divine may take up everything. Surrender means that, to give up our little mind and its mental ideas and preferences into a divine Light and a greater Knowledge, our petty personal troubled blind stumbling will into a great, calm, tranquil, luminous Will and Force, our little, restless, tormented feelings into a wide intense divine Love and Ananda, our small suffering personality into the one Person of which it is an obscure outcome.” Letters on Yoga
“One starts by an intense idea and will to know or reach the Divine and surrenders more and more one’s ordinary personal ideas, desires, attachments, urges to action or habits of action so that the Divine may take up everything. Surrender means that, to give up our little mind and its mental ideas and preferences into a divine Light and a greater Knowledge, our petty personal troubled blind stumbling will into a great, calm, tranquil, luminous Will and Force, our little, restless, tormented feelings into a wide intense divine Love and Ananda, our small suffering personality into the one Person of which it is an obscure outcome.” Letters on Yoga
orectic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the desires; hence, impelling to gratification; appetitive.
"Over each grade of our being a power of the Spirit presides; we have within us and discover when we go deep enough inwards a mind-self, a life-self, a physical self; there is a being of mind, a mental Purusha, expressing something of itself on our surface in the thoughts, perceptions, activities of our mind-nature, a being of life which expresses something of itself in the impulses, feelings, sensations, desires, external life-activities of our vital nature, a physical being, a being of the body which expresses something of itself in the instincts, habits, formulated activities of our physical nature. These beings or part selves of the self in us are powers of the Spirit and therefore not limited by their temporary expression, for what is thus formulated is only a fragment of its possibilities; but the expression creates a temporary mental, vital or physical personality which grows and develops even as the psychic being or soul-personality grows and develops within us.” The Life Divine
“Over each grade of our being a power of the Spirit presides; we have within us and discover when we go deep enough inwards a mind-self, a life-self, a physical self; there is a being of mind, a mental Purusha, expressing something of itself on our surface in the thoughts, perceptions, activities of our mind-nature, a being of life which expresses something of itself in the impulses, feelings, sensations, desires, external life-activities of our vital nature, a physical being, a being of the body which expresses something of itself in the instincts, habits, formulated activities of our physical nature. These beings or part selves of the self in us are powers of the Spirit and therefore not limited by their temporary expression, for what is thus formulated is only a fragment of its possibilities; but the expression creates a temporary mental, vital or physical personality which grows and develops even as the psychic being or soul-personality grows and develops within us.” The Life Divine
Pancha-kama (Sanskrit) Pañca-kāma [from pañca five + kāma desire, aspiration] The five desires or aspirations.
Personal Ego That aspect of manas which, in conjunction with kama, gives to man his sense of personality: that sense of being a unit distinct from others. This is an illusion from the standpoint of the spirit, although true enough as a fact of the lower quaternary in the worlds of matter. “The Lower, or Personal ‘Ego’ is the physical man in conjunction with his lower Self, i.e., animal instincts, passions, desires, etc. It is called the ‘false personality,’ and consists of the lower Manas combined with Kama-rupa, and operating through the Physical body and its phantom or ‘double’ ” (Key 176).
• Physical-vital is the being of small desires and greeds, etc. — the vital-physical is the nervous being ; they are closely con- nected together.
physical vital ::: the part of the vital that is turned entirely upon physical things, full of desires and greeds and seekings for pleasure on the physical plane.
pindapāta. (T. bsod snyoms; C. qishi; J. kotsujiki; K. kolsik 乞食). In Sanskrit and Pāli, "alms food" (or, according to other etymologies, "alms bowl"); the food received in the alms bowl (S. PĀTRA; P. patta) of a monk or nun; by extension, the "alms round" that monks and nuns make each morning to accept alms from the laity. There are numerous rules found in all Buddhist traditions concerning the proper ways of receiving and consuming alms food. In the Pāli VINAYA, for example, this food must be received and consumed between dawn and noon and may consist of five types: cooked rice, baked or roasted flour, pulse and rice, fish, and meat. The monk may not, on his own initiative, intimate to the donor that he desires food or a specific kind of food; indeed, the monk makes little if any acknowledgement of receiving the food, but simply accepts whatever is offered and continues along his route. In East Asia, and especially Japan, TAKUHATSU, lit., "carrying the bowl," is often conducted by a small group of monks who walk through the streets with walking staffs (KHAKKHARA) and bells that alert residents of their presence. Because East Asian Buddhism was generally a self-sufficient cenobitic tradition that did not depend on alms food for daily meals, monks on alms round would typically receive money or uncooked rice in their bowls as offerings from the laity. The alms round was one of the principal points of interaction between monastic and lay Buddhists, and theirs was a symbiotic relationship: monks and nuns would receive their sustenance from the laity by accepting their offerings, the laity would have the opportunity to generate merit (PUnYA) for themselves and their families by making offerings (DĀNA) to the monastics. Indeed, one of the most severe penalties the SAMGHA can administer to the laity is to refuse their donations; this act of censure is called "overturning the bowl" (see PĀTRANIKUBJANA).
prajna&
prajnavastha. ::: transcendental state of consciousness in which the dichotomy between grossness and subtlety disappears in superconsciousness; the pure consciousness of divinity in which the differentiating and diversifying faculties of the mind become inoperative and all mundane desires and dreams wishes are sublimated into the bliss of spiritual experience
Prapatti: An appeal made to a capable and willing personage (God) by a person (devotee) who strongly desires a thing (liberation), but is helpless to attain it and feels his helplessness. The object desired may be anything for the matter of that, as the regaining of the lost property as when Aditi made Preapatti to the Lord, or release from the bondage of Karma.
PRAYER. ::: The life of man is a life of wants and needs and therefore of desires, not only in his physical and vital, but in his mental and spiritual being. When he becomes conscious of a greater Power governing the world, he approaches it through prayer for the fulfilment of his needs, for help in his rough journey, for protection and aid in his struggle. Whatever crudi- ties there may be in the ordinary religious approach to God by prayer, and there are many, especially that attitude which ima- gines the Divine as if capable of being propitiated, bribed, flat- tered into acquiescence or indulgence by praise, entreaty and gifts and has often little te^td to the spirit in which he is approached, still this way of turning to the Divine is an essen- tial movement of our religious being and reposes on a universal truth.
The efficacy of prayer is often doubted and prayer itself supposed to be a thing irrational and necessarily superfluous and ineffective. It is true that the universal will executes always its aim and cannot be deflected by egoistic propitiation and entreaty, it is true of the Transcendent who expresses himself in the universal order that, being omniscient, his larger knowledge must foresee the thing to be done and it does not need direction or stimulation by human thought and that the individual's desires are not and cannot be in any world-order the true determining factor. But neither is that order or the execution of the universal will altogether effected by mechanical Law, but by powers and forces of which for human life at least, human will, aspiration and faith are not among the least important. Prayer is only a particular form given to that will, aspiration and faith. Its forms are very often crude and not only childlike, which is in itself no defect, but childish; but still it has a real power and significance. Its power and sense is to put the will, aspiration and faith of man into touch with the divine Will as that of a conscious Being with whom we can enter into conscious and living relations. For our will and aspiration can act either by our own strength and endeavour, which can no doubt be made a thing great and effective whether for lower or higher purposes, -and there are plenty of disciplines which put it forward as the one force to be used, -- or it can act in dependence upon and with subordination to the divine or the universal Will. And this latter way, again, may either look upon that Will as responsive indeed to our aspiration, but almost mechanically, by a sort of law of energy, or at any rate quite impersonally, or else it may look upon it as responding consciously to the divine aspiration and faith of the human soul and consciously bringing to it the help, the guidance, the protection and fruition demanded, yogaksemam vahamyaham. ~ TSOY, SYN
Prayer helps to prepare this relation for us at first on the lower plane even while it is (here consistent with much that is mere egoism and self-delusion; but afterwards we can draw towards the spiritual truth which is behind it. It is not then the givinc of the thing asked for that matters, but the relation itself, the contact of man’s life with God, the conscious interchange.
In spiritual matters and in the seeking of spiritual gains, this conscious relation is a great power; it is a much greater power than our own entirely self-reliant struggle and effort and it brings a fuller spiritual growth and experience. Necessarily, in the end prayer either ceases in the greater thing for which it prepared us, -- in fact the form we call prayer is not itself essential so long as the faith, the will, the aspiration are there, -- or remains only for the joy of the relation. Also its objects, the artha or interest it seeks to realise, become higher and higher until we reach the highest motiveless devotion, which is that of divine love pure and simple without any other demand or longing.
Prayer for others ::: The fact of praying and the attitude it brings, especially unselfish prayer for others, itself opens you to the higher Power, even if there is no corresponding result in the person prayed for. 'Nothing can be positively said about that, for the result must necessarily depend on the persons, whe- ther they arc open or receptive or something in them can res- pond to any Force the prayer brings down.
Prayer must well up from the heart on a crest of emotion or aspiration.
Prayer {Ideal)'. Not prayer insisting on immediate fulfilment, but prayer that is itself a communion of the mind and heart with the Divine*and can have the joy and satisfaction of itself, trusting for fulfilment by the Divine in his own time.
Prayer ::: The life of man is a life of wants and needs and th
refore of desires, not only in his physical and vital, but in his mental and spiritual being. When he becomes conscious of a greater Power governing the world, he approaches it through prayer for the fulfilment of his needs, for help in his rough journey, for protection and aid in his struggle. Whatever crudities there may be in the ordinary religious approach to God by prayer, and there are many, especially that attitude which imagines the Divine as if capable of being propitiated, bribed, flattered into acquiescence or indulgence by praise, entreaty and gifts and has often little regard to the spirit in which he is approached, still this way of turning to the Divine is an essential movement of our religious being and reposes on a universal truth. The efficacy of prayer is often doubted and prayer itself supposed to be a thing irrational and necessarily superfluous and ineffective. It is true that the universal will executes always its aim and cannot be deflected by egoistic propitiation and entreaty, it is true of the Transcendent who expresses himself in the universal order that being omniscient his larger knowledge must foresee the thing to be done and it does not need direction or stimulation by human thought and that the individual’s desires are not and cannot be in any world-order the true determining factor. But neither is that order or the execution of the universal will altogether effected by mechanical Law, but by powers and forces of which for human life at least human will, aspiration and faith are not among the least important. Prayer is only a particular form given to that will, aspiration and faith. Its forms are very often crude and not only childlike, which is in itself no defect, but childish; but still it has a real power and significance. Its power and sense is to put the will, aspiration and faith of man into touch with the divine Will as that of a conscious Being with whom we can enter into conscious and living relations. For our will and aspiration can act either by our own strength and endeavour, which can no doubt be made a thing great and effective whether for lower or higher purposes,—and there are plenty of disciplines which put it forward as the one force to be used,—or it can act in dependence upon and with subordination to the divine or the universal Will. And this latter way again may either look upon thatWill as responsive indeed to our aspiration, but almost mechanically, by a sort of law of energy, or at any rate quite impersonally, or else it may look upon it as responding consciously to the divine aspiration and faith of the human soul and consciously bringing to it the help, the guidance, the protection and fruition demanded. Prayer helps to prepare this relation for us at first on the lower plane even while it is there consistent with much that is mere egoism and self-delusion; but afterwards we can draw towards the spiritual truth which is behind it. It is not then the giving of the thing asked for that matters, but the relation itself, the contact of man’s life with God, the conscious interchange. In spiritual matters and in the seeking of spiritual gains, this conscious relation is a great power; it is a much greater power than our own entirely self-reliant struggle and effort and it brings a fuller spiritual growth and experience. Necessarily in the end prayer either ceases in the greater thing for which it prepared us, —in fact the form we call prayer is not itself essential so long as the faith, the will, the aspiration are there,—or remains only for the joy of the relation. Also its objects, the artha or interest it seeks to realise, become higher and higher until we reach the highest motiveless devotion, which is that of divine love pure and simple without any other demand or longing.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 23-24, Page: 566-67-68
preferences, fancies, phantasies, strong insistences and to elimi- nate the mental and vital ego’s pressure which sets the conscious- ness to work in the service of its o^vn claims and desires. Other- wise these things will come io with force and claim to be intui- tions, inspirations and the rest of it or if any intuitions come, they can be twisted and spoiled by the mixture of these forces of the Ignorance.
prevenancy ::: n. --> The act of anticipating another&
Psychic being has in itself no desires, it has only aspiration and a seeking and love for the Divine and all things that are or tend towards the Divine.
Psychic Summation: See Psychic Fusion. Psycho-analysis: The psychological method and therapeutic technique developed by Freud (see Freud, Sigmund). This method consists in the use of such procedures as free association, automatic writing and especially dream-analysis to recover forgotten memories, suppressed desires and other subconscious items which exert a disturbing influence on the conscious life of an individual. The cure of the psychic disturbances is effected by bringing the suppressed items into the full of consciousness of the individual. Psycho-analytic theory has posited a subconscious mind as a repository for the suppressed elements. Freud exaggerated the sexual origin of the suppressed desires but other psycho-analysts, notably Jung and Adler, corrected this exaggeration. The psycho-analytical school has developed its terminology in which the following are characteristic. Free association is the method of encouraging the patient to recall in random fashion experiences, particularly of childhood. A "complex" is a more or less permanent emotional system or mechjnism responsible for the mental disturbances of the patient. Libido designates the underlying sexual drive or impulse, the suppression of which is responsible for the psychic disturbance. Suppression or repression is the rejection from consciousness of desires and urges which it finds intolerable. Sublimation is the transference of a suppressed desire to a new object. These terms are only a few samples of the elaborate and at times highly mythological terminology of psycho-analysis. -- L.W.
Psychoanalysis: The system and school of psychotherapy originated by Sigmund Freud. This method consists in the use of such procedures as free association, automatic writing and especially dream-analysis to recover forgotten events, suppressed desires and other subconscious items which exert a disturbing influence on the conscious life of an individual. The cure of the psychic disturbances is effected by bringing the suppressed items into the full consciousness of the individual.
purification ::: n. --> The act of purifying; the act or operation of separating and removing from anything that which is impure or noxious, or heterogeneous or foreign to it; as, the purification of liquors, or of metals.
The act or operation of cleansing ceremonially, by removing any pollution or defilement.
A cleansing from guilt or the pollution of sin; the extinction of sinful desires, appetites, and inclinations.
qiqing liuyu. (J. shichijo rokuyoku; K. ch'ilchong yugyok 七情六欲). In Chinese, "seven emotions and six desires." According to the DAZHIDU LUN, the seven emotions of joy, anger, sadness, horror, love, hate, and desire are directed to other people's (1) physical body (se), (2) appearance (xingmao), (3) comportment (weiyi), (4) voice (yanyu yinsheng), (5) delicateness or smoothness [of skin] (xihua), and (6) physical features (renxiang).
Quietists A type of religious mysticism which arose within the Roman Catholic Church in Italy and Spain during the latter half of the 17th century, especially in connection with a priest named Miguel de Molinos, who published his Spiritual Guide in Rome in 1675. The book of this apparently simple and pious man shows how to attain a state of inward peace by withdrawal of the thoughts and desires from all earthly matters and fixing them in contemplation of what the aspirant conceives to be the divine and in prayer. This he regarded as the only essential, doctrine and ritual being of no consequence. His views won great popularity and he received high favors from the Pope; but they did not at all suit the purposes of those then in power. Molinos was condemned and imprisoned and a persecution instituted against Quietists in general.
rajoguna. ::: restless activity; passion; desire for an object or goal; transformation and change; evolution; basis of pulsations, vibrations, oscillations, and fluctuations in nature; symmetry breaking tendency; originating from desires and attachments, it leads to anticipations and attachments of results; hostile force that pulls one down into samsara
refusing to regard its desires and clamours as one’s own, and cultivates an entire equality and equanimity in the consciousness with respect to them that the lower vital itself becomes gradually purified and itself also calm and equal. Each wave of desire as it comes must be observed, as quietly and with as much unmoved detachment as you would observe something going on outside you, and must be allowed to pass, rejected from the cons- ciousness, and the true movement, the true consciousness steadily put in its place.
RESISTANCE. ::: When the soul draws towards the Divine, there may be a resistance in the mind and the common form of that is denial and doubt — which may create mental and vital su/Tering. There may again be a resistance in the vital nature ivhose principal characer is desire and the attachment to the objects of desire, and if in this field there is conflict between the soul and the vital nature, between the Divine Attraction and the pull of the Ignorance, then obviously there may be much suffer- ing of the mind and vital parts. The pbj-sical consciousness also may offer a resistance which is usually that of a fundamental inertia, an obscurity in the very stuff of the physical, an incom- prehension, an inability to respond to the higher consciousness, a habit of helplessly responding to the lower mechanically, even when it docs not want to do so ; both lital and physical suffer- ing may be the consequence. There is, moreover, the resistance of the Universal Nature which does not want the being to escape from the Ignorance into the Light. This may take the form of a vehement insistence in the continuation of the old movements, waves of them thrown on the mind and vital and body so that old ideas, impulses, desires, feelings, responses continue even after they are thrown out and rejected, and can return like an invading army from outside, until the whole nature, given to (he
Rigorism: Any view according to which the ethicil life involves a rigorous treatment of the more natural or physical desires, feelings, and passions. -- W.K.F.
Ring-Pass-Not ::: A profoundly mystical and suggestive term signifying the circle or bounds or frontiers within which iscontained the consciousness of those who are still under the sway of the delusion of separateness -- andthis applies whether the ring be large or small. It does not signify any one especial occasion or condition,but is a general term applicable to any state in which an entity, having reached a certain stage ofevolutionary growth of the unfolding of consciousness, finds itself unable to pass into a still higher statebecause of some delusion under which the consciousness is laboring, be that delusion mental or spiritual.There is consciously a ring-pass-not for every globe of the planetary chain, a ring-pass-not for theplanetary chain itself, a ring-pass-not for the solar system, and so forth. It is the entities who labor underthe delusion who therefore actually create their own rings-pass-not, for these are not actual entitativematerial frontiers, but boundaries of consciousness.A ring-pass-not furthermore may perhaps be said with great truth to be somewhat of the nature of aspiritual laya-center or point of transmission between plane and plane of consciousness.The rings-pass-not as above said, however, have to do with phases or states of consciousness only. Forinstance, the ring-pass-not for the beasts is self-consciousness, i.e., the beasts have not yet been enabledto develop forth their consciousness to the point of self-consciousness or reflective consciousness exceptin minor degree. A dog, for example, located in a room which it desires to leave, will run to a door out ofwhich it is accustomed to go and will sit there whining for the door to be opened. Its consciousnessrecognizes the point of egress, but it has not developed the self-conscious mental activity to open thedoor.A general ring-pass-not for humanity is their inability to self-consciously participate in spiritualself-consciousness.
rupadhātu. (T. gzugs khams; C. sejie; J. shikikai; K. saekkye 色界). In Sanskrit and Pāli, the "realm of subtle materiality" or "form realm," which together with the sensuous, or desire, realm (KĀMADHĀTU) and the immaterial, or formless, realm (ĀRuPYADHĀTU) constitute the three realms (TRAIDHĀTUKA) of SAMSĀRA; the term is synonymous with rupāvacara. The subtle-materiality realm is located above the heavens of the sensuous realm, which are situated on and above Mount SUMERU. This realm is divided into four meditative heavens associated with the four meditative concentrations of the subtle-materiality realm (RuPĀVACARADHYĀNA). These meditative heavens are places of rebirth in saMsāra and are accessible only through mastery of a specific rupāvacaradhyāna; the beings reborn there are classified as BRAHMĀ gods. Rebirth in these meditative heavens is the result of a specific kind of virtuous action, called an "immovable action" (S. ANINJYAKARMAN), in which the action has the definite and specific effect of bringing about rebirth in either the subtle-materiality or immaterial heavens. The immovable action that would result in rebirth in, for example, the second concentration of the subtle-materiality realm, is the achievement of that specific state of dhyāna as a human in the immediately preceding lifetime. This realm is called the "subtle-materiality realm" because the beings there are free of the desires of the sensuous realm yet retain at least some semblance of physicality, albeit extremely subtle, and have a vestigial attachment to form (RuPA). Only three of the five sensory objects remain in the subtle-materiality realm: visual objects, auditory objects, and objects of touch; hence, the deities there have only three physical sense organs, of sight, hearing, and touch. Each of the four concentrations of the subtle-materiality realm has its own sublevels, with three levels in the the first heaven, three in the second, three in the third, and eight in the fourth, totaling seventeen. In each ascending level, the heaven is situated farther above Mount Sumeru, the height of its beings grows taller, and their life spans increase. Although the characteristics of the various heavens within the subtle-materiality realm are described in some detail, the greater emphasis in Buddhist literature is on the states of meditative absorption that characterize each, how they are achieved, and how they differ from each other, with particular attention paid to the highest of the four, the fourth dhyāna of the subtle-materiality realm. The first three absorptions are characterized by a feeling of physical rapture (PRĪTI) and mental ease or bliss (SUKHA), whereas the fourth and subtlest of these dhyānas is characterized by one-pointedness of mind (CITTAIKĀGRATĀ) and equanimity (UPEKsĀ). It is therefore considered an ideal state from which to achieve NIRVĀnA: for example, when the Buddha entered PARINIRVĀnA, his mind passed through each of the four subtle-materiality and immaterial absorptions before passing into nirvāna directly from the fourth absorption. The fourth absorption also received particular attention as a place of rebirth. While the first three concentrations each have only three divisions, the fourth concentration has eight, with the additional five reserved for those beings who become ĀRYA, or noble beings, through direct insight into the nature of reality. In the fourfold division of noble persons (ĀRYAPUDGALA; viz., stream-enterer, once-returner, nonreturner, and ARHAT), the nonreturner (ANĀGĀMIN) is defined as that noble person who is never again reborn in the sensuous realm. Such a person may be reborn in the subtle-materiality realm, however, and the upper five heavens of the fourth absorption are a special place of rebirth called the pure abodes (sUDDHĀVĀSA) that are reserved just for such beings. See also DEVA.
Sadhana: A Sanskrit term for spiritual effort or quest of enlightenment. In Tantric Buddhism, a ceremony by the performance of which the worshipper can render visible any god he desires and is enabled to obtain control of the deity. In Hinduism, the means through which the Hindu student of esoteric sciences attains to samadhi (q.v.).
sama. ::: control of the mind; abandonment of desires at all times; tranquility
sannyasin &
satisfaction ::: n. --> The act of satisfying, or the state of being satisfied; gratification of desire; contentment in possession and enjoyment; repose of mind resulting from compliance with its desires or demands.
Settlement of a claim, due, or demand; payment; indemnification; adequate compensation.
That which satisfies or gratifies; atonement.
satisfy ::: to fulfil the desires, expectations, aspirations, needs, or demands of (a person, the mind, heart, etc.); give full contentment to. satisfies, satisfied.
Sattva(Sanskrit) ::: One of the trigunas or "three qualities," the other two being rajas and tamas. Sattva is thequality of truth, goodness, reality, purity. These three gunas or qualities run all through the web or fabricof nature like threads inextricably mingled, for, indeed, each of these three qualities participates likewiseof the nature of the other two, yet each one possessing its predominant (which is its own svabhava) orintrinsic characteristic. One who desires to gain some genuine understanding of the manner in which thearchaic wisdom looks upon these three phases of human intellectual and spiritual activity must rememberthat not one of these three can be considered apart from the other two. The three are fundamentally threeoperations of the human consciousness, and essentially are that consciousness itself.
Sattva (Sanskrit) Sattva [from sat being] True essence, spiritual essence, reality, true being. Also one of the trigunas (three qualities), the other two being rajas and tamas. “Sattwa is the quality of truth, goodness, reality, purity. These three gunas or qualities run all through the web or fabric of Nature like threads inextricably mingled, for, indeed, each of these three qualities participate likewise in the nature of the other two, yet each one possessing its predominant (which is its own Swabhava) or intrinsic characteristic. One who desires to gain some genuine understanding of the manner in which the Archaic Wisdom looks upon these three phases of human intellectual and spiritual activity must remember that not one of these three can be considered apart from the other two. The three are fundamentally three operations of the human consciousness, and essentially are that consciousness itself” (OG 153-4). As the human being is the microcosm of the macrocosm, the same gunas can be discovered in the cosmos.
Satyakama: He who longs or desires for Truth. Satyasankalpa: Pure will.
satya kama. ::: he who longs or desires for Truth
satya sankalpa. ::: true intentions; good intentions; whatever he desires is fulfilled by the Lord's Grace &
self-annihilation ::: n. --> Annihilation by one&
self-denial ::: n. --> The denial of one&
self-indulgence ::: n. --> Indulgence of one&
self-indulgent ::: a. --> Indulging one&
Self-love: The term may be used to denote self-complacency or self-admiration (see Spinoza, Ethics, Book III, Prop. 55, note), but in ethical discussion it usually designates concern for one's own individual interest, advantage, or happiness. Taking the term in this latter sense philosophers have debated the question whether or not all of our actions, approvals, etc., are motivated entirely by self-love. Hobbes holds that they are. Spinoza, similarity, holds that the endeavor to conserve oneself is the basis of all of one's actions and virtues. Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Butler, and Hume, in opposition to Hobbes, argued that benevolence or sympathy and the moral sense or conscience are springs of action which are not reducible to self-love. Butler also pointed out that self-love itself presupposes the existence of certain primary desires, such as hunger, with whose satisfaction it is concerned, and which therefore cannot be subsumed under it. See Egoism. -- W.K.F.
self-will ::: wilful or obstinate persistence in following one"s own desires, aims or opinions.
Shamen bujing wangzhe lun. (J. Shamon fukyoosharon; K. Samun pulgyong wangja non 沙門不敬王者論). In Chinese, "The sRAMAnA Does Not Pay Homage to the Ruler Treatise." In response to the anticlerical policy of the monarch Huanxuan (who reigned for less than three months as King of Chu in 404) LUSHAN HUIYUAN compiled this apologetical treatise in 404. It is preserved in the fifth roll of the HONGMING JI. The treatise is comprised of five sections. The first two sections, on householders and monks, detail the differences in their social status and way of life. The other three sections are concerned with more doctrinal and theoretical issues, which are presented in the form of a debate between imaginary opponents. In the third section, Huiyuan, as the "host," argues that monks, unlike householders including the worldly ruler, seek the "truth" and thus strive to free the "spirit" from the realm of worldly desires and emotions, or SAMSĀRA. In the fourth section, the opponent argues that there is no truth beyond that which has been revealed by the sages of the past. In the last section, Huiyuan replies that these sages are merely manifestations of the Buddha, or the immortal spirit. Although the immortal spirit "mutually resonates" (GANYING) with SAMSĀRA, it is not, Huiyuan explains, a worldly thing itself. The argument for the immortality of the spirit also appears in Zongbing's (375-443) Mingfo lun ("Treatise on Clarifying Buddhism)," the MOUZI LIHUO LUN, and various other treatises found in the Hongming ji.
sharpen ::: a. --> To make sharp.
To give a keen edge or fine point to; to make sharper; as, to sharpen an ax, or the teeth of a saw.
To render more quick or acute in perception; to make more ready or ingenious.
To make more eager; as, to sharpen men&
SKIN-DISEASE. ::: Skin-diseases have much to do with sexual desires, not of course always, but often.
soul ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The word ‘soul", as also the word ‘psychic", is used very vaguely and in many different senses in the English language. More often than not, in ordinary parlance, no clear distinction is made between mind and soul and often there is an even more serious confusion, for the vital being of desire — the false soul or desire-soul — is intended by the words ‘soul" and ‘psychic" and not the true soul, the psychic being.” *Letters on Yoga
"The word soul is very vaguely used in English — as it often refers to the whole non-physical consciousness including even the vital with all its desires and passions. That was why the word psychic being has to be used so as to distinguish this divine portion from the instrumental parts of the nature.” *Letters on Yoga
"The word soul has various meanings according to the context; it may mean the Purusha supporting the formation of Prakriti, which we call a being, though the proper word would be rather a becoming; it may mean, on the other hand, specifically the psychic being in an evolutionary creature like man; it may mean the spark of the Divine which has been put into Matter by the descent of the Divine into the material world and which upholds all evolving formations here.” *Letters on Yoga
"A distinction has to be made between the soul in its essence and the psychic being. Behind each and all there is the soul which is the spark of the Divine — none could exist without that. But it is quite possible to have a vital and physical being supported by such a soul essence but without a clearly evolved psychic being behind it.” *Letters on Yoga
"The soul and the psychic being are practically the same, except that even in things which have not developed a psychic being, there is still a spark of the Divine which can be called the soul. The psychic being is called in Sanskrit the Purusha in the heart or the Chaitya Purusha. (The psychic being is the soul developing in the evolution.)” *Letters on Yoga
"The soul or spark is there before the development of an organised vital and mind. The soul is something of the Divine that descends into the evolution as a divine Principle within it to support the evolution of the individual out of the Ignorance into the Light. It develops in the course of the evolution a psychic individual or soul individuality which grows from life to life, using the evolving mind, vital and body as its instruments. It is the soul that is immortal while the rest disintegrates; it passes from life to life carrying its experience in essence and the continuity of the evolution of the individual.” *Letters on Yoga
". . . for the soul is seated within and impervious to the shocks of external events. . . .” *Essays on the Gita
". . . the soul is at first but a spark and then a little flame of godhead burning in the midst of a great darkness; for the most part it is veiled in its inner sanctum and to reveal itself it has to call on the mind, the life-force and the physical consciousness and persuade them, as best they can, to express it; ordinarily, it succeeds at most in suffusing their outwardness with its inner light and modifying with its purifying fineness their dark obscurities or their coarser mixture. Even when there is a formed psychic being able to express itself with some directness in life, it is still in all but a few a smaller portion of the being — ‘no bigger in the mass of the body than the thumb of a man" was the image used by the ancient seers — and it is not always able to prevail against the obscurity or ignorant smallness of the physical consciousness, the mistaken surenesses of the mind or the arrogance and vehemence of the vital nature.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
". . . the soul is an eternal portion of the Supreme and not a fraction of Nature.” The Life Divine
"The true soul secret in us, — subliminal, we have said, but the word is misleading, for this presence is not situated below the threshold of waking mind, but rather burns in the temple of the inmost heart behind the thick screen of an ignorant mind, life and body, not subliminal but behind the veil, — this veiled psychic entity is the flame of the Godhead always alight within us, inextinguishable even by that dense unconsciousness of any spiritual self within which obscures our outward nature. It is a flame born out of the Divine and, luminous inhabitant of the Ignorance, grows in it till it is able to turn it towards the Knowledge. It is the concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic. It is that which endures and is imperishable in us from birth to birth, untouched by death, decay or corruption, an indestructible spark of the Divine.” The Life Divine
*Soul, soul"s, Soul"s, souls, soulless, soul-bridals, soul-change, soul-force, Soul-Forces, soul-ground, soul-joy, soul-nature, soul-range, soul-ray, soul-scapes, soul-scene, soul-sense, soul-severance, soul-sight, soul-slaying, soul-space,, soul-spaces, soul-strength, soul-stuff, soul-truth, soul-vision, soul-wings, world-soul, World-Soul.
spiritual-minded ::: a. --> Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections.
*Sri Aurobindo: ". . . desires come from outside, enter the subconscious vital and rise to the surface. It is only when they rise to the surface and the mind becomes aware of them, that we become conscious of the desire. It seems to us to be our own because we feel it thus rising from the vital into the mind and do not know that it came from outside.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "The Life Heavens are the heavens of the vital gods and there is there a perfect harmony but a harmony of the sublimated satisfied senses and vital desires only.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "To act according to a standard of Truth or a rule or law of action (dharma) or in obedience to a superior authority or to the highest principles discovered by the reason and intelligent will and not according to one"s own fancy, vital impulses and desires. In yoga obedience to the Guru or to the Divine and the law of the Truth as declared by the Guru is the foundation of discipline.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Vitality means life-force — wherever there is life, in plant or animal or man, there is life-force — without the vital there can be no life in matter and no living action. The vital is a necessary force and nothing can be done or created in the bodily existence, if the vital is not there as an instrument.” *Letters on Yoga
"The vital proper is the life-force acting in its own nature, impulses, emotions, feelings, desires, ambitions, etc., having as their highest centre what we may call the outer heart of emotion, while there is an inner heart where are the higher or psychic feelings and sensibilities, the emotions or intuitive yearnings and impulses of the soul. The vital part of us is, of course, necessary to our completeness, but it is a true instrument only when its feelings and tendencies have been purified by the psychic touch and taken up and governed by the spiritual light and power.” *Letters on Yoga
". . . the vital is the Life-nature made up of desires, sensations, feelings, passions, energies of action, will of desire, reactions of the desire-soul in man and of all that play of possessive and other related instincts, anger, fear, greed, lust, etc., that belong to this field of the nature. Letters on Yoga
The Mother: "The vital is the dynamism of action. It is the seat of the will, of impulses, desires, revolts, etc.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15*.
static reality: The momentum of reality, guided by the beliefs of humanity and setting what is possible into the form of what exists. True Magick, by definition, disrupts static reality, reworking it to fit a mage’s desires.
Substitutes - Any good that can stand in for another good to satisfy similar needs or desires. The degree of substitutability is measured by the magnitude of the positive cross elasticity between the two.
Suppression ::: In our path the attitude is not one of forceful suppression but of detachment and equality with regard to the objects of desire. Forceful suppression stands on the same level as free indulgence; in both cases, the desire remains; in the one it is fed by indulgence, in the other it lies latent and exasperated by suppression. It is only when one stands back, separates oneself from the lower vital,
refusing to regard its desires and clamours as one’s own, and cultivates an entire equality and equanimity in the consciousness with respect to them that the lower vital itself becomes gradually purified and itself also calm and equal. Each wave of desire as it comes must be observed, as quietly and with as much unmoved detachment as you would observe something going on outside you, and must be allowed to pass, rejected from the consciousness, and the true movement, the true consciousness steadily put in its place.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 22-23-24, Page: 1465
"Surrender means to consecrate everything in oneself to the Divine, to offer all one is and has, not to insist on one"s ideas, desires, habits, etc., but to allow the divine Truth to replace them by its knowledge, will and action everywhere.” Letters on Yoga
“Surrender means to consecrate everything in oneself to the Divine, to offer all one is and has, not to insist on one’s ideas, desires, habits, etc., but to allow the divine Truth to replace them by its knowledge, will and action everywhere.” Letters on Yoga
Surrender ::: There must be a total and sincere surrender; there must be an exclusive self-opening to the divine Power; there must be a constant and integral choice of the Truth that is descending, a constant and integral rejection of the falsehood of the mental, vital and physical Powers and Appearances that still rule the earth-Nature.The surrender must be total and seize all the parts of the being. It is not enough that the psychics should respond and the higher mental accept or even the inner vital submit and the inner physical consciousness feel the influence. There must be inno part of the being, even the most external, anything that makes a reserve, anything that hides behind doubts, confusions and subterfuges, anything that revolts or
refuses.If part of the being surrenders, but another part reserves itself, follows its own way or makes its own conditions, then each time that that happens, you are yourself pushing the divine Grace away from you.If behind your devotion and surrender you make a cover for your desires, egoistic demands and vital insistences, if you put these things in place of the true aspiration or mix them with it and try to impose them on the Divine Shakti, then it is idle to invoke the divine Grace to transform you.If you open yourself on one side or in one part to the Truth and on another side are constantly opening the gates to hostile forces, it is vain to expect that the divine Grace will abide with you. You must keep the temple clean if you wish to install there the living Presence.If each time the Power intervenes and brings in the Truth, you turn your back on it and call in again the falsehood that has been expelled, it is not the divine Grace that you must blame for failing you, but the falsity of your own will and the imperfection of your own surrender.If you call for the Truth and yet something in you chooses what is false, ignorant and undivine or even simply is unwilling to reject it altogether, then always you will be open to attack and the Grace will recede from you. Detect first what is false or obscure in you and persistently reject it, then alone can you rightly call for the divine Power to transform you.Do not imagine that truth and falsehood, light and darkness, surrender and selfishness can be allowed to dwell together in the house consecrated to the Divine. The transformation must be integral, and integral th
refore the rejection of all that withstands it.The Mother
surrender ::: to consecrate everything in oneself to the Divine, to offer all one is and has, not to insist on one's ideas, desires, habits, etc. but to allow the divine Truth to replace them by its knowledge, will and action everywhere.
Su: 'Unadornment', (p'u) 'unadorned simplicity'; (ching) 'quiescence' bespeaking all the complete absence of desires, but really meaning that the desires should be made fewer. (Lao Tzu) Seeking for the tao, emptiness, singleness, concentrated attention (tu), quiescence are all rules for man's conduct. (Hsun Tzu C355-C288 B.C.) -- H.H.
Tetra —an angel invoked in ritual magic prayer for the fulfilment of an invocant’s desires. Tetra is cited, along with other “great and glorious spirits,” in The Secret Grimoire of Turiel.
The abdominal centre, svadhijihana, commanding the small vital movements, the little creeds, lusts, desires, the small sense- movements, governs the lower vital. (Colour ::: deep purple red ; petals ::: six.)
The art of divining is and always has been universally diffused. Today this art, in common with many other items of ancient lore, has fallen into disrepute on account of the great abuse to which it has been subjected, as in the case of the abuses of black magic and sorcery. The same remarks would apply as are made in the case of psychism, seances, etc. — that a large proportion of humanity is neither wise enough nor well-balanced enough to meddle with such methods; and there is too much tendency to use the methods for the gratification of mere personal desires or curiosity. We do far better to attend to the cultivation of our spiritual faculties, incomparably more powerful and effective, such as intuition.
"The colours of the lotuses and the numbers of petals are respectively, from bottom to top: — (1) the Muladhara or physical consciousness centre, four petals, red; (2) the abdominal centre, six petals, deep purple red; (3) the navel centre, ten petals, violet; (4) the heart centre, twelve petals, golden pink; (5) the throat centre, sixteen petals, grey; (6) the forehead centre between the eye-brows, two petals, white; (7) the thousand-petalled lotus above the head, blue with gold light around. The functions are, according to our yoga, — (1) commanding the physical consciousness and the subconscient; (2) commanding the small vital movements, the little greeds, lusts, desires, the small sense-movements; (3) commanding the larger life-forces and the passions and larger desire-movements; (4) commanding the higher emotional being with the psychic deep behind it; (5) commanding expression and all externalisation of the mind movements and mental forces; (6) commanding thought, will, vision; (7) commanding the higher thinking mind and the illumined mind and opening upwards to the intuition and overmind. The seventh is sometimes or by some identified with the brain, but that is an error — the brain is only a channel of communication situated between the thousand-petalled and the forehead centre. The former is sometimes called the void centre, sunya , either because it is not in the body, but in the apparent void above or because rising above the head one enters first into the silence of the self or spiritual being.” Letters on Yoga*
“The colours of the lotuses and the numbers of petals are respectively, from bottom to top:—(1) the Muladhara or physical consciousness centre, four petals, red; (2) the abdominal centre, six petals, deep purple red; (3) the navel centre, ten petals, violet; (4) the heart centre, twelve petals, golden pink; (5) the throat centre, sixteen petals, grey; (6) the forehead centre between the eye-brows, two petals, white; (7) the thousand-petalled lotus above the head, blue with gold light around. The functions are, according to our yoga,—(1) commanding the physical consciousness and the subconscient; (2) commanding the small vital movements, the little greeds, lusts, desires, the small sense-movements; (3) commanding the larger life-forces and the passions and larger desire-movements; (4) commanding the higher emotional being with the psychic deep behind it; (5) commanding expression and all externalisation of the mind movements and mental forces; (6) commanding thought, will, vision; (7) commanding the higher thinking mind and the illumined mind and opening upwards to the intuition and overmind. The seventh is sometimes or by some identified with the brain, but that is an error—the brain is only a channel of communication situated between the thousand-petalled and the forehead centre. The former is sometimes called the void centre, sunya , either because it is not in the body, but in the apparent void above or because rising above the head one enters first into the silence of the self or spiritual being.” Letters on Yoga
The definition is intended to cover the communication of attitudes, evaluations, desires, etc., as well as of judgments or assertions. See Functions of Language, Speech Situation. -- M.B.
::: "The efficacy of prayer is often doubted and prayer itself supposed to be a thing irrational and necessarily superfluous and ineffective. It is true that the universal will executes always its aim and cannot be deflected by egoistic propitiation and entreaty, it is true of the Transcendent who expresses himself in the universal order that being omniscient his larger knowledge must foresee the thing to be done and it does not need direction or stimulation by human thought and that the individual"s desires are not and cannot be in any world-order the true determining factor. But neither is that order or the execution of the universal will altogether effected by mechanical Law, but by powers and forces of which for human life at least human will, aspiration and faith are not among the least important.
“The efficacy of prayer is often doubted and prayer itself supposed to be a thing irrational and necessarily superfluous and ineffective. It is true that the universal will executes always its aim and cannot be deflected by egoistic propitiation and entreaty, it is true of the Transcendent who expresses himself in the universal order that being omniscient his larger knowledge must foresee the thing to be done and it does not need direction or stimulation by human thought and that the individual’s desires are not and cannot be in any world-order the true determining factor. But neither is that order or the execution of the universal will altogether effected by mechanical Law, but by powers and forces of which for human life at least human will, aspiration and faith are not among the least important. The Synthesis of Yoga
the fulfilment of the invocant’s desires. [Rf.
The human body has “Manasic as well as Kamic organs,” so that the cells answer to physical, mental, and spiritual impulses. The higher ego cannot act directly on the body, as its consciousness belongs to another plane of ideation; it has to act through its alter ego — the personal self (BCW 12:368-9; or St in Oc 90-1). The inert physical body is built, cell for cell, upon the invisible substance of the astral model-body or linga-sarira. The latter contains the real organs of the senses and sensations, and it transmits the mental, emotional, and instinctual impulses to which the physical body reacts. The lower mind acts upon the physical organs and their cells; but only the higher mind can influence the atoms in these cells, and arouse the brain to a mental conception of spiritual ideas. That is to say, ideal, mental, and physiological wholeness depend upon the dominance of the atomic, spiritual impulses over the desires of the selfish kama-manasic nature. The personal nature is limited in action to the material, molecular cell. This subtle but practical interplay of his physical and superphysical nature points to the natural unity of purpose in the trend of ethics and physiology. With power to know good and evil, and free will to choose, man is responsible for refining and perfecting his material, personal nature into becoming a responsive and powerful medium for manifesting his spiritual and higher intellectual individuality. The inner man is ever acting with the cosmic evolutionary urge toward perfection of type. It is this reincarnating ego which directs the atomic life of the fertilized germ-cells in upbuilding the body according to pattern; this is the mysterious organizer which eludes all analyses of biological researchers. Likewise, the morally and intellectually irresponsible entities evolving in the lower kingdoms are impulsed, in addition to the urge of each individual entity’s monad, by the instinctual phase of the universal mind which is directed by celestial beings acting with the so-called laws of nature.
“The Life Heavens are the heavens of the vital gods and there is there a perfect harmony but a harmony of the sublimated satisfied senses and vital desires only.” Letters on Yoga
The mental energies, the heart's emotions, the vital desires, the very physical being have to be compelled into the right attitude or trained to admit and answer to the right influences.
The minute one stops going forward, one falls back. The moment one is satisfied and no longer aspires, one begins to die. Life is movement, it is effort, it is a march forward, the scaling of a mountain, the climb towards new revelations, towards future realisations. Nothing is more dangerous than wanting to rest. It is in action, in effort, in the march forward that repose must be found, the true repose of complete trust in the divine Grace, of the absence of desires, of victory over egoism. True repose comes from the widening, the universalisation of the consciousness. Become as vast as the world and you will always be at rest. In the thick of action, in the very midst of the battle, the effort, you will know the repose of infinity and eternity.
Ref: CWM Vol. 09, Page: 66
The Mother: “The vital is the dynamism of action. It is the seat of the will, of impulses, desires, revolts, etc.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15.
The necessity involved in an obligation may be of various kinds -- sheer physical compulsion, social pressure, prudential necessity, etc. Thus not all obligation is moral, e.g. when one says, "The force of the wind obliged me to take cover". The question is what sort of necessity is involved in moral obligation? Is moral obligation hypothetical or is it categorical? Hypothetical obligation is expressed in such sentences as "If you want so and so, e.g. happiness, then you must or should do such and such." Here the necessity or obligatoriness is conditional, depending on whether or not one desires the end to which the action enjoined is conducive. Categorical obligation is expressed by simple sentences of the form, "You ought to do such and such". Here the necessity of doing such and such is unconditional.
The nervous part of the being Is a portion of the vital — it is the vital-physicai, the life-force closely enmeshed in the reac- tions, desires, needs, sensations of the body.
The personal effort required Is a triple labour of aspiration, rejection and surrender ; an aspiration vigilant, constant, un- ceasing — the mind’s will, the heart's seeking, the assent of the vital being, the will to open and make plastic the physical consciousness and nature ; rejection of the movements of the lower nature — rejection of the mind’s ideas, opinions, prefer- ences, habits, constructions, so that the true knowledge may find room in a silent mind, — rejection of the vital nature’s desires, demands, cravings, sensations, passions, selfishness, pride, arro- gance, lust, greed, jealousy, envy, hostility to the Truth, so that the true power and joy may pour from above into a calm, large, strong and consecrated vital being, — rejection of the physical nature’s stupidity, doubt, disbelief, obscurity, obstinacy, pettiness, laziness, unwillingness to change, tamas, so that the true stability of Light, Power, Ananda may establish itself in a body growing always more divine ; surrender of oneself and all one is and has and every plane of the consciousness and every movement to the Divine and the ShaUi.
The post-mortem separation of man’s seven principles frees the higher triad, atma-buddhi-manas, for return to, and experience in, the arupa (formless) planes of existence. Then the human-animal soul — kama-manas — composed of the dregs of the selfish personal emotions, desires, and impulses, becomes for a shorter or longer time a coherent astral form, finding its natural level in kama-loka. These shells of the dead, as well as the various nature spirits and other astral entities, are normally invisible to us as we are to them. However, certain conditions attract them and help them to appear. Actual materializations, though rare, are possible, as are various similar phenomenal appearances; yet none are the spirits they are supposed to be by spiritualists. As a rule they all fall into three general classes: 1) the astral body of the living medium detaches itself and assumes the appearance of the so-called spirit by reflecting some invisible image already in the astral light, or in the mind of one or more of the sitters; 2) the astral shell of a deceased person, devoid of all spirit, intellect, and conscience, can become visible and even partially tangible when the condition of the air and ether is such as to alter the molecular vibration of the shell so that it can be seen; and 3) an unseen mass of chemical, magnetic, and electrical material is collected from the atmosphere, the passive medium, and the circle. With this material, the astral entities automatically make a form, which invariably reflects as pictures or portraits the shape or appearance of any desired person, either dead or alive. The astral entities, which are of various kinds, use the mind-pictures or images which crowd the thoughts and auras of those present, as the astral light receives, preserves, and reflects when conditions are right, pictures or portraits of both dead and living, and indeed of all events. The confusion and illusion of it all may be increased by scenes related to the multiple personality of someone present whose aura presents pictured records of past lives.
There is after death a period In which one passes through the vital world and lives there for a time, it is only the first part of this transit that can be dangerous or painful ; in the rest one vsorks out, under certain surroundings, the remnant of the vital desires which one had in the body. As soon as one is tired of these and able to go beyond, the vital sheath is dropped and the soul, after a time needed to get rid of some mental survivals, passes into a state of rest in the psychic world and remains there till the next life on earth.
The search for beauty is only in its beginning a satisfaction in the beauty of form, the beauty which appeals to the physical senses and the vital impressions, impulsions, desires. It is only in the middle a satisfaction in the beauty of the ideas seized, the emotions aroused, the perception of perfect process and harmonious combination. Behind them the soul of beauty in us desires the contact, the revelation, the uplifting delight of an absolute beauty in all things which it feels to be present, but which neither the senses and instincts by themselves can give, though they may be its channels,—for it is suprasensuous,—nor the reason and intelligence, though they too are a channel,—for it is suprarational, supra-intellectual,— but to which through all these veils the soul itself seeks to arrive. When it can get the touch of this universal, absolute beauty, this soul of beauty, this sense of its revelation in any slightest or greatest thing, the beauty of a flower, a form, the beauty and power of a character, an action, an event, a human life, an idea, a stroke of the brush or the chisel or a scintillation of the mind, the colours of a sunset or the grandeur of the tempest, it is then that the sense of beauty in us is really, powerfully, entirely satisfied. It is in truth seeking, as in religion, for the Divine, the All-Beautiful in man, in nature, in life, in thought, in art; for God is Beauty and Delight hidden in the variation of his masks and forms.
Ref: CWSA Vol. 25, Page: 144-45
These desires and drives, however, tend to stray beyond their proper provinces and to become intermingled and confused in attempts to identify truth, goodness, and beauty, to turn justifications into explanations, to regard subsistent ideals as concretely existent facts, and to distort facts into accordance with desired ideals. It is the business of reason and philosophy to clear up this confusion by distinguishing human drives and interests from one another, indicating to each its proper province and value, and confining each to the field in which it is valid and in which its appropriate satisfaction may be found. By so doing, they dispel the suspicion and antagonism, with which the scientist, the moralist, the artist, and the theologian are wont to view one another, and enable a mind at harmony with itself to contemplate a world in which subsistent and the existent form a harmonious whole. --
These elementals are the principal nature forces used by the disimbodied human dead, very real but never visible “shells” mistaken for spirits at seances, and are the producers of all the phenomena except the purely subjective. They may be described as centers of force having instinctive desires but no consciousness as we understand it. Hence their acts may be what we humans call good or bad, indifferently. They have astral forms which partake, to a distinguishing degree, of the element to which they belong and also of the universally encompassing ether. They are a combination of sublimated matter and a purely rudimental mind. Some remain throughout several cycles relatively unchanging, so far as radical change goes, but still have no separate individuality, and usually acting collectively, so to speak. Others, of certain elements and species, change under a fixed law which Qabbalists explain. The most solid of their bodies are ordinarily just immaterial enough to escape perception by our physical eyesight, but not so unsubstantial that they cannot be perfectly recognized by the inner or clairvoyant vision. They not only exist and can all live in ether, but can handle and direct it for the production of physical effects, as readily as we can compress air or water for the same purpose by pneumatic and hydraulic apparatus; in which occupation they are readily helped by the human elementaries or astral shells.
The sexual desires show that the subconscient still retains the old impressions, movements and impulses ; make the conscious parts of the being entirely free and aspire and will for the higher consciousness to come fully into the subconscient so that even in sleep and dream something in you may be aware and on guard and reject these things when they try to take form at that time.
The subconscient is a concealed and unexpressed inarticulate consciousness which works below all our conscious physical activities. Just as what we call the superconscient is really a higher consciousness above from which things descend into the being, so the subconscient is below the body-consciousness and things come up into the physical, the vital and the mind-nature from there.Just as the higher consciousness is superconscient to us and supports all our spiritual possibilities and nature, so the subconscient is the basis of our material being and supports all that comes up in the physical nature.Men are not ordinarily conscious of either of these planes of their own being, but by sadhana they can become aware.The subconscient retains the impressions of all our past experiences of life and they can come up from there in dream forms: most dreams in ordinary sleep are formations made from subconscient impressions.The habit of strong recurrence of the same things in our physical consciousness, so that it is difficult to get rid of its habits, is largely due to a subconscient support. The subconscient is full of irrational habits.When things are rejected from all other parts of the nature, they go either into the environmental consciousness around us through which we communicate with others and with universal Nature and try to return from there or they sink into the subconscient and can come up from there even after lying long quiescent so that we think they are gone.When the physical consciousness is being changed, the chief resistance comes from the subconscient. It is constantly maintaining or bringing back the inertia, weakness, obscurity, lack of intelligence which afflict the physical mind and vital or the obscure fears, desires, angers, lusts of the physical vital, or the illnesses, dullnesses, pains, incapabilities to which the body-nature is prone.If light, strength, the Mother's Consciousness is brought down into the body, it can penetrate the subconscient also and convert its obscurity and resistance.When something is erased from the subconscient so completely that it leaves no seed and thrown out of the circumconscient so completely that it can return no more, then only can we be sure that we have finished with it for ever.
Ref: SABCL Vol. 22-23-24, Page: 356-57
The Vishnu-Purana says of the kali yuga that the barbarians will be masters of the banks of the Indus, of Chandrabhaga and Kasmira, that “there will be contemporary monarchs, reigning over the earth — kings of churlish spirit, violent temper, and ever addicted to falsehood and wickedness. They will inflict death on women, children, and cows; they will seize upon the property of their subjects, and be intent upon the wives of others; they will be of unlimited power, their lives will be short, their desires insatiable. . . . People of various countries intermingling with them, will follow their example; and the barbarians being powerful (in India) in the patronage of the princes, while purer tribes are neglected, the people will perish (or, as the Commentator has it, ‘The Mlechchhas will be in the centre and the Aryas in the end.’) Wealth and piety will decrease until the world will be wholly depraved. Property alone will confer rank; wealth will be the only source of devotion; passion will be the sole bond of union between the sexes; falsehood will be the only means of success in litigations; and women will be objects merely of sensual gratification. . . . a man if rich will be reputed pure; dishonesty (anyaya) will be the universal means of subsistence, weakness the cause of dependence, menace and presumption will be substituted for learning; liberality will be devotion; mutual assent, marriage; fine clothes, dignity. He who is the strongest will reign; the people, unable to bear the heavy burthen, Khara bhara (the load of taxes) will take refuge among the valleys. . . . Thus, in the Kali age will decay constantly proceed, until the human race approaches its annihilation (pralaya). . . . When the close of the Kali age shall be nigh, a portion of that divine being which exists, of its own spiritual nature . . . shall descend on Earth . . . (Kalki Avatar) endowed with the eight superhuman faculties. . . . He will re-establish righteousness on earth, and the minds of those who live at the end of Kali Yuga shall be awakened and become as pellucid as crystal. The men who are thus changed . . . shall be the seeds of human beings, and shall give birth to a race who shall follow the laws of the Krita age, the age of purity. As it is said, ‘When the sun and moon and the lunar asterism Tishya and the planet Jupiter are in one mansion, the Krita (or Satya) age shall return’ ” (SD 1:377-8). See also YUGA.
“… the vital is the Life-nature made up of desires, sensations, feelings, passions, energies of action, will of desire, reactions of the desire-soul in man and of all that play of possessive and other related instincts, anger, fear, greed, lust, etc., that belong to this field of the nature. Letters on Yoga
the vital nature’s desires, demands, cravings, sensations, passions, selfishness, pride, arrogance, lust, greed, jealousy, envy, hosti- lity to the Truth, so that the true power and joy may pour from above into a calm, large, strong and consecrated vital being ; rejection of the physical nature’s stupidity, doubt, disbelief, obscurity, obstinacy, pettiness, laziness, unwillingness to change, tamas, so that the true stability of Light, Power, Ananda may establish itself in a body growing always more divine.
The vital-physical is the vehicle of the nervous responses of our physical nature ::: it Is the field and Instrument of the smaller sensations, desires, reactions of all kinds to the Impacts of the outer physical and gross material life. This vital-physical part
“The vital proper is the life-force acting in its own nature, impulses, emotions, feelings, desires, ambitions, etc., having as their highest centre what we may call the outer heart of emotion, while there is an inner heart where are the higher or psychic feelings and sensibilities, the emotions or intuitive yearnings and impulses of the soul. The vital part of us is, of course, necessary to our completeness, but it is a true instrument only when its feelings and tendencies have been purified by the psychic touch and taken up and governed by the spiritual light and power.” Letters on Yoga
“The will of man works in the ignorance by a partial light or more often flickerings of light which mislead as much as they illuminate. His mind is an ignorance striving to erect standards of knowledge, his will an ignorance striving to erect standards of right, and his whole mentality as a result very much a house divided against itself, idea in conflict with idea, the will often in conflict with the ideal of right or the intellectual knowledge. The will itself takes different shapes, the will of the intelligence, the wishes of the emotional mind, the desires and the passion of the vital being, the impulsions and blind or half-blind compulsions of the nervous and the subconscient nature, and all these make by no means a harmony, but at best a precarious concord among discords. The will of the mind and life is a stumbling about in search of right force, right Tapas which can wholly be attained in its true and complete light and direction only by oneness with the spiritual and supramental being.” The Synthesis of Yoga
“The word soul is very vaguely used in English—as it often refers to the whole non-physical consciousness including even the vital with all its desires and passions. That was why the word psychic being has to be used so as to distinguish this divine portion from the instrumental parts of the nature.” Letters on Yoga
This preliminary is of supreme importance ; without it the course of the rest of the Rajayoga is likely to be troubled, marred and full of unexpected mental, moral and physical perils. This moral purification is divided in the established system under two heads, five yamas and five niyamas. The first are rules of moral self- control in conduct such as truth-speaking, abstinence from injury or killing, from theft, etc., but in reality these must be regarded as merely certain main indications of the general need of moral self-control and purity, Ywna Is, more largely, any self-discipline by which the rajasic egoism and its passions and desires in the human being are conquered and quieted into perfect cessation.
tions for the fulfilment of the invocant’s desires.
“To act according to a standard of Truth or a rule or law of action (dharma) or in obedience to a superior authority or to the highest principles discovered by the reason and intelligent will and not according to one’s own fancy, vital impulses and desires. In yoga obedience to the Guru or to the Divine and the law of the Truth as declared by the Guru is the foundation of discipline.” Letters on Yoga
"To have the true intuition one must get rid of the mind"s self-will, and the vital"s also, their preferences, fancies, fantasies, strong insistences and eliminate the mental and vital ego"s pressure which sets the consciousness to work in the service of its own claims and desires.” Letters on Yoga*
“To have the true intuition one must get rid of the mind’s self-will, and the vital’s also, their preferences, fancies, fantasies, strong insistences and eliminate the mental and vital ego’s pressure which sets the consciousness to work in the service of its own claims and desires.” Letters on Yoga
Trishna(Sanskrit) ::: The meaning of this word is "thirst" or "longing," but it is a technical term imbodying the ideathat it is this "thirst" for the things which the human ego formerly knew, and which it wills and desires toknow again -- things familiar and akin to it from past experiences -- which draws the intermediate natureor human ego of man back again to incarnation in earth-life. It is attracted anew to what is to it old andfamiliar worlds and scenes; it thirsts for the manifested life comprising them, for the things which itformerly made akin to itself; and thus is it attracted back to those spheres which it left at some precedingperiod of its evolutionary journey through them, when death overtook it. Its attraction to return to earth isnaught but an operation of a law of nature. Here the intermediate nature or human ego sowed the seeds ofthought and of action in past lives, and here therefore must it of necessity reap their fruits. It cannot reapwhere it has not sown, as is obvious enough. It never goes whither it is not attracted or drawn.After death has released the intermediate nature, and during long ages has given to it its period of blissand rest and psychical recuperation -- much as a quiet and reposeful night's sleep is to the tired physicalbody -- then, just as a man reawakens by degrees, so does this intermediate nature or human ego bydegrees recede or awaken from that state of rest and bliss called devachan. And the seeds of thoughts, theseeds of actions which it had done in former lives, are now laid by in the fabric of itself -- seeds whosenatural energy is still unexpended and unexhausted -- and inhere in that inner psychical fabric, for theyhave nowhere else in which to inhere, since the man produced them there and they are a part of him.These seeds of former thoughts and acts, of former emotions, desires, loves, hates, yearnings, andaspirations, each one of such begins to make itself felt as an urge earthwards, towards the spheres andplanes in which they are native, and where they naturally grow and expand and develop.In this our present life, all of us are setting in motion causes in thought and in action which will bring usback to this earth in the distant future. We shall then reap the harvest of the seeds of thought and actionthat we are in this present life planting in the fields of our human nature.In the Pali books of the Orient this word is called tanha.
Ts’un hsing: A Chinese term, the meaning of which is: putting the desires into proper harmony by restraint; the way to achieve “complete preservation of one’s nature.”
Ts'un hsing: Putting the desires into proper harmony by restraint, the way to achieve 'complete preservation of one's nature'. (Yang Chu, c 440-c 360 B.C.). -- H.H.
Ts'un sheng: 'Completeness of living', which is the best, is the enjoyment of life not to excess, a life in which all desires reach a proper harmony. While advocating restraint of the desires, Yang Chu (c 440-c 360 B.C.) at the same time maintains the fulfillment of these. -- H.H.
Uparati (Sanskrit) Uparati [from upa-ram to cease] A cessation; In Vedantic philosophy a state where the yogi desists from sensual enjoyment or any worldly action, and there is an absence of desires which could be affected by exterior stimuli or influences.
utility ::: n. --> The quality or state of being useful; usefulness; production of good; profitableness to some valuable end; as, the utility of manure upon land; the utility of the sciences; the utility of medicines.
Adaptation to satisfy the desires or wants; intrinsic value. See Note under Value, 2.
Happiness; the greatest good, or happiness, of the greatest number, -- the foundation of utilitarianism.
vairāgī ::: a religious devotee who has freed himself from worldly desires.
vairāgya ::: aversion, loathing; indifference to worldly objects and worldly life, freedom from worldly desires. (in some texts as vairagia)
vairagya. ::: dispassion; absence of worldly desires; detachment; desirelessness; disinterest; indifference towards and disgust for all worldly things and enjoyments; one of the four prerequisites for qualification as a spiritual aspirant of vedanta
Vasanakshaya: Annihilation of subtle desires.
vasanakshaya. ::: the destruction of all latent tendencies; annihilation of subtle desires and impressions
vasana. ::: latent tendency; an inherent tendency and inclination due to conditioning which impels the mind to project and witness an illusory world; subtle impressions that lead to desires; mental conditioning or habit, such as like and dislike, that make the mind behave the way it does; subtle desire which is the cause of birth and experience in general
Vasanarahita: Without subtle desires.
Vasanatyaga: Renunciation of subtle desires.
\vbich merely expresses the vital stuff without subjecting it to any play of intelligence. It is through this mental vital that the vital passions, impulses, desires rise up and get into the Buddhi and either cloud or distort it.
Vibhuta: Sanskrit for “manifestation of great power.” In Yoga, the eight supernatural, mystic powers which one can attain, viz. (1) the power of becoming as minute as an atom, (2) the power to become as light as cotton, (3) the power of reaching anywhere, even to the moon, (4) the power of having all wishes of whatever description realized, (5) the power to expand oneself into space, (6) the power to create, (7) the power to command all, and (8) the power of suppressing all desires.
Vibhutayah (Sanskrit) Vibhūtayaḥ [plural of vibhūti mighty, powerful; superhuman power] Siddhis, magical or superhuman powers, potencies. The eight vibhutayah especially attributed to Siva are also said to be perpetually attainable by humans, for example: animan (the power of becoming as minute as an atom); laghiman (extreme lightness); prapti (attaining or reaching anything); prakamya (irresistible will); mahiman (illimitable bulk); isita (supreme dominion); vasita (subjugating by magic); and kamavasayita (suppressing all desires).
Vilal being — its four parts ::: There arc four parts of the vital being— first, the menial vital which gives a mental expres- sion by thought, speech or olher^vise to the emotions, desires, passions, sensations and other movements of the vital being ; the emotional vital which is the seat of various feelings such as love, joy, sorrow, hatred, and the rest ; the central vital which is the seat of the stronger vital longings and reactions, e.g. ambi- tion, pride, fear, love of fame, attractions and repulsions, desires and passions of various kinds and the field of many vital ener- gies ; last, the lower vital which is occupied with small desires and feelings, such as make the greater part of daily life, e.g. food desire, sexual desire, small likings, dislikings, vanity, quarrels, love of praise, anger at blame, litfle wishes of all kinds — and a numberless host of other things. Their respective seats are
Vital being — its four parts: There arc four parts of the vital being — first, the mental vital which gives a mental expres- sion by thought, speech or otherwise to the emotions, desires, passions, sensations and other movements of the vital being ; the emotional vital which is the scat of various feelings such as love, Joy, sorrow, hatred, and the rest ; the central vital which is the seat of the stronger rilal longings and reactions, e.g. ambi- tion, pride, fear, love of fame, attractions and repulsions, desires and passions of various kinds and the held of many vital ener- gies ; last, the lower vital which is occupied with small desires and feelings, such as make the greater part of daily life, e.g. food desire, sexual desire, small likings, dislikings, vanity, quarrels, love of praise, anger at blame, little wishes of all kinds — and a numberless host of other tlungs. Their respective seats are
vital gods ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Life Heavens are the heavens of the vital gods and there is there a perfect harmony but a harmony of the sublimated satisfied senses and vital desires only.” Letters on Yoga
Vital mind proper is a sort of mediator between vital emo- tion, desire, impulsion, etc. and the mental proper. It expresses the desires, feelings, emotions, passions, ambitions, possessive
vital physical ::: the nervous part of the being, the life-force closely enmeshed in the reactions, desires, needs, sensations of the body.
vital (the) ::: the life-nature made up of desires, sensations, feelings, passions, energies of action, will of desire, reactions of the desire-soul of man and of all that play of possessive and other related instincts, anger, greed, lust, etc., that belong to this field of nature. The vital part of man is a true instrument only when its feelings and tendencies have been purified by the psychic touch and governed by the spiritual light and power. The vital has three main parts:
higher vital ::: the mental vital and emotional vital taken together. The mental vital gives a mental expression by thought, speech or otherwise to the emotions, desires, passions, sensations or other movements of the vital being; the emotional vital is the seat of various feelings, such as love, joy, sorrow, hatred and the rest.
central vital or vital proper ::: dynamic, sensational and passionate, it is the seat of the stronger vital longings and reactions, such as ambition, pride, fear, love of fame, attractions and repulsions, desires and passion of various kinds and the field of many vital energies.
lower vital ::: made up of the smaller movements of human life-desire and life-reactions, it is occupied with small desires and feelings, such as food desire, sexual desire, small likings, dislikings, vanity, quarrels, love of praise, anger at blame, little wishes of all kinds, etc. The material vital is that part of the lower vital turned entirely upon physical things, full of desires and greeds and seekings for pleasure on the physical plane.
vocally ::: adv. --> In a vocal manner; with voice; orally; with audible sound.
In words; verbally; as, to express desires vocally.
voluptuous ::: a. --> Full of delight or pleasure, especially that of the senses; ministering to sensuous or sensual gratification; exciting sensual desires; luxurious; sensual.
Given to the enjoyments of luxury and pleasure; indulging to excess in sensual gratifications.
Wants - The unlimited desires or wishes that people have for goods and services.
What are technically classified as obsessing ideas and feelings are evidence of the subjective reality of the astral plane and its disimbodied entities. Knowledge of man’s multifold nature, including the parts played by each of its principles both during life and after death, gives a key to many psychological problems in the postmortem survival of the kama-rupa. The differing aspects of obsession result from the varied types of the astral entities — ghosts or shades of the dead, elementaries of suicides and executed criminals, evil sorcerers, nature spirits, etc. The kama-rupic shells alone, being remnants of deceased personalities, differ as the latter had done in their imbodied desires and impulses. The variety of obsessing influences accounts for the medley of typical symptoms in conditions of inert melancholia, of sustained catalepsy, of violent mania and convulsions, of emotional egoism in hysteria, of childish grimaces and erratic muscular contractions in essential chorea, of subjective horrors in delirium tremens, and of the perverted brutality in purposeless, unhuman crimes. Though only a seer’s inner vision could reveal just what entity was active in each case, yet a student of human duality can recognize the unseemly and distorted play of the animal, lower nature, separated from the conscience and higher mind — the kama-rupic condition. Mild types of these disorders frequently are simply the uncontrolled play of the person’s own selfish nature; but these are in danger of drifting into the severer forms, because like attracts like. See also POSSESSION
What has first to be done is to exteriorize desires, to push them out on the surface and get the inner parts quiet and clear. After- wards they can be thrown out and replaced by the true thing, a happy and luminous will one with the Divine’s.
When mind and vital fall quiet and their restless movements, thoughts and desires cease, then one feels empty. This is at first a neutral emptiness with nothing in it either good or bad, happy or unhappy, no impulse or movement. The neutral state is often or usually followed by the opening to inner experience. There is also an emptiness made of peace and silence, when the peace and silence come out from the psychic within or descend from the higher consciousness above. This is not neutral, for in it there is the sense of peace, often also of wideness and freedom.
When the physical consciousness is being changed,' the chkl resistance comes from the subconscient. It is constantly main- taining or bringing back the inertia, weakness, obscurity, lack of intelligence which afflict the physical mind and vitd or' the obscure fears, desires, angers, Jiisis of the physical vital, or the illnesses, dullnesses, pains, incapabilUies to which the body- nature is prone.
will, human ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The will of man works in the ignorance by a partial light or more often flickerings of light which mislead as much as they illuminate. His mind is an ignorance striving to erect standards of knowledge, his will an ignorance striving to erect standards of right, and his whole mentality as a result very much a house divided against itself, idea in conflict with idea, the will often in conflict with the ideal of right or the intellectual knowledge. The will itself takes different shapes, the will of the intelligence, the wishes of the emotional mind, the desires and the passion of the vital being, the impulsions and blind or half-blind compulsions of the nervous and the subconscient nature, and all these make by no means a harmony, but at best a precarious concord among discords. The will of the mind and life is a stumbling about in search of right force, right Tapas which can wholly be attained in its true and complete light and direction only by oneness with the spiritual and supramental being.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
WILL—The mental power to choose; the power to mould the expressions of the mind; the realization of desires; volition.
wisher ::: n. --> One who wishes or desires; one who expresses a wish.
wish ::: v. t. --> To have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker.
To desire; to long for; to hanker after; to have a mind or disposition toward.
To frame or express desires concerning; to invoke in favor of, or against, any one; to attribute, or cal down, in desire; to invoke; to imprecate.
To recommend; to seek confidence or favor in behalf of.
“With regard to the origin of Rudra, it is stated in several Puranas that his (spiritual) progeny, created in him by Brahma, was not confined to either the seven Kumaras or the eleven Rudras, etc., but ‘comprehends infinite numbers of beings in person and equipments like their (virgin) father. Alarmed at their fierceness, numbers, and immortality, Brahma desires his son Rudra to form creatures of a different and mortal nature.’ Rudra refusing to create, desists, etc., hence Rudra is the first rebel” (SD 2:613n).
Wu: Chinese for creatures, things, matter, the material principle, the external world, the non-self, objects of the senses and desires, affairs.
Wu: Creatures; things; matter; the material principle; the external world; the non-self; objects of the senses and desires; affairs. -- W.T.C.
Xiuxi zhiguan zuochan fayao. (J. Shuju shikan zazenhoyo; K. Susŭp chigwan chwason pobyo 修習止觀坐禪法要). In Chinese, "Essentials for Sitting in Meditation and Cultivating Calmness and Contemplation"; also known as the Tongmeng zhiguan ("Calming and Contemplation for Neophytes") and the (Tiantai) Xiao zhiguan ("Shorter Calming and Contemplation of [Tiantai]"). The monk TIANTAI ZHIYI, the systematizer of the TIANTAI ZONG, is known to have composed this treatise as a guide for training his brother Zhen Zhen. The treatise was composed sometime after his Shi chan boluomi cidi chanmen (571) and MOHE ZHIGUAN (594). Despite its popular designation as the Xiao zhiguan, the relatively short Xiuxi zhiguan zuochan fayao borrows heavily from the Shi chan boluomi cidi chanmen and seems to have no direct relation to Zhiyi's massive Mohe zhiguan. A preface to the Xiuxi zhiguan zuochan fayao was prepared by the monk Yuanzhao (1048-1116) and was published together with the treatise in 1095. The treatise is divided into ten chapters: (1) necessary conditions, (2) rebuking desires, (3) discarding obstructions, (4) regulation, (5) expedient methods (UPĀYA), (6) proper cultivation, (7) manifestation of the (roots of) virtue (KUsALAMuLA), (8) recognizing MĀRA, (9) healing ailments, and (10) attainment of fruits. The practice of meditation outlined in the treatise is based on the twenty-five preparatory expedient methods of the DAZHIDU LUN and the Shi chan boluomi cidi chanmen. As the title makes clear, the general purpose of the treatise is to provide the essentials for the concurrent practice of calming (sAMATHA) and insight (VIPAsYANĀ). The treatise is still widely used in various Buddhist traditions as a practical manual for beginning meditators.
Yetzer ::: Inclination; will. Traditional Judaism believes people to possess a will toward the good and a selfish will toward evil. Sometimes “yetzer” is used to refer purely to the selfish inclination. This yetzer, the yetzer hara, sees the world purely in terms of the self and its desires.
yj4M^. RuJe of moral self-coatroJ. Any self-discipline by which the rajash egoism and its passions and desires are con- quered and quieted into perfect cessation.
Yu: Desire, which the Taoists regard as detrimental to a good life and the understanding of Tao, but which the Confucians accept as natural and reasonable if under control. "The nature of man is tranquil, but when it is affected by the external world, it begins to have desires . . . When the likes and dislikes are not properly controlled and our conscious minds are distracted by the material world, we love our true selves and the principle of reason in Nature is destroyed . . . The people are therefore controlled through the rituals and music instituted by the ancient kings." As Tai Tung-yuan (1723-1777) puts it, "Man and creatuies all have desires, and desires are the functionings of their nature . . . If functionings and operations do not err, they are in harmony with the characteristics of Heaven and Earth . . . Goodness is nothing but the transformation of Heaven and Earth and the functionings and capabilities of nature . . . We should not be without desires, but we should minimize them. -- W.T.C.
Zoofagus is a fictitious condition that was diagnosed by Dr. John Seward in Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula. Renfield, the mentally insane character who is diagnosed with the illness, is said to collect small animals at first, such as flies. Then, the flies attract spiders, and the spiders attract sparrows (the pattern is in a food chain, and each of the next largest animal eats the last of the smallest). In theory, it appears that Renfield desires to get the largest animal possible (perhaps even a human) so that he may eat it himself and collect all of the "life force" that the animal had consumed before him. After Dr. Seward's observations, he gives the proper title "zoofagus" to Renfield. Dr. Seward explains that this term that he created literally means "life eater".
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1:Thoughts weaken the mind. Desires wither the heart. ~ Tao Te Ching, ch.12, #KEYS
2:The remedy against want is to moderate your desires. ~ Saadi, #KEYS
3:When the gods want to punish us, they grant our desires." ~ Ancient Greek saying., #KEYS
4:The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace. ~ Jean Klein, #KEYS
5:There is more joy in one desire conquered than in a thousand desires satisfied
~ Buddha,#KEYS
6:Happy is the soul that reaches the level of perfection that God desires!" ~ Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, #KEYS
7:He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. ~ John Milton, #KEYS
8:We have to have a purpose greater than the endless struggle to satisfy personal desires. ~ Eknath Easwaran, #KEYS
9:How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires? ~ Ibn Arabi, [T5], #KEYS
10:So long as one desires liberation, one is in bondage. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
11:The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, [T5], #KEYS
12:Simply meditating or repeating God's names, without any effort at rooting out the desires, will not do. ~ SWAMI PREMANANDA, #KEYS
13:If thou wouldst be free, accustom thyself to curb thy desires. ~ Tolstoi, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
14:Nothing so much wins love as the knowledge that one's lover desires most of all to be himself loved. ~ Saint John Chrysostom, #KEYS
15:God cannot be reflected by the mind if it is agitated by the wind of desires. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
16:Renounce your desires and you shall taste of peace. ~ Imitation of Christ, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
17:Surmount the desires of which gods and men are the subjects. ~ Uttana Sutta, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
18:The desires of this world are like sea water. The more you drink of them, the more you thirst. ~ Ibn Arabi, #KEYS
19:Any rational creature naturally desires its happiness ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (In 4 Sent. 49.1.3)., #KEYS
20:Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord. ~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, #KEYS
21:I once had a thousand desires, but in my one desire to know you, all else melted away. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #KEYS
22:God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform. ~ Saint John of the Cross, [T5], #KEYS
23:Renunciation of desires: the essential condition for realisation.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, [T2],#KEYS
24:When Love desires Love,
Then Love is born. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories, Act I,#KEYS
25:The ultimate sacrifice is to curb your desires and surrender the ego." ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
26:I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. ~ Susan B Anthony, #KEYS
27:Expel thy desires and fears and there shall be no longer any tyrant over thee. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
28:Those whose hearts are burnt with the fire of worldly desires cannot be impressed with spiritual ideas. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
29:Of what use are the gods
If they crown not our just desires on earth? ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories, Act I,#KEYS
30:I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self. ~ Aristotle, #KEYS
31:I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
~ Aristotle,#KEYS
32:It is good to have what one desires, but it is better to desire nothing more than what one has. ~ Menedemus, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
33:There is no better way to cultivate humanity and justice in the heart than to diminish our desires. ~ Meng-tse, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
34:Leave alone your desires and fears. Ask: who desires? Let each desire bring you back to yourself. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #KEYS
35:Only through sadhana can we avoid being enslaved by circumstances. We should free ourselves and worship God, without any desires or expectations. ~ MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI, #KEYS
36:Perfection comes by renunciation of desires and surrender to a higher Will. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II, Practical Concerns in Work, #KEYS
37:Be a lamp in brightness, and make the works of darkness cease, so that whenever your doctrine shines, no one may dare to heed the desires of darkness. ~ Ephrem the Syrian, #KEYS
38:When all the desires that trouble the heart have fallen silent, then this mortal puts on immortality. ~ Katha Upanishad, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
39:You cannot please both God and the world at the same time, They are utterly opposed to each other in their thoughts, their desires, and their actions. ~ Saint John Vianney, #KEYS
40:Desires are not eradicated by satisfaction. Trying to root them out that way is like pouring spirits to quench fire. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
41:One who worships God but also cherishes worldly desires will find their devotion wasted, run through the rat-holes of desire. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
42:Each part in us desires its absolute. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05, #KEYS
43:Each part in us desires its absolute.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
44:If you have a desire for sense-enjoyments, then there can be no spiritual attainments. If you are really after spiritual life, then bid farewell to desires. ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
45:God is like the divine wish-yielding tree and gives whatever one asks. So give up worldly desires when the mind has been purified. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
46:Eternal peace cannot come so long as passions and desires persist; and those passions and desires cannot be wholly uprooted without the grace of God. ~ Manapurush Swami Shivananda, #KEYS
47:He who consecrates his life to spiritual perfection, cannot be ill-content; for what he desires is always in his power. ~ Pascal, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
48:ike burning coals are our desires; they are full of suffering, full of torment and a yet heavier distressfulness. ~ Buddhist Texts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
49:With what understanding can man apprehend God, who does not yet apprehend that very understanding itself of his own, by which he desires to apprehend Him? ~ Saint Augustine, (DT 5.1), #KEYS
50:The cure from all difficulties can come only when the egoistic concentration upon one's desires and conveniences ceases.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
51:The awakened sages call a person wise when all his undertakings are free from anxiety about results; all his selfish desires have been consumed in the fire of knowledge. ~ Bhagavad Gita, #KEYS
52:God cannot be seen so long as we keep the slightest taint of desire. Therefore, satisfy your small desires and renounce the great desires. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
53:Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
54:Some make riches the object of their desires, others glory. For me, I desire nothing save to cling to God and put in Him alone the hope of my soul stripped of passion. ~ John of the Ladder, #KEYS
55:The least indigent mortal is the one who desires the least. We have everything we wish when we wish only for what is sufficient. ~ Seneca, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
56:I no longer wish to live after the manner of men, and my desire shall be fulfilled if you consent. Be willing, then, that you also may have your desires fulfilled. ~ Saint Ignatius of Antioch, #KEYS
57:Slay thy desires, O disciple, make powerless thy vices, before thou takest the first step of that solemn journey. ~ Book of Golden Precepts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
58:In things lacking awareness, this desire is called "natural desire". Thus, it is said that a stone desires to be downwards ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ScG 2.47)., #KEYS
59:Overlook the faults of others and see only their merits, and thus keep your mind serene. Be unconcerned in all things, with the mind cool, free of desires and without hate. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
60:Some make riches the object of their desires, others glory. For me, I desire nothing save to cling to God and put in Him alone the hope of my soul stripped of passion. ~ Saint John of the Ladder, #KEYS
61:Control over the lower impulsions is the first step towards realisation.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Weaknesses, DESIRES, IMPULSES AND SELF-CONTROL, [253] [T7],#KEYS
62:Renunciation of the world is followed by peace; its desire brings sorrow. Restrain your desires and discipline your self. ~ Rabia al-Adawiyya, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
63:The knowledge of faith does not bring rest to desire but rather sets it aflame, since every man desires to see what he believes ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ScG 3.40), #KEYS
64:The knowledge of faith does not bring rest to desire but rather sets it aflame, since every man desires to see what he believes ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ScG 3.40)., #KEYS
65:God is seen, when the mind is tranquil. When the mental sea is agitated by the wind of desires, it cannot reflect God, and then God-vision is impossible ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
66:he man who has conquered his unreined desires, offers no hold to sorrow; it glides over him like water over the leaves of the lotus. ~ Buddhist Texts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
67:As long as there is intense struggle, there are still desires which tie us to the world. We have not realized yet its complete hollowness. When we realize that, the way is easy. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda, #KEYS
68:He has read everything, learned everything, practised everything, who has renounced his desires and lives without any straining of hope. ~ Hitopadesha, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
69:Repeating His name will make your mind steadfast like the flame of a lamp protected from wind. Wind makes a flame unsteady. Similarly, desires prevent the mind from becoming concentrated. ~ Sri Sarada Devi, #KEYS
70:When God loves, all he desires is to be loved in return. The sole purpose of his love is to be loved, in the knowledge that those who love him are made happy by their love of him. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, #KEYS
71:When God loves, all he desires is to be loved in return; the sole purpose of his love is to be loved, in the knowledge that those who love him are made happy by their love of him. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, #KEYS
72:See how people live, what constitutes the aim of their existence, the object of their desires, passions and aspirations, of what they think, of what they talk, what they serve and what they worship. ~ Gurdjieff, #KEYS
73:Your unfulfilled desires bring you back. You must conquer desire to be absorbed into the One and thus end rebirth. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Here lies the Heart, Mercedes de Acosta, #KEYS
74:Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force, for God has given every single person free will and desires to constrain none; he merely shows them the way, invites them and counsels them. ~ Saint Angela Merici, #KEYS
75:Ah! let us live happy without desires among those who are given up to covetousness. In the midst of men full of desires, let us dwell empty of them. ~ Dhammapada, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
76:Always keep your mind spotless. Don't allow impure thoughts to enter it. If you find such desires tormenting you, pray to God and chant His name. He will protect you. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
77:As a general rule, there is no harm in satisfying a desire where the satisfaction will not lead to further desires by creating vasanas in the mind. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Day by Day, #KEYS
78:Weak desires can be removed by introspection and meditation, but strong, deep-rooted ones must be fulfilled and their fruits, sweet or bitter, tasted. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #KEYS
79:Without desires the body cannot live. The body is really impermanent. It is to enjoy God, to sing His name and glories, and to go about visiting His jnanis and bhaktas. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS
80:Those who lead an unregulated life and think impure thoughts lose their powers and strength of mind. They are at the mercy of passing desires and the feverish cravings of the senses and are slaves. ~ Swami Saradananda, #KEYS
81:Each creature labouring in his own vocation
Desires another's and deems the heavy burden
Of his own fate the world's sole heaviness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories, Act I,#KEYS
82:Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you but your own imagination, you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas, and live by truth alone. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Maharaj, #KEYS
83:It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations. ~ Bertrand Russell, #KEYS
84:The contemplation of the impermanence of things, that wonderful gateway to Truth, leads us to victory over the thirst for the satisfaction of our desires. ~ Sangiti Sutta, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
85:You must have learned principles so firmly that when your desires, your appetites or your fears awaken like barking dogs, the logos will speak with the voice of a master who silences the dogs by a single command. ~ Plutarch, #KEYS
86:He is in truth the man of piety who is dead even in his lifetime, that is to say, whose passions and desires have been destroyed and are like a body that is dead. ~ Ramakrishna, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
87:Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction." ~ Saint John of the Cross, #KEYS
88:The Lord can rescue the good from the ordeal, and hold the wicked for their punishment until the day of Judgement, especially those who are governed by their corrupt bodily desires and have no respect for authority. ~ 2 Peter 2:9, #KEYS
89:To waste one's time seeking the satisfaction of one's petty desires is sheer folly. True happiness is possible only when one has found the Divine. 19 February 1972 ~ The Mother, Some Answers From The Mother, #KEYS
90:Do not speak of Jesus Christ, and yet set your desires on the world. Let not envy find a dwelling-place among you; nor even should I, when present with you, exhort you to it, be persuaded to listen to me. ~ Saint Ignatius of Antioch, #KEYS
91:Let us impose upon our desires the yoke of submission to reason, let them be ever calm and never bring trouble into our souls; thence result wisdom, constancy, moderation. ~ Cicero, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
92:The rational soul operates naturally when its desiring part desires virtue, and its spirited part (thumikon) fights for virtue, and its reasoning part applies itself to the contemplation of creatures. ~ Evagrius Ponticus, Praktikos §86, #KEYS
93:One reaches the Supreme state by renouncing all lesser desires. As long as you are pleased with the lesser, you cannot have the highest. Whatever pleases you keeps you back. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #KEYS
94:Desires are just waves in the mind. You know a wave when you see one. A desire is just a thing among many. Freedom from desire means this: the compulsion to satisfy is absent. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #KEYS
95:In the deep sleep state we lay down our ego, our thoughts and our desires. If we could only do all this while we are conscious, we would realise the Self. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Conscious Immortality, Ch. 13, #KEYS
96:You reach the Supreme State by renouncing all lesser desires. As long as you are pleased with the lesser, you cannot have the highest. Whatever pleases you keeps you back. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, [T5], #KEYS
97:Be quiet now and wait. It may be that the ocean one, the one we desire so to move into and become, desires us out here on land a little longer, going our sundry roads to the shore. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, @Sufi_Path #KEYS
98:Do not ask anything from God because God already knows your needs. There is difference between need, want, wish, and desire. Our days are laden with wants and nights with desires. Thus we remain disturbed all the time and put the blame on God. ~ SWAMI RAMA, #KEYS
99:Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desires and his disposition live and reign there. All our religious exercises should be directed to this end. ~ Saint John Eudes, #KEYS
100:Once man has lost the fundamental orientation which unifies his existence, he breaks down into a multiplicity of his desires, in refusing to await the time of promise, his life story disintegrates into a myriad of unconnected instants. ~ Pope Francis, Lumen Fidei 13, #KEYS
101:You must give up the idea that you are something. That you do or do not do, both must be given up. Give up taking the credit for anything; root out this idea, then you will become unselfish. Root out all selfish desires and you will reach the goal. ~ SWAMI PARAMANANDA, #KEYS
102:The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #KEYS
103:Know that the Divine Name plants itself in the mind through repetition. The mind is running restlessly intoxicated by desires. Cultivate detachment towards the cravings and be always practicing. By constant practice the mind will gradually quiet down. ~ Swami Adbhutananda, #KEYS
104:Of all the movements, sensations and feelings of the soul, love is the only one in which the creature can respond to the Creator and make some sort of similar return however unequal though it be. For when God loves, all he desires is to be loved in return. ~ Saint Bernard, #KEYS
105:Freedom is freedom from worry. Having realised that you cannot influence the results, pay no attention to your desires and fears. Let them come and go. Don't give them the nourishment of interest and attention. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #KEYS
106:Fools or hypocrites! Meanest falsehood is this among mortals,
Veils of purity weaving, names misplacing ideal
When our desires we disguise and paint the lusts of our nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Ilion,#KEYS
107:In the narrow nether centre's petty parts
Its childish game of daily dwarf desires
Was changed into a sweet and boisterous play,
A romp of little gods with life in Time. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Finding of the Soul,#KEYS
108:Love is immortal. Man obtaining it becomes perfect, becomes satisfied, becomes immortal. Once it is obtained, he desires nothing, is not afflicted, does not hate, is not diverted, strains no more after anything. ~ Narada Sutra, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
109:The main point to grasp is that you have projected onto yourself a world of your own imagination, based on memories, on desires and fears, and that you have imprisoned yourself in it. Break the spell and be free. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #KEYS
110:For God u must renounce 'lust & greed', then finer desires - desire for name & fame - finer & finer, by degrees. As renunciation has no limit, so bliss is also without any limit. Bliss comes out of renunciation. The more the renunciation, the more the bliss. ~ Swami Akhandananda, #KEYS
111:Great is the influence of desires that if they once leave an impression on your mind, they will drag you down lower and lower; yet they will not let you feel your downward course. The only way to be saved from these dangers is to offer yourself solely to God. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
112:He who lives in the realization of his oneness with the Infinite Power becomes a magnet to attract to himself a continual supply of whatever things he desires… " ~ Ralph W. Trine, (1866-1958) American philosopher, author & teacher, wrote on the New Thought movement, Wikipedia., #KEYS
113:Give up all desires & dedicate yourself solely to the Lord. You cannot have Divine bliss & worldly enjoyments at the same time. You cannot get the one without renouncing the other. You cannot give up the lower unless you come to possess a taste for the higher. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
114:Do not look at the things of the world. If you do so, you will get lost in them. So great is the influence of desires that if they once leave an impression on your mind, they will drag you down lower & lower; yet they will not let you feel your downward course. ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
115:Go on repeating the Master's name & peace will be yours. All the sins of the body & the mind are washed away if one looks at Him for some time. He can see through your mind, He understands everything. Confide in Him. But don't approach Him with selfish desires ~ Swami Vijnanananda, #KEYS
116:The foolish follow after outward desires and they enter into the snare of death that is wide-extended for them; but the wise, having found immortality, know that which is sure and desire not here uncertain things. ~ Katha Upanishad. IV. 2, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
117:Yes, yes; you've read thousands of books but you've never tried to read your own self; you rush into your temples, into your mosques, but you have never tried to enter your own heart; futile are all your battles with the devil for you have never tried to fight your own desires. ~ Bulleh Shah, #KEYS
118:Our cravings alone keep us separated from God. Root out all desires and call on Him! If He wills that the body should die, let it die while chanting His name! By worldly standards a man may be great. But he too in some life or other will have to renounce everything for God.~ Swami Turiyananda, #KEYS
119:Studies strengthen the mind and turn its concentration away from the impulses and desires of the vital. Concentrating on study is one of the most powerful ways of controlling the mind and the vital; that is why it is so important to study.
~ The Mother, On Education,#KEYS
120:As the troubled surface of rolling waters cannot reflect aright the full moon, but gives only broken images of it, so the mentality troubled by the desires and passions of the world cannot reflect fully the light of the Eternal. ~ Ramakrishna, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
121:Even as the troubled surface of rolling waters cannot properly reflect the full moon, but only gives broken images of it, so a mind troubled by the desires and passions of the world cannot fully reflect the light of the Ineffable. ~ Ramakrishna, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
122:Beware, that you do not miss this rare opportunity of reaching your desired goal. Be up & doing. Realize God. Do not pay heed to anything else; look up to Him alone. He will take your whole burden. Then you will see that all your lower desires & cravings will leave you altogethe ~ SWAMI BRAHMANANDA, #KEYS
123:By an increase in anger, warfare arises. By an increase of greed, famine arises. By an increase of stupidity, pestilence arises. Because these three calamities occur, the people's earthly desires grow all the more intense, and their false views thrive and multiply. ~ Nichiren, #KEYS
124:There is no difference between a man of the world and a solitary if both have conquered the illusion of the ego; but if the heart isa slave to the desires of the senses, the external signs of self-control serve no useful object. ~ Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
125:Surrender means to consecrate everything in oneself to the Divine, to offer all one is and has, not to insist on one's ideas, desires, habits, etc., but to allow the divine Truth to replace them by its knowledge, will and action everywhere. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II, #KEYS
126:For whatever desires still trouble his being, he must, if he accepts the high aim of Yoga, put them away from him into the hands of the Lord within us. The supreme Power will deal with them for the good of the Sadhaka and for the good of all.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga,#KEYS
127:The foolish follow after the desires that are outward and they fall into the snare of death that is wide open for them, but the wise man sets his mind on the immortal and the certain and longs not here below for uncertain and transient things. ~ Katha Upanishad, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
128:Anyone who desires to be refreshed by the bread of the divine Word and by the body and blood of the Lord must pass from vices to virtues: "Our Passover, Christ, has been sacrificed, and so let us feast with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (1 Cor 5:7)., #KEYS
129:Thou hast cleansed thy heart of soil and bled it dry of impure desires. But, O glorious combatant, thy task is not yet done. Build high the wall which shall protect thy mind from pride and satisfaction at the thought of the great work accomplished. ~ Book of Golden Precept, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
130:The magician therefore seeks unity of desire before he attempts to act. Desires are re-arranged before an act, not during it. In all things he must live like this. As reorganization of belief is the key to liberation, so is reorganization of desire the key to will.
~ Peter J Carroll, Liber Null, Liber LUX, Enchantment [56],#KEYS
131:The majority of mankind do not think, they have only thought-sensations; a large minority think confusedly, mixing up desires, predilections, passions, prejudgments, old associations and prejudices with pure and disinterested thought. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Early Cultural Writings, The National Value of Art, #KEYS
132:Anyone who desires to be refreshed by the bread of the divine Word and by the body and blood of the Lord must pass from vices to virtues: "Our Passover, Christ, has been sacrificed, and so let us feast with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth" ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (1 Cor 5:7)(In Jn 6 lect 1)., #KEYS
133:I looked into my own heart and I saw reflected there in its entirety the vast world with all its passions,-pride, hope, fear and the conflagration of the desires. So gazing I understood the word of the ancient sage, "Man is a mirror in which there appears the image of the world." ~ Ryonen, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
134:The desire for the Divine or for bhakti for the Divine is the one desire which can free one from all the others—at the core it is not a desire, but an aspiration; a soul need, the breath of existence of the inmost being, and as such it cannot be counted among desires, kāmanār madhye nay. ~ Sri Aurobindo, to Dilip, #KEYS
135:All over earth men wept and bled and laboured, world-wide
Sowing Fate with their deeds and had other fruit than they hoped for,
Out of desires and their passionate griefs and fleeting enjoyments
Weaving a tapestry fit for the gods to admire, who in ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, Ilion,#KEYS
136:To be a man, discipline is indispensable.
Without discipline one is only an animal.
One begins to be a man only when one aspires to a higher and truer life and when one accepts a discipline of transformation. For this one must start by mastering one's lower nature and its desires. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS
137:One must learn to hear and follow the voice of the inmost soul, the direction of the Guru, the command of the Master, the working of the Divine Mother. Whoever clings to the desires and weaknesses of the flesh, the cravings and passions of the vital in it ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - II, #KEYS
138:The man in whom all desires disappear like rivers into a motionless sea, attains to peace, not he whom they move to longing. That man whose walk is free from longing, for he has thrown all desires from him, who calls nothing his and has no sense of ego, is moving towards peace. ~ Bhagavad Gita II. 70-71, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
139:362. Limit not sacrifice to the giving up of earthly goods or the denial of some desires and yearnings, but let every thought and every work and every enjoyment be an offering to God within thee. Let thy steps walk in thy Lord, let thy sleep and waking be a sacrifice to Krishna.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine And Human, Karma, [T1],#KEYS
140:It is only by aspiration and prayer that ego can be overcome; a constant and sincere aspiration is always answered by the Divine. Feb 3rd
Ignorance is a human general illness and nobody can escape it until one is united with the Divine. Feb 9th
Let the aspiration and love for the Divine conquer in you all desires and difficulties. Feb 14
~ The Mother#KEYS
141:This is the noble way in regard to the origin of suffering; its origin is that thirst made up of egoistic desires which produces individual existence and which now here, now there hunts for its self-satisfaction, and such is the thirst of sensation, the thirst of existence, the thirst of domination and well-being. ~ Buddhist Texts, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
142:It is no doubt as you say, [1] but that is always the difficulty of the physical consciousness until it has been enlightened from within.
[1] The correspondent wrote that although she wanted to get rid of her desires, confusions and wrong movements, the outward, physical part of her being wanted to hold on to them.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - IV,#KEYS
143:The main difficulty in the sadhana consists in the movements of the lower nature, ideas of the mind, desires and attractions of the vital, habits of the body consciousness that stand in the way of the growth of the higher consciousness - there are other difficulties, but these make the bulk of the opposition.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - III, Difficulties of the Path,#KEYS
144:Man differs from other animals in one very important respect, and that is that he has some desires which are, so to speak, infinite, which can never be fully gratified, and which would keep him restless even in paradise. The boa constrictor, when he has had an adequate meal, goes to sleep, and does not wake until he needs another meal. Human beings, for the most part, are not like this. ~ Bertrand Russell, #KEYS
145:It is only when one gives oneself in all sincerity to the Divine Will that one has the peace and calm joy which come from the abolition of desires.
The psychic being knows this with certainty; so, by uniting with one's psychic, one can know it. But the first condition is not to be subject to one's desires and mistake them for the truth of one's being.
~ The Mother, Some Answers From The Mother,#KEYS
146:It is an invaluable possession for every living being to have learnt to know himself and to master himself. To know oneself means to know the motives of one's actions and reactions, the why and the how of all that happens in oneself. To master oneself means to do what one has decided to do, to do nothing but that, not to listen to or follow impulses, desires or fancies. ~ The Mother, On Education, Teachers [T3], #KEYS
147:The Divine Grace and Power can do anything, but with the full assent of the sadhak.
To learn to give the full assent, is the whole meaning of the sadhana. It may take time either because of ideas in the mind, desires in the vital or inertia in the physical consciousness, but these things have to be and can be removed with the aid or by calling in the action of the Divine Force.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II, [T9],#KEYS
148:To practise black magic you have to violate every principle of science, decency and intelligence. You must be obsessed with an insane idea of the importance of the petty object of your wretched and selfish desires.
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I have been accused of being a 'black magician'. No more foolish statement was ever made about me. I despise the thing to such an extent that I can hardly believe in the existence of people so debased and idiotic as to practise it. ~ Aleister Crowley?,#KEYS
149:Sri Aurobindo: With the mental will you can suppress it temporarily but that does not bring real mastery. This pull shows that you have a strong vital force - this has to be regenerated. All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away. The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Anilbaran Roy Interviews and Conversations, #KEYS
150:One says, When my son Harish shall have grown up, I will marry him off, give up the burden of the family, renounce the world and begin to practise Yoga. To him the Lord replies: You will never find the opportune moment to practise Yoga; for you will then say, 'Harish and Girish are very fond of me and cannot do without me', you will no doubt desire that Harish should have a son and the son marry. There will never be an end to your desires. ~ Ramakrishna, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
151:A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. ~ Albert Einstein, #KEYS
152:A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe' -a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and feelings, as something separated from the rest-a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
~ Albert Einstein,#KEYS
153:What is the sign of a man settled in the fixity of his soul and his understanding? When he casts from him all desires that come to the mind, satisfied in himself and with himself, when his mind is undisturbed in pain and without desire in pleasure, when liking and fear and wrath have passed away from him, then a man is fixed in his understanding. He who is unaffected in all things by good or by evil happening, neither rejoices in them nor hates, in him wisdom is established. ~ Bhagavad Gita, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
154:If a man finds himself haunted by evil desires and unholy images, which will generally be at periodical hours, let him commit to memory passages of Scripture, or passages from the best writers in verse or prose. Let him store his mind with these, as safeguards to repeat when he lies awake in some restless night, or when despairing imaginations, or gloomy, suicidal thoughts, beset him. Let these be to him the sword, turning everywhere to keep the way of the Garden of Life from the intrusion of profaner footsteps. ~ Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno, [T6], #KEYS
155:First, once and for all, you should know that luck, good or bad, does not exist. What to our ignorance looks like luck is simply the result of causes we know nothing about. It is certain that for someone who has desires, when his desires are not satisfied, it is a sign that the Divine Grace is with him and wants, through experience, to make him progress rapidly, by teaching him that a willing and spontaneous surrender to the Divine Will is a much surer way to be happy in peace and light than the satisfaction of any desire.
~ Sri Aurobindo,#KEYS
156:There are four conditions for knowing the divine Will:
The first essential condition: an absolute sincerity.
Second: to overcome desires and preferences.
Third: to silence the mind and listen.
Fourth, to obey immediately when you receive the order. If you persist, you will perceive the Divine Will more and more clearly. But even before you know what it is, you can make an offering of your own will and you will see that all circumstances will be so arranged as to make you do the right thing
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1950-1951,#KEYS
157:The spirit, while superior to all of its bodies, is incapable of manifesting without its chain of vehicles. This divine spark must always be limited by the quality of its bodies. In all too many cases, it is the servant of its own dependencies. Instead of ruling its world by apostolic succession, the spirit is generally bowed and broken by the endless demands of the lower nature. The appetites, desires, and selfish propensities cast the spirit into a dungeon, while a false and cruel monarch rules the empire in his stead. ~ Manly P Hall, Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics, #KEYS
158:In union by a purified understanding, controlling himself by a firm perseverance, abandoning the objects of the senses, putting away from him all liking and disliking, when one resorts to solitude, lives on little, masters speech and mind and body, ever in meditation and fixed in withdrawal from the desires of the world, when he has loosened from him egoism and violence and pride and lust and wrath and possession, then calm and without thought of self, he is able to become one with the Eternal. ~ Bhagavad Gita XVIII. 51-53, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
159:She follows to the goal of those that are passing on beyond, she is the first in the eternal succession of the dawns that are coming, - Usha widens bringing out that which lives, awakening someone who was dead. . . . What is her scope when she harmonises with the dawns that shone out before and those that now must shine? She desires the ancient mornings and fulfils their light; projecting forwards her illumination she enters into communion with the rest that are to come.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, [Kutsu Angirasa - Rig Veda I. 113. 8, 10,#KEYS
160:Abandoning without exception all desires born of the will, controlling by the mind the senses in all directions, a man should gradually cease from mental action by the force of an understanding held in the grasp of a constant will; he should fix his mind in the self and think of nothing at all, and whenever the restless and mobile mentality ranges forth he should draw it back from whatever direction it takes and bring it again under control in the self alone: for when the mind has thus been quieted, there comes to man the highest peace. ~ Bhagavad Gita. VI. 24-26, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
161:aspiration and dryness :::
Naturally, the more one-pointed the aspiration the swifter the progress. The difficulty comes when either the vital with its desires or the physical with its past habitual movements comes in - as they do with almost everyone. It is then that the dryness and difficulty of spontaneous aspiration come. This dryness is a well-known obstacle in all sadhana. But one has to persist and not be discouraged. If one keeps the will fixed even in these barren periods, they pass and after their passage a greater force of aspiration and experience becomes possible. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II,#KEYS
162:There are only three fundamental obstacles that can stand in the way: (1) Absence of faith or insufficient faith. (2) Egoism - the mind clinging to its own ideas, the vital preferring its own desires to a true surrender, the physical adhering to its own habits. (3) Some inertia or fundamental resistance in the consciousness, not willing to change because it is too much of an effort or because it does not want to believe in its own capacity or the power of the Divine - or for some other more subconscient reason. You have to see for yourself which of these it is.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - III, Difficulties of the Path,#KEYS
163:There is a period, more or less prolonged, of internal effort and struggle in which the individual will has to reject the darkness and distortions of the lower nature and to put itself resolutely or vehemently on the side of the divine Light. The mental energies, the heart's emotions, the vital desires, the very physical being have to be compelled into the right attitude or trained to admit and answer to the right influences. It is only then, only when this has been truly done, that the surrender of the lower to the higher can be effected, because the sacrifice has become acceptable.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Four Aids, 61, [T0],#KEYS
164:It is an inertia of the physical consciousness which allows these desires to come and does not react against the suggestions; it is that also which responds to the pains and suggestion of illness. But you must not accept the suggestion that you cannot react and be free, - the physical consciousness itself cannot as yet, but the will can if it is called on to act and made accustomed to act always. Not the struggling will, but a quiet will insisting on the quietude of the mind and vital and insisting on the rejection of these adverse things. That would soon prove sufficient to hold the ground for the Peace and Force to act and they would do the rest.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - IV,#KEYS
165:The dream is evidently an indication of the difficulty you are experiencing. The sea is the sea of the vital nature whose flood is pursuing you (desires are the sea water) on your road of sadhana.
The Mother is there in your heart but sleeping - i.e. her power has not become conscious in your inner consciousness because she is surrounded by the thin curtain of skin (the obscurity of the physical nature). It is this (it is not thick any longer but still effective to veil her from you) which has to go so that she may awake. It is a matter of persistence in the will and the endeavour - the response from within, the awaking of the Mother in the heart will come. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - III,#KEYS
166:It is the power given by wisdom and knowledge that makes the occultist superior to his fellow man, his superiority being proportionate to his superior intelligence. In every walk of life, the uninitiated will be confronted with mysteries. To the average person, the working of a gasoline engine is just as mysterious as calculus would be to a kindergarten child, but intimate relationship and study result in that familiarity which gives ease in handling and intelligence in directing. It has been well said that no man is a stranger to his own valet. The philosopher is a servant of God, and by perfect serving, soon becomes capable of thoroughly understanding the desires and dictates of his divine Master. ~ Manly P Hall, Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics, #KEYS
167:Faith :::
One must say, "Since I want only the Divine, my success is sure, I have only to walk forward in all confidence and His own Hand will be there secretly leading me to Him by His own way and at His own time." That is what you must keep as your constant mantra. Anything else one may doubt but that he who desires only the Divine shall reach the Divine is a certitude and more certain than two and two make four. That is the faith every sadhak must have at the bottom of his heart, supporting him through every stumble and blow and ordeal. It is only false ideas still casting their shadows on your mind that prevent you from having it. Push them aside and the back of the difficulty will be broken. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - II,#KEYS
168:Sri Aurobindo: There is a veil between the Supermind above and the lower Prakriti below - the veil of ingrained formations. This veil may completely withdraw or be partially withdrawn. Thus even if there is some little opening, with the contact of Light from above the lower nature will get slowly changed. Even if the being is not entirely purified, varieties of inspirations and powers may come down from above but this may lead to serious errors. Inspirations from above mixing with the impurities from below get all muddled up and the sadhak takes this for an absolute command. Many a sadhak has thus fallen into danger. Therefore, one must particularly lay stress on the purification of the being. All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Anilbaran Roy Interviews and Conversations, #KEYS
169:Talk 3.
A question was asked as to the nature of happiness.
M.: If a man thinks that his happiness is due to external causes and his possessions, it is reasonable to conclude that his happiness must increase with the increase of possessions and diminish in proportion to their diminution. Therefore if he is devoid of possessions, his happiness should be nil. What is the real experience of man? Does it conform to this view?
In deep sleep the man is devoid of possessions, including his own body. Instead of being unhappy he is quite happy. Everyone desires to sleep soundly. The conclusion is that happiness is inherent in man and is not due to external causes. One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Ramanasramam,#KEYS
170:Our life's uncertain way winds circling on,
Our mind's unquiet search asks always light,
Till they have learned their secret in their source,
In the light of the Timeless and its spaceless home,
In the joy of the Eternal sole and one.
But now the Light supreme is far away:
Our conscious life obeys the Inconscient's laws;
To ignorant purposes and blind desires
Our hearts are moved by an ambiguous force;
Even our mind's conquests wear a battered crown.
A slowly changing order binds our will.
This is our doom until our souls are free.
A mighty Hand then rolls mind's firmaments back,
Infinity takes up the finite's acts
And Nature steps into the eternal Light.
Then only ends this dream of nether life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.05,#KEYS
171: If everything depends on the Divine intervention, then man is only a puppet and there is no use of sadhana, and there are no conditions, no law of things - therefore no universe, but only the Divine rolling things about at his pleasure. No doubt in the last resort all can be said to be the Divine cosmic working, but it is through persons, through forces that it works - under the conditions of Nature. Special intervention there can be and is, but all cannot be special intervention.
The Divine Grace and Power can do everything, but with the full assent of the sadhak. To learn to give that full assent is the whole meaning of the sadhana. It may take time either because of ideas in the mind, desires in the vital or inertia in the physical consciousness, but these things have to be and can be removed with the aid or by calling in the action of the Divine Force. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga II, 1.4.01,#KEYS
172:It is here upon earth, in the body itself, that you must acquire a complete knowledge and learn to use a full and complete power. Only when you have done that will you be free to move about with entire security in all the worlds. Only when you are incapable of having the slightest fear, when you remain unmoved, for example, in the midst of the worst nightmare, can you say, "Now I am ready to go into the vital world." But this means the acquisition of a power and a knowledge that can come only when you are a perfect master of the impulses and desires of the vital nature. You must be absolutely free from everything that can bring in the beings of the darkness or allow them to rule over you; if you are not free, beware!
No attachments, no desires, no impulses, no preferences; perfect equanimity, unchanging peace and absolute faith in the Divine protection: with that you are safe, without it you are in peril. And as long as you are not safe, it is better to do like little chickens that take shelter under the mother's wings. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931,#KEYS
173:Three things you must have, - consciousness, - plasticity and - unreserved surrender.
For you must be conscious in your mind and soul and heart and life and the very cells of your body, aware of the Mother and her Powers and their working; for although she can and does work in you even in your obscurity and your unconscious parts and moments, it is not the same thing as when you are in an awakened and living communion with her.
All your nature must be plastic to her touch, - not questioning as the self-sufficient ignorant mind questions and doubts and disputes and is the enemy of its enlightenment and change; not insisting on its own movements as the vital in the man insists and persistently opposes its refractory desires and ill-will to every divine influence; not obstructing and entrenched in incapacity, inertia and tamas as man's physical consciousness obstructs and clinging to the pleasure in smallness and darkness cries out against each touch that disturbs it soulless routine or it dull sloth or its torpid slumber.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother, [58],#KEYS
174:Equally must the sense-mind be stilled and taught to leave the function of thought to the mind that judges and understands. When the understanding in us stands back from the action of the sense-mind and repels its intermiscence, the latter detaches itself from the understanding and can be watched in its separate action. It then reveals itself as a constantly swirling and eddying undercurrent of habitual concepts, associations, perceptions, desires without any real sequence, order or principle of light. It is a constant repetition in a circle unintelligent and unfruitful. Ordinarily the human understanding accepts this undercurrent and tries to reduce it to a partial order and sequence; but by so doing it becomes itself subject to it and partakes of that disorder, restlessness, unintelligent subjection to habit and blind purposeless repetition which makes the ordinary human reason a misleading, limited and even frivolous and futile instrument. There is nothing to be done with this fickle, restless, violent and disturbing factor but to get rid of it whether by detaching it and then reducing it to stillness or by giving a concentration and singleness to the thought by which it will of itself reject this alien and confusing element.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Purified Understanding,#KEYS
175:He is the friend, the adviser, helper, saviour in trouble and distress, the defender from enemies, the hero who fights our battles for us or under whose shield we fight, the charioteer, the pilot of our ways. And here we come at once to a closer intimacy; he is the comrade and eternal companion, the playmate of the game of living. But still there is so far a certain division, however pleasant, and friendship is too much limited by the appearance of beneficence. The lover can wound, abandon, be wroth with us, seem to betray, yet our love endures and even grows by these oppositions; they increase the joy of reunion and the joy of possession; through them the lover remains the friend, and all that he does, we find in the end, has been done by the lover and helper of our being for our souls perfection as well as for his joy in us. These contradictions lead to a greater intimacy. He is the father and mother too of our being, its source and protector and its indulgent cherisher and giver of our desires. He is the child born to our desire whom we cherish and rear. All these things the lover takes up; his love in its intimacy and oneness keeps in it the paternal and maternal care and lends itself to our demands upon it. All is unified in that deepest many-sided relation.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Divine Love,#KEYS
176: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, #KEYS
177:When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth......
But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.>p>Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. ~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet,#KEYS
178: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, #KEYS
179:challenge for the Integral Yogin :::
Nor is the seeker of the integral fulfilment permitted to solve too arbitrarily even the conflict of his own inner members. He has to harmonise deliberate knowledge with unquestioning faith; he must conciliate the gentle soul of love with the formidable need of power; the passivity of the soul that lives content in transcendent calm has to be fused with the activity of the divine helper and the divine warrior. To him as to all seekers of the spirit there are offered for solution the oppositions of the reason, the clinging hold of the senses, the perturbations of the heart, the ambush of the desires, the clog of the physical body; but he has to deal in another fashion with their mutual and internal conflicts and their hindrance to his aim, for he must arrive at an infinitely more difficult perfection in the handling of all this rebel matter. Accepting them as instruments for the divine realisation and manifestation, he has to convert their jangling discords, to enlighten their thick darknesses, to transfigure them separately and all together, harmonising them in themselves and with each other, -- integrally, omitting no grain or strand or vibration, leaving no iota of imperfection anywhere. All exclusive concentration, or even a succession of concentrations of that kind, can be in his complex work only a temporary convenience; it has to be abandoned as soon as its utility is over. An all-inclusive concentration is the difficult achievement towards which he must labour.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, 78, [T9],#KEYS
180:[the value of sublimation:]
And since Yoga is in its essence a turning away from the ordinary material and animal life led by most men or from the more mental but still limited way of living followed by the few to a greater spiritual life, to the way divine, every part of our energies that is given to the lower existence in the spirit of that existence is a contradiction of our aim and our self-dedication. On the other hand, every energy or activity that we can convert from its allegiance to the lower and dedicate to the service of the higher is so much gained on our road, so much taken from the powers that oppose our progress. It is the difficulty of this wholesale conversion that is the source of all the stumblings in the path of Yoga. For our entire nature and its environment, all our personal and all our universal self, are full of habits and of influences that are opposed to our spiritual rebirth and work against the whole-heartedness of our endeavour.
In a certain sense we are nothing but a complex mass of mental, nervous and physical habits held together by a few ruling ideas, desires and associations, - an amalgam of many small self-repeating forces with a few major vibrations. What we propose in our Yoga is nothing less than to break up the whole formation of our past and present which makes up the ordinary material and mental man and to create a new centre of vision and a new universe of activities in ourselves which shall constitute a divine humanity or a superhuman nature.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Consecration, [71] [T1],#KEYS
181:the vital
the life-nature made up of desires, sensations, feelings, passions, energies of action, will of desire, reactions of the desire-soul of man and of all that play of possessive and other related instincts, anger, greed, lust, etc., that belong to this field of nature. The vital part of man is a true instrument only when its feelings and tendencies have been purified by the psychic touch and governed by the spiritual light and power. The vital has three main parts:
higher vital
the mental vital and emotional vital taken together. The mental vital gives a mental expression by thought, speech or otherwise to the emotions, desires, passions, sensations or other movements of the vital being; the emotional vital is the seat of various feelings, such as love, joy, sorrow, hatred and the rest.
central vital or vital proper
dynamic, sensational and passionate, it is the seat of the stronger vital longings and reactions, such as ambition, pride, fear, love of fame, attractions and repulsions, desires and passion of various kinds and the field of many vital energies.
lower vital
made up of the smaller movements of human life-desire and life-reactions, it is occupied with small desires and feelings, such as food desire, sexual desire, small likings, dislikings, vanity, quarrels, love of praise, anger at blame, little wishes of all kinds, etc. The material vital is that part of the lower vital turned entirely upon physical things, full of desires and greeds and seekings for pleasure on the physical plane. ~ Integral Yoga; Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice,#KEYS
182:
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,#KEYS
183:Received him in their deathless harmonies.
All things were perfect there that flower in Time;
Beauty was there creation's native mould,
Peace was a thrilled voluptuous purity.
There Love fulfilled her gold and roseate dreams
And Strength her crowned and mighty reveries;
Desire climbed up, a swift omnipotent flame,
And Pleasure had the stature of the gods;
Dream walked along the highways of the stars;
Sweet common things turned into miracles:
Overtaken by the spirit's sudden spell,
Smitten by a divine passion's alchemy,
Pain's self compelled transformed to potent joy
Curing the antithesis twixt heaven and hell.
All life's high visions are embodied there,
Her wandering hopes achieved, her aureate combs
Caught by the honey-eater's darting tongue,
Her burning guesses changed to ecstasied truths,
Her mighty pantings stilled in deathless calm
And liberated her immense desires.
In that paradise of perfect heart and sense
No lower note could break the endless charm
Of her sweetness ardent and immaculate;
Her steps are sure of their intuitive fall.
After the anguish of the soul's long strife
At length were found calm and celestial rest
And, lapped in a magic flood of sorrowless hours,
Healed were his warrior nature's wounded limbs
In the encircling arms of Energies
That brooked no stain and feared not their own bliss.
In scenes forbidden to our pallid sense
Amid miraculous scents and wonder-hues
He met the forms that divinise the sight,
To music that can immortalise the mind
And make the heart wide as infinity
Listened, and captured the inaudible
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Paradise of the Life-Gods,#KEYS
184:In all that is done in the universe, the Divine through his Shakti is behind all action but he is veiled by his Yoga Maya and works through the ego of the Jiva in the lower nature.
In Yoga also it is the Divine who is the Sadhaka and the Sadhana; it is his Shakti with her light, power, knowledge, consciousness, Ananda, acting upon the adhara and, when it is opened to her, pouring into it with these divine forces that makes the Sadhana possible. But so long as the lower nature is active the personal effort of the Sadhaka remains necessary.
The personal effort required is a triple labour of aspiration, rejection and surrender, -
an aspiration vigilant, constant, unceasing - the mind's will, the heart's seeking, the assent of the vital being, the will to open and make plastic the physical consciousness and nature;
rejection of the movements of the lower nature - rejection of the mind's ideas, opinions, preferences, habits, constructions, so that the true knowledge may find free room in a silent mind, - rejection of the vital nature's desires, demands, cravings, sensations, passions, selfishness, pride, arrogance, lust, greed, jealousy, envy, hostility to the Truth, so that the true power and joy may pour from above into a calm, large, strong and consecrated vital being, - rejection of the physical nature's stupidity, doubt, disbelief, obscurity, obstinacy, pettiness, laziness, unwillingness to change, tamas, so that the true stability of Light, Power, Ananda may establish itself in a body growing always more divine;
surrender of oneself and all one is and has and every plane of the consciousness and every movement to the Divine and the Shakti.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Mother With Letters On The Mother,#KEYS
185:The first cause of impurity in the understanding is the intermiscence of desire in the thinking functions, and desire itself is an impurity of the Will involved in the vital and emotional parts of our being. When the vital and emotional desires interfere with the pure Will-to-know, the thought-function becomes subservient to them, pursues ends other than those proper to itself and its perceptions are clogged and deranged. The understanding must lift itself beyond the siege of desire and emotion and, in order that it may have perfect immunity, it must get the vital parts and the emotions themselves purified. The will to enjoy is proper to the vital being but not the choice or the reaching after the enjoyment which must be determined and acquired by higher functions; therefore the vital being must be trained to accept whatever gain or enjoyment comes to it in the right functioning of the life in obedience to the working of the divine Will and to rid itself of craving and attachment. Similarly the heart must be freed from subjection to the cravings of the life-principle and the senses and thus rid itself of the false emotions of fear, wrath, hatred, lust, etc, which constitute the chief impurity of the heart. The will to love is proper to the heart, but here also the choice and reaching after love have to be foregone or tranquillised and the heart taught to love with depth and intensity indeed, but with a calm depth and a settled and equal, not a troubled and disordered intensity. The tranquillisation and mastery of these members is a first condition for the immunity of the understanding from error, ignorance and perversion. This purification spells an entire equality of the nervous being and the heart; equality, therefore, even as it was the first word of the path of works, so also is the first word of the path of knowledge.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Purified Understanding,#KEYS
186:Shastra is the knowledge and teaching laid down by intuition, experience and wisdom, the science and art and ethic of life, the best standards available to the race. The half-awakened man who leaves the observance of its rule to follow the guidance of his instincts and desires, can get pleasure but not happiness; for the inner happiness can only come by right living. He cannot move to perfection, cannot acquire the highest spiritual status. The law of instinct and desire seems to come first in the animal world, but the manhood of man grows by the pursuit of truth and religion and knowledge and a right life. The Shastra, the recognised Right that he has set up to govern his lower members by his reason and intelligent will, must therefore first be observed and made the authority for conduct and works and for what should or should not be done, till the instinctive desire nature is schooled and abated and put down by the habit of self-control and man is ready first for a freer intelligent self-guidance and then for the highest supreme law and supreme liberty of the spiritual nature.
For the Shastra in its ordinary aspect is not that spiritual law, although at its loftiest point, when it becomes a science and art of spiritual living, Adhyatma-shastra, - the Gita itself describes its own teaching as the highest and most secret Shastra, - it formulates a rule of the self-transcendence of the sattwic nature and develops the discipline which leads to spiritual transmutation. Yet all Shastra is built on a number of preparatory conditions, dharmas; it is a means, not an end. The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit when abandoning all dharmas the soul turns to God for its sole law of action, acts straight from the divine will and lives in the freedom of the divine nature, not in the Law, but in the Spirit. This is the development of the teaching which is prepared by the next question of Arjuna. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays On The Gita,#KEYS
187:When a corner of Maya, the illusion of individual life, is lifted before the eyes of a man in such sort that he no longer makes any egoistic difference between his own person and other men, that he takes as much interest in the sufferings of others as in his own and that he becomes succourable to the point of devotion, ready to sacrifice himself for the salvation of others, then that man is able to recognise himself in all beings, considers as his own the infinite sufferings of all that lives and must thus appropriate to himself the sorrow of the world. No distress is alien to him. All the torments which he sees and can so rarely soften, all the torments of which he hears, those even which it is impossible for him to conceive, strike his spirit as if he were himself the victim. Insensible to the alternations of weal and woe which succeed each other in his destiny, delivered from all egoism, he penetrates the veils of the individual illusion : all that lives, all that suffers is equally near to his heart. He conceives the totality of things, their essence, their eternal flux, the vain efforts, the internal struggles and sufferings without end ; he sees to whatever side he turns his gaze man who suffers, the animal who suffers and a world that is eternally passing away. He unites himself henceforth to the sorrows of the world as closely as the egoist to his own person. How can he having such a knowledge of the world affirm by incessant desires his will to live, attach himself more and more to life and clutch it to him always more closely ? The man seduced by the illusion of individual life, a slave of his egoism, sees only the things that touch him personally and draws from them incessantly renewed motives to desire and to will : on the contrary one who penetrates the essence of things and dominates their totality, elevates himself to a state of voluntary renunciation, resignation and true tranquillity. ~ Schopenhauer, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS
188:The way of integral knowledge supposes that we are intended to arrive at an integral self-fulfilment and the only thing that is to be eliminated is our own unconsciousness, the Ignorance and the results of the Ignorance. Eliminate the falsity of the being which figures as the ego; then our true being can manifest in us. Eliminate the falsity of the life which figures as mere vital craving and the mechanical round of our corporeal existence; our true life in the power of the Godhead and the joy of the Infinite will appear. Eliminate the falsity of the senses with their subjection to material shows and to dual sensations; there is a greater sense in us that can open through these to the Divine in things and divinely reply to it. Eliminate the falsity of the heart with its turbid passions and desires and its dual emotions; a deeper heart in us can open with its divine love for all creatures and its infinite passion and yearning for the responses of the Infinite. Eliminate the falsity of the thought with its imperfect mental constructions, its arrogant assertions and denials, its limited and exclusive concentrations; a greater faculty of knowledge is behind that can open to the true Truth of God and the soul and Nature and the universe. An integral self-fulfilment, - an absolute, a culmination for the experiences of the heart, for its instinct of love, joy, devotion and worship; an absolute, a culmination for the senses, for their pursuit of divine beauty and good and delight in the forms of things; an absolute, a culmination for the life, for its pursuit of works, of divine power, mastery and perfection; an absolute, a culmination beyond its own limits for the thought, for its hunger after truth and light and divine wisdom and knowledge. Not something quite other than themselves from which they are all cast away is the end of these things in our nature, but something supreme in which they at once transcend themselves and find their own absolutes and infinitudes, their harmonies beyond measure.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Object of Knowledge,#KEYS
189:And for the same reason, because that which we are seeking through beauty is in the end that which we are seeking through religion, the Absolute, the Divine. The search for beauty is only in its beginning a satisfaction in the beauty of form, the beauty which appeals to the physical senses and the vital impressions, impulsions, desires. It is only in the middle a satisfaction in the beauty of the ideas seized, the emotions aroused, the perception of perfect process and harmonious combination. Behind them the soul of beauty in us desires the contact, the revelation, the uplifting delight of an absolute beauty in all things which it feels to be present, but which neither the senses and instincts by themselves can give, though they may be its channels, - for it is suprasensuous, - nor the reason and intelligence, though they too are a channel, - for it is suprarational, supra-intellectual, - but to which through all these veils the soul itself seeks to arrive. When it can get the touch of this universal, absolute beauty, this soul of beauty, this sense of its revelation in any slightest or greatest thing, the beauty of a flower, a form, the beauty and power of a character, an action, an event, a human life, an idea, a stroke of the brush or the chisel or a scintillation of the mind, the colours of a sunset or the grandeur of the tempest, it is then that the sense of beauty in us is really, powerfully, entirely satisfied. It is in truth seeking, as in religion, for the Divine, the All-Beautiful in man, in nature, in life, in thought, in art; for God is Beauty and Delight hidden in the variation of his masks and forms. When, fulfilled in our growing sense and knowledge of beauty and delight in beauty and our power for beauty, we are able to identify ourselves in soul with this Absolute and Divine in all the forms and activities of the world and shape an image of our inner and our outer life in the highest image we can perceive and embody of the All-Beautiful, then the aesthetic being in us who was born for this end, has fulfilled himself and risen to his divine consummation. To find highest beauty is to find God; to reveal, to embody, to create, as we say, highest beauty is to bring out of our souls the living image and power of God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Human Cycle, 144, #KEYS
190:complexity of the human constitution :::
There is another direction in which the ordinary practice of Yoga arrives at a helpful but narrowing simplification which is denied to the Sadhaka of the integral aim. The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being, the stimulating but also embarrassing multiplicity of our personality, the rich endless confusion of Nature. To the ordinary man who lives upon his own waking surface, ignorant of the self's depths and vastnesses behind the veil, his psychological existence is fairly simple. A small but clamorous company of desires, some imperative intellectual and aesthetic cravings, some tastes, a few ruling or prominent ideas amid a great current of unconnected or ill-connected and mostly trivial thoughts, a number of more or less imperative vital needs, alternations of physical health and disease, a scattered and inconsequent succession of joys and griefs, frequent minor disturbances and vicissitudes and rarer strong searchings and upheavals of mind or body, and through it all Nature, partly with the aid of his thought and will, partly without or in spite of it, arranging these things in some rough practical fashion, some tolerable disorderly order, -- this is the material of his existence. The average human being even now is in his inward existence as crude and undeveloped as was the bygone primitive man in his outward life. But as soon as we go deep within ourselves, -- and Yoga means a plunge into all the multiple profundities of' the soul, -- we find ourselves subjectively, as man in his growth has found himself objectively, surrounded by a whole complex world which we have to know and to conquer.
The most disconcerting discovery is to find that every part of us -- intellect, will, sense-mind, nervous or desire self, the heart, the body-has each, as it were, its own complex individuality and natural formation independent of the rest; it neither agrees with itself nor with the others nor with the representative ego which is the shadow cast by some central and centralising self on our superficial ignorance. We find that we are composed not of one but many personalities and each has its own demands and differing nature. Our being is a roughly constituted chaos into which we have to introduce the principle of a divine order.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Consecration, 74-75,#KEYS
191:INVOCATION
The ultimate invocation, that of Kia, cannot be performed. The paradox is that as Kia has no dualized qualities, there are no attributes by which to invoke it. To give it one quality is merely to deny it another. As an observant dualistic being once said:
I am that I am not.
Nevertheless, the magician may need to make some rearrangements or additions to what he is. Metamorphosis may be pursued by seeking that which one is not, and transcending both in mutual annihilation. Alternatively, the process of invocation may be seen as adding to the magician's psyche any elements which are missing. It is true that the mind must be finally surrendered as one enters fully into Chaos, but a complete and balanced psychocosm is more easily surrendered.
The magical process of shuffling beliefs and desires attendant upon the process of invocation also demonstrates that one's dominant obsessions or personality are quite arbitrary, and hence more easily banished.
There are many maps of the mind (psychocosms), most of which are inconsistent, contradictory, and based on highly fanciful theories. Many use the symbology of god forms, for all mythology embodies a psychology. A complete mythic pantheon resumes all of man's mental characteristics. Magicians will often use a pagan pantheon of gods as the basis for invoking some particular insight or ability, as these myths provide the most explicit and developed formulation of the particular idea's extant. However it is possible to use almost anything from the archetypes of the collective unconscious to the elemental qualities of alchemy.
If the magician taps a deep enough level of power, these forms may manifest with sufficient force to convince the mind of the objective existence of the god. Yet the aim of invocation is temporary possession by the god, communication from the god, and manifestation of the god's magical powers, rather than the formation of religious cults.
The actual method of invocation may be described as a total immersion in the qualities pertaining to the desired form. One invokes in every conceivable way. The magician first programs himself into identity with the god by arranging all his experiences to coincide with its nature. In the most elaborate form of ritual he may surround himself with the sounds, smells, colors, instruments, memories, numbers, symbols, music, and poetry suggestive of the god or quality. Secondly he unites his life force to the god image with which he has united his mind. This is accomplished with techniques from the gnosis. Figure 5 shows some examples of maps of the mind. Following are some suggestions for practical ritual invocation.
~ Peter J Carroll, Liber Null,#KEYS
192:Has creation a definite aim? Is there something like a final end to which it is moving?
The Mother: No, the universe is a movement that is eternally unrolling itself. There is nothing which you can fix upon as the end and one aim. But for the sake of action we have to section the movement, which is itself unending, and to say that this or that is the goal, for in action we need something upon which we can fix our aim. In a picture you need a definite scheme of composition and colour; you have to set a limit, to put the whole thing within a fixed framework; but the limit is illusory, the frame is a mere convention. There is a constant continuation of the picture that stretches beyond any particular frame, and each continuation can be drawn in the same conditions in an unending series of frames. Our aim is this or that, we say, but we know that it is only the beginning of another aim beyond it, and that in its turn leads to yet another; the series develop always and never stop.
What is the proper function of the intellect? Is it a help or a hindrance to Sadhana?
Whether the intellect is a help or a hindrance depends upon the person and upon the way in which it is used. There is a true movement of the intellect and there is a wrong movement; one helps, the other hinders. The intellect that believes too much in its own importance and wants satisfaction for its own sake, is an obstacle to the higher realisation.
But this is true not in any special sense or for the intellect alone, but generally and of other faculties as well. For example, people do not regard an all-engrossing satisfaction of the vital desires or the animal appetites as a virtue; the moral sense is accepted as a mentor to tell one the bounds that one may not transgress. It is only in his intellectual activities that man thinks he can do without any such mentor or censor!
Any part of the being that keeps to its proper place and plays its appointed role is helpful; but directly it steps beyond its sphere, it becomes twisted and perverted and therefore false. A power has the right movement when it is set into activity for the divine's purpose; it has the wrong movement when it is set into activity for its own satisfaction.
The intellect, in its true nature, is an instrument of expression and action. It is something like an intermediary between the true knowledge, whose seat is in the higher regions above the mind, and realisation here below. The intellect or, generally speaking, the mind gives the form; the vital puts in the dynamism and life-power; the material comes in last and embodies. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931, 28th April 1931 and 5th May 1929,#KEYS
193:
The Only Way Out:
... Once you have no more desires, no more attachments, once you have given up all necessity of receiving a reward from human beings, whoever they are - knowing that the only reward that is worth getting is the one that comes from the Supreme and that never fails - once you give up attachment to all exterior beings and things, you at once feel in your heart this Presence, this Force, this Grace that is always with you. And there is no other remedy. It's the only remedy, for everybody without exception. To all those who suffer, for the same thing that has to be said: all suffering is the sign that the surrender is not total. Then, when you feel in you a 'bang' like that, instead of saying, 'Oh, this is bad' or 'This circumstance is difficult,' you say, 'My surrender is not perfect.' Then it's all right. And then you feel the Grace that helps you and leads you, and you go on. And one day you emerge into that peace that nothing can trouble.
You answer to all the contrary forces, the contrary movements, the attacks, the misunderstandings, the bad wills, with the same smile that comes from full confidence in the Divine Grace. And that is the only way out, there is no other.
But where to get such a strength?
Within you. The Divine Presence is in you. It is in you. You look for it outside; look inside. It is in you. The Presence is there. You want the appreciation of others to get strength - you will never get it. The strength is in you. If you want, you can aspire for what seems to you the supreme goal, supreme light, supreme knowledge, supreme love. But it is in you - otherwise you would never be able to contact it. If you go deep enough inside you, you will find it there, like a flame that is always burning straight up. And don't believe that it is difficult to do. It is because the look is always turned outside that you don't feel the Presence. But if, instead of looking outside for support, you concentrate and you pray - inside, to the supreme knowledge - to know at each moment what is to be done, the way to do it, and if you give all you are, all you do in order to acquire perfection, you will feel that the support is always there, always guiding, showing the way. And if there is a difficulty, then instead of wanting to fight, you hand it over, hand it over to the supreme wisdom to deal with it - to deal with all the bad wills, all the misunderstandings, all the bad reactions. If you surrender completely, it is no more your concern: it's the concern of the Supreme who takes it up and knows better than anybody else what is to be done. That is the only way out, only way out. There, my child
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III, [T1],#KEYS
194:Worthy The Name Of Sir Knight
Sir Knight of the world's oldest order,
Sir Knight of the Army of God,
You have crossed the strange mystical border,
The ground floor of truth you have trod;
You have entered the sanctum sanctorum,
Which leads to the temple above,
Where you come as a stone, and a Christ-chosen one,
In the kingdom of Friendship and Love.
II
As you stand in this new realm of beauty,
Where each man you meet is your friend,
Think not that your promise of duty
In hall, or asylum, shall end;
Outside, in the great world of pleasure,
Beyond, in the clamor of trade,
In the battle of life and its coarse daily strife
Remember the vows you have made.
III
Your service, majestic and solemn,
Your symbols, suggestive and sweet,
Your uniformed phalanx in column
On gala days marching the street;
Your sword and your plume and your helmet,
Your 'secrets' hid from the world's sight;
These things are the small, lesser parts of the all
Which are needed to form the true Knight.
IV
The martyrs who perished rejoicing
In Templary's glorious laws,
Who died 'midst the fagots while voicing
The glory and worth of their cause-
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They honored the title of 'Templar'
No more than the Knight of to-day
Who mars not the name with one blemish of shame,
But carries it clean through life's fray.
To live for a cause, to endeavor
To make your deeds grace it, to try
And uphold its precepts forever,
Is harder by far than to die.
For the battle of life is unending,
The enemy, Self, never tires,
And the true Knight must slay that sly foe every day
Ere he reaches the heights he desires.
VI
Sir Knight, have you pondered the meaning
Of all you have heard and been told?
Have you strengthened your heart for its weaning
From vices and faults loved of old?
Will you honor, in hours of temptation,
Your promises noble and grand?
Will your spirit be strong to do battle with wrong,
'And having done all, to stand?'
VII
Will you ever be true to a brother
In actions as well as in creed?
Will you stand by his side as no other
Could stand in the hour of his need?
Will you boldly defend him from peril,
And lift him from poverty's curseWill the promise of aid which you willingly made,
Reach down from your lips to your purse?
VIII
The world's battle field is before you!
Let Wisdom walk close by your side,
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Let Faith spread her snowy wings o'er you,
Let Truth be your comrade and guide;
Let Fortitude, Justice and Mercy
Direct all your conduct aright,
And let each word and act tell to men the proud fact,
You are worthy the name of 'Sir Knight'.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox,#KEYS
195:Zarathustra, however, looked at the people and wondered. Then he spoke thus: Man is a rope stretched between animal and overman - a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous on-the-way, a dangerous looking back, a dangerous trembling and stopping. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what can be loved in man is that he is an over-going and a down-going. I love those who know not how to live except as down-goers, for they are the over-goers. I love the great despisers, because they are the great reverers, and arrows of longing for the other shore. I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the overman may some day arrive. I love him who lives in order to know, and seeks to know in order that the overman may someday live. Thus he seeks his own down-going. I love him who works and invents, that he may build a house for the overman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus he seeks his own down-going. I love him who loves his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing. I love him who reserves no drop of spirit for himself, but wants to be entirely the spirit of his virtue: thus he walks as spirit over the bridge. I love him who makes his virtue his addiction and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more. I love him who does not desire too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for ones destiny to cling to. I love him whose soul squanders itself, who wants no thanks and gives none back: for he always gives, and desires not to preserve himself. I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favor, and who then asks: Am I a dishonest player? - for he is willing to perish. I love him who scatters golden words in front of his deeds, and always does more than he promises: for he seeks his own down-going. I love him who justifies those people of the future, and redeems those of the past: for he is willing to perish by those of the present. I love him who chastens his God, because he loves his God: for he must perish by the wrath of his God. I love him whose soul is deep even in being wounded, and may perish from a small experience: thus goes he gladly over the bridge. I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgets himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going. I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the entrails of his heart; his heart, however, drives him to go down. I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that hangs over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and perish as heralds. Behold, I am a herald of the lightning, and a heavy drop out of the cloud: the lightning, however, is called overman.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra,#KEYS
196:There is no invariable rule of such suffering. It is not the soul that suffers; the Self is calm and equal to all things and the only sorrow of the psychic being is the sorrow of the resistance of Nature to the Divine Will or the resistance of things and people to the call of the True, the Good and the Beautiful. What is affected by suffering is the vital nature and the body. When the soul draws towards the Divine, there may be a resistance in the mind and the common form of that is denial and doubt - which may create mental and vital suffering. There may again be a resistance in the vital nature whose principal character is desire and the attachment to the objects of desire, and if in this field there is conflict between the soul and the vital nature, between the Divine Attraction and the pull of the Ignorance, then obviously there may be much suffering of the mind and vital parts. The physical consciousness also may offer a resistance which is usually that of a fundamental inertia, an obscurity in the very stuff of the physical, an incomprehension, an inability to respond to the higher consciousness, a habit of helplessly responding to the lower mechanically, even when it does not want to do so; both vital and physical suffering may be the consequence. There is moreover the resistance of the Universal Nature which does not want the being to escape from the Ignorance into the Light. This may take the form of a vehement insistence on the continuation of the old movements, waves of them thrown on the mind and vital and body so that old ideas, impulses, desires, feelings, responses continue even after they are thrown out and rejected, and can return like an invading army from outside, until the whole nature, given to the Divine, refuses to admit them. This is the subjective form of the universal resistance, but it may also take an objective form - opposition, calumny, attacks, persecution, misfortunes of many kinds, adverse conditions and circumstances, pain, illness, assaults from men or forces. There too the possibility of suffering is evident. There are two ways to meet all that - first that of the Self, calm, equality, a spirit, a will, a mind, a vital, a physical consciousness that remain resolutely turned towards the Divine and unshaken by all suggestion of doubt, desire, attachment, depression, sorrow, pain, inertia. This is possible when the inner being awakens, when one becomes conscious of the Self, of the inner mind, the inner vital, the inner physical, for that can more easily attune itself to the divine Will, and then there is a division in the being as if there were two beings, one within, calm, strong, equal, unperturbed, a channel of the Divine Consciousness and Force, one without, still encroached on by the lower Nature; but then the disturbances of the latter become something superficial which are no more than an outer ripple, - until these under the inner pressure fade and sink away and the outer being too remains calm, concentrated, unattackable. There is also the way of the psychic, - when the psychic being comes out in its inherent power, its consecration, adoration, love of the Divine, self-giving, surrender and imposes these on the mind, vital and physical consciousness and compels them to turn all their movements Godward. If the psychic is strong and master...
~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Yoga - IV, Resistances, Sufferings and Falls, 669,#KEYS
197:[desire and its divine form:]
Into all our endeavour upward the lower element of desire will at first naturally enter. For what the enlightened will sees as the thing to be done and pursues as the crown to be conquered, what the heart embraces as the one thing delightful, that in us which feels itself limited and opposed and, because it is limited, craves and struggles, will seek with the troubled passion of an egoistic desire. This craving life-force or desire-soul in us has to be accepted at first, but only in order that it may be transformed. Even from the very beginning it has to be taught to renounce all other desires and concentrate itself on the passion for the Divine. This capital point gained, it has to be aught to desire, not for its own separate sake, but for God in the world and for the Divine in ourselves; it has to fix itself upon no personal spiritual gain, though of all possible spiritual gains we are sure, but on the great work to be done in us and others, on the high coming manifestation which is to be the glorious fulfilment of the Divine in the world, on the Truth that has to be sought and lived and enthroned for eveR But last, most difficult for it, more difficult than to seek with the right object, it has to be taught to seek in the right manner; for it must learn to desire, not in its own egoistic way, but in the way of the Divine. It must insist no longer, as the strong separative will always insists, on its own manner of fulfilment, its own dream of possession, its own idea of the right and the desirable; it must yearn to fulfil a larger and greater Will and consent to wait upon a less interested and ignorant guidance. Thus trained, Desire, that great unquiet harasser and troubler of man and cause of every kind of stumbling, will become fit to be transformed into its divine counterpart. For desire and passion too have their divine forms; there is a pure ecstasy of the soul's seeking beyond all craving and grief, there is a Will of Ananda that sits glorified in the possession of the supreme beatitudes.
When once the object of concentration has possessed and is possessed by the three master instruments, the thought, the heart and the will,-a consummation fully possible only when the desire-soul in us has submitted to the Divine Law,-the perfection of mind and life and body can be effectively fulfilled in our transmuted nature. This will be done, not for the personal satisfaction of the ego, but that the whole may constitute a fit temple for the Divine Presence, a faultless instrument for the divine work. For that work can be truly performed only when the instrument, consecrated and perfected, has grown fit for a selfless action,-and that will be when personal desire and egoism are abolished, but not the liberated individual. Even when the little ego has been abolished, the true spiritual Person can still remain and God's will and work and delight in him and the spiritual use of his perfection and fulfilment. Our works will then be divine and done divinely; our mind and life and will, devoted to the Divine, will be used to help fulfil in others and in the world that which has been first realised in ourselves,- all that we can manifest of the embodied Unity, Love, Freedom, Strength, Power, Splendour, immortal Joy which is the goal of the Spirit's terrestrial adventure.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Consecration [83] [T1],#KEYS
198:In the process of this change there must be by the very necessity of the effort two stages of its working. First, there will be the personal endeavour of the human being, as soon as he becomes aware by his soul, mind, heart of this divine possibility and turns towards it as the true object of life, to prepare himself for it and to get rid of all in him that belongs to a lower working, of all that stands in the way of his opening to the spiritual truth and its power, so as to possess by this liberation his spiritual being and turn all his natural movements into free means of its self-expression. It is by this turn that the self-conscious Yoga aware of its aim begins: there is a new awakening and an upward change of the life motive. So long as there is only an intellectual, ethical and other self-training for the now normal purposes of life which does not travel beyond the ordinary circle of working of mind, life and body, we are still only in the obscure and yet unillumined preparatory Yoga of Nature; we are still in pursuit of only an ordinary human perfection. A spiritual desire of the Divine and of the divine perfection, of a unity with him in all our being and a spiritual perfection in all our nature, is the effective sign of this change, the precursory power of a great integral conversion of our being and living. By personal effort a precursory change, a preliminary conversion can be effected; it amounts to a greater or less spiritualising of our mental motives, our character and temperament, and a mastery, stilling or changed action of the vital and physical life. This converted subjectivity can be made the base of some communion or unity of the soul in mind with the Divine and some partial reflection of the divine nature in the mentality of the human being. That is as far as man can go by his unaided or indirectly aided effort, because that is an effort of mind and mind cannot climb beyond itself permanently: at most it arises to a spiritualised and idealised mentality. If it shoots up beyond that border, it loses hold of itself, loses hold of life, and arrives either at a trance of absorption or a passivity. A greater perfection can only be arrived at by a higher power entering in and taking up the whole action of the being. The second stage of this Yoga will therefore be a persistent giving up of all the action of the nature into the hands of this greater Power, a substitution of its influence, possession and working for the personal effort, until the Divine to whom we aspire becomes the direct master of the Yoga and effects the entire spiritual and ideal conversion of the being. Two rules there are that will diminish the difficulty and obviate the danger. One must reject all that comes from the ego, from vital desire, from the mere mind and its presumptuous reasoning incompetence, all that ministers to these agents of the Ignorance. One must learn to hear and follow the voice of the inmost soul, the direction of the Guru, the command of the Master, the working of the Divine Mother. Whoever clings to the desires and weaknesses of the flesh, the cravings and passions of the vital in its turbulent ignorance, the dictates of his personal mind unsilenced and unillumined by a greater knowledge, cannot find the true inner law and is heaping obstacles in the way of the divine fulfilment. Whoever is able to detect and renounce those obscuring agencies and to discern and follow the true Guide within and without will discover the spiritual law and reach the goal of the Yoga. A radical and total change of consciousness is not only the whole meaning but, in an increasing force and by progressive stages, the whole method of the integral Yoga.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Self-Perfection, The Integral Perfection [618],#KEYS
199:A God's Labour
I have gathered my dreams in a silver air
Between the gold and the blue
And wrapped them softly and left them there,
My jewelled dreams of you.
I had hoped to build a rainbow bridge
Marrying the soil to the sky
And sow in this dancing planet midge
The moods of infinity.
But too bright were our heavens, too far away,
Too frail their ethereal stuff;
Too splendid and sudden our light could not stay;
The roots were not deep enough.
He who would bring the heavens here
Must descend himself into clay
And the burden of earthly nature bear
And tread the dolorous way.
Coercing my godhead I have come down
Here on the sordid earth,
Ignorant, labouring, human grown
Twixt the gates of death and birth.
I have been digging deep and long
Mid a horror of filth and mire
A bed for the golden river's song,
A home for the deathless fire.
I have laboured and suffered in Matter's night
To bring the fire to man;
But the hate of hell and human spite
Are my meed since the world began.
For man's mind is the dupe of his animal self;
Hoping its lusts to win,
He harbours within him a grisly Elf
Enamoured of sorrow and sin.
The grey Elf shudders from heaven's flame
And from all things glad and pure;
Only by pleasure and passion and pain
His drama can endure.
All around is darkness and strife;
For the lamps that men call suns
Are but halfway gleams on this stumbling life
Cast by the Undying Ones.
Man lights his little torches of hope
That lead to a failing edge;
A fragment of Truth is his widest scope,
An inn his pilgrimage.
The Truth of truths men fear and deny,
The Light of lights they refuse;
To ignorant gods they lift their cry
Or a demon altar choose.
All that was found must again be sought,
Each enemy slain revives,
Each battle for ever is fought and refought
Through vistas of fruitless lives.
My gaping wounds are a thousand and one
And the Titan kings assail,
But I dare not rest till my task is done
And wrought the eternal will.
How they mock and sneer, both devils and men!
"Thy hope is Chimera's head
Painting the sky with its fiery stain;
Thou shalt fall and thy work lie dead.
"Who art thou that babblest of heavenly ease
And joy and golden room
To us who are waifs on inconscient seas
And bound to life's iron doom?
"This earth is ours, a field of Night
For our petty flickering fires.
How shall it brook the sacred Light
Or suffer a god's desires?
"Come, let us slay him and end his course!
Then shall our hearts have release
From the burden and call of his glory and force
And the curb of his wide white peace."
But the god is there in my mortal breast
Who wrestles with error and fate
And tramples a road through mire and waste
For the nameless Immaculate.
A voice cried, "Go where none have gone!
Dig deeper, deeper yet
Till thou reach the grim foundation stone
And knock at the keyless gate."
I saw that a falsehood was planted deep
At the very root of things
Where the grey Sphinx guards God's riddle sleep
On the Dragon's outspread wings.
I left the surface gauds of mind
And life's unsatisfied seas
And plunged through the body's alleys blind
To the nether mysteries.
I have delved through the dumb Earth's dreadful heart
And heard her black mass' bell.
I have seen the source whence her agonies part
And the inner reason of hell.
Above me the dragon murmurs moan
And the goblin voices flit;
I have pierced the Void where Thought was born,
I have walked in the bottomless pit.
On a desperate stair my feet have trod
Armoured with boundless peace,
Bringing the fires of the splendour of God
Into the human abyss.
He who I am was with me still;
All veils are breaking now.
I have heard His voice and borne His will
On my vast untroubled brow.
The gulf twixt the depths and the heights is bridged
And the golden waters pour
Down the sapphire mountain rainbow-ridged
And glimmer from shore to shore.
Heaven's fire is lit in the breast of the earth
And the undying suns here burn;
Through a wonder cleft in the bounds of birth
The incarnate spirits yearn
Like flames to the kingdoms of Truth and Bliss:
Down a gold-red stairway wend
The radiant children of Paradise
Clarioning darkness' end.
A little more and the new life's doors
Shall be carved in silver light
With its aureate roof and mosaic floors
In a great world bare and bright.
I shall leave my dreams in their argent air,
For in a raiment of gold and blue
There shall move on the earth embodied and fair
The living truth of you.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems, A God's Labour, 534,#KEYS
200:It is natural from the point of view of the Yoga to divide into two categories the activities of the human mind in its pursuit of knowledge. There is the supreme supra-intellectual knowledge which concentrates itself on the discovery of the One and Infinite in its transcendence or tries to penetrate by intuition, contemplation, direct inner contact into the ultimate truths behind the appearances of Nature; there is the lower science which diffuses itself in an outward knowledge of phenomena, the disguises of the One and Infinite as it appears to us in or through the more exterior forms of the world-manifestation around us. These two, an upper and a lower hemisphere, in the form of them constructed or conceived by men within the mind's ignorant limits, have even there separated themselves, as they developed, with some sharpness.... Philosophy, sometimes spiritual or at least intuitive, sometimes abstract and intellectual, sometimes intellectualising spiritual experience or supporting with a logical apparatus the discoveries of the spirit, has claimed always to take the fixation of ultimate Truth as its province. But even when it did not separate itself on rarefied metaphysical heights from the knowledge that belongs to the practical world and the pursuit of ephemeral objects, intellectual Philosophy by its habit of abstraction has seldom been a power for life. It has been sometimes powerful for high speculation, pursuing mental Truth for its own sake without any ulterior utility or object, sometimes for a subtle gymnastic of the mind in a mistily bright cloud-land of words and ideas, but it has walked or acrobatised far from the more tangible realities of existence. Ancient Philosophy in Europe was more dynamic, but only for the few; in India in its more spiritualised forms, it strongly influenced but without transforming the life of the race.... Religion did not attempt, like Philosophy, to live alone on the heights; its aim was rather to take hold of man's parts of life even more than his parts of mind and draw them Godwards; it professed to build a bridge between spiritual Truth and the vital and material human existence; it strove to subordinate and reconcile the lower to the higher, make life serviceable to God, Earth obedient to Heaven. It has to be admitted that too often this necessary effort had the opposite result of making Heaven a sanction for Earth's desires; for, continually, the religious idea has been turned into an excuse for the worship and service of the human ego. Religion, leaving constantly its little shining core of spiritual experience, has lost itself in the obscure mass of its ever extending ambiguous compromises with life: in attempting to satisfy the thinking mind, it more often succeeded in oppressing or fettering it with a mass of theological dogmas; while seeking to net the human heart, it fell itself into pits of pietistic emotionalism and sensationalism; in the act of annexing the vital nature of man to dominate it, it grew itself vitiated and fell a prey to all the fanaticism, homicidal fury, savage or harsh turn for oppression, pullulating falsehood, obstinate attachment to ignorance to which that vital nature is prone; its desire to draw the physical in man towards God betrayed it into chaining itself to ecclesiastic mechanism, hollow ceremony and lifeless ritual. The corruption of the best produced the worst by that strange chemistry of the power of life which generates evil out of good even as it can also generate good out of evil. At the same time in a vain effort at self-defence against this downward gravitation, Religion was driven to cut existence into two by a division of knowledge, works, art, life itself into two opposite categories, the spiritual and the worldly, religious and mundane, sacred and profane; but this defensive distinction itself became conventional and artificial and aggravated rather than healed the disease.... On their side Science and Art and the knowledge of Life, although at first they served or lived in the shadow of Religion, ended by emancipating themselves, became estranged or hostile, or have even recoiled with indifference, contempt or scepticism from what seem to them the cold, barren and distant or unsubstantial and illusory heights of unreality to which metaphysical Philosophy and Religion aspire. For a time the divorce has been as complete as the one-sided intolerance of the human mind could make it and threatened even to end in a complete extinction of all attempt at a higher or a more spiritual knowledge. Yet even in the earthward life a higher knowledge is indeed the one thing that is throughout needful, and without it the lower sciences and pursuits, however fruitful, however rich, free, miraculous in the abundance of their results, become easily a sacrifice offered without due order and to false gods; corrupting, hardening in the end the heart of man, limiting his mind's horizons, they confine in a stony material imprisonment or lead to a final baffling incertitude and disillusionment. A sterile agnosticism awaits us above the brilliant phosphorescence of a half-knowledge that is still the Ignorance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 1, #KEYS
201:[the sevenfold ignorance and the integral knowledge:]
We are ignorant of the Absolute which is the source of all being and becoming; we take partial facts of being, temporal relations of the becoming for the whole truth of existence,-that is the first, the original ignorance. We are ignorant of the spaceless, timeless, immobile and immutable Self; we take the constant mobility and mutation of the cosmic becoming in Time and Space for the whole truth of existence, -that is the second, the cosmic ignorance. We are ignorant of our universal self, the cosmic existence, the cosmic consciousness, our infinite unity with all being and becoming; we take our limited egoistic mentality, vitality, corporeality for our true self and regard everything other than that as not-self,-that is the third, the egoistic ignorance. We are ignorant of our eternal becoming in Time; we take this little life in a small span of Time, in a petty field of Space, for our beginning, our middle and our end,-that is the fourth, the temporal ignorance. Even within this brief temporal becoming we are ignorant of our large and complex being, of that in us which is superconscient, subconscient, intraconscient, circumconscient to our surface becoming; we take that surface becoming with its small selection of overtly mentalised experiences for our whole existence,-that is the fifth, the psychological ignorance. We are ignorant of the true constitution of our becoming; we take the mind or life or body or any two of these or all three for our true principle or the whole account of what we are, losing sight of that which constitutes them and determines by its occult presence and is meant to determine sovereignly by its emergence their operations,-that is the sixth, the constitutional ignorance. As a result of all these ignorances, we miss the true knowledge, government and enjoyment of our life in the world; we are ignorant in our thought, will, sensations, actions, return wrong or imperfect responses at every point to the questionings of the world, wander in a maze of errors and desires, strivings and failures, pain and pleasure, sin and stumbling, follow a crooked road, grope blindly for a changing goal,-that is the seventh, the practical ignorance.
Our conception of the Ignorance will necessarily determine our conception of the Knowledge and determine, therefore, since our life is the Ignorance at once denying and seeking after the Knowledge, the goal of human effort and the aim of the cosmic endeavour. Integral knowledge will then mean the cancelling of the sevenfold Ignorance by the discovery of what it misses and ignores, a sevenfold self-revelation within our consciousness:- it will mean [1] the knowledge of the Absolute as the origin of all things; [2] the knowledge of the Self, the Spirit, the Being and of the cosmos as the Self's becoming, the becoming of the Being, a manifestation of the Spirit; [3] the knowledge of the world as one with us in the consciousness of our true self, thus cancelling our division from it by the separative idea and life of ego; [4] the knowledge of our psychic entity and its immortal persistence in Time beyond death and earth-existence; [5] the knowledge of our greater and inner existence behind the surface; [6] the knowledge of our mind, life and body in its true relation to the self within and the superconscient spiritual and supramental being above them; [7] the knowledge, finally, of the true harmony and true use of our thought, will and action and a change of all our nature into a conscious expression of the truth of the Spirit, the Self, the Divinity, the integral spiritual Reality.
But this is not an intellectual knowledge which can be learned and completed in our present mould of consciousness; it must be an experience, a becoming, a change of consciousness, a change of being. This brings in the evolutionary character of the Becoming and the fact that our mental ignorance is only a stage in our evolution. The integral knowledge, then, can only come by an evolution of our being and our nature, and that would seem to signify a slow process in Time such as has accompanied the other evolutionary transformations. But as against that inference there is the fact that the evolution has now become conscious and its method and steps need not be altogether of the same character as when it was subconscious in its process. The integral knowledge, since it must result from a change of consciousness, can be gained by a process in which our will and endeavour have a part, in which they can discover and apply their own steps and method: its growth in us can proceed by a conscious self-transformation. It is necessary then to see what is likely to be the principle of this new process of evolution and what are the movements of the integral knowledge that must necessarily emerge in it,-or, in other words, what is the nature of the consciousness that must be the base of the life divine and how that life may be expected to be formed or to form itself, to materialise or, as one might say, to realise.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, pg 680-683 [T1],#KEYS
202:The Two Paths Of Yoga :::
14 April 1929 - What are the dangers of Yoga? Is it especially dangerous to the people of the West? Someone has said that Yoga may be suitable for the East, but it has the effect of unbalancing the Western mind.
Yoga is not more dangerous to the people of the West than to those of the East. Everything depends upon the spirit with which you approach it. Yoga does become dangerous if you want it for your own sake, to serve a personal end. It is not dangerous, on the contrary, it is safety and security itself, if you go to it with a sense of its sacredness, always remembering that the aim is to find the Divine.
Dangers and difficulties come in when people take up Yoga not for the sake of the Divine, but because they want to acquire power and under the guise of Yoga seek to satisfy some ambition. if you cannot get rid of ambition, do not touch the thing. It is fire that burns.
There are two paths of Yoga, one of tapasya (discipline), and the other of surrender. The path of tapasya is arduous. Here you rely solely upon yourself, you proceed by your own strength. You ascend and achieve according to the measure of your force. There is always the danger of falling down. And once you fall, you lie broken in the abyss and there is hardly a remedy. The other path, the path of surrender, is safe and sure. It is here, however, that the Western people find their difficulty. They have been taught to fear and avoid all that threatens their personal independence. They have imbibed with their mothers' milk the sense of individuality. And surrender means giving up all that. In other words, you may follow, as Ramakrishna says, either the path of the baby monkey or that of the baby cat. The baby monkey holds to its mother in order to be carried about and it must hold firm, otherwise if it loses its grip, it falls. On the other hand, the baby cat does not hold to its mother, but is held by the mother and has no fear nor responsibility; it has nothing to do but to let the mother hold it and cry ma ma.
If you take up this path of surrender fully and sincerely, there is no more danger or serious difficulty. The question is to be sincere. If you are not sincere, do not begin Yoga. If you were dealing in human affairs, then you could resort to deception; but in dealing with the Divine there is no possibility of deception anywhere. You can go on the Path safely when you are candid and open to the core and when your only end is to realise and attain the Divine and to be moved by the Divine. There is another danger; it is in connection with the sex impulses. Yoga in its process of purification will lay bare and throw up all hidden impulses and desires in you. And you must learn not to hide things nor leave them aside, you have to face them and conquer and remould them. The first effect of Yoga, however, is to take away the mental control, and the hungers that lie dormant are suddenly set free, they rush up and invade the being. So long as this mental control has not been replaced by the Divine control, there is a period of transition when your sincerity and surrender will be put to the test. The strength of such impulses as those of sex lies usually in the fact that people take too much notice of them; they protest too vehemently and endeavour to control them by coercion, hold them within and sit upon them. But the more you think of a thing and say, "I don't want it, I don't want it", the more you are bound to it. What you should do is to keep the thing away from you, to dissociate from it, take as little notice of it as possible and, even if you happen to think of it, remain indifferent and unconcerned. The impulses and desires that come up by the pressure of Yoga should be faced in a spirit of detachment and serenity, as something foreign to yourself or belonging to the outside world. They should be offered to the Divine, so that the Divine may take them up and transmute them. If you have once opened yourself to the Divine, if the power of the Divine has once come down into you and yet you try to keep to the old forces, you prepare troubles and difficulties and dangers for yourself. You must be vigilant and see that you do not use the Divine as a cloak for the satisfaction of your desires. There are many self-appointed Masters, who do nothing but that. And then when you are off the straight path and when you have a little knowledge and not much power, it happens that you are seized by beings or entities of a certain type, you become blind instruments in their hands and are devoured by them in the end. Wherever there is pretence, there is danger; you cannot deceive God. Do you come to God saying, "I want union with you" and in your heart meaning "I want powers and enjoyments"? Beware! You are heading straight towards the brink of the precipice. And yet it is so easy to avoid all catastrophe. Become like a child, give yourself up to the Mother, let her carry you, and there is no more danger for you.
This does not mean that you have not to face other kinds of difficulties or that you have not to fight and conquer any obstacles at all. Surrender does not ensure a smooth and unruffled and continuous progression. The reason is that your being is not yet one, nor your surrender absolute and complete. Only a part of you surrenders; and today it is one part and the next day it is another. The whole purpose of the Yoga is to gather all the divergent parts together and forge them into an undivided unity. Till then you cannot hope to be without difficulties - difficulties, for example, like doubt or depression or hesitation. The whole world is full of the poison. You take it in with every breath. If you exchange a few words with an undesirable man or even if such a man merely passes by you, you may catch the contagion from him. It is sufficient for you to come near a place where there is plague in order to be infected with its poison; you need not know at all that it is there. You can lose in a few minutes what it has taken you months to gain. So long as you belong to humanity and so long as you lead the ordinary life, it does not matter much if you mix with the people of the world; but if you want the divine life, you will have to be exceedingly careful about your company and your environment.
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1929-1931,#KEYS
203:The Science of Living
To know oneself and to control oneself
AN AIMLESS life is always a miserable life.
Every one of you should have an aim. But do not forget that on the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life.
Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others.
But whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realised unless you have realised perfection in yourself.
To work for your perfection, the first step is to become conscious of yourself, of the different parts of your being and their respective activities. You must learn to distinguish these different parts one from another, so that you may become clearly aware of the origin of the movements that occur in you, the many impulses, reactions and conflicting wills that drive you to action. It is an assiduous study which demands much perseverance and sincerity. For man's nature, especially his mental nature, has a spontaneous tendency to give a favourable explanation for everything he thinks, feels, says and does. It is only by observing these movements with great care, by bringing them, as it were, before the tribunal of our highest ideal, with a sincere will to submit to its judgment, that we can hope to form in ourselves a discernment that never errs. For if we truly want to progress and acquire the capacity of knowing the truth of our being, that is to say, what we are truly created for, what we can call our mission upon earth, then we must, in a very regular and constant manner, reject from us or eliminate in us whatever contradicts the truth of our existence, whatever is opposed to it. In this way, little by little, all the parts, all the elements of our being can be organised into a homogeneous whole around our psychic centre. This work of unification requires much time to be brought to some degree of perfection. Therefore, in order to accomplish it, we must arm ourselves with patience and endurance, with a determination to prolong our life as long as necessary for the success of our endeavour.
As you pursue this labour of purification and unification, you must at the same time take great care to perfect the external and instrumental part of your being. When the higher truth manifests, it must find in you a mind that is supple and rich enough to be able to give the idea that seeks to express itself a form of thought which preserves its force and clarity. This thought, again, when it seeks to clothe itself in words, must find in you a sufficient power of expression so that the words reveal the thought and do not deform it. And the formula in which you embody the truth should be manifested in all your feelings, all your acts of will, all your actions, in all the movements of your being. Finally, these movements themselves should, by constant effort, attain their highest perfection.
All this can be realised by means of a fourfold discipline, the general outline of which is given here. The four aspects of the discipline do not exclude each other, and can be followed at the same time; indeed, this is preferable. The starting-point is what can be called the psychic discipline. We give the name "psychic" to the psychological centre of our being, the seat within us of the highest truth of our existence, that which can know this truth and set it in movement. It is therefore of capital importance to become conscious of its presence in us, to concentrate on this presence until it becomes a living fact for us and we can identify ourselves with it.
In various times and places many methods have been prescribed for attaining this perception and ultimately achieving this identification. Some methods are psychological, some religious, some even mechanical. In reality, everyone has to find the one which suits him best, and if one has an ardent and steadfast aspiration, a persistent and dynamic will, one is sure to meet, in one way or another - outwardly through reading and study, inwardly through concentration, meditation, revelation and experience - the help one needs to reach the goal. Only one thing is absolutely indispensable: the will to discover and to realise. This discovery and realisation should be the primary preoccupation of our being, the pearl of great price which we must acquire at any cost. Whatever you do, whatever your occupations and activities, the will to find the truth of your being and to unite with it must be always living and present behind all that you do, all that you feel, all that you think.
To complement this movement of inner discovery, it would be good not to neglect the development of the mind. For the mental instrument can equally be a great help or a great hindrance. In its natural state the human mind is always limited in its vision, narrow in its understanding, rigid in its conceptions, and a constant effort is therefore needed to widen it, to make it more supple and profound. So it is very necessary to consider everything from as many points of view as possible. Towards this end, there is an exercise which gives great suppleness and elevation to the thought. It is as follows: a clearly formulated thesis is set; against it is opposed its antithesis, formulated with the same precision. Then by careful reflection the problem must be widened or transcended until a synthesis is found which unites the two contraries in a larger, higher and more comprehensive idea.
Many other exercises of the same kind can be undertaken; some have a beneficial effect on the character and so possess a double advantage: that of educating the mind and that of establishing control over the feelings and their consequences. For example, you must never allow your mind to judge things and people, for the mind is not an instrument of knowledge; it is incapable of finding knowledge, but it must be moved by knowledge. Knowledge belongs to a much higher domain than that of the human mind, far above the region of pure ideas. The mind has to be silent and attentive to receive knowledge from above and manifest it. For it is an instrument of formation, of organisation and action, and it is in these functions that it attains its full value and real usefulness.
There is another practice which can be very helpful to the progress of the consciousness. Whenever there is a disagreement on any matter, such as a decision to be taken, or an action to be carried out, one must never remain closed up in one's own conception or point of view. On the contrary, one must make an effort to understand the other's point of view, to put oneself in his place and, instead of quarrelling or even fighting, find the solution which can reasonably satisfy both parties; there always is one for men of goodwill.
Here we must mention the discipline of the vital. The vital being in us is the seat of impulses and desires, of enthusiasm and violence, of dynamic energy and desperate depressions, of passions and revolts. It can set everything in motion, build and realise; but it can also destroy and mar everything. Thus it may be the most difficult part to discipline in the human being. It is a long and exacting labour requiring great patience and perfect sincerity, for without sincerity you will deceive yourself from the very outset, and all endeavour for progress will be in vain. With the collaboration of the vital no realisation seems impossible, no transformation impracticable. But the difficulty lies in securing this constant collaboration. The vital is a good worker, but most often it seeks its own satisfaction. If that is refused, totally or even partially, the vital gets vexed, sulks and goes on strike. Its energy disappears more or less completely and in its place leaves disgust for people and things, discouragement or revolt, depression and dissatisfaction. At such moments it is good to remain quiet and refuse to act; for these are the times when one does stupid things and in a few moments one can destroy or spoil the progress that has been made during months of regular effort. These crises are shorter and less dangerous for those who have established a contact with their psychic being which is sufficient to keep alive in them the flame of aspiration and the consciousness of the ideal to be realised. They can, with the help of this consciousness, deal with their vital as one deals with a rebellious child, with patience and perseverance, showing it the truth and light, endeavouring to convince it and awaken in it the goodwill which has been veiled for a time. By means of such patient intervention each crisis can be turned into a new progress, into one more step towards the goal. Progress may be slow, relapses may be frequent, but if a courageous will is maintained, one is sure to triumph one day and see all difficulties melt and vanish before the radiance of the truth-consciousness.
Lastly, by means of a rational and discerning physical education, we must make our body strong and supple enough to become a fit instrument in the material world for the truth-force which wants to manifest through us.
In fact, the body must not rule, it must obey. By its very nature it is a docile and faithful servant. Unfortunately, it rarely has the capacity of discernment it ought to have with regard to its masters, the mind and the vital. It obeys them blindly, at the cost of its own well-being. The mind with its dogmas, its rigid and arbitrary principles, the vital with its passions, its excesses and dissipations soon destroy the natural balance of the body and create in it fatigue, exhaustion and disease. It must be freed from this tyranny and this can be done only through a constant union with the psychic centre of the being. The body has a wonderful capacity of adaptation and endurance. It is able to do so many more things than one usually imagines. If, instead of the ignorant and despotic masters that now govern it, it is ruled by the central truth of the being, you will be amazed at what it is capable of doing. Calm and quiet, strong and poised, at every minute it will be able to put forth the effort that is demanded of it, for it will have learnt to find rest in action and to recuperate, through contact with the universal forces, the energies it expends consciously and usefully. In this sound and balanced life a new harmony will manifest in the body, reflecting the harmony of the higher regions, which will give it perfect proportions and ideal beauty of form. And this harmony will be progressive, for the truth of the being is never static; it is a perpetual unfolding of a growing perfection that is more and more total and comprehensive. As soon as the body has learnt to follow this movement of progressive harmony, it will be possible for it to escape, through a continuous process of transformation, from the necessity of disintegration and destruction. Thus the irrevocable law of death will no longer have any reason to exist.
When we reach this degree of perfection which is our goal, we shall perceive that the truth we seek is made up of four major aspects: Love, Knowledge, Power and Beauty. These four attributes of the Truth will express themselves spontaneously in our being. The psychic will be the vehicle of true and pure love, the mind will be the vehicle of infallible knowledge, the vital will manifest an invincible power and strength and the body will be the expression of a perfect beauty and harmony.
Bulletin, November 1950
~ The Mother, On Education,#KEYS
204:The Supreme Discovery
IF WE want to progress integrally, we must build within our conscious being a strong and pure mental synthesis which can serve us as a protection against temptations from outside, as a landmark to prevent us from going astray, as a beacon to light our way across the moving ocean of life.
Each individual should build up this mental synthesis according to his own tendencies and affinities and aspirations. But if we want it to be truly living and luminous, it must be centred on the idea that is the intellectual representation symbolising That which is at the centre of our being, That which is our life and our light.
This idea, expressed in sublime words, has been taught in various forms by all the great Instructors in all lands and all ages.
The Self of each one and the great universal Self are one. Since all that is exists from all eternity in its essence and principle, why make a distinction between the being and its origin, between ourselves and what we place at the beginning?
The ancient traditions rightly said:
"Our origin and ourselves, our God and ourselves are one."
And this oneness should not be understood merely as a more or less close and intimate relationship of union, but as a true identity.
Thus, when a man who seeks the Divine attempts to reascend by degrees towards the inaccessible, he forgets that all his knowledge and all his intuition cannot take him one step forward in this infinite; neither does he know that what he wants to attain, what he believes to be so far from him, is within him.
For how could he know anything of the origin until he becomes conscious of this origin in himself?
It is by understanding himself, by learning to know himself, that he can make the supreme discovery and cry out in wonder like the patriarch in the Bible, "The house of God is here and I knew it not."
That is why we must express that sublime thought, creatrix of the material worlds, and make known to all the word that fills the heavens and the earth, "I am in all things and all beings."When all shall know this, the promised day of great transfigurations will be at hand. When in each atom of Matter men shall recognise the indwelling thought of God, when in each living creature they shall perceive some hint of a gesture of God, when each man can see God in his brother, then dawn will break, dispelling the darkness, the falsehood, the ignorance, the error and suffering that weigh upon all Nature. For, "all Nature suffers and laments as she awaits the revelation of the Sons of God."
This indeed is the central thought epitomising all others, the thought which should be ever present to our remembrance as the sun that illumines all life.
That is why I remind you of it today. For if we follow our path bearing this thought in our hearts like the rarest jewel, the most precious treasure, if we allow it to do its work of illumination and transfiguration within us, we shall know that it lives in the centre of all beings and all things, and in it we shall feel the marvellous oneness of the universe.
Then we shall understand the vanity and childishness of our meagre satisfactions, our foolish quarrels, our petty passions, our blind indignations. We shall see the dissolution of our little faults, the crumbling of the last entrenchments of our limited personality and our obtuse egoism. We shall feel ourselves being swept along by this sublime current of true spirituality which will deliver us from our narrow limits and bounds.
The individual Self and the universal Self are one; in every world, in every being, in every thing, in every atom is the Divine Presence, and man's mission is to manifest it.
In order to do that, he must become conscious of this Divine Presence within him. Some individuals must undergo a real apprenticeship in order to achieve this: their egoistic being is too all-absorbing, too rigid, too conservative, and their struggles against it are long and painful. Others, on the contrary, who are more impersonal, more plastic, more spiritualised, come easily into contact with the inexhaustible divine source of their being.But let us not forget that they too should devote themselves daily, constantly, to a methodical effort of adaptation and transformation, so that nothing within them may ever again obscure the radiance of that pure light.
But how greatly the standpoint changes once we attain this deeper consciousness! How understanding widens, how compassion grows!
On this a sage has said:
"I would like each one of us to come to the point where he perceives the inner God who dwells even in the vilest of human beings; instead of condemning him we would say, 'Arise, O resplendent Being, thou who art ever pure, who knowest neither birth nor death; arise, Almighty One, and manifest thy nature.'"
Let us live by this beautiful utterance and we shall see everything around us transformed as if by miracle.
This is the attitude of true, conscious and discerning love, the love which knows how to see behind appearances, understand in spite of words, and which, amid all obstacles, is in constant communion with the depths.
What value have our impulses and our desires, our anguish and our violence, our sufferings and our struggles, all these inner vicissitudes unduly dramatised by our unruly imagination - what value do they have before this great, this sublime and divine love bending over us from the innermost depths of our being, bearing with our weaknesses, rectifying our errors, healing our wounds, bathing our whole being with its regenerating streams?
For the inner Godhead never imposes herself, she neither demands nor threatens; she offers and gives herself, conceals and forgets herself in the heart of all beings and things; she never accuses, she neither judges nor curses nor condemns, but works unceasingly to perfect without constraint, to mend without reproach, to encourage without impatience, to enrich each one with all the wealth he can receive; she is the mother whose love bears fruit and nourishes, guards and protects, counsels and consoles; because she understands everything, she can endure everything, excuse and pardon everything, hope and prepare for everything; bearing everything within herself, she owns nothing that does not belong to all, and because she reigns over all, she is the servant of all; that is why all, great and small, who want to be kings with her and gods in her, become, like her, not despots but servitors among their brethren.
How beautiful is this humble role of servant, the role of all who have been revealers and heralds of the God who is within all, of the Divine Love that animates all things....
And until we can follow their example and become true servants even as they, let us allow ourselves to be penetrated and transformed by this Divine Love; let us offer Him, without reserve, this marvellous instrument, our physical organism. He shall make it yield its utmost on every plane of activity.
To achieve this total self-consecration, all means are good, all methods have their value. The one thing needful is to persevere in our will to attain this goal. For then everything we study, every action we perform, every human being we meet, all come to bring us an indication, a help, a light to guide us on the path.
Before I close, I shall add a few pages for those who have already made apparently fruitless efforts, for those who have encountered the pitfalls on the way and seen the measure of their weakness, for those who are in danger of losing their self-confidence and courage. These pages, intended to rekindle hope in the hearts of those who suffer, were written by a spiritual worker at a time when ordeals of every kind were sweeping down on him like purifying flames.
You who are weary, downcast and bruised, you who fall, who think perhaps that you are defeated, hear the voice of a friend. He knows your sorrows, he has shared them, he has suffered like you from the ills of the earth; like you he has crossed many deserts under the burden of the day, he has known thirst and hunger, solitude and abandonment, and the cruellest of all wants, the destitution of the heart. Alas! he has known too the hours of doubt, the errors, the faults, the failings, every weakness.
But he tells you: Courage! Hearken to the lesson that the rising sun brings to the earth with its first rays each morning. It is a lesson of hope, a message of solace.
You who weep, who suffer and tremble, who dare not expect an end to your ills, an issue to your pangs, behold: there is no night without dawn and the day is about to break when darkness is thickest; there is no mist that the sun does not dispel, no cloud that it does not gild, no tear that it will not dry one day, no storm that is not followed by its shining triumphant bow; there is no snow that it does not melt, nor winter that it does not change into radiant spring.
And for you too, there is no affliction which does not bring its measure of glory, no distress which cannot be transformed into joy, nor defeat into victory, nor downfall into higher ascension, nor solitude into radiating centre of life, nor discord into harmony - sometimes it is a misunderstanding between two minds that compels two hearts to open to mutual communion; lastly, there is no infinite weakness that cannot be changed into strength. And it is even in supreme weakness that almightiness chooses to reveal itself!
Listen, my little child, you who today feel so broken, so fallen perhaps, who have nothing left, nothing to cover your misery and foster your pride: never before have you been so great! How close to the summits is he who awakens in the depths, for the deeper the abyss, the more the heights reveal themselves!
Do you not know this, that the most sublime forces of the vasts seek to array themselves in the most opaque veils of Matter? Oh, the sublime nuptials of sovereign love with the obscurest plasticities, of the shadow's yearning with the most royal light!
If ordeal or fault has cast you down, if you have sunk into the nether depths of suffering, do not grieve - for there indeed the divine love and the supreme blessing can reach you! Because you have passed through the crucible of purifying sorrows, the glorious ascents are yours.
You are in the wilderness: then listen to the voices of the silence. The clamour of flattering words and outer applause has gladdened your ears, but the voices of the silence will gladden your soul and awaken within you the echo of the depths, the chant of divine harmonies!
You are walking in the depths of night: then gather the priceless treasures of the night. In bright sunshine, the ways of intelligence are lit, but in the white luminosities of the night lie the hidden paths of perfection, the secret of spiritual riches.
You are being stripped of everything: that is the way towards plenitude. When you have nothing left, everything will be given to you. Because for those who are sincere and true, from the worst always comes the best.
Every grain that is sown in the earth produces a thousand. Every wing-beat of sorrow can be a soaring towards glory.
And when the adversary pursues man relentlessly, everything he does to destroy him only makes him greater.
Hear the story of the worlds, look: the great enemy seems to triumph. He casts the beings of light into the night, and the night is filled with stars. He rages against the cosmic working, he assails the integrity of the empire of the sphere, shatters its harmony, divides and subdivides it, scatters its dust to the four winds of infinity, and lo! the dust is changed into a golden seed, fertilising the infinite and peopling it with worlds which now gravitate around their eternal centre in the larger orbit of space - so that even division creates a richer and deeper unity, and by multiplying the surfaces of the material universe, enlarges the empire that it set out to destroy.
Beautiful indeed was the song of the primordial sphere cradled in the bosom of immensity, but how much more beautiful and triumphant is the symphony of the constellations, the music of the spheres, the immense choir that fills the heavens with an eternal hymn of victory!
Hear again: no state was ever more precarious than that of man when he was separated on earth from his divine origin. Above him stretched the hostile borders of the usurper, and at his horizon's gates watched jailers armed with flaming swords. Then, since he could climb no more to the source of life, the source arose within him; since he could no more receive the light from above, the light shone forth at the very centre of his being; since he could commune no more with the transcendent love, that love offered itself in a holocaust and chose each terrestrial being, each human self as its dwelling-place and sanctuary.
That is how, in this despised and desolate but fruitful and blessed Matter, each atom contains a divine thought, each being carries within him the Divine Inhabitant. And if no being in all the universe is as frail as man, neither is any as divine as he!
In truth, in truth, in humiliation lies the cradle of glory! 28 April 1912 ~ The Mother, Words Of Long Ago, The Supreme Discovery,#KEYS
205:One little picture in this book, the Magic Locket, was drawn by 'Miss Alice Havers.' I did not state this on the title-page, since it seemed only due, to the artist of all these (to my mind) wonderful pictures, that his name should stand there alone.
The descriptions, of Sunday as spent by children of the last generation, are quoted verbatim from a speech made to me by a child-friend and a letter written to me by a lady-friend.
The Chapters, headed 'Fairy Sylvie' and 'Bruno's Revenge,' are a reprint, with a few alterations, of a little fairy-tale which I wrote in the year 1867, at the request of the late Mrs. Gatty, for 'Aunt Judy's Magazine,' which she was then editing.
It was in 1874, I believe, that the idea first occurred to me of making it the nucleus of a longer story.
As the years went on, I jotted down, at odd moments, all sorts of odd ideas, and fragments of dialogue, that occurred to me--who knows how?--with a transitory suddenness that left me no choice but either to record them then and there, or to abandon them to oblivion. Sometimes one could trace to their source these random flashes of thought--as being suggested by the book one was reading, or struck out from the 'flint' of one's own mind by the 'steel' of a friend's chance remark but they had also a way of their own, of occurring, a propos of nothing --specimens of that hopelessly illogical phenomenon, 'an effect without a cause.' Such, for example, was the last line of 'The Hunting of the Snark,' which came into my head (as I have already related in 'The Theatre' for April, 1887) quite suddenly, during a solitary walk: and such, again, have been passages which occurred in dreams, and which I cannot trace to any antecedent cause whatever. There are at least two instances of such dream-suggestions in this book--one, my Lady's remark, 'it often runs in families, just as a love for pastry does', the other, Eric Lindon's badinage about having been in domestic service.
And thus it came to pass that I found myself at last in possession of a huge unwieldy mass of litterature--if the reader will kindly excuse the spelling --which only needed stringing together, upon the thread of a consecutive story, to constitute the book I hoped to write. Only! The task, at first, seemed absolutely hopeless, and gave me a far clearer idea, than I ever had before, of the meaning of the word 'chaos': and I think it must have been ten years, or more, before I had succeeded in classifying these odds-and-ends sufficiently to see what sort of a story they indicated: for the story had to grow out of the incidents, not the incidents out of the story I am telling all this, in no spirit of egoism, but because I really believe that some of my readers will be interested in these details of the 'genesis' of a book, which looks so simple and straight-forward a matter, when completed, that they might suppose it to have been written straight off, page by page, as one would write a letter, beginning at the beginning; and ending at the end.
It is, no doubt, possible to write a story in that way: and, if it be not vanity to say so, I believe that I could, myself,--if I were in the unfortunate position (for I do hold it to be a real misfortune) of being obliged to produce a given amount of fiction in a given time,--that I could 'fulfil my task,' and produce my 'tale of bricks,' as other slaves have done. One thing, at any rate, I could guarantee as to the story so produced--that it should be utterly commonplace, should contain no new ideas whatever, and should be very very weary reading!
This species of literature has received the very appropriate name of 'padding' which might fitly be defined as 'that which all can write and none can read.' That the present volume contains no such writing I dare not avow: sometimes, in order to bring a picture into its proper place, it has been necessary to eke out a page with two or three extra lines : but I can honestly say I have put in no more than I was absolutely compelled to do.
My readers may perhaps like to amuse themselves by trying to detect, in a given passage, the one piece of 'padding' it contains. While arranging the 'slips' into pages, I found that the passage was 3 lines too short. I supplied the deficiency, not by interpolating a word here and a word there, but by writing in 3 consecutive lines. Now can my readers guess which they are?
A harder puzzle if a harder be desired would be to determine, as to the Gardener's Song, in which cases (if any) the stanza was adapted to the surrounding text, and in which (if any) the text was adapted to the stanza.
Perhaps the hardest thing in all literature--at least I have found it so: by no voluntary effort can I accomplish it: I have to take it as it come's is to write anything original. And perhaps the easiest is, when once an original line has been struck out, to follow it up, and to write any amount more to the same tune. I do not know if 'Alice in Wonderland' was an original story--I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it--but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen storybooks have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'--is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.
Hence it is that, in 'Sylvie and Bruno,' I have striven with I know not what success to strike out yet another new path: be it bad or good, it is the best I can do. It is written, not for money, and not for fame, but in the hope of supplying, for the children whom I love, some thoughts that may suit those hours of innocent merriment which are the very life of Childhood; and also in the hope of suggesting, to them and to others, some thoughts that may prove, I would fain hope, not wholly out of harmony with the graver cadences of Life.
If I have not already exhausted the patience of my readers, I would like to seize this opportunity perhaps the last I shall have of addressing so many friends at once of putting on record some ideas that have occurred to me, as to books desirable to be written--which I should much like to attempt, but may not ever have the time or power to carry through--in the hope that, if I should fail (and the years are gliding away very fast) to finish the task I have set myself, other hands may take it up.
First, a Child's Bible. The only real essentials of this would be, carefully selected passages, suitable for a child's reading, and pictures. One principle of selection, which I would adopt, would be that Religion should be put before a child as a revelation of love--no need to pain and puzzle the young mind with the history of crime and punishment. (On such a principle I should, for example, omit the history of the Flood.) The supplying of the pictures would involve no great difficulty: no new ones would be needed : hundreds of excellent pictures already exist, the copyright of which has long ago expired, and which simply need photo-zincography, or some similar process, for their successful reproduction. The book should be handy in size with a pretty attractive looking cover--in a clear legible type--and, above all, with abundance of pictures, pictures, pictures!
Secondly, a book of pieces selected from the Bible--not single texts, but passages of from 10 to 20 verses each--to be committed to memory. Such passages would be found useful, to repeat to one's self and to ponder over, on many occasions when reading is difficult, if not impossible: for instance, when lying awake at night--on a railway-journey --when taking a solitary walk-in old age, when eyesight is failing or wholly lost--and, best of all, when illness, while incapacitating us for reading or any other occupation, condemns us to lie awake through many weary silent hours: at such a time how keenly one may realise the truth of David's rapturous cry "O how sweet are thy words unto my throat: yea, sweeter than honey unto my mouth!"
I have said 'passages,' rather than single texts, because we have no means of recalling single texts: memory needs links, and here are none: one may have a hundred texts stored in the memory, and not be able to recall, at will, more than half-a-dozen--and those by mere chance: whereas, once get hold of any portion of a chapter that has been committed to memory, and the whole can be recovered: all hangs together.
Thirdly, a collection of passages, both prose and verse, from books other than the Bible. There is not perhaps much, in what is called 'un-inspired' literature (a misnomer, I hold: if Shakespeare was not inspired, one may well doubt if any man ever was), that will bear the process of being pondered over, a hundred times: still there are such passages--enough, I think, to make a goodly store for the memory.
These two books of sacred, and secular, passages for memory--will serve other good purposes besides merely occupying vacant hours: they will help to keep at bay many anxious thoughts, worrying thoughts, uncharitable thoughts, unholy thoughts. Let me say this, in better words than my own, by copying a passage from that most interesting book, Robertson's Lectures on the Epistles to the Corinthians, Lecture XLIX. "If a man finds himself haunted by evil desires and unholy images, which will generally be at periodical hours, let him commit to memory passages of Scripture, or passages from the best writers in verse or prose. Let him store his mind with these, as safeguards to repeat when he lies awake in some restless night, or when despairing imaginations, or gloomy, suicidal thoughts, beset him. Let these be to him the sword, turning everywhere to keep the way of the Garden of Life from the intrusion of profaner footsteps."
Fourthly, a "Shakespeare" for girls: that is, an edition in which everything, not suitable for the perusal of girls of (say) from 10 to 17, should be omitted. Few children under 10 would be likely to understand or enjoy the greatest of poets: and those, who have passed out of girlhood, may safely be left to read Shakespeare, in any edition, 'expurgated' or not, that they may prefer: but it seems a pity that so many children, in the intermediate stage, should be debarred from a great pleasure for want of an edition suitable to them. Neither Bowdler's, Chambers's, Brandram's, nor Cundell's 'Boudoir' Shakespeare, seems to me to meet the want: they are not sufficiently 'expurgated.' Bowdler's is the most extraordinary of all: looking through it, I am filled with a deep sense of wonder, considering what he has left in, that he should have cut anything out! Besides relentlessly erasing all that is unsuitable on the score of reverence or decency, I should be inclined to omit also all that seems too difficult, or not likely to interest young readers. The resulting book might be slightly fragmentary: but it would be a real treasure to all British maidens who have any taste for poetry.
If it be needful to apologize to any one for the new departure I have taken in this story--by introducing, along with what will, I hope, prove to be acceptable nonsense for children, some of the graver thoughts of human life--it must be to one who has learned the Art of keeping such thoughts wholly at a distance in hours of mirth and careless ease. To him such a mixture will seem, no doubt, ill-judged and repulsive. And that such an Art exists I do not dispute: with youth, good health, and sufficient money, it seems quite possible to lead, for years together, a life of unmixed gaiety--with the exception of one solemn fact, with which we are liable to be confronted at any moment, even in the midst of the most brilliant company or the most sparkling entertainment. A man may fix his own times for admitting serious thought, for attending public worship, for prayer, for reading the Bible: all such matters he can defer to that 'convenient season', which is so apt never to occur at all: but he cannot defer, for one single moment, the necessity of attending to a message, which may come before he has finished reading this page,' this night shalt thy soul be required of thee.'
The ever-present sense of this grim possibility has been, in all ages, 1 an incubus that men have striven to shake off. Few more interesting subjects of enquiry could be found, by a student of history, than the various weapons that have been used against this shadowy foe. Saddest of all must have been the thoughts of those who saw indeed an existence beyond the grave, but an existence far more terrible than annihilation--an existence as filmy, impalpable, all but invisible spectres, drifting about, through endless ages, in a world of shadows, with nothing to do, nothing to hope for, nothing to love! In the midst of the gay verses of that genial 'bon vivant' Horace, there stands one dreary word whose utter sadness goes to one's heart. It is the word 'exilium' in the well-known passage
Omnes eodem cogimur, omnium
Versatur urna serius ocius
Sors exitura et nos in aeternum
Exilium impositura cymbae.
Yes, to him this present life--spite of all its weariness and all its sorrow--was the only life worth having: all else was 'exile'! Does it not seem almost incredible that one, holding such a creed, should ever have smiled?
And many in this day, I fear, even though believing in an existence beyond the grave far more real than Horace ever dreamed of, yet regard it as a sort of 'exile' from all the joys of life, and so adopt Horace's theory, and say 'let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.'
We go to entertainments, such as the theatre--I say 'we', for I also go to the play, whenever I get a chance of seeing a really good one and keep at arm's length, if possible, the thought that we may not return alive. Yet how do you know--dear friend, whose patience has carried you through this garrulous preface that it may not be your lot, when mirth is fastest and most furious, to feel the sharp pang, or the deadly faintness, which heralds the final crisis--to see, with vague wonder, anxious friends bending over you to hear their troubled whispers perhaps yourself to shape the question, with trembling lips, "Is it serious?", and to be told "Yes: the end is near" (and oh, how different all Life will look when those words are said!)--how do you know, I say, that all this may not happen to you, this night?
And dare you, knowing this, say to yourself "Well, perhaps it is an immoral play: perhaps the situations are a little too 'risky', the dialogue a little too strong, the 'business' a little too suggestive.
I don't say that conscience is quite easy: but the piece is so clever, I must see it this once! I'll begin a stricter life to-morrow." To-morrow, and to-morrow, and tomorrow!
"Who sins in hope, who, sinning, says,
'Sorrow for sin God's judgement stays!'
Against God's Spirit he lies; quite stops Mercy with insult; dares, and drops,
Like a scorch'd fly, that spins in vain
Upon the axis of its pain,
Then takes its doom, to limp and crawl,
Blind and forgot, from fall to fall."
Let me pause for a moment to say that I believe this thought, of the possibility of death--if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong. If the thought of sudden death acquires, for you, a special horror when imagined as happening in a theatre, then be very sure the theatre is harmful for you, however harmless it may be for others; and that you are incurring a deadly peril in going. Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.
But, once realise what the true object is in life--that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds'--but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man--and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!
One other matter may perhaps seem to call for apology--that I should have treated with such entire want of sympathy the British passion for 'Sport', which no doubt has been in by-gone days, and is still, in some forms of it, an excellent school for hardihood and for coolness in moments of danger.
But I am not entirely without sympathy for genuine 'Sport': I can heartily admire the courage of the man who, with severe bodily toil, and at the risk of his life, hunts down some 'man-eating' tiger: and I can heartily sympathize with him when he exults in the glorious excitement of the chase and the hand-to-hand struggle with the monster brought to bay. But I can but look with deep wonder and sorrow on the hunter who, at his ease and in safety, can find pleasure in what involves, for some defenceless creature, wild terror and a death of agony: deeper, if the hunter be one who has pledged himself to preach to men the Religion of universal Love: deepest of all, if it be one of those 'tender and delicate' beings, whose very name serves as a symbol of Love--'thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women'--whose mission here is surely to help and comfort all that are in pain or sorrow!
'Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.' ~ Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno,#KEYS
1:Boredom: the desire for desires. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 2:Memory is not what the heart desires. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 3:Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove 4:Genius never desires what does not exist. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 5:Liberty consists in doing what one desires. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 6:He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 7:No man is born without ambitious worldly desires. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 8:He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 9:The desires of man increase with his acquisitions. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 10:She who desires to see, desires also to be seen. ~ miguel-de-cervantes, @wisdomtrove 11:When all desires of heart die, mortal man becomes Immortal. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove 12:Men have a thousand desires to a bushel of choices. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove 13:Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 14:Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. ~ abraham-lincoln, @wisdomtrove 15:Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily. ~ margaret-fuller, @wisdomtrove 16:Christ desires nothing more of us than that we speak of him. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 17:Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 18:The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 19:All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 20:The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 21:Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 22:The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace. ~ jean-klein, @wisdomtrove 23:Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 24:Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove 25:It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 26:Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. ~ lao-tzu, @wisdomtrove 27:May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 28:May your convictions be deep, your love real, and your desires earnest ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 29:The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 30:If the desires are not controlled now, later they will control you. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 31:Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. ~ william-shakespeare, @wisdomtrove 32:When God's mercies are coming, their footfalls are our desires to pray. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove 33:For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions. ~ reinhold-niebuhr, @wisdomtrove 34:Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 35:What your heart desires is not too good to be true. It is good enough to be true. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove 36:As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove 37:If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. ~ epicurus, @wisdomtrove 38:Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 39:Small, deliberate actions inspired by your true desires create a life you love. ~ danielle-laporte, @wisdomtrove 40:Trying to satisfy one's desires with possessions is like putting out a fire with straw. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 41:I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 42:When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more and be happy. ~ hafez, @wisdomtrove 43:Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 44:Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 45:In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 46:Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 47:Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove 48:Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 49:Man's Desires are limited by his Perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 50:To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove 51:i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 52:New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety. ~ moliere, @wisdomtrove 53:The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 54:When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove 55:Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 56:I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 57:One that desires to excel should endeavour in those things that are in themselves most excellent. ~ epictetus, @wisdomtrove 58:The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires. ~ michelangelo, @wisdomtrove 59:Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 60:Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove 61:Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove 62:Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove 63:If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires. ~ epicurus, @wisdomtrove 64:Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. ~ johann-wolfgang-von-goethe, @wisdomtrove 65:God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 66:When we have the Holy Spirit we have all that is needed to be all that God desires us to be. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 67:Miracles are everywhere to be found When I surrender my infinite desires To my immortal aspirations. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove 68:Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 69:You have your own private mind, woven with memories, held together by desires and fears. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 70:If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 71:To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires. ~ sophocles, @wisdomtrove 72:People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable. ~ oliver-goldsmith, @wisdomtrove 73:The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own. ~ nicholas-of-cusa, @wisdomtrove 74:All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove 75:I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 76:It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 77:Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one's own desires through which one listens. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 78:Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 79:Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove 80:It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 81:Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 82:The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 83:Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 84:Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 85:I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove 86:Place your desires before God. Pray about them and trust God to give them to you if and when they're right for you. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 87:If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth. ~ democritus, @wisdomtrove 88:Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 89:You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 90:The extra luggage of indiscriminate dreams, desires and attachments will make your life's journey miserable. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 91:Be free of desires and fears and at once your vision will clear and you shall see all things as they are. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 92:For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe? ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 93:Let us, therefore, re-ascend to the good itself, which every soul desires; and in which it can alone find perfect repose. ~ plotinus, @wisdomtrove 94:Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole. ~ danielle-laporte, @wisdomtrove 95:From what may anyone be saved? Only from themselves! That is, their individual hell. They dig it with their own desires. ~ edgar-cayce, @wisdomtrove 96:No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 97:Single-minded concentration in the direction of your dreams intensifies your desires and increases your self-confidence. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 98:There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 99:I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires. ~ kahlil-gibran, @wisdomtrove 100:We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us. ~ johann-wolfgang-von-goethe, @wisdomtrove 101:But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires. ~ john-dryden, @wisdomtrove 102:It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove 103:The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 104:We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove 105:Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we're born? ~ chuck-palahniuk, @wisdomtrove 106:Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove 107:Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 108:... If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove 109:He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 110:Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror, be it clear as Kheled-zaram. Or so says the heart of Gimli the Dwarf. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 111:When we submit to God's plans, we can trust our desires. Our assignment is found at the intersection of God's plan and our pleasures. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove 112:... and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 113:And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from & 114:Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded. ~ horace, @wisdomtrove 115:If you fail to plant desires in your subconscious mind, it will feed upon the thoughts which reach it as the result of your neglect. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove 116:While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to others. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 117:The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 118:Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires, stillness is attained. In stillness, the world is restored. ~ lao-tzu, @wisdomtrove 119:God knows the dreams and desires in your heart; in fact, He gave them to you. He will order your steps and take you where you need to be. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 120:Seated in a solitary place, free from desires and with senses controlled, one should meditate free of thought on that one infinite Self. ~ adi-shankara, @wisdomtrove 121:Understand the root cause of your fears - estrangement from yourself: and of desires - the longing for the self. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 122:When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove 123:If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 124:The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything. ~ leonardo-da-vinci, @wisdomtrove 125:Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones. ~ plato, @wisdomtrove 126:When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards. ~ anandamayi-ma, @wisdomtrove 127:It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 128:The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove 129:Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove 130:Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 131:One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 132:Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove 133:We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove 134:To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 135:It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 136:Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is: What are you willing to trade for it? ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 137:When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove 138:The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 139:All desires must be given up, because by desiring you take the shape of your desires. When no desires remain, you revert to your natural state. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 140:Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 141:I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul. ~ jean-paul-sartre, @wisdomtrove 142:The circumstances of your life are neither good nor bad. They are appropriate to the needs of your soul. They may or may not be what your personality desires. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove 143:When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 144:Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 145:If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the others to die away. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 146:Q: What are the uses of self-knowledge? M: It helps you to understand what you are not and keeps you free from false ideas, desires and actions. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 147:Should one ask: & 148:I let go of my need to convince others of my point of view. When I remain open to all points of view, my dreams and desires will flow with nature's desires. ~ deepak-chopra, @wisdomtrove 149:To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the wills, actions and desires of others. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 150:If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to & 151:Weak desires can be removed by introspection and meditation, but strong, deep-rooted ones must be fulfilled and their fruits, sweet or bitter, tasted. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 152:Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove 153:While spirituality provides an efficient and endless fuel for your mind and body, you must burn that fuel with human action towards your goals, dreams, and desires. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove 154:Give it your all. Give it away. Your desires are being held in the hand of the cosmos with incredibly sturdy care. Life is not testing you. She is rooting for you. ~ danielle-laporte, @wisdomtrove 155:Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. ~ thomas-carlyle, @wisdomtrove 156:Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seek nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing bu rational actions. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 157:Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 158:WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself. ~ barry-long, @wisdomtrove 159:A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove 160:Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 161:When all the Self was conquered and dead, when all passions and desires were silent, then the last must awaken, the innermost of Being that is no longer Self - the great secret! ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 162:Those desires that do not bring pain if they are not satisfied are not necessary; and they are easily thrust aside whenever to satisfy them appears difficult or likely to cause injury. ~ epicurus, @wisdomtrove 163:Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove 164:If you live in the city, it is necessary to get out of it on weekends. Then you will realize that most of the thoughts and desires you have are not yours. You will see what is you. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 165:The coming of Jesus at Bethlehem brought joy to the world and to every human heart. may His coming this Christmas bring to each one of us that peace and joy that He desires to give. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 166:For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 167:The day we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior is one of the greatest days of our lives. Not only are our sins washed away, but God puts His Spirit inside of us and gives us new desires. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove 168:The Universe expands in direct proportion to the desires that you conjure here. The Source Energy Stream exists in its powerful, focused force because of your focusing of your desires. ~ esther-hicks, @wisdomtrove 169:How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 170:The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed& 171:There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. ~ nelson-mandela, @wisdomtrove 172:Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to believe is the thing he feels he knows to be true. ~ dorothy-parker, @wisdomtrove 173:Some come to a teacher for power. They still have all the desires, angers and jealousies of an unevolved person. Consequently, they become destructive both to themselves and to others. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 174:The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 175:Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart truly desires must come to you. ~ shakti-gawain, @wisdomtrove 176:Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 177:Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, though the whole course of his life. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove 178:You have projected onto yourself a world of your own imagination, based on memories, on desires and fears, and that you have imprisoned yourself in it. Break the spell and be free. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 179:Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to pretend that your desires don't matter. ~ steve-pavlina, @wisdomtrove 180:Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you but your own imagination, you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas and live by truth alone. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 181:We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove compulsive desires altogether by understanding their nature. ~ vernon-howard, @wisdomtrove 182:Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 183:Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 184:Time changes everything, but with patience we can keep our desires relatively constant. If we can just hang on long enough, time will eventually create for us the conditions in which we can succeed. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 185:children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove 186:Make a list of your current wants and desires. Next to each, put down what benefit or payoff there would be when you achieve it. Look at this list often throughout the day and before retiring at night. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove 187:The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear from thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 188:We set forth our petitions before God, not in order to make known to Him our needs and desires, but rather so that we ourselves may realize that in these things it is necessary to turn to God for help. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove 189:Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove 190:We set forth our petitions before God, not in order to make known to Him our needs and desires, but rather so that we ourselves may realize that in these things it is necessary to turn to God for help. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove 191:Creativity is an attempt to resolve a conflict generated by unexpressed biological impulses, such that unfulfilled desires are the driving force of the imagination, and they fuel our dreams and daydreams. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 192:I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total. ~ charlie-chaplan, @wisdomtrove 193:If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desires‚Ķthen I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore, that he sacrificed purely for Islam. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove 194:Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the flame of their fervor cannot always be seen. ~ hermann-hesse, @wisdomtrove 195:Remember that there is a God who desires neither praise nor glory from men created in his image, but rather that they, guided by the understanding given them, should in their actions become like unto him. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove 196:The principle of martial arts is not a thing that can be learned, like a science, by fact-finding and instruction in facts. It has to grow spontaneously, like a flower, in a mind free from emotions and desires. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove 197:Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 198:Whether in the workplace or in personal relationships, success belongs to those who are willing to take responsibility for attaining their desires-those who respond to life actively rather than passively. ~ nathaniel-branden, @wisdomtrove 199:As the mind becomes gradually established in the Self, it proportionately gives up the desire for external objects. When all such desires have been eliminated, there is the unobstructed realization of the Self. ~ adi-shankara, @wisdomtrove 200:I looked at what my talents and desires are and decided to start my own business. I like the advantage of being able to work at a slower pace if I need to do that and there is no one pressuring me to work faster ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove 201:When one has achieved the object of one's desires, it is evident that one's real desire was not the ignorant possession of the desired object but to know it as possessed& 202:Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. ~ johann-wolfgang-von-goethe, @wisdomtrove 203: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 204:It is written: ‘They have become rich in all virtues’ (1 Cor. 1:5). Truly, this cannot happen unless they first become poor in all things. Whoever desires to be given everything, must first give everything away. ~ meister-eckhart, @wisdomtrove 205:Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease... and throw himself into roils and labours. ~ immanuel-kant, @wisdomtrove 206:See the collateral damage—the suffering—that results when you cling to your desires and opinions or take things personally. Over the long haul, most of what we argue about with others really doesn’t matter that much. ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove 207:Leave alone your desires and fears, give your entire attention to the subject, to him who is behind the experience of desire and fear. Ask: & 208:Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it's worship. Such form is its real form. ~ bodhidharma, @wisdomtrove 209:They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove 210:Cease from looking for happiness and reality in a dream and you will wake up. You need not know ‘why’ and ‘how’, there is no end to questions. Abandon all desires, keep your mind silent and you shall discover. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 211:The seeker has only one goal in view: to find his own true being. Of all desires, it is the most ambitious, for nothing and nobody can satisfy it; the seeker and the sought are one and the search alone matters. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 212:In order to reveal the gifts that lie beneath the surface of your heart’s greatest desires, you must look beyond your years here on earth, reconnect with the Divine, and bring forth your soul’s legacy into the present moment. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove 213:The entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i. e., an attempt to seek fulfilment of desires through things that change and vanish. But there can be no real fulfilment through the transient things ~ meher-baba, @wisdomtrove 214:Why don't you like being you for a change? Just be different and don't hate yourself and feel very good about all your different desires and all the things you didn't want and want. Go get them all, and see what it's like. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 215:A continuous perception is taking place deep within the mind. It is hard to hear that signal because it is blurred over by your own thoughts, desires, and fears. It is blurred over by your emotional swings. You become dull. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 216:Ultimate prosperity is one's value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his permission to achieve whatever he desires. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 217:For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove 218:At fifteen, my mind was bent on learning. At thirty, I stood firm. At forty, I had no doubts. At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven. At sixty, my ear was receptive to truth. At seventy, I could follow my heart's desires without sin. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 219:Our thoughts are like roots which reach out in every direction into the cosmic ocean of formless energy, and these thought-roots set in motion vibrations like themselves and attract the affinities of our desires and ambitions. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove 220:it is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 221:Q: What are the obstacles? M: Wrong ideas and desires leading to wrong actions, causing dissipation and weakness of mind and body. The discovery and abandonment of the false removes what prevents the real entering the mind. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 222:The reason for desires, goals, for finding those decisions or points of focus, is because they are the life- giving things of the Universe. Without objects of attention, or objects of desire, Life- Force does not come through any of us. ~ esther-hicks, @wisdomtrove 223:But first, you have to practice stillness. Stillness is the first requirement of manifesting your desires, because in stillness lies your connection to the field of pure potentiality that can orchestrate an infinity of details for you. ~ deepak-chopra, @wisdomtrove 224:It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy - truth liberates. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 225:He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth. ~ saint-augustine, @wisdomtrove 226:Be free of name and form and of the desires and fears they create, then what remains? Q: Nothingness. M: Yes, the void remains. But the void is full to the brim. It is the eternal potential as consciousness is the eternal actual. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 227:A great deal of energy is lost in the study by people who interact with non-physical beings. They get into your mind and your body by approaching you in the dream plane, promising you powers, playing on your desires. They sap your life force. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove 228:Meditation does not mean just sitting quietly for five or ten minutes. It requires conscious effort. The mind has to be made calm and quiet; at the same time, it has to be vigilant so as not to allow any distracting thoughts or desires to enter. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove 229:A life of constraint and suppression is not Yoga. Mind must be free of desires and relaxed. It comes with understanding, not with determination, which is but another form of memory. An understanding mind is free of desires and fears. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 230:I will release this list of my desires and surrender it to the womb of creation, trusting that when things don’t seem to go my way, there is a reason, and that the cosmic plan has designs for me much grander than even those that I have conceived. ~ deepak-chopra, @wisdomtrove 231:Desires are just waves in the mind. You know a wave when you see one. A desire is just a thing among many. I feel no urge to satisfy it, no action needs be taken on it. Freedom from desire means this: the compulsion to satisfy is absent. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 232:The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 233:He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 234:I will make a list of all my desires. I will carry this list with me wherever I go. I will look at this list before I go into my silence and meditation. I will look at it before I go to sleep at night. I will look at it when I wake up in the morning. ~ deepak-chopra, @wisdomtrove 235:The fundamental insight of polytheism, which distinguishes it from monotheism, is that the supreme power governing the world is devoid of interests and biases, and therefore it is unconcerned with the mundane desires, cares and worries of humans. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 236:The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove 237:The desire to put an end to all desires is a most peculiar desire, just like the fear of being afraid is a most peculiar fear. One stops you from grabbing and the other from running. You may use the same words, but the states are not the same. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 238:When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all desires for pleasure and fear of pain cease; one is no longer interested in being happy; beyond happiness there is pure intensity, inexhaustible energy, the ecstasy of giving from a perennial source. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 239:A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove 240:M: You are God, but you do not know it. Q: If I am God, then the world I create must be true. M: It is true in essence, but not in appearance. Be free of desires and fears and at once your vision will clear and you shall see all things as they are. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 241:Riches and honor are what everyone desires, but if they can be gained only by doing evil, they must not be held. Don't worry about not being in office, worry about qualifying yourself for office. Don't worry that no one knows you, but seek to be worthy of being known. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 242:There is nothing in all of the Universe more important for anyone to understand than how the vibration they are offering is matching the vibrations of their desires, and the way you feel is your indicator of whether you are allowing your connection to Source or not. ~ esther-hicks, @wisdomtrove 243:Worry is the product of feverish imagination working under the stimulus of desires... It is a necessary resultant of attachment to the past or to the anticipated future, and it always persists in some form or other until the mind is completely detached from everything. ~ meher-baba, @wisdomtrove 244:Love is better than hate, because it brings harmony instead of conflict into the desires of the persons concerned. Two people between whom there is love succeed or fail together, but when two people hate each other the success of either is the failure of the other. ~ bertrand-russell, @wisdomtrove 245:The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression upon the creative energies; it lacks the force that transmutes desires into realities. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove 246:You are rich if you have enough money to satisfy all your desires. So there are two ways to be rich: you earn, inherit, borrow, beg, or steal enough money to meet all your desires; or you cultivate a simple lifestyle of few desires; that way you always have enough money. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove 247:Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory. ~ b-k-s-iyengar, @wisdomtrove 248:I do know this... I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 249:Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir! Loosely translated: It is heavenly, when I overcome My earthly desires But nevertheless, when I'm not successful, It can also be quite pleasurable. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 250:That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove 251:Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire credit for it. No sooner do we give money to some charity than we want to see our names blazoned in the papers. Misery must come as the result of such desires. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 252:Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think. Don't ignore your own desires... . Don't sacrifice them. Examine their cause. There is a limit to how much you should have to bear. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 253:It's very important to get your desires centered so you will desire only to do God's will for you. You can come to the point of oneness of desire, just to know and do your part in the Life Pattern. When you think about it, is there anything else as really important to desire? ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 254:Yes, yes; you've read thousands of books but you've never tried to read your own self; you rush into your temples, into your mosques, but you have never tried to enter your own heart; futile are all your battles with the devil for you have never tried to fight your own desires. ~ bulleh-shah, @wisdomtrove 255:Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. Learn to become wise. Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. The real spiritual progress of the meditator is measured by the extent to which they achieve inner tranquility and freedom from desire. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove 256:... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled. ~ aldous-huxley, @wisdomtrove 257:Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 258:Perfect wisdom has four parts, namely wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private; fortitude, the principle of not flying danger, but meeting it; and temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately. ~ plato, @wisdomtrove 259:There is nothing personal about me, though the language and the style may appear personal. A person is a set pattern of desires and thoughts and resulting actions; there is no such pattern in my case. There is nothing I desire or fear - how can there be a pattern? ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 260:Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women. ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove 261:It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove 262:God desires and is pleased to communicate with us through the avenues of our minds, our wills, and our emotions. The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the souls of the redeemed men and women is the throbbing heart of the New Testament. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 263:The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don't mean it must immediately fill the soul with desire . . . The best effects are those that are followed up by actions-when the soul not only desires the honor of God, but really strives for it. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 264:I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove 265:Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove 266:The personal self by its very nature is constantly pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain. The ending of this pattern is the ending of the self. The ending of the self with its desires and fears enables you to return to your real nature, the source of all happiness and peace. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 267:Nothing that may be called an event will last. But some events purify the mind and some stain it. Moments of deep insight and all-embracing love purify the mind, while desires and fears, envies and anger, blind beliefs and intellectual arrogance pollute and dull the psyche. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 268:The person, the & 269:A person whose desires and impulses are his own - are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture - is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 270:If you keep your attention in the body as much as possible, you will be anchored in the Now. You won't lose yourself in the external world, and you won't lose yourself in your mind. Thoughts and emotions, fears and desires may still be there to some extent, but they won't take you over. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove 271:Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as soon as I would give in to vile passions I was praised and encouraged. Ambition, love of power, self-interest, lechery, pride, anger, vengeance-all of it was highly esteemed. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 272:The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove 273:It is selfishness, due to a self-identification with the body, that is the main problem and the cause of all other problems. And selfishness cannot be removed by effort, only by clear insight into its causes and effects. Effort is a sign of conflict between incompatible desires. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 274:Every one of us has secret dreams and desires along with seeds of greatness implanted within us. You too have gifts to share with this world. There is buried treasure within you, waiting to be discovered. Your full potential has not been released yet. Your God-given divine destiny awaits you. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove 275: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 276:The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. If you find yourself lacking in persistence, this weakness may be removed by building a stronger fire under your desires. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove 277:Your customers don't care about you. They don't care about your product or service. They care about themselves, their dreams, their goals. Now, they will care much more if you help them reach their goals, and to do that, you must understand their goals, as well as their needs and deepest desires. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove 278:Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 279:The soul is bound to the body by a chain of desires, temptations, troubles and worries, and it is trying to free itself. If you keep tugging at that chain which is holding you to mortal consciousness, some day an invisible Divine Hand will intervene and snap it apart and you will be free. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 280:Q: What arouses interest? M: Earnestness, the sign of maturity. Q: And how does maturity come about? M: By keeping your mind clear and clean, by living your life in full awareness of every moment as it happens, by examining and dissolving one's desires and fears as soon as they arise. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 281:Within your mind, there are hardly any lines at all. All its contents flow into each other, sensations becoming thoughts, feelings, desires, actions, and more sensations. This stream of consciousness correlates with a cascade of fleeting neural assemblies, each assembly dispersing into the next one[.] ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove 282:What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 283:Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods... Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove 284:Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 285:By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 286:God never gives, nor did He ever give a gift, merely that man might have it and be content with it. No, all gifts which He ever gave in heaven or on earth, He gave with one sole purpose - to make one single gift: Himself. With all His gifts He desires only to prepare us for the one gift, which is Himself. ~ meister-eckhart, @wisdomtrove 287:There is the unknown and the unknowable which propounds all creation. This we cannot love , we can only accept it as a term of our own limitation and ratification. We can only know that from the unknown, profound desires enter in upon us, and that the fulfilling of these desires is the fulfilling of creation. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove 288:Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove 289:The purpose of spiritual life is not to create some special state of mind. A state of mind is always temporary. The purpose is to work directly with the most primary elements of our body and our mind, to see the ways we get trapped by our fears, desires, and anger, to learn directly our capacity for freedom. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 290:One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove 291:Since no man ever can, or could, live by himself and for himself alone, the destinies of thousands of other people were bound to be affected, some remotely, but some very directly and near-at-hand, by my own choices and decisions and desires, as my own life would also be formed and modified according to theirs. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 292:If you stay with the idea that you are not the body nor the mind, not even their witness, but altogether beyond, your mind will grow in clarity, your desires - in purity, your actions - in charity and that inner distillation will take you to another world, a world of truth and fearless love. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 293:Keep the ‘I am’ in the focus of awareness, remember that you are, watch yourself ceaselessly and the unconscious will flow into the conscious without any special effort on your part. Wrong desires and fears, false ideas, social inhibitions are blocking and preventing its free interplay with the conscious. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 294:It is impossible to live pure lives until we have pure hearts. Many people today are trying to put the cart before the horse. They are teaching purity of motives, desires, and actions to old, deceitful hearts! No wonder we have ended up such moral failures, in spite of our vaunted knowledge and psychological approaches. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 295:To see reality is as simple as to see one's face in a mirror. Only the mirror must be clear and true. A quiet mind, undistorted by desires and fears, free from ideas and opinions, clear on all the levels, is needed to reflect the reality. Be clear and quiet -alert and detached, all else will happen by itself. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 296:Until we know ourselves and are aware of ourselves as separate from others and from the environment—until we can be separated even from ourselves so that we can observe our own tendencies, thoughts, and desires—we have no foundation from which to know and respect other people, let alone create change within ourselves. ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove 297:Nothing is wrong with you, but the ideas you have of yourself are altogether wrong. It is not you who desires, fears and suffers, it is the person built on the foundation of your body by circumstances and influences. You are not that person. This must be clearly established in your mind and never lost sight of. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 298:While optimism makes us live as if someday soon things will soon go better for us, hope frees us from the need to predict the future and allows us to live in the present, with the deep trust that God will never leave us alone but will fulfill the deepest desires of our heart... Joy in this perspective is the fruit of hope. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 299:If you are wise enough to follow the trail of good-feeling thoughts by deliberately looking for positive aspects along your way, you will come into vibrational alignment with who-you-really- are and with the things you really want, and once you do that, the Universe must deliver to you a viable means to achieve your desires. ~ esther-hicks, @wisdomtrove 300:When a warrior is present and awake to all that she is, she is able to take on any challenge, any project, or any future that she desires. Her daily prayer is to have the strength to love all of herself, the courage to listen to what she is guided to do and the confidence to go out, stand tall and deliver her gifts to the world. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove 301:And what kind of habitation pleases God? What must our natures be like before he can feel at home within us? He asks nothing but a pure heart and a single mind. He asks no rich paneling, no rugs from the Orient, no art treasures from afar. He desires but sincerity, transparency, humility, and love. He will see to the rest. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 302:Let the world call you lazy for not running about like a frightened ghost. Just be quiet inside yourself. Don't bother about knowing how things should be and simply begin observing without prejudice, projections or desires. Notice how life flows of its own accord. Nothing here is a chaos, but a harmony. You are already inside this flow. ~ mooji, @wisdomtrove 303:If you want to be a yogi, you must be free, and place yourself in circumstances where you are alone and free from all anxiety. One who desires a comfortable and nice life and at the same time wants to realize the Self is like the fool who, wanting to cross the river, caught hold of a crocodile, mistaking it for a log of wood. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 304:Each atom is trying to fly off from its centre. In the internal world, each thought is trying to go beyond control. Again each particle in the external world is checked by another force, the centripetal, and drawn towards the centre. Similarly in the thought - world the controlling power is checking all these outgoing desires. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 305:I am one with the Power that created me. I am totally open and receptive to the abundant flow of prosperity that the Universe offers. All my needs and desires are met before I even ask. I am Divinely guided and protected, and I make choices that are beneficial for me. I rejoice in other's successes, knowing there is plenty for us all. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove 306:Man is almost mad—mad because he is seeking something which he has already got; mad because he's not aware of who he is; mad because he hopes, desires and then ultimately, feels frustrated. Frustration is bound to be there because you cannot find yourself by seeking; you are already there. The seeking has to stop, the search has to drop. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove 307:If the goal is to realize the Supreme Being, you should become egoless. That requires self-effort. The sadhak should work hard. He should pray sincerely for the removal of the negative tendencies. This prayer is not to achieve anything or to fulfill any desires. It is to go beyond all achievements. It is to transcend all desires. ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove 308:A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove 309:M: All desires are bad, but some are worse than others. Pursue any desire, it will always give you trouble. Q: Even the desire to be free of desire? M: Why desire at all? Desiring a state of freedom from desire will not set you free. Nothing can set you free, because you are free. See yourself with desireless clarity, that is all. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 310:The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction! For the world says: "You have desires and so satisfy them, for you have the same rights as the most rich and powerful. Don't be afraid of satisfying them and even multiply your desires." ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 311:Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water... If I find in myself a desire, which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 312:There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 313:Desire, for many people, often feels like yearning, for while they are focused upon something that they want to experience or have, they are equally aware of its absence. But there is no feeling of lack in pure desire. If you will keep in mind that whenever you ask, it is always given, then each of your desires will now be pure, unresisted desire. ~ esther-hicks, @wisdomtrove 314:We get caught. How? Not by what we give but by what we expect. We get misery in return for our love: not from the fact that we love but from the fact that we want love in return. There is no misery where there is no want. Desire, want, is the father of all misery. Desires are bound by the laws of success and failure. Desires must bring misery. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 315:We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure& 316:You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim to your own virtue. We'll wait for you and when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 317:The kind of caring that the client-centered therapist desires to achieve is a gullible caring, in which clients are accepted as they say they are, not with a lurking suspicion in the therapist's mind that they may, in fact, be otherwise. This attitude is not stupidity on the therapist's part; it is the kind of attitude that is most likely to lead to trust. ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove 318:It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 319:The kind of caring that the client-centered therapist desires to achieve is a gullible caring, in which clients are accepted as they say they are, not with a lurking suspicion in the therapist's mind that they may, in fact, be otherwise. This attitude is not stupidity on the therapist's part; it is the kind of attitude that is most likely to lead to trust... ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove 320:Christ says, & 321:Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove 322:Karma is only a store of unspent energies, of unfulfilled desires and fears not understood. The store is being constantly replenished by new desires and fears. It need not be so for ever. Understand the root cause of your fears - estrangement from yourself: and of desires - the longing for the self, and your karma will dissolve like a dream. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 323:Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed. But you have to keep searching for your body's deeper need, the need for genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the body's superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward integration and unity. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 324:[K]eep in mind the big picture, the 1,000-foot view. See the impermanence of whatever is at issue, and the many causes and conditions that led to it. See the collateral damage - the suffering - that results when you cling to your desires and opinions or take things personally. Over the long haul, most of what we argue about with others really doesn't matter that much. ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove 325:Q: How does one reach the Supreme State? M: By renouncing all lesser desires. As long as you are pleased with the lesser, you cannot have the highest. Whatever pleases you, keeps you back. Until you realise the unsatisfactoriness of everything, its transiency and limitation, and collect your energies in one great longing, even the first step is not made. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 326:We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove 327:Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very thing. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realize it even existed. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove 328:Man is full of desires: he loves only those who can satisfy them all. "This man is a good mathematician," someone will say. But I have no concern for mathematics; he would take me for a proposition. "That one is a good soldier." He would take me for a besieged town. I need, that is to say, a decent man who can accommodate himself to all my desires in a general sort of way. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 329:To be true to ourselves, however, is not an easy task. We must break free of the seductions of society and live life on our own terms, under our own values and aligned with our original dreams. We must tap our hidden selves; explore the deep-seated, unseen hopes, desires, strengths and weaknesses that make us who we are. We must understand where we have been and where we are going. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove 330:A man of God has many brothers. He is a wounded soldier - he is familiar with the pain one feels in his heart, as a close and loving brother, when a brother falls victim of evil men or turns to evil desires (the latter sometimes even betrayal). Because of this, too, he is and must be well-acquainted with and trained in the strengths of hope and the gentleness of forgiveness and mercy. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 331:My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order of the world, and generally to accustom myself to believing that there is nothing entirely in our power except our thoughts, so that after we have done our best regarding things external to us, everything in which we do not succeed is for us absolutely impossible. ~ rene-descartes, @wisdomtrove 332:But in another way, community is a terrible place. It is the place where our limitations and our egoism are revealed to us. When we begin to live full-time with others, we discover our poverty and our weakness, our inability to get on with people, our mental and emotional blocks . . . our seemingly insatiable desires, our frustrations and jealousies, our hatred and our wish to destroy. ~ jean-vanier, @wisdomtrove 333:Gratitude is the creative force, the mother and father of love. It is in gratitude that real love exists. Love expands only when gratitude is there. Limited love does not offer gratitude. Limited love is immediately bound by something- by constant desires or constant demands. But when it is unlimited love, constant love, then gratitude comes to the fore. This love becomes all gratitude. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove 334:Q: My actions, surely, I can control. M: Try. You will soon see that you do what you must. Q: I can act according to my will. M: You know your will only after you have acted. Q: I remember my desires, the choices made, the decisions taken and act accordingly. M: Then your memory decides, not you. Q: Where do I come in? M: You make it possible by giving it attention. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 335:The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of the house in denial of the Word of God and in scrutiny of a great deal of those who stand by the Word of God. The epithet & 336:Who you really are is Non-Physical Energy focused in a physical body, knowing full well that all is well and always has been, and always will be. You are here to experience the supreme pleasure of concluding new desires, and then of bringing yourself into vibrational alignment with the new desires that you've concluded, for the purpose of taking thought beyond that which it has been before. ~ esther-hicks, @wisdomtrove 337:How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desire, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify, what will give comfort, what will for the moment alleviate your suffering? If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove 338:I recognize that even you, yourself, will change. Your ideals will change, your tastes will change, your desires will change. Your whole understandings of who you are had better change, because if it doesn't change, you've become a very static personality over a great many years, and nothing would displease me more. And so I recognize that the process of evolution will produce changes in you. ~ neale-donald-walsch, @wisdomtrove 339:The difference between a man who is led by opinion or emotion and one who is led by reason. The former, whether he will or not, performs things of which he is entirely ignorant; the latter is subordinate to no one, and only does those things which he knows to be of primary importance in his life, and which on that account he desires the most; and therefore I call the former a slave, but the latter free. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove 340:Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another& 341:I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then I loose it because I get distracted by my petty desires and fears. I want to be with God all the time. But I don't want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly pleasures. I guess what I want to learn is how to leave in this world and enjoy its delights, but also elevate myself to God. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 342:Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. Also, it began through the process of seeing, and feeling, and hearing, and smelling, and touching, and then remembering& 343:As long as there is the body and the sense of identity with the body, frustration is inevitable. Only when you know yourself as entirely alien to and different from the body, will you find respite from the mixture of fear and craving inseparable from the & 344:The world cannot hold onto you, for the world is not sentient. The world doesn't have a mind nor does it have desires; it is only your mind's objectivisation. It is your own mind's play which imagines that an object-call it the mind or whatever-can hold onto you. It is the idea you have of who you are that is holding onto its own fearful projections as the mind. Leave all of this and remain as the pure, joyous Self. ~ mooji, @wisdomtrove 345:Q: When I look within, I find sensations and perceptions, thoughts and feelings, desires and fears, memories and expectations. I am immersed in this cloud and see nothing else. M: That which sees all this, and the nothing too, is the inner teacher. He alone is, all else only appears to be. He is your own self, your hope and assurance of freedom; find him and cling to him and you will be saved and safe. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 346:You maintain hope for humanity as an infinite skeptic of gossip and slander. In all mankind's desires for entertainment and exaggeration and sensationalism, when it comes to gossip, the individual always sounds worse than he really is. This is why adhering to gossip subtly affects the mental state of the listener - he goes on holding shady opinions regardless of where the realities of their lights and darknesses may stand. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove 347:Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can't even be bothered to articulate what, exactly, I'm aiming for, how will it ever occur? Half the benefit of prayer is in the asking itself, in the offering of a clearly posed and well-considered intention. If you don't have this, all your pleas and desires are boneless, floppy, inert; they swirl at your feet in a cold fog and never lift. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove 348:Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfil them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire is devotion. By all means be devoted to the real, the infinite, the eternal heart of being. Transform desire into love. All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 349:When you recognise the & 350:Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 351:One of the most revolutionary concepts to grow out of our clinical experience is the growing recognition that innermost core of man's nature - the deepest layers of his personality, the base of his & 352:M: Everything is subjective, but the real is objective. Q: In what sense? M: It does not depend on memories and expectations, desires and fears, likes and dislikes. All is seen as it is. Q: Is it what you call the fourth state (turiya)? M: Call it as you like. It is solid, steady, changeless, beginningless and endless, ever new, ever fresh. Q: How is it reached? M: Desirelessness and fearlessness will take you there. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 353:... it is presumptuous ridicule of God if someone thinks that only the person who desires great wealth chooses mammon. Alas, the person who insists on having a penny without God, wants to have a penny all for himself. He thereby chooses mammon. A penny is enough, the choice is made, he has chosen mammon; that it is little makes not the slightest difference. The love of God is hatred of the world and love of the world hatred of God. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove 354:Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have. Generating those feelings is the most powerfully creative thing you can do with your life. And not only do we have to put our feelings at the heart of our ambitions, we have to pursue our desires in a way that is life-affirming, rather than soul-depleting. Rigid goal-chasing is burning us out. Soul-anchored intentions are the way to get home. ~ danielle-laporte, @wisdomtrove 355:You may not be quite conscious of your physiological functions, but when it comes to thoughts and feelings, desires and fears you become acutely self-conscious. To me these too are largely unconscious. I find myself talking to people, or doing things quite correctly and appropriately, without being very much conscious of them. It looks as if I live my physical, waking life automatically, reacting spontaneously and accurately. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 356:The way to liberation lies through this realization of the Self, by God-communion and by remaining in this God-aware state of the soul while performing dutiful actions. Any individual can reach this supreme actionless state by the renunciation of all fruits of actions: performing all dutiful acts without harbouring in his heart any likes and dislikes, possessing no material desires, and feeling God, not the ego, as the Doer of all actions. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove 357:But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this assiduously constructed, and yet somewhat dubious hopelessness, in all this poision of unfulfilled desires turned inward, this fever of vacillations, of resolutions adopted for eternity, and of repentances a moment later that you find the very essence of that strange, sharp pleasure. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove 358:Love of colors bewilders the eye and it fails to see right. Love of harmonies bewitches the ear, and it loses its true hearing. Love of perfumes fills the head with dizziness. Love of flavors ruins the taste. Desires unsettle the heart until the original nature runs amok. These five are enemies of true life. Yet these are what men of discernment claim to live for. They are not what I live for. If this is life, then pigeons in a cage have found happiness! ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove 359:We assert then that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and ‚Äî if interest be called passion, inasmuch as the whole individuality, to the neglect of all other actual or possible interests and claims, is devoted to an object with every fibre of volition, concentrating all its desires and powers upon it ‚Äî we may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove 360:I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And & 361:It is natural and good to love oneself. Only you should know what exactly do you love. It is not the body that you love, it is Life -perceiving, feeling, thinking, doing, loving, striving, creating. It is that Life you love, which is you, which is all. realise it in its totality, beyond all divisions and limitations, and all your desires will merge in it, for the greater contains the smaller. Therefore, find yourself, for in finding that you find all. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 362:The benefits [of the resurrection] are innumerable. To list a few: Our illnesses don't seem nearly so final; Our fears fade and lose their grip; Our grief over those who have gone on is diminished; Our desires to press on in spite of the obstacles is rejuvenated... Our identity as Christians is strengthened as we stand in the lengthening shadows of saints down through the centuries, who have always answered back in antiphonal voice: & 363:Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn anyone - he thought - to denounce anything, to fight and die joyously, claiming the sanctity of virtue. The broken promises, the unconfessed desires, the betrayal, the deceit, the lies, the fraud - he was guilty of them all. What form of corruption could he scorn? Degrees do not matter, he thought; one does not bargain about inches of evil. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 364:What is it, in your opinion, to be a great nobleman? It is to be master of several objects that men covet, and thus to be able to satisfy the wants and the desires of many. It is these wants and these desires that attract them towards you, and that make them submit to you: were it not for these, they would not even look at you; but they hope, by these services... to obtain from you some part of the good which they desire, and of which they see that you have the disposal. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove 365:I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing yawn. I wanted to see the city buried fathoms deep in the bosom of the sea. I wanted to sit in a cave and read by candlelight. I wanted that eye extinguished so that I might have a chance to know my own body, my own desires. I wanted to be alone for a thousand years in order to reflect on what I had seen and heard - and in order to forget. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove 366:It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the look of things and people, and that he wakens every morning with a renewed appetite for work and pleasure. Desire and curiosity are the two eyes through which he sees the world in the most enchanted colours... and the man may squander his estate and come to beggary, but if he keeps these two amulets he is still rich in the possibilities of pleasure. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove 367:In proportion as the people are accustomed to manage their affairs by their own active intervention, instead of leaving them to the government, their desires will turn to repelling tyranny, rather than to tyrannizing: while in proportion as all ready initiative and direction resides in the government, and individuals habitually feel and act as under its perpetual tutelage, popular institutions develop in them not the desire of freedom, but an unmeasured appetite for place and power. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove 368:The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own. Probably the best test of true love of liberty in any country is the way in which minorities are treated in that country. Not only should there be complete liberty in matters of religion and opinion, but complete liberty for each man to lead his life as he desires, provided only that in so doing he does not wrong his neighbor. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 369:I've got evil in me as much as anyone, some desires that scare me. Even if I don't give in to them, just having them scares the living bejesus out of me sometimes. I'm no saint, the way you kid about. But I've always walked the line, walked that goddamned line. It's a mean mother of a line, straight and narrow, sharp as a razor, cuts right into you when you walk it long enough. You're always bleeding on that line, and sometimes you wonder why you don't just step off and walk in the cool grass. ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 370:Only Thee That I want thee, only thee - let my heart repeat without end. All desires that distract me, day and night, are false and empty to the core. As the night keeps hidden in its gloom the petition for light, even thus in the depth of my unconsciousness rings the cry - `I want thee, only thee'. As the storm still seeks its end in peace when it strikes against peace with all its might, even thus my rebellion strikes against thy love and still its cry is - `I want thee, only thee'. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove 371:The mystery of the spiritual life is that Jesus desires to meet us in the seclusion of our own heart, to make his love known to us there, to free us from our fears, and to make our own deepest self known to us Each time you let the love of God penetrate deeper into your heart it leads to a love of ourselves that enables us to give whole-hearted love to our fellow human beings. In the seclusion of our hearts we learn to know the hidden presence of God; and with that spiritual knowledge we can lead a loving life. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove 372:But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him that the power of working for the general welfare, a power of which he felt himself entirely destitute was not a virtue but rather a lack of something: not a lack of kindly honesty and noble desires and tastes, but a lack of the power of living, of what is called heart, the aspiration which makes a man choose one out of all the innumerable paths of life that present themselves, and desire that alone. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 373:There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most difficult things not to worry about anything. Worry is experienced when things go wrong, but in relation to past happenings it is idle merely to wish that they might have been otherwise. The frozen past is what it is, and no amount of worrying is going to make it other than what it has been. But the limited ego-mind identifies itself with its past, gets entangled with it and keeps alive the pangs of frustrated desires. ~ meher-baba, @wisdomtrove 374:A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove 375:If we could sufficiently understand the order of the universe, we should find that it exceeds all the desires of the wisest men, and that it is impossible to make it better than it is, not only as a whole and in general but also for ourselves in particular, if we are attached, as we ought to be, to the Author of all, not only as to the architect and efficient cause of our being, but as to our master and to the final cause, which ought to be the whole aim of our will, and which can alone make our happiness. ~ gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz, @wisdomtrove 376:Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to "know of the doctrine." All my acts, desires, and thoughts were to be brought into harmony with universal Spirit. For the first time I examined myself with a seriously practical purpose. And there I found what appalled me; a zoo of lusts, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of fondled hatreds. My name was legion. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 377:The best part of a Mr. Goodbar is not the wrapper, is it? No, and the best part of a Coke is not the can. On those nights when you lie awake, either man or boy, wondering about yourself, peeling away one layer of oddness after another, you should remember and always be grateful that the woefully imperfect person that you are, with all your contradictions and unworthy desires, is not the best of you, any more than the wrapper is the best part of a Mr. Goodbar. -Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koonts pgs. 354-355 chapter 53 ~ dean-koontz, @wisdomtrove 378:God knows instantly and effortlessly all matter and all matters, all mind and every mind, all spirit and all spirits, all being and every being, all creaturehood and all creatures, every plurality and all pluralities, all law and every law, all relations, all causes, all thoughts, all mysteries, all enigmas, all feeling, all desires, every unuttered secret, all thrones and dominions, all personalities, all things visible and invisible in heaven and in earth, motion, space, time, life, death, good, evil, heaven, and hell. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove 379:Just as the law in civilized countries assumes that the voice of conscience tells everybody, "Thou shalt not kill," even though man's natural desires and inclinations may at times be murderous, so the law of Hitler's land demanded that the voice of conscience tell everybody: "Thou shalt kill," although the organizers of the massacres knew full well that murder is against the normal desires and inclinations of most people. Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it - the quality of temptation. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove 380:Where did I get it from? Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbour and not throttle him? They told me so when I was a child, and I gladly believed it, because they told me what was already in my soul. But who discovered it? Not reason! Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove 381:Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, no more occasion for war. If this is the peace you seek, purify your body by sensible living habits, purify your mind by expelling all negative thoughts, purify your motives by casting out any ideas of greed or self-striving and by seeking to serve you fellow human beings, purify your desires by eliminating all wishes for material possessions or self-glorification and by desiring to know and do God's will for you. Inspire others to do likewise. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove 382:There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and ridicule will only strengthen him. And the longer he is held back the stronger he will become, like a mass of rising water against a dam. There is no losing in writing, it will make your toes laugh as you sleep, it will make you stride like a tiger, it will fire the eye and put you face to face with death. You will die a fighter, you will be honored in hell. The luck of the word. Go with it, send it. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove 383:As mindfulness stabilizes, you will rest more and more as awareness itself. Awareness contains mind-objects, a general term for any mental content, including perceptions, thoughts, desires, memories, emotions, and so on. Although mind-objects may dance busily with each other, awareness itself is never disturbed. Awareness is a kind of screen on which mind-objects register, like—in the Zen saying—the reflections on a pond of geese flying overhead. But awareness is never sullied or rattled by the passing show. In your brain, the neural patterns ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove 384:For the mystics, religion is not just a matter of creeds and rituals, it is a spiritual path to the experiential knowledge of God. It is the process of eradicating all the selfishness that binds us to our illusionary separate identities and blinds us to the omnipresent Oneness. To walk this way we must abandon our own personal desires and completely accept all that God wills. More than this, we must realise that self-will is ultimately an illusion, for as the 14th-century mystic Mother Julian of Norwich says & 385:The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interests of the desire to know& 386:The world of mind and matter, of names and shapes, continues, but it does not matter to me at all. It is like having a shadow. It is there - following me wherever I go, but not hindering me in any way. It remains a world of experiences, but not of names and forms related to me by desires and fears. The experiences are qualityless, pure experiences, if I may say so. I call them experiences for the lack of a better word. They are like the waves on the surface of the ocean, the ever-present, but not affecting its peaceful power. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 387:You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity. You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they? When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably. Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove 388:The liberal story instructs me to seek freedom to express and realise myself. But both the ‘self’ and freedom are mythological chimeras borrowed from the fairy tales of ancient times. Liberalism has a particularly confused notion of ‘free will’. Humans obviously have a will, they have desires, and they are sometimes free to fulfil their desires. If by ‘free will’ you mean the freedom to do what you desire – then yes, humans have free will. But if by ‘free will’ you mean the freedom to choose what to desire – then no, humans have no free will. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 389:Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction& 390:In the West, there's a myth that freedom means free expression-that to follow all desires wherever they take one is true freedom. In fact, as one serves the mind, one sees that following desires, attractions, and repulsions is not at all freedom, but is a kind of bondage. A mind filled with desires and grasping inevitably entails great suffering. Freedom is not to be gained through the ability to perform certain external actions. True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove 391:Tranquility… involves not acting based on the feeling tone. For example, you don’t automatically move toward something just because it is pleasant. In the words of the Third Zen Patriarch: ‘The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences’. Set aside a period of your day—even just a minute long—to consciously release preferences for or against anything. Then extend this practice to more and more of your day. Your actions will be guided increasingly by your values and virtues, not by desires that are reactions to positive or negative feeling tones. ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove 392:I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labour and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. A life of ignoble ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove 393:Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament... .There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth, and more than that: death: by the divine paradox, that which ends life, and demands the surrender of all, and yet by the taste (or foretaste) of which alone can what you seek in your earthly relationships (love, faithfulness, joy) be maintained, or take on that complexion of reality, of eternal endurance, that every man's heart desires ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove 394:God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty ‚Äì of want or lack; it is caused by a real or supposed goal in its beloved which the lover needs and desires. But God's love, far from being caused by goodness in the object, causes all the goodness which the object has, loving it first into existence, and then into real, though derivative, lovability. God is Goodness. He can give good, but cannot need or get it. In that sense , His love is, as it were, bottomlessly selfless by very definition; it has everything to give, and nothing to receive. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 395:Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness. The animal has its happiness in the senses, the man in his intellect, and the god in spiritual contemplation. It is only to the soul that has attained to this contemplative state that the world really becomes beautiful. To him who desires nothing, and does not mix himself up with them, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove 396:God did not create the strife between races, nor did He intend for it to be that way. Strife between races and ethnic groups comes from sin-and sin resides in the human heart. The Bible says, úWhat causes fights and quarrels among you? Donôt they come from your desires that battle within you? (James 4:1). When one group or one race claims it is superior to another, pride has taken control-and pride is a sin.Instead, God wants us to learn to accept each other and love each other-and this becomes possible, as we turn our lives over to Christ and allow Him to change us from within. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove 397:I'm sure everyone feels sorry for the individual who has fallen by the wayside or who can't keep up in our competitive society, but my own compassion goes beyond that to those millions of unsung men and women, who get up every morning, send the kids to school, go to work, try to keep up the payments on their house, pay exorbitant taxes to make possible compassion for the less fortunate, and as a result have to sacrifice many of their own desires and dreams and hopes. Government owes them something better than always finding a new way to make them share the fruit of their toils with others. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove 398:Hence if you really want to understand yourself, you should not identify with your Facebook account or with the inner story of the self. Instead, you should observe the actual flow of body and mind. You will see thoughts, emotions and desires appear and disappear without much reason and without any command from you, just as different winds blow from this or that direction and mess up your hair. And just as you are not the winds, so also you are not the jumble of thoughts, emotions and desires you experience, and you are certainly not the sanitised story you tell about them with hindsight. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 399:Lord, help us to see in your crucifixion and resurrection an example of how to endure and seemingly to die in the agony and conflict of daily life, so that we may live more fully and creatively. You accepted patiently and humbly the rebuffs of human life, as well as the torture of the cross. Help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunity to grow as people and become more like you-make us realize that it is only by frequent deaths of ourselves, and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully, only by dying with you that we can rise with you. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove 400:As you grow older you will find that your desires are never really fulfilled. In fulfillment there is always the shadow of frustration, and in your heart there is not a song but a cry. The desire to become& 401:Take a moment to think about the context in which your next decision will occur: You did not pick your parents or the time and place of your birth. You didn't choose your gender or most of your life experiences. You had no control whatsoever over your genome or the development of your brain. And now your brain is making choices on the basis of preferences and beliefs that have been hammered into it over a lifetime - by your genes, your physical development since the moment you were conceived, and the interactions you have had with other people, events, and ideas. Where is the freedom in this? Yes, you are free to do what you want even now. But where did your desires come from? ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove 402:Refuse attention, let things come and go. Desires and thoughts are also things. Disregard them. Since immemorial time the dust of events was covering the clear mirror of your mind, so that only memories you could see. Brush off the dust before it has time to settle; this will lay bare the old layers until the true nature of your mind is discovered. It is all very simple and comparatively easy; be earnest and patient, that is all. Dispassion, detachment, freedom from desire and fear, from all self-concern, mere awareness - free from memory and expectation - this is the state of mind to which discovery can happen. After all, liberation is but the freedom to discover. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove 403:Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly attempt to indulge. Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy—a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind's fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer. Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove 404:A third of the people who rush to psychiatrists for help could probably cure themselves if they could only do as Margaret Yates did: get interested in helping others. My idea? No, that is approximately what Carl Jung said. And he ought to know—if anybody does. He said: About one third of my patients are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. To put it another way, they are trying to thumb a ride through life—and the parade passes them by. So they rush to a psychiatrist with their petty, senseless, useless lives. Having missed the boat, they stand on the wharf, blaming everyone except themselves and demanding that the world cater to their self-centered desires. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove 405:The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interests upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance. Thus we demand that the world grant us recognition for qualities which we regard as personal possessions: our talent or our beauty. The more a man lays stress on false possessions, and the less sensitivity he has for what is essential, the less satisfying is his life. He feels limited because he has limited aims, and the result is envy and jealousy. If we understand and feel that here in this life we already have a link with the infinite, desires and attitudes change. ~ carl-jung, @wisdomtrove 406:Perhaps your hunger to belong is always active and intense because you belonged so totally before you came here. This hunger to belong is the echo and reverberation of your invisible heritage. You are from somewhere else, where you were known, embraced and sheltered. This is also the secret root from which all longing grows. Something in you knows, perhaps remembers, that eternal belonging liberates longing into its surest and most potent creativity. This is why your longing is often wiser than your conventional sense of appropriateness, safety and truth... Your longing desires to take you towards the absolute realization of all the possibilities that sleep in the clay of your heart; it knows your eternal potential, and it will not rest until it is awakened. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove 407:The desires of the flesh, the ideas of the mind, and the luminosities of the soul — all are perfect expressions of the radiant Spirit that alone inhabits the universe, sublime gestures of that Great Perfection that alone outshines the world. There is only One Taste in the entire Kosmos, and that taste is Divine, whether it appears in the flesh, in the mind, in the soul. Resting in that One Taste, transported beyond the mundane, the world arises in the purest Freedom and radiant Release, happy to infinity, lost in all eternity, and hopeless in the original face of the unrelenting mystery. From One Taste all things issue, to One Taste all things return — and in between, which is the story of this moment, there is only the dream, and sometimes the nightmare, from which we would do well to awaken. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove 408:In the twenty-first century it sounds childish to compare the human psyche to a steam engine. Today we know of a far more sophisticated technology – the computer – so we explain the human psyche as if it were a computer processing data rather than a steam engine regulating pressure. But this new analogy may turn out to be just as naïve. After all, computers have no minds. They don’t crave anything even when they have a bug, and the Internet doesn’t feel pain even when authoritarian regimes sever entire countries from the Web. So why use computers as a model for understanding the mind? Well, are we really sure that computers have no sensations or desires? And even if they haven’t got any at present, perhaps once they become complex enough they might develop consciousness? If that were to happen, how could we ascertain it? When computers replace our bus driver, our teacher and our shrink, how could we determine whether they have feelings or whether they are just a collection of mindless algorithms? ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove 409:Let us, therefore, re-ascend to the good itself, which every soul desires; and in which it can alone find perfect repose. For if anyone shall become acquainted with this source of beauty he will then know what I say, and after what manner he is beautiful. Indeed, whatever is desirable is a kind of good, since to this desire tends. But they alone pursue true good, who rise to intelligible beauty, and so far only tend to good itself; as far as they lay aside the deformed vestments of matter, with which they become connected in their descent. Just as those who penetrate into the holy retreats of sacred mysteries, are first purified and then divest themselves of their garments, until someone by such a process, having dismissed everything foreign from the God, by himself alone, beholds the solitary principle of the universe, sincere, simple and pure, from which all things depend, and to whose transcendent perfections the eyes of all intelligent natures are directed, as the proper cause of being, life and intelligence. With what ardent love, with what strong desire will he who enjoys this transporting vision be inflamed while vehemently affecting to become one with this supreme beauty! For this it is ordained, that he who does not yet perceive him, yet desires him as good, but he who enjoys the vision is enraptured with his beauty, and is equally filled with admiration and delight. Hence, such a one is agitated with a salutary astonishment; is affected with the highest and truest love; derides vehement affections and inferior loves, and despises the beauty which he once approved. Such, too, is the condition of those who, on perceiving the forms of gods or daemons, no longer esteem the fairest of corporeal forms. What, then, must be the condition of that being, who beholds the beautiful itself? ~ plotinus, @wisdomtrove 410:Following Homo sapiens, domesticated cattle, pigs and sheep are the second, third and fourth most widespread large mammals in the world. From a narrow evolutionary perspective, which measures success by the number of DNA copies, the Agricultural Revolution was a wonderful boon for chickens, cattle, pigs and sheep. Unfortunately, the evolutionary perspective is an incomplete measure of success. It judges everything by the criteria of survival and reproduction, with no regard for individual suffering and happiness. Domesticated chickens and cattle may well be an evolutionary success story, but they are also among the most miserable creatures that ever lived. The domestication of animals was founded on a series of brutal practices that only became crueller with the passing of the centuries. The natural lifespan of wild chickens is about seven to twelve years, and of cattle about twenty to twenty-five years. In the wild, most chickens and cattle died long before that, but they still had a fair chance of living for a respectable number of years. In contrast, the vast majority of domesticated chickens and cattle are slaughtered at the age of between a few weeks and a few months, because this has always been the optimal slaughtering age from an economic perspective. (Why keep feeding a cock for three years if it has already reached its maximum weight after three months?) Egg-laying hens, dairy cows and draught animals are sometimes allowed to live for many years. But the price is subjugation to a way of life completely alien to their urges and desires. It’s reasonable to assume, for example, that bulls prefer to spend their days wandering over open prairies in the company of other bulls and cows rather than pulling carts and ploughshares under the yoke of a whip-wielding ape. In order for humans to turn bulls, horses, donkeys and camels into obedient draught animals, their natural instincts and social ties had to be broken, their aggression and sexuality contained, and their freedom of movement curtailed. Farmers developed techniques such as locking animals inside pens and cages, bridling them in harnesses and leashes, training them with whips and cattle prods, and mutilating them. The process of taming almost always involves the castration of males. This restrains male aggression and enables humans selectively to control the herd’s procreation. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:Desires are already memories. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
2:Man by Nature desires to know. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
3:Be clear with your desires. ~ Asa Don Brown, #NFDB
4:Boredom: the desire for desires ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
5:Desires are already memories. ~ Italo Calvino, #NFDB
6:I love rains which carry desires ~ Etel Adnan, #NFDB
7:Boredom: the desire for desires. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
8:Uncertainty can weaken desires. ~ Emrah Serbes, #NFDB
9:God's will is your deepest desires. ~ Dan Brown, #NFDB
10:Lessen selfishness and restrain desires. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
11:Aren't all dreads half desires? ~ Howard Jacobson, #NFDB
12:Our visions begin with our desires. ~ Audre Lorde, #NFDB
13:A desire of desires: the melancholy. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
14:A small heart hath small desires. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
15:Free is a man who has no desires. ~ Nizami Ganjavi, #NFDB
16:Humble Hearts have humble desires. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
17:No one can have all he desires. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
18:The fewer desires, the more peace. ~ Thomas F Wilson, #NFDB
19:the flesh with its passions and desires. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
20:The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires ~ Seneca, #NFDB
21:For everything naturally desires good, ~ Peter Kreeft, #NFDB
22:Memory is not what the heart desires. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
23:Poor is the man who desires a lot ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
24:As a twin, I operate with twin desires. ~ Kehinde Wiley, #NFDB
25:The fewer the desires, the more peace. ~ Woodrow Wilson, #NFDB
26:We are playing with desires that disappear. ~ Doug Rice, #NFDB
27:Dreams are a reflection of your desires ~ Arina Tanemura, #NFDB
28:Find joy in the extinction of desires. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
29:Let a thousand wrangling desires become one Love. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
30:The more one has, the less one desires. ~ Sherwood Smith, #NFDB
31:We go where our deepest desires take us. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
32:Because love by its nature desires a future. ~ Sarah Kane, #NFDB
33:desires are not killed by fulfilling them ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
34:Is it not sad to be caught between desires? ~ Andr Alexis, #NFDB
35:... survival is the least of my desires. ~ Dorothy Allison, #NFDB
36:Hee begins to die, that quits his desires. ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
37:Our desires increase with our possessions. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
38:Children can be shaped into any way one desires. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
39:Let your desires be ruled by reason. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
40:The remedy against want is to moderate your desires. ~ Saadi, #NFDB
41:Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. ~ Sivananda, #NFDB
42:Everyone desires long life, not one old age. ~ Jonathan Swift, #NFDB
43:Genius never desires what does not exist. ~ Soren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
44:Genius never desires what does not exist. ~ S ren Kierkegaard, #NFDB
45:liberty consists in doing what one desires ~ John Stuart Mill, #NFDB
46:The remedy against want is to moderate your desires. ~ Saadi, #NFDB
47:In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace. ~ Ben Hecht, #NFDB
48:Liberty consists in doing what one desires. ~ John Stuart Mill, #NFDB
49:Shallow desires produce only shallow efforts. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
50:What the heart desires is medicine to itself. ~ Rebecca Walker, #NFDB
51:Part of me craved his sinful obsidian desires. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
52:We are puppets of our subconscious desires. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon, #NFDB
53:When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears? ~ Juvenal, #NFDB
54:Your wishes and desires make clear who you are. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
55:Events are influenced by our very great desires. ~ William James, #NFDB
56:He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. ~ William Blake, #NFDB
57:Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires. ~ Juvenal, #NFDB
58:My dreams, my desires, and my goals make me smile. ~ Tasha Smith, #NFDB
59:The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires. ~ Juvenal, #NFDB
60:The ego can exist only with goals, ambitions, desires. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
61:The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
62:We have to be willing to lay aside our own desires. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
63:When we kill our desires we stink like any corpse. ~ Harold Norse, #NFDB
64:A cat doesn't linger over making it's desires felt. ~ Paul Gallico, #NFDB
65:From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
66:Let not light see my black and deep desires. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
67:My darkest desires were for an inaccessible normality. ~ C D Reiss, #NFDB
68:No man is born without ambitious worldly desires. ~ Thomas Carlyle, #NFDB
69:The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews. ~ W H Auden, #NFDB
70:Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears. ~ Italo Calvino, #NFDB
71:Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
72:The desires of man increase with his acquisitions. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
73:The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
74:Hell is full of good wishes or desires. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, #NFDB
75:The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
76:Weak thoughts, weak desires: he felt their force. ~ Maurice Blanchot, #NFDB
77:Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
78:hell is full of good wishes and desires. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, #NFDB
79:He subsumed his own desires for the sake of the group. ~ David Brooks, #NFDB
80:He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy. ~ Alphonsus Liguori, #NFDB
81:He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god. ~ Francis Bacon, #NFDB
82:There are some desires that are not desirable. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB
83:A heart that desires to give is the one that succeeds. ~ Sasha Azevedo, #NFDB
84:Confuse not the necessary expenses with thy desires. ~ George S Clason, #NFDB
85:God does not give us desires that cannot be realized. ~ David Jeremiah, #NFDB
86:If you have many desires your life will be interesting. ~ Jenny Holzer, #NFDB
87:May you be blessed with everything your heart desires. ~ Shakti Gawain, #NFDB
88:She who desires to see, desires also to be seen. ~ Miguel de Cervantes, #NFDB
89:The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires. ~ Napoleon Hill, #NFDB
90:In the strength of thine on desires is a magic power. ~ George S Clason, #NFDB
91:love always desires to bless the object of its affection. ~ Jim Cymbala, #NFDB
92:What a man desires is unfailing love. Proverbs 19:22 (NIV) ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
93:When all desires of heart die, mortal man becomes Immortal. ~ Sivananda, #NFDB
94:God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly. ~ Catherine the Great, #NFDB
95:If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
96:If thou wouldst be free, accustom thyself to curb thy desires. ~ Tolstoi, #NFDB
97:Men have a thousand desires to a bushel of choices. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
98:People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
99:Sooner or later everyone is defeated by their desires. ~ Rafael Yglesias, #NFDB
100:Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now. ~ Jay Asher, #NFDB
101:The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew. ~ Robert Stone, #NFDB
102:The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. ~ Roland Barthes, #NFDB
103:Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
104:Be sympathetic with the other person’s ideas and desires. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
105:Our desires reveal us. They show us for who we really are. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
106:Renounce your desires and you shall taste of peace. ~ Imitation of Christ, #NFDB
107:The good God would not inspire unattainable desires. ~ Saint Therese of Lisieux, #NFDB
108:Ultimately the gods of pleasure can’t satisfy our desires. ~ Kyle Idleman, #NFDB
109:Every age has the Stonehenge it deserves -- or desires. ~ Jacquetta Hawkes, #NFDB
110:Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
111:My maternal desires are fully satisfied with my dogs. ~ Elisabetta Canalis, #NFDB
112:Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily. ~ Margaret Fuller, #NFDB
113:Anger does not bring about the righteousness God desires. ~ Karen Kingsbury, #NFDB
114:A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires. ~ Francesco Petrarca, #NFDB
115:Dreams have the power to make real what the heart desires. ~ Diana L Paxson, #NFDB
116:He who desires nothing but God is rich and happy. ~ Saint Alphonsus Liguori, #NFDB
117:Impossible desires are the height of unreason. ~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton, #NFDB
118:It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires. ~ Walter Savage Landor, #NFDB
119:Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely. ~ Adam Smith, #NFDB
120:My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
121:Often secret desires as well as abilities surface in our dreams. ~ P C Cast, #NFDB
122:So long as one desires liberation, one is in bondage. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
123:Surmount the desires of which gods and men are the subjects. ~ Uttana Sutta, #NFDB
124:You are the woman who desires my kiss, and I thirst for you. ~ Marek Halter, #NFDB
125:You have all the fears of mortals and all the desires of immortals ~ Seneca, #NFDB
126:Christ desires nothing more of us than that we speak of him. ~ Martin Luther, #NFDB
127:Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves. ~ Mark Kingwell, #NFDB
128:Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
129:Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies. ~ John Piper, #NFDB
130:She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires ~ Nick Bantock, #NFDB
131:You have all the fears of mortals and all the desires of immortals. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
132:All earthly desires are but streams, but God is the ocean. ~ Jonathan Edwards, #NFDB
133:Bach: a scale of tears upon which our desires for God ascend. ~ Emil M Cioran, #NFDB
134:Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old. ~ Jonathan Swift, #NFDB
135:Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence. ~ Timothy Keller, #NFDB
136:...where our desires "come from"; that is a dark, winding road. ~ John Irving, #NFDB
137:Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely. ~ John F MacArthur Jr, #NFDB
138:Every human being, by nature, desires to know’ (Meta. i 1 982a23). ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
139:Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
140:Matter feels, converses, suffers, desires, yearns and remembers. ~ Karen Barad, #NFDB
141:People who repress desires
often turn, suddenly,
into hypocrites. ~ Rumi,#NFDB
142:the constant sacrifice of short-term desires for long-term goals. ~ Tim Tigner, #NFDB
143:The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action. ~ Confucius, #NFDB
144:You have to respect everybodys desires and way of living. ~ Juan Pablo Galavis, #NFDB
145:All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
146:Give expression to the noble desires that lie in you heart. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB
147:How can the heart travel to Allah when it is chained by its desires ~ Ibn Arabi, #NFDB
148:How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires? ~ Ibn Arabi, #NFDB
149:If our mind is pure, our desires get manifested quickly. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, #NFDB
150:Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will. ~ Henrik Ibsen, #NFDB
151:Only by accepting our desires can we have an idea of who we are. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
152:Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence. ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB
153:The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, #NFDB
154:The good God would not inspire unattainable desires. ~ Saint Therese of Lisieux, #NFDB
155:Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul ~ Lawrence Durrell, #NFDB
156:When your passions and desires align you cannot hold them back. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
157:You are the evil scientist of your desires. - Ignacio Rivera ~ Tristan Taormino, #NFDB
158:Give expression to the noble desires that lie in your heart. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB
159:One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
160:Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes. ~ Ivy Compton Burnett, #NFDB
161:Sick bastards who used a poor, young woman for their twisted desires ~ V F Mason, #NFDB
162:The path of greatest desires often lies ...through the undesirable. ~ Ren Daumal, #NFDB
163:Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
164:Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires. ~ William Feather, #NFDB
165:Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires. ~ Jean de La Fontaine, #NFDB
166:He who desires God will get Love, unto him God gives Himself. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
167:She's staring down her desires, while they're staring down her dress. ~ Phil Ochs, #NFDB
168:They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always. ~ Pierre Corneille, #NFDB
169:We exist in order to actualize the deepest desires of our hearts. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
170:You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires. ~ Tom Stoppard, #NFDB
171:Christianity was simple: fight your desires in order to please God. ~ Francis Chan, #NFDB
172:From desire come all problems. And all desires come from fear. ~ Devdutt Pattanaik, #NFDB
173:How clear one’s own desires become once they are made impossible. ~ Cornelia Funke, #NFDB
174:These eyes has seen diverse misfortunes follow from diverse desires ~ Osamu Tezuka, #NFDB
175:Those otherworldly desires were just as foolish as the worldly desires. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
176:What I seem to like may not be what my soul actually desires. ~ Padma Aon Prakasha, #NFDB
177:For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning. ~ Libba Bray, #NFDB
178:She saw in his eyes defeat of her wild dreams, her mad desires. ~ Margaret Mitchell, #NFDB
179:Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. ~ William Blake, #NFDB
180:The desires of your heart were not put there by accident. Follow them. ~ Mandy Hale, #NFDB
181:There are so many different desires that make you execute an artwork. ~ Nate Lowman, #NFDB
182:There are things more worthy of our devotion than our own desires. ~ Jerry S Eicher, #NFDB
183:When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food. ~ James Allen, #NFDB
184:4: Stories let us lie to ourselves. And those lies satisfy our desires. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB
185:An artist who desires very little and achieves it has failed in life. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
186:He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book. ~ John Donne, #NFDB
187:Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail. ~ Louis Ferdinand C line, #NFDB
188:The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period. ~ Todd Gitlin, #NFDB
189:the things we crave, our silent desires, out little addictions! ~ Eric Jerome Dickey, #NFDB
190:What the heart desires is medicine to itself. Does that make sense? ~ Rebecca Walker, #NFDB
191:You’ll often find that powerful men have secret desires to be punished ~ Celia Aaron, #NFDB
192:You should have desires, but the desires should not have you. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, #NFDB
193:And binding with briars my joys & desires. ~ William Blake, The Garden of Love (1866), #NFDB
194:Be eager in your desires but humbly patient in their accomplishment. ~ Mary MacKillop, #NFDB
195:Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves. ~ Al-Ghazali, #NFDB
196:Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
197:put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
198:The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, [T5], #NFDB
199:The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace. ~ Jean Klein, #NFDB
200:Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
201:Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain. ~ Santiago Ramon y Cajal, #NFDB
202:Everything, alas, is an abyss, actions, desires, dreams, words! ~ Charles Baudelaire, #NFDB
203:Freedom in Christ allows you to control the desires that once controlled you. ~ LeCrae, #NFDB
204:He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing! ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
205:How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires? ~ Ibn Arabi, [T5], #NFDB
206:I regret to say I'm
unable to reply to your unexpressed desires. ~ Harryette Mullen,#NFDB
207:Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires, ~ Carole Lawrence, #NFDB
208:The desires of adults are not more important than the needs of children. ~ Tim Walberg, #NFDB
209:The kingdom of consciousness is under siege by the desires of our mind. All ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
210:To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, #NFDB
211:Anyone who desires to see the gods face-to-face is a great fool, ~ Lois McMaster Bujold, #NFDB
212:BECOMING A RESONANT LEADER Taking Your Desires from Awareness into Action ~ Annie McKee, #NFDB
213:civilization is built on the repression of individual desires ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, #NFDB
214:Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
215:Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
216:It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
217:Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
218:Principle 9 - Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB
219:... the desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
220:There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence. ~ Susan B Anthony, #NFDB
221:The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth. ~ William Cobbett, #NFDB
222:Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
223:...we each harbor a shadow self with shadowy motives and murky desires... ~ John Geddes, #NFDB
224:you can change your desires by changing what you give attention to. ~ Terri Savelle Foy, #NFDB
225:Your faith is like putty. How easily you mold it to your own desires. ~ Deborah Moggach, #NFDB
226:He whose (desires) are few gets them; he whose (desires) are many goes astray. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
227:Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power. ~ Walter Lippmann, #NFDB
228:It’s as if someone knew my innermost desires, and shaped you only for me, ~ Eloisa James, #NFDB
229:I've always been comfortable with my sexual desires and what I like. ~ Izabella Scorupco, #NFDB
230:Nothing is real to us but hunger, nothing sacred except our own desires. ~ Kakuz Okakura, #NFDB
231:Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires. ~ Jonathan Swift, #NFDB
232:A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
233:Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires. ~ Krishna Das, #NFDB
234:Lack of consistency is the subtle, but great stealer of dreams and desires. ~ Peter Voogd, #NFDB
235:man the master of his own destiny and the creator of his own desires, ~ Devdutt Pattanaik, #NFDB
236:May your convictions be deep, your love real, and your desires earnest ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
237:The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, #NFDB
238:There are no condidences . We are puppets of our subconscious desires ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
239:The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough. ~ Aleksandar Hemon, #NFDB
240:The world is always greater then your desires; plenty is never enough. ~ Aleksandar Hemon, #NFDB
241:War does have a way of interfering with one's most closely held desires. ~ Helen Simonson, #NFDB
242:We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
243:Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have. ~ Gloria Estefan, #NFDB
244:When God says no to your harmless desires, it's time to get another God. ~ Kate Bornstein, #NFDB
245:when one has searched for these as realities, who desires and what is desired? ~ ntideva, #NFDB
246:Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires. ~ Anais Nin, #NFDB
247:Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
248:Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed. ~ Honore de Balzac, #NFDB
249:If the desires are not controlled now, later they will control you. ~ Mata Amritanandamayi, #NFDB
250:Most of our desires are born and nurtured at other people's expense. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
251:No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
252:Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
253:That is quite natural; everybody desires to do that for which he has a talent. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
254:The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man’s slavery. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, #NFDB
255:There is more joy in one desire conquered than in a thousand desires satisfied
~ Buddha,#NFDB
256:The universe does not owe us our desires, but it may grant a good question. ~ Ian McDonald, #NFDB
257:When God's mercies are coming, their footfalls are our desires to pray. ~ Charles Spurgeon, #NFDB
258:When we love there are no barriers, no desires, no needs, no wants. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi, #NFDB
259:Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy. ~ Richard B Garnett, #NFDB
260:He’d seen what became of men who sacrificed their hearts’ desires for security. ~ Ginn Hale, #NFDB
261:If one is not master of one’s desires, one cannot be master of one’s thoughts. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
262:Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
263:Needs can be fulfilled, desires never. Needs are natural, desires are perverted. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
264:Only through a steady mind and constant faith can your desires manifest. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
265:She who desires peace must see, suffer and be silent. ~ Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart, #NFDB
266:The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains. ~ William Morris, #NFDB
267:To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires. ~ John Arbuthnot, #NFDB
268:Don't consider our interests or desires. You have no duty to anyone but yourself. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
269:Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content. ~ Melvin Van Peebles, #NFDB
270:I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
271:Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires. ~ Solon, #NFDB
272:Remove the conflict between your desires and your duties, peace will come. ~ Wasif Ali Wasif, #NFDB
273:Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you your heart's desires. Psalm 37:4 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
274:The things that cut the deepest are the desires for things we want most.” She ~ Katee Robert, #NFDB
275:When we heed the call of our deepest desires, we fulfill our true destinies. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
276:Don’t you know us virgins are the kinkiest? All those pent up, repressed desires…. ~ T A Grey, #NFDB
277:For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr, #NFDB
278:Have not we affections and desires for sport, and frailty, as men have? ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
279:If one desires to receive one must first give. This is called profound understanding. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
280:If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too. Thomas Fuller ~ Andy Stanley, #NFDB
281:I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you, all else melted away. ~ Rumi, #NFDB
282:It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men. ~ Walter Lippmann, #NFDB
283:It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB
284:The idea that we can be exactly what the other desires is a powerful fantasy. ~ Sherry Turkle, #NFDB
285:The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all of man’s slavery. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, #NFDB
286:We make Him too small in our eyes and expect much less than He desires to give. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
287:Whoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. ~ Niccol Machiavelli, #NFDB
288:You cannot imagine the strange colour-less delight of these intellectual desires. ~ H G Wells, #NFDB
289:Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
290:As our options expand, so do our desires - and unmet desires in particular. ~ Megan McCafferty, #NFDB
291:Hope greets your desires warmly while doubts insult your efforts bitterly! ~ Israelmore Ayivor, #NFDB
292:Prayer is the expression of your heart’s sincere desires poured out to God. ~ Elizabeth George, #NFDB
293:Use your unconscious mind to read other people's intents, emotions, and desires. ~ Nick Morgan, #NFDB
294:who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth. ~ Paul the Apostle, #NFDB
295:A "Bay Area Bisexual" told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires. ~ Woody Allen, #NFDB
296:If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires there shall be no regrets. ~ Bessie Coleman, #NFDB
297:It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
298:Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires. ~ Brian Herbert, #NFDB
299:Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification. ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB
300:The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires. ~ Jean Luc Godard, #NFDB
301:We are most awake to the world and to our own longings and desires when we suffer. ~ Penny Reid, #NFDB
302:While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
303:Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. ~ Niccol Machiavelli, #NFDB
304:Your desires, Whether or not you achieve them Will determine who you become. ~ Octavia E Butler, #NFDB
305:As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is. ~ Ram Dass, #NFDB
306:Being heard and understood is “one of the greatest desires of the human heart. ~ Richard Carlson, #NFDB
307:Being listened to and heard is one of the greatest desires of the human heart. ~ Richard Carlson, #NFDB
308:Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. ~ Kyle Idleman, #NFDB
309:dreams may be thus stated: They are concealed realizations of repressed desires. ~ Sigmund Freud, #NFDB
310:Each part in us desires its absolute. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life, #NFDB
311:Expel thy desires and fears and there shall be no longer any tyrant over thee. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
312:Find exquisite delight* in Jehovah, And he will grant you the desires of your heart. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
313:I live by the spirit so I don't gratify all them old sinful desires that never satisfy. ~ LeCrae, #NFDB
314:In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires. ~ James Hutton, #NFDB
315:In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
316:It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, #NFDB
317:Like children, the insane will not budge until their desires have been satisfied. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
318:Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires. ~ Lao Tzu,#NFDB
319:My Nafs screams out for what it desires. But my will to be free screams louder. ~ Yasmin Mogahed, #NFDB
320:To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship. ~ Sallust, #NFDB
321:While Man's desires and aspirations stir, He cannot choose but err. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
322:Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli, #NFDB
323:4 b Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will c give you the desires of your heart. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
324:A man who would submit to her desires as willingly as Josh was a heady aphrodisiac. ~ Joey W Hill, #NFDB
325:Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB
326:Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
327:Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires ~ Richard Wright, #NFDB
328:Holiness gives us new desires and brings old desires into line with one another. ~ Timothy Keller, #NFDB
329:If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. ~ Epicurus, #NFDB
330:Leadership is the bridge of integrity that connects goals, desires, and actions. ~ Steve Maraboli, #NFDB
331:Now the New Year reviving old Desires,
The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires. ~ Omar Khayy m,#NFDB
332:The future is needed as a space to project your desires. To project, future is needed. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
333:to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
334:All desires are the inappropriate substitute for the desire to be at one with God. ~ Russell Brand, #NFDB
335:"As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is." ~ Ram Dass, #NFDB
336:God doesn't desire our worship because He is egocentric. He desires it because we are. ~ Mark Hart, #NFDB
337:I always look towards the light of my desires, so I never forget where I'm going. ~ Imania Margria, #NFDB
338:It happens that I want you, and so I just haven’t room for any other desires. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
339:It is shallow desires which make a young man bold; strong desires confound him. ~ Giacomo Casanova, #NFDB
340:It is the size of the characters’ desires that helps to make a sad story a tragedy. ~ Jean Hegland, #NFDB
341:Very few animals abuse their desires - it is left for some men to do so. ~ William Walker Atkinson, #NFDB
342:Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
343:But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. ~ James MacDonald, #NFDB
344:Each part in us desires its absolute.
~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Godheads of the Little Life,#NFDB
345:I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
346:Jean's desires, like those of all men in love, were concentrated on the impossible. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
347:Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest. ~ Thomas Sowell, #NFDB
348:Preceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite. ~ George S Clason, #NFDB
349:The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice. ~ John Rawls, #NFDB
350:As our means increase, so do our desires;and we ever stand midway between the two. ~ Jerome K Jerome, #NFDB
351:Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
352:I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
353:I can wade through contrast and give birth to desires without yielding my Well Being. ~ Esther Hicks, #NFDB
354:Sometimes we forget that our Heavenly Father desires that each of us have this joy. ~ Robert D Hales, #NFDB
355:The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. ~ Raymond Holliwell, #NFDB
356:The truth is, when we are living for God, our desires are actually God’s desires. ~ Jefferson Bethke, #NFDB
357:To love anyone personally is bondage. Love all alike, then all desires fall off. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
358:At Gethsemane: "Jesus is subordinating His loudest desires to His deepest desires. ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB
359:Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
360:...if a man’s thirst is quenched by power, then all other desires are of no worth to him. ~ J D Netto, #NFDB
361:Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
362:screamed for revenge, but his desires were foiled by his own words, for he yelled out, ~ Alan Russell, #NFDB
363:Some desires must be sacrificed so that other needs live on. Life is a balancing act. ~ Pippa DaCosta, #NFDB
364:Take your desires for reality!" can be understood as the ultimate slogan of power. ~ Jean Baudrillard, #NFDB
365:To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. ~ James Russell Lowell, #NFDB
366:Anyone who desires the power inherent in that role is immediately suspect in my mind. ~ Robert J Crane, #NFDB
367:Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. —PSALM 37:4 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
368:Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
369:He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
370:Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires. ~ Plato, #NFDB
371:The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy. ~ Paul Tillich, #NFDB
372:Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free. ~ Mark Epstein, #NFDB
373:We see everything through the filter of our own desires and regrets, hopes and fears. ~ Jill Santopolo, #NFDB
374:When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy. ~ Hafez, #NFDB
375:When Love desires Love,
Then Love is born. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories, Act I,#NFDB
376:When people can't control their desires... we have to pass laws to stop their desires. ~ Rick Santorum, #NFDB
377:Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires ~ Ibn Qayyim Al Jawziyya, #NFDB
378:A person who had to spread the cloak of religion over her own petty desires. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, #NFDB
379:But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
380:Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. PSALM 37 : 4 ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
381:desires. You see what I’m saying, Bane?” “I do. Unselfish love is the foundation. Got it. ~ Lucian Bane, #NFDB
382:If we don’t practice mindfulness, our cravings and sensual desires will overwhelm us. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
383:In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
384:It was best to hate everything and everyone. To hide my true desires even from myself. ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
385:Knowledge leads to deception; talent and ability only serve to increase earthly desires. ~ Yoshida Kenk, #NFDB
386:Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived. ~ William Blake, #NFDB
387:Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, #NFDB
388:Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
389:Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. ~ William Blake, #NFDB
390:A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
391:But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
392:Escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
393:If you wish to make Pythocles wealthy, don't give him more money; rather, reduce his desires. ~ Epicurus, #NFDB
394:Man's desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceiv'd. ~ William Blake, #NFDB
395:My days have passed, my plans are shattered. Yet the desires of my heart turn night into day ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
396:PSA37.4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
397:Were every man to live according to his desires alone, the world would descend into chaos ~ Sherry Jones, #NFDB
398:A Christian who practices asceticism trains himself to say no to his desires and yes to God. ~ Rod Dreher, #NFDB
399:A muse can be a mirror: a reflection of the artist's desires, anxieties, dreams and needs. ~ Vince Aletti, #NFDB
400:For the first time, the object of what I want is more important than fulfilling my desires. ~ Abbi Glines, #NFDB
401:Happiness was a byproduct of embracing your own flaws, your insecurities, and your desires. ~ Callie Hart, #NFDB
402:He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires. ~ Sitting Bull, #NFDB
403:Here, we are not the only ones wanting, and we must make room for other people's desires. ~ Margo Lanagan, #NFDB
404:He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist. ~ Anton Chekhov, #NFDB
405:I once had a thousand desires, but in my one desire to know you, all else melted away. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi, #NFDB
406:It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them. ~ Erich Maria Remarque, #NFDB
407:Shit is the tofu of cursing and can be molded to whichever condition the speaker desires. ~ David Sedaris, #NFDB
408:Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. ~ PoppetWilliam Shakespeare ~ Poppet, #NFDB
409:To know someone's deepest desires is to risk knowing them more than they want to be known. ~ Chris Colfer, #NFDB
410:To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
411:56. "Manifest plainness and embrace the genuine; lessen self-interest and make few your desires. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
412:Dreams are their own knife, Kaylin. Dreams, what-ifs, desires. We all have to have hope. ~ Michelle Sagara, #NFDB
413:Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires. ~ Joni Mitchell, #NFDB
414:If you wait for what your heart desires, you treasure it more when you finally do get it. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
415:I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold ~ Mahmoud Darwish, #NFDB
416:Music is the career Im lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions. ~ Layne Staley, #NFDB
417:My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
418:Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. ~ Henri Fr d ric Amiel, #NFDB
419:Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel, #NFDB
420:Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
421:The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced. ~ John Ruskin, #NFDB
422:The desires of this world are like sea water. The more you drink of them, the more you thirst. ~ Ibn Arabi, #NFDB
423:The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
424:This is what you get in the suburbs, his mother said, the satisfaction of small desires. The ~ Nathan Hill, #NFDB
425:those who belong to Christ Jesus k have crucified the flesh with its l passions and desires. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
426:Trump did not want a White House that ran by any method other than to satisfy his desires. ~ Michael Wolff, #NFDB
427:We have to have a purpose greater than the endless struggle to satisfy personal desires. ~ Eknath Easwaran, #NFDB
428:Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules
Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king. ~ John Milton,#NFDB
429:You always have to measure your desires and goals against your ego and your humility. ~ Sebastian Copeland, #NFDB
430:Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery, #NFDB
431:God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer. ~ Matthew Henry, #NFDB
432:He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. ~ John Milton, #NFDB
433:I once had a thousand desires, But in my one desire to know you, all else melted away. Jalal ~ Ren e Ahdieh, #NFDB
434:It is good to have what one desires, but it is better to desire nothing more than what one has. ~ Menedemus, #NFDB
435:No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. ~ Orson Scott Card, #NFDB
436:The desires of this world are like sea water. The more you drink of them, the more you thirst. ~ Ibn Arabi, #NFDB
437:The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much. ~ John Calvin, #NFDB
438:Your desires are brought to you via thought, and you receive them by deciding to take action. ~ Jen Sincero, #NFDB
439:16“I cannot do it,” Joseph replied to Pharaoh, “but God will give Pharaoh the answer he desires. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
440:A person's desires, the things a person found beautiful, were probably best kept to oneself. ~ Victor Lodato, #NFDB
441:I have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see. ~ Annette Messager, #NFDB
442:i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
443:In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires. ~ Livy, #NFDB
444:Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader. ~ Tyler Cowen, #NFDB
445:Loving someone is not for them. It is for you. We love each other to fulfill our own desires. ~ Sarah Noffke, #NFDB
446:New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety. ~ Moliere, #NFDB
447:No matter how much it takes in, this hunger never goes away... Because it desires nothing else. ~ Kaori Yuki, #NFDB
448:One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
449:Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone. ~ Alister E McGrath, #NFDB
450:Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
451:Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them—at least the same right as others. ~ Jordan Peterson, #NFDB
452:The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
453:torn by desires that are repugnant to my conscience, and a conscience repugnant to my desires. ~ Philip Roth, #NFDB
454:When you are in alignment with the desires of your heart, things have a way of working out. ~ Iyanla Vanzant, #NFDB
455:When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. ~ Napoleon Hill, #NFDB
456:A goal or cause in life, will help you come out of your hunger for insatiable desires. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, #NFDB
457:Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them. ~ Giacomo Casanova, #NFDB
458:Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #NFDB
459:I don't know how time moves or which of our sorrows or our desires it is able to wash away. ~ L Thi Diem Th y, #NFDB
460:I have searched far and wide... he whispered, and have finally found the one my heart desires. ~ Jody Hedlund, #NFDB
461:I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
462:It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us. ~ Gore Vidal, #NFDB
463:Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories. ~ Christina Baldwin, #NFDB
464:Right now in what I am about to say or do, do my desires stem from my lower or my higher self? ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
465:The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires. ~ Michelangelo, #NFDB
466:They find me odd, and whisper behind hands…And my brutal desires sink hooks into their lips… ~ Arthur Rimbaud, #NFDB
467:To rise above the conflicting desires of others, there must be no conflict about your own. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
468:We already know that we have desires as powerful as they are contradictory, and mime cannot speak ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
469:When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. ~ Napoleon Hill, #NFDB
470:Any brute can break something. It takes finesse to mold and shape it to your own desires. ~ Kate Avery Ellison, #NFDB
471:A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB
472:Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4 NIV ~ James K A Smith, #NFDB
473:Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
474:Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
475:He’s a legend. Every green boy desires to be him. I don’t. My desires are more complicated. ~ Aleksandr Voinov, #NFDB
476:In a healthy culture, all constituencies recognize the importance of balancing competing desires— ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB
477:Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord. ~ Immanuel Kant, #NFDB
478:No human being has the right to put his own desires in front of the happiness of anyone else. ~ Charlotte Lamb, #NFDB
479:Nor Time, nor Place, nor Chance, nor Death can bow/my least desires unto the least remove ~ Audrey Niffenegger, #NFDB
480:One cannot overcome one’s desires by making oneself weak but only in strength, balance and peace. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
481:Put your desires forward, as if you had a right to them—at least the same right as others. ~ Jordan B Peterson, #NFDB
482:The grotesque remains of incomplete lives, the embodied complexity of desires eternally denied ~ Anne Michaels, #NFDB
483:There are many ways to obtain our desires, ma petite. Remember that, for it will serve you well. ~ C W Gortner, #NFDB
484:There is no better way to cultivate humanity and justice in the heart than to diminish our desires. ~ Meng-tse, #NFDB
485:Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat. ~ Napoleon Hill, #NFDB
486:A boy is a man when he proves himself to be one, but a girl is a woman when she desires to be one. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
487:A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
488:Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
489:Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB
490:Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon, #NFDB
491:Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
492:God desires that we develop spiritual muscle so we are strong enough to be His kind of wife. ~ Elizabeth George, #NFDB
493:If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires. ~ Epicurus, #NFDB
494:Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about. ~ Cyril Tourneur, #NFDB
495:not to show them what is likely to excite their desires is the way to keep their minds from disorder. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
496:prayer is not an attempt to get God to agree with you or provide for your selfish desires ~ John F MacArthur Jr, #NFDB
497:Renunciation of desires: the essential condition for realisation.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, [T2],#NFDB
498:Supposedly, dreams reflect our hidden fears and secret desires, all clamoring for attention. ~ Rachel Hawthorne, #NFDB
499:Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
500:the idea that there are objective ethical truths that are independent of
what anyone desires. ~ Peter Singer,#NFDB
501:the more you focus on your own neediness, the more your desires will be christened as needs. ~ Paul David Tripp, #NFDB
502:A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
503:Deep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person. ~ Basil Hume, #NFDB
504:Ever since his fall in the Garden of Eden, man has listened to his desires more than his reason. ~ Jerry Bridges, #NFDB
505:Freedom is not attained through the satisfaction of desires, but through the suppression of desires. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
506:I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness. ~ Vladimir Nabokov, #NFDB
507:Oh, those grumblers! They all take principles as motives and dare not follow their desires. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
508:Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals. ~ Oswald Spengler, #NFDB
509:Sometimes we have to meet people where they are, Ollie. Honor their desires, regardless of out own. ~ Tess Hilmo, #NFDB
510:That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, #NFDB
511:The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God ~ John Quincy Adams, #NFDB
512:We want. Life leaks. Desires are disappointed. And God, our Father, remains eternally good. ~ Jen Pollock Michel, #NFDB
513:When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought. ~ Elizabeth Blackwell, #NFDB
514:. . . banishing his desires to the realm of the imagination, where they couldn't do any harm. ~ Kristen Roupenian, #NFDB
515:Delight yourself also in the LORD, and He shall give you the desires of your heart. PSALM 37:4 ~ Stormie Omartian, #NFDB
516:Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
517:Each ten years of a man’s life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB
518:He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably. ~ Philip Neri, #NFDB
519:It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. ~ Rebecca West, #NFDB
520:Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared. ~ Niccol Machiavelli, #NFDB
521:Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. —The Coda ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
522:The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7. ~ Guillermo del Toro, #NFDB
523:There are desires that we all want to achieve, but remember respect is most greatest to receive. ~ Big Daddy Kane, #NFDB
524:To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it. ~ Noah Taylor, #NFDB
525:True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure. ~ Joan Z Borysenko, #NFDB
526:When all your desires are distilled
You will cast just two votes:
To love more,
And be happy. ~ Hafez,#NFDB
527:If I attempt virtue it brings light to my life. If I indulge desires, I invite fog and confusion. ~ Patti Callahan, #NFDB
528:Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli, #NFDB
529:Miracles are everywhere to be found When I surrender my infinite desires To my immortal aspirations. ~ Sri Chinmoy, #NFDB
530:Narcissism makes people incapable of looking beyond themselves, beyond their own desires and needs. ~ Pope Francis, #NFDB
531:Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
532:The problem is the way we let our desires stand in the way of our enjoyment of what we already have. ~ Brad Warner, #NFDB
533:The world and its evil desires are passing away. But the person who does what God wants lives forever. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
534:The world is dictated by our desires rather than our thoughts. The prior puts the latter in motion. ~ Sarah Noffke, #NFDB
535:Those who are so absorbed in their own desires and needs they exclude others (a form of narcissism). ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB
536:When you let go of your ego and the ego’s desires, you allow something better to guide you: the Divine ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
537:Without desires and dreams, your thoughts do not matter and you can think whatever you want to. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
538:You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them. ~ Henepola Gunaratana, #NFDB
539:A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
540:A problem exists only when the mind desires to get somewhere, to achieve, to become something. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
541:My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way. ~ Roman Polanski, #NFDB
542:Problem was, he couldn’t masturbate his sexual desires away because he’d fry off his cock." Hector ~ Gena Showalter, #NFDB
543:There are only the three of us and our dark, burgeoning desires
I am so afraid of what comes next ~ Laura Wiess,#NFDB
544:The wise man desires nothing; he does not judge, he makes no plans, he keeps his mind open and his ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB
545:To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality. ~ Ayn Rand, #NFDB
546:You have to work to rearrange people’s desires. What they want has to change. What they do will follow. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
547:Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
548:Coeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire.
The heart that sighs does not have what it desires. ~ Sarah Strohmeyer,#NFDB
549:Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. ~ Antonio Tabucchi, #NFDB
550:Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.” —William Shakespeare, Macbeth ~ Laura Thalassa, #NFDB
551:The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB
552:To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires. ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
553:Water your dreams with the essence of love so it may nurture and grow beyond your vision and desires. ~ Truth Devour, #NFDB
554:We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough. ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
555:By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head. ~ Anne Desclos, #NFDB
556:Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. PSALM 37:4 ~ Wanda E Brunstetter, #NFDB
557:Fantasies were safe. It was a break from reality. A chance to act on desires for a short period of time. ~ Maya Banks, #NFDB
558:Imprisoned is he whose heart is imprisoned from Allâh. Captured is he who is captured by his desires. ~ Ibn Taymiyyah, #NFDB
559:People hesitate to follow their desires because they don't know how to divide their soul from their spirit. ~ Rihanna, #NFDB
560:There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
561:We act out of a Molotov cocktail of conscuious and unconscious desires. And also, we just do stuff. ~ Heather Harpham, #NFDB
562:When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB
563:Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more. ~ Akira Yoshizawa, #NFDB
564:God authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires. ~ Edwin Louis Cole, #NFDB
565:if you wish Pythocles to have pleasure for ever, do not add to his pleasures, but subtract from his desires"; ~ Seneca, #NFDB
566:I’m looking for me in you, that my hollowness makes it impossible to identify my needs and my desires, ~ Irvin D Yalom, #NFDB
567:It doesn’t seem to make any difference how much we have; we just keep expanding our list of desires, ~ Richard Carlson, #NFDB
568:Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor. ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
569:Life was too damned short to constantly push your own desires down and always do what others wanted. On ~ Lynsay Sands, #NFDB
570:Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens. ~ Alphonse de Lamartine, #NFDB
571:Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied. ~ Henry George, #NFDB
572:Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
573:Our desires are the way that the healing life force comes through us and replenishes our bodies. ~ Christiane Northrup, #NFDB
574:People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable. ~ Oliver Goldsmith, #NFDB
575:The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own. ~ Nicholas of Cusa, #NFDB
576:There are some things that are as ancient as time, and knowing when a man desires you is one of those. ~ Jude Deveraux, #NFDB
577:There are two ways to make a man richer, reasoned Rousseau: give him more money or curb his desires. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
578:We can easily be led into captivity by seeking other answers to needs and desires that only God can meet. ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
579:All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away. ~ Sri Aurobindo, #NFDB
580:But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh, #NFDB
581:Desires are seeds waiting for their season to sprout. From a single seed of desire, whole forests grow. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
582:I do not believe that the desires of young boys cause catastrophic events. The actions of humans do. ~ Melina Marchetta, #NFDB
583:If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
584:I knew that whatever was between us would never be friendship. She had her own agenda, her own desires, ~ Sierra Simone, #NFDB
585:Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing. ~ Madeleine de Scudery, #NFDB
586:The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself. ~ William Godwin, #NFDB
587:The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire. ~ Slavoj i ek, #NFDB
588:Whatever our desires, our difficulties, our wants, we are at liberty to spread all before Him ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, #NFDB
589:When all the desires that trouble the heart have fallen silent, then this mortal puts on immortality. ~ Katha Upanishad, #NFDB
590:When you want to attract something into your life, make sure your actions don’t contradict your desires. ~ Rhonda Byrne, #NFDB
591:You can be sure that your deepest desires reveal important truths about your spiritual condition. ~ Tullian Tchividjian, #NFDB
592:You must shape your story in a way that both expresses your vision and satisfies the audience’s desires. ~ Robert McKee, #NFDB
593:For what is a man without desires, without free will and without choice, if not a stop in an organ? ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
594:Renunciation of objects, without the renunciation of desires, is short-lived, however hard you may try. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
595:The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire. ~ Slavoj Zizek, #NFDB
596:There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action. ~ Sai Baba, #NFDB
597:Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, #NFDB
598:If you wish," said he, "to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
599:I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. ~ John Stuart Mill, #NFDB
600:That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy. ~ Thomas B Macaulay, #NFDB
601:The world is going on because not all can be free of desires. People with desires are born again and again. ~ Sarada Devi, #NFDB
602:Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired. ~ Thomas Hobbes, #NFDB
603:when a person really desires something,all the universe conspires to help that person realise his dream... ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
604:When we confuse the needs with the desires; all the struggles we take lead to failure and disappointment. ~ M F Moonzajer, #NFDB
605:And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars, my joys & desires. ~ William Blake,#NFDB
606:I like to be busy,” she says. “And useful. I think those are pretty basic human desires—don’t you? ~ Christina Baker Kline, #NFDB
607:It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak. ~ John Stuart Mill, #NFDB
608:It showed him the mistake men make in picturing to themselves happiness as the realization of their desires. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
609:John Barleycorn's inhibition rises like a wall between
one's immediate desires and long-learned morality. ~ Jack London,#NFDB
610:Most of your desires are not really about yourself. You just picked them up from your social surroundings. ~ Jaggi Vasudev, #NFDB
611:One becomes free, Socrates seems to have taught, not by fulfilling all desires but by eliminating desire. ~ Michael Finkel, #NFDB
612:Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
613:Simply put: Whenever we have conflicting desires, being good gives us permission to be a little bit bad. ~ Kelly McGonigal, #NFDB
614:The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for. ~ Habeeb Akande, #NFDB
615:There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism. ~ Jacques Maritain, #NFDB
616:Trust your fears. When a quiet voice whispers, You are being used, listen. Ignore your baser desires. ~ Michael R Fletcher, #NFDB
617:What keeps us from achieving our heart's desires is not anything outside of us, it's the conflict inside. ~ Iyanla Vanzant, #NFDB
618:what you have decided to do. It is coming to Me with an open mind and heart, inviting Me to plant My desires ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB
619:When you begin to weave your own desires into your vision, the true seeing is taken from you. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, #NFDB
620:But since Freud still conceives the mind as a closed system, desires are not expelled but only hidden away. ~ Sigmund Freud, #NFDB
621:Happiness is a state of inner fulfill- ment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
622:I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB
623:I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires. ~ Shan Sa, #NFDB
624:Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, #NFDB
625:There are two ways to make a man richer: Give him more money or curb his desires.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau. ~ Joshua Becker, #NFDB
626:The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up. ~ Daniel Handler, #NFDB
627:we feel obliged to repress our emotions and our desires, because they don’t fit with what we call “maturity. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
628:Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way. ~ Rosa Parks, #NFDB
629:When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream, ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
630:When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
631:Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards. ~ Giacomo Leopardi, #NFDB
632:Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires... ~ Dean Koontz, #NFDB
633:features that speak much more to what a middle-aged person desires for a parent than to what the parent does. ~ Atul Gawande, #NFDB
634:It was a dictum of his that the soul's energy thrives when the body's desires are feeblest. ~ Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, #NFDB
635:Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles. ~ William Blake, #NFDB
636:The way to conquer sin is not by working hard to change our deeds but by trusting Jesus to change our desires. ~ David Platt, #NFDB
637:Trust your fears. When a quiet voice whispers, "you are being used", listen. Ignore your baser desires. ~ Michael R Fletcher, #NFDB
638:You may have a million desires to be in other places, doing other things, but you are not there, you are here. ~ Zen proverb, #NFDB
639:Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires. ~ Wallace Stevens, #NFDB
640:if we want to avoid suffering, we must start with ourselves, because all suffering comes from our own desires. ~ E H Gombrich, #NFDB
641:In some cultures, like Buddhism, you want things in your life to disappear, to reduce your needs and desires ~ James Altucher, #NFDB
642:It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully. ~ Mother Teresa, #NFDB
643:I was a moral coward, and he was not losing his life and desires through fear—which the majority of us do. ~ Theodore Dreiser, #NFDB
644:Lord, deliver us from what we already knew we wanted. Give us some new desires, the weirder the better. ~ Mark Forsyth, #NFDB
645:Masks reveal. They don’t conceal. Masks reveal your cravings, your passion, your deepest most secret desires. ~ Chloe Thurlow, #NFDB
646:Of what use are the gods
If they crown not our just desires on earth? ~ Sri Aurobindo, Collected Plays and Stories, Act I,#NFDB
647:The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men... ~ Baruch Spinoza, #NFDB
648:There is no design. The universe isn’t kind or cruel. The universe is vast and indifferent to our desires. ~ Tom Sweterlitsch, #NFDB
649:Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love. ~ Rabindranath Tagore, #NFDB
650: Your desires, Whether or not you achieve them Will determine who you become. ~ Octavia E Butler, #NFDB
651:A psychologically healthy person can, in fact, be defined as someone whose desires actually produce happiness. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
652:A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires. ~ Bill McKibben, #NFDB
653:Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again. ~ Bernhard Schlink, #NFDB
654:Her desires are mine. Her wishes are mine. Should even the world stand against her, her my blood be at her side ~ Julie Kagawa, #NFDB
655:I had not learned then that death avoids a man who desires it, to snatch at him whose heart holds fast to life. ~ Mika Waltari, #NFDB
656:I thought of Dante. His hells were the excess of our desires and, in the deepest circles, the pain of our victims. ~ C D Reiss, #NFDB
657:It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB
658:Paradise has been covered with unpleasant and undesirable things and hell has been covered with desires and lusts. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
659:She was entertained only by the gratification of her desires and by the direct exercise of her own charm. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
660:While emotional needs are difficult, and often are impossible to satisfy, material desires are easier to fulfill. ~ bell hooks, #NFDB
661:Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB
662:But what desires can always be satisfied despite external circumstances? What are they? Love, self-sacrifice.' He ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
663:Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true; everything that is not puts us in a rage. ~ Andre Maurois, #NFDB
664:Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief. ~ William Bernbach, #NFDB
665:Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things. ~ Matthieu Ricard, #NFDB
666:He was a consuming fire. His passion, his desires, all seemed to overtake the
desires of those around him. ~ Sylvain Reynard,#NFDB
667:In Babel, the people ’s greatest fear is the very thing God desires: To be scattered over the face of the earth. ~ Dave Gibbons, #NFDB
668:I've always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I've just been dragged along by fate. ~ Greg Giraldo, #NFDB
669:Just because you married doesn't mean you're not an individual person with your own wants and desires and needs. ~ Joe Swanberg, #NFDB
670:Not a bit of will—I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires— ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
671:Remember that Christ works in and through you, and provides all that God desires for you and all that you need. ~ Andrew Murray, #NFDB
672:Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil. ~ Cyril Smith, #NFDB
673:The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires. ~ Pope John Paul II, #NFDB
674:The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB
675:To see a thing uncolored by one’s own personal preferences and desires is to see it in its own pristine simplicity. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
676:You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires. ~ Democritus, #NFDB
677:Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude. ~ Matthew Arnold, #NFDB
678:All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body. ~ Hildegard of Bingen, #NFDB
679:Here is a home for you; maybe you need us.” All my desires to be useful, successful, and productive revolted. ~ Henri J M Nouwen, #NFDB
680:He who consecrates his life to spiritual perfection, cannot be ill-content; for what he desires is always in his power. ~ Pascal, #NFDB
681:It appeared that the swift wings of their desires would have shattered against the iron gates of the impossible. ~ Stephen Crane, #NFDB
682:I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires. ~ John Cleese, #NFDB
683:Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand. ~ Thomas Hobbes, #NFDB
684:Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. ~ Sigmund Freud, #NFDB
685:The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
686:The river
takes what she wants,
does what she desires
and washes over anything
that stands in her way. ~ Nikita Gill,#NFDB
687:When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy - this is the moment we begin the process of letting go. ~ Krishna Das, #NFDB
688:Where is the freedom in this? Yes, you are free to do what you want even now. But where did your desires come from? ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB
689:Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment. ~ Chanakya, #NFDB
690:You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul? ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
691:But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
692:Gabriel was a consuming fire. His passion, his desires, all seemed to overtake the desires of those around him. ~ Sylvain Reynard, #NFDB
693:Getting people to finally see the stark incompatibility of certain desires is often what finally gets them unstuck. ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB
694:God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform. ~ Saint John of the Cross, #NFDB
695:God puts desires into your heart. His desires will actually become your desires, and your desires will be His. ~ Elizabeth George, #NFDB
696:I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
697:I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
698:If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship. ~ Rob Bell, #NFDB
699:Insecure, ill-dressed chaos theorist desires intelligent, insightful, incandescent trends researcher. Must be SC. ~ Connie Willis, #NFDB
700:Satisfying natural desires is fine, but natural desires have a way of being both competitive and consequential. ~ Wallace Stegner, #NFDB
701:The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression. ~ Eric Maisel, #NFDB
702:The Art of Peace is not easy. It is a fight to the finish, the slaying of evil desires and all falsehood within ~ Morihei Ueshiba, #NFDB
703:The fundamental misunderstanding of humanity is believing that we can achieve all our desires without limitation. ~ Momofuku Ando, #NFDB
704:The problem with using our desires as the litmus test for holiness is that sin feels more normal than righteousness. ~ Jen Wilkin, #NFDB
705:The Self is ever there, there is nothing without it. Be the Self and the desires and doubts will disappear. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
706:They were living proof that even the happiest and most sexually satisfied couples aren’t immune to outside desires. ~ Jenny Block, #NFDB
707:To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own. ~ Terry Goodkind, #NFDB
708:When our mind experiences pleasure, the five desires arise. The real hero quickly puts an end to these desires. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB
709:A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires. ~ John Eldredge, #NFDB
710:As Schopenhauer said about free will, you can choose whatever you desire, but you’re not free to choose your desires. ~ Ian McEwan, #NFDB
711:He did not confuse what he longed for with his gratitude for what he had. Extreme desires have their own sanctuary. ~ Tove Jansson, #NFDB
712:he was then thirty-two, still too young to understand how limitless men’s desires were, or the absurdity of such greed. ~ Yiyun Li, #NFDB
713:If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth. ~ Democritus, #NFDB
714:Insights change our desires; the new stories shift our goals, leading us to give up some ambitions and pursue others. ~ Gary Klein, #NFDB
715:It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB
716:It is the desire to have moral or immoral desires and the decision to act upon them that defines humanity at its best. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
717:It matter so little to the majority of living beings what the minority, that calls itself human, desires or decides. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
718:Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words. ~ Baruch Spinoza, #NFDB
719:Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground. ~ Dante Alighieri, #NFDB
720:Our desires seek out supporting reasons and tend to
ignore facts and arguments that do not fit in with them. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru,#NFDB
721:Paying attention to your own desires and limites teaches you to trust yourself, to be strong on your own behalf. ~ Jaclyn Friedman, #NFDB
722:Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. ~ Edward Gibbon, #NFDB
723:There is no reason for any of our desires to exist. Our attention is an absurdity allowed by our winged inertia. ~ Fernando Pessoa, #NFDB
724:The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
725:The two desires struggle within me: the desire to be safe, and the desire to know. I cannot tell which one will win. ~ Ally Condie, #NFDB
726:We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?” “To live,” said Camilla. “To live forever, ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB
727:When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality. ~ Ninon de L Enclos, #NFDB
728:You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires. ~ Robert Greene, #NFDB
729:You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
730:And yet we feel obliged to repress our emotions and our desires, because they don’t fit with what we call “maturity. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
731:God isn’t a concept or a theory. He is a person who has desires and purposes—and one of His desires is to be with you ~ Pete Wilson, #NFDB
732:If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it. ~ Saint Vincent de Paul, #NFDB
733:In the deep of His mighty nature God thinks, wills, enjoys, feels, loves, desires, and suffers as any other person may. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB
734:It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost of the soul. ~ Lawrence Durrell, #NFDB
735:Like burning coals are our desires; they are full of suffering, full of torment and a yet heavier distressfulness. ~ Buddhist Texts, #NFDB
736:Matthew Henry comments, “The desires of the soul find nothing in the wealth of the world to give them any satisfaction. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
737:Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be. ~ Neville Goddard, #NFDB
738:Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself. ~ Plato, #NFDB
739:Prayer isn't where we change God, but He changes us. Instead of praying for OUR desires, let's pray He burden us with HIS. ~ LeCrae, #NFDB
740:The extra luggage of indiscriminate dreams, desires and attachments will make your life's journey miserable. ~ Mata Amritanandamayi, #NFDB
741:There is no other revolution except consciousness. It cuts the desires from the very roots and it brings freedom to you. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB
742:There is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires ~ Nelson Mandela, #NFDB
743:Till you have savingly believed in Christ, all your desires, and pains, and prayers lay God under no obligation; ~ Jonathan Edwards, #NFDB
744:What do I really want in life: the success of God’s agenda of grace or the fulfillment of my catalog of desires? ~ Paul David Tripp, #NFDB
745:Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its knowledge. ~ Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi, #NFDB
746:You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away? ~ Shunryu Suzuki, #NFDB
747:A man never, in any instance, wills any thing contrary to his desires, or desires any thing contrary to his Will. ~ Jonathan Edwards, #NFDB
748:Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
749:Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires
seems true. Everything that is not puts us into a rage. ~ Andr Maurois,#NFDB
750:For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe? ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #NFDB
751:He had long been outside of the world of simple desires and their fulfillments, and he was inept and uncertain. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
752:I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
~ Aristotle,#NFDB
753:If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body. ~ Alison Bechdel, #NFDB
754:Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. ~ Leopold von Sacher Masoch, #NFDB
755:Remember that our desires will not arrive by our schedule. If you really want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB
756:The human beast desires power, and the thirst for power breeds chaos, however much we may try to pretend we control it. ~ M R Forbes, #NFDB
757:The only way for government to express the needs and desires of Americans is if Americans speak up and get involved. ~ Michael J Fox, #NFDB
758:There are two ways to make people richer, reasoned Rousseau: to give them more money or to restrain their desires. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
759:There is no shortage of problems to be solved, needs and desires to be fulfilled, and innovative ways to help others. ~ Sean Patrick, #NFDB
760:When you live for the will of God, you will not fulfill the desires of men. As a result, you will suffer in the flesh. ~ John Bevere, #NFDB
761:A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone. ~ Saul Bellow, #NFDB
762:Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, persists after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. ~ Mortimer Adler, #NFDB
763:Each country, if it so desires, will make its own revolution. And if no such desire exists, no revolution will occur. ~ Joseph Stalin, #NFDB
764:For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe? ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
765:Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God ~ Elyse Fitzpatrick, #NFDB
766:She fleetingly wished this handsome stranger could be the object of her desires, instead of his black-hearted companion. ~ Kat Martin, #NFDB
767:The cure from all difficulties can come only when the egoistic concentration upon one's desires and conveniences ceases. ~ The Mother, #NFDB
768:Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself. ~ Philip Sidney, #NFDB
769:was “to try always to master myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world. ~ Anthony Gottlieb, #NFDB
770:You're meant to have whatever your heart desires. Whatever your heart wants that much is already a part of you. ~ Francesca Lia Block, #NFDB
771:Adventures, I reflected, are all very fine but a certain amount of civilised comfort forms the true kernel of our desires. ~ K W Jeter, #NFDB
772:Being a leader is often difficult. It requires that you continually put the needs of others before your own desires. ~ Jonathan Auxier, #NFDB
773:From what may anyone be saved? Only from themselves! That is, their individual hell. They dig it with their own desires. ~ Edgar Cayce, #NFDB
774:If I were yours and you were mine, I would want you to be exactly as you are. I would never eclipse you with my desires. ~ Lauren Kate, #NFDB
775:just a man helping humanity—infantile in their desires and bottomless in their greed—save themselves from themselves. ~ Tony Bertauski, #NFDB
776:Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires. ~ Alexander Graham Bell, #NFDB
777:Men in prayer give greater license to their unlawful desires than if they were telling jocular tales among their equals. ~ John Calvin, #NFDB
778:No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
779:Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila, #NFDB
780:There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
781:This world is moving around like a wheel. That indeed is the last birth in which one gets completely rid of all desires. ~ Sarada Devi, #NFDB
782:Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible. ~ Norman Angell, #NFDB
783:For naturally a beast desires to flee From any enemy that he may see, Though never yet he's clapped on such his eye. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer, #NFDB
784:I didn’t need her. Not that I often gave in to bodily cravings. Bad things happened when I gave in to my desires. Look ~ Pepper Winters, #NFDB
785:I don't need marriage. I don't need anyone to take care of all my needs and desires. I can take care of them myself now. ~ Mindy Kaling, #NFDB
786:I've learned over the years that the writing is smarter and far larger than the writer and his or her own desires for it. ~ Andre Dubus, #NFDB
787:Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
788:No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him. ~ Agnes Repplier, #NFDB
789:The cure from all difficulties can come only when the egoistic concentration upon one's desires and conveniences ceases. ~ ~ The Mother, #NFDB
790:The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB
791:The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. ~ Jonathan Swift, #NFDB
792:Unless you keep focused on your desires through images, repetition and a positive attitude, it will come to nothing. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
793:Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it. ~ Pietro Aretino, #NFDB
794:God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform. ~ Saint John of the Cross, [T5], #NFDB
795:If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live? ~ Jackie Chan, #NFDB
796:if you wish to make Pythocles an old man, filling his life to the full, do not add to his years, but subtract from his desires. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
797:It’s hard for a man to understand a woman because a man just desires her; but women, most of them anyway, desire desire. ~ Walter Mosley, #NFDB
798:Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom. ~ John Carroll, #NFDB
799:Regardless of whether luck or coincidence is involved, desires directed in the right way have a tendency to manifest. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
800:The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet, when we want shoes. ~ Jonathan Swift, #NFDB
801:He who desires to be happy must pursue and practice temperance and run away from intemperance as fast as his legs will carry him. ~ Plato, #NFDB
802:It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires. ~ Hilary Mantel, #NFDB
803:Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality. ~ Charles Lindbergh, #NFDB
804:Now I’ve come to understand love and lust are commonly misunderstood. I let my own desires blind me from the big picture. ~ Jennifer Foor, #NFDB
805:One of the deepest feminine desires in intimacy is precisely not to have to always figure it out for her man and guide him. ~ David Deida, #NFDB
806:The least indigent mortal is the one who desires the least. We have everything we wish when we wish only for what is sufficient. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
807:The material ordering of even the mundane tasks of our daily lives both reflects and shapes the desires of our hearts. ~ Daniel M Bell Jr, #NFDB
808:As you can see, even when [Adolf] Hitler desires to speak for peace, he cannot dispense with threats. This is symptomatic. ~ Joseph Stalin, #NFDB
809:Desires are not eradicated by satisfaction. Trying to root them out that way is like pouring spirits to quench fire. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB
810:Expectations are the illegitimate children – with desires as their step-siblings – of an ignorant mind and conditioned self. If ~ Om Swami, #NFDB
811:Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions. ~ Paul Gauguin, #NFDB
812:Reducing our desires and eliminating false neediness is the answer to resolving the nagging inner discomfort that we feel. ~ Angelina Love, #NFDB
813:There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires. ~ Francois Rabelais, #NFDB
814:You saw the star first," she whispered. "You make the wish."
"I wish for your wish. For whatever your heart desires. ~ Jillian Hart,#NFDB
815:Dharma is precisely this 'discipline of ordered existence', a 'belief system that restrains and gives coherence to desires. ~ Gurcharan Das, #NFDB
816:If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order? ~ Xunzi, #NFDB
817:if you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
818:I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires. ~ Khalil Gibran, #NFDB
819:Liberation from the enslaving desires of the senses, and the reactions of the mortal mind is the aim and purpose of human life”- ~ Sai Baba, #NFDB
820:Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers. ~ W G Sebald, #NFDB
821:My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids. ~ Gary Carter, #NFDB
822:My desires sprang forth as a mighty sun - all embracing - associating in the form - vortex, to enjoy ALL consciousness ~ Austin Osman Spare, #NFDB
823:Our greatest opportunities are to let go and surrender to that which is greater than our egoistic needs and desires. ~ Dashama Konah Gordon, #NFDB
824:scorching desires, twins Hope and Faith join the APF sorority and find themsleves falling for the same man, which pushes the sisters ~ Zane, #NFDB
825:Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
826:Slay thy desires, O disciple, make powerless thy vices, before thou takest the first step of that solemn journey. ~ Book of Golden Precepts, #NFDB
827:The best book in the world to put into the hands of one who desires to know about Jesus and to be saved is the Gospel of John. ~ R A Torrey, #NFDB
828:The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
829:brought with it amorphous longings, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, #NFDB
830:But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires. ~ John Dryden, #NFDB
831:Everyone believes he can fashion a witch to his way of thinking so that she will satisfy his ambitions, dreams, and desires... ~ Maryse Cond, #NFDB
832:Get a fix on the prospect/customer/client and on his or her desires; failing to do so will undermine all your other efforts. ~ Dan S Kennedy, #NFDB
833:I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink. ~ Klaus Kinski, #NFDB
834:If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the marketplace responds to the public's needs and desires. ~ Frank Gehry, #NFDB
835:In a very real way, then, materials are a reflection of who we are, a multi-scale expression of our human need and desires. ~ Mark Miodownik, #NFDB
836:I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB
837:In every moment we are faced with choices that will serve our highest intentions, or gratify our unconscious desires. ~ Dashama Konah Gordon, #NFDB
838:It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, #NFDB
839:it woke him up and allowed his dreams, his nocturnal desires and random wishes, to condense into a semblance of rationality. ~ Philip K Dick, #NFDB
840:Only one who liberates himself from his psychological desires and fears indeed in truth qualify as liberation hero. ~ Velupillai Prabhakaran, #NFDB
841:serving really involves giving people what is good for them, not merely pursuing their approval and granting their desires. ~ Dallas Willard, #NFDB
842:...the faith state...is the psychic correlate of a biological growth reducing contending-desires to one direction... [p.272] ~ William James, #NFDB
843:The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
844:Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live. ~ Andrew Pyper, #NFDB
845:Trapped and tormented by your own wishes. I knew intimately how that felt; I was often strangled by the tyranny of my desires. ~ S Jae Jones, #NFDB
846:Trying to fulfill earthly desires was like carrying water to the sea; a never- ending task, and an ultimately useless one. ~ Douglas Preston, #NFDB
847:We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent. ~ Maria Montessori, #NFDB
848:And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love') ~ William Blake, #NFDB
849:As long as one craves worldly enjoyment, one cannot renounce work. One has to perform work as long as one desires pleasure. ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #NFDB
850:As you commit your life to follow the Lord, He begins to plant His desires in your heart, then guides you according to His plan ~ Chuck Smith, #NFDB
851:Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born? ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB
852:First of all know this, that in the last days ridiculers will come with their ridicule, proceeding according to their own desires ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
853:God desires to work supernaturally through normal people who are willing to follow Him wholeheartedly and reflect His glory. ~ Sally Clarkson, #NFDB
854:Kids on a team are like flowers in a bouquet, there is always one that wants to face a different way than the arranger desires. ~ John Kessel, #NFDB
855:must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart. The ~ Elizabeth Gilbert, #NFDB
856:Opposition is anything that opposes (1) us, (2) the work God desires to do in us, and (3) the work God desires to do through us. ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB
857:@SeanCassinova If dreams are the subconscious’ attempt to live desires, then I need to buy my subconscious a drink. And a house. ~ L H Cosway, #NFDB
858:Simplicity has no name is free of desires. Being free of desires it is tranquil. And the world will be at peace of it's own accord. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
859:Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools. ~ Peter J Carroll, #NFDB
860:The ability to satisfy desires instantly also breeds impatience, fuelled by a nagging sense that one could be doing so much else. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
861:What we think of as our “gut instincts” are really a very complex mosaic of past experiences, deep-seated hopes, fears, desires. ~ Lisa Unger, #NFDB
862:Buddhism - Tibetan Buddhism - teaches us many things, peace comes from within, we must be free ourselves from earthly desires... ~ Peter Sagal, #NFDB
863:Building our lives on something besides God not only hurts us if we don’t get the desires of our hearts, but also if we do. ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB
864:Colors blind the eye
Sounds deafen the ear.
Flavors numb the taste.
Thoughts weaken the mind.
Desires wither the heart. ~ Lao Tzu,#NFDB
865:Do not constantly question why your desires have not manifested, although you should keep a vibrational connection to them. ~ Stephen Richards, #NFDB
866:God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint. ~ Saint Therese of Lisieux, #NFDB
867:God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint. ~ Saint Therese of Lisieux, #NFDB
868:hard-wired to seek love, joy, fulfillment—and health. Though we’ve too often been talked out of our desires as children, ~ Christiane Northrup, #NFDB
869:It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads. ~ Thomas Pynchon, #NFDB
870:Our wants and longings and desires are at the core of our identity, the wellspring from which our actions and behavior flow. ~ James K A Smith, #NFDB
871:Perfection comes by renunciation of desires and surrender to a higher Will. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II, Practical Concerns in Work, #NFDB
872:Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
873:Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence. ~ Napoleon Hill, #NFDB
874:Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB
875:The cause was not in Dantes, but in providence, who, while limiting the power of man, has filled him with boundless desires. ~ Alexandre Dumas, #NFDB
876:A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB
877:Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price. ~ Michael Joseph Oakeshott, #NFDB
878:Grace overwhelms us with God's love, and as a result our heart resonates with the desires of God: His purposes become our own. ~ Bryan Chapell, #NFDB
879:Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love. ~ Miroslav Volf, #NFDB
880:Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love. ~ Adam Smith, #NFDB
881:She added, “I’ve only followed the devices and desires of my own heart.” Verity patted her hand. “That’s what we love you for. ~ Winston Graham, #NFDB
882:She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in. ~ Sonya Hartnett, #NFDB
883:True hunger was a weapon stronger
than any of his abstract desires. It’s what toppled countries and made men desperate. ~ Diana Peterfreund,#NFDB
884:Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer? ~ Saint Augustine, #NFDB
885:A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated. ~ Alphonsus Liguori, #NFDB
886:Do not sublimate your will to that of others unless it fits with your own purpose, for that makes you a slave to their desires. ~ Robert J Crane, #NFDB
887:It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it. ~ Simone Weil, #NFDB
888:Love wants more truth, because that will lead to more love, and that is what love desires, more of itself. Love loves Love. ~ Padma Aon Prakasha, #NFDB
889:Obsessed with the desire to be happy I lost my life. I moved with the tension of a bow and arrow in an unreality of desires. ~ Clarice Lispector, #NFDB
890:Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
891:Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB
892:Unrestricted satisfaction of all desires is not conducive to well-being, nor is it the way to happiness or even to maximum pleasure. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
893:All you can possibly need or desire is already yours.Call your desires into being by imagining and feeling your wish fulfilled. ~ Neville Goddard, #NFDB
894:conversion is the creation of new desires, not just new duties; new delights, not just new deeds; new treasures, not just new tasks. ~ John Piper, #NFDB
895:From the start and to this very day, modernity was about forcing nature to serve obediently human needs, ambitions and desires – ~ Zygmunt Bauman, #NFDB
896:He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky, #NFDB
897:He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. ~ Mikhail Bakunin, #NFDB
898:I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids. ~ Baruch Spinoza, #NFDB
899:Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
900:The key to autonomy, she realized, was more than root access on the programs that shaped her desires. It was a sense of privacy. ~ Annalee Newitz, #NFDB
901:The Lord would so cleanse the motive and desires of our hearts that we will seek but one thing only, and that is, His glory. ~ Smith Wigglesworth, #NFDB
902:There can be no peace of mind in love, since what one has obtained is never anything but a new starting-point for further desires ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
903:The way to conquer sin is not by working hard to change our deeds, but by trusting Jesus to change our desires. Follow Me, pg. 111. ~ David Platt, #NFDB
904:The world is a great mart, my Holly, where all things are for sale to whom who bids the highest in the currency of our desires. ~ H Rider Haggard, #NFDB
905:To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it. ~ George Henry Lewes, #NFDB
906:24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
907:A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
908:...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
909:Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent. ~ Anthony of Padua, #NFDB
910:Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear? ~ P D James, #NFDB
911:God desires that all men would come to saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, and through Him come to know Him personally and intimately. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
912:He can fuck you, cut you, hurt you, do whatever his little depraved heart desires. And you will let him do it because it pleases him ~ Celia Aaron, #NFDB
913:He wanted to toast mad idealism, forbidden desires, the dreams that drove one to criminal acts. He wanted, quite starkly, oblivion. ~ Paul Russell, #NFDB
914:I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. ~ Susan B Anthony, #NFDB
915:I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. ~ Susan B. Anthony, #NFDB
916:I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. ~ Susan B Anthony, #NFDB
917:if you are God’s child, the life force that energizes your thoughts, desires, words, and actions is no longer you; it’s Christ! ~ Paul David Tripp, #NFDB
918:I remained dedicated to my desires, and it's what enabled me to come back after being fired seven or eight times, whatever it was. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
919:Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weight him down. ~ Sathya Sai Baba, #NFDB
920:Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror, be it clear as Kheled-zaram. Or so says the heart of Gimli the Dwarf. ~ J R R Tolkien, #NFDB
921:No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son desires to reveal Him. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
922:Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
923:To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering. ~ Benjamin Hoff, #NFDB
924:Want ever so gently. Invite your desires to you like you call a cat. Any aggressive move toward your goals will chase them away. ~ Bryant H McGill, #NFDB
925:We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
926:When we submit to God's plans, we can trust our desires. Our assignment is found at the intersection of God's plan and our pleasures. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB
927:A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth. ~ Rudyard Kipling, #NFDB
928:A man who desires to soften another man's heart, should always abuse himself. In softening a woman's heart, he should abuse her. ~ Anthony Trollope, #NFDB
929:God desires that we become like Jesus in all of our ways, working with the Holy Spirit toward spiritual maturity and godly character. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB
930:If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
931:May my desires be enlarged and my hopes emboldened, that I may honour Thee by my entire dependency and the greatness of my expectation. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
932:Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform. ~ Chanakya, #NFDB
933:She wept over the vanity of her desires, which had so ardently flown to the blossoming flesh that now had already withered forever. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
934:There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed. ~ Laozi, #NFDB
935:"When a wise person wants something from others, she first does what she desires from them, exemplifying rather than asking for it." ~ Haemin Sunim, #NFDB
936:Whether you realize it or not, your ongoing battle with unbelief drives all your sinful thoughts, emotions, desires, and actions. ~ James MacDonald, #NFDB
937:-while beyond the barrier Maurice wandered, the wrong words on his lips and the wrong desires in his heart, and his arms full of air. ~ E M Forster, #NFDB
938:Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded. ~ Horace, #NFDB
939:Your primary desire, says Epictetus, should be your desire not to be frustrated by forming desires you won’t be able to fulfill. ~ William B Irvine, #NFDB
940:All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #NFDB
941:A wise beautiful lake never desires to be famous, because fame dirty it! To remain pure, distance yourself from the reputation! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
942:Differing perspectives, needs, and desires sometimes have a way of spawning completely different interpretations of the same events. ~ Michael Makai, #NFDB
943:God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint. ~ Saint Therese of Lisieux, #NFDB
944:...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151) ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
945:I so hate it when I'm quoted to thwart the juices and desires of the great interior design public at large - Daily Express ~ Laurence Llewelyn Bowen, #NFDB
946:It was safe to say that neither had ever known the other sort of love, the sort with fireworks and racing hearts and physical desires. ~ Kate Morton, #NFDB
947:Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
948:The first thing a man must do if he desires to be used in the Lord's work, is to make an unconditional surrender of himself to God. ~ Dwight L Moody, #NFDB
949:What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing. ~ Max Muller, #NFDB
950:Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
951:While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to others. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti, #NFDB
952:Alistair would never reject her, never make her feel ashamed of her desires...never make her hold back.” - Felicity (The Pleasure Room) ~ D N Simmons, #NFDB
953:A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think? ~ Christa Wolf, #NFDB
954:As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life. ~ John Ortberg, #NFDB
955:But it is within your power to avoid disappointment, by directing your desires to things that are rightfully yours to obtain and control. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB
956:Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. (1 PETER 2:11) ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB
957:Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires. ~ Max Muller, #NFDB
958:Everyone lusts. Everyone Fantasizes. When your lover respects you, you should feel free to explore your desires. No matter how extreme. ~ Jayne Rylon, #NFDB
959:His strength was restored and, with it, all his desires to live; he went out, began living again, and died a second time for himself. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
960:I do not want to claim a safe and comfortable life for myself that is purchased at the cost of some other woman’s needs or desires. ~ Dorothy Allison, #NFDB
961:If I am unwilling to take responsibility for the attainment of my desires, they are not really desires—they are merely daydreams. ~ Nathaniel Branden, #NFDB
962:It is a longing so intense that it creates what it desires, it cannot endure any touch of correction; it is, as I say, unspeakable. ~ Shirley Jackson, #NFDB
963:I went home and went to sleep. Outside of the occasional irritation, I had no nightmares, no passions, no desires, no great pains. ~ Ottessa Moshfegh, #NFDB
964:"Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens." ~ Alphonse de Lamartine(Méditations Poétiques, 1820), #NFDB
965:Only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom. ~ Will Durant, #NFDB
966:O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde; And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd With his desires! ~ George Herbert, #NFDB
967:Perception can make whatever picture the mind desires to see. Remember this. In this lies either Heaven or hell, as you elect. Manual ~ Robert Holden, #NFDB
968:So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less. ~ Jonathan Swift, #NFDB
969:There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.There is no greater guilt than discontentment.And there is no greater disaster than greed. ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB
970:The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB
971:A Buddhist wishes to point out that desires are what prevent people from achieving happiness, that materialism is the cause of discord. ~ Kevin Hearne, #NFDB
972:A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated. ~ Saint Alphonsus Liguori, #NFDB
973:God leads into the dark night those whom He desires to purify from all these imperfections so that He may bring them farther onward. ~ Juan de la Cruz, #NFDB
974:He has read everything, learned everything, practised everything, who has renounced his desires and lives without any straining of hope. ~ Hitopadesha, #NFDB
975:He soon felt that the realization of his desires gave him no more than a grain of sand out of the mountain of happiness he had expected. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
976:I now stand aside and watch God work. It interests me to see how quickly and easily He brings the desires of my heart to pass. ~ Florence Scovel Shinn, #NFDB
977:Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with. ~ James Anthony Froude, #NFDB
978:Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content. ~ Gautama Buddha, #NFDB
979:Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires. ~ Charles Bent, #NFDB
980:That man who had prayed for the fasces, when he attains them, desires to lay them aside and says over and over: “When will this year be over! ~ Seneca, #NFDB
981:The man who has conquered his unreined desires, offers no hold to sorrow; it glides over him like water over the leaves of the lotus. ~ Buddhist Texts, #NFDB
982:The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists. ~ Sextus Empiricus, #NFDB
983:Youngsters want to change world. Elders want to enjoy their works.
The entrepreneur sells anything needed by both to win their desires. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
984:Your nafs (soul/desires) is your first battlefield. If you are victorious over it, then you will find the other battlefields easier. ~ Hassan al Banna, #NFDB
985:Angel dust blown a sunder,
Nestling on the edge of unchartered dreams,
Filtering the dileneation between ones desires & needs. ~ Truth Devour,#NFDB
986:Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions. ~ Muhammad Ali, #NFDB
987:Everything is a slave of something else: Clouds, of the winds; men, of the desires; universe, of the chaos; shadows, of the light. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
988:I have lots of desires - good body, nice skin, cute, beautiful, knows how to cook, concentrates on her work, a girl that's worth the respect. ~ Seungri, #NFDB
989:Keep my desires and goals in mind. Don’t insist that they must or must not be fulfilled. Let me work unfrantically to achieve them. REBT ~ Albert Ellis, #NFDB
990:No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation. ~ Joseph Brant, #NFDB
991:Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment. ~ Irving Babbitt, #NFDB
992:Spies have the same kinds of needs and desires that everybody does, which is funny. The best kind of comedy derives from that kind of truth. ~ Matt Nix, #NFDB
993:The most important thing is that you have to listen to your truths, desires and wants. And you have to believe you deserve all of it. ~ Whoopi Goldberg, #NFDB
994:There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions. ~ Bill McKibben, #NFDB
995:These actions can lead to the martyr syndrome, in which people sacrifice their own desires to arouse feelings of pity or guilt in others. ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB
996:Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one of his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege. ~ Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal, #NFDB
997:To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible. ~ Maimonides, #NFDB
998:We always place that little word "but" after our wishes and desires, feeling deep down that there are some things too good to be true. ~ Robert Collier, #NFDB
999:And what is up to us? Our emotions Our judgments Our creativity Our attitude Our perspective Our desires Our decisions Our determination. ~ Ryan Holiday, #NFDB
1000:An inner knowing, along with a burning desire, is the prerequisite for becoming a person capable of manifesting his or her heart's desires. ~ Wayne Dyer, #NFDB
1001:Growing up, she felt so unworthy of having her deepest desires satisfied, of being loved absolutely. She didn't feel that way anymore. ~ Sylvain Reynard, #NFDB
1002:Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
1003:Man peoples his current living space with a world of his own, crowded with the offspring of his fancies, desires, impulses, and passions. ~ Annie Besant, #NFDB
1004:This world is moving around like a wheel. That indeed is the last birth in which one gets completely rid of all desires. — ~ Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi, #NFDB
1005:To have someone out there who understands you, who desires you, who sees you as a better version of yourself, is the most astonishing gift. ~ Jojo Moyes, #NFDB
1006:we humans have a fatal tendency to try to adjust the truth to fit our desires rather than adjusting our desires to fit the truth. But ~ Norman L Geisler, #NFDB
1007:When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
1008:Your childhood is the time of life when God desires to build the rooms of the temple in which He wants to live when you are an adult. ~ David A Seamands, #NFDB
1009:Ever